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• Brace, Jonathan  b. November 12, 1754  d. August 26, 1837
  US Congressman. He was elected to represent Connecticut as an At-Large delegate in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1798 to 1801. He also served as Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut in 1815. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Bushnell, Horace    b. April 14, 1802  d. February 17, 1876
  Religious Leader. Prominent 19th Century Congregationalist minister and theologian. Influenced much of the change in religious thinking in the mid-1800's by breaking with traditional Calvinist religious ministers who espoused a vengeful and dry religion aloof from the common people. Reverend Bushnell strove to include children into religious teaching, reduce the high Orthodox Christian theology to human doctrine accessible to the masses, refute the penal aspect of theology for a one of "moral...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Cogswell, Mason Fitch    b. September 28, 1760  d. December 17, 1830
  Educator. After his daughter lost her hearing at age 2, Dr. Cogswell began the process to start an educational facility for similarly handcapped people. After several years he and a group of a few others obtained state funds to send Thomas Gallaudet to Europe to study the English and French schools for the deaf. After studying at the French School of Abbe Sicord, Gallaudet returned to the U. S. with noted French educator Laurent Clerc. Together the group established the first school for the...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Connelly)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Ellsworth, William Wolcott    b. November 10, 1791  d. January 15, 1868
  US Congressman, 13th Connecticut Governor. Elected to represent Connecticut as an At-Large delegate in the House of Representatives, serving from 1829 to his resignation in 1834. Served as Governor of Connecticut from 1838 to 1842. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Goodrich, Chauncey   b. October 20, 1759  d. August 18, 1815
  US Congressman, Senator. Elected to represent CT as an at-large delegate in the House of Representatives,serving from 1795 to 1801. Elected to the US Senate from Connecticut to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Uriah Tracy, serving from 1807 to 1813. Served as Mayor of Hartford from 1812 to 1815, and as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1813 to 1815. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Niles, John Milton    b. August 20, 1787  d. May 31, 1856
  US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. Appointed, then duly elected, to serve as a Senator from Connecticut to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Nathan Smith. Served from 1835 to 1839. Appointed as United States Postmaster General in the cabinet of Martin Van Buren serving from 1840 to 1841. Again elected to the United States Senate in 1843, but a severe illness and a challenge to his credentials prevent him from actually assuming the seat until 1844. Served his second term...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Olmsted Sr., Frederick Law    b. April 26, 1822  d. August 28, 1903
  Architect, Medical Pioneer. He is considered the foremost American landscape artist of the 19th Century, and was largely responsible for the creation and present formation of New York City, New York's Central Park, of which he was Superintendent and chief architect. His landscape architectural work included Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Riverside Park in Manhattan, Chicago's South Side Park, and the grounds of the United States Capitol building. In 1892 he took over the project of laying out the...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Russ, John  b. October 29, 1767  d. June 22, 1833
  US Congressman. Elected to represent CT as an at-large delegate in the House of Representatives, serving from 1819 to 1823. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Storrs, William Lucius  b. March 25, 1795  d. June 25, 1861
  US Congressman. Represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives on two separate occasions. First elected as an At-Large delegate, serving from 1829 to 1833, then represented the 2nd District, serving from 1839 to 1840. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Terry, Nathaniel   b. January 30, 1768  d. June 14, 1844
  US Congressman. Elected to represent CT as an at-large delegate in the House of Representatives, serving from 1817 to 1819. Served as Mayor of Hartford from 1824 to 1831. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Todd, Dr. Eli    d. November 17, 1833
  Dr. Todd and several of his fellow members of the Connecticut Medical Society petitioned the state legistature for funding to establish a public faclity for the care of people with mental illnesses. Shortly after the legislature approved the funds, the Medical Society began the work to establish the Conecticut Retreat for the Insane. Now called the Institute of Living, the original hospital opened in 1824 with Dr. Todd as its first administrator. This was one of the first mental health centers...[Read More] (Bio by: Don Connelly)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Trumbull, Joseph    b. December 7, 1782  d. August 4, 1861
  US Congressman, 18th Connecticut Governor. He was elected to represent Connecticut as an At-Large delegate in the House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William W. Ellsworth, serving from 1834 to 1835. Again elected to the House of Representatives in 1839 to represent the 1st District, and served from 1839 to 1843. He then served as Governor of Connecticut from 1849 to 1850. He was the grandson of Revolutionary War Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull, the...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Wadsworth, Daniel    b. 1771  d. 1848
  Philanthropist. He funded the building of Wadsworth Atheneum, America's oldest public art museum. Patron of painter Thomas Cole and others.
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Ward, James Harmon    b. September 25, 1806  d. June 27, 1861
  Civil War Union Naval Officer. When the Civil War started, he had 39 years of experienced service in the United States Navy, having entered the service as a 17-year old midshipman in 1823. Became one of the mid-19th Century's foremost authority on naval tactics and ordnance, and wrote several influential manuals on both subjects. He was one of the driving forces in the establishment of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, and was named its executive office when the Academy opened in...[Read More] (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Cause of death: shot in the abdomen
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   
• Williams, Thomas Scott  b. June 26, 1777  d. December 15, 1861
  US Congressman. Elected to represent CT as an at-large delegate in the House of Representatives, serving from 1817 to 1819. Served as Mayor of Hartford from 1831 to 1835. (Bio by: Russ Dodge)
  Old North Cemetery, Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
   

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