The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-12-11
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Concerning the staff appointments
announced by Governor-elect Mclean
the following is of interest:
Lieutenant Colonel George M. Cole
who is appointed as adjutant general
has a grand record in the Connecticut
National Guard and the United States
volunteer service. He began his ser
vice in the guard as a private in the
third machine gun platoon connected
with the Third regiment, February 7,
1885. He was promoted to sergeant of
the platoon April 90, 1885, and to COM
missary sergeant of the regiment, Au-
gust 6. 1886 He was appointed regi-
mental paymaster with rank of first
lieutenant January Z, 1887, He became
captain of Co. l. Third regiment, May
s, 1885, commanding the company until
January 20, 1891, when he resigned, He
was appointed adjutant of the Third
regiment, with rank of captain, August
Is, 1891. He was appointed assistant
adjutant general on the brigade staff,
with rank of lieutenant colonel, May
30, 1892, and became the lieutenant col
onel of the Third regiment August 25,
1898. On the outbreak of the Spanish
American war he resigned his National
Guard commission and was appointed
in the United States volunteer infantry.
He served in the department of Santa
go, Cuba, and was honorably discharged
by reason of the muster out of the reg
iment June 10, 1899. Colonel Cole is
companion in the Militia Order of For
eign Wars, Connecticut commandery;
also companion of the Naval and
Military Order of the Spanish-Ameri-
can War. New York commandery He
was born in Portsmouth, England, and
is forty-seven years old. He is a thor
ough tactician, a good disciplinarian,
and a capable commander His long
military service eminently fits him for
the position of adjutant general.
General George B. Newton, who will
remain as quartermaster general, has
military record covering a quarter of
century. He enlisted in the Hartford
City Guard September 90 1876. After
advancing through the grades of cor
poral and sergeant, he was elected sec
ond lieutenant February IS, 1885, and
became captain two years later. He
was discharged in 1890, and three years
later he succeeded to the command of
the company again. He was retired
from service January 8, 1897 Two
years later, on January a, 1899, General
Newton was appointed quartermaster-
general by Governor Lounsbury.
Paymaster General John Waller At
wood is reappointed. He was born at
Wauregan, Plainfield, May 10, 1864. He
is largely interested in cotton manufac-
ture, and is a large owner of manufac-
turing interests He Is the superinten-
dent of the Wauregan Mills He was
appointed commissary general on the
staff of Governor Lounsbury, which po-
sition he held until July 1, 1899, when he
was appointed paymaster general upon
the resignation of Paymaster General |
H. O. Averill. General Atwood was
member of the general assembly from
the town of PIainfield in the last SEES
sion and served on the committee on |
DR.. George Fl. Knight, the new sur
geon general, is the superintendent of
the Connecticut School for Imbeciles at
and p prominent physician
of Litchfield county. He was born in |
November "a, 1855, was edu-
Gated in the local schools and then went |
to Yale university where he remained |
two years in the class of 1877. He stud
led medicine in New York and after
wards became the superintendent of the
State Institute for Feeble Minded in
ba !, Of |
mis- father, DR.. Henry Martin knight,
DR.. Knight succeeded him as superin-
endent of the School for Imbiciles,
which position he has since held
Phelps Montgomery, of this city, the
new. Judge advocate general, although
BORN in Portland, Ore, is one of ancient ,
stock. His father. James
3. Montgomery, was a railroad con-
ractor and capitalist His mother was
Nary Phelps a daughter of John S.
Phelps, who was born in Simsbury and
graduated at Trinity college, and in
ary life moved to Missouri which :
tate he served for eighteen years as a
member of congress, and for four years
IS governor Mr.. Montgomery was
ducated at Exeter and graduated from +
lso from the Yale law school.
He is a member of the New Haven =,
1ounty bar, and is associated in the =
ractice of his profession with Judge ,
livingston w, CleaVeland of the pro- i
ate court, and Roger Sherman Bald r
Yin, son of Judge Simeon z. Baldwin n
{ the supreme court of this state. =
He was married to Miss Elsie Mat 7
HAS. daughter of the late John j. 7
Iatthias, the well known West Indian +
nporter and merchant, and grand =
aughter of Daniel Trowbridge who
as, at the time of his death, presi- III
ent of the New Haven Gas Light com | t
any. +
He is president of the West Haven f
uckle company, a member of the il