Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-11
CHARLES B. LINES.
His Death Recently i'm Kansas-A
 Prominent Actor in Stirring Times

His Death Recently in Kansas-A
 Prominent Actor in Stirring Times
 i'm Old New Haven Days.
 Charles B. Lines, 8 former well known New Haven gentleman, prominent here many years ago and highly esteemed among @ large number of friends in this city, died in \ Wabaunsee, Kansas, on Sunday, March 31. \ He was one of New Haven's leading citizens \ in politics before the war, great teetoler \ and active Whig. He was noted for his pub \ lie spirit, and his was a familiar figure at \ political and civic gatherings here at old Union hall and at old Brewster hall. When E the serious troubles broke out in Kansas in 1856 he was among the first to stir popular action in the matter. In the very same year he moved to Kansas himself to aiG the msss- es struggling for freedom. At this time he was chief of the famous Beecher Bible and Rifle company, which went out from the North church here. He was elected to the ' territorial legislature, and was the first pen sion agent appointed for Kansas. He was moneys for the land department at Topeka, and was afterward lieutenant governor of the State.
 MT. Lines' own account of his career in \ this oity has been published in the recent History of New Haven, edited by the late Rev. E. E. Atwater:
 "In 1891, at the age of 14' be writes "I was en- gagged as an apprentice to MT. Sherman Blair to learn the art trade and mystery of cabinet making
 spring of 1s2s In the meantime enlisted % in the the United States revenue service on board the reve-
 Haven, for one year At the end of the year ness Stilman was alone, his partner, Blair, hay
 s stS 7s9 sns ne 5 ing on State street and James English
 A e Se s' sss sSs e .wssfy n left MT. Blair and was employed for short time
 udge Wsn into Sus
 ness with Ghauncey Treat M under & the firm name of
 enlisteS soldier. was my first customer: after dred dollars, James Brewster having assisted me. Fer time was associated in business with MT.
 Smith. iii '"n0s''An anu subsequently "''n Jared A The store which MT. Lines occupied was on Orange street, next to where Bright's store is to-day and near where the Blair Brothers, who succeeded to MT. Lines busi- ness, (after his departure for Kansas) are now { located. Nearly all of Mir. Lines cotempor- aries in business here have joined "the in- numerable caravan." There are but few left of the old townsmen who remember MT. Lines and his great activity in whatever cause he espoused, ana nls nery, 1mpetuous zeal and patriotism in s'bleeding Kansas" times, or who were active in the big excitement in New Haven caused by the North church when money for rifles for bleeding Kansas" was raised, MT. Lines being one of the lead- CTS. MT. Lines in the last twenty years paid several visits ta New Haven, and invariably
 called at the COURIER office among other
 places he liked to visit here. As on each
 return here he realized thst the number of
 his old friends and comrades was less and
 less, deaths hand being continually busy.
 Mr. Lines grew to feel lonely. as he sx-
 pressed it, on his visits, and this feeling was
 not diminished by the great changes
 wrought here in the removal of so many of
 the old landmarks and the great growth of
 the city. He was man of striking appear
 ance, dignified, aggressive. forcible as
 speaker, fearless and outspoken. His later
 years were spent very pleasantly in his Kan
 sas home. He leaves widow.