Bruce Campbell Adamson PO Box 1003 Aptos, CA 95001-1003

Cartotto painted notables as

1). Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, U.S. President --

2). Dwight Morrow, Dwight Whitney Morrow (January 11, 1873 ­ October 5, 1931) was an American businessman, diplomat, and politician, best known as the U.S. ambassador who improved U.S.-Mexican relations, mediating the religious conflict in Mexico known as the Cristero rebellion (1926-29), but also contributing to an easing of conflict between the two countries over oil. The Morrow Mission to Mexico was an "important step in the 'retreat from imperialism'".[1] He was the father-in-law of Charles A. Lindbergh.

3). Dr. John H. Finley,

4). Judge William H. Moore, William Henry (Judge) Moore (1848 - January 11, 1923) was an attorney and financier.[1] He organized and promoted or sat as a director for several steel companies that were merged with among others the Carnegie Steel Company to create United States Steel.[2] He and his brother Hobart helped create the Diamond Match Company, National Biscuit Company, First National Bank, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, the American Can Company, the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, the Continental Fire Insurance Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, the American Cotton Oil Company, and Bankers Trust. Moore was an avid and expert horsemen.[3][4]

5). Lady Isabella Howard,

6). Dr. Edward Hitchcock,

7). Professor John Mason Tyler,

8). Attorney General John G. Sargent, John Garibaldi Sargent (October 13, 1860 ­ March 5, 1939) was an American lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General during the administration of President Calvin Coolidge. John G. Sargent was born in Ludlow, Vermont on October 13, 1860, the son of John Henmon Sargent and Ann Eliza Hanley.[2] He graduated from Black River Academy, and received his degree from Tufts College in 1887.[3][4] Sargent was married to the former Mary Lorraine Gordon on August 4, 1887.[5] They had a daughter, Gladys Gordon Sargent.[6]

Sargent studied law at a firm in Ludlow, was admitted to the bar in 1890, and became a partner in the firm of William W. Stickney, a cousin of Calvin Coolidge.[7]

In addition to practicing law, Sargent was active in the insurance business, served as President of the Ludlow Savings Bank, and was a member of the board of directors of several railroads and other corporations.[8][9][10]

A Republican, he served as Windsor County State's Attorney from 1898 to 1900.[11] Sargent was Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs (chief assistant) for Stickney during Stickney's term as Governor of Vermont from 1900 to 1902.[12]

From 1908 to 1912 Sargent was Vermont Attorney General.[13] In 1912, Sargent received an honorary master's degrees from Tufts.[14][15]

In 1925, President Coolidge's nominee for Attorney General, Charles B. Warren, was rejected by the United States Senate.[16] Coolidge then nominated Sargent, whom he had known since childhood.[17] Sargent was confirmed unanimously, and served until March 4, 1929.[18][19]

After the leaving office, Sargent returned to practicing law. He was also Chairman of the Vermont Commission on Uniform State Laws, and a trustee of the Black River Academy.[20][21]

Sargent died in Ludlow on March 5, 1939, and was buried at the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow, Vermont.[22][23]

John G. Sargent's honors included honorary LL.D. degrees from Tufts, Norwich University, Middlebury College, and Dartmouth College.[24]

9). Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 ­ April 22, 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist. A native of New Hampshire, he served as the dean of Columbia Law School, his alma mater, in the early 20th century. As a member of the Republican Party, he was appointed as the 52nd Attorney General of the United States before becoming an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1925. In 1941, Stone became the 12th Chief Justice of the United States, serving until his death in 1946 ­ one of the shortest terms of any Chief Justice.[2] Stone was the first Chief Justice not to have served in elected office. His most famous dictum was: "Courts are not the only agency of government that must be assumed to have capacity to govern."[3]

10). Mr. and Mrs. George D. Pratt,

11). Percival Lowell, Percival Lawrence Lowell (March 13, 1855 ­ November 12, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, and formed the beginning of the effort that led to the discovery of Pluto 14 years after his death.

12). Charles M. Pratt, Charles Millard Pratt (November 2, 1855 ­ November 27, 1935) was an American oil industrialist and philanthropist. Pratt was born on November 2, 1855 and raised in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, the eldest son of Charles Pratt and Lydia Ann Richardson.

He was the elder half-brother to Frederic B. Pratt, George Dupont Pratt, Herbert L. Pratt, John Teele Pratt and Harold I. Pratt.

He graduated from Amherst College in the class of 1879.

Pratt joined Standard Oil in 1879 and was later Company Secretary. He was a trustee of Amherst College and Vassar College. He was president of the board of trustees, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. He was a director of the Long Island Rail Road, Brooklyn City Railroad, American Express and other corporations.

13). Stanley King, ---Stanley N. King was born at Troy, Rensselaer County, New York on May 11, 1883, the son of Judge Henry Amasa King (Amherst College, 1873 and Columbia Law School, 1877) a justice of Superior Court of Massachusetts and Maria Lyon Flynt. He died on April 28, 1951 at his summer home on Chilmark, Martha's Vinyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts and is buried in Amherst, Massachusetts.[1] He was the grandson of Dwight King and Martha Vinton and William N. Flynt and Eudocia Carter Converse. He had two siblings. A sister, Carrie, born on March 15, 1885, was a graduate of Miss Porter's School in 1901. She died on December 25, 1921. Ames King, Stanley's brother, was born on June 10, 1892 and lived for only a few days. Stanley King (May 11, 1883 ­ April 28, 1951) was the eleventh president of Amherst College. He held that position from 1932 to 1946.

14). Professor Frederick J. E. Woodbridge,

15). Arthur F. Egner,

16). Miss Beatrice Winser, Beatrice Winser (March 11, 1869 ­ September 14, 1947)[1][2] was an American librarian. She spent 53 years at the Newark Public Library in Newark, New Jersey and was its third librarian, from 1929 to 1942.

Winser was the eldest child of Henry Jacob Winser, an American newspaper reporter and diplomat, and Edith Cox Winser, daughter of physician Dr. Henry G. Cox and herself a newspaper contributor. Soon after Winser's birth in Newark, New Jersey, Henry Winser left the New York Times for a post as consul to Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which he held until 1881. Winser was educated in Germany and learned English, French, and German.[1][2][3]

17). John Cotton Dana, John Cotton Dana (b. August 19, 1856 in Woodstock, Vermont - d. July 21, 1929 in Newark, New Jersey) was an American library and museum director who sought to make these cultural institutions relevant to the daily lives of citizens. As a public librarian for forty years Dana promoted the benefits of reading, pioneered direct access to shelved materials, and innovated specialized library services of all types.

18). Robert Frost, Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 ­ January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.[2] His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. One of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the twentieth century,[3] Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

19). Governor Charles Edison,

Charles Edison (August 3, 1890 ­ July 31, 1969) was a son of Thomas Edison and Mina Miller. He was a businessman, who became Assistant and then United States Secretary of the Navy, and served as the 42nd Governor of New Jersey. Between 1951 and 1969, he lived in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, where he struck up a friendship with Herbert Hoover, who also lived there.[5] In 1962, Edison was one of the founders of the Conservative Party of New York State.[6]

20). Vice Chancellor Malcolm G. Buchanan,

21). Professor Alfred V. Churchill,

22). Mrs. John Sherman Hoyt,

23). Lt. Comdr. James A. Farrell, Jr.,

James Augustine Farrell, Jr. (1901 - 1966) and was the son of James A. Farrell, who was the president of U.S. Steel Corporation from 1911-1932. From his graduation from Yale University in 1924, he was a ship operator and owner. He and his brother and John J. Farrell eventually became the founders of a shipping company named Farrell Lines Inc.

24). Mrs. Helen Hines Tison,

25). MacFarlane Cates.

In 1919 Ercole Cartotto won second prize for the National Academy Awards for painting a Portrait of

26). Miss Marion Ryder.