. Picturesque New London and its environs : Grofton, Mystic, Montville, Waterford, at the commencement of the twentieth century. ndon» London, honored the city and lier-self. Mr. J. Lawrence Cliew has giventhe public much pleasure in sharingwith them the fruits of liis researchamong the romantic traditions andmemories of old New London. Learned, President of theNew Loudon Street Railway Companyand Treas-urer of theSavingsBank ofNew Lon-don, is awriter ofconsideral) histori-cal address,delivered onthe occasionof the TwoHundredand FiftiethA n n i V e r -sary of NewLond
. Picturesque New London and its environs : Grofton, Mystic, Montville, Waterford, at the commencement of the twentieth century. ndon» London, honored the city and lier-self. Mr. J. Lawrence Cliew has giventhe public much pleasure in sharingwith them the fruits of liis researchamong the romantic traditions andmemories of old New London. Learned, President of theNew Loudon Street Railway Companyand Treas-urer of theSavingsBank ofNew Lon-don, is awriter ofconsideral) histori-cal address,delivered onthe occasionof the TwoHundredand FiftiethA n n i V e r -sary of NewLondon, in1896, was as c h o 1 a r 1 S. Le-Roy Blake,I). D., pastorof the FirstChurch ofChrist, isalso entitledto honorablem e n t i o namong localhis tor ic now has in press an exhaustivehistory of the First Church of Thomas M. Waller, andthe Hon. Augustus Brandegee, byreason of the positions they haveattained in the community and thecountry at large, through their legalabilities, statesmanlike qualities andstrong personalities, may also be men-tioned with pride by New THE LATE Mr Honorable Jonathan NewtonHarris died in October, 189(;. Hewas for many years a distinguishedcitizen of New London. His belief intlie high destiny of the city wasevinced by the numerous charities hegenerously endowed, in the substan-tial business block on State Street, which Ijeaishis name, intlie elegantresidence heoccupiedon B r o a dStreet, andin the manyli a n kin g,commercial,and manu-facturing-interestsw ii i c h heaided withboth meansand wasborn in Sa-lem, Conn.,Nov. 18 th,1815, andwas thesixth in de-scent fromJames Har-ris who re-sided in Bos-ton, Mass.,in 1666,andwho after-wa r ds lo-cated i nNew Lon-don about the year 1690 with his wifeand three sons, James, Asa, andEphraim, dying here in 1715 at theage of 74 jears. Mr. Harris came to New London in1836 when about twenty years of had received a thorough mercan-tile train
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