Identifier: menofmarkinconne00osbo (find matches)
Title: Men of mark in Connecticut; ideals of American life told in biographies and autobiographies of eminent living Americans
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Osborn, Norris Galpin, b. 1858, ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- Biography
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., W.R. Goodspeed
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hers farm eight months inthe year, and was permitted to attend tlie district school during thewinter months, provided he performed certain farm chores before andafter school hours. After getting what education the district schoolsafforded, he entered Chamberlain Institute, at Eandolph, New York,where he graduated in 1880 with high honors. He then studied lawwith Levi Warner of Norwalk, Connecticut, and was admitted to theFairfield County Bar in Septemher, 1883. Immediately after his admission to the Bar, Mr. Light began hiscareer as a practicing attorney in South Norwalk. The followingyear he became corporation counsel for that city, has remained in thatcapacity for twenty-one years, and still holds the position. In 1896he became Prosecuting Attorney of the Criminal Court of CommonPleas, and in 1900 became Judge of that Court. He is justly consid-ered one of the strongest jury lawyers in the State, and is generallyhonored for the humanity and justice of his treatment of criminals. 320
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JOHN HI NKV l-I(iIIT. 323 He is the possessor of one of the finest private librarietJ in the State,as well as of an exceptionally coinpletc law lihrarv. As a pul)Ii<^ man .ludjje Li<^lit has had a career of paralleldistinction. A strong Kepnbliean, he has be01 he representedNorwalk in the General As8cnibly, and in 1901 he was Speaker of theHouse and lield the position with signal success, due to his tact andforceful oratory. His speech nominating Governor l/ounsbury, hisspeech on the repeal of the Charter of the Law and Order League, andon Womans SufTrage. arc memorable ones in the liistory of oratory inthis State. His self-controlled yet forcible manner, his beautifullanguage, and his personal magnetism make him a superb orator. Thismental gra.«p antl literary sense have made him a deep student ofliterature and a keen critic, an

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