Gillett family.

Edward Bates Gillett (1817-1890) graduated from Amherst in 1839 and from Harvard Law School in 1841. He was the District Attorney for Hamden and Berkshire Counties from 1856 to 1871, during which time his eloquence in the courtroom became the stuff of legend. Two famous cases he tried, the Starkweather libel suit and the prosecution of "the Northampton Bank Robbers," got state- and even nation-wide attention and he was pressed to run for governor of Massachusetts but declined. He was badly injured in a carriage accident during the Northampton Bank robbery case, in 1877, and never fully recovered. He was awarded an honorary LL.D. from Amherst in 1885. Edward Bates Gillett was chosen by Sophia Smith as one of the first Trustees as well as the Vice-President (1871-1890) of Smith College and served as a trustee of Amherst College and the Hartford Theological Seminary. He married Lucy D. Fowler in 1848 and was survived by three children: Frederick, Arthur, and Lucy Douglass Gillett.

Lucy Douglass Fowler Gillett (1830-?), mother of Frederick Huntington Gillett and Arthur Lincoln Gillett, married Edward Bates Gillett on November 1, 1848.

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