| SALLY NORTHROP Born 1776, died 1870 A resident of New Milford for One Hundred Years | DAVID CURTIS SANFORD Born 1798, died 1864 A Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut |
| HENRY SEYMOUR SANFORD Born 1832, died 1901 Son of David C. Sanford: Attorney at the Fairfield and Litchfield County Bars | WILLIAM DIMON BLACK Born 1836, died 1889 Member of firm of Ball, Black & Co., New York City; for eighteen years a resident of New Milford and active in the development of the town till his death, 1889 |
to offer their lives, and fathers to give of their substance. The daughters of the town vied with each other in loyal labors for their country, and, gave their time with their hearts to loving ministry.
In recent days the courage of our citizens has been “tried as by fire.” The great conflagration of May, 1902, swept away the entire business portion of the village; yet the Puritan fathers could not have met disaster more stoically than our brave men of to-day. The cheerful optimism that built “Shanty Town” on “The Green” while the ruins were still smouldering showed that the stout hearts of old New Milford were the same in the new, and that noble lives have been its inheritance through all its years.
We smile as we recall the old days and ways, but we bare our heads reverently before those godly men and women whose hardships meant a better way for us. Two hundred years hence others will read our record, and smile, perhaps. Will it be as worthy?