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Politicians in Shoes, Leather, and Fur in Connecticut

Granville Elijah Dunning (1835-1918) — also known as Granville E. Dunning — of Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Connecticut, September 14, 1835. Boot and shoe manufacturer; first selectman of Trumbull, Connecticut, 1899-1901. Died in Trumbull, Fairfield County, Conn., December 25, 1918 (age 83 years, 102 days). Interment at Tashua Burial Ground, Trumbull, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Marie (Bennett) Dunning and Granville Dunning; married to Georgiana Sherman. George Forster — of Rockville, Vernon, Tolland County, Conn. Democrat. Shoe store owner; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1900; member of Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, 1901; mayor of Rockville, Conn., 1904-11, 1928-29; candidate for secretary of state of Connecticut, 1906; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Vernon; elected 1908. Burial location unknown.   Image source: Hartford Courant, September 13, 1906   Henry Haskell Gallup (1846-1932) — also known as Henry H. Gallup — of Norwich, New London County, Conn. Born in Preston, New London County, Conn., June 2, 1846. Republican. Leather belt manufacturer; bank director; Connecticut state treasurer, 1901-05. Died in 1932 (age about 86 years). Interment at Maplewood Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Isaac Gallup and Maria Theresa (Davis) Gallup.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Phineas Chapman Lounsbury (1841-1925) — also known as Phineas C. Lounsbury — of Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn., January 10, 1841. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; boot and shoe manufacturer; banker; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1874; candidate for Presidential Elector for Connecticut; Governor of Connecticut, 1887-89; warden (borough president) of Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1904. Died in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn., June 22, 1925 (age 84 years, 163 days). Interment at Ridgefield Cemetery, Ridgefield, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Delia Ann (Scofield) Lounsbury and Nathan Lounsbury; brother of George Edward Lounsbury; married 1867 to Jennie Wright; uncle of George Lounsbury Rockwell.   Political family: Lounsbury family of Ridgefield, Connecticut.   See also National Governors Association biography   Erskine Mason Phelps (1839-1910) — also known as Erskine M. Phelps — of Chicago, Cook County, Ill. Born in Stonington, New London County, Conn., March 31, 1839. Democrat. Boot and shoe business; president, Hahnemann Hospital; member of Democratic National Committee from Illinois, 1888; Illinois Democratic state chair, 1888; Consul for Colombia in Chicago, Ill., 1893-1907. Donated his collection of Napoleon memorabilia to the University of Chicago Library. Died in Chicago, Cook County, Ill., May 22, 1910 (age 71 years, 52 days). Entombed at Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, Conn.   Relatives: Son of Charles H. Phelps and Ann (Hammond) Phelps; married, October 26, 1865, to Anna Wilder; second cousin of James Hammond Trumbull; second cousin once removed of Henry Brewster Stanton; second cousin thrice removed of George Champlin; second cousin four times removed of Waightstill Avery; third cousin twice removed of Christopher Grant Champlin, Jeremiah Mason, Benjamin Trumbull and Lancelot Phelps; third cousin thrice removed of John Adams, Noah Phelps, Augustus Seymour Porter, Daniel Cady and Peter Buell Porter; fourth cousin of Calvin Tilden Hulburd, Judson B. Phelps, Nathan William Pendleton and Giles Russell Taggart; fourth cousin once removed of Albert Gallup, George Smith Catlin, Lyman Trumbull, James Phelps and Irving Dilley Tillman.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Fairbanks-Adams family; Lenoir family of North Carolina; Beakes-Greene-Witter family; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   George Lounsbury Rockwell (1869-1947) — also known as George L. Rockwell — of South Norwalk, Norwalk, Fairfield County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in New Haven, New Haven County, Conn., January 20, 1869. Republican. Shoe manufacturer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Ridgefield, 1905-06; U.S. Deputy Consul General in Montreal, 1911; postmaster at Ridgefield, Conn., 1912-16, 1924-35 (acting, 1924). Died May 28, 1947 (age 78 years, 128 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Joel Lawrence Rockwell and Ann Eliza (Lounsbury) Rockwell; married, June 5, 1894, to Grace Frances Greaves; married to Anna Delores Ryan; nephew of George Edward Lounsbury and Phineas Chapman Lounsbury.   Political family: Lounsbury family of Ridgefield, Connecticut.   Jonathan Stratton (1791-1863) — of Thompsonville, Sullivan County, N.Y. Born in Fairfield, Fairfield County, Conn., August 24, 1791. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; merchant; leather business; lumber manufacturer; member of New York state assembly from Sullivan County, 1843, 1851. Died in Thompsonville, Sullivan County, N.Y., August 8, 1863 (age 71 years, 349 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Stephen Stratton and Sarah (Darrow) Stratton; married, July 8, 1829, to Cornelia A. Thompson; third cousin of James Kilbourne (1770-1850); third cousin once removed of Joseph Silliman (1756-1829), Gold Selleck Silliman, Benjamin Silliman and Byron H. Kilbourn; third cousin twice removed of James Kilbourne (1842-1919) and Rhamanthus Menville Stocker; fourth cousin of John Taintor, Roger Taintor, Solomon Taintor, Joseph Silliman (c.1786-1850), Israel Coe and Benjamin Douglas Silliman; fourth cousin once removed of John Adams Taintor, Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, John Leslie Russell, Henry G. Taintor, William Henry Barnum, Lyman Wetmore Coe and Joseph Fitch Silliman.   Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Wentworth-Pitman family of New Hampshire (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Morris Tyler (1806-1876) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in 1806. Boot and shoe merchant; mayor of New Haven, Conn., 1863-65; Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, 1871-73. Died October 31, 1876 (age about 70 years). Interment at Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Conn.   Relatives: Married to Mary Frisbie Butler.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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