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Title: Evening post annual, Biographical sketches (with portraits) of the state officers, representatives in Congress, governor's staff, and senators and members of the General assembly of the state of Connecticut
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Evening Post Association
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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—French of Hartland.211—Piatt of Easton.212—Mix of West Hartford.213—Clark of Woodbridge.214—Shannon of Bridgewater.215—Purple of Chatham.216—Reed of Sharon.217—Bryant of Harwinton.218—Oldfield of Cornwall.219—Tuttle of Wolcott.220—Peck of Old Lyme.221-Nickerson of Redding.222—Stone of New Milford.223—Atwell of Durham.224—Johnson of Bethany.225—Tiffany of Barkhamsted.226—Parsons of East Windsor.227—Russell of Woodbury.228—Beers of Cornwall.229—Hutchinson of Hebron.230—Clark of East Granby.231—Gager of Somers.232—Carroll of Middletown.233—Cox of Brooklyn.234—Norton of Colchester.235—Hall of Voluntown.236—Spurr of Salisbury.237—Hawley of Huntington.238—Cornwall of Cheshire.239—Bennett of Canterbury.240-Vacant.241—Hull of Monroe.242—Benjamin of Preston.243—Usher of Plainville.244—Vacant.245—Griggs of Chaplin.246—Linsley of Branford.247—Hoyle of Willington.248—Griswold of Killingworth249—Douglass of Salem.Speaker.
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Hon. HENKV B. EAKRISON (JOVKRNOK. Henry Baldwin Harrison was born at NewHaven, September 11, 1821, and is therefore inhis 64th year. He studied at John E. LovelFsLancasterian school in New Haven, and, whiletaking the academic course at Yale, was Mr.Lovells assistant. Notwithstanding this doublestrain he was valedictorian of his class—that of1846. He fitted himself for the profession of lawand began practice with Lucius G. Peck, a prom-inent Whig. Mr. Harrison was an ardentHenry Clay Whig. In 1854 he was Domi-nated by the Whigs for Senator in the FourthDistrict and elected by a vote oi 2,597, against1,718 for Charles Atwater, Jr., Democrat. 1 ledrafted the personal-liberty bill, and realty nulli-tied the fugitive-slave law, which bad been soprolific of perjury. By this the penalty tor evenpretending that a free person was a Blave was fixed at $5,000 fine and ti\ • * • a stalPerjurers were similarly provided for, and strongprovisions were inserted to secure t!ment of the law. Open

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