Ninth Generation

2126. Wlliam Darling MONNIER was born on 24 October 1866 in Greenfield, Franklin Co., MA.²⁰¹ In the 1930 Census, the family was living in Hartford, CT. He was a public school teacher.

Was he born in Springfield, MA?

Wlliam Darling MONNIER and Maud Edwina NOTTINGHAM were married in 1897. Maud Edwina NOTTINGHAM, daughter of William Henry NOTTINGHAM and Henrietta THRALL, was born on 13 October 1876 in Lydon, Cattaraugus Co., NY. She died on 22 February 1932 at the age of 55 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT.

Wlliam Darling MONNIER and Maud Edwina NOTTINGHAM had the following children:

+2184	i.	William Nottingham MONNIER was born on 27 June 1911 in CT. He died on 20 February 1993 at the age of 81 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. He was listed as "Sr." in death index. A William S. Monnier, Jr. died February 10, 2001, at age 65 in New Britain, 23 years younger and divorced. He was listed at 181 Robbins Avenue, Hartford, CT in 1994.
+2185	ii.	Dwight Chapin MONNIER was born on 30 March 1918 in Hartford, Hartford Co., CT. He died on 22 January 1979 at the age of 60 in Oxon Hill, Prince Georges County, MD. He was associate director of the American College of Cardiology in Bethesda for the six years before he died. The newspaper article said that he was born in Hartford March 30, 1918, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Darling Monnier. He was survived by his widow, M. Lorraine MacArthur Monnier, two daughters, Mrs. Donna Taylor, Damascus, and Mrs. Linda Anne (Alan) Purdum, Dania, Florida, a son, Dwight C. Monnier, Jr. Frederick, two granddaughters, Tanya Taylor and Tiffany Monnier, and a brother, William Monnier, Newington, CT. He graduated from Arnold College, now the University of Bridgeport, in 1942, BS in health education, was an ensign in the Navy, received an MA in health education from Columbia in 1947 and a doctorate in education administration from the University of Buffalo in 1952. He served as vice president, administration of the American University of Beirut from 1967 to 1973. Earlier, he had been a U.S. health officer in Pakistan and director of training and research for the Massachusetts Dept. of Health. The family lived in Damascus, MD, in the 1960's and attended the Damascus Methodist Church.