Editing Killingly, Connecticut (section)

==Notable people==

* [[Francis Alexander (painter)|Francis Alexander]] (1800–1881), born in Killingly, was a portrait painter<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | year = 1967}}</ref>
* [[Harriet Pritchard Arnold]] (1858–1901), writer
* [[Manasseh Cutler]] (1742–1823), US representative, soldier, minister, botanist, doctor, and scientist. He was educated at both Yale and Harvard Universities. He lobbied Congress to pass the [[Northwest Ordinance]] of 1787, helped establish the [[Ohio Company]], and worked to found [[Ohio University]]
* [[John M. Dowe]] (1896–1946), [[Connecticut State Comptroller]] (1941–1943, 1945–1946)
* [[Frederick Delmont Chesbrough]] (1859-1943), inventor of [[Warp Stop Motion]] for automated looms.
* [[William Torrey Harris]] (1835–1909), a philosopher who introduced reindeer to Alaska, educator (and later [[U.S. Commissioner of Education]]) who introduced the first permanent kindergarten, and lexicographer who introduced the "divided page" into dictionaries (the 1909 edition of ''Webster's New International Dictionary''). He was born in North Killingly. He also founded the first philosophical journal in the country
* [[Mary Dixon Kies]] (1752–1837), the first woman in the United States to receive a patent (in 1809, for a method of weaving straw with silk or thread). Kies was born and lived in South Killingly, an unincorporated village in the Town of Killingly
* [[Samuel Knight (judge)|Samuel Knight]] (1731–1804), chief justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court]]<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Taft |first=Russell S. |date=January 1, 1894 |title=The Supreme Court of Vermont, Part II |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zA6SAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30 |magazine=[[The Green Bag (1889–1914)|The Green Bag]] |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Boston Book Company |ref={{sfnRef|''The Green Bag''}}}}</ref>
* [[Charles Lewis Tiffany|Charles Tiffany]] (1812–1902) born in town, became the owner of Tiffany and Company 
* [[Ebenezer Young]] (1783–1851), a [[United States representative]] from Connecticut