T.S. Gold Family
Theodore Sedgwick Gold was born 2 March 1818 in Madison, New York, the son of Dr. Samuel Wadsworth Gold and Phoebe Cleveland . Mr. Gold was married to Caroline E. Lockwood of Bridgeport in 1843. They had three children - Eleanor Gold Hubbard, Rebecca Gold Cornell and Caroline Gold Gibson - before Mrs. Gold died in 1857. In 1859, Mr. Gold married Emma Tracey Baldwin of Rockville. They had four children - Alice Gold Puttkamer, Martha Gold Morgan, Charles Gold and Dr. James Gold .
T.S. Gold graduated from Yale College in 1838 and then spent four years studying and teaching at academies in Goshen and Waterbury. He moved to Cornwall in 1842 to pursue a career in farming. In 1845, along with his father, T.S. Gold founded the Cream Hill Agricultural School at his farm in West Cornwall, Connecticut . He continued to teach there for 24 years.
Mr. Gold was an active patron of many state agricultural endeavors. He was a founding member of the Connecticut State Agricultural Society beginning in 1853. In 1866 he was appointed secretary of the newly created Connecticut Board of Agriculture and served in that capacity for several years.
T.S. Gold was instrumental in the 1864 founding of the Connecticut Soldiers' Orphans' Home, located in Mansfield, Connecticut, and served as its secretary until 1874. During this same time, Mr. Gold combined his interests in farming and Connecticut history and wrote a history of Cornwall that was published in 1877.
Mr. Gold was a trustee of the Storrs Agricultural School from 1881 to 1901 and took an active role in promoting the school's growth and development throughout his lifetime. He was a member of the Board of Control of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station since its establishment in 1877. Mr. Gold was also a member of numerous agricultural and historical associations.
T.S. Gold died at his home in Cornwall on 19 March 1906.
From the guide to the T.S. Gold Family Papers., undated, 1800-1907., (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center .)
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