This page is dedicated to Dr. Thomas Boslooper
Some of Tom's Priceless Work:
Thomas Gridley - Founder of Windsor and Hartford, Connecticut.
General Asahel Gridley - personal friend of Abraham Lincoln and founder of Bloomington, Illinois
Capt. Charles Vernon Gridley - A Hero of the Spanish American war who was told by Commodore George Dewey , “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.”
Reuel Gridley - Friend of Mark Twain, and philanthropist who used a sack of flour to raise $275,000 for the Sanitary Commission, a fund for assisting veterans of the Mexican War.
The Ely/Gridley Heritage of Gerald R. Ford - Gerald R. Ford came from Thomas Gridley, a founder of Windsor.
The Gridley Ancestry- A lineage of Gridley's from Thomas of Windsor to Albertus who invaded England from Normandy in 1066.
He also wrote two books on Feminism:
The Feminity Game and The Image of Woman
Tom's Life:
Tom's Biography written by his wife Lois Taylor Boslooper
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"Hemingway's Point" - When Tom was a boy he was involved in a tragedy where his father died trying to save him from a capsized boat in Lake Chalevoix, Michigan at Hemingway's Point.
Descendents of Gridley owe a great deal of respect and love for the man who took many years of his life to research the Gridley line and to provide such detailed information about certain descendents of Thomas Gridley.