"Youth, pride in such a service, and the novel duties and scenes in which they were soon to act gave the "enchantment of distance" to a life filled with hardship, danger, and death."

Colonel William H. Noble

Introduction

Major Allen G. Brady

Sgt. Edwin O. Harrison

Lt. Hanford Hayes

Hubbell's in the 17th

Pvt. Timothy Donovan

Musician Henry Huss

Sgt. Isaac Crissy

Pvt. Francis H. Ferry

Pvt. George S. Ferry

Surgeon Robert Hubbard

Chaplain William K. Hall

Intelligence was received in this city today of the death of Timothy Donovan, which occurred in Chicago on December 31. Mr. Donovan who, with the late James Montgomery Bailey, founded the Danbury News in 1870, was one of the best known men in Danbury forty years ago.

A resident of Norwalk at the time of the Civil War, Mr. Donovan enlisted in Co. A, Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteers, under Captain Douglas Fowler. James Montgomery Bailey was a member of Captain James E. Moore's company in the same regiment and he and Mr. Donovan became firm friends during the army life and while in the service formed plans that resulted in the purchase of the Danbury Times in 1865 and the establishment of the firm Bailey and Donovan. Mr. Bailey and Mr. Donovan were both captured at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863, and were sent to Libby Prison together. Their parole as prisoners of war took place on the same day, August 25, 1863. Mr. Donovan enlisted on July 28, 1862, and was mustered out of the service on July 19, 1865, after a varied and eventful army experience, during which he took part in a number of the most important engagements of the war.

Coming to Danbury soon after they left the army, they purchased the Danbury Times, which they conducted until March 1870, when they also purchased the Danbury Jeffersonian, which they consolidated with the Times under the name of the Danbury News. Mr. Donovan remained with Mr. Bailey until 1878, when he retired from the firm and established a paper which he called "The People". This venture was not successful and for a number of years after its suspension Mr. Donovan was employed in Danbury and elsewhere as a printer.

About 20 years ago, Mr. Donovan moved west and had since resided in that section of the country. His death occurred at the home of his son, Albert C. Donovan, in Chicago. He is survived by his wife (Imogene Ferry Donovan) and three sons, Frank W. and Albert C. of Chicago, and Arthur F. of Rochester, NY, and by one daughter, Mrs. Dana Hall of Chicago. Mr. Donovan was in the sixty-seventh year of his age. None of the details of his illness has been received here.