History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1928, Volume II, Part 49

Author: Burpee, Charles W. (Charles Winslow), b. 1859
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke
Number of Pages: 736


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Politics-some facts about 760


541


Pond will contested


541


Pope, A. A.


23


Pope, Albert A.


524


Pope, Alfred Atmore


1100


Pope-Brooks Foundation


854


Pope, Col. George


528


Pope enterprises have busy chapter


586


Pope Manufacturing Company


522


Pope Motor Company


528


Pope offers branch post office


586


Pope, Theodate


853


52 Pope Tube Works


527


Population and pupils in schools


841


Population and wealth increase


1096


Population in 1800


1113


Population of towns, 1756 and 1790


220


Poquonock


971


Porter, John Addison


533,675 199


Porter Reservoir


Porter, Solomon


220


Porter, William S.


37


Postal Progress League


771


Post, Charles H.


882


Postoffices in East Windsor 990


Posts of G. A. R. in the county 431


"Post," The


495


Postword V


Potts. Col. Douglas


806


Potwine, Thomas 990


Powder and paper mills 1261


63


Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company __ 868 Pratt, Francis A. 472


1330


Pratt, James H. 1209


Pratt. Rufus N. 585


Prentice, Samuel O.


762


Presbyterians


in


Congregational


churches held


first


assemblage


in


346


Political campaign of 1860


Peace celebration disastrous


399


Peck, Edward B. 1018


Peck, Stow & Wilcox development.


401


Peculiar form of philanthropy 161


Pequot War interruption


Perkins, Henry A.


Population of state in 1790


209


Porter, Nathaniel


1284


Power given to create town courts.


Pratt, Gen. James T.


INDEX


Pattison and his tin pails


Pond gives land for park


1268


1378


INDEX


President Alfred Smith and boat met with bands


321


President Clap of Yale initiated move back to church freedom .... 171


Presidential election of 1880 496


President orders mobilization 791


Presidents of Board (Water) 753 Recollections, some 1354


President Wilson's "14 points" reach


Berlin 804


"Press," The 452


Press, books and society.


286


Pressing need of grammar school. 98


1154


Preston, Miles B. 535


Price-fixing resorted to. 196


"Priest" Williams 1255


Primitive water and fires conditions 368


Primus, Doctor 204


981


Prisoners sold as slaves on Talcot


order


Remarkable post-war period 832


Rentschler, Frederick B. 868


Reorganization of army 192


Reorganization of Chamber of Com- merce 757


Repast of crackers, cheese, lemonade and cider 1095


"Reproachful


Speaking"


a


grave


offense 938 Residence section becomes Automobile Row 730


Resignations refused, then "approved with regret" 516


Restrictive legislation useless 70


Retiring directors of Williams Bros. 1355


Returning regiments (Civil war) 432


Return to peace 432


Review in Boston witnessed by most of New England 806 Review of the times 531


Reynolds, Charles,


patented steam-


propelled vehicle 285


Reynolds got toll bridge charter 1007 Rhode Island invaders driven back 134 Rice, Charles D. 522-627


Richards, Francis Henry 523


Richmond, W. 1359


"Riding the wooden horse" 64


Riggs, John N.


395


Riggs, Prof. Robert Baird 769


Ring from father to father, from son to son, helped 120


Rioters convicted for release of pris- oners 154


Rioting in many cities 260


Rising's Notch 86


Risks of large shipping business 255


Rival of the railroad. 771


River towns "plantations" 11


28


Riverview Road


1334


"Roadhouses" 572


Roaring Brook Paper Manufacturing Company 1347


"Roaring Nineties," The 531


Robbins, Archibald 1330


Robbins bred fancy stock 1323


Robbins' library given 382


Roberts, Henry 761


Roberts, Mrs. Jolin T. 760


Robertson invented mineral soap


1278


Robertson, William A. 1279


Robinson, Barclay 500


Robinson, Henry C. 500,


684


Robinson, Lieut. Caldwell Colt 801


Robinson, Lucius F. 500


Robinson, Mary A. 760


Robinson, Pastor John 3


Rockwell, Albert R. 1223


Rocky Hill


Rocky Hill had a library


1331


Rocky Ridge Park 546


Rogers Brothers Manufacturing Com- pany 592


Rogers, Henry 1277


Rogers, William 592


Roll of Honor cast in bronze 1351


Roman Catholic Church 896


Roosevelt, Theodore


643, 1098


Root and Johnson opened a dispensary 692


Root, Elisha K.


364


Root, John, first settler 1175


Read, Nathan 527


Real peril threatened in 1744 176


Receipt for a head 131


Received grants "by courtesy". 69


Recent occurrences in industries. .1355 Receptions for President Wilson and Generals Pershing and Petain. 806


"Record," The 1154


Recipients of decorations for exploit_ 804


Reclamation studied by commission __ 867 Red Cross at Manchester 1294


Redfield, Amasa A. 1100


Red flag used for bell 109


Reeve, Judge Tapping 156


Reform in criminal procedure 518 Regiment in St. Mihiel campaign 802


Regiments formally organized 173


Registration compulsory 792


Religious dissensions 101


"Religious Herald" 290


132


Private schools of the county. 842


Prizes won for England returned to France 176


Professional men prominent in Hart- ford history 825


Profiteers robbing Government. 189


Prohibited drinking in public house for more than half hour


70


Prohibited entertaining strangers 70


Prominent families-Glastonbury's 1354 Prominent Hartlanders 1248


Prominent men of Granby 1050


Prominent men of the bar. 597


Prominent men of Windsor birth 969


Prominent New Britain men 1112


Prominent physicians 691-698


Promotions (A. E. F.). 800


Property qualifications for voters 123


Prosecuting officers 240


"Proud Committee, poor people" 981


Provision for families more general 876


"Provision State," The_ 989


Public couldn't keep up with growth idea 654


"Public landing" on Little River.


220


Public market, with stalls.


158


Public welfare noted


1149


Publishing houses 294


Pumping station fortunately remained 372


Putnam, Israel, a visitor at Lodge 167


Putnam Phalanx formed 415


Putnam Street Orphanage 746


Pym and Hampden 33


Pynchon disgusted with Boston med- dling 128


Pynchon, John 1000


Pynchon, Thomas R. 675


Pynchon tried for bad faith 55 Riverside Paper Company. 1346


Pynchon, William 11


Pyquaug


Q


Quaker Lane 1062


Quarries opened, largely abandoned __ 1344


R


Racial census of 1914 833


Railroad fight 645


Railroad fights 494


Railroad opened, Boston to Worcester 330


· Railroad pioneers 330


Railroads aid industries 1228


Railroads and their promoters 333


Railroads defied


1096


Rainbow 330


970


Rainbow Paper Company


970


Randolph, collector and tale-bearer


137


Randolph, Edward


135


Ransom's Coffee House


223


Rate raised from 1 to 18 pence


176


Rau, Maj. George J.


796


Raymond Library, The


1267


Rayner, Menzies 230


"Reading" of the day-note


insured


values 372


Railroads would drive out horses


Rain carried away two dams


372


150 Rations collected from cellars


1330


Press since 1850


Primus, negro doctor


1379


INDEX


Root, Timothy H. .1097


Roraback, J. Henry 866


Rose, Chauncey, gave for high school_1320 Rose Library 1304


Roser, Herman, & Son Tannery. 1346


Rosseter, Dr. Bray


12


Rossia, The 780


Roswell, Sir Henry


11


"Round Table," The_ 317


Rowlandson, Rev. John


Rowlandson, Mrs. Joseph 1311


Roxbury started 12


Royal Arcanum 488


"Royal Governor" Winthrop.


31


Royal Typewriter Company


875


Royse, Mrs. Lydia Bull


309


Ruggles, Benjamin


1008


Rumors of Foch's secret army


801


Rusden, E. A ..


587


Russell, Dr. Gurdon W. 691,


697


Russell, Thomas W.


635


S


"Sad stuff" chief material for gowns 74


Saengerbund has fine quarters 707


"Safety first" model revised 867


St. Augustine's Novitiate and Normal School 858


St. Gabriel Episcopal parish 950


St. John's Episcopal Church 666


St. John's Lodge, No. 4, A. F. & A. M. 167


St. Joseph's Cathedral consecrated. 562


St. Mary's Catholic Church, 1827 998


St. Mary's Home 572


St. Thomas Seminary 858


Salmon Brook 1046


Saloons were numerous 572


Saltonstall, Sir Richard 11


Saltonstall under suspicion 4


Salvation Army, the 1149


Sanford, Zachary 83


San Francisco earthquake-fire losses_ 631


San Francisco horror loss $350,000,000_ 352


Sassacus warriors in war dance 48


Saunders, Lucille 484


Saurian remains


23


Savage, Wilfred W.


1323


Saville, Caleb Mills.


753


Savings Bank of Manchester 1291


Saw Mill River 1260


Saybrook men in Pequot war. 50


Saybrook opposed governor's order 155


Saybrook platform adopted 107


Save and Sele cooperated with Win-


throp 119


Scandal against Deane


189


School districts 1013


Schools 94


Schools at Kensington 1170


Schools of Glastonbury. 1339


School system of Farmington 1082


Schulze, Brig .- Gen. Edward 790


Schulze, Maj. Edward 613


Schwabe, Walter P. 866, 1004


"Scool should be keept"


1339


Scotts Swamp settlers 1176


Seamanship soon developed 73


Second Church members urged better bridge nearer Main Street line 162


Second Church of Christ, Scientist 899


Second Church voted to build. 109


Second Congregational Church organ- ized 982


Second Insurance Co .- The Aetna 267


Second meeting-house begun in 1638- 66 Second North School started, 1793 228


"Secret Army" of General Foch_ 801


Secretaries of state 1639 to 1847,


Hartford men 864


Security Trust Company's building 890


Selden, George B. 529 Selectmen raised $5,000 by town vote_ 305 Select service law .. 792


Self-government feeling its way. 150


Seminole war helped. 364 Sentiment demanded U. S. take part_ 787 Separate towns formed _. 1113 Separatists sought freedom of thought 3


September 26, Foch's millions moved_ 804


Sequassen, Sachem 28


Sequence in order of towns 934


Sequins a mild, complacent sort. 28


Sessions Clock Co. 1217


Sessions, John H. 1219


Sessions, Joseph B. 1217


Sessions, W. K. 1217


Seth Thomas peddled clocks 630


Settlers of 1671, Newington 1164


Seven Year's war of Frederick the


Great


178


Severe penalties for malicious gossip_ Seymour and Ensign sent in 1720 to buy of natives in western section .. 152


Seymour, Col. C. W ..


210


Seymour mayor in 1784


219


Seymour, Richard


1110


Seymour, Thomas


98, 209


Shannahan, Capt. W. J. 799


367


"Shaw's Fort" 1049


Shedd, Frances D. 1323


Sheldon's Light Dragoons


1317


Sheldon, Martin J ..


1017


Shepard, Prof. Odell 770


Sheriff's and constables only police 228


Sherman, Clifton L. 906


Sherman, Maurice F 910


Sherman, Roger 215


Shermans, The 1308


Sherry, delayed, arrived at capitol 809


Shifting river brings controversy. 1307 Shipbuilding ambition checked 1323


Shipman, Hon. Nathaniel 479, 684


"Shipman's Hill"


1333


Shipping industry begun.


Ship-yard reservation of five acres 1332


Shock was paralyzing _. 179


Shop built on New Britain Road 1183


Signers of financial agreement 979


Signers of first treaty. 49


Sigourney Park Square. 547


Sigourney's petition fuel to religious "toleration" flame 263 "Silk Culturist and Farmers Manual"_1279 Silk mill 994


Sill, Edward Roland


849, 966


Silliman, Professor, on Monte Video_1104 "Silver Lane" 208


Silverman, Rabbi Morris 899


Simonds, William E 534


Simons, Albert M. 750-790


Simsbury 1030


Simsbury after "Sim" Wolcott.


1031


Simsbury Bank and Trust Co. 1042


Simsbury folk ordered to move to


safety


1031


Simsbury men in forefront. 1037


Simsbury sent two companies 183


"Sinking Fund" section 224


Sisson, Thomas


690


Sister Dora Society 504


Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambery. 857


Sisters of the Holy Ghost. 859


Site of camp on Silver Lane. 1264


Site of first church marked. 1207


Sitting in stocks near church 64


Sittings (in church) according to so- cial standing 66


Six men located on Stony River. 1000


Sixty per cent of New Haven men


given vote 122


Skelton, Samuel 11


Skenes permitted to attend church 186


Skinner, Otis


584


Slavery


404


Slaves from "L'Armistad" brought to


Farmington 1086


Slaves killed boat crew. 407


Slimmon, Mrs. James B .. 760


Smaller parks dot Hartford 546


Smallpox decimates Indians 29


Smallpox threatened 239


Smiley, Edwin H. 1309


Smith, Defamation of 846


Smith, Mrs. E. Terry


Smith, Dr. Elihu H .. 395


Smith gave land for church 1336


Smith, Rev. Dr. Geo. W 822


Smith, H. A.


882


Smith, John


12


Smith, Dr. Oliver C.


785


767


Sharps, Christian


130


1380


INDEX


Smith, Seymour W. 916


Smith Sisters, the 1347


Smith starts first harness and sad-


dlery husiness


226


Steele, T. Sedgwick 483


Steel fishing rods 1224


Stevens, Mayor Norman C. 767-865


Stevenson, George S. 758


Steward's Museum 243


Stiles, Dr. Charles W. 594


Stiles, Francis 30:


941


Stiles, Rachel (Mrs. John) 30


Stillman, Capt. Nathan_ 205


Stocks in front yard of church. 66 Stocks required by law, were in yard near church 161


Stocks, wooden horse had answered as correctives 75


Stockwell, chairman of town School


Committee


1036


Stoddard, Mary 1312


Stone bridge voted for


700


Stone, William F. 1223


Stone, Rev. Samuel 16, 531, 759, 1033


Stores of Manchester 1291


Stotesbury gift, The 1086


Stoughton, Captain 18; 978


Stoughton's histories 1267


Stoughton's stone house 945


Stoughton's "Windsor Farmes" 980


Stow, Orson W ..


1208


Stowe, Rev. Charles E.


1045


Stowe, Harriet Beecher 455


Street railway given hridge rights 513


Streets widened at big expense 834


Strong, Col. John 1089


Strong, Rev. Nathan, ran a distillery not far from church. 171; 381 Strong men passing on-strong men


coming forward 784


Strong water and sack 47


"Strong water" sold to those outside only by permission 70


Students Army Training Corps 1021


Stuyvesant, Peter 91


Subsisted on acorns, malt, grain 34


Suckiaug


28


Suffield Baptists formed first Baptist church at John Bolles' home. 342


Suffield's literary air 1014


Suffield men in colonial wars 1011


Suffield School, The_ 842


Suffield sent one company 183


Sullivan, Ignatius A .. 765


Summary by Chamber of Commerce, 1928 924


Summerall, Maj .- Gen. C. P.


805


Summer of pestilence, 1647. 102


23


Sumner, George G.


497


Sumner, Prof. W. G. 497


504


Superior Court in 1711


Supreme Court of Errors 158,


239


Surrender of West Point arranged.


205


Suspended specie payments 260


Swain, Abraham 46


Swashbuckling got no results 1311


Synagogue on Charter Oak Street


350


Synnott, Rev. John 858


T


Table-cutlery concern, world's larg- 1122


est


Taft, Dr. Cincinnatus A. 502


Taintor, James S. 786


Taintor, James U. 786


Taintor, Nelson C. 786


Talcott Art Fund 1154


Talcott, Gov. Joseph 1033


Talcott, John, townsman 57


Talcott Mountain Towers 1103


Talcott, Seth 580


Talcott succeeded Treat 131


Tale needed no garnishing 179


Tallmadge, Maj. Benjamin 203


Talmud Torah


899


Tantinomo agreed to deliver murderer 90


404


Sunday earthquake, The


Standard Steel and Bearings 1188


Standish, Jared B. 1304 Standish Park 1329


Stanley, Frederick 1120


Stanley, John 132


Stanley property to the city 1145


Stanley Quarter 1110 Swift, Rowland 687


Stanley Rule and Level Co. 523


Stanleys, facts about. 1145


Starvation threatened


34


State Board of Education for the Blind 503


State Board of School Commissioners_ 313


State Dam Commission created 1007 State fairs at Charter Oak Park 4 81


State House Green 402


State Insurance Department estab-


lished in 1865 448


State Lihrary, The. 725


Statement of loss approved, 1819 372 State Savings Bank. 329


State's first normal school 314


States Machine Co., The 586


State Street extended to river in 1800 66


Statues being prepared. 919


Steamers plied river in 1824 1352


Steam road completed, New Haven to Hartford 330


Steam's revolution 330


Steam turbine needful 588


Stebbins, Samuel 1035


Smith was cheered 737


Smith, Winchell, playwright 1101


Smith- Worthington Co. 226


Smoking under difficulties 73


Smyth Manufacturing Co., The 586


Soby, Charles 587, 1012


Social festivities and inns 297


Social settlement, the 900


Society of La Salette. 857


Soldier memorials


649-650


Soldiers and sailors Arch


920 50


Soldiers Field set off


Soldiers, Sailors and


Marines Club


open


Sold into captivity by Barbary Di-


1330


rates


Sons and Daughters of Pilgrims 949


Sons of American Revolution place


tablet 1264


"Sons of Liberty," origin 910


Sons of St. George 488


Sons of Union Veterans 431


Sons of Veterans


Soren, Townsend H.


625


Sought safety in Virginia 4


"South" Church instead of "Second". 107


Southcote, Capt. Richard __ 12


Southern New England Telephone Co. 866 1175; 1197


Southington 1208


Southington Bank and Trust Co. 1204


Southington Hardware Co.


1208


Southington newspapers


Southington Savings Bank 1208


South Manchester Railroad 1283


South Manchester Water Co. 1284


South Park Methodist Church organ-


ized 345


South Society, The 1049


Southwick boundary commission 86


South Windsor 974 Sturhan, Carl F. 780


Sowheag, Chief 28


Sowheag went to Mettahesett 1304


Spanish War Veterans 709


Spark fanned by Calvin kept by blows and prison.


down


2


Spears shipped to Georgia 1060


Speede, John 759


Spencer, C. L., Jr. 1017


Spencer, Christopher M. 367, 527


Spencer, Samuel R. 1017


Spencer, William 57


Sperry, Lewis 534


Sperry, Watson R.


"Spirit of Hartford" in bronze 618


"Spotted fever" or smallpox 1093


"Springfield Republican" 290


Stage coach line first public utility __ 1351 Stamp Act of 1765 in itself unimpor- tant 181


910


"Summit" example of nature's power.


Sunset Cottage 157


431


810


1093:


INDEX


1381


Tariff and slavery


407


Towns and men, World war data 817


Town's foresight shown (1774) -- .1090


Towns ordered to appoint teachers .. 95 Town's "revolt" from Massachusetts rule .1010


Towns secede, others in financial


straits 122


Trade with colonies and with Indies. 73


Traffic in pipestaves profitable 74


Training School for Nurses 399


Training under French veterans 796


"Transcript," The _ 290


Transforming frontier town 1093


Transportation at Wethersfield 1325 Transported freight by river 440


Travelers Aid Society . 900


Travelers Insurance Co. bought prop- erty 83


Treadwell, John


1090


Treated well in Connecticut-in Mas- sachusetts as rogues and thieves .. 192


Treat escorted people to Hadley 127


Treat kept 30 dragoons ready. 132


Treble Clef Club 708


Trinity College 377


Trinity College willed large sums 545


Tripp, Frank E.


909


Trolley line promoted 1284


Troop of Dragooners, 1668 172


Troop of horse organized 172


Troops march, heedless of Andros' threat 127


Troops reported at Camp Holcomb 788


Troops surround Philip's lair 132


Trouble, if not grafting 371


Trouble over bounds


1272


Troublesome Podunk purchases


1250


Trowbridge, S. B. P.


841


"True Citizen" 1154


Trumbull, Dr. James Hammond 512


Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co. 1187


Trumbull, Eliza Niles


500


Trumbull, Governor, retiring from


public life 214


Trumbull, Gov. John H. 863


Trumbull, Gurdon


676


Trumbull, Henry Clay


676


Trumbull, J. Hammond 58:


189


Trumbull, John H. 582


Trumbull, Jonathan 1162


Trumbull's reassurance 206


Trumbulls, The 232


Trumbull


thought 1851 time


to do


something 371


Trunk hardware .1219


Trustees for grammar school and col- lege 96


Trustees, library 1037


Trust fund of John J. Corning 905


Tryon, Dwight W. 483 Tryon, Moses, in Barbary War 1318


"Tryon's Landing" 1333


Tuberculosis


696


537


Tudor, Dr. Elihu


Tunxis 28


350


Turamugas ordered released 132


Turnpikes chartered 228


Turpentine shipping 963 982


Tuthill, Moses


Tuttle, Ruel


958


Twentieth Century Club formed


553


Twenty-one churches in the 26 towns 134


Twenty-sixth Division tc


be


near


pivot


Twenty-three elementary schools in Hartford 838


Twenty-three thousand men drilling. 183


Twichell, Rev. Joseph H. 436


Two copies of charter? 142


Two fairs a year 78


Two houses of Legislature 123


507


Two insurance tragedies


Two new electric companies 875


U


Uncas' brother cleaved Milantonomoh's head with hatchet


89


Towns, The


165


Taxed "for encouragement of minis- try" . 107


Taxpayers' Protective Association 647


Tax to pay war expenses


133


Taylor, Adjt. Emerson G. 800-805


Taylor, Harry K. 920


Taylor, John


1007; 1032


Taylor, John C.


653


Taylor, John M. 636


Taylor Reservoir 1283


Tea-drinkers' names published in


"Courant"


182


Tea-drinking a public offense 182


"Telegram" started 495


Telephone wires in Glastonbury


.1352


"Temperance had done for funerals" 70 Temple, Truman R. 932


Ten who, with Deane procured £800 and pledged private fortunes 185


Ter-Centennial of Constitution Towns 860


Terror increased by burning of Springfield 128


Terrorism of King Philip's war 125


Terry, Clinton 1004


Terry, Seth 245


Terry's Island 1002


Terry Steam Turbine Co. 588


Terry store a "filling station" 297


Thacher, Prof. Thomas A. 306


Theatre erected in 1794 242


Theatrical production scandalizes 242


The city finding itself 771


Thienes, Mrs. Elmer 1359


Third century's closing 917


Thompson, Capt. C. M. 796


Thompson Clock Co., The H. C .. 1224


Thompson's battalion set burly pace_ 803 Thompsonville 1022


1029


Thomson-Houston Electric Co.


Thorpe, Francis Newton, Editor


Thrall, Virginia


503


Thrasher, S. P.


533


Three great institutions


377


Three Hartfords, Facts about


863


Three plans reported (bridge) 700


Three regiments went to New Haven 795


Thrift cut price of drinks 962


Through snow and cold to the "Re- becca"


34


Tierney, Bishop Michael 569-667, 858


Time one could keep a book 1320


"Times" Building, The 223


Times called for another hospital 565


"Times" repudiated Bryan 497


"Times," The 412; 495; 905; 1154


"Times," The, under Gideon Welles. "Times, The Weekly" 290


436


Tobacco acreage main boast 1277


Tobacco and cigar-makers 1011


Tobacco crop exceeds fruit 1343


Tobacco plantations 965


Tobacco-raising 988


Todd, Dr. Eli 281;


395


Todd's Mills 72


107


"Toleration" cry suggested new pa- per


290


Toll roads in 1792


220


Took refuge in German dug-out 803


To some a field for graft only. 148


Toucey, Isaac 408


Town and city governments consoli- dated 535


"Town Bill" served both churches _. 109


Town committee managed school af- fairs


97


Town common (hog lot)


66


"Town Crier," The 965 Twitchell, Willis I. 479


"Town dealt in lumber and smelt of molasses and old Jamaica" 285


Town divided against town 171


Town established its first grist mill_ 162


"Town Hill District" 298 Townley, John, first worshipful mas- ter 167


Town meetings in Legion Hall 1325 Town meeting to infuriate Andros. 136


934


"Tucker Grant," The


969


Tuoro Hall


801


Tariffs on imports


Toleration Act passed in 1668


527 60


"Thompsonville Press," The


1382


INDEX


Uncas directed to put foe to death ___ 88 87


Uncas given free rein to handle enemy


Uncas' grave near that of Mason


133


Uncas killed spy by torture ..


Uncas marched against enemy-prom- ised to bring Mohawks


90


warner, Charles Dudley 451, 669 Warner, Henry A. 1219


Uncas party attacked 87 War obtruded 43


Uncas was supreme-other chiefs jealous 87 War's disillusionment


"Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared. 411


Underwood Computing Company 522


Underwood Typewriter Company __ 627, 875


Uniform under British flag


with


American


Union Insurance Company crushed ___ 356


Unionville 1074, 1101


Unionville Bank and Trust Company_1097 Unitarian Association formed 346


United American Mechanics 488


United Colonies of New England 84


United Jewish Charities 571


United Jewish Charities' influence 746


United States Bank, The 252


United States Rubber Company 530


"Unpreparedness"


412


Unsuccessful typesetting machine 455


Up-river trustees not allowed to take seats


155


V


Valentine, Mrs. Nathaniel G. 618


Valuation of Hartford's parks 548


Value of tobacco crop 886


VanCorlear, Jacob 7


Vanderbilts fought to rule


330


Veeder mileage indicator 588


Vessels registered in colony. 165


Veteran Firemen's Association 487


Veterans of Foreign Wars. 820


Veteran Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Association


820


Victory Liberty Loan being subscribed 810 Viets family, The 1051


Viets, Rev. Roger, connived with


Viets, Simeon 1012


Vile spot in heart of city. 550


Village Improvement Society 1326


Village Library, Farmington 1086


Violate English law 123


Virginians had House of Burgesses 2


Virginia's First Assembly. 60


Visiting Nurse Association, Inc. 696


VonBoehm advanced confidently. 801


Voorhees, Rev. Dr. John Brownlee. 439


Vote "for choice of pastor and teacher" 11


Vote was for stone bridge_ 700


Voting machines introduced 649


W


Wade, John F. .1223


Wadsworth Atheneum, The 378, 511


Wadsworth caused drums and person-


ally threatened Fletcher 147


Wadsworth, Daniel 511 "Weekly Gazette," The 1266


Wadsworth helped traitor escape 198


Wadsworth, Jeremiah


206, 381


Wadsworth, Joseph, hid charter in


great oak


141


Wadsworth, William, townsman


57


Wadsworth, Winthrop M. 1100 Wadsworths, Daniel, Jeremiah and Samuel 223


Wainwright, Lieut. P. S.


805


Wainwright, Dr. W. A. M.


594


Wakefield, Walter L ... 757


Walker, Miss Ethel 846


Walker, Dr. George Leon 662


Walker, John, local postmaster, 1764_ 165 del on site . 53


Walker, Prof. Williston 663


Walkley, I. V. 1207


Wallace Barnes Company 1218


Waltham Watch Company 1262


Wanted England's help against Dutch and Indians 38


Wanted legislation without buying it_ 514


War committee appointed 192


"Ward and Watch" personnel 228


Wardens chosen 230


Warehouse Point 991


War Gardens at Manchester 1294


"War Gardens" everywhere. 810


47 Warham, Rev. John 12, 245, 945, 978


War of 1812; new constitution 272


172


Wars-men in, from Enfield. 1028


Warspirit again shown in 1861 1090 Warville quoted (1:88)


Warwick boundaries left undenned 40


Warwick boundary wranglings 85


16 Warwick eluded Laud-went to Holland Warwick Patent, The 32


Washburn, A. L.


Washings hung in ancient cemetery_ 550 Washington Commandery, K. T., or- ganized in 1796 167


Washington, Hamilton, Lafayette in conference with Rochambeau_ 204


Washington quotes


advertisement


to


General Knox 225


Washington Street triangle 547


Washington told Trumbull of condi- tions 195


871


Waste, expense-only a week's supply could be stored


371


"Watch" of early days were also police 376


Water company organized 371


Water for fires from cisterns 227


Waterman, Dr. Paul 805


Water power at Tariffville 1042


Water power draws mill men 1200 Water power of Farmington River 1038


Water pumped to Lord's Hill reservoir 371 Water supply extension 753


Water supply not popular subject. 371


Water supply of Farmington. 1098


Water supply voted in 1857 1132 Watertown choice of some 12


Watkinson, David 385


Watkinson Juvenile Asylum and Farm School 282


Watkinson Library


511


Watkinsons, The


223


Watres, Maj. L. H.


805


Watson, Rev. Caleb, teacher


97


Watts and Newberry rushed to aid of Massachusetts men


127


Weatogue 1043


Weaver, Thomas Snell 657, 913


Webb, Mrs. Abigal Chester. 205


Webb in tangle-disregarded advice. 179


Webb, Joseph 1320


Webb's regiment at Valley Forge 203


Webster, Jr., contributed spelling


books to build church 230


Webster, Noah, quoted 214, 1069


Webster's Spelling Books 293


Weed, Erastus H. 1013


Weed Manufacturing Co. 524


Whittlesey, Charles B 757


Who fired first at Lexington. 185


Why charter covered New Haven ter- ritory 121


Wickham, Horace J. 472


Wickham, Howard J. 1284


Widows' Society organized 301


Wigglesworth, Michael 102


Wilcox, Capt. Jarius 203


Wiley, William Henry 593


William H. Hart fund. 1154


William Rogers Manufacturing Co. 592 William the Conqueror erected cita-


Williams Bros. Manufacturing Co. 1346


Williams, Capt. Elijah 87


Williams, Rev. Elisha 1320


Williams, Ezekiel, kept P. O. placed 166


Williams, Dr. Geo. (.


F


917


Williams, George G. 554


Williams, J. B. 1345


Williams, James S.


1355


Williams Memorial Building Associa- tion


1353


War Department stopped work


700


Williams, R. S.


853


196


Weakened and badly equipped


Watkinson Farm School 484 enemy 197


"Wasp" Engine, The


229


184


1383


INDEX


William's theory proving correct 177


Willimantic Linen Co. organized 367


Wilson, Albert D. 1218


Wilson's Station 970


Wilson's vote in 1916_ 497


Wilson, Woodrow, quoted. 275


Windingsheet and coffin, 30 shillings. 70


Windsor Adventurers Westward 1030


Windsor "Herald" 965


Windsor Historical Society 958


Windsor in World war 966


Windsor Locks 992


"Windsor Locks Journal"


998


Windsor Locks lawyers


997


Windsor Locks Trust and Safe De- posit Co. . 997


Windsor Locks Water Co.


995


Windsor lost in population 965


Windsor men and leaders in wars


950


Windsor men in Pequot war


50


Windsor men of prominence


969


Windsor School, facts about early


961


Windsor sent one company 183


Windsor Trust Co. 965


Windsor's water supply 966


Windsorville 990


Wing, Yung, Yale '54. 491; 1108 3


Winslow, Edward


Winslow's costly error


130


Winsted Hospital 491


"Winter privileges" for Granby 1046


"Winter privileges" petitioned for 1272


Winthrop interest in marker _. 245


Winthrop, Mrs., buried near Stone's monument


245


Winthrop party found famine and dis- ease 12


Winthrop sent to London


117


Winthrop, Wait Still


245


Winthrop won over court circles 120


Wires ordered underground 535


Wise, Isidore


519


"Witchcraft" fanaticism


110


With British at Cambrai 805


"Weekly Observer" 1154


Welch, Pres. Archibald A.


618; 833, 876, 881


Welch, Elish 1217


Welch, H. K. W. 476, 684


Welches, Archibald A., The 760


Welles, Gideon


436


Welles, John L., patented printing


press . 285


Welles, Gen. 1. R. 1165


Welles, Lient. Roger, Jr. 618, 1165


Welles supported Tilden 436


Wells, Charles T. 684


Wells, Horace 395


Wentworth, Daniel F. 715


Westbrook, Maj. S. F .. 805


Western Reserve in Ohio 217


"West Farmers" petition for separate parish


1161


West Granby 1050


West Hartford 1061


West Hartford's part in wars 1070 Writers of today, some 1316


West Indies best staves market 74


Westminster School 849


Westwood appointed constable 34


Westwood, William, townsman 57


Wethersfield 1299


Wethersfield a mother of towns 1308


Wethersfield Bank and Trust Co. .1329 Wethersfield Country Club 1329


Wethersfield Cove Yacht Club 1329 Wethersfield foreordained agricul- tural 1323


Wethersfield Free Public Library 1323 Wethersfield incorporated in 1822 1325 Wethersfield in field of education. .1319 Wethersfield in wars 1164; 1315 Wethersfield men in Pequot war 50


Wethersfield sent one company 183


Wethersfield Society Library 1304


What of the other charter? 141


When first Congress assembled 225


When the "Maine" was sunk 602 Wheelock, Doctor 133


Whitefield, Rev. Henry 95


White, Horace 1296


White slavers captured here 668


Whiting, Calvin, lay reader 230


Whiting, Rev. John 105


Whiting, William _81; 105


Whiting's treasurers about 100' years 523


Whitman, Henry C. 1073


Whitman, John 1073


Whitney Aircraft Co. 868


Whitney, Amos 472


Whitney Arms Co. 364


Wolcott a boy on Andros' visit 142


Wolcott, Dr. Alexander 204


Wolcott, Erastus 954


Wolcott, Henry, Jr. 58


Wolcott, Oliver ..


954


Wolcott, Roger, Jr.


954


Wolfe, Dr. A. J .-.


513


Wolfe, with last breath, was taking Quebec - 181


Woman suffrage reluctantly approved Woman suffrage workers 497


Woman whipped in presence of fe- males 941


Woman's Club, Glastonbury


Woman's Reading Club


1021


Woman's Relief Corps


488


Women auxiliaries, Legion Posts 820


Women had little to do-except work 163 Women of county were tireless 430 Women of house the "hands" 163


Women of Plainville in war work 1194


Women's apparel scandalous 74


Women's big hats in theatres 558 Women volunteered as nuns 1143


Wongunks, Podunks 28


Wood, Mrs. A. Eno 1045


Woodbridge, Mrs. Abigail, gave site_ 98


Woodbridge, Rev. Asahel


1337


Woodbridge Tavern


1276


Woodbridge, Timothy 1033


Woodford, Chester R. 1108


Woods, Asa B.


998


Woodward, Charles G.


448


Woodward, Joseph G.


687


Woodward, P. Henry


Woodward, Samuel B.


447,


521


395


Woollen Mill at Marlborough 1358


Wooster, Capt. David, rewarded 176 Word omitted in second duplicate charter 145


Worked on Willimantic


"Journal,"


Hartford "Post" and "Courant"


657


World war activities 1334 World war brought big demand 367


World war data 817


World war demands on Bristol fac-


tories


1228


World war demands upon New Brit-


ain


1127


World war officers


791


World war, The 787


World war, Towns and men 817


World war work of Manchester folk .1295


"World's Work"


1156


Worthington School, Berlin 1173


Wranglings delay water supply 371


Writers of "Colony" 459


Writing papers


1278


Wyett, John


132


Wyllys for one company on duty reg-


ularly


184


Wyllys, George


219


"Wythersfield"


1300


Y


Yale, Elihu made gift


155


Yankee Division stormed Torcy, Bel-


leau


801


Yankee ingenuity


1216


"Yankee tin-peddler"


1171


Yen, Liang Tun


492


Y. M. C. A.


572; 741


Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., New Brit-


ain


1149


Yost Writing Machine Co.


522


Young, Prof. Charles H.


504


Young, Sir John


11


Younglove, John


1008


Young Men's Institute organized.


381


Young Women's Hebrew Association.


750


Y. W. C. A.


741


914


1353


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