Collections : [Connecticut State Library, State Archives]

In 1921 the General Assembly reorganized the state forest administration. The State Park Commission became the State Park and Forest Commission and had authority to appoint the state forester, separating that office from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

The records consist of transcripts of witness testimony. Attorney General Francis A. Pallotti charged Connecticut State Highway Department Commissioner William J. Cox on February 4, 1942 for misconduct and material neglect of duty or incompetence in the conduct of office. Commissioner Cox was suspended with pay on February 5, 1942. The case focused on the commissioner's oversight of employees and the procedures used in bidding for highway projects. Governor Robert A. Hurley found Commissioner Cox had not committed misconduct or negligence in his official duties. Commissioner Cox was reinstated on July 27, 1942.

Notes and correspondence pertaining to East Haddam.

Frank A. Lajoie was business manager of the business office for the Meriden Record Co. in Meriden where he collected the 29 World War I posters found in this collection.

Notes, family group sheets and correspondence related to the Bassett family.

New clippings from the New York Main and Express.

An artificial collection of genealogical charts.

Genealogical notes on Bassett and allied families that were compiled by Sheldon Brainerd Thorpe and Frank G. Bassett.

The Notes were compiled by Payne Kenyon Kilbourne, M.A. who was secretary of the Litchfield County Historical and Antiquarian Society, author of "Sketches and Chronicles of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut", which was published in Hartford in 1859.

Includes: Descendants of Thomas Bliss of Hartford, Connecticut; Descendants of Thomas Bliss of Rehoboth, Massachusetts; Descendants of Josiah Bliss of Middletown, Rhode Island.