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Thirman Milner was born in Hartford, Connecticut's North End. [1] Milner was the sixth child born out of seven children. [1] Milner's father died when Milner was young. [1] Milner largely grew up on Hartford's South End, though he spent some parts of his youth living in Asylum Hill. [1]
Roser was from Glastonbury, Connecticut, the daughter of Herman Roser and Maria Ursula Heim Roser. Both of her parents were immigrants from Germany; her father was president of a tannery, [1] and her mother was a founding member of the Visiting Nurses Association in Glastonbury. [2] Helen Roser graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1925. [3]
The Smiths of Glastonbury: 1994 Sisters Hannah, Hancy, Cynrinthia, Laurilla, Julia and Abby. Family of early suffragists. Their home Kimberly Mansion is listed on the NRHP for Glastonbury. [141] Hilda Crosby Standish (1902–2005) 1994 Connecticut's first birth control clinic [142] Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) 1994 Abolitionist, author [143]
Parmenio Adams (1776–1832), United States congressman; born in Hartford [23] James J. Barbour (1869–1946), Illinois lawyer and state legislator; born in Hartford [24] L. Paul Bremer (born 1941), ex-administrator of US-occupied Iraq and foreign service officer; Harold V. Camp (1935–2022), Connecticut lawyer, state legislator, and businessman
The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut was a short walk from the state capitol.
It was clear to us that this weird, unknown animal needed a name. One editor coined the word, Glawackus. "Gla" for Glastonbury; "wack" for wacky; and "us" as a proper Latin ending. It caught on like magic. Lowell Thomas, a radio network commentator, who was popular nationwide, reported the glawackus had been named by a "Connecticut scientist."
The Putnam Bridge is a bridge in the state of Connecticut carrying the Route 3 freeway over the Connecticut River, connecting Interstate 91 in Wethersfield and Route 2 in Glastonbury. It is the southernmost crossing of the Connecticut River in the Hartford Area and carries an average of 50,800 vehicles per day.
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