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http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924028837800 THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL SOUVENIR

OF

BETHEL, VERMONT.

Containing a Brief History of the Eari^y Settlement of the Town, The Schools, Churches, Medical and IvEGal Professions, Old Families, Business and Manufacturing Interests, Together with Portraits and Biographies OF the Citizens, Past and Present.

In presenting this volume to the public, the publishers have labored earnestly and faithfully to arrange the available material in a manner to interest the people of Bethel. The citizens whose portraits adorn this

work, by their public spirit and liberality have enabled us to complete this book, and to them we

. . . extend our thanks. . . .

COMPILED AND ARRflNQED BY PRED G. COX

BETHEL, VERMONT.

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his request, and excused from future charges, BETHEL on his resigning his right to this body. No adventurer to be admitted but by consent of the body, except by purchase from some of us. By William R. Adams. Signed at Hanover, State of New Hamp- X> ETHEL is claimed to be the first town shire, the day and year aforesaid. -Lj in Windsor County, chartered the by John Payne, Benj. Day, State of Vermont. There were several towns John Ordway, Joshua Hendee, chartered or organized before by either New Comfort Sever, Pelatiah Bliss, Samuel Payne, Hampshire or New York authorities. Bethel Joshua Loveland, Aaron Storrs. Simeon Curtis, is the most northwesterly town in the county John Payne, Jr., Sylvanus Owen, —except Rochester, is bounded on the north Abel Curtis, Samuel Curtis, by Randolph in Orange County, on the east Jehial Woodard, Asa Grosvenor, by Royalton, on the south by Stockbridge, Lemuel 'Payne, Solomon Cushman. on the west by Rochester. It also corners At a meeting held December 30th follow- with Braintree on the northwest, Tunbridge ing, it was- voted that a petition be pre- on the northeast, Barnard on the southeast sented to the Honorable Council of Safety and Pittsfield on the southwest, and covers for the State of Vermont, for a charter of a an area of six miles square, and was made up certain tract of land lying in the northwest- from a portion of Royalton and a portion of erly part of Royalton, and that part of Mid- what was then called Middlesex, as will be dlesex adjoining, two and one-half miles in seen from the following -' Articles of Agree- width, from Royalton, the whole to contain ment," etc., made at a meeting at Hanover, about six miles square. At a meeting De- N. H., December 29, 1777, and on later cember 31st following, among other votes dates. passed was the following : That the number '"'We, the subscribers, desirous to form set- of proprietors for the township proposed, tlements on White River and its branches in should not exceed thirty, till the minds of the northwesterly part of Royalton and that the or Council part of Middlesex which abuts on the convention of Safety for the northwesterly of said Royalton, being con- State of Vermont may be known in the affair. vened this 29th day of December, 1777, to Also voted that Bethel be put into the prepare the way for carrying the same into petition proposed to be transmitted to said execution, do enter into the following arti- Council, as a name for said town. Then the cles of stipulation and agreement with each other. Namely following petition was agreed to Article ist. —No pitch shall be made by '^ To the Honorable Council of Safety for the the consent of the ma- :'' any person without State of Vermont jority of such of us as shall be regularly con- " vened for transacting matters relative to said The petition of us, the subscribers, in- settlement, and in such a manner as the ma- habitants of the State of New Hampshire ad- jority shall direct. joining Connecticut River,

Article 2d. —The expenses of such meas- " Humbly Sheweth : as shall be directed by a majority of this ures That your petitioners desirous to make set- adventurers shall be defrayed by the body of tlements on White River and its branches, assessed according to his whole, each being in the northwesterly part of the township of interest therein. Royalton, in said State of Vermont, and that Article 3d. — Measures necessary to be part of Middlesex which adjoins thereto, have pursued to effect the settlement proposed, associated together, under certain articles of shall be directed in such manner as is usual regulations in order to prepare the way for at proprietor's meetings, for which purpose and carry the same into execution. That we we-agree to choose such officers as are usual understand said lands were granted by the late at those meetings, as we shall find occasion. Governor of New York (counter to royal This convention to be considered as the first proclamation) to certain persons, the greatest meeting. part of whom have now joined or put them- Article 4th. —Any person signing these selves under the protection of the enemies of articles may, at any meeting, be dismissed on the United States. That there is no pros- pect that any part of said land will be settled committee was the following : To go to Brat- by any of said grantees, and that your peti- tleboro and see Colonel Wells, and enquire tioners would willingly become obligated to of him who were owners of land in said tract settle said lands if we could be assured of ob- taining a good title thereto on reasonable and see if they- could be bought. Also, if terms, and have the same incorporated into thought best, to proceed to State of New distinct and separate towns. York, see people there, also Governor Liv- Y&ur petitioners, therefore, humbly pray ingston and procure as many lots as possi- that an order be issued by the Council of ble. price Safety for the State of Vermont, that no per- The mentioned by them as what son or persons whatsoever make a pitch, or they thought a fair valuation was for the lots take possession of anv of said lands but such adjacent to the river, twelve shillings per as shall associate with us for the purpose of acre in gold or silver, or its equivalent in settling there. That a charter of incorpora- tion be granted to us as soon as the circum- English money, and for the back lots not so stances of said state will admit, of that tract high. Also appointed John Payne an agent which will be formed by taking a tract two to attend the Assembly of the State of Ver- and one-half miles wide from the north- mont at Windsor in March following, to at- westerly end of Royalton and uniting it with that part of Middlesex which adjoins north- tend to affairs relating to the proposed town- westerly thereon. That we may be assured ship of Bethel. that the fee of such parcels of land therein Mr. Curtis iiiade his report March 17 of contained as shall become forfeit to the State, his doings, etc. shall be granted to us and our associates on reasonable terms. And that the said tract "That agreeable to iny instructions I when so incorporated by charter into a dis- called on Colonel Wells of Brattleborough, tinct and separate town be known by the who informed me that he could not abso- lutely name of Bethel, and your petitioners as in determine who were the proprietors of duty bound shall ever pray, etc." Middlesex, but thought that Mr. Bangor owned a considerable part of it,, and also Dated at Hanover, State of New Hamp- Mr. Kelley and Mr. Kemp. I asked the shire, January ist, 1778. Colonel if he did not think that he had any Signed by the eighteen whose names ap- writings by him which might better inform. pear attached to the foregoing Articles of The Colonel answered that he believed Agreement, etc. he had some of Mr. Gate's writing and It seems from the foregoing that the grant he would see. He accordingly found in Mr. Gate's account book that fronj the Governor of New York was to per- he had charged Mr. Bangor and Mr. Kelly for surveying sons known in those days as " Tories," the 6,000 acres each in Middlesex, which was all date of the same is not known. It was also the account he could find. He further added voted at a meeting held February 11, 1778, that Mr. Bangor would, no doubt, better in- form in the matter to admit members to the number of fifty, re- me and that I might likely find him at Rhinebeck. I accordingly con- cinding the previous vote to have but thirty, cluded to steer my course directly for Rhine-

and the - following were admitted : Colonel beck, where, having arrived, I was informed Joseph Marsh, Captain Abel Marsh, Stephen lie was gone to Livingston Manor, to pay a Tilden, John Woodard, Samuel Thing, Jere- visit to Mr. John Smith, who was resident there as a prisoner. 1 then went to the miah Trescott and Samuel Hunt. Also voted Manor where I found both those gentlemen to choose an agent to enquire into the rights together. I enquired of them if either of and claims of the lands contained within the them were proprietors of Middlesex, they supposed limits of said town, and apply to said they were not and did not own any land at all in that township. I told Mr. Bangor gentlemen in New York for information what Colonel Wells informed me, he said he therein, and to procure or engage a number could answer that Mr. Clark, a gentleman of lots necessary to accommodate said town in England, owned the 6,000 acres and he which are supposed to belong to persons acted only as his attorney. I asked those gentlemen if they could inform me who were friendly to the country. Also voted to raise the other proprietors of Middlesex. They a tax of two dollars on each proprietor to de- said they believed that Mr. Kelly and IVIr. fray expenses. Elected Abel Curtis such Kemp of New York owned a considerable agent, and Colonel Joseph Marsh, Captain part of it, and they thought Mr. Hicks did likewise, but were not Abel Marsh and Deacon John Ordway a certain. I asked if Governor Livingston did not own some. committee to give general instructions to They said they thought not. I then told Mr. Curtis. Among the instructions of this them that a number of people had agreed to :

form a settlement on the upper part of Roy- At same meeting the following were ad- alton and a part of Middlesex, if tliey could mitted as proprietors : Ichabod Palmer, purchase the land at a reasonable rate, and John as I understood they owned a number of lots Weed, TJiomas Pitkin, ZebuIonLyon, George in the upper part of Royalton, I desired to Eager, Medad Benton, Joel Marsh, Samuel know whether they would sell them. I Slade, Elisha Marsh. found that they would not sell for the cur- rent money, yet they would take gold or sil- At a meeting March 25th, 1778, John ver at a future day, or the then current Payne made his report as follows, being a money equal in value thereto. I demanded copy of^the resolve their price for the lots specified in my instruc- obtained from General tions. They said eighteen shillings per Assembly

BETHEL VILLAGE— 1895. acre for the interval lots, and fourteen shil- State op }_ In General Assembly, lings per acre for the others. Told them it Vermont. \ Windsor, March 18, 1778. was dearer than I expected and declined purchasing at that time, but got the refusal Upon the petition of John Payne, John of them until ijth of June next." Ordway, Comfort Sever and their associates, praying to be assured that they The proprietors were satisfied with Mr. shall have the refusa;l of as much of the lands therein Curtis' report and allowed him his bill for the described as shall be granted to them on same, as follows : reasonable terms and incorporated into a distinct separate To 18 days service, at 9 s per day, ;^ 820 and town, as by the petition on file, bearing To expense, 15 8 o date January ist, J778, may appear. To the hire of a horse, 5 5° To incidental- ^barges, 150 Therefore, Resolved, By the Assembly that the above named, John Payne, John £30 o o Ordway, Comfort Sever and their associates ; :

—provided they are forty-six in number, be- upper bouAds of Royalton, so hired Esq. sides is what hereafter reserved for public Marsh of Sharon, to show them. They then uses, viz. : One right or share for the first run a line around a tract six miles square. settled minister, one for the parsonage, one They then " the land, especi- for schools, and four hundred acres which is took a "view of reserved in the southwest corner of said town, ally the intervale land, (the land along the in square form, for the use of a college—can rivers), and they judged that there would be be assured that the rest of the lands above nearly twenty acres to a proprietor. They referred to — shall be granted to them agreeable did not lay out lots this time. this to the tenor of their said request at the any at At appraisal of indifferent (as wild land) meeting it swas voted to allow the " Hon. men , when the circumstances of the State will Joseph Marsh and Abel Marsh the privilege admit of its being done with propriety on — of purchasing at their own risk and for their condition of one settler being settled on each own use the lot No. of Mr. Bangor, and private share in two years after granted—the 56, said petitioners advancing the sum of two one-half of lot No, 55 adjoining it, which

thousand dollars on loan, into the loan office, included a mill place ; said lot belonging to which shall hereafter be established in this Governor Livingston—on condition that they State (agreeable to the proposal of their agent become obligated to build a good saw mill to this Assembly) within two months alter such loan office shall be properly created. and grist mill on said mill place, as soon as Passed in the House of Representatives. the circumstances of said town will possibly Benj. Bawlding, Clerk. admit." Voted, That the intervale land, except what The above was accepted by the proprietors was included in above vote, be equally divided and Payne"s bill allowed at It was also .^30. among the proprietors. voted that said Payne have the privilege of At a meeting June 30, 1778, it was voted making the first pitch (first choice of lots) in " that there shall be a convenient passable the first division, he to settle on the same as road cut from the Royalton line up White soon as other settlers did. It was also voted river to the third Branch, then to extend up committee to appoint a to assess the pro- said branch to the northerly line of said town. prietors for the purpose of raising the ^2,000 The committee for dividing the lots made

into the loan office ; it assessed to pay was at their report, and another committee was ap- per proprietor. There was also a com- ^44 pointed to draw by "lottery" for the pro- mittee of five appointed to make up the prietors. There was also at this time the membership or number of proprietors to the bill of the committee for laying out the lots required number, as a number of the old handed in, which was for 199 pounds, 2 .shil- ones had withdrawn from the association. It lings, o pence. One charge in the bill was appears that in this affair, as it has often in "To cash paid for liquor, 15 pounds"—about many others since, that some of the would-be $75. They evidently did not go dry all the proprietors did not pay their assessments time. so on the 28th day of April, it was 1778, Captain Abel Marsh, who had been ap- fix the time at May next follow- voted to 19 pointed agent for purchasing land of Gover- ing, and to dispose of said delinquent rights nor Livingston and others, reported as fol- other persons, if not paid by that time. to lows, that he saw the parties and procured A committee was also appointed at this time the following agreement to " run a line around the proposed town of "Manor of Livingston, 25 Feb., 1778. Bethel, and view said township, and make "We agree to convey to Abel Curtis, that report to the proprietory." This committee is to say, I, Goldsbrow Bangor, the lots in also was instructed to lay out lots of not Royalton, distinguished in the map thereof as the Great Lots, numbers more than 150 or less than 100 acres. 56 and 57, 44, 45, 46 and 54,—and I, William Smith, those Capt. Aaron Storrs was at this time in- other Great Lots in said town, distinguished structed to pay in the ^£2.000 to the loan by the numbers 47. 48, 43 and 52, if the said shall office at a meeting held May 19, 1778. Abel by the fifteenth day of June next, enter into bond to us respectively, The above committee made their report. for our respective lots, for the payment of eighteen They had engaged Mr. Zenas Coleman as shillings per acre for the lots 56 and 57, 47 their surveyor. They could not find the and 48, and fourteen shillings per acre for : : )

the remaining lots. Payable in four years another lottery and draw the lots in Bethel from the date hereof in silver or gold, or in aforesaid," which was done. any other current money of the colony of The bond or agreement given by the New New York equal in value thereto with lawful interest for two of the said years, which said York parties to Abel Curtis and others for sums shall be further secured by mortgages sale of their lots, was about this time trans- in of law, due form immediately after the ex- ferred to the proprietors. ecution of the deeds conveying the said lots, The following is a copy of the loan office and such deeds are not to be executed until the same are required by the said parties in certificate for the two thousand dollars re- six months after the present troubles in North ferred to America are ended, and it is to be under- " Norwich, State of Vermont, stood that the vendors will give warrantees 20th IVIay, 1778. and covenant on the sales in fee simple, ex- j cept against the proportion of quit-rent re- Received of Captain Aaron Storrs of served due and to become due on the said Dresden, treasurer for the proprietors of the

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lots which the purchaser is to be answerable township called Bethel, in said state, two for and covenant to pay." thousand dollars, on loan, for the term of one year with interest at six per cent. I Then follows prices of lots and receipts for say re- ceived by me, as an assistant trustee of the payment of same. Also the following loan ofl^ce for said state, in behalf of Ira " The proprietors of town of Bethel to Allen, trustee for said office. Abel Marsh, Dr., to time, expenses, and the Peter Olcutt. use of a horse on business for said proprie- a 9th, tors to the state of New York and the Jer- At meeting November 1778, it was sies, thirty pounds." voted to raise a tax of $4 on each proprietor

It appears that some mistake was found in to pay for cutting a road through the town. lottery drawing of lots, and that some did December ist, 1778, the proprietors voted not get their rights and were consequently to appoint Jtihn Payne, Lieutenant Slafter, di-ssatisfied, so at meeting, July 24, 1778, a Captain Woodard, Captain Storrs, and Cap- new committee was appointed to " make tain House (titles seem to have been very common) a standing committee to manage worked on the roads by the proprietors and look after the interests of the same, with thereof. power to purchase land, exchange proprie- December 13, 1779. Voted that Colonel tors, make roads, etc. At a subsequent Joel Marsh be admitted as a proprietor, and meeting among other reports made by them the said Marsh to accept the mill lot of 450 was the following : "That having informa- acres as his full share in said township, he to tion that a certain Widow Woman in the pay his proportion of taxes, etc. Also to city of Albany, owned land, etc., etc.'' build a good sawmill by the first day of^ep- At a meeting April 6, 1779, the above tember next, and a good gristmill by the first committee reported that they had "signed a day of November following, upon the forfeit- petition to the Council and Assembly of the ure of five thousand pounds, extraordinary State of New Hampshire, praying, in case the grants west of Connecticut River should providences excepted. belong to New Hampshire, that the fee of such lands as might belong to the state may CHARTER OF BETHEL. be granted to us and our associates on rea- sonable terms, and that a charter of incorpo- ration of said Bethel be granted us and our STATE OF VERMONT. associates at a proper time, etc., at which time we advanced nine dollars to defray the expense of tiling said petition."

At the same meeting it was voted that to encourage settlers in said township, that those who would move with a family onto their rights the ensuing summer, should be entitled to the privilege of making a pitch (choice) of the second 100 acre lots. Also the same privilege to those without families who should get at least four acres of their land under proper improvements. Also voted that, THE GOVERNOR, COUNCIL AND GENERAL

" Any person who will raise 1,000 apple ASSEMBLY OF THE REPRESENTATIVES trees in said town, fit for setting out in five OF THE FREEMEN OF VERMONT. years shall be entitled to one hundred acres of wild land in said town gratis." To all People to whom these presents shall come. At this time there comes in something pertaining to the religious welfare of the Greeting. community. Know ye.: That, whereas it has been "Whereas, different parties and secreta- represented to us by our friends, John Payne ries in religion often prove very detrimental and John House and their associates, that to the growth and wellbeing of societies, there is a tract or parcel of vacant land lying which as much as possible to prevent." within this state, which has not been hereto- " Voted, that this proprietory will use every fore granted, which they pray may be granted prudent and reasonable measure to discoun- to them. We have, therefore, thought fit for tenance and hinder the introducing of such the due encouragement of settling a new persons or settlers, etc., who may be likely to plantation within this state, and other valua- create parties and divisions in said town, and ble considerations as hereunto moving, and so far as may be, we will adhere to what is do by these presents in the name and by the commonly called the Congregational form of authority of freemen of the State of Vermont, worship and church government in said give and grant unto the said John Payne, township." John House, and the several persons here- after named, their associates (viz.) Dudley September 7, 1 779. Appointed John Chase, Benjamin Smith, Simeon Chase, John agent, to wait on the General Assem- Payne Hibbard, Mathias Stone, Benjamin Chase, bly of the State of Vermont. About this Asa Edgerton, Samuel Peak, William Chap- time the custom of " working on the high- lin, Samuel Chase, Paul McKinstrv, Ralph Wheelock, John Ordaway, Solomori Chase, way " came into fashion, as it had been James Treadway, Solomon Cleveland, Labern voted at one time that four days and soon Gates, Benajah Strong, Thomas Putnam, after two days work on each right should be Rice Wheeler, Seth Chase, Samuel Stone, William Lyon, David Copeland, Samuel To be divided into fifty-two equal shares, and Webster, Irad Smith, John Throop, Timo- that the same be, and is hereby incorporated thy Bush, John Payne, Jr., John Cook, Zebu- into a township by the name of Bethel. Ion Lyon, Joel Marsh, Ebenezer Putnam, And that the inhabitants that do or shall John Terry, John Morse, John Cooper, hereafter inhabit the said township are de- Thomas Bingham, Asa Parker, Stephen clared to be enfranchised and entitled to all Child, Benjamm Crane, Joseph Tilden, Jere- and every one of the privileges and immuni- miah Trescott, Daniel Kenney, Solomon ties that other towns within this state do by Strong and William Chaplin, Jr. Together law exercise and enjoy. with five equal shares to be appropriated to To have and to hold the said described tract public uses as follows (viz.) : First, one of land as above expressed, together share for the use of a seminary or college in with all privileges and appertinances to them this state. One share for the first settled and their respective heirs and assigns for- minister or ministers of the gospel, to be dis- ever, upon the following conditions and res- posed of for that purpose as the town shall ervations, viz. -. direct. One share for the perpetual use and /hprimis^-Thzt each proprietor of the support of the ministry of said town. One township of Bethel aforesaid, cultivate five

VIEW OF RIVER STREET FROM THE EAST HILL. share for the county grammar school, acres on his share in said town, within the throughout this state, and one share for the term of three years from the date of this use and support of a school or schools within grant, and .build a house at least eighteen said town. feet square, and be in actual possession of The following tract or parcel of land sit- the premises within five years from the date uate, lying and being within this state, di- aforesaid, and continue to improve said lands, vided and bounded as follows, viz : and for non-performance thereof the said Beginning at a point six miles and one- land to revert back to the freemen half on a straight line north, 6° west from of this state. the northwesterly corner of Sharon, thence south 33° west, six miles sixty rods, thence Secu/ii/o—That all pine trees suitable for north 6i° west, 6 miles, thence north 33° masts and spans for shipping, be reserved to east, six miles and sixty rods, thence^ south the use and benefit of the freemen of this 61° east, six miles to the point marking the state. first bound, containing by actual measure- In testimony whereof, we have caused the ment twenty- three thousand and sixty acres. seal of this state to be affixed at Arlington in the county of Bennington, this 23d day of joined Smith. David Stone was one of the December, A. D. 1779, in the third year of prisoners taken by the Indians in one of the independence of this state. their raids sometime afterwards. Thos. Chittenden. About the first thing the settlers attended Secretary. Joseph Fay, to was the erection of a log fort, for protec- 1779, December 23, received and recorded tion against Indian raids, as this valley was in iibr. 1st charters, page I, 2d pr. a common way of the Indians, Tories, etc., J. Fay, Secretary. passing to and fro. The fort was located A true copy, attest, where the railroad now runs just below the Dudley Chase, Clerk. depot. Sorne of the old logs and some other May i6th, 1780, it was voted to appoint a relics were unearthed when the road was be- committee to lay out the 2d loo-acre lots ing built. The wisdom of this was shown (2di claim), also appointed Colonel John soon, for in August, 1780, a party of Indians House agent for said proprietor to apply to made a raid through this section taking some the authority of the state for a warrant to prisoners, David Stone being one of them. warn a legal meeting on the last Tuesday of There was a detachment of soldiers at June following. Royalton at this time and were sent to Bethel The meeting of the proprietors was called to occupy this fort. This change was a good at the house of Colonel Joel Marsh. one for Bethel but unfortunate for Royalton, We notice that they had some trouble as some two months later a large body of about work on highways, as a vote was Indians (and Tories) attacked that place and passed September 6th, 1781, that delinquents burned the place, killing the cattle, etc. have till the following 20th of October, to Bethel would undoubtedly met the same fate attend to the matter, after that time to be if this fort and garrison had not deterred charged six shillings for each day's delin- them, as the Indians came in sight of the quency. fort, but passed up the east branch on their There were four divisions of lots made be- return from Royalton. fore the lands in town were all taken up. After the burning of Royalton, some of the There were a good many sales of delin- Bethel settlers and their families went down quent proprietor's lands for taxes and assess- the river to Hartford for safety. They told ments. On September 29, 1789, there were of going through Royalton and seeing the

. twenty-eight advertised as delinquent. Per- dead cattle and household utensils scattered sona buying these rights at vendue by about. Others of the settlers flocked to the paying the taxes due became owners of the fort for safety. same, an act of legislature having been passed giving the proprietors pov^er to do so. SOME OF THE FIRST EVENTS.

In September, 1792, a committee having The first deed recorded bears date April been appointed to establish the line between 17, 17S0, all previous conveyances of land Bethel and Royalton, (committee appointed being by the proprietors. by both towns) they proceeded to do so. The first child born in Bethel was Asa The first town meeting was held May 17, Smith, born September 6, 1780. (Previous meetings had been held by 1782. The first marriage record is of date 1795, the "proprietors.") The officers chosen the parties being Bernice Snow and Rachel

were, clerk, Barnabus strong ; constable, Hardy. selectmen, Marsh, Michael Flynn ; Joel John Among some of the curious customs of

Benjamin, George Smith ; Michael Flynn those times were the following, as it was the was also the first justice of the peace. custom to divide what was called the minis- First Settlements.— Benjamin Smith was terial money (rents of the land reserved for the first settler that we find record of. He support of preaching) by the number of

located in the autumn of 1779. The next names each society might secure, it was re- season Joel Marsh, Samuel Peak, Seth quired that each voter should have recorded Chase, Willard Smith and David Stone his religious preferences as follows, mostly : :

by certificates from the societies they had the town of Bethel, in the County of Windsor formerly belonged to and State of Vermont, wishing to enjoy the benefit of public religious worship and in- "This certifies that Willard Smith is a struction, do hereby associate ourselves to- professed Universalist, and is a member of gether for that purpose, agreeing the Universalist society in Woodstock, No- each with vember 34, 1792. the other to conform to the rules and liturgy of the Attest, Israel Richardson, said church, and to such future regu- lations for our prosperity as a parish as shall Moderator. be agreed upon in our legal meetings by a December 27, 1792, entered and examined majority of voices, placing ourselves for the by Michael Flynn, Town Clerk." present under the administration of the Rev- erend John C. Ogden. Or as follows In witne'ss whereof we have hereunto set "Bethel, September 17, 1792. This may our hands to this instrument in the year certify to all persons whom it may concern, 1794.

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that I, Martin Kellogg, do attend the Bap- Paul McKinstry, Bibye Cotton, tist meeting and I mean to support that way Ephraim Derrish, Joseph Wickingham, of worship. Amasa Green, Benjamin Smith, EpHRAiM AiNSWORTH, Moderator. Willard Smith, Joseph A. Gallup, Simeon Ch^se, Dudley Chase, Jr." Although the proprietors sometime pre- Here is another item in regard to the re- vious had voted to uphold the Congregational ligious welfafe of the community in those worship, there is hardly any record of parties early days. their professions for that way. making Most " This may certify to all whom it may con- of them are for the Baptist, next the Univer- cern, that Mr. Benjamin Putnam was legally salist, third Episcopal. ordained ar* evangelist preacher at Strafford, The following shows the date and forma- in the State: of Vermont, by the laying on of hands on the 6th of February, tion of the Protestant Episcopal Society: A. D. 1809, and is legalty authorized for to administer the " The subscribers, members and friends of ordainces of the Gospel, which was done in the Protestant Episcopal Church, residing in the following order: Elder Aaron Buzzell :

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prayed at the laying on of hands, Elder informed that he (the minister) had got Daniel Batchelder gave the solemn charge, through taking rye. " We have got done Elder Simeon Dana gave the right hand of taking rye," has been a bye-word ever since. fellowship. Elder Nathaniel King made the a difficulty arose between concluding prayer. In the year 1794, the inhabitants and the Rev. Russell. Rus- Aaron Buzzell, ^ sell suit against the town and the Daniel Batchelder, [ Recorded Sept. brought a Simeon Dana, 25, 1815. [ trouble caused several town meetings. Judg- King. Nathaniel J ment was rendered against the town. The Attest, Jona. jMarsh, Town Clerk." town petitioned the legislature which divided

Another custom was to " warn " all new- a settlement, which was agreed upon in De- comers to leave town. This was to prevent cember, 1796. their gaining a residence in town in regard April 29, 1799, a special meeting was to pauperism. called to see about building a bridge across An order was given by the selectmen of White river, where a committee was ap- the town to the constable as follows pointed to attend to it and build a bridge, etc. ] To Luther Grover, In IVIarch, an article in State OF Vermont, ! Constable of Bethel 1804, there was of Windsor County, ss. | in said County the warning for town meeting to see if the Windsor. J town would vote to build a meeting house. Greeting. It was voted not to build one.

By the authority of the State of Vermont, In these days it was customary for com- you are required to summon or make known panies formed for that purpose, to build roads unto Isaac Corey, Jonathan Coleson and (turnpikes) and put up toll gates and collect Amariah Hibbard, all now residing in said town of Bethel, to depart with their families toll from trayelers, to get pay for their in- this town forthwith, under the pains and vestments. We notice that in 1806, there penalties of the law, in such cases made and was a town meeting at which it was voted provided. that all persons living on the " center turn- Dated, June 23, i8o8. pike " passing through said Bethel, from town meeting was held Sept. 20, iBog, A Stockbridge to Royalton, should work out in regard to the "first settled minister." It their highway taxes on said turnpike until call the was voted to extend a to Gospel such time as the corporation should realize ministry in this to Rev. Mr. town Thomas six per cent on the money invested in said Russell. Also to give him as a settlement, turnpike. one hundred pounds, the same to be paid in * The following will give some idea of five shillings a bushel. Thirty wheat at the number of voters in town at a freeman's to be paid the first year, thirty the pounds meeting held September, 1806, at Which the second forty the third year. Also and a following vote was cast for representative to salary of the first year and increase ;£50 the congress, James Elliot had thirty-two votes, five a year until the same pounds amount Mark Richards had twenty-three votes. In should be seventy pounds, and that should 1812 there were about 200 voters. be the salary. Also, afterwards voted him a * Here is another way the people had of full share of land reserved for the " first set- providing means for construction of high- tled minister." Also made arrangements for ways, vote passed at a town meeting held moving his family from Connecticut. March 2, 1807. "Voted to petition the Gen- At a meeting held iVIarch 2, 1789, it was eral Assembly of the State of Vermont at its voted to raise a tax of two pence on the next session, to grant a land tax of three pound on the list of to be paid in wheat 1789, cents per acre for the purpose of making a five shillings, rye at four shillings, at and road up Camp Brook to Rochester line." corn at three shillings per bushel. This calls At a town meeting held in March, 1809, it our mind the story told us by our grand- to was voted " to hold two-thirds of the town of a minister, who was collecting up parents meetings held at the school house near Jona- his dues (grain) from his parishioners, who, than Marsh's, and one-third at the school when one of them brought his fee in rye, was house near Simeon Chase's." II

June 29, i8og, there was a meeting called commenced at a point twenty-seven rods to see about building a bridge across White north of Moose Horn Brook (near where River (the old one having been carried away Elmer E. Spaulding now lives) and running just before) it was voted to raise a tax of thence up the hill by where Charles and three cents on a dollar of grand list for pur- Elisha Davis nowilive, to Rochester line, a pose of building the same. Elezar Burbank, distance of four and three-fourth miles, from

Peleg Marsh and J. A. Dennison were Rochester line to Rochester village is the elected a committee to contracting for the same distance, nine and one-half miles in all, building of the bridge. being about two miles nearer then by the

In 1816 it was voted to build a pound. present hill road to Rochester.

BETHEL TOWN HALL.

In March, 1811, a committee was appointed At a tow,n meeting held March 5, 1 821, it to divide the town into school districts, nine was voted to build a bridge over the third were formed at that time. branch, near Marsh's Mills, and Simeon The survey of the highway leading from Babbitt, Peleg S. Marsh and Alvin McKins- Randolph line to Royalton line was made try were appointed a committee to superin- July 12, 1788. Distance six and one-half tend the same. We think the voters must miles. have got in a good day's work this day as we The road up White River was surveyed in notice they passed seventy-five different June, 1788. votes. The first laid out road from Bethel to In September, 1829, Thomas P. Russell Rochester was surveyed in March, 1795, and and James Wallace were appointed a com- mittee. to see about fencing the town bury- The second branch flows across the eastern ing ground, etc. Tliey reported tliat it con- corner of the town through the village of tained two and one-lialf acres and was deeded East Bethel, and joins White River at North

to tlie town by Setii Cliase in 1787. Royalton. Locust Creek flows from Bar- in In September, 183 1, it was voted to build nard, and is also the outlet of Silver Lake a bridge over Wiiite River. Tiie Finley Barnard, and joins White River about two

Bridge over tiie branch. Also to raise money miles from Bethel village. Camp Brook to defray the expenses of building these flows from Rochester and joins the third bridges, and the " bridge lately built over branch about" two miles north of village. third branch near the meeting house.'' The The Gilead Brook also flows from Rochester

following bill appears of record for building and joins the branch about two miles above

White River bridge, $399.00 ; for building the mouth of Camp Brook. There is also a Finley bridge and road, $190.00; for build- stream in the westerly part of the town that ing bridge near meeting-house, $199.00. In flows into White River near Stockbridge March, 1839, there was an article in warning line. The Central Vermont railroad has to see what action the town would take in about six miles of main line in town, running regard to ''rebuilding and repairing bridges up White River to Belhel village, then up damaged by the freshet." It was voted that the third branch to Randolph. Bethel sta-

the selectmen build and repair said bridges; tion is one of the most important ones on $1,000 was voled for building the bridge the line, as Barnard, Stockbridge, Pittsfield, across branch near Marsh's Mills. At same Rochester, Hancock, and parts of several meeting a committee previously appointed to other towns come here for their railroad report on condition of White River bridge, business. There is a great passenger and

reported it to be in bad condition, and freight traffic here. Stages run daily to and recommended the town to make immediate from Stockbridge, Rochester and points up

preparations for rebuilding same. April 8, White River, and to Woodstock by way of

1839, it was voted that the selectmen build Barnard and Pomfret.

an arch bridge across White River. James There is a very large and fine deposit of Woodworth, George S. Hatch and Luther granite located about three miles from the

Bullard were selectmen. Mr. Hatch had the railroad station, which is being worked to

personal supervision of the building of the some extent aft present, and is only waiting bridge (the present one). capital and proper management to be made In September following a meeting was a great industry and consequently of large called to see if town would build a bridge advantage to the town. Some gold has been across White River at Austin's Rock. A found but has failed to pay for working, so far. committee was appointed to investigate and report at next March meeting, at which time BE!THEL VILLAGE. the report was "laid on the table," Bethel village is located in a natural basin in the southeastern part of the town at the TOWN OF BETHEL. junction of the third branch with White

The town of Bethel is located nearly at River, and is a very pleasant place, with

the geographical center of the state. The beautiful scenery all about it, and pleasant

surface is quite uneven, especially back from drives into the surrounding country, which the main streams, the soil is generally pro- also abounds in wild and picturesque scenery. ductive. Good farms abound on the streams Many city people spend their vacations here. and back on the hills. Timber of various The place has grown quite rapidly in business kinds is plenty, the town is well watered. and many buildings have been erected within White River flows across the south-east the last five years. Among the other build- corner. The third branch, rising in Rox- ings erected in this town is a fine town hall bury, flows through Braintree and Randolph with one of the best appointed stages in the into. Bethel from the north, thence about state. four miles within this town and then dis- There are at present four religious societies

charges into White River at Bethel village. holding regular services, viz. : Universalist, .

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Congregationalist, Episcopal and Methodist. EAST BETHEL. The Whitcomb High School is located here A small village in the easterly part of the and has five departments and is a first-class town, situated on the second branch of school. is The National White River Bank White River, is quite a thriving village, as located here, also the Bethel Shoe Company, portions of Randolph, Tunbridge and Roy-

employing about 150 people, the G. & E. alton center there. It has two churches, G. Place Tannery and finishing factory, em- Universalist and Baptist, the latter having ploying about 150 hands, two hotels, and ajob- regular services and a settled minister. Also printing office. There is also a weekly paper, has a hotel, tin and hardware shop, feed "The Bethel Courier," published here, a fine store, creamery, grist and sawmills, general " creamery known as the Harrington Cream- stores, carriage and blacksmith shops, etc.

ery," the Vermont Plastering Hair Com- Its nearest railroad point is Royalton,and it pany is doing quite an extensive business, a has daily stage connections and a post office. fiour and feed mill doing a large wholesale and retail business, a sawmill, carriage shop, THE UNIVERSALIST MEETING three blacksmith shops, two harness shops, two livery stables, photograph gallery, two HOUSE. hardware stores and tin shops, three attor-

ney's offices, insurance agents, two meat By Rev. S. A. Parker. markets, three millinery stores, several dress- makers' rooms, furniture store, two dry This church building is a landmark in the goods and general stores, two apothecary town of Bethel. It is one of the prominent stores, several grocery and provision stores, features of our village. Around it cluster fish market, news and book store," music memories of gladness and sadness. It is a store, merchant tailor. There are now 1,000 structure wprthy of the men who built it. It inhabitants within one mile radias of the is strong aijd massive. It has stood these postoffice. eighty yeai-s. If it is properly cared for, it Many years ago when people used to make will stand for centuries. their own cloth and knit socks, there was a woolen mill and carding works here, also in THE BUILDING.

the same building there were works for press- No one -denomination felt able to build a ing out oil from flax-seed. Also in those suitable church edifice. So five denomina- times there were buildings called "potashes," tions united to build a Union House, the where potash was made from hard wood ashes. Universalists, Congregationalists, Episcopal- " In July, 1830, the great freshet" occured, ians, Methodists and Baptists. The organ- sweeping away the branch bridge, stores, ization was called "The First Proprietors' mills, factories, etc. December lo, 1877, the Meeting House." '•great fire" occurred, burning many build- The building committee consisted of three ings. The erection of hew buildings on the persons; Peleg S. Marsh, Samuel Lillie and burned spot made a great change in the ap- David Waller. The land was purchased of pearance of the street. The place has now a Jonathan Marsh. The deed was signed

good water service for protection against fire February 18, 1820, and was recorded May in the business or main portion of the vil- 10, 1834. This deed conveys the land where lage, having a line of pipe through the main the Universalist church stands, including street with hydrants at convenient places. " the common," amounting to two acres and The pipe is connected with two powerful forty rods, to the " First Proprietors' Meet- pumps at different locations. There is an ing House of Bethel," amount paid, $260. Electric Light and Power Company formed The committee personally superintended the recently, which is to furnish lights and power making of the brick in Jonathan Marsh's in the near future. The power or plant is to brick-yard be located at Gaysville and wired here. Mr. Willard of Windsor was the " master builder." Mr. Simeon Babbitt contracted to * Bethel has a fine Free Public Library. Whitcomb High School also has quite an extensive library. do the carpenter and joiner work for $3,200. H

THe outside work was done in 1815. The Forty Universalists owned stock house was completed the next year. amounting to $ 2,338 39 There were thirty-two body pews, eighteen Twenty Congregationalists, 1,113 S° wail pews and twenty gallery pews, making Eight Episcopalians, 47' 5° " in all sixty. Each pew was a kind of square Three Methodist's, 221 00 " room large enough to contain a good-sized Three Baptists, 109 00 family, such as they generally had in those days. The pulpit was reached by a long Whole amount, $4,253 39 stairway—an enclosure high and well pro- tected —symbolic of the lofty position which A deficit of $746.61 was raised by a tax, a minister occupied in those days. making the church cost $5,000. The Uni-

UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.

There was no stove in the house. In win- versalists numbered six more than all the rest, ter each family carried its own stove of live and owned $32.36 more than all the others. coals. Perhaps some of the sermons had We should naturally suppose under these ^eat enough to keep the people warm, circumstances, that a Universalist clergyman

would preach the sermon. But the fact is DEDICATION, DEC. 24, 1816. the church was dedicated by the Baptists, When the house was completed the ques- who owned the least in the house. The tion was asked, " Who shall preach the dedi- preacher was Rev. Aaron Leland. John cation sermon?" Noble was leader of the choir. .

REMODELED, 1853. Fisks, and many others were supporters of During the pastorate of Rev. S. A. Davis the Universalist faith. If numbers and the inside of the church was entirely re- wealth constitute popularity, Universalism modeled. A hall was made in the upper was not unpopular at the very beginning of part and an auditorium below. He preached this century. the sermon of rededication. At that time REV. HO.SEA BALLOU, 1803-1809 only eleven of the seventy-four original pro- Before Mr. Ballou, other Universalist min- prietors were living. Ever since the house isters had come here and preached. Mr. has been under the control of the Universal- Ballou made a deep impression on the peo- ists. ple of this community. 1864. He held meetings in Colonel Marsh's " " In this year the church was repaired and Joel square room or in the school house. the stockholders of the hall, who were all Universalists, transferred their shares to the

Universalist parish and it was called MURRAY HALL. Although the house has since been re- paired from time to time, yet the one great event in remodeling and beautifying this church occurred in 1893, under the generous supervision of Mrs. Mary £. Harrington,

who expended on it $3,000. She put Cathe- dral glass windows into the church, finished Murray Hall into a parlor, cloak room, din-

ing room, kitchen, pantry, etc., and made many other improvements. After she had done the work a meeting was held in honor of the donor and Murray Hall was changed to the name of HARRINGTON PARLORS, as a slight token of the appreciation] of the generous spirit and noble work. SoJ this church of eighty years is still young. It stands abreast with the spirit of the age. We all feel a laudable pride in its antiquity and old architecture. REV..JOHW O. BENNETT. UNIVERSALIST PARISH.

Many of the early settlers of Bethel were ORGANIZED UNIVKRSALISM, DEC. 29, 1817. Universalists. They were people of charac- From this date Universalism had an or- ter and influence, and good social standing ganic life. The society was organized under and financial ability. It is a significant fact the statute law with thirty-six male mem- " that when the Union Church" was built, bers. they paid more than all the four other de- RfeV. KITTRIDGE HAVEN. nominations, and the stockholders numbered six more than all the rest. The Marshes 1821—1828. were the founders of Bethel and they were Mr. Haven was the first settled pastor. all Universalists. Colonel Joel Marsh built During October and November, 1820, he the " Mills " and he was a great admirer of preached to the people of Bethel and Bar- Rev. Hosea Ballou. nard. He was engaged to take charge of Not only the Marshes but the Moodys, these two societies. Daniel Lillie furnished Lillies, Austins, Brookes, Sanfords, Nobles, him with a horse and sleigh to go to Boston Warrens, Woodburys, Eddys, Wallaces, to get his wife and child. He returned the l6

to 1887; Jast week in 1820. He remained pastor just bor, 1882; Rev. J. R. Roblin, 1883 seven years and then went to Shoreham Rev. John Kimball, 1888; Rev. S. A. Parker, where he remained the rest of his life. After 1890; Rev. Walter Dole, 1892, and Rev. J. Mr. Haven's pastorate the pulpit was sup- O. Bennett, 1895. The parish is in a pros- plied by Revs. Joseph Ward, Warren Skin- perous condition. It has a Young People's ner and Robert Bartlett. Social Annex, a Young People's Christian Union, and a Ladies' Social Union, which 1832— 1845. are a great help to the church. This period embraces the long and success- ful pastorate of Rev. Eri Garfield, who died John Oscar Bennett, son of William only a few years ago in Jeffersonville, Wis. H. and Ella ( Hawkins j Bennett, was born After him Rev. George S. Guernsey supplied at Stony Brook, L. L, January 17, 1877. for a time. He received a limited education in the pub- 1850—1852. lic schools, and when but fourteen years old, was employed on coasting vessels as a Rev. S. W. Square was the third settled sailor, serving nearly =< year in that capacity. pastor and remained two years. In 1892 he entered the Canton Theological REV. S. A. DAVIS, 1853-1860, School, a department of the St. Lawrence was the fourth pastor, and his pastorate University, and was graduated from that in- covers a period of seven years. He is still stitution in the class of 1895, having been living in Hartford, Conn. During 1860 the elected life president of his class. He is a society was supplied by Rev. Mark Powers member of the Eti Phi Alpha college so- of South Strafford, Vt. ciety. He filled the pulpit at Fly Creek, N. v., previous to the close of his i86i. college ca- reer, and first preached in the Universalist Rev. Eli Ballou preached here half the Church at Bethel in February, 1895. He ac- time. He was then living in iMontpelier, cepted a call to this place beginning his pas- Vt. September 28 of this year this society torate here on July i, 1895. Mr. Bennett is organization was changed to a church, which a young man to occupy the position he now remained till April 28, 1875, when it adopted holds, but being a diligent scholar, an earnest the form of organization recommended by worker and a fluent speaker, he bids fair to the General Convention. take a front rank in the profession to which 1862-1878, SIXTEEN S'EARS. he is called.

Rev. S. A. Parker commenced his pastor- ate May I, 1862, and closed it May i, 1878. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF BETHEL, VERMONT. SEMI-CENTENNIAL—DEC. 29, 1 867. This was an occasion worthy of celebrat- The Christ Episcopal ing. The organization of the society was an Church was first or- ganized in Bethel, July 27, the event in the history of Universalism in this 1794, by fol- lowing doings, the Rev. John C. Ogden town. A meeting was held Sunday evening, pre-

siding and certifying to same : December 39, 1867, in the Universalist " We, the subscribers, church. A sermon was given by the pastor. members and friends ofthe Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. A. Parker, reviewing the history S. of now residing in the town and neighborhood the society and drawing lessons for the of Bethel, in the County of Windsor, and future. Letters were read from Revs. Haven, State of Vermont, wishing to enjoy the ben- efits of public religious worship and instruc- Square, Davis and Ballou. Of the original tion, do hereby associate ourselves together thirty-six members only nine were living. for the purpose, agreeing each with the other Now (1895) they are all gone. to conform to the rules and the liturgy of After the pastorate of Rev, S. A. Parker, said church, and to such future regulations for our own prosperity as a parish, the following preachers have been settled or as shall be agreed upon in our legal meetings by a supplied: Rev. Eli Ballou, D. D., 1879; majority of voices, placing ourselves for the R. A. D. Tabor, i88r B. present the Rev. ; Rev. J. Ta- under administration of the Rev. 17

John Ogden. In witness whereof, we have The first-action towards building a church hereunto set our names to this instrument, was at an informal meeting held at the house A. D. 1794, (signed by) Paul Kinstry, of Simeon Chase, Ephraira Derrick, Amasa Green, Willard Jr., December 3, 1822, Smith, Bylye L. Cotton, Joseph Wickingham, when there was appointed a committee of Benjamin Smith, Joseph A. Gallup, Simeon Simeon Chase, Salmon C. Cotton, Ezra Put- Chase, Dudley Chase, Jr." nam and Daniel Child, to prepare a plan of a " July 27, 1794, voted that Dr. Gal!up and church to be presented at a meeting of the Bylye L. Cotton be wardens for this year." society, to be holden December 13, 1822. " Voted, that Dudley Chase be the represent- The church- was built the summer fall ative for this society to the Episcopal con- and of vention to be held at Castleton, September the following year, 1823, at a cost of $i,8go. next." Colonel Warren of Rochester, was the chief

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After the formation of Christ Church as builder. The church was consecrated by above, the Rev. Mr. Ogden continued to Bishop Griswold oil the twenty-third of June, visit for some time. The Rev. Bethnel 1824. After the opening of the church in Chittenden, the brother of the then governor the spring ;of 1824, the Rev. Joel Clapp of of the state, also officiated once or twice a Shelburn took charge of the church one-half year, until the year 1800. Philander Chase, of the time and of St. James, Woodstock, who married his wife in Bethel, the daughter the other half, until the month of June, 1830, of Mr. Daniel Fay, then of Bethel, likewise when he moved to Woodstock, taking the occasionally performed lay services until he whole charge of the parish in that place. was ordained. These services were per- The Rev. James Sabine of Boston, Mass., formed in North Bethel. took charge August 14, 1831, and was rector :

until he died, October 3, 1845. His son, the pal of Montgomery Institute, a boarding Rev. John S. Sabine, took charge of the school for young ladies, near San Antonio, church after the death of his father. He re- Texas, and was engaged in pastoral work in mained until the fall of 1846. Southern Florida. He was called to the The new church was built in the summer rectorship of Christ Church in Bethel, July of the year 1846, at the cost, including I, 1894. ground, of two thousand and ninety dollars, and was consecrated by the Rev. John H. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Hopkins, August 31, 1847. The Rev. Josiah

Sweet was called to be rector July 8, 1847, he On July 25, 181 7, the present Congrega- was in charge until 1864. tional church was organized in Bethel, and The Rev. C. R. Batchelder was called to of those that entered into this new organiza- be rector in 1867. The Rev. Amos D. Mc- tion there were only two who belonged to Coy, a resident of Bethel in his later years, the first church organized in the town, viz. officiated occasionally. The Rev. Moses P. Deacon Ezra Putnam and his wife. These Stickney was called to be rector October, two persons formed the connecting link be- i87i,andhe remained rector of the Bethel and tween the old and the new church, having Royalton parishes until July i, 1887, and safely retained their faith through the twenty died August 19, 1894. The Rev. Tree. W. odd years that had intervened. There were Wey was rector i888-'90. The Rev. G. A. thirteen members of the new church, and of Wilkins, i890-'94. these not one is now living. The church has been painted and a con- During the next five years the church had crete walk made. The old rectory was sold no regular preacher, and the number of mem- and a new rectory is being built in the bers was not increased. In June, 1822, seven church lot. Money has been raised for new- new members were taken into the church by windows in the church. profession. Rev. Joel Davis acting as pastor. The present pastor in charge of Christ In August of the same year, Rev. Ammi Church, is Rev. J. B. Trevitt, M. D., son Nichols of Braintree commenced his labors of the late Rev. Russell Trevett, D. D, at with this church, preaching in Bethel every one time professor of Latin, Greek, and He- fourth Sunday. This plan was followed for brew in St. James College, and later filling three years, and during the following five the same position in St. John's College, both years nearly twenty new members were at Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Trevett was added under the pastorship of •Graduated from the St. James College, and Rev. Mr. Nichols. was ordained deacon in St. Mary's Church at

Burlington, N. J., by the late Bishop Oden- This church had no deacons until 1822, beimer, and was ordained priest in the Church when Ezra Putnam was chosen and served of the Ascension at Washington, D. C, by until his death, which occurred in 1841. His Bishop Pinkney. son, Simeon D. Putnam, was chosen deacon Soon after his ordination he was offered soon after his father's death, and was also the position of assistant in the Church of the superintendent of the Sunday-school for Incarnation in New York City, and was also many years, filling the position in a faithful offered the position of principal in Shattuck and acceptable manner. Rev. Mr. Nichols Hall, Faribault, Minn. Later he was offered died in Braintree in the summer of 1873, at the place of assistant minister in Manchchunk, the advanced age of over ninety years. Pennyslvania, and second principal in the The next pastor after Rev. Ammi Nichols,, State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa., was Warren Swift, who supplied the church but declined in every case. He was at one for two years, beginning in June, 1830. Dur- time in charge of the parish of Trinity ing his short stay there were twenty-three Church in Syracuse, N. Y., and for some additions to its membership, seventeen unit- time later had charge of some of the parishes ing upon profession of their faith, upon a in the dio- single Sabbath. Mrs. in the neighborhood of Syracuse, Irvin Weston is the was princi- only one of these cese of Central New York. He known to be living, having 19 been a member of this church for sixty-two from forty-nine to seventy-two. The first years. Mr. Swift's farewell sermon was an case of discipline occurred in 1842 against affecting one, and long remembered by those Reuben Lgwis, for neglect of attendance who heard it. He died in Illinois in 1861. upon religious service, and for failure to keep After Mr. Swift, Rev. Sahnon Hurlburt his covenanf obligation, in that he neglected supplied the pulpit for a few months. He family worship. In 1842 Rev. Mr. Abbott was succeeded by Rev. Francis L. Whiting asked to be dismissed, and his wishes were who remained three years from 1833. Dur- complied with. Soon after Rev. Matthew ing his pastorate, nine were received upon Kingman commenced his labors as a stated profession of faith, and five by letter. It was supply, and after preaching nearly two years, during the ministry of Mr. Whiting that the he received an invitation to become pastor. church burned in 1S92, was built. The This offer he accepted and was ordained and house cost about $1,800, and was a heavy installed Jutle 25, 1845. Daniel Weston was burden for the parish to bear. Some of the chosen deacon on April 12, 1842.

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money was subscribed by neighboring There are no records of the affairs of the churches, but the greater part was sustained church for about three years after Mr. King- by the members of the society, and of those mans settlement, although Mr. Kingman who subscribed toward this expense, Mr. preaclied u'ntil 1854, and during that time George Hatch was the last to pass away. there were twenty-nine new members added. Rev. Ammi Nichols preached the dedica- For a short time after the retirement of Mr. tory sermon when the church was completed, Kingman, there was no settled pastor, but in and at the close of Mr. Whiting's pastorate. April, 1855, ''^^ services of Mr. E. E. Hig- Rev. Benjamin Abbott became pastor, and bee were secured, and in July of the same was installed March 27, 1837, the first in- year he was ordained and installed. He re- stalled minister of this church. He remained signed three years later, and was succeeded with the society until 1842, and during his by Rev. T. S. Hubbard, who remained with pastorate the membership was increased the church until 1862, during which time :

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eleven people were made members. On the Albert Crawford, who preached here a little first day of June, 1862, Rev. T. H. Johnson over two years, and increased the member- commenced labor, serving until 1868, and ship by seven. The next pastor was Rev. during his stay sixteen members were added. George W. Wright, who began work in De- In June, 1868, Mr. E. E. Lewis was called to cember, 1890, and continued until April, supply the pulpit, remaining three years, and 1892, fourteen members having been received during his pastorate only two or three were during his stay. The society had no settled added to the church membership, and those pastor after Mr. Wright, owing to the burn- by letter. He was followed by Rev. James ing of the church, until tlie present pastor. Caldwell, who remained one year, closing his Rev. V. W. Blackman, commenced his pas-

labors in October, 1872. torate October i, 1893 but during the inter- His successor was Rev. Elbridge Gerry, vening time tlie society was supplied occa- who commenced in December, 1872, and was sionally by the neiglihoring ministers. acting pastor for nine and one half years, during which time, forty-three were added to the membership of the church, twenty-nine on confession of their faith, and fourteen by letter. Mr. Gerry resided in Bethel a part of the time, and the remainder in West Ran- dolph. He was an industriou.s man. and when not engaged in pastoral work he employed himself in other pursuits. He was editor of the paper at West Randolph for a number

of years, and it was not uncommon for him, while living there, to walk to Bethel on Sun- day morning to attend the u.sual services. Mr. Gerry closed his labors in this church in 1882, and moved to Oregon, where he preached one year, returning to West Ran- dolph in 1883, and resided there, preaching occasionally in difterent places until his death, which occurred December zj, iSgi. He ordered his body to be cremated, which was done. His successor was Rev. B. G. Bugbee, who served one and one-half years, and he in turn was succeeded by Rev. T. S. Kev. V. W. BLACKMAN. Huisbard, a former pastor, who remained six to months. Mr. Elisha Fiske was called the The deacons of this church, since its organ- pastorate of the church in June, 1884, preach- ization, have served in the following order ing here and at Royalton for one year. He Ezra Putnam, Simeon Putnam, William Put- remained in Bethel for three years and re- nam, Michael Flynn, Daniel Weston, Cyrus moved to Waitsfield in 1887, having married Page, Alpheus Howe, Edwin Fisher, David an esteemed member of his congregation. Tolles, F. W. Newcomb, S. C. Dunham, During his pastorate forty-six were made Alonzo Emery, George M. Miller and George members of the church, thirty-three by con- Parker. faith, thirteen letter, this fession of and by The church building was burned April 14., being the largest number of members added 1892, and with it a chapel just completed, ar- to this society by any one pastor since the rangemtnts then being in progress for its organization of the church. dedication. This was a serious blow to the Rev. Charles Button was his successor and society, but a business meeting was called began labor in June, 1887, continuing one and a vote taken in favor of going at once year, his parish being increased by three dur- about rebuilding. By diligent labor on the ing his stay. He was succeeded by Rev. part of the ladies of the church and the 21

generous offers of the members of the Con- Veazie near Bangor, in Brooksville, and in gregational and other churches, a fine ed- Deer Isle, in the latter place remaining two and

ifice was erected, and was dedicated No- one-half years. Mr. Blackman also studied

vember 15, 1893. Tiie Christian Endeavor three years, in Bangor Seminary, receiving a Society also assisted liberally toward the diploma. completion of the church, and especial men- At one period of his life he learned to tion should be made of the generosity of Mr. make shoes in the city of Lynn, this is why Ge'orge S. Hatch, who was greatly interested he has been called the " shoemaker preacher." in the welfare of this church, and during his He is proud to say that he can work with the

life contributed financially toward its sup- awl, preach, or sing a song. this, but after he When engaged in study he wrote a port. . He did not stop at book passed away, the society had a lasting called Practical Christianity, which very ma- memorial of Mr. Hatch's generosity in the terially assisted him. His second and> last nice residence which he left to the church as work, completed in 1893, known as " Sparks a parsonage. In slight token of respect and from an Anvil," is a volume highly spoken of remembrance of Mr. Hatch and his wife, the by critics. This also was a financial success. society voted to have a memorial window He is now writing a work, the manu.script of placed in the new church. which he expects to sell. Any success he may have achieved he at- VIRGIL WILLIAM BLACli.VlAN, tributes to good parentage and a companion the present pastor, was born in New Hamp- who is truly a helpmeet. They speak of shire, where his ancestors came to settle as Bethel as a most delightful village to reside pioneers one hundred and fifty years ago, all in. with one exception, living to advanced age, WHITCOMB HIGH SCHOOL. his grandparents on both sides being nona- genarians, two of them being nearly one hundred years old. The history of higher education in Ver- The subject of this article attended the mont is a history of struggles for existence public schools of Manchester nine years, and that of the rise and equipment of a high where he joined the Congregational church school in Bethel is but another evidence of in 1874. During ,'76, '77. '78, he studied at the survival of the fittest. Until the year Tilton, Andover and New London Acad- 1850, there were two districts within tire emies. Tract writer and publisher in 1879 present limits of the graded district. These and '80, when he also traveled with a tem- districts were numbered respectively three perance lecturer as singer, in Mi.ssouri, Illi- and five. In the year alluded to, 1850, these nois and Kentucky. In 1883 he went to two districts were consolidated under the New York City where he met R. R. Mc- title of district No. 3, and a new site was Burney and Cleveland H. Dodge who ren- chosen for the erection of a new school dered him great help. He sang every even- building. No more suitable or picturesque ing in the Bowery Branch Young Men's place could- have been selected than the one Christian Association, the Boys' Club, and which was chosen, the " common," as it was Baxter Street Mission, and attended Mission- called, a beautiful elevation overlooking the ary Training College one year. From New White River valley. York, having received a licensure, he was Upon this well chosen site a building was sent to a mission field in Connecticut, where erected in the following year, 1851. This

he preached till 1887, when, with his bride building, containing two large rooms, was whom he married in New Hartford, (the or- considered ample and sufiicient accommoda ganist of his church,) in March of same year, tion for that time. But the spirit of higher another missionary field was entered in Hill, education was abroad; pupils remained in with N H. In 1888, after one year of work here school longer than formerly ; the growth for the Congregational church, they went'to of the village there was, likewise a growth

' Maine, laboring five years for the Home in school attendance, and ere long an Missionary Society in Aroostook County, in addition had to be made to the first building. 22

This addition provided two more rooms and ship occurred the death of Mr. Albert Whit- for many years was quite sufficient accommo- comb, a wealthy citizen of Bethel, and by his dations for the scholars. will it was found the following bequest was In 1885 the graded district was organized, made to the incorporated district. and in the year following, was, by an act of " I give to school district No. 3, located in the legislature, incorporated. This act pro- Bethel village and its .suburbs, thirty thous- vided that the annual meeting of the district and dollars, the principal to be safely in- vested be used each be held on the last Tuesday of June of each and the income only to year for the current expenses of the school. year, instead of the last Tuesday of March. This gift shall be known as the Albert Whit- As is nearly atways the case, the change from comb School Fund, and the local name of a town district to an incorporated district the school shall be The Whitcomb High

was not brought about without some little School." struggle on the part of the voters of the dis- According to the condition of this bequest tricts. But the change came as " one of the the name was changed from that of Bethel

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WHITCOMB HIGH SCHOOL.

inevitables," and the success that has at- Graded Schools to " The Whitcomb High tended the school since, is conclusive proof School," which name it now bears. T-he that the change was a wise one on the part school constantly increased, especially in the of the people. number of tuition scholars, and in the sum- In 1885, Mr. J. W. Hutchinson was en- mer of '94 it was found impossible to ac- gaged as principal of the Bethel Graded commodate adl its pupils in the one building Schools. In the following year he was suc- of four rooms, and so a new primary building ceeded by Mr. W. N. Cragin, and under his was erected near the larger building. This efficient instruction the first class of four was relieved the other schools for one year, but graduated in June of T887. Upon his resig- with the present growth a new and more in was nation 1889, he succeeded by Mr. J. modern building is needed at no distant day. remained H. Blaisdeil, who at the head of On Mr. Blaisdell's resigning his charge of for four years, the school graduating four the school in the spring of '94. the school Blaisdell's jclasses. During Mr. principal- board were fortunate in securing the services 23 of Mr. George E, Storrs as principal. Mr. which the former teacher was obliged to give Storrs entered upon his duties witii mucii up and close his doors before completing the enthusiasm and soon showed that no mistake term. After teaching in several schools, Mr. had been made in placing him at the head of Davison accepted a position as principal of the school. But the hopes of those most in- the Graded Schools at Quechee, Vt., and re- terested in the progress and growth of the mained -two years and one term and then school were cut short by the sudden death of went to Proctor, Vt., and took charge of the Mr. Storrs after a brief illness, at the close schools there, remaining four years. In De- of his first term's work. To fill the vacancy cember, i8^, he came to Bethel, and is thus suddenly caused, Mr. F. P. Davison, meeting with splendid success in his work, the present principal, was elected by the the school now running very full. On school board. August 12, 1890, he was married to Emily E. " " The Whitcomb High School graduated Gilfillan of Barnet, Vt., and they have three its first class of four students in '87. It has children, viz.; Aldace H., born May 16, 1891; Mabel E., born July 6, 1892; and

Margaret J., born January 16, 1894.

TOWN REPRESENTATIVES OF BETHEL.

The following citizens of Bethel have rep- resented the town in the General Assembly hefd at Montpelier. The records of the town show that there were some years that no representative was voted for, and on other years the citizens balloted, but clcf.ed

their meetings without election :

Mark Richards, - 1 804. Nehemiah Noble,

Prof. F. P. DAVISON.

now sent out sixty-seven graduates and has a very successful Alumni Association.

Frank P. Davison, the present principal of the Whitcomb High School, was born in Lunenburgh, Vt., July 18, 1863. After a course in the common schools of his native town, he tittended the St. Johnsbury Acad-

emy at St. Johnsbury, Vt , and was gradu- ated from there in the class of 1887. He also studied at Amherst and Burlington but never completed a college course at either place. At the age of nineteen, he taught his first school, and completed a term of twelve weeks in a district hard to manage, and in 24

Franklin Riford, 25 iS8i —Josiah W. Gushing, 85 1S82— Saloam Williams, Amanda S. Wilson, Huldah S. Robertson, Sarah Brooks,

Amos Green, - 1803—John T. Rood, Mary White, 1S84—Hiram Wilson, Josiah Fisher, iSSj-T-Jay Wilson, Fanny Gilson, Isaac Taggart, 26

1892—Orin Holbrook, - 85 4, E; Daniel H. Ryan, Cav. 6, Collamer G. Daniel Root, 83 Stevens, 8, E; John Spaulding Jr., 3, F; Al-

Rebecca Day, 86 bert and Irwin Spooner, 4, E; Ernest Stuart,

1893—Mary Heath, 81 9, I; William F. Tilson, 2 s-s, E; James B. Obediah Lillie, 91 Tinkham, 2, E; Andrew W. Turner, 9, F; Radman Dean, 89 Benjamin F. Webster, II, H; George

Horatio N. Brown, 84 Wedgwood, 8, E; Don C. Wilson, 3, F;

Abial Putnam, 85 Thomas R. and Wallace E. Williams, 2, E;

Abigail Perrigo, 86 William Young, 4, K. Avorilla Rogers, 85 Volunteers under call of October, 1863,

1894—Aaron C. Davis, 84 and all subsequent calls ; Church G. Ballou,

Ansel Burbank, 84 Horace Bannister, 8,— ; Lewis B. Bates, 8,E; Willoughby Holbrook, 87 William L. Dean, 3 Bat.; William A. Dunbar, George Washburn, 86 8, F; Tracy S. Durkee, 2 s-s, E; Freeman

Fifield 9, F; William H. Fisher, 17. D;Roswell ROLL OF BETHEL SOLDIERS. Freeman, 4, C; Levi P. French, 6. C; Al- mon C. Goodell, 8, K; John Granger, 8, G; 1861-1865.

Henry H. Grow, 8, E ; Charles H. Hardy, 6,

C; Henry C. Harlow, 17, D; William Huse, following citizens of Bethel served in The 9, H; Almeron C. Inman, 17, D; Nathaniel

the Civil War. The names are arranged al- C. Lynds, 8, D; H. Marshall Merrill, 8, E; phabetically, and the number and letter after Henry H. Miner, 8, D; William Newell, 8, each name represent the regiment and com- E; John Pettis, 11, B; John Rice, 10, F;

pany of each man. Loren M. Rice, 10, F; James D. Rice, 8, C; Volunteers for three years credited previous Nehemiah W. Rindge, 9, G; William H. call to of October 17, 1863: Albert and Rollins, 9, E; Horatio N. Scott, 17, D; Fer- Azro Abbott, 4, E; Calvin B. Abbott, dinand Wheeler, II, F; Don L. Willis, 17, 8, B; Curtis Abbott, 2, s-s H; Chenning D; Thomas Flynn, Cav. F; Joseph Lynch, Axdell, 6, F; Archibald Baker. 4, E; Frank II, John Mack and Thomas — ; O'Donald, Bullard, 6, C; Lewis Bundy, D; Patrick 4, Cav. — ; George S. Thomas, Cav. F. Carney, 11, H; Constantine Chadwick, ii, Volunteers for one year : Albert E. Ab- H; Albert W. Chapman, 6, F; Zolva W. bott, Edwin E. Austin, Edward P. Barnes, Chase, 8, E; Amaria C. Crane, 4, E; Kil- Azro B. Bowen, Alonzo E. Chadwick, Den- burn Day, 8, E; Seymour G. Drury, 6, C; nis Goto, John H. Harrington, John Lynch, Franklin B. Dunton, G; Azro 7, Dustin, Charles W. Petty, Birney I. Pratt, James M. E; George M. D. Dustin, 2, E; 3, Timothy Preston, Leroy J. Sargent, Edward Tatero, Dustin, First Bat.; Ezra H. Emory, 8, E; Edwin F. Thresher, Lewis W. Turner Alfred D. and Charles Fairbanks, 2 s-s, E; George H. Whitney, Paschal D. Whitfaker. John and Luke Fairbanks, 3, F; Curtis O. Veterans : Calvin B. Abbott. Curtis Ab- Fisher and James S. Freeland, 4, E; Levi P. bott, Charles Blackburn, Luke B. Fairbanks, French, 6, C; Daniel Granger, 6, F; John Levi B. Goddard, Newell H. Hibbard, Granger, F; William 6, Greenleaf, 2, H;- Charles N. Jones, John Morse, Henry E. Carleton Green. 4, E; Newell H. Hebard, 8, Mo.sier, George A. Parker, Daniel H. Ryan E; Byron Houghton, 2 s-s, H; Charles N. and John Spaulding. Jones and Orvis F. Kimball, Cav. E; Robert Nine months men. Sixteenth Regiment: B. Lillie, 4, E; William Magivney and Fred- Daniel Abbott, James H. Abbott, Wesley erick H. JVIarks, ii, H; Orville Moore, 2, E; E. Baker, Albert G. Barnes, Samuel Bar- Henry E. Moshier, 2 s-s, E; George W. rett, Jr., John Bean, Lorenz'j D. Bowen, Packard, 8, G; Charles L. Page, 4, E; Arthur Eugene M. Brooks, Abel Ryan, Lorenzo and Granville Pearson. 2, E; Abel H. Put- Burnham, Amos B. Chamberlain, Dexter L. nam, F; Alonzo D. Ralph. 3, 4, E; Daniel Chatfield. Daniel M. CIou>;h, Solomon A. A. Rogers, 6, F; Eugeiie Rogers. 8, E; James Cross. Henry S. Drury, George S. Emery, D. Rich, II, H; Harry and Lyman P. Rowe, Ira Emery, Jr., L\man S. Emery, Henry W. 27

Flint, Eastman Gee, William H. Gee, George fession and in public life, occur occasionally E. Green, Ransom S. Hubbard, Henry W. in the records, signed to acknowledgments Howard, Norman W. Lillie, Patrick Marr, of deeds, and certificates of marriages sol- John R. Martin, Nelson McPherson, Marcus emnized in Bethel. They were then resi- A. Moody, Charles A. NefF, Nathan Noyes, dents of Randolph, and doubtless in thcJse William H. H. Perkins, Jonathan M. Rich, days the citizens of Bethel had to depend

Rufus S. Rogers, William J, Rogers, Charles upon their neighboring towns for necessary Russell, Stillman B. Smith, Alonzo H. legal services. The Bar of Windsor County Spooner, David Torrey, Andrew J. Wash- was united in a Bar Association from whose burn, James L. Washburn, and Samuel B. records it appears that in 1813 Luther Blod- Young, gett was an attorney resident and practicing Entered service: William N. Abbott, in Bethel, and that he removed to Royallon Merick G. Page, James G. Tinkham. shortly after the death of Jacob Smith, Esq.,

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Entered United States Navy: Nathan of Royalton, which occurred September 22d, Allen, Joseph H. Gary, Francis Donnelly, 1813. The records of the Association con- James Ford, William Garvin, Thomas Mil- tain lists of the names and residences of all ler, William Pye and Edward Quinn, Jr. its members, which include all the lawyers in the couiity, and show that in the year LEGAL PROFESSION. i8i8 there was no resident lawyer in Bethel, a condition which lasted, probably, for sev- eral years. BY Wm. B. C. Stickney. The early annals of the town afford little Luther Blodgett was born in Ran- information as to the lawyers who may have dolph about J 780, and was the eldest of four- had ofl5ces and practiced law in Bethel im- teen children of Benjamin and Mary (Rid- mediately after its settlement. The names dell) Blodgett. He began the practice of of Dudley Chase and William Nutting, his profession in Bethel prior to the year learned men, distinguishe'd alike in their pro- 1813, and in that or the following year re- 28

moved to Royalton, where he is said to have in 1801 and settled in Randolph, which was lived until about 1820, when he went West. his residence until his decease in 1826. He married Elizabeth Starkweather, a half Julius was educated at the district school and sister of the wife of the Hon. Dudley Chase. Randolph Academy, studied law with Wm. Among his children were Salmon Cotton, Nutting, and was admitted to Orange County Dudley Chase and Olivia Chase, who was the Bar in 1825. He opened an ofBce and began wife of Walter Carpenter, the eminent the practice of his profession in Bethel in physician and surgeon of Burlington. Salmon 1826. He continued in practice in Bethel married Maria, daughter of the Hon. Thomas until 1840, when he removed to Woodstock, P. Russell of Bethel. which was his home for the remainder of his life. Mr. Converse was twice married, and George Chase, son of the Rt. Rev. left one child, a daughter, by his .second wife. Philander and Mary (Fay) Chase was born While in Bethel he owned and occupied in Albany, N. Y., where his father was a the dwelling house which has been for about student preparing for the ministry, in 1796. fifty years the home of Mrs. Irvin Weston. Soon after his birth he was brought by his He was associated in his profession with mother to Vermont, and his early childhood the leaders of the Vermont Bar. At Bethel was spent with his uncle, the Hon. Dudley he was partner of the Hon. Augustus Chase, at Randolph. His uncle superin- P. Hunton, and at Woodstock of the tended his education, and in the year 1815 Hon. Andrew Tracy and the Hon. he was a student at Yale College. He was James Barrett, and later of the Hon. Warren C. French. married at Bethel, July 22, 1821, to Miss Mr. Converse was distinguished Eliza Grover. He had»two children, daugh- for the affability of his manner and his ters, one of whom married Nelson Smith, uniform and unvarying courtesy. He was diligent Esq., and the other Martin M. Flint, of Ran- and successful in business. dolph. His practice in court was not exten- He was a man of large frame, strong and vigorous, sive. He wrote sometimes for periodicals. and main- tained his mental and He lived in the house next north of the physical faculties unimpaired to an bank for a short time, and went away from extreme old age. He held Bethel as early as 1824. many public offices, represented the towns of Bethel and Woodstock in the General Assem- Mason P. Mills was born September bly, and was Governor of Vermont from 1872 20, 1796, son of Roswell and Mary Mills. to 1874. He studied his profession at Rochester, there no attorney at Bethel, was being admitted to Hon. Augustus P. Huntdn was born in bar of in the Windsor County 1824, having Groton, N. H., February 23, 1816. His youth examined and recommended been by a com- was spent at Hyde Park, Vt., where his father, appointed for the mittee purpose, Isaac N. Dr. Ariel Hunton, removed with his family Cushman, George E. Wales and Jacob Col- in 1818. He studied law with the Hon. Wm. the lamer. He began practice of his pro- C. Wilson, a,t Bakersfield, and afterwards Bethel once. fession in at His father, who with the Hon. Wm. M. Pingry, at Waitsfield, was an uncle of Mrs. Peleg Marsh, the and was admitted to the Bar of Washington mother of Augustus M. Marsh, Esq., lived County at the April term, 1837. He opened on Camp Brook near the Jonah Washburn an office and began the practice of his profes- place. The house is not now standing. sion at Stockbridge Common soon afterwards, P. Mills was a Mason member of the Ran- and September, 1838, he removed to Bethel, dolph Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. He and entered into partnership with the Hon. departed this life September 12, 1826, and Julius Converse. With the exception of a was buried in the old town burying ground, brief residence at Chelsea, where Mr. Hunton with masonic honors. and the Hon. Perley C. Jones had a law Hon. Converse Julius was born at office, Mr. Hunton has been identified with Stamford, Conn., December 27, 1798, the the town of Bethel. Before his marriage, fourth son of Joseph and Mary Converse. and for some time afterwards, he lived in the father came to Vermont with His his family house now occupied by Mr. Daniel L. Child, 29 and in 1865, removed to his present home, lived on the farm owned now by Alonzo the old Paige homestead. In 1849 he mar- Emory, Esq., was the justice whose services ried Caroline, the second daughter of Dr. were almo.st universally sought in Bethel. Alfred Paige. He had been Judge of Probate, and was In his practice Mr. Hunton has had several familiarly known as Judge Russell. He used partners. After the dissolution of the firm of to hold court regularly once a week in Mr. Converse & Hunton in 1840, Allen P. Dudley Hunton's office. His good sense and judg- was his partner, then Romanzo Walker, and ment were highly respected. afterwards Dudley C. Blodgett and Daniel Mr. Hunton has been a member of the

F. Weymouth, next Moulton J. Gihiian, who General Assembly eleven different sessions, was his partner from 1863 to 1874. In eight times, as the representative of the town August, 1875 the present partnership of Hun- of Bethel, and three times as senator from ton & Stickney was formed. Windsor County. He was Speaker of the

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Mr. Hunton's profound acquirements and House of Representatives in i85o and 1861, accurate legal scholarship attracted to his and presided over that body at the extra

office many students, some of whom have session of April, 1861, summoned to provide attained distinction in their profession. Con- for the national defense. During the war he spicuous among them are the late Col. Stephen was superintendent of recruiting for Windsor M. Pingree, Ex-Gov. Samuel E. Pingree County, an.office which he filled with fidelity in and zeal. He was an earnest, ardent and and the Hon. James J. Wilson, who were worker for the cause of the his ofBce as students at the same time, which uncompromising may be styled the Golden Age of law in Union, and in 1864 was elected delegate to which Bethel. the Republican National Convention In the early days of Mr. Hunton's practice renominated Abraham Lincoln. his active practice Mr. Hunton justices of the peace had occasion to exercise During retained in important cases which their jurisdiction much more frequently than was many ability and success. now. Hon. Thomas P. Russell who then he conducted with 30

James Newell came to Bethel from 'Pitts- dolph. Upon his admission to the bar he ford in the fall of 1838, and practiced law for removed to Bethel and practiced law as a year or so. His father, Gordon Newell, partner of the Hon. A. P. Hunton from was a justice of the peace, and in his court November, 1843 to March, 1S44, after his son acquired his first professional experi- which he was partner of Daniel F. Wey- ence. He removed from Bethel in 1839. mouth. He was town superintendent in 1847. From Bethel he went to Oshkosh, Oliver Hazard Perry Miller is said Wis., about 1848, it is said. He married to have come from Bridgewater to Bethel May Granger, daughter of Captain Ben sometime prior to 1840, and to have studied Granger, of Randolph, and in Bethel they law with the Hon. Julius Converse, and to lived in the upper part of the brick house have boarded in his family. His office was in now owned by Mrs. William Wright. He was May's store building, on the site of the town an accomplished scholar and a man of talents. hall. He removed from Bethel to Woodstock, there to having given and from Hartford, and Daniel Folsom Weymouth was born in his profession, there pur- up the practice of Tunbridge, June 22, 1818, the son of farm where he lived till his decease. chased a Deacon George Weymouth, and on the noted case in Bethel was Mr. Miller's most Folsom side is a relative of Mrs. Grover of Othniel in a suit the defense Dunham Cleveland. He was educated at the district brought against him by the Hon. John S. schools, and the academies of Newbury and plaintiff's attorney. Marcy Marcy, as Judge Randolph. While prosecuting his studies in master of vituperative satire. Mr. was a the academies and in the office of the Hon. without heed to the merits of his Miller, WilMam Hebard, with whom he studied law, attacked his legal adversary cause, at once at East Randolph, he taught in the district weapons and effectually dis- with his own schools during the winters. He was ad- comfited him, to the delight of the defendant, mitted to the bar in Orange County about the amusement and edification of the audience 1842, and practiced law in Tunbridge. He agreeable disappointment. and his own was married in October, 1843, to Mary Allen P. Dijdley came to Bethel from Blodgett, daughter ot Laban and Rebecca Blodgett, of Chesterfield, N. H., in the year 1841, and in Randolph. Mary Blodgett was October of that year went into partnership cousin of Dudley C. Blodgett, her mother being with Mr. Hunton, which partnership was a sister of Luther Blodgett. He was for a time Register of dissolved early in 1842 and Mr. Dudley Probate for the Dis- trict of shortly afterwards removed from Bethel. Randolph, under Judge Hebard. He came to Bethel about April, 1844, where ROMANZO Walker was born in Grafton, he was for a time a partner of Dudley C. Windham County, Vermont, and came from Blodgett, and afterwards for a short time there to Bethel and went into partnership associated with the Hon. A. P. Hunton. In with Mr. Hunton, June 27, 1842, continuing April, 1850, he removed from Vermont to in partnership for one year. He was a Jefferson, Wis., where he was engaged in lawyer of considerable ability and talents. practice until 1873, when he removed to He was chiefly distinguished for his waggish- Marshall, Minn., where his time was divided ness, being endowed with great powers of between the law and farming. He was a mimicry, and noted for practical jokes. He devoted agriculturist. His residence, vcith remained in Bethel but a short time and died the exception of a brief interval spent in many years ago. Arkansas and Illinois, has been at Marshall Dudley Chase Blodgett was born in ever since. He has there held the office of Randolph, son of Luther and Elizabeth (Stark- Judge of Probate. weather) Blodgett. He was brought up in the When inactive practice in Wisconsin, Mr. family of the Hon. Dudley Chase, whose wife Weymouth was regarded as one of the leading was his mother's sister. He graduated at the lawyers of the State University of Vermont in 1839, and studied Mr. Weymouth has had ten children, of five law with the Hon. William Nutting, at Ran- whom daughters and one son are still 31 living. His residence in Bethel was the to Jane Flynn, daughter of Paul Flynn,Esq.,

house which has since been enlarged and is and Olivia (Smith) Flynn, a sister of Asa now the home of M. Sylvester, Esq. Smith, the first child born in town. Second to Mary Laurette McCoy, daughter of the Isaac T. Morgan was born in Royalton, Rev. Amos D. McCoy. He has fourteen November 13, 1822, in the house near South children. Mr. Wilson first lived in the house Royalton, now occupied by James Buck. In occupied now by Oscar P. Shaw, then in the Bethel he built what is now the Congrega- house now occupied by Gardner Wallace, tional parsonage, to which he removed from J. from which he moved to his present Mrs. Adelaide R. Stearns' house, and he fine residence. His eldest son, Guy, is a lawyer resided there until his decease, May 26, 1859. He married Anna Maria Cheney of Royalton, in Bethel, His second son, March, is prac- October 28, 1S45. He had two sons, Edward ticing law in Randolph. In 1874 Mr. Wilson and Frederick, who removed from Bethel to represented the County of Windsor in the Sen-

Jamestown, N. Y., about 1865. Edward is ate, with crgdit to himself and his constituency. now cashier of the First National Bank of He was State's attorney from 1884 to 1886.

CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD DEPOT.

Jamestown, an accomplished and successful He has in extensive and successful prac- business man. Mr. Morgan practiced law in tice, and Ts considered one of the ablest Bethel for several years. He was a good lawyers in the State. His most marked lawyer, of polished and courteous manners. characteristic is his tireless and unceasing

industry. He is skilful and energetic, and Hon. James J. Wilson was born in Bethel, has marvellous executive ability which enables May 16, 1831, the son of Jay and Laura him to give the most careful attention to the (Child) Wilson. He has always lived in multiplicity of details of his various profes- Bethel, except for a short absence in his sional and private concerns. youth, when he was teaching in the South,

He studied law with the Hon. Augustus P. MouLTON J . Gilman was born in Unity, Hunton, and was admitted to the Bar of N. H., educated in the common schools, Windsor County, May, 1858, when he studied law with the Hon. A, P. Hunton, established an office in Bethel, where he has was admitted to the Bar of Windsor County, since continued in practice, having from 1868 December Term, 1863, and began the prac- to 1870 as a partner, E. J. McWain, Esq. tice of his profession at once, as partner of Mr. Wilson has been twice married. First Mr. Hunton. This partnership continued 32 until January, 1874, when it was dissolved, and was admitted to the Suffolk County Bar and Mr. Gilman practiced alone until the in 1870. He removed to Bethel in 1874, and latter part of 1876, when he formed a partner- was admitted to the Bar of Windsor County ship with Charles H. Williams, Esq. The in December of that year, and began to firm of Gilman & Williams practiced in practice in Bethel. In August, 1875, h^

Bethel for about a year, when it was dissolved went into partnership with the Hon. Augustus and Mr. Gilman removed to Dakota, where P. Hunton, whose daughter Mary he married he deceased soon after. Mr. Gilman married in 1877. He was for some years town super- Miss Helen Sanborn, of Unity, N. H., and intendent of schools; represented the town had one son, Clarence. Mr. Gilman taught of Bethel in the General Assembly in 1884, school in Bethel while studying law, and was and was State's attorney of Windsor County very much liked as an instructor. He -was from 1888 to 1890. and President of the Ver- superintendent of schools for the town several mont Bar Association, 1894-5. years, and was for many years secretary of CHAKLES.H. Williams was born in Wood- the White River Valley Agricultural Society. stock, Vermont, son of Harvey Williams. Mr. Gilman was a democrat, faithful to the He was admitted to the Bar of Windsor principles of his party, and a re-cognized County at the December term, 1875, and was leader in their councils in county and state. established in his profession about 1877, in Bethel, being a partner Edwin J. McWain, born in Ripton, Ver- of Moulton J. Gilman. mont, August 17, 1840, was First Serjeant He practiced in Bethel about a year, during Company H, nth Vermont Volunteers, and which time he marred Delia, daughter of served with distinction from September i, Simon T. Coy, Mr. Williams removed from

1862 to May 15, 1865, was promoted to Bethel to Claremont, N. H., and from there Second Lieutenant December 2S, 1863, and to Bellows Falls, where he now resides,

First Lieutenant December 2, 1864. He having given up the law. He is a dealer in was wounded at Petersburgh June 23, 1864; paper stock, successful and prosperous. afterwards was captured by the rebels and In his brief career as an attorney Mr. remained prisoner until March i, 1865. Williams displayed legal abilities of a high After his discharge he was a constant sufferer order, and his abandonment of the profession from disease contracted during his military was much regretted by his legal brethren. service. William'H, Bliss was born in Royalton, He returned to Vermont and began his October 5, 1847, son of Charles William legal studies in the ofEce of C. A. Webber, Bliss, graduated at the University of Vermont of, Rochester, finishing with the Hon. J.J. in 1S71, studied and practiced his profession Wilson, at Bethel. He was admitted to the with T. C. Greene, Esq., at Providence, R. I., Bar of Windsor County, May Term. 1867, where he was admitted to the bar, October, and began practice in Bethel, where he was 1873, and whence he came to Vermont, and associated with the Hon. J. J. Wilson. In was admitted to the Bar of Orange County May, 1870, he removed to Randolph, where in 1878, and to the United States Supreme he continued in practice at intervals until Court in 1894 He began to practice in this 1886, during the latter part of which time he State at West Fairlee. He was in Bethel was partner of the Hon. Philander Perrin. but a short time. He afterwards removed to In the spring of 1886 he removed to Nebraska, Middlebury, and from there to Burlington. and later to Kansas City, Missouri. He has He was State's attorney for Addison County since deceased. from 1890 to 1892. Mr. Bliss is a man of Wm. B. C. Stickney was born in IVIarble- rare accomplishments, literary and legal. head, Mass., January 16, 1845, son of Rev. His knowledge of the law is profound and Moses P. and Jane F. (Curry) Stickney. accurate. He is a vehement and persuasive His father removed to Boston in 1853, and speaker. He has a large and successful he was educated in Boston public schools practice. and Harvard University. He studied law Hon. Fred Arnold was born in Randolph with the Hon. Isaac F. Redfield. in Boston, December 7, 1856. His father, Thomas 33

Arnold, came to Bethel with his family in MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. 1873. Mr. Arnold was educated at the State

Normal school at Randolph; studied law Although" the town of Bethel is over one with the Hon. J. J. Wilson and Hunton & hundred years old, the number of physicians Stickney, and was admitted to the Bar of who have practiced in this place is compara- Windsor County in 1881, since which time tively small. During the early days there he has practiced his profession at Bethel. was very little manufacturing, and that only He has held the offices of superintendent of on a small scale, consequently the physician schools, i88s-'92, town agent for the prosecu- depended almost wholly upon the farming tion and defense of law suits, i889-'92, town community for his practice. One man could grand juror, 1892. He represented the town attend to all the business of the village and of Bethel in the General Assembly of 1892, surrounding country and even have some and was senator from Windsor County in time to spare. Most of the doctors rode to 1894. He was chairman of the Committee on their patients on horseback, and many of the Education in the House and in the Senate. trips were from five to ten miles distant, much He was a careful, efficient and trusted legis- of the work being done by night rides over lator. Mr. Arnold has marked executive hard roads through uninhabited forest country. abihty. His chief characteristics as a lawyer Notwithstanding the hardships of these early are fearlessness and candor. He has the most practitioners, and the many bad bills which extensive insurance business in the White accumulated, most of them lived to a good old River Valley, a result due to his honesty and age and not a few of them accumulated quite faithfulness to his patrons and square deal- extensive properties. ings with the companies which he represents The first physician known to have prac- Mr. Arnold married Miss White of Provi- ticed in Bethel was Dr. Joseph A. Gallup, dence, R. I., and has seven children. who owned the property where Jackson Gra- ham now liyes from May 2, 1791 to June Guy Wilson, eldest son of the Hon. James 27, 1809. He Was one of the founders of the (^Flynn) Wilson, was born in J. and Jane first Episcopal society in Bethel and was one Bethel, July 11, 1864, graduated at Dartmouth of the first wardens of said church. But little College in 1886, was admitted to the Bar is known of his professional life as pertaining October, 1890, and has since practiced in to Bethel, as he moved to Woodstock from Bethel. He has held the offices of constable here where he gained a prominent place in since 1889, and deputy sheriff since 1890, and the annals of his profession through his con- has also devoted portions of his time to civil nection with the medical school at that place. engineering and journalism. Mr. Wilson is He moved there in 1799, although he still industrous and energetic in whatever he owned property in Bethel ten years later. undertakes, and deeply interested in the wel- His name was Joadam Gallup, .but this was fare of Bethel. changed by his acquaintances to Joseph, and Mr. Wilson married Miss Abbie Fisher, he wascomfrjonlyknownas Joseph A. Gallup. daughter of Edwin Fisher, formerly post- He is spoken of as having been a very eccen- master of Bethel, and has two children. tric person with a determination of character, March M. Wilson, son of the Hon. James common to that class of men. He had a (McCoy) Wilson, was favorite idea of establishing a J. and Mary Laurette medical sthool born August 24, 1870, graduated at the at Woodstock, for the training and education University of Vermont in 1891, studied law of students who aspired to become members in the office of his father and was admitted of the medical fraternity. To this end he to the Bar in 1894, passing his examination labored earnestly, and in March, 1827, he with distinguished honor. He practiced in enjoyed the pleasure of seeing his hopes Bethel but a short time, and removed to realized. In 1834 he was forced to retire Randolph in the summer of 1895, where he from the field through the organization of is partner of the Hon. Wm. H, Nichols. another college, but he has the distinction of He was married October i, 1895, at Laconia, being the first to found a medical college in N. H., to Miss Lulu Dickinson. this vicinity. 34

Dr. Joseph A. Denison was in practice Dr. Hiram Morgan was a student in the in Bethel during the first years of this century, office of the elder Dr. Paige and practiced and owned one of the finest farms in this vicin- one year in Bethel Village. He was a native ity, all there from Bethel. embracing nearly of the . land now of Rochester, and moved covered by the southern part of the village. Dr. James M. Woodworth was a practi- He was an able man, a close worker in his tioner of the town of Bethel for many years. profession, and one of the best physicians of He first began about 1830 and several years his time. He moved to Royalton in 1812, later moved west, where he was in practice for selling his property and practice to Dr Alfred some time. He returned to Bethel and again Paige, a former student in his office. established himself in his profession, remain- Alfred Paige, son of Nathan and Hannah ing here until the arrival of Dr. Ormon (Cobb) Paige, was born in Royalton. on the Terry, to whom he sold his practice. Several farm now owned by George Parker, April 25, amusing stories arc told of Dr. Woodworth. 1788. He married, June 8, 1808, Sarah, At one time one of his patients who had daughter of Elipha^ and Sarah (Gushing) been very .sick, asked the doctor if it would Bigelow, who was born in Barnard on the do any harm to eat some cheese. He said farm now owned by Benjamin Furber, Janu- they could have some if they wished. After ary 23, 1791. Eleven children were born of eating the cheese, the ijatient grew worse and this marriage, six of whom died in infancy or the doctor was called in. " Oh! Doctor, I early childhood. Mrs. Paige died in Concord, feel terrible,' said the patient; "Well," N. H., July 20, 1872. said the Doctor, " .Now you know you can't Dr. Paige received a common school edu- eat cheese." At another time on leaving the cation, and studied medicine in the ofiice of house of a patient, he was asked by one of Dr, Joseph A. Denison of Bethel, receiving the neighbor^ how his patient was progressing. his degree of iVI. D.,from Yale College, where He informed her that the invalid was con- he attended medical lectures. He first began valescent, whereupon she exclaimed, "Oh! practice in Barnard, but soon after came to Heavens, then she'll die sure, wont she?" Bethel, where he succeeded Dr. Denison, Dr. "Woodworth sold his practice to Dr. whose farm he bought. In 1833, he built the Ormon Terry and moved to the east part of brick house, now standing, where the re- the town where he died. mainder of his life was spent. For many years he was accustomed to travel on horse- Dr. Henry P.^lmer was in practice here about resided in back to visit his patients carrying his medi- 1840, and the house called cines, tinctures and pills, (prepared by him- the White River House, then located on the premises self) in saddle bags. Later he drove to his now occupied by the Arnold block. patients in a chaise, but he never discarded A few years later he gave up his practice in the saddle bags, taking them in the chaise, Bethel and moved to Woodstock, Vt. when entering the house carrying them and Dr. Farnum came to Bethel about 1840 his arm. Dr. Paige was devoted to his over and opened an office in his profession, resid- attained a high rank profession, and both as ing in the house where Oscar Shaw now physician and surgeon. He died in Bethel a lives. He remained a short time and moved 1862. March 24, to other parts. Dk. Alfred Paige, Jk.. born in Bethel, Dr. Fisk, a Thomsonian physician April 7, 1823 attended lectures at Castleton came to Bethel about 1846, but did not Medical College and in a medical college in re- main long, as he received but little business, New York City. He studied in the office with and he aid not succeed in making his father and rode with him to .some extent. himself popular among the people. He was unsettled in his business and pro- fessional work and at times made long trips Dr. AsAHEL BuRBANK resided in Bethel to other places. He died in Bethel, January for some time, about 1848, and was one of 14, 1882, at the age of fifty-nine years. He the leading physicians of thia place. He was an excellent surgeon and capable of tak- resided on the farm now owned and occupied ing a high rank in his profession.' by Alexander Morse on the Randolph road. 35

Dr. AsAHEL Kendrick was born in Han- Dr. George Nichols was in practice over, N. H., December 25, 1806, and was a here in 18G0, and had an office in town for student in Troy, N. Y., and at Dartmoutli about threCiyears. He married Helen Stearns College. He practiced at Wai-ren, Vt., and of this place and moved west, but returned to about 1840 located at West Randolph, where Vermont, and was settled at Northfield for he followed his profession for several years. some time.

In 1850 he came to Bethel and three years Dr. George Van Dusen had an office in later returned to Randolph where he died, Bethel village about 1865, and resided in the [n his profession, he was a careful and house now owned by Albert Stearns on reliable physician, a man of sound, i)ractical Main street. He was a popular man in the judgment, admired and appreciated by the community, and a successful man in his pro- people who knew him best. fession. He moved to New York State in the latter part of the sixties. Dr. Philander D. Bradford was born Dr. Ormon Terry, a native of Bethel in Randolph, April 9, i8n, and was the son of John and Lucy (Brooks) Bradford. He and a graduate of Castleton Medical College came to Bethel from Saranac, N. Y. in received his education in the Orange County 1865 and practiced medicine in the town until his Grammar School, and was graduated from death September 10, 1880. He lived in the the Woodstock iVledical School in the class house now 'occupied by Chester Foster on of 1834. He first practiced at Braintree and Main Street. Dr. Terry was a pushing ener- afterwards moved to Randolph, where he had getic physician, and met with gratifying suc- an office for some time. He came to Bethel cess in his business. He was not a man that late in the forties but moved from here to courted popularity, but depended almost en- Northfield in 1854 where he resided until his tirely on his ability as a physician, rather which occurred 16, 1892. He death July than the friendship of his townsmen. He was an active, energetic mail, and although succeeded Dr. James Woodworth, and during to his an excellent physician and devoted his residence in Bethel was the leading doctor the profession, he found time to devote to in the place*. (See Terry sketch.) affairs of his country, He was a strong Dr. M. Spauldlng, a graduate of the ' Abolitionist," and an active worker in the C- Medical D,epartment of University of Ver- Free Soil Party of Vermont at a time when mont in the class of 1873, located in Bethel that Party was far from popular. It was during the latter part of that year. He suc- enough for him that he believed the principles ceeded in gaining a lucrative practice and re- of his party to be founded on right and justice. mained here until 1877, when he sold to Dr. He was elected to several public offices of the L. M. Greene and moved to Wilmot. He is State, filling the same faithfully. now in practjce in Ashland, N. H. Dr. John M. IVIorse was a native of Dr. C. C. Perry came to Bethel in 1877 Bethel and was born October 13, 1823, the and began- the practice of his profession. son of Calvin and Elvira Morse. After at- He was born in South Pomfret, Vt., June tending the public schools, he studied medi- 2, 1849, and attended the common schools until cine in the office of Dr. Walter Carpenter, at he was twenty years old. He then com- Randolph, and attended the Castleton Medi- menced the academical course at f-'erkins' cal College and the Woodstock Medical Academy at South Woodstock, Vt., and College, from the latter of which he was in Septemper, 1871, entered the Goddard graduated. He immediately came to Bethel Seminary at Barre, Vt., from which he was and Ijegaa practice at his profession, living graduated /uly 1873. in a iiouse which was on the premises now 9, began the study of medicine in occupied by the James J. Wilson residence. He the of Dr. C. C. Ellis of Somerville, He is remembered as a live and hustling bus- ofl^ce Mass., iness man and an able physician. He moved and later he was a student with Drs. O. W. from Bethel toGalesburg, 111., in 1854, where Sherwin and J, S. Richmond of Woodstock. he died. He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth 36

Medical College and was graduated in the lic schools of his native town, took a course class of 1876. His first office was in South at the Normal School at Randolph Center, Pomfret, Vt., where he remained one year, and and entered Dartmouth Medical College in then moved to Bethel. Here he was engaged 1874. After a two years course there he in his professional work for thirteen years, entered the Medical Department of the and in 1891 sold his practice to Dr. L. W. University of Vermont, and was graduated Clough and moved to his present home in in the class of 1876. West Rutland, Vt. He began practice in Rochester, but after

He is a member of the Vermont State one ye^r there he came to Bethel and has

IVledical Society, the White River Medical since made this place his home. He is a Association, the Rutland County Medical member of the White River Lodge, No. 90. of Society and the Rutland Medical Club of the Bethel, and the Whitney R. A. Chapter of City of Rutland. Randolph, F. and A. M. In medical socie-

ties he has been prominent, and is a member Dr. RoLLA Miner Chase, born in Royal- of the Vermont State Medical Society and ton. Vt., September 4, 1854, came to Bethel the White River Medical Association, Dr. with his parents when he was three ye.irs of Greene was chosen town representative in age. After completing .his studies in the [894, and has served on the school committee schools of Bethel, 'he began the study of for ten years in succession. dentistry in the office of Dr. F. M. Celley of On April 2, he married Ella Durkee this place, and was a graduate of the Boston 1873, of Pittsfield, and their son. Otto V.. was born Dental College in the class of 1876. He has May 14, 1880. since been in practice in Bethel and in 1889 entered the Baltimore Medical College, Olin D. Greene, son of Milton and having taken up the study of medicines. He Aurora (Goodno) Greene, was born in was graduated from that institution in 1890. Rochester, Vermont, September 21, 1856. Since his return to Bethel Dr. Chase has After completing his studies in the public established a large and lucrative practice in schools, he began the study of medicine in both branches of his ptofession, and has met the office of his brother. L. M. Greene at with the greatest success in his work. (See Bethel and laler he took a course in the Cha:se sketch). Medical Department of the University of Vermont at Burlington, and was graduated Dr. L, VV. Clough, born in Hopkinton. from that institution in the class of N. H., July 17, 1863, is now one of the 1879. first an office in medical staff of Bethel. After attending He opened Hancock, Vt., and for the next two practiced schools at Warner, N. H., he entered the years he be- tween that place office of Dr. G. P. Conn at Concord, N. H., and Rochester. He then moved to Warren, where and in 1885 attended the Medical Department he was engaged in his profession for of the University of Vermont at Burlington, fourteen years, selling out his practice in from which he was graduated in 1887. He May, 1895, to Dr. Frank C. practiced at Bradford, N. H., for a short Angell of Randolph, and coming to Bethel, where he into time and came to Bethel in 1891, where he entered a partnership with his brother, and is in is now enjoying a successful practice. (See now engaged practice. Clough sketch). In politics Dr. Greene is a Republican, and he was chosen town representative of Warren, Dr. Elizabeth Childs, born in Bethel J. Vermont, jn 1888. July I, 1840, attended the Medical College at On March 4, 1879, he was married to Miss Ann Arbor, Mich,, and was graduated from Emma Bee, daughter of Richard and Clara that institution. She immediately returned to (Raymond) Bee, and their only daughter Bethel where she is now in practice. (See was born in Rochester, February 28, i88o. Child sketch). Other physicians who have practiced in L. M. Greene, son of Milton and Aurora the town of Bethel, are Dr. Angler, (Goodno) Greene was born at Rochester Dr. Slocum, Dr. Thomas P. Russell, Vt., October 14, 1852. He attended the pub- Dr. O. D Cummings and Dr. Abel Childs. 37

MANUFACTURING. same year Eustice Cummings of Woburn, IVlass., was taken in as a partner, and the business conducte'd under the firm name of THE BETHEL TANNERY. J. D. Cus"hing & Co. Mr. Cummings after- One of the leading industries of Bethel is wards soH back his interest to the Cushings, the tannery of G. & E. G. Place, which is who continued to carry on the business until the largest establishment of its kind in Ver- 1882, when they leased the plant to John B. mont. This business which was first started Alley &^ Co., for five years. This firm is in 1865, with only a few employees, has one of the foremost among the manufacturers steadily increased in size and trade until it and dealers in all kinds of finished leathers, stands at the head of Bethel industries. hides, etc., having several tanneries in other

A GROUP OF TANNERY EIWPLOYEES.

The main building was erected in 1865 by parts of the country, and with headquarters E. T. Bugbee & Co., and is a substantial at 73 and 75 South Street, Boston, IMass. wood structure, thirty by one hundred feet, At the expiration of their lease in 1887, they three stories high with an attic, making purchased the entire property, and imme- nearly twelve thousand feet of floor space. diately on taking possession commenced The business was carried on by this com- making extensive repairs, improvements and pany for a few years, and afterwards sold to additions, making it the largest and best other parties, the firm name being Nelson equipped tannery in the state. Among the Ellison & Co. This firm sold the business many improvements made was the erection to J. D. Gushing of Bethel and Henry Cush- of a new building 50x70, covering the liquoi' ing of Woodstock in 1873, and during the pits or yard, which were built new; the con-

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SORTING SKINS.

struction of a beam house 30x70, a hide old grinding machines, and it is estimated house 30x80, a leach house 30x40, a bark that twenty per cent more liquor is extracted shed 30x300, and a new office building. than by the old process. They also added a Among the new machinery added was one tan press for extracting the water from wet of Ott's Patent barli shaving machines, tan bark, leaving it nearly dry, and this is which cuts the baric one third faster than the used as fuel. A machine for removing the

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WEIGHING SKINS, 4°

YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM, NORTH END. hair from the hides was put in and an eleva- The company continued under the same tor placed in the main building, with a com- name until iSSS, wlien a new partner was bination car, and with the movable tracks, talcen in to the firm, and the name was heavy loads were easily transferred to any clianged to Alley Brothers & Place, iMr. part of the buildinsj. Crififin Place being the new member of the

YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM, SOUTH END. 41

firm. In 1892 the firm name was again business is conducted upon a liberal scale; changed, and the present style of G. & E. cash is furnished to buy stock and two thirds G. Place was adopted. of the amoiint of invoice advanced upon re-

When the firm of John B. Alley & Co., ceipt of bill 'of lading from any transporta- took possession in 18S2, C. S. Gould was tion company. All the leather produced appointed superintendent, and continued in by this taiinery is finished on the premi- that position until his death in 1884. Dur- ses, and it inay be interesting to many to ing- the next year E. G. Place was superin- read of the different processes through which tendent of the business, and he was followed the leather 'is carried before being ready for by C. L. Frank of Curwensville, Pa., who shipment. had charge of the business until 1887, when the present superintendent, M. G. Safford of SORTING AND WEIGHING SKINS. Sutton, P. Q., took charge of the work and When hides are received at the tannery has now managed the business for seven they are first counted to see that the number

FINISHING ROOM IN RUSSET DEPARTMENT. years. Mr. Safford had been in the employ corresponds with the invoice. The skins or of this firm since 18S3, a greater part of this hides are piled at one side of a table, at time traveling on the road buying hides. which two men are [standing, one at eacli

The company now employs 125 men, and end. Each skin is then passed over tl-.L* tan on an average, 900 hides a week, which table separately, and closely examined, and are bought from the butchers and dealers piled in different piles, according to the

from all parts of New England and in New grade, runrfing in numbers i, 2, 3, and cults. York state, who by dealing with the con- These are then weighed and sorted accord- sumer direct, without the intervention of ing to weight, and at the same time looked middlemen, are assured of a permanent mar- over for cuts, scores or imperfections of any ket and the highest cash prices at all seasons kinds. Each kind is then classed by weight, of the year. Shipments are solicited from which runs as follows: Four to five pound-, butchers and dealers everywhere. The five to seven pounds, seven to nine pounc's. A PART OF EAST SIDE OF FINISHING ROOM. nine to twelve pounds, twelve to seventeen dealer, who on an average, receives better pounds, and seventeen pounds and over. pay for his stock.

Thus every hide and skin is bought on its After this thorough sorting, counting and individual merit, which is not only of advan- classifying, the hides arc taken to the beam tage to the consumer, but to the butcher or house, where they are fleshed and limed and

A PART OF WEST SIDE OF FINISJiING ROOM. 43 put through a machine taking off the hair, process in order to have all shipments of auni- and then subdivided into two lots, one of form grade'and quality. The hair shipped by which is used for russet leather, and the this company is preferred by masons and bui'd- other for black leather, as a large number of ers for its fteeness from dirt and lime, and the skins show up imperfections after the hair is demand which formerly only extended through removed from them, that cannot be.detected New England, now reaches into the southern in the first sorting. About fifty per cent of and western states. Traveling men have the hides are used for perfect leather, and been employed to some extent, with gratify- this process requires two weeks before the ing success, but as their business enlarges, hides are ready to go into the liquor yard. and the reputation of their goods extends, it

is expected YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM. that there will be more demand for the hair put on the inarket by the Vermont This is a covered building containing about Hair Compa,ny than they can supply. 200 vats, which contain liquor from six to twenty degrees in strength, and in which the GRIFFIN PLACE.

hides are handled daily for a period covering Griffin IPlace, senior member of the firm the about thirty days. When taken from of G. and E. G. Place, was born in St. Law- liquor yard, the leather is taken to the split- ting room, where the grain is split off, and

the stock is again re-sorted, the skins that are not perfectly tanned being pu: back into the retanning vats, the perfect leather going into the mills and bleached to obtain an even color, and from there to the coloring room.

FINISHING ROOM.

The next and last process is in the finish- ing room, where sixty men are employed in setting, polishing and tying up the leather ready for market. The average time used in the care of a hide from its first sorting to the finishing room is twelve weeks. The leather taken from the splitting room for black

leather, which is not quite perfect as to color and will not make colors, is taken to the black leather department, where it is stuffed,

set, snuffed and blacked. It is polished and put through a process called soft boarding,

which makes it soft and pliable, and it is tied up and ready for the market. About 125 hands are employed at this tannery, and the aver- GRIFFIN PLACE. age amount of work turned out is 900 hides per week. rence county, New York, in 1835, and served VERMONT HAIR COMPANY. a regular apprenticeship at the tannery An outcome of the Bethel Tannery is the business, and was afterwards employed in a Vermont Hair Company, of which Mr. M. currying shop in Massachusetts. He ac- G. Safford is also manager. The hair takeu cepted a position as manager of a tannery in from the hides is thoroughly washed and Woburn, Mass., where he remained two dried to cleanse it of lime and other foreign years, leaving there to take charge of the substances, and after being separated and then largest tannery in Woburn, stocked by for five years spread, it is put up in packages ranging from Alexander Moseley & Co., and of this place. i, 135 to 170 pounds, ready to ship to the trade. was manager On July 1865, A large part of the hair is bought from other he became a partner in the firm of Cum- tanneries, but this is put through the same mings, Place & Co., which partnership lasted 44 but a short time, and in 1867 lie entered the where he was employed as traveling sales- Dritania Company for firm of J. B. Winn & Co., one of the best man for the; Meridan known and most successful business houses several years, when he located at South in the city of Woburn. This business con- Royalton, Vt. Here he married November 10, [876, Hattie, daughter of H. M. Double-

day of th.at glace, and for the following four years was in the employ of Mr. Doubleday.

.'\t the end of that time, he accepted a posi-

tion in the tannery of J. B. Alley & Co., at Bethel, where he was employed at the time of his death, which occurred in Burlington, July 23, 1886, after a brief illness. Mr. Gould was very popular among his fellow men,: and in his position as superin- tendent of the tannery was greatly admired by the men over whom he had charge, as well as by the members of the firm in which he was employed. He was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Knights of Pythias at Springfield, Mass. His widow now resides in Boston with her daughter.

il. G. SAFFORD. Myron G. Saffokd son of Garret and Audra (Spencer) Safford, was born in Sutton ,

CHESTER S, GOULD.

nection continued until 1873, when the death of the two older members of the firm, dis- solved the firm and the business was closed. Mr. Place entered the firm of John B. Alley & Co., in 1875, having the principal manage- ment of that business until 1892, when the firm name was changed and the business

carried on under its present title. The business of John B. Alley & Co., was one of the most extensive of its kind in the country,

antl consisted in the manufacture of buff, glove, grain and split leather, and a sole leather business amounting to from one and one-half to two million per annum. Since 1892 Mr. Place has been interested in busi- ness with his son under the firm name of G. and E. G. Place, with tanneries at North Wilmington, Mass., and at Bethel, Vermont.

M.YRON G. SAFf^ORD. CHESTER S. GOULD.

Chester S. GoULu, was born in North- P. Q., June 8, 1863. He attended the public ampton, Mass., July 10, 1851. He was a school and Sutton Academy, and at the age graduate of the college at Northampton, and of eighteen he began farming, beginning afterwards moved to Springfield, Mass., work shortly after in the employ of H. M. :

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Doubleday, as book-keeper in his business of BETHEL SHOE COMPANY. buying and selling bark. He remained there Among the leading manufacturing interests two years, and then came to Bethel, Vt., to of Bethel is the Bethel Shoe Company. This Jearn the trade of tanning in the tannery of company was organized in 1891, and incor- J. B. Alley and Co., now E. & E. G. Place. porated with a paid up capital of $21,000. Only one year was spent in learning the business, and Mr. SafFord started on the road The successful completion of the organization buying hides, and continued in this line for of this company is largely due to the enter- two y.'ars, when he returned to the tannery prise and energy of Dr. R. M, Chase, who and was employed as bookkeeper for a short first enlisted the co-operation of the leading time, and was promoted to the position of business men, succeeded in getting an efficient

FACTORY OF THE BETHEL SHOE COMPANY.

superintendent and manager, which position manager, and has taken an active part in the he now holds. Mr. Saflford is also manager advancement of this industry. of the Vermont Hair Company, which deals The first officers chosen were as follows

in hair for plastering purposes. He is a A. A. Brooks, president ; Dr. R. M. Chase,

member of the Sutton Lodge, No 31, F. and vice-president; J. G. Sargent, treasurer; and A. M. of Sutton, P. Q. George H. Tupper, H. H. Gilson, Myron He was married September 3, 1888, to Safford and C. D. Gushing, directors. A Miss Penelope T. Hamilton of Sutton, 'and building was constructed near the -railroad their two children are: Harry H., born track, opposite the Central Vermont Railroad July II, 1889; and Marion M., born May depot, containing four floors, each with an hundred feet, or in all 14, 1891. area of seventy-five 46 thirty thousand square feet. The factory yield more wealth in a given time, but this was equipped with the best machinery in seems to be more from a lack of unity, or every department, and the business started incompetent management, rather than decline

witli fifty employees, with W. H. Creamer in of the farming industry, as many of the charge. present farmers add yearly to their income, The business has rapidly advanced, and in and their prosperity is shown by the improve- place of fifty hands, with a daily output of ments in their buildings and around their five or six cases, there are one hundred and premises. The farms of Bethel are equal to fifty employees, turning out on an average others in the State, and with the shipping twenty cases per day. facilities offered, should stand with the first At the last election of officers, George W. as regards prosperity. Within the last few Berry, S. M. Washburn and W. H. Creamer years, there has been a gradual increase in were chosen as directors in place of George the manufacturing interests, and a corres- H. Tupper, H. U. Gilson and Myron Saf- ponding increase in the mercantile trade in ford. The present capital of the company is the village. The merchants are a hustling $25,000, with a surplus of $7,000, mostly con- and enterprising class of men, ready and trolled by the citizens of Bethel. This com- willing to aid in anything for the prosperity pany manufactures a medium grade ladies' of this place, recognizing the fact that public

shoe, which is sold mostly in the south and improvements are to the advantage of all. west, and the demand for these goods is con- The portraits which tbllow are of people who tinually on the increase. have helped to build up the town in the past, has been in Mr. W. H. Creamer, who and also of our present enterprising and , charge of this factory since it started, was public spirited citizens. formerly manager for Keene Brothers of S.MITH. Lynn, Mass., at their factory in South Ber- wick, Maine. Before coming to Bethel, he Benjamin Smith, one of the earliest set- had been located in Lynn, or been connected tlers of Bethel, was born in Cornish, N. H., with shoe firms in Lvnn since 1878. December 6, 1753, and was married to Lois Chase, second daughter of Dudley Chase of

Cornish, December 9, 1779. She was born FAMILY HISTORY. August 16, 1756, and died in Bethel, Jan- uary 4, 1832. They came to Bethel in the early part of 1780, and settled on the farm CONTAINING HISTORIES OF THE OLD FAMI- (then a wilderness) now occupied by Squire LIES OF THE TOWN, TOGETHER WITH Bowen on the Randolph road. When the BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE town was settled Deacon Dudley Chase, one PRESENT BUSINESS MEN. of the original proprietors, gave to his eldest In the following pages will be found brief son, Simeon, and his two daughters, Alice histories of the old families of the town of and Lois respectively, three farms adjoining, Bethel, biographies of the present citizens, this being one of them. Benjamin Smith carried this illustrated with portraits of many of the , on farm until his death, which people who have made this place their home occurred September 12, 1822. There were

at some period during the existence of the twelve children born of this marriage, viz :

town. For the first eighty years after the (i) Asa Smith, born September 6, 1780, town was incorporated, the principal industry was the first white child born in Bethel. was farming, which was carried on success- He worked on the farm with his father until fully, many of the people acquiring a com- the death of the latter, when he took the petence, which was increased as following farm and carried on the same, taking care of generations took up the work. At the his mother, several of his brothers and sis- present writing the farming community of ters having already moved to other parts of this section feel that the farming industry is the country, and the others following with

on the wane, and that there are other lines the following exceptions : Jehosheba, who the of business, which for capital invested> lived and died in the old home ; Olivia, who 47 spent the most of her life in Bethel; and having been one. of the founders of Christ

Daniel Corbett, who always lived in this vi- Church, the first edifice, now called Old cinity, and died in West Randolph. The Christ Church, being located about three original log cabin where Mr. Smith was born and one-half miles northwest of the village, was located on the meadow, near the west on the Randolph road, near the three Chase branch of the White River, and there were farms. Asa Smith died in Bethel on the

Only two or three families in Bethel at that same farm where he was born May 17, 1859, time. On account of the depredations of the seventy-nine, years old. Indians, there was a general feeling of alarm (2) NarCissa Smith, second child of Ben- throughout the country. It was increased jamin and Lois (Chase) Smith was born by the burning of Royalton about this time, July 21. 1782, She married Dr. Lucius Lee, and Deacon Dudley Chase came to Bethel to and they moved West where she died leav- take his daughter home with him to Cornish, ing a family of sons and daughters. N. H., till the danger should be past. There (3) Addison Smith, born April 17, 1784, were roads in those days, it no and would married Nancy Fitzgerald Hicks of Hop- have been necessary for her to ride on horse- kinsville, Ky.- nnd died in Shelbyville, 111., January 21^ 1S46.

(4) Jehosheb.i Smith, born January 15, 1786, died on the farrn where she was born July 18, 1844.

(5) Marcfa Smith, born September 30, 1787, marrifefi Martin Pratt, and they went to Holland Purchase, N. Y., where she died.

(6) Luci^ Smith, born April 2, 1783, mar- ried Horace Russell, and went West, where her husbaijd died leaving her with one daughter. She followed the fortunes of Bishop Chase in Ohio and Illinois, and died at a good old age in Jubilee, Illinois.

(7) Benjamin Smith, born January 14, 1791, died in the West, unmarried.

(8) Ransford Smith, born May 8, 1792, went to Kentucky, where he died, haying married the sister of his brother Addison's wife, and raised a family of children.

(9) Olivia Smith, born December 2, 1795, married Paul Flynn of Bethel, June i, 1820, and died at Coldwater, Mich., January 26, ASA SMITH. 1878.

(10) Dudley Chase Smith, born Decem- behind her father on a pillion, which back ber 22, 1796, married and lived in Blooming- was in no condition to do. After the she ton, Indiana, where he died, leaving a family of her son, however, she was taken birth of sons and daughters. about four miles to the fort at the mouth of (11) Heber Chase Smith, born December the first branch, and remained there for some 8, 1798, lived with his brother Dudley, and time. Asa Smith was married April 13, died unmarried. 1823, to Unity Richmond of Bethel, who Daniel Corbett Smith, born October bore him one daughter, Lois Smith, born (12) 14, 1802, n^arried Caroline Kinney, who bore February 17, 1827, who now resides in Bos- two sons, both of whom died unmarried. ton, the only dece-ndent of this line of the Daniel Corbett died in West Randolph in Smith family. Asa Smith was a prominent ftiember of the Episcopal Church his father 1873. 48

MAKSH. business they conducted for several years,

Joel Marsh, with his wife Ann, to whom Mr. Marsh has been interested in farming he was married in 1770, came to Bethel in during the greater part of his life, and still 1780. Their seven children were born as fol- owns and carries on a farm near the village. A mason by trade, he occupies some of his lows : time at that line of work. He has been ac- Jonathan, born in Lebanon, Conn., April 5, tive in town affairs, and has served several

1771 ; Peleg S., born at Hartford, N. Y., terms as selectman. He was chosen town October 18, 1775 ; Mary, born March 26, representative in 1869, and was re-elected for •777! John born in Hartford, Vt., (formerly- two years in 1870. New York) April 25, 1779; Ann, born Dec- His two sons are Fred, ember born October born November 7, 30, 1781 ; Joel, 28, 1858, and George, born January i860. 1783; and Mason, bora at Bethel, Vt., May 4, They both reside in Bethel. 1786. Charles, born April 1822, married Eliza- Jonathan Marsh married Irene Ainsworth 7, beth Farley, November 18, 1851, who bore January 8, 1806, and they had six children, three children, viz : Ellen, born July 18, viz: Mary Marsh, born in 1S06 ; Irene, 1853, married Nathaniel Whittier of Barre, born in 1808; Albert G. born in 18 10; Al- and they have two children, Charles and Flor- meron, born in 1813; Augusta C, born in ence. Elizabeth, born June 6, 1855, died 1820; and Aura A., born in 1S27. November Jo, 1889, and James P., born Mary married Rollin Richmond of Barnard Jan- uary 5, i860, married Lucy Williams, April in 1832, and died in 1842. 10, 1886, and they have two children, viz: Irene Marsh married William Adams in Laura, born June 29, 1888, and Ralph, born 1834. (See Adams Sketch;. April 21, 1893. Almeron Marsh married Susan Pearson in Sarah Mai'sh, born January 16, 1824, mar- 1842, and died in Bethel December 17, 1844. ried John Morse, and they now reside in A son, Charles Almeron, born August io_ Galesburg, 111. 1844, now lives in Needhara, Mass. Ellen Sophia, born March 15, 1826, died Augusta C, married George Townsend, in Bethel. and their daughter Augusta C, married Laura Marsh, born in 1830, marri^-d Leonard Charles A. Marsh, and died October 8, 1867. R. Saunders, and they now reside Kansas. Aura died in 1842. Peleg Marsh married Mary Mills, who bore RICHARDSON. nine children, \iz : Harriet, Jane Elizabeth, Mary Ann, Joel, Augustus, Charles, Sarah, Patty (Flint) Richardson, daughter of Ellen Sophia and Laura. William and Patty (Randall) Flint, was born Harriet, born November 12, 1813, married at Hampton, Conn., February i, 1801. She married Solon Cummings, and died in Grand-de-tour, Samuel Vinton, September i, 1820, and they had four 111. children, viz : Samuel N., Jane Elizabeth, born January 29, 1815, Zopher, Hatvey L., and Althera M. Samuel married Luke Heminway, and died in Moline Vinton died February 25, 1826, and his 111. widow married March 12, 1S30, Godfrey

Mary Ann, born August 28, 1816, married Richardson, who died April i, 1854, without Jacob Smith and died in East Bethel in 1893. issue. Joel, born January 29, 18 18, married Maria Samuel N. Vinton, born in Braintree, Vt., Jones and died in 1862 at Bethel Village. March 25, 1821, died at the age of eleven. Zopher Augustus, born January 30, 1820, married Vinton, born July 5, 1822, married Rosetta Meserve, January 31, 1858. His Melissa I. Harding, June 27, 1847, who bore early days were spent in the mill with his him one daughter Ella, now Mrs. Walter father, and after reaching his majority, he Sorden. Zopher died in Elm, N. J. May 6 carried on the business until 1850. He after- 1889. ward entered into partnership with Myron Harvey VJnton, born September 13, 1823, Burnett in the mill and lumber business which married Clara F. Stevens, June 13, iS^o. en- :

49 listed in the civil war, and died in a rebel joys the visits of her neighbors and acquaint- prison from starvation. His children were ances. Godfrey Richardson was a soldier in Samuel and C. Douglass. the Revolutibnary War and was at the battle

Althera M. Vinton, youngest child of Sam- ot Bunker Hill June 17, I775. His widow uel and Patty (Flint) Vinton, was born is one of the very few people in the United

November 9, 1825, married P. C. House, States who receives a pension from the gov- October 13, 1846, and died in East Bethel ernment for services rendered in the Revo- January 14, 1S87, leaving two sons, Harvey lution. P., born March 12, 1849, ^"^^ Clayton P., born August 18, 1857. Patty Richardson AINSWORTH. now resides with her son-in-law, P. C. Wyman Ainsworth, with his wife Elizabeth Ainsworth, came Bethel House at East Bethel, and is the oldest (Howe) to from person living in the town, now in her Dudley, Mass., about 1800, and settled two miles north -of the village. Their children were Wyman, Artimus, Eulalie, Sarah, and one daugliter tliat diedln infancy. Wyman, son of Wyman, -was a physician and settled in Milton, Vt., afterwards mov- ing to Attica, N. Y., where he died, leaving two children!, a son and a daughter. Eulalie married Andrew Washburn, and they resided in Randolph for a short time, moving to Bethel, and thence to New York.

Only one of their five children is alive, Frank Wasliburn, of Rochester, Vt. Artimus, third child of Wyman and Eliza- beth (HowCj) Ainsworth, married Catherine Fessenden of Walpole, September 27, 1810. He carried on the original farm until the death of his parents in 1832 and 183J, when he moved to the village, and conducted a farm there. There were six children born in Bethel to Artimus and Catherine Ainsworth, viz (1) Catherine C, born April 26, 1813; (2) Ellen E., born June 23, 1814; (3J Amelia A., Mrs. PATTY RICHARDSON. born August 12, 1816; (4) Calvin C, born September 29, 1818; (s) Martha M., born ninety-fifth year, and with the exception September 3, 1820; and (6) Joseph F., born of her facul- of being , deaf, is in possession August 31, 1824. ties, and able to remember and tell of inter- (i) Catherine C. Ainsworth married esting events which happened in her child- Henry Pierce in 1838, and they moved to hood. When she was two years old her Salem, Mass., where she died December 31, parents moved to Braintree, Vermont, and 1893. for many years this place was her home, as (2) Ellen C. Ainsworth married Albert she did not move to Bethel until 1832, G. Marsh of Bethel and died March — 1 893. twenty-nine years after coming into the state. Amelia N. Ainsworth married Charles She experienced religion in the great refor- (3) 5f Salem, and they still reside in mation of 1840, and since that time, has S. Nichols Their four children are Charles been a member of the Christian Church. that city. F., Ella A., Harry P., and Catherine F. A. Her health is good, her appetite perfect, while she seldom misses a good night's (4) Calvin Ainsworth married Elizabeth sleep. During pleasant weather Mrs. Rich- P. Nichols of Salem, Mass., in 1868, and ardson moves around out of doors, and en- they now reside in Salem, Mass. 50

(5) Martha M. died unmarried. and settled on the farm now owned and car- (6) Joseph Ainsworth married Francis F- ried on by his grandson, Robert Noble. Gilmore in 1853, and their children were; They were married November 19, 1782, and

Catherine F., born March 7, 1S55; Franlilin, raised a family of ten children. Mr. Noble

F., born September 5, 1856, Samuel and was a prominent man in the affairs of Bethel Jessie died in infancy; Mabel, born October when this town was first settled, and served

21, 1865; Robert A., born April 3, 1869; and the town in several of the local offices. He;

Gertrude B., born January 15, iSyr. died October 31, 1826, and his wife died Sarah, daughter of Wyman and Elizabeth December 14, 1831. Their children were as (Howe) Ainsworth, married William Saw- follows: William S., born May 16, 1784;. yer, and died leaving one daughter, Elizabeth. Bethesda, born James, born July 26, 1785 ;

July 21, 17,86; Calvin, born April i, 1788; CHASE. Nehemiah, Jr., born September 6, 1789; John, born September 11, i7gi;Parez B., Simeon Chase, son of Dudley and Alice born March 17, James, born October (Corbeit) Chase of Cornish, was born in 1793; 18, 1795; Sabra, born September 1, 1798; Sutton, June 14, 1751, and was one of the and Alden C., born March 1800. first settlers in the town of Bethel. He 9, married Molly March, who bore him two John, sixth child of Nehemiah and Sabra children, Simeon and Nan-cy. Mr. Chase (Skinner) Noble, was a farmer during his

died in Bethel, September 6, 1847. life, and tlie farm where his father .settled has been occupied by four generations of this Simeon, the eldest child of Simeon and family. John married Amanda Shedd, Jan- Molly (March) Chase, born in Bethel in uary 1843, and died January 31, 1880. in 1796, married in October, i8'2i, Olivia Brown, J, his eighty-ninth year. There were two who was born in New York state, March 22,

children of this marriage, viz : Willis F. and 1799. Simeon Chase died in May, 1827, Robert. Willis F., born October and his wife died March 11, 1865, leaving 10, 1843, died October- three children, Dudley, Nancy and George B. 17, 1856.

George Brown, youngest child of Simeon Robert Noble was born October i, 1850, in the house built his grandfather and Olivia (Brown) Chase, was born in by in Bethel in 1826. He hasalways made Bethel his home, Bethel, September 9, 1826, and was twice and like his father married. His first wife, Sophia Haile, and grandfather before him, he is daughter of Dr. Henry and Lbisa Haile, to a successful farmer, still owning and carrying on the old homestead. whom he was married June 21, 1848, bore He has been prominent in town affairs, and although him three children, viz. . Charles Dudley, a democrat, he has served the-town select- born April 26, 1849, '^'^•^ August 26, 1871, as man, and is overseer of the poor, at Bethel. Frank Solon, born October 14, at the pres- 1S51, died January 28,1853; ^i^d Simeon ent time. He is a member of White River Lodge No. Haile, born in Bethel, July 20, 1855, mar- 90, F. and A. M. ried Flora, adopted daughter of Simeon A. On February 13, 1889, he married Ida Webster of Bethel, October 23, 1883. Olivia Cherry Brown of Gaysville, and they have

three children, viz : (Brown) Chase died August 13, 1856, and John, born November 9, George B, Chase married, second, Harriet 1889; A/ustin B., born February 14, i89i;and Putnam, who bore one son, George C, born Robert S., born October 22, 1893. Mrs. November 30, 1859, ^^'^ "o^ ^ resident of John Noble now resides with her son Robert, Detroit, Mich, George B, Chase died m Bethel,

August 15, i88r, and his widow now resides at Randolph. BURNETT. Averill Burnett, son of Johnathan and NOBLE. Abigail (Parish) Burnett was born in Bethel, Nehemiah Noble, born June 6, 1756, and January 16, 1798, and married Betsy Riggs, his wife Sabra (Skinner) Noble, who Was who was the mother of six children, four of born June i, 1754, came to Bethel in 1787, whom lived to maturity. ;

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Myron Burnett, son of Averill and (i) Edwin A., eldest son of Myron and Betsy (Riggs) Burnett, was born April 22, Elizabeth (Bowen) Burnett, was born De- 1830. He was engaged in farming during cember 31,. 1853, and married October 22, his early life, and in 1853, in company with 1878, Elizabeth Chadwick of Bethel. Mr.

Augustus Marsh, he purchased a saw-mill on Burnett is now a dentist in practice at the White River near his home, and for sev- Poultney, Vermont. eral years they carried on a successful lumber (2) Kate J., born October 17, 1854, mar- business. In 1874 they met with reverses ried Frank P. Hunt of Brandon, Vt., Octo- and their business was closed down. Mr. ber 17, 1874, and they had eight children,

Burnett then carried on the business alone, six now living, viz : George B., born Sep- and was engaged in the lumber trade at the tember 26, 1876; Harry F., born October 8, time of his death. He moved with his fam- 1878; Lena M., and Laura M., (twins) born ily to the village in April, 1878, where he August 29, 1880, Lena M., died when four became prominent in the public affairs of the weeks old ; Robert W., born April 5, 1883, town. Mr. Burnett was a republican, and and died March 4, 1885; Edwin, born Octo-

ber 26, 1888 ; Myron C, born April 30, 1893; and Edith M., born July 26, 1894. (3) Frank R., born May 2,1857, married Ellen Bordeau of Barnard, Vermont, October

4, 1881, and their two children are ; Clarence M., born December 29, 1882, and Hazel L.,

born February 24, 1884. Mr. Burnett is now located at Northampton, Mass. (4) John, born September 11, 1863, mar- ried Lizzie A. Rogers of Bethel, July 30,

1885, and tliey had two children, viz : Wil-

liam, born April 5, 1887, and a son that died in infancy. John Burnett is now in Bethel village.

(5) Laura M., born April 23, 1865, mar- ried Clayton L. Saunders, March 17, 1885, and they had two children, only one living.

A son born October 2, 1886, died in infancy and Mary Elizabeth, born May 15, 1893. (6) MaryE., born August 2, 1868, mar- ried Bert C. Rogers February i6, 1889, and

they have two children, viz : Bertha K., born MYRON BURNETT. October i, 1893, and Bernice Laura, born April 18, 1895. Mr. Rogers now carries on the Cleveland farm, about one mile west of served the town as selectman, lister, and was the village, representative to the legislature in 1872. James Burnett, son of Averill and Betsey Although not a member of any church, his (Riggs) Burnett, was born in Bethel, July interests were with the Universalist Society, and follows the occupation of farm- and he was an attendant at that church. He 9, 1837, ing. He has been prominent in town affairs, was married February 3, 1852, to Elizabeth and has held several offices under Republican Bowen, daughter of Russell and Johanna administration. He was married to An- (Bliss) Bowen, and they had six children, nette A. Warren, January 16, 1859, who died viz: Edwin A., Kate J., Frank R., John, 1872, leaving two children, viz: Laura M., and Mary E. Mr. Burnett was July 27, Daniel L., born January 12, i856, married killed by falling brick at a fire in the vestry Grace Martin and they reside in South Roy- of the Congregational Church, April 14 1892. Bertha A., born April 1868, now His widow survives him, and now resides in alton. 3, home with her father. On April 10, 1878, Bethel village,with her son-in-law, Mr. Rogers. at 52

Mr. Burnett was married to Adeline Lillie of SAiSTDERS. Aurora, Illinois, and they have one son, Job Saunders came to Bethel from Hollis, Robert E., born March 1879. 7, N. H., and was one of the early settlers of Hayden Burnett, son of Averill and Betsy Bethel. He married Mrs. Ruth Buckman, (Riggs) Burnett, was born May 17, 1840, nee Bannister, who bore him six children, married Sarah Kelsey, and they now reside Mercy, Jeremiah, Jonas, Job, Freeman and in Huntington, Loraine County, Ohio. Ann. Mr. Sanders was mail carrier from Mary Burnett, daughter of Averill and White River to Montpelier, through a Betsy (Riggs) Burnett, was born in Bethel, country sparcely settled and without roads, June 2, 1842, married Matthew Hussey, and during the early years of this century, and now resides in Rutland, Vermont. died in Bethel in 1845, ^^ ''''^ ^g^ of seventy- MOODY. two. Mercy Sanders married Henry Lyman, John Moody, son of Daniel and Rebecca and they moved West, where she died. (Lyon) Moody, was born in Royalston, Jeremiah married Lucretia Wilson, and Mass., June 18, 1760, and married Hannah they moved to Maine, where they raised a Copeland, November II, 1783. John moved family. with his family to Bethel in 1786, and in Jonas married Abigail Newell, and -during 1794 his father died in this place. John the last years of his life, resided in Roxbury. served three years in the Revolutionary War, Job, son of Job and Ruth (Buckman) was at the battle of White Plains, and also Sanders, was born in Bethel in 1803. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in married Nancy McCullom in 1823, who bore Bethel June 27, 1823, having raised a family him six children, viz: Leonard, Loisa, Kate, of nine children. Cornelia, Julius and Albert. Leonard, born John Moody, son of John and Hannah in 1826, was one of the business men of (Copeland) Moody, was born in Bethel, Bethel during his early days, but moved June 27, i860, and was twice married; first West when he was thirty years old, and now to Lucinda H. Garfield, April 4, 1835, a dis- lives in Kansas. He married Laura Marsh, tant relative of the late President Garfield, a daughter of Peleg Marsh of Bethel, and and a daughter of Daniel Garfield, a soldier they have three children, Clara, Mary and of the Revolution, whose gun and cartridge Charles. box are now in the possession of his grand- Loisa Sanders, born in 1828, married Lu- son, Marcus Moody of Bethel. She died cian Chadwick (See Chadwick Sketch) and June 18, 1842, having borne three children, died in Bethel. Hannah, John and Marcus A. Mr. Moody Kate, born in 1830, married Dr. Alfred was married October 14, 1847 to Emiline F. Paige, and died in Bethel. Kimball, who was the mother of two child- Jr., Cornelia, born 1832, married Holden ren, Lucinda H. and John. John was a Hatch, and died in .Illinois. farmer and owned and occupied the " Old Julius, born in went Moody Farm " in the east part of Bethel, 1834, to Missouri at the age of twenty and studied law. mar- until his death, which occurred September He ried Mrs. Mary Ardway, and they now live 3,1869. Marcus A. Moody was born in Bethel, at St. Joseph, Mo., where Mr. Sanders is prominent in the legal profession. February 5, 1840. He enlisted in August, Sixteenth Vermont 1862, in Company A, Albert Sanders, born in Bethel July 2, Volunteers, was wounded at Gettysburg, 1836, attended the common schools, and and was discharged from the service August completed his education in the academy at 10, 1863. Since 1869 he has been engaged Royalton. He worked on the farm with his in mercantile business in Bethel. He was father until he was twenty-six years old, when chosen representative for the town of Bethel he bought the Ainsworth farm On Christian in 1878. January 25, 1882, he was married Hill, and still owns this property. Mr. San- to Abbie E., daughter of Sam-uel and Char- ders has made a success as a farmer, and al- lotte (Wyman) Archer. though he begun on a farm that was not in 53 the best condition, lie improved and worked DAVIS. on it until it is now considered one of the Nathan Davis, son of Nathan and Mary best farms in this vicinity. In 1877, he came Davis was born in Rutland, Worcester the village to live, remaining six years, to County, Mass , August 28, 1776. At four- returning to the farm in 1883. He has been teen years of age his father bound him out to one of the town officers during his residence David Stone,.a resident of Bethel, and one in town, having served as constable, lister, of the men taken prisoner by the Indians in road commissioner, and was elected in 1895 a raid made a few years previous. He as selectman, which office he still holds. He worked for Mr. Stone six years, and then married October 7, 1862, Harriet Ainsworth, started out for himself, and succeeded in daughter of Leonard and Fanny (Strong) amassing a comfortable property. He at Ainsworth, and their son, Clayton L., was one time owned the Cleveland farm, and born June 29. 1863 He married Laura M. later the farm now owned by Elmer Spauld- ing. He married Catherine Clark who died

November 13, 1852, leaving twelve children. Nathan Davis died December 21, 1856. The children of Nathan and Katherine (ClarK) Davis were Amelia, Ira, Harry, Polly, Dan- forth, Daniel, Betsy, Clark, Charles, Elisha and Jane.

(i) Amelia, born August 26, 1797, died April 6, 1799.

(2) Ira, born March 15, 1799, married Lydia Hall, \*ho bore him four children, viz:

Jane C, born June i, 1827, married William Meserve of Bethel, and they now reside in Spencerport, N. Y. Augusta B., born De-

cember 7, 1832, married Frank H. Chamber- lin, April 27, 1871, and they have one daugh-

ter. (See Chamberlin Sketch) Nathan A., and Nancy M., (twins) were born October 29, 1836. Nathan died in 1856, and Nancy M., married- Charles NefiF, and they now re- side at Stockbridge, Vt. Henry, born Janu- ary 26, 1840, married Julia Webster, and they now live in Spencerport, N. Y. Ira ALBERT SANDERS. Davis died February 24, 1881. (3) Harry Davis, born September 6, 1800,

Burnett, March 17, 1885, who bore him two died October 19, 1804. October 2, 1886. children, viz. . A son, born (4) Polly Davis, born September 8, 1802, died in infancy, and Mary Elizabeth, born died October 17, 1804. lives at May 15, 1895. Albert Sanders now (5) Danforth Davis, born July 21, 1805, the village, and Clayton L., carries on the married Mary A. Clark, and died in Bethel farm on Christian Hill. September 25, 1890.

Freeman Sanders, son of Job and Ruth (6) Daniel, born July 4, 1806, is now the (Backman) Sanders, married Clarinda Styles oldest living representative of this family. of Tunbridge, and he is now a resident of He has never married, but with his younger that place, the only living representative of brother now carries on the farm which their that generation of the Sanders family. brother Danforth purchased in the early part century. He is well and able-bodied, Atin Sanders married Philander Fish of of this who visited him in September Randolph, and died in Randolph" on what is and the writer of the present year (1895) found him digging known as Fish Hill. ; :

54 potatoes ia the field, something unusual for necticut and commanded by Col. Ozias Bis- a man in his nintieth year. sell. He died in Bethel, September 2, 1833. (7) Betsy Davis, born April 10, 1808, re- John Wallace, son of John and Betsy sided with her brothers, and never married. (Wright) Wallace, was born in Bethel No-

She died January 12, 1883. vember 4, 1801, and married Mary f^A. (8) Clark, born April 2, 1810, married Wheeler, who was born in Bethel December Arthusa Jones, and died in June, 1894. 25, 1809. Ten children were born of this Their two children were Aimer and Aaron, marriage, viz the latter now residing in Bethel. (i) Susan, born February 14., 1827, died

(9) Charles Davis, born April 4, 1813, in infancy. married Lucy M. Chamberlin, May i8, 1843, (2). Laura E., born January 10, 1834, mar- and they now reside on the old Rochester ried Oscar P. Shaw, and now resides in hill road about one mile from Bethel village. Bethel village (See .Shaw Sketch). Their children were Eleanor, born June 14, (3) Minot, born July 21, 1836, died in in- 1843, married Samuel Wilson of Bethel fancy.

Charles M., born November i, 1845, married Alice James, June 25, 1877, and they live on the homestead with his parents. They had eight children, six of whom are living, viz: Kate C, George H., Lena, Alice, Nellie and Fred M. Edwin Uavi.s, third child of Charles and Lucy (Chamberlin) Davis, was born June 15, 1857. He married Clara B. James, February 20, 1879, and they live in Bethel. (id) Elisha Coolidge Davis, born Feb- ruary 29, 18 18, never married, and in com- pany with his brother Daniel, carries on a farm in Bethel. (11) Jane Davis, born in 1820, died when five years old.

WALLACE.

William Wallace who came to this country from Scotland early in the seventeenth cen- tury, was a lineal descendent of Sir William Wallace. John Wallace, son of William Wallace, was born in Somers, Conn., in 1750, GARDNER J. WALLACE. and married Betsy Wright, who bore him thirteen children, and died in Bethel, January (4) Gardner J. Wallace, born in sixty-eight. S, 1834, at the age of John Wal- Bethel, October 26, 1838, received his edu- lace came to Bethel in 1782, from Connecti- cation in the public schoote-of this place, and cut, traveling on horseback. After his ar- for several years was engaged in farming. rival in Bethel he traded his horse, saddle He has always made Bethel his home and and bridle with John Payne, one of the pro- during his residence here, has filled various prietors of the town, for a lot of land on town offices. He was appointed deputy- Christian Hill, where he came and settled in sheriff in 1870, and held that office until the spring of 1785. Since that time the title 1880, when he was elected high sheriff of the of this farm has always been held in the Wal- county. In October, 1884, he was appointed lace family, and it is now occupied by E. E. high sheriff by the Governor of the state, to Wallace. John Wallace served in the Rev- fill an unexpired term. At the close of that olutionary War, in a regiment raised in Con- term he was- elected by the people, serving ;

55 four years (two terms). He was elected first Hiram Wilson married Rizpah Neff, and selectman in 1895, and his services will be their children were Hiram, Julius, Augustus, remembered in the future, by the addition of Milton, Rachel and Sarah. Julius of this new sidewalks in the village during his first family was born in Bethel, Vt., May 30, year in this office. 1830, and was a life-long resident of this Mr. Wallace has been married twice. On place. He married Josephine Sargent, July

February 3, 1863, he was married to Altha 13, 1859, who bore him four children, viz: L., daughter of James M., and Caroline Carrie, born January 10, 1863, died April 20,

(Dutton) Woodworth, who was born in i856; Don, born July 14, 1867, now a farmer

Randolph January 18, 1845. .She died March in Bethel, unmarried ; a son died in infancy 25, l8gi, leaving five children, viz: John, and Hugh C, born August 18, 1879. Julius born August 18. 1865, married Alice J. Wilson died in 1895, and his widow now re- Spaulding and has three children, Anna A., sides with her son Don, in Bethel. born June 20, 1886, Laura E., born April 13, Jay Wilson married Laura Childs in 1829, and Royal A., born June their -chiidren 1889. 7, 1894; and were Mary, James J., Kate C, second child of Gardner J., and Al- March, Olivia, Dudley, Laura and Harriet. tha (Woodworth) Wallace, was born Aug- (i) Mary married Fred Parsons, and they ust 18, r868, and married Dr. F. L. Ellis of moved to the South where she died.

Swanton, December 23, 1891 ; Archie C, (2) James J. Wilson, born May 16, 1831, born February 1870, now in Bethel 14, ; attended the public schools of his native Gardner born June """' '" J., Jr., 3, 1879, town, and the academy at Randolph, studied

Bethel ; and Helen G., born December 31, law in the office of Augustus P. Hunton at attending school at Bethel Village. 1881, now Bethel, and was admitted to the bar of Mr. Wallace married Mrs. April 2, 1893, Windsor county in 1858. A Republican ia and they reside Emma Heath, nee Wilson, politics, he was elected senator of Windsor in Bethel village. county in 1874. (See Legal Proftssion.) (5) Sarah W., born in 1841, died in 1848. On November I, 1858, he married Jane (6) Royal W., born January 7, 1843, en- Flynn, whadied April 17, 1868, leaving one- listed in Company D, Seventeenth Volun- son. Guy, born July 11, 1864. Mr. Wilson, teers, and died July 9, 1 865. married Mary L. McCoy, August 5, 1869,, (71 George D., born in 1845, married and they have thirteen children, all living at Ellen Edson and they had one chiUI, Bertha. the present time (1895). Thev are as fol- lows: March, born August (8) John, born in 1848, died in 1865. 25, 1870; Mary February L., born 29, 1872 ; John born. (9) Elroy E., born October 14, 1850, mar- J., December 15, 1873; Robert C, born ried Kate Wynn, March 13, 1874, and their July

; Susan E., born September son, Frank Wallace, was born June 19. 1878. 18, 187s 19,. Richard D., born 1877; November 10, 1879 ^ (10) Geniveve A., born in 1853, and died Hugh D., born November 3c, 1881 ; Charles in 1869. C-, born October 28, 1883; Geannie L.,born

16, 1885 : Amy D., WILSON. September born Decem- ber 27, J887; James H., born October 10, Samuel Wilson, with his wife, Rachel 1889; Joseph, born March 14, 1891; and (Holden) Wilson, came to Bethel about Lois Loretta, iiorn J-anuary 27, 1893. 1790. Their children were Nancy, Amanda, Guy Wilson, son of James J. and Jane Rufus, Hiram, Jay, Harriet and Samuel. (Flynn) Wilson, married Abbie M. Fisher, Nancy Wilson married Hial Hatch and re- and they have two children; Gladys M.,born sided in Bethel. (See Hatch Sketch.) December 29, 1890, and Paul F., born Janu- Amanda Wilson died unmarried. ary 26, 1892. Rufus married Prudence Colburn and their (3) March, (4) Olivia, (^) Dudley and children were Nancy,. (Mrs. Shaw,) Aaron, Laura, all died without issue. R. Sullivan, Amanda (Mrs. Orville O. Rog- (6) Harriet Wilson is a ers,) Eliza, (Mrs. WilWam, L Rogers,) and (7) now resident of Samuel. Royalton, unmarried. 56

Harriet daughter of Samuel and Rachel In 1843, he was located in Boston, where he (Holden Wilson never married. learned the cabinet maker's trade, working

Samuel, son of Samuel, died without issue. at his trade until i86o, when he started in business for himself as a manufacturer of BERRY. furniture, and carried on the same for four-

Eleazer Berry was born in Chatham, N. teen years, retiring from active business at the of that time. In he built his Y., February 12, 1792, and was married at end 1871 present residence at Bethel and spends the Poultney, Vt., January 10, 1814, to Hannah summer months at this place. Mr. Berry Rugg of Pownal, Vt., who was born March 6, 1788. Shortly, after their marriage they has business interests in Bethel at the pres- came to Bethel, where Mr, Berry followed ent time, bSing a stockholder and director the trade of dyer and clothes dresser for in the Bethel Shoe Factory. On April 30, some time, and was also a carpenter for sev- 1857, he was married to Henrietta E. Harris, a Harris of Charlestown, eral years. At one time he taught schools in daughter of Josiah Bethel and the adjoininj^ towns. There Mass. MORRIS.

Ephraim Morris, born March [7, 1772, came to Vermont with his wife, Pamela (Converse) Morris, to whom he was married in 1796, from Stafford, Conn., and located at Roxbury in ^804, His farming venture in that locality being unsuccessful, he moved to Bethel in 18 12, and purchased a small tract of land with a house on the premises, and immediately started in business at his trade of tanning hides, purchasing the yard owned by Peleg Marsh in the rear of his other property, on the banks of the White River branch. In 1830 his tan yard was washed away by the high water, and he bought and carried on the tan yards at Rochester for some time. He was one of the promoters of

the first brick church built in Bethel villao-e,

and also assisted in the building of the first Congregational church built in the town. In connection with his other business, he bought sheep pelts which he carted to Uanvers, ELEAZER BERRY. Mass,, and sold, returning with a load of hides for Bis tannery. He also retailed were six children born of this marriage, viz : boots and shoes to people in this vicinity. Lorena, born August 4, 18 14, died at the age He was selectman of the town in 1824-25 and of sixteen William ; H., born September 22, served as grand juror in i83i-'32-'34. In 1817, died at the age of thirteen; Charles C, 1845 he closed his business and retired from 18 born July 21, 19, and died in Bethel, Octo- active work, but continued to reside in Bethel ber Benjamin F., 19, 1873 i born October 8, until his death, which occurred October 7, 1821, and died in Bethel, June 3, 1838; George 1852, his wife having died February 2, 1846. A. Berry, W.;and Mary born January 27, 1829. Of their eleven children only two are now George W., born in Bethel March 5, 1824, living. They were as follows: Sylvester, received his education at the public schools, born October 23,1797; Amanda, born Sep- and at the age of fourteen he started out for tember 20 1799: Edward, born September himself, and was employed at Rochester, 1801 Pamela, 15, ; born October 6, 1803; Braintree, and Northfield at different times. Converse, Jesse born August 7, 1805, at Rox- 57 bury, died March 4, 1806; Jessie C., born married Dr. Harry H. Palmer, who died

March 7, 1807, at Roxbury; Mary, born August 9, 1872. Mrs. Palmer died October

November 27, 1809, at Roxbury; Joseph, 4, 1893; Alvin, born December 31, 1821, born February 4, 18 12, at Roxbury; died married Sarah Jones, now a resident of at Bethel July 21, 1813; Julia, born at Woodstock, Vt. Bethel March 11, 1814, married Irvin Lucetta E., born August 2, 1829, married Weston, and now resides in Bethel, (See James Miller Mcintosh of Bethel. (See

Weston Sketch) ; Eliza, born in Bethel De- Mcintosh Sketch.) cember 24, 1816; and Joseph, born in Caroline, born October 5, 1835, married

Bethel February 14, 18 19, now residing in Austin E, Simmons of Woodstock.

Chicago, 111. Tracy died when eight months old. Oliver T., born October 10, 1840, married HATCH. Mary S. Pinks, July 29, 1890. Judah Hatch was born in Tolland, Conn., (7) Cate^ born April 11, 1799, married October II, 1764, and removed to Alstead, Benjamin Haridan. N. H,, in 1772, with his father Joseph Hatch, who died March 6, 1802, aged eighty-four years. On November 25, 1785, Judah was married to Cate Beckwith. and they came to Bethel March 31, 1816, and settled on a farm three miles north of the village. Judah Hatch died October 28, 1848, There were ten children born of this marriage, viz: (i) in Lynda, who died infancy ; (2) Hial, died when eighteen months old; (3) Lynda, born February 25, 1790, married first, Isaac Tem- ple of Alstead, and second. Captain John Tiffany of Randolph.

(4) Alvin, born May 22, 1792, was in the mercantile business at Newport, N. H., and died there. (5) Hial, born July 14, 1794, married Nancy Wilson of Bethel, and their three children were Alvin, Holden, and Harriet. Alvin married Maria Wright, and two of

their children grew to maturity, viz : Edward and Lizzie. Holden married Cornelia Saunders, who S. died February 17, 1858, leaving three child- CEORGE HATCH.

ren, Harriet, now Mrs. Eber N. Smith ; Hial

Alvin, now a farmer in Bethel ; and Nancy (8) George S. Hatch, born February 3, C, who married Albert Hutchins and died 1802, died in Bethel February 21, 1892. He in Balco, Mo. Holden Hatch married Mary was prominently connected with the busine.^.s

Belle and died March — , 1895, leaving three interests of Bethel, and during his long life children, Edward, Anna and Ethel. ^ served as selectman, lister and trial justice, ^^ Harriet Hatch died unmarried. and he had charge of the building of the River bridge in the village. (6) Judah, born January 17, 1796, married White The Eliza Swift Russell, January 12, 1817, who early part of his life was spent in the farm- died October 16, 1854. Mr. Hatch moved ing industr}-, but he moved to the village from Bethel to Woodstock, Vt., in 1833, about i860, and was located on Church and died November 16. 1879, at the age of street up to the time of liis death. He mar- eighty-three. The children of this marriage ried November 24, 1830, Irene, daughter of were: Mary Ann, born January iz, 1819, Chester and Irene Shepherd) Webster, who 58 died without issue, June 2r, 1890. Mr. ford, Pa.; (Jarl Clayton, born September 11,

Hatch was a liberal and kind-hearted citizen, 1870, and ^ied April 19, 1878 ; Fred M., and during his life was always ready with a born August 9, 1874, now in Dickenson, helping hand. He left, besides several be- Dakota; Minnie O., born March 6, 1S76, quests to his relatives, his residence on now in Bradford, Pa., with her sister, and

Church .street to the Congregational church Stella B., born May 15, 1878, died June 13, as

(9) Harry, born March 26, 1805, died at (3) Clara Morse, born July 29, 1853,

Woodstock, \'t., August 7, 1886. died when eight years old. born December ( 10 Philo, born .March 6, , died at (4) Frank Morse, 3, Woodstock, Vt., April 12, 1882. 1857, died when eight years old. (5) Hermon Morse, born March 14, MOIiSE. 1864, married Jennie Clogsden,and they now Jeremiah .Morse, a Revolutionary veteran, reside in Randolph, Vt. with his wife Meriunn (Barrett) Morse, came Alexander Morse worked on the farm with early of his life, to Bethel from Southbridge, Mass., in 1794, his father during the part and settled on the farm where Clark IJavis and purchased the McGebeny farm, which afterwards sold, and bought the r.ow lives. He died December 7, 1836, and he Dana his children were Charles, Jeremiah, Eliphalet, Burbank farm in 1853, and is now carrying Marion, Polly and Betsy. on the same. Jeremiah, the second son, born August 29, Jeremiah Morse, fifth child of Jeremiah (Frost) Morse, 1792, was thrice married. His first wife, and Hannah married Emma Hannah Frost, to whom he was married D. Thayer, of Chelsea, Vt., and their only was January 26, 1818, died March 9, 1841, leav- son, Roscoe, born July 6, 1856, Jeremiah died December 28, 1888, and his wife died ing seven children, viz : Roscoe, Alexander, Laura, Alvira, Jeremiah, Orlando and Nelson. in 1S91. Mr. Morse was a farmer, and with the exception of four years, On March 14, T842, Mr. Morse was married always resided in to Roxa Chandler, who died December 28. Bethel. The former home of Mr. Morse is 1863. His third wife, Aurelia Vintou, to now known as the Clark Davis place, and is whom he was married September 26, 1864, located on the Randolph road about two miles from the village. died December 26, 1887. He died April 7. 1867. Roscoe Morse, the eldest child of Roscoe W. Morse married Emma E. Jeremiah and Hannah (Frost) Morse, was Byam, February 25, 1885, and they have two children, born December 31, 1818, He married Maria Josephine, born December 22, 18S7, Evelyn born Mor?e, who bore him two children, only one and H , September 22, 1891. of whom is now living, viz ; Myron Morse. Roscoe Morse died August 10, 1846. AlORKILL. Alexander Morse, born November 19, 1881, Samuel .VIorrill came to Bethel from Tun- married Sovilla Owen, November i, 1839, bridge, Vermont, in 1818, and settled in the who died March 28, 1893, leaving five child- East village. Mr. Morrill was a practical ren, viz : (t) Ellen, born November 8, 1842, mason and carpenter and followed the occu- married Ira Emery, February 28, 1861, who pation of a builder. On January 22, 1820, was killed in the civil war. They had one he married Achsa Piersons of East^ethel. daughter, Clari-belle, now Mrs. Whitney. who bore him three children, viz : William Mrs. Emery married Augustus King of West P., born January 15, 1821, and died October

Randolph, and their daughter Gertrude was 27, 1848; Henry, born October 19, 1822, born in April, 1878. and died June i, 1824; and Mary, borji (2) Mariette, born November 18. 1847, .March 2, 1826, now Mrs. Kilburn Day of married Lafayette Richardson, October 29, East Bethel. (See Day Sketch.) 1865, and now resides with her father. Her William married Rosetta C. Angel of Bar- children are : Nellie M., born February 17, nard, and their two children were William 1867, now Mrs. Vincent; Kate L., born April W., born May 22, 1846, now residing in Mrs. Appleby, of Brad- Kennebunk, Maine 26, 1868, now ; and Williamina Rosetti, 59

born January 30, 1849, now married and re- two years under General Butler, having been siding in Derry, N. H. mustered out in 1863, on account of his dis- Samuel Morrill died August 14, 1872, and abilities. He first came to Bethel, but moved his wife died September 18, 1873, both over to Wolcott shortly after his return, and eighty years of age. opened a hotel at that place, selling the same three years later, and moving to Montpelier, DAY. Vt., where he had charge of valuable real KiLBURN Day, son of Danforth and Mary estate, and carried on a carpenter and build- (Goodnough) Day, was born in Royalton, ing business for several years. At the open- Vermont, June 2c, 1815. His education was ing of the Wells River railroad, he entered limited to the winter terms of the district the employ of that company and had charge schools, and at the age of ten, he went to of the construction of most of the buildings live in the family of Deacon Leonard Fisk of built for the road, during the first part of its East Bethel, where he remained until he was existence. In 1884 he again returned to East Bethel, where he opened a hotel and has since carried on business at that place Mr. Day was married January 21, 1844, to Mary F. Morrill of East Bethel, a daughter of Samuel and Achsa (Peirsons) Morrill, and they have one adopted son, William O. Day, born January 31, 1854.

WEBSTER.

Moses Webster, born in Hartland, Vt.,

March 4, 1783, came with his wife Rhoda (Stoddard) Webster to Bethel in 1806. He purchased a farm in the west part of the town, which his brother occupied for a time. He went back to Hartland, returning to Bethel in i32i, and resided in this town un-

til his death which occurred February 15, 1872, his wife having died a few years pre- vious. The four children of Moses and Rhoda (Stoddard) Webster were Charles P., Sarah E., S. A., and Rosamond R Charles P. Webster, born November 20. KILBURN DAY. j8ii, married Isabelle Wellington, January 2, 1840, who bore him three children, and twenty-one years old, working on the farm. died in Bethel, March 16, 1891. Maria I.,

He then began teaming between Bethel and the eldest, born June 10, 1843, is now Mrs.

Boston, carrying farm products to the cit}', A. F. Colburn of Boston, .Mass. Clara J., and returning with molas.ses, sugar, and born September 18, 1845, inarried W. A. other merchandise, carrying this on for a Boutelle, and died in Chicago, 111., Novem- period of twelve years until 1848, when the ber 20, t894. Sarah J., born January 18, railroad came through the state and the 1854, marrigd C. A. Kershaw, and now re- prices of freighting were reduced so low that sides in Lawrence, Mass. Charles P. Web- it was impossible for teamsters to make it ster now lives in Bethel village. pay. He then began to learn the trade of Sarah E. Webster, born April 26, 1813, millwright with Don Crane,and worked at this married Lewis Turner, and died in Bethel trade and carpentering until 1861, when the February 15, 1846. war began, and Mr. Day enlisted in Com- S. A. Webster, born October 4, 1815, pany E, 8th Vermont Volunteers, and served married Nancy Brooks, January 29, 1845, 6o

and they now reside in Betliel where Mr. Mills, born February 17, 1844, and died

Webster is engaged in farming. August 29, 1845 ; Mary Jane, born August

Rosamond R. Webster, born January 19, 8, 1846, died December 13, 1867 ; Willis Gay-

1820, married Henry Goodalc, and died in lord, born September 6, 1848 ; Alma Aqubah

Arvada, Colorado, February 15, 1891. born October 20, 1850 ; Benjamin Rush,

born January 20, 1853 ; Dora Susan, born Rollin Justin, born January Mcintosh. June 19, 1855 ;

to, 1858, and died January 30, 1881 ; -and John Mcintosh, a native of Scotland, was Martha Ellen, bora March 27, i860. born near Kdinburgh, and at the age of nine- Mary Mcintosh,, born April 29. teen was pressed into the English army, be- (4) married ing the only son of a widow. Soon after 1819, David S. Washburn, May 25, and died October 21, leaving being mustered into service, he was sent to 1843, 1864, two children, Washburn, Canada, and served during the French and viz: George M. Indian war. At the close of the war he settled in Bedford, N. H., where he died. His children were William, John, James, Samuel, Isaac, Isabelle and Mary. William, Samuel, Isaac and Mary settled in Bethel in t8io, and shortly after they purchased farms ad- joining and lived and died in Bethel. A grandson of Isaac, Appleton 1. Mcintosh, now lives on the old farm. William Mcintosh, son of John Mcintosh,

•was born in Bedford, N. H., November 6,

17^76, and on February 8, 1810, he was married to Jane Patterson, who was born in

New Boston, N. H., August 13, 1785. In the latter part of 1810, they settled in the northwestern corner of Bethel, on the farm now occupied by Mrs. James Miller Mc- intosh, widow of his only son. William Mc- intosh died May 6. 1863, and his wife died March 22, 1870. Their children were Martha, Gisey, Susan Mary, Isabelle and James Miller.

(1) Martha J. Mcintosh, born October

9, 181 1, married Samuel G. Granger, Septem- J. MILLER MclNTOSH. ber 6, 1832, and died September 17, 1859,

leaving six children, viz : Ellen Granger, born April 21, 1845, and Lucy Jane Wash- born June 8, 1833, and died September 4, burn, born July 28, 1853. Ann Granger, born October 16, 1864; 1834 ; (5) Isabelle Mcintosh, born March 3, Earl Granger, born November 7, 1836 ; 1822. Joseph Granger, born August 28, 1843; Edna (6) James Miller McIntosh, only son Granger, born June 26, 1850, and Rush of William and Jane (Patterson) Mcintosh, Granger, born April 3, 1852. was born in Bethel, Vt., December 20, 1825. Gisey Mcintosh, born August (2) 16, Mr. Mcintosh was a successful farmer, and

died April , 1815. 1814, — in connection with his business interests, he (3) Susan Mcintosh, born April 13, found time to devote to the welfare of his

1817, married Justin Lillie, April 2, 1839, town and fellow citizens. During his life who died October 3, 1874. Their children he was always a staunch Republican, and were; George Alonzo, born March 11, 1840 held many ofEces of trust ; in bis native place. William LeRoy, born January i, 1842; James He was chosen selectman in 1858, and held :

6i that office for ten years. He was lister of ing school fn his native town for a short

Bethel for a period covering thirteen years ; time, he entered the University of Vermont

overseer of the poor for twenty-one years ; at Burlington, taking a course in civil en-

grand juror nine years ; town auditor six gineering, and was graduated in the class of years ; and for two years was a justice of the 1890. He was employed by the Vermont peace. He was chosen by his party as a Marble Company, but resigned to accept the representative of the Legislature in i866 and position of city engineer at Burlington, to 1867, serving two years. In 1882 and 1883 which he was elected by the Republican he was elected State Senator and was com- party in 1892, which office he still holds. He missioner of licenses in 1885 and 1886. He is a member of the Algonquin Club, and was a regular attendant at the Methodist also of the Washington Lodge, F. and A.M., Church, and a liberal contributor to its of Burlington. support. Mr. Mcintosh was married March 2, 1853, BUCKMAN. to Lucette E., daughter of Judah and Eliza Jeremiah Buckman came to Bethel among the early settlers and here he irrarried Rath Bannister, who bore him six childreji, viz Ruth, Joel, Lorenda, Cyrus, Calvin, and

' " Charity, Ruth Buckman, born in Bethel, Septem- ber 23, 1788. Joel Buckman, born in Bethel, November

6, 1790. Lorenda Bnckman, born in Bethel, Jan- uary 13, 1793. Cyrus Buckman, born in Bethel, March 22, 1795.

Calvin Buckman, born in Bethel, June 15, 1797. Charity Buckman, born in Bethel, August 30, 1799.

Calvin married Olive Barnes, April 13, 1829, and their four children were Ellen E., Calvin C, Mary Elizabeth, and Lucia M. Calvin Buckman was a prosperous and suc- cessful farmer, and accumulated a comfort- able jiroperty. He was prominent in the affairs of the town, and served as .selectman HERBERT M. McINTOSH. for several years, besides holding other town offices. He died in Bethel December 22, (Russel) Hatch, who was born in Bethel 1878, eighty-one years old. His wife died August 22, 1829. Their two children were September 27, 1878. Ellen Jane, and Herbert Miller. Mr. Mc- Ellen E. Buckman. eldest child of Calvin intosh died at Saratoga, N. Y., September 6, and Olive (Barnes) Buckman, was born in married 1887, and his widow now resides on the old Bethel July 22, 1828, and Charles homestead. Curtis. (See Curtis Sketch.) She died Ellen Jane Mcintosh, born February 9, August 29, 1891. born in Bethel 1854. was married in 1893, and has one Calvin C, February 2, daughter. 1833, married Eliza A. Terry of Bethel, and Herbert M. McIntosh, born in Bethel, they had four children, only three of whom August 2, 1861, attended the public schools, are living. Hattie, born October 6, 1862, died and was graduated from the State Normal , May 2, School, at Castleton in 1885. After teaqh-. 1866, 62

George C, born June 2, 1867, now a the firm name of Brooks & Montgomery. book-keeper in the employ of C. W. Reed, of The present partnership was then formed, Enfield, N. H. and the firm now consists of Albert A.

Lucy E,, born September i, 1869, married Brooks and Seth M. Washburn, under the Edward S. Rood of Bethel, March 28, 1889, firm name of Brooks & Washburn. and now in millinery business in Bethel. With Nelson Gay, Chester Downer and

Mary A., born June 13, 1876, married F. P. Holden, Mr. Brooks was interested in jFred G. Cox, March 27, 1895. the Gaysville Manufacturing Company, which Mary Elizabeth, third child of Calvin and company was engaged in the manufacture of Olive (Barnes) Buckman, was born in Bethel underwear from 1879 to 1888. A stock June 16, .1835, and married Chauncey R. company was formed during the latter year, Chadwick, May 11, 1853, (see Chadwick and the factory was destroyed by fire during

Sketch) and died in Bethel February 5, 1874. the same year. Mr. Brooks was postmaster Lucia M., born in Bethel October 10, at Gaysville from 1861 to 1873, a period of 1838, married Irwin Morse, and they now re- twelve years. He is a director of the White side in Wilmington, Mass. River National Bank, and president of the Bethel Shoe Company. BROOKS. On December 24, 1848, Mr. Brooks was

Simeon Brooks and his wife, Elizabeth married to Miss Jennett Wliitcomb, and .(Strong) Brooks, came to Bethel in 1780. their two children were Jennie, born Sep- tember I, Their children were Eli, who died in Brain- 1849, married J. A. Chedell of Gaysville, Vt., and they have three children; tree who died in Bethel ; Ira, who ; Simeon, and Kate, born July 17, 1854, married Seth died in Bethel ; Asa ; Anna, who married Ellis Fish, and died in Randolph; Betsy, M. Washburn and they have four children. who died in Bethel, unmarried; and Almira, (See Washburn Sketch). who was drowned in childhood. Asa (5) Samuel H., born January 29, 1827, died Brooks, son of Simeon Brooks, was born in in infancy. Julius P. Brooks, sixlh child of Bethel, July 31, 1788, and was married Jan- (6) Asa Brooks, was born uary 16, 1814, to Lucy Stevens, who was October 25, 1828, married Sarah Gambell, who bore him two children, born November 27, 1792, and died March viz: Willard and Charles. Julius P. 29, 1876. Asa Brooks died August 7, 1871. J., There were seven children born of this mar- Brooks died in Auburn, California, in 1861, riage, viz: (i) Lucy Hayward, born Octo- (7) Sophia Brooks was born October 31. ber II, 1814, died at the age of nine years; 1832, married Albert F. Waterman and re- sides in Tunbridge, Vt. (2) Nancy S., born May 3, t8i6, married S. A. Webster, and they now reside in SHEUD. Bethel. (3) Asa S., born August 2J, 1819, 4ied when four years old. Abijah Shedd and his wife, Sophia (Blood) (4) Albert A., fourth child of Asa and Lucy Shedd came to Bethel from Hollis, N. H., (Stevens) Brooks, was born in Bethel, Octo- in 1816, bringing with them their eldest ber 18, 1824. His education was received in child, and settled in Bethel village. Mr. the public schools, and at an early age, he Shedd followed the occupation of a black- was engaged in farming, continuing in that smith, and two of his sons learned their trade occupation until he was eighteen years old. of him in Bethel. The children of Abijah

He then started in mercantile trade, and and Sophia > Blood) Shedd were William after working for other parties several years, Farley, Rodney Sylvester, Frederick Page, he opened a general merchandise store in Franklin Cummings, Amanda Sophia, An- Gaysville, Vt., in 1856. In 1875, Mr. jennette, Edmund Earl, and Solon Marsh. Brooks sold his store in Gaysville, and came William F. married Priscilla Jones who to Bethel, where, in company with G. K. bore him two children, Laura and David Montgomery, he purchased th« business for- Watson, He was a musician and died while merly carried on by Merrick Sylvester, and returnmg from the civil war, in which he this business was conducted three years under served as a member of a band. 63

Rodney S., born in Bethel August i6, Amelia Shaw married Rufus Lyon, and 1818, was a blacksmith and worked at his they moved to New Gloucester, Cumber- trade in Bethel iifty years. He was married land County, Maine, where she died, October 28, 1840, to Orilla Jones of Bethel, John M. 'Shaw was born December 31, and their only son, Edgar Rodney, was 1801, and on November 4, 1827, he married born in Randolph November 26, 1841. He Cynthia Potter of Schroon, N. Y., who bore married Adelaide Fay of Royalton, and was him six children and died November 17, killed by a fall from a building June 7, 1881. 1869. Their children were as follows: (l) Rodney Shedd died December 7, 1888, and Melvin born April 29, 1829, married Aurelia his. widow resides in Bethel. Gilson. They moved to New York state, Frederick P. Shedd married Eliza Turner, where he died May leaving one son, who bore him one daughter, Adelia. He 7, 189s, George. (2) Frank Shaw, born Decem- died in Bethel in 1845. J. ber 22, 1833, died at the age of forty, un- Franklin C. Shedd, married Francis Blan- married. din of Camden, Maine, and their three children were Christopher, Frederick and (3) Oscar P. Shaw, born October 19, Cora. He died in Boston, and his widow 1835. married Laura E. Wallace, July 18, now resides at North Dana, Mass. 1857, and they had three children, viz : Flora

I , Frank and Will Mr. en- , Amanda S. Shedd, born in Bethel January P., G. Shaw in for after- ,22, 1825, married John Noble, January 5, gaged farming several years, and wards carried a grocery business 1843, and they had twj children, viz : Willis, on meat and born October 10, 1843, and died when thir- in Bethel, in the same locality as the present teen years old; Robert, born October 13, town hall. He moved to Chelsea where he 1850, married Cherry Brown of Gaysville, was in the ?ame line of business, and later he and they have three children, John, Austin was located at White River Junction. Since and Robert Shedd. See Noble Sketch.) 1884 he has* been on the road as salesman Amanda (Shedd) Noble now resides with for the Norfolk Oyster Company of Boston, her son Robert, in Bethel. Mass., making his home at Bethel.

' Edmund Earl Shedd, born in Bethel July Flora L S.haw, born September 25, 1858, 16, 1828, married Aurelia Thompson of is now in the mil.inery business at South London, Ohio, who bore him seven children, Royalton. Frank P. Shaw, born October yiz : Virginia Sophia, Franklin James, Flora, 5, i860, died July 5, 1864. lEdmund Earl, Frederick. I larry and Carlos Will G. Shaw, born October 4, 1862, be- Butler. The family now reside in Columbus, gan his business career as traveling agent for Ohio. George W. Smith of White River Junction Solon Marsh Shedd, born January 5, 1837, in the candy business. He remained in this married Fannv E. .Miner of Columbus, Ohio, place sevep years, and in 1891 accepted a and their three sons arj Willi.im Davidson, position in the employ of the wholesale gro- Denman Kinsell and Lester. They now re- cery house of Spaulding & Kimball of Bur- side in Columbus, Ohio. lington, and now represents this house on Abijah Shedd died in Bethel September 3, the road. He has been twice married : his ^1866, and his wife died May 17, 1855. first wife was Margaret Rhodes of Alburgh, SHAW. N Y., to whom he was married September 1883. She died May 30, i8go, leaving Andrew Shaw came to Bethel from Stock- 23, one .son, Ralph Shaw, born January 3, 1888. bridge in 1808, and settled on the farm now On December 23, 1892, he was married to owned by Myron Morse. His wife. Adelia Nellie Turner of Lincoln, Vt., and their (Abbott) Shaw bore him twelve children, home ia novv in Bethel. viz: Amelia, John .M., Triphena, Mary, Hannah, Samuel, Jane. Fanny, Harvey. (4) Dennis .Shaw, born December 20, married Nancy Wilson June 27, 1867, Loi.sa, Annie and Harriet. Andrew Shaw 1837, reside in Bethel where Mr. died July 28, 1840, at seventy-five, and his and they now in farming. wife died November 26, 1S69. Shaw is engaged 64

(5) Enieroy, born November lo, 1842, Trephena Shaw, third child of Andrew married Nelson Chapman, and their son and Adelia (Abbott) Shaw, married Holland Fredericlc was born in Bethel. Sylvester, and moved to Stockbridge, where (6) Helen, born September 12, 1850, died she died. at the age of twenty-four, unmarried. Mary Shaw never married, and now re- John M. Shaw has always been a farmer, sides in Stockbridge at the age of ninety. although he has been interested in the lum- Hannah, born in 1807, married Charles

FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE SHAW FAMILY.

JOHN M. SHAW. OSCAR F. SHAW. WILL G. SHAW. RALPH SHAW.

ber traffic in New York state for a number of Wilson of Stockbridge, and they moved to years. is He the oldest man in Bethel, and Chester, where he died. His widow now re- at the advanced age of ninety-four, is able to .sides in Chester. assist in the his son's work on farm, and has Samuel Shaw, born December 31, i8li, the life and vigor of a much younger man. married Saphrona Fish of Randolph, who He -makes his home with his son, Dennis died leaving one daughter, who now resides Shaw, about one mile from the village. with her father in Ohio. 65

Jane married Charles at berlin Savage, and died were Lucy M., Martin J., George W., Granville, N. Y., leaving one son. John L., Hiram M., Francis H., Nancy A., Fanny married Hiram Towsley, and died Julia A., and William. Washington Cham- in Chester, N. Y. berlin died January 19, 1875, and his wife Harvey married Ann Sanford, who died died November n, 1878. leaving one son, Dana Shaw. His second Lucy M.^ Chamberlin, the eldest child, wife was Collins, daughter of Harry born December 17, 1820, married Charles Collins of Stockbridge. He died in Bethel, Davis, May 18, 1842, and they now reside

January i, 1893. on a farm in Bethel. (See Davis Sketch.)

Louisa married Sholes, who died, Martin J., born September 8, 1822, mar- and she afterward married Fish. She ried Jane Hubbard of Windsor, who died is now a widow, and resides in Missouri. leaving one daughter, Jennie, since deceased. Annie married Albro, and now He married Kate Hubbard, and they now resides in New York. reside in Springfield, Mass. Harriet died at the age of tw© years. George W., born September 23, 1824, married Dorcas Billings of Bethel, Vt., and WESTON. they now live in Bethel,. Iowa. John L., born March 8, [827, died August Irvin Weston, born June 30, i8oo, came 18, 1852. to Bethel from New Braintree, Mass., in Hiram Morgan Chamberlin, born June 6, 1823, his brother, Daniel Weston, having 1829, married Mary M. Kendall of Caven- previously settled in the town. He accepted dish, Vt., August 4, 1856 at Weathersfield, a position in the employ of his brother for Vt. Three cliildren were born of this mar- several years, and afterward entered into riage, viz: Samuel K., born in Weathers- partnership with him in the manufacture of

field, Vt., August 10, 1858 ; Luther H., born fancy wood work, which partnership was in Springfield, Mass., May 5, 1868, and died continued until the death of the elder in Felchville, (Reading) Vt., July i, 1880; brother. Irvin Weston then carried on the and Katie M., born in Felchville, Vt., June business successfully alone until his death 6, 1874. which occurred October 23, 1874. He was Mary Mi (Kendall) Ch mberlin, died in married September 12, i84r, to Julia Morris Springfield, Mass., May 21, 1886, and Mr. of Bethel, and their son, Ephraim Morris Chamberlin now resides in Rutland, Vt. Weston, now carries on the business left by Francis H., born December 28, his father. Mr. Weston was a prominent 1831, married Augusta P. Davis April member of the Congregational Church, and 37, 1871, and their oiily daughter, Mary Belle, after the death of his brother often officiated was born March 1872. as deacon, although never elected to that 3, Francis H., went to Massachusetts oiBce. before reaching his majority, and for fifteen years CHAMBERLIN. was engaged in business there, although he Washington Chamberlin, born in Stock- made yearly trips to Bethel, and always con- bridge, Vermont, April 23, 1796, came to sidered this place his home. He went to Bethel about 1822, bringing with him his Windsor, Vt., from Boston, and located in permanently in wife, Aseneth (Kellogg) Chamberlin, and Bethel May, 1874. Since one of his nine children. They located on that time Mr. Chamberlin has been engaged the farm now owned and occupied by Melvin in farming north of Bethel village. Chamberlin, and here four children were Nancy A., born October 2, 1835, resides born. They moved from there to Lillyville, on the farm with her brother and is unmarried. then to the farm now occupied by Warren Julia A,, born September 8, 1842, married Preston on Lympus Hill, and later they re- Henry Pond, and died in Bethel January 10, sided on the farm with their son, Francis H, 1882. Chamberlin, where they died. The children William, born October 21, 1844, died of Wasliingtonand A^enetb (Kellogg) C1iam- March 9, 1846. 66

ADAMS. Adams has always been interested in the

William Adams, born in Randolph, Vt., Universalist church, and for a period of nearly forty the in i8io, came to Bethel in 1830, where he years has been a member of followed his trade as a wheelwright and cab- choir at that church. He was one of the original promoters of the first organ- inet maker for a number of years. He band ized served as deputy sheriff for several years, and in Bethel, and was a musician in the later he bought a farm where he resided un- same for over thirty years. He was married in 1856 to Dora A. Davis, til his death, which occurred September 17, daughter of Rev. S. A. Davis, a former pastor 1852. He married Irene Marsh in 1834, who bore him three children, and died tor of the Universalist church in Bethel, and they have reared family thirteen child- in Bethel April n, 1872. The children of a of this marriage were William R., Ellen M., ren, ten of whom are living, viz: (i) Leslie and Rush M. R., born March ii, 1857, married Clara I. Latimer of Middlebury, Vt., September 14,

1892. Mr. Adams is now with the Pennsyl- vania Roofing Company, in Philadelphia, Penn. (2) RoUin M., born May 24, 1858, married Cora E. Parker of Boston, Septem-

ber 9, i885, and they have one son, Rollin Parker, born August 7, 1893. They reside in Boston, Mass. (3) Mary Ellen, born January 3, i85o, resides in Bethel. (4)

Minnie J., born July 25, 1861, died August 25, 1864. (5) Elmer D., born April 19, 1863, died September I, 1864. (6) Florence I., born January 25, 1865, now at Northamp-

ton, Mass. (7) Gilbert L., born 'August 3, 1866, and resides in Visalia, California. (8) Bennie W., born April 30, 1868, died September 23, 1868. (9) Percy R., born August 29, 1869, now living in Bethel. (lo)

William D., born November g, 1870, mar- ried lola E. Latimer of Middlebury, Vt.,

July 3, 1895, and they reside in Philadelphia, Pa, (11) Harry E., born January 11,1873, in business with his father in Bethel. (12) WILLIAM R. ADAMS. Stella E., born February 16, 1877, at home with her parents in Bethel. (13) Arthur A., William R. Adams was born in Bethel, born June 13, 1878, now in Bethel. Vt., January 26, 1835. His early life was Mary Ellen Adams, daughter of William spent on the farm with his father, and in and Irene (Marsh) Adams, was born in

1863 lie started in business for himself at 1841, and died when fourteen months old. Bethel village, dealing in books and sta- Rush M., born June 2, 1845, ^nd died in tionery, and a few years later he added a Crawford, Nebraska, April 23, 1889. printing office to his establishment. Mr. Adams has been in business for a longer GILSON. time in this locality than any other merchant Samuel Gilson (born in Peperill, Mass., on the street. He was elected town clerk in April 13, T795) with his wife, Fanny (Pin- 1865, and with the exception of two j-ears he ney) Gilson, came to Bethel in 1840. He re- has held that office ever since. He was mained here a short time, and afterward lo- chosen town treasurer in 1865, and served cated in Hartland, Stockbridge, Berlin, for several years, and he has been justice of Conn., and New York City, from which the peace for the last twenty years. Mr. place he returned to Bethel in 1847. He :

67 died in Bethel August 29, 1871, and his wife leaving one adopted daughter, Mary, born died February 25, 1885. Ten children were January 9, 1881. Mr. Gilson was for many born to Samuel and Fanny (Pinney) Gilson, years engaged in active business in Bethel, viz but has now retired from business life, and resides in Bethel. (i) James IVIartin, born October 9, 1818, married Emily Waller, daughter of Daniel (8) Carlton Simons, born in Gaysville,

Waller, January 9, 1844, and died at Leaven- October 15, 1834, married Louisa M. Brink, worth, Kansas, April 2, 1888. His wife July 10, 1861, and their three children are: died April 26, 1894. Their two children Ella L., born in New York April 22, 1862, were Fanny M., born May 22, 1847, "ow re- unmarried ; Carl Edwin, born in Bethel, siding in Brookfield, Mo., and Durrell, horn September 29, 1869, married Minnie A.

February 15, 1850, married Rilla E. Mooney, Lewis, January 10, 1891, who bore him three

February 16, 1883, and resides in Brook- children, viz: Raymond, ^b,9rn October 14, field, Mo. A daughter, Edith Emily, was 1891; Marion, born December 9, 1892, died born July 20, 1887. August [o, 1893, and an infant, Margaret

Louise, born July 8, Mabel Edna, (2) Frederick Alonzo, born in Northfield 1895; third child of Carlton S., and Louisa January 22, 1820, married Jane E. Chamber- B. Gilson, Wtjs born at Nyack, N. Y.,' June lin of Barnard, December 28, 1841, and died 8, 1875. in New York June 15, 1870, leaving two children, viz : Edna Maria, born at Gays- (9) Francis Samuel, born at Stockbridge, ville April 10, 1847, and an adopted daugh- Vermont, April 26, 1838, died in New York ter, Emma M. Pinney, born at Windsor, Vt., April II, 1895. July 2, 1841, married John Crosby, June i, (10) Edward Alerick, born at Gaysville, 1879. M'l's- Frederick A, Gilson, with her November 17, 1841, married Clara Conant daughter, Edna Maria, now resides at Charles- February i6j 1865. Their three children are : town, N. H. Frank, born at Yonkers December 5, 1865, and died April (3) Maria Fanny, born at Northfield, Vt., 25, 1895 ; Edward Carlton, in October 4, 1823, married Merrick Sylvester, born Passaic N. Y., May 14, 1870; and Gertrude Clara, born in July 5, 1854. (See Sylvester Sketch.) New York April 12, 1878. (4) William Henry, born in Hartland September 22, 1826, married Emma Taylor, GRAHAM. January 3, 1859, and died in New York Alexander and Lucy (Kimball) Graham April 17, 1865. There were three children came to Bethel from Lebanon, N. H., in 1841, born of this marriage, viz : Fanny E., born and here Mr. Graham purchased a farm in New York November 25, 1859, niarried which he carried on until his two sons took November 5, 1890, to Dr. George Terriberry born charge of the farm and still own the same. of l^aterson, N.J. ; William Henry, Oc- The elder son, Guy Graham, was born in toDer 27, i86r, now resides in New York Lebanon, N. H., January 13, 1825, and City, unmarried; and Walter Samuel, born at came to Bethel with his parents in 1841. Spuytendervel, N Y., January 4, 1863, and One year later he entered the employ of resides in New York City. George Francis in a general merchandise Sarah Ann, born in Hartland October (5) store at Bethel village, where he remained a 24, 1828, married Edwin Sturtevant of Bethel, few years, and then opened a store for him- October 24, 1849. (See Sturtevant Sketch). self. His store was destroyed in the fire of (6) Elizabeth Newberry, born at Barnard, 1878, and Mr. Graham did not rebuild, al- October 7, 1830, married John Taylor of though he has been quite an extensive New York, May 28, 1857, and died April 25, dealer in wool and hops, which he ships to 1893, leaving seven children. the larger markets. He was appointed post-

(7) Hiram Harlehigh, born at Barnard master during the administration of President January 17, 1832, married Jennie S. Gay De- Lincoln, and served eight years. Mr. Gra- cember 25, 1862, who died May 8, 1892, ham was married May i, 1868, to Martha 68

Sparhawk, of Randolph, and they have two was his next partner, and he sold to Mr. daughters, viz: Lucy M., born April 4, 1870, Sylvester, who continued to carry on the and Annie L., born July 27, 1878, both of business alone until 1875 when he sold to A. whom are residing with their parents in A. Brooks. In 18S2 he accepted the position Bethel. The Graham residence, situated on of cashier of the White River National Bank, a portion of the old homestead farm, is one which position he still holds. A Democrat in of the fine residences of Bethel.* politics, Mr. Sylvester has held several town Andrew J. Graham, younger brother of offices, and, with the exception of a few Guy Graham, was born in Lebanon, N. H., years, was town clerk of Bethel from 1856 to February 10, 1827, and was fourteeen years 1882 On July 5, 1854, he was married to old when his parents settled in Bethel. He .Maria F. Gilson, and they had two children, has followed the avocation of a farmer for viz: William E., born April married nearly all his life, still residing in the old 3, 1855, home in Bethel village. He was married at Edith Raines, September 18, 1886, and they

Royalton, Vermont, November 3, 1854, to now reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. Francis E., Susanna A. Lyman, of Royalton, and their born June 10, i860, married Adele F. Fogg, three children are : Ada Louise, born January

14, 1855, married John Bradley, and they now reside at Ludlow, Vt. They have two children, Annie and Henry. Nellie AL, born April II, 1858, married George Tupper, of Bethel, January 25, 1882, and they have four children. (See Tupper sketch.) James, born July 16, 1869. married Nellie Terry, of Bethel, and they reside in Barre.

* Guy Graham died at Bethel, October 25, 1895.

SYLVESTER.

Barzallia Sylvester, son of Lemuel and Betsy (Packard) Sylvester, came to Bethel from Stockbridge, Vermont, where he re.sid- ed with his son, Merrick Sylvester, who had come here previous to that time. His wife. Julana Gay, to whom he was married in 1816, bore him four children, viz :

(i) Merrick. Sylvester, born May 11, 1818, after a common school education was engaged as clerk in the general merchandise store of Merrick Gay at Gaysville, for eleven MERRICK SYLVESTER. years, leaving that place to start in busine-;s for himself at East Bethel, where he remain- August 31, 1882, and their son, William M., ed .seven years. He sold his business at the was born January 29, 1884. Francis E. died end of this time and moved to Columbus, October 15, 1886, and his widow now re- Ohio, where for the following two years he sides in Boston. was engaged in the dry g:oods business. Mr. (2) Bazillia, born April 30, 1820, married Sylvester came back to Vermont in 1855, and Beulah Thacker, and they reside in Sundance, general merchandise store in Bethel, opened a Wyoming. in company with Allen Meserve. In 1857 (3) Elbridge, born in 1824, died March he purchased his partners interest, and con- 26, 1856, at Woodstock, Illinois. tinued the business alone for several years, when he took in as a partner H. C. Smith, (4) Julana, born March 4, 1835, is un- who remained two years Edwin Sturtevant married and now resides in Bethel. , ;

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WELLINGTON. twice married, first to Susan Slade, daughter

Abel Wellington, with his wife and seven of John Slade, of Broojjfield, Vt., who bore him three children,' viz: Lovinia, children, came to Bethel from Walpole, N. married Oliver Smith, and died in Rochester. Joel H., in 1827, and located on a farm in the died in infancy, and Joel 2d died in infancy. western part of the town, which was at that The second wife of Abner Chase was Hannah time wild timber land, with only a small por- Slade, a sister of his first wife, by whom tion cleared. Here he labored and here his he had four children, Mary, married Hiram children grew to maturity. Three were born Thurston, and died at Palatine, 111. ; Moses in Bethel, only two of whom are living. The Fanny, (Mrs. Lester Gay) now residing in cjhildren of Abel Wellington were^as follows: Oregon; and Lyman, who died at the age of Sarah, Eben, Mary, Isabelle, William, Jane, sixteen. Abner Chase and his second wife John, Warren, Augusta, and Wallace. died in Rochester, Vt,, and his first wife Sarah R. Wellington, born August — died in Ohio. 1814, is now Mrs. Benjamin Abbott of Stockbridge, Vt.

Eben S. Wellington, born October 7, 1815, was twice married. His first wife was Fanny Bullard of Bethel and he married sec- ond, Anjennette Chapman. He died in 1885. Mary E. Wellington, born Jnne 2, 1817,

married Oilman Brilton, October — , 1837. Isabelle S. Wellington, born June 16, 1819, married Charles Webster and died March 16, 1891. William Wellington, born March 18, 1821, married Lavinia Tenney. Jane Wellington, born March i, 1824, married Thomas Arnold, May i, 1845. He died March 26, 1876 (See Arnold Sketch).

November 3, 1887, she married | David Tolles

and he died in Bethel June — , 1890. She now resides in Bethel with her son, Fred Arnold.

John L. Wellington, born November 5, 1826, married Susie Gage of Randolph, and they now reside at Eagle Bridge, N. Y. Warren A. Wellington, born March 25, J)R. R. M. CHASE. 1828, died Augusts, 1833.

Augusta H. Wellington, born July 4, 1832, Moses Chase, son of Abner and Hannah married Oliver Bullard of Bethel, and they (Slade) Chase, was born in Rochester, Vt.,

live in Bridgeport, Conn. April 30, 1821, and spent his early years in

Wallace C. Wellington, born January 4, his native town. He was married November twice. His first wife was 15, 1846, at Lowell, Massachusetts, by Dr. 183s, married Josephine Uensmore. His present wife was A. A. Miner, to Rosina, daughter of Benja- Fanny Tenney, and their home is at Har- min and Sarah (Scales) Hill, born in Sharon,

vard, III. Vermont, April 4, 1823. They returned to Vermont, living at Pomfret and Royalton CHASE. until they came to Bethel in 1857, which place Moses Chase, born in Sutton, N. H., they afterward made their home. Mr. Chase, moved to Williamstown, Vt., and later to although a carpenter and joiner by trade, Rochester, Vt., where he died leaving two bought a farm about two miles out of Bethel children, Simeon and Abner. The latter was village, which he conducted during the latter 7^ part of his life. He died at Riverdale, Neb., Mr. and Mrs. Dunham have had two sons, April i6, 1894, having sold his farm and viz: Leon C, born at Bethel, June 17, 1886; moved to that place in October, 1893. There and Rolla West, born March 31, 1888, and

were four children born to Moses and Rosina died July 7, 1890. (Hill) Chase, viz: (4) Dr. Rolla Miner Chase, fourth (i) Moses Roscoe, born in Pomfret, Vt., child of Mose"s and Rosina (Hill) Chase, was May 10, 1849, married Eva Graves, and they born in South Royalton, Vermont, Septem- have one child, Hervey, born March 31, 1884, ber 4, 1854. His early education was receiv- He is now a dentist, practicing at Ludlow, Vt. ed in the public schools of Bethel and at the

(2) Flora Rosina, born July 17, 1850, age of eighteen he commenced the study of

married Wallace Keyes, of Palatine, 111., dentistry in the office of Dr. F. M, Cilley, of

RESIDENCE OF Dr. R. M. CHASE.

and now resides at Riverdale, Neb. Their Bethel, where he remained two years. He

three children are Jessie F., born in Palatine, entered the Boston Dental College in 1874, 111., February 3, 1875; Ollie Nellie, born and was graduated from that institution in October 16, 1883, at Palatine, 111., died 1876, receiving his degree of D. D. S. He January 31, 1884; and Nathan Moses, born immediately returned to Bethel and opened April 22, 1895, at Riverdale, Neb. an ofBce in the practice of his profession. (3) Fannie, born October 25, i85i,is the While practicing dentistry he continued the wife of Henry C. Dunham, and they now re- study of other branches of the healing an, side at Colorado Springs, Col., at which place and in 1889 entered the Baltimore Medi- Mrs. Moses Chase now makes her home. cal College, from which he was graduated 71

April 15, 1890, taking tlie degree of M. D. carried on the farm now occupied by Charter While the doctor has a large and extensive Dunham, and in connection with his farming, dental practice, he devotes some of his time he bought and sold hops, doing quite an to general medicine, having quite an office extensive business in this line. He died in and village practice in this department. The Bethel, February 26, 1881, and his wife died Doctor is a pushing and enterprising citizen, in June, 1874. Their children were Betsey, and is always identified with anything for the Mary, Hannah, Mehitable, Susan, Rosetta, advancement and improvement of the village. William, Allen, John and Elmira. He was one of the originators of the Bethel Of these ten children, seven are now living.

Shoe Company, and is one of the directors Hannah married Charter Dunham and and vice-president of that company at the resides in Bethel. present time. He is also president and one Mehitable married Chester Cooley, and of the directors of the Bethel Electric Light now resides in Providence, R. I. and Power Company. Dr. Chase has held Susan married Horace Torry, and now several minor town offices, having been lives in the West. grand juror for the town, and served on the Rosetta, born September 13, 1826, married school board of the Whitcomb High School Augustus Marsh, January 31, 1858. (See for several years. He is a Mason, and was Marsh sketcji.) Master of White River Lodge, No. 90, for two William married Jane Davis, and now years. He was one of the organizers of the resides in Rochester, N. Y.

Vermont Dental Society in 1876 ; was on the John marred Lizzie Carey, now living in executive committee for several years, and Johnstown, N. Y. served as president for one year. After the Ehniia marritd Henry Pease, and they State dental law was enacted in 1882, Dr. reside at Spenserport, N. Y. Chase was appointed by the Governor of the State one of five constituting the Poard CHADWICK. of Dental Examiners, a position which he Chauncey Cliadvvick, son of Benjamin and has since held, having been secretary and Olive (Fish) Chadwick, was born in Brain- treasurer of the board until 1894, when he tree, Vt., November 22, 1827, and at the age was made president. He has been State of sixteen, began the trade of carriage mak- editor and correspondent for several dental ing. After working one year in Braintree,

is member of the New England went to Randolph, where he was employed jovirnals ; a he Dental Society; a member of the Vermont at this trade in the carriage shop of W. li. Medical Society, and he was a member of Cady, moving to Rochester four years later, the International Medical Congress, held at where he remained seven years. He then Washington, D. C, in 1888. In politics Dr. came to Bethel and in company with Charles Chase has always been identified with the Curtis, purchased the farm on which Mr. Republican party, and was one of the vice- Curtis nowilives, and for two jears they car- presidents ot the National Republican League ried the farm on successful!). On July i, in 1894-1895. He has been the inventor of 1855, he purchased the Enos BuUard farm several useful articles, both in and outside where he has since resided. His residence of his profession. On June 18, 1879, Dr. burned in 187 r, and he immediately biiilt his Chase was married to Susan Elizabeth, present house. daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Berry) He has been twice married, first, on 1^'ay Newall, who was born in Bethel, June 14, II, 1853, to Mary E. Buckman, by whom he

1855, and they have two children, viz : had one son, Clarence L., born at Rochester, Susie George Berry, born June 19, 1880, and July 17, 1856. Mrs. Chadwick died Feb- 1882. Newell, born April 15, ruary 5, 1874. and he married on December 17, 1874, Eliza A. Spau'din?, daughter of MESERVE. Zebina F., and Harriet (Morse) Spaulding, Charles H. Meserve, with his wife Mary and their two children are, Dana L., born (Young) Meserve, cnme to Bethel from December i2 1877. and Clara, born Decem- Thetford, Vermont, in iSj-9. He owned and ber 21, 1883 72-

CUSHING. milT to B. G. Eagley a few years later, and

Willard ]. Gushing, with his wife, Fanny Mr. Gushing started in the tannery business

(Ainsworth) Gushing, to whom he was at Bethel, selling the same to J . B. Alley & married May 8, 1817, came to Bethel from Co., in 18S2. From that time Mr. Gushing Putney, Vt., in l8l7and settled in the village. was not engaged in mercantile persuits, but Willard Gushing died August 11, 188 1, and dealt quite extensively in real estate, buying his wife died August 12, 1877. and selling farms, and carrying on the .same.

They had eight children, viz : Daniel, A Democrat in politics, Mr. Gushing's public Josiah Dana, Fanny, Hattie, Don, Henry, life was confined to the several town offices Irene Olivia. and which he held in Bethel. (i) Daniel, born in Bethel, June 12, 1818, Mr. Gushing was married three times, his married Amanda Woodbury, and they moved first wife, Harriet Jones, to whom he was to Grand-da-tour, Illinois, where he died. married in December, 1842, bore him two

children, and died September 17, i860. Their children were Charles, born April 29, 1846, and died June 24. 1852, and Elizabeth H., born April 15, 1856, died January 30, 1861. Mr. Gushing married Mrs. Sarah E.

Cooper, 7iee Rich, and she died October 27,

1S67, leaving no issue. On January 7, 1859, he was married to Mrs. Maitha McPherson,

?iee Perigo, who bore him one son, Carl Dana. Mr. Gushing died October 31. 1890, and his widow now resides in Bethel. Carl Dana Gushing, only son of Josiah Dana and Martha (Perigo) Gushing, was

born in Bethel, Vt., October 3, 1869. After his school work in Bethel, he attended the Goddard Seminary at Barre, Vt., and was graduated in the class of 1888, entering Tufts College the same year. His father dying in 1890, he gave up his college work and return- ed to Bethel, where he took charge of his

father's business and carried it on success- fully. In 1894 he- entered into partnership with William Wright, purchasing a half inter- JOSIAH DANA GUSHING, est in the grist and saw-mill business, of Mr. Wright's former partner, G. W. Reed. The (2) Josiah Dana, second child of Willard business was carried on under the firm name Gushing, of Wright Gushing until J. and Fanny (Ainsworth) was & Mr. Wright's born in Royalton, August 25, 1820. He re- death, which occurred March 16, 1895. Since ceived his education in the common schools, that time .Mr. Gushing has been alone in the and at an early age began farming on the management of the mill. He is somewhat farm with his father. Later he learned the interested in real estate, and is a stockholder trade of harness making, and for several in the liethel Shoe Company, one of the lead- years he was engaged in this line of business ing manufacttiring interests in Bethel. Mr. in Bethel. In 1870 he sold hia harness busi- Gushing is now one of the board of trustees ness, and in company with Lucius B. Wright of the VVhitcomb High School. he purchased the saw and grist mill at the On January 5, 1S92, he was married to north end of the village, and forseveral years Nellie L. Harrington, daughter of Edwin and this business was conducted under the firm Mary (Holland) Harrington, and they have name of Wright & Gushing. They sold the one daughter, Leila. H., born June 27, 1833. 73

(3) Fanny Gushing, third child of GILSON.

Willard J. and Fanny (Ainsworth) Gushing, James Gilson, and his wife, Clarissa (Ash- born December 22, 1822, married Augustus ley) Gilson, came to Bethel from Hartland, W. Bigelow, and moved to Barnard, Vt., Vt., in October, 1832, and settled on the where she died. farm now owned by L. A. Rood, on the

Gaysville road. Their five children were (4) Hattie Gushing, born Angust 24, Caroline, Martha, George, Aurelia and Jane. 1825, married Hiram Augustus Putnam, and Caroline, born November 6, 1822, married they now reside in Barnard, Vt. Their ten Jason Burbank in 1843, and they now reside children are, Emma, Augustus. Frank A., in Windsor, Vt., where their daughter, Nel- Hattie, Sarah, Ruth A., Edwin S., Jessie B., lie C. Burbank, was born September 12, 1845. Charles E., Libbie and Williard G. Martha, born July 15, 1824, married Con- (5) Don Gushing, born March 21, 1828, stantine Ghadwick of Randolph, Vt,, and married Sarah Jaquish, who bore him four died in Windsor, Vt., April 10, 1894.

George, born in Hartland, Vt.,, May 17, 1826, married Ellen Woodbury of Bethel,

and they had four children, viz : (l) George

D., born in Bethel, Vt., November 2, 1846, married Mary B. Chambers of Waretown, N. Y., Deceniber 25, 1872, and died Novem- ber 28, 1879, leaving two children, viz: George William, born July 26, 1874, and Frank B., born April 17, 1878. His second wife was Belle Roderick, who bore him one daughter, Jennie. George D. Gilson with his wife and daughter, now resides in Port- land, Oregon.

(2) Mary Virginia, born June 10, 1851, married Frank H. Bascom, January 16, 1872, who died November 17, 1890, leaving four children, who now reside with their mother in Boston. Kitt. H., born October 26, 1872;

Nellie, born May 17, 1875; Kate, born July

26, 1882 ; and Grace, born February 10, 1885.

(3) Edward, born in Bethel July 16, 1854, resides in Bethel. CARL D. GUSHING. (4) Rollin, born in Gaysville, May i, 1862, resides in Bethel. children. The family moved to Vancouver, George Gilson died September 20, 1885, Washington, where they now reside. and his widow resides with her sons in (6) Irene Gushing, born January 29, Bethel. Whitcomb, of Wood- 1831, married Monroe Aurelia, fourth child of James and Clarissa Vt., and they now reside at that place stock, (Ashley) Gilson, was born December 25,

(7) Henry Gushing, born May 13. 1833, 1829, married Melvin Shaw, and they now wife Olive Ains- married twice ; his first was live in North Hudson, N. Y. worth. He married Rhoda French, who died Jane, fifth child of James and Clarissa leaving four children, Anna, Fred, Frank and (Ashley) Gilson, born December 18, 1831,

Kate. married Lemuel Putnam Gilson, June— , 1850,

they had three children, viz : Jennie (8) Olivia Gushing, born December 5, and Stevens, and they now Alice; born iff Bethel, May 12, 1851, married 183s, married Solon rLside in Auburft, C'alrfornia. March 16, 1873, Albert E. Cutter, and now 74

Harrington died in Pittsfield, Vt., resides at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, Mas?. ; Enoch Willis Daniel, born in Barnard, Vt., Sep- and his wife, Lucinda, died at Barnard, Vt. the district tember 7, 1853, married Ida J. Wilson of Edwin Harrington attended Keene, N. H., October 3. 1882, and they schools of Kis native place, staying at home now live in Brattleboro, Vt. ; and Carrie Es- on the farm until twenty years of age. He tella, born at Hartland, Vt., October 26, i860, married Edward F. Luitzsinger of Bn;t- tleboro, Vt., December 31, 1880.

HARRINGTON. Edwin Harrington, son of Enoch and

Lucinda (Davis) Harrington, was born i 1

Stockbridge, Vermont, April 4, 1825, a-ntl died September 23, 1891, aged sixty-six

years ; the second in a family of eight child- ren. Their names were: Maria, who married Alexander Packard, and died in Stockbridge, Vt. Edwin. Stephen, now resides in Massachusetts. Martha, who married Lyman Parmentcr and died in Pittsfield, Vt. Sherman C, now residing in Gaysville, Yl

Mrs. Et)WIN HARRINGTON.

first went to Fitchburg, Mass.,- where he worked as a general helper in a machine

shop and foundry ; from there he went to Clinton, Mass., but after seven years went to Worcester, Mass., where he again obtained work in a machine shop, and became a skill- ful machinist, and laid the foundation of a successful business career. For several years he worked as a journeyman at his trade, building machine tools. He then engaged for five years under the name of Rice & Har- rington, in the manufacture of the first organ- reeds in use, and which are now so com- monly in use in musical organs, for house, Sunday-schools, and other places. He sold his interest in the reed business, and en- EDWIN HARRINGTON. gaged in the manufacture of mowing ma- chines, under the name of KnifTen & Har- Almira, who married Philander Packard, rington, which were then a new invention, and died in Stockbridge, Vt. and from h\s past experience at farming, he Orwell, now a resident of Gaysville, V.. introduced and sold a large number of what Emma S., who married Russell Woodward, are now in general use among farmers. In and died at Barnard, Vt„ connection with the business, he also, during 75

the late civil war, manufactured fire arms for tension lathes, which are to-day, a specialty the United States government, but the war, of the business. closing sooner than was expected, caused a In August, 1889, a stroke of paralysis serious Joss and the closing out of his busi- obliged him to retire from active business, al- ness. though he retained his interest up to the Two years later, he again engaged under time of his death, at the age of sixty-six the name of Armsby & Harrington, in the years, September 23, 1891, his sons carrying manufacture of machine tools for iron work, on the same under the name of Edwin Har- in which he continued for several years, until rington, Son & Co. the death of Mr. Armsby, his partner, which, On October 8th, 1848, Mr. Harrington for want of sufficient capital to continue, he was married to Mary E., daughter of Elisha

RESIDENCE OF Mrs. EDWIN HARRINGTON.

sold out to Lucius W. Pond, a well-known and Lucy (Whitcomb) Holland, who was manufacturer of Worcester, Mass. born in Stockbridge, Vt., March 12, 1829. In May, 1867, he removed to Philadelphia, Their childrqn were Melvin H., born in Wor- where he again engaged in the manufacture cester, Mass., September 21, 1849; married of machine tools, resulting in the employing May 16, 1877, to Mary E. Hobbs of Worce.s- of two hundrfd men in the different depart- ter, who borS him three children, viz : Allen ments. H., born December 5, 1881 ; Arthur Melvin, He was a man of recognized ability, and born July 26, 1884; and Mary Helen, born many of the machines manufactured were the June 17, 1890. result of valuable improvements by him. Edwin Leroy, born in Worcester, Mass., Among them were portable hoists and ex- September 12, 1854, married Mary C. Jardan, .

76 of Philadelphia, November 21, 1883. They and has served as selectman and also justice have no children. of the peace. Mrs. Spaulding died and Mr.

Mary Ella, born in Worcester, Mass., Oc- Spaulding married Charlotte Dunham ; his tober 12, 1857, died in Philadelphia, August third wife was Mary Rowell, and his present 28, 1870. wife was Mrs. Mary Albin, nee Cross, of Nellie Louisa, an adopted daughter, was Braintree, Vt. born in Philadelphia, February 10, 1872, Romanzo Z., oldest child of Zebina Spauld- married Carl D. Gushing of Bethel, Vt., Jan- ing, was born March 31,1841, and married uary 5, 1892. Melvina Bugbee, October 29, 1863. He died Mr. Harrington was a member of Morning September 16, 1882, leaving- seven children,

Star Lodge, No. 3, F. & A. M., having joined viz : Willard, Wilbur, Clayton, Minnie, Nina, that fraternity in 1862. He was transferred Nathan and Charles. to Lodge No. 3, of Philadelphia, and also Eliza A., born November 2, 1843, married was a member of St. John's Commandery of C. R. Chadwick, and they have two children.

Knight Templars, No. 4, of Philadelphia, and (See Chadwick sketch.) after his residence at Bethel, became a mem- Charles Spaulding, born November 16, ber of White River Lodge, No. go. 1845, now married and living in Deadwood, The last few years of his life, when seek- Dakota. ing relief from the cares attendant on his Hattie Spaulding, born August 24, 1859, business, Mr. and Mrs. Harrington fre- is now in the millinery business in the western quently visited the scenes of their earlier part of Pennsylvania. days, resulting in their removal to Bethel, The only other representative of this Vt., in 1890, where they built a fine residence family living in Bethel is Charles Spaulding, on the outskirts of the village, and where his youngest brother of Zebina. He came to widow resides. Bethel in 1855, bringing with him his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Harrington were among the Elmira S. (Johnson) Spaulding, to whom he foremost supporters of the Universalist was married April 5, 1854. They located on Church, and there are few public charities in a farm on Camp brook, but later moved onto which Mrs. Harrington has not assisted. the farm formerly occupied by Zebina Spauld- She has erected the second finest cream- ing. They now reside with their son on the ery in the State. She has also given practic- old Davis farm. Four children have been al assistance in the establishment of a large born to them, viz -. Ella J., born January 12, shoe shop at Bethel and a button factory at 1856, married Charles Hayward in October, Gaysville. 1877, and she now resides in Lowell, Mass. Ida R., born February 27, 1858, married SPAULDING. Clarence Messer, August 10, 1882, and died Junius Spaulding, born in Windsor, mar- in Iowa, May n, 1885. ried Rebecca Jordan, and she was the mother Elmer E., born August 21, 1861, now owns of eleven children. Those living to maturity and carries on a farm near Bethel village. were Rebecca, Zebina, Eliza, Verulum, His parents make their home with him.

George, Andrew, Americus V., Mary A., Jessie M., torn May 15, 1873, 's a school Julia Emiline and Charles. teacher, and resides in Bethel. Zebina Spaulding, born at Windsor, March WIGHT. 29, 1 8 16. was the first one of this family to locale in Bethel, which he did in 1845. His William Wight and his wife Isabella first wife, Harriet Morse, came with him, (Williams) Wight, came to East Bethel and to them were born four children, from Tunbridge, Vermont, in 1856, and pur- Romanza, Eliza A., Charles and Hattie. chased the place formerly known as the Mr. Spaulding first settled on the farm now Hibbard place. Mr. Wight was a successful occupied by John Aldrich, where he remain- farmer, and carried on the farm with the as- ed seventeen years, when he moved to his sistance of his sons until his death, which oc- present farm near the Finley bridge. He curred July 9, 187 1. His wile died March has been prominent in the affairs of the town. 22, 1894. There were two children born to 77

William and Isabella (Williams) Wight, viz: was born in Gaysville, February 12, 1816.

Francis W., born July 5, 1847, married They returned to Boston, but owing to the April 21, 1875, Sarah Smith, of Bethel. He ill-health of Mrs. Ellison, came to Bethel is a farmer by occupation, but has done quite about 1840 and purchased a farm located on an extensive business in house and carriage the Gaysville road, about a mile from Bethel painting, a trade he has followed to some ex- village. Mr. Elliscn and his wife made tent since his boyhood. several changes, and in 1850 they came to Howard Wight, born September 12. 1850, Bethel and located permanently. In 1863 married Helen Gifford, of Randolph, and now Mr. Ellison built the house in the village resides in that town. He has one son, where Mrs. Ellison now lives. He was con- Clayton. stable of Bethel for quite a number of years, ELLISON. and is remembered by the older citizens as an efficient officer. He was chosen repre- Nelson Ellison, son of William and Rachel sentative to the General Assembly in 1858, (Redfield) EUi.son, was born at Chester, Vt., but did not serve. In connection with his other business, he was engaged in buying and selling real estate, and also dealt in lumber to sbme extent. He died in Bethel, January 31, 1892, leaving a \vidow, who resides in Bethel village. CHAMBERLIN. Isaac Chamberlin, son of Isaac and Ara- bella (Bailey) Chamberlin was born in Stock- bridge, Vt., May 21, 1819, and his parents moved to Bethel, when he was but eleven months old, and settled in that part of the town known as South Limpus. He followed farming as a business, and married July 16, 1843, Abbie" Bowen, who bore him three children, viz: Hattie E., born October 24,

1844. and died when two years old ; George L; and Sarah A., born December 18, 1853, married Lincoln E. Bolton, and now resides with her father. Mrs. Isaac Chamberlin died September 10, 1889, and Mr. Chamber-

-lin now carries on a farm in the west part of Bethel. ELLISON. NELSON George L. Chamberlin was born September (FROM A PICTURE TAKEN IN 1850.) 7, 1849, and on December 28, 1870, he was married to JJJettie Harrington, who was the June 6, 1813. His parents moved to North mother of six children, viz : Eslie, born May Springfield, Vt., when he was a small boy, 13, 1874; Walter E., born April 30, 1880; and in the latter place he received a common a daughter died in infancy; Robert G., born school education. He went to Boston before April 15, 1885; Hugh I., born April 20, he became of age, and was engaged for a num- 1886; and Abbie L., born- April 7, 1890. ber of years as clerk in a wholesale carpet George L. Chamberlin is now a successful house, then located at 164 Washington street, farmer in the western part of the township, the largest establishment of the kind in near his father. Boston, at that time. He gave up his position a few years later and returned to EMERY. Vermont, locating at Gaysville, where he Ira Emery with his wife Betsy (Richard- married February 15,1837, Roxana, daughter son) Emery, came' to Bethel in 1850, bring- of Daniel and Lucy (Barnes) Abbott. She ing with them eight children, and located" at 78

Bethel Gilead. They afterwards moved to in Bethel September 13, 1888. The four the Church district, and from there to the children of Theophilus and Rosetta (Lyford) Allen Dunham place, where they remained Wilson were (i) LouLsa, born September twelve years, and then moved to the farm 14, 1841, married August 24, 1865, Dr. Se- owned by their son, Alonzo, where Mr. 1am N. Welch, and they now reside in Sut-

Emery died January 7, 1883. His wife died ton, N. H. August had ten children, viz.: 7, 1874. They (2) Martha, born December 25, 1843, Ezra H., Emiline T., Jane G., George (died married James P. Thurber, and died April at the age of four), Lyman S., Ira, George II, 1863. S., Alonzo, Eliza B., and Ellen. (3) Edward F., born August 8, 1848, mar- Ezra H., born June 6, 1831, served in the ried Ida Flint of South Royalton, September Civil War, and died in the hospital at Baton 21, 1874, and their three children were Earl, Rouge, La., October 4, 1863. He was a born May 13, 1876; Pearl, born September member of Company E, Eighth Vermont 2, 1877, and Richard, born February 2, 1881, Volunteers. and died March 17, 1882. Ira was a member of Company A, Six- (4) Emogene, born May 22, 1854, mar- teenth Vermont Volunteers, and was killed ried October 23, 1872, Westley Heath, who at the Battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1863. died December i, 1892, leaving three child- Emiline T., born September j, 1832, died ren, viz: Carrie M., born May 12, 1873; at Stockbridge, October 23, 1879. Josie L., born April 9, 1875; and Frank W., Jane G., born September 22, 1834, married born September 15, 1878. Nelson Hunt, and now resides in Stock- On April 2, 1893, Mrs. Heath was married bridge, Vt. to Gardner Wallace, and they reside in George, born September 12, 1836, died in J. Bethel. (See Wallace Sketch.) 1840. Theophilus Wilson resided in until Lyman S., born January 3, 1839, "ow re- Cabot sides in Washington, D. C. 1836, when he engaged in teaching school, had of schools in George S., born December 17, 1843, "ow and charge Cabot, Wood- living in Washington, D. C. bury and Peacham. He setded on a farm in in for Eliza B., born September 23, 1846, died at Cabot 1840, and twenty-one years, fol- Randolph, Vt., February 21, 1887. lowed the occupation of' farming. He then purchased the hotel property at Ellen, born October 5, 1850, now living in Cabot, and Washington, D. C. carried on that business until 1868, and two Alonzo Emery, born March 31, 1845, rnar- years later he sold his business interests in Cabot, and moved to Bethel, where he ried Angeline J. Leach of Bethel, December pur- carried the 24, 1872. With his father he owned and chased and on Wilson House, carried on the Dunham farm until 1876, then (which house still bears his name) until he bought the Cotton farm, where he now August 17, 1887. Mr. Wilson then sold the resides. He has served the town as lister, hotel property, retired from active business, grand juror, moderator, and is now serving and resides in Bethel. his third term as school director. His two children are Clarence E., born August 7, HIBBARD. 1875, now at college in Burlington, Vt., and John Winthrop Hibbard, son of Samuel Josephine S., born February 2, 1877, now at and Charlotte (Fraser) Hibbard, was born home in Bethel. August 24, 1825. He learned the wheel- wright trade at Tunbridge, Vt., moving from WILSON. there to Keene, N. H., thence to Peterboro, Theophilus E. Wilson, son of Nathaniel and from that place to Randolph. He after- and Abigail (Varnum) Wilson, was born in ward worked in Lebanon, N. H., at his trade, Cabot, Vt., May 8, 1814. He married No- and came to Bethel in 1850. In company vember 26, 1840, Rosetta M., daughter of with Ira Maxham he carried on a successful Fifield and Judith (Heath) Lyford, who was business at house painting, and in i8j2, the born in Cabot, February 28, 1821, and died mill near his present home having been com- 79 pleted the previous year, he began work at schools and at Randolph Academy. He at- his trade, which he has since carried on. tended the State Normal School at Randolph

He was married May 4, 1851, to Laura E. Center, and. was gra.duated from that institu- Woodbury, daughter of Samuel and Electa tion in the class of 1872. With his parents (Buckman) Woodbury of Bethel. he came to Bethel and immediately com- menced the study of law in the office of James ARNOLD. Wilson, and was admitted to the bar of

Thomas Arnold, was born in Westmore- Windsor county in 1882. Mr. Arnold is a prominent in the affairs the land, N. H., October 7, 1803. He was a man of town, traveling salesman in his native state, and and has always been among the leaders in was the first man to sell goods by sample in any enterprise for the advancement of Bethel. northern New Hampshire. He afterward He has held several minor town offices at retired from the road and carried on a farm different times, and has been active in the edu- in Westmoreland for several years On May cational interests, serving as .superintendent of schools for several years. He was chosen representative to the General Assembly at Montpelier in 1892, serving two years, and in 1894 was elected Senator for Windsor County for two years. He is a Mason, and a member of White River Lodge, No. 90, at Bethel, Whitney Royal Arch Chapter at Randolph, and of the Mount Zion Com- mandery at Montpelier. On October 17, 1882, Mr. Arnold was married to Martha P. White of Providence,

R. I. They have seven children, George Hunter, born January 20, 1884; Emma

Louise, born May 6, 1885 ; Wallace Welling- ton, born December 28, 1887; Edwin Thomas, born September 10, 1888; Christo-

pher Noble, born May 10, 1891 : Alfred

White, born April 6, 1892; and Josephine, born September 6, 1895. CLOUGH. Daniel M. Clough, son of Daniel M.. and Anna (Hunt) Clough, was born at Bath, N. Hon. FRED ARNOLD. H., October 11, 1826, and after a common school education, he began work with his I, 1845, he was married to Maria J. Welling- father, learning the blacksmith trade. He ton, and their three children were Edwin T.. afterward went to South Troy, Vt., where he Charles H., and Fred. Mr. Arnold moved completed His trade in the blacksmith shop with his family to Randolph in 1852, and in of James Houston, remaining there nearly 1867 located in Stockbridge. He came to two years. In 1847, he began work at his Bethel in March, 1874, where he died March trade on the Central Vermont Railroad, which 26, 1876. was then being built, and his headquarters Charles H. Arnold was born in Westmore- were at Bethel village. He afterward opened land, N. H., January zz, 1847, now living in a shop here,, where he remained five years, at Vt. Stockbridge, Which time He bought the J. Wilson farm on Fred Arnold, youngest son of Thomas Christian HjU. This he afterward sold and to the village, but and Maria J. (Wellington) Arnold, was born moved bought the property in Randolph, December 7, 1856. His early back in 1885, and has since bought the ad- education was received in the common joining farm, making it one of the largest ;

8o and best in this vicinity. In 1862, Mr. Josephine Louise, born July 29, 1839,

Ciough was one of the first to enlist from married Julius Wilson, July 13, 1859. (See Bethel, and was a member of Company A, Wilson sketch.)

Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, serving nine Joseph G., born in Bethel, August 6, i84r, months under Captain Henry A. Eaton, re- after completing his studies in the common turning with the rank of first lieutenant. He schools, attended the academy at West Ran- immediately re-enlisted in Company F, Sev- dolph, and finished his education in East- enteenth Vermont Volunteers, in command man's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, of Captain Lyman E Knapp. Here he found N. Y., from.which he was graduated in 1866. plenty of active service, and was at the bat- His first position as a clerkship in the general tles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court merchandise store of G. E. Graham, at House, and was wounded at the battles of Bethel, where he remained four years. He Poplar Grove in front of Petersburg and at purchased the tin and hardware store of S. Spottsylvania. At the former place he was T. Coy, and in partnership with his brother, taken prisoner on September 30, 1864, and carried on the same for several jears. In was exchanged December 24, of the same 1873 he sold out his interest in the hardware

\ ear. He was laid off on account of disa- bu.slness, and returned to his old position in bility, and after being sent from Annapolis to the employ of G. E. Graham, remaining here Montpelier, he was mustered out June 12, until the great fire of 1877, which destroyed 1865. Mr. Ciough has always been a demo- this store and its contents. He then started crat and was chosen selectman in 1889, serv- a general nrterchandise store which he has ing three years. He is a member of White since carried on. In politics Mr. Sargent is River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M. On a Republican, and has held several town

June 19, 1850, he married Laura L. Brooks ofBces, among them that of town treasurer, of Bethel, and they had four children, two of having held that office since 1884. He was whom are living, viz ; Fred M. and Laura E. appointed postmaster in April, 1868, and Fred M., born June 30, 1853, married Kate served about eight years. Mr. Sargent is a Ferguson of Stillwater, N. Y., and their two member of White River Lodge, No. 90. F. children are Daniel Allen, born March 4, and A. M.. and of Whitney R. A. Chapter,

1886, and Ralph, born December — , 1893. No. 7, at West Randolph. On June 18,

Laura Elva, born March 5, 1857, married 1872, he was married to M. Frances Messer, James Welch, who died leaving one daugh- of Rochester, and their only son, Francis ter, Ella Laura, born December 12, 1880. Joseph, waSr born in Bethel, February i8, On May 15, 1887, Laura E. married E. G. 1884. Carpenter of Bethel. Ann, born in Bethel June 27, 1844, is un- married and resides with her father in Bethel SARGENT. village.

Moses Belknap Sargent, born at Chester, Abraham S., born October 9, 1853, died at

N. H., March 7, 1812, with his wife, Louisa Springfield, November 27, 1875. (Grant) Sargent, came to Bethel in 1841, WILLIAMS. and bought a farm in the town near the line between Bethel and Randolph, where he re- Thomas Williams, with his wife, Olive mained until 1889, when he came to the ( ) Williams, came to Bethel Irom village where he now resides. His wife died Cornish, N. H., among the early settlers.

December 17, 1892. They had six children, Their six children were Benjamin, Thomas, viz Olive, Peggy, Scenia, and Mary. Moses B., born August 31, 1836, married Thomas Williams, son of Thomas, born Tammie, daughter of Dr. James Woodworth, May 18, 1798, married Phila Kimball of Roy- November 28, 1866. He died November 18, alton, Vt., October 15, 1820. He resided in 1870, leaving one son, James B., born Febru- Bethel where he carried on farming until his death, October His wife died ary 3, 1869. 9, 1875. No- Josephine M., born March 29, 1838, died vember 19, 1878, and their children were as

May 25, 1838. follows ; (i) Loisa G., born August 18, 1831 8i

married April 3, 1842, Joseph Bowen and (6) Am.os H., born January 2, 1828, died their children were Melissa L., (Mrs. T. R. April 16, 1848.

Neff,) Julia, Margie S., Julia, (Mrs. Waldo (7) Amplias, born April 6, 1829, married Flagg), Lulu E., Willie J., and Joseph W. Marion Rajph of Northfield, July 2, 1854, (2) Benjamin, born August 29, 1822, died and he now' lives in Randolph. April 21, 1824. (8) Poliy-A., born October 7, 1830.

(3) Sarah Jane, born February 11,1824, (9) Charles L., born July 23, 1832, mar- married Morse. June 28, 1846, Charles Mr. ried Everelda Chamberlin, November 17, Morse was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1857. His second wife was Mrs. Mark and his widow is now the wife of Abel Bowen Deering, and his present wife was Emma of Bethel. Her four children by her first Kinney. He now lives in Royalton. husband were LaForrest, married Nellie who (10) Amanda R. born September 17, 1833, and they live in Athol, Mass.; Howe, now married April 7, 1855, to Chapman Morse Sumner F., now in Great Falls, Montana; of Rochester, Vt., where they now live.

Lizzie J., now Mrs. William Griffith of (11) Thomas R., born January 2, 1835, married Laura Fisher March 12, 1859, a"d'

was killed in the Civil War, May 3, J863.

(12) John K., born September 3, 1836,

married Martha Barnes November 4, 1858. Their chil'dren were Frank W., Arthur, Haile, and Gertrude.

(13) Esther A., born April 17, 1838, married David Dyke, March 14, 1858, and resides in Bethel. Their children are Effie E., born December 25, 1858, married Melvin M. Cox, August 20, 1878, and died March 26,

1883, leaving one son, Glenn D., born April g, 1880. Adelbert, born November 23, 1864, married Stella Lyman of Royalton, July 24, 1887, and their two children are Pearl, born May 18, 1889, and Mildred, born March 24, 1893.

(14) Wallace E., born December 11, 1841, married Beaumelle Parish, March 22, 1865, who bbre him two children, Aggie and Parish.

CHILD. WILLIAMS. THOMAS Daniel Child, son of Stephen and Mercy (Chase) Child, was born at Cornish, N. H., Bridgeport, Conn.; and K. W. Morse, who August 6, 1779. On November 11, 1804, he and they reside at married Etta Raymond, was married to Apama Lyman, a daughter of Mrs. Bowen White River Junction. Mr. and Josiah and Eunice (Tiffany) Lyman, who are now residents of Bethel. bore him nine children, viz. : Emily, Laura, (4) Leonard K., born June 2, 1825, mar- Abel, Philander, Eliza, Elijah Lyman, Lucy, ried June 10, 1849, to Nancy Mor.se, and Stephen and Unity M. died September 14, 1894. Elijah Lyman Child, sixth child of Daniel

(5) Susan A,, born November i, 1826, and Apama (Lyman) Child, was born in married Newell Batchelder April 18, 1853, Rochester, Vermont, July 31, i8i6,and came who was killed by a train at Bethel village. to Bethel with his parents, when he was two Her second husband is Franklin Parsons, years of age. He resided in this town all his and they reside in Bethel. life, carrying on a farm until 1854, when he ;

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moved to the village, where he died November 1865. Their only son, Walter, born May

3. 1893. He married June 26, 1838, Eliza- 21, i86j, died June 3, 1865. On April 17, beth E. Blanchird of Pomfret, who, with two 1866, he married Hattie M., daughter of of the four children of this marriage, survive Enos and Martha (Holden) Town, and their him. The children were Elizabeth Janette, three children were as follows : Willis Clark,

born July i, 1840, now a practicing physician born June 9, 1867, married Edith Hatch

in Bethel; a child died in infancy; Daniel Fred L., born May 9, 1871, now a farmer in

Lyman, born June 25, 1852, married Josephine Bethel ; and Barton E., born December 20,

M. Clark of Bethel, April 17, 1883, and is now 1873, now with his father, at home. in the ice business in Bethel; and Mary, who died when two weeks old. HUNTON.

Enos Child, a brother of Daniel Child, AuGUSTtrs P. HuNTON is the son of Ariel was born in Cornish, N. H., January 10, and Polly (Pingry) Hunton. Mr. Hunton's 1783, and was married August 23, 1806, to father, Ariel Hunton, M. D., was born at Sarah Bemis. They to Bethel, Vt., moved Unity, N. H., July 5, 1789, studied medicine about 1813, and here Mr. Child died January 30, 1839. Their son, Asaph Bemis Child, was born in Bethel, Vt., August 22, 1813,

and on January 7, 1840, he was married to Eusebia Sabine. He was a graduate of the Medical College at Burlington, and practiced in Bethel for a few years. He afterward moved to Boston where he entered upon the practice of dentistry.

DAVIS. Samuel Davis, son of Samuel and Sally (Coffin) Davis, was born in Weathersfield, Vt., May 25, 1812. On September 30, 1839, he married Desire, daughter of Isaac and Azubia Chamberlin, and they resided in Bethel, Mr. Davis having come to this town ten years previous. Mr. Davis died in Bethel May i, 1886. The three children of Samuel and Desire (Chamberlin) Davis

were Clark S. ; James, born in Bethel, Aug- ust 28, 1845, "°w ^ resident of Lowell, Mass.; and Abbie, who died when thirteen years old.

Clark S. Davis was born in Bethel July 17, Hon. a. p. H.UNTON. 1840, and has always made this place his home. He was brought up on a farm, and with Dr. Long of Warner, and Dr. Howard has always followed that busines.s, together of Springfield, and married March 18, 1809, with lumbering, which he has carried on Polly, daughter of William and Mary (Mor- quite extensively. He has been active in the rillj Pingry. She was born at Salisbury, N. affairs of the town, and has always been a H., September 6, 1791, and died April 29, firm adherent to the republican party. He 1874, at Bethel, at the residence of her served as selectman from 1886 to 1890, has daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Parker. been lister, and is now serving the third year Dr. Hunton was the son of Nathaniel and as road commissioner. Dorothy (Thurston) Hunton. After his Mr. Davis has been twice married. On marriage he. resided in Salisbury until 1814, February 25, 1863, he married Alice N. Gid- when he removed to Groton, where Augus- dings, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Boyn- tus Pingry Hunton was born, February 23, ton) Giddings of Bethel, who died June 21, i8i6. Dr. Hunton removed to Hyde Park, 83

Vt., July 24, 18 18, and there resided until His second wife, Charlotte Wyman, to his death, November 25, 1857. He was "a whom he wis married in 1854, died January practicing physician forty-three years and 31, 1859, leaving two children, Hattie, born resided in Hyde Park thirty-nine years. He March 9, 1855, and Abbie, born June 11, was well read and skillful in his profession, 1857. Hattie died February 23, 1856. Ab- was a good citizen and neighbor, a kind bie married Marcus Moody January 25, 1882, husband and father. He was honest in his and they now reside in Bethel where Mr. dealings, and punctual in his engagements; Moody is engaged in the grocery trade. kind to the poor, and manifested a deep in- On May 12, i860, Mr. Archer married terest in the cause of education." Edna E. Cox of Barnard. The first two Their children were Parmenas, born at years of their residence in Bethel were spent Salisbury, N. H., November 30, 1809; studied on a farm which Mr. Archer carried on to- law, was admitted to the bar; married Laura gether with a lumber business. In 1864 Parsons of Randolph, Vt., May, 1838; died they moved to the village, making their home at Charleston, S. C, August 4, 1839. at the hotels, and Mr. Archer did not again

Sylvanus, born at Salisbury, June 2, 181 1, enter active business life. He died June 6, married September 5, 1841, Clarissa M 1887, and Mrs. Archer now makes her home Bailey, of Unity, N. H. He lived many in the family of Mr. Moody. years with his great uncle, John Thurston, of Unity. He graduated at the Castleton, WOOD. Vt., Medical College, and died at CarroUton, Lyman Mt Wood, son of Lyman and Polly Ga., February 25, 1847. (Morgan) Wood, was born in Plymouth, Eudosia, born at Salisbury, May i, 1813, N. H., September 2, 1837. From his child- died at Hyde Park, August 3, 1844. hood he followed the occupation of a farmer. Augustus P. He moved to Woodstock in 1866, remaining Tryphena R., born January 10, 1827. there two years, when he came to Bethel, William P., born November 24, 1832; died and purchased the Benjamin Fisk farm in the February 22, 1856. East village, where he has since resided. Mary A., born November 24, 1832; mar- Mr. Wood was selectman of the town for ried July ,8, i860. Rev. Sylvester A., son of three terms, and has also served as lister, his William B. and Malvina (Miner) Parker, interests being with the Republican party. who was born June 10, 1834. He is unmarried. Augustus Pingry Hunton married, April WEEDEN. 29, 1849, Caroline, daughter of Dr. Alfred and Sarah (Bigelow) Paige, who was born Samuel Weeden, son of Samuel and

February 14, 1817. They had two children, Martha (Cady) Weeden, was born in Hart- (i) Mary, born April 25, 1851. Married land, Vt., October 18, 1822. He engaged in

February i, 1877, William Brunswick Curry, farming at Hartland until he was nineteen son of Rev. Moses P. and Jane F. (Curry) years old when his parents moved to Reading, Stickney. Their children are William, born Vermont. Two years later he worked in

March 6, 1878, and Mary, born November Woodstock, and moved from there to Bridge- 24,^1882; (2) Albert, born June 20. 1853, water, where he remained until 1852, when he died July 18, 1864. (See Legal Profession). went to California and engaged in mining. After spendfng one summer in the mountains ARCHER. he went to Sacremento, and from there he Samuel Archer, with his wife, Edna (Cox) made a trip to the southern mines, where he Archer, came to Bethel from Chester, Vt., in worked for a short time. He was taken sick 1862. He was married three times. His in September, 1852, and was located in San first wife, Harriet Finley, to whom he was Francisco from September until December married April 5, 1844, died September 13, of that year. He afterwards worked in Oak- 1849, leaving one daughter, Jennie, born land, Cal., for John- A. Hobart, a former August 22, 1848. She died March 2, 1869, resident of Randolph, Vt. In September, unmarried. 1854, he returned to Vermont locating at ,

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Bridgewater. In 1866 he came to East father was William B. Parker, who died in Bethel and bought a saw-mill which he car- 1890 aged 8o' years. He was a descendant ried on for some time but afterwards sold, Of Abraham Parker, who married Rose and in company with his son-in-law bought Whitlock in Woburn, Mass., in 1644. They the grist-mill, but sold his interest in this afterwards settled in Chelmsford, Mass., and business in 1883. were the parents of ten children. His mother He was married December 27. 1843, to was Amanda M. Miner—daughter of Benajah Selemna R. Doten of Woodstock, and they Ames Miner and Amanda Gary. She is still

had three children, only one of whom is liv- living, having reached the age of eighty-four

ing, viz : Rosamond, born July 5, 1849, mar- years. ried M. B. Brown of Lebanon, where they Having received a common school educa- now reside. tion he attended the academy at Lempstei N. H., Tubb's Union Academy at Washing- PARKER. ton, N. H., also the academy at Hopkinton, Rev. S. a. Parker has lived in Bethel N. H. He was brought up in a Universalist

thirty-three years. He came here May 1. 1862, and was pastor of the Universalist par- ish sixteen years, and has lived in the house in which he now resides 32 years. He has

led a very busy life ; for thirty^years he never lost a Sunday's preaching, and has never known from experience the meaning of a " summer's vacation." Having lived so many years in this town and supplied so many different pulpits, his

acquaintance is quite extensive. Through his efforts two churches have been built and six have been remodeled and renovated. He has been Secretary of the Universalist Con- vention of Vermont and Province of Quebec, for ten years, and still holds that office and is " special agent " for that convention. He has taken a great interest in masonry, and

received the first three Masonic degrees in

Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 15, in Newport, N. H., November 10, 1857—the chapter de- grees in King Solomon's Chapter at Mont-

pelier, Vt, May 3, i860. He was the iirst Master U. D. of Mystic Lodge in Stowe, Rev. S. a. PARKER. Vt., and gave it its name. He was elected

the first Master of White River Lodge, No. home and he desired to attend school where 90, and held the office ten successive years. the religious atmosphere was congenial to " " On retiring from the chair the lodge pre- him. Hence he went to South Woodstock, sented him with a Past Master's Gold Jewel, Vt., and entered the Green Mountain Liberal which he most highly prizes. Institute and graduated in the class of 1855. He is a sincere believer in the principles of During these three years he was on the board Masonry and has done what he could in of instruction as teacher of penmanship and building up the institution. He has been pen drawing. He was student a short time of Assistant Chaplain the Grand Lodge of at Tuft's College. He married. May 10, Vermont. 1856, Nancy M. Greene, a graduate of his Mr. Parker was born in the town of class at Woodstock. She was a daughter of Lempster, N. H., June 10, 1834, and was a Captain Calvin and Nancy (Tupper) Greene member of a family of five children. His of Barnard, Vt.. and was born in Barnard, 85

Vt., April, 3, 1836. He and his wife went to Roselle, born at Bethel, Vt, October 23, Warren County, Georgia, ten miles from 1834, died March 10, 1885. Alexander Stephens', and took charge of Orson O., born in Stockbridge, Vt., May

Oak Grove Academy. They remained there 13, 1837, was married twice. His first wife through 1857 and till July, 1858, when they was Mary Spencer of Springfield, Mass., who went to Kenansville, N. C, where his wife died without issue. His second wife, Marion died August 8, 1858. Williams, bore him two children, Eva and He then came back to the North. H-e Howard C. married, July 8, i860, Mary A. Hunton, Solon died April 23, 1846. daughter of Dr. Ariel and Polly (Fingry) Zenus C, born in Bethel, Vt., April 23, Hunton of Hyde Park, Vt. She was born 1843, marrieH Harriet Clark, and they have November 24, 1832. one daughter, Edna Bowen. The home in which he was born, the Mariette Bowen, born in Bethel, Vt., church that he attended, and the influence of April 16, 1-844, married Edmund C. Cush- his uncle. Dr. A. A. Miner, all tended to man of Windsor, Vt., and they now reside in call his attention to the Christian ministry. New York state. He received the fellowship of the New Hamp- Julia Bowen, born in Bethel, May 16, 1845, shire Convention of Universalists held at married Edwin Henry, and they have two

Enfield, N. H., June 16, 1859. He was or- children, Frank, born December — , 1869,

A., , dained at Stowe, Vt., August 25, 1859, dur- and Mary born October — 1872. ing the session of the Vermont State Con- Albert Bowen, born November 17, 1847, vention. For some time he studied under married Anna Moriarty January i, 1877. the direction of Dr. Eli Ballou of Montpelier, They have three children, viz: Florence A., Vt., and had access to his library. He sup- born October ig, 1878; Orville A., born plied the Calais and Stowe parishes. His February 2, 1880; and Edward C, born first settlement was in Stowe where he re- May 13, 1885. Mr. Bowen is a carpenter mained three years and then came to Bethel, and resides in Bethel village. where he still resides. CHADWICK. BOWEN. Constantine Chadwick, son of Rufus and Mahala (York) Chadwick, was born in Ran- David Bowen and his wife Betsy (Gush- dolph July 23, 1826. After completing his ing) Bowen, came to Royal ton, Vt, from studies in the common schools, he began to Rehoboth, Mass., and located on Royalton learn his trade of carpenter and joiner with Hill, about two miles south of Bethel village. his father, and remained with him until 1848, Of their children, eight grew to maturity, when he moved to Bethel, locating in the viz : Patience, Letis, Russell, Olive, Crom- western pzxi of the town, and followed his well, Lucy, Adeline, and Orville. David trade until the Civil War, He enlisted in

Bowen died in Bethel, Vt. ; Russell Bowen Company H, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, moved to Ohio, when a young man, but re- and served under Captain J. D. Rich. He turned to Bethel where he died in 1881. was wounded by a minnie ball at Gold Har- Orville Bowen, youngest child of David bor, from the effect of which he lost his arm. and Betsy (Gushing) Bowen, was born He was in the hospital at Washington for March 23, 1810, and was engaged in farming some time, and after being transferred to for a number of years, after reaching his ma- Montpelier-in December, 1864, he was dis- jority. He soon learned the trade of car- charged from the service in June, 1865. On penter and joiner, and for over fifty years was September i, 1846, he was married to Martha engaged in this line of work in and about Gilson, who died April 10, 1894. Their

Bethel. On December 25, 1833, he was children were Aurelia, born July 4, 1847; married to Sarah A. Fisk of Bethel, who was Jennie, born June 6, 1869; George, born the mother of seven children, viz : Roselle, April 5, 1871; and Emma, born May 15, Orson O., Solon, Zenus C, Mariette, Judia, 1873. Mr: Chadwick now resides in the and Albert., East village, where he moved in 1875. : '

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ABBOTT. Mass.; Frank P., born July 24, 1854, and died

8, Hattie L., born March Lewis H. Abbott, son of Lewis H., and July 1879 ; a^d 4, of Chelsea, Arabella (Stevens) Abbott, was born in 1864, married Elmer C. Bradbury Vt., reside in Bethel. Kingfield, Maine, September 25, 1842. He May 25,1893, and they came to Vermont and settled in Roxbury, TERRY. moving to Randolph, and was graduated Ephraim Terry, with his wife Lucena from the Normal School at Randolph Center (Bugbee) Terry, came to East Bethel from in 1863. He went West in 1872, and was Connecticut among the early settlers. They employed as a teacher in the schools of Illi-

raised a family of eight children, viz : Oliver, nois, Michigan, and Kansas for several years, Priscilla, Elisha, Rebecca, Polly, Lucretia and and engaged in stock raising in the latter Lucena (twins), and Roxana. Of these, state, returning to Vermont in 188 1. He Elisha, bora in Bethel November 21, 1786 settled in Bethel, where he has since made lived and died in the town of Bethel, and his home. He married Louisa Jones of Tun- with the exception of five years, resided on bridge, Vt.,and their two children are John one farm the whole of this time. He was B., born in Bethel January 5, 1883, and married four times, and died October 26, Thomas J., born January 31, 1885. i860. There were four children born to his

first wife, viz : Abbie, born September 27, GAY. . 1809; Mary, born July 9, 181 1; Oliver, born born in Stockbridge, Paul W. Gay was May 7, 1813; and Martha, born March 6, married Philena Ab- Vt, June, 1797. He 1815; di«d March 9, 1833. His second bott, who was born in 1802, and they resided wife was the mother of six children, viz in Stockbridge until 1849, when they moved Orville, born October 10, 1816; Zeruah, born Bethel, remaining one year. They then to January 5, 1818; Orvis, born October 6, remained located in Royalton, where they 1819; Ormon; Roxana, born April i, 1823; until April, 1851, and then came to Bethel, and George, born January 30, 1825. The where Paul W. died on December i, i860. two children of his third wife were Caroline, His wife died November 4, 1887. There born January 27, 1835, and Laura, born Oc- children of this marriage. Paul, were four tober 3, 1836. Caroline married Albert San- the eldest, was born in Stockbridge, De- derson, and they now live in Brookline, cember 5, 1824, and his early days were Mass. Laura was twice married; first to Al- farm with his father. In i86r, spent on the bert Davis, who died January i, 1879, leav- he left the old homestead, and moved onto ing one son, Charles Davis. She married the Gilson farm, located' one mile above Dana Carpenter of Randolph, and they now Gaysville in Stockbridge, and two years make that place their home. Orville Terry later, he moved to Gaysville village. He studied, medicine and settled in New York moved from Gaysville to Barnard, where he State, where his brother Ormon afterwards remained three years, and after two years studied. Bethel spent in Bridgewater, he came to and Ormon Terry, born June 23, 1821, after has resided in his present location on River studying medicine in the office of his brother, street ever since. From 1873 to i88r, he attended Castleton Medical College from carried on grocery business in Bethel in com- which he was graduated in the class of 1846. pany with his son, Frank P. Gay. Since He married Deborah Baker in 1853, at Sara- the latter date Mr. Gay has been a wholesale nac, N. Y., who died in Bethel in 1865, and retail dealer in lumber, shipping to dif- leaving five children, viz : Marcellus, Emma, ferent parts of the country. He has always Carrie, Wilmarth, and Ruth. His second been a staunch democrat and a firm believer wife, Jennie Demming of Cornish, N. H., to in the platform of that party. On May 27, whom he was married in i868, bore one 1847, Mr. Gay was married to Minerva, child, a daughter, Nellie. daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Cox) Per- Marcellus married Myra Tower, of East kins, and they had three children, viz : Ella G., Randolph, and they now reside in Boston, born January 30, , now residing in Lowell, Mass. 87

Emma died in Tunbridge. Mr. Tupper is a staunch Democrat, and the Carrie married Franii Kittredge, and they family has been connected with that party now reside in Massachusetts. through several generations. He has been a Wilmarth married Ella Mann of Brain- member of the Democratic County Commit- tree, and they now live in Randolph. tee for several years, and was appointed

Ruth married James Coleman, and their postmaster of Bethel on May 13, 1885, dur- present home is in Boswick, Nebraska. ing the first year of Mr. Cleveland's admin- Nellie married James Graham, and they istration. He served four years, and was re- now reside in Barre. appointed October 3, 1883, the office having Dr. Ormon Terry settled in Bethel in the been changed from a fourth to a third rate spring of 1865, and made this place his home office. Mr. Tupper is a member of White until his death, September to, 1880. River Lodge, No. go, F. and A. M.

He wa3 married Jaijuary 25, 1882, to Nellie TUPPER. M,, daughter of A. J. and Susan (Lyman) Royal H. Tupper came from Rochester to Bethel in 1864, and located in Bethel village, residing in the house now owned by Mrs. William Wright. Although not a merchant in this, place, he was actively engaged in buy- ing and selling wool and hops in this section, and for several years was president of the White River National Bank. He was twice married. His first wife, Sarah (Farrington)

Tupper. died in Rochester, February 22, 1850, leaving three children, viz: John R.,

born December 4, 1 841, married Susan Ray- mond of Stowe, Vt., and they now reside in Rochester; Robert, born March 26, 1843,

died August 25, 1855 ; and Sarah Frances, born November 26, 1848, married F. P. Hol- den of Gaysville, Vt., and they now live in Penacook, N. H. They have one son,

Royal D., born November 5, 1880. Mr.

Tupper married, June 9, 1851, Martha Rog- ers, who bore one .son, George H. Tupper. Royal Tupper died November 26, 1881, aged seventy-one. George H. Tupper, son of Royal and GEORGE H. TUPPER. Martha (Rogers) Tupper, was born in Roch-

ester June 4, 1855, and received his educa- Graham, and their four children are Grace tion in the public schools of his native place, L., born January 29, 1883; Harry A., born

and the Goddard Seminary at Barre. After October 21, 1886; Frank H , born March 26, completing his school work, he returned to 1894, and Marion M., born May 3, 1895. his home at Rochester, and was employed on the farm with his father, for a short time. STURTEVANT. He then came to Bethel, and during the Edwin Siurtevant, son of Thomas Foster years 1881 and 1882, he was employed in the and Rosilinrf (Taylor) Sturtevant, was born White River National Bank. In the latter in Hartland, Vt., September 24, 1826. At part of 1882, he went to Kewanee, 111., where an early age he became a railroad engineer, he remained seven months, returning to and was employed on the Ogdensburg and Bethel at the end of that time, and purchas- Lake Champlain railroad for several years, run on the Central Ver- ing the hardware business of J. G. Fassett, having previously which he still carries on. mont railroad. In 1859 he moved to New ; :

York city, where he engaged in business for Jason Chadwick now resides in Bethel, about eiglit years, when he came to Bethel where he foUows his trade as a carpenter and and here became interested in mercantile builder. trade, which he continued until 1876. He then engaged in monumental business, which SOPER. he carried on until his death, which occurred Almon Alonzo Soper, s.on of Jesse and August 31, 1894. Mr. Sturtevant was a Betsy (Hutft) Soper, was born in Brandon, member of White River Lodge, No. 90, F. Vt., September 22, 1828. After a common and A. M. He was a republican, and was school education, he began the blacksmith elected by that party to represent the town trade in Brandon, and he remained there five of Bethel in 1876, besides holding several years. His parents lived in Leicester and town offices. Middlebury when he was a boy, but after- On October 24, 1849, Mr. Sturtevant was wards returned to Brandon. Mr. Soper married to Sarah A. Gilson, who survives came to Bethel in 1856, and opened a black- him, and now resides on River street in smith shop in the village, but four years later Bethel village. moved to his present location on the Gays-

ville road. On June 6, 1858, he was married CHADWICK. to Elizabeth M., daughter of Samuel and

Samuel Chadwick came to Vermont from Electa (Buckman) Woodbury, and they

have children, viz : Clinton, born Octo- Falmouth, Mass., about 18 14, and located at three Randolph, where he married Polly Miles, a ber 13, 1859, married Mabel Cox of National native of Claremont, N. H. They raised a City, California, January 3, 1893, and their son, Fred, was born July 28, 1894. Florence, family of seven children, viz ; Catherine, Annah, Lucien, Maria, Francis, Jason and born August 19, 1866, is a school teacher, Sarah. and now resides with her parents; Robert attending Lucien came to Bethel in 1849, *"d was W., born January 7, 1880, now twice married. His first wife, Louisa San- school at Bethel. ders, died in 1872, leaving three children, Mr. Soper has never been identified with Laura, Elizabeth and Mary, He married politics, devoting his whole time to his Saphronia Pember of Randolph, who died in business, and for thirty-five years has been Randolph in 1894. Lucien Chadwick died located in this present shop, where he has in Bethel in 1893. Francis Chadwick, a established and carries on a successful trade. younger brother of Lucien, came to Bethel in 1849, where he married Abbie Fiynn. They CURTIS. moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he now Asa Curtis, born January 31, 1782, came resides. to Bethel in 1800, and here he married Lucy

Jason Chadwick, born in Randolph, No- Fish, December j, 1805, who bore twelve vember 30, 1832, came to Bethel in 1851, children, five of whom are living, viz where he married Sarah Bennett, who bore Amanda, Ellis, Abigail, Chastina, and

him nine children, viz : Lucien, born August Charles W. Asa Curtis died in 1865. 26, 1856, died October 4, 1889; Henry, born Amanda Curtis, born May 28, 1807, mar- in Hancock, May ri, 1859, married Ida ried Thwing Buckman, who died, and his Haskins, and they reside in St. Albans widow now lives in Windsor, Vt. Belle, born in Bethel February 18, 1862, Ellis Curtis, born May 26, 1813, married married Frank Beckman, and they now re- Eliza A. Richardson, and their children were

side in Gardiner, Mass. ; Adelle, born in Andrew J. and William. Stockbridge, May 16, 1864, died August 27, Abigail Curtis, born May 29, 1815, mar 1865; Alice, born in Bethel August i, 1867, ried Edmund Chadwick and they had cne married Charles Allen, and they reside in son, Frank Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick died,

Bethel Jessie, born in Bethel May i, his lives with her son, in ; 1870; and widow now Freddie, born July 21, 1872, died November Randolph.

4, 1876; Harry, born in Bethel July 6, 1874: Chastina Curtis, born October 7, 1819. arid" Annah, born July 16, 1879. married Orvis Terry, who died leaving six 89 children, viz: Eliza A., Alma, Ella, Marion, Henry A. Fairbanks in 1870. He continued Fred and Sarah. Chastina (Curtis) Terry in the same shop under Mr. Fairbanks, Hor- now resides in Randolph, Vt. ton & McCuUoch and George Wallace, and

Charles W. Curtis, born March 7, 1824, on March 5, 1875, he started in business for married Ellen Buckman, who died August himself, which he still carries on. At the 29, 1893, feaving^ three children, viz: Adel- call for men in the beginning of the Civil bert, born November 11, 1855, ^^'^d February War, Mr. Chadwick enlisted in Company F.,

7, 1858; Carrie A., born April 3, i860, now 1 2th Vermont Volunteers, serving nine assistant principal in the graded schools at months,. and was mustered out in July, 1863. Lancaster, N. H.; Nettie B., born February He is a Charter member of White River

4, 1863, now Mrs. Charles Davis. Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M.

Charles W. Curtis is now a successful He was married May 2, 1869, to Ellen farmer about one mile north of Bethel village Blake of Bethel, and their only son, Lynn on the Randolph road. In politics he is a T., was born June 2, 1873. Republican, and has held several town offices in Bethel. WHITCOMB. Albert Whitcomb, son of Branch and STEARNS. Olivia (Baker) Whitcomb, wns born in Stock-

Charles Curtis Stearns, was born at Straf- ford, Vt., October 2, 1829. He enlisted in Company E, First Vermont Volunteers, in 1862, serving three months. This company was organized at Northfield, and was the first regiment out of Vermont. In 1867 he came to Bethel, where he was employed as station agent by the Central Vermont Railroad and continued in that position for fourteen years. He was a member of White River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M.; also a member of the Episcopal Church of Bethel, in which he served as warden for several years. Mr. Stearns was married twice. His first wife, Helen M. Shaw, to whom he was married

April 29, 1856, died . Their only son, William G. Stearns, born July i, 1857, married Helen Pease of Hartford, and their children are Allen P., Charles N., and Helen A.

Mr. Stearns was married March 19, 1862, to Adelaide R. Blodgett, at Randolph Cen- ter, and died in Bethel September 5, 1881. ALBERT WHITCOMB. Their two children were Charles B., born

June 28, 1865, and died March 4, 1887 ; and bridge, Vt., December 2, 1815. Although August 1870. Mrs. Stearns Mary A., born 24, he received only a common school education, daughter now reside m Bethel village. and her he spent much of his spare lime in reading

and study, His early life was spent on a CHADWICK. farm, and \vith his brother he purchased a Theodore A. Chadwick, born July 28, part of the old farm, over which a debt was 1845, came to Bethel from Braintree, Vt., in standing, earning the money to pay for the December, 1863. He was first employed by same by working out, the greater part of the business, being done at night. His first invest- J. D. Gushing in the harness and work worked for him until he sold his business to ment in the way of speculation, was the go purchase of a calf, which he raised to a cow, Mr. Wheeler married March i;, 1843, and afterward let out, thus laying the foun- Jane E. Woodbury of Bethel, and they re- dation of his large fortune. He moved to side in Bethel on Main street. Their child-

Bethel, where he died January 7, 1890, leav- ren were Wilbur G., born September 23, ing large bequests to public chanties. The 1844, died October 25, 1862: Charles M. High School at Bethel, which bears his born June 17, 1846, died February 3, 1866; name, was remembered with thirty thousand Ella E., born June 23, 1848, died February dollars, and twenty thousand was bequeathed 26, 1867; Orren, born January 16, 1852, died to the town of Stockbridge, to be paid after March 12, 1866; Frank, born June 30, 1858, his sister, Mrs. Nancy Houghton has the died February 11, 1859. use of it through her life. Mr. Whitcomb was a member of the Builington Commandery LINCOLN. of Knight Templars. Spencer Lincoln, son of Abijah and He married Miss Etta Northup of Fair- -(French) Lincoln, was born in West- field, Vt., who died December 18, 1885, moreland, N. H., April II, 1803. His par- leaving no issue. ents died when he was only five years old, and he came to Bethel to live with an uncle

WHEELER. at what is called South Limpus. Here he Minot Wheeler, born in Hollis, N. H., in grew to maturity, and here he received a 1777, was one of the early settlers in Bethel, common school education. He worked on coming here in the beginning of this century. the farm with his uncle for several years after He married Sarah Farley, who bore him ten reaching his= majority, and afterwards bought children. the Gilson farm on the Gaysville road, now- The children of Minot and Sarah (Farley) owned by L. A. Rood, where he remained Wheeler, were, (1) Sarah, born in Hollis, for several years. He did a large business N. H., June, 1800, and died 1801. (2) Sa- here, and carried on an extensive dairy. He rah, born in Hollis, N. H., April ig, 1802, decided to give up farming and moved to the died August 18, 1804. (3) Royal, born at village, where he bought the house in which Royalton, Vt., July 4, 1804, died January 20, Mrs. Lincoln now lives, then in process of i86g, unmarried. (4) Rebecca, born in construction. After he settled in the village Hollis, N. H., October 10, 1806, married he was engaged at carpenter work for several Joel Day, and died October 25, 1893. (5) years, but finally gave that up on account of

Mary Ann, born at Royalton, December 25, ill health. He died in Bethel November ig, 1808, married John Wallace and died January 1881.

25, 1880. (6) Susan, born August 11, 1810, On May 4, 1834, he married Eunice R. died March 25, 1816. (7) George, born Warren of Charleston, Vt., who survives him. February 15, 1812, died June 29, 1816. (8) Their children were Adeliza H., born Jan-

Minot, born February 5, 1814, married Sarah uary 21, 1839, died at five years of age ; Gil-

Page, and died February S, 1882. (9) bert, born June 16, 1840, was drowned in the George, horn April i6, 1821, married Emma Connecticut River at Norwich, Vt., August

Locke, and died April 12, 1873. (10) 2, 1862; Albert, born December 18, 1842, Gardner Wheeler, born January 26, 1824, married Martha Connell, and their daughter. his father in began life as a farmer with Lola, was born October 23, 1881 ; Ella M., Bethel, and followed that Tme of business born September 21, 1850, now resides with until 1866, when he sold his farm, moved to her mother, and is unmarried. the village and bought the place where he now resides. In connection with his farm- FISHER. ing he was a cooper, and continued in this Edwin Fisher, son of Marcus C, and line until 1889, when he was obliged to give Fanny (Hall) Fisher was born in Cabot up active work on account of poor health. Vt., June 15, 1825. He fitted for college in He was a musician during his younger days, the school at Danville, but did not continue and for fourteen years played in a local or- his school work, but returned to Cabot, where chestra during the winter months. he learned the trade of tanning with his 91 father. He continued in this line of business Christian Hiil, now owned and occupied by until 1869, his father having died, and for Anson Marsh. Ten children were born to several years he carried on the business them, viz: Osmand, Pardon, Fanny, Thora. alone. At the close of his work in Cabot, Mary, Nancy, Sabrina, Reuben, James and he came to Bethel, where he became inter- Harrison. ested in the tannery of E. T. Bugbee & Co., (i) Osmand married Polly Perham, and and for one year was a partner in that firm. their five children were Alonzo, George, He later carried on business alone, dealing Laura, Frederick and Eugene. in leather findings. This he followed four Alonzo married Ursula Burt, and their years, and in he was chosen postmaster 1875, five children were Frederick, Ida, Hattie, that office for ten years. Mr. Fisher holding George and Emma. Of this family, Hattie is a member of White River Lodge, No. 90, married Charles Coy, and Ida married Mon- F. and A. M. roe Kendall. (See Kendall Sketch.) He has been a deacon in the Congrega- George Brooks, son of Osmand Brooks, tional Church at Cabot, and has also served married Betsy Corey, who was the mother of in that office in the Congregational Church five children, viz : Birdsell, Elizabeth, Will, at Bethel. He was elected by the Republi- Eugene and Celia. Bird.sell is now a carpen- can party to represent Cabot in the legisla- ter and builder in Bethel village; Will is a ture of 1863 and 1864, and was representa- farmer, and resides on Christian Hill; Eliza- tive of the town of Bethel in 1886. beth married Albion Spices, and their home He has been twice married. On May 17, is at Greenfield, Mass.; Eugene and Celia 1848, he married Mary L. Collins of Dan- both reside in Bethel unmarried. ville, who died July 17, 1863, leaving three Laura Brooks, daughter of Ormand, mar- children, viz: a son, born February 13, 1853, ried Daniel Clough. (See Clough Sketch.) died in infancy; Francis H., born September (2) Pardon Brooks married Lavinia Lillie 17, 1854, married Lizzie Green of Burlington, of Bethel. They moved West where four and of their five children, three are living, children were born to them, viz: Fannie, viz: Wilson H., Louis, and Florence. George, Albert and Hattie. His widow now Kate C. Fisher, born March 4, 1858, mar- resides in Independence, Iowa. ried January I, 1878, Herman H. Dewey of Plainfield, Vt. They have one son, Ralph (3) Fanny Brooks, daughter of Reuben Dewey. and Annie (Terry) Brooks, married John Edwin Fisher married Emiline N. Putnam Perham. 1864, and they have of Cabot, Vt., May 4, (4) Thora went West where she married had four children, viz: Edwin P., born and resided until her death. November 10, 1867, married Annis Dickey, (5) Mary'married Eleazer Burt. January 25, 1894, and they have one daugh- (6) Nancy married Timothy Richardson. ter, RuthE., born August 18, 1895. William Sabrina married Walker. M., born November 8, 1869, married Lucy (7) Dunbar of Hartland, Vt., March 24, 1892. (8) Reuben Brooks, born July 18, 1803, Their only son, Allen D., born July 20, 1893, married Philena Burt of Walpole, N. H. were born of this marriage, died July 3, 1894. William M, Fisher is Four children resides now in the employ of the United States Pos- viz: Mary, born May 26, 1842, now tal Service, traveling between Springfield, in Bethel, unmarried; Helen, born August Mass., and Newport, Vt. Fanny M. Fisher, 31, 1845, married Aaron Davis of Bethel, and born October 23, 187 1, married H. K. Wing died September 8, 1886 ; Walter, born Sep- of Boston, July 10, 1894, and died November tember 26, 1847, died April 5, 1893. Jennie, 24, 1894. born March 26, 1850, married Lewis S. BROOKS. Bird of Bethel. (See Bird Sketch.) Reu- ben Brooks died January 6, 1878, and his Reuben Brooks and his wife, Annie wife died September 8, 1889. (Terry) Brooks, were among the first fam- Brooks married Irene Reed of ilies to locate in Bethel when this town was (9) James West. almost a wilderness, and settled on a farm on Bethel, and they moved to the 92

(lo) Harrison Brooks moved West when Mrs. Alonzo Bird died January 6, 1891, he was eighteen years old, married, and and Mr. Bird married Mrs. Flint of Chester, raised a family of children. His home is Vt.,and they now reside in Lilyvillein Bethel now at Fort Wayne, Indiana. township.

BIRD. KIMBALL. Kimball, two John Bird was a pioneer in the town of Richard Kimball and Henry Bethel, and many of his decedents reside brothers, were probably the ancestors of most in this vicinity. His children were Thomas, of the numerous families of the name of Kim- Hannah, Sarah, Abigail and Alonzo B. and ball in New England. Buzzell (twins). On the loth of April, 1634, O, S., they em- (i) Thomas Bird never resided in this barked at Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, vicinity after his boyhood, having moved to Old England, in the ship Elizabeth, William Canada when eighteen years old. Andrews, Master, for Massachusetts, and landed at Ipswich, in New England. Rich- (2) Hannah Bird married Joshua Bates of Natick, Mass., and they afterwards resided ard first settled in Watertown, but soon after at that place. removed to Ipswich, where it is recorded February 23, 1637-38, that he was granted (3) Sarah Bird married Stone, and by the town "a house lot next adjoining to they moved to Michigan. Goodman Simmonds at the west end of ye Abigail Bird married Nott, and (4) town." There came with him his wife, Ur- moved to Ware, Mass. They returned to sula (Scott) Kimball and seven children. Vermont, locating at Brandon, where she Richard Kimball, son of Capt. John and died. Jerusha (Mecham) Kimtiall, the seventh (5) Buzzell, born May 13, 1819, married generation decended from the above Rich- Cordelia Bryant, they to Stock- and moved ard, born in Pomfret, Conn., August 21, bridge, Vt. 1762, and his wife, Susanna (Holden) settled (6) Alonzo Bird, born May 13, i8ig, in Randolph, having bought the farm about married Sarah- Bugbee, who bore him eight one mile north of Randolph post office,

children, as follows : Lorenzo, born Decem- owned since 1837 by Luther Granger, of

, Ca- ber 15, 1842, died February — 1893. James Tarbox, November 1, 1796, where he lista, born June 20, 1843, married Perley lived until his death, November 23, 1828. Blanchard, and they now reside in Rutland. They had fourteen children, nine of , whom Lewis Bird, born May 18, 1846, married died in infancy, the oldest being less than Jennie Brooks, March 25, 1872. They had six years. Those reaching mature age were

three children, viz : Blanche L., born Sep- John Holden Kimball, born May 1, 1796,

tember 19, 1873, died January 1, 1895; Jessie and died August 5, 1875, at West Randolph, M., born February 26, 187 J, died May 18, Vt. Hiratp Kimball, born December 18, 1895; and Robert B., born July 25, 1886, now 1803, and died April 23, 1865, at West Ran- attending school in Bethel. Mr. Bird now dolph, Vermont; Lloyd Kimball, born October resides in Bethel village. 16, 1805, and died March 21, 1865, ^t Mc- Ellen, born April it, 1849, married Mer- Indoes Falls, Vt,; Aveline (Kimball) Beers, ritt Brink, and they are now residents of born July 23, 1807, and died May 5, 1887, at

Bethel. Syracuse, N. Y. ; Melora Kimball Hobart,

Lorette, born June 22, 1850, married born May 6, 1810, and died November 19, Charles Wright. 1S84, at Vineland, N.J.

Addie, born December 15, 1852, married John Holden Kimball married June 11, M. H. Boynton. 1828, Katherjne Williams, who was born at Plainfield, N. H., and died in Vineland, N. Julia, born — — , 1854, married Charles Cutler and they live in Bethel village. J., January 7, 1878. Their children were: Waller, born ^, 1856, died when (i) Susan, born in Marshfield, November ten months old. 14, 1820, married Norman W. Healey March 93

I, 1848, and died at Vineland, N. J., Novem- Vermont Volunteers, from which he was dis- ber 6, 1887, leaving two children, viz: Carl- charged in December, 1862. He returned to ton K., born at Bridgewater, September 23, Vermont, and for a short time attended the 1858, and Evelyn Heaiey, born at Hartland, Orange County Grammar School, then lo- Vt., October 14, 1849. cated at Randolph Center. In 1863 he went to Philadelphia; where he spent the next five (2) Sarah, born in Randolph, Vt., October years in the employ of his brother of the firm 13, 1 83 1, and died at Gaysville, October 14, of H. A. Kimball & Co., manufacturers of 1852. artificial limbs. After his return to Ver- (3) Emily W., born at Bethel, Vt., Aug- mont he o*ned and carried on a grocery ust i, 1835, and died at Gaysville, May 7, business in Randolph, where he remained 1873- until after the death of his fatherand mother, (4) Hiram A., born in Stockbridge, Oct, and in 1875, clcsed out his business inter- married I, 1837, Caroline Wainwright, Janu- ests and accepted a position in the employ of his brother, E. B. Kimball, in a general merchandise store at Gaysville, in the town of Stockbridge. He remained here until 1S90, when he purchased the grocery and meat business at Bethel owned by E. A. Burnett, and has since conducted the same. He is a member of Daniel Liilie Post, No. 61, G. A.

R., and is a Colonel on the Staff of Depart- ment Commander B. Cannon.

. On November 16, 1865, he was married to

Elizabeth M. Oliver, of Burlington, N. J.,

and they have eight children, viz : Emily C, born November 16, 1867, married George Wyman, December 26, 1889, and their

daughter Alice was born February 9, 1892. Kate O., born March 23, 1870, married

W. E. Webster, December 5, 1893; John S., born June 6, 1872, married Grace Moreland,

October 3, 1894; Anne F., born June 25, 1876; Mary E., born March 28, 1879; Lizzie

O., born October 25, 1880 ; Robert H., born

August 19, 1886; George E., born December GEORGE H. KIMBALL. 7, 1888, (7) Hannah Ella, born August 21, 1847, ary 17, 1865, and died at Vineland, N. J., married C. W. A. Putnam, August 21, 1865, 16, February 1890. and died at Vineland, N. J., July 26, 1880,

(5) Elburt B., born in Stockbridge,Novein- leaving two children, viz : George K. Putnam, ber I, 1839, marned Ursula Lazelle, October born at Randolph, August 8, 1865, and 24, 1862, and they now reside in Burlington, Edward H.., born November 27, 1868. Vt. Their two children are Frederick E., born at Stockbridge, August 19, 1869, and CADY. Clara L., born July 16, 1876, died at Gays- Samuel C. Cady, son of Chester and Betsey ville, April 30, 1885. (Stevens) Cady was born at Barnard, Aug- seventeen, (6) George H. Kimball, son of John H., ust 30, 1830. At the age of he and Catherine (Williams) Kimball, was born went to Troy, N. Y., where he learned the in Stockbridge, Vt., April 23, 1843. At the trade of harness-making, remaining three close of his public school studies the civil years; he then went to Albany, working at war broke out, and Mr. Kimball, then a lad his trade there for Seven years. He returned ot eighteen, enlisted and served in Co. C, 6th to his native place in 1857, and opened a 94 harness 'store on his own account, and for nine years, moving to South Royaltpn at end nearly seventeen years did an extensive busi- of that time." Here he remained six years, ness. In 1875, ^^- Cady came to Bethel and came to Bethel in 1870, and carried on and opened a harness business in the build- the drug business in this place for twenty- ing now used as a grist and saw mill on Main three years. This business he sold to J. T. street, and moved to his present location in Sisco & Son in July, 1894, and has not been the Arnold Block in 1891. He is a member in active business since that time. of the White River Lodge, No. 90, F. and While in Royalton, Mr. Maxham was A. M., and also of the Whitney R. A. Chap- Superintendent of Schools for two years, and ter, No. 7, at Randolph. Mr. Cady was he was chosen by the citizens of Bethel to married in Albany, N. Y., July 29, 1852, to represent them in the General Assembly at Miss Eliza A. Hood, who died October 24, Montpelier in 1882. He was married Octo-

1858, leaving one daughter, Annie W., born ber 21, 1S57, to" Ella E. Dow, and their son

June 25, 1853, who married George I. Ab- Frank Maxham, was born in Bethel, Decem- bott of Stockbridge, June 10, 1879, and they ber 19, i860. have three children; Samuel Lee, born No- vember 4, 1882; Mary Lucy, born April 13, BULLARD. 1885, and George L born April 21, 1892. Jr., Oliver BUDard, born in New Hampshire, Mr. Cady was married to Angela W. Wood married Abigail Gay of Stockbridge, Vt., of Barnard, August 21, 1859, who died May and they had nine children, one of whom 6, 1875, leaving one son, A. Lee, born Feb- died in infancy. The others were Luther; ruary 8, i868. On September 7, 1879, Mr. Mumford, a Methodist minister, died in Cady was married to Laura French of J. Northern Vermont; Andes, a Methodist min- Barnard, and their only daughter, Maud E., ister, died in Randolph, Vt., October 12, was born September 17, 1882. 1889; Abigail (deceased) married Abijah A. Lee Cady, son of Samuel C. and Angela Twitchell; Betsy, (deceased>. married John (Wood) Cady, was a, student at West Ran- Baker; Fanny, (deceased) married Mark dolph High School, after completing his Chamberlin; Azuba (deceased) married studies in the schools of Bethel, and after Ephraim Twitchell. Luther Bullard, born wSrking for a short time as clerk in the gro- in Francistown, N. H., January 5, 1801, cery store of M. A. Moody, he entered the married Nancy Greenleaf, who was born in service of G. N. Tapper in the hardware Lancaster, Mass., in 1805. They had eight business, and has since been in his employ.

children : Paraclia resides in Bethel; Pen- He is interested with his father in the har- field; Oliver, died in Bethel; Christina, (de- ness business, and the firm name is Samuel ceased) married Andes Twitchell; Martha, C. Cady & Son. He is a member of White (deceased) married Moses Dustin; Calvin, River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M. died in Bethel; Frank, now living in Stock- On June 5, 1894, he was married to Lillian bridge; and Nancy, wife of Christopher R. C. Martin, daughter of Frank L., and Lena Noble of Bethel, (Campbell) Martin of Bethel. MAXHAM. PARKER. Edgar W. Maxham, son of William and Joseph Parker, a native of Braintree, Mass., Amanda (Abbott) Maxham, was born in came to Bethel, moving from here to Brain- Quechee, Vt., January 21, 1833. After com- tree, Vt., where he died. His children were pleting his studies in the common schools Joseph, Abraham, Nathan, Enos, John, and the academy at West Randolph, he en- Stephen, Lemuel, Ephraim, and two daugh- tered the service of Skinner & Blodgett, as ters, one of whom married a Goodno, and clerk in their general merchandise store at the other a Lewis. Nathan Parker, born in Rovalton. Two years later he left the store Braintree, Mass., April 4, 1787, died May 26, and attended the academy at South Royal- 1864. He was married three times. His ton. He started in the drug business at first wife was Lucinia Razie. His second Roya;ton in 1855, which he carried on for wife, Bethiah Jackson, nee Peck, bore him ,

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four children, viz : John, Lucinia, Mary and and here he completed his education in the Nathan. His third wife, Polly Janes, left public schools. He remained in Champlain one son, George, now a resident of Royal- ten years and then returned to Roxham, and ton, Vt. Nathan Parker, son of Nathan, from there to Hemmingford, Canada, where was born in Bethel, October 20, 1820, and he carried on the drug business for a period married Mary L. Bliss, who died January 19, of about ten years. He came to Bethel, Vt., leaving two children, Amma Lida, now Mrs. in October, 1888, and purchased the drug Myron Morse, and Sophia Rebecca, widow store then owned and carried on by Greene of Frank W. Harding, and now residing in & Chase, and still carries on same. Mr. Royalton, Vt. Mr. Parker carried on farm- Miller has always been an earnest worker in ing all his life, and for over fifty years re- religious affairs, and his interests are now sided on one farm in Bethel. He has served with the Congregational Church at Bethel. the town as lister, and has been selectman He has been twice married. His first for six consecutive years. He died in Bethel. wife, Amelia E. Hammond, to whom he was married May 20, 1868, was the mother of

O'CONNELL. four children, viz: J. Wesley, born in Rox- Peter M. O'Connell was born June 21, ham, March 3c, 1869. now in business with 1829, at Balleyshire, Ireland. He attended his father at Bethel; Annie L, born June 9, the village schools until he was fourteen 1872, now teaching i^chool; Julia B., born years old, when he began an apprenticeship November 21, 1879; ^"'^ Emma M., born with his brother at the wheelwright trade, May 14, 1884. Mrs. Miller died September and continued in that place for five years. 6, 1884, and on September 24, 1885, Mr. On August II, 1848, he sailed from the city Miller married Chastina M. Norton. of Limerick for America on a sailing vessel, landing at Quebec September 18, 1848. He BAKER. went from that place to Randolph, Vt , where Wesley F. Baker was born in Vergennes, was living at that time. an older brother Vt., February 10, 1843. When he was four first six months he worked on the farm The years old, his parents moved to Ripton, Vt of Solomon Hobart, and afterwards was em- and here he received a common school edu- ployed on the farm of Joel Mann for a short cation, leaving school when only thirteen time. He did carpenter work for Monroe years old to accept a position in a machine Colburn and later entered the carriage shop shop at the' latter place. Three ye rs later of Samuel Howard, remaining in that place he came to Bethel where he was engaged in five years. He came to Bethel in 1858 and farming the following two years. He en- commenced work in the shop of Irvin Wes- in i86j in Company A, Sixteenth Ver- ton at carriage making, living in his family listed Volunteers, serving nine months, re- until May i, 1868, when he was married to mont Joanna Keily of Randolph. Mr. Weston turning to Jiethel at the end of that time. in K, was succeeded at his death in 1875, by his One year later he re-enlisted Company son Ephraim Weston, Mr. O'Connell having Seventeenth Vermont Volunteers with the close of been in his employ up to the present time. rank of Sergeant, .served until the Two children have been born to Peter and the war, and was mustered out August 23, Joanna (Keily) O'Connell, viz: Mary, born 1865. After he returned to Bethel he en- in farrning until 1889, when he began February 14, 1869, now Mrs. John Rourke of gaged Somerville, Mass., and Josephine, born May carpentering, a trade he h,id followed to some extent when a small boy, his father having 3, 1870, now Mrs. Edward A. Davis of builder. Bethel. been a carpenter and On January 27, 1867 he was married to MILLER. Sarah Neff, who bore him one son, Walter the Central George M. Miller was born in Roxham, H. Baker, now in the employ of at Bethel. Mr. Canada, August 16,- 1843. Before reaching Vermont Railroad Company Church street in Bethel his majority he was employed as a clerk in Baker now resides on the clothing business at Champlain, N. Y., village. 96

WRIGHT. part of the village, and did a successful grist and lumber business. Two years later they WiLLiAJi Wright, son of John and Mary bought this property and their busines was (Huntoon) Wright, was born in Hanover, carried on under the firm name of Wright N. H., February i6. 1832. He received a & Reed. In 1894, Mr. Reed sold his inter- public school education, and was employed est in the business and the firm name was in a grist mill in Etna during his early man- changed to Wright & Gushing, Mr. C. D. hood. He bought the grist mill at Lebanon Gushing being the junior member of the in 1862 and carried it on for several years, firm. Mr. Wright died of pneumonia March doing a successful business. Several years 16, 1895, after a brief illness. after, he sold his milling property and He was a member of Franklin Lodge No. became interested as a partner in the 6, F. and ^. M., and of Mascoma Lodge, Sturtevant Manufacturing Company, and for No. 20, I. O. O. F. He was not a member eighteen years was a member of this firm, but a constant attendant of the Methodist iMr. Wright traveling in the interests of the Ghurch and a liberal contributor to that cause. Mr. Wright was married October 10, 1851,

to Sarah J Corey of Hanover, N. H., and their only daughter, Mary E., was born April 26, 1865. On December 22, 1886, she was married to Clarence W. Reed, and they had two children, only one of whom is liv-

ing, viz : Florence W., born August 19, 1888; and Ikey May, born June 11, 1894, and died February 25, 1895. Mr. Reed is now in business in Enfield, N. H., and there Mrs. Wright makes her home,

WASHBURN.

Seth M. Washburn, son of Levi and Pru- dentia (Flint) Washburn, was born in Ran-

dolph, May 23, 1849. His education was be- gun in the common schools of Randolph, and he was graduated from the Normal School at Randolph Center in the class of 1868. After completing his studies he taught school for several seasons, and in 1874 he accepted a position in the Alaska Commer- WILLIAM WRIGHT. cial Company, at Alaska, and there he was located four seasons, returning to Vermont business the greater part of that time. This in 1877. He settled in Bethel and purchased company manufactured sash, doors, blinds, the interest of George A. Montgomery in and furniture, and their goods were sold in the firm of Brooks & Montgomery, and the most all parts of the United States. When business has since been conducted under the Mr. Wright closed his labors in this concern, firm name of Brooks & Washburn. Mr. his health was much impaired, but he im- Washburn was married May 22, 1878. to proved and gained in strength, although he Kate S. Brooks, of Bethel, and their four never had his former vigor and health again. children are : Mary A., born February 15, interested in the firm He was of Mead, Ma- 1879; Lucy J., born July 23, 1884; Ben M., son & Co., for a number of years, and came born June I, 1886, and Albert B., born Janu- to Bethel in i888, where, in company with ary 24, 1891. his son-in-law, C. W. Reed, he leased the Mr. Washburn is a stock-holder and a mill property of Hiram Gilson in the north director in the Bethel Shoe Company. 97

IWALDO. KENDALL.

Joseph H. Waldo, son of J. W. Waldo, Monroe N^ Kendall is the son of Allen C. 2d, and Nettie (Woodworth) Waldo, was and Diantha (Newton) Kendall, and he was born in Royalton, Vt., October 15, 1864. the oldest in a family of nine children, five of He attended the public schools and the Koy- whom are now living. The children of Allen C. and Diantha (Newton) Kendall were Monroe N., Albert A.;. Abbie- D., Mary Frances and Martha, (twins), Minerva A., Lillian S., Jennie C, and Frank L.

Monroe N. Kendall was born in Barn- ard, Vt., November 23, 1843, and during his boyhood worked on the farm with his father, attending the public schools of that place. He was nineteen years old when the Civil War broke out, and he enlisted in Company

G, i6th Vt. Volunteers, September 4, 1862, serving under Capt. Harvey N. Bruce. His regiment saw considerable active service, and he was present and took part in the battle of Gettysburgh. He was discharged from service August 10, 1S63, his time having ex- pired, and he then returned to Bethel. Shortly after he began work at freight team-

JOSEPH WALDO. alton Academy, and completed his education in the graded school at West Randolph. He was first employed in the office of the Central Vermont railroad at South Royalton, but cafne to Bethel shortly after and was tele- graph operator of the Bethel office for a period of three years. He was then promot- ed to agent, and stationed again at Royalton, but after three months service in that place he was transferred to Bethel, and has been agent of the Central Vermont at this station since December, 1890. Since his connection with Bethel he has been interested in real estate, and has built several houses which he now owns. He is a member of the Rising Sun Lodge, No. 7, F. and A. M., at South Royalton, of the Ran- N. KENDALL. dolph Lodge, No. 48, L O. O. F„ and of the MONROE Patriarch's Militant, at White River Junction. Mr. Waldo was married October 24, 1888, ing which he followed eighteen years, leaving to Fannie A. Flowers, of Sharon, and they this to carry on the meat business in which have one daughter, Mabel G., born April 14, he is still interested. Mr. Kendall is a i8qo. member of the G. A. R., is Past Commander 98 of Daniel Lillie Post, and has served as Vt. On his return from school, he entered Officer of the Day for the past five years. the employ of F. F. Washburn, at Roches- He was married September2o, 1865, to Ida ter, remaining there four years. Incompany_ L. Brooks, of Bethel, a daughter of Alonzo with W.H. Campbell he started in the hard-, D. and Ursula S. (Burt) Brooks, born in ware business, and for four years the busi-

Eden, Peoria County, 111., September 12, ness was carried on under the firm name of 1847. Of their four children three are now Martin & Campbell. At the end of this time living. The children of Monroe and Ida he sold to Mr. Campbell his interest in the (Brooks) Kendall were Jennie M., born business, came to Bethel and entered into February 16, 1867, now living with her partnership with George H. Tupper in the parents ; Kate M., born February 10, 1869, hardware business, the firm name being married February 14, 1894, John II. Miller, Tupper & Martin. He sold his interest to proprietor of an art store in Springfield, Mr. Tupper in 1889, having been appointed

Mass. ; Frank M., born February 28, 1871, postmaster by President Harrison. At the now in the meat business with his father, and close of his term of office, he entered into the

Fred B., born November 19, 1876, died grocery business at his present location, February 18, 1882. carrying a line of general merchandise. Mr. Martin was married 20, (2) Albert A. Kendall, born February 8, May 1871, to Miss Lena Campbell, 1845, married Sarah L. Collins, a native of of Rochester, Vt., and their only daughter, Lillian was Royalton, Vt., August i, 1874, and they re- C, born side in Stowe, Vt. October 24, 1873, and on June 5, 1894, she was married to Lee A. Cady, of Bethel. (See (3) Abbie D. Kendall, born August 18, Cady sketch.) 1847, married O.J. Wood, of Barnard, and and they children, Mabel and have two ROGERS. Allen C. Edward C. Rogers, son of Robert H. and (4) Mary Frances Kendall, born October Abigail (Allen) Rogers, was born in Orwell, 27, 1849, died October 9, 1875. Vt., January 4, 1841. He received a common (5) Martha Kendall, born October 27, school education, and was first employed in a 1849, died December — , 1869. cabinet shop at Ciota, N. Y., where he re- (6) Minerva A. Kendall, born January 19, mained until he was seventeen years old. 185 1, married William Andrews, of Hines- He than began farming which he followed burgh, Vt., May i, 1889, and they reside in until 1861, when at the call for soldiers he Hinesburgh, Vt. enlisted in Company F, 5th Vermont Volun-

(7) Lillian S. Kendall, born March 28, teers, and was mustered in August 4, 1861. 1853, married Edward Gilson, of Barnard, He served until the close of the war and was Vt., and they have no children. mustered out June 29, 1865, having partici- pated in nearly a hundred battles. (8) Jennie C. Kendall, born October 30, He re- turned to Orwell, Vt., 1855, died 1863. and remained there until 1877, when he went to Michigan, and (9) Frank L. Kendall, born April 14, 1857, for thirteen years was a farmer in Mecosta died 1863. county in that State. He returned to Ver- Diantha (Newton) Kendall died December mont in 1890, settled at Shoreham, moving 10, 1862, at the age of forty- four, and Allen to Middlebury three years later. He came C. Kendall now lives in Bridgewater, at the to Bethel in 1894, and is a partner in the age of seventy-five. grocery firm of Smith & Rogers. He is a Republican in politics, and has been a mem- MARTIN. ber of Post French, No. 28, G. A. R., since Frank Leslie Martin, son of Shuman B. 1879. On April 24, 1868, he married Nellie and Emeline (Claflin) Martin, was born at B. Smith, who was born at Mooers, N. Y., Hancock, Vt., May 21, 1852. He attended October 21, 1850. Two of their children are the public schools of Hancock, and took a living, viz: Robert W., born September i, short course at Goddard Seminary, in Barre, 1873, and Willard C, born October 15, 1874. 99

CLOUGH. has a lucrative practice. Dr. Clough is a L. WiLLARD Clough, son of Moses T. and member bf the N. H. Medical Society, Mary 0. (Bean) Clough, was born in Hop- the Center District Medical Society, Bethel kinton, N. H., July 17, 1863 His primary Lodge No. 35, I. O. O. F., White River En- education was obtained in the district schools campmenti No. 19, I. O. O. F., and is Secre- tary of the Board of Examining Surgeons for pensions at Randolph, to which office he was appointed in 1893.

Dr. Clough married Mary Elsie Ballou, of Burlington, Vt., October 20, 1886, and their

children are, Gladys P., born May 4, 1888, and Lee, born November 24, 1893.

STEARNS.

Albert L. Stearns, son of Benjamin H. and Selina(Keflf) Stearns, was born in Rock-

ingham, Vermont, November 6, 1845. He at- tended the public schools, and after complet- ing his studies, began farming with his father, which occupation he followed until 1872, when he came to Bethel. He bought the livery business formerly conducted by Rollin Gurnsey, then located on the land where the

DR. L. W. CLOUGH.

and in his twelfth year he entered Contoocook Academy, taking the Dartmouth College pre- paratory course and graduating therein four years later, just previous to his i6th birthday, the two remaining years he devoted to teach- ing, and in 1881 he entered upon the classic-

al course in the Simonds High School at Warner, N. H., from which he was gradua-

ted in the class of '83. To become a physi- cian had been a constant passion from boy- hood, and after completing the course at Warner, he entered the office of G. P. Conn, M. D., of Concord, N. H., where he began

ihis medical studies. In the spring of 1885

.he entered the medical department of the University of Vermont, taking therein two primary and three regular courses of lectures. He graduated in the class of '87. being one ALBERT L. S'lEARNS. of five to receive a special honor diploma for •excellence in all the departments of study. IJnviU & Washburn store now stands. One Itamediately after graduation he began year later he moved to his present stand practice in Bradford, N. H,, and in the fall wliere he continues to do a large business in of 1891 he removed to Bethel, where he now fine livery teams. lOO

Mr. Stearns was married November 15, First to Alzada Averill, of Mooers, N. Y.,. 1868, to Miss Josephene N. Loomis, of Rox- on October 19, 1880. She died June 23, bury, Vt., and their only son, Roy L., was 1892, leaving one son, Guy, born in Vern- 1884. On born in Betliel, May 24, 1875. dale, Minn., December 10, September 23, 1894, he married Mrs. Hattie Wheeler nee Hatch of Bethel. EDSON. John Haskell Edson, son of Edwin G. and Anna (May) Edson, was born in West

, 1 He attended Randolph Vt. , January 30, 864. the public schools of Randolph, and at the age of twenty-one he entered the employ of L. F. Sparhawk, beginning the trade of photography, which he has since made his line of business. He remained with .Mr. Sparhawk three months, when he accepted a

position in 'the studio of H. H. H, Langill, at Hanover, N. H., where he was employed for nearly four years. He came to Bethel in January, l8§g, and opened a photograph gallery and is still carrying on the same in the Child block. Mr. Edson has gradually improved in workmanship until his photo- graphs now stands with the leading artisfs-

EBER N. SMITH.

SMITH. Eber N. Smith, son of William C. and Mary (Allen) Smith, was born in Mooers, N. Y., August 27, 1854. His parents moved to Nashua, N. H., when he was a small boy, and here he attended the common schools, completing his education in Mooers, N. Y., to which place his parents afterwards re- turned. When he was twenty-one years old he began work as an employee of the Wiscon- sin Central railroad, and later in the employ of the Northern Pacific railroad, following this line of business for a period of eighteen years. He came to Bethel in the spring of

1894, and here he entered into a business partnership with Edward C. Rogers. They purchased the grocery business formerly J. H. EDSON. owned by C. H. Rood, and still carry on the same, located in the Bascom House Block or of this section. Many of the pictures of this- Main street. Mr. Smith is a member of Star book was taken from his photographs. Mr.

Lodge No. 41, I. O. O. F., at Billings, Mont. Edson was married July 2, 1887, to Lillian. He has been twice married. E. Brown, of Bethel, Vt. ADAMS. He was married June 18, 1887, to Fanny R. Scott Adams, son of John Quincy and Chadwick, of Norwich, Vt., and their only Phikna (Roberts) Adams, was born in Pom- son, Robert, was born December 19, i8gi. fret, Vt., January 6, 1861. His educational advantages were limited to the public schools, FISH. Willis L. Fish, son of Leonard and Belinda (Carpenter) Fish, was born in Ira, Vt.,

December 30, 1858. He completed his edu- cation in the select school at Middleton, Vt., and worked on the farm with his father until he was twenty-one years old, when he started out to worker himself He carried on farms on shares at Castleton and Rutland and after- wards went to Hinesburgh, Vt.. where for four years he had charge of a large stock and dairy farm, closing his labors there to come to Bethel and enter the creamery business on an extensive scale. New buildings and machinery were put in by Mrs. Mary E. Harrington, and everything necessary for a thorough equipped creamery were added, and the business carried on under the name of the Harrington Creamery. At the start only a few of the community were patrons of this

R. S. ADAMS.

and at the age of fourteen he was engaged in farming, although he attended school during the winter for several years later. He first worked for H. N. Bruce where he remained eight months, and he was employed in several places at farming until he was nine- teen 3'ears old. He then went to South Acton, Mass., where in the store of L. C. Baldwin he began his trade of jeweler. He moved to Worcester three years later, and there he was employed in the jewelery store

of J. P. Wexler for two years, and he was in tlie store of E. Sagendorph, of Worcester, for one year. In January, 1887, he came to Bethel, taking and carrying on the jewelery business formerly run by L. H. Edson. A gianite quarry has recently been developed in the eastern part of Bethel and Mr. Adams WILLIS L. FISH. has taken an active part in the advancement of the same. A company has been formed enterprise, but by diligent labor and honor- called the R. S. Adams Granite Company, able dealing, Mr. Fish has succeeded in and Mr. Adams now divides his time be- gaining the good will and confidence of the tween these two lines of business. people, and the industry has nearly a hundred patrons on the list at the present time, and by this place, and leased the store on Main the amount of milk handled has increased street now occupied by Frank L. Martin,

fourfold. This industry is now one of the where he opened a large department store. solid business enterprises of Bethel. Mr. Eight months later his health failing, he sold Fish was married February 25, 188;, to Miss his stock to Frank L. Martin, and returned Maria L. Esterbrooke, of North Sherburne, to New Hampshire. In February, 1893, he Vt., and their only daughter, Ruby Hol- returned to Bethel and opened a store in the

land, was born September 14, 1889. southern part of the village, removing to his present location in October, 1895. Mr. Mars- ton has one of the largest variety stores in the State, carrying nearly everything found in a house furnishing store, and a complete line of five, ten and twenty-five cent goods.

Mr. MariSton was married January 15, 1891, to Jennie H. Clark, of Rumney, N. H., and they have one daughter, Maud, born Novem- ber 30, 1891. STOCKWELL.

KiLES Paul Stockwell, .son of James P. and Emily A. (Gleason) Stockwell, was born in Rochester, Vt., October 30, 1870, and after

a complete course in the public schools of his-

C. W. MAKSTON.

MARSTON. Charles W. MakSton, son of Ezpa and Louisa (Flowers) Marston, was born in

Cornish, N. H., March 17, i860. When he was six years old his mother died and his father moved to Warren, N. H., where he lived with his grandparents and attended school for a time. He afterwards attended the Newbury Seminary, and the New Hamp- shire Commercial College, and was graduated from the latter institution in the class of 18S2. For the nine years following his graduation K. P. STOCKWELL. he taught school, filling positions in Rumne)', Orford, Plymouth and Haverhill, and for two native town, he attended the State Normal years was an officer and teacher in the Rhode School at Randolph Center, from which he Island State Industrial School at Cranston. was graduated in January in the class of In 1892, while visiting his sister in Bar- 1892. During his course of study he taught nard, Mr. Marston was attracted to Bethel school a year in Rochester, and at the close by the splendid business outlook offered of his school work, he accepted a position in I03 the general merchandise store of Brooks & JOHNSON. Washburn, at Bethel, remained Vt. He Bent V. Johnson, son of Francis and with them until July, 1894, when he accepted Fanny (Haven) Johnson, was born in Ben- a position as clerk and general manager of son, Vt., Npvember 17, 1877. His parents the mercantile business of the A. W. Jones moved to Brandon, Vt., and he completed estate of Waitsfield, Vt., where he remained his education in the public schools at that one year and came back to Bethel in July, place. At the close of his school work, he 1895. He purchased the drug and variety began work in the store of J. H. Talbot, stoi-e formerly occupied by J. T. Sisco & Son, of Northfield, Vt., learning the tailor's trade. successors to E. A. Maxham, and has re- He first came to Bethel, September i, 1895, fitted stocked it the and the same, making and here he started in business for himseJf best equipped drug store in Bethel, combining as a custom tailor. His store is located on with the same a line of boots and shoes not Main street, in the Wilson House block. surpassed by any stock in town. Mr. Stock-

well was married July 5, 1894, to Emily S. Dickey, of Washington, Vt.

INDEX.

Abbott, L. H., 86 Family History, 46 Adams, (Family History) 66 Fish, Willis L., loi Adams, R. S., loi Fisher, Edwin, - 90 Ainsworth, (Family History) 49 Gay, Paul, 86 Arclier, Samuel, 83 Gilson, (Family History) 66 Arnold, (Family History) 79 Gilson, (Family History; Baker, Wesley F., 95 Gould, (jhester S., 44 Bennett, Rev. John O., 16 Graham, (Family History) 67 Berry, (Family History) S6 Harrington, (Family History) 74 Bethel, History of, I Hatch, (Family History) 57 Bethel Shoe Company, 45 Hibbard; John W., 78 Bethel Tannery, The, n Hunton, (Family History) - 82 Bethel, Town of, 12 Johnson* B. V., 103 Bethel Village, 12 Kendall, Monroe, N., 97 Bird, (Family History) 92 Kimball, (Family History) 92 Blackman, Rev. Virgil W., 21 Bowen, (Family History) 85 Legal Profession, 27 Brooks, (Family History) 62 Arnold, Hon. Fred, 32 Brooks, (Family History) 91 Bliss, William S., 32 Buckman, (Family History) 61 Blodoiett, Dudley Chase, 30 Bullard, (Family History) 94 Blodgett, Luther, 27 Burnett, (Family History) 50 Chase, George, 28 Cady, ( Family History) 93 Converse, Hon. Julius P., 28 Chadwick, (Family History) 71 Dudley, Allen P., 30 Chadwick, (Family History) 88 Gilman, Moulton J., 31 Chadwick, Constantine, 8S Hunton, Hon. Augustus P., 28 Chadwick, Theodore, 89 McWain, Edwin J., 32 Chamberlin, (Family History) 65 Miller, Oliver Hazard Perry, 30 Chamberlin, (Family History) 77 Mills, Mason P., 28 Chase, (Family History) 5° Morgan, Isaac T., - 31 Chase, ( Family History) 69 Newell, James 30 Child, (Family History) 81 Stickney, William B. C, 32 Christ Episcopal Church, 16 Walker, Ronianza, 30 Clough, (Family History) 79 Weymouth, Daniel Fulsom, 30 Clough, Dr. L. M„ 99 Williams, Charles H., 32 Congregational Church, Wilson, Guy, 33 Curtis, (Family History) Wilson, Hon. James J., 31 Cushing, (Family History) 72 Wilson, March M., 33 Davis, (Family History) 53 Davis, (Family History) 82 Lincoln, Spencer, 90 Davison, Frank P., 23 Longevity of Life in Bethel, 24 Day, Kilburn, 59 Marston, C. W., 102 East Bethel, 13 Marsh, (Family History)

Edson, J. H., 100 Martin, Frank L., Ellison, Nelson, 77 Maxham, Edgar W., 94 Emery, (Family History) n Mcintosh, (Family History) 60 io6

Medical Practitioners, Index to Cuts and Illustrations.

Adams, R. S., lOI Adams, William R., Arnold, Hon. Fred, Berry, Eleazer, Bennett, Rev. John O.. Bethel Town Hall, Bethel Village, (1895) Blackman, Rev. V. W., Burnett, Myron, Central Vermont R. R. Depot, Chase, Dr. R. M., Christ Episcopal Church, Clough, Dr. L. W., Congregational Church, Cushing, Carl D., Cushing, Josiah Dana, Davison, Prof. F. P., Day, Kilburn,

Edson, J. H., Ellison, Nelson, Factory of the Bethel Shoe Company, Finishing Room, A part of East Side

of, (Tannery) Finishing Room, A part of West Side of (Tannery) Finishing Room and Russet Depart raent, (Tannery)

Fish, Willis S., Gould, Chester S., Harrington, Edwin, Harrington, Mrs. Edwin, Hatch, George S., Hunton, Hon. A. P., Kendall, Monroe N., Kiihball, George H., Main Street, looking south, Marston, C. W,, Mcintosh, Herbert M..

Mcintosh, J. Miller, 60