Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . Courant, alluding toGovernor Wallers appearance and speech as the president of theDemocratic State Convention of September, 1906, editorially said:— Whoever heard Governor Wallers rattling speech at yesterdaysDemocratic Convention will be ready to aver that he is not a dayover thirty years of age, no matter when he was born. It was com-mon talk about the convention that he was asked to speak only asbe was going to bed the night before. It was essentially and neces-sarily an
Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans . Courant, alluding toGovernor Wallers appearance and speech as the president of theDemocratic State Convention of September, 1906, editorially said:— Whoever heard Governor Wallers rattling speech at yesterdaysDemocratic Convention will be ready to aver that he is not a dayover thirty years of age, no matter when he was born. It was com-mon talk about the convention that he was asked to speak only asbe was going to bed the night before. It was essentially and neces-sarily an impromptu address, but it was full of fire, sparkling withquick wit, eloquent, and at times very right. Somebody said it wasthe old Tom Waller, Utterly wrong; it was the young Tom Waller,—who, in our opinion, will be young as long as he lives. Governor Waller never made a better off-hand speech than thatof yesterday. He was never younger than he was yesterday. Welook confidently to his appearance in, say, fifteen years, as a new boyorator; and we venture the safe prediction that the people will hearhim syd^rr^^ <^ ^^W-^^^j^^^/C^v^^ GEORGE EDWARD LOUNSBURY LOUNSBUEY, GEOEGE EDWAED, the late ex-governor ofConnecticut, State senator, manufacturer and scholar, wholived in Eidgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from early-boyhood until his death which occurred August 16th, 1904, was bornin Poundridge, Westchester county, New York, May 7th, 1838, Hisparents were Nathan Lounsbury, a farmer, and Delia Scofield Louns-bury, and his first American ancestor was Eichard Lounsbury,who came from Yorkshire, England, about 1650 and settled in Stam-ford, Connecticut. Mr. Lounsbur/s grandfather, Enos Lounsbury,was a soldier in the Eevolutionary War. When he was a very youngboy George Lounsbury went to Eidgefield to live and that town washis home during the rest of his life. He was a youth of markedliterary tastes and ability and naturally sought the highest a
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