History of Connecticut, Volume II, Part 44

Author: Bingham, Harold J., 1911-
Publication date: 1962
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 584


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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


906


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


907


INDEX


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


908


HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT


Fires, 140, 243, 631, 638-40


First abolition society in State, 390; agricultural experiment station United States, 697;


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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


909


INDEX


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,


910


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


911


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;


912


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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INDEX


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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