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ford, the University, and the Twentieth
Century Clubs of that city, as well as
the Yale Club of New York, the
Graduates Club of New Haven, and the
Yale Alumni Association. During his
college course he was a member of the
Psi Upsilon fraternity. In the year 1907
he received the degree of Master of Arts
from Yale University, and for eighteen
months taught surgery in the Yale Medi-
cal School.
On February 8, 1881, he was married
to Aletha Lindsley, of Branford, a daugh-
ter of David and Aletha Lindsley, of that
place. To Dr. and Mrs. McKnight a
daughter, Rachel, was born August 9,
1889. Dr. McKnight died suddenly from
angina pectoris on December 25, 1917.
GILLETTE, Charles Stanton,
Financier, Honored Citizen.
The family of Gillette has been long
identified with bankers and banking, and
Charles S. Gillette was widely known and
respected as a sound and successful business
man.
His family is an old one in Connecticut
and the name has been spelled through
many generations, Gillett, but in later
times another letter has been added. The
name was taken from France to England
whence it came to this country. The
pioneer in this country was Jonathan
Gillett, who was one of a company of one
hundred and forty Puritans who came
from the counties of Devon, Dorset and
Somerset, England. They sailed with the
Rev. John Warham and Rev. John Maverick,
as pastors, in the ship, "Mary and
John/' March 20, 1630, and arrived off
Nantasket, May 30th following. They
settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
where Jonathan Gillett was admitted freeman,
May 6, 1635, ar>d was granted vari-
ous lands and privileges in that town.
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY
He accompanied Rev. John Warham and
his associates to Windsor, Connecticut,
about 1636, and had a lot seventeen rods
wide near that of the pastor and opposite
Alexander Alvord's. Thirty-seven years
after the settlement, Matthew Grant
made a list of the twenty-one members
who came with Mr. Warham from Dorset
and were still residents of Windsor, and
this list included the names of Jonathan
and his wife, Mary. Having paid six
shillings for the privilege, they were per-
mitted to sit in the long seats in church.
Jonathan Gillett was one of the com-
mittee of distribution and contributed four
and one-half shillings to the fund in aid
of sufferers from the Indians at Simsbury
and Springfield. He died August
23, 1677, and was survived more than
seven years by his wife, who passed away
January 5, 1685.
Their second son, Jonathan Gillett,
born 1634-35, in Windsor, resided in that
part of the town which was later Simsbury.
He was a farmer and purchased
the farm formerly owned by Joseph
Phelps. In 1676 he contributed one
shilling and three-pence to the fund for
the relief of the poor in other colonies.
He married, December 14, 1676, Miriam
Dibble, who was born February 19, 1645,
second daughter of Thomas Dibble, who
was a pioneer in the settlement of Dor-
chester and Windsor, and a member of
the church in both towns.
Thomas Gillett, third son of Jonathan
Gillett, and eldest child of his second wife,
Miriam (Dibble) Gillett, was born May
31, 1678. and died June II, 1708. He
married, February 26, 1704, Hannah
Clark, born August 15, 1686, and died
February 20, 1709, the daughter of John
and Mary (Crow) Clark, and grand-
daughter of Daniel Clark, born about
1622, an early settler of Windsor, where
he filled many offices. He was admitted