Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . was admitted to the Bar at Hart-ford in March, 1858, and began at once to practice there. In 1860he was made city auditor on the Democratic ticket and he held thisoffice for three years. Then, in 1863, he was elected judge of probatefor the district of Hartford and he held this office with recognizedcapability and success for twenty-three years, at the end of which,in 1887, he resumed his regular legal practice. In 1860 he becamea private in the First Company, Governors Foo
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . was admitted to the Bar at Hart-ford in March, 1858, and began at once to practice there. In 1860he was made city auditor on the Democratic ticket and he held thisoffice for three years. Then, in 1863, he was elected judge of probatefor the district of Hartford and he held this office with recognizedcapability and success for twenty-three years, at the end of which,in 1887, he resumed his regular legal practice. In 1860 he becamea private in the First Company, Governors Foot Guard, and exper-ienced twelve years military service. In 1864 he was commissionerof the State of Connecticut to receive the votes of the Connecticutsoldiers in the field for the presidential election of that jeax. Heis now a veteran member of the Foot Guard. The Judge is a director in the Farmers and Mechanics NationalBank and in the Capewell Horse Nail Company. He is a trustee ofthe Keney Park Association and a member of the state board ofMediation and Arbitration. He has been president of the Connecticut 210 II. JOHN HI i!ii;i Id wHiri:. 218 Trobate Assembly. Since 1H58 lu; huti b(en a member of the ParkCongregational Church of Hartford. On June Gth, 18G0, JudgeWhite married Mies Jennie M. Cooke, who is the daughter of GeorgeCooke and Sarah (Woodruff) Cooke of Litrhfield, Connecticut, andpaternally descended in the sixth generation from Col. Joseph Wads-worth of Hartford, Connecticut. They have one eon, Henry White,an artist. Judge White is well known as a lawyer of exceptionalacuteness and judicial ability a.^ wi-ll as a inan of strong personalityand great sociability. MARCUS DWIGHT MARKS MAEKS, MAECUS DWIGHT, merchant and a leading Re-publican and citizen of North Haven, Connecticut, is theson of Marcus A. Marks and Sarah Lavinia Smith father was a farmer and town supervisor of Hardenburg, UlsterCounty, New York, and he was a volunteer in the Union Army anddied
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