The Newtown bee., 1893-02-17
Washington.
Cousin of United States Senator Platt.-A Rug ged and Interesting Charactsr.--Appreciativ Sketch by an Intimate Friend.

Lewis A. Garfield, who died February 9, 1893, was born in Washington on the 31st day of March, 1909, in the ''Frost house." Blackville. He was the eldest son of Lemon and Ruth A. Platt Can field. He had two sisters, Aurelia, the second wife of John Gum, and Julia, who was never married. Both are dead. A brother, Daniel N., 80 years of age, still lives here and was at the funeral.
 ke did farm work and attended district school until old enough to learn a trade, when with his brother Daniel he went to | work with Daniel Calhoun at ''carpenter- ing and joinering," which also included house painting. At the time of the .great revival" in 1881, on the 18th of l October, he was one of 113 who united | with the Congregational church, Rev Gordon Hayes. pastor. In 1885, March I2, he was married to Miss Amaryllis Gum, daughter of Sheriff Gum, and sis ter of Frederick w. Gum, the afterward
 master of the Gunnery. The great aid
 which he and Mrs Garfield gave to the embryo teacher is fully given in Senator O. H. Platt's sketch of "Early Life and Struggles" in "The Master of the Gun nery." He continued at his trade and THE stBRoTHERs CANFIELD''
 were we'll known in this and adjoining towns as energetic, faithful joiners and carpenters. Many of the substantial houses at the center and among the farm CTS having been erected by them. Most of the bridges over the rapid She paug river were of their construction. They built with wood in those days. Soon after marriage he went to live on the Stephen Mason place, home of the pastor preceding MT Hayes, on the Green, where he lived several years. It was while he lived here that the great "Abo- lition contest" began, into which he en- tered with all the vigor of an honest. ar dent nature.
 In 1887 he, with John Gum, William Leavitt, Daniel G. Platt and their wives attended three-days Abolition conven- tion at Hartford. ssIn August, 1889, Lewis A. Garfield and Daniel G. Platt, with their wives, went to Gaylord's Bridge and brought back Miss Abbey Kelly, then prominent Abolition speak er.'' Meetings were held frequently for two or three weeks.
 THE DIVINE RIGHT OF SLAVERY, property in man, were assailed with the hot shot of logic and invective. A ma- jority of the church sided with their pas tor, Rev Gordon Hayes,in asserting that the institution of slavery was sanctioned of God in fhe Old Testament and it's con- tinnance justified in the New.
 The forces were marshaled, the battle joined. MT Garfield said that if the Bible sanctioned the awful curse of slavery and contemplated it's continuance, then he must become an infidel.
 But he did not believe in any such the ology. He did not believe that the tenn porary sufferanee of an evil fOreordained it's everlasting existence. Such logic was contrary to the record of history. He felt that
 AS AN HONEST MAN
 he could not in any way be compromised in aiding and sustaining such sssum of villainies, ' and called upon the church with his brethren to disfellowship slave holders. This the church refused to do and the Abolitionists could not consist ently stand in line. They united them selves in church of their own and re fused to attend the ordinances of church which fellowshipped slaveholders. Therefore about dozen Abolition mem- t,are warn eyc0mmunicated or C3ismissed