ft./ 299 m.) and tower are in Morris. South Farms, registered historic farm venue White Memorial Foundation, a nature sanctuary, located in Morris and Litchfield. Winvian, a luxury hotel and resort. Notable people Chuck Aleksinas (born 1959), drafted by the Chicago Bulls of the NBA, played for the Golden State Warriors. Graduated from Wamogo High School, where he scored over 1000 points. Played at Kentucky and finished college as a player at UConn P.T. Barnum (1810–1891), Born in Bethel, the showman, politician and businessman owned an unsuccessful copper mine in the Pitch area of East Morris John Brown (1800–1859), abolitionist who advocated armed insurrection to overthrow slavery. Executed after forcibly occupying the armory at Harper's Ferry, VA. Born in Torrington, Brown was a student at Morris Academy Alexander Hamilton Holley (1804–1887), Born in Salisbury, student at Morris Academy, President of Holley Manufacturing Company, 40th Governor of Connecticut Sally May Johnson (1880–1957), teacher; forerunner of women in the armed services; established and was Chief Nurse at the Army School of Nursing, Walter Reed Hospital, World War I; progressive Administrator of the Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing and Nursing Service Charles B. McVay III (1898–1968), Captain, U.S. Navy; Commander of the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis ; court-martialed and posthumously exonerated after the vessel was torpedoed and sunk, having delivered atomic weapons to Tinian Island in the Pacific Samuel John Mills (1783–1818), Congregational minister, missionary. As a Williams College undergraduate, a founder of the American Foreign Mission movement. The Torrington native was a student at Morris Academy James Morris (1752–1820), Yale graduate, officer in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Educator and founder of one of the first coeducational schools in the nation. Lived and died in South Farms, the part of Litchfield incorporated as a town in 1859 and named after him John Mason Peck (1789–1858), Born in Litchfield, educated at Morris Academy. Baptist minister, Western frontier missionary, abolitionist. Founder, first Baptist church in St. Louis, Shurtleff College (now part of Southern Illinois University) John Pierpont (1788–1866), Yale graduate, Litchfield Law School. Unitarian minister at Boston's Hollis St. Church, abolitionist, teacher, lawyer, legislator, poet. Grandfather of John Pierpont Morgan. Winthrop H. Smith (1893–1961), Winthrop Hiram "Win" Smith was an American businessman, investment banker and name partner of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Frederick Whittlesey (1799–1851), New Preston native, educated at Morris Academy and Yale. Professor at Genesee College (now