Background
Richardson, only son of Levi and Amelia (Trumbull) Richardson, was born in Chaplin, then a part of Mansfield, Connecticut, December 5, 1808.
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William Richardson
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Career
He pursued his medical studies, first with Doctor Archibald Welch of Mansfield, subsequently with Doctor Samuel B. Woodward of Wethersfield and Doctor Silas Fuller of Columbia, and at the medical school of Yale College, where he graduated in 1834. On graduating, he returned to Mansfield and immediately, entered on the practice of his profession, which he followed, with assiduity and success, for more than forty years. After some three years of impaired health, he died from disease of the brain, December 14, 1878, aged 70 years.
Foreign many years he served as School Visitor.
This article incorporates public domain material from the 1879 Yale Obituary Record.
Membership
In 1862, he was a member of the Connecticut State Legislature.
