Charles T. SABIN was born at Montpelier, April 11, 1832. At a private school in Montpelier, and at the academies in Cambridge and St. Albans, he received what education those schools could supply to a youth who was inclined to original investigation and to do his own thinking. His school days ended, he went to learn the machinists' trade at Fitchburg, Mass., in the shops of the Putnam Machine Company. At the end of his three years' apprenticeship, in 1853, the young journeyman was intrusted by his employers with the important work of setting up their engines in all parts of the United States, and continued in their employ for five years longer. In 1858 he formed a connection with the COOK & KIMBALL Carriage Company, of New Haven, Conn., and continued in its employ till the breaking out of the Rebellion compelled the company, whose business was chiefly in the South, to suspend. He was for six years superintendent of a mining company in Colorado, and at the end of that time took up his residence permanently in Montpelier. He had an aptitude for mechanics and engineering, and a rare talent for these pursuits was supplemented by a judgment that was rarely at fault and a capacity for business that is seldom equalled. These qualities found quick and general recognition, and his services in important matters requiring the exercise of such special skill and ability as he possessed were frequently in requisition. For example, when, in 1881, the great international cotton exposition at Atlanta, Ga., was organized, Mr. SABIN was appointed to the responsible post of chief of the department of engineering and machinery. How well he performed his difficult duties is told by a resolution of thanks adopted at a meeting of the executive committee in January, 1882, "for the admirable, faithful, and efficient manner" in which he had "performed the arduous and important duties of his office-duties which have required all the skill and ability of a most careful and efficient engineer, which have been performed to the entire satisfaction of the management, and have been conduced in a great degree to the successful accomplishment of the great enterprise." He was interested in the proposed airline route between Boston and New York, and in 1883 went to London to further the financial plans of the company. Returning, he was a passenger on the Aurania on her first trip across the Atlantic, when she broke her shaft and was detained some two days a few miles out from New York. His professional and business ability found prompt recognition at Montpelier. In 1876 he represented Montpelier in the legislature, and was one of the most useful and influential members of that body. In October, 1878, he was elected a director of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company, to succeed James T. THURSTON, and was chosen vice-president of the company in February, 1887, an office he held at the time of his death. In January, 1879, he was also elected a director in the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier. He was closely identified with several local business enterprises, in which he was the moving spirit. Among these were the Montpelier Slate Company and the Sabin Machine Company, of which he was president and treasurer. His church connections were with the Church of the Messiah, of whose Sunday-school he was the superintendent. In January, 1859, he married Emily MCFARLAND, of Cambridge, who, with three daughters, -- Fanny T., the wife of W. G. ANDREWS, of Johnson, Laura H., and Jessie M., -- constitute the surviving family circle. In his family and social life Mr. SABIN displayed qualities and traits of character as striking and admirable as in his public life and business intercourse. A vein of merry humor ran through his whole nature, and he had a bright wit, the shining point of whose sallies was never tipped with malice or bitterness. He had an original way of "putting things" that lent force to what he had to say and carried conviction with his words. His bonhomie was as lasting as the day, and as cheering and grateful as the sunlight. His good cheer and genial presence will long be a most delightful recollection. He was honest, he was true, he was disingenuous, he was kind and helpful. 

Search far and near, you scarce will find
A heart more manly and more kind. 

      He was liberal, public spirited, and enterprising-in the fullest and most comprehensive meaning of the term, a good citizen. Mr. SABIN died in Montpelier, on Monday, December 24, 1888, in the fifty-seventh year of his age.

      Medad WRIGHT, the senior member of the firm of M. WRIGHT & Son, of Wrightsville, in Montpelier, was born in Calais, Vt., in 1812. He spent the years of his minority upon his father's farm at hard labor, with occasional relief from its monotony by doing mechanical jobs for his neighbors. While in boyhood he began to develop mechanical skill and inventive genius of no ordinary ability, which was clearly discovered in his inventions of several articles of practical value. His father was in rather poor circumstances financially and could not give him such an education as Mr. WRIGHT wished, and he was obliged to commence active business in life with a very limited knowledge of science, and books obtained in attendance at the common schools of his district. Upon reaching his majority he bought the water-power which he now occupies, and began work there in 1834. At the time he took possession of the premises the timber had been felled and the ground burnt over, but the surrounding country was a primitive forest with but few exceptions. The first work he did was to construct a dam and blast a channel through the rocks to convey the water to the wheels of a contemplated grist-mill, which he erected in the ensuing season, 1835, and had it completed and in operation in September. This mill was 30x30 feet, two stories high, furnished with two runs of stones, one for grinding corn, the other for wheat, with smut-mill and bolt. These millstones were taken from a quarry in Calais, and wrought to final finish by Mr. WRIGHT's skillful hands, even to the sharpening the tools used in their construction, though he had no previous experience or instruction in such work. Next year, 1836, he enlarged his mill, and added another run of stones for coarse grain. In 1836 and 1837 the seasons were so short and cold that very little corn was ripened in Washington county. Consequently Mr. WRIGHT again enlarged his mill by erecting a kiln for drying oats, and furnishing two more runs of stones, one for hulling and the other for grinding the kiln-dried oats. At this time there were no other such mills in the surrounding section. In 1837 and '38 Mr. WRIGHT had an immense patronage, and ground over 14,000 bushels of oats. In 1837 he completed a dwelling house. November 18, 1838, he united in marriage with Miss Mary Jane MCINTIRE, of Montpelier, an amiable lady of fine abilities, who has continually been "a helpmeet" to her husband, and his wise and able adviser.

      In 1840 he purchased an addition to his water-power, started an old style "up and down" saw-mill, which he sold with the grist-mill and the house which he occupied in 1842. The following year he built a machine shop on a small brook which flows into the North Branch, near the mills which he had sold, and there began manufacturing woolen machinery. In 1843 the grist and saw-mills again came into his possession, and he moved his machine shop to the second story of the grist-mill. In 1844 he added to his saw-mill a circular saw, which was his own designing, and the first in successful operation in the state, and which was soon found by lumbermen so much superior to the old style that he was soon engaged in building others, and his lumber and grist-mills and machine shop were all in active and successful operation: Previous to 1846 he had erected a dozen or more prominent buildings in Montpelier. The high reputation of his woolen machinery, which he had placed in Colebrook and Stewartstown, N. H., and Hartford, Northfield, and Waterville, Vt., had so much increased its demand that in December, 1846, he found it necessary to increase the facilities for its manufacture, which he did by building an addition of 20x30 feet to his machine shop. About this time he had executed a contract for $8,000, for woolen machinery, with John HERRON, of Waterville. In the following spring he visited Messrs. DAVIS & THURBER, of North Andover, Mass., who were manufacturing new and improved carding machines and spinning jacks ; met Mr. THURBER at his works, and having introduced himself he informed him that his errand there was to buy if possible a set of their patterns. To this proposal Mr. THURBER gave a very decided No! saying that they had, at great expense and trouble, produced their patterns, and that they were for their own use, and that they would let no one have them. Soon Mr. DAVIS approached and Mr. THURBER introduced Mr. WRIGHT, and told him his business, saying also that "when Mr. WRIGHT asked me for patterns I said no at once. Now what do you say?" Mr. DAVIS considered the proposal a short time and then replied, "Let him have them." Mr. Thurber protested, but Mr. DAVIS said, "If he has any snap in him he will get them up himself. If he has none he can do us no harm, and we may as well make something out of the patterns." The result of this visit was the purchase of a set of these patterns, from which others were made, and the contract with Mr. HERRON was duly completed, which included eight carding machines, six spinning jacks, one picker, a cotton-batter, and other machinery. Next year about the same kind and amount of machinery was constructed for Robert HERRON, son of John HERRON. This machinery was in great demand throughout all New England and Eastern New York, and gave Mr. WRIGHT employment the ensuing ten years. The very high water of North Branch in the summer of 1858 undermined the old part of the machine shop, which fell in, and Mr. WRIGHT sustained heavy loss in finished and unfinished work; but fortunately the greater part of the iron working machinery was in the addition and saved.

      Having occasion to use large quantities of dressed lumber in building, which he was then extensively engaged in, he constructed planing and matching machines, which became very celebrated and in demand. This additional industry he continued to 1880, and turned out over 500 such machines. In 1860 he commenced to erect, on the site of the old machine shop, a woolen-mill 40 X 100 feet, four stories high, which he completed in 1861. This he sold to William MOORCROFT, in December, 1862, who at once began to place in it necessary machinery, and started it the ensuing spring or summer, which continued in successful operation until it was destroyed by fire, in 1870. He also sold his dwelling house to Mr. MOORCROFT in 1863, and erected another in the ensuing spring. In 1865 he moved off the old saw-mill and erected on its site a building 40x80 feet, and three stories high. The first floor was for wood working and the second for iron working machinery, and added largely to his stock of iron working tools. Since 1874, when he built an iron foundry, he has made his own castings. His last invention, and one of his best, (if not the best,) was completed and patented in 1878, after experimenting on it at his leisure time the preceding two years. This machine polishes all kinds of stone, and has acquired a wide reputation as the best, as the following testimonials declare: --
 
 
 

"BURLINGTON, VT., Aug. 11, 1882. "Messrs. M. Wright & Son. "Dear Sirs:  Replying to your inquiries as to how we like the polishing machine and lathe purchased of you some time since, we are pleased to say that they have fully answered our expectations, doing well all you have claimed for them. We also find them very satisfactory for finishing marble, on which they work rapidly and well. We think real credit is due you for the thorough manner in which they are built, as they seldom need repairs. Very truly yours, "J. W. GOODELL & CO." "CENTER RUTLAND, VT., Feb. 3, 1885. "M. Wright & Son. "Gents:  We purchased sometime since two of your polishing machines and have found them in every respect satisfactory, and fully up to what you recommended them for. They do most excellent work on all varieties of our marble, and are by far the best machines we know of for the purpose. Respectfully yours, "VERMONT MARBLE Co. "F. D. Proctor, supt." “CINCINNATI, OHIO, Feb. 4, 1885. “M. Wright & Son. "Dear Sirs:  The polishing machine is in operation and gives entire satisfaction, and I would not be without it for double the cost. "Very respectfully, "JAMES MCDONOUGH."

      These are but samples of the scores of recommendations received.

      Mr. WRIGHT, now three-score and fifteen years of age, is active, and gives his personal attention to all the details of his manufacturing interests. From the foregoing sketch will be seen that his has been an active and industrious life. Few have accomplished as much. In the long stretch of time in which he has been a manufacturer and producer, his employees are a host in numbers, and the amounts paid them enormous. Thus he has been a benefactor in helping others to help themselves. Although so much engaged he has found time to give his aid and support to the benevolent, educational, and religious interests of his town, and has taken his share of service for his townsmen by discharging acceptably numerous offices of trust received at their hands. In politics he is a Republican; in religion he is liberal, and by his influence and aid the neat Union church at his little hamlet was built, and open to all Christian denominations. Mr. and Mrs. WRIGHT have bad born to them three daughters and two sons, three of whom are now living, viz.: Maria (Mrs. Capt. WASHBURNE) resides in Boston; Janie is the wife of C. C. PUTNAM, Esq., of the firm of C. C. Putnam & Son; and Prentice C., of the firm of M. WRIGHT & Son, efficiently assists in the management of the firm's business, has ably taught the school of his district, and has held several of the offices in his town.

      Luther NEWCOMB, son of Dr. Luther NEWCOMB, was born in Derby, April 10, 1826, and died from Bright's disease at his home in Montpelier, January 2, 1876. Dr. NEWCOMB died when Luther was but five years old, and he remained with his mother six years after. The family was intimate with Hon. Isaac F. REDFIELD, and Luther, at the age of eleven years, became the same as a member of Judge REDFIELD's family. He studied under the the direction of the judge, and entered Washington County Grammar School, where he was prepared to enter college. He then read law under the direction of judge REDFIELD, and was for some time a student in the office of H. O. SMITH, Esq. Though fitted for admission to the bar he did not apply for it. He received an appointment in the customs service, and was two years a revenue officer on Lake Champlain. January 1, 1849, he was appointed deputy clerk of Washington County Court under Shubael WHEELER. In December, 1857, he was appointed clerk and held the position during the rest of his life. He was a model officer, and had not only the respect and affection of the Washington county bar and the court, but also that of the members of the bar in the whole state. June 25, 1857, Mr. NEWCOMB married Miss Amanda THOMAS, only daughter of Gen. Stephen THOMAS. His wife and three sons, Charles, Luther, and Stephen Thomas, survive him.

      Hon. Joseph POLAND, son of the late Luther and Nancy (POTTER) POLAND, was born in Underhill, Vt., March 14, 1818. In early life he removed with his parents to what was then Coit's Gore, but was soon thereafter organized as the town of Waterville, in Lamoille county, where he was reared upon his father's farm, acquiring such education as was afforded by the common schools and academies of that day. In 1835 he entered the office of the Vermont Watchman, at Montpelier, to acquire what has been called the "art of all arts." The last few months of his apprenticeship he purchased of his employers, in order to enter upon the publication of the Voice of Freedom, the first destructive anti-slavery periodical of the state -- which he did January 1, 1839. In the fall of the same year failing health compelled him to retire from the enterprise, but in June, 1840, his health became sufficiently restored to enable him to establish the Lamoille Whig at Johnson, which publication he continued for three years, during which period, largely through the instrumentality of the paper, Lamoille county, hitherto so overwhelmingly Democratic as to have acquired the title of "Spunky Lamoille," wheeled very decidedly into the opposition column, where it has ever since remained. In 1844 Mr. POLAND returned to Montpelier and established the Green Mountain Freeman, as the organ of the newly-formed Liberty party, which he conducted with great success until the close of the presidential campaign of 1848. During this period Mr. POLAND also served as chairman of the state committee and general organizer of the then despised and traduced party-a nobler or purer than which the world never saw. These were the days that tried men's souls, -- the days when, at the cost of reputation, social and business standing, and in not a few instances of even life itself, the "small stone was cut out of the mountain," which has since become a great mountain and filled the whole land. When Mr. POLAND retired from the Freeman, in 1848, it had a circulation unequalled by any other paper in the state. In 1852-53. he served as judge of the Probate Court for Washington county, and in 1858-60 represented the county in the state Senate. In 1849 he was chosen a director and secretary of the Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which position he held for more than thirty years, and during the entire life of the company. In 1870-71 Judge POLAND represented the town of Montpelier in the state legislature. In 1861 he was commissioned by President Lincoln as collector of internal revenue for the First district of Vermont, and discharged its responsible duties to universal acceptance until 1868. During the second year of the war, under the act of Congress providing for allotment commissioners, President Lincoln appointed Judge POLAND, Ex-Gov. John B. PAGE, and Hon. John HOWE as such commissioners, whose duty it was to visit the Vermont regiments in the field and procure from each soldier an allotment of such portion of his monthly pay as he could spare during his term of enlistment, to be appropriated for the support of his family, or for investment, as he should direct. The benefits resulting from this measure were simply incalculable, as it not only brought hundreds of thousands of dollars directly into the state, but it also saved the soldiers themselves from demoralization, their families from suffering, and the state from largely increased taxation. In March, 1868, Judge POLAND, in connection with his son, J. Monroe, purchased the Vermont Watchman, which he continued until 1882, when he permanently retired from active business. This was a position of great labor and responsibility. The paper had been for sixty years under the able management of the WALTONS, father and son, and was the leading journal of the state. It may with truth be said that Judge POLAND left the paper with far more than double the circulation it had when he assumed it. His aim in editorial life and labors is well summed up in a single sentence contained in his valeditory address to his patrons: “The extent of our boasting is this, that we have earnestly and conscientiously striven to furnish a periodical visitor in the homes of our people, which should be pure and healthful in its influence, and prove useful as an educator in all the best things in every relation of life."

      Since early life Judge POLAND has been an active member of the Congregational church, and was for many years the publisher of the Vermont Chronicle, the organ of the denomination in the state; as he was also the founder and publisher for several years of the New Hampshire journal, for the Congregational churches of that state. For nearly twenty years he has served as one of the deacons of Bethany church in Montpelier, and for an extended period as superintendent of its Sabbath-school. Simple justice requires that we add one or two brief testimonials to judge Poland from his brother editors of the state on his final retirement: --

"The Hon. Joseph POLAND has retired from the Watchman and journal, "whose editorial columns he has conducted with excellent ability and remarkable discretion. for nearly twenty years. He has always hewed straight to the line on all great questions of deep public concern in morals and politics. One of the old anti-slavery men in days when it cost a man something to embrace that despised faith, Mr. POLAND has always been an editor without fear, without malice, and without reproach. He has acted well his part in Vermont journalism; his influence has been large, and it has been uprightly exerted." -- Rutland Herald.

“But it is not so much in his relation to the public as an able and conscientious journalist, a strong and graceful writer, that we feel moved to write, but rather of his relation to the editors and publishers of the state. In these relations Mr. POLAND has been almost exceptionally free from the petty jealousies, the spirit of detraction and disparagement, the rancor and unwarranted personal abuse, which have prevailed too generally among the editors of the state. He has been uniformly courteous and just, and even generous in his treatment of other editors, and in this respect he leaves to his professional brethren a very worthy example."  -- St. Albans Messenger.

"From our earliest childhood we knew Mr. POLAND as an active business man, of unimpeachable character, of warm sympathies, and as engaged with his whole soul in what was then an unpopular cause-the cause of the slaves in the South. As a public writer, and as editor of several influential newspapers, Mr. POLAND has waged a long warfare against all the public evils which worked shame to the nation, detriment to society, and weakness to the church. It was our personal knowledge of his honorable character, his noble work, and his business capacity, that induced those in our state who were projecting the idea of establishing a denominational journal to accept the proposition by Mr. POLAND to publish such a journal in connection with the Chronicle, which he was publishing for the churches of Vermont. To this plan he has devoted his energies and fine judgment. The first year's history of the New Hampshire journal is filled with fears and hopes, and labors, and sacrifices, the full share of which he has borne. The success which has already come to the enterprise, and which will increase with the years, will stand associated with Mr. POLAND's name."  -- New Hampshire Journal.

"As the Hon. Joseph POLAND has been for years past the trusted publisher of the Vermont Chronicle, as well as the experienced editor and publisher of the Vermont Watchman and State Journal, we transfer to the Chronicle the Parting Word which he has prepared and published in the Watchman of this week. We do this for the history and reminiscences which it contains, and more for the large hope and charity, and the clear Christian spirit of the experienced journalist and gentleman which breathes through it, and the tried words in which all this is expressed. We speak not for ourselves only, but for the churches and patrons of the paper. We know that they sorrow with us that he is no longer to sustain the relation of confidence and love in which he has hisherto stood. Yet while we sorrow for this we are comforted by the remembrance that his faithfulness and wisdom will still remain with us as an example and a guide."  -- Vermont Chronicle.

      Dr. Frederick W. ADAMS was born in Pawlet, in 1786, and came to Montpelier from Barton in 1836, where he had acquired a high reputation as a physician and surgeon. His reputation soon followed him if it had not preceded him. He was soon a leading practitioner in town and the surrounding country, although at first shunned by many on account of his reputed skepticism in religion. He was benevolent, generous, and kind hearted, and it was said of him: "He lived more practical Christianity daily than any other man in town." Of the rich he took a full professional bill, but forgave the debts of the poor and sometimes added a donation from his purse of five dollars, and sometimes slyly handed in at the back door of some very poor family a web of calico or cotton cloth. He died as he had lived, saying, "If there is a Christian's God, I am not afraid to trust myself in his hands." His death occurred December 17, 1858.

      Gen. James Stevens PECK was born in Montpelier, December 6, 1838, being the oldest of the four children born to William Nelson and Julia Clark PECK. The three surviving brothers, all living in Montpelier, are George A., Roswell K., and John W. Gen. PECK entered the University of Vermont in 1856, and graduated with the class of 1860. He immediately commenced the study of law with Lucius B. PECK and Stoddard B. COLBY, but two years later, after the war broke out, joined Co. I, 13th Vt. Vols., as second lieutenant, October 10, 1862. He was promoted to be adjutant of this regiment, and remained with it until mustered out, January 22, 1863. He fought with his regiment at Gettysburg, and distinguished himself by his coolness and efficiency. On April 12, 1864, he was commissioned adjutant of the 17th Regiment, and later as major, remaining with it to the close of the war, until it was mustered out July 14, 1865. During this time it was engaged in the Wilderness, at Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and others of the most bloody battles of the war, in all of which Gen. PECK "knew no fear," and faithfully discharged the dangerous duties assigned him. Returning home unscathed by wounds, but broken in health, he continued his law studies, and was admitted to the bar of Washington county in 1866. "Although a good office-lawyer," says a contemporary, "he was suited neither by natural temperament of mind or strength of body for the ruder experience of the public courts. He was a scholar and a soldier, but, better than that, he was a man of brave yet gentle spirit; faithful and gallant in war, he was tender and true in peace." In 1868 he was appointed assistant adjutant and inspector-general, and in 1872 succeeded Gen. William WELLS to that office, which he held with efficiency and credit for nearly ten years. In 1881 he resigned, having been appointed postmaster at Montpelier, by President Garfield, which office he held at his death. Previous to his acceptance of it, from the spring of 1869 until the fall of 1880, he was assistant United States district attorney under Hon. Benjamin F. FIFIELD. Gen. PECK was assistant secretary of the state Senate for four years prior to 1872; also one of the original members of the Reunion Society of Vermont officers, and for the last seventeen years its secretary. He was president of that organization at the time of his death. He married, in 1869, at Montpelier, Miss Mary E., daughter of Amplius BLAKE, thirty years ago a prominent citizen of Chelsea and president of the bank at that place. Gen. PECK was made a Mason in Aurora Lodge, No. 22, in 1863, and was Master of this lodge from December, 1869, to 1872. He received the degree in King Solomon Royal Arch Chapter, No. 7, in 1868, and was its High Priest for two years. He was also a member of Montpelier Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters, and of Mount Zion Commandery, No. 9, Knights Templar, in both of which he had held important offices. "He was christened ' Hero ' when he stood on the crest of Cemetery hill at Gettysburg, under that fire of death from Lee's artillery, which was the prelude to Longstreet's famous charge.  "He came home unscathed by wounds, although he was always in the front of the fight, but he did not come home untouched by disease ; for a severe attack of typhoid pneumonia before Petersburg had left his lungs so impaired in strength that his regimental surgeon and warm personal friend, Dr. EDSON, now of Boston, warned him that nothing but the most vigilant care would save him from an early death."  Originally of a slender frame, he was never strong again, and some eight years ago he broke down with an attack of bleeding from the lungs. He rallied and preserved a fair show of health until about four years ago, when he had a second attack, so terrible that his life was for many days despaired of by his friends. He rallied again, however, and during the last four years had by constant care and vigilance made a successful fight for life, until his last fatal hemorrhage came on. Though his by no ball or shell, scared by no sabre or bayonet, he received his death wound upon the battle-field, and died a soldier's death, far from the din of battle, long after the clangor of war had ceased. He will be mourned long and tenderly by those who are clear-eyed enough to see, and humane enough to feel that the state suffers when a man of exceptional patriotism and humanity dies." Gen. PECK died May 28, 1884, at Loon lake, Franklin county, N. Y.

      The name of DEWEY was originally DE EWES. They went from French Flanders into England in the reign of Henry VIII., when the name was called DEWES, and Simeon DEWES was erected a Baronet of Stow Hall about 1629. The first of the name who came to America was Thomas DEWEY, who came from Sandwich, Kent, England, on the ship Lion's Whelp, and landed in, Boston, Mass., in May, 1630, and settled in Dorchester, Mass., in 1633. He removed to Windsor, Conn., about 1638. March 22, 1638 or '39, he married widow Francis CLARK. He held various positions, such as juror and deputy to the General Court. He died and was buried at Windsor, Conn., April 27, 1648, leaving five children.

      Josiah DEWEY, second son of Thomas and Frances (CLARK), born October 10, 1641, settled in Northampton, Mass., removed to Westfield in 1672, and to Lebanon, Conn., in 1696. November 6, 1662, he married Hepzibah LYMAN, and, after her death, a second wife about 1672. The time of his death is not known, but he was living as late as 1731. He had eleven children by his first wife. In the year 1672 a company was formed at Westfield to build a grist and saw-mill. Joseph WHISNEY and Thomas, Josiah, and Jedediah DEWEY composed the company. They were granted forty acres of land for the use of the mill. Other grants were made to Josiah DEWEY; one was a lot to reimburse him for expense in building the minister's house. He was one of the garrison of the fort for March 14, 1682-83. He held many of the offices of the Congregational church, and also of the town. Josiah DEWEY, Jr., the third son of Josiah and Hepzibah (LYMAN), was born December 24, 1666. January 15, 1690 or '91, he married Mehisable MILLER, and lived some time at Northampton, Mass., but removed to Lebanon, Conn., about 1699. They had six children. Their son William' married, about 1713, Mercy BAILEY. He died November 10, 1759. He was father of five children. Simeon Dewey, son of William and Mercy (BAILEY) DEWEY, was born in Lebanon, Conn., May 12, 17 18. March 29, 1739, he married Anna PHELPS. He died at Lebanon, Conn., March 2, 1750 or '51. His widow and their six children moved to Hanover, N. H., where she died September 25, 1807. William, son of Simeon and Anna (PHELPS) DEWEY, was born at Bolton, Conn., January 11, 1746, and died at Hanover, N. H., June 10, 1813. He married Rebecca CORWIN in 1768, and removed from Lebanon or Colchester, Conn., to Hanover, N. H., in 1976, and located on the Connecticut river, four miles above Dartmouth College. In his youth he was bound out to Joel CHAMBERLIN, of Lebanon, Conn., to learn the "art, trade, or mystery" of house and shop joiner. They were parents of fourteen children, of whom Capt. Simeon DEWEY was the second child. He was born in Lebanon or Colchester, Conn., August 20, 1770, and died at the house of his son, Dr. Julius Y. DEWEY, in Montpelier, January I, 1863. Capt. Simeon DEWEY married Prudence YEMANS, of Norwich, Vt., February 27, 1794, and resided in Berlin from that time until his wife died, April r, 1844. He then moved to Montpelier.. He was many years a justice of the peace, and held other positions in public life. Mr. and Mrs. Simeon DEWEY were parents of seven children.

Dr. Julius Yemans DEWEY, son of Simeon and Prudence (YEMANS) DEWEY, was born at Berlin, Vt., August 22, 1801. He was educated at the Washington County Grammar School, and then read medicine with Dr. Edward LAMB. He took his degree at the University of Vermont in 1823, and commenced the practice of medicine at Montpelier. In 1850 he retired from active practice, and became the general agent of the National Life Insurance Co. of Vermont. In 1851 he was elected president of the company, and held that office for over a quarter of a century. He married, for his first wife, June 9, 1825, Mary PERRIN, daughter of Zachariah and Mary Tolcott PERRIN, who came from Gilead, Conn., and settled in Berlin, Vt., in 1789. She died in Montpelier, September 3, 1843, leaving four children, viz.: Charles, Edward, George, and Mary. August 3, 1845, Dr. DEWEY married for his second wife Susan Edson TARBOX, of Randolph, Vt., widow of Lund TARBOX. She was born July 15, 1799, and died September 11, 1854. For his third wife he married Susan E. G. LILLEY, widow of Gibbs LILLY, of Worcester, Mass. Dr. DEWEY always took a great interest in the Episcopal church, became a vestryman in 1841, and served as such for about thirty-three years. He also held the offices of junior and senior warden of the parish, and represented the same repeatedly to the diocesan convention. There never was a man more outspoken in praise of a good deed, or more ready to denounce a wrong, even though it lost him a former friend. He was a warm friend, loved his home, his children, and grandchildren, and they in turn loved and honored him. He died Tuesday morning, May 29, 1877.

      Charles DEWEY, oldest son of Dr. Julius Yemans DEWEY and Mary PERRIN, his first wife, was born in Montpelier, March 27, 1826. He was educated at the Washington County Grammar School, and graduated at the University of Vermont in 1845. He immediately commenced work as assistant secretary of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., was elected its secretary in January, 1850, and held that office until November 1, 1871, and was a director of the company for over thirty years. He also became a director of the National Life Insurance Co. in 1851, vice-president in 1871, and president of the company after his father's death, in 1877, and has served as such ever since. In 1864 he became a director, and in 1878 was elected vice-president. He was for many years a trustee and one of the prudential committee of the Washington County Grammar School, and has been president of the board of trustees since 1880. Among the various other positions of trust are county senator in 1867, '68, and '69; state inspector of finance in 1882-83; and for over a quarter of a century one of the vestry of Christ church, and for many years its senior warden. He married, May 3, 1848, Betsey TARBOX, daughter of Lund and Susan Edson TARBOX. Their children are: Frances Isabella, born February 3, 1849, at Montpelier, and married, October 25, 1871, Henry E., son of Orange FIFIELD and Melissa NELSON; Ella Lutheria, born October 29, 1850, and married, November 19, 1873, Carol P., son of Parley P. PITKIN and Caroline TEMPLETON, and died May 30, 1879; William Tarbox, born September 30, 1852, and married, November .9, 1881, Alice ELMORE, daughter of James G. FRENCH and Orlantha GOULDSBURY; Jennie, born May 29, 1854, married, in June, 1,981, Edward Dickinson, son of Edward R. BLACKWELL and Persis J. DICKINSON ; Mary Grace, born January 20, 1858; George Perrin, born August 18, 1860, resides at Portland, Me., and is general agent for the National Life Insurance Co.; Gertrude May, born September 18, 1862; Kate, born August 31, 1864, married, December 27, 1888, Ernest Langdon SQUIRES, and resides at Omaha, Neb.; and Charles Robert, born October 27, 1867, resides at Boston, Mass.

      Edward DEWEY, son of Dr. Julius Yemans DEWEY and Mary PERRIN, was born at Montpelier, March 27, 1829, and married, in 1856, Susan G. LILLEY, daughter of Gibbs and Susan E. G. LILLEY, of Worcester, Mass. He, like his father, has been for many years a member of the vestry of Christ church. He was educated at the Washington County Grammar School, and after a few years of office work, as assistant secretary of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co., he left the company's employ to engage in mercantile business. He was a quartermaster during the war of the Rebellion, with the rank of captain. Since he returned from the war he has been actuary, and for many years a director, and vice-president since 1877, of the National Life Insurance Co. The children of Edward DEWEY and Susan G. LILLEY are Thomas, born May 22, 1857; Theodore, born February 10, 1859, is an ensign in U. S. navy; Jessie, born February 17, 1862, married, January 11, 1884, Hon. James Loren MARTIN, of Brattleboro, Vt.; Helen, born February 27, 1867; Margaret Louise, born April 4; 1875 ; and Julius Edward, born January 14, 1878.

      Capt. George DEWEY, son of Dr. Julius Y. DEWEY, was born December 26, 1837. He attended school at Montpelier and Norwich, Vt., and graduated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. He served through the war, and most of the time in the Gulf Squadron. October 24, 1867, he married Susan, daughter of ex-Gov. Ichabod GOODWIN, of Portsmouth, N. H. They had one child, George, born at Newport, R. I., December 23, 1873, who now resides at Portsmouth, N. H. Mrs. DEWEY died at Newport, R. I., December 28, 1873.

      Mary, daughter of Dr. Julius Y. DEWEY, was born October 26, 1839. January 10, 1861, she married Dr. George P. GREELEY, of Nashua, N. H., who was a surgeon during the war of the Rebellion.

      William Tarbox DEWEY, son of Charles, born at Montpelier, September 30, 1852, was educated at the Washington County Grammar School. He has been assistant secretary in the office of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co. since August 5, 1870, village bailiff or trustee for 1886-87, and was a member of the state militia six years, and resigned as lieutenant in 1886. He married Alice Elmore FRENCH, daughter of James G. FRENCH and Orlantha GOULDSBURY, November 9, 1881. They have two children, viz.: James French, who was born March 7, 1883; and Grace Elizabeth, who was born March 31, 1887.

      David L. FULLER, son of Emery and Hannah (TOWN) FULLER, was born in Barre, January 28, 1821. His early boyhood was spent with his parents, constantly employed at various kinds of labor, and in attendance at the common school of his native village, from which he received his only school education, and which he left at the early age of seventeen years. At that age he had his first experience in business. He spent the season of 1837 on board the steamer Burlington, with Capt. Richard SHERMAN, as cabin boy. From 1838 to 1841, inclusive, he was a clerk in a hotel at Chelsea. He then spent the ensuing six years as a clerk in a general store in Barre. In 1847 he came to Montpelier and conducted a restaurant about five years. At that time this village had a population of only 800, "all told." The only men remaining here now that were then in business besides Mr. FULLER are Charles H. CROSS and H. S. LOOMIS. The railroad was not completed until 1851. In 1853 he commenced business at the depot store, where he remained until 1860. He next conducted a commission business in farmers' produce the ensuing five years, and then bought of the patentee the Sanborn churn and butter worker, which employed him very successfully the next nine years, and is still making and selling this valuable and necessary device for dairymen. July 1, 1874, he purchased the interest of George W. SCOTT, and formed the firm OF FULLER & HOWE (general merchants), which continued till 1879, when he bought the interest of Mr. HOWE and organized the present firm of D. L. FULLER & Son, and commenced a jobbing and retail business in general hardware and agricultural implements, with a constant yearly increase of trade up to the present time (1888). October 31, 1847, Mr. FULLER married Mrs. Selina (STEVENS) STICKNEY, widow of Edward STICKNEY, Esq., of Boston. Their union was blessed with an only son, Charles H., of the firm of D. L. FULLER & Son, and a daughter, Eva J., who died at the early age of eighteen years. Mr. FULLER and his son are not regarded as active politicians, but they have very decided convictions, and are always found in the Republican party. Mr. FULLER is an active member of the Methodist church, a generous contributor to all its interests, and a benevolent supporter of all the charitable and reformatory interests for the advancement of the general good of the society in which he resides. Now at three-score and six years he is still active and pushing in business, as he has been through all his long, honorable, and successful career. His son ably "plies the business oar," taking a large part of the jobbing tradeupon himself, but spares a little time for military affairs, in which he has a lively interest, and now holds the position of quartermaster of 1st Regt. Vt. state militia.

      John A. PAGE, son of John and Hannah (MERRILL) PAGE, was born in Haverhill, N. H., June 17, 1814. His father, John PAGE, Jr., was also born in Haverhill, received an academic education, was a practical farmer, held many high official positions, and was the incumbent of the gubernatorial chair of New Hampshire from 1839 to 1842. He was born May 21, 1787, and died, after completing an honorable and useful life, September 8, 1865. John A. PAGE received a common school education, supplemented by about three years' attendance at Haverhill Academy. In 1831 he was engaged as a clerk in Portland, Me., in a wholesale dry goods establishment, where he soon developed special financial ability and was made confidential clerk, and put in charge of the counting-room. In 1832 he was offered and accepted a partnership in a general country store in his native town, where he remained in the firm of BLAISDELL & PAGE until 1836. In the spring of 1837, after he returned from a tour South and returned through Illinois, he accepted the flattering offer of the position of cashier in the Grafton bank at Haverhill. This place he accepted, and held to the satisfaction of the parties concerned until the expiration of the charter of the bank, in 1844. He was also cashier of Caledonia bank, at Danville, Vt., three or four years, and treasurer while he resided in Danville three years. In September, 1848, he was chosen to represent his town in the legislature of Vermont. While in the discharge of his duties as representative he was induced by Gov. Erastus FAIRBANKS to take the post of financial agent of the Connecticut & Passumpsic Rivers railroad, and removed to Newbury. In Marsh, 1849, he resigned this position, and very soon accepted the post of cashier of the Vermont bank, and settled in Montpelier, which has since been his home. In 1865, after a successful existence, the Vermont bank was closed, and the First National bank sprung into existence, phenix-like, with nearly all the old officials in the new organization. Mr. PAGE was elected director and president, and has held both of these offices from that time to the present (March, 1889). In 1853 the state failed to elect a treasurer, and the joint legislature wisely elected Mr. PAGE to that position. Mr. PAGE had affiliated with the Democratic party until 1861, but was always opposed to the extension of slavery. When the national flag was fired upon at Fort Sumter Mr. PAGE, with many other anti-slavery extension Democrats, cast his lot with the Republican party. In 1866 he was elected state treasurer on the Republican ticket, and by consecutive elections was in that office until 1882, when, in consequence of declining years, he declined further service. Mr. PAGE is a deacon of Bethany (Congregational) church, a consistent Christian gentleman, and is ever ready to share in the necessary expense of the Bible, foreign, and domestic missionary causes. For twenty-five years he has been the treasurer of the Vermont Bible society. Among financiers Mr. PAGE takes the first rank ; and as a citizen and a man he is held in admiration and respect.

      Maj. Alfred Lathrop CARLTON, son of Benjamin F. and Betsey (LATHROP), cousin of Daniel WEBSTER, was born in Morristown, Vt., in 1829. He obtained a good education and was several years a teacher. In 1854 he married Miss Margaret FISK, settled as a merchant in Montpelier, where he remained a successful merchant until he died, with the single exception of the time he spent in the defense of our country in the late Rebellion. In the summer of 1862 Mr. CARLTON enlisted into the Eleventh Regiment, then in camp at Brattleboro, and was very soon commissioned quartermaster of the regiment by Gov. HOLBROOK. This regiment was some time employed in the defense of Washington city. He was, while thus engaged, promoted to the responsible post of commissary of subsistance with rank of captain, and soon had the immense work of supplying the whole Army of the Potomac with stores and beef cattle. In a trip into Pennsylvania he took out half a million dollars, and drew on the government for half a million more, which he expended in purchasing cattle. Senator COLLANIER was instrumental in his promotions, and inquired at headquarters after his standing and was answered: "He is a model officer. His capacity, integrity, efficiency, and invariable habit of closing up his affairs everyday are worthy of all praise." As an attestation of his honorable record as an officer he was breveted major before he left the service. Mr. CARLTON returned to Montpelier at the close of the war, and to the duties of citizenship, and soon united with Bethany church. He had deep convictions and strong prejudices, dispised hypocrisy and duplicity, and was an earnest worker in temperance and moral reforms. He died in Montpelier, May 29, 1874.

      Andrew C. BROWN, son of Rev. Elisha BROWN, was born in Sutton, Vt., July 10, 1828. He was fitted for college at the Methodist Seminary at Newbury, but did not take a college course. During the time he attended the seminary, at vacations, he learned the trade of printer. At the age of eighteen years he commenced teaching, and taught the common and select schools for sixteen terms. At the age of twenty-three he settled in Bradford, Vt., and engaged in the printing business, and subsequently became the editor and publisher of the Northern Inquirer, a weekly, issued at Bradford. He disposed of his interest in the paper, in the fall of 1854 removed to Montpelier, and took the position of foreman in the office of the Watchman and State journal. From 1857, for the ensuing five and a half years, while Mr. WALTON was in Congress, he was the business manager and editor of that paper. In the fall of 1862, when President Lincoln issued his proclamation for nine months men, Mr. BROWN raised a company of volunteers, of which he was elected captain; and at the organization of the 13th Regt. Vt. Vols. he was elected lieuteliant-colonel. He went to the front with his regiment and served with it about eight months, when he resigned to accept the office of commissioner of the board of enrollment for the First Congressional district of Vermont. At the expiration of his term of service on that board, in the spring of 1865, he engaged in fire, life, and accident insurance in Montpelier, which he has followed with success to the present writing, and has built up a large and lucrative business. In December, 1880, he took the agency of the American Bell Telephone Co. for the counties of Washington and Lamoille, which enterprise he has successfully built up, as will be seen by referring to the sketch of the Telephone Exchange in this work. Mr. BROWN began his political life with the "old line Whigs," and at the organization of the Republican party stepped into its ranks, where he has since done good service. He was first appointed by the press reporter of the House of Representatives, and when the place became official he received the appointment from the Speaker, and held the office fifteen consecutive years. Mr. BROWN was reared a Methodist, but is very liberal in his religious opinions, and is an attendant at the Unitarian church. May 1, 1851, he was united in marriage with Lucia A. GREEN, daughter of Joseph GREEN, of Waitsfield, Vt. The issue of this marriage was five children, of whom three are now living, viz.: Ella L., wife of Dr. C. A. BAILEY, of Montpelier; Rome G., a lawyer practicing his profession in Minneapolis, Minn.; and Joseph G., who is in company with his father in the insurance business in Montpelier.

      Storrs L. HOWE was born in Royalton, Windsor county, December 7, 1820. His boyhood was spent, like that of other farmers' boys, in attendance at school, and at hard labor on his father's farm. When he was but twenty-one years of age he was selected by his father, who was in poor health and very infirm, to conduct and manage the home farm, which filial duty he performed until 1852. In 1854 he came to Montpelier and conducted the freight department, at the railroad station, as an assistant of the present efficient general manager of the Central Vermont railroad, J. W. HOBART. In 1858 Mr. HOBART was called to fill a position in the general office, and left the entire management of both the freight and passenger business of the station at Montpelier to Mr. HOWE. The constantly increasing business at this station has been efficiently and faithfully performed by Mr. HOWE all through the thirty consecutive years since, and he is still master of the situation, and enjoys the confidence of the company which he has so long and ably served. January 27, 1845, Mr. HOWE married Miss Eliza DURKEE, of Fort Edward, N. Y., who was the mother of two daughters who died in early childhood. Mrs. HOWE died September 19, 1872. November 29, 188t, Mr. HOWE married, second, Miss Janette, daughter of Hon. Horace FIFIELD, of Barre. Mr. HOWE, although not a politician in the common acceptance of the term, has decided convictions and opinions on that subject, and gives his influence and votes to the Republican party. He is very liberal in his religious views, but is generally in attendance at the Episcopal church. He is commanding in stature, standing over six feet in height, has blue eyes and a fair complexion, a reliable citizen, courteous and gentlemanly in his intercourse with others, and very fond of his home, where he prefers to spend his few hours of leisure time.

      Charles W. BAILEY, son of George W. and Rebecca (WARREN) BAILEY, was born in Elmore, Vt., February 9, 1831. He received an English education in the common schools and academies, taught school for awhile, and in 1855 settled in Montpelier. He and his brother, J. Warren BAILEY, entered into a partnership in West India goods and a general produce business, with the firm name of Bailey Bros. Their business from the first was mainly dealing in cattle, horses, sheep, and swine, which so increased that, in 1866, they discontinued the store and devoted their whole attention to the trade in live stock. In 1861 these brothers had a large contract with the United States, to furnish horses for the army, which they satisfactorily executed. The partnership was closed in 1872, and the brothers each pursued a distinct and separate business. Charles W. BAILEY continued the trade in live stock, and established a regular and systematic business with the dealers in Boston. His trade extended over Vermont and Northeastern New York, and his transactions were exceedingly large. His accurate judgment made him an able and bold speculator. His quick decision enabled him to transact an almost incredible amount of business. Mr. BAILEY was not only most emphatically a business man, but he was more. It is true that he was energetic, penetrating, and shrewd, and had a will of his own; and when a position was once taken he did not recede from it, but he arrived at conclusions by a fair course of reasoning. He was impressive in appearance, frank, outspoken, generous to the poor and unfortunate, and a genial and agreeable companion, He was honest, and told the truth; hence he was trustful of others. Mr. BAILEY loved his home, and was a kind and indulgent husband and father. June 4, 1857, he married Olive EATON, of Elmore. Their children are Burnside, Bernard, Florence, wife of Hon. C. W. PORTER, secretary of state of Vermont, and James EDWARD, all of whom reside in Montpelier. Mr. Bailey was instantly killed in the full vigor of manhood, by the cars, at Essex Junction, September 23, 1876. About 1875 J. Warren BAILEY engaged with V. W. BULLOCK in the grain business in Burlington, Iowa. About 1879 his brother, E. W. BAILEY, removed to Chicago, and assumed the active management of the new firm of BAILEY, BULLOCK & Co. J. Warren BAILEY was bluff in ways and manners, quaint in humor, had a fund of anecdotes, was quick at repartee, and was universally liked. In 1855 he married Harriet GUYER, of Wolcott, Vt., who survives him. They were parents of two daughters, Ella and Clara. Mr. BAILEY died April 21, 1880.

      Dr. C. B. CHANDLER was born in Chester, Vt., April 24, 1796. During his minority he resided upon his father's farm, and acquired at the common school and Chester Academy sufficient education to become a successful teacher. He read medicine with Dr. BOWEN, attended lectures at Woodstock, and subsequently at Brown University, R. I., where he graduated. He commenced practice in Tunbridge, Vt., in 1823, and about the same time married Nancy ATHERTON, of Baltimore, by whom he had two sons, both living, one of whom succeeded him in business in this town, and is now in full practice. After the death of his first wife, in 1837, he married Amanda CHAPMAN, of Tunbridge, who died in 1841. His third marriage was with Mrs. F. A. C. HARVEY, of Cabot, who survived him. Having practiced his profession successfully thirty-three years in Tunbridge, he came to Montpelier and bought out Dr. Orrin SMITH, and soon acquired a good practice, showing himself, in the ten years which he resided here, to be a careful, judicious physician, a good surgeon, a friendly, generous, and strictly honorable man. He died instantly, January 8, 1867, of apoplexy. He performed with scrupulous fidelity and with untiring labor every prompting of the warmest and kindest heart, and was in all his life the truest type of the upright, benevolent man. Ever humane and self-sacrificing, he as cheerfully bestowed his professional aid on the poor, when he never asked or expected pay, as on the wealthy and influential; and it was this noble trait, in addition to his fine social qualities, his entire sincerity and sterling worth as a man, which so widely endeared him to all classes of people. He once told a friend that he wanted no higher fame and no better reward than to have it thought and said at his death that he sincerely endeavored to do all the good he could, and to be a kind and honest man.

      Charles M. CHANDLER, M. D., son of Dr. Charles B. CHANDLER, was born in Tunbridge, Vt., July 1, 1827. He graduated from the Medical department of Harvard College in 1854, and settled in the practice of his profession in Strafford, Vt., where he remained until May 15, 1860, when he married, and immediately moved to Montpelier, where he is still in practice, the oldest physician in the place and in practice the longest time. Dr. CHANDLER was surgeon of the 6th Vt. Regt. from 1861 to 1863. In the spring of 1863, by the request of Gov. Smith, he returned to the Wilderness, where he remained two months, then went on board the hospital boat State of Maine, with Dr. JANES, of Waterbury, where they were in service until the fall of 1864. Soon after Sloan hospital was established in Montpelier, Dr. CHANDLER returned home and occupied the position of executive officer, Dr. JANES being in charge. He was in Sloan hospital a year, till it was closed. Dr. CHANDLER has held the offices of the Vermont State Medical society, of which he is a member, and was one of the board of pension examiners for his district. All that is said of his father as a physician and citizen may truly be said of the son, and his pity and kindness to the poor was intensified in the latter. He has a son, Dr. Charles E. CHANDLER, a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, in practice in Montpelier, and his daughter is teaching in the Union Graded School of the same place.

      Dennis LANE was born in Barre, Vt., February 10, 1818. Soon after he attained his majority he settled in Plainfield, where he built one or more houses. About 1858 Mr. LANE was the proprietor of a saw-mill in Plainfield. The inconvenience, inaccuracy, and imperfections of the machinery for setting the log forward, and gaging the thickness of the successive cuts of the saw, led him to closely investigate the matter, and the outcome from his study was the invention of the Lane patent lever-set saw-mill, which is now in general use throughout the world. In 1863 he removed to Montpelier, and bought the machine shop and foundry upon the site of those now owned by the Lane Manufacturing Co., in order to keep pace with the constantly increasing demand for his mills. Two or three years later Gen. P. P. PITKIN and J. W. BROCK joined in partnership with Mr. LANE. This company was incorporated as the Lane Manufacturing Co. in 1873, with Mr. LANE its president, who held the position at the time of his decease. This corporation is the leading industry of the town, and is the most successful manufactory ever established in Montpelier.

      Mr. LANE made improvements upon the original mill, and in fact upon about all the machinery he ever used, and constantly brought out new and always useful and practical inventions which will be an enduring monument to his name as an inventor. Mr. LANE was honored by his townsmen in Plainfield with most of the offices of the town. He represented Plainfield in the popular branch of the legislature in 1858-59, and at the time of his death he was serving his fourth term as selectman of Montpelier, and was then chairman of the board. In 1880 he was elected to the directorship of the Montpelier Savings Bank and Trust Co., was a heavy stockholder in the company which bears his name, owned a large interest in timberlands and lumber-mills at Lanesboro, was an extensive owner of real estate in Montpelier, and rented many tenements. Mr. LANE was born a mechanic. It is said that his most agreeable passtime in his boyhood was in fashioning water-wheels with his jack-knife. But he was not simply an inventor. He also, had an acknowledged capacity for general business affairs, and had a mind of his own, which guided him in forming conclusions that were evidences of his good judgment. Mr. LANE was a silent, unassuming man, but a close thinker. He was independent in action, but very liberal in his treatment of those who differed with him in sentiment, either political or religious. He disliked ostentation, show, cant, and hypocrisy. His interest in the poor and pity for the unfortunate was proverbial. He not only said "be ye warmed, clothed, and fed," but in a substantial manner proved his sincerity, and was the author of many deeds of charity positively known only to himself. He loved his home, where he was always the kind, considerate, generous, and indulgent husband and father. July 28, 1844, Mr. LANE united in marriage with Miss Orleska E. FREEMAN. The present family consists of her who had been his companion for forty-four years, their daughters, Jennie, wife of Oscar G. BARRON, of Whise Mountains hotel fame, and Hattie E., wife of Thomas S. BROPHY, of Montreal, and their sons, Albert D. and George L., of Montpelier.

      Hiram ATKINS, editor of the Argus and Patriot, was born in Ulster county, N. Y., but was taken by his parents to Poughkeepsie when very young, and resided in that town and city until he attained his majority. After working three years as a dry goods clerk he became an apprentice to the printing business, in the office of the Poughkeepsie Eagle. He afterwards went to Kingston, N. Y., and in 1853 came to Vermont, as junior partner in the publication of the Battle Ground at North Bennington. After remaining there a few weeks he left that paper in the hands of his partner, and went to Bellows Falls, where he embarked in the publication of the Argus, which succeeded the Republican Standard, a paper that had been published for three years at a considerable loss to those engaged in the enterprise. His only capital was good habits, energy, and industry, and by the well judged use of those qualities he made a success of the venture. Ten years afterward, in February, 1863, he purchased the name and good will of the Vermont Patriot, at Montpelier, the publication of which had been suspended for a time, and moved to the capital, consolidating the Bellows Falls Argus with the Patriot. That he did not misjudge in making this change is proved by the fact that the Argus and Patriot now has much the largest circulation of any journal in the state, and is probably the best paying newspaper property in Vermont. From 1857 to 1861 he was postmaster at Bellows Falls, the only official position he ever held until appointed superintendent of the new federal building at Montpelier in 1886. He was the second member of the Democratic state committee from 1863 to 1873, and since then has been its chairman, succeeding the late H. B. SMITH, of Milton, at the time of his sudden decease; he is also now the Vermont member of the Democratic national committee. His interest in politics is attested by the fact that he has attended every Democratic national convention from 1860 to 1888, inclusive, except that of 1872. His religious affiliations are Episcopal. He has been a vestryman of Christ church for many years; a delegate to the diocesan convention ; a trustee of the Episcopal fund ; and one of the board of land agents. He is fifty-seven years old.

      Col. Orange FIFIELD, whose own remark that he "belongs to the old line" is as accurate as he once gave our lamented and esteemed townsman, Charles T. SABIN, the credit of being, has lived in Montpelier for about a quarter of a century. His "six foot" form, his business capacity, his large acquaintance with men, and his command of a full vocabulary to express forcibly such of his large stock of original ideas as he has thought best to make public, have made him a notable man in the communities where he has lived. He has been the author of the matter for a large number of books of the size and pith of Poor Richard's Almanac -- books never made, however, because in his day it was not the fashion to have a private stenographer. He is the son of Captain Samuel FIFIELD, who came from near Concord, N. H., and early settled in the town of Orange. Col. FIFIELD was born April 12, 1803, in Orange, where he "grew up," and became a merchant and general dealer, and spent the greater part of a very active business life. He bought wool and country produce all through Northern Vermont, and was largely engaged in buying wool in the West, and also in the cattle trade in the days when beef came east "on the hoof" instead of being transported under the provisions more or less well observed of the interstate commerce act. Col. FIFIELD accumulated a large property, but like many other Vermonters believed in real estate to his financial injury in his later days.

      He obtained his title of colonel by being the commander for some years of a regiment of the old militia. He was the contemporary of George COLLAMER, and many other active and live business men of the olden time. His wife, lately deceased, was a daughter of Captain David NELSON, of Orange; she was descended on her mother's side from the Adamses, of Massachusetts. There were six children of the marriage, of whom Hon. Benjamin F. FIFIELD, of Montpelier, is the eldest. And the son never brought sharper wit or clearer thought to unravel the tangled skein of the long railroad litigation than the father used in his every day stock in matters little and big. Col. FIFIELD, since he came to Montpelier, lived in the house just east of the Pavilion, where, since the decease of his wife, a daughter has kept house for him.

      He was an old Whig, and in later days has been a very lively and "set" Republican. His off-hand platform in 1880 -- perhaps in parts brought down from earlier times-was: "Free speech, free soil, protection to American industry: let brains win and salt water bound us."  That same year, when the Democratic town committee had secured Village hall for a meeting the evening before freemen's meeting, and some of the Republicans were worrying because "the Democrats had got our hall," his answer was: "Got our hall! The Democrats got our hall? Our hall is America!" And last July, near the opening of the campaign, after hearing some vigorous Democratic stump or other oratory, he remarked: "The voice of the quiet, good people is going to elect Harrison. It isn't these bawling, cusses that are going to carry this election. The quiet, good people are going to elect him, sir; what do you say? " When George W. WING was going off to try a lawsuit for him, and on the way inquired what about his proof of certain matters, his lawyer's heart was comforted by the assurance: "Got it right here in black and white; that wasn't any -- gabble on a knoll." He it was who some years ago assured the writer that his memory as to things of later years was not very good, but "as to things that happened sixty years ago it's like the sight of a diamond's eye."  But one never took the pains to make a note of anything he said that was the source of keen mental enjoyment, because any one who knew him well understood that the next time he saw him he could get a fresh batch as original as any that had come before: so a host of sayings, with a nugget of philosophy in many a one of them, have gone their way-some forgotten at once, some heard by Charles T. SABIN, or Charles H. HEATH, or Clarence H. PITKIN, or George W. WING, or men of that kind, kept for a little while passing about among appreciative acquaintances, but, like all things resting in tradition, resisting in their original clear cut from the eating tooth of time. One more, however, comes now to mind. When Charles W. WILLARD died Col. FIFIELD said to the writer, "All our good men seem to be dying off; and the villages don't grow those to take their places; we've got to rake 'em in off the side hills."

      John Victor MORROW was born in Plattsburgh, N. Y., May 16, 1843, learned the trade of marble worker, and at the age of fifteen years enlisted into Co. A, 7th Regt. N. Y. militia, and was promoted from sergeant to first lieutenant, and, next, to the post of captain, in 1860. At the breaking out of the war, in 1861, his company, by the requisition of Gov. SEYMOUR, was ordered to the seat of war. April 11, 1861, this boy captain, less than eighteen years old, led his company of eighty-five men to the front. The evening of his arrival at Washington, without stopping for supper or rest, he was. ordered to Baltimore Turnpike, just across the Potomac, in Maryland, and at twelve o'clock at night was engaged in battle, with four companies of the rebel militia under command of Stonewall Jackson. The enemy was repulsed, with terrible slaughter, and fifty prisoners were captured. Capt. MORROW received a gun-shot wound in the left arm, and a severe one in the lower jaw,. with the loss of five teeth. One of his men was stain and five wounded. Notwithstanding his wounds Capt. MORROW refused to go to the hospital, but remained with his command. Later he was attached to Buell's corps, participated in the battle at Fairfax Court House, and at the end of three months, when he was mustered out of service, there were only sixteen of his eighty-five men left. In New York city he at once reenlisted in Col. ELLSWORTH's regiment, with rank of first lieutenant, was present when that brave officer was murdered, participated in twenty-eight engagements and thirty-two skirmishes, and received a wound in the knee and another in his ankle. June 25, 1864, for bravery on the field, he was promoted captain in the regular army and transferred to Gen. Sherman's army, at Atlanta, Ga., and "marched to the sea." In crossing the Savannah river, in charging the bridge, he lost heavily of his company and received a bullet in,. his right side near the hip, and another through the left lung, which lodged in his left shoulder, where it still remains. He was nineteen weeks on board the hospital ship Cosmopolitan, receiving excellent treatment, and as soon after as he was able he resigned his position and returned to civil life. He now resides in the village of Montpelier, on the old hospital ground, where he has been since the war.

      Dean G. KEMP, M. D., son of Phineas A. and Betsey (BLANCHARD) KEMP, was born in Worcester, Vt., November 8, 1841. He resided with his father until he was about eighteen years of age, and like other farmers' boys spent his time in attendance at the district school and at hard labor. He then went to Montpelier and was in attendance at Washington County Grammar and Union School about three years, with the medical profession as the object to be attained. In 1862 he entered, as a medical student, the office of Dr. W. H. H. RICHARDSON. He remained with Dr. RICHARDSON, attended medical lectures at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York city, graduated March 26, 1866, and commenced the practice of his profession with his tutor, Dr. RICHARDSON, one week later. April 1, 1867, he purchased the residence of Dr. RICHARDSON, and succeeded him, where he is now in successful practice. Dr. KEMP was a member of the board of examining surgeons for pensions in the administrations of Presidents Garfield and Arthur. He held the honorable position of president of the Vermont State Medical society in 1886, has been secretary of the school board for several years, and is a director of the Montpelier Electric Light and Power Manufacturing Co. In politics Dr. KEMP is a decided Republican, and is a member of Bethany church. September 5, 1866, he united in marriage with Annette C. MAXHAM, of Northfield, an amiable and highly cultivated lady.

      Enoch D. PUTNAM, son of Jacob, was born in Alstead, N. H., March 26, 1813. In 1820 his father moved with his family from Alstead to Marshfield, Vt. His education was acquired in common schools and the Washington County Grammar School of Montpelier. In early manhood he taught common schools eight terms, in the towns of Marshfield, Cabot, Peacham, Vt., and Canajoharie, N. Y. In 1835 he entered the store of George D. DANA, in Cabot, as clerk, and in the spring of 1836 he settled in Kenosha, Wis., in the employ of DENNING & DURKEE, merchants. In the spring of 1837 he opened a store at Fox River, now Burlington, Wis., in company with his late employers, where he traded until the following December, when he returned to Vermont. April 4, 1840, he bought the store and stock of goods of H. MCLANE, Jr., & Co., in Marshfield village, where he continued in trade fourteen years. In 1848 he represented Marshfield in the legislature, was elected assistant judge of Washington County Court the same year, and was reelected in 1849. While in trade in Marshfield he manufactured potato starch seven years. In March, 1854, he formed a mercantile partnership with A. F. SPRAGUE, in Cabot, where he continued thirteen years. In 1858 he was state senator for Washington county and reelected in 1859. In 1868 he sold to Mr. SPRAGUE and removed to Montpelier, and assumed charge of the large boarding-house of the Vermont Methodist Seminary, where he remained two years. In July, 1871, he engaged in the wholesale trade in tea, tobacco, and spices, with the firm of TUTE, PUTNAM & Co., of Boston. In the fall of 1873 he sold his interest in the store in Boston to L. W. JONES, of Montpelier, and in company with his son-in-law, Thomas MARVIN, bought the stock of groceries, crockery, and glassware of Mr. JONES. At the great fire in Montpelier, May 31, 1875, their store and stock of goods, worth about $7,000, were entirely destroyed, but their business was suspended only two weeks. Mr. PUTNAM continued the senior member of this firm until June 5, 1888, when he retired from the firm. Mr. PUTNAM entered the mercantile business in 1835, and continued in it with very little interruption about fifty-three years; and now (1889) he is enjoying good health, with his mental faculties unusually well preserved. March 26, 1845, he married Mary Ann STONE, of Cabot. Their children were Charles B., born in Marshfield, January 1, 1846, who is a printer, and is now engaged in the office of the Rutland Herald; Clara R., born in Marshfield, August 19, 1847, died in Cabot, July 14, 1856 ; Eva, born in Marshfield, October 7, 1853, married Thomas MARVIN, a merchant, of Montpelier; and Isabel, born in Cabot, June 16, 1862, married Henry A. PHELPS, of the firm of Phelps Brothers, hardware merchants, of Barre.

      George C. CHANDLER, son of Dr. Charles B. and Nancy (ATHERTON) Chandler, was born in Tunbridge, Vt., August 16, 1831. He received a common school education and commenced life as a merchant in Waterbury, Vt., at the age of nineteen years. After being in Waterbury six years he emigrated to Lawrence, Kan., and was there three years dealing in real estate. He was a real estate broker in the city of New York, from 1872 to 1885. In January, 1886, he removed to his present residence in Berlin, where he is now engaged in farming. He married, April 18, 1853, Margaret R. SEARS, of Waterbury, who died in 1863. He married his present wife, Alathia M. SMITH, December 12, 1865.
 
 
 

Gazetteer Of Washington County, Vt. 1783-1899, 
Compiled and Published by Hamilton Child,
Edited By William Adams.
The Syracuse Journal Company, Printers and Binders.
Syracuse, N. Y.; April, 1889.
Pages 375-399
 

Transcribed by Karima Allison, 2003