Gillette, Francis
United States senator, was born Dec. 14, 1807, in Bloomfield, Conn. He was a senator in congress from Connecticut during the session of 1854-55, to fill a vacancy. He died Sept. 30, 1879, in Hartford, Conn.
GILLETTE, MRS. LUCIA FIDELIA WOOLLEY, minister, lecturer, author, poet, was born in 1827 in Madison county, N. Y. She received her education at the Cazenovia seminary and the Bridgewater academy. She was the daughter of a noted universalist minister; and was herself ordained to the ministry in 1873. She has held the office of state missionary and of pastor; and for many years was prominent in the lecture field. In her youth she contributed to the Boston Repository and the New York Tribune. She is the author of A Memoir of Her Father; Pebbles From the Shore; Editorials and Other Waifs; and in connection with her daughter published a volume entitled Floating Leaves.