Selah G. Blakeman

He enlisted as a private in the Seventeenth Regiment, Connecticut volunteer infantry, July 29, 1862, and was in every engagement, and was in every engagement that the command took part in as a regiment, until he was discharged as a sergeant at the close of the war. In 1866 he married and bought a farm in Huntington, where he now resides. He has been first selectman of the town, has held the office of deputy sheriff for three years, and other minor offices in the town. In 1879 he was elected to represent the town in the legislature. He served as aid-de-camp on Governor Lounsbury’s staff in 1887-8 with the rank of colonel. He is a past post commander of Kellogg Post, G. A. R.; was a delegate to the national encampment, G. A. R., held at Denver, Col., in 1883; was an aid-de-camp on Commander-in-Chief Burdette’s staff, in 1886, at the encampment at San Francisco, California, and on Commander-in-Chief Alger’s staff, in 1890, at the encampment in Boston. He has served between four and five years as foreman of the Echo hose and hook and ladder company of Shelton.