. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. \l;llnl;li WI-NIl-:, ^l Nl, Till: liLl) IKKUKRICK ANUKUS PLACE IN l88a THE VILLAGE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 153 lege, full of kindly feeling and pionsexhortation, has come down to us, hutwhose appalling solemnity would tend todrive the modern college youth intoany dissipation t\ir relief. John Mix, the second niemher of thecommittee, was a graduate of Yale Col-lege, and an officer in the Revolution-ar\ War. serving first as an ensignalong the Hudson, and afterwards aslieutenant and quartermaster in theHighlands until the close
. Farmington, Connecticut, the village of beautiful homes. \l;llnl;li WI-NIl-:, ^l Nl, Till: liLl) IKKUKRICK ANUKUS PLACE IN l88a THE VILLAGE OF BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 153 lege, full of kindly feeling and pionsexhortation, has come down to us, hutwhose appalling solemnity would tend todrive the modern college youth intoany dissipation t\ir relief. John Mix, the second niemher of thecommittee, was a graduate of Yale Col-lege, and an officer in the Revolution-ar\ War. serving first as an ensignalong the Hudson, and afterwards aslieutenant and quartermaster in theHighlands until the close of the hen, when the return of peace dis-nli^^ed the officers of tlie armv to theirhomes, and the strong friendships form-ed around the camp-tire and on the hat-tle-lield led to the founding of thesociety of the Cincinnati, John Mixbecame the secretary of the Connecticutbranch, until that society was dissolved,in 1804, to appease the insane clamorsof the politicians of that day. Hethen served the town ten years as judgeof probate, thirty-two as town clerk,and twenty-six, as a representati
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