attorney in Vernon Kenneth North (1930–2010), U.S. Air Force brigadier general Bob Pease (1940–2011), analog integrated circuit design expert and technical author Jim Penders, head coach of the Connecticut Huskies baseball team, was born in Vernon M. William Phelps, investigative journalist and crime writer, lives in Vernon Gene Pitney (1941–2006), internationally known singer/songwriter, member of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, born in Hartford, raised in Rockville Charles Ethan Porter (–1923), an African-American still-life painter, lived in the Rockville neighborhood as a child Bill Romanowski, was born in Vernon; he is a former professional American football player and four-time Super Bowl champion Christian Sharps, inventor of the Sharps rifle, spent the final years of his life farming in Vernon Eliza Talcott, American missionary to Japan and co-founder of Kobe College Katie Taylor, Irish boxer and former footballer Teephlow, West African poet and rapper from Ghana currently resides in Vernon Mark Warner, former Governor of Virginia and current U.S. Senator, was raised in Vernon See also References External links Vernon official website Vernon-Rockville community information Towns in Connecticut Towns in Tolland County, Connecticut Greater Hartford