Hon. Francis Gillette, US Senator

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Francis Gillette

Citation:
Meriden Daily Republican - 1879-10-01
Text: ... ol llon. (Jillette. Hon. Francis Gillette of Hartford died nt his residence in that cily, ou Tuesday, Sunt. 30th, at thc ago of years. He had heen falling for two or three vears, but his death ...
Publication title: Meriden Daily Republican
Residence: Hartford
Publication place: West Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut, United States
Date: Oct 1 1879

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Source: Record added: Oct 11, 2002 Find A Grave Memorial# 6845744

US Senator. Elected as a Senator from Connecticut to the United States Senate, serving from 1854 to 1855. His wife was: Eliza Daggett Hooker. They married on Sept. 10, 1834.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Francis Gillette (December 14, 1807 – September 30, 1879) was a politician from Connecticut, USA. He was the father of actor and playwright William Gillette and politician and editor Edward H. Gillette.

Francis Gillette (December 14, 1807 – September 30, 1879) was a politician from Connecticut, USA. He was the father of actor and playwright William Gillette and politician and editor Edward H. Gillette.

Gillette was born in Old Windsor, Connecticut (today part of the town of Bloomfield), Gillette moved with his parents, Rev. Ashbel and Achsah Francis, to Ashfield, Massachusetts as a child. He graduated from Yale College in 1829 and commenced the study of law, but his health becoming impaired, he instead engaged in agricultural pursuits in Bloomfield.

He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1832, 1836 and 1838 and was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Connecticut in 1842, losing to Chauncey F. Cleveland, and nine times subsequently.

Gillette served as chairman of the Connecticut Board of Education from 1849 to 1865 and moved to Hartford, Connecticut in 1852 and later developed the neighborhood, "Nook Farm" with his brother-in-law, John Hooker.

He was elected a Free Soiler to the United States Senate in 1854 to fill a vacancy and served until the end of the term in 1855, not being a candidate for reelection. Afterwards, Gillette became a lecturer on agriculture and temperance and was a trustee of the Connecticut State Normal School, also serving as its president for many years.

He aided in the formation of the Republican Party in Connecticut and for several years was a silent partner in the Evening Press, the organ of the party.

He engaged in the real estate business in Hartford, Connecticut until his death there on September 30, 1879. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery in Farmington, Connecticut.

The Francis Gillette House in Bloomfield, Connecticut, his home in early years of his antislavery involvement, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

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GILLETTE, Francis, (father of Edward Hooker Gillette), a Senator from Connecticut; born in that portion of Old Windsor now included in the town of Bloomfield, Hartford County, Conn., December 14, 1807; moved with his parents to Ashfield, Mass.; graduated from Yale College in 1829; commenced the study of law, but his health becoming impaired he engaged in agricultural pursuits in Bloomfield; member, State house of representatives 1832, 1836, 1838; unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1841 and several times subsequently; chairman of the board of education of Connecticut 1849-1865; moved to Hartford in 1852; elected as a Free Soil candidate to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Truman Smith and served from May 24, 1854, to March 3, 1855; was not a candidate for reelection in 1854; lecturer on agriculture and temperance; trustee of the State normal school and served as its president for many years; aided in the formation of the Republican Party in Connecticut and for several years was a silent partner in the Evening Press, the organ of that party; engaged in the real estate business in Hartford, Conn.; died in Hartford, Conn., on September 30, 1879; interment in Riverside Cemetery, Farmington, Conn.

Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography; Gillette, Francis. A Review of the Rev. Horace Bushnell’s Discourse on the Slavery Question. Hartford: S.S. Cowles, 1839.

Link:http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000204

Link:http://www.ct.gov/sots/cwp/view.asp?a=3188&q=392312

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Bibliographic information:

• Barber genealogy (in two sections) Section I. Descendants of Thomas Barber of Windsor, Conn. 1614-1909. Section II. Descandants of John Barber of Worcester, Mass. 1714-1909
• by Wilson, Lillian Mae; Barbour, Edmund Dana, b. 1841
• Publication date 1909
• Publisher Haverhill, Mass., Press of the Nichols print.
• Contributor The Library of Congress
• Possible copyright status The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright restrictions for this item.
• Pages 912
• https://archive.org/details/barbergenealogyi00wils/page/129/mode/1up

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Bibliographic information:

• A History of the Doggett-Daggett Family
• by Doggett, Samuel Bradlee, 1858-
• Publication date 1894
• Publisher Boston : Press of Rockwell and Churchill
• Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• Copyright-evidence Evidence reported by CallieLamkin for item historyofdoggett00indogg on September 4, 2008: no visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1894.
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Pages 804
• https://archive.org/details/historyofdoggett00indogg/page/141/mode/1up

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Bibliographic information:

• The descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908 : being an account of what is known of Rev. Thomas Hooker's family in England : and more particularly concerning himself and his influence upon the early history of our country : also all items of interest which it has been possible to gather concerning the early generations of Hookers and their descendants in America
• by Hooker, Edward
• Publication date 1909
• Publisher Rochester, N.Y. : Margaret Huntington Hooker
• Book from the collections of Harvard University
• Pages 612
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• https://archive.org/details/descendantsrevt00hookgoog/page/38/mode/1up

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Curator's Note: The following information appears to reference a different Francis Gillette, as there is no evidence Sen. Gillette ever lived in New York. -- Jessica Marie German

Note: The town of Gillett, Ark. is named after Francis Gillett:

Instead the post office and the eventually the town came to be named Gillett after Francis Gillett of New York City, a underwriter for the railroad who visited the town in 1892.

Link:http://local.arkansas.gov/local.php?agency=Gillett

Info compiled by D. Glenn

Book by Sen. Gillette: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murb003-i138

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