The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-12
ISAAC H, BROMLEY DEAD
,1t BRILLIANT URNALIST PASSES
 AWAY.

Died Late Yesterday Afternoon i'm Nor- Nwich-A Sketch of His Career-His Life
 in New Haven-NOted Yale Man and
 Editor.
 In the death of Isaac Hill Bromley, which occurred yesterday afternoon at the Backus hospital at Norwich, one of the most brilliant editorial writers of the country has passed away. His age was siXty-five. His death will be widely lamented and many in this city where for years he resided will hear of his death with sorrow. MT. Bromley had been a sufferer from neuritis for sixteen weeks and ten weeks ago he was removed from his residence in New York city to the Norwich hospital. He failed rapidly but steadily until the end. A sketch of the events of his life by the Associated Press follows:
 Isaac Hill Bromley was born in Nor wich, Conn.,, March 6, 1888. He grad uated from Yale in the class of 1853 and took course in law. He practiced that profession in New Haven until 1868. In 1857 he was a clerk of the Connecticut house of representatives and the clerk of the Connecticut senate in 1S5S Later in the same>year he began the publica- tion of the Norwich Morning Bulletin During the civil war he served as a captain until 1862 when he was promot- ed to a provost marshalship. Two years later he was a member of the Connecticut general assembly. From 1868 to 1872 he was editor and part pro prietor of the Hartford Evening Post, and in 1872 he became an editorial writ CT on the staff of the New York Sun. In 1873 and for ten years thereafter he was an editorial writer on the New York Tribune, and then for a short period occupied the position of editor of the Commercial Advertiser. He was appointed a government director of the Union Pacific railroad company in the spring of 1882, and held this office until 1884. During the presidential canvass of 1884 he edited the Rochester (N. Y.) Post-Express, and subsequently enter ed the service of the Union Pacific Railroad company. In 1895 he was appointed assistant to the president of that company. The last years of his life he spent as an editor of the New York Tribune.
 MT. Bromley, as stated above, was graduate of Yale his class being the famous class of 53," as it has been termed by Yalensians for many years. Among his classmates were the late Judge Billings, who was judge of the United States district court in Louisiana and who resided for years on Temple street, this city; Captain Theodore Ba- con, a prominent lawyer of western New York, one of the sons of the late Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon of this city, a famous divine; Hiram Bingham, who was a famous missionary; Bishop Thomas F. Davies of the P. E. church; Frank Wayland Fellowes, the artist, who resides on Whitney avenue, this city; the late Randall Lee Gibson, who was United States senator from Lou isiana; General Edward Harlan of Nor wich, this state; Henry H. Babcock, collector of the port of this city; the late George Asbury Johnson, who was United States circuit judge and attor- ney general of California; Sherman w. Knevals, merchant of New York, for- merly a Chapel street merchant here; Prof. Charlton T. Lewis, a prominent writer and scholar; Wayne MacVeigh, who has held the positions of United States minister to Turkey and Am bassador to Italy; Hon. Henry c. Rob- inson of Hartford lawyer and orator; the late Judge Edward W. Seymour of Litchfield, who was a supreme court judge; Judge Shiras, associate justice of the United States supreme court; Joel Sumner Smith, assistant librarian of Yale university; Dr. H. F. Stearns, a distinguished authority upon the care and treatment of the Insane; Edmund Clarence Stedman the banker and fa- nous poet; the late Abner L. Train of Milford, at one time a New Haven journalist and newspaper owner; the late George H. Watrous leading New Haven lawyer and who was for several years president of the Consolidated road Andrew D. White, ex-United State minister to Russia, and afterward ambassador to Germany, and later president of Cornell; and many others of note.
 MT. Bromley was in the sos a student in the law office of the late Lucius G.. Peck of this city, which was in what was the Brewster building, on Chapel street. corner of Union street. He soon relinquished law for journalism and taking charge of the Norwich Bull letin made that paper a power in the politics of the day in this state. Later while editor of the Hartford Post he made a journey across the continent and wrote series of letters for his pa per which were of great interest and eagerly looked for. MT. Bromley was a vigorous and trenchant editorial writ CT, his rare gift of humor permeating his effusions and giving them distinct flavor and rare interest, but he was also very witty speaker, and was one of the lions at the famous Yale alumni dinners in New York. He was in his later life a resident of New Haven for several years, his home having been on Orange street, few doors south of Au- dubon street. He was one of the chief speakers at dinner of New Haven s Chamber of Commerce a number of years ago, his brilliant witticisms add