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 . rteen months. He at once re-enlisted in theFifteenth Regiment, 0. V., and served until theclose of the war. He also served five years in theConnecticut National Guard as Second and FirstLieutenant and as Captain. Captain Strong wasborn in Durham, January 15,1840, and will reachhis forty-second birthday this month. He waseducated at the common schools, and since thewar has been in the empl
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 . rteen months. He at once re-enlisted in theFifteenth Regiment, 0. V., and served until theclose of the war. He also served five years in theConnecticut National Guard as Second and FirstLieutenant and as Captain. Captain Strong wasborn in Durham, January 15,1840, and will reachhis forty-second birthday this month. He waseducated at the common schools, and since thewar has been in the employ of the MerriamManufacturing Company of Durham. Politicallyhe is a Republican. JULIUS DAVIS Of Durham, is one of the youngest members ofthe House, being but twenty-six years of age. Hewas born in Killingworth, June 22, 1855, andreceived his education in the common the age of seventeen years he engaged infarming, and then went into the coal business, inwhich he continued until 1874. In that year heentered the grocery and feed business, and hasengaged in it ever since. He is a Democrat inpolitics, and is a member of the Central SchoolCommittee in Durham. He was formerly a Con-stable. 169. JAMBS LAWTON Of Middletown, serves his second term in theLegislature at this session, having been a mem-ber of the House last year, when he served on theCommittee on Roads and Bridges. He was bornin Portland, September 5, 1843, and is thirty-eight years of age. In his youth he attended thecommon school, and his education was derivedtherefrom. For the past sixteen years he has engaged in the grocery and provision business inMiddletown, and is senior member of the pros-perous firm of Lawton & Wall. Mr. Lawton en-joys in an eminent degree the confidence andesteem of his party, the Democratic, as is shownby his re-election as representative by an in-creased majority. He has many friends through-out the State generally, who respect him highly. 32 170 NATHANIEL C. JOHNSON Of Chatham, f
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