Connecticut's other traditional industry is financial services ; for example, insurance companies in Hartford and hedge funds in Fairfield County.

Many of the town's adults work in Hartford, located about 25 minutes away, often at one of the city's many insurance companies, or for the neighbouring University of Connecticut in Storrs.

The Hartford Loop was invented in 1919 by the Hartford Steam Boiler and Insurance Company as a method to help prevent this condition from occurring, and thereby reduce their insurance claims.

His youngest brother Cameron, an insurance executive in Hartford, CT, stepped in as trustee, but it is unclear whether either Francis or Cameron ever received payment from the government of the court-ordered price of " square 710.

Larson was also the co-owner of an insurance agency in East Hartford before entering public service.

It certainly resulted in an exodus of insurance companies which had previously called Hartford, Connecticut their home ( in the then-popular board game Trivial Pursuit, Hartford was the answer to one question: ' What is the insurance capitol of the world ?').

He was vice president of a Hartford area insurance company, and a delegate to the 1876 Democratic National Convention.

During the late 1960s Charles Brunelle was the largest advertising agency in Hartford, a city known as " the insurance capital of the world " due to the many insurance companies in that town.

In the late 1880s, companies based in Newark sold more insurance than those in any city except Hartford, Connecticut.

George W. Rice ( 1823 – 1856 ), a young insurance agent who was selling policies for Connecticut Mutual Life in Hartford, Connecticut, had wanted to open a business in neighboring Massachusetts.

He made his professional career in the insurance business, becoming the General Agent of the Hartford Insurance Company in 1908 and was a partner in the W. Charles Boyer ’ s Dover Insurance Agency.

* The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., a company based in Hartford, Connecticut

At a meeting at company headquarters in Hartford, Rouse made his pitch to CG ’ s top real estate and mortgage people and the company ’ s chairman of the board, Frazar B. Wilde.

A year later a hose company was hastily formed to protect the town from fire after the Davis & Hartford Mercantile store burned to the ground.

The centre of the company lay at the New Hartford Works in Werneth, a massive complex of buildings and internal railways on a site overlooking Manchester.

Against parental objections, she took a job at a stock company for seven months at Saranac Lake and then Hartford, Connecticut.

In 1995, the company acquired parks from Funtime Parks, Inc., namely Geauga Lake near Cleveland, Ohio, Wyandot Lake in Columbus, Ohio, Darien Lake, near Buffalo, New York, and Lake Compounce near Hartford, Connecticut.

It was organized by Samuel Robbins and Richard S. Lawrence as a holding company in Hartford, Connecticut on October 9, 1851 with $ 100, 000 in capital.

The holding company advanced Robbins & Lawrence $ 40, 000 to purchase of land in Hartford, CT and to erect a brick factory building.

On August 28, 1980, American Financial Enterprises, Inc., acquired the assets of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company when the plan for reorganization was approved by the court and the company was reorganized.

In 1880 the company was succeeded by the Hartford and Connecticut Valley.

The Kissel Motor Car Company was an American automobile manufacturing company founded by Louis Kissel and his sons, George and William, on June 5, 1906 in Hartford, Wisconsin.

The company custom built high-quality automobiles, hearses, fire trucks, taxicabs, and utility vehicles from their plant at 123 Kissel Avenue, Hartford.

With headquarters at Hartford, Connecticut, the holding company controlled the stock of the Boeing Airplane Company of Seattle, the Chance Vought Corporation, the Hamilton Aero Manufacturing Company ( a propeller manufacturer ) and the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, an aeroengine manufacturer.

Hartford stepped into the battle by asserting that, in 1878, Gilman gave him half of the company in a unwritten partnership agreement.

Thousands of letters poured into the Justice Department supporting the company ; the Hartford brothers gave extensive interviews with Time which put them on the magazine's November 13, 1950 cover.

Burger was also the President of the Hartford Foundation, assuring his control of the company when George died in 1957.

While the company was publicly traded, control rested with Ralph Burger, who headed both the corporation and the Hartford trust.

NU was formed on July 1, 1966, with the merger of Connecticut Light and Power Company ( CL & P ), Western Massachusetts Electric Company ( WMECO ), and The Hartford Electric Light Company under a single parent company, creating the first new multi-state public utility holding company since the enactment of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.

Soon after Chance Vought's death in 1930, the company moved its operations to East Hartford, Connecticut.

For several years, the company became known as West Silver Company, and was producing silver products for the William Rogers Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut.

The company owns the Los Angeles Galaxy, 50 % of the Houston Dynamo, 50 % of the Los Angeles Kings, Ontario Reign, Manchester Monarchs, Eisbären Berlin with Berlin O2 World Ice-Arena, Hamburg Freezers, 49 % of Hammarby IF Fotboll, as well as interests in the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Sparks, Hartford Colonials and Reading Royals.

Cecil Mason of Hartford, Conn., was best man for his brother, and groomsmen were Rhodes S. Baker 3, of Houston, Dr. James Carter of Houston and Conrad McEachern of New Orleans, La..

* 1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut.

Shortly thereafter he began work as a fire prevention engineer ( i. e., an inspector ) for the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

Greenberg played 17 games in 1930 for Hartford, then played at Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hit. 314 with 19 home runs.

Hartford intended for the short to be part of an anthology film along the lines of Quartet.

* April 15, 1817 – The first American school for the deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.

* April 15 – The American School for the Deaf opens in Hartford, Connecticut.

* 1999: The Hartford Courant staff, " for its coverage of a shooting spree by a state lottery worker that left five dead.

The home stadium for the University of Connecticut Huskies football team, Rentschler Field, is located adjacent to Pratt & Whitney's East Hartford, Connecticut campus, on Pratt's company-owned former airfield of the same name.

Within a few years, so many people visited Putnam's tomb that the marble marker became badly mutilated ; it was removed for safe keeping to the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford.

Nivola then provided works for Olivetti showroom in New York ( a famous sand-cast relief wall ), Mutual Hartford Insurance Company ( Connecticut ), Harvard University, McCormick Plaza Exposition Center ( Chicago ) and Yale University.

Leonard Bacon son prepared for college at grammar school in Hartford, Connecticut ; he graduated from Yale University in 1820 and from the Andover Theological Seminary in 1823.

Hartford Avenue is a major cross-town road and follows the route of the Post Road for its entire length.

While waiting for the completion of a new arena in Hartford, the Whalers played the first part of the season at The Big E Coliseum in West Springfield, Massachusetts.

Hartford was the smallest American market in the league, and was located on the traditional dividing line between the home territories for New York City and Boston teams.

It didn't help matters that the Hartford Civic Center was the smallest arena in the league, seating just over 15, 000 people for hockey.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

Attendance increased from 2003 – 04, averaging just under 15, 600 per game, and the team made a profit for the first time since the move from Hartford.

Several Canes raised the Cup for the first time in long NHL careers ; Rod Brind ' Amour and Bret Hedican had both played over 15 years without winning the Cup, while Glen Wesley — the last remaining Hartford Whaler on the Hurricanes ' roster — had waited 18 seasons.

Petersburg area decided to bid for a franchise: a St. Petersburg-based group fronted by future Hartford Whalers / Carolina Hurricanes owners Peter Karmanos and Jim Rutherford, and a Tampa-based group fronted by two Hall of Famers — Phil Esposito and his brother Tony.