词条 | Edward Jesup Alvord |
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| name = Edward Jesup Alvord | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = March 26, 1831 | birth_place = | death_date = Oct. 16, 1868 | death_place = | nationality = American | other_names = | occupation = Lawyer and politician | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }} Edward Jesup Alvord (March 26, 1831- Oct. 16, 1868) was an American lawyer and politician. Early years and educationHe was the only son of Jesup and Susan Alvord, and was born at Southport, March 26, 1831. He graduated from Yale College in 1852. After graduation, he studied law, under Judge Thomas B. Osborne in Fairfield, and also engaged in teaching in the same town, and was admitted to the bar of Fairfield County, Oct. 16, 1858. CareerHe then became a lawyer in the village of Southport, where he remained until his death. In 1862, he represented the town in the Connecticut State Legislature. Personal life and deathHe married, June 15, 1859, Miss Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of the late Walter Bulkley, of Southport. Two of their children died in infancy, and the only remaining child, a boy of five years, died of dysentery in September, 1868. She died June 20, 1866. The father, brought down by exhaustion and sorrow at this last bereavement, fell an easy victim of the same disease some three weeks later. He died at Southport, Oct. 16, 1868, in the 38th year of his age. {{yaleobit}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Alvord, Edward Jesup}} 6 : 1831 births|1868 deaths|People from Southport, Connecticut|Connecticut lawyers|Members of the Connecticut General Assembly|19th-century American politicians |
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