The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-06
GEORGE HOTCHKIss.


 The funeral services of George Hotch- kiss will be held tomorrow afternoon at half-past two o'clock, and will be conducted by Rev. E. s. Lines Of St. Paups church, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Phillips.
 The interment will be in the family lot in the Grove street cemetery. The deceased was born in this city in lSl2 op Columbus avenue He removed to Meadow street after his marriage to Mary E. Atwater, also descendant or one of the oldest families. and in 1870 as the town was enlarging he bought the Hotchkiss residence on Orange street, where he resided until the time of his death. His home stands at the corner of Bradley and Orange streets opposite the residence of Congressman N. D. Sperry.
 The deceased had busy life, taken up with mercantile and commercial in- terests and was continually at his tasks caring little for vacations. He was in- terested principally in real estate, in which he had extensive holdings throughout the central portion ot the city. In small office in the Hotchkiss block, at the corner of State and George streets, which he opened when that part of State street, between Chapel and Water was the busiest district in the city, he transacted all his busi- | ness and his headquarters are still To- cated there.
 | He was wealthy man and his prop | erty estimated by friends at half a million dollars.
 aptfJo and inf1ll- ential member of the congregation of | St Pauls church, besides being a | cheerful contributor
 The wife of the deceased died six years ago and he leaves a son Freder | ck G. Hotchkiss, who was superin- | tendent of charities under the Earns worth administration, and three daugh- 1 ters, one of whom is the wife of M. H. Whaples, well known Hartford man. DEATH OF s. DWIGHT BOWERS. | s. Dwight Bowers died very suddenly at his home, 125 Greene sereet, yester- 1 day noon. He had spent the morning | in his garden, of which he was very fond when he was seized with an apo plectio shock, from which he died al- most instantly.
 | MT. Bowers was a man of quiet life and cheery and genial disposition He was born in Berlin, Conn, in 1925, and after the usual schooling came to New Haven, where he learned the jewellers trade with Evered Benjamin. From | 1S46 to 1850 he was a member of the New Haven Grays, and when James M, | Townsend was captain was elected lieu tenant Subsequently he engaged in the | jewelry business on his own account in | Springfield Mass, where his interest in military affairs continued until he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts militia. After few years he moved to New York to become associated with the importing house of F P Freeman &s Co.,, making his home in Elizabeth, N. J.
 Although deeply interested in public questions, Mir Bowers never took an ac- tive part in politics. He was, however, elected by both parties controller of the city of Elizabeth and conducted the financial affairs of the city with ability and success for two years, when he de- c!ined a further term of office. About ten years ago MT Bowers returned to this city to live for the purpose of being
 
 q widow. who was Miss Martha Whea- ton Dowd of Saybrook, and one son, Lloyd Wheaton Bowers who graduated from Yale in 1879 and now general coun~ sel of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, residing in Chicago.
 DEATH OF MISS HELEN WISWELL
 Miss Helen A. Wiswell, very es-
 timable lady, aged forty-nine years living on Orange, near Clark street. took a dose of carboic acid Wednes- day night and died at il o'clock yester
 day morning from the effects of the ! poison She had been afflicted with periodical spells of great depression and it is believed decided to end her life in
 one of these attacks. When it was as-
 certained that the woman was suffering
 from poisoning, Dr. Adelaide Lambert
 was called but medical skill was un- availing. Medical Examiner White was | called and decided that death was due
 to poison self administered.
 Miss Wiswen made her home with | Mrs, Emeretta A. Bangs, a widow lady
 residing at 551 Orange street corner of
 Clark street,
 The deceased was a daughter of the late James Wiswell who was noted carriage manufa cturer of this city for ty years ago his last factory being at Grapevine Point near the Bigelow fac tory. A sister of deceased is Mrs. Jep- son. wife of Professor Benjamin Jepson
 of this city; two other sisters are Mrs. Nudge, wife of Rev. MT. Nudge of
 Boston. and Mrs Pratt, formerly of this
 city. now residing in West Haven.