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here ; by order of Gen. Garth." Gen. Garth was taken round the town, and visited several public and private buildings, among others, that on the corner of Chapel and Temple streets, built, and then occupied, by Jared Ingersoll, the stamp master. Garth went to the roof of the house to take a survey of the town. He afterwards was escorted to the Court House, and, after another sur- vey, expressed himself highly gratified, and remarked, "It is too beautiful a town to burn." It is said that Tryon accused Garth of being too tender-hearted.
The following inscriptions are copied from monuments in the ancient grave-yard, situated at the eastern side of the Green :
This monument is erected as a mark of filial respect, to perpet- uate the memory of REV. NOAH WILLISTON, who died Nov. 10, 1811, in the 78th year of his age, the 51st of his ministry. As a procher, few are thought to have excelled him in the regard he manifested for the doctrines of the Cross, and his zeal to defend chem. He was affectionate as a husband, and in his love to his children, and his exertion to promote their best interest, he was surpassed by none ; the poor were always sure to find a friend, and he caused the hearts of the widow and fatherless to sing for joy.
In memory of STEPHEN W. STEBBINS, who was born in Long Meadow, Mass., June 26, 1858 ; graduated at Yale College 1781, settled in the ministry at Stratford, Conn., in 1784, where he con- tinued for 29 years ; was installed Pastor in West Haven in 1814, and died in office, Aug. 15, aged 85. In early life he devoted himself to God, and down to old age was perfect and upright in the relation of a son, a brother, a husband, a neighbor, a Christian, a minister of Jesus. First pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocracy, he fell asleep in lively hope of awaking to a glorious immortality.
HANNAH KIMBERLY died Dec. 5, 1856, aged 93. Founder of he Connecticut Missionary Society. Her record is on high.
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Wintergreen Falls, near New Haven.
This romantic spot on the eastern declivity of the West Rock mountain range, in Hamden, is about three miles in a northern direc- tion from the central part of the city, just over the New Haven town line. The water falls over the ridge about 100 feet in a deep ravine. Wintergreen Lake, from wnence the stream proceeds, about half a mile long, is formed in the valley on the summit of the mountain range. A number of isolated pine trees about half a mile north-west of the falls, on the eastern bank of the lake, are seen in the distance in the accompanying view. The lake is irregular in width, about 250 feet above tide-water. About half a mile south of the lake is the " Judges' Cave," described on pages 95 and 96. The land adjacent to the falls and the cave is owned by Henry A. Munson, Esq., and his relatives, and has been in possession of the Munson family for more than 100 years. The view presented to the eye from these elevations, consisting of mountains and rugged scenery, the city and villages of busy life, the pleasant appearance of the harbor and Sound, with the shore of Long Island, with the ships of commerce, present a variegated scene of beauty and interest, rarely equalled in this or any country.
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Christ Church, [page 29,] has been rebuilt, enlarged, and the location changed. It now fronts the East Park in Broadway, at the junction of Broadway and Eim streets.
CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, is on the north side of Davenport Avenne, corner of Ward street, is built of wood, and has about 400 sittings. When built, in 1857, it was a Mission Chapel of St. Paul's Church, and became independent in 1868.
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, [Episcopal,] formerly the Mission Chapel, [page 29,] corner of State and Eld streets, has been enlarged, and is now a tasteful structure.
View of the Rutherford Building in Dec. 1869
The above is a view of a small building in the southern part of State, (formerly Fleet street,) nearly opposite to Prout street. It was formerly the warehouse of Mr. Henry Rutherford, which was built about the year 1665, and is believed to be the oldest building now standing in New Haven. Mr. Rutherford died in 1668, and this building became the property of his widow, who married Gov. Leete, and died in 1673. The elderly people of the present day re- collect it as the barber shop of James Townsend. It had formerly a projecting roof from the door, forming a kind of portico in front. The two story house adjoining this building on the south, part of which is seen in the engraving, was formerly known as the Forbes House, and afterwards as the Bell Tavern, so named from a bell paint- ed on its sign. This building, with those recent y standing north from the Rutherford building, were among the oldest in the city, and this locality was the business center. A few yards back of these houses, in former times, was a creck of sufficient depth as far as the R. R. Depot, for vessels to come up and discharge their cargoes back of the warehouses on its banks, where the first wharves were built, The cars of the New York and New Haven R. R. now pass over the bed of this creek.
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF NEW HAVEN.
1637. The English first traverse the country, from Saybrook to Fairfield, in pursuit of the Pequots.
Mr. Eaton and others build a hut at Quinnipiac [New Haven] during the fall of this year, where a few men spent the winter.
1638. Mr. Davenport and others sailed from Boston for Quinnipiac, March 30.
Mr. Davenport preached near the corner of George and College-streets, under an oak-the first Sabbath in New Haven, April 15.
Treaty made with Momauguin and others, Nov. 24.
Ezekiel Cheever commenced his career as schoolmaster.
1639. Original Constitution of New Haven Colony formed, June 4.
Theophilus Eaton chosen first Governor, Oct. 25.
Nepaupuck, a Pequot chieftain, condemned and executed for several murders. His head was cut off, and set upon a pole in the market-place.
1640. Robert Feaks and Daniel Patrick, agents of New Haven, bought Greenwich.
The General Court decreed that Quinnipiac should be called New Haven.
1642. Troubles with the Dutch and Indians.
" Free School ordered to be set up by the Colony.
1643. Gov. Eaton and Mr. Gregson sent to Boston from New Haven, as commissioners to the Confederation of the Colonies of New England.
The Dutch being harassed by the Indians, apply to New Haven for assistance.
1644. New Haven sent help to Fairfield and Stamford against the Indians.
1645. Mr. Gregson appointed agent to procure a patent for the Colony.
1647. Mr. Gregson, Captain Turner, and five or six other principal men, embarked, in January, at New Haven, on a trading voyage to London ; never heard of afterwards.
1648. A ship belonging to Mr. Westerhouse seized by the Dutch, in New Haven harbor.
1651. Fifty men from New Haven and Tetoket [Branford], in attempting to settle their lands at Delaware, were im- prisoned by the Dutch governor.
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1650. Commissioners of the United Colonies met in New Haven, Sept. 14. Mons. Godfroy and Gabriel Druillets, two agents or commissioners from Canada, petitioned for assist- ance against the Six Nations.
1653. Great alarm and distress on account of the Dutch and Indians.
... Connecticut and New Haven " provided a frigate of 10 or 12 guns, with 40 men, to defend the coast' from the Dutch."
1655. Gov. Eaton compiles a code of laws for New Haven, printed the next year at London.
Mr. Wm. Hooke, teacher of the Church, removed to England. 1656. The General Court of New Haven ordered a troop of sixteen horse to be raised in five towns on the coast. First troop in any part of Connecticut.
1657. Gov. Eaton of New Haven died, in the 67th year of his age. Gov. Edward Hopkins died at London, March, leaving be- quest for a Grammar School or College in New Haven.
1658. Mr. Francis Newman chosen Governor of New Haven Colony. 1661. William Leet, Esq., chosen Governor; Matthew Gilbert, Deputy Governor.
The Regicides Whalley and Goff arrive in New Haven, March 27.
1665. Union of New Haven and Connecticut Colonies.
1668. Rev. Mr. Davenport removed to Boston.
1670. Mr. Davenport died suddenly in Boston, March 11, aged 73.
1675. Much alarm on account of King Philip's War ; the town for- tified.
1677. The town appointed Deacon William Peck and John Chidsey "to make up the rate," deliver it to the ministers, and prosecute such as fail in the payment. The Church Trea- sury was previously supplied by voluntary contributions. 1680. Matthew Gilbert and John Punderson, two of the "seven pillars" of New Haven, died. Goff, the Regicide, is sup- posed to have died in, or near New Haven, the same year. 1685. Rev. James Pierpont ordained pastor, July 2.
1689. Col. John Dixwell, one of the Regicides, died in New Haven, aged 81.
1697. The town voted Mr. Pierpont a regular salary annually, in- stead of the avails of the tax, more, or less.
1714. Rev. Mr. Pierpont died, Nov. 14, at the age of 55.
1716. The Collegiate School (Yale College) removed from Saybrook to New Haven.
1717. The edifice for the Collegiate School begun, Oct. 8.
1718. The' College' building completed, and the first Public Com- mencement held in New Haven, Sept. 10, and the name of YALE given to the building and to the School.
Legislature of the Colony of Connecticut first met at N. H. 1721. Gov. Yale died in England, July 8th, aged 73.
1724. Number of inhabitants estimated in New Haven, 1,000; houses, 163.
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1740. Rev. George Whitefield arrived in New Haven. Great atten- tion to the subject of Religion at this period.
1744. White Haven house of worship commenced.
1745. Mr. Whitefield preached in the open air to a great congrega- tion assembled on the Green, before Mr. Pierpont's house. 1753. Public worship commenced in the College Hall.
1755. First Episcopal Society formed.
66 New Haven Gazette, by Jas. Parker, first Newspaper printed in New Haven.
Laws of Yale College, in Latin; the first book printed in New Haven, 24 pages 8vo.
1759. White Haven Society incorporated.
1761. Rev. James Noyes, pastor of the First Society for 45 years, died, aged 73.
1765. Much excitement on account of the Stamp Act. Mr. Ingersoll resigned his office.
1766. Rev. Naphtali Daggett elected President of Yale College. Tornado. Steeple in East Haven blown down.
1772. Laws of Yale College first published in the English tongue.
1775. The Governor's Guard, under Captain Arnold, marched to Cambridge, on the news of the action at Lexington.
" Margaret, wife of Benedict Arnold, Esq., died June 10, aged 30.
1777. Rev. Ezra Stiles elected President of Yale College.
1779. New Haven invaded and plundered by the British, July 5.
1780. Hard winter. Snow four feet deep throughout New England. Dark Day throughout New England, May 19.
1781. Duke de Lauzun, with his Legion of 600 men, passes through New Haven, June 28.
1784. New Haven constituted a City by the Legislature.
1787. Rev. Chauncey Whittelsey, after a ministry of thirty years, died, aged 70.
First regular Census taken : number of inhabitants, 3,540, in- cluding 176 students.
1793. Roger Sherman, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, died July 23.
1794. Yellow fever in New Haven; 160 persons seized by it, of whom 64 died.
1795. President Stiles died, May 12, aged 67.
Timothy Dwight elected President of Yale College.
1796. The town appropriated 200 dollars for destroying barberry bushes.
1797. Martha, wife of John Townsend, died Nov. 9, aged 44; the first person buried in the New City Cemetery.
1800. Tonnage in the port of New Haven, 11,011.
1801. Samuel Bishop, Town Clerk for 54 years, died, and was suc- ceeded by Elisha Munson.
1803. Brewery in Brewery-street burnt, April.
1805. Rev. Samuel Merwin ordained, United Society.
1806. By-law passed, forbidding smoking within 4 rods of any house or barn within the City limits.
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1806. Great Eclipse of the Sun, June 16th.
1807. First Methodist Church built.
1809. A slight shock of an earthquake, May 25.
1812. Nath. W. Taylor ordained, Center Church, April 8. Rev. James Dana, D. D., died Aug. 18, aged 77.
Rev. Bela Hubbard, D. D., Rec. Trin. Ch., died Dec. 6, aged 73.
1813. Medical Institution of Yale College went into operation.
Rt. Rev. Abraham Jarvis, D. D., died May 3, aged 75. 1814-15. Center, Trinity and North churches built.
1815. Old blue meeting-house occupied for the last time, Dec. 17.
First steamboat arrived from New York, March 21.
" Epidemic Dysentery, confined principally to children.
1816. Cold summer-frost every month in the year.
Rev. Harry Croswell installed Rector. Trinity Church.
" First Baptist Church constituted.
1818. New-Constitution Legislature first met in New Haven in May. 1819. The American Journal of Science and Arts commenced, by Professor Benjamin Silliman.
1820. Great Fire on Long Wharf, Oct. 28.
1821. The monuments in the Old Cemetery removed; Rev. Mr. Hill [Baptist] delivered an address.
Tornado (September Gale) ; Methodist Church (erecting) blown down in the evening of Sept, 3.
1822. Farmington Canal Company chartered.
1823. Charles Chauncey, LL. D., died April 28, aged 76.
No death for forty days, in May and June.
1824. Mob in College-street, in consequence of the disinterment of a body; Medical College threatened ; mob dispersed by the civil authority, Jan. 12.
First Baptist Church dedicated, July 27.
" Ground broken for the Farmington Canal at the head of Southwick Ponds, July 4.
Mrs. Mansfield's trial for the murder of her husband held in the Methodist Church, Aug. 19.
Gen. La Fayette arrived in New Haven, Aug. 21, at 10 o'clock, A. M .; illumination the evening previous.
1825. Eli Whitney, the inventor of the Cotton Gin, died Jan. 8.
Rev. Leonard Bacon installed, Center Church, March 9.
Eagle Bank stopped payment, Sept. 19.
1826. Eneas Munson, M. D., President of the Medical Society of Connecticut, for more than seventy years practiced his profession, died June 16, aged 92.
1827. J. Lancaster, founder of the Lancasterian system, lectured at the Center Church, June 21.
1828. A large number of Students ordered to leave Yale College for disorderly conduct, [on account of their food,] Aug. 4. Funeral of Mr. Ashmun, Col. Soc. Ag't, at the Center Church, Aug. 27.
1829. Dr. Nathan Smith, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, died Jan. 26, aged 66.
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1829. Red Jacket, the Indian Chief, delivered a speech at the Ton- tine, March 12.
1830. Farmington Canal extended to Westfield, 70 miles from N. H. Col. Jared Mansfield, LI. D., died Feb. 3, aged 70.
Col. Wm. Lyon, first Cashier of the New Haven Bank, died, Oct. 12, aged 82.
1831. Rev. Claudius Herrick, Principal of a Female Seminary, died May 26, aged 56.
City Meeting repudiating the establishment of an African College in New Haven, Sept. 12.
1832. Cholera in New Haven for the first time, July 28; 26 per- sons died.
Amos Doolittle, long known as an Engraver, died, Jan. 31.
Hon. James Hillhouse died, Dec. 29, aged 78.
1833. President Jackson and suite arrived in New Haven, June 15.
66 Great shower of Shooting Stars, from midnight to morning, November 13.
Rev. E. L. Cleveland ordained, Third Congregational Church.
1835. Nathan Smith, U. S. Senator in Congress, died in Washing- ton, Dec. 6, aged 65. His remains arrived in N. H. Dec. 19. Coldest summer since 1816. Ice in July.
Theological building (Yale College) erected.
1835-6. Severe Winter. Harbor frozen six weeks.
1837-8. Mild Winter. Steamboats lost but one passage.
1837. Great Fire in Orange and Chapel-street, Aug. 2.
Banks in New Haven (except the City Bank) and elsewhere stopped Specie Payments May 10.
1838. · Second Centennial Celebration of Settlement of New Haven celebrated. Address by Prof. Kingsley.
Rev. S. W. S. Dutton ordained, United Society.
1839. Cars commenced running from New Haven to Meriden-to Hartford the next year.
Tornado passed through the N. part of the city[July 30, do- - ing considerable damage.
1840. Amistad Captives declared free by Judge Judson, at U. S. Court, Jan. 13.
1841. James A. Hillhouse, eminent as a Poet, died Jan. 5, aged 51.
E. Munson, many years Town Clerk, died Aug. 30, aged 80.
1842. Bunce's Paper Mill in Westville destroyed by fire during a snow storm, Dec. 20.
66 Severe Frost-leaves of forest trees destroyed, May 23 1843. Frost and Ice in June.
1846. Theodore D. Woolsey elected President-Yale College Illumi- nated, Oct. 21.
Wooden buildings in Church-st. destroyed by fire, Dec. 16.
1847. New York and New Haven Railroad commenced.
1848. Canal Railroad opened to Plainville, Jan. 18.
" Catholic Church, corner York-street and Davenport Avenue, destroyed by fire, June 11.
Cars first passed from New Haven to New York, Dec. 29.
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1848. Dea. N. Whiting, formerly Pub. of the Religious Intelligencer, died Feb. 19, aged 76.
1849. Capt. Bottom, with a company of emigrants, sailed for Cali- fornia March 12, from the Steamboat Dock.
Nathan Beers, a Lieut. and Paymaster in the Revolutionary army, died Feb. 11, aged 96.
1848 Lewis Fisk died, Nov. 29, aged 41, the first person buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.
1850. Foote and M'Caffrey, the murderers, executed Oct. 2.
66 Brewster's Hall opened, Aug. 7.
66 Dr. J. Skinner, formerly Constable, died-age, 85.
1851. David Daggett, Chief Jus. Conn., Senator in Congress, died April 12, aged 86.
66 Simeon Baldwin, Judge Supreme Court, Member of Congress, died May 26, aged 90.
1852. Cars passed from New Haven to New London, July.
" Kossuth, the Hungarian Governor, delivered an Address in N. H., April 23.
Dr. Æneas Monson, Surgeon in the Revolutionary Army, formerly Pres. of N. H. Bank, &c., died Aug. 22, aged 89. Prof. J. L. Kingsley, of Yale College, died Aug. 31, aged 74. 1853. Col. Lemanowski, one of Napoleon's officers, lectured in N. H. 1854. Extreme heat. Thermometer 99 to 100 in the shade, Aug. 22.
First State Fair held in New Haven, Oct. 10, 11, 12, 13.
1855. W. Clark killed R. W. Wight, April 28. He was acquitted on the ground of insanity.
1856. A company of men emigrated to Kansas, addressed by Henry Ward Beecher, at the North Church, March 22.
Young Men's Institute completed. Custom House Building commenced.
" Jewish Synagogue opened for worship, April.
Dr. James G. Percival, eminent as a poet, geologist and man of science, died at Hazelgreen, Ill., Mav 2, aged 61.
1856. Town of Orange voted to build a bridge from West Haven to Oyster Point, Aug. 4. Appropriated $3,500 Aug. 4. Court street church edifice consecrated as a Jewish Syna- gogue, July 18.
Stone Church of the 3d Congregational Society, Church street, dedicated Aug. 13.
Rev. James Murdock, a resident of New Haven, author, died in Columbus, Mississippi, Aug. 10, aged 80. His remains were subsequently interred in the old ceme- tery in this city.
1857. First city election, June 1, under the law dividing the city into 6 Wards.
Belgian pavement in Chapel street, from State to Church, commenced at State street, May 4.
1858 Capt. Benjamin Beecher, a ship-master, and for many years the manager of Town affairs, died Jan 7, aged 83.
Hezekiah Augur, the well-known sculptor, died Sept. 10, aged 67.
Rev. Harry Croswell, D. D., died March 13, aged 78.
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Rev. Jeremiah Atwater, first President of Middlebury Col- lege, died June 29, aged 84.
1859.
Aaron N. Skinner, well-known as an instructor, distin- guished for his public spirit, &c., died Oct. 26, aged 58. Denison Olmsted, Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Yale College, died May 13, aged 68.
1860. Charles A. Ingersoll, Judge of the U. S. Court for the Dis- trict of Connecticut, died Feb. 7, aged 63.
Rev. Chauncey A. Goodrich, D. D., Professor in Yale Col- lege, died suddenly, April 25, aged 70.
Col. Enos Cutler, of the U. S. Army, a resident of New Haven, died in Salem, Mass., July 14, aged 79.
" "Music Hall," in Crown street, opened Nov. 19.
The " Old Carpet Factory," occupied by several families, destroyed by fire M. Colbert, his wife and four chil- dren, perished in the flames. A steam fire engine was used for the first time in New Haven, at this fire.
1861. Josiah W. Gibbs, for many years Professor of Sacred Lan- guages in Yale College, died March 25, aged 71.
1861.
April 19, great meeting of citizens at Brewster's Hall to consider the perilous condition of the country, and take measures for defence. Three days afterwards the Com- mon Council voted $10,000 for volunteers, and $20,000 to provide for their families.
Cars first ran on the Horse Railroad to Fair Haven, May 4. Foundation of a new City Hall commenced May 8.
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The body of Major Winthrop, killed at Great Bethel, Va., buried in New Haven with military honors, June 21. The 2d regiment volunteers returned. They were escorted to the State House where a bountiful repast was pro- vided. Addressed by Gov. Buckingham and Col. Ferry, Aug. 5.
.John W. Fitch, President of the Mechanic's Bank, died Sept. 11, aged 48.
Wm. H. Jones, lo .; known a post-master in New Haven, died in Hartto + buried in New Haven, aged 83.
1862. Wm. A. Larned, Professor of Rhetoric and English Liter- ature, Yale College, died of apoplexy, Feb. 3, aged 54, Edward C. Herrick, Treas. of Yale College, died June 11. Common Council of New Haven met for the first time in the New City Hall, Oct. 6.
1863. Lyman Beecher, D. D., died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 10, aged 87, buried in New Haven.
Dr. Charles Hooker died March 19, aged 64.
Rear Admiral Andrew H. Foote, buried from the Center Church with military honors, June 30.
Severe southeast storm, Long Wharf overflowed two feet. Dec. 12 and 13
1864. Peletiah Perit, of New Haven, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, died March 8, aged 78. )
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The 9th Connecticut volunteers, Col. Cahill, arrived from New Orleans, Aug. 15.
Extreme heat ; thermometer, in New Haven, 102 degrees, June 26.
Professor Jonathan Knight, M. D., prominent as a surgeon, died Aug. 26, aged 75.
1865.
Professor Benjamin Silliman, LL. D., died, aged 84. Arthur Tappan, a resident of New Haven, distinguished in the Anti-Slavery cause, died July 23, aged 79.
1866. First settled rain in New Haven for eleven weeks, Oct. 14.
Gerard Halleck, a resident of New Haven, prop. of the New York Journal of Commerce, died Jan. 4, aged 66. Rev. Dr. S. W. S. Dutton, D. D., for 28 years Pastor of the North Congregational Church, died, on a visit, in Mil- bury, Mass., aged 52.
66 Rev. Elisha N. Cleveland, D. D., Pastor of the 3d Congı gational Church, died Feb. 16, aged 59.
New Haven Clock Co.'s works destroyed by fire, April 3 loss estimated $200,000.
New Haven city cars commenced running to Railroad Wharf, May 21.
Merchants' Exchange opened June 11.
Thermometer 1024 degrees at 3 o'clock, P. M., July 17, being the highest temperature in New Haven since 1778, a period of 89 years.
Prof. John A. Porter died in New Haven, Aug. 25, aged 43. Rear Admiral Francis Gregory, died in Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 4, aged 77, buried on the 5th, in New Haven, with military honors.
James Brewster, distinguished for his public spirit: car- riage manufacturer, died Nov. 22, aged 78.
Hon. Erastus B. Scranton, President of the N. Y. & N. H. R. R., instantly killed at Norwalk, by cars, aged 59.
1867. Henry Peck, for a long period a prominent bookseller, and held many public offices, died March 1, aged 72.
" New Haven & W.Haven Horse Railroad opened, 4 cars, car- rying the civil authorities, passed over the road, July 2. Rev. Jeremiah Day, LL. D., late President of Yale College, died Aug. 22, aged 94.
St. Patrick's Church consecrated by the Right Rev. Bishop McFarland, Oct. 27.
1868. Chauncey Jerome, the well-known and enterprising clock maker, died April 20, aged 75.
1868, John Woodruff, Int. Rev. Coll. died May 20, aged 42.
1869, Philip Marett, distinguished by his bequests to the public In- stitutions of New Haven, died March 22d, aged 77.
Wyllis Warner, Sec. Yale Coll. died at Chicago, Ill., aged 69
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