The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-03-04
OBITUARY.
Death of Charles ". Wilson.

mon, the Chapel street furnishing deal CTS. He died on Saturday afternoon at
 his residence on Howard avenue. MT Wilson had been i'll about five weeks, and his death is attributed to quick consumption. MT. Wilson was the son of Charles J. Wilson, who died about three years ago. His mother still sur wives him, as does also wife and two children. He was thirty-two years of age.
 MT. Wilson first began his business career with Veitch, the florist, and after working in this line of business for some time he became an employe of the dry goods firm of Wilcox & Hall. He subsequently, became connected with the store of F. M. Brown & Co.S and left that firm to go into business for him. self in 1886, with Frank w. Harmon and William c. Harmon, sons of Gener- al Harmon, under the firm name of Will son & Harmon, dealers in gents fur nishing goods, in which business he con- tinued up to the time of his death.
 DEATH OF THOMAS BAILEY.
 Thomas Bailey, aged sixty, a veteran of the civil war, and a prominent Grand Army man, died at his residence at Mt. Carmel Saturday morning. He contracted St, Vitas' dance during the war, and had always since been afflicted with that disease. A short time ago he caught cold, which later changed to grip, and then developed into pneumo- mia, from which he died He leaves a wife and two children. The interment will be in Hamden Plain cemetery. PRISON DIRECTOR CHITTENDEN
 DEAD.
 Madison, March 3.--John N. Chitten- den. member of the board of state prison directors, who had been i'll from bronchial pneumonia for several days. died early yesterday. The funeral will be held this afternoon. He was first taken with grip, and this developed into pneumonia. Bright's disease also set in, together with some heart trouble. The deceased was sixty-eight years of age, leaves a widow, one son and two daughters.
 MT. Chittenden was one of the most widely known residents of this sec ton of New Haven county. He was a native of Madison, and had lived here nearly all his life, and had been engaged in farming until within a few years. He had held numerous public offices, including that of first selectman for sixteen years. and represented this town in the general assembly in 1875 and 1877 as a republican. He had several years been president of the Madison Mutual Life Insurance company, a local com pany, with only a small business con fined to Madison and adjacent places. In 1893 he was appointed by Governor Morris on the board of directors of the state prison, his term expiring in July next. MT. Chittenden's son-m-law, Ed ward Field, is head bookkeeper for F. M. Brown & Co.,, of New Haven.
 DEATH OF JUSTIN BRADLEY,
 Justin Bradley, we'll known and es- teemed old citizen of East Haven, died yesterday. Mir. Bradley was taken with the grip about three weeks ago, which afterwards developed into pneumonia Mir Bradley was, it is said, the richest farmer in East Haven. Years ago he the town in the legislature.
 THE REV. ELIAS B. BILLIARD.
 The Rev. Elias Brewster Hilliard, for many years prominent in Congregations al circles in Connecticut, died at Far mington Friday. March 1. He was lineal descendant of Elder Brewster of | the Plymouth colony, and was born in | Boston in 1925, where his father, a ship | master, resided. MT. IIilliard was pre- pared for college at the Bacon acade- my in Colchester and was graduated at | Yale in the class of 1S4S. After his grad | nation he was for two years principal of | Lewis academy in Southington. Com | )leting his theological studies at the | Yale and Andover seminaries, Mir Hil- | iard offered himself for the home mis- iionary service, but finally located as pastor of the church at Hadlyme, re- from 1855 to 1860. His other | were Kensington, 1860 to 1887; | south Glastonbury, 1867 to 1869; Ply mouth, 1869 to 1889, and Conway, Mass, 889 to 1893. From the beginning of his | but notably in the twenty ears of his Plymouth pastorate, he was | recognized leader in the enterprise of reform. His wife, who was Miss Julia Whittlesey of Cleveland, O., urvives him, with seven children, Mrs. Andrew McLeish of Chicago, Frederick " of Staten Island Mrs. J. L. Fenn of Hartford, Mary R. of St. Margaret's chool, Waterbury; Helen, Fanny and ohn.
 FUNERAL OF DIR. HOADLEY,
 The funeral services of Dr. Frederic l. Hoadley, who died in Florida Febru- ny 25 were held at the residence of his ister Mrs. Augustus H. Kimberly, on Whitney avenue. On Saturday after oon. The bearers were Thomas Hook r, Eli Whitney, jr., Professor E, S. )ana, Dr. Foster and pr. Gilbert. Pro- essor Stevens conducted the services. The burial was in the old cemetery on trove street.
 IN MILFORD.
 The funearl of Mrs William r. Platt ras held at the residence of Deacon Ieorge F. Platt, on Derby avenue, on rday afternoon. The services were l onducted by the Rev. MT. Morse of ne First church, assisted by the Rev. Ir. Upson of Plymouth church, and , ere of character befitting the close f a young life of Christian usefulness. ( eautiful flowers were garlanded in
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