People
(????-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). (1848-1941) priest, author; born September 5, 1848, in Windham, CT; ordained deacon (1872); assistant rector, Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Meriden, CT (1872-1873); ordained priest (1873); rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Rye, NY (1873-1881); rector, Christ Episcopal Church, Detroit, MI (1881-1885); rector, Grace Episcopal Church, Baltimore, MD (1885-1888); rector, Grace Episcopal Church, Brooklyn Heights, NY (1888-1897); Bishop Coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1897-1899); Bishop, Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut (1899-1928); Bishop Emeritus (1928-1941); wives, Susan Huntington Whitney (1849-1885, married 1873-1885), Alice Tucker Stephenson (1856-1932, married 1893-1932); children, Eli Whitney Brewster (1885-1885), Eleanor Longfellow Brewster (1894-1985); died April 9, 1941, in Hartford, CT. Resident of Hartford and Asylum Hill (98 Woodland Street, 1897-1941). Played prominent role in the creation of Christ Church as a cathedral (1919). (1847-1924) lawyer, politician; born August 18, 1847 in Hartford, CT; law clerk, Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde (1872-1876); partner, Waldo, Hubbard & Hyde (1877-1881); partner, Hubbard, Hyde & Gross (1881-1884); partner, Hyde, Gross & Hyde (1884-1894); partner, Gross, Hyde & Shipman (1894-1919); partner, Gross, Gross & Hyde (1919-1922); member, Hartford Board of Park Commissioners; member, Hartford Board of Trade; director, Wadsworth Atheneum; member, Society of the Cincinnati; member, Society of the Mayflower Descendants in the State of Connecticut; governor, Society of Colonial Wars; president, Connecticut Historical Society; director, Hartford Retreat; director and counsel, Aetna Fire Insurance Company; director and counsel, Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company; director and counsel, First Re-Insurance Company; vice president, Society for Savings; deacon, Asylum Hill Congregational Church; wife, Ellen C. Spencer (1852-1928, married 1875-1924); children, Charles Welles Gross (1876-1957), William Spencer Gross (1880-1882); and Helen Clarissa Gross (1884-1966); resident of Hartford (1847-1922) and of Asylum Hill (840 Asylum Avenue); died December 31, 1924 in Hartford, CT. Namesake along with Ellen C. Spencer, Gross Memorial Chapel, Asylum Hill Congregational Church. (1832-1917) lawyer; president, Connecticut State Bar Association; president, Hartford County Bar Association; member, Asylum Hill Congregational Church; wife, Lucy M. Adams (1833-1893, married 1855-1893); children, Mary Russell Perkins (1857-1919), Emily Hale Perkins (1861-1940), Arthur Perkins (1864-1932), Lucy Adams Perkins (1865-1930), Thomas Charles Perkins (1837-1945); resident of Hartford (1832-1849 & 1853-1917) and Asylum Hill (49 Woodland Street). With Charles Chapman, assisted in the approval of a state constitutional amendment designated Hartford the sole capital of Connecticut. (1802-1886) author, minister, professor, theologian; born April 26, 1802, in Natick, MA; professor, Dartmouth College (1830-1833), Lane Theological Seminary (1833-1850), Bowdoin College (1850-1852), and Andover Theological Seminary (1852-1864); author, Introduction to the criticism and interpretation of the Bible (1835), Education of Immigrants (1835), The Prussian System of Public Instruction (1836), Elementary Education in Europe (1837), Elementary Instruction in Europe (1838), The Religious Element in Education (1844), The Right Interpretation of the Sacred Scriptures (1853), and Origin and History of the Books of the Bible, Part I (1867); wives, Eliza E. Tyler (1808-1834, married 1832-1834), Harriet E. Beecher (1811-1896, married 1836-1886); children Harriet Stowe (1836-1907), Eliza Stowe (1836-1912), Henry Stowe (1838-1857), Frederick Stowe (1840-1871), Georgiana Stowe (1843-1890), Samuel Stowe (1848-1849), and Charles Stowe (1850-1934); died August 22, 1886 in Hartford, CT. Resident of Asylum Hill (Oakholm, 1863-1873, and 73 Forest Street, 1873-1886). Founder, Asylum Hill Congregational Church. (1822-1896) merchant, manufacturer; born November 21, 1822, in Milford, MA; partner, Hunt & Holbrook; partner, Hunt, Holbrook & Barber; partner, Holbrook, Glazier & Company; member, First Baptist Church; member, Court of Common Council Board of Councilmen; wives, Fannie M. Hollister (1826-1855, married 1854-1855), Elizabeth C. Nelson (1825-1873, married 1858-1873), and Annie E. Nelson (1832-1898, married 1875-1896); children George H. Holbrook (1855-1856), Frank N. Holbrook (1860-1874), Grace Holbrook (1863-1921), Minnie Holbrook (1866-1866), and Anne M. Holbrook (1868-1893); died January 10, 1896, in Hartford, CT. Resident of Hartford (ca. 1843-???? & 1852-1896) and of Asylum Hill (340 Farmington Avenue, (????-1896). Sailed on the ship Henry Lee as part of expedition to mine gold in California (1849). (1853-1928) astronomer, industrialist, mechanical engineer; born March 12, 1853, in Hartford, CT; president, James L. Howard & Company, Inc.; member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers; died, March 6, 1928, in Hartford, CT. Resident of Hartford and Asylum Hill (116 Farmington Avenue). Considered an authority on the manufacture of telescopes, and published articles on his observations of solar eclipses in Winton, NC, and Burzos, Spain. (1837-1917) educator, author: born, February 5, 1837, in Hartford, CT; teacher, American School for the Deaf (1855-1857); principal, Columbia Institution for the Deaf (1857-1864), president, Gallaudet College (1864-1910); president, Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf (1895-1917); trustee, George Washington University; trustee, Howard University; director and president, YMCA; director, American School of the Deaf; wives, Jane Mellissa Fessenden (1837-1866, married 1859-1866), Susan Denison (1847-1903, married ????-1903); children, Katharine Fessenden Gallaudet (1861-1942), Grace Wordon Gallaudet (1863-1942), Edward LeBaron Gallaudet (1864-1865), Denison Gallaudet (1870-1927), Edson Fessenden Gallaudet (1871-1945), Eliza Gallaudet (1874-1875), Herbert Draper Gallaudet (1876-1944), Marion Wallace Gallaudet (1879-1928); died, September 26, 1917, in Hartford, CT. Resident of Hartford (1837-1857 & 1911-1917) and Asylum Hill (128 Woodland Street, 1911-1917). Advocate for the education of the deaf. Considered an authority on international law. (1857-1904) philanthropist: born September 15, 1857, in Hartford, CT; husband, William Converse Skinner (1855-1922, married 1880-1904); children Marjorie Skinner (1881-1968), Roberts Keney Skinner (1886-1963), and William Skinner, Jr. (1888-1962); died August 4, 1904, at Fenwick, Old Saybrook, CT. Resident of Hartford (1857-1904) and Asylum Hill (61 Woodland Street). (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. 