quarters, and by 1918 it completed three main factories, a power house, and an office. The 1918 edition of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, said of H. P. & E. Day Company, Inc., "The factories are all of reinforced concrete and are splendidly equipped with the latest improved machinery for carrying on work of that character. They employ three hundred and eighty people, all skilled labor, mostly men. They have developed a splendid organization, officered by men of well-known business ability and executive force. Theirs is the largest rubber turning plant in the United States. The officers at the present time are: Edmund Day, President; Julius G. Day, Treasurer; Walter Randall, secretary and general manager. The importance of the business to Seymour is readily recognized, for it employs a large force of workmen and greatly promotes trade conditions in many ways. The city may feel proud that it has in its midst the leading establishment of this kind in the United States."
    Incidentally, the Julius P. Day listed as treasurer was the nephew of Edmund Day and the son of Henry Perdy and Frances (Gilbert) Day.
    Edmund Day had numerous other business interests in the community of Seymour. He was the first president of the Seymour Trust Company, as well as president of R.D. Rising Paper Company at Housatonic, Massachusetts. He was also the first president of Seymour Electric Light Company. In addition, he served as director in the H. A. Matthews Manufacturing Company, the Rimmon Manufacturing Company - both of Seymour - and the Crocker McElwain Paper Company of Holyoke Mass. and the Fourth National Bank of Holyoke Mass. and the Fourth National Bank of Waterbury, Connecticut. He was also the owner of a citrus grove business in Florida.
    The Seymour Trust Company was an outgrowth of the Valley National Bank. The Valley National Bank was organized in 1900 with a charter granted on July 16th, and the bank opened for business on August 14, 1900. The bank was located on the corner of Main and Bank Streets, which is now occupied by Rogols Store. The first officers of the bank were W. L. Ward, President; F. A. Rugg, vice president; S. C. Boies, cashier.
    Just five years later, to the day, August 44, 1 905, the Valley