The TWENTY-NINTH GOVERNOR of CONNECTICUT was WILLIAM W. ELLSWORTH A member of the distinguished Ellsworth family of Windsor and born in that town-He was graduated at Yale College in the class with Morse, the inventor of telegraphy-He studied law and married the eldest daughter of Noah Webster, later becoming one of the most successful practitioners in the state, and then a member of the faculty at Trinity College, and chosen to many political honors WILLIAM WOLCOTT ELLSWORTH HE Ellsworth family of Windsor was one of the most distinguished in Connecticut. Oliver Ellsworth, LL.D., was a famous lawyer and statesman, of whom John Adams said: "He was the finest pillar of Washington's whole administration." He was a member of the Continental Congress, a delegate to the Federal Convention of 1787, and in 1796 was appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. He died at Windsor, November 26, 1807. His son, William Wolcott Ellsworth, the twin brother of Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, was born at Windsor, November 10, 1791, and entered Yale College in 1806, where he graduated with honors in 1810. Among his classmates at Yale was Professor S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of telegraphy. Immediately after graduation, he entered the Litchfield Law School where he pursued his legal studies. Removing to Hartford, Ellsworth entered the office of Judge Williams, his brotherin-law, at that time the most prominent lawyer at the Hartford bar. He was a close student and aimed from the first to thoroughly master the profession. |