Person:Stillman Westbrook (1)

After attending Williams College for two years, in 1911 he went to Hartford as a partner in the Guernsey-Westbrook Lumber Company. He served in the U.S. Army on the Mexican border in 1916 as Second Lieutenant. During World War I, he served in France in the 101st Machine Gun Battalion and the 104th Infantry, reaching the rank of Major. He combined many of his wartime letters with some narrative in a book entitled, "Those Eighteen Months."

Joining the Aetna Life Insurance Company in 1926, he was elected a vice president in 1928. That role put him in charge of all construction of the Home Office building begun in 1929. During this time he managed the company's Farm Mortgage Department and became widely recognized as an authority on the subject. He was an active leader in Hartford civic affairs, including the Community Chest and service as Chairman of the Hartford Housing Authority in 1939 and 1940, and Chairman of the National United Way. The Hartford public housing project, Westbrook Village, carries his name.

His adult friends knew him by the name "Tim."

References

• Collens, Clarence Lyman. Collins Memorial (Hartford, CT 1959)
• Dunham, Ethel Collins, Samuel G. and Alice Collins Dunham, their descendants and antecedents (Washington, DC 1955)
• Foote, Abram W. Foote Genealogy (Rutland, Vermont 1907)

1. ↑ Foote Genealogy
   p. 247.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Austin Dunham plot