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Fairgrieve, Robert P.
Bull, Ludlow S.
Farnetti, Primo
Busk, Frederick W.
Finan, William J.
Busk, Joseph R.
Fritz, Ernest G. Fusaroli, Umberto
Burke, John N.
Ganung, Charles R.
Cameron, John
Ganung, Clarence F.
Campomaggi, Giovanni
Goodman, Wesley L.
Carlson, Gustav A.
Gugnoni, Lazaro
Carr, Thomas Catlin, James H.
Gugnoni, Filipo Guidi, Ugo Guinchi, Arnold
Cattey, Henry E .*
Guinchi, August*
Clark, William B.
Hallock, Francis J.
Clock, Albert W.
Handlowich, Daniel
Clock, Frederick E.
Handlowich, Michael
Clock, Henry W.
Handlowich, Stephen
Colvocoresses, Harold P.
Harney, John M. Harney, William M.
Conroy, James E.
Cornwell, Roy E .*
Harris, Charles P.
Cucchi, Eugenio
Harris, Thaddeus W. Jr.
Cunningham, Macklin Curtiss, Burdette
Hatheway, Curtis R. Jr. Hausmann, Joseph A.
Burke, James F.
Cattey, Lucien H.
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Hayes, Michael Hazen, Ruel
Parsons, Evans C.
Perkins, Benjamin T.
Heath, Edward P.
Perkins, Clarence E.
Higgins, Hubert A.
Perkins, Edwin B.
Peacocke, William D.
Pepper, Charles V.
Hoyt, Lewis H. Hunt, Philip W. Jeffries, Bruce S.
Ray, Charles M. Richards, Guy H.
Jeffries, Robert P .*
Robinson, Leonard G.
Johnson, Edward C.
Salocks, Andrew
Johnson, Oliver H.
Santi, Aurelio
Keller, John E. Jr.
Sassi, Colombano
Schmidhausler, Arthur
Kelly, Thomas J. Kirby, Leo F.
Selvic, Alf
Kirwin, James L.
Sepples, Charles L.
Knox, Robert J.
Shanley, William L.
Knox, Thomas J.
Sherry, Howard C .*
Koser, Henry J.
Short, Richard A.
Landon, Alva
Slattery, John J.
Landon, Robert W.
Snyder, Edward L.
Langford, Thomas A.
Terek, Andrew V.
MacDonald, Archibald A.
Tompkins, Frank L.
MacDonald, Malcolm E.
Trumbull, Allan T.
Marchi, Carlo
Turkington, Charles H.
Matson, Frederick R.
Umberti, Emelio
McBride, Alphonse
Valmoretti, Gino
Meramble, Eugene W.
Van Winkle, Edgar B. Jr.
Mooney, John J.
Weik, John
Mooney, William
Weir, James V .*
Moore, Clifford F.
Weir, Frank B.
Morgan, Frank A .*
Weir, Thomas F.
Morey, Charles H.
Westerberg, Carl F.
Munroe, Robert K.
Wheeler, Clarence M.
Naser, Peter F.
Whitbeck, Charles A.
Nozzioli, Frederick
Wiggin, Frederick H.
Page, Carlisle W. C.
Wooster. Harold A.
Page, Charles I. Jr.
Young, Ivar J.
Page, Henry L.
Zavotti, Pio*
Panaytatos, Peter
*Killed or died in service.
B. CLERGYMEN.
1. Congregational Church.
a. Litchfield.
Timothy Collins 1723-1752 Lyman Beecher, D.D. 1810-1826
Judah Champion* 1753-1798
Daniel L. Carroll, D.D. 1827-1829
Dan Huntington
1798-1809
Laurens P. Hickok, D.D. 1829-1836
Higgins, Timothy F. Hotchkiss, Clifford T.
Roberg, William D.
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Jonathan Brace, D.D. 1838-1844 Henry M. Elliott 1870-1874
Benjamin L. Swan 1846-1856
Allan B. McLean 1875-1881
Leonard W. Bacon, D.D. 1856-1859 Charles Symington 1883-1893
George Richards 1860-1865 John Hutchins
1895-1915
William B. Clark
1866-1869 Frank J. Goodwin, D.D.
1915-
*Became Rector Emeritus, 1798, Died 1810.
b. South Farms.
George Beckwith 1772-1781
James F. Warner 1833-1834
Amos Chase 1787-1814
Ralph S. Crampton 1834-1836
William R. Weeks, D.D. 1815-1816
Stephen Hubbell 1836-1837
Amos Pettingill 1816-1822
B. Y. Messenger 1837-1838
Henry Robinson 1823-1829
Richard Woodruff 1838-1841
Vernon D. Taylor
1831-1833
David L. Parmalee
1841-1859
c. Northfield.
Joseph Eleazer Camp 1795-1837
E. N. Tucker 1864-1866
Campbell
Hiram Gates 1866-1871 Elias Sanford, DD., LL.D. 1871-1873 S. G. W. Rankin
Salter
M. J. Callan
1874-1875
Russell
William Howard 1875-1877
Mosely
1837-1844
H. Augustus Ottman 1877-1881
J. S. Dickinson
1844-1851
Edward C. Starr 1881-1887
Lewis Jessup
1851-1854
Joseph Kyte 1887-1894
Noah Coe
1854-1856
Fred Louis Grant
1895-1905
Stephen Rogers 1856-1859
Giles F. Goodenough
1907-1914
James Richards, D.D. 1859-1860
James A. McKeeman 1915-1916
Erastus Colton
1861-1864
Alexander S. Baillie
1916-1917
Wallace Humiston 1918-
d. Milton.
Benjamin Judd
1802-1804
George Harrison 1854-1893
Abraham Fowler
1807-1813
Aurelian Post
1894-1895
Asahel Nettleton, D.D. 1813-
Wesley E. Page 1896-1903
Levi Smith 1825-
Joseph D. Prigmore 1904-1906
Ralph Smith 1841-1844
Pearl E. Mathias 1906-1907
John F. Norton
1844-1849
Thomas A. Williams 1908-1912
Herman L. Vaill
1849-1851
Miss M. E. Millen*
1912-1914
Francis Williams
1851-1853
Eugene Richards
1914-1919
James Noyes
1853-1854
*Missionary in charge.
2. Protestant Episcopal Church.
a. Litchfield. St. Michael's Parish.
Solomon Palmer 1754-1763
David Butler, D.D. 1794-1799
Thomas Davies
1763-1766
Truman Marsh 1799-1829
Solomon Palmer
1766-1770 Isaac Jones* 1812-1826
James Nichols
1775- John S. Stone, D.D .* 1826-1829
Ashbel Baldwin
1785-1793
William Lucas
1829-1832
Snow
1873-1874
Ransome
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Samuel Fuller, D.D. 1832-1837
William S. Southgate 1860-1864
William Payne, D.D. 1838-1845
William S. Perry 1864-1869
Samuel Fuller, D. D. 1845-1849 C. S. Henry, D.D. 1870-1873
Benjamin W. Stone, D.D.
1849-1851
G. M. Wilkins 1874-1879
John J. Brandegee, D.D.
1851-1854 Storrs O. Seymour, D.D. 1879-1881
Junius M. Willey
1855-1858 L. P. Bissell, D.D. 1882-1893
H. N. Hudson
1858-1860 Storrs O. Seymour, D.D.t 1893-1916
William J. Brewster 1916-
*Associate Rector ; +Became Rector Emeritus, died 1918.
b. Bantam and Milton. St. Paul's and Trinity Churches.
David G. Tomlinson
1831-1835
J. A. Wainwright 1860-1861
Amos Beach
1836-1837
J. D .Berry
1864-1866
Hilliard Bryant
1837-1840
William L. Peck 1866-1871
Emery M. Porter
1842-1843
Hiram Stone
1873-1903
Frederick D. Harriman
1848-1850
J. H. Jackson
1904-1905
George W. Nichols
1850-1851
John O. Ferris
1905-1908
Asa Griswold
1852-
Clarence H. Beers
1908-1912
Daniel E. Brown
1853-1857
Robert Van K. Harris 1912-1914
John R. Williams 1858-1860
Thaddeus W. Harris
1915-1918
Arthur B. Crichton 1919-
c. Northfield. Trinity Church.
Alexander V. Griswold
1795-1804 J. F. George*
David Baldwin 1804-
Frank A. Sanborn*
Russell Wheeler
1806-
William Johnson*
Roger Searle
1807- Fred C. Lee*
David Welton
1808-
Edward C. Johnson*
Frederick Holcomb
1811-1835 Edgar L. Sanford*
William Watson
1835-1837
David L. Sanfordt
1885-
Thomas W. Snow
1837-1839 Edward C. Johnson*
Isaac H. Tuttle
1839-1840
Irving P. Johnson*
Frederick Holcomb
1840-1845
Storrs O. Seymourt
1887-1890
Abel Ogden Jr.
1845-1846
Irving Johnson*
Joshua D. Berry
1847-1848
William E. Hookert
1890-
George W. Nichols
1848-1850
William H. Hutchinson*
Ruel H. Tuttle
1850-1851
S. Wolcott Linsley*
Asa Griswold
1851-1852
Arthur T. Parsonst
1891-1899
Frederick Holcomb
1852-1862
Anthon T. Gesner*
William J. Pigott*
1862-1863
Arthur Gammock*
Benjamin Eastwood
1864-
John Gammock*
Henry C. Stowell
1865-1866
Alfred J. Nock*
C. Collard Adams
1867-1868
Albert L. Whittaker*
Frederick Holcomb
1869-1872
William H. Jepson*
William Bostwick
1872-1878
George H. Buck
1900-190I
Storrs O. Seymour+
1878-1885
Adelbert P. Chapman
1901-1917
William S. Sayre*
Hamilton B. Phelpst
1918-
*Lay Reader; +In Charge.
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3. Methodist Episcopal Church.
a. Litchfield.
Circuit Preachers who served Litchfield, 1790-1844.
Samuel Wigton
James M. Smith
Henry Christie
1790-
David Miller
Matthias Swain
Julius Field 1822-
James Covel 1791-
Daniel Brayton
Philip Wager
Elbert Osborne 1823-
James Coleman
1792-
Arnold Schofield
Lemuel Smith
Elbert Osborne 1824-
Daniel Ostrander 1793-1796
Eli Barnet
William Thacher
1797-1799
John Lovejoy
1825-1826
Aaron Hunt
1800-
E. Washburne
Peter Moriarty
1801-1805
F. W. Sizer
Nathan Emory
1806-
E. Washburne
Asa Bushnell 1828-
Jonathan Lyon
1807-
Bradley Silleck
Henry Eames
Wells Wolcott
Andrew Prindle
1808-
L. C. Cheney 1829-
Laban Clark
Bradley Silleck
Reuben Harris
1809-1810
Milo Chamberlain
James Coleman
David Stocking 1830-
Arnold Schofield
18II-
Luther Mead
James Coleman
Lerman .A Sanford 1831-
B. Griffen 1812-
A. S. Hill
W. Swazey
O. Stare
1832-1833
Gad Smith
C. W. Turner
J. Reynolds
1813-
D. Plumb
1834-
W. Swazey
C. Chittenden
J. Reynolds
L. Gunn
T. Thorp 1814-
I. Abbott 1835-
Samuel Cochran
C. C. Keys 1836-
B. Hibbard
Gad N. Smith
1837-1838
J. Dayton
1815-
S. W. Scofield
1839-
Samuel Cochran
S. W. Scofield
Cyrus Culver
1816-
Thomas Ellis
E. P. Jacob
Jason Wells
J. J. Matthias
1817-
S. W. Law
1840-
Datus Ensign
Francis Donnelly
Ezekiel Canfield
1818-1819
Lewis Gunn
Nathan Emory
S. W. Scofield 1841-
Smith Dayton
1820-
Jason Wells
E. Washburne
Thomas Geralds 1842-
Smith Dayton
1821- David L. Marks
1843-
Asa Bushnell 1827-
Samuel Cochran
Aaron Hunt
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Resident Pastors.
David L. Marks
1844- W. L. Douglas 1879-
William Dixon
1845-1846
John Cromlish
1880-1881
Joseph Henson
1847-1848
T. I .Watt
1882-1883
William B. Hoyt
1849-1850
Robert Wasson
1883-1885
Nathan C. Lewis
1851-1852
Benjamin F. Skidder
1886-1888
H. N. Weed
1853-1854
James H. Lightbourn
1889-
D. W. Lounsbury
1855-1856
David MacMullin
1890-
William Howard
1857-1858
G. C. Spencer
1891-1894
Albert Booth
1859-1860
George C. Boswell
1895-1898
Joseph Vinton
1861-1862
William H. Wakeham
1899-1900
William Lawrence
1863-1864
William W. Gillies
1901-1902
Joseph O. Munson
1865-1867
William L. Miller
1903-1904
Sylvester Smith
1868-1870
Robert W. Jones
1905-
A. P. Chapman 1871-
Ridgway F. Shinn
1906-19II
James Taylor
1872-1873
Charles S. Gray
1912-
W. S. Morrison
1874-
J. A. Swann
1913-1914
George A. Graves
1875-1876 William M. Warden
1915-1918
W. H. McAllister
1877-1878
William B. Pruner
1919-
b. Bantam.
W. H. McMorris
1896-1899
M. Harwood
1908-1911
T. A. Wade
1899-1900 H. S. Crossett
1911-1913
D. V. Teed
1900-
B. S. Miller
1913-1915
A. H. Birch
1900-1902
A. J. W. Mowatt
1915-1917
A. R. Davies
1902-1905
E. L. Copley
1917-1919
W. I. Reed
1905-1906
Robert Thorne
1919-1920
J. B. Smith
1906-1908
H. A. Studwell
1920-
4. Baptist Church.
a. Bantam Falls.
Jackson G. Ganun 1857-1862
E. B. Elms
1891-1896
C. N. Potter
1863-1867 G. D. Reid 1903-
J. Fairman 1867-1871
Ray H. Legate 1909-
D. F. Chapman
1871-1875 J. L. Deming
1910-
E. D. Bowers
1876-1878 Herman Foster*
1911-1912
H. G. Smith
1878-1881
C. W. Davis
1914-
*Lay Preacher.
5. Roman Catholic Church.
a. Litchfield. St. Anthony's Parish.
Visiting Missionary Priests.
Rev. John Smith 1848 Rev. Thomas F. Hendricken 1854
Bishop O'Reilly
1851 Rev. Lawrence Mangan 1856
Rev. Philip Gillick 1853 Rev. Peter Kelly 1857 Pastors of Winsted in charge, 1861-1882.
Rev. Daniel Mullen Father Leo da Saracena O. S. F. Father Anacletus O. F. M.
Rev. Philip Sheridan
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Resident Priests.
Rev. M. Byrne
1882-1883 Rev. Patrick Finnegan . 1889-1896
1883-1885 Rev. Peter Skelly 1896-1910
Rev. John L. McGuinness 1910-
C. UNITED STATES, STATE, JUDICIAL, COUNTY AND TOWN OFFICIALS FROM LITCHFIELD.
1. a. United States Senators.
Uriah Tracy
First Chosen 1796 Truman Smith 1849
b. Members of U. S. Congress.
Uriah Tracy
1793-1796 Phineas Miner 1834-1835
John Allen 1797-1799 Truman Smith 1839-1843, 1845-1849
Benjamin Tallmadge 1801-1817 Origen S. Seymour 1851-1855
Uriel Holmes
1817-1818 George C. Woodruff 1861-1863
Jabez W. Huntington 1829-1835 John H. Hubbard 1863-1867
Edward W. Seymour 1882-1886
2. a. Governors of Connecticut.
Oliver Wolcott 1796-1797 Oliver Wolcott Jr. 1817-1827
Charles B. Andrews 1879-1881"
b. Members of the Council.
chosen
chosen
Elisha Sheldon
1761 Jedediah Strong 1789
Oliver Wolcott
1771 Tapping Reeve ยท 1792
Andrew Adams 1781 John Allen 1800
Frederick Wolcott 1810
c. Members of the State Senate.
Elected by General Ticket.
chosen yrs.
chosen
yrs.
Frederick Wolcott
1819 4 John Welch
1825 7
Seth P. Beers 1824 I
Under District System.
Phineas Miner
1830-1831 Gideon H. Hollister 1856-
William Beebe
1845- Charles B. Andrews I868-1869
Francis Bacon
1849- Edward W. Seymour 1876-
Charles Adams
1851- Seth Pratt 1877:1888
Charles O. Belden 1855- Edwin McNeill
1889-
J. Deming Perkins 1893-
d. Members of the House of Representatives, 1740-1919. Two sessions were held yearly, May and October, indicated as (1) and (2), until 1819; one session was held yearly from 1819 to 1887; since then sessions have been biennial.
*Members of a second May session held in 1745.
Rev. Joseph Gleeson
Rev. Timothy M. Sweeney 1885-1889
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Joseph Bird Ebenezer Marsh
1740(I); 43(2)-45(1); * 45(2)-46; 49(1).
1740(1); 41-44(1) ; 45(1); 46; 48-52(1) ; 54; 55(2). 58; 59(2)-66; 67(2)-68(1); 69; 17(1); 84; 85(2)- 88; 90(1).
John Bird
1740(2); 43(1); 48.
John Buel
1740(2) ; 41 (I).
Samuel Culver
1741 (2).
Jacob Griswold
1742.
Edward Phelps
1744(2)-45(1); * 45(2).
Isaac Baldwin
I745(1); 61(2)-64(1); 65-66(1); 82(2); 84(1).
Thomas Harrison
I747; 49(2)-52(1);53(2); 54 (2).
Joseph Kilbourn
1752(2)-53(1).
Peter Buell
1755(1); 56-57(1).
Elisha Sheldon
1755(2); 57(2)-61(1).
Jacob Woodruff
1759(1); 68(2).
Oliver Wolcott
1764(2); 67(1); 68(2); 70(2).
John Marsh 1766(2); 68(1); 71(1); 72(2); 74(1).
Abraham Kilbourn 1769 -- 70.
David Welch 1770(1); 73; 74(2)-75(1); 80(2).
Jedediah Strong 1771(2)-80(1); 81-83(1); 85-86; 87(2)-88(1); 89.
Lynde Lord
1771(2)-72(I).
Abraham Bradley
1775(2)-76(1);83(2);85(1).
Andrew Adams
1776(2)-81 (I).
Bezaleel Beebe
1781(2)-82(1);83(1);92(2);93(2);95(2).
Isaac Baldwin Jr.
1783(2); 84(2).
Ebenezer Benton 1781 (1).
Uriah Tracy
1788(2)-92(1); 93(I).
Julius Deming
1790(2)-91(1);98(1).
Ephraim Kirby 1791 (2)-92(1); 94-95(1); 97; 98(2)-1801(I).
Solomon Marsh
1792(2).
John Allen
1793-95(1); 96.
Moses Seymour 1795(2)-97; 98(2)-99(1);1801;02(2);06(1);10-12(1).
James Morris
1798(1); 1800(2); 02(1); 03-05(2).
John Welch
1799(2)-1800(1); 01(2).
Frederick Wolcott
1802(1); 03(I).
Uriel Holmes
1803(2)-05; 06(2)-07; 14 (2).
Norman Buel
1806(I).
Aaron Bradley
1806(2)-08(1); 10.
Aaron Smith
1808-09; II-14(I).
Nathaniel Goodwin
1808(2)-09.
Morris Woodruff
1812(2)-15(I); 24-26; 29-30; 36-37.
William Beebe
1815(1)-16; 27-28; 33.
Jonathan Buel
1815(2)-17.
Ephraim S. Hall
1817(1)-18(I).
Stephen Russell 1818; 30-31 ; 34.
Phineas Lord
1818(2)-19; 36-37.
Joseph Sanford
1747.
Benjamin Webster
1752(2)-54(1); 55 (1).
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Seth P. Beers
1820-23.
Phineas Miner
1823; 27; 29; 35.
David Marsh
1824-25 ; 46-47.
Reuben Webster 1826.
Jabez W. Huntington 1828.
Truman Smith 1831-32; 34.
Elihu Harrison
1832; 35.
Asa Hopkins 1833.
Samuel Buel
1838-39.
William Ray 1838-39.
Frederick Buel 1840-41; 54.
E. Champion Bacon 1840-41.
Origen S. Seymour
1842-43; 49-50; 1881.
Enos Stoddard
1842-43.
Elisha S. Abernethy
1844.
Dan Catlin 1844-45.
Charles Adams 1845.
George Seymour 1846-47.
Samuel P. Bolles
1848; 54.
William L. Smedley 1848.
Christopher Wheeler 1849-50.
George C. Woodruff 1851; 66; 74.
Thomas M. Coe 1851.
Josiah G. Beckwith 1852-53; 56-57; 69.
William Newton 1852-53.
Philip S. Beebe 1855; 62.
Samuel Brooker Jr. 1855.
Garry H. Minor 1856.
Edward Pierpont 1857.
Henry B. Graves 1858; 67-68; 76-77 ; 79; 89.
William Bissell 1858-59; 78.
Edward W. Seymour 1859-60; 70-71.
Daniel Stoddard 1860.
George H. Baldwin
1861.
Jacob Morse 1861.
George A. Hickox 1862 ; 89.
George M. Woodruff 1863; 65; 72.
Everett H. Wright 1863-64.
T. R. Sedgwick 1864.
D. E. Bostwick 1865.
T. L. Saltonstall 1866.
Eli D. Weeks 1867; 77; 1913. T. Leander Jennings 1868.
J. B. Hopkins 1869.
Henry Frisbie 1870.
N. W. Beach 1871.
Ransom Newton 1872. Julius Deming 1873.
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Charles D. Wheeler 1873 James B. Newcomb 1874.
William Deming 1875-76.
Garner B. Curtiss 1875;82.
Charles B. Andrews I878.
Leverett W. Wessells 1879; 87.
Gideon H. Hollister 1880.
Harry Clemons
1880; 87.
Frederick S. Porter 1881.
Willis J. Beach 1882.
F. Ratchford Starr 1883-84.
William H. Doyle 1883; 1907.
Edward E. Champlin 1884; 97.
Alvah A. Stone 1885.
Asahel Morse
1885.
Seth Pratt
1886.
Frank A. Shepard 1886.
Walter S. Judd
1891 ; 93.
William T. Marsh
1891; 93; 95; 1907.
George Kenney 1895.
George W. Mason 1897.
James P. Woodruff 1899; 1903.
John H. Harrigan
1899.
John T. Hubbard 1901; 03.
Fred'k A. Stoddard 1901; 09.
Samuel Trumbull 1905.
Francis M. Coe 1905.
James T. Sedgwick 1909; II; 13.
John W. Ravenscroft 1911; 17.
W. Burton Allen 1915.
Winfield S. Rogers 1915.
Fremont M. Granniss 1917.
Willis O. Perkins 1919.
George C. Ives 1919.
e. Delegates to Constitutional Conventions.
Oliver Wolcott Jr .*
1818 Charles B. Andrews* 1902 Seth P. Beers 1818 *President.
3. a. Judges of Superior Court and Supreme Court of Errors.
Andrew Adams 1789-1798 J. W. Huntington 1834-1840
Tapping Reeve 1798-1815 Origen S. Seymour 1855-63;1870-1874
James Gould 1816-1819 Charles B. Andrews 1882-1901
Samuel Church 1833-1854 Edward W. Seymour 1889-1892
b. Chief Justices of the Supreme Court of Errors.
Andrew Adams
1793-1798 Samuel Church 1847-1854
Tapping Reeve
1814-1815 Origen S. Seymour I873-1874
Charles B. Andrews 1889-1901
HON. JAMES P. WOODRUFF, JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, 1920
PHILIP P. HUBBARD, TOWN TREAS., AND HON. JOHN T. HUBBARD, JUDGE OF PROBATE, 1920
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c. Presiding Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. County of Litchfield.
Previous to 1819, this Court consisted of one Presiding Judge and four Associate Judges, called "Justices of the Quorum". From 1819 to 1839, there were but two Associate Judges, instead of four. From 1839 till the abolition of the Court in 1855, there were no Associate Judges-the County Commissioners being their successors. Oliver Wolcott 1773-1786 Elisha S. Abernethy 1846-1847
d. Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
chosen
chosen
Ebenezer Marsh
1751 Uriel Holmes 1814
Elisha Sheldon
1754 John Welch 1819
Jedediah Strong 1780 Morris Woodruff 1829
Hugh P. Welch 1836
e. Judges of the Court of Common Pleas.
The Court of Common Pleas was re-established in 1883. James P. Woodruff 1914-
f. Judges of Probate, District of Litchfield.
District organized in 1747. Judges appointed annually by the
Legislature until 1851. Since elected annually by the People.
Ebenezer Marsh 1747-1772
Oliver A. G. Todd 1852-1853
Oliver Wolcott 1772-1796
George C. Woodruff 1853-1854
Frederick Wolcott 1796-1837
Charles Adams 1854-1857
Elisha S. Abernethy 1837-1838
George C. Woodruff 1857-1858
Phineas Miner 1838-1840
Charles Adams 1858-1868
Ralph G. Camp
1840-1842
George H. Baldwin 1868-1869
Elisha S. Abernethy 1842-1844
George M. Woodruff 1869-1872
Ralph G. Camp 1844-1846
Henry R. Morrill 1872-1873
Elisha S. Abernethy 1846-1847
George M. Woodruff 1873-1906
Charles Adams
1847-1850
James P. Woodruff
1906-1907
Oliver A. G. Todd 1850-1851
John T. Hubbard 1907-1913
Henry B. Graves 1851-1852
Thomas F. Ryan
1913-1915
John T. Hubbard
1915-
g. Commissioners of the Superior Court from Litchfield. First Chosen
First Chosen
Seth P. Beers
Jason Whiting 1862
Frederick D. Beeman
D. C. Kilbourn 1867
John H. Hubbard
J. G. Beckwith 1867
P. K. Kilbourne
Charles O. Belden 1869
William L. Ransom
Charles Adams 1869
Edward W. Seymour
H. R. Morrill 1870
William F. Baldwin
1860
F. S. Porter 1870
Henry M. Dutton 1860
John R. Farnum 1871
George M. Woodruff 1860
Charles H. Henry 1872
G. H. Hollister 1862
B. J. Smith 1872
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Louis J. Blake
1873
Frederick M. Williams
1887
Frederick C. Webster
1874
Wheaton F. Dowd 1889
George A. Hickox
1875
Eli D. Weeks 1889
H. H. Prescott
1875 George W. Bement
1891
F. W. Wessells
1875
Charles D. Burrill
1893
George C. Woodruff
1877
James P. Woodruff
1894
E. B. Kellogg
I878
T. Leander Jennings
1896
Edwin A. White
1880
Fred J. Stausebach
1898
Charles C. Moore
1881
J. Gail Beckwith
1899
Robert E. Hall
1882
Charles W. Andrews
1900
Walter S. Judd
1882
Frank T. Hammond
1902
John T. Hubbard
1884
F. L. Jennings
1903
Marcus D. F. Smith
18841
Thomas F. Ryan
1906
Frederick Koehler
1885
John H. Lancaster
1910
Elbert P. Roberts
1885
Louis J. Goodman
1918
Charles B. Bishop
1886
Floyd L. Vanderpoel
1918
h. Justices of the Peace for the County of Litchfield, Residing in the town of Litchfield.
Complete Roll, from the organization of the County to the present time. Until 1851, all Justices of the Peace in Connecticut were appointed annually by the Legislature. They are now elected by the People for the term of two years.
First Chosen
First Chosen
Thomas Harrison
1752
Uriel Holmes
1808
Timothy Collins
1753
Peter Sherman
1808
Elisha Sheldon
1754
Aaron Smith
1808
Jacob Woodruff
1759
Phineas Miner
1809
Isaac Baldwin
1762
Asa Bacon 1810
David Welch
1768
Levi Catlin
1812
Reuben Smith
1772
Morris Woodruff
1814
Andrew Adams
1774
Seth P. Beers
1817
Jedediah Strong
1779
Jonathan Buel
1817
Abraham Bradley
1781
Jabez W. Huntington
1817
Tapping Reeve
1783
Nathaniel Goodwin
1818
James Morris
1788
James Birge
1819
Uriah Tracy
1792
Ozias Lewis
1819
John Welch
1793
Stephen Russell
1819
John Allen
1796
I. Bunce
1820
Moses Seymour
1797
Ephraim S. Hall
1820
Julius Deming
1798
Elihu Harrison
1820
Frederick Wolcott
1800
Enos Stoddard 1823
Seth Landon
1802
David C. Sanford
1824
Nathan Bassett
1803
Simeon Sanford
1826
Roger Marsh
1803
Hugh P. Welch
1826
Mark Prindle
1804
Truman Smith
1827
Roger N. Whittlesey
1804
Joseph Adams
1828
Benjamin Tallmadge
1807
Joseph Birge
1828
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Asa Hopkins
1828
Alanson Hall
1846
Origen S. Seymour
1829
Homer Kilbourn
1846
Truman Kilbourn
1830
Lemuel O. Meafoy
1846
Leonard Goodwin
1832
Prentice Parkhurst 1846
George C. Woodruff
1832
Walter Coe
1847
Joseph Birge Jr.
1835
Isaac B. Woodruff
1847
William Harrison
1835
Daniel B. Stoddard
1847
Putnam Kilbourn
1835
Charles Adams
1847
E. S. Abernethy
1836
Philip S. Beebe
1847
Samuel P. Bolles
1836
Frederick Buel
1847
Dan Catlin
1836
Phineas W. Camp
1847
Abner Landon
1836
William Norton
1847
A. J. Pickett
1836
John A. Oviatt
1847
Edward Pierpont
1837
Leonard Pierpont
1847
Enoch J. Woodruff
1837
Oliver A. G. Todd
1848
Edward Camp
1838
Amos Farnsworth
1849
Edward Cowles
1838
Henry B. Graves
1849
Samuel H. Dudley
1838
Albin Guild
1849
Chester C. Goslee
1838
Samuel A. Merwin
1849
Julius Griswold
1838
William Newton
1849
Asa Hopkins
1838
Ithamar Page 1849
Manly Peters
1838
Charles O. Belden
1850
James M. Pierpont
1838
David Benton
1850
William Bassett
1839
George A. Smith
1850
Ralph G. Camp
1839
Tomlinson Wells
1850
Francis Bacon
1840
Chester G. Birge
1851
Ozias B. Bassett
1840
Junius Burgess
1851
Cyrus Catlin
1840
Edward Garnsey
1851
Henry Skilton
1840
Christopher C. Palmer
1851
Charles L. Webb
1840
John H. Hubbard
1852
Jason Whiting
1840
A. S. Lewis
1852
John Garnsey
1841
Charles C. Buel
1854
Stephen Deming
1842
Henry Frisbie
1854
Augustus Morey
1842
Levi Heaton
1854
G. H. Hollister
1843
George A. Hickox
1854
Isaac Newton
1843
Garry H. Minor
1854
William L. Smedley
1843
William Bissell
1856
Frederick W. Plumb
1844
George Garnsey
1856
Stephen Trowbridge
1844
Edward W. Seymour
1856
Samuel G. Braman
1845
Abraham C. Smith
1856
Norman Hall
1845
John Catlin
1858
Uri Taylor
1845
Orson Emons
1858
Douglas Watson
1845
Royal A. Ford
1858
James B. Woodruff
1845
P. K. Kilbourne
1858
Frederick D. Beeman
1846
Jacob Morse Jr.
1858
Samuel Brooker Jr.
1846
William L. Ransom
1858
Samuel Church
1846
Newton Smith
1858
Garner B. Curtiss
1846
Everett H. Wright
1859
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APPENDIX
Henry M. Dutton
1860
C. Merriman 1880
George M. Woodruff
1860
Francis N. Barton 1882
Edwin B. Webster
1861
Horatio P. Griswold 1882
Charles D. Wheeler
1861
Henry H. Prescott
1882
Aaron Baldwin
1862
Charles C. Moore
1882
William Coe
I862
Walter S. Judd
1882
Henry S. Griswold
1862
Holmes O. Morse
1884
S. H. Dudley
1862
Eugene M. Meafoy
1884
F. A. Marsh
1862
Isaac B. Pond
1884
A. J. Pierpont
1862
Charles I. Page
1884
James Richards
1862
Charles F. Baldwin
1884
George Guernsey
1864
Frederick Koehler
1886
Chester Goslee
1864
Elbert P. Roberts
1886
Garry G. Porter
1864
Arthur Morse
1888
L. T. Gilbert
1866
Charles B. Bishop
1890
Dwight C. Kilbourn
1866
Frank M. Barnes
1890
S. O. Meafoy
1866
Arthur D. Catlin 1890
John McNeil
1866
Henry S. Coe
1890
E. P. Moulthrop
1866
Henry B. Peck
1890
Eli D. Weeks
1866
Edgar F. Wedge
1890
Frederick Chittenden
1868
Frank H. Earle
1892
G. W. Bement
1868
Thomas Hinchliff
1892
Thomas M. Saltonstall
1868
Sidney D. Moore
1892
G. B. Curtiss
1870
Clifford C. Newbury 1892
A. B. Hallock
1870
Henry T. Peck 1892
Elbert G. Roberts
1870
Robert L .Rochfort
1892
S. B. Johnson
1871
Marcus D. F. Smith
1892
Henry R. Morrill
1872
Charles W. Talcott
1892
J. R. Farnum
1874
Charles D. Burrill 1894
Noah W. Beach
1874
Patrick C. Burke
1894
Samuel G. Beach
1874
James P. Catlin
1894
Darius P. Griswold
1874
Cornelius R. Duffie Jr.
1894
John A. Hall
1874
Charles D. Kilbourn 1894
William Deming
1877
L. L. Munson 1894
D. G. Turney
1877
William H. Plumb
1894
Howard Catlin
1877
Henry W. Wessells
1894
Henry Morse
1877
James P. Woodruff 1894
F. W. Wessells
1877
Charles W. Biglow 1896
Anson C. Smith
1877
Henry L. Coe
1896
Charles B. Anderson
I878 Samuel J. Cone 1896
D. C. Griswold
1878
Ithamar T. Dickinson 1896
Willis G. Barton
1880 Hiram N. French
1896
F. S. Porter
1862
Francis N. Benton
1884
Charles B. Andrews
1864
John T. Hubbard
1884
David Stoddard
1864
Charles L. Blake 1888
Charles Booth
1866
Leonard L. Munson
1888
J. B. Hopkins
1866
George W. Mason
1890
T. Leander Jennings
1866
Chester Thomas
1890
Seth Pond 1868
Isaac Hutchinson
1882
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John H. Harrigan
1896
Frank B. Mason
1907
Lewis C. Hotchkiss
1896
Elgin G. Clock
1908
James H. Morse
1896
Charles S. Nearing
1908
William J. Hall
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