Danbury, one of the capitals of Fairfield county, Connecticut, 69 miles NNE. of New York; has a sewing-machine factory, and over a dozen manufactories of hats, employing a capital of $1,500,000. Pop. of township (1880) 11,666; (1890) 16,552.
Danbury
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 668
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