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December 1, 1755

1829

Litchfield, CT

Hannah Phelps Catlin (1780)

Grove Catlin was born in Litchfield in 1755. In 1780, he married Hannah Phelps, daughter of Edward and Anna Marsh Phelps. They had five children. He died in 1829.

Regarding the Phelp's Hotel's balls and cotillions, held in the third floor Assembly Room:

"The Assembly Room was very lofty, the arched ceiling running up under the mansard roof. There was a music balcony at the east end, and around the sides of the room ran a broad and comfortable divan, with red moreen cushions, the seat itself lifting on hinges, in sections of about four feet, the box beneath furnishing a neat and convenient receptacle for the head dress, shawls and wraps, the latter usually a cloak, the most favored being the red broadcloth. In this manner the modern cloakroom was dispensed with."

White, Alain Campbell, The History of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut, 1720-1920 (1920) p.122.

[Flora was] "assassinated most every night."

Regarding ...the nightly serenading of his daughter with the Litchfield Law School students. Catlin was known for his malapropisms and was said to have bragged about his daughter's popularity.

LTB thesis, VI, p. 150.
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