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Danbury
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Danbury (dăn`bĕr'ē, –bərē), city (1990 pop. 65,585), Fairfield co., SW Conn.; settled 1685, inc. as a city 1889. Once home to a famous hat industry dating from 1780, this growing, diverse residential city now makes electronic equipment, plastics, machinery, and furniture. A colonial military depot, it was destroyed in Gen. William Tryon's 1777 raid, which led to the death of David Wooster Wooster, David (ws`tər), 1711–77, American Revolutionary officer, b.
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, who is buried here. The noted Danbury Hatters' Case (1902) resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling (1908) prohibiting boycotts by labor unions. In the city are Western Connecticut State Univ. and a federal prison. Several 18th-century houses are included in the Scott-Fanton Museum, and there are sites associated with the composer Charles Ives Ives, Charles (īvz), 1874–1954, American composer and organist, b. Danbury, Conn., grad.
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, a native. Danbury's famous state fair was held for 112 years until 1981; the fairgrounds now house a huge mall. Candlewood Lake lies to the northeast.


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Danbury, Connecticut, appointed Domingos Bulus president of Praxair Asia, Inc.
In career planning, this is the step that most people miss" says Tom Davis, director at Cendant Mobility in Danbury, Connecticut.
1, 1802, President Jefferson spoke to a gathering of the Danbury Baptists at Danbury, Connecticut.
 
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