Prof. Nathaniel Britton, of Columbia College, New York, Professor of Botany, is a grandson of David S. Turner, of New London, a descendant of John Bolles. David Turner, son of the latter, is a prominent journalist in Florence, Italy. Of wealthy merchants and brokers of Rogerene descent in the Rogers and Bolles line there have been and still are several millionaires. William Bolles, of Hartford, recently deceased, whose estate was valued at more than a million, was a grandson of Joshua Bolles. As an example of sterling business integrity we will mention Matthew Bolles, of Boston, well known in commercial circles at home and abroad, a descendant of John Bolles. Of artists, we will name John W. Bolles, of Newark, N.J., Miss Amelia M. Watson and Miss Edith S. Watson, of Windsor, granddaughters of Frederick D. Bolles, also Miss Thurston, of Providence, formerly of New London, and daughter of Hon. B. B. Thurston, a descendant of John Rogers. A young architect, of high promise and achievement, should not be overlooked, Charles Urbane Thrall, of the Perth Amboy Terra Cotta Works. He is grandson of Mrs. Urbane Haven, of New London, who is doubly of John Rogers descent.[24] ----- Footnote 24: This young man reproduced, from a description given him by his grandmother, Mrs. Haven, the old John Rogers house, near which Mrs. Haven lived in her youth, and where she used to visit her aunt Elizabeth Rogers. (See the Genealogy entitled “James Rogers and His Descendants,” for the drawing by Mr. Thrall.) Of editors and authors: Frederick D. Bolles, founder and first editor of the _Hartford Times_, a descendant of John Bolles. Joshua A. Bolles, son of the late Joshua Bolles of New London (before mentioned), editor and proprietor of the _New Milford Gazette_, a descendant of John Rogers and John Bolles. John McGinley, editor of the _New London Day_, is a descendant of John Bolles. Anna Bolles Williams, author of a number of popular works, is a descendant of John Rogers and John Bolles. Mrs. Mary L. Bolles Branch (daughter of the writer), author of many acceptable articles for periodicals, both in prose and verse, is a descendant of John Rogers and John Bolles.[25] ----- Footnote 25: Her daughter, Anna Hempstead Branch, is now well known as one of our young poets. Among teachers, we must not fail to mention Mrs. Marion Hempstead Lillie, so long the efficient and popular Principal of the Coit Street School, also a prominent member of the L. S. Chapter of the D. A. R. and other social and literary circles, in which her genial manners and brilliant conversational powers have won her many friends and admirers. She is a descendant of John Rogers, also of Bathsheba Rogers. Miss Jennie Turner, so favorably known, and for many years Assistant Principal of the Young Ladie’s Institute of New London, is a descendant of John Bolles.