The Rt. Reverend Thomas Church Brownell, presiding Episcopal Bishop of the United States and founder of Trinity College;

Isabella Beecher Hooker, half-sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and19th century leader of the women's movement;

Hartford dentist and discoverer of anesthesia, Dr. Horace Wells;

Internationally-acclaimed poet Wallace Stevens;

The world-famous financier and philanthropist J. P. Morgan;

Yung Wing, Chinese scholar, Yale graduate and founder in 1872 of Hartford's progressive and innovative Chinese Educational Commission School.  Although Chinese conservatives abruptly terminated the Commission in 1881, the nine years the Chinese scholars studied in Hartford gave China her first generation of the 20th century railroad builders, engineers, medical doctors, naval admirals and diplomats;

and the incomparable Katharine Hepburn. 

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