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Cornwall,
George W. Shepard,
142
Saybrock.
George F. Spencer,
Charlton MI. Pratt,
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Goshen,
Joseph H. North,
Westbrook,
Oliver H. Norris,
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Simmons W. Scovill,
112
Harwinton,
James S. Balch,
142
TOLLAND COUNTY.
Tolland,
Thomas G. Root.
Kent,
Linus B. Wmegar ( Portra t,
141
Morris,
George H Page,
112
Andover.
Elliot P. >kioner |Peu ).
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New Hartford,
Darius B. Smith ( Portrait),
143
Bolton,
William B. Williala.
14
New Milford,
Nicholas Staub (Portrait),
145
Coventry,
Alexander & Hawkins. 154
Amos HI. Bowers,
144
Nortlı Canaan,
Edward J. Trescott,
144
Ellington,
Alfred U Charter.
154
Norfolk,
Frederick E. Porter,
144
Ilebron,
Judson Strony,
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William A. Spaulding,
144
Plymouth,
Homer E. Cook,
141
. Roxbury,
Philip W. Wells,
146
Salisbury,
Silas B. Moore,
146
Somers.
Arnold Converse.
Sharon,
Charles C. Gordon,
146
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Nelson C. Wilson,
116
Thomaston,
Porter Darrow,
146
Torrington,
Isaac W. Brooks ( Portrait),
146
Warren,
Franklin A. Curtiss,
146
Washington,
Charles P. Lyman,
118
Watertown,
George P. Wood ward,
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Winchester.
Augustus Il. Fenn,
115
Woodbury,
Edward N. Bishop,
44
Horace D. Curtiss,
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Middletown,
Horace R. Butler ( l'ortrav).
149
44
Michael W. Law ton,
150
Chatham,
Henry S. Gates,
150
Irvin N. Tibbals.
150
Chester,
Franklin Y. Silliman,
150
('linton,
Asa S. P'elton.
150
Cromwell,
Charles P'. Sage,
Porhum,
Alvin P' Roberts
15
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Judson E. Frates
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East Haddam,
Albert E. Olo sted,
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Joseph O. Warner
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Haddam,
Chut n B Dave,
Henry H Wminard
Kilhugworth,
David A. St ViEN
Myron St ( Bnrr
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Wiar Raud Il
Willington.
Jnd- u A Petter.
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Albert Hall
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4.
Ephrade J. Wilcox,
134
Mansfield,
Elisha T. Bol es
155
Kiah B. Glidden,
1:5
George B. Clark,
116
Lorenzo D. Conver-e,
stafford,
John C. Fu ler,
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Henry Mckinney,
U'non,
G L. Baker.
130
A. E. We'd,
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Burton C. Patterson.
Vernon.
Frank Il Brown,
COMMERCIAL INDEX
Samuel B. Horne,
141
Columbia,
George B. Fuller. 154
Thomas B. Walker. 134
Henry Von Tobel,
142
Seymour Johnson,
112
142
Oscar A. Leonard
14
George R. Adamns.
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MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
M . G .- L. Harker & Co
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James Milner Pratt
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Myron E. Cable,
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SENATE CHAMBER.
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Clarke, Canterbury
Barrow . Eastford
Glover, Newtown
DeForest, Brid port
Hyatt, Norwalk
wotlell, stamford
Crandam, Leban n
Barne , Prest b
PI kett New Haven
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Day, Sier
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Richardson, Sali-bury
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King, Watert w
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Allen, Old Saybe chy
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Alrup, Middle ows.
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Denbir, Stafford
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REPRESENTATIVES HALL
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249 247 245 243
242 244/246 248
231 229 227 225 223
197 195 1193 191 189 187 185
161 159 157 155 153 151 149 147 145 143 141 139 137 117 | 115 113 111 109 107 |105 103 101 99 97
135 |138 |131 |129
130| 132 |134 136
94 96
6 58
60
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21
22
24 26 28 30 32
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104 106 108 |110 | 112
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CLERK
CLERK
34 36 38 40 42 44 46
66 68 70 72 74 76 78
114| 116 | 118
160 162
SPEAKER
11. B. HARRISON, New Haven.
1-Smith of New llartford.
51-Platt of Derby.
2-Towne of Thompson.
3-Weed of New Canaan.
4 -Wells of Roxbury.
5-Speneer of Saybrook. 6-Neale of Southington.
7-Adams of New Hartford.
8-Trescott of North Canaan. 9-Piekett of New Britain. 10-Phelps of Simsbury. 11-Cowles of Norwalk. 12-Charter of Ellington. 13-Gay of Farmington. 14-Stevens of Killingworth. 15-Fowler of Windham. 16-Williams of New London. 17-Walker of Woodstock. 18-Harrison of North Bran- 19-Branche of Sprague. [ford. 20-Fenn of Middlebury. 21-Gray of Bloomfield. 22-Baldwin of Beacon Falls. 23-Strong of Ilebron. 24-Seeley of Easton. 25-Hill of Plainfield. 26-Bull of Bristol.
27-Hall of Willington. 28-Gardner of Waterford. 29-Sanford of Redding. 30-Cowles of Manchester. 31-Brainard of Hartford.
32-Law of New Haven.
33-Hubbard of Hartford. 34-Tallmadge of Bridgeport. 35-Matthews of Branford. 36-Golden of Meriden. 37-Pratt of Essex.
38-Harvey of Salem. 39-Porter of Norfolk. 40-Maine of Preston. 41-Comstock of East Lyme. 42-Inslee of East Windsor. 43-Crofnt of Danbury. 44-Wood of Bethel. 45-Converse of Somers.
46-Johnson of Cornwall. 17-Northrop of Sherman. 48-Lewis of Waterbury. 49-Ifolcombe of Burlington. 50-Smith of Waterbury.
52-Bishop of West Hartford. 53-Morrison of Enfield. 54-Mead of Greenwich. 55-Cornwall of Portland. 56-Griswold of Roeky Ifill. 57-Fanton of Danbury. 58-Sherwood of Westport. 59-Glover of Fairfield. 60-Davis of Haddam. 61-Case of Simsbury. 62-Hull of Stonington. 63-Range of Guilford. 64-Leonard of Tolland. 65-Ruggles of Huntington. 66-Highy of Meriden. 67-Seott of Manchester. 68-Fuller of Stafford. 69-Fields of Newington. 70-Kendall of Canterbury. 71-Otis of Colchester. 72-Hyde of Lisbon. 73-Emerson of Plainfield. 74-Hawkins of Coventry. 75-Sanford of Farmington. 76-North of Goshen. 77-James of Seymour. 78 -- Atwater of Southington. 79-Skinnerof Andover. 80-Jackson of Derby. 81-Curtiss of Woodbury. 82-Norton of Guilford. 83 -- Allen of East Windsor. 84-Ilopson of Wallingford. 85-Garvan of East Hartford. 86-Warren of Killingly. 87-Bristol of Canton. [ter. 88-Worthington of Colehes- 89-Grosvenor of Pomfret. 90-Peekham of Ledyard. 91-Harrington of Windham. 92-Brown of Groton. 93-Brooks of Torrington. 94-Clark of Marlborough. 95-Starr of Litchfield. 96-Noble of Bridgeport. 97-MeLean of Simsbury. 98-Fenn of Manchester. 99-Buek of Wethersfield. 100-Coan of Trumbull.
101-Patterson of Torrington. 102-Bradley of Newtown. 108-Woodward of Wat'rt'wn. 104-Lawton of Middletown. 105-Tubbs of Old Lyme. 106-Staub of New Milford. 107-Darrow of Thompson. 108-Lyman of Washington. 109-Fuller of Chaplin. 110-Wileox of Berlin. 111-Chapman of N. St'ingt'n. 112-Darlin of East Hartford. 113-Osborn of Redding. 114-Chapman of Preston. 115 -- Goodrich of Glastonbury. 116-Champlin of Litchfield. 117-Connor of Milford. 118-Williams of Bolton. 119 -- Bentley of New London. 120-Brown of Brooklyn. 121-Gay of Montville. 122-Tibbals of Chatham. 123-Beadle of Cheshire. 124-Francis of Durham. 125-Ambler of Wilton. 126-Converse of Somers. 127-Cook of Stamford. 128-Bolles of Mansfield. 129 -- Bell of Norwalk. 130-Mckinney of Stafford. 131-Condell of Plainville. 132-Gillett of Canaan. 133-Rockwell of Ridgefield. 134-Russell of Wallingford. 135-Horne of Winchester. 136 -- Allen of Putnam.
137-Conch of Stonington. 138-Wakeman of Fairfield. 139-Lathrop of Norwich. 140-Gordou of Sharon. 141-Gilmour of Norwich. 142-Pardee of Bethany. 143-Carter of Woleott. 144-Russell of Bristol. 145-Gates of Chatham. 146-Page of Morris. 147-Wheeler of Oxford. 148-Preston of Killingly. 149 -- Striekland of Glast'ub'ry. 150-Wilcox of Hebron.
151-Williams of Pomfret. 152-Clark of Salisbury. 153-Bartlett of Putnam. 154-Andrews of Darien. 155-Norris of Westbrook. 156-Ilodge of Barkhamsted. 157-Olmstead of E. Iladdam. 158-Barlow of Brookfield. 159-Cable of Washington. 160-Seovill of Goshen.
161-Judson of Stratford. 162-Walker of Coventry. 163-Stiles of Northlı Ilaven. 164-Brainard of lladdam. 165-Platt of Prospect. 166-Sage of Cromwell. 167-Kneeland of Lebanon. 168-Roberts of Durham. 169-Carrington of Naugatuck. 170-Wilson of Sharon. 171-Bishop of Woodbury. 172-Dunham of Ashford. 173-Ayres of Orange. 174-Fuller of Columbia. 175-Latham of Eastford.
176-Thomson of Bethlehem. 177-Forbes of East Haven. 178-Burr of Killingworth. 179-Miller of Hartland. 180 - Peek of Bridgewater. 181-Randall of Vernon. 182-Butler of Middletown. 183-Coates of Windsor Loeks. 184-Johnson of Barkhamsted. 185-Brown of Vernon. 186-Potter of Voluntown. 187-Case of New Britain. 188 -- Alexander of Groton. 189-Balch of Ilarwinton. 190-Durand of Milford. 191-Jewett of Lyme. 192-Durkee of Ashford. 193-Hewitt of Wethersfield. 194-Oles of Bridgewater. 195-Curtiss of Warren. 196-Lines of Woodbridge. 197 -- WheelerofN. Stoningt'n. 198-Hollister of Windsor. 199-Glidden of Mansfield. 200-Potter of Willington.
201-Bennett of Middlefield. 202-Avery of South Windsor. 203-Carey of Canterbury. 204-Stillman of Chester. 205-Stead of Bozrah. 206-Ives of Colebrook. 207-Spaulding of Norfolk. 208-Stevens of Monroe. 209-Pelton of Clinton. 210-Waterbury of Stamford. 211-Tuttle of Hamden. 212-Spelman of Suffield. 213-Griswold[of Madison. 214-Grohman of East Granby. 215-Granniss of Cheshire. 216-Moore of Salisbury. 217-Weaver of IIampton, 218-Rnie of Granby. 219-Warner of East Iladdam. 220-Root ofTolland. 221-Kingsley of Lebanon. 222-Alderman of Suffield. 223-Palmer of Griswold. 224-Ifusted of Greenwich. 225-Card of Sterling. 226-Baker of Union. 227-Middleton of Enfield. 228-Stark of Lyme. 229-Van Tobel of Harwinton. 230-Weld of Union. 231-Cook of Plymouth. 232-Denison of Old Saybrook. 233-Pratt of Saybrook. 234-Bowers of New Milford. 235-Arnold of Woodstock. 236-Winegar of Kent.
237-Ilillard of Franklin. 238-Troy of Newtown. 239-Bishop of Avon. 240-Betts of New Fairfield. 241-Ilaskins of Scotland. 242-Lockwood of Weston. 213-Loder of Ridgefield. 244-Shepard of Cornwall. 245-Stillman of Hartland. 216-Vacant.
247-Lavery of Windsor.
248-Wheeler of Southbury. 249-Chase of Thompson.
211 209 207 205 203
201 199
200 202 204 206 208 210 212
234 236 238 240
2/4 216 218 220 222
176 178 180 182 184
224 226 228 230 232
59 57 55 53
51
49 47
48 50
52
54
186 188 190 192 194 196 198
98 100
102
63
77 75 73 71 69 67 65
45 43 41 38 37 35 33
19 17 15 |13
18 20
REPORTERS
12
14
156 |168
16
138 140 142 144 146 148 150 152 154
62 64
61
31 29 27 25
95 93 91 89 87 85 83 81 79
127 125 123 121 119
120 122 124 126 128
164 166 168 170 172 174
183 181 179 |177 175
221 219 217 215 213
241 239 237 235 233
173 171 169 167 165 | 163
80 82 84 86 88 90 92
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HON. THOMAS M. WALLER.
GOVERNOR.
The career of the present Governor of this State is not an neominon one in a country which affords ample opportunities for men of natural genins and honorable ambition to push their way in spite of many obstacles; but in the case of THOMAS M. WALLER there is something more of romance than is ordinarily furnished in the lives of many men who have attained merited distine- tion in public and business affairs. It is a matter of note that a majority of the Governors of this commonwealth have been the architect- of their own fortunes. They have been " por boys." and have encountered hard rows in the struggle which finally gave them personal and financial shoress.
Mr. Waller, now forty four years of age, was born in New York. His parents were Thomas Christopher und Mary Armstrong. Both his
mother and his father, and his only bruither, wld was his junior, died before he was nine years chl. and he found himself aline in a great city tuining some assistance, he was able to buy new- papers to begin the life of a newsboy of his occupation then, the History of New London County, which contains sketches of the -the guished residents of that section, sus: " ler some months he carried paper- In the lower ports of the city, finding his best detumers of the Tammany Hall of those days, and more dowy we night, while he was following this to, Fre . Bowen his head on the steps of the old Inbure would ing."
In a speech made during the last yearsogn in this State, in reply to personalities Me Waller said that anybody who komory Jim will quality
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New York many years ago-ever since I was sell- ing The Herald, The Tribune, The Sun, and The Morning Star -- up to the moment I accepted the nomination of governor of the great Democratic party of this commonwealth, I have been endeav- oring in an honest way, by skilled labor and carc- ful thought, to build for myself a reputation that I should not be ashamed of, and that five boys of mine should not be ashamed of either."
He gave up selling papers to go to sea, and was employed on several fishing vessels as cabin- boy and cook's mate. until, in 1849, he had made arrangements to ship to California on the "Mount Vernon," from New London. It was at this time that the late Robert K. Waller, of New London, found the lad, and, becoming interested in him, adopted him, and thereafter he assumed the name of Waller. He was treated with all the consider- ation of an own son, and in after years was able to show a son's kindness to those who had protected him. Ile attended the public schools of New London, and was graduated at the Bartlett IFigli School with honors. In 1861 he was admitted to the bar, and very soon after entered as a private in the Second Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and was chosen fourth sergeant of Company E. He went to the front with the regiment, but was compelled, owing to a painful affliction of the cyes, to leave the service. Upon his return he entered actively into the practice of his profession, and from that day has successively filled honora- ble publie positions, and continually become more and more favorably known to the people of the State. In 1867, 1868, 1872, and 1876 he was elected to the lower branch of the legislature from New London, and in the latter year was Speaker of the House, a position he filled with distin- guished ability. In 1870 he was chosen Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket, headed by Gov- ernor English, and in that service made an honor-
able record. In 1873 he was elected Mayor of New London, and filled that office in a business- like and most acceptable manner for six years. In 1875 he was chosen by the Judges of the Su- preme and Superior Courts to be State's Attorney for New London County, and up to the time of his clection as Governor he held that position. Many important cases have been tried during his State's Attorneyship, including the celebrated Cobb-Bishop poisoning case at Norwich, and the Mary Stannard murder case-the latter being in New Haven County ; but he was assigned by the Supreme Court to assist the State, owing to the disqualifications of the Attorney for that County.
Mr. Waller has been consistently a Democrat in polities, but has never possessed the least big- otry as a politician. He has been frankly inde- pendent on many occasions in conventions of his party, and in other places of partisan debate. As an orator he is impressive to a degree which, on occasions of party strife in important gatherings, has given him a magnetic hold of men, and no man of his party in the State has so often carried convictions by the power of eloquence, or any other influence. In personal manner Mr. Waller is a gentleman of many attractions. Pleasant and fluent in conversation, easy of approach, strong in his friendships, he is greatly loved by his friends, of whom he has multitudes, in all political parties and among all classes. He is married, and lias six children-five of whom are boys. Tracy, the eldest, graduated from Yale in 1882.
As Governor of this commonwealth Mr. Waller commands the respect of the people by his unswerving devotion to all state and public inter- ests. He is governed by the same high ambition which has animated him through life, to do well what he attempts to do, and to deserve the sup- port and confidence of his fellow-citizens.
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HON. GEORGE G. SUMNER,
LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR.
The family of the Lieutenant-Governor of Con- nectient lived, at the time of his birth, January 14, 1841, in the north part of the society of Gil- ead, in the town of Hebron. He was named after his mother's father, George Gleason, who lived near the Manchester line in Glastonbury. His grandfather on his father's side was Henry Peterson Sinner, a Methodist preacher in Gil- ead. When he was about six years of age, his father, John W. Sunner, moved to Collinsville. where the latter was superintendent in the axe- factory established by the Collinses, whose enter- prise has resulted in the building up of a great manufacturing industry. In 1552 the family moved to Bolton, and has lived there since. George, the sont, attended the district school, and when about fourteen years of age was sent to the Bartlett High School, at New Loudon, where he studied for a year and a half, and there met for
the first time Thomas M. Waller, who was in the same school, laying foundations for the profes sional and public life which both Le and Mr. Summer subsequently entered. Before reeling the age of sixteen Mr. Summer Lecare the tombne of a district school in Andover, wheat be sure fully conducted, and then went to Williston Front mary, at East Hampton, Mas, and med fred. education was defeated by impedirel health, and with the goal mental equipment wendy be bed obtained be returned to the form of baltus. working in the summer good Food toire of ters for about four yeux During the peroet lu was Town Clerk to three years, l'estate Cinis. and Acting Sell Vision Tv Viniloes and favor of the people of Begge in these vom have often been the subject of My Son's tion with his from lo and lie ty jantis any
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his pleasure in renewing old associations there upon his repeated visits to his home. In 1864 he began the study of law with Hon. David S. Calhoun, the present Judge of the Hartford County Court of Common Pleas, then living in Manchester, and afterwards eame to Hartford and entered the law office of Waldo & Hyde, and in 1866 was admitted to the bar. In 1867 he was elected a Representative in the Legisla- ture from Bolton, and in the same year Mr. Wal- ler was for the first time a member of the House. Mr. Sumner made a notable speech during the session in opposition to the bridging of the Con- necticut river, which occasioned favorable com- ment among members, and special commendation in the Hartford papers. He was chiefly instru- mental that year in seeuring the passage of the bill for a public aet which gives the accused in a criminal trial the right to testify in his own be- half. In the same year Mr. Sumner established his residence in Hartford, and in 1868 was elected to the Board of Aldermen from the Fifth Ward, and served four years. He was City Attorney for one term, Associate Judge of the City Court, and Police Commissioner for three years, and Recorder of the City Court for four years. In these positions he served the public with zeal and fidelity, and there was a manifest appreciation of his work as a public servant when, in the third year of his membership, a Republican Common Council refused to accept his resignation, and in- creased the salary of his office as an inducement for him to remain. There was a marked improve- ment in the administration of the City Court under his direction, and the doeket acquired an importance it had not possessed for years.
In 1873 and 1874 Mr. Sumner was Chairman of the Democratic State Committee, and proved his efficiency as a party manager by the results of his work. The State, for the first time in about twenty years, was carried by the Demo- crats, and possession of the Legislature was ob- tained by that party organization. In the fall of 1877 he was a candidate for the State Senate from the First District, and upon the face of the returns was elected and seated ; but his opponent, Hon. John R. Hills, contested his seat, and was declared elected by the Legislature on a canvass of the votes. In the following spring he was nominated by the Democratic party as a candi-
date for Mayor, and elected. Mr. Snmner's administration of the Mayoralty was in the high- est degree ereditable. He displayed both inde- pendenee and good judgment in his official aets, and citizens of both parties interested in having a prudent administration of affairs, commended the wisdom with which his executive powers were exercised. At the close of his term he made a tour of several months in England and on the Continent.
Mr. Sumner married, in 1870, Julia Ella Gallup, only daughter of the late Hon. David Gallup of Plainfield, who is well remembered throughout the State as a prominent Republican and leading citizen, having been Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, Speaker of the Honse, and often a member of the Legislature. There were two children by Mr. Sumner's marriage, but both died-a boy, when fourteen months old, and a daughter at a younger age. Mrs. Sumner died in 1875.
Mr. Sumner had been prominently named for the Democratic nomination for Governor at the last election ; but he encouraged no active move- ment in his behalf, and cordially concurred in the nomination of Mr. Waller. By common consent he was named for the second place. The High School boys in New London in 1855, and the young legislators in 1867, had come together again, each in the pursuit of an honorable ambi- tion. Mr. Sumner's vote in the two places where he is best known illustrated his popularity. He carried every ward in Hartford, and had a plu- rality of 1,574, and out of abont 120 voters in all in the town of Bolton over 90 gave him their ballots.
Mr. Sumner is one of the rising men in his party in the State. He has, in every place of publie trust, so justified the confidence of the people that his place in public affairs is the hon- orable reward of faithful service. Besides the integrity of his character, he is a man of most kindly disposition, of generous impulses, a true and manly friend, broad in his sympathies, and fair in his judgment. While consistently a party man, yet he is so broad in his views, and so tol- erant of the convictions of those who entertain opposing opinions, that party lines furnish no measure of the esteem in which he is popularly held.
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Hox. DAVID WARD NORTHROP,
SECRETARY OF STATE.
Of Middletown, was born in the town of Sher- man, Conn., February 19, 1844, and is of Scotch descent, the family being among the best citizens in the western part of the State. His grand- father, David Northrop, represented the town of Sherman in 1810, as a member of the House of Representatives, and his father, David Northrop, served in the same capacity in 1835, and was a leading man in the town for many years, holding many town offices, and was for several years judge of probate. On his maternal side the Secretary is a descendant from the Rogers tam- ily, straight down from the first martyr, John Rogers, in Queen Mary's reign. His grand- mother, Lucretia Rogers, was a daughter of Capt. Edward Rogers, of Cornwall, an otlicor in the Revolutionary war, who afterwards was, for se csal sessions, a number of the Connectiont General Assembly. One of her brothers, Edward
Rogers, resided in Madison, N. Y., and was a prominent lawyer, a judge, and a member of Congres. Mr. Northrop's grandfather, Jelo Ward, was an own consin of the late Giles Welles, and was a man of great strength of char actor, and prominent in public athurs in I. locality. He resided in Shetfield, Berk fire Co. Mass. Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, for many years a leading member of Congress from Ohio, was also a maternal relative.
Mr. Northrop spent his early life of A fine und attended the district schall He preparat for college at Amonia Summary In Den County, N. Y. After fildeling his apetition education, he entered Weken University, in the class of 'tis, graduating with James to thed Fungnage in the Font Edward Instable A )
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the Albany Law School, and completed the course there in 1870. In the fall of 1870, lic was admitted to the bar of this State in Middle- sex County, settled down in Middletown, and has remained there ever since. In 1873, Mr. Northrop was elected judge of probate for the district of Middletown, and served in that posi- tion faithfully and honorably until 1881, receiv- ing at each re-election a considerable number of Republican votes. In 1880, he declined to be a candidate for re-election. In 1871, Judge North- rop was elected to the General Assembly, was chairman of the School Fund committee, and served with credit to himself and his constitu- ents. He was again elected in 1881, and was a member of the Judiciary committee, also of the committees on Engrossed Bills and State House Grounds. Ile was a member in 1882, served on the Judiciary committee, and proved a valuable member of it. He was also' chairman of the committee on Engrossed Bills, doing much hard work in that position, and succeeded in securing the passage of a bill appointing a " clerk of bills," so that in future such hard work may not be imposed upon this committee. On the floor of the House, he was the recognized leader on the part of the Democrats, and well earned the title.
Locally, Mr. Northrop has been many times lion- ored. Hc has been a member of the Common Council, member and secretary of the Board of Education of the City School district, town attorney, assistant clerk of courts for ten years, member of the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University, and of its Executive committee; and at the municipal election in Middletown, in Jan- uary of the present year, Mr. Northrop was clected mayor of that city. He was, for a nmmn- ber of years, a member of the Democratie State Central Committee, is a member of the Psi Upsi- lon Chapter, located in Middletown, and has continued his interest in the fraternity since he left college, rendering much assistance in the ercction and maintenance of the elegant chapter house on Broad Street.
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