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daughter of Ezekiel Sanford. Judge and
Mrs. Sanford are the parents of the following
children: i. Lemuel, born Feb-
ruary 5, 18S8; he was educated at Shef-
field Scientific School, and married Paul-
ine Smith, daughter of Theodore Smith.
2. Eleanor Arrowsmith, born April 6,
1890. 3. Edith, born January i, 1892,
died August 24, 1907. 4. Jonathan Bart-
lett, Jr., of whom further. 5. Abby Hill,
born November i, 1896, and is now a
trained nurse, having received her train-
ing in the Hartford Hospital. 6. Dayton,
born March 9, 1899, graduated at the San-
ford School and is now (1921) with the
Travelers' Insurance Company of Hart-
ford. 7. Elizabeth Russell, born May 19,
1901, is a student in the class of 1923 at
Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut.
8. Arthur Redington, born May
19, 1903, is now preparing for Yale at
Sanford School. 9. Theodore Van Zandt,
born August 30, 1905. 10. Alice Davies,
born December 21, 1907. 11. Dudley
Gregory, born December 14, 1909. 12.
Clara Dayton, born March 7, 1912.
(IX) Jonathan Bartlett Sanford, Jr.,
second son of Judge Jonathan B. and
Edith (Dayton) Sanford, was born November
9, 1894. He was educated at the
Sanford private school and Storr's Agri-
cultural College. He plans to follow sci-
entific farming for a career. He enlisted,
August 14, 1917, at New York City, in the
old 7th New York Regiment, which was
made over into the 107th United States
Infantry, and was made corporal, October
16, 1917. He was promoted to sergeant
May 2, 1918, and served in the following
battles: East Poperinghe line, July 9 to
August 20, 1918; Dickebusch Sector in
Belgium, August 21 to 30, 1918; Hinden-
burg line (vincinity of Bacey), Company
K, 7th Regiment : arrived in the United
States, March 9, 1919. He was awarded
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a military medal by the British Govern-
ment. Citation
:
During the operations against the Hindenburg
line near Venduille, September 29, 1918, Sergeant
Sanford gave proof of great devotion and bravery
when he gallantly insisted upon remaining with
his command, despite the fact that he had been
seriously wounded in the leg. During the advance
he later received other wounds from shell-fire,
thereby demonstrating his courage and devotion to
duty and setting a splendid example to his com-
rades.
By command of General Pershing.
James G. Harbord, Chief of Staff.
He was in Battle-War Hospital No. 2,
Reading, England, for about ten weeks.
Sergeant Sanford married, in October,
1920, Frances Boughton.
WALSH, Hon. John J.,
Jurist, Public Official.
"On both sides of the sea" the profes-
sion of the law has been largely and emi-
nently recruited by men of Irish birth as
the number of distinguished names which
adorn the legal annals of the Old World
and the New bear abundant witness. The
bench and bar of the United States have
always owed much of their prestige to the
talents and services of their representa-
tives of Irish blood, and at the present
day the citizens of Fairfield county can
testify that the Hon. John J. Walsh, of
East Norwalk, Connecticut, judge of the
Criminal Court of Common Pleas, ably
maintains the best traditions of his race.
Judge Walsh has always been active in
the sphere of politics and has wielded a
powerful influence in behalf of those prin-
ciples which he believes constitute the
foundation of all good government.
The name Walsh, or Walshe, signifies "a
native of Wales," its first representatives
in Ireland having been Philip and David,
kinsmen and perhaps brothers, who,