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town clerk, to which he has been elected thirty con secutive times. Ile has been entrusted with the settlement of many estates, and earnestly seeks to deserve the character of an honest, upright man. He married, early in life, Mary, youngest daughter of Dea. Ephraim Wells Beach, who is now living, and from whom was born one son, Morris Beach Beardsley, now serving his fifteenth year as judge of probate for the district of Bridgeport, and two daughters, one unmarried and the other the wife of Lewis B. Curtis, of the firm of Curtis & Curtis, manufacturers at Bridgeport. He is a member of the Congregational church, and in politics is, and ever has been, an unswerving democrat.
HON. EARL MARTIN, DANIELSONVILLE: Attor- ney-at-Law.
Judge Earl Martin was born in Chaplin, Wind- ham county, in 1820, and received a common school education, the ordinary training of the school being supplemented by instrue- tion under private tutors. He studied law with the late J. D. Richmond, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. Two years after- wards he located at Dan- ielsonville, where he has since resided. His entire business life has been de- voted to the law, which he has practiced honestly and conscientiously. In 1872 he was elected to the legislature from the town EARL MARTIN. of Killingly by the democrats, and in 1874 he was advanced to the superior court bench, occupying the position for eight years. The Judge was for years the contemporary of Judge Carpenter of the supreme court at Danielsonville, the two men being considered the leading lawyers of that part of Windham county. Both were connected with the higher courts of the state at the same time, consti- tuting an interesting incident in the life of each of them. Judge Martin has also held the office of judge of probate in the Danielsonville district, and is regarded with profound respect and esteem in the community where he resides. He is a member of the Episcopal church, and has been connected with the democratic party since 1841. His wife, who is still living, was Miss C. J. Champlin of Niantic prior to her marriage. There are no child- ren in the family. The career of Judge Martin on the superior court bench was one of honor and of strict personal devotion to the duties of the office.
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CHARLES F. MARTIN, ELLIOTT (POMFRET) : Merchant. 1
Charles F. Martin was a member of the house of representatives in 1887, his colleagues from Wind- ham county including Messrs. Milton A. Shumway, now of the senate, Marvin H. Sanger, and C. S. Burlingame of Canter- bury, and J. Griffin Martin of Windham. He was a member of the National Guard from 1876 until 1881, being connected with Company F of the Third Regiment. He has held various town offices and is at present a grand juror. In politics Mr. C. F. MARTIN. Martin is a republican. He is a member of the Unitarian Society of Brooklyn and belongs to the Knights of Pythias, Royal Arcanum, and Masonic orders. He was married in 1882, his wife being Miss Catharine C. Elliott. There are two children. Mr. Martin was born in Brooklyn March 3, 1857, and received a common school education. Since 1876 he has been engaged in mercantile pursuits.
[Mr. Martin died at his home in Pomfret, on the 24th of March, 1891, after the above sketch had been prepared. - ED.]
DAVID HENRY MILLER, GEORGETOWN (RED- DING): Vice-president. and Secretary Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Miller was born in London, August 12, 1831, and received a private school education. At the age of fourteen he removed to New York, remain- ing in the metropolis for ten years. He then be- came a resident of Con- necticut and has since re- tained his citizenship here. Major Miller has had con- siderable military experi- ence. He served five years in the New York State Militia, being a member of the Washing- ton Greys, Eighth Regi- ment. He was captain in D. H. MILLER. Company E, Eighth Regi- ment, Connecticut Militia, and was the major of the Twenty-third Connecticut during the war under Colonel Holmes of Waterbury. He is an old member of James E. Moore Post, G. A. R., of Danbury. Major Miller is a member of Ark Lodge, No. 39, F. and A. M. of Georgetown,
Crusade Commandery, Knights Templar, and Pyramid Temple. He is also connected with the Fairfield County Historical Society, and the Army and Navy Club of Connecticut. For the past twenty-two years he has been the treasurer of Ark Lodge. Mr. Miller is a justice of the peace, notary public, and treasurer of the school district at Georgetown. He is an Episcopalian and a repub- lican. In 1881 he was a member of the general assembly, representing the town of Redding in the house, and made many friends in that body. His wife, whose maiden name was Catherine Welling, and nine children constitute the family.
WILLIAM L. CAMP, WEST WINSTED : Mer- chant.
William Lewis Camp was born in Michigan in 1846. His father was Seth Lewis, a Michigan pioneer settler. When the subject of this sketch had reached the age of six years his parents con- sented to his adoption by Moses Camp, a relative, then at the head of the best known and most suc- cessful mercantile firm in Litchfield County. After a few terms in the public school of the village the boy was given a brief course of study at the Winchester Institute, then under the direction of the Rev. Ira Pettibone, W. L. CAMP. and at the South Berkshire Institute, New Marl- boro', Mass .; and, though he attained good stand- ing in his classes, it soon became evident that in business, rather than books, lay his future success. At the age of sixteen he became a clerk in the store of M. & C. J. Camp & Co., a few years later being admitted to membership in the firm. From that time until Camp's block was burned out, in January, 1889, Mr. Camp was one of the principals in the mercantile business at the same " old stand, " the firm name changing successively to Woodford & Camp and Camp & Clark. The new Camp's block, which rose, phoenix-like, from the ashes of its predecessor, is owned by Mr. Camp, and is said by insurance inspectors to be one of the most substantially built brick blocks in the state. Mr. Camp has recently taken on the business harness again, being now proprietor of the " Broadway Shoe Store," one of the model establishments of its kind in the state. He does not allow his business affairs to monopolize all his time, however, and in- terests himself only with its general features, leav- ing the details to his son, Lewis M. Camp. Mr.
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Camp is the owner of some of the choicest building sites within the borough limits, and has also a choice tract of frontage on the west shore of Highland Lake, where his summer cottage is charmingly ensconsed among the forest trees.
Mr. Camp has four sons and one daughter, and a pleasant home on Hinsdale avenue, his wife being one of Winsted's most popular ladies - formerly Miss Nellie Brown of Des Moines, Iowa. He is a trustee of the Winsted Savings Bank, member of the board of burgesses of the borough, promi- nently identified with the board of trade, treasurer of the Winchester Memorial Park Association, and a member of the board of trustees of the Gilbert fund (about $1,200,000 left by the late William L. Gilbert for free High school and Home for Friend- less Children). In politics Mr. Camp is a repub- lican, though not a strenuous partisan.
EDWARD F. BIGELOW, PORTLAND: Editor and Publisher.
Edward Fuller Bigelow, editor and proprietor of the Middlesex County Record, the Observer, and the Colchester Advocate, has demonstrated that new enterprises in newspaper fields in Con- necticut need not of neces- sity prove unfruitful. In addition to the three pa- pers which he controls and manages, he has a large printing and job office at Portland that is meeting with gratifying success. The energy shown by Mr. Bigelow in his work has entitled him to the success that has E. F. BIGELOW. crowned his way. He was the pioneer in newspaper enterprises in Port- land. Associated with him was the late William A. Chapman, who, like the subject of this sketch, possessed the instincts of the born newspaper man. The Observer, which is one of Mr. Bigelow's ideas, is the only paper of the character issued, being de- voted especially to natural history. It has met with remarkable success, many scientific people, naturalists, and microscopists in particular being interested in it. The Colchester Advocate is also a popular publication, and has a successful patron- age. Mr. Bigelow is a member of the board of education, and is connected with the Episcopal church in Portland. In politics he is a republican. He belongs to the Ancient Order of United Work- men, the Odd Fellows lodge, and the Order of United American Mechanics. He was born at Colchester, January 14, 1860, and was educated at
Bacon academy. From the age of sixteen until twenty-six he was engaged in teaching, principally in Colchester and Portland. He has a wife and three children. The former was Miss Mary A. Pelton of Portland prior to her marriage with Mr. Bigelow.
REV. ABRAM J. QUICK, SOUTH COVENTRY : Congregational Clergyman.
The subject of this sketch was born at South Branch, N. J., March 11, 1832. He was educated at Williams College and Union Theological Semi- nary, and has been en- gaged in the gospel min- istry, with pastorates in New York, New Hamp- shire, and Connecticut. His wife, who was Miss Frances Merritt prior to marriage, is a native of Boston. The family in- cludes four children, two sons and two daughters. The elder son is a me- chanical engineer with the West End Electric Railway Co. of Boston; A. J. QUICK. the second son is civil engineer for the city of Providence; the daughters are students at Mt. Holyoke Seminary. Mr. Quick is a conscientious Christian gentleman, devoted to his work, and highly esteemed by his associates in the ministry as well as the community in which he labors. His political affiliations are with the republican party.
E. S. GREELEY, NEW HAVEN: Manufacturer and Importer of Railway and Electrical Supplies.
Gen. Edwin Seneca Greeley was in the military service of the United States Government from Au- gust, 1861, until September, 1865, receiving the rank of brigadier-general United States Volunteers. He is a distinguished member of the Army and Navy Club of Connecti- cut, and is regarded with universal admiration by the veterans of the war. While not a native of Con- necticut, he has spent thirty-five years in New Haven, and is one of the best-known representa- tives of that municipal- ity. He has been a mem- E. S. GREELEY. ber of the city government, serving in the board of aldernien, and is the president of the New Haven Republican League. He is a director in the Vale
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National Bank, C. Cowles & Co., The Edgewood Company, and in the New Haven Palladium Com- pany. Gen. Greeley is the president of the E. S. Greeley & Co. corporation, which controls extensive lines of railroad and electrical supplies. He is a member of the Church of the Redeemer, and is prominently identified with the best interests of the city. Gen. Greeley was born at Nashua, N. H., May 20, 1832, and received a district school educa- tion. He learned the trade of a machinist. The family of Gen. Greeley consists of his wife and one child. The former, prior to marriage, was Eliza- beth Anthony Corey of Taunton, Mass.
JAMES T. MORGAN, WINSTED: General Mana- ger Morgan Silver Plate Company.
James T. Morgan was born at Haddam Neck, July 24, 1839, and received a common school edu- cation, preparing him for a successful business life. The father of Mr. Morgan was engaged in the black- smith business, and he was made familiar with the trade. At the age of seventeen, however, he entered the employ of L. Boardman & Sons in East Haddam, manufacturers of silver-plated ware, and learned that trade. He was ultimately advanced to the position of superin- J. T. MORGAN. tendent in one of the com- maining there until 1870. pany's establishments, re- From East Haddam Mr. Morgan removed to Winsted, engaging with the Strong Manufacturing Company of that placc. In 1871 he was made a member of the board of directors, and superintendent of the hardware de- partment in 1874. In 1887 he disposed of his in- terest and organized the Morgan Silver Plate Com- pany for the manufacture of undertakers supplies, and has been the general manager from the outset. Mr. Morgan has been one of the best-known fanciers in Litchfield county, and was the originator and manufacturer of the celebrated phosphorated poultry food. At the age of twenty-six he married Miss Ellen V. Mitchell, of Moodus, Conn., and, besides his wife, the family consists of two sons. Mr. Morgan is a member of the First Congrega- tional church at Winsted, and is held in high regard in the community where he resides. In politics he has always been a republican. Among the frater- nal and benevolent orders to which he belongs are the Odd Fellows, the Royal Arcanum, the United Workmen, and the New England Order of Protec- tion.
ERASTUS BRAINERD, PORTLAND : President Brainerd Quarry Company.
Erastus Brainerd was born in Portland (formerly Chatham), July 27, 1819, and was educated in the schools of that town, afterward at the High School in Boston, and prepared for West Point with Rev. L. H. Corson of Wind- ham, Conn. He has re- sided in his native town all his life, and since 1845 has been the manager of the well-known Brainerd Quarry Co. in that town, carrying on a large busi- ness in Portland brown stone, shipping from that point to all parts of the country. He is president ERASTUS BRAINERD. of the company, and has cared for its interests until it has assumed exten- sive proportions, and is one of the best known quarries in the country.
Mr. Brainerd, although deeply interested in politics, has declined political honors, except that he was a presidential elector in 1880, casting his electoral vote for Garfield and Arthur, in accordance with his party principles, which were formerly with the whigs, but afterwards with the republicans. He is a prominent member of the Protestant Episcopal church in Portland. His wife was Emily H. Churchill, and he has one daughter. Mr. Brainerd is regarded as one of the influential and forceful business men of Middlesex county, and would have been honored frequently in political life, but has made it a rule to decline.
JASON C. FENN, TERRYVILLE: Clerk and Trustee. Mr. Fenn has always lived in Terryville; was born there October 27, 1838, in the house he now owns, and which has been in the family over one hundred years. He at- tended the common school and academy as a boy and youth. For the past twenty-five years his time. has been spent principally in clerking ; and he is now, as for the past twenty years, with W. H. Scott & Co. He married Mary O. Johnson, daughter of the late Capt. Augustus S. Johnson, and grand- daughter of Benoni John- son, a revolutionary pen- J. C. FENN. sioner of Harwinton. He is a member and deacon of the Congregational church ; has always beenTa republican ; served as republican town committee a
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number of years, and represented the town of Ply- mouth in the House in 1880. He has had experi- ence as constable, justice, member board of health, and notary public, and for a number of years se- lectman ; and to him the town is indebted for the invention and erection of the best bridges for the money in the state, as they are built of old railroad iron, which combine cheapness with strength and beauty. He divides his time between service for the firm with which he has been so long, and labor in the settlement of estates,- adding sundry pub- lic duties, he now being notary public, selectman, health officer, and clerk of board of health. He also holds a number of estates either as trustee, guardian, or administrator, has been appointed to serve as commissioner on various estates, and has assisted on many soldiers' and widows' pensions.
ERNEST ARTHUR MARKHAM, DURHAM: Physician.
Dr. Markham is a native of Windsor, Vermont, the son of Oliver and Sarah Ann (Clark) Markham of Middletown. He was born October 16, 1853. Dr. Markham is of the eighth generation from Daniel Markham, who emigrated from England to America in 1665 and settled in Cambridge, Mass., but in 1677 re- moved to Middletown, Conn., where five genera- tions of his descendants in a direct line to the sub- ject of this sketch were born.
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Dr. Markham was in E. A. MARKHAM. his boyhood a pupil at the Wadsworth Street School in Hartford, also in the Hartford Public High School; and gradu- ated from the Middletown High School in 1871. He studied at Wesleyan University, Middletown, which institution conferred upon him the degree of A.B. at graduation in 1875, and A.M. in 1885. He was also a student in the Eclectic Medical College of New York city, graduating therefrom in 1877; and took a non-resident course in the Illinois Western University, graduating as Ph.D. He married, April 21, 1876, Miss Annie Dering Brown, daughter of Addison Brown of Sag Har- bor, L. I. They have two sons and one daughter. He is a member of the Church of the Epiphany, of which he has been a vestryman since 1884. Politi- cally he favors the democrats. Societywise he is associated with the New York City Eclectic Medi- cal Society, Royal Arcanum, Knights of Pythias, Sons of the American Revolution, and various local
orders. He has practiced medicine in Glastonbury and Durham, and in New York city during the time he was connected with the Eclectic Medical College, where he held the chair of Chemistry. At present he is permanently located in Durham.
HON. DWIGHT LOOMIS, ROCKVILLE: Supreme Court Judge.
Judge Dwight Loomis of the Supreme Court in this state was born in the town of Columbia July 27, 1821, and received a common school and aca- demic education, complet- ing his classical course at the Monson and Amherst academies. He was ad- mitted to the bar in Tol- land county and immed- iately won distinction in his chosen profession. In 1851 he represented the town of Vernon in the general assembly and was elected to the senate in 1857 from the old twenty- first district. His col- DWIGHT LOOMIS. leagues in the senate in- cluded the Hon. Elisha Carpenter, who is now associated with him on the supreme court bench, and the late Governor James E. English, who sub- sequently served with him in the national congress. In 1859 Judge Loomis was elected by the republi- cans of the first congressional district and was re- elected April 1, 1861, thereby serving through one of the most important epochs in the history of the country. His colleagues during the first term in congress were the Hons. John Woodruff of New Haven, A. A. Burnham of Windham, and O. S. Ferry of Norwalk. Congressman Ferry took a prominent part in the war and was afterwards elected a United States senator. His place in the congressional delegation of 1861 was taken by the late George C. Woodruff of Litchfield, father of Railroad Commissioner George M. Woodruff. Ex- Governor English represented the second district and Congressman Burnham the third. The work of the thirty-seventh congress was of incalculable importance and Judge Loomis as the representative of one of the staunchest of Union states was not without a most creditable part in it. During the spring of 1864 he was appointed a judge of the superior court and has been on the bench since that time. He was advanced to the supreme court in 1875. In June, IS91, after twenty-seven years of judicial service, he retired from the Supreme Court bench, being within two months of the age at which he would be thereby disqualified for re- appointment. He returns to the general practice
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of law, and will also occupy a position as instructor in the Yale University Law School. Judge Loomis has been an able and conscientious expounder of the laws of the state, and his opinions have been characterized by great force and accuracy of judgment. His career altogether has been one of eminence and honor to the state. He is a promi- nent member of the Congregational church and deeply interested in its prosperity and success. Judge Loomis was married on the 26th of Novem- ber, 1848, to Miss Mary E. Bill, who died June I, 1864. He was again married on the 28th of May, 1866, to Jennie E. Kendall, who died March 6, 1876. One child, a daughter by the last marriage, is living.
J. H. BARLOW, SHELTON: Superintendent Pack- ing and Shipping Department of the Shelton Company.
John Henry Barlow, who has held the highest position in the Grand Lodge of Connecticut, F. and A. M., was born in Ridgefield, November 7, 1832, and received a common school education. In 1849 he removed to Birming- ham, and remained there until 1889, when he trans- ferred his residence to Shelton. He was the borough clerk for ten years at Birmingham, and is at present chairman of the board of relief in the town of Huntington. Mr. Barlow holds the place of J. H. BARLOW. superintendent of the Packing and Shipping Department in the Shelton Company, which is engaged in the manufacture of tacks and bolts, and is a man of superior business ability. He is a member and associated with the vestry of the Episcopal church, and is held in high regard by the community where he resides. For thirty years he has been the secretary of the Odd Fellows lodge in Birmingham, but his highest honors in this direc- tion have been attained in the Masonic fraternity. He is one of the past masters of King Hiram Lodge, No. 12, of Birmingham, and has held the exalted office of grand master of the Grand Lodge of the state, entitling him to permanent member- ship in this important and influential body. At the last meeting of the Grand Lodge in Hartford Mr. Barlow was present as one of the representa- tives of King Hiram Lodge, and served on one of the special committees during the conclave. In politics he is a republican, though originally and for many years connected with the democratic party. He has been twice married. His first wife, who
was Miss Emeline Gilbert, died in 1875, after a married life of fourteen years. Mr. Barlow's second marriage occurred in Ansonia, May 29, 1877, the bride being Miss Lina Ells. He has one daughter, twenty-six years of age, and one son, nineteen. The second wife is also living.
HON. D. S. CALHOUN, HARTFORD: Judge, Court of Common Pleas.
David Samuel Calhoun, who has occupied the judgeship of the Hartford County Court of Common Pleas since 1876, was born in Coventry, Sept. II, 1827, and graduated from Yale College in 1848, be- ing a classmate of Judge Shipman of the United States court. After grad- uating he taught school in Ravena, O., for one year. Subsequently he studied law in the office of the late Chief-Justice Seymour, in Litchfield, and settled in Manches- ter in 1852. In 1856 he was elected to the senate from the old Second dis- D. S. CALHOUN. trict, his colleagues that year including the late Governor James E. English; Orris S. Ferry, who subsequently represented Connecticut in the United States senate; Gideon H. Hollister, the historian of Connecticut; and Lucius J. Hendee, for years the president of the Ætna Insurance Company. In 1862 Judge Calhoun was again elected to the senate from the Second district; United States Senator Platt, and ex-State Comptroller John B. Wright of Clinton, associate members. The Judge was then as now a republican of the sincerest and clearest convictions. He occupied the probate judgeship in Manchester for twelve years. In 1870 he removed to Hartford, and has since been a resi- dent of this city. He was formerly in partnership with the late Mahlon R. West, the firm being West & Calhoun. In 1876 Judge Calhoun was advanced to the bench, being elected judge of the Court of Com- mon Pleas in this county. He is the vice-president for Connecticut of the Scotch-Irish Society of America, and is a member of Manchester Lodge, No. 73, F. and A. M., of Manchester. He is an attendant at the Pearl Street Congregational church. The father of Judge Calhoun, the late Rev. Dr. Geo. A. Calhoun of Coventry, was one of the best known Congregational divines in the state in his day. Judge Calhoun and wife, in company with his sons, J. G. and David Calhoun, spent the summer of 1888 in Europe, traveling in Great Brit- ain and on the continent. The young gentlemen
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made an extensive bicycle tour. The Judge is a man of the most delightful culture and companion- ship, and is held in universal honor in this city. He has been married twice. His first wife, Harriet A. Gilbert of Coventry, died in 1868. In 1870 he mar- ried Miss Eliza J. Scott of Manchester, who is now living. There are besides the sons two daughters in the family. The professional life of Judge Cal- houn has been one of marked distinction. As judge of the court of common pleas his opinions have but seldom been controverted. For years he has been one of the most polished and scholarly men on the bench in this state.
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