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Prepared for college at Durham Academy; entered
Wesleyan in 1861; was compelled by ill health to leave, and entered again with
the Class of '66; again left because of ill health; finally graduated in
1870. Immediately after entered Yale Law School, taking the common law and
civil law prizes for best essay, and has since practiced law in New Haven.
Has had fair success as a lawyer. Had an unusually large number of
cases in the Court of Appeals for Connecticut; was recently counsel for Wm.
Jennings Bryan in the Bennett will case. Author of the treatise on Probate
Law in the Civil Officer, and the article on Bankruptcy in the last
Encyclopędia Britannica.
In 1885, was a member of the General Assembly from Durham, and House Chairman
of the Judiciary Committee. In 1895, a member from New Haven, and House
Chairman of the Committee on Humane Institutions.
Has been Referee in Bankruptcy for New Haven county since the passage of the
bankruptcy law of 1898; is director in the Yale National Bank of New Haven
and trustee of the Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank of Middletown; a member
of the sons of the American Revolution and Sons of Colonial Wars.
Has always been a Congregationalist. Has remained a member of the First
Church in Durham, where his forefathers worshipped for two hundred years;
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the City Missionary Association of New
Haven since its organization; Chairman of the Committee on Sunday Law and Moral
Legislation of the General Conference for Connecticut since the establishment of
such committee.
Descended from Roger Newton, the first minister of Farmington, Conn., and
second of Milford, Conn., who before the days of the theological schools,
prepared young men for the ministry, among others the first President of Yale
College; from Thomas Hooker, first minister of Hartford, Conn.; from thirteen of
those whose names are on the memorial bridge in Milford, Conn.; from Capt.
Samuel Newton, an officer in King Philip's War; from Thomas Wells, who was First
Treasurer and Third Governor of the Colony of Hartford; from Nathaniel Sutliff,
who was burned by the Indians at Deerfield, and many others noted in early
history, as are most men of New England descent.
Married, Sept. 11, 1885, Miss Sarah Allen Baldwin, of Cromwell, Conn., a
graduate of the New York Medical College for Women.
No children.
Address: 818 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
Source: History of Class
of 1865 Wesleyan University, Fortieth Reunion, Middletown
Connecticut, June 27, 1905.
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