The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-04
1EG1sLAr1vE NECRoLoGY.
Ex-State Officers and Members of the Gen eraI Assembly Who Have Died During the Year Just Closed.

| erA1 AbSeInDly W no K1hVe Dleu OuhiH5
 the Year Just Closed.
 During the year that has just closed many ex-state officers and members of the legislature have passed over to the great maiority-several of them widely known throughout the state.
 The ex-state officers who have died are: The Hon. Benjamin Douglass of Niddletown, who was lieutenant gover- nor in 1861. during Governor Buoking- hams administration, and a member of the house in 1854 and 1872
 The Hon. Dwight Morris of Bridge port, who was secretary of state dur | ing the administration of Governor | Hubbard, 1877-7S and served three terms in the lower house in 1S45, 1884, and 1880. State Treasurer Charles M. Pond of Hartford, who was treasurer in 1870 and | 1871, during the administration of Gov | ernor English; state senator from the l First district from 1872 to 1877 and a member of the lower house in 1863 and l 1868.
 The Hon. Thomas Clark of Stoning- ton, comptroller in 1S87-S during Cover nor Lounsbury's administration; sem ator in 1867, and representative of his town in the lower house in 1861, 1862 and | 1S66
 | Twelve ex-senators have died during the year, including Charles Morse of Norfolk, the old Seventh district, 1877; John R. Tracy of Griswold, the old Eighth district, 1875; William M Corbin l of Union, the old Twentieth district, the same year; Heusted w. R. Hoyt of l Greenwich, the Twelfth district, in 1869 and 1873, and speaker of the house in | 1887; Robert Pierpont of Morris, the old Fifteenth district in 1857; Nelson Rob erts of Torrington, senator from the same district in 1866; F. Grove Lawrence | of Norfolk, the old Seventeenth district | in 1868 and 1869; Edward N Shelton of Derby who represented the Fifth dis trlct in 1869; Philo B. Buckingham of Seymour the same district, in 1855; Alexander s. Palmer of Stonington, the old Seventh district, in 1876 and 1S77 Thomas Gross, jr of East Haddam representing the Twenty first district in the senate of 1893, and ex-NIayor Amos w. Prentice of Norwich, the old Eighth district. in 1854.
 Among the more prominent of nearly ITO ex-members of the house who have died during the year were Captain J. B. Savage of southlngton, who served ten terms between 1853 and 1881; Alfred North of Berlin, 1S49 and 1855; General William F. Noble of Bridgeport, 1884; the Rev. Thomas H. F7essenden of Pennington, 1S66 1867 and 1868; Richard $. Beebe of Stafford. 1868 and 1874; Colonel Francis Gowdy of East Wind sor, 1870 and 1871; Editor Joseph F. Selden of East Haddam, 1891; John K. Shepard of Norfolk, 1S47, 1857 and 1871; the Hon. Alvan P. Hyde of Hartford, representative from Holland, 1854, 1858 and 1862; Silas M. Norton of Bristol, 1886 and 1887; Samuel Simpson, the vet eran Walllngford manufacturer. 1S46. 1859, 1865 and 1879; Henry Gildersleeve, the Portland shipbuilder, 1861; Gurdon w. Hull of Wallingford, 1876; John B. Moseley of Glastonbury, 1870; Judge John G. Crump of New London, 1880; Thomas O. Enders of West Hartford Ca prominent insurance man of Hart ford), 1889 and 1891; Martin s. Craw of Norwalk, 1870 and 1871; Willis X. Strong of Woodbury 1862 1874 and 1875; Hor- ace N. Trumbull of Stonington 1862 and 1863; ex-Mayor I. ". Carpenter of Nor wich, 1878, 1879 and 1880; William S. Williams of Glastonbury, 1886, and John s. Hanks of Mansfield, 1874 and 1876
 Five members of the general assem- bly of 1893 are dead, Representatives Peck of Derby and Brinton of Canaan. who died during 1S93 and Senator Cross of East Haddam and Representatives Botsford of Newtown and Brown of Wilton who died during 1894.
 Among others who have passed away during the year, who have been identi- fled with state affairs, were General William H. Green of Hartford, who was quartermaster general in 1870 under Governor English, and again from 1874 to 1876, during the administration of Governor Ingersoll, and General James B. Colt of Norwich paymaster general in 1883 and 1884, during Governor Wal ler's administration.
 EX-county commissioners who died were: Samuel F. Talmadge of Berlin. Hartford county, 1874-6; Silas M. Nor ton of Bristol, Hartford county, 1Ss9-9O. Nelson Roberts of Torrington, Litchfield county, 1857; John w. Lake of New Haven, New Haven county, 1S77-9; Dr. Maurice B, Bennett of Coventry, Tol- land county, 1876-S Amos w. Prentice of Norwich, New London county, 1S66 Dr. Sylvester Mead of Wilton, Fairfield county, 1860
 Exsheriffs who died during the year were: William M. Corbin of Union Tol- l land county, 18S1-4; Edward A. Leeds of Stamford, Fairfield county, 1869 to 1875; Lorenzo G. Winter of Holland. Holland county, 1878 to 1881.
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