The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-20
WAS A WELL KNOWN MAN.
THE DEATH OF HENRY J. MATTOoS
 1T THE HOsPIT4E.

| 1nspeetoF-Hhi "ohuefiui Memory - | Was Unusually fatriotie-Death Due to | Heart Failure.
 | Henry J. Mattoon. one Of the best
 known and most popular residents of
 this city. died at the hospital at S;S0
 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the
 sevcnty-iirst year of his age. after about
 two weeks illness with heart trouble. Being advanced in years he had not | been in the best of health for some
 time. He was in New York with one of
 his sons. however. on the Fourth of
 July. and while he was not very well at
 that time nothing serious was appre- hended. His son deemed his removal to
 the hospital necessary about n week
 ago. He had been unconscious since
 Tuesday.
 | Mir. Mattoon was man about seven
 ty years of age. He was the son of Joel Mattoon, a sailmaker by trade and was 1 born in the old Mattoon homestead at
 597 Chapel street, which is now oc-
 cupied by s. Fred Strong. assistant
 cashier of the Merchants National
 bank. The Mattoon family originally
 came from Wallingford. and Joel Mat
 toon was member of the Governors
 Foot Guard during the Revolution. Mir. Mattoon's mother was Northrop | and belonged to one of the old and re- lcs, tal lNl. f., 1ft ha ait The deceased had lived the greater part of his life in this city. He was an alumnus of the Lancasterian school,
 having been there about the same time as Wooster A. Ensign, Augustus Lines. | Henry Peck, the veteran newspaper
 man, and eX-Governor Henry B. Harri- son and Charles R. Ingersoll.
 He was by trade a carriage maker, and for many years employed at Hook CTS carriage factory on State street.
 He had been life long democrat, and early in the seventies was appointed sidewalk inspector of the city, which position he held for about fourteen years, with the exception of a short in-
 terval in 1874. when the board of public works dispensed with his services for time in an endeavor to consolidate the office with another office but after short time MT. Mattoon was reinstated and held the position until 1886, when he left 1t through political changes. Since then MT. Mattoon had been engaged in various pursuits, during the last year or so acting as an agent for the Car bonized Stone company in securing con- rtS ha 1o of in which he had been quite successful.
 Under President Buchanan he filled a position in the New York custom house for short time.
 MT. Mattoon'S wife died about twelve years ago. He had three sons, Albert W. Mattoon, of Mattoon & Walworth, the cigar dealers on State street, in this city; Samuel J. Mattoon, the well known druggist in New York, who used
 to be at Sperry's drug store, this city, and Charles l. Mattoon, who is in the insurance business in Brooklyn. He was at one time pilot on the steamer c. H. l Northam. While his wife was living the | family resided on Bradley street. He was door keeper at the old state house during one of the legislatures. | His sister Mrs. Sarah E. Gilbert, still
 resides in Waterbury, She has reached the age of seventy-three years. Her
 daughter is Mrs. Selah w. Strong and
 now resides at 597 Chapel street, the old
 Mattoon homestead.
 His brother, Isaac Mattoon. was a
 printer by trade and died in Waterbury twenty years ago.
 IT., Mot St, 13 1,o I the most wonderful memories of any
 man in the city and for the last few years had been an encyclopedia for newspaper men who desired to know of men and things of former years and l the readiness with which he would reel off incidents and dates was simply astonishing, the events of the past be- ing as fresh in his memory as though they happened but the day before. He was associated with manw of the | most prominent men of New Haven for
 many years past and could review
 their histories, telling many interesting anecdotes and incidents Of their lives. He was one of the most eccentric and liked men that ever lived in the city. He had common sense, good judgment and good reasoning power
 He never liked to have his picture taken, however, and for the last fifty years he had never sat 1n front of a camera.
 He had been for many years con- mected with St. Pauls church. He originally attended Trinity Sunday school, but when St. Paurs parish
 was formed, he attended Sunday
 school there.
 MT. Mattoon was one of the most
 patriotic men imaginable and for the last century he had been present l each year at the firing of the cannon | on the green in the early morning, which ushered in July 1. On several | occasions he had been known to call
 upon the city officials and inform them | that the salute on that particular morn
 ing was not complete, the persons hay | ing the matter in charge having slight
 ed it and fired less guns than the
 national salute called for. "Not that
 l care anything about the city being | cheated" he used to say, "but I like to
 hear the full complemet fired on such
 an occasion"
 The funeral will be held at the Grove | street cemetery chapel at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon The fnterment
 will be in the family lot in the Grove Street cepootar