The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-16
LEGISLATIVE NEUROLOGY
PROMINENT CONNECTICUT MEN
WHO HAVE PASSED AWAY.

tors and 14e ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Munson, Holmes, Vessels, Judson and
Goodrich Were Best Known About Here.
The neurology OF ex-state officers and
members of the general assembly Tor
1895 includes the names OF many men
who have been prominent in the po-
litical affairs of Connecticut. The list
includes: State officers, 3; senators, IS;
representatives. 142.
OF the uhree state officers who passed
away, the most prominent was ex-Gov-
ernor Luzom B. Morris, who died sud
denly at New Haven last August. lie
served as governor from 1898 to 1885,
was state senator from New Haven
district in 1874, and served six terms
in the lower house. two of them
QS55-6) as representative from Sey-
mour.
Tive ex-comptrollers died during the
year, Robbins Battell, who died at
Norwalk, was comptroller in 1866, state
senator the previous year, and repre-
sented his town in the house for four
sessions.
Luzerne T. Munson Of Waterbury,
who was comptroller in 1866, had no
legislative service.
Among the 16 senators was ex-Con-
gresham Landers Of New Britain, who
represented the First Connecticut dis
trict at Washington from 1875 to 1879,
was bank commissioner in 1875 and 1885,
state senator in 1858, 1859 and 1873, and
was in the lower house for three terms.
Judge Miles I. Granger of Canaan also
represented his state in congress, 1879.
He was on the bench in the superior
and supreme courts from 1867 to 1886,
was state senator in 1867, and served
a single term in the lower house I'M
1857
Among other widely known ex-sena-
tors were Matthew Buckley of Weston,
senator in 1857 and 1875, and for six
years sheriff pf Fairfield county; David
A. Daboll Of Groton, senate OF 1878;
Chauncey Good rich, senate OF 1870, for
many years a prominent manufa cturer
in Bristol. and Plainville; Henry Ham
mond of Killsngly, 1882, a railroad
commissioner from 1857 to 1858; Judge
Thomas W. Loomis of Windsor, 1874 ;
Joseph Merriman Of East Hartford,
1854, president of the old Hartford
Bridge company; Thomas r. Pickering
of Portland, who died during his term
in the senate of 1895, and Frederick w.
RUSSELL, for many years one of the
most prominent residents of Hartford,
and senator in 1865, when he resided
at Portland. Timothy E. Williams,
who died at Hartford at the age of
eightyfour, was a senator in, 1858 and
was in the lower house five terms, the
first in 1S41, more than half century
ago.
OF the representatives who parsed
away during the year, few were better
known than Judge Earl Martin of Kill
lingly, who was in the house Of 1872,
and in 1874 was elected judge OF the
superior court for eight years. Gener-
al Leverett w. VESSEL, Litchfield
1879 and 1887, was sheriff of Litchfield
county from 1854 to 1865, and quarter
master general in 1880. Six repre-
sentatives had served as county COM
nlissioners: James M. Babcock, Column
bia 1857, as commissioner of Holland
county, 1S6S-70; Nathan M. Belden, Will
ton 1878, 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1887, as
commissioner of Fairfield county, 1882
to 1887; Cecil A. Burleigh, Hamden,
1880, as commissioner of New Haven
county 1885 to 1898; Erastus Geer Leb-
anon 1887, as commissioner of New Lon-
don county. 1879 to 1884; Joseph x. Jud-
son, Thomaston, 1882, as commissioner
of Litchfield county, 1885 to 1895, and
DIV y ~,
1873, 1874 ard 1876, as commissioner OF
Fairfield county in 1851.
Among the well known ex-representa
tives included in the death roll are ex-
Mayor Andrew j. Bentley Of New Lon
don, house Of 1884; John w. Bill Of
Lyme, 1S43 and 1881; Deacon Isaac
Brcadhead of Glastonbury 1878; Leon
ard Buckland Of West Hartford, 1861
and 1886, many years a prominent mer-
chant and clerk of the town; James
w. Bryne OF Windsor Locks, 1880, for
several years the town clerk: Deacon
David G. Camp Of Durham, 1862; John
c. Crittenden of Madison, 1875 and 1877,
a prison director, 1893 to 1885, Charles
p. Clark, a prominent resident of East
CRANKY, in 1S49; Rufus C. Denison Of
Old Saybrook, 1884; Erwin O. Dimock
of Tolland, 1883; Judge Jared b. Foster
OF New Hartford, 1852 and 1866; Judge
Seneca o. Griswold of Windsor who
was a prominent figure in the mcmor-
able deadlock" session of 1891; Judge
Supply r. Holbrook OF Norwich, 1873
and 1876, for many years judge of the
Norwich probate district; Israel Holmes
of Waterbury, 1879; Henry L. Kellogg OF
Newington, who represented Wethers-
deld in 1853; Charles r.. Lewis of Mid
dletown, a member Of the house of
1895; James Mclaughlin of Stafford,
1884, editor of the Stafford Springs
PRESS and state prison director at
the time of his death; James H. Minor
OF New Britain, 1880 and 1881 a leading
citizen OF that place. Henry Norton Of
Goshen, 1852, for a quarter Of q century
a correspondent of Litchfield county
papers over the familiar initials. IN.
H; Lawyer Wilbert W. Perry of Hart
ford, 1888, who was one of the demo-
cratic leaders of that session; John c.
Reynolds, a prominent democrat Of
Greenwich, who served five terms be-
tween 1868 and 1877, and Buel E. Sedg-
wick of New Britain, who died at War
rem, Litchfield county, last March.
Among other men without legislative
service, but who have been prominent
in other communities, were Colonel Levi
Woodhouse Of Hartford, paymaster-
general, 1854. and quartermaster-g ener-
al in 1867; Henry A. Botsford of Hart