The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-14
LEGISLATIVE NEoRoLoGY.


 Hundred Elk Representative Passed
 Away in 1897.
 The death roll of ex-State officers and members of the General Assembly for 1897 shows a list of about twenty less than that of 1896, during which two eX-State officers, seventeen eX-senators and 14S ex-representatives passed away. The list for 1897 includes one ex-state officer, fourteen eX-senators and 1Sl who had served only In the lower house
 The only ex-state officer who died was the Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull of Hartford, who was secretary of state during the war period from 1861 to 1865. He died last August
 Among the more prominent eX-sena- tors who died were Charles R. Chap man of Hartford. senate of 1857; Jona- than R. Sanford of Bedding, 1878 and 1879; Samuel F. West fo Columbia, 1S47, who had also been county con- missioner and member of the state Board of Agriculture; the venerable Ralph Cheney of Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Senate of 1852; Sam uel Bloss of Bethlehem, 1875; William T. Palmer of Scotland, who served dur ing the famous deadlock" session of | 1S91-2; Pliny l.. Barton of Salisbury. l 1873; Dr Francis l.. Dickinson of Yer | non, leading physician of Holland county for half a century, who was sen | ator in 1877, 1878 and 1879; Marcus Lil- I lie of Coventry, 1860; Joseph B. Merrow, l who was well-known manufacturer of | Mansfield, senate of 1873; Lawyer Jo- ] seph D. Plunkett, senate of 1883 and ! 1884, who died within a few weeks at I New Haven, and William E. Little of l Columbia, senate of 1854.
 Ii Is @ somewhat curious fact that of | the fourteen ex-senators who died dur ing the year, six had represented a sin gle district, the old Twenty-f1rst. in Holland county. They were: Samuel F. West, Columbia, senate of 1S4T. Will liam B. Little, Columbia, 1854; John { Brown, Mansfield, 1858; Marcus Lillie, l Coventry, 1860; Joseph B. Morrow, Mansfield, 71S3, and Francis L. Dickin- son, Vernon, 1S77-S-9.
 1 Of the deceased ex-members of the lower house, the senior in date of ser vice was the venerable George w. Bar | tholomew of Bristol, who died at the age of ninety-tWo, and whose first l term of service was sixty-threee years l ago. He served in 1885 and 1886, and in 1866 served his third term. Other vete- l ran legislators who served during the l first half of the present century were | Thaddeus M. Abbott of Bedding, house of 1S41; Nathaniel Pierson, Glaston- | bury, 1S44 and 1S46, and Holland. 1863; Joseph P. Platt of Middlebury. 1S45, and Jarius Chapman of Eastford, 1849. There were also three veterans who served in the house of 1S48, Henry D. 1 Stanley of Pennington, Timothy W. | Stanley who represented Berlin in that year and New Britain in 1852, 1853 and 1858, and John Brown of Windham, who served in 1S4S, and died last winter while representing that town in the General Assembly of 1897. He was also member from Mansfield in 1854, and served term in the senate in 1858, in the old Twenty-first district.
 Other prominent representatives who passed away during the year were | William H. Risley, Berlin, 1875 and 1883; Judge David B. Lockwood, Bridgeport, 1875 and. 1883; Dr. Loren H. Keigwin, Windham, 1885, A. J. Coe, Meriden, 1860 and 1867; Henry Abbe, Enfield, 1885; George B. Cowles, Nor 1 Wdlk, Iool to loof, LIT. EllSlld NullSeIi East Lyme 1883; Josiah M. Buell. He
 bron, 1858; Martin T. Hollister, Glaston- l bury, 1889; Lyndon T. Button, Torring- ton, 1871.
 l Few were more generally known in 1 legislative circles than Emerson w Moore, who was representative from Vernon in 1868, and for nearly thirty years afterward was a clerk in the office of the state comptroller. He had been chief clerk for many years preced-
 ing his death, December "A.
 Two deceased ex- members of the Gen,
 eral Assembly rose to high honors 1T
 the state judiciary. Judge Elisha Gar
 penter, then living in Killingly, repre-
 scented the old Eleventh district in 1851
 and 1858, and daws on the bench from
 1861 to 1894. Judge Augustus H. Fem
 of Winsted was member of the house
 in 1884, was appointed to the bench ir
 1887, and was member of the Supreme
 court at the time of his death
 The house of 1897 has lost two mem
 bers by death, the venerable Johr
 Brown of Windham, who died during
 the session, and Samuel Frisbie, house
 chairman of the committee on appro
 priations, whose death occurred recent ly. He had served five terms.
 Among other gentlemen prominently
 identified with state affairs who havt , died during the year were General Da rius N. Couch of Norwalk, quartermas , ter-general, 1876 to 1878, and adjutant | general 1SS3-4; General William M , Charter of Hartford, quartermaster general 1S6S-9; Francis A. Walker 0
 New Haven, who served as railroad commissioner and on the state board o !. education; Dr. Robert Hubbard o Bridgeport, member of the state boar 2 of health, 1S6S-9; James Reynolds o } New Haven ("Catalpa Jim'), who wa
 county commissioner and promi nent in political affairs, and E. H. La 3 throp of Vernon, a county commission 7 CT and widely known through his con ! nection with the state board of agricul 7 ture; Patten Fitch, who died at Man f chester December 29, served thre
 years as railroad commissioner, 1857 t 3 1860 Henry c. Baldwin, who was ire t quently the candidate on the state tick r cts of the peoples and labor parties 8 died last January, at Naugatuck.