Putnam patriot., 1912-03-29
Obituary

Word was received in this city Sat urday morning of the death, in Tam
 pa, Florida, of Thomas A. Lake, of Church street. MT. Lake died Friday
 night in Tampa hospital where he
 was removed from his winter home
 in Limona, some ten miles away, after
 an attack of apoplexy which he had
 two weeks ago last Thursday. He
 was in his 64th year. His wife, one
 son, Everett ]. Lake of Hartford, who
 was a Republican candidate for the
 nomination for governor two years ago,
 and two daughters, Miss Sarah M.
 Lake of Boston, and Mrs. A. C. Com-
 ins of Worcester survive.
 MT. Lake had been in poor health
 for number of years, and had suf-
 fered several slight attacks of the dis ease that caused his death. He and
 his wife left Putnam early in the fall,
 as was their yearly custom, for their
 home in Limona, where Mir. Lake had
 several acres of orange and grape fruit
 trees under eultavation.
 Mir. Lake was born in Woodstock,
 June 8, 1s4s, the son of John and Sar-
 ah Ann (Warner) Lake, and in the
 days of his greater activities he was
 known throughout Connecticut. When
 he was lad of but IA years he ran
 away from home, enlisted as a water
 boy for the officers of Company G,
 Eighteenth C. ", and was with the
 regiment at Winchester. He was cap
 tured with others of the regiment, but
 he escaped and after considerable hard
 ship reached Pennsylvania. From Major Matthewson he received certi- hcate that he was not enlisted and he
 started for home. After the others who had been taken prisoners were
 exchanged, MT. Lake returned to the front and served to the end of the war. After the war MT. Lakeeengaged in business in Putnam, Woodstock, Woon- socket, Worcester, and in Stromsburg, Neb., and in 1887 he moved to Rock vile where he engaged in the lumber business. He later bought out the bus mess of the Hartford Lumber Compa- ny and conducted the lumber business in that city as we'll as in Rockville. He retired from active business in 1900. Mir. Lake was an active Republican He represented Woodstock in the Leg 1 islature of 1885. In 1897, while living in Rockville, he represented the old Twenty-third district in the Senate From March ', 1898, to December l 1899, MT. Lake served as collector ol internal revenue, under appointment from President William Mckinley. He
 resigned from the office. MT. Lake
 was a member of the Republican state central committee from the old Twen- ty.third district. He had served as < State auditor and as a member of the State board of agriculture, and at one
 time he was secretary of the Holland County Agricultural Society. He was | also an enthusiastic horseman and had | at different times owned some good horses. He was a member of Burpee Post, G. A. R., of Rockville, also of the
 Army and Navy club of Connecticut
 and in attending the reunions and l those of the Eighteenth Connecticut | he found most satisfying pleasure | He was generous to llavishness in en. tertaining his friends of the war, say ing that it was the least he could dc for them. All who knew him liked him, and all will feel that they have lost friend.
 The funeral services were held at the home on Church street Tuesday after noon at one o'clock, and were largely attended Rev. F. D. Sargent, pastor of the Second Congregational church, of which the deceased was'an attend ant, officiated. A quartette, Miss M. Gladys Murfey, Miss Lemyra E. Ellis, A. Graydon Sharpe, and John A. Morse, Jr., sang "Abide with Me" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere. !" The burial was in the cemetery at Woodstock Hill. The bearers were Arthur Comins, Worcester EverettIJ.
 Lake, William J. Riley, Howard B. Morse, Hartford; s. M. Wheelock, Ar thur Tourtellotte, Putnam.