Q: What Hartford resident served as governor of Connecticut from 1869 to 1873, as chairman of Republican National Committee from 1880-83, as U.S. minister to Russia from 1873 to 1874, and as U.S. postmaster general from 1874 to 1876? He also sought the Republican nomination for president in 1876.

A: Marshall Jewell, 1825-1883. He is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. (Source: The Political Graveyard.)

In his book, "Connecticut," historian Albert E. Van Dusen notes that Jewell was serving as a director of Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance at the time of the 1871 fire that destroyed much of Chicago. He "stampeded crowds of despairing Chicagoans by standing on a dry-goods box and promising to pay Phoenix policyholders on the spot," according to Van Dusen. Phoenix was one of four Connecticut companies that paid all their claims in full.

Q: For whom is Ann Street named?

A: When James and Nathaniel Goodwin opened the street through their land in 1814, they named it after their mother, Ann Sheldon Goodwin. (Source: "History of Hartford Streets," by F. Perry Close.)

Q: What Hartford celebrity was the first person in the city to own a telephone?

A: Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain. (Source: David M. Roth's biographical sketch in "Connecticut History and Culture: An Overview and Resource Guide for Teachers," pubished in 1985 by the Connecticut Historical Commission and the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University.)

Q: What famous aircraft flew over Hartford on Oct. 9, 1936?

A: The German airship Hindenburg. It crashed and burned the following year in Lindenhurst, N.J. Wilson H. Faude has a photograph of it flying over the Travelers tower in his book, "Lost Hartford."

Q: Horace Bushnell is usually remembered as the minister who led the drive to transform a squalid downtown dump into the park that now bears his name. But he did this after retiring - in fact, while dying. What made him a national figure during his career?

A: He encouraged parents to think of their children as innocent. That's commonplace thinking now, but back then it ran contrary to what most people had assumed - that children were born sinful. Bushnell gave a religious foundation to general changes in child-rearing in the mid-19th century. (Source: James P. Walsh's biographical sketch in "Connecticut History and Culture: An Overview and Resource Guide for Teachers," pubished in 1985 by the Connecticut Historical Commission and the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Q: For whom is the Windsor Street railroad underpass named?

A: Rocco D. Pallotti, a longtime alderman of what was then the 2nd Ward. He had been a strong proponent of the structure for many years - presumably on safety grounds. The city named it after him in 1948. (Source: "History of Hartford Streets," by F. Perry Close.)