ALBERT McCLELLAN MATHEWSON.

     Albert McClellan Mathewson, attorney at law, New Haven, was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, October 19, 1860, a son of William Williams and Harriet Augusta (Warner) Mathewson, and is descended from many of the oldest New England families. Five of his ancestors were among the one hundred and one passengers on the Mayflower, among them Governor William Bradford and John and Priscilla Alden. Mr. Mathewson is also descended from Governor Jonathan Trumbull, from William Williams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and from General Samuel McClellan of Revolutionary war fame. William Williams Mathewson, father of Albert McClellan Mathewson, was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, and followed the occupation of farming in Woodstock. He married Harriet A. Warner of New Berlin, New York, in which locality she was born and reared. His death occurred in 1901, when he had reached the age of seventy-three years, while his wife survived until 1915 and was also seventy-three years of age at the time of her demise. In their family were a son and a daughter, the latter being Mrs. Ellen Trumbull Haskell, of Wakefield, Nebraska.

     After completing a course of study in the famous Woodstock Academy, A. McClellan Mathewson devoted two years to the mastery of the principles of jurisprudence under Charles E. Searles, of Putnam, Connecticut, and then entered Yale, from which he was graduated in 1884, while in 1891 the Master of Law degree was conferred upon him. He first located for practice at Putnam, where he remained for four years, on the expiration of which period he came to New Haven, where he has since remained an active member of the bar. For six and one-half years he served as judge of the city court and in that connection his opinions were always strictly fair and impartial, being based upon the law and the equity in the case. On his retirement from the bench he resumed the private practice of law and is today one of the able representatives of the New Haven bar.

     Judge Mathewson was united in marriage June 13, 1888, to Mrs. Mary E. (Board) Foster, the widow of William L. Foster. Judge Mathewson is a member of Center church, and his life has ever been guided by the highest principles. In politics he is a republican and has been called to several public offices, serving as a member of the city council of New Haven and also as clerk of the Connecticut shell fish commission for ten years. He is president of the local council of the Boy Scouts and also president of the Boys Club of New Haven. He belongs to the Young Men’s Republican Club, to the Country Club and to the Graduates Club and is identified with several of the societies which have been established upon a historic basis. He was the first president of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence and he belongs to the Sons of the American Revolution and to the Mayflower descendants.
 

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