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Hotelier and Innkeeper Politicians in Connecticut

  Lewis H. Bailey (1818-1899) — of Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in 1818. Banker; innkeeper; member of Connecticut state senate 11th District, 1875. Died in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn., July 30, 1899 (age about 81 years). Interment at Scott's Cemetery, Ridgefield, Conn.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Bostwick (1765-1825) — of Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y. Born in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., November 25, 1765. Hotelier; tavern proprietor; village president of Auburn, New York, 1824-25. Episcopalian. Died in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y., June 24, 1825 (age 59 years, 211 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Arthur Bostwick and Eunice (Warriner) Bostwick; first cousin of Elijah Boardman and Daniel Warner Bostwick; first cousin once removed of William Whiting Boardman; first cousin thrice removed of Mabel Thorp Boardman; second cousin once removed of Jabez Bostwick; second cousin twice removed of Ezra Bostwick; second cousin thrice removed of Elias William Bostwick, Edward Everett Bostwick, Abel Arthur Bostwick and Charles Francis Bostwick; third cousin once removed of Daniel Chapin (1761-1821); fourth cousin of Jonathan Elmer, Ebenezer Elmer, Eli Elmer, John Allen, Daniel Chapin (1791-1878), Chester William Chapin and Graham Hurd Chapin; fourth cousin once removed of Amaziah Brainard, Luther Walter Badger, Willard J. Chapin, Daniel Kellogg, Eli Thacher Hoyt, Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer, Marshall Chapin, John Hall Brockway, John William Allen, John Putnam Chapin, John Milton Thayer, Henry Purdy Day and Edmund Day.
  Political family: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
Isaac B. Bristol Isaac Baldwin Bristol (1821-1905) — also known as Isaac B. Bristol — of New Milford, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Brookfield, Fairfield County, Conn., December 21, 1821. Democrat. Hotelier; banker; member of Connecticut state senate 16th District, 1879-80. Died November 2, 1905 (age 83 years, 316 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of William D. Bristol and Eliza (Baldwin) Bristol; married 1845 to Annis Roberts; married 1897 to Sarah Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Allen.
  Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)
  Irving Hall Chase (1858-1951) — also known as Irving H. Chase — of Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn., May 13, 1858. Republican. Secretary and treasurer, Waterbury Clock Company; vice-president, Waterbury Manufacturing Company; president, A.S. Chase Company; secretary, Chase Rolling Mill Company; diretor, Waterbury Hotel Corporation, American Printing Company, Waterbury Buckle Company, Smith and Griggs Manufacturing Company, and Waterbury National Bank; member of Connecticut state senate 15th District, 1907-08; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1912, 1916. Died March 14, 1951 (age 92 years, 305 days). Interment at Riverside Cemetery, Waterbury, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Augustus Sabin Chase (1828-1896) and Martha Clark (Starkweather) Chase; married, February 28, 1889, to Elizabeth Hosmer Kellogg (daughter of Stephen Wright Kellogg); father of Eleanor Kellogg Chase (who married Charles Phelps Taft II); uncle of Augustus Sabin Chase (1897-1970); grandfather of Seth Chase Taft; second cousin once removed of Marden Sabin and Joseph Spalding; second cousin twice removed of George Anson Starkweather, Samuel Starkweather and David Austin Starkweather; second cousin thrice removed of Alvah Sabin; third cousin once removed of Henry Howard Starkweather; third cousin twice removed of Henry Dodge, Daniel Chapin, Martin Olds and Nelson Appleton Miles; third cousin thrice removed of John Adams, Elijah Abel, Thomas Cogswell and Chauncey Fitch Cleveland; fourth cousin of Charles Henry Pendleton and Eckford Gustavus Pendleton; fourth cousin once removed of Augustus Caesar Dodge, Chauncey Brewer Sabin and Edgar Weeks.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Starkweather-Pendleton family of Preston, Connecticut (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Edward Chittenden (1801-1893) — of Waterbury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Waterbury (part now in Prospect), New Haven County, Conn., February 8, 1801. Hotel proprietor; warden (borough president) of Waterbury, Connecticut, 1840-43; manufacturer. Died May 3, 1893 (age 92 years, 84 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married, April 3, 1828, to Emeline Castle.
Jonas Galusha Jonas Galusha (1753-1834) — of Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vt. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., February 11, 1753. Farmer; innkeeper; Bennington County Sheriff, 1781-87; member of Vermont Governor's Council, 1793-98, 1801-05; justice of Vermont state supreme court, 1807-08; candidate for Presidential Elector for Vermont; Governor of Vermont, 1809-13, 1815-20. Died in Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vt., September 24, 1834 (age 81 years, 225 days). Interment at Center Shaftsbury Cemetery, Shaftsbury, Vt.
  Relatives: Son of Jacob Galusha and Lydia (Huntington) Galusha; married to Mary Chittenden (daughter of Thomas Chittenden; brother of Martin Chittenden), Martha Sammons, Abigail Ward and Abigail Atwater.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also National Governors Association biography — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Men of Vermont (1894)
  Michael J. Houlihan (c.1859-1925) — of Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn., about 1859. Democrat. Hotel-keeper; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1885; member of Connecticut state senate 15th District, 1891-94; candidate for U.S. Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1896; member of Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, 1901. Died September 20, 1925 (age about 66 years). Interment at St. Rose Cemetery, Sandy Hook, Newtown, Conn.
  Herman Elisha Learned (b. 1879) — also known as Herman E. Learned — of Lisbon, New London County, Conn.; Westerly, Washington County, R.I.; Quonochontaug, Charlestown, Washington County, R.I. Born in Lisbon, New London County, Conn., May 5, 1879. Republican. Farmer; lumber business; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Lisbon, 1911-12; defeated, 1904; hotelier. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Addison M. Learned and Augusta (Preston) Learned; married, April 24, 1912, to Elisabeth Heath Sweet.
  William Markham (1811-1890) — of Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga. Born in Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., October 9, 1811. Hotelier; mayor of Atlanta, Ga., 1853-54; defeated, 1870. Died November 9, 1890 (age 79 years, 31 days). Burial location unknown.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Nathaniel Merriam (1769-1847) — of Leyden, Lewis County, N.Y.; Indiana. Born in Wallingford, New Haven County, Conn., June 3, 1769. Innkeeper; member of New York state assembly from Lewis County, 1810-11, 1819-20. Died August 19, 1847 (age 78 years, 77 days). Interment at Locust Grove Cemetery, Port Leyden, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Merriam (1734-1807) and Martha (Berry) Merriam; married, December 2, 1792, to Eunice Curtis; married, January 31, 1824, to Sally Black; second cousin twice removed of William Judson Clark, Charles Hull Clark and Charles Page; second cousin thrice removed of Adrial Hebard Case; third cousin once removed of Matthew Griswold and Samuel George Andrews; third cousin thrice removed of Oliver Cromwell Jennings and Kenneth Sidney White; fourth cousin of James Hillhouse, Roger Griswold, Peter B. Garnsey, Nathaniel Upham, James Doolittle Wooster and Benjamin Hard; fourth cousin once removed of Daniel Greene Garnsey, Nathaniel Gookin Upham, Roscius R. Kennedy, John Leslie Russell and Henry Titus Backus.
  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).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Daniel Pitkin (1769-1851) — of East Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in East Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., May 2, 1769. Hotel-keeper; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from East Hartford, 1819, 1830. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., September 4, 1851 (age 82 years, 125 days). Interment at Center Cemetery, East Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Daniel Pitkin (1735-1815) and Susannah (Stanley) Pitkin; married to Chloe Butler Norton; granduncle of John Robert Graham Pitkin; first cousin once removed of William Pitkin; first cousin twice removed of Roger Wolcott (1679-1767); second cousin once removed of Erastus Wolcott, Oliver Wolcott Sr. and Timothy Pitkin; second cousin thrice removed of Joseph Pomeroy Root, Frederick Walker Pitkin and Luther S. Pitkin; second cousin four times removed of Clarence Horatio Pitkin, Carroll Peabody Pitkin, Caleb Seymour Pitkin and Eldred C. Pitkin; second cousin five times removed of Ephraim Henry Cowles; third cousin of Moses Seymour, Oliver Wolcott Jr., Roger Griswold and Frederick Wolcott; third cousin once removed of Samuel Clesson Allen, Horatio Seymour (1778-1857), Henry Seymour, Henry Leavitt Ellsworth and William Wolcott Ellsworth; third cousin twice removed of John William Allen, Elisha Hunt Allen, Origen Storrs Seymour, James Samuel Wadsworth, Henry Titus Backus, Horatio Seymour (1810-1886), George Washington Wolcott, George Seymour, Christopher Parsons Wolcott, McNeil Seymour, Matthew Griswold, Henry William Seymour and Roger Wolcott (1847-1900); third cousin thrice removed of Albert Asahel Bliss, Philemon Bliss, William Chapman Williston, William Fessenden Allen, Edward Woodruff Seymour, Elizur Stillman Goodrich, Charles Frederick Wadsworth, Joseph Battell, Morris Woodruff Seymour, Horatio Seymour Jr., James Wolcott Wadsworth, Edward Oliver Wolcott, Norman Alexander Seymour, Alfred Wolcott and Frederick Hobbes Allen.
  Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Conger-Hungerford family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Francis Cornwall Sherman (1805-1870) — also known as Francis C. Sherman — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Newtown, Fairfield County, Conn., September 18, 1805. Democrat. Brick manufacturer; hotel owner; mayor of Chicago, Ill., 1841-42, 1862-65; defeated, 1865; delegate to Illinois state constitutional convention from Cook County, 1847; candidate for U.S. Representative from Illinois 1st District, 1862. Methodist. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., November 7, 1870 (age 65 years, 50 days). Interment at Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
  See also Wikipedia article — OurCampaigns candidate detail
  George W. Wallace (born c.1862) — of Middlebury, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Conn., about 1862. Republican. Hotel-keeper; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Middlebury, 1901-02. Burial location unknown.
  Edmund Weld (b. 1855) — of Brookfield Center, Brookfield, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Guilford, New Haven County, Conn., 1855. Democrat. Mason; innkeeper; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Brookfield, 1921-22. Burial location unknown.
  John Wheeler (1823-1906) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Humphreysville (now Seymour), New Haven County, Conn., February 11, 1823. Democrat. Hotel business; U.S. Representative from New York 6th District, 1853-57; president, New York City Department of Taxes and Assesments, 1872-80. Episcopalian. Died, from pneumonia, in the Hotel Seville, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., April 1, 1906 (age 83 years, 49 days). Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, N.Y.
  Relatives: Son of Charlotte (Chatfield) Wheeler and John Clark Wheeler.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Samuel R. Woodward (born c.1884) — of Bolton Notch, Bolton, Tolland County, Conn. Born in Vernon Center, Vernon, Tolland County, Conn., about 1884. Republican. Hotel proprietor; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Bolton, 1917-18. Burial location unknown.
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