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Howard Wells Alcorn (1901-1992) — also known as Howard W. Alcorn — of Suffield, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., May 14, 1901. Republican. Lawyer; director and vice-president, First National Bank of Suffield; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Suffield, 1927-32; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1931-32; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1932; member of Connecticut state senate, 1933-34; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1943-61; justice of Connecticut state supreme court, 1961-71; chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1970-71. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Sons of the American Revolution; Sons of Union Veterans; Grange; Freemasons. Died, in a hospital at Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., August 10, 1992 (age 91 years, 88 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Suffield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Hugh Mead Alcorn and Cora Terry (wells) Alcorn; brother of Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr.; married, October 28, 1927, to Bertha Eloise Pinney.   Political family: Alcorn family of Suffield, Connecticut.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Hugh Mead Alcorn (1872-1955) — also known as Hugh M. Alcorn — of Suffield, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., October 24, 1872. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Suffield, 1903-06; Hartford County State's Attorney, 1908-42; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1912, 1920 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business), 1936 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business); candidate for Governor of Connecticut, 1934. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons; Scottish Rite Masons; Shriners; American Judicature Society; Sons of Union Veterans. Died, following a heart attack, in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., May 26, 1955 (age 82 years, 214 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Suffield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Hugh Glen Alcorn and Susan (Ford) Alcorn; married, June 28, 1900, to Cora Terry Wells; father of Howard Wells Alcorn and Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr..   Political family: Alcorn family of Suffield, Connecticut.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Hugh Meade Alcorn Jr. (1907-1992) — also known as H. Meade Alcorn, Jr. — of Suffield, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., October 20, 1907. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Suffield, 1937-42; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1941-42; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1940 (member, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee), 1944 (alternate), 1948, 1952 (Honorary Vice-President), 1956, 1960; Hartford County State's Attorney, 1942-48; candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1948; member of Connecticut Republican State Central Committee, 1948-57; member of Republican National Committee from Connecticut, 1953-61; Chairman of Republican National Committee, 1957-59; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention 6th District, 1965. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Rotary; Freemasons; Shriners; Phi Beta Kappa; Elks; Sons of Union Veterans; Sons of the American Revolution; Grange. Died, from a stroke, in Suffield, Hartford County, Conn., January 13, 1992 (age 84 years, 85 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Suffield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Hugh Mead Alcorn and Cora Terry (Wells) Alcorn; brother of Howard Wells Alcorn; married, October 21, 1933, to Janet Hoffer; married, April 14, 1955, to Marcia Elizabeth Powell.   Political family: Alcorn family of Suffield, Connecticut.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Arthur Richmond Alderman (1895-1980) — also known as Arthur Alderman — of Burlington, Hartford County, Conn. Born December 30, 1895. Republican. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Burlington, 1923-24; probate judge in Connecticut, 1929-65. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; American Legion. Died December 13, 1980 (age 84 years, 349 days). Interment at Center Cemetery, Burlington, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Elliott Alderman and Corina (Lagerstrom) Alderman; brother of Howard Everett Alderman; married to Ula Barnes (daughter of Adna North Barnes); nephew of Sereno Alderman; first cousin of Merton Ray Hodge.   Political family: Alderman family of Burlington, Connecticut. Edward Normand Allen (1891-1972) — also known as Edward N. Allen; Ned Allen — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., April 18, 1891. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border; served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Hartford Police Commissioner, 1920-24; president, Sage-Allen department store; member of Connecticut state senate 1st District, 1927-29; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1928; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1947-48; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1951-55. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Elks. Died November 14, 1972 (age 81 years, 210 days). Interment at Enfield Street Cemetery, Enfield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Normand F. Allen and Carrie (Olmsted) Allen; brother of Julia Allen; married, December 13, 1916, to Ruby Tuttle; married, November 7, 1935, to Mildred Pomeranz.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953   Ward Tiffany Alling (b. 1887) — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in New Hartford, Litchfield County, Conn., June 27, 1887. Republican. Merchant; member, Alling Rubber Company; member of Connecticut state senate 18th District, 1931. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Rotary. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Wilbur Sidney Alling and Mary Elizabeth (Tiffany) Alling; married, January 27, 1912, to Mary Scott Hull; married, February 6, 1916, to Emily Glass Coote.   William Israel Allyn (1875-1948) — also known as William I. Allyn — of Ledyard, New London County, Conn. Born in Ledyard, New London County, Conn., January 20, 1875. Republican. Farmer; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1902; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Ledyard, 1905-08, 1911-12, 1917-20; member of Connecticut state senate 19th District, 1909-10; Ledyard town clerk and treasurer; New London County Auditor. Congregationalist. Member, Grange; Royal Arcanum. Died July 11, 1948 (age 73 years, 173 days). Interment at Ledyard Center Cemetery, Ledyard, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Israel Allyn and Mary Ann (Williams) Allyn; married, January 20, 1898, to Martha A. Gardner.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Edward Perkins Ayer (1862-1935) — also known as Edward P. Ayer — of Easton, Fairfield County, Conn.; Guilford, New Haven County, Conn.; Mansfield, Tolland County, Conn.; Indian Neck, Branford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Connecticut, 1862. Republican. Minister; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Easton, 1902. Congregationalist. Died in 1935 (age about 73 years). Interment at Branford Center Cemetery, Branford, Conn.   Relatives: Married to Laura A. Wilford.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Howard Malcolm Baldrige (1922-1987) — also known as Malcolm Baldrige; Mac Baldrige — of Woodbury, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Omaha, Douglas County, Neb., October 4, 1922. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; business executive; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1964, 1968, 1972; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention 6th District, 1965; U.S. Secretary of Commerce, 1981-87; died in office 1987. Congregationalist. Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1988. Died after falling off a horse while practicing rodeo, July 25, 1987 (age 64 years, 294 days). Interment at New North Cemetery, Woodbury, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Howard Malcolm Baldrige (1894-1985) and Regina (Connell) Baldrige; married, March 31, 1951, to Margaret Trowbridge Murray; grandson of Howard Hammond Baldrige; grandnephew of Thomas Jackson Baldrige; great-grandnephew of Edwin Rockefeller Baldrige; second great-grandson of Joseph Baldrige; first cousin twice removed of William Lovell Baldrige; second cousin thrice removed of Carl Clifford Baldrige.   Political family: Baldrige family of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania.   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) — of Augusta, Richmond County, Ga. Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven County, Conn., November 22, 1754. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; member of Georgia state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S. Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807. Congregationalist. Member, Society of the Cincinnati. One of the founders, and first president, of Franklin College, which later became the University of Georgia. Died in Washington, D.C., March 4, 1807 (age 52 years, 102 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Michael Baldwin and Lucy (Dudley) Baldwin; half-brother of Henry Baldwin; brother of Ruth Baldwin (who married Joel Barlow).   Political family: Baldwin family of Connecticut.   Baldwin counties in Ala. and Ga. are named for him.   The World War II Liberty ship SS Abraham Baldwin (built 1941 at New Orleans, Louisiana; scuttled 1976 as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico) was named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   John Denison Baldwin (1809-1883) — also known as John D. Baldwin — of Worcester, Worcester County, Mass. Born in North Stonington, New London County, Conn., September 28, 1809. Republican. Newspaper editor; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1847-52; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1860; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 8th District, 1863-69. Congregationalist. Died in Worcester, Worcester County, Mass., July 8, 1883 (age 73 years, 283 days). Interment at Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, Mass.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) — also known as Simeon E. Baldwin — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., February 5, 1840. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for Connecticut state senate 4th District, 1867; law professor; justice of Connecticut state supreme court, 1897-1907; chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1907-10; Governor of Connecticut, 1911-15; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1912; candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1914. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; American Bar Association; American Historical Association; American Political Science Association; American Philosophical Society; American Antiquarian Society. Died January 30, 1927 (age 86 years, 359 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Roger Sherman Baldwin and Emily (Perkins) Baldwin; brother of Henrietta Perkins (who married Dwight Foster); married, October 19, 1865, to Susan Mears Winchester; uncle of Edward Baldwin Whitney; grandson of Simeon Baldwin; great-grandson of Roger Sherman; fifth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; first cousin once removed of Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts, George Frisbie Hoar and Henry de Forest Baldwin; second cousin of Roger Sherman Greene, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts, Arthur Outram Sherman, Thomas Day Thacher and Roger Kent; second cousin once removed of Roger Sherman Hoar; second cousin twice removed of Samuel Gager and Archibald Cox; third cousin once removed of Samuel R. Gager, Samuel Austin Gager, Chauncey Mitchell Depew and John Frederick Addis; third cousin twice removed of Josiah Cowles and John Stanley Addis; fourth cousin of John Adams Dix; fourth cousin once removed of James Doolittle Wooster, Daniel Upson, Walter Booth, George Bailey Loring, Charles Page, Erwin J. Baldwin, Ernest Harvey Woodford, Francis Everett Baldwin and Clement Phineas Kellogg.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Cross-reference: Edwin Stark Thomas   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Boce William Barlow Jr. (1915-2005) — also known as Boce W. Barlow, Jr. — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md. Born in Americus, Sumter County, Ga., August 8, 1915. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer; municipal judge in Connecticut, 1957; member of Connecticut state senate; elected 1966; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968; member of Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, 1977. Congregationalist. Member, NAACP; Prince Hall Masons; Elks; Kappa Alpha Psi. Died in Silver Spring, Montgomery County, Md., January 31, 2005 (age 89 years, 176 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Boce William Barlow and Ethel (Green) Barlow; married to Catherine Swanson.   Boce Barlow Way, a street in Hartford, Connecticut, is named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial George Wells Beach (1833-1906) — of Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), New Haven County, Conn., August 18, 1833. Postmaster; superintendent, Naugatuck Railroad, 1868-87; division superintendent, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 1887-1902; director, Watertown and Waterbury Railroad; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Waterbury, 1870-71; president, Manufacturers' National Bank. Congregationalist. Died in Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn., March 2, 1906 (age 72 years, 196 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Adeline (Sperry) Beach and Sharon Yale Beach; married 1855 to Sarah Upson; married, April 2, 1883, to Sarah Ann (Steele) Blackall; fourth cousin once removed of Ernest Ransom Brockett and George Newbury Blakeslee.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) — of Indianapolis, Marion County, Ind.; Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., June 24, 1813. Republican. Minister; orator; abolitionist; candidate for delegate to New York state constitutional convention 2nd District, 1867; in 1872, he was accused of an adulterous affair with Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of a friend of his; Beecher's church conducted an investigation and declared him innocent; in 1874, Elizabeth Tilton's husband Theodore sued Beecher; a highly-publicized months-long trial took place in 1875; the jury was unable to reach a verdit. Presbyterian; later Congregationalist. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., March 8, 1887 (age 73 years, 257 days). Interment at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.; memorial monument at Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Lyman Beecher and Roxana Ward (Foote) Beecher; brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe; married, August 3, 1837, to Eunice White Bullard; uncle of George Buckingham Beecher; second cousin twice removed of Jonathan Elmer, Ebenezer Elmer and Eli Elmer; second cousin thrice removed of Erastus Wolcott and Oliver Wolcott Sr.; third cousin of Leveret Brainard; third cousin once removed of Amaziah Brainard and Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer; third cousin twice removed of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold, John Allen, Frederick Wolcott, Walter Keene Linscott, Sidney Smythe Linscott and Frances Payne Bolton; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron Kellogg, Daniel Chapin and Oliver Payne Bolton; fourth cousin of Ambrose Tuttle, Joseph H. Elmer and George Frederick Stone; fourth cousin once removed of Gaylord Griswold, Luther Walter Badger, Daniel Kellogg, Gideon Hotchkiss, Asahel Augustus Hotchkiss, John William Allen, Julius Hotchkiss, Giles Waldo Hotchkiss, Charles Francis Chidsey, Ernest Harvey Woodford and Samuel Russell Chidsey.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Eastman family; Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Cross-reference: Henry W. Beecher   The World War II Liberty ship SS Henry Ward Beecher (built 1942 at Terminal Island, California; scrapped 1969) was named for him.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Allen F. Behnke (1916-1991) — of Addison, Glastonbury, Hartford County, Conn.; Manchester, Hartford County, Conn.; Coventry, Tolland County, Conn. Born May 6, 1916. Republican. Salesman; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Glastonbury, 1939-42; served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; automobile service station manager. Congregationalist. Member, Rotary. Died in Coventry, Tolland County, Conn., September 23, 1991 (age 75 years, 140 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Manchester, Conn.   Relatives: Married to Jane Bantly.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Aaron Benedict (1785-1873) — of Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn., August 9, 1785. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Waterbury, 1826, 1841; member of Connecticut state senate 5th District, 1858. Congregationalist. Founder and president of Benedict & Burnham Manufacturing Co., predecessor of Timex. Died February 9, 1873 (age 87 years, 184 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn. Isaac Washington Birdseye (1847-1927) — also known as Isaac W. Birdseye — of Shelton, Fairfield County, Conn.; Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Huntington (now Shelton), Fairfield County, Conn., June 18, 1847. Republican. Manufacturer of corsets; bank director; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut. Congregationalist. Member, Society of Colonial Wars; Military Order of Foreign Wars; Sons of the Revolution; Sons of the American Revolution. Died in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., October 6, 1927 (age 80 years, 110 days). Entombed at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Birdseye and Caroline (Hubbell) Birdseye; married, May 4, 1880, to Elizabeth Josephine 'Lizzie' Sherwood; first cousin twice removed of Victory James Birdseye; third cousin twice removed of Gershom Birdsey and Benjamin Hard; fourth cousin once removed of Eli Coe Birdsey.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Frank E. Blakeman (1857-1923) — of Stratford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Stratford, Fairfield County, Conn., December 31, 1857. Republican. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Stratford, 1903-04. Congregationalist. Member, Sons of the American Revolution; Grange. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., February 18, 1923 (age 65 years, 49 days). Interment at Putney Cemetery, Stratford, Conn.   Dennis A. Blakeslee (1856-1933) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., March 11, 1856. Republican. Paving contractor; bank director; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from New Haven, 1900; member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1907-10; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1908; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1911-13. Congregationalist. Died April 5, 1933 (age 77 years, 25 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Charles Wells Blakeslee and Martha Jane (Waters) Blakeslee; married, December 4, 1878, to Lizzie Finette Law.   George Francis Booth (1870-1955) — also known as George F. Booth — of Worcester, Worcester County, Mass. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., November 11, 1870. Republican. Newspaper publisher; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1924, 1932, 1936 (member, Resolutions Committee), 1944. Congregationalist or Unitarian. Died in Gloucester, Essex County, Mass., September 1, 1955 (age 84 years, 294 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of William Henry Booth and Eliza (Jackson) Booth; married, November 18, 1896, to Minnie L. Welles.   Walter Booth (1791-1870) — of Meriden, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Woodbridge, New Haven County, Conn., December 8, 1791. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Meriden, 1829, 1838; county judge in Connecticut, 1834; member of Connecticut state senate 6th District, 1834; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1849-51; defeated, 1850. Congregationalist. Died in Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., April 30, 1870 (age 78 years, 143 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Meriden, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Walter Booth (1760-1825) and Mary (Newton) Booth; married, May 17, 1842, to Sarah Holkins; sixth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; second cousin thrice removed of Simeon Baldwin; third cousin twice removed of Noah Phelps, James Doolittle Wooster and Roger Sherman Baldwin; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah Cowles, John Alsop and Pierpont Edwards; fourth cousin once removed of Samuel Clesson Allen, Elisha Phelps, James Lockwood Conger, Simeon Eben Baldwin, Austin George Nettleton and Henry C. C. Miles.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Henry Chandler Bowen (1813-1896) — also known as Henry C. Bowen — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y. Born in Woodstock, Windham County, Conn., September 11, 1813. Republican. Dry goods merchant; abolitionist; newspaper editor and publisher; insurance business; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for the 3rd New York District, 1862-66; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1872. Congregationalist. Died in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., February 24, 1896 (age 82 years, 166 days). Interment at Woodstock Hill Cemetery, Woodstock, Conn.   Relatives: Son of George Bowen and Lydia Wolcott (Eaton) Bowen; married, June 6, 1844, to Lucy Maria Tappan; married, December 25, 1864, to Ellen Holt; father of Grace Aspinwall Bowen (who married Arthur Sherburne Hardy) and Herbert Wolcott Bowen; uncle of George Austin Bowen; third cousin once removed of John Randolph Wilder; third cousin twice removed of Joseph John Wilder.   Political family: Bowen-Washburn family (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Thomas Dudley Bradstreet (b. 1841) — also known as Thomas D. Bradstreet — of Thomaston, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Thomaston, Litchfield County, Conn., August 1, 1841. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; vice-president and general manager, Seth Thomas Clock Company; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1886; member of Connecticut state senate, 1903-05; Connecticut state comptroller, 1907-13; candidate for U.S. Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1912. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Sons of the Revolution; Grand Army of the Republic. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Rev. Thomas J. Bradstreet and Amanda (Thomas) Bradstreet; married, March 23, 1864, to Sarah M. Perry.   Image source: Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut 1907-08   Aurelius Buckingham (1793-1884) — of Oxford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., November 30, 1793. Farmer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Oxford, 1838. Congregationalist. Died in Oxford, New Haven County, Conn., July 24, 1884 (age 90 years, 237 days). Interment at Jack's Hill Cemetery, Oxford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Esther (Norton) Buckingham and Samuel Andrew Buckingham; married, November 30, 1819, to Laura Beecher; father of Philo Beecher Buckingham; third great-grandson of Robert Treat; fifth great-grandson of Thomas Welles; second cousin twice removed of Robert Treat Paine and Edward Taylor Buckingham; third cousin once removed of Charles M. Hotchkiss; third cousin twice removed of George Tracy Buckingham; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Clark Baldwin III; fourth cousin of John Condit; fourth cousin once removed of Silas Condit, Earle Buckingham, Alanson B. Treat, David Leroy Treat and Omar William Platt.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Condit family of Orange, New Jersey (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial William Alfred Buckingham (1804-1875) — also known as William A. Buckingham — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., May 28, 1804. Republican. Dry goods merchant; ingrain wool carpet manufacturer, and later of rubber goods; mayor of Norwich, Conn., 1849-50, 1856-57; Governor of Connecticut, 1858-66; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1869-75; died in office 1875. Congregationalist. Died in Norwich, New London County, Conn., February 5, 1875 (age 70 years, 253 days). Interment at Yantic Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Andrew Buckingham and Joanna (Matson) Buckingham; married, September 27, 1830, to Eliza Ripley; second cousin thrice removed of Allan Percy Sill; third cousin of Theodore Davenport; third cousin once removed of Samuel Clesson Allen; third cousin thrice removed of Richard Wayne Parker and Charles Wolcott Parker; fourth cousin of Greene Carrier Bronson and Elisha Hunt Allen; fourth cousin once removed of Jonathan Brace, James Kilbourne, William Fessenden Allen, Selah Merrill and Frederick Hobbes Allen.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Cross-reference: Lewis C. Carpenter   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article   Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886)   Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) — also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., December 26, 1837. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president, Aetna Life Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1884 (alternate), 1896; Governor of Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1896; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Loyal Legion; Grand Army of the Republic; Sons of the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Society of the War of 1812. First president of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs in 1876. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., November 6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315 days). Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley and Lydia Smith (Morgan) Bulkeley; brother of William Henry Bulkeley and Mary Jerusha Bulkeley (who married Leveret Brainard); married, February 11, 1885, to Fannie Briggs Houghton; first cousin once removed of Edwin Denison Morgan; second cousin of William Frederick Morgan Rowland; second cousin once removed of Edwin Barber Morgan and Christopher Morgan; second cousin twice removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; second cousin thrice removed of Waightstill Avery; third cousin once removed of John Adams Taintor, Henry G. Taintor and Alfred Avery Burnham; third cousin twice removed of Timothy Pitkin; fourth cousin once removed of Henry Meigs, William Whiting Boardman, Lorenzo Burrows and William Waigstill Avery.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Books about Morgan G. Bulkeley: Kevin Murphy, Crowbar Governor: The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley   Robert Paul Butler (b. 1883) — also known as Robert P. Butler — of West Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Prairieville, Barry County, Mich., December 25, 1883. Democrat. Newspaper reporter; lawyer; U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, 1934-45. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Delta Psi. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Robert W. Butler and Bertha E. (Watson) Butler; married, June 4, 1910, to Emily Joslyn.   John Christensen (1890-1970) — of Wilson, Windsor, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., July 25, 1890. Republican. Vegetable grower; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Windsor, 1933-42; member of Connecticut state senate 7th District, 1943. Congregationalist. Danish and German ancestry. Member, Farm Bureau; Freemasons; Elks; Odd Fellows; Rotary; Exchange Club. Died in Broward County, Fla., January 24, 1970 (age 79 years, 183 days). Interment at Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Lena (Arens) Christensen and Niels Christensen; married to Mathilde Lassen; married, November 4, 1922, to Gladys Oliver Lawson.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Charles Hull Clark (b. 1832) — also known as Charles H. Clark — of Milldale, Southington, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Southington, Hartford County, Conn., October 23, 1832. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; nut and bolt manufacturer; banker; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Southington, 1895-96, 1899-1900, 1905-06; president, Waterbury and Milldale Tramway Company, 1907. Congregationalist. Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Odd Fellows. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Theodosius Clark and Chloe (Clark) Clark; brother of William Judson Clark; married, August 21, 1862, to Mary E. Dickerman; second cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Merriam; second cousin four times removed of Jonathan Brace; third cousin once removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Philip Frisbee, James Doolittle Wooster, Luther Hotchkiss and Levi Yale; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew Griswold and Thomas Kimberly Brace; fourth cousin of Charles M. Hotchkiss; fourth cousin once removed of Elisha Hotchkiss, Thomas Hale Sill, Samuel George Andrews and Levi Bacon Yale.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Wolcott-Griswold-Packwood-Brandegee family of Connecticut; Hosmer-Griswold-Parsons family of Middletown, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Walter Eli Clark (1869-1950) — also known as Walter E. Clark — of Washington, D.C.; Alaska; Charleston, Kanawha County, W.Va. Born in Ashford, Windham County, Conn., January 7, 1869. Republican. Newspaper reporter; Governor of Alaska District, 1909-12; Governor of Alaska Territory, 1912-13; newspaper editor. Presbyterian or Congregationalist. Member, Chi Psi. Died of a heart attack, in a hospital at Charleston, Kanawha County, W.Va., February 4, 1950 (age 81 years, 28 days). Interment at Spring Hill Cemetery, Charleston, W.Va.   Relatives: Son of Oren Andrus Clark and Emily Jeannette (Jones) Clark; married, June 15, 1898, to Lucy Harrison Norvell; married 1929 to Juliet Staunton.   See also NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Walter Haven Clark (1872-1939) — also known as Walter H. Clark — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., January 20, 1872. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hartford, 1905-06; Judge, Hartford Police Court, 1908-13; probate judge, 1921-39. Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Died October 20, 1939 (age 67 years, 273 days). Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Mahlon Newcomb Clark and Mary Alice (Haven) Clark; married 1902 to Julia Ellen Gilman.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Jesse Milton Coburn (1853-1923) — also known as J. Milton Coburn — of South Norwalk (now part of Norwalk), Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Pittsfield, Merrimack County, N.H., March 27, 1853. Republican. Physician; mayor of South Norwalk, Conn., 1898-99; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Norwalk, 1902. Congregationalist. Member, Odd Fellows. Died in Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., August 13, 1923 (age 70 years, 139 days). Interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Rev. Jesse Milton Coburn and Almira (Morse) Coburn; married, August 4, 1879, to Abbie M. Cutler.   Owen Vincent Coffin (1836-1921) — also known as O. Vincent Coffin — of Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn. Born in Union Vale, Dutchess County, N.Y., June 20, 1836. Republican. Banker; insurance business; treasurer and director, New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad; mayor of Middletown, Conn., 1872-73; member of Connecticut state senate 22nd District, 1887-90; Governor of Connecticut, 1895-97. Congregationalist. Died January 13, 1921 (age 84 years, 207 days). Interment at Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Alexander Hamilton Coffin and Jane (Vincent) Coffin; married, June 24, 1858, to Ellen Elizabeth Coe.   See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial   William Brainard Coit (1862-1920) — of New London, New London County, Conn. Born in New London, New London County, Conn., July 23, 1862. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New London, 1901-04. Congregationalist. Member, Elks; Freemasons; Union League. Died in New London, New London County, Conn., September 16, 1920 (age 58 years, 55 days). Interment at Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Robert Coit Jr. and Lucretia (Brainard) Coit; married, October 20, 1886, to Anna Blanchard Bancroft; great-grandson of Joshua Coit; second cousin thrice removed of David Hough; second cousin four times removed of Samuel Huntington; third cousin twice removed of Ebenezer Huntington, Samuel Townsend Douglass, Silas Hamilton Douglas, John Foster Dulles and Allen Welsh Dulles; third cousin thrice removed of John Davenport, James Davenport, Samuel H. Huntington, Henry Huntington, Jeremiah Mason, Gurdon Huntington, Augustus Seymour Porter, Samuel Lathrop and Peter Buell Porter; fourth cousin once removed of Jabez Williams Huntington, John Hall Brockway, Charles Wentworth Upham, Henry Titus Backus, David Edgerton, Henry Woolsey Douglas and James Gillespie Blaine III.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Upham family; Saltonstall-Davis-Frelinghuysen-Appleton family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Lorrin Alamson Cooke (1831-1902) — also known as Lorrin A. Cooke — of Colebrook, Litchfield County, Conn.; Winsted, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Mass., April 6, 1831. Republican. Member of Connecticut state senate 18th District, 1882-84; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1885-87, 1895-97; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1892; Governor of Connecticut, 1897-99. Congregationalist. Died in Winsted, Litchfield County, Conn., August 12, 1902 (age 71 years, 128 days). Interment at Center Cemetery, Colebrook, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Levi Cooke and Amelia (Todd) Cooke; married 1858 to Matilda E. Webster; married 1870 to Josephine Ward.   See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial   Josiah Cowles (1716-1793) — Born in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., November 20, 1716. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1780-81. Congregationalist; later Episcopalian. Died in Southington, Hartford County, Conn., June 6, 1793 (age 76 years, 198 days). Interment at Quinnipiac Cemetery, Southington, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Thomas Cowles and Martha (Judd) Cowles; married, November 11, 1739, to Jemima Dickinson; married, November 23, 1748, to Mary Scott; great-grandfather of Charles Upson, Calvin Josiah Cowles and Gad Ely Upson; second great-grandfather of Charles Holden Cowles; first cousin once removed of Daniel Upson; first cousin thrice removed of Christopher Columbus Upson, Andrew Seth Upson and Evelyn M. Upson; first cousin seven times removed of Boyd Kenneth Benedict; second cousin once removed of William Pitkin, Daniel Chapin and Ela Collins; second cousin twice removed of Graham Hurd Chapin, William Collins and William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923); second cousin thrice removed of Addison Beecher Colvin, Helen Herron Taft and William Sheffield Cowles (1898-1986); second cousin four times removed of Franklin Woodruff, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Robert Alphonso Taft, Charles Phelps Taft II and Frederick Lippitt; second cousin five times removed of Roy Dikeman Chapin, Ephraim Henry Cowles, William Howard Taft III, Robert Taft Jr. and Seth Chase Taft; third cousin of Moses Seymour and Simeon Baldwin; third cousin once removed of Timothy Pitkin, Orsamus Cook Merrill, James Doolittle Wooster, Horatio Seymour (1778-1857), Henry Seymour, Timothy Merrill and Roger Sherman Baldwin; third cousin twice removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., John Charles Birdsall, John Arnold Rockwell, Origen Storrs Seymour, Francis William Kellogg, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), Ausburn Birdsall, Farrand Fassett Merrill, George Seymour, Russell Sage, McNeil Seymour, Henry William Seymour and Simeon Eben Baldwin; third cousin thrice removed of Walter Booth, Jesse Hoyt, Truman Hotchkiss, Asa H. Otis, Norman A. Phelps, George Isaac Sherwood, Joseph Pomeroy Root, William Chapman Williston, Edward Woodruff Seymour, David B. Sherwood, Frederick Walker Pitkin, Joseph Battell, Charles Page, Austin George Nettleton, Morris Woodruff Seymour, Rowland Case Kellogg, Dwight May Sabin, Horatio Seymour Jr., Erwin J. Baldwin, Luther S. Pitkin, Norman Alexander Seymour, Russell Cowles Ostrander, Ernest Harvey Woodford, Francis Everett Baldwin, Benjamin Pixley Birdsall, La Monte Cowles, Henry de Forest Baldwin and Gardner Cowles.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Homer Stillé Cummings (1870-1956) — also known as Homer S. Cummings — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn.; Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., April 30, 1870. Democrat. Lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1900, 1904, 1920 (alternate), 1924 (member, Platform and Resolutions Committee), 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business; speaker), 1948; member of Democratic National Committee from Connecticut, 1900-25; Chairman of Democratic National Committee, 1919-20; mayor of Stamford, Conn., 1900-02, 1904-06; candidate for U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1902; Vice-Chair of Democratic National Committee, 1913-19; candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1916; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1920; U.S. Attorney General, 1933-39; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; American Judicature Society; Freemasons; Knights Templar; Odd Fellows; Elks; Eagles. Died September 10, 1956 (age 86 years, 133 days). Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Uriah C. Cummings and Audie Schuyler (Stillé) Cummings; married to Cecilia Waterbury.   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier   Image source: Library of Congress   Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) — of Massachusetts. Born in Killingly, Windham County, Conn., May 13, 1742. Ordained minister; physician; member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1780; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts at-large, 1801-05. Congregationalist. Died in Hamilton, Essex County, Mass., July 28, 1823 (age 81 years, 76 days). Interment at Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton, Mass.   Relatives: Son of Hezekiah Cutler and Susanna (Clark) Cutler; father of Ephraim Cutler; great-grandfather of Rufus R. Dawes; second great-grandfather of Charles Gates Dawes, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Beman Gates Dawes and Henry May Dawes.   Political families: Dawes-Upson family of Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   The World War II Liberty ship SS Manasseh Cutler (built 1943 at Portland, Oregon; torpedoed and lost 1943 in the Gulf of Aden) was named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   John C. Daniels (1936-2015) — also known as John Daniels — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Macon, Bibb County, Ga., April 25, 1936. Democrat. School teacher; member of Connecticut state senate, 1980; mayor of New Haven, Conn., 1990-93. United Church of Christ. African ancestry. Died March 14, 2015 (age 78 years, 323 days). Burial location unknown.   See also Wikipedia article — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Daniel Davis (1768-1847) — of Connecticut. Born in West Stafford, Stafford, Tolland County, Conn., October 26, 1768. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1811-12. Congregationalist. Died in West Stafford, Stafford, Tolland County, Conn., October 27, 1847 (age 79 years, 1 days). Interment at Meeting House Hill Cemetery, West Stafford, Stafford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Sarah (Alden) Davis and Noah Davis (1781-1863); half-uncle of Noah Davis (1818-1902); first cousin twice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root; second cousin thrice removed of Aaron Augustus Sargent; third cousin once removed of Abel Merrill; third cousin thrice removed of Carl Edgar Mapes; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Dustin Coffin and John Greenleaf Whittier.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Pike family of Lubec, Maine; Sargent-Davis-Pike-Flanders family of New Hampshire (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Edward Marvin Day (1872-1947) — also known as Edward M. Day — of Colchester, New London County, Conn.; Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., August 20, 1872. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Colchester, 1897-98. Congregationalist. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Died in 1947 (age about 74 years). Interment at Linwood Cemetery, Colchester, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Erastus Sheldon Day and Catherine (Olmsted) Day.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Erastus Sheldon Day (1836-1921) — also known as Erastus S. Day — of Colchester, New London County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., July 7, 1836. Republican. Lawyer; president, Colchester Railway; director, Colchester Wheel Company; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1862, 1864, 1874; probate judge in Connecticut, 1880; Connecticut Republican state chair, 1886-90; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1888 (member, Credentials Committee); U.S. Consul in Bradford, 1897-1909. Congregationalist. Died in Colchester, New London County, Conn., August 30, 1921 (age 85 years, 54 days). Interment at Linwood Cemetery, Colchester, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Elihu M. Day and Jane E. (Buell) Day; married, August 29, 1864, to Catherine G. Olmsted; father of Edward Marvin Day.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Joseph Daniel Duffey (b. 1932) — also known as Joseph D. Duffey — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; Amherst, Hampshire County, Mass. Born in Huntington, Cabell County, W.Va., July 1, 1932. Democrat. Professor and acting dean, Hartford Seminary, 1960-70; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1968; candidate for U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1970; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, 1977-78; chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1977-81; chancellor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1982-1991; president, University of Massachusetts system, 1990-91; president, American University, 1991-93; dirctor, U.S. Information Agency, 1993-99. United Church of Christ. Still living as of 2011.   Relatives: Married 1974 to Anne L. Wexler.   See also Wikipedia article — U.S. State Dept career summary — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807) — of Connecticut. Born in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., April 29, 1745. Lawyer; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1777-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1780-85, 1802-07; died in office 1807; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1785-89; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1789-96; received 11 electoral votes, 1796; Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1796-1800; resigned 1800. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons. Died in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., November 26, 1807 (age 62 years, 211 days). Interment at Palisado Cemetery, Windsor, Conn.   Relatives: Son of David Ellsworth and Jemima (Leavitt) Ellsworth; married 1772 to Abigail Wolcott (grandniece of Roger Wolcott); father of Delia Ellsworth (who married Thomas Scott Williams), Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; second cousin once removed of Abijah Blodget; second cousin twice removed of Harrison Blodget, Elisha Hunt Allen and Gouverneur Morris; second cousin thrice removed of William Fessenden Allen, Walter Harrison Blodget and Frederick Hobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed of Luther Thomas Ellsworth; second cousin five times removed of Hallet Thomas Ellsworth and Wayne Lyman Morse; third cousin once removed of Gaylord Griswold and Elisha Phelps; third cousin twice removed of Hezekiah Case, Oliver Owen Forward, Walter Forward, Abiel Case, Chauncey Forward, Edmund Holcomb, Jairus Case, Norman A. Phelps, Anson Levi Holcomb, George Smith Catlin, John Smith Phelps, William Gleason Jr. and Allen Jacob Holcomb; third cousin thrice removed of Parmenio Adams, Oliver Dwight Filley, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Dean Kellogg, Charles Jenkins Hayden, Almon Case, Noah Webster Holcomb, Edwin Carpenter Pinney, William Walter Phelps and Lafayette Blanchard Gleason.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   The city of Ellsworth, Maine, is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — federal judicial profile — Wikipedia article — Ballotpedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — Biographical Directory of Federal Judges   Edward Hart Fenn (1856-1939) — also known as E. Hart Fenn — of Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., September 12, 1856. Republican. Journalist; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Wethersfield, 1907-08, 1915-16; member of Connecticut state senate 4th District, 1909-12; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1916; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 1st District, 1921-31. Congregationalist. Member, Sons of the Revolution; Grange. Died in Washington, D.C., February 23, 1939 (age 82 years, 164 days). Interment at Spring Grove Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882) — also known as Samuel Fessenden — of Thomaston, Knox County, Maine. Born in New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, March 7, 1815. Republican. Pastor, Second Congregational Church, Thomaston, Maine, 1837-56; lawyer; candidate for Governor of Maine, 1846, 1847, 1848; U.S. Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1861-63; U.S. Consul in Saint John, 1879-81. Congregationalist. Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., April 18, 1882 (age 67 years, 42 days). Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869) and Deborah (Chandler) Fessenden; half-brother of William Pitt Fessenden; brother of Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden and Joseph Palmer Fessenden; married to Mary Abigail Grosvenor Abbe; father of Joshua Abbe Fessenden, Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908) and Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden; uncle of James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden; grandfather of Charles Milton Fessenden; third cousin of William Fessenden Allen; third cousin once removed of Benjamin Fessenden, John Milton Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; third cousin twice removed of Richard Bradford Coolidge and Arthur William Coolidge; third cousin thrice removed of Aaron Kellogg; fourth cousin of Ira A. Locke, Walter Fessenden and Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903); fourth cousin once removed of Bennet Bicknell, Ira Edgar Locke, Henry Nichols Blake and Seth Grosvenor Heacock.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial   Samuel Augustus Foot (1780-1846) — also known as Samuel A. Foot; Samuel Augustus Foote — of Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn., November 8, 1780. Shipping business; farmer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Cheshire, 1817-18, 1821-23, 1825-26; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1825-26; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1819-21, 1823-25, 1833-34; resigned 1834; member of Connecticut state senate at-large, 1821; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1827-33; Governor of Connecticut, 1834-35; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut. Congregationalist. Died in Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn., September 15, 1846 (age 65 years, 311 days). Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Cheshire, Conn.   Relatives: Married 1803 to Eudocia Hull.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article Elial Todd Foote (1796-1877) — also known as Elial T. Foote — of Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N.Y.; New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Gill, Franklin County, Mass., May 1, 1796. Physician; banker; member of New York state assembly, 1819-20, 1826-27 (Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Niagara counties 1819-20, Chautauqua County 1826-27); Chautauqua County Judge, 1823-43; postmaster at Jamestown, N.Y., 1829-41. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., November 17, 1877 (age 81 years, 200 days). Interment at Lake View Cemetery, Jamestown, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Samuel Foote and Sybil (Doolittle) Foote; brother of Charles Doolittle Foote; married, December 31, 1817, to Anna Cheney; married 1841 to Amelia Stiles (Leavitt) Jenkins; married 1869 to Emily Stockbridge.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: History of Chautauqua County (1875)   Ellsworth Bishop Foote (1898-1977) — also known as Ellsworth B. Foote — of North Branford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in North Branford, New Haven County, Conn., January 12, 1898. Republican. Probate judge in Connecticut, 1938-46; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 3rd District, 1947-49; defeated, 1948, 1950. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Grange. Died in Guilford, New Haven County, Conn., January 18, 1977 (age 79 years, 6 days). Interment at Bare Plain Cemetery, North Branford, Conn.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Orin Fowler (1791-1852) — of Plainfield, Windham County, Conn.; Fall River, Bristol County, Mass. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., July 29, 1791. Missionary; minister; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1848; U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1849-52 (9th District 1849-51, 2nd District 1851-52); died in office 1852. Congregationalist. Died in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852 (age 61 years, 36 days). Interment at North Burial Ground, Fall River, Mass.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Marsh Giddings (1816-1875) — of Galesburg, Kalamazoo County, Mich.; Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich. Born in Sherman, Fairfield County, Conn., November 19, 1816. Republican. Member of Michigan state house of representatives from Kalamazoo County, 1849; probate judge in Michigan, 1860-68; candidate for Presidential Elector for Michigan; member of Republican National Committee from Michigan, 1866-70; delegate to Michigan state constitutional convention, 1867; delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1868; Governor of New Mexico Territory, 1871-75. Congregationalist. Died in Santa Fe, Santa Fe County, N.M., June 3, 1875 (age 58 years, 196 days). Interment at Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.   Valentine Gideon (1859-1951) — of Ogden, Weber County, Utah; West Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Iron County, Mo., January 11, 1859. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from Utah, 1916 (member, Committee on Rules and Order of Business); justice of Utah state supreme court, 1917-27, 1927-29; appointed 1927; chief justice of Utah state supreme court, 1925-27. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners; Knights of Pythias. Died February 11, 1951 (age 92 years, 31 days). Interment at Fairview Cemetery, West Hartford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Calvin Gideon and Artemesia (Matkin) Gideon; married 1889 to Elizabeth L. Lang.   Stanley Griswold (1763-1815) — Born in Torrington, Litchfield County, Conn., November 14, 1763. Democrat. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; secretary of Michigan Territory, 1805-08; U.S. Senator from Ohio, 1809-11; justice of Illinois territorial supreme court, 1810-15; died in office 1815. Congregationalist. Died in Shawneetown, Gallatin County, Ill., August 21, 1815 (age 51 years, 280 days). Burial location unknown.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Lyman Hall (1724-1790) — of Georgia. Born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., April 12, 1724. Delegate to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1775; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; Governor of Georgia, 1783-84. Congregationalist. Died October 19, 1790 (age 66 years, 190 days). Original interment in private or family graveyard; reinterment at Courthouse Grounds, Augusta, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Ancestor *** of Homer William Hall.   Hall County, Ga. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article Edwin Hallock (b. 1840) — of Derby, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Derby, New Haven County, Conn., August 16, 1840. Republican. Hardware business; real estate dealer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Derby, 1897-98, 1903-06; defeated, 1900, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1916. Congregationalist. Member, Odd Fellows. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Zephaniah Hallock and Sarah (Hall) Hallock.   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Owen Ruick Havens (b. 1856) — also known as Owen R. Havens — of Rocky Hill, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn., August 23, 1856. Republican. Farmer; manufacturer; first selectman of Rocky Hill, Connecticut, 1892-93, 1901-09; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Rocky Hill, 1893-94, 1905-06; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention from Rocky Hill; elected 1901. Congregationalist. Member, Sons of the American Revolution; Freemasons. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Ebenezer G. Havens and Melvine (Ruick) Havens; married 1897 to Lillian Sophia White.   Henry B. Hawley (b. 1874) — of Brookfield Center, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Brookfield Center, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Conn., May 11, 1874. Republican. Real estate business; bank director; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Brookfield, 1919-20; Dry candidate for delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify 21st amendment 24th District, 1933. Congregationalist. Member, Sons of the American Revolution. Burial location unknown.   Stephen P. Hempstead (1812-1883) — of Iowa. Born in New London, New London County, Conn., October 1, 1812. Lawyer; member Iowa territorial council, 1838-48; delegate to Iowa state constitutional convention from Dubuque, Delaware, Black Hawk and Fayette counties, 1844; Governor of Iowa, 1850-54. Congregationalist. Died in Dubuque, Dubuque County, Iowa, February 16, 1883 (age 70 years, 138 days). Interment at Linwood Cemetery, Dubuque, Iowa.   See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial   William Lincoln Higgins (1867-1951) — also known as William L. Higgins — of South Coventry, Coventry, Tolland County, Conn. Born in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Mass., March 8, 1867. Republican. Physician; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Coventry, 1905-08, 1917-22, 1925-28; member of Connecticut state senate, 1909-12; first selectman of Coventry, Connecticut, 1917-32; Tolland County Commissioner, 1921-32; secretary of state of Connecticut, 1929-33; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1933-37; defeated, 1936; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1936 (member, Committee on Permanent Organization). Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Elks. Died in Norwich, New London County, Conn., November 19, 1951 (age 84 years, 256 days). Cremated; ashes interred at Chesterfield Center Cemetery, Chesterfield, Mass.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article   Samuel Huntington (1731-1796) — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Windham, Windham County, Conn., July 16, 1731. Lawyer; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1773-85; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776-84; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-83; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1784-86; Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; died in office 1796; received 2 electoral votes, 1789. Congregationalist. Died in Norwich, New London County, Conn., January 5, 1796 (age 64 years, 173 days). Interment at Norwichtown Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Huntington (1691-1767) and Mehetabel (Thurston) Huntington; married, January 5, 1761, to Martha Devotion; uncle and adoptive father of Samuel H. Huntington; granduncle of Nathaniel Huntington (1793-1828), James Huntington, Joseph Lyman Huntington and Elisha Mills Huntington; great-granduncle of Collins Dwight Huntington and George Milo Huntington; second great-granduncle of William Barret Ridgely; third great-granduncle of Helen Huntington Hull; first cousin once removed of Benjamin Huntington; second cousin of Henry Huntington and Gurdon Huntington; second cousin once removed of John Davenport, Ebenezer Huntington, Joshua Coit, James Davenport, Abel Huntington and Benjamin Nicoll Huntington; second cousin twice removed of William Woodbridge, Zina Hyde Jr., Jabez Williams Huntington, Isaac Backus, Theodore Davenport, Charles Phelps Huntington and Henry Titus Backus; second cousin thrice removed of John Hall Brockway, Robert Coit Jr., Thomas Worcester Hyde, Alonzo Mark Leffingwell, Abial Lathrop, Roger Wolcott and William Clark Huntington; second cousin four times removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman, Matthew Griswold, George Douglas Perkins, Charles Edward Hyde, Herman Arod Gager, Josiah Quincy, William Brainard Coit, Henry Arthur Huntington, John Sedgwick Hyde, Edward Warden Hyde, John Leffingwell Randolph, Arthur Evarts Lord and George Leffingwell Reed; second cousin five times removed of Charles Grenfill Washburn, Edmond Otis Dewey, Austin Eugene Lathrop, George Martin Dewey, Schuyler Carl Wells, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Foster Dulles, James Gillespie Blaine III, Allen Welsh Dulles and Randolph Appleton Kidder; third cousin of Samuel Adams; third cousin once removed of Joseph Allen, Chauncey Goodrich, Elizur Goodrich, Augustus Seymour Porter (1769-1849), Samuel Nicholls Smallwood and Peter Buell Porter; third cousin twice removed of Samuel Lathrop, Bela Edgerton, Willard J. Chapin, Augustus Seymour Porter (1798-1872), Peter Buell Porter Jr., Philo Fairchild Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum and Peter Augustus Porter (1827-1864); third cousin thrice removed of Benjamin Hard, Charles Robert Sherman, Heman Ticknor, Gideon Hard, Norman A. Phelps, Alphonso Taft, Alfred Peck Edgerton, Emerson Wight, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, William Henry Barnum, Ulysses Simpson Grant, William Vincent Wells, Augustus Frank, Edward M. Chapin, Elizur Stillman Goodrich, Rhamanthus Menville Stocker and Peter Augustus Porter (1853-1925); fourth cousin once removed of Martin Keeler and Thaddeus Betts.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Adams-Waite-Forshee-Cowan family of Dexter, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Huntington County, Ind. is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article   George Lewis Ingalls (1914-2001) — also known as George L. Ingalls — of Binghamton, Broome County, N.Y. Born in Danielson, Killingly, Windham County, Conn., June 7, 1914. Republican. Lawyer; member of New York state assembly, 1953-66 (Broome County 2nd District 1953-65, 125th District 1966). Congregationalist. Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Delta Phi; Rotary; Jaycees; American Bar Association. Trustee of the New York Power Authority in 1967-90. Died in Binghamton, Broome County, N.Y., April 10, 2001 (age 86 years, 307 days). Interment at Calvary Cemetery, Johnson City, N.Y.   Relatives: Son of Louis Sessions Ingalls and Mary Ethel (Gallup) Ingalls; married, December 12, 1942, to Dorothy M. Joggerst.   The George L. Ingalls Pump-Generating Plant, at the NYPA's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project, in North Blenheim, New York, is named for him.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Sherman Kimberly Ives (b. 1902) — also known as Sherman K. Ives — of Connecticut. Born in Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., April 18, 1902. Republican. Dry candidate for delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify 21st amendment 32nd District, 1933; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1952-53. Congregationalist. Member, Grange; Freemasons. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Father of Alden Allen Ives.   Chauncey Jerome (1793-1868) — of Plymouth, Litchfield County, Conn.; Bristol, Hartford County, Conn.; New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn.; Ansonia, New Haven County, Conn.; New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Canaan, Litchfield County, Conn., June 10, 1793. Whig. Clockmaker; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Bristol, 1834; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; mayor of New Haven, Conn., 1854-55. Congregationalist. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., April 20, 1868 (age 74 years, 315 days). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Lyman Jerome and Sarah 'Sally' (Noble) Jerome; married, April 9, 1814, to Salome Smith; father of Chauncey Jerome Jr..   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Anson Foster Keeler (1887-1943) — also known as Anson F. Keeler — of South Norwalk, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., September 22, 1887. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; laundry owner; mayor of Norwalk, Conn., 1927-31; member of Connecticut state senate 26th District, 1931; Connecticut state comptroller, 1933-35. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Elks; Moose; Redmen. Died, from a heart ailment, in Veterans Hospital, Newington, Hartford County, Conn., September 29, 1943 (age 56 years, 7 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of John Foster Keeler and Mary Gazetta (Foster) Keeler; seventh great-grandson of Thomas Welles; first cousin thrice removed of Martin Keeler; first cousin four times removed of Aaron Burr; second cousin twice removed of Stephen Hiram Keeler; third cousin twice removed of Calvin Frisbie; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Silliman, Gold Selleck Silliman and Benjamin Silliman; fourth cousin of Alfred Walstein Bangs and John Clarence Keeler; fourth cousin once removed of Edwin Olmstead Keeler, Tracy R. Bangs and Frank D. Bangs.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   William A. King (b. 1855) — of Stafford Springs, Stafford, Tolland County, Conn.; Willimantic, Windham County, Conn. Born in Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass., July 22, 1855. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1882, 1899-1902, 1919-20 (Stafford 1882, Windham 1899-1902, 1919-20); defeated, 1908; Connecticut state attorney general, 1903-07; candidate for U.S. Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1912. Congregationalist. Interment at Old Willimantic Cemetery, Windham, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Patrick King and Mary King; married, August 26, 1889, to Jane S. Cady.   John Henry Kirkham (1865-1939) — also known as John H. Kirkham — of New Britain, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Newington, Hartford County, Conn., April 13, 1865. Democrat. Lawyer; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from New Britain, 1894. Congregationalist. Died in Portland, Middlesex County, Conn., April 13, 1939 (age 74 years, 0 days). Interment at Newington Cemetery, Newington, Conn.   Relatives: Son of John Stoddard Kirkham and Harriet Prudence (Atwood) Kirkham; married, April 29, 1896, to Lilian (West) Sprague.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Everett John Lake (1871-1948) — also known as Everett Lake — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; West Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Woodstock, Windham County, Conn., February 8, 1871. Republican. Lumber business; bank director; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hartford, 1903-04; member of Connecticut state senate, 1905-06; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1907-09; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1912; Governor of Connecticut, 1921-23. Congregationalist. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon; Freemasons. Died September 16, 1948 (age 77 years, 221 days). Interment at Westford Cemetery, Ashford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Thomas A. Lake and Martha A. (Cockings) Lake; married, September 4, 1895, to Eva Louise Sykes; married 1940 to Barbara Grace Lincoln.   See also National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut 1907-08   Henry Larrabee (b. 1830) — of Ledyard, New London County, Conn.; Willimantic, Windham County, Conn. Born in Ledyard, New London County, Conn., April 15, 1830. Republican. Member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1868; member of Connecticut state senate 7th District, 1875; bank director. Congregationalist. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Adam Larrabee and Hannah Gallup (Lester) Larrabee; married to Maria Stoddard Allen.   Eileen B. Lewis (b. 1903) — also known as Eileen B. O'Connor; Eileen B. Lane — of Greenwich, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., July 29, 1903. Democrat. Candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Greenwich, 1946. Female. Congregationalist. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Daughter of Patrick J. O'Connor and Margaret (Rayel) O'Connor; married, October 14, 1939, to Alfred Baker Lewis; married to John A. Lane.   John Henry Light (b. 1855) — also known as John H. Light — of South Norwalk (now part of Norwalk), Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Carmel, Putnam County, N.Y., March 27, 1855. Republican. Lawyer; Fairfield County Treasurer, 1899-1906; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1899-1901; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1901-02; common pleas court judge in Connecticut, 1901-05; Connecticut state attorney general, 1910-15; appointed 1910. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners; Odd Fellows. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Belden Light and Ann (Keenan) Light; married, August 3, 1881, to Ida M. Lockwood.   Asa Lyon (1763-1841) — of South Hero, Grand Isle County, Vt. Born in Pomfret, Windham County, Conn., December 31, 1763. Pastor; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1799-1802, 1804-08, 1810-14; U.S. Representative from Vermont at-large, 1815-17. Congregationalist. Died in South Hero, Grand Isle County, Vt., April 4, 1841 (age 77 years, 94 days). Interment at Grand Isle Cemetery, Grand Isle, Vt.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page   Herbert Stanley MacDonald (1907-1998) — also known as Herbert S. MacDonald — of North Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; North Branford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pa., January 14, 1907. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state senate, 1947-48; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1957-72; justice of Connecticut state supreme court, 1972-. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons. Died January 15, 1998 (age 91 years, 1 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Daniel Webster MacDonald and Bessie (Bowman) MacDonald; married, March 2, 1933, to Margaretta Wolff Miller.   Bernard H. Matthies — of Seymour, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Seymour, New Haven County, Conn. Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; business executive; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Seymour, 1925-34, 1937-42; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1932 (alternate), 1948 (alternate), 1952, 1956 (alternate). Congregationalist. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Married to Ethel Clark.   Selah Merrill (1837-1909) — of Andover, Essex County, Mass. Born in Canton Center, Canton, Hartford County, Conn., May 2, 1837. Clergyman; author; archaeologist; U.S. Consul in Jerusalem, 1882-86, 1891-1905. Congregationalist. Died in Alameda County, Calif., January 22, 1909 (age 71 years, 265 days). Interment at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.   Relatives: Son of Daniel Merrill and Lydia (Richards) Merrill; married, April 29, 1875, to Adelaide Brewster Taylor; first cousin once removed of Greene Carrier Bronson; first cousin thrice removed of Aaron Kellogg; second cousin once removed of John Russell Kellogg; second cousin twice removed of Hezekiah Case; second cousin thrice removed of Noah Phelps; third cousin once removed of Parmenio Adams, George Smith Catlin, Francis William Kellogg and Edward Russell Kellogg; third cousin twice removed of Jason Kellogg, Jonathan Brace, Augustus Pettibone, Charles Kellogg (1773-1842), Orsamus Cook Merrill, Elisha Phelps, Timothy Merrill, Rufus Pettibone, Amos Pettibone and Daniel Fiske Kellogg; fourth cousin of Asahel Pierson Case, Hiram Bidwell Case and Arthur Tappan Kellogg; fourth cousin once removed of Thomas Kimberly Brace, Luther Walter Badger, Silas Dewey Kellogg, Chester Ashley, Daniel Kellogg, Theodore Davenport, Alvan Kellogg, Alvah Nash, Day Otis Kellogg, Dwight Kellogg, William Alfred Buckingham, Norman A. Phelps, Albert Gallatin Kellogg, Ensign Hosmer Kellogg, John Smith Phelps, Farrand Fassett Merrill, Augustus Herman Pettibone, Charles Kellogg (1839-1903), Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler, Joseph Wells Holcomb and William Lucius Case.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Murphy-Merrill family of Harbor Beach, Michigan (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Charles Gould Morris (1871-1961) — also known as Charles G. Morris — of Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Westville, Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., February 4, 1871. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War; lawyer; milk dealer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Newtown, 1919-20; defeated, 1920; candidate for Governor of Connecticut, 1924, 1926, 1928; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1928. Congregationalist. Member, American Academy of Political and Social Science; United World Federalists; Freemasons. Died in 1961 (age about 90 years). Interment at Zoar Cemetery, Newtown, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Luzon Burritt Morris and Eugenia L. (Tuttle) Morris; married, September 27, 1899, to Elisabeth Woodbridge.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Francis Irving Nettleton (b. 1874) — also known as Francis I. Nettleton — of Shelton, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Shelton, Fairfield County, Conn., October 23, 1874. Republican. Physician; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Huntington, 1907-08; mayor of Shelton, Conn., 1919-30. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Charles P. Nettleton and Frances A. (Hallock) Nettleton; married 1899 to Jean M. Mitchell.   Henry Gleason Newton (1843-1914) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Durham, Middlesex County, Conn., June 5, 1843. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1885, 1895; trustee, Farmers' and Mechanics' Savings Bank, Middletown, Conn. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Sons of the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars; Phi Beta Kappa. Died March 21, 1914 (age 70 years, 289 days). Interment at Durham Cemetery, Durham, Mass.   Relatives: Son of Capt. Gaylord Newton and Nancy M. (Merwin) Newton; married 1885 to Dr. Sarah Allen Baldwin.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial Charles Page (1839-1920) — of North Branford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in North Branford, New Haven County, Conn., May 21, 1839. Republican. Clergyman; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from North Branford, 1874, 1901-02; member of Connecticut state senate 6th District, 1903-04. Congregationalist. Died in Connecticut, 1920 (age about 81 years). Interment at Bare Plain Cemetery, North Branford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Benjamin Page and Sarah E. (Merriam) Page; married, April 22, 1863, to Elbertine Adelia Dudley; sixth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; second cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Merriam and George Henry Augur; second cousin thrice removed of Simeon Baldwin; third cousin of Erwin J. Baldwin, Ernest Harvey Woodford and Francis Everett Baldwin; third cousin once removed of Lemuel Stetson and Adrial Hebard Case; third cousin twice removed of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Webster Davis Whedon and Earl Whedon; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah Cowles; fourth cousin once removed of Simeon Eben Baldwin.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Garrison-Fithian-Hires-Sayers family of New Jersey; Hughes-Stuart family of New York City, New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir (1901) Henry Remer Parrott (1829-1919) — of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., January 4, 1829. Republican. Express agent; secretary-treasurer, later president, Parrott Varnish Company; vice-president, People's Steamboat Company of Bridgeport; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1888 (delegation secretary); member of Connecticut Republican State Committee, 1889. Congregationalist. Died November 25, 1919 (age 90 years, 325 days). Interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Frederick Wells Parrott and Lucelia Ann (Remer) Parrott; married, October 17, 1854, to Annie Jane Garland; married, February 18, 1903, to Helen Reinders.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Frank H. Peet (1892-1964) — of Kent, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Kent, Litchfield County, Conn., November 30, 1892. Republican. Farmer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Kent, 1939-40; member of Connecticut state senate, 1940. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Order of the Eastern Star. Died in 1964 (age about 71 years). Burial location unknown.   Frederick Lord Perry (b. 1871) — also known as Frederick L. Perry — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Woodbridge, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Manchester, Hartford County, Conn., March 14, 1871. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New Haven, 1915-16, 1921-23; secretary of state of Connecticut, 1917-21; member of Connecticut Republican State Central Committee, 1922. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Edwin Niles Perry and Fedora Elizabeth (Lord) Perry; married, October 22, 1902, to Annie Emilie Newton.   Charles Phelps (1852-1940) — of Rockville, Tolland County, Conn. Born in East Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., August 10, 1852. Republican. Lawyer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Vernon, 1885; member of Connecticut state senate 23rd District, 1893-94; secretary of state of Connecticut, 1897-99; Connecticut state attorney general, 1899-1903; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention from Vernon, 1902; Tolland County State's Attorney, 1904-15; bank director. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; Psi Upsilon; Odd Fellows; Sons of the American Revolution. Died in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Fla., February 3, 1940 (age 87 years, 177 days). Entombed at Grove Hill Cemetery, Rockville, Vernon, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Rev. Benjamin Clark Phelps and Sarah Parker (Humphrey) Phelps; married, October 19, 1881, to Leila Loomis Bill; married, March 28, 1900, to Elsie Edith Sykes; second cousin four times removed of Jonathan Ingersoll and Jared Ingersoll; third cousin thrice removed of Charles Jared Ingersoll, Joseph Reed Ingersoll, Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll and Charles Anthony Ingersoll.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   James Lee Rankin (1907-1996) — also known as J. Lee Rankin — of Lincoln, Lancaster County, Neb.; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Weston, Fairfield County, Conn.; Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, Calif. Born in Hartington, Cedar County, Neb., July 6, 1907. Republican. Lawyer; U.S. Solicitor General, 1956-61; general counsel for the Warren Commission; New York City Corporation Counsel, 1966-72; candidate for delegate to New York state constitutional convention at-large, 1966. Congregationalist. Member, American Bar Association; American Judicature Society; Phi Delta Phi. Died, following a series of strokes, in Batterson's Convalescent Home at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Calif., June 26, 1996 (age 88 years, 356 days). Interment at Santa Cruz Memorial Park, Santa Cruz, Calif.   Relatives: Son of Herman Primm Rankin and Lois Cornelia (Gable) Rankin; married 1931 to Gertrude Louise Carpenter.   See also Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial Henry Roberts (1853-1929) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., January 22, 1853. Republican. President, Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Company; director, Hartford Electric Light Company; also director of several banks; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Hartford, 1899-1900; member of Connecticut state senate 1st District, 1901-02; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1903-05; Governor of Connecticut, 1905-07. Congregationalist. Welsh ancestry. Member, Sons of the American Revolution; Society of Colonial Wars. Died, from respiratory failure, in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., May 1, 1929 (age 76 years, 99 days). Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of George Roberts and Elvira (Evans) Roberts; married, October 5, 1881, to Carolyn Elizabeth Smith.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Image source: Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir (1903)   George Clinton Rowe (1853-1903) — also known as George C. Rowe — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., May 1, 1853. Minister; Consul for Liberia in Charleston, S.C., 1899-1903. Congregationalist. African ancestry. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., October 3, 1903 (age 50 years, 155 days). Interment at West Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Solomon Rowe and Adeline Starr (Ferguson) Rowe; married, July 8, 1874, to Miranda Jackson.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Roger Sherman (1721-1793) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Newton, Middlesex County, Mass., April 19, 1721. Superior court judge in Connecticut, 1766-89; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1774-81, 1783-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; signer, Articles of Confederation, 1777; mayor of New Haven, Conn., 1784-93; died in office 1793; member, U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S. Representative from Connecticut at-large, 1789-91; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1791-93; died in office 1793. Congregationalist. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., July 23, 1793 (age 72 years, 95 days). Original interment at New Haven Green, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment in 1821 at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Mehitable (Wellington) Sherman and William Sherman; married, November 17, 1749, to Elizabeth Hartwell; married, May 12, 1763, to Rebecca Prescott; father of Rebecca Sherman (who married Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)), Elizabeth Sherman (who married Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851)) and Sarah Sherman (who married Samuel Hoar); grandfather of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Sherman Day, Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar, William Maxwell Evarts and George Frisbie Hoar; great-grandfather of Roger Sherman Greene, Simeon Eben Baldwin, Rockwood Hoar, Sherman Hoar, Maxwell Evarts and Arthur Outram Sherman; second great-grandfather of Henry Sherman Boutell, Edward Baldwin Whitney, Henry de Forest Baldwin, Thomas Day Thacher, Roger Sherman Greene II, Roger Sherman Hoar and Roger Kent; second great-granduncle of Chauncey Mitchell Depew and John Frederick Addis; third great-grandfather of Archibald Cox; third great-granduncle of John Stanley Addis; ancestor *** of George Sherman Batcheller; first cousin thrice removed of John Adams Dix; second cousin five times removed of Horace Bemis and Lorin Andrews Lathrop.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Sewall-Adams-Quincy family of Maine (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   The town of Sherman, Connecticut, is named for him.  — The town and village of Sherman, New York, are named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   James Arthur Sherwood (1867-1944) — also known as J. Arthur Sherwood — of Easton, Fairfield County, Conn. Born May 8, 1867. Democrat. Farmer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Easton, 1903-04; defeated, 1912, 1916; first selectman of Easton, Connecticut, 1907. Congregationalist. Member, Grange; Freemasons; Order of the Eastern Star. Died April 24, 1944 (age 76 years, 352 days). Interment at Easton Cemetery, Easton, Conn. Joseph Fitch Silliman (1840-1913) — also known as Joseph F. Silliman — of New Canaan, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in New Canaan, Fairfield County, Conn., February 7, 1840. Republican. Merchant; stone crushing business; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from New Canaan, 1901-02; member of Connecticut state senate 26th District, 1909-10. Congregationalist. Died in 1913 (age about 73 years). Interment at Lakeview Cemetery, New Canaan, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850) and Martha Ann (Mitchell) Silliman; married, October 17, 1866, to Caroline Hoyt; grandson of Joseph Silliman (1756-1829); fourth great-grandson of William Leete; second cousin twice removed of Gold Selleck Silliman and Benjamin Silliman; third cousin once removed of Benjamin Douglas Silliman and Dwight Arthur Silliman; third cousin twice removed of Enoch Woodbridge; fourth cousin once removed of Benjamin Tallmadge, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Frederick Wolcott, William Woodbridge and Jonathan Stratton.   Political families: Livingston-Schuyler family of New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Tallmadge-Floyd family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Connecticut Legislative History and Souvenir (1909) George Edwin Somers (1833-1915) — also known as George E. Somers — of Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn., January 21, 1833. Republican. Machinist; inventor; superintendent, later president, Bridgeport Brass Company; bank director; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Bridgeport, 1897. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar. Died December 18, 1915 (age 82 years, 331 days). Interment at Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Esther (Peck) Somers and Rufus Somers; married 1858 to Sarah J. Noble; married, December 6, 1865, to Fannie Elizabeth (French) Clark.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)   Ralph Smith Taintor (1811-1892) — also known as Ralph S. Taintor — of Colchester, New London County, Conn. Born in Colchester, New London County, Conn., November 13, 1811. Republican. Farmer; wool commission merchant; member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1857. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Grange. Died in Colchester, New London County, Conn., October 22, 1892 (age 80 years, 344 days). Interment at Linwood Cemetery, Colchester, Conn.   Relatives: Married, June 2, 1834, to Phoebe Higgins Lord; father of Charles Newhall Taintor; first cousin once removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; second cousin of John Adams Taintor and Henry G. Taintor; third cousin of DeGrasse Maltby and Henry Taintor; third cousin twice removed of Samuel DeWitt Maltby and Benjamin Josiah Maltby; fourth cousin of Calvin Frisbie; fourth cousin once removed of Joseph Churchill Strong, Ebenezer Strong and Asa H. Otis.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Almon H. Taylor (1843-1917) — of Brookfield, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in 1843. Republican. Farmer; organist; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Brookfield, 1909-10. Congregationalist. Died in 1917 (age about 74 years). Burial location unknown.   David Torrance (1840-1906) — of Derby, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, March 3, 1840. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; law partner of William B. Wooster, 1868-85; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Derby, 1871-72; secretary of state of Connecticut, 1879-81; superior court judge in Connecticut, 1885-89; justice of Connecticut state supreme court, 1889-1900; chief justice of Connecticut Supreme Court, 1901-06; died in office 1906. Congregationalist. Scottish ancestry. Died in Derby, New Haven County, Conn., September 5, 1906 (age 66 years, 186 days). Interment at Oak Cliff Cemetery, Derby, Conn.   Relatives: Married 1864 to Annie France.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   John Treadwell (1745-1823) — of Farmington, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., November 23, 1745. Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1784-87; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1786-98; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1797-1809; Governor of Connecticut, 1809-11. Congregationalist. Died in Farmington, Hartford County, Conn., August 18, 1823 (age 77 years, 268 days). Interment at Farmington Old Cemetery, Farmington, Conn.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article   John Harper Trumbull (1873-1961) — also known as John H. Trumbull — of Plainville, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Ashford, Windham County, Conn., March 4, 1873. Republican. Organizer and president, Trumbull Electric Manufacturing Co.; board chairman, Colonial Air Transport, Inc.; director and treasurer, Plainville Realty Co.; president, Plainville Trust Co.; director, Connecticut Light & Power Co.; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1920 (alternate), 1924, 1928 (Convention Vice-President; member, Committee on Permanent Organization), 1932, 1936 (speaker); member of Connecticut state senate 5th District, 1921-24; member of Connecticut Republican State Central Committee, 1922-30; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1925; Governor of Connecticut, 1925-31; defeated, 1932; delegate to Connecticut convention to ratify 21st amendment 5th District, 1933. Congregationalist. Scotch-Irish ancestry. Member, Freemasons; Shriners; Odd Fellows; Redmen; Humane Society. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., May 21, 1961 (age 88 years, 78 days). Interment at West Cemetery, Plainville, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Hugh Homer Trumbull and Mary Ann (Harper) Trumbull; married, November 28, 1903, to Maud Pierce Usher (daughter of Robert Cleveland Usher); father of Florence Trumbull (daughter-in-law of Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge).   Political family: Coolidge family of Plainville, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial — OurCampaigns candidate detail   Frank Albert Wallace (b. 1857) — also known as F. A. Wallace — of Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., September 23, 1857. Republican. Manufacturer; banker; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1908; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Wallingford, 1909-10. Congregationalist. Member, Union League. Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Robert Wallace and Harriet (Moulthroup) Wallace; married, January 14, 1884, to Zela Curtis; married, December 7, 1898, to Sarah Rose Manning.   Elisha Waterman (1777-1857) — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., October 1, 1777. School teacher; farmer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Lebanon, 1824, 1827; member of Connecticut state senate 9th District, 1837. Congregationalist. Died in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., March 30, 1857 (age 79 years, 180 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Elizabeth (Fitch) Waterman and Andrew Waterman; married, September 20, 1812, to Elizabeth Fitch Mason; second cousin once removed of David Waterman and Luther Waterman; third cousin of Thomas Glasby Waterman; third cousin once removed of William Harrison Waterman; third cousin twice removed of Alexander Hamilton Waterman and Robert Whitney Waterman; third cousin thrice removed of Sterry Robinson Waterman; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Marshall Waterman.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians). Frank Bentley Weeks (1854-1935) — also known as Frank B. Weeks — of Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn. Born in Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y., January 20, 1854. Republican. Grain milling business; banker; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1909; Governor of Connecticut, 1909-11; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1912, 1916. Congregationalist. Member, Society of Colonial Wars; Union League. Died October 2, 1935 (age 81 years, 255 days). Interment at Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Daniel L. Weeks and Frances M. (Edwards) Weeks; married, November 4, 1875, to Helen Louise Hubbard.   See also National Governors Association biography — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Connecticut Legislative History and Souvenir (1909)   Thomas Welles (c.1594-1660) — of Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Warwickshire, England, about 1594. Colonial Governor of Connecticut, 1655, 1658. Congregationalist. Died in Wethersfield, Hartford County, Conn., January 24, 1660 (age about 66 years). Interment at Ancient Burying Ground, Hartford, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Robert Welles and Alice (Hunt) Welles; married 1615 to Alice Tomes; married 1646 to Elizabeth (Deming) Foote; third great-grandfather of Ebenezer Huntington; third great-granduncle of Simeon Baldwin; fourth great-grandfather of Orsamus Cook Merrill, Gershom Birdsey, Benjamin Hard, Timothy Merrill, Jabez Williams Huntington, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; fourth great-granduncle of James Doolittle Wooster and Roger Sherman Baldwin; fifth great-grandfather of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr., Charles Robert Sherman, Aurelius Buckingham, Eli Coe Birdsey (1799-1843), David Lowrey Seymour, Norman A. Phelps, Farrand Fassett Merrill, Howkin Bulkley Beardslee, Joseph Pomeroy Root, Jethro Ayers Hatch and Caleb Seymour Pitkin; fifth great-granduncle of John Charles Birdsall, Francis William Kellogg, Ausburn Birdsall and Simeon Eben Baldwin; sixth great-grandfather of Andrew Gould Chatfield, Charles Taylor Sherman, Philo Beecher Buckingham, William Tecumseh Sherman, Hiram Bidwell Case, Lampson Parker Sherman, John Sherman, Earle Buckingham, William Walter Phelps, Rowland Case Kellogg, Eli Coe Birdsey (1843-1929), Roger Wolcott and Omar William Platt; sixth great-granduncle of Walter Booth, Jesse Hoyt, Truman Hotchkiss, George Isaac Sherwood, David B. Sherwood, Charles Page, Austin George Nettleton, Erwin J. Baldwin, Ernest Harvey Woodford, Francis Everett Baldwin, Benjamin Pixley Birdsall and Henry de Forest Baldwin; seventh great-grandfather of Ezekiel Gilbert Stoddard, George Tracy Buckingham, Sheffield Phelps, Oliver Cromwell Jennings, Edward Taylor Buckingham, Anna Gordon Kellogg, Anson Foster Keeler and Blanche M. Woodward; seventh great-granduncle of Daniel Curtis Roundy, John Woodruff, Franklin Woodruff, Carl G. Sherwood and Henry C. C. Miles; ancestor *** of Lyman Allen Mills; eighth great-grandfather of Louis Ezekiel Stoddard, Garwood Stone Morehouse, Phelps Phelps, Irene Ellis Murphy and Henry Perkins Smith III.   Political families: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Amos Parker Wilder (1862-1936) — also known as Amos P. Wilder — of Wisconsin. Born in Calais, Washington County, Maine, February 15, 1862. Newspaper editor; U.S. Consul General in Hong Kong, 1906-09; Shanghai, 1909-14. Congregationalist. Died in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., July 2, 1936 (age 74 years, 138 days). Interment at Mount Carmel Cemetery, Hamden, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Amos Wilder and Charlotte Wilder; married to Isabella Thornton Niven; father of Thornton Wilder.   See also Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Elias Williams (1830-1904) — of Stonington, New London County, Conn. Born in Stonington, New London County, Conn., January 19, 1830. Republican. Meat business; lumberman; wagon master; surveyor; farmer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Stonington, 1880, 1896. Congregationalist. Died in Stonington, New London County, Conn., 1904 (age about 74 years). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Stanton Williams and Julia Ann (Gallup) Williams; married 1885 to Sarah Palmer.   William Williams (1731-1811) — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn. Born in Lebanon, New London County, Conn., April 28, 1731. Merchant; pastor; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1757; Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1776; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-79, 1784-1802. Congregationalist. Died August 2, 1811 (age 80 years, 96 days). Interment at Trumbull Cemetery, Lebanon, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Married, February 14, 1771, to Mary Trumbull (daughter of Jonathan Trumbull).   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Oliver Wolcott Sr. (1726-1797) — of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Windsor, Hartford County, Conn., December 1, 1726. Delegate to Continental Congress from Connecticut, 1775-78, 1780-84; member of Connecticut council of assistants, 1776-85; signer, Declaration of Independence, 1776; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1786-96; Governor of Connecticut, 1796-97; died in office 1797. Congregationalist. Died in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., December 1, 1797 (age 71 years, 0 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.   Relatives: Son of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767) and Sarah (Drake) Wolcott; brother of Erastus Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)); married, January 21, 1755, to Laura Collins; father of Oliver Wolcott Jr., Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey Goodrich) and Frederick Wolcott; uncle of Roger Griswold; great-grandfather of Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); great-granduncle of John William Allen, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Christopher Parsons Wolcott and Matthew Griswold (1833-1919); second great-granduncle of Charles Frederick Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott and Alfred Wolcott; third great-granduncle of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden Chapin; fourth great-granduncle of James Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic Lincoln Chapin; fifth great-granduncle of James Wadsworth Symington; first cousin twice removed of Gaylord Griswold, Samuel Clesson Allen, William Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth; first cousin thrice removed of Elisha Hunt Allen and George Washington Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of Edmund Holcomb, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Fessenden Allen and Frederick Hobbes Allen; first cousin five times removed of Judson H. Warner, Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler and Henry Augustus Wolcott; first cousin six times removed of Alexander Royal Wheeler; second cousin of William Pitkin; second cousin once removed of Daniel Pitkin; second cousin twice removed of James Hillhouse and Timothy Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy, Henry Ward Beecher, Leveret Brainard, Edwin Carpenter Pinney and John Robert Graham Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root, George Griswold Sill, Frederick Walker Pitkin, George Buckingham Beecher, Luther S. Pitkin and Claude Carpenter Pinney; second cousin five times removed of Augustus Brandegee, George Frederick Stone, Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin, Harry Kear Wolcott, Eldred C. Pitkin, Henry Merrill Wolcott, Frances Payne Bolton and Harold B. Pinney; third cousin thrice removed of John Arnold Rockwell and Oliver Morgan Hungerford.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   The town of Wolcott, Vermont, is named for him.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial Oliver Wolcott Jr. (1760-1833) — of Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn.; New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Litchfield, Litchfield County, Conn., January 11, 1760. Connecticut state comptroller, 1788-90; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1795-1800; banker; Governor of Connecticut, 1817-27; delegate to Connecticut state constitutional convention, 1818. Congregationalist. Accused, by political adversaries in 1800, of setting fire to the State Department, and resigned from the Cabinet in protest against the investigation. Died in New York, New York County, N.Y., June 1, 1833 (age 73 years, 141 days). Interment at East Cemetery, Litchfield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Oliver Wolcott Sr. and Laura (Collins) Wolcott; brother of Mary Ann Wolcott (who married Chauncey Goodrich) and Frederick Wolcott; nephew of Erastus Wolcott and Ursula Wolcott (who married Matthew Griswold (1714-1799)); grandson of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767); granduncle of Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); third great-grandson of William Leete; first cousin of Roger Griswold; first cousin twice removed of John William Allen, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Christopher Parsons Wolcott and Matthew Griswold (1833-1919); first cousin thrice removed of Charles Frederick Wadsworth, James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott and Alfred Wolcott; first cousin four times removed of James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. and Selden Chapin; first cousin five times removed of James Jermiah Wadsworth and Frederic Lincoln Chapin; first cousin six times removed of James Wadsworth Symington; second cousin once removed of William Pitkin, Gaylord Griswold, Samuel Clesson Allen, William Wolcott Ellsworth and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth; second cousin twice removed of Joseph Lyman Huntington, Elisha Hunt Allen and George Washington Wolcott; second cousin thrice removed of Edmund Holcomb, Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, Collins Dwight Huntington, William Fessenden Allen, George Milo Huntington and Frederick Hobbes Allen; second cousin four times removed of Judson H. Warner, Nelson Platt Wheeler, William Egbert Wheeler and Henry Augustus Wolcott; second cousin five times removed of Alexander Royal Wheeler; third cousin of Daniel Pitkin; third cousin once removed of Thomas Chittenden, Enoch Woodbridge, James Hillhouse, Joseph Silliman (1756-1829) and Timothy Pitkin; third cousin twice removed of Phineas Lyman Tracy, Albert Haller Tracy, Henry Ward Beecher, Leveret Brainard, Edwin Carpenter Pinney, Roger Calvin Leete and John Robert Graham Pitkin; third cousin thrice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root, George Griswold Sill, Frederick Walker Pitkin, George Buckingham Beecher, Luther S. Pitkin and Claude Carpenter Pinney; fourth cousin of Benjamin Tallmadge, Elizur Goodrich, Martin Chittenden, William Woodbridge and Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850); fourth cousin once removed of Chittenden Lyon, Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, Josiah C. Chittenden, Clark S. Chittenden, Abel Madison Scranton, Frederick Enoch Woodbridge and Joseph Fitch Silliman.   Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   The town of Wolcott, Vermont, is named for him.   See also National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: One Hundredth Anniversary (1919)   Bradford Ripley Wood (1800-1889) — also known as Bradford R. Wood — of Albany, Albany County, N.Y. Born in Westport, Fairfield County, Conn., September 3, 1800. U.S. Representative from New York 13th District, 1845-47; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1856; U.S. Minister to Denmark, 1861-65. Congregationalist. Died in Albany, Albany County, N.Y., September 26, 1889 (age 89 years, 23 days). Interment at Albany Rural Cemetery, Menands, N.Y.   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — U.S. State Dept career summary

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