Julius Catlin

Catlin was born on December 14, 1798, to Grove Catlin, and was from Hartford in Hartford County, Connecticut.[https://www.newspapers.com/image/369176703/ Men of Mark], Hartford Courant, 28 Feb 1915, Sun ·Page 25 His sister, Flora Belle Catlin (1794–1878), an artist and a teacher of the arts at the Hartford Female Seminary, lived with him after the death of their father.{{cite book |last1=French |first1=Harry Willard |title=Art and Artists in Connecticut |date=2009 |publisher=BiblioBazaar |isbn=9781110242856 |page=167 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Op6sTnuNBbkC&pg=PA167 |access-date=20 August 2019 |language=en}}

Catlin was a successful dry goods merchant in Hartford,{{cite book |title=Croonberg's Gazette of Fashions |date=1918 |page=105 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vaA7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA105 |access-date=20 August 2019 |language=en}} and "accumulated a large property."

Catlin was interested in public affairs and after winning election, served as the Republican Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1858 to 1861,{{cite web |title=Governors Lieutenant Governors |url=https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Register-Manual/Section-I/Governors--Lieutenant-Governors |website=CT.gov |publisher=Connecticut's Official State Website |access-date=20 August 2019 |language=en}} under the famous "war governor" William Alfred Buckingham. He also presided over the Connecticut State Senate.

Catlin was married to Mary Fisher (1803–1888),{{cite news |title=DIED. CATLIN |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/01/24/106311816.pdf |access-date=20 August 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=24 January 1888}} a native of Wrentham, Massachusetts, a descendant of John Mason{{cite news |title=HOME NEWS Death of Mrs. Julius Catlin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/35108743/home_newsdeath_of_mrs_julius_catlin/ |access-date=20 August 2019 |work=Hartford Courant |date=January 21, 1888 |page=1 |language=en}} "whose ancestors crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims on the Mayflower." Together, they lived in Hartford and had a home at Watch Hill in Rhode Island and were the parents of:

• Mary Jane Catlin (1830–1836), who died in childhood.
• Hannah Maria Catlin (1831–1880), who married Benjamin Kinsman Phelps, the law partner of future U.S. President Chester A. Arthur who served as New York County District Attorney.{{cite book |last1=Green |first1=Samuel Abbott |title=An Account of the Lawyers of Groton, Massachusetts: Including Natives who Have Practised Elsewhere, and Those Also who Have Studied Law in the Town : with an Appendix |date=1892 |publisher=J. Wilson and son |page=97 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cRIWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA97 |access-date=20 August 2019 |language=en}}
• Julius Catlin Jr. (1833–1893),{{cite news |title=JULIUS CATLIN DEAD; A Prominent New-York Merchant Dies Suddenly in Canada. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/07/21/109264622.pdf |access-date=20 August 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=21 July 1893}} who was a dry goods merchant who married Frances Helen Hunt (b. 1839) in 1862.{{cite book |title=Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University |date=1900 |publisher=Yale University |page=232 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QFgdAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA232 |access-date=20 August 2019 |language=en}}
• Charles Catlin (1837–1918), a woolen merchant with Mullen & Co. who married [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Woman_of_the_Century/Laura_Wood_Catlin Laura Almina Wood] of Rouses Point, granddaughter of Eliza Yale and Joshua P. Hammond of the Yale family.{{cite web|url=https://ia804503.us.archive.org/10/items/yalegenealogyhis00byuyale/yalegenealogyhis00byuyale.pdf|title=Yale genealogy and history of Wales : the British kings and princes, life of Owen Glyndwr, biographies of Governor Elihu Yale, for whom Yale University was named, Linus Yale, Sr. ... and other noted persons|publisher=Forgotten Books |pages=372 |accessdate=2022-11-05}}
• Mary Catlin (1839–1839), who died in infancy.

Catlin died at his home in Hartford (the former home of Lydia Huntley Sigourney) on April 23, 1888.{{cite news |title=Obituary Notes {{!}} Ex-Lieut.-Gov. Julius Catlin |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1888/04/24/106319191.pdf |access-date=20 August 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=24 April 1888}} He was buried at the Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford. At the time of his death, the principal value of his estate was $726,000.

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Through his son Julius, he was the paternal grandfather of three girls, Julia Hunt Catlin (1864–1947), Edith Catlin and May Catlin.{{cite news |title=THE CATLIN ESTATE TO BE DIVIDED.; It Will Go to the Grandchildren of Lieut. Gov. Catlin. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/07/26/109265684.pdf |access-date=20 August 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=26 July 1893}}

Julia became multimillionaire, received the Croix de Guerre and Legion d'honneur, and was married three times.

Firstly, she married to Trenor Luther Park, son of Trenor W. Park, a founder of the Republican Party of California and business rival of robber baron Jay Gould. He was the proprietor of banks and railroads and was an associate of Horace Henry Baxter and Cornelius Vanderbilt. His grandfather was Congressman and Governor of Vermont Hiland Hall.

She married secondly to C. Mitchell Depew, a nephew of Senator Chauncey Depew, who became Secretary of State of New York, President of the New York Central Railroad for Cornelius Vanderbilt, and a founding member of the Yale Club. He was also a member of The Four Hundred of the Gilded Age, President of the Linonian Society, and a member of the Skulls and Bones.

Thirdly, she married to Emile Adolphe Taufflieb, a French Senator and General during World War I.{{cite news|title=MME. EMIL TAUFFLIEB|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1947/12/23/87566671.pdf |access-date=26 April 2017|work=The New York Times|date=23 December 1947}}

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