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Senator Platt is one of those comparatively rare examples of marked success professionally and politically, to whose record his fellow-citizens who have known hin from boyhood can
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point young men, and without hesitation invite them to make it a study for their conduct in life. It was a fine inoral spectacle he presented when, for many ycars, lie was the beloved teacher of a class of about one hundred members in the Sunday-school of a leading Meriden church. Never did he put his talents to a better use, and liis influence for good cannot be estimated. The condition of the world at large would be greatly improved if 11ore 111e11 of Senator Platt's stamp were to devote even a portion of their time to making clear the hidden mysteries of the Word of God.
A practical man of affairs, he always commands the attention of his auditors and never forfeits their respect. His legal practice has attained very great proportions, and in the conduct of patent cases, of which, for years, he has made a specialty, he ranks with the inost successful in the country. His eminent position as a lawyer has been won by many years of study and hard work, and the regard in which he has always been held by his colleagues at the bar is the legitimate outcome of a mnost honorable professional experience. In private life he holds a place not in any degree inferior, being respected by all who come into contact with him in any capacity, or for any purpose. Without ostentation, he has done mueh as a promoter of Christian and philanthropie work, his aims being the good of society and the succor of the weak, helpless and unfortunate. For many years he has been a consistent promoter of temperance, and his publie utterances on this subject gave forth no uncertain sound. No man in Connecticut enjoys a wider or more enduring popularity.
Orville H. Platt was married May 15, 1850, to Miss Annie Bull of Towanda, Pa. Two children were the result of this union: James Perry, now in partnership with his father in Meriden, and Daniel Gold, who died, at the age of six years, in 1864. Mrs. Platt was a lineal descendant of the Calverts who came from England and settled in Virginia. Her death occurred in November, 1893. A prominent member of the First Congregational Church in Meriden, she took a great interest in all charitable institutions and soeieties. She was always kind to the needy and distressed, and in an unostentatious manner performed many charitable aets. Until a few years ago, her homes, both in Meriden and Washington, were the scenes of many pleasant social gatherings, and she proved herself a most charming hostess and a successful entertainer. From the time of her afflietion until her death, her daughter-in- law, Mrs. J. P. Platt, was her constant attendant.
INDEX.
Allen, Jeremiah Mervin
46
Case, Newton
I3I
Allen, John 368
Chaffee, Charles Elmer 230
Alsop, Joseph Wright .
I28
Chaffee, Joseph Dwight 177
Augur, Phineas Miller 183
Averill, Roger
9
Bacon, Francis, M. D. III
Bailey, Ezra Brewster .
I34
Baldwin, Simeon Eben
Barnum, Phineas Taylor .
262
Barnum, William Henry
71
Coit, Robert . I72
Colt, Samuel .
246
Converse, Julius .
321
Cooke, Lorrin A.
402
Corbin, Philip
255
Crofut, Henry
192
Bill, Henry 280
Billings, Charles Ethan 227
Blackstone, Lorenzo 196
Bradley, Nathaniel 370
Brainard, Leverett 257
Brandegee, Augustus 53
Brewster, Lyman Denison 387
Brooker, Charles Frederick 278
Brooks, Isaac Watts 23
Browne, John D.
265
Buck, John R. 244
Buck, Edwin A. 442
Buckingham, William Alfred 5
Edgerton, Francis D., M. D. 426
Enders, Thomas Ostram
428
English, James Edward
357
Farnam, Henry
I55
Fenn, Augustus Hall
38
Ferry, Orrin Sanford
293
Fessenden, Samuel .
377
Carpenter, Elisha
28I
Fitch, Samuel
400
* Deceased since the sketch was placed in type.
Cady, Ernest 19
Camp, Hiram
38I
Bulkeley, William Henry 95
Burr, Alfred Edmund .
30
Day, Calvin 395
Day, George Herbert 215
Davis, Charles Henry Stanley, M. D., 92
DeForest, Robert E.
421
Dennis, Rodney . II3
Dewell, James Dudley 305
Dickinson, Francis Lemuel, M. D. I30
'Douglas, Benjamin
IO
Dunbar, Edward Butler
I23
Dwight, Henry Cecil
62
Buel, Henry Wadhams, M. D. 24
Bulkeley, Morgan Gardner 55
15I
Batterson, Jaines Goodwin
444
Belding, Alvah Norton
Benedict, Elias Cornelius
89
Bigelow, Hobart Baldwin 235
Cheney, Benjamin Hicks, M. D. 430
Clark, William Braddock . 77
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne 437
I02
Clowes, George Hewlett
202
Coe, Lyman Wetinore 275
Batcheller, Wheelock T. .
160
Chapman, Maro S. . 424
Chase, George Lewis 59
58
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INDEX.
Franklin, William Buel 50
French, Carlos IO7
Fyler, Orsamus R. I19
Gallup, David I4I
Gatling, Richard Jordan 314
Gay, Henry
I38
Goodwin, James
I20
Greene, Jacob Lyman
232
Gregory, James Glynn, M. D. 413
Gross, Charles Edward .
142
Hall, John Henry I74
Hall, John Manning
43I
Halsey, Jeremiah
109
Hamersley, William
322
Hamilton, David Boughton
427
Hammond, George Asahel 385
Harris, Jonathan Newton 222
Harrison, Henry Baldwin .
27
Harrison, Lynde 360
Hawley, Joseph Russell
238
Healey, William Arnold
I80
Hendee, Lucius Justin .
290
Henry, Edward Stevens 190
Hicks, Ratcliffe .
328
Hooker, John
416
Howard, James Leland
80
Howard, Mark
2II
Hoyt, Heusted W. R.
I67
Hubbard, Henry Griswold 407
Hubbard, Leverett Marsden 440
Hubbard, Richard Dudley
352
Hubbard, Robert, M. D. 342
Hyde, Alvan Pinney
302
Hyde, Ephraim H. .
414
Ingersoll, Charles Roberts 82
Jarvis, George Cyprian, M. D. 193
Jewell, Marshall 75
Jewell, Pliny
44
Kellogg, Stephen Wriglit I85 Keney, Henry 105
Keney, Walter IO6 Kimball, Carlos Clinton I49
Kingsbury, Frederick St. John .
I39
Landers, George Marcellus 179
Leonard, Elbridge Knowlton, M. D. 65
Lindsley, Charles Augustus, M. D. 326
Lines, H. Wales .
439
Lockwood, Frederick St. John II7
Loomis, Dwight
345
Loomis, Francis B. .
336
Lounsbury, Phineas Chapman 365
Merwin, Samuel Edwin I 46
Miles, Frederick .
417
Miller, Edward
I52
Minor, William Thomas
287
Mitchell, Charles E.
340
Mitchell, Charles LeMoyne
372
Morgan, Daniel Nash
39I
Morgan, Henry Kirke
.
66
Morgan, J. Pierpont
245
Morgan, Junius Spencer
187
Morris, Luzon Burritt
I7
Morse, George Milton .
206
Nichols, James
169
Noble, William Henry .
362
Parker, Charles
84
Porter, George Loring, M. D. 375
Porter, Noah . 3II
Pratt, Francis Asbury
218
Prentice, Amos Wylie
52
Read, David M. 410
Roberts, Ebenezer
107
Robinson, Henry Cornelius 318
Rood, David A .. 425
Root, Elisha K.
33
Russell, Gurdon Wadsworth, M. D. I76
Searls, Charles Edwin . 214
Sears, Edward Hale
I45
Sessions, John Humphrey
306
Sheffield, Joseph Earl 249
Simonds, William Edgar 209
Simpson, Samuel 308
Skilton, Dewitt Clinton 207
Slater, John Fox
40
Sperry, Lewis
296
Sperry, Nehemiah D.
267
INDEX.
455
Steele, Harvey Baldwin, M. D. 240
Stiles, Norman Charles 259
Stearns, Henry Putnam, M. D. 347
Storrs, Melancthon, M. D. 224
Strong, David 198
Terry, George Edward . 419
Thompson, Curtis 284
Tibbits, John Arnold
Towne, Henry R.
67
Torrance, David . 355
Turner, Edward Thomas
389
Wainwright, W. A. M., M. D. 87
Wait, John Turner
162
Wallace, Robert .
324
Waller, Thomas Macdonald
35
Warner, Charles Dudley 273
Warner, Ira DeVer . 379
Warner, Samuel Larkin 356
Welles, Gideon
13
Wells, David Amnes . 299
Wetmore, John Grinnell 220
Wheeler, George Wakeman 350
Wheeler, Nathaniel . 404
434
Whiting, Charles B.
122
Wilcox, Horace Cornwall . 271
Wile, William Conrad, M. D. 398
Williams, James Baker . 125 Wilson, Frederick Morse, M. D. 418
Wilson, Grove Herrick, M. D. 200
Woodruff, George Morris
I36
Woodward, P. Henry
99
Woolsey, Theodore Dwight
330
REFERENCE INDEX.
Ætna Insurance Company, 56, 57, 77, 78, 79, 80, 122, 123, 212, 290, 291, 292.
Ætna Life Insurance Company, 55, 56, 57, 96, 128, 176, 177, 257, 258, 428, 429, 430.
Arthur, Chester A., 77, 172, 187, 319, 436.
Barnum, William H., 71 (sketch), 125, 302, 359, 450.
Bigelow, Hobart B., 97, 151, 235 (sketch), 429.
Blaine, James G., 121, 172, 378, 435.
Brandegee, Augustus, 36, 53 (sketch), 116, 173.
Brown University, 23, 81, 154, 225, 328, 447. Buckingham, William A., 5 (sketch), 9, 12, 52, 54, 64, 117, 126, 268, 280, 282, 296, 302, 344, 369, 396, 401, 408, 412, 423, 427.
Bulkeley, Eliphalet A., 55, 56, 96, 181, 258, 428, 429.
Bulkeley, Morgan G., 37, 55 (sketch), 63, 96, 119, 137, 147, 176, 181, 217, 258, 279, 355, 366, 399, 429.
Charter Oak Life Insurance Company, 23, 87, 119, 215.
Cleveland, Grover, 19, 37, 39, 73, 74, 91, 97, 104, 267, 268, 298, 361, 394, 410, 41I, 440, 441.
Colt, Samuel, 33, 34, 47, 218, 228, 246 (sketch), 445.
Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, 115, 265, 266, 320.
Connecticut Historical Society, 25, 49, 79, 189, 190, 224, 267.
Connecticut Medical Society, 25, 88, 92, 113, 123, 144, 177, 224, 226, 227, 327, 344, 345, 350, 376, 399, 413, 419, 426.
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
51, 81, 96, 121, 232, 233, 234, 320, 444. Continental Life Insurance Company, 119, 244, 403.
English, James E., 72, 76, 310, 357 (sketch), 383.
Garfield, James A., 77, 100, 119, 146, 172, 187, 293, 302, 319, 320.
Grant, Ulysses S., 45, 76, 77, 119, 268, 303, 320, 322, 348, 364, 378, 436, 441. Greeley, Horace, 30, 31, 83.
Harrison, Benjamin, 37, 65, 135, 191, 210, 268, 270, 341, 378, 403, 442.
Harrison, Henry B., 27 (sketch), 39, 52, 53, 64, 72, 83, 119, 137, 185, 293, 298, 355, 366, 403, 424, 447.
Hartford Board of Trade, 21, 33, 45, 49, 60, 102, 135, 150, 175, 217, 218, 229, 2 34, 267, 269, 320, 424, 429.
Hartford "Courant," 19, 26, 34, 49, 63, 77, 79, 99, 108, 129, 131, 133, 135, 145, 170, 175, 182, 189, 191, 193, 210, 216, 227, 239, 259, 273, 274, 275, 279, 397, 407, 433.
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, 59, 60, 61, 105, 121, 123, 212, 234, 266, 393.
" Hartford in 1889," 47, 56, 59, 212, 218, 247, 429, 445.
Hartford " Post," 97, 98, 173, 182, 210, 232, 283, 297, 324, 335, 351, 374.
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insur- ance Company, 46, 47, 49, 50, 51, 150, 429.
Hartford Theological Seminary, 49, 133, 403. Hartford " Times,'' 13, 30, 31, 32, 284, 292, 297, 299, 323, 367.
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REFERENCE INDEX.
Hartford Trust Company, 45, 229.
Harvard University, 35, 95, 99, 103, 113, 377, 378.
Hawley, Joseph R., 28, 29, 54, 58, 101, 135, 188, 213, 218 (sketch), 265, 270, 273, 319, 396, 450.
Hayes, Rutherford B., 77, 119, 436.
Hubbard, Rieliard D., 25, 125, 137, 143, 297, 323, 334, 352 (sketch), 388.
Ingersoll, Charles R., 72, 109, 137, 295.
Jewell, Marshall, 29, 47, 49, 75 (sketch), 101, 210, 359, 450. Johnson, Andrew, 15, 119, 288, 289, 369.
Lincoln, Abraham, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 54, 84, III, 120, 173, 185, 266, 268, 287, 288, 289, 300, 320, 338, 346, 357, 376, 378, 434. Lounsbury, P. C., 57, 119, 178, 180, 365 (sketch), 441.
Merwin, Samuel E., 146 (sketch), 411. Minor, William T., 28, 52.
Morris, Luzon B., 17 (sketch), 21, 39, 103, 104, 129, 137, 323, 351.
National Fire Insurance Company, 51, 107, 169, 170, 171, 211, 213, 245. New Haven "Journal and Courier," 374, 395.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road, 21, 103, 108, 117, 149, 257, 279, 320, 362, 406, 407, 431, 433.
Orient Fire Insurance Company, 23, 49, 96, 122, 123, 133, 257.
Phoenix Insurance Company, 45, 64, 67, 78, 175, 207, 208.
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, 23, 175, 217, 267. Platt, Orville H., 270, 328, 449 (sketchi).
Robinson, Henry C., 83, 140, 318 (sketch), 335, 353, 388.
Sons of the American Revolution, 51, 88, 133, 164, 175, 234, 267, 342, 372, 380, 381, 393, 45I.
Tilden, Samuel J., 51, 188.
Travelers' Insurance Company, 45, 79, 81, 107, 113, 114, 350, 445, 446. Trinity College, 87, 98, 105, 110, 122, 162, 164, 176, 189, 194, 253, 314, 322, 363.
United States Bank, 57, 96, 428, 429, 430.
Waller, Thomas M., 23, 29, 35 (sketch), 97, 98, 137, 258.
Welles, Gideon, 13 (sketch), 28, 31, 396. Woodward, P. H., 33, 47, 49, 59, 99 (sketch) , 218. Wesleyan University, 13, 308, 368, 408, 426, 430, 440, 441.
Yale University, 5, 17, 19, 21, 27, 53, 55, 62, 65, 66, 76, 82, 83, 99, 102, 103, 109, III, 125, 126, 130, 136, 137, 138, 140, 145, 159, 164, 172, 176, 185, 187, 196, 209, 2II, 225, 235, 252, 254, 275, 284, 286, 287, 293, 303, 311, 312, 313, 318, 321, 326, 330, 331, 333, 334, 335, 343, 346, 348, 350, 356, 359, 360, 363, 369, 388, 412, 413, 416, 418, 426, 427, 431, 432, 447.
Young Men's Christian Association, 104, 105, 115, 125, 154, 224, 342, 372, 380, 381, 393.
THE STORY OF THE BOOK.
One is occasionally privileged to read the circumstances under which a popular novel is written, but it is something of an innovation for the story of a book to accompany the volume itself. The sequel will show the reason for the present revelation.
The writer was an experienced newspaper man and had an excellent situation on a standard Boston weekly; he had previously assisted in bringing out two similar volumes in other states, and was debating in February, 1893, as to whether he should bring out the present book on Connecticut. While he was impressed from his business acquaintance with the state that the field was a fair one, somehow he could not settle the question for or against the propo- sition. He is a professed follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and has a certain amount of faith in prayer, but had never put any matter of business to the test. Then it occurred to him to " take it to the Lord in prayer," and ask Him to settle the question.
Not long after he was sent to Hartford to represent his paper, and the thought came - Here is the opportunity. Accordingly he had a copy of a book issued by the previous company expressed ahead; he took with him an outline sketch of a prominent gentleman of his acquaintance, with other needed data, and started out. At the close of business hours one afternoon he went to his hotel, knelt down and prayed that the Lord would by some sign make it plain whether it was wise to commence the work in question. The call was made and the gentleman was very favorably impressed with the high character of the other work, and on the assurance that the standard of the present one would be equally high, he consented to render all the needed assistance to complete the sketch. The matter of an engraving to accompany the sketch was broached, and an appointment inade at his house before business hours the next morning. After another prayer previous to starting, without going into details, an order for a fine steel plate was secured. The gentleman knew the writer as a newspaper man, and simply on the assurance that the work would be brought out he had faith enough not only to order an engraving, but also to give an introduction to others. Was not that a sufficient answer to the prayer for a sign ?
On his return to Boston, the writer gave up his situation as soon as other arrangements could be made. From that time his faith in the ultimate success of the work has never wavered. The Lord promised the land of Canaan to the children of Israel, but they had to fight for nearly every foot of the territory; and so this has been no easily won battle. By means of introductions from the gentleman mentioned, other valuable friends were secured, and with an excellent start at the capital the whole state, or rather, its representative inen have been made to believe that a clean, first-class biographical work was to be brought out. No special cases can be given, but doors have been opened to success in a wonderful manner and apparently by a powerful, unseen hand. Delays occurred, a few of them extremely aggravating ones at the last, but that is the fate of most enterprises, whether they are suc- cessful or not. To many mien the financial result of eighteen months' work would not be satisfactory, but the writer has done much better than if he had remained at his old place, and he is satisfied.
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The reader inay doubt the efficacy of prayer in business; he may even be inclined to scoff at the bare thought that the God of heaven rules in the affairs of this world; but such a reader knows full well that the year from March, 1893, to March, 1894, was one of the most inanspicions for starting new enterprises there has been in this country for a third of a century. Now will he explain why this work succeeded in the face of the discouraging sur- roundings and when so many others failed? The writer inakes no claims for exceptional business shrewdness or ability, and he resolved some time ago to let the reason for his success be known. The words of the Psalmist are just as true to-day as when they were written so long ago : "Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him and He shall bring it to pass."
WILLIAM F. MOORE.
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