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Enfield, Connecticut, in 1845, daughter
of Caleb Jones and Chloe (Wolcott) Bancroft,
her father a descendant of John
Bancroft, who came from London, England,
June 12, 1632, and settled at Lynn,
Massachusetts.
Stewart Northrop Dunning was born
at Peekskill, New York, December 7,
1876. He was brought by his parents to
Hartford when but six months of age, and
that city has continued his home to the
present time. He was educated in the
public schools of Hartford, Denver, Colo-
rado, and Windsor, Connecticut, complet-
ing his studies in Hartford High School at
the age of sixteen. At that age he secured
a position in one of the large insurance
offices of Hartford, where he remained
for four years. During this time he sup-
plemented his education by evening study
in various academic subjects and came
to a definite determination to make the
law his profession and career in life. With
this end in view he entered, at the age
of twenty, the law offices of Harrison B.
Freeman, continuing his studies until
1903, when he was admitted to the Connecticut
bar. Since that time, Mr. Dunning
has practiced his profession in Hart-
ford and has won enviable reputation as
an attorney of ability, counted as one of
the leaders of the Hartford bar. To
natural talent Mr. Dunning has added
habits of energy which, combined with
ambition, has won him success. He is
emphatically a worker and there are no
blank periods in his life.
Mr. Dunning, besides his professional
practice has large business interests and
is connected in an official capacity with
several important concerns. He is a director
of the City Bank & Trust Company,
the Northern Connecticut Light
& Power Company, the Thompsonville
Water Company, the Atlas Sand, Gravel
& Stone Company of Farmington, the
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Northern Engineering Company, the En-
field Construction Company and the In-
surance and Title Guarantee Company of
Hartford. While in no sense of the word
a politician, Mr. Dunning is keenly interested
in public affairs and is a Repub-
lican in politics. He served for five years
on the Common Council and Board of
Aldermen of Hartford and has been chairman
of the Town Plan Commission and
member of the Republican Town Com-
mittee and various other public bodies in
West Hartford. He is also a prominent
figure in the club life of the city, is a
member of Wyllys Lodge, No. 99, Ancient
Free and Accepted Masons, of West Hart-
ford, but outside of his profession he finds
his greatest pleasure in his home. He has
a small farm in West Hartford. The
family attend the First Church of Christ,
Scientist, in Hartford.
Mr. Dunning married, January 25, 1905,
Hazel C. Case, of Windsor. They are the
parents of John Stewart, born March 9,
1906; Harrison Freeman, born August 12,
1908; Richard Bancroft, born May 21,
1910; Dorothea, born August 14, 1913;
Hazel, born December 9, 1914; Diana,
born April 9, 1916.
BELDEN, Charles Rockwell,
Business Man, Public Official.
Charles Rockwell Belden was one of
the most prominent and successful men
of his day in his native city of Hartford,
Connecticut, where he was born January
24, 1850. and died March 18, 1902.
The first English ancestor of the family
of whom there is record was Walter Bayldon,
who married a daughter of Thomas
Gargrave, and their son, John Bayldon,
married (second) October 15, 1515, Mary
Copely, daughter of Edward Copely, of
Doncaster, Yorkshire. He died Decem-
ber 22, 1526. George Baildon, their third