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A uditing AU USTUS N H AND G .

P M LwUGH ALL M C UL U H HALL . cCU H P. C LO G EDMUND SEYMOUR I I —OB ECT S ARTICLE . J

The Objects of this Association shall be : To assemble in social gatherings ; to renew and extend affiliations ; to perpetuate the his to rical traditions and to promote the welfare o f the Lake Champlain

Valley .

—M B RS P ARTICLE III . EM E HI

o f There Shall be four classes members , as follows

s — SECT ION 1 . Active member persons who at some time have been residents or property owners in the Lake Champalin Valley or

o o r . neighb rhood , who are interested in its history and development 2 — the SECTION . Associate members persons not residing in City of New York or within fi fty miles thereof , who are or at some time have been residents or property owners in the Lake Champlain Valley or neighborhood .

e — SECTION 3 , Hono rary m mbers the Governor of the State of ‘ New Go York , the vernor of the State of Vermont , the Lieutenant

Of Governor the Province of Quebec , and such others as shall be

o f th elected by unanimous vote e Board of Governors . m SECT ION 4 . Any person eligible to me bership may become a life member and be entitled to all privileges of active membership by f payment of One Hundred Dollars in lieu o dues . — ARTICLE IV . OFFICERS

o fli cers t : The of the Association shall consis of A President,

- four Vice Presidents , a Secretary , a Treasurer, and an Historian .

“ They shall be elected by the active members of the Association at its

i c annual meet ng, except that the Se retary and Treasurer shall be

c th e f ele ted by Board of Governors , and all o ficers shall hold office

ne for o year and until their successors are elected .

3 a a At le st thirty d ys before the Annual Meeting in each year, n n 1910 n begin i g with , the Board of Gover ors Shall elect a Committee to nominate a ticket to be voted for at the annual election , and a list of such nominees shall be sent to each active member of the Associa h tion at least fi fteen days before such annual meeting . Not ing herein contained shall prevent the nomination and election to office at such meeti ng o f any membe rs who have not been nominated by the Co m mi e tt e .

I - D S R ART CLE V . POWERS AND UTIE OF OFFICE S

- The President or, in his absence , one of the Vice Presidents , shall

o f preside at all meetings the Association . The Secretary sha ll issue all notices of meeti ngs Of the Associa

f r the o . tion, Board Gove nors and the standing committees He shall keep records of such meetings and conduct the correspondence of the

Association .

The Treasurer shall collect , and under the direction of the Board o f o G vernors shall disburse , the funds of the Association and shall

e o keep prop r accounts there f .

I —T H E B R OV R AR TICLE V . OA D OF G E NORS

There shall be a Board o f Governors consisting of the officers Of the Association and fi fteen other members . Such fi fteen other mem

a f bers shall be elected by the Board , five each ye r , to hold o fice for l three years and until their successors are elected . The Board shal have charge of the business affairs and shall appropriate funds for the ex

o f o r penses the Association , but it Shall not contract authorize any indebtedness exceeding the net balance then remaining unappropriated

r r in the t easury . It shall have power to fill , for the unexpired te m ,

ma any vacancy which y occur from death , or resignation among the

fii cer e o f o s or memb rs the Board and shall , as occasion may require , m - a nd e . ak by laws , rules regulations , and appoint standing committees

—A SS To M B RS P D S ET R VII. M I I N EM E HI UE E C . A TICL D O , ,

SECTI N 1 e O . Candidates for admission to memb rship must be proposed by a member of the Association in wr iting. The applica

a tion must st te the name , occupation and residence of the candidate,

4 he SECTION 4 . T Board of Governors shall have power by vote of a maj ority o f its members to suspend o r expel any member of the

Association for conduct on his part calculated to endanger the welfare ,

r c a t the n n inte est , or har c er of Association , an opportu ity bei g first gi ven such member to be heard before the Board in his defense .

—M T ARTICLE VI II . EE I NGS

o f SECTION 1 . The annual meeting the Association Shall be held

o . at a t ime and place, designated by the B ard of Governors In connec

for d n arrange a inner to be held u der the auspices of the Association . 2 o SECTION . Special meetings f the Association may be called

e th i shall be given to th members of all meetings of e Assoc ation .

I" —AM EN MENTS ARTICLE . D

No amendment o f the Constitution Shall be made except written request o f at least ten members of the Association or

m o recom endation Of the Board of G vernors , and then only

ffi - a rmative vote of three fourths of the members present . a i o u r United St tes , to dr nk to the health of beloved country and the

E e . . President, His xc llency, Warren G Harding I will ask you to rise and drink a toast .

(The guests arose and drank a toast to the President . ) It has seemed eminently fitting to your Board of Governors that we should pause a moment in our festivities and remember the losses

in a that we have sustained during this past year the de ths of Julius H .

Seymour, Walter C . Witherbee , and Charles E . Bush , all loyal mem

f i and bers o th s Association . The first last have be en members from e its foundation and also memb rs of the Board of Go vernors . Suitable

ou r memorials will appear in Year Book, but it seemed right that we Should pause here and testify to the love and esteem in which we held

o u r these men . I will ask y to rise and d ink a silent toast to the

o f e r s f memory thes th ee member o the Association .

(The guests arose and drank a Silent toast . )

I would like to take this opportunity of thanking the members of this Association for the honor conferred upon me by being elected

. ff your President I esteem this as a token of regard and a ection . I

f r thank you o it . l We have never , in my recol ection, made any distinct reference to the ladies who have been present at our various dinners, who made n them such a success, and who are here in such lovely evide ce tonight .

o f The Champlain Valley rings with stories and deeds men , but so far

6 o f the part tha t the women played in the development Of this section

f t o u r o the country: I would throw o u the suggestion to members , that it mi ght be and it is a very worthy theme for someone to write “ an adequate hi story of the Women o f the Cha mplain Valley .

th f Our first speaker comes to us from e State o Vermont . He

th e t o f t also represents that gem of State , the Ci y Burling on , and hi gh up overlooking that city stand th e buildings of the Oldest univer

r o f o f i 1791 si y that State , the University Vermont , founded n , with which he is connected . The speaker has told me what his subj ect is—“ The Lake that Is f t . the Gate o the Country . Well , I have been hinking over that You know it is not the duty of a toastmaster to anticipate the points that

to sa a speaker is going make , and I venture to y that possibly he has not thought o f cons idering his subj ect in the same light that I am f going to presently . It seems to me that that section o the country

a - instead of being called merely gate might be called a flood gate , l h especial y for the t irsty New Yorkers , because by highway and wate—rway and airway there seems to be coming to this State all the i t . O t me well , liquid nourishment from our sis er nation f course,

o f o ur o wn some citizens , I presume , have to go and get it on their

to A story is told about a _ man that went Burlington and came l back . When he wa ked down to the Grand Central it was noticed

m " that his hip pocket bulged quite pro inently , and he went out into the crowd onForty- second Street and was bumped by a Slow moving

to taxi , and he was heard exclaim as he felt the fluid run down hi s “ " b O . ody, h, Lord , I hope that is blood Now that yo u people o n the other Side of the Lake may not be j ealous because I have selected Burlington , I want to tell you about Of another man that came down and was met by a friend his , and the

friend noticed that the gentleman was very much excited , and he said, ‘ “ "" “ What is the matter, Jim He says , Who was that man that wrote

’ " “ a o t " n b ut man s inhumani y to men His friend replied , I do not k ow . " i s the " Why , Jim , what trouble He said , I would just like to get

7 at least for the time being, any unpleasant references to the land grants

Of the days of Cadwallader Colden , of the hostilities Of Governor

o f fi Clinton , or any dif culties that the Green Mountain Boys may have f had with the New York State o ficials .

New York has so many lakes, and some of them so much greater

o f than Lake Champlain , that perhaps we people Vermont take a little

a o u more interest in Ch mplain than y do here in New York State, but this gathering here this evening surely is evidence that a goodly number o f people in this State are interested in Lake Champlain . Wh en the Iroquois Indians named the lake “ The Lake that is the " Gate o f the Country they showed greater sense and greater discrimina tion in their choice o f a name than some o f our Anglo -Saxon forbears in the choice o f geographical names which they made ; because some o f

“ o u r names seem to lack somewhat in fitness , whereas some o f the

a Indian names cert inly were beautiful and proper, and this in par “ la r fittin l — t icu , it seems to me, describes very g y Lake Champlain The

r Lake that is the Gate of the Count y . From time immemorial the lake has stretched down from the Canadian border and furnished a broad highway long before there was any other highway ; a highway

8 o for war purp ses, and in later days a highway for peace . It was a

o f wa s a highway which advantage t ken by our Colonial forefathers , — a highway tha t was used in three different wars the French and R 12 Indian War, the War o f the evolution, and the War of 18 ; and

a rs m e in l ter yea it has been a highway of co m rce . It ma y be tha t I Sha ll use my text only a s a point of departure rather than as a goal o n which my eyes Shall be fixed all the way through . It seems to me that the idea tha t the Lake is the Gate Of

u r z the Co nt y emphasi ed , perhaps, quite as well as anything else could do a o f , the strategic import nce which this body water has held in

American history for more than three centuries .

W u h t e . e were fort nate , indeed , in choice of a discoverer Samuel

o f Champlain is one the finest figures in American Colonial history .

I suppose some day somebody may arise , who has delved deeply into “ hi o r a nd storical matters, into gossip, may write something called The " Real Sa muel de Champlain . It may be that the records will Show some things that would indicate that h e wa s no better than o u r public

i a cri i men today, and one o f our chief nat on l sports seems to be the t

m . cis a . of the c reers of our public men I hope that our attention , no w so t P given largely to the Vols ead Act and to Excess rofits , may

o f prevent that sort thing from being done in the near future, because we would like to keep a few heroes who are not subject to the criticism

ha i o f o u r o wn tha t s been v sited upon many public men . I want to ask a few questions in connection with Lake Cham

e Or plain history that hitherto have be n unanswered , at least call your

" o f b att ention to some these points , ecause some of the members of this Association may aid in solving some Of these puzzles . You may remember that some fi fty o r seventy-five years ago — there were discovered in northern Vermont I think it was n—ear th e bo un dary line between the towns of Swanton and Highgate some

m nds Indian ori or graves , and the relics found in those mounds indi ca ted a higher degree o f civilization than was posse ssed by any of the

Indi ans with whom o u r ancestors were familiar . Certain implements and musical instruments were found the like o f which none of the Indians in the time of o ur own ancestors had seen or knew anything f .Nw th e e o about . o , question aris s what tribe Indians lived there at

9 - that time , and how many centuries had elapsed betwee n their passing and the coming o f white men to inhabit that region of northern Ver

mont and southern Canada .

1827 was o o f In there disc vered , in the town Irasburg, an ancient a l t shirt of m il , somewhat corroded , rol ed up and hidden away be ween

e the roots O f a great birch tree . How did that Shirt of mail com

" “ there IS it possible that some explorer came into what is now the State of Vermont before Samuel de Champlain discovered the Lake and the region adjacent to it " That is a mystery which never yet has been solved so far as I know . The records show that Samuel de Champlain entered the lake which

o n 1 609 bears his name the fourth day Of July , , a day Of good omen , and further that his batt le with the Indians was fought o n the 30th o f t July . There never has been any satisfac ory explanation of the length of time that elapsed between his entrance into the Lake and the date

“ ’ he r Of t battle . We know that he entered the enemy s count y

a t b but and had to travel c refully , some of the ime y night , it is not

a to f r f an easy m tter account o the greater part o a month . It did not take that lengt h o f ti me surely to go from the northern end of the Lake a to the southern extremity . The Indi ns usually had three or four stopping points along the Lake . Under ordinary circumstances it o r m conditions that prevail now , was Cha plain mistaken in what he saw , or did he seek to embellish his tale in order to make it read well " Did Champlain ever set foot on what is no w the State o f Ver " So ca n mont far as I find in the records , nothing is said about

. to D it Perhaps he was partial the State of New York . id he land o n Isle La Motte " There is no record to indicate it so we can say beyond question that he did . I would like to call your attention briefly to a few Of the im portant events that have happened o n Lake Champlain and in its i n vicinity, as though you were look ng at pictures thrown o the screen , in order that we may have a summary of some o f these important events .

o f The first picture , after the discovery the Lake by Champlain, i probably would be the Jesuit Fathers com ng south along the Lake , or north, as the case might be , endeavoring to convert the Indians .

men ff They were heroic figures , who su ered very greatly in order to t carry the Christian faith o the Indians . A French outpost was established at Isle La Motte in 1666 to protect the settlers in the St . La wrence Valley from the Iroquois

’ e a i “ Indians , who had b en hostile following Ch mpla n s battle with them .

I Should say in passing, before we leave the subject of Isle La

Motte , that the first confirmation ever given by a Catholic Bishop in the United States o f America was given about 1666 or 1667 at Isle

La Motte .

o f The English settlers , in order to protect the region the Con necticut D valley , established a post known as Fort ummer, which was f then considered part of the colony o Massachusetts . There followed back and forth , north and South , raids from the Indians and from the

h u - French in Canada, and t en co nter attacks or raids from the English

De erfiel in Massachusetts . The burning of d was followed by the taking of prisoners up the Connecticut valley over the pass of the

o Green Mountains , down the Wino ski River to Lake Champlain , and so north into Ca na da .

There is an interesting little incident that Rev . Mr . Williams tells

di a of his journey on that occasion, that the In ns stopped at the mouth

Mi sis u o i fo r o f the s q River a great feast of ducks , and for all the years

1 1 that have follo wed s ince then the wild ducks have congregated at the mouth o f the M issi squ o i and some o f the other rivers that flow L k into the a e Champlain .

There was an Indian named Gray Lock , after whom Gray Lock

a n wa s M issis u o i Mount i named , who had a castle at the mouth of the q be River . He lived to a very old man and he conducted raids from

o f Missis u o i R o n the mouth the q iver English settlers .

to We are quite likely forget, I think, that for a century and a hal f Lake Champlain was a French lake ; that the French held pos session from the time Champlain discovered the lake until the close

f he 17 o t 60. French and Indian War, in The French attempted to

k a u t ma e settlements along the shores of Lake Ch mplai n . They laid o

r ffi at lordly seigniories , g anted them to the O cers of the army , and

to to u ff tempted get settlers from France dwell pon them , o ering them various allurements and inducements to persuade sett lers to f e o n o . r come and s ttle the shores the Lake The F ench, however, were not successful colonists , certainly not at that period , and they i were unable to get settlers to come into that reg on .

in o f F There followed the build g Forts St . rederic and Carillon f n a on the Site o what now are k own as Crown Point and Ticonderog , and they were French outposts that guarded Lake Champlain . The story of the Colonial period would be very inadequately told if it did not mention the part which La ke Champlain played in that contest . f The battles that followed were battles o unusual importance . You i remember h o w Lord Howe died in that reg on , and you recall the battle b etween Abercrombie and Montcalm . In this region were

o f men trained some Of the great leaders the American Revolution , l a who a ike Putnam and St rk , had their first milit ry training in the region around that Lake ; and ma ny of the men who were brave sOl diers during the War of the Revolution got their first taste o f warfare around Lakes Ge orge and Champlain . the o ut 1759 1 760 After the English drove Fr ench , about or , they

r built a grea t fort at Crown Point , a fort Of massive blocks of mason y , very imposing in its appearance , a fort which never saw a battle ; and they bu ilt a milita ry road from Crown Point over the Green Mountains to Number Four in the Connecticut Valley at Charlestown , N . H .

1 2 That road for many years was used by the settlers and was a very

t a important feature in the set lement of that p rt of New England . i After the French and Ind an War ended , there came the first great migration from southern New England into the region around

was s Lake Champlain , because that the fir t region in which our New

England pioneers attempted to settle , the region in what is no w Ver mont and a pa rt Of that o n the western Shore Of Lake Champlain in the State of New York . I sha ll not attempt to go at any lengt h into the story of the Revolutionary War or try to throw upo n the screen pictures of the th e m R stirring days of A erican evolution, except to refer very briefly

h o f m a to two or t ree the most i port nt events .

o f The capture of Ticonderoga was , course , the first aggressive m i act of the A erican Revolution . It s interest ing to note that it was

u r capt red on the very day that the first Continental Cong ess met , a fact which was received with some embarrassment by the Congress e men , b cause they did not know what to do with the fort after i t was

the captured , and question was raised whether they should return it

or u . to Great Britain , what they sho ld do with it Thus it happened that it was no t altogether j oyful news that came to Philadelphia con

th e a o f cerning c pture that fort . There followed a period o f contest between Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold as to the control o f the American forces in the f valley o Lake Champlain and it was not easily or quickly settled .

e You may r member that Colonel , afterwards General, Knox took the cannon captured at Ticonderoga and conveyed them across country to

a o f Boston , and th t they were used very successfully in the siege m Boston in the ea rly period O f the A erican Revolution . There is a little picture that one may throw upon the screen in connection with

e do re the journey of G neral Knox, which , perhaps , we not always

o member, and that is that he to k with him on that journey a captured n British Ofli ce r named Joh Andre, who shared not only his quarters

s bse but his bed on that trip from Lake Champlain to Boston . The u quent history of John Andre is familiar to those o f us who know

American history .

t o f . Ethan Allen was s rongly the opinion , following the capture

a . o f Ticonderoga , th t an attack should be made upon Canada It was 1 3 . th e dealt fairly with Ethan Allen in that respect In first place , the

- a b a n o fli cer propos l to capture Montreal was made y named Brown .

to Brown and Allen were take the city jointly , and the people were in such panic that there is little doubt but that Montreal would have been w captured , if Brown had kept his part of the contract , but Bro n did n o t attack and Allen did . It was discovered by the British officers that Allen had a very small force , and consequently Allen and his men were taken prisoners and he was sent to Europe in chains . I f

t r a Allen had had the suppor that he had e son to expect , then history might have applied to him an entirely different set of adj ectives than

a s those th t have been u ed . In the series of pictures that I would like to Show there would M follow after this attempt of Allen to capture ontreal , a trip made in an Open boat by Benj amin Franklin , Charles Carroll , and some other distingu ished Americans who went into Canada to investigate the n condition of the American army . Fra klin at that time was by no means a young man , and a journey O f that kind must have been a serious hardship for him .

o The retreat from Canada is a story that is not pleasant t tell .

It is a pitiful story of an army beaten and decimated by disease , a story of an army that promi sed better things than it was able to fulfil .

re In the records that a found in the archives of the Government , i you may find the material for a very nteresting historical article , and ’ n e that is Washingt on s attitude toward Crow Point . Gen ral Schuyler after the Canadian retreat ordered the evacuation of Crown Point . General Washington was very strenuously opposed to the abandon 1 4 no t ment of that post . He did care to go far enough to forbid its

i hi s evacuat on, but the records of the period are full of letters pro testing strongly aga inst gi ving up what he considered a post o f great

he . Re l tio na a . t vo u r n tural strength And after y War was over, Wash ingt on and some o f his officers came up to Ticonderoga and Crown Point and visited those forts at a time when they were waiting for f the signing o f the trea ty o peace with Great Britain . One o f the most stirring stories o f the Revolutionary days

’ o n h Am o ld s o f 1776 Lake C amplain is that of naval battle , the first important naval engagement of the American Revo l n u ti o . It really was a wonderful thing that Arnold did

e with a fleet very poorly equipped , his ships b ing much

. o f inferior to those the enemy, and he fought a brave but losing battle , trai ni ng many of the guns with his own ha nds . And when night came it was expected by the British officers that they would be able to f r . u capture the enti e fleet the next day But nder cover o darkness ,

fo and in a g, Benedict Arnold with wonderful skill was able to take

i o ut o f his ships stealth ly the pocket in which they had been placed , and had it no t been fo r the necessity o f stopping to repair some of the waterlogged craft he mi ght have found safety under the guns A Oi . S Crown Point it was, the British overtook him and a running

fight followed . Arnold took some of his ships , which were smaller

o n k than the British craft , up a little creek the Vermont shore of La e

Champlain , abandoned and set fire to them with their colors still flying and with his crew went overland to Crown Point . I have often thought tha t it would have been a great mercy i f a ’ British bullet had ended Benedict Am o ld s career when he fought so

a gallantly in that battle . Captain M han gives him unsti nted praise for h delaying the Britis attack from Ca nada for a year .

’ ’ After this period of Arnold s naval battle, came Burgoyne s in va sio n with trained troops from Europe . With great pomp and with

and m m music banners he ca e sailing over Lake Cha plain . You re

o f the member , of course, how he captured Ticonderoga , and various episodes that were connected with that invasion ; ho w a part of the American army retreated to Whitehall by water and the rest fled over land to Hubbardton and Castleton .

1 5 An interesting incident in conn ection with the Hubba rdton affair

was is that although the American army beaten, the British army did

r not feel safe . Rumors had spread ab oad that the Americans were rallying and were going to come back to attack them . The British did no t feel comfortable in the dense forest where they were

r encamped , and soon after the close of the battle they sta ted back toward Ticonderoga . I f one could have been in an airship overlooking

o ne r that region, he might have seen fleeing in direction the Ame ican soldiers and in another direction the British seeking the protection of the guns of Ticonderoga . Ira Allen in many respects was a greater man that his brother

ne o ia Ethan, who , perhaps , is better known, and it was due to his g t H a ldimand f tions , known as the negotiations , from the name o the

- a - Governor Gener l of Canada, that one third of the British army , the

a part in C nada , was kept idle over a considerable period toward the close of the American Revolution .

was . Vermont in a precarious condition She had no troops , no money , and no equipment . It was necessary in order to protect the inhabitants for the leaders of the new State of Vermont to convey to

a the British the idea that possibly Vermont might reunite with C nada, and Ira Allen very skillfully conducted a series of negotiations in the valley o f Lake Champlain with the British Ofli cers which they did no t dare to bring to an end because they were always h0 ping that something might come of it . It is needless to say that he never had an

f a was idea o being disloyal to the Americ n cause , but it necessary not only to protect Vermont but northern New York from invasion to

r resort to some such subterfuge , and it was carried out with ve y great success . A fter the close of the American Revolution there came a second and greater migration o f settlers which transformed all this region in the Champlain Valley within the space of a few years from a wilderness into a settled region of prosperous farms and villages . Later there came a period o f trade with Canada which was very profitable for the people of northern New York and Vermont . Among h those people w o came into the Champlain Valley , p erhaps some of the first of the great men who came into the region , were two men who are distinguished in American history—Thomas Jefferson and 1 6 ’ to ffe f James Madison . It is interesting note Je rson s scientific trend o

o f thought, because he tells of the fauna and flora this region and i ff gives an interesting account of his visit . Mad son and Je erson vis ite d Benningto n and stayed over Sunday in that village . The people were favorably impressed by the visit o f these famous men because

to they stayed Over Sunday and went church, and they thought it wa s m f a very good exa ple to cite to the people o the new State . But Jefferson writes in his letters that the reason they stayed was on a c

Of o n count a Vermont law which did not permit travelling Sunday , so o f that they were somewhat under the necessity staying there , and as they had to remain there they might as well go to church a s do h in a yth g else . The next visitor Of national or international importance to come

’ t he l was D into Champlain Va ley the uke of Kent , Queen Victoria s

r who fathe , travelled across from Plattsburg to Burlington and went on to Boston .

’ I ought at least to allude to Ira Allen s scheme for building a

no canal from Lake Champlain to the St . Lawrence River . It may t

r be altogether a safe question to discuss in New Yo k . I have under stood that New York did not look with any great favor upon canal projects and SO I will pass this matter over quickly . “ " The first steamer Vermont was built in 1 808 at o r near Bur lingtou . This was the second successful steamboat built in the world . “ " This was a year after the Clermont was first operated o n the Hudson “ " River. The Vermont was twenty feet longer and eight feet wider

’ “ " than Fulton s cra ft . I suppose there has been a steamer Vermont f on Lake Champlain most o the time ever since . The period of the War of 1812 was o ne of great activity in the

‘ Champlain Valley , as you know very well . You remember the cir

’ cu mstances o f the building of Ma cdo no u gh s fleet and how his fla g ship was built within forty days after the timber for it was cu t . We l cannot build ships quite as rapid y now . The Embargo period pre ceding the War of 1812 saw a period o f smuggling that was greater even than the period of rum- running with which we are more o r less familiar at the present time , although that may seem impossible to

o u is l some of y , but it a story that is not a together pleasant to tell . i r o n o n The operat ons were car ied a very large scale , and apparently 1 7 ae the visitor he lost his balance and would have fallen into

if Mr . Clay had not reached out his hand and saved him . “ exclaimed : Henry Clay, you have saved your country twice " Is Higbee once . les Dickens did not always have complimenta ry things to t the United States on his travels through this country , but othing but praise fo r the Lake Champlain and the steamers ke .

’ n John Brown s body was ta ken to the Adirondack regi on I d , it was taken across Lake Champlain and was accompanie ell Phillips , who made a speech at Vergennes after the return

a funeral . President Grant came through Lake Ch mplain in l 1 in 891 President Harrison took a trip on the lake . remember that President M cKi nley in 1897 spent his vaca la tt sbu r h g and visited various places on Lake Champlain . ink many of us remember the incident of Vice—President t 1 coming to Lake Champlain in 901 . I remember it rather because I was a newspaperman at that time and it was my to report that event . I remember that Colonel Roosevelt

o n happy mood that day and enj oyed himself , as he did those He retired to the house of Lieutenant- Go vernor Fisk for

.d t later was o address a crowd in front of the Fisk mansion . me d very long between his retirement and his coming out . and i R wondered why Colonel oosevelt did not appear . After a 3d o f waiting I remember very distinctly how Senator Proctor

his tall form reminding one somewhat Of Abraham Lincoln , voice that was broken and trembling with emotion he a n

o i M Ki n the sho t ng of President c ley at Buffalo . That was ‘i c o e o f ccasion surely . and there se med to go up a moan md horror from the crowd assembled on that occasion . On occasion have I heard a sound like that go up from an Senator Proctor took charge of Colonel Roosevelt as a lght care for a son , looked after his welfare and shielded him i nterru ption w or unpleasant episode , and hen he arrived at it ff "he was sent on his way to Bu alo . That event should be "1 any history of events in the Valley o f Lake Champlain .

1 9 The Te rce nta ry Celebration of 1909 was one o f the remarkable episodes in the history o f the lake and so was the establishment of the a b Pl tts urg camps . I ought no t to close this little picture of scenes on Lake Champlain

o f t . l and men connected with it , without alluding o E B . Rockwe l “ Captain o f the steamboat Vermont and the oldest Captain in the

92 e who United States , a man at y ars of age is able to guide his ship , a man who has been active on Lake Champlain fo r a peri od o f 82

’ who fo r 66 r ha n s . O e o years, and yea s held a pilot s license will g far to find a record to equal t hat . I have attempted very briefly to summon before yo u some of the

' important events that have taken place in the valley o f Lake Cha m

o u i f - plain , to Show y briefly th s procession o Indians and black gowned

to t l o u o e priests , warriors and men of peace ; el y s mething about som o f e the famous men, g nerals , and statesmen who have passed through

t n . o a Lake Champlain It is an interesting story me , d I trust it is

o u s fo r s nd to y , thi pageant that three hundred year , a more , has

o s marched thr ugh the valley Of Lake Champlain . This valley urely is the

o f i e gateway the country. It is l k ly to be a gateway for aircraft as they

o . sail through from north to s uth More than that , it is the ga te beau

i of c h o t ful the country , be ause if there is a stage on whic imp rtant

n a a em me eve ts have tr nspired more be utiful than any other , it se s to ’ f that it is the valley o Lake Champlain . Truly one will go far to

m t as find a region o re beautiful than tha of Lake Champlain , lying, it

does , between the Green and the Adirondack Mountains . You are to be congratulated for helping to keep alive the historic f memories o this beautiful Valley . It is well that yo u busy men of affairs are willing to come together at least once a year in order t o

n f i e recou t some o these th ngs, to ke p fresh in your minds the notable e h o f vents t at have transpired in that valley , to remember the beauties

and the region to seek to perpetuate them as a part , and an important

of o f . part , the history this country

THE TOASTMASTER

‘ O k a fro m Ne w e ur next spea er h ils York State . I b lieve he has

m not had many residences . If I a right he will correct me presently , and finally he ha s picked out the Champlain Valley and the Town 20 o f Essex a s o ne o f the finest places in the country in which to live per e manently . H has been honored by being elected President of the n Lake Champlain Historical Pagea t Review . It seems to me that there is a go od deal o f simi larity between our name and the name o f this new association . i k f It makes me th n o a story . It seemed that two fa rmers met

a e s at fair after many y ar of separation , and they were telling each

o f the other what had transpired in meantime, and Mike said , Well , d " ‘Y S o u . e Pat , I got marrie ince I saw y s says Pat . And Mike

e fin o all sa h says , I hav a e healthy b y and the neighbors do y that e f is the exact picture o me . And Pat looked at him a while a nd said “ O e so i s . h , w ll, what is the harm long as he healthy

Ladies and Gentlemen : Although I had exchanged o ne or two letters with your President be fore coming to New York for this occa

the f Sion , I had pleasure o meeting him for the first time Only a few

a o s minutes g , when he welcomed me a I entered this banquet hall .

' Apparently he is experienced and skilful in saying agreeable things.

“ e ma h How ver that y be , all the men ere will agree that he was more than justified in the graceful sentiment he ha s j ust expressed in rela tion to that particular part of the a ssemblage before u s that lends to

An this gathering so much charm and gayety . d I am led by the same

to s an feeling to venture say for my elf , that while my heart d my life have been very much involved in the Valley o f Lake Champlain fo r

—fiv e a o f more than twenty ye rs , I have never thought more it or been m ore prou d o f it than I am here tonight .

to r i Mr . Pres ident In the first place I wish express my app ec a tion o f the opportunity that has recently come to me of becoming a

o o a i n member of this Associati n , and then to thank the Ass ci tion

o f s n behalf my colleagues in thi great movement for ext summer , for

i me the privilege of say ng something to you about it . In writing to your President asked me to lay be fore you. a brief outline of our

m a e plans . A few inutes ago he s id that I ne d not confine myself entirely to the ceremonies planned for next summer , but could discuss

Fo r the oth er matters if I wished . a moment suggestion seemed n n o o n . w i n cent en ugh , and even somewhat alluri g But he a minute or 21 two later he gave me a whispered hint o f o ne o r two other topics o f cur

o Ou h w rent interest that I might t uch if I cared to , I realized at once o

e the o f ne ar I had come to b ing led astray , and into discussion matters

no t sa w about which we all might agree , and I that the only wise and prudent course for me to pursue was to confine myself strictly to the subject assigned me—the Lake Champlain Historical Pageant — Review of next summer about which I know we all shall agree , One of the first problems that came before us was to determine

a " geographic lly , What is the Valley of Lake Champlain What are its " limits The inquiry provoked quite a discussion . Some of our lea rned men there gave one reason and another why the Valley did o r did not include this place and that place . But finally we agreed

u r that Nat re had ve y superbly decided the whole question for us . And we j ust too k the Sky- line of the Green Mountains on the Vermont

Sk - o f o n Side and the y line the Adirondacks the New York side . and “ — said to ourselves , Here, in between , lies this wonderful valley the " n Valley of the Champlain . We fixed no boundary o the north and we fixed no bounda ry toward the south . Perhaps it was a prospective member of our Finance Committee who suggested we should claim that the Champlain Valley extends even so far south as New York City "

We all agreed , however, that between the tops of these two moun tain ranges is a region which Nature has made rarely beautiful , a region of national traditions , and where some of the very foundation stones of the Republic were quarried , a land hallowed by glorious

f o f . deeds o arms and adventure . Poets have sung it Men and women h t i no w o f ave writ en of it , unt l the literature the valley makes quite

f r a library in itself . And this movement o turning the coming sum mer into a season o f ceremonies and festivities throughout the Valley and on both Sides of the lake was bo rn of the feeling that the time has come to let the world share this wonderfully beautiful region

fo r o ne with us , and making the Champlain Valley Of the great play grounds Oi America . What are the plans for next summer " Many suggestions have O been made and some Of them have already been agreed upon . ne thought that seems to appeal strongly to everyone is an Old- fashioned

- f r home coming week o r eve y town and vi llage in the valley . Sturdy 22 men and women have gone from this region into distant parts of the

fo r land to make careers and to seek fortunes themselves , and to j oin “

. in upbuilding other parts Of the country . We want them all to come " back home next summer . The historians seem to agr ee that Burlingt on was first settled in the month o f June ; and next year will be the 1 50th anniversary of that

r o u r impo tant event . Naturally then ceremonies will commence at f Burlington . There has been no o ficial announcement as yet of the

e c no t preparations that are being made th re for that oc asion , and I will venture therefore now to disclose the details that have come to me .

But this much I may say, that great things will be doing at Burlingt on

e n xt June , and that the ceremonies and celebrations there , extending e through some days , will be a credit to the whole Vall y , and of such

f to interest that all o us shall wish attend and participate in them . t The season of festivities will close wi h two important ceremonies .

O e — ne will be at Plattsburg in early Septemb r the unveiling, as we

to be hope , of the monument erected there by the Congress of the

f m Ma do n h United States in honor o Com odore c o ug . His victory over the British fleet before Plattsburg occurred in the month of Sep"

v a tember . This triumph by the Na y in the waters of L ke Champlain was almost as important as the battle Of New Orleans in bringing 12 ’ final victory to us in that unhappy War of 18 . Mrs . Tuttle s volume relating to those splendid days in the history of o u r country informs us that the grateful citizens o f Plattsburg gave Commodore Mac donough a banquet a few days after the battle and that, following a s a d lute of guns from the victorious fleet in the harbor, the Commo ore ’ was accompanied from the landing-place on the shore through the streets of the town to the banquet hall by the Army and Navy o f the

United States with bands o f music. It is said that he was then given “ " k a naval dinner . Just what that may mean I do not now . It sounds

t we t . a lit le in these dry times But , however that may be , it must have been a glorious occasion . And it is well that we o f this genera tion should remember and appropriately celebrate the anniversary of that great day of victory . The monument to be erected by the Con gress to preserve through the ages to come the memory of ou r triumph will be an imposing stone shaft 1 50 feet in height in the park already

ha s provided fo r it at Plattsburg . It been suggested also that Commo 23 ’ dore M a cdono ugh s great fight may be further celebrated by another — banquet at Plattsburg to the Navy of the United States , with an

to Admiral lead a march again from the shore to the banquet hall , accompanied by martial strain of the Army and Navy bands and the

e f roar of guns to r mind us again o the great dee ds of our forefathers .

o f Then , too , it will be a full century , in September next year , if

e I rememb r correctly , since the Champlain and Erie canals were 1 . 823 opened In that month , I think it was in , a small vessel , built and owned at St . Albans , on the Vermont side , set sail down the lake with a load of wheat . Curiously enough , after entering the canal , it “ th e was delayed a few days at Watervliet , until canal might be com

" ’ I t pleted , as understand from M r . Crocke t s history . It then pro ceeded to o f Troy , Albany , and to this city New York , being received

e at each point with music , artill ry salutes , speeches , and other ceremonies .

so bi And , as we see, g things of national importance were done — — on this side the New York Side by the big men of a hundred years

o r ago , that we of this generation must not overlook fail to mark by appropriate ceremonies . The bigness of those times and of the men of

r . that day was no less notable on the Ve mont Side Indeed , there is scarcely a town o r village on either side of the Lake but that has some event in its history of which it may justly be proud , and which it should celebrate by pageant or otherwise for its young people of

’ this generation . Mr . Crockett has referred to Benjamin Franklin s trip through the Lake in connection with our negotiations with Great

f o n Britain . In my little village o Essex he stopped overnight that " o u r . trip . That is understanding Well We feel rather proud of that " And we are saying things about it at Essex " But in the years to come we are going to try to make such a stopping-place of Essex that those who are interested in the life of Benj amin Franklin will count it a point in his favor to have stopped there overnight "

w no t Now , a ord or two as to the ceremonies of a general nature connected with any particular town or village . There is an army post at Plattsburg that has played a notable part in the country ’s emer

o n - genci e s during recent years . Then the Vermont side is Fort Ethan m o u r Allen , the very na e of which awakens in memories great deeds

o f of the long ago . There is every reason to believe that the troops 24 both these military reservations will cooperate in our plans o f next year . We have hope also that the Navy may be able to get some of its smaller vessels through the locks o f the canal to take part in o u r

u ceremonies thro gh the summer . Many suggestions have been made and are under consideration m f for the coming sum er . Some are in process o being carried o u t . But it must no t be supposed that our efforts will end with the ce remo ff . O to nies Of next year n the contrary , give the e ort permanency the whole movement is being incorporated under the name of the Lake f Champlain Historical Review . One of the declared obj ects o the corporation is to gather and preserve historical records and archives

to and to identify and properly mark historic places , and celebrate with appropriate cer emonies the anniversaries of historic events in the

l o f Va ley Lake Champlain . Where a battle was fought or a skirmish took place we hope in time to mark the spot with a permanent tablet .

do Mr . President , there is enough to and it must be done . But I have given yo u only the briefest outline o f what we have in mind and

t o t hope to be able o carry ut nex summer .

a m o f n o t Now , I here as the guest this Association and I am

o going to take advantage Of the opp rtunity to do any begging . The

o f Common Council Burlington has already made an appropriation . It is hoped that the State o f Ne w York will extend financial aid to us in some form . Perhaps Vermont will follow its example . If the Army and Navy j oin in o u r celebrations the Government will bear that expense . After all , therefore , we shall probably not require great

. o ne financial help from other sources Nevertheless , there is thought I have been asked to lodge with this Association :

- — We are going to have all the o u t o f doors events next yea r that

fo r— - can be arranged motor boat races , canoe races , swimming con

tests , and perhaps the Army and Navy , besides participating in our

o n fo r festivities land and water , may do things in the air us with

n o f planes and balloons , and wonderful things of that ki d . But all m for s of sport , perhaps the most dramatic and interesting are those

n o f — s ectacu that occur o water , and these motor boat races are most p i lar . Lake Champlain is the log cal and natural place for all these

i no t fo r nat onal water sports and events , only for next summer but

t ff " t . o the years o come But bring this about , someone must o er suit 25

DR D KE . HENRY VAN Y

Mr . Toastmaster, the privilege is all on my Side . Ladies and gen tlemen , I felt at home from the moment I came in here and I was made to feel very much at home when Judge Harlan came so near to taking up a collection . I have been much impressed by the two speeches to which I have listened treating of the Champlain Valley in no spirit of frivolity, but “

ma . o f . I y say in a spirit serious earnestness , It has another side I h ave been on both sides of that valley . I have been on the Vermont s ide and I have been o n the New York Side . I cannot see very much

ff o o ld d i erence between them . I do not know what th se boys used to

fi o f ght about so hard in the old days . I have been at the University

e . V rmont By the way , let me say that in its way it is one of the m ost distinguished universities in America, because it was through the University o f Vermont that the enlightening and liberating philosophy o f l Coleridge was first brought into our American cu ture . The Uni versity o f Vermont was a Coleridgean institution almost from the start, and if you know the history of English literature , as doubtless you do intimately and familiarly , and also the history of modern t o ne heology, you will realize that Coleridge is of the most influential n ames , and America owes a great debt to the University of Vermont fo r making no t only the name but the philosophy of Coleridge familiar f ’ in this country . The first complete edition O Coleridge s works was i ssued the editorship of a Professor in the Uni "

r Ve mont , W . T . Shedd , a very distinguished man and an admirable writer of English . Starting in o n this line I may s ay that the Champlain Valley has

m e o f o f o f produced a nu b r writers , and that a good deal literature value has been produced in that valley , including the side mountain

f men . O o slopes f course , the most famous name perhaps the who . a r Y give that high praise They e unknown . o u will not find th em mentioned in any o f the columns o f literary criticism today ; but

’ o n n anyone who possesses R bi son s books and k ows them , knows that h a re o f r i — t ey ich virg n gold value .

fo r w AS history , e have had a very fine and clear example of the type o f painstaking and accurate historical acco unt which the Cham

’ s plain Valley produces in Profes or Crockett s speech . Champlain "

There is music in the very name , especially if you leave out the “ " letter L .

1609 t o ld July , , hat brave scout first pushed up there , and the

o h e i st ry of his fight , leading the Hurons and t Algonqu ns against the

o f o ferocious and cruel savages the Ir quois is a wonderful story . I

was touched by one point in particular . When they had won

o the fight , the Hurons against the Ir quois , they proceeded to make a number of prisoners and to scalp them ' and Champlain wa s filled

i d the with horror at the sight and begged permiss on, if they woul stop

to o u t o f h torturing, put the people their misery , which he did wit

o f o It is a good thing to carry a, good name , the name a str ng,

i the broad , straight , honest, fight ng man , and I hope some day time will come wh en Champlain will have a fuller amount Of justice done to his r hi n to s a . cha acter and work than has in f ct bee done In fact , the whole Champlain Valley might very well be put into literature

in more thoroughly , and I wish some of these old families that have

a n habited the valley , the Hands and Hales d others , would turn their thoughts to that and instead of devoting all their tal ents to the mys

ri f te o u s o to . science of the law , would give some it literature

1866 wa s I discovered the Lake Champlain Valley in , when I

t such a very tiny little boy , but when I was fourteen years of age , and came o u t from a camping trip with my father from the Adiro n t dacks . We stopped in the lovely li tle village of Elizabethtown , which

m f r was o u r su mer home o ten years after that .

It is a place that i s pho tographed o n my mind . I have never seen

O i o f land scape that is more satisfying . Not nly n the matter scenery

ea an d a ir is it wonderful and b utiful , , splendid air , but in its products ,

. it . no t s natural products , it is wonderful I do think the New York

r the o Side , at least along that part , is as rich ag iculturally as Verm nt 28 but still the whole valley has the power of produci ng fine horses ’ th e e " me people . After all , those are b st products , aren t they

r in in this count y, where this world , will you find such horses Morgans and the Blackhawks " I do not know whether this

i n a s zt o now , with their g machines, have forgotten about the

o . ms and Bla ckhawks, but I have not forgotten ab ut them They

i . ble breeds, splendid once brought down from Champlain Valley a little pair of m ms that for ten years were the j oy of my heart . One of the — tamed White Face and the other named Hurrica ne after two plain Valley mountains . They were good horses and I drove until the automobile drove them o u t because they had an aver — o going where the automobile puts all the horses into the ditch .

’ wouldn t do it . i nd " a . , then , what nice people Take those families I have n med

)ethto wn o f h is a little bit a hamlet , and what people t ey were,

fine a d people were the Witherbees at Crown Point, n all through ' l I e ace you will find fine people . rememb r the first gu ide we

>ld D o f Sam unning, a man like Judge Harlan in size , one those

l - o d . Well , Sam was a regular w oolen stocking philosopher

[ C] t a pret y good idea of himself , too . I remember when we first o n in this trip , we asked him how he fitted out for us that night “ " “ e O p and he said , I have my tent along. We said , ne He “

Well , I have a small tent for me and the other guide, but I t " f o . you Ci y folks can sleep in my tent . There were three us “ " “ a " O How m ny will your tent hold He said , h , my tent will six easy , but it is only big enough for o ne Boston man . Sam had a great way of hanging around when we were having rsations o n n . o e c n philosophic subj ects I remember on oc asio , Or D . o f a joke , r Romeyn Keeseville was one of the party , a fine Q , o ort a splendid fellow , and my father was there, and s meone

I who forget he was , and I was there as a youngster , and we ht ; Ne Plus ltr in many Latin words as we could , like U a and cri ba s Unu m o ff , and Sam listened , and he got the track, and he “ , not follow and finally after it was all over he said to me , Say,

o u What was all y fellows talking about . You know , us

29 ’ ille i tima te cha s g p , we can t understand wha " about .

T o ld who was here was Father Burrows,

co n r ister of Elizabethtown , and he had a g eg

r o ne fo ty , and there was just male member of t

nl n all , o y one , and Pa Burrows was just as ca him as if there was a thousand . I remember he “ on the subject of what he called E- e-e -etern i1 wear a swallow- tailed coat and a yellow v c “ E- e—e — bretheran eternity, my He also had a nice white horse that he would give me a lift of four o r five miles on m

. O then lovely trout brooks h , what charming Champlain Valley " I sincerely hope that the ‘ by the refuse from factories and ruined and

the gutters . I f Lake Champlain Association

to a n s and useful do, m ke a campaig against tho streams of one o f the most beautiful regions

fo r e 1 them up . They do not do it nec ssity , and

wa reason except for sheer greed , because they

1 in their processes , and they could just as elsewhere and keep the strea ms clear and lo w Why is it that in England they have clea Because they will no t let the people defile then ’ th Americans are God s people , but they are asses on the face of creation . Pardon me if I

We used to have a good time up there. i a boys and g rls . I do not think there was short at . I remember going over one night, over from Elizabethtown and walking over i midnight . We were young colleg ans and the Keene Valley who was keeping a boarding- l

- ha t the inhabitants kept boarding houses . He ta tio n around the country and we made up 4 little fun . We knocked at the door ; it was

1( There was no answer . We knocked more " ' Who " do " We say , is there What you want We said , want "

d . in . Come own and open the door He came down to welcome

a e s I a few proper words and g rm nt , garments consisting simply him a he shirt, and we said to , There is one of our number th t is

o ne sick and we have been walking through the valley , and there is " terr iified It men lying on a pile of lumber . He was and he had to f o ne o . o ut . By that time our number felt better Then we said ,

“ " t - came over to the valley o look for a boarding house . He said

- e as the best boarding house th re . We made him take us in the t e and he showed us all through the rooms , and when we go “ l b g we said , We cannot make up our minds tonight but we will " ff back tomorrow and tell you about it . We marched o with loud ts of derision down the road . I sincerely hope that there are no reporters present and that reminiscences of my early and no t too tender youth will not me public . I used to compose light poetry when I was up there in the Adi ro n ' s . I remember one poem I composed and it ran this way

’ Yo u may go to Keene by Edmonds Ponds O r drive around by Jay , ’ But whichever road you take , you ll wish

You had chosen the other way .

For if you go by Jay , ’ You ll be buried alive i n dust ;

’ But if you go by Edmonds Ponds , ’ You ll be shaken to death and bust .

That is now inscribed upon a hotel regi ster somewhere up in that an no t no if the hotel has w been burned up . There was another poem I remember that was current at that

It came from the Vermont side . This was , I suppose , at the ad when Iowa and Kansas and Nebraska were regarded as

West . The poem ran thus

3 1 la Great western waste of prairie nd ,

Flat as a pancake , rich as grease ,

o n Where frogs abound every hand ,

’ And skeeters grow as large a s geese ;

’ ’ o n I d rather live Camel s Hump, D And be a Yankee oodle beggar, Than dwell where you never see a stump

’ And shake to death with fever and ag er .

i u o i That is what I call patriotism . That is what I call the Gen s L c . ’ i After all , isn t it great to. know and love some particular reg on of this big country of ours " I think o ne thing that we Americans fall

o u r short in , as compared with English and Scotch brethren , is that n lack of the sense of the soil , that feeli g of attachment to a place . h And what more beautiful place could one be attached to , eit er by

o f t o r birth or by the reminiscences childhood and you h, . by the memo

’ ries of sweet days of recreation in God s open air , than the Champlain

Valley, lying embosomed as it does in the embrace of these two lovely mountain chains , the Green Mountains and the Adirondacks , that lovely broad valley with the glittering lake in the center and the cur rents o i air playing northward o r southward through that natural

o f o f gateway , one the avenues by which the birds , those most alive living things , pass to and fro on their long migration ; those silver streams with their inhabitants , and those forests sweeping up the

mountain side to the summit which is so often bare , and with white rock looking almost like snow—what lovelier place could there be to

o f " O Go d strike the roots memory h , thank for the Champlain

Valley . THE TOASTMASTER

I f you feel as I do I will ask you to join with me in gi ving o u r guests a rousing vote of thanks fo r the wonderful entertainment that they have afforded us . All in favor of such a motion say Aye . (Everybody : There is only one thing left for me to do and that is to turn the n Presidency of this Associatio over to the newly elected President , ll a . Mr . John B . Burnham . I bid you good night

3 2 In Memori a m

JULIUS HUBBELL SEYMOUR

S ha s a a to o u r WHEREA , It ple sed God to t ke Himself beloved

Go friend, Julius Hubbell Seymour, a former President and vernor of the m Lake Champlain Association, and one of its ost active membe rs ; and ,

RE S o f o f t WHE A , We , the Board Governors the Associa ion , deeply

o f o feel the loss our valued and loyal friend and fellow G vernor, we Spread the following resolution upon the records o f o u r Association O JULIUS HUBBELL SEYM UR was born at St . Albans, Ver

1 5 f r o n O 30 85 . o mont, ctober , He prepared college at Phillips f c . . Academy at Andover, Massachusetts , and re eived the degree o A B k from Williams College in 1879 . He too his law course at Columbia

La w r o f cum School , from which he received the deg ee LL . B . (

u 1 t h la de ) in 882 . He immediately entered the practice of e law in New York City and was actively engaged in his profession up to the

o f . a time his death He died at his home in St mford , Connecticut, on 1 1 22 1 9 . July ,

In addition to his professional activities , Mr . Seymour was prom

i f H m o . e i cnt in the political , business and social li fe the city was

o f a member the New York State Assembly , representing the Nine teenth D s 1901 Assembly istrict , on the We t Side of Manhattan , in and 1 2 f 90 . He was President o the West Side Republican Club and took active part in the politica l life of the Union League . He was a Trustee " f a o f o the Hahnem nn Hospital , a Veteran the Seventh Regiment ,

o f Governor the Camp Fire Club of America , and actively connected

a with other clubs and civic and religious org nizati ons .

Mr . Seymour resided at Stamford , Connecticut , during his later years but maintained a beautiful summer home on the Shores o f Lake

o t a Champlain at Isle La M t e , where he spent many months e ch year . He loved the outdoor life and was espe cially devoted to the beautiful f lake and valley where he had spent his boyhood . He became o ne o the early Governors of the Lake Chamma in Association and later was c a its President , and was untiring in his loyalty to the Asso i tion and h in to the interests of the C amma Valley . 33 e was to have been the host of the Association, but was too ill to

part in the outing . His recreation was found chiefly in field sports and he was a “ " k nown big game hunter .

R Now, THE EFORE, Be it

S V o f a RE OL ED, That the Board Governors hereby record their p

’ i i n f VVithe rbe e s at o o Mr . sterling worth and the cooperation zh he has always so loyally and whole- heartedl y given to the affairs

e r his Association , and their sincer sor ow and feeling of great onal loss ; and it is

SO V FURTHER RE L ED, That this minute be spread upon the records h e Board and printed in the next Year Book to be issued .

CHARLES EDMUND BUSH

R WHE EAS, It has pleased God in His infinite wisdom to remove

1 ou r o u r b midst eloved and esteemed friend , Charles Edmund l 16 1922 , in the fullness of years , on November , and ,

R o f WHE EAS, We , the Board of Governors the Lake Champlain )ciatio n f , deeply feel the loss o f so good and loyal a member o

B o f oard, we spread the following resolution upon the records our

f o . The parents Mr Bush , Edson and Catherine Bush , settled in e ham , Vermont , where the son , Charles , was born on September 1843 . He received his early education at the Newton Academy , 1 entered the Norwich University in 860 . He gave up his college er 19 1862 to engage in the Civil War , and on June , , he enlisted -0 mpa n y B , Seventh Squadron , Rhode Island Cavalry , known as “

College Cavaliers . Shortly afterwards he was made Sergeant )r , and remained in that pos ition until mustered out of service . 27 nk O w At the age of he became the cashier of a small ba at r ell , n out . His industry and ability soon won him the position of the

deney . Later Mr . Bush left the banking business and became ected with the Ticonderoga Pulp and Paper Company at Ticon 3 3 , New York . He remained with tha t corporation until he re

from active business a few years ago . The company was in

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