The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-06-25
CHARLES s. MERSICK DEAD.
SUDDEN DEMISE OF PROMINENT
 CITIZEN YESTERDAY.

Prostrated by Heart Disease Only Two Weeks Ago--Was Influential in Com merciaI, Financial and Political World-Head of c. s. Mersicix & Co.,, President of Merchants National Bank; Also Former State Treasurer Respected and Esteemed in All Ave- nues of Life-Funeral on Monday. The community has received a shock | and a large loss in the death of c. 5. Mersick, one of it's most prominent cit izens, who passed away very suddenly at his home yesterday afternoon from
 an attack of heart disease, which had prostrated him about two weeks ago. but from which his friends believed him to be slowly recovering.
 | Charles Smith Mersick was the son
 of John c. and Sarah Daggett) Mer-
 sick, and a younger brother of the late
 Edwin F. Mersick. who died in 1898.
 MT. Mersick was born in New York on
 the 18th of December, 1S40. From early life he had been identified with the
 hardware and the iron and steel bus liness. having at first been connected with the old firm of English S Atwater. lwel known merchants of their day, and afterwards forming an alliance lwith Nelson Hotchkiss, under the style lof Hotchiiss & Mersick. At later lperiod he succeeded these older houses as the head of c. s. Mersick & Co., known to-day as one of the largest and most prosperous mercantile firms in the state.
 In 1889 he was made president of the
 Merchants National bank of this city,
 a position which he held at the time of his death.
 I Always interested in the politics of
 his city and state, he was honored with
 an election to the state treasuryship,
 the duties of which he discharged with
 marked acceptance from 1899 to 1901.
 He was member of the Union
 League, the Quinnipiack club and many bother organizations of social or civic character.
 | In his church connection he was
 identified with the Center church of this city, of which he became a. member in
 1876, serving also on its society's com
 mittee for many years, and with his
 daughter contributing one of the mem
 orial windows which adorn it's house of
 worship
 I MT. Mersick was married in 1865 to
 Ellen Louisa English, daughter of
 George D. and Mary E. (Cannon) Eng | fish. Mrs. Mersick died in 1894, leaving
 one only daughter, Miss Mary E. Mer-
 sick, who has since been a faithful
 companion in many travels, both in
 this country and abroad, as well as | the brightness and comfort of his
 home.
 l Endowed by nature with marked ability, MT. Mersick has risen by the l force of personal industry and fidelity I to duty in the various channels which
 have opened before him till he had at- | tained a commanding position in the community, commercially, financially, politically and in almost every relation into which busy life had placed him. Of somewhat quiet and retiring dis
 position, his sagacity and good judg-
 ment combined with that quality which may be characterized as a genial
 reserve, had given him a personality which surrounded him with many friends and made him much sought for as counsellor and active participant in
 numerous public and private enter prises in which he became an influen- tial and leading factor.
 His funeral will be attended on Mon- day afternoon from his late residence, 1215 Chapel street. The services will
 be conducted by Rev. Dr. Snyth, pas- tor of Center church, assisted by Rev.
 Newell M Calhoun, pastor of the Sec ond Congregational church of Winsted.
 The interment will be in the Evergreen cemetery.