I wish in this connection to speak of this man Linus. He was a well-known man in all that region, and universally respected. He never married, was (like his brother, Jesse, of whom I have particularly spoken on page 31) a democrat, a great reader, an able debater, though he had some impediment in his speech. Some sixty- five years ago he proposed that shade trees should be set out along the highway, north of the church at the Center, and succeeded in enlisting others in the scheme, which was carried out, and those trees today are a memento of that good man's influence and work in a commendable enterprise. For a time he carried on the only grist mill at the Center, and, as a boy, I sometimes visited him in connection with my father's patronage of the mill. My father used to say that, of all men, a miller should be an honest man, because there were in the business opportunities to practice dishonesty. The compensation
for grinding grain was in the form of toll, a certain quantity taken out of a bushel, prescribed by the law of the state. Dishonesty, not often easily proved, could be practiced by mixing in grain of the same kind and of inferior quality. Then, too, it might not be noticed by the patrons of the mill, if the toll taken out was a little in excess of what was legal. In the latter particular there was some times pleasantry indulged in at a miller's expense, namely, that he had made a mistake, kept the grist and sent back the toll. No suspicion of that sort' ver attached to Linus, for he was honesty personified. In the last years of his
life he resided in Ansonia, and died and was buried there, in an unmarked grave. While I resided there, some twenty years after his death, I witnessed the disinterring of his remains, which his sisters, Mrs. Russell Bristol and Mrs. Selden White, caused to be transferred to the Canton Center burying-ground, where are buried many of the family connections. It was not easy to make a mistake in the removal of those bones, for he was a very tall man, and the undecayed auburn hair was a further proof of identity. So tall was Linus that there was a saying in reference to tall people, " As tall as Linus," and it
would have been equally appropriate, in speaking of up right men, to have said, " Honest as Linus." I was
informed that his death may have been hastened by an operation to help his impediment of speech, performed in New York.
Reminiscences, Sylvester Barbour, 1908
https://www.cga.ct.gov/hco/books/Reminiscences.pdf

Linus declared bankruptcy in 1842.