Litchfield enquirer., 1846-05-07
Another Patriot GONE

We have been requested to COPY the
following obituary notice of one of the
patriarchs Of the West. In the Ameri.
can Quarterly Register for February,
l64l, there is an interesting sketch of
his eventful life, written by himself,
from which ii would give us pleasure to
print some extracts, if by any means we
could make room for them this week.
When a young man, Mr.. Badger spent
some time in the family of the Rev. Mr..
Day of New Preston, and in his autobi-
ographial sketch he speaks of the two lit.
tie boys, Jeremiah and Thomas a phrase
that sounds oddly enough when we re-
member that one of these little boys is
now the venerable President of Yale
College, aud the other, the Hon Thomas
Day, of this city, for many years the Sec,
retary of the State of Connecticut.-Re-
ligiOus Herald.
Died at Perrysburg, Ohio, on the 9th
inst, Rev. Joseph Badger, in the Goth
wear of his age. He was born in that
part of the town of Springfield, Mass.
which is now Wilbraham, February 9th
1857. After serving two or three years
in the revolutionary war, first as prl-
vate, and afterwards as subaltern Off
Ger, he entered Yale College, and gradu-
ated ut that institution in 1885, being a
classmate of the Rev. DR.. Flint Of Hart
ford, Hon. Timothy Pitkin, &c. In Oc-
tobcr 1857, he was ordained pastor of the
Congregational Church and Society in
Blanford, Mass, where he remand thir-
teen years. In October 1900, he resign
ed his pastoral charge there, and accept
ed an appointment under the Connecticut
Missionary Society as missionary to labor
the eastern part of Ohio. Thither he
went soon afterwards, alone. The next
year he returned, and took out with him
his family, consisting OF his wife and six
children, in n wagon drawn by four hors-
es. At that time there was onlv an Indi.
an path from Buffalo to Cleveland. His
team was the first that he'd ever crossed
Buffalo creek; and he could get it over
only by unharnessi & the horses and ia.
king them over separately, followed by
the wagon and its living freight. The
path not being wide enough for his wagon
he kept man busily choppng before
the team, to open the road. He thus per-
formed the journey from Massachusett tc
the eastern part OF Ohio, in a feD days ore'
t,co months And he did not let the occa.
sion pass without expressions of graft
tude TO the same God, who called Abra.
ham to leave his kindred and native
country, TO remove to q distant land
among strangers. He continued his Ia
bors rs Missionary there few years
and then became settled pastor, first ir
Ashtabula, and afterwards in Gustavu;
in Trumbull County. In 1915, his lungs
and voice beginning to fail, and his healtt
being somewhat impaired, his pastoral
relation was dissolved, and he removed tt
Wood county to spend the remnant of hi
days with his only surviving daughter.
In 1912, during the war with England
Gen. Harrison appointed Mr.. B. brigade
chaplain,a capacity in which he was very
| useful. At meeting of the citizens o
Ohio, in June 1910, TO celebrate the defea
of the British at Fort Meigs, Mr.. B. strn
ding by the side of Gen. Harrison, on thu
same ground where he had performed thu
duties of chaplain to the sick and dying
introduced the exc, cises ofthe day b.
an appropriate and fervent prayer, at
| ter which Gen. II. delivered an impress
i've and patriotic address to an audienc
estimated at from fifteen to twenty thou