JULIAN D. ANTHONY ’28

JULIAN D. ANTHONY, 102, a trustee and emeritus trustee of Wesleyan for more than 50 years, and the first president of the Hartford Life Insurance Company, died June 26, 2009. A member of Beta Theta Pi, he received his Wesleyan degree with honors and also received a law degree from Northeastern University in 1943. He joined the Columbian National Life Insurance Company in 1931 and held a number of positions in its financial and investment areas before he was elected its president in 1947. When the company was acquired by The Hartford Insurance Group in 1960, he became the first president and a director of Hartford Life Insurance Company. He remained as president of that company until his retirement in 1966, and as a director until 1977. A director of several other companies, including Hartford Fire Insurance Company and New England Merchants National Bank, as well as of various business and industry organizations, he held leadership positions in a wide variety of educational, religious, and other charitable organizations. In 1968 he received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wesleyan. He also served as secretary for his class, writing notes for the Wesleyan magazine. At the time of her death in 1993, he had been married for 61 years to Eleanor Hopkins Anthony. A daughter also predeceased him. Among those who survive are three sons, including J. Danford Anthony Jr. ’57; a son–in–law; three daughters–in–law; many grandchildren, including Susan H. Anthony ’87, and many great–grandchildren.