People

People

People

George Affleck

(ca. 1816-1880) florist and horticulturalist; born in Scotland circa 1816; moved to Hartford, ca. 1840; worked for I. W. Bull and George Beach; went into business with Ransom Whitmore; operated Asylum Hill Nursery, 1850-1880; died in Hartford on February 17, 1880.

George Bolles

Willis Butler

Sam Coit

Bernard Drew

Thomas Galberry

Aaron Goodman

Francis Goodwin

Henry Green

(1860-1914) inventor, electrician, pioneer roentgenologist; born in Birmingham, England in 1860; moved to Hartford, 1888; worked in incandescent lamps, ca.1890-1896; organized Green Electric Lamp Company; researched and experimented with x-rays, 1896-1914; organized Green & Bauer; died in Hartford on March 4, 1914.

Charles E. Gross

Roland Mather

Francis McFarland

Gary Miller

Calvin Stowe

Joseph Twichell

John Voorhees

Walter Wagoner

Howard Arnold Walter

Charles E. Perkins

Chauncey Brewster

(1848-1941) Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, 1897-1899; Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, 1899-1928

Edward Gallaudet

(1837-1917) educator for the deaf; president, Gallaudet College; expert on international law; leading advocate for the "combined system" for deaf education

Florence Roberts

(ca. 1859-1904) philanthropist

Francis R Cooley

Frank B. Haggard

pastor, Asylum Avenue Baptist Church; assistant pastor, Asylum Hill Congregational Church

G. Pierrepont Davis

Henry K. W. Welch

Jacob L Greene

James Goodwin

(1803-1878) transportation, insurance, and real estate; president, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company; director, Hartford Fire Insurance Company; real estate holdings valued at between $2,000,000 and $4,000,000 at his death

James Junius Goodwin

(1835-1915) business, banking, and real estate; partner, George Peabody & Co. with J. P. Morgan; partner, Dabney, Morgan & Co.; partner, J. J. & F. Goodwin

James M. Plimpton

Lawrence McMahon

Linus B. Plimpton

(1830-1904) industrialist; born June 28, 1830 in Stockbridge, MA; moved to Hartford, 1865; manufacturer of envelopes, stationery, and other paper products; died February 16, 1904.

Marshall Jewell

Melancthon Jacobus

(1855-1937) noted scholar and educator; faculty member, Hartford Theological Seminary, 1891-1928; dean, Hartford Theological Seminary, 1903-1927; active in civic affairs in Hartford

Melvin Hapgood

(1859-1899) architect; trained in Boston and in Hartford with John C. Mead; partnered with Charles C. Cook; formed Hapgood & Hapgood with Edward T. Hapgood

Samuel Clemens

(1835-1910) noted American author and humorist

Samuel P. Avery

(1847-1920) businessman, philanthropist

Theodore Lyman

William C. Skinner

William F. O'Neill