The Newtown bee., 1888-09-14
.Jndge Luzon T MOTIFS.

4nshcd at least two
 Newtomh ms BEE is informed, Dut-
 soNei no m s' ''9 but the State papers are
 ton t.,,;an n to ~ Newtown of her present
 ,,, .tsins Judge Luzon B. Morris, who
 .'''o 'o be the son of Seymour black
 's ,'. The facts are that Judge Morris
 sl0f Newtown birth. His father, F. .aould Morris, was born in Walkers Farm district in the south part of the town, near where MT Julius A. Beers lives. This is where the ancestor of the Newtown family settled. Gould ran a grist mill lower down the Half Way riv- CT, where Mir Louis E. Hill makes screen doors at present and hard by the track of the Derby extension. But his ambition was to own farm and he bought Zal- mon Curtis's farm on the Zoar hills, part of the 5000 acres on the west bank of the | Housatonic river owned by the Curtis an cestor in Newtown's4 early history. Here Gould brought his bride, Miss Lydia, daughter of Thaddeus Bennett, who lived at Hammertown, a hamlet in the north ern part of Monroe where Mir w. k. Fer ris now calls it home. Miss Lydia had been teacher for 13 years, beginning to wield the,birch when 13 years old and she was one of the famous schoolma 'ams of her day. Her daughter, Miss Martha J. Morris, who died in 1868. succeeded her mother as a successful teacher. MT and Mrs Gould Morris had two sons, be- sides daughter. The elder, Mir Eli J. Morris, still keeps Newtown's poor at the old homestead. Judge Luzou B., the younger son, who was born April 16 . 1927, hardly knew a fathers care, for the father was stricken with paralysis wher he was seven years old and had a severel shock six years later. Luzon was sent i to the Zoar district school until a sterl pedagogue, who is yet living, tied hi thumbs together and hung him up on { nail. The mother, remembering her owl ' experience in the school room, was ac customed to administer "birch oil'' a home, when her boys were punished q il school, but even she revolted at that Luzon afterward boarded with his uncle Norman Glover, where MT l.. B. Lax : lives and attended the school in tn Street then taught by Philo Clarke, Esq Judge David Belden of California, Judg f. Frisco of Thompsonville. MrJames Nicf ols of Hartford insurance fame, Rev Pro
 Sylvester Clarke, MT Charles 1T. Peel , long Newtown's town clerk, were som [ of the famous men in prospect who q ID tended that school with Luzon; he di d chores night and morning for his boart
 He finally struck out for himself at tf
 forge of MT Lacey Higgins, then of Ro, :, bury, but now of Stepney. From thel z he went to Seymour to the augur worl y of Raymond French, father of Congres !" man French, accumulating funds vii
 which he attended school at Suffiel SC Teaching at Torrington replenished l.
 zon's exchequer and he went on to Yal
 spending his vacations in Seymour at u ID t~,.- "a nr. E,aa,, h;s o,d anlovo z who took great interest in the trustwo NJ thy, ambitious young man. Judge Mo 'e ris opened law office at Seymour al
 found his wife thore, afterward attainil tc fame and fortune as New Haven's jud ng of probate and in dealing in Elm Ci in real estate. Whether or no Connectic
 shall choose Judge Morris as her chi
 magistrate, Newtown may well be pro
 of an honored son whose unsullied reI ss tation even political enemies cannot i st. peach and whose popularity is great'
 where he is best known.