Roy J. Warren is the president of the Curtiss-Way Company and is also prominently identified with other leading business enterprises of Meriden, being treasurer of the Baxter Calendar & Novelty Company and treasurer of the Perry Catalogue Company. Thorough business training and continued experience in this line well qualify him for the responsible duties which devolve upon him in connection with business management.

  A native of New York, Mr. Warren was born in Middleport, on the 8th of August, 1886, a son of Delos M. and Jennie E. Warren. The period of youth over, he made his initial step in the business world as traveling representative of the Foster-Milburn Company of Buffalo, New York, and eventually he became advertising manager of the United Drug Company of Boston, Massachusetts. These experiences and the training incident thereto well qualified him for the practical duties and responsibilities that devolve upon him in his present connection. His identification with the Curtiss-Way Company dates from 1910. This printing business is one of the most important in New Haven county. It was established in 1899 and has enjoyed substantial and continuous growth throughout the intervening years. The plant has been enlarged from time to time to meet the growing demands of the trade until today there is fifty-eight thousand square feet of floor space, while the employes number one hundred and twenty-five. The business really had its inception about 1880, the founder being A. J. Converse. After some years he sold out to James A. Curtiss, a prominent business man and wholesale grocer of Meriden, who organized the Converse Publishing Company, with Mr. Converse acting as manager until his retirement in 1899. It as in that year that the stock company was formed, the principal stockholders being James A. Curtiss and William H. Way, the latter having been superintendent of the plant from 1891. At that date there were but thirty employes, which number has increased more than fourfold, while the establishment has become one of the best of its kind in New England. The business is capitalized for fifty thousand dollars and an office is maintained in New York city. The company draws its patronage from the entire country east of the Mississippi river and its work is of the most advanced character, for the standards of the company are high and the equipment of the plant is thoroughly modern. The output includes book, job and mercantile printing, also advertising novelties, calendars and memorandum and other books. The work has been thoroughly organized into departments, each under the care of the competent department manager, so directing the activities of employes as to prevent any possible loss of time, labor or material. Coming to the presidency of this company, Mr. Warren has maintained the same safe policy inaugurated at the beginning, and the same thoroughness which has characterized the conduct of the business from the first, and has also kept in touch with the most modern and progressive methods, his establishment being the expression of the last word in twentieth century printing.

  On the 17th of June, 1915, Mr. Warren was married in Meriden to Miss Ruby J. Golden. His political allegiance is given to the republican party and he is in religious faith an Episcopalian. He is also well known in club circles, holding membership in the Home and the Highland Country Clubs of Meriden and the Union League Club of New Haven.