Connecticut western news., 1880-01-14
Our Law Makers.

Pursuant to their custom, the enter. prising publishers of the Hartford Post issued on the reassembling of the Legislature last Wednesday, a "legislative supplement" con tainlng biographies and portraits of the chief executives, with biographies of the senators custom, we steal from it's columns, sketches of those of our law makers hailing from our vicinity, as follows: SENATE.
 District NO. l7.-HoN. GEORGE w. PEET of Salisbury Beg pardon, MT: Post, that should read CGnGGn-ED. NRws Dem. ocratic Senator from the Seventeenth District, has been 8 member of the House several terms, the last one occurring in 1862. Just before that period he was 8 member of the famous Charleston and Baltimore conventions. For several years he was member of the Democratic State Central Committee, serving when each county was represented by one member. He has held numerous local offices, including that of Judge of Probate. He is President of the Falls Village National Bank, secretary and treasurer of the Ore Mining Company of Salisbury, and director and attor, ney for the Housatonic Railroad. He is
 
 also in the iron ore mines at Salisbury and Canaan Senator Peet is 6 lawyer ,hy pro- fession, studying in the offices of Judge Sam uel Church and Hon. Donald J. Warner of Salisbury. but completing his education for the profession at the Harvard Law School In l846 he was admitted to the Boston bar, and the same year to the bar in Litchfcld county, and has practiced there ever since His name frequently occurs in prominent cases in the Connecticut Reports, showing his standing as a lawyer at the bar. In 1858 he was admitted to practice in the United States courts. Senator Peet was born at Salisbury, and is 54 years old. He was educated at the college at Geneva, N. r., and the Harvard Law School His business training and pro- fessional associations will make him valuable member of the Senate. He was elected in November by a majority of 576 over the Re publican candidate, William W. Knight. HOUSE.
 North CandGn.-THEoDoRE F. WATSON was born at Canaan; December, 2, 1844, and received common school education. MT. Watson is engaged in railroadng, and in pol itcs is Democrat. The present IS his first term in the House.
 Norfoyk. k.-l. ROBBINS BATTELL has served in both branches of the Legislature, and in tC0O WdS 0Udtc SOuu AA0 W oS @ AAACAA- Der of the House in 1852 and subsequently served one year in that body. He was elect ed to the Senate in 1865, aequitting himself with credit in that capacity. In ls60-6l he was member of the National Peace Conven- | ton from Connecticut. MT. Battell was born | at Norfolk in 1919 and graduated from Yale | College in the class Of '39, among his class mates being Gov. R. D.. Hubbard and Prof | Whitney of Yale College. He is President of the Norfolk Savings Bank and is actively en gagged at New York in charge of financial trusts. His extensive financial experience md familiarity with business interests will enable him to exert beneficial influence dur ng the session. MT. Battel is also a mem per of the Board of Trustees of the Insane Asylum at Middletown. he is public spirit. d citizen and has done great deal tor the material interests and prosperity of Norfolk. The Batten Park there is one of his public ,ifts. In politics he is Republican.
 2. EDWARD L. GAYLORD was born at Nor ok, September 2l, 1881, and received com. non school and academic education. He is ow engaged in farming and the coal trade ut formerly spent number of years at the outh, travelling through that section of the ouutry from 1853 till 1861. He has held the fiees of grand juTer, ssssssor and member !