Cary,+Melbert+B.

Biographical Information:
Dates: 1853-1946  Dates in Ridgefield: lived on West Lane

 non-fiction writer, novelist, politician, lawyer

 Ridgefield came close to being home to three governors. In 1902, only a year after Ridgefield Republican George E. Lounsbury left office, Melbert Brinckerhoff 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 Woman Without A Country// and, when he was in his 80s, a 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.


 * Titles (partial): **

//The Connecticut Constitution (1900) // //Woman Without a Country //, 1934 //Modern Alphabets //, 1937 //War Cards; A Prolusion, // 1937  //Back Stage//, 1938

--Sources: Notable Ridgefielders-Jack Sanders; Amazon