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he lowered a Confederate flag floating over a hotel, for which act the hotel keeper fatally shot him, May 24, 1861. | Ells worth, Oliver, an American jurist; born in Windsor, Conn., April ee —————————————————————— 29, 1745. He was educated at Yale and Princeton, mired from the Jatter in 1766; admitted to the bar in 1711; sent as delegate from Connecticut to the first Continental Congre ; made judge of the Connecticut —— rior Court in 1784. He was a member of the convention that framed the Federal Constitution, and influential in organizing Congre and the judiciary. iIn 1796 he was appointed chief-justice, and in 1799 made member of a diplomatic commi ion to France, with Patrick Henry and William R. Davie. On account of ill health he sent home his resignation as chief justice, but in 1807 was reappointed. He died in Windsor, Conn., Noy. 26, 1807.