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4 century have been followed by a multitude of skilled workers who have earned Connectickptl rank as , . . - ' h d ' 'on an the twelfth manuiacturing state in the Union, with an annual output which has reac e a 1 1' ' h n'o ed a wide reputation for a half dollars. Ever since the days of Eli Whitney, Connecticut as e J inventive genius. In many years the number of patents issued by the United States g'OVCI'Hff1C1'1t of Connecticut individuals has exceeded in ratio to population every other state- Among the first settlers of Connecticut were sea captains, and for more than two centuries ship- building whaling, and seafaring trade enlisted the energies of Connecticut's most adventurous sons. 7 The inventions of John Fitch initiated steam navigation, and the business enterprise of Junius Smith opened trans-Atlantic Steamship service. Gther natives of the state, such as Collis P. Huntington and Erastus Corning, were among America's great railway builders. In banking, especially in the development of mutual savings banks, Connecticut has been one of the nation's leaders, and in in- surance it has long since achieved first place, so that Hartford is known as the insurance capital of the United States. If any one person were to be selected as the founder of Connecticut, that honor would doubtless be assigned to Thomas Hooker, the first minister of Hartford. The religious life of Connecticut soon became proverbial. The minister was the most influential personality in every village community. Connecticut may well ask what would be the religious history of the United States without the names of such men as John Davenport, Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Seabury, Lorenzo Dow, Lyman Beecher, Horace Bushnell, and Benjamin W. Bacon. The theological seminaries in New Haven and Hartford have exercised a noble influence far beyond the bounds of the United States. Within a decade after the beginning of settlement Connecticut laid the foundation of its public school system and before the first century had ended the Hopkins Grammar Schools and Yale College had acquired an established reputation. In the development of the public school system throughout the United States no names are more memorable than those of Henry Barnard and William T. Harris. To the advancement of the education of women few have rendered more significant services than Emma Hart Willard. A - The first law school in America was established by judge Reeve at Litchfield toward the end of the eighteenth century, the Female Academy founded in the same town a few years later by Sarah Pierce was the pioneer in its field, the first school in the United States for systematic instruction in music was established at Salem, Connecticut, in 1836 by Oramel Whittleseyg a few years later the first dental college in the world was founded in Baltimore by a Connecticut man, Horace A. Hayden, the Gallaudet family rendered equally important services to the education of deaf-mutes, and the valuable system of agricultural experiment stations in the United States was originated in Connecticut by Professor Wilbur Clin Atwater. 1 The administrative ability, scholarship, and liberal benefactions of Connecticut men and of graduates of Connecticut colleges have been responsible for the founding and successful development of numerous colleges and universities throughout the nation. Lively' interest attaches to the Varied careers of such men as Eleazar Wheelock, Abraham Baldwin, Caleb Pitkin, Samuel Kirkland and Asa Packer, who were respectively the founders of Dartmouth College, the University of Georgia Western Reserve University, Hamilton College, and Lehigh University. 3 Such are some of the evidences of three centuries of industrious, self-reliant citizenship vigorgug 3 individualism, and sturdy self-government, of devotion to the nobler and finer things of life, Con- necticut is proud of the place that it has earned among the American commonwealths but its de e est satisfaction lies in its contributions to its sister states, to the federal Union and to tihe interests if ' 7 humanity in other lands. I2
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