Danbury
a city and one of the county-seats of Fairfield co., Conn.; on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad; 62 miles N. E. of New York.
It is the greatest hat-making city in the United States. It has also extensive manufactures of iron, brass, and silverplated ware, bicycles, paper, foundry and machine shop products, etc. There are a court house, public library, State normal school, high school, public parks, electric street railways and lights, Soldiers' Monument, 2 National banks, daily and weekly newspapers, etc. A temporary settlement was made here in 1684, a meeting-house was erected in 1696, and for many years the place was known by the place was made a depository for army British governor of New York, was in- stores, and when General Tryon, the the place was made a depository for army stores, and when General Tryon, the British governor of New York, was informed of the fact he headed a force of over 2,000 men, landed at Norwalk, marched immediately upon Danbury, and set fire to the town and stores. Pop. (1910) 20,234; (1920) 18,943. in 1864, she was educated largely by was married to Arthur Frankau. Most the daughter of Karl Marx, and in 1883 in 1864, she was educated largely by of her writings are novels, although was married to Arthur Frankau. Most of her writings are novels, although she has contributed not a little to the "Saturday Review." Among her works are: "Sebastian" (1909); "The Story of Swing" (1914). She died in 1916.