The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-01-08
LEGISLATIVE NEUROLOGY.

Many Veteran Members Passed Away
in 1895 - Ex-Lieutenant Governor
Hyde and Seventeen Senators--Near-
ly $50 misrepresentation
Who Have Been Influential in Legis-
latlon.
The record of deaths of ex-state off,
GERS, state senators and representa-
tives during the year 1896 is an extend
ed one, and embraces the names OF
many gentlemen who have been promi-
hent in the affairs of the state.
The Hartford Times says: The only
ex-state officer in the list is ex-Lieu-
tenant-Governor e. II. Hyde of Stat
ford. who died last June at the age of
eighty-four. He was lieutenant-gover-
nor in 1867 and 1868, served two terms
in the senate, 1876 and 1887, and was
Cor thirty years identified with the
state board of agriculture. He was a
lifelong democrat and for over half a
century a prominent figure in gather
ings of his party.
OF ex-senatorS, seventeen passed
away. The Oldest in date OF service
was John M. Wadhams of Goshen, SEN
ate Of 1858, and the youngest, Lawyer
Daniel r. Webster of Waterbury, SEN
ate of 1895. Others prominent in the
list were Willis r.. Austin OF NorWlcn,
1876, ex-Sheriff Bolton of Stafford, 1860
and 1866, Edward M. Chaplin OF New
Hartford, 1872, Sidney ?. Ensign or
Salisbury, 1881 and 1885, who was for
years associated with the late Wllham
H. Barnum; James Gallagher OF New
Haven, 1867, 1868 and 1887, who was
nne of the most widely-fnoWn Demo
Gratis in the state; I'll. Sidney Hayden
of Windsor. 1866, long identihed with
the Connecticut Hospital for the IN
sane management; Oscar Leach OIL
Durham 1859 and 1887, who was one OF
the auditors of public accounts at the
time of his death, and S. Fl. Scranton
of Madison, 1870, one of the promoters
of the Shore Line railroad.
Two ex-members of congress nave
died during the year, the Hon. Ezra
Clark of Hartford and the Hon. Fred
erick Miles of Salisbury.
The deaths of ex-members of the
house number nearly one hundred ana
fifty. Among the best known were
Charles N. Allen of Putnam, 1883, 1854
and 1885; General Lloyd d. Baldwin OF
Willimantic, who represented South
Windsor in 1871; Frank S. Burgess OF
Plainfeld, 1856 and 1857, who was sur
geon- general from 1873 to 1877; Corne-
Illus S. Bushnell of New Haven, 1862,
who assisted Ericsson in the building
of the famous Monitor; Lawyer Frank
lin Chamberlain Of Hartford, 1865; Au-
gustus S. Chase, prominent Water
bury manufacturer, 1865; ex-Mayor
Carlos Curtis of Bridgeport, 1875 and
1877; Gustavus F. Davis bank presi-
dent, Hartford, 1880; Tilton p. Doollt-
tie Of New Haven, Speaker in 1874, and
state attorney for seventeen years;
Samuel Fitch of Rockville, who repre-
scented both Stafford and Vernon, and
was railroad commissioner for four
wears: Solomon Fuller of Somers, 1868
for many years town clerk; William B.
Glover of Fairfield, a leading member
Of the house of 1889; Harry GODDARD OF
CRANKY, 1873, one of the old-schoo
democrats jeremiah Halsey, the lead
er of the Norwich bar, who served four
terms, between 1850 and 1860; Sheriff
Frank Hawkins of New London coun-
ty, who represented Griswold in 1879
Emory Johnson of East Haddam, 1861
pioneer manufacturer in the town
ex-Chief Justice Park Of Norwich, who
went from the house of 1855 to the SUI
perior court, and served continuously
on the bench until 1889; Charles Perrin
Stonington, 1875, and clerk of the house
and senate, 1880 to 1882; the Sillimar
brothers, Daniel and Samuel of Ches
ter, who respectively represented thai
town in 1877 and 1862. w. Wallace
Ward, Orange, 1881, who was a promi
nent resident OF West Haven, and thu
Rev. Francis Williams who represent
ed Chaplin in the house of 1876 OF the
general assembly of 1895, one senator
Senator Webster of Waterbury, ant
six representatives died during thu
year The representatives were: sey
1nour of New Hartford, Squire of Rox
bury, Swan of East Haddam, Keene.
of Somers, Miller of Killingly ant
Eoulden Of Stamford.
Four ex-representatives who die
During the past year served in TIL
house prior to 1850, viz: d. Fl. Water
man of Bozrah and James B. Carpen
ter, Berlin, both in 1874, G. HI. Allyn
Stonington 1916, and John S. ClapT
South Windsor, 1S4S Ex-senator job
M. Wadhams of Goshen also served il
the house in 1874 and 1916, and wa
again elected to the house in 1SS0-af
ter an interval of thirty-five years.
Other men prominent in state an
county affairs, but who never serve
in the general assembly, were John W
Stedman who had been both bank an
insurance commissioner, Lyman Dun
ming OF North Canaan, commissions
of Litchfie1d county for thirteen con
gecutive years, and Amasa Day of Eas
Haddam commissioner of Middlese
county, 1868 to 1866. Several of the rep
resentatives who died last year ha
also served terms as county commits
sioners, including John r. Champlin G
wellington, Mortimer E. Dutton {
Winchester, Buckley Edwards c
Cromwell, J. w. johnson of Easton an
Samuel c. Silliman of Chester, Lawye
Charles P. Woodbury. of Norwalk, VIII
was clerk of the house and senate fror
1881 to 1883, died Goth ult., while spend
ing the holidays In Morris, Litchfiel
county.