In an effort to assist our members in their genealogical and historical research, we have completed an every-name index as well as an article index for what has appeared in the Simsbury Free Library Quarterly Newsletters. You may sort each index by subject or it is searchable by any column. Once you find a person or an article you would like to read, select the “View” button in the right hand column.
Volume 23 Issue 4 Fall 2019
Although a major part of Isaac Ensign’s business was shoeing horses and oxen, his customers probably never called him a farrier. He and the others in town in the same trade were designated in the early tax records only as “blacksmiths.” However, the variety of products he made and his use of several metals other than iron, would qualify him today to also be called a brazier or brownsmith, a locksmith, and a gunsmith.
Volume 23 Issue 3 Summer 2019
When Isaac Ensign began his blacksmith business in Simsbury in 1770, he was a bachelor just shy of twenty-three years old. The town enticed him here with the offer of the “Blacksmith Lott” in the center of town just north of the “Burying Yard.” He had undoubtedly learned his trade from his older brothers Moses and Samuel, who were both blacksmiths.
Volume 23 Issue 2 Spring 2019
Gifford Pinchot, Simsbury native, is well known as a two-term Governor of Pennsylvania and the first chief of the U.S Forest Service. Less known is his generosity and selflessness when it came to public service. His parents, James and Mary Pinchot, founded the Yale School of Forestry in New Haven with a gift of $100,000 in 1900, a gift that would provide the practical and philosophical foundations for professional forestry in America.
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