Obituary:
Oliver Ellsworth Williams, who died on Saturday last, aged 74, was well-known to all our old citizens. He was born on State street, in a house which stood where the old Aetna Insurance block now stands. When he was a boy, his father build the house on Lord's Hill, where the colonel has dwelt for more than a half a century. He graduated at Yale college in 1816, studied law, and was getting quite a good practice, when he suffered himself to be beguiled into politics. He edited the Connecticut Mirror (published weekly by P.B. Goodsell, Esq., of this city) and was associated with such men as Brainard, the poet; Jonathan Edwards, late mayor of Troy; Prentice of the Louisville Journal; Whiting, Wells, the Terrys, etc., a lively set in those days, but now mostly gone. He distinctly remembered his grandfather, Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, who died in 1870 [sic]; and had seen and conversed with almost all the notable men from that day to this. He had various law suits in Massachusetts, which brought him in frequent contact with the Massachusetts bar. He was quartermaster of this state for a period, and in this way got his universally-conceded title of "colonel." He was one of the best-hearted men that ever lived. His genial and hospitable disposition; his scorn of sanctity or meanness; the unaffected kindness of his sympathy; and the breadth and manliness of his nature, won the love of all who really knew him. The funeral is to be to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 5 o'clock from his late residence.
- Hartford Daily Courant, June 20, 1870, p. 2
He was Quartermaster General of the State of Connecticut from 1838 to 1842. He married Elizabeth Baker Croade in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1819.
Oliver Ellsworth Williams, who died on Saturday last, aged 74, was well-known to all our old citizens. He was born on State street, in a house which stood where the old Aetna Insurance block now stands. When he was a boy, his father build the house on Lord's Hill, where the colonel has dwelt for more than a half a century. He graduated at Yale college in 1816, studied law, and was getting quite a good practice, when he suffered himself to be beguiled into politics. He edited the Connecticut Mirror (published weekly by P.B. Goodsell, Esq., of this city) and was associated with such men as Brainard, the poet; Jonathan Edwards, late mayor of Troy; Prentice of the Louisville Journal; Whiting, Wells, the Terrys, etc., a lively set in those days, but now mostly gone. He distinctly remembered his grandfather, Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, who died in 1870 [sic]; and had seen and conversed with almost all the notable men from that day to this. He had various law suits in Massachusetts, which brought him in frequent contact with the Massachusetts bar. He was quartermaster of this state for a period, and in this way got his universally-conceded title of "colonel." He was one of the best-hearted men that ever lived. His genial and hospitable disposition; his scorn of sanctity or meanness; the unaffected kindness of his sympathy; and the breadth and manliness of his nature, won the love of all who really knew him. The funeral is to be to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 5 o'clock from his late residence.
- Hartford Daily Courant, June 20, 1870, p. 2
He was Quartermaster General of the State of Connecticut from 1838 to 1842. He married Elizabeth Baker Croade in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1819.
Obituary:
Oliver Ellsworth Williams, who died on Saturday last, aged 74, was well-known to all our old citizens. He was born on State street, in a house which stood where the old Aetna Insurance block now stands. When he was a boy, his father build the house on Lord's Hill, where the colonel has dwelt for more than a half a century. He graduated at Yale college in 1816, studied law, and was getting quite a good practice, when he suffered himself to be beguiled into politics. He edited the Connecticut Mirror (published weekly by P.B. Goodsell, Esq., of this city) and was associated with such men as Brainard, the poet; Jonathan Edwards, late mayor of Troy; Prentice of the Louisville Journal; Whiting, Wells, the Terrys, etc., a lively set in those days, but now mostly gone. He distinctly remembered his grandfather, Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, who died in 1870 [sic]; and had seen and conversed with almost all the notable men from that day to this. He had various law suits in Massachusetts, which brought him in frequent contact with the Massachusetts bar. He was quartermaster of this state for a period, and in this way got his universally-conceded title of "colonel." He was one of the best-hearted men that ever lived. His genial and hospitable disposition; his scorn of sanctity or meanness; the unaffected kindness of his sympathy; and the breadth and manliness of his nature, won the love of all who really knew him. The funeral is to be to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 5 o'clock from his late residence.
- Hartford Daily Courant, June 20, 1870, p. 2
He was Quartermaster General of the State of Connecticut from 1838 to 1842. He married Elizabeth Baker Croade in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1819.
Oliver Ellsworth Williams, who died on Saturday last, aged 74, was well-known to all our old citizens. He was born on State street, in a house which stood where the old Aetna Insurance block now stands. When he was a boy, his father build the house on Lord's Hill, where the colonel has dwelt for more than a half a century. He graduated at Yale college in 1816, studied law, and was getting quite a good practice, when he suffered himself to be beguiled into politics. He edited the Connecticut Mirror (published weekly by P.B. Goodsell, Esq., of this city) and was associated with such men as Brainard, the poet; Jonathan Edwards, late mayor of Troy; Prentice of the Louisville Journal; Whiting, Wells, the Terrys, etc., a lively set in those days, but now mostly gone. He distinctly remembered his grandfather, Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor, chief justice of the supreme court of the United States, who died in 1870 [sic]; and had seen and conversed with almost all the notable men from that day to this. He had various law suits in Massachusetts, which brought him in frequent contact with the Massachusetts bar. He was quartermaster of this state for a period, and in this way got his universally-conceded title of "colonel." He was one of the best-hearted men that ever lived. His genial and hospitable disposition; his scorn of sanctity or meanness; the unaffected kindness of his sympathy; and the breadth and manliness of his nature, won the love of all who really knew him. The funeral is to be to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon at 5 o'clock from his late residence.
- Hartford Daily Courant, June 20, 1870, p. 2
He was Quartermaster General of the State of Connecticut from 1838 to 1842. He married Elizabeth Baker Croade in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1819.
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