The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-01
No. 91 CHURCH STREET.

established high reputation for business , enterprise and ability. We learn from MT. Lee of the firm that 1,250 copies Of the work were published, and that five sixths of them have been purchased, which speaks we'll for the public appre- citation of the history; but the margin of profit Is very small owing to the large and most liberal scale upon which the history was produced and the length of time-nine years from the works inception to it's completion that the capital invested lay unremu- nerative.
 MT. Lee says that the call for copies of the work has not ceased, but that the firm has reasonable expectation that the entire edition will be sold before many months have elapsed.
 Features of this history of special To- cal interest In New Haven are not lack ing. We have in the biographical sketches number that have special interest hereabouts. Who among the many old comrades of the Fifteenth Connecticut Volunteers will not recall the patriotic and noble-hearted Henry Brandagee Peck, captain of Company H, a fine portrait of whom is one of the many in this work, coupled with just and appreciative sketch of his life, which was cut off in the earlier days of the civil war? His manly face and figure, his sterling worth, his early death are all recalled by the Fifteenth c. V. veterans as they look back over the vista of the years that have passed since he stood forth, young man of promise and honored place in the regi- ment Captain Peck was, moreover, at one time a resident of New Haven and is we'll remembered by large number of our citizens who attended General RusselPs famous school, as he was for considerable period member of that school. and It was there that This love for military life was encouraged and he rose to the highest military position in the school, that of adjutant' "He may have inherited his love for mili- tary life from his maternal ancestors, for his great-great-grand Lieu tenant Colonel Jonathan Baldwin, and his great-grandfather, Colonel Phineas Porter, were as high in rank as any who went from Waterbury into the Revolutionary war" His army life lasted but six months The only en- gagement in which he took part was the battle of Fredericksburg, the ex- posures of which resulted in fatal at- tack of illness. He died of typhoid pneumonia January 30. 1863, at the Seminary hospital, Georgetown, D. C."
 Then there is seen in the work an ad- mirable portrait of the brave Captain Edwin M. Neville, who so gallantly fought in the First Connecticut Cav airy, his bravery winning for him spe- cially honorable mention from the war 1 department and medals in testimony thereto. Neville is well remembered by old comrades of the Second militia reg 1 iment, O. N. G., as he after the war served as adjutant general on the staff of General Kellogg in 1867 and '68, and was in camp with the Second regiment at Bridgeport He, too, passed away years ago, but the memory of his chiv alrous, generous nature and winning | traits of character remain in the mem ory
 The memory of our honored deceased townsman, the late Dr. Samuel Bron- son, father of, ex-Judge Samuel Bron- son of this city, is justly honored with sketch of considerable length, as was due his prominent position as leading physician and man of wide culture a writer of more than ordinary ability, man of marked financial sagacity and man of varied requirements and un- usually sound and vigorous mental en- dowment. A fine portrait of him &C., companies the sketch of his career Though Waterbury rightly classes him as one of her sons, his long residence in New Haven, his Identification for years with the faculty of the Yale Med ical school and his highly honorable con- nection with and interest in our New Haven Colony Historical society rem der the tribute paid him in this history one of much local interest here.