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Title: Genealogical and family history of the state of Connecticut : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918 Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917 Talcott, Mary Kingsbury, 1847-1917 Bostwick, Frederick, b. 1852 Clement, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1843-1920 Stearns, Ezra S
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Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Publishing
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ah P. (Wilder) Robinson, was bornJune 28, 1845, and married William E. Dis-brow (see Disbrow V). Mrs. Disbrow isthe only survivor of her family. Her mo-ther died at the age of seventy-six. Her par-ents were members of the Baptist church. Morgan Gardner Bulkcley,BULKELEY president of one of the strongest insurance compa-nies in America, the Aetna Life InsuranceCompany of Flartford, ex-governor of Con-necticut, former United States Senator, bank-er, politician, orator, philanthropist and pa-triot, veteran soldier and public servant, hashad a career of such strong and varied achieve-ment that his life has been lived in the publiceye more than almost any other citizen ofConnecticut. He was born in the little villageof East Haddam. Middlesex county, Connecti-cut. December 26. 1837. His ancestors were among those men ofspirit and stability who came from Englandin early times to live the life of independenceand justice which their education and instincttaught them to crave. The name Bulkeley
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CONNECTICUT 1877 was in remote times Buclough, first known asthe name of a range of mountains in thecounty Palatine, Chester, England, whereBaron Robert Buclough was lord of the Man-or Buclough in the time of King John. In1634 the Rev. Peter Bulkeley, fellow of St.Johns College, Cambridge, silenced for non-conformity, after a ministry of twenty-oneyears, emigrated to America with a band ofadherents and settled in Concord, Massachu-setts, nis son, the Rev. Gershom Bulkeley,was graduated from Harvard College in 1655and married the daughter of PresidentCharles Chauncey, of Plarvard. GershomBulkeley was a renowned scholar and divineas well as a skillful surgeon, a brave soldier,a leading politician and a forceful contro-versialist, linguist and writer. His son, John,was the first clergxman to have a church inColchester, Connecticut. In his early boyhood, which was spent inthe village of his birth, Morgan G. Bulkeleywas vigorous, industrious and zealous in thedevelopment of both mental and

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