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 6 THREE GREAT WAR GOVERNORS. 
 
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 STATE OF CONNECTICUT 
 
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 THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE GENERAL 
 ASSEMBLY, UNDER THE PRESENT CONSTI- 
 TUTION AND THE SECOND GENERAL 
 LEGISLATIVE REUNION 
 
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 THE CAPITOL, HARTFORD, 
 
 WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1919 
 
 Compiled by WILLIAM HARRISON tAtLOk 
 Secretary of the Centennial Committee 
 
 HARTFORD 
 
 Published by the State 
 1919 
 

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 Publication 
 
 Approved by 
 
 The Board of Control 
 
 THE CASE, LOCKWOOD ft BRAINARD CO. 
 HARTFORD. CONN. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 This volume is published by the State of Connecticut, in accordance 
 with Senate Joint Resolution No. 47, passed May 6, 19 19. Thirty- 
 five hundred copies were authorized by the Board of Control. The 
 introduction was kindly written, at my request, by George S. Godard, 
 State Librarian. The plain facts are given in the report, no attempt 
 being made to elaborate. 
 
 The Registration Cards show that 1,387 state officers and members 
 of the General Assembly and 465 other officials and invited guests; a 
 total of 1,852 were present at the Centennial. A majority of the 803 
 additional members, who had signified their intention of being present, 
 owing to the inclemency of the weather did not come. 
 
 Two thousand one hundred and ninety state officers and members 
 of the General Assembly acknowledged the receipt of the invitation 
 sent out by the committee. 
 
 The heartiest thanks of the Centennial Committee are extended to 
 all who assisted in making the Centennial such a decided success. 
 It is hoped this volume will prove of increasing interest and value. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 GEORGE S. GODARD, 
 State Librarian. 
 
 That was a remarkable gathering which met on Capitol Hill Wed- 
 nesday, May 7, 1919. In response to an invitation from the General 
 Assembly, extended through a Special Legislative Committee, con- 
 sisting of three Senators and eight Representatives, working through 
 William Harrison Taylor, " Souvenir Taylor," as its Secretary, those 
 who had served the State as State Officers or members of the General 
 Assembly, or officers thereof, came together to celebrate the One Hun- 
 dredth Anniversary of the first meeting of the Connecticut General 
 Assembly under our present Constitution. 
 
 By special arrangements, Governor Marcus H. Holcomb welcomed 
 the Ex-Governors in the Executive Chamber; Lieutenant-Governor 
 Wilson welcomed the Lieutenant-Governors in his room; Secretary of 
 State Perry, Treasurer Gilpatric, Comptroller Webster, and Attorney- 
 General Healy, each welcomed their predecessors in their respective 
 offices. In like manner the members of the Senate of 19 19 welcomed 
 their predecessors by Districts, while the members of the House of 
 1919 received their predecessors by Counties. 
 
 While the day was far from a pleasant one, those invited began to 
 arrive early, and it was not long before the Capitol, brilliantly lighted 
 for the occasion, was resounding with the merry laugh and hearty 
 greetings of those who came from all parts of the State and were 
 meeting those whom perhaps they had not met for many years. The 
 brilliant lights, the hearty hand shakes, the cordial greetings, the 
 united singing, the generous lunch, and the numerous signs of greet- 
 ings and directions, characteristic of Secretary Taylor, all contributed 
 towards making the day a success socially. The program which had 
 been arranged for the occasion and which had to be presented in the 
 Representatives Hall, rather than on the Capitol grounds as planned, 
 was appreciated. 
 
The assemblage having been called to order by Senator Albert H. 
 House, Chairman of the Centennial Committee, and prayer having 
 been offered by Senate Chaplain Rev. Charles H. Puffer, the address 
 of welcome by Governor Marcus H. Holcomb, the historical address 
 by Ex-Governor and Ex-Chief Justice Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, the 
 poem upon " The Spirit, of Connecticut The Constitution State " by 
 Herbert Randall, the address by Hon. Charles Hopkins Clark, Editor 
 of the "HARTFORD COURANT," upon the Capitals and State 
 Houses of Connecticut, and the addresses of Lieutenant-Governor 
 Clifford B. Wilson, representing the Senate, and Speaker James F. 
 Walsh, representing the House, all contributed to make the occasion 
 a memorable one, as was evidenced by the hearty rendering of 
 "America " which closed the program. 
 
 At the State Library a special exhibit was made of all those items 
 relating to the development of the Connecticut Constitution. In the 
 exhibit was shown the old charter and the Constitution of 1818, both 
 housed in an artistic fire-proof vault just under Stuart's portrait of 
 Washington in Memorial Hall. In adjoining cases was a collection 
 of the several revisions of Connecticut Law from the first one, together 
 with the original manuscript journal of the Constitutional Convention 
 of 18 1 8. The mural decoration by Albert Herter of New York, which 
 occupies the panel back of the Judges Bench in the Supreme Court 
 Room, commemorates the assembling of the citizens of Windsor, Hart- 
 ford and Wethersfield at the moment they are about to adjourn, having 
 completed the formulating of " THE ELEVEN FUNDAMENTAL 
 ORDERS " now recognized to be the first written constitution in the 
 modern sense. Thomas Hooker, occupying the central part of the 
 scene, is shown in the act of making his famous declaration " In 
 matters of greater consequence which concern the common good a 
 General Council chosen by all to transact businesses which concern all 
 I conceive under favor most suitable to rule and most safe for relief 
 of the whole." This great declaration has been fittingly inscribed on 
 a tablet inserted in the center of the tile floor in Memorial Hall at the 
 State Library, which tile also shows the evolution of the seals of 
 Connecticut. 
 
 Probably for the first time the contents of the Connecticut Constitu- 
 tion Tablet, erected on the northwest wall, near the battle flags, by the 
 Daughters of the American Revolution, came to be appreciated. This 
 epitome of Connecticut's unique place in modern political history, was 
 for use at the Connecticut State Building at the Louisiana Purchase 
 Exposition at St. Louis, 1904, by Mrs. John M. Holcombe of Hartford, 
 a member of the National Board of Lady Managers. The frame which 
 
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was executed by Albert Entress of Hartford, except the inside 
 moulding, which was made from an oaken beam taken from the most 
 ancient of the Gold Street houses bordering the ancient cemetery in 
 which the settlers of Hartford are buried, is of charter oak contributed 
 by Mrs. Samuel Colt, Miss Alice Elliott Trumbull and Mrs. Holcombe. 
 The four dates carved upon this frame, namely, 1639, tne Consti- 
 tution born in Connecticut; 1662, charter secured by John Winthrop 
 and an infant republic protected; 1687, charter hidden in the oak and 
 the Republic preserved; 1789, adoption of the United States Constitu- 
 tion on Connecticut Model, are pivotal dates in the history of Connecti- 
 cut, whose position in political history is unique, as evidenced by the 
 following quotations from leading historians, all of which have been 
 so beautifully illuminated by Mr. Charles L. N. Camp of New Haven 
 upon this our Connecticut Constitution Tablet : 
 
 CONNECTICUT, THE CONSTITUTION STATE 
 
 " The eleven fundamental orders of Connecticut, with their pre- 
 amble, present the first example in history of a written constitution." 
 Green : " Short History of the English People." 
 
 " The birthplace of American democracy is Hartford ! Government 
 of the people, by the poeple, and for the people first took shape in 
 Connecticut. The American form of commonwealth originated in 
 Connecticut and not in Massachusetts, Virginia, or any other colony. 
 The Connecticut Constitution of 1639 was the first written constitution 
 in the history of nations." Alexander Johnston. 
 
 " It was the first written constitution known to history, that created 
 a government." John Fiske. 
 
 "Alone of "the thirteen colonies, Connecticut entered into the War 
 of the Revolution with her governor and council at her head under the 
 constitution of her Royal Charter." Leonard Woolsey Bacon. 
 
 " It is on the banks of the Connecticut, under the mighty preaching 
 of Thomas Hooker, and in the constitution to which he gave life, if 
 not form, that we draw the first breath of that atmosphere which is 
 now so familiar to us." 
 
 Johnston: "Connecticut" (American Commonwealths.) 
 
 " Thomas Hooker, the man who first made possible our American 
 democracy." Elliott: "History of New England." 
 
 " The Connecticut Constitution of 1639 is the foundation of the 
 republican institutions of the colony and state. It may claim on higher 
 considerations the attention of students of politics, science, and general 
 history." J. Hammond Trumbull. 
 
 " The first constitution written out as a complete frame of civil 
 order in the new world embodies all the essential features of the con- 
 stitutions of our states, and of the republic itself as they exist at the 
 present day." Horace Bushnell. 
 
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Those who were permitted to witness and join in these anniversary 
 exercises commemorating our first one hundred years under our present 
 constitution, were impressed' with the great work which had been 
 accomplished by those citizens of Connecticut who have " gone on 
 before " and of responsibilities which rest upon those now living to 
 see to it that those liberties, those opportunities, and those responsi- 
 bilities which are ours shall be handed on inviolate, to those who shall 
 assume the conduct of affairs in the days to come. All returned to 
 their homes understanding as never before the real meanings of those 
 declarations made upon the Connecticut Constitution Tablet now 
 keeping company with those sacred flags which represent another side 
 and another victory in the life of Connecticut. 
 
 State Librarian. % 
 
CLERK'S REPORT. 
 
 SOUTHINGTON, CONN., May 12, I919. 
 
 General Assembly Centennial Committee, 
 Wm. H. Taylor, Secretary, 
 Hartford, Conn. 
 My dear Taylor: — 
 
 As per your request of the 7th inst, I herewith enclose my report, 
 in brief, as clerk of the Centennial Committee : 
 
 March 12, 1919 — At State Library. The meeting of the Com- 
 mittee for the One Hundredth Anniversary of the first legislative 
 meeting of the General Assembly under the present Constitution for 
 the purpose of organization, was held at the State Library on March 
 12th, 1919. Present: Senators House, Hemenway and Bissell, and 
 Representatives Eaton, Davis, Barnes, Wright, Geary and Alvord. 
 Senator House was appointed Chairman and Mr. Barnes was 
 appointed Clerk. 
 
 VOTED That this Committee recommend that a Centennial Celebration 
 be held on the 7th of May, 1919. 
 
 Senators Hemenway and Messrs. Geary and Davis were 
 
 appointed to prepare a program and proper bill to present to the 
 
 legislature. 
 
 VOTED That the exercises be confined to a literary and musical 
 program. 
 
 VOTED That a committee be appointed to wait on the Governor and 
 learn his wishes regarding the details of the Centennial 
 exercises. 
 
 The Chairman appointed Senator Hemenway and Messrs, Eaton 
 and Davis to wait on the Governor in accord with the above vote. 
 VOTED That an appropriation not to exceed $5,000 be asked for. 
 VOTED To adjourn subject to the call of the Chairman. 
 
 March 2/, ipig — At State Library. The second meeting of the 
 Committee was held on March 27th and was called to order at 2 :30 
 P. M. by the Chairman, Senator House. William Harrison Taylor 
 and State Librarian Godard met with the Committee. 
 
 Senator House reported that the report of the Preliminary Com- 
 mittee advising the appropriation of five thousand dollars for this 
 
purpose had been passed by the General Assembly and the Preliminary 
 Committee had been appointed a permanent committee to take in 
 charge the arrangements for the centennial exercises. 
 
 Senator Albert H. House of the 7th District was elected permanent 
 Chairman. Representative Frank H. Barnes, Southington, Clerk, 
 and William Harrison Taylor, Secretary. * 
 
 Robert O. Eaton, North Haven ; William H. Hall, Willington, and 
 Senator Charles C. Hemenway, Hartford, were elected Committee on 
 Speakers. 
 
 Senator House, State Librarian Godard and Mr. Taylor were 
 appointed a Sub-committee on Printing and Badges and asked to 
 report at the next meeting of the Committee, to be held Tuesday after- 
 noon, April 1st, immediately after adjournment of the General 
 Assembly. 
 
 April 1, ipip — At Capitol. The third meeting of the Centennial 
 Committee was held in the afternoon of April 1st, at the Capitol. 
 House Chairman Davis presided. 
 
 It was voted that the Secretary be directed to send circular latters, 
 with attached blank for names, to the several members of the General 
 Assembly, as per proof submitted. 
 
 It was voted that three thousand badges be purchased from the 
 Whitehead & Hoag Co., as per sample submitted, at a cost of 25 ^c 
 each, total $765. 
 
 It was voted that the contract for five thousand copper plate 
 invitations be granted to the Gustave Fischer Co., for $435.00, Mr. 
 Fischer to submit form of same for approval before printing. 
 
 It was voted that the Secretary be instructed to send out these 
 invitations at the earliest date possible. 
 
 It was voted that the Secretary be instructed to communicate with 
 the bandmaster of the Governor's Foot Guard Band, and report at 
 the next meeting of the Committee. 
 
 April J, igip — At State Library. The fourth meeting of the 
 Centennial Committee was held on Thursday afternoon, April 3rd, 
 at the State Library, Senator House presided. It was voted that the 
 Secretary be instructed to engage the Governor's Foot Guard Band 
 of thirty-five pieces, in accordance with terms submitted in a letter to 
 him by Wm. M. Redfield, bandmaster. 
 
 The following persons were appointed as members of the Recep- 
 tion Committee of the Centennial : 
 
 To receive ex-State Officials: Hon. Marcus JEL Holcomb, Gov- 
 ernor; Hon. Clifford B. Wilson, Lieut.-Governor ; Hon. Frederick L. 
 
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Perry, Secretary; Hon. G. Harold Gilpatric, Treasurer; Hon. Morris 
 C. Webster, Comptroller; Hon. Frank E. Healy, Attorney-General. 
 
 To receive ex-Senators: The members of the Senate. 
 
 To receive ex-Speakers: Hon. James F. Walsh, Speaker. 
 
 To receive ex-Chaplains: Rev. Charles H. Puffer, Chaplain of the 
 Senate ; Rev. Homer W. Hildreth, Chaplain of the House. 
 
 To receive ex-Clerks: Edward J. Kenealy, Clerk of the Senate; 
 Leo J. Noonan, Ass't Clerk of the Senate ; W. Arthur Countryman, Jr., 
 Clerk of the House; J. Frederick Baker, Ass't Clerk of the House. 
 
 To receive ex-Representatives : Mr. Stevens of Berlin, Mr. 
 Green of Hartford, Mr. Beckwith of West Hartford, Mr. Turney of 
 Windsor, Mr. Ney of Farmington, Mr. Brewer of East Hartford, 
 Hartford County; Mr. Osborn of Branford, Mr. Walter of Cheshire, 
 Mr. Healey of Waterbury, Mr. Gaillard of New Haven, Mr. Loucks 
 of Wallingford, Mr. Pope of Oxford, New Haven County; Rev. Mr. 
 Phillips of Huntington, Mr. Shaw of Redding, Mr. Huxford of Stam- 
 ford, Mr. Morris of Newtown, Mr. Kenealy of Stamford, Mr. Bailey 
 of Danbury, Fairfield County; Mr. Vincent of Kent, Mr. Jones of New 
 Hartford, Mr. Rudd of Salisbury, Mr. Strong of Winchester, Mr. 
 Curtiss of Woodbury, Mr. Green of New Milford, Litchfield County; 
 Mr. Williams of Norwich, Mr. Smith of Groton, Mr. Allyn of Ledyard, 
 Mr. McNicol of Griswold, Mr. Graham of Lisbon, Mr. Reynolds of 
 Lyme, New London County; Mr. King of Windham, Mr. Franklin of 
 Brooklyn, Mr. Dorrance of Plainfleld, Mr. Haines of Pomfret, Mr. 
 Kent of Putnam, Mr. Baker of Ashford, Windham County; Mr. Emily 
 of East Haddam, Mr. Wilcox of Middletown, Mr. Gates of Old Say- 
 brook, Mr. Moore of Saybrook, Mr. Chittenden of Killingworth, Mr. 
 Asman of Durham, Middlesex County; Mr. Talcott of Vernon, Mr. 
 Higgins of Coventry, Mr. Cook of Andover, Mr. O'Halloran of Staf- 
 ford, Mr. Fuller of Somers, Mr. Reed of Union, Tolland County. 
 
 Resident Committee: Mayor Richard J. Kinsella, Chairman; 
 Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hon. Frank A. Hagarty, Hon. Edward L. 
 Smith, Hon. Charles Hopkins Clark, Hon. Newton C. Brainard. 
 
 May i, ipig — At Capitol. The fifth meeting of the Committee 
 was held on Thursday afternoon, May 1st, at the Capitol, Senator 
 House presided. The Secretary reported that an excellent box lunch 
 would be furnished by the Waldorf System (Baldwin Division) for 
 40c per box, including hot coffee. It was voted that his report be 
 approved and that 2,500 boxes be ordered. It was voted to accept 
 with heartiest thanks the kind offer of Representative Charles G. 
 Morris, of Newtown, president of the New Haven Dairy Company, 
 
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to furnish 2,500 boxes of ice cream for the lunch with the compli- 
 ments of the company. 
 
 May 6, ipig — At Capitol. At the sixth meeting of the Com- 
 mittee on Tuesday, May 6th, it was voted — That the Secretary be 
 empowered by the Committee to purchase tokens, at a price not to 
 exceed $20.00 each to be presented to the oldest member in point of 
 years and that the oldest member in point of service and that the 
 Speaker of the House be invited to present the tokens. 
 
 May 7, 19 19 — At Capitol. On May 7th the Committee held a 
 meeting in the forenoon for the purpose of completing arrangements 
 for the day. 
 
 May 8, ipip — At Capitol. The last meeting of the Committee 
 was held late in the afternoon of May 8th, at the Capitol, when the 
 following votes were past: 
 VOTED 
 
 VOTED 
 
 VOTED 
 
 That William H. Taylor be, and hereby is instructed to com- 
 pile the records and statistics of the Centennial Celebration 
 of the General Assembly held at the State Capitol on May 
 7th, 19 19. 
 
 That William H. Taylor be allowed for his services as Secre- 
 tary of the Centennial Committee and for compiling records 
 of the Centennial Celebration, the balance of the appropria- 
 tion (namely $1,513.26), after all bills have been paid, and any 
 further sum the Board of Control may deem proper. 
 That Secretary Taylor be instructed to extend a hearty vote of 
 thanks from the Committee to George S. Godard, state libra- 
 rian ; Morris C. Webster, comptroller ; George A. Parker, 
 superintendent of parks ; Garrett J. Farrell, chief of police ; 
 all those who took part in the literary exercises ; Charles Bart- 
 lett, the V. M. C. A. song leader; Wm. M. Redfield, bandmaster 
 of the Governor's Foot Guard Band ; Robert H. Morrison, 
 manager of the Waldorf System (Baldwin Division) ; Repre- 
 sentative Charles G. Morris, president of the New Haven 
 Dairy Company, and all others who contributed to the success 
 of the Centennial Celebration. 
 
 Attest. 
 
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT. 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 March 19, 1919, State appropriation $5,000.00 
 
 EXPENDITURES. 
 
 April 2, The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. : 
 
 Stationery 3 I -50 
 
 April 5, Clark & Smith: 
 
 Stationery 22.05 
 
 April 7, Clark & Smith : 
 
 Stationery 6.75 
 
 vEtna Stamp Works : 
 
 Rubber stamps 1.65 
 
 April 8, David A. Wilson, Postmaster: 
 
 Postage stamps 255.60 
 
 April 22, Clark & Smith: 
 
 Stationery 19-30 
 
 April 23, The A. Pindar Corp. : 
 
 Engraving 3.25 
 
 April 25, Whitehead & Hoag Co. : 
 
 3,000 badges 765.00 
 
 April 28, The Gustave Fischer Co. : 
 
 5,000 sets copper engraved invitations 435 -oo 
 
 May I, American Railway Express Co.: 
 
 Express 3.47 
 
 May 6, Bill Brothers: 
 
 Cartage 4.80 
 
 May 6, O. J. Hatfield : 
 
 Placards 24.50 
 
 May 6, Daniel McAuliffe: 
 
 Services 3.50 
 
 May 7, I. O. O. F. : 
 
 Use of coffee cups 10.00 
 
 Wm. M. Redfield, Manager: 
 
 Governor's Foot Guard Band 156.00 
 
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Robert H. Morrison, Manager Waldorf 
 System (Baldwin Division) : 
 
 2,500 lunches 1,000.00 
 
 E. Habenstein: 
 
 Catering 375-00 
 
 Lux, Bond & Lux, Inc. : 
 
 Two loving cups and engraving .... 40.00 
 
 John Coombs : 
 
 Flowers 70-75 
 
 The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. : 
 
 5,000 programs 86.65 
 
 May 8, Mrs. S. B. Greene : 
 
 Services 45-00 
 
 Glenna A. Libby : 
 
 Services 99.00 
 
 Young Men's Christian Association : 
 
 Expenses of Song Leaders C. O. 
 Pardo and Charles Bartlett (serv- 
 ices free) 27.97 
 
 William Harrison Taylor: 
 
 Services, etc 1,513.26 
 
 $5,000.00 
 
 (Attest) 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 The following actions were taken by the General Assembly in re- 
 gard to the Centennial Celebration, as recorded in the Journals of the 
 Senate and House. 
 
 JOURNAL OF THE SENATE. 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. By Senator Hemenway of the 
 Second District, a resolution concerning a celebration in commemora- 
 tion of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the First Meeting of the 
 Connecticut General Assembly, and calling for a committee of three 
 Senators and six Representatives. 
 
 On motion of Senator Hemenway of the Second District, the 
 resolution was passed, under a suspension of the rules and transmitted 
 to the House. 
 
 The following is the resolution: 
 Resolved by this Assembly: 
 
 That a joint special committee consisting of three Senators to be 
 appointed by the President of the Senate and six Representatives to be 
 appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby 
 raised for the purpose of preparing such legislation as it may believe 
 to be necessary or suitable, and to introduce the same within thirty 
 days from the passage hereof, relating to a legislative or public cele- 
 bration to be held on the seventh day of May, 1919, in commemoration 
 of the one hundredth anniversary of the first meeting of the Con- 
 necticut General Assembly, 
 
 Passed January 30. 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. (See House Journal, January 
 30th.) A resolution concerning a Celebration in Commemoration of 
 the One Hundredth Anniversary of the First Meeting of the Con- 
 necticut General Assembly, was received from the House, the resolu- 
 tion having been amended by Schedule "A" and passed. 
 
 The Senate had previously passed the resolution. 
 
 On motion of Senator Klett of the Sixth District, the Senate re- 
 considered its former action. 
 
 The amendment was then adopted. 
 
 The resolution was then passed as amended by Schedule "A." 
 
 The following is the amendment: 
 
 Schedule "A" 
 At the end of line two, strike out the word u six," and insert in 
 lieu thereof the word " eight." 
 Passed February 5. 
 
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Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. (See Senate Journal, January 
 30th.) A resolution concerning a Celebration in Commemoration of 
 the One Hundredth Anniversary of the First Meeting of the Con- 
 necticut General Assembly, and calling for a committee of three Sena- 
 tors and six Representatives. 
 
 The President announced the following appointments to said com- 
 mittee: Senators House of the Seventh District, Bissell of the 
 Twenty-fourth District and Hemenway of the Second District. (Re- 
 appointed as Senate Committee to make arangements for a public cele- 
 bration). 
 
 Passed February 13. 
 
 Senate Bill No. 553. The report of the Special Committee on the 
 One Hundredth Anniversary Celebration, on a bill entitled "An Act 
 concerning a Celebration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the 
 First Meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly," recommending 
 the reference of the bill to the Committee on Appropriations, was re- 
 ceived from the House, the bill having been referred, and the report of 
 the committee accepted. 
 
 The bill was so referred, and the report of the committee accepted, 
 in concurrence. 
 
 Passed March 13. 
 
 Senate Bill No. 553. (See Senate Journal, March 13th.) The 
 report of the committee on Appropriations, on a bill entitled " An Act 
 concerning a Celebration in Commemoration of the One Hundredth 
 Anniversary of the First Meeting of the General Assembly," was taken 
 from the table on motion of Senator Mead of the Twenty-seventh 
 District, recommending the passage of the bill, was received. 
 
 Under a suspension of the rules, the bill was read the third time, 
 and explained by Senator Mead of the Twenty-seventh District, chair- 
 man of the committee on the part of the Senate. 
 
 The bill was then passed and the report of the committee accepted. 
 
 The following is the bill: 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened : 
 
 Section 1. A special committee consisting of three senators to be 
 appointed by the President of the Senate and eight representatives to 
 be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives is raised 
 for the purpose of making such arrangements as may be suitable for 
 the conduct of a public celebration to be held on the seventh day of 
 May, 1919, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the 
 first meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly under the constitu- 
 tion adopted A. D. 1818, and to carry out the purposes of this act 
 the sum of Five Thousand Dollars is appropriated, or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary, to defray the expenses which may be incurred by 
 said committee, and the comptroller is directed to draw his order on the 
 treasurer for such expenses upon vouchers approved by a majority of 
 the members of said committee. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 Passed March 18. 
 
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The following resolution was introduced by Senator House of the 
 Seventh District: 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 85. Resolution authorizing the Pub- 
 lication of Report of the Committee on the General Assembly Cen- 
 tennial. 
 
 Under a suspension of the rules, the resolution was read the third 
 time, and explained by Senator House of the Seventh District. 
 
 The resolution was then passed. 
 
 The following is the resolution. 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 That the comptroller shall cause to be printed, at the expense of the 
 state, such number of copies of the report of the committee on the 
 general assembly centennial as the board of control shall determine, not 
 exceeding thirty-five hundred copies. 
 
 Passed May 6. 
 
 JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE. 
 
 The following resolution was received from the Senate, having been 
 passed and transmitted under a suspension of the rules : 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. Resolution concerning a Cele- 
 bration in Commemoration of the First Meeting of the Connecticut 
 General Assembly. 
 
 On motion of Mr. King of Windham, the resolution was tabled. 
 
 Passed January 30. 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. Resolution concerning a Cele- 
 tion in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the 
 First Meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly. 
 
 On motion of Mr. King of Windham, the resolution was taken from 
 the table. 
 
 The resolution was then amended. 
 
 The resolution was then passed as amended, under a suspension of 
 the rules. 
 
 The resolution is as follows : 
 Resolved by this Assembly : 
 
 That a joint special committee consisting of three senators to be 
 appointed by the president of the Senate and six representatives to be 
 appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives is hereby 
 raised for the purpose of preparing such legislation as it may believe 
 to be necessary or suitable, and to introduce the same within thirty days 
 from the passage hereof, relating to a legislative or public celebration 
 to be held on the Seventh Day of May, 1919, in commemoration of the 
 One Hundredth Anniversary of the first meeting of the Connecticut 
 General Assembly: 
 
 The amendment is as follows : 
 
 Schedule "A" 
 
 "At the end of line two, strike out the word ' six,' and insert in lieu 
 thereof the word ' eight \" 
 
 Passed January 31. 
 
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The Speaker announced the following appointments to special 
 committee : 
 
 Committee raised 'by Senate Joint Resolution No. 47, concerning a 
 celebration in commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary of 
 the First Meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly : 
 Messrs. Davis of Danbury, 
 Hall of Wellington, 
 Eaton of North Haven, 
 Wright of Pomfret, 
 Barnes of Southington, 
 Alvord of Torrington, 
 Geary of Waterford, 
 Caine of Naugatuck. 
 (Re-appointed as House Committee to make arrangements for a 
 public celebration.) 
 Passed February 20. 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. (See House Journal, January 
 31st.) The report of the Joint Special Committee on a resolution 
 concerning a celebration in commemoration of the one hundredth anni- 
 versary of the first meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly, 
 recommending the rejection of the resolution and the passage of a sub- 
 stitute bill therefor and the reference of the substitute bill to the com- 
 mittee on Appropriations, was received from the Senate, the substitute 
 bill having been so referred, and the report of the committee accepted. 
 
 The House concurred in the action of the Senate. 
 
 Passed March 13. 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 47. (See House Journal, March 
 13th.) The report of the committee on Appropriations, on a resolution 
 concerning a Celebration in Commemoration of the One Hundredth 
 Anniversary of the First Meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly, 
 recommending the rejection of the resolution and the passage of a sub- 
 stitute bill therefor (Senate Bill No. 553, entitled " An Act authorizing 
 a Celebration in Commemoration of the One Hundredth Anniversary 
 of the First Meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly"), was 
 received from the Senate, the bill having been passed, under a suspen- 
 sion of the rules, and the report of the committee accepted. 
 
 Under a suspension of the rules, the substitute bill was read the 
 third time, and explained by Mr. Davis of Danbury. 
 
 The substitute bill was then passed, and the report of the committee 
 accepted, in concurrence. 
 
 The following is the bill : 
 
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened: 
 Section 1. A special committee consisting of three senators to be 
 appointed by the President of the Senate and eight representatives to 
 be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives is raised 
 for the purpose of making such arrangements as may be suitable for 
 
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the conduct of a public celebration to be held on the seventh day of 
 May, 1919, in commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of 
 the first meeting of the Connecticut General Assembly under the con- 
 stitution adopted A. D. 181 8, and to carry out the purposes of this act 
 and the sum of Five Thousand Dollars is appropriated, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary, to defray the expenses which may be in- 
 curred by said committee, and the comptroller is directed to draw this 
 order on the treasurer for such expenses upon vouchers approved by a 
 majority of the members of said committee. 
 
 Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. 
 
 Passed March 19. 
 
 The following resolution was received from the Senate, and passed, 
 under a suspension of the rules, in concurrence : 
 
 Senate Joint Resolution No. 85. Resolution authorizing the Pub- 
 lication of Report of the committee on the General Assembly Centen- 
 nial. 
 
 The following is the resolution : 
 
 Resolved by this Assembly: 
 
 That the comptroller shall cause to be printed, at the expense of the 
 State, such number of copies of the report of the committee on the 
 General Assembly Centennial as the Board of Control shall determine, 
 not exceeding thirty-five hundred copies. 
 
 Passed May 6. 
 
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PRELIMINARY WORK. 
 
 Special notices in regard to the General Assembly Centennial were 
 printed in the " Legislative Bulletin " throughout the session. The 
 first notice appeared January 23rd and was as follows : 
 
 " It is proposed that the members of the General Assembly meet in the House 
 at an early date for the purpose of considering the advisability of appointing 
 a special committee on Centennial of the General Assembly, under the present 
 Constitution, Wednesday, May 7, 1919, and to take such action as is deemed 
 proper. All members in favor of the proposed Centennial will please see 
 William H. Taylor, Compiler of the Pocket Manual, for further particulars." 
 
 The first meeting of the Centennial Committee, which was later 
 appointed, was held at the State Library March 12th, and the call 
 for adjourned meetings appeared regularly in the Bulletin. 
 
 In order to ascertain the names and residences of all the surviving 
 state officers, senators and representatives, a circular-letter was sent 
 by the Secretary, for the Committee, to all the members of the 1919 
 Legislature, as follows : 
 
 " In order that the necessary arrangements for the celebration of the One 
 Hundredth Anniversary of the General Assembly of Connecticut, under our 
 present Constitution, May 7, 1919, may be made, your special committee 
 appointed to arrange for the same, ask your immediate assistance in com- 
 piling a list of all those now living who have at any time served either as 
 State Officials, or as members or officials of the General Assembly. 
 
 In order that such a list may be available for the use of the committee 
 at an early date, each member of the General Assembly is urged to write 
 upon the accompanying sheet, the name, and if possible the address, of all 
 such State Officials and members and officials of the General Assembly now 
 or heretofore residing in his town. These lists should be handed to the 
 Clerks of the Senate or House, or mailed as soon as possible to the Secretary 
 of the Committee, P. O. Box 1242, Hartford. 
 
 It is hoped that this, our Second Legislative General Reunion, may sur- 
 pass the first one, held in 1886, when of the four thousand seven hundred 
 and eighty-two reported as then living, two thousand four hundred and 
 ninty-one were present, as shown by the official register in the State Library. 
 
 Connecticut expects every man to do his duty." 
 
 The accompanying sheet was headed: 
 
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CENTENNIAL CONNECTICUT GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 Capitol, Hartford, Wednesday, May 7, 1919 
 
 Town of 
 
 Member Reporting 
 
 Names of living State Officers, and Members or Officials of the 
 Connecticut General Assembly residing now or heretofore in this town : 
 
 NAME 
 
 State Officer 
 Senator or Representative 
 
 POST OFFICE ADDRESS 
 
 At the bottom of the sheet was printed: 
 
 Return to Wiliam Harrison Taylor, Secretary, P. O. Box 1242, 
 
 Hartford 
 
 This circular-letter was generously printed in many newspapers 
 throughout the state and with the invaluable aid given by the members 
 of the Legislature, after careful inquiry, very accurate lists of 
 ex-legislators were furnished the secretary. A list was received from 
 every town in the state, and to every person on the lists was mailed an 
 official invitation to the Centennial. 
 
 The invitation is printed elsewhere in this report. Accompanying 
 each invitation was a return postal, stamped and addressed on one 
 side and on the other side was printed the following: 
 
 NAME 
 
 TOWN 
 
 
 P. 0. ADDRESS 
 
 AGE 
 
 DO YOU EXPECT TO BE PRESENT AT ANNIVERSARY? 
 
 I have served as follows : — 
 
 STATE 
 
 NAME OF OFFICE 
 
 OFFICER 
 
 WHEN? 
 
 SENATOR 
 
 FROM DISTRICT NO. 
 
 WHEN? 
 
 REPRE- 
 
 FROM TOWN OF 
 
 SENTATIVE 
 
 WHEN? 
 
 REMARKS : 
 
 
 Please return promptly. 
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The registration cards used on May 7th were the same, except 
 the word " occupation " was used in place of the third line and " Please 
 exchange this card for official badge at Room 7, first floor " was 
 substituted at the bottom of the card. 
 
 On May 28, 1919, the following letter was sent to each of the 
 forty-two state officers, living 1919: 
 
 As provided for by the General Assembly of 1919, the State Board of 
 Control yesterday authorized the immediate publication of the Proceedings 
 of the Centennial Exercises held at the Capitol on May 7th. 
 
 It is planned to include in this volume of Connecticut History, not only 
 the several addresses made on that occassion, but also group engravings 
 of the State Officers. Thus, there will be a group of living Governors, Sec- 
 retaries, Treasurers, etc., with brief sketches. 
 
 In order that you, your town, and your office may be properly represented 
 in the volume, will you not send me at once one of your latest photographs, 
 or advise me where one may be secured, and a brief biographical sketch, or 
 tell me where one may be found. 
 
 Thanking you for your early attention and asking that you will advise 
 me how many copies of the volume you would like to receive, if available, 
 I remain, 
 
 Very respectfully, 
 
 WM. H. TAYLOR, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Other minor notices were sent out to many officers and members 
 of the General Assembly and to the press of the state. 
 
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 Program 
 
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 The One Hundredth Anniversary 
 
 of the 
 
 First Meeting of the General Assembly, 
 
 under the present Constitution 
 and the 
 
 Second General Legislative Reunion 
 
 at 
 
 The Capitol, Hartford, 
 
 Wednesday, May 7, 19 19 
 
 Reduced Reproduction of the Official Program of the Centennial 
 
COMMITTEE ON CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 
 
 Senate Chairman, ALBERT H. HOUSE, of the 7th District. 
 House Chairman, SAMUEL A. DAVIS, of Danbuby. 
 Clerk, FRANK H. BARNES, of Southixgton. 
 
 Senators, HARVEY- P. BISSELL, of the 24th District. 
 
 CHARLES C. HEMENWAY, of the 2nd DiSTBicr. 
 
 Representatives. 
 
 William H. Hall, of Wellington. 
 Robert O. Eaton, of North Haven. 
 Fayette L. Wright, of Pomfret. 
 
 Representatives. 
 
 Charles H. Alvobd, of Torrington. 
 John C. Geary, of Waterford. 
 Martin L. Caine, of Naupatuck. 
 
 WILLIAM HARRISON TAYLOR, P. 0. Box 1242, Hartford, Seeretai 
 
 RECEPTION COMMITTEE 
 
 To receive ex State officials — Hon. Marcus H. Holeonib; 
 Governor; Hon. Clifford B. Wilson. Lieutenant-Governor; 
 Hon. Frederick L. Perry, Secretary; Hon. G. Harold Gilpatrio, 
 Treasurer; Hon. Morris C. Webeter, Comptroller; Hon. Frank 
 E Healy, Attorney-General. 
 
 To receive ex-Senators — The members of the Senate 
 
 To receive ex-Speakers — Hon James F Walsh, Speaker 
 
 To receive ex-Chaplains — Rev. Charles H. Puffer, Chap- 
 lain of the Senate; Rev Homer W. Hildreth, Chaplain of the 
 Horse. 
 
 To receive ex-Clerks — Edward J Kenealy, Clerk of the 
 Senate; Leo J Noonan, Assistant Clerk of the Senate; W. 
 Arthur Countryman, Jr., Clerk of the House; J. Frederick 
 Baker, Assistant Clerk of the House 
 
 To receive ex-Represtnta-tives — 
 
 Hartford County Messrs Stevens of Berlin: Green of Hart 
 ford, Beekwith of West Hartford, Tumey of Windsor, Ney of 
 Farnnngton, Brewer of East Hartford 
 
 New Haven County: Messrs Osborn of BranfoTd, Walter 
 of Cheshire, Healey of Waterbury, Gaillard of New Haven. 
 I oiitks of Wallingford, Pope of Oxfoid 
 
 Fairfield County Rev Mr Phillips of Huntington, Mes&r 
 
 Shaw of Redding, HuxforJ of Stamford, Morris of Newtown, 
 Kenealy of Stamford, Bailey of Danbury. 
 
 Litchfield County: Messrs. Vincent of Kent, Jones of New 
 Hartford, Rudd of Salisbury, Strong of Winchester, Curtiss 
 of Woodbury, Green of New Milford. 
 
 New London County: Messrs. Williams of Norwich, Smith 
 of Groton, Allyn of Ledyard, McNicol of Griswcld, Graham of 
 Lisbon, Reynolds of Lyme. 
 
 Windham County: Messrs. King of Windham, Franklin of 
 Brooklyn, Dorrance of Plainfield, Haines of Pomfret, Kent 
 of Putnam, Baker of Ashford. 
 
 Middlesex County: Messrs. Emily of East Haddam, Wil- 
 cox of Middletown, Gates of Old Saybrook, Moore of Sny- 
 brook, Chittenden of Killingworth, Asman of Durham. 
 
 Tolland County: Messrs. Talcott of Vernon, Higgins of 
 Coventry, Cook of Andover, O'Halloran of Stafford, Fuller 
 of Souiers, Reed of Union. 
 
 RESIDENT COMMITTEE 
 Resident Committee — Mayor Richard J. Kinsella, Chair- 
 man, Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hon. Frank A. Hagarty, Hon. 
 Edward L. Smith. Hon. Charles Hopkins Clark, Hon. Newton 
 C Biainard 
 
PROGRAM OF THE DAY 
 
 11.00 A. M. General Reception of former State Officials, Sen- 
 
 11.30 A. M. 
 
 .00 Noon 
 
 ators, Representatives and 
 
 others at the 
 
 
 Capitol. 
 
 
 
 
 County Reunions in regular 
 
 County Meeting 
 
 
 Rooms as follows: 
 
 
 
 
 Hartford County 
 
 Room 52 
 
 3wl Floor, West 
 
 
 New Haven County 
 
 Room 21 
 
 2nd Floor, East 
 
 
 New London County 
 
 Room 08 
 
 4th Floor, East 
 
 11.00 A. M. 
 
 Fairfield County 
 
 Room Gl 
 
 4th Floor, East 
 
 
 Windham County 
 
 Room 02 
 
 4th Floor, East 
 
 
 Litchfield County 
 
 Room 65 
 
 4th Floor, East 
 
 
 Middlesex County 
 
 Room 72 
 
 4th Floor, West 
 
 
 Tolland County 
 
 Room 70 
 
 4th Floor, West 
 
 12.30 to 1.3 
 
 Legislative Reunions: 
 State Officers in their respective offices. 
 Senators and Senate Officers in the Senate 
 Chamber. 
 
 Members and Officers of the House of Represen 
 tatives in the assigned Committee Rooms. 
 
 to 1.00 P. M. Concert by the Governor's Foot 
 Guard Band and Orchestra. Other Musical 
 Exercises during the day. 
 
 12.30 to 1.30 P. M. Collation in South Corridor of Capitol. 
 
 LITERARY EXERCISES 
 
 On Capitol Grounds, weather permitting. — Otherwise in the 
 Hall of the House. 
 
 1 30 P M. Assemblage called to order 
 
 Senator Albert H. House, 
 Chairman of the Centennial Committee 
 
 1 Prayer 
 
 Rev Charles H. Puffer of Stafford, 
 Chaplain of the Senate. 
 
 2 Address of Welcome 
 
 Hon. Marcus H. Holcomb 
 
 Governor of Connecticut 
 
 3 Historical Address 
 
 Hon, Simeon E. Baldwin 
 Ex-Governor and Ex Chief Justice of Connecticut 
 
 4. Poem " The Spirit of Connecticut, ' The Constitution 
 
 State.' " 
 
 Herbert Randall 
 of Hartford. 
 
 5. Addrees "Capitals and State Houses of Connecticut." 
 
 Hon. Charles Hopkins Claik 
 of Hartford. 
 
 6. Address "The Senate." 
 
 Hon. Clifford B. Wilson 
 Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut 
 7 Address " The House." 
 
 Hon James F. Walsh 
 Speaker of the House. 
 8. Addresses and Letters from Senior State Officers, Sena- 
 tors, Representatives and others. 
 9 Singing "America." 
 
MEETING ROOMS AND YEARS OF REUNIONS 
 
 State Officers In Their Respective Rooms 
 
 Senators In Senate Chamber 
 
 Speakers In Speakers' Room 
 
 Clerks and Chaplains In Room 33, 2nd Floor, West Side 
 
 County Meetings In County Rooms 
 
 Official Badges In Room 7, 1st Floor, East Side 
 
 Constitutional Convention 
 
 1902 In Room 23, 2nd Flocr, fcact Side 
 Legislatures to 1899 In Room 21, 2nd Floor, Eaet Side 
 Legislature of 1399 In Room 74, 4th Floor, West Side 
 
 Legislature of 1901 In Room 48, 3rd Floor, East Side 
 1903 In Room 79, 4th Floor, West Side 
 190") In Room 52, 3rd Floor, East Side 
 1907 In Room 60, 4th Floor, East Side 
 1909 In Room 65, 4th Floor, East Side 
 1911 In Room 62, 4th Floor, East Side 
 1913 In Room 61, 4th Floor, East Side 
 1915 In Room 70, 4th Floor, East Side 
 1917 In Room 72, 4th Floor West Side 
 1919 In Hall of Hcuse 
 
 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT 
 
 Cards to be rilled out by each State Officer, member, and others attending the 
 celebration will be found in each County Meeting Room and are to be'exchanged at 
 Room 7, first floor, East side, for the Official Badge. 
 
 It is important that EVERY one concerned attend to this matter, as the names, 
 and records of all those attending are to be compiled and preserved in the State Library. 
 
 Make it a Winner 
 
 What have you done to ensure the 
 success of the "Victory" Liberty Loan? 
 This is, you know, the finishing week of 
 the last popular Government war loan. 
 
 Did you Subscribe? Or complacently 
 shirk your patriotic duty and let the 
 credit for the Loan's success go to others 
 who now proudly wear the Button? 
 
 Show your Patriotism NOW if ever 
 Aid the Final Call and 
 
 BUY and BUY and BUY 
 
GENERAL LEGISLATIVE AND 
 COUNTY REUNIONS. 
 
 The General Legislative Reunion held at the Capitol, Hartford, 
 May 7, 1919, was the second general reunion of ex-state officers, 
 Senators and Representatives in the history of Connecticut. The 
 first general reunion was held at the Capitol May 5, 1886, and was a 
 very enjoyable social occasion. Ex-Governor Ho'bart B. Bigelow of 
 New Haven, was chairman of the executive committee and George D. 
 Curtis, of Hartford, was secretary. The morning of May 7th, 1919, 
 the day of the second general reunion, was rainy, and the rain fell 
 heavily during the day. The program of the day was, however, suc- 
 cessfully carried out. The general reception and the county reunions 
 were held as announced in the official program, printed elsewhere in 
 this book. According to the report of the secretaries of the eight 
 county meetings, and from other sources, the following are the names 
 of the oldest and youngest members present, from their respective 
 counties and the years they served in the General Assmbly : 
 
 Hartford County — Oldest members, John E. Tryon, Glastonbury 
 (1863 and 1864) and William Bulkeley, Berlin (1865 and 1909), both 
 90 years old; youngest, Allen A. Hall, Marlborough, (1919) 22 years 
 
 old. 
 
 New Haven County — Oldest member, Silas E. Jeralds, Cheshire 
 
 (1895), 89 years old; youngest, Charles P. Pope, Oxford (1919) and 
 
 Patrick J. Healey, Waterbury (191 7 and 1919), both 31 years old. 
 
 New London County — Oldest member, Ezra Briggs, Voluntown 
 (1872 and 1899), 88 years old; youngest, William M. McNicol, Gris- 
 wold (1919) 23 years old. 
 
 Fairfield County — Oldest member, Julius W. Knowlton, Strat- 
 ford (1870), 80 years old; youngest, Paul R. Connefy, Redding 
 (1919), 23 years old. 
 
 Windham County — Oldest member, William G. Anthony, Scot- 
 land (1873), 83 years old; youngest, Raymond O. Baker, Ashford, 23 
 years old. 
 
 Litchfield County — Oldest member, Albert L. Hodge, Roxbury 
 (1853, 1864, 1865 anci 1875), 96 years old; youngest, Lee H. Kellogg, 
 Canaan (1917), and Fred S. Curtiss, Woodbury (1919), both 29 years 
 old. 
 
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Middlesex County — Oldest member, Charles S. Hunger, Essex 
 (1889), 83 years old; youngest, Lester O. Schriver, Middlefield 
 (1919), 28 years old. 
 
 Tolland County — Oldest member, Stephen I. Johnson, Ellington 
 (1911), 92 years old; youngest, Samuel R. Woodward, Bolton (1917), 
 35 years old. 
 
 In order that the county delegations might preserve their ranks 
 and in order that they might be kept together, marshals were appointed 
 at the county reunions. They also acted as ushers during the literary 
 exercises in the House. 
 
 The program of the day provided for a recess for dinner, from 
 12:30 to 1:30 P. M. During this time, His Excellency, Governor 
 Marcus H. Holcomb and the other state officers entertained the ex- 
 state officers in the old senate chamber, on the second floor of the 
 Capitol. An excellent collation was served ; all others who attended 
 the Centennial being served a bountiful collation in the south corridor 
 of the capitol. The following extracts from the complete reports 
 given by the Hartford daily papers, give additional details in regard 
 to the centennial and the reunion: 
 
 " For the first time in the history of the Capitol, if not the state, 
 six men who have served as governor of Connecticut, occupied the 
 executive chambers yesterday. For eighteen years, the government of 
 the state was headed by Thomas M. Waller of New London, Morgan 
 G. Bulkeley of Hartford, Simeon E. Baldwin and Rollin S. Woodruff 
 of New Haven, Frank B. Weeks of Middletown and Marcus H. Hol- 
 comb of Southington, who met yesterday on the occasion of the cen- 
 tennial celebration of the Connecticut General Assembly. They found 
 that their combined ages totaled 442 years. 
 
 Perhaps it was due to the old-fashioned hospitality of Governor 
 Holcomb, the incumbent, that the five ex-governors seemed quite at 
 home in their old office as they told reminiscences, as did nearly 2,000 
 legislators and former legislators in the lobbies, brought together for 
 the 100th anniversary of the General Assembly under the existing 
 Constitution. They were " Tom " and " Rol " and " Frank " and 
 " Morgan " to each other, and " Marcus " turned the place over to them 
 completely. Only four other former governors of Connecticut are 
 living, Phineas C. Lounsbury of Ridgefield, O. Vincent Coffin of Mid- 
 dletown, United States Senator George P. McLean of Simsbury and 
 Henry Roberts of Hartford. 
 
 Men who have had a part in Connecticut lawmaking since 1853 
 met in the lobbies and talked over old times; men who stood back of 
 Governor Buckingham in his vigorous Civil War policy congratulated 
 
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men who supported Governor Holcomb in his forceful administration 
 during recent war ; a man who voted for the first republican candidate 
 for President gave fatherly advice to men who are prominent in the 
 party today and some who used to ride to sessions in the old State 
 House on horseback were whisked up to the door of the Capitol that is 
 new to them in limousines. Fathers were accompanied by sons who 
 represented the same towns that they did in later times. Some of them 
 were complete strangers in the present Capitol. 
 
 Several ex-chaplains and clerks of the General Assembly were 
 present. 
 
 At the noon hour the girls from the offices were present in the 
 lower corridors and their voices helped in no little way in the com- 
 munity sing which was led by Charles Bartlett of the Industrial depart- 
 ment of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. of New York. 
 The girls also danced to the popular airs while other enjoyed watching 
 them. Mr. Bartlett got upon a ladder and sang a verse showing how 
 the song should be sung and it was surprising how quickly the crowd 
 got onto the correct expression and imitated him. Some of the mem- 
 bers said they could sing better if the band played " In the Shade of 
 the Old Apple Tree." They never were very keen on this new fangled 
 " K-K-K-Katy " business. The concert opened with the singing of 
 " America " and was followed by " Governor Holcomb's March ;" 
 Overture from " William Tell ;" "Ballet Egyptian ;" selections from 
 " Maytime;" popular and patriotic selections; " Swanee River;" " Old 
 Black Joe ;" " Madelon ;" and many others. The concert closed with 
 the singing of " The Star Spangled Banner." 
 
 In the main lobby on the first floor a concert was given by the Gov- 
 ernor's Foot Guard Band and Orchestra from n to I p. m. William 
 M. Redfield, musical director, played for the second time his latest 
 composition, " Governor Holcomb's March." It is a march that bids 
 fair to have a greater reputation. 
 
 The lobby was crowded with the representatives who could steal 
 time off from their regular meetings to hear the band. The older men 
 had front seats, and when the old favorites as " Swanee River " and 
 " Old Black Joe " were played one could see their heads and feet keep- 
 ing time and they joined in the singing. 
 
 " Welcome " was the word of the Centennial — it was every- 
 where. Throughout the Capitol the secretary had placed large red, 
 white and blue placards announcing a welcome. Over the chair of 
 Lieutenant Governor Clifford B. Wilson burgeoned a giant red, white 
 and blue placard, proclaiming: — 
 
 " Welcome, Mr. Senator ! We're glad to see you here." 
 
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Two cards appeared above the speaker's platform. They read : — 
 
 " Welcome, Mr. Representative ! We're glad to see you here." and 
 " Welcome ! Mr. Representative. Hope you're well and happy." 
 
 In the dim, academic light over the shadowy door of the speaker's 
 
 room he placed a mammoth legend reading : — 
 
 " Welcome, Mr. Speaker. All of the members extend to You their 
 heartiest best wishes. Hope you will enjoy yourself galore." 
 
 There was a card for each of the eight counties telling where each 
 
 county had its headquarters. There were also the following: — 
 
 " Welcome ! Laugh and have a joyous time. We're tickled you're here." 
 
 "Welcome! How do you do? Feeling fine, we hope." 
 
 " Welcome ! Ain't you glad you're here ? 
 
 "Welcome! Everybody have a good time." 
 
 "Welcome! Everybody have a good time. That means you." 
 
 " Welcome ! Three cheers for the members of the days of ' Auld Lang 
 
 Syne.' " 
 
 " Welcome ! Remember it will be your fault if you don't have a good 
 
 time. Now laugh." 
 
 " Welcome ! Don't wait another hundred years for a good time. Have 
 
 it now. See?" 
 
 " Welcome ! Hurrah ! for the days of 'Auld Lang Syne.' Hurrah ! " 
 
 "Welcome! 'Should auld acquaintance be forgot?' NO!" 
 
 "Welcome! That's right. Keep smiling; glad you're here." 
 
 But the secretary's masterpiece salutatory is : — 
 
 " Welcome ! Tis a long time before the next centennial. So have a 
 good time now." — Hartford Courant. 
 
 " Most of the men who have made laws for the state of Connecti- 
 cut in years gone by and at the present session of the General Assembly 
 will bathe sore wrists in liniment when they arrive home tonight. 
 Never in the history of the state were so many hands shaken as at the 
 Capitol to-day, when former legislators and state officers gathered with 
 the present incumbents to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary 
 of the first meeting of the General Assembly under the present con- 
 stitution. 
 
 Several hundred ex-members of the house and senate and a num- 
 ber of former state officers came from all parts of the state for the re- 
 union. They spent several hours in the morning shaking hands pro- 
 miscuously with one another and telling one another that it was too 
 bad that it rained so that the afternoon exercises would have to be held 
 inside, instead of on the capitol grounds as planned. Then they shook 
 hands again. 
 
 During the afternoon they crowded the hall of the house for the 
 " literary exercises." Between times they listened to music by the 
 Governor's Foot Guard band, shook hands again, sang army songs to 
 the exhortation of an athletic, arm-waving Y. M. C. A. secretary, shook 
 hands again, ate sandwiches and salad and drank coffee for lunch at 
 
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long tables in the capitol corridor and shook hands again. Then they 
 shook hands and remarked about the weather. 
 
 At 1 1 o'clock, when the exercises began with a " general recep- 
 tion " of former members of the General Assembly and of state officials, 
 the corridors of the capitol were crowded. 
 
 The band played songs familiar in army camps and Charles Bart- 
 lett of the Y. M. C. A., from the heights of a step ladder, exhorted every- 
 one present, including most of the girls who work in capitol offices, to 
 sing. They did. They made as much noise as a platoon of doughboys 
 just back from a ten-mile hike. Grizzled legislators with white beards 
 and young legislators without mustaches sang, or tried to sing. The 
 epidemic of hand-shaking interfered somewhat with the program, 
 however. 
 
 County reunions were held at 1 1 130 and brought forth many 
 reminiscences. At noon the state officers acted as hosts to those who 
 had formerly held the offices and the senators to former senators and 
 senate officers. To these reunions, at high noon, were added those 
 of former members and officers of the house, members from each 
 session meeting together. 
 
 There was reference to " Days of Auld Lang Syne " on the bul- 
 letins posted by the doors and the spirit of pleasant recollection was re- 
 flected in the greetings and flow of reminiscent talk inside. No sooner 
 would a representative of former days make his way to the desk long 
 enough to register his name and age, and years of service, than he 
 would be swept into one of the quickly changing groups and begin 
 with " When I was in the house back in the days when you first came ;" 
 then they all were in the conversation at once." — Hartford Times. 
 
 " Never in the history of the state of Connecticut has there been 
 joined together such a gathering of legislators and politicians as those 
 who met in the Capitol today to assist in celebrating the 100th anni- 
 versary of the General Assembly, under the present constitution. 
 There were men there who represented their towns and districts fifty 
 years ago, and also men who have directed the destinies of their parties 
 for the past thirty or forty years. Men from every town in the state 
 were on hand to greet their colleagues of days gone by, and the meet- 
 ings in the corridors and county rooms were sincere and enthusiastic. 
 Men who battled throughout days and weeks of legislatures of bygone 
 days clasped hands today and enjoyed many a laugh over incidents 
 which occurred while they were legislators. 
 
 Many a bitter fight was, good naturedly, fought all over again, and 
 memories of days long since dead, but not forgotten, were revived once 
 more. In every corridor in every room, and in every conceivable nook 
 
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in the Capitol, men could be seen going over, in many cases for the last 
 time, the times they went through in those good old days. 
 
 All the old legislators had their stories to tell. And mingling 
 among them were present day legislators listening with open ears and 
 dilated eyes, wondering if all was true. It was a glorious celebration 
 in many ways, and in the north corridor one old man at least 90 years 
 of age, who, in his prime, was considered one of the best law makers 
 the state had produced, demonstrated his ability as a jazz dancer. The 
 crowd howled with delight, and he kept it up. Others sang and danced 
 and hollered and whistled and made all sorts of noises. It was the day 
 of days at the Capitol, and everyone enjoyed it. 
 
 Everybody of any political consequence in the state was at the cele- 
 bration. There were governors, and makers of governors. There 
 were secretaries of state, comptrollers, senators, attorney-generals, rep- 
 resentatives, state central committeemen, town committeemen, ward 
 leaders, ward heelers, just common voters, soldiers, sailors, marines, 
 yeomanettes, departmental clerks, and representatives of practically 
 every walk in life. It was a big day. A gala day. — Hartford Post. 
 
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LITERARY EXERCISES 
 
 IN THE 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 
 
 The literary exercises in the hall of the House of Representatives 
 began soon after i 130 p. m. Practically all the seats in the hall were 
 taken by ex-representatives and ex-senators more than 70 years old. 
 In order that the older members of sessions of bygone days might have 
 seats to hear the addresses, marshals were stationed at two of the doors 
 to act as ushers, the other two doors being locked. In a reserved sec- 
 tion in front sat the former governors of the state, former state officials 
 and justices of the supreme court of Connecticut and the superior court 
 of this state. After the older members had been seated, the four doors 
 were opened and many who wished to hear the addresses entered. The 
 hall of the House was taxed to capacity, with all the aisles lined with 
 former legislators, while the gallery was also crowded. Governor 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Ex-Governor Simeon E. Baldwin and the other 
 speakers entered the hall at 1 45 o'clock and were received with en- 
 thusiastic applause, all present standing. There was also long applause 
 when the three former Governors entered and took places reserved for 
 them. They were Governors Morgan G. Bulkeley, Rollin S. Wood- 
 ruff and Frank B. Weeks. Two large baskets of flowers formed the 
 decorations on the speakers' platform. 
 
 Interspersed between the addresses was singing of the following 
 numbers : " Keep the Home Fires Burning," " The Battle Hymn of 
 the Republic," and " Old Black Joe." The singing was led by Charles 
 Bartlett, a prominent Y. M. C. A. song leader. The Governor's Foot 
 Guard orchestra furnished the music. 
 
 Through the Speaker the Hon. James F. Walsh, loving cups were 
 presented, by the state, to Chester R. Woodford of Avon, 104 years 
 old, the oldest living member of the General Assembly and Albert L. 
 Hodge of Roxbury, 96 years old, the oldest living member in point of 
 service. Mr. Woodford, however, was not able to attend the centen- 
 nial, and Mr. Hodge, although present at the Litchfield county reunion, 
 did not attend the exercises in the hall of the house. The loving cups 
 after being suitably inscribed, were given to them later. 
 
 The following are the exercises, in the order they were given: 
 Assemblage called to order by Senator Albert H. House, Chairman 
 of the Centennial Committee. 
 
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PRAYER. 
 
 Rev. CHARLES H. PUFFER, of Stafford, 
 . Chaplain of the Senate. 
 
 Our Father, who art in Heaven, we thank Thee for the struggles,, 
 the sacrifices and the successes of an hundred years. We realize that 
 Thou has been wisdom and strength unto the land we love. In these 
 days of momentous changes may Thy guidance be continued unto all 
 our leaders of state and nation. Day by day wilt Thou renew Thy 
 blessings unto the Governor of this commonwealth, that in all his 
 undertakings he may work Thy will. May Thine approval and the 
 respect of the people be unto him a crown of joy. Impart unto the 
 people themselves we pray Thee, knowledge and power, that they may 
 continue to grow in culture and character. In the name of the Lord. 
 Amen. 
 
 ADDRESS OF CHAIRMAN. 
 
 Hon. ALBERT H. HOUSE, of Windsor, 
 Senator from the Seventh District. 
 
 Gentlemen of this assembly, the state of Connecticut, through its- 
 Centennial Committee welcomes you here today; and when you hear 
 those words " the state of Connecticut welcomes you " every man here 
 is proud that he lives in Connecticut, the grandest state in the Union. 
 Not in square miles, but by producing an abundance of patriotism, 
 great inventors and wise legislators. The State wishes to thank you, 
 also congratulate the members who have availed themselves of this 
 opportunity to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of our legis- 
 lature. I wish to thank you for the privilege, pleasure and honor of 
 presiding over this unprecedented gathering. Unprecedented in the 
 fact that 85 per cent, of this assembly are over seventy years of age; 
 many four score and more. 
 
 Several of you legislators are sitting in the same seats assigned 
 you when you represented your respective districts. For some of us, 
 this may be our last visit to the Capitol, but may God spare you for 
 many years so that you can counsel and advise with the younger men 
 who are assuming the burdens of legislative work. We trust that 
 members of future anniversaries may look back with the same degree 
 of satisfaction that you gentlemen are enjoying today. Once more we 
 thank you for your presence and the duties that you have performed 
 for this grand old state. The first speaker needs no introduction. 
 Suffice it to say that he is the greatest governor of the greatest state in 
 the Union. His Excellency, the Governor, Honorable Marcus H. 
 Holcomb. 
 
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 Southington 
 
 Governor of Connecticut 
 
ADDRESS OF WELCOME. 
 
 His Excellency, MARCUS H. HOLCOMB, of Southington, 
 Governor of Connecticut. 
 
 " I am not going to make an address, but I am simply going to 
 extend a welcome to you — the members of the House and Senate, and 
 the ex-state officials who are assembled here today. I regret that the 
 weather is such that all cannot be present. I understand that these 
 seats are filled by men 60 years old or over. There are several times 
 as many ex-senators and ex-representatives who fill these seats who 
 could not obtain entrance. I extend a glad and hearty welcome to 
 every one of you. We are here to celebrate the 100th anniversary of 
 the General Assembly of the state. 
 
 " When we commenced this century we had a population of 
 275,000 in the state. Now it is five times that number, and in accord- 
 ance with the estimate of the national government about eight times 
 that number. We have had, during the last 100 years, forty gover- 
 nors ; we now have ten living governors and ex-governors, six of 
 whom are present. We have had forty-six lieutenant governors, of 
 whom nine are living; we have had forty secretaries of the state, of 
 whom ten are living; we have had forty-two treasurers, of whom nine 
 are living; we have had thirty-nine comptrollers, of whom four are 
 living — which indicates that that office is a more dangerous one. I 
 think that if we go on as has the present Legislature with expenditures 
 there will be no need for that office. We have had seventy speakers, 
 of whom eleven are living, and six attorney generals, all of whom are 
 living. 
 
 " Connecticut has been a safe, sane and conservative state. We 
 have been known as the land of steady habits, and I have thought of 
 late years that that title was being challenged. I hope that Connecticut 
 will always remain the land of steady habits. I congratulate you all: 
 it is not my intention to detain you by making any extended address. 
 
 " I hope you will enjoy this occasion and as many of you as pos- 
 sible will be able to enjoy the next centennial." 
 
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HISTORICAL ADDRESS. 
 
 Hon. SIMEON E. BALDWIN, of New Haven, 
 Ex-Governor and Ex-Chief Justice of Connecticut. 
 
 Every citizen of Connecticut is proud to belong to the first com- 
 monwealth known in the history of mankind to have been founded on 
 a social compact expressed in the form of a written Constitution. 
 
 Here, in her original capital in 1639, that great charter of liberty 
 was presented and deliberately accepted in a free assembly of those 
 whom it was thereafter to govern. Two hundred and eighty years 
 have passed since the freemen of Connecticut took this great step of 
 formally constituting themselves a public corporation for the purpose of 
 self-government. For that, they solemnly declared, we " do therefore 
 associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one Public State or Common- 
 wealth." 
 
 What right had they to assume to exercise a power so great? 
 
 Every advance in the law changes the law. It makes something 
 unlawful that before was lawful, or something lawful that before was 
 unlawful. The " Fundamental Orders " of 1639 purported to create 
 an independent government in and for Connecticut. She needed some- 
 thing better than she had to guard her liberties, and under existing 
 circumstances she was forced, herself, to supply the want. For ten 
 long years there had been no power of Parliament by which such a gov- 
 ernment could have been created. The eleven years from 1629 to 
 1640 are known in the history of England as the Tyranny. During 
 the whole period no parliaments were called. The King could have 
 granted no charter which would have been likely to satisfy the wants 
 of an English colony. What was needed was, in the phrase of our 
 times, the setting up of a " self-governing dominion." 
 
 Connecticut created, for herself, that which, if events were pro- 
 pitious, might stand alone and unaided. If the fast-coming civil war 
 went against the King, it might find a sanction in Parliament. If the 
 monarchy weathered the storm, the new King might recognize and con- 
 firm it. 
 
 The men from whom the " Fundamental Orders " came were of 
 the class of Englishmen of which John Pym was the great leader. It 
 was he who originated what Green, in his " Short History of the 
 
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Stuart's portrait of Washington and Special Vault for exhibiting and 
 
 protecting Charter of 1662 and Constitution of 1818 in Memorial 
 
 Hall, State Library, Hartford 
 
English People," calls the doctrine of " Constitutional proportion." 
 To him the main organ of political power was the House of Commons. 
 The House of Lords could not be suffered to claim an equal right in 
 legislation. The King could not be permitted to override its will. 
 The house of legislation composed of representatives of the people, 
 must have the power of the people ; and the people had all power. 
 
 Under the influence of such theories of government the " Fun- 
 damental Orders " were framed and adopted. 
 
 They provided that " the supreme power of the Commonwealth " 
 should be in the General Assembly, which might pass laws touching 
 any matter that concerned the good of the Commonwealth, except 
 election of magistrates, which was to be done by the whole body of 
 Freemen. 
 
 For a hundred and eighty years this continued to be the policy of 
 Connecticut. She wished, and she had, a Governor with little power ; 
 a legislature of immense power. The courts were creations of the 
 legislature, and by the legislature their judgments could be set aside. 
 
 We did indeed possess, from as early a date as 1650 our Magna 
 Charta. It is placed at the beginning of the Ludlow code, adopted in 
 that year, and was long one of the foundation stones of our legislative 
 structure. 
 
 As originally drawn, this guaranty of the rights of the individual 
 against the State was thus expressed : 
 
 " Forasmuch as the free fruition of such Libberties, Immunities, Privi- 
 leges, as Humanity, Civillity and Christianity, call for, as due to euery man 
 in his place and proportion, without Impeachment and infringement, hath 
 euer beene and euer will bee the Tranquillity and Stabillity of Churches 
 and Commonwealths, and the denyall or deprivall thereof, the disturbance if 
 not ruine of both : — 
 
 It is therefore ordered by this Courte and Authority thereof, that no 
 mans life shall bee taken away, no mans honor or good name shall bee 
 stained, no mans person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismem- 
 bered nor any way punnished ; no man shall bee deprived of his wife or 
 children, no mans goods or estate shall bee taken away from him, nor any 
 wayes indamaged, vnder colour of Law or countenance of Authority, 
 vnless it bee by the vertue or equity of some express Law of the Country 
 warranting the same, established by a Generall Courte, and sufficiently 
 published, or in case of the defect of a Law in any perticular case, by 
 the word of God." * 
 
 These stately and sonorous declarations, fulfilling the office of a 
 Bill of Rights, were substantially copied from the laws of Massachu- 
 setts, known as the Body of Liberties. They came at the beginning of 
 their first code, adopted nine years before. Nathaniel Ward of that 
 Colony was their author, a minister who had been bred originally 
 to the law. 
 
 *Colonial Records of Connecticut, 1636-1665, p. 509. 
 
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But the authority which set up these guaranties could alter or 
 repeal them. Without any formal repeal, it could practically disregard 
 them. It repeatedly did. How far it could go in such directions was 
 a matter resting in its own discretion. 
 
 Chief Justice Swift published in 1795 a general statement of the 
 laws of Connecticut. He regarded the Fundamental Orders of 1639 
 as occupying, when originally adopted, the position of a Constitution, 
 and as being confirmed in substance by the colonial charter obtained 
 in 1662 from Charles II. But he considered questions as to the con- 
 formity with it of laws passed by the General Assembly as .to be an- 
 swered in all ordinary cases only by the General Assembly itself. 
 
 " The legislature," lie remarked, " must be considered as the supreme 
 branch of the government. Previously to their passing any act, they 
 must consider and determine whether it be compatible with the Consti- 
 tution. Being the supreme power, and bound to judge with respect to 
 the question, in the first instance, their decision must be final and con- 
 clusive. It involves the- most manifest absurdity, and is degrading to the 
 legislature, to admit the idea, that the judiciary may rejudge the same 
 question which they have decided; and if they are of a different opinion, 
 reverse the law, and pronounce it to be a nullity. It is an elevation 
 of the judiciary over the heads of the legislature; it vests them with supreme 
 power, and enables them to repeal all the laws, and defeat all the measures 
 of the government. " 
 
 " The legislature are not under the controul or superintendence of 
 the judiciary — if they pass laws which are unconstitutional, they are 
 responsible to the people — who may in the course of elections dismiss 
 them from office, and appoint such persons as will repeal such unconsti- 
 tutional acts. On this power of the people over the legislature, depends 
 their security against all encroachments, and not on the vigilance of the 
 judiciary department." * 
 
 These positions were not sustained by public opinion. The 
 judiciary asserted, and finally maintained, its right to determine the 
 constitutionality of any statute which might be attacked before it. 
 
 Ten years before, indeed, the Supreme Court of Errors had ruled 
 against the validity of a grant by the General Assembly of land which 
 the Assembly had granted before to other parties. It was held void 
 so far as it purported to disturb vested rights.** 
 
 Before 18 18, much, if not most, of the more important business 
 belonging naturally to the Courts was brought before the General 
 Assembly. It heard appeals from the Superior Court. It heard 
 claims which would not be remediable by judicial authority. It heard 
 chancery cases if they involved large amounts in value. 
 
 In 1698 a law was passed dividing the General Assembly into two 
 houses. This was followed, after a while, by vesting power to hear 
 appeals on points of law in the upper house alone. For the disposition 
 of causes within their original jurisdiction, both houses sat together for 
 a joint hearing, and the principal part of their sessions was thus em- 
 ployed during a long period of years.*** 
 
 * Swift, System of the Laws of Connecticut, I, 52, 53. 
 **The Symsbury Case (1785), Kirby, Rep., 444, 447, 452. 
 *-* Gen. Stat., Rev. of 1821, 150. 
 
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The Constitution of 1818 was adopted mainly for the purpose of 
 setting up a line of demarcation between the legislative and judicial 
 departments of the State government. 
 
 It was proposed in the constitutional convention, in a report by 
 its principal committee, that the powers of government should be 
 divided into three distinct departments, none of which should exercise 
 (Section 2) any power properly belonging to either of the others, ex- 
 cept as should be otherwise expressly directed or permitted. 
 
 This section was struck out, without a division, a plain indication 
 of a general feeling that these departments should not be kept abso- 
 lutely distinct. After the Constitution had been adopted, this feeling 
 was not without an effect on the practice under it. It was claimed by 
 many that there was still a reserved power in the General Assembly, 
 and that there was no entire separation between the legislative and 
 judicial departments. The courts for a time took this view. In 1831, 
 the Supreme Court of Errors stated the matter thus : 
 
 " From -the settlement of the State there have been certain fundamental 
 rules, by which power has been exercised. These rules were embodied in an in- 
 strument, called, by some, a constitution, — by others, a charter. All 
 agree, that it was the first constitution ever made in Connecticut, and 
 made too, by the people themselves. It gave very extensive powers to 
 the legislature, and left too much (for it left every thing almost) to their 
 will. The constitution of 1818 professed to, and in fact did, limit that 
 will. It adopted certain general principles, by a preamble, called a 
 declaration of rights; provided for the election and appointment of certain 
 organs of the government, such as the legislative, executive and judicial 
 departments; and imposed upon them certain restraints. It found the 
 State sovereign and independent, with a legislative power capable of 
 making all laws necessary for the good of the people, not forbidden by 
 the constitution of the United States, nor opposed to the sound maxims 
 of legislation; and it left them in the same condition, except so far as 
 limitations were provided." * 
 
 This deliverance was reaffirmed on full consideration in the case 
 of Wheeler's Appeal, in 1877,** but twenty years later that decision 
 was formally overruled.*** 
 
 Since 1897, then, it may be regarded as definitely settled that the 
 Constitution of 1818 greatly diminished the powers previously vested in 
 the General Assembly. 
 
 Half a century later another great constitutional change dimin- 
 ished them still more. In 1868 the Fourteenth Amendment to the Con- 
 stitution of the United States came into effect. It provided that no 
 State should " deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without 
 due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the 
 equal protection of the laws." 
 
 'Starr v. Pease, 8 Conn. Rep., 547, 548. 
 
 MS Conn. Rep., 306, 315. 
 
 'Norwalk Street Railway Co.'s Appeal, 69 Conn. Rep., 576, 584, 603. 
 
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In construing this last prohibition, the Supreme Court of the 
 United States holds that " the equal protection of the laws " is " a 
 pledge of the protection of equal laws." * 
 
 The General Assembly, then, which celebrates this centennial, is a 
 less powerful body than the General Assembly of 1639, when it was 
 originally constituted; or of 1662, when Connecticut received her 
 charter; or of 1776, when she declared her independence; or of 1789, 
 when the Constitution of the United States went into effect; or of 
 1868, when the scope of that Constitution was so greatly extended at 
 the cost of the State legislatures. 
 
 The men to whom it owes its origin gave it what their successors 
 have deemed a disproportionate share of public authority. For a few 
 years in the era of the Revolution, from 1776 to 1789, it was subject 
 to no constitutional restraints. From 1789 to 181 8 it was subject to 
 few. From 1818 to 19 18 it was subject to many. 
 
 Thirty-six times in that century we have amended our Constitu- 
 tion; and nearly half of all the changes thus wrought have trenched 
 in some way on the powers of the General Assembly. 
 
 The Romans had a saying that the times change and we are 
 changed with them. It is so with governments. Change is the ex- 
 pression of vitality. By frequent change the General Assembly of 
 Connecticut has been kept abreast of the general world movement 
 towards higher ideals of legal right and social good. We have examined 
 many propositions put forward as calculated to advance them, which 
 after close scrutiny have been finally rejected. 
 
 One of these it is especially fitting to remember on this occasion. 
 It is that respecting the initiative and the referendum. 
 
 Connecticut invented the referendum** but she has confined it to 
 the consideration of changes in her Constitution. She has not adopted 
 the initiative, and it is because she has preferred to abide by the original 
 form of Anglo-Saxon government, — that in which the people speak by 
 their chosen representatives, meeting face to face for discussion and 
 deliberation. 
 
 Connecticut is a State which has, from the first, made haste slowly. 
 She is rightly called the Land of Steady Habits. Her legislation has 
 often been tentative. She has experimented before coming to a final 
 decision. In the words of one of her foremost historians, " seldom 
 has any advance been made until the experience of a temporary Act 
 had explored the way and found it safe."*** 
 
 Yick Wo v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. Rep., 356, 369. 
 Thayer, Cases on Constitutional Law, I, 220, 221. 
 Preface to Vol. I, Conn. Rep., xxvi. 
 
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Things are not always what they seem. Epictetus, in his discourse 
 on combating semblances, says: 
 
 " Be not hurried away by excitement, but say, ' Semblance, wait for 
 me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me 
 try you.' " 
 
 Such, as a rule, has been the philosophy of Connecticut legislation. 
 
 Rousseau, in his Du Contrat Social, says that " the legislative 
 power is the heart of the State." If he had known, when writing that 
 treatise, that more than a hundred years before, on the banks of the 
 Connecticut, a new commonwealth had been in fact set up by a social 
 contract, he would have been glad to find his theories supported in the 
 New World. The freemen of Connecticut had indeed made their 
 legislature the heart of their government. 
 
 They considered an election to it to be so great an honor that no 
 one should publicly offer himself as a candidate. It was to be pre- 
 sumed, they thought, that the best men would be chosen because they 
 were the best. Until the close of the eighteenth century a nomination 
 to either house of the General Assembly was never sought. Chief 
 Justice Swift, writing in 1795, alludes thus to this ancient custom: 
 
 " In this State, no instance has ever been known where a person has 
 appeared as a public candidate, and solicited the suffrages of the freemen, 
 for a place in the legislature. Should any person have the effrontery or 
 folly to make such an attempt, he may be assured of meeting with the 
 general contempt, an indignation of the people, and of throwing an in- 
 superable bar in the way of attaining the object of his pursuit."* 
 
 Public opinion no longer supports any such rule of political con- 
 duct. It could only be suitable for a small and homogeneous State, in 
 which men of any special prominence were personally known to a large 
 proportion of the inhabitants, and re-elections were usual. 
 
 From the first they had been usual in Connecticut. Only three 
 men held the place of recording officer of the State and of the General 
 Assembly from 171 3 to 1800. They were father, son and grandson, 
 each annually re-elected; and the term of the last was only ended by 
 his resignation, when he turned it over to one who held the place for a 
 full quarter of a century. Of the General Assembly itself, one man, — 
 William Hillhouse. — was a member for over fifty years.** 
 
 The preamble of our Constitution states that the people of Con- 
 necticut have ordained it " in order more effectually to define, secure, 
 and perpetuate the liberties, rights and privileges which they have 
 derived from their ancestors." The Constitutional Convention of IQ02 
 proposed to substitute for this declaration of purpose these words: 
 " desiring to perpetuate the liberties, rights and privileges which they 
 have derived from their ancestors." The heavy majority*** by which 
 
 * System of the Laws of the State of Connecticut, I, 68. 
 ** Dwight, Travels in New England, I, 291. 
 *** 21,234, out of a total of 31,611. 
 
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its proposed Constitution was voted down indicates for one thing that 
 the people were not anxious for new definitions or new securities. 
 They were content with the old ones. They were willing to let the 
 General Assembly go on in its ancient course, with all its amplitude 
 of scope. They knew the perils of close definitions of what is or may 
 be law. They wanted no securities against unwise legislation except 
 such as their courts had always been found adequate to supply. 
 
 The landmarks in the history of the General Assembly of Con- 
 necticut are its division into two separate houses in 1698; the change 
 from semi-annual to annual sessions and the stricter limitation of its 
 powers, by the adoption of the Constitution a hundred and twenty years 
 later ; their further reduction, after forty years, by the XlVth Amend- 
 ment to the Constitution of the United States; the substitution in 1828 
 of an upper house elected by senatorial districts for one elected by the 
 people at large; and the change from annual to biennial sessions in 1884. 
 
 During its long life, few governments in the world have changed 
 so little as that of Connecticut. It is because she had, from the first, a 
 plan of political organization, suited to the character of her people 
 and her institutions. This gathering contains many who in the past 
 have shared in the active life and work of the General Assembly from 
 year to year. May the century of its existence which this celebration 
 opens find her legislators always true to the fundamental principles 
 of the century which it succeeds; for they are the solid pillars of 
 constitutional liberty. 
 
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POEM. 
 
 THE SPIRIT OF CONNECTICUT, ' THE CONSTITUTION 
 
 STATE.' " 
 
 Herbert Randall, of Hartford. 
 
 The mystic silence will not yield, 
 Its adamantine crypts are sealed, 
 Yet, as 'twere dipped in opal gleam, 
 My pencil fires with magic dream. 
 Before my eyes I seem to see 
 File past a goodly company; 
 Noiseless and swift as moonbeams flow 
 The stately phantoms come and go. 
 A potent presence leads the van, 
 In height and breadth of scope a man 
 Whom superstition could not down, 
 Nor legend, tomahawk, nor crown; 
 Whose horoscopic vision held, 
 Like prophets wise, in days of eld, 
 The everlasting years in range, 
 And all the cycles born of change, — 
 The man whose sentiments we share, — 
 'Tis Thomas Hooker standing there! 
 
 But who are these in powdered wig? 
 
 In pumps and buckles, chaise and gig? 
 
 Strong souls of action, living yet, 
 
 With Washington and Lafayette, 
 
 Far-seeing men who steered their ship 
 
 Bv psalm-book and a tallow dip. 
 
 They come as comes Atlantic's tide, 
 
 From mart and home-spun countryside, 
 
 The potentates of vale and hill, 
 
 Whose sceptres were a royal will ; 
 
 Rough-handed men who did not lag, 
 
 Who welded spangles on a flag, 
 
 Like Putnam, Hale, and Ichabod, 
 
 With pitchfork for a driving-rod; 
 
 Monarchs of masonry, not creed, 
 
 With Trumbull, Ellsworth in the lead, 
 
 Like sentinels of church and state, 
 
 Like flakes of fire, in high debate. 
 
 Whose minds like pennons caught the gale, 
 
 Whose honor was a coat of mail; 
 
 Who figured with a golden rule, 
 
 And traded jungle for a school; 
 
 Who drove a bolt by steady blows, 
 
 Who planted nutmegs, grew a rose, 
 
 Swung back the gates for what has been, 
 
 That peace and thrift might enter in. 
 
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These are the men whose grit and dare 
 
 Wrought Hartford's skyline in the air, 
 
 Built yonder spire and yonder dome, 
 
 Where Genius reigns for love and home. 
 
 Unconquered hosts of God they stand, 
 
 Unshaken by Time's shifting sand, 
 
 Stand as The Oak shall ever stand, 
 
 For Liberty and Native Land. 
 
 Like granite boulders, self-possessed, 
 
 The storm-gods beating at the breast, 
 
 They towered to heights which all men saw, 
 
 Inscribed a governmental law 
 
 With quills like bayonets of gold, 
 
 So did a galaxy behold 
 
 The principles of higher truth, 
 
 Which eddied on from youth to youth, 
 
 Who leaped to chaos from the height 
 
 Of Lincoln's battlements of Right; 
 
 Who helped to dig Oppression's grave, 
 
 And wrench the shackles from the slave ; 
 
 Who spiked the cannon, drank its breath, 
 
 Who seized the reins and rode to death ; 
 
 And these the men who 'graved the name 
 
 Of Freedom on our Halls of Fame. 
 
 And now the warriors who died 
 
 But yesterday — the glorified — , 
 
 Who died for you, and died for me, 
 
 E'en as- a martyr on a tree, 
 
 Who spanned the nations as the sun 
 
 And made us brothers, every one. 
 
 The men who sleep in unknown graves, 
 
 Where halcyon-calm forever laves 
 
 Their sacred dust with deep content, 
 
 While rainbows arch the way they went; 
 
 The men who grappled with despair, 
 
 Defied the hounds of sea and air, 
 
 And more ! From peaks where winds unfurled, 
 
 They flung The Colors 'round the world! 
 
 But hush ! in grassy ambuscade 
 
 My ghosts of phantasy now fade, 
 
 Hither and thither, to and fro, 
 
 My soundless dream-waves ebb and flow, 
 
 And some are lost in trailing night, 
 
 And some are lost in Flanders' light. 
 
 Three hundred years by magnets led, 
 Two hundred years, and what is said? 
 A century, and what are we? 
 As children at our mother's knee, 
 Atoms of thought, forged from the plate 
 From which a people forged a state; 
 But each a 'scutcheon on the shield 
 Which blazons life's old battle-field, 
 The dust still crumbling, as it will, 
 The mills of Progress grinding still, 
 We plough, we sow, we reap, and then — 
 " God rest ye, merry gentlemen ! " 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 " CAPITALS AND STATE HOUSES OF CONNECTICUT." 
 
 Hon CHARLES HOPKINS CLARK, 
 
 Editor of the Hartford Courant. 
 
 Your Excellency, Governor Holcomb, members of the past, 
 present and future General Assemblies, and others : — 
 
 My subject is the Capitals and Statehouses of Connecticut. Many 
 of the states of the Union have shifted the seat of government. New 
 York City was the capital of its state when it was also the capital 
 of the nation at the time of Washington's inauguration as our first 
 President. In 1797 Albany became the capital. So Pennsylvania, 
 after an agitation that lasted from 1783 to 1812, shifted from Phila- 
 delphia to Harrisburg. Georgia began with Savannah and ran the 
 circuit from there to Louisville and Milledgeville and finally Atlanta. 
 Ohio had had three or four capitals by the time she decided on 
 Columbus. And a dozen other states have similar stories, but only 
 Connecticut and Rhode Island, so far as I can ascertain, had two 
 capitals at the same time. Rhode Island came down to one in 1900. 
 
 Our Connecticut experience begins with Hartford for sixty-two 
 years the sole capital. Then for 175 years Hartford and New Haven 
 were both capitals, and in 1873 a l° n & struggle ended in making 
 Hartford again the only capital. The Fundamental Orders, which 
 Governor Baldwin has so fully described, were adopted in the meet- 
 ing-house of Thomas Hooker, and there also the General Assembly 
 held its sessions, so that this primitive structure was the first state- 
 house in Connecticut. 
 
 New Haven was established about the same time as Connecticut, 
 but under a theocratic rather than democratic form of government. 
 Both seem to have felt that neither had direct authority from England. 
 These were settlements rather than colonies. New Haven sent a 
 delegate to Charles I. in 1645 to ask for a charter, but he was ship- 
 wrecked and lost and the attempt was not repeated. In 1661 Con- 
 necticut sent its governor, John Winthrop of New London, to Charles 
 II, who had just come to the throne in the joyous reaction from 
 
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repressive Puritanism, and whom Macaulay describes as having at 
 his ascension the most enviable opportunity of any man in the world. 
 Before he had gone very far in his downward career, Charles was 
 induced by Winthrop to sign the famous charter in 1662. It is 
 printed annually in the ° State Register/' but I question how many 
 read it carefully enough to realize what the object was of this devout 
 and prayerful king whose name is a byword for corruption, profligacy 
 and dishonor. Look it up and you will see that by a single stroke 
 of his royal pen he gave away this great territory, with all its 
 magnificent future, in order to 
 
 " win and invite the natives of the country to the knowledge 
 and obedience of the only true God and Savior of mankind, 
 and the Christian faith, which in our royal intention is the 
 only and principal end of this plantation." 
 
 This charter was carefully worded to protect the independence that 
 the Fundamental Orders prescribed. Winthrop was educated abroad, 
 tactful and socially successful, and took with him a considerable sum 
 of money which he never had to account for. Every-day modern 
 language, addicted to expressive phrase, would call Winthrop a 
 " smooth article," for he not only got the charter, with all the rights 
 preserved that were desired, but by it turned over all the territory 
 of New Haven to Connecticut, though he had assured New Haven 
 that, if there were to be any merger, it should be voluntary on New 
 Haven's part. William Leete of Guilford, governor of New Haven, 
 had secretly advised Winthrop to include New Haven in the charter, 
 but, when New Haven developed great indignation, he, too, was 
 among the indignant. This is not the place to elaborate the long 
 quarrel between the two colonies. In 1665, after thinking seriously 
 of joining New York, New Haven voted to join Connecticut, if 
 Connecticut insisted, and Connecticut did insist, and at the same time 
 the General Assembly of Connecticut entered on its public records this 
 forgiving statement: 
 
 " This court doth hereby declare that all former actings that 
 have passed by the former power at New Haven, so far as 
 they have concerned this colony whilst they stood as a dis- 
 tinct colony, though they in their own nature have seemed 
 uncomfortable to us, yet they are hereby buried in perpetual 
 oblivion never to be called to account." 
 
 Although the union took place in 1665, the General Assembly did not 
 meet in New Haven until 1701. Meanwhile a few of the especially 
 dissatisfied, led by Robert Treat, removed to Newark, N. J., where a 
 fine hotel today preserves his name for posterity. But he returned to 
 
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Connecticut in 1676 and became governor of the colony. Ill feeling 
 seems to have faded away long before 1701, for Leete became an 
 assistant or senator as soon as the union was effected, was elected 
 lieutenant governor in 1669, and in 1676 was elected governor, and 
 he held the office until his death in 1683. In these days of bone-dry 
 war measures and of national prohibition, it may be of passing interest 
 to notice that at the first session of the General Assembly held in 
 New Haven it was voted to grant five special licenses " to sell rum 
 but only during the session of this court." On the same subject it 
 may be mentioned that a few years later, in 1721, it was voted that 
 "" what shall be gained on the impost for rum for two years shall be 
 provided for a rector's house for Yale College." 
 
 Hartford and New Haven now, both being seats of government, 
 became twin capitals and so remained until the amendment of 1873 
 went into effect. It was immediately after the union that the county 
 system was established, with Hartford, New Haven, New London 
 and Fairfield counties. 
 
 The legislative body that governs Connecticut is described in 
 the Fundamental Orders of 1639, also in the charter of 1662, and also 
 in the Constitution of 18 18 as the General Assembly. That has always 
 been its comprehensive title. As already mentioned, its first sessions 
 were held in the Hartford meeting-house, which stood at the east end 
 of the green, long called " Statehouse Square," and of later years 
 " Post Office Square." The Hartford green then covered a large 
 territory that has since been taken up for business purposes, sugges- 
 tive, it has been said, of the thrifty disposition that has helped to 
 make this community prosperous. All the buildings on the present 
 State street north of the Post Office cover what was once the Green, 
 also those on Central Row, and a considerable distance down Main 
 street. Both the Hartford Times and the Hartford Courant are pub- 
 lished on what is said to have been the Green. New Haven has 
 guarded hers much more faithfully. 
 
 The first statehouse was built in Hartford in 171 9 or 1720, and 
 its construction marked the first step taken to dissociate the two 
 capitals. A sum was voted by the General Assembly to Hartford for 
 a statehouse, and another sum to New Haven for the Collegiate School 
 that was to make the place famous. The Collegiate School, named 
 Yale College after receiving the gift from Elihu Yale, had many 
 stirring experiences in its early days. It was maintained in Killing- 
 worth and also in Saybrook, and some students were instructed at 
 Wethersfield. In the general conflict for a definite location, the 
 
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Hartford trustees, with the characteristic Yankee willingness of a. 
 Connecticut community to take what it can get, put in a bid to the 
 General Assembly for its location here, and so much contention was 
 developed that peace was effected by these two appropriations — one 
 to fix Yale at New Haven, and one for a statehouse at Hartford. 
 The Hartford statehouse thus built was of wood. It stood on Main, 
 street directly in front of where the building now stands that followed 
 it. In April, 1783, when peace after the Revolution was being cele- 
 brated, the cupola took fire but the main building was saved, though 
 never fully reconstructed. On May 19, 1780, at the time of the Dark 
 Day, Abraham Davenport was in this statehouse as a senator from 
 Stamford, an office he held from 1766 to 1784, and his remarkable 
 declaration has gone down in history as evidence of real Connecticut 
 grit and character: 
 
 " I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is 
 either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no 
 cause for adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing 
 my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought." 
 
 On January 9, 1788, in this building a convention, presided over by 
 Matthew Griswold of Lyme, ratified the national Constitution of 1787, 
 Connecticut thus being the fifth state in the line of ratifiers. Eventu- 
 ally the wooden statehouse was removed. 
 
 The General Assembly, when it met in New Haven, held its 
 sessions for about fifty years in the court house, which was on the 
 Green near the corner of Elm and College streets. However, in 1763, 
 a state house was erected on Temple street also on the Green. This 
 was used until May, 1830, when the last statehouse in that town was put 
 up by Ithiel Town, a distinguished Connecticut architect, who designed 
 and built the marble structure that for so long stood about half way 
 between the Center Church and the west line of the Green, covering, 
 and in construction uncovering, much of the ancient burying ground. 
 In this building Lafayette, Kossuth, President Polk and many others 
 were formally received by the citizens. A pound for stray cattle was 
 maintained under the front steps so long as cattle wandered through 
 the center of the town. A lock-up was in the cellar. Town meetings 
 were held on the ground floor. Yale students used to start from the 
 statehouse steps their famous processions for the burial of Euclid, 
 a ceremonial now abandoned. Town also designed the old city hall 
 in Hartford, which stood where the police headquarters are now, and 
 where Abraham Lincoln spoke in i860. The last legislative session 
 in the New Haven statehouse was held in 1874 when Charles R. 
 Ingersoll was governor. Later the building was taken over by various 
 
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local organizations, but in 1889 it was torn down after two temporary 
 injunctions, prayed out by leading citizens, had been dissolved by the 
 courts. 
 
 The statehouse in Hartford that was opened in 1796, was de- 
 signed by Charles Bulfinch, designer of the Boston state house and 
 the Capitol at Washington. It had a hard time coming into its own. 
 The state ran short of the money needed to finish it and in 1793 decided 
 to start a lottery to raise the funds. There were to be 22,627 tickets 
 at $5 each, with prizes ranging from $10 to $8,000, the state to have 
 12^4 per cent, of the gross receipts. The subscriptions^ dragged a 
 long time, and, though prizes were awarded, there was nothing left 
 for the state. The lottery spirit, once so active, seems to have run 
 its course by that time, but not so the spirit of adventure, for, in 1795, 
 Jeremiah Halsey of Preston and Andrew Ward of Guilford, ancestor 
 of Henry Ward Beecher who bore his name, offered to finish the 
 building, if the state would deed to them its interest in the Gore 
 Lands, so called, a narrow strip 220 miles long and 2 T /z wide, lying 
 between New York and Pennsylvania. When the agreement was 
 made, Lemuel Hopkins wrote to Governor Wolcott " on the whole I 
 think that if wild lands, with a dubious title, at a vast distance and 
 covered with Indians, will erect our public buildings, school our 
 children, and expound our Bible, we are a most favored people." 
 The volunteers did as agreed, and, though they did not quite complete 
 the house, they made it habitable. Ward sold out to Halsey and the 
 latter organized the Connecticut Gore Lands Co. and the shares became 
 very valuable. It is said that $300,000 worth were sold. Then came 
 a contention over the title, and, though Connecticut was never defeated 
 in court in a long succession of trials, still one day the General 
 Assembly voted to surrender all title to the Gore Lands in order to 
 preserve its territorial control of the great Western Reserve of over 
 3,000,000 acres, now covering a rich part of Ohio. Out of this latter 
 land came our school fund, but the Gore Land Company was ruined, 
 as were many who were interested in it. Later the Connecticut 
 General Assembly voted $10,000 a year, 1805-8, for four years to 
 help out those who had made the venture. A full account of the Gore 
 Land transaction has been written by Albert C. Bates of the Connecti- 
 cut Historical Society. 
 
 Under a public-spirited movement, started by the Society of 
 Colonial Dames, a fund was raised to reconstruct and preserve the 
 building to stand as a reminder of its interesting history. There 
 the General Assembly met from 1796 through 1878. General LaFay- 
 ette was ceremoniously received there in 1824, and, according to story, 
 
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that tactful gentleman, as each person was presented, asked, "Are 
 you married ? " If the answer was " Yes," he was profuse with his 
 congratulations, and, if the answer was " No," he more concisely 
 remarked " Lucky Dog," and everybody went away pleased with his 
 sympathy and good judgment. In the building was held the Hartford 
 Convention, which suffered probably beyond its liberal deserts by 
 the air of mystery spread over the proceedings at the time and its 
 disregard of the now world-wide policy of open covenants openly 
 entered into. Here, too, was held the constitutional convention of 
 1818, whose work we memorialize today. Five presidents were cere- 
 moniously received in the building. It was when Mark Twain was 
 welcoming Grant, in July, 1870, that he assured the general that 
 the old wooden bridge across the Connecticut, which preceded the 
 splendid stone structure of today, was made entirely of Charter Oak. 
 The superior court met in the building, the county having contributed 
 to the construction, and many interesting trials were held there. 
 Perhaps the most famous was that of a murderer named Done. 
 After Done's conviction, Parson Nathan Strong of the Center Church 
 preached his funeral sermon with the soon-to-be-deceased seated beside 
 him in the court room. The parson had the misfortune to lose out 
 in a distillery that he conducted, and for a time could only go out, 
 free from service by the sheriff, when he went to his church on 
 Sunday to preach. He seems to have had a day off on this occasion. 
 After the sermon a procession headed by two companies of the militia 
 marched with the man to Gallows Hill, out by where Trinity College 
 stands, and he was executed in the presence of a vast assembly, and 
 thus ended a pleasant day in the quiet life of Hartford. 
 
 The first efforts to prevent the establishment of a single capital 
 took the form of bills to appropriate for new statehouses at both New 
 Haven and Hartford, but these did not pass. Hartford at various 
 times essayed amendments to fix the capital here, but for a long time 
 these failed to get the required two-thirds of each branch at the second 
 session, twice by a single vote in the Senate. So far as I can find New 
 Haven never pushed to secure the single position, but its influence was 
 always strong for the two new buildings. In 1869, Orville H. Pratt, 
 later to become one of the great men of the country, who was a mem- 
 ber of the House from Meriden, offered an amendment to fix the sole 
 capital at Meriden, but that thoughtful compromise did not work. At 
 the legislative session of 1872, the Senate gave only a majority of one 
 vote, 1 1 to 10, for the usual amendment, but the House started another 
 on its way and the next May the Senate by 21 to 5 and the House by 
 186 to 52 adopted the amendment. It was submitted to the people at 
 
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the little town elections in October and carried by more than 6,000 
 votes in a total of about 67,500. According to the State Register, the 
 town of Wolcott did not vote. In sixteen towns the vote was unan- 
 imous, 11 for and 5 against the change. Hartford bought the build- 
 ings and grounds of Trinity College for $600,000 and gave that ac- 
 quisition and $500,000 in cash to the state. Connecticut appropriated 
 $2,000,000, and as a result we have this superb structure, all paid for 
 within the appropriation. It was designed by R. M. Upjohn of New 
 York. The first plan carried a Gothic tower up where is now the 
 dome. This change is said to be an architectural impropriety, but its 
 development into a brilliant landmark has caused the architectural 
 points to be forgotten except, perhaps, by experts. 
 
 Ttie present statehouse, which might much better be so called 
 than the Capitol, was first formally occupied by the General Assembly 
 in 1879. It is everywhere deemed worthy of the state it serves. It 
 stands on the brow overlooking Bushnell Park. South of it is the 
 unique and beautiful State Library, where Librarian Godard is ac- 
 cumulating invaluable treasures for the future historians. Across the 
 river on the west the massive granite state armory stands guard. On 
 the east are several of our fine insurance buildings, and more will soon 
 be erected in that neighborhood. Out on the southeast corner of the 
 grounds stands that fierce-looking mortar, known as the " Petersburg 
 Express," used by the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery at the siege 
 of that Virginia town. Can you find a more complete and welcome 
 evidence of the reunion of the states that goes with the story of the 
 great gun. The president of one of our insurance companies, whose 
 office faces the statehouse and looks out directly on the mortar, lived as 
 a boy in Petersburg at the time of the siege, and he remembers being 
 taken down cellar there to escape the shells it was firing towards his 
 home. Today the gun is a quiet ornament and a peaceful curiosity, 
 and the boy whose life it imperiled goes past it every day as if it were 
 as harmless as any one of the trees within the grounds. Inside the 
 building are the battle flags of the past and present, too. There, also, 
 is the Charter Oak chair. 
 
 On the southeast will soon be the Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall, 
 for which the General Assembly has given a charter, further empha- 
 sizing, through the public spirit and generosity of his daughter, Mrs. 
 Hillyer, the name of the great man to whom we all owe so 'much. 
 
 Among the noteworthy events in the history of this building are 
 the famous deadlock session of 189 1, when Governor Bulkeley bravely 
 retained possession of it and his office amid the possibilities of serious 
 trouble, the splendid reception of Senator Orville H. Piatt on his re- 
 
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election to the Senate, the funeral ceremonies of his long-time colleague 
 and friend, General Joseph R. Hawley, the long and apparently futile 
 session of the Constitutional Convention of 1902, whose work, I 
 venture, as a humble member of that body, to say was rejected through 
 a misapprehension of its nature. 
 
 Thus have I attempted to outline the progress of Connecticut 
 from the humble meetinghouse on the Hartford Green to this magnifi- 
 cent home on the park, central alike to the city and the state. It is 
 safe to say that all the old jealousies between the former twin capitals 
 have died away. Hartford takes pride in Yale College and sends her 
 sons there as soon as they can get in, and New Haven takes a cor- 
 responding pride in the development of Hartford, which is no longer a 
 single town, but is the capital and in a sense the property of the whole 
 state, and which always extends a cordial welcome to every Connecticut 
 citizen and rejoices greatly in such a representative gathering as we 
 have here today. 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 " THE SENATE." 
 
 Hon. CLIFFORD B. WILSON, 
 Lieutenant-Governor of Connecticut. 
 
 The institution of the Senate and House of Representatives as 
 we now understand them, originated in the constitution adopted in 
 1818. By the provisions of this constitution the electors of each 
 town, in April annually, after the election of the representatives to 
 the General Assembly, brought in written ballots for senators. At this 
 time these were elected at large. The twelve receiving the largest 
 number of votes were declared elected. The presiding officer of each 
 town meeting at which elections were held, counted and declared the 
 votes for senators in open meeting. He then prepared a list, gave one 
 to the Town Clerk and the other to the Secretary of State or Sheriff 
 within ten days of the election. If the list were given to the Sheriff, 
 he in turn had to file the same, within fifteen days of such meeting, 
 with the Secretary of State. The State Treasurer, Secretary and 
 Comptroller thereupon canvassed the votes publicly. In the event of 
 a tie, the House elected between those receiving an equal number of 
 votes. The return of votes and canvass had to be submitted on the 
 first day of the session of the General Assembly. 
 
 By an amendment adopted in November, 1828, it was provided 
 that the Senate should consist of not less than eighteen nor more than 
 twenty-four members. This amendment further provided that the 
 General Assembly to be held on the first Wednesday of May, 1829, 
 should divide the state into senatorial districts, not less than eight nor 
 more than twenty-four in number. They were to comprise contiguous 
 territory, and no town was to be divided as between two districts. 
 The county lines were to remain intact, and population was to govern 
 in the formation of the senatorial districts. It was further provided 
 that alterations of the districts made thereafter should be based upon 
 the next United States census taken after the adoption of this 
 amendment. 
 
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It is, therefore, clear that it has been the intention from the 
 time of the establishment of the senatorial districts, that the districts 
 should be as nearly equal numerically, rather than territorially, as 
 possible. The senators were to be elected from the districts as above 
 outlined. The election of senators in accordance with the districts, was 
 held in the same manner as originally provided, with the exception 
 that the canvass included the towns located within each senatorial 
 district. 
 
 In an amendment adopted in November, 1836, it was provided 
 that the election of senators should be made at the same time as the 
 election of Governor and other state officers. 
 
 Heretofore the meeting places of the General Assembly (which 
 met yearly) had alternated between Hartford and New Haven, and the 
 meetings were held on the first Wednesday of May, but by the amend- 
 ment to the constitution adopted in October, 1874, Hartford was se- 
 lected as the only regular meeting place for the General Assembly. Of 
 course, the Governor, should he deem the circumstances sufficient to 
 warrant, may convene the General Assembly to meet in any town in 
 the state. 
 
 The amendment adopted in October, 1875 provided for the elec- 
 tion of state officers and senators on the first Monday of November, 
 1876, and annually thereafter. By this amendment the term of office 
 of the state senators was made two years and was arrived at as follows : 
 At the election held on the first Monday in November, 1876, the sen- 
 ators from the districts having even numbers were to hold office for 
 two years, and the senators from the districts having odd numbers 
 were to hold office for one year, from the Wednesday following the 
 first Monday of January, 1877. It was further provided by this 
 amendment that the sessions of the General Assembly should com- 
 mence on the first Monday of January, 1877, and annually thereafter. 
 
 By an amendment adopted in October, 1884, it was provided 
 that the state officers and members of the General Assembly should be 
 elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1886, 
 and biennially thereafter. It was further provided that the senators 
 elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 1885, 
 should hold their offices only until the Wednesday after the first Mon- 
 day of January, 1887. 
 
 By an amendment adopted in October, 1901, the senate was in- 
 creased in number so as to be composed of not less than twenty-four 
 nor more than thirty-six senators. It was further provided that the 
 General Assembly of 1903 should divide the state into districts, in 
 number not less than twenty-four nor more than thirty-six, and only 
 
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one senator was to be elected from each district. The division into 
 districts was to be made according to population, but no town was 
 to be divided as between two districts, county lines were to remain 
 intact, and each county must have at least one senator. 
 
 The lines as laid out by the General Assembly in 1903 are to 
 stand until the census taken by the United States shows the necessity 
 of changing the line so as to keep the district as nearly equal 
 numerically as possible. 
 
 All legislation must be passed by both branches of the General 
 Assembly, whereupon it is then submitted to the Governor in due 
 course for his approval or disapproval. 
 
 It is interesting to note the changing attitude of the General 
 Assembly. Many bills looking toward the aid, assistance and com- 
 fort of the individuals of the state are now passed with hardly any 
 discussion, whereas a few years ago such would provoke almost end- 
 less debate and would meet with invariable defeat. To my mind this 
 is a most salutary state of affairs. 
 
 " One hundred and forty-two years, the duration of our present 
 national government, is not a long time in the age of a nation. All 
 who have come here from other shores were of necessity engaged in 
 one great thing, and that was the eking out of a livelihood. We have 
 intensified our business and commercial abilities. This war through 
 which we have just passed triumphantly, through the splendid deeds 
 of heroism and splendid accomplishment of millions of true Americans 
 on land and sea, has aged this country more than all the years of its 
 prior existence. 
 
 " We must, therefore, legislate so that the country may be brought 
 in every particular to the place where the results of the war have 
 brought it. The enactment of the workmen's compensation act, moth- 
 er's pension bill, and the act limiting the hours of employment for 
 women, were among the first steps in this direction. We must follow 
 this up with similar legislation in order that our citizenry may be made 
 happier and more contented in their environment. No Bolshevism 
 can possibly find root or encouragement in a happy and contented 
 community. 
 
 " Inasmuch as our government is founded upon the principle that 
 it derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, we must 
 legislate to the end that the mutual obligations between the state and 
 the citizen, may be made more real, and the individual become an 
 object of greater solicitation on the part of the state. Legislation 
 based upon this principle is bound to result in a finer Americanism, a 
 greater national unity and the elevation of the ideals of true American 
 citizenship. 
 
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" The days immediately ahead of us are days of wonderful oppor- 
 tunity of service in the halls of legislation as well as in our daily walks 
 of life. Let us, therefore, dedicate ourselves anew to the traditions 
 and ideals and the institutions which the men who have just returned 
 and those who are still on the other side, have so dearly and heroically 
 preserved for us. Then, indeed, will we have rendered our full ser- 
 vice to our community, our state, and our nation — the most glorious 
 nation on the face of the earth." 
 
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ADDRESS 
 
 " THE HOUSE." 
 
 Hon. JAMES F. WALSH, of Greenwich, 
 Speaker of the House. 
 
 I have been asked to speak upon the topic " The House " — The 
 House of Representatives of the State of Connecticut. To speak 
 concerning the lower half of that great legislative body, which had 
 its origin in the Fundamental Orders adopted by the freemen of Wind- 
 sor, Hartford and Wethersfield when they came together here in Hart- 
 ford in January 1638-39 and formulated those Eleven Fundamental 
 Orders, that document now known as the first written constitution 
 and which acknowledged no authority over the freemen, save that of 
 God. 
 
 A representation of the scene, which attended the adoption and 
 signing of this fundmaental document has been prepared for us in 
 the mural painting back of the Judge's bench in our Supreme Court 
 Room in the monumental building across the lawn. 
 
 This, our first Constitution, provided for a General Court and also 
 that each of the three towns — Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield 
 should send four of their freemen as their deputies to every General 
 Court. It was also provided that whatever other towns should be 
 thereafter added to the jurisdiction, they should send so many deputies 
 as the Court should judge meet : " a reasonable proportion to the num- 
 ber of freemen that are in the said towns being to be attended therein. " 
 
 It was not until the Charter of 1662 was secured from King Charles 
 II, however, that the towns of Connecticut had any real royal sanction 
 for the government they had created and the liberty they had been 
 enjoying for twenty-four years. 
 
 In this document of Charter Oak fame, now safely cared for with 
 other archives in our State Library, the principles found in our first 
 written constitution were incorporated and other valuable provisions 
 added. In it our General Assembly first received its name. 
 
 It may be interesting, right here, to note that while the Charter 
 regulated the number of representatives by fixing it at " not exceeding 
 two persons from each place, town or city," new towns when they 
 
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were excused from paying taxes to the Colony treasury, during the 
 trying days of their first beginnings, we are told, sent no deputies to 
 the General Assembly. As taxation without representation has been 
 considered wrong, our fathers thought representation without taxation 
 equally unjust. Thus Litchfield, settled about 1720, sent no represen- 
 tative until 1740. So, too, in my section, when the East Parish 
 of Greenwich was in 1720 exempted from public taxes, for four years, 
 it was provided that the town should, during that period, send but one 
 deputy at public charge. 
 
 The three River Towns — Hartford, Windsor and Wethersfield — 
 have been increased to 168, and the twelve deputies of 1638 are now 
 superseded by 35 Senators and 258 Representatives, an increase of 
 57 members of the House over the membership of that body one hun- 
 dred years ago. 
 
 But the spirit of the first settlers which inspired them to " asso- 
 ciate and conjoin " themselves to be as " one Public State or Common- 
 wealth " and " To be guided and governed according to such Laws, 
 Rules, Orders, and Decrees as shall be made, ordered, and decreed " 
 by their accredited representatives still persists. 
 
 While one by one the early landmarks of our fathers have been 
 superseded, there are a few buildings throughout our land which have 
 escaped and have become the pride of their centers and a sort of shrine 
 to the World. Thus Boston has her Faneuil Hall, and Philadelphia 
 her Independence Hall. It is a pleasure to here acknowledge the 
 patriotic work being done by the citizens of Hartford in fireproofing 
 and restoring their old City Hall — our old Capitol in which the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of Connecticut met one hundred years ago. These 
 buildings are not only beautiful in their architecture, but they are 
 beautiful in their history. Centered around them and in them have 
 been events which have influenced the world. These buildings there- 
 fore, and occasions like this, do not nor cannot belong to any one 
 locality, nor any one generation. They are hallowed buildings and 
 hallowed occasions on hallowed ground. 
 
 What has been done by " The House " during all the years of its 
 ancient and honorable existence? Many and various are the things 
 which it has done. And many and various are the propositions it 
 has prevented from being done. Its record has been an enviable one. 
 Measures have been enacted into law or prevented from becoming so 
 enacted, as the best spirit of each decade seemed to require. The 
 House has endeavored to be true to its trust, and I believe has repre- 
 sented the good sense and sound judgment of its members who have 
 been men of ability and integrity. 
 
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I think we do not need to be reminded that Connecticut is no 
 longer a New England State living to herself. She is rather a 
 State in New England and a part of a great national civilization. It 
 is a thoroughly modern state, teeming with modern life and up-to-date 
 social and industrial activities. 
 
 In these days of easy and quick communication and transportation 
 the interests and welfare of our several states are fast being unified. 
 It is therefore very desirable that so far as possible the laws of the 
 several states along well defined interstate topics should be uniform. 
 The activities of the legislature of no state can be disregarded. Each 
 locality and each generation have always enacted or tried to enact 
 laws, based to be sure upon the same facts, but interpreted from its 
 own point of view and in the light of its own civilization. 
 
 Moreover, our busy life has so drawn us to the once distant parts 
 of the earth so frequently that we have unconsciously absorbed some- 
 thing of the spirit, life, and civilization of these distant lands which 
 is being unconsciously more and more incorporated and mirrored in 
 the life and laws of our own state. To determine what part, if any, and 
 in what form, the life, spirit and civilization of these distant regions 
 shall be incorporated into our life and our government, has been no 
 small part of the duties and trust placed upon and in the Members of 
 our General Assembly of which the House forms a part. 
 
 On the other hand, we must not forget that while we are being 
 influenced by the life and customs of those coming into our midst, 
 the sons and daughters of Connecticut — imbued with the life and 
 principles of a New England ancestry and a Christian home — have 
 carried their influence wherever they have gone. 
 
 States are but individuals, and like individuals, differ in occupa- 
 tion and wealth — if not in social and political preferment. Like in- 
 dividuals, then they must conduct their several households and fashion 
 their several establishments, being governed largely, by their business 
 and social requirements and their financial abilities. 
 
 Dr. Horace Bushnell, that patron saint of Connecticut, in whose 
 honor the beautiful park north of our Capitol was named, and to whose 
 memory there is soon to be erected on yonder corner opposite these 
 Capitol Grounds, a beautiful and commodious auditorium, as a gift 
 to the citizens of the city and the state which he loved, when he gave 
 his Historical Estimate of Connecticut, before our Legislature and 
 other invited guests in 1851 said: 
 
 "There is no outburst of splendor in her (Connecticut's) history, no 
 glaring or obtrusive prominence to attract the applause of the multitude. Her 
 
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true merit and position are discovered only by search; she is seen only through 
 the sacred veil of modesty — great only, in the silent energy of worth and 
 benficence. But when she is brought forth out of her retirement, instead of the 
 little, declining, undistinguished, scarecly distinguishable state of Connecticut, 
 you behold, rising to view, a history of practical greatness and true honor; 
 illustrious in its beginning; serious and faithful in its progress; dispensing 
 intelligence, without the rewards of fame; heroic for the right, instigated by 
 no hope of applause ; independent, as not knowing how to be otherwise ; 
 adorned with names of wisdom and greatness fit to be revered, as long as true 
 excellence may have a place in the reverence of mankind." 
 
 It is to be regretted so few of those who have had a part in the 
 Assemblies of former years can be with us. Many have of necessity, 
 long since passed on to their reward; others are detained at home by 
 reason of age or health, but there are a large number who have gone 
 forth to other and distant fields of activity and can be with us only in 
 spirit. 
 
 Time prevents me from mentioning but a very few of those whose 
 services in the House were such as almost to demand recognition and 
 special mention on an occasion like this. I cannot, however, refrain 
 from mentioning the following, all of whom have served as Speakers 
 of the House during the century we are celebrating. 
 
 David Plant of Stratford who served as Speaker 1819 and 1820, 
 and later as Lieutenant Governor and Representative in Congress. 
 
 Samuel A. Foot of Cheshire and Henry W. Edwards of New 
 Haven, both of whom served Connecticut as its Governor, Representa- 
 tive in Congress, and United States Senator. 
 
 LaFayette S. Foster of Norwich, Judge of the Supreme Court, 
 United States Senator and Acting Vice-President of the United States. 
 
 Orville H. Piatt of Meriden, Secretary of State, and a leader for 
 many years in the United States Senate. 
 
 William L. Storrs of Middletown and O rig en S. Seymour of Litch- 
 field, both of whom served Connecticut as Chief Justice and Repre- 
 sentative in Congress. 
 
 William W. Eaton of Hartford, Representative in Congress and 
 United States Senator. 
 
 Chauncey F. Cleveland of Hampton, Governor and Representative 
 in Congress. 
 
 Oliver H. Perry \ of Fairfield, Secretary of State. 
 Henry B. Harrison of New Haven, Governor. 
 
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Also: 
 
 Ralph I. Ingersoll of New Haven, 
 Ebenezer Young of Killingly, 
 Samuel Ingham of Saybrook, 
 William W. Boardman of New Haven, 
 Augustus Brandegee of New London, 
 Henry C. Deming of Hartford, 
 John T. Wait of Norwich, 
 William E. Simonds of Canton, 
 John Q. Tilson of New Haven, 
 
 all of whom served as Representatives in Congress. 
 
 Many of you treasure your acquaintance with — 
 Lynde Harrison of New Haven, 
 John A. Tibbitts of New London, 
 Heusted W. R. Hoyt of Greenwich, 
 Allan W. Paige of Huntington, 
 John H. Perry and Elmore S. Banks of Fairfield, 
 Isaac W. Brooks of Torrington, 
 Samuel Fessenden of Stamford, 
 Joseph L. Barbour of Hartford, 
 John H. Light of Norwalk, 
 Michael Kenealy of Stamford, and 
 Charles H. Briscoe of Enfield. 
 
 I have already wearied you with names, but we must not go away 
 from these Centennial exercises believing or even thinking . that all 
 good men and patriots are dead, and that all those not mentioned were 
 not good. To do my subject justice would require hours and days, 
 not minutes. 
 
 But we cannot omit saluting our veteran member, Hon. Chester R. 
 Woodford of Avon, now in his 105th year, nor greeting our oldest 
 living Ex-Governor, Hon. Thomas M. Waller of New London, who 
 has served as Secretary of State; Ex-Governor and Ex-United States 
 Senator Hon. Morgan G. Bulkeley, still hale and active, and United 
 States Senators Brandegee and McLean, and their Associates in Con- 
 gress, and Hon. Marcus H. Holcomb of Southington, Ex-Speaker of 
 the House, Ex-Attorney General and now serving his third consecutive 
 term as Governor of his native state. 
 
 The program closed with the singing of "America." 
 Then the legislators — past and present — many of the older ones 
 leaning on the arms of friends, and every one smiling a smile of satis- 
 faction at the end of a perfect day, left the hall in which they had 
 enacted important measures for the state of Connecticut, said farewells 
 in the corridors, and departed for their homes, some of them never to 
 meet again. 
 
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CONNECTICUT " THE CONSTITUTION STATE." 
 
 State Librarian George S. Godard in his report for the two years 
 ended September 30, 1910, emphasizes Connecticut's unique position 
 as the mother of Constitutions as follows: 
 
 " The unique position which Connecticut holds in the constitutional 
 history of our country, having formulated and adopted the " Funda- 
 mental Orders" — the first written constitution — Jan. 14, 1638-39, 
 entitles it to be called " The Constitution State." In recognition of 
 this fundamental instrument and important action of our fathers in 
 Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, the central section of the tile 
 floor of Memorial Hall is occupied by a historical tablet showing the 
 evolution of the seal of Connecticut from the early British seal first 
 used by our fathers to the seal now used, and bearing Thomas 
 Hooker's statement concerning constitutional government which 
 reads as follows: 
 
 " In matters of greater consequence which concern the common good a 
 General Council chosen by all to transact businesses which concern all I con- 
 ceive under favor most suitable to rule and most safe for relief of the whole." 
 
 A photograph of this historical tablet is made a part of this report. 
 
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Historical tablet in Memorial Hall showing the evolution of the Public Seal 
 of Connecticut, and Thomas Hooker's statement advocating a representative 
 government. 
 
 i. British Seal. 3. Second Connecticut Colonial Seal. 
 
 2. First Connecticut Colonial Seal. 4. Present State Seal. 
 
 STATE FLAG. 
 
 So many inquiries have been received asking concerning the Con- 
 necticut State Flag, State Seal and State Coat of Arms, that it has 
 seemed desirable to answer these several questions again in this report. 
 I have accordingly had a fairly good representation of the State Flag 
 made in colors and showing the official Coat of Arms upon the same. 
 This is made the frontispiece of this report. It appears that it was not 
 until 1897 that our General Assembly formally adopted a State Flag. 
 The following is the description as incorporated in Section 4889 of the 
 General Statutes, Revision of 1902. 
 
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§ 4889. Description. The following-described flag is the official flag of the 
 state. The dimensions of the flag shall be five feet and six inches in length; 
 four feet four inches in width. The flag shall be of azure blue silk, charged 
 with a shield of rococo design of argent white silk, having embroidered in the 
 center three grape vines, supported and bearing fruit in natural colors. The 
 bordure to the shield shall be embroidered in two colors, gold and silver. Below 
 the shield shall be a white streamer, cleft at each end, bordered by gold and 
 browns in fine lines, and upon the streamer shall be embroidered in dark blue 
 letters the motto * Qui Transtulit Sustinet " ; the whole design being the arms 
 of the state. 
 
 PUBLIC SEAL OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 For the information of those interested in the history and meaning- 
 of the Seal of our State, it has seemed advisable to reprint here the 
 article upon this topic, which appeared in the Connecticut Register & 
 Manual for 1899, written by the late Charles J. Hoadly, LL.D., State 
 Librarian of Connecticut 1855 to 1900. 
 
 "THE PUBLIC SEAL OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 " In a paper hitherto unprinted, written in 1759 by Roger Wolcott, some- 
 time Governor, he tells us that his step-father, Daniel Clark, informed him 
 that the seal was given to the Colony by George Fenwick. Mr. Clark was 
 likely to be well informed on the subject, for he was born about 1623, and 
 was Secretary of the Colony for several years between 1658 and 1666. Mr. 
 Fenwick was agent for the proprietors of Connecticut under the Warwick 
 patent of 1631. Perhaps he gave the seal when the Colony bought of him Say- 
 brook Fort, etc., in 1644, and it may be that the seal was used by the said 
 proprietors. There is in the State Library a pretty fair impression of this 
 seal on wax, affixed to the commission 1 of John Winthrop as magistrate at 
 Nameock [New London], dated October 27, 1647. 
 
 " This seal represents a vineyard of fifteen vines, supported and bearing 
 fruit. Above the vines a hand issuing from clouds holds a label with the 
 motto svstinet qvi TRANSTVLiT. The seal is slightly oval in form and has a 
 beaded border. There remain, besides the one above mentioned, but three 
 impressions of it among the State archives ; all are on wax and all poor. 
 
 "After the receipt of the charter, the first General Assembly held under it, 
 October, 1662, ordered that the seal that formerly was used by the General 
 Court should still remain and be used as the seal of this Colony until the court 
 saw cause to the contrary; and the Secretary was to keep it and use it on 
 necessary occasions for the Colony. 
 
 " In October, 1662, the General Assembly laid claim to Westchester as being 
 within the chartered limits of Connecticut, and sent, down a copy of their vote 
 certified under the colony seal, which is thus curiously described by Mr. Richard 
 Mills, who had the document in his custody : " The signal of the seal above 
 is come to the inhabitants of Westchester, absolute, made in red wax ; the motto 
 I suppose to be the arborated craggy wilderness and the flying cloudes." 
 
 " The first printed revision of the statutes of Connecticut, Cambridge, 1673, 
 had, by order of the General Court, an impression of the colony seal upon 
 the title page. All other editions of the statutes during our colonial period had 
 the royal arms instead. 
 
 " When Sir Edmund Andros took the government of the Colony in October, 
 1687, the public seal disappeared. Gershom Bulkeley, in his book Will and 
 Doom, says that "The Secretary [John Allyn], who was well acquainted with 
 all the transactions of the General Court, and very well understood their mean- 
 ing and intent in all, delivered their common seal to Sir Edmund Andros." 
 Whether the seal was broken or what became of it we know not : certain it is 
 
 \A photograph of this document was published in my report as State Libra- 
 rian for 1005-1906. 
 
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that the seal used after the resumption of the charter government in 1689 
 differs considerably from the first one : — it was not so well cut, is a trifle 
 larger, the hand bends downward and the motto reads, svstinet qvi transtvlit. 
 I am inclined to doubt whether the new seal had been procured in 1690, for 
 of five or six impressions on commissions which I have seen, made in that 
 year, all are so very bad that it would seem as though some temporary sub- 
 stitute, made of wood, perhaps, had been used. 
 
 "No further change was made until 171 1, when, at a meeting of the Gov- 
 ernor and Council, October 25th, it was agreed, ordered and resolved, that a 
 new stamp should be made and cut of the seal of this Colony, suitable for 
 sealing upon wafers, and that a press be provided, with the necessary appurte- 
 nances for that purpose, as soon as may be, at the cost and charge of the 
 Colony, to be kept in the Secretary's office. 
 
 " This seal was considerably larger than its predecessors, measuring 2% 
 inches in length and \Y\ in breadth. Instead of fifteen vines there are but 
 three, and there is a hand, about midway on the dexter side, pointing to them. 
 The motto, which is on a label below the vines, is qvi transtvlit svstinet, 
 and around the circumference is the legend, sigillvm colonize connecticensis. 
 
 "In October, 1747 the General Assembly voted, that the public seal of the 
 Colony be altered and changed from the form of an oval to that of a circle, 
 and that the same should have cut and engraved upon it the same inscription, 
 motto, and device, that are on the present seal, with a correction of such mis- 
 takes as happened in the spelling and letters in the inscription of the present 
 seal, and the Secretary was to procure such alterations. Nothing seems to have 
 been done. 
 
 " The press, becoming worn through age, was replaced by a more powerful 
 one in the Secretary's office, and after doing duty for some time in the Treas- 
 urer's office, was relegated to the cellar, where it was probably left when the 
 State abandoned the old State House in 1879. 
 
 " Wax seems to have been generally used until within about a century. The 
 few impressions upon wafer preserved among the colonial documents are all 
 poor. 
 
 "In May, 1784, the General Assembly passed the following resolution: 
 
 " ' Whereas the circumscription of the seal of this state is improper and 
 inapplicable to our present constitution, Resolved by this Assembly, that the 
 Secretary be and he is hereby empowered and directed to get the same altered 
 from the words as they now stand to the following inscription namely sigill 
 
 REIP. CONNECTICUTENSIS/ " 
 
 " The inscription was, however, cut without abbreviation, though in its 
 shortened form it appears in engravings of that period. At the October session 
 in 1784, the new seal was approved and ordered to be lodged with the Secretary 
 to be used as the seal of this State as the law directs. The size of this seal 
 was 2Y% inches in length by 1% in breadth. It was engraved on a silver plate 
 soldered to a brass shoe or base. The silver plate was given to Yale College 
 after a new seal was procured, and the brass base 2 is at this moment serving 
 the writer as a paper weight. 
 
 "Article fourth, section eighteenth, of the constitution adopted in 1818, de- 
 clares that the seal of the State shall not be altered; but it is singular that 
 neither in that instrument nor in any law or resolution is the seal ascertained 
 or described. In 1840, it was resolved, "That the Secretary of State, be in- 
 structed to ascertain the proper seal and bearings of this State, and report to 
 the next General Assembly; and also, whether any legislature enactment is re- 
 quired for a proper description of said seal. Mr. Hinman was at that time 
 Secretary, but, as the subject would have required considerable investigation, 
 he made, as he informed the writer, no report at "all. 
 
 "At present there are two state seals in use :• one for sealing with wax or 
 wafer, which was procured in accordance with a resolution passed October, 
 1842, which directed that it should be similar to the one then in use. The 
 resolution as originally drawn up provided that the new seal might be of 
 smaller dimensions and circular instead of oval; but these provisions were 
 
 2 This base is still in possession of the State Library. 
 
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struck out in the House of Representatives, probably upon constitutional' 
 grounds, and the seal was made of similar form and size with the preceding 
 one, except that it is a trifle broader; the workmanship also is better; there 
 are three clusters of grapes on each vine, whereas the old one had four on each 
 of the upper and five on the lower one. It is engraved on brass. The hand 
 had been omitted from the seal of 1784. The other seal is used for making an 
 impression upon paper without the use of wax or other tenacious substance, 
 which mode was declared, by an act passed in 1851, to be a sufficient sealing. 
 This seal is supposed to have been procured in 1882, under authority of a. 
 resolve passed in 1864 3 . 
 
 "The armorial bearings of Connecticut in heraldic language would be 
 blazoned thus: Argent, three vines supported and fructed proper: that is, the 
 field is white or silver, and the vines of their natural colors. The blazon of the 
 first seal would be : A field argent serne with vines supported and fructed 
 proper. In chief a hand issuing from clouds, proper, holding a label inscribed 
 with the motto. The number of vines on the old seal was doubtless arbitrary; 
 that on the present seal has no special significance, but is the more usual 
 number when a charge is repeated. 
 
 "The first issue of bills of credit was made by Connecticut in 1709. The 
 General Assembly ordered that they should be stamped with such stamps as the 
 Governor and Council should direct, and the latter body at a meeting June 
 14, 1709, directed that they should be all stamped with the arms of the Colony, 
 or such a figure as was drawn in the council book representing three vines. 
 On the small bills issued in 1777 the seal represented has but one vine, and a 
 seal having but one vine has been used in the Secretary's office for sealing 
 letters. 
 
 "The vines symbolize the Colony brought over and planted here in the 
 wilderness. We read in the 80th Psalm : " Thou hast brought a vine out of 
 Egypt; Thou hast cast out the heathen and planted it: — in Latin, Vineam de 
 Mgypto transtulisti, Ejicisti gentes et plantasti earn; and the motto expresses- 
 our belief that He who brought over the vine continues to take care of it — 
 Qui transtulit sustinet." 
 
 FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS, 1638-39. 
 
 " The constitutional history of Connecticut properly begins with 
 the adoption, on the fourteenth of January, 1638-39, of the ' Funda- 
 mental Orders,' by which 'the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, 
 Hartford, and Wethersfield ' became ' associated and conjoined to be 
 as one Public State or Commonwealth/ for the establishment of ' an 
 orderly and decent government, according to God, to order and dispose 
 of the affairs of the people at all seasons as occasion shall require.' " 
 (Dr. Trumbull's Historical Notes on the Constitutions.) 
 
 8 The copper plates of this seal having been mutilated by a pin which became 
 imbedded in it was placed in the corner-stone of our new State Library and 
 Supreme Court Building by me, May 25, 1009, with the consent of the Secretary 
 of the State, a new plate having been made sometime before." 
 
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CHARTER OF 1662 
 
 State Librarian C. J. Hoadly in his report in August 1900, said: 
 
 " On the 14th of March, 1661, the General Court of Connecticut voted to 
 petition the king for the continuance and confirmation of such privileges and 
 liberties as were necessary for the comfortable and peaceable settlement of the 
 Colony. 
 
 Governor Winthrop was requested to act as the agent for the Colony. He 
 sailed from New York in July, 1661. The letter of credit for £500 sterling, 
 which he took with him, may be seen in the State Library. The amount was 
 paid in wheat and pease. He succeeded in procuring a very liberal charter, 
 which bears date April 23d, 1662. 
 
 The charter was made in duplicate and sent in different ships. The dupli- 
 cate probably arrived first, and was received in Connecticut in September, 1662. 
 There are some trifling verbal differences between them, not, however, affecting 
 the sense. 
 
 In 1687 it became evident that the Colony was likely to be deprived of the 
 charter, and measures were taken accordingly. There is a very curious entry 
 on the Colonial Records in June 1687, of the production of the (original) char- 
 ter in court, and of its being left on the table with the key in the box at the 
 adjournment of the Court, with no one responsible for its safety, the committee 
 which had been appointed to keep it being discharged by their surrendry of 
 it to the Court. Perhaps it was at this time that the charter was quietly taken 
 by Nathaniel Stanly and John Talcott, and concealed in the famous oak. 
 
 On the 31st of October, 1687, Sir Edmund Andros came to Hartford to 
 receive the surrender of the charter. The Assembly met and sat late at night. 
 The duplicate charter was brought forth and placed on the table. Suddenly 
 the lights were extinguished, and Captain Joseph Wadsworth carried off and 
 concealed the duplicate, which he retained until 1715, when the Assembly made 
 him a grant for his good service in the matter. The one more highly ornamented 
 than the other, now hangs in the Secretary's office. What remains of the 
 second copy may be seen in the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society 
 at Hartford. How it was saved from being cut up to make the foundation of 
 a bonnet is told in a note in Vol. 4 of the Colonial Records. 
 
 The charter continued to be the basis of our government until it was super- 
 seded by the constitution of 1818." 
 
 The original charter, engrossed on parchment and enclosed in a 
 frame made in part from the wood of the tree which concealed it, now 
 hangs in a fire-proof vault in Memorial Hall, State Library. 
 
 The charter oak, ever an object of affectionate veneration, was 
 blown down in the gale of August 21, 1856. It measured twenty-one 
 feet in circumference seven feet above the ground, and thirty-three feet 
 at the base. A computation made by Prof, John Brocklesby, from the 
 prostrate trunk, fixed its age at nearly a thousand years, showing that 
 it must have been a lusty tree when the Normans conquered England. 
 The name has been borrowed by many public and private enterprises. 
 The handsome Charter Oak Chair in the Senate Chamber attracts uni- 
 versal attention and admiration. 
 
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THE CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 For the convenience of the delegates to the Constitutional Con- 
 vention of 1902, and all interested in the study of the present 
 Constitution, Comptroller Abiram Chamberlain had printed, in 
 December, 1901, the following compilation, with this introduction: 
 
 " Originally prepared by the Hon. Lewis Sperry, of Hartford, 
 at the request of Ex-Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley, it is now 
 reprinted from his last edition by his permission." 
 
 " So much of the original Constitution and amendments as has 
 become obsolete, either by subsequent amendment or by limitation, 
 has been stricken out. The amendments still in force have been 
 written into the Constitution, in their proper places, and the original 
 language of the Constitution, including even capitals and punctuation, 
 has been preserved as far as possible; so that the draft herewith 
 presented is the Constitution of Connecticut not only in legal effect 
 but in its exact form as it now exists." 
 
 PREAMBLE. 
 
 The people of Connecticut acknowledging with gratitude, the 
 good providence of God, in having permitted them to enjoy a free 
 government, do, in order more effectually to define, secure, and per- 
 petuate the liberties, rights and privileges which they have derived 
 from their ancestors, hereby, after a careful consideration and revision, 
 ordain and establish the following Constitution, and form of civil 
 government. 
 
 Article First. 
 
 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS. 
 
 That the great and essential principles of liberty and free govern- 
 ment may be recognized and established, 
 
 We Declare, 
 
 Sect. i. That all men when they form a social compact, are 
 equal in rights ; and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive 
 public emoluments or privileges from the community. 
 
 Sect. 2. That all political power is inherent in the people, and all 
 free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for 
 their benefit; and that they have at all times an undeniable and 
 indefeasible right to alter their form of government in such a manner 
 as they may think expedient. 
 
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Sect. 3. The exercise and enjoyment of religious profession 
 and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be free to all 
 persons in this State, provided that the right hereby declared and 
 established, shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, 
 or to justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the 
 State. 
 
 Sect. 4. No preference shall be given by law to any Christian 
 sect or mode of worship. 
 
 Sect. 5. Every citizen may freely speak, w r rite and publish his 
 sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that 
 liberty. 
 
 Sect. 6. No law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the 
 liberty of speech or of the press. 
 
 Sect. 7. In all prosecutions or indictments for libels, the truth 
 may be given in evidence, and the jury shall have the right to deter- 
 mine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court. 
 
 Sect. 8. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, 
 papers and possessions from unreasonable searches or seizures ; and 
 no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or things, shall 
 issue without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without prob- 
 able cause supported by oath or affirmation. 
 
 Sect. 9. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have 
 the right to be heard by himself and by counsel ; to demand the nature 
 and cause of the accusation ; to be confronted by the witnesses against 
 him; to have compulsory process to obtain witnesses in his favour; 
 and in all prosecutions by indictment or information, a speedy public 
 trial by an impartial jury. He shall not be compelled to give evidence 
 against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, but by 
 due process of law. And no person shall be holden to answer for any 
 crime, the punishment of which may be death or imprisonment for life, 
 unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury; except in 
 the land or naval forces, or in the militia when in actual service in 
 time of war, or public danger. 
 
 Sect. 10. No person shall be arrested, detained or punished, 
 except in cases clearly warranted by law. 
 
 Sect. ii. The property of no person shall be taken for public 
 use, without just compensation therefor. 
 
 Sect. 12. All courts shall be open, and every person, for any 
 injury done to him in his person, property or reputation, shall have 
 remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered 
 without sale, denial or delay. 
 
 Sect. 13. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines 
 imposed. 
 
 Sect. 14. All prisoners shall, before conviction, be bailable by 
 sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses, where the proof is 
 evident, or the presumption great; and the privileges of the writ of 
 habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in case of rebellion 
 or invasion, the public safety may require it; nor in any case, but by 
 the legislature. 
 
 Sect. 15. No person shall be attainted of treason or felony, by 
 the legislature. 
 
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Sect. 16. The citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to 
 assemble for their common good, and to apply to those invested with 
 the powers of government, for redress of grievances, or other proper 
 purposes, by petition, address or remonstrance. 
 
 Sect. 17. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of 
 himself and the State. 
 
 Sect. 18. The military shall, in all cases, and at all times, be in 
 strict subordination to the civil power. 
 
 Sect. 19. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in 
 any house, without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but 
 in a manner to be prescribed by law. 
 
 Sect. 20. No hereditary emoluments, privileges, or honors, shall 
 ever be granted, or conferred, in this State. 
 
 Sect. 21. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. 
 
 Article Second. 
 
 OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF POWERS. 
 
 The powers of government shall be divided into three distinct 
 departments, and each of them confided to a separate magistracy, to wit, 
 those which are legislative, to one; those which are executive, to 
 another; and those which are judicial, to another. 
 
 Article Third. 
 OF THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Sect. i. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in 
 two distinct houses or branches; the one to be styled The Senate, 
 the other The House of Representatives, and both together THE 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The style of their laws shall be, Be it 
 enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
 Assembly convened. 
 
 Sect. 2. There shall be a stated session of the General Assembly 
 to be holden at Hartford biennially on the Wednesday following the 
 first Monday of the January next succeeding the election of its mem- 
 bers as now provided by law, and at such other times as the General 
 Assembly shall judge necessary; but the person administering the 
 office of Governor, may, on special emergencies, convene the General 
 Assembly at said place at any other time. And in case of danger 
 from the prevalence of contagious diseases, in said place, or other 
 circumstances, the person administering the office of Governor may, 
 by proclamation, convene said Assembly at any other place in this 
 State. 
 
 Sect. 3. The House of Representatives shall consist of electors 
 residing in towns from which they are elected. Every town which now 
 contains, or hereafter shall contain a population of five thousand, shall 
 be entitled to send two representatives, and every other one shall be 
 entitled to its present representation in the General Assembly. The 
 population of each town shall be determined by the enumeration made 
 under the authority of the census of the United States, next before the 
 election of representatives is held. In case a new town shall hereafter 
 
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be incorporated, such new town shall not be entitled to a Representative 
 in the General Assembly unless it has at least twenty-five hundred 
 inhabitants, and unless the town from which the major portion of its 
 territory is taken has also at least twenty-five hundred inhabitants ; but 
 until such towns shall each have at least twenty-five hundred inhabit- 
 ants, such new town shall, for the purpose of representation in the 
 General Assembly, be attached to, and be deemed to be a part of, the 
 town from which the major portion of its territory is taken, and it 
 shall be an election district of such town for the purpose of repre- 
 sentation in the House of Representatives. 
 
 [The Senate of this State shall consist of not less than eighteen 
 nor more than twenty-four members, and be chosen by districts. The 
 General Assembly (of 1829) shall divide the State into districts for 
 the choice of Senators, and shall determine what number shall be 
 elected in each, which districts shall not be less than eight, nor more 
 than twenty-four in number, and in forming them regard shall be had 
 to the population in said apportionment in such manner that no county 
 shall have less than two Senators.] * 
 
 Sect. 4. From and after the Wednesday after the first Monday 
 of January, 1905, the senate shall be composed of not less than twenty- 
 four and not more than thirty-six members, who shall be elected at 
 the electors' meeting held biennially on the Tuesday after the first 
 Monday in November. 
 
 Sect. 5. The general assembly which shall be held on the 
 Wednesday after the first Monday of January, 1903, shall divide the 
 state into senatorial districts, as hereinafter provided; the number of 
 such districts shall not be less than twenty-four nor more than thirty- 
 six, and each district shall elect only one senator. The districts shall 
 always be composed of contiguous territory, and in forming them 
 regard shall be had to population in the several districts, that the 
 same may be as nearly equal as possible under the limitations of this 
 section. Neither the whole or a part of one county shall be joined to 
 the whole or a part of another county to form a district, and no town 
 shall be divided, unless for the purpose of forming more than one 
 district wholly within such town, and each county shall have at least 
 one senator. The districts, when established as hereinafter provided, 
 shall continue the same until the session of the general assembly next 
 after the completion of the next census of the United States, which 
 general assembly shall have power to alter the same, if found necessary 
 to preserve a proper equality of population in each district, but only in 
 accordance with the principles above recited ; after which said districts 
 
 * The Constitutional provision relating to Senators and Senatorial districts appears in 
 the amendment of 1828. The remaining portions of that amendment authorize the Legisla- 
 ture to redistrict the State from time to time on the basis of population, and provide the 
 manner in which districts shall be formed. The Legislature has acted several times under 
 that amendment, the last time in 1881, Revised Statutes of 1888, Section 197, when the 
 limit of twenty-four Senators allowed by the amendment of 1828 was reached, and the next 
 Senate will be elected under that statute. The amendment adopted in 1901, which becomes 
 operative in 1903, is largely copied from the amendment of 1828 in respect to the time and 
 manner in which the State may be redistricted by the Legislature, and the manner in which 
 districts may be formed. Those provisions appear in this compilation of the Constitution 
 in the second succeeding section [Sec. 5], but have not been inserted here because they will 
 apply to only one more election in the districts as already formed, and because to insert 
 those provisions here would simply be repetition. 
 
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shall not be altered, nor the number of senators altered, except at a 
 session of the general assembly next after the completion of a census 
 of the United States, and then only in accordance with the principles 
 hereinbefore provided. The persons voted for for Senators shall, at 
 the time of such vote, belong to and reside in the respective districts 
 in which they are so voted for. 
 
 Sect. 6. The Treasurer, Secretary, and Comptroller, for the 
 time being, shall canvass the votes publicly. The person in each 
 district having the greatest number of votes for senator shall be 
 declared to be elected for such district; but in cases where no choice 
 is made by the electors in consequence of an equality of votes, the 
 House of Representatives shall designate, by ballot, which of the can- 
 didates having such equal number of votes, shall be declared to be 
 elected. The return of votes, and the result of the canvass, shall be 
 submitted to the House of Representatives, and also to the Senate, 
 on the first day of the session of the General Assembly; and each 
 house shall be the final judge of the election returns and qualifications 
 of its own members. 
 
 Sec. 7. A general election for Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, 
 Secretary, Treasurer, Comptroller, and members of the General 
 Assembly shall be held on the Tuesday after the first Monday of 
 November, biennially, as now provided by law, and for such other 
 officers as are herein and may be hereafter prescribed. The General 
 Assembly shall have power to enact laws regulating and prescribing 
 the order and manner of voting for said officers, and also providing 
 for the election of representatives at some time subsequent to the 
 Tuesday after the first Monday of November in all cases when it shall 
 so happen that the electors in any town shall fail on that day to elect 
 the representative or representatives to which such town shall be. by 
 law entitled. 
 
 Sec. 8. At the general election for State officers and members 
 of the General Assembly the presiding officers shall receive the votes 
 of the electors, which shall be by ballot, either written or printed, and 
 count and declare them: in open meeting. The presiding officers shall 
 also make duplicate lists of the persons voted for, and of the number of 
 votes for each, which shall be certified by the presiding officers ; one of 
 which lists shall be delivered to the town clerk, and the other within 
 ten days after said meeting, shall be delivered under seal, either to the 
 secretary, or to the sheriff of the county in which said town is situated ; 
 which list shall be directed to the Secretary, with a superscription 
 expressing the purport of the contents thereof : and each sheriff, who 
 shall receive such votes, shall, within fifteen days after said meeting, 
 deliver, or cause them to be delivered to the Secretary. 
 
 Sect. 9. The members of the General Assembly shall hold their 
 offices for two years from the Wednesday following the first Monday 
 of the January next succeeding their election, and until their successors 
 are duly qualified. 
 
 Sect. 10. The House of Representatives, when assembled, shall 
 choose a speaker, clerk, and other officers. The Senate shall choose 
 its clerk, and other officers, except the President. A majority of each 
 
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house shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number 
 may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent 
 members in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may 
 prescribe. 
 
 Sect. ii. Each house shall determine the rules of its own pro- 
 ceedings, punish members for disorderly conduct, and, with the consent 
 of two thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same 
 cause; and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the 
 legislature of a free and independent State. 
 
 Sect. 12. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, 
 and publish the same, when required by one-fifth of its members, except 
 such parts as, in the judgment of a majority require secrecy. The yeas 
 and nays of the members of either house shall, at the desire of one- 
 fifth of those present, be entered on the journals. 
 
 Sect. 13. The senators and representatives shall, in all cases of 
 civil process, be privileged from arrest, during the session of the 
 general assembly, and for four days before the commencement, and 
 after the termination of any session thereof. And for any speech or 
 debate in either house, they shall not be questioned in any other place. 
 
 Sect. 14. The debates of each house shall be public, except on 
 such occasions as, in the opinion of the house, may require secrecy. 
 
 Sect. 15. The compensation of members of the General 
 Assembly shall not exceed three hundred dollars for the term for 
 which they are elected, and one mileage each way for the regular 
 session at the rate of twenty-five cents per mile ; they shall also receive 
 one mileage at the same rate for attending any extra session called 
 by the Governor. 
 
 Sect. 16. Neither the General Assembly, nor any County, City, 
 Borough, Town, or School District, shall have power to pay or grant 
 any extra compensation to any public officer, employe, agent, or 
 servant, or increase the compensation of any public officer or employe, 
 to take effect during the continuance in office of any person whose 
 salary might be increased thereby, or increase the pay or compensation 
 of any public contractor above the amount specified in the contract. 
 
 Article Fourth. 
 OF THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Sect. i. The Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Secretary, Treas- 
 urer, and Comptroller shall hold their respective offices for two years 
 from the Wednesday following the first Monday of the January next 
 succeeding their election, and until their successors are duly qualified. 
 
 Sect. 2. At the meetings of the electors in the respective towns 
 held biennially as herein provided for the election of State officers, 
 members of the General Assembly, and for such other officers as are 
 and may be hereafter prescribed, the presiding officers shall receive 
 the ballots and shall count and declare the same in the presence of 
 the electors. When such ballots shall have been so received and 
 counted, duplicate lists of the persons voted for, and of the number 
 of votes given for each, shall be made and certified by the presiding 
 
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officer, one of which lists shall be deposited in the office of the town 
 clerk within three days, and the other, within ten days after said 
 election, shall be transmitted to the Secretary, or to the sheriff of the 
 county, in which such election shall have been held. The sheriff 
 receiving said votes shall deliver, or cause them to be delivered to the 
 Secretary, within fifteen days next after said election. The votes so 
 returned shall be counted, canvassed and declared by the Treasurer, 
 Secretary, and Comptroller, within the month of November. The vote 
 for Treasurer shall be counted, canvassed and declared by the Secre- 
 tary and Comptroller only ; the vote for Secretary shall be counted 
 canvassed and declared by the Treasurer and Comptroller only; and 
 the vote for Comptroller shall be counted, canvassed and declared by 
 the Treasurer and Secretary only. A fair list of the persons and 
 number of votes given for each, together with the returns of the pre- 
 siding officers, shall be, by the Treasurer, Secretary, and Comptroller, 
 made and laid before the General Assembly, then next to be holden, 
 on the first day of the session thereof. In the election for governor, 
 lieutenant-governor, secretary, treasurer, comptroller, and attorney- 
 general, the person found by the general assembly, in the manner 
 herein provided, to have received the greatest number of votes for 
 each of said offices respectively, shall be declared by said assembly to 
 be elected. But if two or more persons shall be found to have an 
 equal and the greatest number of votes for any of said offices, then 
 the general assembly, on the second day of its session, by joint ballot 
 of both houses, shall proceed without debate to choose said officer 
 from a list of the names of the persons found to have an equal and 
 greatest number of votes for said office. The General Assembly shall 
 by law prescribe the manner in which all questions concerning the 
 election of the above named officers shall be determined. 
 
 Sect. 3. The supreme executive power of the State shall be 
 vested in the Governor. No person, who is not an elector of this 
 State, and who has not arrived at the age of thirty years, shall be 
 eligible. 
 
 Sect. 4. The Lieutenant Governor shall possess the same quali- 
 fications as are herein prescribed for the Governor. 
 
 Sect. 5. The Compensations of the Governor and Lieutenant 
 Governor shall be established by law, and shall not be varied so as 
 to take effect until after an election, which shall next succeed the 
 passage of the law establishing said compensations. 
 
 Sect. 6. The Governor shall be Captain General of the militia 
 of the State, except when called into the service of the United States. 
 
 Sect. 7. He may require information in writing from the officers 
 in the executive department, on any subject relating to the duties of 
 their respective offices. 
 
 Sect. 8. The Governor, in case of a disagreement between the 
 two houses of the General Assembly, respecting the time of adjourn- 
 ment, may adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not 
 beyond the day of the next stated session. 
 
 Sect. 9. He shall, from time to time, give to the General 
 Assembly, information of the state of the government, and recommend 
 
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to their consideration such measures as he shall deem expedient. 
 
 Sect. io. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed. 
 
 Sect. ii. The Governor shall have power to grant reprieves 
 after conviction, in all cases except those of impeachment, until the 
 end of the next session of the General Assembly, and no longer. 
 
 Sect. 12. All commissions shall be in the name and by authority 
 of the State of Connecticut ; shall be sealed with the State seal, signed 
 by the Governor, and attested by the Secretary. 
 
 Sect. 13. Every bill which shall have passed both houses of 
 the General Assembly, shall be presented to the Governor. If he 
 approves, he shall sign and transmit it to the Secretary, but if not, he 
 shall return it to the house in which it originated, with his objections, 
 which shall be entered on the journals of the house; who shall proceed 
 to reconsider the bill. If after such reconsideration, that house shall 
 again pass it, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other house, 
 which shall also reconsider it. If approved, it shall become a law. 
 But in such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by 
 yeas and nays; and the names of the members voting for and against 
 the bill, shall be entered on the journals of each house respectively. 
 If the bill shall not be returned by the Governor within three days, 
 Sundays excepted, after it shall have been presented to him, the same 
 shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it ; unless the General 
 Assembly, by their adjournment, prevents its return, in which case it 
 shall not be a law. 
 
 Sect. 14. The Lieutenant Governor shall, by virtue of his office, 
 be President of the Senate, and have, when in committee of the whole, 
 a right to debate, and when the Senate is equally divided, to give the 
 casting vote. 
 
 Sect. 15. In case of the death, resignation, refusal to serve, or 
 removal from office of the Governor, or of his impeachment, or absence 
 from the State, the Lieutenant Governor shall exercise the powers 
 and authority appertaining to the office of Governor, until another be 
 chosen at the next periodical election for Governor, and be duly 
 qualified ; or until the Governor impeached or absent, shall be acquitted 
 or return. 
 
 Sect. 16. When the government shall be administered by the 
 Lieutenant Governor, or he shall be unable to attend as President of 
 the Senate, the Senate shall elect one of their members as President 
 pro tempore. And if during the vacancy of the office of Governor, 
 the Lieutenant Governor shall die, resign, refuse to serve, or be 
 removed from office, or if he shall be impeached, or absent from the 
 State, the President of the Senate pro tempore, shall, in like manner, 
 administer the government, until he be superseded by a Governor or 
 Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 Sect. 17. If the Lieutenant Governor shall be required to 
 administer the government, and shall, while in such administration, 
 die or resign during the recess of the General Assembly, it shall be 
 the duty of the Secretary, for the time being, to convene the Senate 
 for the purpose of choosing a President pro tempore. 
 
 Sect. 18. The Treasurer shall receive all monies belonging to 
 
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the State, and disburse the same only as he may be directed by law. 
 He shall pay no warrant or order for the disbursement of public 
 money, until the same has been registered in the office of the 
 Comptroller. 
 
 Sect. 19. The Secretary shall have the safe keeping and custody 
 of the public records and documents, and particularly of the Acts, 
 Resolutions and Orders of the General Assembly, and record the 
 same; and perform all such duties as shall be prescribed by law. He 
 shall be the keeper of the seal of the State, which shall not be altered. 
 
 Sect. 20. The Comptroller shall adjust and settle all public 
 accounts and demands, except grants and orders of the General 
 Assembly. He shall prescribe the mode of keeping and rendering all 
 public accounts. He shall ex officio be one of the auditors of the 
 accounts of the Treasurer. The General Assembly may assign to him 
 other duties in relation to his office, and to that of the Treasurer, and 
 shall prescribe the manner in which his duties shall be performed. 
 
 Sect. 21. Sheriffs shall be elected in the several counties 
 quadrennially on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November, 
 as now provided by law, and shall hold office for the term of four 
 years from the first day of June following their election. They shall 
 become bound, with sufficient sureties to the Treasurer of the State 
 for the faithful discharge of the duties of their office, in such manner 
 as shall be prescribed by law. They shall be removable by the General 
 Assembly. In case the sheriff of any county shall die, resign, or shall 
 be removed from office by the General Assembly, the Governor may 
 fill the vacancy occasioned thereby, until the same shall be filled by 
 the next quadrennial election. 
 
 Sect. 22. A statement of all receipts, payments, funds, and debts 
 of the State, shall be published from time to time in such manner and 
 at such periods as shall be prescribed by law. 
 
 Article Fifth. 
 OF THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Sect. i. The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a 
 Supreme Court of Errors, a Superior Court, and such inferior courts 
 as the General Assembly shall, from time to time, ordain and establish : 
 the powers and jurisdiction of which courts shall be defined by law. 
 
 Sect. 2. The justices of the peace for the several towns in this 
 State shall be appointed by the electors in such towns; and the time 
 and manner of their election, the number for each town, and the period 
 for which they shall hold their offices, shall be prescribed by law. 
 They shall have such jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases as the 
 General Assembly may prescribe. 
 
 Sect. 3. The judges of the Supreme Court of Errors and of 
 the Superior Court shall, upon nomination of the Governor, be 
 appointed by the General Assembly in such manner as shall by law be 
 prescribed. They shall hold their offices for the term of eight years, 
 but may be removed by impeachment ; and the Governor shall also 
 remove them on the address of two-thirds of each house of the General 
 
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Assembly. No judge or justice of the peace shall be capable of holding 
 office after he shall arrive at the age of seventy years. 
 
 Sect. 4. Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas, and of the 
 District Courts, shall be appointed for terms of four years. Judges of 
 the City Courts and Police Courts shall be appointed for terms of 
 two years. 
 
 Sect. 5. Judges of Probate shall be elected by the electors 
 residing in their respective districts at the general election biennially. 
 They shall hold their offices for two years from the Wednesday after 
 the first Monday of the January next succeeding their election. 
 
 Article Sixth. 
 OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS. 
 
 Sect. I. All persons who have been, or shall hereafter, previous 
 to the ratification of this Constitution, be admitted freemen, according 
 to the existing laws of this State, shall be electors. 
 
 Sect. 2. Every male citizen of the United States who shall have 
 attained the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in this 
 State for a term of one year next preceding, and in the town in which 
 he may offer himself to be admitted to the privileges of an elector, at 
 least six months next preceding the time he may so offer himself, and 
 shall be able to read in the English language any article of the Consti- 
 tution of any section of the Statutes of this State, and shall sustain 
 a good moral character, shall, on his taking such oath as may be 
 prescribed by law, be an elector. 
 
 Sect, 3. The privileges of an elector shall be forfeited by a 
 conviction of bribery, forgery, perjury, duelling, fraudulent bank- 
 ruptcy, theft, or other offense for which an infamous punishment is 
 inflicted. But the General Assembly shall have power, by vote of 
 two-thirds of the members of both branches, to restore the privileges 
 of an elector to those who may have forfeited the same by a conviction 
 of crime. 
 
 Sect. 4. Every elector shall be eligible to any office in this 
 State, except in cases provided for in this Constitution. 
 
 Sect. 5. The selectmen and town clerk of the several towns 
 shall decide on the qualifications of electors, at such times and in such 
 manner as may be prescribed by law. 
 
 Sect. 6. Laws shall be made to support the privilege of free 
 suffrage, prescribing the manner of regulating and conducting meet- 
 ings of the electors, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all 
 undue influence therein, from power, bribery, tumult and other 
 improper conduct. 
 
 Sect. 7. In all elections of officers of the State, or members of 
 the General Assembly, the votes of the electors shall be by ballot. 
 
 Sect. 8. At all elections of officers of the State, or members of 
 the General Assembly, the electors shall be privileged from arrest, 
 during their attendance upon, and going to and returning from the 
 same, on any civil process. 
 
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Article Seventh. 
 OF RELIGION. 
 
 Sect. i. It being the duty of all men to worship the Supreme 
 Being, the Great Creator and Preserver of the Universe, and their 
 right to render that worship, in the mode most consistent with the 
 dictates of their consciences; no person shall by law be compelled to 
 join or support, nor be classed with, or associated to, any congregation, 
 church or religious association. But every person now belonging 
 to such congregation, church, or religious association shall remain a 
 member thereof until he shall have separated himself therefrom, in the 
 manner hereinafter provided. And each and every society or denom- 
 ination of Christians in this State, shall have and enjoy the same and 
 equal powers, rights and privileges ; and shall have power and authority 
 to support and maintain the ministers or teachers of their respective 
 denominations, and to build and repair houses for public worship, by 
 a tax on the members of any such society only, to be laid by a major 
 vote of the legal voters assembled at any society meeting, warned and 
 held according to law, or in any other manner. 
 
 Sect. 2. If any person shall choose to separate himself from the 
 society or denomination of Christians to which he may belong, and 
 shall leave a written notice thereof with the clerk of such society, he 
 shall thereupon be no longer liable for any future expenses which may 
 be incurred by said society. 
 
 Article Eighth. 
 OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Sect. i. The charter of Yale College, as modified by agreement 
 with the corporation thereof, in pursuance of an Act of the General 
 Assembly, passed in May, 1792, is hereby confirmed. 
 
 Sect. 2. The fund, called the School Fund, shall remain a 
 perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated 
 to the support and encouragement of the public, or common schools 
 throughout the state, and for the equal benefit of all the people thereof. 
 The value and amount of said fund shall, as soon as practicable, be 
 ascertained in such manner as the General Assembly may prescribe, 
 published, and recorded in the Comptroller's office; and no law shall 
 ever be made, authorizing said fund to be diverted to any other use 
 than the encouragement and support of public, or common schools, 
 among the several school societies, as justice and equity shall require. 
 
 Article Ninth. 
 OF IMPEACHMENTS. 
 
 Sect. i. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power 
 of impeaching. 
 
 Sect. 2. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate. When 
 sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. No 
 person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of 
 the members present. When the Governor is impeached, the Chief 
 Justice shall preside. 
 
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Sect. 3. The Governor, and all other executive and judicial 
 officers, shall be liable to impeachment; but judgments in such cases 
 shall not extend further than to removal from office and disqualification 
 to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under this State. The party- 
 convicted, shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial 
 and punishment according to law. 
 
 Sect. 4. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying 
 war against it, or adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. 
 No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of 
 two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court. 
 No conviction of treason, or attainder, shall work corruption of blood 
 •or forfeiture. 
 
 Article Tenth. 
 
 GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 Sect. i. Members of the General Assembly, and all officers, 
 executive and judicial, shall, before they enter on the duties of their 
 respective offices, take the following oath or affirmation, to wit: 
 
 You do solemnly swear, or affirm, (as the case may be,) that 
 you will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Con- 
 stitution of the State of Connecticut, so long as you continue a citizen 
 thereof; and that you will faithfully discharge, according to law, the 
 
 duties of the office of to the best of your abilities. So 
 
 help you God. 
 
 Sect. 2. Each town shall annually elect selectmen, and such 
 officers of local police, as the laws may prescribe. 
 
 Sect. 3. No County, City, Town, Borough, or other municipality, 
 shall ever subscribe to the capital stock of any railroad corporation or 
 become a purchaser of the bonds, or make donation to, or loan its 
 credit, directly or indirectly, in aid of any such corporation; but 
 -nothing herein contained shall affect the validity of any bonds or debts 
 incurred under existing laws, nor be construed to prohibit the General 
 Assembly from authorizing any Town or City to protect by additional 
 appropriations of money or credit any railroad debt contracted prior to 
 the amendment to the Constitution, adopted October, 1877. 
 
 Sect. 4. *The rights and duties of all corporations shall remain 
 as if this Constitution had not been adopted; with the exception of 
 such regulations and restrictions as are contained in this Constitution. 
 All judicial and civil officers now in office, shall continue to hold their 
 offices until their terms of office shall expire, or until they shall resign, 
 or be removed from office according to law. All military officers shall 
 continue to hold and exercise their respective offices, until their terms 
 of office shall expire or until they shall resign, or be removed according 
 to law. All laws not contrary to, or inconsistent with, the provisions 
 of this Constitution, shall remain in force, until they shall expire by 
 their own limitation, or shall be altered or repealed by the General 
 Assembly, in pursuance of this Constitution. The validity of all 
 "bonds, debts, contracts, as well of individuals as of bodies corporate, 
 or the State, or all suits, actions, or rights of action, both in law and 
 ♦equity, shall continue as if no change had taken place. 
 
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Sect. 5. No judge of the Superior Court, or of the Supreme 
 Court of Errors; no member of Congress; no person holding any 
 office under the authority of the United States ; no person holding the 
 office of Treasurer, Secretary, or Comptroller; no sheriff or sheriff's 
 deputy, shall be a member of the General Assembly. 
 
 Article Eleventh. 
 
 OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION. 
 
 Whenever a majority of the House of Representatives shall deem 
 it necessary to alter, or amend this Constitution, they may propose 
 such alteration and amendments; which proposed amendments shall 
 be continued to the next General Assembly, and be published with 
 the laws which may have been passed at the same session; and if two- 
 thirds of each house, at the next session of said Assembly, shall 
 approve the amendments proposed, by yeas and nays, said amendments 
 shall, by the Secretary, be transmitted to the town clerk in each town 
 in the State; whose duty it shall be to present the same to the 
 inhabitants thereof, for their consideration, at a town meeting, legally 
 warned and held for that purpose; and if it shall appear in a manner 
 to be provided by law, that a majority of the electors present at such 
 meetings, shall have approved such amendments, the same shall be 
 valid, to all intents and purposes, as a part of this Constitution. 
 
 AMENDMENTS ADOPTED SINCE 1 902. 
 
 The amendments to the Constitution since the above was compiled 
 are as follows: 
 
 ARTICLE XXXII. 
 
 Each town shall, annually, or biennially, as the electors of the 
 town may determine, elect selectmen and such officers of local police 
 as the laws may prescribe. 
 
 ARTICLE XXXIII. 
 
 Voting machines or other mechanical devices for voting may be 
 used in all elections in this state, under such regulations as may be 
 prescribed by law; provided, however, that the right of secret voting 
 shall be preserved. 
 
 ARTICLE XXXIV. 
 
 In case of the death, resignation, refusal to serve, inability to 
 perform the powers and duties of his office, or removal from office 
 of the Governor, or of his impeachment or absence from: the state, 
 the Lieutenant-Governor shall exercise the powers and authority 
 appertaining to the office of Governor, until another be chosen at the 
 next periodical election for Governor, and be duly qualified; or until 
 the disability be removed, or until the Governor, impeached or absent, 
 shall be acquitted or return. 
 
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ARTICLE XXXV. 
 
 The General Assembly shall adjourn sine die not later than the 
 iirst Wednesday after the first Monday in June following its 
 organization. 
 
 ARTICLE XXXVI. 
 
 That portion of section three of article twenty-seven of the amend- 
 ments to the constitution which relates to mileage of members of the 
 general assembly is hereby amended to read as follows : and in addition 
 to such compensation, the general assembly may provide by law for 
 the transportation of each member by public conveyance by the most 
 convenient route between his home station and the place of meeting 
 during the session or sessions of the general assembly to which he 
 was elected. 
 
 Art. 
 
 32. 
 
 Adopted October, 1905. 
 
 Art. 
 
 33. 
 
 Adopted October, 1905, 
 
 Art. 
 
 34. 
 
 Adopted 1911-1912. 
 
 Art. 
 
 35. 
 
 Adopted 1911-1912. 
 
 Art. 
 
 36. 
 
 Adopted 1915-1916. 
 
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FIRST GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT UNDER 
 THE PRESENT CONSTITUTION. 
 
 OLIVER WOLCOTT. 
 Governor, 181 7-1827. 
 
 Hon. Oliver Wolcott was the first governor of Connecticut under 
 the present Constitution, and the third member of that famous family 
 to occupy the office. He was born in Litchfield on January it, 1760,. 
 and was a son of Governor Oliver and Loraine (Collins) Wolcott. 
 He entered Yale College in 1774, but two years later he volunteered 
 in the militia and left his studies, but later returned to college and 
 graduated. During the summer he was with his father, as aide-de- 
 camp, who was then commanding on the western borders of the town. 
 After accompanying his father to the coast he accepted a quarter- 
 master's position. This was a period of great privation for his family 
 at Litchfield. The elder Wolcott was absent in Congress, and on his 
 son's shoulders fell the responsibility of obtaining fuel and provisions 
 for the family. He was also obliged to keep open the roads for the 
 necessary transportation of army stores under his charge. In 1781 
 Wolcott left his home in Litchfield with three dollars in his pocket, 
 and went to Hartford, where he soon afterward accepted a clerkship 
 in the office of the commissioner of the pay table, at a salary of fifty 
 cents per day specie value. Owing to his great diligence in discharging 
 the duties of the office, the General Assembly in 1782, appointed him 
 one of the commissioners of the pay table. Although he was the junior 
 member of the commission, he was in May, 1784, appointed commis- 
 sioner to adjust claims for Connecticut against the United States. 
 During the early part of 1788 the Board of Pay Table was abolished, 
 and in its place . was created the office of Comptroller of Public 
 Accounts, a position he held until September, 1789. In 1789, he was 
 appointed auditor of the United States Treasury Department, and 
 comptroller of the treasury in the spring of 1791. Alexander Hamilton 
 resigned as secretary of the treasury in 1795 and in February, Wolcott 
 succeeded him. He held the office through the remainder of Wash- 
 ington's administration and was continued in ofiice by President 
 
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Litchfield 
 
 First Governor of Connecticut under the Present Constitution 
 
 Portrait Reproduced from the Official Oil Painting by Ralph Earle in 
 
 Memorial Hall, State Library, Hartford 
 
Adams; resigning November 8, 1800. He was then appointed, by 
 President Adams, Judge of the Second Circuit of the United States 
 and served until the judiciary act was repealed in 1802. He then 
 removed to New York City, where he became a merchant. He was 
 very successful, gathered a fortune in a short time, and was first presi- 
 dent of the bank of North America. Soon after the close of the second 
 war with Great Britain, he returned to his former home in Litchfield, 
 where he, in company with a brother, founded large woolen factories 
 in Wolcottville in the town of Torrington. In 181 7, he took his seat as 
 governor of Connecticut, and his administration was destined to be one 
 of great reform. The most important question to demand the attention 
 of the General Assembly was that of calling a state convention to frame 
 a new constitution. This had been the bone of contention between 
 the two political parties for the last twenty years. The convention 
 was called and Governor Wolcott was chosen president. He presided 
 over the sessions of the convention with dignity and ability, and the 
 original draft of the constitution is said to have been his work. The 
 new constitution was framed and adopted. For ten years Governor 
 Wolcott was continued in office with no decided opposition. His 
 career as governor sustained his great reputation for executive ability 
 which he had gained as a member of Washington's Cabinet. After 
 retiring from the office of governor, he returned to New York City, 
 where he lived with his children for the remainder of his life. Gover- 
 nor Wolcott devoted his fortune to fostering agricultural pursuits, and 
 developing the great factories he had founded. He also paid consider- 
 able attention to letters, and he received the degree of Doctor of Laws 
 from the corporations of Brown University, the College of New Jersey, 
 and Yale College. He died at his home in New York, June I, 1833, 
 and the death of no public man of the period was mourned more than 
 Governor Wolcott. Being the last survivor of Washington's Cabinet 
 and a conspicuous figure that represented the principles of the 
 founders of the republic, Wolcott's death was looked upon as a national 
 loss. 
 
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 
 
 of the 
 
 STATE OFFICERS OF CONNECTICUT 
 
 Living, 1919 
 
 GOVERNORS 
 
 THOMAS M. WALLER 
 Governor 1883- 1885 
 
 Hon. Thomas M. Waller, of New London, Secretary of State in 
 1870-71 and Governor from 1883 to 1885, was born in New York 
 City in 1839. He is the son of Thomas C. and Mary Armstrong. 
 His parents died when he was nine years old and soon afterwards 
 was adopted by the late Robert K. Waller of New London, whose 
 name he assumed. His early education was received in the public 
 schools of New London, graduating from the Bartlett High School 
 with honors. He then studied law and was admitted to the New 
 London County bar in 1861. Soon after, however, he enlisted as a 
 private in the Second Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, and was 
 appointed fourth sergeant in Company E. After going to the front 
 with his regiment, he was compelled to resign because of an eye 
 difficulty. Returned to New London, he entered the practice of his 
 profession and has since met with flattering success. He is a Demo- 
 crat and was elected a representative from New London to the 
 General Assembly in 1867, 1868, 1872 and 1876, the latter session 
 being Speaker of the House. He has been Mayor of New London 
 and was State's Attorney for New London County from 1875 to 
 1883. Soon after retiring from the Governor's chair in 1885, 
 President Cleveland appointed him as United States Consul-General 
 at London, England. He held this position until 1889, when he re- 
 turned to New London and resumed the practice of his profession. 
 He was one of the two vice-presidents of the Constitutional Conven- 
 tion of 1902. Governor Waller has taken a prominent part in 
 many conventions and public meetings. 
 
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PHINEAS C. LOUNSBURY 
 
 Governor, 1887- 1889 
 
 Hon. Phineas C. Lounsbury, of Ridgefield, Governor from 1887 
 to 1889, was born in Ridgefield, January 10, 1841. He is the son of 
 Nathan and Delia Scofield Lounsbury, and brother of ex-Governor 
 George E. Lounsbury. As a boy he helped his father on the farm 
 and obtained a good education. Leaving home he went to New 
 York City and secured employment as a clerk in a shoe store. He 
 soon was promoted to confidential clerk to the proprietor of the store 
 and afterwards became a traveling salesman for the concern and 
 intimately acquainted with every department of the business. At the 
 early age of twenty-one he formed a partnership with his brother, 
 under firm name of Lounsbury Brothers, and began the manufac- 
 ture of boots and shoes in New Haven. Later the concern removed 
 to South Norwalk, where the business has been successfully carried 
 on for several years, under the firm name of Lounsbury, Mathewson 
 & Company. When the Civil War commenced, Governor Lounsbury 
 enlisted as a private in the Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers, and 
 soon after reaching the front was taken sick with typhoid fever; and 
 after being in service four months, he was honorably discharged. 
 In 1874 he was a Republican member of the General Assembly and in 
 1880 he was a presidential elector. He has held no political office 
 since the expiration of his term as Governor (1889) but has devoted 
 his time to his many business enterprises. He has been president 
 of the Merchants Exchange National Bank of New York since 
 1885 and is vice-president of the Preferred Accident Insurance Com- 
 pany of New York; president of the Remington Typewriter Com- 
 pany; trustee of the American Bank Note Company; director of the, 
 First National Bank (Ridgefield), trustee Wesleyan University and 
 is officially connected with other concerns. Governor Lounsbury 
 makes his home in Ridgefield. He has an office on Broadway, New 
 York. 
 
 MORGAN G. BULKELEY 
 
 Governor, 1889- 1893 
 
 Hon. Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, of Hartford, Governor from 
 1889 to 1893, was born in East Haddam, December 26, 1837. His 
 father, Eliphalet A. Bulkeley, was a founder of the Republican party 
 in Connecticut and the first president of the ^Etna Life Insurance 
 Company, of which he was one of the organizers. His mother was 
 
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Lydia Smith Morgan of Colchester. When he was nine years old the 
 family located in Hartford, where he attended the public schools 
 until he was fourteen years old. Then, in 1851, he entered the 
 employ of the iEtna Life Insurance Company as office sweeper, with 
 wages of one dollar a week. After a short experience at this humble 
 occupation he went to Brooklyn, N. Y., where he acted as bundle 
 boy in a mercantile house, known as H. P. Morgan & Company, in 
 which he became a partner several years later. In 1861, in answer 
 to the call for volunteers young Bulkeley enlisted in the Thirteenth 
 Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served with credit 
 during the Peninsular Campaign. After the war he took a keen 
 interest in politics and was a member of the Republican General 
 Committee of Kings County. After the death of his father, he came 
 to Hartford, which has ever since been his home. Soon after his 
 return to Hartford, he organized the .United States Bank of that 
 city and was its first president, holding that office from 1872 to 1879. 
 In 1879, upon the retirement of Thomas O. finders, Mr. Bulkeley 
 became president of the ^tna Life Insurance Company, which was 
 destined to become under his great organizing skill, firm principles 
 and rare managerial genius an institution surpassed by none of its 
 kind for progress, success and sound standing. Although the iEtna 
 has been his chief business interest, he has had other strong business 
 ties, having been a director of the ^Etna National Bank, the ^Etna 
 Fire Insurance Company, the United States Bank, all of Hartford 
 and in the Willimantic Linen Company. A political career equally 
 long and strong has been achieved by Mr. Bulkeley. He was a 
 councilman in 1875 ; alderman in 1876 and from 1880 to 1888 was 
 mayor of the city of Hartford. In 1888 he was nominated by 
 acclamation for the office of governor and in 1889 entered on a notable 
 administration. In 1890, there arose under the new ballot law the 
 trying deadlock situation, when the question of succession to the 
 office of governor could not be settled and it was Governor Bulkeley's 
 duty to remain in office though legislation was in abeyance. In this 
 difficult situation he acquitted himself with great tact and judgment. 
 When the legislature failed to make needed appropriations, he and 
 the JEtna. Life Insurance Company advanced funds necessary for 
 the maintenance of state institutions until proper provision was 
 made. After his term as Governor expired in 1893 he was nominated 
 for United States Senator, but then, and two years later, he with- 
 drew in favor of General Hawley. Meanwhile other honors were 
 his for he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 
 
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and 1896 and in 1889 he was granted the honorary degree of 
 Master of Arts by Yale University. In January, 1905, he was elected 
 United States Senator to succeed General Hawley and served until 
 191 1. Since 1897, he has been president of the board of Commis- 
 sioners of the Connecticut River Bridge and Highway District, and 
 it was through his untiring efforts the world unrivalled bridge that 
 now spans the Connecticut between Hartford and East Hartford, 
 was built and dedicated in October, 1908. On December 3, 1908, 
 in Parsons' Theatre, Hartford, he was presented a magnificent silver 
 service of one hundred and fifty-six pieces, as a token of apprecia- 
 tion for this. great service to his fellowmen. In the spring of 191 1, 
 he was given a beautiful silver loving cup to mark the appreciation 
 due him for further successful achievements in improving landings 
 on the Connecticut River. Mr. Bulkeley has been president of the 
 following patriotic organizations : The Connecticut Sons of the Revo- 
 lution, the Society of Foreign Wars and the Society of the War of 
 1812. He is also a member of the Mayflower Society, the Society 
 of Colonial Wars, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Massa- 
 chusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion. He is a hereditary 
 member of the Society of the Cincinnati, a Congregationalist, a 
 Free Mason and is a member of various local social clubs. On 
 February 11, 1885, Mr. Bulkeley married Fannie Briggs Houghton, 
 daughter of James and Caroline A. Houghton of San Francisco, 
 California. 
 
 O. VINCENT COFFIN . 
 
 Governor, 1895-1897 
 
 Hon. Owen Vincent Coffin, thirty-eighth governor of Connecti- 
 cut (1895-97), was born at Union Vale, Dutchess Co., N. Y., June 
 20, 1836, son of Alexander Hamilton and Jane (Vincent) Coffin. 
 His first American ancestor on the paternal side was Tristram Coffin, 
 a native of England, who came to the colonies in 1642 and settled at 
 Salisbury, Mass., removing to Nantucket in 1660. On his mother's 
 side he is a descendant of Capt. Israel Vail of the revolutionary army. 
 Governor Coffin was educated in the public schools of Dutchess 
 County, the Cortland Academy, Homer, N. Y., and the Charlotteville 
 (N. Y.) Seminary. He began his business career in New York city 
 in 1853 in the employ of his uncle, J. W. Vincent, who was engaged 
 in a wholesale mercantile business. During 1855-61 he was the 
 New York agent of a prominent Connecticut manufacturing company. 
 In 1864, he removed to Middletown, and was made secretary and 
 
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treasurer of the Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank of that place. 
 After fourteen years of efficient service ill health from overwork 
 forced him to withdraw for a time from active business. In 1884 ne 
 was elected president of the Middlesex Mutual Assurance Co. of 
 Middletown and continued in active service until 1918. He has been 
 director and vice-president of the First National Bank of Middletown ; 
 secretary, treasurer and director of the New Haven, Middletown & 
 Willimantic Railroad Co., and a director of the Boston and New 
 York Air Line Co. In politics Mr. Coffin has always been a Repub- 
 lican. He served as mayor of Middletown two years (1872-73) ; state 
 senator for the twenty-second district in 1887-88 and again in 1889- 
 90. He was among the pioneers in encouraging and establishing 
 Young Men's Christian Associations, especially in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 and Middletown, being president of both those associations, and for 
 years was prominent among their most efficient advocates. He took 
 great interest in agricultural matters, and in 1875 was elected Presi- 
 dent of the Middlesex County Agricultural Society. He was first 
 assistant moderator of the Triennial International Congregational 
 Council in Portland, Ore., in 1898; superintendent of Sunday-schools 
 in Brooklyn, N. Y., and Middletown, for many years ; moderator of 
 the Congregational Council of Connecticut, and president of the 
 Middletown Choral Society, and many other public or semi-public 
 organizations. In 1896 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. 
 from Wesleyan University, and although not a college man he is an 
 honorary member of the college fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon. He 
 was for years president of the Middletown Rifle Association, and also 
 served as vice-president of the Connecticut Rifle Association. He 
 was married June 24, 1858, at Middletown, to Ellen Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Linus Coe. Mrs. Coffin died July 23, 19 12. He has 
 one son, Seward V. Coffin, who is General Agent of the Provident 
 Life & Trust Co. of Philadelphia, with headquarters in Albany, N. Y. 
 
 GEORGE P. McLEAN 
 
 Governor, 1901-1903 
 
 The following biographical sketch of Hon. George P. McLean, 
 Governor from 1901 to 1903 is taken from the Official Congres- 
 sional Directory:" "GEORGE PAYNE McLEAN, Republican, of 
 Simsbury, was born in Simsbury October 7, 1857; graduated from 
 Hartford High School; admitted to the bar in 1881 and practiced in 
 Hartford; member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 
 
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1883-84; member of the commission to revise the Connecticut statutes 
 in 1885; member of the Connecticut Senate in 1886; was United 
 States district attorney for Connecticut from 1892 to 1896; governor 
 of Connecticut 1901-03; received the degree of A. M. from Yale 
 University in 1904; was nominated in Republican caucus by a vote 
 of 113 to 64 for opposing candidates, and elected by the general 
 assembly by a vote of 158 to 96 for Homer S. Cummings, Democrat, 
 and 1 for Morgan G. Bulkeley, Republican. Was reelected to the 
 United States Senate, November 7, 1916, and his term of service will 
 expire March 3, 1923. " 
 
 HENRY ROBERTS 
 Governor, 1905- 1907 
 
 Hon. Henry Roberts, of Hartford, Lieutenant-Governor from 
 1903 to 1905 and Governor from 1905 to 1907, was born in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., January 22, 1853. His father, George Roberts, was a promi- 
 nent Connecticut manufacturer, who at the time his son was born was 
 in business in Brooklyn. The same year he returned to his native 
 state to retire to a farm in South Windsor. His mother was Elvira 
 (Evans) Roberts, a descendant of John Taylor, and of Thomas 
 Taylor, to whom the people of Deerfield, Mass., have erected a monu- 
 ment in grateful commemoration of his 'bravery in the French and 
 Indian Wars. Governor Roberts spent the early years of his life on 
 his father's farm in South Windsor. His first school training was re- 
 ceived at the public schools of Hartford. He then attended the High 
 School and after his graduation in 1873 he entered Yale College, from 
 which he was graduated with the class of 1877. Having decided to 
 adopt the legal profession he attended the Columbia Law School for 
 one year and then the Yale Law School for the same length of time.' 
 
 In 1879 Governor Roberts began his active business career by 
 entering the service of the Hartford Woven Wire Company of which 
 his father was the president. He had intended to practice law but 
 the death of his father compelled him to remain in business to care 
 for the large interests of his family. Having inherited the executive 
 ability and commercial acumen of his father he quickly took his place 
 among the leading manufacturers and business men of the State. 
 By creating industries which give useful employment to his fellow 
 citizens, his success has brought prosperity to many others. He 
 was president of the Hartford Woven Wire Mattress Company for 
 several years and is now a director in a large number of corporations. 
 
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Among others may be mentioned the Phoenix National Bank, The 
 Hartford Trust Company, the State Savings Bank of Hartford, The 
 Hartford Electric Light Company, the Farmington River Power 
 Company, the States School, Winston, N. C, and the Y. M. C. A. 
 School, Springfield, Mass. 
 
 The Governor's career in politics might be recited under the 
 title " From Alderman to Governor in seven years ;" for within that 
 short period of time he rose from a minor position in his city to the 
 highest office in the State. Like his father he has always been a 
 staunch Republican. In 1897 he was elected an alderman in Hartford. 
 In this position he served his fellow citizens so well that they sent 
 him in 1899 to represent the city in the Legislature. He remained 
 a member of the lower house until in 1901 he was elected to the 
 Senate from the First District. Governor Roberts is a member of 
 the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars; the Sons of the American 
 Revolution; the Country Club at Farmington; the Hartford Club and 
 other organizations of a similar character. 
 
 ROLLIN S. WOODRUFF 
 
 Governor, 1907- 1909 
 
 Hon. Rollin Simmons Woodruff, of New Haven, Lieutenant- 
 Governor from 1905 to 1907 and Governor from 1907 to 1909, was 
 born in Rochester, N. Y., July 14, 1854. He traces his ancestry back 
 to Matthew Woodruff, who came from England to America in 1636. 
 His parents were Jeremiah Woodruff, a Presbyterian clergyman, and 
 Clarisse (Thompson) Woodruff. When he was fifteen years of age 
 the family moved to New Haven, where he obtained the first position 
 in life as errand boy in a hardware store. His education was limited 
 to that of the public schools of his native town and a brief period 
 of schooling in Lansing, Iowa, but his success in all he undertook was 
 as complete and as rapid as that of any college man. He engaged in 
 various financial and mercantile enterprises in New Haven and after 
 a number of years became interested in the firm of C. S. Mersick & 
 Company, one of the most extensive iron and steel wholesale dealers 
 in New England. He has, for many years, been president of the 
 firm and a controlling power of its large plant at New Haven. He is 
 also a director in a number of other large corporations. Governor 
 Woodruff is a Republican and has held many public offices. He has 
 been president of the Chamber of Commerce of New Haven and in 
 1903 was a member of the State Senate, being president pro tern of 
 the Senate. Governor Woodruff is a member of several prominent 
 clubs. 
 
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FRANK B. WEEKS 
 Governor, 1909- 191 1 
 
 Hon. Frank Bentley Weeks, of Middletown, in the fall of 1908 was 
 elected Lieutenant-Governor of the State on the Republican ticket by 
 a plurality of 40,487, and served for three months and a half. On 
 April 21, 1909 Governor George L. Lilley of Waterbury died in office 
 and the next day Lieutenant-Governor Weeks became Governor and 
 served until 191 1. Governor Weeks is a direct descendant of Thomas 
 Weeks who came from England in 1637, and from John Archer who 
 came from Warwickshire, England in 1646 and was granted by James 
 the Second 1250 acres of land in America, and was made Lord of the 
 Manor of Fordham, New York. On the maternal side Governor 
 Weeks is a direct descendant of Lion Gardiner who came from 
 England and constructed and commanded the Fort at Saybrook in 1636 
 and 1637, and of his son, David, born in Saybrook Fort in 1636, and 
 who was the first white child born in Connecticut. Governor Weeks 
 is the son of Daniel L. and Frances M. (Edwards) Weeks, and was 
 born in Brooklyn, N. Y., January 20, 1854. At the age of thirteen 
 he removed with his parents to Middletown. He was educated in 
 public, private and military schools. He was also graduated from 
 Eastman Business College in 1872. His first task was in connection 
 with buildings and finance of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane 
 of Middletown. At the solicitation of the Superintendent he was 
 elected to assist him in business and building problems in connection 
 with the institution — an institution in which Governor Weeks' service 
 as a trustee and chairman of its board for many years have proved in- 
 valuable to the State. In 1880 he associated himself with George A. 
 Coles of Middletown, and they took over the large grain and milling 
 business of the corporation known as Union Mills, which they con- 
 ducted for fifteen years under the firm name of Coles & Weeks. Gov- 
 ernor Weeks retired from the milling business in 1895 in order to give 
 his full attention to his personal affairs and many other duties. He 
 is president of The Middletown Savings Bank ; president of the Walter 
 Hubbard Realty Co. of Meriden; chairman of the board of trustees 
 of the Connecticut State Hospital of Middletown ; director of the Mid- 
 dlesex Mutual Assurance Co. of Middletown; was president of the 
 Connecticut Commission to the Atlantic Exposition in 1895 ; and Re- 
 publican Presidential Elector in 1904; was a delegate to the Repub- 
 lican National Convention both in 1912 and 1916. He is also trustee 
 of the Wesleyan University, Middletown, and in 1909 the University 
 honored him with the degree of LL.D. Governor Weeks was the first 
 president of the Middletown Board of Trade, and has been a member 
 
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of the Court of Common Council in the city. He is a member of the 
 University Club of Middletown, and a charter member of the Middle- 
 sex County Historical Society; of the Republican Club of New York 
 and New England Society of New York, and also of the Society of 
 Colonial Wars. 
 
 SIMEON E. BALDWIN 
 Governor, 1911-1915 
 
 Hon. Simeon Eben Baldwin, of New Haven, Governor of Con- 
 necticut from 191 1 to 191 5, was born at New Haven, February 5, 
 1840, the youngest son of Roger Sherman Baldwin, Governor of Con- 
 necticut and United States Senator, who was a son of Simeon Bald- 
 win, Representative in Congress and Associate Judge of the Supreme 
 Court of Errors, and a grandson of Roger Sherman, Signer of the 
 Declaration of Independence, and a leader in the Convention of 1787 
 which framed the Constitution of the United States. 
 
 On his mother's side he is a descendant of Governors Haynes, 
 Wyllys, and Pitkin, of Connecticut. He was educated at the Hopkins 
 Grammar School of New Haven, Yale College, the Yale and Harvard 
 Law Schools, and was admitted to the bar at New Haven in 1863, 
 where he practiced his profession before both the State and United 
 States courts for thirty years. He occasionally appeared also in the 
 argument of important causes in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and 
 New York, as well as in the Supreme Court of the United States. 
 
 In 1869 he was appointed an instructor in the Yale Law School 
 and in 1872 a Professor. At the latter date he withdrew from prac- 
 tice in the inferior courts, and until his election as Governor, gave 
 one or two days a week through the year to the duties of his professor- 
 ship. The main subjects which he taught were Constitutional Law, 
 Railroad Law, and Private International Law. He has also delivered 
 the Southworth lectures in Andover Theological Seminary, a course 
 of lectures in Private International Law in the University of Mary- 
 land, a course of lectures on Wills in Howard University, and another 
 on American Law in Vassar College. In 19 19 he resigned his pro- 
 fessorship at Yale, and was appointed Professor of Laws Emeritus. 
 
 In 1872 he was appointed by the General Assembly one of a 
 commission to revise the education laws of Connecticut, and in 1873 
 one of a similar body for the revision of all the public laws. The 
 general statutes had been arranged in all prior revisions alphabetically 
 by topics. He advocated and carried through an arrangement of the 
 various heads in their natural order, which has ever since been 
 followed. 
 
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In 1875 he brought forward in Yale University a plan for giving 
 advanced instruction in the Law Department to those who had already- 
 received a degree of bachelor of laws. A course of graduate study 
 was suggested, leading to the degrees of Master of Laws and Doctor 
 of Civil Law. This measure received the approval of the University, 
 and was put into effect in 1876. Graduate courses of a similar nature, 
 patterned after those of Yale University, have since been introduced 
 into a number of the American law schools. 
 
 In 1877 he obtained the approval by the State Bar Association of 
 a proposition brought forward by him to abolish the distinction be- 
 tween law and equity as applicable to the form of civil actions. This 
 resulted in his appointment on a legislative commission to accomplish 
 this change, and he had a large share in preparing the Practice Act by 
 which it was effected, and the Rules of Court under it. In 1885 he 
 was appointed on a commission to report to the General Assembly 
 on methods of taxation, and was influential in thus securing the 
 adoption of several measures which added largely to the revenues of 
 the State. 
 
 In 1878 he was one of a few citizens who initiated the move- 
 ment which led to the establishment of an extensive system of parks 
 in New Haven, and was elected one of the three life members of the 
 city Park Commission. 
 
 In ithe same year he suggested to the State Bar Association of 
 Connecticut that it should take the initiative in endeavoring to secure 
 the foundation of a national bar association. He was appointed one 
 of a committee raised for that purpose, and conducted the prelimi- 
 nary correspondence, which was necessarily extensive. The result 
 was the organization in 1878, of the American Bar Association, of 
 which he has been called the founder, and which has had an im- 
 portant and growing influence throughout the Union. 
 
 In 1893 he was appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme 
 Court of Errors, and in 1907 Chief Justice, serving until retired 
 under the age limit. 
 
 He has been president of the New Haven Colony Historical 
 Society, the American Historical Association, the American Bar 
 Association, the Association of American Law Schools, the Interna- 
 tional Law Association, the American Social Science Association, the 
 American Political Science Association, and the American Society 
 for the Judicial Settlement of International Disputes, and is now 
 president of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, the 
 Trustees of the Hopkins Grammar School, and the Connecticut 
 
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Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, and Director of 
 the Bureau of Comparative Law of the American Bar Association. 
 He is a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the American 
 Philosophical Society, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 
 a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
 and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 
 the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and the Institut de Droit 
 Compare of Brussels. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. 
 from Harvard in 1891, and later from Columbia, Wesleyan and Yale. 
 
 He has published a Digest of the Connecticut Law Reports, 
 " Modern Political Institutions," "American Railroad Law," " Illus- 
 trative Cases on Railroad Law," " The American Judiciary," " Educa- 
 tion and Citizenship," and " The Young Man and the Law." He was 
 also one of the authors of " Two Centuries Growth of American 
 Law," and has contributed numerous articles to magazines and trans- 
 actions of societies in the United States, Great Britain, France, Ger- 
 many, Belgium, and Switzerland. He prepared the definitions of 
 terms of jurisprudence given in the " Dictionary of Philosophy," 
 printed at Oxford in 1902, and the article on United States Law in 
 the Encyclopedia Brittanica. 
 
 In 1900 he was, under appointment from the Department of 
 State, a delegate from the United States to the Congres International 
 Pendtentiare at Brussels, and in 1905 to that at Budapest. In 1904 
 he was vice-president for the United States of the Universal Con- 
 gress of Jurists and Lawyers, at St. Louis, Missouri. 
 
 He has been moderator of the State Conference of Congrega- 
 tional Churches of Connecticut, and president of the New Haven 
 Congregational Club, and is a director in the Missionary Society of 
 Connecticut, and a corporate member of the American Board of Com- 
 missioners for Foreign Missions. 
 
 Before going on the bench, he had been an active member of 
 the Democratic party, and when appointed was president of the State 
 Democratic Club, and of the Monticello Club in New Haven, which 
 then occupied a club house on Temple street. He retired from the 
 bench in 1910, on reaching the age of seventy, under the constitu- 
 tional provision to that effect, and was elected Governor on the Demo- 
 cratic ticket in the fall of that year. 
 
 At the Democratic State Convention held at Bridgeport, on May 
 2, 1912, resolutions were unanimously passed instructing the Con- 
 necticut delegates to the Democratic National Convention to be held 
 at Baltimore, June 25, 1912, to place in nomination, vote for, and 
 
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support Governor Baldwin as candidate for President of the United 
 States. He received the votes of two States in the Convention. In 
 1914, he was the candidate of the Democratic party for United States 
 Senate, but was defeated at the election by Senator Brandegee. 
 
 MARCUS H. HOLCOMB 
 
 Governor, 191 5 — 
 
 Hon. Marcus Hensey Holcomb of Southington, Governor of 
 Connecticut since 191 5, was born at New Hartford, November 28, 
 1844. He is the son of Carlos and Adah (Bushnell) Holcomb, and 
 traces his New England ancestry to Thomas Holcomb, born in Wales 
 in 1 601, who came to Massachusetts in 1629, settling at Dorchester, 
 and in 1634 located at Windsor. He represented Windsor and Hart- 
 ford at the framing of the Constitution of Connecticut Colony in 
 1639, and it is fitting that now, over two and three quarter centuries 
 later, Governor Holcomb, a lineal descendant, should be charged with 
 the enforcement of the provisions of the constitution of the State 
 born of the Colonial constitution Thomas Holcomb helped to frame. 
 Governor Holcomb's boyhood and youth were spent in attendance 
 at public school and on his father's farm. He then for a number 
 of years taught school and studied law, under the direction of Judge 
 Jared B. Foster, an eminent member of the Connecticut bar. On 
 November 15, 1871, he was admitted to the bar at Litchfield, and 
 has practiced at Southington, since 1872. In 1876 he was elected 
 probate judge for the Southington district, and was also judge of the 
 Southington town court from the time the court was instituted until 
 his election as Attorney-General. He was Attorney-General from 
 January, 1907 to September 10, 1910, when he resigned to become a 
 judge of the Superior Court. In 1893 he was elected treasurer of the 
 County of Hartford, serving until 1908. He was a member of the 
 Senate in 1893, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1902, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1905, Member of the 
 Republican State Central Committee several years, and has served 
 on many State Commissions at different times. In 1914, having 
 reached the age limit of seventy years, fixed by law, he was retired 
 as judge of the Superior Court and in November of the same year 
 was elected Governor of the State, and now has the great honor of 
 serving his third term. No other Governor has served so long as 
 Governor Holcomb, the past one hundred years, except William A. 
 Buckingham of Norwich, the " war governor " who served from 1858 
 to 1866. Governor Holcomb holds numerous positions of honor and 
 
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trust being president of the Southington Savings Bank, a director of 
 the Southington National Bank, The Peck, Stow & Wilcox Go., The 
 iEtna Nut Co., The Southington Cutlery Co., and National Fire In- 
 surance Company. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, also a mem- 
 ber of the Orders of Knights of Pythias, Elks, Red Men, Foresters, 
 Mechanics and of the Grange. 
 
 He is a member of the First Baptist Church of Southington. 
 chairman of its Board of Trustees and for thirty years was super- 
 intendent of its Sunday School. He was married to Sarah Carpenter 
 Bennett on October 16, 1872, who died December 3, 1901. Governor 
 Holcomb has proved to be a distinguished " war governor " and by 
 his faithfulness and wonderful executive ability has inspired the 
 commonwealth to a patriotism that has become historical record. 
 
 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNORS 
 
 LYMAN A. MILLS 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1 899-1 901 
 
 Hon. Lyman Allen Mills, of Middlefield, Lieutenant-Governor 
 from 1899 to 1901, was born in Middlefield (then a part of Middle- 
 town) February 25, 1841. He is the son of Rev. Charles Lewis and 
 Elizabeth Coe (Lyman) Mills, and through his father is descended 
 from John and Priscilla Alden, of the Mayflower Pilgrims (1620) 
 and through his mother is a descendant of Thomas Welles, fourth 
 Governor of the Colony of Connecticut (1655 and 1658). He was 
 educated in the academies of Durham, Conn., and North Bridgewater, 
 Mass. He has successfully devoted himself chiefly to manufacturing 
 and to the care and management of various properties and estates. 
 He is president of the Lyman Gun Sight Corporation ; director of the 
 American Wringer Company; president of The Levi E. Coe Library 
 Association ; trustee of the Middletown Savings Bank and holds other 
 positions of trust and responsibility. Mr. Mills has been for many 
 years a breeder of choice Jersey cattle, and has advanced the interests 
 of dairy farming in America through the well-known herds of Jerseys 
 raised upon his farm. Jerseys bred by him have become famous 
 prize-winners, including the cow Figgis, champion and grand 
 champion at the great exhibition of Jerseys at the World's Fair at 
 St. Louis in 1904. On June 6, 1866, Mr. Mills married Jane Louisa, 
 daughter of Deacon Alfred Andrews of New Britain. Mr. Mills is a 
 Republican and represented his town in the General Assembly of 
 1895. He is a member of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution. 
 
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EDWIN O. KEELER 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1 901 -1903 
 
 Hon. Edwin O. Keeler, of Norwalk, Lieutenant-Governor from 
 1901 to 1903, was born in Ridgefield, January 12, 1846. He was 
 educated in the schools of his native town. When fifteen years of 
 age he went to Norwalk to live and in 1867 he became interested in 
 the grocery business and was successfully engaged in this line, being 
 a member of the wholesale grocery firm of Holmes, Keeler & Selleck 
 Co. for many years. In 1894 he had the honor of being elected first 
 Mayor of the city of Norwalk. A year previous to this he was 
 chosen President of the Fairfield County National Bank, succeeding 
 the late United States Treasurer Hyatt, also Director in the Nor- 
 walk Hospital. He is an ex-President of the Norwalk Club, as well 
 as a director in many other companies. He is one of the prominent 
 Knights Templar and is also a member of the I. O. O. F., and B. P 
 O. Elks. He has had the honor of serving five consecutive terms in 
 the Legislature. In 1893 and 1895 he was a member of the House; 
 1897 and 1899, a member of the Senate and in 1901, as Lieutenant- 
 Governor, was President of the Senate. He was a delegate to the 
 National Republican Convention, at St. Louis, in 1896. 
 
 HENRY ROBERTS 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1903- 1905 
 (See Governors for biographical sketch.) 
 
 ROLLIN S. WOODRUFF 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1905- 1907 
 (See Governors for biographical sketch.) 
 
 EVERETT J. LAKE 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1907- 1909 
 
 Hon. Everett John Lake, of Hartford, Lieutenant-Governor from 
 1907 to 1909, is the son of Thomas A. and Martha A. (Cockings) 
 Lake, and was born in Woodstock, February 8, 1871. He was edu- 
 cated in the High School at Stromburg, Neb., in the class of 1887, 
 and in 1890 was graduated from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
 
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and in 1892 was graduated from Harvard College. Mr. Lake, on 
 September 4, 1895, married Eva Louise Sykes, daughter of George 
 Sykes, a prominent manufacturer of Rockville. Mr. Lake has been 
 a member of the Board of School Visitors of Hartford. He is a. 
 director of the Hartford National Bank, and the Riverside Trust Co. 
 He is also a member of the major's staff of the First Company, Gov- 
 ernor's Foot Guard, and president and treasurer of the Hartford' 
 Lumber Company. Mr. Lake is a Republican and was a member of 
 the House of Representatives in 1903 and of the Senate in 1905. He: 
 is a member of several prominent clubs and societies. 
 
 FRANK B. WEEKS 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1909 
 (See Governors for biographical sketch). 
 
 DENNIS A. BLAKESLEE 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1911-1913 
 
 Hon. Dennis A. Blakeslee, of New Haven, Lieutenant-Governor 
 from 191 1 to 1913, was born in New Haven, March 11, 1856 and is 
 the son of Charles W. and Martha J. (Waters) Blakeslee. He was 
 educated in the public schools of New Haven and on December 4, 
 1878 married Lizzie F. Law, daughter of Wyllis A. and Harriett A. 
 Law. He is a Republican and was Councilman in 1881 and 1882, 
 Fire Commissioner from 1887 to 1893, and a member of the Senate 
 two consecutive sessions, 1907 and 1909. He served twenty-five years 
 with the 2nd Company of Governor's Horse Guards and was in com- 
 mand eight years. He is also a member of the Society's Committee 
 of the Dwight Place Congregational Church, a director in Mechanics 
 Bank and the Security Insurance Company, secretary and treasurer 
 of Seymour Water Company, president of Connecticut Hassam Pave- 
 ment Company, president New Haven Mercantile Safe Deposit Com- 
 pany, and secretary and treasurer of the New Haven Street Sprin- 
 kling Company. He was a member of the Committee in charge of 
 erecting the new county Court House in New Haven, and president 
 of the Saybrook and Lyme Connecticut River Bridge Commission. 
 Mr. Blakeslee is a prominent contractor, being a member of the firm 
 of C. W. Blakeslee & Sons. 
 
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LYMAN T. TINGIER 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1913-1915 
 
 Hon. Lyman Twining Tingier, of Rockville, town of Vernon, 
 Lieutenant-Governor from 191 3 to 191 5, was born in Webster, Mass., 
 June 9, 1862. He is the son of Seymour Allen and Sarah (Twining) 
 Tingier. His early training was received in the public schools of 
 Webster and at Nichols Academy, Dudley, Mass. He studied law 
 at Yale University and was graduated from the Yale Law School 
 with the class of 1888, in which year he was admitted to the bar. 
 In 1889 he located in Rockville, where he has since successfully 
 practiced his profession. He has held several public offices including: 
 judge of probate for the District of Ellington (Vernon and Ellington) 
 from 1890 to 1895 ; judge of the City Court of Rockville from 1899 to 
 1903; Mayor of the city of Rockville, 1912-1914 and has been clerk 
 of the Superior Court for Tolland County since 1893. Judge Tingier 
 was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, at Chicago, in 
 1896; was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 191 4 and was 
 a member of the General Assembly two sessions, 1909 and 191 1. 
 He is a director of the Savings Bank of Rockville, and also served 
 as chairman of the Rockville High School Committee. In local frater- 
 nal circles he is affiliated with the Masons, Knights of Pythias and 
 Foresters. 
 
 CLIFFORD B. WILSON 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor, 1915 — 
 
 Hon. Clifford Brittin Wilson, of Bridgeport, Lieutenant-Gov- 
 ernor since 1915, was born December 2, 1879, at Bridgeport, and has 
 lived there all his life. He obtained his preliminary education in the 
 public schools of his native city, later attending the High School, from 
 which he was graduated in 1898. He possessed a strong taste for the 
 law in early youth, and upon the completion of his studies he devoted 
 his attention to that subject in the office of Edward P. Nobbs, a 
 prominent attorney of Bridgeport. In 1899, while he was yet a 
 student of law, he was appointed assistant clerk of the Probate Dis- 
 trict of Bridgeport. He was admitted to the bar in January, 1902, 
 and at once began the active practice of his profession. Two years 
 later he entered into partnership with Henry C. Stevenson, an associa- 
 tion which continued until the year 191 5. In 1907, Mr. Wilson was 
 elected alderman from the fifth district, serving in that capacity until 
 1909, in which year he was appointed coroner for Fairfield County, 
 
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which office he resigned on January i, 1912. In 1909 he also became 
 president of the common council and served as acting mayor of 
 Bridgeport. In November, 191 1, he received the election of Mayor 
 of Bridgeport, the term of service being for two years. He was re- 
 elected mayor in November, 1913, 1915, 1917 and 1919. Mr. Wilson 
 has been active in many departments of the public life of his native city, 
 and particularly so in the militia of his State. He held various offices 
 in the Third Regiment, which afterwards became the Fourth Com- 
 pany, Coast Artillery, and he is now on the State retired list as cap- 
 tain of militia. 
 
 He has been a member of the Masonic order for many years and 
 is particularly active therein. He is a member of all the bodies con- 
 nected with that order, including the Pyramid Temple, Ancient Arabic 
 Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and has taken his Knight Templar 
 and thirty-second degrees in Masonry. He is also a member of and 
 past grand of Pequonnock Lodge No. 4, Independent Order of Odd 
 Fellows; past chief patriarch of Stratfield Encampment, No. 23, of 
 the same order, a member of Bridgeport Lodge, Benevolent and Pro- 
 tective Order of Elks, and Franklin Bartlett Camp, No. 11, Sons of 
 Veterans. 
 
 Mr. Wilson was united in marriage, November 10, 1914, to 
 Anastasia C, daughter of Patrick and Mary E. (Cahill) Dorsey, of 
 Middletown. He was appointed Colonel of the Fourth Military Dis- 
 trict in 191 7. 
 
 SECRETARIES 
 
 THOMAS M. WALLER 
 Secretary, 1 870-1 871 
 (See Governors for biographical sketch.) 
 
 CHARLES E. SEARLS 
 
 Secretary, 1881-1883 
 
 Hon. Charles Edwin Searls, of Thompson, Secretary of State 
 from 1881 to 1883, was born in Pomfret, March 25, 1846 and has 
 resided in Thompson since he was eleven years of age. He was 
 graduated from Thompson Academy in 1864, and entered Yale Uni- 
 versity the same year, graduating in the class of 1868. He then 
 entered the law office of Hon. Gilbert W. Phillips, of Putnam, and in 
 1870 was admitted to the bar. He at once opened an office in Putnam 
 
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where he has since successfully continued in the practice of his pro- 
 fession, being now senior member of the law firm of Searls, Russell 
 and Bradford. He has held the office of State's Attorney for Wind- 
 ham County since 1893, has twice represented Thompson in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, in 1871 and 1886; and in 1909 was leader of the 
 Senate, being chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In 1896, he was 
 a delegate from this State to the Republican National Convention at 
 St. Louis. He is a member of the American Bar Association, and 
 has been president of the Connecticut State Bar Association since 
 January, 1918. He is also a member of the National Council of the 
 National Economic League, and has been active in various patriotic 
 enterprises. He has served his town as Town Clerk, Justice of the 
 Peace and School Visitor; is a trustee of the Day-Kimball Hospital 
 and has been a director of the Thompson National Bank and other 
 institutions. Mr. Searls is a member of Psi Upsilon and Wolf's 
 Head Societies, both of Yale. On October 8, 1902, he married Miss 
 Sarah Alice Fell of Boston, Mass. 
 
 JOHN J. PHELAN 
 Secretary, 1893- 1895 
 
 Hon. John Joseph Phelan, of Bridgeport, Secretary of State, 
 1 893- 1 895, was born at Wexford, Ireland, June 24th, 1851 ; son of 
 Michael and Catherine (White) Phelan; graduate of Christian 
 Brothers School, Wexford, 1865 ; worked for father in granite busi- 
 ness 1865-70; came to United States and settled at Bridgeport, in 
 1870; granite and marble cutter, 1870-74; in granite and marble 
 business, 1874-78; LL.B., University of City of New York, 1878; 
 married December 25, 1879, Annie E. Fitzgerald. Engaged in prac- 
 tice of law at Bridgeport since 1878; alderman 1880-84; township 
 attorney, 1884-85 ; member of the House of Representatives, 1885-87 
 (Democratic nominee for speaker 1886) ; City Attorney, Bridgeport, 
 1889-90; elected Secretary of State of Connecticut, 1890, but did not 
 serve owing to contest of election of Governor Morris; reelected, 
 1892, serving 1893-95. Member of American Bar Association; 
 Chairman of Connecticut delegation to Catholic Congress, Chicago 
 Exposition, 1893; president Irish Land League, Bridgeport, 1881-82; 
 Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus, 1886-97; a member of the 
 Board of Apportionment of Bridgeport from 1909-1912; President of 
 Board of Apportionment, 1911-12; appointed by the Judges of 
 Supreme and Superior Courts Coroner of Fairfield County in 1912, 
 the present term ending in June, 192 1. 
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CHARLES PHELPS 
 
 Secretary, 1897- 1899 
 
 Hon. Charles Phelps, of Vernon (Rockville), Secretary of State 
 from 1897 to 1899, was nominated by the Republicans for the office 
 of Attorney-General in 1898; was elected and served the State in 
 that position from 1899 to 1903. The office was a new one and Mr. 
 Phelps was the first official to hold it. Mr. Phelps was born in East 
 Hartford, August 10, 1852. His father was the Rev. B. C. Phelps, 
 a retired Methodist clergyman, who lived in Vernon. Mr. Phelps 
 was educated at the East Greenwich Academy, and at Wesleyan Uni- 
 versity from which last mentioned institution he was graduated in 
 1875. He then began to study law in the office of Hon. B. H. Bill, 
 of Rockville, and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He began the 
 practice of the law in Tolland, but subsequently returned to Rockville, 
 where he has since successfully practiced. Mr. Phelps was the first 
 coroner of Tolland County, and served from 1883 until his appointment 
 as State's Attorney in 1904 a position he creditably filled for many 
 years. He represented the town of Vernon in the General Assembly 
 of 1885. In 1892 he was chosen Senator from the twenty-third dis- 
 trict and was one of the leaders of the republican side in the session of 
 1893. It was an exceptional session, in that there were but two repub- 
 lican lawyers, Messrs. Phelps and Holcomb, in an evenly divided 
 Senate. Mr. Phelps was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention 
 in 1902. When Rockville became a city, Senator Phelps was appointed 
 city attorney and prosecuting attorney, which offices he held for 
 several years. 
 
 CHARLES G. R. VINAL 
 
 Secretary, 1901-1905 
 
 Hon. Charles Green Rich Vinal, of Middletown, Secretary of 
 State from 1901 to 1905, was born January 14, 1840, at Monroe, 
 Maine. He is seventh in descent from John Vinal and Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Rev. Nicholas Baker who settled in Scituate, Mass., in 
 1636. He was graduated from Wesleyan University in 1861. In 
 1862 he served as First Lieutenant in the Twenty-fourth Regiment of 
 Connecticut Volunteers. Mr. Vinal has been Mayor of Middletown, 
 town Treasurer, Judge of Probate, and for the past fifty-two years 
 Clerk of the Superior Court for Middlesex County. He retired from 
 the office of Clerk, July 11, 1919. Mr. Vinal was married in 1865 to 
 M. Amelia Hotchkiss, daughter of the Ex-Lieutenant-Governor, 
 
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Julius Hotchkiss and member of the Fortieth Congress. He is a 
 member of St. John's Lodge, No. 2, F. and A. M., and Mansfield Post, 
 No. 53, G. A. R. Mr. Vinal was a member of the Senate two con- 
 secutive sessions, 1897 and 1899. 
 
 THEODORE BODENWEIN 
 
 Secretary, 1905- 1909 
 
 The career of Hon. Theodore Bodenwein, Secretary of State 
 from 1905 to 1909, and proprietor of the New London Day, is a 
 striking example of the possibilities of American citizenship. Born 
 in Dusseldorf, Prussia, January 25, 1864, he came to this country at 
 the age of five, the child of German parents in humble circumstances. 
 He attained his education in a country school in Groton. At an early 
 age he showed an aptitude for the printer's trade and in 1881 he be- 
 came an apprentice in the office of the New London Day. He passed 
 through the different branches of the business and from close appli- 
 cation and observation obtained a practical knowledge of the news- 
 paper business, besides becoming a ready and forceful writer. In 
 1885 he was one of the founders of the Morning Telegraph, which 
 succeeded the old Evening Telegram. He remained with the Tele- 
 graph in various capacities for five years, when he disposed of his 
 interests. In September, 1891, he purchased the New London Day, 
 paying what was considered an enormous price, nearly $26,000. The 
 Day had been leading a checkered career for ten years and was heav- 
 ily encumbered with debt, but in a remarkably short time, Mr. Boden- 
 wein brought order out of chaos, and, since then has conducted one 
 of the most prosperous and finely equipped newspaper plants in 
 Connecticut. Mr. Bodenwein is a Republican and has served as an 
 Alderman and as Sewer Commissioner of the city of New London. 
 He is a member of numerous clubs and societies. 
 
 MATTHEW H. ROGERS 
 Secretary, 1909- 191 3 
 
 Hon. Matthew H. Rogers, Secretary of State from 1909 to 1913, 
 was born in Cornwall, January 19, 1861 and is the son of the late 
 Francis and Susan Rogers. He received his early education in the 
 public schools of Cornwall, which was supplemented by a course in 
 business college, before attaining his majority he had laid the founda- 
 tion for a successful business career. He is Treasurer and General 
 
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Manager of the Fairchild & Shelton Co., Director of the Commercial 
 Bank & Trust Co. and is the sole owner of a large Iron & Steel In- 
 dustry of Bridgeport. Mr. Rogers has been a resident of Bridgeport 
 since 1880. In 1893 and 1894 he served as a member of the 
 Board of Alderman and in 1895 and 1896 was a member of the 
 Board of Relief, in 1897 was elected to the General Assembly. 
 In 1901 and 1902 served as aide-de-camp on Governor George 
 P. McLean's staff and 1903 and 1904 was paymaster on Governor 
 Abiram Chamberlain's staff. He was a member of the Yellow Mill 
 Bridge Commission and for six years served as chairman of the Pav- 
 ing and Sewer Commission which had the supervision of all sewers 
 and permanent paving of his city. Mr. Rogers was married on Janu- 
 ary 10, 1883 to Miss Nellie Forestelle of Warren. He is a member 
 of the Seaside Club, the Algonquin Club, the Seaside Outing Club, 
 the Bridgeport Yacht Club and the Calumet Club. 
 
 ALBERT PHILLIPS 
 
 Secretary, 1913-1915 
 
 Hon. Albert Phillips, of Stamford, Secretary of State from 1913 
 to 191 5, is a native of New Britain and is thirty-one years of age. 
 He was one of the youngest members of the House of Representa- 
 tives the session of 191 1. He is a prominent lawyer and Democrat 
 and has held the position of prosecuting attorney in Stamford. 
 
 CHARLES D. BURNES 
 
 Secretary, 1915-1917 
 
 Hon. Charles D. Burnes, of Greenwich, Secretary of State from 
 191 5 to 191 7, was born in Berlin, August 4, 1871, and is the son of 
 Harvey E. and Grace L. (Andrew) Burnes. He attended Wesleyan 
 University two years in the class of 1892, was graduated from Yale 
 Law School in the class of 1893 and was admitted to the bar the same 
 year and immediately began to practice at South Norwalk. Mr. 
 Burnes came to Greenwich in July, 1894, where he continued to prac- 
 tice law. He is a Republican and the year he came to Greenwich was 
 elected Deputy Registrar of Voters and Clerk of the Borough 
 Court and in 1897 was elected Judge of the Borough Court. He has 
 also been chairman of the High School Committee and Clerk of the 
 School District. Mr. Burnes was a member of the House of Repre- 
 sentatives in 1907 and 1909. He is now a resident of Springfield, 
 
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FREDERICK L. PERRY 
 Secretary, 1917 — 
 Hon. Frederick L. Perry, of New Haven, Secretary of State 
 since 1917, was born at Manchester, March 14, 1871. Was educated 
 in the public schools and in Beacon Academy, at Colchester. Was 
 admitted to the Bar in 1897 after having graduated from Yale Law 
 School. He is a Republican and was president of the Board of Alder- 
 men for two terms, 1910 to 1914. Represented New Haven in Gen- 
 eral Assembly of 1915. Elected Secretary of State in 1916 and re- 
 elected in 1918. Secretary of the Board of Selectmen of New Haven 
 which passed out of existence at the time of the consolidation of town 
 and city governments in 1897. Was also Secretary of Shell-Fish 
 Commission for a number of years previous to becoming Secretary 
 of State. 
 
 TREASURERS 
 
 E. STEVENS HENRY 
 Treasurer, 1889- 1893 
 Hon. Edward Stevens Henry, of Vernon (Rockville), State 
 Treasurer from 1889 to 1893, was born in Gill, Mass., February 10, 
 1836. He is the oldest son of Edward F. and Eliza A. (Stevens) 
 Henry. At the age of twelve he removed with his parents to Rock- 
 ville, where he was educated in the public schools of that town. At 
 the age of nineteen he entered the dry goods business and soon be- 
 came actively interested in the organization and management of the 
 leading financial institutions of Rockville. In this work, in public 
 service, and the care of his large estate and as a breeder of thorough- 
 bred stock he has spent his life. He was an organizer and has, for 
 many years been treasurer of the People's Savings Bank of Rock- 
 ville. The public positions which Mr. Henry has held have been 
 many and important. For fifteen years he was active trial justice at 
 Rockville; in 1883 he was a member of the Connecticut House of 
 Representatives; in 1887 was a State Senator; in 1894 he was Mayor 
 of Rockville and in the same year was elected a member of Congress. 
 He served as a member of the fifty-fourth to the sixty-second Con- 
 gresses (1895 to 191 3), and his long term of office justly gained for 
 him the title of "Veteran Congressman." In 1888, Mr. Henry 
 was delegate-at-large to the Republican National Convention at 
 Chicago. He is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution, 
 the American Jersey Cattle Club, the Connecticut Historical Club and 
 the fraternal order of Masons. On February 11, i860, Mr. Henry 
 married Lucina E. Dewey of Lebanon. 
 
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CHARLES W. GROSVENOR 
 Treasurer, 1897- 1899 
 Hon. Charles W. Grosvenor, of Pomfret, State Treasurer from 
 1897 and 1899, was born in Pomfret, May II, 1839. He is the eldest 
 son of John W. and Phebe G. (Spaulding) Grosvenor. He and his, 
 brother Benjamin have been largely the means of making Pomfret 
 one of the leading summer resorts of New England. Mr. Grosvenor 
 during the rebellion served as sergeant of Co. D., 18th Conn. Vol. 
 He is past Commander of the A. G. Warner Post, G. A. R., of 
 Putnam. He was a member of the House of Representatives in 1881 
 and 1885 and a member of the Senate in 1886. He has been president 
 of the Windham County Agricultural Society; first vice-president 
 of the Woodstock Agricultural Society and president of the 
 Eighteenth Connecticut Volunteers' Association. 
 
 HENRY H. GALLUP 
 
 Treasurer, 1 901 -1905 
 
 Hon. Henry Haskell Gallup, of Norwich, State Treasurer from 
 1901 to 1905, was born in the town of Preston, June 2, 1846. He is 
 the son of Isaac and Maria Theresa (Davis) Gallup. He traces his 
 ancestry through many generations to John Gallup, a native of Dor- 
 setshire, England, who came to this country in 1630. After receiv- 
 ing his education in the public and private schools, he was engaged 
 in teaching for four winters. At the age of twenty-two he went to 
 Norwich and began work as a clerk in a store. On March 1, 1871, he 
 became partner in a firm engaged in the leather and finding trade. 
 In 1873, with others, he formed the Norwich Belt Manufacturing 
 Company, with which he has been associated ever since, and from 
 December, 1892 to Jan. 1, 1902, he was the sole proprietor. The com- 
 pany was then incorporated and he has since been Treasurer, Presi- 
 dent and now Chairman of Board of Directors and General Manager. 
 From 1888 to 1909 he was a director in the Thames National Bank 
 and has been president of the Norwich Industrial Building Company 
 since its organization. He was also president of the " Norwich Bulle- 
 tin " Company, is a vice-president of the Chelsea Savings Bank, was 
 president of the Crescent Fire Arms Company for twenty-six years 
 and is president of the Smith Granite Company, of Westerly, R. I.. 
 
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JAMES F. WALSH 
 Treasurer, 1905- 1907 
 
 Hon. James F. Walsh, of Greenwich, State Treasurer from 1905 
 to 1907, was born in Lewisboro, N. Y., March 15, 1864, and is a 
 son of James F. and Annie E. Walsh. He was educated in the 
 public schools of his native town, and at the age of eighteen re- 
 moved to Greenwich where he entered the law office of his brother, 
 Hon. R. J. Walsh, as student. On January 20, 1888, he was admitted 
 to the Fairfield County Bar, continuing to practice in partnership with 
 his brother until January, 1890, when he opened an office of his own. 
 He has met with signal success, having built up an unusually large 
 and lucrative practice. He was prosecuting attorney of the Borough 
 Court from its organization in 1888 until June, 1905, when he re- 
 signed upon being appointed by Governor Roberts, Judge of the 
 Criminal Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County. Judge Walsh 
 is a strong Republican, a highly respected member of the Episcopal 
 Church, I. O. O. F., and Indian Harbor Yacht Club. He married 
 April 11, 1893, Emily Gene Tweedale, the daughter of Joseph 
 Tweedale of Portchester, N. Y. Judge Walsh has been a member 
 of the House of Representatives two sessions, 1901 and 1919, being 
 Speaker of the House the present session. In 1907, as Senate 
 Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, he was the leader of the 
 Senate. 
 
 FREEMAN F. PATTEN 
 Treasurer, 1907-1911 
 
 Hon. Freeman F. Patten, of Stafford (Stafford Springs), State 
 Treasurer from 1907 to 191 1, was born in that town, November 3, 
 1856. After receiving a common school education in his home town 
 and three years of more advanced training at the Wesleyan Academy 
 at Wilbraham, Mass., he, at the age of nineteen, became clerk in 
 the savings bank at Stafford Springs. Two years later he started his 
 successful career as a woolen manufacturer. In 1900, Mr. Patten 
 retired after an experience of a quarter of a century in the woolen 
 business. Since then he has given his time to the management of his 
 extensive real estate holdings and to the filling of various public 
 positions. He has served as treasurer and later warden of the Bor- 
 ough of Stafford Springs; treasurer of the school district; director 
 of the local Savings Bank; governor of the Country Club and presi- 
 dent of Stafford Springs Cemetery Association. He is a Republican 
 in politics, a Methodist in creed and a Shriner in fraternal affiliations, 
 He represented Stafford in the General Assembly of 1905. 
 
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COSTELLO LIPPITT 
 
 Treasurer, 1911-1913 
 
 Hon. Costello Lippitt, of Norwich, State Treasurer from 191 1 
 to 1 91 3, was born in East Killingly, December 12, 1842, and when ten 
 years old removed with his parents to Norwich. His education was 
 acquired in the district schools of his native town, the public schools 
 and Free Academy of Norwich and Wesleyan University, where he 
 was graduated with the degree of A.B. In 1867, the degree of M.A. 
 was conferred upon him. Upon leaving college Mr. Lippitt entered 
 the Thames National Bank, but in 1865 accepted a clerkship in the 
 Norwich Savings Society, and since 1881 has been secretary and 
 treasurer of this bank, which ranks as second largest savings bank in 
 the State. He is also president of the Merchants National Bank. 
 Mr. Lippitt is a Republican and thirty-third degree Mason. He has 
 been prominent in local politics and has served his city as Mayor. 
 
 EDWARD S. ROBERTS 
 
 Treasurer, 1913-1915 
 
 Hon. Edward Spellman Roberts, of North Canaan, State Treas- 
 urer from 191 3 to 191 5, is a native of Goshen and was born April 15, 
 1842. He is the son of Frederick and Hannah (Spellman) Roberts 
 and on September 4, 1867 married Lois Jane Briggs of East Canaan. 
 In July, 1862, he enlisted in Co. F., 2nd Regiment, Connecticut 
 Volunteers, and served as 1st Sergeant until the close of the war. 
 He taught school twelve years and for over twenty years has been 
 secretary, treasurer and general manager of the East Canaan Co- 
 operative Creamery Company and a director of the Norfolk Savings 
 Bank. He has represented his town in the General Assembly two 
 sessions, 1875 and 1889, and has been Chairman of the School 
 Board of East Canaan and a Justice of the Peace for many years. 
 He is a Royal Arch Mason; Past Master of the Blue Lodge; Past 
 Commander Department of Connecticut G. A. R. and a member of 
 the Patrons of Husbandry. 
 
 FREDERICK S. CHAMBERLAIN 
 Treasurer, 1915-1919 
 
 Hon. Frederick Stanley Chamberlain, of New Britain, State 
 Treasurer from 191 5 to 1919, was born in New Britain, August 19, 
 1872, the oldest child of Valentine B. and Anna (Smith) Chamber- 
 
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lain. He was educated in the public schools of New Britain and at 
 the age of sixteen he obtained a position with the Mechanics National 
 Bank as office boy, remaining with that bank until 1907, when, being 
 assistant cashier, he resigned to take the position of cashier and direc- 
 tor of the New Britain National Bank, the position which he now 
 holds. He has always been a Republican and was for several years 
 a representative of the third ward as councilman and alderman, 
 resigning the office of alderman in 1908 after having been elected 
 City Treasurer. Mr. Chamberlain has been elected to that office 
 each election since, and for several years without any opposition, 
 having had the uncontested support of both Republicans and Demo- 
 crats. On November 18, 1919 he resigned the office of City Treasurer, 
 to become a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Mr. 
 Chamberlain represented the city of New Britain in the State Legis- 
 lature in 1909 and was House Chairman of the Committee on Appro- 
 priations. He has also been President of the Board of Finance and 
 Taxation since its inception. 
 
 G. HAROLD GILPATRIC 
 Treasurer, 1919 — 
 
 Hon. G. Harold Gilpatric, of Putnam, the present State Treas- 
 urer, was born in Warren, R. L, July 8, 1881. He is the son of 
 Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gilpatric and removed with his parents to 
 Putnam when he was but two years old. He was educated in the 
 public schools of Putnam and graduated from the Putnam High 
 School in the class of 1899. At the age of eighteen he began his suc- 
 cessful business career by entering the First National Bank of 
 Putnam. In January, 1908, he became cashier and still holds that 
 important position. He has been an active member of the Republi- 
 can State Central Committee for nine years. On October 19, 1905, 
 Mr. Gilpatric married Miss Irene Wheelock, daughter of the late 
 Hon. Eugene A. Wheelock, formerly head of the Putnam Woolen 
 Company. They have three children, a daughter and two sons. 
 Among the varied business interests with which Mr. Gilpatric is 
 identified aside from cashier of the bank, is president of the Paris, 
 Kentucky, Water Company; director of the Adrian, Michigan, Water 
 Company; member of the board of water commissioners of the city 
 of Putnam; treasurer of the Putnam Foundry & Machine Corpora- 
 tion, and a director of the Putnam Woolen Company. 
 
 Fraternally Mr. Gilpatric is a Mason and past master of the 
 
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Quinebaug Lodge of Putnam, a Shriner and Knight Templar; also 
 member of the Odd Fellows and Elks, and president of the Putnam 
 Country Club. Mr. Gilpatric was the first county chairman of the 
 State Council of Defense and was local chairman of the Liberty Loan 
 campaigns. In November, 19 18 he was elected State Treasurer for 
 the term of two years, 1919-1921. 
 
 COMPTROLLERS 
 
 FRANK D. SLOAT 
 
 Comptroller, 1883-1885 
 
 Gen. Frank D. Sloat, of New Haven (now of Washington, 
 D. C.)j State Comptroller from 1883 to 1885, was born at Fishkill, 
 N. Y., September 28, 1835. When quite young he moved to Putnam 
 County, N. Y., where he worked summers for his father and others 
 at farm work and attended the district school winters. When he was 
 nearly seventeen he became a clerk in a country store and later was 
 a clerk in New York City. He then became a salesman for the New 
 York Steam Heating Company and two years later, in 1859, he be- 
 came manager of the company's manufactory, located at New Haven. 
 He was occupying that position when the war of the Rebellion com-* 
 menced. He became an active member of the New Haven Grays and 
 in the early autumn of 1862 enlisted in a company then recruiting for 
 the 14th Regiment C. V. Being too late to enter that regiment, his 
 company was assigned to the 27th Regiment, C. V. He was elected 
 Second Lieutenant and later appointed First Lieutenant and pro- 
 moted to Captain of the company. He was engaged in the battles of 
 Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and was among those of his 
 company sent to Libby Prison. The term of service of the regiment 
 having expired it returned to New Haven, where General Sloat 
 accepted the position of bookkeeper and confidential secretary for 
 Mr. C. S. Bushnell. Between 1867 and 1870, he had charge of a 
 large iron interest in Wisconsin. He then became treasurer of the 
 Victor Sewing Machine Company at Middletown and in 1873 was 
 also elected president, which position he held for several years. 
 General Sloat is a prominent Mason and member of the G. A. R. He 
 is past-Commander of Admiral Foote Post, G. A. R. of New Haven. 
 He served on Governor Andrew's staff as Paymaster-General and 
 under Governor Bigelow as Quartermaster-General. Gen. Sloat for 
 many years has held the important position of Financial Clerk in 
 the Patent Office at Washington, D. C. 
 
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ASAHEL W. MITCHELL 
 
 Comptroller, 1905- 1907 
 
 Hon. Asahel W. Mitchell, of Woodbury, State Comptroller 
 from 1905 to 1907, is the son of Hon. Asahel W. and Harriet (Allen) 
 Mitchell and was born in Woodbury, October 16, 1865. Mr. Mitchell 
 was in 1883 with the Bradstreet commercial agency at New Haven, 
 after which he was in the office of the American Ring Company at 
 Waterbury. Owing to the failing health of his father he went home, 
 in October, 1887, to take charge of his affairs and has resided in 
 Woodbury ever since. His father died September 10, 1888. Mr. 
 Mitchell has been superintendent of the Woodbury Water Company 
 for many years. He has held the offices of town clerk, auditor and 
 justice of the peace for several years. He was a member of the 
 House in 1897 and the Senate in 1899. 
 
 DANIEL P. DUNN 
 
 Comptroller, 1913-1915 
 
 Hon. Daniel P. Dunn, of Windham (Willimantic), State Comp- 
 troller from 1913 to 1915, was born in that town September 14, 1859. 
 He was married April 23, 1889, to Miss Julia A. Rice, of Hartford. 
 He has been engaged in the newspaper, cigar and tobacco business 
 since 1884. He is affiliated closely with several fraternal organiza- 
 tions, amongst them being San Jose Council, No. 14, K. of C. ; Court 
 Windham, No. 97, F. of A ; Willimantic Conclave, No. 751, I. O. H. ; 
 Division No. 1, A. O. H. and Norwich Lodge, No. 430, B. P. of Elks. 
 He was one of the incorporators of the St. Joseph's Hospital ; also an 
 active member of the Putnam Phalanx, of Hartford. He has held 
 several political offices, including Mayor and Registrar of Voters. 
 He is a Democrat and was a member of the General Assembly four 
 sessions, 1903, 1907, 1909 and 191 1. 
 
 MORRIS C. WEBSTER 
 Comptroller, 191 5 — 
 Hon. Morris Catlin Webster,' of Harwinton, State Comptroller 
 since 191 5, was born at Harwinton, September 28, 1848, and is a 
 lineal descendant of John Webster, who was one of Connecticut's 
 Colonial Governors, serving two terms, 1656-57; three of his ances- 
 tors were Revolutionary soldiers and one earned distinction by carry- 
 ing General Arnold, when wounded, from the battlefield at Saratoga. 
 
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Through his mother he is connected with the Catlin family, so many 
 of whom have held prominent and responsible positions in the State. 
 Mr. Webster was educated at Winchester Institute, then a flourishing 
 military academy in charge of Col. Ira W. Pettibone, and began busi- 
 ness in the employ of Hart, Merriam & Co., of Hartford, where he 
 remained six years. From Hartford he went to Milwaukee, thence to 
 New York, then engaged for himself in business at Terry ville, and in 
 1878 accepted the position of secretary and superintendent of The 
 Malleable Iron Works in New Britain, which he held until May 
 16, 1902. In New Britain Mr. Webster began his political career. 
 He served three years in the Common Council; fifteen years on the 
 School Board; was Representative in the Legislature of 1897, and 
 has served two years as Mayor. He was Building and Loan Com- 
 missioner from March, 1891 to 1907 and a member of the General 
 Assembly, from Harwinton, two consecutive sessions, 191 1 and 1913, 
 being Speaker of the House of Representatives the latter session. 
 
 ATTORNEYS-GENERAL 
 
 CHARLES PHELPS 
 Attorney-General, 1899- 1903 
 (See Secretaries for biographical sketch.) 
 
 WILLIAM A. KING 
 
 Attorney-General, 1903- 1907 
 
 Hon. William Albert King, of Windham (Willimantic), Attor- 
 ney-General from 1903 to 1907, was born in Greenfield, Mass., July 
 22, 1855. He was educated at Monson Academy and Amherst 
 College, graduating in the class of 1878. He was admitted to the 
 Bar in 1880, locating at Stafford Springs. Since 1889, he has been 
 successfully engaged in the practice of law at Willimantic. He was 
 a member of the General Assembly from Stafford in 1882 and from 
 Windham in 1899, 1901 and 1919. The last two sessions he was 
 Republican leader of the House, being chairman of the Judiciary 
 Committee. In 1901 he was a member of the Commission to revise 
 the Statutes. 
 
 MARCUS H. HOLCOMB 
 Attorney-General, 1 907-1910 
 (See Governors for biographical sketch). 
 
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S^^^r^Tps Tfi William A. King ^^arcuTTTirF^ 
 
 Attorneys-Centra] of 
 (fonnecticul 
 
JOHN H. LIGHT 
 
 Attorney-General, 1910-1915 
 
 Hon. John H. Light, of Norwalk, Attorney-General, was 
 appointed September 15, 1910, by Governor Weeks to fill the un- 
 expired term of Marcus H. Holcomb and in November, 1910, was 
 elected for the full term of four years commencing on the 4th day 
 of January, 191 1. He was born in Carmel, Putnam County, New 
 York, on March 27, 1855, and graduated from the Chamberlain In- 
 stitute, at Randolph, N. Y., with honors, in 1880. In 1883 he was 
 admitted to the Fairfield County Bar and has since successfully con- 
 tinued in the practice of law in South Norwalk. In 1884, he was 
 appointed attorney for the city, and filled that office continuously, 
 under both Democratic and Republican administrations for twenty- 
 four years. In February, 1896, Mr. Light was appointed Prosecuting 
 Attorney of the Criminal Court of Common Pleas for Fairfield 
 County, and held that office until November 5, 1900, when by 
 Governor George E. Lounsbury, he was appointed Judge of the same 
 Court, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge R. Jay 
 Walsh, of Greenwich. By the next General Assembly, Mr. Light 
 was appointed Judge of said Court for the unexpired portion of 
 Judge Walsh's term, and was also appointed for the full term of 
 four years, beginning July 1, 1901. Judge Light was a member of 
 the General Assembly in 1899 and 1901, the latter session being 
 Speaker of the House. He has held several other offices including: 
 member of the Committee of the South Norwalk School District; 
 member School Board of the Town of Norwalk ; acting school visitor ; 
 president and director of the Public Library; director of the City 
 National Bank of South Norwalk; one of the managers and Board 
 of Directors of the South Norwalk Savings Bank and treasurer of 
 Fairfield County. 
 
 GEORGE E. HINMAN 
 
 Attorney-General, 191 5- 19 19 
 
 Hon. George E. Hinman, of Windham (Willimantic), Attorney- 
 General from 191 5 to 1919, was assistant clerk of the House of 
 Representatives in 1899, clerk of the House in 1901, assistant clerk 
 of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, clerk of the Senate, 1903, 
 clerk of bills, 1905, 1907, and 191 1, engrossing clerk in 1909. In 
 January, 1919, he was appointed by Governor Holcomb a judge of 
 
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the superior court for the term of eight years from August 23, 1919. 
 He was born in Alford, Mass., May 7, 1870, graduated from the 
 Great Barrington (Mass.), high school in 1888, engaged in news- 
 paper work, coming to Willimantic in 1901, and was for three years 
 editor of the Willimantic Journal. Resigning this position in 1895, 
 he studied law in the office of former Attorney-General Wm. A. 
 King and at the Yale Law School, was admitted to the Bar in March, 
 1899, and has since practiced successfully in Willimantic. In addition 
 to the above-mentioned state offices, he was county health officer from 
 1903 to 1914, secretary of the Republican State Central Committee 
 1902 to 1914, and has held several town and city offices. He married, 
 September 26, 1899, Nettie P. Williams of Willimantic. They have 
 two children, Russell W., born January 30, 1907, and Virginia G., 
 born August 23, 1909. 
 
 FRANK E. HEALY 
 
 Attorney-General, 1919 — 
 
 Hon. Frank E. Healy, of Windsor Locks, the present Attorney- 
 General of the State, was born in Windsor Locks, November 8, 
 1869. He was graduated with honors from the Law School at Yale, 
 in the class of '93, and during his course there took the Kent Club 
 prize for oratory. In June, 1893, he was admitted to the Bar, and 
 has since practiced law in Hartford. He was Assistant Clerk of 
 the House of Representatives of '97, Clerk in '99, Clerk of the Senate 
 in 1901, Clerk of the Constitutional Convention in 1902, Clerk of 
 Bills in 1903, and Engrossing Clerk in 1905. He has had the honor 
 of being a leading member of the General Assembly three consecu 7 
 tive sessions. In the session of 1913, he was the Republican Leader 
 of the House, being chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and in the 
 sessions of 191 5 and 1917, he was Speaker of the House. He was 
 Tax Commissioner from 1905 to 1907; has been an active member 
 of the Republican State Central Committee for many years and was 
 a member of the Commission to revise the Statutes in 191 5. In 
 November, 1918, he was elected Attorney-General for a term of four 
 years, beginning in January, 1919. 
 
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LOVING CUPS Presented fro 
 
 Chester &JXXtnx4f#vd 
 
 Oldest Living Member of the General Assembly 
 6 Born -October 26 1814- ' 
 
 House o-f Representatives 1858 
 
 October ISHSez 
 
 yHl^-^^Of^ 
 
 1853, 1864) IS65, «875 
 
OLDEST LIVING LEGISLATORS. 
 
 The two silver loving cups, presented by Speaker James F. Walsh, 
 in behalf of the State, to Chester R. Woodford of Avon and Colonel 
 Albert L. Hodge of Roxbury, in the House of Representatives on May 
 7th were, after they had been suitably engraved, personally presented 
 to them early in June. Senator Albert H. House, chairman of the 
 Centennial Committee motored to Avon and presented Mr. Woodford 
 his loving cup in the following words : 
 
 Mr. Woodford, it is with great pleasure and honor that I pre- 
 sent to you, as chairman of the 1919 Centennial Committee of the state 
 of Connecticut, a loving cup. This cup is given to you as a token of 
 friendship and esteem as being the oldest living member who has rep- 
 resented our state in the Legislature, and we congratulate you and 
 your family for the many years of service that you have been able to 
 render your town and state. We trust that this loving cup will be 
 handed down by you to the future generations so that at the two 
 hundredth anniversary in the year 2019 some member of your family 
 will be able to attend and carry with them a message informing the 
 assembly that this cup is now held by the family as a great treasure, it 
 being presented to you by the State in 1919. Once more I can assure 
 you that I deem it a great honor to be privileged to converse with you, 
 the oldest legislator of this good old state, and I trust that in the future 
 you may enjoy all the pleasures of living as you have in the past. 
 
 Secretary Taylor of the Committee supplemented Senator House's 
 remarks with a few appropriate words. Mr. Woodford, his son and 
 two daughters, who were present, extended their heartfelt thanks to 
 the state and the committee for the loving cup which bears the follow- 
 ing inscription : 
 
 Presented to 
 
 Chester R. Woodford, Esq., 
 
 Avon, 
 
 Oldest Living Member. 
 
 Born October 26, 1814. 
 
 House of Representatives, 
 
 1858. 
 
 Ill 
 
The loving cup for Colonel Hodge was presented to him by Rev. 
 James O. Emerson, the member of the House of Representatives from 
 Roxbury. His presentation speech was as follows: 
 
 Colonel Hodge: One hundred and one years ago the people of 
 Connecticut registered the changes in their sentiments and customs by 
 the adoption of a new constitution. The following year the General 
 Assembly of the State met for the first time under its new constitution. 
 It seemed desirable to the members of the General Assembly in its 
 January session of 1919 that some suitable recognition should be made 
 of this one-hundredth anniversary of the beginning of the work of 
 this body under the present order. A program was accordingly ar- 
 ranged for the 7th day of May. It consisted in a reunion of those who 
 had served the State either in the General Assembly or other offices 
 at which speeches were made by the Governor and other State officials, 
 also by other distinguished men who reviewed the history of the 
 State's constitutional life and seats of government, and other appro- 
 priate exercises were enjoyed. On that occasion you were present. It 
 was noted at that time, that your life, lacking some three years, had 
 run parallel with that of the General Assembly as at present consti- 
 tuted. It was also noted that your first term as a member of the 
 General Assembly antedates that of any other member now living. 
 The committee in charge felt that such a circumstance deserved some 
 consideration at their hands. They have therefore procured this 
 beautiful loving cup, which they have had suitably engraved, and which 
 they have sent to me, as a member of the present General Assembly 
 from your town, with the request that, on behalf of the State, I present 
 it to you, as a token of the esteem and honor in which you are held. 
 With the congratulations and best wishes therefore of the committee, 
 and of your fellow citizens of the State, I with the greatest pleasure, 
 perform the task assigned me, and present you, on behalf of the State, 
 this loving cup. 
 
 Colonel Hodge responded as follows: 
 
 Representative Emerson: I wish to thank you and through you, 
 the Legislature of 1919, for the beautiful loving cup you have just 
 handed me. Growing old may have its drawbacks, but it certainly has 
 its happy moments. I have lived a long and happy life, and some of its 
 most pleasant moments have been spent in the Legislature of our good 
 old State. 
 
 This cup, this gift, this last token of remembrance seems to fill out 
 — fill-me-up, and all I can say more, is I thank you. 
 
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The inscription on the cup for Colonel Hodge is : 
 
 Presented to 
 
 Albert L. Hodge, Esq., 
 
 Roxbury, 
 
 Oldest Living Member in Point of 
 
 Service. 
 
 Born October 15, 1822. 
 
 House of Representatives 
 
 1 853- 1 864- 1 865 and 1875. 
 
 On the reverse side of both the cups is the following inscriptions : 
 
 State of Connecticut. 
 
 The One Hundred Anniversary 
 
 of the 
 
 First Meeting of the General Assembly 
 
 Under the Present Constitution, 
 
 Capitol, Hartford. 
 
 Wednesday, May 7, 19 19. 
 
 The Secretary also presented to Mr. Woodward a penny of 1814 
 and one of 1918, and to Colonel Hodge a penny of 1822 and one of 
 1918. 
 
 CHESTER R. WOODFORD. 
 
 Oldest Living Member. 
 
 Hon. Chester Randolph Woodford, of Avon, the oldest living 
 member of the General Assembly, was born October 26, 18 14, in that 
 part of the town of Farmington called Northington, now known as 
 Avon. He is the seventh generation in descent from Thomas Wood- 
 ford, a native of England, who came to America at an early age, 
 locating first at Cambridge, Mass. In 1633, Thomas Woodford came 
 to Hartford with Rev. Thomas Hooker's company and during his resi- 
 dence there he took an active part in the affairs of the colony, serving 
 as town crier and fence viewer among other offices. Joseph Wood- 
 ford, the next in line of descent was born in Hartford, and in 1666 
 removed to Farmington, where he became an extensive land owner. 
 Joseph Woodford, 2nd, was born in 1677 in Farmington and also 
 owned a large tract of land, and was engaged in farming. The Wood- 
 ford's owned nearly all the land in the " Society of Northington " — 
 the part of the town where they located. Captain William Woodford, 
 our subject's great-grandfather, was born in Northington, and became 
 a leading citizen and prominent agriculturist of Farmington. During 
 the Revolutionary War, he was captain of a company. Captain 
 Dudley Woodford, the grandfather of our subject, was a large land 
 owner, and spent his entire life on the old homestead. Like his father, 
 
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he was active during the Revolution and also was captain of a company. 
 Chester Woodford, father of our subject, was born in 1782 on the old 
 homestead and in 181 1, he married Stella Bishop, who died in 1887, 
 at the ripe old age of ninety-seven. They had five children of which 
 Chester Randolph was the second. Mr. Woodford spent several years 
 traveling as collector and salesman for a clock company and in 1838 
 went to Illinois, where he was engaged in the clock business and fur 
 trade with his uncle, Joseph Bishop. In 1841 he returned to his 
 native town, where he bought a hundred-acre tract known as the 
 Webster farm; here he has since been engaged in the growing of 
 tobacco and dairying. He was the first tobacco grower in the town of 
 Avon, and dealt extensively in tobacco for several years as a member 
 of the firm of Wheeler & Co. He built his present house in 1855. 
 He was president of the Avon Creamery for several years. Mr. 
 Woodford was the member of the General Assembly from Avon in 
 1858, and has for many years served his town as selectman, tax 
 collector, assessor and justice of the peace. For eighty-five years he 
 has been a member of the Congregational Church, with which his 
 family had been identified from an early period. He cast his first vote 
 for Martin Van Buren, and since the formation of the Republican 
 party he has been a staunch supporter. In 1840 Mr. Woodford was 
 married, in Avon, to Harriet, daughter of Ashbel and Esther (Bissell) 
 Webster, who died in 1898. Six children were born to their union: 
 Mary Estella, Anna Maria, Frederick Gustavus, Prescott Hamilton, 
 Harriet Elizabeth and Carrie Annette. Prescott H., who was a member 
 of the Legislature in 1913, now operates the home farm for his 
 father. 
 
 ALBERT L. HODGE. 
 
 Oldest Living Member in Point of Service. 
 
 Hon. Albert Lafayette Hodge, of Roxbury, oldest member of 
 the General Assembly in point of service, was born in Roxbury, 
 October 15, 1822. He is the son of Chauncey and Ruth Ann (Bunnell) 
 Hodge. His great-grandfather, Daniel Hodge, was killed, near Stam- 
 ford, during the Revolutionary War. His grandfather, Philo Hodge, 
 was at the battle of Bunker Hill and served throughout the war. 
 His war record shows three enlistments. Albert L. Hodge, for fifteen 
 years, worked on the farm in summer and taught school in winter. 
 On May 16, 1845, ne was chosen Colonel of the Twelfth Regiment 
 Infantry, which position he held until the law was changed. In July, 
 
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1 866, he entered the employ of the American Steel Company, and 
 later was promoted to superintendent. In 1870, in connection with 
 J. B. Leavenworth, he laid the foundation of his present successful 
 coal, lumber and hardware business. The business has for several 
 years been carried on under the firm name of A. L. Hodge & Son. 
 Mr. Hodge has held several town offices including: selectman, 
 constable, grand juror, justice of the peace, member of the Board of 
 Relief and postmaster. He has had the honor to represent his town 
 in the Legislature four sessions, 1853, 1864, 1865 and 1875. He is a 
 prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, being past master of 
 Rising Star Lodge, No. 2J, A. F. & A. M. On October 25, 1846, he 
 married Jane E. Wells of New Milford. Two children have been 
 born to them : Elizabeth J. and Charles W., who was a member of the 
 General Assembly in 1886; is vice-president of the First National 
 Bank of New Milford, and now has charge of the business of A. L. 
 Hodge & Son. 
 
 (Mr. Hodge died March 17, 1920.) 
 
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CONNECTICUT STATE GOVERNMENT. 
 
 1919. 
 
 EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. 
 Second floor, Capitol. 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Governor, P. O. address, Southington. 
 John Buckley, Executive Secretary. 
 Frank D. Rood, Chief Clerk. 
 
 Governor's Staff. 
 Brigadier-General George M. Cole, The Adjutant-General. 
 Colonel Frank J. Regan, Quartermaster-General. 
 Colonel Phineas H. Ingalls, Surgeon-General. 
 Colonel William C. Cheney, Commissary-General. 
 Colonel Alton Farrel, Paymaster-General. 
 Colonel Arnon A. Ailing, Judge-Advocate-General. 
 Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, Naval Aide. 
 Major Samuel Russell, Jr., Aide-de-Camp. 
 Major John N. Brooks, Aide-de-Camp. 
 Major John P. Elton, Aide-de-Camp. 
 Colonel Edward Schulze, Assistant Adjutant-General. 
 Colonel Charles E. Smith, Assistant Quartermaster-General. 
 
 SECRETARY'S OFFICE. 
 Second floor, Capitol. 
 Frederick L. Perry, Secretary. P. O. address, New Haven. 
 Richard J. Dwyer, Deputy Secretary. 
 Elmer H. Lounsbury, Chief Clerk. 
 James A. Morcaldi, First Assistant Clerk. 
 
 TREASURER'S OFFICE. 
 First floor, Capitol. 
 G. Harold Gilpatric, Treasurer, P. O. address, Putnam. 
 Charles F. Sumner, Deputy Treasurer. 
 Lewis W. Phelps, Chief Clerk. 
 Thomas H. Judd, Assistant Clerk. 
 
 BUREAU OF SCHOOL FUND. 
 
 First floor, Capitol. 
 Charles W. Skinner, Clerk. 
 William H. Pond, Clerk. 
 
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COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE. 
 First floor, Capitol. 
 Morris C. Webster, Comptroller, P. O. address, Torrington R. D. 
 F. Clarence Bissell, Deputy Comptroller. 
 John H. Belden, Chief Clerk. 
 John L. Wilson, Superintendent of the Capitol. 
 Frank W. Congdon, Assistant Superintendent. 
 John D. Kelly, Master Mechanic. 
 Matthew K. Cooney, Guide. 
 
 ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S OFFICE. 
 Second floor, Capitol. 
 Frank E. Healy, Attorney-General, P. O. address, Windsor Locks. 
 
 STATE LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 
 The Governor, Marcus H. Holcomb (ex-oflicio). 
 The Secretary, Frederick L. Perry, and Hon. William Hamersley. 
 
 STATE LIBRARY. 
 State Library and Supreme Court Building. 
 George S. Godard, librarian and superintendent; Fanny I. Yale, librarian's 
 assistant ; Effie M. Prickett, chief division archives ; Helen Coffin, chief divi- 
 sion legislative reference ; Aldina A. L. Galarneau, supervisor probate files ; Louise 
 M. Bailey, chief cataloguer ; M. V. B. Barker, supervisor periodicals ; Christian 
 N. Due, supervisor of reading room ; Kathryn C. Belden, supervisor Memorial 
 Hall ; Lucius B. Barbour, examiner of public records ; Florence H. Herman, 
 supervisor receiving room ; Christian N. Due, photostat operator ; Charles J. 
 Fancher, assistant superintendent of building. 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF WAR RECORDS. 
 
 CONNECTICUT STATE MILITARY CENSUS. 
 
 George S. Godard, director. 
 
 MILITARY DEPARTMENT. 
 
 MILITARY EMERGENCY BOARD. 
 The Governor {ex officio). 
 Lucien F. Burpee, Benedict M. Holden, Hartford; J. Moss Ives, Danbury; 
 George M. Cole, Hartford. 
 
 Adjutant General's Office. 
 Brigadier-General George M. Cole, Adjutant-General, 
 Colonel Edward Schulze, Assistant Adjutant-General, 
 Lorenzo D. Converse, Clerk. 
 
 Quartermaster's Department. 
 Colonel Charles E. Smith, Assistant Quartermaster-General, 
 George E. Cole, Clerk. 
 
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UNITED STATES SENATORS AND REPRESENTA- 
 TIVES FROM CONNECTICUT SINCE 1819, AND 
 THEIR TERM OF SERVICE. 
 
 Senators. 
 
 [The names of those who are deceased are marked *.] 
 Name. Residence. 
 
 * Samuel W. Dana Middletown, 
 
 * James Lanman Norwich, 
 
 * Elijah Boardman New Milford, 
 
 * Henry W. Edwards New Haven, 
 
 * Calvin Willey Tolland, 
 
 * Samuel A. Foot Cheshire, 
 
 * Gideon Tomlinson Fairfield, 
 
 * Nathan Smith New Haven, 
 
 * John M. Niles Hartford, 
 
 * Perry Smith New Milford, 
 
 * Thaddeus Betts Norwalk, 
 
 * Jabez W. Huntington Norwich, 
 
 * Roger S. Baldwin New Haven, 
 
 * Truman Smith Litchfield, 
 
 * Isaac Toucey Hartford, 
 
 * Francis Gillett Hartford, 
 
 * LaFayette S. Foster Norwich, 
 
 * James Dixon Hartford, 
 
 * Orris S. Ferry Norwalk, 
 
 * William A. Buckingham Norwich, 
 
 * James E. English New Haven, 
 
 * William W. Eaton Hartford, 
 
 * William H. Barnum Salisbury, 
 
 * Orville H. Piatt Meriden, 
 
 * Joseph R. Hawley Hartford, 
 
 Morgan G. Bulkeley Hartford, 
 
 Frank B. Brandegee New London, 
 
 George P. McLean Simsbury, 
 
 Years of 
 service. 
 
 l8lO-2I 
 1819-25 
 1821-23 
 1823-27 
 1825-31 
 1827-33 
 1831-37 
 1833-35 
 1835-39, 43-49 
 1837-43 
 1839-40 
 1840-47 
 1847-51 
 1849-54 
 1852-57 
 1854-55 
 1855-67 
 1857-69 
 1867-75 
 1869-75 
 1875-76 
 
 1875-81 
 1876-79 
 
 1879-1905 
 
 1881-1905 
 
 1905-1911 
 
 1905- 
 
 1911- 
 
 Representatives. 
 
 [In instances where no districts are given the elections were at large.] 
 [The names of those who are deceased are marked *.] 
 
 Dis- Con- Years of 
 
 Name. Residence. trict. gress. service. 
 
 * Arnold, Samuel Haddam, s 2 35 i857~59 
 
 * Baldwin, John Windham, 19, 20 1825-29 
 
 ♦Barber, Noyes Groton, 17-24 1821-35 
 
 * Barnum, William H Salisbury, 4 40-45 1867-77 
 
 * Belcher, Nathan New London, 3 33 i853~55 
 
 * Bishop, Wm. D Bridgeport, 4 35 1857-59 
 
 * Boardman, Wm. W. New Haven, 2 27 1841-43 
 
 ♦Booth, Walter Meriden, 2 31 1849-51 
 
 * Brandegee, Augustus New London, 3 38-39 1863-67 
 
 Brandegee, Frank B. a New London, 3 57~59 1902-05 
 
 a Elected to fill vacancy to March 4, 1903, and for the 58th and 59th sessions of Con- 
 gress. Resigned in 1905 to become U. S. Senator, to fill vacancy caused by death of Senator 
 Orville H. Piatt. 
 
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Dis- 
 
 Name. Residence. trict. 
 
 * Brock way, John H Ellington, 6 
 
 * Buck, John R Hartford, i 
 
 * Burnham, A. A Windham, 3 
 
 * Burrows, Daniel Groton, 
 
 * Butler, Thomas B Norwalk, 4 
 
 * Catlin, George S Windham, 3 
 
 * Chapman, Charles Hartford, 1 
 
 * Clark, Ezra, Jr Hartford, 1 
 
 * Cleveland, Chauncey F Hampton, 3 
 
 * Dean, Sidney Thompson, 3 
 
 * DeForest, Robert E Bridgeport, 4 
 
 * Deming, Henry C Hartford, 1 
 
 * Dixon, James Hartford, 1 
 
 Donovan, Jeremiah Norwalk, 4 
 
 * Eaton, William W Hartford, 1 
 
 * Edwards, Henrv W New Haven, 
 
 * Ellsworth, William W. a Hartford, 
 
 ♦English, James E New Haven, 2 
 
 * Ferry, O. S Norwalk, 4 
 
 * Foot, Samuel A Cheshire, 
 
 Freeman, Richard P New London, 2 
 
 * French, Carlos Seymour, 2 
 
 Glynn, James P Winsted, 5 
 
 * Granger, Miles T North Canaan, 4 
 
 * Haley, Elisha : Groton, 3 
 
 * Hawley, Joseph R Hartford, 1 
 
 Henry, E. Stevens Vernon, I 
 
 Higgins, Edwin W. b Norwich, 3 
 
 * Hill, Ebenezer J. c Norwalk, ^ 
 
 ♦Holt, Orrin Wellington, 6 
 
 * Hotchkiss, Julius Middletown, 2 
 
 * Hubbard, John H Litchfield, ' 4 
 
 * Hubbard, Richard D Hartford, 1 
 
 ♦Hubbard, Samuel D Middletown, 2 
 
 * Huntington, Jabez W Litchfield, 
 
 * Ingersoll, Colin M New Haven, 2 
 
 * Ingersoll, Ralph I New Haven, 
 
 * Ingham, Samuel Saybrook, 2 
 
 * Jackson,. Ebenezer, Jr. d Middletown, 
 
 * Judson, Andrew T Canterbury, 
 
 * Kellogg, Stephen W Waterbury, 2 
 
 * Kennedy, William Naugatuck, 5 
 
 * Landers, George M New Britain, 1 
 
 * Lilley, George L Waterbury, 
 
 Lonergan, Augustine Hartford, 1 
 
 ♦Loomis, Dwight, Hartford, 1 
 
 Mahan, Bryan F New London, 2 
 
 * Merwin, Orange New Milford, 
 
 Merritt, Schuyler d Stamford, 4 
 
 * Miles, Frederick Salisbury, 4 
 
 * Miner, Phineas a 
 
 a Resigned in 1833. b Elected to fill vacancy to March 4, 
 
 of Rep. Frank B. Brandegee to U. S. Senate, c Died during term, 
 d Elected to fill vacancy, e Died during term, 
 f District changed from Second to Third. 
 
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 Con- 
 gress. 
 
 26,27 
 
 47,49 
 
 36,37 
 
 17 
 
 31 
 
 28 
 
 32 
 
 34,35 
 
 3i,32 
 
 34,35 
 
 52,53 
 
 38,39 
 
 29,30 
 
 63 
 
 48 
 
 16, 17 
 
 21-24 
 
 37,38 
 
 36 ' 
 
 16, 18 s 
 23 1 
 64,65 
 50 
 
 64,65 
 50 
 24,25 
 
 63, 65, 
 
 54-62 
 
 59-62 
 
 54-62 
 
 64,65 
 
 25 
 
 40 
 
 38,39 
 
 40 
 
 29,30 
 
 21-24 
 
 32,33 
 
 19-23 
 
 24,25 
 
 24 
 
 24 
 
 41-44 
 
 63 
 
 44,45 
 58^60 
 63, 65, 
 
 66 
 36,37 
 63 
 
 19,20 
 65,66 
 46,47 
 
 5i 
 24 
 
 23 
 
 Years of 
 service. 
 
 839-43 
 881-83, 
 885-87 
 859-63 
 821-23 
 
 849-51 
 
 843-45 
 
 851-53 
 
 855-59 
 
 849-53 
 
 855-59 
 
 891-95 
 
 863-67 
 
 845-49 
 
 9I3-I9I5 
 
 883-85 
 
 819-23 
 
 829-33 • 
 
 861-65 
 
 859-61 
 
 9-21, 
 
 25, 33-35 
 
 915- 
 
 887-89 
 
 915- 
 887-89 
 
 835-39 
 873-75, 
 879-81 
 
 895-1913 
 905-1913 
 
 895-1913 
 915-1917 
 
 837-39 
 
 867-69 
 
 863-67 
 
 867-69 
 
 845-49 
 
 829-35 
 
 851-55 
 
 825-33 
 
 835-39 
 
 834-35 
 
 835-37 
 
 869-75 
 
 9I3-I5 
 
 875-79 
 
 903-09 
 
 9T3-I5 
 
 917 
 
 859-63 
 
 9I3-I5 
 
 825-29 
 
 917- 
 
 879-83 
 889-91 
 
 834-35 
 
 1907, caused by election 
 
Dis- Cotv 
 
 Name. Residence. trict. gress. 
 
 Mitchell, Charles L : . New Haven, 2 48, 49 
 
 Oakey, P. Davis Hartford, 1 64 
 
 Osborne, Thomas B Fairfield, 4 26, 27 
 
 Phelps, Elisha Simsbury, l6 '^ j 
 
 Phelps, James Essex, 2 44-48 
 
 Phelps, Launcelot Colebrook, 5 24-25 
 
 Pigott, James P New Haven, 2 53 
 
 Plant, David Stratford, 20 
 
 Pratt, James T Rocky Hill, 1 33 
 
 Reilly, Thomas L Meriden, f 3 62-63 
 
 Rockwell, John A Norwich, 3 29, 30 
 
 Russ, John Hartford, 16, 17 
 
 Russell, Charles A. e Killingly, 3 50-57 
 
 Seymour, Edward W Bridgeport, 4 48, 49 
 
 Seymour, Origen S Litchfield, 4 32, 33 
 
 Seymour, Thomas H Hartford, 1 28 
 
 Simonds, William E Canton, 1 51 
 
 Simons, Samuel Colebrook, 4 28 
 
 Smith, Truman Litchfield, 5 jjj j 
 
 4 29, 30 ( 
 
 Sperry, Lewis South Windsor, 1 52, 53 
 
 Sperry, Nehemiah D New, Haven, 2 54-61 
 
 Starkweather, Henry H New London, 3 40-45 
 
 Sterling, Ansel Sharon, 17, 18 
 
 Stevens, James Stamford, 16 
 
 Stewart, John Chatham, 2 28 
 
 Stoddard, Ebenezer Woodstock, 17, 18 
 
 Storrs, William L Middletown, 2 |£ 22 { 
 
 Strong, Julius L Hartford, 1 41, 42 
 
 Tilson, John Q New Haven (at large), 61-62, 
 
 3 64-65, 
 
 Tomlinson, Gideon Fairfield, 16-20 
 
 Toucey, Isaac Hartford, 1 24,25 
 
 Trumbull, Joseph a Hartford, 1 26, 27 
 
 Tweedy, Samuel Danbury, 23 
 
 Vance, Robert J New Britain, 1 50 
 
 Wait, John T Norwich, 3 45-50 
 
 Waldo, Loren P Tolland, 1 31 
 
 Warner, Levi Norwalk, 4 45 
 
 Warner, Samuel L Middletown, 2 39 
 
 Welch, William W Norfolk, 4 34 
 
 Whitman, Lemuel Farmington, 18 
 
 Whittlesey, Thomas T Danbury, 4 25 
 
 Wildman, Zalmon b Danbury, 24 
 
 Willcox, Washington F Deep River, 2 51,52 
 
 Williams, Thomas W New London, 3 26,27 
 
 Woodruff, G. C Litchfield, 4 37 
 
 Woodruff, John New Haven, 2 34, 36 j 
 
 Young, Ebenezer Killingly, 21-24 
 
 a Elected for unexpired portion of term in 1834. 
 b Died at Washington, Dec. 10, 1835. 
 
 Years of 
 service. 
 
 883-87 
 915-17 
 839-43 
 819-21 
 825-29 
 875-83 
 835-39 
 893-95 
 827-29 
 
 853-55 
 
 911-15 
 
 842-49 
 
 819-23 
 
 887-1902 
 
 883^87 
 
 851-55 
 
 843-45 
 
 889-9I 
 
 843-45 
 839-43 
 845-49 
 891-95 
 895-19H 
 
 867-77 
 821-25 
 819-21 
 
 843-45 
 821-25 
 
 829-33 
 
 839-4 I 
 
 869-73 
 
 9OO-13 
 
 015- 
 
 819-27 
 
 835-39 
 
 839-43 
 
 833-35 
 
 887-89 
 
 877-87 
 
 849-51 
 
 877-79 
 
 865-67 
 
 855-57 
 823-25 
 
 837-39 
 
 835 
 
 889-93 
 
 839-43 
 
 861-63 
 
 855-57 
 
 859-61 
 
 829-3S 
 
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STATE OFFICERS OF CONNECTICUT SINCE 1819 
 AND THEIR TERM OF OFFICE 
 
 Name 
 
 Governors. 
 
 [The names of those who are deceased are marked *, 
 Residence. Term of Service. 
 
 [Present P. O. Address, if living, in Italics.] 
 
 Oliver Wolcott Litchfield, 
 
 Gideon Tomlinson Fairfield, 
 
 John S. Peters Hebron, 
 
 Henry W. Edwards New Haven, 
 
 Samuel A. Foot Cheshire, 
 
 Henry W. Edwards New Haven, 
 
 William W. Ellsworth Hartford, 
 
 Chauncey F. Cleveland Hampton, 
 
 Roger S. Baldwin New Haven, 
 
 Isaac Toucey Hartford, 
 
 Clark Bissell Norwalk, 
 
 Joseph Trumbull Hartford, 
 
 Thomas H. Seymour Hartford, 
 
 Charles H. Pond, a Milford, 
 
 Henry Dutton New Haven, 
 
 William T. Minor Stamford, 
 
 Alexander H. Holley Salisbury, 
 
 William A. Buckingham Norwich, 
 
 Joseph R. Hawley Hartford, 
 
 James E. English New Haven, 
 
 Marshall Jewell Hartford, 
 
 James E. English New Haven, 
 
 Marshall Jewell Hartford, 
 
 Charles R. Ingersoll, b New Haven, 
 
 Richard D. Hubbard Hartford, 
 
 Charles B. Andrews Litchfield, 
 
 Hobart B. Bigelow New Haven, 
 
 Thomas M. Waller New London, 
 
 Henry B. Harrison New Haven, 
 
 Phineas C. Lounsbury Ridgefield, 
 
 Morgan G. Bulkeley Hartford, 
 
 Luzon B. Morris New Haven, 
 
 O. Vincent Coffin Middletown, 
 
 Lorrin A. Cooke Winsted, 
 
 George E. Lounsbury Ridgefield, 
 
 George P. McLean Simsbury, 
 
 Abiram Chamberlain Meriden, 
 
 Henry Roberts Hartford, 
 
 Rollin S. Woodruff New Haven, 
 
 George L. Lilley, c Waterbury, 
 
 Frank B. Weeks '.Middletown, 
 
 Simeon E. Baldwin New Haven, 
 
 Marcus H. Holcomb Southington. 
 
 1817-27, 
 1827-31, 
 1831-33, 
 1833-34, 
 1834-35, 
 1835-38, 
 1838-42, 
 1842-44, 
 1844-46, 
 1846-47, 
 1847-49, 
 1849-50, 
 
 1850-53, 
 
 1853-54, 
 
 1854-55, 
 
 1855-57, 
 
 1857-58, 
 
 1858-66, 
 
 1866-67, 
 
 1867-69, 
 
 1869-70, 
 
 1870-71, 
 
 I87I-73, 
 
 1873-77, 
 
 1877-79, 
 
 1879-81, 
 
 1881-83, 
 
 1883-85, 
 
 1885-87, 
 
 1887^89, 
 
 1889-93, 
 
 1893-95. 
 
 1895-97, 
 
 1897-99, 
 
 1899-1901, 
 
 1901-1903, 
 
 1 903-1 905, 
 
 1905-1907, 
 
 1907-1909, 
 
 1909, 
 
 1909-1911, 
 
 1911-1915, 
 
 1915- 
 
 year. 
 
 u 
 
 years. 
 
 Years 
 of Service. 
 
 10 years. 
 
 4 " 
 
 2 " 
 
 1 
 
 1 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 2 " 
 
 2 " 
 
 1 year. 
 
 2 years. 
 1 year. 
 
 3 yrs. I m. 
 
 11 months. 
 
 1 year. 
 
 2 years. 
 1 year. 
 8 years. 
 
 1 year. 
 
 2 years. 
 1 year. 
 
 1 " 
 
 2 years. 
 
 3 yrs. 9 m. 
 2 years. 
 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 4 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 2 
 
 3 
 1 
 
 m. 15 d. 
 yr. 8 m. 
 
 15 d. 
 
 4 years. 
 
 o Governor Pond was elected Lieutenant-Governor in April, 1853, and became Acting- 
 Governor by resignation of Governor Seymour on October 13, 1853, when the latter was 
 appointed Minister to Russia. 
 
 b By Constitutional Amendment of 1875, the term for 1876-7 was made to expire- 
 January, 1877. 
 
 c Died in office April 21, 1909, and Frank B. Weeks became governor. 
 
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year. 
 
 years. 
 
 year. 
 
 years. 
 
 year. 
 
 years, 
 year. 
 
 Lieutenant Governors. 
 
 IT he names of those who are deceased are marked *.] 
 
 Residence. Term of Service. Years 
 
 Name [Present P. O. Address, if living, in Italics.'] of Service. 
 
 ♦ Jonathan Ingersoll, a New Haven, 1816-23, 6 yrs. 8 m. 
 
 ♦David Plant Stratford, 1823-27, 4 years. 
 
 ♦ John S. Peters Hebron, 1827-31, 4 " 
 
 No Election 1831-32, 
 
 ♦Thaddeus Betts ..Norwalk, 1832-33, 
 
 ♦Ebenezer Stoddard Woodstock, 1833-34, 
 
 ♦Thaddeus Betts Norwalk, 1834-35, 
 
 ♦ Ebenezer Stoddard Woodstock, 1835-38, 
 
 ♦ Charles Hawley Stamford, 1838-42, 
 
 ♦ William S. Holabird ....... . Winsted, 1842-44, 
 
 ♦ Reuben Booth Danbury, 1844-46, 
 
 ♦ Noyes Billings New London, 1846-47, 
 
 ♦ Charles J. McCurdy Lyme, 1847-49, 
 
 ♦ Thomas Backus Killingly, 1849-50, 
 
 ♦Charles H. Pond Milford, 1850-51, 
 
 ♦ Green Kendrick Waterbury, 1851-52, 
 
 ♦ Charles H. Pond Milford, 1852-54, 
 
 ♦ Alexander H. Holley Salisbury, 1854-55, 
 
 ♦ William Field Pomf ret, 1855-56, 
 
 ♦Albert Day Hartford, 1856-57, 
 
 ♦ Alfred A. Burnham Windham, 1857-58, 
 
 ♦ Julius Catlin Hartford, 1858-61, 3 years. 
 
 ♦ Benjamin Douglas Middletown, 1861-62, 1 year. 
 
 ♦ Roger Averill Danbury, 1862-66, 4 years. 
 
 ♦Oliver F. Winchester New Haven, 1866-67, 1 year. 
 
 ♦ Ephraim H. Hyde Stafford, 1867-69, 2 years. 
 
 ♦ Francis Wayland New Haven, 1869--70, 1 year. 
 
 ♦ Julius Hotchkiss Middletown, 1870-71, 1 " 
 
 ♦ Morris Tyler New Haven, 1871-73, 2 
 
 ♦ George G. Sill Hartford, 1873-77, 4 
 
 ♦Francis B. Loomis New London, 1877-79,, 2 
 
 ♦ David Gallup Plainfield, 1879-81, 2 
 
 ♦ William H. Bulkeley Hartford, 1881-83, 2 
 
 ♦ George G. Sumner Hartford, 1883-85, 2 
 
 ♦ Lorrin A. Cooke Winsted, 1885-87, 2 
 
 ♦ James L. Howard Hartford, 1887-89, 2 
 
 ♦ Samuel E. Merwin New Haven, 1889-93, 4 
 
 ♦ Ernest Cady Hartford, 1893-95, 2 
 
 ♦Lorrin A. Cooke Winsted, 1895-97, 2 
 
 ♦ James D. Dewell New Haven, 1897-99, 2 
 
 Lvman A. Mills Middle field, 1899-1001, 2 
 
 Edwin O. Keeler Norwalk, 1 901-1903, 2 
 
 Henry Roberts Hartford, 1903-1905, 2 
 
 Rollin S. Woodruff New Haven, 1005-1007, 2 
 
 Everett J. Lake Hartford, 1907-1909, 2 
 
 Frank B. Weeks, b Middletown, 1909, 3 
 
 Dennis A. Blakeslee New Haven, 1911-1913, 2 
 
 Lyman T. Tingier Rockville, 1913-1915, 2 " 
 
 Clifford B. Wilson Bridgeport, 1915- 
 
 a Died January 12, 1823. 
 
 b Governor Weeks was elected Lieutenant-Governor and became Governor on the 
 death of Governor Lilley, taking the oath of office April 22, 1909. 
 
 years. 
 
 m. 15 d. 
 
 years. 
 
 122 
 
Secretaries. 
 
 [.The names of those who are deceased are marked *.] 
 
 Residence. Term of Service. Years 
 Name [Present P. O. Address, if living, in Italics.'] of Service. 
 
 * Thomas Day Hartford, 1810-35, 25 years. 
 
 * Royal R. Hinman Southbury, 1835-42, 7 " 
 
 * Noah A. Phelps Hartford, 1842-44, 2 " 
 
 * Daniel P. Tyler Pomf ret, 1844-46, 2 " 
 
 * Charles W. Bradley Hartford, 1846-47, 1 year. 
 
 * John B. Robertson New Haven, 1847-49, 2 years. 
 
 ♦Roger H. Mills New Hartford, 1849-50, 1 year. 
 
 * Hiram Weed f Danbury, 1850, 1 month. 
 
 ♦John P. C. Mather New London, 1850-54, 3 yrs. 11 m. 
 
 * Oliver H. Perry Fairfield, 1854-55, l year. 
 
 * N. D. Sperry New Haven, 1855-57, 2 years. 
 
 * Orville H. Piatt Meriden, 1857-58, . 1 year. 
 
 * John Boyd Winchester, 1858-61, 3 years. 
 
 ♦J. Hammond Trumbull Hartford, 1861-66, 5 " 
 
 * Leverett E. Pease Somers, 1866-69, 3 " 
 
 ♦Hiram Appleman Groton, 1869-70, 1 year. 
 
 Thomas M. Waller New London, 1870-71, 1 " 
 
 ♦Hiram Appleman $ Groton, 1871-73, 2 years. 
 
 * D. Webster Edgecomb Fairfield, 1873, 12 days. 
 
 * Marvin H. Sanger Canterbury, 1873-77, 4 years. 
 
 * Dwight Morris Bridgeport, 1877-79, 2 
 
 * David Torrance Derby, 1879-81, 2 
 
 Charles E. Searls Thompson, 1881-83, 2 
 
 * D. Ward Northrop Middletown, 1883-85, 2 
 
 * Charles A. Russell Killingly, 1885-87, 2 
 
 * Leverett M. Hubbard Wallingford, 1887-89, 2 
 
 * R. Jay Walsh Greenwich, 1889-93, 4 
 
 John J. Phelan Bridgeport, 1893-95, 2 
 
 ♦William C. Mowry Norwich, 1895-97, 2 
 
 Charles Phelps Rockville, 1897-99, 2 
 
 * Huber Clark Willimantic, 1899-1901, 2 
 
 Charles G. R. Vinal Middletown, 1901-1905, 4 
 
 Theodore Bodenwein New London, 1 905-1909, 4 
 
 Matthew H. Rogers Bridgeport, 1909-1913, 4 
 
 Albert Phillips Stamford, 1913-1915, 2 
 
 Charles D. Burnes Greenwich, 1915-1917, 2 
 
 Frederick L. Perry New Haven, 1917- 
 
 t Died in office, June 7, 1850, and John P. C. Mather was appointed by the General 
 Assembly, June 21, 1850, to fill the vacancy. 
 
 t Resigned April 25, 1873, and D. W. Edgecomb was appointed to the vacancy by 
 Governor Jewell. 
 
 123 
 
Treasurers. 
 
 [The names of those who are deceased are marked *.] 
 
 Residence. Term of Service. Years 
 Name [Present P. O. Address, if living, in Italics.] of Service. 
 
 * Isaac Spencer . . Haddam, 1818-35, 17 years. 
 
 ♦Jeremiah Brown Hartford, 1835-38, 3 " 
 
 * Hiram Rider Wellington, 1838-42, 4 " 
 
 * Jabez L. White, Jr Bolton, 1842-44, 2 " 
 
 ♦Joseph B. Gilbert Hartford, 1844-46, 2 " 
 
 * Alonzo W. Birge Coventry, 1846-47, 1 year. 
 
 * Joseph B. Gilbeert Hartford, 1847-49, 2 years. 
 
 * Henry D. Smith Middletown, 1849-51, 2 " 
 
 * Thomas Clark Coventry, 1851-52, 1 year. 
 
 * Edwin Stearns Middletown, 1852-54, 2 years. 
 
 * Daniel W. Camp Middletown, 1854-55, 1 year. 
 
 * Arthur B. Calef Middletown, 1855-56, 1 " 
 
 ♦Frederick P. Coe Killingly, 1856-57, 1 " 
 
 * Frederick S. Wildman Danbury, 1857-58, 1 " 
 
 * Lucius J. Hendee Hebron, 1858-61, 3 years. 
 
 * Ezra Dean Woodstock, 1861-62, 1 year. 
 
 * Gabriel W. Coite Middletown, 1862-66, 4 years. 
 
 * Henry G. Taintor Hampton, 1866-67, 1 year. 
 
 * Edward S. Moseley Hampton, 1867-69, 2 years. 
 
 ♦David P. Nichols Danbury, 1869-70, 1 year. 
 
 * Charles M. Pond Hartford, 1870-71, 1 " 
 
 * David P. Nichols Danbury, 1871-73, 2 years. 
 
 * William E. Raymond New Canaan, 1873-77, 4 " 
 
 * Edwin A. Buck Willimantic, 1877-79, 2 " 
 
 * Talmadge Baker So. Norwalk, 1870-81, 2 " 
 
 * David P. Nichols f Danbury, 1881-82, 1 year. 
 
 * James D. Smith Stamford, 1882-83, 1 " 
 
 ♦Alfred R. Goodrich Vernon, 1883-85, 2 years. 
 
 ♦Valentine B. Chamberlain ...New Britain, 1885-87, 2 " 
 
 ♦Alexander Warner Pomfret, 1887-89, 2 " 
 
 E. Stevens Henry Rockville, 1889-93, 4 " 
 
 ♦Marvin H. Sanger Canterbury, 1893-95, 2 " 
 
 * George W. Hodge Windsor, 1895-97, 2 " 
 
 Charles W. Grosvenor Pomfret, 1897-99, 2 " 
 
 ♦Charles S. Mersick New Haven, 1899-1901, 2 " 
 
 Henry H. Gallup Norwich, 1901-1905, 4 " 
 
 James F. Walsh Greenwich, 1905-1907, 2 " 
 
 Freeman F. Patten Stafford Springs, 1907-1911, 4 " 
 
 Costello Lippitt Norwich, 1911-1913, 2 " 
 
 Edward S. Roberts Canaan, 1913-1915, 2 " 
 
 Freder'k S. Chamberlain New Britain, 1915-19, 4 " 
 
 G. Harold Gilpatric Putnam, 1919- 
 
 t Died January 2, 1882, and James D. Smith was appointed by the Governor to nit 
 the vacancy. 
 
 124 
 
Comptrollers. 
 
 IT he names of those who are deceased are marked *. 
 
 Residence. Term of Service. 
 
 Name [Present P. O. Address, if living, in Italics.} 
 
 * James Thomas Hartford, 1819-30, 
 
 * Elisha Phelps Simsbury, 1830-34, 
 
 * Roger Huntington Norwich, 1834-35, 
 
 * Gideon Welles Hartford, 1835-36, 
 
 * William Field Pom fret, 1836-38, 
 
 * Henry Kilbourn Hartford, 1838-42, 
 
 * Gideon Welles Hartford, 1842-44, 
 
 * Abijah Carrington New Haven, 1844-46, 
 
 * Mason Cleveland Hampton, 1846-47, 
 
 * Abijah Catlin Harwinton, 1847-50, 
 
 * Rufus G. Pinney Stafford, 1850-54, 
 
 * John Dunham Norwich, 1854-55, 
 
 * Alexander Merrell New London, 1855-56, 
 
 * Edward Prentis New London, 1856-57, 
 
 * Joseph G. Lamb Norwich, 1857-58, 
 
 * William H. Buell Clinton, 1858-61, 
 
 * Leman W. Cutler Watertown, 1861-66, 
 
 *Robbins Battell Norfolk, 1866-67, 
 
 * Jesse Olney Stratford, 1867-69, 
 
 * James W. Manning Putnam, 1869-70, 
 
 * Seth S. Logan Washington, 1870-71, 
 
 * James W. Manning Putnam, 1871-73, 
 
 * Alfred R. Goodrich Vernon, 1873-77, 
 
 * Charles C. Hubbard Middletown, 1877-79, 
 
 *Chauncey Hubbard So. Coventry, 1879-81, 
 
 * Wheelock T. Batcheller Winsted, 1881^83, 
 
 Frank D. Sloat Washington, D. C. 1883-85, 
 
 * Luzerne I. Munson Waterbury, 1885-87, 
 
 * Thomas Clark No. Ston'ton, 1887-89, 
 
 * John B. Wright Clinton, 1889-91, 
 
 * Nicholas Staub New Milford, 1891-95, 
 
 * Benjamin P. Mead New Canaan, 1895-99, 
 
 * Thompson S. Grant Enfield, 1899-1901, 
 
 * Abiram Chamberlain Meriden, 1901-1903, 
 
 * William E. Seeley Bridgeport, 1903-1905, 
 
 Asahel W. Mitchell No. Woodbury, 1905-1907, 
 
 * Thomas D. Bradstreet Thomaston, 1907-1913, 
 
 Daniel P. Dunn Willimantic, 1913-1915, 
 
 Morris C. Webster Torrington, R. D. 1915- 
 
 
 Years 
 
 
 of Service. 
 
 II 
 
 years. 
 
 4 
 
 
 1 
 
 year. 
 
 1 
 
 << 
 
 2 
 
 years. 
 
 4 
 
 (< 
 
 2 
 
 
 2 
 
 M 
 
 1 
 
 year. 
 
 3 years. 
 
 4 
 
 <« 
 
 1 
 
 year. 
 
 1 
 
 " 
 
 1 
 
 " 
 
 1 
 
 «< 
 
 3 
 
 years. 
 
 5 
 
 " 
 
 1 
 
 year. 
 
 2 
 
 years. 
 
 I 
 
 year. 
 
 I 
 
 u 
 
 2 
 
 years. 
 
 4 
 
 
 2 
 
 «« 
 
 2 
 
 a 
 
 2 
 
 ** 
 
 2 
 
 it 
 
 2 
 
 " 
 
 2 
 
 " 
 
 2 
 
 <« 
 
 4 
 
 " 
 
 4 
 
 " 
 
 2 
 
 " 
 
 2 
 
 « > 
 
 2 
 
 <( 
 
 2 
 
 (( 
 
 6 
 
 " 
 
 2 
 
 " 
 
 II 
 
 Attorneys-General 
 
 Residence. Term of Service. Years 
 
 Name [Present P. O. Address, if living, in Italics.'] of Service. 
 
 Charles Phelps Rockville, 1899-1903, 4 years. 
 
 William A. King Willimantic, 1903-1007, 4 " 
 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, a Southington, 1 007-1910, 3 yrs. 8 m. 9 d. 
 
 John H. Light, b Norwalk, 1910-1915, 4 yrs. 3 m. 21 d. 
 
 George E. Hinman Willimantic, 1915-1919, 4 years. 
 
 Frank E. Healy Windsor Locks, 1919- 
 
 o Resigned to become a judge of the Superior Court. 
 
 b Appointed September 15, 1910, by Governor Weeks to fill unexpired term of Marcus 
 Holcomb. Elected for full term of 4 years in November, 1910. 
 
 125 
 
SPEAKERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- 
 TIVES OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 1819 to 1919 
 
 [The names of those who are deceased are marked *.] 
 
 Present P. O. 
 Names. Towns. address. 
 
 * Plant, David, Stratford, 
 
 * Phelps, Elisha, Simsbury, 
 
 * Beers, Seth P., Litchfield, 
 
 * Ingersoll, Ralph I., New Haven, 
 
 * Foot, Samuel A., Cheshire, 
 
 * Young, Ebenezer, Killingly, 
 
 * Phelps, Elisha, Simsbury, 
 
 * Edwards, Henry W., New Haven, 
 
 * Welles, Martin, Wethersfield, 
 
 * Ingham, Samuel, Saybrook, 
 
 * Huntington, Roger, a Norwich, 
 
 * Storrs, William L. Middletown, 
 
 * Ingham, Samuel, b Saybrook, 
 
 * Cleveland, Chaun. F. Hampton, 
 
 * Wightman, St'm'n K., Middletown, 
 
 * Boardman, Wm. W., New Haven, 
 
 * McCurdy, Charles J., Lyme, 
 
 * Wightman, St'm'n K., Middletown, 
 
 * Billings, Noyes, New London, 
 
 * McCurdy, Charles J., Lyme, 
 
 * Boardman, Wm. W., New Haven, 
 
 * Beardslee, Cyrus H., Monroe, 
 
 * Foster, La Fayette S., Norwich, 
 
 * Lewis, John C, Plymouth, 
 
 * Seymour, Origen S., Litchfield, 
 
 * Ingham, Samuel, Saybrook, 
 
 * Phelps, Charles B., Woodbury, 
 
 * Eaton, William W., Hartford, 
 
 * Foster, La Fayette S., e Norwich, 
 
 * Kendrick, Green, Waterbury, 
 
 * Baldwin, Austin, Middletown, 
 
 * Kendrick, Green, Waterbury, 
 
 * Bulkeley, Eliph. A., Hartford, 
 
 * Burnham, Alfred A., Windham, 
 
 * Perry, Oliver H., Fairfield, 
 
 * Brandegee, Augustus, d New London, 
 
 * Deming, Henry C, Hartford, 
 
 * Carter, Josiah M., Norwalk, 
 
 * Cleveland, Chaun. F„ Hampton, 
 
 * Rice, John S., Farmington, 
 
 * Foster, Eleazer K., New Haven, 
 
 * Gallup, David, Plainfield, 
 
 * Wait, John T., Norwich, 
 
 * Ives, Charles, East Haven, 
 
 * Piatt, Orville H., Meriden, 
 
 126 
 
 Years of 
 service. 
 
 1819, 20. 
 
 182 1. 
 
 1822, 23. 
 1824. 
 1825, 26. 
 1827, 28.. 
 1829. 
 1830. 
 183 1, 32- 
 1833. 
 1834. 
 1834. 
 1835. 
 1835, 36- 
 1837. 
 1838, 39. 
 184O, 41. 
 1842. 
 1843. 
 1844. 
 1845. 
 1846. 
 1847, 48- 
 1849. 
 1850. 
 
 185 1. 
 
 1852. 
 
 1853. 
 
 1854. 
 
 1854. 
 
 1855. 
 
 1856. 
 
 1857. 
 
 1858. 
 
 1859, 60- 
 
 l86l. 
 
 l86l. 
 
 1862. 
 
 1863. 
 
 1864. 
 
 1865. 
 
 1866. 
 
 1867. 
 
 1868. 
 
Names. 
 
 * Foster, La Fayette S., 
 
 * Burnham, Alfred A., 
 
 * Bugbee, Edwin H., 
 
 * Treat, Amos S., 
 
 * Eaton, William W., 
 *Doolittle, Tilton F., 
 
 * Durand, Charles, 
 Waller, Thomas M., 
 
 * Harrison, Lynde, 
 
 * Briscoe, Charles H., 
 
 * Wright, Dexter R., 
 
 * Marcy, Dwight, 
 
 * Case William C, 
 
 * Hall, John M., 
 
 * Pine, Charles H., 
 
 * Harrison, Henry B., 
 
 * Simonds, Wm. Edgar, 
 
 * Tibbits, John A., 
 
 * Hoyt, Huested W. R., 
 Perry, John H., 
 
 * Paige, Allan W., 
 
 * Brooks, Isaac W., 
 
 * Fessenden, Samuel, 
 
 * Barbour, Joseph L., 
 Brandegee, Frank B., 
 Light, John H., 
 
 * Kenealy, Michael, 
 Holcomb, Marcus H., 
 Tilson, John Q., 
 Banks, Elmore S., 
 Scott, Frederick A., 
 Webster, Morris C, 
 Healy, Frank E., 
 Walsh, James F., 
 
 Towns. 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 Windham, 
 
 Killingly, 
 
 Woodbridge, 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Derby, 
 
 New London, 
 
 Guilford, 
 
 Enfield, 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Vernon, 
 
 Granby, 
 
 Windham, 
 
 Derby, 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Canton, 
 
 New London, 
 
 Greenwich, 
 
 Fairfield, 
 
 Huntington, 
 
 Torrington, 
 
 Stamford, 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 New London, 
 
 Norwalk, 
 
 Stamford, 
 
 Southington, 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 Fairfield, 
 
 Plymouth, 
 
 Harwinton, 
 
 Windsor Locks, 
 
 Greenwich. 
 
 Present P. O. 
 address. 
 
 New London, 
 
 Southport, 
 
 New London, 
 So. Norwalk, 
 
 Southington, 
 New Haven, 
 Fairfield, 
 Terryville, 
 Torring'n r.f.d. 
 Windsor L'ks, 
 
 Years of 
 service. 
 
 1870. 
 
 1870. 
 
 187 1 
 
 1872 
 
 1873 
 
 1874 
 
 1875 
 
 1876, 
 
 1877 
 
 1878 
 
 1879 
 1880 
 l88l 
 1882 
 1883 
 1884 
 1885 
 1886 
 1887 
 1889. 
 189I 
 1893 
 1895 
 1897 
 1899 
 1901 
 I903 
 I905 
 I907 
 1909 
 I9II 
 1913 
 1915 
 I9I9 
 
 17. 
 
 a Resigned May 24, 1834, having been appointed Comptroller, and William L. Storrs 
 was appointed to fill the vacancy. 
 
 b Resigned May IS, 1835, and Chauncey F. Cleveland was chosen to fill the vacancy. 
 
 c Resigned June 8, 1854, having been elected U. S. Senator, and Green Kendrick was 
 chosen to fill the vacancy. 
 
 d At a special session, held Oct. 9, 1861, the speaker, Mr. Brandegee, being detained 
 from the House by illness, Mr. Deming was chosen speaker pro tempore. 
 
 e Resigned June 16, 1870, having been chosen Judge of the Supreme Court of Errors, 
 and Alfred A. Burnham of Windham was chosen to fill the vacancy. 
 
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MEMBERS AND OFFICERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
 
 CONNECTICUT, 
 
 MAY SESSION, 1818. 
 
 STATE OFFICERS 
 
 His Excellency OLIVER WOLCOTT, Esq., Governor 
 
 His Honor JONATHAN INGERSOLL, Esq., Lieut.-Governor 
 
 THOMAS DAY, Esq., Secretary 
 
 ISAAC SPENCER, 2D, Esq., Treasurer 
 
 ELISHA COLT, Esq., Comptroller 
 
 ASSISTANTS 
 
 Hon. Jonathan Brace, Esq., 
 Frederick Wolcott, 
 Asa Chapman, 
 Elias Perkins, 
 William Bristol, 
 Elijah Boardman, 
 
 Hon. David Tomlinson, 
 " Sylvester Wells, 
 " John S. Peters, 
 " James Lanman, 
 " Enoch Burroughs, 
 " Peter Webb, 
 
 Esq. 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 speaker 
 Gideon Tomilson, Esq., of Fairfield 
 Elisha Phelps, Esq., Samuel A. Foote, Esq., Clerks 
 
 Michael Olcott, Hartford 
 Jonathan W. Edward, Hartford 
 Andrew Pratt, Berlin 
 Luther Beckley, Berlin 
 Enos Ives. Bristol 
 Theodore Pettibone, Burlington 
 Darius Moses, Canton 
 Shubael Griswold, East Hartford 
 Benjamin Lyman, East Hartford 
 Abner Read, East Windsor 
 Joel Holkins, East Windsor 
 Elam O. Potter, Enfield 
 William Dixon, Enfield 
 John Mix, Farmington 
 George Norton, Farmington 
 Samuel Wells, Glastonbury 
 David E. Hubbard, Glastonbury 
 Zadoce Wilcox, Granby 
 Joseph Pinney, Granby 
 Philander Humphreys, Hartland 
 Lent Benham, Hartland 
 
 Joel Foote, Marlborough 
 Elisha Phelps, Simsbury 
 Zelotes Phelps, Simsbury 
 . Roswell Moore, Southington 
 Chester Grannis, Southington 
 Elisha Gunn, Suffield 
 Martin Sheldon, Suffield 
 Ezekial P. Belden, Wethersfield 
 Levi Lusk, Wethersfield 
 William Alford, Windsor 
 Eliakim Marshall, Windsor 
 Thomas Ward, New Haven 
 Henry W. Edwards, New Haven 
 Eli Fowler, Branford 
 Josiah I. Linsley, Branford 
 Samuel A. Foote, Cheshire ■ 
 Silas Hitchcock, Cheshire 
 Sheldon Curtiss, Derbv 
 James Thomson, East Haven 
 Nathaniel Griffing, Guilford 
 Samuel Robinson, Guilford 
 
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Amasa Bradley, Hamden 
 Othniel Ives, Meriden 
 Philo Bronson, Middlebury 
 Benjamin Bull, Mil ford 
 Samuel B. Gunn, Milford 
 Daniel Pierpont, North Haven 
 Jared Hawley, Oxford 
 Curtiss Hinman, Southbury 
 Abel Sanford, Wallingford 
 Elkanah Hall, Wallingford 
 James M. L. Scovill, Waterbury 
 Timothy Gibbud, Waterbury 
 Justus Thomas, Woodbridge 
 Chauncey Tolles, Woodbridge 
 Erastus Welton, Wolcott 
 Henry Channing, New London 
 William Stockman, New London 
 Cushing Eells, Norwich 
 Newcomb Kinney, Norwich 
 William Whiting, Bozrah 
 Benjamin Trumbull, Colchester 
 John R. Watrous, Colchester 
 Joshua Tracey, Franklin 
 Nathan Geer, Griswold 
 Noyes Barber, Groton 
 Philip Gray, Groton 
 Frederick Perkins, Lisbon 
 Richard E. Selden, Lyme 
 Peter Comstock, Lyme 
 Oliver Comstock, Montville 
 Nathan Pendleton, No. Stonington 
 Stanton Hewitt, No. Stonington 
 John T. Mott, Preston 
 John Brewster, Preston 
 George Hubbard, Stonington 
 William Randall, Stonington 
 Isaac Frink, Waterford 
 Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield 
 Thomas F. Rowland, Fairfield 
 Samuel Tweedy, Jr., Danbury 
 Zalmon Wildman Danbury 
 William Meeker, Brookfield 
 Isaac Howe, Greenwich 
 Clark Sanford, Greenwich 
 Abner Hyde, Huntington 
 Samuel Wheeler, Huntington 
 Nathan Seeley, New Canaan 
 Jabez Treadwell, New Fairfield 
 Gideon Botsford, Newtown 
 Joseph B. Wheeler, Newtown 
 William L. Street, Norwalk 
 Dan Taylor, Norwalk 
 Billy Comstock, Redding 
 Aaron Sanford, Jr., Redding 
 Eliphalet Brush, Ridgefield 
 Jabez M. Gilbert, Ridgefield 
 John Orton, Sherman 
 James Stevens, Stamford 
 Thaddeus Bell, Stamford 
 David Plant, Stratford 
 Ephraim L. Wilcoxson, Stratford 
 Daniel Seeley, Trumbull 
 Stephen Wheeler, Weston 
 
 Oliver C. Sanford, Weston 
 Erastus Sturges, Wilton 
 John Baldwin, Windham 
 Edmund Badger, Windham 
 David Brewster, Ashford 
 David Kyes, Ashford 
 Vine Robinson, Brooklyn 
 Solomon Payne, Canterbury 
 Asa Butts, Canterbury 
 Asahel Kingsley, Columbia 
 Joseph Prentiss, Hampton 
 Shubael Hutchins, Killingly 
 Andrew Leavins, Killingly 
 Simeon M. Webster, Lebanon 
 Isaiah Loomis, Lebanon 
 William Bennett, Mansfield 
 Seth Dunham, Mansfield 
 Sessions Lester, Plainfield 
 Oliver Coates, Plainfield 
 Pardon Kingsley, Pomfret 
 Samuel Allen, 2d, Pomfret 
 Dixon Hall, Sterling 
 John Jacobs, Jr., Thompson 
 Elijah Nicholls, Jr., Thompson 
 William Gallup, Voluntown 
 John Fox, Woodstock 
 John McClellan, Woodstock 
 Stephen Russell, Litchfield 
 Ephraim S. Hall, Litchfield 
 John Merrills, Barkhemsted 
 Oliver Mills, Barkhemsted 
 Nehemiah Lambert, Bethlem 
 Jabez Brewster, Canaan 
 Nathaniel Stevens, Canaan 
 Asaph Pinney, Colebrook 
 Rufus North, Colebrook 
 Noah Rogers, Cornwall 
 Philo Swift, Cornwall 
 Julius Beach, Goshen 
 William Stanley, Goshen 
 William C. Abernethy, Harwington 
 Uriah Hopkins, Harwington 
 Abel Beach, Kent 
 Aaron Austin, New Hartford 
 Asa Goodwin, New Hartford 
 Orange Merwin, New Milford 
 Homer Boardman, New Milford 
 Nathaniel Stevens, Norfolk 
 Augustus Pettibone, Norfolk 
 Calvin Butler, Plymouth 
 Josiah R. Eastman, Roxbury 
 Daniel Johnson, Salisbury 
 Abijah C. Peet, Salisbury 
 Hezekiah Goodwin, Sharon 
 Thomas St. John, Sharon 
 Lyman Wetmore, Torrington 
 John Gillet, Jr., Torrington 
 Homer Sacket, Warren 
 Daniel B. Brinsmade, Washington 
 Joseph Whittlesey, Washington 
 Amos Baldwin, Watertown 
 Matthew Adams, Winchester 
 Riley Whiting, Winchester 
 
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Nathan Preston, Woodbury 
 Philo Murray, Woodbury 
 John Alsop, Middletown 
 Nathan Starr, Jr., Middletown 
 John Brainerd, 2d, Haddam 
 George W. Smith, Haddam 
 Enoch Sage, Chatham 
 Nehemiah Gates, Chatham 
 Bridgman Guernsey, Durham 
 Asahel Strong, Durham 
 Isaac Spencer, Jr., East Haddam 
 Richard Lord, East Haddam 
 George Carter, Killingworth 
 Benjamin Hill, Killingworth 
 Joseph Hill, Saybrook 
 John Stannard, Saybrook 
 Eliphalet Young, Tolland 
 
 Gurdon Thomson, Tolland 
 Ichabod M. Warner, Bolton 
 Cephas Brigham, Coventry 
 Jasper Fitch, Coventry 
 Asa Willey, Ellington 
 Daniel Burrows, Hebron 
 Simon House, Hebron 
 Joseph Abbott, Somers 
 Reuben Chapin, Somers 
 Benning Mann, Stafford 
 Gardner Cady, Stafford 
 Ing'sby W. Crawford, Union 
 Nathaniel Newell, Union 
 Lemuel King, Vernon 
 Daniel Glazier, Willington 
 Jonathan Sibley, Jr., Willington 
 
 OCTOBER SESSION, 1818 
 
 SPEAKER 
 
 Gideon Tomlinson, Esq., of Fairfield 
 Samuel A. Foote, Esq., Henry W. Edwards, Esq., Clerks 
 
 John Russ, Hartford 
 Henry Kilbourn, Hartford 
 Luther Beckly, Berlin 
 Andrew Pratt, Berlin 
 Tracy Peck, Bristol 
 Sylvester Norton, Burlington 
 William Stone, Canton 
 Richard Pitkin, East Hartford 
 Levi Goodwin, East Hartford 
 Timothy Ellsworth, East Windsor 
 Abner Reed. East Windsor 
 Henry Terry, Enfield 
 William Dixon, Enfield 
 John Mix, Farmington 
 George Norton, Farmington 
 Samuel Welles, Glastenbury 
 Marvin Dayton, Glastenbury 
 Benajah Holcomb, 2d, Granby 
 John W r illey, Granby 
 Samuel Benjamin, Hartland 
 Israel Williams, Hartland 
 Joel Foote, Marlborough 
 Oliver C. Phelps, Simsbury 
 Asa Hoskins, Simsbury 
 Roswell Moore, Southington 
 Chester Grannis. Southington 
 Horace King, Sufneld 
 Elisha Gunn, Sufneld 
 Asher Robbins, Wethersfield 
 Levi Robbins, Wethersfield 
 Odiah Loomis, Windsor 
 Joseph H. Russell, Windsor 
 Thonfas Ward, New Haven 
 Henry W. Edwards, New Haven 
 Samuel A. Foote, Cheshire 
 Silas Hitchcock, Cheshire 
 Eli Fowler, Branford 
 Josiah I. Linsley, Branford 
 Sheldon Curtiss, Derby 
 
 James Thompson, East Haven 
 Nathaniel Griffing, Guilford 
 William Todd, Guilford 
 Russell Pierpont, Hamden 
 Elisha Curtiss, Meriden 
 Philo Bronson, Middlebury 
 Benjamin Bull, Milford 
 Samuel B. Gunn, Milford 
 Stephen Munson, North Haven 
 Abel Wheeler, Oxford 
 W T arren Mitchell, Southbury 
 James Humiston, Wallingford 
 George Merriman, Wallingford 
 Ashley Scott, Waterbury 
 Andrew Adams, Waterbury 
 Justus Thomas, Woodbridge 
 Chauncey Tolles, Woodbridge 
 Erastus Welton, Wolcott 
 Amasa Learned, New London 
 William Stockman, New London 
 Charles Thomas, Norwich 
 Erastus Coit, Norwich 
 William Whiting, Bozrah 
 Samuel A. Peters, Colchester 
 John R. Watrous, Colchester 
 Andrew Hyde, Franklin 
 William Cogswell, Griswold 
 Noyes Barber, Groton 
 Philip Gray, Groton 
 Joseph L. Lyon, Lisbon 
 Peter Comstock, Lyme 
 Samuel B. Mather, Lyme 
 John Fitch, Montville 
 Samuel Chapman, No. Stonington 
 Daniel Packer, No. Stonington 
 James Cook, Preston 
 Jonathan Brewster, Preston 
 Samuel F. Denison, Stonington 
 Amos Williams, Stonington 
 
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Charles Avery, Waterford 
 Gideon Tomlinson, Fairfield 
 Thomas F. Rowland, Fairfield 
 Eden Andrews, Danbury 
 Matthew Wilkes, Danbury 
 Heman Burch, Brookfield 
 Isaac Howe, Greenwich 
 Charles Smith, Greenwich 
 Samuel Beardsley, Huntington 
 Nathan G. Birdsey, Huntington 
 Nathan Seeley, New Canaan 
 Benjamin Bearss, New Fairfield 
 Bennett Perry, Newtown 
 Jacob Beers, Newtown 
 Benjamin Isaacs, Norwalk 
 Dan Taylor, Norwalk 
 William Sanford, Redding 
 John Meeker, Redding 
 Eliphalet Brush, Ridgefield 
 Jabez M. Gilbert, Ridgefield 
 William Giddings, Sherman 
 James Stevens, Stamford 
 Thaddeus Bell, Stamford 
 David Plant, Stratford 
 James E. Beach, Stratford 
 Lewis Fairchild, Trumbull 
 Joseph Bennett, Weston 
 Eliphalet Cooley, Weston 
 Eliphalet Taylor, Wilton 
 Amos D. Allen, Windham 
 Joshua Smith, Windham 
 Stephen Knowlton, Ashford 
 Jedediah Watkins, Ashford 
 Shubael Brown, Brooklyn 
 Solomon Payne, Canterbury 
 Asa Butts, Canterbury 
 Asahel Kingsley, Columbia 
 Ebenezer Grifnn, Hampton 
 Robert Grosvenor, Killingly 
 James Danielson, Killingly 
 Charles 'Abel, Lebanon 
 Joshua Hall, Lebanon 
 William Bennett, Mansfield 
 Seth Dunham, Mansfield 
 Oliver Coates, Plainfield 
 Erastus Lester, Plainfield 
 Joseph Scarborough, Pomfret 
 William Osgood, Pomfret 
 Jeremiah Young, Sterling 
 Wyman Carrol, Thompson 
 Jesse Ormsby, Thompson 
 Sterry Kinne, Voluntown 
 John Fox, Woodstock 
 Ebenezer Skinner, Woodstock 
 Stephen Russell, Litchfield 
 Phineas Lord, Litchfield 
 Zophar Case, Berkhempsted 
 Zalmon Howd, Berkhempsted 
 Joseph H. Bellamy, Bethlem 
 Seth Andrews, Canaan 
 Joshua Cornwall, Canaan 
 Rufus North, Colebrook 
 
 Timothy Babcock, Colebrook 
 Philo Swift, Cornwall 
 Noah Rogers, Cornwall 
 William Stanley, Goshen 
 Samuel Lyman, Goshen 
 Wm. C. Abernethy, Harwinton 
 Roswell Alford, Harwinton 
 Abel Beach, Kent 
 Aaron Austin, New Hartford 
 Asa Goodwin, New Hartford 
 Homer Boardman, New Milford 
 Orange Merwin, New Milford 
 Augustus Pettibone, Norfolk 
 Nathaniel Stevens, Norfolk 
 Jacob Hemingway, Plymouth 
 Elisha Patterson, Roxbury 
 Silas Reed, Salisbury 
 Alexander Lamb, Salisbury 
 Oliver Kellogg, Sharon 
 Ansel Sterling, Sharon 
 Abel Hinsdale, Torrington 
 William Battell, Torrington 
 Augustus Curtiss, Warren 
 John N. Gunn, Washington 
 Noble Day, Washington 
 Amos Baldwin, Watertown 
 Daniel Phelps, Winchester 
 Nathaniel B. Gaylord, Winchester 
 John P. Marshall, Woodbury 
 Elijah Sherman, Jr., Woodbury 
 John Alsop, Middletown 
 Hosea Goodrich, Middletown 
 Enoch Sage, Chatham 
 Nehemiah Gates, Chatham 
 Abel Lyman, Durham 
 Manoah Camp, Durham 
 Ezra Brainard, Haddam 
 John Brainard, 2d, Haddam 
 Chevers Brainard, East Haddam 
 William Hungerford, East Haddam 
 George Elliott, Killingworth 
 Dan Lane, Killingworth 
 Amb. Whittlesey, Jr., Saybrook 
 Samuel Colt, Saybrook 
 Eliphalet Young, Tolland 
 William Eldridge, Tolland 
 Ichabod M. Warner, Bolton 
 Elisha Edgerton, Coventry 
 Daniel White, Coventry 
 Asa Willey, Ellington 
 Simon House, Hebron 
 Thomas Wells, Hebron 
 Reuben Chapin, Somers 
 Oliver Chapin, 2d, Somers 
 Jasper Hyde, Stafford 
 Ephraim Dimick, Stafford 
 John Crawford, Union 
 Eleazer Bugbee, Union 
 Lemuel King, Vernon 
 Spafford Brigham, Willington 
 Daniel Glazier, Willington 
 
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MEMBERS AND OFFICERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF 
 
 CONNECTICUT, 
 
 MAY SESSION, 1819. 
 
 STATE OFFICERS 
 
 His Excellency OLIVER WOLCOTT, Esq., Governor 
 
 His Honor JONATHAN INGERSOLL, Esq., Lieut-Governor 
 
 THOMAS DAY, Esq., Secretary 
 
 ISAAC SPENCER, Esq., Treasurer 
 
 ELISHA COLT, Esq., Comptroller 
 
 ♦senators 
 
 Hon. Jonathan Brace, Esq., 
 " Frederick Wolcott, Esq., 
 " Elias Perkins, Esq., 
 " William Bristol, Esq., 
 " Elijah Boardman, Esq., 
 " David Tomlinson, Esq., 
 
 Hon. Sylvester Wells, Esq., 
 " John S. Peters, Esq., 
 " Enoch Burrows, Esq., 
 " Peter Webb, Esq., 
 " David Hill, Esq., 
 " Joshua Stow, Esq., 
 
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 SPEAKER 
 
 David Plant, Esq., of Stratford 
 Ansel Sterling, Esq., Ralph I. Ingersoll, Esq., Clerks 
 
 Michael Olcott, Hartford 
 Thomas S. Williams, Hartford 
 Samuel Hart, Berlin 
 Thomas Lee, Berlin 
 Tracy Peck, Bristol 
 Sylvester Norton, Burlington 
 Thomas Bidwell, Canton 
 Daniel Pitkin, East Hartford 
 Joseph Pitkin, East Hartford 
 Timothy Ellsworth, East Windsor 
 Elihu Wolcott, East Windsor 
 Henry Terry, Enfield 
 William Dixon, Enfield 
 Timothy Pitkin, Farmington 
 John Mix, Farmington 
 Samuel Wells, Glastenbury 
 David E. Hubbard, Glastenbury 
 Orrin Lee, Granby 
 
 Nahum Holcomb, Granby 
 Asa Bushnell, Hartland 
 Jared Newell, Hartland 
 Joel Foote, Marlborough 
 Roger Whittlesey, Southington 
 Roswell Moore, Southington 
 Horace King, Suffield 
 Apollos Fuller, Suffield 
 Asa Hoskins, Simsbury 
 James Goodwin, Simsbury 
 Ezekiel P. Belden, Wethersfield 
 Levi Lusk, Wethersfield 
 Joseph H. Russell, Windsor 
 Oliver Filley, Windsor 
 Ralph I. Ingersoll, New Haven 
 Charles Bostwick, New Haven 
 Eli Fowler, Branford 
 Jonathan Rose, 2d, Branford 
 
 •Note. — After the adoption of the Constitution in 1818 the name Senators was 
 substituted for Assistants. The regular October Session was also dispensed with. 
 
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Silas Hitchcock, Cheshire 
 Samuel Peck, Cheshire 
 John Humphreys, Jr., Derby 
 Bela Farnham, East Haven 
 Nathaniel Griffing, Guilford 
 William Todd, Guilford 
 Roger Dorman, Hamden 
 William Yale, Meriden 
 Philo Bronson, Middlebury 
 Benjamin Bull, Milford 
 Samuel B. Gunn, Milford 
 Stephen Monson, North Haven 
 Abel Wheeler, Oxford 
 Curtiss Hinman, Southbury 
 Samuel Cook, Wallingford 
 Samuel Tuttle, Wallingford 
 Ward Peck, Waterbury 
 James M. L. Scovill, Waterbury 
 Justus Thomas, Woodbridge 
 Chauncey Tolles, Woodbridge 
 Luther Andrews, Wolcott 
 Lyman Law, New London 
 Jacob B. Gurley, New London 
 Calvin Goddard, Norwich 
 Newcomb Kinney, Norwich 
 Perez Cheesborough, Bozrah 
 Samuel A. Peters, Colchester 
 John R. Watrous, Colchester 
 Ira Abel, Franklin 
 Thomas Avery, Groton 
 Stephen Billings, Groton 
 Elisha I. Abel, Griswold 
 Thomas Kinsman, Lisbon 
 Moses Warren, Lyme 
 Samuel B. Mather, Lyme 
 Mumford Dolbear, Montville 
 Samuel Chapman, No. Stonington 
 Daniel Packer, No. Stonington 
 James Cook, Preston 
 Jonathan Brewster, Preston 
 Samuel F. Denison, Stonington 
 Amos Williams, Stonington 
 Asa Wightman, Waterford 
 John Hull, Fairfield 
 Jeremiah Sturges, Fairfield 
 Friend Starr, Danbury 
 Zalmon Wildman, Danbury 
 Czar Starr, Brookfield 
 Enos Lockwood, Greenwich 
 Stephen Waring, Greenwich 
 Nathan G. Birdseye, Huntington 
 John Peck, Huntington 
 Samuel T. Barnum, New Fairfield 
 Isaac Richards, New Canaan 
 Joseph B. Wheeler, Newtown 
 Jeremiah Beers, Newtown 
 Benjamin Isaacs, Norwalk 
 Andrew Hanford, Norwalk 
 Billy Comstock, Reading 
 Hezekiah Read, Jr., Reading 
 Gamaliel Benedict, Ridgefield 
 Bradley Hull. Ridgefield 
 Thaddeus Bell. Stamford 
 
 Isaac Lockwood, Stamford 
 David Plant, Stratford 
 Reuben Tweedy, Stratford 
 Jedediah Graves, Sherman 
 Samuel Gregory, Trumbull 
 Oliver C. Sanford, Weston 
 Stephen Wheeler, Weston 
 Erastus Sturges, Wilton 
 Amos D. Allen, Windham 
 John Baldwin, Windham 
 Stephen Knowlton, Ashford 
 Jedediah Watkins, Ashford 
 Roger W. Williams, Brooklyn 
 Daniel Frost, Jr., Canterbury 
 Asa Butts, Canterbury 
 Elam Loomis, Columbia 
 Joseph Prentiss, Hampton 
 Luther Warren, Killingly 
 David Chase, Killingly 
 Charles Abel, Lebanon 
 Joshua Hall, Lebanon 
 Edmond Freeman, Mansfield 
 Artemas Gurley, Mansfield 
 Erastus Lester, Plainfield 
 Vincent Hinkley, Plainfield 
 Joseph Scarborough, Pomfret 
 Lemuel Ingalls, Pomfret 
 Dixon Hall, Sterling 
 John Nichols, Jr., Thompson 
 John Jacobs, Jr., Thompson 
 Sterry Kinney, Voluntown 
 Ebenezer Skinner, Woodstock 
 John McClellan, Woodstock 
 John Welch, Litchfield 
 Phinehas Lord, Litchfield 
 Zophar Case, Barkhemsted 
 Salmon Howd, Barkhemsted 
 Joseph H. Bellamy, Bethlem 
 Samuel Robbins, Canaan 
 Ovid Plumb, Canaan 
 Launcelot Phelps, Colebrook 
 Enos North, Colebrook 
 Oliver Burnham, Cornwall 
 John H. Pierce, Cornwall 
 Samuel Lyman, Goshen 
 William Stanley, Goshen 
 William C. Abernethy, Harwinton 
 Enos Frisbie, Harwinton 
 Lewis Mills, Kent 
 Aaron Austin, New Hartford 
 Asa Goodwin, New Hartford 
 Orange Merwin, New Milford 
 Eli Todd, New Milford 
 Augustus Pettibone, Norfolk 
 Nathaniel Stevens, Norfolk 
 Jacob Hemingway, Plymouth 
 Eli M. Smith, Roxbury 
 Daniel Johnson, Salisbury 
 Abijah C. Peet, Salisbury 
 Oliver Kellogg, Sharon 
 Ansel Sterling, Sharon 
 Elihu Cook, Torrington 
 John Gillet, Jr., Torrington 
 
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Samuel Leavitt, Washington 
 Joseph Whittlesey, Washington 
 Daniel Hecox, Watertown 
 Judah Eldred, Warren 
 James Beebe, Winchester 
 James Boyd, Winchester 
 Reuben Martin, Woodbury 
 Nathan Preston, Woodbury 
 John Alsop, Middletown 
 Elisha Coe, Middletown 
 Enoch Sage, Chatham 
 Benjamin Hurd, Chatham 
 Thomas Lyman, Durham 
 John Swathel, Durham 
 Cheves Brainard, East Haddam 
 Wm. Hungerford, East Haddam 
 John Brainard, 2d, Haddam 
 Stephen Tibballs, Haddam 
 Jared Elliott, Killingworth 
 Moses Wilcox, Killingworth 
 
 Clark Nott, Saybrook 
 Elisha Sill, Saybrook 
 William Eldridge, Tolland 
 Hezekiah Nye, Tolland 
 Ichabod M. Warner, Bolton 
 Cephus Brigham, Coventry 
 Jasper Fitch, Coventry 
 John Hall, Ellington 
 Thomas Wells, Hebron 
 Eleazer Sweetland, Hebron 
 Oliver Chapin, 2d, Somers 
 Joseph Abbott, Somers 
 Jasper Hyde, Stafford 
 Ephraim Dimock, Stafford 
 IngMsby W. Crawford, Union 
 Nathaniel Newell, Union 
 Phineas Talcott, Vernon 
 Jonathan Sibley, Jr., Willington 
 Daniel Glazier, Willington 
 
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DELEGATES AND OFFICERS 
 
 TO THE 
 
 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF THE 
 
 STATE OF CONNECTICUT OF 1902 
 
 President — HON. CHARLES B. ANDREWS, of Litchfield. 
 Vice-Presidents — HON. JOHN H. PERRY, of Fairfield; 
 
 HON. THOMAS M. WALLER, of New London. 
 Chaplains — REV. WILLIAM MARTIN BROWN, of Bloomfield; 
 
 REV. CHARLES H. SMITH, of Plymouth. 
 Clerk — FRANK E. HEALY, of Windsor Locks. 
 Assistant Clerk — GEORGE E. HINMAN, of Windham. 
 
 HARTFORD COUNTY 
 
 Hartford 
 
 Avon 
 
 Berlin 
 
 Bloomfield 
 
 Bristol 
 
 Burlington 
 
 Canton 
 
 East Granby 
 
 East Hartford 
 
 East Windsor 
 
 Enfield 
 
 Farmington 
 
 Glastonbury 
 
 Granby 
 
 New Haven 
 
 Waterbury 
 
 Ansonia 
 
 Beacon Falls 
 
 Bethany 
 
 Branford 
 
 Cheshire 
 
 Derby 
 
 East Haven 
 
 Guilford 
 
 Hamden 
 
 Madison 
 
 Meriden 
 
 New London 
 
 Norwich 
 
 Bozrah 
 
 Colchester 
 
 East Lyme 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Griswold 
 
 Groton 
 
 Lebanon 
 
 Ledyard 
 
 Charles Hopkins Clark 
 Robert J. Holmes 
 Charles M. Jarvis 
 William Martin Brown 
 Noble E. Pierce 
 E. Samuel Gillette 
 Edward H. Sears 
 Julius G. Dickinson 
 Percy S. Bryant 
 Howard A. Middleton 
 Thompson S. Grant 
 Amasa A. Redfield 
 Henry E. Loomis 
 William C Case* 
 Theodore M. Maltbief 
 
 Hartland George W. Miller 
 
 Manchester Frank W. Cheney 
 Marlborough Frederick Cooley 
 New Britain Robert J. Vance 
 Newington George E. Churchill 
 
 Plainville Aquila H. Condell 
 
 Rocky Hill Owen R. Havens 
 Simsbury Joseph L. Bartlett 
 
 Southington Marcus H. Holcomb 
 South WindsorLewis Sperry 
 Suffield Charles C. Bissell 
 
 West HartfordWilliam H. Hall 
 Wethersfield Stephen F. Willard 
 Windsor D. Ellsworth Phelps 
 
 Windsor LocksThomas L. Healy 
 
 NEW HAVEN COUNTY 
 
 Norris G. Osborn 
 Francis P. Guilfoile 
 Denis T. Walsh 
 Adna D. Warner 
 Samuel R. Woodward 
 Louis A. Fisk 
 Alonzo E. Smith 
 Daniel E. McMahon 
 William K. Stevens 
 Edward Griswold 
 James H. Webb 
 John H. Meigs 
 H. Wales Lines 
 
 Middlebury 
 
 Milford 
 
 Naugatuck 
 
 No. Branford 
 
 North Haven 
 
 Orange 
 
 Oxford 
 
 Prospect 
 
 Seymour 
 
 Southbury 
 
 Wallingford 
 
 Wolcott 
 
 Woodbridge 
 
 George W. Wallace 
 Dumond P. Merwin 
 John H. Whittemore 
 George L. Ford 
 Marcus D. Marks 
 Samuel J. Bryant 
 William O. Davis 
 David B. Hotchkiss 
 William H. H. Woostei 
 Plenry B. Russell 
 John B. Kendrick 
 Evelyn M. Upson 
 G. Halsted Bishop 
 
 NEW LONDON COUNTY 
 
 Thomas M. Waller 
 Frank T. Brown 
 E. Judson Miner 
 Harley P. Buell 
 Edwin C. Chipman 
 J. Henry King 
 Arthur M. Brown 
 Henry L. Bailey 
 Isaac Gillette 
 William I. Allyn 
 Waterford 
 
 Lisbon 
 Lyme 
 Montville 
 No. Stonington 
 Old Lyme 
 Preston 
 Salem 
 Sprague 
 Stonington 
 Voluntown 
 Charles A. Gallup 
 
 Calvin D. Bromley 
 James L. Raymond 
 Joseph F. Killeen 
 James F. Brown 
 Joseph S. Huntington 
 George A. Frink 
 Alvah Morgan 
 William J. Riley 
 Frank H. Hinckley 
 E. Byron Gallup 
 
 Died December 23, 1901. 
 
 f Elected December 30, 1901. 
 
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY 
 
 Bridgeport 
 
 Danbury 
 
 Bethel 
 
 Brookfield 
 
 Darien 
 
 Easton 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Greenwich 
 
 Huntington 
 
 Monroe 
 
 New Canaan 
 
 Daniel Davenport 
 Eugene C. Dempsey 
 Howard H. Woodman 
 Elmer H. Northrop 
 Thaddeus Bell 
 Edgar G. Jennings 
 John H. Perry 
 R. Jay Walsh 
 Sturges Whitlock 
 Edwin C. Shelton 
 Benjamin P. Mead 
 Wilton H. 
 
 New Fairfield 
 Newtown 
 Norwalk 
 Redding 
 Ridgefield 
 Sherman 
 Stamford 
 Stratford 
 Trumbull 
 Weston 
 Westport 
 E. Chichester 
 
 Homer L. Wanzer 
 Charles H. Northrop 
 Asa B. Woodward 
 Jonathan B. Sanford 
 William O. Seymour 
 George A. Barnes 
 Schuyler Merritt 
 Henry P. Stagg 
 Ormel Hall 
 Frank Gorham 
 Rufus Wakeman 
 
 WINDHAM COUNTY 
 
 Windham Eugene S. Boss Hampton 
 
 Putnam Byron D. Bugbee Killingly 
 
 Ashford Thomas K. Fitts Plainfield 
 
 Brooklyn Henry M. Evans Pomfret 
 
 Canterbury Levi N. Clark Scotland 
 
 Chaplin William J. Groesbeck Sterling 
 
 Eastford Monroe F. Latham Thompson 
 
 Woodstock George Austin Bowen 
 
 William H. Burnham 
 Aurin P. Somes 
 Edwin Milner 
 Thomas O. Elliott 
 Gerald Waldo 
 Claramon Hunt 
 Randolph H. Chandler 
 
 LITCHFIELD COUNTY 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Winchester 
 
 New Milford 
 
 Barkhamsted 
 
 Bethlehem 
 
 Bridgewater 
 
 Canaan 
 
 Colebrook 
 
 Cornwall 
 
 Goshen 
 
 Harwinton 
 
 Kent 
 
 Morris 
 
 Charles B. Andrews 
 Wellington B. Smith 
 Charles M. Beach 
 Hubert B. Case 
 Abner P. Hayes 
 Marcus B. Mallett 
 John H. Belden 
 Julian H. Smith 
 Philo M. Kellogg 
 Henry G. Wright 
 Clarence M. Ely 
 Irwin J. Beardsley 
 Lyman W. Whittlesey 
 
 New Hartford 
 
 Norfolk 
 
 North Canaan 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 Roxbury 
 
 Salisbury 
 
 Sharon 
 
 Thomaston 
 
 Torrington 
 
 Warren 
 
 Washington 
 
 Watertown 
 
 Woodbury 
 
 John Fox Smith 
 William O'Connor 
 Charles W. Camp 
 Charles H. Smith 
 George R. Crofut 
 Donald T. Warner 
 George S. Kirby 
 Frank W. Etheridge 
 Orsamus R. Fyler 
 Noble B. Strong 
 John C. Brinsmade 
 Augustus N. Woolson 
 Horace D. Curtiss 
 
 MIDDLESEX COUNTY 
 
 Middletown 
 
 Haddam 
 
 Chatham 
 
 Chester 
 
 Clinton 
 
 Cromwell 
 
 Durham 
 
 D. Ward Northrop 
 George M. Clark 
 William N. Markham 
 Wilbur A. Brothwell 
 Charles A. Pelton 
 Edward S. Coe 
 Frederic P. Hubbard 
 
 East Haddam 
 
 Essex 
 
 Killingworth 
 
 Middlefield 
 
 Old Saybrook 
 
 Portland 
 
 Saybrook 
 
 Albert E. Purple 
 George H. Blake 
 Lauren L. Nettleton 
 Fred W. Terrill 
 William H. Smith 
 Asaph H. Hale 
 Frederick L'Hommediei 
 
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NAMES OF THOSE PRESENT 
 
 at the 
 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CENTENNIAL 
 
 Capitol, Hartford, May 7, 1919. 
 
 The appended list of State Officers, Senators and Representatives, 
 who attended the Centennial was compiled from the registration cards, 
 signed on May 7th at the Capitol. Several persons, however, failed to 
 sign a card as requested, which will account for their names not appear- 
 ing in this list: 
 
 1853 
 Representative : 
 Albert L. Hodge, Roxbury. 
 
 1863 
 Representatives : 
 Henry E. Hinman, Harwinton. 
 John E. Tryon, Glastonbury. 
 
 1864 
 
 Representatives : 
 Albert L. Hodge, Roxbury. 
 John E. Tryon, Glastonbury. 
 
 1865 
 Representatives : 
 William Bulkeley, Berlin. 
 Albert L. Hodge, Roxbury. 
 
 1866 
 Representative : 
 Peter Skiff, Kent. 
 
 1867 
 Representative : 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London. 
 
 1868 
 Representatives : 
 Edward B. Bennett, Hampton. 
 James N. Loomis, Granby. 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London. 
 Robert R. Wolcott, Wethersfield. 
 
 1869 
 Representative : 
 William H. Hill, Redding. 
 
 State Officer 
 
 1870 
 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Joseph N. Cowles, Norfolk. 
 Almon Day. East Haddam. 
 Jasper A. Fitch, Andover. 
 Julius W. Knowlton, Stratford. 
 Horace J. Ward, Hartland. 
 
 1871 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Julius W. Knowlton, Stratford. 
 Harvey L. Roberts, Winchester. 
 Charles E. Searls, Thompson. 
 Milo P. J. Walker, Union. 
 
 1872 
 Representatives : 
 Cyrus Avery, Groton. 
 Ezra Briggs, Voluntown. 
 Dwight S. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 Jaspar A. Fitch, Andover. 
 H. Wales Lines, Meriden. 
 William H. Pond, Milford. 
 Leroy A. Smith, Haddam. 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London. 
 
 1873 
 Senator: 
 
 Harvey L. Roberts, Winchester. 
 
 Representatives : 
 William G. Anthony, Scotland. 
 Alonz6 W. Burns, Milford. 
 Samuel H. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 Almon Day, East Haddam. 
 George W. Hurlburt, Roxbury. 
 Frederick W. S. Ward, Bolton. 
 
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 Representatives : 
 
 Richard W. Bacon, Bethlehem. 
 John D. Botelle, Cromwell. 
 Charles M. Joslyn, Tolland. 
 Charles Page, North Branford. 
 
 1875 
 Representatives : 
 
 John H. Beach, Trumbull. 
 Charles F. Brooker, Torrington. 
 Clarence H. Brown, Wallingford. 
 Albert L. Hodge, Roxbury. 
 William H. Kelsey, Clinton. 
 William H. Pond, Milford. 
 Albert E. Purple, East Haddam. 
 Edward S. Roberts, North Canaan. 
 Gideon M. Wakelee, Huntington. 
 
 1876 
 Representatives: 
 Samuel G. Davidson, Bethany. 
 E. Byron Gallup, Voluntown. 
 William H. Kelsey, Clinton. 
 John P. Lewis, Farmington. 
 John W. Norton, Guilford. 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London. 
 
 1877 
 Representatives : 
 
 Henry Atwater, Derby. 
 J. Cleveland Capen, Bloomfield. 
 Lucius J. Grant, South Windsor. 
 Charles E. Hart, New Britain. 
 John H. Perry, Fairfield. 
 
 1878 
 Representatives : 
 Eugene S. Belden, Rocky Hill. 
 Hartwell N. Brainard, Glastonbury. 
 Jason Bugbee, Jr., Wellington. 
 James T. Coogan, Windsor Locks. 
 Henry Davis, Durham. 
 Silas W. Fowler, Durham. 
 William H. Hall, West Hartford. 
 Francis H. Parker, East Haddam. 
 John H. Perry, Fairfield. 
 John B. Smith, Sharon. 
 Horace A. Stannard, Norfolk. 
 
 1879 
 Representatives : 
 
 Lucius A. Barber, Hartford. 
 Samuel W. Bradley, Canaan. 
 E. Judson Miner, Bozrah. 
 Frank R. Post, Hebron. 
 Everett P. Russell, Somers. 
 Leroy A. Smith, Haddam. 
 Grove J. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 
 1880 
 Senators : 
 William A. Collins, Columbia. 
 H. Wales Lines, Meriden. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Selah G. Blakeman, Huntington. 
 Andrew J. Bowen, Eastford. 
 Barton Jacobs, Thompson. 
 Emerson A. Merriman, Meriden. 
 Joseph M. Merrow, Mansfield. 
 E. Judson Miner, Bozrah. 
 Frederick L. Nichols, Wolcott. 
 Francis H. Parker, East Haddam. 
 A. Heaton Robertson, New Haven. 
 Joseph B. Stetson, Brooklyn. 
 
 1881 
 State Officer: 
 Charles E. Searls, Thompson, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Senators : 
 William A. Collins, Columbia. 
 
 E. Buel Root, West Hartford. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Henry S. Beers, Brookfield. 
 
 F. Clarence Bissell, Hebron. 
 Percy S. Bryant, East Hartford. 
 Geo. F. Douglass, New Hartford. 
 Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 Lucius H. Fuller, Putnam. 
 David H. Judd, Bethlehem. 
 James Lawton, Middletown. 
 Emerson A. Merriman, Meriden. 
 George F. Morris, Woodbury. 
 Amos Northrop, Bridgewater. 
 John H. Perry, Fairfield. 
 Theodore D. Pond, Brooklyn. 
 Sheldon B. Thorpe, North Haven. 
 Joseph S. Warner, Lebanon. 
 Gideon H. Welch, Torrington. 
 George C. F. Williams, Cheshire. 
 
 1882 
 State Officer : 
 
 Charles E. Searls, Thompson, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Samuel W. Bradley, Canaan. 
 George H. Clark, Hartland. 
 Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 Lucius H. Fuller, Putnam. 
 John A. Haling, Marlborough. 
 James T. Hubbell, Wilton. 
 James Lawton, Middletown. 
 George W. Merrow, Mansfield. 
 Charles H. Owen, Manchester. 
 J. Frank Pratt, Southington. 
 A. Heaton Robertson, New Haven. 
 E. Buel Root, West Hartford. 
 Howard W. Taylor, Danbury. 
 Asahel J. Wright, Killingly 
 William A. Wright, Branford. 
 
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i88 3 
 State Officer: 
 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London, 
 Governor. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Charles J. Abel, Lebanon. 
 Fredus M. Case, Windsor. 
 George G. Durant, Bethel. 
 James T Hubbell, Wilton. 
 Daniel N. Morgan, Bridgeport. 
 John S. Perkins, Salisbury. 
 J. Frank Pratt, Southington. 
 George P. Savage, Cromwell. 
 N. Douglas Sevin, Norwich. 
 Henry G. Viets, Granby. 
 John T. Walsh, Middletown. 
 William A. Wright, Branford. 
 
 1884 
 State Officer: 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London, 
 Governor. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Thomas B. Atwater, Southington. 
 Anson W. Bristol, Canton. 
 Alfred U. Charter, Ellington. 
 John Coats, Windsor Locks. 
 Aquilla H. Condell, Plainville. 
 Lorenzo D. Converse, Somers. 
 Henry Fields, Newington. 
 Judson E. Francis, Durham. 
 William H. Golden, Meriden. 
 George O. Higby, Meriden. 
 Samuel B. Home, Winchester. 
 Clinton T. Inslee, East Windsor. 
 Albert G. Kneeland, Lebanon. 
 Oscar A. Leonard, Tolland. 
 Wesley A. Miller, Har.land. 
 John W. Norton, Guilford. 
 Orrin W. Oles, Colebrook. 
 Sherman Sanford, Farmington. 
 Albert N. Stillman, Hartland. 
 Frank H. Thomson, Bethlehem. 
 Irvin N. Tibbals, Chatham. 
 J. Herman Tubbs, Old Lyme. 
 
 1885 
 Senators : 
 William H. Golden, Meriden. 
 Daniel N. Morgan, Bridgeport. 
 A. Heaton Robertson, New Haven. 
 
 Representatives: 
 
 Samuel W. Bradley, Canaan. 
 Thomas P. Bristol, Brookfield. 
 Irving W. Charter, East Haddam. 
 Albert B. Dibble, Wetsbrook. 
 George W. Harris, Wethersfield. 
 Edward S. Hawley, Huntington. 
 Clinton T. Inslee, East Windsor. 
 Charles M. Joslyn, Hartford. 
 Charles N. Loomis, Bolton. 
 Charles Phelps, Vernon. 
 
 Mayo S. Purple, Chatham. 
 Levi M. Reed, Union. 
 Frederick H. Thomson, Bethlehem. 
 Robert C. Usher, Plainville. 
 Olin Wheeler, South Windsor. 
 
 1886 
 Senators : 
 William H. Golden, Meriden. 
 Daniel N. Morgan, Bridgeport. 
 A. Heaton Robertson, New Haven. 
 
 Representatives : 
 G. C. Beckwith, New Hartford. 
 Charles E Blodgett, Portland. 
 Frederick J. Booth, Easton. 
 Hart E. Buell, Hebron. 
 Wheeler M Case, Simsbury. 
 Sheldon L. Catlin, Harwinton. 
 Michael Connery, Redding. 
 Charles W. Hodge, Roxbury. 
 Thomas H. Kehoe, New Britain. 
 Charles F. Lincoln, Andover. 
 William J. Munson, Watertown. 
 Gilbert T. Nettleton, Durham. 
 George F. Pardee, Cheshire. 
 Edgar L. Pond, Plymouth. 
 Willis F. Robinson, Branford. 
 Henry B. Russell, Southbury. 
 Charles E. Searls, Thompson. 
 Arthur J. Silliman, East Haddam. 
 John H. Smart, East Windsor. 
 Grove J. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 Edgar G. Wallace, Prospect. 
 Hubert E. Warner, Hamden. 
 John L. Wilson, Suffield. 
 
 1887 
 Representatives : 
 John M. Allen, Woodstock. 
 Richard W. Bacon, Washington. 
 Edwin R. Brown, Cheshire. 
 Owen E. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 Wallace Case, Barkhamsted. 
 John Clarke, Lebanon. 
 William H. Cowles, Southington. 
 John A. Deming, Colebrook. 
 Martin V. B. Dunham, Fairfield. 
 Frank D. Fenton, Mansfield. 
 William Foulds, Manchester. 
 Vine R. Franklin, Brooklyn. 
 D. Lynsted Gates, East Lyme. 
 Henry Grant, South Windsor. 
 William Green, Bethel. 
 Tohn C. Hawkins, Griswold. 
 "Edward S. Hawley, Huntington. 
 Henry E. Hinman, Harwinton 
 Hiram Hurlburt, West Hartford. 
 Clinton T. Inslee, East Windsor. 
 Thomas H. Kehoe, New Britain. 
 Dietrich E. Loewe, Danbury. 
 Alfred E. Phelps, Glastonbury. 
 Oliver A. Raymond, East Haddam. 
 John A. Reeve, Burlington. 
 
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Wilson C. Reynolds, East Haddam. 
 Edwin G. Smith, Chester. 
 Charles O. Thompson, Pomfret. 
 George W. Tingley, Stonington. 
 J. Eugene Tucker, Columbia. 
 Gideon H. Welch, Torrington. 
 
 1889 
 State Officer: 
 Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hartford, 
 Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 Joseph N. Cowles, Norfolk. 
 Lucius H. Fuller, Putnam. 
 William B. Sprague, Andover. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Sessions L. Adams, Plainfield. 
 Arthur P. Atwood, Norfolk. 
 Wallace K. Bacon, Middletown. 
 Samuel J. Bryant, Orange. 
 Frank T. Buell, Clinton. 
 Eugene W. Chaffee, East Haddam. 
 J. Carl Converse, Stafford. 
 Daniel P. Cooley, Granby. 
 Willard A. Cowles, Torrington. 
 Theophilus Eaton, North Haven. 
 Wallace T. Fenn, Wethersfield. 
 Myron Heck, Union. 
 Albert E. Holcomb, Windsor. 
 Frederick W. Holden, Derby. 
 Herman W. Huke, Torrington. 
 Olin E. Hunt, Bolton. 
 Andrew F. Jones, New Canaan. 
 John N. Lewis, Voluntown. 
 Noble E. Lord, Hebron. 
 Frank C. Lummis, Chaplin. 
 Harry T. Miner, Vernon. 
 Charles S. Munger, Essex. 
 George B. Munger, Madison. 
 Thomas W. O'Keefe, Middletown. 
 Steven T. Palmer, Huntington. 
 William A. Parsons, Durham. 
 John H. Perry, Fairfield. 
 Frederick A. Pinney, Bloomfield. 
 Edwin M. Ripley, Farmington. 
 Edward S. Roberts, North Canaan. 
 Henry F. Tracy, Enfield. 
 Edson A. Welch, Windsor. 
 Samuel P. Willard, Colchester. 
 Isaac Wolf, New Haven. 
 
 1891 
 State Officer: 
 Morgan G. Bulkeley, Hartford, 
 Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 Frederick W. Holden, Ansonia. 
 Noble E. Pierce, Bristol. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Wilbert N. Austin, Plymouth. 
 Heman O. Averill, Washington. 
 Thomas F. Bradley, Newtown. 
 William A. Braun, Danbury. 
 Wilbur A. Brothwell, Chester. 
 Frank T. Buell, Clinton. 
 George W. Buell, Marlborough. 
 Alonzo W. Burns, Milford. 
 John B. Cannon, Suffield. 
 Henry Clapp, Hampton. 
 Andrew T. J. Clarke, Canterbury. 
 Charles Coffey, Granby. 
 Edwin J. Crandall, Tolland 
 William Crane, Ellington 
 John A. Deming, Colebrook. 
 Theophilus Eaton, North Haven. 
 Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 Walter Fitzmaurice, New London. 
 William A. Foster, East Granby. 
 Henry F. Gibson, Woodbury. 
 Andrew M. Grant, Mansfield. 
 William H. Hill, Redding. 
 Edmund A. Hoskins, Simsbury. 
 Edgar G. Jennings, Easton. . 
 Andrew F. Jones, New Canaan. 
 Isaac S Knapp, New Fairfield. 
 John N. Lewis, Voluntown. 
 E. Newton Loveland, Wethersfield. 
 David B. Mansfield, Harwinton. 
 Adrian J. Muzzy, Bristol. 
 John L. Saxe, Waterbury. 
 Charles H. Smith, Groton. 
 John N. Walbridge, Tolland. 
 
 1893 
 Senators : 
 
 Charles F. Brooker, Torrington. 
 Charles Coffey, Granby. 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington. 
 Frederick W. Holden, Ansonia. 
 Daniel N. Morgan, Bridgeport. 
 Charles Phelps, Vernon. 
 Noble E. Pierce, Bristol. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Miles H. Aborn, Ellington. 
 Leslie E. Adams, Wethersfield. 
 William C. Barhite, Ridgefield. 
 J. Ely Beebe, Lyme. 
 Lucius W. Bigelow, Simsbury. 
 Charles S. Birge, Harwinton. 
 Minor Blackman, Prospect. 
 William A. Braun, Danbury. 
 John C. Brinsmade, Washington. 
 Wilbur A. Brothwell, Chester. 
 Lewis O. Catlin, Harwinton. 
 George F. Chapin, Enfield. 
 Chester H. Clark, Durham 
 Luman C. Colt, Winchester. 
 E. Herbert Corttis, Thompson. 
 Sidney W. Crofut, Killingly. 
 Timothy M. Crowley, Meriden. 
 Thomas E. Duncan, Windsor. 
 
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Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 Walter Fitzmaurice, New London. 
 Carl A. Green, Granby. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Owen R. Havens, Rocky Hill. 
 Oliver A. Hiscox, Woodstock. 
 Charles E. House, Manchester. 
 Charles K. Hunt, Winchester. 
 George L. James, Mansfield. 
 Andrew F. Jones, New Canaan. 
 Edwin O. Keeler, Norwalk. 
 George Keeler, Cheshire. 
 Isaac S. Knapp, New Faifireld. 
 G. Philip Lecrenier, East Haddam. 
 E. Newton Loveland, Wethersfield. 
 George R. McKenna, Stonington. 
 Joseph Pierpont, North Haven. 
 William S. Randall, Huntington. 
 Homer E. Remington, Windham. 
 John L. Saxe, Waterbury. 
 Henry A. Spafard, Hebron. 
 Edw. P. Spencer, New Hartford. 
 William B. Stoddard, Milford. 
 Dwight B. Tiffany, Winchester 
 Frank H. Tillinghast, Plainfield. 
 Grove J. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 Horace J. Ward, Winchester. 
 Frank L. Wilcox, Berlin. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 1895 
 
 Heman O. Averill, Washington. 
 Charles Coffey, Granby. 
 Johnson D. Dayton, Derby. 
 Edward E. Fuller, Tolland. 
 Representatives: 
 Charles L. Backus, Andover. 
 George O. Balch, Ashford. 
 Andrew J. Bowen, Windham. 
 Edward H. Brockett, Simsbury. 
 Cqnrad Buckingham, Fairfield. 
 H. Hopkins Catlin, Harwinton. 
 William C. Cheney, Manchester. 
 Andrew M. Clark, Cornwall. 
 Charles H. Clark, Southington. 
 J. Carl Converse, Stafford. 
 E. Herbert Corttis, Thompson. 
 Enock A. Douglas, Sterling. 
 William F. Downer, Hamden. 
 John A. DuBon, Windsor. 
 Robert O. Eaton, North Haven. 
 Charles F. Froidevaux, Avon. 
 Merritt E. Gallup, Ashford. 
 Charles C. Georgia, Farmington. 
 Charles O. Gillette, Haddam. 
 Elizur S. Goodrich, Wethersfield. 
 Charles W. Granniss, East Haven. 
 Charles A. Grav, Ledyard. 
 George H. Hall, Bristol. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Edbert D. Hammond. Cromwell. 
 Hiram E. Hodge, Marlborough. 
 George C. Hopkins, Warren. 
 Henry C. Hull, Clinton. 
 
 Silas E. Jeralds, Cheshire. 
 George T. Johnson, Norfolk. 
 Andrew F. Jones, New Canaan. 
 Edwin O. Keeler, Norwalk. 
 Charles Keller, Bridgeport. 
 Samuel C. Kingman, Washington. 
 Perkins L. Lathrop, Coventry. 
 John P. Lewis, Farmington. 
 Josiah J. Linsley, North Branford. 
 Everett E. Lord, Killingworth. 
 Appleton Main, Preston. 
 Lyman A. Mills, Middlefield. 
 David M. Mitchell, Southbury. 
 William H. Newton, Wallingford. 
 George W. Ogden, Wilton. 
 Carlton E. Osborn, Hartland. 
 Benjamin Page, Meriden. 
 Francis H. Robbins, Wethersfield. 
 Alberto T. Roraback, No. Canaan. 
 Willard A. .Roraback, Torrington. 
 George W. Rouse, Voluntown. 
 Jesse W. Ruick, Granby. 
 Elford C. Russell, Orange. 
 Gould A. Shelton, Huntington. 
 Charles H. Smith, Groton. 
 David L. Somers, Woodbury. 
 George L. Talmadge, Prospect. 
 Andrew Turnbull, New Britain. 
 James P. Vaill, Goshen. 
 Lawrence VanAlstyne, Sharon. 
 Fred O. Vinton, Mansfield. 
 Edgar M. Warner, Putnam. 
 William J. Warner, Hebron. 
 Charles J Welch, Windsor. 
 Francis H Whiton, Manchester. 
 Frederick W. Yutzler, Cornwall. 
 
 1897 
 State Officer: 
 
 Charles Phelps, Vernon, Secretary. 
 Senators : 
 J. Carl Converse, Stafford. 
 Elizur S. Goodrich, Wethersfield. 
 Edwin O Keeler, Norwalk. 
 John N. Lewis, Voluntown. 
 Charles G. R. Vinal, Middletown. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Henry E. Baldwin, Woodbridge. 
 Willard V. Barber, Torrington. 
 John H. Barnes, Norwich. 
 Ralph Beers, North Branford. 
 Charles S. Bradley, Branford. 
 D. Luther Briggs, Middletown. 
 Edgar B. Case, Hartland. 
 Anson B. Clinton, North Haven. 
 John H. Fish, Newington. 
 Charles B. Frisbie, Cromwell. 
 William G. Gallagher, Meriden. 
 Robert A. Griffing, Hartford. 
 Robert S. Griswold, Wethersfield. 
 George H. Hall, Bristol. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 
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Robert J. Holmes, Avon. 
 Henry C. Hull, Clinton. 
 Joseph G. Hyatt, Westport. 
 Charles S. Hyde, Brooklyn. 
 James H. Hyde, Franklin. 
 Edson B. Lockwood, Watertown. 
 Albert H. Lyman, Andover. 
 David B. Mansfield, Harwinton. 
 E. Judson Miner, Bozrah. 
 Asahel W. Mitchell, Woodbury. 
 Herbert J. Moss, Cheshire. 
 Adrian J. Muzzy, Bristol. 
 Charles J. Parker, New Britain. 
 Alexander T. Pattison, Simsbury. 
 Charles S. Peck, Danbury. 
 Charles H. Ricketts, Somers. 
 Alberto T. Roraback, Canaan. 
 Henry T. Sellew, Chatham. 
 Charles F. Shepard, Chatham. 
 Leander H. Snow, Eastford. 
 Lester C. Strong, Winchester. 
 Stephen A. Talmadge, Prospect. 
 Charles A. Thompson, Ellington. 
 Charles O. Tryon. Glastonbury. 
 Howard N. Wakeman, Fairfield. 
 Charles D. Way, Hebron. 
 Morris C. Webster, New Britain. 
 Francis H. Whiton, Manchester. 
 Walter L. Wilder, Canton. 
 
 1899 
 State Officers: 
 
 Lyman A. Mills, Middlefield, Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor. 
 Charles Phelps, Vernon, Attorney- 
 General. 
 
 Senators : 
 John H. Barnes, Norwich. 
 Elizur S. Goodrich, Wethersfield. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Edwin O. Keeler, Norwalk. 
 Asahel W. Mitchell, Woodbury. 
 Adrian J. Muzzy, Bristol. 
 Charles G. R. Vinal, Middletown. 
 Gideon H. Welch, Torrington. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Wilbert N. Austin, Plymouth. 
 John H. Belden, Canaan. 
 Charles S. Bradley, Branford. 
 Ezra Briggs, Voluntown. 
 Elliott B. Bronson, Winchester. 
 George S. Carey, Scotland. 
 William B. Carey, No. Stonington. 
 Samuel H. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 George E. Churchill, Newington. 
 Charles H. Clark, Southington. 
 Charles S. Curtiss, Woodbury. 
 Homer P. Deming, Colebrook. 
 John O. Enders, West Hartford. 
 Alfred N. Filley, Bloomfield. 
 James S. Forbes, East Hartford. 
 
 Harrison B. Freeman, Hartford. 
 David N. Gaines, Hartland. 
 Winslow B. Gallup, Chaplin. 
 Charles C. Godfrey, Bridgeport. 
 Andrew Gordon, Enfield. 
 Albert A. Gorham, Redding. 
 E. Morton Granger, East Windsor. 
 Charles W. Granniss, East Haven. 
 Robert W. Green, Brookfield. 
 George A. Harmon, Suffield. 
 Charles R. Hathaway, Manchester. 
 Edwin W. Higgins, Norwich. 
 Frederick A. Hunt, Columbia. 
 Luther J. Leavitt, Woodstock. 
 John H. Light, Norwalk. 
 William E. Luke, Danbury. 
 Edward H. McCall, Lebeanon. 
 Wilbur S. Miller, Hartland. 
 Herbert J. Mills, Bristol. 
 Robert C. Mitchell, Southbury. 
 Dwight F. Newton, Granby. 
 D. Walter Patten, North Haven. 
 Almon B. Phelps, East Granby. 
 Frank R. Post, Hebron. 
 Gilbert S. Raymond, Preston. 
 Fayette W. Rossiter, Guilford. 
 Powell G. Seeley, Washington. 
 Andrew Slater, Farmington. 
 Llewellyn P. Smith, Lebanon. 
 Charles S. Spaulding, Cheshire. 
 Albert A. Stone, Watertown. 
 Edwin O. Sumner, Eastford. 
 Charles A. Thompson, Ellington. 
 Fred H. Thompson, Bethlehem. 
 Francis L. Upham, Union. 
 Fred O. Vinton, Mansfield. 
 J. Raymond Warren, Lyme. 
 Z. Silas Wellman, Clinton. 
 George A. Williams, Killingly. 
 William R. Wood, South Windsor. 
 James P. Woodruff, Litchfield. 
 Fayette L. Wright, Pomfret. 
 
 1901 
 
 State Officers : 
 
 Henry H. Gallup, Norwich, Treas- 
 urer. 
 
 Edwin O. Keeler, Norwalk, Lieu- 
 tenant-Governor. 
 
 Charles Phelps, Vernon, Attorney- 
 General. 
 
 Charles G. R. Vinal, Middletown, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Senators : 
 Wilbur A. Brothwell, Chester. 
 Elizur S. Goodrich, Wethersfield. 
 Andrew Gordon, Enfield. 
 Edgar L. Pond, Plymouth. 
 Charles A. Thompson, Ellington. 
 Fayette L. Wright, Pomfret. 
 
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Representatives : 
 
 Charles G. Allyn, Hebron. 
 Charles W. Bates, East Granby. 
 John H. Belden, Canaan. 
 George E. Bicknell, Meriden. 
 Harvey P. Bissell, Ridgefield. 
 William J. Brew, Newtown. 
 Charles R. Buell, Columbia. 
 John P. Callahan, Branford. 
 Levi N. Clark, Canterbury. 
 Charles J. Conrad, Huntington. 
 Charles C. Cook, West Hartford. 
 Willis Covell, Pomfret. 
 S. Hart Culver, Seymour. 
 Henry H. Davenport, Pomfret. 
 Charles H. Dawley, Colchester. 
 John A. Foster, Stafford. 
 Harrison B. Freeman, Hartford. 
 Francis L. Griswold, Somers. 
 William H. Hall, Simsbury. 
 Edward P. Hazard, Sharon. 
 Williarn H. Hill, Redding. 
 Floyd F. Hitchcock, Woodbury. 
 Samuel V. Hubbard, Cromwell. 
 Arthur E. Humphrey, Simsbury. 
 Frederick G. Humphrey, Canton. 
 Oliver C. Jennings, Fairfield. 
 George C. Kellogg, New Hartford. 
 Ned E. Kendall, Granby. 
 Albert B. Landon, Salisbury. 
 Henry Lee, Bridgeport. 
 Charles N. LeGeyt, Barkhamsted. 
 John H. Light, Norwalk. 
 Howard A. Middleton, E. Windsor. 
 Benjamin I. Miller, Avon. 
 Frank W. Morey, Ashford. 
 Alson G. Morris, Goshen. 
 George F. Morris, Woodbury. 
 William O'Connor, Norfolk. 
 Charles Page, North Branford. 
 Arthur E. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 Halsey B. Philbrick, Hartford. 
 Azel R. Race, Franklin. 
 Joel H. Reed, Stafford. 
 Frank Roberts, East Hartford. 
 William B. Roe, Brookfield. 
 Eugene A. Rogers, Barkhamsted. 
 T. Macdonough Russell, Middlet'n. 
 Sherman Sanford, Farmington. 
 Robert Scoville, Salisbury. 
 Leslie C. Seymour, Windsor Locks. 
 Andrew N. Shepard, Portland. 
 Frederick A. Stoddard, Litchfield. 
 E. Irving Stone, Bethlehem. 
 William H. Taylor, Putnam. 
 Henry E. Terrell, Cheshire. 
 Rollin U. Tyler, Haddam. 
 Edgar G. Wallace, Prospect. 
 James F. Walsh, Greenwich. 
 George N. Webster, Burlington. 
 Stephen F. Willard, Wethersfield. 
 Henry H. Willes, Vernon. 
 Robert J. Woodruff, Orange. 
 
 1902 
 
 (Constitutional Convention.) 
 Officers : 
 
 John H. Perry, Fairfield, Vice- 
 President. 
 
 Thomas M. Waller, New London, 
 Vice-President. 
 
 Delegates : 
 William I. Allyn, Ledyard. 
 John H. Belden, Canaan. 
 John C. Brinsmade, Washington. 
 Wilbur A. Brothwell, Chester. 
 Percy S. Bryant, East Hartford. 
 Samuel J. Bryant, Orange. 
 George E. Churchill, Newington. 
 Levi N. Clark, Canterbury. 
 Edward S. Coe, Cromwell. 
 William A. Collins, Columbia. 
 Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 • Henry M. Evans, Brooklyn. 
 E. Byron Gallup, Voluntown. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Wm. H. Hall, West Hartford. 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington. 
 Robert J. Holmes, Avon. 
 Mayro Keeney, Somers. 
 George S. Kirby, Sharon. 
 Freder'k L'Hommedieu, Saybrook. 
 H. Wales Lines, Meriden. 
 Howard A. Middleton, E. Windsor. 
 Noble E. Pierce, Bristol. 
 Henry B. Russell, Southbury. 
 Jonathan B. Sanford, Redding. 
 Gerald Waldo, Scotland. 
 Howard H. Woodman, Bethel. 
 
 1903 
 State Officers: 
 
 Henry H. Gallup, Norwich, Treas- 
 urer. 
 
 Charles G. R. Vinal, Middletown, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 Nelson J. Ayling, Norwich. 
 William P. Bailey, Bethel. 
 Charles C. Cook, West Hartford. 
 Thomas F. Noone, Vernon. 
 Charles Page, North Branford. 
 Alexander T. Pattison, Simsbury. 
 James F. Walsh, Greenwich. 
 Frank L. Wilcox, Berlin . 
 Rollin S. Woodruff, New Haven. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Thomas P. Aitkin, Manchester. 
 Alexander Arnott, Manchester. 
 William C. Backus, Windham. 
 Frank H. Baker, Stafford. 
 Henry L. Beach, Bristol. 
 Alfred S. Bennett, Cheshire. 
 George E. Bicknell, Meriden. 
 
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Elliott L. Bidwell, Saybrook. 
 Frank E. Blakeman, Stratford. 
 George H. Bradford, Montville. 
 John Bransfield, Portland. 
 Charles S. Briggs, Lebanon. 
 Theodore L. Bristol, Ansonia. 
 Lee L. Brockway, Lyme. 
 David A. Brown, Tolland. 
 Elton W. Buell, Hebron. 
 Edgar D. Bunnell, Hartland. 
 Orville B. Burton, Trumbull. 
 Owen E. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 Minotte E. Chatfield, New Haven. 
 J. Howell Conklin, Chatham. 
 Wallace Dann, Norwalk. 
 Frank Driggs, Barkhamsted. 
 Fred B. Eaton, Mansfield. 
 James H. Elliott, Harwinton. 
 Joseph H. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 Henry M. Evans, Brooklyn. 
 Charles T. Gregory, Wilton. 
 Charles C. Harris, Wethersfield. 
 Floyd F. Hitchcock, Woodbury. 
 William Hohbein, Burlington. 
 Arthur W. Howard, Wethersfield. 
 Edward L. Hutchinson, Andover. 
 Charles S. Hyde, Canterbury. 
 Fessenden L. Ives, Goshen. 
 Stephen E. Jennings, Saybrook. 
 Mayro Keeney, Somers. 
 George S. Kirby, Sharon. 
 Henry N. LeFebvre, Avon. 
 Albert B. Landon, Salisbury. 
 James N. Loomis, Granby. 
 James R. Mead, Greenwich. 
 Isaac F. Miles, New Britain. 
 John B. Parker, Windsor. 
 Lovel D. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 Edward H. Persons, Winchester. 
 David N. Porter, Thompson. 
 Henry J. Potter, Woodstock. 
 Edward L. Reidy, Winchester. 
 George H. Robertson, Coventry. 
 Alva F. Sayles, Sterling. 
 Geo. F. Scarborough, W. Hartford. 
 Robert Scoville, Salisbury. 
 Leslie C. Seymour, Windsor Locks. 
 J. Arthur Sherwood, Easton. 
 Edwin T. Smith, Hebron. 
 George W. Smith, Milford. 
 Irving N. Tibbals, East Haddam. 
 William H. Wakelee, Southbury. 
 J. Raymond Warren, Lyme. 
 Albert B. Wells, Granby. 
 E. Stanley Wells, Newington. 
 Andrew G. Williams, Pomfret. 
 James P. Woodruff, Litchfield. 
 
 1905 
 
 State Officers : 
 Theodore Bodenwein, New Lon- 
 don, Secretary. 
 
 Asahel W. Mitchell, Woodbury, 
 Comptroller. 
 
 James F. Walsh, Greenwich, Treas- 
 urer. 
 
 Rollin S. Woodruff, New Haven, 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 William P. Bailey, Bethel. 
 Frank H. Baker, Stafford. 
 George E. Bicknell, Meriden. 
 Minotte E. Chatfield, New Haven. 
 Patrick McGovern, Hartford. 
 Alexander T. Pattison, Simsbury. 
 Finton J. Phelan, Waterbury. 
 John F. Shanley, New Haven. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Howard O. Allen, East Windsor. 
 William I. Allyn, Ledyard. 
 Arthur A. Bailey, Windsor. 
 Alfred S. Bennett, Cheshire. 
 Daniel D. Bidwell, East Hartford. 
 Frank B. Bishop, Madison. 
 William S. Bishop, Andover. 
 Alfred L. Burdick, Westbrook. 
 John A. Chappuis, Warren. 
 Frank Cheney, Jr., Manchester. 
 Charles H. Clark, Southington. 
 Walter H. Clark, Hartford. 
 Francis M. Coe, Litchfield. 
 Elbert M. Cushman, Granby. 
 Frank W. Dakin, Sharon. 
 Frank O. Davis, Pomfret. 
 Everard W. Day, Chatham. 
 James H. Day, Old Saybrook. 
 Jerome A. Downs, Bethany. 
 Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 John O. Fox, Putnam. 
 Charles F. Froidevaux, Avon. 
 Frank W. Fuller, Marlborough. 
 Olin E. Gibbs, Norfolk. 
 Edward D. Gillette, Easton. 
 E Samuel Gillette, Burlington. 
 Robert W. Green, Brookfield. 
 Arthur H. Griswold, Wethersfield. 
 Charles A. Griswold, W. Hartford.. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Owen R. Havens, Rocky Hill. 
 William L. Higgins, Coventry. 
 William H. Hill, Redding. 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington. 
 Ward G. Holman, Eastford. 
 C. Albert Honold, Barkhamsted. 
 Ernest T. Huke, Torrington. 
 Arthur J. Hull, Monroe. 
 Joseph G. Hyatt, Westport. 
 Charles S. Hyde, Canterbury. 
 Milton C. Isabel, Ansonia. 
 Elmer Jackson, Wilton. 
 Mayro Keeney, Somers. 
 Frank J. Kilborn, Washington. 
 Edward W. Kneen, Huntington. 
 
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John M. Larned, Stafford. 
 Henry Lee, Bridgeport. 
 Mortimer M. Lee, Norwalk. 
 Frederick L. Lehr, New Haven. 
 Samuel D. Loper, Sharon. 
 James Lowry, Brooklyn. 
 William Marvin, Lyme. 
 E. Allen Moore, New Britain. 
 Angus Park, Sprague. 
 Freeman F. Patten, Stafford. 
 James A. Perry, Milford. 
 Marvin Pierce, Harwinton. 
 David N. Porter, Thompson. 
 Hubert F. Potter, North Haven. 
 Levi M. Reed, Union. 
 Edward L. Reidy, Winchester. 
 Albert C. Roberts, Salisbury. 
 William C. Robinson, Columbia. 
 George L. Rockwell, Ridgefield. 
 Frederick H. Rolf, Guilford. 
 Frederick A. Scott, Plymouth. 
 C. C. Shannon, Bridgewater 
 George W. Smith, Milford. 
 Calvin A. Snyder, No. Stonington. 
 Royal K. Southwick, Cornwall. 
 Correll A. Spencer, New Hartford. 
 Adelbert H. Stevens, Killingworth. 
 Lewellyn J. Storrs, Mansfield. 
 Marvin H. Tanner, Winchester. 
 Robert C. Usher, Plainville. 
 Charles F. Wanger, Salisbury. 
 Eugene Ward, Roxbury. 
 C. Daniel Way, Hebron. 
 William H. Webster, Berlin. 
 
 1907 
 State Officers: 
 
 Theodore Bodenwein, New Lon- 
 don, Secretary. 
 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington, 
 Attorney-General. 
 
 Freeman F. Patten, Stafford, 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Rollin S. Woodruff, New Haven, 
 Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 Francis Atwater, Meriden. 
 Dennis A. Blakeslee, New Haven. 
 John M. Brady, New Britain. 
 D. Luther Briggs, Middletown. 
 Irving H. Chase, Waterbury. 
 Ralph M. Grant, South Windsor. 
 George H. Hall, Bristol. 
 Mayro Keeney, Somers. 
 Patrick McGovern, Hartford. 
 Howard A. Middleton, E. Windsor. 
 Henry J, Potter, Woodstock. 
 John F. Shanley, New Haven. 
 Andrew N. Shepard, Portland. 
 James F. Walsh, Greenwich. 
 
 Representatives : 
 William I. Allen, Ledyard. 
 Joseph W. Alsop, Avon. 
 Miles W. Aspinwall, Washington. 
 Irwin C. Atchison, Sherman. 
 Arthur A. Bailey, Windsor. 
 Carlton J. Bates, Chester. 
 C. Edward Beach, W. Hartford. 
 Frederick A. Beckwith, East Lyme. 
 Arthur E. Bidwell, Glastonbury. 
 Daniel D. Bidwell, East Hartford. 
 Arthur J. Birdseye, Farmington. 
 Stephen F. Boucher, Bridgeport. 
 Benjamin B. Broadbent, Hamden. 
 Frederick O. Brown, Lebanon. 
 H. Beecher Brown, Plainfield. 
 John Brown, Orange. 
 Charles D. Burnes, Greenwich. 
 Selah A. Burnham* Andover. 
 Herbert Case, Barkhamsted. 
 Eugene D. Caulkins, Old Lyme. 
 Frank Cheney, Jr., Manchester. 
 George H. Clark, East Granby. 
 George T. Clark, Beacon Falls. 
 Thomas Clark, Ansonia. 
 Hewitt Coburn, Jr., Manchester. 
 Herbert R. Coffin, Windsor Locks. 
 Alvin F. Collins, East Hampton. 
 Michael Connery, Redding. 
 Tyler Cruttenden, Norwich. 
 S. Hart Culver, Seymour. 
 Martin J. Cunningham, Danbury. 
 Frank O. Davis, Pomf ret. 
 Chauncey Dickinson, Haddam. 
 E. Hart Fenn, Wethersfield. 
 Edward A. Fuller, Suffield. 
 John W. Gallup, Killingly. 
 Henry F. Gibson, Woodbury. 
 Edward D. Gillette, Easton. 
 Arthur G. Gordon, Enfield. 
 George E. Green, Berlin. 
 Arthur G. Griffin, East Haddam. 
 William L. Higgins, Coventry. 
 Charles M. Hotchkiss, Cheshire. 
 Arthur J. Hull, Monroe. 
 Frederick A. Jewell, N. Hartford. 
 Raymond J. Jodoin, Sprague. 
 Walter I. Kellogg, Canaan. 
 Frank J. Kinney, Branf ord. 
 Frederick P. Latimer, Groton. 
 Frederick L. Lehr, New Haven. 
 William J. Lord, Stonington. 
 William A. Lyman, Columbia. 
 Marcus D. Marks, North Haven. 
 William Marvin, Lyme. 
 William R. May, Pomfret. 
 Edward H. Middlebrook, Sharon. 
 Frank W. Morey, Ashford. 
 Frederick Morton, Rocky Hill. 
 Francis I. Nettleton, Huntington. 
 Thomas F. Noone, Vernon. 
 Frederick D. North, East Windsor. 
 Lovel D. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 
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James A. Perry, Milford. 
 Samuel G. Redshaw, Ansonia. 
 Charles H. Rogers, East Haddam. 
 Elijah Rogers, Southington. 
 Asa M. Ross, Thompson. 
 B. Sturges Selleck, Ridgefield. 
 Calvin A. Snyder, No. Stonington. 
 Albert W. Stokes, Westbrook. 
 Albert E. Sumner, Mansfield. 
 Nathan A. Tuttle, Torrington. 
 Charles W. Vibert, South Windsor. 
 J. Raymond Warren, Lyme. 
 Burton M. Welch, Chaplin. 
 John T. Welles, Wethersfield. 
 Lucius E. Whiton, New London. 
 Arthur D. Williams, Middletown. 
 James S. Williams, Glastonbury. 
 John P. Winchell, Cornwall. 
 William H. Wilson, Harwinton. 
 Watson S. Woodruff, Orange. 
 
 1909. 
 State Officers: 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington, 
 
 Attorney-General 
 Freeman F. Patten, Stafford, 
 
 Treasurer 
 Frank B. Weeks, Middletown, 
 Lieutenant-Governor, and Gov- 
 ernor 
 
 Senators : 
 Albert N. Abbe, New Britain. 
 William I. Allyn, Ledyard. 
 Joseph W. Alsop, Avon. 
 Dennis A. Blakeslee, New Haven. 
 George H. Bradford, Montville. 
 Samuel S. Chamberlin, Hartford. 
 Irving H. Chase, Waterbury. 
 John H. Courtney, New Haven. 
 James H. Day, Old Saybrook. 
 E. Hart Fenn, Wethersfield. 
 William L. Higgins, Coventry. 
 Philip L. Holzer, Bridgeport. 
 Frederick P. Latimer, Groton. 
 Luzerne Ludington, New Haven. 
 John F. Shanley, New Haven. 
 Moses W. Manwaring, Bridgeport. 
 Howard A. Middleton, E. Windsor. 
 Charles S. Peck. Danbury. 
 Charles E. Searls, Thompson. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Charles G. Agard, Torrington. 
 Frank Arrigoni. Durham. 
 George H. Atkins, Torrington. 
 Edward Baker, Canterbury. 
 Frederic A. Bartlett, Bridgeport. 
 W. M. Beckwith, New Hartford. 
 Elmer E. Bennett, Canterbury. 
 Andrew S. Bidwell, E. Hartford. 
 John H. Blakeslee, North Haven. 
 William H. Bliss, Columbia. 
 
 Benjamin R. Briggs, Plainfield. 
 John C. Brinsmade, Washington. 
 Burton N. Bristol, Canton. 
 William F. Broughton, Stonington.. 
 William Brownlee, Willington. 
 John Buckley, Union. 
 Leon L. Buell, Marlborough. 
 William Bulkeley, Berlin. 
 Edward T. Bunyan, Colchester. 
 Harry M. Burke, Manchester. 
 Charles D. Burnes, Greenwich. 
 Charles E. Burnham, Hampton. 
 Alexander F. Carey, Southington. 
 Geo. M. Carrington, Winchester. 
 Fred S. Chamberlain, New Britain. 
 Fayette C. Clark, Bridgeport. 
 Leon A. Coe, Barkhamsted. 
 Herbert R. Coffin, Windsor Locks. 
 Frederick M. Colton, Granby. 
 Michael Connery, Redding. 
 S. Hart Culver, Seymour. 
 Hobart H. Curtis, Newtown. 
 John A. Dady, Putnam. 
 Carl F. Dean, Glastonbury. 
 Charles J. Dewey, South Windsor. 
 William H. Dewey, Granby. 
 George A. Dickinson, Haddam. 
 William H. Dougal, Washington. 
 Augustine C. Feley, Hartland. 
 John H. Fish, Newington. 
 Edward A. Fuller, Suffield. 
 Edward E. Fuller, Tolland. 
 Edward E. Foote, Hebron. 
 John A. Frink, Sterling. 
 George H. Gabb, Bloomfield. 
 Washington I. Gadbois, E. Lyme. 
 William H. Goddard, Wallingford. 
 William G. Griswold, Wethersfield. 
 William S. Griswold, W. Hartford. 
 John S. Hall, Lyme. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Walter S. Hastings, Windsor. 
 C. Robert Hatheway, Windsor. 
 Marcus E. Helm, East Windsor. 
 Richard T. Higgins, Winchester. 
 Henry S. Hitchcock, Woodbury. 
 Dan D. Home, Montville. 
 Louis W. Howe, Glastonbury. 
 Horace W. Hubbard, Cromwell. 
 Walter D. Humphrey, Roxbury. 
 Frederick W. Huxford, Stamford. 
 Raymond J. Jodoin, Sprague. 
 William C. Johnson, Newtown. 
 Edwin H. Keach, Killingly. 
 Edward A. Kelsey, Clinton. 
 Edward E. King, East Hartford. 
 Isaac S. Knapp, New Fairfield. 
 Henry F. Kyle, Bethel. 
 Urgele Lafrance, Plainfield. 
 Isaac G. Larkin, Lebanon. 
 Perkins L. Lathrop, Coventry. 
 Frank V. A. Loucks, Cornwall. 
 James Lowry, Brooklyn. 
 Robert V. Magee, Watertown. 
 
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Joseph McKachnie, Putnam. 
 Arthur W. Marsden, Madison. 
 Joseph M. Metcalf, Tolland. 
 Charles Mueller, New Britain. 
 William A. Nelson, Ansonia. 
 Lewis G. Northrup, Bridgewater. 
 George W. Ogden, Wilton. 
 Francis H. Parker, Hartford. 
 Arthur E. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 Simeon Pease, Fairfield. 
 Henry A. Post, Westbrook. 
 John H. Reynolds, Coventry. 
 Henry B. Russell, Southbury. 
 Frederick A. Scott, Plymouth. 
 Gould A. Shelton, Huntington. 
 Robert Sinclair, Monroe. 
 Alden C. T. Smith, Chester. 
 Charles H. Smith, Groton. 
 George F. Smith, Milford. 
 John C. Smith, New Hartford. 
 Adelbert H. Stevens, Killingworth. 
 Frederick A. Stoddard, Litchfield. 
 Charles O. Thompson, Pomfret. 
 Frank M. Thompson, E. Windsor. 
 Ransom B. Tifft, Ashford. 
 Frank A. Wallace, Wallingford. 
 Wilfred V. Warner, Wolcott. 
 Jesse H. Wheeler, Easton. 
 Louis B. Whitcomb, Andover. 
 Lucius E. Whiton, New London. 
 Whiting J. Wilcox. Cornwall. 
 
 191 1 
 State Officers : 
 Simeon E. Baldwin, New Haven, 
 
 Governor. 
 Dennis A. Blakeslee, New Haven, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 John H. Light, Norwalk, 
 Attorney-General. 
 
 Senators : 
 Joseph W. Alsop, Avon. 
 Charles S. Avery, Norwich. 
 Arthur A. Bailey, Windsor. 
 Frederick A. Bartlett, Bridgeport. 
 John C. Brinsmade, Washington. 
 Thomas O. Elliott, Pomfret. 
 E. Hart Fenn, Wethersfield. 
 Charles B. Frisbie, Cromwell. 
 Joseph M. Halloran, New Britain. 
 Parley B. Leonard, Vernon. 
 Arthur W. Marsden, Madison. 
 Garry Paddock, Bridgeport. 
 Angus Park, Sprague. 
 Charles S. Peck, Danbury. 
 John F. Shanley, New Haven. 
 Frank C. Woodruff, Orange. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Myron R. Abell, Lebanon. 
 Hestes W. Alford, Windsor. 
 William I. Allyn, Ledyard. 
 
 Frank Arrigoni, Durham. 
 Arthur P. Atwood, Norfolk. 
 Arthur S. Bailey, East Hampton. 
 Jacob Beisiegal, Woodbridge. 
 Joshua Belden, Newington. 
 Elmer E. Bennett, Canterbury. 
 Andrew S. Bidwell, East Hartford. 
 Arthur E. Bidwell, Glastonbury. 
 Frank Blakeslee, Plymouth. 
 John H. Blakeslee, North Haven. 
 Edward S. Boyd, Woodbury. 
 Walter W. Bronson, Washington. 
 Eugene W. Bull, Kent. 
 William H. Burr, Westport. 
 Martin L. Caine, Naugatuck. 
 William P. Camp, Durham. 
 John H. Candee, Easton. 
 Alexander F. Carey, Southington. 
 Edmund E. Case, Bloomfield. 
 Clifford E. Chapman, East Lyme. 
 George S. Clark, Milford. 
 Samuel A. Coe, Ridgefield. 
 Willis Covell, Pomfret. 
 John F. Craney, Norwich. 
 Myron E. Crawford, New Canaan. 
 William H. Crawford, Stratford. 
 Eugene R. Day, Chatham. 
 Emery W. Dolittle, Southington. 
 Hector Duvert, Putnam. 
 Marvin D. Edgerton, Bristol. 
 Wallace T. Fenn, Wethersfield. 
 Arthur J. Gallagher, Newtown. 
 Edward B. Goddard, Granby. 
 William H. Goddard, Wallingford. 
 Lucius J. Grant, South Windsor. 
 Charles N. Hall, New Milford. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Frank D. Hallett, Winchester. 
 Frederick C. Hoskins, Simsbury. 
 Frederick W. Huxford, Stamford. 
 Charles S. Hyde, Canterbury. 
 James H. Hyde, Franklin. 
 William S. Hyde, Manchester. 
 Fred C. Hydel, Avon. 
 Milton C. Isbell, Ansonia. 
 Charles J. Johnson, Thompson. 
 Stephen I. Johnson, Ellington. 
 William C. Johnson, Newtown. 
 Edwin H. Keach, Killingly. 
 Amory J. Kebler, Sterling. 
 Matthew P. Kelly, Windsor Locks. 
 Edward A. Kelsey, Clinton. 
 Edward E. King, East Hartford. 
 George S. Kirby, Sharon. 
 William C. Knowles, Haddam. 
 Urgele Laf ranee, Plainfield. 
 Arthur W. Lamb, Sharon. 
 Perkins L. Lathrop, Coventry. 
 Herman E. Learned, Lisbon. 
 Charles Loucks, Wallingford. 
 Frank A. Luhrsen, Tolland. 
 Robert V. Magee, Watertown. 
 Wilbur S. Miller, Hartland. 
 Frederick W. Miner, New Britain. 
 
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Monroe E. Mitchell, Canton. 
 Charles W. Murphy. Danbury. 
 Michael D. O'Connell, Stafford. 
 Clayton A. Parmelee, Saybrook. 
 Friend J. Peck, Hamden. 
 Albert Phillips, Stamford. 
 Michael P. Rice, Branford. 
 Harry W. Reynolds, East Haddam. 
 Edward L. Roberts, North Canaan. 
 Frederick A. Scott, Plymouth. 
 A. V. W. Sherman, W. Hartford. 
 Andrew Slater, Farmington. 
 Edward L. Smith, Mansfield. 
 J. Warren Stark, Lyme. 
 Charles L. Spencer, Suffield. 
 William E. Stetson, Andover. 
 Claude W. Stevens, Berlin. 
 Lewellyn J. Storrs, Mansfield. 
 James H. Stuart, Sherman. 
 John M. Tatem, Eastford. 
 Henry E. Terrell, Cheshire. 
 Charles O. Thompson, Pomfret. 
 Dwight B. Tiffany, Winchester. 
 Daniel F. Tucker, Columbia. 
 Charles S. Turner, Chaplin. 
 William P. Tyler, Middlebury. 
 John N. Walbridge, Tolland. 
 Wilfred V. Warner, Wolcott. 
 Albert B. Webb, Brooklyn. 
 Morris C. Webster, Harwinton. 
 Frank M. White, Guilford. 
 Lucius E. Whiton, New London. 
 James M. Whittelsey, Morris. 
 Howard N. Wilcox, Bristol. 
 Ray C. Wildman, Brookfield 
 Harry Wood, Tolland 
 
 1913 
 State Officers: 
 
 Simeon E. Baldwin, New Haven, 
 
 Governor. 
 John H. Light, Norwalk, 
 
 Attorney-General. 
 Albert Phillips, Stamford, 
 
 Secretary. 
 Edward S. Roberts, North Canaan, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 Charles S. Avery, Norwich. 
 William C. Cheney, Manchester. 
 Frederick M. Colton, Granby. 
 Edwin H. Keach, Killingly. 
 Mayro Keeney, Somers. 
 John H. Mountain, Middletown. 
 Frederick L. Neebe, Meriden. 
 John H. Perry, Fairfield. 
 John L. Purcell, Hartford. 
 Harry W. Reynolds, E. Haddam. 
 John F. Shanley, New Haven. 
 Claude W. Stevens, Berlin. 
 Hanford S. Weed, New Canaan. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Christopher L. Avery, Groton. 
 Edward Baker, Canterbury. 
 Ransom L. Baldwin, Meriden. 
 Walter H. Baldwin, Cheshire. 
 Dwight M. Banks, Fairfield. 
 Wilson A Barber, East Windsor. 
 Henry M. Betting, Preston. 
 Arthur E. Bidwell, Glastonbury. 
 Edward S. Boyd, Woodbury. 
 Archibald H. Bradley, Burlington. 
 William H. Breen, Cornwall. 
 Patrick F. Bresnahan, Norfolk. 
 Elbert L. Bunnell, Barkhamsted. 
 Martin L. Caine, Naugatuck. 
 Edward T. Carter, Plainville. 
 Lyman P. Case, Winchester. 
 Edward J. Carroll, East Hartford. 
 George H Champlin, Columbia. 
 Frank W. Chappell, Chaplin. 
 John Clancy, Farmington. 
 John W. Collins, Washington. 
 Clark Congdon, Sterling. 
 Frank W. Congdon, Hampton. 
 Charles F. Couger, Newtown. 
 John F. Craney, Norwich. 
 Peter Crona, New Britain. 
 Bradford W. Danielson, Plainfield. 
 Henry H. Davenport, Pomfret. 
 Charles E. Davis, North Haven. 
 Homer P. Deming, Colebrook. 
 Samuel S. Denton, Ridgefield. 
 Junius Z. Douglass, Bristol. 
 Horace M. Dunbar, Sharon. 
 Kirk W. Dyer, Cromwell. 
 Richard B. Eno, Simsbury. 
 Ernest L. French, Plainfield. 
 Ernest S. Fuller, Somers. 
 Merritt E. Gallup, Pomfret. 
 Louis A. Gowdy, Somers. 
 Fred. A. Griswold, Wethersfield. 
 Charles N. Hall, New Milford. 
 John S. Hall, Lyme. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Alfred W. Hanmer, Wethersfield. 
 Robert W. Hayes, Hartland. 
 Frank E. Healy, Windsor Locks. 
 John J. Hemmeler, Willington. 
 Charles W. Hodges, New Canaan. 
 Heman T. Holdredge, Stonington. 
 Edwin T. Hook, Newtown. 
 Collins W. Hudson, East Windsor. 
 W. S. Hungerford, E. Haddam. 
 Carroll W. Hutchinson, Hebron. 
 William S. Hyde, Manchester. 
 Elmer Jackson, Wilton. 
 Charles J. Johnson, Thompson. 
 John Johnson, Tolland. 
 D. Clark Joyce, Brookfield. 
 Herman P. Kopplemann, Hartford. 
 C. W. Leavenworth, Wallingford. 
 Charles D. Lockwood, Stamford. 
 Charles N. Loomis, Bolton. 
 Charles L. Luce, Newington. 
 
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Henry H. Lyman, Middlefield. 
 
 Archibald Macdonald, Putnam. 
 
 Robert V. Magee, Watertown. 
 
 Thurman P. Maine, N, Stonington. 
 
 Arthur W. Marsden, Madison. 
 
 Abram Martin, Salisbury. 
 
 Henry C. Messenger, N. Hartford. 
 
 Ariel Mitchelson, Simsbury. 
 
 Cady R. Morse, Bethel. 
 
 Charles Mueller, New Britain. 
 
 Joseph H. North, Goshen. 
 
 Frank K. Noyes, Lebanon. 
 
 Alfred L. Ohmen, Warren. 
 
 Clarence H. Perry, Scotland. 
 
 Martin E. Pierson, Bristol. 
 
 William J. Reel, North Canaan. 
 
 Michael P. Rice, Branford. 
 
 Thomas J. Ryle, Stamford. 
 
 Emory P. Sanford, Redding. 
 
 John W. Sanford, Jr., Hamden. 
 James T. Shea, Lisbon. 
 John L. Sherman, Orange. 
 
 Frederick E. Silliman, Easton. 
 Frederick J. Snyder, Coventry. 
 Herbert L. Spear, Suffield. 
 Charles L. Spencer, Suffield. 
 Howard H. Spencer, N. Hartford. 
 C. Parker Stearns, Andover. 
 Samuel L. Stevens, Danbury. 
 Carlos H. Storrs, Ansonia. 
 Walter F. Storrs, Mansfield. 
 Theodore Sturges, Cornwall. 
 Abel P. Tanner, New London. 
 Howard W. Taylor, Danbury. 
 Arthur C. Titus, Washington. 
 Dudley L. Vaill, Winchester. 
 John Van Wie, Branford. 
 Daniel Webster, Berlin. 
 Morris C. Webster, Harwinton. 
 Albert R. Wells, Southington. 
 Truman E. Wheeler, Woodbury. 
 Daniel T. Williams, Colchester. 
 Prescott H. Woodford, Avon. 
 
 1915 
 State Officers : 
 
 Charles D. Burnes, Greenwich, 
 
 Secretary. 
 Fred. S. Chamberlain, New Britain, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 George E. Hinman, Windham, 
 
 Attorney-General. 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington, 
 
 Governor. 
 Morris C. Webster, Harwinton, 
 
 Comptroller. 
 Clifford B. Wilson, Bridgeport, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 John H. Barnes, Norwich. 
 Frederic A. Bartlett, Bridgeport. 
 Harvey P. Bissell, Ridgefield. 
 Louis R. Cheney, Hartford. 
 
 Benjamin H. Hewett, Stonington. 
 Edward E King, East Hartford. 
 Henry H. Lyman, Middlefield. 
 Robert V. Magee, Watertown. 
 James R. Mead, Greenwich. 
 John M. O'Connell, Bridgeport. 
 James A. Peasley, Waterbury. 
 Martin E. Pierson, Bristol. 
 John L. Purcell, Hartford. 
 Frederick M Salmon, Westport. 
 John M. Tatem, Eastford. 
 Charles O. Thompson, Pomfret. 
 Wm. P. Tyler, Middlebury. 
 Lucius E. Whiton, New London. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Sessions L. Adams, Plainfield. 
 W. Burton Allen, Litchfield. 
 Dionigi Arrigoni, Durham. 
 John Ash, Pomfret. 
 Bennett C Atwood, Watertown. 
 Bronson W. Atwood, Middlebury. 
 Oscar F. Atwood, Brooklyn. 
 Edmund S. Backus, Thompson. 
 Albert J. Bailey, Norwich. 
 Edward Baker, Canterbury. 
 Alexander M. Bassett, Ashford. 
 Thomas W. Beaumont, Cromwell. 
 Edward W. Bennett, Cornwall. 
 Frank E. Boardman, Middletown. 
 Arthur E. Bowers, Manchester. 
 Jervis D. Brown, Jr., Milford. 
 John Brown, Orange. 
 Edward T. Carter, Plainville. 
 Lyman P. Case, Winchester. 
 Charles H. Caul, Norfolk. 
 Ernest P. Chesbro, Windham. 
 George E. Churchill, Newington. 
 Charles H. Clark, Southington. 
 George T. Clark, Beacon Falls. 
 Ernest L. Coles, Middlefield. 
 Clark Congdon, Plainfield. 
 Frank Q. Cronin, New London. 
 Charles S. Curtiss, Woodbury. 
 Marion R. Davis, East Lyme. 
 Welcome Davis, Eastford. 
 Richard H. Deming, W. Hartford. 
 John B. Dillon, Shelton. 
 Robert O. Eaton, North Haven. 
 E. Hart Fenn, Wethersfield. 
 Charles S. Fuller, Somers. 
 Milan J. Gilman, Colebrook. 
 Eugene E. Goddard, Granby. 
 Arthur B. Goodrich, Glastonbury. 
 Henry C Goslee, Morris. 
 Owen E. Goslee, East Granby. 
 E. Clayton Goodwin, New Britain. 
 Edward Hall, Plainfield. 
 George B. Hall, East Haddam. 
 John S. Hall, Lyme. 
 William H. Hall, Willington. 
 Edward Handel, East Hartford. 
 William H. Heald, Stafford. 
 Frank E. Healy, Windsor Locks. 
 
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Joseph H. Henderson, Norwich. 
 Thomas Hewes, Farmington. 
 John L. Hitchcock, Hartland. 
 William Hohbein, Burlington. 
 Clifford E. Hough, Washington. 
 Albert H. House, Windsor. 
 Warren C Hubbell, Huntington. 
 James H. Hutchins, Pomfret. 
 Frederick W. Huxford, Stamford. 
 William S. Hyde, Manchester. 
 Fred C. Hydel, Avon. 
 Milton C. Isbell, Ansonia. 
 Edgar G. Jennings, Easton. 
 Francis H. Johnson, Lisbon. 
 Allen W. Jones, Westbrook. 
 
 D. Clark Joyce, Brookfield. 
 George B. Klebes, Sharon. 
 Charles C. Lacey, Fairfield. 
 
 C. Huntington Lathrop, Franklin. 
 C. W. Leavenworth, Wallingford. 
 James E. Loughlin, Enfield. 
 Edgar R. LaPlace, Saybrook. 
 Archibald Macdonald, Putnam. 
 Geo. N. McKendry, New Canaan. 
 Samuel G. McLean, Glastonbury. 
 William C. Marble, Haddam. 
 Arthur W. Marsden, Madison. 
 Abram Martin, Salisbury. 
 Chester E. May, Woodstock. 
 George Mexcur, Bloomfield. 
 William L. Meyer, Hartford. 
 Edward L. Mitchell, Southbury. 
 Ivan L. Morehouse, Stratford. 
 Stanley D. Morgan, Waterford. 
 Peter Morgansen, Tolland. 
 Egbert A. Norton, Colebrook. 
 Frank J. Pavelka, Killingworth. 
 Frederick M. Peasley, Cheshire. 
 S. Arnold Peckham, Windham. 
 Echford G. Pendleton, Preston. 
 Frederick L. Perry, New Haven. 
 Jerome C. Potter, Guilford. 
 John S. Pratt, Harwinton. 
 Francis A. Randall, Vernon. 
 John Reid, Bethel. 
 Thomas P. Reilly, Naugatuck. 
 John H. Reynolds, Coventry. 
 Fernando C. Ross. Thompson. 
 James E. Ryan, Ridgefield. 
 John W. Sanford, Jr., Hamden. 
 Edwin W. Schultz, New Britain. 
 Samuel C. Shaw, Redding. 
 Harry R. Sherwood, Westport. 
 Daniel E. Smith, Chester. 
 William F. Smith, Hamden. 
 William F. Smithwick, Bristol. 
 Herbert L. Spear, Suffield. 
 Samuel R. Spencer, Sufneld. 
 Nelson L. Stark, Bozrah. 
 Wilbur Sturges, Weston. 
 
 E. Everett Swan, East Haddam. 
 Stephen A. Talmadge, Prospect. 
 Benjamin F. Taylor, Washington. 
 Frederick N. Taylor, Lebanon. 
 
 Howard W. Taylor, Danbury. 
 Herbert E. Thatcher, Somers. 
 James A, Thomas, Lebanon. 
 Matt A. Tinker, Montville. 
 George M. Tracy, Derby. 
 Charles F. Tristram, Norwalk. 
 William B. Tuttle, Plymouth. 
 Dudley L. Vaill, Winchester. 
 Albert R. Wells, Southington. 
 Dudley Wells, Wethersfield. 
 John G. Wightman, Stafford. 
 Elias F. Wilcox, Stonington. 
 John H. Wiltshire, Bethlehem. 
 John H. Yost, Vernon. 
 
 1917 
 
 State Officers : 
 Fred. S. Chamberlain, New Britain, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 George E. Hinman, Windham, 
 
 Attorney-General. 
 Marcus H. Holcomb, Southington, 
 
 Governor. 
 Frederick L. Perry, New Haven, 
 
 Secretary. 
 Morris C. Webster, Harwinton, 
 
 Comptroller. 
 Clifford B. Wilson, Bridgeport, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 Sessions L. Adams, Plainfield. 
 John H. Barnes, Norwich. 
 Frederic A. Bartlett, Bridgeport. 
 Harvey P. Bissell, Ridgefield. 
 Edward S. Boyd, Woodbury. 
 Edward W. Broder, Hartford. 
 John E. Doughan, New Haven. 
 William H. Hall, Wellington. 
 Charles C. Hemenway, Hartford. 
 Frank H. Hinckley, Stonington. 
 Herman P. Kopplemann, Hartford. 
 William J. Larkin, Waterbury. 
 Harry A. Leonard, New Haven. 
 Henry H. Lyman, Middlefield. 
 Archibald Macdonald, Putnam. 
 James R. Mead, Greenwich. 
 Frederick L. Neebe, Meriden. 
 John M. O'Connell, Bridgeport. 
 Elijah Rogers, Southington. 
 Frederick H. Rolf, Guilford. 
 Charles L. Spencer, Suffield. 
 Robbins B. Stoeckel, Norfolk. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Sidney E. Ackley, East Haddam. 
 William I. Allyn, Ledyard. 
 Oscar F. Atwood, Brooklyn. 
 Heman O. Averill, Washington. 
 Edmund S. Backus, Thompson. 
 Albert J. Bailey, Norwich. 
 Edward Baker, Canterbury. 
 Frank H. Barnes, Southington. 
 William A. Barnes, Ansonia. 
 
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Gustavus C. Beckwith, N. Hartford. 
 Jesse L. Benedict, Ridgefield. 
 Emil T. Berger, Trumbull. 
 Enoch T. Birdsey, Middlefield. 
 Jonathan E. Bliss, Clinton. 
 Frank E. Boardman, Middletown. 
 Arthur E. Bowers, Manchester. 
 George H. Bradford, Montville. 
 William H. Brewer, E. Hartford. 
 Aldemar A. Brodeur, Putnam. 
 Jervis D. Brown, Jr., Milford. 
 Robert T. Buell, Marlborough. 
 George P. Bugbee, Willington. 
 William G. Bushnell, Westbrook. 
 Martin L. Caine, Naugatuck. 
 Nehemiah Candee, Norwalk. 
 Lyman P. Case, Winchester. 
 Theodore G. Case, Granby. 
 Charles H. Caul, Norfolk. 
 Augustus E. Chappuis, Warren. 
 Constant W. Chatfield, Voluntown. 
 William Chew, Bridgeport. 
 Frank W. Churchill, Rocky Hill. 
 Charles E. Clark, Woodbridge. 
 George T. Clark, Beacon Falls. 
 Wesley N. Clark, Granby. 
 Edward S. Coe, Cromwell. 
 Walter W. Collar, Norfolk. 
 Charles J. Conrad, Shelton. 
 George B. Cowles, Woodbury. 
 William S. Cowles, Farmington. 
 S. ( Hart Culver, Seymour. 
 William T. Curry, Lebanon. 
 Frank I. Date, Franklin. 
 William J. Day, Barkhamsted. 
 Asahel R. DeWolf, East Lyme. 
 Leonard M. Dickinson, Hartland. 
 John B. Dillon, Huntington. 
 Junius Z. Douglass, Bristol. 
 Charles O. Eakland, Wilton. 
 Robert O. Eaton, North Haven. 
 Richard B. Eno, Simsbury. 
 William H. Eustice, Plymouth. 
 Oliver D. Filley, Bloomfield. 
 John H. Fish, Newington. 
 Peter FitzHenry, Waterbury. 
 Charles C. Ford, Washington. 
 Ernest S. Fuller, Somers. 
 I. Kent Fulton, Salisbury. 
 Gourdin Y. Gaillard, New Haven. 
 Howard S. Gilbert, Bethel. 
 William H. Goddard, Wallingford. 
 James Graham, Lisbon. 
 Fremont M. Granniss, Litchfield. 
 Byron H. Griswold, Glastonbury. 
 Frederick D. Griswold, Goshen. 
 Charles N. Hall, New Milford. 
 Edward F. Hall, New Britain. 
 Richard J. Hall, Ansonia. 
 Ray L. Harding, Lyme. 
 Samuel P. Hayes, Bethlehem. 
 Walter Hayles, Hamden. 
 William H. Heald, Stafford. 
 Frank E. Healy, Windsor Locks. 
 
 Patrick J. Healey, Waterbury. 
 George R. Hempstead, Groton. 
 Joseph H. Henderson, Norwich. 
 Howard Hicock, Southbury. 
 William L. Higgins, Coventry. 
 Oliver A. Hiscox, Woodstock. 
 Henry S. Hitchcock, Woodbury. 
 John P. Hollowell, Preston. 
 William A. Holt, New London. 
 Edmund A. Hoskins, Simsbury. 
 Edward A. Hoxie, Lebanon. 
 Stephen R. Hoyt, Darien. 
 Eugene F. Hutchinson, Columbia. 
 Frederick W. Huxford, Stamford. 
 Paul P. Ives, Guilford. 
 H. Roger Jones, New Hartford. 
 Lee H. Kellogg, Canaan. 
 Sidney D. Kelsey, Killingworth. 
 John E. Kingsbury, Coventry. 
 Charles C. Lacey, Fairfield. 
 August L. Lange, Meriden. 
 Geo. W. P. Leavenworth, Roxbury. 
 William H. Leete, Enfield. 
 Hurvey M. Luther, East Haddam. 
 Arthur W. Marsden, Madison. 
 Frank E. Miller, Canterbury. 
 John C. Miller, Ellington. 
 Albert L. Mills, Hampton. 
 Maurice E. Minor, Plymouth. 
 Monroe E. Mitchell, Canton. 
 Thomas F. Molloy, Derby. 
 Ivan L. Morehouse, Stratford. 
 Richard H. Morgan, Cheshire. 
 Robert B. Morse, New Canaan. 
 Edgar W. Munson, Hamden. 
 Elwin N. Myers, East Windsor. 
 Raymond Pack, Morris. 
 Frederick H. Page, Durham. 
 Fitz Henry Paine, Pomfret. 
 Cleon L. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 George S. Parsons, Enfield. 
 Frederick M. Peasley, Cheshire. 
 William F. Piatt, Milford. 
 John S. Pratt, Harwinton. 
 William A. Preston, Cornwall. 
 Archibald G. Prisk, Wallingford. 
 J. Laurence Raymond, Lyme. 
 William J. Reel, North Canaan. 
 Thomas P. Reilly, Naugatuck. 
 Wilson W. Robotham, Farmington. 
 Willard B. Rogers, Manchester. 
 Franklin M. Rose, Essex. 
 Malcolm D. Rudd, Salisbury. 
 James E. Ryan, Ridgefield. 
 Walter E. Savage, Meriden. 
 Wilfred W. Savage, Wethersfield. 
 Samuel C. Shaw, Redding. 
 W. Franklin Sheldon, Plainfield. 
 Harry R. Sherwood, Westport. 
 William J. Simpson, Plainville. 
 Howard B. Smith, Middlebury. 
 Leonard Smith, Mansfield. 
 Samuel R. Spencer, Sufneld. 
 Charles G. Stone, Durham. 
 
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Edward C. Stoughton, Thomas-ton. 
 John J. Sweeney, Bozrah. 
 Charles B. Tammany, Easton. 
 Edward E. Thompson, Glastonbury. 
 Howard W. Taylor, Danbury. 
 Otto H. Tiedeman, Sharon. 
 Charles R. Treat, Orange. 
 F. Romaine Tucker, Willington. 
 
 Dudley N. Vaill, Winchester. 
 Arthur M. Waitt, Sharon. 
 Wilfred V. Warner, Wolcott. 
 Duane J. Webster, Burlington. 
 John G. Wightman, Stafford. 
 Elias F. Wilcox, Stonington. 
 Samuel R. Woodward, Bolton. 
 John H. Yost, Vernon. 
 
 1919 
 The names of all the members of the General Assembly of 1919 
 are printed on another page of this book. Of the 293 members, 247 
 were present. 
 
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NAMES OF THOSE NOT PRESENT 
 
 at the 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY CENTENNIAL 
 
 The following persons acknowledged the receipt of an invitation to 
 the Celebration, but for various reasons were unable to attend: 
 
 1858 
 Representative : 
 Chester R. Woodford, Avon. 
 
 1862 
 Representative : 
 Erastus S. Day, Colchester. 
 
 1863 
 Representative : 
 
 George M. Woodruff, Litchfield. 
 
 Representative : 
 Erastus S. Day, Colchester. 
 
 1865 
 Representatives : 
 
 Merrick A. Marcy, Union. 
 George M. Woodruff, Litchfield. 
 
 1866 
 Representatives : 
 J. Warren Johnson, Enfield. 
 Merrick A. Marcy, Union. 
 Richard Wheeler, No. Stonington. 
 
 1869 
 Representatives : 
 
 Horace Belden, Simsbury. 
 
 Tim. C. Coogan, Windsor Locks. 
 
 1870 
 Representatives : 
 Jepthah G. Bill, Griswold. 
 L. Legrand Hopkins, N. Fairfield. 
 J. Warren Johnson, Enfield. 
 
 1871 
 Representatives : 
 James W. Cheney, Manchester. 
 L. Legrand Hopkins, N. Fairfield. 
 Robert M. Jewett, Lyme. 
 William C. Russell, Orange. 
 
 1872 
 Senator: 
 
 Lucius Brown, Preston. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Marcius A. Cady, Stafford. 
 
 Nathaniel L. Knowlton, Ashford. 
 
 George M. Woodruff, Litchfield. 
 
 1873 
 Senator: 
 
 Merrick A. Marcy, Union. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Robert N. Cochrane, Cornwall. 
 
 Tim. C. Coogan, Windsor Locks. 
 
 Henry E. Dimock, Tolland. 
 
 Dwight J. Glazier, Stafford. 
 
 Virgil F. McNeil, Cornwall. 
 
 Henry B. Sisson, Lyme. 
 
 Alpheus W. Tyler, Haddam. 
 
 1874 
 Senator: 
 
 Merrick A. Marcy, Union. 
 Representatives : 
 
 J. Dwight Chaffee, Mansfield. 
 
 Edmund Day, Seymour. 
 
 Erastus S. Day, Colchester. 
 
 Monroe Hart, Barkhamsted. 
 
 Phineas C. Lounsbury, Ridgefield. 
 
 Avery A. Stanton, Sterling. 
 
 Alpheus W. Tyler, Haddam. 
 
 1875 
 Senator: 
 
 Tim. C. Coogan, Windsor Locks. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Ephraim Bridge, Enfield. 
 
 Frank A. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 
 Lucius H. Foote, Durham. 
 
 Jared A. Gallup, Voluntown. 
 
 Charles A. Hawkins, Tolland. 
 
 L. LeGrand Hopkins, N. Fairfield. 
 
 James B. Palmer, Lisbon. 
 
 William D. Ruby, Willington. 
 
 Charles F. Smith, Orange. 
 
 Jerome Tourtellotte, Putnam. 
 
 Smith C. Wheeler, Oxford. 
 
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Senator: 
 
 1876 
 
 Tim. C. Coogan, Windsor Locks. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Marcius A. Cady, Stafford. 
 Lucius H. Foote, Durham. 
 George A. Hammond, Mansfield. 
 .Daniel B. Mallory, Sherman. 
 James B. Palmer, Lisbon . 
 Francis Pinney, Ellington. 
 Henry B. Sisson, Lyme. 
 Charles F. Smith, Orange. 
 Everett S. Warner, Rocky Hill. 
 
 1877 
 Senators : 
 Daniel B. Mallory, Sherman. 
 Lucius Brown, Preston. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 James G. Curtiss, Woodbury. 
 
 George W. Dains, Harwinton. 
 
 Salmon B. Giddings, Hartland. 
 
 Charles A. Hawkins, Tolland. 
 
 Orrin S. Thompson, N. Hartford. 
 1878 
 Senator : 
 
 Lucius Brown, Preston. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Irwin J. Beardsley, Kent. 
 
 John H. Fuller, Marlborough. 
 
 Joseph O. Goodwin, E. Hartford. 
 
 William P. Marcy, Union. 
 
 Samuel N. Morgan, Salem. 
 
 Job F. Seamans, Killingly. 
 
 Henry B. Sisson, Lyme. 
 
 1879 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Edwin P. Augur, Middlefield. 
 Frank A. Case, Barkhamsted. 
 Allison N. Clark, Plainyille. 
 George E. Cook, Harwinton. 
 Frederick H. Dunham, Chatham. 
 Martin W. Frisbie, Southington. 
 Thomas H. Fuller, Scotland. 
 James G. Gregory, Norwalk. 
 Merrick A. Marcy, Union. 
 Charles B. Northrop, Ridgefield. 
 William B. Perry, Salisbury. 
 William M. Smith, Chaplin. 
 Orrin S. Thompson, N. Hartford. 
 Henry Young, Tolland. 
 
 1880 
 Representatives : 
 Ezra B. Bailey, Franklin. 
 Henry M. Barbour, Canton. 
 John W. Edgerton, Tolland. 
 Martin W. Frisbie, Southington. 
 Henry P. Lane, Barkhamsted. 
 Merrick A. Marcy, Union. 
 John A. Moore, Colebrook. 
 
 Cyrus B. Newton, Stafford. 
 Frederic E. Rice, Granby. 
 Charles S. Smith, Kent. 
 Jerome Tourtellotte, Putnam. 
 John M. Wood, Coventry. 
 
 1881 
 
 Representatives : 
 Edwin S. Agard, Tolland. 
 Samuel M. Bailey, Wolcott. 
 Virgil R. Barker, Harwinton. 
 Richard G. Beebe, Stafford. 
 Charles F. Burt, Hebron. 
 Fitch L. Comstock, Waterford. 
 Stiles A. Crandall, Ledyard. 
 Charles W. Grosvenor, Pomfret. 
 Denzel B. Hoadley, Bethany. 
 L. Legrand Hopkins, N. Fairfield. 
 Edward H. Jacobs, Killingly. 
 John H. Selden, Chatham. 
 Jared H. Stearns, Mansfield. 
 Dwight W. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 William H. Vining, Colebrook. 
 Moses A. Wadhams, Goshen. 
 
 1882 
 Representatives : 
 George A. Allen, Torrington. 
 Samuel M. Bailey, Wolcott. 
 John W. Coogan, Windsor Locks. 
 Andrew W. Culver, Beacon Falls. 
 Alfred W. Hutchinson, Hebron. 
 J. Warren Johnson, Enfield. 
 Joseph C. Leffingwell, Bozrah. 
 Augustus F. Read, Lisbon. 
 Edward D. Robbins, Wethersfield. 
 Hubert S. Scovill, Goshen. 
 Lewis E. Smith, Ridgefield. 
 James H. Warner, Rocky Hill. 
 S. Brainard West, Columbia. 
 
 1883 
 Representatives : 
 Ezra B. Bailey, Windsor Locks. 
 Elihu Carlisle, Goshen. 
 Marvin P. Colman, Coventry. 
 Oliver P. Cowdery, Hartland. 
 William H. Doyle, Litchfield. 
 Arthur W. Eaton, East Hartford. 
 Herman Fleischer, New Britain. 
 Frank Gorham, Weston. 
 E. Stevens Henry, Vernon. 
 George P. McLean, Simsbury. 
 Timothy B. McNamara, Plymouth. 
 Leonard J. Nickerson, Cornwall. 
 Newton Osborn, Newington. 
 Henry A. Richmond, Preston. 
 Edward D. Robbins, Wethersfield. 
 George L. Rosebrooks, Mansfield. 
 Willis D. Rouse, Plainfield. 
 Guilford Smith, Windham. 
 Jabez Southworth, Saybrook. 
 Timothy C. Tiffany, Barkhamsted. 
 Orren C. West, Vernon. 
 
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State Officer: 
 
 Frank D. Sloat, New Haven, 
 Comptroller. 
 Senator: 
 
 Edmund Day, Seymour. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Myron E. Cable, Washington. 
 Charles A. Clark, Marlborough. 
 John H. Fanton, Danbury. 
 David S. Gilmour, Norwich. 
 Frederick A. Granniss, Cheshire. 
 Phineas M. Griswold, Madison. 
 Albert Hall, Willington. 
 Lyman Hewitt, Wethersfield. 
 Gilbert H. Holcombe, Burlington. 
 George A. Hopson, Wallingford. 
 Hadlai A. Hull, Stonington. 
 Robert M. Jewett, Lyme. 
 Henry McKinney, Stafford. 
 George P. McLean, Simsbury. 
 Clark C. Palmer, Griswold. 
 Judson A. Potter, Willington. 
 Charles T. Preston, Killingly. 
 Franklin Y. Silliman, Chester. 
 Smith C. Wheeler, Oxford. 
 
 1885 
 Senators : 
 J. Dwight Chaffee, Mansfield. 
 Edmund Day, Seymour. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Curtiss C. Atwell, Durham. 
 Henry E. Bradley, Washington 
 J. Raymond Douglass, Salem. 
 David S. Gilmour, Norwich. 
 John S. Griffin, East Haddam. 
 Charles W. Grosvenor, Pomfret. 
 George A. Hammond, Putnam. 
 J. Henry King, Lebanon. 
 Charles R. Marvin, Saybrook. 
 Stephen D. Moore, Preston. 
 John J. Phelan, Bridgeport. 
 Charles A. Satterlee, Ledyard. 
 William M. Stark, New London. 
 Henry W. Trowbridge, Roxbury. 
 Alfred N. Wildman, Danbury. 
 
 1886 
 Senators : 
 J. Dwight Chaffee, Mansfield. 
 Charles W. Grosvenor, Pomfret. 
 George P. McLean, Simsbury. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Samuel Ashwell, Rocky Hill. 
 Oscar L. Beardsley, Huntington. 
 Fred H. Bevans, Bethel. 
 Benjamin L. Bronson, Wolcott. 
 Thomas S. Brown, Chatham. 
 Arthur H. Galpin, Wethersfield. 
 Jerome F. Gibbs, Kent. 
 William Hamersley, Hartford. 
 George A. Hammond, Putnam. 
 
 William H. Hammond, Hampton. 
 Nelson T. Hungerford, Sherman. 
 Thurston B. Lillibridge, Norwich. 
 William V. McNerney, Vernon. 
 Frederick A. Pierson, Ellington. 
 Harris Pendleton, Guilford. 
 John J. Phelan, Bridgeport. 
 William C. Sanford, Redding. 
 Job F. Seamans, Killingly. 
 Frank L. Stephens, Barkhamsted. 
 
 1887 
 State Officer: 
 
 Phineas C. Lounsbury, Ridgefield. 
 Governor. 
 Senators : 
 
 Ezra B. Bailey, Windsor Locks. 
 
 O. Vincent Coffin, Middletown. 
 
 Edgar J. Doolittle, Meriden. 
 
 E. Stevens Henry, Vernon. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Wellington M. Andrew, Orange. 
 
 Caleb Anthony, Scotland. 
 
 Emerson E. Barker, Branford. 
 
 John D. Bassett, Norfolk. 
 
 William W. Bolles, Marlborough. 
 
 William H. Brackett, Willington. 
 
 Simon C. Bradley, Fairfield. 
 
 Joseph W. Chesebro, Stonington. 
 
 Frederick F. Finney, Woodbrdge. 
 
 Charles Griswold, Guilford. 
 
 Sidney E. Hawley, Brookfield. 
 
 L. Legrand Hopkins, Danbury. 
 
 Ezra M. Horton, Union. 
 
 William R. Kurd, Bristol. 
 
 John B. Kendrick, Wallingford. 
 
 Courtland Lamb, Ledyard. 
 
 Albert H. Lanphere, Waterford. 
 
 Thurston B. Lillibridge, Norwich. 
 
 Wm. W. B. Markham, Chatham. 
 
 George W. Mitchell, Southbury. 
 
 Newton Osborn, Newington. 
 
 Ransom F. Smith, Cornwall. 
 
 Frederick Stockman, Bethlehem. 
 
 Charles A. Wheaton, Eastford. 
 
 Benjamin C. Woodin, Hamden. 
 
 1889 
 State Officer: 
 
 E. Stevens Henry, Vernon, 
 Treasurer. 
 Senators : 
 
 O. Vincent Coffin, Middletown, 
 
 George E. Keeney, Somers. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Julius H. Barnard, Colebrook. 
 
 Trescott C. Barnes, New Hartford. 
 
 Edwin I. Bell, Portland. 
 
 Lodowick Bill, Lyme. 
 
 Fisk Brainard, Chatham. 
 
 Walter S. Carpenter, Putnam. 
 
 Henry T. Child, Woodstock. 
 
 Myron L. Cooley, Southbury. 
 
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George W. Dains, Harwinton. 
 Edward W. Dewey, Granby. 
 Alfred E. Hammer, Branford. 
 George A. Haskell, Griswold. 
 Sidney E. Hawley, Brookfield. 
 Walter S. Hewitt, Hebron. 
 George G. Hungerford, Sherman. 
 John B. Kendrick, Wallingford. 
 Frederick E. Knapp, New Fairfield. 
 Joseph Peabody, Waterford. 
 Arthur B. Porter, Coventry. 
 Robert A. Potter, Plainville. 
 Robert S. Purdy, Darien. 
 David Russ, Ashford. 
 William W. Sunderland, Danbury. 
 Dwight W. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 Jason R. Viets, East Granby. 
 Thomas Walker, Southington. 
 Silas B. Wheeler, Stonington. 
 William H. Wright, Killingworth. 
 
 1891 
 State Officer: 
 
 E. Stevens Henry, Vernon, 
 Treasurer. 
 Senators : 
 
 George W. Dains, Harwinton. 
 
 Noble E. Pierce, Bristol. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Roscius Back, Union. 
 
 Ira G. Bailey, Haddam. 
 
 John G. Bromley, Lisbon. 
 
 Frank S. Brown, Washington. 
 
 Cassius S. Chase, Killingly. 
 
 Frederick H. Dunham, Chatham. 
 
 William L. Egleston, Norfolk. 
 
 George E. Emmons, Morris. 
 
 Frank W. Fitch, Preston. 
 
 Charles F. Green, Goshen. 
 
 Gardiner Greene, Norwich. , 
 
 Linus H. Hall, Wallingford. 
 
 William B. Hawley, Sherman. 
 
 Franklin P. Hayes, Bethlehem. 
 
 John Keough, Bloomfield. 
 
 Nathaniel L. Knowlton. Ashford. 
 
 James P. Little, Columbia. 
 
 William T. Marsh, Litchfield. 
 
 William V. McNerney, Vernon. 
 
 George W. Mitchell, Southbury. 
 
 Alvah Morgan, Salem. 
 
 Michael J. Moroney, Burlington. 
 
 A. D. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 
 Arthur B. Porter, Coventry. 
 
 Robert S. Purdy, Darien. 
 
 George T. Sanger, Plainfield. 
 
 Francis S. Skiff, Cornwall. 
 
 Charles L. Spooner, Kent. 
 
 Cyrus H. Stewart, N. Stonington. 
 
 Robert M. Thompson, Lyme. 
 
 Richard H. Tucker, Old Saybrook. 
 
 Dwight W. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 
 Frank L. Wellman, Durham. 
 
 Silas B. Wheeler, Stonington. 
 
 Henry M. White, Torrington. 
 
 State Officer: 
 
 1893 
 
 John J. Phelan, Bridgeport, 
 Secretary. 
 Senator : 
 
 George E. Keeney. Somers. 
 
 Noble E. Pierce, Bristol. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Ira G. Bailey, Haddam. 
 
 William C. Blanchard, Lebanon. 
 
 John G. Bromley, Lisbon. 
 
 Arthur B. Calkins, East Lyme. 
 
 Charles H. Calor, Plainville. 
 
 Myron N. Clark, Norfolk. 
 
 Herbert L. Culver, Colebrook. 
 
 Stephen D. Curtis, Ashford. 
 
 Erwin S. Fairchild, Trumbull. 
 
 Willis W. Hall, Marlborough. 
 
 William Hamersley, Hartford. 
 
 Irving W. Hammond, Hampton. 
 
 Edwin H. Harris, Salem. 
 
 William B. Hawley, Sherman. 
 
 Albert A. Hubbard, No. Canaan. 
 
 Ardon L. Judd, Stratford. 
 
 John D. Luby, Burlington. 
 
 William N. Markham, Chatham. 
 
 William T. Marsh, Litchfield. 
 
 William V. McNerney, Vernon. 
 
 John D. Moffitt, Scotland. 
 
 Elisha G. Morton, East Windsor. 
 
 N. !L. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 
 Arthur B. Porter, Coventry. 
 
 Fred Prentice, Hebron. 
 
 Caleb F. Rose, East Haddam. 
 
 George T. Sanger, Plainfield. 
 
 Harvey Tucker, Simsbury. 
 
 Curtis B. Warner, New Hartford. 
 
 Arthur G. Wheeler, Stonington. 
 
 Theodore F. Wheeler, Southbury. 
 
 George J. Whipple. Colebrook. 
 
 Frank B. Wood, Cornwall. 
 
 1895 
 State Officer: 
 
 O. Vincent Coffin, Middletown, 
 Governor. 
 Senators : 
 
 Benjamin H. Lee, New London. 
 
 James P. Little, Columbia. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Sereno Alderman. Burlington. 
 
 Samuel J. Allen, East Windsor. 
 
 Samuel M. Bailey. Wolcott. 
 
 George E. Bidwell, East Granby. 
 
 Francis H. Bird, Pomfret. 
 
 John A. Carrier, Chatham. 
 
 John S. Champlin, Coventry. 
 
 Edwin H. Clark, Morris. 
 
 John E. Fahey, Vernon. 
 
 Charles E. Ford, Canaan. 
 
 Arlan P. Francis, Newington. 
 
 Dwight S. Fuller, Suffield. 
 
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Gardiner Greene, Norwich. 
 George P. Hill, East Lyme. 
 Elbert O. Hull, Monroe. 
 Frank R. Jackson, Woodstock. 
 Frederick A. Jacobs, Killingly. 
 Gurden B. Marcy, Eastford. 
 Ernest A. Markham, Durham. 
 William T. Marsh, Litchfield. 
 F. H. Mayberry, E. Hartford. 
 Alvah Morgan, Salem. 
 Lucius B. Morgan, Plainfield. 
 Henry B. Noyes, Stonington. 
 Benjamin F. Page, Harwinton. 
 F. H. Parmelee, New London. 
 N. S. Parmelee, Killingworth. 
 John L. Roberts, Kent. 
 Amasa P. Taber, Plainfield. 
 George Wallace, Union. 
 Edward R. Wooster, Bridgewater. 
 
 State Officer 
 
 1897 
 
 Charles W. Grosvenor, Pomfret, 
 Treasurer. 
 Senators : 
 
 Lucius Brown, Norwich. 
 
 Samuel A. Herman, Winchester. 
 
 Benjamin H. Lee, New London. 
 
 Dwight W. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Edwin S. Agard, Tolland. 
 
 S. Langdon Alvord, Winchester. 
 
 Harry E. Back, Union. 
 
 Richard Baldwin, Plymouth. 
 
 John H. Ball, Durham. 
 
 Orren W. Bates, Sterling. 
 
 Charles F. Boswell, Preston. 
 
 Daniel E. Bradley, Berlin. 
 
 Charles H. Brown, Putnam. 
 
 Dale D. Butler, Middletown. 
 
 Arthur B. Calkins, East Lyme. 
 
 Robert N. Cochrane, Milford. 
 
 Edward M. Day, Colchester. 
 
 Iverson C. Fanton, Weston. 
 
 E. Hart Geer, Lyme. 
 
 Charles E. Graham, Orange. 
 
 Addison J. Greenslit, Hampton. 
 
 George Gregory, Darien. 
 
 Marcus A. Griffin, Granby. 
 
 Donald M. Gunn, Groton. 
 
 Edwin L. Heath, Vernon. 
 
 Samuel Hodgkinson, Wallingford. 
 
 Edward H. Hotchkiss, Torrington. 
 
 Dwight L. Humiston, Bethany. 
 
 George F. Humphrey, Bloomfield. 
 
 Frederick A. Jacobs, Killingly. 
 
 Frederick C. Juul, Wellington. 
 
 Walter Kingsley, Plainfield. 
 
 John M. Leach, Stafford. 
 
 Clarence F. Loomis, N. Hartford. 
 
 George A. Mills, Lebanon. 
 
 Albert Morgan. Salem. 
 
 Dan. A. Murphy, New Fairfield. 
 
 Herbert E. Parmelee, Guilford. 
 Robert H. Perkins, Warren. 
 Charles H. Rich, East Haddam. 
 Matthew H. Rogers, Bridgeport. 
 Edward W. Seeley, Roxbury. 
 John O. Shares, Hamden. 
 Edwin J. Sheldon, Suffield. 
 John S. Usher, Tolland. 
 A. R. Wadsworth, Farmington. 
 J. Frank Welles, Wethersfield. 
 Samuel G. Winchester, Burlington. 
 William S. Wortman, Bethel. 
 
 1899 
 Senator: 
 
 Frank R. Jackson, Woodstock. 
 Representatives : 
 
 Richard J. Beebe, Stafford. 
 
 Charles D. Bent, Enfield. 
 
 Moses Chapman, Montville. 
 
 Edgar A. Clarke, New Hartford. 
 
 Henry I. Clark, Old Saybrook. 
 
 William Conklin, Salisbury. 
 
 John H. Davis, Hamden. 
 
 Frank S. DeWolf, Salem. 
 
 Iverson C. Fanton, Weston. 
 
 Lucius W. Fox, Harwinton. 
 
 Charles A. Gates, Windham. 
 
 Frank H. Hinckley, Stonington. 
 
 Samuel Hodgkinson, Wallingford. 
 
 Ebenezer A. Hoyt, Ridgefield. 
 
 Franklin V. Kibbe, Somers. 
 
 Fred. E. Knapp, New Fairfield. 
 
 Albert H. Lanphere, Waterford. 
 
 James R. Lanyan, Cheshire. 
 
 George H. Maxson, Stonington 
 
 John H Metgs, Madison. 
 
 Charles H. Moore, New Britain. 
 
 Lawrence Mullaley, Windsor. 
 
 Daniel M. Nichols, Trumbull. 
 
 Patrick O'Donnell, Cornwall. 
 
 Clarence F. Osborn, Norwalk. 
 
 James B. Palmer, Lisbon. 
 
 Frederick N. Porter, Bethel. 
 
 Norris W. Rathbun, E. Haddam. 
 
 Watson E. Rice, Stamford. 
 
 Henry Roberts, Hartford. 
 
 Melvin E. Snow, Norfolk. 
 
 Hugh Stirling, Bridgeport. 
 
 Addison C. Taintor, Colchester. 
 
 Edwin S. Thomas, Orange. 
 
 William H. Vining, Colebrook. 
 
 A. R. Wadsworth, Farmington. 
 
 Francis G. Waldo, Hebron. 
 
 Andrew E. Warner, Chester. 
 
 Robert E. Webster, Union. 
 
 Clifton H. Wright, Ashford. 
 
 Edwin O. Wright, Goshen. 
 
 1901 
 State Officer: 
 George P. McLean, Simsbury, 
 Governor. 
 
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Senators : 
 Wallace S. Allis, Norwich. 
 Charles H. Brown, Putnam. 
 James R. Lanyon, Cheshire. 
 Henry Roberts, Hartford. 
 Andrew J. Sloper, New Britain. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Frank H. Abbe, Enfield. 
 William E. Attwood, New Britain. 
 Elmore S. Banks, Fairfield. 
 Joseph B. Banning, Saybrook. 
 Earle S. Baxter, Colebrook. 
 James E. Beebe, Lyme. 
 Henry W. Beecher, Southbury. 
 Charles D. Bent, Enfield. 
 Franklin P. Brainerd, Durham. 
 Arthur M. Brown, Griswold. 
 Arthur B. Calkins, East Lyme. 
 Edgar T. Clark, Milford. 
 Marcus A. Covell, Thompson. 
 Granville A. Durant, Bethel. 
 John E. Ellis, Hebron. 
 John E. Fahey, Vernon. 
 Charles A. Gates, Windham. 
 Frank Gorham, Weston. 
 Abner P. Hayes, Waterbury. 
 Frank H. Hinckley, Stonington. 
 Mills Hungerford, Sherman. 
 George W. Keeler, Cheshire. 
 Robert W. Keeler, Wilton. 
 John B. Kendrick, Wallingford. 
 Joseph F. Killeen, Montville. 
 James E. A. Knowlton, Ashford. 
 Albert H. Lanphere, Waterford. 
 Walter A. Main, Orange. 
 George H. Maxson, Stonington. 
 Alvah Morgan, Salem. 
 Maurice F. Mulville, Norfolk. 
 Frederick H. Perry, Chester. 
 Charles H. Post, Guilford. 
 Arthur M. Pratt, Cornwall. 
 Frank W. Rising, Suffield. 
 Bradley W. Sanford, Ridgefield. 
 J. Samuel Seranton, Madison. 
 George R. Smith, Cornwall. 
 Sheldon B. Smith, Roxbury. 
 William H. Smith, Old Saybrook. 
 Valette D. Stearns, Mansfield. 
 Clarence F. Stotts, Hartland. 
 J. White Sumner, Bolton. 
 Wm. W. Thompson, E. Windsor. 
 
 E. Austin Wadhams, Goshen. 
 
 A. R. Wadsworth, Farmington. 
 Frank J. Wales, Monroe. 
 James R. Warner, East Haddam. 
 
 F. Ernest Watkins, Manchester. 
 E. Frank White, No. Stonington. 
 Granville Whittlesey, Danbury. 
 Samuel H. Williams, Glastonbury. 
 
 IQ02 
 
 (Constitutional Convention) 
 Henry L. Bailey, Groton. 
 
 Irwin J. Beardsley, Kent. 
 Arthur M. Brown, Griswold. 
 Harley P. Buell, Colchester. 
 George A. Frink, Preston. 
 Frank Gorham, Weston. 
 Frank H. Hinckley, Stonington. 
 George E. Keeney, Somers. 
 John B. Kendrick, Wallingford. 
 J. Henry King, Franklin. 
 William N. Markham, Chatham. 
 John H. Meigs, Madison. 
 Schuyler Merritt, Stamford. 
 Alvah Morgan, Salem. 
 Noble E. Pierce, Bristol. 
 Edwin C. Shelton, Monroe. 
 William H. Smith, Old Saybrook. 
 J. White Sumner, Bolton. 
 
 1903 
 State Officers: 
 Henry Roberts, Hartford, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 William A. King, Windham, 
 Attorney-General. 
 
 Senators : 
 Arthur M. Brown, Griswold. 
 Eddie S. Davis, Middletown. 
 Charles A. Gates, Windham. 
 Charles E. Graham, Orange. 
 Frederick A. Jacobs, Killingly. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Willard I. Ailing, Berlin. 
 Elmore S. Banks, Fairfield. 
 Oscar L. Beardsley, Huntington. 
 Homer S. Beers, Westport. 
 Frank A. Benedict, Seymour. 
 Wareham W. Bentley, Bozrah. 
 Arthur C. Bradley, Weston. 
 Arthur M. Brainard, Glastonbury. 
 Edward L. Clark, Orange. 
 John M. Clark, Chaplin. 
 Samuel P. Clark, East Haddam. 
 Michael J. Connor, Enfield. 
 Marcus A. Covell, Thompson. 
 Andrew W. Culver, Beacon Falls. 
 Thomas F. D'Arsey, Enfield. 
 John H. Davis^ Preston. 
 Frank H. Deming, Hampton. 
 Michael T. Downes, Wallingford. 
 Daniel P. Dunn, Windham. 
 Jacob Frey, East Windsor. 
 George A. Frink, Preston. 
 Roswell Grant, South Windsor. 
 Howard M. Guernsey, Thomaston. 
 David R. Hawley, Farmington. 
 Allerton C. Kibbe, Ellington. 
 William F. Kirchberger, Morris. 
 Louis J. Korper, Willington. 
 William E. LaBelle, Killingly. 
 Everett J. Lake, Hartford. 
 Albert H. Lanphere, Waterford. 
 James R. Lanyon, Cheshire. 
 
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Freeman A. Libby, Putnam. 
 Frank T. Maples, Norwich. 
 Carlos V. Mason, Bristol. 
 F. H. Mayberry, E. Hartford. 
 Homer N. Neil, "Wellington. 
 Henry F. Parker, Vernon. 
 William F. Quigg, Marlborough. 
 Watson E. Rice, Stamford. 
 Charles B. Searle, Windsor. 
 Edwin C. Shelton, Monroe. 
 J. Arthur Sherwood, Easton. 
 Herbert K. Smith, Hartford. 
 Hiram A. Smith, Colebrook. 
 Lucius K. Stevens, Clinton. 
 Frank L. Stiles, North Haven. 
 Henry C. Thresher, Stafford. 
 George Towne, Union. 
 David P. Walden, Scotland. 
 William H. Warner, Woodbridge. 
 
 E. Frank White, No. Stonington. 
 
 1905 
 State Officers : 
 
 Henry Roberts, Hartford, 
 
 Governor. 
 William A. King, Windham, 
 Attorney-General. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 William E. Attwood, New Britain. 
 D. Newton Barney, Farmington. 
 Reuben S. Bartlett, Norwich. 
 Austin I. Bush, East Lyme. 
 Alfred E. Hammer, Branford. 
 Everett J. Lake, Hartford. 
 Matthew Hogan, Hartford. 
 
 F. H. Mayberry, E. Hartford. 
 Representatives : 
 
 William A. Agard, Tolland. 
 Levi H. Apley, Goshen. 
 Amos H. Armington, Killingly. 
 Curtiss B. Atwood, Watertown. 
 Elmore S. Banks, Fairfield. 
 Orren W. Bates, Sterling. 
 Wareham W. Bentley, Bozrah. 
 Charles B. Carlson, Haddam. 
 Herman M. Chapin, N. Hartford. 
 Philo Cleveland, Harwinton. 
 Michael J. Connor, Enfield. 
 Andrew W. Culver, Beacon Falls. 
 John H. Davis, Preston. 
 Alton Farrel, Ansonia. 
 George T. Fowler, No. Branford. 
 William H. Geer, Lebanon. 
 George E. Goodman, Bloomfield. 
 Constant W. Gower, Hartland. 
 Howard M. Guernsey, Thomaston, 
 Edward C. Hammond, Waterford. 
 George A. Hammond, Putnam. 
 Charles H. Hanmer, Wethersfield. 
 Luke W. Henderson, Wolcott. 
 George H. Hewitt, Lebanon. 
 Edward P. Hollowell, Preston. 
 Frank N. Hoskins, Simsbury. 
 Thomas Hoyt, Stamford. 
 
 Frederick L. Huntington, Meriden. 
 Charles S. Hurlbut, Tolland. 
 Frederick A. Ives, Cheshire. 
 George H. Johnson, Morris. 
 John B. Kibbe, Somers. 
 James D. Kimball, Woodbury. 
 Karl C. Kulle, Windsor Locks. 
 Frank T. Maples, Norwich. 
 Samuel J. Marsh, Waterbury. 
 Charles R. Marvin, Saybrook. 
 John J. Northrop, Newtown. 
 C. Henry Olmsted, East Hartford. 
 Henry C. Parker, East Haddam. 
 Richard H. Pascall, Portland. 
 Lewis H. Phelps, Wallingford. 
 William H. Phillips, Chaplin. 
 Frank H. Raymond, Hebron. 
 Marcus L. Reynolds, Bridgeport. 
 Howard A. Rix, Salem. 
 Ernest N. Robinson, Durham. 
 Emor A. Smith, Hartford. 
 Myron W. Sperry, Bolton. 
 Evelyn E. Stevens, Clinton. 
 Walter S. Vail, Franklin. 
 Charles F. Wanger, Salisbury. 
 William H. Warner, Woodbridge. 
 
 1907 
 
 State Officer: 
 Everett J. Lake, Hartford, 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 
 Harley P. Buell, Colchester. 
 
 John M. Donnelly, Bridgeport. 
 
 Alton Farrel, Ansonia. 
 
 Charles A. Gates, Windham. 
 
 Samuel Hodgkinson, Wallingford. 
 
 Flavel S. Luther, Hartford. 
 
 Thomas J. Spellacy, Hartford. 
 Representatives : 
 
 William E. Albin, Westport. 
 
 Frank E. Allen, Scotland. 
 
 John W. Allen, New Britain. 
 
 Philip C. Arnold, Chatham. 
 
 Alfred H. Auger, Middlefield. 
 
 Telley E. Babcock, Plainfield. 
 
 Roscius Back, Union. 
 
 Oscar D. Baker, Ashford. 
 
 Elmore S. Banks, Fairfield. 
 
 Frank C. Barnes, Plymouth 
 
 Webster E. Burbank, Suffield. 
 
 Alfred D. Cady, Plainville. 
 
 Charles B. Carlson, Haddam. 
 
 Roswell Chamberlain, Hebron. 
 
 Marshall E. Charter, Ellington. 
 
 Sherman Cogswell, Washington. 
 
 Michael J. Connor, Enfield. 
 
 George A. Cosgrove, Wellington. 
 
 Fred. E. Dickerman. Winchester. 
 
 Albert P. Dossin, Meriden 
 
 William H. Doyle, Litchfield. 
 
 Eli Gledhill, Stonington. 
 
 Carlos J. Gurley, Willington. 
 
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John W. Hale, Cromwell. 
 James B. Hall, Hartland. 
 Charles J. Heineman, Meriden. 
 David H. Husband, Marlborough. 
 Arthur M. Keith, Eastford. 
 David D. Kyle, New Milford. 
 Josiah B. Lougee, Canton. ' 
 
 William M. Low, Norwalk. 
 William J. Malone, Bristol. 
 William T. Marsh, Litchfield. 
 Samuel N. Morgan, Colchester. 
 J. Edward Newton, Durham. 
 Matthew O'Brien, Norfolk. 
 William Oliver, Cornwall. 
 William E. Page, Kent. 
 Charles J. Parsons, E. Windsor. 
 Charles H. Peck, Stratford. 
 Charles A. Perkins, Lebanon. 
 Sidney S. Piatt, Southbury. 
 David M. Plumb, Prospect. 
 Henry A. Pratt, Essex. 
 Frederick H. Quintard, Norwalk. 
 Edward P. Rice, Granby. 
 H. Richardson, N. Stonington. 
 Albert F. Rockwell, Bristol. 
 Michael F. Shea, Canterbury. 
 Ernest W. Smith, Hartford. 
 Frank C. Smith, Middletown. 
 Albert L. Sperry, Woodbridge. 
 John S. Sullivan, Bozrah. 
 George W. Thayer, Union. 
 Charles J. Thorp, Trumbull. 
 Charles H. Tibbits, Wallingford. 
 Ira D. Tucker, Simsbury. 
 Charles H. Weber, Vernon. 
 William C. Welton, Warren. 
 William W. Welton, Bridgewater. 
 Edgar M. Wheaton, Putnam. 
 Joseph F. Wooster, Goshen. 
 Nymphas M. Wright, Hartland. 
 Luther K. Zabriskie, Preston. 
 
 1909. 
 State Officer: 
 Matthew H. Rogers, Norwalk, 
 Secretary. 
 
 Senators : 
 Walter L. Goodwin, Hartford. 
 Charles J. Heineman, Meriden. 
 Flavel S. Luther, Hartford. 
 Albert W. Phillips, Derby. 
 Frank L. Stiles, North Haven. 
 
 Representatives : 
 Elmore S. Banks, Fairfield. 
 Joseph Barr, Suffield. 
 Frank H. Brown, No. Stonington. 
 Thomas E. Burroughs, Saybrook. 
 Charles P. Bushnell, Norwich. 
 F. Olin Chaffee, Woodstock. 
 Samuel R. Chidsey, East Haven. 
 Charles E. Curtiss, Simsbury. 
 Hiram Davis, Ridgefield. 
 
 H. S. Dormitzer, Woodbury. 
 Salvator D'Esopo, Hartford. 
 Cornelius R. Duffie, Morris. 
 Daniel P. Dunn, Windham. 
 Ambrose J. Fenn, Harwinton. 
 Robert M. Fenn, Middlebury. 
 John F. Fields, Bozrah. 
 George Forster, Vernon. 
 Arthur R. Gillette, Hebron. 
 Arthur T. Grosvenor, Pomfret. 
 John P. Grosvenor, Pomfret. 
 Abner P. Hayes, Waterbury. 
 Horace L. Hine, Cheshire. 
 Calvin B. Humphrey, Colebrook. 
 Aaron Johnson, Manchester. 
 Herbert C. Keech, Killingly. 
 David D. Kyle, New Milford. 
 Benedict E. Lyons, Thomaston. 
 Chester S. Maine, No. Stonington, 
 William J. Malone, Bristol. 
 Albert G. Martin, Stonington. 
 Lewis McLaughlin, Stafford. 
 Andrew G. Morse, Eastford. 
 Harry H. North, Goshen. 
 Charles B. Northrop, Ridgefield. 
 Wilbur F. Parker, Meriden. 
 John W. Payne, Griswold. 
 David M. Plumb, Prospect. 
 Robert L. Quinley, Stafford. 
 Frederick H. Quintard, Norwalk. 
 Melancthon Riddick, Woodstock. 
 Albert F. Rockwell, Bristol. 
 John H. Root, Norfolk. 
 Clifton D. Rosha, Bethany. 
 John W. Schumacher, Ansonia. 
 Charles W. Scovill, Haddam. 
 Gershom C Simpson, E. Haddam. 
 Frank C. Smith, Middletown. 
 Guilford Smith, Windham. 
 Edmund C. Spencer, Old Saybrook. 
 Charles H. Strong, Chatham. 
 J. White Sumner, Bolton. 
 James F. Thurston, Preston. 
 Lyman T. Tingier, Vernon. 
 Wilbur F. Tomlinson, Danbury. 
 Fred J. Vaill. Goshen. 
 Charles E. Williamson, Darien. 
 Roscoe H. Wright, Ashford. 
 
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 State Officers : 
 Costello Lippitt, Norwich, 
 
 Treasurer. 
 Matthew H. Rogers, Bridgeport,. 
 Secretary. 
 
 Senators : 
 George A. Hammond, Putnam. 
 Peter Lawlor, Waterbury. 
 Charles F. Mitchell, New Haven. 
 Wilbur F. Parker, Meriden. 
 William J. Pierce, Hartford. 
 Thomas J. Spellacy, Hartford. 
 
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Representatives : 
 
 John S. Addis, New Milford. 
 Elmore S. Banks, Fairfield. 
 Joseph Barr, Suffield. 
 Nathan P. Beardsley, Roxbury. 
 D. Frank Bedient, Ridgefield. 
 George E. Bidwell, East Granby. 
 Asa Brainard, Colchester. 
 Charles H. Calor, Plainville. 
 Joseph W. Chesebro, Stonington. 
 Samuel R. Chidsey, East Haven. 
 Stiles M. Clarke, Monroe. 
 Daniel P. Dunn, Windham. 
 Frederick G. Eberle, Hartford. 
 Joseph R. Ensign, Simsbury. 
 Charles W. Evarts, Milford. 
 John F. Fields, Bozrah. 
 Christian F. Fox, Meriden. 
 Edward A. Gaylord, Hartland. 
 Milo C. Griffin, Granby. 
 Chester Hart, Barkhamsted. 
 Aaron Johnson, Manchester. 
 George M. Keeler, Cheshire. 
 Daniel J. Kelley, Saybrook. 
 James E. Kelsey, Westbrook. 
 Winfield S. Kenyon, Woodstock. 
 Nathaniel L. Knowlton, Ashford. 
 Houston Landon, Old Saybrook. 
 Albert H. Lanphere, Waterford. 
 Ernest L. Latimer, Norwich. 
 Arthur R. McOrmond, Ansonia. 
 Joshua Meltzer, Bridgeport. 
 Sidney V. Osborn, Branford. 
 Hollis H. Palmer, Preston. 
 Charles H. Peck, Stratford. 
 Charles M. Perrin, Woodstock. 
 William H. Phillips. Hampton. 
 Burton D. Potter, Hamden. 
 Charles A. Proulx, Union. 
 John H. Reid, Bethel. 
 Frank S. Richmond, Thompson. 
 Samuel Russell, Jr., Middletown. 
 Thomas L. Shea, Woodbury. 
 George Simpson, Enfield. 
 Guilford Smith, Windham. 
 Arthur L. Spicer, Willington. 
 Andrew Steele, East Windsor. 
 Frank L. Stephens, N. Hartford. 
 John S. Sullivan, Bozrah. 
 D. Welton Thompson, Bethlehem. 
 William E. Thorns, Waterbury. 
 Lyman, T. Tingier, Vernon. 
 John M. Wadhams, Goshen. 
 Eugene G. Walker, Union. 
 Charles E. Williamson, Darien. 
 K. Herman Wollmann, Burlington. 
 J. M. Woodhouse, Wethersfield. 
 
 1913 
 
 State Officers : 
 Daniel P. Dunn, Windham, 
 
 Comptroller. 
 Lyman T. Tingier, Vernon, 
 
 Lieutenant-Governor. 
 
 Senators : 
 Edward B. Gaylord, Winchester. 
 George H. Johnson, Morris. 
 George M. Landers, New Britain. 
 Frederick M. McCarthy, Ansonia. 
 John F. McDonough, Naugatuck. 
 John .F. McGrath, Waterbury 
 Michael J. Quinn, New Haven. 
 John M. Wadhams, Goshen. 
 Joseph H. Whitcomb, Bridgeport. 
 
 Representatives : 
 John S. Addis, New Milford. 
 Amos H. Armington, Killingly. 
 Conrad G. Bacon, Middletown. 
 Walter M. Barnum, Kent. 
 Marshall Beach, Monroe. 
 D. Frank Bedient, Ridgefield. 
 Homer V. Beebe, Mansfield. 
 John M. Bessette, Brooklyn. 
 Edward Bragg, East Hartford. 
 William A. Bree, New Haven. 
 Frank H. Brown, No. Stonington. 
 Allen B. Burdick, Preston. 
 William A. Carroll, Norfolk. 
 Lyman P. Case, Winchester. 
 Joseph W. Chesebro, Stonington. 
 Charles O. Clark, Windsor. 
 Thomas H. Collins, Farmington. 
 George Cook, Goshen. 
 Richard F. Cuddihy, Derby. 
 William H. Dawley, Voluntown. 
 William T. Delaney, Norwich. 
 Edwin R. Dimock, Tolland. 
 Charles W. Evarts, Milford. 
 James E. Fagan, Bloomfield. 
 Isaac G. Geer, Ledyard. 
 Elmer E. Hall, Marlborough. 
 Franklyn P. Hayes, Bethlehem. 
 Thomas L. Haynes. Old Lyme. 
 Bernard E. Higgins, Torrington. 
 Thomas J. Hine, Ansonia. 
 Frederick W. Hoxie, Franklin. 
 Henry H. Hunt, Glastonbury. 
 Frederick C. Jones, S. Windsor. 
 Bernard A. Kelley, Ellington. 
 Timothy Kennedy, Windsor. 
 William F. Kirchberger, Morris. 
 Houston Landon, Old Saybrook. 
 Henry P. Lane, Barkhamsted. 
 Albert H. Lanphere, Waterford. 
 Lewis Latimer, Salem. 
 William H. Lewis, Westbrook. 
 James M. Lynch, Waterbury. 
 William M. Maltbie, Granby. 
 James R. May, New London. 
 John H. McMurray, Bridgeoort. 
 Prentiss W. Morse, Woodstock. 
 Charles F. Newton, Granby. 
 Herbert C. Nickerson, E. Haven. 
 Dennis O'Brien, Portland. 
 Arthur B. O'Keefe, Orange. 
 Charles W. Pierson, Lyme. 
 Joseph Plessis, Putnam. 
 
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Louis J. Pons, Roxbury. 
 Burton D. Potter, Hamden. 
 Albert E. Rathbone, Hebron. 
 Allen W. Rathbun, Groton. 
 Frank S. Richmond, Thompson. 
 Harry Rider, South Norwalk. 
 Lucius C. Ryce, West Hartford. 
 Hiram A. Smith, Colebrook. 
 Julius C. Stremlau, Meriden. 
 Edward B. Sullivan, Guilford. 
 William E. Thorns, Waterbury. 
 John W. Treadwell, Trumbull. 
 Eugene G. Walker, Union. 
 Lewis C. Wilcox, Guilford. 
 Edward R. Wooster, Bridgewater. 
 Eugene A. Wyant, Oxford. 
 
 1915 
 Senators : 
 
 S. Landon Alvord, Winchester. 
 Hubert E. Bishop, Norwalk. 
 William A. Bree, New Haven. 
 William H. Comley, Jr., Bridgeport. 
 Charles W. Evarts, Milford. 
 Charles J. Heineman, Meriden. 
 George W. Klett, New Britain. 
 William H. Lewis, Westbrook. 
 Thomas J. Molloy, Hartford. 
 Dwight W. Tuttle, East Haven. 
 John M. Wadhams, Goshen. 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 John S. Addis, New Milford. 
 Walter A. Allen, Willington. 
 William J. Atchison, Sherman. 
 Alfred B. Aubrey, Meriden. 
 Joseph D. Austin, Ledyard. 
 Harry E. Back, Killingly. 
 Oscar D. Baker, Ashford. 
 Earle A. Barker, Branford. 
 William J. Barker, Canterbury. 
 Harry R. Bartlett, Tolland. 
 John N. Brooks, Torrington. 
 Benjamin Brown, Norfolk. 
 Herbert A. Chittenden, Granby. 
 Edgar T. Clark, Milford. 
 John M. Claxton, Torrington. 
 Charles T. Crandall, Groton. 
 Harry N. Curtiss, Simsbury. 
 Tyler D. Davidson, Bethanv. 
 William M. Foord, Stamford. 
 George B. French, Essex. 
 William J. Galvin, Hartford 
 Joseph H. Glasson, Bristol. 
 Lyle C. Gray, No. Stonington. 
 Roger M. Griswold, Berlin. 
 Burton E. Hoskins, Barkhamsted. 
 George C. Hosford, Thomaston. 
 Ernest M. Howard, Bolton. 
 Jesse A. James, Newtown. 
 Charles H. Kenyon, Groton. 
 Frederick E. Knapp, N. Fairfield. 
 Fred H. Lawton, Canton. 
 Clayton A. Lord, Hebron. 
 
 Charles J. Martin, Orange. 
 William B. Mitchell, Preston. 
 Herbert C. Nickerson, E. Haven. 
 Dennis O'Brien, Portland. 
 Charles T. Osborn, Hartland. 
 Sidney V. Osborn, Branford. 
 William E. Page, Kent. 
 Clayton E. Peck, Cheshire. 
 Harley Perkins, Warren. 
 James H. Perry, Ridgefield. 
 Charles W. Pierson, Lyme. 
 William N. Pinney, Ellington. 
 Joseph Plessis, Putnam. 
 William F. Quigg, Chatham. 
 Frederick A. Rathbun, Hebron. 
 Lee F. Revere, North Branford. 
 Benjamin R. Ritch, Woodstock. 
 J. Frank Rogers, Salem. 
 Winfield S. Rogers, Litchfield. 
 Frederick P. Sherman, Monroe. 
 Francis S. Skiff, Canaan. 
 Edmund C. Spencer, Old Saybrook. 
 Edward J. Stanford, New Haven. 
 Andrew Steele, East Windsor. 
 John W. Treadwell, Trumbull. 
 Tressillian G. Tucker, Columbia. 
 Daniel W. Williams, Colchester. 
 Charles E. Williamson, Darien. 
 Ralph K. Woodward, Sharon. 
 Alfred H. Wright, Goshen. 
 
 1917 
 
 Senators : 
 John N. Brooks, Torrington. 
 John Y. Caldwell, Bridgeport. 
 Frank H. Hinckley, Stonington. 
 Henry H. Hunt, Glastonbury. 
 George W. Klett, New Britain. 
 James R. May, New London. 
 William F. Quigg, East Hampton. 
 Charles E. Williamson, Ds^^ 
 
 Representatives : 
 
 Harry E. Back, Killingly. 
 Earle A. Barker, Branford. 
 David L. Brockett, Suffield. 
 Edward O. Buck, Wethersfield. 
 John J. Burke, East Hartford. 
 Charles H. Camp, Brookfield. 
 John M. Claxton, 'Torrington. 
 Wallace S. Coker, East Haven. 
 Wilbur W. Cooper, Colebrook. 
 Frederic J. Corbett, Hartford. 
 Richard Covert, New Britain. 
 Henry P. Crawford, Greenwich. 
 Jesse Dearden, Tolland. 
 Fred. H. Dunham, E. Hampton. 
 Frank P. Fenton, Windham. 
 William M. Foord, Litchfield. 
 Walter L. Frazier, Barkhamsted. 
 Addison E. Frink, Andover. 
 Charles S. Gates, Old Saybrook. 
 Joseph H. Glasson, Bristol. 
 Frederick W. Goodrich, Portland. 
 
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Bert C. Hallock, Mansfield. 
 Edward W. Hazen, Haddam. 
 Thomas H. Holian, Newtown. 
 Arthur M. Keefe, Hebron. 
 R. Leland Keeney, Somers. 
 Frederick E. Knapp, N. Fairfield. 
 James E. A. Knowlton, Ashford. 
 Horace G. Lewis, No. Stonington. 
 John L. Mahoney, Oxford. 
 Wm. E. Markham, E. Hampton. 
 Patrick A. Marren, Derby. 
 Charles J. Martin, Orange. 
 Henry Martin, Tolland. 
 John O. Northway. Colebrook. 
 Sidney V. Osborn, Branford. 
 Ernest L. Palmer, East Granby. 
 
 Eli S. Roberts, Bridgewater. 
 Carl H. Rogers, Salem. 
 Charles B. Russ, Chaplin. 
 Frederick P. Sherman, Monroe. 
 George H. Stone, N. Stonington. 
 George A. Sullivan, Guilford. 
 Charles T. Swanson, Cornwall. 
 Carlyle C. Thomson, W. Hartford. 
 George R. Towne, Union. 
 Lester F. Turney, Windsor. 
 Eli Wakeman, Weston. 
 Thomas Walker, Southington. 
 George Weigold, Torrington. 
 Hiram B. West, Norwalk. 
 Charles H. Williams, Plainfield. 
 William M. Wooding, Bethany. 
 
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APPENDIX. 
 
 LENGTH OF SESSIONS OF THE 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 Since the operation of the amendment to the Constitution of 1884 providing 
 for biennial sessions, the General Assembly has convened and adjourned as 
 follows : 
 
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 1887 
 
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 5th 
 
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 irned 
 
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 Adjourned 
 
 June 
 
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 Adjourned 
 
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 (Special 
 
 Session) 
 
 
 
 Adjou 
 
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 8th, 
 
 1919. 
 
 1919 " January 8th 
 
 Under the provisions of Article XXXV of the Constitution, adopted 191 1- 
 1912: "The General Assembly shall adjourn sine die not later than the first 
 Wednesday after the first Monday in June following its organization." 
 
 LEGAL HOLIDAYS IN CONNECTICUT 
 
 New Year's Day January first 
 
 Lincoln Day, February twelfth 
 
 Washington's Birthday, February twenty-second 
 
 Memorial Day, May thirtieth 
 
 Independence Day, July fourth 
 
 Labor Day, First Monday of September 
 
 Columbus Day, October twelfth 
 
 Christmas Day December twenty-fifth 
 
 And the day designated by the Governor as a day of Fasting and Prayer, 
 customarily Good Friday; and the day designated by the Governor as a day of 
 Thanksgiving, customarily the last Thursday of November. 
 
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CONNECTICUT TOWNS IN THE ORDER OF THEIR 
 
 ESTABLISHMENT SINCE 1819; WITH THE 
 
 ORIGIN OF THEIR NAMES. 
 
 Salem, named from Salem, Mass., and inc. as New Salem, from Colchester, Lyme 
 
 and Montville, May, 1819. 
 Darien, inc. from Stamford, May, 1820, and named from the Isthmus of Darien. 
 Bridgeport, name descriptive, 1800; inc. from Fairfield and Stratford May, 1821. 
 Chaplin, society, named 1809 from its deacon, Benj. Chaplin; inc. from Mansfield 
 
 and Hampton, May, 1822. 
 Orange, inc. from Milford and New Haven, May, 1822, and named from Wm. of 
 
 Orange (III. of Eng.). 
 Manchester, inc. from East Hartford, May, 1823, and named from Manchester, 
 
 Eng. because of manufacturing. 
 Monroe, inc. from Huntington May, 1823, and named from Pres. James Monroe. 
 Madison, inc. from Guilford May, 1826, and named from Pres. James Madison. 
 Prospect, inc. from Cheshire and Waterbury, May, 1827; named as fine lookout 
 
 place. 
 Avon, inc. from Farmington May, 1830, and named from Avon river at Strat- 
 
 ford-on-Avon. 
 North Branford, Named as society, 1768; inc. from Branford, May, 1831. 
 Bethany, named as parish, 1762; Heb. = house of dates; inc. from Woodbridge 
 
 May, 1832. 
 Bloomfield, inc. from Windsor, Farmington and Simsbury, 1835 ; named from 
 
 a Hartford family. 
 Westport, inc. from Fairfield, Norwalk and Weston May, 1835 J name descriptive. 
 Chester, parish 1640; named from Chester in Cheshire; inc. from Saybrook 
 
 May, 1836. 
 Ledyard, inc. from Groton May, 1836; named from Col. Wm. Ledyard, com- 
 mander at Fort Griswold, Groton, 1781. 
 Clinton, inc. from Killingworth May, 1838, and named from Gov. Dewitt Clinton 
 
 of N. Y. 
 East Lyme, named 1816; inc. from Lyme and Waterford May, 1839. 
 Westbrook, parish named 1810 as west parish of Saybrook; inc. from Saybrook, 
 
 May, 1840. 
 Portland, inc. from Chatham May, 1841, and named from Portland, Dorsetshire, 
 
 famed for quarries. 
 Rocky Hill, name given Stepney parish from a hill in it, 1826; inc. from Wethers- 
 field May, 1843. 
 Naugatuck, inc. from Bethany, Oxford and Waterbury May, 1844; Algonkin 
 
 name = one tree. 
 Easton, inc. from Weston May, 1845; named as east part of Weston. 
 South Windsor, inc. and named from East Windsor, May, 1845. 
 Eastford, named as east parish of Ashford, 1777; inc. from Ashford May, 1847. 
 Andover, parish named 1747, perhaps from Andover, Mass. ; inc. from Coventry 
 
 & Hebron, May, 1848. 
 New Britain, parish named 1754 from (Great) Britain ; inc. from Berlin May, 
 
 1850. 
 
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Seymour, inc. from Derby May, 1850, and named from Gov. Thomas H. Sey- 
 mour. 
 
 Cromwell, inc. from Middletown May, 1851, and named from Oliver Cromwell. 
 
 Old Saybrook, inc. from Saybrook May, 1852, and named at the same time. 
 
 Essex, parish named 1820 ; named from Essex, England ; inc. from Old Saybrook, 
 May, 1854. 
 
 West Hartford, named 1806; inc. from Hartford May, 1854. 
 
 Windsor Locks, named 1833 from canal locks there; inc. from Windsor, May, 
 1854. 
 
 Bethel, named 1759; Hebrew = house of God; inc. from Danbury May, 1855. 
 
 Old Lyme, inc. as South Lyme, from Lyme, 1855 ; named Old Lyme, 1857. 
 
 Putnam, inc. from Pomf ret, Thompson & Killingly May, 1855 ; named from 
 Israel Putnam. 
 
 Bridgewater, named 1803; name descriptive; inc. from New Milford May, 1856. 
 
 Scotland, parish named by first settler, Magoon, a Scot, 1706; inc. from Wind- 
 ham May, 1857. 
 
 East Granby, named 1822; inc. from Granby and Windsor Locks June, 1858. 
 
 North Canaan, named 1813; inc. from Canaan (whence its name) May, 1858. 
 
 Morris, inc. from Litchfield May, 1859, and named from James Morris, prom- 
 inent resident. 
 
 Sprague, inc. from Lisbon and Franklin May, 1861, and named from W. Sprague, 
 village founder. 
 
 Middlefield, named 1744 from rural part of Middletown ; inc. from Middletown, 
 May, 1866. 
 
 Plainville, named 1831 = earlier name "Great Plain;" inc. from Farmington 
 May, 1869. 
 
 Beacon Falls, name descriptive, 1856; inc. from Bethany, Oxford, Naugatuck and 
 Seymour May, 1871. 
 
 Newington, parish named 1718, from Newington in Surrey or Stoke-N., Middle- 
 sex (London), inc. from Wethersfield, July, 1871. 
 
 Thomaston, inc. from Plymouth May, 1875; named 1866 from Seth Thomas, 
 clock mfr. there. 
 
 Ansonia, inc., from Derby, April, 1889; named from Anson G. Phelps, founder 
 of mfg. village. 
 
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CITIES IN CONNECTICUT WITH DATE OF 
 INCORPORATION. 
 
 New Haven, 
 
 New Haven County, 
 
 January session, 
 
 1784 
 
 New London, 
 
 New London 
 
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 1784 
 
 Hartford, 
 
 Hartford 
 
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 May session, 
 
 1784 
 
 Middletown, 
 
 Middlesex 
 
 tt 
 
 (< 
 
 1784 
 
 Norwich, 
 
 New London 
 
 u 
 
 " 
 
 1784 
 
 Bridgeport, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 tt 
 
 « 
 
 1836 
 
 Waterbury, 
 
 New Haven 
 
 " 
 
 -«< 
 
 1853 
 
 Meriden, 
 
 M 
 
 tt 
 
 << 
 
 1867 
 
 New Britain, 
 
 Hartford 
 
 <( 
 
 <( 
 
 1870 
 
 Danbury, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 tt 
 
 January session, 
 
 1889 
 
 Rockville (Vernon), 
 
 Tolland 
 
 tt 
 
 " 
 
 1889 
 
 Ansonia, 
 
 New Haven 
 
 " 
 
 u 
 
 1893 
 
 Derby, 
 
 <« 
 
 (( 
 
 tt 
 
 1893 
 
 Nor walk, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 " 
 
 " 
 
 1893 
 
 Stamford, 
 
 " 
 
 tt 
 
 it 
 
 1893 
 
 Willimantic (Windham), 
 
 Windham 
 
 It 
 
 tt 
 
 1893 
 
 Putnam, 
 
 <« 
 
 (( 
 
 " 
 
 1895 
 
 Bristol, 
 
 Hartford 
 
 " 
 
 tt 
 
 1911 
 
 Shelton (Huntington), 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 tt 
 
 (( 
 
 1915 
 
 Winsted, 
 
 Litchfield County, named 
 
 January session, 
 
 1917 
 
 BOROUGHS IN CONNECTICUT WITH DATE OF 
 INCORPORATION. 
 
 Stonington, 
 
 New London County, 
 
 May session, 
 
 1 801 
 
 Guilford, 
 
 New Haven 
 
 << 
 
 October session, 
 
 1815 
 
 Newtown, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 " 
 
 May session, 
 
 1824 
 
 Colchester, 
 
 New London 
 
 tt 
 
 «< 
 
 1846 
 
 Wallingford, 
 
 New Haven 
 
 " 
 
 «< 
 
 1853 
 
 Danielson (Killingly), 
 
 Windham 
 
 " 
 
 << 
 
 1854 
 
 Greenwich, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 " 
 
 tt 
 
 1854 
 
 Fair Haven East (New Haven) 
 
 New Haven 
 
 it 
 
 « 
 
 1872 
 
 Stafford Springs (Stafford), 
 
 Tolland 
 
 «« 
 
 " 
 
 1873 
 
 Litchfield, 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 IS 
 
 January session, 
 
 1879 
 
 Torrington, 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 (( 
 
 " 
 
 1887 
 
 New Canaan, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 " 
 
 <( 
 
 1889 
 
 Southington, 
 
 Hartford 
 
 " 
 
 11 
 
 1889 
 
 Branford, 
 
 New Haven 
 
 " 
 
 «< 
 
 1893 
 
 Naugatuck, 
 
 New Haven 
 
 11 
 
 u 
 
 1893 
 
 Jewett City (Griswold), 
 
 New London 
 
 u 
 
 <« 
 
 1895 
 
 Fenwick (Old Saybrook), 
 
 Middlesex 
 
 (« 
 
 << 
 
 1899 
 
 Farrrrington, 
 
 Hartford 
 
 «« 
 
 tt 
 
 1901 
 
 Ridgefield, 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 M 
 
 tt 
 
 1901 
 
 Groton, 
 
 New London 
 
 (( 
 
 It 
 
 1903 
 
 Woodmont (Milford), 
 
 New Haven 
 
 «« 
 
 tt 
 
 1903 
 
 Bantam (Litchfield), 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 «« 
 
 tt 
 
 1915 
 
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CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS 
 
 With Population in 1910. 
 
 1st. County of Hartford — 250,182. 
 
 2d. Counties of Tolland, Windham, New London, and Middlesex — 211,710. 
 
 3d. Towns of Cheshire, Meriden, Wallingford, Bethany, Hamden, North 
 Haven, North Branford, Guilford, Madison, Woodbridge, Orange, Milford, New 
 Haven, East Haven, and Branford — 217,139. 
 
 4th. County of Fairfield — 245,322. 
 
 5th. County of Litchfield and the towns of Southbury, Middlebury, Water- 
 bury, Wolcott, Oxford, Naugatuck, Prospect, Beacon Falls, Seymour, Ansonia 
 and Derby — 190,403. 
 
 SENATORIAL DISTRICTS 
 
 With Population in 1910. 
 
 1. Hartford, wards 8, 9, and 10 — 31,309. 
 
 2. Hartford, wards 3, 4, 5, and 6 — 34,596. 
 
 3. Hartford, wards 1, 2 and 7 — 33,010. 
 
 4. East Hartford, Glastonbury, Manchester, Marlborough, Newington, South 
 Windsor, Rocky Hill, and Wethersfield — 35,152. 
 
 5. Avon, Berlin, Bristol, Burlington, Farmington, Plainville, Southington, 
 and West Hartford — 37,570. 
 
 6. New Britain — 43,916. 
 
 7. Bloomfield, Canton, East Granby, East Windsor, Enfield, Granby, Hart- 
 land, Simsbury, Suffield, Windsor, and Windsor Locks — 34,629. 
 
 8. New Haven, wards 8, 9, 12, and 14 — 38,914. 
 
 9. New Haven, wards 1, 2, 10, and 13 — 27,151. 
 10. New Haven, wards 3, 4, and 5 — 38,987- 
 ti. New Haven, wards 6, 7, 11, and 15 — 28,553. 
 
 12. Branford, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Madison, North Branford, 
 North Haven, and Wallingford — 32,469. 
 
 13. Meriden — 32,066. 
 
 14. Bethany, Cheshire, Milford, Naugatuck, Orange, Prospect, Woodbridge, 
 and Wolcott — 32,823. 
 
 15. Waterbury, wards 1, 2, and 3 — 44,176. 
 
 16. Waterbury, wards 4 and 5 — 28,965. 
 
 17. Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Derby, Middlebury, Oxford, Seymour, and South- 
 bury— 33,178. 
 
 18. Groton and New London — 26,154. 
 
 19. Ledyard, Norwich, and Preston — 31,215. 
 
 20. Bozrah, Colchester, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Lyme, Lebanon, Lis- 
 bon, Montville, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Salem, Sprague, Stonington, Vol- 
 untown, and Waterford — 33,884. 
 
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21. Bridgeport, voting districts, I, 2, 3, 4, and 5 — 37,411. 
 
 22. Bridgeport, voting districts, 6, 7, 8, and 11 — 29,376. 
 
 23. Bridgeport, voting districts, 9, 10, and 12 — 35,267. 
 
 24. Bethel, Brookfield, Danbury, New Fairfield, Redding, Ridgefield, and 
 Sherman — 34,250. 
 
 25. Easton, Fairfield, Huntington, Monroe, Newtown, Stratford, Trumbull, 
 Weston, and Westport — 30,189. 
 
 26. Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, and Norwalk — 33,530. 
 2y. Greenwich and Stamford — 45,299. 
 
 28. Ashford, Eastford, Killingly, Putnam, Thompson, and Woodstock — 21,678, 
 
 29. Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Hampton, Plainfield, Pomfret, Scotland, 
 Sterling, and Windham — 26,683. 
 
 30. Goshen, Harwinton, Litchfield, New Hartford, and Torrington — 24,104. 
 
 31. Barkhamsted, Canaan, Colebrook, Cornwall, Kent, Norfolk, North 
 Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, and Winchester — 22,055. 
 
 32. Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Morris, New Milford, Plymouth, Roxbury, 
 Thomaston, Warren, Washington, Watertown, and Woodbury — 24,101. 
 
 33. Cromwell, Middlefield, and Middletown — 23,973. 
 
 34. Chester, Clinton, Durham, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, 
 Killingworth, Old Saybrook, Portland, Saybrook, and Westbrook — 21,664. 
 
 35. Andover, Bolton, Columbia, Coventry, Ellington, Hebron, Mansfield, 
 Somers, Stafford, Tolland, Union, Vernon, and Willington — 26,459. 
 
 REPRESENTATION IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 There are 168 towns in the state — 
 each, making 258 members of the Ho 
 atorial Districts; and the State into 5 
 
 Hartford County has 
 
 New Haven County has 
 
 New London County has 
 
 Fairfield County has 
 
 Windham County has 
 
 Litchfield County has 
 
 Middlesex County has 
 
 Tolland County has 
 
 -90 send two representatives, and 78 one 
 use ; these towns are divided into 35 Sen- 
 Congressional Districts. 
 
 7 Senators and 45 Representatives. 
 
 10 Senators and 39 Representatives. 
 
 3 Senators and 30 Representatives. 
 
 7 Senators and 34 Representatives. 
 
 2 Senators and 24 Representatives. 
 
 3 Senators and 42 Representatives. 
 2 Senators and 22 Representatives. 
 1 Senator and 22 Representatives. 
 
 POPULATION OF CONNECTICUT BY COUNTIES, 
 
 1910. 
 
 Hartford, 
 New Haven, 
 New London, 
 Fairfield, 
 
 Total for the State, 
 
 250,182 
 
 Windham, 
 
 337,282 
 
 Litchfield, 
 
 91,253 
 
 Middlesex, 
 
 245.322 
 
 Tolland, 
 
 181 
 
 48,361 
 70,260 
 45,637 
 26,459 
 
 1,114,756 
 
THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES. 
 
 The Thirteen Original States. 
 
 Ratified the c««— . Ratified the 
 
 States. SS3SE States 
 
 Constitution. oxai«.». Constitution. 
 
 Delaware Dec. 7, 1787 South Carolina May 23, 1788 
 
 Pennsylvania Dec. 12, 1787 New Hampshire June 21, 1788 
 
 New Jersey Dec. 18, 1787 Virginia June 25, 1788 
 
 Georgia Jan. 2, 1788 New York July 26, 1788 
 
 Connecticut Jan. 9, 1788 North Carolina Nov. 21, 1789 
 
 Massachusetts Feb. 6, 1788 Rhode Island May 29, 1790 
 
 Maryland 
 
 . . . .Apr. 28, 
 
 1788 
 
 
 
 
 
 Organization 
 
 of Territories and Admission of States 
 
 into the U 
 
 nion. 
 
 
 States. 
 
 
 Territory 
 
 organized. 
 
 
 State 
 admitted. 
 
 Vermont Out of New Hampshire and New York Mar. 4, 1791 
 
 Kentucky Out of Virginia June 1, 1792 
 
 Tennessee Out of North Carolina June 1, 1796 
 
 Ohio Ordinance, 1787 Nov. 29, 1802 
 
 Louisiana March 3, 1805 April 30, 1812 
 
 Indiana May 7, 1800 Dec. 11, 1816 
 
 Mississippi April 7, 1798 Dec. 10, 1817 
 
 Illinois February 3, 1809 Dec. 3, 1818 
 
 Alabama March 3, 1817 Dec. 14, 1819 
 
 Maine Out of Massachusetts Mar. 15, 182a 
 
 Missouri June 4, 1812 Aug. 10, 1821 
 
 Michigan January 1 1, 1805 June 15, 1837 
 
 Arkansas March 2, 1819 Jan. 26, 1836 
 
 Florida March 30, 1822 Mar. 3, 1845 
 
 Texas Annexed Dec. 29, 1845 
 
 Iowa June 12, 1838 Dec. 28, 1846 
 
 Wisconsin April 20, 1836 May 29, 1848 
 
 California From Mexico Sept. 9, 1850* 
 
 Minnesota March 3, 1849 , May 1 1, 1858 
 
 Oregon August 14, 1848 Feb. 14, 1859 
 
 Kansas May 30, 1854 Jan. 29, 1861 
 
 West Virginia Out of Virginia June 10, 1863 
 
 Nevada March 2, 1861 Oct 31,1864 
 
 Nebraska May 30, 1854 Mar. 1, 1867 
 
 Colorado February 28, 1861 Aug. 1, 1876 
 
 North Dakota March 2, 1861 Nov. 3,1889- 
 
 South Dakota March 2, 1861 Nov. 3, 1889 
 
 Montana May 26, 1864 Nov. 8, 1889 
 
 Washington March 2, 1853 Nov. 11, 1889 
 
 Idaho March 3, 1863 July 3, 1890 
 
 Wyoming July 25, 1868 July 11, 1890 
 
 Utah September 9, 1850 Jan. 4, 1896 
 
 Oklahoma May 2, 1890 Nov. 16, 1907 
 
 New Mexico September 9, 1850 Tan. 6, 1912 
 
 Arizona February 24, 1863 Feb. 14, 1912 
 
 Tekkxtokies. or ^ f n d T E RR iTO R rES. J^ 
 
 District of Columbia* l July 16,1790 Alaska July 27,1868 
 
 District ot Columbia J Mar 3I?Q1 Hawaii April 30) inoo> 
 
 New Possessions: A government for Porto Rico was established by the Fifty-sixth 
 Congress. The Phillippines are under a provisional civil government, Guam, Tutulia and the- 
 Isthmian Canal Zone under governors, all appointed by the President. 
 
 * Reduced from 100 to 70 square miles by recession of part of Virginia in 1846. 
 
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PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
 
 fel 
 
 ^ 5 
 
 Name. 
 
 Where from 
 
 Term of Office. 
 
 1789 George Washington, Virginia ...... .8 years. 
 
 1797 John Adams, Massachusetts, . . .4 years. 
 
 1801 Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, 8 years. 
 
 1809 James Madison, Virginia, 8 years. 
 
 1817 James Monroe, Virginia, 8 years. 
 
 1825 John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, ...4 years. 
 
 1829 Andrew Jackson, Tennessee, 8 years. 
 
 1837 Martin Van Buren, New York, 4 years. 
 
 1841 Wm. Henry Harrison,* Ohio, 1 month. 
 
 1841 John Tyler, Virginia, 3 years 11 months. 
 
 1845 James Knox Polk, Tennessee, 4 years. 
 
 1849 Zachary Taylor,f Louisiana, 1 year 4 mos. 5 days. 
 
 1850 Millard Fillmore, New York, 2 years, 7 mos. 26 days. 
 
 1853 Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire, .4 years. 
 
 1857 James Buchanan, Pennsylvania, 4 years. 
 
 1861 Abraham Lincoln,^ Illinois, 4 years 1 mo. 10 days. 
 
 1865 Andrew Johnson, Tennessee, 3 years 10 mo. 20 days. 
 
 1869 Ulysses S. Grant, Illinois, 8 years. 
 
 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes, Ohio, 4 years. 
 
 1881 James A. Garfield,|| Ohio, 6 mos. 15 days. 
 
 1881 Chester A. Arthur, New York, 3 years 5 mos. 15 days. 
 
 1885 Grover Cleveland, New York, 4 years. 
 
 1889 Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, 4 years. 
 
 1893 Grover Cleveland, New York, 4 years. 
 
 1897 William McKinley,ff Ohio, 4 years 6 mos. 9 days. 
 
 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, New York, 7 years 5 mos. 21 days. 
 
 1909 William H. Taft, Ohio, 4 years. 
 
 1913 Woodrow Wilson, New Jersey, 
 
 * Died in office April 4, 1841, and was succeeded by Vice-President Tyler. 
 
 t Died in office July 9, 1850, and was succeeded by Vice-President Fillmore. 
 
 t Assassinated April 14, 1865, and was succeeded by Vice-President Johnson, April 
 15 1865. 
 
 (I Died September 19, 1881, from wound by assassin, and was succeeded by Vice- 
 President Arthur. 
 
 1f Died September 14, 1901, from wound by assassin, and was succeeded by Vice- 
 President Roosevelt. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 Page 
 
 Preface 3 
 
 Introduction 5 
 
 Clerk's Report 9 
 
 Financial Statement 13 
 
 Resolutions of the General Assembly 15 
 
 Preliminary Work 20 
 
 General Legislative and County Reunions 23 
 
 Literary Exercises 29 
 
 Prayer — Rev. Charles H. Puffer 30 
 
 Address of Chairman — Senator Albert H. House 30 
 
 Address of Welcome — Governor Marcus H. Holcomb 31 
 
 Historical Address — Ex-Governor Simeon E. Baldwin 32 
 
 Poem, "The Spirit of Connecticut, 'The Constitution State'" — 
 
 Herbert Randall 39 
 
 Address, Capitals and State Houses of Connecticut " — Hon. Charles 
 
 Hopkins Clark 41 
 
 Address, " The Senate " — Hon. Clifford B. Wilson 49 
 
 Address, " The House " — Hon. James F. Walsh 53 
 
 Connecticut, " The Constitution State " 58 
 
 State Flag 59 
 
 Public Seal of Connecticut 60 
 
 Fundamental Orders, 1638-39 62 
 
 Charter of 1662 63 
 
 The Constitution of Connecticut 64 
 
 Oliver Wolcott — First Governor of Connecticut under the Present 
 
 Constitution 78 
 
 Biographical Sketches of the State Officers of Connecticut, Living 1919 . 80 
 
 Governors — Thomas M. Waller 80 
 
 Phineas C. Lounsbury 81 
 
 Morgan G. Bulkeley 81 
 
 O. Vincent Coffin 83 
 
 George P. McLean 84 
 
 Henry Roberts 85 
 
 Rollin S. Woodruff 86 
 
 Frank B. Weeks 87 
 
 Simeon E. Baldwin 88 
 
 Marcus H. Holcomb 9* 
 
 185 
 
Page 
 
 Lieutenant-Governors — Lyman A. Mills 92 
 
 Edwin O. Keeler 93 
 
 Henry Roberts 85 
 
 Rollin S. Woodruff 86 
 
 Everett J. Lake 93 
 
 Frank B. Weeks 87 
 
 Dennis A. Blakeslee 94 
 
 Lyman T. Tingier 95 
 
 Clifford B. Wilson 95 
 
 Secretaries — Thomas M. Waller 80 
 
 Charles E. Searls : 96 
 
 John J. Phelan 97 
 
 Charles Phelps 98 
 
 Charles G. R. Vinal 98 
 
 Theodore Bodenwein 99 
 
 Matthew H. Rogers 99 
 
 Albert Phillips 100 
 
 Charles D. Barnes 100 
 
 Frederick . L. Perry 101 
 
 Treasurers — E. Stevens Henry 101 
 
 Charles W. Grosvenor 102 
 
 Henry H. Gallup . 102 
 
 James F. Walsh 103 
 
 Freeman F. Patten '. 103 
 
 Costello Lippitt 104 
 
 Edward S. Roberts 104 
 
 Frederick S. Chamberlain 104 
 
 G. Harold Gilpatric •. 105 
 
 Comptroller — Frank D. Sloat 106 
 
 Asahel W. Mitchell 107 
 
 Daniel P. Dunn 107 
 
 Morris C. Webster 107 
 
 Attorneys-General — Charles Phelps 9$ 
 
 William A. King 108 
 
 Marcus H. Holcomb 91 
 
 John H. Light 109 
 
 George E. Hinman 109 
 
 Frank E. Healy no 
 
 Oldest Living Legislators in 
 
 Chester R. Woodford 113 
 
 Albert L. Hodge 114 
 
 Connecticut State Government, 1919 116 
 
 Military Department, 1919 "7 
 
 United States Senators and Representatives from Connecticut 
 
 since 1819 and their term of service 118 
 
 State Officers of Connecticut since 1819, and their term of office 121 
 
 186 
 
Page 
 
 Speakers of the House of Representatives of Connecticut, 1819 to 1919 . . 126 
 Members and Officers of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut : 
 
 Session of 1818 128 
 
 Session of 1819 132 
 
 Session of 1919 137 
 
 Delegates and Officers to the Constitutional Convention of the State 
 
 of Connecticut of 1902 135 
 
 Names of those Present at the General Assembly Centennial, May 7, 1919 149 
 
 Names of those not Present at the General Assembly Centennial 165 
 
 Length of Sessions of the General Assembly 176 
 
 Legal Holidays in Connecticut 176 
 
 Connecticut Towns in the Order of their Establishment Since 1819; 
 
 with the origin of their names 177 
 
 Cities in Connecticut with Date of Incorporation 179 
 
 Boroughs in Connecticut with Date of Incorporation 179 
 
 Congressional Districts of Connecticut 180 
 
 Senatorial Districts of Connecticut 180 
 
 Representation in the General Assembly 181 
 
 Population of Connecticut by Counties, 1910 181 
 
 The United States and Territories 182 
 
 The Thirteen Original States 182 
 
 Organization of Territories and Admission of States into the Union 182 
 
 Presidents of the United States and terms of office 183 
 
 187 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
 
 Page- 
 Connecticut's Three Great War Governors Frontispiece 
 
 Invitation to the Centennial Facing Page 20 
 
 Official Program of the Centennial 22 
 
 Governor Marcus H. Holcomb 31 
 
 Charter of 1662, Constitution of 1818 and Stuart's Portrait of 
 
 Washington, in Memorial Hall, State Library 32 
 
 Old State Houses of Connecticut 41 
 
 Senate of the State of Connecticut, Session of 1919 49 
 
 Old Charter Oak and Charter Oak Chair 49. 
 
 House of Representatives of Connecticut, Session of 1919 53 
 
 Evolution of the Public Seal of Connecticut 58 
 
 Oliver Wolcott — First Governor of Connecticut under the Pre- 
 sent Constitution 78 
 
 Group Portrait of Governors, Living 1919 80 
 
 Group Portrait of Lieutenant-Governors, Living 1919 92 
 
 Group Portrait of Secretaries, Living 1919 96 
 
 Group Portrait of Treasurers, Living 1919 101 
 
 Group Portrait of Comptrollers, Living 19 19 , 108 
 
 Group Portrait of Attorneys-General, Living 1919 108 
 
 Group Portrait of Oldest Living Legislators : — 
 
 Chester R. Woodford and Albert L. Hodge, with Loving Cups ... in 
 Group Portrait of Speakers of the House of Representatives of 
 
 Connecticut, Living 1919 126 
 
 Group Portrait of the Officers of the Senate and House of 1919 137 
 
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