MORRIS B. BEARDSLEY
BRIDGEPORT: Attorney and Judge of Probate
Morris B. Beardsley was born at Trumbull, Conn., August i13, 1849; prepared for college at the academy in Stratford, Conn.; graduated from Yale in the class of 1870. After leaving college he attended lectures at Columbia College Law School for a year; then went to Bridgeport, and studied law in the office of William K. Seeley until June 25, 1872, when he was admitted to practice at the Fairfield county bar, and was taken into partnership by Mr. Seeley, the firm name being Seeley & Beardsley. This partnership was dissolved in January, 1874, and in the following April he was elected city clerk, and held that office for three successive terms. In 1877 he became judge of the Bridgeport probate district, and has held that office ever since. He has been a member of the board of education for three years, and was its secretary. June 5, 1873, he married Lucy J. Fayerweather, a niece of, and largely remembered under the will of, the late millionaire leather merchant, Daniel B. Fayerweather, and has three children. Politically he is a democrat. Is a member of the First Congregational church. Is a thirty-second degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a member of the Seaside Club of Bridgeport, and of the Aldine Club of New York, and last, but not least, a "Shriner."
Source: Illustrated Popular Biography of Connecticut - 1891, Compiled and Published by J. A. Spalding, Hartford Conn., Press of the Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1891
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