works turn out numerous specialties in brass, steel and composition metal. The officers of the company are James Swan, president; Carlos French, vice president; George E. Matthies, secretary; and F.H. Beecher, treasurer and manager."
    Edmund Day was a director of the Rimmon Manufacturing Company which was organized January 10, 1900, with a capital of $30,000. The plant was located at the corner of Main and Day Streets and covered more than an acre of ground. The company manufactured brass and other metal goods, including eyelets for shoes, corsets and other uses. The eyelets were sold in both foreign and domestic trade, with some of the eyelets sold as far away as Australia.
    So wide were Day's interests and influence that he became a director for the Fourth National Bank of Waterbury. This bank was organized under the United States Banking Law in 1887, some 3 years prior to the organization of the Valley National Bank and 8 years prior to the organization of the Seymour Trust Company. Day became a director in the Waterbury bank later in its history, being a director of this firm in 1908, when he was also president of the Seymour Trust Company.
    In addition to these local enterprises, Day was in two Massachusetts paper companies. He was president of the B.D. Rising Paper Company at Housatonic, Massachusetts, and director in the Crocker McElwain Paper Company of Holyoke.
    In addition to these manufacturing endeavors, Edmund Day owned several citrus groves. They included one hundred and thirty acres of orange and grapefruit groves, located at Rockledge and Oak Hill, Florida. He was at the time one of the largest individual fruit growers in the state.
    Edmund Day was a staunch Republican and served in several elected positions. In 1877 he was elected to the Seymour Board of Education, where he served six years. He served as State Representative from Seymour in 1884. In 1885 and 1886 he served as state senator, and while in this position, he was the chairman of the State Legislature's Joint Committee on Manufactures.
    He was also an active member of the Seymour High School Building Committee, where he served with James Swan, W.H.H. Wooster, Carlos French, Thomas James and Frank