All posts tagged "new haven connecticut"
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9.9K6Religion and Social Movements The Great Connecticut Polygamy Crisis of 1903
By 1903, New Haven Congregational minister Henry Learned Hutchins had spent years traveling about Connecticut on behalf of the Connecticut Bible Society,...
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4.4K1ConnecticutThe Murder of Frank Sokolowsky – ‘For I Could Not Live Without Him…’
On the night of June 26, 1920, Frank Sokolowsky cried out in the street near his home on Beers Street in New...
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5.2K10ConnecticutSergeant Stubby – Connecticut’s Most Famous World War I Hero
Connecticut produced no more famous veteran of World War I than Sergeant Stubby. A Staffordshire terrier mix, he started out life a...
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6.1K4Crime and ScandalJennie Cramer – New Haven’s “Beautiful Victim” of 1881
Jennie Cramer and her mother Christina had an awful fight on Thursday, August 4, 1881. Jennie and her friend Blanche Douglass had...
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3.2K6ConnecticutJohn Bernard Learns About The Connecticut Blue Laws
Of all the curious customs of New England that entertained John Bernard during his travels in America from 1797 to 1811, the...
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6.5K4Business and LaborHold Please: George Coy Launched the First Commercial Telephone Exchange
In January of 1878, George Coy of New Haven, Connecticut gave birth to a new American tradition – the wrong number. Butt...
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4.8K2ConnecticutSimeon Jocelyn and The Great New Haven College That Never Was
In 1831, Simeon Jocelyn thought New Haven would be the perfect place to start a college for educating negroes. New Haven disagreed....
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