The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-23
M0RRISDEAD
FOUND LYING UNCONSCIOUS IN HIS
 OFFICE.


 Passed Away at P. m. at His Home General Expression of Sorrow in the Community and Throughout the State A Sketch of His Public Career--A ster- ling Citizen.
 Ex-Governor Luzon B, Morris died of Rpoplexy at his home, No. 2S0 Prospect street, at o'clock yesterday afternoon. The sad intelligence of the sudden pros tration and critical condition of the ex- governor spread rapidly about town and came as a shock to the community, and the news of his death a few hours later was received with genuine public sor- row.
 Judge Morris was stricken with ver- tigo about 10 a. m. while at his office, and was taken home in an unconscious condition. He had suffered from indi- gestlon for several days, but went to his office in the old Palladium build ing on Orange street soon after a. m. as usual.
 An hour later Algernon Fl, Morse, who has an office in the same building, en- tered Judge Morris office and found him living on the floor unconscious.
 Drs. Bellosa, Gaynor and Chapman were called and after making an ex- animation ordered that the unconscious man be sent home, and the hospital ann Hn hn At D. m. the governor was still un- conscious. Drs. Bellosa and Gaynor were in attendance. His pulse and tenn perature were not alarming and it was feared that he sustained a slight para 1ytic stroke.
 The physicians could not at that hour determine whether or not he had suf- fered shock, but admitted that he had suffered a serious attack of yer tigo.
 Dr. Robert Morris, his son, from New York, who happened to be in town, was summoned to the bedside of the stricken man and he at once assumed charge. At 2:3O pr. Morris announced that the patient had not recovered consciousness and that he was sinking rapidly. pr Morris diagnosed the attack as acute hpoplexy and ordered telegrams sent Ut once to the friends of the dying man. The ex-governor died exactly on the stroke of o'clock without having once regained consciousness.
 There were present at the end only Mrs. Luzon Morris, wife of the ex-gov- ernor, pr. Robert Morris, his son, Miss Dixon, a trained nurse, and Dr. Louis Gaynor. The direct cause of his death was cerebral hemorrhage, or apoplexy. CAREER OF EX-GOVERNOR MoR-
 RIS.
 Luzon Burritt Morris was born at Newtown, Fairfield county Conn.,, April h6, 1927 His father was E. Gould Nor iris of Newtown, who owned grist mill in the village, which stood where the Derby extension now passes through Newtown.
 His wife, the mother of ex-Governor Morris, was Lydia Bennett, daughter of Thaddeus Bennett of Monroe. She had been teacher for thirteen years. Two sons and daughter were born, Luzon being the youngest. When seven years of age his father was stricken with par alysis and six years later he died.
 HIS EARLY SCHOOL DAYS.
 Luzon was sent to the Zoar school, where Judge Belden of California, Judge Brisco of Thompsonville, Professor Syl- vester Clarke and James Nichols of Hartford were among his school fellows who have since achieved fame.
 After leaving school he apprenticed himself to MT. Higgins, a RoXbury blacksmith, and from there he went to Seymour and entered the sugar factory of Raymond French father of ex-Con- gressman Carlos French. By rigid econ omy he saved enough to pay his ex- penses at sutfield, which was then al time teaching school at Torrington.
 HE ENTERS COLLEGE.
 His Suffield education fitted him for Nale and he entered in the fall of 1850 The summer vacations were spent al Seymour, where the library of his for uner employer was placed at his dis. posal.
 After taking his degree he studied law and was admitted to the New Ha. wen county par III looo f1lS IlTSC OHlCe was opened in Seymour, where the elder MT. French did much to aid the ambitious young practitioner. In 1S5$ he received the degree of A. M from Yale.
 HTS CAREER IN POLITICS.
 Tn 1S55-56 he represented the town o1 Seymour in the legislature and in 1S5i was elected judge of probate in tht town of New Haven. From the be ginning of his political career he wa: a leading member of the democratic party. The office of judge of probate he held for six years to his own credi and the entire satisfaction of his con stituents.
 The knowledge of real estate gained in this office made him one of the bes authorities on that subject in the state
 In 1879, '76, 80 and 'S1 he represented
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