The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-09
JUDGE HARRISON DEAD.
PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT
THE NEW HAVEN HOUSE.

THE NEW HAVEN HOUSE
His Long, and Highly Useful Career as
Lawyer, Judge, Senator, Speaker of
the House and Law NIal1er--A Sketch
of His Life.
The death Of ex-Judge Lynde Harri- 4
son, which occurred yesterday at 1850
.. m. at the New Haven house, was
shock to the community, The sad news
spread rapidly about town and caused
everywhere surprise and sorrow. The
deceased was seized with a sinking
spell while at the breakfast table at the
New Haven house yesterday morning
He was removed to his room under the
direction of Proprietor Moseley, and DR..
Harry L. WEIGH, who happened to be in
the lobby, was summoned to attend
him. DR.. Frank H. Whittemore, the
Harrisons family physician, was later
called, but the judge passed away at
1850 b. m. Apoplexy was the cause.
Judge Harrison's condition was so
grave all the forenoon that his wife,
who was at Lake Mohonk, was sum-
.moned, and aso his daughter, Mrs. Ed
mund @. Trowbridge, who had left the
city for New York on an early train to
Join her husband there. A younger
daughter was with Mrs. Harrison. The
son, Paul w. Harrison, was also noti-
fled.
During the forenoon Judge Harrison
rested quietly and answered questions
with apparent readiness considering
his weakened condition. He was visi-
ted by Judge Harrison Zacher his law
partner, and-also by Judge L. M. Hub
Y Bard OF Wallingford, one of his warm
personal friends, and who also has his
office at the Harrison office. They We're
with him three hours and until he died.
AT half-past eleven o'clock, when DR..
Whittemore left his bedside, he was
sleeping. AT that time DR.. Whittemore
said that he considered Judge Harrison
in a very serious condition.
Judge Harrison leased the Mark Han
ma place at Thomaston, Ga, some time
ago. and with his wife returned from
there to this city about three weeks
went to Lake Mohonk where Judge
Harrison delivered an address at the
National Arbitration convention, to
which he was a delegate. Judge Harri-
son came back here. The Harrisons
had planned to spend portion Of the
summer at their country home at
Leete's Island, and in July Mrs Har-
rison was to have taken trip to Eu-
rope with, her brother, George L. White
of Waterbury. An automobile tour was
to have been included Judge Harrison
was to remain in this city and at the
Leete's island house with his younger
daughter.
The Harrison residence on Hillhouse
avenue has been leased for some time
70 Professor S. S. Sanford of Yale uni
versity.
Judge Harrison had been in his GUS
tomary good health on Thursday and
at his desk in his office yesterday morn
ing were letters which he had directed
the day before and which he was to
have mailed yesterday.
"A sketch of Judge Harrison's long
prominent and useful career follows:
Lynde Harrison was born December
Is, 1887, in this city, and was reared
and educated here. Many of his ances'
tors We're with the first settlers of New
Haven colony Among them wer'
Abraham Pierson, first pastor Of Bran
ford. and John Davenport, first paste
of New Haven. His brother, james
Harrison, and his mother, Chariot
NieolI Lynde were born in this city
His father went to Augusta, Ca, a
the age Of eighteen and remained Their
until past middle life, engaged in bust
ness as a merchant and banker. Thorn
as Harrison, one of his paternal an
cestors. was one of the first settlers il
the New Haven colony, representing
Branford in the colonial assembly afte
Rranford had recognized the Connect
cut charter, which united the Hartfort
and New Haven colonies. His paterna
grandmother. Sarah Wolcott was de
seended from Governor Roger Wolcott
colonial governor of Connecticut, an
from DR.. Alexander Wolcott, who wa
one of the prominent leaders of the pat
riot cause during the revolutionary wal
She was also a niece of Oliver Wolcoti
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dence. HIS mothers father, John Har
I,ynde, from whom he was named, wa
born in Saybrook, but after graduation
from Yale college settled in New Ha
ven as a practising lawyer and die
here in 1917. He was a descendant o
Judge Nathaniel Dynde of Saybrool
and of Judge Simon Lynde' one Of tn
first settlers of Boston. The mother @
John Hart Lynde, Rebecca Hart, wa
descended from Thomas Hart of Far
mington, who was speaker for man
years of the colonial assembly OF Con
necticut. The ancestors Of Mr. Harri
son were all of English blood, havin
come from Yorkshire, Somersteshir
and London during the seyenteent
century.
Afr. Harrison was educated in tn
public schools of this city, the gram