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Edward Ruggles Landon (May 31, 1813 – July 25, 1883) was a Connecticut politician. Landon was born in
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on May 31, 1813, the eldest son of Nathaniel Ruggles and Mary (Griswold) Landon. He graduated from
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in 1833. On leaving College he studied law in
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, and later in
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, and began practice in
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, Mich. He married in Guilford, January 1, 1838, Anna Theodora Lay, who died September 18, in the same year, with her infant child, in Tecumseh. In December 1838, he returned to Guilford, where the rest of his life was spent in the practice of his profession. He was chosen town clerk in 1848, and judge of
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in 1854, and held both positions by continued re-election until the year of his death. In 1856 he was a member of the
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, and in 1870 of the
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. He was long the principal magistrate in the town. He died in Guilford, after a long illness, of gastric fever and disease of the nervous system, on July 25, 1883, in his 71st year of his age. He married, October 5, 1871, Parnel C. Hotchkiss, of Guilford, who survived him without children.


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Edward Ruggles Landon papers, 1830-1851
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