| GROUT,
THEOPHILUS, the first settler in Kirby, was born in 1768, and about 1792
came from Charlestown No.4, New Hampshire, to Kirby and settled upon the
farm which has ever since been in the Grout family. He early married Joanna
Willard and there were born to them eleven children. Mrs. Grout died at
the age of eighty-one, and Theophilus died April 5th, 1852, aged eighty-four.
Theophilus Grout spent the greater portion of his
life in improving his farm and home, although he was often called to public
service; was at one time collector of United States revenue, represented
his town in the legislature seven terms, was justice of the peace for a
long time, and a man of large usefulness and influence in all public matters.
In 1834 his youngest son, Dan, while assisting his father to arrest a smuggler,
at Canada line, was shot and killed.
Source:
Successful Vermonters, William H. Jeffrey, E. Burke, Vermont, The Historical
Publishing Company, 1904, page 123-124.
Prepared
by Tom Dunn, April 2006
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