People

People

Aaron Goodman

Bernard Drew

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

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 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