Draft:Christopher L. Avery

Christopher L. Avery (September 4, 1872 – May 6, 1956) was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1930 to 1942.

"...fifth of six children born to Christopher Lester Avery and Ellen Barber Copp, and it is said that he acquired his unusual powers of concentration very early in life by studying in the midst of a large and distracting family. He received his elementary education in the grammar schools of Groton and was graduated from the Norwich Free Academy in 1889, from Yale College in 1893, and, after teaching history for a year in a small Kentucky college, from the Yale Law School in 1897."

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Served in the United States navy during the Spanish–American War as quartermaster on the USS Jason.