. The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut:. b. 6 May, 1871; d. li June, 1872. Minn., and (IS91I the |H-™liarly sneeessful man- , 4. Margery, Sept., 1879. V.\M. 4. George Griswold()(i/m)^,«JbAn,JoAn,* Jew.,CViyrf. Jiw.,Juhii^), was educ. at Ell. Acad., and prepared for college by private tuition; Yale Coll. 1852; attended lectures for a yetir in Yale Law School, and after-wards became a student in the law-ollice of the late Gov. Rich. D. Hubbard atHartford; was adm. to the bar. 1854, and has ever since continued in the activepractice of his professi
. The history and genealogies of ancient Windsor, Connecticut:. b. 6 May, 1871; d. li June, 1872. Minn., and (IS91I the |H-™liarly sneeessful man- , 4. Margery, Sept., 1879. V.\M. 4. George Griswold()(i/m)^,«JbAn,JoAn,* Jew.,CViyrf. Jiw.,Juhii^), was educ. at Ell. Acad., and prepared for college by private tuition; Yale Coll. 1852; attended lectures for a yetir in Yale Law School, and after-wards became a student in the law-ollice of the late Gov. Rich. D. Hubbard atHartford; was adm. to the bar. 1854, and has ever since continued in the activepractice of his profession. For 36 yrs. lie has been a .Insticc of the Peace; was formany yrs. a prosecuting Grand Juror and a side-judge of the Hartford City Court;and, from 1871-73, Recorder, or Judge of the sameCt.; has also served 3 yrs. inthe H. Common Council, part of the time as an Ahlerman. During the Civil War,Mr. Sill was especially active in the Union cause, and it was in his office that theFirst Company of Conn. Vols, was formed. Ilitil 1872 he had been an active and. 0 ^^^Wu C/ ^U^C THE SILL FAMILY. 685 |in)mineiit I!cimblic:m; but, in that year, under the lead of Greeley, heliecaine a Lilieral Republican, believing that a more conciliatory policy should bepursued towards the South. In 1873 he was nominated for on theticket headed by Chas. R. lugersoll of New Haven, and was elected by a handsomemajority; and re-elected to the .same office in 1874-7o-T6. In 1882. Gov. Sill waselected to the Gen. Assembly as representative from Hartford, and was the Demo-cratic nominee for Speaker of the House. In March, 1888, he was nominated byPrcs. Cleveland as U. S. Dist. Atty. for the Dist. of Conn., and was confirmed bythe Senate, and is still (Mch., 18!I2) serving as such. In commercial and financialcircles he h;is always been prominent, and is identified with some of the mostim]iortant financial and commercial concerns of Hartford and vicinity. He is notedfor Ills success
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