The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-06-09

casterian school, After completing ms,
preliminary education he taught school
for two or three years and then enter
ed the Yale law school from which ne
was graduated LII. B. in 1860. lie was
admitted to the bar Of Connecticut IN
1851, and soon afterward opened law
office in this city, where he successfully
continued the practice Of law until his
death.
EARLY in life he became actively in
terested in politics. He was elected
clerk of the house of representatives IN
1923 and clerk of the senate III 1864.
In 1866 he was elected to the state SEN
ate and reelected in 1866. From 1871
to 1874 he served as judge Of the city
court Of this city to which position he
was elected by the legislature. lie has
had for over thirty years summer
home and legal residence in the town OF |
Guilford and he represented that town
in the house Of repres entatives In 1874, |
1915, 1875, 1877, and 1881. He was
speaker of the house in 1877 and chair |
man of the judiciary committee in 1881,
having been by virtue of that position
leader of the majority party. He serV-
ed in the republican state central COM
mittee Of Connecticut for several years
and was chairman of that committee
in 1856. In 1877 he was elected by the
legislature judge Of the court of com
mon pleas for the county Of New Ha
ven and he held that office until 1881,
when he declined reelection. Since
that time he devoted himself closely
and continuously to the practice Of his
profession, except that in 1884 he ac-
cepted the office of chairman of the re-
publican state central committee main
ly for the purpose of assisting in theI
election of his cousin Henry B. Harri-
son, to the Office of governor, While he
was in the general assembly he served
several times on the judiciary commit
tee and took part in framing and advo-
eating some important legislation He,
was chairman during tmee years Of the
committee on constitutional amend
ments and ais such secured the adOp-
ton Of the 18th, 18th, 18th, 18th, 10th,
goth, 21st, 22d, 23d, "a and 25th amend
ments to the constitution of the state.
He also drafted and advocated the
adoption Of the 9th amendment in 1888.
These amendments change the time of
elections from April to November; the
length of terms of executive legislative
, and Judicial offices; modify the method
of representation in the lower house to
the extent that no new town is entitled
| to representation in the legislature un-
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forbid the payment of extra compensa-
tion to public officers during their term
of office, and prohibit public funds be-
ing devoted to the construction of rail-
roads.
While speaker in 1877 he left the chair
and made an earnest appeal in favor of
the statute of that year putting mar
ried women upon an equality with their
husbands in relation to the ownership
and control of their own property.
He was a member Of the Republican
National conventions Of 1876 and 1880,
| and he voted for every republican can
didate for president since his first vote
for Abraham Lincoln in 1860, except
that he voted for Grover Cleveland in
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| jected to the tariff and financial policy
of the republican party in 1890, espe-
cially the passage of the Sherman sill
yer act and the revision in the tariff act
of $780, putting sugar on the free list,
taking $150,000,O 900 Of revenue from the
treasury, paying bounty to sugar
raisers in this country, and thus adopt
ing what he believed to be a dangerous
principle of federal legislation. In con-
sequence of the position he took at that
! time the democrats of Connecticut sent
him to the Chicago convention Of 1896
for the purpose Of having him serve
upon the committee on resolutions SO
as to make a fight for the maintenance
of the gold standard and sound curren-
cy. Mr.. Harrison went 10 Chicago,
served on that committee, took no part
in the convention after the platform
was adopted, came back to Connecticut
and in common with several Of the gold
standard leaders took part in the Or
ganization of the movement in Con-
necticut which repudiated the Chicago
platform and led to the nomination of
Palmer and Buckner. Since that time
Mr.. Harrison publicly stated that he
believes upon the issues of sound cur
rency and other issues before the coun-
try at the close Of the nineteenth cen-
fury, the republican party is the party
which should receive the support of
men who desire the best interests of
their country; but with the exception
of his work during the campaign of 1884
for Blaine, Mr.. Harrison took no active
part in politics, nor had he held any
office since 1881.
For the past twenty yearu he has
been engaged principally in corporation
and estate litigation. He was counsel
for and director in several corporations
at the time of his death. He was an
executor and trustee of the H. B. Plant
estate; was general counsel of tht
Plant Investment company, the South,
ern Express company and the Consoli.
dated Lake Superior company. His
time of recent years has been largely
occupied with work for the Plant es
tate and the three last named corpora
tons, and his offices were in the Elk