Litchfield enquirer., 1857-02-26

quirer, to the often disturbed earth of Village Cemetery as member after member of the old fami- lies residing here, returned to their kindred dust. The demise of ASA BAcoN Esq, whose re- mains will be removed hther for burial, closes the eyes of all the Members of the Bar save one, who resided in this town, and practised at our Courts with exceeding reputation between the years 1900 and 1880. The Honorable SETH P. BEERS, still wig in mind is the last It is universally conce- ded, that no so brilliant body of attorneys ever existed in New England as were those whose resi- dences were along the North and South streets Their history is all now that remains to us, their dwellings, have been nodernized, their fruit-trees have dccayed-and the light of their family hearth fires has long since gone out. To the four corners of the earth their children arc scattered, and with one or two no single member remains. They al- ready live in tradition and the citizen yhaired who remembers the old patriots, when they moved here in full vigor-men of princely bearing, who would have conferred honor on king, by offering him their hand.
 ASA BACON was born in Canterbury in this State, graduated at Yale College, 1793, fitted himself for the profession of Law, and opened an office in his native village, where he practsed for ten years In 1900, he was chosen representative from Canter- bury. and in l803 removed to this village Here he formed partnership with the Hon. JOIN ALLEN In May, 1906, he was Candidate for Member of Con- gress receiving 5S votes, and falling but slightly behind the gentleman elected. He continued & Candidate at every election until the adoption of tho Constitution of 1Sls
 Though never successful as politician, he stood fOr uyifa at fho Iood of s;o and at a time too, when the Bar of this County em- braced large number of the most brilliant lawyers in the State. For thirty years he uniformly ap pointed Justice of the Peace, by tho Legislature and was also, for several years, President of the Phoenix Bank of this village.
 Though scrurulously exact in all his transactions and at times distant and austere in his manners he was nevertheless, moi,l of early New Eng land gentilty, and possessed highly gifted and ac complished mind The declining years of his life were embittered by the loss of three promising sons all in tho prime of manhood The late EpApnRo- DITrs CHAMPION BACON, who died in Seville, Span was the eldest son. As antiquarian and rire scholar, a devoted son, ard .h~ro"yn gentleman, New Enula,,A him. Combining almost fc1ni- nine gentleness with daring courage and love of wild adventure he spent much of his life as traveller, and finally at early age closed his eyes in for eign country, and now fills strangers sepulchrc FREDERICK, the second son, lost of Cape Horn, in vessel attached to the United States Exploring Expedition. He war, young officer of distinction and talent and left wife and child to weep his timely loss. The death of FRANCIS BACON, the younger son, is too recent wound in the hearts ot his friends in this village to farther alludc to him young Lawyer of high promise, he sleeps beneath the marble, which tells the world, ''WE ARE cHn.DLEss.'
 | Mir. BACON removed from this village to New Ha- ven about the year 1s50 He leaves behind wid- ow advanced in years; and also two grand children, to whose education her life is devoted