A relative, John Heyl Raser Arms, wrote me this letter to welcome me to this world.

I was born at the Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut. We lived in the nearby town of Stratford, My dad had this birth announcement printed. To better understand this announcement, you'd need to know that Stratford CT was named after Stratford-on-Avon in England, famous as the home of Shakespere's Globe Theatre.