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Men of Progress

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS

OF

Leaders in Business and Professional Life

IN AND OF THE

State of Dermont

COMPII,ED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OE
RICHARD HERNDON
EDITED BY
G. GRENVILLE BENEDICT

BOSTON
NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
1898

COPYRIGHT 1898
BY
RICHARD HERNDON

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

ADAMS, Ends, of Bennington, was born in
Heath, Franklin county, Massachusetts, March
i6, 1816, sou of Enos and Sarah (Dickinson)

ing bis energy and time for the supervision
and promotion of his varied business interests.
He was not a lawyer by profession, but he had
devoted considerable attention to the subject
and he possessed a keen understanding of the
law, which met all requirements in his business
as a manufacturer and as an investor.

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ENOS ADAMS.
Adams. He was one of four children, two sons
and two daughters, who with their parents have
all passed away, as indeed have most of his gene
ration. He was educated in the public schools,
but his training for active life was secured in
the school of experience. He was recognized
as an able and versatile business man, his busi
ness ventures having included quartz mining
and the production of mineral soap. He was also
an extensive lumber dealer, owning extensive
woodlands, and he was a large manufacturer
of mop handles. He was highly successful as
a business man, cool, sagacious, far-sighted,
devoting little attention to politics, but reserv-

ALDRICH, Walter Johnson, a leading phy
sician of St. Johnsbury, was born in Lyman,
New Hampshire, November 3, 1866, son of
Albert H. and Ruia (Tucker) Aldrich, both of

W. J. ALDRICH.
whom were of English descent. He attended
the district schools in his native town and early
became imbued with the determination to se
cure a thorough education. His father's means

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being limited, he worked his way through the
High School in Littleton, New Hampshire,
from which he graduated in 1885. He next
took a course in St. Johnsbury Academy, gradu
ating in 1888. He chose medicine as his pro
fession, and studied with Dr. J. D. Folsom for
a time, after which he entered Dartmouth Medi
cal College, remaining there during the winter
of 1889-90. In the fall of 1890 he entered
Bellevue College, from which he graduated in
1893, and in March of the same year he located
in St. Johnsbury. He has made a specialty of
obstetrics and diseases of women, and has built
up a large and lucrative practice. He attributes
his gratifying success to the careful attention
which he has devoted to every case placed in
his charge. Dr. Aldrich's demonstrated pro
fessional ability has won for him a number of
positions of responsibility and honor, as well
as an enviable position in his community. He
is Health Officer of the town and village of St.
Johnsbury ; member for Caledonia county of
the State Sanitary Association, and President
of the Caledonia County Sanitary Association.
He is Surgeon (with the rank of Major) of
Vermont Regiment, No. i. Uniform Rank
Knights of Pythias ; is a member of Apollo
Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of St. Johnsbury ;
of Green Mountain Commandery, Golden Cross ;
and belongs to the St. Johnsbury Medical and
Surgical Club. He is an earnest Republican
but while holding the exercise of the right of
suffrage to be a sacred duty, he has not sought
political office. Dr. Aldrich was joined in mar
riage with Flora M., youngest daughter of Dr.
J. D. Folsom, on November i, 1893; and one son:
James Folsom Aldrich, is the fruit of their union.

army for six months, and at the expiration of
his time he re-enlisted for a period of three
years. He fought at Hubbardton, Stillwater,
Monmouth and Saratoga, and was present at
the surrender of Burgoyne. He spent the win-

ANDREWS, John Atwood, of Johnson, son
of Asa and Jane (Hogg) Andrews, was born in
New Boston, New Hampshire, January 17, 1825.
Abner Hogg, maternal grandfather of the sub
ject of this sketch, who was of Scotch descent,
was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire,
February 15, 1759. In 1764 his father's family
moved to New Boston where he continued to
live until the time of his death. When seven
teen years old he enlisted in the Continental

J. A. ANDREWS.
ter of 1777-8 at Valley Forge, and in recogni
tion of his soldierly zeal and fidelity during
that trying period he was voted a month's extra
pay by Congress. At the conclusion of the war
he returned to New Boston, and he represented
that town in the Legislature when he was
eighty-five years of age. He died in 1856.
When John A. was three years of age his
father, who was a farmer, moved to Johnson,
Vermont, hoping to better his condition; but he
found many difficulties with which to contend
in the comparatively new country. The son
received his early education in the common
schools, and later pursued his studies at the
Lamoille County Grammar School. At the age
of twenty-one he purchased a farm about half
a mile west of the village, where he has since
resided, and where his parents found a hospi
table home until their death. His homestead
is pleasantly located on the Lamoille river and
it commands a broad view of the surrounding

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country. Mr. Andrews, who is a Republican,
was elected to represent his town in the Legis
lature in 1882, and was one of the members of
the House Committee on Education. He was
Assistant Judge of Lamoille County Court foi*
four terms. Judge Andrews was united in mar
riage, March 28, 1844, with Angeline, daughter
of Daniel and Lydia Scott (Eaton) Davison of
Craftsbury, Vermont, and four children have
been born to them: Sumner A.; Lydia (now
Mrs. Lindley FuUington) ; Abner (who died in
infancy) ; and Wallace Gale Andrews, of Mont-
pelier.

ARMS, George, of New York, was born in
Grafton, Vermont, December 12, 1829, son of
Selah R. and Eliza (Ames) Arms. During his

boyhood he attended the district school in Wind
ham, Vermont, and he remained on his father's
farm until he was twenty-one years of age. He
then went to Chicopee, Massachusetts, where he
entered the employ of the Ames manufacturing
Company, first in the shops as a workingman,
and later in the office, beginning at the very
bottom. His rise was rapid and for a num
ber of years later on he had entire manage

ment ofthe business, which was very complica
ted, including the building of heavy machinery
and bronze statuary, as well as the construction
of the most delicate appliances. The work of
the firm during this period comprised the fitting
up of the national armories of England, Spain
and other countries, the manufacture of rifles,
swords and other lighter weapons as well as
heavy cannon. He has resided in New York
city since 1875, and he has become thoroughly
identified with the life of the metropolis, being
a member of the Engineers' and Olympic Clubs,
of the American Geographical Society aud of
the Museum of Art. In politics he was a Whig
until 1 860, when he became a Republican and he
has been identified with that party up to the
present time, having been elected by it to the
Massachusetts Legislature for one term. From
1875 until 1893 he was engaged in the manufac
ture of rubber goods for mechanical appliances,
and he has also found wide demand for his ser •
vices as adviser in hydraulic and mechanical
engineering.

AVERILL, George Carpenter, a leading
banker of Brattleboro, was born in Thomaston,
Connecticut, October 28, 1857, son of Reverend
James and Sylvira A. (Carpenter) Averill. His
ancestors, both paternal and maternal, were of
English descent, and were among the early set
tlers of Missachusetts. He received his education
in the common schools and the high school of
Greenfield, Massachusetts, graduating from the
last-named institution in 1873. He at once en
tered the First National Bank of Greenfield as
clerk, and was later promoted bookkeeper, re
taining the position until 1880. He then became
Teller of the First National Bank of Northamp
ton, Massachusetts, where he remained until
1885, resigning at that time to become Teller of
the Vermont National Bank of Brattleboro. This
move proved to have been a fortunate one for
him ; for repeated successes have come to him
in that thriving town. He was promoted to be
Cashier ofthe Vermont National Bank in 1886,
and his performance of the duties of that posi
tion was so faithful and efficient that in 1896 he
was made President of that institution, which

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position he still honors. He has seen his bank
attain a leading rank among New England's
financial institutions. It not only has an envi
able record for its proportion of surplus and

GEO C. AVERILL.
profits to capital, but it has also won distinction
by paying annual dividends of ten per cent to its
stockholders for many years. Mr. Averill has
been called to numerous positions of honor and
trust by his townspeople and by his county. He
has been County Treasurer as well as Treasurer
of his town and school districts, and of the Con
gregational Church and Society for a number of
years. He is one of the incorporators of both
of Brattleboro 's Savings Banks; a Director of
the Brattleboro Gaslight Company ; Treasurer
of the Brattleboro Home for the Aged and Dis
abled ; and Secretary and Treasurer of the Ver
mont Live Stock Company. He is a member of
the Masonic and Odd Fellows fraternities, and
belongs to the Vermont Wheel Club, one ofthe
most famous organizations of its character in
New England. He has always been a Republi
can, but has never been active in politics. He
was joined in marriage with Nellie E. Chubbuck
of South Boston, Massachusetts, October 12,
1881 ; and two children have been the fruit of
their union : Margaret C. and Richard C. Averill.

BECKETT, George, of Williamstown, was
born in that town, in 1833, son of William S.
and Polly (Pool) Beckett. The family traces
its lineage back through the centuries to Thomas
A. Becket, the eminent Prelate of the twelfth
century ; and that branch of the family to which
the subject of this sketch belongs, has been
actively identified through many years of faithful
service with the business and public interests of
Williamstown. William S. Beckett, the father,
was a prominent and highly respected citizen,
having filled various offices of trust and useful
ness within the gift of the town. He was Town
Clerk for thirty-five years ; Justice of the Peace
for thirty years ; Captain of the local militia
company ; and for four terms town Representa
tive in the State Legislature. George Beckett
received only a common school education, but
he has supplemented it by extensive reading
and intelligent self-culture. He has been enga
ged for many years in the harness business in
which he has amassed a modest competence, a

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GEORGE BECKETT.

portion of which he has invested in real estate
in his native town. He has been influential in
forming several stock companies, including the
Williamstown Construction Company and the

MEN OF PROGRESS.

Williamstown Granite Company, whose opera
tions have given marked impetus to the business
growth of the place. As Librarian for thirty
years he has well served the educational interests
of the town, and he has been an untiring worker
for the Williamstown Social Library. Mr. Beck
ett is Town Clerk and Treasurer, having held
these positions for about eighteen years, and he
is also Trustee of the public money. Mr.
Beckett is engaged in the granite business,
is one of the firm of Grearson, Beckett Company,
which firm employs from fifty to sixty men, and
sends their monuments to all parts of the United
States. This firm shipped during the year 1897
work to the value of forty-five thousand dollars,
and have the reputation of turning out as goud
work as any firm in the city of Barre or Mont-
pelier, Vermont. Mr. Beckett has taken a
prominent part in the religious and social life of
Williamstown, and he is a Deacon of the Con
gregational Church as well as Treasurer of the
Society. He was united in marriage with Belle
R. daughter of Calvin and Dolly Flint, in 1857 ;
and they have one son: Henry Beckett. Mr.
Beckett is a member of the Masonic Order. He
is social, benevolent and public spirited both by
nature and education, and he is intensely loyal
to all public interests and every worthy cause.

Booth, who is a zealous Republican, has taken
an active interest in the municipal affairs of
the city of Burlington, and he has repeatedly
been urged to allow the use of his name as a

BOOTH, Edward Judson, of Burlington,
was born in Waterloo, Province of Quebec,
July 6, 1852, son of John R. and Lydia
(Bickford) Booth, who were of Scotch ances
try. The subject of this sketch is a graduate
of Waterloo Academy, and also of the St.
Hyacinth French School. He lived on the
farm until he was sixteen years of age, after
whici he entered the dry goods business. At
the end of eleven years he became interested
in the lumber business, and he demonstrated
the possession of such marked executive abil
ity that at the end of a few years he was
placed in charge of an important part of J. R.
Booth's lumber business in Burlington. He was
promoted to General Manager of this large aggre
gation of lumber industries in 1893, and its suc
cess under his management has rendered neces
sary material enlargements of the plant. Mr.

E. J. BOOTH.
candidate for public office. He consented to
serve the city as a member of the Board of
Aldermen, in which capacity he continued four
years. He is also prominent in the social life
of Burlington, being a member of the Algon
quin and Ethan Allen clubs. He is a promi
nent Odd Fellow, being a Past Grand of Green
Mountain Lodge. In addition to his lumber
interests, Mr. Booth devotes attention to other
industries, and he is one of the Directors of the
Baldwin Refrigerator Company, one of Bur
lington's successful manufacturing industries.
Mr. Booth is a leading member of the Metho
dist Church, and a promoter of every worthy
cause. Mr. Booth was united in marriage with
Ina Viola Thompson, September 27, 1882.

BOOTH, Frank Wayla.nd, of Essex Junc
tion, was born in Essex, October 3, 1848, son of
Samuel C. and Eunice C. (Woodworth) Booth.
He traces his paternal ancestry to about the

MEN OF PROGRESS.

year 1700, when three brothers of that name
came to America from England, one settling in
Canada, another locating in New England and
the third going to the colonies further south and

F. W. BOOTH.
founding the family from which sprang Edwin
Booth, the great actor. The subject of this
sketch obtained his education in the common
schools and Essex Classical Institute. He had
no special training for business, but has found
an excellent teacher in experience ; and with
the exception of one year spent in the West he
has remained in the town of his birth. For
about nine years after beginning business for
himself he was engaged in cheese-making dur
ing each summer, devoting his winters to teach
ing. At the end of that period he located In
Essex Junction and engaged in the handling of
farm produce, in which he has achieved marked
success, being now known as the largest dealer
in eggs in Northern Vermont. Mr. Booth, who
is a thorough-going Republican, has taken an
active interest in public affairs, having held
about every office in the gift of his town. He
was a Selectman three years ; a member of the
School Board for three years, and is at present
Chairman of the Board of Village Trustees,

and a Justice of the Peace. He represented
his town in the Legislature in 1896, serving as
a member of the House Committee on Elec
tions ; and his service was both efficient and
creditable. He is a member of the Knights of
Pythias, of which he is Chancellor Commander.
Mr. Booth was united in marriage with Flora
A. Andrews, October 5, 1870, and two children
have been born to them : Clayton A., born
October 25, 1880; and S. Eveline Booth, born
August 4, 1888.

BROWN, Adna, of Springfield, was born in
Antrim, New Hampshire, December 11, 1828,
son of Isaac and Sarah (Flagg) Brown. Dur
ing his early boyhood he attended the common
schools of his native town, but at the age of
sixteen he left home to battle with the world.
He first entered a woolen mill to learn the busi
ness, but he soon gave this up to become a ma
chinist, at which trade he served an apprentice
ship. He rose rapidly, becoming in succession

adna brown.

Foreman, Superintendent and finally Manager in
the Parks & Woolson Machine Company of
which he is now the President. He has made
that concern a marked success, and he has in-

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troduced many improvements in cloth finishing
machinery, being the holder of many valuable
patents covering those inventions. He is Pres
ident of the Jones & Lamson Machine Com
pany, which has won an enviable reputation as
builder of the Hartness flat-turret lathe. He
organized the Springfield Electric Light Com
pany, and he was also active in the formation of
the Brown Hotel Company of which he is Pres
ident. This company, which was chartered
under the laws of the State in 1892, has erected
a handsome brick hotel, named in his honor
"The Adnabrown. " Through his untiring per
sonal effort the Springfield Electric Railroad
was built from Charlestown, New Hampshire,
to Springfield ; and it is pronounced one of the
best equipped passenger and freight electric
railroads in the country. Mr. Brown is one of
the principal owners and also President of the
road. Mr. Brown has always been a zealous
and active Republican, and while he has not
sought office, he has filled many responsible po
sitions, both local and state. In 1882 he repre
sented his town in the Legislature, and in i8go
he was elected a State Senator. He was one of
Vermont's delegates to the National Republi
can Convention in Minneapolis in 1892, and he
was a member of the committee which formu
lated the platform adopted by that body. In
1893 he received from Governor Fuller the
appointment of World's Fair Commissioner for
Vermont. Mr. Brown is a Congregationalist,
but he does not confine his religion to the
church. He believes in carrying his Christian
ity beyond the church doors and outside of the
boundaries of his denomination, being well
known for his active benevolence and his zeal
in the promotion of every worthy cause. Mr.
Brown has been an exten.sive traveler both in
America and abroad, and he has enjoyed many
rich experiences. In 1895 he made an extensive
Oriental tour, going through Egypt, Palestine
and Syria, and he has written and published a
charming and vivid story of his trip under the
title, "From Vermont to Damascus." Mr. Brown
was first married in 1850 to Mary, daughter of
Giles and Sarah (Bell) Newton of Antrim, New
Hampshire, who died in 1861. He married in

1863, Fannie G., daughter of Elijah Sabin and
Hannah (Savage) Woolson of Littleton, New
Hampshire. They have two children : Walter
Woolson, who married Pauline O'Connor of New
York and Belle Marion, the wife of Nelson Ray
Lawrence.

BURDETT, Jesse, of Rutland, was born in
Brookline, Vermont, January 19, 1826. He was
the son of Jacob Burdett and Rebecca Talbot.
His grandmother on the paternal side was Annie

JESSE BURDETT.
Simonds, a daughter of Jesse Simonds of Bel-
lerica, Massachusetts, who was the first organist
employed in Boston, and a composer of some
note. Jesse Burdett received his early educa
tion in the common schools of Newfane, where
the family resided during his boyhood. In his
youth he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and
followed that trade for several years. Later he
removed to Arlington, Vermont, and upon the
completion of the Western Vermont Railroad
in 1852, he was appointed a passenger conduc
tor on the road. His efficiency and genial tem
per won many friends for him in this capacity,
and in 1854 he was appointed a conductor on the

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Troy & Boston Railroad, where he remained
until i860 when he was offered and accepted a
similar position on the Hudson River Railroad.
In the following year he was made Trainmaster
of that important road, and later was appointed
Assistant Superintendent of the Hudson River
Railroad. In 1871 he was appointed Superin
tendent of the Rutland division of the Ver
mont Central Railroad, which position he filled
with ability and success for twenty-five years.
In 1896, when the Rutland Railroad Company
resumed possession of the Rutland Railroad, he
was appointed General Superintendent of the
road, and held that position until his death,
which occurred in Rutland, February 23, 1897,
and brought sorrow to a wide circle of friends.
In politics Mr. Burdett was a Democrat.
Though never seeking civil office, he held va
rious town offices in Arlington and represented
that town in the Legislature in 1867. He was
a member and Vestryman in St. James's Pro
testant Episcopal Church in Arlington for more
than twenty years, and was Senior Warden of
the same at the time of his death. On Octo-'
ber 21, 1851, he married Cornelia C, daughter
of John B. and Amanda (Hill) Lathrop. A
son, John Lathrop Burdett, who is Paymaster
on the New York Central & Hudson River Rail
road, was the fruit of this marriage.

Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hamp
shire. He entered Dartmouth College and
graduated in 1878 with excellent rank as a
scholar. Selecting medicine as his profession.

CAVERLY, Charles Solomon, Physician,
Rutland, was born in Troy, New Hampshire,
September 30, 1856, son of Abiel Moore and
Sarah L. (Goddard) Caverly. The Caverly fam
ily has lived in New Hampshire for nearly two
hundred years. Philip Caverly, great-great
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, of Bar-
rington. New Hampshire, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War. Abiel M., father of Charles
S., was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, edu
cated at Dartmouth Medical College and at Jeff
erson Medical College, Philadelphia, and prac
ticed his profession in Troy, New Hampshire,
and Pittsford, Vermont. He was the author of
the town histories of those towns, which are
standard historical authorities. Charles S. Cav
erly attended the High schools in Pittsford and
Brandon, Vermont, and fitted for college at

c. s. caverly.
he entered the Medical Department of Univer
sity of Vermont, from which he received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine in 188 1. He
continued his studies in New York city at the
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and under
private instruction for a year and a half, and
then, in January 1883, commenced practice in
Rutland, where he has remained in an extensive
and successful practice until the present time.
His prominence in his profession may be indi
cated by mention of various offices which he has
been selected to fill. Among these are Health
Officer of Rutland ; Assistant Surgeon, P'irst
Regiment Vermont National Guard ; Member of
the Vermont Board of Health and its President
since March 1891 ; President of the Rutland
County Medical Society, 1893 ; President of the
Vermont State Medical Society 1892 ; Director
in the Rutland Hospital Association ; Consult
ing Physician to the Rutland Hospital and the
Proctor Hospital, Proctor, Vermont, and Physi
cian to the Vermont House of Correction. He

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is a member of the American Medical Associa
tion and of the American Public Health Associ
ation. In politics he is a Republican ; but has
never sought or accepted a political office. Dr.
Caverly is the author of numerous papers on
medical topics which have been read before
various medical societies, and have attracted
much attention. He travelled extensively in
Europe in 1897, visiting European hospitals,
studying methods of sanitation and the health
departments of foreign cities. He is recognized
as one of the leading physicians of Vermont.
Dr. Caverly was married November 5, 1885, to
Miss Mabel A. Tuttle, of Rutland. They have
one son : Harley T. Caverly, born March 24,
1887.

CHITTENDEN, Edward Alonzo, St. Al
bans, was born in Williston, August 8, 1841, son of
Truman Alonzo and Betsey (Rhodes) Chittenden.
No Vermonter has a more distinguished lineage.

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EDW. A. CHITTENDEN.
The Chittendens are of Welsh extraction, the
family name in its former Welsh form signifying
a castle or stronghold between mountains. The
first American immigrant of the family was

William Chittenden, who came from Cranbrook,
Kent, England, with an English colony, to New
England, and settled in Guilford, Connecticut,
in 1639. He was the " Principal Military Man"
of the settlement and one of four men who con
stituted the Board of Control for the Colony.
His grandson, who was the great-grandfather of
Colonel E. A. Chittenden, was Thomas Chitten
den, of Salisbury, Connecticut, a leader and
Colonel of Militia in that province ; pioneer of
Vermont; President of the Council of Safety
which exercised all the powers of government,
executive, judicial and legislative, during the
formative period of the state ; first Governor of
Vermont, and nineteen times elected Governor
of the New Commonwealth. His wife was
Elizabeth Meigs, daughter of Captain Janna
Meigs and grand-daughter of Major Simon Wil
lard, both of Colonial renown. Of their family
of ten children, Martin, the second son, grand
father of the subject of this sketch, graduated at
Dartmouth, represented Williston in the Legis
lature, was Clerk of the County Court, Judge of
the same, Major-General of the Militia, member
of Congress for ten years, and Governor of Ver
mont 1813-15. His wife was Anna Bentley.
Their son, Truman A. Chittenden, was Town
Clerk and Treasurer of Williston, and Justice of
the Peace from 1854 to 1870, and Postmaster
from 1853 until his death in 1870. He offered
his resignation of this office when Fort Sumter
was fired upon ; but retained it in consequence
of a petition and remonstrance, drawn up by the
leaders ofthe three political parties, and signed
by nearly all the voters in the town. Edward
A. Chittenden received his early education in
the common schools and in Williston Academy.
He entered on his business career as clerk in
the railroad office at Rouses Point, New York,
in May 1864, and was appointed Station Agent
at the same point in the following year. In
August 1870 he was appointed as assistant in
the department of lost freight and freight cars,
of the Central Vermont Railroad Company, and
three months later was promoted to the chief
charge of that department. In March 1878, he
was appointed Superintendent of the local and
joint freight traffic of the Central Vermont line.

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with his headquarters at St. Albans. In
February 1892, he was advanced to the office of
General Freight Agent of the Central Vermont
Railroad, which important position he now holds,
discharging its duties with high efficiency and
success. He was Aid-de-Camp on the staff of
Governor Horace Fairbanks, 1876-7, with the
rank of Colonel. Having such an ancestry, it
is not surprising that Colonel Chittenden should
have a prominent place in the societies formed
to preserve historic memories. He was a charter
member and the first President of the Vermont
Society of Sons of the American Revolution.
He was one of the founders of the Vermont
Society of Colonial Wars and Deputy Governor-
General for Vermont of the National Society of
Colonial Wars. He is also a member of the
Society of Foreign Wars. In politics he is a
Republican, but has never sought or accepted
civil office. He was married at Rouses Point, New
York, June 7, 1871, to Achsa Adeline North.
They have no children. Colonel Chittenden is
a courteous aud genial gentleman, and stands
high in the respect and esteem of all who know
him.

COLVIN, Harvey Edmund, one of the lead
ing physicians in Burlington, was born in Ches
terfield, Essex county. New York, March 20,
1854. His father, Daniel Colvih, was descend
ed from English ancestors who settled in New
York, and his mother's maiden name was Betsey
Brown. His early life was spent on his father's
farm, and his educational advantages during
that period of his life were such as the district
school afforded. After taking a course in the
High School in Keeseville, New York, he en
tered the Chicago Homoeopathic Medical Col
lege from which he graduated with high honors
on March 30, 1880. He located in Burlington
on the loth day of the following November, and
from the very first he was successful in his pro
fession, acquiring a practice which includes
many of the city's leading families. In the
midst of his pressing professional duties Dr.
Colvin has found time to devote some attention
to the social side of life, and he is a member of
the Algonquin Club, one of the oldest social

organizations in Burlington, also of the Ameri
can Institute of Homoeopathy. In politics Dr.
Colvin is a Republican, but he has never con-

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H. E. COLVIN.

sented to hold political office, preferring to
devote his energies to his life's work as a
physician.

COPELAND, John Wesley, Lyndonville,
was born in Moretown, June 17, 1840, son of
Edmund and Mary Ann (Gladding) Copeland.
His paternal ancestors were English, the founder
of the family in this country having come to
America as early as 1630. His father, who was
a Methodist Episcopal minister in the Vermont
Conference for many years, died April 5, 1881,
aged seventy, and his mother died March 14,
1895, at the age of eighty-four. His general
education was obtained in the common schools
and in the Lyndon Academy, the Barre Acad
emy, the Montpelier Academy and the Newbury
Seminary. At the age of eighteen he entered a
store in Northfield as clerk, and he remained
there over four years, securing a business train
ing that has been of material use to him. In
August 1862, he responded to the call of his

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13

country, enlisting in the Twelfth Vermont Vol
unteers. He was made Corporal of Company
F, and served on the color guard. He was
discharged in July 1863, and soon after began

Abigail Sanborn, of Lyndonville, November 10,
1868, but no children were the fruit of their
union. Mrs. Copeland died November 18, 1895.

DERBY, Albert, Manufacturer, Bellows
Falls, was born in Walpole, New Hampshire,
July 4, 1830, son of Ephraim and Elizabeth
(Whitney) Derby. He is of English ancestry,
but has not traced his genealogy. His early
education was obtained in the public schools,
and he assumed the duties of life for himself
with no training except that furnished by expe
rience. In 1857 at the age of only twenty-seven
he engaged in the manufacture of agricultural
tools and implements, and he has continued that
business to the present time, having established
a large and profitable trade. He has persist
ently refused to become a candidate for public
office, preferring to devote his attention exclu-
siveljr to his business interests. He is a member

J. W. COPELAND.
the study of medicine. He attended a course of
lectures in the University of Michigan in 1864-5,
and graduated from the Medical Department of
the University of Vermont June 6, 1866. Dr.
Copeland located in Lyndonville in October of
the same year, and he has remained there to
the present time, enjoying a large and lucrative
practice. He has never had political aspira
tions and has held no public office of importance,
but he has become prominent in the business
affairs of his town, having been one of the Trus
tees of the Lyndon Savings Bank from the time
of its organization in 1885 to the present, and
now holding the position of Vice President of
that institution. He is also a Director of the
Lyndonville National Bank, having served in
that capacity ever since the bank was organized
in 1864. He is a Mason and is a member of
P*arnsworth Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
Lyndonville, of which he was elected Com
mander in 1897. He was joined in wedlock
with Martha A., daughter of Benjamin and

albert DERBY.
ofthe Masonic fraternity, and in politics is a
Democrat. Mr. Derby was married on January
I, 1856, to Martha P. Russell, and they have
one daughter : Minnie F. , who is now Mrs.
George M. Rassman.

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

FAIRMAN, Erastus Philo, Physician,
Hardwick, was born in Albany, Vermont, July
15, 1828, son of Erastus and Susan (Mclntyre)
Fairman. His paternal great great-grandfather.

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county in 1860-61, having been elected by the
Republican party of which he is a zealous mem
ber. On September 29, 1852, he was united in
marriage with Laura Elmina Hubbell, and his
children by that marriage were Emma, Elmina,
Carrie Ezzella and Jennie Ellen Fairman. His
first wife having died, he married Eliza Cornelia
Bailey, September 29, 1861, and one daughter:
Carrie Emeline Fairman, was born of that union.
In May 1890, he moved to Hardwick, Vermont,
where he now resides.

FOLSOM, James D., St. Johnsbury, was born
in Wheelock, Vermont, July 3, 1828, son of
James Folsom, born in Exeter, New Hampshire,
and Lucy A. Sanborn, born in Sanbornton, New
Hampshire. The Folsom family is of English
extraction. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the common schools and at Lyndon,
Vermont, Academy. Selecting medicine as his
profession, he pursued medical studies under Dr.
Selim Newell and Dr. Benaish Sanborn, and after

erastus p. fairman.
Benjamin Fairman, came from Scotland to this
country and located in Soraers, Connecticut,
where a son, James, was born. The latter
settled in Killingly, Connecticut, and there John
Fairman, grandfather of the subject of this
sketch was born. Dr. Fairman's maternal grand
father, John Mclntj're, emigrated from Ireland
to America and settled in Lancaster, New Hamp
shire. His education was received in the public
schools, in the academies at Derby and Crafts-
bury, and at the St. Johnsbury Academy. He
chose medicine as his profession and graduated
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in
New York, March 3, 1854. He was a soldier
in the Union Army from April 9, 1864, to the
close of the war, serving as Assistant Surgeon
in the Ninth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers.
Practiced his profession in North Troy and
Wolcott, Vermont, previous to the Rebellion.
At the close of the war he located in Wolcott,
Vermont, and he represented that town in the
Legislature of 1874. He was Sheriff of Lamoille

J. D. folsom.
attending two courses of lectures at the Wood
stock, Vermont, Medical School, and a course
at the Medical Department of Dartmouth Col
lege, he received the degree of Doctor of Medi-

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IS

cine from the latter in 1849. He took a post
graduate course at Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, in 1862. Dr. Folsom began the
practice of medicine at Lyndon, Vermont, in
1849 ; removed thence to Guildhall, Vermont,
and in 1852 established himself at Lancaster,
New Hampshire, where he remained in success
ful practice for twenty years. In 1872 he re
moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, which has
since been his home. In addition to the de
mands of an exacting profession, Dr. Folsom
has accepted various calls to civil offices of
responsibility. He represented the town of
Lancaster in the New Hampshire Legislature in
1863-4. He held the offices of Justice of the
Peace, and Chairman of the School Board at
Lancaster. His patriotic instincts led him to
take an active part in the war for the Union,
commencing as Examining Surgeon of recruits,
under Governor Berry, and later serving as
Surgeon of the Seventeenth Regiment of New
Hampshire Volunteers. He was Pension Ex
aminer during the administrations of Presidents
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur. He is an active
member of the Masonic Order, having been
Master of North Star Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons of Lancaster, and a member of North
Star Cammandery of Knights Templar. He is
also a member of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows. He was a prominent member of
the White Mountain Medical Society and later
of the Caledonia County Medical Society. He
was one of the founders and the first President
of the St. Johnsbury Medical and Surgical Club.
He is a Congregationalist in religious prefer
ence. Dr. Folsom was married on January 8,
1 85 1, to Miss Flora Newell, daughter of Judge
C. C. Newell, of East Burke, Vermont. They
have four children : Lelia E., wife of E, L.
Stanley of Brooklyn, New York ; J. Irving,
pharmacist, of St. Johnsbury ; Nellie A., wife
of F. G. Bundyof St. Johnsbury, and Flora M.,
wife of Dr. W. J. Aldrich of St. Johnsbury,
Vermont.

John Gleed, a native of Lyme Regis, Dorset
shire, England, and Elizabeth Prettyjohn. Re
moving to Morrisville where his older brother,
Hon. Thomas Gleed, was a leading lawyer, he

GLEED, Philip King, of Morrisville, was
born in Granby, Province of Quebec, Septem
ber 10, 1834. He was the son of Reverend

p. K. GLEED.
was educated in the People's Academy, Morris
ville, and Bakersfield Academy. Graduating
from the Troy Conference Academy, Poultney,
in 1855, he entered Union College, New York,
and graduated with honor in 1859. After teach
ing district school in Morrisville for a term,
during which he was pursuing his studies in law,
he was admitted to the Bar of Lamoille county
in 1859. He speedily made his mark in his
profession, and practiced it with honor and suc
cess throughout the remainder of his useful life.
He was called to various important offices of
responsibility and trust. He was States Attor
ney for Lamoille county in 1867-8 and in 1880-2.
He represented the town in the Legisla
ture in i868-g. In 1869 he was elected Trus
tee of the State Reform School. From 1870-4
he held the office of Assessor of Internal Rev
enue. He was State Senator and President pro
tem. of the Senate in 1 880-1, and was State
Commissioner of Taxes 1890-2. For many
years he served with marked ability on the

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

Republican State Committee, and was considered
one of the leaders of the Republican party in
Vermont. In local affairs he was prominent
and eminently useful. He was a Selectman of
the town for many years. He was an efficient
member of the School Board ; a Village Trus
tee ; a Director in the Lamoille County National
Bank at Hyde Park, and filled all these and
other positions with ability and fidelity. He
was a member of the Congregational Church,
of which he was a Deacon, and for twenty -five
years was Superintendent of the Sunday-school
connected with that church. He was also a
member of Mount Vernon Lodge No. 8, Free
and Accepted Masons. He died of valvular
disease of the heart, June 29, 1897, in the sixty-
third year of his age. During his funeral all
business was suspended in Morrisville and the
members of the Lamoille County Bar attended
in a body. Mr. Gleed was twice married, first
to Miss Ellen Fuller, October 10, 1861. Two
children: Mary and George Gleed, both de
ceased in early life, were the fruit of this mar
riage. Second, to Mrs. Laura A. Fleetwood,
who survives him.

GREENE, Ceylon Lafayette, Middlebury,
was born in Starksboro, Vermont, July 23, 1S60,
son of John T. and Melissa (Bagley) Greene.
His paternal grandparents were John W. and
Lydia (Turner) Greene, who were natives
of Weare, New Hampshire, and his mother's
parents were Daniel and Betsey (Blaisdell)
Bagley of Hanover, New Hampshire. His early
education was secured in the common schools in
Bristol, Vermont. In 1884 he formed a partner
ship with George A. Thayer for the purpose of
carrying on a lumber business in Lincoln, Ver
mont, and in 1890 he organized the Lincoln
Lumber Company, of which he was a Director.
Three years later he severed his connection
with that enterprise in order to become special
agent of the New York Mutual Life Insurance
Company, and in 1896 he moved to Middlebury
where he has since resided. Mr. Greene has
shown marked ability in the insurance business,
and representing, as he does, one of the strong

est financial institutions on the continent, he has
in prospect a highly successful career. Mr.
Greene is a Republican in politics. He is a
prominent Mason, being a member of Libanus

C. L. GREENE.
Lodge No. 47 of Bristol; of Gifford Chapter
No. 23 of Bristol, and of Mt. Calvary Com
mandery No. I, of Middlebury. He is also a
member of Lake Dunmore Lodge No. 11, Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows of Middlebury,
and he belongs to the Maplewood Club, the
leading social organization of that place. On
December 2, 1885, he was joined in marriage
with Katherine Kelton of Bristol.

HARTSHORN, James Ernest, Physician
of St. Johnsbury, was born in Lunenburgh,
Vermont, August 26, 1865, son of Levi B.
and Sylvia White (Balch) Hartshorn. He
boasts of distinguished ancestry, his great-
grandparents, both paternal and maternal, who
were of Puritan stock, having been among the
early settlers of Vermont. A number of these
ancestors fought in the War of the Revolution,

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17

aud they took a prominent part in public affairs,
State as well as local. The subject of this
sketch attended the district schools in Lunen
burgh and St. Johnsbury, and he graduated

•m^.

JAMES E. hartshorn
from the St. Johnsbury Academy in 1SS4. In
the fall of the same year he entered the Medi
cal Department of the University of Vermont,
and after remaining in that institution one year
he went to Bellevue Medical College, New
York, from which he graduated in 18S7. After
receiving his degree, he served several mouths
on the staff of the Bellevue Hospital, but soon
left that institution to take the position of ex
amining pliysicain in the Department of Pub
lic Charities and Correction of New York city.
He held that position for two years, and resigned
at the end of that period for the purpose of
beginning the practice of his profession in St.
Johnsbury. Dr. Hartshorn has been eminently
successful, having built up a large practice and
become a leader in his profession in Xorthern
Vermont. In iSo4he sold his general practice
in order to devote his attention exclusively to
special work, making tlie eye and ear his speci
alty. In order to fit himself for this work he
spent one year in the New York Cpthalmic and

Aural Hospital, of which he is a graduate. In
the following \-ear he continued his studies in
London (at the great Moorfield's) in Holland
under Professor Snelling, and Paris, Berlin and
Vienna. In July 1S96, he re-opened his office
in St. Johnsburj' for practice as a specialist in
diseases of the e^e and the ear, and has achiev
ed marked success. In politics he has always
been stronglj' Republican. Dr. Hartshorn is
unmarried.

HARMAN, George Washington, of Ben
nington, was born in Pawlet, Rutland count3'.
May 7, 1S12. His parents were Nathaniel and
Alice (Hascall) Harmau. Through his father
he was the sixth in descent from John Harman,
born in England about 1620, who was one of the
early settlers of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Through his mother he was the seventh in de
scent from Governor William Bradford, of the
Plymouth Colony. Ezekiel Harman, grandfather
of the subject of this sketch, removed in 1774
to Pawlet from Suffield, Connecticut, which had
been the famih' home for four generations, and
married Lydia Harmon in the following year.
He was a Deacon of the Congregational Church
and for many years a Justice of the Peace. His
son, Nathaniel Harman, was admitted to the
Rutland Count3' Bar, at the March term, 1S03,
and practiced law for over forty years. He
was a member of the Council of Censors in 1S34,
and ofthe Constitutional Convention in 1836. He
was a Justice of the Peace during a long period,
and was highly esteemed for his judicial ability
and his sturdy independence in the discharge of
public duties. He adopted that spelling of his
surname which his inquiries led him to believe
was its correct original form, and it has been
followed by his descendants. George W Har
man received his early education iu the common
schools of his native town, also at a local Acad
emy, and under a private teacher. He roamed
the forests with dog and gun, and studied nature
by himself while he studied law in his father's
office. He was admitted to the Rutland County
Bar at the September term, 1S33, and practiced
law in that county until 1S4S, enjoying a con
stantly increasing practice. He married, Octo-

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

ber 12, 1836, Miss Laura A. Penfield, of Pitts
ford, Vermont, with whom he lived for more
than sixty- one years. He was a member of the
Constitutional Convention in 1843. About Jan-

GEORGE W. HARMAX.
nary i, 1848, he removed to Bennington, having
accepted the position of Cashier of the Stark
Bank, a State institution then recently establish
ed, of which Hon. William S. Southworth, after
wards agent of the Lawrence Manufacturing
Company, Lowell, Massachusetts, was Presi
dent. That institution was quite prosperous at
first, but having increased its capital beyond
the demands of the local community, it had to
seek western investments and lost heavily. It
continued in business, however, until 1867,
when its existence ended by reason of the Na
tional Banking Act. Mr. Harman remained in
its service to the last, at the same time being
engaged in an increasing law practice, and con
tinning his professional work afterwards until
advancing years caused him gradually to with
draw from active labor. As a lawyer he was
careful, accurate, painstaking and methodical.
His knowledge of the statutes and decisions of
his own State was unusual. While he affected

no special line of practice, his banking connec
tions naturally led him into corporation, finan
cial and commercial litigation. In business
matters he happily combined conservatism with
progressive energy. His ability as a framer of
legal and public documents was well known and
acknowledged. Most of the leading manufac
turers and prominent business men of his vicinity
found him at one time or another their trusted
counsellor ; and many of the statutes which
affected the welfare of his community received
their wording from his pen. When the Ben
nington County Savings Bank was organized, in
1878, he became connected with it, was its
Treasurer for a number of years, and its Secre
tary until the time of his decease. He was
active in local matters, especially in connection
with the movement for better schools. He
held various town and school offices ; was the
first Judge of the Municipal Court of the Village
of Bennington ; was the Secretary and a Di
rector of the Bennington & Rutland Railway
Company for many years, and until his decease.
In politics he was a Whig in early life, and a
Republican from the organization of that party.
He was fond of historical research and made
many journeys to examine ancient records, so
that he might be certain upon mooted points.
For a number of years he was President of the
Bennington Historical Society. He was one of
the founders of the Vermont State Bar Associa
tion, a Vice-President of it for several years,
not seldom its presiding officer, and always
attended its meetings ; being for years one of
three venerable members whose annual presence
there was a continual inspiration. With one
exception he was the oldest member of the Bar
in the State at the time of his decease. He
prepared several historical papers for that body,
and was a frequent contributor on historical
subjects to various local and other journals. He
was a regular attendant of the Congregational
Church. Down to within six weeks of his de
cease he enjoyed a remarkably vigorous old
age, in full possession of all his faculties and
able to attend regularly to his ordinary business.
He died at his home March 29, 1898, in the
eighty-sixth year of his age.

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10

HARRIS, Broughton Davis, of Brattleboro,
was born in Chesterfield, New Hampshire,
August i6, 1822, son of Wilder and Harriet
(Davis) Harris. The family, like most of the

ft,
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broughton D. HARRIS.
old families of New England, is of English
descent. Arthur Harris came to the Massachu
setts Colony about 1635, and in 1640 was living
in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Afterwards he was
one of the original proprietors of the town of
Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and still later re
moved to Boston, where he was a prominent
business man. He died there in 1696, His
descendants were all born in New England, and
most of them in Massachusetts and Connecticut,
until Abner Harris (of the fifth generation from
Arthur) removed from Woodstock, Connecticut,
in 1777 to Chesterfield, New Hampshire. He
had eleven children, the second of whom John,
married Hannah Colburn, by whom he had
eleven children, of whom Wilder Harris was
the eighth. He was a farmer, builder and lum
ber merchant, till he retired from business in
1865, and removed across the Connecticut river
to Brattleboro, where his son, Broughton D.,
had established himself twenty odd years be
fore and become a prominent citizen. Brough

ton D. Harris received his early education in
the common schools, in Chesterfield Academy,
and in the Kimball Union Academy at Meriden,
New Hampshire. He entered Dartmouth Col
lege in 1S41, and graduated in 1845, with high
honor, receiving an election to the Phi Beta
Kappa Society, accorded only to students in the
first rank as scholars. He was also a member
of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. After grad
uating, he studied law in the office of the late
Judge Asa Keyes of Brattleboro; but before com
mencing practice he was tempted into journal
ism, and became the editor of the Vermont
Phoenix, which he edited for two years. In
1847, with the late William B. Hale, he estab
lished the Semi Weekly Eagle at Brattleboro,
with which and the weekly Eagle, he was con
nected as editor for eight years, during which
the Eagle was an able and leading Whig Journal .
In the fall of 1850, upon the unsolicited recom
mendation of Senators Collamer and Foot, Mr.
Harris was appointed Secretary of the new ter
ritory of Utah, of which Brigham Young was
the Governor, and until Mr. Harris' arrival at
Salt Lake City, the unquestioned autocrat. The
Governor and Secretary were soon in collision,
Mr. Harris was threatened with assassination,
but refused to yield, and in the following sum
mer resigned. He restored to the United States
Treasury the money appropriated by the Gov
ernment for the territory, the disposition of
which had been the chief bone of contention,
and in connection with the United States Judges
of the territory, who returned to Washington
with him, made a report to the President, recom
mending action which if taken would have
strangled the hydra of Mormonism. Soon after
he was appointed territorial Secretary and acting
Governor of New Mexico, but declined the
office. Subsequently to this for more than
twenty years, Mr. Harris, as the senior member
of the firm of Harris Brothers and Company,
railroad contractors and builders, was engaged
in railway construction in five states of the
Union. The Wisconsin Central, the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy, the Plattsburg & White
hall, the Buffalo & Suspension Bridge, the Che
nango & Alleghany, the Brattleboro & London-

MEN OF PROGRESS.

derry, the St. Louis, Jerseyville & Springfield,
and the Pittsburg, McKeesport & Youghio-
ghany roads were all built in whole or part
by this firm. While always interested in state
affairs, Mr. Harris has seldom permitted his
name to be used as a candidate for civil office.
He was Register of Probate for the Marlboro
District of Windham county 1847-9. He was
a leading State Senator in one of the ablest
State Senates ever assembled in Vermont with
George F. Edmunds, Paul Dillingham, Asahel
Peck, John W. Stewart, Charies W. Willard,
F. E. Woodbridge and Thomas E. Powers. He
was one of the Vermont members of the
famous Peace Congress of i86r, just before the
outbreak of the Civil War. He has been a
Trustee of the Brattleboro Savings Bank from
its organization, and its President since 1880.
Mr. Harris is a man ofthe highest integrity, of
marked independence of character, a Republi
can in Dolitics, yet holding the public welfare
above party, and he is held in high regard by a
host of friends. He married in March 185 1,
Sarah B. Hollister of New York. They have
one child: Mary Buell, wife of John Seymour
Wood, Esq., of New York city.

1849 the road was opened to Montpelier and Mr.
Hobart was appointed Station Agent at that
point. After ten years of faithful service in
that capacity he was rewarded with the appoint-

HOBART, John White, St. Albans, was
born in Randolph, August 23, 1829, son of
Thomas and Mary (Packard) Hobart; and he
died October 17, 1897. The subject of this
sketch was of English ancestry, having been a
descendant of John White, who came from Eng
land in the Mayflower. He was educated at
the Orange County Grammar School and at
Thetford Academy under the tuition of Hiram
B. Orcutt. His early life was spent in part on
the farm, but before reaching man's estate he
was exhibiting those traits of character which
were to bring him grand success later in life.
In 1846 he went to Boston, Massachusetts, and
secured a position as clerk in a store, but in
the following year when he was eighteen he
entered the employ of the Vermont Central Rail
road, having a position in the train department.
For a period of several months before the com
pletion of the road in 1848 he had more or less
to do with the construction of the line. In

JOHN W. hobart.
ment of Master of Transportation in March,
1859. He held this position until 1864 when
he was appointed General Freight Agent of the
road, and in 1873 he was made General Super
intendent of the Central Vermont system. The
growth of the road and the extension of its
branch lines furnished a large field, requiring
more extended supervision, and in 1883 Mr.
Hobart was appointed General Manager of the
Central Vermont system. Continued applica
tion to his arduous duties finally began to tell
upon his health in spite of his strong constitu
tion, and on June i, 1 891, he resigned his posi
tion, having been in the employ ofthe company
for forty-three years. During a considerable
portion of his service as General Superintend
ent and General Manager of the Central Ver
mont system the railroad management was har-
rassed by vexatious litigation, which made
heavy demands upon the time and ability of
the President, the late Ex-Governor J. Gregory
Smith, and compelled him to depend largely

MEN OF PROGRESS.

and at times almost entirely on Mr. Hobart for
tho general oversight of the affiiirs of the road.
His reputation as an able and progressive rail
road manager extended far beyond the borders
of his native Slate, and he several times re
ceived flattering offers from other large corpor
ations, notably the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
1\\ and the New Orleans and Mobile. These
otYers with the promise of large salaries would
have persuaded many less selfish natures, bnt
through it all his loyalty to the Central Ver
mont never flagged, his only position in con
nection with a railroad outside of the Green
Mountain State having been the Presidency of
the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain. Mr. Ho
bart was a Republican, but he did not a.^pire to
public otiice, the only political position held by
him having been that of member of the State
Constitutional Convention in iS;o. He was a
Mason, and was District Deputy Grand Master
one term. He was united in marriage with
^[ary Jane, daughter of Luther and Mary
Jacobs (Lyman) Howe in Royalton, January iS,
1853, aud one son was born to llieni: Norman
I,. Hobart. Mr. Hobart was active in social
and religious circles, having been a ;:ealous
member of St. Lukes Episcopal cliurch. He
was also interested in the promotion of every
worthy cause, and he did much to promote the
growth and progre.^s of the coinninnity. He
commanded the respect and esieeiu of all the
emplojcs of the Central \enuont as well as his
associates, and he was deservedly popular
throughout the State

on the farm now owned by John Johnson. This
pioneer cleared and improved the fann with his
o\m hands, and he continued to reside on the
old home.-iiead until his death. The children

JOHNSON. William B.. of Essex Junction,
was bora in Jericho. Vermont. November 4,
1S40, son of Daniel and Sarah \^Marsha!l) John
son. His pate;iuil groat-grand lather, Nathan
Johnson, and his grandfather. Nathan Johnson,
came to this S:a;e from Windham county. Con
necticut, and settled in Wil'asion. where his
father was born. Daniel Johnson, son of Na
than aud Polly (Bennett) Johnson, was bora in
Williston, Veraionl. December ^0.1.^17. His
pateraal gT~andi"aiher, whose Christian name was
also D.vniel, was a native of Windham county,
Connecticut, who settled in Williston in 17S7.

WILLI. \M B. JOHNSON.
of this Daniel Johnson were Anna (who became
Mrs. Uriah Steveu.<V and Nathan. Nathan
Johnson came into possession of the old home
stead after the death of his father, on which he
resided during the remainder of his life. His
family included five children: Wi'.liam. I^anie',
John, M.iry and Mvron Johnson. Daniel
Johnson settled on tb.e home fann in 1S54.
and became a prosperous farmer. He r.i.-.rried
Sarah, daughter of Lewis and Mary (^Mead'i
Marshall ot Hinesbutgh, in iS,;o. and they
have had eight children Horatio S,, N.uhan,
Henry M.. Leonard .\., William B., SaralnMrs.
A. K. Read). Luella (Mrs. George Perry\ and
Marcia Johnson. William B. Johnson s mater
nal grandfather, Lewis Marsltall. was one of
the pioneers of H-nesbi-.r^b. The sr.b;ect of
this sketch was educated in the couuno:-. scV.ools
and Williston Academy, and he resided iu
Williston until 1S70 wher. he moved to Essex
Jv.-.iotion. b.avi-.-.g purchased the gristmill in the
latter place. He later added a wr.oles.Ue -'.nd

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

retail business in flour and feed to his milling
interests, becoming an extensive dealer in these
products. On January i, 1890, he purchased
the Essex Creamery which he has made the
second largest creamery in Vermont, with
branches at Essex Centre, Westford, Colches
ter, Shelburne and Shelburne Falls. The pro
duct of these creameries is five thousand pounds
of butter per annum. On March i, 1893, he
opened a commission house at 7 Blackstone
street, Boston, Massachusetts, under the firm
name of Wilson & Johnson, which has estab
lished an extensive business. Mr. Johnson was
one of the organizers of the Essex Co opera
tive Savings and Loan Association in 1890, and
he has been a Director and Loaning Committee
of that organization from the date of its incep
tion to the present time. From 1887 to 1890 he
was a member of the School Board of his town ;
Representative of his town in the Legislature
of 1892-3 ; and Lister of his town in 1895-6.
He was also one of the prime movers in the
oiganization of the People's Electric Light and
Power Company of Essex Junction, of which
he is one of the leading Directors. He is a
Mason, being a member of Webster Lodge No.
61, Free and Accepted Masons ; of Haswell
Lodge of Perfection, Fourteenth Degree; of J. W.
Roby Council, Princes of Jerusalem, Sixteenth
Degree; and of Vermont Consistory, S. P. R. S.
Thirty-second Degree. Politically he has al
ways been a thorough-going Republican, and is
one of the most public spirited men of his town.
Mr. Johnson was united in marriage with Lena,
the adopted daughter of Leonard A. Marshall
of Williston, Vermont, January 29, 1873, and
eight children have blessed their union :
Daniel M., born June 5, 1876; Alice B., born
February 7, 1881; HattteM. , born January 4,
1883; Sarah I., born November 28, 1887; William
B., Jr., born December 28, 1889, and Ethel M.,
born March 7, 1894, — all of whom are living.

vine, grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
removed to Vermont from Sterling, Massachu
setts, where Cornelius Jeudevine, father of
Alden E. was born November 2, 1776. He

JEUDEVINE, Alden Edson, was born in
Concord, Essex county, Vermont, August 4,
181 1. The family is of French origin, and the
name was formerly Judevine. William Jeude-

alden e. jeudevine.
(Cornelius) was an influential citizen, a Justice
of the Peace, a member of the Constitutional
Convention of 18 14, and represented the town
of Concord in the Legislature in 1815-16. Al
den E. had his schooling under the celebrated
instructor Reverend S. R. Hall, in the Concord
(Vermont) Academy. Arriving at manhood,
his active mind and energetic temperament dis
tinguished him among his fellows, and at the
age of twenty-one he was appointed Deputy
Sheriff, which office he held for seven years.
He was elected High Bailiff of Essex county
in 1835. Removing to Hardwick, Vermont, he
engaged in mercantile business, under the firm
name of Jeudevine & Company, later Holton
& Jeudevine. He soon attained prominence in
the town, and held various town offices of re
sponsibility. He was Town Clerk for seven
years and Selectman for ten years. In 1842 he
was appointed Postmaster of South Hardwick
by President John Tyler, and held that office
for twenty-three years, under the administra-

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tions of Presidents Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buch
anan and Lincoln. He was Assistant Justice of
the County court, 1850-51, and was a member
of the Constitutional Conventions of 1850, 1857
and 1870. He represented Hardwick in the
Vermont House of Representatives in 1853-54
and was State Senator for Caledonia county,
1866-67. These various offices he filled with
recognized intelligence, energy and capacity.
In April 1858, Mr. Jeudevine married Miss
Malvina M. Tuttle, daughter of Captain David
Tuttle and grand daughter of Reverend Amos
Tuttle, the first settled minister in Hardwick,
who survives him and is held in high regard by
all who know her. Four children were the fruit
of this marriage: Cornelius A., who died in
March 1878 at the age of seventeen years ;
Anna E., Edward Harvey and Harry Edson
Jeudevine, all of whom died in infancy. Mr.
Jeudevine died at Hardwick, Vermont, Feb
ruary 10, 1888, of apoplexy. By his will he
left one-fourth of his considerable estate to the
University of Vermont, to constitute a fund to
be loaned to indigent young men of good habits,
to assist them in obtaining a good liberal educa
tion. The object of the bequest was thus ex
pressed in his will : "To perpetuate the mem
ory of my late beloved son, Cornelius Alden
Jeudevine, who died without receiving that
liberal education which I intended he should
have, I desire to create a fund to be known as
the "Cornelius A. Jeudevine Fund," for the
purpose of aiding poor and deserving young
men in Vermont in obtaining the advantages of
a liberal education, giving preference to appli
cants residing in the towns of Hardwick in
Caledonia, and Concord in Essex county, Ver
mont ; and after these, to applicants residing in
any town in Vermont ; no discrimination to be
made against applicants on the ground of sect,
religion or society, though intemperate young
men are to be excluded." A fourth part of his
estate was also given to his native town of Con
cord for a similar purpose. These wise and
liberal bequests have already rendered aid to
many deserving young Vermonters, and will
long keep Mr. Jeudevine 's name in honored re
membrance.

LATHROP, John Brownson, of Arlington,
was born in Sunderland, Vermont, August
29, 1800, son of Benjamin Lathrop, born
in Norwich, Connecticut, 1769, and Caroline

JOHN B. LATHROP.
Cornelia Brownson, daughter of Brigadier-Gen
eral Gideon Brownson, who was the first Town
Clerk of Sunderland and commanded a company
in Warner's Regiment in the winter campaign
of 1776 against Canada. John B. Lathrop spent
his boyhood on the paternal farm. Arrived at
manhood he engaged in the staging business.
In 1829 he was keeping a hotel in Arlington,
Vermont. He became a prominent man in that
town. He was Town Clerk for twelve years,
1834-45 ; was active in the building of St.
James' Protestant Episcopal Church, and rep
resented the town in the Legislature in 1849.
He was Postmaster, 1843-6. About 1854 he
left the hotel and was appointed Station Agent
of the Western Vermont Railroad at Arlington,
which position he held for several years, after
which he ' retired from active business. He
died in Rutland, November i, 1886. He was a
charter member of Green Mountain Lodge,
Free and Accepted Masons of Arlington, and at

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his death was the oldest Mason in the State of
Vermont. On November 17, 1827, Mr. Lathrop
was married to Olivia Amanda Hill, of Sunder
land. One daughter: Cornelia C. Lathrop, was
the issue of this marriage.
McCULLOUGH, John Griffith, of North
Bennington, was born near Newark, Delaware,
son of Alexander and Rebecca (Griffith) Mc-
CuUough. His ancestry was of Scottish blood

JOHN G. MCCULLOUGH.
on the paternal and of Welsh on the maternal
side. Left an orphan by the death of his father
and mother before he was eight years old,
the boy showed early a determination to fit
himself for usefulness in the world. He im
proved such advantages as were offered him in
the local schools, and entering Delaware Col
lege, graduated with the highest honors of his
class. Selecting the profession of law, he
studied in the office of St. George Tucker
Campbell of Philadelphia, and in the Law
School of the University of Pennsylvania, from
which he received the degree of LL. B. in 1859.
He was admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania in
the same year, and had barely begun practice

in Philadelphia, when the state of his health,
following a serious pulmonary attack, compelled
a change of climate. Sailing for California he
was admitted to the Bar of that State at Sacra
mento in i860. He removed in the same year
to Mariposa, where he opened a law office and
soon secured a good share of practice. The
clouds of civil war were then gathering. Young
McCullough took the stump with ardor for the
union ; was elected to the Legislature by a
union of Republicans and Douglas Democrats ;
and made a mark there which brought him an
election to the State Senate in the following
year from a large senatorial district previously
controlled by the Democrats. He was a lead
ing legislator in the Senate, and in 1863 was
nominated for Attorney-General of the State
by the Republican State Convention, and was
elected by a large majority. He held this office
for four years, during which time he conducted
much important litigation for the State and
added to his laurels. In 1867 he removed to San
Francisco and established a law firm, which at
once commanded a large and remunerative
practice. In 1873 having acquired wealth and
reputation as a high-minded and able lawyer,
and high standing as a man, and having mar
ried a beautiful and accomplished wife, he left
California and came to the historic town of
Bennington, which was the home of his father-
in-law, the late Trenor W. Park. Becoming a
citizen of that town, and of Vermont, he was
soon actively engaged in commercial, banking
and railroad affairs. In the latter he has held,
and holds, positions of high honor and respon
sibility. He was for eight years Vice-Presi
dent and Manager of the Panama Railroad
Company (of which Mr. Park was President),
during which period the stock of that corpora
tion rose from below par to three hundred cents
on the dollar. After Mr. Park's death in 1882,
he became President of the company and held
that office until he resigned in 1888. In 1884
he was elected a Director of the Erie Railroad
and in 1888 became' Chairman of the Executive
Committee of that great corporation. In 1893
a reorganization of the company having become
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one of the two receivers of the Erie Railroad,
under whom the reorganization was conducted
with almost unexampled celerity and success.
The property was turned over to the new
company in less than three years, in improved
condition and without floating debt, while the
reorganization committee handed lo the com
pany over eight millions in cash and securities
— a balance far exceeding the expectations of
the Board. In 1890 General McCullough was
elected President ofthe Chicago & Erie Railroad
Company, which position he still holds. He is
also President of the Bennington & Rutland
Railway Company. He is President of the
North Bennington National Bank, is a Director
in the New York Security & Trust Company, in
the Fidelity and Casualty Insurance Company
of New York, and in other important corpora
tions. He has been an active member of the
Bennington Battle Monument Association. Polit
ically he is an earnest Republican, and being a
fine speaker his voice has often been heard in
support of the principles of his party, without
expectation or acceptance of reward. He was
a delegate from Vermont to the Republican Na
tional Convention of 1880 which nominated
Garfield, and a delegate to the National Con
vention of 1888, which nominated Benjamin
Harrison, and his wide acquaintance and sound
judgment made him an influential member of
both conventions. His courtesy, humor, intel
ligence and geniality make him a favorite with
all who know him, and he has a host of attached
friends in this and other States. In 1871 he
was married to Miss Eliza Hall, daughter of
Trenor W. Park, and grand-daughter of Hiland
Hall, Governor, Congressman and Historian of
Vermont. To them have been born four child
ren : Hall Park, Elizabeth Laura, Ella Sarah
and Esther Morgan McCullough.

schools ; at the Washington County Academy,
Salem, New York ; and at the Harvard Grammar
School in Charlestown, Massachusetts. After
leaving the latter in 1873 he was a clerk in a gen-

McWHORTER, Frank Utley, Barre, was
born in Hebron, Washington county. New York,
December 7, 1858, son of David and Mary (Saff-
ord) McWhorter. The family is of Scotch descent
on the father's side, and English on the mother's.
His early education was gained in the common

frank MCWHORTER.
eral store in Brookfield, Vermont, for eight years ;
then for two years in a clothing store in North-
field, Vermont, and then for a j'ear with George
P. Hardy of Randolph, Vermont. In March,
1884, he established himself in the clothing busi
ness in the rapidly growing town, now city, of
Barre, under the firm name of Frank McWhorter
& Company, his brother-in-law A. D. Morse
being associated with him as partner. In Sep
tember 1892 Mr. Morse 's interest was purchased
by F. L. Hyde, and the firm became McWhorter
& Hyde. In June 1896 Mr. McWhorter bought
out Mr. Hyde and now conducts the business in
his own name. Mr. McWhorter held the office
of Justice of the Peace for five years, 1890-95. In
December 1894 he was appointed Postmaster of
Barre by President Cleveland, which office he
now holds (January 1898) . He has refitted and
made various improvements in the office, and
secured the establishment of the system of free
delivery in September 1897. In politics he is not
a partisan, but is a Cleveland Democrat, and in

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favor of an honest dollar. He is an active Mason,
a member of Granite Lodge No. 35 Free and
Accepted Masons; Granite Chapter No. 26 Royal
Arch Masons ; and of St. Aldemar Commandery
No. II Knights Templar, acting as Treasurer of
each of these societies. He is a member of the
Congregational Church. In May 1884 Mr. Mc
Whorter was married to Miss Ethel M. Morse, of
Brookfield, Vermont, who died in January 1892.
In September 1895, h^ married L. Blanche Cor-
li.ss, of Chelsea, Vermont. Two children, Ula A.
and Mary E. McWhorter, were the fruit of the
first marriage, and one, Leigh C. McWhorter, of
the second marriage.

NICHOLS, George, Northfield, best known
perhaps as Secretary of State for twenty years, a
much longer period than the office has been held
by any other Secretary in the history of the state,
was born in Northfield, Vermont, April 17, 1827.
He was the only son of James and Annise Aiken
Dole Nichols, and grandson of Eleazer Nichols of
Putney, Vermont, who enlisted in the Continental
Army early in the war of the Revolution, was a
member of the body-guard of General Washing
ton during the winter of 1777-8 while the army
was encamped at Valley Forge, and served in the
army until the close of the War for American In
dependence. As a boy, George Nichols, when
not attending district school, assisted his father,
who was a builder and manufacturer of doors and
blinds. At the age of fourteen he entered the
Orange County Grammar School, and at fifteen
began to help himself by teaching district school
in his native town . For several years subsequently
he was teaching, studying and fitting for college
at the Newbury, Vermont, Seminary. In 1848
he commenced the study of medicine with the late
Dr. Samuel W. Thayer, Jr. , who was subsequently
for many years professor of Anatomy in the Med
ical Department of the University of Vermont,
and one of Vermont's most eminent physicians.
In 1849 he entered the Vermont Medical College
at Woodstock, and graduated in 185 1, with high
honors. The position of Demonstrator of Anato
my in that institution was tendered him, but
declined. He at once entered upon the practice

of his profession in company with Dr. Thayer,
and followed it successfully until his tastes invited
him to other pursuits. In 1848 he received the
appointment of State Librarian from Governor

GEORGE NICHOLS.
Carlos Coolidge, and held that office until 1853
when he declined further service in that capacity.
In 1854 he purchased a drug store and combined
the business of an apothecary with his medical
practice. The outbreak of the Civil War strongly
enlisted his patriotic sympathies, and in October
1862, upon the organization of the Thirteenth
Regiment of Vermont Volunteers under Colonel
F. V. Randall, he was commissioned as Surgeon
of that regiment. It is not too much to say that
he was one of the most popular and successful
Surgeons of the Second Vermont Brigade, win
ning the attachment of the men and the confidence
and esteem of his brother officers. At Gettysburg
July 2d and 3d, he had charge of one ofthe field
hospitals of the First Army Corps — an arduous
and exhausting position. Returning home after
the expiration of his term of service, he gradually
relinquished the practice of medicine, retaining
his business as a druggist, in which he is still
(1898) engaged. In the summer of 1865 Dr.
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Governor J. Gregory Smith to fill a vacancy occa
sioned by the death of George W. Bailey, Jr. He
was elected to the office by the Legislature in the
fall of the same year, and continued to hold it by
consecutive elections until 1884. During the
early part of this period the office was so recon
stituted by additions to its duties as to render it
one of the most important and comprehensive
departments of our state government. In it Dr.
Nichols showed remarkable executive efficiency
and command of details, combined with uniform
courtesy and good sense, and won a popularity
demonstrated by a continuous tenure longer than
that of any other state officer of Vermont, since
the organization of the state, with the single
exception of Benjamin Swan, who was Treasurer
from 1800 to 1833. In the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1870 which adopted the biennial system
of elections. Dr. Nichols represented the town
of Northfield. He was chosen President ofthe
Convention and presided over its councils with
ability and dignity. He was active in politics
from the formation of the Republican party. In
1872 he was a delegate to the National Republi
can Convention at Philadelphia, and was elected
a member of the National Republican Committee.
In the same year he became a member of the
Republican State Committee, in which he served
as Secretary and Chairman till 1884. In these
capacities he had chief charge of the Presidential
campaigns of 1872, 1876 and 1880 in Vermont,
and conducted them with a degree of good judg
ment that won him high and deserved praise. In
1876 Dr. Nichols was appointed messenger to
carry the electoral vote of Vermont for Rutherford
B. Hayes to Washington. In 1856 he was elected
Clerk and Treasurer of the Vermont & Canada
Railroad Company, which position he held till a
full change of management was made. In 1872
under the act of incorporation of the Central Ver
mont Railroad Company, he was made Chairman
of the Board of Commissioners for receiving sub
scriptions to the capital stock, and upon the
organization of the company in 1873 was elected
clerk, which office he held by consecutive annual
elections till 1888, when he declined further ser
vice in that capacity. Dr. Nichols has held many
local offices of trust and responsibility. In 1868

he was elected a Director and in 1875 President
of the Northfield National Bank. He was a
charter member of the Northfield Savings Bank.
In educational matters he has ever taken an
earnest interest. He took an active part in the
removal of Norwich University to Northfield in
1866, and the same year became one of its Trustees
and its Treasurer, and from 1885 to 1895 was
Vice-President and acting President ofthe Univer
sity. He contributed to the construction of the
first university building in Northfield, and by re
newed contributions of time and money has shown
his deep interest in the welfare of the University,
which in 188 1 fitly conferred upon him the hon
orary degree of LL. D. He was a Director of
the Northfield Graded School for twelve years.
He was also a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Vermont Episcopal Institute at Burlington,
and for several j'ears was one of the Executive
Committee of that Board. Such are some of the
chief points of an honorable and successful career.
Dr. Nichols is a member of the Protestant Epis
copal Church, and has been identified with the
councils of the Diocese and of his home parish.
In 1852 he was united in marriage with Miss
Ellen Maria, daughter of Abijah Blake of Ver-
gennes, Vermont, to which union there was born
a daughter, Alice Margaret, and a son, both of
whom died in infancy.

PEABODY, Daniel Putnam, Rutland, was
born in Mt. Vernon, New Hampshire, August
17, 1832, son of Isaac and Susan (Bradford) Pea
body. His great-grandfather on the paternal
side was Isaac Peabody, of Salem, Massachusetts,
and his grandfather, Daniel Peabody, settled in
Andover, Vermont, where his father was born.
His mother was a native of Mt. Vernon, New
Hampshire. He received his education in the
common schools of Vermont and in Black River
Academy at Ludlow, Vermont. His father lived
in Chester, Andover and Weston successively,
and he worked on the farm with his father until
he was seventeen years of age, when he went to
Pittsford, in Rutland county, to engage in service
with his uncle, Joseph H. Peabody. The latter
combined a mercantile and peddling business and

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dealing in wool and woolen goods with farming,
and young Peabody secured an interest, which
he retained for twenty -five years. While he was
a resident of Pittsford he was Justice ofthe Peace

¦n

PIERCE, Frederick Webster, Chester,
was born in Londonderry, Vermont, October i8,
1850, .son of John L. and Ellen E. (Marsh) Pierce,
and grandson of John Pierce and Asa Marsh, both
of whom were residents of Chesterfield, New
Hampshire. His education was secured in the
common and select schools afforded by his town.
He early engaged in business, and his success in
different directions has demonstrated his posses
sion of pronounced executive ability. He has
been proprietor of the Chester Drug Store for
about twenty-five years, and has established an
extensive trade in his town as well as in the sur
rounding country. His financial success led him
to take an interest in banking, and he was instru
mental in establishing the Chester Savings Bank,
of which he has been a Trustee and President
since its organization. He has also been a
Director of the National Bank of Chester from the

dan L p. peabody.
for ten years, and he was also Selectman from
1864 to 1866. He represented Pittsford in the
Legislature in 1868 and 1869. For six years he
was a Deputy Sheriff, and his services in this
capacity were so satisfactory to the people that he
was elected Sheriff in 1878. After his election to
this position he moved to Rutland where he has
since continued to reside. His service as Sheriff
of Rutland county is noteworthy owing to the
fact that he has been re-elected to that office nine
times, and is now serving his twentieth year as
Sheriff. He is an active Mason, being a member
of Otter Creek Lodge No. 70, of Pittsford, and of
Farmers Chapter No. 9, Royal Arch Masons, of
Brandon. Politically he has been steadfastly
Republican, having cast his first presidential vote
for John C. Fremont. Sheriff Peabody was mar
ried on October 20, 1853, to Mary A. E., daugh
ter of John and Lucretia Woodbury of Pittsford.
They have no children.

F. W. PIERCE.
first year of its organization, and he has been its
acting Cashier since the spring of 1896. At the
present time he is managing these two banking
institutions as well as conducting his drug
business and looking after his numerous outside
interests, which include heavy real estate invest-

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29

ments in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Mr. Pierce's
interest in public affairs has been effective as well
as active. He was instrumental in securing the
passage by the Legislature in 1894 of a law regu
lating the practice of pharmacy, and the adoption
of important amendments of that act in 1896 ;
and he was made Treasurer of the State Board of
Pharmacy then created, a position which he has
continued to fill until the present time. He was
one of the organizers of the Vermont Pharmaceu
tical Association, and has been its Treasurer since
its organization. Mr. Pierce represented his
town in the Legislature in 1896, serving as a
member of the Committee on Education and of
the Committee on Banks. He was active in
promoting the passage of an act regulating our
Normal School system, a subject that attracted
widespread interest during that session. He was
appointed one of the State Board of Normal
School Examiners then established, and was made
Secretary and Treasurer of that board, in which
capacity he is still serving. He has also taken
an active interest in educational matters in his
immediate vicinity, having been Chairman of the
Board of School Directors of Chester since the
taking effect of the law providing for the town
system of schools ; and having been a zealous
promoter of the Windham County Summer School
Association, of which he is President. He is a
prominent Mason, being a member of Olive Branch
Lodge Free and Accepted Masons of Chester ; of
Skitchewaug Chapter of Springfield, and of Ver
mont Commandery of Windsor. He is also a
member of Mount Sinai Temple, Order of the
Mystic Shrine of Montpelier. Mr. Pierce was
united in marriage with Alia N. Allbee, in 1869,
and one son John F. Pierce, is the fruit of their
union. The last named graduated from the Ver
mont Academy at Saxton's River and later from
the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, and he
is now proprietor of Pierce's Pharmacy in Bellows
Falls, where he is conducting a large and profit
able business. (F. W. Pierce is now President of
the recently organized Chester Board of Trade.)

(True) Pingree. The family was formerly Pen-
gry. The earliest American ancestor, Moses
Pengry, came to this country about 1638. It is
recorded of him that he set up salt works in

PINGREE, Samuel Everett, Hartford,
was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, August
2, 1832. His parents were Stephen and Judith

s. E. pingree.
Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1652, was Selectman
and Deputy to the General Court, and Deacon
in the First Church. William Pengry, great-
grandson of Moses, and grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, born in Rowley,
Massachusetts, went in 1783 to Salisbury, New
Hampshire. He held the offices of Captain,
Selectman and Justice of the Peace. His son,
Stephen Pingree, the name being now so written,
also lived in Salisbury, where he carried on an
extensive business and acquired wealth as a
farmer (owning seven hundred acres of land)
and in lumbering. He was Selectman and Jus
tice of the Peace, twice represented the town
in the Legislature, and was a respected and in
fluential citizen. Of his four sons, Samuel E.,
was the fourth. He had his schooling in the
Academy at Andover, New Hampshire, where
he was fitted for college, and entered Dartmouth
in 1854. Graduating in 1857, he studied law
with Hon. A. P. Hunton, in Bethel, Vermont,
was admitted to the Bar of Windsor county in

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1859, and commenced the practice of his pro
fession which he has steadily followed, (save
during the three years of his service as a
soldier) in the town of Hartford, Vermont.
When the Third Regiment of Vermont Volun
teers (of which General William F. Smith was
the first Colonel) was organized in May 1861,
he enlisted as a private in Company F, was at
once elected as First Lieutenant of the Com
pany ; went to the field in July, and in August
was promoted to the Captaincy. At Lee's
Mills, Virginia, on the i6th of April 1862, he
commanded the battalion which crossed the
Warwick River, captured a line of rifle pits,
and opened a gap through which the enemy's
line along the Warwick might have been
pierced and turned, had the movement been
followed up by the General commanding. Cap
tain Pingree distinguished himself in this sharp
engagement. He lost part of his right hand,
and was seriously wounded in the hip. His
death was reported, and his obituary written in
Vermont, but he rallied on the brink of the
grave, and lived to do three years more of ser
vice for the Union. He was promoted to the
rank of Major for his gallantry at Lee's Mill.
After his return from sick leave, he was
engaged with his regiment and with the First
Vermont Brigade in most of the battles fought
by the Army of the Potomac. He was in
battles at Fredericksburgh, Wilderness, Antie-
tam, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and at the
affair of the Welden Railroad in June 1864,
and at Gettysburg. He commanded the Sec
ond Vermont Regiment during the second day
of the Battle of the Wilderness, and for some
time after. July 27, 1864, his term of service
having been exceeded by two months, he was
mustered out and returned to civil life. He was
State's Attorney of Windsor county, 1868-9.
He has been Town Clerk of Hartford for nearly
forty years, and has held the office of Super
intendent of Schools, but no other town offices.
In 1868 he was a delegate-at-large to the Re
publican National Convention at Chicago. In
1870 he was elected President of the Reunion
Society of Vermont Officers. In 1882 he was
elected Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont. In

1884 he became Governor of Vermont, and
filled that important office for two years with
high efficiency and credit. He was appointed
Chairman of the State Board of Railroad Com
missioners in 1886, and held the office for eight
years. As a public official, as a lawyer and a
citizen, Colonel Pingree has been held in high
est regard, for his integrity, modesty, fidelity
and ability. In September 1869, he married
Miss Lydia M. Steele, daughter of Sanford and
Mary Hinman Steele, of Stanstead, Province of
Quebec. They have no children.

RANDALL, Walter Beach, Shaftsbury,
son of Walter and Eunice (Sherman) Randall,
was born in Sandgate, February 22, 1833. His
paternal grandfather, Asa N. Randall, came

W. B. RANDALL.
from Connecticut to Sandgate about 1800, and
his father, Walter Randall, became a prominent
citizen of that town, having been Town Clerk
and Treasurer for about twenty five years.
Asa's other children were Levi, Flora and
Sophia. Walter Randall's family included six
children: Flora S., born December 28, 1819;
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31

born October 17, 1823 ; Rlioda A., born Janu
ary 6, 1827; Murray N., born May 24, 1829,
and Walter Beach, the subject of this sketch.
The son attended the common schools, and he
was also a student at the Burr and Burton Acad
emy in Manchester during a portion of two
terms. While he was attending that school his
father made an engagement for him to teach
in District Number Eight in Sandgate, the
compensation for four months of service being
thirty-six dollars, or nine dollars per month,
but the young man had the privilege of "board
ing around," which in those days was regarded
by many as a marked treat. He was early
thrown upon his own resources, and owing to
his father's infirm health he was obliged to
contribute very largely to the support of the
family from the time he was eighteen. He
engaged in farming and pursued that calling for
about thirty years, but in 1883 he moved to
Shaftsbury, where he became Station Agent,
serving in that capacity six years. He was also
Postmaster for eight years, and he conducted
in connection therewith a general store, which
he is still carrying on with the assistance of his
son, now Po.stmaster. In 1856 he was Superin
tendent of Schools in Sandgate ; represented
his town in the Legislature in 1863-4-5 ; was
Lister in 1871 and 1881-2 ; first Selectman from
1865 to 1874 ; Justice of the Peace for ten years
subsequent to 1868 ; Town Clerk and Treasurer
from i860 to 1882 ; and Assistant Judge of the
County Court in 1880-82. Since moving to Shafts
bury he has been a Selectman, having served in
that capacity in 1893-4. Mr. Randall was united
in marriage with Charlotte A. Peck, January 19,
1858. They had three children : Evi S., born
May 15, 1859 ; Jessie S., born March 3, 1867,
died January 8. 187 1 ; and Farand B. Randall,
born April 12, 1870.

cation was obtained in the public schools in his
native town. Having prepared for college, he
entered Harvard University from which he
graduated in 1857, and he also took the degree

RANLETT, David Dodge, St. Albans,
was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Feb
ruary 26, 1838, son of Charles Augustus and
Esther Minerva (Dodge) Ranlett. He is of
pure New England descent, and he had four
great-grandfathers in the country's service dur
ing the war of the Revolution. His early edu-

D. D. RANLETT.
of LL. B. at the Harvard Law School, gradua
ting in i860. He was admitted to the Massa
chusetts Bar in Boston, January 29, 1859, and
to the New York Bar in New York city, Feb
ruary 10, 1 86 1. He practiced law in New York
from 1 86 1 to 1864, a portion of that period in
partnership with John S. Washburn, brother of
Peter T. Washburn, a former governor of Ver
mont. In October, 1864 he went from New
York to Concord, New Hampshire, to accept
the position of State Auditor of New Hamp
shire, and he retained that office until June,
1867. From 1867 to November, 1870, he was
Cashier of the Boston, Hartford & Erie
Railroad, with headquarters at Boston ; and
from November, 1870, to September, 1871, he
occupied the position of Cashier of the New
Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad, being sta
tioned at New Orleans. On January i, 1872, he
entered the employ of the Central Vermont Rail
road, and in July, 1875, he was made Treasuer
of that corporation, a position he has continued

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to occupy up to the present time. Mr. Ranlett's
marked financial and executive ability is indi
cated by the number of responsible positions to
which he has been called. He is a Director
and Treasurer of the Central Vermont Railroad
Company ; of the Consolidated Railroad Com
pany of Vermont ; of the Ogdensburg & Lake
Champlain Railroad Company ; and of the New
London Steamboat Company. He is also Pres
ident of the Burlington & Lamoille Valley
Railroad Company ; President of the National
Car Company ; Vice-President of the People's
Trust Company of St. Albans and Director of
the Welden National Bank of St. Albans, which
positions he has held since the organization of
those two financial institutions : Director of the
Montpelier National Bank ; Trustee of the
Bellows Free Academy fund and Trustee of the
Warner Home for Little Wanderers. He is
also Trustee of the estate of the late James
R. Langdon, a prominent resident of Montpe
lier, who possessed enormous wealth, and this
in itself is a very important trust. Mr. Ran
lett is a Republican in politics, but he has not
been inclined to accept political office. He is
of a social disposition, belonging to various so
cial organizations, and he is also a member and
Vice-President of the Vermont Chapter of the
Sons of the American Revolution. On August
23, 1865, Mr. Ranlett was united in marriage
with Ellen Augusta Brown of Charlestown,
Massachusetts, and the children born of their
union were : Edith Helen, born December 14,
1871, and died June i, 1872; and Helen Augusta
Ranlett, born May 15, 1878. Mrs. Ranlett died
April II, 1895.

which he has won enviable success. From 1872
to 1874 he was assistant in the Mechanicsville
Academy in Mechanicsville, New York, and in
1874-75 he was Instructor in Greek in Middlebury

ROSS, Henry Herbert, Burlington, was
born in Rutland, Vermont, May 2, 1851, son of
James and Almira (Edson) Ross. He is of Eng
lish and Scotch descent, and his ancestors in this
country were among the early settlers of New
England. He received his early education in the
public schools and the High School of Rutland,
and he also took a classical course in Middlebury
College, from which he graduated in 1872 and
received the degree of A. M, in 1875. He imme
diately entered the profession of teaching, in

H. H. ROSS.
College, which position he resigned to become
Principal of the High School in Vergennes, Ver
mont. In 188 1 he resigned this position to accept
the Principal ship of the Vermont Episcopal
Institute of Burlington, the diocesan school for
boys, and he has continued to occupy that posi
tion up to the present time. In 1894 he assumed,
in addition , the management of Bishop Hopkins
Hall, the diocesan school for girls, and he is still
Manager of that institution . Principal Ross holds
a high place in Vermont Masonry. He is a
Knight Templar and a Thirty-second degree
Mason ; and he has held all ofthe higher positions
in the subordinate bodies. He was also for three
years (1888-91) Grand Master of the Grand Coun
cil of Royal and Select Masters for the State of
Vermont, and during three years he was Chair
man ofthe Committee on Foreign Correspondence.
At the present time he is Commander-in-Chief of
Vermont Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons. He
is Republican in politics, but he has not sought
office, holding it to be the height of good citizen-

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ship to discharge faithfully his duties as a private
citizen. He was united in marriage with Retta
Gould Howard of Bennington, Vermont, July 27,
1876, and the children born of their union are
Katherine H. and Margaret H. Ross.

RYDER, Herbert D., Bellows Falls, was
born in Acworth, New Hampshire, Novem
ber 12, 1850, son of Daniel A. and Elizabeth
(Brigham) Ryder. His mother was a descendant

I

HERBERT D. RYDER.
of Thomas Brigham, a Puritan who settled in
Marlboro, Massachusetts, in 1635 ; and his great
grandfather of that name was, as shown by his
epitaph, a "Soldier of the Revolution". Mr.
Ryder's mother also traced her descent from a
Scotch- Irish family named Duncan, whose early
ancestors participated in the siege of Londonderry
in 1688. There is also a strain of Scotch-Irish
blood on his father's side. He received his early
education in the district schools of Acworth, New
Hampshire, and after a preparatory course of two
years at Oberlin, Ohio, and New London, New
Hampshire, he entered Dartmouth College, from
which be graduated in 1876. He then became
Principal of the High School in Springfield, Ver

mont, and continued to serve in that capacity
until 1879. Having in the meantime chosen the
law as his profession, at the conclusion of his
engagement as Principal in Springfield he devoted
his attention to that subject, studying in the
offices of Judges David Cross and Henry E. Burn-
ham of Manchester, New Hampshire, and of J.
W. Pierce in Springfield. He was admitted to
the Bar in 1880, and practiced Iawin Springfield,
Vermont, one year. In 1881 he became Princi
pal of the High School in Bellows Falls, and
retained that position for six years. From 1887
to 1890 he was engaged in business in Bellows
Falls, and in July of the year last named he re
sumed in that town the practice of law, which
he has continued to the present time. Mr.
Ryder has taken an active interest in educational
matters and other public interests. He has been
School Examiner for Windham county since 1891;
Superintendent of Schools from 1890 to 1897, and
he has been Chairman of the School Board of
Rockingham since 1890. He was Chairman of
the Board of Bailiffs of Bellows Falls from 1893
to 1895. He is a Mason, being affiliated with
the Lodge, Chapter and Council ; and he is also
a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel
lows. In politics he has always been a strong
Republican. Mr. Ryder was united in marriage
with Margaret E., daughter of Hon. Franklin P.
Ball, November 30, 1881, and the children born
of that union are : Jessie E., Margaret S., Helen
W., Charlotte D., and Katherine F. Ryder. In
December 1897, lie was appointed Deputy Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the District covering
New Hampshire and Vermont.

SEVERANCE, Milton Leonard, Benning
ton, son of Ebenezer and Corcina (Jones) Sever
ance, was born in Middlebury, Vermont, October
14, 1830. He traces his ancestry on his mother's
side to Bethiah Howard who came to America on
the Mayflower, and on his father's side to John
Severans, who was a member ofthe Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Boston in June,
1638, the year in which it was organized. Mr.
Severance is a grandson of Joseph Kirby, who
was a Captain in the battle of Bennington with
two sons serving under him, and a second cousin

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

of Edmund Kirby, who died May 28, 1863, aged
twenty-three, and who in spite of his youth
was a Brigadier-General of Volunteers. Mr.
Severance is also a second cousin of that brilliant

M. L. SEVERANCE.
confederate officer, General Kirby Smith. The
subject of this sketch fitted for college at Burr
and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vermont, and
graduated from Middlebury College in the class
of 1859. He spent two years at Union Theologi
cal Seminary in New York, and graduated from
Andover Theological Seminary in 1863. He was
Principal of the Ticonderoga Academy in 1859 ;
Pastor of the Congregational Church in Boscawen,
New Hampshire, from 1863 to 1868; Pastor of
the Congregational Church in Orwell, Vermont,
from 1868 to 1880 ; Financial Agent of Middle
bury College nearly two years ; Principal of Burr
and Burton Seminary from September, 1882 to
to 1888, since which time he has been Pastor of
the Old First Church at Bennington Centre, Ver
mont. While Pastor ofthe church in Boscawen,
New Hampshire, he was Superintendent of
Schools for two years, and at present he is a Trus
tee of the Burr and Burton Seminary at Manches
ter. He has recently been elected a member of
the Bennington Battle Monument Association.

He is a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity ;
of the Congregational Club of Western Vermont ;
of Tichenor Club, and of the Sons of the Ameri
can Revolution. He was joined in marriage with
Miss Emily Augusta Spencer, August 16, 1859 ;
and the children born of their union are : Rev.
Claude Milton ; Wilbert Nathaniel, Carlton Spen
cer, Maude Emily and Herbert Allen Severance.
Mr. Severance is one of the most widely known
clergymen in Western Vermont, where he has
spent nearly thirty years of his ministry-. As a
preacher he takes high rank . His .style is terse
and vigorous, while his sermons give evidence of
a scholarship, that is at once ripe and progressive.
As an after-dinner speaker he has comparatively
few equals. His native wit and readiness at
repartee have made him ever welcome at festive
gatherings, and scarcely a year passes in which
his services are not in demand as Memorial Day
orator.

SIBLEY, Simeon Morse, Bennington, was
born in Whitingham, Windham county, Ver
mont, April 21, 18 14, son of Lot and Mary
(Morse) Sibley. Lot Sibley was a son of Tar
rant Sibley, a minute man in Colonel Ebenezer
Learned 's regiment in the War of the Revolu
tion, and a participant in the fight at Concord.
He was also a direct descendant of John Sibley
who landed at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1629,
and of John Putnam, who landed in the same
town in 1634 and whose descendants included
Generals Israel and Rufus Putnam. Mary Morse
was a daughter of Simeon Morse, a soldier in
the Continental army, a participant in the battle
of Saratoga, and a direct descendant of Samuel
Morse, who came to this country in 1635 on the
ship Increase. Samuel Morse was one of the
members of the company to whom was granted
a tract of land south of the Charles River, and
including the present towns of Dedham, Need
ham, Dover, Natick and other Massachusetts
towns. Mary Morse was also a direct descend
ant of Henry Adams of Braintree. The subject
of this sketch attended the common school in
his native town, and afterward entered the acad
emy in Brattleboro, Vermont. At the age of

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35

eighteen he entered the employ of J. H. Bart
lett & Company, of Boston, wholesale grocers,
where he remained several years. At the end
of that period he returned to Vermont and

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SIMEON M. SIBLEY.
settled in Bennington. A New York company
were operating extensive iron works at that time
a few miles east of Bennington, and Mr. Sibley
opened at that point a general supply store,
which he conducted for four years with marked
success. In 1844 he began a large grocery busi
ness in the rapidly growing village of Benning
ton, which he continued to carry on until his
retirement from active life in 1881. Mr. Sibley
had from the beginning of his career shown
marked business ability, with a special aptitude
for questions of finance, and he naturally be
came early identified with banking. He was a
Director in the Stark Bank, the second oldest
institution of the kind in Bennington, as long as
it was in existence ; and when the Bennington
County National Bank was established he was
one of the first subscribers for stock. At the
organization of the institution he was chosen
Vice-President and at the death of Charles W.
Thatcher in 1890 he was elected President of the
bank, a position which he still holds in spite of

his eighty-four years. In politics Mr. Sibley is
a staunch Republican, and he is vitally inter
ested in the live i.ssues of the day, although he
has never cared to enter public life. He was
united in marriage with Miss Diantha Williams
in 1837, and their children were Mary Louisa,
Persis Hannah, Simeon Waldo, Frances Diantha
and Harriet Jane Sibley. Mrs. Sibley died in
1852 and the son died in 1884, but all of the
other children survive. In 1857 Mr. Sibley
married Miss Maria L. A. Varian, who died in
1896. Mr. Sibley has been true to his inheri
tance in a peculiar manner. His courtly bearing
marks him as a worthy descendant of worthy
ancestors while his strict integrity, keen intellect
and self command suggest the rugged simplicity
of his early New England home, an institution
that has cradled thousands of fine men and noble
women. SMILIE, Melville Earl, Montpelier,
was born in Cambridge, Vermont, August 21,
1844, son of Earl and Matilda Bolton (Thurston)
Smilie. His paternal grandfather was Nathan
Sniilie, and his father, who went to Wisconsin in
1852 died in that state four years later. Young
Smilie at once returned to his native State, and
after a preparatory course in the Underbill Acad
emy, he in 186 1 entered the University of Ver
mont; but was compelled by failing health to
abandon his college course at the end of his
Sophomore year. After leaving the University
he was employed as clerk in a store until 1864,
when he went to Montpelier and began the study
of law with Heaton & Reed. He was Deputy
County Clerk of Washington county from March
1865 until December of the following year, and
he also performed the duties of this position for
a considerable period later on. He was admit
ted to practice in the County Court March 15,
1 866 ; to the Supreme Court August 12, 1868; and
to the United States Circuit Court March i, 1871.
During the session of 1 86 7 he was reporter of the
Senate, and in December of the same year he
moved to Waterbury, where he continued to
reside and practice law until 1874. He was prin
cipal of the Waterbury Graded School in 1868-9,
and he was also State's Attorney from December

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T, 1868, until December, 1870. In 1874 he
went to Michigan and at Detroit was admitted to
practice in the courts of that state. In the fol
lowing year he returned to Vermont and took

joined in marriage with Ellen, daughter of
Heman and Beulah (Demmon) Pinneo, of Water
bury, and they have one son: Melville E.
Smilie, Jr., now a student in the Washington
County Grammar School.

MELVILLE E. SMILIE.
charge of the County Clerk's office, the late Mr.
Newcomb at that time County Clerk being con
fined to the house in his last sickness. Mr. Smilie
was appointed Clerk of Washington county
January 27, 1876, which office he continues to
hold. Mr. Smilie has found time amid the
pressing duties of his position to devote atten
tion to various outside interests. In 1884 he was
elected a Justice of the Peace, and still holds
that office. He was Town Auditor for four
years ; a member of the School Board five years ;
was President of the village in i8gi ; and at
present is a member of the Executive Board of
Management of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company. When Montpelier became a
city he was appointed Judge of the City Court,
and he still occupies that position. Mr. Smilie
takes an active interest in all public improve
ments, and he is a promoter of all good works.
He is a Mason, being a member of the Lodge,
Chapter and Council, and Past Master of Wi-
nooski Lodge No. 49. On May 26, 1870, he was

STEVENS, Charles Herbert, St. Johns
bury, was born in that town, May 2, 1849, son
of James R. and Susan (Field) Stevens. He
received his education in the common school and
in St. Johnsbury Academy, and remained on his
father's farm until he was nineteen years of age.
During the following three years he was em
ployed as clerk in the general store of Bacon &
Ide, and in August 1871, he entered the service
of the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Rail
road Company, as clerk in the general office. In
July 1876 he was appointed General Freight and
Passenger Agent, and he developed such marked
ability in that capacity that he held his position
until 1885, when the road was leased by the Bos-

c. H. STEVENS.
ton& Lowell Company. Since 1885 Mr. Stevens
has devoted his attention to business interests,
being President of the Northern Lumber Com
pany, and also a Director and Vice-President of
the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury. Mr.

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37

Stevens has taken an active interest in public
affairs, but he has not found time to accept office
as a rule. In 1894 and 1895 he was Chairman
of the Board of Village Trustees of St. Johns
bury, however, and he discharged the duties of
the position with credit to himself and to St.
Johnsbury. He is a member of the Masonic
fraternity and of the Mystic club, one of the
leading social organizations of that town. On
May 12, 1874 Mr. Stevens was married to Isa
bella (Crawford) Ranney of St. Johnsbury; and
of that union were born two children: Arthur
Lyman, on July 13, 1S76, and Helen Crawford
Stevens, on July 3r. 1880.

STONE, Henry Martyn, Swanton, was
born in Jericho, Vermont, June 10, 1828, son of
Hervey and Eliza (Smith) Stone. He received
his early education in the common schools and

by the addition of marble and wood working
departments, Mr. Stone having begun the manu
facture of both these products. In 1858 he began
the lumber, coal and building material business
which he continued with marked success until
1890, since which date he has been interested in
different business ventures with his son in the
Western states. Mr. Stone has held most of the
town and corporation offices and he has taken a
prominent part in the affairs of his community.
He is a Republican in politics, but with the ex
ception of an election as State Senator in 1896,
he has not held political office, preferring to
devote his attention exclusively to the interests
of his own town and village. He is a communi
cant of the Protestant Episcopal church. He
wasunited in marriage with Olive BarkerSawyer,
September 16, 1850, and these children were
born to them: Charles H., Emily Olive, (de
ceased,) Rev. George B., Rev. Edward S., Wal
ter H. (deceased). Rev. Arthur W., and Florence
M.Stone.

H. M. STONE.
in Bakersfield Academy, living upon the farm
with his father until he was about twenty years
of age. He embarked in the mercantile busi
ness in Tinmouth, Rutland county, in 1848, but
after remaining there about two years he moved
the business to Swanton, where it was enlarged

TIFFANY, Eli, Bennington, was born in
Horbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Eng
land, November 9, 1830, son of John and Eliza
beth (Marsden) Tiffany. He attended such
schools as were provided for factory operatives
until he was fourteen years old. He then worked
in the woolen mills of his native town until the
springof 1851, when he emigrated to this coun
try, going to Waterbury, Connecticut, to operate
new machinery for the Waterbury Knitting Com
pany. In 1856 he removed to Meriden, Con
necticut, where he remained two years employed
in a similar capacity by the firm of Powell &
Parker. Later he located in Glastenbury, Con
necticut, where he invented an automatic rib
knitting machine, for which he received a patent
May 21,1 860. In the meantime he had removed
to Thompsonville, Connecticut, and connected
himself with George Cooper in the manufacture
of the machine invented by him. In 1866 he
moved to Cohoes, New York, and formed a co
partnership under the name of William Wood &
Company, for the purpose of producing knit cuff
and drawer bottoms for knitting mills in general.

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In 1870 he moved to Bennington, where the firm
of Tiffany & Cooper was formed for the purpose
of manufacturing rib knitting machinery, and an
extensive business was established. In 1874

ELI tiffany.
Mr. Tuffany's original patent was extended, and
in 18S0 he started a new industry with his broth
ers, which was independent ofthe firm of Tiffany
& Cooper, the articles produced by the former
being knit underwear, the popular qualities of
which have resulted in the building up of an ex
tensive trade. During the early part of 1886 the
firm of Tiffany & Cooper was dissolved, Mr.
Tiffany purchasing the interest of his partner for
whom he substituted his son, Frank M. Tiffany.
The business was continued under the firm name
of E. Tiffany &Son until 1890, when another son,
Louis L., was admitted to partnership, the firm
name becoming E. Tiffany & Sons, August 7,
1897. This business was consolidated with Tif
fany Brothers. The firm are now conducting an
extensive and prosperous business in the line of
rib knitting machinery, having not only thor
oughly introduced these machines in the United
States and Canada, but having also sent a num
ber to South America. As is evident from these
statements, Mr. Tiffany possesses a special talent

for the invention of knitting machines, no less
than fifteen different patents having been issued
to him for different devices of this character.
He has recently made marked improvements,
especially in circular machines. He is a public
spirited man, giving liberally to every cause
which he deems worthy and which will tend to
help his fellow men ; and his benefactions have
secured for him the marked respect and esteem
of his community. Mr. Tiffany visited his old
home in England some twenty-four years ago,
spending several months roaming through the
country in which he had lived as a boy. In 1893
he made an extended trip, visiting his old home
again, and sailing thence via the West Indies to
Carthagena, United States of Colombia, for the
purpose of looking after his extensive and varied
business interests. Though holding to the prin
ciples of the Republican party, Mr. Tiffany has
never sought political preferment. He has taken
a marked interest in educatiorial affairs in his
town, however, and for fourteen years he has
been a trustee of the Bennington Graded School.
In August 1863 he was united in marriage with
Phoeba E., daughter of James and Ann (Glover)
Cooper, of Thompsonville. Connecticut, who
died April 29, 1893, leaving three children:
Frank M., Louis L-, and William J. Tiffany.

TUPPER, Almon Pinney, was born in Mid
dlebury, Vermont, April 24, 1825, the only son
and third child of Norman and Mary (Horton)
Tupper. Towards the close of the last century
Darius Tupper moved from Connecticut, where
he was born, and settled in Charlotte, Chit
tenden county, Vermont. In the winter of 1794
or 1795 he removed to Middlebury, Vermont,
where he built a tavern at the intersection of the
"Turnpike" with the " Old Road" from East
Middlebury to Middlebury Village. For more
than thirty years he kept this tavern, ending his
days there in 1828, at the age of seventy-four
years. His son, Norman, was born in 1794,
before the removal from Charlotte. After spend
ing his youth with his father, at the tavern, he
married Mary Horton, who was born in Mount
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39

of his marriage, he received from his father
Darius a deed of the farm upon which the tavern
stood, and went to live in a small house, which
also was upon the farm and was located near the

'I* :®N

ALMON P. TUPPER.
intersection of the "Turnpike" with the Salis
bury road. Neither the tavern nor the house is
now standing. Norman Tupper lived there but
a few years, his business affairs calling him to
the then thriving village of East Middlebury, in
1828. There he lived, the most prominent man
in the community, until 1880, when he died, in
his eighty-seventh year. In the variety of his
activities Norman Tupper was typical of that
early New England life. He was farmer, manu
facturer, inventor, teacher, trial justice, — (the
latter for fifty -two consecutive years and until
his death) and the incumbent of various offices
of trust and responsibility. For his sash and
blind manufactory he devised and constructed
much of the machinery, including the " inserted
tooth" circular saw, now in almo.st universal use.
It is interesting to note that years afterward he
was one of the witnesses in an important case,
that ofSpaulding against the American Saw Com
pany, in which case his son Almon P. Tupper
was counsel for the defense, while the main point

at issue was the right to use this device of in
serted teeth in circular saws. This son, Almon
Pinney Tupper, was born in the house on the
tavern farm, in East Middlebury, and received
his early education in the common schools of
that village. He was prepared for college at the
Addison County Grammar School, but being at
that time in delicate health was compelled to
discontinue his studies. Leaving school, he
learned the trade of watchmaker and jeweler,
and carried on this business at East Middlebury
and Rochester, Vermont, and at Keeseville, New
York. In 1847 he returned to Middlebury and
engaged in the manufacture of wood-working
machinery, continuing at this occupation for a
few years, during which he began the study of
law, reading such elementary works as he had
at hand. Entering upon the serious pursuit of
this profession, he studied with Ozias Seymour,
Esq., of Middlebury, and was admitted to the
Addison County Bar in 1852. From that time
until his death he continued in active and suc
cessful practice. Without forsaking or slighting
his chosen calling, he never lost his interest in
business affairs, or in mechanical concerns. His
interests were of wide range, and brought him
into contact with many people. Never robust
in health, he had yet a rare vitality and a per
sistent energy which kept him active in affairs
almost to the very last moment of his life. As
a lawyer he succeeded because he left nothing
to chance. His knowledge of the law was thor
ough and accurate, his memory for precedents
v/as peculiarly strong and exact, he made a
patient and careful study of every case, and he
added to all this a keen insight into human nature .
He believed in his profession, and his chief re
laxation was in attending the meetings of the
National Bar Association, of which he was one
of the few members in Vermont. As a counselor
he was sagacious and trustworthy; as a business
man, careful and honest ; as a citizen, honor
able and fearless. He never entered actively
into politics, beyond delivering an occasional
address in crises of more than ordinary import
ance. Office he never sought, although he held
at various times the offices of Justice of the
Peace, City Auditor, Grand Juror, etc. In every

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place to the specific duties ofthe moment he de
voted the same painstaking care that marked his
professional career. His strong religious con
victions were the result of both his training and
his own forceful thought. From his early life
he retained an almost unique familiarity with
the Bible, and was never at a loss for an apt
quotation from it. In politics he was a Repub
lican who held to his party with an unwavering
faith. But for political manipulation, for the
venal side of political life, he had neither sym
pathy nor tolerance. November5, 1848, he was
married to Mary Abraham Richardson, of Wo-
burn, Massachusetts, to whose singular blending
of gentleness and strength no small part of the
success of his life is due. He survived her seven
years, her death occurring May 16, 1891. Onthe
fourth of March, 1898, near the close of his
seventy-third year, he" fell on sleep.''

New England. They keep two or three travel
lers on the road and do a large share of state
work. Among its publications may be mentioned
Conant's School History and Geography of Ver-

TUTTLE, Egbert Clayton, Rutland, was
born in that town January 1 1 , 1 849, the third son
of George Albert Tuttle and Susan Stone Cutter.
His father, George A. was one of Rutland's
prominent citizens, being for many years the pub
lisher of the Rutland Herald, the daily edition
of which he established in 186 1 ; he was a dele
gate to the Republican National Convention at
Philadelphia which nominated U. S. Grant for
President; organized the People's Gas Light
Company of Rutland and held various local of
fices of responsibility and trust . The great-grand -
father of the subject of this sketch served in the
Continental Army at West Point during the War
of the Revolution. Egbert C. Tuttle received
his early education in the Rutland High School;
taught school himself in Rutland for two years,
and then in 1873, was admitted into the whole
sale and retail stationery and book, printing and
binding establishment of The Tuttle Company,
which was established in 1832 and conducted by
his father and elder brothers. Of this business
since the death of the latter, he has been the
President and controlling head. During his con
nection with the establishment, the business has
been greatly enlarged, new methods incorpora
ted and improved machinery introduced; it now
ranks among the largest concerns of the kind in

E. C. TUTTLE.
mont, adopted as a text book by nearly every
town and city in the state ; the Vermont His
torical Reader, planned by Mr. Egbert C. Tuttle,
which has been equally successful; and the
"Santa Clans Souvenir" of 1880, edited by Mrs.
Julia C. R. Dorr, of which forty thousand copies
were sold in this country and in Canada. As
President and Treasurer of The Tuttle Company
now sixty-six years established, Mr. Tuttle has
for several years past had the practical manage
ment of the business, in which he is assisted by
his eldest son, William S. Tuttle as manager of
the printing and binding departments, and he has
called around him competent superintendents in
the wholesale and retail paper and book depart
ments. In politics he is an earnest Republican,
but has never sought political preferment. His
high standing in business and interest in educa
tional, reformatory, and municipal affairs, have,
however, called his services into requisition in
various civil offices. He is now President ofthe
Board of School Commissioners of the city of

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41

Rutland ; a Director and President of the Board
of Directors of the Vermont State Prison at
Windsor and House of Correction at Rutland, by
the appointment of the Governor, Director in and
Chairman of the Finance Committee ofthe Mer
chants' National Bank of Rutland of which he
was one of the original incorporators; Trustee of
the Rutland Sa\'ings Bank ; a Director of the Rut
land Hospital Association and the Rutland Street
Railroad Company, also President of the Rut
land Merchants' Association. He is a member of
Rutland Lodge, No. 79, Free andAccepted Masons
and the Society of the Sons of the American
Revolution. Mr. Tuttle was married October 20,
1873, to Miss Rachel E. Mann. They have five
children, three sons and two daughters, namely:
William S., Charles E., Berenice R., Riford R,,
and Doris O, Tuttle.
TUTTLE, Frank William, Vergennes,
was born in Newbury, Vermont, February 6,
1S60, son of John L. and Amanda J. (Bennett)

frank W. TUTTLE.

his profession in Vergennes in 1S84, and he has
won recognition as an able attorney and success
ful man of affairs. He has taken an active in
terest in the promotion of the welfare of his city,
and he was Mayor of Vergennes in 1896-97. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and he
holds an enviable position in that order. In
politics he is a Republican, and he exerts a wide
influence. He is a member of the Executive
Committee of the Republican League of Ver
mont, and he has also held responsible positions
in local poUtical organizations.

TURNER, Hiram Newton, St. Johnsbury,
was born in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, De
cember ::o, 1839, sou of Timothy Parker and

Tuttle. He received his early education in the
public schools, and after studying law he was
admitted to the Bar of Washington county at the
March term in iSSi. He began the practice of road, and later General Traffic Manager of the

H. N. TURNER.
Priscilla (Bullock) Turner ; and he was educated
in the public schools of his native state. Early
in life he entered upon a railroad career which
continued to 1S89 with conspicuous success.
From subordinate positions he rose successively,
having been Travelling Agent of the Worcester
and Nashua Railroad ; Manager of the Quebec,
Ottawa and New England Air Line ; General
Freight Agent of the Boston and Lowell Rail-

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same system. He was thus occupied until his became a manufacturer until 1862, when he de-
fiftieth year, when he stepped aside from the termined to join those who were trying to put
path in which he had so steadily mounted, and down the rebellion. He went out as Lieutenant
turned his attention to manufacturing. With and Quartermaster of the Tenth Vermont Volun-
sorae men, perhaps most men, the change would ^  ^
have been dangerous, if not disastrous, but the
ability that had carried him successfully forward t
in railroad life remained his reliance ; and in his |
new position as Manager and a Director of the .
E. & T. Fairbanks Company Scale Manufactory
of St. Johnsbury, he found a new field for
enterprise and achievement. He has taken an
active interest in promoting the material inter
ests of St. Johnsbury, and he was formerly Pres
ident of the St. Johnsbury Board of Trade. He
is now a Director of the Concord and Montreal
Railroad. In politics he has always been a zeal
ous Republican, but has not sought public office.
He was joined in marriage with Miss Ellen
Brewster of Whitefield, New Hampshire, Janu
ary 12, 1861. The record of his life is full of
evidences of vigor, push and enterprise, and
every step has called forth tokens of appreciation
from those with whom he has been associated
in business as well as from the community. A. B. VALENTINE.
teers, and subsequently was nominated by Presi
dent Lincoln and confirmed by the United States
Senate, as Captain, Commissary of Subsistence,
and later was brevetted Major for "meritorious
services. ' ' He remained in the service until the
close ofthe war, and in 1S65 returned to Benning
ton and became a manufacturer of knit goods, in
which business he is still engaged. Major Valen
tine has taken an active interest in educational
matters, and for ten years he was a Trustee ofthe
Bennington Graded School. He was elected to
the State Senate in 1886 by the Republican party
of which he has always been an active member,
and he performed creditable service. He has
been President of the Vermont Officers' Reunion
Society; President ofthe Sixth Army Corps or
ganization; and Commander of the Grand Army
of the Republic, Department of Vermont. He is
now Commander of the Vermont Commandery,
Military Organization of the Loyal Legion ; and is
also President of the National Manufacturers of
Knit Goods Association, and President of the

VALENTINE, Alonzo Buckingham, son of
Joel and Judith (Wells) Valentine, was born in
Bennington, Vermont, April i, 1830. He traces
his ancestory to Richard Valentine, who settled
in Hempstead, Long Island, New York, in 1640
and whose descendants were for many decades
among the leading residents of that town. Joseph
Valentine, grandfather of Alonzo B., was born on
the homestead of his ancestors in Hempstead,
January 6, 1750, and he married a Miss Atherton.
He was a soldier of the Revolution, and he died
in Jackson, Washington county. New York,
January 22, 1814. Joel Valentine, father ofthe
subject of this sketch, was born in Jackson, New
York, January 22, 1791, and he fought in the war
of 1812. He died in Bennington, Vermont, July
17, 1866. Alonzo B. Valentine received his edu
cation in the district schools and academy. He
was attracted to California, where he remained
during 1852-53. He lived in Wisconsin, where
he was engaged in the lumber business for near
ly two years. On his return to Bennington, he

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43

Bennington County Savings Bank. He has long
been actively interested in the Bennington Battle
Monument and Historical Association of which
he has been a Director since its organization, and
of which he is now Vice-President. He was uni
ted in marriage with Miss Alma L. Parkin 1856;
and their surviving children are Jennie A., and
Wells Valentine. While not a member of any
church organization, he contributes liberally
towards the support of religious worship, and is a
zealous promoter of every good cause. He has
been active in business, and has sought to
advance the growth and prosperity of his town in
every legitimate way. He has travelled exten
sively in the United States, having visited all of
the principal places of interest in this country,
including Ala.ska. His travels have also em
braced Europe and extended over Canada and
Mexico. He is a thorough Vermonter and his
services in the promotion of the State's material
interests have been widely recognized.

acres on which that institution was located. He
has seen his predictions realized as to the benefits
to be derived by Waterbury from the location of
the insane asylum in that village; for that insti
tution with its seven hundred patients and the

WARREN, Charles Carlton, Waterbury,
was born in Hartland, Vermont, February n,
1843, son of Charles Walton and Julia (Perry)
Warren. His father was a native of Woodstock,
Vermont, having been born in that town October
27, 1806. The subject of this sketch received
his education in the public schools of his native
town and in the Kimball Union Academy in Mer
iden, New Hampshire. Outside of school his
early life was spent on the farm and in his fath
er's tannery, but in 1862 at the age of nineteen
he joined the band attached to the First Brigade
Vermont Volunteers, and he remained with that
organization until the date of its discharge in
1865. He then returned to his father's tannery
and devoted several years to acquiring a thor
ough knowledge of the manufacture of leather.
In 1868 he leased a large establishment in Water
bury which he subsequently purchased and has
since conducted, building up a large business,
especiallyin the manufacture of harness leather.
Mr. Warren was one of the most earnest advo
cates of the location ofthe Vermont Insane Asy
lum in Waterbury, and in 1890 he sold to the
state the splendid farm of some five hundred

c. c. warren.
large force of officers and attendants required,
has imparted a gratifying impetus to the growth
of the place. In i8go he was appointed a Fish
Commissioner, and in that capacity he located
and erected the State Fish Hatchery atRoxbury,
a location that is conceded to be without a rival
for this purpose in New England. He was
assisted by the other members of the Fish Com
mission to a certain extent in this work, but it is
conceded that the success of the project was due
almost entirely to his persevering efforts. The
work thus accomplished has had a far-reaching
influence in promoting the interests of Vermont
as a resort for tourists and sportsmen. Mr. War
ren is a Republican in politics, but outside ofthe
service already referred to, he has not been
inclined to accept office. He is a member of
Edwin Dillingham Post Grand Army of the
Republic of Waterbury, and has also taken the
obligations of the Masonic order, uniting with
Vermont Lodge, No. 18, Free and Accepted

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Masons of Windsor. On December 15, 1873, he
was united in marriage with EUaF., daughter
of Jerry and Florella McElroy of Middlesex,
and two children have been born to them: Kath
erine G., February 4, 1876, and Charles C. War
ren, Jr., September 29, 1888.
WOODHOUSE, Chas. Williamson, banker,
of Burlington, was born in Brattleboro, Ver
mont, September 19, 1835. He was the son of
Charles Woodhouse, — who was in his later life.

CHAS. W. woodhouse.
for many years, a well known physician and
prominent citizen of Rutland, Vermont, — and
Lepha Guernsey. His early education was
acquired in the common schools; at Black River
Academy in Ludlow, Vermont; and at the High
School in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He com
menced his business career as a clerk in the
Rollstone Bank of Fitchburg in 1852. Display
ing marked capacity in the business, he was in
1854 offered the position of Teller in the Mer
chant's Bank of Burlington, and removed thither.
He was soon advanced to the position of Assist
ant Cashier, and in 1869, the bank having in
the meantime become the Merchants' National
Bank, he was elected Cashier, in which office be

established a reputation as one of the ablest
financiers in New England. In 1885 he was
made President ofthe bank, which office he now
holds. Under his management the Merchants'
National Bank has become the heaviest and
strongest bank of i.ssue in Vermont, a result due
in large part to his financial ability and sound
judgment. Mr. Woodhouse is a Republican in
politics, but has never sought political or civil
office. He held the office of Treasurer of the
city of Burlington from 1863 to 1869. In 1880-
81, he served as State Senator, the office coming
to him without solicitation on his part. He was
an influential member of the Senate and Chair
man of the Committee on Banks during his
service in that body. In April, 1857, Mr. Wood-
house was married to Miss Emma Easton Day.
They have one son, Lorenzo E. Woodhouse,
who is the Cashier of the Merchants' National
Bank.

WHITCOMB, MosEs Sheldon, Richmond,
was born at Phillipsburgh (Missisquoi Bay),
Province of Quebec, December 21, 1842, son of

m.

s. whitcomb.
Uziel S. and Marilla (Sheldon) Whitcomb. His
father, U. S. Whitcomb, was born in Richmond,
being one of a numerous family, long time resi-

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45

dents in that vicinity, and was a prominent citizen
in his day, having represented Richmond in the
Legislature of 1867. His mother was a native of
the town of Calais, Vermont. Moses S. Whit
comb received his early education in the district
school and at Williston and Underbill Acade
mies. He has followed farming and the general
business of a farming community with industry
and success, has been Selectman of the town of
Richmond, and has held other town offices of
responsibilit3' and trust. Mr. Whitcomb has been
twice married, first to Miss Lillian G. Greene of
Richmond, who died in 1888. In 1896 he was
again married to Miss Josie G. Fuller. They
have one girl.

BAILEY, Alden Lee, Merchant and Bank
President, St. Johnsbury, was born May 31st,
1845. He was early bereft of both his parents ;

A. L. BAILEY.
his father dying before he reached his fourth year
and his mother when he was only ten years old.
Alone in the world he found a home with an
uncle, a farmer, with whom he lived until he
reached his majority, when hestartedout to make
his fortune. Greater opportunities with less of

hope and resolution might have disheartened him.
He had nothing to lose, bnt everything to win,
and he was determined to succeed. This spirit
found him ready employment, and also opened the
way for him to enter the business in which his
success has proved his fitness. He has become
one of the most extensive dealers in mu.sical
instruments in Northern New England. He has
four well-equipped stores, two in the State of
Vermont, and two in New Hampshire, and more
than twenty traveling salesmen. He was one of
the organizers and early Directors of Citizens Bank
and is now its honored President. His quick
business tact combined with good judgment has
done much toward giving it not only its good
reputation, but also the fine building it now occu
pies. He has always shown a commendable spirit
in promoting the progress and prosperity of St.
Johnsbury. He is active in religious circles,
being from early years a zealous member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, now its Sunday-
School Superintendent, a position he has held for
many years. Mr. Bailey is also numbered among
Vermont's inventors, having secured several
patents, notably a uniform hose coupler, and a
horse fastener, both said to be of great value.
He is a Republican in politics and while he is an
enthusiastic member of the party, he has never
been afflicted with the fever fpr public office. He
married, July 20, 187 1, Lucy A., daughter of
William and Elmira B. Lynn of St. Johnsbury.
They have one daughter : Ro.se Lynn Bailey.

BAILEY, Myron W., Judge, St. Albans, was
born in Waterville, Lamoille county, Vermont,
February 8, 1837, son of Richard and Sally M.
(Barrows) Bailey. His ancestors were natives of
England. He was educated in the common
schools, at Bakersfield Academy and at the
People's Academy in Morrisville, Vermont, later
entering the law department of the University at
Albany', New York, from which he graduated
May 20, 1859, He was admitted to the Bar at
Albany, on the date just mentioned, and was
admitted to the Vermont Bar, in Franklin county,
in the spring of i860. He immediately began

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the practice of law at Richford, Vermont, and
continued it until May, 1861, when he enlisted
in Company H, Third Regiment, Vermont
Infantry Volunteers, and was mustered into the
United States service July 16 of that year, leaving

BAILEY, Charles Lee, Physician, Danville,
was born in Troy, New York, March 29, 1870,
son of Charles R. and Mary E. (Lee) Bailey His
family are of Scotch-Irish descent. He received
his early education in the public schools of Troy,
New York, in the Troy Academy and the Troy
High School. Later he attended lectures at the
Albany Medical College and the New York
Homoeopathic Medical College, and Hospital,
graduating from the latter institution on April 9,
1 89 1. He is a member ofthe Knights of Honor
and also of the Vermont Homoeopathic Medical
Society. Doctor Bailey is a member ofthe New
England Order of Protection, and is Medical

M. W. BAILEY.
immediately for the front. The subject of this
sketch was injured while on picket duty, and
remained in the hospital until the last of February,
1862, when he was discharged and returned to
Richford. Here he resumed the practice of his pro
fession, removing, in the autumn of that year, to
Montgomery, Vermont, where he remained until
December i, 1867. Having been elected Judge
of Probate for the District of Franklin, in the fall
of 1867, he removed to St. Albans, and has held
that position ever since. In 1872 Judge Bailey
was elected Railroad Commissioner, and served
the state in that capacity until December, 1878.
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and
has always been a loyal Republican. He was
married to Mary L- Sears, November 20, 1862 ;
they have two children : Carrie M. (now Mrs. E.
W. Thompson), and Katherine S. (now Mrs. E.
E. McLeod.

C. L. BAILEY.
Examiner for the Order. In politics he is a Dem
ocrat. Doctor Bailey was united in marriage
with Mary Agnes Bennett, June 3, 1892, at
Troy, New York.

BARBER, Merritt, Governor's Island, New
York, son of Benjamin and Caroline (Wright)
Barber, was born in Pownal, Vermont, July 31,
1838. He received his early education in the
public schools and prepared for college under the
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47

President of the United States. He graduated
from Williams College, Massachu.setts, in 1857,
and during two years of his course he was a col
lege-mate of James A. Garfield, the martyred
President. He .studied law in the office of the
Mon. A. B. Gardner in Bennington, Vermont,

MERRITT BARHER.
and graduated from the Ohio State and Union
Law College in 1859. He was admitted to the
Bar in Bennington county at the June term of
Court the same year, and he at once entered upon
the practice of his profe.s.sion in his native town.
He was Assistant Clerk ofthe Vermont House of
Representatives during the sessions of i860 and
1862, including the special ses,sion of the latter
year which provided troops to help suppress the
Southern rebellion. He enlisted as a private in
Company E, Tenth Vermont Regiment, June 2,
1862, and was commissioned First Lieutenant of
that company on August 7, following. He was
made Captain of Company B, Tenth Vermont,
June 17, 1864, and Captain and Assistant Adju
tant-General of Volunteers, December 31, 1864,
and a.ssigned to duty as Adjutant-General of the
Vermont Brigade. He was honorably mustered
out of service, September 19,1865. On the rec-
onnuendation of Hon F. E. Woodbridge, Member

of Congress, he was appointed and commissioned
Second Lieutenant of the vSixteeiith Infantry,
United States Army. February 23, 1866, and he
was promoted to First Lieutenant on the same
date. He was Adjutant of his regiment from
February 15, 1868, to April 30, 1872 ; was pro
moted to Captain, March 4, 1879 ; was commis
sioned Major and Assi.stant Adjutant- General,
United States Army, June 29, 1882; was pro
moted to Lieutenant-Colonel, August 2, 1890, and
to Colonel, November 15, 1896. He was brev
eted Major, United States Volunteers, October 19,
1864, " for having borne himself with distin
guished gallantry in every engagement since May
5, 1.S64, particularly in the engagement at Cedar
Creek, Virginia," Captain, United States Army,
March 2, 1867, " for gallant and meritorious ser
vices in the Battle ofthe Wilderness, Virginia,"
and Major United States Army, March 2, 1867,
" for gallant and meritorious services in the battle
of Cedar Creek, Virginia." He participated with
the Army of the Potomac in the Antietam cam
paign of 1862 ; the Gettysburg and Mine Run
campaigns of 1863 ; the Wilderness campaign of
1864, and with Sheridan in the Shenandoah in
the same year, having been wounded at Fisher's
Hill, September 22. He was present at the
storming of Petersburg, April 2d, at the battle of
Sailor's Creek, April 6th, and the surrender of
Lee's army at Appomattox, April 9th, 1865. He
was also with his command at Danville, Virginia,
in the rear of Johnson's army when it was sur
rendered, thus having had part in the surrender
of both of the principal armies of the Confederacy.
He is a member of the Loyal Legion, Washington,
District of Columbia Commandery ; ofthe Sixth
Corps Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ben
nington, and ofthe Vermont Society, Sons of the
American Revolution, to which he derives title
through the service in the Revolutionary War by
both grandparents of both of his parents — an
unusual record. He was first joined in marriage
with Catherine E. Roberts of Bennington, Ver
mont, June 20, 1858 ; and his second marriage,
his union with Delilah Winne, of Troy, New
York, occurred May 15, 1S67. He has one
daughter, Mrs. Sarah B. Boyle, of Cincinnati,
Ohio.

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BISBEE, Edward W., Lawyer, Barre, was
born in Waitsfield, February 27, 1856, son of
Elijah W. and Lydia (Brown) Bisbee. His early
education was obtained in the public schools of

E. W. BISBEE.
his native town and he also took a course in
Barre Academy, from which he graduated in
1875. He studied law in Montpelier and was
admitted to practice at the Washington County
Bar at the September term of court in 1879, and
at the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit ofthe
United States at the May term, 1882. He located
himself in Barre in November, 1879, and
has since practiced his profession in that city.
Mr. Bisbee has been an enterprising and success
ful young man and is a public spirited citizen,
taking an active interest in the affairs of his city
and being popular with all classes. He is a
gentleman of sound judgment and high integ
rity. The rapid growth of Barre, since he has
been located there, and the conditions incident
to the marked development of her granite quar
ries and the establishment of the large plants for
cutting and finishing granite have been produc
tive of discordant interests among theprojectors,
and Mr. Bisbee's counsels have been much
sought by them. Although he has been greatly

averse to being elected to office, he has been
active in supplying the needs of the place in
which he resides and developing its industries.
He was State's Attorney for Washington county
from 1886 to 1890. He is a Mason and an Odd
Fellow. When St. Aldemar Commandery of
Knights Templar was established at Barre in
1896, Mr. Bisbee was chosen First Eminent Com
mander, and has since held that position. In
politics he is a Republican ; in religious prefer
ence a Universalist. He is also one of the
Trustees named in the will of the late L. F.
Aldrich, in which Mr. Aldrich bequeathed to
the Trustees to serve during their lives about
fifty thousand dollars, with few restrictions, for
the establishment of a public library in Barre.
He was united in marriage, at Montpelier, with
Julia B., daughter of John and Maria (Wilson)
Snow, Januaiy 20, 1886.

BLACKSTONE, Harrison Worthington,
Pliysician, North Troy, was born in St. Albans,
Vermont, April 8, 1832, son of Daniel and Han
nah (Holden) Blackstone. The name of Black-
stone is one of the oldest in modern history and
it is claimed to have figured in the affairs of
Gaul in the time of the Roman Empire. Begin
ning with the reign of King Egbert it has been
prominent in English history, in church as well
as in affairs of state, and it is among the few
family names that have endured through many
centuries to the present time without material
change in form. Reverend William Blackstone,
who was born in England in 1587, and who
became a prominent clergyman of the Church of
England, emigrated to the United States in 1622.
He landed in Maryland, but soon went to Massa
chusetts and was one of the first settlers in
Boston in 1625. He was intimate with John
Eliot, the "Indian Apostle", and with Roger
Williams, and later was banished from the
colony with Williams on account of their views
in relation to civil and ecclesiastical matters.
Williams and Blackstone went to Rhode Island,
the former founding a settlement which has
since become the city of Providence, and the
latter locating at Pawtucket, where he spent the

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remainder of his life, dying in 1675, at the age
of eighty-eight. Doctor Blackstone's paternal
great-grandfather was born in Baltimore, Mary
land, where he resided to the time of his death.

H. W. BLACKSTONE.
He was an active participant in the French and
Indian Wars, but his record has not been traced.
Dr. Blackstone's paternal grandfather and father
were both born in New Sharon, Maine. The
former fought in the War of the Revolution and
performed honorable service. The son, Daniel
Blackstone, served in the War of 1812, and was
Drum Major under Lieutenant-Colonel John E.
Wood (subsequently appointed Major-General).
He took part in four engagements, the last of
which was the battle of Plattsburgh ; and was
brevetted Major. He died as the result of an
accident in 1869 at the age of seventy-one.
Daniel Blackstone's family included seven
children : William Collins, Benjamin Edward,
Reuben Holden, Harrison Worthington, Martha
Rebecca (Vance), Emily Albina, and Melissa
Blackstone. All of the sons were soldiers in
the Union Army during the Civil War, but two
of their number are now dead, as are all of the
daughters. The subject of this sketch enjoyed
very limited educational facilities during his

earlier years, having attended the district school
only sixteen weeks. At the age of thirteen he
left his father's home in East Swanton and made
his way to the residence of his maternal uncle
in Middlebury ; but finding that his father was
on his track he started on and walked to George
town, Massachusetts, where he arrived bare
footed and sore, having travelled a distance of
two hundred and twenty-seven miles. He found
work in a harness and shoe shop, but he was
not satisfied with his condition, and he devoted
his evenings to reading. After a short period
he attracted the attention of an old schoolmaster
named Phillips, who gave him valuable instruc
tion in different branches, and encouraged him
to read a wide range of books. He also took a
six months course in the graded school, and
became fairly proficient in his studies. After
leaving school he went to sea, shipping on a
sailing vessel from Newburyport, Massachusetts,
but he soon tired of a sailor's life and returned
to Georgetown and resumed his work in the shop.
At the breaking out of Civil War he enlisted in
the Thirty-third Regiment Massachusetts Vol
unteers, and went to the front. He was so
badly wounded at Chancellorsville that he
received his discharge. He did not recover
from his wounds for more than a year. When
he regained his health he decided to study med
icine. He accordingly took two courses of
lectures at the Dartmouth Medical Department
and Hanover Medical College, and two courses
at the University of Vermont, Burlington, from
which he graduated ; and located in Troy, Ver
mont, for the practice of his profession. He
was remarkably successful and had built up a
large and lucrative practice, when a shock of
paralysis interrupted his work for a time. As a
result of this sad visitation he lost the use of his
right side, but he pluckily took up his work and
he is still practicing medicine — office practice.
Doctor Blackstone has been Health Officer of
the town of Troy eight years ; he was a member
of the United States Pension Examining Board
six years, and he has held other positions of
honor and trust. He was united in marriage
with Helen M. Scales, November loth, 1858.
The children resulting from this union are :

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

Frederick Eugene, Jesse Fremont, Cora Bell
(deceased) and William Herbert Blackstone,
now living at White Plains, New York.

on November 2, 1879, but his wife died in Jan
uary, 1891, and he has not married again.

BOURNE, MontravillE A., Rutland, was
born in Wallingford, Vermont, May 28, 1837,
son of Edmond and Electa (Bradley) Bourne.

M. A. BOURNE.
His education was limited to the instruction
received in the common schools, but he early
showed a marked interest in railroad matters,
and he Served for sixteen years as Freight Agent
of the Bennington & Rutland and the Troy &
Boston railroad companies. In 1877 he engaged
in business on his own account, locating in Rut
land, and he has become a leading and respected
resident of that city. He has taken an active
interest in public affairs, and has been honored
by election to office by the Republican party
of which he is a zealous adherent. He was one
of the Trustees of Rutland in 1884-5, before
the organization of the city, and after the city
charter was adopted he was a member of the
Board of Aldermen, having served in 1894-5.
He is a member of Rutland Lodge, No. 79,
Free and Accepted Masons. He was married

BREWSTER, John Densmore, Physician,
Windsor, was born in Hartland, Vermont, April
19, 1850, son of Seth and Eliza M. (Densmore)
Brewster. His p'aternal great-grandfather, who
was a descendant of the Brewsters of Connec
ticut, was one of the first settlers of Woodstock,
Vermont, and his mother's great grandfather
was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, having
served on General Washington's body guard.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the public schools and in Perkins
Academy of South Woodstock. After taking a
collegiate course in the University of Vermont

JOHN D. BREWSTER.
he studied medicine and graduated from a New
York Medical College in 1880. He located iu
Windsor on May i, 1880, and has continued to
practice his profession in that town up to the
present time. He has won an enviable place
in his community and is highly esteemed. He
has been Health Officer of that town since 1890,
and he is an influential member of the Vermont
Medical Society, of which organization he was

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elected Vice-President in 1893, He is a mem
ber of the Masonic fraternity and is a Knight
Templar. He was united in marriage. May 31,
1894, with Carrie L. Bourne of Auburndale,
Massachusetts, but no children have been born
to them.

BURDICK, John LaFayette, Physician,
Winooski, son of Nathaniel and Mary (Benja
min) Burdick, was born in Ira, Rutland county.

JOHN LaF. BURDICK.
Vermont, December 16, 1824, and died Decem
ber II, 1897. His ancestors in this country
came from England and settled in Rhode Island.
For a time he attended the common school,
later a private school in Westford and subse
quently took a four years' course in the acad
emy at Gouverneur, New York, securing a
thorough mathematical training under the
instruction of Doctor J. W. Armstrong. From
here he entered Union College, but owing to a
severe attack of typhoid fever was compelled
to withdraw from that institution during his
junior year. After regaining his health he
taught school for a time, but decided to study
medicine and entered the Castleton Medical
College from which he graduated in 1851. He

opened an office in Winooski for the practice of
his profession, and built up a large and lucra
tive business. Doctor Burdick was several
times elected to the Presidency of the old Chit
tenden County Medical and Surgical Club ; was
twice President of the Burlington Medical and
Surgical Club ; and had been Attending Physi
cian ofthe Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington
every year since its inception except the first.
In politics he was a Republican, but he had no
desire for public office. Doctor Burdick was
united in marriage with Anna L- Burdick,
daughter of Eli Warren Burdick of Westford,
November 16, 185 1, and a daughter, Lucy
Florence Burdick survives them.

BURKE, Charles Clinton, New York, was
born in Springfield, Windsor county, Vermont,
October 26, 1842, son of Russell and Elizabeth
(Williams) Burke. He is descended from

CHARLES C. BURKE.
Richard and Mary (Parmenter) Burke of Sud
bury, Massachusetts, Mary Parmenter having
been the grand-daughter of Deacon John Par
menter, born in 1588, who was one of the first
settlers of Sudbury in 1639. Mr. Burke's great-
great-grandfather. Captain Jonathan Burke,

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

settled on the Connecticut River on what was
then known as the Hampshire Grants ; and his
son. Captain Jesse Burke, was a Liberal or
Whig in the agitation which preceded the out
break ofthe American Revolution, and became
the Captain of the first military company organ
ized in Westminster, Vermont, of which there is
an}^ record, the company having been formed
about April, 1775. Captain Burke's name
appears in the public archives as a recipient of
orders from the committee of public safety and
disbursements ; and he served as Second Ser
geant in Azariah Wright's company which was
organized between 1768 and 1770. He was
also the friend and confidant of Ethan Allen,
who made Captain Burke's house his head
quarters during the collision between the people
of Vermont and the authorities of New York.
Jonathan Burke, father of Captain Jesse Burke,
served in Father Ralli's war in 1722-1724, as
appears from the muster rolls of the Massachu
setts archives in the State house at Boston,
Massachusetts. He was in the garrison at
Brookfield, Massachusetts, April 13, to Novem
ber 20, 1724. The subject of this sketch
attended the public schools of his native town
and also Kimball Union Academy at Meriden,
New Hampshire. While a mere lad he entered
the employ of the firm of T. J. Leland & Com
pany, of Boston, Massachusetts, and having
acquired a knowledge of bookkeeping he was
able during his second 3'ear in their service to
take entire charge of the books of the firm.
About 1861 Mr. Burke went to the oil regions of
Pennsylvania and engaged in the petroleum
business, moving later to Pittsburg, Pennsyl
vania. In 1870 he moved to New York, where
he has since resided, having built up a large
business in the refining of petroleum. In 1872
he became a member of the New York Produce
Exchange, and after serving on many important
committees in that body as well as in the
capacity of Director and Vice-President, he was
in 1889 elected to the position of President of
the Exchange. He is also one of the founders
and a Trustee of the Real Estate Trust Com
pany, and a Director of several large manufac
turing companies. In politics he is a Republican,

but he has rarely been active in his party
organization. He is prominent in social affairs,
and is a Director of the New England Society
of New York city, a member of the Union
League Club of New York, of the Union County
Country Club and of the Hillside Tennis and
Golf Club of Plainfield, New Jersey. Mr.
Burke was united in marriage in 1872 with
Elsie P., daughter of Abner L. Ely, Esq., of
New York city, by whom he has four children
now living : Russell Ely, Charles Clinton, Jr.,
Elsie and Grace Jeffers Burke. His second
marriage, with Elizabeth S. Cass, daughter of
General Geo. W. Cass of Pennsylvania, took
place in 1886, and by this union he has five
children now living; Dorothy Louise, Ellen
Dawson, George Cass, Stanley Williams and
Augusta Lord Burke.

BUTLER, Fred Masox, Attorney, Rutland,
son of -\aron Mason, and Emeline (Muzzv)
Butler, was born in Jamaica, Windham county.

F. M. BUTLER.
Vermont, May 28, 1854. His paternal grand
father, Aaron Butler, was a son of the Aaron
Butler who enlisted in the Continental army from
Danbury, Connecticut, July 14, 1775, and who

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afterwards served as ensign in the Third Regi
ment, Connecticut Line. This soldier of the
Revolution, who died in Jamaica, Vermont, April
25 > 1785, left a wife and four children (John,
Zechariah, Aaron and Lucy), all of whom settled
ill Jamaica while it was a dense forest. Aaron
Mason Butler, father of the subject of this sketch,
was for many years an extensive and prosperous
farmer of that town. The son, Fred Mason, was
educated in the public schools of Jamaica and at
Leland and Gray Seminary. After leaving
school, he entered the law office of Jonathan G.
Eddy, Esq., of Jamaica, as a student. He subse
quently spent a j^ear and a half in the office of
Hon. H. H. Wheeler and Hon. E. L. Waterman.
He was admitted to the Bar of Windham county
at the March term of court, 1877, and during the
following summer he entered into a co-partner
ship with Hon. Joel C. Baker of Rutland. The
firm was dissolved at the end of one year and he
practiced alone for a brief period, but early in 1879
he formed a co-partnership with Hon. L. W.
Redington, which continued for six years. In
1885 he formed a partnership with Thomas W.
Maloney, which still continues. The business of
this firm has been very large, extending into
nearly every county in the state ; and there are
few volumes of the Reports of the Supreme Court
of Vermont, issued since 1881, that do not contain
important cases in which they were actively
engaged. The court dockets of Rutland county
show that this firm has a larger practice than any
other law firm in that county, their names
appearing in 86 out of 140 cases in the last trial
calendar. Mr. Butler is a Republican in politics,
but while he has taken part in the political affairs
of his town he has preferred as a rule to devote
his attention to his legal work. He was town
Grand Juror in 1882-3-4 ; he then held the posi
tion of City Attorney until he was appointed
Judge of the City Court in 1889, a position to
which he was successively appointed by Govern
ors Dillingham, Page and Fuller. At the end
of six years he declined a reappointment in order
to devote his time exclusively to his ever-increas
ing law practice, which his sterling qualities,
eminent ability and legal learning had made
second to none in the county. The preparation

and trial of causes in the Supreme Court has
become with him a specialty. He obtained the
charter for the New England Fire Insurance
Company from the Legislature and has been a
Director and Attorney of that corporation since
its organization. He is Treasurer and Managing
Director of the Rutland City Electric Company,
which operates all of the electric lights in Rutland
and furnishes electric power for many industries
in that city as well as for the electric railroad in
Rutland and West Rutland. He is also Presi
dent and Treasurer of the Marble City Electric
Company. Mr. Butler was married November
24th, 1875, to Lillian, daughter of Josiah and
Octavia (Knight) Holton of Dummerston, and
their children are : Anza Lillian, Helen Maria
and Florence Muzzy Butler.

CANFIELD, Eli Hawley, Ariington, was
born in that town June 8, 181 7, and died June 3,
1898, son of Nathaniel Stevens and Almira
(Hawley) Canfield. His grandfather, Israel

fe3^ ^f

ELI H. CANFIELD.

Canfield, settled in Arlington, coming thither
from Connecticut about 1764. On the mother's
side he was descended from Ephraim Hawley,

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

one ofthe pioneers of Bennington county, whose
son. Captain Jehiel Hawley, great-grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was a prominent man
ofthe New Hampshire grants — being sent by the
early proprietors to England as their agent to
secure from the throne a confirmation of their
grants ; who also built the first framed house in
Arlington, in which the first services of the Church
of England, in that town, were held, he being the
lay reader. Eli H. Canfield received his early
education in the common schools and in the Burr
and Burton Seminary at Manchester, Vermont.
Arrived at manhood, he was employed for a
time as instructor in Bristol College, Pennsylva
nia, where he also pursued theological studies, in
preparation for entrance to the Theological Sem
inary. He graduated from the Virginia Theo
logical Seminary in 1844. His active life there
after was spent in the Ministry of the Protestant
Episcopal Church. His first charge was of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Delaware, Ohio,
from 1844 to 1849 ; next as Rector of St. Peter's
Church, New York city, 1850 to 1853 ; then of
Christ Church, Brooklyn, New York, 1853 to
1870 ; lastly of the Church in North Adams,
Massachusetts, from 1872 to 1875. In these
various charges he was an earnest and devoted
laborer and leader. His health having failed in
1875, he retired to his native town and engaged
in fanning, often supplying the pulpits in neigh
boring vacant parishes, until 1890, when he was
compelled to give up active work. He then led a
quiet life, in his home in the village of Arlington,
enjoying the respect and esteem of the community
and the rewards of a well spent life. He was
married in 1846 to Martha Hulme of Burlington,
New Jersey.

from King George III, a confirmation of the
New Hampshire grants, and was a prominent
character in the grants and in the Episcopal
Church, in the early days. 2;adock H. Canfield

CANFIELD, Zadock Hawley, Arlington,
was born in that town, March 31, 1812, son of
Nathaniel Stevens and Almira (Hawley) Can-
field ; and died June 29, 1895. His grandfather,
Israel Canfield, was one of the early settlers in
Arlington, coming thither from Connecticut.
On the mother's side he was a descendant of
Captain Jehiel Hawley, who was a large pro
prietor in Arlington, being called the founder of
the town ; was agent of the proprietors to secure

Z. H. CANFIELD.
received his early education in the common
schools, at Burr and Burton Seminary in Man
chester, Vermont, and at the Bennington Acad
emy. After teaching school in Bennington and
adjoining towns, he devoted himself chiefly to
the cultivation of his farm. Never seeking or
holding civil office, he was widely known and
highly influential, in political and social circles.
He was an earnest member of the Republican
party from its first organization. Possessing a
wonderful memory he was an oracle in historical
and genealogical questions, and his gifts in con
versation made him an agreeable companion,
alike to old and young. He never married.

CARPENTER, Orkin Henry, Attorney,
Maiden, Massachusetts, was born in Grafton,
Windham county, Vermont, January 17, 1861,
son of Henry Bradford and Lucy Ann (Read)
Carpenter. His paternal grandfather, after
whom he was named, and who died in 1882,
represented the town of Kirby in the Vermont

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55

Legislature in 1828, The family is descended
from William Carpenter, who came to this
country in May, 1638, from Wherwell, England,
who was an educated man, probably receiving

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O. H. CARPENTER.
his education at the Carpenter Free School, of
London, which was established by John
Carpenter of that city about the year 1400.
William Carpenter lived in Weymouth, Massa
chusetts, for seven years, and during that time
represented the town in the General Court three
consecutive terms ; he was also town clerk of
Rehoboth from 1643 to 1649. From this family
have come .such men as Colonel Benjamin Car
penter of Guilford, a member of the old Council
of Safety and Lieutenant-Governor in 1779-81 ;
and Jonah Carpenter, a "minute-man" during
the Revolutionary War. Orrin Carpenter, the
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, came
to Vermont from Westminster, Massachusetts,
and was a leader in the anti Masonic movement
in the first third of the century. Mr. Carpenter's
early education was received in the common
schools of his native place, and the High School
at Bellows Falls, Vermont ; he subsequently
studied at Phillips Academy, Exeter, New
Hampshire, and the Boston University Law

School. He was admitted to the Vermont Bar
in September, 1883. In September of the fol
lowing year he was admitted to practice in the
Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and in May,
1893, in the United States Circuit Court. He
has been in the actual practice of his profession
ever since his admission to the Massachu
setts Bar. The day following his admission
to the Vermont Bar Mr. Carpenter went
to Boston and took examination for posi
tion as teacher in the evening schools of that
city, winning an appointment after a most rigid
examination. The first year after going to
Boston he entered the law office of Ex-Governor
Gaston, where he remained until he opened an
office of his own, on Tremont Street, which he
now occupies and where he has carried on a
successful and lucrative business. He has as
partners Hon. William W. Towle, a member of
the Massachusetts Senate, and Thomas C.
Batchelder, a member of the Massachusetts
House. His practice has been mostly devoted
to corporation law and insolvency cases. He
has frequently, in the contesting of law points,
found himself opposed by some of the most
eminent counsel in the country, but as proof of
his ability as a lawyer it is stated that in bring
ing cases for personal injuries against corpora
tions he has never brought one that was not
settled by the defendant or where he did not
obtain a verdict. In 18S5 Mr. Carpenter was
chosen Chairman of the Board of Assessors of
Maiden, the place of his residence, and in March,
1892, he was elected City Solicitor. He is a
Thirty-second degree Mason, being a member
of Converse Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
Royal Arch Chapter of the Tabernacle, Melrose
Council, No. 9, Royal and Select Masters,
Beausant Commandery, Knights Templar, and
Lodge of the Eastern Star, all of Maiden ; also
of Aleppo Temple and Massachusetts Consistory,
of Boston ; he is a member of the Vermont
Association of Boston, of the Maiden Board of
Trade and the Maiden Deliberative Assembly.
Mr. Carpenter was married and has three
children . Beatrice, Alfred Henry and Robert
Dow Carpenter. In politics Mr. Carpenter was
formerly a Democrat, but since the split in that

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

party he has voted the Republican ticket in
almost all elections.

COOLEY, William, 'President of Cooley
Manufacturing Company, Waterbury, was born in
Burlington, Vermont in 1834, son of Cassius and
Nellie (Taggard) Cooley. His grandparents

WILLIAM COOLEY.
were early settlers in the town of Milton, Ver
mont, his father's parents having come from
Connecticut and his mother's family from New
Hampshire. Mr. Cooley has been engaged in
the foundry and machine business for the past
thirtj' years, and he is widely known as the
inventor and patentee of the Cooley creamer,
which has had an extensive sale throughout the
United States as well as in foreign countries. He
is at present engaged in the manufacture of gaso
lene engines as a specialty, and he is meeting
with remarkable success in this industry. Mr.
Cooley has always voted the Republican ticket
but he is neither a politician nor a society man,
having always preferred to devote his spare
moments lo the investigation of the sciences,
particularly those pertaining to his business.

COTTON, William Harvey, Brooklyn, New
York, was born in Bradford, Orange county,
Vermont, March 19, 1818, son of John H. and
Anna (Huggins) Cotton. The founders of the
family in America were Puritans who came to
New England in 1634-38, his father's ancestors
having settled in Boston, Massachusetts, while
those on his mother's side settled in the colony of
Hartford, Connecticut. His paternal grand
father, Elihu Cotton, was born in Middletown,
Connecticut in 1734, and his father, John H.,
was born in the same town in 1778. His parents
located in Bradford, Vermont, but moved while
he was an infant to Windsor, Vermont, where he
spent his boyhood days. His father was in pub
lic life for many years, having held many positions
of honor and trust. The subject of this sketch
received his education in the public and private
schools in Windsor and at Kimball Union Acad
emy in Meriden, New Hampshire. At the age of
sixteen he went to Brooklyn, New York, to
engage in the dry goods business, which he
followed, and other mercantile business, for many

WILLIAM H. COTTON.
years. For forty-three years he was with
Tiffany & Company of New York, as chief book
keeper and Cashier. He has been prominent in

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57

social life, being a member ofthe Lincoln Club,
and of the New England Society of New York,
and of the Sons of Vermont and the Society of
Old Brooklynites. He was formerly a Whig, but
became a Republican with the formation of that
party . He has never held public office, preferring
to devote his attention to his business interests.
Mr. Cotton was united in marriage with Hannah
M. Owen, in Brooklyn, October 26, 1843 ; ^nd
they have two children living: Charles Henry
and John William Cotton.

CRANE, Willard, Lumber Merchant, Bur
lington, was born in Washington, New Hamp
shire, May 9, 1830, son of 2iba and Roxanna
(Proctor) Crane. His earliest American ances-

WILLARD CRANE.
tor is believed to have come to this country
from Suffolk, England, in 1648 or 1649, and to
have settled in Milton, Massachusetts. Joseph
Crane, grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
moved from Milton, to Washington, New
Hampshire, in the year 1782 or 1783, at the age
of twenty-five. Willard received a common
school education, which was supplemented with

a few terms in the academy. He began the
manufacture of lumber with temporary assist
ance from his father in his native town, but his
business capacity commended him to Lawrence
Barnes, then residing at Nashua, New Hamp
shire, by whom he was employed to execute
important commissions, first in Nashua and later
in New York city, in Three Rivers, Province of
Quebec, and finally in Burlington. In the fall
of 1858 he formed a copartnership with his
younger brother, David G. Crane, for the pros
ecution of the lumber business, which they
have conducted with great success to the present
time. The firm of W. & D. G. Crane is now
one of the oldest doing business in Burlington.
In addition to their large lumber works in Bur
lington, they are also interested in the whole
sale lumber establishment of W. G. Watson &
Company, of Muskegon, Michigan, and in the
retail lumber business of O. Woods & Com
pany, of Natick, Massachusetts. Mr. Crane is
also interested in the Burlington Venetian Blind
Company, the Queen Anne Screen Company,
and is President of the Vermont Shade Roller
Company. He is also President of the Lang &
Goodhue Manufacturing Company, manufactur
ers of water works, and other heavy iron work,
and he has an interest in the Burlington Shoe
Company. For twelve years he has been one
of the Trustees of the Burlington Savings
Bank, and is a Director of the Vermont Elec
tric Company, which supplies Burlington with
both power and light. Mr. Crane is active in
religious work, being a member of the First
Baptist Church of Burlington, and he is also a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Ver
mont Academy at Saxton's River, which is con
ducted under the auspices of the Baptist denom
ination in Vermont. He is an earnest Demo
crat in politics, but he has never sought office,
preferring to devote his time exclusively to the
supervision of his varied business interests.
Mr. Crane was united in marriage, November
5, 1856, with Harriet P. Miller, of Lempster,
New Hampshire, and two children were born
of their union : Arthur G. (May 5, 1858); and
Stella H. (March 23, 1866), now Mrs. R. A.
Arms.

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

DE BOER, Joseph Arend, Attorney, Mont
pelier, was born June 17, 1861, in Warffum,
Provincie Grouingen, Holland, son of John
Arend and Anna Peters (Kuiper) De Boer. The

JOSEPH A. DEBOER.
family as far back as its lineage has been traced
is pure Dutch. When the subject of this sketch
was four years old his father died. He was
brought to the United States by his mother in
1867, after which for several years, his home
was in Albany, New York. He was educated in
Grammar School No. 14 of Albany, 1869-76,
and in the High School of the same city, 1876
to 1880, graduating from each with especial
credit for good scholarship. He entered Dart
mouth College in 1880, and graduated with honor,
receiving the degree of A. B. in 1884, and taking
his degree as Master of Arts in 1887. The year
following his graduation he taught Greek and
Latin in the Holderness, New Hampshire,
School for Boys. His superior gifts and quali
fications as a teacher were immediately recog
nized, and he was sought for the position of Prin
cipal ofthe Montpelier Union School. For four
years, 1885-9, ^^ '^^^ Principal ofthe Montpelier
Union and Washington county Grammar Schools,
and made an enviable reputation as an educator.

August I, 1889, he was tendered the responsible
office of Actuary of the National Life Insurance
Company, in whose service he has since
remained, becoming its Secretary as well as
Actuary, in 1897. Among the offices which he
now holds are those of Director ofthe National
Life Insurance Company, Trustee of the Wash
ington county Grammar School, Secretary of the
Vermont Historical Society, Trustee of the Ver
mont Episcopal Institute and Trustee of the
Montpelier Gallery of Fine Arts. He is a mem
ber ofthe Montpelier Board of Education, and a
chartermemberof the Actuarial Society of Amer
ica. He is a member of the Montpelier Board of
Trade and Chairman of its Finance Committee.
Mr. De Boer is a member of Aurora Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons of Montpelier, also of the
Apollo Club of that city, and of the Tria Kappa
Society of Dartmouth College. In his politics
he is an active Republican, having been Presi
dent of the Young Men's Republican Club of
Montpelier during the Presidential campaign of
1896, and a delegate to severalState Conventions
ofhis party. Mr. De Boer thus touches the life of
the community in various responsible ways. Of
untiring industry and blest with uninterrupted
health, he fills efficiently the various offices to
whijh he has been called, and is recognized as
a valuable citizen. He has published a sketch
of Montpelier, History of Insurance in Vermont,
in the series of " The New England States " ;
and various addresses and miscellaneous papers.
He was married December 22, 1885, to Miss
Augusta 'Charles Featherly, of Albany, New
York. Their children are : Ethel Arend,
born October 19, 1886 ; Minnie Arend, born
January 25, 1888 ; Bertha Arend, born June 30,
1892 ; and Paul Kuiper De Boer, born July 14,
1897.

DENISON, Joseph Dudley, Lawyer, Ran
dolph, was born in Royalton, Vermont, Novem
ber I, 1847, son of Hon. Dudley Chase and
Eunice (Dunbar) Denison. The family trace
their descent from Colonel George Denison,
who came to America and settled in Stoning-
ton, Connecticut, in 1634. Joseph A. Denison,
the grandfather of the subject of this sketch.

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59

removed from Stonington to Vermont in the
year 1790. His father, Hon. Dudley C, repre
sented Vermont in Congress, 1875 to 1879.
Joseph D. Denison received his early education

Mobile, Alabama. They have two children :
Eunice Dunbar and Katherine Kendall Denison.

JOSEPH D. DENISON. *
in the local schools and at Royalton Academy.
After a year in Norwich University, he entered
the University of Vermont in 1864 and grad
uated with credit in 1868. Selecting the law as
his profession he studied in his father's office,
and was admitted to the Bar of Windsor county
in May, 1869. He commenced practice in
Royalton as a law partner of his father, and so
continued until 1885, when he removed to Ran
dolph, where he has since resided and holds a
high standing as a lawyer and a citizen. He
was Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs, of
the State of Vermont, under Governor Converse,
1872-4. He was State's Attorney of Orange
county, 1888-90. He represented Randolph in
the General Assembly, 1894-96. In politics he
is a Republican. He is a member of Phoenix
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, Whitney
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons of Randolph, and
of King Solomon Commandery of Knights Tem
plar of Montpelier. He married September 10,
1874, Elizabeth A. Rix, of Royalton, formerly of

DEWEY, Charles, President ofthe National
Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, was born
in Montpelier, Vermont, March 27, 1826. He
was the eldest son of Doctor Julius Yemans and
Mary (Perrin) Dewey, and grandson of Simeon
Dewey, who was one of the first settlers in Ber
lin, Vermont. The family trace their descent
from Thomas Dewey who came from Sandwich,
Kent, England, and settled in Dorchester, Mas
sachusetts, in 1633. Among his descendants
have been men of eminence in the professions,
on the bench, and in the National service, the
latest who has lent distinction to the name being
Admiral George Dewey, the hero of Manila Bay,
who is a younger brother of the subject of this
sketch. Charles Dewey is of the ninth genera
tion from Thomas Dewey, and of the ninth
generation, on the maternal side, from William
Pynchon, the founder and Governor of Spring
field, Massachusetts, who was for several years
Treasurer of the Colony of Massachusetts and
one of the Commissioners to govern Connecticut.
He came from near Chelmsford, England, in
1630 and first settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts,
removing to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1636.
In Green's History of Springfield, Thomas
Dewey is spoken of as an associate of the famous
Captain John Mason upon a mission to William
Pynchon, in 1638, for the Connecticut settlers.
Charles Dewey received his early education in
the local schools, fitted for college in the Wash
ington county (Vermont) Grammar School, and
was graduated with credit from the University
of Vermont in August, 1845. In the following
month he was appointed Assistant Secretary of
the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company —
the oldest Insurance Company in Vermont. In
January, 1850. he was elected Secretary of the
company, and held that position for twenty-one
years till November i, 1871. He was a Director
in that company for thirty years. In January,
1850, he was elected a Director in the National
Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, upon its
organization under the energetic management of

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his father. In 1871 he resigned the Secretaryship
of the Vermont Mutual to accept the Vice-Presi
dency of the National Life. In that capacity
he was the right-hand man of Doctor Dewey,

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CHARLES DEWEY.
the President and founder of the company, and
upon his death in 1877 he succeeded him as
President, which office he still holds. Under
his wise and able care the company has become
one of the strongest in the United States, its
annual receipts for premiums having increased
during his Presidency from three hundred thou
sand dollars to over three million dollars, and
its assets from three millions to upwards of
fifteen millions. In 1865 upon the organization
of the First National Bank of Montpelier, Mr.
Dewey was chosen a Director. In 1878 he was
elected Vice-President of the bank, and in
January, 1 891, he was made its President, which
office he still holds. For several years he was
a Director and Vice-President and later Presi
dent of the Lane Manufacturing Company. He
has served as Trustee of the Washington county
Grammar School since 1864 and as President of
the Board since 1879. He was appointed State
Inspector of Finance by Governor Barstow in
1882, and held that responsible office two years,

declining a reappointment tendered him by Gov
ernor Pingree. Though an earnest Republican
he has never sought political office ; but in 1867
he accepted a nomination to the State Senate,
and represented Washington county in that body
by successive elections, in the years 1867,
1868 and 1869, serving in two of these terras as
Chairman of the Committee on Finance, and
other important committees, and showing him
self to be a careful and influential legislator.
Mr. Dewey has been prominent in the Episcopal
Church of Vermont. He has been a delegate
from Christ Church, Montpelier, forty-four times
to various Diocesan Conventions, and has been
Trustee of several boards appointed by the Con
ventions. In 1883 he was a lay delegate from
the Vermont Diocese to the General Convention
of the Church held in Philadelphia. He has
been for over forty-six years a vestryman, and
for twenty-four years a Warden of Christ Church.
He is a member of the Vermont Society of Sons
of the American Revolution, and of the Society
of Colonial Wars. Mr. Dewey was married May
3, 1848, to Betsey, daughter of Lund and Susan
(Edson) Tarbox of Randolph. Three sons and
six daughters have blessed their union : Ella L.
(wife of Carrol P. Pitkin) deceased ; Frances I.
(wife of Henry E. Fifield) ; William T. ; Jennie
D. (wife of Edward D. Blackwell) ; Mary G. ;
George P., of Portland, Maine ; Gertrude M.
(wife of Fred. J. McCuen), and Kate D., Mont
pelier, and Charles Robert Dewey, of New
York city.

EATON, DoRMAN Bridgman, New York,
was born June 27, 1823, in Hardwick, Vermont,
son of Hon. Nathaniel and Ruth (Bridgman)
Eaton, both of the best Vermont stock. The
family trace their lineage from John Eaton, who
emigrated from England to the Massachusetts
Colony in 1635. He was the ancestor of the
branch known in the history of New England as
the Dedham, Massachusetts, Eatons, which
includes many representatives who have been
distinguished in business and professional life.
David Eaton, fourth in descent from this John
Eaton, removed from Woodstock, Connecticut to

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Hanover, New Hampshire, and was a prominent
citizjen there, being an elder in the Presbyterian
Church in 1775 and a soldier in one of the
Hanover companies of militia in the general

DORMAN B. EATON.
alarm of 1777. He was the great-grandfather of
Dorman B. Eaton. The latter was graduated
from the University of Vermont in 1848 and from
the Law School of Harvard College in 1850,
admitted to the New York Bar in 185 1, he was
early associated as law partner with Judge Wil
liam Kent, whom he assisted in editing the
Commentaries ofthe illustrious Chancellor, James
Kent. This important work completed, Mr.
Eaton published "Chipman on Contracts Payable
in Specific Articles," 1852. These and other
publications, gave him eminence in his profession,
and he continued in large professional practice in
New York city for many years. Justly respected
and honored in both professional and private life,
Mr. Eaton's most honorable distinction has been
gained in the cause of Municipal and Civil Ser
vice Reform. The first society for the promotion
of the latter was organized in his residence in
New York. In 1866, he drafted the law creating
the first Metropolitan Board of Health in New

York. The next year he drafted its Sanitary
Code. He was soon after made Chairman of the
Committee on Political Reform of the Union
League Club, which position he held for several
years. He drafted a law under which the Police
Courts of New York city were organized and
their justices were appointed. From 1870 to
1873 he was in Europe where he studied the Civil
Service systems of Great Britain and some ofthe
great continental powers. He was placed by
President Grant on the first United States Civil
Service Commission to succeed Mr. Curtis, who
had resigned, and was its Chairman until the
new Civil Service Law was enacted. In 1877, he
again visited Europe, the result of his investiga
tions being a volume upon the Civil Service of
Great Britain, which was published by authority
of Congress and by Harper & Brothers. He
drafted the act passed in 1883 under which the
present United States Civil Service Commission
is organized, and was the first Commissioner
appointed thereunder by President Arthur. Mr.
Eaton was a Civil Service Commissioner under
five presidents in succession. In 1874, he drafted
a code for the Government of the District of
Columbia, at the request of a joint committee of
both Houses of Congress. Mr. Eaton has written
much for the magazines and other periodicals,
principally upon subjects relating to municipal
and national government. Among his most
important essays have been "The Independent
Movement in New York," 1880, "Term and
Tenure of Office," and "Secret Se.ssions of the
United States Senate. ' ' While he is not a partisan ,
and is genuinely independent in his judgment of
parties and of men, Mr. Eaton has been a strong
believer in the vital principles of the Republican
party. He is a member of the Century, Union
League, Commonwealth, Unitarian, and City
Clubs of New York, ofthe New York Bar Asso
ciation, ofthe Citizens Union, and of the New
York city National Civil Service League, and the
Civil Service Reform and Excise Reform Associa
tions of that city. He is an Honorary member of
the Massachusetts Reform Club. Mr. Eaton
married Miss Annie S. Foster of New York city
in 1859. The University of Vermont has con
ferred upon him the degree of LL- D.

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EDSON, Franklin, New York, was born in
Chester, Windsor county, Vermont, April 5,
1832, son of Opher and Soviah (Williams)
Edson. He is descended from Deacon Samuel

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FRANKLIN EDSON.
Edson and Susannah Orcutt, his wife, who came
from England and settled in Salem, Massachu
setts, about 1635, and a few years later moved
to Bridgewater, Massachusetts, of which town
Deacon Samuel was one of the original propri
etors. He built the first mill in the colony and
with his sons was prominent in the management
of colonial affairs and active in the Indian wars.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the common schools of his native
town and at Chester Academy, having taught
school winters during his attendance at the lat
ter. He began active business life at the age
of nineteen with his brother Cyrus in Albany,
New York, becoming a full partner with him
four years later. Shortly after the copartner
ship was formed his brother was killed by a
boiler explosion, and he continued the business
successfully for many years with David Orr as
his partner. In 1866 he moved to New York
and became a grain merchant. In 1890 he was
elected President of the Genesee Fruit Com

pany, a position which he has continued to hold
up to the present time. He has also occupied
various other important positions. He was Pres
ident of the Young Men's Association of Albany
in 1863-4, President of the New York Produce
Exchange from 1873 to 1875 inclusive, and
again in 1878. He was Mayor of the City of
New York in 1883 and 1884, and his administra
tion of that important office was highly success
ful. Although he has always been a more or
less active Democrat he has never been a bitter
partisan and his management of the municipal
affairs of the metropolis was satisfactory to his
political opponents to an unusual degree. He
is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and
is a Director of several banks and insurance
companies in New York. He is prominent in
social life, being a member of the Manhattan
Club and of various other organizations of that
character. He was united in marriage with
Fanny C. Wood in 1856, and they have a fam
ily of seven children ; of whom Doctor Cyrus
is the oldest, the others being Doctor David
Orr, Franklin Jr., Henry Townsend, Robert
Stewart, Edith, and Ethel Townsend Edson.
Mrs. Edson, who was a grand-daughter of Jethro
Wood, the inventor of the cast-iron plow, died
in 1893.

GRAVES, George Franklin, Banker, Ben
nington, son of Luther R. and Sarah Maria
Graves, was born in Bennington, Vermont, Janu
ary 4, 1854. His ancestry is English, his father
being a descendant of Admiral John Graves.
He was educated in the public schools and in
Yates Seminary, Bennington, and graduated
from Eastman College, Poughkeepsie, New
York, April 17, 1872. He entered the First
National Bank of Bennington in May, 1872, as
Teller, which position he held for several years,
until his election as Cashier. He continued to
perform the duties of Cashier until 1894, when
he was elected President, which office he now
holds. Mr. Graves held the offices of Town and
Village Treasurer twenty years, from 1875 to
1895 ; also that of Treasurer of the graded
school district from its establishment until 1895,
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him to resign. He is at present Treasurer of
Bennington county, having held that office for
the past fifteen years, and has been Treasurer of
the Bennington Battle Monument Society since

removed to Cambridge, Vermont, and entered the
employ of the Burlington and Lamoille Railroad
Company. In 1882 he took up the hardware and
grain business, and in 1884 built and equipped
the Lamoille County Rolling Mill, both of which
industries he is still running. He is an ener
getic, progressive man, and has always been
prosperous in his undertakings. In the conduct
of his present business he occupies fourteen
thousand feet of floor space. Mr. Gray com
menced life with very little money, and by close
attention to details has accumulated a large
property. He is to day probably doing as
extensive a business as any man in the state,
outside of the larger towns and cities. He
began taking care of himself when eight years
old, leaving home and being thrown upon his

GEORGE F. GRAVES.
1894. He is a member of the Society of Red
Men. Although always interested in and asso
ciated with the public life of his native town,
and holding various public offices, he has never
entered politics in the commonly accepted mean
ing of the expression. He was united in mar
riage June 9, 1881, with Miss Belle Woodman.
Three children have been born to them : Hope,
aged thirteen ; Ruth, aged eleven ; and Luther
R. Graves, aged four years.

GRAY, Horatio Nelson, Merchant and
Miller, Cambridge, was born in Bakersfield,
Franklin county, Vermont, April 1, 1850, sonof
Hollis and Eliza Ann (Lathrope) Gray. His
great-grandfather, Matthew Gray, was one of
the early settlers in Bakersfield, where he died.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the
common schools, and lived on a farm until he
was nineteen years old. He began mercantile
life in Bakersfield in 1875. Two years later he

HORATIO N. GRAY.
own resources at that very early age. In 1887
he put in a gasolene motor to furnish power for
his mill, and it is thought that his was the first
motor of the kind ever used in Vermont for mill
purposes. Mr. Gray is a Republican, and is a
member of the Lamoille county committee. On
March 17, 1876, he married HattieM. Mudgett ;
they have three children : Hollis Edward, Udah
Millicent and Reba Alice Gray.

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HALL, Alfred Stevens, Lawyer, Boston,
Massachusetts, was born in West Westminster,
Vermont, April 14, 1850, son of Edward and
Frances A. (Tuttle) Hall. His father was a

ALFRED S. HALL.
native of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, where his
ancestors settled on their arrival from England in
the early days of the colony. His mother, who
was born in Grafton, Vermont, was descended
from William and Elizabeth Tuttle, who came
from England in 1635 and settled in New Haven,
Connecticut in 1639. He attended the public
schools at Westminster, and in 1865 was a student
at Williston Seminary, Easthampton, Massachu
setts. He subsequently attended the Kimball
Union Academy, from which he graduated in
1869. He then entered upon his collegiate
course at Dartmouth College, where he was
graduated in 1873. He studied law in Manchester,
New Hampshire, and in Boston. He attended
the Boston Law School for one year, graduating
with the degree of LL.B. in 1875. He was
admitted to the Bar of Suffolk county, Massachu
setts, December 20, 1875. Since his admission
to the Bar Mr. Hall has faithfully followed his
profession, his practice being in both State and
Federal courts, dealing considerably with corpo

ration and railroad cases, as well as with trust
and probate interests. He is President, Trustee,
or Director of various corparations, and is also
Trustee of several large estates ; but he devotes
most of his time to the general practice of law in
Boston, where his work has been carried on ever
since his coming to the Bar. Mr. Hall has been
prominent in social and public life, having held
various civil, social and political offices in the
town of Winchester, Massachusetts, where, with
the exception of a few months spent in Minnea
polis, he has resided ever since his marriage in
1876. He is also an influential member of differ
ent organizations in Boston. In politics he is a
Republican, taking an active interest in the work
and welfare of his party. He was united in
marriage, October 18, 1876, with Annette M.
Hitchcock of Putney, Vermont. Two children
were born to them : Francis C, who is now in
Dartmouth College ; and Helen A., now in the
Winchester High School. Mrs. Hall died Septem
ber 26, 1887, and on April 10, 1895, Mr. Hall
married Delia R. Ranney, of West Westminster,
Vermont.

HASKINS, Kittredge, Lawyer, Brattle
boro, was born in Dover, Windham county,
Vermont, April 8, 1836, son of Asaph and
Amelia (Ward) Haskins. He is of honorable
ancestry. His great-grandfather on the father's
side was Samuel Haskins of Rochester, Massa
chusetts, where he died. His son, William
Haskins, grandfather of Kittredge, married
Polly Ide, of Hardwick, Massachusetts, in 1788,
and in the same year came to Dover, Vermont,
then a part of the newly organized town of
Wardsborough, where he erected the first frame
dwelling house in that town. The grandfather
of Kittredge Haskins, on the mother's side, was
Luther Ward of Leicester, Massachusetts, who
married Annie Tenny of that town. He was a
soldier in the War of the Revolution, enlisting
in the Continental Army at the age of seventeen
years. He removed to Dover, Vermont, about
1810, and died there at a good old age.
Kittredge Haskins was educated in the public
schools, and by a private tutor, commenced the

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study of the law in the office of Shafter and
Davenport, eminent lawyers at Wilmington,
Vermont, October 15, 1854. He was admitted
to the Bar of Windham county, at the April

KITTREDGE HASKINS.
term, 1858, and immediately entered into co
partnership with Hon. Charles N. Davenport of
Wilmington, where he remained until April i,
i86i,when he removed to Williamsville, Ver
mont, and opened a law office, succeeding at
that place the Hon. Charles K. Field. In 1866
he formed a co-partnership for the practice of
the law with Hon. R. W. Clarke, which con
tinued for about ten years, in Brattleboro. In
1882 he became associated with Hon. Edgar W.
Stoddard, under the firm name of Haskins &
Stoddard, which continued until Mr. Stoddard's
death in July, 1896. In November, 1897, he
formed a partnership with Anthony F. Schwenk,
Esq., who had been a law student in his office,
under the firm name of Haskins & Schwenk.
He has been a Justice of the Peace, continu
ously since December i, 1861 ; was Deputy
County Clerk for Windham county from 1873 to
October, 1896 ; was State's Attorney for Wind
ham county, 1870-71, and was United State's
Attorney for the District of Vermont from

October 1880 to June, 1887 ; he was admitted to
the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United
States in January, 1885. He ranks high in his
profession as a sound lawyer and an able advo
cate. In politics since i860, he has been a
staunch Republican, and has been upon the
stump in every presidential canvass since 1864,
represented the town of Brattleboro in the
General Assembly in 1872-3, and again in
1896-7, and this term was Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. In 1892-3, he was a
State Senator from Windham county, and was
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of that
body. He was elected Speaker at the Special
War Session of May, 1898. In both branches
of the legislature he proved himself a wise
and conservative legislator. In 1893, he was
appointed a member of the Boundary Commis
sion, to establish the line between Vermont and
Massachusetts. Loyal to his country's call, in
August, 1862, Mr. Haskins enlisted in the Six
teenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and was
elected First Lieutenant of Cotd^any I, serving
at times as Acting Adjutant aud Acting Quarter
master of the Regiment, until March 23, 1863,
when he resigned. From May, 1863, to May,
1866, he was clerk in the office of the Assistant
Quartermaster of United States Volunteers, at
Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1869 he was appointed
Colonel and Aid-de-Camp upon the staff of
Governor P. T. Washburn. Mr. Haskins is
eminent in the Masonic order, having held the
offices of Worshipful Master of lodges in Wil
mington and Brattleboro; High Priest; Grand
High Priest of the Grand Chapter of Vermont ;
Grand Commander of the Grand Commandery
of Knights Templar ; Grand Junior and Grand
Senior Warden ; Deputy Grand Master ; and
Grand Master, 1895-7. He is a member of
Windsor Lodge of Perfection, and Vermont
Consistory, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite,
receiving the Thirty-second degree July 10,
1891, and has been elected to receive the
Thirty-third degree. He was an original mem
ber of the Masonic Veterans' Association and
its First Associate Chief in 1893-94. He has
also been President of the Order of High
Priesthood. He has held various local offices

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of responsibility and trust. He has been Ves
tryman and Warden in the Episcopal Church,
and delegate to the General Episcopal Conven
tion. His record is thus one of high honor and
eminent service. July i, i860, he married Miss
Esther M. Childs of Wilmington. A child, the
only fruit of this union, died in infancy.

HAWKS, William Edward, Bennington,
was born in that town January 27, 1832. His
father, Alvah Hawks, and mother, Julia Ann
Pratt, were both natives of Bennington, and his

WILLIAM E. HAWKS.
ancestors on both sides were pioneers in the set
tlement of Bennington county, and rendered
important service to the patriot cause in the
War of the Revolution. William E. Hawks
was brought up on the paternal farm and
received his early education in the public
schools, in the Bennington Academy, and at
Mt. Anthony Seminary at Bennington Centre,
until his eighteenth year, when he went to
New York and entered the employ of Hunt
Brothers, dry goods merchants, importers and
jobbers. After about four years he accepted an
offer of a position as salesman in the dry goods
house of Richards & McHarg of New York,

At the age of twenty -five, having saved some
money and acquired an excellent knowledge of
the business, he formed a partnership with
Charles C. Hurd, under the firm name of Hurd
& Hawks, and they did business as importers
and jobbers of hosiery and notions at 13 Park
Place, until i860, when Mr. Hurd retired. Mr.
Hawks continued the business in New York,
adding also to his main business some mercan
tile ventures at the South, until 1870 when the
West began to have superior attractions for
him, as a field for the employment of capital.
Disposing of his New York business he gave
much of his time and attention to Western
investments and enterprises. In 1872 he became
one of the organizers and a Director of the
First National Bank of Marseilles, Illinois.
Later he became principal owner and President
of the Marseilles (Illinois) Water Power
Company, and Vice-President of the Joilet (Illi
nois) Water Works Company. In 1889 he organ
ized the F'irst National Bank of Pocatello,
Idaho. During the next few years he was
largely interested in ranches and stock raising
in Idaho and Montana. At the present time he
is President of the Leadville (Colorado) Water
Company ; of the Raton, New Mexico, Water
Works Company ; and of the Monroe, Louisi
ana, Water Works and Light Company. He has
been Vice-President of the American Water
Works Association, and is an active member of
that important Association. In these and other
enterprises, Mr. Hawks has engaged with
marked capacity and success. His interest in
other towns and cities, however, has not less
ened his interest in his native town of Benning
ton, which he calls his home. He has been a
liberal investor iu real estate in Bennington,
owning, besides his residence, some of the best
business blocks. He was one of the incorpora
tors of the Bennington County Savings Bank
and the Bennington County National Bank. He
has been a member of the Bennington Battle
Monument Association, and a Trustee of the
Bennington Graded School, and is recognized as
a sagacious, public-spirited and generous citi
zen. On February 2, 1859, Mr. Hawks was
qiarried to Miss Helen Elizabeth, daughter of

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Major Samuel H. Brown, of Bennington. They
have five children : Samuel Brown, who is asso
ciated with his father in business ; William
Edward, Jr., of Bennington; Helen Frances,
wife of Clement N. Cone of Bennington ; Sarah
Julia, wife of Edward B. Huling of Chicago ;
and George Mordaunt Hawks, who is at school.

HENRY, Hugh, Attorney, Chester, was born
in that town, in Windsor county, March 21, 1838,
son of Hugh H. and Sarah (Henry) Henry. His

chosen to that office ever since. Judge Henry's
popularity as an official is attested by the fact
that at each election he has received almost the
entire vote of the District, without regard to
opposing candidates, and has always had more
votes than any other candidate on the county
ticket. He dropped out of active practice
as a lawyer about twelve years ago on account
of insufficient health. He represented Chester
in the Legislature in 1870, '72, '74, '76^ and
again in 1884. He was State Senator in
1880. He was Second Lieutenant of Com
pany I, Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, in
the War of the Rebellion. In 1892 he was
Department Commander, Grand Army of the
Republic, and has been President of the Board of
Trustees of the Vermont Soldiers' Home since
1887. For about twenty years past he has been
a Director ofthe Vermont Valley Railroad Com
pany, and ofthe National Bank of Bellows Falls,
and a Trustee of the Bellows Falls Savings Insti
tution. He is an active member of the Grand
Army ofthe Republic and the Loyal Legion, and
is a Mason and an Odd Fellow. He was
appointed Pension Agent by President McKinley,
with headquarters at Concord, New Hampshire,
and recently resigned the Probate Judgeship,
entering upon his new duties July i. He has
always been a Republican and prominent in the
councils of that party . On May i, 1872, Judge
Henry married Alice A. Ordway, they have two
children: Emma C. and Hugh H. Henry.

HUGH HENRY.
grandfather. Hugh Henry, was an early settler of
Chester, who accumulated a large property and
was a leading citizen, but declined all office.
His father was a prominent politician, represented
his town in the lower branch of the Legislature,
had been State Senator, and at the time of his
death in 1870 was United States Marshal for the
District of Vermont. Mr. Henry's education was
obtained at the academies in Chester, Vermont,
and Deerfield, Massachusetts. He studied law,
and was admitted to the Bar in May, 1862. He
practiced his profession at Chester until 1884,
when he was elected Judge of Probate for the
District of Windsor, and has been biennially

HOLBROOK, Frederick, the honored Gov
ernor of Vermont during two of the most event
ful years of the Civil War, was born at Ware
house Point, in the township of East Windsor,
Connecticut, September 15, 1813, during a tem
porary residence of his parents in that State.
He was the son of John Holbrook, born in
Weymouth, Massachusetts, who in his early
manhood came to Newfane, Vermont, and there
married Sarah, daughter of Judge Luke
Knowlton, of that town. Subsequently he
removed to Brattleboro, where he engaged in
mercantile business, paper making and banking.
He established a line of flat bottomed boats

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plying on the Connecticut River, was President
of the Bank of Brattleboro, one of the original
Trustees of the Vermont Asylum for the Insane,
and a man of note in the community. Frederick

FREDERICK holbrook.
Holbrook received his early education in the
local schools and at the Berkshire Gymnasium,
in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, under Professor
Chester Dewey and Mark Hopkins, honored
names in the educational history of New Eng
land. After two years in Boston, in a well
known book store, and a tour in England, he
married at the age of twenty-one and having a
strong taste for agriculture, he selected that as
his pursuit in life and settled down to it on a
farm in Brattleboro. He studied the scientific
side of cultivation of the soil, wrote on agricul
tural subjects for the Albany Cultivator and
New England Farmer, and soon become promi
nent as a farmer and citizen. He was active in
the organization of the Vermont State Agricul
tural Society, was its first President, and
remained at its head until he was elected Gover
nor of the state. He represented Windham county
in the State Senate in 1849-50, and as Chairman
of a Special Committee drew up a Memorial to
the President and Congress in favor of the

establishment of a National Bureau of Agricul
ture, the main idea of which was endorsed by
President Taylor and led the way to the organiz
ation of the Department of Agriculture, as it
at present exists. Among his inventions was that
of the Holbrook Plow, long a favorite with the
New England farmers. Previously a Whig in
his party affiliations, he was among the organiz
ers of the Republican party of Vermont. He
was a member of the first Republican state con
vention held in the state. In 186 1 he was
nominated for Governor and elected by an over
whelming majority. He was inaugurated on
October 10 of that year, and assumed the duties
of the office at one of the most important and
trying times in the history of the state. The
Civil War had been in progress for six months,
and it was plain that it was to be no short or
small struggle. Vermont had sent five regi
ments to the field, but many more men must be
recruited and vast sums raised for war purposes.
Governor Holbrook addressed himself with
energy to the duties before him. He under
took in person the negotiation of one mil
lion five hundred thousand dollars of state
bonds, and sold the entire issue at a premium.
During his administration, eleven infantry reg
iments, a cavalry regiment, two light batteries
and three companies of sharpshooters were sent
to the front, and the ranks of the regiments
were replenished by thousands of recruits.
Governor Holbrook commissioned more Ver
mont officers than any other Governor. He
gave unwearied care to the soldiers in the field.
He provided hospitals in Vermont, which saved
the lives of thousands of wounded and sick
men. He was the trusted adviser of President
Lincoln. After the reverses in the summer of
1862, he suggested to the President that a call
be issued for five hundred thousand more men.
Mr. Lincoln approved the advice, suggesting
that an endorsement of the proposed call be
drawn up and signed by Governor Holbrook and
the other loyal governors. This was done and
the calls for three hundred thousand three years
men, and for three hundred thousand nine
months men followed, and were filled. In these
and other ways did Governor Holbrook sustain

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69

the national administration and the flag, win
ning the warm affection of the Vermont
soldiers and the respect and approval of her citi
zens. After retiring from the Governorship he
declined all further ciyil office and devoted
himself to the care of his affairs and those of
the business institutions with which he was iden
tified, as President of the Board of Trustees
of the Vermont Insane Asylum, and Presi
dent of the Vermont Savings Bank, of Brattle
boro. Retaining his equable and cheerful temper
and his regular habits, he has also retained to a
remarkable degree his powers of mind and
body. He is one of the two surviving War
Governors of the United States. Mr. Holbrook
married, January 13, 1835, Harriet, daughter of
Joseph Goodhue of Brattleboro. Their children
are : Franklin F., born March i, 1837, who was
Military Agent of Vermont during the Civil
War; William C, who was Colonel of the
Seventh Vermont Regiment and is now a Judge
of the Court of Special Sessions of the City of
New York ; and John Holbrook, born July 17,
1852, who is in business in Pennsylvania.

lish ancestors to Germany, where the name was
variously written Groot, Grote, and when latinized
Grotius, a name made famous by the great Dutch
patriot, philosopher and theologian. The mater-

HOLTON, Henry D wight, Physician, Brattle
boro, was born in the village of Saxton's River,
in the town of Rockingham, Vermont, July 24,
1838, son of Elihu D wight and Nancy (Grout)
Holton. He is of Pilgrim ancestry, being
descended from William Holton, who came from
Ipswich, Suffolk county, England, to Cambridge,
Massachusetts, in 1634, and later was one of a
band of one hundred pioneers, who pushed into
the wilderness, to found the town of Hartford,
Connecticut. In 1654 he removed to Northamp
ton, Massachusetts. He was a Deacon of the first
church of that town , a Magistrate and a Repre
sentative to the General Court, when he made the
first motion on record in that body, to prohibit
the sale of intoxicating drinks. The great-grand
father of Doctor Holton, onthe father's side, was
born in Northfield, Massachusetts, July 10,
1738. He served in the Revolutionary War,
in Captain John Burke's Company, of Colonel
Timothy Ruggles's regiment, and was with Ethan
Allen at Ticonderoga. On the mother's side.
Doctor Holton's lineage runs back through Eng-

HENRY D. HOLTON.
nal grandfather of Doctor Holton, John Grout ot
Spencer, Massachusetts, was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch
received his early education in the common schools
and at the Academy at Saxton's River. Arriving
at manhood, he selected Medicine as his profession,
and studied it under Doctor J. H. Warren of
Boston, and Valentine Mott, of National fame, of
New York. He graduated in the Medical Depart
ment of the University of New York in i860, and
commenced practice as physician to the Williams
burg Dispensary in Brooklyn, New York. He
subsequently practiced in Putney, Vermont,
removing thence, in 1867, to Brattleboro, where
he has since resided. Doctor Holton soon attained
high rank in his profession, and as a Surgeon has
performed most of the capital operations required
in that region, during the past thirty years. He
was for five years Secretary of the Connecticut
River Medical A.ssociation, and its President in
1867. He became a member ot the Vermont
Medical Society in 1861, and was its President in

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1873. He was elected a member of the American
Medical Association in 1864, and was its Vice-
President in 1880. He delivered the oration on
State Medicine before that Association at its meet
ing in Baltimore, Maryland, May 1895. He was
a delegate from the last named Association to the
International Medical Congress, held in Brussels
in 1875, and was chosen a member of the British
Medical Society in that year. He is a member
of the American Public Health Association, and
was elected its Treasurer at the meeting held in
the City of Mexico in 1892. He is a member of
the Boston Gynecological Society and ofthe Rocky
Mountain Medical Society, organized in the city
of San P'rancisco in 1871. He is an Honorar>-
mepiber of the Maine Academy of Medicine, and
a member of the Vermont State Board of Health.
In 1873 he was appointed Medical Examiner to
the Vermont Asylum for the Insane. He was
elected by the Legislature in 1873, a Trustee of
the University of Vermont and State Agricultural
College. He was for thirteen years, 1873-86,
Professor of Materia Medica and General Pathol
ogy in the Medical Department of the University
of Vermont. In 188 1 he received from that
institution the honorary degree of A. M. He was
for twenty-five years a member of the Brattleboro
School Board and its Chairman for fifteen years,
and was one of the first Trustees of the Brattle
boro Free Library. He has been a Director of
the Vermont National Bank of Brattleboro for
eighteen years and President of the Brattleboro
Gas Light Company for sixteen years. He is
President of the Brattleboro Home for the Aged
and Disabled. Doctor Holton was active in the
organization of the Pan-American Medical Asso
ciation, and was chosen President of its Board of
Trustees, which met in Washington in 1893. He
was appointed Commissioner for Vermont lo the
Nicaragua Canal Convention, held in New Orleans
in 1892, and was one of the Vermont Commis
sioners of the Columbian Exposition. Doctor
Holton is a Republican in politics. In 1884116
was elected to the State Senate, in which body he
was Chairman of the Committee on Education,
and Chairman of the Committee on the Insane
Asylum, and a member of the Joint Committee on
the House of Correction. In 1888 he was elected

Representative from Brattleboro to the General
Assembly, where he was a member of the Com
mittees on Education, Ways and Means, and Public
Health. He was a delegate at large to the
Republican Convention, held at St. Louis in June
1S96, which nominated President McKinle}-. Few
men ofhis profession have been called to so man)'
offices of honor and trust. He has contributed a
number of valuable papers to Medical Journals, and
to transactions of Medical Societies. He reported
Mott's Cliniques for the Press, and in 1880 pub
lished the Posological Tablet, which passed
through two editions. He is a collaborator on
The Sanitarium, published in Brooklyn, New
York. Dr. Holton was married, November 19,
1862, to Ellen, eldest daughter of Theophilus and
Mary Damon (Chandler) Hoit of Saxton's River.
They have no children.
HUSE, HiRAiM Augustus, Montpelier, was
born January 17, 1S43, at Randolph, then the
home of his parents, Hiram Sylvester and Emily

HIRAM A. HUSE.
Morgan (Blodgett) Huse. The family removed
to Wi.sconsin in 1845, and his home was in that
state till 1 868. He received his early education
in the red school house, at Willard Seminary,

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71

Watertown, Wisconsin, and at Dixon, Illinois.
He taught district school for several terms, pre
vious to i860, when he returned to Randolph to
fit for college in the Orange County Grammar
School. He entered Dartmouth College in 1861,
and August 19, 1862, enlisted in Company F. of
the Twelfth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers. He
served in the ranks throughout the term of ser
vice of the regiment and was mustered out at the
clo.se of the Gettysburg campaign, July 14, 1863.
Returning to college he graduated in 1865; atten
ded the Albany Law School in 1866-7 and was
admitted to the Bar in 1867. In 187 1-2 he was
the Assistant Principal, under Professor Edward
Conant, in the State Normal School at Randolph,
Vermont. In 1872 he removed to Montpelier and
commenced the practice of law. He was for
some ten years the principal editorial writer on
the Green Mountain Freeman. In 1873 he was
appointed State Librarian of Vermont, which
office he still holds. In 1878 he represented
Montpelier in the General Assembly, and in
1882-4 was State's Attorney for Washington
county. In 1883 he formed a law partnership
with Clarence H. Pitkin, Esq., which continued
for seven years. In October 1890, at the close of
Governor William P. Dillingham's term as Gov
ernor of Vermont, the law firm of Dillingham &
Huse was formed, which was later enlarged by
the admission of Frederick A. Howland, Esq.,
forming the present firm of Dillingham, Huse &
Howland. Mr. Huse is a member of Aurora
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; of Brooks
Post, Grand Army of the Republic; and of the
Vermont Society of Sons of the American Revo
lution. He was married in Randolph, January
30, 1872, to Miss Harriet OHvia, daughter of
Melzar and Eunice Harriet (Sniith) Woodbury.
They have two children : Harriet Emily and Ray
Woodbury Huse.

KELLEY, Barney F., Chief of Police, St.
Albans, was born in Ireland, November 20, 1847,
son and third child of Barney and Elizabeth
(Larkin) Kelley. In the spring of 1848 his
parents came to America to seek their fortunes
in the Land of Promise, but the mother barely

survived to see it. She was stricken with ship
fever, contracted on the voyage, and died at St.
Albans Bay the day after landing there. The
father with the three children went thence to

BARNEY F. kelley.
Fairfield, Vermont, where two years later he
died. The orphans were cared for by kind
friends, and young Barney early showed a deter
mination to make a man of himself. He attended
the common schools, doing chores for his board,
and later spent two years at the New Hampton
Institution at Fairfax, Vermont, supporting him
self by his labor, and services as Janitor. After
leaving the institution, he taught in the district
schools winters and worked in summer on the
farms and in the hayfields, making many friends
by his activity, industry, intelligence and cheer
ful spirit. In January, 1867, while teaching a
district school in Fairfield, young Kelley was
appointed a Deputy Sheriff for Franklin county
by Sheriff A. J. Soule, and removed to St. Albans,
living with the Sheriff at the jail. Before he
became of age he had associated himself with
the Republican party and had begun to take an
interest in politics. In the spring of 1868 he
was appointed an Inspector of Customs under
Collector George J. Stannard, and stationed at

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St. Albans. In 1879 he was appointed Deputy
Collector of Customs at the Sub-port of St.
Albans, under Collector William Wells, and held
the office until the incoming of the Cleveland
administration in March, 1885, when he resigned.
At that time he was elected first Constable aud
Collector of Taxes for the town of St. Albans,
and held that position until December i, 1890,
when he assumed the duties of Sheriff of Frank
lin county, also Chief of Police of St. Albans,
which offices he now holds, performing their
responsible duties with marked efficiency and
credit. Mr. Kelley is prominent in various civil
capacities. He was a member of the School
Board for several years, and Chairman of the
Board for three years. He has been an active
member of the Fire Department of that town,
and was Chief Engineer thereof for two years.
He is a member ofthe St. Albans Board of Trade,
and was one of the founders ofthe Owl Club.
A self-made man, frank, genial, whole-hearted,
upright and earnest, he has the respect and
esteem of a host of friends. He is a strong
Republican of the school of James G. Blaine
and M. S. Quay ; and wishes it to be understood
that he is not a believer in " Civil service
reform " so called. In November, 1872, he
married Nancy McSorley, who died in 1879. He
has two children : Lizzie M. and George Ray
mond Kelley.

there, building up a large practice. Doctor
Kidder has taken a prominent place in medical
circles, being a member of the Vermont State
Medical Society, of the American Medical Asso-

KIDDER, Fred Thomas, Physician, Wood
stock, was born in that town on October 14, 1858,
son of Reverend Moses and Laura (Hazen) Kid
der. He is of Puritan stock and his maternal
great-grandfather, Elias Thomas, was one ofthe
first settlers in Woodstock, having built the first
frame house in that town. The subject of this
sketch received his education in the village
schools of Woodstock and in the University of
Vermont, having graduated from the latter insti
tution with the degree of A. B. in 1880. He
adopted medicine as his profession and entered
the Medical Department of the University of
Vermont from which he graduated in 1883. He
at once located in his native town for the practice
of his profession, and he has since remained

FRED T. KIDDER.
ciation, and of the American Academy of Medi
cine. He is an Odd Fellow and is a member of
the Encampment as well as ofthe Canton. He
was joined in marriage with Ellen S. Warren on
October n, 1893; and they have one daughter:
Katherine Winchester Kidder, who was born
March 24, 1896.

LANDON, Walter Chipman, Merchant,
Rutland, was born in Sunderland, Vermont,
August 17, 1 83 1, son of Noah and Pamela
(Wilcox) Landon, (who was the daughter of
Samuel Wilcox of Manchester, Vermont,) and
Abigail Chipman, whose father, Nathaniel
Chipman, was one of the pioneers of Sunder
land, Vermont. The Landon family is of Welsh
origin. The paternal grandfather of Walter C,
Elisha Landon, was born in Salisbury, Connec
ticut, June 3, 1766, and moved to Sunderland,
Vermont, in 1799. He followed the calling of
a blacksmith. The grandmother of Walter C.

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on the father's .side, was Alice, born 1764, the
daughter of Charles Bingham of Salisbury,
Connecticut, who served in the Continental
Army in 1776, was taken captive and died on a

WARREN C. landon.
British prison ship in New York harbor. The
subject of this sketch received his early educa
tion in the common schools and in a private
school, till, at the age of fourteen, he began
work on a farm in Arlington. Later he served
four years as a clerk in the store of P. L. Rob
inson in Bennington. In 1852 he removed to
Rutland, where he was for five years a clerk in
the hardware and grocery store of Landon and
Graves. In 1857 he commenced business for
himself, having formed a partnership with
Chester Kingsley, with whom, under the name
of Landon and Kingsley, he carried on a general
business in groceries for three years. In i860,
inconnection with John W. Cramton, he bought
the Central House in Rutland, and had the man
agement of that hotel till, in 1863, he returned
to the grocery business in partnership with John
N. Baxter, who resigned the entire business to
him a year later. In 1868, with Charles F.
Huntoon as a junior partner, he established his
present business as a hardware dealer. Mr.

Huntoon retired in failing health in 1875, and
Mr. Landon carried on the establishment alone
till, in January, 1898, the business having largely
increased, he associated with himself his son,
Charles H. Landon and William H. Spaulding,
under the firm name of W. C. Landon & Co.,
which is one of the most extensive hardware
houses in Vermont. At the outbreak of the
Civil War, Mr. Landon 's patriotic instinct made
him one of the first to volunteer for the defense
of the Union. Enlisting in April, 1861, he
served as Color Sergeant of Company K of the
First Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, (of
which Company Wm. Y. W. Ripley was Cap
tain, and George T. Roberts and L. G. Kingsley
Lieutenants,) during the three months' term of
the regiment, which rendered valuable service
at Fortress Monroe and Newport News, Vir
ginia. In 1862, upon the organization of the
Twelfth Vermont Regiment, he returned to the
service as First Lieutenant of Company K of
that regiment. Before the Twelfth left for the
field. Captain Kingsley of that company was
appointed Major and Mr. Landon was promoted
to the Captaincy. He commanded the company
until the middle of February, 1862, when he
resigned, his business needing his personal
attention. Mr. Landon has held many offices
of responsibility and trust in civil life. He has
been from its organization one of the Directors
of the Baxter National Bank. He is Treasurer
of the Evergreen Cemetery Association. He
was a Trustee of the village of Rutland in 1859;
was Town, Village and School Treasurer, 1864-
75; was a Lister, 1874-85; was Selectman of
Rutland, 1885-6. He was an active member of
the Fire Department for twenty years, and
Chief Engineer of the Department, 1872-82;
and Water Commissioner, 1877-93; and School
Commissioner since 1894. He has discharged
the varied duties of these positions with fidelity
and efficiency. In politics he is a Republican
and representedJhe town of Rutland as Repre
sentative in the Legislature in 1882-3. He is a
member of the Rutland Board of Trade, of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Order
of Elks. Mr. Landon married June 16, 1862,
Miss Mary M. Manly of Rutland. They have

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one son: Charles Huntoon Landon, born April
3, 1867.

LASHER, Frank, Manufacturer, Benning
ton, was born in Columbia county, New York,
October 13, 1856, son of Phillip H. and Helen
(Mink) Lasher. Hisfather'sfamily is supposed

F. lasher.
to have been of German origin, while his moth
er's ancestors came from either Holland or Eng
land. He obtained a limited education in the
common schools at Philmont, New York, and at
the early age of nine years he began his service
in a knitting goods factory, a business with
which he has ever since been connected. He
began at the foot of the ladder by attending to
the machines and by degrees he became master
of the knitting rooms. He was with the H. E.
Bradford Knitting Company until 1891, in which
year he went into business for himself, under the
firm name of the Lasher Stocking Company. He
has been highly successful as a manufacturer,
and he has recently developed a new machine for
the manufacture of fine ribbed underwear, which
makes the finest underwear of that class to be
found in the country. Mr. Lasher has always
been a zealous Republican in politics, but he has

never held public office, preferring to devote his
attention exclusively to his business. On
November 14, 1877, he was united in marriage
with Martha E. Pulver of Columbia county,
New York.
LATHROP, Ernest McAuley, Manufac
turer, Arlington, was born in Manchester, Ver
mont, October 12, 1849, son of Eli Brownson
and Sarah B. (McAuley) Lathrop. He was edu
cated in the common schools and in Burr and
Burton Seminary in Manchester, Vermont. His
early life was spent on the farm, and his training
for active life was somewhat limited. He started
in business in Arlington, Vermont, in 187 1, and
he has been highly successful as lumber dealer,
miller and manufacturer of doors, sash and
blinds. He is actively interested in the affairs of
his community and for several years has been one
of the Selectmen of his town. He is an earnest

^mt

E. M. LATHROP.
Republican but has not sought to profit by his
party affiliation or been a seeker for office. He
is a Free Mason, being a member of Red Moun
tain Lodge, No. 63, of Arlington. He was
united in marriage with Emma Clifford Youngs
on September 5, 1877.

MEN OF PROGRESS.

MARTIN, Frank Jason, Attorney, Barre,
was born in Washington, Vermont, October 22,
1858, son of Kimball P. and Delana (Wiley)
Martin. His paternal ancestors came to Ver-

frank j. martin.
mont from Connecticut, having been among the
first settlers of Williamstown, Vermont, and
their descendants form no inconsiderable portion
of the present population of that town. The
subject of this sketch obtained his early educa-.
tion in the public schools of Barre and Williams
town and at Barre Academy . He entered Wor
cester Academy of Worcester, Massachusetts, in
1880, and took a four years course in three years,
graduating in June, 1883. He acted as clerk in
dry goods stores in Vermont and Massachusetts
before and after entering Worcester Academy,
and he later taught school in Connecticut and
Vermont. He began the study of law in 1887,
reading with Hon. Frank Plumley of Northfield
and with Hon. H. A. Huse and M. E. Smilie of
Montpelier. He was admitted to the Bar, Octo
ber 22, 1890, and began the practice of law in
Barre, December i of the same year with F. P.
Carleton. In December, 1892, Mr. Carleton
retired from the firm to remove to Montpelier,
and he was succeeded by L. P- Slack, who
remained a partner until May 24, 1895, since

which time Mr. Martin has practiced alone. Mr.
Martin is an earnest Republican and he has held
numerous positions of honor at the hands of that
party. He was Deputy County Clerk of Wash
ington county from April, 1888, to April, 1890;
and Second Assistant State Librarian during the
legislative sessions of 1890, 1892 and 1894. He
held the position of prosecuting officer in the
town of Barre before the city of Barre was
formed, and he also filled various town offices of
less responsibility. He was the first City Attor
ney of the city of Barre. He is a member for
Washington county of the Executive Board of
the Republican League of Vermont; he was one
of the principal organizers of the McKinley Club
of Barre in 1896, of which organization he was
made Secretary and Treasurer ; and he has been
a member of the Republican town committee.
He is a Mason, being a member of St. Aldemar
Commanderj', No. 11, Knights Templar. He
was united in marriage with Ida Norris, Decem
ber 28, 1892.

MASON, Charles Henry, Lawyer, Ben
nington, was born in Royalton, Vermont, March

C. H. MASON.
3, 1856, son of Henry and Jerusha (Mosher)
Mason. His education was obtained in the pub-

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lie schools of his native town; in the State Nor
mal School and in Royalton Academy. Having
decided to enter the profession of law he devoted
himself to study in the offices of N. L. Boyden
of Randolph, William E.Johnson of Woodstock,
and D. C. Denison of Royalton in succession,
and he was admitted to the Bar at the May term
of Windsor County Court in 1883. He located
in Bennington for the practice of his profession
on August 28, 1883, and he has won a gratifying
success, being recognized as one of the ablest
men of the Bennington County Bar. He was
Judge of the Municipal Court of Bennington from
1885 to 1887, and State's Attorney for Benning
ton county for the term of 1891-92. He is a
member of Mt. Anthony Lodge, No. 13, PVee
and Accepted Masons, and of Mohegan Tribe,
Improved Order of Red Men. He is an enthusi
astic Republican. He was joined in marriage
with Melissa Huling, November 5, 1889.

MORRILL, Justin Smith, United States
Senator, was born in Strafford, Vermont, April
14, 1 8 10, son of Nathaniel Morrill, and grandson
of Smith Morrill, who was one of the pioneers ot
that town. The father of Senator Morrill was a
successful farmer, blacksmith and manufacturer.
His son, the distinguished subject of this sketch,
received his early education in the public schools
and local academy. At the age of fifteen he
stepped behind the counter of a Strafford mer
chant as a clerk, and obtained furt'ner mercantile
experience in the successive employ of two promi
nent merchants of Portland, Maine, in 1828. In
1 83 1 he returned to Strafford to become the com
mercial partner of the late Judge Jedediah H.
Harris, who was the leading merchant in Straf
ford, an extensive farmer, and an eminent citizen.
This business connection was terminated by the
death of Judge Harris in 1855. Seven years
previous to that event, however, Mr. Morrill
ceased to give his personal attention to the busi
ness, and devoted himself chiefly to agricultural
pursuits. From his boyhood Mr. Morrill had
given what ofhis waking hours was not occupied
in regular labor, to books. While a clerk he read
through Blackstone's Commentaries, and in sub

sequent years he pursued a self-directed course of
reading of standard and classical authors. He
was thus storing his retentive memory with facts,
and fitting himself, unconsciously, for public life
and national usefulness. Until he was forty-four
years old, however, he had neither sought nor
held any public office higher than that of a Jus
tice of the Peace. Suddenly he stepped to the
front. In 1854 Hon. Andrew Tracy, of Wood
stock, Representative of the Second Congressional
District in Congress, declined to be a candidate
for re-election and Mr. Morrill was nominated to

JUSTIN S. MORRILL.
succeed him. It was a notable compliment to be
paid to a quiet and studious farmer. A third
party candidate drew off two thousand votes from
him, but Mr. Morrill was elected and took his
seat in the Thirty-fourth Congress on December
3, 1855. He had been elected as a Whig, but
the Whig party was then in the throes of dissolu
tion, and when he appeared at Washington it
was as a Representative of the new Republican
party, in the organization of which in Vermont
he had taken part, and of whose principles he
became the earnest advocate. He soon made his
mark as an intelligent legislator. He opposed
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wide attention. He carried through the House
the first bill against Mormon polygamy. He
introduced and carried the first bill to grant pub
lic lands for the support of agricultural, scientific
and industrial colleges. Under this act forty-
seven land-grant colleges have been organized in
the various states, with five hundred professors
and over five thousand students. The national
bounty has called out state aid in large amounts,
and the act, supplemented by the act (also car
ried through by Mr. Morrill) increasing the fund
placed at the disposal of these institutions, has
given an immense impulse to liberal and indus
trial education. Mr. Morrill was five times re
elected to the House, by majorities ranging from
seven thousand to nine thousand, and grew
steadily in standing and influence in the lower
branches of Congress, till, in the Thirty-ninth
Congress, he held the leading position of Chair
man of the Committee of Ways and Means; and
it was said of him, with truth, that his influence
in the House was greater than that of any other
member, with the exception of ThaddeusStevens.
During the war he had charge of all the tariff
and tax bills — a Herculean task — and made the
leading arguments thereon; and the Morrill
Tariff of 1861, a monument of industry and prac
tical wisdom, and the Internal Revenue Tax
System of 1862, connect his name indissolubly
with the financial history of the time. In 1866,
after twelve years of such honorable jabor in
the House, Mr. Morrill was transferred to the
United States Senate. He took his seat with an
established national fame as a statesman. The
space allotted to this sketch will not permit any
thing like a review of his career, in that body.
As Chairman of the Finance Committee he has
held a position second in power and influence
to no other, and his service as Chairman of the
Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds,
and as a member of the Committee on Educa
tion and Labor, has been of the most useful
character. The important speeches made by him
in the Senate exceed one hundred in number,
and include a wide range of subjects. Heisan
authority in Washington on all questions relating
to finances and taxation. Mr. Morrill's period
of service in the National Legislature is as

remarkable for its duration, as it is distinguished
by its usefulness. His fiftb election to the
Senate, in October, 1896, at the age of eighty-
six years, was an event without a precedent and
will probably remain without a parallel. The
longest previous continuous term of service in
Congress was that of Thomas H. Benton, of
Missouri, which was thirty years. Mr. Morrill
looks back on forty- three years of Congressional
life, and he is still younger in mind and body
than most men of three score. He has constantly
held the highest respect and esteem of his
brother legislators of all parties, as well as of
the citizens of Vermont. He has been too busy
in affairs of state to give much time to literary
labor; but a volume entitled " Self Conscious
ness of Noted Persons," being a collection of
expressions of self-esteem by many famous men
and women, gathered by him in the course of
his wide reading, was published in 1885, and a
second edition in 1887. Mr. Morrill was married
in 185 1, to Ruth, daughter of Doctor Caleb Swan
of Easton, Massachusetts. She died, greatly
lamented. May 13, 1898. Two sons were the
fruit of this union: Justin Harris, who died in
childhood, and James Swan Morrill.

PECK, Cassius, Burlington, was born in
Brookfield, Vermont, March 3, 1842, son of
Reuben and Hannah G. (Edson) Peck. The
family has an ancient and honorable lineage,
traceable back to the fifteenth century. Joseph
Peck, the emigrant ancestor, who came to
America and settled in Hingham, Massachusetts,
in 1638, belonged to the class of English Gentry,
entitled to coat armour, and the motto onthe Peck
coat of arms, as registered in the British Museum,
"Probitatem quam divitias " truly indicates the
honest and honorable character of many who
have borne the name. Cassius Peck received
his early education in the common schools, in
West Randolph Academy, and in Newbury Semi
nary. At the age of nineteen, being a first rate
shot with the rifle, and animated by the spirit
which took the best young blood of Vermont to
the field in defense of the Union, he enlisted,
September 12, 186 1, in Company F, First Regi-

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ment United States Sharpshooters, and for three
years shared the arduous and valuable service of
that organization, being promoted to Corporal in
December, 1862, and to Second Sergeant in May,

cassius peck.
1864. He took part in some forty different
actions and engagements, including every battle
of the Army of the Potomac from April, 1862, to
September, 1864, and received a Medal of Honor,
granted by Congress, for gallant service at
Blackford's Ford, Virginia, on September ig,
1862, when with others he crossed the Potomac
and assisted in the capture of six pieces of Con
federate artillery with prisoners. Retiring from
the army at the expiration of his term of service
he engaged in farming in his native town, and
acquired influence and standing as a citizen and
man. He represented his town in the General
Assembly in 1882 and again in 1886, being
Chairman of the Committee on Highways and
Bridges and also ofthe special committee on the
division of the town of Rutland. In i8g6 he
was elected to the State Senate. In that body
he was Chairman ofthe Military Committee, and
a member ofthe Judiciary Committee, and was
recognized as a careful and valuable legislator.
He has held various town offices. He has been

a member of the Board of Trustees of the Uni
versity of Vermont and State Agricultural Col
lege since 1890, and of the Board of Control of
the United States Agricultural Experiment
Station since 1891. He is a Trustee of the Ver
mont Soldiers' Home since 1894. He was a
member ofthe Vermont Gettysburg Monument
Commission in 1886, and ofthe similar commis
sion for locating Vermont Monuments at Antie
tam in 1896. Mr. Peck is a Republican, and a
member of the Congregational Church. He is
a Royal Arch Mason; a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic; a member of the Patrons
of Husbandry; a member of the Vermont Society
of Sons of the American Revolution, and a mem
ber of the Medal of Honor Legion. He married,
April 30, 1868, Miss Luna Arnold Sprague.
Eleven children have been the fruit of their
union, eight of whom are now living.

PECK, Hamilton Sullivan, Mayor of
Burlington, was born in Royalston, Massachu
setts, October 22, 1845, son of Sullivan and
Czarina (Davis) Peck. He is of English descent
on the father's side, and of Scotch on the
mother's. The branch of the extensive Peck
family to which he belongs dates back through
over twenty generations to John Peck of Belton,
Yorkshire, England, and the motto on the
family coat of arms "Probitatem quam divitias "
— probity rather than riches— has characterized
many of the descendants. The first American
ancestor was Joseph Peck, who, fleeing from
Hingham, England, to avoid religious persecu
tion, came to the Plymouth Colony in 1638, aud
settled in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The early
education of Hamilton S. Peck was received in
a "little red school house" in his native town;
in Athol, Massachusetts, High School; and in
the High School in Burlington, Vermont, where
he fitted for college. He entered the Univer
sity of Vermont in 1866 with creditable rank as
a scholar. While in college he became a
member of the Sigma Phi fraternity. After his
graduation he taught school for three years,
pursuing at the same time the study of the law.
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county April, 1873, and commenced practice in
Burlington. He soon established a reputation
as one of the rising young lawyers of Vermont.
In 1878 he was elected State's Attorney for

and of the Lake Champlain Yacht Club. Now
in the prime of life, he is emphaticallj^ a "Man
of Progress," and if his life and health are
spared he will be heard of more hereafter in
public life. On January 28, 1875, he was mar
ried to Miss Selina A. Aiken, daughter of Hon.
D. W. Aiken of Hardwick, Vermont. They
have one child: Roy Hamilton Peck.

HAMILTON S. PECK.
Chittenden county and held the office for two
years. In 1883-5 he was a leading member of
the Board of Aldermen of Burlington. He
held the office of City Judge for six years, 1888-
94. In 1896 he was elected Mayor of Burling
ton. He filled the office with marked ability
and credit, and received a re-election in 1897
without opposition. He has been an active,
earnest and working Republican. He became a
member of the Republican State Committee in
1892, and was its efficient Secretary for four
years, 1892-96. He is President of the Repub
lican League of Vermont, 1896-98. Mayor
Peck is a prominent member of the Masonic
Order, and of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows. He has been Noble Grand of Hamil
ton Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
Master of Buriington Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, a Mason of the Thirty-second degree,
and a member of the Mystic Shrine. He is

PUFFER, Norman Martin, Manufacturer,
Bennington, was born in Bennington, Vermont,
May 4, 1847, son of Martin and Mary Ann (Follet)
Puffer. He is of German descent on the father's
side, and of English ancestry on the mother's side.
His ancestors emigrated to New England and
settled in Connecticut at an early period. In 1830
his parents removed to Bennington where they
resided, until the respective dates of their deaths,
the father dying in 1854 and the mother in 1892.
Norman M. Puffer received his earlj^ education in
the common schools. His patriotic instincts were

N. M. puffer.

early manifested. At the age of fourteen years he
enlisted as a drummer boy in the Second Regiment
President of the Buriington Philharmonic Soci- of Vermont Volunteers, the first three years regi-
ety, and a member of the Algonquin Club, ment enlisted in the state for the defence of the

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Union, and served in the regimental band till it
was discharged in the following December. In
June, 1862, he enlisted again as Musician in
Company E, of the Tenth Vermont Volunteers,
and served throughout the war, being transferred
to the Veteran Reserve Corps, September 30, 1864,
and mustered out June 29,1865. The historian
of the regiment, says that he was one of the best
drummers in the Army of the Potomac, brave and
always ready for duty. Turning his attention to
manufactures, he became interested in the manu
facture of knit underwear, at Bennington, in 1872,
and has been succes.sfully engaged in that business
to the present time. He is now Treasurer of the
Bennington Knitting Company. He was a Trus
tee of the village of Bennington 1896-7, and
President of the Board in 1898. He served on the
staff of Commander-in-Chief W. G. Veasey of the
Grand Army of the Republic, also on the staff of
General J. G. B. Adams, and was Commander of
the Department of Vermont, Grand Army of the
Republic, 1896-7. He is prominent in the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, having been De
partment Commander, Patriarchs Militant, 1889-
94; Grand Patriarch of the Grand Encampment,
1890; and Grand Representative to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge, at St. Louis, 1891, and Portland,
Oregon, 1892. He is a Republican in politics, and
member of the Republican County Committee of
Bennington county. He married, November 29,
1874, Olive F., daughter of Warren and Betsey
(Matteson) Blackmer. Of three children born of
their union only one survives: Louis Puffer, aged
twelve years.

education in medicine at Castleton Medical Col
lege, and in the Medical Department of the
University of Vermont. Graduating from the
latter in 1858, he began the practice of his pro-

ROGERS, Lyman, Physician, Bennington,
was born in Danby, Vermont, November 10,
1832, son of Abraham C. Rogers of Marshfield,
Massachusetts, and Olive Engrem of Adams,
Massachusetts. Descended from English ances
try, his parents brought with them to their
Green Mountain home, the sterling integrity
and enterprise so characteristic of that genera
tion. He was educated in the common schools,
at Black River Academy in Ludlow, Vermont,
and at Castleton Seminary, graduating from the
latter in the class of 1855. He received his

LYMAN ROGERS.
fession in Shaftsbury, Vermont, in January,
1859, and soon secured an extensive practice.
July I, 1883, he removed to Bennington, Ver
mont, and became associated with the late
Edward N. S. Morgan, M. D., to whose prac
tice he succeeded at his decease. For many
years Doctor Rogers' name has been a house
hold word in Southern Vermont, and in the
adjoining portions of New York and Massachu
setts, and he has performed many major opera
tions in surgery, as well as maintained a high
reputation as a general practitioner. He has
been a prominent member of the Union Medi
cal Society, composed of Physicians in Ben
nington county and the counties ot Berkshire,
Massachusetts, and Washington and Renssalaer,
New York. He has been equally or more
prominent in the Vermont State Medical Soci
ety, has served on its Board of Censors and as
Vice-President, and in October 1897, was unan
imously elected its President. In 1868 Doctor
Rogers represented the town of Shaftsbury in

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8i

the Legislature. In 1884 and 1886 he was active
in securing the establishment of the State
Board of Health. He is a leading member of
the Bennington Board of Health, and is the
Bennington county member of the Board of
Managers of the Vermont Sanitary Association.
In local and educational circles he is equally
prominent, being a Trustee of the Bennington
Graded School and President of the Bennington
Board of Education. He was one of the foun
ders and is a leading member of the Tichenor
Club, to which he gave its name. Doctor
Rogers is a Democrat in politics. He is a mem
ber of the Masonic Order. On February 18,
1861, he was married to Mary Desmond, and to
them have been born five children, three of
whom survive Anna D., a teacher in the Ben
nington High School; Susan I., who is in busi
ness, and Laura M. Rogers, who is in college.
The Rogers family originally were Friends, but
the Bennington branch are Congregationalists.

SMITH, Worthington Tracy, St. Albans,
was born in that town. May 9, 1858, son of
Worthington Curtis and Katherine Maria (Wal
worth) Smith. He received his early education
in the public schools of St. Albans and in the
Hopkins Grammar School of New Haven, Con
necticut. He entered the University of Ver
mont, but he left that institution at the end ot
his junior year for the purpose of going into
business in connection with his father. He has
been prominent in business and railroad circles,
and has contributed materially to the upbuild
ing of his town's best interests. He was elected
Secretary and Treasurer of the Missisquoi Val
ley Railroad Company in 1886, and in 1894 he
was elected President of that company, a posi
tion which he still holds. From 1890 to 1894
he was Vice-President and Treasurer of the St.
Albans Foundry Company, one of the most
important manufacturing industries of that city,
and since 1894 he has been President of that
company. He is a Director in the St. Albans
Messenger Company and in the St. Albans
Electric Light and Power Company. He was
one of the Trustees of the village of St. Albans

during i886 and 1887, and since the organiza
tion of the city he has taken an active interest
in the promotion of its development. He is a
Past Master of Englesby Lodge, No. 84, Free

W. TRACY s:\nTH.
and Accepted Masons, a Knights Templar and
a Thirty-second degree Mason. He was united
in marriage with Flora Emma Tinker of Brook
lyn, New York, April 24, 1895, and they have
one son: Worthington Charles Smith, who was
born March 17, 1896.

TINKER, Charles Almerin, New York,
son of Almerin and Sophronia Burnham (Gil
christ) Tinker, was born January 8, 1838, in
Chelsea, Orange county, Vermont. His great
grandfather, Nehemiah Tinker, was born in
Windham, Connecticut, in 1741, and his grand
father, Joel Tinker, in the same town, September
17, 1774. Mr. Tinker obtained his education
in the district schools and the Academy at
Romeo, Michigan, until he was twelve years of
age. Later he studied in the Academy at North-
field, Vermont, and the Seminary at Newbury,
Vermont, attending the latter institution two
terms. In 1856 he left school and entered upon
a business career. While attending school at

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Northfield he learned the art of telegraphy in
the office of the Vermont and Boston Telegraph
Company of that town, beginning his work
August lo, 1852. He held the office of Manager

CHAS. a. TINKER.
of the Vermont and Boston Telegraph Com
pany at Northfield, Vermont, apart of the year
1855 and was appointed operator of the same
company's principal office at 76 State street,
Boston, August 9, 1856. He resigned this posi
tion and accepted that of Manager of the office
of the Cape Cod Telegraph Company in the
Merchants Exchange, Boston, in November,
1856. During the last week of December, 1856,
he resigned and went West. In January, 1857
he was appointed Manager of the Illinois &
Mississippi Telegraph Company's office at
Pekin, Illinois. This position he resigned in
May, 1857 to accept that of clerk and operator
in the office of the Purchasing Agent of the
Chicago & Rock Island Railroad at Chicago.
During a part of the years 1858 and 1859 he
was employed as book-keeper by George R.
Roberts & Company, lumber dealers, whose
failure caused him to return to the telegraph
service in the position of clerk and operator iu
the office of the Purchasing Agent of the

Galena & Chicago Union Railroad Company at
Chicago. On the breaking out of the Civil
War, he was a member of the Chicago Light
Guard, a separate military company, which was
disorganized by its members entering the volun
teer service as officers of regiments and com
panies then enlisting for the war. On account
of his invalid mother and his father's protest
ing that his enlistment would hasten her death,
Mr. Tinker declined the offer of a commission,
but on October 11, 1861, he entered the United
States Military Telegraph Service in the War
Department at Washington, District of Colum
bia. He was detailed to extend the wires and
establish the military telegraph office at
Edwards' Ferry, just after the battle of Ball's
Bluff, Virginia, and remained there, and wi'ch
General Banks at Darnestown, until recalled to
the War Department. December i, 1861, he
was detailed to service as Operator at General
Wadsworth's headquarters, Upton's Hill, Vir
ginia, and remained with him until the evacua
tion of Manassas (Centreville), when he was
selected as one of eight operators for service
with General McClellan 's army on the Penin
sula. On arrival in front of Yorktown he was
assigned to duty with General Stoneman's cav
alry command to repair the telegraph line on
the York River Railroad until General Heint-
zelman's headquarters were reached, where he
remained until May i, when he contracted the
" Chickahominy fever," and was granted a
furlough to return to Vermont, to recuperate.
Regaining his health, he returned to Washing
ton June I, and was assigned to duty in the War
Department as cipher clerk and operator, in
which position, with subsequent promotions,
respectively to Chief Operator and Manager of
the War Department telegraph office, he
remained until the close of the war. After the
disbandment of the United States Military
Telegraph Service, he was appointed Manager of
the Western Union telegraph offices in the Dis
trict of Columbia, which position he held
until 1872, when, through the solicitation of
Ex-Governor J. Gregory Smith, he accepted the
position of Train Despatcher for the Central
Vermont railroad system and Superintendent

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83

of Telegraph, for the railroad company and
Western Union Telegraph Company, with head
quarters at St. Albans, Vermont. He remained in
this position until November, 1875, when he
accepted the appointment of General Superinten
dent of the Pacific Division of the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company, with headquarters
at Chicago. He remained in this position until
after the absorption of this company by the
Western Union Telegraph Company, when in
February, 1879, he accepted the appointment of
Superintendent of Telegraph for the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad Company. While in this posi
tion, June 2, 1879, in company with Jay Gould
and David H. Bates, he incorporated the
American Union Telegraph Company and con
tinued in the position of joint Superintendent
of Telegraph for that Company and the Balti
more & Ohio Railroad Company's telegraph
system until, in February, 1881, the American
Union Telegraph Company was absorbed by the
Western LTnion Company, and on September i
of that year he was called to New York and
appointed to the position he now occupies, that
of General Superintendent of the Eastern
Division of the Western Union Telegraph
Company. While Mr. Tinker was in charge of
the telegraph office in Pekin, Illinois, in the
spring of 1857, Abraham Lincoln came there to
attend Tazewell County Court and boarded at
the Tazewell House, in which the telegraph
office was located. Young Tinker made his
personal acquaintance there, which was renewed
in the War Department at Washington, and con
tinued in almost daily association during the
three years of his service in the responsible and
confidential position of Cipher Operator at
Washington. While a member of the Chicago
Light Guard, he served with his company as a
guard of honor to Stephen A. Douglas from the
railroad station to the Wigwam, where Mr.
Douglas delivered his last great speech, going
from there to the Tremont House, where he
died. With his company, Mr. Tinker served as
a body guard to Mr. Douglas' remains when
they lay in state at Bryan Hall, and also marched
with them in the great funeral pageant which
bore them to their last resting place, now marked

by the Douglas monument, on the shore of
Lake Michigan. He was one of the organizers
of the Brooklyn Society of Vermonters and of
the Illinois' Sons of Vermont. He was Vice-
President of the Brooklyn Society of Vermont
ers in 1893 and 1894, and President of the
Lincoln (social) Club of Brooklyn in 1897 and
1898. He has always been a Republican in
politics, but never held any office. Mr. Tinker's
first wife, whom he married June 10, 1863, was
Elizabeth Ann Simkins. Five children were
born to them: two of whom, Cora and Stanton,
died in infancy; Flora Emma is now the wife of
W. Tracy Smith of St. Albans, Vermont;
Arthur Lincoln is a resident of Brooklyn, is
married and has three children; and Charles
Grant Tinker, died at the age of twenty- two.
Mr. Tinker's first wife died April i, 1890.
October 10, 1894, he married as his second wife,
Mrs. Stella Jewell.

WAITE, Herschel Napoleon, Physician,
Johnson, was born in Stowe, Vermont, February
13, 1850, son of Daniel and Aliphal (Briggs)

H. n. waite, m. d.
Waite. His father was a native of New Boston,
New Hampshire, and was a teacher in his earlj^
life and later a farmer. His grandfather, Daniel

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Waite, was a native of Sudbury, Massachusetts,
the son of Daniel Waite of that town, who removed
thence to New Hampshire and later to Vermont
and died in Stowe, Vermont, 1848. His great
grandfather, Daniel Waite, moved from Sudbury,
Massachusetts, to Vermont and died in Brandon,
Vermont, about 1826. His father, Daniel Waite,
died in Stowe, Vermont, in 1889. On the mother's
side the subject of this sketch is descended from
Ephraim Briggs of Taunton, Massachusetts, (born
June 30, 1756), who fought at Lexington in the
opening action of the Revolution, and served in
the Continental Army during the war for Ameri
can Independence, and died at Barnard, Vermont,
August 10, 1829. Doctor Herschel N. Waite
received his early education at the High School at
Stowe, followed by a short business course in the
Bryant and Stratton Business College in Burling
ton. Entering business, he served as salesman,
bookkeeper and accountant for W. H. Ainsworth
& Company, Jacksonville, Illinois, and St. Louis,
Missouri, in 1870 and 1871. Having however,
a decided leaning towards professional life, he
commenced the study of medicine with S. J.
Williams, M. D., in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1872.
He attended medical lectures at Louisville and St.
Louis, 1873-4-5, and was licensed to practice.
For four years subsequently, 1876-9, he served
as an expert accountant and adjuster in New
York city. In 1880 he established a general
mercantile house at Clarion, Wright county, Iowa.
In 1 88 1 Messrs. Votan and Hartshorn of Clarion
became his successors, and returning to New York
in the early fall of 188 1 he attended a course of
medical lectures, and in March, 1882, was graduated
with high honors from the Eclectic Medical Col
lege of New York city. Later he attended a
course in the New York Post-graduate Medical
School, 1883, and was engaged in the regular
practice of medicine and surgery from 1882 to
1889 in New York city. In 1882 he organized
and established the Yorkville and Harlem Eclectic
Dispensary, for free treatment for the poorer
classes and for clinical advantages and in.struction
for eclectic physicians. In April, 1889, he returned
to his native town and finally settled in Johnson,
Vermont, where he has since remained in active
aud successful practice. He is prominent in this

special branch of his profession. He has been a
member of the Eclectic Medical Society of the
city and county of New York, and is a life mem
ber of the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of
New York. He is a member of the Clinical
Society of the New York Post-graduate Medical
School and Hospital; the New York State Acade
my of Veterinary Science and Comparative
Pathology ; the Medico -Legal Society of New York
city; the National Eclectic Medical Association;
the American Association of Physicians and
Surgeons, of which he was the Vermont Vice-
President; also a member of the Connecticut
Eclectic Medical Association; the American Medi
cal and Surgical Society of Ohio; and of the
Vermont State Eclectic Medical Society. For four
years, 1892-6, he was President of the latter
society, and has been Censor and Corresponding
Secretary of the same. In June, 1895, he received
the honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine from
the Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In i8g6 he became the executive member of the
University of Medicine and the American Medical
College of Indianapolis, Indiana, for the State of
Vermont, from which institution he received the
degree of Doctor of Medicine ad eundem. Keenly
appreciating the inconveniences and anxious to
promote the interests of eclecticism in the East by
bringing all eclectic physicians into closer frater
nal relations. Doctor Waite conceived the idea of
organizing the liberal physicians of New England
into an association, auxilliary to the National
Eclectic Medical Association. No sooner had the
idea attained definite proportions than the origin
ator, a host in himself, set about securing the
co-operation and support of prominent New
England eclectics. The success of his effort in
this direction speaks volumes for his ability as an
organizer, and ere long he had pledged support
of some of the best-known and most influential
phy.sicians in New England. The Association
WMS organized at the State House in Montpelier,
Vermont, June 6, 1895, with some twenty mem
bers. Dr. Wilbur F. Templeton, of Manchester,
New Hampshire, was elected President, and Dr.
Waite was chosen Vice-President and Secretary.
In June, 1896, Doctor Waite was chosen President
of the Association, and through his efforts the

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85

Association was incorporated November 12, 1896,
nine members being named in the charter. He
has served two years as Treasurer and Corres
ponding Secretary. Doctor Waite has a large and
growing practice in Johnson and surrounding
towns, preferring a general practice to that of a
specialty. He is Examining Surgeon for the
Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hart
ford, Connecticut; the Mutual Reserve Fund Life
Association, New York city. New York; and the
Masonic Equitable Accident Association, Boston,
Massachusetts. He is prominent in the Masonic
Fraternity, a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Temp
lar and member of the Scottish Rite, Thirty-
second degree, of Vermont Consistory, and Ancient
Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine,
New York city; also a member of the Vermont
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a member
ofthe First Baptist Church of Johnson, Vermont.
In 1879 he married Adelaide M., daughter of
Joseph and Eliza Benson of Stowe, who died in
1892, leaving two daughters: Alice and Grace
Waite, now ten and fourteen years of age. In
October, 1893, he contracted a second marriage
with Mrs. Laura J. Copeland of Johnson.

WELLS, Burt Heath, Barre, was born in
South Woodbury, Vermont, December 9, i860,
son of Sidney O. and Irene Abbott (Heath)
Wells. Little is known of the Wells branch,
except that they came from Connecticut, finally
locating in Vermont about 1790. On his
mother's side he is a direct descendant from
George Abbott, who settled in Andover, Massa
chusetts, in 1643, coining from England. His
great-uncles on both sides took an honorable
part in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Wells was
educated in the common schools of his native
place, and in the High School at Montpelier,
Vermont. For ten years from 1880 he was in
the employ of his father, in the granite business
at Barre. He was appointed Page in the House
of Representatives of this state in 1872. He
enlisted in Company E, Vermont National
Guard, July 7, 1886, and on the 20th of the same
month was made its First Lieutenant. January

6, 1887, he was elected Captain, and held that
position until May 14, 1892. He was appointed
Postmaster at Barre by President Harrison,
October 24, 1890, continuing in that office until

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J

B. H. WELLS.
January i, 1895. On the fifth of March in that
year he was elected Clerk and Treasurer of
Barre, and has since held that responsible place
in the city government. Mr. Wells is a member
of Granite Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons,
Granite Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, St. Alde
mar Commandery, Knights Templar, Gamaliel
Washburn Lodge of Perfection, Fourteenth
degree, and Princes of Jerusalem, Sixteenth
degree. He has always been a Republican and
an active worker in that party, and has served
several times on the city committee. He mar
ried Nellie Farnsworth, April 19, 1881; they
have one daughter: Mary L- Wells.

WELLS, William, was born in Waterbury,
Vermont, December 14, 1837, son of William W.
Wells, who was a prominent business man in
Waterbury, having been a member of the eleventh
Council of Censors of Vermont, and having
filled many responsible positions in the gift of
his townsmen. The subject of this sketch was

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

of good English family, having been the eighth
in direct descent from Hugh Wells, who came to
New England from Essex, England, in 1635.
Of ten children, nine of whom were boys,
William was the third. He received academic
education at Barre, Vermont, and Meriden,
New Hampshire, and from the age of nineteen
to the spring of 1861 he was his father's assistant
in the latter's extensive business. When the
rebellion threatened the existence of the Union
he, with three of his brothers, became soldiers

WM. WELLS.
in the Federal army, enlisting on September 9,
i86i,inthe First Vermont Cavalry. He had
been largely instrumental in raising Company C
of that regiment, and he was chosen as its First
Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain on
November 18 following, and started December
14 for active service at the front. His efficiency
and gallantry earned for him frequent promotion,
and he rose rapidly to the rank of Major, which
position he attained October 30, 1862. On June
4, 1864, through the recommendation of all the
officers of his regiment, he was appointed
Colonel; and on February 22, 1865, he was made
Brevet Brigadier-General. In recognition of his
brilliant services and upon the recommendations

of Generals Sheridan and Custer, he was com
missioned Brigadier-General, May 19, 1865.
Prior to the issuance of this commission he had
been brevetted a Major-General for gallant and
meritorious service, having received more pro
motions than any other Vermont officer during
the Civil War. The details of General Wells'
biography would involve an almost complete
history of his gallant regiment. He distin
guished himself repeatedly in action. He was
in the thickest of the fight at Orange Court
House, Virginia, August 2, 1862, and he com
manded the Second Battalion, P'irst Vermont
Cavalry, in the repulse of Stuart's cavalry at
Hanover, Pennsylvania, June 30, 1863. In the
famous and desperate cavalry charge on Round
Top, Gettysburg, July 3, 1863, he commanded
the leading battalion and, riding by the side of
General Farnsworth, he penetrated the enemy's
lines about three quarters of a mile, coming out
unharmed almost by a miracle, while his com
mander fell in the midst of the enemy's infantry.
His regiment was actively engaged at Hagers-
town, Maryland, July 6, 1863; at Boonsboro in
the same State, July 8, 1863, where General
Wells was wounded by a sabre thrust; and at
Culpepper Court House, Virginia, September 13,
1863, where he was wounded a second time by
the bursting of a shell, and where the regiment
while under his command captured a piece of
the enemy's artillery. After the return of the
regiment from Kilpatrick's raid in March, 1864,
General Wells was detached and placed in
command of the Seventh Michigan Cavalry,
which had lost its commander, a position which
he held for one month. He served with the
Army of the Potomac under Generals Kilpatrick,
Sheridan and Custer, and he accompanied Gen
eral Sheridan in his raid on Richmond and in the
famous cavalry fight at Yellow Tavern, where
his regiment rendered gallant service, this being
the charge in which General J. E. B. Stuart was
killed. He also accompanied General Sheridan
in the campaign through the Shenandoah Valley
and dov/n the James River to the Army of the
Potomac. His regiment formed a part of Gen
eral Wilson's command in the raid on the rear
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the command unsaddled only twice. At Cedar
Creek he commanded a brigade, of which the
Vermont Cavalry formed a part, which took a
foremost part in turning the rout of the morning
into a decisive victory at nightfall, and his reg
iment in connection with the Fifth New York
Cavalry captured no less than forty-five pieces
of artillery, of which twenty-three were credited
to the Vermont regiment. After the battle of
Winchester, September 19, 1864, and until the
close of the War, he was in command of the
Second Brigade, Third Cavalry Division, and he
several times commanded that division. On the
morning of" the surrender of the Army of
Northern Virginia, at Appomattox, his brigade
had started on its last charge when it was stopped
by General Custer in person. On the departure
of Generals Sheridan and Custer for Texas,
General Wells became the ranking officer of the
Cavalry Corps and afterthesurrender of General
Lee and the mustering out of this corps he was
for some time in command of the First Separate
Cavalry Brigade at Fairfax Court House, Vir
ginia. General Wells' military record may be
summarized by the statement that he participated
in seventy cavalry engagements, in eighteen of
which he led a brigade or division; and his
service in the field was continuous from the date
of his muster in to the close of the War. On
January 15, 1866, he was honorably mustered
out of the United States service. His military
career throughout the four and one half years
of his service shows that he possessed the
highest personal qualities of a cavalry com
mander, combining coolness, promptness and
fearless intrepidity with the most thoughtful
consideration for his men. A medal of honor
was awarded General Wells by Congress "for
distinguished gallantry at the battle of Gettys
burg, July 3, 1863." Soon after his return to
Vermont he became a partner in the firm of
Henry & Company, wholesale druggists of
Waterbury, who later removed their business to
Burlington. In 1872 the firm name was changed
to Wells, Richardson & Company. In 1866
General Wells was elected by the legislature to
the office of Adjutant and Inspector-General of
Vermont, and by succesive reelection he held

that office until 1872, when he resigned in order
to accept the position of Collector of Customs
for the District of Vermont, proffered to him by
General Grant. He filled the office with credit
and efficiency for thirteen years, and at the end
of that period resumed his position with the
Wells & Richardson Company. In all of the
public positions to which General Wells was
called he proved himself to be worthy of the
confidence bestowed upon him. He represented
the town of Waterbury in the Legislature of
1865-6, serving on the House Committee on Mil
itary Affairs. He was re-elected and in the
following Legislature he served as Chairman of
the Committee on Public Buildings as well as
on the Committee on Military Affairs. In 1886
he was State Senator' from Chittenden county,
and performed note-worthy and creditable
service in the upper branch of the Legislature.
General Wells was identified with many import
ant business enterprises iu Burlington, having
been President of the Burlington Trust Com
pany; President of the Burlington Gas-Light
Company; President of the Burlington Board of
Trade; Director in the Rutland Railroad
Company; and Director in the Champlain Trans
portation Company. He was a member and
vestryman of St. Paul's (Episcopal) Church; a
Trustee of the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion; a Trustee and first President of the
Vermont Soldiers' Home in Bennington. He
was first Commander of the Vermont Command
ery of the Loyal Legion, which position he
held at the time of his death. Few men have
touched the life of the community in more ways
than did General Wells; and he enjoyed the
respect and esteem of his fellow townsmen to a
degree that is seldom equalled. He was united
in marriage in January, 1866, to Arahanna
Richardson of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The
children born of their union are Frank R. and
Bertha R. Wells. General Wells died in New
York city, April 29, 1892, from angina pectoris,
and his sudden death removed, while in the
prime of an active life, a most genial, courteous
and kind-hearted man, a gallant soldier and one
of the most popular citizens of the Green
Mountain State.

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WHEELOCK, Edwin, Congregational Min
ister, Cambridge, Vermont, was born in that
town, November 1 7, 1822, son of Samuel and Patty
(Adams) Wheelock. He comes of good New

EDWIN WHEELOCK.
England stock on both sides, and his maternal
grandfather was a near relative of President John
Adams. After attending the district school he
fitted for college at the old Burlington Academy
and entered the University of Vermont from
which institution he graduated in 1849. He was
employed as teacher in the Mountain Academy
in West Tennessee for four years and at the end
of that time he returned to Cambridge, where he
began his ministerial labors with the Congrega
tional church, a relation that has been pleasantly
as well as profitably maintained to the present
time. During the forty years and more of his
pastorate he has conducted more than fourteen
hundred funeral services and officiated at about
nine hundred marriages. He was an original
member of the Lamoille Valley Association of
Congregational ministers, and he is still an influ
ential member of that organization. He has
been register of the Lamoille Conference of
Congregational Churches for twenty-five years,
and he is also a member of the Congregational

Club of Western Vermont. For fourteen con
secutive years Mr. Wheelock was Superintendent
of Schools in the town of Cambridge, and his
service in that capacity has been of the highest
efficiency. He represented his town in the
Legislature of 1866-67, ^nd he was elected Sen
ator from Lamoille county in 1876. In 1880 he
was made Chaplain of the Vermont Senate. He
has been an honored member of the Masonic
fraternity for over a third of a century, having
been made a Mason by Warner Lodge, No. 50,
of Cambridge, in 1861. He has held important
positions in different Grand Masonic bodies,
having served as Chaplain of the Grand Lodge
of Vermont since 1866 and having for thirty-
four years seldom, if ever, missed a meeting of
that body since his connection therewith. Mr.
Wheelock was united in marriage, July 30, 1851,
with Laura, daughter of Daniel and Lucy Pierce.
In 1887, Mr. Wheelock was married for the
second time to Mrs. Lucy Eaton, of Fairfield,
Vermont. Four of the six children are now
living: Mary Ella (Mrs. B. R. Holmes of Cam
bridge); Lucy, (of Boston); Abbie Laura, (Mrs.
C. F Hulburd of St. Albans), and George L.
Wheelock of New York.

WRIGHT, George Murray, Attorney, New
York city, was born in Orwell, Addison county,
Vermont, December 3, 1852, son of Ethan
Murray and Eliza Teloshe (Bottum) Wright. He
is descended in the eighth generation from
Lieutenant Abel Wright, of Springfield, Massa
chusetts, who was a member of the General
Court of that state in 1695; in the fifth
generation from David Bottum, of Norwich,
Connecticut, and also in the same generation
from Beriah Murray, a Scotch immigrant who
settled in Claremont, New Hampshire, and
removed to Williston, Vermont, and who was
in Colonel Benjamin Bellows' regiment of New
Hampshire militia which marched to the relief
of Ticonderoga in 1777. Mr. Wright graduated
from Burr and Burton Seminary, in Manchester,
Vermont, in 1870, and in 1874 graduated from
Middlebury College, of which institution he is
now a Trustee. He was admitted to the Bar of

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New York state at Albany, in 1878. He
studied law in the office of Smith, Bancroft &
Moak, in Albany, remaining with them until
1880, when he entered the office of the Attorney

GEO. M. WRIGHT.
General of the state, continuing there during
the administration of Hon. Leslie W. Russell.
Since then he has been engaged in the practice
of the law at No. 280 Broadway, New York
city. He was admitted to practice before the
Supreme Court of the United States in 1894.
Mr. Wright has devoted himself to office
business. He has been connected with many
important litigations, and with the adminis
tration of large trusts. He is a member of the
Bar Association of New York city, the New
York Club, the New York Athletic Club, the
New England Society, the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Kane Lodge, Free aud Accepted
Masons, and the Vermont Historical Society.
He is a Republican, and unmarried.

ASHLAND, Ezekiel Augustus, Attorney,
St. Albans, was born in Champlain, Clinton
county. New York, June 10, 1859, son of Francis
J. aud Adaline (Baker) Ashland. His paternal

grandfather came from England, but was of
PVench and English extraction; his maternal
grandfather was a native of Scotland, and his
mother was a distant relative of Major General
Sir Isaac Brock, K.B., who was born inSwernsey,
October 6, 1769. Mr. Ashland was educated in
the district school ofhis native place, the Cham
plain Academy, the Intermediate school at Man
chester, New Hampshire, and the State Normal
School at Potsdam, New York. He was admit
ted to the Bar at Montpelier, Vermont, October
27, 1887. He studied law for two years with
Wilmer H. Dunn of Champlain, New York, and
in August, 1886, entered the office of Wilson &.
Hall, at St. Albans, where he completed his
law studies. In January, 1888, he commenced
the practice of his profession, at St. Albans,
where he has since continued in a general prac
tice extending over the state. He was engaged
as counsel in the celebrated Bowman will case
at Glens Falls, New York, in 1892, representing

E. A. ASHLANI .
one of the heirs of John P. Bowman. Mr. Ash
land has been prosecuting officer, and in 1893
and 1894 was Register of Probate for Franklin
county, and was nominated State's Attorney for
Franklin county at the Democratic convention

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held at Enosburg Falls. In 1888 and i88g he
was Treasurer of the Methodist Sunday school
at St. Albans. He is a member of Unity Lodge,
No. 3, Knights of Pythias, of St. Albans, having
gone through nearly all the offices. He is also
a member of the Grand Lodge, Knights of
Pythias, of this State; also a member of the Ver
mont Bar Association. During his year's attend
ance at the Normal School in Potsdam he was a
member of the Francis Baconian Society and
active in the debates. Politically, Mr. Ashland
is a Democrat, but in the last Presidential elec
tion he worked for sound money. He was a
member of the Democratic State Convention in
18S8. He was married, December 17, i88g, at
St. Albans, to Mary Alice Gould Butler; they
have three children: Walter Irving, John Wyllis
and Winfield Gregory Ashland. The subject
of this sketch was for some time identified with
the State militia, being honorably discharged
from Company B, Vermont National Guard, at
St. Albans, in 1891.

BAILEY, Wayne, Bank President, Rutland,
was born in Rupert, Vermont, May 19, 1845, son
of John W. and Harriet (Farrar) Bailey. His
maternal grandfather, Samuel Farrar, was a
soldier in the war of 1812, and lived to the age
of ninety years. His paternal grandfather was
Richard Bailey. The subject of this sketch
learned what hardship was very early in life,
having been obliged to earn his own living from
the age of nine. He obtained his education in
the common and select schools. In 1872 while
firing a salute in celebration of the election of
President Grant he lost both hands and the sight
ofhis right eye, but he was not disheartened by
this double misfortune. He decided to study
law, and having fitted himself for this profes
sion, he was admitted to the Rutland County Bar
in 1879. He had been appointed Register of the
Probate Court at Rutland in 1877, and he has
continued to hold that position to the present
time. He has been Director of the Killington
National Bank of Rutland since January, 1886;
Trustee of the Rutland Savings Bank since 1891,
and President of the same institution singe 1894.

He was Lister, Constable and Collector of the
town of Rupert in 1873-74; Railroad Commis
sioner for the State of Vermont for four years
from 1881 to 1884, and he has been a Justice of

WAYNE BAILEY.
the Peace since 1874. He was united in mar
riage with May L., daughter of Reverend J. F.
Stone of Montpelier, March 15, 1881.

BARNARD, Henry Tristram, Clergyman,
Bradford, was born in Exeter, Penobscot county,
Maine, April i, 1841, son of Tristram and
Mahala French (Russell) Barnard. His great
grandfather was a native of Amesbury, Massa
chusetts, and with his wife, Tabitha, and three
sons, David, Edmund and Tristram, settled in
Weare, New Hampshire, in 1777, upon what was
called Barnard Hill, and lived until he was
ninety-seven years of age. The paternal grand
father of the subject of this sketch was ninety-
three years old at the time ofhis death at Lowell,
Massachusetts, in April, i860; his father moved
to Lowell from Maine in 1852. Mr. Barnard was
educated in the Lowell public schools and was a
classmate of the late Governor Greenhalge in the
Lowell High School . Later he had a theological

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training at Cobb Divinity School in Lewiston,
Maine, completing this course in 1877. The
family to which Mr. Barnard belongs is a patri
otic one. Of its members, one was in the Revo-

Department of Vermont in 1 8g i . He is at present
the Secretary and Treasurer of the Passumpsic
Congregational club. Mr. Barnard has ahvays
been a Republican in politics. He was ordained
to the ministry in 1880 at Wakefield, New Hamp
shire, and has held pastorates in that town, at
Brockton, Massachusetts, and at Jericho, West
Rutland and Bradford, Vermont, being now the
pastor ofthe Congregational church in the latter
place. September 23, 1863, in Lowell, he was
married to Miss Harriett B. Mitchell, of Bidde-
ford, Maine, from which union was born an only
child and daughter, Hattie Estella, who died at
Chelsea, Massachusetts, September 18, 1883, the
wife of J. Arthur Safford, leaving one son, Henry
Barnard Safford.

BATCHELDER, James Kendrick, Lawyer,
Arlington, was born in Peru, Bennington county,
Vermont, November 10, 1843, son of Ira K. and
Nancy (Barnard) Batchelder. His ancestors
came from England in 1633 and settled in Salem,

H. T. BARNARD.
lutionary War, two in the War of 1812, and
three in the War of the Rebellion, His father
at the age of fifty-one, and his oldest brother,
George, were with Company C, Captain Follans-
bee. Sixth Massachusetts Volunteer Militia,
when it was attacked by the mob in Baltimore,
April ig, 1861, on its march to the defence of
the Capitol. He himself enlisted in Company
G, Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers in July, 1862,
and was honorably discharged in June, 1863.
From the close of the war until 1872, he was in
the carpet and furniture business in Lowell and
Boston, Massachusetts. He is connected with
the fraternities to a considerable extent; being
a member of Charity Lodge, No. 43, Free and
Accepted Masons, Bradford; Davenport Chapter
No. 17; Royal Arch Masons, and Killington
Commandery, No. 6, Knights Templar of Rut
land; he has membership with Green Mountain
Lodge, No. I, IndependentOrderof Odd Fellows,
Burlington; he is also a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic and was Chaplain of the

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J.VMES K. batchelder.
Massachusetts. After the Revolution his branch
of the family moved to New Hampshire, in
which state his father was born. The subject
of this sketch received his early education in

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the public schools, and graduated from Burr and
Burton Seminary at Manchester, Vermont, in
i860. He then entered Middlebury College
from which he graduated in 1864. Having
studied law with Judge Tyler of Brattleboro and
at the Albany Law School, he was admitted to
the Bar in 1866, and the same year he began the
practice ofhis profession at Arlington, Vermont,
where he has since resided. During the past
fourteen years he has had an office in Benning
ton, having formed a partnership under the
name of Batchelder & Bates, which has estab
lished a large and lucrative business Mr.
Batchelder has been a zealous Republican in
politics and been frequently honored by his
party. In addition to having held most of the
important town offices, he was State's Attorney
of Bennington county for eight years, and he
represented his town in the State Legislature in
1874-76 and again in 1884, having been honored
by the election as Speaker of the House during
the last term of his service in that body. He
was a Presidential Elector in 1880, the year in
which President Garfield was elected. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity. He was
appointed by Governor Fuller one of the Com
missioners for Vermont to establish the boundary
line between that state and Massachusetts. Mr.
Batchelder was united in marriage with Alia
Parsons in 1867, and they have one child- Julia
Pauline Batchelder, who was born in 1876.

1872, and he has by successive re-election con
tinued to hold the position to the present time.
He represented the town in the State Legislature
in 1882-84 ; and he was States's Attorney in

BOLLES, Francis Almon, Attorney, Bellows
Falls, was born in Rockingham, Vermont,
August 31, 1843, son of Ithamar and Martha S.
(Woods) Boiles, who were of English ancestry.
He received his early education in the common
schools and the academy, and he also took a
course in college, having graduated from Tufts
College in the class of 1870. He studied law
with Hon, Charles B. Eddy of Rockingham, and
was admitted to the Bar in April, 1873. He
subsequently formed a partnership with Mr.
Eddy for the practice of his profession, but in
1877 the partnership was dissolved and he has
since practiced alone. He was elected Town
Clerk of the town of Rockingham in March,

FRANCIS A. BOLLES.
1884-86. Mr. Boiles has always been an ardent
Republican. He was united in marriage with
Augusta R. Carleton of Woodstock, Vermont,
August 25, 1870; and their children are : Almon
I., Edmond C, and Francis R. Boiles.

BOTTUM, George Roswell, Banker,Rutland,
was born in Orwell, Addison county, Vermont,
February 16, 1834, son of Roswell and Elue
(Hulburd) Bottum. He was educated in the
common schools and took also an academic
course. In 1854 Mr. Bottum began his business
career as clerk in the Farmers Bank, at Orwell.
From 1855 to 1857 he was Teller in the
Peninsula Bank, of Detroit, Michigan. From
1859 to 1863 he was connected with the com
mission house of Dodge & Shaw, in San
Francisco. In 1864 he became Cashier of the
First National Bank, of Brandon, Vermont, and
was subsequently, for a few months. Cashier of
the Brandon National Bank. In August of 1870

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93

he was appointed Cashier of the Baxter
National Bank, of Rutland, Vermont, a position
which he holds at the present time. Mr.
Bottum 's experience in financial circles extends

manufacture of hosiery. He was a man of
great industry, and was deeply interested in all
that was calculated to promote the growth and
prosperity of his community. In politics he
was a Republican, but was adverse to holding
public positions, preferring to devote his atten
tion to his business interests. Mr. Bradford was
married August 16, 1S43, to Lucy Ann Proctor,
of Fitchburg, Massachusetts, who died May 9,

GEO. R. bottum.
over a period of some forty-five years, and he
has been a successful business man. During the
year 1885 he was President of the village of
Rutland. He was married April 14, 1864, to
Nancy Hyde, daughter of Hon. James K. and
Lovina Hyde, of Sudbury, Vermont; they have
two sons : James K. Hyde, and Frederick
George Bottum.

BRADFORD, Henry Edwards, was born in
Southbridge, Massachusetts, in 1S19, son of
Elisha and Sarah (Brown) Bradford; and died
in Bennington, Vermont, in 1S78. Mr. Bradford
spent several years in manufacturing woolen
goods in Millsbury and Amherst, Massachusetts,
and from the latterplace removed to Bennington,
Vermont, in 1S54, where he resided till the
time of his death. He was one of the leading
manufacturers of the town, and for a time
confined his attention lo the manufacture of
cloth, but was later extensively engaged in the

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H. E. BRADFORD.
1847. On November 8, 1849, he was again
married to Eleanor Abbott of Worcester,
Massachusetts, who still survives him.

BROWN, Allan D., President of Norwich
University, Northfield, was born September 2,
1S43, in Batavia, New York. His preliminary
education was obtained in the public and private
schools, one of the latter being the noted Rec
tory school in Hamden, Connecticut, a military
institution. He entered the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, September 23, i860, graduating
May 28, 1S63, and was immediately appointed
an Ensign in the Navy. His first duty was on
board the sloop of war Iroquois, then on blockade
duty off Wilmington. In the spring of 1864 the

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ship was ordered to foreign waters, and made
an extended cruise to the English Channel, the
South American coast, the Cape of Good Hope
and the Dutch East Indies, returning in October,

ALLAN D. brown.
1865, having covered forty five thousand miles in
fifteen months. He next served on the Rhode
Island, the flagship of the Home and West India
Squadrons, he having, in the meantime, been
promoted to Master. A year later he was made
a Lieutenant, and was detailed as executive
officer of the gunboat Unadilla, on the China
station. During her cruise the Unadilla visited
Bangkok, Siam, being the first American man-
of-war to enter the Menam River. In 1868
he was promoted to Lieutenant-Commander.
Returning to the United States in 1869, he was
detailed for duty at the Naval Academy, where
he was instructor in Mathematics for three
years. He was then appointed navigating offi
cer of the Omaha, on the Pacific Station, and
later was transferred to the flagship Pensacola.
In September, 1873, he spent two weeks on
shore at Panama, protecting the property of the
Pacific Mail Steamship and Panama Railroad
Companies with a detachment of officers and
men from the ship, during one of the periodic
revolutions in that country. He was relieved

from duty at Honolulu, whither his ship had
conveyed King Kalakaua after his visit to this
country. In 1876 he was ordered to the Naval
Academy for a second time, and was instructor
in the departments of Astronomy, Navigation
and Surveying. After four years, during one of
which he was at the head of his department, he
was promoted to the grade of Commander. In
the summer of 1880 he was on duty at the Tor
pedo Station in Newport, and, in January, 1882,
was ordered to command the sailing ship
Jamestown, then at Mare Island Navy Yard.
This vessel was brought to Newport and used
as a training ship. Here he was engaged for a
year and a half in training apprentices. After
a short time at the Naval Home in Philadel
phia, he was ordered to the Naval Observatory
at Washington, remaining there for four years,
during a portion of which time he was Superin
tendent. His special charge at this time was
the Nautical department, including the time
service. He was instrumental in the establish
ment of time balls at several points along the
Atlantic coast, and in the extension of the time
service to the railroads of the country, being
the representative of the Observatory at the
General Time Convention of the railroads, held
in New York in 1887. He was also the first to
urge upon the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany the adoption of their present system of
distributing time. In the fall of 1888 a recent
seizure of American property in Hayti caused
the President to order a man of-war to Port au-
Prince. The historic Kearsarge, then at the
Navy Yard at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
was chosen and Commander Brown was selected
for this important service. But meantime
another vessel cruising in the West Indies had
been sent to Hayti, and the Kearsarge was sent
to take a relief crew to the Tallapoosa, then at
Montevideo. Commander Brown and the Kear
sarge returned to Hampton Roads in April, 1889.
During this voyage he was prostrated by mala
rial fever, the result of his exposure in Panama
in 1873, and by the advice of the Surgeon
applied for and received a year's leave of
absence. In i8gi, being still incapacitated for
duty, he was placed on the retired list. Upon

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his retirement, he made his home at Brattleboro,
Vermont, and soon after took orders in the
Episcopal Church, being ordained a Deacon by
Bishop Bissell, November 30, 1S92, aud
assigned to Christ Church, Guilford. In June.
1S94, he took charge of the Mission Church at
Barre. He remained there two years, during
which time he was advanced to the priesthood
by Bishop Hall, the membership was largely
increased and the erection of a handsome church
building begun. In June, 1S96, ill health com
pelled him to resign. On November 10, 1S96,
he was elected President of Norwich University,
at Northfield, Vermont, and was inaugurated
December S of the same 3-ear. He has proved
to be an able and popular President and has
done much to build up the institution. Soon
after the outbreak ofthe Spanish- American War
he was assigned to duty at the Boston Navy
Yard as equipment officer. He has contributed
several professional articles to Harper's Maga
zine, and while on the active list was a frequent
contributor to the editorial pages of the Army
and Navy Journal. He has lived to see many
of the ideas first advanced by him adopted in
the service; he was the first to publicly advocate
the introduction of electricity for lighting pur
poses on board ships of war. He won the gold
medal of the United States Naval Instilute in
the prize essay competition of 1S79. ou the
subject of Naval Education. Commander
Brown was married December 29, 1S63, to Ger
trude, daughter of Hon. Royall and Laura
(Keyes) Tyler of Brattleboro. Two daughters
were bom to them, the j'ounger of whom is the
wife of Rev. G. J. Sutherland. Mrs. Brown
having died in September, 1S76, at Annapolis,
Maryland, he married, on October 20, :SSo,
Adeline Shannon, daughter of Hon. William
Shannon Peirce of Philadelphia, bj- whom he
has one son: William Peirce Bro«-n.

emy, from which he graduated in iS;6. He
then entered the office of Wales ^ Taft in
Burlington to study law, and after pursuing his
legal studies three years he was admitted to the

BROWN, RuFis Eversox. Burlington, was
bom in Dickinson. New York. December 3, 1S54.
son of John T. and Margaret -\. (Dillenbeck)
Brown. After a course in the public schools,
he entered the Amsterdam, New York, Acad-

R. E. brown.
Bar in September, iSSo. He began the practice
of law in Burlington, April i, 1S91. In politics
Mr. Brown is a Republican, and he has been
repeatedly honored bj- that part}'. He was
elected Grand Juror of Burlington in .\pril, 1892,
and re-elected to that position in 1S93. He was
elected State's Attorney of Chittenden county
in September, 1S94, and his administration of
the office was so satisfactory that he was
re-elected in 1S96. He has won an enviable
position in the Bar of Chittenden county, being
particularl}' successful in the trial of Jury cases.
and he has a promising future, with 5. large
clientage already assured. Mr. Brown was
united in marriage with Delia F Wood, Sep
tember 2, 1S77, and they have one son: Ralph
E. Brown.

BROWN, Samuel Hinman, Bennington, was
born there May 2, 1S04, and died in 1SS7, after
an exemplary life of eighty-three years duration.

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He was the son of Samuel and Betsey Brown.
His mother died when he was but seven years
old, and eight years later he was left an orphan
by the death of his father. Placed under the

s. h. brown.
guardianship of Captain Jonathan Norton, he
was brought up in the family of Doctor Noadiali
Swift, with whom he lived most of the time
until his majority. He then formed a partner
ship with Benjamin Fay and commenced mer
cantile business at Bennington Center, but in
1829 his partner retired and the business was
conducted by Major Brown for some time longer,
when, having acquired an interest in a tin
business at East Bennington, he took in as part
ner Gay R. Sanford, a relative. It would be
difficult indeed to follow the many and varied
enterprises in which the subject of this sketch
was engaged after his first venture, until his final
retirement in 1870, but we may properly men
tion the, most important of these. Major Brown
was interested in two cotton mills in Bennington.
About 1838 he sold out his store at the Center
and entered the Bank of Bennington as Cashier,
remaining there four years. Subsequently he
exchanged his farm for business property in
Troy, New York, and came to East Bennington

to reside in 1842. He engaged in the grocery
business in Troy, but not enjoying it there
returned to Bennington and built the stone grist
mill on North street, which he furnished with
fine machinery and conducted successfully for
about twenty-five years. A foundry was also
run in connection with the other business. This
foundry was known as the Lemuel Grover
Works, and was purchased about 1846. From
this time Major Brown became prominently
identified with the iron interests ofthe country.
He worked the iron mines east of the village,
and this business was a leading industry in
western Vermont at this time. One ofhis part
ners was Resolve Gage, who was succeeded by
Olin Scott in 1853, this latter partnership contin
uing for five years when Major Brown became
sole owner of the extensive works. These he
sold, in 1867, to Henry Putnam, and was occu
pied for some two years in making large additions
to his Troy property. In 1870 he retired from
active business and devoted himself to managing
his investments, which were quite extensive.
In 1829 he was appointed Brigade Major and
Inspector of the Second Division of Vermont
militia, and was ever afterwards designated by
that title. Major Brown was also honored by
election to various town and county offices, but
he was by no means an office seeker. The duties
of whatever position he held were faithfully
and honestly performed. In 1853 he was elected
Assistant Judge of Bennington County Court,
and served in that capacity for two terms. On
October 10, 1826, he married Sarah Maria Brown,
of Southbury, Connecticut, and her faithful and
devoted companionship had much to do with his
success in life. Two children survive him:
Samuel Hinman and Helen Elizabeth Brown;
the latter became the wife of William E. Hawks,
and with her is now living the aged mother, in
her ninety-fourth year. Probably no man in
the township of Bennington was longer engaged
in busine.ss, or had a more extended and favor
able acquaintance throughout that vicinity than
Major Brown, for during the better part of sixty
years he was more or less directly interested in
mercantile and manufacturing enterprises, and
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doubt his honor. He was a grand example of
the "old school," of commanding personal
appearance, of sunny, happy disposition, "whose
presence did good like a medicine," and with
a ready sympathy for all in trouble. Especially
did the sterling qualities of the man stand out
strongly in the home and in the private walks
of life, endearing him to young and old alike.

CONANT, Edward, Randolph, who for some
years has held a prominent place among the
educators of his native state, was born in Pom-
fret, Windsor county, Vermont, May lo, 1829,

EDWARD CONANT.
son of Seth and Melvine (Perkins) Conant. His
father, also a native of Pomfret, lived to be
almost eighty- eight years old, had held many
important town offices and was a Captain of the
militia for several years ; his paternal grand
father served as Sergeant in the Revolutionary
War, 1777 to 1778, was a member of the
General Assembly of Vermont 1801 and 1802,
and held many positions of trust. The
subject of this sketch received his earlier
education in the common schools of Pomfret
and Barnard, Vermont, prepared for college at

South Woodstock and at Thetford Academy,
entered Dartmouth in 1852, but left that institu
tion during the Junior year to take up teaching.
He lived on a farm until fifteen years of age,
and for six years prior to preparation for college
worked as a machinist. He was always a great
reader and an ardent student, and while in the
machine shop made special study of machinery
and mechanics. In December, 1854, Mr. Conant
become Principal of the Academy at Woodstock,
Connecticut, where he remained one year and a
half, closely studying educational literature,
attendingeducational meetings, visiting schools,
and noting results of methods used. For three
years from May, 1856, he was Principal of the
Academy at Royalton, Vermont, and in the fall
of that year he organized a teachers' institute,
which resulted in the formation of the White
River Valley Teachers' Association. For more
than thirty years, beginning with the summer of
1857, he was extensively engaged in the con
ducting of teachers' institutes. From 1857 to
1859 the work in Royalton Academy was
directed chiefly to the preparation of teachers
for the public schools. In 1859-60 Mr. Conant
was Principal of the High School in Burlington,
Vermont. In February, 1861, after testing
some of his theories in a district school, he
became Principal of the Orange County Gram
mar School at Randolph Center, Vermont, and
subsequently made this a Normal School, the
change dating from August, 1866. In the
autumn of that year the institution became, by
act of Legislature, a State Normal School, Mr.
Conant being continued as Principal. The state
contributed very little to its support at the out
set, and in 1866 the Trustees were induced by
the Principal to attempt to secure by subscrip
tion a permanent fund of ten thousand dollars.
Mr. Conaut himself headed the list with five
hundred dollars, and in 1875 the whole amount
had been raised and invested From 1874 to
1880 Mr. Conant was State Superintendent of
Education, and while holding that position
visited every town in the state two or more
times. He advocated the town system of
schools, town high schools, a state school
tax, and the complete adoption of the normal

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schools by the state. In 1884 he became
Principal of the Normal School at Johnson,
Vermont, where he brought about the adop
tion of a new and longer course of study
and arranged for a training school as an
adjunct of the normal. In 1884 he again became
Principal of the Randolph Normal School, a
position which he still holds. In his connection
with the normal schools Mr. Conant has advo
cated the highest practicable standards for
admission and graduation ; his was the first
normal school to make singing and such nature
studies as botany, mineralogy and physics
required parts of the course of study. He
has been Town Superintendent of Schools
at various times, was a delegate from Ran
dolph to the Constitutional Convention in
1870, a member of the Vermont Board of
Education, 1866-67, and State Superintendent
of Education from 1874 to 1880. In 1862
he enlisted in the army, but the Trustees
of the school hired a substitute for his military
service and requested him to remain at home,
which he did. He is a member of the State
Teachers' Association, and was twice President
of that body ; was a Director of the American
Institute of Instruction for many years ; belonged
to the New England Normal Council and was
its President in 1888 ; member of the Vermont
Schoolmasters' Club and its President in 1897.
He is a member of the Ascutney Congrega
tional Club, and was a member of the National
Council of Congregational Churches in 1865,
1874, and in 1892. He first voted with the
Free Soil party, then with the Republicans ;
was a straight Republican during the war, and
has been an independent Republican since then.
Mr. Conant was married. May 10, i8';8, to
Cynthia H., daughter of John and Betsey
(Avery) Taggart of Stockbridge, Vermont ; they
have four children : Frank Herbert, Seth
Edward, Nell Florence and Grace Lucia Conant.
Mr. Conant has prepared three text books, viz :
"A Drill Book in English," "Conant's Ver
mont — Geography, History, Civil Government, "
"The Vermont Historical Reader." He
received the honorary degree of A. M. from
Middlebury College in 1866, and from the
University of Vermont in 1867.

CRANDALL, Henry Albert, Physician,
Burlington, was born in Hartford, Vermont,
August 6, [831, son of Joseph and Abigail
(Fuller) Crandall. His family was of English
descent, his early ancestors in this country
having been among the Puritans. He attended
the common schools, and took a Latin and
English course in the Kimball Union Academy
at Meriden, New Hampshire, graduating there
from. He taught school in his native town one
term in 1853, and also three terms during three
successive winters in Middleboro, Massachusetts.
In August, 1 856, he began the study of medicine

H. A. CRANDALL.
with Doctor Hiram Crandall in Gaysville,
Vermont, and continued it until March, 1857,
when he entered Castleton Medical College.
He chose Professor A. T. Woodward as his
medical preceptor, and graduated in June, 1859.
In July of the same year he formed a co-part
nership with Doctor George B. Armington of
Pittsford, Vermont. Having dissolved this
partnership, he began practicing in Shelburne
in March, 1861, remaining there one 5'ear,when
at the solicitation of Professor Joseph Perkins
of Castleton, Vermont, Professor of Obstetrics
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the University of Vermont, he formed a
partnership with him for the practice of
medicine and surgery in Castleton, Vermont.
In 1864 he was appointed Assisstant Surgeon at
the Sloan General Hospital in Montpelier,
Vermont, caring for disabled soldiers of the
Union army, a work which he continued to the
close of the war. In 1865 be began practice in
Burlington, Vermont, devoting special attention
to diseases of women and children; for fifteen
years he was the only Medical Attendant at the
Home for Destitute Children in Burlington. At
the present time the medical staff of that insti
tution consists of six physicians, Doctor
Crandall being one of the number. In January,
i88i, he was appointed on the medical staff of
the Mary Fletcher Hospital, and he served in
that capacity for seven years. He has been
Medical Examiner for different life insurance
companies, including the Connecticut Mutual,
the Equitable, the Vermont Life and others;
and for three years he was Medical Referee of
the Equitable for the district including Vermont
and Northern New York. In 189 1 he was
appointed Health Officer ©f the city of Burlington
by the City Council, a position which he has
continued to fill up to the present time. During
his administration of that office he has insti
tuted many sanitary improvements, having been
active in securing the extension of the intake
into the deep lake three miles from the outlet
of the sewer; the removal of dumping grounds
and the improvement of sewerage, having
thus helped Burlington to take high rank
as regards its excellent sanitary condition.
Doctor Crandall was one of the original
members of the Burlington Medical and
Surgical Club, and he was its Secretary for
several years after its organization in 1872.
About 1878 he became a member of Green
Mountain Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, but in February, 1882, he with seven
teen others became charter members of a new
organization called Hamilton Lodge. He is
still a member of that Odd Fellows Lodge, and
has held all the high offices in the body
including that of Noble Grand. He is also a
member of the Burlington Clinical Society and

the State Medical Society. In politics he is a
Republican but has never taken an active part
in them. Doctor Crandall was united in
marriage with PvSther Frances Storrs, daughter
of Deacon John Storrs, January 23, 1861. Mrs.
Crandall received her education at the seminary
conducted by Mrs. J. H.Worcester in Burlington,
and she is an accomplished lady. One daughter
was born of their union, Fannie Mae Crandall,
who is a young lady of a high order of musical
talent, and unusually gifted and talented.

CURRIER, George Kimball, Merchant, Mor
risville, son of Nathaniel and Rebecca (Pratt)
Currier, was born in Canaan, New Hampshire,
May 7, 1828. His grandfather, Daniel Currier,

GEORGE K. CURRIER.
was born in Concord, New Hampshire, and lived
there until he arrived at manhood. He then
moved to Plymouth, New Hampshire, where
Mr. Currier's father was born in 1 794. His father
married and moved to Canaan, New Hampshire,
about the year 18 15, where he successfully con
ducted a general store for many years and was
also engaged in woolen manufacturing. His
education was obtained in the common schools,
at Canaan Union Academy and at the New

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Hampton Institute. After leaving school, he
entered his father's store. In 1850 he went to
Boston, Massachusetts, where he found employ
ment as salesman in a dry goods store on
Hanover street. He remained there some six
years. In 1858 he removed to Springfield, Mass
achusetts, where he was engaged in the dry goods
business for nineteen years, under the firm name
of Currier and Hodskins. In 1879 he went to
Whitefield, New Hampshire, where he had an
interest in the Brown Lumber Company's store
for six years. After a year's rest he removed
to Morrisville, Vermont, and bought the dry
goods business of George W. Mears. Here he
has built up a large and successful business and
his store is the largest dry goods store between
Burlington and St. Johnsbury. Mr. G. P. Drowns
was admitted as a partner about two and one-
half years ago. In i84g, before Mr. Currier
went to Boston, he acted as clerk for Mr. Balch,
who had the contract to build a section of the
Passumpsic Railroad. He is a member of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the
Knights of Pythias. He has always been a
Republican. Mr. Currier married Harriet W.
Williams in 1853. Three children were born to
them: Addie M., George E.,and L. Belle Cur
rier. He married his second wife, Mrs. Mary
L. Cram, November, 1882.

Rutland county in 1880. He commenced the
practice of his profession in Rutland and con
tinues it with success in that city. He was a
Reporter of the Legislative proceedings in the

DANA, Edward, Lawyer, Rutland, was born
in Woodstock, Vermont, May 6, 1852, son of
Judah and Marcia Holmes (Weld) Dana. He
traces his lineage, as do all the Danas in Amer
ica, to Richard Dana, who emigrated from
England and settled in Cambridge, Massachu
setts, in 1640. He is also a lineal descendant
from Major-General Israel Putnam, through his
ancestor, John Winchester Dana, who married
General Putnam's -daughter, Hannah. The
subject of this sketch received his early educa
tion in the High Schools of Windsor and
Rutland. He was graduated from Middlebury
College in the class of 1876. Selecting the pro
fession ofthe law, he studied in Rutland in the
office of Dunton and Veazey and with Judge W.
G. Veazey, and was admitted to the Bar of

EDWARD DANA.
General Assembly of Vermont, at the biennial
sessions of 1878, 1880 and 1882, and was Assist
ant Clerk of the House of Representatives, in
the sessions of 1884 and 1886. He was State's
Attorney of Rutland county i888-go. He is a
member of various societies, and has been a
Trustee of the Rutland Savings Bank since Jan
uary, 1893. In politics he is a Republican.
He was married October 19, [891, to Harriette
Mandana Dutton. They have two children:
Marion and Constance Dana.

DARLING, Joseph Kimball, Attorney,
Chelsea, son of Jesse and Rebecca (Whitaker)
Darling, was born in Corinth, Orange county,
Vermont, March 8, 1833. He comes of English
and Scotch ancestry. His paternal grandfather,
Peter Darling, came from Hopkinton, New
Hampshire, and was one ofthe early settlers of
Corinth, Vermont, settling on a farm that has
been in the possession of the Darling family
nearly one hundred years. His education was

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obtained in the common schools; from a private
tutor; and at Corinth, Vermont, Academy. He
went to California in 1853 where he remained
between seven and eight years. Five years of

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J. K. DARLING.
this period was spent in the employ of General
John C. Fremont, on his Mariposa mining
property, as a surveyor. He returned from
California in the springof 1861, landing in New
York from a steamship which had sailed from
Aspinwall, Isthmus of Panama, on the night of
the day which had seen Fort Sumter fired upon.
He returned to Corinth, Vermont, where he
purchased a farm and engaged in farming for a
short time. August 16, 1862, he enlisted as a
private in Company H, Twelfth Vermont Vol
unteers. He served with his regiment for the
full term of enlistment and was mustered out at
Brattleboro, July 14, 1863. He engaged in the
mercantile business from 1864 to 187 1. At this
comparatively late period in life he resolved to
study law, and commenced reading with Hon.
Roswell Farnham (since Governor of Vermont).
He was admitted to the Orange County Bar in
June, 1874, and has successfully practiced his
profession since that date. The first ten years

of his legal career were spent in East Corinth.
He then removed to Chelsea, where he has
since resided. Mr. Darling was Postmaster at
East Corinth during President Lincoln's admin
istration. He was State's Attorney from 1882
to 1884. He represented Chelsea in the Vermont
Legislatures of 1890 and 1892. In the Legis
lature of 1890 he served on the joint special
committee on Temperance, on the Judiciary
Committee, and on the Elections Committee, of
which he was Chairman. In the Legislature of
1892 he served on the Judiciary Committee, the
Ways and Means Committee and was Chairman
of the Committee on Military Affairs. He was
a Senator from Orange county in 1894 and
served on the Judiciary Committee, the General
Committee, the Special Joint Committee onthe
Vermont Industrial School, and was Chairman
of the Committee on the Grand List. He was
Deputy Clerk of Orange County Court from 1886
to 1894. For several years he was Chairman of
the Orange County Republican Committee. He
is a member of the Masonic fraternity, of the
Royal Arcanum Society, and of Ransom Post,
No. 74, Grand Army ofthe Republic. He is a
member of the Congregational Church and for
twenty years has been Superintendent of, and a
teacher in, the Sunday School. In politics he
is a Republican. Mr. Darling was married, at
Corinth, Vermont, October 6, 1859, to Mary
Alice, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Mary
(Robie) Knight. Four children: Charles K.,
Emma L., Hale Knight and Eben Darling were
born to them; the last named child died in
infancy. Charles K. Darling is a lawyer in
Boston, is an instructor in Criminal Law in the
Boston University Law School, and is at present
Commander-in Chief of the Sons of Veterans,
and Major of the Sixth Massachusetts regi
ment; Emma Lydia Darling resides at home.
Hale Knight Darling is a lawyer, at Chelsea,
Vermont, and is State's Attorney of Orange
county. Mrs. Darling died in October, 1873.
Mr. Darling married as a second wife, Emma,
daughter of Reverend Harvey and Laura
Webster. She died April 5, 1885. Mr. Darling
married July 24, 1895, Miss Anzolette M. Dow,
of Newburyport, Massachusetts.

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DARLING, Jonathan R., Merchant, Groton,
sou of John and Jennette (Breck) Darling, was
born in Groton, Vermont, November i6, 1823.
His paternal grandparents, Robards and Judith

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J. R. DARLING.
(Gile) Darling, were of English descent, and
lived and died in Groton, Vermont. His
maternal grandparents, John and Phoebe
(Abbott) Breck, were of Scotch descent, and
lived and died in Barnet, Vermont. His educa
tion was obtained in the common schools,
Caledonia County Grammar School, Peacham,
Vermont; and Phillips Academy, Danville, Ver
mont. He worked upon a farm during his
boyhood, and upon reaching manhood deter
mined upon a business career. He was a member
of the firm of Welch, Darling and Clark in
Groton, from 1847 to 1857, and since that time
has been engaged in general trade, lumbering
and farming. In 1883 he entered into partner
ship with his sons under the firm name of
Jonathan R. Darling & Sons. Their business
has been carried on in Peacham and Groton,
Mr. Darling owning and operating large saw
mills in the latter town. Mr. Darling has held
many offices of trust and responsibility. He
has been town clerk for thirty-eight years. He

represented his town in the Vermont Legislature
in the years 1857-8, and was a State Senator in
1880-1. He was elected Assistant Judge of
Caledonia County Court in i86g, holding the
position for three successive years. He has
never been a member of any secret or social
societies. He was an old time Whig until 1856.
He became an active Republican with the form
ation of that party and is an ardent advocate of
the protection of American industries. Mr.
Darling married on July i, i84g, Sarah M.,
daughter of John and Phoebe (Heath) Taisey of
Groton. Eight children have been born to them,
six of whom are living: George W., who died
at the age of four years; Cyrus T., who mar
ried Lily Anna Dixon, who has one daughter;
Evalona (Mrs. Seth N. Eastman), who has two
sons; John T., who married Maggie A. Ricker;
Robards N., who married Valetta M. Paine,
who has one daughter; Elmer E., who married
Minnie A. Heath; Walter Breck Darling,
who married Luella Babcock, and has one
daughter; and an infant son, deceased.

DILLINGHAM, William Paul, Lawyer,
Ex-Governor, Waterbury, third son of Paul and
Julia (Carpenter) Dillingham, was born at
Waterbury, Vermont, December 12. 1843. The
family traces its line back to John Dillingham,
gentleman, who emigrated from England to
Massachusetts, as a member of the Winthrop
Colony, in 1630. The great-grandfather ofthe
subject of this sketch, Paul Dillingham, was
killed at Quebec under Wolfe, in September
1759, and his grandfather, Paul Dillingham,
served for three years in the Continental Army
in the War of the Revolution. This Paul
removed from Shutesburg, Massachusetts, to
Vermont, in 1805, and settled in Waterbury.
Of his family of five sons and seven daughters,
Paul, afterwards the first Governor Dillingham,
was the seventh child. William P. received
his early education in the common schools, at
Newbury Seminary, and at Kimball Union
Seminary at Meriden, New Hampshire. He
read law with his brother-in-law, Hon. Matt H.
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and afterwards studied in his father's office in
Waterbury. He was admitted to the Bar at the
September term of the Washington County
Court in 1867. In 1866 he had been appointed
Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs, to fill a
vacancy; and he held the same office under
Governor Asahel Peck, 1874-6. In 1872 he

W. P, DILLINGHAM.
was elected State's Attorney for Washington
county and was re-elected in 1874. The docket
of the Washington County Court was crowded
with criminal causes at that time, and the trial
and conviction of Magoon for murder, and of
Miles for the robbery of the Barre Bank, were
among the notable trials in which Mr.
Dillingham acquired high reputation as a
prosecuting officer. He represented Waterbury
in the General Assembly in 1876, and again in
1884. He was State Senator from Washington
county, 1878-80, and was Chairman of the
Committee on Railroads in that body. In 1888
he received the Republican nomination for
Governor of Vermont, and was elected by the
largest majority that up to that time had ever
been given to a candidate for that office. His
administration as Governor added to his honor
able distinction. Since his admission to the Bar

he has practiced his profession of the law,
having been for a time his father's partner in
the law firm of P Dillingham & Son; later the
leading member of the firm of Dillingham &
Huse, and since 1894 of the firm of Dillingham,
Huse & Howland. He has held various civil
offices of responsibility and trust. He is a
member of the Board of Trustees of the
University of Vermont, and a Director of the
National Life Insurance Company. He is
President of the Waterbury National Bank.
He is a prominent member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and in 1893 was a lay delegate
from Vermont to the General Conference' of
that Church at Omaha, Nebraska. He is
President of the Board of Trustees of the
Vermont Methodist Seminary. He is a member
of the Society of Colonial Wars, and has been
President of the Vermont Society of Sons of
the American Revolution. He married, Decem
ber 24, 1874, Mary E. Shipman, daughter of
Rev. Isaiah H. and Charlotte R. Shipman of
Lisbon, New Hampshire. A son, Paul Shipman
Dillingham, born October 27, 1878, is the fruit
of their union.

DODGE, Joseph S., Physician, Lincoln, son
of Nathan H. and Miranda R. (Bass) Dodge,
was born in East Montpelier, Vermont, October
28, 1848. He is a descendant in direct line of
Peter Dodge of Prudenhue, barony of Cod-
dingham, who fought at Naseby, June 16, 1645,
the last battle of Charles I. of England; and
his maternal grandmother was a descendant of
Robert Herrick, the poet, and of Sir William
Herrick, a prominent diplomat during the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. Mr. Dodge traces his
genealogy unbroken from the time of William
the Conqueror, 1066, to the present. He was
educated in the common schools of Northfield
and the State Normal School at Randolph, and
he also took a course in the Medical Department
of the University of New York, receiving his
degree from that institution in 1878. He
immediately located in Lincoln for the practice
of his profession in which he has been highly
successful. In addition to his professional

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duties he has devoted considerable attention to
business interests. He supervised the con
struction of the lines of the Lincoln & Bristol
Telephone Company, and he is now President

JOSEPH S. DODGE.
of that organization. He has not been inclined
to accept public office but during his absence
from home on one occasion he has elected
Superintendent of Schools and he also repre
sented his town in the Legislature in 1892. He
is a prominent Mason, having taken all of the
York Rites; and he is a member of Mt. Calvary
Commandery, No. i, as well as a Noble of the
Mystic Shrine. He was instrumental to a large
degree in the organization of the Vermont
Society of Good Roads, in which the late
Ex Governor Levi K. Fuller was an active
worker; and as a member of the Legislature he
was zealous in promoting the passage of the
road law of 1892. Mr. Dodge married Fannie
M. Andrews, June 20, 1868; and they have one
child, Ernest Dodge, who was born April 10,
1869, and who is now Superintendent of the
Lincoln & Bristol Telephone Company.

Vermont, which was the home of his parents,
Deacon Jacob and Desdemona (Wood) Estey.
The family trace their descent through six an
cestors bearing the names of Isaac and Jacob, to
Jaffery Estey, who emigrated from England and
settled in Massachusetts, early in the seventeenth
century. The subject of this sketch received
his early education in the High School and
Academy in his native town, and later entered
Norwich University; but did not complete the
course, being needed by his father to assist him
in the business of manufacture of the Estey
organs, which have been famous for half a cen
tury. He entered the Estey Organ Works in
1863, and three years later, in April, 1866, was
admitted as a partner in the firm of J. Estey &
Company, later merged in the Estey Organ Com
pany, of Brattleboro. He was the Treasurer of
this company until the death of his father, in
1890, whenhe became President of the company,
and as such continues to conduct the widely
spread and highly successful business of that

ESTEY, Julius Jacob, Manufacturer, Brattle
boro, was born January 8, 1845, in Brattleboro,

J, J. ESTEY.
company. He is also President ofthe People's
National Bank of Brattleboro. General Estey
has been prominent in civil and military life, as
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the General Assembly ini 8 76-7 . He was State
Senator from Windham county, 1882-3, and was
a wise and influential legislator. He was a dele
gate at large to the Republican National Conven
tion in 1 888, which nominated Benjamin Harrison
for President. He early became interested in,
and a member ofthe National Guard of Vermont,
and during his connection with it,for twenty- four
years, has been promoted from First Lieutenant,
through the successive grades of Captain, Major,
Lieutenant- Colonel, and Colonel, to the rank of
Brigadier-General, which he has held since 1892.
To the excellent character, good discipline, and
spirit of her citizen soldiery, which enabled Ver
mont to respond promptly with a full regiment
to the call for troops for the present war. General
Estey has largely contributed by his intelligent
interest, personal influence and generous support.
General Estey is active and prominent in the
Baptist Church, having been President of the
State Sunday School Association of that denomi
nation; a member of the Executive Committee
ofthe Baptist Missionary Union; and for twelve
years President of the Board of Managers of the
Baptist State Convention. He has been Presi
dent of the Young Men's Christian Association of
Brattleboro, from its organization. He is the
Treasurer of the Vermont Academy at Saxton's
River, Vermont; a Trustee of the Moody School
for young men at Mount Hermon, and Treasurer
of the Northfield Seminary at Northfield, Massa
chusetts. He thus touches the life of the com
munity in many useful capacities and is valued
and esteemed in them all. He is a member ofthe
Masonic body and Knights Templar; a member
of the Vermont Society of Sons of the American
Revolution; of the Vermont Society of Colonial
Wars; and of the United Service Club of New
York. He was united in marriage October 29,
1867, to Miss Florence Gray, of Cambridge, New
York. Three sons have been the fruit of this
union: Jacob Gray and Julius Harry, both of
whom are officers in the First Vermont Regiment
in the present war with Spain, and Guy Carpen
ter Estey, who died October 18, 1897.

and Louisa (Griswold) Field, was born at
Springfield, Vermont, January i, 1842. Mr.
Field comes of a distinguished ancestry. His
father, Abner Field, was born in Chester, Ver
mont, November 28,1793 and died in Springfield,
December 19, 1864. He was the son of Pardon
Field and Elizabeth Williams. Pardon Field
was born at Cranston, Rhode Island, April 13,
1761, and died in Chester, Vermont, October 28,
1842. He was the fifth generation in direct line
descent from Thomas Field, who was an early

FIELD, Frederick Griswold, Merchant
and Farmer, North Springfield, son of Abner

Fred g. field.
settler in Providence and who swore allegiance
there in 1667. Elizabeth Williams was the
daughter of Joseph and Lydia Williams, and was
thegreat-great-grand-daughter of Roger Williams.
Louisa Griswold, Mr. Field's mother, was born
in Springfield, December 5, 1807, and died
August 15, 1884. She was the daughter of
Daniel Griswold, who was born in Meriden,
Connecticut, December 5, 1762, and died in
Springfield, August 4, 1836. Her mother was
Annah Lenthal Ames, of Middletown, Connecti
cut, who was born February 17, 1764, and died
in Springfield, June 8, 1826. Daniel Griswold
was a descendant of Edward Griswold, who was
born in England in 1607, and who settled in

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

Windsor, Connecticut, about 1645. Mr. Field,
the subject of this sketch, received his early
education in the common schools and at Spring
field Wesley an Seminary. In 1861 he left school
and worked on a farm until the .spring of 1864.
In February of that year, he went into the
mercantile business with John Hall, at North
Springfield. In the spring of 1865 he bought
out the interest of his partner and conducted the
business alone until 1868, when he took as
partners Henry B. Woodbury and Hiland E.
Chandler. He bought Mr. Woodbury's interest
in 1870 and Mr. Chandler's in 1871. He sold
the business in 1875 to C. A. Leland. In 1877
he bought back the business from Mr. Leland,
which he has conducted ever since. During
twenty-five years of this time he had charge of
the Post Office, although not Postmaster. In
1877, in company with Charles A. Leland, he
built Leland & Field's cheese factory, and for
several years was Treasurer and Agent for the
same. He has dealt somewhat in real estate and
has settled many estates. He has held many
town offices. Mr. Field is a Trustee of Vermont
Academy at Saxton 's River and of the Springfield
Town Library. He is a Director of the First
National Bank of Springfield, and of the Union
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montpelier.
He has been a Notary Public since 1864. He
represented Springfield in the Legislatures of
1870 and 1872. In the latter j-ear he was a
member ofthe Committee on Rules and Chairman
of the Committee on Banks. He was a State
Senator from Windsor county in 1880, and was
Chairman of the Committee on Claims. In
1890 he was elected County Commissioner,
resigning in 1892. In 1891 he was appointed
State Inspector of Finance, by Governor Page,
to fill out the unexpired term of L. O. Greene,
deceased. In 1895 he was appointed to the same
office by Governor Woodbury, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Colonel Fred E.
Smith. Governor Grout tendered him the
appointment of Assistant Judge of Windsor
County Court, to fill the vacancy caused bj' the
death of Judge Henry Parker, but he declined.
In politics he is a Republican. Mr. Field
married Anna M. Tarbell of Cavendish, Vermont,

July 2, 1872. Mrs. Field was born March 4,
1849. They have two children: Fred Tarbell,
born December 24, 1876, and Bertha Isadore
Field, born November 29, 1878.

FRANCISCO, M. Judson, Rutland, son of
John and Mary W. (Sampson) Francisco, was
born in West Haven, Vermont, August 5, 1835.
He is a grandson of Daniel Sampson and May

M, J. FRANCISCO.
Woods; the great-grandson of William Sampson
and Judith Merrill; the great-great-grandson of
Jonathan Sampson and Mary Chandler; the
great great great grandson of David Sampson
and Mary Chaffin; the great-great-great-great-
grandson of Caleb Sampson and Mercy Standish,
who was a daughter of Alexander Standish, the
eldest son of the renowned Captain Miles
Standish, (The mother of Mercy Standish was
the daughter of John Alden.) He is the great-
great -great -great -great -grandson of Henry
Sampson and Ann Plummer of the company of
the Pilgrims, who came to Plymouth on the
Mayflower in 1620. Mr. Francisco's early edu
cation was obtained at Castleton (Vermont)
Seminary. He entered Oberlin College in 1851,
and Albany College in 1857, graduating from

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the latter institution in i86o. He was appointed
Principal ofthe Northwestern Commercial Col
lege at Fort Wayne, Indiana, in i860. In 1864,
he accepted the Presidency ofthe Pennsylvania
College of Trade and Finance. In 1870 he was
made Manager for Vermont of the North British,
London, Liverpool and Globe insurance com
panies. He was elected President ofthe Rutland
Electric Light Company in 1887. He was a
member of the E-xecutive Committee of the
National Electric Light Association ofthe United
States at a meeting held at Kansas City, Missouri,
in 1890. He was elected Second Vice-Presi
dent of the Association at Providence, Rhode
Island, in i8go; First Vice-President at St.
Louis, Missouri, in 1893; President at Wash
ington, District of Columbia, in 1894. He was
elected Secretary and Managing Director of the
Rutland City Electric Company in 1897, and is
President of the Holmes and Griggs Manufac
turing Company of New York city. His first
work on Electric Lighting was published in 1890
and went through two editions. Two editions
were printed of his review of the Postmaster
General's limited Post and Telegraph bill,
delivered before the Committees of the Senate
and House of Representatives at Washiugton,
District of Columbia, in 1891. He is the author
of "Municipal Ownership — Its Fallacies,"
which has already gone through four editions.
He is also the author of "Government, State
and Municipal Ownership" and "Municipal
Ownership versus Private Corporations." In
i8g3 he was called before the Massachusetts
Legislature as an expert on the subject of
Municipal Ownership; and the Connecticut Leg
islature employed him in the same capacity in
1897. He is an Ex-President of the Rutland
Association of Underwriters; and ofthe firm of
M. J. Francisco & Son; a Director of the Rutland
Trust Company; a member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers; and a member
ofthe Masonic fraternity. In politics he is a
Repiiblican. In 1863 he was united in marriage
with H. Margaret Holmes. They have two
children: I. Holmes and Don C. Francisco. Mrs.
Francisco is the daughter of Israel and Ardelia
(Hayden) Holmes; she traces her descent

through Abigail Shepard and Daniel Hayden,
who were married in 1801; Major Joseph
Shepard and Abigail Hodges, who were married
in 1772; Lieutenant Elijah Hodges and Eliza
beth Reed, who were married in 1745; Thomas
Reed and Sarah Tisdale, who were married in
1716; Joseph Tisdale and Mary Leonard, who
were married in 1681; Major Thomas Leonard
and Mary Watson; Ensign Watson and Phoebe
Hicks, who were married in 1647; Robert Hicks
and Margaret Winslow, who were married in
1610; James Hicks and Phoebe AUyn; Rupert
Hicks and Evesond; Thomas Hicks and Margaret
Atwood; to John Hicks of Gloucester, England,
a lineal descendant of Sir Ellis Hicks, who was
knighted by Edward, the Black Prince, on the
field of Poitiers, September 9, 1456,
GEORGE, E. P., Merchant, West Fairlee,
was born in Thetford, Vermont, in 1829. He was
educated in the common schools of his native
town, and at Thetford Academ3^ under Hiram

K. P. GEORGE.

Orcutt. When he was nineteen years of age he
left home, obtaining employment as a clerk in
the store of R & U. Burke. He was later
employed by the mercantile firm of Harris &

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

Frary, at Strafford, and a year at Derby Line for
Morrill, Russ & Co., of which Jedediah H. Harris
and Justin S. Morrill were members. Leaving
Strafford, he went to Boston, where he was
employed for two years in a dry goods store. He
subsequently returned to Vermont, and became
purchasing agent for the Copper Smelting Works
at Strafford. In 1858 he removed to West
Fairlee, Vermont, and purchased the mercantile
business of Alvah Bean. In 1862 he formed a
partnership in the same business with Mr. Taylor,
which continued for four years. During the
Civil War Mr. George sold more than two
hundred thousand dollars worth of government
bonds. Later, Mr. Dudley was associated with
Mr. George in the general merchandise business
which the latter has successfully conducted for
forty years. Mr. George has served his town in
the capacity of Selectman. He was Postmaster
from 1 86 1 to 1885; and was State Senator from
Orange county in 1876. He is Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of Thetford Academy, He is
a Republican in politics and has served his party
as a member of Republican town, county and
state committees. In 1892, he was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention at Minne
apolis. He has travelled extensively in the
West and has made a tour of Europe. Mr.
George married Lucy P Reynolds, at Strafford,
Vermont, in 1854. A few years later Mrs. George
died, and in 1861 he married Mary Annie
Gilman, who died in 1893. He has two children
living : Lena A., and E. P George, Jr.
GILLETT, Heman Hosford, Physician,
Post Mills, was born in Thetford, Orange county,
Vermont, May 22, 1823, his parents being
Henry and Hannah (Wallace) Gillett. His
great-grandfather, Samuel Gillett, who was
among the first settlers of the town of Thetford
and Chairman of its first Board of Selectmen,
came from Connecticut and was of Puritan
descent. His paternal grandfather, Simon
Gillett, served through the Revolutionary War
and was a pensioner; the latter's wife. May
Hosford, was also of Puritan ancestry. His
maternal grandfather, Richard Wallace, was

the fir.st settler in the western section of Thet
ford, was a Revolutionary soldier and served
through the war ; born in Scotland, he came to
America at an early age and endured the hard
ships and privations incident to the settling of a
new country ; he swam Lake Champlain in the
fall of 1777, from Fort Ticonderoga to Fort
Independence, to carry dispatches to the Ameri
can camp, a distance of nearly two miles. The
father of the subject of this sketch volunteered

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S

H. H. GILLETTE.
in the war of 1812, was a native of Thetford,
active and helpful in public and private life, he
died at the advanced age of ninety-four
years universally loved. Mr. Gillett attended
the common schools until he was sixteen, sub
sequently entered Thetford Academy, and
studied medicine with the late Doctor H. H.
Niles of Post Mills, Vermont. He was for
three years in the medical department of Dart
mouth College, graduating therefrom November
18, 1846. After leaving college. Dr. Gillett
began the practice ofhis profession in Corinth,
Vermont, where he remained until October,
1861. Since July, 1865, he has practced medi
cine and surgery in Thetford and the surround
ing towns. He has been a member of the

MEN OF PROGRESS.

log

White River Junction Pension Board since July,
1886, and health officer for the towns of Fairlee
and Thetford for the past five years. He
represented the town of Corinth in the Legisla
ture in 1861, and Thetford in 1874-75. He was
a delegate to the State Convention in i86g, and
has held various other offices in town. He
was Surgeon of the Eighth Regiment Vermont
Volunteers during the Civil War, and had no
leave of absence while in the service. Doctor
Gillett is a member of Jackson Lodge, No. 60,
Free and Accepted Masons, of West Fairlee,
Vermont, and has been its Treasurer for thirty
years. He is identified with the State Medical
Society and several other organizations. He
has never cared for or sought political promi
nence. He has lent a willing, helping hand to
several young men who have needed assistance
along educational lines, and has had the satis
faction of seeing good results from these efforts.
Professor H. P. Montgomery, now one of the
Supervisors in the colored schools in the city
of Washington, District of Columbia, a position
he has occupied for more than twenty years,
came to Doctor Gillett in 1862, a boy of ten
years, while in Louisiana. At the close ofthe
war came North, worked on the farm with
Doctor Gillett's father, went to district school,
and later took a normal course at Randolph,
Vermont, where he fitted himself for the respon
sible place he now fills.

GLEASON, Joseph Thomas, Attorney,
Lyndonville, was born in Lunenburg, Essex
county, Vermont, June 18, 1844, son of George
and Sabrina Gleason. Both his paternal and
maternal grandfathers served in the Revolution
ary War, the latter being a Lieutenant in a New
Hampshire regiment. His grandfather, Joseph
Gleason, came to Lunenburg in 1802, and for
half a century was a Deacon in the Congrega
tional church there. His father, George
Gleason, was one of the solid men of Lunen
burg, a former Captain of militia. Deacon ofthe
Baptist church, and lived to be eighty-five years
of age. Mr. Gleason was educated in the
common schools of Lunenburg. In December,

186 1, when he was seventeen years old, he
enlisted in Company K, Eighth Regiment Ver
mont Volunteers, but was rejected on account
of his youth. Unable, however, to resist the
impulses of patriotism, he enlisted again in
August of the following year, in Company E,
Fifteenth Vermont Volunteers. When the reg
iment took up its journey to Gettysburg, young
Gleason, ordered to the hospital on account of
illness, refused to go, and marched with his
command to that historic spot, remaining with
the regiment until honorably discharged.
During the war he contracted disabilities from

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J. T. GLEASON.
which he has never fully recovered. In 1874
he began the study of law with J. P Lamson,
Esq., of Cabot, Vermont, and was later with W
W. Eaton, Esq., of West Concord, Vermont,
until the spring of 1875, when he opened an
office for himself. He was admitted to the
Vermont Bar in 1876, and for a year was in part
nership with O. F. Harvey, Esq., at West
Concord. In 1878 he removed to Lyndonville,
where he was the first member of his profession
to open an office, and where he now resides.
Well read in the law, and having the public
confidence, he has built up a large general

MEN OF PROGRESS.

practice. Mr. Gleason has been Assistant Judge
of the County Court, has served his town as
Moderator, Clerk, Agent and Treasurer, has
been Chairman of the Republican Town Com
mittee, and is at present Chairman of the County
Committee. He is a member of Crescent Lodge,
No. 66, Free and Accepted Masons, of Lyndon
ville, and of Palestine Commandery, Knights
Templar, Caledonia Council, Royal and Select
Masters, and Haswell Royal Arch Chapter, of
St. Johnsbury. He has served two terms as
Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter, Order of
Eastern Star of Vermont, and is also a member
of Farnsworth Post, Grand Army of the Republic,
of Lyndonville, of which he has been Adjutant
and Commander. He is closely identified with
numerous business interests, being Director and
Vice-President of the Masonic Building Associa
tion, Clerk and Treasurer of the Lyndon
Building Company. He is also a Director of
the National Bank of Lyndon. He is public
spirited and generous, full of energy and perse
verance, and has been foremost in all measures
looking toward the advancement of the prosperity
of his village and town. No other one man has
done more to make Lyndonville the busy,
thriving and well-equipped place it is than Judge
Gleason. Outspoken in his beliefs, he advocates
and enthusiastically labors for whatever he
believes will best conserve the religious, moral,
educational, social and political interests of the
community. He is a Congregationalist, and his
latest public gift was a complete system of elec
tric lights to the church of that denomination in
Lyndonville. In 1884 he married Mary S.,
daughter of Roswell and Laodicea (Holbrook)
Aldrich; they have one daughter, Louise M.
Gleason.

GOSS, RoLLiN Jones, Physician, Hartford,
was born in Moretown, Washington county,
Vermont, September 2, 1870, son of Aaron and
Mary (Carter) Goss. His paternal grandparents
were of the best New England stock, and the
family can boast of Revolutionary War records.
His father, born in the same house and room as
the subject of this sketch, enlisted in Company

G, Sixth Vermont Regiment, when nineteen
years old, and served through the War of the
Rebellion. His mother was the oldest of eleven
children and is a remarkably able woman. He
was educated in the common schools of his native
town, in the State Normal School at Randolph,
and also in the Vermont Methodist Seminary, at
Montpelier. He graduated from the Baltimore
Medical College, April 22, 1896. While taking
his college course he saw service in the Maryland
General Hospital, at Baltimore, and has also had
experience in the Mt. Hope Retreat, of the same

R. J. GOSS.
city, and The Highlands, at Winchendon, Mas
sachusetts, both institutions for the insane. Since
his graduation Doctor Goss has practiced at
Hartford, Vermont, with marked success and
growing favor. He is a member of United
Brethren Lodge, No. 21, Free and Accepted
Masons, of White River Junction, Seth Warner
Council, No. 8, Junior Order of United American
Mechanics, of Hartford, and also of the White
River Medical Society. Politically he is a
Republican, and takes an active interest in public
affairs. June 10, 1896, he married Olive R.
Watson, of Hartford. They have one child, a
daughter, Barboera Watson Goss, born March 24,

MEN OF PROGRESS.

1898. During his college and preparatory courses.
Doctor Goss taught school in various parts of
the state, by this means defraying a part of the
expense of his education for the medical profes
sion. No work that would help him to the
desired end was ever refused. Doctor Goss well
represents the younger progressive professional
man of Vermont, and has before him a large
field of usefulness in his chosen calling.

HALL, Henry William, was born in Ports
mouth, New Hampshire, June 29, 1846, son of
William F and Mary Ann (Stickney) Hall. The
family is of Scotch descent. ThreeHall brothers

henry w. hall.
were among the first settlers in the town of Barnet,
Vermont, and in that town the father and grand
father of Henry W. Hall were born. His
mother was the daughter of Samuel and
Melfitable Stickney, born in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. The subject of this sketch received
his early education in the common schools and
High School in Portsmouth. After working at
the home farm in Barnet for four years, at the
age of sixteen he went to Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, where he found employment in the
United States Navy yard. Later he learned the

trade of a moulder, which he followed for some
twelve years, at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, until
in 1875 lis accepted a position with A. L-
Bailey, dealer in musical instruments of that
town. He has been identified with that house
up to the present time. In 1877 he opened its
store in Burlington, and has managed its exten
sive business with remarkable efficiency and
success ; employing about a dozen travelling
agents, and conducting a trade which extends
throughout Vermont and into New York and .\ew
Hampshire. Mr. Hall is an earnest Republican
in politics. He was a member of the Board of
Aldermen of the city ot Burlington for four
years, 1892-6, and was President of the Board,
1894-5. In 1894 he was appointed an Aide-de-
Camp on the staff of Governor U. A. Woodbury,
with the rank of Colonel. He is a member of
Washington Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons.
He is a prominent member of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. In 1885 he was a repre
sentative to the Grand Lodge, of which he was
Grand Marshal. In 1886 he was elected Deputy
Grand Master, and iu 1887 was elected Grand
Master. At the conclusion of this service, in
1888, he was elected to represent his state in
the Sovereign Grand Lodge. He is the Presi
dent of the Board of Trustees of the Odd Fellows
Home in Ludlow, Vermont. Mr. Hall is
President of the Burlington Business Men's
Association. He is a member of Champlain
Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is also a mem
ber of Vermont Society of Sons of the American
Revolution, and of the Algonquin Club of
Burlington. In November, 1867, he married
Abbie M. Buzzell of St. Johnsbury. They have
five children: Mabel A., Luke W., Lena G.,
Carrie M , and H. Everett Hall. The oldest
daughter, Mabel, now Mrs. Charles E. Sher
burne, is now residing in Boston, Massachusetts.

HALL, Thomas Bartlett, Groton, was born
in the town of his present residence, November
29, 1834, son of Isaac Newton and Elizabeth
(Taisey) Hall. His early education was obtained
in the common schools and in Newbury Seminary.
He worked on the farm until he was nearly

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twenty-one years of age, and after teaching one
term of district school in 1855, he began his ser
vice as clerk in the store of John Buchanan in
Groton, in which he worked for three years. In

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THOMAS B. hall.
the year 1858 he went back to the home farm to
reside with his father, and for more than twenty
years he dealt in wool, lumber, cattle and sheep
in connection with farming operations. In Decem
ber, 1882, he formed a partnership with Alexander
Cochran under the firm name of Hall & Cochran
to conduct a general store, and they not only built
up a large business in that line but also conducted
extensive operations in the manufacture of lumber
and charcoal. He has taken a prominent interest
in the affairs of the community, having been
Selectman twenty -two years and Chairman of the
Board for twelve years of that period. He was
Lister for two years and Overseer of the Poor eight
years. He represented his town in the Legisla
ture in 1874-75 and again in 1886-87. He was
elected First Assistant Judge of Caledonia County
Court in 1890, and he was re-elected in 1892. He
has been Justice of the Peace from 1878 to the
present time. Mr. Hall was born and educated
a Democrat and voted for Buchanan for President
in 1856. But in 1858 he left the Democratic party

and he has voted the Republican ticket ever since,
both state and national. He is a member of the
Methodist Episcopal church of Groton and is
zealous in the promotion of every good cause. On
December 30, 1862, he was joined in marriage
with Elizabeth M. , daughter of George and Marian
(Miller) Donaldson of Ryegate, Vermont. P'our
children have been born of their union : Henry
W. , born August 16, 1869 and died December 12,
1869; Isaac Newton, born November 21, 1870;
George Newell, born March 10, 1874 and died
March 23, 1882; Elizabeth Marian Hall, born
August 28, 1877,

HARMAN, Henry A., Rutland, son of George
W. and Laura A. (Penfield) Harmon, was born
in Pawlet, May 6, 1845. His father and grand
father were natives of that town, and members

H. A. HARMAN.
of the Rutland County Bar. In 1848, his
parents removed to Bennington, where his early
education was obtained in public and private
schools. For a short time he was a student at
the Burr and Burton Seminary, in Manchester.
He was graduated from Williams College with the
class of 1867, and in 1871 received the degree of

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LL. B. from Harvard University. He was admit
ted to the Bar at East Cambridge, Massachusetts,
June 27, 1 87 1, and subsequently was admitted to
practice before different courts, in Vermont and
New York. He began the practice of his profes
sion at Bennington in 1871, and during the
greater portion of his residence there was a mem
ber of the firm of Gardner & Harman, which
continued until the decease of Lieutenant-Gov
ernor Gardner in 1881. Mr. Harman came to
Rutland in 1884, and continued an active legal
practice there until 1893, when, upon the decease
of the Hon. John Howe, he was appointed Clerk
of the County of Rutland, a position which he
still holds. He has always taken an active
interest in educational matters, and since 1895
has represented the sixth Ward of the city of
Rutland on the Board of School Commissioners.
He has been twice married. Januarv 12, 1876,
he was united in marriage with Miss Ellen M.
Bromley, of Castleton, Vermont, who died Janu
ary 12, 1893, leaving five children. On November
24, 1896, he married Miss Jean F. Woodward, ot
Lowell, Massachusetts.

HEATH, Albert Hayford, D. D., Clergy
man, St. Johnsbury, was born in Salem, Franklin
county, Maine, July ig, 1840, son of Captain
Abram Ashley and Florena (Hayford) Heath.
He is descended from the Heath family of
Boston and vicinity, of which General William
Heath was the most conspicuous example. His
early education was received in the public
schools of Maine, and is a graduate of Bates
College, in Lewiston of that state, class of 1867.
He worked on his father's farm and in a store
through his boyhood, then served time as
painters apprentice, by which trade he worked
his way through college, earning every cent of
the cost of a seven years' course of study. In
1867 the subject of this sketch became Pastor of
the Court street Free Baptist church at Auburn,
Maine, which was the churchhe grew up in, his
father being a member of it. His pastorate
there was a very happy and successful one, the
church edifice being enlarged during that time
to double its former size, and its membership

growing rapidly. He left it one of the strongest
churches of that denomination in Maine. While
here he received calls from Portland, Law
rence and Boston, but declined them. In i86g
he was called to the Roger Williams church, of
Providence, Rhode Island, but declined, having
a desire to spend his life in Auburn. In 1870 the
Roger Williams church repeated its call and he
finally accepted, beginning his work there in
October of that year. He found the church in
a critical condition by reason of divisions, and
the task before him was a difficult one. But the
church was quickly harmonized, its influence
enlarged, its membership increased, and several

A. H. HEATH.
missions were started which have since grown
into substantial organizations. The conserva
tism of this church, however, precluding the
accomplishment of as broad a work as the Pastor
desired, he resigned m February, 1876, but the
resignation was not accepted until the following
July. In the early fall of that year Doctor
Heath accepted a call to the North Congrega
tional church, of New Bedford, Massachusetts,
and although this church had been somewhat
broken up by divisions, the new Pastor suc
ceeded admirably in uniting its elements, and

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for twelve and one-half years continued
at its head. During tiiat time the mem
bership was nearly doubled, the church
gave nearly fifty thousand dollars in benevo
lence, and expended twenty-five thousand dollars
in improving its buildings. The climate of
New Bedford being unfavorable to the health
of his family. Doctor Heath in 1889 accepted a
call from Plymouth church, of St. Paul, Minne
sota, and in March of that year began his work
in that Western city. He found in St. Paul
many difficult tasks awaitng him, as the church
had been much weakened by removals and dis
sensions. Seven small churches in various parts
of the city had been taken out of its member
ship, and his desire was to save them all, the
mother and her seven weak children. The
problem was a hard one, by reason of the gen
eral depression in business circles, but the mother
church stood up heroically, and after five years
and a half Doctor Heath was able to leave St.
Paul with nine Congregational churches, all
housed and manned. In May, 1894, he was
unexpectedly called to the North Congrega
tional church, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where
he is now located, in the fifth year of a success
ful pastorate. Doctor Heath was President of
the Minnesota Congregational Club in i8g2,
was a Trustee of Carleton College, Northfield,
Minnesota, from i8go to i8g5 ; and of Bates
College, Lewiston, Maine, from 1868 to 1876.
He is President of the Board of Trustees of
Tabor Academy, at Marion, Massachusetts, is a
Trustee of the St. Johnsbury Academy, was
President of the Passumpsic Congregational
Club in 1895-96, and is a corporate member of
the American Board, and was also connected
with the Saturday Club of Minneapolis, Minne
sota. He is identified with the fraternities,
being a member of Caledonia Lodge, No. 6, and
Moose River Encampment, Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and of General Logan Council,
No. 22, Junior Order of United American
Mechanics He is a Republican, but has never
sought political preferment. He was married,
January 7, 1868, in Boston, to Lucie J. Simonds ;
they have two children : Albert C. and Lucie
F. Heath. Doctor Heath received the Honor

ary degree of D. D. in 1887 from Iowa College,
Grinnell, Iowa.

HOLMES, Horace Dennison, Derby Line,
was born in that town, February 6, 1821, son of
Daniel Dennison and Malinda (Lee) Holmes. His
father was a native of Stonington, Connecticut,
and his mother was born in Pittsford, Vermont.
The grandfather on his mother's side served in
the Revolutionary War. His uncle, Jeremiah
Holmes, was a soldier in the War of 181 2, and
early in that struggle was impressed by a British

H. D. holmes.
man of war and compelled to serve in the British
Navy. He finally succeeded in escaping, how
ever, and returning to America, he at once entered
the Continental Army and was present at the battle
of Stonington. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the common schools of Derby and the
Academy at Stanstead, Province of Quebec. He
lived for a time in Stanstead, and was later a resi
dent of New York, but while comparatively a
young man he located in Derby Line, where he
has since resided. He has devoted his attention
largely to farming, but he has also taken an active
interest in other enterprises, having been a
Director and Vice-President of the Derby National

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IIS

Bank for twenty-five years. He was a Selectman
of his town for ten years, and during six years of
that period he was Chairman of the Board. He
takes an active interest in public affairs as well as
in religious and social matters. He is an Odd
Fellow as well as a Good Templar, and for many
years he has been a Trustee of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Stanstead, Province of
Quebec. In politics he is a Republican. Mr.
Holmes was united in marriage with Mary Ann
Bailey in 1865, but no children resulted from their
union. Mrs. Holmes died in 1890.

KIMBALL, Robert Jackson, Banker, Ran
dolph, was born in that town February 16, 1836.
His ancestors were English and his great-grand
father and grandfather both served in the

R. J. KIMBALL,
Revolutionary War in Colonel Samuel B. Webb's
Third Connecticut Regiment. His grandfather
removed from Pomfret, Connecticut, to Randolph,
Vermont, about the year 1795. For more than
one hundred years continuously the grandfather,
the father, and the son, have maintained a family
home in Randolph. Educated in the common
schools and the West Randolph Academy, he.

early in life, entered business, lived in the state
until after he attained his majority, and established
a banking business in New York in 1865, which
still continues under the firm name of R. J. Kim
ball & Co. While having a business in New
York, on the death of his father in 1865, he
assumed the affairs of the home in Randolph,
where he has spent more or less of his time every
year. He resumed his citizenship in his native
town in 1886 and built a new residence. He was
an Aid-de-Camp on Governor Dillingham's staff,
with rank of Colonel, 1888 to 1890. He repre
sented the town of Randolph in the Legislature
of i89o-'9i, serving on the Committees on Ways
and Means, Banks and a special joint committee
on the World's Columbian Exposition. He has
shown his public spirit and generosity in many
ways in different enterprises in his native town.
He has a home in Brooklyn, New York. Is con
nected as Trustee with various important
religious, charitable and other institutions in
Brooklyn, and stands high in the regard of all
who know him as a citizen and a man. He was
united in marriage with Mary L., daughter of
Charles A, Morse, in 1863. Their children are
two daughters : Clara Louise and Annie Laura,
and one son, W. Eugene Kimball, who graduated
at Amherst College in 1896, and at once entered
into the banking business with his father and was
admitted to the firm of R. J. Kimball & Co. in
January, 1898.

KINGSLEY, Levi Gleason, Merchant,
Rutland, was born in the town of Shrewsbury,
Vermont, May 21, 1832. His direct ancestors
came to this country in the early part of the last
century and settled at or near Hartford, Connec
ticut. His great-grandfather, Salmon Kingsley,
came to Vermont from Wapping, Connecticut,
soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, to
make a home in the new State. He located in the
town of Ira in Rutland county. He had seven
sons, one of whom, Chester, the grandfather ofthe
subject of this sketch, was for a time resident in
Burlington, but in 181 2 he settled on Mill River
in Shrewsbury, near the Clarendon line, where
he engaged in the business of carding wool and

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dressing cloth. In 1825 he removed to East
Clarendon, where he purchased the Crary Mills
so-called from a previous owner, and resumed his
former business. He had nine sons and seven
daughters. Of these children, Harvey, the second
son, married Elvira Gleason, the daughter of
Stephen Gleason of Shrewsbury. They had three
children, Levi G., Nahum P. and Elizabeth.
Levi received the common education of the public

L. G. kingsley.
schools, and attended for two terms the Brandon
Seminary. In 1854 he was one 3'ear at Norwich
University, which in 1882 conferred upon him the
honorary degree of Bachelor of Science. He was
for many years a Trustee of that institution.
During the intervals in his periods of study he
assisted his father in the woolen mills, worked by
the day among the farmers and taught school for
a short period. He was for a time Station Agent
on the Rutland & Burlington Railroad at East
Clarendon, and from 1857 to 1859 was a clerk in
the freight office of that company in Rutland. In
the latter year, with Benjamin F. French, he
purchased the hardware store of J. & A. Landon.
The business was removed in 1863 to the present
location on Merchants Row and the partnership
ceased in 1865 with the death of Mr. French.

Since then Mr. Kingsley has conducted the busi
ness alone. He has now been in the mercantile
business longer than any merchant in the City of
Rutland. Having a natural interest in military
affairs, and having acquired a military education
at Norwich University, Mr. Kingsley, soon after
becoming a resident of Rutland, became a mem
ber of the Rutland Light Guard, a popular
military company organized in 1858 under
the command of General H. Henry Baxter,
and afterward commanded by General William
V, W. Ripley. He was elected Lieutenant of
the company in 1859, and when the company
patriotically responded to the call for troops in
1861 and joined the First Regiment of Vermont
Volunteers, he, like hundreds of others, left his
business and entered the service of the countrj',
for the preservation of the Union and defence of
the flag. He went to the field as Second Lieu
tenant ofthe Rutland Company, Company K, Fir.st
Regiment Vermont Volunteers, and served with
credit at Fortress Monroe and Newport News,
Virginia, during the three months term of the
regiment. In response to President Lincoln's call
of August 4, 1862, for three hundred thousand
militia to serve for nine months, he re-enlisted
with many others of his old company and was
elected Captain. On the organization of the
Twelfth Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, he was
promoted to the rank of Major, a position which
he creditably filled until the expiration of the
term of service of the regiment. After leaving
the field, he interested himself in the organization
of the National Guard, and was elected Captain of
Company A, ofthe Ninth Regiment, National
Guard of Vermont, in December, 1864. In Jan
uary, 1865, he was elected Colonel of that Regiment.
In October, 1874, he was elected by the Legisla
ture, Quartermaster-General of the State of
Vermont, and held the office by four re-elections
until 1882. He was untiring in his labors for the
state in this department, reorganizing it
thoroughly in many features and saving much
expense by his economy and forethought. During
his administration, the National Guard of Vermont
was put on a firm basis and thoroughly equipped.
He was elected Brigadier- General in 1882, and
was re-elected in 1884. He declined a re-election

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in 1886. The military career of General Kingsley
has been one of earnest effort and great usefulness.
He was a popular and efficient officer, esteemed
by his brother officers and by the men of his com
mand. He was always ready to do his duty, and
it may safely be said of him, that Vermont never
had a better or more efficient servant in the posi
tions he has occupied. Upon the retirement of
General Kingsley from the National Guard a
general order was issued by the Governor, in which
he said : "By the retirement of General Levi G.
Kingsley, the National Guard of Vermont is
deprived of the services of one of the oldest and
most experienced officers. Having served his
state faithfully and well almost continuously for a
period of almost twenty-eight years, he takes with
him to his retirement, the highest esteem and best
wishes ofhis comrades in the National Guard; the
approval and commendation of his superior
officers; and the consciousness of arduous duties
well performed." In civil life. General Kingsley
occupies a prominent place in the business and
public affairs of the City of Rutland, and in the
promotion of its industries and prosperity. He
was a member of the fire department for over
twenty years, and was Captain of the Killington
Steam Fire Engine Company for seventeen years.
He was elected President of the Village of Rut
land in 1886; was Selectman of the Town of
Rutland for four years and Mayor of the City of
Rutland in 1894. In 1890 he was a member of
the State Senate for Rutland county. He is a
Director in the Baxter National Bank and one of
the Trustees ofthe Marble Savings Bank, both of
Rutland. He is a member of Roberts Post of the
Grand Army. Ife has long been a member ofthe
different Masonic bodies and has been Grand
Captain -General and Grand Generalissimo ofthe
Grand Commandery of Knights Templar of Ver
mont. In these various capacities he has done
faithful public service and added to the respect
and esteem in which he is held by the people of
his city and state. In November, 1857, General
King.sley married Miss Luceba J., daughter of
Walter and Eliza Ross, of Clarendon, Vermont.
She died without issue in March, 1862. June 4,
1865, he contracted a second marriage with Miss
Cornelia Sophia, daughter of Benjamin and Sophia

(Hodges) Roberts, of Manchester, Vermont. Mrs.
Kingsley has a distinguished ancestry, her grand
father, Christopher Roberts, and great-grandfather
John Roberts having both served in the War of
the Revolution, while her grandfather on the
mother's side, DoctorSilas Hodges, was a Surgeon
in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary
War, and served for a time on the staff of General
George Washington. She is a sister of the late
Colonel George T. Roberts, of the Seventh Vermont
Regiment, who fell at the battle of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, Augusts, 1862, and of Mrs. H. Henry
Baxter of Rutland, with whom she resided for
several years, after the death of their parents,
previous to her marriage to General Kingsley.
They have two children: Henry Baxter, born
November 21, 1867, and Harvey Roberts Kings-
lej', born January 8, 187 1.

LEWIS, Harry Edwin, Physician, Burlington,
was born in Providence, Rhode Island, February
22, 1875, son of Charles E. and Alia M. (Clark)

H. E. LEWIS.
Lewis. His maternal great-grandfather was a
member of General Washington's staff in the
War of the Revolution. His father is of Scotch
ancestry. The subject of this sketch received

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his early education in the public schools of
Providence, Rhode Island, and is a graduate of
the Providence High School. Entering Brown
University in the fall of 1892, he completed a
two years course in biology, and immediately
entered the Medical Department of the Univer
sity of Vermont, from which he graduated in
1897. He has also taken courses in medicine
in New York and Montreal. He taught in the
public schools of Woodstock, Vermont, with
success. He was connected with the Atlantic
MedicalWeekly until the opportunity was offered
him in i8g5 to assume the management of the
Vermont Medical Monthly, which position he
has since successfully filled. He served as
Resident Physician ofthe Faunj^ Allen Hospital
for one year from July, i8g7, and in 1898 was
appointed a member of the Surgical Staff of the
same institution. He was appointed Medical Ex
aminer ofthe physical department of the Burling
ton Young Men's Christian Association in 1897,
and has always taken an active interest in Young
Men's Christian Association work, both in Provi
dence and Burlington. Doctor Lewis is a mem
ber of the American Medical Association ; of
the Vermont State Medical Society; of the
Burlington Clinical Society, and of various other
organizations, social and otherwise. While in
college he was a member of Rhode Island Alpha
of Phi Delta Theta, and of the Delta Mu frater
nity of the University of Vermont, Medical
Department. Doctor Lewis, though a young
man, has made several interesting contributions
to literature. He is the author of " Lights and
Other Poems;" " The Philosophy of Sex"— a
small work which has received commendation
from all parts of the country; and a lengthy
article written in collaboration with Doctor A.
P. Grinnell on the " History of Medicine in
Vermont," which was published in Heard's
History of New England. Doctor Lewis is also
the author of numerous articles on medical
topics, and through his efforts the Vermont
Medical Monthly has become a recognized med
ical journal throughout the country.

son of Hugh Henry and Delia Adeline (Jockow)
Morgan. He is a descendant of a Welsh family
on the father's side and of the French family of
D'AUaird, on the mother's. He fitted for college
at the People's Academy and Graded School in
Morrisville, and entering the University of Ver
mont graduated with credit in 1890. Selecting
the profession of medicine, he entered the Med
ical Department of the University of Vermont,
and after a two years course in that department

JOHN c. morgan.
and a year in the Dartmouth Medical College,
he received from the latter the degree of Doctor
of Medicine in 1894. In the following winter
he commenced the practice of his profession in
Stowe, Vermont, where he remains in successful
practice. He has been Health Officer ofthe
Village and Town of Stowe since 1895. He is
a member of the College fraternity. Phi Delta
Theta, and of the Medical fraternity. Delta Mu,
ofthe University of Vermont. He was married
June 25, 1S95, to Miss Mary L. Jockow of Lowell,
Massachusetts. They have one child : Helen
Morgan, born June 10, i8g6.

MORGAN, John Clifford, Physician, Stowe,
was born in F'ayston, Vermont, June 13, 1866,

MORRIS, Ephraim, Manufacturer, Hartford,
was born in Strafford, Vermont, May 11, 1832,

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iig

son of Sylvester and Susanna (Weston) Morris.
He is a lineal descendant from Thomas Morris,
who emigrated from England and settled in
Roxbury, Massachusetts, about 1638. Edward,
son of Thomas, was one of the pioneers of
Woodstock, Connecticut. Ephraim Morris, the
grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was
born in Wilbraham, Connecticut, in 1772. He
came to Roxbury, Vermont, in 1803, and
removed thence to Bethel, Vermont, where he
resided till he died. His son, Sylvester, father
of the present Ephraim, was born in Strafford,
Connecticut, in 1797. He came to Vermont
with his father, removed from Bethel to Straf-

eparaim morris.
ford in 1828, and thence in 1837 to Norwich,
Vermont, where he remained during the rest of
his life. Mr. Morris traces his lineage on the
mother's side back to John Howland, who came
to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in the Mayflower,
in 1620. The maternal grand parents of Mr.
Morris came to Randolph, Vermont, among the
earliest settlers of that town, in 1786, and spent
their married life there. Mr. Morris was edu
cated in the common schools ; at Thetford
Academy, and at Norwich University, which
conferred on him the degrees of A. B. and A. M.

When nineteen years old he went to Boston,
Massachusetts, and was employed for three
years in a wholesale mercantile house, in which
he gained valuable business experience. While
in that city he was a member of the Park Street
Church and a Director in the Mercantile Library
Association. In 1834, he came to Hartford,
Vermont, and became a partner with his father
under the firm name of S. Morris & Son, which,
later, when a brother took the father's share in
the business, became E. W. & PI Morris,
manufacturers of chairs for the shipping trade.
In 1874 he took a controlling interest in the
Ottaquechee Woolen Company for the manufac
ture of goods for men's wear, of which he has
been Treasurer, and (with his brother) organ
ized the Hartford Woolen Company, of which
he has been President. Largely successful in
his business, Mr. Morris has been able to seek
relaxation and culture in extensive travels in
America, Europe and the Orient. He has been
prominent in town affairs, having represented
Hartford in the Legislature in i8g6, and hold
ing the office of Auditor and Grand Juror for a
number of years. He is Vice-President of the
National Bank of White River Junction. He
has been a liberal benefactor of his town, hav
ing founded its free library and reading room at
a cost of ten thousand dollars, and given
generously for the support of church wor
ship and charities. In recognition of his gifts
to Smith College for young women, at North
ampton, Massachusetts, one of its dormitories
bears the name of the "Morris House." Mr.
Morris married Almira M. Nickerson, of South
Dennis, Massachusetts, September 14, 1854.
They have two children, Mrs. Kate (Morris)
Cone, and Annie Louise Morris.

PAGE, Frank Wilfred, Physician, Water
bury, was born in East Wilton, New Hampshire,
August 24, 1843, son of Captain Lemuel W. and
Susan G. (Saunders) Page, and grandson of
Colonel Lemuel Page, who was one of the pio
neers and a prominent citizen of Burlington in
its early days ; commanded a company in the
War of 1812 ; and was subsequently Colonel of

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

the First Regiment, Second Brigade, Second
Division, of Vermont Militia. Doctor Page
fitted for College at the Union High School in
Burlington, where his parents resided for many

frank w. page.
years. He entered the University of Vermont
in i860, and graduated with credit in 1864 ; the
degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon
him in i86g. Selecting the profession of medi
cine for his life work, he commenced medical
studies in 1863, under Doctors Samuel W.
Thayer and Walter Carpenter ; continued them
through three preliminary and two regular
courses in the Medical Department of the Uni
versity of Vermont, and a course in the College
of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, and
graduated from the Medical Department of the
University of Vermont in 1866. He commenced
practice in St. Peter, Minnesota, but returned to
Vermont in 1867, and having associated him
self with Doctor O. G. Dyer, in Brandon,
he remained there in successful practice until
May, 1878, when he was appointed First
Assistant Physician to the McLean Asylum
for the Insane, in Somerville, Massachusetts.
He was advanced to the Superintendency of
that institution in the following year. In

1880, he was appointed Superintendent and
Resident Phy.sician of the Adams Nervine Asy
lum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, and
remained in that position for five and one-half
years. In 1885, he established himself in active
practice, having especial relation to nervous and
mental diseases, in Boston, Massachusetts,
holding at the same time the following offices :
Consulting Physician, Adams Nervine Asylum
1885-1897 ; Consulting Physician, Danvers
Hospital for the Insane, 1888-1897, and Gynse-
ologist to St. Elizabeth's Hospital, 1885-1888.
Doctor Page's eminence as a specialist in mental
diseases attracted the attention of the Trustees
of the Vermont State Asylum for the Insane at
Waterbury, when, in the fall of i8g6, it became
necessary to select a new Superintendent for
that institution. He was tendered that position,
and accepted it January i, i8g7. He reorgan
ized the institution, having upwards of five hun
dred patients, and has managed it with increas
ing success to the present time. In addition to
his specialty Doctor Page has had large experi
ence in the general practice of medicine and
surgery. He has been a member of the Massa
chusetts Medical Society and of several Boston
societies. In 1898 he was appointed Professor
of Mental Diseases in the University of Vermont
and holds that position at the present time.
His writings have been chiefly confined to
medical subjects. He married, August, 1870,
Miss Annah Amelia, daughter of Doctor O. G.
Dyer of Brandon, Vermont. She died in Sep
tember, 1892.

PAGE, John Boardman, was born at Rut
land, Vermont, February 25, 1826, son of
William Page and Cynthia Amanda Hickok.
The grandfather of the subject of this sketch
was Dr. William Page, son of John and Hannah
(Robbins) Page, of New Fairfield, Connecticut,
who lived in Charlestown, New Hampshire.
He was a prominent citizen of that town, having
twice represented it in the Vermont Assembly,
when Charlestown was a part of Vermont, and
four times in the New Hampshire Legislature.
He served as Surgeon of the New Hampshire

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12 I

regiment, of the Revolutionary Army, of which
Daniel Reynolds was Colonel. He built the
canal at Bellows Falls. He married Chloe
Todd, of whom was born, September 2, 1779,
William Page. The latter entered Yale College
at the age of thirteen, graduated in due course,
and assisted his father as Assistant Engineer in
the construction of the Bellows Falls Canal.
He removed thence to Rutland, where he
resided from 1806 to his death in 1850. He
was Cashier of the first bank of Rutland, organ
ized under the state laws. He was also a
Deacon of the Congregational Church and a

JOHN B. page.
public spirited citizen, and he had to a remark
able degree the confidence and respect of his
fellow townsmen. His son, John Boardman
Page, was educated in the public schools in
Rutland and at Burr and Burton Seminary, Man
chester, Vermont. At the age of sixteen he
entered the employ of the Bank of Rutland and
when his father resigned the Cashiership on
account of advancing years, John B. Page was
appointed Cashier. He was elected President
of the Bank in 1861 and continued as such after
its reorganization as the National Bank of Rut
land. Mr. Page's remarkable business capacity

was early recognized and he became prominently
connected with various important railroad and
business enterprises. He was Trustee of the
Rutland & Burlington Railroad Company till he
resigned this position in 1867, to become Presi
dent of the Rutland Railroad Company at the
date of its organization in July of that year.
He remained President of the Rutland Railroad
Company until August i, 1883. From 1873 to
i88i, he was President ofthe Continental Rail
way and Trust Company, organized to build the
New York, West Shore and Chicago Rail
road, afterwards known as the West Shore
Railroad. He was for many years a Direc
tor in the Champlain Transportation Com
pany, which controlled the Steam Navigation
of Lake Champlain, and was identified with the
project to connect the waters of the St. Law
rence and Lake Champlain by the Caughnawauga
Ship Canal. He was a Director of the Howe
Scale Company from 1869 to 1885, and, having
acquired a controlling interest in that corpora
tion, he removed the shops from Brandon to
Rutland in 1878. He was Treasurer ofthe Howe
Scale Company from 187610 1885, and a Director
of the Dorset Marble Company, 1871 to 1885.
Mr. Page was called to many civil offices of
responsibility and trust. Few men, if any, in
the history of Vermont, have held more, or
more important offices in civil life. He was
the first Treasurer of the village of Rutland ,
1848 to 1850, and a Trustee of the village in the
years 1849, i860, 1869, 1876 and 1877. He was
Treasurer of the Town of Rutland from 1849
to 1856. He was elected to the Legislature
in 1852, when he was twenty-six years of
age, and subsequently represented Rutland in
the House of Representatives in the years
1853, 1854 and 1880. During his last term
in that body he prepared and introduced a bill
reforming the tax laws of Vermont (then much
needing amendment) the main principles of which
were subsequently incorporated in the state
statutes. He was nominated for State Treas
urer, on the Republican ticket, in i860, and held
the office by successive re-elections for seven
years, covering the Civil War, and the most
important period in the financial history of the

MEN OF PROGRESS,

state. He disbursed during this period, on state
account, four million six hundred and thirty-
five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars,
principally for military expenses. He favored
and promoted much of the important military
legislation of that time, including the laws for
adding the state pay of seven dollars a month
to the Government pay of the soldiers, and the
law permitting soldiers to allot their pay so that
it could be drawn by the selectmen of their
respective towns for the support of their family
during their absence in the field. He was
appointed Allotment Commissioner for Vermont
by President Lincoln. His arduous and responsi
ble services as Treasurer were recognized by
the people in a call to the Chief Magistracy of
the state. He was elected Governor of Ver
mont in 1867, re-elected in 1868, by a larger
majority than had been given to any candidate
for that office up to that time. He was then
forty-one years of age and the youngest man
that ever held that office, being a few days
younger than Governor Van Ness was when the
latter was inaugurated. His administration was
a successful and honorable one. After retiring
from the Governorship he declined further
political office, with the exception of a term in
the Legislature. During the maturer years of
his life Governor Page had an important place
in the religious life of the community. Joining
the Congregational Church in 1858, he served
on several important committees of the church
and society. He was Chairman of the building
committee for the new Congregational church
on Court 'Street, Rutland. He was a Deacon of
the church for the last fourteen years of his life
and Superintendent of the Sunday-school for
twelve years. He served as a member of the
Prudential Committee, and as the Moderator of
the Society. He was strongly interested in
christian missions in foreign lands. He was a
corporate member of the American Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and
through his iristrumentality the annual meeting
of the board in 1874, was held in Rutland, the
only meeting of the board ever held in Ver
mont. The arrangements for this meeting and
for the accommodation of the large numbers of

persons from many states who attended it, were
conducted by Governor Page with extraordinary
energy and success. Moved by the appeal of
Joseph Neesima, he led the movement at that
meeting which culminated in the establishment
of the Christian College in Japan, of which
Neesima became the President. The power of
his personality was again strikingly shown at a
meeting of the board in Providence, Rhode
Island, in 1877, when he led a movement to
raise the debt of the board. The officers of the
board deemed the effort inexpedient at that
time, but he persisted and in a couple of hours
succeeded in raising forty-eight thousand dollars,
which covered the entire debt. One- fourth of
this amount was pledged by Vermonters, the
largest single pledge being Governor Page's,
for five thousand dollars. The scene during
the progress of the effort and upon the announce
ment that the debt of the board had been wiped
out, was one of the most impressive in the his
tory of the American Board, and Governor Page
held thereafter a high place in the regard of all
friends of Congregational Missions. Mr. Page
married Mary Ann Reynolds in Boston, June 14,
1848. She died May 15, 1872, at Nice, France.
Of this marriage were born four children : Susan
Reynolds, who died in infancy, William Rey
nolds, Edward Dimmock and Helen Louisa
Page, all now living. He was married a second
time, June g, 1875, to Harriet Ellen Smith, of
Winchester, New Hampshire. Their children
are: Catherine Rebecca, John Hickok, Henri
etta Richardson, and Margaret Ellen Page, all
living. He died October 24, 1885, and was
buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Rutland, which
he had largely helped to establish and adorn.
As will be seen from the facts stated, Governor
Page was a man of marked personality, of
remarkable energy and executive ability, and of
high traits of personal character. He had the
power of making and holding many friends, and
his name has an honored place in the history of
his state.

PECK, Oscar Waite, a leading Physician of
Winooski, was born in Montgomery, Vermont,
November 20, 1854, son of William and Olive C.

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(Graham) Peck. He is of Scotch and English Hospital and Consulting Physician to the Mary

ancestry. He received his education in the com
mon schools of his native town, in New Hampton
Institute and in Barre Academy. Having chosen

o. w. peck.
medicine as his profession, he entered the Medi
cal Department of the University of Vermont
from which he received his degree of M. D.,
July I, 1880. He at once located in Winooski,
Vermont, in which village he has won a lucrative
practice as a ph3fsician as well as general respect
and esteem as a citizen. Doctor Peck has taken
an active interest in public affairs and has been
particularly zealous in promoting the educational
interests ofthe community in which he lives. He
has been Superintendent of Schools and School
Trustee, having served in each capacity three
years, and he was President ofthe Board of Vil
lage Trustees for a similar period. He was
Assistant Surgeon in the Vermont National
Guard from 1880 to 1883 ; and from 1883 to
1884 was Surgeon in that organization. He was
State Senator from 1896 to 1898, and made a
creditable record as a Legislator, having served
as Chairman of the Railroad Committee and of
the Committee on the House of Correction. He
is Attending Surgeon to the Fanny Allen

Fletcher Hospital of Burlington. He was active
in the incorporation of the Grand Isle Railroad
Company, and was elected Director and Vice-
President of that company. He was appointed
Surgeon -General ofthe State of Vermont, June,
1898, by Governor Grout. Doctor Peck is a
member of the Vermont State Medical vSociety,
ofthe Burlington Clinical Society, and of other
medical organizations. He is a Free Mason,
being a member of Webster Lodge of Winooski,
and is an honorary member of Company M, of
the Vermont National Guard, of Burlington. He
was united in marriage with Carrie M. Blossom
on June 2, 1886 ; and a daughter, Mary Blossom
Peck has been born to them.

POTTER, Henry J., Physician. Bennington,
was born in Pownal, Bennington county, Ver
mont, July 13, 1828, son of Joseph and Sally
(Gardner) Potter. His grandfather was 2ara

henry j. potter.
Potter, and the maiden name of his grandmother
was Anna Walker. A great grandfather on his
mother's side, Joseph Walker, was an officer in
the Revolutionary War. His paternal grand
father and the Walkers were among the first

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settlers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and
were of English and Scotch descent. He received
his early education in the common schools of
Vermont, and at Bennington Academy, chose
to follow the medical profession, commenced
his special study therefor in 1848 and graduated
in 1851. He began his practice of medicine and
surgery at Bennington, where he has followed it
continuously ever since. Doctor Potter was a
member of the General Assembly of Vermont
from 1872 to 1874. For six years, from 1870 to
1876, he was connected with the School Board of
Bennington, and President of the board for two
years. He was Justice ofthe Peace for several
years, and has also held some other offices. He
was identified with the Vermont State Eclectic
Medical Society, was President two years and
Chairman of Board of Censors for past ten years,
the National Eclectic Medical Association, the
Union Medical Association of Massachusetts,
the American Association of Physicians and
Surgeons, and the New England Eclectic Medi
cal Association, Chairman of Board of Censors
and Second Vice-President. He has always
been a Republican. Doctor Potter was married
June 16, 1850, to Susan Gibson ; they have one
child living: Henry J. Potter, Jr., M, D., who
is practicing medicine and surgery at Benning
ton, Vermont.

QUllMBY, Lorenzo Kibling, Bank President
and Merchant, Lyndon, was born in that town,
in Caledonia county, Vermont, August 17, 1832,
son of True and Caroline (Kibling) Quinby. His
father spelled the name with an "n" instead of
"m," that being the original form. His pater
nal ancestors were English, and settled in New
Hampshire in the early days of settlement of
the state. Came to Vermont 1813. His mother's
people came here from Holland early in the last
century. Mr. Quimby was educated at Lyndon
Academy. He was brought up on a farm, and
when nineteen years old was employed as clerk
with a merchant in Boston, but his health being
poor he returned to Vermont some two years
later. Subsequently he engaged in the hard
ware and manufacturing business, which he

developed successfully until it extended over
the New England and Western States, and
Canada. He conducted several stores, buying
and selling different lines of goods and products,
until about 1885, when he sold out. Since that
time he has devoted his attention to his real
estate and manufacturing interests in the South
and East. Mr. Quiniby has been a Director of
the National Bank of Lyndon since 1868, was
elected its President in 1882, and now holds
that position. He has been identified with the

L. K. QUIMBY.
Tredegar National Bank, of Jacksonville, Ala
bama, since its organization in 1889, and in 1895
was elected a Director ofthe Merchants National
Bank, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He was also
Trustee of the Lyndonville Savings Bank for
several years. In politics he is a Republican,
and has several times declined honors within
the gift of his party. He was married in Decem
ber, 1857, to Sarah M. Eaton, who died twenty
years later, in 1878, and he subsequently married
C. Elizabeth Paine, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
He has two children by the first marriage : Wil
liam L. and Nellie S. Quimby. William L.
being a lawyer in Boston at the present time.

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RICH, William B., Dentist, Burlington, son
of William H. and Lizzie (Timothy) Rich, was
born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, April 13, 1868.
On his mother's side he traces his ancestry to

w. B. rich.
Washington Irving. He obtained his education
in the public schools of Pittsfield. He was
shipping clerk in a mercantile house for a short
time, and later, after a course of study, took up
the practice of dentistry at Vergennes in March,
iSgo, remaining there until April, 1895, when
he located at Burlington. He has held the
office of corporal in Company M, Vermont
National Guard, has been a Captain of the Sons
of Veterans organization at Vergennes, Ver
mont ; also been Division Inspector of the Sons
of Veterans, and Vice-President of the Sex
ennial League, a fraternal and insurance asso
ciation ; also Deputy Supreme President of the
same. In politics he is a Republican. Doctor
Rich married Prudence H. Benson of Shelburne
Falls, Massachusetts, November 16, 1891. They
have three children : William Nelson, Irving
Benson and Harry Walter Rich.

mont, November 1 1, 1839, sou of William Young
and Jane B. (Warren) Ripley. He is descended,
on his father's side, from the Josiah Ripley who
married, in 16S2, Anne, the daughter of William
Bradford, Junior Deputy Governor of Plymouth
Colony, and granddaughter of Governor Brad
ford of that colony. He traces back also to tl:e
William Ripley who came to Plymouth Colony
in 1638, and went to Hingham, Massachusetts.
On the mother's side his ancestry runs back to
John Warren, who came from England in 1630,
and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. Sibyl
Huntington, the grandmother of the subject of
this sketch, was born in Windham, Connecticut,
in 1768, and was the granddaughter of Major
Hezekiah Huntington of the Connecticut troops
in the Revolution, who, at the request of Con
gress, opened a manufactory of arms, and who
claimed that he was the first man in America to
make a gun. Mr. Ripley's early education was
imparted by a governess in his father's family.
Afterward he attended Troy Conference Acad-

EDWARD H. RIPLEY.

RIPLEY, Edward Hastings, Rutland, was
born in Centre Rutland, Rutland county, Ver-

emy, and was then for two years in the family
of the Professor of Latin in Union College, pre
paring to take a collegiate course. He entered

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the classical department of L'nion College in
1S5S, leaving before the close of the senior
j-ear to enter the army. The college bestowed
on him the degree af A. B., "Exempla Gratiae,''
for having chosen the better part in such stormj'
times. He served for three years in the armj^
from 1S62 to 1865, and made a most creditable
record. Enlisting as a private soldier in Mav,
1S62, he was soon elected Captain of Company
B, Ninth Vermont Volunteers: was promoted
Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and, in June, 1S63,
Colonel, and brevetted Brigadier-General United
States Volunteers, August i, 1S64. He was cap
tured with the regiment at Harper's Ferr}- in
September, 1S62, and was wounded twice slightlj-
at the assault on Fort Harrison, in September,
1864, while in command of the Second Brigade,
Second Division, Eighteenth Arm3- Corps, Armj-
of the James. He was in command of the First
Brigade of Deven's Division, Twenty-fourth
Army Corps, at the capture of Richmond. This
Brigade he led first over the enemy's works,
and it was also the first to enter Richmond,
where he was assigned to the command of the
city, on the portico ofthe rebel capitol; he put
out the fires, saved the cit}', restored order and
held the command until it was turned over to
the authorities. At the close of the war.
General Riplej' succeeded, with his brothers, to
the wholesale marble business of his father,
quarrj'ing and sawing Vermont marble. Later
he engaged in steamship and railroad enter
prises in New York, and still later retired from
active business. He was for many years Vice-
President of the Rutland County National Bank,
and was the first President of the Marble Savings
Bank of Rutland. He has never entered politi
cal life, except to represent the town of Mendoii
at one session of the State Legislature. He is
a member of the Union League Club, of New
York, and also ofthe University Club, is Vice-
President of the Army and Navy Club, the
Riding Club and the New England Society, of
the same city. In his politics he is a Repub
lican. On Ma}- 23, 1878, he married Amelia
Dikeman Van Doren, of New York; the}' have
two children: Alice Van Doren and Amelia
Sibj'l Huntington Ripley.

ROSS. Jonathan, Lawyer, St. Johnsbury, was
born in Waterford, Vermont, April 30, 1S26, son
of Roj-al and Eliza • Mason) Ross. Jonathan
Ross, paternal grandfather of Judge Ross, moved
to Waterford from Massachusetts in or about the
jear 1795. He cleared away the forest and culti
vated a farm on which he supported himself, wife
and family of six children, of whom Royal, the
father of the subject of this sketch, was the second
son. Jonathan Ross received the excellent edu
cation ordinarily imparted in the common schools
of Vermont, and fitted for college in the St. Johns-
bur v Academv. He matriculated at Dartmouth

JONATH.\N ROSS.
College in 1S47 and graduated from that institution
in 1S51. Up to the close of his twenty-first year
he had a practical knowledge of labor on his
father's farm. His summers were occupied in the
cultivation of its acres and his winters, between
the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, in teaching
in the public schools of \'ermont. New Hampshire
and Massachusetts. In this pursuit he achieved
decided success. After graduating from college
he taught in Craftsbury and was Principal of the
academy at Chelsea for sometime. While residing
in the latter town he entered the office of Judge
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admitted to the Bar of Orange county, January
18, 1856. In 1856 Mr. Ross formed a partner
ship with A. J. Willard, Esq., of St. Johnsburv;
which continued two years. At the conclusion of
that period he practiced by himself until 1S65,
when he became associated with G. A. Burbank,
Esq. This connection lasted for twelve months,
and it was succeeded by a partnership with Mr.
W. P. Smith. The latter relation existed until
the following year when Mr. Ross was elected a
Judge ofthe Supreme Court of Vermont. Judge
Ross has taken an active and influential part in
the public affairs of Vermont. From 1858 to 1868
he was Treasurer of the Passumpsic Savings
Bank, and under his judicial management the
institution never lost a dollar. In 1862-63 he was
State's Attorney for Caledonia county. In 1865,
1866 and 1867 he was sent to the Legislature as
the Representative of St. Johnsbur}', and he
served efficiently on the Judiciary and other com
mittees. He was for some years before 1870 an
active and influential member of the State Board
of Education. In 1869 he was a member of the
last Council of Censors held in the state. In 1870
he was elected to the State Senate, and in the
same year he was elected sixth As.sistant Judge of
the Supreme Court. In 1890 he was elected Chief
Judge of the Supreme Court, which position he
has continued to fill worthily up to the present
time. Mr. Ross was united in marriage on
November 22, 1852, with Eliza Ann, daughter of
Isaiah and Caroline (Bugbee) Carpenter. Eight
children were born to them: Caroline C; Eliza
beth; Helen (deceased) ; Julia (Mrs. Dr. Aldrich,
of Somerville, Massachusetts) ; Martha, (Mrs.
John W. Titcomb); Edith, (Mrs. Charles W.
Braley; Edward Harlan, and Jonathan C. Ross.
Mrs. Ross, who was a sister of Judge Alonzo P.
Carpenter ofthe New Hampshire Supreme Court,
died some years since, and Judge Ross married
for his second wife. Miss Helen Daggett.

Connecticut. His ancestors on the mother's
side came from Holland. His later progenitors
emigrated from Fairfield, Connecticut, to Fair
field, Vermont, among the earliest settlers in
that town. His grandfather. Dyer Sherwood,
served in the Revolutionary Army for four
years, and was at Valley Forge with General
Washington, and was also at Yorktown when
Lord Cornwallis surrendered. He also served
in the war of 1812 with three of his sons.
Fourteen grandsons of Dyer Sherwood served in
the War for the Union. The subject of this
sketch obtained his early education in the public

SHERWOOD, Ralph, Physician, St. Albans,
son of Jonathanand Laura (Sturtevant) Sherwood ,
was born in Fairfield, Vermont, December 23,
1 84 1. His early ancestors on the father's side
came from England, and settled in Fairfield,

RALPH SHERWOOD.
schoolsof Fairfield, and at Bakersfield Academy,
Bakersfield, Vermont. Selecting the study of
medicine as a profession, he entered the Cleve
land, Ohio, Medical College in 1858, and was
pursuing his studies when the civil war broke
out. In April, 1861, he enlisted as a private
and served three months with the Ohio Volun
teers ; returning to Vermont he continued the
study of medicine in the office of Doctor J. O.
Cramton of Fairfield, Vermont, graduating at
the Berkshire Medical College at Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, in 1862. In September, 1862,
he enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Vermont

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Regiment. He was detailed to the regimental
hospital and was on November 26, 1862,
appointed Acting Assistant Surgeon, and was on
detached duty from that time until ordered to
return to his regiment in June, while they were
on the march to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and
was present at that battle during the second and
third days, and helped to care for the wounded.
Doctor Sherwood commenced the practice of his
profession in Fairfield, Vermont, (his native
town) remaining there until December, 1879,
when he removed to St. Albans, Vermont,
where he has built up a large and successful
practice. He is a member of the Vermont State
Medical Society, the Franklin County Medical
Society, and the St. Albans Medical Association,
and has been President of the two latter socie
ties. He is at the present time a member of
the Hospital Staff of the St. Albans Hospital.
He is a member of the Masonic Fraternity, has
been Chancellor Commander of Unity Lodge,
Knights of Pythias. He has been Commander
of A. R. Hurlburt Post, No. 60, Grand Army of
the Republic, of St. Albans, Vermont, and Med
ical Director of the Department of Vermont,
Grand Army of the Republic, and is at the
present time a member of the City Council.
Doctor Sherwood represented Fairfield in the
Vermont Legislature in 1876-77, and has been
United States Pension Examining Surgeon ten
years. He is a Democrat and has been honored
by his party by being nominated for Lieutenant-
Governor of Vermont, and twice for the State
Senate. Doctor Sherwood was married in 1879
to Miss Elizebeth B. Thayer, from whom he was
divorced. He was married a second time in
1892 to Mrs. Ida Willey, with whom he is living
at the present time.

SOWLES, Edward Adams, Attorney, St.
Albans, was born in Alburgh, Grand Isle county,
Vermont, October 23, 1831, and was the son of
Hon. WilHam L. and Emily (Adams) Sowles.
His father was a descendant of George Soule, one
ofthe passengers on the Mayflower. His mother
was a daughter of Joseph Adams, who was born
in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1756, a descendant of

the grandfather of the Presidents of that name;
he belonged to the Eighth Connecticut Regiment,
under General Israel Putnam, in the War of the
Revolution. Mr. Sowles' early education was
obtained in the district schools of his native town
and the Franklin County Grammar School at St.
Albans. He graduated from the University of
Vermont in 1857, taking the degrees in course.
He graduated from the Law School at Albany,
New York, the following year, being admitted to
the Bar of that state, and shortly afterward to
the Vermont Bar, and aftervi'ards to the United
States Supreme Court on motion of Hon. Mat.
Carpenter. He received a thorough commercial

EDWARD A. SOWLES.
training before going to college, and after gradua
tion from the Law School entered on the practice
ofhis profession at St. Albans in company with
Hon. William W. White, where he enjoyed a
lucrative business until his partner died in 1862,
leaving him with a large clientage. In 1864 he
was engaged in banking with his uncle, the late
Hon. Hiram Bellows, but lost his property by
the so-called St. Albans Rebel Raid on October
19 of that year, when all the banks in town were
plundered by a rebel expedition organized in
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from which they never fully recovered. After
committing many depredations in St. Albans,
the raiders beat a hasty retreat. As attorney fOr
the banks and for the United States government
in the pursuit of the fugitives and the partial
recovery of the money stolen, Mr. Sowles made
extensive acquaintance both in this country and
in Canada. He was concerned in proceedings
for extradition and in the prosecution of the
claims before the American and British Claims
Commis.sion, under the treaty of Washington and
the Congress of the United States, and secured
large sums. He has practiced his profession in
the State courts, and in the Federal courts, with
marked success, as shown by the reported cases.
He has long been a Trustee of the Franklin
County Grammar School, and has held many
town offices. He is a Republican, and was
elected Senator from his county in 1876, serving
on the Judiciary and Claims Committees with
much ability. During his stay at the Capital that
fall he delivered an address before the Vermont
Historical Society, of which he was Vice-Presi
dent, on the St. Albans Raid, which attracted
much attention. Mr. Sowles has now prepared
for publication an extensive history of Abraham
Lincoln's assassination conspirators, in which he
shows the St. Albans raid to have been a branch
of that great conspiracy. He has also written
much local hi.story that is yet unpublished. He
married Margaret B. Weeks, May 21, 1863, and
they have one child: Susan Bellows Sowles. The
subject of this sketch has had a somewhat busy
life, owing to the fact that he was the executor of
the wills of his wife's father and mother, who left
large bequests for public schools, and many
private legacies, in the distribution' of which he
has been met by protracted litigation, but has
been remarkably successful. He has been indus
trious in the face of many obstacles and some
disappointments. On the whole, his career has
been a prosperous one, and as a lawyer he has
held high rank in the State.

banks) Stone. Sarah Fairbanks was the daughter
of Erastus Fairbanks, one ofthe founders of the
well known scale company, E. and T. Fairbanks
& Company, and Governor of Vermont in 1852
and i860. C. M. Stone entered the office of the
St. Johnsbury Caledonian when sixteen years of
age, and in 1857, when only twenty-four years
old, he purchased the paper, remaining its sole
editor for the next thirty-two years. The subject
of this sketch received his early education in
private and public schools and graduated from
the St. Johnsbury Academy in 188 1. He then
entered Amherst College, from which he gradu
ated in the class of 1885. He was a member of
Phi Beta Kappa and of the Amherst Chapter of

STONE, Arthur Fairbanks, Editor, St.
Johnsbury, was born in that town February 18,
1863, son of Charles Marshall and Saraji (Fair-

A. F. STONE.
Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He was a reporter on
the Northampton Daily Herald from 1885 to
1888, and for the next year he was on the staff of
the Evening News of Fall River, Massachusetts.
He returned to St. Johnsbury in 1889 and
bought a half interest in the St. Johnsbury
Caledonian. After his father's death in March,
1890, he had entire charge of the Caledonian
until March, 1898, when he took a half interest
with Mr. J. W. Sault in the Caledonian Com
pany. After a few months Mr. Sault disposed of

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his interest to Mr. Stone who has since conducted
the paper. In 1891 Mr. Stone published "St.
Johnsbury Illustrated," a handsome illustrated
work and one of the first of its kind produced in
Vermont; Mr. Stone has taken an active part
in politics as well as in the promotion of the
varied interests of his town. He has been Village
Clerk for the past five years. He was elected
Town School Director for three years in March,
i8g8, and he was member of the State Republican
Committee from 1894 to 1896. He is President
of the St. Johnsbury Board of Trade; Clerk of
the North Congregational Church, and Vice-
President of the Vermont International Telegraph
Company. On January i, 1890, he married
Helen Lincoln of Northampton, Massachusetts.
They have one daughter, Edith L., aged six;
and one son, Robert L. Stone, aged two. One
son, Harold, died August 17, 1895, aged thirteen
and one-half months.

STRANAHAN, Farrand Stewart, Lieu
tenant-Governor, St. Albans, was born in New
York city, February 3, 1842, son of Farrand
Stewart and Mary Caroline (Curtis) Stranahan.
He was educated in the public schools of the
metropolis, and in 1859 ^e came to Vermont.
He was made Paymaster on the Central Vermont
Railroad in 1865, but in 1867 he engaged in
business in St. Albans, which occupied his atten
tion until 1 87 1. At the close of the period
named he was appointed Treasurer of the
National Car Company, which position he .still
retains. In 1886 he became Cashier of the
Weldon National Bank of St. Albans, of which
he was made Vice-President in i8g2. Mr.
Stranahan is also a Director of the Central Ver
mont and of the Ogdensburg and Lake Cham
plain Railroad companies, and is Vice-President
of the Missisquoi Railroad company. Mr.
Stranahan is a Republican in politics, and he
has been signally honored by his party. He
represented his town in the Legislature in 1884,
and he has also served as Trustee of the village
of St. Albans. In 1888 he was elected State
Senator ; he was Trustee of the Vermont Reform
School from 1888 to i8g2, and in the year fast

named he was elected Lieutenant-Governor of
Vermont. Mr Stranahan enlisted in the United
States army in August, 1862, and was succes
sively promoted from the grade of First Sergeant
to the rank of Second and First Lieutenant of
Company L., First Vermont Cavalry. He shared
in all of the battles in which his regiment par
ticipated until the winter of 1864, when he was
appointed Aid-de-Camp on the staff of General

F. S. STRANAHAN.
George A. Custer. He served in every engage
ment in which that brilliant commander took
part until September, 1864, when he received
an honorable discharge and returned to his
home. He is a member of A. R. Hurlbut Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, of which he has
been Commander, and he is also enrolled in the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion. Mr. Stran
ahan was united in marriage, August 26, 1862,
with Miranda Aldis, daughter of Hon. Lawrence
and Fidelia (Gadcomb) Brainerd, from which
alliance two children were born : Mabel Fidelia
(deceased), and Farrand Stewart Stranahan.

TAFT, RusseleS., Lawyer, Burlington, was
born in Williston, Vermont, January 28, 1835.
He removed to Burlington in 1853, where he

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131

resided until May, 1881. He then returned to
Williston, remaining until 1891, and is now
residing in Burlington. He was educated in the
common schools and in different academies. He

\

RUSSELL S. TAFT.
chose law as his profession, was admitted to the
Bar of Chittenden county in November, 1856.
He was a Selectman of the town of Burlington
from 1 86 1 to 1864, and an Alderman of the city
of Burlington from 1865 to 1869. He was State's
Attorney for Chittenden county from 1862 to
1865; a State Senator from the same county in
1865 and 1866; City Attorney for the city of
Burlington in 1871 and 1872; Register of the
Probate Court in the district of Chittenden from
1863 to 1880; and Lieutenant-Governor of the
State in 1872-4. In 1880 he represented the city
of Burlington in the Legislature and was elected
Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court. He has
since been bi-ennially re-elected and since 1890
has been first Assistant Judge of the Supreme
Court. Judge Taft is especially conversant with
Vermont decisions, and in disposing of cases is
much more inclined to apply to them the law as
it is in Vermont than the law as it may be in
other jurisdictions. He is of literary tastes, a
collector of early specimens of the art of printing.

interested in historical matters, a Vice-President
of the Antiquarian Societj' of Vermont, in the
organization of which he took an active part; and
a resident member of the New England Historic
Genealogical Society. He married, June 27, 1876,
Jane Marlette, a native of Illinois, a descendant
of the French Huguenot, Gedeau Marlett, a
Staten Island immigrant of 1673, and has one
son, Russell Wales Taft, born May 4, 1878, a
graduate of the University of Vermont.

THOMPSON, Laforrest Holman, Lawyer,
Irasbugh, was born in Bakersfield, January 6,
1848, son of Levi S. and Irene (Hodgkins)
Thompson. His father removed from Bakers
field to Cambridge about 1855, and remained
there one year, after which he moved to Potton,
Canada, where Laforrest's mother died. The
boy worked on the farm until 1865, having scant
schooling outside of reading and studying by

L, H. THOMPSON.
himself. From 1865 he attended the Grammar
school (now the Normal school) at Johnson, and
Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New
Hampshire, devoting a portion of the time to
teaching. In i86g he was fitted for college, bnt

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his health was not such as to permit him to enter
and he taught at Craftsbury and Irasburgh. He
at the same time studied law by himself, never
having entered as a student in the office of an
attorney. In March, 1871, he was admitted to
the Bar of Orleans county, and at once began
the practice of law at Irasburgh. He has always
been an indefatigable worker and he soon fought
his way to the front rank of his profession. In
1874 he was elected State's Attorney, and from
1876 to 188 1 he was Judge of Probate, a position
which he was compelled to resign in the last
named year in order to attend to his fast growing
law practice. In 1880 Judge Thompson repre
sented his town in the Legislature, and he was
re-elected in 1882, serving during the latter terra
as Chairman ofthe Judiciary Committee. In
1884 he was Senator from Orleans county, and
wa.s Fresident pro Umpore of the SensLte. In i8go
he was again elected to the House and he was
again Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
At that session of the Legislature he was elected
sixth Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court of
Vermont, a position which he still continues to
fill with distinguished ability. Judge Thomp
son's election brought to judicial service at the
same time the ardent student and the man of
affairs, who could give the right reason for the
right decision. He was united in marriage,
August 24, i86g, with Mary Eliza, daughter of
Hon. A. P. Dutton of Craftsbury, who bore him
four children: Margaret E., born March 2g,
1871; Mary I., born September 28, 1873, died
March 5, i88g; Frank D., born April g, 1876;
Helen M. Thompson, born September 2, 1878.
Mrs. Thompson died March 2g, 1881, and Judge
Thompson afterward married Helen C. Kinney,
daughter of Hammond Kinney, of Craftsbury,
by whom he also has children: Grace A., born
June 21, 1882, died November 8, 1883; Philip
L., born July 13, 1885, and Sidney H. Thomp
son, born March 29, 1887.

WILLIAMS, Nathaniel Gallup, Manufac
turer, Bellows Falls, son of Giles and Fannie
Maria (Gallup) Williams, was born in Pomfret,
Windham county, Connecticut, October 31,

1844. He is a descendant of Richard Williams,
the founder of Taunton, Massachusetts. Richard
Williams was a descendant of the Cromwells.
On his mother's side, Mr. Williams' ancestry
can be traced to Charlemagne and to five of the
French Kings. His great-great-grandfather, an
officer in the English army, held one thousand
acres of land in New London county, Connecti
cut, a grant from the English government,
nearly three hundred acres of which are still in
the family. He was educated in the public
schools of Worcester, Massachusetts, and at
eighteen years of age taught a district school.

N. G. WILLIAMS.
He then, in 1863, entered the employ of the
Commercial Steamboat Company, running from
Providence, Rhode Island, to New York. He
remained with this company and their suc
cessor, the Neptune Steamship Company, for
three years, until appointed bookkeeper in the
Blackstone Canal National Bank. A year later
he was appointed Teller of the Bank, which
position he held until 1872, when he went into
the mercantile business in St. Louis, Missouri.
Owing to the ill health of his wife and child,
he was compelled to go farther North, and
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business in Chicago, Illinois. He was called
from there in March, 1877, to accept the
Treasurership of the Vermont Farm Machine
Company, of Bellows Falls, Vermont. During
the same year he was elected Vice-President
and soon after Manager of the Company. At
the present time he holds the offices of Secre
tary, Treasurer and Manager. At the time Mr.
Williams was elected Manager, the Company
was doing a very small business, and was in a
bankrupt condition. By dint of hard work he
brought it out of that condition and has made
it one of the leading, if not the leading, manu
factory of dairy and maple sugar implements in
the United States. It occupies a building three
hundred and fifty-five by sixty feet in size,
four stories high at one end, and three stories
high at the other. The company employs
nearly two hundred hands and keeps from
fifteen to twenty travelling men on the road.
They manufacture a full line of dairy goods,
including the Cooley Creamer, which became
the most famous gravity process ever discov
ered for raising cream from milk; and the
Improved United States Centrifugal Cream
Separator, which is conceded to be the best of
its class. For twelve or fifteen years he has
been a member of the Prudential Committee
and School Director of Rockingham, Vermont.
Superintendent of the First Congregational
Church Sunday School since 1 881, and still in
that office. Was President of the State Con
vention of Congregational Churches and Minis
ters of Vermont in 1897. Was Chairman of
the Executive Committee of the Vermont
Commissioners to the Tennessee Centennial
Exposition at Nashville, 1897. He has had
no time for politics, except to aid in the
election of the best men to office. Mr.
Williams was married, October 4, 1871, to
Sarah Phillips, daughter of Harry Phillips
Carr, a Commander in the United States Navy,
who died at Newbern, North Carolina, during
the Civil War, in 1863. Three children were
born to them: Charles Earnest, born at St.
Louis in 1874, who died of diphtheria in 1882;
Elizabeth Carr, born at Albia, Iowa, in 1876;
and Genevieve Williams, born at Bellows

Falls, Vermont, in 1879. Thefirst Mrs. Williams
died in October, 1884, and January 28, 1886,
Mr. Williams married Mrs. Emily Frances
Smith, of Providence, Rhode Island, who had
two sons, Walter Cole Smith and Nathaniel
Waite Smith Williams.

BAKER, Joel Clarke, Lawyer, Rutland,
was born in Danby, Vermont, April 16, 183S,
son of Edia and Seleucia A. (Davenport) Baker.
He is of Scotch ancestry, and he seems to have
inherited a goodly share of the sterling char
acter and sturdy independence of his Scottish
progenitors. He received his early education

JOEL C BAKER.
in the public schools of Danby and Wallingford,
and in 1858 he began the study of Latin and
Greek under Philip H. Emerson, and continued
under his instruction for two years. In 1859 he
commenced the study of law in the office of
Spencer Green of Danby, but he subsequently
changed to the office of David E. Nicholson of
Wallingford, where he remained until 1862,
when he was admitted to the Bar of Rutland
county. In 1862 he enlisted as a private in
Company B, Ninth Regiment Vermont Volun
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Sergeant, but before his discharge he was pro
moted successively to the grades of First Ser
geant, Second and First Lieutenant, and Captain.
At the surrender of Harper's Ferry he was sent
as a paroled prisoner to Camp Douglas at
Chicago, where he remained until his exchange,
January 9, 1863; and he afterwards served as
guard over five or six thousand rebel prisoners.
He later returned to the front, where he partic
ipated in many battles and skirmishes, and he
was with the Army of the James in the engage
ments at Chapin's Farm and Fair Oaks and in
the capture of Richmond. He was among the
first to enter the city and he pulled down with
his own hands the rebel flag which he found
flying over the residence of Jefferson Davis,
and which he took away with him. While he
was in North Carolina, Congress organized
provost courts in which he had considerable
practice. After his return from the war he
practiced his profession in Wallingford until
1868, when he removed to Rutland, his present
place of residence. He has attained a high
place as a lawyer in both civil and criminal
practice, and he has conducted a number of
cases of notable importance in Rutland and
Bennington counties as well as in the Fourth
Judicial District of New York and before the
United States Circuit and Supreme Courts. He
has important real estate interests in Rutland,
and he has been a Director in the Clement
National Bank, the Howe Scale Company and
the P. E. Chase Manufacturing Corporation.
He was editor of the Rutland Herald from 1869
to 1873. He has held the position of Superin
tendent of Schools and Grand Juror in the
towns of Wallingford and Rutland, and he has
been Register of Probate and Deputy County
Clerk. In politics he is a Republican, and in
1886 he was State Senator, serving on the Com
mittees on the Judiciary, Railways and the
Insane. He was County Auditor two years and
he has also served as City Attorney. Mr.
Baker is a Free Mason, having been Junior and
Senior Warden of Chipman Lodge, No. 52, with
which he first affiliated, and he is now a member
of Center Lodge, No. 34. He also belongs to
the Rutland Royal Arcanum, and the Benevo

lent Order of Elks, and he is actively interested
in the Young Men's Christian Association of
this city. He is a companion of the Military
Order of the Loyal Legion, and a comrade of
the Grand Army of the Republic. In his reli
gious preference he is an Episcopalian. He
married October 8, 1866, Ada O., daughter of
Luther P and Mary A. (Rounds) Howe, of
Mount Tabor, and one daughter, Mabel Baker,
is the fruit of their union.

BUCKHAM, Matthew Henry, President of
the University of Vermont from 1871 to date, was
born at Hincklc}', Leicestershire, England, July
4, 1832. His father, the Reverend James Buck-

M. H. BUCKHAM.
ham, was an independent clergyman of Scotch
descent who, after a ministry of fourteen years in
England came in 183410 this country, and there
after as preacher or teacher, continued in active
service in Vermont, Connecticut, and Canada,
until his retirement in 1863. President Buck-
ham's mother was Margaret Barmby, of Yorkshire
parentage. His preparatory studies were mainly
directed by his father, who was an accurate
classical scholar. He obtained his bachelor's

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degree at the University of Vermont in 1851, at
the age of nineteen, receiving the highest honors
ofhis class, and the next two years served as
principal ofthe Lenox, Massachusetts, Academy.
After a year's experience as tutor in languages at
his Alma Mater, he went abroad for study and
travel, and spent the years 1854-6 mainly in
England and Germany. Upon his return he was
made Profesor of Greek, a position which he
retained until his promotion to the Presidency in
1871, acting also as Professor of Rhetoric and
English Literature in 1856-57 and 1863-71. At
the date last named he assumed the duties of the
chair of Political and Social Science. His active
interest in popular education is attested by his
service as Town Superintendent and Cit}' School
Commissioner, as also by his membership in the
Vermont State Board of Education from 1867 to
1874. In 1876 he was a member of the Board of
Examiners at the United States Military Acad
emy at West Point. His publications have been
chiefly baccalaureate and other sermons and
educational addresses, with an occasional maga
zine article. Mr. Buckham's presidency of the
University of Vermont is not only by far the
longest in the history of the institution, but has
embraced the period of greatest expansion, both
as to numbers and facilities. During his adminis
tration the main college edifice has been recon
structed, a new building for the Medical College
purchased and fitted up, a building and plant for
the department of Mechanical Engineering added,
the Billings Library, Converse Dormitory, and
Williams Science Hall, three structures of unsur
passed beauty and fitness for their uses, erected ;
dormitory for young women students added ; an
agricultural experiment farm purchased and
necessary buildings put up, and three houses pro
vided for Professors' residences. Additional
professorships have been endowed, the library
funds increased and library greatly augmented ;
laboratory facilities multiplied, additional courses
and the elective system of studies introduced, and
the work of the Experiment Station much
extended. The number of academical and
scientific students has risen from sixty-seven in
1871 to two hundred and ninety -seven in 1897 ;
of medical students from forty-eight to two

hundred and thirty-eight. The teaching staff
has been increased from a total of fourteen in
1 87 1 to fifty-three in 1897, gains which indicate a
well-founded confidence in the wisdom and pru
dence or President Buckham's leadership. Mr.
Buckhani has an enviable reputation in Vermont
and adjoining states as thinker and speaker on
religious, educational, and social topics. He is
master of a singularly lucid style, sententious and
forcible, but never attracting attention to itself.
In the development of his thought he is logical
and progressive. His rank as scholar and as
thinker had fitting recognition in 1877 in the
bestowal of the degree of Doctor of Divinity by
both Dartmouth and Hamilton Colleges. Mr.
Buckhani has been twice married : first, Decem
ber 3, 1857, to Miss Elizabeth Wright of Shore-
ham, Vermont. Of their four sons, the eldest,
James, is a journalist ; John Wright is a clergy
man ; Robert Barmby is a lawyer ; and Charles
Wyman is an architect. A daughter, Mary, is
married and resides in Chicago. Mr. Buckham
married for his second wife, September, 1897,
Martha G. Tyler, a daughter of the Reverend
Josiah Tyler, D. D., a missionary among the
Zulus, 1849-89, and later of St. Johnsbury, Ver
mont. BUTTERFIELD, Alfred Haryey, of North
Troy, was born in Lowell, Vermont, September
5, 1857. son of Nathan S. and Mary (Hatch)
Butterfield. Mr. Butterfield is of the eighth
generation in lineal descent from Benjamin
Butterfield, a native of England, who was the
first of Ihe name to settle in America; and he
comes of Revolutionary ancestry ou both sides.
His great grandfather, John Hatch, was a Lieu
tenant in the United States Army in the War of
i8t2. John Taylor, the father of his maternal
grandmother, was a Customs Officer at Peacham,
Vermont, in the early part of the century and
came from the branch of the family that gave
to the country a President of the United
States. The subject of this sketch received his
education in the public schools and in the acad
emy at Waterbury. He resided in Burlington
for several years, but he moved to North Troy
in 1878 and became master of the printer's trade.

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He purchased the North Troy Palladium in
conjunction with C. R. Jamason in 1881, but
subsequently he purchased his partner's interest
and became sole proprietor of the paper which

prosperity of the community. He has been
Town Clerk ; Chairman ofthe Republican Town
Committee ; Chairman of the Committee on
text-books in the Public Schools, and Clerk of
the North Troy Corporation. He was for three
years Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the
Village of North Troy ; he is affiliated with St.
Augustine's Episcopal Church, and has been
Secretary and Treasurer of the society. He was
united in marriage with Gertrude E. , daughter
of Mitchell and Henrietta (Porter) Hunt, June
22, 1880 ; and four children have been born to
them : Alfred Mitchell, Hugh Harvey, Ross
Hunt, and Mary Ruth Butterfield.

A. H. butterfield.
he has made a power in the community. He is
a Republican in politics, and has held various
positions of honor at the hands of his party. He
was appointed a Deputy Collector of Customs in
June, 1889 under President Harrison's Adminis
tration, and served in that capacity until
November, 1893. Soon after the incoming of
the McKinley administration he was appointed
Deputy Collector of Customs in charge of the
Port of North Troy. He represented the town
of Troy in the Vermont Legislature in 1894,
being elected by the largest majority ever given
a candidate for the position in that town. He
served on the General Committee. While a
member of the Legislature he obtained a
charter for the North Troy Graded School.
Two years later he originated plans for the
commodious and substantial new school building
of the district which was erected under his
supervison. He takes keen interest in public
affairs and never misses an opportunity to
advance the moral and material welfare and

BUTTERFIELD, Franklin George, Man
ufacturer, Derby Line, was born in Rockingham,
Windham county, Vermont, May 11, 1842, son
of David and Elmira Ward (Randall) Butterfield.
He was educated in the common schools and
Saxton's River Academy, and entered Middle
bury College at seventeen years of age. During
the fall term of his Junior year, 1861, he left
college to join the army, and therefore did not
graduate with his class. The degree of Master
of Arts was conferred upon him by Middlebury
College after the war. Young Butterfield enlisted
as a private, October 4, 186 1, in Company A,
Sixth Vermont Volunteers. Later he was chosen,
in turn, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant
and Captain, and on October 21, 1864, was made
Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the regiment,
at the age of twenty- two years. Late in 1864
he was obliged to resign by reason of wounds
received in battle. His regiment was a part of
the old Vermont Brigade which served in the
Sixth Army Corps through all the campaigns and
battles of the Army of the Potomac. During
the Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Mine Run
campaigns in 1863 he served as Aid-de-Camp
on the staff of Major-General L. A. Grant, com
manding the Vermont Brigade. He was in
battle for the first time at Lee's Mills, April 16,
1862, and participated in most of the battles
fought by the Army of the Potomac. He was
often mentioned in general orders for conspicu
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carried off the field a wounded Captain of his
regiment. Later, at Golding's Farm and White
Oak Swamp in 1862, and at Marye's Heights
and Salem Heights in 1863, and at the Wilder
ness in 1864, he was distinguished for gallantry
and repeatedly won the commendation of his
superior officers. He was awarded a medal of
honor by Congress for his conduct at Salem
Heights. The General commanding the army,
in making the recommendation, said: "The
record of Lieutenant-Colonel Butterfield is an
exceedingly brilliant one. His conduct on sev
eral occasions well merited a medal of honor,
but the affair of May 4, 1863, is probably the

F. G. butterfield.
one most worthy of such recognition, since
Colonel Butterfield not only displayed there his
accustomed bravery, but also soldierly qualities
of a high order." After the war he was unani
mously elected Judge Advocate-General of the
State, with the rank of Brigadier-General, as a
recognition of his faithful service with his com
mand and his gallant conduct on the field. From
1865 to 1877 General Butterfield engaged in
mercantile pursuits in Saxton's River, Vermont.
In the latter year, his property having been
destroyed by fire, he returned to his original

intention, broken up by the war, the study of
law. For three years he read with Judge L. S.
Walker, of Grafton, Vermont, but just before
his admission to the Bar was appointed by Pres
ident Hayes Supervisor of Census for the State
of Vermont. On the completion of this work he
went to South Carolina in charge of an investi
gation of alleged frauds against the census of
that state, a previous investigation by a high
official having proven unsatisfactory to many of
the Republican Senators. General Butterfield
was selected for this important work by the
President, the Secretary of the Interior and
General Francis A. Walker, the Superintendent
of the Tenth Census. His report was made
early in 1 881, and settled all the vexed questions
to the entire satisfaction of all parties. He was
urged by General Walker to remain in Wash
ington and assist in the work of completing the
Tenth Census, and consented. A strong friend
ship had grown up between the two men, which
continued up to the time of General Walker's
death. In 1882 General Butterfield was trans
ferred to the Bureau of Pensions, where he
remained until July, 1892. During this time he
occupied some of the most important positions
in the office, becoming a Principal Examiner in
July, 1884. Forthelast two years of his service
he took charge of the Special Examination
Division, with a force of nearly five hundred
employees. He found the work behind and
brought it up to date, and it is a matter of record
that in three years he saved the department the
handsome sum of four hundred and twenty-six
thousand dollars. In the meantime he had
become a partner of his brother. Colonel F. D.
Butterfield, under the firm name of Butterfield
& Company, for the manufacture of taps and
dies and other thread-cutting tools, at Derby
Line, Vermont. By the year 1892 this business
had become so large that his entire time was
required, and he tendered his resignation to the
department at Washington. So reluctant were
the Secretary of the Interior and the Commis
sioner of Pensions to have him leave the service,
that his resignation was not accepted for more
than three months after his final departure from
Washiugton. General Butterfield is a charter

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member of Lodge of the Temple, No. g4. Free
and Accepted Masons, of Bellows Falls; charter
member of Abenaqui Royal Arch Chapter, No.
ig, ofthe same place, of which he has been High
Priest ; a member of Hugh de Payn Command
ery, Knights Templar, of Keene, New Hamp
shire ; of E. H. Stoughton Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, of Bellows Falls, and has been a
member of the Department and National staffs ;
is a charter member of theVerraont Commandery
of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, having been previously an officer
of the District of Columbia Commandery, Wash
ington ; is a member of the District of Columbia
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution,
having been its Vice-President and a member of
the Board of Managers ; and is a member of the
National Congress of that order. He was Vice-
President of the Society of the Army of the
Potomac in 1893, President of the Society of the
Sixth Army Corps in 1896, and is connected with
various other social and military organizations.
On June i, 1866, he married Maria Smith, only
daughter of Benjamin and Phoebe Ann (Smith)
Frost ; they have two children : Benjamin Frost
and Esther Hlmira Butterfield, the former now
being consular agent at Stanstead, Province of
Quebec.

CAMPBELL, Edward R,, Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia, was born in Londonderry,
Windham county, Vermont, January 29, 1844,
son of Abner T. and Anna B. (Farnum) Campbell.
His mother was of Puritan ancestry and his father
was Scotch. His early education was secured in
the district schools, and he supported himself,
from the age of ten years, by working for his
uncle on a farm in Vermont. Mr. Campbell
enlisted, July 5, 1862, in Company G, First Ver
mont Volunteers, Heavy Artillery, and served
until the close of the war, returning then to Ver
mont. He is a typical Vermonter, has always
been a Republican, and whatever success he has
attained has been by reason of his own efforts.
Mr. Campbell's father died in the service, an
uncle was killed at Cedar Creek, and a brother
was in the army four years. In 1878 he was
commissioned an officer in the National Guard of

Vermont and served five years. In 1887 he was
commissioned by the President as Captain, and
the following year was promoted to be Major of
the Fourth Battalion, District of Columbia
National Guard, which position he resigned in
December of last year. He was a member of the
Inaugural Committee in 1897, is connected with
the United States Alliance, and was on the staff
of Commander-in-Chief Veazey, Grand Army of
the Republic, 1891-92. In 1866 he married
Hattie A. Haywood, who died in 1871, leaving
him with one child, Delia A. Campbell. In
August, 1882, he was appointed to a clerkship in
the United States Bureau of Pensions, and was

E. R. CAMPBELL.
promoted through all the grades to and including
that of Principal Examiner, which position he
now occupies. In 1868 he joined Lafayette
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Cavendish,
Vermont. In 1877 be affiliated with St. Paul
Lodge, and two years later was exalted in
Farmers' Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Bran
don, Vermont. In 1882 he became identified
with Killington Commandery, Knights Templar,
of Rutland, Vermont, and took the Scottish Rite
degrees, from the Fourth to the Thirty-second,
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was Master of Columbia Lodge of Perfection,
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and was
subsequently elected to the Thirty -third and last
degree, April 15, 1898. He is a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, is Past Commander
of his Post, and Past Junior Vice-Department
Commander of Vermont, having served two terms.
He was a charter member of Custer Camp, No. 1 ,
Sons of Veterans, of Washington, is Past Captain
of his camp. Past Colonel ofthe Division of Mary
land, and a member of the Commandery-in-Chief.
He was actively connected with the Reunion
committee. Grand Army ofthe Republic, in 1892,
and one of the Directors of the Reunion Monu
ment Association.

CASWELL, George Riley, Derby Line,
was born in Stanstead, Province of Quebec, May
26, 1834, son of Seth and Mary (Venan) Caswell.
His father was born in Littleton, New Hamp
shire, March 15, 1792, and his mother was born
in Wheelock, Vermont, October 8, 1800; and
having married, they settled in Stanstead,
Province of Quebec, in 1820. Their ancestors
were prominent Puritan families, among whose
descendants are some of the foremost families
of the present time in the Eastern Townships of
the Province of Quebec. The subject of this
sketch was educated in the common schools and
in the academy at Stanstead. His only training
for active life was that received onthe farm and
in a store. He went into the lumber business
over twenty years ago, erecting a large mill in
Holland, Vermont, and he has since been
engaged in cutting lumber from his extensive
tracts of timberland in that town and in the
adjacent township of Barnston in Canada. His
mill has a capacity of forty thousand feet of lum
ber a day, and it is one of the most complete and
extensive establishments of its kind in the State.
The mill was burned down, but it has been
immediately rebuilt. It was supplied a few years
ago with new engines and boilers, and with
modern appliances, including a system for the
consumption of all the saw dust made on the
premises. Mr. Caswell demonstrated his inven
tive genius, when about seven years ago he
constructed a timber sluice about three miles in

length to convey his saw logs from Holland
Pond to his mill. This ingenius device, which
was his own idea, displayed in its construction
considerable engineering skill owing to the
physical difficulties to be overcome, and it was
erected at heavy expense. Some six years ago
Mr. Caswell purchased an extensive tract of
timberland in Maine, and a large mill was erected
by himself and his partners at a place now called
Caswell in honor of its founder. In 1893 Mr.
Caswell conceived the idea of supplying the
three Villages of Derby Line, Vermont, and
Rock Island and Stanstead Plain, Province of

GEO. R. CASWELL.
Quebec, with an international water works, and
with his characteristic energy and public spirit
he undertook the work of the system's construc
tion alone and single handed. As a result of his
enterprise these villages are in possession of one
ofthe most complete and satisfactory water sys
tems to be found in New England or in Canada,
as regards domestic or fire purposes, the water
being forced from springs of rare purity at a
pressure of about one hundred pounds per square
inch. This system is now computed to be worth
at least forty thousand dollars, and its existence
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prise. A few years since he constructed at Derby
Line one of the finest residences to be found in
Northern Vermont, and upon its completion he
built four other large and substantial houses in
the immediate vicinity, thus creating quite a
little village. He is a moving spirit in all public
enterprises mooted in his town, and his generosity
in public and private matters is limited only by
his means. Mr. Caswell is an active member of
Golden Rule Lodge, No. 5, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Stanstead Plain, and of Oriental
Lodge of Odd Fellows at Derby Line. He has
always been an ardent Republican, and has rep
resented the town of Holland in the Legislature.
He has also been first Selectman of Derby for a
number of years. Mr. Caswell married for his
first wife Mary M. Hackett, by whom he had
two children: Gertrude, (Mrs. George W. Clark)
now deceased; and Fred T. Caswell, now in
business in Derby Line. Mr. Caswell's present
wife is Lovina W. West, whom he married in
i8g6. In spite of Mr. Caswell's sixty odd years
he has lost nothing of the stirring spirit which
has always animated him; and he is continually
seeking to promote the interests of the commu
nity in which he is so highly respected and
esteemed.

CHILDS, George Theodore, Journalist,
St. Albans, was born in Charlestown, Suffolk
county, Massachusetts, September 7, 1842, son
of Francis and Juliet (Dearing) Childs. He is of
direct descent from Benjamin Child, who emi
grated from England in 1630 and settled at
Roxbury, Massachu.setts. He is also a descendant
of George Bunker, from whom the noted battle
site of the Revolution derives its name. Mr.
Childs received his education in the common
schools, and began his duties in active busine.ss
life as an office boy, in 1858. From 185910 1861
he was employed as a book keeper. From 1861
to 1863 he was in the United States service as a
private soldier. On his retum home he resumed
his duties as book-keeper, continuing them until
1873, when he was appointed private secretary to
President J. G. Smith of the Central Vermont
Railroad Company, in which position he remained

until 1892. Since the latter date he has been
editor of the St. Albans Daily Messenger.
Colonel Childs was Governor Farnham 's Chief-
of-Staff from 1880-82, and Judge Advocate
General of Vermont from 1882 to 1884. In the
latter year he was chosen Presidential Elector.
He has been a member of the National Repub
lican Committee since 1896. He represented St.
Albans in the Legislature in 1896, and has served
as Department Commander of the Vermont
Grand Army of the Republic. In every position
to which he has been chosen. Colonel Childs has
shown marked abilit}-, and his excellence as a

GEO. T. CHILDS.
public speaker has been gratifyingly demonstrated
at many political and society gatherings in this
State and elsewhere. On the occasion of the
Vermont Republican's pilgrimage to Mr. Mc
Kinley 's home, prior to his election to the
Presidency, Colonel Childs, as President of the
State Republican League, made an effective
speech, outlining the position taken by Vermont
in that notable campaign, and pledging the
political allegiance of the Green Mountain State
to the eminent candidate. Colonel Childs was
married, September 19, 1866, to Lucy Ella

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Byrnes; they have four children; Arthur Frances,
Juliette Neilson, Annie Smith and Harold David
Childs.

CUSHMAN, Henry Theodore, Manufac-
urer, North Bennington, was born in Benning
ton, Bennington county, Vermont, May 16, 1844.
His ancestry was of Puritan stock, he being a
direct descendant of Robert Cushman, who
sailed with the Pilgrim Fathers in the May
flower. His great-grandfather, Charles Cushman,
was one of the leading men of historic Benning
ton, a Revolutionary soldier, and later serving
as Selectman of the town, a Justice of the Peace,
and Deacon of the old First Church. The sub-

HENRY T. CUSHMAN.
ject of this sketch was the youngest son of John
and Sophronia (Hurd) Cushman. He was edu
cated in the academies of his native place, and
began business as a merchant at the age of six
teen, being left, by the death of his father, with
the care and principal support of his mother and
two sisters. He enlisted in the early part of
the Rebellion as Regimental Quartermaster, and
was probably the youngest Quartermaster in the
army. rfis efficiency and faithfulness are .
attested by the fact that in the absence of the

Brigade Quartermaster he was at times appointed
to fill that position. He was the first to offer
his services to the Brigade Commander, General
L. A. Grant, who said of him, in a letter to a
brother soldier : " He was not only an excel
lent Quartermaster, but he was a brave and
gallant soldier. I shall never forget when the
terrible battle of the Wilderness left the old
brigade with but one staff officer, how Lieuten
ant Cushman and two other Quartermasters
volunteered to serve during the emergency. It
was a gallant act of itself, and Lieutenant
Cushman not only volunteered, but he performed
conspicuous service all through the battle that
immediately followed the Wilderness, including
the Bloody Angle. " Since his removal to North
Bennington in 1867, Mr. Cushman has been
engaged in the manufacture of stationers' goods,
he having received letters patent on many of
the articles he makes. After prosecuting this
branch of business with success for some time
he added to it the manufacture of fine furniture,
reaching out into all the states of the Union,
and exporting also to England, Germany and
other foreign countries. He now has one of the
largest plantsin town. In 1877, at the celebration
ofthe Centennial of the Battle of Bennington, Mr.
Cushman was Adjutant-General of the Veterans'
Reunion, and was active in locating the encamp
ment and preparing for the entertainment of the
veterans and the other soldiery. He is a mem
ber of the Grand Army of the Republic, the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, the Sons of the American Revo
lution, the Bennington Battle Monument
Association, and several prominent clubs, local
and state. He has been for the past three
years President of the village where he resides,
and has been also at the head of the School
Committee, taking special interest in educa
tional matters. He is a man of good common
sense, and agreeably seasoned with wit and
humor. He is a Republican. October 4, 1867,
Mr. Cushman married Eliza, daughter of Henry
Davis, and granddaughter of Ex-Governor
Hiland Hall; they have five children: Arthur
H., John H., William C. H., Caroline E., and
Frederick B. Cushman.

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DAVIS, Gilbert Asa, Attorney, Windsor,
was born in Chester, Vermont, December i8,
1835, son of Asa and Mary (Hosmer) Davis.
Having received an education limited to the
public schools and Chester Academy, he began
to teach when he was fifteen years of age. In
1852 he removed to New Jersey, where he pursued
the profession of teaching for four j-ears, at
Belvidere and other places in Warren and
Hunterdon counties. While in that state he read
law with Hon. J. G. Shipman of Belvidere.
Returning to Vermont he continued the stud}^ of
the law in the office of Hon. William Rounds of

mm^

GILBERT A. DAVIS.

Chester, and later with Messrs. Washburn (P.
T.) & Marsh (Charles P.) of Woodstock. He
was admitted to the Bar at the May term of
Windsor County Court in 1859, and practiced
with his last instructors for about a year, after
which he removed to Felch ville, in Reading.
Here he remained for about twenty years, laying
the foundation for a large and successful practice.
He still retains an office in Felchville although he
removed to Windsor in 1879. Mr. Davis has
always been identified with public improvements
in his community. He is a Director in the
Windsor Electric Light Company; he has been a

Trustee of the Village; he was one of the Com
missioners appointed to supervise the construction
of the Windsor Water Works, and he is President
of the Windsor Machine Company. He is a
member of the Republican party and has held
many important town offices. In 1858 and 1861
he was Assistant Clerk of the Vermont House
of Representatives, and to him was entrusted the
task of making out the grand list. He served as
Register of Probate of Windsor county for five
years. He represented the town of Reading in
the Legislature in 1872 and 1874, serving in both
sessions on the Committee on Education of which
he was Chairman during his last term. He was
elected to the Senate in 1876, and he was a
member of both the Educational and Judiciary
Committees. He was State's Attorney for Windsor
county in 1878-80. In 1874 he was selected by
Governor Peck to compile the school laws of
Vermont, and he has published a history of the
town of Reading. At the centenary celebralicn
of that town he delivered the address, and he was
also the orator at the centennial celebration of
the adoption of the name and constitution of the
state, held at Windsor, August 9, 1877. Mr.
Davis has been for man}' j-ears an officer of the
Vermont Historical Society; a member of the
Vermont Commandery of Knights Templar; the
clerk of the Congregational Society of Windsor,
and Superintendent of the Sunday School. He
was an Alternate and acted as Delegate to the
Republican National Convention at Chicago in
1888; and he was a member of the Triennial
Council of the Congregational Churches at
Worcester in 1889, and in Minneapolis in 1892.
In April, 1862, he was united in marriage with
Delia I. Boiles, at Turner, Illinois, and their
union has been blessed with four children, two of
whom are now living: Mary I. and Gilbert F.
Davis. Marjr I. married Stanley Carleton of
Chicago, Illinois, and now resides at Oak Park,
Illinois. Gilbert F., graduated from Phillips
Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1897, and
is now a student in Harvard University. Mr.
Davis' work as a lawyer is shown by reference to
the Vermont Reports, from volume thirty-six to
volume sixty-nine inclusive, and in addition to
that he has had an extensive practice in the

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Federal Courts and in the Courts of New Hamp
shire. In 1898 Mr. Davis was one of the editors
of the History of the First Congregational Church
of Windsor.

DEAVITT, Thomas Jefferson, Bank Presi
dent, Attorney, Montpelier, was born in Rich
mond, Chittenden county, Vermont, February
17, 1840, and was the son of William and
Chestina (Preston) Deavitt. His father was a
native of Troy, New York, but moved, at an
early age, with his mother to Milton, Vermont.
He studied law, and just prior to his admission to
the Bar went to work temporarily for Noah Pres-

T. J. DEAVITT.
ton, a farmer of Bolton. The subject of this
sketch was educated at the common schools and
Barre Academy, and was admitted to the Bar in
March, 1866, at Montpelier. His preliminary
law studies were pursued in the office of Hon.
Paul Dillingham, of Waterbury. In May, 1866,
he began the practice of his profession in More-
town, Vermont, where he remained until 1872,
removing then to Montpelier, where he has since
lived, paying special attention to the securing of
pensions and patents. Mr. Deavitt has been a
Director and President of the Capital Savings

Bank and Trust Company, at Montpelier, since
its organization in 1891. He commenced his
law practice where most lawyers do, in the
Justice court, and has found himself obliged to
contest cases with many expert attorneys, but
has had a successful career and carried numerous
difficult law problems to a satisfactory solution.
He has frequenily appeared before the Pension
and Patent Departments at Washington to press
the claims of his clients. In 1888 he became a
Director, and was Manager and Treasurer of the
Watchman Publishing Company, at Montpelier,
and conducted a department known as The
Soldiers' Budget, in the Vermont Watchman.
He has also written several newspaper articles in
behalf of the enforcement of the prohibitory law
and urging heavy penalties in rum cases. Mr.
Deavitt has been Director and Treasurer of the
Mechanics Building and Construction Company,
making most of its purchases of real estate and
looking after the erection of dwelling-houses. He
was instrumental in securing the incorporation of
the Vermont Soldiers' Home, at Bennington, and
has been called the father of that institution. He
has done much business as a Justice of the Peace
and Special Master in Chancery, and has also
been active in the management of the Bethany
Congregational Society. He has been Town
Agent and Superintendent of Schools, in More-
town, and was a member of the Constitutional
Convention in 1870. For four years he was
Secretary of Mad River Lodge, No. 77, Free
and Accepted Masons. He is a Republican in
politics. On January 19, 1870, he was married
to Carrie E. Harrington, of Royalston, Mas,sachu-
setts ; they have five children: Edward H.,
Henry M., George T., William J., and Carrie E.
Deavitt.

EASTMAN, Seth Newton, Physician,
Groton, was born in Topsham, Orange county,
Vermont, August 4, 1843, son of Bernard and
Hannah Jane (Weed) Eastman. His mother's
grandfather was a Captain in the Fourth Massa
chusetts Infantry and served under Washington
during the Revolution, and took land for his
pay in the town of Topsham, but he afterward
drew a Captain's pension. His paternal grand-

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father was Samuel Eastman, but the records of
that branch of his family are meagre. Dr.
Eastman's earlier education was obtained in the
district and select schools of his own town. He

Examiners. He was married, June 24, 1875, at
Groton, to Evalona, daughter of Hon.. J. R.
Darling of that place; they have two children:
Cyrus D. and Bernard S. Eastman.

EATON, Herbert T., Manufacturer, West
Arlington, Bennington county, was born there,
August 10, 185 1, son of Kimball and Margaret
(Brown) Eaton. He is descended, on his father's
side, from John Eaton, of Haverhill, Massachu
setts. The Browns came from New York very
early in the century and settled in Arlington,
Vermont, dying there. The father, James, was
a stone cutter, and while in New York worked on
the City Hall building. Mr. Eaton was educated
in the common schools and at Folsom 's Business
College, Albany, New York, from which insti
tution he graduated January i, 1869. He
received a thorough mechanical training for

S. N. EASTMAN.
graduated from the Eclectic Medical College
of Pennsylvania, January 9, 1869, and from
Dartmouth Medical College in 1884. He has
practiced medicine since 1869. He under
went a thorough military training as a member
of Company B, Sixth Vermont Volunteers,
during the Civil War, enlisting in 1861
and serving three years in the ranks. He was
in all the great battles of the Army of the
Potomac and was made a prisoner on the last
day of McClellan 's seven days fight and retreat
from before Richmond. He was a prisoner for
ninety-two days in 1862. He began the practice
of medicine and surgery at Groton in 1869,
February 25, and has remained there ever since,
strong and vigorous in health and successful in
his calling. Dr. Eastman represented Groton
in the Legislature in i8go, and served on the
Committee on Public Health. He has been a
Mason since 1865. He is a Democrat, and
during President Cleveland's administration was
a member of the United States Board of Pension

HERBERT T. EATON.
active life, under a father who was a veteran in
the marble business and who developed the
quarries in Arlington, sawing the marble at the
present Green River Bridge site. His father,
uncles, brothers and cousins, with two excep
tions, and the generations of that family as far
back as the fourth, at least, were all marble

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145

workers. The subject of this sketch began
business for himself in 1869, and has carried it
on ever since, in its present locality, save for
some six years during which he was in Slinger-
lands. New York, under the firm name of Eaton
& Mills. The industry was established in 182 1
and has continued uninterruptedly up to date,
with telegraph and telephone connections and
all other modern facilities. Mr. Eaton has held
a few town offices. He was elected to member
ship in the House of Representatives in 1888,
serving on the Committees on Rules and Elec
tions, also in 1894, serving on the General
Committee, and was the introducer of the bill
to appropriate five thousand dollars for a monu
ment to Governor Chittenden. He was made a
Mason in Red Mountain Lodge, Arlington,
March 31, 1882, served as its Senior Deacon pro
tem the same year, and was elected Senior
Deacon for the three years following, and Wor
shipful Master in 1888. He was appointed
District Deputy in i88g, and has since held again
the offices of Senior Deacon and Worshipful
Master, being now Marshal of the Lodge. He
is a member of Red Mountain Chapter, No. 41 ,
Order Eastern Star, and also an honorary and
associate member of Dudley Post, No. 28, Grand
Army of the Republic. Mr. Eaton is a Repub
lican. He married Emma C. Marsham, May i,
1872. Before attaining his majority he was for
two years station agent and telegraph operator
on the Vermont Central and Bennington and
Rutland Railroads, and was also for a time
engaged on the New York and Ohio Midland,
at EUenville, New York. He has been a pro
gressive business man, and attributes whatever
success he has had in life to his early determi
nation to do as he agreed and to owe no man
anything.

ENRIGHT, Joseph Cornelius, Attorney,
Windsor, was born in Morgan, Vermont,
December 2, 1852, son of Reverend Joseph and
Catherine (Wier) Enright. He graduated from
Dartmouth College in the class of 1878, and in
the same year began the study of law. He was
admitted to the Bar of Windsor county in 1881,

since which time he has practiced his profession
in the town of Windsor. He is also largely
interested in insurance and real estate. In 1879,
Mr. Enright was appointed Superintendent of
Schools in Hartland, and he subsequently served
in the same capacity in Windsor. He has been
P*irst Selectman of Windsor since i8gi. In i8go
he was elected to represent the town of Wind
sor in the General Assembly, and served as
Chairman of the State's Prison Committee. He
was again elected to the House in i8g2, and in
that session was Chairman of the Committee on
Claims. In 1893 he was chosen School Director

J. c- enright.
for three years, and is now serving his second
term. He received the nomination of State
Senator from the Republican party in June,
i8g8, Mr. Enright is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, in which he has taken every degree
from the first to the thirty-second inclusive, and
is a member ofthe Shrine. He has served as
Secretary and Warden of Vermont Lodge, No.
18; as Recorder of Vermont Commandery, No.
4, and as Secretary of the Vermont Lodge of
Perfection. He was united in marriage with
Clara S., daughter of Amos and Matilda (Alger)

MEN OF PROGRESS.

Varney, at Brompton, Province of Quebec,
July 23, 1882; and one daughter has been born
to them: Daisy Maud Enright.

FAIRBANKS, Henry, Manufacturer, St.
Johnsbury, was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont,
May 6, 1830, the only son of Sir Thaddeus, the
famous inventor, and Lucy Peck (Barker) P'air-
banks. The family, so widely known and highly
honored in Vermont and other States, trace
their descent from Jonathan Fairbanks, who
emigrated to this country from Sowery, York-
sire, England, in 1633, and settled in Dedham,
Massachusetts, where he built, in 1636, a house
which is still standing. The line descends

henry FAIRBANKS.
through Captain George, who died in 1682;
Eliezur, born 1655, who was Selectman of
Sherborn, Massachusetts; Captain Eleasur, born
1690, Member of the General Court; Deacon
Ebenezer, born 1734; and Joseph, born 1763,
to Thaddeus, who was born in Brimfield, Mass
achusetts, in 1796 and in 1 815, came thence with
his father to St. Johnsbury, then a new settle
ment, where they owned the falls of Sleeper's
River, and did a thriving business as millers
and manufacturers of carriages. Henry Fair

banks received his early education at Lyndon
Academy, for three terms; at Pinkerton Acad
emy, Derry, New Hampshire, for a year, and in
St. Johnsbury Academy, then newly established
by his father and uncles. Here, 1842-7, he
fitted for College under Principal J. K. Colby.
But his mechanical tastes were strong in him
and he spent more time in the shops than in
school. In 1848, he took passage, for his
health, in a sailing vessel for Europe, where he
spent nearly a year. Returning to Dartmouth
College in the spring of 1850, he was graduated
in 1853, ranking high, especially in Mathemat
ics and Physics. From college he went to
Andover Theological Seminary. In the spring
of 1856, he again laid down his books, and in
company with Principal Taylor, of Phillips
Andover Academy, went through Egypt, Pales
tine, Greece, Italy and Switzerland, where he
made the ascent of Mount Blanc, then a rare
feat. Returning, he re-entered the Seminary
and graduated in the class of 1857. He was
ordained in 1S58, and took up work under the
auspices of the Domestic Missionary Society, in
behalf of the weakest churches of Vermont,
doing a work that resulted in bringing new life
to many churches that were nearly extinct, and
in giving a permanent ministry to more than
twenty churches. Hoping for improvement of
health, in i860, Mr. Fairbanks accepted the
Chair of Physics and later that of Natural
History in Dartmouth College, which he filled
with success, till in 1869, he returned to St.
Johnsbury. There he was perfecting various
inventions, and preaching where there was no
other supply, and doing much religious work.
He was the first President, under its new consti
tution, of the Convention of Congregational
Ministers and Churches of Vermont, and later
and until now President o f the Vermont Domestic
Missionary Society. For some years after
1875 the State Convention ofthe Young Men's
Christian Association carried on an evangelistic
work in Vermont, resulting in large additions to
the churches, and Mr. Fairbanks was prominent
in this work, after the first year having charge,
and directing it as Secretary. He has for
twenty years been a corporate member of the

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American Board of Foreign Missions, has been
a member of four of the National Councils of
Congregational Churches, and was a delegate to
the International Council in London in 1891, in
which year he travelled with his family in
Europe. He has been since 1870 a Trustee of
Dartmouth College, and for many years Presi
dent of the Trustees of St. Johnsbury Academy.
Of late years, Mr. Fairbanks has devoted him
self more to business, developing some of his
inventions, for which he has received a score
and a half of patents, and has given more and
more attention to the extensive business of E.
& T. Fairbanks & Company, of which corpora
tion he is Vice-President. He married in
Hanover, New Hampshire, April 30, 1862,
Annie S., daughter of Professor Daniel J., D.
D. (of Dartmouth College,) and Jane M. (Aiken)
Noyes. She died September 11, 1872; and
May 5, 1874, he contracted a second marriage
with Ruthy, daughter of Phineas and Jacintha
(Barker) Page, of Newport, Vermont. The
children of the first marriage are; Arthur, born
November, 1864; Robert Noyes, born Novem
ber, 1866; Lucy, born October, 1868; Charlotte,
born December, 1871. Of the second marriage,
Albert Thaddeus, born July, 1876, died Decem
ber, 1 891; Marion, born April, 1881; Dorothy,
born March, 1887; Ruth Comfort Fairbanks,
born May, 1892, died September, 1893.

March i, 1870, holding that position until May
I, i8g4, since which time he has been Treasurer
of the company. Mr. Gleason has held office
in several of the Masonic bodies. He is a

GLEASON, James Mellen, Insurance, Bos
ton, was born in Wardsboro, Windham county,
Vermont, October 6, 1833, son of Josiah and
Susan Read (Morse) Gleason. His grandfather
Gleason was a native of Spencer, Massachusetts,
and his mother's ancestors came from Shel
burne, in the same state. He was educated in
the public and private schools of his native
town, and at the Springfield Wesleyan Semi
nary, in Vermont, and at French's Commercial
College, in Boston, getting a special training
for active life at the latter institution. Since
1856 he has led a busy career. From April of
that year until 1863 he was employed as book
keeper. From 1865 to 1868 he was engaged in
hotel keeping. He became Cashier of the John
Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company,

JAMES M. GLEASON.
a member of the Century Club, the Boston Art
Club, and the Appalachian Mountain Club. He
is a Republican in politics, but he has never
sought public position, having, on the contrary,
often declined such honor. He was made a
Master Mason in Joseph Warren Lodge, of Bos
ton, in 1868 ; a Royal Arch Mason in St.
Andrew's Chapter, Boston, January 20, 187 1,
and a Knight Templar in Boston Commandery,
in 1872, and was Eminent Commander in iS8g
and i8go. He has also received the Thirty-
third Degree in the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite. He filled the office of Grand
Lecturer in the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
most efficiently from 1882 to 1887, and his con
nection with Masonry has resulted in his win
ning a large number of warm friends. Mr.
Gleason is also a member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company, of Boston. He
is patriotic as a citizen, conscientious in the
performance of his business and social duties,
and does credit to his native state.

MEN OF PROGRESS.

GUILD, George Otis, Paper Manufacturer,
Bellows Falls, Vermont, was born at Claremont,
Sullivan county. New Hampshire, February 21,
1836, his parents being Samuel and Roxana
(Stevens) Guild. He traces his ancestry back

G. O. GUILD.
seven generations, being a lineal descendant of
John Guild, who came to this country from
England, in the year 1636, and settled in the
town of Dedham, Massachusetts. Was educated
in the public schools of Bellows Falls, Vermont.
Began his business life at the age of fourteen,
when he learned the printer's trade, continuing
in that business for four years, and then entered
a country store as clerk. In i860 he opened a
dry goods store in Bellows Falls, which business
he carried on for over thirty-two years. In 1892
Mr. Guild organized the firm known as the
Westminster Paper Company and erected a mill
on Saxton's River, near Bellows Falls, for the
manufacture of manila paper, in which business
he is still engaged. Mr. Guild is a member of
Imtuanuel Episcopal Church, Lodge of the Tem
ple, Free and Accepted Masons, Abenaqui Royal
Arch Chapter, and Beauseant Commandery.
Has held the office of Bailiff, Fire Warden,
Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, and was

Treasurer of the Village Corporation and School
District for several years. Has always been a
staunch Democrat, and was appointed Postmaster
under President Cleveland, which office he held
for four years. Has been for many years a
member of the Board of Trustees of the Bellows
Falls Savings Institution. Was married January
I, 1863, to Martha J. Aldrich of Westminster,
Vermont. They have four children: Mary L.
(now Mrs. George H. Holmes), Edgar A.,
George H. and Helen G. Guild.

GROUT, Josiah, Governor, Derby, son of
Josiah and Sophronia (Ayer) Grout, was born of
American parents in Compton, Canada, May 28,
1842. His family ancestry is traceable to Doctor
John Grout, who came from England in 1630,
and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts. His
great great-grandfather, Elijah Grout, of Charles
town, New Hampshire, served as a Commissary
in the Revolutionary War. In 1 7gg his grand
father, Theophilus Grout, settled on Moose
River in the new State of Vermont, upon land
afterward included in the present town of Kirby,
and there cleared a large farm. Josiah Grout's
parents returned to Vermont when he was six
years of age. As a boy, he attended the public
schools ; later studied at the Orleans Liberal
Institute at Glover, and had commenced a course
of study at the St. Johnsbury Academy when
the Civil War broke out. Although at this
time only nineteen years of age, he enlisted as
a private in Company I, First Vermont Cavalry,
October 2, i86i, walking thirty miles the day he
enlisted and finally succeeded in enrolling at
the third recruiting station visited by him. He
was elected and commissioned as Second Lieu
tenant at the organization of his companj', and
was promoted to the Captaincy in 1862. He
participated in seventeen engagements, being
with his company every time it was called out,
until in a skirmish with the noted Confederate
partisan, Mosby, April i, iS63,he was severely
wounded, and reported killed in action. He
still carries in his body the Confederate, bullet
received in that engagement, For disability
occasioned by this wound, he was honorably
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raid, in the fall of 1864, a regiment of cavalry
was organized for the defence of the frontier :
for which he organized a company, of which he
was chosen Captain in January, 1865. A few
weeks later, at the age of twenty -three, he was
promoted to be Major, and assigned to the com
mand of the military post of St. Albans, in which
capacity he served until the close of the war.
At the close of the war, he began the study of
law in the office of his brother, W W. Grout, of
Barton, Vermont, (now member of Congress for
the Second Vermont District) and was admitted
to the Orleans County Barafterless than a year's

josiah GROUT.
actual studj% in December, 1865. After his
admission to the Bar, he formed a law partner
ship with W. W. Grout, his brother, at Barton ;
assisting also in editing the Barton Standard, in
which he owned a half interest for about a year.
He then entered the Custom's service and moved
to Island Pond, where, for nearly three years,
he had charge of the Custom House. He was
in charge of the St. Albans Custom House for a
few months in i86g, and later of the Custom
House at Newport, Vermont, also practicing his
profession. After leaving the Customs service
in the spring of 1872 he practiced law with

success in Newport until the spring of 1875,
when he moved to Chicago, where he lived
three years, building up an excellent practice.
In the spring of 1878, Mr. Grout removed to
Moline, Illinois, where he engaged in manufac
turing business. In 1 880 he returned to Vermont,
having purchased the Hinman homestead in
Derby, the early home of Mrs. Grout, and has
since there devoted himself to farming. His
farm, known as "Clydeside" containing six
hundred and fifty acres, is one of the finest in
the state. He has made a specialty of blooded
stock, and is the owner of some of the finest
Morgan horses, Jersey cattle and Shropshire
sheep iu Vermont. Josiah Grout is an earnest
Republican. He represented the town of New
port in the Vermont Legislatures of 1872 and
1874, Upon the resignation of Speaker Powers,
during the session of 1874, he was chosen as his
successor for the remainder of the session, and
presided also at the special session of 1875.
During his residence in Moline, Illinois, he M-as
elected a Supervisor of Rock Island county and
served for two years in that capacit}-. He was
urged by his Illinois friends to allow his name
to be used as a candidate for Congress, but
declined. During the Garfield-Arthur campaign
he made many effective speeches in behalf of
the Republican candidates. In 1884 he was
elected to the Vermont Legislature from Derby,
and took a prominent part in the business of the
session, serving on the Judiciary Committee.
He was returned to the Legislature of 1886 and
1888, serving during both terms as Speaker, and
gaining an enviable record as an able presiding
officer. In 1892 he was elected a State Senator
from Orleans county. He was for years Vice-
President, and for one year President, of the
Vermont League of Republican Clubs. He was
one of the Trustees of the Vermont University
and State Agricultural College from 1888 to
1892, and for many years has been President of
the Board of Trustees of Derby Academy, to
the maintainance of which he has been a liberal
contributor, and in the welfare of which and all
other educational institutions he is deeply inter
ested. In 1896 he was nominated by the Repub
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the unprecedented majority of thirty-nine thou
sand. Many important public matters have
required his attention during his gubernatorial
term, among the most important being the raising
and equipping of troops in response to President
McKinley's call for volunteers at the outbreak
of the war with Spain, which, with his other
service, will give him an honorable place among
the War and other Governors of Vermont. In
1868 he was united in marriage with Harriet,
daughter of the late Aaron Hinman of Derby.
They have one son : Aaron Hinman Grout.

GROUT, Theophilus, of Newport, was born
in Compton, Province of Quebec, September 3,
1848, son of Josiah and Sophronia (Ayer) Grout.

theophilus grout.
He received his early education in the public
schools of Concord, Vermont, and pursued an
academic course in the St. Johnsbury, Newbury
and Mclndoes Falls Academies. Having chosen
law as his profession he studied with the firm of
Bisbee & Grout, and was admitted to the Bar of
Orleans county in September, 187 1. He com
menced the practice of his profession in Newport,
where, with the exception of one year spent in

Galveston, Texas, he has remained up to the
present time. During a portion of the time he
was in partnership with his brother. Governor
Josiah Grout, and with C. A. Prouty, Esq., but
during most of this period he practiced alone.
He was elected State's Attorney in 1878, and in
1880 represented Newport in the Legislature. He
has been much interested in educational matters.
He taught for some time in different educational
institutions in the northern part of the state, and
he has been Superintendent of Schools in New
port, as well as a Trustee of Newport Academy.
He has also taken an active interest in politics,
and as editor and proprietor of the Newport
Express and Standard for a number of years he
exercised a wide influence in his section. He is
a Free Mason, having received the honors of the
Thirty -second degree, and he is Acting Prelate of
Malta Commandery, No. 10, of Newport. Mr.
Grout is a member of the Protestant Episcopal
church, in which he is a warden and lay reader,
and he is also active in Sunday School work. He
was united in marriage, November 25, 1873, with
Ellen A. , daughter of Charles and Mary (Stubbs)
Black, of Galveston, Texas. Their children are:
Charles T. and Addie Lou Grout.

GROUT, William W., Congressman, Wash
ington, District of Columbia, was born at Comp
ton, Province of Quebec, of American parents.
May 24, 1836, son of Josiah and Sophronia
(Ayer) Grout. He traces his ancestry from
Doctor John Grout, who emigrated from Eng
land in 1630, and settled in Watertown, Massa
chusetts. His great grandfather, Elijah Grout,
served as Commissary in the War of the Revo
lution, and at Charlestown, New Hampshire,
fitted out Stark's Army on its way to Ben
nington. His grandfather, Theophilus Grout,
settled on the Moose River, in the present
town of Kirb}^ Vermont, on a farm which
has remained in the family ever since and
is now owned and occupied by William W.
Grout. The subject of this sketch received
his early education in the common schools
and local academy. Selecting the profes
sion of the law, he studied at the Pough
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he graduated in 1857. He was admitted to the
Bar of Orleans county in the same year, and
commenced practice in Barton, which town he
still calls his home. In July, 1862, he was
nominated for State's Attorney of Orleans
county, but declined the nomination in order to
take part in the War for the Union. He
enlisted in the Fifteenth Regiment, Vermont
Volunteers, was commissioned as Lieutenant-
Colonel of the same, and went lo the field in
October, 1862. He served with his regiment,
and the Second Vermont Brigade of which it

WM. W. GROUT.
formed a part, during its term of service, closing
with the Battle of Gettysburg, and the action
at Hagerstown, a few days later, in which
Lieutenant Colonel Grout commanded a bat
talion on the skirmish line. He was mustered
out in August, 1863. In the fall of 1864, fol
lowing the famous St. Albans Raid, Colonel
Grout was placed in command of the provisional
toops for the defence of the Eastern half of the
Vermont frontier, and upon the reorganization
of the Vermont Militia soon after he was elected
Brigadier-General, commanding the Second
Brigade. General Grout has been prominent in
public life. He was State's Attorney of Orleans

county, 1865-6. He represented Barton in the
Legislature in 1868, '6g, '70 and '74, and was
an active and influential legislator. In 1876-7
he was a State Senator, and president pro tem
pore of the Senate. In 1876 he was nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the Third
Vermont District; but was defeated by a com
bination of Democrats and Greenbackers, aided
by a lavish use of money. In 1880 he was
elected to the Forty seventh Congress, and was
re-elected by large majorities to the Forty-ninth,
Fiftieth, Fifty-first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third,
Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, receiving
on his last election twenty-six thousand three
hundred and nineteen votes out of a total of
thirty-two thousand seven hundred and thirty-
seven. He has served in the National Leg
islature on the Committees on Territories,
Education, District of Columbia, (of which
he was Chairman for two years,) and Appro
priations. He has also served as Chairman
of several important select committees. His
service in the lower house of Congress has
already exceeded in duration that of any other
Representative of Vermont in that body; and if
he lives it will be still further extended, he
having received, in June, i8g8, the nomination
of the Republicans of the Second Congressional
district, for the Fifty-sixth Congress. In i860 he
married Loraine M. Smith, who died in 1868.
She bore him two children, who died in infancy.
He has not remarried.

HOUGHTON, Charles Elmer, North Ben
nington, was born in Rowe, Franklin county,
Massachusetts, March 10, 1818, and died May 12,
1890. He was the son of Jonathan and Melinda
(McLeod) Houghton, his ancestry being English
on his father's side and Scotch on his mother's.
His early educational training was received in the
common schools. He could almost be styled a
self-educated man, for he was always particularly
interested in scientific subjects, studying them at
every opportunity. Mr. Houghton was one ofthe
best known men, not only in his own county, but
in the state as well. He had the executive ability
of a successful business man, was a keen reader

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of men, and held the leadership among his fellows
because of certain characteristics which he pos
sessed to an eminent degree. He had his own
way to make in life, yet he found time to devote
to public enterprises and, like the typical Ver
monter, early acquired traits of perseverance that
won for him place and honor in the common
wealth, as well as a competence. He entered
mercantile life in Shaftsbury. in 1841, with his
brother, the late J. C. Houghton. In 1855,
leaving the fine business that the two had jointly
built up to the junior brother, he removed to
North Bennington, where he engaged in commer
cial enterprise with his younger brother, R. L.

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C. E. HOUGHTON.
Houghton. Subsequently he took the whole con
cern and carried it on until 1863, when he associa
ted with it his son, Edmund C, to whom he sold
out in 1865 to give his attention to his duties as
Vice-President and Manager of the First National
Bank of North Bennington, which had recently
been organized; the office of Vice-President he
held until his death. He had held official con
nection with four Bennington banks, and was the
trusted associate of a company of solid business
men. At the time of his death he was the Treas
urer of the Bennington and Rutland Railroad

Company and for many years wason the Board of
Directors. He had also been actively connected
with several large paper mills in that section.
Early in life Mr. Houghton served on the regi
mental commander's staff. He had represented
the town of Shaftsbury in the Legislature, and
had also held the offices of Assistant Judge, Con
stable, Selectman, Lister and Postmaster while a
resident of that place. For two terms he was a
member of the State Senate, and took a leading
position there. He was a Presidential Elector in
1876, was for six years a Director of the State
Prison, had been County Treasurer, and mem
ber of the Republican State and County Com
mittees. He was active in Masonry, belonging
to the Lodge and the Commandery. He was also
a member of the committee of the Bennington
Historical Society who prepared the bill in 1876
which afterward became the charter of the Ben
nington Battle Monument Association. On
November i, 1838, hemarried Mary E. Hutchins,
who survives him, with two children : Edmund
C. and Helen C. Houghton (nov,' Mrs. Hiram
Cole.)

JOHNSON, Jesse, Justice of the Supreme
Court, New York, was born in Bradford, Orange
county, Vermont, February 20, 1842, his parents
being Elliot P. and Sarah (Taylor) Johnson.
He traces his ancestry back to William John
son, who was a member of the Massachusetts
Bay colony, his name appearing on its records
as early as 1634. The Taylor family settled in
Hartland, Vermont, in the early history of that
town. His grandmother was, on his mother's
side, a relative of Colonel Ransom of the Mex
ican War, and of General Ransom, who served
in the Civil War. His great-grandfather died
just before the Revolutionary War, but the
family- were represented in that struggle by
Colonel Thomas Johnson, of Newbury, Ver
mont. Justice Johnson's early education was
secured in the district .schools, and at the
academies in Bradford, Vermont, and Orford,
New Hampshire. He graduated from Dart
mouth College in 1863, and was admitted to the
Bar in New York city in 1865. He began his
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153

where he remained from 1864 to 1866, removing
in the latter year to Brooklyn, and opening an
office there. In January, 1869, he was appointed
Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of
Brooklyn. In 1873 he formed a law partnership
with Hon. William C. DeWitt, under the firm
name of DeWitt & Johnson. He resigned his
position as Assistant Corporation Counsel in
1877 and withdrew from the law firm, continu
ing in practice without a partner until 1881,
when he associated with Colonel A. E. Lamb
and his brother, Alvan Ransom Johnson, under

JESSE JOHNSON.
the firm name of Johnson & Lamb, that firm
carrying on business until 1897, when the
subject of this sketch was appointed Justice of
the Supreme Court. The firm of Johnson &
Lamb carried on a constantly increasing busi
ness, and at the time of its dissolution, in 1897,
was regarded as one of the leading law firms of
the city, with perhaps a larger general, all-
around practice and clientage than any other
law firm in Brooklyn. In addition to the offices
already named. Justice Johnson was United
States District Attorney for the Eastern District
of New York from 1889 to 1894; he was one of
the fifteen delegates-at-large to tbe New York

State Constitutional Convention in 1894, being
Chairman of the Committee on Cities and a
member of the Judiciary Committee. He was
a delegate to the Republican National Conven
tion of 1888, and was a member of the Repub
lican County Committee for King's county for
the ten years from 1886 to 1896, and has been a
member of the Republican State Convention at
frequent intervals. He is connected with the
Brooklyn, Oxford, Montauk, and Union League
Clubs of Brooklyn. On November 12, 1868,
he married Sarah Ellen Russell, of Brooklyn,
who died in the year 1897. There was born of
that marriage, one son: Jesse William Johnson,
who is now a member of the firm of Lamb &
Johnson, the successors to the law firm of which
his father was formerly the senior partner.

JONES, Julian Henry, Physician, Bradford,
was born in Rochester, Windsor county, Ver
mont, October 5, 1838, son of Rodney and
Phoebe (Lowell) Jones. His ancestry on his
mother's side is English and dates back as far as
1320. His paternal ancestors also came origin
ally from England, first settling in New Hamp
shire and afterward removing to Rochester. He
attended the district schools and Barre Academy,
graduating from the latter institution. He taught
school the winter he was fifteen years old, and
every succeeding winter until the year before he
finished his medical course. He read medicine
with Doctor C. B. Currier, of Rochester, a leader
in his profession, finished his studies at the Berk
shire Medical College in 1859, and graduated
from the Homoeopathic College in Philadelphia
the following year. His first location for busi
ness was made in Chelsea, Vermont, in Decem
ber, i860, and there he was in active practice for
seven years. In December, 1867, Doctor Jones
opened an office in Bradford, where he has been
most successful in building up a large and lucra
tive business. He is a member of the Vermont
Homoeopathic Medical Society, and has been its
President. He is an honorary member of the
New Hampshire Homoeopathic Medical Society,
and also ofthe Boston Surgical Society. He has
an excellent and extensive library, and enjoys the

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reputation of being a reader and a thinker. He
was a member of the Pension Board for four
years from September, 1893. He was Super
intendent of Schools in his town for six years,
and a Justice of the Peace for twelve. He
has been Health Officer for Bradford for the past

J. H. JONES.
nine years. He has also acted as examining
physician for a large number of insurance com
panies. He has been a Mason for over thirty
years, has passed all the chairs in the subordi
nate bodies, is a Knight Templar, a Shriner,
and a Thirty -second degree Mason. He has also
passed the chairs of the subordinate bodies of the
Odd Fellows fraternity, was two years Grand
Patriarch, and was afterward elected for two
years as Grand Representative to the Sovereign
Grand Lodge. He married F'rances Louise
Squires of Bath, New Hamp.shire, in 1866; they
have two children : Gertrude Frances, who mar
ried Thomas McKenzie, a Civil Engineer, Provi
dence, Rhode Island, January i, 1886, and
Edith Bruce Jones, the former having achieved
success in music and the latter in elocution. His
first wife died January 8, 1884. June 4, 1885,
he married Annie Frances, daughter of Charles
N. Quimby, West Fairlee, Vermont. Doctor

Jones believes after thirty-five years of experi
ence, that the barriers between the schools of
medicines are being broken down , and he prophe
sies that in the not far distant future all will
unite in a common code for the benefit of the
public health.
KNOTT, Elijah Edward, Banker, Burling
ton, son of James and Rachel (Taylor) Knott, was
born in Fairmont, Ontario, Canada, September 12,
1855. His great-grandfather, William Knott, was
a Captain ofthe Royal Guards, who served under
Lord Carhampton and General Lake, in Ireland
in 1797. His grandfather was a Colonel in the
British Army and fought at Sebastopol. His
mother, Rachel Taylor, is a direct descendant of
Isaac Taylor the well-known English author of
"Words and Places," etc. His ancestors on the
mother's side also served the British Crown, and
no less than nineteen members of the two families
sacrificed their lives in the British Army and

E. E. KNOTT.
Navy. His parents were born in County Sligo,
Ireland. After emigrating to Canada his father
was a member of the Council, and Justice of the
Peace in the township of Euphrasia, Ontario,
Canada. He was also a Director ofthe Northern

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and North Grey Railway, the oldest railroad in
Canada. The subject of this sketch received his
early education in the common schools; under the
private tutorship of Doctor George Wesley Wright,
now of Berlin; and at the British American Col
lege of Toronto. After assisting his father for a
time on the home farm, he commenced his business
career as an appraiser and valuator for the Union
Loan and Savings Company of Toronto, serving
also later jointly in the same capacity for the
Bristol and West of England Loan and Invest
ment Company of London. For these companies
he loaned over one million five hundred thousand
dollars, with most satisfactory results. In 188 1
he opened a real estate office in Toronto, which
prospered while the hunger for town lots in the
towns and cities opened up by the Canadian Pacific
Railway lasted. In 1885 he removed to Roches
ter, New York, and did some business for Irwin,
Green & Company of Chicago. In 1886 he
removed to Burlington, Vermont, and opened a
brokerage office. With the exception of a few
months in 1889-90 he has followed the business of
a broker, for a time with small results, but later
with ample success, having the confidence of many
investors. He adds to this main business that of
United States Commissioner for the Province of
Quebec; agent for the Rutland Railroad Company,
and agent for six steamer shiplines and for Cook's
tours. In 1890 he published the compilation
known as the "Ready Reference Law Manual."
While a citizen of the Dominion of Canada Mr.
Knott was elected Deputy Reeve of the township
of Euphrasia, in 1878 and 1879 and Reeve in 1880;
a member of the important political organization
entitled the "United Empire Club;" and one of
the "Loyal Hundred," that organized the policy
under which Sir John Macdonald carried the
Dominion in 1878, against Hon. Alexander Mac
kenzie. As a citizen of the United States he has
been a Democrat; but in the last National election,
deeming the sound money issue of paramount
importance, he voted the Republican State and
National tickets. He was a charter member of
Lake Champlain Yacht Club and the founder,
along with Governor U. A. Woodbury, of Athletic
Park, also a member of Ethan Allen Club and
Washington Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted

Masons. He married May i, 1879, Anna Maria
Reynolds. They have three children: Lillian,
Amy Louise and Harold Knott.
LESLIE, Charles Brigham, Attorney, Wells
River, was born in that village, in the town of
Nev/bury, Orange county, Vermont, November
5, 1 8 19, son of John Warner and Lucia (Brigham)
Leslie. His father was of Scotch-Irish descent,
and his great-grandfather, James Leslie, with
his wife, came from Londonderry, Ireland, to
Nutfield, now called Londonderry, New Hamp
shire. His grandfather was Daniel Leslie. The
father of the subject of this sketch was born in

-,y

C. «. LESLIE.
Londonderry, August 18, 1791, and died at the
home of his son, in Wells River, February i,
1868. His mother was the daughter of Thomas
Brigham, M. D., and a granddaughter of Hon.
Paul Brigham, who came from Mansfield, Con
necticut, and settled in Norwich, Vermont, and
was Lieutenant Governor of this State for
twenty-two years, from i7g6 to 1812, inclusive,
and from 18 15 to i8ig, inclusive; he was Clerk
of Windsor County Court in 1784 and 1785,
Assistant Judge in 1786 and also from i7go to
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Judge of Probate in 1793 and 1800, and presiding
Judge of Windsor County Court in 1801; he also
served in the American army during the whole
of the Revolutionary War. Mr. Leslie's earlier
education was limited to the common schools
and a few terms at the academy at Bradford,
Vermont. He was admitted to the Orange
County Bar at the June term of court, 1843. In
his early manhood he worked on a farm, and
was engaged too in floating lumber down the
Connecticut river as far as Middletown. During
the winters he improved his time by reading
law. He subsequently read with Elijah Farr,
who was one of the best lawyers and advocates
in Vermont. After his admission to the Bar he
was in Mr. Farr's office, at Wells River, until
April, 1844, when he opened an office for him
self in the adjoining town of Corinth, and at the
June term of court in that year he had six cases
to enter upon its docket. In November, 1844,
Mr. Leslie formed a partnership with Mr. Farr,
at the invitation ofthe latter, and notwithstand
ing the serious illness of the senior partner, the
young lawyer held and successfully managed a
considerable number of the important cases
which Mr. Farr had on hand when the combi
nation was formed. Later, upon the death of
Mr. Farr, in 1845, young Leslie purchased the
library and office of his late partner and thus
found himself in possession of a good law prac
tice, which has ever since been quite extensive,
embracing the counties of Orange, Caledonia,
Washington, Essex and Windsor, in Vermont,
and Coos and Grafton, in New Hampshire. He
has been admitted to and practiced before the
District and Circuit Courts of the United States
for Vermont and New Hampshire. In 1854 he
was in company with the late Colonel Asa M.
Dickey, of Bradford, a partnership which con
tinued for only a year. In i860 he went into
business with the late D. Allen Rogers, under
the firm name of Leslie & Rogers, this arrange
ment continuing for twenty- one years and six
months, when it was broken up by the death of
Mr. Rogers, in July, 1881. He is a member of
the Vermont Bar Association. The subject of
this sketch was Postmaster at Wells River for
four years under President Polk's administration.

and also served again in that capacity for about
two years, but resigned because it interfered
with his law practice. He held the office of
United States Commissioner for the District of
Vermont from November 22, 1859, to 1897. He
was Register of the Probate Court from 1850 to
1852, and Judge of Probate in 1853, 1854 and
1858. He has always been a Democrat of the
Jeffersonian school, and never wanderedjiftat— -
what he thought were false and pernicious prin
ciples. He voted in the "hard cider" presiden
tial campaign of 1840 and has voted at every
election since, coming out in 1896 as a gold
Democrat. Mr. Leslie married, on January 16,
1845, Harriet Heaton, the eldest daughter of
the late Smith Skinner, of Lowell, Massachu
setts, and their golden wedding anniversary was
celebrated in 1895; they have three children:
Julius Hayden, Elizabeth B. and Charles Edward
Leslie, the latter being now a successful lawyer
in North Dakota.

LINEHAN, John Henry, Physician, Island
Pond, son of John and Mary (Roche) Linehan,
was born in Island Pond, Vermont, November
25, 1863. He is of Irish descent, his ancestry
being lost in the maze of Irish history. His
parents came to America about sixty years ago.
He obtained his early education in the common
schools, graduating from the Island Pond High
School in 1881. He studied in the Massachu
setts College of Pharmacy in 1885 and 1886.
He then entered the Medical Department of the
University of Vermont, graduating from that
institution July 14, i8gi. He was a gold
medalist. Mr. Linehan was apprenticed as a
drug clerk in 1881 with Rawson and Pottle of
Island Pond, Vermont, and in 1885 with Frank
Tucker of Boston, Massachusetts. He has been
engaged in the practice of medicine since
August, i8gi, and has been a member of the
drug firm of J. H. Linehan & Company, of
Island Pond, Vermont, since May, i8g2. He
was Postmaster of Island Pond i887'-8g; Dem
ocratic candidate for State's Attorney of Essex
county in 1888, running ahead of his ticket;
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i8g2; Inspector of Bureau of Animal Industry,
1893 to date; Town Auditor, 1892-93; Select
man, 1896-97, and Chairman of the Board of
Selectmen, i8g8-gg. He is a member of the

J. H. linehan.
Delta Mu Society of the University of Vermont,
and was its President in i8go-gi. He is a
Democrat in politics and has been a member of
the Democratic State Committee since i8go.
Mr. Linehan was married to Lavinia R. Hobbs,
September 8, i8gi. They have no children.

MAYNARD, Samuel Erskine, Physician,
Burlington, was born in Williston, Vermont,
December 3, 1868, son of Reverend Joshua L. and
Electa (Rogers) Maynard. He received his early
education in the public schools of Northfield and
Burlington; entered the University of Vermont,
and having selected the profession of medicine,
after a two years special course, he entered the
Medical Department ofthe University, and grad
uated from it with credit in 1891. After a year
of .service as House Surgeon at the Mary Fletcher
Hospital in Burlington, betook the Post Graduate
course in Surgery, at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons in New York. After finishing this

.special course he received an appointment upon
the Resident Staff of the New York Lying-in
Hospital. Subsequently he took special courses
in the Polyclinic and Post Graduate Medical
Schools of New York; and passed with credit
the examinations required by the Regents of the
University of the State of New York, In 1893
he served for a time as Ship Surgeon, on the
Pacific Mail Steamship City of Para, running to
Colon, Central America. Thus well equipped
by study and experience, as well as by natural
gifts. Doctor Maynard came to Burlington in the
fall of 1893, and has remained in that city, in the
possession of a large, successful and increasing
practice to the present time. He is one of the
attending Physicians at the Mary Fletcher Hos
pital, and stands high in his profession and as a
citizen. He is a member of the Burlington
Clinical Society, and of the Vermont State
Medical Society. He is a member of Hamilton

s. E. maynard.
Lodge, Independent Order ot Odd Fellows, and
the Knights of Ancient Escenic Order. He is
also a member of the Lambda Iota College frater
nity and of the Delta Mu Medical fraternity. He
was married October 22 1895, to Martha C. Field.
They have one child : Norma F. Maynard.

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McMAHON, Cornelius L., Merchant, Stowe,
son of Patrick and Catherine McMahon, was
born in Stowe, Vermont, September g, 1853. His
father was a teacher and later a farmer, and held

C. L. McM-AHON.
many public offices. C. L. McMahon 's educa
tion was obtained in the district schools and
the high school. At the age of eighteen he
entered the store of E. C. Mower of Stowe, Ver
mont, as a clerk. After serving seven years in
that capacity he formed a partnership with J. E.
Miles, and bought Mr. Mower's stock and store.
Since that time their business has trebled. Their
stock is one of the largest in the state outside
the cities, embracing all lines of general mer
chandise. They also deal extensively in agri
cultural produce. Mr. McMahon is an expert
judge of maple sugar and is the largest dealer
in that famous Green Mountain product in the
state. He was one of the founders of the Ver
mont Maple Sugar Maker's Association. In 1888
he built and equipped a creamery in the centre
of the village of Stowe, which he has since sold,
and which has been a great stimulus to the dairy
business. His firm has also been engaged in the
manufacture of butter tubs and boxes. He was
active in securing the construction of the electric

railroad between Waterbury and Stowe, and is
Vice-President of the Mount Mansfield Electric
Railroad Company. He was elected a Director
ofthe Waterbury National Bank, January i, i8g6.
Mr. McMahon has held several town offices and
was nominated for State Senator from Lamoille
county in i8g6. In politics he is a Democrat.
He married Hattie M. Robinson, June 14, 1882.
They have four children: Harold, Ruth,Raeburn
and Donald McMahon. Mr. McMahon has
worked to build up his native town_of Stowe, and
is a man of great energy and executive ability.

MEAD, John Abner, President Howe Scale
Company, Rutland, only child of Roswell R. and
Lydia A. (Gorham) Mead, was born in Fair
Haven, Vermont, April 20, 1841. His ancestors
were English and the family is an ancient and
honorable one. There is, in Westminster Abbey,
a monument to the memory of Richard Mead,
M. D., one of his ancestors, who was the physi
cian of George II. , and of Queen Anne. Colonel
Richard K. Mead was Aide-de-Camp to General
Washington from 1777 to 1783. He was with
the Commander-in-Chief in all his principal
battles, and personally superintended the execu
tion of Major Andre. The Right Reverend
William Mead, Bishop of Virginia, was also of
the same family. Richard W. Mead, another
ancestor, born in Chester county, Pennsylvania,
in June, 1778, is said to have been the first
importer of Merino sheep into the United States.
The great-grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, Colonel James Mead, was the first white
settler in Rutland and in the Valley of Otter
Creek, and was descended from a Mead who
emigrated from England about 1642. He was
born at Horseneck, New York, August 25, 1730,
and married Mercy Holmes of that place. Having
purchased seven thousand acres of land, at six
cents an acre, along Otter Creek, and near the
falls at Center Rutland, he removed thither from
Manchester, Vermont, in September, 1769, with
his wife and eleven children and a .son-in-law.
He was the first Moderator, and first Selectman
of the town and first Representative to the first
Vermont Legislature of Rutland; also father of

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the first white child born in Rutland. The father
of John A. Mead was a successful merchant in West
Rutland, till his death in 1875. On the maternal
side of the Mead family the subject of this sketch
was the great-grandson of the Reverend Benajah
Roots, whose daughter Amelia married Abner, a
son of Colonel James Mead. Reverend Mr. Roots
was a prominent figure in the Rutland commu
nity from soon after 1771 to his death in 1787.
He was the first settled Pastor over the Congre
gational Church organized in 1773. In the
preface to his first sermon (which was printed)
he said he then knew of but one settled Congre
gational minister in the whole region of country
between Massachusetts and Canada and the

JOHN a. mead.
Hudson and Connecticut Rivers. At his home.
Reverend William Emerson of Concord, Massa
chusetts, breathed his last. Mr. Emerson was
the grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and
Army Chaplain in the Continenal Army under
General Gates. The Concord author has a letter
written to the church by Mr. Roots announcing
the fact of the decease. Mr. Roots was a grad
uate of Princeton College. John A. Mead was
educated in the common schools of West Rutland;
at Franklin Academy, Malone, New York, and at

Middlebury College, from which he graduated in
1864. In 1868 he received his diploma from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York
City. He was House Physician in the Kings
County Hospital for two years, when he removed
to Rutland, where he practiced medicine until
1888. At this time he was tendered a "Chair"
in the Medical Department of the University of
Vermont, but declined it, having decided to
retire from professional pursuits in order to give
his whole attention to his extensive busine.ss inter
ests. Previous to this he had been Surgeon-
General of the State on the staff of Governor
Proctor ; Medical Superintendent of the House
of Correction, and a Pension examiner for eight
years. He was Surgeon-General of the Vermont
State Encampment of the Grand Army of the
Republic in 1890. Doctor Mead is one of the
largest real estate owners in Rutland, and the
" Mead Building " is one of the largest business
blocks in Vermont. He has been Director
and Cashier in the old National Bank of
Rutland; Treasurer of the Rutland Railroad;
Director and Treasurer of the Addison Railroad;
Director of the Clement National Bank; Vice-
President and later President of the State Trust
Company; Director, Vice-President and later
President of the Merchants National Bank ; Presi
dent of the New England Fire Insurance
Company, of the R. E. Chase Manufacturing
Company, and of the John A. Mead Manufactur
ing Company; President ofthe Rutland Board of
Trade; and a Trustee of Middlebury College. In
1888 he reorganized the Howe Scale Company of
Rutland, Vermont, and is now President and
executive officer of that corporation, and by his
energy, perseverance and executive ability has
contributed largely to the success of this industry.
Doctor Mead was elected to the State Senate in
1892 by a large majority and served as chairman
of several committees. He was active in securing
a City Charter for Rutland and was elected its
first Mayor. During the War of the Rebellion,
Doctor Mead enlisted in Company K, Twelfth
Vermont Volunteers. At the close of the
Gettysburg Campaign he returned to college and
graduated in 1864. He was a member of the
staff of General Alger and of the staff of General

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Veazey when they were Commanders-in-Chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic. He is a mem
ber of Post Roberts, Grand Army ofthe Republic.
He was appointed by Governor Levi K. Fuller,
one of the Commissioners from the State of Ver
mont to the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago in 1893, and was also appointed by
Governor U. A. Woodbury Commissioner from
the State of Vermont to the Mexican National
Exposition of Industries and Fine Arts in 1895.
Doctor Mead has been most emphatically the
architect of his own fortunes. In politics he is a
Republican. He is a member of the First Con
gregational Church of Rutland, and for many
years has been chairman of its Executive Com
mittee. He is Vice-President of the Congrega
tional Club of Western Vermont. Doctor Mead
was united in marriage with Mary M. Sherman,
daughter of William N. Sherman, a prominent
citizen of Greenwich, Rhode Island, October 30,
1872. They have one child: Mary Sherman
Mead.

MILLIKEN, Clarence Wilton, Physician
Post Mills, was born in Trenton, Hancock
county, Maine, October 27, 1866, sonof Corne
lius Walter and Cassild Higgins (Cousens)
Milliken. His ancestry traces back to Sir Hugh
Milliken, of Aberdeen, Scotland, whose descen
dant, John Milliken, settled in Scarborough,
Maine, in 1719. The Cousens branch were of
Spanish descent, and were among the early
settlers of Maine. Mr. Milliken was educated
in the public schools and at Westbrook
Seminary, of Deering, Maine. He received
his first year of medical training at the Maine
Medical College, later going to Dartmouth Med
ical College, from which he graduated as
President of the class, November 21, 1894.
For one year he served as nurse at the Maine
General Hospital, and for six months at the
Boston City Hospital, securing thus a valuable
experience that the better equipped him for the
duties of his chosen profession. Doctor Milliken
located at Post Mills village, November 30,
1894, and is at present health officer of the
town of Thetford. He is Noble Grand of
Crystal Lake Lodge, No. 34, and Chief Patriarch

of Ridgeley Encarapraent, No. 12, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, Worshipful Master of
Jackson Lodge, No. 60, Free and Accepted
Masons, Vice President of Ompompanoosuc
Fish and Game Club, and is identified also with
the White River Medical Association and the
A. K. K. Fraternity of Dartmouth Medical Col
lege. He is an active member of the Post Mills

C. W, MILLIKEN.
Congregational church. He is Republican in
politics, but has never aspired to public office,
being busy and content in meeting the demands
of his calling. March 12, 1895, he married
Gertrude Eleanor Chapman, of Bethel, Maine.
Doctor Milliken has made his own way in life,
encouraged and guided by a noble mother, who
died just as her son's success was assured.

MERRILL, Olin, United States Collector,
Burlington, was born in Plainfield, Vermont,
March 11, 1854, son of Reverend Peter and
Caroline Merrill. He was educated in the pub
lic schools and at the Vermont Methodist
Seminary, at Montpelier, Vermont. He removed
to Enosburgh in 1873 and later became a mem
ber of the well known and successful manufac
turing house, the B. J. Kendall Company. He

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was Second Assistant Clerk of the Vermont
House of Representatives in 1878-80, and First
Assistant Clerk in 1882. In 1890, he repre
sented Enosburgh in the Vermont Legislature,
and in 1892 was elected State Senator from
Franklin county. He was Chairman of the
Railroad Comraission from 1894 to 1897. In

O. MERRILL.
i8g8 he was appointed by President McKinley,
Collector of Customs for the District of Ver
mont. He is a Republican in politics, has been
a member of the State Committee for several
years, and was its Chairman when the record-
breaking majorities of 1896 were rolled up. He
married Miss Helen Whitney of Burlington,
January, i8go. They have two daughters:
Annie, five years of age, and Helen Merrill,
two years of age.

MOORE, George Porter, Insurance and
Coal, St. Johnsbury, was born in Bradford,
Orange county, Vermont, September 4, 1842,
son of James Henry and Eliza (Heath) Moore.
His grandfather was Jasper Moore, great-grand
father was Daniel Moore, of Fairlee, Vermont,
who came from Londonderry, New Hampshire,
about 1785. His early education was obtained

in the common schools of Bradford, Bradford
Academy and at Newbury Seminary, in New
bury, Vermont. Upon the breaking out of the
Civil War he enlisted, then but nineteen years
of age, in the Bradford Guards, who were
among the first troops to leave the state. The
regiment rendezvoused at Rutland, Vermont, in
April, 1861, and from there went direct to
Newport News, Virginia. This was a three
months regiment and was in the battle of Big
Bethel. He re-enlisted August 5, 1862, in
Company A, Eleventh Vermont, and was mus
tered into United States service as Third
Sergeant, September i, 1862, afterwards trans
ferred to the First Vermont Heavy Artillery,
and was stationed on the defences of Washing
ton, at Fort Totten, where he remained until
May 12, 1864, when this regiment joined the Old
Vermont Brigade, Six Corps, Army of the

GEO. P. MOORE.
Potomac, and participated in their first engage
ment at Spotsylvania. Mr. Moore was also in
the battles at North Anna, Pamunkey River,
Hanover Court House, Cold Harbor, Peters
burg and Welden Railroad, and was taken
prisoner at the Welden Railroad engagement,
June 23, 1864. He was taken with others to the

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famous Libby Prison, in Richmond, Virginia,
from there he was transferred to Andersonville
Prison, Georgia, by the way of Lynchburg,
Virginia, marching seventy-five miles over the
mountains to Danville. He left that prison pen
November 2, for Milan, and then to Savannah,
where he was paroled and sent to Annapolis.
The subject of this sketch was a prisoner of
war about six months, reaching his home the
latter part of December, 1864. Not being able
to return to his regiment, he went to the hos
pital at Brattleboro. At the fall of Richmond
a national salute of one hundred guns was fired,
and Mr. Moore was detailed with others to fire
this salute at Brattleboro, by Major Austin, then
in command of eastern Vermont. In firing this
salute he lost his right arm, his left eye, and
the hearing of his left ear, he then was trans
ferred to Central Park Hospital, New York, and
mustered out of service August 17, 1865. He
entered the grocery business in St. Johnsbury,
in September, 1865, forming a co-partnership
with H. P. Hoyt, in January, 1866, and carried
on the grocery and hardware trade. In July,
1866, he sold his interest to H. R. Drew and
entered into the hat, cap and gentlemen's fur
nishing goods trade, and continued this business
from October, 1866, to June, 1875, when he took
A.C. Harvey as partner and added clothing to his
former business, establishing what was known as
the Boston Clothing Store, and carried on this
trade till March, 1886, when he disposed of his
interest to his partner, A. C. Harvey. In July,
1886, he established a general Insurance
Agency, and in 1888 put in a stock of coal, and
is conducting these two branches,of business at
the present time. Mr. Moore was a Trustee of
the Village of St. Johnsbury for two years,
i8g5 and i8g6. He was instrumental in the
organization of the Board of Trade, and has
been a member since it was organized, and was
one of the Directors for three years. He is an
Odd Fellow, and a member of Chamberlain
Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Republic. He
is a Republican, and his first ballot was cast for
Abraham Lincoln. On March 18, 1864, he mar
ried Harriet Jane Gilkerson; they have three
children: Ellis Walker, age 31, George Henry,
age 2g, and Hattie Eliza Moore, age 26 years.

O'SULLIVAN, Daniel Joseph, Clergyman,
was born in Winooski, Vermont, January 14,
1853, his parents being John and Margaret
(McAvoy) O'SuUivan. The subject of this sketch
was educated in the parochial schools of Burling
ton, entering the Sulpitian College, Montreal,
in September, 1865, and graduating therefrom in
June, 1873. He studied theology in the Grand
Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained to the
Priesthood in Winooski, his native village,
December 21, 1876. Father O'SuUivan wassent
as Curate to the parish of Brandon, Vermont, in
January, 1877, and labored extensively in the

D. J. O SULLIVAN.
lake towns of Addison county for four years. In
1 88 1 he was appointed Pastor at White River
Junction, Vermont, with missions at Wells River,
Ely Mines, Woodstock and Windsor, at which
last named place he built the pretty church of
St. Francis. In 1882, on account of health
impaired by overwork, he resigned that pastorate
and traveled considerably in Europe, Africa and
Palestine. From 188410 i8gi Father O'SuUivan
was President of St. Joseph's College, at Bur
lington. In i8gi he was appointed Irremovable
Pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Con
ception, St. Albans, Vermont, and was, in that

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same year, one of the three priests selected as
candidates for the See of Burlington. He is a
member of the Roman Catholic Corporation of
the Diocese of Burlington, and of the Bishop's
Council.

PAGE, Carroll S., Ex-Governor, Hyde
Park, son of Russell S. and Martha (Smalley)
Page, was born in Westfield, Vermont, January
10, 1843. His parents- were both natives of
Hyde Park and returned to that town in 1846,
where C. S. Page has since resided. His edu
cation was obtained in the public schools and at
the People's Academy at Morrisville, the
Lamoille county Grammar School at Johnson
and the Lamoille Central Academy at Hyde
Park. Although selecting a business career, he
has always been active in public affairs. In
i86g, at the age of twenty six years, he repre
sented Hyde Park in the Vermont Legislature
and was re-elected in 1870. He was State
Senator from Lamoille county in 1874-76; was
State Inspector of P'inance from 1884 to 1888;
and Governor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892.
Governor Page has always been an active Repub
lican. From 1872 to 1889 he was a member of
the Republican State Committee, serving during
the greater part of that time either as Secretary
and Treasurer or Chairman. He was a delegate
to the Republican National Convention at Chi
cago in 1880. He has been active in many
public enterprises of his state, not only political
but educational. For more than a quarter of a
century he has been a member of the Board of
Trustees of Lamoille Central Academy. He is
also a member of the Board of Trustees of
Brigham Academy at Bakersfield. He is Vice-
President of the Vermont Humane Society, of
the New England Sunday Protective Associa
tion, ofthe Morgan Horse Breeders 'Association,
and the Champlain Valley Fair Association, and
he is the present President of the Vermont
Development Association. In 1892 Norwich
University conferred upon him the degree of
LL. D. Mr. Page's widest reputation is as a
dealer in calf skins. His business in this line
is generally regarded as the largest in the world,
extending not only through the United States

and Canada but to Europe and Asia. He is at
present President of the Lamoille County
National Bank, of the Lamoille County Savings
Bank and Ttust Company; of the Hyde Park
Hotel Company, of the Fife Lumber Company,
Treasurer of the Buck Lumber Company, the
Morse Manufacturing Company, the Hyde Park
Lumber Company, and Director of the St.
Johnsbury & Lake Champlain R. R. He has
for many years touched the life of the commu
nity in which he has resided at many points,
and always in such a way as to command

C. S. PAGE.
respect as a man of high executive ability and
force of character. He was married April 11,
1865, to Ellen F'rances, daughter of Theophilus
Hull and Desdemona (Jackson) Patch, of John
son, Vermont. They have three children:
Theophilus Hull, born December 22, 1871;
Russell Smith, born April 19, 1877; and Alice
Page, born June 5, 1879. Their grandchildren,
sons of Theophilus Hull Page, are Carroll G.,
born May 8, 1894; and Proctor H. Page, born
March 14, i8g6.

PARKER, Joseph Chase, Quechee, Manufac
turer, was born in Plainfield, Sullivan county.

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New Hampshire, October 28, 1823, son of Jo.seph
and Mary Parker; and died in Quechee, June 21,
1898. His paternal grandfather came from
Swanzy, New Hampshire, and was a Revolution
ary pensioner. His mother's father came from

J. C. PARKER,
Acton, Massachusetts, both families settling in
Vermont in about 1 780. Mr. Parker was educated
in the district schools. When he was fourteen
years old his father moved from Plainfield to
Barre, Vermont. Here young Parker worked on
a farm until twenty-one jears of age. Six years
later he went into the woolen manufacturing
business at Barre, for himself. This was in 1849,
and he carried on that industry there until 1857,
when he removed to Quechee, where he started
the woolen business, and where he was busily
engaged for forty-one years. In 1866 William
Lindsay and W. S. Dewey became members of
the firm, but in 1878 the latter sold out his inter
est, and J. Walter Parker, son of the subject of
this sketch, became a partner. The firm name
is now J. C. Parker & Company. For eleven
years previous to Mr. Parker's taking it in hand
the mill was idle, its former history being a suc
cession of failures, but since being started by
him, it has had continuous success. In 1869 the

main building was washed out by the floods,
entailing an expense for repairs of over seven
ty-five thousand dollars. Mr. Parker was also
extensively engaged in farming and in the lum
bering business, as well as conducting large flour
and grain mills, known as the Quechee Flour
Mills. He had about sixteen hundred acres of
farming land, forty cows, five hundred sheep
and nearly a hundred horses, indulging in agri
culture as a pastime. He represented Barre in
the Legislature in 1858, and Hartford in 1867
and 1868. In 1874 he was elected Senator from
Windsor county. He was appointed a Director
of the State Prison and House of Correction in
1878, and held that position for four years,being
reappointed in 1886 and continuing in that official
capacity until 1894. He has also held several
town offices. He was a Director of the National
Bank of White River Junction for the past ten
years, and also Director of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society for the last twenty years,
having been its Treasurer for fifteen years past.
He was identified with the Masonic fraternity,
and in politics was a Republican. Mr. Parker
was married January 22, 1852, to Emily E.,
daughter of Deacon Earl Ward, of Duxbury,
Vermont. They had two children: J. Walter
and Mary Elizabeth Parker.

PARKER, Myron M., Washington, District
of Columbia, son of Melvin V. and Emeline
(Story) Parker; was born in Fairfax, Vermont,
November 7, 1843. He is of Revolutionary
lineage, being a grandson of Robert and Sophia
(Cross) Parker; a great-grandson of Robert
Parker, who was a private soldier in the Revolu
tionary War; and a great-great-grandson of
Joseph Cross, who served at Lexington and
Bunker Hill. His great-grandfather, John Cressy,
served with the Continental Army at White
Plains, Brandywine, Germantown and Yorktown.
His early education was received in the public
schools and at Fort Edward, New York, Colle
giate Institute. He was preparing for College
when the Civil War broke out, but obeying his
country 's call he left school and enlisted in the
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which regiment, with its record of seventy-four
battles and engagements, he shared until the
close of the War. Leaving the Army with an
honorable record, he was soon after, in 1865,
appointed to a clerkship in the War Department
at Washington. He took up meantime, the
study of the law. He graduated from the Law
Department of Columbian Univensity in 1887, and
was admitted to the Bar ofthe District of Colum
bia the same year. In 1880 he accepted the
appointment of Assistant Postmaster of the City
of Washington. He practiced law, and in 1880
he became actively interested in the real estate
business, which he has conducted with ample suc-

M. M. PARKER.
cess. A sound and substantial business man, he
has been largely identified with the growth and
prosperity of the National Capital, and has been
called into many positions of high responsibility
and trust. He is a Director in the Columbia
National Bank; in the American Security and
Trust Company; in the Columbia Fire Insurance
Company; in the Columbia Title Insurance Com
pany; in the United States Electric Lighting Com
pany; in the Atlantic Building Company; in the
Union Building Company and other corporations.

He was the first President of the Washington
Board of Trade, holding the office for several years.
He was appointed a Commissioner of the District
of Columbia by President Harrison in 1893. He
is a Trustee of Columbian University; a Director
of the Washington Hospital for Foundlings, and
of the Emergency Hospital, and President of the
Washington Training School for Nurses. He is
Secretary of the Washington Memorial Associa
tion, and was one ofthe Board of Management of
the District of Columbia Society of Sons of the
American Revolution in 1891. He is prominent
in the Masonic Order, having been Grand Master
for the District of Columbia in 1884 and 1885,
and in that capacity officiated at the dedication of
the Washington Monument. In 1889 he was
made Chairman of the Committee having in
charge the ceremonies incident to the Twenty-
fourth Triennial Conclave of the Knights
Templar of the United States. He was Vice-
Chairman of the Centennial Inaugural Committee
at the Inauguration of President Harrison, March
4, 1889, and commanded a division ofthe grand
parade. He is a member of the Century Club,
the Chevy Chase Club, the Woodmont Rod and
Gun Club, the Tobique Salmon Club of New
Brunswick, and of the American Institute of
Civics. He was an Aide-de-Camp with the rank
of Colonel on the staff of Governor Woodbury of
Vermont, and holds the same position on the staff
of Governor Grout. In politics he is a Republi
can and is a member of the Republican National
Committee for the District of Columbia. He
accompanied Senator Redfield Proctor of Ver
mont on his memorable trip to Cuba, just before
the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, and
returned from it convinced that it was the duty of
the United States to put an end to Spanish
oppressions and barbarities in that island, by
force of arms. In 1876, Colonel Parker married
MissNeUie L., daughter of Gaylord Griswold,
who was a graduate of West Point and an officer
in the regular army. Mrs. Parker is a grand
daughter of the late General 'F. E. Spinner, who
was for so many years Treasurer of the United
States. Four children have been born to them:
Hattie G., Louise L., Myron M., and Ruth
Parker.

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PETERSON, Charles Gilbert, Merchant,
Burlington, son of George and Sharley G.
(Day) Peterson, was born in Burlington, Ver
mont, F'ebruary 20, 1844. His paternal ances
tors came from Scotland and his maternal
ancestors from Wales. Mr. Peterson's mother
was a descendant of Robert Day, born about
1604, who came to this country in April, 1634,
with his wife, Mary, on the bark Elizabeth,
from Ipswich, England, and landed at Boston.
His wife died soon after arriving at Cambridge.
Robert was made a freeman in 1635. ^n 1636
Robert Day and one hundred others accom
panied their pastor. Reverend Mr. Hooker,

C. G. PETERSON.
through the wilderness to Hartford, Connecti
cut. Robert married a sister of Deacon Edward
Stebbins (or Stebbing) of Hartford, for his
second wife, and died in 1648. In a book of
Heraldry containing the arms of William Day,
B. D., Provost of Eaton College, and Dean of
Windsor, it is stated that he was confirmed by
William Flower Nocroy, October 21, 1582, in
the twenty-fourth year of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth; and it is further stated that he was
" descended from the Dees of Wales, being
younger son of Richard Day, who was the

son of Nicholas Day, the son of John Dee
(called by the English Daye) who was a son of
Morgan Dee, younger brother of Richard Dee,
Welshman." Stephen Day of Cambridge was
the first printer in this country, beginning busi
ness in 1639. Wentworth Day of Boston, a
member of the Artillery Company in 1640, was
a Surgeon at Cambridge in 1652, and saved
the life of a woman who was accused of
being a witch. (Hale's Witchcraft, page 65.)
The mother of C. G. Peterson was born
February 11, 1809. She was the daughter of
Sylvester Day, of Royalton, Vermont, who was
born May 17, 1770, and was the sixth genera
tion removed from the Hartford branch of the
family. He died July 26, 1813, age forty three
years. Sylvester's father, Benjamin second,
was born September 13, 1736 at Colchester,
Connecticut. He removed to Hebron, Connec
ticut, and, in 1774, to Royalton, Vermont. He
died January 26, 18 n, aged seventy-nine years.
Benjamin second, was the son of Benjamin, who
was the son of John second, who was the son of
John, who was the son of Robert Day. C. G.
Peterson's parents were married June 29, 1836.
Five children were born to them. Charles, the
youngest, and his brother B. D. Peterson, who
is in business at No. 5 India street, Boston,
Massachusetts, are the only children now living.
Mr. Peterson's father died in 1868, and his
mother in 1878. Mr. Peterson obtained his
education in tbe schools of Burlington, finishing
it in the High School. He was in the South
from 1862 to 1864, and being among large bodies
of men had an excellent opportunity to study
human nature, and later went into the United
States pension agency under General Barstow,
acting as a clerk for nearly eleven years, seven
years being spent in Burlington, Vermont, and
nearly four in Concord, New Hampshire. He
then went to Buffalo, New York, where he was
employed in the Tariff Department of the
American Express Company. After four years
spent in Buffalo, he returned to Burlington,
Vermont, and engaged in the sale of crockery,
glass and silver ware, wall paper, and lamp
goods, in which he has continued ever since.
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does a wholesale and retail business. He has
an extensive trade in Vermont and Northern
New York. Mr. Peterson is the Regent of
Mansfield Council Royal Arcanum, Past Grand
of Hamilton Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
F'ellows; Past Chief Patriarch of Green Moun
tain Encampment, Independent Order of Odd
FeUows; Past Grand Scribe of the Grand
Encampment of Vermont, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and one of the charter members;
Past Secretary Washington Lodge, and Burling
ton Chapter, Free and Accepted Masons; Past
Recorder of Burlington Commandery Knights
Templar; a raember of the Amercan Academy
of Political and Social Sciences of Philadelphia;
a member of the American Society for the
Extension of University Teaching of Philadel
phia. In politics he is a Republican and was a
delegate from the City of Burlington to the State
Convention in 1877, a delegate from the city to
the county convention in 1898. Mr. Peterson
married Laura A. Martin, July 23, 1867. Three
children have been born to them: Nellie M.;
George, who is a chemist residing in New York
city; and Lucia C. Peterson.

PHILLIPS, George Whitefield, Congrega
tional Minister, Rutland, Vermont, son of Joshua
and Julia (Stone) Phillips, was born at Hubbard-
ston, Massachusetts, July 5, 1836. His paternal
grandfather and great-grandfather fought side by
side in the Revolutionary War. Hismaternal ances
try is justly distinguished among the early settlers
of New England. Gregory Stone was one of the
original proprietors and inhabitants of Cambridge,
Ma.ssachusetts, his farm being the site of the
present Mt. Auburn Cemetery. The Stone family
number many names of respectability and promi
nence in civil, military and church affairs. Dr.
Phillips fitted for college in the common schools
and at brief intervals in Worcester, (Massachu
setts) Academy, working his way to an education.
His college training was that of Amherst, from
which he graduated in the class of 1861. After
teaching school one term he entered Andover
Theological Seminary, from which he was gradu
ated in 1864. In October ofthe same year he

received ordination, and was installed Pastor of
the Congregational Church at Hay denville, Mass
achusetts, In 1867 he became Pastor of the F'irst
Congregational Church, Columbus, Ohio, and in
1 87 1 he accepted the Pastorate of Plymouth
Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, then at the
beginning of its history. And it was here that he
led the new enterprise through its period of organ
ization and the building of a substantial granite
church, among the largest and best in New Eng
land. In 1886 he received and accepted a call to
the Congregational Church in Rutland, Vermont,
where he was installed June 17, of that year, and

G. W. PHILLIPS.
of which church he remains the esteemed Pastor
at the present time. In 1887 the honorary degree
of D. D. was conferred on him by two colleges.
Doctor Phillips is a corporate member of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions. He was a charter member ofthe Second
Congregational Club formed in this country, as
also of the Congregational Club of Western Ver
mont, in the organization of which he took an
active interest. In politics Doctor Phillips has
always acted with the Republican party. He was
united in marriage September 14, 1864, with Sarah
E. Ball of Amherst, Massachusetts. Their only

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living child, Le Roy Phillips, graduated at
Amherst in 1892, has chosen his career as pub
lisher, and is in the well known house of Ginn &
Company, Boston. Dr. Phillips has enjoyed the
confidence and esteem of his people, and never
more so than among his present parish at Rutland.
As counsellor and friend his presence and sympa
thy are often sought. As Pastor of the largest
church in the state, the churches of the vicinage
and beyond it are accustomed to seek his advice,
and not a few are debtors to his ready and help
ful offices. He may be fairly reckoned one of the
leaders of the Vermont Congregational body.

Rutland; they have two children: Kenneth Roys
Pond and Adela Morse Pond. Although young
in years. Doctor Pond has been very successful
in his career, having had a majority of the
surgical cases in Rutland and surrounding towns
under his charge. He has written a large num
ber of articles on surgery, which have received

POND, Edmund Morse, Physician, Rutland,
was born in that town, in Rutland county, Ver
mont, June 2, 1865, son of Doctor Erasmus
Arlington and Adela Malvina (Morse) Pond.
His father was a graduate of Harvard Medical
School and the inventor of Pond's sphygmo-
graph, which has been used all over the world; he
was also a very prominent Thirty-second degree
Mason. His grandfather was Goldsbury Pond,
Jr., of Franklin, Massachusetts. The subject
of this sketch was educated in the graded and
high schools of Rutland, and graduated from
Bellevue Medical College in 1889. For several
years after leaving school he studied with his
father. Since graduation he has practiced medi
cine in Rutland, making a specialty of surgery.
In 1890 he went to Europe, where he took a
course of study along that particular line, and
he has always been remarkably successful in
surgical operations. In 189 1 Doctor Pond was
elected a meraber of the Araerican Association
of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. In 1895 he
was Vice-President of the Vermont State Medi
cal Society and President ofthe Rutland County
Medical Society. He is now Surgeon to the
Rutland Hospital, and Consulting Surgeon to the
Proctor Hospital. He is a Mason, and a mem
ber of the Center Lodge, of Rutland. He is not
active in politics, but votes the Republican
ticket. July 8, i88g, he was married to Maud
Raddin, of Chelsea, Massachusetts, who died on
the eighteenth day of the same month. October
14 ]8gi, he married Harriet Louise Roys, of

E. M, POND.
wide spread attention from the fraternity —
among them a treatise on Appendicitis, which
was published in the Medical Record of New
York, April 23 of this year. He is highly
spoken of by the medical profession in his native
town, as well as by the leading citizens, who
look upon him as the coming man in his chosen
field of labor.

READ, Lavant Murray, Judge, Bellows
Falls, son of Charles Davis and Olive Charlotte
(Willard) Read, was born in Wardsboro, Ver
mont, December 26, 1842. He was educated in
the common schools of Wardsboro and in Leland
and Gray Seminary at Townshend. He engaged
in the War for the Union as a member of Com
pany H., Second Vermont Volunteers, in 1863 ;
was in the battles of Rappahannock Station,
Mine Run, and other battle fields where the First

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Vermont Brigade gained imperishable renown.
He was severely wounded in the bloody battle
of the Wilderness in May, 1863, and will bear
to his grave the marks received in that struggle.
Late in 1864 he was transferred to the Veteran
Reserve Corps, by reason ofhis wounds, and was
finally mustered out of the service in August,
1865. He studied law with Hon. Hoyt H.
Wheeler, then of Jamaica, Vermont, and was
admitted to the Bar in 1869, at the April term of
the Windham County Court. He then formed
a partnership with Hon. Hoyt H. Wheeler and
began practice at Jamaica. In 1872 Mr. Read

lavant m. read.
removed to Bellows Falls, where he has contin
ued the practice of his profession to the present
time. He was elected Judge of Probate for the
District of Westminster in 1876, and has held the
office continuously ever since. He held the
office of State's Attorney of Windham county in
1880 and 1882. He represented the town of
Rockingham in the Legislatures of 1892 and
1894, serving as Chairman of the Judiciary Com
mittee during the latter term. Judge Read was
the first Commander of E. H. Stoughton Post,
No. 34, Grand Army of the Republic, and was
twice re-elected. He has been a member of

Mount Lebanon Lodge, Free and Accepted
Masons, of Jamaica, of which he was Master for
four successive terms. He was elected Grand
Master of the Grand Lodge in 1878, and held
that position until 1881. He was the first Dic
tator of the Subordinate lodge of Knights of
Honor, and also Grand Dictator of the Grand
Lodge. He has served upon the Committee
appointed by the Supreme Court upon admissions
to the Bar ; and was, in 1892, elected President
of the Vermont Bar Association. In politics he
is a staunch Republican. He was a candidate
for nomination for Congress, in the Republican
Convention of the Second Vermont District,
receiving one hundred and seventy votes out of
a total of three hundred and ninety-six. He
was married December 13, 1876, to Sarah A.,
daughter of Jared R. and Sarah J. Perkins, of
Bellows Falls. They have one daughter: Mary
Alice Read, born Janu iry 25, 1878.

ROBERTS, Daniel, Lawyer, Burlington, son
of Daniel and Almira Roberts, who were natives
of Litchfield county, Connecticut, and came to
Wallingford, Rutland county, Vermont, early in
the century. Daniel, sr. , was the son of a
Revolutionary soldier and was early left an
orphan. The subject of this sketch was the
fifth often children, born at Wallingford, Ver
mont, May 25, 181 1. He entered Middlebury
College at fourteen years of age, graduating in
the classof 1829; studied law with Hon. Harvey
Button, of Wallingford, and was admitted to
the Bar of the Rutland County Court at the
September term, 1832. In November he started
out " to seek his fortune," with ninety dollars
in his pocket. He went by stage to vSchenec-
tady. New York, took a canal boat for Buffalo,
got frozen in near Rochester, went by stage to
Ashtabula, Ohio, and across the state of Ohio to
Beaver, Pennsylvania, on the Ohio River, took
deck passage among a throng of German emi
grants down the Ohio and Mississippi. He
stopped a while at Grand Gulf and at Natchez,
where he was admitted to the Bar on public
examination in court. Robert J. Walker was
then a prominent lawyer at that Bar. After
spending the month of February, 1833, in New

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Orleans, the young traveller went up the Missis
sippi on the steamer Yellow Stone, one of the
boats ofthe St. Louis Fur Company, which passed
its winters in the lower Mississippi trade and
made its annual trip to the Yellow Stone in the
Indian fur trade. He endeavored to secure a
chance in the spring voyage, but could not.
His disappoinment was his good fortune, as
was probably his departure from New Orleans,
for the cholera prevailed severely there dur
ing the season of 1833 and made sad havoc
on the steamer on her mountain trip. Stop
ping at St. Louis and straying into the

DANIEL ROBERTS.
court house there, he was charmed by the
eloquence of Edward Bates (afterwards United
States Attorney General and member of Presi
dent Lincoln's cabinet) in the defence of a
half-breed Indian girl who had stabbed and
killed her lover. The jury wept, and having,
under Missouri law the right of determining the
punishment, they gave her, "poor Indian
Margaret," three months in the county jail.
Landed at Naples on the Illinois River, then in
Scott county, Illinois, he sought out his kins

folk at Winchester. He spent that season in
the woods, hunting squirrels and wild turkeys,
and getting the ague as compensation. He
then went to Jacksonville, Illinois, where he
encountered his class-mate, afterwards the
Reverend Doctor Truman M. Post of St. Louis,
then a tutor in Illinois College. He formed a
business connection with Murray McConnell
(long afterwards murdered in his office).
Stephen A. Douglas taught the winter school in
Winchester in 1833-34, came in the spring to
Jacksonville, and was admitted to the Bar
before he was of age, and started at once for
the Presidency of the United States. He took
to politics as a duck to water, bought him a suit
of Kentucky jeans, hob-nobbed with the border
Democracy like one "to the manner born."
Elected Attorney-General, Mr. Roberts remem
bers him as he started out on his circuit, astride
of a three-year-old colt, his short legs reaching
hardly below the saddle-skirts, and in his saddle
bags his whole library, consisting of a book on
•criminal law, which young Roberts had loaned
him. In the summer of 1835 Mr. Roberts came
home on a visit, which he has never finished.
In the spring of 1835 he took the office and
business of Milo L. Bennett, of Manchester
(afterwards a Judge of the Supreme Court), and
remained in practice at Manchester until the
spring of 1856 (twenty years), when he removed
to Burlington, where he formed a law partner
ship with Lucius E. Chittenden, Esq., afterwards
Register of the Treasury and now a lawyer in
New York city. He has been in practice in
Burlington for forty-two years and over, it being
now sixty-six years since his admission to the
Bar, and making more than sixty-two years of
active law practice in this state. His name
first appears in the state reports in the case of
Kimpton vs. Walker, Ninth Vermont Reports,
one hundred and ninety-one (February term,
1837), an 1 appears in every volume since, up to
and including the seventieth. He has not
had much to do with pubic office. His ear
liest politics were strongly anti-slavery, as
a Liberty party man. Free Soiler, etc., for
which reason if no other, office did not seek
him. However, he was Bank Commissioner

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during the years 1853 and 1854 and from the
spring of 1865 to the spring of 1866 was a
Special Agent of the United States Treasury
Department, and for one year, i868-6g, was
State's Attorney for Chittenden county. In
1869, during the first term of President Grant's
administration, he was offered the position of
Solicitor of the United States Treasury Depart
ment, but declined the offer; from 1870 to 1872
he was City Attorney of Burlington, and again
in 1880. Although never in the Legislature,
Mr. Roberts has been of marked influence in
shaping the laws of the state. His hand is
clearly seen throughout the general statutes by
those familiar with their history and develop
ment. In particular he has been instrumental
in securing by statute simplification of the
ancient rules of criminal pleadings, and in
enlarging the property rights of married women.
His views upon law reform he developed at
length in an address before the Vermont Bar
Association, as President thereof, in 1880. In
1878, under a contract made with the Judges of
the Supreme Court, by authority of the Legis
lature, he completed a digest of the decisions
ofthe Supreme Court down to and including
Volume forty-eight of the Vermont Report,
entitled Robert's Vermont Digest. This work
is accepted among the profession in Vermont as
a model digest for its terseness and accuracy of
statement and for bringing out the very point of
decision. It is not uncommon for the Judges
of the Supreme Court to cite \\. per se, instead of
cases, as authority. In i88g he published a
supplement to this digest, embracing Volumes
forty-nine to sixty inclusive. At the Vermont
centennial celebration at Bennington, August
16, 1877, he was selected as orator of the occa
sion. The oration is a valuable historical
document and a good specimen of Mr. Roberts'
impressive and scholarly style. In i87g, at the
semi-centennial gathering of his college class at
Middlebury College commencement, he received
the degree of LL. D. Besides his engagements
in the United States Circuit Court Mr. Roberts's
practice has been mainly .in the counties of
Chittenden, Rutland, Addison and Bennington.
Although his cases have been of the infinite

variety that fall to the docket of most attorneys
outside the large cities, they have been chiefly
such as seek the aid of counsel who have the
reputation for legal scholarship and eloquent
advocacy. Among the criminal cases in which
Mr. Roberts appeared, and which have some
d-amatic interests or involved some interesting
legal principle, may be named the following:
State vs. Archibald Bates, Bennington county.
Mr. Roberts and Harmon Canfield, then both
fresh at the Bar, were assigned by Chief Justice
Williams to defend Bates for murder by shooting
his brother's wife through the window at night
while she was sitting nursing her child. They
achieved all the success possible in the case by
a verdict of guilty. Bates was hung on Ben
nington HiU, in the presence of a great multitude,
on February 8, i83g. This was the last public
execution in Vermont. Since that time, by a
change in the law, all executions have been
within the walls of the state prison. Mr.
Roberts has said of this trial, that although he
defended the prisoner with all the earnestness
possible, he never spoke to him before or during
or after the trial, nor went to see him hung.
Purcell and Costello, at the June term, 1863,
v/ere indicted jointly for the murder of a brother
Irishman by stabbing him at night on the way
down from the Dorset Mountain quarries. They
were all drunk. Purcell demanded and was
allowed a separate trial, and was defended by
Mr. Roberts. It was absolutely certain that
one of the two committed the murder, but it
was uncertain which, and there was no evidence
of a combination to kill. Purcell was acquitted
because of the uncertainty, and because on that
trial it appeared most probable that the respond
ent did the stabbing. Costello was tried at a
subsequent term and acquitted for like reasons,
by making it appear as most probable that Pur
cell was the guilty party. Each verdict was
clearly right, and yet the result of the two was
the acquittal of a murderer; but which was he?
State vs. McDonald, thirth-second Vermont
Report, four hundred and ninety-one, is a lead
ing case involving the law of homicide. Mr.
Roberts's brief in the case is particularly pointed,
and the opinion of Chief Justice Redfield is

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worth study. On a second trial of McDonald
he was very properly convicted of manslaughter
and sent to state prison for life, where he died
of consumption. Any extended citation of civil
causes, in which Mr. Roberts has been engaged,
would have but little interest to the unprofes
sional reader. Such as went to the Supreme
Court and were reported are scattered through
sixty two volumes of state reports, aud the
record is to be found there. In July, 1837, he
was married to Caroline, daughter of Reverend
Stephen Martindale of Wallingford, who died
on June 14, 1886. There are four children-
Mary, Caroline M., Stephen M., and Robert
Roberts. Of the sons, Stephen is a physician,
and Robert is a lawyer, associated with his
father in practice, under the firm name of
Roberts & Roberts.

ROBERTSON, John, Bellows Falls, son of
William and Chrissie (Ross) Robertson, was
born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 4, 1824.

JOHN ROBERTSON.
He comes of Scotch ancestry. His education
was obtained in the common schools. In 1842,
he went into the business of manufacturing paper,
in company with his father and continued in it

until his death. At the time of his death
he was interested in the firms of John Robertson
& Son, the Robertson Paper Company and W.
A. Cole & Company. At different times he rep
resented the towns of Putney and Rockingham
in the Vermont Legislature. He was a member
of the Masonic fraternity and a Republican in
politics. Mr. Robertson wasunited in marriage
with Nancy J. Black, October 5, 1846. Six
children were born to them: Mary C; Charles
E.; Helen C, deceased: Jennie C, deceased;
Lizzie A.; Jennie M. In October, 1888, he was
married to Stella M. Dana, who died June 16,
1892, leaving one child, Marion D., deceased.
In December, 1893, he united in marriage to Mrs.
Martha Taylor Pixley, who survives him. Mr.
Robertson died at Palm Beach, Florida, Feb
ruary 28, i8g8.

ROBINSON, Nathaniel, Farmer, Stowe, was
born in that town, in Lamoille county, Vermont,
October g, 1820, son of Joseph and Hannah
(Perkins) Robinson. His father was a practicing
physician in Stowe for about fifty years, and died
in 1871, aged eighty-four years. His ancestors
were residents, for many years, of Westminster,
Vermont. His paternal grandfather, Noah Rob
inson, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War,
and his maternal grandfather served as Captain
in the militia and went with his company to
Plattsburgh, New York, in 1814. Mr. Robinson
was educated in the common schools of Stowe,
with one term in the Academy in Montpelier.
As a boy he worked on a farm, and also served
a three years apprenticeship ina country store,
from 1837 to 1840. He was engaged withothers
in carrying on a general store from 1845 to 1849.
Having considerable musical abUity, he learned
to play on the violin, and for ten years was the
successful leader of an orchestra in his native
place, officiating at many ot the old-time dances.
Since then he has carried on a small farm. Mr.
Robinson has been called on to occupy several
important civil positions. He was First Select
man ofhistown from 1865 to 1871; Lister in 1852,
1855 and 1856, 186C-61, and 1806-67. Repre
sented Stowe in the Legislatures of 1854 and
1855, Postmaster from January, 1841, to Novem-

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ber, 1849,
1885. Poll
man, and

and again from March, 186 r, to June,
tically he was at first an Anti-slavery
a Free Soiler, and is now an ardent

NATHANIEL ROBINSON.

Republican. He was married, in January, 1849,
to Fanny Wilkins; they have one child: Ella
Annette Robinson.

ROWELL, John W., Attorney, Randolph,
was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, June g,
1835. The early education of Judge Rowell
was received in the common schools and at the
West Randolph Academy, where he was pre
pared for admission to college a yearin advance.
He was prevented by circumstances from grad
uating, and, choosing the profession of law, he
entered upon its study in 1856 in the office of
Jefferson P Kidder, Ex-Lieutenant Governor
of Vermont, and afterward one of the Judges of
the Supreme Court of Dakota and a delegate
from that Territory to Congress. From 1857 to
the winter of 1858 he studied in the office of
Judge Edmund Weston, and also attended a
course of lectures in the law college established
by Judge Hayden and othergentlemen at Poland,
Ohio. He was admitted to the Bar of Orange

county at the June term, 1858, and at once asso
ciated himself with Judge John B. Hutchinson
for the practice of law. This connection con
tinued until the latter part of i85g when Judge
Hutchinson accepted the position of Cashier of
the Northfield Bank, which position he held
until i86i,and then returned to Randolph for the
purpose of resuming the partnership with his
old business associate. This new relation lasted
until 1866, when it was dissolved by reason of
the ill-health of Judge Hutchinson. Mr. Rowell
removed to Chicago in February, 1870, and
formed a partnership with John Hutchinson,
formerly United States Consul at Nice. In
September, 1871, he returned to Randolph and
resumed practice in his old home, where he has
since continued to reside. Judge Rowell repre
sented the town of Randolph in the General
Assembly of Vermont during the legislative
session of 186 1 and 1862, and was distinguished

JOHN W. ROWELL.
as the youngest member of the House save one.
He served during both sessions on the Judiciary
Committee, and also rendered good service on
various other committees. In 1862 and 1863 he
was State's Attorney for Orange county. In
1874 he was elected a State Senator from Orange

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county and served as Chairman of the Committee
on the Asylum for the Insane as well as on the
Committee ou the Judiciary. From 1872 he was
for eight years reporter of the decisions of the
Supreme Court. Mr. Rowell by his learning in
the law and his great skill in active practice
had become one of the leaders of the Vermont
Bar, when on January 11, 1882, Governor Farn
ham appointed him Sixth Assistant Judge ofthe
Supreme Court. This appointment was to fill a
vacancy on the bench occasioned by promotions
consequent upon the death of Chief Judge Pier-
point. Judge Rowell now holds the position of
Second Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court.
The degree of LL. D. was conferred upon him
by the University of Vermont in i8g3. Judge
Rowell was formerly a Director ofthe Northfield
Bank, and he has been Director and Vice-
President of the Randolph National Bank since
its organization. Judge Rowell was united in
marriage on August i, 1858, with Mary L.,
daughter of Reverend Leonard and Hannah
(Gilman) Wheeler of Randolph.

SNYDER, Peter Miles, Congregational
Minister, Burlington, was born in Watertown,
New York, November 26, 1853, son of Peter and
Marcia. (Penfield) Snyder. He is of German
descent on the father's side, an ancestor having
come to this country from the Palatinate in 1688,
and settled in Schoharie, New York. On
the mother's side his ancestry is English. His
maternal great grandfather removed from Con
necticut to Pittsford, Vermont, about the begin
ning of this century. The subject of this sketch
graduated from Williams College in tbe class of
1873, receiving an election to the Phi Beta
Kappa, for superior scholarship. He pursued
his studies with a view to entering the Christian
Ministry, in the Universities of Berlin, Tiibin-
gen and Heidelberg, Germany, 1874-5 ; and in
the Free College of Edinburg, Scotland, 1876.
He graduated from Union Theological Seminary,
New York, in 1878. Subsequently, 189 1-2, he
spent a year in Europe in travel and theological
studies in the Universities of Berlin and Ziirich.
He was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of

St. Lawrence, New York, in 1877, and in June,
1880, was ordained over the P'irst Presbyterian
Church in Carthage, New York, where he had
begun to preach in 1878. After five years service
with that church he accepted a call from the
South Congregational Church in Middletown,
Connecticut, and was installed as its Pastor
January 3, 1884. After ten years of faithful and

P. -M. SNYDER.
acceptable service in that charge, he, in May,
1894, accepted a call from the College Street
Congregational Church in Burlington, Vermont,
and was installed as its Pastor, June 6, i8g4.
Mr. Snyder holds a high rank in his sacred pro
fession. He is a clear and progressive thinker,
a forcible preacher, a devoted pastor and is held
in high esteem and exerts a marked influence as
a citizen and a man. He was united in marriage,
September g, 18S0, to Miss Grace Evelyn Bliss,
of New Haven, Connecticut. F'our children
have been the fruit of this union : Evelyn Pen-
field, deceased; Franklyn Bliss; Alice Dorothea
and Edward Douglas Snyder.

SPEARE, Alden, Merchant, Boston, Mass
achusetts, was born in Chelsea, Vermont, Octo
ber 26, 1825, son of Doctor Sceva and Jane

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(Merrill) Speare. His paternal grandfather.
Doctor Moses Speare, was born in Shutesbury,
Massachusetts, and died in Vershire, Vermont.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the common schools of Corinth,
Vermont, and prepared for college at the New
bury Seminary in Newbury, Vermont, which he
entered with the idea of becoming a physician.
His father died in March, 1844, and in October
following he went to Boston, where he obtained
employment as clerk in a retail dry goods store.
In 1847 he went into a wholesale dry goods
store, where he remained until August, 1851, in
which year he organized the firm of Speare,

ALDEN speare.
Burke & Company, to carry on the oil and
starch business. In 1853 the office was removed
to No. 3, Central Wharf, where the business
was carried on under the name of Alden
Speare's Sons & Company, for over forty years,
now at 36g Atlantic Avenue, Mr. Speare be
ing a special partner. Mr. Speare has been
prominent in public affairs, having held many
positions of trust and honor. In i860 he was
elected a member of the School Committee of
, Boston, and he held the position until 1868,
when he removed to Newton, Massachusetts.

The following fall he was elected to the New
ton School Board, and he served on that board
until 1875, when he was elected the Mayor
of that city. He was three times nomi
nated for Mayor, declining twice, and upon his
acceptance he was elected without an opposing
vote, there having been no other candidate. He
served acceptably to the people and he was re
elected for a second term. , Mr. Speare has been
a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce
since its organization, and for four years up to
i8gi he was President of that organization. It
was largely through his efforts that the present
magnificent building of that , body was erected,
and it was he who secured from President
Whitney of the West End Railroad the land for
the site. He took an active interest in the con
struction of the building and he laid the corner
stone. He was President of the Boston Asso
ciated Board of Trade in i8g5-g6; he has been
a Vice-President of the National Board of Trade
since 1892, and a Vice-President of the Mer
chants' Association of Boston since 1896. He
was one of the incorporators of the Boston
Penny Savings Bank, and he has been one of
the Vice-Presidents as well as one of the Trus
tees of that institution. For nearly twenty
years he was one of the Directors ofthe Everett
National Bank. He was a Director of the
Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad and
of the St. Louis and San Francisco, the Atlantic
& Pacific, for many years, and is also a Director
of the Idexican Central, and the Connecticut
& Passumpsic railroad companies. He is
largely interested in several New England
manufacturing corporations, and is Vice Presi
dent of the Arkansas Valley Town and Land
Company. Mr. Speare has been President of
the Vermont Association of Boston since 1896.
He is an enthusiastic Vermonter, and he has
contributed very largely to the success of the
association of the sons and daughters of the
Green Mountain State in the metropolis of his
adopted state. He has taken an active part in
the social life ofhis community, being a mem
ber also of the Exchange Club, of the Boston
Art Clubj and ofthe Old Bostonians Society, as
well as of other social organizations. In politics

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he is a Republican. Mr. Speare has been identi
fied with the Methodist Episcopal church, and
for years he has been an active meraber of the
Board of Managers of the Foreign and Home
Missionary Society of that church. For many
years he has been a meraber of the Boston
Wesleyan Association, and in 1875, 1882, 1886
and 1888 he was President of that association.
While living in Boston he was one of the
original members and for several years a Direc
tor of the Young Men's Christian Association,
and in 1857 he was President of that organiza
tion. Since 1872 he has been a member ofthe
Board of Trustees of Boston University, and he
has held the position of Vice-President of that
institution for many years. Mr. Speare was
united in marriage with Miss Caroline M.
Robinson, March 1, 1849; and these children
were born of their union: Jane, Herbert Alden,
Emma C, Ella M., Lewis R., Minrie G., and
E. Ray Speare.

STODDARD, Charles Jay, Washington,
District of Columbia, was born iu Waterford,
Caledonia county, Vermont, June i, 1842, sonof
Jesse Willard and Hannah (Benton) Stoddard.
His paternal grandparents lived and married at
Chesterfield, New Hampshire, and emigrated to
Waterford, Vermont, of which place his grand
father was a pioneer settler. His maternal great
grandfather, Samuel Benton, came from England
and settled in Amesbury, Massachusetts, and
served as a Colonel in the Continental Army
during the Revolutionary War. Mr. Stoddard's
mother was one of a family of eleven children;
the oldest son, Reuben Benton, was a member
of the Vermont State Senate, and died in Beloit,
Wisconsin, between 1850 and i860; the youngest
son, Charles E., was a lawyer and lived at Guild
hall, Vermont, where he was for twenty years
County Clerk, and died about ten years ago;
another son, Jacob, who married Louisa, daughter
of Neal Dow, the temperance reformer, repre
sented a district of New Hampshire in Congress
during the War of the Rebellion, and died about
1894 from injuries received by being thrown from
his carriage. The subject of this sketch was

educated in the public and private schools of
Waterford. He was admitted to the Bar at St.
Johnsbury, Vermont, at the June term of Court,
in 1874, having read law for three years with
Hon. Thoraas Bartlett, forraerly a representative
in Congress from Vermont. When a boy he
worked on his father's farm until his enlistment
in the army in 1862. After his discharge in 1863
he was employed at farming, and in the F'air-
banks scale factory, at St. Johnsbury, and later
as a carpenter and joiner, until 1871, whenhe
commenced the study of law. He practiced in
the courts of Vermont and New Harapshire from
1874 to 1884. His service in the army was with

CHARLES J. STODDARD.
Company K, Fifteenth Regiment, Vermont
Volunteers, Infantry, and continued for one year,
when he was honorably discharged by reason of
expiration of term. He is a member of Stevens
Post, No. 49, Grand Army of the Republic, of
Barnet,Vermont,andof PentalphaLodge,No. 23,
Free and Accepted Masons, of Washington, Dis
trict of Columbia. In politics Mr. Stoddard has
always been a Republican, and an ardent party
worker. In 1884 he was appointed a Special Ex
aminer of the United States Pension Bureau, and
served as such in Kentucky, Ohio and West Vir-

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ginia, until November, 1887, when on account of
ill health he retired to private life at Barnet,
returning to the Pension Bureau in i8go, where
he is now employed. He was married, Decem
ber, 25, 1864, at Littleton, New Hampshire, to
Mary V. Hale of that place, who died April
II, i8g4. On October 14, 1897, he married
Mary A. Johnson of Baltimore, Maryland. He
has three children by his first marriage: Charles
H., Aleck B. and Jerry A, Stoddard.

WATSON, Alfred Edwin, Hartford, was
born in Worcester, Washington county, Vermont,
August 6 , 1857, son of Edwin Cheney and Sophia
(Johnson) Watson. His paternal ancestors first
settled in Connecticut, but subsequently moved
to Massachusetts, where his grandfather, Oliver,
was born at Old Brookfield, October 8, 1785.
He came to Montpelier, Vermont, about 1816,
and soon after settled in Worcester, being one
of the pioneers of the town. His marriage to
Esther Brown, in 1817, was the first ceremony
of that kind to take place in Worcester. The
mother of the subject of this sketch was the
daughter of Seth and Anna (Chase) Johnson, of
Cornish, New Hampshire. Mr. Watson received
his early education in the schools of Worcester,
Calais and Hartford, Vermont. He fitted for
college at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden,
New Hampshire, and at St. Johnsbury Academy,
in this state, graduating from the latter in 1879.
He graduated also from the classical department
of Dartmouth College in 1883, and is a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. For two years
he studied law in the office of Hon. Samuel E.
Pingree, of Hartford, but by reason of pressing
business duties of a different nature, and on
account of political appointments, he did not
pursue his law studies so as to be admitted to
the Bar. In early life Mr. Watson was brought
into contact with men of positive convictions,
character and ability, who imparted valuable
lessons. While at Dartmouth he was Managing
Editor and Business Manager of The Dartmouth,
the principal publication of that institution.
From 1886 to i8go he was a Director of the
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and

has been its agent since 1885. Since the fall of
1890 he has been Treasurer of the White River
Savings Bank, of White River Junction, Ver
mont, and a Director of the Chicago, Kalamazoo
and Saginaw Railway Company since September,
1896. He was the Vermont representative of
the New England Associated Press from Febru
ary, 1887, to April, 1897, and is at present cor
respondent for Boston and Vermont papers. He
carries on a large insurance agency, representing
the strongest companies, and doing most of the
fire business in town. He has also acted as
adjuster in the settlement of numerous fire losses,

A. E. WATSON.
and has settled many estates. He was Secretary
of Civil and Military Affairs, under Governor
Pingree, from 1884 to 1886, and Clerk of the
Board of Railroad Commissioners from 1886 to
1894. He was a member of the School Board
of Hartford from 1890 to 1892, Town Moderator
since 1896, and has been the Windsor county
member of the Republican State Coraraittee
since 1892. He is also on the Windsor county
Republican Committee, and has been its Sec
retary since 1892, also has been nominated for
State Senator for the biennial terra of 1 898-1 goo,
and has had active and prominent connection

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with the Young Men's Republican Club of Ver
mont, being its Vice-President in i8g6-97. Mr.
Watson is identified with the Delta Kappa Epsi-
lon Fraternity of Dartmouth College, Hartford
Lodge, No. iQ, Free and Accepted Masons,
Cascadnac Chapter, No. 27, Royal Arch Masons,
of White River Junction, Vermont Commandery,
No. 4, Knights Templar, of Windsor, Mount
Sinai Temple, Mystic Shrine, Montpelier, the
Hartford Republican League Club, and the
Hartford Bicycle Club, and is also a member of
the Vermont Fish and Game League. He is a
Republican in politics, and represented the town
of Hartford in the Legislature in 1894-96, and
was a member of Committee on Railroads and
Chairman of the House Committee on the
Library. At Montpelier, July 3, 1883, he mar
ried Mary Maud Carr, granddaughter of John
Anderson, the tobacconist ; they have one child:
Margery Anderson Watson. In December, 1883,
at the instance ofhis wife, Mr. Watson took up
her claim as an heir at-lavv of John Anderson,
deceased, her mother having died also. He
had instituted a suit in the Supreme Court in
New York city and maintained it to a successful
issue, Mrs. Watson securing a settlement in the
September of 1887. They have now a beautiful
home in Hartford, overlooking a part of the
picturesque White River Valley.

WAUGH, Theodore Rogers, Physician,
St. Albans, was born at Sanquoit, Oneida
county. New York, November i, 1846, son of
Reverend John and Charlotte (Rogers) Waugh.
His father died in 1897. In his boyhood young
Waugh attended public and private schools in
Canton, New York, and later took the classical
course in Canton Academy. When nearly
fitted to enter college, his attention was directed
toward business, and for two years he served as
clerk in a mercantile house in Canton. He
then went to New York city, where he held a
position in the large wholesale dry goods house
of C. H. Bowman & Company, on Broadway.
During his three years in that establishment he
acquired valuable business experience; but his
tastes inclined him strongly towards professional

life, and when twenty-two years of age he
returned to Canton and took up the study of
medicine in the office of Dr. Daggett. In
i86g, he removed with his father's family to
Carthage, New York, where he continued his
medical studies under Doctor Brown. In the
fall of that year he entered the Hahneman
Medical College in Philadelphia, adding to
the regular three years' course private studies
in Materia Medica under Professor Henry N.
Martin, of that institution. After graduating
he went, in May, 1872, to St. Albans, where he
succeeded to the practice of Doctor Stebbins A.
Smith, the only Homoeopathic Physician in the

T. R. WAUGH.
town, who was about going abroad for his
health. He added to this practice till it became
one of the largest in Franklin county, and so
large that he was obliged to limit it. His
eminence in that school of medicine is indicated
by the fact that he has been President of the
Vermont Homoeopathic Medical Society. He
assisted in the incorporation of the St. Albans
Hospital, and has been a Director, Superinten
dent, Treasurer, and Visiting Physician in the
same. Through his business capacity, and by
successful investments, he has become an

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179

extensive owner of real estate in St. Albans,
among his enterprises being the erection of the
large and commodious Waugh Opera House, on
Main street, the lower story being occupied by
stores, which is an important addition to the
attractions and business facilities of the city.
Doctor Waugh married, in June, 1873, Miss
Adah j. Reynolds of Carthage, New York,
who is a descendant from a brother of the
famous Sir Joshua Reynolds. A son, Theodore,
the first-born child of this union, died at the
age of five. They have now a son, Theodore
Waugh, Jr., and an adopted daughter. Marguerite
Waugh.

WHEELER, Hoyt Henry, Brattleboro, was
born August3o, 1833, at Cliesterfield,New Hamp
shire, son of John and Roxana (Hall) Wheeler.
His great-grandfather, Peter Wheeler, emigrated
to New Harapshire frora Greenwich, Massachu
setts, in 1762. His raother was a granddaughter
of Joseph Titus, one of the early settlers in Ches
terfield. His father was a farmer, and his
parents resided in Chesterfield till 1849, when
they removed to Newfane, Vermont, bringing
with them the subject of this sketch. Hoyt H.
Wheeler received his early education in the
coramon schoolsof Chesterfield; at Chesterfield
Academy, and at the High School in Newfane.
He then taught common schools at Chesterfield,
Dummerston, Newfane and West Townshend,
and select schools at Chesterfield, and West
minster West. Selecting the law as his profes
sion, he pursued his legal studies with Charles
K. Field at Williamsville in Newfane, and with
J. Dorr Bradley and George B. Kellogg at Brat
tleboro, and was admitted to the Bar of Windham
county at the September term, 1859. He com
menced practice with John E. Butler, December
I, 1859, at Jamaica, and continued in partner
ship with him till he died in 1867; acquiring a
high reputation as a well read and thorough
lawyer, and securing a successful practice. In
1869 he formed a law partnership with Lavant
M. Read, Esq., which lasted but a short time,
being dissolved in consequence of Judge
Wheeler's elevation to the Bench. He repre
sented the town of Jamaica in the Legislature

in 1867, and was a State Senator from Windham
county in i868-g, serving on the Judiciary Com
mittee of each house. In i86g he was elected
Fifth Assistant Justice of the Supreme Court of
Vermont, succeeding Judge John Prout in that
office, and was re-elected in 1870, '72, '74 and
'76, having been meantime advanced to be
Second Assistant Justice. March 16, 1877, the
office of United States District Judge for the
district of Vermont having become vacant by
the death of Judge Smalley, Judge Wheeler
was appointed to the office by President Hayes,
and holds it with marked ability and high honor
to the present time. His judicial work has not

H. H. WHEELER.
been confined to Vermont ; but has been largely
in the United States Circuit Courts, for the
Southern and Eastern districts of New York, at
New York city and Brooklyn, where, as in
Vermont, he has established the reputation of a
just and able jurist. He removed his residence
from Jamaica to Brattleboro in 1884. The
degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon
him by the University of Vermont in 1886.
Judge Wheeler married, October 24, 1861,
Minnie L,, daughter of John Maclay of Lock-
port, New York.

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

WINCH, John Howe, a well known
and successful physician, Northfield, was born
in the town ofhis residence, July 30, 1855. His
early education was secured in the schools of his

JOHN H. WINCH.
native town, and it was supplemented by a
course in the Northfield High School. Having
decided to study medicine, he entered the Medi
cal Department of the University of Vermont,
from which he graduated in the class of 1880.
He at once located in his native village for the
practice of his profession and his success has
been marked and gratifying. He is actively in
terested in educational matters and is director
of the Northfield High School, of which he was
once a pupil. He is a member of the Congre
gational Church. He represented Northfield in
the Legislature in 1896.

BAILEY, Alan.son Cooper, Physician, Ran
dolph, was born in Rochester, Vermont,
November 24, 1850, son of Clark and Susan
Jane (Cooper) Bailey, and a grandson of Ora
Bailey. He received his early education in the
common schools; at Randolph Normal School
and the Methodist Seminary, Montpelier, Ver

mont. Selecting the profession of medicine he
comraenced medical studies at Rochester, Ver
mont, in 1874, under Doctors William Hunting
ton and Albert Richraond. Subsequently
pursued them at the Medical Department of
the University of Vermont, and at the Medical
Department of the University of the City of
New York, graduating from the latter in March,
1877. In April, following, he began the
practice of medicine at Rochester, Vermont.
Eight raonths later he removed to Randolph,
Vermont, where he remains in successful
practice. Doctor Bailey is a member of the
Vermont vState Medical Society, of which he
was Vice-President in 1892, and is also a mem
ber of the White River Valley Medical
Society. He was United States Pension Exam
ining Surgeon, 1891-93, and after an interval of
four years was re-appointed, by President
McKinley, in 1897, and now holds the office.

A. C. BAILEY.
He has been Health Officer of Randolph since
1887. He has been Consulting Surgeon to the
Mary Fletcher Hospital, in Burlington, since
Deceraber, 1893. He is a prominent member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
having been first Noble Grand of Randolph

MEN OF PROGRESS.

Lodge in 1892; re-elected to that office in 1894;
and elected Deputy Grand Master, i8g6. He
is a Trustee of the Randolph Graded School.
He has been for thirty years a member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, and is active in
church matters, as in other good objects,
having been Superintendent of the Sunday
School of the Methodist Episcopal Church of
Randolph for twelve years, and Chorister for
fourteen years. June 27, 1877, he was united
in marriage to Miss Alice M. Matthews of South
Royalton, Vermont. They have three children:
Grace Alice, Glenn Cooper, and Alettha G.
Bailey.

BARSTOW, John L., Ex-Governor, Shel
burne, was born in the town of his residence,
February 21, 1832, sonof Heman and Lorain
(Lyon) Barstow. His parents were of English
descent, and several of his ancestors served in
the Colonial and Revolutionary Wars. He
received his education in the schools of his
native town, and at the age of fifteen he began
to teach. He went West at an early age and
was engaged in business for some time in Detroit;
but in 1857 he returned to Shelburne and began
farraing, assuming charge of his aged parents.
In the fall of 1861, while serving as assistant
clerk of the House of Representatives at Mont
pelier, he enlisted for the defence of the Union
and was appointed on the non commissioned
Staff of the Eighth Regiment Vermont Volun
teers, and was afterward successively promoted
to the rank of Adjutant, Captain and Major. He
was honorably discharged at the expiration of
his terra of service, June 22, 1864. He entered
the service with robust health and vigorous con
stitution, but nearly three years of ardous ser
vice in the swamps and miasmatic climate of
Louisiana shattered both, and for many years
malarial diseases deterred him from entering
on any active business pursuit. When he was
made Major, the rank and file of his old com
pany presented him with a beautiful sword, and
when he left the regiment, the men who were
mustered out with him presented him with
another still more elegant. These two memorial

gifts are preserved with great pride as evincing
the regard of the enlisted men after they had
served with him in the field. The historian of
his regiment says: "When after the bloody
fight of June 14, 1863, in front of Port Hudson,
General Banks called for volunteers to head a
storming column for a final attack. Captain
Barstow was one of the brave men who stepped
forward to form the forlorn hope." He was
acting Adjutant General under Generals Thomas
and Weitzel; participated in all of the engage
ments in which his regiment took part; was

JOHN L barstow.
complimented for eminent service in the field
and for gallantry in the assault on Port Hud
son, and was honorably mentioned for his per
sonal services. He had hardly reached home
before he was called into the state service by
the offer of a responsible position in the recruit
ing service by Adjutant General Washburn,
which he was obliged to decline on account of
impaired health. In September, 1864, he was
elected a meraber of the Legislature. During
this session the St. Albans raid occurred. At
the request or General Washburn, Major Bar
stow immediately repaired to the scene of action
and he was sent into Canada on a special mis-

MEN OF PROGRESS.

sion. He was subsequently appointed Briga
dier-General, commanding one of the brigades
of militia raised by the state in consequence of
that daring raid. He was at this time placed
in command of the forces on the Northwestern
frontier of the state, and remained on duty
until relieved by General Stannard in January,
1865. In September of that same year he was
again elected to the Legislature by the unani
mous vote of his town, and in the years of 1866
and 1867 he was Senator from Chittenden
county. In 1870 he was appointed by President
Grant, United States Pension Agent at Burling
ton, which position he held for nearly eight
years. He at once set about reforms that were
of great benefit to the needy pensioner, and he
so discharged the duties of the office as to call
from Hon. Carl Schurz, then Secretary of the
Interior, an autograph letter of thanks. In
1879 Governor Proctor appointed Mr. Barstow
State Coraraissioner for the centennial celebra
tion of the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktov/n,
and he rendered efficient service in securing
government aid for the undertaking and for the
monument, as well as in the arrangements for
the celebration. In 1880 he was elected
Lieutenant Governor for the biennial term, and
in 1882 he was elected Governor of Vermont,
the nomination to each of these offices having
been made unanimously by the vote of the
respective conventions. He was the first Gov
ernor of Vermont to call attention to the aUeged
discriminating and excessive rates for freight
charged by transportation companies, and to
urge the creation of an effective railroad com
mission. Colonel Carpenter, in his history of
the eighth regiment, says: "The Ely riots
occurred during Governor Barstow's term of
office, and his course in requiring that justice
should precede force, and that the riotous
miners be paid their honest dues, attracted much
favorable comment throughout the country."
The resolution of the Legislature of 1884,
requesting the Vermont delegation in Congress
to use their best efforts to secure the passage of
the inter-state commerce law, was passed in
pursuance of Governor Barstow's recommenda
tion. At the close of his administration the

Rutland Herald gave utterance to the general
opinion of his constituents when it declared that
he had been "as careful, independent, able and
efficient a ruler as Vermont had enjoyed for
twenty years. " This sketch might be largely
extended, as he has held many other important
appointments of trust and honor, such as Presi
dent of the Reunion Society of Vermont Officers;
Trustee of the University of Vermont and State
Agricultural College; Trustee ofthe Burlington
Savings Bank; Commissioner to fix and pur
chase a site for the Bennington battle monument,
etc., etc. In 1891 he was appointed by Presi
dent Harrison to serve on a commission with
General A. McD. McCook, United States Army,
to treat with the Navajoe Indians, and the work
was brought to a successful and satisfactory
conclusion. He was also disbursing officer of
the commission and to the astonishment of the
treasury officials, he returned nearly one-half
of the sum appropriated for the expenses of
that body. In 1893 at the request of Governor
Fuller he acted with the executive committee
of the national anti -trust society. In regard to
elective offices it can be stated, as was said of
Asahel Peck, when he was elected Governor,
"Neither solicitation nor hint of ambition for
this dignity ever emanated frora him." Gov
ernor Barstow never directly nor indirectly
solicited the vote or influence of any man for
any elective office. He is in religious prefer
ence an Episcopalian. He has been a member
ofthe Masonic fraternity since 1853, and he is
also a member of the Grand Army or the
Republic, and Past Commander of the Loyal
Legion. On October 28, 1858, he was united
in marriage with Laura Maeck, grand-daughter
of Doctor Frederick Maeck, the first physician
settled in Shelburne. Mrs. Barstow died March
II, 1885, leaving two sons: Frederick M., born
March 3, i860, who was graduated from the
University of Verraont in 1880, and who is a
civil engineer, and an Officer of Engineers in
the Volunteer Army, in the present war; and
Charles L. Barstow, born May 22, 1867, who
was graduated from Union College in 1889, and
who is now engaged in the publishing business
in New York city.

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183

BEARD, Alanson Wilder, Boston, Massa
chusetts, was born in Ludlow, Windsor county,
Vermont, August 20, 1825, and left that place
when seven years old to go to Bethel and two
years afterward to Stockbridge with his parents.
Here he remained for fourteen years, working
on his father's farm for a considerable part of
this period, getting what education the common
schools could impart, and in addition receiving
private instruction frora Reverend Thoraas S.
Hubbard, Pastor of the Congregational church
at Stockbridge, and a man of liberal culture and
broad views. The discipline of life on the
farm, and the opportunities afforded him for the
development of his mind, were not lost upon
the young man, and at seventeen the subject of
this sketch was physically strong and mentally
well equipped for the work which the world was
to offer him. Between this time and the attain
ment of his majority, Mr. Beard was engaged in
teaching, working on the farm summers. In
the spring of 1847 his mercantile career began,
and he opened at Pittsfield, Vermont, a country
store, which he carried on for six years. During
this time he held his first government office, as
Postmaster. In 1853 he entered the clothing
house of Whiting, Kehoe & Galloupe, of
Boston, as salesman. His energy and ambition
carried him into the clothing business on his
own account in less than three years after this,
and it was not long before he formed a partner
ship under the firm name of Beecher, Beard &
Company. Until 1879 he was engaged in mer-
canMle business in Boston, successively under
the firm names of C. W. Freeland, Beard &
Company, Beard, Moulton & Company, and
Beard, Moulton & Bouve. With the manage
ment of frora two to six hundred employees,
the manufacturing department being under his
personal supervision, Mr. Beard had ample
opportunity to prove his executive ability, and
raade his mark in the business world. Politi
cally he was in his early days a Whig, but when
the Republican party was organized he identified
himself with it, and has been an ardent advo
cate of its principles ever since. From 1864 to
1867 he was a member of the Massachusetts
Republican State Committee, and in 1875 and

1876, and again in 1885, he was its Chairman.
He was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention in 1868 and 1888. Mr. Beard wasa
member of the Massachusetts House of Repre
sentatives in 1870 and 1871, and again in 1884
and 1885. He was appointed Collector of the
Port of Boston by President Hayes, in March,
1878, and served in that capacity for four years.
In 1886 he was elected Treasurer ofthe State of
Massachusetts, and held that office three years.
In i8go he was again made Collector of the Port

A. W. BEARD.
of Boston, and occupied that position until
March, 1894. In these places of responsibility
and trust, Mr. Beard has been a faithful and
efficient public servant, and his vigorous and
genial personality has won for him a wide circle
of friends. He married Mary Calista, daughter
of Harvey and Sophia Morgan, then of Roches
ter, Verraont, on November 27. 1848, at
Wayland, Massachusetts; of the three sons born
to them, only one is now living: Charles Free-
land Beard.

BENTON, Everett Chamberlin, In.surance,
Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Guildhall,
Essex county, Vermont, Septeraber 25, 1862, son
of Charles Emerson and Adda (Chamberlin)

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

Benton. He is of English descent, his ances
tors on both sides having come from England
to America, previous to the year 1 700, and settled
in Connecticut. Later ancestors removed from
Connecticut to Vermont and were prominent
citizens of the new Commonwealth. He is of
patriotic and Revolutionary lineage, his great
grandfather. Captain Jacob Benton, having served
under General Washington in the Continental
Army, and his great-grandfather. Lieutenant
Chamberlin, having served under Ethan Allen
at Ticonderoga. His father was for thirty years
County Clerk of Essex county; was Judge of

E. C, BENTON.
Probate for that county 1888 to 1893; and was a
member of both branches of the Legislature.
The subject of this sketch was educated in the
common schools, and in the Academies at Cole-
brook and Lancaster, New Hampshire. He was
for a time Deputy County Clerk of Essex county,
and in 1882 was Deputy Secretary of State of
Vermont. Deciding on a business career, at the
age of twenty-one years, he went to Boston
where he was employed in the Insurance Agenc}'
of John C. Paige of that city, until 1897, when
he became a partner in the well-known firm of
John C. Paige & Company, of which he remains

a member. An earnest Republican, he soon
became active in Massachusetts politics, and
has held prominent and highly responsible posi
tions in the party organization. He was Chair
man of the Executive Republican State Com
mittee of Massachusetts for four years, 1892-96;
and was Secretary of the Massachusetts Delega
tion in the Republican National Convention of
St. Louis in i8g6. He was an Aide onthe Staff
of Governor Greenhalge of Massachusetts, with
the rank of Colonel, i8g4-g6. He represented
the Third District of Massachusetts in the Exec
utive Council of that state in i8g7, resigning
that office upon his admission to the firm of John
C. Paige & Co. In various positions he showed
marked executive ability and won general con
fidence and respect. In addition to his duties in
the insurance agency of John C. Paige & Com
pany, Mr. Benton is Joint Manager for several
heavy American and Foreign Fire Insurance
Companies, and for the Boston Branch of the
National Surety Company of New York. He is
a member of the Republican Club of Massachu
setts; of the Beacon Society of Boston; of the
Merchants Association of Boston; and of the
Citizens Association of Waverly. He is a
member of the Masonic Order of the Thirty-
second degree. He married in Boston, in 1885,
Willena Rogers. They have four children: Jay
R., Charles E., Blanche A. and Dorothy D.
Benton.

BENTON, Josiah Henry, Jr., Lawyer,
Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Addison,
Addison county, Vermont, August 4, 1843, son
of Reverend Josiah Henry and Martha Ellen
(Danforth) Benton. His ancestors were of Eng
lish stock, and were among the first settlers of
Connecticut. They were enterprising and patri
otic, and more than thirty of them served with
credit in the Colonial Army during the war of
independence. Mr. Benton's grandfather, Sam
uel Slade Benton, was born in Connecticut,
April 27, 1777, and settled in Waterford, Ver
raont, in 1801. He married Esther Prouty, of
Charlestown, New Hampshire, and they had
eleven children, five daughters and six sons.

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185

Ofthe latter one became a physician, two clergy
men and three lawyers, and all were eminent
in their professions. The subject of this sketch
studied at the academy in Bradford, Vermont,

J. H. BENTON, jr.
and at the New London Institute, New London,
New Hampshire. He served as a private in
the Twelfth Vermont Regiment of Volunteers
during the Civil War. After the war he entered
the Albany Law School, where he graduated in
May, 1866, and was admitted to the Bar in
Albany May 5, 1866. He began his practice in
Bradford in 1866, and in 1867 went to Lancaster,
New Hampshire, where he remained until 1873.
In i86g and 1870 he was Secretary to the Gov
ernor of New Hampshire, and in 1870 and 1872
served as Clerk of the House of Representatives
in that state. In 1873 he went to Boston, where
he has since lived, practising his profession
with success. Mr. Benton was General Counsel
for the Old Colony Railroad and Steamboat
Companies from 1878 up to the time of the
lease of the Old Colony property to the New
York, New Haven and Hartford Company, in
1893, when he became counsel for that corpora
tion in its Massachusetts interests. Since 1879
he has been a Director and Counsel for the

Northern Railroad of New Hamp.shire, and has
been engaged in most of the important railroad
litigation in New Hampshire subsequent to that
time. His general practice is extensive and
varied, and he is, among his other responsible
trusts, counsel for the estate of Frederick L.
Ames, and also for the Western Union Tele
graph Company. He has for nine years lectured
to the Law School of the Boston University on
the subject of Corporations and Railroads, and
since 1894 he has been Trustee of the Boston
Public Library. In politics he is an earnest
Republican, and has always been a public-
spirited citizen. On May 5, 1866, he married
Josephine E, Aldrich, of Bradford, Vermont,
who died in 1872. On September 3, 1875, he
married Elizabeth Abbott, at Concord, New
Hampshire. Mr. Benton has varied his busy
professional life by the preparation of some
public papers and addresses of merit, among
which may be mentioned " The Veto Power in
the United States— What Is It?"; "Inequality
of Tax Valuations in Massachusetts;" "The
British Post Office ;" "Facts and Figures with
Reference to United States Railroads;" "What
Is It to Flee from Justice?"; "Influence of the
Bar in Our State and Federal Government;"
"Points in Vermont History;" "What Women
Did for the War, and What the War Did for
Women;" and "Government by Injunction."
He is a member of the Algonquin Club, the
Boston Art Club, and the Vermont Association.

BROOKS, Albert A., Merchant, Bethel, was
born in Bethel, Vermont, October 18, 1824, son
of Asa and Lucy (Stevens) Brooks. The family
came frora Connecticut to Vermont about the
year 1780. He received his early education in
the public schools. In 1856 he started in busi
ness for himself in Gaysville, in the town of
Stockbridge, Vermont. He was Postmaster in
that village for twelve years from 1861 to 1873.
In 1875 he removed to Bethel, where he has
since resided. He was the leading member of
the mercantile firm of Brooks and Montgomery,
which partnership continued for three years,
and later was succeeded by the present firm of

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Brooks & Washburn. Mr. Brooks has been
prominently connected with various manufac
turing and business enterprises. From 1877 to
1 888 he was engaged with the Gaysville Manu
facturing Company in the manufacture of under-

A, a. BROOKS.
wear, and was President of the company, whose
works were destroyed by fire in the latter year.
He is President of the Bethel Shoe Company,
and a Director and Vice-President of the White
River National Bank of Bethel. He has been
an earnest Republican from the organization of
the Republican party, having voted for its first
candidate for President, John C. Fremont, but
he has never sought any elective political office.
He has been a Justice of the Peace in Stock-
bridge and Bethel for upwards of forty years.
He married, December 24, 1848, Miss Jeanette
Whitcomb, of Royalton, Vermont. They have
two daughters: Jennie, now Mrs. J. A. Chedel
of Gaysville, Vermont; and Kate, now Mrs. S.
M. Washburn of Bethel, Vermont.

BURT, Henry A., Attorney, Swanton, was
born in Sheldon, Franklin county, Verraont,
February 10, 1828, son of Augustus and Mary
(Lafferty) Burt. He is a descendant of Henry

Burt, who came from England in 1635 and
settled in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1640,
where he was Deacon and Selectman for many
years. Mr. Burt was educated in the public
schools of Sheldon; at Bakersfield Academy
and the Franklin County Grammar School; and
at the University of Vermont, graduating from
that institution in 1849. He studied law with
his father, and also with his brother, James S.
Burt, and was admitted to the Bar in December,
1852, at St. Albans, Vermont. The subject of
this sketch is one of the veterans of the legal
profession in Vermont, having practiced law
since 1852, and is still a vigorous worker. He
is also somewhat interested in agriculture,
owning a farm of sixty acres on the shores of
Lake Champlain, three miles from Swanton
Village. Mr. Burt was attorney for the Receiv
ers of the Vermont Division of the Portland

H. A. BURT.
and Ogdensburg Railroad, in 1877, '78 and '79,
and for the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain
Railroad Company from its re-organization in
1880 until 1887. He was Attorney for the National
Union Bank of Swanton for many years, and
until the final closing of its affairs. He was
elected State's Attorney for Franklin county in

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i860, and again in 1861; represented the town
of Swanton in the State Legislature in 1865,
1866 and i86g, and was a member of the State
Senate in 1867 and 1868. He is now Commer
cial Agent of the United States at Stanbridge,
Province of Quebec, having been appointed by
President McKinley in 1897. Mr. Burt is
Senior Warden of Holy Trinity church, of
Swanton. In politics he is a Republican.
December. 1852, he was married to Olive
Lyman, who died May 8, 1898. They had three
children: Henry Augustus; Mary Harriet who
married W. E. Tobin, died December 27, 1886;
and Ellen Cornelia, wife of Rev. Edward S.
Stone.

ject of this sketch was a Professor in the Uni
versity of Vermont for twenty-five years,
subsequently the organizer of the Vermont and
Boston Telegraph Company, and Editor-in-chief
of the Burlington Free Press. G. G, Benedict
graduated from the University of Vermont in
1847 ; was engaged in the building of telegraph
lines for several years ; in April, 1853, became
one of the proprietors of the Burlington Free
Press, and retains his connection with that paper
as Editor-in-chief, to the present time. He has
held the offices of President of the Vermont and
Boston Telegraph Company; State Senator for

BENEDICT, George Grenville, second
son of George Wyllys and Eliza (Dewey) Bene
dict, was born in Burlington, Vermont, Decem
ber 10, 1826. He is descended in the direct
line frora Lieutenant Thoraas Benedict, who
came from Nottinghamshire, England, to Anier
ica, in 1638; was the first and for a long time
the only person of the name of Benedict in any
of the colonies; removed from Massachusetts
Bay to Southhold, Long Island, was a Magis
trate. Commissioner to settle disputes with the
Indians, Member of the Colonial Legislature,
officer of the trainband. Lieutenant in the Foot
Company, of Jamaica, Long Island; a Deacon
and a pillar in the church. The great-grandfather
of G. G. Benedict, Reverend Abner Benedict of
Middletown, Connecticut, was the Chaplain of a
Connecticut regiment in the War of the Revolu
tion, and was engaged in the battles of White
Plains and Harlem Heights. On the mother's
side, G. G. Benedict is descended from Thomas
Dewey, who came from England to Dorchester,
Massachusetts, 1633, and was among the early
settlers in the colony of Massachusetts Bay; and
from Stephen Dewey of Westfield, Massachu
setts, who was a Captain in Colonel William
Williams' regiment of Massachusetts infantry,
(Colonial), was engaged in the expedition
against Canada in 1759; and subsequently was
an officer in the Continental Army, during the
War of the Revolution. The father of the sub-

G. G. BENEDICT.
two terms, 1869-71 ; Trustee and Secretary of
the University of Vermont; President of the
Vermont Press Association ; State Military His
torian of Vermont — in which capacity he pre
pared and published the History of the Vermont
Troops in the Civil War, in two volumes ; Presi
dent of the Vermont Historical Society ; Col
lector of Customs for the District of Vermont,
under President Benjamin Harrison, 1889-93 ;
President ofthe Society of Sons of the American
Revolution, and other offices of responsibility
and trust. In August, 1862, he enlisted as a
private in the Twelfth Regiment of Vermont

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Volunteers ; served throughout the term of that
regiment; was promoted to be Lieutenant and
Aide-de-Camp on the staff of the Second Ver
mont Brigade, serving as such at the battle of
Gettysburg, and receiving a Medal of Honor
awarded by Congress for distinguished service
in that battle. In 1865 he was Assistant Inspec
tor General in the Vermont Militia, with rank
of Major. In 1886 he was appointed an Aide-
de Carap on the staff of Governor Dillingham
of Vermont, wdth the rank of Colonel. He is a
Republican in politics, has been Secretary and
Chairman of the Republican State Committee,
and was a Delegate to the Republican National
Convention of 1880. In 1853 he married Miss
Mary Kellogg of Canaan, New York, who died
in 1857, leaving a daughter, Mary Frances. In
1864 he contracted a second marriage with Miss
Katharine A. Pease, daughter ofthe late Presi
dent Calvin Pease of the University of Vermont.
They have one son, George Wyllys, born Jan
uary 12, 1872.

CHILDS, Asaph ParmelEE, In.surance,
Bennington, was born in Wilmington, Windham
county, Vermont, June 10, 1840, son of Major
A. B. and Hannah (Lamb) Childs. MajorChilds
was the first merchant in Wilmington, Post
master for a score or more years. Sheriff, General
of militia, and Deputy Grand Master of Masons.
A. P. Childs graduated at Powers Institute, in
Bernardston, Massachusetts, in 1859. On the
breaking out of the Civil War, Mr. Childs
enlisted in Company F, Sixteenth Vermont
Regiment, Colonel Veazey coraraanding, and was
detailed for service in the Chief Quartermaster's
department at Washington and in the field,
remaining in the army for three years or more,
his latest service being in Texas. On his
return home in 1864 from his first service he
was admitted to the Windham County Bar, and
in 1867 he graduated with high honors from the
Columbia Law School, in Washington, District
of Columbia, and was admitted to the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia. He has not
practiced actively, but is Agency Director
of the New York Life Insurance Company

During the period of the centennial anniversary
celebrations in Vermont, he published an his
torical daily and weekly paper, containing the
addresses, accountsof the festivities, notes of early
Vermont battles and heroes and of valued relics
ofthe Revolutionary era, also other items incident
to such times and deeds. This Centennial edi
tion proved to be a very readable sheet, genuinely
deserving of preservation for reference. He also
published the Vermont Gazette and Reformer
(weekly journals) for many years. Mr. Childs
represented Bennington in the Legislature of
1882 to 1884, and has held many other public
offices. He is an active, wide awake business
man, and interested in everything that looks like

a. p. childs.
enterprise. He organized and is a member ofthe
Forest and Stream Club, of Wilmington, is a
Thirty-second degree Mason, an Odd Fellow, a
Knight of Pythias, and a member of Custer Post,
Grand Army of the Republic, of Bennington,
Vermont. He has been a zealous Democrat, and
was on the sound money side in 1896. On July
8, 1873, he married Sarah P., daughter of Lewis
Cady, of Bennington, who died May 30, 1897.
On May 5, 1898, he married Mrs. Clara Stone
Sherman, of Castleton, Vermont. He has three

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children by his first marriage: Ethel, Lucy and
Molly Stark Childs. He is a public spritedman,
and presented a monument in honor of the .sol
diers of Wilmington, his native town, in 1897
and was one of the commission to secure designs
and locate the monument of the Sixteenth Ver
mont Volunteers upon the battlefield of Gettys
burg and has often been chosen a Vermont
delegate to the national encampment, Grand
Army ofthe Republic.

CLEMENT, Percival W., Mayor, Rutland,
was born in Rutland, Vermont, July 7, 1846,
son of Charles and Elizabeth (Wood) Cleraent.
The family is of English descent, dating back
to Robert Clement, who, in 1642, sailed from
London to the Massachusetts Colony, with his
wife and four children, and became one of the
first settlers of Haverhill, Massachusetts, his
name standing second on the Indian deed of the
town. He was a prominent man in the colony;
a Magistrate, Deputy to the General Court, and
holder of various responsible offices. The
great-grandfather of Percival W., Lieutenant
Samuel Clement, commanded the Haverhill
company of Colonel Johnson's regiment of
Militia, which marched to Cambridge on the
day of the Lexington fight, April ig, 1775. His
son, Ebenezer Clement, grandfather of Percival
W., removed from Massachusetts to Vermont
in i8og. The subject of this sketch received
his education in the Rutland High School; at
St. Paul's School in Concord, New Harapshire;
and at Trinity College, at Hartford, Connecti
cut, in the class of 1868. After leaving college
he commenced his business career with the
heavy marble firm of Clement & Son, at
Centre Rutland, founded by his father, who was
one of the pioneers in the great business of
quarrying marble in Rutland county. In 1871
he was admitted as a partner in the firm, which
then became Cleraent & Sons. He continued
in the raarble business with success, till it was
sold to the Rutland Marble Company in 1876.
The Clements then organized the State Trust
Company and the Clement National Bank, of
Rutland, and Mr. Clement devoted himself to

the banking business (with which he has been
actively connected to the present time) until
his railroad interests claimed his chief atten
tion. Perceiving the opportunity offered by
the condition of the Rutland Railroad Com
pany, which was suffering from the depression
which has overtaken so many railroad enter
prises in Vermont, he, in the year 1882-3,
purchased heavily of the stock and securities
of the Rutland Railroad Company; took control
of its affairs; instituted reforms in its manage
ment, restored its credit and in 1887 sold a con-

PERCIVAL W. CLEMENT.
trolling interest to the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad Company, at a very large advance on
its cost to him. He retains a minor interest;
has held for twelve years the office of President
of the Rutland Railroad Company; and since
the abrogation of the lease of the road to the
Central Vermont, is running the road with
marked ability and success. Mr. Clement is a
Director of the Clement National Bank; is
chief owner of the Rutland Herald and Presi
dent of the Herald Association, and is inter
ested in various other local enterprises. He is
a Republican. In 1892 he represented Rutland
in the Vermont Legislature and was active in

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

securing a city charter for that town. He holds
the office of Mayor of the City of Rutland. He
was prorainent in organizing the Rutland Board
of Trade, and was its President for several
years. He is a large property owner in the
City of New York, and is a member of the
Union League Club of that city and of the New
York Yacht Club. He is also a member of the
Algonquin Club of Boston, and of the Eastern
Yacht Club. In 1868, he was united in marriage
to Maria Hinman, daughter of Henry W. and
Caroline (Hinman) Goodwin, of Hartford, Con
necticut. They have six children living:
Elizabeth Wood, Caroline Hinman, Ethel
Scovil, Margaret Goodwin, Anna Elizabeth,
and Robert Clement.

in trade for fifteen years. Since that time he
has been engaged in farraing. Mr. Davis was
at one tirae Cashier and Director of the Proc-
torsville Bank. He represented Cavendish in
1859-60, and has held also most of the other
town offices. He was a meraber of the State
Senate in 1856 and 1857, and during the latter
year was appointed Quartermaster-General of
the State Militia, holding that position for seven
years. Politically he is a Republican. In 1850
he was married to Adaline R. Cobb, of Wind
ham, Vermont, who died in August, 1864, On
June 21, 1868, he married Bertia Carpenter, of
Wyandotte, Kansas. He has three children by
the first marriage: Addie C, Frances L. (Mrs.
C. G. Gould), and George H. Davis.

DAVIS, George Franklin, Farmer, Caven
dish, was born in Springfield, Windsor county,
Vermont, December 20, 1815, son of John and

GEO. F. DAVIS.
Elizabeth (Herrick) Davis. His ancestors were
English. He received his education in the
common schools of Springfield and the adjoin
ing town of Weathersfield. He went to Cav
endish in 1838, and built a store, where he was

DENISON, Dudley Chase, Royalton, was
born in that town, in Windsor county, Vermont,
September 13, 1819, son of Joseph Adam and
Rachel (Chase) Denison. The Denison family
came to Vermont frora Stonington, Connecticut,
where Captain George Denison had settled on
coming from England, in 1631. Doctor Joseph
Adam Denison settled in Bethel in i7g7, and
moved to Royalton in 1815, having married
Rachel Chase in 1802. She came of a family
prominent in many ways. One of her brothers
was the Right Reverend Philander Chase, of
Ohio, and another Hon. Dudley Chase, who was
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont,
and United States Senator, 1825-31. The sub
ject of this sketch received his early education
in the coramon schools, and fitted for college at
Royalton Academy. He took a full course at
the University of Verraont, in Burlington,
graduating in 1840, and standing third in his
class. He was admitted to the Bar in May,
1845, and since his admission has practiced
continuously in the various courts of the state,
and somewhat in the United States Courts. Mr.
Denison has been honored by election to many
important positions, which he has filled with a
full measure of credit to himself and his consti
tuents. He was State Senator frora Windsor
county in 1853 and 1854. In i860, 1861 and
1862 he represented Royalton in the Legisla-

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igi

ture, serving on the Committee of Ways and
Means, and being active in legislation for the
support of the War for the Union. He has
served his county as State's Attorney, and was

D. c. dennison.
United States District Attorney for six years,
1864-69. He was elected to the Forty-fourth
Congress, frora the Second Congressional Dis
trict of Vermont, in 1874, and was re-elected in
1876. He is a Director of the National Life
Insurance Company, of Montpelier, Vermont.
Mr. Denison 's first vote was for the electors
who chose William Henry Harrison as Presi
dent. Since the formation of the Republican
party he has always advocated its principles
and voted with it. As a lawyer, legislator and
citizen he has been and is held in the highest
regard. He was married, December 22, 1846,
to Eunice Dunbar; they have had seven chil
dren: Joseph Dudley, Catherine Amanda, Eliz
abeth, John Henry, Gertmde May, Edward
Dunbar and Lucy Dunbar Denison.

Gallatin and Emily (Strong) Dewey. On the
father's side he is in the eighth generation from
Thomas Dewey, who emigrated from Sandwich,
Kent, England, to America and settled in Dor
chester, Massachusetts, in 1633. On the mother's
side he is in the eighth generation from Elder
John Strong, who came to America frora Ply
mouth, England, and settled in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in 1630. The subject of this
sketch received his early education in the public
schools; at Newbury (Vermont) Seminary; at the
Green Mountain Institute in South Woodstock,
Vermont and under Hosea Doton in Pomfret.
He graduated from Norwich University in 1863.
He was a member of the Company of college
students, which served for three months in the
Seventh Squadron of Rhode Island Cavalry, in
the Civnl War, in 1862. His tastes and associa
tions, his father being a leading woolen manu
facturer, inclined him to a business career. For
this he fitted himself bv a course in Comers

DEWEY, WiLLi.AM Strong, Manufacturer,
Quechee, was born in Quechee, in the town of
Hartford, Vermont, August 3, 1841, sonof Albert

WM. S. DEWEY".
Commercial College, and by two years service
in the office of Taft & Parker, mill owners and
manufacturers. April i, 1866, he entered the
firm of J. C. Parker & Company, woolen manu
facturers, at Quechee, and remained in it till

MEN OF PROGRESS.

April 1876, when he sold his interest, and became
a meraber of the firm of A. G. Dewey & Com
pany. When the A. G. Dewey Company was
incorporated, in i8go, he was elected Treasurer
of the company, which position he retains to the
present time. Mr. Dewey is a Republican in
politics, and represented the town of Hartford
in the Legislature in 1886. He has held various
local offices of responsibility and trust, having
been a Trustee of the Ottaquechee Savings
Bank; Director in the Woodstock, (Vermont),
National Bank and Director in the Ticonderoga
(New York) Pulp and Paper Company. He has
held several town offices, and is much respected
in the community. He is unmarried.

to serve the town and village in several important
positions. He is Vice President of the Lyndon
Bank, a Trustee of the Lyndon Institute, and
one of the Board of Selectmen. In politics he

EATON, Julius C, Merchant, Lyndonville,
was born in Sutton, Caledonia county, Verraont,
July 30, 1845, son of Freedraan and Irena
(Pierce) Eaton. He was educated at the com
mon schools of his native place, and subse
quently attended the high school at Newbury,
Vermont, for two years. Mr, Eaton's early
advantages were limited, but in spite of this
fact he has made a success in life. At the age
of fourteen he was engaged at blacking stoves,
for fifty dollars a year. Four years later he
found himself on a tin peddler's cart, making
trips through the country and exchanging goods
and notions for cash or any sort of truck. He
began his comraercial life as a clerk for L. K.
Quimby, hardware dealer, and from 1867 to 1885
was junior partner of the firm of L. K. Quimby
& Company. Purchasing the interests of Mr.
L. K. Quiniby he organized the company of J.
C. Eaton & Company, carrying on the same
industry at Lyndon and Lyndonville ever since.
Through Mr. Eaton's efforts, the firm has built
up a large and lucrative trade. The firm has
had as many as thirty peddlers on the road,
covering all sections of Northern, Central and
Western Verraont and New Hampshire. They
sell frora ten thousand to twenty thousand tin
buckets, and twenty-five thousand syrup cans
per annum, besides many evaporators. At their
Lyndon Branch two thousand dozen of brooms
are made annually. Mr. Eaton has found time

J. C. EATON.
is a Republican. In 1868 he married Addie
Hoyt, of Lyndon. He is one of the most highly
respected citizens of that town, and his career
shows what industry and integrit}^ can accom
plish.

FAIRBANKS, Edward Taylor, Clergyman,
St. Johnsbury, was born in that town, in Cale
donia county. May 12, 1836, son of Joseph P.
and Almira (Taylor) Fairbanks. He is of the
eighth generation from Jonathan Fairbanks
(Ffayerbancke) of Yorkshire, England, who
settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1636. He
was educated at St. Johnsbury Academy and
Phillips Andover Academy, Massachusetts. He
graduated from Yale College in i85g, and took
the theological course at Andover Seminary.
Mr. Fairbanks spent two and a half years abroad
for study and travel in Europe and the East.
He was ordained Pastor of the First Congrega
tional church, of St. Johnsbury Center, January

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I, 1868. Since January 30, 1874, he has been
Pastor of the South Congregational church, of
St. Johnsbury, holding at this writing, with one
exception, the longest continued active pastorate
of the Congregational order in the State. He
has a responsible part in the management of the
St. Johnsbury Academy, the Athenaeum and the

EDWARD T. FAIRBANKS.
Museum, and is foremost in all movements
looking toward the welfare of his native town.
In 1893 the University of Vermont conferred on
him the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity.
He was married, in Derry, New Hampshire,
July 9, 1862, to Emma Cornelia, daughter of Guy
C. and Sally M. Taplin, of Montpelier ; they
have one child: Cornelia Taylor Fairbanks.

FIFIELD, Benjamin Franklin, Attorney,
Montpelier, the eldest son of Colonel Orange
Fifield, was born in Orange, Vermont, Novem
ber i8, 1832. His family name is derived frora
the union of the name of the County of Fife in
Scotland, with the name of Field. Mr.
Fifield 's ancestors emigrated to this country in
1634, and settled in Massachusetts. His lineage
in America is a notable one. On the maternal

side he is descended from the Adamses of Mas
sachusetts. His great grandfather Fifield was
an officer in the Revolutionary War, and was
the second man over the Briti.sh entrenchments
at the battle of Bennington. His grandfather's
brother. Colonel Edward Fifield, commanded a
regiment in active service in the War of 1812.
Having fitted for college, he entered the Uni
versity of Vermont, from which he graduated
in the class of 1855. Selecting the honorable
profession of the law, he commenced legal
study in the office of Peck and Colby, who
were then the leading lawyers of the state, at
Montpelier. In 1858, he was admitted to the
Washington County Bar and commenced prac
tice in Montpelier, where he has ever since
resided. After his admission to the Bar he was
associated with Messrs. Peck and Colby until
1864, when he formed a partnership with Hon.
Lucius B, Peck, of that firm, Mr. Colby having
removed to Washington, District of Columbia,
upon his appointment as Register of the United
States Treasury. This copartnership continued
until the death of Mr. Peck in 1866, when Mr.
Fifield succeeded to the entire and extensive
business ofthe firm. From his admission to the
Bar to the present time, he has devoted himself
assiduously to his profession, never allowing him
self to be diverted from it by the political ignesfatui,
which have attracted so many who otherwise might
have adorned their profession. In 1869 he was
appointed United States Attorney for the District
of Vermont, by President Grant, and received
consecutive reappointments until 1880, when he
resigned the office on account of his election as
Representative to the General Assembly from
Montpelier. During this period, the bu.siness
requiring his official attention was very large on
account of the numerous violations ofthe Pension,
Bankruptcy, Internal Revenue, and Customs
Revenue laws. It was not unusual to have from
twenty to thirty indictments found at each of the
three terms of the United States Court held each
year. During his term of office, the Fenian
raiders on Canada were indicted, tried and con
victed for the violation of the neutrality laws, and
other important pro,secutions were conducted by
him. Without disparaging others who have

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filled the office, it is but justice to Mr. Fifield to
say, that he-was one ofthe most efficient United
States Attorneys, which this state has ever had.
Mr. Fifield is a sturdy Republican in politics.
In August, 1880, he delivered a speech on the
political issues of the day, the vigorous and effec
tive character of which was at once recognized,
and two editions of five thousand copies each
were printed by direction of the Republican State
Committee, and circulated throughout the state,
where it ranked as the speech of the campaign.
In the legislature Mr. Fifield was Chairman ofthe
Judiciary Committee, and also served on the
Committees on Revision of Laws and on Consti
tutional Amendments, and was an influential

B. F. FIFIELD.
member of a body comprising such men as
Ex-Governor John B. Page of Rutland, Lieuten
ant-Governor Hinckley of Chelsea, the Palmers
of Jericho and Waterbury, and Judges Taft,
Thompson and Start. That legislature made a
thorough revision ofthe laws, including the .system
of taxation and court and state expenses. There
was a movement in the fall of 1882 to put him in
nomination for Congress in his district, but he
refused to allow his name to be used, preferring
the honorable certainty of his profession, to the

uncertainties of political life. In 1884, he was a
delegate to the Republican National Convention,
and in the same year was elected President of the
Vermont Bar Association, before which he deliv
ered an able address, advocating making the
tenure of the office of Judge of the Supreme
Court to be during good behavior. In 1885, he
was one of the United States Commissioners to
locate the United States postoffice and court house
at Montpelier. As a railroad and corporation
lawyer, Mr. Fifield stands at the head of the Bar
of Vermont, and ranks as the equal of any lawyer
in New England in that branch of the law. In
1869 he became the couqsel and confidential
adviser of the Vermont Central Railroad Com
pany, and of the Receivers of that company , which
relation to that company and its successor, the
Central Verraont Railroad Company, has con
tinued to the present time. Out of the receiver
ship of the Vermont Central, commencing in
1872, the issuance of various classes of bonds,
and the floating of an enormous debt, many
puzzling legal questions arose, in respect to the
priority of liens, and the relations ofthe Vermont
and Canada road to the Vermont Central. Mr.
Fifield at first asked for associate counsel, but in
1873, after a few legal battles, the managers
placed the whole responsibility upon hira as lead
ing cou:isel, which he successfully carried until
the litigation came to an end in 1883. During
this litigation every manner of expedient known
to chancery law was resorted to, requiring a thor
ough knowledge of equity, constitutional law and
chancery practice, both in the State and P^ederal
Courts. The case in different forms went to the
Supreme Court three times before a final decision
was reached, and in each of these cases Mr.
Fifield had the entire preparation and made the
principal argument. While these suits were
pending in the State Courts, the management
was assailed in the United States Circuit Court
by a multitude of suits in equity, involving ques
tions of conflicting jurisdiction between the State
and Federal Courts, and other points of great
variety and novelty. These were ably defended
by Mr. Fifield; and he was finally sustained
by the Courts on all the substantial questions
involved. About 1879, he was the successful

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counsel for Governor Fairbanks in the Lamoille
Valley Railroad litigation. In 1887, he made an
elaborate argument before the United States Inter
state Commerce Commission involving the
construction of the Interstate Commerce Act.
Although then overruled as to the principal point
raade, this point has since been sustained by a
decision of the United States Court of Appeals.
Upon the death of Judge Smalley, of the United
States District Court, in 1877, Mr. Fifield's
friends urged his appointment as Judge Smalley's
successor; but he withdrew his candidacy in order
to remain the counsel of the Vermont Central
Railroad, in their important litigation. Mr.
Fifield still continues as the advisory counsel of
the Central Vermont Railroad, and (after a period
of impaired health) performs the responsible and
arduous duties of the position, with full mental
and physical vigor. He is a member of the Cor-
> poration of the University of Vermont. On
January 4, 1865, he was married to Lucy,
daughter of Erastus Hubbard of Montpelier, Ver
mont. Three daughters have been born to them.
Those who have enjoyed the hospitality of Mr.
and Mrs. Fifield at their elegant home, know how
happy aud beautiful has been their home life.

HACKETT, CoRCELLUS Hubbard, Merchant,
New York, was born at Tunbridge, Vermont,
April 20, 1839. He came from colonial stock,
descending from Captain William Hackett, who
lived at Dover, New Hampshire, in 1657. His
great-grandfather and his great-great-grandfather
both early took part in the American Revolution,
and fought in the Battle of Bunker Hill. In
1790 his great-grandfather, with his family,
moved from Dunbarton, New Hampshire, to
Tunbridge, Vermont, when that section of the
country was a wilderness. His mother was
Hannah Hoyt Richardson, who descended from
one of six Richardson brothers, who, after the
close of the Revolutionary War, in which they
were participants, settled in Canaan, New Hamp
shire, in 1780. The subject of this sketch
prepared for College at Kimball Union Academy,
Canaan, New Hampshire, and in i860 entered
Dartmouth College ; but owing to ill health he

abandoned his purpose to enter a professional life,
and engaged in mercantile pursuits. From 1865
to 1882 he was in business in Boston, when he
retired. He sustained severe losses at the great
fire in Boston in 1872, which devastated so large
a part of the business section of that city ; but
even before the fire was extinguished he had
secured new quarters, and his business was con
tinued almost without interruption and with
continued success. In 1885 he moved to New
York, where he organized the well known leading
house of Hackett, Carhart & Co. Mr. Hackett
is an earnest Republican in politics, believing

C. H, HACKETT.
that the true prosperity of the country depends on
the success of the principles of that party. He is
a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New
York, The Union League Club, The Merchants'
Club, The Up-town Association and the Metro
politan Museum of Art. He is a Trustee of the
Bowery Savings Bank, a Director of the Citizens
National Bank, of The Merchants' Association,
and other institutions. In 1865, Mr. Hackett
married Helen L. , daughter of Albert Humphrey of
Boston, Massachusetts. They have two children:
Grace, who married Alden A. Thorndike in 1895;
and Harold Humphrey Hackett, who is a mem
ber of the class of 1900, in Yale University.

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HALL, William Henry Harrison, Chelsea,
son of Edward and Sarah (Downer) HaU, was
born in Randolph, Verraont, in 1823. Whenhe
was one year and a half old, his parents
reraoved to Chelsea, Vermont. The Halls are
an old and influential family, and the family
mansion, of old colonial style, is standing in
Quincy, forraerly Braintree, Massachusetts. The
famous Quincy granite quarries are on the old
Hall farm. John Hall, Jr., grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was a minute-man and
Captain in the War of the Revolution, and
Edward Hall, son of Captain Hall, and father of
W. H. H. Hall, was born in 1 771; was a soldier
ofthe War of 18 12, and participated in the battle

W. H. H. hall.
of Plattsburgh. He removed to Randolph, Ver
mont, in early life, and wasa hatter and furrier.
He married Sarah Downer of Royalton, Ver
mont, whose father, Ephraim Downer, and
brother were captured by the Indians at the
burning of Royalton in 1780 and taken to Canada,
and she barely escaped capture. Mr. Hall's
early education was obtained in the public
schools of Chelsea. In 1844 he entered the
Norwich University, at that time presided over
by General Ransom. After leaving the Univer,

sity, in 1847 he went to Kentucky, where at
Campbellsburgh he taught in a select school for
the Coombs and other well-known families.
After a year spent in Kentucky, he returned to
New England; and in May, 1849, sailed from
Boston for California via Cape Horn. He arrived
at San Francisco, after a voyage of one hundred
and sixty-four days, with a ten cent bit in his
pocket. He remained four months as clerk in a
hotel, and then set out for the Southern mines,
where after locating a claim, he was prostrated
by a lever, and returned to San Francisco. June
14, 1850, he had a narrow escape from being a
victim of the great fire in San Francisco, which
started in the hotel where he was employed as
clerk. He next obtained a situation as purser
on the Columbia river steamer Lot Whitcomb.
He was soon appointed pilot, and took the first
soundings, and was the first commissioned pilot,
on the Columbia and Willamette rivers. He was
a pilot for four years and afterward Captain of
the steamers Fashion and Iris. He returned to
Warren, Vermont, in 1861, raised a company of
Volunteers, and joined the Sixth Vermont as
Captain of Company G. After a year's service
he was discharged for physical disability, by
reason of sickness, and returned to the Pacific
Coast, remaining there as a steamer Captain until
1866, when he went to the oil regions of Penn
sylvania, to assist his brother in the prosecution
of a three hundred thousand dollar law suit. As
a result of this suit. Captain Hall assumed the
management of two farms iu the Pit Hole oil
section, leased and sold land, and operated oil
wells. His health failing, in 1873 he purchased
his present homestead in the village of Chelsea,
Vermont, where he has seventy-five acres
stocked with fine Jersey cattle, and is spending
the autumnal days of an active and prosperous
career. Mr. Hall has served the town several
years as Selectman and Overseer of the Poor.
He was a charter member of Waterson Post,
No 45, Grand Army of the Republic, and its
Commander for nearly nine years. He was also a
charter member of George T, Hebard Command,
No. I, United Veterans Union; and is a member
of the New England Associated California Pio
neers of '49. In 1856, Captain Hall married Sarah

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A. F'oster, daughter of Samuel and Phoebe (Leon
ard) Foster. Both of Mrs. Hall's grandfathers
were soldiers in the Revolutionary War, Two
children have been born to them: S. Ada, wife
of J, B. Bacon; and H. E, K. Hall, who was acci
dentally killed in 188 1, and in honor of whom
H. E. K. HaU Camp, No. 28, Sons of Veterans,
was named.

HEMENWAY, Lewis Hunt, Physician,
Manchester, was born in Bangkok, Siam,
November 30, 1841, sonof Asa and Lucia (Hunt)
Hemenway. The first mention of the Hemen
way family in New England is found in the town
records of Roxbury, Massachusetts, in which
Ralph Hemenway is shown to have married
Elizabeth Hewes, July 5, 1634. From this union
all Americans bearing the name of Hemenway
are supposed to have descended, the name being
variously spelled. In the New England His
torical and Genealogical Register (Vol. II, p.
259) is given a list of pedigrees contained in
William Pavers 's consolidated visitations of
Yorkshire, England; and the name of "Hem
ingway" is found recorded three times as far
back as 1584. Doctor Hemenway's maternal
grandfather, Samuel Hunt, carae from Connecti
cut to Vermont and settled in Shoreham. The
parents of the subject of this sketch were mar
ried in 1839, and went as missionaries of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions to Siam. In 1849 they left Siam on
account of impaired health, arriving in this
country in July, 1850. His father preached for
a number of years in Vermont and in Clinton
county, New York, and died in Manchester,
Vermont, aged nearly eighty-two. His mother
died in Burlington in 1864, aged fifty four.
Three children were born to them in Siam and
two are living, a brother of Doctor Hemenway
residing in St. Paul, Minnesota. The subject
of this sketch received his early education in
the common schools and in Burr and Burton
Seminary in Manchester, Vermont. He entered
Middlebury college, but at the close of his junior
year he enlisted in the Twelfth Vermont Volun
teers, Infantry, and remained in the service
nearly a year. He finished his college course,

graduating in 1864, and immediately began the
study of medicine with Doctors Thayer and Car
penter in Burlington. He subsequently entered
the Medical Department of the University of
Vermont, from which he graduated in 1866. He
spent two and one half years iu the General
Hospital and Lunatic Asylum at Flatbush, New
York, In November, 1868, he settled in Man
chester, entering upon the general practice of
medicine. In 1877 b^ removed to St. Paul, Min
nesota, for the benefit of his health, but returned
in 1879 to Manchester, where he has since resi
ded, building up a large and lucrative practice.

L. H. HliME-N'WAY,
Doctor Hemenway has had no aspirations for
public office, preferring to devote his attention
to his practice and his home duties. He has
been a Trustee and Treasurer of Burr and Bur
ton Seminary of Manchester since 1880. While
in college he was a member of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity. In politics he is a steadfast
Republican. He was united in marriage, Sep
tember 21, 1870, with Maria Reed of Montpelier,
and they have been blessed with five children,
all of whom are living : Clara Fitch, Charles
Reed, Lewis Edward, Edward Hunt and George
Reed Hemenway.

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MEN OF PROGRESS,

HENDEE, George Whitman, Lawyer, Ex-
Governor, Morrisville, was born in Stowe, Nov
ember 30, 1832, son of Jehial P. and Rebecca
(Ferrin) Hendee. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the common schools and in the Peo
ple's Academy at Morrisville. His parents were
poor and all of his educational advantages were
obtained by his own strenuous and unaided exer
tions. At the age of Iwenty he began the study
of law in the office of W G. Ferrin of Johnson.
He was admitted to the Bar of Lamoille county in
1855. It was an era of frequent justice and jury
trials, and the industry, pleasing address, and

GEORGE W. HENDEE.
clear insight of the young advocate were soon
rewarded with an ample and constantly increas
ing practice. A large proportion of the more
important cases were .soon committed to his
charge, and nearly all of his recent practice has
been in the County and Supreme Courts of the
State and in the United States Circuit and Dis
trict Courts. During the past quarter of a
century the discharge of important political
duties and the management of large business
enterprises have at times withdrawn the attention
of Governor Hendee from his professional labors.
He was one of the pioneers in the construction of

the Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad, devoting his
entire time to it for a period of seven years, and
he is now the only Director who has given the
"road continuous service since the organization of
the corporation. For a number of years he has
been President ofthe Montreal, Portland & Bos
ton Railroad of Canada. His connection with
banking interests has been varied and extensive.
He is a Director and President of the Union
Savings Bank and Trust Company of Morrisville.
He was Receiver of the National Bank of
Poultney, and ofthe Vermont National Bank of
St. Albans. He was also National Bank Exam
iner frora 1879 to 1885. Governor Hendee is and
always has been a Republican. When he was
twenty-one years old he was elected to the position
of Superintendent of Schools, and from that time
to the present there has been no year in which he
has not been called by the public to discharge
some official trust. He has many times acted by
order of the court as Auditor, Trustee and Special
Master. He was a member of the Legislature in
1 86 1 and 1862; State's Attorney for Lamoille
county in 1858-59; Deputy Provost Marshal dur
ing the war; State Senator for Lamoille county
in 1866-67 and 1868, and Lieutenant-Governor
in 1869. On the death of Governor Peter T.
Washburn, he was installed as Governor by
Judge Steele, and he served during the remainder
ofthe term. He was a meraber of the Forty-
third, Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses,
serving on the Committee on Private Land Claims
and on the District of Columbia. He was
largely instrumental in drafting and securing the
passage of the law which made an entire change
in the form of government of the district, under
which it has since existed, and which placed the
district on an entirely sound financial basis.
During his long public career he has served his
town in many and varied capacities, , and the
grateful appreciation in which his services are
held is well known. He has served a number of
terms as President of the Board of Village Trus
tees. During the past fifteen years he has sought
relaxation in agricultural pursuits. He is largely
interested in the breeding and development 01
first class light carriage horses of the Morgan
type and blood. He is a member ofthe Masonic

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199

fraternity, and is interested in all public improve
ments. He was united in marriage, November
17, 1855, with Melissa, daughter of Stevens and
Caroline (Johnson) Redding. Their only child"
was Lillian Frances, now deceased. His first
wife died in 1861, and on December 23, 1863, he
married Viola S., daughter of Loren and Fidelia
(Paine) Bundy.

HOWARD, Oliver Otis, Burlington, was
born in Leeds, Maine, November S, 1S30. He
lived on his father s farm in early boyhood, then
attended Yarmouth Academy, prepared for col
lege and met his expenses by teaching. He
graduated from Bowdoin College in 1850,
and in the same year entered the United
States Military Academy at West Point, from
which he graduated in 1854, being fourth in the
class, in general standing. He was appointed
Second Lieutenant in the Ordnance Department
and was first stationed at the Watervliet, New
York, Arsenal. During the year 1855, he was in
commandof Kennebec Arsenal, Maine. In 1856 he
was sent to Florida, reporting to General Harney
as Chief of Ordnance in the field against the
Seminole Indians. In the fall of 1857, he was
assigned to duty as instructor in mathematics at
West Point, where he remained for four years.
When the Civil War began, he resigned his posi
tion at West Point to take the Colonelcy of the
Third Regiment Maine Volunteers. He organ
ized the regiment and took it to the field, where
he was assigned by General McDowell to the
command of a brigade consisting of his own regi
ment, the P'ourth and Fifth Maine and Second
Verraont. This brigade he commanded in the
first Battle of Bull Run, where the brigade
did important duty, and was one of the last
bodies of Union troops to maintain its position
near the center of the field. September 3, 1861,
he was made a Brigadier- General of Volunteers
and commanded a brigade during all the opera
tions of the spring of 1862, including an inde
pendent expedition to Rappahannock, Virgina,
under General Sumner. He served under General
McClellan in the Peninsular Campaign, partici
pating in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg

and Fair Oaks. In the last named battle he was
twice wounded, losing his right arm and had two
horses shot under him. For gallantry in this
battle he received a medal of honor from Con
gress. He spent his time of convalescence from
his wounds in recruiting volunteers to fill the
quota of his state. Returning to the field in two
months and twenty days, he was assigned to the
command of the Second Brigade, Second Division,
of the Second Corps. He successfully commanded
the rear guard in the retreat after the second Battle
of Bull Run. At .Vntietam, General Sedgewick,
his Division Commander, being %vounded, he
succeeded to the command ofthe Division, which

o. O. HOW.\RD.
he also commanded at Fredericksburg, partici
pating in the charge on Marye's Heights. He
was promoted to be a Major-General of A'olunteers,
November 29, 1862, and in April ofthe following
year was assigned to the command of the Eleventh
Army Corps. This Corps participated in the
battles of Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. In
the latter battle, after the arduous fighting of the
first day, he occupied Cemetery Hill with his
reserve troops, and held the hill, which was
thereafter the key of the Union position, until
the arrival of General Hancock, who confirmed

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

hi; disposition ofthe troops, and virtual selection
of the ground on which the victory was won.
He rendered important service on the second and
third days of the battle, and received the thanks
of General Meade, and of Congress, for his valu
able work. The Eleventh Corps having been
sent to the Army of the Cumberland, he fought
in the battle of Wauhatchie, receiving the com
mendation of General Thomas for his part in that
arduous battle. At Missionary Ridge he was
again engaged with such success that General
Sherman asked to have General Howard's corps
join his own in the movement for the relief of
Knoxville. In the spring of 1864, he was assigned
to the command of the Fourth Army Corps,
Army ofthe Cumberland, and participated with
Generals Sherman and Thomas, to their satisfac
tion, in the campaign which followed, including
the battles of Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain and
Peachtree Creek, and other engagements. After
the Battle of Atlanta, July 22, General Howard
was assigned by the President to the command of
the Army of the Tennessee. In the Battle of
Ezra Church, he commanded the field and for dis
tinguished service was brevetted a Major-General
in the regular army. General Howard com
manded the right wing of Sherman's Army in its
famous march to the Sea. He successfulh-
marched three columns to the vicinity of Savan
nah, sending his scouts down the Ogechee River
to communicate with the fleet. He sent Hazen's
division to attack Fort McAllister and after the
taking of Savannah, he was sent by water from
Savannah to Beaufort Island, South Carolina,
whence his command swept northward to Colum
bia. After Columbia and Charleston had fallen,
Howard's wing of the army crossed the Carolinas,
and joined General Slocum in the battle of
Bentonville, March 19-21, 1865. After the sur
render of General Joe Johnston, Howard marched
his command from Raleigh to Washington via
Petersburg and Richmond ; he himself being
ordered to proceed from Richmond to Washington
by water, in accordance with a request from
President Lincoln. General Howard was made a
Brigadier-General in the regular army, December
21, 1865. He was assigned to duty in the War
Department, May 12, 1865, as Commissioner of

the Bureau of Refugees, F'reedmen and Aban
doned Lands. He had charge of this Bureau for
seven years and founded many permanent insti
tutions of learning ; among them Howard
University, Hampton Institute, Atlanta Univer
sity, Lincoln, Fisk and Straight Universities. In
1872, he was selected by President Grant to make
peace with the Chiricaua Apaches, the only
Indian tribe at war, which he successfully
accomplished. He was assigned to the command
of the Department of the Columbia in August,
1874. During the next six years he conducted
two Indian wars — the Nez Perce War in 1877,
and the Piute and Bannock war in 1878. These
were successfully terminated after many battles,
and long and fatiguing campaigns. In the winter
of 1880-81, he was assigned tothecomraand ofthe
West Point Military Academy, which he held for
two years. July 13, 1882, he was assigned to the
command of the Department of the Platte, and
March 19, 1886, was promoted to be Major-
General in the regular army and assigned to the
military division of the Pacific. In November,
1888, he was transferred to the inilitary division
of the Atlantic, subsequently called the Depart
ment of the East, and continued in command
until his retirement, by law, Novembers, 1894.
Such are a few of the points of a military career
of marked distinction and success. Among the
decorations received by General Howard is that
of the F'rench Legion of Honor, received from the
President of France. He received the degree of
Master of Arts from Bowdoin College and that of
Doctor of Laws from Bowdoin and three other
colleges. General Howard is the author of
several books, including "Donald's School
Days," "Nez Perce Joseph," " Agenor de
Gasparin," "General Taylor," in the Great
Commander Series; "Isabella of Castile," and
many magazine articles. Since his retirement
from active service General Howard has made
his home in Burlington, Vermont, He is in great
demand as a lecturer and his field includes the
whole country. He is an earnest Republican and
in the campaign of 1896, in company with several
veteran officers of the Civil War, made a notable
tour of the country, delivering many stirring
speeches. His high Christian character is well

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known, and he has done useful religious service
among the American troops in the present war
with Spain. He married Elizabeth Ann Howard
of Portland, Maine, February i, 1855. Their
children are ; Guy, Major, United States Army;
Grace, wife of Captain James T. Gray, Portland,
Oregon; James Waite, Major, New Jersey National
Guard; Chancey Otis; John, First Lieutenant
United States Army; Harry Stinson and Bessie
Howard. General Howard is now engaged in
furthering the work of the Army Christian Com
mission in the field and making visits to all
the camps.

HOYT, Charles Albert, New York, was
born in Burlington, Chittenden county, Vermont,
July 27, 1839, son of Reverend William Henry
and Ann (Deming) Hoyt. He is descended, on
his father's side, from John Hoyt, who came
from England and was one of the first settlers of
Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1639,
a man of prominence in the town, holding various
civil offices and being a Sergeant iu the Colonial
militia. Several generations of the family con
tinued to live in Amesbury, and later removed
to New Hampshire. His great-grandfather,
Joseph Hoyt, was a native of Sandwich, New
Harapshire, and a patriot of the Revolution.
He was one ofthe signers, in 1776, ofthe famous
" Association Test," in New Hampshire, the
members of which bound themselves " at the
Risque of their lives and fortunes to oppose by
Arms the hostile Proceedings of the British
Fleets and Armies." His son, the grandfather
ofthe subject of this sketch, was a business man
in Sandwich, being elected fifteen times to repre
sent his native town in the State Legislature,
besides being for four years a Senator and for a
similar length of time a member of the Gover
nor's Council. Reverend William Henry Hoyt
was born in 18 13, was a graduate of Dartmouth,
held pastorates in Verraont and New York, and
was a man of fine scholarly attainments. He
died in 1883. Mr. Hoyt can also boast of hon
orable ancestry on his mother's side. John
Deming was one of the first settlers of Wethers-
field, Connecticut, and one of the Patentees

named in the charter of that Colony, granted by
Charles II. in 1662. He was a Deputy to the
General Court of Connecticut for nineteen years,
from 1646 to 1665. The great-grandfather of
Charles A. Hoyt, Captain Pownal Deming, was
an officer in the Continental army, enlisting at
the time of the Lexington alarm in 1775, and serv
ing with distinction for eight years. He was an
original member of the Society of the Cincinnati.
At the time of his death he had been for many
years a merchant in Hartford, Connecticut. His
only son, Eleazer Hubbell Deming, removed to
Vermont early in life and became a successful
merchant in Burlington, securing the reputation

c. A. HOY'T.
of being the best business man in Northern Ver
mont. John Fay, the great-grandfather of Mr.
Hoyt's mother, resided in Bennington, Vermont,
was a Sergeant at Ticonderoga under Ethan
Allen, and was kilUed while fighting under
General Stark in the battle of Bennington,
August 16, 1776. Four of his brothers also
fought in the American army during that battle.
John Fay was Secretary of the Council of Safety
of Vermont at the time of his death. Mr. Hoyt
was educated in the academies at Burlington
and St, Albans, Vermont, and at Montreal, Can-

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ada. He received his collegiate training at the
University of Vermont and the University of
Georgetown, District of Columbia, the degrees
of Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts being
conferred upon him by both institutions. With
an inclination towards the law, he took up its
study for a few months after graduation.
Becoming a clerk in a mercantile house in New
York city he continued for some time to employ
his evenings in reading law. For a short time
in 1862 and 1863 he assisted his father in news
paper work in Burlington, but subsequently
returned to New York and became connected
with the rubber trade. Mr. Hoyt had much to
do with the development of the hard rubber
industry, then in its infancy. He entered the
firm of Poppenhusen & Konig, as a partner, and
in 1868 and 1870 was made Treasurer, respect
ively, of the India Rubber Comb Company and
the Goodyear Hard Rubber Company. For
thirty years past he has held this important
position. Mr. Hoyt has always been active in
business circles, and identified with several
prominent organizations. He has been for
twenty years a member ofthe New York Cham
ber of Commerce, and for the past five years on
the Executive Committee of the Chamber. He
was one of the founders of the German American
Insurance Company and the German Alliance
Insurance Company, is a member of the Board
of Directors of each company and Vice Presi
dent of the latter. He is also Trustee of the
Brooklyn Savings Bank. He is a member and
Treasurer ofthe New York State Society of the
Cincinnati, and also a member of the Sons of
the American Revolution, the Mayflower Soci
ety, the Order of Founders and Patriots of
America, the Union League Club of New York,
the Hamilton Club of Brooklyn, and the Long
Island Historical Society. He is a Republican,
and voted for General Grant in 1868 and for
every Republican candidate for the Presidency
since that time. He was married, October 14,
1862, to Julia H. Sherman; they have one child:
Albert Sherman Hoyt.
IDE, Henry Cl\y, Ex-Chief Justice, St.
Johnsbury, son of Jacob and Lodoska (Knights)

Ide, was born in Barnet, Septeraber 18, 1844.
He pursued his preparatory studies at St. Johns
bury Acaderay and then entered Dartmouth Col
lege from which he graduated with the highest
honors of his class in 1866. He was Principal of
St. Johnsbury Academy from the tirae of his
graduation until the summer of 1868, when he
was appointed Head Master of the High School
of Arlington, Massachusetts, a position which he
filled until the autumn of 1869. At this tirae he
began the study of law with the late Judge B. H.
Steele of St. Johnsbury, and in December, 1870,
he was admitted to the Bar of Caledonia county.

HENRY C. IDE.
He immediately began to practice in St. Johns
bury, and in 1873 formed a partnership with
Hon. H. C. Belden, which continued until 1884,
when the firm was succeeded by that of Ide &
Stafford. This partnership in turn was succeeded
by that of Ide & Quimby, in 1890, and that was
dissolved in 1892. In 1890 he was admitted to
the Bar of the United States Supreme Court. Mr.
Ide has been engaged in much of the important
litigation in Northeastern Vermont, and he has
stood in the front rank of his profession. He has
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his fellow citizens. For three years he was
State's Attorney for Caledonia county and was
twice sent to the State Senate, in which he served
on several important committees. He was
prominent in securing the passage of measures
ensuring the property rights of women, simplify
ing legal proceedure, etc. In 1884 he presided
at the State Republican Convention, and he was
a delegate to the Republican National Convention
in 1888, in which he served on the Committee on
Credentials. Mr. Ide was appointed by Presi
dent Harrison a Commissioner on behalf of the
United States to act with others appointed by
England and Germany to settle the disputes in
Samoa. Chosen by the Commission as its Chair
man, he rendered important service in organizing,
formulating and carrying on the work of that
body. In November, 1891, he resigned this
appointment on account of sickness in his family,
returning to this country with expressions of
regret from the King of Samoa, his associates,
and' all other officials with whom he had come in
contact in the course of his official duties. On his
return he also received from the President a letter
of thanks for his efficient and valuable services as
Commissioner. In 1893 he was appointed Chief
Justice of Samoa by the three Treaty Powers,
England, Germany and the United States, and on
the 2oth day of October sailed frora San Fran
cisco to enter upon his new and important duties
in those distant islands ofthe South Pacific. He
performed the duties of that responsible position
for over four years in a manner that won him
both respect and fame throughout the civilized
world. He has been for years a Director of the
First National Bank of St. Johnsbury, the
Passumpsic Savings Bank, one of the largest
institutions ofthe kind in the State, the Tredegar
National Bank of Jacksonville, Alabama, and in
various manufacturing and railroad corporations,
all of which trusts he has carefully and honorably
fulfilled. He was united in wedlock, October 26,
1 87 1, with Mary M., daughter of Joseph and
Sophia (Melcher) Melcher, of Stoughton, Mass
achusetts, who passed from life April 13, 1892.
Of this marriage four children were born: Ade
laide M. (deceased),AnnieL., Harry J. (deceased) ,
and Mary M. Ide.

JENNINGS, Frederic Beach, of North
Bennington, was born in Bennington Centre,
August 6, 1853, son of Reverend Isaac and
Sophia (Day) Jennings. The Jennings family,
which is of English ancestry, was represented
among the earliest settlers of Fairfield, Connec
ticut, several generations having lived and died
in that town. Mr. Jennings received his early
education in private schools in Bennington and,
having prepared for college, he entered Williams
College from which he graduated in 1872. He

F. B. JENNINGS.
immediately began the study of law with Ex-
Lieutenant-Governor A. B. Gardner of Benning
ton Centre, and in 1873 he entered Harvard Law
School from which he received the degree of
LL. B. He then went to New York city and
entered the office of William M. Evarts, remain
ing there for several years as student and
assistant in successful practice. He had in the
meantime entered the New York University Law
School from which he received the degree of
LL. B. in 1875. He established the law firm of
Jennings & Russell, which was subsequently
consolidated with the old established firm of
Bangs & Stetson, forming the firm of Stetson,
Tracy, Jennings & Russell, now Stetson, Jen-

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nings & Russell, 35 Wall Street, New York.
Mr. Jennings is general counsel of the Erie
Railroad company, and of the International
Paper company; and he and his firm are also
counsel for the Southern Railway company, the
Reading Railroad company and various other
railroad organizations as well as of numerous
banks and businesshouses. Mr. Jennings also has
large business interests, being Vice-President of
the American Trading company, Vice-President
of the Bennington & Rutland Railroad company.
Director ofthe Chicago and Erie Railroad com
pany. Director of the Charleston City Railway
company; Vice-President of the First National
Bank of North Bennington, and a Director or
officer in many other business enterprises in
New York and elsewhere. Mr. Jennings has
taken an active interest in educational matters.
He is a Trustee of Williams College, Trustee
of the public schools in New York city, and
Trustee ofthe Free Library at Bennington. He
is a member of the Union League, University,
University Athletic, Metropolitan, Centur}-,
Racquette and New York Athletic clubs of New
York; of the Country Club of Westchester; also
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon society and of the
St. Andrews and Mount Anthony golf clubs. He
was joined in marriage with Laura Hall Park,
daughter of the late Trenor \V. Park and grand
daughter of Ex-Governor Hiland Hall, on July
27, 1880.

JEWETT, Erastus W., Manufacturer,
Swanton, was born in St. Albans, Franklin
county, Vermont, April i, 1839, son of Eleazer
and Dorothy (Abells) Jewett. His ancestry goes
back to the family of Jewetts who settled in
Rowley, Massachusetts, at a very early date in
the country's history. He received his education
in the district schools and academies, and since
beginning his business life has been extensively
engaged in manufacturing along different lines.
He manufactures drain tile, conducts a large lime
industry, is interested in the making of buckles
and suspender and overall trimmings, was pro
prietor of flour and saw mills, and also ships a
large amount of baled hay. Colonel Jewett

gained that title by appointment to the staff of the
late Govemor Levi K. Fuller, as General
Inspector of Rifle Practice. He was First Lieu
tenant of Company A, Ninth Vermont Volunteers,
and served two years and eight months in the
'War ofthe Rebellion, has been General Inspector
of Rifle Practice in the National Guard of Ver
mont, and Department Commander of Vermont,
Grand Army of the Republic. His society con
nections are numerous, he being a member of

E. W. JEWETT.
Lafayette Commandery, Knights Templar, of St.
Albans, of the Vermont Commandery, Loyal
Legion, the Medal of Honor Legion, the Sons of
the American Revolution, and the Home Market
Club. He has been twice married, the first time
to Fannie L. Brigham, November 4, 1862, and
the second to Edna C. Lawrence, November 2,
1897. He has four children by the first marriage:
Jesse Brigham, Mary A., Nellie H. and Walter
C. Jewett.

KENNEDY, Frederick Curtis, Secretary
and Agent of Woolen MiUs, Burlington, son of
Samuel Barnet and Hannah Mosely (Morse)
Kennedy of Newbury, Vermont, traces his ances
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one of the thirty barons who led the Normans at
the decisive battle of Hastings. In later branches
his mother's family belonged to the Curtis family
of England. On his father's side, his lineage
may be traced to Mary Kennedy, a maid of honor
to Mary, Queen of Scots. His great-grandfather
emigrated in 1722 to Newburyport, Massachusetts,
where, in 1728, Mr. Kennedy's grandfather was
born. The family removed in 1760 to Newbury,
Vermont, where Samuel B., father of Frederick
C. Kennedy, was born and became the father of
eleven children. When nineteen years of age,
Frederick put his academic training to use as a

F. C. KENNEDY.
teacher in the public schools. In 1850 he accepted
a position as book-keeper with the Central Ver
mont Railroad, which he retained for two years.
He then, in company with his brother John,
engaged in the general produce business at Rich
mond, Vermont. In connection .with their cor
respondents, Alden Taylor & Company, of Boston,
they were the first dealers in New England to
make use of refrigerator cars in shipping perish
able products over the line of the Ogdensburgh
and Central Vermont Railroads. After an
engagement of a year and a half as head salesman
for Messrs, Kingsland, Baber & Company, a large

dry goods firm in Keeseville, New York, he
resumed the produce business at Richmond,
Vermont, in company with George Benedict of
that town. While thus occupied, Mes.srs. Harding
and Brothers, manufacturers of woolen goods at
Winooski, Vermont, offered Mr. Kennedy the
position of accountant, which he accepted, begin
ning his duties in October, 1856. In 1859 he was
made Agent and Manager, under Mr. Charles L.
Harding. During his administration the capacity
of the mills was increased from fifteen sets of
thirty inch cards to twenty-five sets of forty -eight
inch cards. In 1881, a hosiery yarn mill of
seventeen thousand spindles was erected, and in
1895 a mill for the manufacture of dress goods,
having a capacity of one hundred and two looms,
was added. The Burlington Woolen Company
was organized in October, 1861, at which time
Mr. Kennedy was placed cn the Board of Direc
tors, and became Secretary, financial agent and
manager ofthe Mills at Winooski, which position
he retained to February 21, 1898. During the
period from i860 to 1862 the profits of the Bur
lington Mills under Mr. Kennedy's management
as agent were four hundred and fifty-seven
thousand dollars ($457,000), and from 1862 to
1898 the net profits were two million nine hundred
and six thousand, seven hundred and sixty-eight
dollars ($2,906,768), one million eight hundred
and forty-eight thousand of which was paid
to the stockholders in dividends on the cap
ital stock of two hundred thousand dollars,
besides paying for buildings and machinery nec
essary to more than double the original capacity
and value of the plant at the time the corporation
was organized in 1862. He has also been Agent
for the Colchester Mills; the Winooski Worsted
Company; the Burlington Flouring Company;
and the Winooski Aqueduct Company. In later
years he has been extensively engaged in the
construction of electric roads in Vermont. In
1895 he took a prominent part in building the
Military Post Electric Road from Winooski to
Essex Junction, Vermont; and in 1896 was general
adviser and Director of the electric railroad at
Springfield. Vermont. At present he is engaged
with three other gentlemen in promoting an elec
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Barre, and between St. Johnsbury and Lyndon
ville in Caledonia county. Mr. Kennedy takes
an active interest in public affairs. In 1869 he
represented the town of Colchester in the Legis
lature, serving on the two important committees
of Manufactures and Claims. The next year he
was a State Senator from Chittenden county, and
performed excellent service as a member of the
Committees on Claims and Education. He has
held various local offices of responsibility. Mr.
Kennedy was married April 15, 1859, to Amelia,
daughter of Roswell and Nancy Mason, of Rich
mond, Vermont. Four children have blessed this
union: Charles Louis, deceased; Frederick Curtis,
deceased; Mary Leland, wife of Lorenzo E.
Woodhouse; and Arthur Leland Kennedy, a
chemist in Philadelphia.

McGETTRICK, Felix William, Lawyer,
St. Albans, was born in Fairfield, November
20, 1847, son of Michael and Mary (O'Connor)
McGettrick. Both of his parents were born in
the County of Sligo, Ireland, and they came to
this country while young, settling on a farm in
Vermont. The subject of this sketch received
a common school and academic education. At
the age of sixteen he enlisted in the Union
army and served eighteen months in Company
E, Second Regiment, United States Sharp
shooters. At the close of the war he returned
to school and, having completed his course, he
began the study of law, which he pursued for
three years, taking private instruction in other
studies also, before seeking admission to the
Bar. He was admitted to the Franklin county
Bar in September, 1869. He began the practice
of law in St. Albans in 1872, and he has ever
since continued to reside there and make his
profession his sole business. Mr. McGettrick
has been called to many positions of honor and
trust. He was Grand Juror in 1874-5; Town
Agent for the prosecution and defending of
suits in 1882; member of the School Board of
St. Albans in 1875, 1894, 1895, 1896 and 1897;
Chairman of the School Board for one year;
Special Inspector of Customs in 1887-8, and
Superintendent of Construction of the new

United States Custom House and Postoffice in
St. Albans from 1893 to 1895 inclusive. Mr.
McGettrick has been a loyal and active Demo
crat and his party has honored him by repeat
edly making him its candidate for office. He
has been a candidate for Town Representative,
State Senator, State's Attorney, Mayor and
Member of Congress. He has made political

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F. W. MCGETTRICK.
speeches and delivered addresses on educational
and other subjects in fifteen different states.
He is a pleasing and effective speaker, and his
services are in frequent demand. Mr. Mc
Gettrick was united in marriage with Miss
Elizabeth Morris, January 16, 1872, and their
union has been blessed by three children :
Edward Thomas, Charles Henry and Mary
Catherine McGettrick.

McKENZlE, Walter Franklin, Physician,
Burlington, son of Michael and Mary (Lang)
McKenzie, was born in Burlington, Vermont,
December 12, 1872. His ancestry is Scotch-
Irish. He obtained his education in the public
schools of Burlington; in St. Joseph's College
in the same city, from which he graduated June

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207

24, i8gi; and in the Medical Department ofthe
University of Vermont, from which he graduated
July 17, i8g4. One year was spent by him in
practice at the Fanny Allen Hospital, and three
months at the Mary Fletcher Hospital, in Bur
lington. Doctor McKenzie began active practice
of his profession September i, 1895. He held
the office of City Physician of Burlington during
the year i8g6. Doctor McKenzie has treated a
great number of accidents, sustained by the

WALTER F. MCKENZIE.
employes of various business firms, with marked
success. He was also very successful in his
treatment of throat diseases during the diph
theria epidemic of 1896 and in the prevention of
diphtheria by the very latest methods in use.
Doctor McKenzie was a member of the Phi Chi
Medical Society frora i8gi to i8g4 and is now
a meraber of the Araerican Order of Foresters,
the Catholic Order oi Foresters, and the Catho
lic Young Men's Union. He is a Republican in
politics and is unraarried.

MILLER, Ira OsmorE, Attorney, New York,
son of Jesse and Boadicea (Chandler) Miller,
was born in Westminster, Vermont, March 3,
1823. Jesse Miller was the son of Robert

Miller and his wife, Mary Perry. They were
of Revolutionary stock, and of Scotch descent.
Their ancestors came to Massachusetts with the
first, or nearly the first, immigrants to that state.
Their descendants are numerous and scattered
over the entire country. Boadicea Chandler
was daughter of Daniel and Joanna Chandler, of
Putney, Vermont ; a grand-daughter of Captain
David Chandler and Mary Ballard, his wife ;
and great grand-daughter of Josiah Chandler
and Sarah IngaUs, his wife. Ira O. MUler
removed with his parents to Coventry, Vermont,
in 1827, where he was brought up as a farmer,
but attended district school winters, until he
was eighteen years of age. Then he prepared
for College at the Orleans county Grammar
School, Reverend Alexander L. Twilight, a
famous educator, being Principal of that institu
tion. Here he met as schoolmates many bright

IRA O. MILLER.
youths, among whom were Clark Ela Ferrin,
Jacob M. Clark and John A. Jameson, all of
whom afterward graduated at the University of
Vermont, and became useful and eminent men in
theirseveral professionsof theology, engineering
and law. Among the students was also a bright,
mercurial boy who is now known as the Hon.

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

Bradley B. Smalley of Burlington, Vermont.
Mr. Miller entered the University of Vermont
in 1844 and graduated in 1848. After graduat
ing he was Principal of the Academy at Hines-
burgh, Vermont, for two years, and then Princi
pal of the Caledonia County Graramar School
at Peacham, Vermont, for two years. He then
studied law, and was admitted to the Bar in the
State of New York in 1854. He commenced
the practice of law in the city of New York,
where he has since resided and continued in the
active prosecution of his profession as a busi
ness lawyer, chiefly in matters of real estate.
He has always been an active Republican, and
more especially during the struggle to put down
the Great Rebellion, and to reconstruct and re
establish the Government. He has held no
important offices, except that of Health Com
missioner of the State of New York, and, for
a short period. Commissioner of Taxes for the
city of New York., He was married in 1858
to Mary Caroline Hanson, daughter of Samuel
and Statira Hanson, of Portland, Maine, but she
died within a month of the time of their mar
riage. He was again married in 1870 to Annie
Stewart Hunter, daughter of the late William
A. Hunter, M. D. , of New York. One daughter:
Elsie Drake Miller, is living.

April, 1887. Doctor Minard began the study of
medicine with G. E. E. Sparhawk, M.D., in 1884.
In 1887 he began the practice of his profession
with Doctor Sparhawk, in Burlington, remaining
with him for eighteen months, during which time
the young doctor settled for his college expenses.
In 1889 he settled in Waterbury, where he has
since been in business, being connected with
several enterprises outfside of his chosen profes
sion. He has been Health Officer of Waterbury
for the past eight years. Doctor Minard was
President of the Vermont State Homoeopathic

MINARD, Will Frank, Physician, Water
bury, was born at Hinesburgh, Chittenden
county, Vermont, May 13, 1867, son of Roswell
Mason Bill and Miranda E, (Kenyon) Minard.
His paternal grandfather, Hazen T. Minard, is
now living at the age of eighty-four years. His
ancestry on both sides was American, and in
taking up the medical profession as a life work,
he followed in the footsteps of his father. He
was educated in the common schools, working on
a farm for his board and clothes, and attended
school at Bristol, Hinesburgh Academy and Bris
tol High School. He also had some experience
in drug stores at Hanover, New Hampshire, and
Bristol, Vermont. He fitted for college and
graduated at the Green Mountain Seminary,
Waterbury Centre, and finished a course at the
Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, in

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W, F. MINARD.
Medical Society in 1894, and after serving two
years as its Secretary is now a member of the
Board of Censors. He has always been an active
member ofthe society, and in 1 893 was appointed
statistician. He was a charter member and
Noble Grand of Mentor Lodge, No. 51, Indepen
dent Order of Odd Fellows, the first two years of
its existence. He is also a charter member of
Alhambra Encampment, and was its Chief
Patriarch for the first two years. He is now
Grand Herald of the Grand Lodge of Vermont.
He is a Republican, but never aspired to the
holding of office. September 20, 1886, he mar
ried Clarissa C. Smith, of Waterbury Center;

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they haveonechild: Marguerite Miranda Minard.
Doctor Minard has reached his present position
of usefulness by reason of his own personal
energy, having started at the foot of the ladder
and worked his way up.

NEWTON, George H., Physician, Cam
bridge, was born in Lowell, Vermont, April 21,
1867, son of Henry H. and Marion (Cammett)
Newton. His grandfather, Daniel E. Newton,

GEO. H. NEWTON.
removedfromGrafton, Massachusetts, to Lowell,
Vermont, in 1852. The subject of this sketch
was brought up on a farm, and received his
early education in the public schools and at
the People's Academy, Morrisville, Vermont.
After four years spent in teaching, he selected
the profession of medicine for his calling in
life, and entered the Medical Department ofthe
University of Verraont, frora which he gradu
ated in i8gi. In the sarae year he commenced
the practice of his profession in East Hardwick,
Vermont; removing thence to Irasburgh, Ver
mont, where he remained three years. In
December, i8g5, he reraoved to Carabridge,
Vermont, where he remains in a successful prac
tice. He is a member of the Vermont State

Medical Society, and is also a member of
Warner Lodge, No. 50, F'ree and Accepted
Masons. In politics he is a Republican.
December 10, i8gi. Doctor Newton married
Miss Alice E. Keith. They have two children:
Majorie and Marion Newton.

PARTRIDGE, Frank Charles, Proctor,
was born in East Middlebury, May 7, 1861, son
of Charles F. and Sarah Ann (Rice) Partridge. He
graduated from the Middlebury (Vermont) High
School in 1877, and followed this with one term
in Middlebury College. Entering Amherst
College in the fall of 1878, he graduated in 1882
at the head of his class, receiving the degree of
A. B., and he was also President of his class.
In the fall of 1882 he entered Columbia College
Law School aud he graduated in 1884 with the
degree of LL. B. Mr. Partridge was admitted

F. C. PARTRIDGE.
to practice in the Supreme Court of Vermont in
1885, and in the United States Supreme Court
in i8g2. He was Assistant Manager of the
Producers Marble Company of Rutland from
1884 to 1885, when he removed to Proctor to
become Treasurer of the Vermont Marble Com-

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

pany, serving in that capacity until 1890, since
which tirae he has been Vice-President of that
company. He is also Vice-President of the
Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad Company and
a Director of the Proctor Trust Company.
Politically he has always been a Republican,
and though young in years he has been
honored with elections to many positions of
trust. He was page in the Senate of 1876 ;
page to Governor Proctor in 1878 ; Town Clerk
of the town of Proctor from 1887 to i8go, and
Town Agent and School Trustee. He was
Private Secretary to Secretary of War Proctor
from i88g to i8go. On June 10, 1890, he was
appointed solicitor for the Department of
State to succeed Walker Blaine. He served
as law officer of that department during the
last two years of Secretary Blaine's admin
istration of the department and under the admin
istration of Secretary Foster until January 25,
1893, when he was appointed Envoy Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
United States to Venezuela, a position which he
filled with great credit. Early in President
McKinley's administration he was appointed
Consul General of the United States at Tangier,
Morocco, a position which he still holds. A
young man of great native ability and strong
character, Mr. Partridge owes his success in life
to his own energies. Mr. Partridge received
the nomination for Rutland county to the State
Senate June, 1898.

PHILLIPS, Winfield Scott, Physician,
Arlington, was born in Silver Creek, New York,
December 9, 1841, son of Charles and Marietta
(Bennett) Phillips. When Doctor Phillips was
six years of age his father moved to Pawlet,
Vermont and he received his early education in
the public schools of that town. After a short
experience as a teacher, he decided to study
medicine and entered the office of Dr. Munroe
of West Pawlet where he remained until that
gentleman's death. He then put himself under
the charge of Doctor Mosely of Arlington and
attended lectures in the Albany Medical college
during the year of j866. He subsequently

entered the Medical Departraent of the Univer
sity of Vermont, from which he graduated in
July, 1867. He at once located in Arlington,
where he has established a large and prosperous
general practice. Although Doctor Phillips has
confined himself very closely to his professional
work he has found time to take an active interest
in public affairs. He represented his town in
the Legislature of 1890-91, serving as Chair
man of the House Committee on the Insane.
He also devoted considerable attention to temp
erance legislation. He was a charter member
and for three or four years Censor of the Union

W. S. PHILLIPS.
Medical Association, and he now holds the posi
tion of President of the Bennington County
Medical Society. He is also a member of the
Verraont Medical Society. He is President of
the Union Society and delegate frora Vermont
State Medical Society to United States Medical
Association at Denver and President of Board of
Examining Surgeons for Invalid Pensions at
Bennington, Vermont. He is a Free Mason and
was for six years Master of Red Mountain
Lodge No. 63. He is also affiliated with
Adoniram Chapter of Manchester and with Taft
Commandery of Bennington. For one year he

MEN OF PROGRESS.

served as Deputy District Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Vermont. He is a member of
the Protestant Episcopal church. He was united
in marriage on October 23, i86g, with lone,
daughter of Clark and Sarissa (White) Parsons
of Arlington; and two children have been born
to thera: Hallie lone and Charles Winfield
PhUlips.

POLAND, Joseph, Montpelier, was born in
Underbill, Chittenden county, Vermont, March
14, t8i8, and died June 6, 1898. He was the
son of Luther and Nancy (Potter) Poland. He
removed with his parents to Waterville in 1821,
and was educated in the district schools and the
academy at Johnson, In September, 1835, he
entered the office of the Vermont Watchman, at
Montpelier, as an apprentice, and remained there
four years. His early observations set him firmly
against slavery, and on January i, 1839, he began
the publication ofthe Voice of Freedom, the first
anti-slavery periodical to appear in the state.
Poor health made it necessary for him to dispose
of his property in less than a year, but in June,
1840, he established the Lamoille Whig at John
son. Four years later he went back to Montpe
lier and founded the Green Mountain Freeman as
the organ of the newly-formed Liberty party.
Mr. Poland made a decided success of this, and
continued it until the close of the campaign of
1848, being very active meanwhile in the circles
of that party and doing effective work for the cause
which he had at heart. He lived to see slavery
not only forever extinguished by the law of the
land, but remembered only with detestation.
For more than thirty years from 1849 Mr. Poland
was a Director and Secretary of the Farmers'
Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Montpelier.
In 1852 and 1853 he was Judge of Probate for
Washington county, in 1858-60 a member of the
State Senate, and in 1870-71 represented the town
of Montpelier in the Legislature. In 1861, by
virtue of gubernatorial and presidential commis
sion, he was one of three Vermonters to visit the
regiments from this state in the field and procure
from the soldiers an allotment of a portion of their
monthly pay to be transmittted to their families.

In 1863, acting under state authority, Judge
Poland purchased ground and erected thereon
the buildings constituting Sloan Hospital, which
was maintained at Montpelier for many years by
the State and Federal governments. He was for
nearly forty years a Trustee of the Vermont State
Library. From 1861 to 1869 he was Collector of
Internal Revenue for the Fir.st Congressional
District of Vermont. He purchased the Vermont
Watchman, in connection with his .son, J.
Monroe, in 1868, and continued its publication
until 1882, when he retired permanently from
active business. For some years he published
also the Vermont Chronicle and the New Hamp
shire Journal, the organs ofthe Congregationalists

JOSEPH POLAND.
ofthe two states. As a newspaper man he clung
tenaciously to what he thought was right, relig
iously, politically and socially, and he was
eminently successful from the outset. The
Watchman, under his management, gained a
large constituency, and was recognized as the
leading Republican paper of the state. As a
family journal it was also highly esteemed. Mr.
Poland's political and personal influence was far-
reaching, and he was a wise counsellor on matters
of public import. He married, on July 7, 1840,

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Mary Ann, daughter of Joseph Rowell. Mrs.
Poland died in 1862, and on February 8, 1873,
he married Julia M., daughter of James K.
Harvey of Barnet, who survives him.

POWERS, Horace Henry, United States
Congressman, Morrisville, was born in Morris-
town, Lamoille county, Vermont, May 29, 1835,
son of Horace and Love E. (Gilman) Powers.
He is a descendant of Walter Powers, who
eraigrated to this country in the early part 01
the seventeenth century . He prepared for college
in the People's Academy, at Morristown; entered
the University of Vermont, and graduated in
1855. He was admitted to the Bar of Lamoille
county in May, 1858. Following his graduation,
Mr. Powers taught school at Huntingdon, Canada
East, and Hyde Park, Vermont. During this
period he began the study of law under the direc
tion of Thomas Gleed, Esq, of Morristown, and
subsequently pursued his studies with Child &
Ferrin, of Hyde Park. After his admission to
the Bar he settled in Hyde Park, where he prac
ticed his profession, building up a large and
lucrative practice and being called as counsel in
many important cases, until 1862, when he
formed a law partnership with P. K. Gleed, of
Morrisville, and continued with him until Decem
ber, 1874, when he was appointed a Justice ofthe
Supreme Court of Vermont. He served upon the
bench with marked ability, until 1890, when he
was elected to the Fifty -second Congress from the
F'irst Congressional District of Vermont, which
by successive re-elections he has continued to
represent to the present time, and will continue
to represent, he having been unanimously nomi
nated for re-election to the Fifty-sixth Congress,
by the Republicans ofhis district. Judge Powers
early interested himself in politics and civil life.
In 1858 he represented Hyde Park in the Legis
lature and was the youngest member of the
House. In 1861 and 1862 he was State's Attor
ney for Lamoille county. He was a member of
the last Council of Censors, in 1869, and a mem
ber of the State Constitutional Convention in
1870. In 1872 he represented Lamoille county in
the State Senate. He represented Morristown in

the Legislature in 1874, and was chosen Speaker
of the House, resigning that position to accept a
place upon the bench of the Supreme Court.
During his sixteen years of service on that able
bench, he won the reputation of a sound, able
and upright jurist. Passing from that position,
by popular choice, to the National Legislature,
he soon took high rank in Congress as a lawyer
and debater. He has been Chairman of the
important Coraraittee on the Pacific Railroads, in
the Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth Congresses, and

H. H. POWERS.
he is prominent and influential, both in the Com
mittee room and on the floor of the House.
Judge Powers was Chairman of the Vermont
delegation to the Republican National Conven
tion at Minneapolis, in 1892. He has been a
Director in the Lamoille County National Bank,
and President of the Merchants Bank of St.
Johnsbury, and a member of the Corporation of
the University of Vermont. He was married,
October II, 1858, to Caroline E., daughter of V.
W. and Adeline Waterman, of Morristown. They
have two children: Carrie L. and George M.
Powers, Esq., Attorney, of Morrisville.

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PROCTOR, Redfield, United States Senator,
Proctor, son of Jabez and Betsey (Parker) Proc
tor, was born in Proctorsville, Vermont, June i,
1 83 1. He comes of excellent English ancestry.
His first ancestor in America was Robert
Proctor, who was a freeman in Concord, Massa
chusetts, as early as 1643, His grandfather,
Leonard Proctor, was a Captain in the Conti
nental Army, during the War of the Revolution,
after which he removed to Cavendish, Vermont,
where, in an unbroken forest, he founded the
settlement of Proctorsville. The early education
of Redfield Proctor was obtained in the public
schools and at Derby (Vermont) Academy. He

REDFIELD PROCTOR.
fitted for college in the latter, and entered Dart
mouth College, from which he graduated in
185 I. In 1854, his Alma Mater conferred upon
him the degree of A. M. Selecting the profes
sion of the law, he entered the Albany, New
York, Law School, and graduated in 1859, He
was admitted to the Bar in the sarae year, both
at Albany, New York and Woodstock, Vermont.
During a part of the years 1860-61, he practiced
his profession in Boston, in the office of his
cousin. Judge Isaac F. Redfield, the well-known
jurist. When the Civil War broke out in 1861,

moved by the patriotic irapulse which took the
best young blood of his State to the field, he
returned to Vermont, and enlisted in the Third
Regiment, Vermont Volunteers. He was com
missioned Lieutenant and Quartermaster of that
Regiment, June 19, 1861, and in the following
month was appointed to a position on the staff
of General William F. ("Baldy") Smith. In
October of the same year he was promoted to
be the Major of the Fifth Vermont Regiment.
He served nearly a year with this regiment at
Camp Griffin and on the Peninsula. In October,
1862, he was appointed Colonel of the Fifteenth
Vermont Regiment. He commanded this regi
ment during its term of service, and in the battle
of Gettysburg, and was one of the best Colonels
in Stannard 's Brigade. After Colonel Proctor's
return from the War, he formed a legal partner
ship with his brother Colonel in the Second Ver
mont Brigade, the late Hon. Wheelock G.
Veazey, at Rutland, Vermont. In 1869, he was
made Receiver of a marble company, and with
drew from active law practice, to become Man
ager of the Sutherland Falls Marble Company.
This Company and the Rutland Marble Company
were consolidated in 1880, under the name of
the Vermont Marble Company, with Redfield
Proctor as President. Under his able manage
ment the business of the Company increased
rapidly until it has become the largest concern
of its kind in the world. When Colonel Proctor
entered President Harrison's Cabinet in i88g, he
resigned the Presidency of the Company, and
was succeeded by his son, Fletcher D. Proctor.
Colonel Proctor's official career began in 1866,
when he was elected a Selectman of the town of
Rutland. In 1867, he represented Rutland in the
Vermont Legislature, serving as Chairman of
the Committee on Elections, and was re-elected
in 1868, serving on the Committee of Ways and
Means. In 1874, he was a State Senator from
Rutland county, and was President pro tempore
of the Senate. In 1876 he was elected Lieuten
ant Governor of Vermont; and in 1878 was
elected Governor of the state. He was a dele
gate-at-large from Vermont to the Republican
National Convention of 1884, and was Chairman
of the Vermont delegation in the Republican

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National Convention of 1888, where he took an
active part in the nomination of General Benja
min Harrison. In the fall of 1888, he was the
first Representative, in the Legislature, of the
new town of Proctor, named in his honor. During
this session the Legislature unanimously recom
mended him for a position in the Cabinet of the
President elect, and upon President Harrison's
accession to office, he appointed him Secretary
of War. In this important position Secretary
Proctor earned fame as an able and efficient
chief of his Department, and a trusted adviser
of the President. Upon the resignation of Hon.
George F. Edmunds from the United States
Senate, Governor Carroll S. Page appointed
Secretary Proctor to fill the vacancy; and in
October i8,i8g2,the Vermont Legislature elected
Mr. Proctor to fill the remainder of the unex
pired term, and for the full term ending March
4, 1899. Senator Proctor was Chairman of the
Vermont delegation in the Republican National
Convention of 1896, and in the campaign that
followed rendered the Republican party very
effective service, his labors on the Pacific Coast
in particular having much to do with bringing
the doubtful States of California and Oregon
into the Republican coluran. He is Chairman
of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
in the United States Senate. In the month of
February, 1898, Senator Proctor, wishing to
satisfy himself beyond the possibility of a doubt
as to the exact state of affairs in Cuba, visited
that unhappy island, and obtained a personal
knowledge of the awful suffering of the recon-
centrados, and of the condition of affairs in and
around Havana. Soon after his return to Wash
ington, on March 17, from his place in the
Senate, he delivered a speech, which, in its calm
and truthful description of the horrible cruelty
of Spanish rule, had a powerful effect upon the
public mind, in our own and other countries, and
was largely influential in nerving the American
people to forcible intervention in Cuba, in the
cause of humanity. Senator Proctor married on
May 26, 1858, Miss Emily J. Dutton, daughter
of Hon. Salmon F. and Sarah J. Dutton of Cav
endish, Vermont. Five children have been born
to thera: Arabella G., Fletcher D., Fanny G.
(deceased), Emily D., and Redfield Proctor, Jr.

PUTNAM, Warren Edward, Physician,
Bennington, sonof Thomas Putnam, a Canadian
Magistrate for forty years, and Nancy (Harris)
Putnam, daughter of the Reverend John Harris
of Boston, a' widely known clergyman of his
his day, was born in Putnam, Ontario, Canada,
May 6, 1857. He comes of noted English,
Colonial and Revolutionary stock, being a
descendant in the seventh generation of John
Putnam of Puttenham, Herts county, England,
born in 1580, who eraigrated to America and
died at Salem, Massachusetts, in 1662; also
ninth in descent from Sir George De Puttenham

W. E. PUTNAM.
(original family name having been De Putten
ham) of Puttenham, Herts, one of the courtiers
who attended Henry VIII. on the " Field of the
Cloth of Gold." Dr. Putnam's grandfather was
one of the youngest Araerican officers who
served in the War of the Revolution, his great
grandfather also serving in the same war. He
is a great-grand nephew of General Nicholas
Herkimer, of Oriskany fame, who was killed at
the battle of Oriskany; and nephew of General
William Putnam, who was killed at the battle of
Windsor during the Canadian rebellion of 1837-
38. Doctor Putnam's early life was spent in his

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native village, originally called Dorchester, but
the name was changed to Putnam in 1838, in
honor of the father of the subject of this sketch
on account of his services in the Canadian
Rebellion of 1837-38. Doctor Putnam obtained
his education in the village schools of Putnam,
Ontario, and the Brantford College of Brantford,
Ontario. He graduated at the Homoeopathic
Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 1881,
and subsequently attended lectures and clinics
at St. Thomas Hospital, London, England, and
hospitals in Paris, France. After graduating,
he entered upon the practice of his profession
at Hoosick, New York, where he remained
twelve years. Six years ago he sold his prac
tice there and removed to Bennington, Ver
mont, where he enjoys a large and lucrative
practice. He was appointed Surgeon General
of Verraont, by Governor Grout in i886, but
did not serve as he was not a member of the
National Guard. Doctor Putnam is a member of
the Verraont State Sanitary Association; theVer
raont State Homoeopathic Medical Society; the
Medical Society of Northern New York; Peeks-
kill Medical Society; Hahnemann Society;
Tichenor Club, Bennington; and Vermont Soci
ety of Sons of the American Revolution. In
politics he is a Republican, but has never sought
public office. October 6, 1887, he married
Anna Sherwood, daughter of the late Charles
Hial Hawks of the firm of Knowlson &
Company, Bankers and Brokers, of Wall street.
New York. He has traveled extensively in the
Orient.

RUTHERFORD, Joseph Chase, Physician,
Newport, eldest son of Alexander and Sally
(Clifford) Rutherford, was born at Schenectady,
New York, October i, 18 18, being the oldest of
eight children, six of whom lived to a ripe old
age. The family is of Scotch descent. In the
early history of Scotland his ancestors were
famous as warriors, in later times they were
celebrated as physicians and clergymen, some
of them occupying high positions in the institu
tions of learning in that country, and especially
in the Medical Department of the University of

Edinburgh, for several hundred years. The last
of these was Doctor Daniel Rutherford, Profes
sor of Chemistry, known in history as the
discoverer of nitrogen. He was the great
grandfather of the subject of this sketch. His
parents came to Vermont in 1826 and settled in
Burlington in 1830. He received the principal
portion of his education in the schools of Bur
lington, and at twenty years of age started out
in the world for himself. He early expressed
the desire to study medicine, but his circum
stances were such that he was unable to do so
until 1842, when he entered the office of Doctor
Newell, then of Lyndon and afterward of St.

J. C. RUTHERFORD.
Johnsbury. In May, 1843, he located at Derby,
Verraont. and resumed the study of medicine in
the office of Doctor Moses F. Colby of Stan
stead, Province of Quebec. He graduated at
the Woodstock Medical College in 1849. In
1851 he went to Blackstone, Massachusetts. In
1857 he returned to Derby and in i860 he
located in Newport, Vermont, which has since
been his place of residence. At the breaking out
of the rebellion in 186 1, Doctor Rutherford took
a strong interest in what he considered to be a
holy war, and was active in raising recruits.

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He was commissioned as Surgeon of Volunteers,
by Governor Fairbanks, and examined many
recruits for enlistment, holding his position until
he was commissioned by Governor Holbrook as
Assistant Surgeon of the Tenth Vermont Vol
unteers, and immediately started for the front,
where the regiment was assigned to duty in the
defence of Washington, being stationed at
Edwards Ferry, Maryland. After the battle of
Gettysburg the Tenth Vermont joined the Army
of the Potomac, and was attached to the Third
Division, Third Array Corps. He obtained his
first experience on the battlefield, November
26, 1863, at Locust Grove, Virginia, where he
received an injury that nearly cost him his life,
and that resulted in a broken constitution and a
crippled frame. Notwithstanding the serious
nature of his injury he remained at the post of
duty and he was in nearly every battle in which
his regiment participated until near the close of
the war. In March, 1865, he was promoted to be
Surgeon of the Seventeenth Verraont Volun
teers, and was engaged in the battle at Peters
burg, April 2, 1865. He was raustered out in
July, 1865, after having served nearly three
years, winning the respect and esteem of both
officers and men of the two regiments. In 1858,
while making some chemical experiments he dis
covered a process whereby writings and drawings
could be made on any substance that would
receive the mark of the pen, and could be made
to disappear, without leaving any evidence that
the paper had ever been written upon, and could
be made to re-appear at will. At the breaking
out of the Civil War he had communicated with
President Lincoln, and offered the secret to the
Government. It was referred to General
McClellan ; was accepted by him and was used
during the war, and proved to be invaluable.
After the close of the Civil War he returned to
Newport, and resuraed the practice of medicine,
in which he has won gratifying success. In
1866 he was coraraissioned as Examining Sur
geon for Pensions ; which office he held unin
terruptedly up to 1893. At the coming in of
the present administration he was reappointed
to that office. In 1880 he was elected a Super
visor of the Insane, by the legislature of Ver

mont. He has twice been chosen Medical
Director, Department of Vermont, Grand Army
of the Republic. In 1890 he was received into
the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States, through the Coramandery of the
District of Columbia. At an early day Doctor
Rutherford took a deep interest in the anti-
slavery cause. He was a delegate to the first
convention held by the anti-slavery party in
Vermont. His first vote was cast for William
Henry Harrison. He has been an earnest mem
ber ofthe Republican party frora its organization.
He joined the Order of Odd P^ellows in 1844 and
he becarae a Free Mason in 1866, having taken
all of the degrees in the latter fraternity up to
and including Knights Templar. After a busy
life spent in the relief ofthe sufferings of others,
he has retired from the active practice of his
profession, and he is now living in his quiet
home at Newport, Verraont, respected by his
fellow citizens, and loved by the poor. In 1843,
he married the youngest daughter of the late
Hon. Jacob Chase. There were five children
by this marriage, three sons and two daughters;
two of the sons died in childhood and one son
and two daughters are living. The son, Jacob
Chase Rutherford, M. D., has been an Instructor
in the Medical Department of the University of
Vermont.

SHELDON, John Alexander, Rutland, son
of Charles and Janet (Reid) Sheldon, was born
in Troy, New York, August 14, 1839. He is a
direct descendant, through his paternal ancestry,
of Ensign John Sheldon of Deerfield, Massachu
setts, who built the "Old Indian House" there.
Through his maternal ancestry, he is a direct
descendant of the Somervilles of Scotland. His
early education was obtained in a private school
in New York city, where he studied for three
years. He was then sent to Sand Lake Academy,
Sand Lake, New York, and later to Williams
town Academy, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
At Williamstown, he fitted for college, but ill
health and his weak constitution prevented the
consummation of the ardently cherished purpose.
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West Rutland, and entered the store of Sheldons
Morgan & Slason as a clerk, or salesman of
general merchandise. He soon graduated from
this position, however, and became book-keeper,
continuing to act in that capacity until the out
break of the War of the RebeUion. He was, at
this time, a Sergeant in a railitia corapany , known
as the Rutland Light Guard, of which General
W. Y. W. Ripley was Captain. Nearly the
entire corapany enlisted, and it became Company
K, in the First Vermont Infantry, Sergeant
Sheldon becoming Second Sergeant of the Com
pany. The regiment was mustered into United
States service for three months on May 2, 1861,

JOHN A. SHELDON.
less than one month after the attack upon Fort
Sumter, and was ordered to Fortress Monroe.
In this vicinity, and at Newport News, he served
out the time of his enlistment, and was in the
battle of Big Bethel, where the gallant conduct of
the Verraont troops won much praise. He
returned home at the expiration of his term of
service and entered the offices of Sheldons, Mor
gan & Slason. After a short time he again
enlisted in the army, and became Captain of
Company C, Tenth Vermont Volunteers. After
seeing much active service in the war, and serving

on the staff of General U. S. Grant, he retired
from the United States service in 1865. He was
exceedingly popular with his men and ever
retained the pleasantest relations with his fellow
officers. Returning to Rutland, Mr. Sheldon
purchased an interest in the marble business and
became a member of the firm of Sheldons &
Slason. This firm, a few years later, became
known as Sheldon & Sons, and still later as the
Sheldon Marble Company; of which Mr. Sheldon
was made Treasurer. He was a Selectman of
Rutland for three years; a Trustee ofthe Village
of Rutland for two years; and President of the
Board for one year. Upon the incorporation of
the City of Rutland, Captain Sheldon was chosen
a member of the Board of Aldermen. After
serving the city in that capacity for two years,
he was, in 1895, elected Mayor ofthe city, hold
ing the position one year. In 1876 he represented
Rutland in the Vermont Legislature, and was
Senior Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Governor
Horace Fairbanks with the rank of Colonel during
his term of office. He assumed the duties of
Postmaster of Rutland, April 20, 1897. He was
Vice-President and a Director of the Merchants
National Bank of Rutland. In politics he is a
Republican. He married Caroline Eastman,
December 20, 1866. Seven children have been
born to them: Charles Alexander, born October
17, 1867; Augustus Eastman, born June 25, 1869;
Mary Hatfield, born March 31, 1871; Frances
Marion, born February i, 1873; John Somerville,
born February 4, 1875; Carolyn Pearl, born
November 9, 1876; and Archie McDaniels Shel
don, born April 23, 1885.

SOUTHWICK, John Leonard, was born
in Bombay, New York, April 24, 1858,
son of William Dana and Sarah Brown (Thick-
ins) Southwick. His father's parents were both
natives of Vermont, who while young moved
with their respective families to New York; and
his mother was of Welsh ancestry, being a
member of the Thickins family, a number of
whom were noted for their inventive genius.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the common and select schools in

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his native town. He took a course in Franklin
Academy of Malone, New York, where he sup
ported himself largely through his own exer
tions, teaching winters and keeping up his
studies in the academy, from which he graduated

J. L. SOUTHWICK.
in 1878. In 1879 he entered Cornell Univer
sity in which he took a full four years course,
devoting particular attention to history and
political science. In his junior year he had
business and editorial charge of the Cornell
Review, a literary monthly, and his conduct of
that publication resulted in his selection by the
student body for the position of business
manager and editor-in-chief of the Cornell
Daily Sun, during his senior year. He had
intended to study law and with that end in
view he entered the law office of Hon. J. L-
Baker of Ithaca, New York, where he remained
for nearly a year. Finding that the taste for
newspaper work, acquired in connection with
the Daily Sun, had grown too pronounced to be
overcome, he decided to make journalism his
profession. In January, 1884, he became night
editor of the Burlington (Vermont) Free Press,
and*in the following year he was promoted to
the position of city editor. In 1891 he w^S

made managing editor of the Free Press, a
position which he still holds. In politics he is
a Republican, and he has been President of the
Young Men's Republican Club of Burlington,
as well as member of the Executive Committee
of the Young Men's Republican Club of Ver
mont. He is a member of the College Street
Congregational Church of Burlington, and he
has been a Director of the Young Men's
Christian Association of Burlington. He was
united in marriage July 3, 1883, with Lydia
Ximena, daughter of Franklin V. B. and Louisa
(Eldred) Rolfe, of Bombay, New York. Their
union has been blessed with two children:
Mabel Louisa, born June 6, 1884; and Ethel
Pearl Southwick, born May 27, 1888.

SMITH, Frederick Elijah, Montpelier,
was born in Northfield, Washington county,
Vermont, June 11, 1830, son of Elijah and
Anna (Robinson) Smith. His grandfather
served in Thomas Barney 's company, in Colonel
Ira Allen's regiment, during the Revolutionary
War. Mr. Smith pursued his studies in the
common schools until sixteen years of age,
then, entering Newbury Seminary, graduated
from that institution, and in 1848 became a
clerk in Loomis & Camp's dry goods store, in
Montpelier. In 1853 he established himself in
Montpelier as a druggist, which occupation he
was carrying on with great success when the
Civil War broke out. Leaving the concern in
the charge of his clerks, he enlisted in the
service of his country, having been summoned
by Governor Erastus Fairbanks to take charge
of the arming, equipping and subsisting of the
Sixth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers. With
this regiment he was sent by the Governor to
the front, to settle with several quartermasters
who had left the state with their accounts
unadjusted. While in the discharge of this
duty he was, on November 23, 1861, appointed
Quartermaster of the Eighth Verraont Volun
teers, and immediately returned to commence
the work of his new position, assisting Colonel
Stephen Thomas in enlisting men and afterward
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219

Brattleboro. He moved the regiment, which
had been ordered to join the command of
Major-General Butler, to Ship Island, and later
to New Orleans. Soon after, while stationed at
Algiers, on the west side of the Mississippi,
where he was Post Quartermaster, he was
appointed Provost Judge by the Department
Commander. He next served as Commissary
of Subsistence on the staff of General Godfrey
Weitzel, in the Department of the Gulf, till
De.:ember, 1863, providing for the army in the
field during all of its marches, until it finally
arrived at Port Hudson. After the war Colonel
Smith returned to Montpelier, where he engaged
in mercantile pursuits until 1869, removing then

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FRED E. SMITH.
to New York, where he remained for three
years. In 1872 he returned to Montpelier and
engaged in manufacturing, establishing factories
in Vermont, Massachusetts and Michigan, with
stores in several places throughout the country.
Colonel Smith is now President of the
Public Library, and of the Colby Wringer
Company of Montpelier, and of the Board of
Trustees of the Diocese of Vermont. He is
Vice-President of the First National Bank of
Montpelier, President of the Vermont Mutual

Fire Insurance Company, and Vice-President of
the Bowers Granite Company. He is a Director
of the National Life Insurance Corapany and a
member of its finance committee, and is also a
Director in the Wetmore & Morse Granite
Company. For four years prior to i8gi he was
President of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insur
ance Company, an office which the pressure and
importance of private interests compelled him
to resign, but which he subsequently resumed
and holds at this time. Since the war Colonel
Smith has raaintained his military associations
by connection with the Grand Army of the
Republic and the Order of the Loyal Legion,
and for many years has been Secretary of the
Verraont Officers' Reunion Society. He is also
a member of the Sons of the Araerican Revo
lution. He has always taken a deep interest in
the educational interests of the State, and is a
Trustee of Norwich University and of the
Washington county Grammar School, and was
for some years President of the Montpelier
School Board. He is Junior Warden of Christ
Episcopal church, in Montpelier, a Trustee of
the Vermont Episcopal Institute, and of Bishop
Hopkins Hall, a member of the Episcopal
Board of Investment for aged and infirm clergy
men, and has been a delegate to the triennial
conventions of his church in New York and
Baltimore. In 1876 he was appointed aide to
Governor Fairbanks, with the rank of Colonel,
and in 1886 and 1888 was elected State Senator
from Washington county. In i8g2 he was
made delegate at-large to the Republican
National Convention at Minneapolis. Colonel
Smith was married October 12, 1852, to Abba
Morrill, daughter of Nathan Hale, of Danville,
Vermont. Three sons were the issue of this
union. Two of them died in infancy, and the
third, Walter Joseph, died in May, 1881, nged
nineteen years, whose bright and lovely youth
had given promise of a noble manhood.

STACY, William Corning, son of Henry
Baldwin and Maria (Corning) Stacy, was born in
Burlington, Vermont, February 10, 1836. His
grandfather, John Stacy, was one of General

MEN OF PROGRESS.

Washington's body guard in the Revolutionary
War. His father was for many years the editor
and publisher of the Burlington Free Press, and
in his later vears was United States Consul at

WM. C, STACY.
Revel, Russia. Mr. Stacy obtained his early
education in private schools, fitted for college
at Barre, Vermont, and graduated from the
University of Vermont in i85g. He taught
.school in the town of Shelburne, Vermont, for
a short tirae and later was an assistant in the
Burlington post office. From 1861 to 1864 he
was a clerk for the Rutland and Burlington
Railroad Company. Removing later to Provi
dence, Rhode Island, he was employed from
186410 1867 as a travelling agent for the Hilton
CementCompany. He then entered theeraploy
of the freight department of the Providence
and Worcester Railroad, where he remained
from 1867 to i87g, a part of his time being
devoted to the study of art. He was also an
assistant in the Adjutant General's office at
Providence, Rhode Island, for two years. From
boyhood, Mr. Stacy had shown a taste for draw
ing and painting, and while in Providence he
entered the studio of the artist, George W.
Whittiker. Since that tirae he has devoted

hiraself to the practice and teaching of his art.
Among the productions ofhis brush are the Ver
mont Coat of Arras which hangs in the office of
the Secretary of State, and the Verraont Coat
of Arras on a banner to be hung in the United
States Pension office at Washington. His
largest painting is a scene in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, which is owned by Ex-Mayor F. C.
Sayles of that city. Mr. Stacy's pupils corae to
hira from different parts of Vermont, as well as
from the state of New York. He uses all the
different mediums, oil, water colors, pastel,
crayon and charcoal, and gives some attention
to portraiture. He has always been a Republi
can, but is not a politician. He was married in
1868.

THOiMSON, Jesse Eugene, Physician and
Surgeon, Rutland, was born in Jericho, Chitten
den county, Vermont, November 22, 1853, son
of Jesse and Mary S. (Wheelock) Thomson.
The family is of Scotch-English descent, dating
in this country from ancestors who came to
America frora England an an early colonial
period. Dr. Thomson was educated in the
public schools and the Lamoille county Acad
emy, at Morrisville, Vermont. Having chosen
the practice of medicine and surgery as a profes
sion, he pursued the course and graduated from
the Medical Department of the University of New
York in 1878. He commenced the practice of
the profession, in connection with S. L. Wiswell,
M. D., at Cabot, Vermont, the year of his grad
uation, remaining three years. He established
himself in the flourishing city of Rutland in 1883.
He at once took good rank with the profession,
and enjoys a wide and popular practice as a suc
cessful and skilled physician, being one of the
Advisory Board of the Rutland City Hospital and
standing in good rank in professional life. He
has been called by his fellow-citizens to positions
of prorainence and responsibility. He was
Superintendent of Schools of Cabot in 1880. He
was Health Officer of the City of Rutland two
terms. He was Representative of the City of
Rutland in the General Assembly of the State in
1896-97, and received the unanimous Republican

MEN OF PROGRESS.

nomination for Senator from Rutland county, in
the Legislature of 1898-99. That he held a good
position with his fellow legislators and performed
service for his constituents, city and state, is
manifest in his frequent selection for prominent

J. E. THOMSON.
positions. Dr. Thomson has taken an active
and a leading place in the several fraternal asso
ciations with which he has been connected, and
reached high positions in the Masonic institution.
He has been Grand Dictator of the Knights
of Honor, State Medical Examiner five years.
Grand Representative three years to the Supreme
Lodge, the highest tribunal of the Order. He is
a member of the Knights of Pythias, and a Past
Chancellor Commander, and is also a Companion
of the Benevolent Order of Elks. He takes high
rank in the Masonic fraternity. He is a member
of Rutland Lodge, No. 79; of Davenport Chapter
ot Royal Arch Masons, No. 17; Davenport Coun
cil of Royal and Select Masters; Killington Com
mandery of Knights Templar; Delta Lodge of
Perfection; Vermont Consistory; Mount Sinai
Temple of Nobles ofthe Mystic Shrine; Sovereign
Grand Inspector- General ofthe Supreme Council
of the Thirty-third degree, Royal Order of Scot
land; Knight ofthe Red Cross of Constantine.

He has been Eminent Commander of Killington
Commandery, Knights Temp'ars' at Rutland
three (3) terms. He is now Grand Commander
of Knights Templar and Appendant Orders of
the State; First Lieutenant-Commander of the
Vermont Council of Deliberation, Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite. On May 17, 1879, he
married Miss Flora C. Rich, and they have one
child: Rena May Thomson. Doctor Thomson's
life is a busy one both professional, fraternal and
public.

TRACY, Jeremiah Evarts, Lawyer, New
York City, son of Ebenezer Carter and Martha
Sherman (Evarts) Tracy, was born in Windsor,
Vermont, January 31, 1835. He is of distin
guished Colonial and Revolutionary lineage,
deing a descendant of Stephen Tracy, who came
in the ship "Ann" from England to Plymouth,
Massachusetts, in 1623, whose son John married
Mary Prence, a daughter of Thomas Prence, who
came from England in the ship "Fortune" in
1 62 1, and afterwards became Governor of the
Plymoi^th Colony. Their son, Stephen Tracy
2nd, had a son Thomas, whose son Joseph was
the grandfather of the subject of this sketch.
Mr. Tracy's mother was a daughter of Jeremiah
Evarts and Mehitabel Sherman and a grand
daughter of Roger Sherman, who, among the
patriots of the Revolutionary period, has unique
distinction as the only signer of all four of the
great national compacts, the Association of 1774,
the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of
Confederation, and the Constitution ofthe United
States. Mr. Tracy's father was the founder and
editor and publisher of the Verraont Chronicle,
a religious newspaper of extensive influence in
Verraont, which he conducted for raore than
thirty years and until his death in 1862. His
mother died April 10, 1889. Jeremiah Evarts
Tracy received his early education in the local
schools in his native state. He began the study
of the law in the office of his uncle, WiUiam M.
Evarts, in the City of New York, and continued
his studies in the Yale Law School and received
from Yale College the degree of LL. B. in 1857.
He was for some years assistant in the office of

MEN OF PROGRESS.

William M. Evarts, and June i, 1859, "^'as
admitted to partnership with him in the practice
ofthe law in New York city. This partnership
with Mr. Evarts has continued, the present busi
ness firm being known as Evarts, Choate &

J. evarts TRACY.
Beaman, and consisting of William M. Evarts,
Joseph H. Choate, Charles C. Beaman, J. Evarts
Tracy, Treadwell Cleveland, PrescottHall Butler,
and Allen W. Evarts. In' 1874 Mr. Tracy
removed his residence frora New York to Plain-
field, New Jersey, which has since been his home.
He has served at different times as a member and
President of the Comraon Council of the City of
Plainfield, and has been for many years one ofthe
Directors of the Plainfield Public Library and one
of the Governors of Muhlenburg Hospital of that
city. Mr. Tracy was married, September 30,
1863, to Miss Martha Sherman Greene. Nine
children have been the fruit of this union: Emily
Baldwin, Howard Crosby, a lawyer of New York;
Evarts, an architect in New York city; Mary
Evarts; Margaret Louisa; Robert Stover, who
has recently graduated from the College of Phy
sicians and Surgeons in New York and is now an
Assistant Surgeon in the New York Hospital;
Edith Hastings; Martha, now a student in Bryn

Mawr College, and William Evarts Tracy, now a
student in Yale College. Mr. Tracy was one of
a family of eight children. One of these, Captain
William C. Tracy, was a gallant young officer in
the Fourth Vermont Volunteers, and was killed
in the battle of the Weldon Railroad, June 23,
1864. There are living of this number: Anna,
wife of Reverend George P. Byington of East
Hardwick, Vermont; Roger Sherman, M. D.,
Registrar of Records of the Department of Health
of New York city; John Jay, a lawyer in Ten
nessee; and Charles Walker Tracy, who is in
business in Portland, Oregon.

TWITCHELL, Fred Felton, Merchant, St.
Albans, was born in Townshend, Windham
county, Vermont, August 10, 1849, son of Colonel
Jonas and Lucy D. (Felton) Twitehell. His
early education was obtained in the common
schools and the Leland and Gray Seminary in
Townshend, and he was graduated from the
Powers Institute, at Bernardston, Massachusetts,
in i86g. With an inclination toward mercantile
life, Mr, Twitehell entered the dry goods busi
ness at Meriden, Connecticut, in September,
1869, with Ives, Upham & Rand, and in 1872
started in with a stock of dry goods and clothing
and a partner, under the firm name of Holbrook,
Twitehell & Company, at Athol, Massachusetts.
Five years later he sold out his interest in the
business, and took a position as buyer for Shep
ard, Norwell & Company, of Boston. He
remained with thera until a more lucrative place
was offered him as buyer for Ladd & Davis, of
Providence, Rhode Island, which engagement
was terminated in 1 88 1 , when he again embarked
in business at St. Albans, The following year
he bought his partner's interest, and since then
has carried on an extensive establishment under
the firm name of F. F. Twitehell & Company.
After enlarging his old quarters several times to
accommodate his growing business, he reraoved
to his present location, corner of Main and King
man streets, where he has one of the finest and
best equipped stores in Vermont. Mr. Twitehell
is a Republican, but has never aspired to politi
cal honors. He was for seven years a member

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ofthe St. Albans School Board, and twice its
Chairman. Under his administration the Kin
dergarten was introduced in the schools — the
first in the state belonging to the Public School.

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F, F. TWITCHELL.
Many other changes and needed reforms were
instituted by him which are now much appreci
ated by the public. Not least among these was
the erection of two new school houses, which
are monuments to the cause of education in the
beautiful City of St. Albans. He was one of
the organizers of the St. Albans Board of Trade,
and served at two different times as its Presi
dent. He is a member of all the Masonic
societies, and a Thirty-second degree Mason. In
1875 he married Flora S. Sabin, of Winchester,
New Hampshire, who died in i8g6, leaving
three children: Florella E., Adelle L, and Karl
S. Twitehell,

VEA2EY, Wheelock Graves, Rutland, was
born in Brentwood, Rockingham county. New
Hampshire, December 5, 1S35, son of Jonathan
and Annie (Stevens) Veazey. His ancestors
resided at Brentwood for many generations. He
was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy,

Dartmouth College and Albany Law School,
being admitted to the Vermont Bar at the Decem
ber term of the Windsor County Court, i860.
He had just begun the practice ofhis profession
at Springfield, Vermont, when the Civil War
broke out. He very promptly offered his ser
vices to his country, enlisting as a private,
being the first man in Springfield, Vermont, to
offer his services to the country, being mustered
in July 16, 1861, at St, Johnsbury, and made
Captain of Company A, Third Vermont Volun
teers. August 15, of the same year, he was
made Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment. On
February 28, 1862, Colonel Veazey was appointed
Provost Marshal, General William F. Smith's
Division. He was appointed Colonel of the
Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, September 27,
1862, and remained with this regiment for nine
months, when its term of enlistment having
expired, he was mustered out of the service.
He was tendered a Brigadier-Generalship if he
would return to the army, but his health would
not permit him to do this. Colonel Veazey's
regiment participated in the battles at Lewins-
ville, the siege of Yorktown, Lee's Mills, Wil
liamsburg, Golding's Farm, Savage Station,
Glendale and Gettysburg. Brigadier-General
Brooks, referring to the conduct of the officers
of his command in the battle of Savage Station,
said : "The conduct of the troops in this sec
tion was generally very commendable. Of those
that came under my own eye I take pleasure in
mentioning the name of Lieutenant Colonel
Veazey as being exceedingly active in leading
on the men and keeping up those disposed to
straggle." He led his regiment in the famous
flank assault on Pickett's Division in the Battle
of Gettysburg. General Stannard, coraraanding
the Second Vermont Brigade in that decisive
battle spoke of the conduct of Colonel Veazey
and his regiment on that notable July 3, 1863,
as follows ; "I saw another rebel column charge
immediately upon our left. Colonel Veazey of
the Sixteenth was at once ordered to attack it
upon the flank. This was done as successfully
as before. The rebel forces were scooped en
nia.sse into our lines. The Sixteenth took in
this charge the regimental colors of the Second

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Florida and the Eighth Virginia Regiment, and
the battle flag of another regiment." A medal
of honor was awarded to Colonel Veazey for
distinguished gallantry at Gettysburg. Upon
returning from the army the subject of this
sketch settled in Rutland and continued the prac
tice of law there until his election, by the Legis
lature in 1880, to a place on the Bench of the
Supreme Court of Vermont, which position he
held until i88g, when he resigned to accept an
appointment as member of the Inter State Com
merce Commission. He resigned the latter office,
inconsequence of failing health in i8g7. He held

w. G. YEAZEY.
many State and local offices. P'or eight years,
1864-72 he was reporter of the decisions of the
Supreme Court of Verraont. In 1872 and 1873
he was State Senator from Rutland county, serv
ing most efficiently as Chairman of the Military
Committee, as well as on the Judiciary Commit
tee. In 1873 he was appointed Register in
Bankruptcy, and held that office until the bank
rupt law was repealed. In i88ohe was a member
of the comraission for revising the laws of Ver
mont. He was a delegate-at-large to the Repub
lican National Convention at Cincinnati in 1876,
and in 1879 was appointed a commissioner to

investigate and report upon the subject of court
expenses. Judge Veazey was for many years a
Trustee of Dartmouth College, and was also
interested in other educational institutions. In
1887 Dartmouth conferred upon him the degree
of LL. D. He was Coramander of Roberts Post,
Grand Array of the Republic, of Rutland, when
that organization was first formed, and was one
of the earliest commanders of the Department
of Vermont, holding that office three years. In
1887 and 1888 he was Judge Advocate General
of the National Grand Army of the Republic,
and in i8go was elected Commander in Chief of
that great organization. Judge Veazey was an
eloquent speaker, and was frequently called upon
to deliver addresses on the occasion of college
commencements, soldf^rs' reunions and other
anniversaries. On the battlefield, in the court
room and on the Inter-State Comraission, he
proved himself the gallant soldier and the dis
cerning jurist. His enthusiasm and personal
magnetism won and held for him many warm
friends, and especially was he a favorite among
the old soldiers of Vermont. His death, which
occurred at Washington on the 2 2d of March,
i8g8, was sincerely lamented. Judge Veazey
married on June 22, 1861, Julia A., daughter of
Hon. Albin Beard, at Na.shua, New Hampshire;
his wife and two children survive him.

WHITE, Heman Allen, was born in Wash
ington, Orange county, Verraont, September 21,
1 8 1 7 . He was the son of Thaddeus and Rebecca
(Gleason) White, of Spencer, Massachusetts.
Thaddeus White, born July 16, 1759, joined the
company of Captain Josiah White when sixteen
years of age, and served under the gallant
Lafayette in the Continental Army, being dis
charged July 7, 1 78 1. Soon after the close of
the Revolutionary War, he pushed into the then
wilderness of Vermont, and was one of the first
settlers in the town of Washington. He posted
the notice of the first Freeman's meeting, Septem
ber 2, 1794, and was the first Representative of
the town in the Legislature. He lived to be
ninety -two years of age. Heman Allen White
was the youngest child of Thaddeus. He worked

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on a farm until he was twenty-one, obtaining
such an education as he could from home study
and the common school. Afterwards for a short
time he attended Newbury Academy. In 1840

demand in the settlement of estates and his
opinion constantly sought on legal questions per
taining to town affairs. He cast his first presi
dential vote for William Henry Harrison, and
his last for William McKinley, having been an
earnest Republican from the organization of the
party. He was united in marriage November
23, 1851, to Mary, daughter of Ziba and F. A.
Spencer, by whom he had one child: Dora M.,
who married Reverend R. G. Spafford, and died
March 17, 1883. He contracted a second mar
riage April 3, 1861, with Miraett A., daughter
of Cutting S. and Martha Howard (Paine) Calef,
whose grandfather, Joseph Calef, was one of the
first settlers in the town of Washington. Heman
Allen White was broad in his faith, finding good
in every one, and believing in the ultimate salva
tion of all mankind. He died January i, 1898,
full of years and honor.

H. A. WHITE.
he commenced the study of law with the Hon.
John Colby at Washington, and was admitted to
the Bar of Orange county, December 19, 1843.
He commenced practice at once in his native
town and was present at the opening of every
term of the Orange County Court for over fifty
years, and for the last ten years was the senior
practicing lawyer in that county. He was Town
Clerk for fifty consecutive years, 1848-98, the
longest term in that office known in the state.
He represented his town in the General Assembly
in 1857, '58, '63, '64, '65, '76 and '77. He was
Senator from Orange county in 1870. He was
Register of Probate under Judges John B.
Hutchinson and Wm. H. Nichols; and was
Judge of Probate for the district of Randolph, in
Orange county, 1856-7; and he held the offices of
Postmaster and School Superintendent, and for
forty years was Town Treasurer, fiUing all these
positions with fidelity and credit, and possessing
the unbounded confidence of his townsmen and
of all who knew him. His services were often in

WHITE, Frank Denison, Lawyer, RuUand,
son of Denison M. and Aurora E. (Davis) White,
was born in Londonderry, Vermont, April 6,

F. D. WHITE.
1863. When he was about six months of age,
his parents removed to Cavendish, Vermont, and
a few years later to Rutland, Vermont. His

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early education was obtained in the public school.^;
of Rutland and at the Vermont Academy, Sax
ton's River, Vermont. He graduated from
Brown University in 1SS7, selected the profes
sion of the law, and graduated from the Albain-
Law School in 1S90. He was admitted to the
Bar ot Rutland county in iSgo and began the
practice of his profession at Rutland, where he
has since resided. He has held \arious offices ot
responsibility and trust. He was clerk of the
Rutland Municipal Court in 18S9 and 1890;
Official Reporter of the ^'ermont House of Repre
sentatives for the sessions of 1890-92; a State
Senator from Rutland county 1S94-96; School
Commissioner of the City of Rutland from 1895
to 1901, and a Presidential Elector in 1S96. Mr,
White is a member of various societies and clubs.
He is a Republican in politics.

WICKER, Cassius Milton, Railroad Presi
dent and Manager, New York, was born in
North Ferrisburgh, Addison county, Vermont,
August 25, 1840, son of Cyrus Washburn and
Maria Delight (Halladay) Wicker, His ances
try goes back of William Wicker, who settled
in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 17 19. The fam
ily, owing to their religious views as Protestant
Scotch-Irish people, were regarded with suspic
ion by the intolerant Puritans of that section.
They were not, fortunately, burned at the stake,
but the town records show that on May 18, i 720,
Constable Joseph Scarborough was directed "to
warn William Wicker and his family to depart
this town or to give bond to the selectman;"
and that on the 26th of May the constable duly
reported: "I have warned said William Wicker
and family to depart this town; he having been
here near two months, and came from Dorches
ter." Forced out of Roxbury, William Wicker
settled in Leicester, where he died in 1769.
His son, Jacob Wicker, married Abial Wash
burn, sister of Seth Washburn, of Washington's
staff. He served twice in the American army
during the Revolution. Through Abial Wash
burn the line runs back to Mary Chilton, "the
first woman to put foot on Plymouth Rock,"
(daughter of Janjes Chilton and wife Susanna,

who also came in the Mayflower, and were
buried in the "Wheatfield" the first winter).
Mary married John Winslow, and is buried in
King's Chapel Burial Ground, Tremont and
School streets, Boston. The subject of this
sketch was educated in the "little red school
house" in North P'errisburgh, and in the acad
emies at Williston and Middlebury, Vermont.
His first training for a business life was obtained
in his father's country store, in "selling a yard
of calico for a pound of butter, or a pound of
butter or a dozen eggs for a pound of sugar;"

c. M wicker.
making out deeds, mortgages, wills, insurance,
etc., for the neighborhood, and keeping the
books of the country blacksmith. Mr. Wicker
has had an extensive and successful railroad
career, and has also been actively interested in
raining industries. He entered railroad service
in i86(), at East St. Louis, as check clerk of the
Star Union Line, and during the three years
following was Cashier of the People's Dispatch
Fast Freight Line, and Chinese Immigrant Agent
ofthe North Missouri Railway. From 1869 to
August I, 1 87 1, he was Assistant General l^reight
Agent of the North Missouri, and from the
latter date to December, 1876, was engaged in

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227

the same capacity for the Chicago and North
western, with additional duties in the settlement
of claims resulting from the Chicago fire of 1871.
For three years foUowing, up to January i, 1880,
he was succe.ssively General Agent, Assistant
General Freight Agent and Traffic Manager of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Trans-Ohio
divisions. From that time until the spring of
1883, he was in charge of mining property in
Northern Michigan. P'rom the spring to the
fall of 1883 he was General Manager of various
coal mines at Springfield, Braidwood and Tracy,
operated by the Central Illinois Coal Company.
Subsequently, to August, 1887, he was Commis
sioner of the Chicago Freight Bureau, to which
in 1885 was added the transportation interest of
the Stock Yards and the Chicago Board of Trade.
Since August, 1887, he has resided in New York
city and has been Vice-President of the Colorado
Eastern Railway; since April 2, 1889, has held
a similar position .011 the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande; since August 15 of that year has been
President of Zanesville and Ohio Ri ver Railroad ;
between November 15. 1893, and November,
1895, was Vice-President of the Brooklyn,
Queen 's County and Suburban Railroad ; between
August, 1894, and November, 1.^95, Vice-Presi
dent and General Manager of the same road.
Since January 16, i8g4, he has also been Presi
dent of the North Shore Traction Company, a
corporation owning all the stock and controlling
the Lynn and Boston Railroad and other prop
erties. He served as a Lieutenant in the Vermont
militia. He is a member of the Union League,
Colonial, Lawyers, Church, Atlantic Yacht, and
St. Andrews Golf Clubs, of New York city,
and of the Union League Club, of Chicago.
The societies with which he is also connected
are the Mayflower Descendants, Sons of the
Revolution, New England Society, Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Geographical Society, etc.
On June 5, 1872, at Lebanon, Illinois, Mr.
Wicker married Augusta Carroll, daughter of
Colonel Augustus C. French, a native of
New Hampshire, who, while Governor of Illi
nois, drove the Mormons out of that state. Mrs.
Wicker died in i88g. Two children survive the
union: Lucy Southworth and Cyrus French

Wicker. While residing in New York city,
Mr. Wicker and family spend a portion of every
.summer at the "old homestead," the delightful
country residence of his mother, Mrs. Cyrus
Washburn Wicker, known as "The Locusts,"
at North Ferrisburgh.

BURBANK, Albin Sullivan, Manufacturer
and Ex-Senator, Proctorsville, was born in that
village, in the town of Cavendish, Windsor
county, Vermont, April 4, 1838, son of Abel
and Almira (Blood) 'Burbank. He is of both
Colonial and Revolutionary lineage. His grand
father on his father's side, Samuel Burbank, of

v^r

a. s. burbank.
HoUiston, Massachusetts, was a Captain in the
Colonial service and in the War of the Revolu
tion. His great-grandfather on the mother's
side was Leonard Proctor, of Westford, Massa
chusetts, who was likewise a Captain in the
Colonial service and in the War of the Revolu
tion. He received his early education in the
common schools, and at Springfield Wesleyan
Seminary, Springfield, Vermont. Selecting a
business career, he commenced as a clerk in his
father's store at Proctorsville, Vermont, and

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afterwards was employed in the hardware store
of W. H. Floyd in Medford, Massachusetts.
For eight years, 1856-63, he was book-keeper
in the office of the Woolen Mill in Proctors-
viUe, Vermont. In 1863 he became Superin
tendent of the same concern, which position he
held with ability and success for twelve years.
In 1877, in connection with Wm. E. Hayward
and L. H. Taft, he purchased the mills, which
continued to be run under the management of
Mr. Burbank until 1888, when Mr. Hayward
retired frora the firm, and H. T. Murdock was
admitted a partner. Since then the business
has been conducted by the firra of Taft,
Burbank 8l Murdock. The business has been
increased under Mr. Burbank 's management,
frora four sets of machinery in 1865, to twelve
sets in 1895, employing about two hundred
hands. Mr. Burbank represented the town of
Cavendish in the General Assembly in the
years 1874-75 and 1890-91. He was State
Senator from Windsor county, 1894-5. He is a
Director in the Black River National Bank of
Proctorsville, Vermont. He is a member of
the Masonic Order; Past Master of Lafayette
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; and member
of Skitchewaug Chapter Royal Arch Masons.
In politics he is an ardent Republican. He was
united in marriage May 4, 1866, to Martha J.
Howe of Tunbridge, Vermont. They have one
daughter: Almira B. Burbank, born July 16,
1867.

BRUSH, Edwin Ruthven, Physician, Cam
bridge, was born in that town, April 15, 1836,
son of Salmon and Seriah (Lovegrove) Brush.
His paternal grand father came to Vermont from
Long Island, New York, aud his maternal grand
father from Connecticut. His early education
was obtained in the local schools and at the New
Hampton Institute at P'airfax, Vermont. Select
ing Medicine as his profession, he entered the
Medical Departraent of the University of
Vermont, from which he graduated with credit
in 1858. He commenced the practice of his
profession in the same year, in his native town,
where he still resides and has built up a success

ful practice. During the War for the Union,
Doctor Brush enlisted July 17, 1863, as a private
in Company H, of the Second Regiment of
Verraont Volunteers. His services, however,
were raore valuable, in his professional capacity,
than in carrying a musket, and in October, 1863
he was appointed Assistant Surgeon ofthe Regi
ment. He served as such to the close of the
War, sharing the experiences of the regiment
during the period of its history which comprised
the battles of Rappahannock Station, The Wil
derness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor and the

^ #^.

E. R. BRUSH.
Other battles of the Army ofthe Potomac, up to
Sailors Creek and Lee's Surrender. Araong the
local offices held by him have been those of
Justice of the Peace since 1880, and School
Director of Carabridge. He is a member of
Warner Lodge No. 50, Free and Accepted
Masons and of the Grand Army of the Republic.
In politics he is a Republican and has been
President of the Republican Club of his town.
July 25, i860. Doctor Brush was married to Miss
Amy R. Fletcher, of Cambridge. Pour children
have been the fruit of their union: Seriah
Jeanette, deceased ; Clara Jeanette, deceased;
Clarence S. and Aden L. Brush.

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CHANDLER, Albert Brown, New York
city, was born in West Randolph, Vermont,
August 20, 1840, the youngest son of William
Brown and Electa (Owen) Chandler. He is
of distinguished New England ancestry,
tracing his descent in the direct line from
William Chandler, who came to America from
England in 1637, settling in Roxbury, Mass-
achusett, from whose three sons came the three
New England branches of the family, compris
ing a number of men of distinction in Colonial

A. B. chandler.
times, and of prominence in the Civil, Naval
and Military service of the country, among the
number being Brigadier-General and United
States Senator John Chandler of Maine;
Rear Admiral Ralph Chandler, United States
Navy; Seth C. Chandler, the astronomer; and
United States Senator Zachariah Chandler of
Michigan. He is also a descendant of John
Winthrop, the first Governor of the Massachu
setts Colony, whose daughter Mary married an
ancestor of the subject of this sketch, and he is
thus connected collaterally with John Winthrop,
2d, the founder of New London and first Gov
ernor of the Connecticut Colony. The father

of Albert B., was descended from John, the
third son of William Chandler, the settler. He
was esteemed as a man of principle and high
Christian character, shown in many ways during
his long life of nearly ninety years. His wife.
Electa, mother of A. B. Chandler, was respected
for her rare intellectual endowments and
beloved for her amiable and womanly traits of
character. Albert B. Chandler received his
early education in the common schools and
academy ofhis native town. He contemplated
for a time becoming a printer, and worked
as a compositor in printing offices in Ran
dolph and Montpelier, during school vaca
tions. He began to learn the art of
telegraphing in the telegraph office of the
Vermont and Boston Telegraph Company at
Randolph. He went to Cleveland, Ohio, in
the summer of 1858, and from that time to the
present his career has identified him with the
great telegraph interests of the country. In
October, 1858, he was appointed Manager ofthe
office of the Western Union Telegraph Company
at Bellaire, Ohio. In February, 1859, he was
advanced to a position in the office of the
Superintentendent of the Cleveland and Pitts
burg Railway at Pittsburg. On the first day of
June, 1863, he entered the United States Mili
tary telegraph service, as Cipher Operator at
the War Department in Washington, District of
Columbia. In October of that year, while con
tinuing his duties as Cipher Operator he was
appointed Distributing Clerk for General
Thomas T. Eckert, Superintendent ofthe United
States Military Telegraph Department of the
Potomac. In these positions he became person
ally acquainted with President Lincoln, Secre
tary Stanton, and many prominent officers of the
Government and of the Army. In August, 1866,
he removed to New York city to accept the
position of chief clerk in the office of the Gen
eral Superintendent of the Eastern Division of
the Western Union Telegraph Corapany, and
was also placed in charge of the Trans- Atlantic
Cable Service, then recently inaugurated. In
January, 1875, he was appointed Assistant Gen
eral Manager of the Atlantic and Pacific
Telegragh Corapany and became successsively

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Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-President and Presi
dent of that company. The latter position he
held during the last three years of that com
pany's existence and until it was merged with
the Western Union Company in 1882. He was
subsequently made President of the Fuller
Electrical Company, which was araong the first
to develop the systera of arc lighting. In 1884
he was Counsel, and later. Receiver of the
Postal Telegraph Corapany. Upon the reorgan
ization of that company in 1886, he was elected
its President, and assumed the general manage
ment of the company, and also of the United
Lines Telegraph Company, which in time
became merged in the Postal. He is also a
Director of the Comraercial Cable Corapany and
of the Pacific Postal Telegraph Company. Mr.
Chandler is now President of the Postal
Telegraph Cable Company, which under his
management has grown vastly in extent and
importance and now practically divides with
the Western Union the great bulk of the tele
graph business of the country. He is Vice-
President of the Commercial Cable Company,
of which Mr, John W. Mackay is President,
and is also Vice President and General Manager
of the New York Quotation Company, which,
chiefly through his efforts, came into control of
the New York Stock Exchange in i8go, and is
employed by that Institution for the distribu
tion of its quotations among its members. To
his wisdom and sound judgment in conducting
negotiations with rival, connecting, and other
companies, and business establishments, the
public largely owes the cheapness as well as
efficiency of the telegraphic service in America,
which has reached a development far more than
realizing the most sanguine anticipations of
Professor Morse and the pioneers of the tele
graph. He was Chairman of the Building
Committee of the magnificent Postal Telegraph
Building on Broadway, New York, of fourteen
stories, the site of which he selected and secured,
and which shows throughout, the results of his
wise planning and experience. He is Presi
dent of the Sprague Electric Company, which
owns two large factories engaged in the manu
facture of electrical machinery, motors, railway

controlling apparatus and elevators, and is
interested in various other enterprises. Mr.
Chandler thus fills a large place in the history,
not only of the electric telegraph in America,
but of the development of electric industries,
which have become such important factors of
raodern civilization. In connection with this
work Mr. Chandler has been particularly fortun
ate in his personal acquaintance with Professors
Morse, Varley, Lord Kelvin, Edison and many
other of the famous inventors of telegraphic
and electric appliances, — and also with nearly
all the prorainent pioneers, capitalists and
business managers who have brought these
inventions into usefulness. He is a man of
remarkable executive ability, of high intelli
gence, and of fine spirit, courteous, unostenta
tious, simple in his tastes, a lover of literature
and music, a thorough and high-toned gentle
man. He has a handsome residence in
Brooklyn, New York, and a summer home in
West Randolph. He is an Aide-de Camp on
the staff of Governor Grout of Vermont, as he
also was on the staff of Governor Woodbury,
1895-6, with the rank of Colonel, and takes a
strong interest in the wellfare of his native state.
Colonel Chandler married October 11, 1864,
Miss Marilla Eunice Stedman of West Randolph.
Three children have been born to them:
Florence, who died in childhood, Albert Eckert
and Willis Derwin Chandler.

CUSHMAN, Harry T., 2nd, Bennington,
son of J. Halsey and Martha Louise (Thayer)
Cushman, was born in Bennington, May 6, 1866.
His education was obtained in the graded schools
of Bennington and he began his active business
life in the capacity of a grocer's clerk. Before a
year had elapsed, however, he became an opera
tor in the Bennington Telephone Exchange, and
was soon promoted to be Superintendent. He
next entered the employ of the New Haven,
Connecticut Clock Company for a short period,
but soon returned to Bennington and in 1885
resuraed his forraer position, which he r^.tained
until the closing of the exchange. He worked
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Banner with the intention of learning the
printer's trade, but he later abandoned this pro
ject. In 1887 he began the study of law with
William B. Sheldon, and after three years of

h.\rry t. cushman.
study was admitted to practice in all the courts of
the state at the general term of the Supreme
Court of Vermont in 1890, and two years later he
was appointed Master in Chancery. He entered
into partnership with his former instructor, dur
ing the continuance of which they enjoyed a
large and lucrative practice. Mr. Cushman was
one ofthe counsel for the defense in the case of
State vs. Bent and Roberts (64 Vt.), and asso
ciate counsel for the defense in the case of State
vs. Bradley, an important criminal trial that
attracted wide attention. He has taken an active
part in political affairs; and as a Republican
speaker did effective service in Bennington county
in the presidential campaign of 1892. He is
Secretary of the Young Men's Republican Club
of Vermont. He has been clerk of the Benning
ton graded school district and President of the
Bennington ViUage Corporation. In 1882 he
was appointed Assistant State Librarian, and in
1 89 1 he officiated as one ofthe committee of fifty
of the Bennington Battle Monument and State

Centennial celebrations, serving as Chairman of
the Committee which had in charge the entertain
ment of guests. He was one of the charter mem
bers and organizers of the State Firemen 's Asso
ciation of which he was elected President in 1892
and re-elected in 1893. In January, 1894, he
was appointed Clerk ofthe County of Bennington,
which position he now holds. Mr. Cushman is an
enthusiastic member of the Improved Order of
Red Men, and is the Chief of Records in the local
tribe. He is also a member of the Masonic frater
nity, and is actively interested in the work of the
brotherhood, following in this respect the exam
ple of his honored father, who was widely known
as a Free Mason. He is a Congregationalist in
his religious faith. He was married to Jessie
McCuUough Temple, April 7, 1897, at Benning
ton.

CLARKE, Albert, Welle.sley, Massachu
setts, was born in Granville, Addison county,
Vermont, October 13, 1840, son of Jedediah
and Mary (Woodbury) Clarke. He was edu
cated in the common schools of Rochester, in
his native State, and also in the academies in
West Randolph and Barre. He prepared him
self for a legal career, studied for the same at
Montpelier, and began practice there with Hon.
W. G. Ferrin. After six years devoted to his
profession in Montpelier and Rochester, he
went to St. Albans to engage in editorial work
on the Daily and Weekly Messenger, which
paper he bought, and also the Transcript, in
1870, consolidating the two and publishing them
until 1880. At this time he sold out to S. B.
Pettengill, and spent a winter in Washington in
charge of some of the Congressional work of
the late Hon. Bradley Barlow. In i88i. Colonel
Clarke removed to Boston and again entered
journalism, giving some of his time also to
railroad interests. He was for a time President
of the Vermont and Canada Railroad Company,
and assisted in consolidating it with the Central
Vermont. During his ownership of the St.
Albans Messenger he was prominent in a vigor
ous and memorable discussion on "Railroad
Politics," which lasted nearly ten years. He

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was for some time on the staff of the Boston
Daily Advertiser, but not being in sympathy
with that paper's bolting of the nomination of
Mr. Blaine in 1884, he resigned and was made
assistant to the President of the Boston and
Lowell Railroad. Later he gave up this posi
tion to accept one as Editor and Manager of the
Herald, at Rutland, Vermont, remaining there
about three years. Returning to Boston, he
was elected Secretary and Executive Officer of
the Home Market Club, and has held that
place, by annual elections, to the present time.
Colonel Clarke is a keen writer, a careful
student of public affairs and a sound reasoner.

ALBERT CLARKE.
and his departure from Vermont was a great
loss to the journalisra and public life of that
state. He has brought to his work in the Horae
Market Club an ability which has added materi
ally to the influence and circulation of the
monthly Bulletin of that organization, and to
its extensive pamphlet literature, and has been
called upon frequently to give public addresses
on the tariff, discussing it with eminent speak
ers of the free trade school, besides having
written upon it for leading magazines. He has

held various civil offices. In 1874 he repre
sented Franklin county in the Vermont State
Senate. He was sent as a delegate from
Massachusetts to the Republican National Con
vention in Minneapolis, in 1892, and earnestly
supported Harrison's candidacy. He is now a
raember of the Massachusetts House of Repre
sentatives, where he has taken prominent
position in the carrying through of many
important measures, and is Chairman of the
House Committee on Ways and Means. At
Montpelier, in August, 1862, he enlisted as a
private in Company I, Thirteenth Vermont
Volunteers, scon became First Sergeant of that
company, and a little later was made First
Lieutenant of Company G, which he com
manded at the battle of Gettysburg. He was
mustered out with the regiment a month after
this. Colonel Clarke served as Aid-de Camp
on the staff of Governor Paul Dillingham. In
1887-89 he was Secretary and Executive Officer
of the Vermont Commission to build monu
ments at Gettysburg. He was at one time
Commander of Post Baldy Smith, Grand Army
of the Republic, at St. Albans; was afterwards
Junior Vice-Comraander of the Department of
Vermont, and has since been Judge Advocate
of the Department of Massachusetts, and in
1896-7 Judge Advocate General of the National
organization. His elaborate opinions as such
law officer were highly coraraended by the
National Encampment, He belongs to Massa
chusetts Commandery, Loyal Legion of the
United States. In 1890 he was President of the
Vermont Veterans' Association of Boston, and
has been President of the Wellesley Club for
seven terras. On January 21, 1864, he married
Josephine, daughter of Hon. E. D. and Eliza
(Hodgkins) Briggs, of Rochester; of three
children born to them, one is living: Mary
Elizabeth Clarke. Colonel Clarke has a twin
brother, Almon, resident in Milwaukee, Wis
consin, who served in the Tenth Vermont
Volunteers and First Vermont Cavalry as
Assistant Surgeon and Surgeon, respectively, is
a Professor in the Milwaukee Medical College
and has been President of the Wisconsin State
Medical Society.

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KINGSLEY, Darwin Pearl, New York
city, was born in Alburgh, Grand Isle county,
Vermont, May 5, 1857, son of Hiram Pearl and
Cecilia Permilla (La Due) Kingsley. The
family in the direct line is of English descent.
A Kingsley, or Kinsley, as the name was some-
tiraes spelled, was among the first settlers in
Grand Isle county and his descendants have
lived in that county for upwards of a hundred
years. On the mother's side, the great-grand
father of the subject of this sketch came to
America frora Lyons, France, at a date not

D. P. KINGSLEY.
definitely known. D. P. Kingsley received his
early education in the District School, and
began teaching in the common schools at six
teen years of age. Determining to gain a
liberal education he fitted for college at the
Barre, Vermont, Academy under Doctor J. S.
Spaulding of honored memory. He entered
the University of Verraont and graduated
therefrora with high rank as a scholar, in the
class of 1881. Shortly after leaving college,
he went West and engaged in journalisra in the
State of Colorado. His force and independence
of character speedily gave hira prominence in
politics and public affairs. He was chosen a

delegate to represent the Republicans of Colo
rado in the Republican National Convention of
1884; and in 1886 he was elected State Auditor
and Insurance Commissioner of the State of
Colorado. His ability in that office attracted
the attention of insurance men all over the
country, and after two years' incumbency of
the Auditorship, he was offered the position of
Boston Manager for the great New York Life
Insurance Company, which is one of the three
largest life insurance companies in the United
States, and one of the twelve largest financial
corporations in the world, having on its books
policies to the amount of over nine hundred
million dollars, and having assets of over two
hundred million dollars. After holding this
position for three years, he was promoted to
the General Superintendency of Agencies of the
New York Life, in New York city. From this
he was advanced in i8g8 to be a Trustee and
Third Vice-President of the Company, which
responsible positions he now holds. With the
eminent ability and success that have marked
his entire public and business career, his cour
tesy, cultivated tastes and fine personal traits
of character, combine to win for him the respect
and esteem of all who know him. He is a
member of the Board of Trustees of his Alma
Mater, the University of Vermont: is a member
of the Union League, University, and Merchants
Clubs, of New York; ofthe University Club of
Boston; and ofthe St. Andrews Golf Club of
New York. June ig, 1884, he was united in
marriage to Miss Mary M. Mitchell, who died
in 1890. One son, Walton Pearl Kingsley,
born in 1886, was the fruit of this union.
December 3, 1895, he contracted a second mar
riage with Miss Josephine I. McCall, daughter
of Hon. John A. McCall, President ofthe New
York Life Insurance Company. They have a
daughter: Hope Kingsley, born in November,
i8g7.

PECK, Theodore Safford, Adjutant General
of Verraont, Burlington, was born in that city,
March 22, 1843, son of Theodore Augustus and
Delia Horton (Safford) Peck. He traces his

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lineage through twenty generations to John Peck,
Esquire, gentleman, of Betton, Yorkshire, Eng
land, and counts among his American ancestors.
Lieutenant Joseph Peck, who was an officer in
the service of the Connecticut Colony, 1653-
i7og; Elias Keyes, who was an original proprie
tor of the town of Londonderry, New Hamp
shire, and a soldier (of Captain Abbott's company)
1710-11; Lieutenant Jeremiah Peck, of Milford,
Connecticut, Ensign and Lieutenant in the Colo
nial service; and Sergeant William Woodward,
who served six years aud eleven months in
General Hazen's "Canadian Regiment:" Gene
ral John Keyes, Adjutant-General of Connecticut:

THEODORE S. PECK.
Lieutenant Joseph Peck, New Haven, Connec
ticut; Sergeant Josiah Safford, Gageborough,
Massachusetts. His grandfather, (mother's
father) Hiram Safford, was First Lieutenant of
a Troop in the Third Squadron, Seventh Regi
ment, New York Cavalry, and was present in
command of said Troop at the battle of Platts
burg, New York, September 11, 18 14, Mr. Peck
is a great-great-grandson of John and Sarah
(Piatt) Peck of Milford, Connecticut, a great-
grandson of Joseph and Hannah (Lambert) Peck,
of Milford, Connecticut, and a grandson of

Doctor John and Almira C, (Keyes) Peck, of
Burlington, Vermont. Doctor John Peck was a
prominent citizen of Burlington and founder of
the firm of J. & J. H. Peck & Company, which
was for many years the leading mercantile firm
between Troy and Montreal. The subject of
this sketch received his early education in the
public schools of his native town, and was pre
paring to enter college, when the War for the
Union broke out. Obeying the patriotic impulse
which took so much of the best young blood of
Vermont to the field, he at the age of eighteen
years, enlisted in the First Regiment of Ver
mont Cavalry, September 1, iS6i:and served
with credit until the close of the war, receiving
the Medal of Honor awarded by Congress for
gallantry in action. His inilitary record is one
of distinction. It is as follows: Mustered into
the United States service November, i, 1S61;
promoted Regimental -Qnarterraaster-Sergeant,
Ninth Vermont Infantry, June 25, 1862; Second
Lieutenant, January 7, 1S63; First Lieutenant
June 10, 1804; Acting Regimental-Quartermaster
and Adjutant, also acting Assistant Adjutant-
General, Aide-de-Camp, and Brigade-Quarter
master, Second Brigade, Second Division,
Eighteenth Army Corps; appointed Captain and
Assistant Quartermaster United States Volun
teers, March 11, 1865, and assigned to the First
Brigade, Third Division, Twenty-fourth Army
Corps. He served on the staffs of Generals
Stannard, Wistar, Joseph H. Potter, Donohue
and E. H. Ripley. Present in action at Middle-
town and Winchester, Virginia, May 24 and 25,
1862, with the Vermont Cavalry; at Winchester
in August, and at Harper's Ferry, September,
1862, with the Ninth Vermont Infantry. At the
latter place, with his regiment, he was captured
and paroled; at thesiege of Suffolk, Nansemond,
Edenton Road, and Black water, May, 1863;
Yorktown and Gloucester Court House, Virginia,
July and August, 1863; Young's Cross Roads,
North Carolina, December 1863; Newport Bar
racks, February 2, 1864, where he received a
medal of honor from Congress for distinguished
gallantry in action; Swansboro and Jacksonville,
North Carolina, May, 1864; Fort Harrison, Vir
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wounded; Fair Oaks, Virginia, October 29, 1864;
on special duty commanding a battalion of the
Ninth Verraont Regiment, November i, 1864,
in New York city; in the trenches at the siege
and capture of Richmond, winter and spring of
1864-65, and with the Third Brigade, Third
Division, Twenty-fourth Army Corps, entered
Richmond, Virginia, at the surrender of the
city, April 3, 1865. He was raustered out of
the service June 23, 1865. He was offered two
commissions in the regular army at the close of
his volunteer service, which were declined.
Upon his return to his home in Vermont he was
appointed Chief-of-Staff with rank of Colonel
by Governor John W. Stewart, and afterward
for eight years was Colonel of thefirst and only
regiment of infantry of the National Guard of
the state. In 1869 he was made Assistant Adju
tant General of the Grand Army of the Republic,
Department of Vermont; in 1872 was elected
Senior Vice Commander, and in 1876-77 Depart
raent Coramander. In 1881 he was appointed
Adjutant-General of the State of Vermont with
rank of Brigadier-General, which office he has
since held, by successive elections of the Ver
mont Legislature. He was appointed Brevet
Major-General, in 1895, for continuous faithful
and meritorious service for thirty years in the
National Guard. General Peck is a charter
member of the Vermont Commandery, Military
Order ot the Loyal Legion, and was Vice-Presi
dent-General of the National Society of Sons
of Araerican Revolution, 1893. He is a mem
ber and was the first Governor of the Vermont
Society of Colonial Wars. He is a meraber of
the Society of the Array of the Potoraac and of
the Medal of Honor Legion. He is a meraber
of the Grand Army of the Republic; of the
Masonic Order, having been for ten years Grand
Marshal of the Grand Lodge of Vermont; of the
Independent Order of Odd FeUows; and ofthe
Knights of Pythias. In 189 1, by appointment
of President Harrison he was a meraber of the
Board of Visitors to the United States Military
Academy at West Point. He is a meraber of
the Algonquin and Ethan Allen Clubs of Bur
lington. In politics he is an earnest Republican;
but he has never sought civil office. He is a

member of the College Street Congregational
Church of Burlington. His business is General
Insurance, and he conducts the largest agency
in Vermont, his business extending throughout
New England, New York and Canada. The
honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred
upon him by Norwich University in 1896. He
was united in marriage, October 29, 1879,10 Miss
Agnes Louise Lesslie. They have one child, a
daughter: Mary Agnes Lesslie Peck.

TYLER, James M., Judge of the Supreme
Court, Brattleboro, was born in Wilmington,
Vermont, April 27, 1835, son of Ephraim and
Mary (Bissell) Tyler. He received his early

JAMES M. TYLER.
education in the district schools of Guilford,
Vermont, to which town his parents moved in
1840, and at the Brattleboro Academy. Select
ing the profession of the law he pursued legal
studies and was admitted to the Windham County
Bar at the Septeraber term in i860. He then
returned to Wilmington and began the practice
of his profession in partnership with the late

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General S. P. Flagg, which connection contin
ued until December, 1864, when he removed to
Brattleboro, forming a partnership with the late
Hon. Charles K. Field, which terminated with
the latter's death in 1880. Mr. Tyler's ability
and high personal character brought him into
natural prominence in public and civil life. In
1863, 1864 and at the special session of 1865, he
ably represented the town of Wilmington in the
General Assembly. In 1867-68 he was State's
Attorney for Windham county. In 1878 he was
norainated for Congress by the Republicans of
the Second District of Vermont and was elected
by a very large majority. He was re-elected to
the Forty-seventh Congress. He served in the
National Legislature on several important cora-
raittees, and delivered several able speeches
upon bills relating to the apportionraent of
representatives in Congress, internal revenue,
the tariff, education in the South, and Chinese
iramigration. In 1887 he was chosen Chairman
of the Board of Commissioners to revise the
school laws of the State of Vermont, but resigned
in September of that year to accept a place upon
the bench of the Supreme Court of Vermonf, to
which he was appointed by Governor Ormsbee,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of Judge William H. Walker, which position
he still holds by successive elections by the
Legislature. He has been promoted from time
to time until he is now third assistant Justice,
and his work upon the bench has demonstrated
his excellent qualifications for this high and
honorable position. Judge Tyler was for many
years Vice-President and Trustee of the Ver
mont Savings Bank of Brattleboro, but resigned
when he received his appointment to the bench.
He has been Trustee of the Brattleboro Retreat
for the Insane since 1875, and was for several
years a member of the board of Trustees of the
Brooks Library. In politics he has always been
a Republican; in religion he is a Congregation
alist. Judge Tyler was first married to Ellen
E., daughter of the late William F. Richardson
of Brattleboro. She died January 21, 1871. His
present wife is Jane P., daughter of the late
Solomon P Miles, who was for many years
Principal of the Boston High School.

WETHERBEE, Isaac Josiah, Dentist,
Boston, Massachusetts, was born in South Read
ing, Vermont, March g, 18 17, son of Reverend
Josiah and Abigail (Jones) Wetherbee. His
father served with distinction in the war of
181 2. He was a leading clergyman in the Free
Baptist denomination, and died in his ninety-
third year, having lived to see the abolition of
slavery, for which he labored for fifty years.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the common schools. In his boy
hood and youth he showed marked mechan
ical talent, evidenced among other ways by

I. J. wethekbef:.
repairing watches, for one of which he made a
new cylinder escapement, without a watch
maker's lathe or other tools except common
files. On arriving at manhood, he selected the
sacred profession of the ministry, and after pur
suing theological studies under his father, at the
age of twenty- four years he was ordained to the
Gospel Ministry at North Hampton, New
Hampshire, June 2, 1840, at which tirae he was
installed as Pastor of the Free Baptist Church
in that place. In 1845 he was holding a pastor
ate in Charlestown, Massachusetts. In 1846,
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ing, he turned his attention to dentistry, which
he had for some years studied and practiced in
a private way. He pursued dental studies, with
the limited text books then extant, and grad
uated from the Baltimore Dental College, the
first dental college in the world, receiving his
degree in Dental Surgery in February, 1850.
Having established himself in Boston in 1846,
he early became prominent in the profession.
In 1865 the Boston Dental Institute was organ
ized with seventy members, and he was elected
its President. This society held meetings
monthly, with, lectures on dental science and
allied subjects, till it was superseded by a charter
for the Boston Dental College, granted June 3,
1868. Upon the organization of the latter insti
tution, he was raade its President. This position
he has held for twenty-six years, with the
exception of four years, from i86g to 1873,
inclusive; aLso occupying the chair of Dental
Science and Operative Dentistry for fifteen
years. He is now Professor Emeritus of
Operative Dentistry. We quote here the opinion
of his ability and standing by the public press :
" Doctor Isaac J. Wetherbee is one of the finest
dental surgeons, both theoretically and prac
tically, in this country, and his name alone is
sufficient guarantee of the high grade of any
institution with which it may be connected."
The Boston Dental College was founded for the
purpose of giving students a thorough education
in dental science and mechanism, and for the
general elevation of Dentistry to the rank of a
recognized profession. During its existence of
over a quarter of a century, most of this period
under Doctor Wetherbee 's administration, it has
graduated upward of six hundred students with
the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. Its
faculty now numbers eight professors, and there
are fifteen additional instructors. Doctor
Wetherbee was the first in his profession in
Boston to require his office students to remain
with him for three years, and to promise to
attend subsequently a dental college, and grad
uate therefrom. He is an honorary meraber of
the Massachusetts Dental Society, for the
organization of which he opened the way, and
a meraber of kindred associations. He has

been President of the New England Dental
Society; Treasurer of the American Dental
Association, and President of the American
Dental Convention. He has been long con
nected with the Washington Home, an incor
porated institution in Boston for the care and
cure of inebriates, and is the First Vice-Presi
dent of the corporation; and iu the declining
years of a long and useful life he stands high in
the esteem of all who know him. Doctor
Wetherbee was married at Pittsford, Vermont,
January 3, 1837, to Miss Sarah Abigail Sheldon,
the second daughter of Jacob Sheldon, by whom
he had one son, who died in infancy. After
the demise ofhis wife in 1870, he married again
February i, 1873, Miss Myra Woods of Nashua,
New Hampshire, by whom he had two children:
Helen Francis and Irving Josiah Wetherbee,
who are living.

BATES, Edward Lewis, Bennington, was
born in that town, January 24, i85g, son of Wil
liam and Melissa (Scribner) Bates. WiUiam
Bates, who was of English descent, was born in
Cummington, Massachusetts, January 15, 1807,
son of Joseph and Mary (Parker) Bates, and he
died January 26, i8g3. Melissa Scribner, who
was the daughter of Josiah and Hannah (Rob
erts) Scribner, was born at Andover, New Hamp
shire, September 26, 182 1. Josiah Scribner
was a soldier in the Continental Army during
the war of the Revolution. The subject of this
sketch received his education in the public
schools of Bennington and at Kimball Union
Acaderay, Meriden, New Hampshire. He
began the study of law with the firm of Gardner
& Harmon of Bennington, and after remaining
with them two years he entered the office of
Hon. John V. Hall, County Clerk and insurance
agent, reraaining six years. He was appointed
Deputy County Clerk, February 16, 1880, but,
having been admitted to the Bar, June 8, 1882,
he resigned the position and formed a partner
ship with Hon. J. K. Batchelder of Arlington
for the practice of his profession. He was
elected State's Attorney in September, 1884,
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in that capacity until December, 1888 He was
appointed Special Prosecutor of criminal offen
ces by Governor Carroll S. Page, April g, i8gi,
and he was reappointed by Governor Levi K.
Fuller, serving until October i, i8g4. He was
again elected State's Attorney, Septeraber, 1894,
and he was re-elected in Septeraber, 1896, for
another term of two years. He was appointed
by Governor Fuller Aide-de-Camp upon the
staff of the Commander-in Chief, with the rank
of Colonel, October 8, 1892, and in October,
1894, he was elected by the Legislature to the
position of Judge Advocate General of Vermont,
a position to which he was re-elected, October

ED. L. BATES.
22, i8g6. He was clerk ofthe village of Ben
nington in 1882 and 18S3, and he has been Cor
poration Attorney from April, 1893, to the
present time. General Bates is prominent in
fraternity circles, being a meraber of Mt. Anthony
Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Temple
Chapter, of Bennington Council, of Bennington
Consistory, and Past Commander of Taft Com
mandery, Knights Templar. He is also a mem
ber of Tucker Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, of Mohican Tribe of Red Men, of
Rutland Lodge of Elks, and of Oriental Temple,

Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Troy,New York.
He is an honorary member of the Bennington
fire department and Custer Post, Grand Array of
the Republic. He is a member of the Benning
ton Battle Monument Association, of the Ver
mont Fish and Game League, aud of the Sons
of the American Revolution. He is an active
Republican, being a member of the Executive
Committee of the Vermont Republican League
and taking a prominent part in local and state
politics. He is a Director of the Denison
Land and Loan Company of Texas ; Director
and Secretary of the Bennington and Hoosick
Valley Railway Company, and he was Secretary
of the Bennington Historical Society for ten
years. He is active in religious circles being a
member of the First Baptist church of Benning
ton. General Bates was united in marriage
with Jennie M., daughter of Buel and Mary E.
Rockwood, May, 18S2, and she died in 1S84.
On May 17, 1887, he was joined in marriage
with Estella, daughter of Perry W. and Lucy
Eldred of Hoosick, New York, and two children
have been born to them: Beulah Belle, born
March ig, 1889 ; and William LeRoy Bates,
born February 14, 1891.

FLANDERS, William George E., Physi
cian, Burlington, was born in Concord, New
Hampshire, January 6, 1865, son of George E.
and Rosette H. (Hoyte) P''landers. He received
his early education in the public schools of his
native city and in the Penacook, New Hamp
shire, Normal School, from which he graduated
in 1880. After three years spent in his father's
drug store, he received a diploma in pharmacy,
in 1 88 1. Selecting the profession of medicine
he pursued medical studies with different physi
cians and in a Children's Hospital at Baldwins-
ville, Massachusetts. Entering the Medical
Department of the University of Vermont, he
took the second year's examinations at the close
of his first year and graduated in 1888. He was
Assistant to the Chair of Cheraistry during his
last year in the institution. In August, 1888,
he coramenced practice in Fairfield, Vermont,
where he remained for six years in a growing

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practice. After several months of added study
and experience in hospitals in New York and
Montreal in the fall of 1894, he, in January,
1895, opened an office in the City of Burlington,

W. G. E. FLANDERS.
Vermont, where he has acquired a successful
practice and has performed some difficult
surgical operations. He is a member of the
Vermont State and Franklin County Medical
Societies, and of the Araerican Medical Society.
He is a member of Eagle Lodge, No. 67, Free
and Accepted Masons, and of Champlain
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and of Lafayette
Commandery, No. 3, Knights Templar, of St.
Albans. In politics he is a Republican. He
married, October 20, 1886, Nettie D. Gould.

FLINN, Silas Wright, Attorney, St. Albans,
was born in Milton, Chittenden county, Ver
mont, December 20, 1866, son of Richard and
Margaret (Poyfair) Flinn. His ancestors were
aU natives of Ireland. His early education was
gained in the common schools, and he was
admitted to the Vermont Bar October 27, 1892.
After leaving school Mr. Flinn taught for
several terras, and in 1886 engaged in mercan

tile business at West Milton, Vermont. He
came to St. Albans in i88g and entered the law
office of Ballard & Burleson, where he remained
as a student until the date of his admission to
the Bar. Immediately after being admitted he
became associated with Charles D. Watson in
tbe practice of his profession, under the firm
name of Watson & Flinn, and is at present thus
doing business. Mr, Flinn was appointed Judge
of the Municipal Court of the village of St.
Albans by Governor Woodbury in 1894, being
reappointed by Governor Grout in i8g6. When
St. Albans became a city in March, i8g7. Judge
Flinn was appointed to preside over the City
Court, for the term ending December i, i8g8. He
is a member of Seneca Lodge, No. 40, Free and
Accepted Masons of Milton. He is a Republi
can, and has taken a somewhat active part in

SILAS W. FLINN.
politics. In 1892 he was Secretary and Treas
urer of the Republican Club of St. Albans, and
Chairman of the Young Men's Republican Club
Executive Committee in 1896. He was married,
August I, 1894, to Emma C. Ryan; they have
two children: Burke H. and Barbara E. Flinn.
The subject of this sketch has attained to quite

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a local reputation as a poet, and is responsible
for several bright productions based on political
themes.

FISH, Edgar John, Physician, South Roy
alton, was born in Washington, Orange county,
Vermont, February 7, 1851, son of John P. and
Ann (Pufur) Fish. He comes of Scotch
ancestry on his father's side, and a mixture of
French and English on his mother's. He was
educated in the district schools and also took an
academical course. He studied medicine with
Doctor S. N. Goss, of Chelsea, Vermont,
attended a course of lectures at Dartmouth
Medical College in 1872, and graduated from
the Medical Department of the University of
Vermont, at Burlington, in 1874, He began

E. J. FISH.
the practice of his profession in Tunbridge,
Vermont, where he remained until 1887, remov
ing then to South Royalton, where he has since
that time resided, and where he has established
a successful business. Doctor Fish is a member
of the Vermont State Medical Society and the
White River Medical Society, and in 1887 was
President of the latter organization. He is also
an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa

Kappa Medical Society connected with Dart
mouth. He was a Mason in George Washington
Lodge, No. 51, Chelsea, in 1872, and was
demitted to Rising Sun Lodge, No. 7, in South
Royalton, in 1887. He is a raeraber of Whitney
Chapter, No. 5, Royal Arch Masons; Haswell
Council, No. 6, Royal and Select Masters; and
Vermont Commandery, No. 4, Knights Templar.
In politics he is a staunch Republican. He
married Eliza A. Lyman of Washington, Ver
mont, July 28, 1872; they have two children:
Doctor John Euclid and Harold D. Fish, the
former being a graduate of Dartmouth in i8g6,
and now Assistant Physician at the Taunton
Lunatic Asylum.

FOSS, James M., St. Albans, was born at
Pembroke, New Harapshire, January 26, 1829,
son of Jeremiah and Clarissa (Moore) Foss. He
received his early education in the public schools
and he attended the Pembroke Acaderay until
his seventeenth year, when he deterrained to
supplement his academic education with prac
tical information in a direction that would fit
hira* for the business life to which he had
resolved to devote himself. To this end he
began an apprenticeship, November, 1846, in
the machine shops of the Concord Railroad
Company at Concord, New Hampshire. From
1850 to 1862 he worked as a machinist and
locomotive engineer on the Boston, Concord
and Montreal Railroad, acquiring a thorough
familiarity with the details and practical knowl
edge of the construction and operation of
railroad machinery. During the latter part of
his service he was in charge of the shops ofthe
last named road. Frora 1862 to 1865 he was
Master Mechanic of the Boston & New York
Air Line in connection with the Back Bay Com
pany. In March, 1865, he returned to Concord,
New Hampshire, as Master Mechanic of the
Concord Railroad, where he remained until
June, 1868, at which time a larger field for the
employment of his ability in his special line
was afforded him, and he accepted an offer
from the management of the Vermont Central
Railroad Company to become its Master

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241

Mechanic. In 1 873 he was made Superintendent
of Motive Power and Machinery of the Central
Vermont system, which comprised the Vermont
Central, the Vermont and Canada, tbe Rutland
railroad and other leased lines. During this

J. M. FOSS.
period the corporation constructed its own loco
motives, some half hundred of which were
turned out under the supeivision of Mr. Foss.
His efficiency as a railroad man was recognized
by his promotion in 1879 to the position of
Assistant General Superintendent and in 1885
he was promoted to the office of General Super
intendent. This appointment he held until
1892, when failing health compelled him to
resign. The corporation with which he had
been connected so many years were reluctant to
part with his services and he was made assistant
to the President, a position in which the man
agement could avail itself of his valuable
experience and advice, while he could enjoy
greater leisure than was possible while perform
ing the duties of General Superintendent. This
position he retains after half a century of active
railroad life. Mr. Foss, who is a believer in
the great industry of Verraont farming, has a
large area of land under cultivation, located on

the road frora St. Albans to St. Albans Bay.
His business life has demanded all of his time
so that he has found no opportunity to mingle
actively in politics, but he has always shown
loyal allegiance to the principles of the Repub
lican party. He is a member of St. Luke's
Episcopal Society, and he contributes generously
to its support. He is a member of the several
Masonic bodies, having attained to the Thirty-
second degree in the fraternity. He possesses
a genial, social nature, and he enjoys the quiet
entertainment of a few friends in his handsome
and hospitable home. Mr. Foss was united in
marriage, November 15, 1855, with Ellen A.,
daughter of John V and Laura Barron, who
died in April, 1871. For his second wife he
married, September 18, 1874, Mrs. Sophia H.
(Chester) Locklin, widow of H. H. Locklin and
daughter of John and Mary Chester, natives of
England and residents of Dudswell, Province of
Quebec. The fruit of this union was one son:
James Barron Foss, born August 17, 1876, who
with Hortense H. Locklin, daughter of Mrs.
Foss, constitutes the family of Mr. Foss.

P'RYE, James Nichols, Merchant, Boston,
Massachusetts, was born in Concord, Vermont,
October 3, 1828, second son of Captain David
and Betsey (Jo.slin) Frye. He is of the tenth
generation in descent from John Frye of Basing,
County Hants, England, who came from South
ampton to America in 1633. His great-grand
father, John Frye, held a Captain's commission
in the colonial service from 1755 to 1761, and is
recorded as eighth Deacon on the roll of the old
church at Sutton, Massachusetts. His grand
father, still another John Frye, pushed north
ward in 1795, moving from Royalston, Massa
chusetts, to Concord, of which town he was one
of the earliest settlers. His father was a promi
nent man in Concord, and held a commission in
the artillery service. Through his mother, Mr.
Frye is connected with the old Joslin family of
Leominster, Massachusetts, which counts among
its ancestors Sir Ralph Joslin, Lord Mayor of
London in 1464. His maternal great-grand
father, whose napie he bears, was Captain James

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Nichols, an early Master in the American mer
chant marine. Mr. Frye's boyhood was passed
upon his father's farm in Concord, of which the
title to-day stands in his name. Losing his
mother in infancy, he found himself, upon the
death of his father in 1843, thrown largely upon
his own resources. A few years later, having
obtained what education could be had from the
common schools of that day, he entered the
well-known academy at St. Johnsbury, in whose
catalogue of alumni he is registered with the
class of 1849. Perhaps, however, the self-reli
ance developed by the circumstances of his early
life has stood him in better stead than any other

JAMES N. FRYE.
part of his education. WhUe studying at St.
Johnsbury, he held a position in the post-office
at that place; and it was through acquaintances
thus formed that the opportunity was offered him
to enter the employ of Montgomery Newell, at
that time in the wholesale hardware trade at No.
83 State street, Boston. Mr. Frye gladly took
advantage of this opportunity, and at once left
Vermont for the scene of his new labors. He
arrived in Boston on the forenoon of April 17, 1849.
One o'clock ofthe afternoon of that day found him
energetically occupied in mastering the details of

his unaccustomed calling. His entry upon his
business career was characteristic of his deter
mination to succeed in his undertaking; and, by
making his employer's interests his own, he won
his way forward, step by step, until within five
years from the day he left Vermont he reaped the
reward of his unremitting attention to duty by
being admitted to partnership in the concern for
which he had so faithfully labored. Few firms
in the business world to-day can lay claim to an
uninterrupted existence of fourscore years; but one
of these few is that of Frye, Phipps & Company.
The original concern, under the style of Mont
gomery Newell, was in business for over a third
of a century. It was followed by the firm of
Wells, Coverly & Company (1853); Coverly,
Frye & Company (1855); Coverly, Frye &
Knapp (1858); Coverly, Frye & Company from
i860 to 1864, during the latter three years of
which period Mr. Frye was sole raember of the
concern; Frye, Phipps & Company during the
thirty-four years from 1864 until the present time
(1898). From the earliest days of the century
until now this old concern has enjoyed an
unbroken reputation for integrity, and after the
business trials of so many decades it still stands
well to the front among its younger rivals in the
trade. Even the " great fire " of 1872, in which
the granite store of the concern, then on Federal
street, literally melted out of view, proved only
a temporary check to the course of the firm's
affairs; for in twenty-four hours it was re-estab
lished in new quarters, undaunted by its misfor
tune. Mr. Frye is an active raember ofthe New
England Iron and Hardware Association, and is
delegate from that body to the Massachusetts
State Board of Trade. In the latter organization
he holds the position of Vice-President and
member of the executive council. Still claiming
kinship with Vermonters, he was instrumental
in forming the Vermont Association of Boston,
of which he is Vice-President. He has always
been devotedly fond of rod and gun. In 1875
he was among those who established the now
famous Massachusetts Rifle Association, of which
he was later elected President, and in which he
now holds the office of honorary life Director.
He has also been connected with the old Tremont

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243

Sportsraans Club and with the Megantic Club,
though he has given up his membership in the
latter, and now is enrolled in the Winchester
Club, whose game preserves lie near Caxton,
Canada. He has hunted and fished for years past
in the Adirondack, Rangeley and Moosehead
regions, and knows by heart every haunt of
shore birds along the Massachusetts coast. He
has been an unswerving adherent to the Republi
can party since its organization, but has never
sought office, although maintaining an active
interest in national and local politics. Mr. Frye
was married January i, 1854, to Miss Sabina T.
Bacheler, daughter of the Reverend Origen and
Charlotte (Thomson) Bacheler. He has had
three children: Charlotte M., Ahce M., and
James A. Frye. Of these the first is deceased.
The two last named are married and reside in
Boston.

GILSON, Edson P., Rutland, son of John
and Lucy (Stearns) Gilson, was born at Reading,
Windsor county, Verraont, October 5, 1839.
His great-grandfather, John Gilson, Jr., born in
Groton, Massachusetts, May 12, 1726, was the
grandson of John and Sarah Gilson, who came
from England. He married Prudence Lawrence
of Groton, January 19, 1764. She was in the
fifth generation of descent from the well known
John Lawrence of Watertown, Massachusetts,
who was born at Wisset, England, in 1609. John
Gilson, father of Edson P., was born in Rindge,
New Hampshire, July i, 1798, and removed to
Reading in early boyhood with his father, Abel
Gilson. He married Lucy Stearns of Reading,
March 31, 1824. The subject of this sketch
was educated in the common schools; at South
Woodstock Institute, and at Chester Academy.
In early life he worked on a farm, and in a tan
nery at Proctorsville. He taught in the public
schools for five years, or until 1862, when he
entered the Bank of Rutland as book-keeper.
He was Cashier of the First National Bank of
Springfield, Vermont, from 1864 to 1866. In
the latter year he returned to Rutland to engage
in the marble business. In June, 1866, in com
pany with Charles Cleraent and Farrand Parker,

he purchased a large raarble quarry property at
West Rutland and continued in the marble
business for more than twenty years. He has
been Vice-President and later President of the
Killington National Bank of Rutland, frora its
organization. For many years he has been a
Justice of the Peace for Rutland. He was one
of the Trustees of the Graded Schools for nine
years ; a vestryman of Trinity Church for more
than thirty years; one of the Trustees of the
Vermont State Insane Asylum; a Trustee and

E. P. GILSON.
Treasurer of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont;
and Trustee and Treasurer ofthe Rutland Hos
pital. He has been a Republican from the
organization of the party. Mr. Gilson has been
twice married, first in June, 1865, to Anna E.
Cleraent of Rutland. February i, 1877, he
raarried for his second wife, Harriet E. Morgan
of New York city. His children are: Robert
Morgan, born January 20, 1878, and John
Lawrence Gilson, born October 26, 1881.

JENNE, James Nathaniel, Physician, St.
Albans, was born in Berkshire, Vermont,
December 21, 1859, son of John Gilbert and

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MElSt OF PROGRESS.

Charlotte (Woodsworth) Jenne. He received
his early education in the public schools at
Enosburgh Falls. Selecting as his calling in
life the useful and honorable profession of medi
cine, he entered the Medical department ofthe
University of Vermont and graduated from it
with credit in 1881. He subsequently attended
for four years the Post Graduate Medical School
of New York city, which offers unsurpassed
advantages to its students, and received the
diploma of that institution in 1890. After
receiving his first degree, he commenced the
practice of his profession in Georgia, Vermont,
remaining there until 1887, when he removed

J. N. jenne.
to St. Albans, Vermont. He soon attained high
standing in his profession, winning an especially
enviable reputation as a skillful surgeon. In
1890 he was elected as a meraber of the Board
of Consulting Surgeons of the Mary Fletcher
Hospital in Burlington, and has remained a
member of that Board by successive elections
to the present time. In 1892 he was appointed
Adjunct Professor of Materia Medica in the
Medical department of the University of Ver
mont, and in the following year was advanced
to the full chair of Materia Medica in the Uni

versity. In 1889 he was commissioned as
Assis'^ant Surgeon of the First Regiment, Ver
mont National Guard. In 1890 he was promoted
to be Surgeon of the Regiment, and later was
advanced to the position of Brigade Surgeon,
with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1897
he was appointed Surgeon-General of the State,
with the rank of Brigadier-General, which office
he now holds. In May, 1898, he was appointed
by President McKinley a Chief Surgeon of Vol
unteers, in the United States Array. Doctor
Jenne has been and is associated with many
Medical Societies, among them being the Medi
cal Society of Franklin county, Vermont; the
Vermont State Medical Society — of the Board
of Censors of this Society he was a raeraber for
several years, and was President of the Society in
1890; the Clinical Society of the City of New
York; and the American Medical Association.
He has repeatedly been a delegate to the Con
ventions of Medical Societies of other states,
and to the Araerican Medical Association. Doctor
Jenne is a member of Franklin Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons; of Champlain Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons; of Lafayette Commandery, Knights
Templar; and of the St. Albans Court of the
American Order of Foresters. He is highly
esteemed in all these relations and as a citizen
and man. He married, in September, 1883,
Abbie, daughter of Hiram and Miranda (Gilmore)
Cushman. They have no children.

KEMP, Dean Gustavus, Physician, Mont
pelier, was born in Worcester, November 8,
1841, son of Phineas A. and Betsey (Blanchard)
Kemp. He resided with his father until he was
about eighteen years of age, and spent his time
in attendance at the district school and in work
on the farm. He then went to Montpelier and
became a pupil in the Washington County
Grammar School. In 1862 he entered the office
of Doctor W. H. H. Richardson as a medical
student and afterward attended a course of
lectures at the Bellevue Hospital Medical
College of New York city, from which he grad
uated March 26, 1866. He returned to Mont
pelier and began his practice with his first

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Ui

instructor. Subsequently he purchased the
residence of Doctor Richardson and succeeded
him in a large and successful practice, which he
retains at the present time. Doctor Kemp was

one time the honored President of Dartmouth
College, and his maternal grandfather, John
Aiken, was a resident of Andover, Massachusetts.
His father was a clergyman, noted throughout
Vermont and the whole of New England for his
ability as a writer and speaker, and was for many
years Pastor of Bethany Congregational church,
in Montpelier. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the public schools, and graduated
also from Dartmouth College with the class of
1869. He was admitted to the Bar in 1876. His
preparatory law studies were pursued in Cincin
nati, Ohio and Montpelier, and he has practiced
at the latter place since his admission to the Bar.
Mr. Lord has been elected to various civil offices.
He was Reporter in the State Senate in 1874,
1876 and 1888. He represented Montpelier in
the Legislature in 1894 and 1896, and in the lat
ter year was chosen Speaker of the House, over

D. G. KEMP.
a member of the Board of Pension Examiners
under the administrations of Presidents Garfield,
Arthur and Harrison, and he has for a number
of years held the position of Treasurer of the
Vermont Medical Society, of which organization
he was President in 1886. He has been Secre
tary of the Montpelier School Board for several
years, and he is a Director of the Montpelier
Electric Light and Power Manufacturing Cora
pany. In politics he is a Republican, and he is
a member of the Bethany Congregational
church. Doctor Kemp was united in marriage
with Annette C, daughter of George W. and
Laura (Cady) Maxhani of Northfield, on Sep
tember 5, 1866.

WM. A. LORD.

two competitors. He was also Attorney for the
LORD, William Adams, Attorney, Mont- city of Montpelier in 1896 and 1897. He is at
pelier, was born in that city, in Washington present National Bank Examiner for \"erniont,
county, Vermont, August 28, 1849, son of having been appointed to that position by Presi-
William Hayes and Harriet Adams (Aiken) Lord, dent McKinley. He is an ardent Republican
His paternal grandfather, Nathan Lord, was at and has done effective service for his party on

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

the stump. He married Lucy A. (Reynolds)
Young, June 29, 1883, who died in March, 1893.
On November 4, 1894, he married Mabel L.
Newcomb.

McFEETERS, Emmett, Attorney, Enosburgh
Falls, was born in Sheldon, Franklin county,
Vermont, April 22, 1855, son of Williara and
Ann (Todd) McFeeteis. The first of the Mc-

April, 1882, he married Lucy M. Pelton. They
have one son: William R. McFeeters. The
subject of this sketch has raade quite a reputa
tion by his vigorous and impartial enforcement
of the Vermont liquor law, whereas his prede
cessor in the same office was refused payment
of his salary by the state because of failure to
enforce the law.

MOORE, Warren, Paper Manufacturer,
Wells River, was born in Hancock, Hillsborough
county. New Hampshire, March 12, 1827, sonof
Isaac A, and Mary (Fogg) Moore. His ancestors
on his father's side were English, and settled in
Peterboro, New Hampshire ; those on his
mother's side were of Scotch descent and settled
in the same town. He was educated in the dis
trict schools and at Hancock Academy. At the
age of sixteen he began an apprenticeship in a

E. MCFEETERS,
Feelers family to locate in America came from
the North of Ireland in 1827, settling in High-
gate, Vermont. His grandfather died in 1869.
Mr. McFeeters was educated in the public
schools of Sheldon, and in Franklin Academy
and Bakersfield Academy. He studied law in
the office of C. G. Austin, Esq., of Highgate,
and took also a course at the Ann Arbor Law
School, in Michigan. He was admitted to the
Michigan Bar in 1880, and in September of the
following year was admitted to the Vermont Bar.
He has since then practiced law at Enosburgh
Falls. In i8g6 he was elected State's Attorney
for Franklin county. He is also Chairman of
the Enosburgh Falls High and Graded School
Committee. He is a Republican in politics. In

WARREN MOORE.
paper mill at Hancock (now known as Benning
ton). He was something of a wanderer, and
went from mill to mill to pick up information
regarding the business, and was employed at
Springfield and Bellows Falls, Verraont, and
Fitchburg and Lawrence, Massachusetts. Mr.

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247

Moore started in business for himself at the
Forest Mills in Westminster (now known as
East Westminster, or Gageville), Verraont.
Some time ago he purchased the plant at Wells
River belonging to Deming & Adams, and
known for many years as the Adams Paper
Company. This is one of the oldest and most
important of the village industries, having been
founded in 1811. The main building contains
three floors, each thirty by one hundred and
seventy-five feet, and equipped with suitable
machinery, including a forty-eight inch machine
with a daily capacity of about eighteen hundred
pounds. Tissue manilla and toilet paper are
made, with heavy manilla and white tissue as
specialties. Mr. Moore is assisted in the man
agement of the business by his son, Albert W.
Moore. He has attended strictly to the manu
facture of paper, and never sought public office.
In politics he is a Republican. He is a Mason
and a member of King Solomon's Lodge. He
has been married twice. His second wife was
Maria M. Church, of Westminster, to whom he
was wedded November 28, 1868; they have one
son: Albert Wilder Moore.

STEWART, Chester L., Physician, Ran
dolph, was born in Grantham, Sullivan county,
New Hampshire, April 2, 1829, son of Hazen
and Clara (Elliott) Stewart. His paternal ances
tors came to this country from Scotland, while
those on his mother's side were from England.
He received his early education at Royalton
Acaderay, in this state. He studied medicine
for some time with Doctor B. R. Gibson of
Sharon, Vermont, Professor Palmer of Wood
stock, Vermont, and Professor H. H. Childs of
Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He graduated frora
Berkshire Medical College, class of 1850.
Doctor Stewart was engaged in medical practice
in Royalton and Reading, Verraont, for one and
three years respectively, and in 1854 removed
to Randolph, where he has since remained. In
1893 he was appointed on the Board of United
States Examining Surgeons for Pensions, and
was for four years chairraan of the Board. He
has always been a prorainent Democrat, taking

an active and earnest share in the work of that
party, but never permitted his name to be used
in candidancy for any public office, though his
advice was frequently sought by political leaders.
In 185 I he married Jane P., daughter of David
and Julia (Fay) Fales, who died in 1863. The
sarae year, 1863, he married Ruth, daughter of
Jonathan and Hannah (Morse) Holman. He
has two children by his first marriage: Jennie
A. and Nellie A. Stewart. During forty-four
out of the forty-eight years of Doctor Stewart's
career as a physician he has practiced his pro
fession in one community, that practice always

CHESTER L. STEWART.
extending over several towns. He has thor
oughly devoted himself to his work, and has
held high rank among the medical men of the
state. He has always been a busy man, prompt,
careful, considerate and painstaking, with a
keen knowledge of human nature, clear- headed,
discriminating and judicious, and for nearly
half a century an honor to his profession. Few
have been able to hold a large practice in the
sanie locality for so long a period as has Doctor
Stewart.

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MEN OF PROGRESS.

SAWYER, Edward Bertrand, Attorney,
Hyde Park, was born in that town April i6,
1828, son of Joshua and Mary (Keeler) Sawyer.
His education was obtained in public and
private schools principally, although he studied
to some extent under a tutor and also attended
the People's Acaderay one terra. His father was
his first instructor in the law, the study of
which he began at eighteen years of age, and
he also read in the office of Hon. W. W. White,
then of Johnson. Appreciating the defects of
his early education he adopted a systera of self-
education, taking " Fowler's Self Education
Coraplete " for a guide and Benjarain Franklin
for his model. He spent three years of his

EDWARD B. SAWYER.
early life with a brother who was engaged in
trade in the Province of Quebec, and while
with him he received a somewhat varied busi
ness training. He had, however, a fixed incli
nation to the practice of the law, and after the
preparatory study referred to he was admitted
to the Bar of Lamoille county at the June term
of court in 1849. He began the practice of his
profession with his father. The same year he
was appointed Clerk of the Court, which office
he held with the exception of two years until

September, i86i, when he resigned to enlist in
the Union array. He held the same position
again from 1868 to 1875, when he again
resigned. Colonel Sawyer's war record is
creditable as well as interesting, as he devoted
all of his time frora the beginning of the war
to the end to the service of his country. He
enlisted Septeraber 14, 1861, having first raised
and organized Company D, Fifth Vermont
Regiment, and raised Company I, First Vermont
Cavalry. Upon the organization of the latter
body he was unanimously elected Captain, and
he was subsequently promoted to Major. In the
retreat of General Banks down the Shenandoah
Valley he received a severe injury by a fall
frora his horse, but he did not permit his disa
bility to cause him to remain idle. He
recruited two hundred men for the regiment at
large and in addition he organized Company L
and Company M, forraing the Sixth Squadron of
the regiment, of which he remained Colonel,
when not in charge of a Brigade or detached on
special service, until the date of his resigna
tion. He was placed in command of the Second
Brigade of Kilpatrick's Division when that
General made his raid upon Richmond, and
upon that occasion, as well as many others, he
was complimented by his superior officers for
his efficient services, though no record can be
found of his request for promotion. In Sep
tember, 1863, he was wounded in the cheek by
a rebel sharpshooter, and although he was in
no great battles during the war he was under
fire more than forty times. Colonel Sawyer
organized Aaron Keeler Post, Grand Army of
the Republic, which was named in honor of his
maternal grandfather, a soldier of the Araerican
Revolution, and he was the first Coramander of
the post. Colonel Sawyer has taken an active
interest in political matters. He came from old
Federal and Whig stock, and he sang Harrison
songs in the famous campaign of 1840. He was
in the convention which instituted the Republi
can party in Vermont, and in that of 1856 which
nominated Ryland Fletcher for Governor of
Vermont. He advocated Freraont's election,
and he spoke in behalf of his favorite in every
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attracted his attention during his sojourn in
Canada directed his energies in opposition to
slavery and he became a most bitter foe of that
institution. It was his privilege to hear some
of the joint debates between Lincoln and
Douglas, and he ever after reraained an enthu
siastic admirer of the martyred President. He
was the junior raeraber and Secretary of the
Vermont delegation to the National Convention
in i860, and he was an uncoraproraising advo
cate of Mr. Lincoln's noraination. He repre
sented Hyde Park in the Constitutional Conven
tion of 1870, and he favored the change frora
annual to biennial sessions of the Legislature.
He is a firm believer in the theory that law, and
law only, makes money, and that the govern
ment can make money out of any material. In
1875 Mr. Sawyer interested hiraself in the arti
ficial breeding of trout and he was probably the
first raan in the state to engage in this enter
prise. Two years after he abandoned this
undertaking to purchase the Lamoille News
dealer, a paper which he revived and edited for
three years, devoting a large share of its
columns to the advocacy of the Portland &
Ogdensburg Railroad. In 1870 he sold his
journal and varied his experience by becoming
proprietor of the American Hotel, which he
conducted seven years. At the end of this
period he retired from the hotel to resume his
professional labors which have received his
exclusive attention since 1877. Colonel Sawyer
was united in marriage, in June, 1849, with
Susan Almira, daughter of Hon. Isaac and
Dorcas (Titus) Pennock. Four children were
born of their union: Myra Ellen (Mrs. F. N.
Keeler); Edward B., Mattie Helen and Bertha
Mary Sawyer (deceased). In August, 1866, he
married Helen M. Pennock, sister of his first
wife, by whom he had three children: Alma
Dorcas, Clarence Parsons and Lucy Etta Sawyer.

Revolutionary War and was a Lieutenant in a
New Hampshire regiment in the Saratoga cam
paign. His father was a soldier in the Thirty-
first Regiment, United States Infantry, in the
War of 1812, and died from exposure in service
at Plattsburgh. Stephen Thomas was but four
years of age when his father died, and his
widowed mother's circumstances were such that
he was obliged to go to work when a mere boy.
He went to the district school in Thetford, and
at eighteen was apprenticed to a woolen manu
facturer. He followed this trade in Thetford,

THOMAS, Stephen, Montpelier, was born
in Bethel, December 6, 1809, son of John and
Rebecca (Batchellor) Thomas and grandson of
Joseph and Hannah (Vickery) Thomas. His
grandfather, Joseph Thomas, served in the

STEPHEN THOMAS.
Strafford and West Fairlee. He started manu
facturing for himself in Hartland; but having
been burned out at that place he went to work
in Thetford, and finally settled in West Fairlee.
In that place he attended to a large amount of
Sheriff business as well as pension business,
and he was soon the leading man of affairs in
that town. He represented West Fairlee in the
Legislature in 183S, 1839, 1845, 1846, i860 and
1 86 1, and he was State Senator from Orange
county in 184S and 1S49. He was a delegate
to the State Constitutional Conventions of 1843
and 1850; Register of Probate for the district of
Bradford from 1S42 to 1S46. and Judge of

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Probate for that district from 1847 to 1849.
Judge Thomas was active in politics and an
earnest Democrat until the Rebellion began.
He was an alternate to the Democratic National
Convention in 1848, and a delegate to the next
three national conventions of his party, those
of 1852, 1856 and i860. At the sessions of the
convention of i860 at Baltimore he became
convinced that the Southern Democrats were
determined to break the Union, if they could
not control it. He was the Democratic candi
date for Lieutenant-Governor of the state in
i860, and he earnestly advocated the election
of Douglas. At the special session ofthe Ver
mont Legislature called by Governor Fairbanks
at the outbreak of the rebellion in April, 1861,
the largest sum proposed by others to be raised
by the state for war purposes was half a million
dollars; but Judge Thomas urged that the sura
be made a million, and his fiery zeal carried the
appropriation of that sum which he well knew
would be needed. On November 12, 1861, he
was made Colonel of the Eighth Vermont Vol
unteers, which regiment he raised and led to
the South. He retained that command and rank
until January 12, 1865. On February 1, 1865,
he was commissioned Brigadier General of Vol
unteers, and served as such until August 24,
1865. General Thomas served with distinction
in the Department ofthe Gulf until 1864, when
his regiment was ordered North. In the summer
of that year he was under Sheridan in the
Shenandoah Valley. His services at the battles
of Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek
were of the highest order. He was commended
in general orders for services at Winchester,
September 19, 1864, when he charged with the
Eighth Vermont and Twelfth Connecticut under
his command on his own responsibility. It is
not unjust to other brave officers to say that he
was the idol of the common soldier and that his
popularity as well as the general appreciation
of his services are made evident by the enthu
siastic greeting which he invariably receives at
soldiers' reunions. He was elected Lieutenant-
Governor of Vermont in 1867 and 18G8; and
under a commission from President Grant he
was Pension Agent for Vermont with head

quarters at Montpelier, from 1870 to 1877. He
is now President of the United States Clothes
Pin Company of Montpelier which does a large
business, not only in its particular line but also
in the jobbing of lumber and house findings.
The clothes pin business includes a large export
trade, and employs fifteen hands. He is also
President ofthe North Haverhill Granite Com
pany. General Thomas was united in marriage
with Ann Peabody of Reading, who died at
West Fairlee, January 8, 1877. They had two
children: Hartopp, of Junction City, Wisconsin,
and Amanda T., widow of Luther Newcomb,
who was for many years County Clerk at Mont
pelier. General Thoraas, since the death of
his wife, has made his home at Montpelier with
his daughter, Mrs. Newcomb. He has held the
highestplacesof honor within the gift of various
veteran associations ofthe state. The camp of
the Sons of Veterans at Montpelier is called the
"Stephen Thomas Camp" in his honor, and the
sons, like their fathers, honor and esteem him
as a true type of the American citizen soldier;
as a worthy descendant of those who in battle
founded and defended the republic and as an
exemplar of those who preserved our glorious
Union.

WING, George Washington, Attorney,
Montpelier, was born in Plainfield, Washington
county, Vermont, October 22, 1843, son of
Joseph A. and Samantha Elizabeth (Webster)
Wing. He was educated in the district schools,
at Barre Academy, at Washington county Gram
mar School, in Montpelier, and at Dartmouth
College, from which latter institution he grad
uated in 1866. He has been a resident of Mont
pelier since 1858. He studied law in the office of
his father, and was admitted to the Washington
county Bar at the March term of court, in 1868.
Mr. Wing was Assistant State Librarian in 1864,
'65 and '66, and a Deputy Secretary of State
from 1867 to 1873. During part of the latter
period he was clerk in the office of the State
Treasurer, the late Hon. John A. Page. Con
cluding this service, he began the practice of his
profession, in which he has become distinguished.

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both for soundness of judgment and ability as an
advocate. He was elected to the House of
Representatives from Montpelier in 1882 and
rendered important service to the state on the
Ways and Means Committee and the Grand List
Committee. He had an important part in
framing, and to him belongs the honor of formu
lating, the corporation tax law enacted at that
session ofthe Legislature, a law that was made
noteworthy by the clearness and precision of its
phraseology, and by the benefits its well-con
sidered provisions conferred upon the state at
large. As a member of the Grand List Committee,

GEO. W. WING.
his counsel, practical judgment and peculiar gift,
in so arranging an enactment that it could bear
but one and the right interpretation, were brought
into requisition in the measure revising and con
solidating the tax and grand list laws. In advo
cating, explaining and defending these bills, in
the debates in the House, and in his legislative
duties generally, he disclosed the qualities of a
wise and capable lawmaker. From 1884 to 1888,
during the administration of President Cleveland,
although a stanch Republican, he held the office
of Postmaster at Montpelier, to which he had
been appointed toward the close of President

Arthur's administration. Here he was a popular
official, judicious and efficient. In i8qo Mr.
Wing was elected a Trustee of the Village of
Montpelier, and two years later was chosen
President of the corporation. In March, 1895,
when Montpelier became a city, Mr. Wing was
elected as its fir.st Mayor. He is now Treasurer
of the Farmers' Trust Company, incorporated
under the laws of Iowa, and which has its East
ern office at Montpelier. He is a member of
Aurora Lodge, No. 2, Free and Accepted Masons,
and has taken the Thirty-second degree in Scot
tish Rite Masonry. On December i, 1869, he
married Sarah E., daughter of Doctor Orlando P.
and Millie (Hendee) Forbush, who died in
April, 1871, leaving one child, Sarah F. Wing.
October i, 1882, he married Ida S., daughter of
Stephen F. and Caroline C. (Stone) Jones. Of
Mr. Wing a brother attorney says: "He enter
tains and instructs, whether before the jury or
court, or on the stump. He is at once scholarly
and practical, and has an enviable power of illus
tration peculiar to himself."

SMITH, Fuller C, Mayor, St. Albans, was
born in St. Armand, Province of Quebec, Feb
ruary 16, 1862. He received his early educa
tion in the public schools of his native place,
and took a course in Brigham Academy, from
which he graduated in 1882. He chose law as
his profession, and, having pur.sued his studies
on that subject, he was admitted to the Bar in
1885. For a time he carried on newspaper
work in connection with the practice of his pro
fession, having an editorial connection with
the Vermont Sentry. He was a Deputy CoUec-
tor of United States Customs under Collector
G. G. Benedict during President Benjamin
Harrison's administration, with headquarters at
St. Albans. He was appointed Clerk of the
Vermont Board of Railroad Commissions in
1894, a position which he still continues to hold.
Mr. Smith took an active part in securing the
adoption of a city charter by the Village of St.
Albans and in promoting the passage ofthe act of
incorporation by the Legislature. Largely in
recognition of his efforts in this direction he was

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elected the first Mayor of the new City of St.
Albans in 1897, and he was re-elected to that
office in i8g8. He is a member of the Execu
tive Committee of the Young Men's Republican

He is a member ofthe Congregational Church,
and is a Republican in politics. On October 26,
1854, he was married in Boston to Mary Horton

F. C. SMITH.
Club of Verraont, and has taken a zealous part
in recent Republican campaigns. He is an
earnest advocate of municipal reform, and his
administration of the municipal affairs of St.
Albans has commanded the support of the
people outside of party lines.

SWETT, Levi J., Architect, St. Albans, son
of Samuel and Charlotte (Johnson) Swett, was
was born in Redfield, Maine, October 20, 1831.
His ancestry is English. He obtained his
education in the common schools and served
time as a builder in Boston. He went to St.
Albans, Verraont, in i860, to build the Congre
gational Church, and has since made that city
his home. He continued in the builder's trade
for a tirae and later took up the profession of
architect, being considered one of the best
architects in the country. He has been Chief
Engineer of the St. Albans Fire Department.

L. J. SWETT.
Taylor of Duxbury, Massachusetts. Three
children: Alice H., PVank E. and Harvey L.
Swett, have been born to them.

WHITEHILL, Henry Clarence, Editor,
of Waterbury, was born in Groton, Vermont,
May g, 1875, son of Moses H. and EUa F.
(Ricker) Whitehill. The subject of this sketch
received his early education in the common
schools and the Groton High School, and at the
Montpelier, Vermont, Seminary. After leaving
the latter he was connected for three years with
the VerraontWatchman, published at Montpelier.
He was then for a year employed as reporter
and assistant in the editorial department of the
Montpelier Argus and Patriot. Having acquired
a taste for editorial work, and familiarized him
self with the newspaper business he removed to
Waterbury, (Vermont), in i8g5, and established
the Waterbury Record (weekly), the first news
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existence in that excellent town. Mr. White-
hill's enterprise, capacity and genial traits have
made many friends for him and his paper, and it
is achieving a permanent success. In September,
i8g7, he extended his business, by establishing

H. C. WHITEHILL.
the Stowe Journal, in the village of Stowe,
Vermont, which is now connected by an electric
railroad with Waterbury and the outer world.
This branch of his business promises like suc
cess. Mr. Whitehill is a member of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and of the
Methodist Society of Waterbury. In politics
he is a Republican. On January ig, i8g8, he was
united in marriage to Miss Mary H. Moody, of
Waterbury.

DANA, Charles, New York city, was born
at Brandon (or Pittsford), Vermont, January 10,
1824, son of Hon. Anderson G. Dana, LL. D.,
and Eliza (Fuller) Dana. He is of an ancient
and honorable lineage being a descendant in the
direct line from Richard Dana who came from
England to Bostonin 1640, while on theraother's
side he has a Pilgrim ancestor who came over in
the Mayflower. The subject of this sketch was

educated in the schools, and underprivate tutors,
receiving the honorary degree of Masterof Arts
from the University of Vermont, in the year i85g.
Selecting a business career in life he went to
New York in the year 1845 and engaged in the
dry goods business. In 1848 he went to St.
Louis by stage coach over the Alleghany Moun
tains, and by boa'i: from Wheeling, \irginia and
established a commission house, attending also
to the important business in that quarter of his
cousins, Dana & Company, of Boston. In 1851
he visited Europe by sailing ship and traveled
extensively abroad. Returning to St. Louis
in the autumn he remained there until 1853,
when he sailed from New York to Aspinwall,
crossing the Isthmus to Panama, and sailing
thence in a steamer to San P'rancisco, en route
for Honolulu, Sandwich Islands, where he estab
lished the first bank in the Hawaiian kingdom,
and for some years carried on a most prosper
ous business, during the period when all the
whale ships in the world stopped at that port for
supplies, and to re -ship their cargoes home, and
re-fit for cruises in the Arctic ocean. While in
business in Honolulu he often crossed over to
San Francisco where his brothers, William A.
Dana and Henry F. Dana were engaged as bank
ers and commission merchants, (in connection
with A. Carroll Dana in New York), and famil
iarized himself with business there, and in
California generally. Upon petroleum oilcoming
largely into use, many ships found San Fran
cisco to be the most desirable port for re-ship
ment of oil, and for the purchase of supplies, and
Mr. Dana wound up his business in Honolulu,
and bought a third interest as special partner in
the banking house of Dana Brothers & Company
of San Francisco. Having a strong interest in
the Nicaragua Canal scheme, Mr. Dana crossed
the Isthmus from Brito to Greytown, in i860,
spending two weeks in careful examination of
the route. He afterwards took a large pecuniary
interest in the Central American Transit Com
pany, which made a contract for building the
canal, with the Nicaraguan Government, which
for various reasons was not carried into effect.
He was afterwards Vice-President of the North
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proprietor of a through line to California via
Nicaragua, and later still, he went to Washing
ton and personally interested President Grant
and Mr. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, and

married, in New York, Laura Parkin. They
have one child: Charles Anderson Dana, born
April 25, 1881.

chas. DANA.
Mr. Garfield, Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, in the Nicaragua Canal enterprise,
to a degree which resulted in the first survey of
the canal route by the United States. After
returning to New York in i860 Mr. Dana became
engaged in many enterprises. He was an incor
porator and for many years a Director of the Erie
Railroad, of the New York & New England
Road, and of the Des Moines & Fort Dodge
Road, of which he was also Vice-President. He
was also interested as Director and otherwise, in
various tramways in New York and in many
other corporations. He has been President of
the Orange Gas Company, Vice-President ofthe
Citizens Gas Company of Newark, New Jersey,
and President of the Standard Gas Company of
New York city, and has been for many years
one of the Governors ofthe Woman's Hospital
in New York, in which he takes great interest,
and is a generous giver to it and many other
charitable institutions. June 5, i87g, Mr. Dana

STEVENS, Charles Phelps, Troy, was born
in Huntington, Vermont, July g, 1836, son of
Charles Deming and Murilla (Cobb) Stevens.
The history of his life is a record of one of the
most successful self-made business men in Ver
mont. Receiving only the scant education to be
obtained in tbe district schools of Duxbury, yet
possessing abundant health and indomitable
courage, this boy who was brought up in a saw
mill, has now become one of the largest manu
facturers of lumber in the state. Brought up to
the carpenter's trade, in his early youth he
secured his first financial start in the construc
tion of dwelling houses by contract. From the
profits of this business, which he saved, he pur
chased a lot of timber land and in 1862 by the
advice of the late Leander Hutchins, President
of the Waterbury bank, who furnished the
necessary capital, he invested largely in property
in Duxbury. This venture was very successful,
so much so that in 1862 he becarae proprietor of
a lumber mill in Duxbury, which he operated
until 1866. In that year he built another mill
in Bolton, Canada, which he operated for two
years while still retaining the management of
his first mill. In 1868 he sold his Duxbury mill
and substituted for it another in Jay. He now
made Troy his place of residence, and became
one of the leading residents of that section of
the state. P'^rom the tirae ofthe erection ofhis
raills until 1870 he operated them day and night,
but in that year he disposed of his Bolton and
Jay raills and entered into a partnership with D.
H. Buck of Troy to carry on a general merchan
dise business. Later they erected a clapboard
mill at Phelps Falls in Troy, Mr. Buck retaining
the management of the store while Mr. Stevens
managed the mill. They then formed a partner
ship under the firra name of C. P. Stevens &
Company, and erected at the Falls a large saw
mill and the first factory for the manufacture of
veneer erected in Orleans county, if not in Ver
mont; which was, however, soon transformed

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into a large feed and flouring mill. In 1870 the
firm erected extensive mills at Richford, around
which a village has grown up known as Stevens
Mills. Mr. vStevens is a partner in many enter
prises of this description and he is an extensive
owner of timber-bearing real estate in Bolton
and Jay. He is also interested in various man
ufacturing concerns and he owns three farms in
Troy containing as fine tillage land as can be
found in the Missisquoi VaUey, which, under
his scientific management, have clearly shown
that farming can be made to pay in the Green
Mountain State. Soon after reaching man's
estate Mr. Stevens was appointed Justice of the
Peace, his commission having been signed bv

c. p. STEVENS.
the late Governor Paul Dillingham. Six years
later he was chosen to the Senate from Orleans
county, and he gave valuable aid to the Com
mittees on Rules, Manufactures and Railways
as well as to the Joint Standing Committee on
Game and Fisheries. He was actively influen
tial in the passage of the appropriation of
twenty-five thousand dollars for the Vermont
Soldiers' Home. In the Senate as in private
life his unusual capacity and executive ability
were recognized. He has alwavs been an ardent

and lo}al Republican. He is liberal in his reli
gious \'iews, bnt he has been a constant attendant
and supporter of the Congregational church of
Troy, of the society of which he has been a
Trustee for twenty years. Mr. Stevens has
been twice married. He was united in marriage
in Februar} 1862, with PVancesM. , daughter of
Truman Morse, who departed this life after a
union of ten years. In 1873 he married Annette
Cdaughter of Eli Sherman, by whom he has two
children: Lena and Charles Sherman Stevens.

ORVIS, Franklin Henry, Manchester, was
born in that town July 12, 1824, eldest child of
Levi Church and Electa Sophia (Purdy) Orvis.
The Orvis faraily have resided in Vermont for
four generations. The mother of Franklin H.
was the grand-daughter of Reuben Purdy, who
was one of the pioneers of the town of Man
chester. His father, Levi C. Orvis, was a
merchant and marble dealer in Manchester for
thirty i'ears and up to his death in 1849. The
subject of this sketch received his early educa
tion in the common schools of his native town,
in the Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester
and at the l'nion Village Academy at Green
wich, New York. Graduating frora the latter
in 1842, at the age of eighteen, and having had
some busiuess training in his father's store, he
determined upon a business career, and going
West, he engaged in mercantile business in
Illinois and Wisconsin for two years. In 1S44
he was a clerk in the extensive wholesale dry
goods house of Marsh & Willis in New York
city, in which he remained for two years, when
with E. M. Carrington, formerly of Poultney.
he established the wholesale dry goods house
of Carrington & Orvis, in New York. Having
in the meantime established the Equinox
House, as a summer hotel, in Manchester,
Mr. Orvis retired from the dry goods trade
in iSco, to give his whole attention to his
hotel business, for which he had especial quali
fications and in which he has attained wide
celebrity North and South. In 1S71 he pur
chased the Manchester Journal and conducted
it for a time, without relinquishing his other

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business, with marked success; advocating the
principles of the Republican party and the
policy of protection of American industries, of
which he has been for many years a firm cham
pion. In 1872 he leased the St. James Hotel
in Jacksonville, F'lorida, conducting it winters
and the Equinox summers. In 1875 he purchased
the Putnam House at Palatka, Florida, which
he enlarged and conducted with marked success.
In 1880 he became the proprietor of the
Windsor Hotel in Jacksonville, which, under
his management, in connection with the Parker
House, became the leading hotel in Jackson
ville. The Putnam House was destroyed by

F. H. ORVIS.
fire in November, 1884, and for several years
following Mr. Orvis occupied himself with the
care, alternately in winter and summer, of the
two houses in Jacksonville and Manchester. He
afterward relinquished his lease of the Florida
hotel, and has since devoted himself, with the
assistance of his sons, to the care of the Equinox
House, which is one of the most delightful and
popular summer resorts in the country, and of
the Equinox Spring Company, organized by him,
for the bottling and sale of the water of the
famous spring on Equinox Mountain, which

takes its name from that mountain. Mr. Orvis
is an earnest Republican, and in 1869 was
selected by the Republicans of Bennington
county to represent thera in the State Senate, as
he did with ability and fidelity. In i8g2-g3he
again represented his county in the Senate.
Mr. Orvis has always been interested in all
good things connected with the welfare of the
community of which he is an honored member,
and of the state. He has been active in secur
ing the erection of a Soldiers Monument in
Manchester, in numerous charities, and in
various public enterprises. There are few men
in Vermont, if there be any, who have a wider
acquaintance with prominent citizens of the
state and of the United States, and he has the
esteem of all who know him. November 17,
1852, he was united in marriage to Sarah M.,
daughter of Paul and Sarah R. Whitin, of
Whitinsville, Massachusetts, an accomplished
and amiable lady who has been an efficient
helpmate and wise counsellor. Six children
have been the fruit of their union.

DARLING, Elmer Albert, New York city,
was born in East Burke, Vermont, son of Henry
G. and Mehitable (Whitcomb) Darling. He
received his earlv education in the public schools,
at the St. Johnsbury (Vermont) Academy, and at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in
Boston, Massachusetts. His studies in the latter
institution were conducted with a view to adopt
ing the profession of an architect; and he received
first mention in his class, for meritorious work,
from an Examining Committee of the Boston
Society of Architects. Various considerations,
however, turned his attention in another direc
tion. In 1874 he became connected with the
Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, of which
Hitchcock, Darling & Company, have been for
so many years the well-known proprietors. He
commenced as Assistant Steward of that famous
hostelry, which has borne such a conspicuous
part in the public life ofthe metropolis, and has
been identified with many important events,
political, social and other, for more than a genera
tion, and with which he is still connected. Mr.

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Darling takes a strong interest in the improve
ment of American Dairy Stock, and has been
President of the American Jersey Cattle Club
from 1894 to date. He is the President of the
Historical Society of his native town. He has
never married.

A. S. F. ADAMS.

MAYO, William Barnabas, Physician,
Northfield, was born in Moretown, Washington
county, Vermont, January 3, 1854, and was the
son of Barnabas and Mary (Howes) Mayo. His
maternal ancestry were English. His progen
itors on the father's side came from Ireland, in
1 718, settling first at Cape Cod, after which a
branch of the family located in Acworth, New
Harapshire. His grandmother (Barnabas) Mayo,
was born in Acworth, and came to Moretown in
1808. The subject of this sketch received his
early education in the district schools. He
subsequently attended the State Normal School
at Randolph, Vermont, from which he gradu
ated in 1874. He then took up the study of
medicine, and graduated from the New York
Homoeopathic Medical College, March 7, 1877.

On the sixteenth of the following month he
opened an office in Northfield, where for the
past twenty-one years he has successfully prac
ticed his profession. Doctor Mayo has been
Trustee of the village and also for six years a
Trustee of the Northfield Graded School. He
represented his town in the Legislature, 1884-^.^
86, and was a candidate for the office of Secre
tary of State on the Democratic ticket in 1888.
He is a member of the Vermont Homoeopathic
Medical Society and has held all the offices
within its gift excepting that of Secretary. He
is also a meraber of the Masonic fraternity.
He was married, February 13, 1878, to Emma,
daughter of Hon. John Lynde, of Williaras-
town, Verraont. In i8g3 Doctor Mayo was
appointed one of the Montpelier Board of
United States Pension Examiners, and he is
also a Trustee of Norwich University, a mili-
,"tary and classical institute located in Northfield.

B. W. BRALEY.

FLINT, Wy.man, Manufacturer, BeUows
Falls, son of John Gardiner and Sarah (Gregg)
Flint, was born at Windsor, New Hampshire,

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July 11, 1824. The Flint faraily traces its
ancestry to three brothers who came to this
country in the seventeenth century and settled
at Concord, Massachusetts. Jonas Flint, grand
father of the subject of this sketch, graduated
from Yale College, was a physician and served
in the Revolutionary War. Mr. Flint's father
was born at St. Johnsbury, but removed to
Windsor in early life. He was at one time a
luraberraan. He had a faraily of six children.
Wyman Flint received his early education in
the district schools and in the Academy at
Antrim, New Hampshire. After he was seven
teen years old he attended school only during
the winter, and at the age of twenty-one he
engaged in the business of manufacturing fur
niture at Franklin, New Harapshire. About a
year later he removed to Antrim, New Hamp
shire, and went into the lumber business with
his father. He remained there six or seven
years. In 1853 he removed to Bellows Falls,
Verraont, and in 1854, in company with his
brother, he began the manufacture of shoe pegs,
which business he continued in until about eight
years ago. In 1858 he commenced business in
Milwaukee with his brother, John Gardiner
Flint under the firm name of W. & J. G. Flint,
as wholesale dealers in coffee, spices and gro
ceries. In 1 86 1 a branch house of the sarae
business was opened in Boston, and shortly
after another house was opened in St. Louis.
In 1880, in company with A. H. Fisher, under
the firm name of Flint & Fisher, he began the
manufacture of paper at Bellows Falls. Some
two years later he bought out Mr. Fisher's
interest. Pulp mills were built at Middlebury
and Weybridge. After the retirement of Mr.
Fisher he took his sons into partnership with
him, the firm being known as Wyman Flint &
Sons. Soon after this he abandoned the making
of tissue paper and began the manufacture of
manila paper, which he has continued ever
since. He was at one time elected Lieutenant
of a cavalry company in New Harapshire, but
declined to accept. In 1870 and again in 1880,
he held the office of First Selectman. He is a
member of the Westminster Club of Bellows
Falls, and Hugh de Payens Coramandery of

Knights Templar, Keene, New Harapshire. He
was a Deraocrat in politics until the Civil War,
but since then has been a staunch Republican.
In 1847 Mr. Flint married Almira Stickney.
Six children have been born to them, four of
whom survive: S. Louis, Anna L. (now Mrs.
Mitchell), Francis Gardiner and John W. Flint.

M. p. BIXBY.

BULLARD, Harry Gates, Physician, St.
Johnsbury, was born in the town of his residence,
January 22, 1866, son of Gates B. and Lefie P.
(Wheeler) Bullard. His father was for many
years a leading physician of St. Johnsbury and
air influential citizen . The subj ect of this sketch
received his education in the public schools and
St. Johnsbury Acaderay. He entered the Uni
versity of Vermont in 1885, and after remaining
two years he entered Dartmouth Medical Col
lege from which he graduated in 189 1. He
began the practice of medicine in Idaho Springs,
Colorado, where he remained one year. He
then moved to Denver, Colorado, but at the end
of two and one half years he returned to his
native town where he has since resided. He
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he has raade a reputation which extends through
out Vermont. Doctor Bullard has been promi
nent in public affairs, and he has been honored
with various positions of responsibility and trust.
While in Colorado he was a member ofthe State
Medical Society of that commonwealth. He is
now a meraber of the Verraont State Medical
Society and is Secretary and Treasurer of the
Caledonia County Sanitary and Hygienic Asso
ciation. He is a Republican in politics, but he
has not been inclined to accept public office.
Doctor Bullard is unmarried.

WILLARD FARRINGTON.

CROSS, Abraham Lincoln, Physician, Swan
ton, son of Sylvester Hammond and Laura G.
(Bruce) Cross, was born in Highgate, Franklin
county, Vermont. His ancestors came from
England. He was educated in the public schools
in Franklin and Swanton and graduated from the
Medical Department of the University of Ver
mont in 1 89 1. Doctor Cross practiced for three
years in Newbury, Verraont, and since that time
(1894) has practiced his profession in Swanton,
Vermont. Doctor Cross is a raeraber of Masonic
Lodge Seventy-Six, No. 14, of Swanton and has

been its Secretary for three years. He is also a
raeraber of Missisquoi Lodge, No. 38, Independ
ent Order of Odd Fellows; of the State Medical
Society; ofthe Franklin County Medical Society;
and of the County Board of Censors. In politics
he is a Republican. He raarried September 30,
i8go, Emma O. Lapelle. They have two daugh
ters: Mildred Reille and Lucille Laura Cross.
From the time Doctor Cross began practice, he
has been successful in his profession.

C. C. GILMORE.

PITKIN, Carroll Perley, Montpelier, was
born in East Montpelier, Verraont, December
15, 1851. He is the second son of the late
General Perley P. Pitken, who rendered distin
guished service in the Civil War and was
Quartermaster-General of the State of Verraont,
1864-70, and Caroline M. (Terapleton) Pitkin.
His great-grandfather in the direct line, Major
Stephen Pitkin, was one of the first settlers in
Marshfield, Vermont, and another great-grand
father. General Parley Davis, was the first
Surveyor-General of Washington county. Car
roll P. Pitkin was educated in the common
schools and in the Washington county Grammar

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School in Montpelier. He studied law and was
admitted to the Bar of Washington county in
1873; but preferring a business career, he never
actively practiced his profession. In March,
1872, he commenced his business career as
clerk with the manufacturing firm of Lane,
Pitkin & Brock. Upon the organization of the
Lane Manufacturing Corapany, of Mont
pelier, he was raade Treasurer of that company,
which office he has held to the present tirae.
He is also the Vice-President of that extensive
and prosperous manufacturing company. He
is a Republican in politics but has never sought
civil office. In i888-go he represented Mont
pelier in the General Assembly. He married
Ella L., daughter of Hon. Charles Dewey, of
Montpelier. She died in 1879.

Richmond, which became their permanent resi
dence. Mr. Lamer was educated in the com
mon schools, and at the age of nineteen entered
the employ of the Central Verraont Railroad.
He was appointed Train Dispatcher at St.
Albans in 1880, and held that responsible
position until 1894. He is a member of the
Owl Club of St. Albans. In politics he is a
Democrat, and has been active in local affairs.
He was appointed Postmaster at St. Albans by
President Cleveland, June 10, 1894. Mr. Earner
was married June 23, 1880, to Catherine Burke.
Six children have been born to them: Arthur
Leo, Thomas Edward, Mark James, Harry
Burke, Frances Katherine and Richard Benedict
Lamer.

O. B. GOULD.

EARNER, Thomas, St. Albans, son of
Michael and Margaret (QuUty) Lamer, was
born in Essex Junction, Vermont, January 4,
1857. Mr. Earner's parents came to this country
from Ireland in 1847, and located at Essex
Junction, Vermont. In 1857 they reraoved to

A. S. RICHARDSON.

FRENCH, Warren Converse, Attorney,
Woodstock, was born in Randolph, Vermont,
July 8, 1819, son of Joseph Wales and Polly
(Converse) French. C He was educated in the
comraon schools and in the Orange County
Grammar School at Randolph. His father was
the oldest son of General John French, one of
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dier-General of the state militia at the time of
the last war with England and who marched with
his brigade to Burlington at the time of the
British invasion in 18 14, Jacob Collamer, then a
young lawyer at Randolph, being one of his
Aides-de-Camp. The subject of this sketch
Studied law with Tracey & Converse at Wood
stock and was admitted to the Bar of Windsor
county at the May term of court in 1844. He
began practice at Sharon, where he remained
until 1857. Upon the election of Hon. James
Barrett to the bench, Mr. French was invited
by his uncle, Mr. Converse, to remove to Wood
stock and succeed Judge Barrett in the firm of
Barrett & Converse, which offer was accepted.
Mr. French remained in this firm as a partner
until July i 1865, when Mr. Converse retired
from the profession and was succeeded by Mr.
WiUiam E. Johnson. This partnership continued
until July, 1868, after which Mr. French for
some time continued the practice of his profes
sion alone. In July, i87g, he formed a partner
ship with his son- in law, Frederick C. Southgate,
and this firm still continues. Mr. French has
been in full and active practice, mostly in Wind
sor and Orange counties, ever since his admission
to the Bar, and he has been engaged in many
important civil and criminal trials. In politics
Mr. French was a Whig until the organization
of the Republican party, of which he has been
a constant and ardent adherent. He was a mem
ber ofthe Constitutional Convention of 1850; he
was the first State's Attorney for Windsor county
elected by the people under the amended con
stitution in 1850; he was State Senator in 1858
and i85g, and in 1876 he represented the town
of Woodstock in the Legislature. He was a
delegate to the Republican National Convention
of 1876 which nominated Rutherford B. Hayes
for President. In religious belief Mr. French
is a Congregationalist, and he was superintend
ent of the Sunday School for many years. On
Septeraber ig, i84g, he was united in marriage
with Sarah A., daughter of Hon. Williara and
Lydia (Gleason) Steele of Sharon; and their
union has been blessed with six children: Mary
(Mrs. William H. Brooks, deceased), Anna (Mrs.
Frederick C. Southgate), LUlie (Mrs. Harold S.

Dana), Warren C, Jr., William Steele, and John
French.

J. C. JONES.

SIAS, Charles Deming, Boston, was born
in Danville, Caledonia county, Vermont,
December 26, 1848, son of William and Chloe
(Barron) Sias. His father was for many years
a merchant at Danville, well known throughout
the state, and subsequently entered mercantile
business in Boston. His paternal grandfather,
Samuel Sias, was one ofthe earlier settlers of
Danville, and surveyed the larger part of
Northern Vermont, accumulated considerable
property, represented his town in the Legisla
ture, was appointed Judge, and was regarded as
a successful man. His paternal great-grand
father. Captain Benjamin Sias, was one of the
first settlers of Canterbury, New Hampshire, a
patriot of the Revolutionary War, saw active
service in several important battles, and was
present at the surrender of Burgoyne in 1777.
He had held many civil offices prior to his
removal to Danville in i7g2, and for six years
thereafter represented that town in the Legis
lature; for three years he was Assistant Judge
of Caledonia County Court, and was also for

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some time a Trustee of the Caledonia County
Grammar School, at Peacham. The subject of
this sketch was educated in the public schools
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mercantile life
was most attractive to him. He gave his atten
tion to the wholesale shoe and the woolen busi
ness, for two and three years, respectively, and
for the rest of the tirae he has been engaged in
the tea and coffee business at Boston. For some
years he was salesman for Chase, Raymond &
Ayers, and on the formation of the firm of
Chase & Sanborn, in 1878, he was admitted to a
partnership. Since 1886 he has had an active
part in the management of the concern. Mr.
Sias is a member of the Country Club, the
Eastern Yacht, the Corinthian and the Algon
quin Clubs, and the Beacon Society. He is a
Republican in politics. In August 1872, he
married Alice Evelyn Crawford.

R. m. pelton.

SPARHAWK, George E. E., Physician,
Burlington, was born in Rochester, Vermont,
February 20, i82g. His father. Reverend
Samuel Sparhawk, was a Congregationalist

clergyman of Scottish ancestry, who was born
in Templeton, Massachusetts, January i, 1801,
and died at Pittsfield, Vermont, in November,
i86g. Doctor Sparhawk's early education was
obtained in the Orange county Grammar School
at Randolph, Vermont, and at West Randolph
Academy, from which he graduated in 1850.
In the meantime, and up to 1850, he taught
school a portion of the time for six consecutive
years. From i84g to 1852 he was pursuing the
study of medicine under Doctor Gibson, of
Sharon, Vermont. In March, 1852, he entered
the Vermont Medical College at Woodstock,
and at the close of the spring terra entered the
office of Doctor William F. Guernsey of Phila
delphia, Pennsylvania. In the fall of that year
he began his studies in the Homoeopathic
Medical College of Philadelphia, then the only
Homoeopathic College in the world, from which
he graduated in March, 1853. He began prac
ticing medicine the following June, in Rochester,
Vermont, in company with Doctor H. W.
Hamilton, with whom he remained until Jan
uary 1854, when he assumed control of the
business. He was the pioneer of the homoeo
pathic school of medicine in that section of the
state. His practice continued to grow, and in
1856 he took as an associate. Doctor C. B.
Currier, to whom he afterward sold his practice,
and on account of the failing health of his wife,
who died in Deceraber 1858. removed to West
Randolph, Vermont, having also an office in
Gaysville, Vermont, where he established a
large practice and whither he removed his home
after his wife's death. November 25, 1878, he
removed to Burlington where he still resides in
an extensive and successful practice. Doctor
Sparhawk is the oldest homoeopathic physician
in Vermont. He aided in founding the Vermont
Homoeopathic Society in 1854, and assisted in
obtaining its charter in 1858, He has held
almost every office in the gift of the society.
In i85g he joined the Araerican Institute of
Homoeopathy and in 1884 became a member of
the American Obstetrical Society. He belongs
to the Congregational Church. He has been a
Mason for twenty years, being a charter member
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mont. He is a Republican in politics. He
married Lucy Ann Griswold of Randolph,
Vermont, March 4, 1854. She died in December
1858. On June 18, 1867, he married Mary A.
Hendee of Pittsford, Vermont. They have had
two children: Fred, who was born December 5,
1870, and died October 26, 1879; and Samuel
Sparhawk, born September 6, i86g.

R. O. STURTEVANT.

PITKIN, Clarence Horatio, Montpelier,
was born in East Montpelier, Verraont, August
26, 1849, eldest son of General Perley Peabody
Pitkin, who was a Colonel and Assistant Quar
termaster-General, and Chief Depot Quarter
master of the Army of the Potomac, at its
several bases of supply in the years 1863-64,
and later was for six years Quartermaster-
General of the State of Vermont, in which
capacity he rendered distinguished public
service. The mother of Clarence H. was
Caroline Matilda, daughter of James Templeton
of East Montpelier; and among his ancestors
were Stephen Pitkin, General Parley Davis,
and others of the first settlers in Montpelier
and neighboring towns. The subject of this

sketch was educated in the common schools and
in Washington county Grammar School in
Montpelier. He fitted for college in the latter
institution and entered Amherst College, where
he spent a year. Having selected the law as
his profession, he read law in the office of B.
F Fifield, Esq., and was admitted to the Bar at
the March term of the Washington county
Court in 1872. He commenced the practice of
his profession in the same year in Montpelier,
and followed it with ability and success, part of
the time by himself; then as a meraber of the
firm of Fifield, Pitkin & Porter; and from
1881 to i8go as a member of the law firm of
Pitkin & Huse. He was one of the Commis
sioners to whom was entrusted the important
task of editing and publishing the Revised
Laws of Vermont in 1880. He was State's
Attorney of Washington county 1880-82, and
was United States District Attorney for Ver
mont, under President Cleveland, from June
1887, to March 5, i88g, when he resigned the
office. In the following year he retired from
the practice of the law, and since i8gi has
been the Secretary and one of the Directors of
the Lane Manufacturing Company, of Montpe
lier. In politics he is affiliated with the Demo
cratic party, but is not a partisan politician.
He married Miss Katherine Lamora. They
have one child: Harold Pitkin. Since 1883 he
has resided on his farm in Berlin, adjoining
Montpelier.

WHITE, H. C, North Bennington, son of
John and Clarissa (Castle) White, was born in
North Bennington, December 25, 1847. After
receiving his education in the public schools of
his native town, he moved at the age of twenty-
one to the City of New York, where he entered
into partnership with B. G. Surdam for the
manufacture of stereoscopes and lenses. There
he remained four years, and after acquiring the
necessary skill he returned to his native town
where he started a similar line of business. In
1877 he removed to his present location where
he had erected a large plant, and successfully
carried on the business of manufacturing lenses,
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entire establishment was destroyed by fire, but
he immediately erected a larger plant and he
has ever since enjoyed an uninterrupted career
of prosperity. He has invented several
improvements in stereoscopes, which he
patented, gaining almost a monopoly of the
Stereoscopic business. Mr. White was united
in marriage with Maggie L., daughter of
William Watson, of Brooklyn, New York, and
they have had four children.

h. c. tinkham.

ROOT, Henry Green, Manufacturer, Ben
nington, was bom in Greenfield, Massachusetts,
September 18, 1818, son of Elisha and Betsey
(Moseley) Root. His early education was
received in the public schools ofhis native town,
and this was supplemented by a course of study
at Fellenburg and Deerfield Academies. At the
age of seventeen he entered the employ of
Boynton & Whitcomb, at Templeton, Massa
chusetts, to learn the manufacture of tinware.
Four years later he formed a partnership with

Luther R. Graves and soon after that date they
established themselves in Bennington under the
firm name of Graves & Root. This partnership
continued in existence for more than fifty years
and for a long period they were the largest manu
facturers of tinware in Vermont. They estab
lished the second National Bank instituted in
Vermont, with Mr. Graves as President and Mr.
Root as Vice-President, positions which they
have continued to occupy up to the present time.
Mr. Root took a prominent part in the Benning
ton Battle Monument Association's work and
was Chairman of the Executive Committee
having in charge the centennial celebration of
the famous battle at that place. He has been
for more than thirty years a Director of the
Vermont State Agricultural Society, and served
as President of that organization three years.
Formerly a Whig, he early cast his political
fortunes with the young Republican party, and
has been a staunch supporter of that party ever
since. He was for several years a member of
the State Republican Committee, of which he
was Chairman; and he represented his town
in the Legislature in 1850 and 1857. In i860
he was Presidential Elector at large from Ver
mont, and he voted for Abraham Lincoln, In
1866 he was elected to the State Senate, in
which body he served two terras. He has taken
an active part in the promotion of Vermont's
varied interests, and he is widely and favorably
known in all parts of the state. Since 1857
Mr. Root has been a member of the Congrega
tional church, of which for several years he has
been a Trustee. On December 23, 1846, Mr.
Root was united in marriage with Catharine L.,
daughter of Samuel H. and Sylvia (Squires)
Blackmer of Bennington. She died in Septem
ber 1887. Two children were born of their
union: Samuel H. Root and Catherine E. (Mrs.
William A. Root). On January 23, i88g, Mr.
Root married Mary A., daughter of Doctor
Nathan and Esther (Conkey) Gale of Orwell.

HALL, Alfred Allen, Attorney, St. Albans,
was born in Athens, Vermont, December 31,
1848, son of R. H. and Mary E. (Crowley) Hall.

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He is of New England ancestry and comes from
good Revolutionary stock. He received his
education in the common schools and at Leland
and Gray Seminary, Townshend, Vermont. He
read law with Davis & Adams of St. Albans,
and was admitted to the Bar of Franklin county
in April 1873. He was later admitted to prac
tice in the Supreme Court of Vermont and also
in the United States District and Circuit Courts.
In 1874 he formed a partnership with W D.
Wilson in St. Albans, and they have become
one of the best known and most successful law
firms in Northern Vermont. Colonel Hall has
taken an active part in promoting the public
interests of his town. He served as President
ofthe Board of Trustees in i88o-'8i,and for six
years he was a member of the School Board,
having served duringthe latter half of that period
as Chairman of the Board. For many years he
has been one of the Trustees of the Franklin
county Grammar School. He was Moderator of
the town for seven years, and for fifteen years
he has been Treasurer of the public library. He
was State's Attorney for Franklin county in
i882-'84, and served with marked ability. In
i8g2 he was elected to the State Senate and was
made President pro tempore of that body. In
June, 1893, he was appointed by the Governor
as Chairman of a commission for the revision of
the laws of Vermont, and this work was per
formed with marked credit to the state as well
as to the commission. He was a member of
the National Guard from 1876 to 1886; and in
1884 he was appointed Colonel and Aide-de-
Camp on Governor Pingree 's staff. Colonel
Hall's career as a Mason has been eminent and
successful. He is a Past Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Vermont, Past Grand High
Priest and Past Grand Coramander, having been
the first Mason in the state to receive all of
these honors. He has repeatedly represented
the various Masonic bodies of Verraont at the
national gatherings of the order throughout the
country, and has attained the Thirty-third and
highest degree in the Scottish Rite. Colonel
Hall was united in marriage, June 15, 1874, with
Abbie L., daughter of John H. and Loantha 2.
Austin, and they have, two children: Harry

Vaughn, born February 2, 1878 ; and Leroy
Austin Hall, born Augu.st 10, 1887.

E. A, SHATTUCK.

UPHAM, Edward F., Physician, Randolph,
son of Denslow and Adah (Richardson) Upham,
was born in Warren, Washington county, Ver
mont, January 29, 1825. He comes of Connecti
cut ancestry and is the seventh of a family of
eleven children, of whom Mr. Upham and his
sister, Mrs. John W. Dunklee, of Hotel Bruns
wick, Boston, are the only survivors. He was
educated in the public schools of Warren and
Waitsfield and in 1855 graduated from the Cas
tleton Medical School, at Castleton, Vermont.
He was a student of medicine and practiced
some in Lincoln and Ripton before graduating
from college. Upon leaving college he opened
an office in Pittsfield, Vermont, remaining there
nine years, and later practiced one year in Rut
land. He removed to Randolph in i860, where
he has since practiced with the exception of
three years which he spent in the South for the
benefit of his health. Doctor Upham has fur
nished valuable papers for the Vermont State
Medical Association, and has also contributed

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accounts of interesting and exceptional cases for
publication in medical and surgical works. He
has been President of the State Medical Society
several times and is a raeraber of the American
Medical Society and of the White River Valley
Medical Society. He was Pension Examining
Surgeon from 1863 to i88g, and has been Justice
of the Peace. He is a raember of the Masonic
fraternity and of the Congregational church. In
politics, he is a Republican. Doctor Upham
married Orlana Dodge of Lincoln, March 10,
1847. Their children were Adah Orlana, born
October 14, i84g, who died December 24, 1868;
and Edward Denslow, born June i, 1853, who
now resides in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Upham
died December 28, 1884, and December 14,
1890, he raarried as his second wife Emeline A.,
daughter ofthe late A. W. Tewksbury, of Ran
dolph.

S. H. SPARHAWK.

PEASE, Allen Luther, Merchant, Hart
ford, was born in that town, September 8, 1843,
son of Luther and Harriet (Cone) Pease. His
father was a successful and enterprising business

man in Hartford in the public affairs of which
town he was particularly prominent. The subject
of this sketch received his early education in the
common .schools and he also took a course in the
Kimball Union Academy of Meriden, New
Hampshire. Shortly after he reached man's
estate he eraigrated to Kansas where he engaged
in mercantile pursuits and became an active
participant in the stirring scenes of that period.
After remaining in that state six years, he
returned to Vermont and became a meraber of
the firm of L. Pease & Son of Hartford, dealers
in hardware and agricultural impleraents. This
successful business has been conducted a quarter
of a century, and during the past eighteen years
he has been the sole proprietor. He has also
been largely interested in real estate and has
erected many buildings, the Pease Hotel being
among the number. Mr. Pease has been a Director
of the White River Savings Bank and he was one
of the incorporators of the Capitol Savings Bank
and Trust Company of Montpelier. Mr. Pease, who
is an ardent Republican, was sent to the Legis
lature as Representative of his town in 1884,
and he served creditably having been a member
of the Committee on Corporations. In 1890 he
was chosen a State Senator from Windsor county,
and in the upper branch of the Legislature he
was Chairman of the State Prison Committee and
a member of the Committee on Claims. He
held the appointment of Postmaster from 1881 to
1884. He is an eminent member of the Masonic
fraternity in which he has taken a deep and
abiding interest for over thirty years. During
this period he has passed through the various
bodies of the craft, until he has attained the
Thirty-second degree. He has been Master of
Hartford Lodge, No. 19; he is a member of
Windsor Chapter No, 6, Royal Arch Masons; of
Windsor Council No. 8, Royal and Select
Masters; and of Vermont Commandery No. 4,
Knights Templar. On January 28, 1869, he
was united in marriage with Sophia M., daughter
of Chandler and Roxanna (Huntting ) Ward, of
Lawrence, Kansas.

BARRETT, Patrick J., Catholic Clergyman,
Burlington, was born in Saratoga, New York,

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267

December 25, 1857, sonof Patrick and Catherine
(O'SuUivan) Barrett. He received his early
education in the public and parochial schools of
Saratoga. Being early destined by his pious

PATRICK J. BARRETT.
parents for the priesthood ofthe Holy Catholic
Church, he pursued the studies preparatory to
that sacred calling at Manhattan College, New
York; and St. Charles College, EUicott City,
Maryland, and was ordained as a Priest, at
the Grand Seminary, Montreal, Province of
Quebec, on December 23, 1882. After taking
holy orders, he was for fourteen years engaged
in faithful and effective parochial work, in the
towns of Brandon, Shoreham, Orwell, Pittsford,
Proctor and Fairhaven, Vermont. His devotion
and fidelity won for him the approval of his
superiors, as well as the affection of the people
of the various parishes over which he was sta
tioned, and in 1896 he was appointed Rector of
the Cathedral Parish of the City of Burlington,
succeeding Very P,.everend Thomas Lynch in
that office. The Cathedral parish is, on various
accounts, the most important one in the Diocese
of Burlington, and has received the especial
favor of Pope Leo XIII, the cathedral having

the distinguished privilege of possessing a link
of the chain with which St. Peter was bound in
Jerusalem, which relic, held of priceless value
by the Catholic Church, was given by his Holi
ness to BLshop DeGoesbriand in 1894. Father
Barrett performs the duties of his responsible
position with marked efficiency, and possesses
the respect of all who know hira, among all
classes of the community.

BAXTER, John Nevers, was born at Sax
ton's River, in the town of Rockingham, Vermont,
May 18, 1822, third son of Horace and Elvira
(Webb) Baxter. He was a direct descendant
from Governor William Bradford, who came
over in the Mayflower and was Governor ofthe
Plymouth Colony. His father, Horace Baxter,
was a lawyer, Judge of Probate and leading
citizen of Windham county, Vermont. His
three sons all became prominent citizens, viz:
General Horace Henry Baxter, who was Adju
tant General of Vermont for the first part of the
Civil War, and eminent as a banker, railroad
builder and capitalist; Algernon Sydney, who
served on the staff of General U. S. Grant,
during the early part of the Civil War, and was
subsequently engaged in business in New York,
and later was extensively interested in the mar
ble business, in Chittenden county, and the
subject of this sketch. John N. Baxter received
his early education in the common schools and
at the Bellows Falls Academy, in his native
town. He entered the University of Vermont
in 1837, and graduated from it in the class of
1841. Among his associates in college were
Frederick Billings, Henry J. Raymond, Frede
rick E. Woodbridge, Member of Congress;
Dudley C. Denison, Member of Congress; Gov
ernor John Gregory Sniith; Reverend Doctor
W. G. T. Shedd; President Calvin Pease, and
other men of mark. He studied law in the
office of General John Nevers, after whora he
was naraed, in Northfield, Massachusetts, and
was admitted to the Bar. Various circumstan
ces, however, diverted him from the legal pro
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Rutland, Vermont, he became associated with judgment and high sense of honor; a courteous
Ins elder brother. General H. H. Baxter, in the gentleman and true man. He died at his home
management of the extensive marble property in Rutland I'ebruary lO. iSgS, after a week's
in West Rutland, owned by General Baxter, illness, deeply lamented in the community and
by all who knew him, Mr. Baxter married
Miss Sarah F'. Coffin, of Naniucket, Massachu
setts. Six children were the fruit of this union:
John Coftin, who died in his fifth year: Horace;
Edward Green: Mary Webb; David Nevins,
and Walter Folger Baxter.

J X. BAXTER.
which was subsequently incorporated under the
title ofthe Rutland Marble Company. Of this
he was the Manager for many years. Upon the
organization of the Baxter National Bank, iu
Rutland, he was appointed its Vice President
and held that position for fourteen vears. He
was the founder of the Merchants National
Bank of Rutland, and was its President from its
organization in 1885 to 1S9S. In the later years
of his life he was activel\- interested in the mar
ble business in Swanton. He owned one of the
finest farms in Rutland county, gave much atten
tion to agriculture, and was a Director in the
Vermont State ,\gricultural Society for man\-
years. He was a member of the Rutland His
torical Society. Mr. Baxter was a Republican
in politics but never sought or accepted any
political or civil office, preferring the retirement
of his pleasant home and the society of good
books in his large and well selected librar\-.
He was a man of cultivated tastes; a fine musi
cian and musical critic; a man of independent

BILLINGS, Frehkrick, lawyer. railroad man,
banker and public benefactor, was born in
Royalton, Vermont, September 27, 1823, son
of Oel and Sophia (Wetherbe) Billings. The
family dates in the direct line back to the time of
Henry 11 Land numbered among its distinguished
members Sir Thomas Billings, Knight, law
adviser to Edward IV, and, in 140S, Lord Chief
Justice ofthe King's Bench of England. William
Billiiis;. the first American ancestor, came to
the Massachusetts Colony about 1(150, Samuel
Billings of New London, Connecticut, great
grandfather of Frederick, was killed in 17S1 in
the defence of Fort Griswold. His son, John,
grandfather of Frederick, after a terra of service
in the War of the Revolution, came to Royalton,
Vermoiii. in 1 77S, settled there as a farmer, and
married Nancy, daughter of tunernor Jonas
Galusha of Vermont. On the mother's side
Frederick Billings was descended from Captain
Samuel Wetherbe, who was an active patriot in
the War of the Revolution, and from Captain
Isaac Farwell, who fought at Bunker Hill.
When Frederick Billings was twelve years old
he removed with his father to Woodstock, which
was thereafter the familv home. He fitted for
college at Meriden, New Hampshire, and
entered the University of Vermont, from which
he graduated in .\ugust, 1S44. After leaving
college he studied law in the oflice of Hon. O.
P. Chandler of Woodstock, aud was admitted to
the Windsor County Bar in 1S4S He was
appointed Secretary of Civil and Military affairs
of Vermont, in 1846, and held that office during
C^overnor Horace Eaton's two terms. In Feb
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the first law office in San Francisco. Later he
became a partner in the leading law firm of
Halleck, Peachy, Billings i\: Park, in that city,
of which General H. W. Halleck, subsecpiently
General-in-Chief of the United States Army and
Trenor W. Park were members. The firm was
dissolved in i86i. Mr. Billings wasan influen
tial actor in the formative period in the history of
California and active in defeating the conspira
tors who endeavored to detach California from
the Union at the outbreak ofthe Rebellion, and
in the establishment of law, order and the
institutions of education, religion and civil
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became a stable Christian Commonwealth.
Although peculiarly fitted for a public career,
Mr. Billings did not enter political life. He
held the responsible position of Attorney-Gen
eral of California in iS6i-2,but would accept
no other political olllce, although often pressed
to take nominations for such offices. He was
urged by the California delegation in Congress,
for a place in the Cabinet of President Lincoln,
and again, b\- the Legislature of California,
for a Cabinet office under President Johnson.
In 1S64, having acquired an ample fortune, he

returned to Vermont; purchased the Marsh
estate, in Woodstock; added largely to it by
successive purchases, and made it one of the
most spacious and elegant private places in
New England. Thereafter he took an active
interest in business and public affairs in Wood
stock and in New York city, where he had his
winter residence. In 1873, after the collapse of
the Northern Pacific Railroad Company under
Jay Cooke, Mr. Billings came to the rescue of
that great enterprise; brought in new capital,
became President of the company, restored its
credit and carried through the road to final com
pletion. He was one of the incorporators of the
Nicaragua Canal Corapany, and a Director and
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the
company. He was also a Director in the follow
ing corporations: American Exchange National
Bank, Farmers' Loan and Trust Company,
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, the
Manhattan Life Insurance Company, the Man
hattan Savings Institution, the Connecticut
River Railroad Company, the Vermont Valley
& Sullivan County Railroads, the Connecticut
tS: Passumpsic, and the Rutland Railroad
Companies. He was President of the Wood
stock Railroad Company and Woodstock
National Bank. He was a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Hospital
in New York and of other benevolent and
charitable organizations. He purchased and
gave to the University of Vermont the famous
library of Hon. George P. Marsh, and built for
it and the general library of the University the
beautiful Billings Library. He gave scholar
ships to Amherst College and to the Moody
School at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts;
rebuilt the "Old White Meeting House" in
Woodstock and added a Chapel, and gave liber
ally to charities and public objects. He was a
member of the Congregational Church of Wood
stock; of the Union League and Century Clubs
of New York, and of the New York Chamber of
Commerce. His force of character, ability and
enthusiastic spirit made him eminent and influ
ential in all his public and private relations,
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he was united in marriage with Julia, daughter
of Doctor Eleazor Parmly of New York city.
Seven children were the fruit of this union .
Parmly, who died in i8S8, Laura, Frederick,
Mary M , Elizabeth, Ehrick, who died in 18S9,
and Richard Billings.

BR-ADLEY, Jon.ath-^n Dorr, eldest son of
WUliam Czar and Sarah (Richards) Bradley, was
bora April 17, 1803, in the family residence at
Westminster, Vermont. He was of distinguished
lineage, being a descendant frora William
Bradley, who was an officer of Cromwell s
"Ironsides, "and came from England to the Con
necticut Colony previous to 1650. His grand
father, Stephen Rowe Bradley, came from Wal
lingford, Connecticut to Vermont about 177S.
and settled at Westminster; was one of the
founders of the State of Vermont; drew up
"Vermont's appeal to a Candid World." in vin
dication of her right to independence, issued in
December, 1779: was a General of militia; one
of the Commissioners to adjust the controversy
with New York; and one of thefirst two United
States Senators from Vermont, serving in that
capacity sixteen years. His father, William C.
Bradley, was one of Vermont's most distin
guished citizens, representing the state in
Congress 1S13-15 and 1823-27, being the Com
missioner on the part of the United States for
fixing the North Eastern boundary under the
Treaty of Ghent: and serving in the Legislature,
in the Council, as Presidential Elector, and
member of the Council of Censors, and in other
responsible offices; eminent in a high degree as
lawyer, legislator, statesman, orator and scholar.
J. Dorr Bradley was fitted for college by "Par
son" Crosby of Charlestown, New Hampshire,
and graduated from Yale College in the class of
1822. He read law in his father's office: was
admitted to the Bar of Windham County Court
at the September Term 1825; and commenced
practice first at Bellows Falls, removing after
wards, in 1832, to Brattleboro. He was never
in any sense a politician but was always active
io promoting what was for the public good. He
was interested in the schools of the town, the

asylum for the insane, and the railroad connect
ing with Boston. His sense of justice and right
was so clear that he could not look with satis
faction upon any law or custom by which any
human being of whatever color could be owned
by another: and he was naturally drawn towards
the great political parties of the country that
opposed the extension of slavery. He was a
promoter and perhaps a framer, of the call for
the Convention of those opposed to such exten
sion, which met in 1S55 at Newfane. Thus he
helped to establish that organization which
became the Republican party. In 1S56-57 he
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was potent in shaping many useful measures.
As a lawyer he dealt more with the science and
reason than with the precedents of the law. He
was early engaged in novel and important cases
to be wrought out upon principles rather than
previous examples. Prominent among these
cases were the construction of difficult wills,
the rights and privileges of mill owners in
streams: and the rights of owners of the water
of springs and wells. He was also versed in
the principles of equity as adrainistered by the
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both in his own state and in other states. He
was learned in mathematics and mechanics, as
well as in languages and the sciences; and was
a good mechanical, as well as legal draftsman.
He made applications for patents, with the
drawings of inventions. His knowledge and
skill brought hira into practice in the United
States Courts. In his dealings he knew no way
but that of the most strict uprightness, and he
had the confidence of all in his unbending hon
esty and integrity. He died September 9, 1862.
At the following terra of the United States
Court, resolutions drawn by Hon. Edward J.
Phelps were offered which declared that "We
shall cherish in unfading and gratified reraem-
brance, what none who knew him would will
ingly forget, his distinguished abilities as an
advocate, his varied and elegant acquirements
as a scholar, his genial and attractive qualities
as a man. And shall recall with a sad pleasure
in the scenes from which he has departed, those
professional labors which we shared with him,
enriched on his part by learning so coraplete,
by wit so rare, and sense so fine, and inspired
always by so thorough an appreciation of what
belongs to the lawyer and the gentleman. ' ' He
was married, August n, 1829, to Susan M.
Crossman. Of their children: William C,
librarian ofthe Brattleboro Free Library; Rich
ards, of Brattleboro; Stephen Rowe, of Nyack,
New York, and Arthur C. Bradley, of Newport,
New Harapshire. survive hira.

troubles arising from disputes concerning the New
Hampshire grants, the Canfields, Hawleys,
Hards, Aliens and Bakers were the most promi
nent leaders in the struggle. Thomas H.
Canfield was brought up on a farm and his edu
cation was received in the common schools of his
native town. Evincing a strong desire for a more
complete education, he was placed in the Burr
and Burton Seminary of Manchester, where he
remained until he was fitted for college at the age
of fourteen. Not desiring to begin his under
graduate course at this early age, he worked for
two years on his father's farm, after which he was

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CANFIELD, Thomas Hawley, was born in
Arlington, Vermont, March 29, 1822, son of
Samuel and Mary A. (Hawley) Canfield. He
was descended on his father's side from Thomas
Canfield, a descendant of James de Philo, a
French Huguenot, who came from Yorkshire,
England, to Milford, Connecticut, in 1646; while
his niaternal ancestor was Joseph Hawley, who
was born in England early in the seventeenth
century and emigrated to Stratford, Connecticut,
where he died in 1690. Nathan Canfield, a great-
grandson of Thomas Canfield, removed to Arling
ton, Vermont, in 1768. He was the grandfather
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transferred to the Troy Episcopal Institute. He
was inclined to pursue a scientific course, but
Bishop Alonzo Potter, then acting President of
Union College, Schenectady, persuaded him to
abandon his idea of becoming an engineer, and
he entered Union College as a Junior in the fall
of 1839. Before he had completed his college
cour.se he was summoned to Vermont by the
sudden death of his father, to care for his widowed
mother and only sister, and he again took up the
burden of farm life. Finding agricultural labor
too severe for his slender constitution, he removed
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chant. In the same year Mr. Canfield married
Elizabeth A., only daughter of Eli Chittenden, a
grandson of the first Governor of Vermont. She
died in 1848, and he subsequently espoused Car
oline A., daughter of the Right Reverend John
Henry Hopkins, first Bishop of Vermont, by
whom he had three daughters and two sons:
Emily, John Henry Hopkins, Marian, Flora and
Thomas H. Canfield, Jr. In 1847 Mr. Canfield
removed to Burlington and became a member of
the firm of Bradley & Canfield, who carried on
large wholesale stores and warehouses on the
wharf at Burlington , and ran lines of boats to New
York and Montreal. About this time. Professor
Morse having brought his telegraph into opera
tion, Mr. Canfield visited Vergennes, Orwell,
Middlebury, Rutland and many other towns
along the line, securing stock and organizing a
company to operate a wire connecting those
places with Troy, New York, and Montreal. In
the following year, 1849, the firm of Bradley &
Canfield, with two or three other parties, became
interested in the construction of a railroad from
Bellows Falls to Burlington by way of Rutland,
which was completed December 19, in that year.
He was also engaged in conjunction with others
in constructing the Rutland & Washington, the
Ogdensburg, as well as various other railways in
New York and Pennsylvania. Owing to the
knowledge of transportation he had acquired, the
services of Mr. Canfield were eagerly sought as
Superintendent and afterward as President of the
Rutland & Washington Railroad, of which he
subsequently took a lease, operating the line on
his own account. He took an active part in the
struggle over connecting Bo.ston and Burlington
by railway through the construction of connecting
links, and when the Rutland road found itself cut
off at Burlington the firm of Bradley & Canfield
within ninety days constructed a steamer and four
barges with a capacity of three thousand barrels
of flour each, and towed them between Burlington
and Rouses Point, thus enabling the Rutland line
to compete with the Vermont Central. He next
established a line of propellors between Ogdens
burg and the upper Great Lakes, which opened
up for the first time a route by the Lakes and the
St. Lawrence for those products of the West,

which had hitherto found their outlet through the
Erie Canal and roads from Albany. While en
gaged in this enterprise Mr. Canfield formed the
acquaintance of Mr. Edwin F. Johnson, an expe
rienced engineer, and from information obtained
from that gentleman relative to the country
between the Great Lakes and the Pacific he
became impressed with the importance of a rail
road across the continent by the northern route
and determined to devote his life to the accom
plishment of that object. As an initial step he
contracted with others, in 1852, before there was
any railroad into Chicago from the East, to build
what is now known ¦as the Chicago & North
western Railroad, from Chicago to St. Paul,
Minnesota, and to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. As
a result of Mr. Canfield's agitation ofthe subject
of transcontinental routes the government sent
out three great Pacific railroad expeditions, and
the construction of the different Pacific railroads
followed. During the war Mr Canfield was
Assistant General Manager of transportation of
the armies of the United States and he had charge
of the railroads about Washington. In connection
with his labors in that position Mr. Canfield,
with the assistance of United States Senator
Solomon Foot, received permission from the Gov
ernment to raise a cavalry regiment in Vermont,
and the result of their labors was that Colonel L.
B. Piatt, with the First Regiment Vermont
Cavalry, mounted, armed and equipped, reported
for duty within sixty days at Washington, and
the regiment rendered service during the war
second to that of no other regiment in the Union
Army. After the close of the war Mr. Canfield
was for several years Superintendent of the
steamers on Lake Champlain, but his thoughts
were more or less absorbed with his favorite pro
ject until he conceived and organized a syndicate
for the construction of the Northern Pacific Rail
road. He performed prodigious labors in connec
tion with the selection of the route for that line,
and it is not a little remarkable that the route
shown to capitalists by him was, after subsequent
instrumental surveys, adopted by the company.
In spite of the bitter opposition of rival lines and
the narrow escape from the loss of charter, which
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Canfield, triumphant success finally crowned his
efforts and the Northern Pacific Railroad was
completed. How much this line has accom
plished for the great Northwest is now known of
all men, and the future will but add to the signi
ficance of Mr. Canfield's great achievement. Mr.
Canfield held strongly to the belief that within
half a century there will be but one English-
speaking nation in North America, and that
under a Republican form of government extend
ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the
Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic ocean. He there
fore devoted a large amount of tirae and money to
the furtherance ofthe project of a great interna
tional deep water route between the Great Lakes
and the Atlantic Ocean to be constructed under
the joint au.spices of the United States and
Canada. Through his efforts largely, commis
sioners were appointed by both governments and
preliminary surveys have already been made.
Mr. Canfield was an enthusiastic advocate of the
St. Lawrence, Lake Champlain and Hudson
River route, and the report of the commissioners
as a result of preliminary surveys goes far to
justify the claims of Mr. Canfield as to the
superior merits of this route over all others.
After his retirement from active railroad manage
ment Mr. Canfield devoted more or less time to
the supervision ofhis large farm at Lake Park,
Minnesota, but his attention was also directed to
the furtherance ofthe interests ofthe great public
projects which have always been near to his heart.
At different times he was actively engaged in
political matters, but he always refused to accept
political office of any kind. Arriving at his
majority when the old Whig party was promi
nent, his first vote was cast for its nominees and
he continued to be identified with it until it was
succeeded by the Republican party with which he
ever afterward affiliated. Few men had a more
extensive acquaintance than Mr. Canfield with
the prorainent men of the country, whether in
politics or business; and his knowledge of affairs
was thorough as well as comprehensive. Mr.
Canfield was an active member of the Protestant
Episcopal church, and naturally so. He was
born in the house of his grandfather, Nathan
Canfield, in Arlington, who was the first lay

delegate to the first convention ofthe Diocese of
Vermont organized at Arlington, 1790. His
maternal great-grandfather. Captain Jehiel Haw
ley, officiated as lay reader and maintained the
service of the church from 1764, which was the
first service of the Episcopal church in Vermont.
The two men named built the first church in Ver
mont, and in that church Thomas H. Canfield
was baptized by old "Priest" Bronson in 1823.
He attended every convention of the Diocese for
about forty-five years and in all of these except
ten or .so he was Secretary of the organization.
He was one of the original incorporators and
Trustees of the Vermont Episcopal Institute at
Burlington, chartered in 1854, and for twenty-
eight years he had charge of the funds of that
institution. He was mainly instrumental in the
erection of Bishop Hopkins Hall for the purpose
of a church school for young ladies, and he so
ably managed the finances of the establishment
that the Diocese of Vermont now possesses this
beautiful property of one hundred and fifty acres
on the banks of Lake Champlain, upon which the
new Episcopal residence stands. Mr. Canfield
was also active in raising funds for the erection of
a building for Trinity Chapel, Winooski, and the
Episcopal church at Brainerd, Minnesota; and he
also furnished sites for churches at Moorehead,
and Lake Park, Minnesota; Bismarck, North
Dakota, and Kalama, Washington. He repre
sented the Diocese of Vermont in the general con
ventions of the church in the United States, held
in Philadelphia in 1856, in Richmond, Virginia,
in 1859, in New York in 1874, in Boston in 1877,
and in Chicago in 1886. Few men had a more
busy life than Mr. Canfield. During his active
business career of over fifty-five years he never
took a day specially for recreation, but found his
enjoyment in the work in which he was engaged,
believing thereby that he was the source of some
good to his fellow men and to his country. He
was generous almost to a fault, a firm and true
friend to those who gained his confidence, and
many are the men in different parts of the country
who are indebted to him for early aid and assis
tance. In conclusion it may be truly said, as
Reverent Doctor Wickham of Manchester so
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boast of her Edmunds, the leader of the United
States Senate, and of Phelps, the eminent jurist
and distinguished representative of the United
States at the Court of St. James, she has not
another citizen that has honored her more than
Thomas H. Canfield." Mr. Canfield died sud
denly at Lake Park, Minnesota, in January,
1897.

CANNON, LeGrand Bouton, Burlington,
was born in New York city, November i, 1815,
son of LeGrand and Esther (Bouton) Cannon.
The patronymic is derived from a distinguished
Huguenot family, of Dijon, France. An ances
tor, Jean Canon, as the name was originally
spelled, emigrated to England, and thence, in
1632, to Westchester county. New York, and
engaged in foreign shipping in New York city.
His son, John Cannon, married a daughter of
Pierre LeGrand, a fellow meraber of the Hugue
not settleraent. Colonel Cannon's mother,
Esther Bouton, was also descended frora a dis
tinguished Huguenot family, hereditary senes
chals of the French fortresses of Dole. Colonel
Cannon is the inheritor of the old records of his
faraily and of the ancient family plate, used in
France three hundred and fifty years ago. His
father, LeGrand Cannon, was a prominent citizen
of Troy, New York, the founder of the extensive
iron rolling mills in that city, and builder of
Cannon Place Block, bearing his name. Le
Grand B. Cannon was educated at the Rensselaer
(later Polytechnic) Institute of Troy. After
graduating from this in 1834 he was for twelve
years engaged in successful mercantile business
in Troy. In 1850 he removed to New York
city, becoming interested in various important
business enterprises. In 1854 he took an active
part in the reorganization of the railroad between
Saratoga and Whitehall, of the bonds of which
he was a heavy owner, and after its purchase
under foreclosure ,the management of the prop
erty was delegated to him and was conducted
by him with marked ability and success. Through
his connection with that enterprise he became
interested in the Champlain Transportation
Corapany, which owned the steamboats on Lake

Champlain. He and his a.ssociates acquired a
controlling interest in the Steamboat Company,
and for nearly forty years he was its President and
master spirit. Under his energetic management
the line became a most profitable property.
Upon the absorption of the Saratoga & Whitehall
Railroad Corapany by the Rensselaer & Saratoga
Corapany, and after the purchase of the control
of the latter company and of the Champlain
Transportation Corapany by the Delaware &
Hudson Canal Corapany, Mr. Cannon entered
the direction of the latter corapany, and became
its Vice President. At times the chief manage
ment of that great company devolved upon him,
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the great strike of 1887, with an energy, determin
ation and ability which won the highest praise.
Subsequently Colonel Cannon became officially
connected with various allied transportation and
raanufacturing enterprises. He has been Presi
dent of the Lake George Steamboat Company;
of the Crown Point Iron Company; of the Cham
plain Valley Agricultural Association; and a
Director in a number of banking and other com
panies. Upon the outbreak of the Civil War
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ization of the Union Defence Coraraittee of New
York, which took such an important part in the
support of the Government at the most critical
period in its history. He was at once called
into active railitary service. He had served upon
the staff of Major-General John E. Wool, when
the latter was in command upon the Northern
border of Vermont, during the Canadian rebel
lion of 1838. In April 1861, General Wool was
in command of the Department of the East, and
when President Lincoln's first call for troops
appeared, he again called Mr. Cannon to his
side. He was appointed an Aide on the staff of
the General; assisted in the equipment of troops
and other measures of defence at New York;
accompanied General Wool to Fortress Monroe,
when he was placed in command of the Depart
ment of Virginia, and was formally appointed
Aide-de-Canip on his staff with the rank of
Major, being subsequently promoted to the rank
of Colonel. In that capacity of confidential aid
and Chief-of Staff to General Wool, Colonel
Cannon rendered important service during the
first year of the War. As a meraber of the
Military Coramission appointed to consider the
condition of the "contrabands" who were flock
ing into the lines at Fortress Monroe, he drew
up a report, which was adopted and carried out
in orders which practically emancipated the
negroes, whether in the military or civil service
ofthe United States, nine months before the
issuance of President Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclaraation. He witnessed the fight between
the Monitor and Merrimac ; was on board the
Monitor just before the action and again before
her decks were cleared after it, and at the
request of the Navy Department wrote an account
of that historic fight which was published in
pamphlet and in the American Cyclopedia of
1876. Colonel Cannon was one ofthe founders
and later Vice-President of the Union League
Club of New York. An earnest Republican
from the first organization of the party, he has
been repeatedly solicited to accept political
offices ; but declined them with the exception
of the office of Presidential Elector in 1880. In
1866 he was nominated for Congress by the
Republicans ofthe Eighth Congressional district

of New York ; and though he declined the nom
ination, was voted for with the result that the
Democratic raajority in the district was cut down
one-half. In 1885 he was prohiinently urged
for Governor of New York, but did not allow
the use of his name as a candidate. In 1872 he
was Chief Provisional Coraraissioner to the
International Exposition in Vienna, and he has
held other offices of responsibility and trust.
He spends six raonths of the year at "Overlake",
overlooking Lake Charaplain, in Burlington,
which has been his home for nearly forty years
and is one of the most spacious and beautiful
private places in New England. He has also
an extensive farm in Shelburne, Vermont, and
has taken much interest in the improvement of
horses and cattle, and of agricultural methods
in Vermont. He has been a member of the
Board of Trustees of the University of Verraont,
and is a Vestryman in St. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Burlington. Colonel Cannon was
married to Miss Mary B. DeForest, who died in
1871. Four children were the fruit of their
union: Grace, now Mrs. Chester Griswold;
Esther Edith, who becarae Mrs. Horace F.
Brookes ; Marie, wife of Louis Crawford Clark ;
and Harry LeGrand Cannon, who died, much
lamented, in 1895.

CHASE, TrESCOTT Abel, Bradford, was
bom in Fletcher, Vermont, October 9, 1832,
son of Newton and Regina (Burdict) Chase.
His father reraoved to Jay, Vermont, and the
subject of this sketch was residing in that town,
and was Superintendent of Schools when the
War ofthe Rebellion broke out. He enlisted,
in June 1861, in Corapany B, of the Third
Regiraent of Vermont Volunteers. He was
appointed First Sergeant of that Company. In
December 1862, he received an honorable dis
charge, for disability incurred in the service.
Returning to Jay, he established hiraself in
business as a general merchant. He repre
sented the town in the Legislature, 1870-71;
was Postmaster, 1870-73; and held the offices
of Clerk and Treasurer of the town. For years
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mont, where he holds the office of Postmaster.
He represented Bradford in the General Assem
bly in i8g7. He is a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic. He married Flora A.
FoUansby, of Guildhall, Vermont, and they have
three sons: Frederick B., Frank P. and Tres-
cott A. Chase.

CLARK, Charles Edgar, Commander of the
United States battleship Oregon, and hero of the
naval battle of Santiago, is, like Admiral George
Dewey, a native Vermonter. He was born in
Bradford, Orange county, August 10, 1843, son
of James Dayton and Mary (Sexton) Clark. His
father was a book-binder and his mother the
daughter of Major Dwight Sexton, a soldier of
the War of 181 2, who conducted an iron foundry
in Bradford for many years. Charles Edgar
received his early education in the district school
and at the Bradford Academy. In September
i860, through United States Senator Justin S.
Morrill, he was appointed a cadet in the United
States Naval Academy. Graduating therefrom
with credit, October i, 1863, he was at once
ordered into active service, with the rank of
Ensign. He was under Admiral Farragut until
the close ofthe Civil War, being attached to the
Sloop Ossipee ofthe western blockading squadron.
He took part in the battle of Mobile Bay and in
the attack upon and capture of Fort Morgan. He
was also in numerous minor engagements on the
Mississippi River and on the coast of Texas. He
was made Master ill November 1866; Lieutenant
in P'ebruary 1867; and Lieutenant-Commander
in March 1868. After the close of the Civil
War he was on duty on the Pacific and West
India stations. He was attached to the flagship
of Commodore Rodgers of the Pacific Squadron
and witnessed several engagements between the
Spanish fleet and the Peruvian batteries. He
was on the United States ship Suwanee when that
vessel was lost near thecoast of British Columbia,
July 7, 1868, and was left in command of the
party to protect from the Indians what had been
saved from the wreck. In 1869-70 he served on
the Seminole and the ironclad Dictator, in the
North Atlantic. He was on duty at the Navy
Yards at Brooklyn, New York, and Portsmouth,

New Hampshire, from 1870 to 1873, and later
was an instructor in the United States Naval
Academy. He served on the Asiatic station from
1873 to 1877 on the Hartford, Monocacy and
Kearsarge. He was on duty for the next three
years at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He was
commissioned Commander November 15, 1881,
and placed in charge of the training ship New
Hamp.shire. He made a survey of the North
Pacific coast from 1883 to 1886, and served as
lighthouse inspector from 1887 to 1891. He was
stationed at the Mare Island Navy Yard from
1 89 1 to 1893, later was in command of the
Mohican and still later of the receiving ship
Independence. He was promoted to be Captain
June 24, 1896, and assigned to the command of
the Monitor Monterey. He was transferred to
the battle ship Oregon in March 1898, and took
his ship from San Francisco to join the Atlantic
Squadron, passing through the straits of Magellan,
and up the coast of South America, and arriving
on the coast of Florida, with his ship in perfect
condition, fit to go into action or to start on a
similar fourteen thousand mile voyage. Joining
the fleet under Commodore Sampson, off Santiago
de Cuba, he took a part second to that of no
other commander in the destruction of the
Spanish fleet, July 3, 1898. With his powerful
thirteen-inch guns he engaged in succession each
ofthe four Spanish cruisers, and by a wonderful
burst of speed overtook, engaged, and caused the
surrender ofthe pride of the Spanish Navy, the
Cristobal Colon. The Oregon, under him, was
engaged in the bombardment of Santiago, prece
ding the surrender of the city. His health hav
ing become impaired by the long strain of his
voyage and arduous service following, he was in
August 1898 relieved from the command of the
Oregon, and is at present on sick leave, with a
prospect of speedy restoration to health and duty.
In every station and duty to which he has been
assigned he has borne himself with the highest
efficiency and credit, and he bears his honors
with a modesty equal to his bravery.

COTTERILL, George Washington, Attor
ney, New York city, was born in Montpelier,
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Catherine Edmonds (Couch) Cottrill. The
family is an old and highly respected one in Ver
mont. His father, bom in Bridport, Vermont, in
1797, (the son of Patrick Cottrill) was one of the
proprietors ofthe great central stage line between
Burlington and Boston, famous in its day as the
best appointed line of stages in the country, and
an extensive Mail Contractor, and later one of the
active promoters of the Vermont Central Railroad
Company. No man in Verraont had a wider
acquaintance or possessed more fully the respect of
all who knew him. Mrs. Cottrill, the mother of
George W. ,was a native of Bath, New Hampshire,

GEORGE W. COTTERILL.
a lineal descendant from the two widely known
families of Edmunds and Couch, of that state, being
related also to the Lee family of Virginia and to
the late Judge WiUiam E. Curtis of New York
city. The subject of this sketch received his
early education in the .schools and acaderay of
his native town. He fitted for college in the
latter and entered the University of Vermont,
from which he graduated in 1847. Selecting the
law as his profession, he pursued his legal studies
in the office of the leading firm of Peck & Colby,
in Montpelier, which had at the time a larger
practice than any other law firm in Vermont.

He was admitted to the Bar of Washington
county in 1850, retaining his connection with
Peck & Colby, and in conducting cases frequently
met in court three young lawyers, who subse
quently won National fame — viz : Matt Carpenter,
who became United States Senator from Wiscon
sin; Edward J. Phelps, United States Minister to
the Court of St. James, and George F. Edmunds
who for twenty -five years represented Vermont
in the United States Senate. In 1855 Mr. CotteriU
removed to New York city, where he became
connected with the German law firm of Ludwig,
Smith & Finke, which was, at that time, with a
single exception, the only firm of German law
practitioners in New York city, and had very
extensive practice among the German population
of the metropolis. For such an association Mr.
CotteriU had fitted himself by careful study of the
German language and literature, commenced in
college and continued assiduously in subsequent
years. Later he formed a partnership in New
York with his younger brother, the late Jed P. C.
CotteriU, who was aftewards a leading lawyer in
Milwaukee. This partnership was dissolved upon
the removal of the younger partner to Wisconsin,
and since then Mr. CotteriU has conducted his
extensive practice alone. Among his clients for
many years, have been numbered such concerns
as William Steinway & Sons, several German
banks, and various heavy insurance companies.
He was the counsel of the Underwriters' Agency,
organized by Mr. Alexander Stoddard, and com
posed of the four important companies, the Ger-
mania, Hanover, Niagara and Republic, which
for a time carried on a joint business. The
extensive litigations following the withdrawal of
the Hanover and Germania Companies, was con
ducted with marked ability and success by Mr.
CotteriU, resulting in decisions favoring his con
tentions that the business and good-will of the
Underwriters' Agency was the property of Mr.
Stoddard. Mr. CotteriU reorganized the well
known German Society, ' ' The Lieder Kranz ' ' of
New York, of which he is a member and its
counsel, and he has other heavy clients. He has
been for more than thirty years a member of the
Union League Club, and is a member of the New
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and Insurance Clubs, of that city and of the New
York Fish and Game Association. He has a
summer cottage on Schroon Lake, in the Adi-
rondacks. He was married in 1881 to Cordelia
Jarvis of New York.

DEWEY, George, Rear Admiral in the
United States Navy, and hero of Manila, in
the late War with Spain, was born in Montpelier,
Vermont, December 26, 1837. He is the son of
Doctor Julius Y. and Mary (Perrin) Dewey, and
he is descended in the eighth generation from
Thomas Dewey, who came frora Sandwich,
Kent, England, to America and settled in Dor
chester, Massachusetts, in 1633. George Dewey
received his early education in the local schools
in his native town; at the academy in Johnson,
Vermont; and at Norwich University. At the
close of his first year in the latter institution,
he was appointed a cadet in the United States
Naval Academy, and graduated in 1858, with
high rank in his class. He saw his first sea
service as Passed Midshipman on the steam
frigate Wabash, attached to the Mediterranean
Squadron. April ig, 1861, he was commissioned
as Lieutenant, and from 1861 to 1863 served
under Farragut on the steam sloop Mississippi
ofthe West Gulf Squadron. He took part in
the capture of New Orleans in 1862, and of
Port Royal in 1863. He distinguished himself
at Port Hudson, March 14, 1863, when the Mis
sissippi grounded under the fire of the enemy's
batteries and was fired and blown up by her
commander, to prevent her capture. Subse
quently he served on the Agawam, ofthe North
Atlantic Squadron, and participated in the two
naval attacks on Fort Fisher, in 1864-65. He
was promoted Lieutenant- Commander, March
3, 1865, and a year later became Executive
Officer of the Kearsage, which had won world
wide fame by destroying the Confederate cruiser,
Alabama. Later he served on the frigate Col
orado, flagship of the European Squadron. On
returning to the United States, in 1868, he was
detailed for duty at the United States Naval
Academy at Annapolis, where he remained two
years. In 1870, he was assigned to the com-

raand of the Narrangansett, and on April 13,
1872, he was commissioned as Commander.
From 1872 to 1875 Commander Dewey served
on the Pacific Survey. He became Light House
Inspector in 1876, and was Secretary of the
Light House Board from 1877 to 1882. In the
latter year he was assigned to the coraraand of
the Juniata, of the Asiatic Squadron. In 1884
he was promoted to be Captain and took com
mand of the Dolphin, and afterwards of the
Pensacola, flagship of the European Squadron.
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Equipraent and Recruiting, with the rank of
Coraraodore, and was commissioned Commodore
February 28, i8g6. Frora 1893 to 1895 he was
a member of the Light House Board. In 1896
and 1897 he was President of the Inspection and
Survey Board. On November 30, 1897, he was
assigned to the Asiatic station and assumed com
mand of it January 3, 1898. The War with Spain
was then impending, and the selection of Commo
dore Dewey for this important distant command,
showed the confidence of the Navy Department
in his capacity, courage, resolution and wisdom.
In the exhibition of these qualities he has
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18, i8g8, he wrote in a private letter: "We
are waiting for the declaration of war. I have
seven ships ready for action. If war is the word
I believe we will make short work of the Span
ish rule in the Phillipines. " Soon after the
declaration of war he was notified by the
Chinese government that under the neutrality
rules his fleet could not remain in Chinese waters.
His nearest available coaling station was Hon
olulu. He had to capture a harbor and coaling
station, or suffer disaster. He was equal to the
emergency and the opportunity. He sailed
from Mirs Bay, near Hong Kong, with the
Olympia, his flagship, the Boston, Baltimore,
Concord, Monocacy, Raleigh and Petrel. In
the early morning of May ist he took his squad
ron past batteries aud over submarine mines
into the Bay of Manila, and there engaged and
utterly destroyed the Spanish fleet of eleven
ships of war, and silenced the Cavite forts, with
a total loss to his own force of seven men
wounded; and a loss to the Spanish of four hun
dred killed and six hundred wounded. For this
achievement, unprecedented as to some of its
features in the history of naval warfare, Con
gress voted to him the thanks of Congress and
of the Araerican people and a .sword of honor,
and he was immediately promoted to the rank
of Rear Admiral, the highest iu the United
States naval service. During the trying period
following this occupation of Manilla Bay,
involving delicate duties, owing to the presence
of a German fleet in open sympathy with Spain
and the peculiar relations with the Phillipine
insurgents, Dewey held his mastery ofthe situa
tion, up to the closing battle of the war, resulting
in the capture of the City of Manila, by his
fleet and the land forces of the United States,
on August 13, i8g8. Throughout he con
ducted hiraself and his coraraand with a dignity,
tact and practical wisdom, which have won
for him universal admiration and praise, from
friends and foes, on both sides of the Atlantic.
He has been showered with honors in the shape
of degrees from American Colleges, resolutions
of thanks, and honorary membership of societies
and clubs, and wears his laurels with a modesty
equal to his bravery. Rear Admiral Dewey is

a member of the Army and Navy and Metropoli
tan Clubs of Washington, District of Columbia,
and of the University Club of New York. Octo
ber 24, 1867, he was married to Miss Susan
Goodwin, (daughter of Governor Goodwin of
New Hampshire) who died December 28, 1872,
five days after the birth of a son, George
Goodwin Dewey, who graduated at Princeton
College, and is a commission merchant in New
York city.

DODGE, Grenville Mellen, Civil Engineer,
New York, was born in Putnamville, Danvers,
Massachusetts, April 12, 1831, son of Sylvanus
and Julia T. (Phillips) Dodge. His early edu
cational advantages were quite liraited, as he
had the benefits of the common schools only
during winters. P'rora the time he was ten years
of age he largely maintained himself, driving a
butcher's cart during the summer and in the
winter time caring for his father's bookstore,
which was attached to the Postoffice in South
Danvers, his father being Postmaster at that
tirae. From 1840 to 1844 he had charge of the
fruits and vegetables on the celebrated farm of
Mrs. Edward Lander, marketing the products in
Salem, He devoted his leisure hours to study
and to fitting himself for college. During the
winter of 1845-6 he attended Durham Academy,
New Hampshire, and in 1846 he entered Nor
wich University, Vermont, taking the military
and scientific course. He graduated from the
college as a civil engineer in 1850, and from
Captain Partridge's Military School in Norwich,
in 185 1, taking his diploma in the scientific
course. He immediately went West and located
in Peru, Illinois, where for a part of the year he
was engaged in city and land surveys. In the
winter of 1851 he entered the service of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, and was
employed in making surveys for that road
between Dixon and Bloomington, Illinois. He
then secured a position in the engineer corps of
the Rock Island Railroad and soon afterward
was entrusted with the survey of the Peoria
branch of that system. While here he wrote a
letter home, which was published, prophesying

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the building of the first great Pacific Railroad,
and indicating its general line across the conti
nent, a line which in later years he was to help
build and make a national .success. Under the
direction of Mr. Dey he made the surveys of
the Mississippi & Missouri, now the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, from Davenport,
Iowa, to Council Bluffs ; and he was assistant
engineer during the construction of the road
from Davenport to Iowa City. In 1853 he raade
a reconnaissance west of the Missouri river with
a view of deterraining the location of a Pacific
Railroad, and the bill authorizing the construc
tion of the Union Pacific Railroad, which was

G. M. DODGE.
adopted by Congress in 1862, was largely based
upon his surveys and reports. November 11,
1854, he moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa, and
engaged in mercantile pursuits. Later he estab
lished the banking house of Baldwin & Dodge,
which was finally merged in the Pacific National
Bank with Mr. Dodge as President. This bank
is now the Council Bluffs Savings Bank, of
which his brother, N. P. Dodge, is President.
This experience was of great value to him in
later years, being used with good results during
the Indian campaign of 1865-6 and during the

construction of the Union Pacific and the Texas
& Pacific Railroads. During the years from
1853 to i860 he continued his surveys for the
Union Pacific Railroad under the patronage of
Henry Farnham and Thomas C. Durant, and was
connected with all the railroad interests in Iowa
and Nebraska. In 1856 he organized and equip
ped the Council Bluffs Guards, of which he was
elected Captain, and in 1861 he tendered its
service to the Governor of Iowa, it being one of
the first companies in the state to offer itself for
service under the call for troops for the suppres
sion ofthe rebellion. The offer was declined,
however, for the reason that it was not deemed
expedient in the then state of public feeling to
withdraw any troops from the western border of
Iowa. In the spring of 1861, Governor Kirk-
wood appointed Captain Dodge upon his staff
and sent him to Washington, where the latter
by his energy and zeal obtained what the mem
bers of Congress could not for the state, viz :
six thousand stands of arms, with ammunition.
The war department, recognizing his ability and
vigor, offered him a captaincy in the regular
army, but he declined. The Secretary of War,
Simon Cameron, then telegraphed the Governor
of Iowa, asking that Captain Dodge be made
Colonel of an Iowa regiment. Governor Kirk-
wood responded by making him Colonel of the
Fourth Iowa Infantry, and authorizing him to
recruit and complete the organization of the
regiment at Council Bluffs. In two weeks time
Colonel Dodge was leading his command against
the rebels in Northern Missouri. When the
Army of the Southwest was organized under
Generals. R. Curtis, Colonel Dodge was assigned
to the command of the Fourth Brigade, Fourth
Division, and he led the advance in the capture
of Springfield, Missouri. He was wounded in
this campaign, at the Battle of Pea Ridge, and
was made Brigadier-General, but he soon recov
ered, and November 15, 1862, was assigned to
the command of the Second Division of the
Array of the Tennessee. General Dodge opened
the carapaign of 1863, after important prelimi
nary work, by defeating the Confederate forces
under P^orrest, Roddy, Ferguson and others.
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Grant recommended that General Dodge be
promoted to the rank of Major-General, in recog
nition of his services while stationed at Corinth.
With two divisions of the Sixteenth Army Corps
he joined General Sherman at Chattanooga, May
4, 1864, at the opening of the Atlanta campaign,
and his corps took part in all the battles up to
Atlanta and Jonesboro, Georgia. He was suc
cessful in raany brilliant engagements, and his
ability was recognized by the general govern
ment in his promotion. May 22, 1864, to the rank
of Major-General. August ig, 1864, General
Dodge fell dangerously wounded in front of
Atlanta, and he was sent North as soon as he
was able to be moved. After his recovery he
was assigned to the command of the Department
of Missouri, relieving General Rosecrans, De
ceraber 2, 1864. After a successful campaign
General Dodge was assigned to the command of
all the United States forces serving in Kansas,
Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Montana and Dakota,
west of the Missouri river, and personally taking
command of these troops, he fought the Indian
campaigns which increased his fame. At the
conclusion of this campaign at his earnest request
he was relieved of his command, and on May
30, 1866, his resignation was accepted. In July
1866, the Republicans of the Fifth Congressional
District of Iowa nominated General Dodge for
Congress, an honor which was entirely unsought.
In Washington he was recognized as an authority
on all questions relating to the array, and on the
floor of Congress he was active in promoting the
bill to put the army on a peace footing and in
other important legislation. He declined a
re-election to Congress, as his duties with the
Union Pacific were more suited to his taste, and
to this great work he bent all of his energies.
As Chief Engineer ofthe company he made the
plans for the great iron bridge which spans the
Missouri River between Council Bluffs and
Omaha. In one year five hundred and sixty-
eight miles of road were located, built and
equipped, and under the impetus imparted to
the work by his example railroad building every
where was revolutionized. On May 10, 1869,
the great ambition of his life was achieved, and
he saw the uniting of the Union Pacific with the

Central Pacific at Promontory Point, Utah- —
eleven hundred and eighty-six miles from the
starting point on the Missouri River. In 1871
General Dodge was appointed Chief Engineer of
the California and Texas Railway Construction
Company, and he built the Texas & Pacific rail
road from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Dallas,
Texas, and from Marshall via Texarkana to
Sherman. He also made extensive preliminary
surveys to determine the thirty-fifth parallel
route, and partially built eastward some two
hundred miles of road. In 18 74 General Dodge
went to Europe for his health and up to 1879 he
spent a portion of each year abroad. During
this period he was requested by President Grant
to meet the engineers of Germany and Italy
who were building the St. Gotthard tunnel under
the Alps, and he examined the system of inter
nal improvements in different parts of Europe.
In January 1880, he organized and becarae
President of the Pacific Railway Improvement
Company, and completed a large section of the
Texas & Pacific road. From this time on he
was President and promoter of a large nuraber
of railroad organizations both in this country
and Mexico, in which his experience and skill
were used to good advantage. In 1886, when
the question of internal iraprovenients in the
Chinese Empire was being discussed, General
Dodge, who had been recommended for a simi
lar project, was urged by the Chinese govern
ment to go to that country; but the request
could not be complied with. On the death of
General Sherman, General Dodge was elected
to take his place as President of the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee. He has been Vice-
President of the Grant Monument Association ;
and he was Coramander of the Loyal Legion of
the State of New York in 1897-8. He is a mem
ber of the Union League, Colonial, United Ser
vice and other clubs, of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; and of the Grand Array
of the Republic. He was a delegate at large
frora Iowa to the National Republican conven
tions at Philadelphia, Chicago and Cincinnati,
and has taken an active part in every Presiden
tial election during and since the campaign
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war was declared with Spain, in 1S98, General
Dodge was the first Major-General to coraraand
a Corps selected by the President, but declined
the appointment on account of his age and busi
ness obligations. His recent appointraent as one
ofthe commissioners to investigate the conduct
of the Commissary, Quartermasters' and Medical
bureaus, during the war with Spain, is fresh
evidence of his high standing as a soldier and a
citizen. He has taken an active interest in
Norwich University, of which he is a Trastee,
and "Dodge HaU" was built and donated by
him to the University. He has kept up his
interest in Vermont, and is an honorary mem
ber of the New York Society of Vermonters.

GORDON, John W., Mayor, Barre, was born
in Vershire, Vermont, in September 1S57, son
of William and Mary (Thurber) Gordon. He
received his early education in the district
schools of Bolton and at the Burlington, Vermont,
High School. Deciding to obtain a liberal edu
cation, he fitted for college in Barre Academy
under Professor J . S. Spaulding; entered Dart
mouth College, and graduated in 1SS3, as one of
the honor men ofthe class. He was an assistant
for a year in the High School in Milford, Massa
chusetts, and was two years Assistant Master in
the Worcester, Massachusetts, High School. In
1S86 he resigned this position in order to take an
interest with his father-in-law, B. F. Dunham,
in the granite business in Barre, which was con
ducted for two years under the firm name of
Dunham & Gordon. After the death of Mr.
Dunham in 18S8, Mr, Gordon continued the
business alone until 1S90, when he turned his
chief attention to the practice of the law. For
this profession he had been fitting himself for
several years, pursuing his legal studies in the
office of his brother, T. R. Gordon, Esq., of
Montpelier, and by himself in Barre. He was
admitted to the Bar of Washington county in
1890, and the same }ear to practice in the
Supreme Court, and has since practiced law in
the City of Barre. Having been affiliated with
the Democratic party since he became of age, he
early took an active interest in politics. He was

a candidate of the Democrats of Barre for Repre
sentative in the legislature, in iSSS. 1892 and
1S04. lias been a member of tbe Washington
County Democratic Committee eight years, and
was four years its Chairman, An eloquent
speaker, he ably served his party on the stump
in the National campaigns of iSSS and 1S92. In
iSg6 he was delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Chicago, and was one of the four
Vermonters who refused to take part in the pro
ceedings after the adoption of the free silver plank
ofthe platform. He was the member from Ver
mont to the sound money meeting in Indianapolis

JOHN W. GORDON,
which called the Indianapolis convention, and
was elected a delegate to that convention. Mr.
Gordon has been in many ways prominently
identified with the City of Barre. In 1891, he
built the Gordon block, of brick, one of the finest
business blocks in the city. He is interested in
education and was an efficient member of the
School Board, 18SS-95. He was for three years
Town Law Agent. In 1896 he was elected
Mayor of Barre and fills that important office, by
re-election, with marked efficiency and success.
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materiaUy reduced the city debt, and his annual
messages bristle with salient facts and apt sug
gestions. In 1884 Mr. Gordon married Miss
Maud L. Dunham, daughter of B. F. Dunham
of Barre. Four children have been the fruit of
this union: LUlian Ward, born September 11,
1885; Paul Dunham, born March 4, 1892; Philip,
born December 22, 1893, and John Aubrey
Gordon, born September 11, 1895.

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HALL, Rev. Arthur Crawshay Alliston,
D D., Bishop of Vermont, was born in Binfield,
Berks, England, April 12, 1847, son of William
Thomas and Louisa Astley (Alliston) Hall. He
received his early education at Brighton College,
England, and entered the University of Oxford,
from which he was graduated, with the degree
of Bachelor of Arts, in i86g and of Master of
Arts in 1871. Having decided to enter the
Christian Ministry, he pursued theological
studies in preparation for that sacred profession,
and was ordained as a Deacon by the Bishop of
Oxford in 1870, and as a Priest in 187 1. In the
forraer year he entered the Society of St. John

the Evangelist, a religious brotherhood in the
Church of England, established at Cowley, near
Oxford, England, aud devoted especiaUy to
missionary work. In 1873 he came to America,
as a member of the society of St. John the
Evangelist, and was appointed assistant at the
Church of the Advent in Boston, of which
Reverend C C.Graftou,widely known as "Father
Grafton" was rector. He labored in this posi
tion with marked earnestness and zeal, working
among the poor and in other missionary labors,
for eight years. In 1882, when the parish of the
Advent entered its new building Father Hall
remained in charge of the old church, thence
forward called the Mission Church of St. John
the Evangelist. In this charge he continued
forthree years, till, in i8gi, he was recalled by
the Chief of the Order, to England, where he
was employed in evangelistic work for two
years. His eloquence, earnestness, devotion
and singleness of heart had called wide atten
tion to him, among the clergy and laity of the
Episcopal Church, during his service in Boston;
and when the Bishopric of the Diocese of Ver
mont became vacant by the death of Bishop
Bissell, Father Hall was suggested as the man
for the place. He was elected Bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal Church of Vermont in
i8g3, was thereupon released from the vows
and obligations of the Society of St. John the
Evangelist, and was consecrated as Bishop, Feb
ruary 2, i8g4. He is filling the office with high
ability and success. He is the author of several
volumes of sermons, books of devotion andother
religious works. The degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred upon him by the Univer
sity of Oxford, in i8g3.

MATTISON, Fred Leland, South Shafts
bury, was born in Hillsdale, New York, April
20, 1857, son of William P. and Sarah (Stickle)
Mattison. His early education was received in
the public schools of Shaftsbury, in the graded
schools of Bennington and in Wilbraham (Mass
achusetts) Academy. He began the active
business of life as clerk in his father's store in
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bookkeeper of the Eagle Square Company. He
held this position until 1884, when he was elected
Secretary and Treasurer of that corporation,
which position he still retains, having become
since his father's illness, principalmanager of the
business. He is one of the stockholders of that
company which was founded by Silas Hawes in
18 1 2. In 1878 Mr. Mattison purchased a third
interest in the general store owned by W. P.
Mattison & Company. In his political affiliations
he is a Republican, and he supports the Methodist
church. He was united in marriage, November
29, 1 88 1, with Jennie, daughter of Clark and
Sarina Bates of South Shaftsbury, and four child-.
ren have blessed their union: Raymond, Louis,
Irwin and Dorothy Mattison.

A. B. FLANDERS.

PECK, Edward Sprague, Physician, New
York city, was born in Burlington, Vermont,
October 24, 1847. He was second son of
Theodore Augustus and Delia Horton (Safford)
Peck. The family traces its lineage back for
twenty generations to John Peck, Squire, of
Betton, Yorkshire, England; aud among his

American ancestors was Elias Keyes, who was
one of the original proprietors of the town of
Londonderry, New Hampshire; also Lieutenant
Jeremiah Peck of Milford, Connecticut, Ensign
and Lieutenant in the Colonial Service; in addi
tion four ancestors served in the War of the
Revolution. His grandfather. Doctor John Peck,
was a prominent citizen and merchant of Bur
lington. His uncle, Edward William Peck,
resides in the homestead in Burlington, which has
been a family possession for nearly a century.
The subject of this sketch fitted for college in the
Union High School of his native town and
entered the University of Vermont, frora which
he graduated, second in his class, in 1864.
Selecting the profession of medicine, he took the
full three years' course in the Medical Depart
ment of the University of Vermont, from which
he received the degree of M. D., in 1868. He
became Assistant Physician to King's County
Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, in August 1868,
for one year. He next occupied the position of
Assistant Physician in King's County Lunatic
Asylum, Brooklyn, 1869-70, after which he
opened an office in Burlington, Vermont, and
soon acquired a large practice, chiefly in surgery.
P'or nearly three years he was Surgeon to the
Central Vermont Railroad and its leased roads,
covering about nine hundred miles in the States
of Vermont and New York. Doctor Peck was
prominent in the organization of the Burlington
Medical and Surgical Club in 1872, and was its
Secretary continuously until 1875; he was a
member of the Chittenden County Medical
Society, for one year its Secretary, and one year
its Vice-President; and was a member of the
Vermont State Medical Society, of which he was
elected Vice-President in 1872, and Secretary in
1873 and 1874. As Vice-President, he made the
address at the semi-annual meeting in 1873,
entitled " The Higher Medical Education." He
was Secretary of the Board of Pension Surgeons
for the State of Vermont for four years; and dur
ing the sarae time was Surgeon of the First
Regiment, National Guard, of the slate. In
1873, at the request of the Medical Faculty of
the University of Vermont, Doctor Peck organ
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and was its Secretary for two years. In 1871, he
was appointed Instructor in Anatomy and Sur
gery in the University of Vermont, which posi
tion he filled for five years, being at the same
time Assistant to the Chair of Surgery. In 1875
Doctor Peck was elected Adjunct Professor of
Diseases ofthe Eye and Ear; and a clinical chair
of Diseases of the Eye and Ear was established,
to which he was elected Professor on his return
from Europe in 1878. He went abroad in June,
1 8 7 5 , for medical studies, devoting hiraself specially
to the study of ophthalmology and otology. In
Berlin, where his first year was spent, he daily
assisted at the University Eye-clinic of Professor
Schweigger, who succeeded to the chair of the
renowned Von Graefe. He spent five months in
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mathematical study of the perception of colors at
different angles of the eye, and upon color-blind
ness. In Berlin he studied pathology under
Virchow, and operatic surgery of the head
under A'on Langenbeck. He devoted four
months to the histology of the eye at the Univer
sity of Erlangen, in Bavaria; for three months he
followed the clinic of Professor Horner, of the
Universitv of Zurich, and in Vienna became the

pupil of Arlt, Jaeger, Politzer and Gruber. Here
he pursued the histological study of the eye in
Arlt's eye laboratory, and that of the ear with
Professor Exner, and became for six months
a pupil of Professor Scroetter in Laryngology.
He spent four months in Paris in microscopical
work, in the laboratory of Ranvier, in the College
de France, besides visiting regularly the eye-
clinics of Sichel, Galexowski, and Landolt. He
passed the winter of 1877-78 in London, where
he attended the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital at
Moorfields, and the Middlesex Hospital Eye-
service of Mr. Critchett. He was the recipient
of many professional and social favors from Mr.
Jonathan Hutchinson, Mr. Critchett, Mr. John
Marshall, Mr. John Wood and Sir Henry
Thompson. He returned to the United States in
March, 1878; and, after delivering the lectures
on Ophthalmology and Otology in the University
of Vermont, he established himself as a specialist
in these departments, in New York city, his pres
ent residence. He was appointed in July 1878,
Assistant Physician to the Eastern Dispensary,
in the classes devoted to diseases of the eye, ear
and throat. In January 1879, he opened the
course of lectures before the Bellevue Hospital
Training School for Nurses, giving .six lectures
on the management of eye-hospitals and the
nursing of eye-patients. He has been expert
E.xamining Surgeon for eye and ear disabilities
for the United States Pension Bureau at Wash
ington since 1882; Medical Examiner for the
Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United
States in New York city, 1883-92; Surgeon to
the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1886-1892; Lecturer
on his specialties to the New York Training
School for Nurses since 1885; Chairman of the
Board of Examiners of that school since 1890;
attending Physician at the Northwestern Dispen
sary of the City of New York, 1880-86; Visiting
Surgeon to the Charit}- Hospital of New York
city, 188 1 to date; Ophthalmic Surgeon to St.
Elizabeth's Hospital, New York, since 1885;
Ophthalmologist to the Montefiore Home of New
York city, since 1889; and Professor of Diseases of
the E}"e in the Post Graduate Medical School and
Hospital, of New York, 1898. He is a raember
of the Medical Society of the County of New

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York since 1880; of the New York Acaderay of
Medicine since 1883; and its Executive Librar-
rian, 1891-95; a raeraber of the Northwestern
Medical and Surgical Society of the City of New
York since 1883, and its Secretary 1887-1890
its Vice-President in i89i,and its President in
1892. He has been a member ofthe Physicians'
Mutual Aid Association of New York city since
1888 and a member of the New England Society
of the City of New York since 1881 and Physi
cian to the same since 1890. Doctor Peck is one
of the leading medical specialists in America,
ranking with some of the eminent specialists of
Europe. He has contributed valuable papers to
the New York Medical Record; the Boston Med
ical and Surgical Journal; the Archives of
Ophthalmology and Otology; Archives of Medi
cine and Journal of Dietetics, most of which have
been reprinted as permanent contributions to
medical literature in this country and in Europe.
He is a member of the Masonic Order. In politics
he is a Republican. He was united in marriage,
in London, England, August 31, 188 1, to Amelia
Ames Walcott of Providence, Rhode Island.
They have four children: Edward Stuart, Eva
Walcott, Douglas Wheelock and Harold Walcott
Peck.

ROBB, Charles Henry, Attorney, Bellows
Falls, was born in Malone, New York, November
14, 1867, son of Isaac and Clara Slater (Matthews)
Robb. His home in his boyhood was in Guil
ford, Windham county, Vermont, and he obtained
his early education in the common schools; at
the Brattleboro, Vermont, High School; and at
the Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro, from
which he graduated in 1886. He contemplated
at one time entering the army, and studied for
entrance to the United States Military Academy
at West Point; but later decided to select the law
as his profession. He pursued legal studies for
three years in the office of Ha.skins and Stoddard
in Brattleboro, one of the leading firms in the
state, and was admitted to the Bar ofthe Supreme
Court of Vermont in 1892. In the following year
he .sought and received admission to the Bar of
Hampshire county, Massachusetts, and practiced

his profession for a year in Northampton, Massa
chusetts. In 1894 he returned to Vermont and
opened an office at Bellows Falls, where he
remains in a successful and growing practice.
Ill 1896 he was elected State's Attorney for Wind
ham county and he has performed the responsible
duties of prosecuting officer with marked efficiency
and zeal, winning the confidence and respect of
the law-abiding citizens of the county. When
he took the office, the question of the execution
of the prohibitory law was a prominent issue in
the county. Mr. Robb announced at the start,
his purpose to do his duty strictly and impartially,
and, so far as in him lay, to stop the liquor traffic
within the jurisdiction of his office. His views
were pronounced by many to be visionary; his
execution of the law was characterized as ' 'spas
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C. H. ROBB.
he would work his own ruin. But at the close
of two years of thorough discharge of his official
duties it was found that Windham county was
among those in which the law is best enforced in
the state, and his success as a prosecuting officer
was acknowledged by all, friend and foe. His
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ance and devotion to his profession and his
clients are widely recognized; and his friends
predict high eminence for him in the future. He
is an earnest Republican in politics. He is a
member ofthe Masonic Order, and of the Inde
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. On June 23,
1897, he was united in marriage to Miss Nettie
May George, of Bellows Falls.

BAXTER, Edward K., Physician, Sharon,
Vermont, was born in Barton, Orleans county,
Vermont, February 3, 1840, son of Harry and
Deborah (Steele) Baxter, and the youngest of a
family of seven children. His father, Harry
Baxter, son of Elihu Baxter, was a prominent
citizen of Barton, represented that town in the
Legislature, 1832, 1833 and 1840, and was Assist
ant Justice of the County Court. At the age of
thirteen years, after the death of his father, he
went to live with an uncle in Sharon, Vermont,
which town became his home during the greater
part of his life. The subject of this sketch was
educated in the common schools and at Kimball
Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, and
was also for a time under the instruction of his
relative on the mother's side. Reverend Doctor
Roswell Shurtleff, Professor and College
Preacher in Dartmouth College . His health being
rather frail, he relinquished his purpose to take
a collegiate course, and selecting the profession
of medicine for his calling in life, he fitted
himself therefor, studying under Doctor Dixi
Crosby and Doctor A. B. Crosby of Hanover,
New Hampshire ; in the Dartmouth Medical
College ; and at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons in New York city. He graduated from
the Dartmouth Medical College in 1864 with
high honor for superior merit as shown in his
exarainations and thesis. Having given especial
attention to raental diseases he was appointed
Assistant Physician at the Hartford, Connecticut,
Retreat for the Insane, and later occupied a sim
ilar position at Sanford Hall, a well known
private Asylum at P'lushing, Long Island. In
these positions he won high comraendations.
Returning to Sharon, Vermont, he coraraenced
practice; but was obliged by the delicate condi

tion of his health and to his great disappoint-
raent, to give up much of the active practice of
his profession. He, however, by no means lost
interest in it, but by study and reading kept
abreast of his time in his profession. His ser
vices were always in greater demand than he
could supply; but by special care he was able to
do much good practice for many years, and to
enrich his mind by reading and study. He gave
especial attention to botany, in which science
he had few superiors in Verraont. He was an
expert raicroscopist and a man of high accom
plishments in the natural sciences, as well as in
medicine and surgery. A lover of books and
good reading, he surrounded himself with the
works of the best authors, and with the means
of gratifying cultivated tastes. He was inter
ested in the educational, religious and political

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movements ofthe day. He was Superintendent
of Schools; and one of its most active generous
and consistent members. Clerk and Treasurer
of the Congregational Church of Sharon; and
Chairman of the Republican Club for many
years. Though never seeking civil office, he
represented his town in the Legislature in 1886-
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trust. Araong these were the offices of President
and Treasurer of the Sharon Creamery Associa
tion, of which he was an organizer and active
promoter. He was fond of agricultural pursuits
and pursued them intelligently on his farm in
Sharon. He was one of the Vice-Presidents of
the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, and a friend and supporter
of the Vermont Humane Society. He was a
meraber of the Verraont Medical Society and
of the Araerican Medical Association, and an
occasional contributor to Medical Journals. He
gave largely and unostentatiously to the Bible
Society, the American Board of Missions, the
American Missionary Association and other
benevolent and Christian Societies. Among his
many benefactions were a gift of five thousand
dollars to Kimball Union Academy, and a like
sum to the Mary Hitchcock Hospital at Hanover,
New Harapshire. During the last ten years of
his life large business interests were intrusted
to him, which were conscientiously adrainis
tered. About four years before his death he
withdrew from practice, and spent much of the
remainder of his life in his attractive winter
home on Beacon Street, Boston, where he died
May 22, i8g6. The facts thus given show that
Doctor Baxter touched the life of the commu
nity at many points, and in every relation of
life he was esteemed and beloved as a true man,
a sincere Christian and a good citizen. As one
of his brother physicians said of him: "Such
lives are an inspiration to us all, and we feel
that the world is better that such men have
lived." In i88o Doctor Baxter married Miss
Sarah S., daughter of Colonel Gardner and
Susan Steele Burbank, who survives him.

the Burr and Burton Seminary in Manchester,
Vermont; in the Acaderay in Burlington, Ver
raont, which town had become his father's
home, and in the University of Vermont. He
graduated from the latter in 1843. He then
studied law with his father, and was admitted
to the Bar at the September term of the Chit
tenden County Court in 1847. Shortly after he
went to Boston, was admitted to the Suffolk
Bar in 1848, and commenced practice in that
city, but in the same year he removed to Taun
ton, Massachusetts, which city was his home
for thirty-six years. He took a high stand in
his profession, and in 1858 was appointed Judge
of Probate and Insolvency for Bristol county,
Massachusetts, which important office he held
for twenty-five years, and until he resigned it,
in 1883. When the City of Taunton was incor
porated, in 1865, Judge Bennett was unani
mously elected as its first Mayor. He was

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BENNETT, Edmund Hatch, was born in
Manchester, Verraont, April 6, 1824, son of
Milo Lyraan and Adeline (Hatch) Bennett.
His father was a native of Sharon, Connecticut,
a graduate of Yale College, a prominent raem
ber of the Vermont Bar and a Judge of the
Supreme Court of Vermont for twenty-one years,
1838-58. He died in Taunton, Massachusetts,
in 1868. Edraund H. Bennett was educated in

E. H. BENNETT.
twice re-elected to that office, and in various
other ways was identified with the affairs of
that city. He was a lecturer in the Law School
of Harvard University, 1870-72. When the
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ized in 1872, he was elected Dean, but declined
the office. He was lecturer in the Law School
for four years. In 1876 he was again elected
as Dean, which position he filled with marked
ability and success for twenty-one years. The
close of his quarter century of service in that
school was commemorated by the hanging of a
memorial portrait of him, by Chartran, the
eminent French artist, in the Law School Build
ing. Judge Bennett was a man of fine literary
taste, of genial humor, and of the highest
personal character. He did much to develop
the science and advance the practice of his pro
fession. His legal works, written and edited
alone, or in company with others, number more
than a hundred volumes, the chief of which are:
"English Law and Equity Reports," an edition
of Mr. Justice Story's works; "Leading Criminal
Ca.ses," "Fire Insurance Cases," "Digest of
Massachusetts Reports," American editions of
the recent English works of "Goddard on Ease
ments," "Benjamin on Sales," "Indermaur on
the Coramon Law, " and many others. For some
time he was editorially connected with the
American Law Register of Philadelphia. His
lecture on "Farm Law," delivered before the
Mas.sachusetts Board of Agriculture, in 187S,
attracted wide attention, and was republished in
agricultural journals all over New England and
the West. In religious sympathy and work
Judge Bennett was allied with the Protestant
Episcopal church. P^'or some years he was warden
or vestryman of St. Thomas' Parish, Taunton,
and several times represented the church in the
diocesan conventions in 1874, 1877, 1880, 1883,
1S86, 1892 and 1895 he was a delegate from his
diocese to the general triennial convention of
the Episcopal Church in this country. He died
in Boston, January 2, i8g8. The degree of
Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the
University of Vermont, in 1873. In politics he
was a Republican frora the formation of that
party. He was united in marriage, in Taunton,
June 29, 1S93, to Miss Sally Crocker, daughter
of the late Samuel L. Crocker, of Taunton. Of
their children two are living: Samuel C, Dean
of the Boston University Law School, apd Mary
B., wife of Dr. William M. Conant,

BROWN, Stephen Flavius, was born in
Swanton, Franklin county, Vermont, April 4,
1841, son of Samuel Gibson and AnnaM. (Craw
ford) Brown. His paternal grandfather, William
Brown, emigrated from Massachusetts, to Hills-
boro. New Hampshire, i8ig, and from thence
to Swanton, Vermont in 1832, finally removing to
Barry, Illinois. His great grandfather on his
mother's side, John Otis, was a Revolutionary
soldier from New Hampshire. He received
his early education in the district schools and
in the academies at Swanton Falls and Bakers
field, working on a farm summers and attending

S. F. BROWN.
school in winter. He fitted for college and
passed the examinations for admission to the
University of Vermont. He did not enter college
but enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment of Ver
raont Volunteers, and was commissioned, Sep
tember 1 1, 1 86 2, as First Lieutenant of Company
K, of that Regiment. He served with credit
throughout the term of service of that regiment.
His experience in the battle of Gettysburg was
a notable one. On the inarch to Gettysburg, he
had been placed under arrest, for violating an
order forbidding officers or raen to leave the
ranks, by going to a well to get some water for

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some men of the corapany who were faint from
thirst. He was released from arrest when the
regiment reached the field; but could not have
his sword, because it had been left behind in
one of the headquarters wagons. He accord
ingly armed himself with a carap hatchet, which
he carried till during the flank attack of the
Thirteenth on Pickett's division, and until he
received the surrender of a Confederate officer
whose sword he took and carried through the
rest of the battle. This incident has been cora-
raeraorated by the Society of the Tirteenth
Vermont, by selecting as the design for its
monument on the battlefield of Gettysburg the
unique figure of an officer,armed with a hatchet.
In November 1863, Mr. Brown returned to the
service as Captain of Company A, of the Seven
teenth Vermont Volunteers. This regiment had
its baptism of fire in the bloody battle of the
Wilderness in which Captain Brown lost his left
arm, which was shattered by a bullet, necessita
ting amputation. He was honorably discharged,
August 22, 1864, for disability resulting from
his wound. After the close of the war, selecting
the law for his profession, he attended the Law
School at Albany, New York, graduating there
from with the class of 1867, of which he was
Class President, and of which President McKin
ley was a member. He went to Chicago and
accepted a position as clerk in the law office of
Barker & Tuley. Later he formed a partner
ship with A. J. Creswell, which lasted until the
latter's death in 1870. He lost all his personal
property by the great Chicago fire of 18 71,
after which he hired an office on the edge ofthe
burned district, the furniture of which consisted
of a pine table and a copy of the New Testa
ment. One ofhis first cases involved the defence
of a dentist who had violated an injunction
forbidding infringement of the Goodyear rubber
patents. In order to secure evidence an agent
of the Goodyear Company engaged the dentist
to make hira a set of teeth and filed the teeth
among the papers in court as an exhibit in a
proceeding to punish for contempt of court for
violating the injunction order. Mr. Brown
defended the dentist on the ground that the
plaintiffs were estopped by violating or procuring

the violation of their own injunction. The court
discharged the defendant; and many other Chi
cago dentists became Mr. Brown's clients. In
one suit Robert T. Lincoln was the opposing
counsel, and at another time he contested a case
in court with Melville W. Fuller, now Chief Jus
tice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Brown was,
while in Chicago, a member of the Union League
Club. He is a member of the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows and of the Masonic Order, and
is a Knight Templar. He is a Republican, but
has never sought or accepted public office. He
was offered a nomination for State Senator, by a
Republican caucus in Chicago, but declined the
honor. In 1886 he left a law practice in that
city worth ten thousand dollars a year, and
returned to Swanton, Vermont, to care for his
aged parents. On January 22, i8g6, he married
Mary A. McDonough, of Chicago.

BUSH, John Standish Foster, Physician,
Boston, Massachusetts, was born in Burlington,
Vermont, son of Solon Wanton and Theoda Davis
(Foster) Bush. He is of distinguished lineage,
being descended on his father's side from Govei-
nor Joseph Wanton, the last Colonial Governor
of Rhode Island, 1769-75; while on the mother's
side he traces his descent to Captain Miles Stand
ish of Pilgrim renown. He received his early
education in the Latin School in Roxbury, Massa
chusetts, and in Allen's English and Classical
School in Newton, Massachusetts. Selecting the
profession of Medicine for his calling in life, he
studied for two years in the course of Natural
Science of Cornell University, being a member
of the class of 1873, and receiving a licentiate's
certificate, he entered the Harvard Medical School
in 1 87 1 and at the end of his course secured a
position as House Surgeon in the Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston, and graduated from
Harvard Medical College in 1874. He was sub
sequently for many years connected with the Bos
ton Dispensary, in the capacity of District Physi
cian, and afterwards Surgeon. He has held
numerous important positions, having been Phy
sician to the Children's Mission, of Boston, and
g member of the Board of Directors of that insti-

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tution; Councillor of the Massachusetts Medical
Society since 1887, and Medical Examiner of the
American Legion of Honor. He holds a promi
nent place in his profession and as a citizen. He

J. FOSTER BUSH.
is a member of the University Club, ot St. Bot-
olph's Club, of the University, Unitarian and
Country Clubs, all of Boston; also of the Union
Boat Club and Boston Athletic Association. He
is a prominent member of the Masonic Order, in
which he holds high rank, being a Past Masterof
Columbia Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons,
of Boston; Past Commander of St. Bernard Com
mandery of Knights Templar; and has had the
Thirty-third degree of the Ancient Scottish Rite
conferred upon him. In politics he is an inde
pendent Republican. June 4, 1875, Doctor Bush
was united in marriage to Miss Josephine M.
Nason. Two children, EUa Agnes and Theoda
Foster Bush, have been the fruit of their union.

CHITTENDEN, Lucius Eugene, Ex-Register
of the Treasury of the United States, Lawyer and
Author, was born in Williston, in Chittenden
county, Vermont, on May 24, 1824, son of Giles,
the grandson of Truman, the great-grandson of

Thomas Chittenden, who was in 1777 elected the
first Governor of independent Vermont and
eighteen times re-elected to that office. He was
the eighth in descent from William Chittenden,
who settled in Guilford, Connecticut, in 1639.
Giles, the father of Lucius E., was the eldest son
of Truman, who was the youngest of the four sons
of the first Governor. Giles represented Willis
ton in the State Legislature in the year 1803.
Lucius E. Chittenden received his early education
in the common schools, and the academies of Wil
liston, Hinesburgh and Cambridge. Through the
influence of Norman L- Whittemore, an uncle
by marriage, a lawyer of ability at Swanton,
Vermont, he selected the law as his profession and
pursued his studies in his uncle's office, teaching
district schools in the winter. He was admitted
to the Bar of Franklin county, at St. Albans, in
September 1844, removed to Burlington in 1845,
where he practiced with success, in partnership
successively with Wyllys Lyman, Edward J.
Phelps and Daniel Roberts, all leading citizens
and the last two eminent as lawyers. Mr. Chitten
den was never satisfied with his limited education.
Before his admission to the Bar, he pursued the
study of Latin and several of the modern lan
guages, under private tutors, with great energy.
His knowledge of the modern languages, which
he has never ceased to pursue, has no doubt pro
moted his success, and enabled him to study the
natural sciences as a recreation and relief frcm
the severer labors of his profession . As early as
1846, he became active!}' interested in politics
and public affairs. He was prominent in the Anti-
slavery and "Free Soil" movements, and was
an earnest Republican from the first organization
ofthe Republican party. He wasa State Senator
from Chittenden county, 1856-1860, and aninflu-
ential legislator. In February 186 1, he was
appointed by Govemor Fairbanks a delegate to
the famous Peace Conference, which met in Wash
ington, to take measures for averting the coming
Civil War. He prepared and afterwards pub
lished a careful report of the debates and proceed
ings of that Conference. He was associated with
Ex-Governor Chase of Ohio, a leading member of
the Conference, and when Mr. Chase became Sec
retary of the Treasury, in President Lincoln's first

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Cabinet, he tendered to Mr. Chittenden the office
of Register of the Treasury, which he held during
the four years of Mr. Lincoln's first term. It was
at that time an office of great responsibility involv
ing great labor. Its complicated duties were
performed by Mr. Chittenden with marked indus
try and ability. After the close of the War, Mr.
Chittenden established himself in his profession in
New York city , which he has continued to practice
there. He has cultivated his scholarly tastes by
collecting a library, which is especially rich in rare
volumes relating to the early history of engrav
ing and printing, and to the early history ofhis

at Burlington in 1878;' ' "Recollections of Presi
dent Lincoln and his Administration;" "Speeches,
Addresses and Letters of Abraham Lincoln ; " ' 'An
Unknown Heroine, a Story of the Civil War,"
and many magazine and historical articles. His
"Biography of Thomas Chittenden thefirst Gov
emor of Vermont" is in an advanced stage of pre
paration. In 1856 Mr. Chittenden married Mary,
daughter of Horace Hatch, M. D., of Burlington.
She died in 1894. Three children were the fruit
of their union: Horace H., a lawyer in New
York city; Mary H., wife of William Bradford,
and Bessie B. Chittenden, who is unmarried and
resides with her father in New York city.

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native state. An arrangement has been perfected
by which this valuable collection of books and
engravings will be transferred to the library of
the University of Vermont, where it will be pre
served intact for future use. Many of these
volumes are very rare and some of them are said
to be unique. Mr. Chittenden's publications
include an edition of "Reeves' Domestic Rela
tions with notes;" "The Debates and Proceedings
of the Peace Conference at Washington in Feb
ruary 1861;" "A Centennial Address on the
Capture of Ticonderoga in May 1876;" "Address
onthe Dedication of the monument to Ethan Allen

DEAL, Tho.mas M., St. Albans, was born
at Champlain, New York, August 4, 1850. He
obtained his education in the public schools.
In 1870 he entered the railway service and in
1874 removed to St. Albans, Vermont. Begin-

T. M. DEAL.
ning as a freight brakeman on the Ogdensburgh
and Lake Champlain Railroad, he was later a
sleeping car conductor on the same road, 187 1-4;
passenger conductor on the Central Vermont
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ger Agent of the Missisquoi Railroad, 1877-87;
and Superintendent of the Missisquoi Valley
division of the Central Vermont Railroad from
1887 to the present time. He is also Manager
of the famous Franklin County, Vermont,
Creamery Association, the largest establishment
of its kind in the world. He has been connected
with this enterprise since its inception, and its
success has been in no small measure due to his
energetic and able management. Mr. Deal
represented St. Albans in the Vermont Legisla
ture of 1894, serving as Chairman of the
Committee on Claims. In 1896, he was norai
nated for State Senator by the Republicans of
Franklin county, his unaniinous selection by the
convention showing the high appreciation in
which he was held in the coramunity. He was
Chairraan of the General Committee in the
Senate and was a prominent and influential
legislator. He held the office of Selectman of
St. Albans in 1894-5 and has been in various
ways closely identified with the interests of that
city, where he is highly respected as a citizen
and a man. His success in life has been due to
his personal energy and ability and to his untiring
labors in the fulfilment of the many responsible
duties entrusted to his care. In politics he is a
Republican, in religious belief, a Congregation
alist.

FARNHAM, Roswell, Bradford, the thirty-
seventh Governor of the State of Verraont,
was born in Boston, Massachusetts, July 23,
1827, son of Roswell and Nancy (Bixby) Farn
ham. He is of the eighth generation in direct
descent from Ralph Farnum, who emigrated
from England to America in 1635 and settled in
Andover, Massachusetts. He was married in
England. Ephraim Farnum, grandson of Ralph,
was one of the signers to a petition, still extant,
addressed to Governor Shute of the Province
of Massachusetts Bay, asking permission to
make a settlement on the "Merrymake River,"
and was one of the original settlers ofthe town,
which was granted by Massachusetts in 1725,
under the name of Penacook; was incorporated
as Ruinford, in 1763, and, having become a part

of New Hampshire, was again incorporated as
Concord, and became the Capital of the State
of New Hampshire. He was a Selectman of
Rumford, and Deacon in the First Congrega
tional Church. Benjamin, second son of Eph
raim, son of the first Ephraim, raarried Anna
Merrill, and had fifteen children. John, second
son of Benjamin, married Sarah Thompson of
Concord and had eight children. Roswell, eldest
son of John, married for his first wife Ruth Bixby
of Piermont, New Hampshire, and for his

ROSWELL FARNIIA.M.
second wife, Nancy Bixby, his first wife's sister,
who was the mother of the subject of this
sketch. Her father. Captain David Bixby,
born in Boxford, Massachusetts, in 1755, fought
at Lexington and Bunker Hill, did service in
the Continental Army in Rhode Island, was
engaged in the battle of Stillwater and in other
engagements of the War of American Inde
pendence. He made two cruises on a privateer,
returning from the first with considerable prize
money, and being captured by a British frigate
on the second. He spent seventeen months of
suffering and privation in Dartmoor prison in
England. When liberated he returned to
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and married Nancy, daughter of Doctor Pecker,
for whom a street in that city was named . About
1795 he reraoved to Piermont, New Hampshire,
where he died, Deceraber 18, 1848. Some forty
years ago, the younger merabers of the Farnham
family restored the ancient spelling of their
patronymic, which was formerly written as now,
the name Farnham being still borne by five
parishes in England. The father of Governor
Roswell Farnham was in business on Court
Street, Boston, for a number of years, removing
later to Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he was
engaged in the manufacture of boots and shoes
for the southern market. His fortune was swept
away in the great financial panic of 1838-9 and
in 1840 he reraoved to Bradford, Verraont, where
he purchased a farm on the Connecticut River.
In this beautiful place he resided with his family,
until within two years of his death December
20, 1860. Roswell Farnham prepared for col
lege in the academy at Bradford, under Moses
P. Case, and J. S. D. Taylor, assisting raean-
tirae in the cultivation of his father's farm. He
pursued the studies ofthe Freshman and Sopho
more classes at the same institution under
William C. Belcher, and in September 1847
joined the Junior Class in the University of Ver
raont, from which he graduated with honor, in
August i84g, receiving the degree of A. M. in
1852. After graduating he was engaged fora
time in teaching at Dunham, Canada. In 1859,
he removed to P'ranklin, Vermont, where he
took charge of the Franklin Academical Insti
tution, which prospered greatly under his
efficient care. After three successful years in
that institution he was appointed Principal of
the Academy in Bradford, which, with the assist
ance ofhis accomplished wife, he conducted for
two years with markedsuccess. Having selected
the profession of the law, he had been mean
time devoting his spare time to legal studies.
These he conducted further under the late Rob
ert McK. Orrasby, then the leading lawyer in
Orange county, and was admitted to the Bar at
the January terra of the Orange County Court,
in 1857. He commenced practice in partner
ship with Mr. Orrasby. In 1859 he opened an
office for liiniself,and soon acquired a remunera

tive clientage, which increased until it became
easily the largest and most profitable in Orange
county. His ability and high personal character
were recognized by the Republicans of that
county, and in 1859 he was elected State's
Attorney, and was twice re-elected. He was
holding this office when the War of the Rebel
lion broke out. Obeying the patriotic impulse
which was soon to take the best young blood of
Vermont to the field, he was among the first to
enlist for the defence of the Union. He had
already forseen the coming crisis, and had joined
the Bradford Guards, one ofthe few Companies
of Volunteer Militia then in existence in Ver
mont. When President Lincoln's first call for
troops appeared, in April 1861, he went to the
front as Second Lieutenant of Company D, of
the First Regiment of Vermont Volunteers.
The regiment for a time forraed part of the gar
rison of Fortress Monroe and on May 27, 1861,
made about the first permanent occupation of
the soil of Virginia, at Newport News. Lieuten
ant Farnham was appointed Provost Marshal on
the staff of Colonel J. W. Phelps, coraraanding
a force of four thousand troops at that post, and
had important duties, especially relating to the
care of the hundreds of "contrabands" who
flocked into the federal camps. When the expe
dition against Big Bethel was sent out by General
Butler, in June 1861, Lieutenant Farnham
requested permission to join it. He selected and
led the negro guides who piloted the attacking
column, and then, taking his place in the line
with his company, participated in the fruitless
attack on the Confederate works at Big Bethel.
He returned to Vermont at the close of the three
months' term of the First Vermont, with the
reputation of a spirited and capable officer. He
did not long remain in civil life. When Mr.
Lincoln, in August 1862, called for three hun
dred thousand militia, Mr. Farnham, who had
been appointed Captain of the Bradford Guards,
re-organized and recruited the Company to the
war standard, and when it was assigned to the
Twelfth Regiment of Vermont Volunteers, he
was appointed Lieutenant- Colonel of that fine
regiment. This forraed part of the Second Ver
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service. Colonel Blunt was in command of
that brigade, and Lieutenant-Colonel Farnham
commanded the Regiment with notable effi
ciency during this period, and in the repulse of
the Confederate General Stuart's attack upon
Fairfax Court House, December 28, 1892. In
the Gettysburg Campaign, the regiment was
attached to the Third Division of the F'irst
Array Corps. Soon after the battle of Gettys
burg, Colonel Farnham was mustered out, with
the command, on the expiration of its term of
service, and returning to Vermont he resuraed
his law practice in Bradford. In 1866 he was
the Republican Candidate for town Representa
tive, but as the town had a strong Democratic
majority, he did not receive the election. In
1868, he was elected to the State Senate, and
was re-elected in 1869. He served on three
important committees, and was a wise and influ
ential legislator. In 1876 he was a delegate to
the Republican National Convention at Cin
cinnati, which nominated President Hayes. He
was a Presidential Elector in the same year. In
1880, he was unanimously nominated for Gov
ernor by the Republican State Convention ; and
after a stirring canvas was elected by upwards
of twenty-five thousand majority, the largest
majority ever cast for a Governor of Vermont
up to that time, with a single exception. During
his term of office as Governor, the buildings of
the State Prison were rebuilt; the buildings of
the Reform School enlarged, and raany public
improvements made. He attended the funeral
of President Garfield, with his staff; and the
Centennial Celebration of the Surrender of
Cornwallis, at Yorktown, Virginia. He gave
judicious and capable care to all the duties of
his office and retired from it with the respect
and esteem of the people. Governor Farnham
has held many offices of responsibility and trust.
He has been a raember of the State Board of
Education; a Trustee of the University of Ver
mont; Treasurer and Trustee of the Bradford
Academy; and member of the State Board of
Agriculture. Governor Farnham 's legal practice
has been large and successful. As Counsel of
the Verraont Copper Mining Company he con
ducted very important litigations, involving the

life ofthe company, and property valued at sev
eral hundred thousand dollars, and he has been
engaged in other noted cases. He has been
President of the Reunion Society of Vermont
officers, and of the Society of the Twelfth Ver
mont Regiment. He has been the President of
the Board of Trustees of the Village of Bradford,
and a Water Commissioner of the same. He is
a member of the Congregational Church. It
will be seen from the above that he touches the
life of the community at many points, and in
every relation he stands high, as a citizen and
man. He was united in marriage, December
25, 1849, with Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter
of Captain Ezekiel and Nancy (Rogers) Johnson,
of Bradford. Three children, living, have been
the fruit of their union: Charles Cyrus, who is
a prosperous lawer in Buffalo, New York;
Florence Mary, wife of Colonel Edward G.
Osgood, of Bellows Falls, Vermont, and William
Mills Farnham of Buffalo, New York.

FIELD, Henry Francis, Rutland, was born
in Brandon, Vermont, October 8, 1S43, son of
William M. and Minerva (Davenport) Field.
He is descended in the direct line from Zecha
riah Field, who came frora England to America
in the Winthrop and Saltonstall Expedition in
1630, and settled in Dorchester, Massachusetts,
removing to Hartford, Connecticut, in 1639.
The subject of this sketch received his early
education in the public and private schools and
the seminary in his native town. His tastes and
associations directed him to a business career,
and at the age of seventeen he became a clerk
in the Brandon Bank. In March 1862, he went
to Rutland to take a position in the office of John
B. Page, then Treasurer of Vermont, a place
of ranch labor and responsibility owing to the
large expenditures which the State of Vermont
was making in the support of the Government
and care of her soldiers in the Civil War. His
ability and fidelity in this position were recog
nized, and in 1864 he was taken into the Bank
of Rutland, (which was about to be reorganized
as a National Bank) as Teller. He occupied
this position for three years, when he was

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appointed Cashier of the Rutland County
National Bank, which office he has held with
high efficiency and success for thirty years, and
now holds. Mr. Field has had much to do with
public affairs, and has been called to offices of
high responsibility and trust. In t86i he was
Deputy Secretary of State, for the State of Ver
raont. In 1884 he was nominated by the
Republicans of Rutland county to the State
Senate, and elected by a large raajority. He
was Chairraan of the Committee on Banks in
that body and showed himself to be a wise and
influential legislator. In 1888 he represented
the town of Rutland in the General Assembly,
serving as Chairraan of the House Committee

H. F. FIELD.
on Banks and on other important committees.
In i8go his name was placed upon the Republi
can State ticket for the office of State Treasurer,
to which office he had three re-elections in 1892,
1894 and 1896. Hisconduct of this responsible
office has been marked by high efficiency and
absolute integrity. He declined to be a candi
date for the office in i8g8, and will retire from it
at the expiration of his present term, with the
approval and respect of the people of Vermont,
without distinction of party. Mr. Field was

Town Treasurer of Rutland for ten years, also
Treasurer ofthe Village of Rutland, and has been
Treasurer of Rutland county since 1877. He is
a Director in the Rutland County National Bank.
He is the Senior Deacon and Superintendent of
the Sunday School of the Congregational Church
of Rutland. June 21, 1865, he was united in
marriage to Miss Annie Louisa, daughter of John
Howe of Brandon, the founder of the Howe
Scale Corapany. They have two sons: John
Howe and William Henrv Field.

FLAGG, John Henry*, Lawyer, New York,
was born in Wilmington, Windham county,
Verraont, July 11, 1843, son of Stephen P and
Lucinda (Brown) Flagg. He traces his lineage
back to Rawl Flegge, a Danish Viking, who
ravaged the east coast of England, and made a
settlement upon it in the year 868. His first
American ancestor, Thomas Flagg. emigrated
from the hundreds of East Flegge, Norfolk
county, England, in 1637, in corapany with Sir
Richard Carver, settled and became a landowner
in Watertown, Massachusetts. Descendants of
Thomas Flagg served in the Massachusetts
Regiment throughout the Revolutionary War.
General Stephen P. Flagg, the father of the
subject of this sketch, was a leading lawyer and
citizen of Wilmington. John H. Flagg was
educated in the public schools of his native
town; at the Wesleyan Acaderay, Wilbraham,
Massachusetts ; and by a private tutor. Select
ing the law as his profession he pursued his
legal studies at the Albany, New York, Law
School and in the office of Flagg & Tyler, con
sisting of his father and Hon. James M. Tyler,
now a Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont.
He was admitted to the Vermont Bar in Wind
ham county, at the September term in 1864,
and began practice at Wilmington, subsequently
removing to Bennington, where in the five suc
ceeding years he built up a large and lucrative
practice. In 1864, he was elected Clerk ofthe
House of Representatives of Verraont, being
the youngest person who ever held that office.
He speedily mastered the details of parliaraent-
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with an efficiency and poplarity, which became
proverbial, and led to four successive unanimous
re-elections. In i86g, his health having become
impaired by overwork, and his physician advis
ing a change of climate, he accepted the office
of Principal Clerk of the United States Senate,
for which responsible position he was suggested
and nominated by his friend. Senator George F.
Edmunds of Verraont. He held this office for
eight years with marked ability and universal
popularity, irrespective of political differences,
till 1878, when in opposition to the unanimous
desire of the Senators, he resigned the Clerk
ship. He had been admitted to the Bar of the

JNO. H. FLAGG.
Suprerae Court ofthe United States in 1870 and
on terminating his connection with the United
States Senate, he resumed law practice in Wash
ington and New York, giving special attention
to international questions arising under treaties
between the United States and foreign powers,
the tariff and kindred subjects. Mr. Flagg was
prominent in formulating the earlier legislation
of Congress, defining the relation of our gov
ernment to the Geneva Award fund, and
subsequently prosecuted to a successful termin
ation a large number of claims arising under the

treaty. Removing to New York in 1880, he
has continued his practice before the Federal
Courts and the departments at Washington, and
has given much attention to corporate law,
being employed by various large corporations,
such as the steamship lines, the petroleum
interests, railroad companies and others. Heisan
accepted authority on the law of parliamentary
procedure as well as on international questions,
and has retainers from foreign governments as
well as domestic clients in this latter branch of
practice. He is a member of the UnionLeague
Club of New York city, the Metropolitan Club
of Washington; is a life member of the New
England Society of New York, and was one of
the promoters of the Brooklyn Society of Ver
monters, of which he was one of the first Exec
utive Committee. He is a man of cultivated
tastes, high-minded and courteous, a true gen
tleman, esteemed and respected by all who
know hira. A lover of true art, his residence
in New York is well filled with pictures care
fully selected from the studios of both American
and European artists. He has served for some
years on the Art Committee of the Union
League Club and his critical and discriminating
judgment has in no small degree contributed to
advance the high standard of excellence in the
monthly art exhibition made by that organiza
tion which has become notable among the artists
and amateurs of this country as well as in
Europe. June 5, i88g, Mr. Flagg was united in
raarriage to Miss L. Peachy Jones, daughter of
Mr. Frank F. and Maria P". Jones, of Brooklyn,
New York, members of prominent Virginia
farailies, who came to New York soon after
the close of the Civil War.

HEATON, Homer Wallace, Montpelier,
was born in Berlin, Vermont, August 25, 1811,
son of Doctor Gershom and Polly (Wallace)
Heaton. He is of good Scotch-Irish descent.
He received his early education in the public
schools of his native town; in the St. Lawrence
Academy, Potsdam, New York, and in the
Washington County Grammar School in Mont
pelier. He studied law with Colonel J. P.

MEN OF PROGRESS.

Miller, whose gallant service as a soldier
in the Greek Revolution against Turkey,
1824-26, which resulted in the independence of
Greece, had given him wide fame, and N.
Bayles, Jr., in Montpelier, and was admitted to
the Washington County Bar at the November
term of court, 1835. Upon the dissolution of the
firm of Miller & Bayles, in that year, he formed
a partnership with Colonel Miller, under the
firm name of Miller & Heaton. When Colonel
Miller retired in i83g, Mr. Heaton took as part
ner Hon. Charles Reed, and the firm of Heaton
& Reed continued in successful business until
the death of Mr. Reed in 1873. Mr. Heaton's

homer w. heaton.
ability was recognized by repeated calls to
offices of responsibility and trust. He was
State's Attorney of Washington county in i83g
and 1 84 1 and again in i860 and 1861, and he
represented the Town of Montpelier in the
Legislature in 1848. He has always been a
staunch Jeffersonian Democrat and was his
party's candidate for Governor in 1869 and 1870,
and for Congress in 1872-74. His first vote
was cast for Andrew Jackson, for President. In
the War of the Rebellion he was a war democrat
and hearty supporter of the Government. Dur

ing recent years Mr. Heaton has relinquished
his law practice, in order to devote his atten
tion to the management of the Montpelier
Savings Bank and Trust Company, of which he
has been President since its organization in
1 87 1, and which owes its prosperity largely to
his efficient management, and to the care of his
own large property. An important benefaction
has earned for Mr. Heaton, in his later years,
the especial gratitude of the coraraunity. It
was a gift to the public in June 1896, of ten
acres of land in a beautiful site overlooking the
City of Montpelier, with views of a nuraber of
peaks of the Green Mountain range, and a
spacious building with a pavilion attached, for
a public Hospital. The Heaton Hospital was
incorporated October 23, 1896, with a Board of
Trustees, of which George E. Taplin is Presi
dent; John Mooney, Vice-President; C. H.
Heaton, Secretary, and L. Bart Cross, Treas
urer. It has a capacity for twenty patients; is
fitted with modern conveniences and appliances,
and has a trained staff of physicians and nurses.
It is answering satisfactorily the beneficent
purpose of its donor, has already brought relief
to many sufferers, and will serve to keep
Mr. Heaton's name in honored remembrance
through coming generations. Mr. Heaton was
united in marriage July i, 1841, with Harriet,
daughter of John Stearns of Boston. She died
April 26, 1859. Four sons were born to them,
of whom three are now living: Charles H.,
James S., and Homer W. Heaton.

MUNSON, LovELAND, Manchester, son of
Cyrus and Lucy (Loveland) Munson, was born
in that town, July 21, 1843. The first ancestor
of Judge Munson to become a resident of Ver
mont was Jared Munson, who emigrated from
Lanesboro, Massachusetts, in 1778 and settled
on a portion Of the land on which Manchester
village now stands. His son Rufus was born in
1762 and accompanied his father to Manchester,
where he died at the early age of thirty-five in
1797. Cyrus Munson, son of Rufus, was born
in Manchester, January 22, 1790, and was twice
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August 10, 181 1, was Catherine Walker who
died. On November 16, 1841, he raarried Lucy,
daughter of Deacon Asa Loveland. Mr. Mun
son led the life of a quiet, industrious farmer,
was honored by election to different town offices,
and died October i, 1857. Loveland Munson
received a good academical education; choosing
the legal profession, he began the study of law
in 1862 in the office of Elias B. Burton. Admitted
to the Bar of Bennington county in June 1866,
he at once entered into partnership with his
former preceptor. The firm of Burton & Munson,
while it continued, had a good practice as did
afterward its junior partner when alone. Mr.
Munson occupied for many years a prominent
place in the political affairs of the State. About
1866 he was elected raeraber and afterward
Chairman of the Republican County Coraraittee,
and he served as such for several years. After
his selection for this position he was made Chair
man of the Republican District Committee,
which position he held for several years. Frora
1863 to 1866 Mr. Munson edited the Manchester
Journal, and his interest in literature he has
always kept alive. In 1882 he delivered an
excellent address on "The Early History of
Manchester," which was afterward published.
From 1866 to 1873 he was Town Clerk of Man
chester, and in the latter year he declined fur
ther election because of the pressure of profes
sional pursuits. From December 1866, to
December 1876, he was Register of Probate for
the district of Manchester. He was a raeraber
of the famous Constitutional Convention of
1870. In 1872 Mr. Munson entered the Vermont
Legislature as the Representative of the Town
of Manchester. During the session of that year
he served on the Committees on the Judiciary
and Railroads, and also on a special Joint Com
mittee appointed to investigate the affairs of the
Central Verraont Railroad. This coraraittee
assembled after the adjournment of the Legis
lature and made its report to the Governor.
Again elected to the House in 1874, he served
in the session following as Chairraan of the
Judiciary Committee. He received a large vote
for the Speaker's chair in competition with Judge
H. H. Powers. In 1878 he represented Ben

nington county in the State Senate, and having
received the honor of an election to the posi
tion of President pro tem, he was for that reason
excused from all committee service, except that
on Rules of which he was Chairraan. Mr. Mun
son was again returned to the House in 1882,
and by the action of his friends he was made a
candidate for speaker against Hon. J. L. Martin,
but the latter was elected. At this session he
was Chairman of the General Committee and
he was also a member of the Judiciary Commit
tee. His sound sense and his absolute sincerity
gave him the leadership on the floor of the two
Houses in which others carried off the honors
of the speakership. Strong in debate, his
speeches uniformly commanded the close and
respectful attention of his colleagues, and almost
always their hearty support of measures advo
cated by him. In May 1883, he received the
appointment of Judge of Probate for the district
of Manchester, succeeding Judge Ranney How
ard, deceased. He was appointed by Governor
Orrasbee in 1887 Chairman of a coraraittee
authorized by the Legislature of 1886 to revise
and redraft the school laws and incorporate with
their revision new features to improve the
schools and present the same in the form of a
bill. The bill so drafted with some few changes
becarae the school law enacted in 1888. Upon
the resignation of Judge Veazey in September
1889, Judge Munson was appointed sixth Assist
ant Judge of the Supreme Court, and in 1890 he
was elected fourth Assistant Judge of that
court, which position he still holds. Judge
Munson 's fairness, studious habit and literary
skill rendered him a valuable acquisition to the
bench, and his peculiar ability as presiding
officer helps to keep up the well-deserved repu
tation the Vermont trial courts have won as
places where the law is adrainistered with fit
dignity and decorum. On May 4, 1882, Judge
Munson was united in marriage with Mary B.,
daughter of Reverend Alexander B. and Anna
M. (Hollister) Campbell, of Manchester.

PHELPS, Edward John, lawyer, scholar,
diplomatist and statesman, Burlington, Vermont,
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mont, July ii, 1822, He is the son of Hon.
Samuel Shethar Phelps, who graduated at Yale
College in 181 1; settled in Middlebury in [812;
represented the town in the General Assembly,
1821-32; was a member of the Council of
Censors of Vermont, 1827; a meraber of the
Governor's Council, 1831; Judge of the Supreme
Court of Vermont, 1831-38; and was United
States Senator, 1839-51 and 1853-4. The family
traces its lineage in the direct line from William
Phelps, who emigrated from England to America
in 1630; founded the town of Windsor, Connec
ticut; and was a Magistrate, and an important
raember of the Connecticut Colony. Edward

E. J. PHELPS.
Phelps, the great-grandfather of Edward J.,
was a large landholder and a Representative in
the General Court of Connecticut. The grand
father of Edward J. , John Phelps, was a wealthy
citizen of Litchfield, Connecticut, and a soldier
in the Revolutionary War. The subject of this
sketch entered Middlebury College at the age
of fourteen years and graduated in 1840.
Selecting the law as his profession he pursued
legal studies at the Yale Law School, 1842-3,
and with Hon. Horatio Seymour of Middlebury.
He was admitted to the Bar at the December

term ofthe Addison county Court in 1843, and
commenced practice in Middlebury, removing
thence in 1845 to Burlington, Verraont, which
has since been his home. In 185 1 he accepted
the office of Second Comptroller of the United
States Treasury, unexpectedly tendered to him
by President Fillmore, and held it throughout
the remainder of Mr. Fillmore's administration,
at the close of which he resigned it, though
urged by President Pierce to retain it. Return
ing to Burlington he resumed practice and
speedily attained a leading position, both as
advocate and counsellor, at a Bar which num
bered among its members such lawyers as Jacob
Collamer, George F. Edmunds, Luke P. Poland,
Levi Underwood, Lucius B. Peck, Andrew
Tracy and others of high and wide reputation.
He was prominent as a counsel in the litigations
of the Vermont railroads, which for over a
quarter of a century largely occupied the atten
tion of the State and Federal Courts. He repre
sented the City of Burlington in the Constitu
tional Convention of 1870, which inaugurated
the biennial system of elections and made other
important changes in the Constitution of
Vermont. In 1877 he presided with admirable
grace and dignity at the Centennial Celebration
ofthe Battle of Bennington, which was graced
by the attendance of the President o f the United
States and many men of national distinction.
In 1880 he received the unsolicited nomination
of the Democratic party of Vermont for Gov
ernor, and received a larger vote than has been
cast for a Democratic candidate for that office in
the last generation. In 1881 he accepted the
Kent professorship of Law at Yale College, and
in 1 88 2 he was Lecturer on Constitutional Law
in the Boston University. He was President of
the American Bar Association in 1881. In 1885
the most important position in the diplomatic
service, that of Minister to the Court of St.
James, was tendered by President Cleveland to
Mr. Phelps, and was filled by him for four years
with an ability and success — to which the grace,
tact and accomplishments of Mrs. Phelps contrib
uted not a little — that will be long reraerabered
on both sides of the Atlantic. At the the close
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resuraed his chair at Yale University, devoting
attention at times to a few important cases before
the Supreme Court of the United States. In
1893 he was by the appointment of President
Harrison, one of the Counsel for the United
States before the Behring Sea Tribunal of Arbi
tration, at Paris, and made the leading argument
for the United States Government before that
important tribunal. In these highly responsible
positions he established an enviable national
fame as a lawyer and statesman. He is a man
of wide reading, of cultivated literary taste, of
keen and independent judgment, a brilliant and
accomplished speaker, and an able writer. His
letter defining the issue between sound currency
and free silver coinage, in the Presidential cam
paign of 1896, was one of the chief factors in
determining the result of the succeeding national
election. Many of Mr. Phelps' addresses, legal
arguments and important papers have been pub
lished, araong which may be mentioned an
address on "Chief Justice Marshall, and the
Constitutional Law of his time," before the
American Bar Association, 1879; Address on
'Changes in Statute Law," before the sarae,
1 881; "The Law of the Land," an address
before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution,
1886; "Rights of American Fishermen and
Construction ofthe Treaty with Great Britain,"
1887; "Relation of Law to Justice," address
before the South Carolina Bar Association, 1890;
Oration at the Dedication of the Bennington
Battle Monument, 1891; and "The Monroe
Doctrine," address before the Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences, 1896. He is the author
of various magazine articles on constitutional
and public questions and on literary topics. In
August 1845, Mr. Phelps was married to Mary,
daughter of Judge Stephen Haight of Burlington.
Four children were born to them: Edward
Haight, an eminent civil engineer, deceased;
Francis Shurtleff, who died young; Mary Haight,
wife of Horatio Loomis; and Charles Pierpoint
Phelps, banker, of Boston.

(Barnes) Start. He received his education in
the public schools of his native town and in the
Bakersfield and Barre Academies. He fought
in the army of the Union as a member of Com
pany A, Third Regiment, Vermont Volunteers,
and at the close of the war he took up the study
of law. He was admitted to the Franklin
County Bar in April 1867, and the same year
he began practice in Bakersfield. P^om 1876 to
1878 he was State's Attorney for F'ranklin
county, serving with marked credit. He formed
a partnership with A. P. Cross of St. Albans,
while retaining his residence in Bakersfield,
and the firm of Cross & Start established a large
practice. The active conduct of cases largely
fell on Mr. Start and when he was elevated to
the bench it was at once noted that his wide
experience as a trial lawyer had givenhim good
preparation for the right conduct of trials as
Presiding Judge in the County Courts. In 1880
Mr. Start was elected a Senator from Franklin
county, and he made an excellent record in the
upper branch of the Legislature, serving on the
Judiciary Committee and as Chairman of the Joint
Committee on the Reform School. From 1880 to
iir;88 he was one of the Trustees of the Vermont
Reform School, and in the year last naraed he
was one of the Presidential Electors who cast
the vote of Vermont for Harrison and Morton.
In 1890 Mr. Start was elected to represent the
town of Bakersfield in the Legislature, and at
the beginning of the session he was chosen
Speaker of the House of Representatives. At
the close of the session he was elected fifth
Assistant Judge of the Supreme Court without
opposition. His service on the bench, which
has continued as the result of unanimous
re-elections since 1890, has commended itself to
the entire bench of the state as excellent judi
cial work. Mr. Start was united in raarriage on
June 10, 1869, with Ellen S., daughter of
Stillraan S. and Sarah E. Houghton; their chil
dren are: S. Gould, Guy H., Mabel S., and
Bennett H. Start. Mrs. Start died July 12,
1890.

START, Henry R., Judge, Bakersfield, was
born in the town ofhis residence, Deceraber 28,
1845, son of Simeon Gould and Mary Sophia

STEWART, John Wolcott, Middlebury,
was born in that town, November 24, 1825, son

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of Ira and Elizabeth (Hubbell) Stewart. The
first ancestor of Governor Stewart's family on
the paternal side, whose record has been pre
served, was Robert Stuart, of Edinburgh,
Scotland. Samuel, a son of Robert Stuart,
eraigrated first to Londonderry, Ireland, and
later joined the historic Scotch-Irish colony
which crossed the Atlantic in the early part of
the eighteenth century and settled in London
derry, New Hampshire. He was a man of
marked characteristics, full of martial energy,
aud he took an active part in the French and
Revolutionary Wars. At the early age of fifteen
years, he killed an Indian in a notable fight in
the forest. Subsequently he became a member
of a courageous band of frontiersmen known as
Roger's Rangers. He accompanied the ill-
fated expedition of General Montgomery against
Quebec, and was in the immediate neighbor
hood of that gallant officer at the time of the
latter's death. He happened to be in Benning
ton paying his addresses to the lady who
afterward became his wife, when Burgoyne 's
invasion took place, and heat once volunteered
and led a company of patriot soldiers in the
decisive conflict which followed. John W.
Stewart prepared for matriculation in Mid
dlebury Acaderay and entered Middlebury
College from which he graduated in 1846.
Having chosen the law as his profession he
entered the office of Horatio Seymour in Mid
dlebury and remained there until January 1850,
when he was adraitted to the Bar of Addison
county. Coramencing practice at Middlebury,
he conducted his business alone until 1854,
when he formed a partnership with ex-United
States Senator Phelps, a relation that continued
until the death of the latter in April 1855. His
association with Senator Phelps proved to be
very valuable in many respects. Mr. Stewart
identified himself with the political affairs of
his state early in his professional career. In
the years 1852, 1853 and 1854 he held the office
of State's Attorney for Addison county. In
1856 he was elected to the Legislature as Rep
resentative of the Town of Middlebury, and he
served as Chairman of the Coraraittee on Rail
roads. His services proved to be so acceptable

to his constituents that he was re-elected in the
following year and reappointed as Chairman of
the Railroad Committee. In January 1857,
the State House at Montpelier was destroyed
by fire, and a strong movement was set on foot
to make Burlington the capital ofthe state. This
nioveraent Mr. Stewart resisted. Although
one of the raerabers frora the west side of the
state, he was influentially active in the legisla
tive debates on the question of removal and he
favored the retention of Montpelier as the capi
tal. His logic was weighty and powerful and
his services were largely instrumental in carry
ing the point in favor of the old location. In
1861 Mr. Stewart was elected to the State Senate
from Addison county and served in that body
on the Judiciary Committee. He was returned
to the Senate in 1862 and again served on the
Judiciary Committee as well as on the Commit
tee on Rules, of which he was Chairman. In
1864 he was returned to the House from Mid
dlebury, and he served on the Committee on
Joint Resolutions and Judiciary. In 1865, 1866
and 1867 he was a member of the House, and at
each session was elected Speaker. One of the
changes in the organic law of the state, effected
by the Constitutional Convention of 1870, was
that by which the biennial systera was adopted.
Mr. Stewart was the first Governor elected
under the new order of things, and he was chief
raagistrate of the state, to his and to its honor,
frora 1870 to 1872. He was again made a
raeraber of the House, and was again its model
Speaker. In 1882 Governor Stewart was elected
by the Republicans of the new First Congres
sional district to the Forty-Eighth Congress.
His long service in both branches of the Ver
mont Legislature and his excellent guberna
torial administration gave promise that was
amply fulfilled of good and influential service
in national legislation. He was re-elected to
Congress in 1884, 1886 and 1888. Since the
expiration of his eight years in Congress, Gov
ernor Stewart has returned to the practice of
law — to the work of a profession which he
adorns and whose members are his admirers
and friends. Governor Stewart has found time
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303

attention to the management of financial insti
tutions. He was chosen Director of the Middle
bury Bank as early as 1858, and for a number of
years prior to 1881 he served as President of
that institution with great acceptability. In
1 881 pressure of other engagements upon his
time forced him to decline re-election. Since
his retirement from Congress, Governor Stewart
has devoted his attention to railroad interests as
well as to other business affairs outside of his
professional practice. On November 21, i860.
Governor Stewart was united in marriage with
Emma, daughter of Philip and Emma Hart
Battell of Middlebury, a grand-daughter of the
late Hon, Horatio Seymour of Middlebury.
Five children were the fruit of their union, and
three of these, two daughters and one son, are
still living.

WALKER, Aldace Freeman, New York
city, was born in West Rutland, Vermont, May
II, 1842, son of Aldace and Mary (Baker)
Walker. He is of the eighth generation in
descent frora Richard Walker, who came from
England to America in 1630. His great-grand
father, Phineas Walker, saw service in the
Colonial and Revolutionary Wars, and was a
pioneer in the settlement of the Town of Strafford,
Vermont. His father. Reverend Aldace Walker,
D. D., was a well-known clergyman, eminent in
the Congregational Church of Vermont for
ability and high Christian character. Aldace F.
Walker received his early education in the local
schools, fitted for college at Kimball Union
Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, entered
Middlebury^ College in 1858, and graduated with
honor in August 1862. The War of the Rebel
lion was then in full progress, and obeying the
patriotic impulse which was taking the best young
blood of Vermont to the field for the defence of
the Union, young Walker had enlisted before
reaching the end of his college course. He took
his degree of A. B. in the uniform of the United
States Army, as Finst Lieutenant of Company B,
of the First Regiment of Verraont Heavy Artil
lery, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, and left
immediately for the rendezvous, and soon after

with the regiment for the field. He was
advanced to a Captaincy November 30, 1862;
was promoted Major June 28, 1864; was brevetted
Lieutenant-Colonel October ig, 1864, for gallant
and distinguished service in the battles in the
Shenandoah \'aUey; and commissioned as Lieu
tenant-Colonel, May 23, 1865; and was mustered
out June 24, 1865. His regiment was attached
to the First Vermont Brigade in May 1864, and
Colonel Walker participated in most of the prin
cipal battles in which the brigade and the Second
Division of the Sixth Army Corps took part dur
ing the last year ofthe War, including the battle

of Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, Washington,
Charlestown, Opequon, Fisher's Hill and Cedar
Creek. In the battle of the Opequon he ably
commanded the Eleventh Regiment. In the
battles of Charlestown, Fisher's Hill and Cedar
Creek he commanded the First Battalion of
the Eleventh, and in all these battles he
distinguished himself by his coolness, courage
and efficiency. After the close of the War he
studied law in the office of Senator George F.
Edmunds, in Burlington, for one year; finished
his law studies in New York city , was admitted
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practice in that city, in connection with the law
firra of Strong & Shepard. In 1870 he became a
partner in the firra, which did a large business, espe
cially in railroad litigations and determinations
of land titles. The firm becoming broken by the
death ofthe senior partner in 1873, Mr. Walker
removed to Rutland, Vermont, and became a
partner in the leading law firm of Prout, Simons
& Walker, which was counsel for many important
corporations, including the Delaware & Hud.son
Canal Company, the Vermont & Canada Rail
road, the bondholders of the Vermont Central
Railroad, and various banks and insurance com
panies. In 1 884 the firm became Prout & Walker,
Mr. Simons retiring. In 1884, Colonel Walker
was elected to the State Senate by the Republi
cans of Rutland county. He was Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee of that body and was a
wise and influential legislator. In 1887, upon
the organization of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, Mr. Walker was selected by Presi
dent Cleveland as one of the two Republican
raerabers of that important Comraission, charged
with the regulation of interstate transportation
throughout the United States. The duty com
mitted to it was new, involving novel legal
questions and perplexing problems relating to
rates, discriminations and other intricate and
important matters. In the organization of its
work and in the discharge of its duties. Colonel
Walker was one of the most industrious and effi
cient members of the Commission. In 1889, he
resigned from it, in order to accept the Chair
manship of the Interstate Commerce Railway
Association, composed of the various railroad
lines west of Chicago. In this responsible posi
tion and as Chairman of the Western Traffic
Association and ofthe Joint Traffic Association,
he was occupied for four years, having his head
quarters in Chicago, and winning increasing
reputation and influence. In 1894 he was
appointed Receiver of the Atchison & Topeka
Railroad Company and upon the termination ot
the Receivership was made Chairman of the
Executive Board of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railway System, covering over six
thousand miles of track, extending through
twelve states and territories, and having annual

earnings of upwards of thirty millions of dollars.
It is the second railway in the United States in
mileage, and Colonel Walker's position is second
in respon.sibility and importance to no other in
the land, with perhaps a single exception. He
is, it is needless to say, a man of marked execu
tive ability and he has won an enviable national
reputation as a railroad manager and financier.
His headquarters and residence are in Ne-^ York
city. In 1869 Colonel Walker published "The
Vermont Brigade in the Shenandoah Valley," a
volume of graphic descriptions of service in the
War for the Union. In addition to his opinions
comprised in the first two volumes of the Reports
of the Interstate Commerce Commission, he has
published numerous articles in the Forum and
other magazines, on railway legislation and
kindred topics. He has been President of the
Reunion Society of Vermont Officers, and Com
mander of the Illinois Commandery of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion . He received
the degree of Doctor of Laws from Middlebury
College in 1887. September 6, 1874, he was
married at Wallingford, Vermont, to Miss
Katherine, daughter of Hudson and Diantha
(Roberts) Shaw. Four children were the fruit
of this union: Richard, deceased; Roberts, Har
old and Ruth Walker.

MORTON, Levi Parsons, a distinguished
representative of the Green Mountain State, and
Ex-Vice-President of the United States, was
born in Shoreham, Addison county, Verraont,
May 16, 1824, and was the youngest son of Rev
erend Daniel Oliver Morton. He is a direct
descendant of George Morton, of Bawtry, York
shire, England, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who
landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, from the
ship Ann, in 1623. His father, a noble, earnest
man of the old school, had a salary of but six
hundred a year, and yet managed to give each
of his children, six in number, a good education.
The raiddle name of the subject of this sketch
was given him in honor of his mother's brother.
Reverend Levi Parsons, who was the first Amer
ican missionary that went to Palestine, and a
man who left the impress of his strong intellec-

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tual ability and Christian energy upon the times
in which he lived. Mr. Morton was educated
at the academy in his native town, and then
chose a mercantile career. When twenty years
old he began business at Hanover, New Hamp
shire, remaining there about five years. In
1849 he became connected with the house of
James M. Beebe & Company, in Boston, as a
clerk, and was admitted to partnership at the
same time that Mr. Morgan, the successor of
George Peabody & Company, of London, joined
the firm. Five years later he went to New
York and established the dry goods comraission

LEVI P. MORTON.
)iouse of Morton & Grinnell. In 1863 he went
into the banking business, establishing the well
known house of Morton, Bliss & Company, and
in connection with Sir John Rose, who was at
one time financial minister of Canada, he founded
the house of Morton, Rose & Company, of Lon
don, England. Mr. Morton was a careful student
ofthe financial transactions of the government,
and his firm was one of the syndicates which so
successfully assisted in funding the national debt
and making the resumption of specie payment
possible at a fixed rate. The London house
were the first fiscal agents of the United States

government from 1873 until 1884, and were
reappointed in 1889. In the negotiation of the
United States bonds and the payment of the
Geneva award of fifteen millions fi-^'C hundred
thousand dollars and the Halifax fishery award of
five millions five hundred thousand dollars, Mr.
Morton's firms were especially active. In 1878
President Hayes appointed him Honorary Com
missioner of the United States to the Paris
Exhibition, and in that same year he was elected
to the Forty-Sixth Congress from the Eleventh
District in New York, defeating his opponent, a
Tammany Democrat, by seven thousand votes.
He was returned in 1880 by a largely increased
vote. He represented in Congress the wealthi
est district in the United States, and in the con
scientious attention to the interests of his con
stituency, as well as those of the State at large,
Mr, Morton found himself a very busy man.
His experience in finance made him naturally a
leader in this branch of legislation, and he was
promptly accorded a prominent place among his
associates at the national capital. In him was
found that happy corabination of the character
istics of the patriot, the gentleman and the
business man. He was a diligent worker in
Congress and rendered effective service on sev
eral occasions in shutting off undesirable legis
lation. He strongly opposed the unlimited
coinage of silver in 1879, and characterized the
measure then before the House as a "bill for
the relief of owners of silver mines and silver
bullion in the United States and Europe." His
speeches on "Fish and Fish Culture, its Import
ance to the Industries andWealth ofthe Nation, ' '
and on "Immigration, Its National Character
and Importance to the Industries and Develop
ment of the Country," are marked examples of
the attitude Mr. Morton took on the great ques
tions of the day, an attitude looking toward the
best interests of the country as a whole. He
was always deeply interested in international
politics and the relations of the United States
with other countries, and served as a meraber of
the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the Forty-
Sixth Congress. The nomination for the Vice-
Presidency was informally tendered him at
Chicago in 1880, but he declined it, preferring

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to remain in Congress. Subsequently he was
given his choice between a place in the Cabinet
as Secretary of the Navy and the French mis
sion, and chose the latter. His credentials were
presented to the French government on August
I, 1 88 1, and the manner in which he filled that
iraportant position won for hira the good opinion
of the people of both that country and this. He
was able to secure the removal ofthe restrictions
upon the importation of American pork to France,
and was able to bring about also the recognition
of American corporations in that country. Mr.
Morton drove the first rivet in the Bartholdi
statue of "Liberty Enlightening the World,"
and had the honor of accepting it for his gov
ernment. He represented the United States at
the Paris Electrical Exposition and the Sub-
Marine Cable Convention. In 1885, after the
inauguration of President Cleveland, he resigned
his mission and returned horae. At the Repub
lican National Convention in Chicago, in 1888,
he was norainated for the Vice-Presidency, and
was inaugurated in March of the following year.
As a presiding officer of the Senate he discharged
his duties in a raost able, irapartial and dig
nified way. At the Grand Army Encampment in
Washington, in 1882, and at the dedicatory service
ofthe World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago
in 1892, he made the addresses of welcome.
It is probable, however, that Mr. Morton has
rendered the most eminent public service, as
Governor of the great State of New York, a
position to which he was nominated by universal
demand of a united Republican party and the
independent electorate of the state, and to
which office he was elected in the autumn of
1894 by one of the very largest majorities ever
given a gubernatorial candidate. It is accounted
by many that as Governor of the Empire State,
the incumbent attains greater distinction than
even a Vice-President of the United States.
Certain it is that in this office the full measure
of Mr. Morton's statesmanship, ripe judgment
and really judicial temperament were displayed,
exhibiting to the people a firmness tempered by
absolute fairness, a character flawless in its pro

bity; vigilant oversight of the acts of subordinate
public servants, observing himself and demand
ing from others a strict accountability to the
people ; in fine, an entire safeguarding of the
fair fame of the Commonwealth. As Governor
of New York, during the years i8g5-g6, the
texture of his brain was so vigorous that he was
never deceived in regard to either the utility or
usefulness of public measures. Of his judgment,
while filling this office, it will sufficiently serve
to note, and in timely fashion, his unalterable
purpose, when, despite irruption of politicians,
hardly beset by local influences, he withheld
executive approval from numerous bills enacted,
contemplating construction of Armories for use
of the State Guard, in impossible places, thus
saving a large amount of money to the State,
and the wisdom of which has been shown recently
by the utter unpreparedness in some of the pre
sumably efficient commands in large armories
throughout the State. The strength ofhis quality
was tested upon raany occasions but always his
will prevailed. Many of his public papers will
live with the best in the archivesof the State, and
all are noted for clearness and coherence. The
cordial approval given by the people generally to
Mr. Morton upon his retirement from public office
was extorted by recognition of his real merit,
and history will forever condemn the falsification
that his wealth was his platform, and place him
among the strong and honorable raen of his time.
Mr. Morton has always been noted for his hos
pitality, and is a generous giver to worthy
causes, his beneficence being especially felt in
connection with the sending of stores for the
relief of the starving people in Ireland, and the
movement for the assistance of five hundred
destitute workingmen and their farailies, at
Rockaway Beach, at the time of the failure of
the Improvement Company of that place. On
July 14, 1881, Dartraouth College conferred upon
him the degree of Doctor of Laws, and in the
following year Middlebury College remembered
him with a similar honor. Mr. Morton married,
in 1873, Anna L- Street, and has five children :
Edith, Lena, Helen, Alice and Mary Morton.

ADDENDA AND ERRATA.

Child, A, P., pp. 1S8, 189. In first hne the name
Parmelee should be Parmalee, and in last line in 2nd col
umn afterthe words Castleton, Vermont, insert: She was
the widow of Carlos S. Sherman, Esq., former President
of the Rutland and Castleton banks, and President of
the Marble Company, and for a long time business part
ner of United States Senator Eedfleld Proctor.
Heaton, Homer ^V., pp. 297, 298, on page 298, fourth
line, 2nd column, after the Trust Company, insert: The
oldest Trust Company in Vermont; in the 28th line
erase: Through coming generations; and in the .32nd and
33d lines should read: Of whom two are now living :
Charles H., and .Tames S. Heaton.
MoERLs, Ephe.^im, pp. 118, 119, under cut Eparaim
should be Ephraim.

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Canfield, Thos. H  271
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Carpenter, 0. H  54
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Crane, Willard  57
Cross, A, L,, Sketch only  259
Currier, George K  99
Cushman, Harry T  230
Cushman, Henry T  141
Deal, T. M  292
Dana, Chas  5.53
Dana, Edward  100
Darling, K. A,, Sketch only  256
Darling, J. K  100
Darhng, J. R  102
Davis, Geo. F  190
Davis, Gilbert A  142
Deavitt, T. J  143
DeBoer, Joseph A  58
Denison, D, C  190

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Denison, Joseph D  58
Derby, Albert  13
Dewey, Charles  59
Dewey, George  278
Dewey, Wm. S  191
Dillingham, W. P  102
Dodge, G. M  279
Dodge, Joseph S  103
Eastman, S. N  143
Eaton, Dorman B  60
Eaton, Herbert T  144
Eaton, J. C  192
Edson, Franklin  62
Enright, J. C  145
Estey, J. J  104
Fairbanks, Edward T  192
Fairbanks, Henry  146
Fairman, Erastus P  14
Farnham, Roswell  293
Farrington, Willard, Portrait only  2.59
Field, Fred G  105
Field, H. F  295
Fifield, B. F  193
Fish, E. J  240
Flagg, Jno. H  296
Flanders, A. B., Portrait only  284
Flanders, W. G. E  238
Fhnn, Silas W  239
FHnt, Wyman, Sketch only  257
Folsom,,!. D  14
Foss, J. M  240
Francisco, M. J  106
French, W. (i.. Sketch only  260
Frye, James N  241
George, E. P  107
Gillette, H. H  108
Gilmore, C. C, Portrait only  259
Gilson, E. P  243
Gleason, J. T  109
Gleason, James JNI  147
Gleed, P. K  15
Gordon, John W  2,S2
Goss, E. J  110
Gould, 0. B., Portrait only  260
Gray, Horatio N  63
Graves, George F  62
Greene, C. L  Ki
Grout, Josiah  14,S
Grout, Theophilus  150
Grout, Wm. W  150
Guild, G. 0  148
Hackett, C H  195
Hall, A. A., Sketch only  2(i4
Hall, A. C. A., Sketch only  283
Hall, Alfred S  64
Hall, Henry W  Ill

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Hal!, Thomas B  Ill
Hall, W. H. H  196
Harman, George W  17
Harman, H. A  112
Harris, Broughton D  19
Hartshorn, James E  16
Haskins, Kittredge  64
Hawkes, WiUiam E  66
Heath, A. H  113
Heaton, Homer W  297
Hendee, George W  198
Hemenway, L. H  197
Henry, Hugh  67
Hobart, JohnW  20
Holbrook, Frederick  67
Holmes, H. D  114
Holton, Henry D  69
Houghton, C. E  1.51
Howard, 0. 0  199
Hoyt, C A  201
Huse, Hiram A  70
Ide, Henry C  202
Jenne, J.N  243
Jennings, F. B  203
Jeudevine, Alden E  22
Jewett, E. W  204
Johnson, Jesse  1.52
.Tohnson, William B  21
Jones, J. C, Portrait only  261
Jones, J. H  153
Kelley, Barney F  71
Kemp D. G  244
Kennedy, F. C  204
Kidder, Fred T  72
Kimball, E. J  115
Kingsley, D. P  233
Kingsley, L. G  115
Knott, E. E  154
Landon, Warren C  72
Larner, Thomas, Sketch only  260
Lasher, F  74
Lathrop, E. jNI  74
Lathrop, John B  23
Leslie, C. B  155
Lewis, H, E  117
Linehan, J. H  156
Lord, William A  245
Martin, Frank .1  75
Mason, C, H  75
Mattison, Fred. L., Sketch only  283
Maynard, S. E  157
Mayo, William B., Sketch only  257
McCullough, John G  24
McFeeters, E  246
McGettrick, F. VV  206
McKenzie, WalterF  206

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McMahon, C. L  158
McWhorter, Frank  25
Mead, John A  158
Merrill, 0  160
Miller, Ira 0  207
Milliken, C. W  1(50
Minard, W. F  208
Moore, George P  161
Moore, Warren  246
Morgan, JohnC  ILS
Morrill, Justin S  7(i
Morris, Ephraim  118
Morton, Levi P  304
Munson, Loveland, Sketch only  298
Newton, George H  209
Nichols, George  26
Orvis F. H  256
O'Sulhvan, D. J  162
Page, C. S  163
Page, Frank W  119
Page, ,Tohn B  120
Parker, J. C  163
Parker, M. M  164
Partridge, F. C  209
Peabody, Daniel P  27
Pease, A. C,, Sketch only  266
Peck, Cassius  77
Peck, Edw. S  284
Peck, Hamilton S  78
Peck, 0. W  122
Peck, Theodore S  233
Pelton, E. M., Portrait only  262
Peterson, C. G  166
Phelps, E. J  299
Phillips, G. W  167
Phillips, W. S  210
Pierce, F. W  28
Pingree, S. E  29
Pitkin, C, H., Sketch only  263
Pitkin, C. P., Sketch only  259
Poland, Joseph  211
Pond, E, M  16,S
Potter, Henry J  123
Powers, I-L H  212
Proctor, Eedfield,  213
Puffer, N. M  79
Putnam, W. E  -  214
Quimby, L. K  124
Randall, W. B  30
Eanlett, D, D  31
Eead, Lavant M  168
Rich, W. B  125
Eichardson, A. S., Portrait only  260
Eipley, Edward H  125
Eobb, C. H  286
Eoberts, C. W. , Portrait only  283

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Roberts, Daniel  169
Eobertson, J(3hn  172
Eobertson, Nathaniel  172
Rogers, Lyman  80
Root, H. G., Sketch only  264
Eoss, H. H  :i2
Ross, .Jonathan  :  ]2(i
Eowell, John W  173
Rutherford, J. C  215
Eyder, Herbert D  ;53
Sawyer, Edward B  248
Severance, JI. L  33
Shattuck, E. D., Portrait only  265
Sheldon, John A  216
Sherwood, Ealpli  127
Sias, Charles D., Sketch only  261
Sibley, Simeon M  34
Smilie, Melville E  35
Smith, F. C  251
Smith, Fred. E  218
Smith, W. Tracy  81
Snyder, P. M  174
Southwick, J. L  217
Sowles, Edward A  128
Sparhawk, George E. E., Sketch only  262
Sparhawk, S. H., Portrait only  266
Speare, Alden  174
Stacy, Wm. C  219
Start, Henry E  301
Stevens, C H  36
Stevens, C. P  254
Stewart, Chester L  247
Stewart, J. W., Sketch only  301
Stoddard, Charles J  176
Stone, A. F  129
Stone, H. M  37
Stranahan, F. S  130
Sturtevant, E. 0,, Portrait only  263
Swett, L. J  252
Taft, Eussell S  130
Thomas, Stephen  249
Thompson, L. H  131
Thomson, J. E  220
Tiffany, Eli  37
Tinker, Charles A  81
Tinkham, H. C, Portrait only  264
Tracy, J. Evarts,  221
Turner, H. N  41
Tupper, Almon P  38
Tuttle, E. C  40
Tuttle, Frank W  41
Twitehell, F. F  222
Tyler, James M  235
Upham, Edward F., Sketch only  265
Valentine, A. B  42
Veazey, W. G  223

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Waite, H, N  83
Walker, Aldace F  303
Warren, C. C  43
Watson, A. E  177
Waugh, T. E  178
Wells, B. H  85
Wells, William  85
Wetherbee, T. J  236
Wheeler, H, H  179
Wheelock, Edwin  8S
Whitcomb, Jl. S  44

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White, F. D  225
White, H. A  224
White, H. C, Sketch only  2(i3
AVhiteliill, H. C  252
AVicker, C, M  22(i
Williams, X, (i  i;!2
Winch, John H  180
Wing, George W  250
Woodhouse, Chas. W  44
Wright, George M  88

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