The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-30
Majority of Chief Executives of This State Have Been
 Graduates.
TWENTY CAME FROM YALE
Qualifications of A. Heaton Robertson from the Standpoint of Ills
 Training.
lsncclnl Corrcsnondcnce.N

daCy Of Judge A. IleatOn RohertSOn or New Haven for the governorship, Yale university had q representative worthy of its traditions and policies in civic life. He is a man of high and would have kept the Yale standard untarnished had he been elected governor. Judge Rob- ertson graduated in 1872. His class mates includes Bishop Edwin s.. Lines of the Newark N, J., diocese, Prof. Theodore $. Woolsey of the university William Lee Cushing of Slmsbury, pr. E. E. Case of Hartford, Clarence Dem ing of New Haven and Frank T. Brown of Norwich Of the lifty-nine governors, who have held the office of chief magistrate in Connecticut, twenty have been graduates of Yale. Ten of the number have received col- legiate training in this country or in England.
 Tho first Yale graduate, who held the office of governor, was Thomas Fitch of Norwalk He was of the class of 1721, He became governor I | ' He died in 1774. The last Yale grad uate, holding the office of governor. was Henry Roberts of this city, He graduated in 1877, one year before the graduation of Prcsident-ele William II. Taft James Parkhill Andrews. reporter of the Supreme court, was in the class of Governor Roberts, The latter assumed the office of governor in January 1905, being advanced to that position from the lieutenant-g gov crnorship, which he had held for two years, Governor Roberts was a mem Der of the commission which had tho settlement of the boundary lines be- tween Connecticut and Massachusetts in charge His associates in that un- dortakng were Frank C. Sumner and William A,King. He is president Of the Hartford board of water Commis- siopers and also of the commission having the erection of the state arm ory and arsenal in hand These facts show the qualifications of the last of tho Yale governors in this state for public service Besides Governor Fitch and Roberts the Yale men who have been Connecticut governors are: Oliver Wocott of Ltchneld.
 John Treadwell of Pennington.
 Roger Grswold of Lyme
 John Cotton smith of sharon
 Oliver Wolcutt of Litchiield. Gideon Tomlinson of Stratford
 ttI, I, ii,
 William w. Ellsworth of Hartford.
 Roger sherman Baldwin Of New Haven,
 Clark Bissell of Norwalk
 Joseph Trumbull of Hartford.
 Charles Hobby Pond of Milford
 Henry Dutton of New Haven, William Thomas Minor of Stamford
 Charles R. lngcrsoll of New Haven.
 Richard D. Hubbard of Hartford Henry Baldwin Harrison of New Haven.
 George E. Lounsbury of Ridgefield,
 Governor George Wyllys of Hart ford, who became governor 16l2, received q university education in England, Governor John Winthrop graduated at Trinity in Dublin. and studied law in the Inner Temple, Fitz John Winthrop, who became governor in 1898, was the first liar yard graduate that was chief magls- trate in Connecticut Gordon Salton- stall and Jonathan Law were both | Harvard men, Governor SaltonstaD ! belonged in New London md held ] the office of governor from lf0S until I1725. Governor Law was from Mil 1 ford and held the office nine years l The two Jonathan Trumbulls of Le' l banon, who held the govcrnorshil 1 26 years all told were graduates oi l Harvard, Governor Henry Wagga- man Edwards of New Haven, who be- came governor in 1888, was educated at the College of New Jersey Gen. l cral Joseph R, Hawley was gradu' ate at Hamilton and Chief Justice | Charles B. Andrews, who became gov. ernor in 1879, owned the Amhers college diploma.
 Governor Law owned an extensive farm in the neighborhood of Ches hire and was the first one in Connec 1 ticut to plant mulberry trees and in augurate the raising of silk worms Tn 1747 he wore the first coat anC stockings made from New England , silk. President Stiles of Yale col lego wore q gown made of Connecti cut silk at commencement in l748 Tho second Oliver Wolcott of Litch
 field. who graduated in 177s, witl
 Noah Webster, was secretary of tn,
 treasury in the cabinet of Prcsiden
 Washington and also under Presiden
 John Adams, At the time of his deatl in 1893, he was the last of Presden
 Washingtons cabinet officers
 The class of 1892 furnished tw'
 governors Gideon Tomlinson ant
 Charles Hobby Pond. Governor Foo
 of Cheshlro, graduated in 1797 witt
 Dr. Lyman Beccher Governor Ells
 worth of this city, graduated in tn
 class of t81O, with his twin brother
 Henry Leaviu Ellsworth, who was tn
 first United States patent commission
 er Samuel Finley Breese Morse, tn
 inventor of telegraphy, was in tn
 class of tS10. Joseph Frumhull Q
 Hartford. who became governor f
 1849 graduated in 1891. Ic die
 during the first year of the Civil wal
 Charles Hobby Pond was elected lieu
 tenant governor in April, 1853 II
 became acting governor by the reslg