1807.
ELY WARNER, son of Jonathan and Hephzibah (Ely) Warner,
was born in Chester (then a parish in Saybrook), Conn., May 24th,
1785.
After graduation he taught school for a year or more, and then
entered the Law School at Litchfield, Conn., and was admitted to
the bar at Middletown about 1811. So untiring was his industry
while pursuing his professional studies, that he wrote from his own
stenographic notes the entire course of lectures, making three
manuscript volumes, said to be the only correct copy of the lectures
of Judges Reeve and Gould now extant.
Settling in Haddam in 1816, he afterwards represented that
town in the State Legislature tor two sessions, in 1825 and 1831.
In 1828 he was appointed chief judge of the Middlesex County
Court, and was re-appointed for several terms. Subsequently he
became cashier of the East Haddam Bank, but removed to Chester
in 1837, where his farm was situated, and where he resided during
the remainder of his life. In 1855 he was appointed County Commissioner,
and held office for two terms. He was also for more
than fifty years actively engaged as County Surveyor. He died
of paralysis, at his residence in Chester, Oct. 23d, 1872, in his 88th
year, being at that time the oldest lawyer in the State.
Judge Warner was married, Nov. 11th, 1817, to Sarah H,
eldest daughter of John Warner, of Chester, who survives him.
Of their eight children, three sons and three daughters are now
living. One son, Jared C. Warner, graduated at this college in
1854, and died Aug 9th, 1855, in East Saginaw, Mich., where he
was engaged in teaching.
