HON. ANSON WOLCOTT is a native of Oneida County, N. Y., son of James and Louisa (Gould) Wolcott, born October 21, 1819, and is the second in a family of five children. The subject of this notice is descended from the old Wolcott family, which has been historically traced for six hundred years. The first ancestor in America of this gentleman came from England in 1630 and settled at Boston, then removed to Windsor, and was later found at Hartford. Mr. Wolcott is a distant relative of Oliver Wolcott, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. The father of Mr. Wolcott was a man of very marked character and of almost unexcelled energy. The mother was a woman of great intelligence and much force of character. The early education of Anson Wolcott was such as could be obtained at the public schools in the Empire State. He read mathematics with ease, accuracy and rapidity. He is found at fifteen years of age teaching his first school in Ontario County, N. Y. When twenty-one years old, he went to Louisiana and began the study of the law in the office of Judge Peets, in Claiborne Parish. He remained in the South about a year and a half, and then returned to his native State, taught school in winter, and continued his law studies in the summer. Ile was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court at Buffalo, N. Y., in 1847, and in 1852 admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Wolcott was united in marriage to Miss Georgia Sayne, of Philadelphia, February 11, 1863. To this union was born one child, Ebon H. Mrs. Wolcott died August 4, 1877. Mr. Wolcott came to Princeton Township in 1858, and in 1866 was elected to the State Senate. He is, without question, one of the best educated men in the State, and a thorough Republican.

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