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The striking contrast between this council and the governor's War Council of colonial times and ever since brings out the differ- ence between the twentieth century and its predecessors. The principles were the same but a vastly larger representation was now necessary. Connecticut had formed a council of eleven to start with. The Government by act of Congress in 1916 already had a national council, each state to have a branch, but there had been little organization till after Connecticut was up and doing. With power conferred by Governor Holcomb under the Emer- gency Act, the eleven original members were appointed in April, 1917, to represent various interests. Washington's leadership was not vigorous, but in a short time in the state scores of men and women were devoting their best energies to the work. The Women's Committee was important in coordination. Richard M. Bissell of Hartford and Farmington was chairman of the whole body. John T. Roberts was treasurer. The Hartford County committee consisted of Arthur L. Shipman, chairman; W. Arthur Countryman, Jr., secretary; Richard Wayne, field secretary ; Col. Louis R. Cheney, Robert Pyne, and Otis I. Moore, of Hartford; A. T. Pattison, Simsbury; Edward T. Hall, New Britain; J. Frank Welles, Wethersfield; C. T. Treadway, Bristol. Mrs. T. Belknap Beach of Hartford was chairman of the women's division of the Government branch; Mrs. W. S. Cowles of Farm- ington and Mrs. M. G. Bulkeley of Hartford, vice chairmen. J. W. Alsop (Avon), C. G. Bill, William BroSmith, Frank D. Cheney (Manchester), General Cole, Maj. H. A. Giddings, C. A. Goodwin, and L. F. Robinson were members of this branch. Major Giddings was sent to France on special duty.
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The veterans had missed the appearance here, at the armory, November 2, 1917, of former President Roosevelt under the auspices of the council, when 15,000 people fought to get in where about 3,000 could be accommodated. They were a few weeks late for the reception for General Edwards, the popular former com- mander of the Yankee Division, when Major Bulkeley, home invalided after his gas attack, led the veterans who had returned, including the wounded in cars. The date was March 7, 1919. The general, who was very complimentary to his military escort, was received by the Legislature and by citizens at the Hartford Club prior to his address at Foot Guard Hall. He delivered a "citation" for each of the Hartford officers of his division. The veterans were here to take part in the reception for Cardinal Mercier on October 1, 1919, and for most of them it was the first time they had seen him whose name had inspired all the Allies. A citizens' committee, headed by Isidore Wise, with a military escort, accompanied him from Bishop Nilan's residence to the armory in the evening, where he was welcomed by Mayor Kin- sella. In his speech he referred to the state as "among the first- perhaps the very first to send us Belgians a shipload of food for our relief." At noon the next day Chancellor John G. Murray introduced him to the governor and the Legislature at the Capitol, after which there was a special reception by children at the State Library. Chief Justice Samuel O. Prentice presided at the luncheon for him at the Hartford Club. At 7 o'clock, escorted by a Knights of Columbus guard of honor, he pronounced benediction at the cathedral-a gentle but majestic and most imposing figure in his scarlet robe. "I feel now better than ever before," said he, "the majesty of the church."
At the hour of going to press the adjutant-general, Brig .- Gen. George M. Cole has gone far enough in his laborious work of col- lating by towns the names of all officers and men of the state who were in any branch of World war federal service to furnish for history the names of those from Hartford County towns. There were in all 1,050 officers, of which number 149 were in the navy. From Berlin there were seven, Bloomfield two, Bristol forty-four, Canton nine, East Granby one, East Hartford fourteen, East Windsor six, Enfield eleven, Farmington twenty-two, Glaston- bury seven, Granby three, Hartford 612, Manchester fifty-five,
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MAJOR GENERAL LUCIEN F. BURPEE AND STAFF, CONNECTICUT STATE GUARD AT ARMORY, EAST ENTRANCE
Lower Row, Front: Lieut. Col. Charles E. Smith; Brig. Gen. Edward Schulze, Chief of Staff; Rear Admiral William S. Cowles (U. S. N. retired); Maj. Gen. Lucien F. Burpee (Colonel 2nd Inf., C. N. G., Judge Advocate and Lieutenant Colonel U. S. V.); Col. Calvin D. Cowles (U. S. A. retired) ; Lieut. Col. J. Moss Ives (Danbury) ; Lieut. Col. Benedict M. Holden
Second Row: Col. Phineas H. Ingalls, Chief Surgeon; Lieut. Col. Edward G. Buckland (New Haven); Maj. John K. Bissland; Maj. Earnest C. Simpson (New Haven); Capt. P. LeRoy Harwood (New London); Capt. Arthur S. Brown (Ansonia)
Third Row: Capt. Samuel F. Beardsley (Bridgeport); Capt. Phelps Montgomery (New Haven); Capt. Phil M. Leakin; Capt. Oliver T. Magnell (Wethersfield), Chaplain
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New Britain 122, Newington four, Plainville seven, Rocky Hill (navy) one, Simsbury eight, Southington thirteen, South Wind- sor four, Suffield ten, West Hartford forty-nine, Wethersfield eleven, Windsor fifteen, and Windsor Locks eleven. The names of the higher officers are here appended, the titles given in paren- theses being those now held by such as indicated in the Three Hundred and Fourth Infantry and Three Hundred and Sixteenth Cavalry, Organized Reserves, U. S. Army, whose headquarters are in Hartford, or in the Connecticut National Guard :
Colonels-Enfield, James B. Houston (retired).
Hartford, Emmett Ardis, William J. Barden, Richard J. Goodman, Edwin E. Lamb, Warren P. Newcomb (retired), Paul Waterman, Harold S. Hetrick (dead).
Manchester, Sherwood A. Cheney (aide to the President).
Plainville, G. Arthur Hadsell, Sr., Elmer W. Hubbard (re- tired).
Lieutenant-colonels-Hartford, Earl D. Church, John M. Field (retired), Lindley D. Hubbell (wounded), James L. How- ard (wounded), George A. Wieczorek.
South Manchester, Clarence C. Burlingame, Clifford D. Cheney (colonel Three Hundred and Sixteenth Cavalry).
New Britain, Robert A. Johnson.
Windsor, Philip Remington (wounded).
Majors-Bristol, Bartholomew F. Donahue, William J. Ma- lone, Victor W. Page, Robert A. Patterson.
Farmington, Herbert Knox Smith.
Hartford, Arthur H. Bronson, Earle Buckingham, John Buck- ley, George E. Cole (lieutenant-colonel Connecticut National Guard), Michael A. Connor, Ansell G. Cook, John J. Crowley, J. H. Kelso Davis (lieutenant-colonel Three Hundred and Six- teenth Cavalry), George W. Hayden, John Hickey, D. Gordon Hunter (colonel One Hundred and Sixty-ninth Connecticut Na- tional Guard), Hanmer Huston, Arthur B. Landy, Edward J. Maher, John J. McKone, John J. McMahon, William W. Nielsen, William T. Owens, Arthur G. Newton, Howard S. Porter, John L. Purcell, Frederick J. Root, Alfred M. Rowley, Charles T. Smart, E. Terry Smith, Henry R. Stiles (retired), Emerson G. Taylor (colonel Three Hundred and Fourth Infantry), Clarence McG. Thompson, Amasa Trowbridge, Stillman F. Westbrook, Otton G.
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Wiedman, Meade Wildrick (wounded), Morgan G. Bulkeley, Jr. (gassed), Walton Goodwin, Jr., George J. Rau (dead), John W. Weissheimer (dead).
Manchester, William C. Hascall.
New Britain, Harry A. Hargreaves, Maurice H. Pease, Wil- liam S. Rowland, William M. Stockwell.
Plainville, Augustine E. Greene.
West Hartford, Richard Blackmore, Bertram N. Carvalho, James R. Hughes, Henry F. Stoll.
Captains-Berlin, Matthew H. Griswold, Oliver M. Porter.
Bristol, Fred W. Beaucar, Frank S. Merrill, Arthur J. Mo- guin, Stanley P. Rockwell, Edwin P. Sanborn, William J. Scott, Lawrence L. Steele, Joseph I. Woisard.
Canton, Philip G. Eaton.
East Hartford, Edward H. Truex.
Enfield, Warren J. Bostick, Frank F. Simonton.
Farmington, Archibald MacLeish, Rawdon W. Myers.
Glastonbury, Franklin D. Glazier.
Granby, Vincent J. Irwin, Jr.
Hartford, Bernard H. Allen, Roland F. Andrews, Frank J. Bailey, Thomas J. Bannigan (major, regional manager United States Veterans Bureau), Lucius B. Barbour, R. A. Barkman, Cadella I. Barrows, Forrest E. Billings, Edward H. Blair, Ulysses H. Brockway, Philip D. Bunce, John W. Callahan, Wilbur D. Canady, Harold D. Carey, Russell C. Chapman, Donald M. Cole, Ralph D. Cutler, Cornelius M. Daly, William P. Daly, James Dangerfield, Jr., Warner Day, Richard J. Dwyer, Edward C. Farrington, John B. Griggs, Alexander W. Harbison, Ury A. Hicks, John M. Holcombe, Jr., George A. Hunt, James E. Hutch- inson, William S. Kenyon, Orrin P. Kilbourn, Frederick J. Lar- son, Franklin L. Lawton, Thomas W. Little, William DeLoss Love, 2nd, William W. Macrum, George E. Malone, John W. Marks, Clarence R. May, Anson T. McCook (major Three Hun- dred and Fourth Infantry), Thomas B. McDermott, Amos G. Merry, Carl W. Messinger, James R. Miller, James B. Moody, Jr., Herman T. Morgan, Benjamin S. Munch, Joseph F. Murtaugh (major Three Hundred and Fourth Infantry ), Louis H. Nahum, Michael F. Owens, Harry L. Perkins (major Three Hundred and Fourth Infantry), Morris J. Radin, James A. Reid, Frank J.
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Ronayne, John Carter Rowley, Arthur H. Samuels, Charles T. Senay, Lauritz D. Simonson, James B. Slimmon, Bryon H. Spin- ney, Harold D. Tennant, Frank C. Thompson, Arthur L. Tryon, Heman A. Tyler, William H. Van Strander, Cyrus C. Washburn, Edwin R. Webber, Donald B. Wells, Frank E. Wilson, Robert M. Yergason. Wounded-Harold G. Baldwin, Edward P. Hayward, Theodore C. Naedele, William P. Nugent, Walter T. O'Donohue, Dwight A. Pease, Samuel C. Pickett, Richard G. Plumley. Dead -Arthur F. Locke, James J. McGuire.
Manchester, Edward B. Allen, Clinton T. Bissell, George C. Butler, George W. Cheney, Homer Davis, Joseph A. Higgins, John J. Holmes, Le Verne Holmes (major Three Hundred and Fourth Infantry), Alexander B. Miller, William E. Newman, Daniel J. Sullivan.
New Britain, Joseph C. Andrews, John F. Conners, Ashley J. Griffing, Alfred H. Griswold (wounded), R. T. James, Edwin N. Lewis, Waterman Lyon (captain One Hundred and Fourth In- fantry), J. S. MacLordu, Michael O'Keefe, Cedric Powers, Fred- erick E. Schilling, Curtiss L. Sheldon, William S. Trask, Everett L. Upson.
Southington, Charles E. Lockhart, William B. Miller, Wil- liam H. Whitney.
South Windsor, Robert S. Starr.
West Hartford, M. Morris Andrews, Frederick S. Carpenter, John P. Fogarty, H. Wyckoff Mills (captain One Hundred and Sixteenth Cavalry), Charles O. Purinton, Walter B. Spencer.
Wethersfield, Richard P. Hart, James C. Wilson.
Windsor Locks, Daniel H. Lawler (wounded).
Chaplains-Bristol, John H. Landry. Hartford, Jeremiah J. Broderick, Edward P. Curran, Thomas A. Dinan, Daniel F. Man- ning, William F. O'Dell, George A. Tuttle. New Britain, Philip F. Cohlan, John E. Doherty. Windsor, Charles J. Harriman, William B. Cornish (dead). Windsor Locks, William E. Coyle.
Navy-Rear Admiral, Hartford, Harry S. Knapp (retired), Newington, Roger Welles.
From Lieutenant Junior Grade up-Hartford, Kenneth P. Applegate, Edward R. Burns, Frank H. Burns, Ralph J. Crosby, Ellsworth Davis, Raymond Deming, John F. Enders, Alfred E. Green, Frank Hannon, Robert M. Huggard, George M. Keller,
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Harold S. Lake, James F. Lynch, W. T. C. Mather, F. S. Mc- Murray (lieutenant-commander), Lyman B. Perkins, Eugene Rang, Ralph G. Risley (lieutenant-commander), Frank H. Smith (lieutenant-commander), James N. Smith, Bernard Spillane, James K. Ward, R. C. Welles.
Manchester, John W. Dunn, Frank L. Pinney (captain).
New Britain, Edward A. Eichstaedt, Raymond B. Searle, G. H. Suneson, Fred A. Traut (captain).
Southington, George Willard Steadman, Jr. (lieutenant-com- mander).
Suffield, Sumner F. Fuller.
West Hartford, Manning W. Hodgdon, George H. Lane.
Following are the names and numbers of the posts and names of commanders in the American Legion :
Seicheprey, 2, Bristol, Arthur F. Griffin.
Eddy-Glover, 6, New Britain, N. C. Avery.
Jane A. Delano, 7, Hartford, Mrs. Olive E. Clark.
Rau-Locke, 8, Hartford, James E. Hoskins.
Russell K. Bourne, D. S. C., 23, Wethersfield, Walter S. Comstock.
Hanrahan, 32, Unionville, Clifford L. Rourke.
Brock-Barnes, 33, Plainville, Theodore E. Fanion.
Gensi-Viola, 36, Windsor Locks, Cyrus G. Flanders. Barry-Poulter, 40, Warehouse Point, Maurice Willey. James Palache, 53, Farmington, Fred V. Smith. Leon Goodale, 56, Glastonburg, Elmer N. Dickinson. Gray-Dickinson, 59, Windsor, Oscar Hallgren.
Bolton-Kasica, 68, Berlin, Joseph L. Wilson.
Kiltonic, 72, Southington, R. J. Lacourciere.
Brown-Landers, 77, East Hartford, Frank J. Nolan.
Horace J. Tanguay, 80, Thompsonville, Dr. James E. Breslin.
Tomalonis-Hall, 84, Simsbury, C. Edwin Skoglund. Suffield, 94, Suffield, William T. Dupont.
Hayes-Velhage, 96, West Hartford, F. B. Chamberlin. Dilworth-Cornell, 102, South Manchester, John Pentland.
Each post has its women auxiliaries or "units."
Of the Veteran Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Association there is in Hartford Leonard Wood Camp No. 1, and of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, with women's auxiliary, Lieut. Caldwell Colt Robinson Post No. 254. Also Meeghan McKenna Chapter No. 1, Disabled Veterans of the World War.
XLIV MEN OF PROMINENCE TAKEN
DEATHS OF SOME OF THEM TRACEABLE TO THE WORLD WAR-MILI- TARY MEN, CLERGY, PROFESSIONAL, BANKING AND BUSINESS LEADERS. .
In this war period and immediately following-in many cases resulting from it-there were heavy losses at home as well as in the field. In addition to those whose careers have been sketched in preceding chapters there were:
Further in the Military Group-Rear Admiral William Sheffield Cowles (1846-1923) of Farmington, where he was born, son of Thomas and Eliza Shepard Cowles, was graduated at the Naval Academy in 1867 and was rear admiral in 1908, the year he retired. He was naval aide to the President in 1899. He married a sister of Theodore Roosevelt. In 1917 he enlisted in the ranks of the Connecticut State Guard, was detailed to the river patrol and then appointed on the staff of General Burpee. He also was a member of the Council of Defense. In 1916 he represented his town in the Legislature.
Rear Admiral Harry S. Knapp (1856-1923), a native of New Britain, graduated at the Naval Academy in 1878. He was rear admiral in 1916 and retired in 1920. He made a bril- liant record as military governor of Santo Domingo in the critical years of 1917-18 and then was sent for duty at the Peace Conference in 1919, whence he was ordered to the command of the United States naval forces in European waters. After re- tirement he made his home with his sisters in Hartford.
Maj .- Gen. Lucien F. Burpee (1855-1924), born in Rockville, son of Col. Thomas F. Burpee of the Civil war, graduated at Yale in 1879. After a career as lawyer and local judge in Waterbury, he served as Superior Court judge from 1909 till appointed to the Supreme Court in 1921. He removed to Hart- ford in 1912. He had been colonel of the Second Infantry, Con-
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necticut National Guard, and lieutenant-colonel on the staffs of Generals Miles and Wilson in the Spanish war. For the World war he was president of the Military Emergency Board, major- general commanding the State Guard and chairman of the Com- mittee on State Protection.
Maj. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Jr. (1886-1926), son of Hon. Mor- gan G. Bulkeley, graduated at Yale in 1907. Enlisting in Troop B, Cavalry, C. N. G., in 1911 and continuing in the service, he went into the World war as captain and remained as such in the reorganization which made the troop the One Hun- dred and First Machine-Gun Battalion. He succeeded to the rank of major as previously told. On his return to his duties in the office of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, he became a vice president and was closely connected with other financial institutions. At his death, he was well along on a career of great promise.
Further in the Churches-Rev. Dr. Ernest deF. Miel (1868- 1925), born in San Francisco, of French, Flemish and Irish an- cestry (his father an Episcopal clergyman, a lecturer at Har- vard and at the University of Pennsylvania and founder of the church of St. Saviour in Philadelphia), was graduated at Prince- ton in 1888 and attended Berkeley Divinity School, coming to Trinity Church in 1893 where he entered into all activities. For considerable time he was chaplain of the First Infantry, C. N. G. His eagerness to be of service in the war was so great that he de- clined the deanship of Berkeley that he might go overseas for the Red Cross. He came home in February, 1918, but went back to France in May with indefinite leave from the church. Acting as chaplain he was with the Smith College unit. On his return he was stricken with a severe illness from which he recovered sufficiently to continue his parish work from 1920 to 1924 when he suffered relapse. In his last illness he wrote for his parish- ioners his "Last Testament," in which he spoke of his great in- debtedness to the world and said: "A Last Testament might well convey some acknowledgment besides a material one of those relationships and ties which have proved of so much worth dur- ing a lifetime." Bishop Paddock of New York in 1927 gave $100,000 to Berkeley in memory of ten distinguished graduates of whom Doctor Miel was one.
Rev. Dr. George Williamson Smith (1836-1925) was born
REV. ERNEST deF. MIEL (1868-1925) Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford
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in Catskill, N. Y., and was graduated at Hobart in 1857. Before he became the tenth president of Trinity, succeeding Doctor Pynchon in 1883, he had been chaplain at the Naval Academy and chaplain of the European fleet. After Doctor Luther came as president in 1904, Doctor Smith continued as professor emer- itus till he went to Washington to be assistant rector of St. John's. Rev. Prof. Alexander R. Merriam, who died in 1827, aged seventy-eight, was for twenty-five years a professor at the Hartford Seminary Foundation, emeritus after 1918. The qual- ities which made him popular in his class of '72 at Yale con- tinued with him through life.
Rev. Dr. Charles F. Carter (1856-1928) died in 1928 one year after he had been made pastor emeritus of Immanual Con- gregational Church to which he had been called from Lexington, Mass., in 1910. In the National Council of Churches and simi- lar organizations he had been prominent. He was born in Chico- pee Falls, Mass., and was one of the famous class of '78 at Yale where he established a name in baseball as the first pitcher to use the curve. Graduated at Andover in 1882, of which he be- came trustee, he had wide experience before coming here. He was succeeded by Rev. Fletcher D. Parker.
Other devoted clergymen to whom Hartford owes much were: Right Rev. John Synnott (1857-1921), president of St. Thomas' Academy since 1887 and for some time in charge of the diocese; Rev. Dr. John Coleman Adams, of high literary attainment, pastor of the Church of the Redeemer, dying in 1922; Rev. James W. Bradin, rector emeritus of St. John's Episcopal Church where he had been since 1882, and president of the trustees of the Widows' Home, dying in 1923; Rev. Paul F. McAlenny, aged eighty, senior Roman Catholic pastor and pastor at St. Peter's over twenty-five years, dying in 1926; and the same year, Rev. Dr. Michael A. Sullivan of the Church of the Immaculate Con- ception, former president of the park board and also chaplain of the First Infantry, C. N. G.
Further in the Professions-Henry Ferguson (1848-1917), a native of Stamford, Trinity B. A. 1868, LL. D. 1900, was pro- fessor at Trinity from 1893 to 1906, after having been rector in New Hampshire, and left here to be rector in St. Paul's School at Concord, N. H. He was prominent in many political and social science organizations and wrote on American history.
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William S. Case (1863-1921), born in Tariffville, Yale '85, after holding positions for which his exceptional knowledge of the law fitted him, was judge of the Court of Common Pleas from 1897 till appointed to the Superior Court in 1901 and then to the Supreme Court in 1919. Trinity gave him an LL.D. That he could have attained fame as a writer was revealed by the one novel he wrote, "Forward House." Joseph P. Tuttle (1865- 1921), Yale '89, was appointed to the Superior Court in 1913 but resigned in 1918 to resume practice and also banking. Charles D. Hine who died in 1923 was secretary of the State Board of Education for twenty-five years; he was succeeded by the present incumbent, Allen B. Meredith. Henry Bickford died in 1923 aged sixty-eight. For fifty years he was a physician and he was major of the Putnam Phalanx. Walter S. Schutz, corpo- ration counsel, trustee at Trinity, a "Y" worker in the war, was but fifty-two when killed in an accident in 1924. He was born in Concord, N. H., and was graduated at Trinity in 1894. The Educational Department in France gave him a medal for his work. Francis H. Parker (1850-1927), Wesleyan '74, of East Haddam birth but a descendant of one of the Hartford propri- etors and resident here most of his life, had been legislator, pros- ecuting attorney, referee in bankruptcy, United States district attorney, corporation counsel, president of the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut School for Boys and a member of patriotic and historical associations.
Further in Banking-Gen. Lucius A. Barbour (1846-1922), a native of Canton, Ind., began at the bottom of the ladder in the Charter Oak Bank and was president from 1910 till the merger with the Phoenix National when he accepted the presi- dency of the Colonial National which he held till that bank also merged with the Phoenix. In 1884 he was president of the Wil- limantic Linen Company. Connected with the National Guard since its beginning, he became colonel of the First Regiment and was adjutant-general on the staff of Governor Bulkeley. His son, Lucius B. Barbour, captain of K company of the First for a time, was president of the Military Emergency Board in 1921 and brigadier-general on the governor's staff, prior to which he was major of the Foot Guard. James Knight, who died in 1922, was president of the First National Bank from 1887 till his death, and also vice president of the Mechanics Savings Bank.
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Atwood Collins, son of Erastus Collins, wholesale drygoods merchant, at his death in 1926 at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and to the end most vigorous banking men in the state. He was graduated at Yale in 1873 and was admitted to the bar but joined with Daniel R. Howe in the investment business. He was instrumental in giving the Security Trust Company its high standing, became president and was chairman of the board when the United States Security Trust Company was formed by merger, as elsewhere described. Also he was prominent in charity work, as will be seen.
Gen. A. P. Day, president of the Riverside Trust Company, died in 1927, aged sixty-six. He was commissary-general on the staff of Governor Cooke.
Frank C. Sumner (1850-1924), born in Canton, had a large part in municipal affairs, serving on several of the commissions. Beginning in the Hartford Trust Company as clerk he was chosen president on the death of Ralph W. Cutler in 1917, an office he continued to hold after consolidation with the Connecti- cut Trust and Safe Deposit Company in 1919. Also he was officer and director in a number of public and private institu- tions. Trinity conferred upon him the degree of M. A. and he was a member of the corporation. Mr. Sumner left bequests of $150,000 each to the Atheneum and the Hartford Hospital; $50,000 to Trinity; $10,000 to St. Francis Hospital; $5,000 each to the First Unitarian Society, the Hartford Dispensary, and the Humane Society, and $3,000 each to the Good Will Club, the Orphan Asylum, the Children's Aid Society and the Bolton Hall Library Association. The bequest to the Atheneum, like some of the others payable on the death of Mrs. Sumner which occurred not long after, was for the "Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Collins Sumner Collection of Paintings."
Meigs H. Whaples (1845-1928), dean of Connecticut bank- ers, had been a clerk in the National Bank in New Britain, his native town, when in 1863 he came in like capacity with the Mer- cantile of Hartford. For three years from 1869 he was a lieu- tenant in the navy, acting as secretary on the staffs of Admirals Boggs and Glisson. On his return he began his long association with the Connecticut Trust and Safe Deposit Company-its only clerk; became president at the age of forty-three and continued till the merger with the Hartford Trust Company when he
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accepted the position of chairman of the board. He was officer and director in several institutions, was a member of the city's first Board of Finance, first president of the Connecticut Associ- ation of State Bank and Trust Companies, president of the Hart- ford Clearing House, and president and treasurer of the Connec- ticut River Bridge and Highway Commission. Trinity gave him the degree of A. M. in 1910. A descendant of John Alden through the family of Meigs, he treasured many valuable his- torical relics.
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