People

People

Bernard Drew

(????-2001) minister; pastor, Asylum Hill Congregational Church (1949-1973); wife, Gladys Schwab; son, Richard A. Drew; daughter, Linda Jo Drew (Shaw); member, Christian Activities Council; member, Greater Hartford council of Churches; president, Greater Hartford Children’s Zoo; vice president, Connecticut Humane Society; corporator, Institute of Blind; corporator, Institute of Living; corporator, YMCA of Greater Hartford; trustee, Hartford Seminary Foundation; and president, City Club of Hartford. Second longest serving pastor at Asylum Hill Congregational Church (24 years).

Caleb Holbrook

Calvin Stowe

Charles E. Gross

Charles E. Perkins

Charles P. Howard

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 Goodwin

Francis McFarland

Francis R Cooley

Frank B. Haggard

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

Frank Leonard Howard

G. Pierrepont Davis

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.

Gary Miller

George Bolles

Harriet Beecher Stowe

(1811-1896) Born Litchfield, CT, June 14, 1811; author, most famously of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852); married Calvin Stowe (1836-1886); resident of Hartford (1815-1832) and of Asylum Hill (Oakholm, 1863-1873, and 73 Forest Street, 1873-1896).

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.

Henry K. W. Welch

Hezekiah Huntington

(1796-1865) local publisher and resident of Asylum Hill; director & president, Hartford Fire Insurance Company; one of the founders of Trinity Episcopal Church.

Howard Arnold Walter

Jacob H Greene

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 Howard

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

Julia Bacon Plimpton

(1862-1945) resident of Asylum Hill (63 Spring Street & 847 Asylum Avenue); member, Asylum Hill Congregational Church; daughter of Linus Plimpton (1830-1904) and Clarissa Hibbard (1835-1885); sister of Mary L. Plimpton (1867-1951) and Grace L. Plimpton (1869-1954); married (1884-1935) to Arthur Bradley (1857-1935).

James Dixon

(1814-1873) politician, lawyer, poet, and resident of Asylum Hill; member, CT General Assembly (1837-1838, 1844); US House of Representatives (1845-1849); CT Senate (1849-1855); US Senate (1857-1869); married 1840 to Elizabeth Lord Cogswell (1820-1871); four children: Elizabeth (1841-1931), Clementine (1843-1921), James (1846-1917), and Henry (1850-1932).

John F. Johnstone

(1874-1948) pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Hartford, CT (1908-1940); member, American Lawn Bowling Association; honorary member, Fernleigh Lawn Bowling Club; honorary member, Thistle Lawn Bowling Club; trustee, Hartford Seminary Founation

John Voorhees

Joseph Cone

Joseph Twichell

Lawrence McMahon

Linus B. Plimpton

(1830-1904) industrialist and resident of Asylum Hill (63 Spring Street & 847 Asylum Avenue); partner, Prescott, Plimpton & Company; president, L. B. Plimpton & Company; president, Plimpton Envelope & Paper Manufacturing Company; president, Plimpton Manufacturing Company (1872-1904); married (1861-1885) to Clarissa Hibbard (1835-1885); children Julia Bacon Plimpton (1862-1945), Mary L. Plimpton (1867-1951), and Grace L. Plimpton (1869-1954).

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

Marshall Jewell

Roland Mather

Sam Coit

Samuel Clemens

(1835-1910) noted American author and humorist

Samuel F. Jones

Samuel P. Avery

(1847-1920) businessman, philanthropist

Samuel Howard Huntington

(1793-1880) lawyer, judge, and resident of Asylum Hill (Sumner Street); served as clerk, State Senate; chief clerk, Court of Claims; trustee, Trinity College (1830-1858); trustee, Bishop’s Fund, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut; married (1825-1832) to Catherine Hutchinson Brinley (1806-1832) and (1835-1876) to Sarah Blair Watkinson (1813-1876); children Catherine Brinley Huntington (1837-1873), Maria Champion Huntington (1838-1911), Robert Watkinson Huntington (1840-1917), Samuel Huntington (1842-1923), Henry Kent Huntington (1845-1897), Elizabeth Adams Huntington (1847-1930), and Sara Blair Huntington (1847-1936). Buried in Spring Grove Cemetery.

Theodore Lyman

Thomas Galberry

Walter Wagoner

William C. Skinner

William F. O'Neill

Willis Butler