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Cross died on October 5, 1948, in New Haven at the age of 86. He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery. [8]Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Wilbur Cross School in Bridgeport, and Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway and Wilbur Cross Highway were named in his honor, as was Yale's Wilbur L. Cross Medal, awarded for outstanding achievement in professional life.
Further improvements in the Wilbur Cross Highway took place over the next several years and the road became a four-lane divided highway by 1954. In 1968, most of the Wilbur Cross Highway was designated as I-86 and further upgrades to the road were implemented. Route 15 and I-86 overlapped from the current 15/84 junction in East Hartford to the ...
Wilbur Lucius Cross III (August 17, 1918 – March 4, 2019) was an American author with over 50 books to his credit. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He spent 10 years as an editor at Life . He was the grandson of Wilbur Lucius Cross .
Wilbur Cross High School is a four-year public high school in the East Rock neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, United States, serving ninth through twelfth grades. The school is named after Connecticut Governor Wilbur Lucius Cross and is the largest school in the New Haven Public Schools in the number of students as well as teachers.
Wilbur Cross may refer to: People: Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862–1948), American critic, academic, and politician; Wilbur Cross (author) (1918–2019), American book author; Connecticut memorials to Wilbur L. Cross: The Wilbur Cross, or Wilbur Cross Parkway, Fairfield and New Haven counties; Wilbur Cross, Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven
Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (born November 28, 1937) is an American businessman who served as the 39th United States Secretary of Commerce from 2017 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party , Ross was previously chairman and chief executive officer of WL Ross & Co from 2000 to 2017.
While at Wilbur Cross High School, Williamson played on the Connecticut state champion teams of 1966–67 and 1967–68. In the 1968 title game, Cross won over Bridgeport Central, 123–82. Williamson's teammates, Alex Scott (24 points), and Clint Davis (40 points) led the way in the romp for Cross's third consecutive title.
Soon after settling in Middletown, Snow became involved in local Democratic Party politics and eventually state politics as an ally of Governor Wilbur Cross, retired Dean of Yale University. In 1944 there was a move to nominate Snow for governor, but it came apart at the convention, and he was nominated for lieutenant governor on a ticket ...