The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-14
JOHN A. RICHARDSON.
4 SKETCH OF HIS LIFE AND USE
 FULNESS.

of the Yale Bank-Treasurer of Many
 Other Instituttons-His Sudden Death
 on sDturday Afternoon.
 The news of the death of John A.
 Richardson created much sorrow and
 regret about the city, MT. Richardson
 having been so long one of the city's s
 most respected men and valuable citi-
 zens. He fainted in his chair in the
 dress circle of the Hyperion theater
 Saturday afternoon during the first
 part of the first act of the musical com
 edy ''Florodora, and was carried to
 the foyer by the dress circle ushers, as
 sisted by Police Officers Matthew Pow
 CTS and Robert Hollinger who happen
 ed to be present unofficially from where
 he was removed an hour and half lat
 CT to his home, S7 Dwight street where
 he passed away. Apoplexy was the
 cause of death. At his deathbed were
 Mrs Richardson and her daughter,
 Caroline, who had sat beside him at the
 theater, and ex-Lieutenant Governor
 Samuel E, Merwin, president of the
 Yale National bank, who arrived at the
 side of the stricken man but a few mo-
 ments before MT. Richardson expired
 The deceased cashier was sixty nine
 years of age and is survived by only his
 bereaved wife and daughter
 During the past three years MT Rich
 ardson had been sufferer from occa-
 sional attacks of heart weakness, and
 of late he had been under the regular
 aF I, ,fa a;.,;o needed relaxation and a change he at tended the matinee with his family. On
 being seized with the attack gentle man obtained a glass of water for him but he did not rally and then, aided by several gentlemen and accompanied by his wife and daughter, he was carried to the rear of the lobby of the dress circle, where he was comfortably pac- ed in a chair and famed, but he was unconscious and continued so. He was then laid prostrate on the floor of the balcony
 Miss Evelyn Wood of 16 York Square and Miss Elizabeth Ruth of II Garden street were seen coming down Chapel street in front of the Hyperion by an usher who had been sent for a doctor and at his request they immediately came in and at once bent their efforts toward making the stricken man com fortable. Meantime third nurse, Miss Gertrude J. Moore, of 445 George street, who is the regular nurse of the Rich ardson family, was telephoned for, but was found to be in the theater and was notified of MT. Richardsons condition, and also came to render aid.
 As soon as possible the family physi- clan, Dr. Paul C. Skiff, of 666 Chapel street, who was telephoned for arrived at the theater and almost simultane- ously with Dr. w C, Welch of College street, and Dr. James S. Stetson of 106 High street. The physicians found the collapse was too profound to be reach ed by the restorative remedies, which they applied, and after an hour and a half's fruitless working the patient was removed in an ambulance, which had arrived from Grace hospital, to his home where, despite all efforts, he pass ed away at D. m., an hour after his arrival MT. Richardson's condition was unknown to the people of the thea ter with but few exceptions, and those in the balcony supposed it to be a case of 'fainting.
 lIe u6dlu Ol MI, INlCIldiusOll VIII De ] much lamented and the bereaved fam | fly will have the deep and sincere sym pathy Of the public in their sorrow. | MT. Richardson was born in North Ca naan, this state, on June p, 1883. His | educa ton was received in the common L schools of his native town, and early in . life he entered the employ as assistant . bookkeeper of Holley & Merwin (the . MT. Holey being ex-Governor Holey, who then conducted general store there and were also manufacturers of . pocket cutlery, being the second firm in this country to enter into this line of manufacture. New Milford was the . home of his wife, and their meeting took place in that town After four years spent in New Milford, MT. Rich ardson came to New Haven, and was clerk for some time for Riggs & Smith, dry goods dealers. He then entered the banking business and became a book keeper in the Quinninipac bank, an n- stitution which did business on State street, near Crown street for years, and which was absorbed by the Yale Ma tionaI bank when the banking laws. under which national banks are now operative were passed. This was in 1869. Within two years afterwards he was appointed teller of the bank, and in 1871, over thirty years ago, he be- came the cashier
 MT Richardson was a republican in politics, and was elected town and city treasurer In 1888, succeeding Harmanus M Welch, and serving one term. He was the treasurer of the Firemen's Be- nevoIent association. He was also treas urer of Union League club for twenty years, or since the clubs formation, and was treasurer also of Grace hos pital He was also treasurer of the Congregational club a position he had held for years, and was also treasurer of the Ottenheimer Bros Co.,, corset of which General E. S. Greeley, vice president of the Yale Ma .ional bank, is president. Mir, Rich aardson was elected to the latter posi- ton about a month ago at the com oany's meeting in New York MT, Rich ardson was one of the most esteemed and useful members of the United ,hurch, and was one of the churCh's 1eacons, a position he had held for wenty years. He was identified with he New Haven Co-opera tive Savings |