Cary, Melbert B. (Melbert Brinckerhoff), 1852-1946

found: Wikipedia, December 9, 2015(Melbert B. Cary; Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary was Chairman of the Democratic Party of Connecticut; born July 23, 1852 in Racine, Wisconsin, son of Wisconsin politician John W. Cary; Cary was Chairman of the Democratic Party of Connecticut from 1898 to 1900; in 1902, he was a candidate for Governor of Connecticut, losing to Abiram Chamberlain; he was also a delegate to the 1908 Democratic National Convention; he died March 17, 1946)

found: Find A Grave, via WWW, December 9, 2015(Melbert Brinckerhoff Cary; born July 23, 1852; died March 17, 1946; Burial: Fairlawn Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut; Ridgefield came close to being home to three governors; in 1902, only a year after Ridgefield Republican George E. Lounsbury left office, Melbert B. Cary of West Lane ran for governor on the Democratic ticket; he had been chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee for several years; Cary lost to a Meriden Republican, but remained a power in state government as well as influential in Ridgefield goings on; a Princeton man who was a lawyer in New York City, Mr. Cary was also a writer, whose books included The Connecticut Constitution (1900), The Woman Without A Country, and the novel Back Stage; he was also longtime president of the board of Flower Hospital in New York; he died in 1946 at the age of 93--at the time he was the oldest living Princeton graduate)