In a message dated 7/9/99 6:16:18 AM Pacific Daylight Time, c.lassen@snet.net writes: << John Frederick (also known as J. Frederick) Sexton was born in Hazardville, Enfield, Connecticut on April 04, 1859. He graduated from Trinity College (near Hartford) and then from Berkley Divinity School, which was then in Middletown, Connecticut. >> A question - my grandfather (born 1859) was said to have attended a "Trinity College" and we assumed that Trinity in Dublin was the reference, since he had been sent to Ireland in approx 1874 for some sort of middle or preparatory school. Later there is a note that in 1876 he attended a "Yale Business College" which we cannot locate other than to be told that it was not a part of Yale University. His family was in the Beacon Falls area until about 1879. But we don't think he did attend Trinity in Ireland, just that writers of puff-pieces about him after his death made some wrong assumptions. But he must have attended something somewhere, as later (1891) he attended Northwestern U. Medical School in Chicago and became a physician. MAYBE the Trinity reference was to the one in Hartford - I had no idea there was such a school - and MAYBE the Yale reference is to the same place (your choice of well-known names!). Can anyone shed light on these various institutions and this puzzle? With many thanks, Ginny Crawford VCrawf@aol.com Carmel Valley CA