THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORICHL SOUVENIR

. . . . . 0 F . . . . . BETHEL, VERMONT.

CONTAINING A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE TowN, THE SCHOOLS, CHURCHES. MEDICAL AND LEGAL 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 ,vork, by their public spirit aµd liberality have enabled us to complete this book, and to them we . . . extend our thanks. . . .

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY FRED G. COX.

BETHEL, VERMONT. 1895.

his request, and excused from future charges, BETH EL. 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- n_ ETHEL is claimed to be the first town shire, the day and year aforesaid. U in Windsor County, chartered by the 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, Hampshire or New York authorities. Bethel Samuel Payne, 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 1ying in the northwest­ from a portion of Royal ton and a portion of erly part of Royaltoll', 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, I 777, and on later cember 3 rst following, among other votes dates. passed was the following: That the number ' 'We, the subscribers, desirous to form set­ of proprietors for the township propqsed, tlements on White River and its branches in the northwesterly part of Royalton and that should not exceed thirty, till the minds of part of Middlesex which abuts on the the convention or Council 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 toe way for carrying the same into petition proposed to be transmitted to said execution, do enter into the following arti­ cles of stipulation and agreement with each Council, as a name for said town. Then the other, Namely- fqllowing petition was agreed to : ARTICLE 1st.--No pitch shall be made by "To the Honorable Council of Safety for the any person without the consent of the ma­ State o_f 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 :- ures as shall be directed by a majority of this That your petitioners desirous to make set­ body of adventurers shall be defrayed by the tlements on White River and its branches, whole, each being assessed according to his interest therein. in the northwesterly part of the township of 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- 4

-provided they are forty-six in number, b~­ upper bounds of Royalton, so hired Esq. sides what is 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 for schools, and four hundred acres which is They then took a" view" of the land, especi­ 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 to the tenor of their said request at the did not lay out any lots at this time. At this appraisal of indifferent men (as wild Ian~) meeting it was voted to allow the " Hon. 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 private share in two years after granted-·the own use the lot No. 56, of Mr. Bangor, and 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 ( aQTeeable to the proposal of their agent to this Assembly) within two months a!ter become obligated to build a good saw mill 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 .£30. It was also 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 \Vhite soon as other settlers did. It was also voted rive_r to the third Branch, then to extend up to· appoint a committee to assess the pro­ said branch to the norther!y line of said town. prietors for. the purpose of raising the £2,000 The committee for dividing the lots made to pay into the loan office; it was assessed at their report, and another committee was ap­ £44 per proprietor. There was also a com­ 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 a ppears that in this affair, as it has often in "To cash paid for liquor, r5 pounds ''-about many others since, that some of the would-be $7 5. They evidently did not go dry all the proprietors did not pay their assessments; time. so on the 28th day of April, 1778, it was Captain Abel Marsh, who had been ap­ voted to fix the time at May I 9 next follow­ pointed agent for purchasing land of Gover­ ing, and to dispose of said delinquent rights nor Livingston and others, reported as fol­ to other uersons,.. if not paid by that time. 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 proprietary.,, 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 more than 150 or less than roo acres. as the Great Lot<;, numbers 56 and 57, 44, 45, 46 and 54,-and I, vVilliam 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 office at a meeting held May 19, 1778. Abel shall by the fifteenth day of June next, enter into bond to us respectively., for ·our The above committee made their report. respective lots, for the payment of eighteen They had engaged Mr. Zenas Coleman as shillings per acre for the lots 56 and 57, 47 tlieir surveyor. They could not find the and 48, and fourteen shillings per acre for 5

the remaining lots. Payable in four years another lottery and draw the lots in Bethel from the date hereof in siiver or gold, or in aforesaid," which was done. any other current money of the colony of New York equal in value thereto with lawful The bond or agreement given by the New interest for two of the said years, which said York parties to Abel Cunis and others for sums shall be further secured by mortgages sale of their lots, was about this time trans­ in due form of law, immediately after the ex­ ferred to the proprietors. ecution of the deeds conveying the said lots, and such deeds are not to be executed until The following is a copy of the loan office 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 stood that the vendors will give warrantees "Norwich, State of Vermont,} and covenant on the sales in fee simple, ex­ 20th May, 1778. 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

VIEW OF CHURCH STREET FROM: THE EAST HILL. 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 Then follows prices of lots and. receipts for year with interest at six per cent. I say re­ ceived by me, as an assistant trustee of the payment of_ same. Also the foHowing: loan office 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 use of a horse on business for said proprie­ PETER OLCUTT. tors to the state of New York and the J er­ At a meeting November 9th~ 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 1st, 1778, the proprietors voted not get their rights and were consequently to appoint John Payne, Lieutenant Slafter, dissatisfied, 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 6

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..S.e13- At a meeting April 6, 1779, the above tember next, anri 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 State of New Hampshire, praying, in case ure of five thousand pounds, extraordinary 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 uur associates on rea­ sonable terms, and that a charter of incorpo­ ration of said Bdhel be granted us and our ST,ATE OF VERMONT. associates at a proper time, etc., at which time we advanced nine dollars to defray the expense of filing 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 tbe ~econd rno acre lots. Also the same privilege to those without families who should 1;et at least four acres of their land under proper improvements. Also voted that, THE GOVERNOR, COUNCIL AND GENERAL "Any person who will rais1:: 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 .At this time there comes in something come . pertaining to the religious welfare of the GREETING. community. KNOW YE: That, wherea:s it has been "Whereas, different parties and secreta­ represented to U5 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, thae is a tract or parcel of vacant land lvinO' which as much as possible to prevent." within this state, which has not been hereto~ "Voted, that this proprietor_y will use every fore granted. which they pray may be granted pr11dent 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 consid~rations 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 a~thority 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 a~sociates (viz.) Dudley September 7, I 779. Appointed John C~ase, Benjami~ Smith, Simeon Chase, John Payne agent, to wait on the General Assem­ 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 Im, Samuel Chase, Paul McKinstrv, Ralph way " came into fashion, as it had been Wheelock, John Ordaway, Solomoi Chase, James Treadway, Solomon Cleveland Labern voted at one time that four days and soon G'.3-tes, Benajah Strong, Thomas Putnam, after two days work on each right should be Rice Wheeler, Seth Chase, Samuel Stone, 7

William Lyon, David Copeland, Samuel To be divided into fifty-two equal shares, and Webster, lrad 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. Jori 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 Bin~ham, Asa Parker, Stephen clared to be enfranchised and entitled to all Child, Benjamtn Crane, Joseph Tilden, Jere­ and every one of the privileges and immuni­ miah Trescott, Daniel Kenney, Solomon ties that other towns within this state clo 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 descnbed public uses as follows (viz.): First, one tract 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 lnprimis-That each proprietor of the support of the ministry of said town. One township of Bethel aforesaid, cultivate five

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VIEW OF RIVER STRE ET 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 : Beginning at a point six miles and one­ and for non-performance thereof the said half on a straight line north, 6° west from land to revert back to the freemen of this the northwesterly corner of Sharon, thence state. south 33° west, six miles sixty rods, thence Secundo-That all pine trees suitable for north 6r 0 west, 6 miles, thence north 33° masts and spans for shipping, be reserved to east, six miles and sixtv 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 8 the county of Benningt~n, this ~3d day of joined Smith. David Stone was one of the December, A. D. 1779, 1n 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 JOSEPH FAY, Secretary. 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 libr. 1st charters, page 1, 2d pr. a common way of the Indians, Tories, etc., J. FAY, Secretary. pa~sing to and fro. The fort was located A true copy, attest, where the railroad now runs just below the DUDLEY CHASE, Clerk. depot. Some of the old logs and some other May 16th, 1780, it was voted to appoint a relics were unearthed when the road was be­ committee to lay o_ut the 2d roo~acre lots ing built. The wisdom of this was shown ( 2d 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 sons buvinO" these ri~hts at vendue bj - 0 ...., about. Others of the settlers flocked to the paying the taxes due became owne:rs of the fort for safety. same, an act of legislature having been passed giving the proprietors power to do so. SOME OF THE FIRST EVENTS. fn September, 1792; a committee having The first deed recorded bears date April been appointed to establish the line between 17, 1780, 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. 1782. (Previous meetings had been held by The first marriage record is of date 1795, the '' proprietors.,') The officers chosen the parties being Bernice Snow and Rachel were, clerk, ·Barnabus ~trong; constable, Hardy. Michael Flynn; selectmen, Joel Marsh, John Among some of the curious customs of Benjamin,_ George Smith; Michael Flynri 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 ( r~nts of the land reserved for the first settler that we find. record of. He support of preaching) by the nmr.ber of located in the autumn of 1779. The ·next names each society might secure, it was re­ season Joel l\.1arsh, Samuel Peak, Seth quired that each voter should have recorded Chase, Willard Smith and David Stone his religious preferences as follows, mostly 9 by certificates from the societies they bad the town of Bethel, in the County of Windsor formerly belonged to: and State of Vermont. wishing to enjoy the "This certifies that Willard Smith is a benefit of public religious worship and in­ professed U niversalist, and is a member of struction, do hereby associate ourselves to­ the U niversalist society in Woodstock, No­ gether for that purpose, agreeing each with vember 24, 1792. the other to conform to the rules and liturgy Attest, ISRAEL RICHARDSON, of the 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, I 792, 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 witness 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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WEST SIDE OF MAIN STREET AND WRIGHT & CUSHING MILL. 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 Chase, 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 welfare of the community in those worship, there is hardly any record of parties early days. making their professions for that way. l\f ost "This may certify to all whom it may con­ of them are for the Baptist, n·ext the Univer­ cern. that Mr. Benjamin Putnam was IeQ"ally salist, third Episcopal. ordained an evangelist preacher at Strafford The following shows the date and forma­ in the State of Vermont, by the laying on of tion of the Protestant Episcopal Society: han~s on the 6th of February, A. D. 1809, and 1s legally 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 IO

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 concluding prayer. In the year 1794, a difficulty arose between AARON BUZZELL, l the inhabitants and the Rev. Russell. Rus­ DANIEL BATCHELDER, ~Recorded -Sept. sell brought a suit against the town and the SIMEON DANA, j 25, 1815. trouble caused several town meetings. Judg­ NATHANIEL KING. ment was rendered against the town. The Attest, ]ONA. MARSH, 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 t0 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, ) To Luther Grover, etc. STATE OF VERMONT, LConstable of Bethel In March, 1804, there was an article in WINDSOR COUNTY, ss. )( in said County of the warning for town meeting to see if the · Windsor. town would vote to build a meeting house. GREETING. It was voted not to build one. By the authority of the State of Vermont, ln these days it was customary for com­ yo\l are required to summon or make known panies formed for that purpose, to build roads unto Isaac Corev, f onathan Coleson and Amariah Hibbard, a·ll now residing in said (turnpikes) ·and put up toll gates and collect town of Bethel, to depart with their families toll from travelers, 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, 1808. pike " passing through said Bethel, from A town meeting was held Sept. 20, 1809, Stockbridge to Royalton, should work out in regard to the "first settled minister." It their highway taxes on said turnpike until was voted to extend a call to the Gospel such time as the corporation should realize ministry in thi~ town to Rev. Mr. 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 wheat at five shillings a bushel. Thirty the number of voters in town at a freeman's pounds to be paid the first year, thirty the meeting held September, 1806, at which the second and forty the third year. Also a following vqte was cast for representative to salary of£ 50 the first year and increase the congress, James Elliot had thirty-two votes, same five pounds a year until the 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 March 2, 1789, it was eral Assembly of the State of Vermont at its voted to raise a tax of two pence on the next sessior,, to grant a land tax of three pound on the list of 1789, to be paid in wheat cents per acre for the purpose of making a at five shillings, rye at four shillings, 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 to our mind the story told us by our grand­ was voted "•to hold two-thirds of the town parents of a minister, who was collecting up 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," I I

June 29, 1809, 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 now ,live, 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.

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In March, 181 r, a committee was appointed At a town meeting held March 5, 1821, 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- 12 mittee to see about fe!¼cing the town bury­ The second branch :flows across the eastern ing ground, etc. They reported that it con­ corner of the town through the village of tained two and one-half acres and was deeded East Bethel, and joins White River at North to the town by Seth Chase in 1787. Royalton. Locust Creek :flows from Bar­ In September, r83r, it was voted to build nard, and is also the outlet of Silver Lake in a bridge over White River. The Finley Barnard, and joins White River about two Bridge over the 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 bndge and road, $190.00; for build­ stream in the westerly part of the town that ing bridge near meeting-house, Sr99.oo. 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 rnaiC! line in town, running regard to •• rebuilding and repairing bridges up White River to Bethel 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 $r,ooo was voted 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 copdition, 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. Iiatch 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 at 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 conseque~tly 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 11arch meeting, at which time BETHEL 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 beaunful scenery all about it, and pleasant surface is quite uneven, especially back from drives into the surrounding country, wi~ich 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 i_nto. B~thel from the north, thence about state. four miles within this town and then dis­ Th~re are at present four !"eligious societies charges into White River at Bethel viilage. holding regular services, viz. : U niversalist, 13

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. The National White River Bank is \Vhite 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 I 50 hands, two hotels, and a job­ regular services and a settled minister. Als0 printing office. There is also a weekly paper, has a hotel, tin an

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, I,II3 50 wall pews and twenty gallery pews, making Eight Episcopalians, 471 50 in all sixty. Each pew was a kind of " square Three Methodists, 221 00 room " large enough to contain a good-sized Three Baptists, ro9 oo family, such as they generally had in those days. The pulpit was reached by a long Whole amount, 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 ,ooo. The Uni- -~~~ 'lj -.:~:. •!:. .. . ' ~~►- .,. ·.... ~ s...-

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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 heat 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 conipleted 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. I • J

REMODELED, 1853. Fisks, and many others were suppurters of During the pastorate of Rev. S. A. Davis the Universalist faith. Jf 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 vtry beginning of part and an auditorium below. He preached this century. the sermon of rededication. At that time R EV. HOSEA BALLOU, 1803-1809 orily 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 ists. Ballou made a deep impression on the peo­ 1864. ple of this community. He held meetings in In this year the church was repaired and Colonel Joel :\Tarsh's "square room" or in the stockholders of the hall, who were all the school house. 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 E. 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 1of the generous spirit and noble work. so: this church of eighty years is still young. J t stands abreast with the spirit of the age. ,.- We all feel a laudable pride in its antiquity. and old architecture. REV. JOHN 0. BENNETT. UNIVERSALIST PARISH.

Many of the early settlers of Bethel were ORGANIZED UNIVl!RSALISM, DEC. 2 9 , 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 nominations, and the stockholders numbered REV. KITTRIDGE HAVEN. six more than all the rest. The Marshes 1821-1828. were the founders of Bethel and they wen" Mr. Haven was the first settled pastor. all Universalists. Colond 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 16 last week in 1820. He remained ·pastor just bor, 1882; Rev. J. R. Roblin, 1883 to 1887: seven years and the11 went to Shoreham Rev. John Kimball, 1888; Rev. S. A. Parker, where he remained the rest of his life. After 1890; Rev. \Valter Dole, 1892, and Rev. J. Mr. Haven's pastorate the pulpit was sup­ 0. 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 Uriion, 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 JOH~ OSCAR BENNETT, son of William only a few years ago in Jeffersonville, \\·is. H. and Ella (HawkinsJ Bennett, was born After him Rev. George S. Guernsey supplied at Stony Brook, L. I., January 17, r877. for a time. He received a limited education in the pub­ 1850-1852. li~ schools, and when but fourteen years old, Rev. S. \V. Square was the third settled was employed on coasting vessels as a pastor and remained two years. sailor, serving nearly a year in that capacity. In 189:::! he entered the Canton Theological RF.V. S. A. DAVIS, 1853-1860, School, a department of the St. Lawrence was the fourth pastor, and his pastorate U n.iversity, and was graduated from that in­ covers a period of seven years. He is still stitution in the class of 1895, having been living i~ 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 ~reek, N. 1861. Y .; ·-previous to the close of his college ca­ reer, and first preached in the U niversalist ·Rev.· Eli Ballou preached here half the Church at Bethel in February, 1895. He ac­ time. He was_ then living in i\1ontpelier, cepted a call to this place beginning his pas­ Vt. · September 28- of this year this society torate here on July 1, 189 5. 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 YEARS·. he is called. ·Rev. S. A. Parker commenced his pastor­ ate Mayr, i862, and closed it May 1, 1878. CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF BETHEL, VERMONT. SEMI-CENTENNIAL-DEC. _29~ 1867. This was an occasion worthy of celebrat­ ing. The organization of the society was an The.Christ Episcopal Church was first or­ ganized in Bethel, July 27, 1794. by the fol­ event in the historv., of Universalism in this town. A meeting was held Sunday evening, lowing doings, the Rev. John C. Ogden pre­ siding and certifying to same : December ::?9, 1867, in the Universalist church~ A sermon was given by the pastor, '' V-1 e, the subscribt::rs, members and friends of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Rev. S. A. Parker, reviewing the history 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 tpe ben­ Square, Davis and Ballou. Of the original efits of public religious worship and instruc­ 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 r~gulations the following preachers have been settled or for our own prosperity as a parish, as shall be agreed upon in our legai meetings by a supplied: · Rev. Eli Ballou, D. D., 1879; majority of voices, placing ourselves for the Rev. R. A. D. Tabor, 1881; Rev. J. B. Ta- present under the 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, Ephraim Derrick, Amasa Green, Willard of Simeon Chase, Jr., December 3, 1822, Smith, Bylye L. Cotton, Joseph Wickingham, when there was appoi_nted 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 and fall of ative for this society to the Episcopal con­ vention to be held at Castleton, September the following year, 1823, at a cost of $1,890. 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 on 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 :::800. 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 IS 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 l, 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, 1817, the present Congrega­ was in charge until r 864- tional church was organized in Bethel, and The Rev. C. R. Batchelder was called to of those that entered into this new oro-aniza- be rector in r867. The Rev. Amos D. Mc­ o 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 cal1ed to be rector October, two persons formed the connecting link be­ 187 I, and he remained Fector of the Bethel and tween the old and the new church havino- Royalton parishes until July 1, 1887, and ' 0 safely retained their faith through the twenty died August 19, 1894. The Rev. Tree. W. odd years that had mtervened~ There were Wey was rector 1888-'90. The Rev. G. A. thirteen members of the new church, and of Wilkins, 1890-,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, l\1. 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 at Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Trevett was years nearly twenty new members were graduated from the St. James College, and added under the pastorsbip of Rev. Mr. was ordained deacon in St. Mary's Church at Nichols. Burlington. N. J., by the late Bishop Oden­ This church had no deacons until I822, heimer, 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 be 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. The next pastor aft.er Rev. Ammi Nichols Pennyslvania, and second principal in the ' 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 neighborhood of Syracuse, in the dio­ single Sabbath. Mrs. Irvin Weston is the

cese of Central New York. He was princi.;. only one of these known to be livino-o, havino-b 19 been a member of this church for sixtv-two trom forty-nine to seventy-two. The first ~ years. Mr. Swift's farewell sermon was an ca.c;e of discipline occurred in 18.i2 ~gainst affecting one, and long remembered by those Reuben Lewis, for neglect of attendance who heard it. He died in Hlinois in 1861. upon religious service, and for failure to keep After Mr. Swift, Rev. Salmon Hurlburt his covenant 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 SI .800, and was a heavy installed June 25, 1845. Daniel Weston was burden for the parish to bear. Some of the chosen deacon on April 12, 1842.

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. money was subscribed by neigh boring 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 man ·s settlement, although Mr. Kingman who subscribed toward this expense, l\tlr. preached until 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 dose of :Mr. vVhiting,s pastorate, April. 1855, the services of Mr. E. E. Hig­ Rev. Benjamin Abbott became pastor, and bee were secured, and in July of the same was installed l\1arch 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 20

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 }!Jne, 1868, Mr. £. 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 the present pastor, Caldwell, who remained one year, closing his Rt>v. V. W. Blackman, C{)mmenced his pas­ labors in October, 1872. . torate October 1, r 893 but during the inter­ His successor was Rev. Elbridge Gerry, vening tiine the society was supplied occa­ who commenced in December, 1872, and was sionally by the neighhoring ministers. acting pastor for nine and one half years, duri.ng which time, forty-three were added to the ~embership 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 tl~Iph. He was an industrious man. and when not engaged in pastoral work he employed himself in other pursuits. He was editor of the paper a·~ \Vest Randolph for a number of years, and it was not uncommon for him, while living there, to walk to Bethel on Sun­

dav., mornin(T0 to attend the usual services . Mr. Gerry closed his labors in this church in 1882, and moved to Oregon, where he preached one year, returning to \Vest Ran­ dolph in 1883, and resided there, preaching occasionally in different places until his death, which occurred December 23, 1891. 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. REv. V. \N. BLACKMAN. Hubbard, a former pastor, who remained six months. l\1r. Elisha Fiske was called to the The deacons of this church. since its organ­ pastorate of the church in June, 1884, preach­ ization, have served in the following order: ino- here and at Rovalton for one vear. He 0 ~ .J Ezra Putnam. Simeon Putnam, William Put­ ~emained in Bethel for three years and re- nam. Michael Flynn, Daniel Weston, Cyrus moved to Waitsfield in 1887, having married Page, A1pheus Howe, Edwin Fisher, David ~n esteemed member of his congregation. Tolles, F. W. Newcomb, S. C. Dunham, During his pastorate forty-six were made Alonzo Emery, George l\,,1. Miller and George members of the church, thirty-three by con­ Parker. fession of faith, and thirteen by letter, this The· church building was burned April r4, being the largest num her of rnem hers added 1892, and with it a chapel just completed, ar­ to this society by any one pastor since the rangemt.nts then being in progress for its organization of the church. dedication. This was a serious blow to the Rev. Charles Dutton 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 2I 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. Blai:krnan also studied vember 15, 1893. The 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 George 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. . port. He did not stop at this, but after he When ~ngaged in study he wrote a book passed away, the society had a lasting calied Practical Christianity, which ~ery m-?,-­ memorial of Mr. Hatch,s generosity in the terially assisted him. His second and l~st nice residence which he left to the church as work, completed in 1893, known as '' Spar~s a parsonage. In slight token of respect and from an Anvil." is a volume highly spoken of reme1nbrance of :vrr. 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 manuscript of placed in the new church. which he expects to sen. Any success he may have achieved he at­ VIRGIL WILLIA~I BLACKMAX, tributes to good parentage and a companion the present pastor, was born in New Hamp­ who is truly a helpmcet. They speak of shire, where his ancestors came to settle as Bethel as a most delightful vil.Iage to reside pioneers one hundred and fifty years ago, all In. with one exception, living to advanced age, his grandparents on both sides being nona­ WHITCOMB HIGH SCHOOL. 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 187 4. 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 · the 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 Missouri, 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. 11c­ 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

This addition provided two more rooms and ship occurred the death of l\ir. 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 dolJars, the principal to be safely in­ be held on the last Tuesday of June of each vested and the income only to be used each 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 always 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 tTicts. But the change came as " one of the the name was changed from that of Bethel

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vVHITCOi\1B 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.. The that the change was a wise one on the· part s!:hool 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 all 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 scl1ools for one year, but graduated in June of 1887. Upon his resig­ with the present growth a new and more nation in r889, he was succeeded by Mr. J. modern building is needed at no distant day. H. Blaisdell, who remained at the head of ·on Mr. Blaisdelrs re5:igning his charge of the school for four years. graduating four the school in the spring of '94. the school classes. During Mr. Blaisdell's pi-i·acipal- 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 with much 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, 1894, 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, 1~90, he was married to Emily E. The " \,Vhitcomb 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, 189r; Mabel E., born July 6, 1892; and Margaret J ., born January 16, I ~94·

TO\VN REPRESENTATIVES OF BETHEL.

The following citizens of Bethel have rep­ ~sented the town in the General Assembly held 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 clo~ed their meetings \vithout election:

Mark Richards, I 804- Nehemiah Noble, 1805, I806, 1807 John Wallace, 1808. 1809- William Strong, 1810- Nehemiah Noble, rSr r Jonathan l\1arsh, r812, 1813, 1814. Samuel Lillie, 1815, I 8 I 6, 18 I 7, l 8 l 8. Peleg Marsh, 1819 PROF. F. P. DAVISON. Daniel Lillie~ 1820-, 182r, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1825 James \Vallace, now sent out sixty-seven graduates and has a 1826, 1827, 1828 Daniel Lillie, very successful Alumni Association. 1829 John Woodbury, 1830, 1831 FRANK P. DAVISON, the present principal Elisha Fow~er, - 1832 of the Whitcomb High School, was born in Julius Converse, 1833 Lunenburgh, Vt., July 18, 1863. After a John Woodbury, 1834, 1835 course in the cornmon schools of his native James Wallace, 1836 town,- he attended the St. Johnsbury A cad­ Daniel Woodbury.. 1837 emy at St. Johnsbury, Vt., and was gradu­ Thomas P. Russell, 1838 ated from there in the class of 1887. He James Woodworth, 1839 also studied at Amherst and Burlington but David Bosworth, - 1844 never completed a college course at either Oliver Hincher, 1846 place. At the age of nineteen, he taught his A. P. Hunton, 1849 first school~ :;tnd completed a term of twelve Almon Durkee, - 1850, 1851 weeks in a district hard to manage, and in Albert G. l\tlarsh, - 1856 Franklin Riford, 1857 1870-Jane McIntosh, 84 · Nelson Ellison, 1858 0. H. Brooks, 86 A. P. Hunton, 1859, 186o, 186r, 1862 Hannah Gibbs, 94 F. W. Anderson, - 1863, 1864 I 87 I-Asa Grow, 90 . J. M. McIntosh, 1866, 1867 Mrs. Leonard Fiske,· 85 A.G. Marsh, 1868 Abelena Clark, So A. M. Marsh, 1869, 1870* Isaac Cunningham. Sr Myro~ Burnett, 1872 John Bird, 86 N. F. Clark, 1874 Uriah Green, - 83 E. Sturtevant, 1876 I 872-Timothy Fisher, - 93 M. A. l\tloody, 1878 l\Ioses \,Vebster, 88 . Joseph Sargent, 1880 Mary \Vdght, 83 M. A. Maxham, 1882 J. Howe Bowen, 83 W. B. C. Stickney, 1884 1873-Anna Austin, 88 Edwin Fisher, 1886 Susan Burnett, Sr Frederick Marks, - 1888 Eleazer Berry, So J. C. Burnett, - 1890 Isaac McIntosh, 82 Fred Arnold, - 1892 Ezra Putnam, Sr L. ?vI. Greene, - - 1894 1874-Polly Hunter, - 82 *Biennial sessions began in r870. 1875-Fanny Chamberlin, 82 Betsev., Baker., 84 LONGEVITY OF LIFE IN BETHEL. Lucinda Parsons. 83 Amos Packard, 83 An examination of- the town records of Thomas \Villiams, So · Bethel, reveals the fact that this town stands Nancy Goff Bow'=n, 92 with the first in the state as regards longevity Lucy Haskell Townsend, 91 ·of life, one person reaching the age of one 1876---Elias Greenleaf, 94 hundred and three years, four months and John Baker, 88 fifteen days. - The following list gives the Samuel Bowen. 95 names of those that have lived to be over Russe] Farnham, 86 eighty years old, the list being taken from 1877-Patten Davis. 85 the town records from 1862 to the present H. F. Hunter, So time: Ira Buck, 83 1863-John Townsend, 90 Reuben J. Chapman, - 8J Wiliiam McIntosh, 86 Asenith Jefferson, 85 1864-Nathan Parker, 86 r878-Orlinda Moody, 84 Sewall Kenda11, - 84 Barzill!a Sylv~ster, 88 1865-Peter Reed, 84 Benjamin Williams, 88 Sarah Hackett, 80 Calvin Buckman, ~I A~a Curtis, 84 1879-Nancy \Valiace, So • 1866---Hannah Billings, 88 Squire Bowen, 92 Perley Parsons, 80 Mitty Green, 84 1867-Rhoda.Webster, __ 86 Chester Chapman, - 86 Anna Whittaker, 95 1880-Phcebe McIntosh, 91 1868-Leonard Fiske, - Sr John Noble, 88 Louisa Lillie, 84 Gracie M o:,;se, 87 Othniel Dunham, 82 Char!es H. Meserve, 90 1869-Peter Woodbury, 86 r 88 r-Horace Bugbee, - 90 Eunice Jefferson, - James Wallace, 97 Ruth Washburn. Hannah McIntosh, 84 Betsey Rowe, Polly Buck, 87 1870-\Villiam Smart, Peter Burre lie, 92 Parthenia Dartt, - Ru~sell Bowen, .85 25

1381-Josiah W. Cushing, 85 1887-Lucinda Bacon, 89 1882-Saloam V✓ illiams., 92 Harriet Cleveland, 86 Amanda S. Wilson, 87 Jemima Chapman, - 88 Huldah S. Robertson, 103 Orrilla Moody, 89 Sarah Brooks., 90 A.rad Benson, 82 Amos Green, - 82 1888-Judith H. French, 82 1833-John T. Rood, 83 Phoebe Bugbee., 95 Mary White, - Sr David Whittaker, 84 r$34-Hiram Wilson, 84 Philena Gay, 86 Josiah Fisher, 82 1889-Hannah Thayer, 91 1885-Jay Wilson, 8 3 Daniel Kinney, 88 Fanny Gilson, 89 Philena Brooks, So Isaac Taggart, 82 Joshua Vledgewood,

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1S85-Am2sa Flint, - 86 1889-Ezekiel Lunt, 90 Robert French, 85 Susannah Leach, '86 Moses Ingalls, 85 1890-lrene Hatch, 85 Zeba Thayer, f6 Abel Byam. ~3 Elkanah Dean, 84 1891-David Owen. 87 1886-Harry Dunham, 82 Rtuben \\~hittaker. 84 Harriet Durkee, 80 Lavonia Shortt~ 84 Dustin Bowen, Sr Desire Davis. 80 Benjamin H eradan, 89 Danforth Davis, 87 Dominick Wynn. ·s2 1892-George S. Hatch, 90 H. F. Stoddard, 87 Nancy Colburn, .. 86 1SS7-J ohn Whitcomb, 94 Athsea Davis, 81 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; \Villiam F. Tilson, 2 s-s, E; James B. Obediah Lillie, 91 Tinkham. 2, E; Andrew W. Turner, 9, F; Radman Dean, 89 Benjamin F. W t:bster, r 1, H; George Horatio N. Brown, 84 Wedgwood, 8, E; Don C. Wilson, 3, F; Abial Putnam, 85 Thomas R. and \Vallace 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; \Villoughby Holbrook, 87 \\.,.illiam 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, r7, D; William Huse, The following citizens of Bethel served in 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 th~ number and letter after Henry H. Miner, 8, D; William Newell. 8, each name represent the regiment and com­ E; John Pettis, 1 r, B; John Rice, r o, F; pany of each man. Loren lvI. Rice, 10, F; James D. Rice, 8, C; Volunteers for three years credited previous Nehemiah vV. Rindge, 9, G; William H. to call of October 17, 1863: Albeit and Rollins, 9, E; Horatio N. Scott, 17, D; Fer­ Azro Abbott, 4, E; Calvin B. Abbott, dinand vVheeler, 1 r, F; Don L. vVillis, 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 r 1, -; John Mack and Thomas O'Donald, Bullard, 6, C; Lewis Bundy, 4, D; Patrick Cav. -; George S. Thomas, Cav. F. Carney, 1 r, H; Constantine Chad wick, I 1 , Volunteers for one year: Albert E. Ab­ H; Albert W. Chapman, 6, F; Zolva \V. 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 Coto, John H. Harrington, John Lynch, Fran,klin B. Dunton, 7, G; Azro Dustin, Charles W. Petty, Birney I. Pratt, James M. 3, E; George M. D. Dustin, 2, E; 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. vVhitney, Paschal D. Whittaker. John _and Luke Fairbanks, 3, F; Curtis 0. Veterans: Calvin B. Abbott. Curtis Ab­ Fisher and James S. Freeland, 4, E; Levi P. bott, Charles Blackburn, Luke B. Fair-banks·, French, 6, C; Daniel Granger, 6, F; John Levi B. Goddard, Newell H. Hibbard, Granger, 6, F; William Greenleaf, . 2, H; Charles N. Jones, John Morse, Henry E. Carleton Green. 4, E; Newell H. Hebard, 8, l\fosier~ 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 Fr~d­ Daniel Abbott. James H. Abbott, Wesiey erick H. Marks, Ir, H; Orville Moore, 2, E; E. Biker, Albert G. Barnes, Samuel Bar­ Henry E. Moshier, 2 s-s, E; George \V. rett, Jr., John Dean, 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, 3, F; Alonzo D. Ralph. 4, E; Daniel Chatfield. Daniel \T. Clou!.!:h. Solomon A. A. Rogers, 6, F; Eugene Rogers. 8, E; James Cross. Henry S. Drury, rreorge S. Emery, D. Rich, rr, 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 those 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 Royalton 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, \Villiam 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 county, and show that in the year LEGAL PROFESSION. 1818 there was no resident lawyer in Bethel, a condition which la.5ted, probably, for sev­

BY WM. B. C. STICKNEY. eral years. The early annals of the town afford little LUTHER BLODGETT was born in Ran­ information as to the lawyers who may have dolph about r780, and was the eldest of four­ had offices 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, distinguished alike in their pro- 1813, and in that or the following year re- moved to Rovalton,., 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 Jaw 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 office and began wife of Waltt.r C~rpenter, 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 \Vhile 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 I 796. :fifty years the home of Mrs. Irvin Westori. 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 P. Chase, at Rand9lph. His . uncle superin­ Hunton, and at \Voodstock of the Hon. tended his education, and in the year 1815 Andrew Tracy and the Hon. James Barrett, he was a student at Yale College. He was and later of the Hon. Warren C. French. married at Bethel, July 22, 1821, to Miss Mr. Converse was distinguished for the Eliza Grover. He had two children, daugh­ affability of his manner and his uniform and ters, one of whom married Nelson Smith, unvarying· courtesy. He was diligent and Esq., and the other Martin M. Flint, of Ran­ successful in business. He was a man of dolph. His practice in court \'\"as not exten­ sive. He wrote sometimes for periodicals. large frame, strong .and vigorous, and main­ He lived in the house next north of the tained his mental and physical faculties bank for a short time, and went away from unimpaired to an 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 - - being no attorney at .Bethel, was admitted to HON. AUGUSTUS P. HUNTON was born in the bar of Windsor County in r824, having Groton, N. H., February 23, 1816. His youth been examined and recommended by a com­ was spent at Hyde Park, Vt., where his father~ mittee appointed for _t_he 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. lamer. He began the praGtice of his pro­ C. Wilson, at Bakersfield, and afterwards fession in Bethel at once. 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 o~· 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, Mason P. Mills was a member of the Ran­ and September, r 8 38, 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. Hmiton with masonic honors. and the Hon. Perley C. Jones had a ht\V HON. JULIUS CO!ll'VERSE was born at -·office, Mr. Hunton has been identified ·with Stamford, Conn., Desember 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 His father came .to Vermont with his family · house now occupied by J.\,fr. Daniel L. Child. and in 1865~ removed to his preserit home, lived on the farm owned now by Alonzo the old Paige homestead. In I 849 he mar­ Emory, Esq., was the justice whose services ried- Caroline, the second daughter of Dr. were almost universally sought in Bethel. Alfred Paige. He had been Judge of Probate, and was - In his practice Mr. Hunton has had several familiarly kuown as Judge Russell. He used partners. After the dissolution of the firm of to hold court regularly once a week in l\! r. Converse & Hunton in r840, Allen P. Dudley Hunton~s office. His good sense and judg­ wa::; 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. Wevmouth, next l\Ioulton J. Gilman, who General Assembly eleven different sessions~ was his partner from 1863 to 1874. In eight times as the representative of the town August, I 87 5 the present partnership of Hun­ of Bethel, and three times as senator from ton & Stickney was formed. Wi11dsoi County. He was Speaker of the

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:Mr. Hunton's profound acquirements and House of Representatives in 1860 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 and the Hon. James J. Wilson, who were in and zeal. He was an earnest, ardent and his office as students at the same time, which uncompromising worker for the cause of the may be styled the Golden Age of law in Union, and in 1864 was elected delegate to Bethel. the Republican National Convention which In the early days of Mr. Hunton1s practice renominated Abraham Lincoln. justices of the peace had occasion to exercise During his active practice Mr. Hunton their jurisdiction much more frequently than was retained in many important cases which now. Hon. Thomas P. Russell who then he conducted with ability and success. JAMES NEWELL came to Bethel from Pitts­ dolph. Upon his admission to the bar be ford in the fall of 1838, and practiced law for removed to Bethel and practiced law as a ..vear or so. His father, Gordon N ewe11, partner of the Hon. A. P. Hunton from was a justice of the peace, and in_ his court November, 1843 to. l\1arch, 1844. after his son acquired his first professional experi­ which he was oartner of Daniel F. Wey­ ence. He removed from Bethel in 1839. mouth. He was town superintendent in OLIVER HAZARD PERRY .MILLER is said 1847. From Bethel he went to Oshkosh, to have come from Bridgewater to Bethel Wis . ., about I 848, it is said. He married sometime prior to 1840, and to have studied May Granger, daughter of Captain Ben law with the Hon. Julius Converse, and to Granger, of Randolph. and in Bethel they have boarded in his family. His office was in lived in the upper part of the brick house May's store building, on the site of the town now owned by Mrs. William Wright. He was hall. He removed from Bethel to \V oodstock, an accomplished scholar and a man of talents. and from there to Hartford, and having given DANIEL FOLSOM \VEYMOUTH was born in up the practice of his profession~ there: pur­ Tunbridge, June 22, 1818, the son of chased a farm where he lived till his decease. Deacon George Weymouth, and on the 1\1 r. Miller's most noted case in Bethel was Folsom side is a relative of :Mrs. Grover the defense of Othniel Dunham in a suit Cleveland. He was educated at the district brought against him by the Hon. John S. schools. and the academies of Newbury and l\1arcy, as plaintifrs attorney. Judge Marcy Randolph. While prosecuting his studies in was a master of vituperative satire. Mr. the academies and in the office of the Hon. i\llller, witho~t heed to the merits of his William Hebard, with whom he studied law, cause, at once attacked his legal adversary at East Randulph, he taught in the district with his own weapons and effectually dis­ schools dudng 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 and his own agreeable disappointment. was married in October, 1843, to Mary ALLEN P. DUDLEY came to Bethel from Blodgett, daughter of Laban and Rebecca Chesterfield, N. H., in the year 1841, and in Blodgett, of Randolph. :Mary Blodgett was October of that year went into partnership cousin of Dudley C. Blodgett, her mother with i\lr. Hunton, which partnership was being a sister of Luther Blodgett. He was dissolved early in I 842 and Mr. Dudley for a time Register of Probate for the Dis­ shortly afterwards removed from Bethel. trict of Randolph, under Judge Hebard. He came to Bethel about April. 1844, where R0MA:SZO \VALKER 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, r850~ he removed from Vermont to in partnership for one year. He was a Jefferson, \Vis., where he was engaged in lawyer of considerable ability an~ t~Ients. 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, with 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 Randolpb,son of Luther and Elizabeth (Stark­ Judge of Probate. weather) Blodgett. He was brought up in the \Vhen in active 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 lawyer$ of the State University of Vermont in 1839, and studied Mr. Weymouth has had ten children, of law with the Hon. William Nutting, at Ran-. whom five daugh_ters 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 l\L 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 J. Wailace, tional parsonage, to which he removed from from which he moved to his present fine Mrs. Adelaide R. Stearns' house, and he resided there until his decease, May 26, 1859. residence. His eldest son, Guy, is a lawyer He married Anna :Maria Cheney of Royalton, in Bethel. His second son, l\1arch, is prac­ October 28, 1845. He had two sons, Edward ticing law in Randolph. In 1874 Mr. vVilson and Frederick, who removed from Bethel to represented the County of Windsor in the Sen­ Jamestown, N. Y .• about 1865. Edward is ate, with credit to himself and his constituency. now cashier of the First National Bank of He was State,s attorney from 1884 to 1886.

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Jamestown, an accomplished and successful He has an extensive and successful prac­ business man. :Mr. Morgan practiced law in tice, and is 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 unceasino-o 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 (Child) Wilson. He has always lived in him to give the most careful attention to the Bethel, except for a short absence in his multiplicity of details of his various profes­ 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, L J. l\ticWain-: Esq. . tice of ~is profession at once, as partner of Mr. \,Vilson has been twice married. First ·Mr. Hunter... This partnership continued 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, he 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 th~ town had one son, Clarence. l\1r. 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 CHARLES H. \iVILLIAMS was born in \Vood­ the \Vhite River Val!ey Agricultural Society. stock, Vermont, son of Harvey Williams. Mr. Gilman was a democrat, faithful to the He \Vas admitted to the Bar of \,Vindsor principles of his party, and a recognized County at the December term, 1875, and was leader in their councils in county and state. established in his profession about 1877, in EDWIN J. MCWAIN, born in Ripton. Ver­ Bethel, being a partner of Moulton J. Gilman. mont, August 17? 1840, was First Ser~eant He practiced in Bethel about a year, during Company H, 11th Vermont Volunteers. and which time he marred Delia, daughter of served with distinction from September 1, Simon T. Coy. :\Ir. \Nilliams removed from 1862 to :May 15. 1865, was promoted to Bethel to Claremont, N. H., and from there Second Lieutenant December 28, 1863, and to Dellows Falls, where he now resides, First Lieutenant December 2, 1864. He h:n-ing 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 l\1 r. remained prisoner until March 1, 1865. \Villiams 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 t11ilitary was much regretted by his legal brethren. service. \VILLIA:\I H. BLISS was born in Rovalton He returned to Vermont and began his ., ' October 5, 1847, son of Charles \Villiam legal studies in the office of C. A. \Vebber, Bliss, graduated at the University of Vermont. of Rochester, finishing with the Hon. J. J. in I 871, 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, ,vhere he was 1873, and whence he came to Vermont, and associated with the Hon. J. J. \Vilson. 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 c~ntinued in practice at intervals until Court in 1894. He began ~o 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 dec~ased. from 1890 to 1892. Mr. Bliss is a man of WM. R. C. STICKNEY was born in Marble­ rare accomplishm~nts, literary and legal. head, M-a.ss., 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 ...,.,., ...,

Arnold, came to Bethel with his family in l\1EDICAL 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 wa', .3.dmitted to the Bar of who have practiced in this place is compara­ Windsor County in r88r, 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, 1885-,92, town agent for the prosecu­ depended almost wholly upon the farming tion and defense of law suits, 1889-,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. ability. His chief characteristics as a lawyer Notwithstanding the hardships of these early are fearlessness and candor. He has the most practitioners, anc! the many bad bills which extensive insurance business in the White accumulated, most of them -Jived 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 i\Ir. Arnold married i\1iss 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 lives from May 2, 1791 to June 27, Guy WILSON, eldest son of the Hon.James 1809. He was one of the founders of the J. and Jane (Flynn) \Vilson: was born in first Episcopal society in Bethel and was one Bethel, July 11, I 864, 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 I 890, 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 t!1ere in 1799, although he still industrous and energetic in whatever he owned property in Bethei ten years later. undertakes, and deeply interested in the wel­ His name was J oadam Gallup, but this was fare of Bethel. changed by his acquaintances to Joseph, and Mr. Wilson married Miss Abbie Fisher, he was commonly known as 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 .lvlARCH M. WILSON, son of the Hon. James common to that class of men. He had a ' J. and Mary Laurette (McCoy) vVilson, was favorite idea of establishing a medical SL hool born August 24, 1870, grciduated 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 1, 189;~ at Laconia, being the :first to found a medical college in N. H., to Miss Lulu LJickinson. 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, embracing nearly all of the land now of Rochester, and moved there from Bethel. covered by the southern part of the village. Dr. JAMES lv1. WOODWORTH was a practi­ He was an able man, a dose 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 wh,1111 he sold his practice. Several farm now owned by George Parker, April 25, amusing stories are told of Dr. Woodworth. 1788. He married, June 8, 1808, Sarah, At one time one of his patients who had daughter of Eliphaz and Sarah (Cushing) 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, J anu­ they could have some if they wished. After ary 23, 1791. Ele·ven children were born of eating the cheese, the patient grew wo!"se and this marriage, six of whom died in infancy or the doctor was called in. ·· Oh! Doctor, I early childhood. ivlrs. Paige died in Concord, feel terrible;· said the patient; ·• Well," N. H., July 20. 1872. said the Doctor, " ~ ow 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 office of house of a patient, he was asked by one of Dr. Joseph A. Denison of Bethel, receiving the neighbor.show his patient was progressing. his degree of M. 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~n d1e sure, wont she?,' Bethel, where he succeeded Dr. Denison, Dr. \Voodworth sold his practice to Dr. whose farm he bought. In 1833, he built the Ormon Terry and moved to the e~t part of brick house, now standing, where the re­ the town where he died. mainder of his life was sperit. For many years he was accustomed to travel on horse­ Dr. HE:NRY P.\L:\IER was in practice here back to visit his patients carrying his medi­ about 1840, and resided in the house called cines, tinctures and pills, (prepared by him­ the White River House, then located on the self) in saddle bags. Later he drove to his premises now occupied by the Arnold block. patients in a chaise, but he never cl is carded A few years later he gave up his practice m the saddle bags, taking them in the· chaise, Bethel and moved to \,Voodstock, Vt. and when entering the house carrying them Dr. F ARXUl\I came to Bethel about 1840 over his arm. Dr. Paige was devoted to his and opened an office in his proiessior:, re.sid­ profession, and attained a high rank bo.th as ing in the house where Osca~ Shaw now a physician and surgeon. He died in Bethel lives. He rem_:iined a short time and moved March 24, 18_62. to other parts. DR. ALFRED PAIGE, J l{.~ born in Bethel, April 7, 1823 attended lectures at Castleton DR. --- FISK, a Thomsonian physician Medical College and in a medical college in came to Bethel about 1846, but did not re­ New York City. He studied in the office with main long, as he received but little business, his father and rode with him to some extent. and he aid not succeed in makrng himself He was unsettled in his business and pro­ popular among the people. fessional work and at times made long trips Dr. AsAHEL BuRBA~K resided 1n 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 ieading physicians of this 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 i\:Iorse on the Randolph road. Dr. ASAHEL KENDRICK was born in Han­ DR. GEORGE NICHOLS was in practice over, N. H., December 25, 1806, and was a here in 1860. and had an office in town for student in Troy, N. Y., and at Dartmouth about three years. He married Helen Stearns College. He practiced at Warren, 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, practical Main street. He was a popular man in the judgment, admired and appreciated by the community, and a successful man in bis pro­ people who knew him best. fession. He moved to New York State 1n the latter part of the sixties. DR. PHILANDER D. BRADFORD was born in Randolph, April 9, 181 r, and was the son DR. ORMON TERRY, a native of Bethel and a graduate of Castleton Medical Colleo-e of John and Lucy (Brooks) Bradford. He 0 received his education in the Orange County came to Bethel from Saranac, N. Y. in 1865 Grammar School, and was graduated from and practiced medicine in the town until his the Woodstock i\1edical School in the class death September 10, 1880. He lived in the 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 husiness. 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 death which occurred July r6, 1892. He than the fri~ndship of his townsmen. He was an active, energetic man, and although succeeded Dr. James Woodworth, and during an excellent physician and devoted to his his residence in Bethel was the leading doctor profession, he found time to devote to the in the place. (See Terry sketch.) affairs of his country, He ,vas a strong "Abolitionistt and an active worker in the DR. M. C. SPAULDlNG, a graduate of the Free Soil Party of Vermont at a time when Medical Department of University of Ver­ that Party was far from popular. It was mont in the class of 1873, located in ·Bethel enough for him that he believed the principles during the latter part of that year. ·He suc­ of his party to be founded on right and justice. ceeded in gaining a lucrative practice and re­ He was elected to several public offices of the mained here until 1877, when he sold to Dr. State, filling the same faithfully. L .. ?\I. Greene and moved to \Vilmot. He is now in prd.Ctice in Ashland, N. H. DR. JOHN M. MORSE was a native of Bethel and was born October 13, 1823, the Dr. C. C. PERRY came to Bethel in 1877 son of Calvin and Elvira Morse. After at­ and began the practice of his profession. tending the public schools~ he studied medi­ He was born in South Pomfret, Vt., June 2, cine in the office of Dr. Walter Carpenter, at 1849, and attended the common schools until Randolph, and attended the Castleton Medi­ he was twenty years old. He then com­ cal College and the Woodstock 11edical menced the academical course at Perkins, College, from the latter of which he was Academy at South \,Voodstock, Vt., and graduatc:d. He immediately came to Bethel in Septemoer~ 1871, entered the Goddard and began practice at his profession, living Seminary at Barre, Vt., from which he was in a house which was on the premises now graduated July 9, 1873. occu,Jied by the James J. Wilson residence. He began the study of medicine in the He is remembered as a iive and hustling bus­ office of Dr. C. C. Ellis of Somerville, .Mass., iness man and an able _physicia!:1. He moved and later he was a student with Drs. O. W. from Bethel to Galesburg, Ill., in 1854, where Sherwin and J. S. Richmond of Woodstock. he died. He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth Medical College and was gradua_ted in the lie 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 l\ledical 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 .r891 sold his practice to Dr. L. W. Unh·ersity of Vermont, and was graduated Clough and moved to his present home in in the class of I 876. West Rutland, Vt. He began practice in Rochester, but after He is a member of the Vermont State one ye1r there he came to Bethel and has Medical Society, the White River :Medical since made this place his home. He is a Association, the Rutland County l\1edical member of the \Vhite River Lodge, No. 90. of Society and the Rutland Medical Club of the Bethd. and the \Vhitney R. A. Chapter of City of Rutland. Randolph, F. and A. 2\I. 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, rS.54, came to Bethel the White River Medical Association. Dr. with his parents when he was three years of Greene was chosen town representative in age. After completing his studies in the schools of Bethel,--he began the· study of 1894~ and has served on the school committee for ten years in succ~ssion. dentistry in the-offic·e of Dr. F. lvl. Celley of this place, and was a graduate of the Boston On April 2, 1873, he married Ella Durkee Dental College in the class of 1876. He has of Pittsfield, and their son. Otto V -~ was Lorn since been in practice in Bethel and in 1889 :May 14, 1880. entered the Baltimore Medical College. OLIN D. GREE!\'E, son of l\Iilton and having taken up the study of medicines. He Aurora ( Goodno) Greene, ,t'as 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 profession, and has met the office of his brother. L. M. Greene at with the greatest success in his work. (See Bethel and later he took a course in the Chase sketch). Medical Department of the University of Dr. L. W. CLOUGH, born in Hopkinton, Vermont at Burlington. and was graduated N. H., July 17, 1863, is now one of the from that institution in the class of 1879. medical staff of Bethel. ~fter. attending He first opened an office in Hancock, Vt., schools at \-Varner, N. H., ·he entered the and for the next two years he practiced Le­ office of Dr. G. P. Conn at Concord, N. H., tween that place and Rochester. He then and in 1885 attended the Medical Department moved to \Varren, where he was engaged in of the University of Vermont at Burlington, his profession for fourteen years, selling out from which he was graduated in r 887. He his practice in May, 1895, to Dr. Frank C. practiced at Bradford, N. H ., for a short Angell of Randolph, and coming to Bethel, time and came to Bethel in I 89 r, where he where he entered into a partnership with his is now enjoying a successful practice. (See brother, and is now engaged in practice. Ciough sketch). In politics Dr. Greene is a Republican, and he was chosen town representative of Warren, Dr. ELIZABETH J. CHILDS, born in Bethel Vermont. in 1888. July r, 1840. attended the Medi~al 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 .:?8, 1880. Child sket:h). Other physicians who have practiced in . L. M. GREENE, son of Milton and Aurora the town of Bethel~ are Dr. --- Angier, (Goodno) Greene was born at Rochester Dr. --- Slocum, Dr. Tliomas P. Russe]], Vt., October r4. 1852. He attended the pub- Dr. 0. D Cummings and Dr. Abel Childs. MANUFACTURING. same year Eustice Cummings of Woburn, Mass., was taken in as a partner. and the business conducted under the firm name of THE BETHEL TANNERY. J. D. Cushing & Co. lVIr. Cummings after­ One of the leading industries of Bethel is wards sold 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 fi\'e 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·

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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, Mass. wood structure, thirty by one hundred feet, At the expiratton 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 hy this com­ making extensive repairs, improvements and pany for a few years, ancl afterwards sold to additions, making it the largest and best other parties, the firm name being Nelson equipped tannery in the state. Among the E11ison & Co. This firm sold the business n1any improvements made was the erection to J. D. Cushing of Bethel and Henry Cush­ of a new bl1i1ding 5ox70, covering the liquor ing of Woodstock in 1873, and during the pits or yard, which were built new; the con- u u 39

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SORTING SKINS. struction of a beam house 3ox70, a hide old grinding machines, and it is estimated house 3ox80, a leach house 3ox40, a bark that twenty per cent more liquor is e~tracted shed 3ox300, 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 Otfs Patent bark shaving machines, tan bark, leaving it nearly dry, and this is which cuts the bark one third faster than the used as fuel. A machine for removing the:

WEIGHING SKINS. YARD AND SPLITTING ROO:\I, l\ORTH E:\"D. hair from the hides was put in and an eleYa:­ The company continued under the same tor placed in the main building, \Vith a com­ name until 18SS, \Vhen a new partner wa.s bination car, and ,vith the movable tracks, taken in to the firm, and the name was heavy loads \Vere easily transferred to any changed to Alley Brothers & Place, ::\Ir. part of the building. Griffin Place being the new member of tl1e

YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM, SOUTH END. 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 amount of invoice advanced upon re­ When the firm of John B. Alley & Co., ceipt of bill of lading from any transporta­ took possession in 1882, C. S. Gould was tion company. All the leather produced appointed superintendent, and continued in by this tannery is finished on the premi­ that position until his death in I 884. Dur­ ses, and it may be i.oteresting to many to io:.!" the next year E. G. Place was superin­ read of the different processes through which tendent of the business~ and h~ was followed the leather is carried before being ready for by C. L. Frank of CurwensYille, Pa., who shipm~nt. had charge of the bu~iness until 1887, when the present superintendent, 11. G. Safford of SORTIXG AXD WEIGHIXG SKIXS . . Sutton, P. Q., took charge of the \vork and \,Vhen hides are received at the tannery has now managed the business for se\·en they are first counted to see that the number

FINISHING ROO:\I IN RUSSET DEPA.RT}JE2\T. years. 11 r. Safford had been in the employ corresponds ,vith the invoice. The skins or of this :firm since 1883, 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 each The company now employs 125 men, and end. Each skin is then passed over the tan on an average, 900 hides a week, which table separately, and cloc;ely examined, ancl are bought from the butchers and dealers piled in different piles, according to tbe from all parts of New England and in New grade, running in numhers r, 2, 3, and cu1 t~. 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 i5 then classed by weigLt, 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, "-•,,: _:~r;~,:.~

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

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A PART OF WEST SIDE OF FINISHI~G ROOM. 43 put through a machine taking off the hair. process in order to have all shipments of a uni­ 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 freeness from dirt and lime, and the skins show up imperfections after the hair is demand which formerlyonlyextended 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 w<::stern states. Traveling men have the hides are used for perfect leather, and been employed to some extent, with grati(y­ this process requires two weeks before the ing success. but a.S their business enlarges, hides are ready to go into the liquor yard. and the reputation of their goods extends, it will YARD A~D SPLITTI~G ROOM. is expected that there be more demand for the hair put on the market by the Vermont This is a covered building containing about Hair Con~pany 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 PLACE, senior member of the firm about thirty days. \Vhen taken from the 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 a~ain re-sorted, the skins that are not perfectly tanned being put 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 n1c1kes it soft and pliable, and it is tied up and ready for the market. About r25 hands are employed at this tauner_y, and the aver­ GRIFFIN PLACE. age amount of work turned out is 900 hides per week. rence county, New York, in 1835, and served VERl\IONT 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. l\L currying shop in :Massachusetts. He ac­ G. Safford is• also manager. The hair takeu cepted a position a:s manager of a tannery in from the hides is thoroughly washed and \,Voburn, 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 vVoburn, stocked by spread, his put up in packages ranging from Alexander i\!Ioseley & Co., and for five years 135 to r70 pounds, ready to ship to the trade. was manager of this place. On July r, 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 he €'ntered the where he was employed as traveling sales­ firrn of J. B. Winn & Co., one of the best man for the Meridan Britania Company for known and most successful business houses several years, when he located at South in the city of \Voburn. This business con- Royalton, Vt. Here he married November 10, 1876, Hattie:, daughter of H. M. Double­ day of that place, and for the following four years was in the employ of Mr. Doubleday. At 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, Jul_y 23, 1886, after a brief illness. \Ir. Gould was very popular among his fellow men, and in his position as superin­ tendent of the tannery ,vas greatly admired by the men over whom he had charge, as well as bv 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 Springfiel

::\I. G. S.-\FFORD. ::\IYRO~ G. SAFFORD. son of Garret and Audra (Spencer) Safford, ,vas born in Sutton ,

CHESTER S. GOULD. nection continued until 187 3. when the death of the two older members of the firm, dis­ solved the firm and the business was closed. :\Ir. Place entered the firm of John B. Alley & Co., in 1875, having the principal manage-­ ment of that business until 1892. ,vhen 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, and 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 milUon per annum. Since 1892 l\1 r. 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. l\IYRON G. SAFFORD. CHESTER S. GOULD. CHESTER S. GoULD, was born in North­ P. Q., June 8, 1863. He attended the public ampton, Mas~-~ July 10, 1851. He was a school and Sutton Academy, and at the age grad:.iate of the college at Northampton, and of eight.::en he began farming. beginning afterwards moved to Springfield, Mass., work shortly after in the employ of H. M. 45

Doubleda):, as book-keeper in his business of BETHEL SHOE CO:VIPANY. buying and selling bark. He remained there Among the leading manufacturing interests two years, and then came to Bethel, Vt., to learn the trade of tanning in the tannery of of Bethel is the Bethel Shoe Company. This J. B. Alley and Co .• now E. & E. G. Place. company was organized in 189 r, and incor­ Only one year was spent in learning the porated with a paid up capital of $21,000. 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. Safford 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. O.~ George H. Tupper, H. H. Gilson, Myron He was married September 3, 1888, to Safford and C. D. Cushing, directors. A Miss Penelope T. Hamilton of Sutton, and buildbg was constructed near the railroad their two cqildren 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 14, 1891. area of seventy-five hundred feet, or· in all 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 with fifty employees, with W. H. Creamer in of the farming industry, as many of the c!large. 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. l\L 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. H. Gilson and :Myron Saf­ ponding increase in the mercantile trade in ford. The present capital of the company is the village. The T.erchants are a hustling $2;,000, with a surplus of $7,00::,, 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 follow are of people who tinually on the increase. have helped to build up the town in the past, Mr. \V. H. Creamer, who has been in and also of o::rr· present er.iterprising and charge of this factory since it started, was public spirited citizens. formerly manager for Keene Brothers of Lynn, l\-Iass., at their factory in South Ber­ S:\-IITH. wick~ Maine._ Before coming to B~thel, _he BENjAM:IN 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 Lynn 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, r7;6, and died in Bethel, Jan­ uary 4, I 832. 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 bis 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 illustrated with portraits of many of the carried on this farm until his death, which pec,ple who have made this place their home occurred September 12, 1822. There were at some period during the existence of th~ twelve children born of this marriage, viz: town. For the first eighty years after the (I) AsA Sl\UTH, born September 6, I 780~ 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 bis 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 : J ehosheba, who of business, which for the 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 M~y 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 \Vest where she died leav­ take his daughter home with him to Cornish, ing a family of sr,ns and daughters. N. H., till the danger should be past. There (3) Addison Smith. born April 17, 1784, were no roads in those days. and it would married Nancy Fitzgerald Hicks of Hop­ have been necessary for her to ride on horse- kinsville, Ky .. and died in Shelbyville, Ill., January 21. 1846. (4) Jehosheb:t Smith, burn January 15, ., . 1786, died on the farm where she was born July 1 8, 1844. (5) Marcia Srnith, born September 30, I 787, married :\I artin Pratt. and they went to Holland Purchase. N. Y ., where she died. (6) Lucia Smith, born April 2. 178), mar­ ried Horace Russell, and went West, where her husband ciied 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, having 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 1, 1820, arid died at Coldwater, Mich., January 26, ASA S1'1ITH. 1878. (Io) Dudley Chase Smith, born Decem­ back behind htT father on a pillion, which ber 22, 1796, married and lived in Blooming­ she was in no condition to do. After the ton, Indiana, where he died, leaving a family birth of her son. however, she was taken 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 time. A~a Smith was· married April 13, 8, 1798, lived with his brother Dudley, and 1823, to Unity Richmond of Bethel, who died unmarried. bore him one daughter, Lois Smith, born ( r 2) Daniel Corbett Smith, born October February 17, 1827, who now resides in Bos­ 14, 1802, married Caroline Kinney, who bore ton, the only decendent of this line of the two sons, both of whom died unmarried. Smith family. Asa S:nith was a prominent Daniel Corbett died in West Randolph in member of the Episcopal Church his father 1873. MARSH. business they conducted for several years. Joel Marsh, with his wife Ann, to whom Mr. Marsh has been interested in farmino-o he wcU; 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. lows: A mason by trade, he occupies some of his Jonathan, born in Lebanon, Conn., April 5. time at that line of work. He has been ac­ 1771 ; Peleg S.. born at Hartford, N. Y., tive in town affairs, and has served several October 18, 1775; lv1ary. born l\:Iarch 26, terms as selectman. _He was chosen to_wn · 1777; John born in Hartford, Vt., (formerly reprc.:;entative in 1869, and was re-elected for New York) April 25, 1779; Ann, born Dec­ two years in 1870. ember 30, 1781 ; Joel, born October 28, His two sons are Fred, born November 7, 1783; and Mason, born at Bethel, Vt., i\1ay 1858, and George, born January 4, 1860. --1786. They both reside in Bethel. Jonathan Marsh married Irene Ainsworth Charles, born April 7, 1822, married Eliza­ January 8, 1806, and they had six children. beth Farley, November 18, 1851, who bore viz: i\Iary Marsh, born in 1806 ; Irene, three children. viz: Ellen, born July 18, born in 1808; Albert G. born in 1810; Al­ l 853, married Nathaniel Whittier of Barre , meron, born in 1813; Augusta C., born in and they have two children, Charles and Flor­ 0 1820; and Aura A., born in 1827. ence. Elizabeth, born June 6, 1855, died Mary n:iarried Rollin Richmond of Barnard November 30, 1889, and James P ., born Jan­ uary 5, 1860, married Lucy Williams, April in 18 32, and died in 1842. ro, 1886, and they have two children, viz: Irene Marsh married \Villiam Adams 1n Laura, born June 29, 1888, and Ralph, born 1834. (See Adams Sketch). April 21, 1893. Almeron Marsh married Susan Pearson in Sarah i\.1arsh, born January r 6, 1824, n1ar­ 1842, and died in Bethel December 17, 1844. ried John :Morse, and they now reside in A son, Charles Almeron, born August 10, Galesburg, Ill. 1844, now lives in Needham, i\Iass. Ellen ::Sophia, born March 15, 1826, died Augu~ta C., married George Townsend. in Bethel. and their daughter Augusta C., married Charles A. Marsh, and died October 8, 1867. Laura :\:Iarsh, born in 1830, marrit·d Leonard R. Saunders, and they now reside Kansas. Aura died in 1842. - Peleg Marsh married :Mary i\Iills, who bore nine children, -viz: Harriet, Jane Elizabeth, RICHARDSON. Mary Ann, Joel, Augustus. Charles, Sarah, PATTY (FLINT) RlCHARDSO~, daughter of Ellen Sophia and Laura. \Viiiiam and Patty (Randall) Flint, was born Harriet, born November 12, 1813, married at Hampton, Conn., February 1, 1801. She Solon Cummings, and died in Grand-de-tour, married Samuel Vinton, September 1, 1820, Ill. and they had four children, viz: Samuel N., Jane Elizabeth, born January 29, 1815, Zopher, Harvey L., and Althera M. Samuel married Luke Heminway, and died in Moline Vinton died February 25, 1826, and his Ill. ' widow married March . 12, 1830~ Godfrey Mary Ann, born August 28, 1816, married Richardson, wh0 died April r, 1854, without Jacob Smith and died in East Bethel in 1893. issue. Joel, born January 29, 1818, 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. Augustus, born January 30, 1820; married Zopher Vinton, born July 5, 1822, married Rosetta Meserve, January 31, I 8 58. 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 l\1yron Haryey Vinton, born September 13, 1823, Burnett in the mill and lumber business which married Clara F. Stevens, June 13, 1850~ 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 Revolutionary War and· was at the battle Althera M. Vinton, youngest child of Sam­ ·of Buuker Hill June 17, 1775. His wldow uel and Patty (Flint) Vinton, was born is one of the very few people in the U n~ted November 9, 182 5~ 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, 1887, leaving two sons, Harvey lution. P ., born March 12, 1849, and Clayton P ., born August r8, 1857. Patty Richardson AINSWORTH. now resides with her son-in-law, P. C. Wyman Ainsworth, with his wife Elizabeth House at East Bethel, and is the oldest (Howe) Ainsworth, came to Bethel from Dudley, lvlass., about 1800, and settled two person 1ivino­i::- in the town, now in her miles north ot the vi11age. Their children were \-Vyman, Artimus, Eulalie, Sarah, and one daughter that died in infancy. Wyman, son of Wyman~ was a physician and settled in lvI1lton, 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 \Vashburn~ of Rochester, Vt. Artimus. third child of Wyman and Eliza­ beth (Howe) Ainsworth, married Catherine Fessenden of Walpole, September 27, 1810. He carried on the original farm until the death of his parents in 1832 and 1835, 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, 1812; (2) Ellen E., boin June 23, r8r4; (3) Amelia A., MRS. PATTY RICHARDSON. born August 12, 1816; (4) Calvin C., born September 29, 1818; (5) Martha M., born ninety-fifth year, and with the exception September 3, 1820; and (6) Joseph F ., born of being deaf, is in possession of her facul­ August 3 r, I 824. ties, and able to remember and tell of inter­ esting events which happened in her child­ (I) Catherine C. Ainsworth married hood. When she was two years old her Henry Pierce in 1838, and they moved to Salem, Mass., where she died December 31, parents moved to Braintree, Vermont, and for many years this place was her home, as 1893. she did not move to Bethel until 1832, ( 2) Ellen C. Ainsworth married Albert twenty-nine years after coming into the state. G. Marsh of Bethel and died March - . 1 893. She experienced religion in the great refor­ (3) Amelia N. Ainsworth married Charles mation. ~f 1840, and since that time, has S. Nichols of Salem, and they still reside in been a member of the Christian Church. that city. Their four children are Charles Her health is good, her · appetite perfect, -F ., Ella A._, Harry P ., and Catherine F. A. while she seldom misses a good nighfs ( 4) Calvin Ainsworth married Elizabeth . sleep.. During pleasant weather Mrs. Rich­ P. Nichols of S4.lem, Mass., ~n 1868, and ardson moves around out--of .doors, and en- they now reside in Salem, Mass. 50

(5) Martha M. died tLnmarried. 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,. 1855; Franklin, raised a family of te~ 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 r ;, 187 r. died October 3 r, r 826, and his wife died Sarah, daughter of Wyman and Elizabeth December 14, 183 I. Their children were as (Howe) Ainsworth, married William Saw­ follows: \Villiam S., born May 16, 1784; yer, and died leaving one daughter, Elizabeth. Bethesda, born July 26, 1785; James, born .July 21, 1786; Calvin, born April 1, r788; CHASE. Nehemiah. Jr., born Septembe_r 6, 1789; Simeon Chase, son of Dudlev and Alice John, born September 1 r, 1791; Parez B., (Corbett) Chase of Cornish, was born in born Ivlarch J 7, r 793; James, horn October Sutton, June 14, 1751, and was one of the 18, 1795 ~ Sabra, born SeptembP.r 1, 1798; first settlers in the town of Bethel. He and Alden C., born March 9, 18')0. married lviolly March, who bore him two John, sixth child of Nehemiah and Sabra children, Simeon and Nancy. Mr. Chase (Skinner) Noble. was a farmer during his died in Bethel, September 6, 1847. life, and the farm where his father settled Simeon, the eldest child of Simeon and has been occupied by four generations of this Molly (March) Chase, born in Bethel in family. John married Amanda Shedd, Jan­ Ij96, married in October, 182r, Olivia Brown, uary 5, 1843, and died January 3r, 1880. in his eighty-ninth year. There were two who was born in New York state, March 22, 1799. Simeon Chase died in May, 1827, children of this marriage, viz: Wi1lis F. and and his wife died March 11, 1865, leaving Robert. Willis F ., born October 1 o, 1843, three children, Dudley, Nancy and George B. died October 17, 1856. George Brown, youngest child of Simeon Robert Noble was born October 1, 1850, in and Olivia (Brown) Chase, was born in the house built by his grandfather in Bethel in Bethel, September 9, 1826, and was twice 1826. He has always made Bethel his home, married. His first wife, Sophia Haile, and like his father and grandfather before daughter of Dr. Henry aiid Leisa Haile, to him, he is a successful farmer, still owning whom he ·was married June 21, 1848, bore and carrying on the old homestead. He has him three children, viz. : Charles Dudley, been prominent in town affairs, and although born April 26, 1849, died August 26, 1871, a democrat, he has served the town as select­ at Bethel.· Frank Solon, born October r 4. man, and is overseer of the poor at the pres­ 185 r, died January 28, 1853; and Simeon ent time: He is a member of White River Haile, born in Bethel, July 20, 1855, mar­ Lodge No. 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 (Brown) Chase died August 13, 1856, and three children, viz: John, born November 9, George B. Chase married, second, Harriet 1889; Austin B., born February 14~ 1891; and Putnam, who bore one son, George C., born Robert S., born October 22, 1893. Mrs. November 30, 1859, and now a resident of John Noble now resides with her son Robert, Detroit, Mich. George B. Chase died 1n Bethel. August 15, 188r, 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, 17 56, and January 16, 1798, and married Betsy Riggs, bis wife Sabra (Skinner) Noble, who was who was the mother of siY children, four of born June 1, 1754, came to Bethel in 1787, whom lived to maturity. 51

MYRON BURNETT, son of Averill and (1Y 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 11., (twins) born ily to the vilhge 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, 1892; and Edith M., born July 26, 1894. (3) Frank R .., born l\iay 2, 1857, married Ellen Bordeau of Barnard, Vermont, October 4, J 881, 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, lVIass. ( 4) John, born September 11, 1863, mar­ ried Lizzie A. Rogers of Bethel, July 30, 1885, and they had two children, viz: \Vil­ 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. Sau-nders, 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) :Mary E., born August 2, 1868, mar­ ried Bert C. Rogers February 16, 1 889, and they have two children, viz : Bertha K., born October I, 1893, and Bernice Laura, born MYRON BURNETT. April 18, 1895. Mr. Rogers now carries on served the town as selectman, lister, and was the Cleveland farm, about one mile west of representative to the legislature in 1872. the village, Although not a member of any church, his James Burnett, son of Averill and Betsey interests were with the Universalist Society, (Riggs) Burnett, was born in Bethel, July and he was an attendant at that church. He 9, 1837, and follows the occupation of farm­ was married February 2, 1852, to Elizabeth ing. He has been prominent in town affairs, Bowen, daughter of Russell and Johanna and has held several offices under Republican (Bliss) Bowen, and they had six children, administration. He was married to An­ viz: Edwin A., Kate J .; Frank R., John, nette A. Warren. January 16, 1859, who died Laura M., and Mary E. Mr. Burnett was Juiy 27, 1872, leaving two children, viz: killed by falling brick at a fire in the vestry Daniel L., born January 12, 1866, married of the Congregational Church, April I 4 I 892. Grace Martin and they reside-in· South Roy­ His widow survives him, and now resides in alton. Bertha A., born April 3, 1868, now Bethel village,with herson-in-law, Mr. Rogers. at home with her father. On April 10, 1878, Mr. Burnett was married to Adeline Lillie of SANDERS. Aurora, Illinois, and they have one son. Job Saunders came to Bethel from Hollis, Robert E., born March 7, 1879. · N. H., and was one of the earlv 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 centurv. and now resides in Rutland, Vermont. died in Bethel in 1845, at the age of s~;enty­ two. MOODY. :ivfercy Sanders married Henry Lyman, John Moody, son of Daniel and Rebecca and they moved \\7 est, where she died. (Lyon) :Moody, was born 1n Royalston, Jeremiah married Lucretia \Vilson~ and Mass., June 18, 1760, and married Hannah they moved to Maine, where thev., raised a Copeland, November 1 I, 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 Roxburv. served three years in the Revolutionary War, Job. son of Job and Ruth (Buckma~) 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 l\loody, 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 ~ 1860, and was twice married; first West when he was thirty years oid, 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 :ivl arsh of Bethel, and and a daughter of Daniel Garfield, a soldier they have three children, Clara, 1.vfary 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. l\Ioody Kate, born in 1830, married Dr. Alfred was married October r4, r847 to Emiline F. Kimball, who was the mother of two child­ Paige, Jr., and died in Bethel. ren, Lucinda H. and John. John was a Cornelia, born 1832, married Holden farmer and owned and occupied the " Old Hatch: and died in Illinois. Moody Farm" in the east part of Bethel, Julius, born in 1834. went to Missouri at until his death, which occurred September the age of twenty and studied law. He mar­ ried Mrs. Mary Ardway. and they now live 3, 1869. Marcus A. Moody was born in Bethel, at St. Joseph, Mo., where l\tir. Sanders 1s prominent in the legal profession. February 5, 1840. He enlisted in AuQUst0 ' 1862, in Company A, Sixteenth Vermont ALBERT SANDERS. born in Bethel July z, Volunteers, was wounded. at Gettysburo-o, 1836, attended the common schools, and and was discharged from the service August completed his education in the academy at ro, 1863. Since 1869 he has been en2'2.a-edoh 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 Samuel 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 the best condition, he 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 to the village to live, remaining six years, 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 preYious. He as selectman, which office he still holds. He worked for Mr. Stone six .,vears, and then married October 7, 1862, Harriet Ainsworth, started out for himself, and succeeded in daughter of Leonard and Fanny~ ( Strong) amas~ing 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 Elmt-r Spauld­ rng. He married Catherine Clark who died. November 13, 1852, leaving t\'veh·e children. Nathan Davis died December 21, 1856. The children of ·Nathan and Katherine (Clari..) Davis were Amelia, Ira, Harry, Polly, Dan­ forth, Daniel, Betsy, Clark, Charles, Elisha and Jane. (1) Amelia, born August 26, 1797, died April 6, I 799. (2) Ira, born March 15, 1799, manied Lydia Hall, who bore him four children, viz: Jane C., born June r, 1827, married William Meserve of Bethel, and tney 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 i\1., married Charles Neff, 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. children, viz. : A son, born October 2, 1886. (4) Polly Davis, born September 8, 1802, died in infancy, and l\,fary Elizabeth, born died October 17, 1804. May 15, 1895. Albert Sanders now lives at (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 (Buckman) 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 Ann Sanders married Philander Fish of of this century. He is well and abie-bodied, Randolph, and died in Randolph on what is and the writer who visited him in September of the pr~s~n:t_year (1895) found him digging known as Fish Hill. - . 54 potatoes in 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 Waliace, son of John· and Betsy sided with her brothers, and never married. (Wright) \Vallace, was born in Bethel No­ She died January 12, 1883. vember 4, 180 r, and married Mary ~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 Alm~r and Aaron, marriage, viz : the latter now residing in Bethel. (1) Susan, born February r4, 1827, died (9) Charles Davis, born April 4, 1813, in infancy. married Lu½y M. Chamberlin, May 18, 1842, (2) Laura E .. born January IO: 1834, mar­ and they now reside on the old Rochester ried Oscar P. Shaw, ~nd now r~sides in hill road about one mile from Bethel village. Bethel village (See -Shaw Sketch). Their children were Eleanor, born June r4, (3) lviinot, born July 21, 1836, died in in­ 1843. married Samuel Wilson of Bethel: fancy. Charles M., born November r, 184$, married Alice Jame_s, 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 Davis, 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. (ro) Elisha Coolidge Davis, born Feb­ ruary 29, 18 r8, never married, and in com­ pany with his brother Daniel, carries on a farm in Bethel. (r 1) Jane Davis, born in 1820, died when .five .,vears old .

WALLACE. William Wallace who came to this country from Scotland early in the seventeenth cen­ tury, was a lineal descendent of Sir \Viliiam Wallace. John Wallace, son of William Wal_iace, was born in Somers, Conn., in 1750, GAl{DN .C:R J. \V .ALLA CE. and married Betsy Wright. who bore him thirteen children, and died in Bethel, January (4) GARDNER J. \VALLACE, born rn 5, 1834, at the age of sixty-eight. John Wal­ Bethel, October 26, 1838, received his edu­ lace came to Bethel in 1782; from Connecti­ cation it:l the public schoois 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 ha.<; 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 ~erved in the Rev­ fill an unexpired term. At tht! close of that olutionary War, in a regiment raised in Con- term he was elected by the people, servmg 55 four years (two terms). He was elected first Hiram Wilson married Rizpah Neff, and sel~ctman in 1895, and his services will be their children were Hiram, Julius, Augustus, remembered in the foture, by the addition of Milton, Rachel and Sarah. Ju1ius of this new sidewalks in the village during his first family was born in Bet.hel, Vt.. May 30, year in this office. r830, 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 ro, 1863, died April 20, (Dutton) Woodworth, who was born in 1866 ; Don, born July 14, 1867, now a farmer Rando]ph January 18, 1845. She died March in Bethel, unmarried; a son died in infancy; 25, 1891, leaving :five children, viz: John, and Hugh C., born August 18, 1879. Julius born August rS~ 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, 1889. and Royal A., born June 7, 1894; and their children were Mary, James J ., Kate C., second child of Gardner J ., and Al­ March, Olivia, Dudley. Laura and Harriet. tha (Wood worth) Wall ace, was born Aug­ (I) l\,1ary married Fred Parsons, and they ust 18, r868, and married Dr. P. L. Ellis of moved to the South where she died. Swanton, December 23, 1891 ~ Archie G., (2) James J. Wilson, born May 16, 183r, born February 14, 1870, now in Bethel; attended the public schools of his native Gardner J .. Jr., born June 3, 1879, now in town, and the academy at Randolph, studied Bethel; and Helen G., born December 31, law in the office of Augustus P. Hunton at 1881, now attending school at Bethel ViIJage. Bethel, and was admitted to the bar of April 2, 1893, Mr. Wallace married Mrs. Windsor county in 1858. A Republican in Emma Heath, nee Wilson. and they reside politics, he was elected senator of Windsor in Bethel village. county in 1874. (See Legal Proftssion.J (5) Sarah W., born in 1841, died in 1848. On November 1, 1858, he married Jane: (6) Royal W., born January 7, 1843, en­ Flynn, who died April 17, 1868, leaving one­ listed in Company D, Seventeenth Volun­ son. Guy, born July 11, 1864. Mr. Wilson. teers, and died July 9, 1865. married JMary L. McCoy, August 5, 1869,_ (7 1 George D., born in 1845, married and they have thirteen children, all living at:. Ellen Edson and they had one child, Bertha. the present time ( 1895). They are as fol--. (8) John, born in 1848, died in 1865. lows: March, born August 25, 1870; Mary· (9) Elroy E:, born October 14, 1850, mar­ L., born February 29, 1872; John J., born, ried Kate Wynn, March 13, 1874, and their December 15~ 1873; Robert C., born Ju1y­ son, Frank Wallace, was born June 19. 1878. r8, 187 5; Susan E., born September 19 ... r877; Richard D., born November 10 1879;: (10) Geniveve A., born in 1853, and died 1 Hugh D., bo.rn November 3c, 1881; Charles. in I 869. C., born October 28, I 883; Geannie L., born WILSON. September 16, 1885: Amy D., born Decem­ ber 27, 1887; James H.~ born October 10., Samuel Wilson, with his wife, Rachel 1889; Joseph, born March r4, 1891; and (Holden) Wilson, came to Bethel about Lois Loretta, born January 27, r893. 1790. Their children were Nancy, Amanda, Guy \\tilson, son of James and Jane Rufus, Hiram, Jay, Harriet and Samuel. J. (Flynn) \Vilson, 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, i892. Rufus married Prudence Colburn and their children were Nancy, (Mrs. Shaw,) Aaron, (3) March, (4) Olivia, (.5) Dudley and R. Sullivan, Amanda (:\1rs. Orville 0. Rog­ (6) Laura, all died without issue. ers,) Eliza, (Mrs. William _I. Roger~,) and ( 7) Harriet Wilson 1s now a resident of Samuel. Royalton, unmarried. 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 Samu~], son of Samuel, died without issue. at his trade until 1860, 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 y., February 12, 1792, and was married at the end of that time. In 1871 he built his Poultney, Vt., January 10. 1814, to Hannah present residence at Bethel and spends the Rugg of Pownal, Vt., who was born March 6, summer months at this place. Mr. Berry 17S8. Shortly after their marriage they bas business interests in Bethel at the pres­ came to Bethel, where Mr. Berry followed ent time, being 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, eral years. At one time he taught schools in a daughter of Josiah Harris of Charlestown., Bethel and the adjoining towns. There Mass.

MORRIS. -----·- .. ' Ephraim Morris, born wiarch 17, 1772, came to Vermont with his wife, Pamela (Converse) lviorris, to whom he was married in 1796, from Stafford. Conn., and located at .,..-. , •' - ••-A~• - Roxbury in 1804. His farming venture in that locality being unsuccessful, he moved to Bethel in 1812, and purchased a small tract -\~_··•·-·-.-tt11i1 of land with a house on the premises, and immediately sta.rted 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 village, 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 Danvers, ELEAZER BERRY. Mass., and sold, returning with a load of hides for his tannery. He also retailed were six children born of this marriage. viz : boots and shoes .to people in this vicinitv., . Lorena, born August 4, r 814, died at the age He was selectman of the town in 1824-2 5 and of sixteen; William H., born September 22, served as grand juror in 1831-'32-~34. In 1817, died at the age of thirteen~ Charles C., 1845 he closed his business and retired from born July 21, 1819, and died in Bethel, Octo­ active work. but continued to reside in Bethel ber 19, 1873; Benjamin F ., born October 8, until his death., which occurred October 7, 1821, and died in Bethel, June 3, r 8 38; George 1852, his wife having died February 2, 1846. W.; and Mary A. Berry, 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, 15, 1801; Pamela, born October 6, 1803; Braintree, and Northfield at different times. Jesse Converse, born August 7, r805, at Rox- 57 bury, died March 4, I 806; Jessie C., born married Dr. Han-y H. Palmer, who died :March 7, 1807, at Roxbury; l\tlary, born August 9, 1872. Mrs. Palmer died October November 27, 1809, at Roxbury; Joseph, 4, 1893; Alvin, born December 31, 1821, born February 4, 1812, 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 \Veston Sketch) ; Eliza, born in Bethel De­ McIntosh Sketch.) cember 24, r816; and Joseph, born 1n Caroline, born October 5, 1835, married Bethel February 14, 1819, nqw residing 1n Austin E. Simmons of Woodstock. Chicago, Ill. 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 I 1, r799, married October 11, 1764, and removed to Alstead, Benjamin Haridan. N. H.~ in x772, with his father Joseph Hatch, who died i\ilarch 6, 1802, aged eighty-four years. On November 25, 1785, Judah was married to Cate Beckwith. and they ·came to

Bethel :March 3 I, I 816, and settled on a farm . .., .. -~ . ' ~ ., . - three miles north of the village. Judah -- - _. ."'J; . . -·· . . ~.-. ~ Hatch died October 28, r 848. There were - ten children born of this marriage, viz: ( 1) Lynda, who died in 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, r792, was in the mercantile business at Newport, N. H., and died there. (5) Hial, born July 14, 1794, married Nancv 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 died February 17, 1858, leaving three child­ GEORGE S. HATCH. ren, Harriet, now l\1rs. 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!=-!'> Belle and died March-, 1895, leaving three interests of Bethel, and during his long lifo 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 (6) Judah, born January 17, 1796, married White River bridge in .the vj]Iage. The Eliza Swift Russell, January 12, 18 I 7, who early part of his life was spent in the farm­ died October r6, 1854. Mr. Hatch moved ing industry, but he moYed to the village from Bethel to Woodstock~ Vt., in 1833, about I 860, and was located on Church and died November I 6. 1879, at the age of street up to the time of his death. He mar­ eighty-three. The children of this marriage rie_d November 24, 1830. Irene, daughter of wete: Mary Ann, born January nz,. 18.19, Chester and Irene Shep-herd) Webster, who 58

died without issue. J uoe 21, c890. l\ilr. ford, Pa.; Carl Clayton, born September 11, Hatch was a liberal and kind-h~arted citizen, 1870, and died 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 0., born :March 6, 1876, quests to his relatives. his residence on now in Bradford, Pa., with her sister, and Church ~treet to the Congregational church Stella B., born May 15, 1878, died June 13, as ct parsonage. 1878. ( 9) Harry, born March 26, 1805, died at (3) Clara. Morse, born July 29. 1853, \\·oocbtock. Vt., August 7, 1886. died when eight years old. l IO Philo. boni :March 6, --- , died at (4) Frank Morse, born December 3, Woodstock, Vt.,. April 12, 1882. 1857, died when eight years old. (5) Hermon Morse, born March 14, MORSE. 1864, married Jennie Clogsden,and they now Jeremiah :VIorse, a Revolutionary veteran: reside in Randolph, Vt. with his wife l\ferium ( Barrett) l\Iorsc. came Alexander Morse worked on the farm with to Bethel from Southbridge, Mass., in 1794, his father during the early part of his life, and settled on the farn1 where Clark Davis and purchased the McGebeny farm, which now lives. He died Decemher 7, 1836, and he afterwards sold, and bought the Dana his children were Charlf"s, 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 1792, was thrice married. His first wife. and Hannah (Frost) Morse, married Emma Hannah Frost, to whom he was married D. Thayer, of Chelsea, Vt., and their only January 26, 1818, died 1\1arch 9, r84r. leav­ son, Roscoe, was born July 6, 1856. Jeremiah ing seven children, viz: Roscoe, Alexander, died December 28, 1888, and his wife died Laura, Alvi:-a, Jeremiah, Orlando and Nelson. in 1891. :Mr. i\:Iorse was a farmer, and with On l\larch 14, r842, Mr ..Morse was married the exception of four years, always resided in to Roxa Chandler, who died December 28, Bethel. The former home of Mr. Morse is 1863. His third wife. Aurelia Vinton. to no,v known as the Clark Davis place, and is whom he was married September 26, 1864, located on the Randolph road about two died December 26, 1887. He died April 7. miles from the village. . 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 born December 31, 1818. He married i\Iaria children. Josephine, born December 22, 1887, Mor~e, who bore him two chilc:iren, only one and E\·eiyn H, born September. ::!2, _1891. of whom is now living. viz: iviyron l\forse. Roscoe Morse died August 10, 1846. :VIORRILL. . Alexander Morse, born November 19, r88r. Samuel .Morrill came to Bethel from Tun­ married SoviIIa Owen, November 1, 1839. bridge, Vermont, in 1818, and settled in the who died March 28, 1893, leaving :five child­ East village. Mr. l\tiorrill was a practical ren, viz: (I) Ellen, born November 8, 1842, mason and carpenter and followed the occu­ marr_ied 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 Bethel. daughter, Claribelle, now l\I:rs. Whitney. who bore him three children, viz : \.Villiam 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, 182.::?. born in ApriJ, 1878. and died June 1. I 824; and Mary, born (2) Mariette, born November 18. 1847, · :v.Iarch 2, 1826. now Mrs. Kilburn Day uf married Lafayette Richacrdson, October 29, East Bethel. (See Day Sketch.) 1865, and now resides with her father. Her \Villiam married Rosetta C. Angel of Bar­ c;hildren are: Nellie M., born February J 7, nard, and their two children were William 1867, now l\1rs. Vincent; Kate L., born April W., born May 22. r846, now residing in 26, 1868, now i\Irs. ApµIeby, of Brad- Kennebunk, Maine ; and Williamina- Rosett 1, 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 lvlary estate, and carried on a carpenter and build­ (Goodnough) Day, was born in Royalton, ing business for several years. At the open­ Vermont, June 20, 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 18S4 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.,. i\iarch 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 18.21, at1d 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) \Vebster were Charles P., Sarah E., S. A., and Rosamond R. Charles P. Webster, born November 20. KILBURN DAY. 18II, married Isabelle \\Tellington, 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 city, A. F. Colburn of Boston, Mass. Clara J ., and returning with molasses, sugar, and born September 18, 1845, married W. A. other merchandise, carrying this on -for a ----Boutelle, and died in Chicago, Ill., Novem- period of twelve years until 1848, when the ·ber 20, r894. Sarah J., born January 18, railroad came through the stat~ and the 1854, married C. A. Kershaw, and now re­ prices of freighting were reduced so low that sides in Lawrence, Mass. Charles P. Web­ -it was impossible -ror teamsters to make it ster now lives in Bethel village. pay. He then beg~n to learn the trade of Satah E. Wt:bster, born April 26, 1813,. millwright with Dor:i Crane,and worked at this married Lewis Turner, and died in Bethel trade and carpentering until 1861, whe~ the February 15, 1846~ war bega.n, and Mr. Day enlisted in Com­ S. A. Webster, bo_rn October 4, 1815,. pany E, 8th Vermont \. olunteers, and served married Nancy. Brooks. January 29. 1845,. 60 and they now reside in Bethel where Mr. l\1ills, born February 17, 1844, and died Webster is engaged in farming. August 29, I 845 ; Mary Jane, born August Rosamond R. Webster, born January · 19, 8, 1846, died December 13, 1867; Willis Gay­ 1820, married Henry Goodale, and died 1n 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 McINTOSH. June 19, 1855; Rollin Justin, born January io, 1858, and died January 30, 1881 ; and John -Nfcintosh, a native of Scotland, was ]\,fartha Ellen, born March 27, I 86o. born near Edinburgh, and at the age of nine­ teen was pressed into the English army, be­ (4) Mary McIntosh, . born Aprif 29~ ing the only son of a widow. Soon after · 1819, married David S. vVash.burn, :May 25; being mustered into service, he was sent to I 843, and died October 2 I, I 864, leaving Canada, and served during the French and two children, viz: George lVI. Washburn,· 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 i.\Iary. William, Samuel, Isaac and Mary settled in Bethel in 18 IO, and shortly after they purchased farms ad­ joining and lived and died in Bethel. A grandson of Isaac, Appleton I. McIntosh, now lives on the old farm. William McIntosh, son of John McIntosh, was born in Bedford, N. H., November 6, ~776, and on February 8, 1810, he was married to Jane Patterson, who was born in New Boston, N. H ., August r 3, 178 5. In the latter part of 1810, they settled in the northwestern corner of Bethel, on the farm now occupied by Mrs. James Miller lvI c­ intosh, widow of his only son. vVilliam Mc­ Intosh died May 6. 1863, and his wife died March 22, 1870. Their children were ivlartha~ Gisey, Susan Mary, Isabelle and James Miller. (r) Martha J. McIntosh, born October 9, 1811, married Samuel G. Granger, Septem­ J. MILLER McINTOSH. ber 6, 1832, and died September r7, 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. 1864; Ann Granger, born October 16, 1834; ( 5) Isabelle ]\,lcintosh, 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. '".7as born in Bethel, Vt., December 20, 1825. (2) Gisey n1cintosh, born August 16, Mr. McIntosh was a successful farmer, and 1814, died April-, 1815. in connection with his business interests, he (3) Susan McIntosh, born April 13, found time to devote to the welfare of bis 1817, married Justin Lillie, April 2, 1839, town and fellow citizens. During his life who died October 3, 1874. Their childn:n he was always a staunch Republican, and were: George Aionzo, born March I I, 1840 ; held many office.s of trust in his native place. William LeRoy, born Ja-n-nar:y 1, 18'42; James He was chosen selectman i-n 18'5.S·, and held 61 that office for ten years. He was lister of ing school in his native town for a short Uethel 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 1866 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 :VIethodist also of the Washington Lodge, F. and A. M ., Church, and a liberal contributor to its of Burlington. support. Mr. McIntosh was marrled :\larch 2, 1853, BUCKMAN. to Lucette E., n Brooks, was born in d.i•=d in infancy. Bethel, July 31, 1788, and was married Jan­ ( 6) Julius P. Brooks, sixth child of Asa uary 16, 1814, to Lucy Stevens, who was Brooks, was born October 25, 1828, married born November 27, 1792, and died March Sarah Gambel1, who bore him t,vo children, 29, 1876. Asa Brooks died August 7, 1871. viz : Willard J ., and Charles. Julius P. 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 Octoher 31. ber 11, 1814, died at the age of nine years ; 1832, married Albert F. \Vaterman and re­ (2) Nancy S., born May 3, 1816, married sides in Tunbridge, Vt. S. A. Webster, and they now reside in Bethel. (3) Asa S., born August 25, 1819, SHEDD. died when four years old. Abijah Shedd and his wife, Sopbia (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 hin1 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 ope.ned 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 the business fqr­ Wc!.tson. He. was a musician and died while merly carried on by Merrick Sylvester, and returning from the civil war, in which he this business was conducted three years under served as a member of a band. Rodney S., born in Bethel August 16, Amelia Shaw married Rufus Lyon, and

1818, was a blacksmith and worked at his they moved to New Gloucester, Cumber7 trade in Bethel fifty years. He was married land County, Maine, where she died. October. 28, 1840, to Orilla Jones of Bethel, and their only son, Edgar Rodney, was JOHN M. SHAW was born December 31, born in Randolph November 26, 1841. He 1801, and on November 4, 1827, he married m,1i-ried Adelaide. Fay of Royalton, and was Cynthia Potter of Schroon, N. Y., who bore killed by a fall from a building June 7, 1881. him six children and died November 17, 1) Rodney Shedd died December 7, 1888, and 1869. Their children were as follows: ( his widow resides in Bethel. Melvin born April 29, 1829, married Aurelia Frederick P. Shedd married Eliza Turner, Gilson. They moved to New York state, who bore him one daughter, Adelia. He where he died May 7, 1895, leaving one son, died in Bethel in 1845. George. (2) Frank J. Shaw, born Decem­ Franklin C. Shedd, married Francis Blan-· ber 22, 1833, died at the age of forty, un­ 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. I 8 57, and they had three children, viz: Flora Amanda S. Shedd, born in Bethel January I , Frank P., and Will G. i\tlr. Shaw en­ 22, 1825, married John Noble, January 5, gaged in farming for several years, and after-· 1843, and they had tw0 children, viz: Willis, wards carried on a meat and grocery business 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 rnoved to Chelsea where he · 1850, married Cherry Brown of Gaysville, was in the same line of business, and later he· and they have three children, J obn, 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 I. Shaw, born September 25, 1858, 16, 1828, married Aurelia Thompson of is now in the miliinery business at South London, 0 hio, who bore him seven children, Royalton. Frank P. Shaw, born October viz: Virginia Sophia, Franklin James, Fl9ra, 5, 1860, died July 5, 1864. Edmund Earl, Frederick. Harrv and Carlos J Butler. The family now reside in Columbus, WILL G. SHAW, born October 4, 1862, be­ Ohio. gan his business career as traveling agent for· Sol

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OSCAR P. SHA\V. WILL G. SHAW. RALPH SHAW.

ber traffic in New York state for a number of Wilson of Stockbridge, and they moved to years. He is 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 work on his son,s farm, and has Samuel Shaw, born December 31, 181 I, 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 -he-r father in Ohio. Jane married Charles Savage, and died at berlin were Lucy NL, Martin J., George W., Granville, N. Y ., leaving .one son. John L., Hiram l\iL, Francis H., Nancy A., Fanny married Hiram Towsley, and died Jhlia A., and Willi.tm. Washington Cham­ in Chester, N. Y. berlin died January 19, 1875, and his wife Harvey married Ann Sanford, who died died November r 1, 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 r8, 1842, and they now reside January 1, r893. on a farm in Bethel. (See Davis Sketch.) Louisa married Sholes, who died, Martin J ., born September 8,. 1822, ~ar­ and she afterward married --- Fish. She ried Jane Hubbard of Windsor, who died is now a widoiv, 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 two years. George W., born September 23, 1824, married Dorcas Billings of Bethet~ Vt., and they now live in Bethel, Iowa. WESTON. John L., born March 8, r 827. died August Irvin _\Veston, born June 30, 1800, came 18, 1852. to Bethel from New Braintree, Mass., in Hiram Morgan Chamberlin, born June 6, 1823, his brother, uaniel 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 children were born of this mar­ several years, and afterward entered into riag~, viz : Samuel K.. born in Weathers­ partnership with him in the manufacture of field, Vt., August 1 o, 1858; Luther H., born fancy wood work, which partnership was continued until the death of the elder in Springfield, Mass., May 5, 1868, and died in Felchville: (Reading) Vt., July r, r88o; 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 married September r2, r84r, to Julia Morris Mary M. (Kendall) Ch mberlin, died in of Bethel, and their son, Ephraim Morris Springfield, Mass., May 21, r886, and Mr. Weston, now carries on the business left by Chamberlin now resides in Rutland, Vt. his father. Mr. \Veston was a prominent Francis H., born December 28, 1831, member of the Congregational Church~ and married Augusta :?. Davis April 27, r871, after the death of his brother often officiated and their only daughter, Mary Bene, was as deacon, although never elected to that born Niarch J, 1872. office. Francis H., went to Massachusetts 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 Bethe4 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 wife, Aseneth (Kellogg) Chamberlin, and Bethel permanently in 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 fr0m 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 ro, sided on the farm with their son, Francis H. 1882. Chamberlin, where they died. The children William, born October 21, r844, died ofWashin~ton and Aseneth.(Ke11qgg) Cham- ivfarch 9, 1846. 66

ADAMS. Adams has always been interested in the William Adams, born in Randolph, Vt., U niversalist · church, and for a period of in 1810, came to Bethel in 1830, where he nea·rlyforty years has been a member of the followed his trade as a wheelwright and cab­ choir at that church. He was one of the ori~inal Promoters of the first band or2an- inet maker for a number of years. He ~ - 0 served as deputy sheriff for several years, and ized in Bethel, and was a musician in the later he bought a farm where he resided un­ same for over thirty years. til his death, which occurred September 17, He was married in 1856 to Dora A. Davis., 1852. He married Irene Marsh in 1834, daughter of Rev. S. A. Davis, a former pastor who bore him three children~ and died tor of the U niversalist church in Bethel, and in Bethel April I 1, 1872. The children of they have reared a family of thirteen child­ this marriage were William R., Ellen M ., ren. ten of whom are living, viz: ( 1) Leslie and Rush lvI. R., born March 1 1, r 8 57, married Clara I. Latimer of .:\liddlebury, Vt., September 14, 1892. Mr. Adams is now with the Pennsyl­ tJ:t~t!ffe:} vania Roofing Company~ in Philadelphia, Penn. (2) Rollin lvl., born May 24, 1858, ·-~~::-~/·~· .; married Cora E. Parker of Boston, Septem­ ber 9, 1886, and they have one son, Rollin Parker. born August 7, 1893. They reside in Boston, 1lass. (3) Mary Ellen, born January 3, 186o, resides in Bethel. (4) Minnie J ., born July 25, 1861, died August 25, 1864. (5) Elmer D., born April 19, 1863, died September 1, 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. (10) William D., born November 9, 1870, niar­ ried Iola E. Latimer of Middlebury, Vt., July 3, 1895, and they reside in Philadelphia, Pa. ( 11) Harry E., born January I 1, 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 Ir~ne (Marsh) Adams, was born in 1863 he 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, and died in tionery, _and a few years later he added a Crawfo_rd, Nebraska, April 23, 1889. printing office to his establishment;- Mr. Adams has been in business for a longer GILSON. time in tbis locality than any other merchant Samuel Gilson (born in Peperill, Mass., on the street. He was elected town clerk in April 13, 1795) with his wife, Fanny (Pin­ 1865, and with the exception of two years he ney) Gilson, came to Bethel in 1840. He re­ bas 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. p1ace he returned to Bethel in 1847. He 6-1 died in Bethel August 29, 187 r, 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 (r) James Martin, born October 9, 18i8, resides in Bethel. married Emily Waller, daughter of Daniel (8) Carlton Simons, bor!) in Gaysville, Waller, January 9, 1844, and died at Leaven­ October 15, I 8 34, 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 lvl., born May 22, 1847, now re­ unmarried; Carl Edwin, born in Bethel, siding in Brookfield, Mo., and Durrell, born September 2 ). 1869, married l\1innie 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, born October 14, field, Mo. A dau!?;hter, Edith Emily, was 189r; Marion, born December 9, 1892, died born July 20, I 887. August IO. 1893. and an infant, Margaret (2) Frederick Alonzo, born in Northfield Louise, born Juiy 8, 1895; Mabel Edna, Jar1uary 22, 1820, married Jane E. Chamber­ third child of Carlton S., and Louisa B.· lin of Barnard, December 28, 1841, and died Gilson, was born at Nyack, N. Y., June 8, in New York June 15, 1870, leaving two 1875. 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 11, 1895. July 2, 1841, married John Crosby, June I, (10) Edward Alerick, born at Gaysville, 1879. Mrs. Frederick A. Gilson, with her November 17, 1841, married Clara Conant daughter, Edna Maria, now resides at Charles­ February 16, 1865. Their three children are: town, N. H. Frank, born at Yonkers December 5, 1865, (3) Maria Fanny, born at Northfield, Vt., and died April 25, 1895; Edward Carlton, October 4, 1823, married Merrick Sylvester, born in Passaic N. Y., May 14, 1870; and July 5, 1854. . (See Sylvester Sketch.) Gertrude Clara,- born in New York April 12, (4) \Villiam Henry, born in Hartland 1878. September 22, 1826, married Emma Taylor, GRAHAM. January 3, 1859, and died in New York . April 17, 1865. There were three children Alexander and Lucy (Kimball) Graham born of this marriage, viz: Fanny E., born came to Bethel from Lebanon, N. H., in 1841, in ~ew York November 25, r859, married and here l\'Ir. Graham purchased a farm November 5, 1890, to Dr. George Terriberry which he carried on until his two sons took of Paterson, N. J.; William Henry, born Oc­ charge of the farm and still own the same. tooer 27, 1861, now resides in New York The elder son, Guy Graham, was born in City, unmarried; and Walter Samuel, born at Lebanon, N. H., January 13, 182;, and Spuytendervel, N Y., January 4, 1863, and came to Bethel with his parents in 1841. resides in New York City. One year later he entered the employ of George Francis in a general merchandise (5) Sarah Ann, born in Hartland Oc_tober 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, 1_832, married Jennie S. Gay De­ Lincoln, and served eight years. Mr. Gra­ cember 25, 1862, who died May 8, 1892, ham was married May r, 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 solct to A. whom are residing with their parents in A. Brooks. In 1882 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 t0wn clerk of Bethel from 18 56 to February 10, 1827, and was fourteeen years old when his parents settled in Hethel. He 1882 On July 5, r854, he was married to has followed the avocation of a farmer "for Maria F. Gilson. and they had two children, nearly all his life, still residmg in the old viz: \Vilii~m E., born April 3, 1855, married 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~ 1860, married Ade!e F. Fogg, three children are: Ada Louise, born Jannary

14, 1855, married John Bradley, and they . - ~ • .. now reside at Ludlow, Vt. They have two ... -._, ~· ~-- children, Annie and Henry. Neliie 11., born April I I, 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. ?~:{t~ :.~. ·... :' ------.;~~:~:;;~~~ ~- ~' ~ .. ~~-;. ·-~; / * 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 resid­ ed with his son, Merrick Sylvester, who had come· h~re previous to that time. His wife.

Julana Gay, to whom he was married in 1816, . - . ,;.- bore him four children, viz : .,• ~ •..

~ • ;~-~ ·-. ..:/t~,:~,,, :,~~ ~ ~h ~.» • , (1) MERRICK SYLVESTER, born May I I, --· .. : <- ·" ;..;. ··:;::.--~; .. ' .. :-.·.:. :. ., -- 1818, after a common school education was engaged as clerk in th,;! general merchandise store of Merrick Gay at Gaysville, for eleven l\fERRICK SYLVESTER. years, leaving that place to start in busine-.s for himself at East Bethel, wht!re he remain­ August 31, 1882, and their son. William 1I ., 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 goods business. Mr. (2) Bazillia, born Ap!'il 30, 1820, married Sylvester came back to Vermont in 1855, and Beulah Thacker, and they reside in Sundance, opened a general merchandise store in Bethel, Wyoming. in company with Allev Meserve. In I857 he purchased his partners interest, and con­ (3) Elbridge, born in 1824, died lvfarch tinued the business alone for several years, 26, 1856, at Woodstock, Illinois. when he took in as a partner H. C. Smith. (4) Julana, born March 4, r835, 1s un­ who remained two years' Edwin Sturtevant married and now resides in Bethel. 69

WELLINGTON. twice married, first to Susan Slade, daughter Abel Wellington~ with his wife and seven of Joho Slade, of Brookfield, Vt., who bore children, came to Bethel from Walpole, N. him three children, viz: Lavinia, married H., in 1827, and located on a farm in the Oliver Smith, and died in Rochester. Joel 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, bv whom tion cleared. Here he labored and here his J he had four children, Mary, married Hiram children grew to maturity. Three were born Thurston, and died at Palatine, Ill.; Moses; in Bethel, only two of whom are living. The Fanny, (Mrs. Lester Gay) now residing in childrer;i of Abel WelHngton w~re as follows: Oregon; and Lyman, who died at the age of Sarah~ Eben, Mary, Isabelle, William, Jane, sixteen. Abner Chase and bis 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. l:_t,'l •., .- . - . Eben S. \Vellington, born October 7, IW:".~t·.-, ~~-:.·· ,:~.-.:_- 1815, was twice married. His first wife was ~l· Fanny Bullard of Bethel and he married sec­ ,.,..._.,,·. .. 'J',t·~ . .:. "?-~~-~~-: ~ . ond, Anjennette Chapman. He died in 188 5. ,: . -..... -. ·>: .. ~-"- Mary E. Wellington, born Jnne 2, 1817, -:: ;__ ·-~ married Gilman Britton, October-, 1837. ~~;i~~~- --~: . :· ,· ... :. ··A.-:~.. • . Isabelle S. Weilington. born June 16, ~ ..... :-:--..·- ~ 1819, married Charles \Vebster and died ,.,.,,_ r· rr---.- _. .-..,.,"". ... ,·-..-... 1\1 arch 16, 1 891. ·-· Wi_lliam Wellington, born March 18, 1821, married Lavinia Tenney. Jane Wellington, born March 1, 1824, -iii... married Thomas Arnold, :May 1, 1845. He died :March 26, 1876 (See Arnold Sketch). ;tJ-it2~ November 3, 1887, she married David Tolles and he died in Bethel June-, 1890. She now resides in Bethel with her son, Fred ,ii~~ Arnold. .·-· . :: . ;_~,_; ·."'· _-:_,: John L. Wellington, born November 5r· .. , ... ,tl!!,."-.. . ,, ----- ·. .. 1826, married Susie Gage of Randolph, and r1lffit; ~'.~::. -:_ - ---- "-, -- , \::< :_. -:-:'.~,/(/i~:/littl ti1ey now reside at Eagle Bridge. N. Y. Warren A. Wellington, born l\farch 25, DR. R. M. CHASE. 1828, died August 3, 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., liv~ in Brid_geport, Conn. April 30, 1821, and spent his early years in Wallace C. Wellington, born January 4, his native town. He was married N ovcmber 1835~ married twice. His fi.Tst wife was 15, 1846, at Lowell, Massachusetts, by Dr. Josephine Densmore. His present wife was A. A. Miner, to Rosina, daughter of .Benja~ Fanny Tenney, and their home is at Har­ min abd Sarah (Scales) Hill, born in Sharon, vard, Ill. Vermont, April 4, 1823. They returned to Vermont, living at Pomfret and Royalton CHASE. until they came to Bethe] 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 70 part of his life. He died at Riverdale, N eh., Mr. and Mrs. Dunham have had two sons, April 16, 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 Qom to Moses and Rosina died July 7, 1890. (Hill) Chase, viz: ( 4) DR. ROLLA MINER CHASE, fourth (1) Moses Roscoe, born in Pomfret, Vt., child of Moses 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 21, 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 Keves, of Palatine, Ill., dentistry in the office of Dr. F. M. Cilley, of

RESIDENCE OF DR. R. lVI. CHASE. and now resides at Riverdale, N eh. Their Bethel, ,where he remained two years. He three children are Jessie F ., born in Palatine, entered the Boston Dental College in 1874, Ill., February 3, 1875; Ollie Xellie, born and was graduated from that institution in October 16, 1883, at Palatine, Ill., 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, N e_b. an office in the practice of his profession. ·(3) Fa~nie, born October 25, 1851, is the While practking dentistry he continued the wife of Henry C. Dunham, and they now re­ ·study of other branches of the healing art, side at Colorado Springs, Col., at which place and in 1889 entered the Baltimore Medi­ 1\1:rs. Moses Chase now makes her home. cal College, from which he was graduated 71

April 15, 1890, taking the degree of :M. D. carried on the farm now occupied by Charter While the doctcr has a large and extenslve 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 bas 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 Mar.sh, January 31, 1858. (See for several years. He is a Mason, and was Marsl1 sketch.) lVIaster of White River Lodge, No. 90, for two \Villian:i married Jane Davis, and now years. He was one of the organizers of the resides ill Rochester, N. Y. Vermont Dental Society in 1876; was on the John marr:ed Lizzie Carey, now living in executive committee for several years, and Johnstown, N. Y. served as president for one year. After the Elmira married Henry Pease, and they State dental Jaw was enacted in 1882, Dr. resid~ at Spenserµort, N. Y. Chase was appointed by the Governor of the State one of five constituting the l'0ard CHADWICK. of Dental Examiners, a positio_n which he Chauncey Chadwick, 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 2~, 1827, and at the age was made president. He has been State of s·ixteen~ hegan the trade of carriage mak­ editor and correspondent for several dental ing. After working one year in Braintree, journals ; is a member of the New England he went to Randolph, where he was employed Dental Society; a member of the Vermont at this trade in the carriage shop of W. lL Medical Society, and he was a member of Cady, moving to Rochester four years later,. the International Medical Congress, held at '".here 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 i\-1r. Republican party, and was one of the vice­ Curtis now lives, and for two years they car­ presidents o i the National Republican League ried the farm on successfully. On July 1, in 1894-1895. He has been the inventor of 1855, he purchased the Enos ·Bullard farm several useful artides, both in and outside where he has since resided. His residence of his profession. On June 18, r879, Dr. burned in 187 r, and he immediately built his Chase was married to Susan Elizabeth, -present house. daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Berry) He has been twice married, first, on i\! ay Newall, who was born in Bethel, June 14, 1 r, 1853, to lvlary E~ Buckman, by whom he 1855, and they have two children, viz : had one son, Clarence L., born_ at Rochester, George Berry, born June 19, 1880, and Susie July 17, 1856. Mrs. Chadwick died Feb­ Newell, born April 15, 1882. ruary 5, 1874~ and he married on December 17, 1874, Eliza A. Spau1ding-, daughter of MESERVE. Zebina F., and Harriet (Mnrse) Spaulding~ Charles H. Mesern,, with his wife Mary and their two children are, Dana L., born (Youn!!) Mesen·e, came to Bethel from Dec-ern hf'r 22 1877. and Clara. born Decem­ Thetforc\ Vermont. in 18:_:-~. He owned and ber 21, 1882 "'"?,-

CUSHING. miil to B. C. Bagley a few years later, and Willard J. Cushing, with his wife, Fanny Mr. Cushing started in the tannery business (Ainsworth) Cushing, to whom he was · at Bethel, selling the same to J. B. Alley & married May 8, 1817, came to Bethel from Co., in 1882. From that time J\1r. Cushing Putney, Vt.• in 1817 and settled in the village. was not en~ged in mercantile persuits, but Willard Cushing died August II, 1881, and dealt quite extensively in real estate, buying his wife died August I 2, 1877. and selling farms, and carrying on the same. They had eight children, v1z: Daniel, A Democrat in politics, Mr. Cushing's public Josiah Dana, Fanny, Hattie, Don, Henry, life was confined to the several town offices Irene and Olivia. which he held in Bethel. (r) Daniel, born in Bethd,June 12, 1818, l\1r. Cushing 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, 1860. Their children were Charles, born April 29, 1846, and died June 24. 18 52, and Elizabeth H., born April I 5, 1856, died January 30, 1861. Mr. Cushing married Mrs. Sarah E. Cooper, nee Rich, and she died October 27, 1867, leaving no issue. On January 7, 1859, he was married to Mrs. Mat tha McPherson, nee Perigo, who bore him one son, Carl . . . Dana. ivlr. Cushing died October 3 L 1890, and his widow now resides in Bethel. CARL DAXA CUSHIXG, only son of Josiah Dana and Martha (Perigo) Cushing. 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. Hi~ 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 vVilliam vVright, purchasing a haif inter­ JOSIAH DANA CUSHING. est in the grist and saw-mill business, of Mr. Wright,s former partner, C. \V. Reed. The (2) JOSIAH DANA,second child of Willard business was carried on under the firm name J. and Fanny (Ainsworth) Cushing, was of Wright & Cushing until Mr. Wright,s born in Royalton, August 25, 1820. He re­ death, which occurred March r6, 1895. Since ceived his education in the common schools, that time Mr. Cushing 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 Bethel Shoe Company, one of the lead­ years··he·was engaged in this line of business · ing manufacturing interests in Bethel. Mr. in Bethel. In 1870 he sold his harness busi­ Cushing is now one of the board of trustees ness, and in company with Lucius B. Wright of the Whitcomb High School. he purchased the saw and grist mill at the On January 5, 1892, he was married to north end of the village, and for several years Nellie L. Harrington, daughter of Edwin and this business was conducted under the firm l\Jary (Holland) Harrington, and they have name of Wright & Cushing. They sold_the one daughter, Leila H., born June 27, 1893. (3) Fanny Cushing, third child of GILSON. Willard J. and Fanny (Ainsworth) Cushing, 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 roa:d. Their five children were (4) Hattie Cushing, born Angust 24, 1825, married Hiram Augustus Putnam, and Caroline, Martha, George, Aurelia and Jane. they now reside in Barnard, Vt. Their ten Caroline, born November 6, 1822, married children are, Emma, Augustus. Frank A., Jason Burbank in 1843, and they now reside Hattie, Sarah, Ruth A., Edwin S., Jessie B., in Windsor, Vt., where their daughter, Nel­ Charles E., Libbie and Williard C. lie C. Burbank, was born September 12, 1845. Martha, born July 15, r 824, married Cou­ (5) Don Cushing: born March 21, 1828, stan tine Chadwick 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 : ( I) George D., born in Bethel, Vt., November 2, 1846, married Mary B. Chambers of Waretown, N. Y., December 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 Bo~ton. 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 r6, r854, resides in Bethel. CARL D. CUSHING. (4) Rollin, born in Gaysville, May 1, 1862, resides in Bethel. children. The family moved to Vancouver, George Gilson died September 20, 1885, ·\Vashington, where they now reside. and his widow resides with her sons in (6) Irene Cushing, born January 29: Bethel. 18.31, ~arried Monroe Whitcomb, of Wood­ Aurelia, fourth child of James_ and Clarissa stock, Vt., and they now re3ide at that place- · (Ashley) Gilson, was born December 25, (7) Henry Cushing, born May 13. 1833, 1829, married Melvin Shaw, and they now married twice ; his.first wife was Olive Ains­ live in ~orth 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 Dec-ember 18, 1831, .Kate. · married Lemuel Putnam Gilson, June-, 1850, (8) Olivia Cushing, born December 5, and they had three children, viz : Jennie 1835, married Solon Stevens, and they now :Alice, born in Bethel, May 12, 185r, married · reside in Aubur·n, California. Match i6, 1873, Albert E . .Cutter, and now 74 resides at Jamaica Pia-in, near Boston, Mas!=. ; Enoch Harrington died in Pittsfield, Vt., Willis Daniel, born in Barnard. Vt., Sep­ and his wife. Lucinda, died at Barnard, Vt. tember 7, 1853, married Ida J. Wilson of Edwin Harrington attended the distrkt Keene, N. H., October 3~ 1882, and ~hey schools of his native place, staying at borne now live in Brattleboro, Vt.; and Carrie Es­ on the farm until twenty years of age. He tella. born at Hartland, Vt., October 26, 186o, married Edward F. Luitzsin~er of B~1t­ tleboro, Vt., December 31, 1880.

HARRINGTON. EDWIN HARRINGTON, son of Enoch and Lucinda (Davis) Harrington, was born iil Stockbridge, Vermont, April 4, 1825, au

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first went to Fitchburg~ l\Iass., where he worked as a general helper in a machine shop and foundry; from there he went to Clinton,. l\1ass .• but after seven years ,vent 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 severai 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 moniy in use in musical organs, for house, Sunday-schools, and other places. He sold his interest in the reed business, and <:'n­ EDWIN HARRINGTON. gaged in the manufacture of mowing ma­ chines, under the name of Kniffen & Har­ Almira, who married Philander Packard, rington, which were then a new invention, and died in Stockbridge, Vt. and from his past exp~rience at farming, he Orwell, now a resident of Gaysville, V . introduced and sold a large number of what Emma ~-, 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 Jate 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, 189r, 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 ~or want of sufficient capital t<:> continue, he was married to Mary E., daughter of Elisha

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RESIDENCE OF.MRS. EDWIN HARRINGTON. sold out to Ludus W. Pond, a well-known and Lucy (Whitcomb) Holland, who was maBufacturer of Worcester, Mass. born in StocKbridge, Vt., March 12, 1829. In May, 1867, he removed to Philadelphia, Their children were Melvin H., born in W or­ 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 \Vorces­ of two hundred men in the different depart­ ter, who bore him three children, viz : Allen ments. H., born December 5, 1881 ~ Arthur Melvin, He was a man of recognized abili~y, and born July 20, 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 r2, 1854, married Mary C. Jardan 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, 1~70. wife was Mrs. Mary Albin, nee Cross, of Nellie Louisa, an adopted daughter, was Braintree, Vt. born in Philadelphia, February 10, 1872, Romanzo Z., o]dest child of Zebina Spauld­ married Carl D. Cushint of Bethel, Vt., Jan­ ing, was born March 3r, 18419 and married uary .5, 1892. Melvina Bugbee, October 29, 1863. H_e died Mr. Harrington was a member of M;orning . September 16, 1882, Ieaving seven children, Star Lodge, No. 3, F. & A. ivI., having joined viz: Willard, \Vilbur, 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 \Vhite River Lodge, No. 90. 1845, now married and living in Deadwood, The iast 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 Pennsykania. 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 U niversalist 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 re~ide 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 r2, 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 l\1esser, August ro, I 882, and died Junius Spaulding, born in Windsor, mar­ in Iowa, May-Ir, 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., born May 15, 1873, 1s a school Julia Emiline and Charles. teacher, and resides in Bethel. Zebina Spaulding, born at Windsor, March 29, 1816. was the first one of this family to WIGHT. locate in Bethel, which he did in 1845. His William Wight and his wife - Isabella iirst 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, r871. His wite died l\.farch has been prominent in the affairs of the tO\YD, 22, 1894. There were two children born to i7

William and Isabella (\Villiams) Wight, viz: was born in Gaysville, Febr1.:ary 12, 1816. Francis W., born July 5, 1847, married_ They returned to Bosto~, 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 c~rriage the Gaysville road, about a mile from Bethel painting, a trade he has followed to some ex­ village. Mr. Ellis(n.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. ~n 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 N el5on Ellison, son of William and Rachel sentative to the General Assembly in 1858, (Redfield) Ellison, 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. iumber to some extent. He died in Bethel, January 3r, 1892, leaving a widow. who resides in Bethel village.

CHAMBERLIN. Isaac Chamberlin, son of Isaac and Ara­ bella (Bailey) Chamberlin was born in Stock­ bridge, Vt., May 2 I, I 8 r9, 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~ r844. and died when two years old: George L; and Sarah A., born December rS, 1853, married Lincoln E. Bolton, and now resides with her father. l\lrs. Isaac Chamberlin died Sep tern ber Io, I 8_89, and Mr. Chamber­ Iin now carries on a farm in the west part of Bethel. NELSON ELLISON. George L. Chamberlin was born ~eptember {FROM A PICTURE TAKEN IN 1850.) 7, 1849, and on December 28, 1870, he was married to Nettie 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 par~ of the township, the largest establishment of the kind in near his father~ ~oston, at that_ time. He gave up his position a few years later and returned to E.MERy. Vermont, locating at Gaysville, where he Ira Emery with his wife Betsy (Richard­ married February I 5, 1837, Roxam1, daughter ~on) Ernery, came to Bethel in 1850, _bring­ of Daniel a:nd Lucy (Barnes) Abbott. SJ.,e ing with them eight children, and located at 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 (1) Louisa, 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. lam N. \Velcb, and they now reside in Sut­ Emery died January 7, .:1883. His wife died ton, N. H. August 7, 1874. They had ten children, viz.: (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 served in the 6, 1831, 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, He was a 1863. 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, r882. Ira was a member of Company A, Six­ Emogene, born May mar­ teenth Vermont Volunteers, and was killed (4) 22, 1854, ried October 23, 1872, Westley Heath, who at the Battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1863. died D~cember 1, 1892, leaving three child­ Emiline T ., born September 5, 1832, died ren, viz: Carrie M., born May 12, 1873; at Stockbridge, October 23, 1879. Josie born April and Frank W., Jane G., born September 22, 1834, married L., 9, 1875; born September Nelson Hunt, and now resides in Stock­ 15, r878. On April 2, 1893, Mrs. ·Heath was married bridge, Vt. to Gardner J. Wallace, and they reside in George, born September 12, 1836, died in Bethel. (See Wallace Sketch.) 1840. Lyman S .• born January 3, 1839, now re­ Theophilus Wilson resided in Cabot until sides in Washington, D. C. 1836, when he engaged in teaching school, George S., born December 17, 1843, now and had charge of schools in Cabot7 Wood­ living in Washington, D. C. bury and Peacham. He settled on a farm in Eliza B., born September 23, 1846, died at Cabot in 1840, arid for twenty-one years, fol­ Randolph, Vt., February 2 r, 188 7. lowed the occupation of farming. He then Ellen, born October 5, 1850, how living in purchased the hotel prqperty at Cabot,. and "\"'v- ashington, D. C. carried on that business until 1868, and two Alonzo Emery, born March 31, 1845, mar­ years later he sold his business interests in ried Ang~line J. Leach of Bethel, December Cabot, and moved to Bethel, where he pur­ 24, 1872. \Vith his father he owned and chased and carried on the vVilson 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. 187_;, now at college in Burlington, Vt., and J oho 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 1852, the born in Cabot, February 28, 1821, and died mill near his prese~t home having been com- 79 pleted the previous year, he began work at schools and at Randolph Academy. He at­ his trade., which he ~as since carried on. tended the State Normal School at Randolph He was married May 4, 1851, to Laura E. Center, and was graduated 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 land, N. H., October 7, 1803. He was a prominent man in the affairs of the 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/f, 1885; Wallace Welling­ ton, born December 28, 183&; Edwin Thomas, born September 10, 1888; Christo­ pher Noble, born May ~, 189D; Alfred White, born "Mp.ri,£. 6, 1892; and Josephine, born September 6, 1895.

CLOUGH. Daniel M. Clough. son c,f Daniel l'vI.. 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 1, 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 biacksmith 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 oegan work at bis 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 22, 1847, now living in a shop here, where he remained five years, at Stockbridge, Vt. wi.ich time he bought the J. Wilson farm on FRED ARNOLD, youngest son of Thomas Christian Hill. This he afterward sold and and Maria J. (Wellington) Arnold, was born moved to the village, but 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 So and best in this vicinity. In 1862, :Mr. Josephine Louise, horn July 29, 1839, Clough was one of the first to enlist from. marr!ed Julius \Vilson, 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, 1841, months under Captain· Henry A. Eaton, re­ after completicg 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 Busine~s 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 years. In was exchanged Decem her 24, of the same 1873 he sold out his interest in the hardware , ear. He was laid off on account of disa­ business, and returned to his old position in bility, and after being sent from-Annapolis to the employ of G. E. Graham, remaining here .:\{ontpelier, he was mustered out June 12, until the great fire of 1877, which destroyed 1865. Mr. Clough has always been a demo­ this store and its contents. He then started crat and was chosen selectman in 1889, serv­ a general merchandise store which he has ing three years. He is a member of \,\"bite since carried on. In politics Mr. Sargent is Rh:er Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. 1vr. On a Republican, anc.l has held several town June 19, 1850, he married Laura L. Brooks offices, 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, 18;3, married Kate served about eight years. lvl r. 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. lvI.~ 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. Franct::s :\lesser, James Welch, who died leaving one daugh­ of Rochester, and their only son, Francis ter, Ella Laura, born December 12, 1880. Joseph, was born in Bethel, February 18, On May 15, 1887, Laura E. married E. G. 1884. Carpenter of Bet~el. 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, and bought a farm in the town near the line WILLIAlVIS. between Bethel and Randolph, where he re­ Thomas Williams, with his wife, Olive mained until 1889, when he came to the ( --) \Villiams, came. to Bethel from village where he now resides. His wife died Cornish, N. H., among the early settlers. December I 7, 1892. They had six children, Their six children were Benjamin, Thomas, VlZ: 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 ~ovember 28, 1866. He died November 18, alton, Vt., October 1;, I 820. He resided in. 1870, leaving one son, James B., born Febru­ Bethel where he carried on farming until his ary 3, 186g. death, October 9, l875. His wife died No­ Josephine M., born March 29, 1838, died vember 19, 1878, and their children were as: May 25, 1838. follows·: .(1) Loisa G., born August 18, 1821, Sr married April 3, 1842, Joseph. Bowen and (6) Amos H., horn 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 \V. Marion Ralph of Northfield, July 2, 1854, t2) Benjamin, born August 29, 1822, died and he now lives in Randolph. April 21, 1824. (8) Polly A., born October 7, 1830. (3) Sarah Jane, born February 1 1, 1824, (9) Charles L., born July 23, 1832, mar­ married June 28, 1846, Charl~s l\1orse. 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 DO\~ lives in Royalton. husba.nd were LaForrest, who married Nellie (10) Amanda R. born September 17~ 1833, Howe, and they now live in Athol, Mass.; 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. vVilliam Griffith of (rr) Thomas R., born January 2, 1835, married Laura Fisher March r2, 1859. and was killed in the Civil War, l\Iay 3, 1863. ( I 2) John K., born September 3, 1836, married Martha Barnes November 4, 1858. Their children were Frank \V., Arthur; Haile, ·and Gertrude. (I3J Esther A., born April r7, 1838, married David Dyke, lviarch 14, 1858, and resides in Bethel. Their children are Effie E., born December 25, 1858, married Melvin M. Cox, August 20, 1878, and died l\iarch 26, 1883, leaving one son, Glenn D., born April 9, r88o. 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. (r4) Wallace E., born December 11, 1841, married Beaumelle Parish, March 22, 1865~ who bore him two children~ Aggie and Parish.

CHILD. THOMAS WI LLIA1\tIS. Daniel Child, son of Stephen and Mercy (Chase) Child, was born at Cornish, N. H., Bridgeport, Conn.; and K. \V. Morse, who August 6, 1779. On November 11, 1804, he married Etta Raymond, and they reside at was married to Apama Lyman, a daughter of White River Junction. l\lr. and Mrs. Bowen 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 ro, 1849, to Nancy Morse, and Stephen and Unity M. died September r4, 1894. Eliiah. . 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, 1816,and came who was killed by a train at Bethel village. to Bethel with his parents, when be 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 m~ved to the village, where he died November 1865. Their only son, Walter, born May 3, 1893. He I!larried June 26, 1838, Eliza­ 2r, 1865, died June 3, 1865. On April 17, beth E. Blanch'lrd 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, AUGUSTUS 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, l\L D., was born at Sarah Bemis. They moved to Bethel, Vt., 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 l?ethel, 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 aftenvard 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., ivlay 25, 1812. On September 30, 1839, he married Desire, daughter of Isaac and Azubia Chamberlin, and they i:esided in Bethel, Mr. Davis having come to this town ten years previous. Mr. Davis died in Bethel May 1, 1886. The three children of Samuel and Desire (Chamberlin) Davis .were Clark S. ; James, born in Bethei, Aug­ ust 28, 1845, now a resident of Lowell, Mass.; and Abbie, who died when thirteen years old. Clark S. Davjs was born in Bethel July 17, HoN. A. P. HUNTON. 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 business, together of S pringfi.eld, 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 rill) 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 J Hnnton. 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, 1816. Dr. Hunton removed to Hyde Park, Vt., July 24, 1818, and there resided until His second wife, Charlotte Wyman, to his death, November 25, 1857. He was ·' a whom he was married in I 8 54, 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 II, 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, 1860, 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 lvfr. 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 lvl r. Archer did not again Sylvanus, born at Salisbury, June 2, 1811, 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 Carrollton, Lyman M. Wood, son of Lyman and Polly Ga., February 25, 1847. (Morgan) Wood, was born in Plymouth~ Eudosia, born at Salisbury, May 1, 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 r 866, 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, 1860, 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 29, 1849, Caroline, daughter of Dr. Alfred WEEDEN. and Sarah (Bigelow) Paige, who was born Samuel Weeden, son of Samuel and February 14, 1817. They had two children, l\.'.Iartha (Cady) Weeden, was born in Hart­ (1) lv1ary, born April 25, 1851. lYiarried land, Vt., October r8, r 822. He engaged in February 1, 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 spending 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 ,vorked 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 fr:om, 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 lYiarch 2, 1869, resident of Randolph, Vt. In September, unmarried. 1854, he returned to Vermont locating at Bridgewater. In 1866 he came to East father was \Villiam B. Parker, who died in Bethel and bought a saw-mill which he car­ 1890 aged 80 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 Cary. 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, 184~, mar­ .,years . ried M. B. Brown of Lebanon, where they Having received a common school educa­ now reside. tion he attended the academy at Lempste1·, 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 ~ 186:, and was pastor of the U niversalist par­ ish sixteen years, and has lived in the house in which he now resides 32 years. He h:.1s I led a very busy Jife ; 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 Leen Secretary of the Universalist Con­ vention of Vermont and Province of Ouebec,~ . 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 ~Iasonic 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, 1860. He was the first :Master U. D. of Mystic Lodge in Stowe. REV. S. A. PAR KER. Vt., and gave it its name. He was elected the first Master of \\7hite 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 Woods1ock, 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 Assistant Chaplain . of the Grand Lodge of at Tuft's College. He married, l\1ay ro, 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 CaptaiL 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 0., born in Stockbridge, Vt., lviay 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 7 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. He Howard C. married, July 8, 186o, Mary A. Hunton, Solon died April 23, 1846. daughter or Dr. Ariel and Polly (Pingry) Zenus <;., born in Bethel, Vt., April 23, Hunton of Hyde Park, Vt. She was born 1843, married 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, 1844, 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 child(en, Frank, born December -, 1869, dained at Stowe, Vt., August 25, 1859, dur­ and Mary A., born October -, 1872. ing the session of the Ver:nont State Con­ Albert Bowen, born November 17, 1847, vention. For some time he studied under married Anna Moriarty January r, 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 19, 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. Constantine Chadwick, son of Rufus and BOWEN. Mahala (York) Chadwick, was born in Ran­ David Bowen and his wife Betsy (Cush­ dolph July 22, 1826. After completing his ing) Bowen, came to Royalton, 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 part of the town, and follo\ved his well, Lucy, Adeline, and Orville. David trade until the Civil \Var. He enlisted in Bowen died in Bethel, Vt.; Russeli Bowen Company H, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, 1noved 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 Cold Har­ Orville Bowen, youngest child of David bor, from the effect of which he lost his arm. and Betsy ( Cushing) 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 r, 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, ~orn 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, 187r; and Emma, born May 15, Orson 0., Solon, Zenus C., Mariette, J udia, 1873. Mr. E:hadwick now resides in the and Albert. East village, .where he moved in 1875. 86

ABBOTT. Mass.; Frank P., born July 24, 1854,and died Lewis H. Abbott, son of Lewis H., and July 8, 1879; and Hattie L., born March 4, Arabella (Stevens) Abbott, was born in 1864, married Elmer C. Bradbury of Chelsea, Kingfield, Maine, September 25, 1842. He Vt., May 25, 1893, and they reside in Bethel. came to Vermont and settled in Roxbury, TERRY. moving to Randolph, and was ~--raduated from the Normal School at Randolph Center Ephraim Terry, with his wife Lucena in 1863. He went West in 1872, and was (Bugbee) Terry, came to East Bethel from employed as a teacher in the schools of Illi­ Connecticut among the early settlers. They nois, Michigan, and Kansas for severai years, raised a family of eight children, viz: Oliver, and engaged in stock raising in the latter Priscilla, Elisha, Rebecca, Polly, Lucretia and state. returning to Vermont in 1881. He Lucena (twins). and Roxana. Of these, settled in Bethel, where he has since made Elisha, born in Bethel November 21, 1786, his home. He married Louisa Jones of Tun­ lived and died in the town of Bethel, and bridge. Vt., and their two children are J oho with the exception of five years, resided on B., born in Bethel January 5, 1883, and one farm the whole of this time. He was married four times, and died October 26, Thomas J ., born January 3 r, I 88 5. 1860. There were four childr~n born to his first wife, viz: Abbie, born September 27, GAY. 1809; Mary, born July 9, 1811; Oliver, born Paul W. Gay was born in Stockbridge, May 7, 1813; and Martha, born March 6, Vt., June, 1797. He married Philena Ab­ 1815, died 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 to Bethel, remaining one year. They then January 5, 18r8; Orvis, born October 6, located in Royalton, where they remained 1819; Ormon; Roxana, born April r, 1823; until April, r85r, and then came to Bethel, and George, born January 30, r 82 5. The where Paul W. died on December r, 1860. two children of his third wife were Caroline, His wife died November 4, rS87. There born January 27, 1835, and Laura, born Oc­ were four children of this marriage. Paul, 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 spent on the farm with his father. In r86r, bert Davis, who died January 1, 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, w:here his brother Ormon afterwards remained three years, and after two years studied. spent in Bridgewater, he came to Bethel 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 r88 r, he attended Castleton Medical College from carried on grocery business in Bethel in com­ which he was graduated in the class of r 846. 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 dit: 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 r 868, 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. Emma died in Tunbridge. Mr. Tupper1s a staunch Democrat, and the Carrie married Frank 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 c,f Bethel on May 13, 1885, dur­ present home is in Beswick, 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 10, 1880. River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M. He was married January 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· preside'nt 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, 1841, married Susan Ray­ mond of Stowe, Vt., and they now reside in Rochester; Robert, born March 26, 1843, died August 25, 185; ~ 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 LJ., born November 5, 1880. Mr. Tupper married, Jun~ 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 Sturtevant, son of Thomas Foster years 188 I and 1882, he was employed in the and Rosilind (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, Ill., where an early age he became a railroad engineer, he remafned 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, ing the hardware business of J. G. Fassett, having previously run on the Central Ver­ which he ~till carries on. -moot railroad. In 1859 he moved to New 88

York city, where he engaged in business for Jason Chadwick now resides in Bethel, about eight years, when he came to Bethel where he follows 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, son of Jesse and August 31, 1894. Mr. Sturtevant was a Betsy (Hunt) 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 Falmouth, Mass., about 1814~ and located at have three children, viz: Clinton, born Octo­ 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 family of seven children, viz: Catherine, son, Fred, was born July 28, 1894. Florence, Annah, Lucien~ .lviaria, Francis, Jason and born August r9, 1866, is a school teacheL Sarah. and now resides with her parents; Robert Lucien came to Bethel in 1849, and was W., born January 7, 1880, now attending 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 Chadwkk 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 Flynn. They CURTIS. n1oved 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 5, 1805, who bore twelve vember 30, 1832, came to Bethel in 1851, children, five of whom are living~ v1z: 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. 25, 1856, died October 4, 1889; Henry, born Amanda Curtis, born May 28. 1807, mar­ in Hancock, May 11, 1859, married Ida ried Thwing Buckman, who died, and his Haskins, and they reside in St. Albans ; widow now lives in Windsor, Vt. Be1le, born in Bethel February 18, r862, 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 1, r867, ried Edmund Chadwick and they had C'ne married Charles Allen, and they reside in son, Frank Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick died. Bethel; Jessie, born in Bethel l\tiay 1, r870; and his widow now lives with her son, in Freddie, born July 2r, 1872, died November Randolph. 4, 1876; Harry, born in Bethel July 6, 1874; Chastina Curtis, born October 7, 1819. and Annah, born July 16, 1879. married Orvis Terry, who died leaving six 89 children, viz: Eliza A., Alma, Ella, l\1arion, 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 & McCulloch and George Wallace, and Charles W. Curtis. born March 7, I 824, on March 5, 187 5, he started in business for married Ellen Buckman, who died August himself, which he still carries on. At the 29, 1892, leaving three· children, viz :·- Adel­ call for men in the beginning of the Civil bert, born November II, 1855, died February War, Mr. Chadwick enlisted in Company F., 7, 1858; Carrie A., born April 3, 186o, now I 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 viIJage 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. WHITCOl\1B. ALBERT \VHITCO.MB, son of Branch and STEARNS. Olivia (Baker) \Vhitcomb, was 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. lVI.; 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 1, r857: married Helen Pease of Hartford: and their children are Allen P., Charles N., and Helen A. i\Ir. 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, 18 r 5. Although :Mary A., born August 24, 1870. Mrs. Stearns he received only a common school education, and her daughter now reside 1n Bethel village. he spent much of his spare time in reading and study. His early life was spent on a CHADWICK. farm, and with his brother he purchased a Theodore A· Chad \Vick, 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 J. D. Cushing in the harness business, and work being done at night. His first invest­ worked for him until he sold his business to ment irr the way of speculation, was the purchase of a calf, which he raised to a cow, Mr. Wheeler married March 15, ::: 843y 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 llethel, where he died January 7, 1890, leav­ ren were Wilbur G., born September 23, ing large bequests to public charities. 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 I 1, 1859. use of it through her life. Mr. Whitcomb was a member of the Burlington Commandery LINCOLN. of Knight Templars. Spencer Lincoln, son of Abijah and He m~rried Miss Etta Northup of Fair­ ---(French) Lincoln, was born in West­ field, Vt.~ who died December 18, 1885, moreland, N. H., April Ir, 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 \Vheeler, 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 1So I. ( 2) Sa­ here, and carried on an extensive dairy. He rah, born in Hollis, N. H., April 19, 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 1869, 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 2 5, ill health. He died in Bethel November 19, 1808, married John Wallace and died January 1881. 25, 1880. (6) Susan, born August 1 c, 1810, On May 4, 1834, he married Eunice R. died l\Iarch 25~ I8I6. (7) George, born Warren of Charleston, Vt., who survives him. February 15, 1812, died Jp.ne 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 5, 1882. (9) bert, born June 16, 1840, was drowned in the George, horn April 16, 1821, married Emma Connecticut River at Norwich, Vt., August Locke, and died April 12, 1873. (IO) 2, · 1862; Albert, born December 18, 1842, Gardner Wheeler, born January 26, 1824. married Martha Connell, and their daughter. began life as a farmer with his f.-1.ther in <.;; Lola, was born October 23, 1881; Ella M., Bethel, ~nd followed that line 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. [n connection with his farm­ FISHER. ing he was a cooper, and continued in this Edwin Fisher, son of Marcus 0., and line until I889, when he was oblige.cl to give Fanny ( Hall) Fisher was bor-n 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 hi~ school work, but returned to Cabot, wh_ere chestra during the winter months. he learned the trade uf tanning with his 9r father. He continued in this line of business Christian Hill, now owned and occupied by until I 869, 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., (1) Osmand married Polly Perham, and and for one year was a partner in that firm. their five children were Alonzo, George, He late! 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 1875, he was chosen postmaster five children were Frederick, Ida, Hattie, holding that office for ten years. Mr. Fisher 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. Birdsell 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, daugh~er of Ormand, mar­ children, viz: a son, born February 13, 1853, ried Daniel Clough. (See Clough Sketch.) died in infancy; Francis H., born September 17, 1854, married Lizzie Green of Burlington, (2) Pardon Brooks married Lavinia Lillie and of their five children, three are living, of Bethel. They moved West where four viz : Wilson H ., Louis, and Florence. children were born to them, viz: Fannie, Kate C. Fisher, born March 4, 1858, mar­ George, Albert and Hattie. His widow now ried January 1, 1878, Herman H. Dewey of resides in Independence, Iowa. Plainfield, Vt. They have one son, Ralph (3) ~nny Brooks, daughter of Reuben Dewey. and Annie (Terry) Brooks, married John Edwin Fisher married Emiline N. Putnam Perham. . of Cabot, Vt., May 4, 1864, and they have (4) Thora went West where she married had four children, viz: Edwin P ., born and resided until her death. November ro, 1867, married Annis Dickey, (5) Mary married Eleazer Burt. January 25, r894~ and they have one daugh­ ter, Ruth E., born August 18, 1895. William (6) Nancy married Timothy Richardson­ M., born November 8, 1869, · married Lucy (7) Sabrina married --- Walker. 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. died July 3, 1894. William M. Fisher js Four children were born of this marriage,. now in the employ of the U niteq States Pos­ viz: Mary, born May 26, 1842, now resides tal Service, traveling between Springfield, in Bethel, unmarried; Helen, horn August Mass., and Newport, Vt. Fanny M. Fisher, 31, 1845, married Aaron Davi.?_of Bethel, and born October 23, 1871. 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 Reuben Brooks and his wife, Annie ben Brooks died January 6, 1878, and his (Terry) Brooks, were among the first fam­ wife died September 8, 1889. ilies to locate in Bethel when this town was (9) James Brooks married Irene Reed of almost a wilderness, and settled on a farm on Bethel, and they moved to the West. 92

(10) 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 Lilyville in Bethel now at Fort Wayne, Indiana. township.

BIRD. KIMBALL. John Bird was a pioneer in the town of Richard Kimball and Henry Kimball, two Bethel, and many of his decedents reside brothers, were probably the ancestors of most in this vicinity. His children were Thomas, of the numerous fami1ies of the name of Kim­ Hannah, Sarah, Abigail apd Alonzo B. and ball in New England. Buzzell (twins). On the 10th of April, 1634, 0. S., they em­ ( 1) 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 (2) Hannah Bird married Joshua Bates of landed at Ipswich, in Ne,v England. Rich­ Natick, Mass., and they afterwards resided ard first settled in Watertown, but soon after .at that place. removed to Ipswich, where it is recorded (3) Sarah Bird married --- Stone, and February 23, 1637-38, that he was granted they moved to Michigan. by the town "a house lot next adjoining to Goodman Simmonds at the west end of ye (4) Abigail Bird married --- Nott, and 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. J erusha (Mecham) Kimball, the seventh (5) Buzzell, born May 13, 1819, married generation decended from the above Rich­ Cordelia Bryant, and they moved to Stock- ard, born in Pomfret, Conn., August 21~ bridge, Vt. . 1762, and his wife, Susanna (Holden) settled (6) Alonzo Bird, born May 13, 1819, in Randolph, having bought the farm about married Sarah Bugbee, who bore him eight one mile north of Randolph post office, .children, as fo11ows: Lorenzo, born Decem­ owned since 1837 by Luther Granger, of ber 15, 1842, died February-, 1893. Ca­ James Tarbox, November 1, 1796, where he lista, born June 20. I 843, 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, 1875, died May 18, Vt. Hiram 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, at Mc­ Ellen, born April 11, 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. 1884, at Vineland, N. J. Addie, born December 15, 1852, married John .Holden Kimball married June 1 r, M. H. Boynton. 1828, Katherine Williams, who was born at Julia, born ---- -, 1854, married Piainfield, N. H., and died in Vineland, N. Charles Cutler and they live in Bethel village. J ., January 7, 1878. Their children were: Walter, born---- -, 1856, died when (1) Susan, born in Marshfield, November ten months old. 14, 1820, married Norman W. Healey March 93

1 , I 848, and died at Vineland, N. J ., N ovem­ 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, Vermout. and for a short time attended the 18 58, and Evelyn Healey, 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 ~pent the next five (2) Sarah, born in Ranciolph, Vt., October years in the employ of his brother of the firm 13, 1831, and died at Gaysville, October 14, of H. A. Kimball & Co., manufacturers of 1852. artificial limbs. After his return to Ver­ (3) Emily born at Bethel, Vt., Aug­ W., mont he owned 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 r 87 5. dosed out his business inter­ 1, 1837, m ·rried 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,

,...... ~iAo;,9",.,,,...... ")«I.._!~ ....:~ - when he purchased the grocery and meat .._ ~=:-~-:~\;q.-t~~-=----~ : ;:-/' ' ,t.;_,::i:t. ' business at Bethel owned by E. A. Burnett, and has since conducted the same. He is a member of ·Daniel LLlie 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 0., born l\farch 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 0., born October 25, 1880; Robert H., born August 19, r 886; George E., born December GEORGE H. KilYIBALL. 7, r888, (7) Hannah Ella, born August 21, 1847, ary 17, 1865, and died at Vineland, N. J ., married C. W. A. Putnam, August 21, 1865, February 16, 1890. and died at Vineland, N. J., July 26, 1880, (5) Elburt B., born in Stockbridge,Novem­ leaving two children, viz: George K. Putnam, ber I, 1839, married 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., horn 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 (6) GEORGE H. KIMBALL, son of John H., ust 30, 1830. At the age of seventeen, 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 Royalton at end nearly seventeen years did an extensive busi­ of that time. Here he remained six years, ness. In 1875, Mr. 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 mi!l 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, 1857, 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, 1860. have three children; Samuel Lee, born No­ vember 4, 1882; Mary Lucy, born April 13, BULLARD. 1885, and George I. Jr., born April 21, 1892. Oliver Bullard, born in New Hampshire, Mr. Cady was married to Angela W. Wood m:trried 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, 1868. On September 7, 1879, Mr. Mumford, a ~iethodist minister, died in Cady was married to Laura J. French of Northern Vermont; Andes, a lviethodist min­ Barnard, and their only daughter, Maud E., ister, died in Randolph, Vt.. October 12, was born September 17, 1882. I 889; Abigail ( deceased I 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; Azu ba (deceased) married studies in the schools of Bethel, and c:1.fter Er:,hraim Twitchell. Luther Bullard, born working 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. Tupper in the hardware Lancaster, Mass., in 1805. They had eight business, and has since been in his employ. children : Pamelia 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) l\.1artin of Bethel.

MAXHAM. PARKER. Edgar W. Maxham, son of William and Joseph Parker, a native of Braintree, J\iass., 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 :rleting his studies in the common schools Jos~ph, 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 Royalton. Two years later he left the store Braintree, Mass., April 4, 1787, died l\1ay 26, and attended the ac?3-demy 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, B~thiah Jackson, nee Peck, bore him 95 four children, viz : J oho, 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 sti11 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, aud has been selectman He has been t\vice 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. \Vesley, born· in Rox­ Peter M. O'Connell was born June 21, ham, March 3 r, 1869. now in business with 1829, at Balleyshire, Ireland. He attended his father at Bethel; Annie L., born June 9, the villag~ schools until he was fourteen 1872, now teaching ~chool; Julia B., born years old, when he began an apprenticeship November 2 I, 1879; and 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 I I, 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, an older brother was living at that time. Vt., February 10, 1843. When he was four The first six: months he worked on the farm 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 fann of Joel Mann for a short cation. leaving :;chool 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 of Samuel Haward. remaining in that place shop at the latter place. Three ye rs later :five years. He came to Bethel in 1858 and he came to Bethel where he was engaged in commenced work in the shop of Irvin Wes­ farming the following two years. He en­ ton at carriage making, living in his family listed in 1861 in Company A, Sixteenth Ver­ until May I, 1868, when he was married to mont Volunteers= serving nine month5, -re­ Joanna Keily of Randolph. Mr. Weston turning to Bethel at the end of that time. was succeeded at his death in 1875, by ~is One year later he re-enlisted. in Company K, son Ephraim Weston, Mr. O'Connell having Seventeenth Vermont Volunteers with the been in h~s employ up to the present time. rank of Sergeant. served unt;] the dose of 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 February 14, 1869, now Mrs. John Rourke of gaged in farming until 1889, when he began Somerville, Mass., and Josephine, born May carpentering, a trade he h,1cl followed to some 3, 1870, now Mrs. Edward A. Davis of extent when a small boy, his father 'having Bethel. b~en a carpenter and builder. On January 27, 1867 he was married to MILLER. Sarah )Jeff, who bore. him one son, Walter George M. Miller was born in Roxham, H. Baker, now in the employ of the Central Canada, August I 6. I 843. Before reaching Vermont Railroad Compaay at Bethel. Mr. his majority he was employed as a clerk in Baker now resides ·on Church street in Bethel the clothing business at Champlain, N. Y., village. 96

WRIGHT. part of the village, and did a successful grist WILLIAM WRIGHT, son of John and Mary and lumber business. Two years later they (Huntoon) Wright, was born in Hanover, bought this property and their busines was carried on under the firm name of Wright N. H., February 16. 1832. He received a & Reed. In 1894, lvir. Reed sold his inter- public school education, and was employed est 1n• Liei. b usrness. an d t h e fi rm name was in a grist mill in Etna during his early man­ changed to Wright & Cushing, lvlr. C. D. hood. He bought the grist mill at Lebanon Cushing being the junior member of the in 1862 and carried ~t on for several years. firm. l'v1r. 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 A. l\1., and of. Mascoma Lodge, Sturtevant Manufacturing Company, and for No. 20, I. 0. 0. F. He was not a member eighteen years was a member of this firm, but a constant attendant of the Methodist .i\fr. Wright traveling in the interests of the Church and a liberal contributor to that cause. :Vir. \Vright was married October 10, rS 5 r, to Sarah J. Corey of Hanover, N. H., and their only daughter, ::VJary 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 Jiv­ ing, viz: Florence W., born August 19, 1888; and Ikei May, born June Ir, 1894, and died February 25, 1895. Mr. Reed is now in business in Enfield, N. H., and there l\Irs. Wright makes her home.

WASHBURN. Seth M. \Vashburn, son of Levi and Pru­ dentia (Flint) Washburn, was oorn 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 dass of r 868. 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, He was interested in the firm 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 1888, where, in company with ary 24, r89r. 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. 9i

WALDO. KENDALL. · JOSEPH H. w ALDO, 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 r5, 1864. the oldest in a family of nine children, five of He attended the public schools and the Roy- 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 ~orked on the farm with his father, attending the public scho.ols of that place. He was nineteen years old when the Civil ... War broke out, and he enlisted in Company G, 16th 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, 1863, his time having ex­ pired, and he then returned to Bethel. Shortly after he began work at freight team-

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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 came 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. ·.- ,-"-" f Since his connection with Bethel he has ..•... _.·· . . . : . ·.: >. •, . : '. ·1 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. lvI., at South Royalton, of the Ran­ dolph Lodge, No. 48, I.· 0. 0. F .• and of the MONROE N. KENDALL. Patriarch's Militant, at White River Junction. Mr. Waldo was married October 24, r888: 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, Mabei" G., born April 14, he is still interested. Mr. Kendall is a 1890. member of the G. A. R., is Past Commander of Daniel Lillie Post, and has served as Vt. On bis return' from school, he entered Officer of the Day for the past five· years. the·employofF;·F .. Washburn, at Roches­ He was married September 20, r865, to Ida ter, remaining there four years.. In company 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 fonr .,vears the busi- Eden., Peoria County, Ill., 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, r867, 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 H. 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. (2) Albert A. Kendall, born February 8, Mr. Martin was married ?\1ay 20, 1871, to 1845,. married Sarah L. Collins, a native of Miss Lena Campbell, of Rochester, Vt., and Royalton, Vt., August r. 1874, and they re­ their only daughter, Lillian C., was 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 0. J. Wood, of Barnard, and and they have two children, Mabel and ROGERS. Allene. 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, 187_5. Vt., January 4, 1841. He received a common (5) Martha Kendall, born October 27, school education, aod·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. 1851, married William Andrews, of Hines­ He than began farming which he followed burgh, Vt.• May 1, 1889, and they reside in until 186r, 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. 18c:~. married Edward Gils·on, of Barnard, He served until the close of the war and was ..,,J, Vt., and they have no children. mustered out June 29. 1865, having partici­ pated in nearly a hundred battles. He re­ (8) Jennie C. Kendall, born October 30, turned to Orwell, Vt., and remained there 1855, died -- 1863. 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 r890, 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.~ Han_cock, 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 1, short course at Goddard Seminary, in Barre, 1873, and Willard C., born October 15, 1874. 99

CLOUGH. bas a lucrative practice. Dr. Clough is a L. \VILLARD CLOUGH. son of Moses T. and member of the N. H. Medical Society, I\1ary 0. (Bean) Clough, was born in Hop­ tl)e Center District Medical Society, Bethel kinton, N. H., July 17, 1863 His primary Lodge No. 35, I. 0. 0. F., White Rh·er En­ education was obtained in the district schools campment, No. 19, I. 0. 0. F., and is Secre­ tary of the Board of Examining Surgeons for pensions at Randolph, to which. office be was appointed in 1893. Dr. Clough married_ Mary E:tsie 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 ( Keff) Stearns, was born in Rock­ ingham, Vermont, November 6, 1845. Heat­ 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

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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 16th 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 his mtdical studies. In the spring of 1885 ,he entered the medical department of the U nh·ersity of Vermont, taking therein two primary and three regular courses of lectures. He graduated in the dass of 'b7. being one ALBERT L. STEAR!\S. of fiye to receive a speci~l honor diploma for -exce1lence in all the departments of study. Hrool. .... & \Vashburn store now stands. One Immediately after graduation he - began year later he moved t_o his present stand practice in Bradford, N. H., and in the fall wher~ he continues tc, do a large business in -of 1891 he removed to Bethel, where he now fine livery teams. 100.

Mr. Stearns was married November 15. First to Alzada Averill, of Mooers, N. Y . .,_ 1868, to Miss Josephene N. Loomis., of. Rox­ on October r9, 1880. She died June 23, bury, Vt., and their only son., Roy L., was 1892. leaving one son,. Guy, born in Vern­ born in_ Bethel, May 24, 1875. dale, Minn.. December 10, 1884. On, September 23, 1894, he married Mrs. Hattie Wheeler nee Hatch of Bethel.

EDSON. JOHN HASKELL Enso~, son of Edwin G. and Anna (May) Edson, was born in West Randolph, Vt.,January 30, 1864. He attended 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. osition in the studio of H. H. H. Lan(YilI P ~ , at Hanover, N. H., where he was employed. for nearly four years. He cail'!e to .Bethel in January, r889, and opened a photograph gallery and is still carrying on the same in the Child block. Mr. Edson has graduaIIy improved in workmanship until his photo­ graphs now ~tands with the leading artis1s.

EBER N. SMITH.

., SMITH. --~Z$f, EBER N. SMITH, son of William C. and ,.,.. =1;~:) . Mary (Allen) Smith, was born in Mooers, N. Y., August 27, 1854. His parents moved to Nashua, N. H., when ht! was a small boy, and pere he attended the common schools, completing his education in l\'.Iooers, 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 ~ere 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, lo~ated in the Bascom House Bloc_k OG 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. 0. 0. F., at Billings, Mont. Edson was married July 2, r887, to Lillian. He has been twice married. E. Brown, of Bethel, Vt. IOI

ADAMS. He was married June·18, 1887, -to Fanny R. ScoTT ADA.1\1S, son of John Quincy and Chadwick. of Norwich, Vt., and their only ·Philena (Roberts) Adams, was born in Porn­ son, Robert~ was born December 19, 1891. -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, y~ .. 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 s~arted out to work for 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 qusiness 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

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: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 years 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 thcre he was employed in the jewelery store -of J. P. Wexler for two years, and he was in the store of E. Sagendorph, of Worcester, for one year. In January, 1887, he ca.me to B<:thel, taking and carrying on the jewelery business formerly run by L. H. Edson. A granite quarry has recently been developed in the eastern part of Bethel and lvlr. 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 ·twe.en these two lines of business. people, and the industry bas nearly a hundred I02 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, 1885, to :.\Iiss his stock to Frank L. Martin, and returned ~aria L. Esterbrooke, of North Sherburne, to New Hampshire. In February, -1893, he '{t., 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. l\Jars­ 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. Marston-was married January 15, 18~1 .. 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

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....· :· "'. ~- C. W. MARSTON. !;f;_f·: \ .. :: . ~~~-~;.~. ___ ·: ·r1~~~-- -=.-.: MARSTON. ~=t··:·· . .. ,,-. CHARLES \V. i\fARSTO:X, son of Ezpa and Louisa (Flowers) Marston, was born in Cornish, N. H., March 17, 1860. When he was six years old his mother died and his father moved to Warren, N. H., .where he lived with his grandpare::ts and attended school for a time. He afterwards attended the Newbury Seminary, and the New Hamp­ shire Commercial College, and was graduated from the'fatter institution in the class of 188~. For the nine years foilowing his graduation K. P. STOCKWELL. he taught school, filling positions in Rumney, Orford, Piymouth and Haverhill, and for two native town, he attended the State 1' ormal 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 l-~ar­ 1892. During his course of study he taught nard, Mr. Marston was attracted to B~thel school a year in Rochester, and at the close by the splendid business outlook offered of his school work, he accepted a position in 103 the general merchandise store of Brooks & JOHNSON. Washburn, at Bethel, Vt. He remained Bent V. Johnson, son of Francis and wit.h them until July, i894, when he accepted Fanny (Haven) Johnson, was born in Ben­ a position as clerk and general manager of son, Vt., November 17, 1877. His parents the mercantile business of the W. A. 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 be~nl::> work in the store of J. H. Talbot, store formerly occupied by J. T. Sisco & Son, of Northfield,. Vt., learning the tailor~s trade. successors to E. A. Max.ham, and has re­ He first came to Bethel, September 1, 1895, fitted and stocked the same, making it the and here he started in business for himself best eqtiipped 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 \.Vashington, Vt.

INDEX.

Abbott, L. H., 86 Family History, Adams, (Family History) - 66 Fish, Willis L., Adams, R. S ., - - IOI Fisher, Edwin, - 90 Ainsworth, (Family History) 49 Gay, Paul, - 86 Archer, Samuel, 83 Gilson, (Family History) 66 Arnold, (Family History) - 79 Gilson, (Family History J - 73 Baker, Wesley F., 95 G~uld, Chester S., 44 Bennett, Rev. John 0., 16 Graham, (Family History) 67 Berry, (Family History) 56 Harrington, ( Family History) - 74 Bethel, History of, - I Hatch, (Family History) - 57 Bethel Shoe Company, 45 Hibbard, John W., 78 Bethel Tannery, Tl-ie, 37 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 Blodgett; 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,· 85 Hunton, Hon. Augustus P., 28 Chad wick, Theodore, - 89 McWain, Edwin J., 32 Chamberlin, ( Family History) 65 Mill er, 0 liver Hazard Perry, 30 Chamberlin, (Family History) 77 11ills, Mason P., 28 Chase, (Family History> 50 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, Romanza, 30 Clough, ( Family History) - 79 Weymouth, Daniel Fulsom, 30 Clough, Dr. L. M., 99 Williams, Charles H., - 32 Cono-rerrational Church, 18 0 ~ Wilson, Guy, Curtis, (Family History) 88 33 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) 48 Edson, J. H., 100 Martin, Frank L., - 98 Ellison, Nelson, 77 Maxham, Edgar W ., - 94 Emery, (Family History) 77 McIntosh, (Family History) 60 106

MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS, 33 Roll of Bethel Soldiers, 26 Dr. Bradford, Philander D., 35 Safford, M. G .. 44 Dr. Burbank, Asahel, 34 Sanders, (Family History) 52. Dr. Chase, Rolla Miner, 36 Sargent, (Family History) 80 Dr. Child, Elizabeth J ., 36 Shaw, (Family History) 63 Dr. Clough, L. W., ·36 Shedd, (Family History) 62 Dr. Denison, Joseph A., 34 Smith, (Family History) 46 Dr. Farnham. - 34 Smith, Eber M., 100 Dr. Fiske, - 34 Soper, Almon A., - 88 Dr. Gallup, Joseph A., 33 Spaulding, (Family History) - 76 Dr. Greene, L. M., 36 Stearns, Albert L .. - 99 Dr. Greene, Olin D., - 36 Stearns, Charles C., 89 Stockwell, K. P ., 102 ·Dr. Kendrick, Asahel, 35 Sturtevant, Edwin, Dr. Morgan, Hiram, 34 87 Sylvester, (Family History) 68 Dr. Morse,John M., 35 Terry, (Family History) 86 Dr. Nichols, George, 33 Town Representatives of Bethel, - Dr. Paige, Alfred, - 34 23 Trevett, Rev. J. B., 18 Dr. Paige, Alfred, Jr., - 34 Tupper, (Family History) - 87 Dr. Palmer, Henry, 34 Universalist Meeting House, - Dr. Perry, C. C., 35 13 Vermont Hair Company, Dr. Spaulding, M. C., 35 43 Waldo, Joseph, Dr. Terry, Ormon, 35 97 Wallace, (Family History) Dr. VanDusen, George, 35 54 Washburn, Seth M., Dr. Woodworth, James M., 34 96 Weeden, Samu~!, 83 Meserve, (Family History) 71 Webster, (Family History) 59 Miller, George M., - 95 Wellington, (Family History) 69 Moody, ( Family History) 52 Weston, Irvin, 65 Morrill, (Family History) - 58 Wheeler, (Family History) 90 Morris, (Family History) 56 Whitcomb, Albert, - 89 Morse. (Family History) - 58 Whitcomb High School, 21 ~oble, (Family History) 50 Williams, (Family History) 80 Q"Connell, Peter M., 95 Wilson, ( Family History) 55 Parker, (Family History) -94 Wilson, (Family History) 78 Parker, Rev. S. A., - 84 Wight, (Family History) 76 Place, Griffin, - 43 vVood, Lyman l\f., - 83 Richardson, (Family Histo~y) 48 Wright, \Villiam, 96 Rogers, Edward C., 98 Index to Cuts and Illustrations.

Adams, R. S., - - IOI Parker, Rev. S. A., 84 Adams, William R., 66 Place, Griffin, - 43 ~rnold, Hon. Fred, 79 Residence of Dr. R. M. Chase, 70- Berry, Eleazer, 56 Residence of Mrs. Edwin Harrington, 75 Bennett, Rev. John O .. 15 Richardson, Mrs. Patty, 49 Bethel Town Hall, - II Safford, l\tI yron G., 44 Bethel Village, (1895) - 3 Sanders, Albert, 53. Blackman, Rev. V. W., 20 Scene on White River at Bethel, 27 Burnett, Myron, 5I Scene on White River at Bethel, 2~ Central Vermont R.R. Depot, 3I Shaw, John M., 64 Chase, Dr. R. M ., 69 Shaw, Oscar P .• 64 Christ Episcopal Church, - 17 Shaw, Ralph, - 64 Clough, Dr. L. W., 99 Shaw, Will G~, 64 Congregational Church, 19 Sorting Skins, (Tannery) 39 Cushing, Carl D ., 73 Smith, Asa, 47 Cushing, Josiah Dana, 72 Smith, Eber N., - IOO Davison, Prof. F. P., - '?"'-.) Stearns, Albert L., - 99· Day, Kilburn, 59 Stockwell, K. P ., - 102. Edson, J. H., - - IOO Sylvester, Merrick, - 68 Ellison, Nelson, 77 Tannery Employees, A group of, 37 Factory of the Bethel Shoe Company, - 45 Tupper, George H., 87 Finishing Room, A part of East Side U niversalist Church 14 of, (Tannery) 42 View of Church Street from East Hill, 5 Finishing Room, A part of West Side View of River Street from East Hill, - T of (Tannery) 42 Waldo, Joseph, 97 Finishing Room and Russet Depart- Wallace, Gardner J., 54- ment, (Tannery) - 41 Weighing Skins, (Tannery) 39 Fish, Willis S., 101 West side of Main Street and Wright Gould, Chester S., 44 & Cushing Mill, 9 Harrington, Edwin, 74 \Vhitcomb, Albert, 89- Harrington, Mrs. Edwin, 74 Wbitcomb High School, 22. Hatch, George S.~ - 57 Williams, Thomas, 8 r Hunton, Hon. A. P ., 82 Works of the G. & E. G. Place Tannery 38 Kendall, Monroe N ., 97 Wright, William, 96 Kimball, George H., 93 Yard and Splitting Room, North End, Main Street, looking south, 25 {'fannery) - 40 Marston, C. W., - 102 Yard and Splitting Room, South End, ¥cl ntosh, Herbert M .. 6r (Tannery) - 40, McIntosh, J. Miller, 6o