Crowbar Governor: The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley

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INdex Aa abolitionist movement, 27 A. & C. Day Dry Goods, 146 Adams, Judge Sherman W., 98 Aetna Bank, 41 Aetna Fire Insurance, 13–18, 41, 42, 87, 194 Aetna Life Insurance: accident insurance, 143; advances funds to state, 124; Aetna Life Men’s Club, 155–56; Annuity Fund, 17; automobile insurance, 143, 186; biggest shareholders (1887), 191; directors, 52, 77; financial performance , 1, 40–41, 72, 162, 195; fourstory addition (1913–14), 143; health insurance, 143; insurance in force falls, 43; insuring slaves, 18; liability insurance , 143; Liberty Loan drive, 190; mortgage of Charter Oak bldg., 102–3; nepotism, 119, 195; remodeling of building (1904), 143; sells bank stocks, 184; shareholders, 40, 194; stock, 42; World War I Liberty Loans, 190 A√leck, George, 45–46 Alaska, SS, 87, 112 Aldrich, Abby. See Mrs. John D. Rockefeller , Jr. Aldrich, Senator Nelson, 167, 179 Allen, Postmaster George, 177 Allyn House, 71, 76, 94, 175, 191 Allyn, Mayor Timothy, 100 American Hall, 48 American Electric & Illuminating Co., 95 American Lighting Company, 76 American (Know-Nothing) Party, 65 American Theatre, 76 Andrews, Charles B., 129, 140 Anglesey (Wales), 7 Arkwright Club of Boston, 74 Arlington Hotel (D.C.), 113, 164 Armstrong Committee, 170 Asylum Hill Congregational Church, 165 ‘‘Athens of the Pacific, the,’’ 85 Aunt Eunie. See Morgan, Eunice Automobile Club of Hartford, 175 Bacon Academy, 9, 20, 116 Bacon, Pierpont, 20 Baldwin, Governor Raymond, 97 Baldwin, Judge Simeon, 182–84 Balsdon, Capt. Henry, 31 Barbour, Joseph L., 55 Barbour, Lucius, 97, 110, 113, 117, 155, 173 Baseball Hall of Fame. See National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Batterson, James G., 71, 128, 137–40 Battery Garesche, 36 Battle Flag Day, 51, 70 Beach, Mr. & Mrs. T. Belknap, 186 Beacon, Calion (Adolph Bikjend), 152 Beaumaris, 1, 4, 5, 7; constructed, 155; electricity, 1; plumbing, 1. See also Becker, Willis Becker, Willis, 1, 154 Beecher, Rev. Henry Ward, 26, 39 ≤∏≠ i n d e x Beecher, 2nd Lieutenant H. B., 34 Beers, Henry S., 195 Bennett & Goodwin, 181 Bigelow, Governor Hobart, 75, 78, 80 Billings & Spenser, 60, 109 Birdsall, Judge Daniel C., 106–8 Bissell, Col. George, 97 Bissell, H. & S., 146 Bissell, Hiram, 65, 146 ‘‘black ballots,’’ 81 Black Friday, 150 Blizzard of ’88, 99 Bohemian Girl, The, 94 Bond, Tommy, 58 Bosworth, Fred, 180 Bowen, Henry C., 117–18 Brace, Thomas, 16–17, 40 Brainard, Austin, 108 Brainard, Leverett, 2, 42, 61, 112, 118, 145–46 Brainard, Lucy, 2, 152 Brainard, Mary, 2, 11, 43, 72, 91, 146, 148, 158, 187–88, 191–92 Brainard, Morgan B., 2, 6, 158, 173, 191, 195 Brainard, Newton, 2, 158, 192 Brandegee, Augustus, 177 Brandegee, Frank, 163, 166, 170, 177, 181 bribery statute, 52 Brooklyn, New York: Brooklyn Armory (Cranberry Street Armory), 30, 32, 36; Brooklyn Savings Bank, 38; Brooklyn’s Well & Pump Commission, 23; Home Guard, 29; pawnbrokers, 38; politics, 54; Security Bank, 38, 44; Washington Inaugural parade viewers, 115 Brown, F. A., School. See Centre School Brown, John, 27 Brownsville Raid, 171–72, 189 Brown, Thompson & Co., 44 Bryan, William Jennings, 173 Buckingham, Governor William, 20 Bulkeley & Perkins, 13 Bulkeley Bridge. See Hartford Bridge Bulkeley, Capt. Charles E. (Charlie), 11, 16, 19–20, 36, 37, 42, 116, 161 Bulkeley, Charles, 24 Bulkeley, Charles Edwin, 8, 24 Bulkeley,ElinorH.SeeIngersoll,Mrs.Elinor Bulkeley, Eliphalet Adams, Jr., 12 Bulkeley, Emma, 36, 62, 88, 91 Bulkeley, Fannie Briggs Houghton: birthplace and childhood, 6, 85; courtship, 87–88; death of, 195; first visit to Hartford, 83–84; Governor’s Ball dress, 111; Harrison inauguration, 113; sneaked cigarettes, 91; wedding, 62; Women’s Liberty Loan Committee, 190 Bulkeley, Frank, 31–32, 68 Bulkeley, Grace Chetwood, 90 Bulkeley, Houghton, 1, 91, 160, 190, 196 Bulkeley, John Charles, 8 Bulkeley, John Taintor, 8 Bulkeley, Judge Eliphalet Adams: buys Washington Street home, 40; Connecticut Mutual, president of, 13; death of, 39, 41–42; East Haddam, 10; estate of, 42; genealogy hobby, 5; habits, 11; judge of probate, organized East Haddam Bank, 10; School Fund, assistant commissioner of, 12–13; state’s attorney for Middlesex County, 12; state House of Representatives, 12; state House of Representatives, clerk of, 12; state Senate, 12; water commissioners injunction, 52 Bulkeley, Lydia Smith Morgan, 9, 43, 87, 88, 91, 152 Bulkeley, Mary Jerusha. See Brainard, Mary Bulkeley, Mary Morgan, 11 Bulkeley, Mary Morgan (Billy’s daughter), 36, 88–89 i n d e x ≤∏∞ Bulkeley, Morgan: abolishes Hartford Bridge toll, 116, 133; action component, 50–51, 135...