[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 80 (Tuesday, May 13, 2025)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E420]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      RECOGNIZING THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE TOWN & COUNTY CLUB

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                          HON. JOHN B. LARSON

                             of connecticut

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 13, 2025

  Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 
100th anniversary of the Town & County Club in the historic Asylum Hill 
neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Over its storied 100-year 
history, the club has grown into the premier location for members to 
enjoy organized social, intellectual, and artistic gatherings.
  On May 21, 1925, just five years after the 19th Amendment guaranteed 
women's suffrage, 400 women founded the Town & County Club as 
Hartford's first private women's club. The club's first President, Miss 
Anne Eliot Trumbull, helped draft their Articles of Association. The 
Articles state that the club was formed with the purposes of ``creating 
an organized center for women's work, thought and action; advancing the 
interests of women, promoting science, literature, and art; providing 
an accessible place of meeting for its members, promoting social 
intercourse by such means as the members of the corporation shall deem 
expedient and proper for that purpose, and for acquiring and 
maintaining and club house and grounds.''
  The pioneering women who founded the Town & County Club at a time 
when membership at most private clubs was exclusive to men created an 
organization worthy of its storied 100-year history. It is my honor to 
celebrate the Town & County Club of Hartford, Connecticut.

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