Background
He was the only son of Jesup and Susan Alvord, and was born at Southport, March 26, 1831.
He was the only son of Jesup and Susan Alvord, and was born at Southport, March 26, 1831.
He graduated from Yale College in 1852. After graduation, lie studied law, under Judge Thomas B. Osborne in Fairfield, and also engaged in teaching in the same town, and was admitted to the bar of Fairfield County, October
He then commenced the practice of his profession in the village of Southport, where he remained till his death. In 1862, he represented the town in the Connecticut State Legislature. She died June 20, 1866.
The father, brought down by exhaustion and sorrow at this last bereavement, fell an easy victim of the same disease some three weeks later.
He died at Southport, October 16, 1868, in the 38th year of his age.
This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.