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Distinct Ancestry Among New England Senators and Wives
A lengthy feature profiles Rhode Island Senator Colt and New Hampshire Senator Hollis, detailing ancestral lineages, prominent relatives, marriages, and civic roles. It notes Colt’s New York and Connecticut roots and his legal career, and Hollis’s New Hampshire lineage, Harvard education, and political rise. Also highlighted are the wives’ backgrounds, charitable works, and family ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodes
Crner
Celt
Birs
Auite
Bellevue
Jit
Guy Carlton Ledyard
Newburgh
Ledyard
Branfield
Connecticut Historical Society
Groton
Senator Colt
New England
William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Surg
Francis le Baron
Jane Austin
Connecticut
John Colt
de Wolfs
de Wolf
James de Wolf
United States Senate
Federal Congress
Samuel Colt
Colt
Rhode Island
Senate
Christopher and
Theodora de Wolf G. Coll
Dedham
Mass
Hartford, Conn
Williston Seminary
Yale
Columbia
Psi Cpsilon
Skull and Bones
New Hampshire
Henry French Hollis
Senator Hollis
John
Hollis
Weymouth
Edward French
Old England
Richardson
New Hampshire Supreme Coutt
Judge French
Abijah Hollis
West Concord
Massachusetts
Harriette van Mater French
Henry Flagg French
Grant
Daniel Chester French
Allen
New
Mampshire
Concord
Denver
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway
San Francisco
Harvard
Foster & Sargent