The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-12
CONNECTICUT ooSGREssMEs.
Sketches of the Men Who Were Elected
 in the Recent Landslide.

in the Recent Landslide. The Hon. E. Stevens Henry Rep) of Vernon, elected in the first district, is a native Of Gill. Mass. but located in Rockville. Conn.,. in early life. He started as a clerk in a country store and eventually became proprietor of a large mercantile business. The Henry block in Rockville. which he built, is one of the finest buildings in the city, and contains the Henry theater. For many years past he has been treasurer of the Peoples National bank and connected with other institutions. He served in the lower house of the gene- ral assembly in 1883, in the senate in 1887, was elected state treasurer in 1888, and served until 1893, holding over for the last two years. In 1892 he ran for congress and was defeated by the Hon. Lewis Sperry by about 600. Mr. Henry is mayor of Rockville.
 SECOND DlsTRfCT.
 Nehemiah Day Sperry Rep.) in the second district, was the third son of Enoch and Atlanta Sperry and was born in Woodbridge, July 10. 1927. De- scended from old New England stock, he inherited the sturdy Puritan char acter, which was still further devel- oped by his early training. Brought up on New England farm, his educa- tion was chiefly obtained in the dis trict school house. At the age of four teen he came to New Haven to attend school. He learned the trade of ma son builder, and later went into busi- ness, forming partnership with his brother-in-law, Willis M. Smith. The firm is still in existence, and the oldest continuous one in the city. He was secretary of the national republican committee during the trying times of the great rebellion. He was secretary of state under the Know Nothing state administration in 1855 and 1S56.. He has been prominent republican leader in the state for many years. He was postmaster of New Haven for twenty five years.
 THIRD DISTRICT.
 Charles A. Russell, of Killingly, is elected for his fifth term. He was born in Worcester, Mass, March 2, 1852 re- ceived his primary education in the schools of that city and prepared for college. He was graduated at Yale in the class of 1873. taking high rank as student. After his graduation he at once engaged in newspaper work and became editor excessively of two pa- pers of his native city. In 1878 he re- moved to Dayville, Conn.,, and engaged with the business of manufacturing as treasurer of the Sabin l.. Sayles com pany, and was also interested in vari- ous other business enterprises of the town of Killingly as director or treas urer. In 1881 he was appointed aide de-camp on the staff of Governor Bige- low. He served the town of Killingly in 1883, was secretary of state in 1SS5-6, and was first elected to congress in the fall of 1886.
 FOURTH DISTRICT.
 The Hon. Ebenezer J. Hill, of Nor walk, elected to congress in the fourth district, was born in Bedding, August 4, 1856, and was educated at Norwalk Union school and Yale college. He en- tered college in 1861, but left in March, 1863, serving two years and half as civilian clerk in the commissary de- partment at the headquarters of the Eighteenth and Twenty-fourth army corps, army of the James. He was sec retary and treasurer of the Norwalk iron works for four years, and has since been engaged in the lumber busi- ness. He served several years as a member of the republican state central committee and was a delegate to the national republican convention in 1884. In 1887 he was elected senator by 223 in a district which the democratic party had carried for three successive terms. He had been grand master of the Grand lodge of Connecticut, I. o. o. F., and for four years represented this state in the Sovereign Grand lodge of the order. He is a director in the Nor walk Mills company and the Norwalk National bank