Connecticut western news., 1909-01-28

J JOhn Rldge, the nrsG lawyer OI tne Cherokee nation. G. D. Wilson and Alden Wattles were composers. We would pay 8 passing tribute to our gifted poet. the late J. Earnest Whitney, of Yale College, who yielded up his young life in early manhood. Theodore D. Woolsey, late President of Yale Col lege, has gone out Into the whole world, but we only know him as & sweet souled man, who came for more than 30 summers to the home of the late Mrs. Rufus Payne and often spoke of this town as 'the little Switzerland of America"
 We have had men born in Cornwall, who have occupied important positions in the world, but the men who lived and spent their lives here. coming as they did, when this town was a wilderness. and setting up their homes and through necessity, leading the simple life, were the greater heroes. The name of Peirce should be 8 synonym of the good that this village has received from generations of that name. Captain John Peirce. who was the father of Mrs Menzies Beers and who built the house where the Misses Sarah and Mary Kellogg are now living. He also gave a part of the Will lage Green where stands the post office and chapel which is on the site of the old Foreign Mission school house.
 Fa, hac sentative one through several genera eions John Beers gave the beautiful Institute where now the Rumsey Hall boys are drinking at the fountain of knowledge under its able principal, Mrs. Lillias Sanford and head master, MT. ShEtee.
 The Hon. Victory c. Beers has held importanS positions iii town and state, being at one time a senator from this district. The late Judge George c. Har- risou, who so recently left us, came from have been meu of sterling qualities, hon. est and fearless in their own convictions of right. The late lamented Theodore s. Gold, historian of Cornwall, has so ably recorded, all of the notable people who have lived or are living in the north and west part of the town, that there seems but little to tell. The names of Gold, Rogers, Sooville, Pratt, Baldwin and Smith embody all that goes to make up good citizenship. We have a town with an area of nine miles In length and five in width and from every hill ss>ld valley boys have been born who names that have been an honor to their native town.
 Some have become famous in military life, others ln judiciary and many have gone to far off lands as missionair es. Our talented townsman, Leigh Richmond Miner with his poetic mind, has ad- vanced to an enviabl0 position in the world of art and we are proud of it that Cornwall is his birthplace. We must not be too vainglorlous in our conceit, for We have had distinguished men who WOAO HUI IA HI O1LCA pA1ANCo esuA hoNV hNOO and wrought we'll for the town. In the ministry the Rev. Dr. Samuel J. White, lately deceased, Rev. Elias B. Sanford, now Secretary of National Federation and Rev. Dr. James M. Ludlow, of East Orange, N. J. There are many who have summer homes here and are wei comed each year to enjoy these hills with their health giving breezes. Among them comes J. H. Moser, from Wash ington, D. O., gifted with his brush, making a study from nature to stand out upon canvas as living thing. It is fitting to speak of the Hon. l.. J. Nick erson, lawyer of note, coming from an honored lineage upon both sides of his family, and he has made good and is an honor to his name.
 The nucleus of the Cornwall Library was begun by the late John o. Calhoun, inasmuch as he gave a fund of money toward its permanant support. And our late distinguished citizen, Judge Frederick Kellogg gave thls small library a home in hIs private office where it has remained for nearly forty years.
 AS we are about to meet to celebrate the opening of the Calhoun Memorial Library, and as we view the antique articles gathered by the Rev. Edward 0. Starr, let us forget, and remember the good only of our past and gone people. Every family tree has some branches and blossoms that are full of perfume and richness.
 Mate" Miller Takes Laudanum.