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HON. LYMAN S. CATLIN
BRIDGEPORT: Treasurer and Secretary Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank
Lyman Sheldon Catlin was born at Harwinton, Litchfield county, Conn., Jan. 21, 1840, and educated in the common schools and academy of that town. He remained in Harwinton through his minority, and in 1862 enlisted as a private in the Nineteenth Connecticut Infantry Company. He remained for two years in this regiment, and, at the end of that time was commissioned as first lieutenant in the Thirteenth United States Artillery (colored) Regiment. While with the colored troops Lieutenant Catlin was in an engagement on the Cumberland River in Southwestern Kentucky, in which the entire command was captured by Forrest’s Cavalry. The officers connected with the colored troops were ordered hung, but they escaped by means of a gunboat. In 1865 this command was mustered out and its first lieutenant was commissioned by Secretary Stanton as lieutenant in the Fifth United States Cavalry. He served with this command in Arkansas until 1866, when the Union army was mustered out. Since the war Mr. Catlin has passed most of the time in Bridgeport, his only absence being between 1870 and 1873. Early in 1870 he settled in Alabama as the agent of a Chicago insurance company, but was driven out by the Klu Klux in a few months. The same company then sent him to Kansas, where he remained until 1873, when he returned to Bridgeport and organized the Mechanics and Farmers Savings Bank of that city, and has since been its chief executive officer. He has filled various offices for the town of Stratford, and was elected to represent the town in the general assemblies of 1881 and 1883. The first year he served on the house committee on school funds and in 1883 he was house chairman of the committee on banks. In 1888 he was elected senator from the Thirteenth District, and in the session of ‘89 was chairman of the joint committee on banks, and the committee on further accommodation for the insane. His career was one of prominence and usefulness in both branches of the legislature. Mr. Catlin was married in 1871 to Miss Helen J. Lewis of Stratford, and they have four children - two sons and two daughters. He is an earnest republican, and an influential factor, locally and statewise, in the councils of his party. He is a member of the military order of the Loyal Legion, of the Grand Army, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Mr. Catlin is a thorough and successful business man and a valued citizen.
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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