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Murray was born July 14, 1808, and died ANDREWS, James Parkhill,
February 2, 1889. He was the son of
Calvin Murray, who was born September
15, 1781, and died November 14, 1810.
On November 20, 1804, Calvin Murray
married Diadema Norton, who was born
November 17, 1785. John Murray, the
father of Calvin Murray, was born August
13, 1731, and died February 23, 1800;
Attorney-at-Law.
James P. Andrews was a successful
lawyer, with fifteen years' bar experience,
when in 1894 he was appointed reporter
of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors,
and now nearing the end of a quarter
of a century in that position, has won
he married Mindwell Crompton, born
January 22, 1738, and died June 21, 1816.
John Murray, father of John Murray
(above mentioned), was born October
10, 1703, and died September 9, 1789. He
married Sarah Buell, who died March 1,
1743-
To Charles C. Goodrich and his wife,
Beulah (Murray) Goodrich, one son was
born : Raymond Goodrich, born April 10,
1879. He is now engaged in the fertilizer
business, and is interested in tobacco
plantations. He married (first) Alma
Penfield ; of this marriage one daughter
was born, Genevieve. His second marriage
was to Zuleima Couger ; of this mar-
riage one daughter was born, Elizabeth.
At the advanced age of seventy years
Mr. Goodrich is one of Hartford's lead-
ing citizens, a man whose power for civic
betterment is a factor of importance in
the community life. He has always taken
the keen interest of the trained thinker
and man of affairs in the public interests
of the day, and his support can be counted
on for every movement calculated to promote
the public welfare. He is recog-
nized as one of Hartford's conservative
business men, and one who has achieved
his position by his own ability and industry.
He is broad minded in his views and
generous in his charities, although all his
gifts to worthy causes are made without
ostentation. He and his wife have been
for several years identified with the Con-
gregational church.
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very high standing as a reporter of judi-
cial decisions. The duties of that posi-
tion are manifold, requiring not only a
high degree of literary and legal ability in
preparing analytical statements of the
contents of the opinions reported, and the
writing of head notes for the State
reports, but also involving a capacity for
hard work as the reports average about
one thousand pages of closely printed
matter yearly. So well has Mr. Andrews
filled his office and so highly are his legal
and judicial qualities esteemed, that had
he consented his appointment to a judge-
ship was assured. But his heart is in the
work he is doing and the honor offered
him in 1907 was declined. In addition to
the annual State reports edited, he is the
author of Connecticut Index Digests and
a valued contributor to Yale Law Maga-
zine. In his own special branch of the
law he is without a superior, his long re-
tention in office well attesting the value
placed upon his services to the State of
Connecticut. His maternal grandfather,
Thomas Day, was a reporter of the Supreme
Court of Connecticut, 1805-1853.
This fact is of especial interest and value
to the advocates of the doctrine of
heredity.
James Parkhill Andrews, son of Samuel
James (died October 10, 1906) and
Catherine Augusta (Day) Andrews, was
born in East Windsor, Connecticut, Oc-
tober 23, 1854. He completed his public
school education with graduation from
Hartford High School in 1873, then entered