October 5, 1948, in New Haven, at the age of 86. He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut. Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut, Wilbur Cross School in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway and Wilbur Cross Highway were named in his honor, as was Yale's Wilbur L. Cross Medal, awarded for outstanding achievement in professional life. The first campus library at the University of Connecticut (then Connecticut State College), built with bond revenues authorized during Cross's governorship and opened in 1939, was named for Cross in 1942. Wilbur Cross's autobiography, Connecticut Yankee, was published in 1943. See also List of governors of Connecticut Footnotes Works Proclamations of His Excellency Wilbur L. Cross, Governor of the State of Connecticut. Hartford, CT: Prospect Press, 1937. Connecticut Yankee: An Autobiography. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1943. External links Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Governor Cross Lent Name To Library The Political Graveyard Connecticut State Library National Governors Association Wilbur Lucius Cross papers (MS 155). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library. 1862 births 1948 deaths Democratic Party governors of Connecticut Yale University faculty Yale College alumni Yale Sterling Professors Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters