The Newtown bee., 1892-07-29

anu SeTNeu III Jne army. Iue TeCoIuS
 show that he was one of the society's
 committee for the Presbyterians here.
 Joseph Nichols was elected with MT Shepard in 1872, the Newtown merchant who lived where F. H. Skidmore does
 and Asa Chapman in October, 1913.
 Josiah Fairchild and Marcus Botsford
 represented our town in May, 1916 and | Newtown's record under the old consti- tuition closed in October, 1918, with Ja-
 cob Beers of Huntingtown, afterward
 State senator and Bennett Perry.
 The new constitution adopted in ISIS
 marks an era in Connecticut history.
 Church and State were then divorced and the 12 assistants were thereafter called | Senators, though it was not till 1850 that we find them assigned to numbered dis
 tricts. The Legislature now met but once year, unless in special session. Joseph B. Wheeler and Jeremiah Beers
 were Newtown's first representatives un- der the new constitution. Timothy Shep- ard reappears in 1920 with Jacob Beers |; in 1921 with Zachariah Clark, Jr, father of President Philo Clark of the Savings
 bank in 1922 with Philo Botsford, grand father of E. M. Botsford of Mt. Nebo.
 Jacob Beers then took up the succession,
 with Isaac Scudder, grandfather of 5. S. Scudder, who rebuilt the Congregation
 al church in 1908; with Jonathan s. Fair child, who went with Benjamin Hard,
 next year, in 1924; with Benjamin Hard in 1926; with John Northrop in 1927 l; with David H. Belden, the lawyer, in 1929; with Abel Beers in 1880, after which he represented our district, then the 1lth, in the State Senate. Another
 honored name first appears in 1928, that of Henry Dutton, member of the House with Benjamin Hard. He went in 1884 with George Bradley. He lived. then in the Street, where John II. Blackman does and practiced law, afterward remov- ing to New Haven, becoming governor in 1854 and judge of the Superior and Su- preme courts from 1861 to 1866. James Fairman and Jabez B. Botsford were Newtown representatives in 1851. Mos
 es Parsons, father of c. M. Parsons and
 Joseph Booth, father of the late Josiah
 Booth, in 1882. Henry Beers of Baldwin
 & Beers and Lemuel Beers, father of
 George Beers, in 1883. Lemuel Beers
 went with Daniel Botsford, keeper of our
 town poor on Botsford hill, in 1885. Oli-
 yer Northrop and Daniel Skidmore fol-
 lowed in 1886. In 1887 went Dr John
 T,,Ie ent nf Mnnrna Tu1cnn yhn
 lived near the post office in the Street and Charles Johnson, father of E. l.. John- son. Lemuel Beers went with Botsford Terrill, father of w. L. Terrill, in 1888.
 Austin N. Botsford, father of E. M.
 Botsford of Mt. Nebo, with Samuel B.
 Peck, the Hook teacher and merchant, in
 1889. Ava B. Beecher, the Hook manu
 facturer, went with John Beach Beers,
 brother of the late Isaac Beers, in 1S4O.
 Josiah s. Tomlinson, one of the founders
 of the rubber industry here, went with
 Abel Booth Terrill in 1S41. Henry Nich-
 ols was sent with Ezra Morgan, the mer- chant of Morgan's Four Corners, in 1S42. Oliver Somers ('SDr" Somers of Cold
 Spring. went with Charles c. Warner in 1S43. Levi Peck, formerly of Tinker field, accompanied Ezra Patch, long the Hook postmaster, in lS44. David San ford, father of William I. Sanford, sat
 with Charles Peck in lS45. Isaac M. Sturges, bachelor lawyer whose office
 is the north wing of Mrs Emma Beers's home, went with David I. Northrop in 1S46. Alonzo Sherman, Zoar's learned blacksmith, went with Charles Dikeman in 1S47. Russell Wheeler, still living, sat with Thomas O., father of Frederick Chambers, in 1S4S; John B. Peck, State Senator in 1862, with Dr Monroe Judson in 1S49; Judge Charles c. Warner with ex-Sheriff Aaron Sanford in 1850, just as the latter had come to Newtown; Carlos B. Booth, father of l.. E. Booth, with with Zerah Fairman in 1852; James Blackman with Alonzo Taylor in 1858; Elliott M. Peck with William Platt in 1854; David H. Johnson and Walter, father of Edwin Clark, in 1855; Stephen w. Blackman and Botsford Terrill in 1856; Abel T. Peck and Hiram Camp of Taunton in 1857; David Sanford and Oli- yer s. Botsford, the Botsford station agent, in 1858; Charles c. Warner and Eli J. Morris in 1859; George W. Brad ley of Shiloh and the late David B. North rop of Palestine in 1860; Alonzo Sherman and Herman Fairchild, father of Mrs c. H. Peck, in 1861; Ezra Morgan and Ze- rah Fairman in 1862; Charles H. Peck and Edwin Clarke in 1863; Zerah Fair man and John M. Beardsley of Dodging- town in 1864 ;Zerah Fairman and Samuel c. Glover in 1865. MT Fairman was State Senator in 1866 and B. D. Frisco and Will liam A. Bradley sat in the House. John M. Beardsley accompanied Theron B. Appel in 1867; Ezra Morgan and R. A. Clark in 1868; P. H. Skidmore and Cyrus D. Fairchild in 1869; Silas B. Wheeler and Charles c. Warner in 1870; William H.. Glover and Harrison Twitchell in Blackman in 1872. This year, Hon s. F. Glover was first State Senator, Zerah Fairman succeeding him, while Wheeler Drew and Edward Taylor sat in the House. Abel B. Prindle and William L. Terrill were sent in 1874; Simeon B. Peck and Lawyer James A. Wilson in 1875; Bennett Blackman and John O'Dolohery in 1876. The centennial year marks an- other epoch in Newtown history; the first Irish American representative was then elected. Samuel Barnum of Haw- leyville and George Winton were the twins of 1877, John Mooney and George ". Bradley of 1878; Jerry Carey and John H. Blackman of 1879; John Griffin of Huntingtown and Griffin F. Lillis of the Hook in 1880; Patrick McCarty and T G. sx