Annie E. Vinton

Early life Vinton was born on December 22, 1869, in Somers, Connecticut, to parents Raymond and Sarah (Collins) Rogers. In 1888 she married Fred Oscar Vinton, a storekeeper and sheriff in Eagleville village.

She served as Eagleville postmistress from 1895 to 1917, appointed to the post by President Grover Cleveland after both the Republican and Democratic parties in Mansfield recommended her for the job. In addition, she served 19 years on the Mansfield Board of Education.

Vinton was one of the first women to serve on the University of Connecticut's board of trustees, serving from 1922 to 1932. Republican Governor Everett J. Lake appointed Vinton along with Mrs. Otto B. Robinson of Willimantic who served until 1924. Vinton began on Board's home economics committee. In addition, Vinton served on the Board's Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station committee in 1923 and held the office of Board treasurer in 1926. Her father-in-law, Simeon O. Vinton, had been a prosperous local merchant who had served on the college's inaugural board of trustees in 1881–82. So was the Vinton House of the Towers Residence Halls located on UConn's Storrs campus.