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Austin Kilbourn

Gender:
Male
Born:
January 25, 1794
Died:
March 20, 1872
Home Town:
Glastonbury, CT
Later Residences:
Litchfield, CT
Hartford, CT
Biographical Notes:
Austin Kilbourn was the son of Joseph and Hannah Kilbourn. In March 1815, Kilbourn became a Clerk at the Phoenix Bank of Hartford and stayed at that job until 1821. In September of 1821, he was elected by the Directors as the Cashier of the Phoenix Branch Bank in Litchfield, CT.

While working at the bank, Kilbourn attended the Litchfield Law School. Nevertheless, Kilbourn never ventured into legal practice. He returned to Hartford in 1826 and left the banking business. Kilbourn worked as a hardware merchant for more that twenty years. He also studied agriculture and was the secretary of the Hartford Agricultural Society for ten years.

In 1844, he published a Treatise on Agriculture. When his father died in 1851, Kilbourne took over the family home in Glastonbury, ...
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Education
Years at LLS:
1821-1823
Profession / Service
Profession:
Business; Political Office
Local Posts:
Notary Public 1847
Immediate Family (Why only immediate family?)
Related Objects and Documents
Other:
Austin and Eliza Kilbourn papers, 1818-1851
Austin Kilbourn copy and memo books, undated
help The Citation of Attendance provides primary source documentation of the student’s attendance at the Litchfield Female Academy and/or the Litchfield Law School. If a citation is absent, the student is thought to have attended but currently lacks primary source confirmation.

Records for the schools were sporadic, especially in the formative years of both institutions. If instructors kept comprehensive records for the Litchfield Female Academy or the Litchfield Law School, they do not survive. Researchers and staff have identified students through letters, diaries, family histories and genealogies, and town histories as well as catalogues of students printed in various years. Art and needlework have provided further identification of Female Academy Students, and Litchfield County Bar records document a number of Law School students. The history of both schools and the identification of the students who attended them owe credit to the early 20th century research and documentation efforts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel and Samuel Fisher, and the late 20th century research and documentation efforts of Lynne Templeton Brickley and the Litchfield Historical Society staff.
CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Litchfield Eagle, October 7, 1822 and October 6, 1823.

Catalogue of the Litchfield Law School Hartford, CT: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1849.
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