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 . ce in New York were exemplified in the most gratify-ing manner during the Presidential campaign of1880. He organized and was the president ofthe Bankers and Brokers New York Stock Ex-change Garfield and Arthur Club, one of themost powerful and influential organizations inthe campaign, and labored most efficiently at itshead. This club furnished the impetus for theorganization of the Produ
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 . ce in New York were exemplified in the most gratify-ing manner during the Presidential campaign of1880. He organized and was the president ofthe Bankers and Brokers New York Stock Ex-change Garfield and Arthur Club, one of themost powerful and influential organizations inthe campaign, and labored most efficiently at itshead. This club furnished the impetus for theorganization of the Produce Exchange and DryGoods Exchange Garfield and Arthur clubs, anddeveloped largely the sentiment among businessmen throughout the country that national pros-perity and success depended upon the retentionof the Republican party in power. Mr. Smithhas always been an ardent Republican, and isa representative of the partys best impulses andpurposes. He is a native of New Hampshire,having been born at Exeter in that State, and isupwards of 44 years of age. He prepared forYale College, but instead of entering that insti-tution, finally decided on a business life, and hasachieved exceptional success in it. 21. Col. WHEELOCK T. BATCHELLER, COMPTROLLER. Colonel Wheelock T. Batcheller, of Win-chester, State Comptroller, was born in that townin February, 1840. Four years later his fatherdied, leaving him to the care and training of hismother. The latter was a daughter of CaptainWheelock Thayer, after whom Comptroller Batch-eller was named. Captain Thayer settled atWinsted in 1817, moving there from Massachu-setts, and became one of the most prominentcitizens of the place. At first in the employ ofthe father of Hon. John Boyd in the manufac-ture of scythes, he soon went into business forhimself, and erected the third scythe shop inthe place, which he managed with skill and abil-ity, accumulating considerable property. Com-pelled to retire from active business by theinfirmities of advancing
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