Bissell, Clark
lawyer, jurist, governor, was born in 1782 in Lebanon, Conn. He graduated at Yale college in 1806; studied law and settled at Norwalk. From 1829 to 1839 he was judge of the supreme court of the state; in 1847 and 1848 was governor of the state; and was Kent proof instructor of surgery at the New York Polyclinic in 1886, and in 1889 at the New York post graduate medical schools and hospitals. In 1895 he received the appointment of chief surgeon to the outdoor department of St. Vincent's hospital, with surgical work in the wards of the hospital.