The Newtown bee., 1879-03-04
RECOLECTTOES OF OLD NEW
 OWN.-JUDGE EDMUND.

Among the distinguished men who have made Newtown their place of resi- dence was Judge Wm. Edmond of the Superior Court, who stood i'll the first rank.
 Born in Woodbury in 1755, he, after working for some years on his fathers farm, fitted himself for College (Yale), from which he graduated in TIT. While a student in this Institute il is recorded that he volunteered his services tu resist with the forces hastily gathered the ap- proach of the British troops under Gen. Tryon towards Danbury when skirmish ensued near Ridgeiield, where he was severely wounded in the leg above the knee, and in this condition was left upon the iield where in intense agony and ex- 1 posed to d cold, bitter wind he passed the night.
 He adopted the law for his profession and established himself In the year 17S2 in Newtown, where he continued to re- side until his death, which occurred in 1 1888, at the ripe age of 82 years, leaving one son--Dr. Robert--and two or three married daughters. the eldest of whom was the wife of Judge Holbrook Curtis of Watertown. and the second the wife of Dr. c. H. Booth of Newtown.
 His son William Pain Edmond, grad uate of Yale, and a young man of fine talents, (a perfect specimen of manly beauty proceeded him In death some eight or nine years, an event which weighed heavily upon him to the close Of his mortal caroer.
 The Judge was elected a member of Congress In 1797 by the old Federal party, with which he remained as long as it had existed. He was remarkably tall and dignifled man, and lame from the effect of his wound received at Rldgefleld. his circumstances were Him. ited by unfortunate speculations in Vir- ginia lands (wherein many other New town people suffered) and through his In ability in consequence of his advanced age to earn any thing by labor, but he was an incorruptable, high-tone man. 1 remember upon one occasion calling upon him with young student from one of the Southern States by the name oi Cromwell, who, having completed his studies In Newtown, was about to depart for his homo in the Sunny South. The latter wished the Judge to contribute some lines to his album which he brought with him, tor it was the custom then fol I young men as well as young girls to have these autograph books.) We found the old gentleman writing at his table and soon made known the object of our visit, when he asked us to be seated. He then pushed aside the papers upon which we found him engaged and opening the volume commenced the task that we had required of him. when, in not more time than have taken to write this, he com pleted forty or fifty ltnes without pausine to lay down his pen. They commenced thus:
 Cromwell. when you shall read this page Wrote by the tremb' ling hand of age, 1 Reflect npon this solemn truth
 | How shor the hours allowed to youth;
 How short the years the days and hours
 To exercise tic mental powers,
 To improve the mind. to enlarge the heart.
 To qualify and act part etc., etc. I Upon finishing the last lines (which have long since forgotten) he arose ane passed over the volume to my young friend, grasping his hand at the same time with good bye, and God bless you, accompanied us to the door when W. took our leave, and scarcely ever after saw him again.
 other verses of his extant, or whether except upon this occasion, he ever at tempted to tread the pleasing walks oi Parnassus." but if he did his foot prints have never been traced, that am aware of, by any of his descendants, or by his associates at the Bar or Bench.
 In Cothren's History of Ancient Wood bury (from which I have taken few facts that are merged in the foregoing there are anecdotes of the Judge whicf show that he was man of great firmness when his mind was once made up, and refer the reader to that excellepy author ity for further information regarding him, as know of no other biographica sketch in existence which treats of thi. , distinguished man. Yours.
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