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THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT. Now Hartford Theological Seminary. For full particulars see pages 680, 681.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Chartered 1828.
The former site was west of Trinity street and north of Capitol avenue, now that part of Bushnell Park known as the Capitol grounds. Three brown stone buildings stood on the crest of the hill, facing the east. The first class graduated was in 1827. In 1878 the college was removed to its new site on Summit street, where the buildings stand on west part of a campus of seventy-eight acres. The library contains over
86,000 volumes, and is rapidly increasing. There is a large cabinet, a fine science building, an astronomical observatory, and a gymnasium with public hall. The annual commencement is held on the last Thursday in June.
Rev. GRO. WILLIAMSON SMITH, D. D., LL. D., Pres't. CHAS. E. GRAVES, Treas .; office 89 Pearl street. For full particulars see pages 678, 679.
TRINITY COLLEGE SOCIETIES. MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Founded, 1882.
G. N. Holcombe, Pres't; H. A. Knapp, Vice Pres't ; W. A. Sparks, Sec'y; J. W. Lord, Treas .; Rev. Profs. Pynchon and Hart, Chaplains. Meets Tuesday even- ings in the Latin room.
CONNECTICUT BETA OF PHI BETA KAPPA. Founded, 1845.
Professor Pynchon, Prest ; Professor Hart, Sec'y. Seven undergraduate members in class of 1896.
LOCAL FRATERNITY OF I. K. A. Founded, 1829.
Hon. John T. Wait, L.L. D., President of Corporation. Meets at Hall on Vernon st. Eight resident members. FRATERNITY OF DELTA PSI, EPSILON CHAPTER. Founded, 1850.
Meets at Chapter House, corner of Summit street and Allen place. Eleven resident members.
FRATERNITY OF ALPHA DELTA PHI, PHI KAPPA CHAPTER.
Founded as Phi Kappa Society, 1835; Chapter char- tered, 1878. Meets at Chapter House, 122 Vernon street. Eighteen resident members.
FRATERNITY OF DELTA KAPPA EPSILON, ALPHA CHI CHAPTER. Chapter chartered, 1879. Eleven resident members.
FRATERNITY OF PSI UPSILON, BETA BETA CHAPTER. Founded as Beta Beta Society, 1842; Chapter char- tered, 1880. Meets in Chapter House, corner of Wash- ington and Park streets. Twenty-two resident mem- bers.
FRATERNITY OF SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON, CONNECTICUT ALPHA CHAPTER. Chapter chartered, 1892. Nine resident members.
FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA, TAU ALPHA CHAPTER. Chapter chartered, 1898. Ten resident members.
FRATERNITY OF ALPHA CHI RHO. Organized, 1895. Sixteen resident members.
TRUSTEES OF THE GOOD WILL CLUB. Good Will Hall, side entrance. Keney Hall, 40 Pratt. Incor. Jan. 28, 1888. Building dedicated Feb. 22, 1889. Special Charter, April, 1889.
A. E. BURR, President FRANCIS GOODWIN, V. P. CHAB. HOPKINS CLARK, Tr. | CHARLES H. COIT, Sec'y, and Ass't Treas.
Trustees .- A. E. Burr, F. Goodwin, J. C. Parsons, Chas. H. Clark, Atwood Collins, W. W. Hyde, S. G. Dunham, D. R. Howe, Chas. H. Coit, Edward Curtis, Samuel Hart, Alex. R. Merriam. Annual meeting 2d Monday in May.
TRUSTEES OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CON- GREGATIONAL CHURCHES. Chartered April, 1885. Capital $80,000. Corporators .- W. H. Moore, S. B. Forbes and others. Annual meeting in February
TRUSTEES OF THE FUND FOR MINISTERS. Incorporated 1868. Same officers as " Directors of the Missionary Society of Connecticut."
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TRUSTEES OF THE WIDOWS HOME. Incorporated, 1860. Authorised Capital $25,000. Homes at 188 Market and 15 So. Hudson sts. Rev. J. W. BRADIN, Pres't. ED. P. TAYLOR, Aud'r. R. A. WADSWORTH, S. g Agt. SECURITY CO., Treas. This corporation consists of the Rectors and Wardens of Christ, St. John and Trinity Churches in Hartford. Annual meeting, Easter Tuesday.
UNION FOR HOME WORK. Chartered July, 1872. 289 Market st. Mrs. SAMUEL COLT, Pres't. | Mrs. M. G. BULKELEY, Tr. Mrs. N. SHIPMAN, V. P. Mrs. J. R. BUCK, Sec.
Mrs. G. W. RUSSELL, Mrs. LOUISE CHENEY, C.S. Executive Committee .- Mrs. Samuel Colt, Mrs. Na- thaniel Shipman, Mrs. John R. Buck, Mrs. Louis Che- ney, Miss Margaret Blythe, Mrs. G. W. Russell, Mrs. W. H. Palmer, Mrs. J. B. Bunce, Mrs. M. G. Bulkeley, Mrs. J. S. Jarvis, Mrs. R. J. Gatling, Mrs. H. C. Rob- inson, Mrs. G. C. Perkins. Finance Committee .- Mrs. Frank L. Howard, Mrs. Chas. E. Gross, Mrs. Wm. H. Bulkeley, Mrs. John Hall, Miss Lydia Brooks, Mrs. James McManus, Miss C. A. Jillson, Mrs. Geo. H. Day, Mrs. J. S. Camp, Mrs. P. H. Ingalls, Mrs. E. L. Sluyter, Superintendent, office hours 8 A. M. to 12 M .; Mrs. N. Shipman, Miss Margaret Blythe, Day Nursery. An- nual meeting, first Tuesday in May.
UNITED WORKERS CLUB, 286 Main street. Organized March 18, 1888. Incorporated April, 1888, as United Workers and Woman's Exchange. In- corporated under present name, April, 1893. MISS MARY B. LEWIS, President. MRS. R B. RIGGS, V. Pres'( GRACE TURNBULL, Treas. M. SULLIVAN, A&s't "
V. VANDERBEEK,
MABEL C. WASHBURN, " CAROLINE HANSELL, Lib. ELIZA L. McCOOK, Sec. HERBERT WHITE, Aud.
Alfreda Dickerson, Chairman Educational Commit- tee ; H. G. Pratt, Chairman Membership Committee ; Emily M. Morgan, Chairman Vacation Committee ; Professor J. J. McCook. Lucius F. Robinson, M. M. Johnson, Mrs. Appleton R. Hillyer, Miss C. M. Hewins, Board of Council.
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, 206 Main st.,
Is a granite building of 100 ft. in length on Main st. and 80 ft. in depth in center wings, and 70 ft. in depth in outside wings. It is of the castelated structure, with central towers 70 feet in height and corner buttresses 56 ft. in height, with an extensive brick addition on the east of Tudor architecture, which is used, on the first floor, for the Library of the HARTFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION; and, on the second floor, for the WAT- KINSON LIBRARY with the library of the HISTORICAL SOCIETY adjoining. The first floor of the main build- ing on the North is used for the PUBLIC READING room and TRUSTKES room. The whole South division of the main building is occupied by the CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The Central and Northern por- tions of the main building on the 2d floor are occupied as a PUBLIC ART GALLERY and for the ART SCHOOL The building was erected by voluntary contributions of citizens, with the land and fence, cost over $200.000. Commenced April, 1842, and completed in July, 1844, and the additions in January, 1893.
FRANCIS GOODWIN, President. NATH'L SHIPMAN, V.Pres. | JAMES B. CONE, Sec'y. JAMES G. BATTERSON, " J. F. MORRIS, Treasurer. JOHN C. PARSONS, CHAS. E. GROSS, Auditors. Trustees .- Chas. J. Hoadly, Jonathan F. Morris, Henry C. Robinson, John C. Day, J. Hammond Trumbull, Jas. B. Cone, Charles Hopkins Clark, Chas. E. Gross, Theodore Lyman, John C. Parsons, Jacob L. Greene, and ex officio, the Mayor of the City of Hartford; Sup't of Building, Frank B. Gay. An'l meeting, June. House Committee .- Francis Goodwin, Charles E. Gross, Theodore Lyman, James B. Cone.
Finance Committee .- Francis Goodwin, J. F. Morris, John C. Parsons, Jacob L. Greene.
WALNUT LODGE HOSPITAL COMPANY. Chartered April 21, 1886. Fairfield am
T. D. CROTHERS, Pres't.
B. B. ALLING, Treas. | S. B. CROTHERS, S&) A private asylum for the special medical can tz treatment of INEBRIATES and OPIUM CASES. Spa. facilities provided for each one. Address, T. ! CROTHERS, M. D., Superintendent, Hartford, Com. See page 676.
WATKINSON JUVENILE ASYLUM AND FARI SCHOOL .- Albany and Bloomfield Arex. FRANCIS GOODWIN, Pres't. | Chartered May, 1862. D. H. WELLS, Sec'y. DANIEL R. HOWE, Tre Trustees .- Henry Barnard, Roland Mather. J. C. Pr sons, F. W. Cheney, N. Shipman, G. Pierepont Danh. A. C. Dunham, Francis Goodwin, D. R. Howe, JacobL Greene, Chas. M. Beach, James A. Smith, Chas. Ho- kins Clark, Daniel H. Wells, Geo. E. Taintor, Lac.a F. Robinson.
Edwin B. Smead, Principal; Selden W. Hayr. Assistant : Honora C. Whiting, School Teacher; Mr Mary J. Page, Matron; Francis G. Stockbridge, Far Supt. School opened June 1, 1881. Annual meeting 2d Tuesday in February. Lands and Funds, sbor $245,000. New buildings on "Handicroft Farm," Albany and Bloomfield aves. See index to content
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC'N OF HARTFORD. Org. June 6, 1867. Incor. 1869. 58 Church st. Mrs. GEO. KELLOGG, Pres. | Mrs. G. M. STONE, C. &c. Mrs. F. B. COOLEY, V. Pr. | Mrs. ROBT. E. DAT, R. S. i
Mrs. THOS. SISSON, Miss C. A. JEWELL, TT.
Mrs. P. JEWELL, JOHN ALLEN, Auditor.
Directresses .- Mrs. George Kellogg, Mrs. Francis R Cooley, Mrs. Thomas Sisson, Mrs. B. E. Hooker, Mr. John Allen, Mrs. Pliny Jewell, Mrs. Stephen Terry. Mrs. Chas. H. Boardman, Mrs. Seth Talcott, Mrs. S. C. Preston, Mrs. L. A. Barbour, Mrs. G. M. Stone, M. W. N. Pelton, Mrs. J. C. Royce, Mrs. M. M. Johnson. Mrs. John H. White, Mrs. D. H. Wells, Mrs. George A. Fairfield, Mrs. G. L. Chase, Mrs. William J. Tuller, Mrs. R. E. Day, Mrs. G. W. Hubbard, Mrs. Edward A. Smith, Mrs. John S. Camp, Miss Charlotte A. Jewell, Miss Frances Z. Niles, Mrs. E. W. Hooker, Mrs. Arthur Gillett, Mrs. Henry E. Hastings, Mrs. Everett P. Cur- tis, Mrs. Williston Walker, Miss Elizabeth C. Blythe, Mrs. M. Jacobus, Mrs. Charles Cheney, Miss Charlotte Huntington, Mrs. J. J. Nairn. Annual meeting in Oct.
Young Women's Boarding Home, 58 Church street .- Mrs. Harriet A. Platt, Matron.
INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT,. 54 Church st., Miss E. C. Maxwell, Superintendent.
WIDOWS' SOCIETY.
Organized, 1825. Incorporated, 1847.
Mrs. ROBERT E. DAY, President. Mrs. CHAS. R. BURT, Treas. | Mrs. C. A. JEWELL, Sec's. Almoners .- Miss Mary Bigelow, Mrs. Robert E. Day, Mrs. H. G. Howe, Mrs. A. L. Hunt. Annual meeting in September.
Niles Fund Almoners .- Miss Sarah Davis, Mrs. Ar- thur F. Eggleston, Mrs. C. A. Jewell, Mrs. T. Sisson.
WOMAN'S AID SOCIETY.
Org. Feb. 1878. Chart. 1881. Home 1 Pavilion st. Mrs. E. B. TURNER, Pres. | Mrs. T W. RUSSELL, Treas. Mrs. F. GOODWIN, V. P. | Mrs. J. R. BUCK, Aus't Tr. Mrs. H. E. TAINTOR, " Mrs. STEPHEN TERRY. R.S.
Mrs. E. A. SMITH, 2 Mrs. H. E. TAINTOR, C. S. Annual meeting in January.
WOMANS CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSION- ARY UNION OF CONNECTICUT. Organized Jan. 14, 1885. Incorporated 1886. MI88 E. R. CAMP, New Britain, Pres't. Mrs. F. B. COOLEY, V. P. | Mrs. S. M. HOTCHKISS, V.P. Mrs. GEO.L. WALKER, " Mrs. E. HUBBARD, Mrs. HENRY GAY, Mrs. WARD W. JACOBS, Tr.
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1. Mrs. C. T. MILLARD, Hartford, Cor. Sec'y. Mrs. GEORGE FOLLETT, Cor. Sec'y. Mrs. A. H. PITKIN, Hartford, Rec. Sec'y. Mrs. ELI C. SMITH, Bridgeport, Sec'y Junior Work. Executive Committee .- Mrs. O. Vincent Coffin, Au- relia Wells, Mrs. Francis Williams, Mrs. E. Ackley. Mrs. Luman Cowles, Miss Alice H. Goodwin, Mrs. Nathan Merwin, Mrs. J. A. Kippen, Miss Mathewson, Mrs. D. F. Gulliver, Mrs. John Hopson, Mrs. E. E. Hubbell, Mrs. H. P. Hitchcock, Mrs. C. W. Sheldon, Mrs. Wash- ington Choate, Mrs. Gideon Welch, Miss E. Danielson. Finance Committee .- Mrs. Geo. W. Moore, Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Mrs. Henry Gay. Auditor .- Cornwall T. Miliard. Meets 2d Monday of each month at Memorial Hall. Annual election in May.
WOMAN'S EXCHANGE.
Organized April, 1898. 78 Pearl street. Mrs. LEVERETT BRAINARD, President. Mrs. A.F. EGGLESTON, V.PT | Mrs. M. B. SCOTT, R. Sec. Mrs. A. R. HILLYER, Mrs F. A. HART, C. Sec. Mrs. A. G. LOOMIS, " Miss HATTIE PRATT, Tr. Board of Managers .- Mrs. Edwin E. Johnson, Miss Mary G. Jones, Mrs. Leverett Brainard, Mrs. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Mrs. Edwin Strong, Mrs. M. Bradford Scott, Mrs. Chas. C. Beach, Mrs. S. O. Seymour, Mrs. A. F. Eggleston, Mrs. A. R. Hillyer, Mrs. A. G. Loomis, Mrs. F. A. Hart, Miss Hattie G. Pratt, Mrs. P. H. In- galls, Mrs. Louis R. Cheney, Mrs. John J. Narin, Miss Helen Whitney, Mrs. Emily Morgan, Mrs. F. H. Adri- ance, Mrs. H. S. Redfield, Mrs. R. N. Seyms, Mrs T. Belknap Beach, Miss Josephine Barnard, Mrs. J. H. Greene, Miss Mary Robinson, Miss Laura Taft.
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Org. Feb. 7, 1878. Chartered April, 1884. 815 Pearl C. E. THOMPSON, President. RODNEY DENNIS, V.Pres. | CHARLES T. WELLES, Tr. H. H. GOODWIN, G. M. HERSKY, Gen. Sec'y. CHAS. A. JEWELL, CHAS. A. PEASE, Rec. Sec. L. F. ROBINSON, A. L. HUNT, Auditor.
Directors .- J. Allen Wiley. C. D. Alton, John Gem- mill, Gail B. Munsill, Atwood Collins, John S. Camp, S. P. Davis, J. H. Jarman, Wm. H. Talcott, W. R. Morgan, Wilbur M. Stone, L. Walter Clarke. Annual meeting in May. Rooms open week days from 9 A. M. till 10 P. M .; on Sundays from 1 till 6 P. M. Song ser- vice for men, on Sundays, 8.80 P. M., except in the summer. The average age of members is 22} years. Total membership April 1, 1896, 1,250. There are 112 different occupations represented in the enrollment. Young men of all creeds, and no creeds may join. The property interests and voting privilege is limited to the control of members of Protestant Evangelical Churches. Educational classes are maintained even- ings during the fall and winter months. There was an enrollment of over 380 students season 1895-6. The Educational Department known as the Hillyer In- stitute has an endowment of $50,000. A Working- man's Exchange is maintained as one of the many departments of the Association. Recreation rooms furnished with pool tables, and other games are pro- vided. The workingmen of the city assemble in large numbers at these rooms where social privileges are en- joyed free from the demoralizing influences of the sa- loon. All workingmen 18 years or over may join this department as well as that of the main association. The new building, cor. Jewell, Ford and Pearl streets, was opened November 8, 1893. It is a superior build- ing in all respects. See pages 672, 678.
Chartered Clubs.
BOARD OF TRADE OF THE CITY OF HARTFORD. Organized, July, 1888. J. M. ALLEN, President. C. C. KIMBALL, V. Pres't. P. H. WOODWARD, T. g. S. | PLINY JEWELL, "6
J. M. Allen, C. C. Kimball, Geo. A. Fairfield, Jud- son H. Root, John F. Morris, Charles E. Billings, M. H. Whaples, John G. Root, Charles B. Whiting, Clar- ence B. Ingraham, Ernest Cady, H. C. Dwight, Morgan G. Bulkeley, F. A. Pratt, Charles M. Beach, A. E. Burr, George H. Day, Charles E. Gross, Asa S. Cook, A. B. Gillett, O. H. Blanchard, S. M. Bronson, Lev- erett Brainard, Charles H. Clark, Albert A. Pope, Directors. S. M. Bronson, Chairman Membership Committee ; Geo. L. Chase, Chairman Reception Commit- tee; Chas. B. Whiting, Chairman Finance Committee ; Geo. H. Day, Chairman House Committee; J. F. Swords, Chairman Transportation Committee; James Nich- ols, Chairman Railway Proxies; Francis Goodwin, Chair- man Public Affairs Committee. Rooms 89 Pearl st. Annual meeting 2d Tuesday in January.
CONN. HISTORICAL SOCIETY .- 206 Main. Library open 9.80 a.m. to 12.80 noon, 1.80 to 5 p. m. CHAS. J. HOADLY, Pres't. ! W. DELOSs LOVE, Cor. Sec. J. F. MORRIS, Treasurer. | ROWLAND SWIFT, Auditor.
ALBERT C. BATES, Rec. Sec'y and Librarian.
Vice Presidents .- Samuel Hart, James J. Goodwin, Hartford; James Terry, New Haven; Theodore S. Gold, Cornwall; Frank F. Starr, Middletown; Miss Ellen D. Larned, Thompson; Richard A. Wheeler, Stonington; Rowland B. Lacey, Bridgeport. Library, 22,000 vols. Chartered 1825. Annual election, May 26. Meets 1st Tuesday evening in each month, from October to May.
HARTFORD CANOE CLUB. Organized April, 1880. Chartered 1884. Club House, East Hartford. GEO. L. PARMELE, Prest. | WM. B. DAVIDSON, Treas. J. D. PARKER, Commodore. | FRANCIS H. HILLS, Sec'y. L. S. HICKMOTT, Ass't Sec'y. Executive Committee .- Officers above, and Joseph W. Danforth; Daniel S. Morrell, V. Commodore; R. A. Wadsworth, Signal Officer ; W. E. A. Bulkeley, Measurer. Annual meeting 3d Tuesday in January.
HARTFORD CLUB. Org. Nov. 1878. Chart. July, 1874. House 88 Prospect. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY, President.
MORGAN G. BULKELEY, V. Pr. | G. A. BOLLES, Treas. WM. WALDO HYDE, C. F. CHASE, Sec'y. Managers .- E. Henry Hyde, Jr., Samuel Taylor, William H. Bulkeley, L. B. Plimpton, Walter Sanford, D. W. C. Skilton, George H. Folts. House Committee .- William H. Bulkeley, George H. Folts, Charles E. Chase. Auditors .- George Ellis, James H. Knight. Annual meeting, 8d Monday in October.
HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY, 206 Main.
Chartered 1878 as Hartford Library Association, suc- cessors of the Hartford Young Men's Institute that was chartered in 1887. Said Young Men's Institute purchased the books of the Hartford Library that was chartered in 1799. Present name taken and opened to the public as a free Library Sept. 15, 1892.
SAM'L O. PRENTICE, Pres | CHAS. H. CLARK, Treas. W. I. TWITCHELL, V. Pres | ROB'T A. GRIFFING. Sec'y.
Directors .- Samuel B. St. John, W. C. Skinner, Lu- cius F. Robinson, S. O. Prentice, Francis Goodwin, Charles M. Joslyn, Edward D. Robbins, W. W. Hyde, Willis I. Twitchell, Robert A. Griffing, Charles Hopkins Clark, Chas. P. Howard.
Caroline M. Hewins, Librarian; Anna Hadley, Wm. Bassett, Florence P. Davis, Alice M. Crocker, Alice T. Cummings, Mary G. Huntington, Jane E. Hastie, Caroline T. Huntington, Karl P. Morba, Clarence H. Smith, Herbert Stedman, Leon Futter, Assistants. Li- brary open from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M .; Reading room from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. Annual election 1st Tuesday in June. Volumes in Library, 88,000; Periodicals, 112
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HARTFORD TURNHALLE COMPANY. Organized May 2, 1888. Capital, $20,000.
WILLIAM WESTPHAL, President. JOSEPH SCHWAB, V. Pres't | A. TRAUTE, Secretary. JOSEPH HIRTH, Treasurer. Directors .- William Westphal, Joseph Hirth, T. Kassenbrook, Philip Conrad, Joseph Schwab, John Yungk, C. E. Froehlich, H. Spieske, A. Traute. Hall Agent, H. Spieske. Annual election 2d Tuesday in May.
HARTFORDER TURNERBUND. Org. May 19, 1878. Incor. April, 1885. Capital $10,000. JOHN YUNGK, Pres't. R. STADERMANN, Sec'y.
HENRY JANSON, V. Pres't A. TRAUTE, Treas.
W. DETHENBARN, C. Sec. G. STEHM, Turnmaster. Trustees .- H. Spieske, J. Junk, A. Traute, Jacob Walz, Herman Weidlich, Meet at 8 Morgan st., monthly, 2d Monday evening. Election in Jan. and July. 200 members.
WATKINSON LIBRARY. Chartered 1858. 206 Main st. Library 46,526 vols. NATHANIEL SHIPMAN, President.
ROWLAND SWIFT, Treas. | JAMES B. CONE, Secretary.
Trustees .- Henry Barnard, Roland Mather, Rowland Swift, Nathaniel Shipman, Francis Goodwin, Austin C. Dunham, Chas. Hopkins Clark, Theo. Lyman, J.B. Cone, J. L. Greene, J. Hammond Trumbull, Lucius F. Robin- son, Governor of Connecticut, President of the Connect- icut Historical Society, President of the Wadsworth Athe- neum, President of the Hartford Library Association, President of Trinity College, and Mayor of the City. J. Hammond Trumbull, Librarian emeritus. Frank B. Gay, Acting Librarian. Rooms open from 9.80 A. M. to 5.80 P. M. and free to every one. Annual election 2d Tuesday in Dec.
Cemeteries.
ANCIENT BURYING GROUND ASSOCIATION. John C. Parsons, Pres't; Chas. T. Welles, Treas. and Sec'y. One acre. Annual meeting in September.
CEDAR HILL CEMETERY .- Maple & Fairfield ave. Office, 298 Main street.
Nelson Hollister, Pres't; Jonathan B.Bunce, V.Prest; Ward W. Jacobs, Sec'y and Treas .; George Beach, Jonathan B. Bunce, Nelson Hollister, Daniel Phil- lips, Francis B. Cooley, Jonathan F. Morris, James G. Batterson, John C. Parsons, Rowland Swift, Geo. A. Fairfield, Ward W. Jacobs, Austin C. Dunham, Pliny .Jewell, . George G. Sumner, Drayton Hillyer, James B. Moore, Edwin P. Taylor, Arthur N. Hollister, Oland H. Blanchard, Edward M. Gallaudet, Henry C. Dwight, William B. Clark, Atwood Collins, Direct- ors; Jaines B. Moore, Edwin P. Taylor, Auditors. Annual meeting 1st Thursday in December. 268 acres, three miles south of City Hall, on Maple av. First interment July 17, 1866. Robert Scrivener, Sup't. In- corporated, 1864.
HEBREW CEMETERY .- 71 Ward street.
Adjoining Zion Hill Cemetery. Mortuary chapel thereon was dedicated Oct. 17, 1886. Joseph Kashmann, R. Ballerstein, Charles Rosenthal, Committee; Rymon Bocoroselski, Sexton.
NORTH BURYING GROUND .- 819-871 Main st.
In charge of the Cemetery Committee. A new iron fence, costing $8,500, was put up in front of this Cem- etery by the Town in 1868. Another fence on south side, put up July, 1884. A Chapel and office, erected at a cost of $1,495, north of main entrance, in the Spring of 1889. The first interment in these grounds was that of Mrs. Anna Olcott, who died Feb. 6 1807. aged 71. The stone will be found the ninth in the first path north from main entrance. There have been several additions made to the area of this burial place since that time. Chas. A. Stewart, Sexton.
OLD SOUTH BURYING GROUND .- 370 Maka cor. Benton st. Two acres. In charge of Cemet- Committee.
MOUNT ST. BENEDICT CEMETERY. Bluehills avenue, about X mile north of City En Very Rev. John A. Mulcahy, 82 Church st, Spt. B. Higgins, Sexton; 71 acres. First burial, Nov. If ..
ST. PATRICKS AND HOLY TRINITY CEMETERY Cemetery street, west of the North Burying Gross. 12 acres; Very Rev. John A. Mulcahy, Sup't; Jot: Broderick, Sexton.
SPRING GROVE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
Ezra Clark, Pres't; A. E. Burr, Vice Pres't; Jet G. Root. Treas, and Sec'y; Ezra Clark, Alfred E. B.a. G. Wells Root, W. E. Sugden, J. G. Root, M. W. Grava John K. Williams, Henry C. Judd, D. A. Rood, C. L. Burnham, William L. Matson, W. O. Carpenter, D. W. C. Skilton, L. A. Dickinson, Directors; M. W. Grave. Wm. L. Matson, Auditors; Nahum C. Wilder, Se't Annual meeting 1st Wednesday in June. 901 Main st First burial was Mrs. Stephen Page in 1845. Present Association was organized in 1867; with recent ex- largement, there are 33 acres, and more than 5, !!! bodies interred therein.
ZION'S HILL .- 89 Zion, junction Ward street. Thomas Hayes, Sup't and Sexton. 23 acres.
CITY JURORS
Chosen by Court of Common Council, April 27, 1856. for the year ending March 80, 1897.
Adriance F. H. Hart Charles R.
Allen B. Rowland Hartstall Isaac
Allen Norman F. Hollister George E.
Andrus Henry F. Huntington Charles G.
Andrus Freeman W. Andrus Chas. B.
Baker Isaiah, Jr. Ball John E. Balf Edward Barbour Lucius A. Barrett Robert W. Bartholomew W. W. Benedict Samuel N. Blake Charles A. Blake Thomas J. Blanchard O. H. Bosworth Stanley B. Boyd Thomas Brooks Albert H. Brainerd Amaziah Burr Franklin L. Candee John D. Capewell George J. Case Horace J. Coburn Charles Colton Olcott B. Cone J. H. Cooley Charles H. Coombs .John Cowles Frank Dickinson L. A. Dwight Henry C. Fairfield John M. Faxon Edward R. Fiege Augustus F. Fuller Chauncey C. Furlong Frank P. Gates Thomas W. Gillett Albert B. Glazier Judson A. Gregg George W. Griswold Sanford A. Gunshanan Thomas W. Haas Louis B. Hall John H.
Jackson Rufus H.
Jacobs W. W.
Johnson Frank E.
Judd Edward H. Kellogg Julius A.
Kennedy Henry. King Horace H. Kohn Henry Lamb John W. Lepard Frederick P.
Mahl George Marcy Frederick A. Mather Walter S. McManus John C. Mellen Moses Miller H. G. Montgomery H. G.
Moore Clifford D. Moran John F. Murphy Edward J. Newton George W. Olds Alfred A. Packard Caleb L. Parker John D. Pease Charles A. Preston Albert B. Preston Miles B. Prutting George Quinn Patrick H. Risley Lorenzo Scanlon Michael F. Schott James S. Silsby J. S. Soby Charles Tyler Heman A. Watson John Wallace Alfred M. Williams A. C. J. Watrous William H. Zweygartt Henry J.
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GEER'S HARTFORD CITY DIRECTORY.
iscellaneous.
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Bridges.
ALBANY AVENUE BRIDGE. Built in 1850, cost $1,800.
ASYLUM AVENUE BRIDGE. Built in 1860, cost $1,924.05.
ASYLUM ST. R. R. AND CHURCH ST. BRIDGES, Including the approaches of both to the Union Station, completed in 1890, costing $395,049.84, of which amount the City of Hartford has paid $197,- 524.92, being one-half of the cost. June 9, 1891, there commenced a hearing before the Railroad Com- missioners for an adjustment, whereby the city should not pay more than thirty per cent., and June 2, 1892, they rendered their decision that the city pay one-half.
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ASYLUM STREET (PARK) BRIDGE. Asylum street to west drive on Park; erected 1858, of wood, cost $2,500. Repaired in 1898 at a cost of $2,000.
BROAD STREET BRIDGE,
Over railroad tracks, of the Truesdell pattern, erected of Iron in 1867, cost $52,111.79-Railroad Companies paying $7,550 thereof.
CAPITOL AVENUE BRIDGE,
Across Park river, connecting Capitol av., with Sigour- ney street, 1872, cost $80,168.71. Re-built in 1895 at a cost of $10,000.
COMMERCE STREET BRIDGE,
A swing or draw-bridge, costing $14,000, built in the fall of 1859. Town paid $8,750. This has been super- seded by a new iron swing bridge which was finished in 1887, and cost $9,100.
EDWARDS STREET BRIDGE, Built by Railroad Co.
FARMINGTON AVENUE BRIDGE Was built in 1871, of stone, across North branch Park river, cost $27,901.54.
FLATBUSH AVENUE BRIDGE, Built in 1862, cost $1,974.
FLOWER STREET FOOT BRIDGE,
Connecting said street with Lawrence st., cost $464.50; finished December 21, 1878. This bridge was rebuilt of stone and brick, with a 77 feet arch span, 46 feet wide, 11 feet high, with height of 16 feet above average low water, with stone abutments, brick arch and parapets, two sidewalks, each 6 feet wide with a roadway 80 feet wide, costing $19,557.24, including curbs and side- walks, and opened for travel July 1, 1885.
FORD STREET BRIDGE
Cost about $15,000, and was built in the year 1850; is 85 feet wide, 174 feet long, of five free stone arches,- the north and south of fifteen feet span each-the other three of 18 feet each; width of arches 26 feet; width of piers 5 feet; height from top of center arch to top of sides, 7 feet. In 1885 the sidewalks on this bridge were extended over the sides on stone brackets, and road bed widened at an expense of $11,287.64.
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