The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-02
NOTED EDITOR
 DIES EARLY TODAY

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 l was the last survivor and the second 1 oldest graduate of Tufts. n recog- milton of his long services in journal | ism and his literary efforts, his alma | mater conferred on him, in 1900, the | honorary degree of Lit. D.
 l After graduation from Tufts, MT
 Waldo began the study of law in the l offices of A. c. Lippit in New Lon don, but his study was interrupted | by the outbreak of the Civil war and | Llncoln's first call for volunteers. MT. | Waldo and a bosom friend, another | New London, talked the situation over. They enlisted together for ac- | tive servce, being the first to re- spond. The other man was Thomas l Waller, afterwards governor of Con- | necticut They saw service together and sustained a lifelong friendship. | in later years both receiving medals from the state of Connecticut for re- | spending to the first call.
 | MT. Waldo took part in the battle | of Bull Run and saw other service. | but incurred illnesses which seriously | impaired his health and prevented | the acceptance of his proffered enlist ment
 After his return from the army he resumed the study of law, then for a time also studied medicine in New London then engaged in business for | several years, finally locating in Bridgeport in 1867. His journalistic | career began when he took the place | of local reporter and city editor for the Bridgeport Standard, and his ser vices with that paper continued un- | interruptedly for more than half a century, until publication of The Standard was discontinued on Jan ! uary 1, 1919. His vigorous mental activity anl his intense interest in Journalism never ceased until, a few weeks before his death, failing health finally took the pen from his hand After his retirement from active edi- | toriaI work he contributed a depart ment under the caption Bridgeport Forty Years Ago. to the Brfd dgeport | Telegram this being a continuation of the department he had created many years before in The Standard It consisted of interesting excerpts about Bridgeport people and affairs | taken each day from the Standard | files of that date 40 years previous, and was more than a simple reped- | tion, being illuminated with MT. Wal dos own comments and reminis- | cences. As his memory was almost l photographic in it's flair for the de- tails of happenings of four decades ago, it was one of the most remark able 'featureS'' published by any newspaper and was followed with in- tense interest, especially by the older generation of Bridgeporters-
 After beginning as local reporter and city editor of The Standard in 1867, MT. Waldo two years later be- came associate editor with John D. Candee, the publisher, and upon the latter's death in 1888, succeeded him as editor in chief and president Of The Standard Association Durins g MT. Waldo's term of editorship The Standard became recognized as one of the leading organs of public opinion in New England and it's editorial col | umns, which were the product of his pen, were widely quoted not only throughout New England but in the metropolitan journals as well
 In politics the paper was RepubH- can, and MT. Waldo himself was staunchly of that political faith. He voted for every Republican nominee for president, from Abraham Lin coln, to Warren G. Harding Because of his newspaper connection, how ever, he avoided public office himself, although accepting service on numer- ous public boards and commissions. For 26 years he was a member of the Come cticut Board of Shell Fish Com- missioners and for twenty of those years was president of the board. He was also for 12 years a trustee of the State Insane Hospital at Norwich.
 In civic affairs he pursued the same dignified course and served his city as a member of the Board of Education for five years, and for fourteen years was director of the Bridgeport Pub lie Library. He was one of the founders of the Bridgeport Scientific society, was for five years it's secre-
  society merged with the Scientific so- c1ety, was vice president of the for mer. He was first president of the old Eclectic Club, was one of the and was for many years a director of the Young Mems Christian Asso- ciation.
 Since 1875 Mr. Waldo has served continuously as member of the ves- try of Christ Episcopal church and always took an active interest in church affairs He was a mem Der of uhe Army and Navy Club of Con- necticut. and of the Grand Army of the Republic, and kept up as much of an active interest as his years per mitted in his college fraternities, Phi Beta Kappa and zeta Psi.
 In 1874 MT. Waldo married Annie Frye, daughter of Major Frederick and Matilda (Brooksl Frye. The marriage, which took place at New Orleans, La, was a Civil War TO- nance, Major Frye being in com mand of the Union forces in occupa- ton of the city of New Orleans. Mrs. Waldo was of Revolutionary stock, being a granddaughter of Colonel James Frye, who commanded a reg iment at the battle of Bunker Hill Four children were born of this mar riage: Selden c. Waldo who fol- lowed his fathers career as a news paper man in Bridgeport (died 1e09;) Rosalie Hillman Waldo, (Mrs. Ro- land H. Mallory of New York;) Ma turin BaT1ou Waldo, superintendent of the H. O. Garfield company and George c. Waldo, Jr.. editor in chief of the Post Publishing company. MT. Waldo's life was greatly saddened by the death of Mrs Waldo in 1917 at which time he gave up the home at POT Golden Hill street which he had built more than a quarter of a cen tury before, and went to live with MT. and Mrs. Geo. c. Waldo, Jr., first in Fairfield and later at No. 5s Gro vers avenue, Black Rock. where his death occurred
 r Mir Waldo's taste in literature and