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Bacon, Leonard

(Encyclopedia) Bacon, Leonard, 1802–81, American Congregational minister, b. Detroit, Mich. He served for 41 years as pastor of the First Church of New Haven, one of the leading Congregational…

Guilford

(Encyclopedia) Guilford Guilford gĭlˈfərd [key], town (2020 pop. 22,073), New Haven co., S Conn., on Long Island…

Haberle, John

(Encyclopedia) Haberle, JohnHaberle, Johnhăbˈərlēˌ [key], 1856–1933, American painter, b. New Haven, Conn. Noted for his photographically precise still-life paintings, Haberle is often compared in…

Naugatuck, city, United States

(Encyclopedia) NaugatuckNaugatucknôgˈətŭkˌ [key], industrial borough (1990 pop. 30,625), New Haven co., SW Conn., on both sides of the Naugatuck River; settled 1704, inc. 1844. In 1843, Charles…

New England Confederation

(Encyclopedia) New England Confederation, union for “mutual safety and welfare” formed in 1643 by representatives of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. They met…

Baldwin, Simeon Eben

(Encyclopedia) Baldwin, Simeon Eben, 1840–1927, American jurist and politician, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale, 1861. He taught at Yale from 1869 to 1919, serving as a professor of law after 1872.…

Wallingford

(Encyclopedia) Wallingford, town (1990 pop. 40,822), New Haven co., S Conn.; inc. 1670. Its silverware industry dates from c.1835. Fruit growing and the manufacture of plastics, steel, precision…

Long Island Sound

(Encyclopedia) Long Island Sound, arm of the Atlantic Ocean, c.90 mi (145 km) long and 3–20 mi (5–32 km) wide, separating Long Island, N.Y., from the SE New York mainland and Connecticut. On the W…

Milford

(Encyclopedia) Milford. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 49,938), New Haven co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound; settled 1639, inc. as a city 1959. Oysters and clams are gathered there for commercial…

Davis, Alexander Jackson

(Encyclopedia) Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, American architect, b. New York City. He was the partner of Ithiel Town of New Haven, with whom he designed many important buildings in both the…