The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-23
DEATH OF HORACE DAY.
SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF
 EDUCATION.

Expires After Many Years of Service
 Eighty-1ive Years Old and Was One of
 the Oldest Living Graduates of Yale
 An Antiquarian and GeneOIOEist-
 Consulted From Many Parts of the
 Country.
 Horace Day, aged eighty-five years, secretary of the board of education, died at his residence, 10 College street, just before midnight last night. MT. Day had been incapacitated for work for nearly month and last Thursday suffered a relapse from which he never recovered. He had been unconscious for several days and his death was momentarily expected. Death was partly due to old age, which was aggra- vated by ureamic poisoning.
 Horace Day was one of the oldest and best respected citizens of New Haven. His life was one of continuous work in which his faithful efforts were reward ed with a good measure of success. In 1860 he was elected superintendent of schools of New Haven, being the first to serve in this capacity. After five years service he resigned his position and was succeeded by Ariel Parish, fa- ther of James H. Parish, president of the board of fire commissioners. MT Day soon after his resignation went abroad for a short time and on Yeturn- ing became editor of the Cincinnati Ga zette, a leading paper of that period. After finishing his labors there he re- turned to New Haven and was elected in 1865 secretary of the board of educa- tion, position which was to earn for him an enviable reputation for devotion to work. From the time of his election he held the position uninterruptedly until his death, a record rarely equalled and very seldom ever excelled.
 In connection with his secretaryship of the board of education MT. Day was also for some fifteen years clerk of the school district succeeding Benjamin R. English. He held this clerkship until the school consolidation in 1897. Despite his duties MT Day found time for con- siderable literary work. For time he was editor of the New Haven Morning Journal and Courier and enjoyed con- siderable reputation as an antiquarian 1 student receiving many letters from all l over the country. He was considered an authority in this line regarding land ! marks in New Haven. He also made a study of geneology and was consulted by many persons and helped compile several family histories.
 Mir. Day never failed to give the best of his efforts to any undertaking look ing to the alleviation of the suffering and needy. For many years he was a member of Center church and an active church worker in his younger days. He 1 took great interest in the work of the olttle IlbSpltdt HI lIllS Cily anu WlIn the late Judge William w. Boardman, hus- band of Mrs. Boardman, who gave the city Boardman school, was largely in- strumental in influencing the state leg islature in making annual appropria- tiOns for the hospital. Before his elec- tion as secretary he also served as a member of the board of education, be- ing elected by the people. He graduat- ed from Yale in 1886 and was therefore among the oldest living graduates. He came of a long-lived family. His father
 was Cad Day. who began life as a l joiner and lived with his wife to be close to the century mark.
 Horace Day leaves one son, Robert | F. Day, now an editor on one of the New York papers, and two daughters. The latter are Mrs. Dr. Woodward of Hartford, a very accomplished woman. and splendid scholar and critic of Eng | fish literature and a writer of some note, and Miss Anna Day, who, until about a year ago, when she resigned, taught in the local schools
 MT. Day also leaves a brother, Pro- lessor George E. Day of the Yale theo- | logical school.
 
 ROOSEVELT THE ONLY MAN.