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e. Stephen Dodd Collection of Manuscripts relating
to the Early History of East Haven;
f. Enfield Shaker Collection;
g. Sylvester Gilbert Collection of Papers relating
to the American Revolution;
h. Charles Hammond and H. M. Lawson Collections
of Manuscripts relating to the Early His-
tory of the Town of Union
i. Col. Edwin D. Judd Collection of Civil War
Military Rolls and Papers.
j. Dwight C. Kilbourn Collection of Books,
Pamphlets and Manuscripts relating to Connecticut
and New England;
k. Ellen D. Larned Collection of Books and
Manuscripts relating to New England
1. Daniel N. Morgan Historical Collection, including
table on which Emancipation Proclamation
was signed;
m. Deacon Lewis M. Norton Collection of Manuscripts
relating to the Town of Goshen;
n. Orville H. Piatt Collection relating to Finance,
Indians, and Insular Affairs;
o. Capt. John Pratt Collection of Military
Papers, 1778- 1824;
p. Major E. V. Preston Collection
War Military Rolls and Papers ;
q. Col. Daniel Putnam Letters
r. Governor Trumbull Manuscripts
of Civil
s. Gideon and Thaddeus Welles Collection of
American Newspapers from 1820 to 1840, approximately;
t. Charles T. Wells Collection of Books relating
to New England;
u. Robert C. Winthrop Collection of Manuscripts
relating to early Connecticut;
v. Samuel Wyllys Collection of Manuscripts
relating to Witchcraft and Other Crimes in Early
Connecticut.
Mr. Godard has been active in State
and National organizations interested in
the several lines of activities connected
with the Connecticut State Library.
Among these may be mentioned the National
Association of State Libraries and
the American Association of Law Libra-
rians, both of which he has been president,
and the American Library Association and
American Historical Association, in both
of which he is serving on important com-
mittees. Among the more important
committees with which he is connected
should be mentioned the Joint Committee
of Law and State Librarians upon a Na-
tional Legislative Reference Service of
which he has been chairman since 1909,
the Public Affairs Information Service,
the Law Library Journal and the Index
to legal Periodicals, and the committee on
Public Documents and Public Archives.
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Mr. Godard is an active member of the
Connecticut Historical Society, vice-president
from Connecticut of the New
England Historic-Genealogical Society,
Boston, fellow of the American Library
Institute ; historian of the Connecticut
Society of Founders and Patriots of
America ; member of the Wesleyan Uni-
versity Alumni Council ; editor of the
Connecticut State Records ; trustee of the
Wilbraham Academy. He is also in
charge of Connecticut State Military
Census, and Custodian of the Connecti-
cut State Library and Supreme Court
Building. As a member of the Center
Congregational Church, the University
Club, the City Club, the Twentieth Cen-
tury Club, and the several Masonic bodies
he is vitally interested in their work.
On June 23, 1897, Mr. Godard married
Kate Estelle Dewey, daughter of Watson
and Ellen Bebe Dewey. They have three
children : George Dewey, born August
8, 1899, a senior in the Hartford public
High School ; Paul Beach, born February
17, 1901, a junior in Wilbraham Academy
; and Mary Katharine, born October
3, 1903, who is a senior in the Northwest
Grammar School.
HUBBARD, Albert George,
Contractor, Builder.
One of the self-made men now residing
in Wethersfield, Mr. Hubbard has ad-
vanced from small beginnings to a posi-
tion of strength and importance through
his own energy, industrious application
and business facilities. He was born
May 7, 1886, in Southington, Connec-
ticut, a son of Henry and Harriett
(Spencer) Hubbard, grandson of Hiram
Hubbard. Henry Hubbard was a farmer,
employed in various sections of the State,
was a soldier of the Civil War, a member
of Company I, Seventh Connecticut Vol-