Leverett Brainard
American, 1843 - 1902
He served in the Governor's Foot Guard, and he was a representative to the Connecticut State Legislature in 1884. In 1894 he was chosen Mayor of the city of Hartford. He belonged to the Pearl Street Congregational Church. He was appointed by Governor M.G. Bulkeley, in 1890, a commissioner from Connecticut to the World's Fair in Chicago.
He belonged to Hartford Lodge, No. 88, the Hartford Club, the Republican Club of Hartford, the Country Club of Farmington, the Hartford Golf Club, and the Hartford Yacht Club. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, being a grandson of William Brainard, Captain Twenty-fifth Connecticut Militia.
Leverett Brainard married Mary Jerusha Bulkeley (1843- ) of Hartford on 29 November 1865 at the Pearl Street Congregational Church in Hartford. They had ten children. Leverett Brainard died on 2 July 1902 at the age of 74.
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American, 1803 - 1872
American, 1879 - 1957
American, 1882 - 1976