SAMUEL GREGORY BEARDSLEY
TRUMBULL: Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace
Samuel G. Beardsley was born at Long Hill, Trumbull, December 7, 1824, where his home has ever since been. His father, Samuel Beardsley, Esq., was confessedly one of the ablest and most prominent men his native town ever produced, having been twice representative, once state senator, sheriff, and commissioner of Fairfield county, trial justice for many years, largely employed in the settlement of estates, having acted as executor or administrator of more than one hundred, and was universally respected and esteemed. The subject of this sketch was educated in the common schools of his own, and the academies of adjoining towns; was admitted a member of Yale College, but was compelled to discontinue study through failure of sight; taught school several terms, engaged in the manufacture of cotton in partnership with the late Alonzo Sherman for six years, and afterward, on the death of his only brother, assisted his father in farming, which has since been his chief occupation. He has held numerous town offices; was a member of the general assembly of 1865, and of the centennial senate of 1876, defeating for the latter position Hon. David B. Plumb, a distinguished citizen of Shelton, whose father, Noah Plumb, Esq., was also beaten for the same office by his father just forty years before; and now holds the office of justice of the peace, which he has held since 1860, and of town clerk, to which he has been elected thirty consecutive times. He has been entrusted with the settlement of many estates, and earnestly seeks to deserve the character of an honest, upright man. He married, early in life, Mary, youngest daughter of Dea. Ephraim Wells Beach, who is now living, and from whom was born one son, Morris Beach Beardsley, now serving his fifteenth year as judge of probate for the district of Bridgeport, and two daughters, one unmarried and the other the wife of Lewis B. Curtis, of the firm of Curtis & Curtis, manufacturers at Bridgeport. He is a member of the Congregational church, and in politics is, and ever has been, an unswerving democrat.
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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