More of Our Ancestors who laid a good foundation…

• Caleb Strong (1745-1819), governor of Massachusetts and one of state’s first U.S. senators
• Walter Loomis Newberry (1805-1868), merchant, banker, philanthropist, founder of the Newberry Library in Chicago
• Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), landscape architect and author, designer of Central Park in New York City
• Talcott Parsons (1902-1979), sociologist and scholar
• Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), pragmatist philosopher
• William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943), literary critic and teacher
• Philip Winston Pillsbury (1903-), president and chairman of the Board, Pillsbury (Flour) Co.
• Lowell Jackson Thomas (1892-1981), travel author and radio and television commentator
• Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of Navy under President Coolidge and chief justice of the California supreme court, and
• Ray Lyman Wilbur (1879-1949), U.S. Secretary of the Interior and president of Stanford University