The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-27
OBITUARY NOTES.
II. ID. sharpe-A Native of Pomfret-Was
II Prominent Abolitionist.

Hezekiah Davis Sharpe, who died on
Thursday evening in Brooklyn, of old
age, was born at Pomfret,, this state,
December 8, 1911. He went to New
York in 1887, the same year that Horace
Greeley, Henry C. Bowen and Charles
l.. Tiffany migrated to the metropolis;
and Greeley, Bowen and Sharpe, meet
ing frequently and having much in
common, became intimate friends and
roommates. Politically, Mr.. Sharpe
was one of the strongest of aboitionists
from the beginning, when abolition was
only thought of as the possibility OF
another century. He was also a life
long stanch Wing and Republican, hav-
ing cast his maiden vote in 1886 for
William Henry Harrison. His intense
anti-slavery sentiments brought him in
touch with Abraham Lincoln, and there
was none Of his other possessions that
he so treasured as some autograph let
tiers upon the slavery question from the
martyr president.
During the draft riots Mr.. Sharpe
was at the house of Lewis Tappan
when it was attacked by the, mob.
While the rioters were pillaging the
house he conducted the Tappan family
out of the, rear door, and took them to
a place of safety in Brookline, Mass
During his residence in New York, Mr..
Sharpe became deacon of Dr. Adams
church in Broome street, at that time
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city. After his marriage he removed
to Brooklyn, He was charter mem
Der and. founder of the Brooklyn
Female Institute, the first female edu-
cational institution in that city. After
its endowment it adopted the name of
the Packer Collegiate Institute.
Mr.. Shapes mercantile career was,
until the last twenty years, closely
identified with the wholesale dry goods
business, beginning in 1897, with Arthur
Tappan & Co., after which he engaged
in business for himself under the firm
name of Thorn, Half & Sharpe. Upon
the dissolution of the firm he became
| associated with Bowen & McNamee.
For the last twenty years he had been
connected with the clock and bronze
department Of Tiffany & Co., where he
| was a familiar figure to many old New
Workers. Mrs. Sharpe, whom he mar
ried fifty-seven years ago, two sons,
and two daughters, survive him. The
funeral will take place at his late resi-
| dence, % Garden place, Brooklyn, at
p. m.
Dea tn of Mrs Bond FornarIy IF Ty,is Citv
Widow of Hon. Thomas III. Bond.
Mrs. Mary Human Bond, widow o.
Hon. Thomas H. Bond Of New Haven
died last Friday at the home Of Mrs. #
V. Hamlin, 500 Madison avenue, New
York city. She was the daughter O.
Royal x. Human, at one time Secreta
ry of State of Connecticut, and the au
thor of several historical and genealog
ical works. Her husband was promi
nent in Connecticut politics and was
| courtly, polished gentleman of the oil
school, whose hospitality was free ant
| his greetings most cordial. He wa
twice married, and the lady who's,
death is above recorded was quit
| prominent in fashionable society cir
cles in New Haven and was a lady o
more than ordinary fascination ant
beauty. Her many friends here will b.
grieved to hear of her death. Funera
| services will be held at the residenc
of Mrs, Hamlin tomorrow morning a
| 1890 O'clock.
4 Is
Richard Evans of Seymour.
| Seymour, Sept. 25.-The residents 0
| this town were panied yesterday t.
| learn of the death of Richard Evans
| who has been resident of this tow
| for many years, and who was respect
| ed by his townspeople and friends
| Mr.. Evans had been ill for severa
months with lung trouble, which wa
| found to be caused by an abscess a
| the base of the lung. He was to b
operated on for it's removal within
| few days, but he grew rapidly wors
and death came before the operation
| was performed. The deceased was
native of Swansea, Wales, but at hi
arrival in this country he came direct
ly to Seymour and was employed a
! the New Haven Copper company
works He had resided here twenty
nine years. Receiving good wages an
being frugal, he acquired a considera
bic amount of property, so that for tn
last few years he has been retired from
active work Besides Mrs. Evans h
leaves three daughters to mourn hi
loss, the Misses Annie, Mamie an
Sarah
| Richard Ralph, a Native of North Haven
| Richard Ralph, former resident o
Middletown, died Friday morning a
| Grange, o., aged eightyffve years
eight months and twenty-five days
He was the father of Henry Ralph o
Middletown. Mr.. Ralph was born a
| North Haven. His grandfather serve
| seven years in the Revolution and h
had four sons in the civil war. MI
Ralph has been in Ohio a little over
year. He had twenty-one children
eight Of whom survive him. The bricl
for the Baptist church and for tn
| house in which l.. D. Munger resides
in Middletown, were made by MI
| Ralph. 4Ff
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