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A List of Some Suggested "How-to" Books for Family History
A List of Some Suggested "How-to" Books for Family History
Beard, Timothy Field with Denise Demong. How to Find Your Family Roots. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1977 [CSL call number CS 16 .B35]. This volume is very extensive. It includes sections on genealogy for different ethnic groups, a listing oftlg s...
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Connecticut Patents
Lowell Weicker
Governor of Connecticut, 1991-1995
Born: May 16, 1931, Paris, France
College: Yale University, 1953, University of Virginia Law School, 1958
Political Party: A Connecticut Party. Republican prior to 1990
Offices: Connecticut General Assembly, House, 1963-1969 (R); First Selectman, Greenwich, 1964-1968 (R); U.S. Congress, 1969-1971 (R); U.S. Senate, 1971-1989 (R); Govern...
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William Atchison O’Neill
Governor of Connecticut, 1980-1991
Born: August 11, 1930, Hartford, Connecticut
College: New Britain Teacher's College and the University of Hartford
Honorary degree, University of Hartford
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: Connecticut General Assembly, House, 1967-1978
Lt. Governor of Connecticut, 1979-1980
Governor of Connecticut, 1980-1991
Died: November 24, 2007
W...
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Ella Giovanna Oliva (Tambussi) Grasso
Governor of Connecticut, 1975-1980
Born: May 10, 1919, Windsor Locks, Connecticut
College: Mount Holyoke College, 1940; Master of Arts, 1942
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: Connecticut House of Representatives, 1952-1957
Connecticut Secretary of the State, 1959-1971
U.S. Congress, 1971-1975
Governor of Connecticut, 1975-1980
Died: February 5, 1981, Hartford, Connecticut
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Robert Augustine Hurley
Governor of Connecticut, 1941-1943
Born: August 25, 1895, Bridgeport, Connecticut
College: Lehigh University
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: Governor of Connecticut, 1941-1943
Died: May 3, 1968, West Hartford, Connecticut
The election of Robert Hurley marked the first time that Connecticut placed a Catholic into the office of governor. It had taken just over 300 years for t...
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Raymond Earl Baldwin
Governor of Connecticut, 1939-1941, 1943-1946
Born: August 31, 1893, Rye, New York
College: Wesleyan University, 1916; Yale Law School, 1921
Political Party: Republican
Offices: Stratford Town Court, Prosecutor, 1927-1930
Stratford Town Court, Judge, 1931-1933
Connecticut General Assembly, House, 1930-1935
Governor of Connecticut, 1939-1941, 1943-1946
US Senate, 1946-1949
Assoc...
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Wilbur Lucius Cross
Governor of Connecticut, 1931-1939
Born: April 10, 1862, Mansfield, Connecticut
College: Yale, 1885; Yale Ph.D., 1889
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: Governor of Connecticut, 1931-1939
Died: October 5, 1948, New Haven, Connecticut
The Republicans’ hold on the office of governor in Connecticut came to an end in 1931 when Wilbur Cross was inaugurated. Cross seemed t...
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