- John Hartford
John Cowan Hartford (December 30 1937- June 4 2001) was an American folk, country and bluegrass composer and musician known for his mastery of the fiddle and banjo, as well as for his witty lyrics, unique vocal style, and extensive knowledge of Mississippi River lore. Hartford performed with a variety of ensembles throughout his career, and is perhaps best known for his solo performances where he would interchange the guitar, banjo, and fiddle from song to song. - Asa Hartford
Richard 'Asa' Hartford (born in Clydebank, Scotland on 24 October 1950) was a Scottish international midfielder and talented footballer who became famous for failing a medical examination due to the discovery of a heart condition which put paid to a high profile transfer to Leeds United in November 1971. - Huntington Hartford
George Huntington Hartford II (born April 18, 1911) is an heir to the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company fortune. His grandfather George Huntington Hartford and his uncles John Hartford and George L. Hartford privately owned the A&P Supermarket, which at one point had 16,000 stores in the US. and was the largest retail empire in the world. When his uncles died they had no heirs so he inherited their fortune. - George Huntington Hartford
George Huntington Hartford founded The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company in 1859 with George Gilman in Elmira, New York. He was born in Augusta, Maine. His sons George and John were on the cover of "Time" magazine in November 1950. The magazine wrote that next to General Motors, the A&P sold more goods than any other company in the world and had close to 16,000 stores in the USA. - Eden Hartford
Eden Hartford (April 10, 1930 in Utah - December 15, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was a movie actress, the sister of actress Dee Hartford, and was married to Groucho Marx from 1954 to 1969. - Jake Hartford
Jake Hartford is a radio talk show host on WLS-AM 890 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Some have called his irreverent style "quirky yet refreshing." Jake is most infamous for giving callers the wrong instructions to change their clocks during Daylight Savings Time shifts. Every May he conducts the annual "Gizzy Awards," honoring the most popular Chicago television news personalities. The award is named after former Chicago newscaster Giselle Fernández. - Dee Hartford
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John Williams (1817-99) was an American bishop of the Episcopal church. He was born at Deerfield, Mass., and educated at Harvard and at Trinity College, Hartford, where he graduated in 1835. He was ordained in 1841, and held the rectorship of St. George's Church, Schenectady, N. Y., from 1842 to 1848, after which he became president of Trinity College, and at the same time professor of history and literature. In 1851 he was elected Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, … - John Russell
John Russell (1626 - December 10, 1692) was a Puritan minister in Hadley, Massachusetts during King Philip's War. As such, he is part of the Angel of Hadley legend. John Russell graduated from Harvard in 1645. In 1650 he succeeded Henry Smith as the minister at Wethersfield, Connecticut. Seven years later controversy erupted over church membership, discipline, and baptism, … - Dave Blaney
Dave Blaney (born October 24, 1962) in Hartford, Ohio, United States is a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver. He currently pilots the #22 Caterpillar Toyota Camry for Bill Davis Racing. Blaney is most famous for his sprint car exploits as well as other success on dirt tracks. For many years, he was a regular in the Syracuse Nationals in Syracuse, New York, although he never won that event. He owns Sharon Speedway (named after nearby Sharon, Pennsylvania) in Hartford. - Marcus Camby
Marcus D. Camby (born March 22, 1974 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays center for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA. He won the 2006-07 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award while leading the league in blocked shots. His NCAA record at UMass was outstanding, earning him a Player of the Year award for 1995-1996. Marcus wore number 21 at UMass, a number formerly belonging to G. Sean Nelen. - Sol Lewitt
Sol LeWitt (September 9, 1928 - April 8, 2007) was an American artist linked to various movements including conceptual art and minimalism. His media were predominantly painting, drawing, and structures (a term he preferred in opposition to sculpture). He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide since 1965. His prolific two and three-dimensional work ranges from "Wall Drawings", over 1200 of which have been executed, … - Aaron Ward
Rear Admiral Aaron Ward (10 October 1851 - 5 July 1918) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ward graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1871. He was ordered to California on the Pacific Station. He next served in "Brooklyn" in the West Indies from 1873 to 1874, before reporting to "Franklin" on the European Station. - James Hughes
James J. Hughes Ph.D. is a bioethicist and sociologist teaching health policy at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Hughes holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago, where he served as the assistant director of research for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. - Thomas Cole
Thomas Cole (February 1, 1801 - February 11, 1848) was a nineteenth century American artist; he is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century and was concerned with the realistic and detailed portrayal of nature. - Paul Doyle
Paul R. Doyle is an American politician. Doyle, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 2007. Doyle, a resident of Wethersfield, represents the southern suburbs of Hartford in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Cromwell, Middletown, Newington, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield. Doyle was born in Hartford and received a B.A. in History from Colby College and his J.D. from the University of Connecticut. - John Carney
John Michael Carney (born April 20, 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American football placekicker. - Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles (July 1, 1802 - February 11, 1878) was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1861 to 1869. His buildup of the Navy to successfully execute blockades of Southern ports was a key component of Northern victory of the Civil War. Welles was also instrumental in the Navy's creation of the Medal of Honor. Born in Glastonbury, Connecticut, Welles earned a degree at Norwich University. He became a lawyer through the then-common practice of reading the law, … - Dwight Freeney
Dwight Jason Freeney (born February 19, 1980 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American football player who currently plays defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts. - George Nelson
George Nelson (1908-1986) was, together with Charles & Ray Eames, one of the founding fathers of American modernism. George Nelson was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1908. He died in New York City in 1986. George Nelson studied Architecture at Yale University, where he graduated in 1928. He also received a bachelor degree in fine arts in 1931. A year later while preparing for the Paris Prize competition he won the Rome prize. - Doug Wimbish
Doug Wimbish (born September 22, 1956) is a bass player, primarily known for his studio work for the rap/hip hop label Sugarhill Records and his membership of the band Living Colour. He has played for a vast range of artists, among which Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger, Madonna, George Clinton, Depeche Mode, and Mos Def. Wimbish is considered to be a pioneer in hip hop bass playing and in the use of effects with bass playing. - John Fiske
John Fiske (1842 - 1901), born Edmund Fisk Green, was an American philosopher and historian. He was born at Hartford, Conn., March 30, 1842. On the second marriage of his mother (1855) he assumed the name of his maternal great-grandfather, John Fiske. As a child, he exhibited remarkable precocity. He graduated from Harvard College in 1863 and at the Harvard Law School in 1865. He practiced as a lawyer for a brief interval, … - Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated, six-time Emmy Award-winning American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Lt. Columbo in the television series "Columbo". Falk's unusual gaze is due to a glass eye that he has had for most of his life. - Henry J. Mansell
Most Rev. Henry J. Mansell was the 12th Bishop of Buffalo, New York. Mansell was Bishop of Buffalo from 1995 to 2003. He is currently the fourth Archbishop of Hartford, Connecticut. - Horace Wells
Horace Wells was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Born in Vermont, Wells was educated in Walpole, New Hampshire before studying dentistry in Boston. After obtaining a degree, Wells set up a practice in Hartford, Connecticut, with an associate named William T.G. Morton, who would become famous for his use of ether as an anesthesia on October 18, 1846. - Mary McCormack
Mary Catherine McCormack (born February 8, 1969) is an American television and film actress. - Robert Horry
Robert Horry (born August 25, 1970 in Harford County, Maryland) is an American National Basketball Association basketball player. He currently plays for the San Antonio Spurs, and has won seven NBA Championships in his career. He is most notable as a clutch playoff shooter, carrying the nickname "Big Shot Rob". He has won seven NBA champions so far during his career: two with the Houston Rockets, three with the Los Angeles Lakers and two with the San Antonio Spurs. - William Gillette
William Hooker Gillette ("b." July 24, 1853, Hartford, Connecticut; "d." April 29, 1937, Hartford, Connecticut) was an American actor, playwright and stage-manager. Gillette was a major stage actor in the United States in the early twentieth century. While he was not the first actor to portray Sherlock Holmes, he became best known for that role until his retirement in 1932. - Bill Rodgers
William ("Bill") Henry Rodgers (b. December 23, 1947 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American runner and former American record holder in the marathon who is best known for his victories in the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon in the late 1970s. Rodgers won both races four times each between 1975 and 1980, twice breaking the American record at Boston with a time of 2:09:55 in 1975 and a 2:09:27 in 1979. - Theodore Dwight
Theodore Dwight was an American lawyer and journalist. He was the brother of Timothy Dwight, president of Yale, and the grandson of Jonathan Edwards. He was a distinguished lawyer, a leader of the Federalist Party, and a member of Congress in 1806 – 1807, and was secretary of the Hartford Convention in 1814. His talent as a writer made him a brilliant editor at the Hartford "Mirror", the Albany "Daily Advertiser", … - Philip-Lorca Dicorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia (b. Hartford, Connecticut 1953) is an American artist photographer. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where he earned a Diploma in 1975 and a 5th year certificate in 1976. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in Photography in 1979. Much of diCorcia's work has the appearance of documentary photography but is actually choreographed and often elaborately lit. - Craig Janney
Craig Janney (born September 26, 1967 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Enfield, Connecticut) was a professional ice hockey center who played twelve seasons in the National Hockey League from 1987-88 until 1998-99. Janney played for the Boston College Eagles during his collegiate years. Janney was drafted in the first round, 13th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft. - Joey Reynolds
Joey Reynolds is the pseudonym of Joey Pinto, host of the U.S. radio program "The Joey Reynolds Show" via the WOR Radio Network. Reynolds' broadcasting career began at radio station WKWK in Wheeling, West Virginia and continued at several venerable stations, including WKBW in Buffalo, New York, WHTZ and WNBC in New York City, KQV in Pittsburgh, KMPC and KRTH in Los Angeles, WDRC in Hartford, WIXY in Cleveland, and WIBG and WFIL in Philadelphia. - Bob Ferguson
Robert Vavasour Ferguson, nicknamed "Death to Flying Things," was an American infielder and manager in the early days of baseball, playing both before and after baseball became professional. A native of Brooklyn, New York, Ferguson played for two of New York's most fabled semi-professional clubs in the early 1870s: the New York Mutuals and the Brooklyn Atlantics. He was a key participant in the NL's inaugural 1876 season as player-manager of the Hartford club, … - Mark McGrath
Mark Sayers McGrath (born March 15, 1968) is the lead singer of rock band Sugar Ray. He currently hosts the television tabloid "Extra". He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, but grew up in California. He graduated from Corona del Mar High School and then majored in Business Communication at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles. He worked as a truck driver before making his success in music. - Samuel Stone
Samuel Stone (July 18, 1602 - 20 July 1663) was a Puritan Minister. Stone was born in Hertford, England. He was ordained on July 8, 1626 at Peterborough and a year later became curate at Sisted, Essex. He arrived in Boston in 1633, with his friend, Thomas Hooker. In 1636, Stone and Hooker led their congregation from New Towne (now Cambridge, Massachusetts) and established a new colony at House of Hope (a Dutch fort and trading post), … - John Lawson
John Lawson was a United States Navy sailor and a recipient of America's highest military decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in the American Civil War. During the Battle of Mobile Bay, while serving as a member of USS "Hartford"'s berth deck ammunition party, he was seriously wounded but remained at his post and continued to supply "Hartford" 's guns. - John Fonfara
John W. Fonfara is an American politician. Fonfara, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1997. Fonfara, a resident of Hartford, represents Hartford and Wethersfield in the Connecticut Senate. Prior to being elected to the senate, he served in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Fonfara was born and raised in Hartford, attended the public schools, graduated with a B.A. in political science from the University of Connecticut, … - Joseph Trumbull
Joseph Trumbull (December 7, 1782-August 4, 1861) was a U.S. lawyer, banker, and politician from Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the U.S. Congress and served as Governor. Joseph was born to David Trumbull in Lebanon, Connecticut, and was the grandson of Jonathan Trumbull. He graduated from Yale in 1801, after which he read for the law. He was admitted to the bar in 1803 and established his practice at Hartford. - John Geoghan
John J. Geoghan (c. 1935 - August 23, 2003) was a key figure in the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases that rocked the Boston Archdiocese in the 1990s and 2000s, and eventually led to the resignation of Bernard Francis Law on December 13, 2002.
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