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Dutch West India Company, 10-11, 70, 81
Dutton, Charles, 563; Henry, 560, 562, 564, 824
Dwight, Theodore, 398; Timothy, 351, 376, 394, 398, 474, 504, 508-09, 540 Dyeing and finishing, textile, 668 Dyer, Eliphalet, 286-87, 302, 309, 346
Eagle Bank, New Haven, 445, 498 Early, Jubal E., 598 East Haddam, 348, 480
East Hampton, 179
East Hartford, 345, 381, 595, 613, 662, 868
East Hartford Lyceum, 546
East Hartland, 3
East India Company, 300, 303
East Lyme, 124, 757
East River, 2, 6
East Windsor, 237, 242, 381, 468, 504
Eastern Upland, 4-5
Eastland Company, 35 Easton, John, 181 , Eaton, Theophilus, 35, 37, 55-56, 71, 92, 111, 156; William W., 581, 583, 606
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Economic development, 375-388; theory, Puritan, 88-89; uncertainty, 335-36 Economy, 35, 85-119, 197, 215-17, 263, 446, 448, 801; initial thought, 85-96;
postwar, 351-53, 610-12, 801;
State, 409-10, 427, 465-99 passim, 610- 12, 630-49, 680-93, 702, 765, 792-93, 801, 819-21, 843-87;
State, flourishing, 527-28, 600-06, 692- 93;
subsistence, 99; unsound, 217, 457, 461; wartime, 264-79, 306-07, 327-36
Editors, 518, 520, 537, 550, 571, 616, 643, 734
Education, 148-54, 393-96, 452, 507, 531- 44, 690;
compulsory, 150-53, 691; deterioration, 443; female, 518-19;
higher, 148, 150, 251, 393-96, 456, 469, 542-44
Education Committee, State General As- sembly, 532-33, 539;
Educational reform, 518-19, 532-40
Edward II, King of England, 92
Edwards, Everett, 448;
Henry W., 443-44, 448, 454-55, 457-60, 462;
Jonathan, 168, 237-44, 247, 251
Egan, John F., 878
Eggs, 701-02, 817
Elders, 226-27
Election returns investigation, 753 Elections Bill, 454
Electric arc lights, 728; lighting, 729;
lighting, incandescent, 728;
power, 771, 799-800, 804; power companies, 799-800; supplies, 675, 860; trolleys, 729-34
Electric Boat Company strike, 878
Electric Power Commission, 771
Electricity, 728-34, 803, 818-19; municipal control, 733 Electrification, rural, 818-19 Electrolux Corporation (illus.), 673
Eliot, Aaron, 266; Jared, 266, 272-73 Ellington, 348, 541
Ellsworth, Oliver, 335, 350, 356-66, 368, 411; W. W., 522
Elm, great, Wethersfield (illus.), 28
Emancipation, 389-90, 583-84, 590-91
Emancipation Proclamation, 583
Embargo Act, 377
Embargoes, 268, 307, 329, 377, 409-11, 415, 810; removed, 318, 411, 415
Embezzlement, 821
Emigrants, 217, 568
Emigrant Aid Society, New England, 568- 70 Emigration, 419-20, 427
Employers' Liability Act, 772, 773
Employment, 477-78, 613, 787-88, 844, 856-58, 870;
bureaus, State, 787; index, factory, 848; offices, State, 691, 861; service, State, 860
Enclosure movement, 88
Endicott (Endecott), John, 31, 78
Enfield, 220, 288
Engineer, 87, 488
England, 11, 17-19, 27, 35, 42, 44, 47, 65- 66, 73, 76, 78, 98-99, 102, 106, 127-28, 130, 149, 157, 162, 168, 171, 175-213 passim, 219, 230, 234, 249, 251, 255, 258-59, 262, 269, 274-76, 296, 349, 409, 416, 475, 587, 786
English. See British
English, James Edward, 616-17, 621
Epileptics, school, 766
Episcopal Academy of Connecticut, 541-42 Episcopalians, 229-32, 234-35, 357, 391, 411, 420-21, 506-08, 542, 549
Erickson, Charlotte, 706
Erie Railroad, 652
Erosion, 2
Esch-Cummings Act, 810
Essex, 75
Estate distribution, 195-96; inventories, 134
Estates, 834 Estates General, 10-11
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Evangelism, 241-52 Exchange rate adjustment, 114 Excises, 365, 377 Exclusion, 387-88 Excommunication, 126 Excursions, railroad, 739; steamboat, 739 Executive independence, 434 Exemption Law of 1777, 317-18 Expansion and conflict, 62-82 Exploration, 1-14 Explorers, 1-14 Export duties, 267; permits revoked, 330-31; trade, 376-77, 409 Exports, 95, 99, 101, 107-08, 182, 265-67, 269, 273, 377, 379 Eyanson, Charles W., 878-79
Factory inspection, 686-87 Factory Inspection, Deputy sioner, 848 Fafnir Bearing Company, 786
Commis-
Fair, Hartford, 104;
grounds, Danbury (illus.), 681
Fairchild, Robert, 454
Fairfield, 2, 33, 66, 235, 243, 314, 415, 448, 467, 508, 511, 844; destruction, 317; Harbor, 102 (illus.), 603; Town Hall (illus.), 591 Fairfield Academy, old (illus.), 366 Fairfield County, 367, 468, 479, 622 Fairfield Hospital, 864 Fairs, local, 104 Farm acreage, 702-03; clubs, 696, 698; cooperatives, 694, 698, 701, 817; exodus, 692; implements, 466, 692; life, 817-19; organizations, 696-97; products, 692, 765; relief, 470
Farmers, 135, 286, 364, 409, 423, 432, 443, 460, 465-70, 474, 544, 568, 582, 606, 660, 692-703, 713, 787, 797, 817-19, 824, 880; clubs, 470 Farmhouses, 466, 817
Farming, 465-70, 692-703; business methods, 817-19; specialized, 693; tenant, 694; truck, 701-02 Farmington, 8, 301, 379, 393-94, 488, 525, 540, 868 Farmington Canal, 483, 486-89, 493, 729
Farmington River, 2-4, 14, 487, 709
Farmington Savings Bank, 634
Farmington School Society, 394-95
Farms, 465-70, 692-703, 817-19; transients, 856 Farragut, David Glasgow, 593
Farrand, Max, 361
Feake, Robert, 66
Federal Relations Assembly, 571-73
Committee, General
"Federal Theology," 238 Federalism, 397, 411, 420, 439, 457, 531, 550 Federal Emergency Relief Act, 855
Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 857
Federal Power Commission, 872
Federal Works Agency, 860
Federalism, high tide, 373-400
Federalists, 368, 373-400 passim, 405-44 passim, 453, 457, 886
Felt making, 380 Feminists, 517-20
Fenwick, George, 46, 56, 101; Lady, tomb, Cypress Cemetery (illus.), 49
Ferries, 494-95, 497, 876
Ferris, David, 244
Ferry, Orris S., 617, 619
Fertilizers, 272, 469
Fessenden, Samuel, 768
Feudal manorial system, 88, 94-95
Fidelity, oath, 50-51, 79, 326
Fillmore, Millard, 570
Finance and Control, State Board, 852, 876 Finance and Control, State Department, 801, 876 Financial success, State, 527-28 Financing, deficit, 606 Fines, 124, 127, 139, 142, 218, 229, 232, 268, 391, 826-27 Fire insurance, 638-40, 646
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Fires, 140, 243, 631, 638-40
First abolition society in State, 390; agricultural experiment station United States, 697;
in
amendment to State Constitution, 451; American school of poetry, 397;
American submarine, inventor, 312; asylum for deaf and dumb in United States, 512;
ball bearings manufacturer in State, 786;
Catholic Church in Connecticut, 504; Connecticut law against Tories, 324; Connecticut settlement on Delaware, 283;
Dutch settlement in Manhattan, 10; electric lights in New Haven, 729;
European to discover Connecticut, 1; formal conservation in America, 95; government, rudimentary, of Connecti- cut, 26-29;
Governor's veto upheld by Assembly, 462;
great American agricultural investiga- tor and writer, 272;
hanging of witch in Connecticut, 162; health corset in United States, 675;
international negotiation on Ameri- can soil, 71-72;
judicial decisions published in United States, 350;
magistracy formed under Fundamental Orders, 45-46;
manufacturing concern incorporated in United States, 378;
modern corporation law, 459-60; municipal government in New Eng- land, 349; newspaper in State, 396; organized effort to oust Indians, 33; organized temperance attempt, 508; power loom in Connecticut, 477;
railroad construction legislation, 490; railroad solely within Connecticut, 492;
Royal governor of Massachustts, 205; schoolhouse in Hartford (illus.), 151; schoolhouse in New Haven (illus.), 154;
settlement, effective, in Connecticut, 24-25;
State Grange in Connecticut, 698; steamboat between Hartford and New York, 485-86;
successful cotton factory in Connecti- cut, 380;
textile machines imported into United States, 378;
tobacco culture in Connecticut, 468; United States senators from Connecti- cut, 368;
watches made in America, 380;
wooden clocks made in America, 381;
wool manufacturing with power ma- chinery, 378
Fiscal policy, cities', 736; State, 606 Fish, 134
Fisher, Irving, 828
Fishermen, 256
Fisher's Island, 6
Fishing, 89, 216, 480-81, 834; center, 481; industry, 481; scene, Stonington (illus.), 481
Fishkill, 495
Fishtown Chapel doorway (illus.), 325
Fiske, John, 70
Fiske and Hatch Company, 631
Fitch, James, 65, 215, 261-62, 264, 269, 283, 285, 289-93, 298, 307;
Fitzgerald, W. J., 848
"Five point program," 853
Flax, 98-99, 267, 466-67; seed, 273
Flaxseed oil, 273
Fleet, English, 213
Fletcher, Benjamin, 102, 207, 209
Flogging, 229
Flood, 1936, 868-70; 1938, 879-80; August 19, 1955, 487, 709;
control, 870-72;
control pact, New England, 873; relief, reclamation, 870
Flood Control Act, 871
Flour, 268
Food conservation, wartime, 782-84; shortage, 33, 270-71
Food Supply, State Committee, 784 Foote, Andrew Hull, 593; Samuel A., 457
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Foreign Plantations, Council for, 78 Foreign-born, 691, 704-13, 782, 794, 815- 16, 825, 833 Forest preservation, 765-66; restoration, 881 Forester, 766 Forests, 834, 880 Forrett, James, 67 Fort Donelson, 593;
Duquesne, destruction, 263; Edward, 261;
Frontenac expedition, 263; George, 261; Good Hope, 11, 14, 68, 72; Good Hope, capture, 73; Griswold, 414;
Henry, 593; Hudson, fall, 593; Lee, 312; Monroe, 587, 598; Pulaski, seizure, 588; Ticonderoga, battle, 263-64; Washington, 312; William Henry, 261-62
Fort Shantok State Park (illus.), 115 Fort Stanwick Treaty, 298
Forts, 11, 66, 68, 72 Foster, Lafayette Sabine, 600, 614
Fowler, William, 106
Fox, George L., 740
France, 200, 204, 207, 210, 255, 258, 328, 383, 791
Franchise, exercise, 463; limitation, 54; Negro, 617-19; restrictive, 197-98 Franklin, Benjamin, 328; John, 346-47 Franklin Institute, New Haven, 546
Fraud, 498, 573, 632, 643-45, 769, 833
Fredericksburg, battle, 589 Free Soil party, 554-56, 560, 562-64, 567, 570
Freedmen's Bureau, 616 Freedom of worship, 437 Freeman, Douglas Southall, 313, 316 Freemen, 50-51, 79-80 Freight, 486, 605, 658; rates, 699 Freighting, 810 Frémont, John, 569-70
French, 56, 60, 104, 117, 185, 205, 211, 213, 255-56, 258, 260-65, 268, 278-79, 283, 317-18, 322, 336, 352, 398; clubs, 708; language, 709 French and Indian War, 255, 258-64, 268, 273, 282-83, 286, 289, 307 French-Canadians, 708-10
Frontier, 194, 256; 1690-1739, 204-22; communities, 30; raids, 210; warfare, 257 Fresh River, 4 Frost, Lydia, 128
Frost-Grey affair, 128
Fruit, 701-02
Fruitful Spring, Norwalk (illus.), 13
Fugitive Slave Law, 556-58, 560, 562, 564
Fuller, Grace, 477-78
Fulling mills, 106
Fulton, 484-85
Fulton, Robert, 442, 484
Fulton, Robert, Company, 484-85
Fundamental Orders, 29, 35, 41-53, 142, 347, 758; changing, 50; eleven laws, 44-48; Preamble, 44-45 Fur trade, 35, 98, 207 Furniture industry, 820
Fyler, Orasmus R., 648-49
Gage, Thomas, 293, 303 Gale, Benjamin, 348 Gallaudet, Thomas H., 512, 532, 534, 539
Gambling, 390
Game, 134
Garbage disposal, 724-25
Gardiner, Lion, 27, 31-32, 158
Garrison, William Lloyd, 522-23, 557, 569
Garvan, Anthony N. B., 129-30 Gas, 800; companies, 805; lighting, 728-29; municipal control, 733 Gasoline rationing, 721; tax, 803, 808 Gates, Horatio, 316 General Court, Connecticut, 30, 32-33,
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
General Court, Connecticut, 35, 41-42, 45-
48, 50-51, 57-58, 63, 66, 76, 80, 95, 106, 111-12, 117, 128, 142, 153, 159, 171, 176, 179-80, 190-91, 195, 213, 219, 229, 235-36, 248; chairman, 47
General Court, Massachusetts, 20, 27, 29, 31, 35, 54-58, 74, 144, 155 General Court, New Haven, 57-58, 67, 77, 81
General Court, Plymouth, 57-58
Gentlemen's Driving Association, 738
Geography, 1-6
Geological survey, 460
Geology, 1-2, 4-5
Gerhardt, Karl, 742
Germans, 559, 710, 782, 791
Germany, 779, 782, 786
Gerry, Elbridge, 364
Gettysburg, battle, 592-93
Ghent, Treaty, 418, 420
Gibbon vs. Ogden case, 442, 485
Gilbert, Mary, 134
Gildersleeve's, 604
Giles, William B., 412
Gilpatric, G. Harold, 821
Gipson, Lawrence Henry, 259-60, 286, 289 Glacial advance, 5
Glass industry, 269, 379-80; products, 478
Glastonbury, 159, 326, 393, 713; -Main Street (illus.), 413
Glazier, Willard, 743
Glebe House, Woodbury (illus.), 43
"Glorious Revolution," 205
Goddard, Calvin, 416, 419, 421, 522 Goffe, William, 77 Golf, 738-39; clubs, 738; course, public, 738
Goodrich, Chauncey, 405-06, 416
Goodrich Association, Hartford, 546
Goodwin, Charles, 768-69; George, 550; William, 29
Goodwin Park, 738
Goodyear, Charles, 480; Stephen, 67 Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Com- pany, 480 Goshen, 222
Government, basis, 41-60;
British, 66, 69, 101, 282-83, 416; continuing nature, 347-51;
Connecticut Colonial, 41-53, 76-79, 175- 200, 312-13;
Connecticut Colonial, challenges, 158- 62;
Connecticut Colonial, religion and, 125-29, 135-45, 248;
Connecticut Colonial, religious re- quirements, 51;
Connecticut rudimentary, 26-29;
Connecticut State, 347-48, 354-56, 368, 373-75, 405-63 passim, 473, 531-33, 537- 39, 554-627 passim, 680, 732-34, 749-74, 797-803, 821-26, 843-87;
Connecticut State, reorganization, 874- 76;
local, 53, 196-97, 348-49, 730-32, 734-38, 742-43, 821;
local, town and city duplication, 735; Massachusetts Colonial, 52, 198;
New Haven Colonial, 53-55;
town, 53, 196-97;
United States, 354-56, 368, 407-08, 415- 16, 460, 471, 473, 476, 525, 528, 573, 582, 596, 683, 698, 765, 784, 787-89, 792, 809, 812-13, 825, 855-86 passim Governor, Connecticut Colonial, 45-47, 66,
74, 79, 96, 109, 134, 152, 156, 161, 167, 190-92, 196-99, 208, 211, 227, 231, 235, 245, 261-62, 274-76, 282-83, 285, 289-93, 298, 303, 306-07, 316, 326, 329;
Connecticut State, 332-35, 348, 366, 377, 389, 394, 398, 405-62 passim, 527- 28, 537-39, 555-96 passim, 610-27 passim, 636, 643, 648, 664, 680, 733, 749-74, 778, 797, 800-02, 821, 823-30, 843-89 passim;
King's Dominion in New England, 188, 197;
Massachusetts Colonial, 19-23, 26, 28, 52, 78, 198, 205, 210, 256-57;
New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, 209-11;
New Haven Colonial, 55;
New Netherlands, 67-68;
New York, 102, 159-60, 179-80, 186, 191, 198-200, 206, 209-10, 314; Pennsylvania, 283
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INDEX
Governor, Deputy, Connecticut Colonial, 45-46, 79-80, 184, 198, 293; Massachusetts Colonial, 20, 24, 52; New Haven Colonial, 77; Rhode Island Colonial, 314 Governor's Foot Guard, Trinity Arch, Hartford (illus.), 399
Graft, 587 Grain, 99, 111, 182, 269, 466; control, 100, 106
Granby, 762 Grand Opera, New Haven, 740 Grand Union stores, 834 Grange, 696, 866; State, 697-99 Granger, Gideon, 400, 405-07 Granite Bank, Voluntown, 573 Granite quarries, 492 Grant, Ulysses S., 593, 597-99, 619 Grant's stores, 834
Grasses, 468 Great Bay, 2 Great Britain, 213, 266-69, 273, 279, 282, 285, 288, 292, 297, 303, 312, 383
Greeks, 713 Greenfield, 396
Greenhouse, largest in United States, 711 Greenwich, 38, 66-67, 72, 80, 187, 193, 381, 660, 673, 723; Library, old (illus.), 743
Grenville, Lord, 285, 289 Grey, Henry, 128 Gristmills, 105-06 Griswold, Matthew, 414; Robert, 411-12 Grosvenor, Lemuel, 379
Grosvenor-Dale Mills, 668
Groton, 229, 494 (illus.), 695, 878; attack, 323 Guilds, 86-87, 92 Guilford, 4, 55, 62, 79-80, 95, 97, 245, 249, 259, 272, 548, 738 Gunnery Academy, Washington, 541 Gunpowder, 602 Gurley, Ralph Randolph, 520
Haddam, 348 Hague, The, 69 Hale, Nathan, monument and homestead, Coventry (illus.), 315; statue, 742
Half-Way Covenant, 157, 171-72, 236, 238, 241,248 Halifax, 268-69 Hall, Samuel, 13-14; Samuel D., 215 Hallam, Nicholas, 210
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 547-48
Halsey, Jeremiah, 384
Hamden, 471, 737
Hamden and Hampshire Railroad, 605 Hamilton, Alexander, 355, 375, 426, 473 Hamilton Park, 738
Hammonassett Park, 834
Hammonassett River, 38
Hancock, John, 309, 316
Hangings, 162-63
"Hardware City," 479 Hardware companies, 479, 785, 800; manufacturing, 479, 670-71, 785, 803; products, 479, 671, 785, 806, 859
Harland, Thomas, 381
Harlem Heights, battle, 312-13
Harlem River, 68
Harper's Ferry, 574
Harrison, Henry Baldwin, 750; James, 381; Wooster, 381
Hart, Thomas, home, Sharon (illus.), 517; William, 405
Hart and Hegeman Company, 675
Hartford, 5, 25, 28, 30, 32, 46, 66, 68, 71- 73, 94, 134, 141, 162-63, 167, 171, 179, 183, 186, 191, 206, 208, 221-22, 242, 256, 266, 283, 290, 292-93, 302, 307, 309, 314, 318, 333, 349, 351, 353, 365, 378- 79, 381, 384, 396, 399, 407, 410, 418, 453, 456-57, 483, 485-86, 490, 492, 495, 512, 524, 537, 539, 542-43, 546-47, 560, 562, 563, 567, 575, 590, 593-94, 599, 602- 03, 614, 616, 618-19, 621-22, 635, 639, 642 (illus.), 645, 652, 655, 661, 663, 667, 675, 704, 707, 711, 713, 718, 720-22, 724-29 (illus.), 731, 735-43, 751, 758, 763, 779- 81, 790-91, 800, 804 (illus.), 811, 827-28, 832, 854, 858, 862, 868-70, 874, 879-80; Bank, 375, 427, 540; Church, 171; Harbor, 102; High School, 542, 741; Hospital, 829; Municipal Building (illus.), 639;
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HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Hartford, Public Art Gallery, 742; Public Library, 743; skyline view (illus.), 799; State House, old (illus.), 533 Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Rail- road, 661-62
Hartford Convention, 160, 364-67, 416-21; Connecticut delegation, 416, 418; recommendations, 418-19
Hartford County, 160, 450, 468, 478-79, 511, 513, 674, 846, 862 Hartford County Mutual Insurance Com- pany, 499 Hartford County Savings Bank, 631 Hartford County Society for Improvement of Common Schools, 452
Hartford Courant, 364, 383, 396, 398, 410, 449, 531, 550-51, 559, 564-65, 571, 576, 591, 844, 856, 862-63, 873
Hartford Electric Power Company, 799
Hartford Evening Press, 571, 616
Hartford Female Academy, 518
Hartford Female Seminary, 541
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, 499
Hartford and Harlem Railroad, 663
Hartford Linnean Botanical Association, 547
Hartford Lyceum, 545-46
Hartford Machine Screw Company, 672
Hartford Mutual Insurance Company, 639 Hartford and New Haven Railroad, 492- 96, 605, 654 Hartford and New York Steamboat Com- pany, 605
Hartford Relief Association, 600
Hartford Retreat, 513-14
Hartford Society for Savings, 496-97
Hartford Theological Seminary, 504
Hartford Times, 443, 531-32, 550-51, 558- 59, 567,640
Hartford Treaty, 72-73, 82, 180
Hartford Wits, 397-98, 547-48
Hartford Woolen Manufacture, 379
Hartland, 182, 222
Hartland Hollow, 182
Harvard College, 148, 150, 155, 158, 165, 237, 242, 250; Law School, 769; Library, 156, 235 Harvester, corn, 700
Harvey, Joseph, 509
Harwinton, 222; Church (illus.), 243
Harwood, Benjamin A., 884 Hat companies, 479, 674, 688-89; industry, 479, 668, 674; factories, 674; production, 479, 806
Hatch Act, 698
Hathaway, John M., 587, 601
Hawley, Joseph R., 571, 616-17, 619, 768
Hay, 271 Hayden & Scovill, 479
Hayes, Frank, 883-84
Haynes, John, 17, 19-20, 23, 47, 55-56, 66, 134 Hazard Powder Works, 602
"Heads of Agreement, The," 227, 229
Health, local boards, 792; Officer, City, 731, 736; public, 722-25, 736, 833-37;
Senate Chairman, 883; State Board, 722, 836; State Department, 836
Heathcote, Caleb, 230
Hebron, 231, 348, 455
Hemp, 13-14, 98-99, 273, 466-67
Hempstead, 73
Hepburn, Katherine, 830; Mrs. Thomas, 832; Thomas N., 726
Heroism, 784, 791
Hewes, Thomas, 850, 884
Hewitt, Nathaniel, 511
Higganum, 5
Highway Aid, Federal, 855;
Commission, State, 771-72;
Commissioner, 772, 808, 882;
program, State, 771-72;
survey, 808; system, basis, 806-08
Highway Department, State, 844; difficulties, 881-82, 884
Highways, 496, 771-72, 808, 882
Hillhouse, James, 416
Hillsborough, Lord, 293-96
Hinman, R. S., 693
Hinsdale Act, 459-60
Historians, 9, 11, 13, 54, 88, 116, 129, 140, 156, 192, 259-60, 263 Historical Museum, State, 97
Historical societies, 166
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Historical Society, State, 547
Hitchcock, Lambert, Chair Factory, River- ton (illus.), 665 Holbrook, Josiah, 544-46
Holcombe, Marcus H., 778-79, 830
Holiday celebration, 127
Holland, 6, 10-12, 19, 36-37, 68, 70, 73, 210
Holley, Alexander, 570-71; John William, 379 Hollow ware, 479
Holloway, Charlotte, 794
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 546; William, 14
Holyoke, 676
Home Bank, Meriden, 687
Home gardens, wartime, 782
Home Guard, 781-82
Homes, outstanding, 22, 131, 137 Hooker, Horace, 532, 539; Isabella Beecher, 830; Joseph, 592;
Thomas, 17-24, 27-30, 35-36, 41-44, 55- 56, 142, 149, 157-58, 168-70, 758 Hoover, Herbert, 852
Hopkins, Edward, 47, 56, 74, 107, 152; Harry, 857, 880; Lemuel, 398
Hopkins grammar schools, 542 Horse car, Meriden (illus.), 687 Horse Guard, 453 Horse-drawn railroads, 729
Horses, 95, 99, 103-04
Horton, John P., 544 Horton Manufacturing Company, 671 Hosiery, 478 Hospitals, 727, 766-67, 827, 864 Hotchkiss, Justus S., 739 Housatonic Power Company, 800 Housatonic Railroad, 490, 492, 654, 657, 663 Housatonic River, 2, 190, 667, 719, 800 Housatonic Valley, 468
House of Representatives, State, 430, 433, 439-40, 451, 454, 539, 622-25, 660, 734, 749, 753-54, 762-64, 798, 815, 827, 832- 33, 852, 863, 876, 884; Speaker, 448, 758
House of Representatives, United States, 340-41, 355, 357, 368, 373-75, 382, 384, 398, 405-06, 410, 416, 419, 421, 432,
442-44, 448, 513, 556, 573, 600-01, 616, 625, 705-06, 758, 774, 781, 786, 794, 798, 863
Housefurnishings, early, 134
Household life, early, 134-35
Houses, early, 129-34
Housing, 719-20, 789-91, 814, 833-34; public, 834; shortage, 789
Howe, Sir William, 263, 311-12, 316
Hoxie, William H., vs. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad case, 772
Hubbard, John Henry, 600;
Richard Dudley, 600, 625-27, 664;
William, 13
Hudson River, 6, 62, 72, 182, 311, 316-17, 322, 654, 662
Hudson River Valley, 30
Huit, Ephraim, tomb, Windsor (illus.), 59
Hull, Andrew, 400; William B., 694
Humanitarianism, truncated, 527-28, 531
Humanitarians, 33
Humphrey, Heman, 508
Humphreys, David, 343, 356, 398, 468
Humphreysville Manufacturing Company, 410 Hungarians, 691, 713
Hunger march, 853
Huntingdon, Hezekiah, 269
Huntington, Benjamin, 368; Samuel, 366, 377
Hurley, Robert A., 882
Hurricane of 1938, 879-81
Husbandmen, 90
Hutchinson, Anne, controversy, 23, 56, 158, 168;
Thomas, 74 Hydro-electric power, 800
Immigrants, 482, 558-59, 595, 704-13, 815-16 Immigration, 89-92, 98, 249, 475, 704-13, 735; Act to Encourage, 705-06; Commissioner, 705; Officer, United States, Port of New York, 705 Immigration Act, 1924, 815 Impeachment, 619
914
HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT
Imports, 101, 134-35, 267, 293-98, 331-32, 353, 469 Imposts, 266-67, 294, 296, 365
Imprisonment for debt abolished, 461; women's, abolished, 444-45 Income, State, 633; tax, 770 Indenture, 109, 114 Independence, 258, 265, 843, 855; fiscal, 255 Independence, Declaration of, 313, 329
Independent, The, 557, 560, 569
Independent party, 449, 749, 823 Indian captives, 32; chiefs, 6, 31-32; Christianization, 9, 57, 393;
Commissioner for Northwest, 283;
culture, 7; depredations, 9, 212, 214; discipline, 7; economy, 7; hostility, 62, 68; land cessions, 11, 63, 65-66; land controversy, 211; land policy, 194;
mythology, 9; paternalism toward, 57; political organization, 9-10; raids, 32, 184, 214; sachems, 9-11, 183; trails, 103; warfare, 10, 31-35, 180-84, 207, 214
Indians, 6-11, 14, 20-22, 25, 29-35, 37, 56, 66, 71, 74, 98, 109-10, 143, 149, 180-84, 194, 206, 210, 212, 214, 282-83, 285, 298, 382-84, 419
Indian-White conflict, 8-9, 31-35; intermarriage, 542 Industrial centers, 792; Commission, 773-74; consolidation, 675-76; depression, 843-57; diversity, 806; exodus to south, 805-06; expansion, 797, 803-06, 820; facilities construction, 778, 804; Investigator, 773, 794, 803, 813; position challenged, 805-06; production, 478, 667-76; production, wartime, 600-06, 778, 784- 90;
production, postwar, 792; reconversion, 792-94; recovery, 886; reform, 886; revival, 690; revolution, 713; slump, postwar, 792; technical advances, 797, 804; welfare programs, 814
Industrial Relations Committee, State Manufacturers Association, 813
Industries, big, 805 Industry, 35, 98-99, 104-08, 217, 266-73,
295-96, 351-54, 376-81, 410, 465-99 passim, 600-06, 613-14, 630-49, 652-76, 679-713 passim, 733, 738, 750, 778, 784- 90, 797-837, 844-47, 849, 857-61; regulations, 104-07, 861-62
Infantry, Connecticut. See Troops, Con- necticut Inflation, 215-17, 274
Influenza, 792
Ingenuity, Yankee, 465-99, 527-28, 881
Ingersoll, Charles R., 622, 625, 643, 680; Jared, 286-87, 289-91, 326; Jonathan, 420-21 Ingham, Samuel, 562, 564, 568, 571
Inhabitant vs. Resident, 387-88
Inhabitants, 395
Inheritance, method of division, 96
Innocent VIII, Pope, 162 Insane, care, 513-14, 527, 751
Insanity, 389 Inspection, Committee, 326 Insurance, 376, 638-49; Commission, 644-45, 647;
Commissioner, 641, 643-46, 648-49;
companies, 499, 557, 606, 636, 638-49,
664, 779-80, 828; legislation, 640-44, 646; rates, 631
"Insurance Companies, Act Relating to," 644
Intellectual basis, 48-50; development, 148-73, 531-51; life, religious base, 149; production, 156-62 International events, 11-12, 73, 75-76, 179, 200, 204, 210, 255-58 Interchangeability, principle, 472 Interest rate, 612, 631, 634
915
INDEX
International Silver Company, 480, 675 International Workers of the World (IWW), 794 Interposition, principle, 417 Interstate Commerce Commission, 809 Intestacy Law, 220-21 Intolerance, 126, 236
Inventions, 471-72, 671, 700
Investments, 637-38
Ireland, 207, 266-67, 273
Irish, 558-59, 706-08, 710, 718, 815
Iron industry, 377-78, 380, 803; mines, 471, 492; workers, 106, 113, 821; works, 377-78, 602 (illus.), 670
Iroquois Indians, 207, 214, 258
Irving, Washington, 548
Isaacs, Ralph, 326
Isham, Norman M., 129
Island Number Ten, 593
Islands, 2 Isolation, 130 Italian Baptist Mission, 711 Italians, 691, 711-13, 718, 815
Jackson, Andrew, 444, 449, 453, 455, 457, 459-60, 462, 498, 555; Richard, 285, 287, 289-90, 293, 295; Stonewall, 589, 592 Jackson, Nancy vs. Bulloch case, 526-27 Jacksonian impression, 448-63 Jacksonians, 449-60, 533 Jacques Opera House, Waterbury, 740 Jamaica, 102; campaign, 255, 273 James II, King of England, 197-98 James River, 597-99 Jaysen, William, 31 Jefferson, Thomas, 398, 405-06, 408-09, 411 Jenkins' Ear, War, 255 "Jeremiads," 158 Jerome, Chauncey, 563 Jewell, Marshall, 621 Jews, 707 Jitney companies, 805 Jobbers, 474 Jocelyn, Simeon S., 522 Johnson, Andrew, 616-17; Andrew, impeachment, 619;
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