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1848 in Connecticut

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ140694767 ↗
Source-derived summary

The following is a list of events of the year 1848 in Connecticut.

Incumbents

Governor: Clark Bissell

Events

June 12 – "An Act to Prevent Slavery" became law, which abolished slavery in Connecticut

Births

January 23 – Lewis Sperry, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (d. 1922)

May 24 – Horatio J. Homer, first African-American police officer in Boston (d. 1923)

August 24 – George Bartholomew (inventor), inventor of concrete pavement (d.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1848 in Connecticut” as open-knowledge reference entry. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1848, 1922, 1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Connecticut, Open-knowledge and entry can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140694767. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1848, 1922 and 1923.

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This entry incorporates text from “1848 in Connecticut” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.