STAMFORD

city in Fairfield County, Conn., on Mill River and Long Island Sound, 30 m. N.E. of New York, served by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. It has an excellent harbor and maintains scheduled steamer connections with New York, while a network of electric trolleys connects it with nearby towns. The city has large industrial interests and is the commercial center of a fertile agricultural region. Chief manufactures are woolen goods, hats, shoes, pottery, chemicals, hardware, wagons, lumber, typewriting machines, patent medicines and machine shop products. The city has an excellent sewerage system and an exceptionally good water supply. There are numerous churches, nine elementary public schools, a parochial school, high school, several large private schools, a public library, three newspapers and three banks. The city is governed by a mayor and common council. It was settled in 1641, incorporated as a borough in 1830 and chartered as a city in 1894. Pop. 35,096. EARL OF (c. 1599-1673), Eng. parliamentary general, Civil War. Thomas, 2nd earl, d. 1720, held office under William IIT.