The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1906-03-28
WILMINGTON
Samuel Rockwell of Stafford was
in town Saturday. y

effects of the late Palmer Smith, il
now in the possession of w. F. Squier.
We are told that we were mistaken
in out soldier Fisk item of last week.
We are .credibly informed that Mar
vim A. Fisk was q son of the late
"Ark" Fisk and was never married.
The widow of the dead soldier men
toned, Marvin E. Fisk, son of the
late Ira Fisk, is the woman who is
now living in Springfield, Mass. He
died in that city July Is, 1904.
We have received a copy of the
Providence Evening Tribune, Vol. 1,
No. 1. 1t is a large, good looking
and evidently an enterprising sheet.
In this issue, March II, is noted an
account of military fracas between
Captain Merle Bixby, son of the Rev.
DR.. Moses M. Bixby, whom many
will remember as preaching here and
who came near buying the Deacon
Turner house, and another local Of
f1cer, the former preferring charges
against the latter.
We are informed on good authority
that Meadowbrook Farm has more of
history than we knew of; that Ed
mund Freeman and wife, who was a
Miss Atwood of Mansfield, were the
owners and occupants of the premises
preceding "Tailor" johnson, and Mr..
Freeman had blacksmith shop there.
A daughter, Harriet, was born there,
who, with her husband, John Watt,
from Carbondale, Pa, visited the To-
cality several years ago. Mrs. Gill
bert Ide is relative of this family.
The following from recent issue
of The Geneseo Ill. Republic con-
Germs once Wilmington girl, Miss
Janet Fuller, Mrs. Paul, oldest daugh-
ter of the late Willard Fuller and a
cousin of Mrs. @. B. Newton of Stat
ford Springs, also of Mrs. 9. L. Dean
of Maiden, Mass. Saturday, March
oath, Mr.. and Mrs. M. K. Paul will
have rounded out their fifty years of
married life, one of which was spent
in Connecticut and the other forty
nine in Geneseo, they living during
that entire period on the same farm
where they now reside. Nearly all
of their early-day neighbors are gone,
but what few remain will be invited
to join them in little home celebra'
tion at their home, northwest oi
town, on the Oath inst. -
A friend writes us as. follows abou
the late Thaddeus K Holt, younges
son of the late Gen. Orrin Holt, whom
many in this vicinity will recall
Thaddeus Holt, after the war, il
which he was soldier, went to Mis-
souri, and took mp a one-half section
of land, married nice Missouri gir
and died after few years, leaving
his young wife and two small boys,
Dwight and Claude. They are both
married and have children. Dwight
lives on the farm that was his faith
er's and Claude lives with his mother
on farm that came to her from he1
father. In the early days after the
war the log house was the rule, but
now Thad's boys have each com
Portable modern house, and, by the
way, they are each six feet tall and
slim. {"
This season of the year reminds us
of certain event covered by the fol-
lowing old time document, which we
| publish in this column for the benefit
of all concerned: CAT superior
court holden at Hartford, in and for
the county of Hartford, in the state
of Connecticut, on the second Tuesday
of March, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty
eight, present Hon. Charles J. Nc
Curdy, Judge; this court doth admit
and approve Charles T. Preston of
Hartford, in said county, an attorney
and counselor at law, to practice in
the courts of law and equity in this
state, and the oath by law provided
for attorneys was Administered to him
in open court this. 4th day of May, A.
D. 1853" We will remember the
time when we held up our little right
hand to take that, oath, We were
admitted on motion of the late Hon.
Charles Chapman. on the recommenda-
tion of the late Ex-Governor R.. d.
Hubbard, with whom we studied.
We never Joined any other bar to our
knowledge, at least. Hartford papers
of that time, copies of which are
now in our possession, had the fol-
lowing "Charles T. Preston, Esq
formerly of Wellington, Tolland coun-
ty, now of Hartford, was admitted to
the bar this morning, by Judge Nc,
Curdy.'' We copy other local items
of interest from these same papers.
For instance, Willington's members
of the general ASSENT bly, for that year,
May session, we're Lathrop Manning,
Sanford Holt; Stafford, Charles Holt,
John R. Washburn; Ashford, John
A. Brown, Theo. g. Carey brother
in law of the late j. Duane Parsons (;
Union, John Burley, George D. Col
burn; Tolland, Alvin P Hyde, Elisha
Ashley; Mansfield, B. F.. Bennett
Asa Sherman John Brown of Mans
field and Oliver K. Ishma of Tolland
were senators from this region All
these men were republicans except
the two members of the house from
Tolland, Hyde and Ashley Accord
| ing to our best knowledge all these
men are dead and gone except John
"A. Brown of Ashford and John r:
Washburn of Stafford sa s@'.1a