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In September 1977, Losten was named Bishop of Stamford, succeeding Joseph M. Schmondiuk. The diocese comprises New York State and all of the New England states. He retired on January 3, 2006, and was succeeded by Paul Chomnycky. [1] Losten died after a short illness at a hospital in Stamford, Connecticut, in the early hours of September 15 ...
Harry Houdini (1874–1926), escape artist, had a summer home in Stamford [11] Alan Kalter (1943–2021), announcer on Late Show with David Letterman, lived in the city [12] Christopher Lloyd (born 1938), actor, born in Stamford; Antonio Macia, screenwriter and actor; Don Morrow (1927–2020), actor, announcer and voiceover artist
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2025. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference. January 2025 1 Viktor Alksnis, 74, Russian politician ...
Homer Stille Cummings (1870–1956), U.S. Attorney General, 1933–1939 and Stamford mayor Florence Finney (1903–1994), first woman to serve as president pro tempore of the Connecticut State Senate
Born in London [2] on 27 October 1896, he was known from birth by the courtesy title of Lord Grey of Groby.The only son of William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford and his wife, née (Elizabeth Louisa) Penelope Theobald (1865–1959), he was the brother of Lady Jane Grey (1899–1991), who became on marriage Lady Jane Turnbull.
The Advocate is a seven-day daily newspaper based in Stamford, Connecticut. The paper is owned and operated by Hearst Communications, a multinational corporate media conglomerate with $4 billion in revenues. The Advocate circulates in Stamford and the nearby southwestern Connecticut towns of Darien and New Canaan. The paper's headquarters moved ...
The district, located in rural northern Stamford near the border with New York, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] Although the district includes a few early 19th-century properties, the area was most heavily developed between 1850 and 1920, and was a local center of shoe manufacturing until it was bypassed by ...
The Hoyt-Barnum house was built by Samuel Hoyt (1678-1738), a blacksmith in Stamford, Connecticut. [3] He began construction in 1699 in preparation for his marriage to Susanna Slason the following year. The couple had four children. Slason died in March of 1707, likely due to complications from child birth. [3]