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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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