Morning journal and courier., 1882-01-02
Samuel Hemingway.

The community was pained to learn Satur- | day evening of the sudden demise of Samuel l Hemingway, president of the Second Nation al bank. MT. Hemingway had been at the bank Saturday forenoon as usual attending to business, and the news of his death spread rapidly ln prominent business circles of the city, with which Mir. Hemingway had been long associated. He seemed more than or dlnarily lively and cheerful when at the
 bank Saturday. Early in the afternoon at
 his residence, No. 37 East Pearl street, Fair
 Haven: he complained of being i'll, and in half an hour he was prostrated with apo ! plexy and remained unconscious until he
 died, shortly after six o'clock. Drs. Henry E. Stone, of Fair Haven, and Wm H. Sage, of
 42 College street, were summoned to his bed side, but in vain. Deceased had been slight.
 ly lndisposed with malaria and cold. He
 passed away apparently without much suffer-
 ing
 His death removes one of the old and &C.,
 tive financial men of the city, man honora-
 ble and upright and highly esteemed. He
 will be specially mourned in Fair Haven, with
 whose interests he had been identified all his
 long and useful life. He was native in that
 part of Fair Haven East known as fleming
 way town, and had he lived until next March
 would have been seventy one years of age.
 His father was Wyllis Hemingway, respect
 ed business man. The deceased was 8 man
 of strong nature, common sense, unusual
 business ability and sterling worth. In his
 youth he started in life as clerk in 8
 prominent dry goods store in Fair Haven kept : by the late Ruel Rowe, and next engaged in the lumber business in which his father had become interested. The business prospered and the young man retired from it and en gagged in the oyster commission business in
 Fair Haven: He also established the first Z coal business in Fair Haven Having be- ] come possessed of considerable capital he be came interested in the old Elm City bank 3 l which was located near where the Masonic 1 Temple now stands. Later the bank became | the present Second National bank, of whicf 3 large and Hourishing corporation Mir Hem a lngway had been president since the death O
 Hon. Erastus c. Scranton, who was killed by
 the cars at Norwalk, period of about four
 teen years, continuing the bank in it's sue cessful career and evidencing sound iudg y ment and marked ability. MT. Hem [. ! ingway was also financially inter .. ested in various other corporations
 owning considerable stock in the New Havel l. l Gas and Water companies, and for numbe l. of years was a director in the L. Candee Rub l, Der company, the New Haven Clock com q pany and the Fair Haven and Westvill :, l Horse Rallroad company, also vice presiden of the Shore Line division of the Copso,i $ dated Railroad company. He was alsoS-fn @ terested in number of smaller enterprise q and In marine property, and was the owne
 of considerable real estate, including hi i handsome residence on East Pearl street H U was one of the directors and principal me U U Tn the old Fair Haven Reg company whe IS s 1t was fourishing institution in Fair Haver Of the Second National bank he was one the heavy stockholders. His estate is est Q 1 mated at a quarter of million Last Ser tember he declined a re election to the Boar
 of Education, on which he had served th .' city school district for 8 considerable perio :: 1 Tn the aggregate. For twenty eight year It MT. Hemingway had been leading man | y the First church, Fair Haven, and was lil eral contributor to it's property. His deat U will be sincerely mourned by the large col ss gregation. worshiping there, and in Fla y Haven generally, as that of good ma u and citizen. HeS1eaves wife, to whol
 he had been married about quarter of sn century He leaves three sons one of whom le MT Charles ". Hemingway merchant 10 Fair Haven East was by former wife, WI CT died of consumption about twenty five yea a ago, the others being Samuel and James ,h Hemingway, the elder of whom is engage ne in the Second National bank
 Il Four brothers of the deceased are Twin or They are Deacon Willis Hemingway, the al sl- goods merchant in Fair Haven East Anse as Hemingway, of Chicago, H. Daniel ca Hemingway, the Fair Haven East ice deale ca and John E. Hemingway, prominent cyst as dealer of Fair Haven. His sisters are Jal IT. Hemingway, of New Jersey, Mrs. E. ne Huntley and Mrs. P. A. Futile, of Fair Hay, h- East.
 na The funeral will take place from the re Ter dence on Wednesday at p. m.