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The New Britain Dry Cleaning Corporation was a New Britain, Connecticut-based company founded in 1912 by Rudolph J. Kloiber.It grew to become the largest dry cleaning company in the city and one of the largest in central Connecticut before it was sold in 1974.
He was the son of Robert Johnstone Vance, founder [1] and publisher of the New Britain Herald from 1881 until his death in 1902. During his tenure as publisher, the elder Vance won a term in the U.S. Congress, and was later elected mayor of New Britain. Robert C. Vance’s mother, Mathilda O'Connor Vance, became publisher of the Herald in 1904 [2]
Gilbert Daniel Ferro (October 10, 1960 – August 19, 2022 [1]) was an American actor, best known for his role as Tommy Ortega in the 1980s television series Falcon Crest and for his role as drug lord Tony Romero in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown.
Amenta served in the Connecticut State Senate in 1953, 1955, 1965, 1967, 1969, and 1975, as a Democrat. Paul S. Amenta (September 30, 1922 – December 8, 2014) was an American politician . Born in New Britain, Connecticut , Amenta served in the United States Army Air Forces as a pilot during World War II .
New Britain was settled in 1687 and incorporated as a new parish as the New Britain Society in 1754. [6] Chartered in 1850 as a township and in 1871 as a city, New Britain had separated from the nearby towns of Farmington and Berlin , Connecticut.
Raymond Joseph Wieczorek (December 9, 1928 – November 22, 2022) was an American businessman and politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. A Republican , he was mayor of the city from 1990 to 2000, and represented District 4 on the Executive Council of New Hampshire from 2002 to 2012.
William A. Petit Jr. (born September 24, 1956) [1] is an American former physician and politician. A Republican, he represented District 22 (Plainville and formerly part of New Britain) in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023.
Rhoda Carol Sniderman was born, along with her twin sister, on January 18, 1936. She grew up in her birthplace of Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City, and New Britain, Connecticut. [1] Rhoda's mother, Gertrude (née Langfur), moved her to Miami after her father, an accountant named Jacob Sniderman, died when Rhoda was 13. [2]