Source:
History of Litchfield County, Connecticut with Illustrations and 
Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers……
Published: Philadelphia: J.W. Lewis & Co.,  1881.

TIMOTHY PERSONS

Timothy Persons, youngest son of Elihu Persons, was born in 
Sandisfield, Mass., Dec. 8, 1820.  He remained in his native town until 
April 9, 1849, when he removed to Colebrook, where he has since 
resided.  He has always been an active business man, and until within a 
few years has carried on the business of tanning.  Mr. Persons has been 
selected by his townsmen for various positions of trust and 
responsibility, and he justly merits the high esteem in which he is held 
by all.  He represented his town in the Legislature in 1859 and 1873, and 
again in 1874; has also been a selectman, and is a present justice of the 
peace, having been elected in 1876.  On Sept. 10, 1851, he married 
Calista Baxter, of Colebrook, and had two children, Dwight B., born 
May 9, 1853, and Jane C., born Dec. 2, 1860, both deceased.  Mr. 
Gilbert Baxter, father of Mrs. Persons, was an active man in the town; he 
held various town offices, and was a member of the Legislature in 1836.  
He died April 12, 1876, aged eighty-four years.  Mrs. Baxter is still 
living at the advanced age of eighty-three.

Submitted by:  Linda Pingel