The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-30
THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING.
HAPPY EVENT CELEBRATED BY
 CAPTAIN AND MRS. LOYEJOY.

Last Evening-Large Number o1 Friends Congratulated Them-Many l Fine Presents Received and the Even | ing Was a Most Enjoyable One for the Aged Couple.
 The golden wedding anniversary of was celebrated last night at the home | of the happy couple, No. 70 Dickerman street, where fully 200 friends and rela- ' tlVeS came to congratulate them and wish them many happy returns of the marriage date. The comfortab ble home 1 Of Captain and Mrs. Lovejoy was beau- tifully trimmed with golden rod and golden bloom and the spacious lawns at the rear and side of the house was decorated with Japanese lanterns. Un- der large canopy at the side of the house refreshments were served during the receiving hours and an orchestra of four pieces rendered a splendid pro- gramme. MT. and Mrs. Lovejoy re-
 ceived their guests in the front parlor, which was a perfect garden of flowers, and there the congratulations of the large number of visitors were bestowed upon them between the hours of and Il o'clock.
 Captain and Mrs. Lovejoy are both
 hale and hearty and will probably cele-
 brat many more wedding anniversaries during this life. Their home on Dick
 erman street is the same place where
 n in I fa If h
 celebrated similar event twenty two
 years ago last October.
 During all those years of welded life
 the captain and his mate have sailed
 the seas of joy and sunshine, not a rip
 pie of trouble nor a sign of a cloud hav-
 ing ever crossed their course.
 Captain Lovejoy is the only living son
 of Daniel and Betsey Gilbert Lovejoy.
 He was born in Ridgefield, this state,
 February 5, 1881, and at fourteen years
 of age was apprenticeG to the carriage
 trimmerS' trade in his ns tive town. Af-
 ter finishing his apprenticeship he went
 to Railway, N. J., which was then a
 thriving carriage making town. While
 there he became acquainted with Miss
 Lydia Henderson, the adopted daugh-
 
 joining town of Woodbridge and on Au-
 gust 29, 1851, they were united in mar
 riage, Rev. James Barton of the Pres
 byterian church performing the cere-
 mony. In 1852 the young couple re-
 moved to New Haven where they have
 since resided MT. Lovejoy worked at
 his trade until the outbreak of the
 great Rebellion, when sense of pa
 triotic duty led him from the workshop
 to the recruiting office, and after a
 brief time raised a company for three years or during the war Later he was commissioned as captain and was as- signed to the Fifteenth Regiment In- fantry, Connecticut Volunteers, and went to the front with that organiza- ton, Colonel Dexter B. Wright being in command.
 After the battle of Fredericksburg December 1914, 1862, he was invali- dated home and his health continuing precarious, with but little prospect of early recovery, he rendered his resigna- tion to the government and on March 3, 1863, the same was accepted and he received an honorable discharge from army service. On his recovery he again entered the government employ, receiving the appointment of chief clerk in the provost marshaps office in New Haven, the late Colonel Benjamin s. Pardee being provost marshal. Soon after this he was appointed deputy United States marshal, filling both po- sitions to the satisfaction of all con- cerned Later he resigned his position 4. cept the position of assistant state paymaster, his duties being the paying of the state bounties to recruits enlist ed in New Haven and vicinity. When the recruiting stopped and the war was nearing the end he gave up this posi- tion to accept an appointment as Unit ed States assistant assessor under the late John B. Wright of Clinton, which | he held until called to take the position | of United States inspector in the inter- nal revenue service, which position he l held until the repeal of the law provid- | ng for such officers.
 The captain drifted into Journalism, | his last newspaper work being on the | Journal and Courier, where he held the | position of repotrer and night editor at l different times of his service. Ii was | turing this time that he received his | second appointment as United States | deputy marshal, which position he filled | President Cleveland's first l administration. It should also be stat | ed that in 1874 he held the position of | assistant city clerk of New Haven, and | 'or two years was town constable. The l captain now holds the position of clerk n the New Haven town clerks office, | where he has been engaged for the past six years Now in his seventy first year he Is hale and hearty, and with | l fair prospect before him of several l more years of faithful service. He is | m enthusiastic Grand Army man. be- np a charter member of Admiral Foote Post No. IF. He has been Free Ma ;on since August, 1862. when he was 'aised to the sublime degree # mas CT mason in Wooster lodge, No. 79, and | S also a member of the Connecticut Veteran Masons' association. The ven rable captain has a large number of riends in different parts of the state vho joined in extending their congratu- ations on the occasion of his golden wedding anniversary. The couple have me son. John F. Lovejoy, who is well ,nown in New Haven
 The presents received last night by Captain and Mrs. Lovejoy were many nd valuable The emplOyss at tle ,