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THE ILLUSTRATED 
 
 HISTORICAL SOUVENIR 
 
 OF 
 
 BETHEL, VERMONT. 
 
 Containing a Brief History of the Eari^y Settlement of the Town, 
 
 The Schools, Churches, Medical and IvEGal Professions, Old 
 
 Families, Business and Manufacturing Interests, 
 
 Together with Portraits and Biographies 
 
 OF the Citizens, Past and Present. 
 
 In presenting this volume to the public, the publishers have labored earnestly 
 
 and faithfully to arrange the available material in a manner to interest 
 
 the people of Bethel. The citizens whose portraits adorn this 
 
 work, by their public spirit and liberality have enabled 
 
 us to complete this book, and to them we 
 
 . . . extend our thanks. . . . 
 
 COMPILED AND ARRflNQED BY 
 
 PRED G. COX 
 
 BETHEL, VERMONT. 
 
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BETHEL 
 
 By William R. Adams. 
 X> ETHEL is claimed to be the first town 
 -Lj in Windsor County, chartered by the 
 State of Vermont. There were several towns 
 chartered or organized before by either New 
 Hampshire or New York authorities. Bethel 
 is the most northwesterly town in the county 
 — except Rochester, is bounded on the north 
 by Randolph in Orange County, on the east 
 by Royalton, on the south by Stockbridge, 
 on the west by Rochester. It also corners 
 with Braintree on the northwest, Tunbridge 
 on the northeast, Barnard on the southeast 
 and Pittsfield on the southwest, and covers 
 an area of six miles square, and was made up 
 from a portion of Royalton and a portion of 
 what was then called Middlesex, as will be 
 seen from the following -' Articles of Agree- 
 ment," etc., made at a meeting at Hanover, 
 N. H., December 29, 1777, and on later 
 dates. 
 
 '"'We, the subscribers, desirous to form set- 
 tlements on White River and its branches in 
 the northwesterly part of Royalton and that 
 part of Middlesex which abuts on the 
 northwesterly of said Royalton, being con- 
 vened this 29th day of December, 1777, to 
 prepare the way for carrying the same into 
 execution, do enter into the following arti- 
 cles of stipulation and agreement with each 
 other. Namely — 
 
 Article ist. — No pitch shall be made by 
 any person without the consent of the ma- 
 jority of such of us as shall be regularly con- 
 vened for transacting matters relative to said 
 settlement, and in such a manner as the ma- 
 jority shall direct. 
 
 Article 2d. — The expenses of such meas- 
 ures as shall be directed by a majority of this 
 body of adventurers shall be defrayed by the 
 whole, each being assessed according to his 
 interest therein. 
 
 Article 3d. — Measures necessary to be 
 pursued to effect the settlement proposed, 
 shall be directed in such manner as is usual 
 at proprietor's meetings, for which purpose 
 we-agree to choose such officers as are usual 
 at those meetings, as we shall find occasion. 
 This convention to be considered as the first 
 meeting. 
 
 Article 4th. — Any person signing these 
 articles may, at any meeting, be dismissed on 
 
 his request, and excused from future charges, 
 on his resigning his right to this body. No 
 adventurer to be admitted but by consent of 
 the body, except by purchase from some of us. 
 Signed at Hanover, State of New Hamp- 
 shire, the day and year aforesaid. 
 
 John Payne, 
 John Ordway, 
 Comfort Sever, 
 Samuel Payne, 
 Aaron Storrs. 
 John Payne, Jr., 
 Abel Curtis, 
 Jehial Woodard, 
 Lemuel 'Payne, 
 
 Benj. Day, 
 Joshua Hendee, 
 Pelatiah Bliss, 
 Joshua Loveland, 
 Simeon Curtis, 
 Sylvanus Owen, 
 Samuel Curtis, 
 Asa Grosvenor, 
 Solomon Cushman. 
 
 At a meeting held December 30th follow- 
 ing, it was- voted that a petition be pre- 
 sented to the Honorable Council of Safety 
 for the State of Vermont, for a charter of a 
 certain tract of land lying in the northwest- 
 erly part of Royalton, and that part of Mid- 
 dlesex adjoining, two and one-half miles in 
 width, from Royalton, the whole to contain 
 about six miles square. At a meeting De- 
 cember 31st following, among other votes 
 passed was the following : That the number 
 of proprietors for the township proposed, 
 should not exceed thirty, till the minds of 
 the convention or Council of Safety for the 
 State of Vermont may be known in the affair. 
 
 Also voted that Bethel be put into the 
 petition proposed to be transmitted to said 
 Council, as a name for said town. Then the 
 following petition was agreed to : 
 '^ To the Honorable Council of Safety for the 
 
 State of Vermont :'' 
 
 " The petition of us, the subscribers, in- 
 habitants of the State of New Hampshire ad- 
 joining Connecticut River, 
 
 " Humbly Sheweth : — 
 
 That your petitioners desirous to make set- 
 tlements on White River and its branches, 
 in the northwesterly part of the township of 
 Royalton, in said State of Vermont, and that 
 part of Middlesex which adjoins thereto, have 
 associated together, under certain articles of 
 regulations in order to prepare the way for 
 and carry the same into execution. That we 
 understand said lands were granted by the late 
 Governor of New York (counter to royal 
 proclamation) to certain persons, the greatest 
 part of whom have now joined or put them- 
 selves under the protection of the enemies of 
 the United States. That there is no pros- 
 
pect that any part of said land will be settled 
 by any of said grantees, and that your peti- 
 tioners would willingly become obligated to 
 settle said lands if we could be assured of ob- 
 taining a good title thereto on reasonable 
 terms, and have the same incorporated into 
 distinct and separate towns. 
 
 Y&ur petitioners, therefore, humbly pray 
 that an order be issued by the Council of 
 Safety for the State of Vermont, that no per- 
 son or persons whatsoever make a pitch, or 
 take possession of anv of said lands but such 
 as shall associate with us for the purpose of 
 settling there. That a charter of incorpora- 
 tion be granted to us as soon as the circum- 
 stances of said state will admit, of that tract 
 which will be formed by taking a tract two 
 and one-half miles wide from the north- 
 westerly end of Royalton and uniting it with 
 that part of Middlesex which adjoins north- 
 westerly thereon. That we may be assured 
 that the fee of such parcels of land therein 
 contained as shall become forfeit to the State, 
 shall be granted to us and our associates on 
 reasonable terms. And that the said tract 
 when so incorporated by charter into a dis- 
 tinct and separate town be known by the 
 name of Bethel, and your petitioners as in 
 duty bound shall ever pray, etc." 
 
 Dated at Hanover, State of New Hamp- 
 shire, January ist, 1778. 
 
 Signed by the eighteen whose names ap- 
 pear attached to the foregoing Articles of 
 Agreement, etc. 
 
 It seems from the foregoing that the grant 
 fronj the Governor of New York was to per- 
 sons known in those days as " Tories," the 
 date of the same is not known. It was also 
 voted at a meeting held February 11, 1778, 
 to admit members to the number of fifty, re- 
 cinding the previous vote to have but thirty, 
 and the - following were admitted : Colonel 
 Joseph Marsh, Captain Abel Marsh, Stephen 
 Tilden, John Woodard, Samuel Thing, Jere- 
 miah Trescott and Samuel Hunt. Also voted 
 to choose an agent to enquire into the rights 
 and claims of the lands contained within the 
 supposed limits of said town, and apply to 
 gentlemen in New York for information 
 therein, and to procure or engage a number 
 of lots necessary to accommodate said town 
 which are supposed to belong to persons 
 friendly to the country. Also voted to raise 
 a tax of two dollars on each proprietor to de- 
 fray expenses. Elected Abel Curtis such 
 agent, and Colonel Joseph Marsh, Captain 
 Abel Marsh and Deacon John Ordway a 
 committee to give general instructions to 
 Mr. Curtis. Among the instructions of this 
 
 committee was the following : To go to Brat- 
 tleboro and see Colonel Wells, and enquire 
 of him who were owners of land in said tract 
 and see if they- could be bought. Also, if 
 thought best, to proceed to State of New 
 York, see people there, also Governor Liv- 
 ingston and procure as many lots as possi- 
 ble. The price mentioned by them as what 
 they thought a fair valuation was for the lots 
 adjacent to the river, twelve shillings per 
 acre in gold or silver, or its equivalent in 
 English money, and for the back lots not so 
 high. Also appointed John Payne an agent 
 to attend the Assembly of the State of Ver- 
 mont at Windsor in March following, to at- 
 tend to affairs relating to the proposed town- 
 ship of Bethel. 
 
 Mr. Curtis iiiade his report March 17 of 
 his doings, etc. 
 
 "That agreeable to iny instructions I 
 called on Colonel Wells of Brattleborough, 
 who informed me that he could not abso- 
 lutely determine who were the proprietors of 
 Middlesex, but thought that Mr. Bangor 
 owned a considerable part of it,, and also 
 Mr. Kelley and Mr. Kemp. I asked the 
 Colonel if he did not think that he had any 
 writings by him which might better inform. 
 The Colonel answered that he believed 
 he had some of Mr. Gate's writing and 
 he would see. He accordingly found in Mr. 
 Gate's account book that he had charged 
 Mr. Bangor and Mr. Kelly for surveying 
 6,000 acres each in Middlesex, which was all 
 the account he could find. He further added 
 that Mr. Bangor would, no doubt, better in- 
 form me in the matter and that I might likely 
 find him at Rhinebeck. I accordingly con- 
 cluded to steer my course directly for Rhine- 
 beck, where, having arrived, I was informed 
 lie was gone to Livingston Manor, to pay a 
 visit to Mr. John Smith, who was resident 
 there as a prisoner. 1 then went to the 
 Manor where I found both those gentlemen 
 together. I enquired of them if either of 
 them were proprietors of Middlesex, they 
 said they were not and did not own any land 
 at all in that township. I told Mr. Bangor 
 what Colonel Wells informed me, he said he 
 could answer that Mr. Clark, a gentleman 
 in England, owned the 6,000 acres and he 
 acted only as his attorney. I asked those 
 gentlemen if they could inform me who were 
 the other proprietors of Middlesex. They 
 said they believed that Mr. Kelly and IVIr. 
 Kemp of New York owned a considerable 
 part of it, and they thought Mr. Hicks did 
 likewise, but were not certain. I asked if 
 Governor Livingston did not own some. 
 They said they thought not. I then told 
 them that a number of people had agreed to 
 
form a settlement on the upper part of Roy- 
 alton and a part of Middlesex, if tliey could 
 purchase the land at a reasonable rate, and 
 as I understood they owned a number of lots 
 in the upper part of Royalton, I desired to 
 know whether they would sell them. I 
 found that they would not sell for the cur- 
 rent money, yet they would take gold or sil- 
 ver at a future day, or the then current 
 money equal in value thereto. I demanded 
 their price for the lots specified in my instruc- 
 tions. They said eighteen shillings per 
 
 At same meeting the following were ad- 
 mitted as proprietors : Ichabod Palmer, John 
 Weed, TJiomas Pitkin, ZebuIonLyon, George 
 Eager, Medad Benton, Joel Marsh, Samuel 
 Slade, Elisha Marsh. 
 
 At a meeting March 25th, 1778, John 
 Payne made his report as follows, being a 
 copy of^the resolve obtained from General 
 Assembly : 
 
 BETHEL VILLAGE— 1895. 
 
 acre for the interval lots, and fourteen shil- 
 lings per acre for the others. Told them it 
 was dearer than I expected and declined 
 purchasing at that time, but got the refusal 
 of them until ijth of June next." 
 
 The proprietors were satisfied with Mr. 
 Curtis' report and allowed him his bill for the 
 same, as follows : 
 
 To 18 days service, at 9 s per day, ;^ 820 
 To expense, 15 8 o 
 
 To the hire of a horse, 5 5° 
 
 To incidental- ^barges, 150 
 
 £30 o o 
 
 State op }_ In General Assembly, 
 Vermont. \ Windsor, March 18, 1778. 
 
 Upon the petition of John Payne, John 
 Ordway, Comfort Sever and their associates, 
 praying to be assured that they shall have 
 the refusa;l of as much of the lands therein 
 described as shall be granted to them on 
 reasonable terms and incorporated into a 
 distinct and separate town, as by the petition 
 on file, bearing date January ist, J778, may 
 appear. 
 
 Therefore, Resolved, By the Assembly 
 that the above named, John Payne, John 
 Ordway, Comfort Sever and their associates 
 
■ — provided they are forty-six in number, be- 
 sides what is hereafter reserved for public 
 uses, viz. : One right or share for the first 
 settled minister, one for the parsonage, one 
 for schools, and four hundred acres which is 
 reserved in the southwest corner of said town, 
 in square form, for the use of a college — can 
 be assured that the rest of the lands above 
 referred to — shall be granted to them agreeable 
 to the tenor of their said request at the 
 appraisal of indifferent men , (as wild land) 
 when the circumstances of the State will 
 admit of its being done with propriety — on 
 condition of one settler being settled on each 
 private share in two years after granted — the 
 said petitioners advancing the sum of two 
 thousand dollars on loan, into the loan office, 
 which shall hereafter be established in this 
 State (agreeable to the proposal of their agent 
 to this Assembly) within two months alter 
 such loan office shall be properly created. 
 Passed in the House of Representatives. 
 Benj. Bawlding, Clerk. 
 
 The above was accepted by the proprietors 
 and Payne"s bill allowed at .^30. It was also 
 voted that said Payne have the privilege of 
 making the first pitch (first choice of lots) in 
 the first division, he to settle on the same as 
 soon as other settlers did. It was also voted 
 to appoint a committee to assess the pro- 
 prietors for the purpose of raising the ^2,000 
 to pay into the loan office ; it was assessed at 
 ^44 per proprietor. There was also a com- 
 mittee of five appointed to make up the 
 membership or number of proprietors to the 
 required number, as a number of the old 
 ones had withdrawn from the association. It 
 appears that in this affair, as it has often in 
 many others since, that some of the would-be 
 proprietors did not pay their assessments ; 
 so on the 28th day of April, 1778, it was 
 voted to fix the time at May 19 next follow- 
 ing, and to dispose of said delinquent rights 
 to other persons, if not paid by that time. 
 A committee was also appointed at this time 
 to " run a line around the proposed town of 
 Bethel, and view said township, and make 
 report to the proprietory." This committee 
 also was instructed to lay out lots of not 
 more than 150 or less than 100 acres. 
 
 Capt. Aaron Storrs was at this time in- 
 structed to pay in the ^£2.000 to the loan 
 office at a meeting held May 19, 1778. 
 
 The above committee made their report. 
 They had engaged Mr. Zenas Coleman as 
 their surveyor. They could not find the 
 
 upper bouAds of Royalton, so hired Esq. 
 Marsh of Sharon, to show them. They then 
 run a line around a tract six miles square. 
 They then took a "view " of the land, especi- 
 ally the intervale land, (the land along the 
 rivers), and they judged that there would be 
 nearly twenty acres to a proprietor. They 
 did not lay out any lots at this time. At this 
 meeting it swas voted to allow the " Hon. 
 Joseph Marsh and Abel Marsh the privilege 
 of purchasing at their own risk and for their 
 own use the lot No. 56, of Mr. Bangor, and 
 one-half of lot No, 55 adjoining it, which 
 included a mill place ; said lot belonging to 
 Governor Livingston — on condition that they 
 become obligated to build a good saw mill 
 and grist mill on said mill place, as soon as 
 the circumstances of said town will possibly 
 admit." 
 
 Voted, That the intervale land, except what 
 was included in above vote, be equally divided 
 among the proprietors. 
 
 At a meeting June 30, 1778, it was voted 
 " that there shall be a convenient passable 
 road cut from the Royalton line up White 
 river to the third Branch, then to extend up 
 said branch to the northerly line of said town. 
 
 The committee for dividing the lots made 
 their report, and another committee was ap- 
 pointed to draw by "lottery" for the pro- 
 prietors. There was also at this time the 
 bill of the committee for laying out the lots 
 handed in, which was for 199 pounds, 2 .shil- 
 lings, o pence. One charge in the bill was 
 "To cash paid for liquor, 15 pounds" — about 
 $75. They evidently did not go dry all the 
 time. 
 
 Captain Abel Marsh, who had been ap- 
 pointed agent for purchasing land of Gover- 
 nor Livingston and others, reported as fol- 
 lows, that he saw the parties and procured 
 the following agreement : 
 
 "Manor of Livingston, 25 Feb., 1778. 
 
 "We agree to convey to Abel Curtis, that 
 is to say, I, Goldsbrow Bangor, the lots in 
 Royalton, distinguished in the map thereof 
 as the Great Lots, numbers 56 and 57, 44, 
 45, 46 and 54,— and I, William Smith, those 
 other Great Lots in said town, distinguished 
 by the numbers 47. 48, 43 and 52, if the said 
 Abel shall by the fifteenth day of June next, 
 enter into bond to us respectively, for our 
 respective lots, for the payment of eighteen 
 shillings per acre for the lots 56 and 57, 47 
 and 48, and fourteen shillings per acre for 
 
the remaining lots. Payable in four years 
 from the date hereof in silver or gold, or in 
 any other current money of the colony of 
 New York equal in value thereto with lawful 
 interest for two of the said years, which said 
 sums shall be further secured by mortgages 
 in due form of law, immediately after the ex- 
 ecution of the deeds conveying the said lots, 
 and such deeds are not to be executed until 
 the same are required by the said parties in 
 six months after the present troubles in North 
 America are ended, and it is to be under- 
 stood that the vendors will give warrantees 
 and covenant on the sales in fee simple, ex- 
 cept against the proportion of quit-rent re- 
 served due and to become due on the said 
 
 another lottery and draw the lots in Bethel 
 aforesaid," which was done. 
 
 The bond or agreement given by the New 
 York parties to Abel Curtis and others for 
 sale of their lots, was about this time trans- 
 ferred to the proprietors. 
 
 The following is a copy of the loan office 
 certificate for the two thousand dollars re- 
 ferred to : 
 
 " Norwich, State of Vermont, ) 
 20th IVIay, 1778. j 
 
 Received of Captain Aaron Storrs of 
 Dresden, treasurer for the proprietors of the 
 
 
 
 VIEW OF CHURCH STREET FROM THE EAST HILL. 
 
 lots which the purchaser is to be answerable 
 for and covenant to pay." 
 
 Then follows prices of lots and receipts for 
 payment of same. Also the following : 
 
 " The proprietors of town of Bethel to 
 Abel Marsh, Dr., to time, expenses, and the 
 use of a horse on business for said proprie- 
 tors to the state of New York and the Jer- 
 sies, thirty pounds." 
 
 It appears that some mistake was found in 
 lottery drawing of lots, and that some did 
 not get their rights and were consequently 
 di-ssatisfied, so at meeting, July 24, 1778, a 
 new committee was appointed to " make 
 
 township called Bethel, in said state, two 
 thousand dollars, on loan, for the term of one 
 year with interest at six per cent. I say re- 
 ceived by me, as an assistant trustee of the 
 loan ofl^ce for said state, in behalf of Ira 
 Allen, trustee for said office. 
 
 Peter Olcutt. 
 
 At a meeting November 9th, 1778, it was 
 voted to raise a tax of $4 on each proprietor 
 to pay for cutting a road through the town. 
 
 December ist, 1778, the proprietors voted 
 to appoint Jtihn Payne, Lieutenant Slafter, 
 Captain Woodard, Captain Storrs, and Cap- 
 tain House (titles seem to have been very 
 
common) a standing committee to manage 
 and look after the interests of the same, with 
 power to purchase land, exchange proprie- 
 tors, make roads, etc. At a subsequent 
 meeting among other reports made by them 
 was the following : "That having informa- 
 tion that a certain Widow Woman in the 
 city of Albany, owned land, etc., etc.'' 
 
 At a meeting April 6, 1779, the above 
 committee reported that they had "signed a 
 petition to the Council and Assembly of the 
 State of New Hampshire, praying, in case 
 the grants west of Connecticut River should 
 belong to New Hampshire, that the fee of 
 such lands as might belong to the state may 
 be granted to us and our associates on rea- 
 sonable terms, and that a charter of incorpo- 
 ration of said Bethel be granted us and our 
 associates at a proper time, etc., at which 
 time we advanced nine dollars to defray the 
 expense of tiling said petition." 
 
 At the same meeting it was voted that to 
 encourage settlers in said township, that 
 those who would move with a family onto 
 their rights the ensuing summer, should be 
 entitled to the privilege of making a pitch 
 (choice) of the second 100 acre lots. Also 
 the same privilege to those without families 
 who should get at least four acres of their 
 land under proper improvements. Also 
 voted that, 
 
 " Any person who will raise 1,000 apple 
 trees in said town, fit for setting out in five 
 years shall be entitled to one hundred acres 
 of wild land in said town gratis." 
 
 At this time there comes in something 
 pertaining to the religious welfare of the 
 community. 
 
 "Whereas, different parties and secreta- 
 ries in religion often prove very detrimental 
 to the growth and wellbeing of societies, 
 which as much as possible to prevent." 
 " Voted, that this proprietory will use every 
 prudent and reasonable measure to discoun- 
 tenance and hinder the introducing of such 
 persons or settlers, etc., who may be likely to 
 create parties and divisions in said town, and 
 so far as may be, we will adhere to what is 
 commonly called the Congregational form of 
 worship and church government in said 
 township." 
 
 September 7, 1 779. Appointed John 
 Payne agent, to wait on the General Assem- 
 bly of the State of Vermont. About this 
 time the custom of " working on the high- 
 way " came into fashion, as it had been 
 voted at one time that four days and soon 
 after two days work on each right should be 
 
 worked on the roads by the proprietors 
 thereof. 
 
 December 13, 1779. Voted that Colonel 
 Joel Marsh be admitted as a proprietor, and 
 the said Marsh to accept the mill lot of 450 
 acres as his full share in said township, he to 
 pay his proportion of taxes, etc. Also to 
 build a good sawmill by the first day of^ep- 
 tember next, and a good gristmill by the first 
 day of November following, upon the forfeit- 
 ure of five thousand pounds, extraordinary 
 providences excepted. 
 
 CHARTER OF BETHEL. 
 
 STATE OF VERMONT. 
 
 THE GOVERNOR, COUNCIL AND GENERAL 
 
 ASSEMBLY OF THE REPRESENTATIVES 
 
 OF THE FREEMEN OF VERMONT. 
 
 To all People to whom these presents shall 
 come. 
 
 Greeting. 
 
 Know ye.: That, whereas it has been 
 represented to us by our friends, John Payne 
 and John House and their associates, that 
 there is a tract or parcel of vacant land lying 
 within this state, which has not been hereto- 
 fore granted, which they pray may be granted 
 to them. We have, therefore, thought fit for 
 the due encouragement of settling a new 
 plantation within this state, and other valua- 
 ble considerations as hereunto moving, and 
 do by these presents in the name and by the 
 authority of freemen of the State of Vermont, 
 give and grant unto the said John Payne, 
 John House, and the several persons here- 
 after named, their associates (viz.) Dudley 
 Chase, Benjamin Smith, Simeon Chase, John 
 Hibbard, Mathias Stone, Benjamin Chase, 
 Asa Edgerton, Samuel Peak, William Chap- 
 lin, Samuel Chase, Paul McKinstrv, Ralph 
 Wheelock, John Ordaway, Solomori Chase, 
 James Treadway, Solomon Cleveland, Labern 
 Gates, Benajah Strong, Thomas Putnam, 
 Rice Wheeler, Seth Chase, Samuel Stone, 
 
William Lyon, David Copeland, Samuel 
 Webster, Irad Smith, John Throop, Timo- 
 thy Bush, John Payne, Jr., John Cook, Zebu- 
 Ion Lyon, Joel Marsh, Ebenezer Putnam, 
 John Terry, John Morse, John Cooper, 
 Thomas Bingham, Asa Parker, Stephen 
 Child, Benjamm Crane, Joseph Tilden, Jere- 
 miah Trescott, Daniel Kenney, Solomon 
 Strong and William Chaplin, Jr. Together 
 with five equal shares to be appropriated to 
 public uses as follows (viz.) : First, one 
 share for the use of a seminary or college in 
 this state. One share for the first settled 
 minister or ministers of the gospel, to be dis- 
 posed of for that purpose as the town shall 
 direct. One share for the perpetual use and 
 support of the ministry of said town. One 
 
 To be divided into fifty-two equal shares, and 
 that the same be, and is hereby incorporated 
 into a township by the name of Bethel. 
 And that the inhabitants that do or shall 
 hereafter inhabit the said township are de- 
 clared to be enfranchised and entitled to all 
 and every one of the privileges and immuni- 
 ties that other towns within this state do by 
 law exercise and enjoy. 
 
 To have and to hold the said described 
 tract of land as above expressed, together 
 with all privileges and appertinances to them 
 and their respective heirs and assigns for- 
 ever, upon the following conditions and res- 
 ervations, viz. -. 
 
 /hprimis^-Thzt each proprietor of the 
 township of Bethel aforesaid, cultivate five 
 
 VIEW OF RIVER STREET FROM THE EAST HILL. 
 
 share for the county grammar school, 
 throughout this state, and one share for the 
 use and support of a school or schools within 
 said town. 
 
 The following tract or parcel of land sit- 
 uate, lying and being within this state, di- 
 vided and bounded as follows, viz : 
 
 Beginning at a point six miles and one- 
 half on a straight line north, 6° west from 
 the northwesterly corner of Sharon, thence 
 south 33° west, six miles sixty rods, thence 
 north 6i° west, 6 miles, thence north 33° 
 east, six miles and sixty rods, thence^ south 
 61° east, six miles to the point marking the 
 first bound, containing by actual measure- 
 ment twenty- three thousand and sixty acres. 
 
 acres on his share in said town, within the 
 term of three years from the date of this 
 grant, and .build a house at least eighteen 
 feet square, and be in actual possession of 
 the premises within five years from the date 
 aforesaid, and continue to improve said lands, 
 and for non-performance thereof the said 
 land to revert back to the freemen of this 
 state. 
 
 Secu/ii/o— That all pine trees suitable for 
 masts and spans for shipping, be reserved to 
 the use and benefit of the freemen of this 
 state. 
 
 In testimony whereof, we have caused the 
 seal of this state to be affixed at Arlington in 
 
the county of Bennington, this 23d day of 
 December, A. D. 1779, in the third year of 
 the independence of this state. 
 
 Thos. Chittenden. 
 
 Joseph Fay, Secretary. 
 
 1779, December 23, received and recorded 
 in iibr. 1st charters, page I, 2d pr. 
 
 J. Fay, Secretary. 
 A true copy, attest, 
 
 Dudley Chase, Clerk. 
 
 May i6th, 1780, it was voted to appoint a 
 committee to lay out the 2d loo-acre lots 
 (2di claim), also appointed Colonel John 
 House agent for said proprietor to apply to 
 the authority of the state for a warrant to 
 warn a legal meeting on the last Tuesday of 
 June following. 
 
 The meeting of the proprietors was called 
 at the house of Colonel Joel Marsh. 
 
 We notice that they had some trouble 
 about work on highways, as a vote was 
 passed September 6th, 1781, that delinquents 
 have till the following 20th of October, to 
 attend to the matter, after that time to be 
 charged six shillings for each day's delin- 
 quency. 
 
 There were four divisions of lots made be- 
 fore the lands in town were all taken up. 
 
 There were a good many sales of delin- 
 quent proprietor's lands for taxes and assess- 
 ments. On September 29, 1789, there were 
 . twenty-eight advertised as delinquent. Per- 
 sona buying these rights at vendue by 
 paying the taxes due became owners of the 
 same, an act of legislature having been 
 passed giving the proprietors pov^er to do so. 
 
 In September, 1792, a committee having 
 been appointed to establish the line between 
 Bethel and Royalton, (committee appointed 
 by both towns) they proceeded to do so. 
 
 The first town meeting was held May 17, 
 1782. (Previous meetings had been held by 
 the "proprietors.") The officers chosen 
 were, clerk, Barnabus strong ; constable, 
 Michael Flynn ; selectmen, Joel Marsh, John 
 Benjamin, George Smith ; Michael Flynn 
 was also the first justice of the peace. 
 
 First Settlements. — Benjamin Smith was 
 the first settler that we find record of. He 
 located in the autumn of 1779. The next 
 season Joel Marsh, Samuel Peak, Seth 
 Chase, Willard Smith and David Stone 
 
 joined Smith. David Stone was ■ one of the 
 prisoners taken by the Indians in one of 
 their raids sometime afterwards. 
 
 About the first thing the settlers attended 
 to was the erection of a log fort, for protec- 
 tion against Indian raids, as this valley was 
 a common way of the Indians, Tories, etc., 
 passing to and fro. The fort was located 
 where the railroad now runs just below the 
 depot. Sorne of the old logs and some other 
 relics were unearthed when the road was be- 
 ing built. The wisdom of this was shown 
 soon, for in August, 1780, a party of Indians 
 made a raid through this section taking some 
 prisoners, David Stone being one of them. 
 
 There was a detachment of soldiers at 
 Royalton at this time and were sent to Bethel 
 to occupy this fort. This change was a good 
 one for Bethel but unfortunate for Royalton, 
 as some two months later a large body of 
 Indians (and Tories) attacked that place and 
 burned the place, killing the cattle, etc. 
 Bethel would undoubtedly met the same fate 
 if this fort and garrison had not deterred 
 them, as the Indians came in sight of the 
 fort, but passed up the east branch on their 
 return from Royalton. 
 
 After the burning of Royalton, some of the 
 Bethel settlers and their families went down 
 the river to Hartford for safety. They told 
 of going through Royalton and seeing the 
 dead cattle and household utensils scattered 
 about. Others of the settlers flocked to the 
 fort for safety. 
 
 SOME OF THE FIRST EVENTS. 
 
 The first deed recorded bears date April 
 17, 17S0, all previous conveyances of land 
 being by the proprietors. 
 
 The first child born in Bethel was Asa 
 Smith, born September 6, 1780. 
 
 The first marriage record is of date 1795, 
 the parties being Bernice Snow and Rachel 
 Hardy. 
 
 Among some of the curious customs of 
 those times were the following, as it was the 
 custom to divide what was called the minis- 
 terial money (rents of the land reserved for 
 support of preaching) by the number of 
 names each society might secure, it was re- 
 quired that each voter should have recorded 
 his religious preferences as follows, mostly 
 
by certificates from the societies they had 
 formerly belonged to : 
 
 "This certifies that Willard Smith is a 
 professed Universalist, and is a member of 
 the Universalist society in Woodstock, No- 
 vember 34, 1792. 
 
 Attest, Israel Richardson, 
 
 Moderator. 
 December 27, 1792, entered and examined 
 by Michael Flynn, Town Clerk." 
 
 Or as follows : 
 
 "Bethel, September 17, 1792. This may 
 certify to all persons whom it may concern, 
 
 the town of Bethel, in the County of Windsor 
 and State of Vermont, wishing to enjoy the 
 benefit of public religious worship and in- 
 struction, do hereby associate ourselves to- 
 gether for that purpose, agreeing each with 
 the other to conform to the rules and liturgy 
 of the said church, and to such future regu- 
 lations for our prosperity as a parish as shall 
 be agreed upon in our legal meetings by a 
 majority of voices, placing ourselves for the 
 present under the administration of the Rev- 
 erend John C. Ogden. 
 
 In witne'ss whereof we have hereunto set 
 our hands to this instrument in the year 
 1794. 
 
 WEST SIDE OF MAIN STREET AND WRIG.yT & GUSHING MILL. 
 
 that I, Martin Kellogg, do attend the Bap- 
 tist meeting and I mean to support that way 
 of worship. 
 
 EpHRAiM AiNSWORTH, Moderator. 
 
 Although the proprietors sometime pre- 
 vious had voted to uphold the Congregational 
 worship, there is hardly any record of parties 
 making their professions for that way. Most 
 of them are for the Baptist, next the Univer- 
 salist, third Episcopal. 
 
 The following shows the date and forma- 
 tion of the Protestant Episcopal Society: 
 
 " The subscribers, members and friends of 
 the Protestant Episcopal Church, residing in 
 
 Paul McKinstry, 
 Ephraim Derrish, 
 Amasa Green, 
 Willard Smith, 
 Simeon Ch^se, 
 
 Bibye Cotton, 
 Joseph Wickingham, 
 Benjamin Smith, 
 Joseph A. Gallup, 
 Dudley Chase, Jr." 
 
 Here is another item in regard to the re- 
 ligious welfafe of the community in those 
 early days. 
 
 " This may certify to all whom it may con- 
 cern, that Mr. Benjamin Putnam was legally 
 ordained ar* evangelist preacher at Strafford, 
 in the State: of Vermont, by the laying on of 
 hands on the 6th of February, A. D. 1809, 
 and is legalty authorized for to administer the 
 ordainces of the Gospel, which was done in 
 the following order: Elder Aaron Buzzell 
 
lO 
 
 prayed at the laying on of hands, Elder 
 Daniel Batchelder gave the solemn charge, 
 Elder Simeon Dana gave the right hand of 
 fellowship. Elder Nathaniel King made the 
 concluding prayer. 
 
 Aaron Buzzell, ^ 
 
 Daniel Batchelder, [ Recorded Sept. 
 
 Simeon Dana, [ 25, 1815. 
 
 Nathaniel King. J 
 
 Attest, Jona. jMarsh, Town Clerk." 
 Another custom was to " warn " all new- 
 comers to leave town. This was to prevent 
 their gaining a residence in town in regard 
 to pauperism. 
 
 An order was given by the selectmen of 
 the town to the constable as follows : 
 
 ] To Luther Grover, 
 State OF Vermont, ! Constable of Bethel 
 Windsor County, ss. | in said County of 
 
 J Windsor. 
 
 Greeting. 
 
 By the authority of the State of Vermont, 
 you are required to summon or make known 
 unto Isaac Corey, Jonathan Coleson and 
 Amariah Hibbard, all now residing in said 
 town of Bethel, to depart with their families 
 this town forthwith, under the pains and 
 penalties of the law, in such cases made and 
 provided. 
 
 Dated, June 23, i8o8. 
 
 A town meeting was held Sept. 20, iBog, 
 in regard to the "first settled minister." It 
 was voted to extend a call to the Gospel 
 ministry in this town to Rev. Mr. Thomas 
 Russell. Also to give him as a settlement, 
 one hundred pounds, the same to be paid in 
 wheat at five shillings a bushel. Thirty 
 pounds to be paid the first year, thirty the 
 second and forty the third year. Also a 
 salary of ;£50 the first year and increase the 
 same five pounds a year until the amount 
 should be seventy pounds, and that should 
 be the salary. Also, afterwards voted him a 
 full share of land reserved for the " first set- 
 tled minister." Also made arrangements for 
 moving his family from Connecticut. 
 
 At a meeting held iVIarch 2, 1789, it was 
 voted to raise a tax of two pence on the 
 pound on the list of 1789, to be paid in wheat 
 at five shillings, rye at four shillings, and 
 corn at three shillings per bushel. This calls 
 to our mind the story told us by our grand- 
 parents of a minister, who was collecting up 
 his dues (grain) from his parishioners, who, 
 when one of them brought his fee in rye, was 
 
 informed that he (the minister) had got 
 through taking rye. " We have got done 
 taking rye," has been a bye-word ever since. 
 
 In the year 1794, a difficulty arose between 
 the inhabitants and the Rev. Russell. Rus- 
 sell brought a suit against the town and the 
 trouble caused several town meetings. Judg- 
 ment was rendered against the town. The 
 town petitioned the legislature which divided 
 a settlement, which was agreed upon in De- 
 cember, 1796. 
 
 April 29, 1799, a special meeting was 
 called to see about building a bridge across 
 White river, where a committee was ap- 
 pointed to attend to it and build a bridge, 
 etc. 
 
 In IVIarch, 1804, there was an article in 
 the warning for town meeting to see if the 
 town would vote to build a meeting house. 
 It was voted not to build one. 
 
 In these days it was customary for com- 
 panies formed for that purpose, to build roads 
 (turnpikes) and put up toll gates and collect 
 toll from trayelers, to get pay for their in- 
 vestments. We notice that in 1806, there 
 was a town meeting at which it was voted 
 that all persons living on the " center turn- 
 pike " passing through said Bethel, from 
 Stockbridge to Royalton, should work out 
 their highway taxes on said turnpike until 
 such time as the corporation should realize 
 six per cent on the money invested in said 
 turnpike. 
 
 * The following will give some idea of 
 the number of voters in town at a freeman's 
 meeting held September, 1806, at Which the 
 following vote was cast for representative to 
 congress, James Elliot had thirty-two votes, 
 Mark Richards had twenty-three votes. In 
 1812 there were about 200 voters. 
 
 * Here is another way the people had of 
 providing means for construction of high- 
 ways, vote passed at a town meeting held 
 March 2, 1807. "Voted to petition the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of the State of Vermont at its 
 next session, to grant a land tax of three 
 cents per acre for the purpose of making a 
 road up Camp Brook to Rochester line." 
 
 At a town meeting held in March, 1809, it 
 was voted " to hold two-thirds of the town 
 meetings held at the school house near Jona- 
 than Marsh's, and one-third at the school 
 house near Simeon Chase's." 
 
II 
 
 June 29, i8og, there was a meeting called 
 to see about building a bridge across White 
 River (the old one having been carried away 
 just before) it was voted to raise a tax of 
 three cents on a dollar of grand list for pur- 
 pose of building the same. Elezar Burbank, 
 Peleg Marsh and J. A. Dennison were 
 elected a committee to contracting for the 
 building of the bridge. 
 
 In 1816 it was voted to build a pound. 
 
 commenced at a point twenty-seven rods 
 north of Moose Horn Brook (near where 
 Elmer E. Spaulding now lives) and running 
 thence up the hill by where Charles and 
 Elisha Davis nowilive, to Rochester line, a 
 distance of four and three-fourth miles, from 
 Rochester line to Rochester village is the 
 same distance, nine and one-half miles in all, 
 being about two miles nearer then by the 
 present hill road to Rochester. 
 
 
 BETHEL TOWN HALL. 
 
 In March, 1811, a committee was appointed 
 to divide the town into school districts, nine 
 were formed at that time. 
 
 The survey of the highway leading from 
 Randolph line to Royalton line was made 
 July 12, 1788. Distance six and one-half 
 miles. 
 
 The road up White River was surveyed in 
 June, 1788. 
 
 The first laid out road from Bethel to 
 Rochester was surveyed in March, 1795, and 
 
 At a tow,n meeting held March 5, 1 821, it 
 was voted to build a bridge over the third 
 branch, near Marsh's Mills, and Simeon 
 Babbitt, Peleg S. Marsh and Alvin McKins- 
 try were appointed a committee to superin- 
 tend the same. We think the voters must 
 have got in a good day's work this day as we 
 notice they passed seventy-five different 
 votes. 
 
 In September, 1829, Thomas P. Russell 
 and James Wallace were appointed a com- 
 
mittee. to see about fencing the town bury- 
 ing ground, etc. Tliey reported tliat it con- 
 tained two and one-lialf acres and was deeded 
 to tlie town by Setii Cliase in 1787. 
 
 In September, 183 1, it was voted to build 
 a bridge over Wiiite River. Tiie Finley 
 Bridge over tiie branch. Also to raise money 
 to defray the expenses of building these 
 bridges, and the " bridge lately built over 
 third branch near the meeting house.'' The 
 following bill appears of record for building 
 White River bridge, $399.00 ; for building 
 Finley bridge and road, $190.00; for build- 
 ing bridge near meeting-house, $199.00. In 
 March, 1839, there was an article in warning 
 to see what action the town would take in 
 regard to ''rebuilding and repairing bridges 
 damaged by the freshet." It was voted that 
 the selectmen build and repair said bridges; 
 $1,000 was voled for building the bridge 
 across branch near Marsh's Mills. At same 
 meeting a committee previously appointed to 
 report on condition of White River bridge, 
 reported it to be in bad condition, and 
 recommended the town to make immediate 
 preparations for rebuilding same. April 8, 
 1839, it was voted that the selectmen build 
 an arch bridge across White River. James 
 Woodworth, George S. Hatch and Luther 
 Bullard were selectmen. Mr. Hatch had the 
 personal supervision of the building of the 
 bridge (the present one). 
 
 In September following a meeting was 
 called to see if town would build a bridge 
 across White River at Austin's Rock. A 
 committee was appointed to investigate and 
 report at next March meeting, at which time 
 the report was "laid on the table," 
 
 TOWN OF BETHEL. 
 The town of Bethel is located nearly at 
 the geographical center of the state. The 
 surface is quite uneven, especially back from 
 the main streams, the soil is generally pro- 
 ductive. Good farms abound on the streams 
 and back on the hills. Timber of various 
 kinds is plenty, the town is well watered. 
 White River flows across the south-east 
 corner. The third branch, rising in Rox- 
 bury, flows through Braintree and Randolph 
 into. Bethel from the north, thence about 
 four miles within this ■ town and then dis- 
 charges into White River at Bethel village. 
 
 The second branch flows across the eastern 
 corner of the town through the village of 
 East Bethel, and joins White River at North 
 Royalton. Locust Creek flows from Bar- 
 nard, and is also the outlet of Silver Lake in 
 Barnard, and joins White River about two 
 miles from Bethel village. Camp Brook 
 flows from Rochester and joins the third 
 branch about" two miles north of village. 
 The Gilead Brook also flows from Rochester 
 and joins the branch about two miles above 
 the mouth of Camp Brook. There is also a 
 stream in the westerly part of the town that 
 flows into White River near Stockbridge 
 line. The Central Vermont railroad has 
 about six miles of main line in town, running 
 up White River to Belhel village, then up 
 the third branch to Randolph. Bethel sta- 
 tion is one of the most important ones on 
 the line, as Barnard, Stockbridge, Pittsfield, 
 Rochester, Hancock, and parts of several 
 other towns come here for their railroad 
 business. There is a great passenger and 
 freight traffic here. Stages run daily to and 
 from Stockbridge, Rochester and points up 
 White River, and to Woodstock by way of 
 Barnard and Pomfret. 
 
 There is a very large and fine deposit of 
 granite located about three miles from the 
 railroad station, which is being worked to 
 some extent aft present, and is only waiting 
 capital and proper management to be made 
 a great industry and consequently of large 
 advantage to the town. Some gold has been 
 found but has failed to pay for working, so far. 
 
 BE!THEL VILLAGE. 
 
 Bethel village is located in a natural basin 
 in the southeastern part of the town at the 
 junction of the third branch with White 
 River, and is a very pleasant place, with 
 beautiful scenery all about it, and pleasant 
 drives into the surrounding country, which 
 also abounds in wild and picturesque scenery. 
 Many city people spend their vacations here. 
 The place has grown quite rapidly in business 
 and many buildings have been erected within 
 the last five years. Among the other build- 
 ings erected in this town is a fine town hall 
 with one of the best appointed stages in the 
 state. 
 
 There are at present four religious societies 
 holding regular services, viz. : Universalist, 
 
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 Congregationalist, Episcopal and Methodist. 
 The Whitcomb High School is located here 
 and has five departments and is a first-class 
 school. The National White River Bank is 
 located here, also the Bethel Shoe Company, 
 employing about 150 people, the G. & E. 
 G. Place Tannery and finishing factory, em- 
 ploying about 150 hands, two hotels, and ajob- 
 printing office. There is also a weekly paper, 
 "The Bethel Courier," published here, a fine 
 creamery known as the " Harrington Cream- 
 ery," the Vermont Plastering Hair Com- 
 pany is doing quite an extensive business, a 
 fiour and feed mill doing a large wholesale 
 and retail business, a sawmill, carriage shop, 
 three blacksmith shops, two harness shops, 
 two livery stables, photograph gallery, two 
 hardware stores and tin shops, three attor- 
 ney's offices, insurance agents, two meat 
 markets, three millinery stores, several dress- 
 makers' rooms, furniture store, two dry 
 goods and general stores, two apothecary 
 stores, several grocery and provision stores, 
 fish market, news and book store," music 
 store, merchant tailor. There are now 1,000 
 inhabitants within one mile radias of the 
 postoffice. 
 
 Many years ago when people used to make 
 their own cloth and knit socks, there was a 
 woolen mill and carding works here, also in 
 the same building there were works for press- 
 ing out oil from flax-seed. Also in those 
 times there were buildings called "potashes," 
 where potash was made from hard wood ashes. 
 
 In July, 1830, " the great freshet" occured, 
 sweeping away the branch bridge, stores, 
 mills, factories, etc. December lo, 1877, the 
 '•great fire" occurred, burning many build- 
 ings. The erection of hew buildings on the 
 burned spot made a great change in the ap- 
 pearance of the street. The place has now a 
 good water service for protection against fire 
 in the business or main portion of the vil- 
 lage, having a line of pipe through the main 
 street with hydrants at convenient places. 
 The pipe is connected with two powerful 
 pumps at different locations. There is an 
 Electric Light and Power Company formed 
 recently, which is to furnish lights and power 
 in the near future. The power or plant is to 
 be located at Gaysville and wired here. 
 
 * Bethel has a fine Free Public Library. Whitcomb 
 High School also has quite an extensive library. 
 
 EAST BETHEL. 
 A small village in the easterly part of the 
 town, situated on the second branch of 
 White River, is quite a thriving village, as 
 portions of Randolph, Tunbridge and Roy- 
 alton center there. It has two churches, 
 Universalist and Baptist, the latter having 
 regular services and a settled minister. Also 
 has a hotel, tin and hardware shop, feed 
 store, creamery, grist and sawmills, general 
 stores, carriage and blacksmith shops, etc. 
 Its nearest railroad point is Royalton,and it 
 has daily stage connections and a post office. 
 
 THE UNIVERSALIST MEETING 
 HOUSE. 
 
 By Rev. S. A. Parker. 
 
 This church building is a landmark in the 
 town of Bethel. It is one of the prominent 
 features of our village. Around it cluster 
 memories of gladness and sadness. It is a 
 structure wprthy of the men who built it. It 
 is strong aijd massive. It has stood these 
 eighty yeai-s. If it is properly cared for, it 
 will stand for centuries. 
 
 THE BUILDING. 
 
 No one -denomination felt able to build a 
 suitable church edifice. So five denomina- 
 tions united to build a Union House, the 
 Universalists, Congregationalists, Episcopal- 
 ians, Methodists and Baptists. The organ- 
 ization was called "The First Proprietors' 
 Meeting House." 
 
 The building committee consisted of three 
 persons; Peleg S. Marsh, Samuel Lillie and 
 David Waller. The land was purchased of 
 Jonathan Marsh. The deed was signed 
 February 18, 1820, and was recorded May 
 10, 1834. This deed conveys the land where 
 the Universalist church stands, including 
 " the common," amounting to two acres and 
 forty rods, to the " First Proprietors' Meet- 
 ing House of Bethel," amount paid, $260. 
 The committee personally superintended the 
 making of the brick in Jonathan Marsh's 
 brick-yard . 
 
 Mr. Willard of Windsor was the " master 
 builder." Mr. Simeon Babbitt contracted to 
 do the carpenter and joiner work for $3,200. 
 
H 
 
 THe outside work was done in 1815. The 
 house was completed the next year. 
 
 There were thirty-two body pews, eighteen 
 wail pews and twenty gallery pews, making 
 in all sixty. Each pew was a kind of " square 
 room " large enough to contain a good-sized 
 family, such as they generally had in those 
 days. The pulpit was reached by a long 
 stairway — an enclosure high and well pro- 
 tected — symbolic of the lofty position which 
 a minister occupied in those days. 
 
 Forty Universalists owned stock 
 
 amounting to $ 2,338 39 
 
 Twenty Congregationalists, 1,113 S° 
 
 Eight Episcopalians, 47' 5° 
 
 Three Methodist's, 221 00 
 
 Three Baptists, 109 00 
 
 Whole amount, $4,253 39 
 
 A deficit of $746.61 was raised by a tax, 
 
 making the church cost $5,000. The Uni- 
 
 UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. 
 
 There was no stove in the house. In win- 
 ter each family carried its own stove of live 
 coals. Perhaps some of the sermons had 
 ^eat enough to keep the people warm, 
 
 DEDICATION, DEC. 24, 1816. 
 When the house was completed the ques- 
 tion was asked, " Who shall preach the dedi- 
 cation sermon?" 
 
 versalists numbered six more than all the rest, 
 and owned $32.36 more than all the others. 
 We should naturally suppose under these 
 circumstances, that a Universalist clergyman 
 would preach the sermon. But the fact is 
 the church was dedicated by the Baptists, 
 who owned the least in the house. The 
 preacher was Rev. Aaron Leland. John 
 Noble was leader of the choir. 
 
REMODELED, 1853. 
 
 During the pastorate of Rev. S. A. Davis 
 the inside of the church was entirely re- 
 modeled. A hall was made in the upper 
 part and an auditorium below. He preached 
 the sermon of rededication. At that time 
 only eleven of the seventy-four original pro- 
 prietors were living. Ever since the house 
 has been under the control of the Universal- 
 ists. 
 
 1864. 
 
 In this year the church was repaired and 
 the stockholders of the hall, who were all 
 Universalists, transferred their shares to the 
 Universalist parish and it was called 
 
 MURRAY HALL. 
 
 Although the house has since been re- 
 paired from time to time, yet the one great 
 event in remodeling and beautifying this 
 church occurred in 1893, under the generous 
 supervision of Mrs. Mary £. Harrington, 
 who expended on it $3,000. She put Cathe- 
 dral glass windows into the church, finished 
 Murray Hall into a parlor, cloak room, din- 
 ing room, kitchen, pantry, etc., and made 
 many other improvements. After she had 
 done the work a meeting was held in honor 
 of the donor and Murray Hall was changed 
 to the name of 
 
 HARRINGTON PARLORS, 
 
 as a slight token of the appreciation] of the 
 generous spirit and noble work. SoJ this 
 church of eighty years is still young. It 
 stands abreast with the spirit of the age. 
 We all feel a laudable pride in its antiquity . 
 and old architecture. 
 
 UNIVERSALIST PARISH. 
 
 Many of the early settlers of Bethel were 
 Universalists. They were people of charac- 
 ter and influence, and good social standing 
 and financial ability. It is a significant fact 
 that when the " Union Church" was built, 
 they paid more than all the four other de- 
 nominations, and the stockholders numbered 
 six more than all the rest. The Marshes 
 were the founders of Bethel and they were 
 all Universalists. Colonel Joel Marsh built 
 the " Mills " and he was a great admirer of 
 Rev. Hosea Ballou. 
 
 Not only the Marshes but the Moodys, 
 Lillies, Austins, Brookes, Sanfords, Nobles, 
 Warrens, Woodburys, Eddys, Wallaces, 
 
 Fisks, and many others were supporters of 
 the Universalist faith. If numbers and 
 wealth constitute popularity, Universalism 
 was not unpopular at the very beginning of 
 this century. 
 
 REV. HO.SEA BALLOU, 1803-1809 
 
 Before Mr. Ballou, other Universalist min- 
 isters had come here and preached. Mr. 
 Ballou made a deep impression on the peo- 
 ple of this community. He held meetings in 
 Colonel Joel Marsh's " square room " or in 
 the school house. 
 
 REV..JOHW O. BENNETT. 
 
 ORGANIZED UNIVKRSALISM, DEC. 29, 1817. 
 
 From this date Universalism had an or- 
 ganic life. The society was organized under 
 the statute law with thirty-six male mem- 
 bers. 
 
 RfeV. KITTRIDGE HAVEN. 
 1821—1828. 
 
 Mr. Haven was the first settled pastor. 
 During October and November, 1820, he 
 preached to the people of Bethel and Bar- 
 nard. He was engaged to take charge of 
 these two societies. Daniel Lillie furnished 
 him with a horse and sleigh to go to Boston 
 to get his wife and child. He returned the 
 
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 Jast week in 1820. He remained pastor just 
 seven years and then went to Shoreham 
 where he remained the rest of his life. After 
 Mr. Haven's pastorate the pulpit was sup- 
 plied by Revs. Joseph Ward, Warren Skin- 
 ner and Robert Bartlett. 
 
 1832— 1845. 
 This period embraces the long and success- 
 ful pastorate of Rev. Eri Garfield, who died 
 only a few years ago in Jeffersonville, Wis. 
 After him Rev. George S. Guernsey supplied 
 for a time. 
 
 1850—1852. 
 Rev. S. W. Square was the third settled 
 pastor and remained two years. 
 
 REV. S. A. DAVIS, 1853-1860, 
 
 was the fourth pastor, and his pastorate 
 covers a period of seven years. He is still 
 living in Hartford, Conn. During 1860 the 
 society was supplied by Rev. Mark Powers 
 of South Strafford, Vt. 
 
 i86i. 
 Rev. Eli Ballou preached here half the 
 time. He was then living in iMontpelier, 
 Vt. September 28 of this year this society 
 organization was changed to a church, which 
 remained till April 28, 1875, when it adopted 
 the form of organization recommended by 
 the General Convention. 
 
 1862-1878, SIXTEEN S'EARS. 
 
 Rev. S. A. Parker commenced his pastor- 
 ate May I, 1862, and closed it May i, 1878. 
 
 SEMI-CENTENNIAL — DEC. 29, 1 867. 
 
 This was an occasion worthy of celebrat- 
 ing. The organization of the society was an 
 event in the history of Universalism in this 
 town. A meeting was held Sunday evening, 
 December 39, 1867, in the Universalist 
 church. A sermon was given by the pastor. 
 Rev. S. A. Parker, reviewing the history of 
 the society and drawing lessons for the 
 future. Letters were read from Revs. Haven, 
 Square, Davis and Ballou. Of the original 
 thirty-six members only nine were living. 
 Now (1895) they are all gone. 
 
 After the pastorate of Rev, S. A. Parker, 
 the following preachers have been settled or 
 supplied: Rev. Eli Ballou, D. D., 1879; 
 Rev. R. A. D. Tabor, i88r ; Rev. J. B. Ta- 
 
 bor, 1882; Rev. J. R. Roblin, 1883 to 1887; 
 Rev. John Kimball, 1888; Rev. S. A. Parker, 
 1890; Rev. Walter Dole, 1892, and Rev. J. 
 O. Bennett, 1895. The parish is in a pros- 
 perous condition. It has a Young People's 
 Social Annex, a Young People's Christian 
 Union, and a Ladies' Social Union, which 
 are a great help to the church. 
 
 John Oscar Bennett, son of William 
 H. and Ella ( Hawkins j Bennett, was born 
 at Stony Brook, L. L, January 17, 1877. 
 He received a limited education in the pub- 
 lic schools, and when but fourteen years old, 
 was employed on coasting vessels as a 
 sailor, serving nearly =< year in that capacity. 
 In 1892 he entered the Canton Theological 
 School, a department of the St. Lawrence 
 University, and was graduated from that in- 
 stitution in the class of 1895, having been 
 elected life president of his class. He is a 
 member of the Eti Phi Alpha college so- 
 ciety. He filled the pulpit at Fly Creek, N. 
 v., previous to the close of his college ca- 
 reer, and first preached in the Universalist 
 Church at Bethel in February, 1895. He ac- 
 cepted a call to this place beginning his pas- 
 torate here on July i, 1895. Mr. Bennett is 
 a young man to occupy the position he now 
 holds, but being a diligent scholar, an earnest 
 worker and a fluent speaker, he bids fair to 
 take a front rank in the profession to which 
 he is called. 
 
 CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF 
 BETHEL, VERMONT. 
 
 The Christ Episcopal Church was first or- 
 ganized in Bethel, July 27, 1794, by the fol- 
 lowing doings, the Rev. John C. Ogden pre- 
 siding and certifying to same : 
 
 " We, the subscribers, members and 
 friends ofthe Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 now residing in the town and neighborhood 
 of Bethel, in the County of Windsor, and 
 State of Vermont, wishing to enjoy the ben- 
 efits of public religious worship and instruc- 
 tion, do hereby associate ourselves together 
 for the purpose, agreeing each with the other 
 to conform to the rules and the liturgy of 
 said church, and to such future regulations 
 for our own prosperity as a parish, as shall 
 be agreed upon in our legal meetings by a 
 majority of voices, placing ourselves for the 
 present under the administration of the Rev. 
 
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 John Ogden. In witness whereof, we have 
 hereunto set our names to this instrument, 
 A. D. 1794, (signed by) Paul Kinstry, 
 Ephraira Derrick, Amasa Green, Willard 
 Smith, Bylye L. Cotton, Joseph Wickingham, 
 Benjamin Smith, Joseph A. Gallup, Simeon 
 Chase, Dudley Chase, Jr." 
 
 " July 27, 1794, voted that Dr. Gal!up and 
 Bylye L. Cotton be wardens for this year." 
 
 " Voted, that Dudley Chase be the represent- 
 ative for this society to the Episcopal con- 
 vention to be held at Castleton, September 
 next." 
 
 The first-action towards building a church 
 was at an informal meeting held at the house 
 of Simeon Chase, Jr., December 3, 1822, 
 when there was appointed a committee of 
 Simeon Chase, Salmon C. Cotton, Ezra Put- 
 nam and Daniel Child, to prepare a plan of a 
 church to be presented at a meeting of the 
 society, to be holden December 13, 1822. 
 The church- was built the summer and fall of 
 the following year, 1823, at a cost of $i,8go. 
 Colonel Warren of Rochester, was the chief 
 
 CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 
 
 After the formation of Christ Church as 
 above, the Rev. Mr. Ogden continued to 
 visit for some time. The Rev. Bethnel 
 Chittenden, the brother of the then governor 
 of the state, also officiated once or twice a 
 year, until the year 1800. Philander Chase, 
 who married his wife in Bethel, the daughter 
 of Mr. Daniel Fay, then of Bethel, likewise 
 occasionally performed lay services until he 
 was ordained. These services were per- 
 formed in North Bethel. 
 
 builder. The church was consecrated by 
 Bishop Griswold oil the twenty-third of June, 
 1824. After the opening of the church in 
 the spring ;of 1824, the Rev. Joel Clapp of 
 Shelburn took charge of the church one-half 
 of the time and of St. James, Woodstock, 
 the other half, until the month of June, 1830, 
 when he moved to Woodstock, taking the 
 whole charge of the parish in that place. 
 The Rev. James Sabine of Boston, Mass., 
 took charge August 14, 1831, and was rector 
 
until he died, October 3, 1845. His son, the 
 Rev. John S. Sabine, took charge of the 
 church after the death of his father. He re- 
 mained until the fall of 1846. 
 
 The new church was built in the summer 
 of the year 1846, at the cost, including 
 ground, of two thousand and ninety dollars, 
 and was consecrated by the Rev. John H. 
 Hopkins, August 31, 1847. The Rev. Josiah 
 Sweet was called to be rector July 8, 1847, he 
 was in charge until 1864. 
 
 The Rev. C. R. Batchelder was called to 
 be rector in 1867. The Rev. Amos D. Mc- 
 Coy, a resident of Bethel in his later years, 
 officiated occasionally. The Rev. Moses P. 
 Stickney was called to be rector October, 
 i87i,andhe remained rector of the Bethel and 
 Royalton parishes until July i, 1887, and 
 died August 19, 1894. The Rev. Tree. W. 
 Wey was rector i888-'90. The Rev. G. A. 
 Wilkins, i890-'94. 
 
 The church has been painted and a con- 
 crete walk made. The old rectory was sold 
 and a new rectory is being built in the 
 church lot. Money has been raised for new- 
 windows in the church. 
 
 The present pastor in charge of Christ 
 Church, is Rev. J. B. Trevitt, M. D., son 
 of the late Rev. Russell Trevett, D. D, at 
 one time professor of Latin, Greek, and He- 
 brew in St. James College, and later filling 
 the same position in St. John's College, both 
 at Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Trevett was 
 •Graduated from the St. James College, and 
 was ordained deacon in St. Mary's Church at 
 Burlington, N. J., by the late Bishop Oden- 
 beimer, and was ordained priest in the Church 
 of the Ascension at Washington, D. C, by 
 Bishop Pinkney. 
 
 Soon after his ordination he was offered 
 the position of assistant in the Church of the 
 Incarnation in New York City, and was also 
 offered the position of principal in Shattuck 
 Hall, Faribault, Minn. Later he was offered 
 the place of assistant minister in Manchchunk, 
 Pennyslvania, and second principal in the 
 State Normal School at Bloomsburg, Pa., 
 but declined in every case. He was at one 
 time in charge of the parish of Trinity 
 Church in Syracuse, N. Y., and for some 
 time later had charge of some of the parishes 
 in the neighborhood of Syracuse, in the dio- 
 cese of Central New York. He was princi- 
 
 pal of Montgomery Institute, a boarding 
 school for young ladies, near San Antonio, 
 Texas, and was engaged in pastoral work in 
 Southern Florida. He was called to the 
 rectorship of Christ Church in Bethel, July 
 I, 1894. 
 
 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 
 
 On July 25, 181 7, the present Congrega- 
 tional church was organized in Bethel, and 
 of those that entered into this new organiza- 
 tion there were only two who belonged to 
 the first church organized in the town, viz. : 
 Deacon Ezra Putnam and his wife. These 
 two persons formed the connecting link be- 
 tween the old and the new church, having 
 safely retained their faith through the twenty 
 odd years that had intervened. There were 
 thirteen members of the new church, and of 
 these not one is now living. 
 
 During the next five years the church had 
 no regular preacher, and the number of mem- 
 bers was not increased. In June, 1822, seven 
 new members were taken into the church by 
 profession. Rev. Joel Davis acting as pastor. 
 In August of the same year, Rev. Ammi 
 Nichols of Braintree commenced his labors 
 with this church, preaching in Bethel every 
 fourth Sunday. This plan was followed for 
 three years, and during the following five 
 years nearly twenty new members were 
 added under the pastorship of Rev. Mr. 
 Nichols. 
 
 This church had no deacons until 1822, 
 when Ezra Putnam was chosen and served 
 until his death, which occurred in 1841. His 
 son, Simeon D. Putnam, was chosen deacon 
 soon after his father's death, and was also 
 superintendent of the Sunday-school for 
 many years, filling the position in a faithful 
 and acceptable manner. Rev. Mr. Nichols 
 died in Braintree in the summer of 1873, at 
 the advanced age of over ninety years. 
 
 The next pastor after Rev. Ammi Nichols,, 
 was Warren Swift, who supplied the church 
 for two years, beginning in June, 1830. Dur- 
 ing his short stay there were twenty-three 
 additions to its membership, seventeen unit- 
 ing upon profession of their faith, upon a 
 single Sabbath. Mrs. Irvin Weston is the 
 only one of these known to be living, having 
 
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 been a member of this church for sixty-two 
 years. Mr. Swift's farewell sermon was an 
 affecting one, and long remembered by those 
 who heard it. He died in Illinois in 1861. 
 
 After Mr. Swift, Rev. Sahnon Hurlburt 
 supplied the pulpit for a few months. He 
 was succeeded by Rev. Francis L. Whiting 
 who remained three years from 1833. Dur- 
 ing his pastorate, nine were received upon 
 profession of faith, and five by letter. It was 
 during the ministry of Mr. Whiting that the 
 church burned in 1S92, was built. The 
 house cost about $1,800, and was a heavy 
 burden for the parish to bear. Some of the 
 
 from forty-nine to seventy-two. The first 
 case of discipline occurred in 1842 against 
 Reuben Lgwis, for neglect of attendance 
 upon religious service, and for failure to keep 
 his covenanf obligation, in that he neglected 
 family worship. In 1842 Rev. Mr. Abbott 
 asked to be dismissed, and his wishes were 
 complied with. Soon after Rev. Matthew 
 Kingman commenced his labors as a stated 
 supply, and after preaching nearly two years, 
 he received an invitation to become pastor. 
 This offer he accepted and was ordained and 
 installed Jutle 25, 1845. Daniel Weston was 
 chosen deacon on April 12, 1842. 
 
 ^'i^a^' 
 
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 CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. 
 
 money was subscribed by neighboring 
 churches, but the greater part was sustained 
 by the members of the society, and of those 
 who subscribed toward this expense, Mr. 
 George Hatch was the last to pass away. 
 
 Rev. Ammi Nichols preached the dedica- 
 tory sermon when the church was completed, 
 and at the close of Mr. Whiting's pastorate. 
 Rev. Benjamin Abbott became pastor, and 
 was installed March 27, 1837, the first in- 
 stalled minister of this church. He remained 
 with the society until 1842, and during his 
 pastorate the membership was increased 
 
 There are no records of the affairs of the 
 church for about three years after Mr. King- 
 mans settlement, although Mr. Kingman 
 preaclied u'ntil 1854, and during that time 
 there were twenty-nine new members added. 
 For a short time after the retirement of Mr. 
 Kingman, there was no settled pastor, but in 
 April, 1855, ''^^ services of Mr. E. E. Hig- 
 bee were secured, and in July of the same 
 year he was ordained and installed. He re- 
 signed three years later, and was succeeded 
 by Rev. T. S. Hubbard, who remained with 
 the church until 1862, during which time 
 
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 eleven people were made members. On the 
 first day of June, 1862, Rev. T. H. Johnson 
 commenced labor, serving until 1868, and 
 during his stay sixteen members were added. 
 In June, 1868, Mr. E. E. Lewis was called to 
 supply the pulpit, remaining three years, and 
 during his pastorate only two or three were 
 added to the church membership, and those 
 by letter. He was followed by Rev. James 
 Caldwell, who remained one year, closing his 
 labors in October, 1872. 
 
 His successor was Rev. Elbridge Gerry, 
 who commenced in December, 1872, and was 
 acting pastor for nine and one half years, 
 during which time, forty-three were added to 
 the membership of the church, twenty-nine 
 on confession of their faith, and fourteen by 
 letter. Mr. Gerry resided in Bethel a part of 
 the time, and the remainder in West Ran- 
 dolph. He was an industriou.s man. and when 
 not engaged in pastoral work he employed 
 himself in other pursuits. He was editor 
 of the paper at West Randolph for a number 
 of years, and it was not uncommon for him, 
 while living there, to walk to Bethel on Sun- 
 day morning to attend the u.sual services. 
 Mr. Gerry closed his labors in this church in 
 1882, and moved to Oregon, where he 
 preached one year, returning to West Ran- 
 dolph in 1883, and resided there, preaching 
 occasionally in difterent places until his 
 death, which occurred December zj, iSgi. 
 He ordered his body to be cremated, which 
 was done. His successor was Rev. B. G. 
 Bugbee, who served one and one-half years, 
 and he in turn was succeeded by Rev. T. S. 
 Huisbard, a former pastor, who remained six 
 months. Mr. Elisha Fiske was called to the 
 pastorate of the church in June, 1884, preach- 
 ing here and at Royalton for one year. He 
 remained in Bethel for three years and re- 
 moved to Waitsfield in 1887, having married 
 an esteemed member of his congregation. 
 During his pastorate forty-six were made 
 members of the church, thirty-three by con- 
 fession of faith, and thirteen by letter, this 
 being the largest number of members added 
 to this society by any one pastor since the 
 organization of the church. 
 
 Rev. Charles Button was his successor and 
 began labor in June, 1887, continuing one 
 year, his parish being increased by three dur- 
 ing his stay. He was succeeded by Rev. 
 
 Albert Crawford, who preached here a little 
 over two years, and increased the member- 
 ship by seven. The next pastor was Rev. 
 George W. Wright, who began work in De- 
 cember, 1890, and continued until April, 
 1892, fourteen members having been received 
 during his stay. The society had no settled 
 pastor after Mr. Wright, owing to the burn- 
 ing of the church, until tlie present pastor. 
 Rev. V. W. Blackman, commenced his pas- 
 torate October i, 1893 but during the inter- 
 vening time tlie society was supplied occa- 
 sionally by the neiglihoring ministers. 
 
 Kev. V. W. BLACKMAN. 
 
 The deacons of this church, since its organ- 
 ization, have served in the following order : 
 Ezra Putnam, Simeon Putnam, William Put- 
 nam, Michael Flynn, Daniel Weston, Cyrus 
 Page, Alpheus Howe, Edwin Fisher, David 
 Tolles, F. W. Newcomb, S. C. Dunham, 
 Alonzo Emery, George M. Miller and George 
 Parker. 
 
 The church building was burned April 14., 
 1892, and with it a chapel just completed, ar- 
 rangemtnts then being in progress for its 
 dedication. This was a serious blow to the 
 society, but a business meeting was called 
 and a vote taken in favor of going at once 
 about rebuilding. By diligent labor on the 
 part of the ladies of the church and the 
 
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 generous offers of the members of the Con- 
 gregational and other churches, a fine ed- 
 ifice was erected, and was dedicated No- 
 vember 15, 1893. Tiie Christian Endeavor 
 Society also assisted liberally toward the 
 completion of the church, and especial men- 
 tion should be made of the generosity of Mr. 
 Ge'orge S. Hatch, who was greatly interested 
 in the welfare of this church, and during his 
 life contributed financially toward its sup- 
 port. . He did not stop at this, but after he 
 passed away, the society had a lasting 
 memorial of Mr. Hatch's generosity in the 
 nice residence which he left to the church as 
 a parsonage. In slight token of respect and 
 remembrance of Mr. Hatch and his wife, the 
 society voted to have a memorial window 
 placed in the new church. 
 
 VIRGIL WILLIAM BLACli.VlAN, 
 
 the present pastor, was born in New Hamp- 
 shire, where his ancestors came to settle as 
 pioneers one hundred and fifty years ago, all 
 with one exception, living to advanced age, 
 his grandparents on both sides being nona- 
 genarians, two of them being nearly one 
 hundred years old. 
 
 The subject of this article attended the 
 public schools of Manchester nine years, 
 where he joined the Congregational church 
 in 1874. During ,'76, '77. '78, he studied at 
 Tilton, Andover and New London Acad- 
 emies. Tract writer and publisher in 1879 
 and '80, when he also traveled with a tem- 
 perance lecturer as singer, in Mi.ssouri, Illi- 
 nois and Kentucky. In 1883 he went to 
 New York City where he met R. R. Mc- 
 Burney and Cleveland H. Dodge who ren- 
 dered him great help. He sang every even- 
 ing in the Bowery Branch Young Men's 
 Christian Association, the Boys' Club, and 
 Baxter Street Mission, and attended Mission- 
 ary Training College one year. From New 
 York, having received a licensure, he was 
 sent to a mission field in Connecticut, where 
 he preached till 1887, when, with his bride 
 whom he married in New Hartford, (the or- 
 ganist of his church,) in March of same year, 
 another missionary field was entered in Hill, 
 N H. In 1888, after one year of work here 
 for the Congregational church, they went'to 
 ' Maine, laboring five years for the Home 
 Missionary Society in Aroostook County, in 
 
 Veazie near Bangor, in Brooksville, and in 
 Deer Isle, in the latter place remaining two and 
 one-half years. Mr. Blackman also studied 
 three years, in Bangor Seminary, receiving a 
 diploma. 
 
 At one period of his life he learned to 
 make shoes in the city of Lynn, this is why 
 he has been called the " shoemaker preacher." 
 He is proud to say that he can work with the 
 awl, preach, or sing a song. 
 
 When engaged in study he wrote a book 
 called Practical Christianity, which very ma- 
 terially assisted him. His second and> last 
 work, completed in 1893, known as " Sparks 
 from an Anvil," is a volume highly spoken of 
 by critics. This also was a financial success. 
 He is now writing a work, the manu.script of 
 which he expects to sell. 
 
 Any success he may have achieved he at- 
 tributes to good parentage and a companion 
 who is truly a helpmeet. They speak of 
 Bethel as a most delightful village to reside 
 in. 
 
 WHITCOMB HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 The history of higher education in Ver- 
 mont is a history of struggles for existence 
 and that of the rise and equipment of a high 
 school in Bethel is but another evidence of 
 the survival of the fittest. Until the year 
 1850, there were two districts within tire 
 present limits of the graded district. These 
 districts were numbered respectively three 
 and five. In the year alluded to, 1850, these 
 two districts were consolidated under the 
 title of district No. 3, and a new site was 
 chosen for the erection of a new school 
 building. No more suitable or picturesque 
 place could- have been selected than the one 
 which was chosen, the " common," as it was 
 called, a beautiful elevation overlooking the 
 White River valley. 
 
 Upon this well chosen site a building was 
 erected in the following year, 1851. This 
 building, containing two large rooms, was 
 considered ample and sufiicient accommoda 
 tion for that time. But the spirit of higher 
 education was abroad; pupils remained in 
 school longer than formerly ; with the growth 
 of the village there was, likewise a growth 
 in school attendance, and ere long an 
 addition had to be made to the first building. 
 
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 This addition provided two more rooms and 
 for many years was quite sufficient accommo- 
 dations for the scholars. 
 
 In 1885 the graded district was organized, 
 and in the year following, was, by an act of 
 the legislature, incorporated. This act pro- 
 vided that the annual meeting of the district 
 be held on the last Tuesday of June of each 
 year, instead of the last Tuesday of March. 
 As is nearly atways the case, the change from 
 a town district to an incorporated district 
 was not brought about without some little 
 struggle on the part of the voters of the dis- 
 tricts. But the change came as " one of the 
 
 ship occurred the death of Mr. Albert Whit- 
 comb, a wealthy citizen of Bethel, and by his 
 will it was found the following bequest was 
 made to the incorporated district. 
 
 " I give to school district No. 3, located in 
 Bethel village and its .suburbs, thirty thous- 
 and dollars, the principal to be safely in- 
 vested and the income only to be used each 
 year for the current expenses of the school. 
 This gift shall be known as the Albert Whit- 
 comb School Fund, and the local name of 
 the school shall be The Whitcomb High 
 School." 
 
 According to the condition of this bequest 
 the name was changed from that of Bethel 
 
 i ill III 
 
 WHITCOMB HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 inevitables," and the success that has at- 
 tended the school since, is conclusive proof 
 that the change was a wise one on the part 
 of the people. 
 
 In 1885, Mr. J. W. Hutchinson was en- 
 gaged as principal of the Bethel Graded 
 Schools. In the following year he was suc- 
 ceeded by Mr. W. N. Cragin, and under his 
 efficient instruction the first class of four was 
 graduated in June of T887. Upon his resig- 
 nation in 1889, he was succeeded by Mr. J. 
 H. Blaisdeil, who remained at the head of 
 the school for four years, graduating four 
 jclasses. During Mr. Blaisdell's principal- 
 
 Graded Schools to " The Whitcomb High 
 School," which name it now bears. T-he 
 school constantly increased, especially in the 
 number of tuition scholars, and in the sum- 
 mer of '94 it was found impossible to ac- 
 commodate adl its pupils in the one building 
 of four rooms, and so a new primary building 
 was erected near the larger building. This 
 relieved the other schools for one year, but 
 with the present growth a new and more 
 modern building is needed at no distant day. 
 On Mr. Blaisdell's resigning his charge of 
 the school in the spring of '94. the school 
 board were fortunate in securing the services 
 
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 of Mr. George E, Storrs as principal. Mr. 
 Storrs entered upon his duties witii mucii 
 enthusiasm and soon showed that no mistake 
 had been made in placing him at the head of 
 the school. But the hopes of those most in- 
 terested in the progress and growth of the 
 school were cut short by the sudden death of 
 Mr. Storrs after a brief illness, at the close 
 of his first term's work. To fill the vacancy 
 thus suddenly caused, Mr. F. P. Davison, 
 the present principal, was elected by the 
 school board. 
 
 The " Whitcomb High School " graduated 
 its first class of four students in '87. It has 
 
 Prof. F. P. DAVISON. 
 
 now sent out sixty-seven graduates and has a 
 very successful Alumni Association. 
 
 Frank P. Davison, the present principal 
 of the Whitcomb High School, was born in 
 Lunenburgh, Vt., July 18, 1863. After a 
 course in the common schools of his native 
 town, he tittended the St. Johnsbury Acad- 
 emy at St. Johnsbury, Vt , and was gradu- 
 ated from there in the class of 1887. He 
 also studied at Amherst and Burlington but 
 never completed a college course at either 
 place. At the age of nineteen, he taught his 
 first school, and completed a term of twelve 
 weeks in a district hard to manage, and in 
 
 which the former teacher was obliged to give 
 up and close his doors before completing the 
 term. After teaching in several schools, Mr. 
 Davison accepted a position as principal of 
 the Graded Schools at Quechee, Vt., and re- 
 mained -two years and one term and then 
 went to Proctor, Vt., and took charge of the 
 schools there, remaining four years. In De- 
 cember, i8^, he came to Bethel, and is 
 meeting with splendid success in his work, 
 the school now running very full. On 
 August 12, 1890, he was married to Emily E. 
 Gilfillan of Barnet, Vt., and they have three 
 children, viz.; Aldace H., born May 16, 
 1891; Mabel E., born July 6, 1892; and 
 Margaret J., born January 16, 1894. 
 
 TOWN REPRESENTATIVES OF 
 BETHEL. 
 
 The following citizens of Bethel have rep- 
 resented the town in the General Assembly 
 hefd at Montpelier. The records of the 
 town show that there were some years that 
 no representative was voted for, and on 
 other years the citizens balloted, but clcf.ed 
 their meetings without election : 
 Mark Richards, - 1 804. 
 
 Nehemiah Noble, 
 
 1805, 
 
 1806, 
 
 1S07 
 
 John Wallace, 
 
 
 1808. 
 
 1809. 
 
 William Strong, 
 
 
 
 1810 
 
 Nehemiah Noble, 
 
 
 
 1811 
 
 Jonathan Marsh, 
 
 t8i2, 
 
 '813, 
 
 1814 
 
 Samuel Lillie, 
 
 1815, i8i6, 
 
 1817, 
 
 1818. 
 
 Peleg Marsh, 
 
 
 
 1819 
 
 Daniel Lillie, 
 
 
 
 
 1820, 1821, 
 
 .822, 1823, 
 
 1824, 
 
 1825 
 
 James Wallace, 
 
 1826, 
 
 1827, 
 
 1828 
 
 Daniel Lillie, 
 
 - 
 
 
 1829 
 
 John Woodbury, 
 
 
 1830, 
 
 1831 
 
 Elisha Fowler, 
 
 
 
 1832 
 
 Julius Converse, 
 
 
 
 1833 
 
 John Woodbury, 
 
 
 1834, 
 
 183s 
 
 James Wallace, 
 
 
 
 1836 
 
 Daniel Woodbury, 
 
 - 
 
 
 1837 
 
 Thomas P., Russell, 
 
 
 
 1838 
 
 James Woodworth, 
 
 
 
 1839 
 
 David Bosworth, 
 
 
 
 1844 
 
 Oliver Hincher, 
 
 
 
 1846 
 
 A. P. Hunfon, 
 
 - 
 
 
 1849 
 
 Almon Durkee, 
 
 
 1850, 
 
 1851 
 
 Albert G. Marsh, 
 
 
 
 1856 
 
24 
 
 Franklin Riford, 
 
 
 
 1857 
 
 1870- 
 
 -Jane Mcintosh, 
 
 84 
 
 Nelson Ellison, 
 
 
 
 1858 
 
 
 0. H. Brooks, 
 
 86 
 
 A. P. Hunton, 1859 
 
 , 1 86c 
 
 ), 1 861 
 
 1862 
 
 
 Hannah Gibbs, 
 
 - 94 
 
 F. W. Anderson, 
 
 
 1863, 
 
 1864 
 
 1871- 
 
 —Asa Grow, 
 
 90 
 
 J. M. Mcintosh, 
 
 
 1866, 
 
 1867 
 
 
 Mrs. Leonard Fiske, 
 
 8S 
 
 A. G. Marsh, 
 
 
 . 
 
 1868 
 
 
 Abelena Clark, 
 
 80 
 
 A. M. Marsh, 
 
 
 1869, 
 
 870'- 
 
 
 Isaac Cunningham, 
 
 81 
 
 Myron Burnett, 
 
 
 
 1872 
 
 
 John Bird, 
 
 86 
 
 N. F. Clark, 
 
 
 
 1874 
 
 
 Uriah Green, 
 
 - 83 
 
 E; Sturtevant, 
 
 
 
 1876 
 
 1872- 
 
 -Timothy Fisher, 
 
 93 
 
 M. A. Moody, 
 
 
 
 1878 
 
 
 Moses Webster, 
 
 88 
 
 Joseph Sargent, 
 
 
 
 1880 
 
 
 Mary Wright, 
 
 83 
 
 M. A. Maxham, 
 
 
 
 1882 
 
 
 J. Howe Bowen, 
 
 83 
 
 W. B. C. Stickney, 
 
 
 
 1884 
 
 1S73- 
 
 —Anna Austin, 
 
 88 
 
 Edwin Fisher, 
 
 
 
 1886 
 
 
 Susan Burnett, 
 
 8[ 
 
 Frederick Marks, 
 
 
 
 1888 
 
 
 Eleazer Berry, 
 
 80 
 
 J. C. Burnett, 
 
 
 
 1890 
 
 
 Isaac Mcintosh, 
 
 82 
 
 Fred Arnold, - 
 
 
 
 1892 
 
 
 Ezra Putnam, 
 
 81 
 
 L. M. Greene, 
 
 
 
 1894 
 
 1874- 
 
 -Polly Hunter, 
 
 82 
 
 *Biennial sessions began in 1870. 
 
 
 
 1875- 
 
 —Fanny Chamberlin, 
 
 ' 82 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Betsey Baker, ; 
 
 84 
 
 LONGEVITY OF LIFE 
 
 IN 
 
 BETHEL. 
 
 
 Lucinda Parsons, 
 
 83 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Amos Packard, 
 
 83 
 
 An examination of the 
 
 town 
 
 records of 
 
 
 Thomas Williams, 
 
 80 
 
 Bethel, reveals the fact that 
 
 this town stands 
 
 
 Nanpy GofF Bowen, 
 
 T T T 111 r-i-i « 
 
 92 
 
 with the first in the state as regards longevity 
 of life, one person reaching the ase of one 
 
 1876- 
 
 Lucy Haskell Townsend, 
 -Elias Greenleaf, 
 
 91 
 94 
 
 hundred and three years. 
 
 four 
 
 nonths 
 
 and 
 
 
 John Baker, 
 
 88 
 
 fifteen days. The followir 
 
 ig list gives the 
 
 
 Samuel Bowen. 
 
 95 
 
 names of those that have 
 
 lived 
 
 to be 
 
 over 
 
 
 Russel Farnham, 
 
 86 
 
 eighty years old, the list being 
 
 taken 
 
 from 
 
 1877- 
 
 -Patten Davis, 
 
 85 
 
 the town records from 1862 to 
 
 the present 
 
 
 H. F. Hunter, 
 
 80 
 
 time : 
 
 
 
 
 
 Ira Buck, 
 
 83 
 
 1863 — John Townsend, 
 
 
 
 90 
 
 
 Reuben J. Chapman, 
 
 80 
 
 William Mcintosh, 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 
 Asenith Jefferson, 
 
 8S 
 
 1864 — Nathan Parker, 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 1878- 
 
 — Orlinda Moody, 
 
 84 
 
 Sewall Kendall, 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 Barzillia Sylvester, 
 
 88 
 
 1865— Peter Reed, 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 Benjamin Williams, 
 
 88 
 
 Sarah Hackett, 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 CalvSn Buckman, 
 
 81 
 
 Asa Curtis, 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 1879 — Nancy Wallace, 
 
 80 
 
 1866— Hannah Billings, 
 
 
 
 88 
 
 
 Squire Bowen, 
 
 92 
 
 Perley Parsons, 
 
 
 
 80 
 
 
 Mitty Green, 
 
 84 
 
 1867— Khoda Webster,. - 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 
 Chester Chapman, 
 
 86 
 
 Anna Whittaker, 
 
 
 - 
 
 95 
 
 1880- 
 
 -Phoebe. Mcintosh, 
 
 9' 
 
 1868 — Leonard Fiske, - 
 
 
 
 81 
 
 
 John Noble, 
 
 88 
 
 Louisa Lillie, 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 Gracie Morse, 
 
 87 
 
 Othniel Dunham, 
 
 
 
 82 
 
 
 Charles H. Meserve, 
 
 90 
 
 1869 — Peter Woodbury, 
 
 
 
 86 
 
 1881- 
 
 —Horace Bugbee, 
 
 90 
 
 Eunice Jefferson, 
 
 
 
 92 
 
 
 James Wallace, 
 
 97 
 
 Ruth Washburn, 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 Hannah Mcintosh, 
 
 84 
 
 Betsey Rowe, 
 
 
 
 84 
 
 
 Polly Buck, 
 
 87 
 
 1870— William Smart, 
 
 
 
 87 
 
 
 Petdr Burrelle, 
 
 92 
 
 Parthenia Dartt, 
 
 
 
 88 
 
 
 Russell Bowen, 
 
 85 
 
25 
 
 iS8i — Josiah W. Gushing, 
 
 1S82 — Saloam Williams, 
 
 Amanda S. Wilson, 
 Huldah S. Robertson, 
 Sarah Brooks, 
 Amos Green, - 
 
 1803— John T. Rood, 
 Mary White, 
 
 1S84 — Hiram Wilson, 
 Josiah Fisher, 
 
 iSSj-T-Jay Wilson, 
 
 Fanny Gilson, 
 Isaac Taggart, 
 
 85 
 
 1887- 
 
 -Lucinda Bacon, 
 
 89 
 
 92 
 
 
 Harriet Cleveland, 
 
 86 
 
 87 
 
 
 Jemima Chapman, 
 
 88 
 
 103 
 
 
 OrriHa Moody, 
 
 89 
 
 90 
 
 
 Arad Benson, 
 
 82 
 
 82 
 
 1888- 
 
 -Judith H. French, 
 
 82 
 
 83 
 
 
 Phoebe Bugbee, 
 
 95 
 
 81 
 
 
 Davi'd Whittaker, 
 
 84 
 
 84 
 
 
 Philena Gay, 
 
 86 
 
 82 
 
 1889- 
 
 -Hannah Thayer, 
 
 9' 
 
 83 
 
 
 Daniel Kinney, 
 
 88 
 
 89 
 
 
 Philena Brooks, 
 
 80 
 
 82 
 
 
 Joshua Wedgewood, 
 
 83 
 
 MAIN STREET, LOOKING SOUTH. 
 
 1885 — Amasa Flint, 
 
 Robert French, 
 Moses Ingalls, 
 Zeba Thayer, 
 Elkanah Dean, 
 
 1886— Harry Dunham, 
 Harriet Durkee, 
 Dustin Bowen, 
 Benjamin Heradan, 
 Dominick Wynn. 
 H. F. Stoddard, 
 
 1887— John Whitcomb, 
 
 86 
 
 1889 — I^zekiel Lunt, 
 
 8s 
 
 Susannah Leach, 
 
 8S 
 
 1890 — Irene Hatch, 
 
 86 
 
 Abel Byaiii, 
 
 84 
 
 1891 — David Owen, 
 
 82 
 
 Reuben Whittakei 
 
 80 
 
 Lavonia Shortt, 
 
 81 
 
 Desire Davis. 
 
 8q 
 
 Dariforth Davis, 
 
 82 
 
 1892 — George S. Hatch, 
 
 87 
 
 Nancy Colburn, 
 
 94 
 
 Athsea Davis, 
 
 90 
 
 86 
 
 85 
 88 
 
 87 
 •84 
 84 
 80 
 
 87 
 90 
 86 
 81 
 
26 
 
 1892 — Orin Holbrook, - 85 
 
 Daniel Root, 83 
 
 Rebecca Day, 86 
 
 1893 — Mary Heath, 81 
 
 Obediah Lillie, 91 
 
 Radman Dean, 89 
 
 Horatio N. Brown, 84 
 
 Abial Putnam, 85 
 
 Abigail Perrigo, 86 
 
 Avorilla Rogers, 85 
 
 1894 — Aaron C. Davis, 84 
 
 Ansel Burbank, 84 
 
 Willoughby Holbrook, 87 
 
 George Washburn, 86 
 
 ROLL OF BETHEL SOLDIERS. 
 1861-1865. 
 
 The following citizens of Bethel served in 
 the Civil War. The names are arranged al- 
 phabetically, and the number and letter after 
 each name represent the regiment and com- 
 pany of each man. 
 
 Volunteers for three years credited previous 
 to call of October 17, 1863: Albert and 
 Azro Abbott, 4, E; Calvin B. Abbott, 
 8, B; Curtis Abbott, 2, s-s H; Chenning 
 Axdell, 6, F; Archibald Baker. 4, E; Frank 
 Bullard, 6, C; Lewis Bundy, 4, D; Patrick 
 Carney, 11, H; Constantine Chadwick, ii, 
 H; Albert W. Chapman, 6, F; Zolva W. 
 Chase, 8, E; Amaria C. Crane, 4, E; Kil- 
 burn Day, 8, E; Seymour G. Drury, 6, C; 
 Franklin B. Dunton, 7, G; Azro Dustin, 
 3, E; George M. D. Dustin, 2, E; Timothy 
 Dustin, First Bat.; Ezra H. Emory, 8, E; 
 Alfred D. and Charles Fairbanks, 2 s-s, E; 
 John and Luke Fairbanks, 3, F; Curtis O. 
 Fisher and James S. Freeland, 4, E; Levi P. 
 French, 6, C; Daniel Granger, 6, F; John 
 Granger, 6, F; William Greenleaf, 2, H;- 
 Carleton Green. 4, E; Newell H. Hebard, 8, 
 E; Byron Houghton, 2 s-s, H; Charles N. 
 Jones and Orvis F. Kimball, Cav. E; Robert 
 B. Lillie, 4, E; William Magivney and Fred- 
 erick H. JVIarks, ii, H; Orville Moore, 2, E; 
 Henry E. Moshier, 2 s-s, E; George W. 
 Packard, 8, G; Charles L. Page, 4, E; Arthur 
 and Granville Pearson. 2, E; Abel H. Put- 
 nam, 3, F; Alonzo D. Ralph. 4, E; Daniel 
 A. Rogers, 6, F; Eugeiie Rogers. 8, E; James 
 D. Rich, II, H; Harry and Lyman P. Rowe, 
 
 1863, 
 Church G. Ballou, 
 
 4, E; Daniel H. Ryan, Cav. 6, Collamer G. 
 Stevens, 8, E; John Spaulding Jr., 3, F; Al- 
 bert and Irwin Spooner, 4, E; Ernest Stuart, 
 9, I; William F. Tilson, 2 s-s, E; James B. 
 Tinkham, 2, E; Andrew W. Turner, 9, F; 
 Benjamin F. Webster, II, H; George 
 Wedgwood, 8, E; Don C. Wilson, 3, F; 
 Thomas R. and Wallace E. Williams, 2, E; 
 William Young, 4, K. 
 
 Volunteers under call of October, 
 and all subsequent calls ; 
 Horace Bannister, 8, — ; Lewis B. Bates, 8,E; 
 William L. Dean, 3 Bat.; William A. Dunbar, 
 
 8, F; Tracy S. Durkee, 2 s-s, E; Freeman 
 Fifield 9, F; William H. Fisher, 17. D;Roswell 
 Freeman, 4, C; Levi P. French, 6. C; Al- 
 mon C. Goodell, 8, K; John Granger, 8, G; 
 Henry H. Grow, 8, E ; Charles H. Hardy, 6, 
 C; Henry C. Harlow, 17, D; William Huse, 
 
 9, H; Almeron C. Inman, 17, D; Nathaniel 
 C. Lynds, 8, D; H. Marshall Merrill, 8, E; 
 Henry H. Miner, 8, D; William Newell, 8, 
 E; John Pettis, 11, B; John Rice, 10, F; 
 Loren M. Rice, 10, F; James D. Rice, 8, C; 
 Nehemiah W. Rindge, 9, G; William H. 
 Rollins, 9, E; Horatio N. Scott, 17, D; Fer- 
 dinand Wheeler, II, F; Don L. Willis, 17, 
 D; Thomas Flynn, Cav. F; Joseph Lynch, 
 II, — ; John Mack and Thomas O'Donald, 
 Cav. — ; George S. Thomas, Cav. F. 
 
 Volunteers for one year : Albert E. Ab- 
 bott, Edwin E. Austin, Edward P. Barnes, 
 Azro B. Bowen, Alonzo E. Chadwick, Den- 
 nis Goto, John H. Harrington, John Lynch, 
 Charles W. Petty, Birney I. Pratt, James M. 
 Preston, Leroy J. Sargent, Edward Tatero, 
 Edwin F. Thresher, Lewis W. Turner 
 George H. Whitney, Paschal D. Whitfaker. 
 
 Veterans : Calvin B. Abbott. Curtis Ab- 
 bott, Charles Blackburn, Luke B. Fairbanks, 
 Levi B. Goddard, Newell H. Hibbard, 
 Charles N. Jones, John Morse, Henry E. 
 Mo.sier, George A. Parker, Daniel H. Ryan 
 and John Spaulding. 
 
 Nine months men. Sixteenth Regiment: 
 Daniel Abbott, James H. Abbott, Wesley 
 E. Baker, Albert G. Barnes, Samuel Bar- 
 rett, Jr., John Bean, Lorenz'j D. Bowen, 
 Eugene M. Brooks, Abel Ryan, Lorenzo 
 Burnham, Amos B. Chamberlain, Dexter L. 
 Chatfield. Daniel M. CIou>;h, Solomon A. 
 Cross. Henry S. Drury, George S. Emery, 
 Ira Emery, Jr., L\man S. Emery, Henry W. 
 
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 Flint, Eastman Gee, William H. Gee, George 
 E. Green, Ransom S. Hubbard, Henry W. 
 Howard, Norman W. Lillie, Patrick Marr, 
 John R. Martin, Nelson McPherson, Marcus 
 A. Moody, Charles A. NefF, Nathan Noyes, 
 William H. H. Perkins, Jonathan M. Rich, 
 Rufus S. Rogers, William J, Rogers, Charles 
 Russell, Stillman B. Smith, Alonzo H. 
 Spooner, David Torrey, Andrew J. Wash- 
 burn, James L. Washburn, and Samuel B. 
 Young, 
 
 Entered service: William N. Abbott, 
 Merick G. Page, James G. Tinkham. 
 
 fession and in public life, occur occasionally 
 in the records, signed to acknowledgments 
 of deeds, and certificates of marriages sol- 
 emnized in Bethel. They were then resi- 
 dents of Randolph, and doubtless in thcJse 
 days the citizens of Bethel had to depend 
 upon their neighboring towns for necessary 
 legal services. The Bar of Windsor County 
 was united in a Bar Association from whose 
 records it appears that in 1813 Luther Blod- 
 gett was an attorney resident and practicing 
 in Bethel, and that he removed to Royallon 
 shortly after the death of Jacob Smith, Esq., 
 
 SCENE ON WHITE RIVER AT BETHEL. 
 
 Entered United States Navy: Nathan 
 Allen, Joseph H. Gary, Francis Donnelly, 
 James Ford, William Garvin, Thomas Mil- 
 ler, William Pye and Edward Quinn, Jr. 
 
 LEGAL PROFESSION. 
 
 BY Wm. B. C. Stickney. 
 The early annals of the town afford little 
 information as to the lawyers who may have 
 had ofl5ces and practiced law in Bethel im- 
 mediately after its settlement. The names 
 of Dudley Chase and William Nutting, 
 learned men, distinguishe'd alike in their pro- 
 
 of Royalton, which occurred September 22d, 
 1813. The records of the Association con- 
 tain lists of the names and residences of all 
 its members, which include all the lawyers 
 in the couiity, and show that in the year 
 i8i8 there was no resident lawyer in Bethel, 
 a condition which lasted, probably, for sev- 
 eral years. 
 
 Luther Blodgett was born in Ran- 
 dolph about J 780, and was the eldest of four- 
 teen children of Benjamin and Mary (Rid- 
 dell) Blodgett. He began the practice of 
 his profession in Bethel prior to the year 
 1813, and in that or the following year re- 
 
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 moved to Royalton, where he is said to have 
 lived until about 1820, when he went West. 
 He married Elizabeth Starkweather, a half 
 sister of the wife of the Hon. Dudley Chase. 
 Among his children were Salmon Cotton, 
 Dudley Chase and Olivia Chase, who was the 
 wife of Walter Carpenter, the eminent 
 physician and surgeon of Burlington. Salmon 
 married Maria, daughter of the Hon. Thomas 
 P. Russell of Bethel. 
 
 George Chase, son of the Rt. Rev. 
 Philander and Mary (Fay) Chase was born 
 in Albany, N. Y., where his father was a 
 student preparing for the ministry, in 1796. 
 Soon after his birth he was brought by his 
 mother to Vermont, and his early childhood 
 was spent with his uncle, the Hon. Dudley 
 Chase, at Randolph. His uncle superin- 
 tended his education, and in the year 1815 
 he was a student at Yale College. He was 
 married at Bethel, July 22, 1821, to Miss 
 Eliza Grover. He had»two children, daugh- 
 ters, one of whom married Nelson Smith, 
 Esq., and the other Martin M. Flint, of Ran- 
 dolph. His practice in court was not exten- 
 sive. He wrote sometimes for periodicals. 
 He lived in the house next north of the 
 bank for a short time, and went away from 
 Bethel as early as 1824. 
 
 Mason P. Mills was born September 
 20, 1796, son of Roswell and Mary Mills. 
 He studied his profession at Rochester, there 
 being no attorney at Bethel, was admitted to 
 the bar of Windsor County in 1824, having 
 been examined and recommended by a com- 
 mittee appointed for the purpose, Isaac N. 
 Cushman, George E. Wales and Jacob Col- 
 lamer. He began the practice of his pro- 
 fession in Bethel at once. His father, who 
 was an uncle of Mrs. Peleg Marsh, the 
 mother of Augustus M. Marsh, Esq., lived 
 on Camp Brook near the Jonah Washburn 
 place. The house is not now standing. 
 Mason P. Mills was a member of the Ran- 
 dolph Chapter of Royal Arch Masons. He 
 departed this life September 12, 1826, and 
 was buried in the old town burying ground, 
 with masonic honors. 
 
 Hon. Julius Converse was born at 
 Stamford, Conn., December 27, 1798, the 
 fourth son of Joseph and Mary Converse. 
 His father came to Vermont with his family 
 
 in 1801 and settled in Randolph, which was 
 his residence until his decease in 1826. 
 Julius was educated at the district school and 
 Randolph Academy, studied law with Wm. 
 Nutting, and was admitted to Orange County 
 Bar in 1825. He opened an ofBce and began 
 the practice of his profession in Bethel in 
 1826. He continued in practice in Bethel 
 until 1840, when he removed to Woodstock, 
 which was his home for the remainder of his 
 life. Mr. Converse was twice married, and 
 left one child, a daughter, by his .second wife. 
 
 While in Bethel he owned and occupied 
 the dwelling house which has been for about 
 fifty years the home of Mrs. Irvin Weston. 
 
 He was associated in his profession with 
 the leaders of the Vermont Bar. At Bethel 
 he was partner of the Hon. Augustus P. 
 Hunton, and at Woodstock of the Hon. 
 Andrew Tracy and the Hon. James Barrett, 
 and later of the Hon. Warren C. French. 
 
 Mr. Converse was distinguished for the 
 affability of his manner and his uniform and 
 unvarying courtesy. He was diligent and 
 successful in business. He was a man of 
 large frame, strong and vigorous, and main- 
 tained his mental and physical faculties 
 unimpaired to an extreme old age. He held 
 many public offices, represented the towns of 
 Bethel and Woodstock in the General Assem- 
 bly, and was Governor of Vermont from 1872 
 to 1874. 
 
 Hon. Augustus P. Huntdn was born in 
 Groton, N. H., February 23, 1816. His youth 
 was spent at Hyde Park, Vt., where his father, 
 Dr. Ariel Hunton, removed with his family 
 in 1818. He studied law with the Hon. Wm. 
 C. Wilson, a,t Bakersfield, and afterwards 
 with the Hon. Wm. M. Pingry, at Waitsfield, 
 and was admitted to the Bar of Washington 
 County at the April term, 1837. He opened 
 an office and began the practice of his profes- 
 sion at Stockbridge Common soon afterwards, 
 and September, 1838, he removed to Bethel, 
 and entered into partnership with the Hon. 
 Julius Converse. With the exception of a 
 brief residence at Chelsea, where Mr. Hunton 
 and the Hon. Perley C. Jones had a law 
 office, Mr. Hunton has been identified with 
 the town of Bethel. Before his marriage, 
 and for some time afterwards, he lived in the 
 house now occupied by Mr. Daniel L. Child, 
 
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 and in 1865, removed to his present home, 
 the old Paige homestead. In 1849 he mar- 
 ried Caroline, the second daughter of Dr. 
 Alfred Paige. 
 
 In his practice Mr. Hunton has had several 
 partners. After the dissolution of the firm of 
 Converse & Hunton in 1840, Allen P. Dudley 
 was his partner, then Romanzo Walker, and 
 afterwards Dudley C. Blodgett and Daniel 
 F. Weymouth, next Moulton J. Gihiian, who 
 was his partner from 1863 to 1874. In 
 August, 1875 the present partnership of Hun- 
 ton & Stickney was formed. 
 
 lived on the farm owned now by Alonzo 
 Emory, Esq., was the justice whose services 
 were almo.st universally sought in Bethel. 
 He had been Judge of Probate, and was 
 familiarly known as Judge Russell. He used 
 to hold court regularly once a week in Mr. 
 Hunton's office. His good sense and judg- 
 ment were highly respected. 
 
 Mr. Hunton has been a member of the 
 General Assembly eleven different sessions, 
 eight times, as the representative of the town 
 of Bethel, and three times as senator from 
 Windsor County. He was Speaker of the 
 
 SCENE ON WHITE RIVER AT BETHEL. 
 
 Mr. Hunton's profound acquirements and 
 accurate legal scholarship attracted to his 
 office many students, some of whom have 
 attained distinction in their profession. Con- 
 spicuous among them are the late Col. Stephen 
 M. Pingree, Ex-Gov. Samuel E. Pingree 
 and the Hon. James J. Wilson, who were in 
 his ofBce as students at the same time, which 
 may be styled the Golden Age of law in 
 Bethel. 
 
 In the early days of Mr. Hunton's practice 
 justices of the peace had occasion to exercise 
 their jurisdiction much more frequently than 
 now. Hon. Thomas P. Russell who then 
 
 House of Representatives in i85o and 1861, 
 and presided over that body at the extra 
 session of April, 1861, summoned to provide 
 for the national defense. During the war he 
 was superintendent of recruiting for Windsor 
 County, an.office which he filled with fidelity 
 and zeal. He was an earnest, ardent and 
 uncompromising worker for the cause of the 
 Union, and in 1864 was elected delegate to 
 the Republican National Convention which 
 renominated Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 During his active practice Mr. Hunton 
 was retained in many important cases which 
 he conducted with ability and success. 
 
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 James Newell came to Bethel from 'Pitts- 
 ford in the fall of 1838, and practiced law for 
 a year or so. His father, Gordon Newell, 
 was a justice of the peace, and in his court 
 his son acquired his first professional experi- 
 ence. He removed from Bethel in 1839. 
 
 Oliver Hazard Perry Miller is said 
 to have come from Bridgewater to Bethel 
 sometime prior to 1840, and to have studied 
 law with the Hon. Julius Converse, and to 
 have boarded in his family. His office was in 
 May's store building, on the site of the town 
 hall. He removed from Bethel to Woodstock, 
 and from there to Hartford, and having given 
 up the practice of his profession, there pur- 
 chased a farm where he lived till his decease. 
 Mr. Miller's most noted case in Bethel was 
 the defense of Othniel Dunham in a suit 
 brought against him by the Hon. John S. 
 Marcy, as plaintiff's attorney. Judge Marcy 
 was a master of vituperative satire. Mr. 
 Miller, without heed to the merits of his 
 cause, at once attacked his legal adversary 
 with his own weapons and effectually dis- 
 comfited him, to the delight of the defendant, 
 the amusement and edification of the audience 
 and his own agreeable disappointment. 
 
 Allen P. Dijdley came to Bethel from 
 Chesterfield, N. H., in the year 1841, and in 
 October of that year went into partnership 
 with Mr. Hunton, which partnership was 
 dissolved early in 1842 and Mr. Dudley 
 shortly afterwards removed from Bethel. 
 
 ROMANZO Walker was born in Grafton, 
 Windham County, Vermont, and came from 
 there to Bethel and went into partnership 
 with Mr. Hunton, June 27, 1842, continuing 
 in partnership for one year. He was a 
 lawyer of considerable ability and talents. 
 He was chiefly distinguished for his waggish- 
 ness, being endowed with great powers of 
 mimicry, and noted for practical jokes. He 
 remained in Bethel but a short time and died 
 many years ago. 
 
 Dudley Chase Blodgett was born in 
 Randolph, son of Luther and Elizabeth (Stark- 
 weather) Blodgett. He was brought up in the 
 family of the Hon. Dudley Chase, whose wife 
 was his mother's sister. He graduated at the 
 University of Vermont in 1839, and studied 
 law with the Hon. William Nutting, at Ran- 
 
 dolph. Upon his admission to the bar he 
 removed to Bethel and practiced law as 
 partner of the Hon. A. P. Hunton from 
 November, 1843 to March, 1S44, after 
 which he was partner of Daniel F. Wey- 
 mouth. He was town superintendent in 
 1847. From Bethel he went to Oshkosh, 
 Wis., about 1848, it is said. He married 
 May Granger, daughter of Captain Ben 
 Granger, of Randolph, and in Bethel they 
 lived in the upper part of the brick house 
 now owned by Mrs. William Wright. He was 
 an accomplished scholar and a man of talents. 
 
 Daniel Folsom Weymouth was born in 
 Tunbridge, June 22, 1818, the son of 
 Deacon George Weymouth, and on the 
 Folsom side is a relative of Mrs. Grover 
 Cleveland. He was educated at the district 
 schools, and the academies of Newbury and 
 Randolph. While prosecuting his studies in 
 the academies and in the office of the Hon. 
 WilMam Hebard, with whom he studied law, 
 at East Randolph, he taught in the district 
 schools during the winters. He was ad- 
 mitted to the bar in Orange County about 
 1842, and practiced law in Tunbridge. He 
 was married in October, 1843, to Mary 
 Blodgett, daughter ot Laban and Rebecca 
 Blodgett, of Randolph. Mary Blodgett was 
 cousin of Dudley C. Blodgett, her mother 
 being a sister of Luther Blodgett. He was 
 for a time Register of Probate for the Dis- 
 trict of Randolph, under Judge Hebard. 
 He came to Bethel about April, 1844, where 
 he was for a time a partner of Dudley C. 
 Blodgett, and afterwards for a short time 
 associated with the Hon. A. P. Hunton. In 
 April, 1850, he removed from Vermont to 
 Jefferson, Wis., where he was engaged in 
 practice until 1873, when he removed to 
 Marshall, Minn., where his time was divided 
 between the law and farming. He was a 
 devoted agriculturist. His residence, vcith 
 the exception of a brief interval spent in 
 Arkansas and Illinois, has been at Marshall 
 ever since. He has there held the office of 
 Judge of Probate. 
 
 When inactive practice in Wisconsin, Mr. 
 Weymouth was regarded as one of the leading 
 lawyers of the State 
 
 Mr. Weymouth has had ten children, of 
 whom five daughters and one son are still 
 
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 living. His residence in Bethel was the 
 house which has since been enlarged and is 
 now the home of M. Sylvester, Esq. 
 
 Isaac T. Morgan was born in Royalton, 
 November 13, 1822, in the house near South 
 Royalton, now occupied by James Buck. In 
 Bethel he built what is now the Congrega- 
 tional parsonage, to which he removed from 
 Mrs. Adelaide R. Stearns' house, and he 
 resided there until his decease, May 26, 1859. 
 He married Anna Maria Cheney of Royalton, 
 October 28, 1S45. He had two sons, Edward 
 and Frederick, who removed from Bethel to 
 Jamestown, N. Y., about 1865. Edward is 
 now cashier of the First National Bank of 
 
 to Jane Flynn, daughter of Paul Flynn,Esq., 
 and Olivia (Smith) Flynn, a sister of Asa 
 Smith, the first child born in town. Second 
 to Mary Laurette McCoy, daughter of the 
 Rev. Amos D. McCoy. He has fourteen 
 children. Mr. Wilson first lived in the house 
 occupied now by Oscar P. Shaw, then in the 
 house now occupied by Gardner J. Wallace, 
 from which he moved to his present fine 
 residence. His eldest son, Guy, is a lawyer 
 in Bethel, His second son, March, is prac- 
 ticing law in Randolph. In 1874 Mr. Wilson 
 represented the County of Windsor in the Sen- 
 ate, with crgdit to himself and his constituency. 
 He was State's attorney from 1884 to 1886. 
 
 CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD DEPOT. 
 
 Jamestown, an accomplished and successful 
 business man. Mr. Morgan practiced law in 
 Bethel for several years. He was a good 
 lawyer, of polished and courteous manners. 
 
 Hon. James J. Wilson was born in Bethel, 
 May 16, 1831, the son of Jay and Laura 
 (Child) Wilson. He has always lived in 
 Bethel, except for a short absence in his 
 youth, when he was teaching in the South, 
 He studied law with the Hon. Augustus P. 
 Hunton, and was admitted to the Bar of 
 Windsor County, May, 1858, when he 
 established an office in Bethel, where he has 
 since continued in practice, having from 1868 
 to 1870 as a partner, E. J. McWain, Esq. 
 Mr. Wilson has been twice married. First 
 
 He has in extensive and successful prac- 
 tice, and Ts considered one of the ablest 
 lawyers in the State. His most marked 
 characteristic is his tireless and unceasing 
 industry. He is skilful and energetic, and 
 has marvellous executive ability which enables 
 him to give the most careful attention to the 
 multiplicity of details of his various profes- 
 sional and private concerns. 
 
 MouLTON J . Gilman was born in Unity, 
 N. H., educated in the common schools, 
 studied law with the Hon. A, P. Hunton, 
 was admitted to the Bar of Windsor County, 
 December Term, 1863, and began the prac- 
 tice of his profession at once, as partner of 
 Mr. Hunton. This partnership continued 
 
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 until January, 1874, when it was dissolved, 
 and Mr. Gilman practiced alone until the 
 latter part of 1876, when he formed a partner- 
 ship with Charles H. Williams, Esq. The 
 firm of Gilman & Williams practiced in 
 Bethel for about a year, when it was dissolved 
 and Mr. Gilman removed to Dakota, where 
 he deceased soon after. Mr. Gilman married 
 Miss Helen Sanborn, of Unity, N. H., and 
 had one son, Clarence. Mr. Gilman taught 
 school in Bethel while studying law, and was 
 very much liked as an instructor. He -was 
 superintendent of schools for the town several 
 years, and was for many years secretary of 
 the White River Valley Agricultural Society. 
 Mr. Gilman was a democrat, faithful to the 
 principles of his party, and a re-cognized 
 leader in their councils in county and state. 
 
 Edwin J. McWain, born in Ripton, Ver- 
 mont, August 17, 1840, was First Serjeant 
 Company H, nth Vermont Volunteers, and 
 served with distinction from September i, 
 1862 to May 15, 1865, was promoted to 
 Second Lieutenant December 2S, 1863, and 
 First Lieutenant December 2, 1864. He 
 was wounded at Petersburgh June 23, 1864; 
 afterwards was captured by the rebels and 
 remained prisoner until March i, 1865. 
 After his discharge he was a constant sufferer 
 from disease contracted during his military 
 service. 
 
 He returned to Vermont and began his 
 legal studies in the ofEce of C. A. Webber, 
 of, Rochester, finishing with the Hon. J.J. 
 Wilson, at Bethel. He was admitted to the 
 Bar of Windsor County, May Term. 1867, 
 and began practice in Bethel, where he was 
 associated with the Hon. J. J. Wilson. In 
 May, 1870, he removed to Randolph, where 
 he continued in practice at intervals until 
 1886, during the latter part of which time he 
 was partner of the Hon. Philander Perrin. 
 In the spring of 1886 he removed to Nebraska, 
 and later to Kansas City, Missouri. He has 
 since deceased. 
 
 Wm. B. C. Stickney was born in IVIarble- 
 head, Mass., January 16, 1845, son of Rev. 
 Moses P. and Jane F. (Curry) Stickney. 
 His father removed to Boston in 1853, and 
 he was educated in Boston public schools 
 and Harvard University. He studied law 
 with the Hon. Isaac F. Redfield. in Boston, 
 
 and was admitted to the Suffolk County Bar 
 in 1870. He removed to Bethel in 1874, and 
 was admitted to the Bar of Windsor County 
 in December of that year, and began to 
 practice in Bethel. In August, 1875, h^ 
 went into partnership with the Hon. Augustus 
 P. Hunton, whose daughter Mary he married 
 in 1877. He was for some years town super- 
 intendent of schools; represented the town 
 of Bethel in the General Assembly in 1884, 
 and was State's attorney of Windsor County 
 from 1888 to 1890. and President of the Ver- 
 mont Bar Association, 1894-5. 
 
 CHAKLES.H. Williams was born in Wood- 
 stock, Vermont, son of Harvey Williams. 
 He was admitted to the Bar of Windsor 
 County at the December term, 1875, and was 
 established in his profession about 1877, in 
 Bethel, being a partner of Moulton J. Gilman. 
 He practiced in Bethel about a year, during 
 which time he marred Delia, daughter of 
 Simon T. Coy, Mr. Williams removed from 
 Bethel to Claremont, N. H., and from there 
 to Bellows Falls, where he now resides, 
 having given up the law. He is a dealer in 
 paper stock, successful and prosperous. 
 
 In his brief career as an attorney Mr. 
 Williams displayed legal abilities of a high 
 order, and his abandonment of the profession 
 was much regretted by his legal brethren. 
 
 William'H, Bliss was born in Royalton, 
 October 5, 1847, son of Charles William 
 Bliss, graduated at the University of Vermont 
 in 1S71, studied and practiced his profession 
 with T. C. Greene, Esq., at Providence, R. I., 
 where he was admitted to the bar, October, 
 1873, and whence he came to Vermont, and 
 was admitted to the Bar of Orange County 
 in 1878, and to the United States Supreme 
 Court in 1894 He began to practice in this 
 State at West Fairlee. He was in Bethel 
 but a short time. He afterwards removed to 
 Middlebury, and from there to Burlington. 
 He was State's attorney for Addison County 
 from 1890 to 1892. Mr. Bliss is a man of 
 rare accomplishments, literary and legal. 
 His knowledge of the law is profound and 
 accurate. He is a vehement and persuasive 
 speaker. He has a large and successful 
 practice. 
 
 Hon. Fred Arnold was born in Randolph 
 December 7, 1856. His father, Thomas 
 
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 Arnold, came to Bethel with his family in 
 1873. Mr. Arnold was educated at the State 
 Normal school at Randolph; studied law 
 with the Hon. J. J. Wilson and Hunton & 
 Stickney, and was admitted to the Bar of 
 Windsor County in 1881, since which time 
 he has practiced his profession at Bethel. 
 He has held the offices of superintendent of 
 schools, i88s-'92, town agent for the prosecu- 
 tion and defense of law suits, i889-'92, town 
 grand juror, 1892. He represented the town 
 of Bethel in the General Assembly of 1892, 
 and was senator from Windsor County in 
 1894. He was chairman of the Committee on 
 Education in the House and in the Senate. 
 He was a careful, efficient and trusted legis- 
 lator. Mr. Arnold has marked executive 
 abihty. His chief characteristics as a lawyer 
 are fearlessness and candor. He has the most 
 extensive insurance business in the White 
 River Valley, a result due to his honesty and 
 faithfulness to his patrons and square deal- 
 ings with the companies which he represents 
 Mr. Arnold married Miss White of Provi- 
 dence, R. I., and has seven children. 
 
 Guy Wilson, eldest son of the Hon. James 
 J. and Jane (^Flynn) Wilson, was born in 
 Bethel, July 11, 1864, graduated at Dartmouth 
 College in 1886, was admitted to the Bar 
 October, 1890, and has since practiced in 
 Bethel. He has held the offices of constable 
 since 1889, and deputy sheriff since 1890, and 
 has also devoted portions of his time to civil 
 engineering and journalism. Mr. Wilson is 
 industrous and energetic in whatever he 
 undertakes, and deeply interested in the wel- 
 fare of Bethel. 
 
 Mr. Wilson married Miss Abbie Fisher, 
 daughter of Edwin Fisher, formerly post- 
 master of Bethel, and has two children. 
 
 March M. Wilson, son of the Hon. James 
 J. and Mary Laurette (McCoy) Wilson, was 
 born August 24, 1870, graduated at the 
 University of Vermont in 1891, studied law 
 in the office of his father and was admitted 
 to the Bar in 1894, passing his examination 
 with distinguished honor. He practiced in 
 Bethel but a short time, and removed to 
 Randolph in the summer of 1895, where he 
 is partner of the Hon. Wm. H, Nichols. 
 He was married October i, 1895, at Laconia, 
 N. H., to Miss Lulu Dickinson. 
 
 MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS. 
 
 Although" the town of Bethel is over one 
 hundred years old, the number of physicians 
 who have practiced in this place is compara- 
 tively small. During the early days there 
 was very little manufacturing, and that only 
 on a small scale, consequently the physician 
 depended almost wholly upon the farming 
 community for his practice. One man could 
 attend to all the business of the village and 
 surrounding country and even have some 
 time to spare. Most of the doctors rode to 
 their patients on horseback, and many of the 
 trips were from five to ten miles distant, much 
 of the work being done by night rides over 
 hard roads through uninhabited forest country. 
 Notwithstanding the hardships of these early 
 practitioners, and the many bad bills which 
 accumulated, most of them lived to a good old 
 age and not a few of them accumulated quite 
 extensive properties. 
 
 The first physician known to have prac- 
 ticed in Bethel was Dr. Joseph A. Gallup, 
 who owned the property where Jackson Gra- 
 ham now liyes from May 2, 1791 to June 27, 
 1809. He Was one of the founders of the 
 first Episcopal society in Bethel and was one 
 of the first wardens of said church. But little 
 is known of his professional life as pertaining 
 to Bethel, as he moved to Woodstock from 
 here where he gained a prominent place in 
 the annals of his profession through his con- 
 nection with the medical school at that place. 
 He moved there in 1799, although he still 
 owned property in Bethel ten years later. 
 His name was Joadam Gallup, .but this was 
 changed by his acquaintances to Joseph, and 
 he wascomfrjonlyknownas Joseph A. Gallup. 
 He is spoken of as having been a very eccen- 
 tric person with a determination of character, 
 common to that class of men. He had a 
 favorite idea of establishing a medical sthool 
 at Woodstock, for the training and education 
 of students who aspired to become members 
 of the medical fraternity. To this end he 
 labored earnestly, and in March, 1827, he 
 enjoyed the pleasure of seeing his hopes 
 realized. In 1834 he was forced to retire 
 from the field through the organization of 
 another college, but he has the distinction of 
 being the first to found a medical college in 
 this vicinity. 
 
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 Dr. Joseph A. Denison was in practice 
 in Bethel during the first years of this century, 
 and owned one of the finest farms in this vicin- 
 ity, embracing nearly all of the . land now 
 covered by the southern part of the village. 
 He was an able man, a close worker in his 
 profession, and one of the best physicians of 
 his time. He moved to Royalton in 1812, 
 selling his property and practice to Dr Alfred 
 Paige, a former student in his office. 
 
 Alfred Paige, son of Nathan and Hannah 
 (Cobb) Paige, was born in Royalton. on the 
 farm now owned by George Parker, April 25, 
 1788. He married, June 8, 1808, Sarah, 
 daughter of Elipha^ and Sarah (Gushing) 
 Bigelow, who was born in Barnard on the 
 farm now owned by Benjamin Furber, Janu- 
 ary 23, 1791. Eleven children were born of 
 this marriage, six of whom died in infancy or 
 early childhood. Mrs. Paige died in Concord, 
 N. H., July 20, 1872. 
 
 Dr. Paige received a common school edu- 
 cation, and studied medicine in the ofiice of 
 Dr, Joseph A. Denison of Bethel, receiving 
 his degree of iVI. D.,from Yale College, where 
 he attended medical lectures. He first began 
 practice in Barnard, but soon after came to 
 Bethel, where he succeeded Dr. Denison, 
 whose farm he bought. In 1833, he built the 
 brick house, now standing, where the re- 
 mainder of his life was spent. For many 
 years he was accustomed to travel on horse- 
 back to visit his patients carrying his medi- 
 cines, tinctures and pills, (prepared by him- 
 self) in saddle bags. Later he drove to his 
 patients in a chaise, but he never discarded 
 the saddle bags, taking them in the chaise, 
 and when entering the house carrying them 
 over his arm. Dr. Paige was devoted to his 
 profession, and attained a high rank both as 
 a physician and surgeon. He died in Bethel 
 March 24, 1862. 
 
 Dk. Alfred Paige, Jk.. born in Bethel, 
 April 7, 1823 attended lectures at Castleton 
 Medical College and in a medical college in 
 New York City. He studied in the office with 
 his father and rode with him to .some extent. 
 He was unsettled in his business and pro- 
 fessional work and at times made long trips 
 to other places. He died in Bethel, January 
 14, 1882, at the age of fifty-nine years. He 
 was an excellent surgeon and capable of tak- 
 ing a high rank in his profession.' 
 
 Dr. Hiram Morgan was a student in the 
 office of the elder Dr. Paige and practiced 
 one year in Bethel Village. He was a native 
 of Rochester, and moved there from Bethel. 
 
 Dr. James M. Woodworth was a practi- 
 tioner of the town of Bethel for many years. 
 He first began about 1830 and several years 
 later moved west, where he was in practice for 
 some time. He returned to Bethel and again 
 established himself in his profession, remain- 
 ing here until the arrival of Dr. Ormon 
 Terry, to whom he sold his practice. Several 
 amusing stories arc told of Dr. Woodworth. 
 At one time one of his patients who had 
 been very .sick, asked the doctor if it would 
 do any harm to eat some cheese. He said 
 they could have some if they wished. After 
 eating the cheese, the ijatient grew worse and 
 the doctor was called in. " Oh! Doctor, I 
 feel terrible,' said the patient; "Well," 
 said the Doctor, " .Now you know you can't 
 eat cheese." At another time on leaving the 
 house of a patient, he was asked by one of 
 the neighbor^ how his patient was progressing. 
 He informed her that the invalid was con- 
 valescent, whereupon she exclaimed, "Oh! 
 Heavens, then she'll die sure, wont she?" 
 Dr. "Woodworth sold his practice to Dr. 
 Ormon Terry and moved to the east part of 
 the town where he died. 
 
 Dr. Henry P.^lmer was in practice here 
 about 1840, and resided in the house called 
 the White River House, then located on the 
 premises now occupied by the Arnold block. 
 A few years later he gave up his practice in 
 Bethel and moved to Woodstock, Vt. 
 
 Dr. Farnum came to Bethel about 1840 
 and opened an office in his profession, resid- 
 ing in the house where Oscar Shaw now 
 lives. He remained a short time and moved 
 to other parts. 
 
 Dr. Fisk, a Thomsonian physician 
 
 came to Bethel about 1846, but did not re- 
 main long, as he received but little business, 
 and he aid not succeed in making himself 
 popular among the people. 
 
 Dr. AsAHEL BuRBANK resided in Bethel 
 for some time, about 1848, and was one of 
 the leading physicians of thia place. He 
 resided on the farm now owned and occupied 
 by Alexander Morse on the Randolph road. 
 
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 Dr. AsAHEL Kendrick was born in Han- 
 over, N. H., December 25, 1806, and was a 
 student in Troy, N. Y., and at Dartmoutli 
 College. He practiced at Wai-ren, Vt., and 
 about 1840 located at West Randolph, where 
 he followed his profession for several years. 
 In 1850 he came to Bethel and three years 
 later returned to Randolph where he died, 
 [n his profession, he was a careful and 
 reliable physician, a man of sound, i)ractical 
 judgment, admired and appreciated by the 
 people who knew him best. 
 
 Dr. Philander D. Bradford was born 
 in Randolph, April 9, i8n, and was the son 
 of John and Lucy (Brooks) Bradford. He 
 received his education in the Orange County 
 Grammar School, and was graduated from 
 the Woodstock iVledical School in the class 
 of 1834. He first practiced at Braintree and 
 afterwards moved to Randolph, where he had 
 an office for some time. He came to Bethel 
 late in the forties but moved from here to 
 Northfield in 1854 where he resided until his 
 death which occurred July 16, 1892. He 
 was an active, energetic mail, and although 
 an excellent physician and devoted to his 
 profession, he found time to devote to the 
 affairs of his country, He was a strong 
 '■ Abolitionist," and an active worker in the 
 Free Soil Party of Vermont at a time when 
 that Party was far from popular. It was 
 enough for him that he believed the principles 
 of his party to be founded on right and justice. 
 He was elected to several public offices of the 
 State, filling the same faithfully. 
 
 Dr. John M. IVIorse was a native of 
 Bethel and was born October 13, 1823, the 
 son of Calvin and Elvira Morse. After at- 
 tending the public schools, he studied medi- 
 cine in the office of Dr. Walter Carpenter, at 
 Randolph, and attended the Castleton Medi- 
 cal College and the Woodstock Medical 
 College, from the latter of which he was 
 graduated. He immediately came to Bethel 
 and Ijegaa practice at his profession, living 
 in a iiouse which was on the premises now 
 occupied by the James J. Wilson residence. 
 He is remembered as a live and hustling bus- 
 iness man and an able physician. He moved 
 from Bethel toGalesburg, 111., in 1854, where 
 he died. 
 
 Dr. George Nichols was in practice 
 here in 18G0, and had an office in town for 
 about threCiyears. He married Helen Stearns 
 of this place and moved west, but returned to 
 Vermont, and was settled at Northfield for 
 some time. 
 
 Dr. George Van Dusen had an office in 
 Bethel village about 1865, and resided in the 
 house now owned by Albert Stearns on 
 Main street. He was a popular man in the 
 community, and a successful man in his pro- 
 fession. He moved to New York State in 
 the latter part of the sixties. 
 
 Dr. Ormon Terry, a native of Bethel 
 and a graduate of Castleton Medical College 
 came to Bethel from Saranac, N. Y. in 1865 
 and practiced medicine in the town until his 
 death September 10, 1880. He lived in the 
 house now 'occupied by Chester Foster on 
 Main Street. Dr. Terry was a pushing ener- 
 getic physician, and met with gratifying suc- 
 cess in his business. He was not a man that 
 courted popularity, but depended almost en- 
 tirely on his ability as a physician, rather 
 than the friendship of his townsmen. He 
 succeeded Dr. James Woodworth, and during 
 his residence in Bethel was the leading doctor 
 in the place*. (See Terry sketch.) 
 
 Dr. M. C- Spauldlng, a graduate of the 
 Medical D,epartment of University of Ver- 
 mont in the class of 1873, located in Bethel 
 during the latter part of that year. He suc- 
 ceeded in gaining a lucrative practice and re- 
 mained here until 1877, when he sold to Dr. 
 L. M. Greene and moved to Wilmot. He is 
 now in practjce in Ashland, N. H. 
 
 Dr. C. C. Perry came to Bethel in 1877 
 and began- the practice of his profession. 
 He was born in South Pomfret, Vt., June 2, 
 1849, and attended the common schools until 
 he was twenty years old. He then com- 
 menced the academical course at f-'erkins' 
 Academy at South Woodstock, Vt., and 
 in Septemper, 1871, entered the Goddard 
 Seminary at Barre, Vt., from which he was 
 graduated /uly 9, 1873. 
 
 He began the study of medicine in the 
 ofl^ce of Dr. C. C. Ellis of Somerville, Mass., 
 and later he was a student with Drs. O. W. 
 Sherwin and J, S. Richmond of Woodstock. 
 He attended medical lectures at Dartmouth 
 
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 Medical College and was graduated in the 
 class of 1876. His first office was in South 
 Pomfret, Vt., where he remained one year, and 
 then moved to Bethel. Here he was engaged 
 in his professional work for thirteen years, 
 and in 1891 sold his practice to Dr. L. W. 
 Clough and moved to his present home in 
 West Rutland, Vt. 
 
 He is a member of the Vermont State 
 IVledical Society, the White River Medical 
 Association, the Rutland County Medical 
 Society and the Rutland Medical Club of the 
 City of Rutland. 
 
 Dr. RoLLA Miner Chase, born in Royal- 
 ton. Vt., September 4, 1854, came to Bethel 
 with his parents when he was three ye.irs of 
 age. After completing .his studies in the 
 schools of Bethel, 'he began the study of 
 dentistry in the office of Dr. F. M. Celley of 
 this place, and was a graduate of the Boston 
 Dental College in the class of 1876. He has 
 since been in practice in Bethel and in 1889 
 entered the Baltimore Medical College, 
 having taken up the study of medicines. He 
 was graduated from that institution in 1890. 
 Since his return to Bethel Dr. Chase has 
 established a large and lucrative practice in 
 both branches of his ptofession, and has met 
 with the greatest success in his work. (See 
 Cha:se sketch). 
 
 Dr. L, VV. Clough, born in Hopkinton. 
 N. H., July 17, 1863, is now one of the 
 medical staff of Bethel. After attending 
 schools at Warner, N. H., he entered the 
 office of Dr. G. P. Conn at Concord, N. H., 
 and in 1885 attended the Medical Department 
 of the University of Vermont at Burlington, 
 from which he was graduated in 1887. He 
 practiced at Bradford, N. H., for a short 
 time and came to Bethel in 1891, where he 
 is now enjoying a successful practice. (See 
 Clough sketch). 
 
 Dr. Elizabeth J. Childs, born in Bethel 
 July I, 1840, attended the Medical College at 
 Ann Arbor, Mich,, and was graduated from 
 that institution. She immediately returned to 
 Bethel where she is now in practice. (See 
 Child sketch). 
 
 L. M. Greene, son of Milton and Aurora 
 (Goodno) Greene was born at Rochester 
 Vt., October 14, 1852. He attended the pub- 
 
 lic schools of his native town, took a course 
 at the Normal School at Randolph Center, 
 and entered Dartmouth Medical College in 
 1874. After a two years course there he 
 entered the Medical Department of the 
 University of Vermont, and was graduated 
 in the class of 1876. 
 
 He began practice in Rochester, but after 
 one ye^r there he came to Bethel and has 
 since made this place his home. He is a 
 member of the White River Lodge, No. 90. of 
 Bethel, and the Whitney R. A. Chapter of 
 Randolph, F. and A. M. In medical socie- 
 ties he has been prominent, and is a member 
 of the Vermont State Medical Society and 
 the White River Medical Association, Dr. 
 Greene was chosen town representative in 
 [894, and has served on the school committee 
 for ten years in succession. 
 
 On April 2, 1873, he married Ella Durkee 
 of Pittsfield, and their son. Otto V.. was born 
 May 14, 1880. 
 
 Olin D. Greene, son of Milton and 
 Aurora (Goodno) Greene, was born in 
 Rochester, Vermont, September 21, 1856. 
 After completing his studies in the public 
 schools, he began the study of medicine in 
 the office of his brother. L. M. Greene at 
 Bethel and laler he took a course in the 
 Medical Department of the University of 
 Vermont at Burlington, and was graduated 
 from that institution in the class of 1879. 
 He first opened an office in Hancock, Vt., 
 and for the next two years he practiced be- 
 tween that place and Rochester. He then 
 moved to Warren, where he was engaged in 
 his profession for fourteen years, selling out 
 his practice in May, 1895, to Dr. Frank C. 
 Angell of Randolph, and coming to Bethel, 
 where he entered into a partnership with his 
 brother, and is now engaged in practice. 
 
 In politics Dr. Greene is a Republican, and 
 he was chosen town representative of Warren, 
 Vermont, jn 1888. 
 
 On March 4, 1879, he was married to Miss 
 Emma Bee, daughter of Richard and Clara 
 (Raymond) Bee, and their only daughter 
 was born in Rochester, February 28, i88o. 
 
 Other physicians who have practiced in 
 
 the town of Bethel, are Dr. Angler, 
 
 Dr. Slocum, Dr. Thomas P. Russell, 
 
 Dr. O. D Cummings and Dr. Abel Childs. 
 
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 MANUFACTURING. 
 
 THE BETHEL TANNERY. 
 One of the leading industries of Bethel is 
 the tannery of G. & E. G. Place, which is 
 the largest establishment of its kind in Ver- 
 mont. This business which was first started 
 in 1865, with only a few employees, has 
 steadily increased in size and trade until it 
 stands at the head of Bethel industries. 
 
 same year Eustice Cummings of Woburn, 
 IVlass., was taken in as a partner, and the 
 business conducte'd under the firm name of 
 J. D. Cus"hing & Co. Mr. Cummings after- 
 wards soH back his interest to the Cushings, 
 who continued to carry on the business until 
 1882, when they leased the plant to John B. 
 Alley &^ Co., for five years. This firm is 
 one of the foremost among the manufacturers 
 and dealers in all kinds of finished leathers, 
 hides, etc., having several tanneries in other 
 
 A GROUP OF TANNERY EIWPLOYEES. 
 
 The main building was erected in 1865 by 
 E. T. Bugbee & Co., and is a substantial 
 wood structure, thirty by one hundred feet, 
 three stories high with an attic, making 
 nearly twelve thousand feet of floor space. 
 The business was carried on by this com- 
 pany for a few years, and afterwards sold to 
 other parties, the firm name being Nelson 
 Ellison & Co. This firm sold the business 
 to J. D. Gushing of Bethel and Henry Cush- 
 ing of Woodstock in 1873, and during the 
 
 parts of the country, and with headquarters 
 at 73 and 75 South Street, Boston, IMass. 
 At the expiration of their lease in 1887, they 
 purchased the entire property, and imme- 
 diately on taking possession commenced 
 making extensive repairs, improvements and 
 additions, making it the largest and best 
 equipped tannery in the state. Among the 
 many improvements made was the erection 
 of a new building 50x70, covering the liquoi' 
 pits or yard, which were built new; the con- 
 
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 SORTING SKINS. 
 
 struction of a beam house 30x70, a hide 
 house 30x80, a leach house 30x40, a bark 
 shed 30x300, and a new office building. 
 Among the new machinery added was one 
 of Ott's Patent barli shaving machines, 
 which cuts the baric one third faster than the 
 
 old grinding machines, and it is estimated 
 that twenty per cent more liquor is extracted 
 than by the old process. They also added a 
 tan press for extracting the water from wet 
 tan bark, leaving it nearly dry, and this is 
 used as fuel. A machine for removing the 
 
 -4e^:r-^ff'li*''^- t' 
 
 WEIGHING SKINS, 
 
4° 
 
 YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM, NORTH END. 
 
 hair from the hides was put in and an eleva- 
 tor placed in the main building, with a com- 
 bination car, and with the movable tracks, 
 heavy loads were easily transferred to any 
 part of the buildinsj. 
 
 The company continued under the same 
 name until iSSS, wlien a new partner was 
 talcen in to the firm, and the name was 
 clianged to Alley Brothers & Place, iMr. 
 Crififin Place being the new member of the 
 
 YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM, SOUTH END. 
 
41 
 
 firm. In 1892 the firm name was again 
 changed, and the present style of G. & E. 
 G. Place was adopted. 
 
 When the firm of John B. Alley & Co., 
 took possession in 18S2, C. S. Gould was 
 appointed superintendent, and continued in 
 that position until his death in 1884. Dur- 
 ing- the next year E. G. Place was superin- 
 tendent of the business, and he was followed 
 by C. L. Frank of Curwensville, Pa., who 
 had charge of the business until 1887, when 
 the present superintendent, M. G. Safford of 
 Sutton, P. Q., took charge of the work and 
 has now managed the business for seven 
 
 business is conducted upon a liberal scale; 
 cash is furnished to buy stock and two thirds 
 of the amoiint of invoice advanced upon re- 
 ceipt of bill 'of lading from any transporta- 
 tion company. All the leather produced 
 by this taiinery is finished on the premi- 
 ses, and it inay be interesting to many to 
 read of the different processes through which 
 the leather 'is carried before being ready for 
 shipment. 
 
 SORTING AND WEIGHING SKINS. 
 
 When hides are received at the tannery 
 they are first counted to see that the number 
 
 FINISHING ROOM IN RUSSET DEPARTMENT. 
 
 years. Mr. Safford had been in the employ 
 of this firm since 18S3, a greater part of this 
 time traveling on the road buying hides. 
 
 The company now employs 125 men, and 
 tan on an average, 900 hides a week, which 
 are bought from the butchers and dealers 
 from all parts of New England and in New 
 York state, who by dealing with the con- 
 sumer direct, without the intervention of 
 middlemen, are assured of a permanent mar- 
 ket and the highest cash prices at all seasons 
 of the year. Shipments are solicited from 
 butchers and dealers everywhere. The 
 
 corresponds with the invoice. The skins or 
 hides are piled at one side of a table, at 
 which two men are [standing, one at eacli 
 end. Each skin is then passed over tl-.L* 
 table separately, and closely examined, and 
 piled in different piles, according to the 
 grade, runrfing in numbers i, 2, 3, and cults. 
 These are then weighed and sorted accord- 
 ing to weight, and at the same time looked 
 over for cuts, scores or imperfections of any 
 kinds. Each kind is then classed by weight, 
 which runs as follows: Four to five pound-, 
 five to seven pounds, seven to nine pounc's. 
 
A PART OF EAST SIDE OF FINISHING ROOM. 
 
 nine to twelve pounds, twelve to seventeen 
 pounds, and seventeen pounds and over. 
 Thus every hide and skin is bought on its 
 individual merit, which is not only of advan- 
 tage to the consumer, but to the butcher or 
 
 dealer, who on an average, receives better 
 pay for his stock. 
 
 After this thorough sorting, counting and 
 classifying, the hides arc taken to the beam 
 house, where they are fleshed and limed and 
 
 A PART OF WEST SIDE OF FINISJiING ROOM. 
 
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 put through a machine taking off the hair, 
 and then subdivided into two lots, one of 
 which is used for russet leather, and the 
 other for black leather, as a large number of 
 skins show up imperfections after the hair is 
 removed from them, that cannot be.detected 
 in the first sorting. About fifty per cent of 
 the hides are used for perfect leather, and 
 this process requires two weeks before the 
 hides are ready to go into the liquor yard. 
 
 YARD AND SPLITTING ROOM. 
 
 This is a covered building containing about 
 200 vats, which contain liquor from six to 
 twenty degrees in strength, and in which the 
 hides are handled daily for a period covering 
 about thirty days. When taken from the 
 liquor yard, the leather is taken to the split- 
 ting room, where the grain is split off, and 
 the stock is again re-sorted, the skins that 
 are not perfectly tanned being pu: back into 
 the retanning vats, the perfect leather going 
 into the mills and bleached to obtain an even 
 color, and from there to the coloring room. 
 
 FINISHING ROOM. 
 
 The next and last process is in the finish- 
 ing room, where sixty men are employed in 
 setting, polishing and tying up the leather 
 ready for market. The average time used in 
 the care of a hide from its first sorting to the 
 finishing room is twelve weeks. The leather 
 taken from the splitting room for black 
 leather, which is not quite perfect as to color 
 and will not make colors, is taken to the 
 black leather department, where it is stuffed, 
 set, snuffed and blacked. It is polished and 
 put through a process called soft boarding, 
 which makes it soft and pliable, and it is tied up 
 and ready for the market. About 125 hands 
 are employed at this tannery, and the aver- 
 age amount of work turned out is 900 hides 
 per week. 
 
 VERMONT HAIR COMPANY. 
 
 An outcome of the Bethel Tannery is the 
 Vermont Hair Company, of which Mr. M. 
 G. Safford is also manager. The hair takeu 
 from the hides is thoroughly washed and 
 dried to cleanse it of lime and other foreign 
 substances, and after being separated and 
 spread, it is put up in packages ranging from 
 135 to 170 pounds, ready to ship to the trade. 
 A large part of the hair is bought from other 
 tanneries, but this is put through the same 
 
 process in order to have all shipments of auni- 
 form grade'and quality. The hair shipped by 
 this company is preferred by masons and bui'd- 
 ers for its fteeness from dirt and lime, and the 
 demand which formerly only extended through 
 New England, now reaches into the southern 
 and western states. Traveling men have 
 been employed to some extent, with gratify- 
 ing success, but as their business enlarges, 
 and the reputation of their goods extends, it 
 is expected that there will be more demand 
 for the hair put on the inarket by the Vermont 
 Hair Compa,ny than they can supply. 
 
 GRIFFIN PLACE. 
 
 Griffin IPlace, senior member of the firm 
 of G. and E. G. Place, was born in St. Law- 
 
 GRIFFIN PLACE. 
 
 rence county, New York, in 1835, and served 
 a regular apprenticeship at the tannery 
 business, and was afterwards employed in a 
 currying shop in Massachusetts. He ac- 
 cepted a position as manager of a tannery in 
 Woburn, Mass., where he remained two 
 years, leaving there to take charge of the 
 then largest tannery in Woburn, stocked by 
 Alexander Moseley & Co., and for five years 
 was manager of this place. On July i, 1865, 
 he became a partner in the firm of Cum- 
 mings, Place & Co., which partnership lasted 
 
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 but a short time, and in 1867 lie entered the 
 firm of J. B. Winn & Co., one of the best 
 known and most successful business houses 
 in the city of Woburn. This business con- 
 
 CHESTER S, GOULD. 
 
 nection continued until 1873, when the death 
 of the two older members of the firm, dis- 
 solved the firm and the business was closed. 
 Mr. Place entered the firm of John B. Alley 
 & Co., in 1875, having the principal manage- 
 ment of that business until 1892, when the 
 firm name was changed and the business 
 carried on under its present title. The 
 business of John B. Alley & Co., was one of 
 the most extensive of its kind in the country, 
 antl consisted in the manufacture of buff, 
 glove, grain and split leather, and a sole 
 leather business amounting to from one and 
 one-half to two million per annum. Since 
 1892 Mr. Place has been interested in busi- 
 ness with his son under the firm name of G. 
 and E. G. Place, with tanneries at North 
 Wilmington, Mass., and at Bethel, Vermont. 
 
 CHESTER S. GOULD. 
 Chester S. GoULu, was born in North- 
 ampton, Mass., July 10, 1851. He was a 
 graduate of the college at Northampton, and 
 afterwards moved to Springfield, Mass., 
 
 where he was employed as traveling sales- 
 man for the; Meridan Dritania Company for 
 several years, when he located at South 
 Royalton, Vt. Here he married November 
 10, [876, Hattie, daughter of H. M. Double- 
 day of th.at glace, and for the following four 
 years was in the employ of Mr. Doubleday. 
 .'\t the end of that time, he accepted a posi- 
 tion in the tannery of J. B. Alley & Co., at 
 Bethel, where he was employed at the time 
 of his death, which occurred in Burlington, 
 July 23, 1886, after a brief illness. 
 
 Mr. Gould was very popular among his 
 fellow men,: and in his position as superin- 
 tendent of the tannery was greatly admired 
 by the men over whom he had charge, as 
 well as by the members of the firm in which 
 he was employed. He was a member of the 
 Masonic fraternity, and of the Knights of 
 Pythias at Springfield, Mass. His widow 
 now resides in Boston with her daughter. 
 
 il. G. SAFFORD. 
 Myron G. Saffokd son of Garret and 
 Audra (Spencer) Safford, was born in Sutton , 
 
 M.YRON G. SAFf^ORD. 
 
 P. Q., June 8, 1863. He attended the public 
 school and Sutton Academy, and at the age 
 of eighteen he began farming, beginning 
 work shortly after in the employ of H. M. 
 
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 Doubleday, as book-keeper in his business of 
 buying and selling bark. He remained there 
 two years, and then came to Bethel, Vt., to 
 Jearn the trade of tanning in the tannery of 
 J. B. Alley and Co., now E. & E. G. Place. 
 Only one year was spent in learning the 
 business, and Mr. SafFord started on the road 
 buying hides, and continued in this line for 
 two y.'ars, when he returned to the tannery 
 and was employed as bookkeeper for a short 
 time, and was promoted to the position of 
 
 BETHEL SHOE COMPANY. 
 
 Among the leading manufacturing interests 
 of Bethel is the Bethel Shoe Company. This 
 company was organized in 1891, and incor- 
 porated with a paid up capital of $21,000. 
 The successful completion of the organization 
 of this company is largely due to the enter- 
 prise and energy of Dr. R. M, Chase, who 
 first enlisted the co-operation of the leading 
 business men, succeeded in getting an efficient 
 
 FACTORY OF THE BETHEL SHOE COMPANY. 
 
 superintendent and manager, which position 
 he now holds. Mr. Saflford is also manager 
 of the Vermont Hair Company, which deals 
 in hair for plastering purposes. He is a 
 member of the Sutton Lodge, No 31, F. and 
 A. M. of Sutton, P. Q. 
 
 He was married September 3, 1888, to 
 Miss Penelope T. Hamilton of Sutton, 'and 
 their two children are: Harry H., born 
 July II, 1889; and Marion M., born May 
 14, 1891. 
 
 manager, and has taken an active part in the 
 advancement of this industry. 
 
 The first officers chosen were as follows : 
 A. A. Brooks, president ; Dr. R. M. Chase, 
 vice-president; J. G. Sargent, treasurer; and 
 George H. Tupper, H. H. Gilson, Myron 
 Safford and C. D. Gushing, directors. A 
 building was constructed near the -railroad 
 track, opposite the Central Vermont Railroad 
 depot, containing four floors, each with an 
 area of seventy-five hundred feet, or in all 
 
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 thirty thousand square feet. The factory 
 was equipped with the best machinery in 
 every department, and the business started 
 witli fifty employees, with W. H. Creamer in 
 charge. 
 
 The business has rapidly advanced, and in 
 place of fifty hands, with a daily output of 
 five or six cases, there are one hundred and 
 fifty employees, turning out on an average 
 twenty cases per day. 
 
 At the last election of officers, George W. 
 Berry, S. M. Washburn and W. H. Creamer 
 were chosen as directors in place of George 
 H. Tupper, H. U. Gilson and Myron Saf- 
 ford. The present capital of the company is 
 $25,000, with a surplus of $7,000, mostly con- 
 trolled by the citizens of Bethel. This com- 
 pany manufactures a medium grade ladies' 
 shoe, which is sold mostly in the south and 
 west, and the demand for these goods is con- 
 tinually on the increase. 
 
 Mr. W. H. Creamer, who has been in 
 charge of this factory since it started, was 
 formerly manager for Keene Brothers of 
 Lynn, Mass., at their factory in South Ber- 
 wick, Maine. Before coming to Bethel, he 
 had been located in Lynn, or been connected 
 with shoe firms in Lvnn since 1878. 
 
 FAMILY HISTORY. 
 
 CONTAINING HISTORIES OF THE OLD FAMI- 
 LIES OF THE TOWN, TOGETHER WITH 
 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE 
 PRESENT BUSINESS MEN. 
 
 In the following pages will be found brief 
 histories of the old families of the town of 
 Bethel, biographies of the present citizens, 
 illustrated with portraits of many of the , 
 people who have made this place their home 
 at some period during the existence of the 
 town. For the first eighty years after the 
 town was incorporated, the principal industry 
 was farming, which was carried on success- 
 fully, many of the people acquiring a com- 
 petence, which was increased as following 
 generations took up the work. At the 
 present writing the farming community of 
 this section feel that the farming industry is 
 on the wane, and that there are other lines 
 of business, which for the capital invested> 
 
 yield more wealth in a given time, but this 
 seems to be more from a lack of unity, or 
 incompetent management, rather than decline 
 of the farming industry, as many of the 
 present farmers add yearly to their income, 
 and their prosperity is shown by the improve- 
 ments in their buildings and around their 
 premises. The farms of Bethel are equal to 
 others in the State, and with the shipping 
 facilities offered, should stand with the first 
 as regards prosperity. Within the last few 
 years, there has been a gradual increase in 
 the manufacturing interests, and a corres- 
 ponding increase in the mercantile trade in 
 the village. The merchants are a hustling 
 and enterprising class of men, ready and 
 willing to aid in anything for the prosperity 
 of this place, recognizing the fact that public 
 improvements are to the advantage of all. 
 The portraits which tbllow are of people who 
 have helped to build up the town in the past, 
 and also of our present enterprising and , 
 public spirited citizens. 
 
 S.MITH. 
 
 Benjamin Smith, one of the earliest set- 
 tlers of Bethel, was born in Cornish, N. H., 
 December 6, 1753, and was married to Lois 
 Chase, second daughter of Dudley Chase of 
 Cornish, December 9, 1779. She was born 
 August 16, 1756, and died in Bethel, Jan- 
 uary 4, 1832. They came to Bethel in the 
 early part of 1780, and settled on the farm 
 (then a wilderness) now occupied by Squire 
 Bowen on the Randolph road. When the 
 town was settled Deacon Dudley Chase, one 
 of the original proprietors, gave to his eldest 
 son, Simeon, and his two daughters, Alice 
 and Lois respectively, three farms adjoining, 
 this being one of them. Benjamin Smith 
 carried on this farm until his death, which 
 occurred September 12, 1822. There were 
 twelve children born of this marriage, viz : 
 
 (i) Asa Smith, born September 6, 1780, 
 was the first white child born in Bethel. 
 He worked on the farm with his father until 
 the death of the latter, when he took the 
 farm and carried on the same, taking care of 
 his mother, several of his brothers and sis- 
 ters having already moved to other parts of 
 the country, and the others following with 
 the following exceptions : Jehosheba, who 
 lived and died in the old home ; Olivia, who 
 
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 spent the most of her life in Bethel; and 
 Daniel Corbett, who always lived in this vi- 
 cinity, and died in West Randolph. The 
 original log cabin where Mr. Smith was born 
 was located on the meadow, near the west 
 branch of the White River, and there were 
 Only two or three families in Bethel at that 
 time. On account of the depredations of the 
 Indians, there was a general feeling of alarm 
 throughout the country. It was increased 
 by the burning of Royalton about this time, 
 and Deacon Dudley Chase came to Bethel to 
 take his daughter home with him to Cornish, 
 N. H., till the danger should be past. There 
 were no roads in those days, and it would 
 have been necessary for her to ride on horse- 
 
 ASA SMITH. 
 
 back behind her father on a pillion, which 
 she was in no condition to do. After the 
 birth of her son, however, she was taken 
 about four miles to the fort at the mouth of 
 the first branch, and remained there for some 
 time. Asa Smith was married April 13, 
 1823, to Unity Richmond of Bethel, who 
 bore him one daughter, Lois Smith, born 
 February 17, 1827, who now resides in Bos- 
 ton, the only dece-ndent of this line of the 
 Smith family. Asa Smith was a prominent 
 ftiember of the Episcopal Church his father 
 
 having been one. of the founders of Christ 
 Church, the first edifice, now called Old 
 Christ Church, being located about three 
 and one-half miles northwest of the village, 
 on the Randolph road, near the three Chase 
 farms. Asa Smith died in Bethel on the 
 same farm where he was born May 17, 1859, 
 seventy-nine, years old. 
 
 (2) NarCissa Smith, second child of Ben- 
 jamin and Lois (Chase) Smith was born 
 July 21. 1782, She married Dr. Lucius Lee, 
 and they moved West where she died leav- 
 ing a family of sons and daughters. 
 
 (3) Addison Smith, born April 17, 1784, 
 married Nancy Fitzgerald Hicks of Hop- 
 kinsville, Ky.- nnd died in Shelbyville, 111., 
 January 21^ 1S46. 
 
 (4) Jehosheb.i Smith, born January 15, 
 
 1786, died on the farrn where she was born 
 July 18, 1844. 
 
 (5) Marcfa Smith, born September 30, 
 
 1787, marrifefi Martin Pratt, and they went to 
 Holland Purchase, N. Y., where she died. 
 
 (6) Luci^ Smith, born April 2, 1783, mar- 
 ried Horace Russell, and went West, where 
 her husbaijd died leaving her with one 
 daughter. She followed the fortunes of 
 Bishop Chase in Ohio and Illinois, and died 
 at a good old age in Jubilee, Illinois. 
 
 (7) Benjamin Smith, born January 14, 
 1791, died in the West, unmarried. 
 
 (8) Ransford Smith, born May 8, 1792, 
 went to Kentucky, where he died, haying 
 married the sister of his brother Addison's 
 wife, and raised a family of children. 
 
 (9) Olivia Smith, born December 2, 1795, 
 married Paul Flynn of Bethel, June i, 1820, 
 and died at Coldwater, Mich., January 26, 
 1878. 
 
 (10) Dudley Chase Smith, born Decem- 
 ber 22, 1796, married and lived in Blooming- 
 ton, Indiana, where he died, leaving a family 
 of sons and daughters. 
 
 (11) Heber Chase Smith, born December 
 8, 1798, lived with his brother Dudley, and 
 died unmarried. 
 
 (12) Daniel Corbett Smith, born October 
 14, 1802, n^arried Caroline Kinney, who bore 
 two sons, both of whom died unmarried. 
 Daniel Corbett died in West Randolph in 
 1873. 
 
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 MAKSH. 
 
 Joel Marsh, with his wife Ann, to whom 
 he was married in 1770, came to Bethel in 
 1780. Their seven children were born as fol- 
 lows : 
 
 Jonathan, born in Lebanon, Conn., April 5, 
 1771 ; Peleg S., born at Hartford, N. Y., 
 October 18, 1775 ; Mary, born March 26, 
 •777! John born in Hartford, Vt., (formerly- 
 New York) April 25, 1779; Ann, born Dec- 
 ember 30, 1781 ; Joel, born October 28, 
 1783; and Mason, bora at Bethel, Vt., May 
 1786. 
 
 Jonathan Marsh married Irene Ainsworth 
 January 8, 1806, and they had six children, 
 viz: Mary Marsh, born in 1S06 ; Irene, 
 born in 1808; Albert G. born in 18 10; Al- 
 meron, born in 1813; Augusta C, born in 
 1820; and Aura A., born in 1S27. 
 
 Mary married Rollin Richmond of Barnard 
 in 1832, and died in 1842. 
 
 Irene Marsh married William Adams in 
 1834. (See Adams Sketch;. 
 
 Almeron Marsh married Susan Pearson in 
 1842, and died in Bethel December 17, 1844. 
 A son, Charles Almeron, born August io_ 
 1844, now lives in Needhara, Mass. 
 
 Augusta C, married George Townsend, 
 and their daughter Augusta C, married 
 Charles A. Marsh, and died October 8, 1867. 
 
 Aura died in 1842. 
 
 Peleg Marsh married Mary Mills, who bore 
 nine children, \iz : Harriet, Jane Elizabeth, 
 Mary Ann, Joel, Augustus, Charles, Sarah, 
 Ellen Sophia and Laura. 
 
 Harriet, born November 12, 1813, married 
 Solon Cummings, and died in Grand-de-tour, 
 111. 
 
 Jane Elizabeth, born January 29, 1815, 
 married Luke Heminway, and died in Moline 
 111. 
 
 Mary Ann, born August 28, 1816, married 
 Jacob Smith and died in East Bethel in 1893. 
 
 Joel, born January 29, 18 18, married Maria 
 Jones and died in 1862 at Bethel Village. 
 
 Augustus, born January 30, 1820, married 
 Rosetta Meserve, January 31, 1858. His 
 early days were spent in the mill with his 
 father, and after reaching his majority, he 
 carried on the business until 1850. He after- 
 ward entered into partnership with Myron 
 Burnett in the mill and lumber business which 
 
 business they conducted for several years, 
 Mr. Marsh has been interested in farming 
 during the greater part of his life, and still 
 owns and carries on a farm near the village. 
 A mason by trade, he occupies some of his 
 time at that line of work. He has been ac- 
 tive in town affairs, and has served several 
 terms as selectman. He was chosen town 
 representative in 1869, and was re-elected for 
 two years in 1870. 
 
 His two sons are Fred, born November 7, 
 1858, and George, born January 4, i860. 
 They both reside in Bethel. 
 
 Charles, born April 7, 1822, married Eliza- 
 beth Farley, November 18, 1851, who bore 
 three children, viz : Ellen, born July 18, 
 1853, married Nathaniel Whittier of Barre, 
 and they have two children, Charles and Flor- 
 ence. Elizabeth, born June 6, 1855, died 
 November Jo, 1889, and James P., born Jan- 
 uary 5, i860, married Lucy Williams, April 
 10, 1886, and they have two children, viz: 
 Laura, born June 29, 1888, and Ralph, born 
 April 21, 1893. 
 
 Sarah Mai'sh, born January 16, 1824, mar- 
 ried John Morse, and they now reside in 
 Galesburg, 111. 
 
 Ellen Sophia, born March 15, 1826, died 
 in Bethel. 
 
 Laura Marsh, born in 1830, marri^-d Leonard 
 R. Saunders, and they now reside Kansas. 
 
 RICHARDSON. 
 
 Patty (Flint) Richardson, daughter of 
 William and Patty (Randall) Flint, was born 
 at Hampton, Conn., February i, 1801. She 
 married Samuel Vinton, September i, 1820, 
 and they had four children, viz : Samuel N., 
 Zopher, Hatvey L., and Althera M. Samuel 
 Vinton died February 25, 1826, and his 
 widow married March 12, 1S30, Godfrey 
 Richardson, who died April i, 1854, without 
 issue. 
 
 Samuel N. Vinton, born in Braintree, Vt., 
 March 25, 1821, died at the age of eleven. 
 
 Zopher Vinton, born July 5, 1822, married 
 Melissa I. Harding, June 27, 1847, who bore 
 him one daughter Ella, now Mrs. Walter 
 Sorden. Zopher died in Elm, N. J. May 6 
 1889. 
 
 Harvey VJnton, born September 13, 1823, 
 married Clara F. Stevens, June 13, iS^o. en- 
 
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 listed in the civil war, and died in a rebel 
 prison from starvation. His children were 
 Samuel and C. Douglass. 
 
 Althera M. Vinton, youngest child of Sam- 
 uel and Patty (Flint) Vinton, was born 
 November 9, 1825, married P. C. House, 
 October 13, 1846, and died in East Bethel 
 January 14, 1S87, leaving two sons, Harvey 
 P., born March 12, 1849, ^"^^ Clayton P., 
 born August 18, 1857. Patty Richardson 
 now resides with her son-in-law, P. C. 
 House at East Bethel, and is the oldest 
 person living in the town, now in her 
 
 Mrs. PATTY RICHARDSON. 
 
 ninety-fifth year, and with the exception 
 of being , deaf, is in possession of her facul- 
 ties, and able to remember and tell of inter- 
 esting events which happened in her child- 
 hood. When she was two years old her 
 parents moved to Braintree, Vermont, and 
 for many years this place was her home, as 
 she did not move to Bethel until 1832, 
 twenty-nine years after coming into the state. 
 She experienced religion in the great refor- 
 mation of 1840, and since that time, has 
 been a member of the Christian Church. 
 Her health is good, her appetite perfect, 
 while she seldom misses a good night's 
 sleep. During pleasant weather Mrs. Rich- 
 ardson moves around out of doors, and en- 
 
 joys the visits of her neighbors and acquaint- 
 ances. Godfrey Richardson was a soldier in 
 the Revolutibnary War and was at the battle 
 ot Bunker Hill June 17, I775. His widow 
 is one of the very few people in the United 
 States who receives a pension from the gov- 
 ernment for services rendered in the Revo- 
 lution. 
 
 AINSWORTH. 
 
 Wyman Ainsworth, with his wife Elizabeth 
 (Howe) Ainsworth, came to Bethel from 
 Dudley, Mass., about 1800, and settled two 
 miles north -of the village. Their children 
 were Wyman, Artimus, Eulalie, Sarah, and 
 one daugliter tliat diedln infancy. 
 
 Wyman, son of Wyman, -was a physician 
 and settled in Milton, Vt., afterwards mov- 
 ing to Attica, N. Y., where he died, leaving 
 two children!, a son and a daughter. 
 
 Eulalie married Andrew Washburn, and 
 they resided in Randolph for a short time, 
 moving to Bethel, and thence to New York. 
 Only one of their five children is alive, Frank 
 Wasliburn, of Rochester, Vt. 
 
 Artimus, third child of Wyman and Eliza- 
 beth (HowCj) Ainsworth, married Catherine 
 Fessenden of Walpole, September 27, 1810. 
 He carried on the original farm until the 
 death of his parents in 1832 and 183J, when 
 he moved to the village, and conducted a 
 farm there. There were six children born in 
 Bethel to Artimus and Catherine Ainsworth, 
 viz : 
 
 (1) Catherine C, born April 26, 1813; (2) 
 Ellen E., born June 23, 1814; (3J Amelia A., 
 born August 12, 1816; (4) Calvin C, born 
 September 29, 1818; (s) Martha M., born 
 September 3, 1820; and (6) Joseph F., born 
 August 31, 1824. 
 
 (i) Catherine C. Ainsworth married 
 Henry Pierce in 1838, and they moved to 
 Salem, Mass., where she died December 31, 
 1893. 
 
 (2) Ellen C. Ainsworth married Albert 
 G. Marsh of Bethel and died March — 1 893. 
 
 (3) Amelia N. Ainsworth married Charles 
 S. Nichols 5f Salem, and they still reside in 
 that city. Their four children are Charles 
 F., Ella A., Harry P., and Catherine F. A. 
 
 (4) Calvin Ainsworth married Elizabeth 
 P. Nichols of Salem, Mass., in 1868, and 
 they now reside in Salem, Mass. 
 
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 (5) Martha M. died unmarried. 
 
 (6) Joseph Ainsworth married Francis F- 
 Gilmore in 1853, and their children were; 
 Catherine F., born March 7, 1S55; Franlilin, 
 F., born September 5, 1856, Samuel and 
 Jessie died in infancy; Mabel, born October 
 21, 1865; Robert A., born April 3, 1869; and 
 Gertrude B., born January 15, iSyr. 
 
 Sarah, daughter of Wyman and Elizabeth 
 (Howe) Ainsworth, married William Saw- 
 yer, and died leaving one daughter, Elizabeth. 
 
 CHASE. 
 
 Simeon Chase, son of Dudley and Alice 
 (Corbeit) Chase of Cornish, was born in 
 Sutton, June 14, 1751, and was one of the 
 first settlers in the town of Bethel. He 
 married Molly March, who bore him two 
 children, Simeon and Nan-cy. Mr. Chase 
 died in Bethel, September 6, 1847. 
 
 Simeon, the eldest child of Simeon and 
 Molly (March) Chase, born in Bethel in 
 1796, married in October, i8'2i, Olivia Brown, 
 who was born in New York state, March 22, 
 1799. Simeon Chase died in May, 1827, 
 and his wife died March 11, 1865, leaving 
 three children, Dudley, Nancy and George B. 
 
 George Brown, youngest child of Simeon 
 and Olivia (Brown) Chase, was born in 
 Bethel, September 9, 1826, and was twice 
 married. His first wife, Sophia Haile, 
 daughter of Dr. Henry and Lbisa Haile, to 
 whom he was married June 21, 1848, bore 
 him three children, viz. . Charles Dudley, 
 born April 26, 1849, '^'^•^ August 26, 1871, 
 at Bethel. Frank Solon, born October 14, 
 1S51, died January 28,1853; ^i^d Simeon 
 Haile, born in Bethel, July 20, 1855, mar- 
 ried Flora, adopted daughter of Simeon A. 
 Webster of Bethel, October 23, 1883. Olivia 
 (Brown) Chase died August 13, 1856, and 
 George B, Chase married, second, Harriet 
 Putnam, who bore one son, George C, born 
 November 30, 1859, ^^'^ "o^ ^ resident of 
 Detroit, Mich, George B, Chase died 
 August 15, i88r, and his widow now resides 
 at Randolph. 
 
 NOBLE. 
 Nehemiah Noble, born June 6, 1756, and 
 his wife Sabra (Skinner) Noble, who Was 
 born June i, 1754, came to Bethel in 1787, 
 
 and settled on the farm now owned and car- 
 ried on by his grandson, Robert Noble. 
 They were married November 19, 1782, and 
 raised a family of ten children. Mr. Noble 
 was a prominent man in the affairs of Bethel 
 when this town was first settled, and served 
 the town in several of the local offices. He; 
 died October 31, 1826, and his wife died 
 December 14, 1831. Their children were as 
 follows: William S., born May 16, 1784;. 
 Bethesda, born July 26, 1785 ; James, born 
 July 21, 17,86; Calvin, born April i, 1788; 
 Nehemiah, Jr., born September 6, 1789; 
 John, born September 11, i7gi;Parez B., 
 born March 17, 1793; James, born October 
 18, 1795; Sabra, born September 1, 1798; 
 and Alden C., born March 9, 1800. 
 
 John, sixth child of Nehemiah and Sabra 
 (Skinner) Noble, was a farmer during his 
 life, and tlie farm where his father .settled 
 has been occupied by four generations of this 
 family. John married Amanda Shedd, Jan- 
 uary J, 1843, and died January 31, 1880. in 
 his eighty-ninth year. There were two 
 children of this marriage, viz : Willis F. and 
 Robert. Willis F., born October 10, 1843, 
 died October- 17, 1856. 
 
 Robert Noble was born October i, 1850, in 
 the house built by his grandfather in Bethel in 
 1826. He hasalways made Bethel his home, 
 and like his father and grandfather before 
 him, he is a successful farmer, still owning 
 and carrying on the old homestead. He has 
 been prominent in town affairs, and although 
 a democrat, he has served the-town as select- 
 man, and is overseer of the poor, at the pres- 
 ent time. He is a member of White River 
 Lodge No. 90, F. and A. M. 
 
 On February 13, 1889, he married Ida 
 Cherry Brown of Gaysville, and they have 
 three children, viz : John, born November 9, 
 1889; A/ustin B., born February 14, i89i;and 
 Robert S., born October 22, 1893. Mrs. 
 John Noble now resides with her son Robert, 
 m Bethel, 
 
 BURNETT. 
 Averill Burnett, son of Johnathan and 
 Abigail (Parish) Burnett was born in Bethel, 
 January 16, 1798, and married Betsy Riggs, 
 who was the mother of six children, four of 
 whom lived to maturity. 
 
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 Myron Burnett, son of Averill and 
 Betsy (Riggs) Burnett, was born April 22, 
 1830. He was engaged in farming during 
 his early life, and in 1853, in company with 
 Augustus Marsh, he purchased a saw-mill on 
 the White River near his home, and for sev- 
 eral years they carried on a successful lumber 
 business. In 1874 they met with reverses 
 and their business was closed down. Mr. 
 Burnett then carried on the business alone, 
 and was engaged in the lumber trade at the 
 time of his death. He moved with his fam- 
 ily to the village in April, 1878, where he 
 became prominent in the public affairs of the 
 town. Mr. Burnett was a republican, and 
 
 MYRON BURNETT. 
 
 served the town as selectman, lister, and was 
 representative to the legislature in 1872. 
 Although not a member of any church, his 
 interests were with the Universalist Society, 
 and he was an attendant at that church. He 
 was married February 3, 1852, to Elizabeth 
 Bowen, daughter of Russell and Johanna 
 (Bliss) Bowen, and they had six children, 
 viz: Edwin A., Kate J., Frank R., John, 
 Laura M., and Mary E. Mr. Burnett was 
 killed by falling brick at a fire in the vestry 
 of the Congregational Church, April 14 1892. 
 His widow survives him, and now resides in 
 Bethel village,with her son-in-law, Mr. Rogers. 
 
 (i) Edwin A., eldest son of Myron and 
 Elizabeth (Bowen) Burnett, was born De- 
 cember 31,. 1853, and married October 22, 
 1878, Elizabeth Chadwick of Bethel. Mr. 
 Burnett is now a dentist in practice at 
 Poultney, Vermont. 
 
 (2) Kate J., born October 17, 1854, mar- 
 ried Frank P. Hunt of Brandon, Vt., Octo- 
 ber 17, 1874, and they had eight children, 
 six now living, viz : George B., born Sep- 
 tember 26, 1876; Harry F., born October 8, 
 1878; Lena M., and Laura M., (twins) born 
 August 29, 1880, Lena M., died when four 
 weeks old ; Robert W., born April 5, 1883, 
 and died March 4, 1885; Edwin, born Octo- 
 ber 26, 1888 ; Myron C, born April 30, 1893; 
 and Edith M., born July 26, 1894. 
 
 (3) Frank R., born May 2,1857, married 
 Ellen Bordeau of Barnard, Vermont, October 
 4, 1881, and their two children are ; Clarence 
 M., born December 29, 1882, and Hazel L., 
 born February 24, 1884. Mr. Burnett is 
 now located at Northampton, Mass. 
 
 (4) John, born September 11, 1863, mar- 
 ried Lizzie A. Rogers of Bethel, July 30, 
 1885, and tliey had two children, viz : Wil- 
 liam, born April 5, 1887, and a son that died 
 in infancy. John Burnett is now in Bethel 
 village. 
 
 (5) Laura M., born April 23, 1865, mar- 
 ried Clayton L. Saunders, March 17, 1885, 
 and they had two children, only one living. 
 A son born October 2, 1886, died in infancy ; 
 and Mary Elizabeth, born May 15, 1893. 
 
 (6) MaryE., born August 2, 1868, mar- 
 ried Bert C. Rogers February i6, 1889, and 
 they have two children, viz : Bertha K., born 
 October i, 1893, and Bernice Laura, born 
 April 18, 1895. Mr. Rogers now carries on 
 the Cleveland farm, about one mile west of 
 the village, 
 
 James Burnett, son of Averill and Betsey 
 (Riggs) Burnett, was born in Bethel, July 
 9, 1837, and follows the occupation of farm- 
 ing. He has been prominent in town affairs, 
 and has held several offices under Republican 
 administration. He was married to An- 
 nette A. Warren, January 16, 1859, who died 
 July 27, 1872, leaving two children, viz: 
 Daniel L., born January 12, i856, married 
 Grace Martin and they reside in South Roy- 
 alton. Bertha A., born April 3, 1868, now 
 at home with her father. On April 10, 1878, 
 
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 Mr. Burnett was married to Adeline Lillie of 
 Aurora, Illinois, and they have one son, 
 Robert E., born March 7, 1879. 
 
 Hayden Burnett, son of Averill and Betsy 
 (Riggs) Burnett, was born May 17, 1840, 
 married Sarah Kelsey, and they now reside 
 in Huntington, Loraine County, Ohio. 
 
 Mary Burnett, daughter of Averill and 
 Betsy (Riggs) Burnett, was born in Bethel, 
 June 2, 1842, married Matthew Hussey, and 
 now resides in Rutland, Vermont. 
 
 MOODY. 
 
 John Moody, son of Daniel and Rebecca 
 (Lyon) Moody, was born in Royalston, 
 Mass., June 18, 1760, and married Hannah 
 Copeland, November II, 1783. John moved 
 with his family to Bethel in 1786, and in 
 1794 his father died in this place. John 
 served three years in the Revolutionary War, 
 was at the battle of White Plains, and also 
 was a soldier in the war of 1812. He died in 
 Bethel June 27, 1823, having raised a family 
 of nine children. 
 
 John Moody, son of John and Hannah 
 (Copeland) Moody, was born in Bethel, 
 June 27, i860, and was twice married; first 
 to Lucinda H. Garfield, April 4, 1835, a dis- 
 tant relative of the late President Garfield, 
 and a daughter of Daniel Garfield, a soldier 
 of the Revolution, whose gun and cartridge 
 box are now in the possession of his grand- 
 son, Marcus Moody of Bethel. She died 
 June 18, 1842, having borne three children, 
 Hannah, John and Marcus A. Mr. Moody 
 was married October 14, 1847 to Emiline F. 
 Kimball, who was the mother of two child- 
 ren, Lucinda H. and John. John was a 
 farmer and owned and occupied the " Old 
 Moody Farm " in the east part of Bethel, 
 until his death, which occurred September 
 3,1869. 
 
 Marcus A. Moody was born in Bethel, 
 February 5, 1840. He enlisted in August, 
 1862, in Company A, Sixteenth Vermont 
 Volunteers, was wounded at Gettysburg, 
 and was discharged from the service August 
 10, 1863. Since 1869 he has been engaged 
 in mercantile business in Bethel. He was 
 chosen representative for the town of Bethel 
 in 1878. January 25, 1882, he was married 
 to Abbie E., daughter of Sam-uel and Char- 
 lotte (Wyman) Archer. 
 
 SAiSTDERS. 
 
 Job Saunders came to Bethel from Hollis, 
 N. H., and was one of the early settlers of 
 Bethel. He married Mrs. Ruth Buckman, 
 nee Bannister, who bore him six children, 
 Mercy, Jeremiah, Jonas, Job, Freeman and 
 Ann. Mr. Sanders was mail carrier from 
 White River to Montpelier, through a 
 country sparcely settled and without roads, 
 during the early years of this century, and 
 died in Bethel in 1845, ^^ ''''^ ^g^ of seventy- 
 two. 
 
 Mercy Sanders married Henry Lyman, 
 and they moved West, where she died. 
 
 Jeremiah married Lucretia Wilson, and 
 they moved to Maine, where they raised a 
 family. 
 
 Jonas married Abigail Newell, and -during 
 the last years of his life, resided in Roxbury. 
 
 Job, son of Job and Ruth (Buckman) 
 Sanders, was born in Bethel in 1803. He 
 married Nancy McCullom in 1823, who bore 
 him six children, viz: Leonard, Loisa, Kate, 
 Cornelia, Julius and Albert. Leonard, born 
 in 1826, was one of the business men of 
 Bethel during his early days, but moved 
 West when he was thirty years old, and now 
 lives in Kansas. He married Laura Marsh, 
 a daughter of Peleg Marsh of Bethel, and 
 they have three children, Clara, Mary and 
 Charles. 
 
 Loisa Sanders, born in 1828, married Lu- 
 cian Chadwick (See Chadwick Sketch) and 
 died in Bethel. 
 
 Kate, born in 1830, married Dr. Alfred 
 Paige, Jr., and died in Bethel. 
 
 Cornelia, born 1832, married Holden 
 Hatch, and died in .Illinois. 
 
 Julius, born in 1834, went to Missouri at 
 the age of twenty and studied law. He mar- 
 ried Mrs. Mary Ardway, and they now live 
 at St. Joseph, Mo., where Mr. Sanders is 
 prominent in the legal profession. 
 
 Albert Sanders, born in Bethel July 2, 
 1836, attended the common schools, and 
 completed his education in the academy at 
 Royalton. He worked on the farm with his 
 father until he was twenty-six years old, when 
 he bought the Ainsworth farm On Christian 
 Hill, and still owns this property. Mr. San- 
 ders has made a success as a farmer, and al- 
 though he begun on a farm that was not in 
 
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 the best condition, lie improved and worked 
 on it until it is now considered one of the 
 best farms in this vicinity. In 1877, he came 
 to the village to live, remaining six years, 
 returning to the farm in 1883. He has been 
 one of the town officers during his residence 
 in town, having served as constable, lister, 
 road commissioner, and was elected in 1895 
 as selectman, which office he still holds. He 
 married October 7, 1862, Harriet Ainsworth, 
 daughter of Leonard and Fanny (Strong) 
 Ainsworth, and their son, Clayton L., was 
 born June 29. 1863 He married Laura M. 
 
 ALBERT SANDERS. 
 
 Burnett, March 17, 1885, who bore him two 
 children, viz. . A son, born October 2, 1886. 
 died in infancy, and Mary Elizabeth, born 
 May 15, 1895. Albert Sanders now lives at 
 the village, and Clayton L., carries on the 
 farm on Christian Hill. 
 
 Freeman Sanders, son of Job and Ruth 
 (Backman) Sanders, married Clarinda Styles 
 of Tunbridge, and he is now a resident of 
 that place, the only living representative of 
 that generation of the Sanders family. 
 
 Atin Sanders married Philander Fish of 
 Randolph, and died in Randolph" on what is 
 known as Fish Hill. 
 
 DAVIS. 
 
 Nathan Davis, son of Nathan and Mary 
 Davis was born in Rutland, Worcester 
 County, Mass , August 28, 1776. At four- 
 teen years of age his father bound him out to 
 David Stone,.a resident of Bethel, and one 
 of the men taken prisoner by the Indians in 
 a raid made a few years previous. He 
 worked for Mr. Stone six years, and then 
 started out for himself, and succeeded in 
 amassing a comfortable property. He at 
 one time owned the Cleveland farm, and 
 later the farm now owned by Elmer Spauld- 
 ing. He married Catherine Clark who died 
 November 13, 1852, leaving twelve children. 
 Nathan Davis died December 21, 1856. The 
 children of Nathan and Katherine (ClarK) 
 Davis were Amelia, Ira, Harry, Polly, Dan- 
 forth, Daniel, Betsy, Clark, Charles, Elisha 
 and Jane. 
 
 (i) Amelia, born August 26, 1797, died 
 April 6, 1799. 
 
 (2) Ira, born March 15, 1799, married 
 Lydia Hall, \*ho bore him four children, viz: 
 Jane C, born June i, 1827, married William 
 Meserve of Bethel, and they now reside in 
 Spencerport, N. Y. Augusta B., born De- 
 cember 7, 1832, married Frank H. Chamber- 
 lin, April 27, 1871, and they have one daugh- 
 ter. (See Chamberlin Sketch) Nathan A., 
 and Nancy M., (twins) were born October 
 29, 1836. Nathan died in 1856, and Nancy 
 M., married- Charles NefiF, and they now re- 
 side at Stockbridge, Vt. Henry, born Janu- 
 ary 26, 1840, married Julia Webster, and 
 they now live in Spencerport, N. Y. Ira 
 Davis died February 24, 1881. 
 
 (3) Harry Davis, born September 6, 1800, 
 died October 19, 1804. 
 
 (4) Polly Davis, born September 8, 1802, 
 died October 17, 1804. 
 
 (5) Danforth Davis, born July 21, 1805, 
 married Mary A. Clark, and died in Bethel 
 September 25, 1890. 
 
 (6) Daniel, born July 4, 1806, is now the 
 oldest living representative of this family. 
 He has never married, but with his younger 
 brother now carries on the farm which their 
 brother Danforth purchased in the early part 
 of this century. He is well and able-bodied, 
 and the writer who visited him in September 
 of the present year (1895) found him digging 
 
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 potatoes ia the field, something unusual for 
 a man in his nintieth year. 
 
 (7) Betsy Davis, born April 10, 1808, re- 
 sided with her brothers, and never married. 
 She died January 12, 1883. 
 
 (8) Clark, born April 2, 1810, married 
 Arthusa Jones, and died in June, 1894. 
 Their two children were Aimer and Aaron, 
 the latter now residing in Bethel. 
 
 (9) Charles Davis, born April 4, 1813, 
 married Lucy M. Chamberlin, May i8, 1843, 
 and they now reside on the old Rochester 
 hill road about one mile from Bethel village. 
 Their children were Eleanor, born June 14, 
 1843, married Samuel Wilson of Bethel ; 
 Charles M., born November i, 1845, married 
 Alice James, June 25, 1877, and they live on 
 the homestead with his parents. They had 
 eight children, six of whom are living, viz: 
 Kate C, George H., Lena, Alice, Nellie and 
 Fred M. Edwin Uavi.s, third child of 
 Charles and Lucy (Chamberlin) Davis, was 
 born June 15, 1857. He married Clara B. 
 James, February 20, 1879, and they live in 
 Bethel. 
 
 (id) Elisha Coolidge Davis, born Feb- 
 ruary 29, 18 18, never married, and in com- 
 pany with his brother Daniel, carries on a 
 farm in Bethel. 
 
 (11) Jane Davis, born in 1820, died when 
 five years old. 
 
 WALLACE. 
 William Wallace who came to this country 
 from Scotland early in the seventeenth cen- 
 tury, was a lineal descendent of Sir William 
 Wallace. John Wallace, son of William 
 Wallace, was born in Somers, Conn., in 1750, 
 and married Betsy Wright, who bore him 
 thirteen children, and died in Bethel, January 
 S, 1834, at the age of sixty-eight. John Wal- 
 lace came to Bethel in 1782, from Connecti- 
 cut, traveling on horseback. After his ar- 
 rival in Bethel he traded his horse, saddle 
 and bridle with John Payne, one of the pro- 
 prietors of the town, for a lot of land on 
 Christian Hill, where he came and settled in 
 the spring of 1785. Since that time the title 
 of this farm has always been held in the Wal- 
 lace family, and it is now occupied by E. E. 
 Wallace. John Wallace served in the Rev- 
 olutionary War, in a regiment raised in Con- 
 
 necticut and commanded by Col. Ozias Bis- 
 sell. He died in Bethel, September 2, 1833. 
 
 John Wallace, son of John and Betsy 
 (Wright) Wallace, was born in Bethel No- 
 vember 4, 1801, and married Mary f^A. 
 Wheeler, who was born in Bethel December 
 25, 1809. Ten children were born of this 
 marriage, viz : 
 
 (i) Susan, born February 14., 1827, died 
 in infancy. 
 
 (2). Laura E., born January 10, 1834, mar- 
 ried Oscar P. Shaw, and now resides in 
 Bethel village (See .Shaw Sketch). 
 
 (3) Minot, born July 21, 1836, died in in- 
 fancy. 
 
 GARDNER J. WALLACE. 
 
 (4) Gardner J. Wallace, born in 
 Bethel, October 26, 1838, received his edu- 
 cation in the public schoote-of this place, and 
 for several years was engaged in farming. 
 He has always made Bethel his home and 
 during his residence here, has filled various 
 town offices. He was appointed deputy- 
 sheriff in 1870, and held that office until 
 1880, when he was elected high sheriff of the 
 county. In October, 1884, he was appointed 
 high sheriff by the Governor of the state, to 
 fill an unexpired term. At the close of that 
 term he was- elected by the people, serving 
 
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 four years (two terms). He was elected first 
 selectman in 1895, and his services will be 
 remembered in the future, by the addition of 
 new sidewalks in the village during his first 
 year in this office. 
 
 Mr. Wallace has been married twice. On 
 February 3, 1863, he was married to Altha 
 L., daughter of James M., and Caroline 
 (Dutton) Woodworth, who was born in 
 Randolph January 18, 1845. .She died March 
 25, l8gi, leaving five children, viz: John, 
 born August 18. 1865, married Alice J. 
 Spaulding and has three children, Anna A., 
 born June 20, 1886, Laura E., born April 13, 
 1889. and Royal A., born June 7, 1894; 
 Kate C, second child of Gardner J., and Al- 
 tha (Woodworth) Wallace, was born Aug- 
 ust 18, r868, and married Dr. F. L. Ellis of 
 Swanton, December 23, 1891 ; Archie C, 
 born February 14, 1870, now in Bethel ; 
 Gardner J., Jr., born June 3, 1879, """' '" 
 Bethel ; and Helen G., born December 31, 
 1881, now attending school at Bethel Village. 
 April 2, 1893, Mr. Wallace married Mrs. 
 Emma Heath, nee Wilson, and they reside 
 in Bethel village. 
 
 (5) Sarah W., born in 1841, died in 1848. 
 
 (6) Royal W., born January 7, 1843, en- 
 listed in Company D, Seventeenth Volun- 
 teers, and died July 9, 1 865. 
 
 (71 George D., born in 1845, married 
 Ellen Edson and they had one chiUI, Bertha. 
 
 (8) John, born in 1848, died in 1865. 
 
 (9) Elroy E., born October 14, 1850, mar- 
 ried Kate Wynn, March 13, 1874, and their 
 son, Frank Wallace, was born June 19. 1878. 
 
 (10) Geniveve A., born in 1853, and died 
 in 1869. 
 
 WILSON. 
 
 Samuel Wilson, with his wife, Rachel 
 (Holden) Wilson, came to Bethel about 
 1790. Their children were Nancy, Amanda, 
 Rufus, Hiram, Jay, Harriet and Samuel. 
 
 Nancy Wilson married Hial Hatch and re- 
 sided in Bethel. (See Hatch Sketch.) 
 
 Amanda Wilson died unmarried. 
 
 Rufus married Prudence Colburn and their 
 children were Nancy,. (Mrs. Shaw,) Aaron, 
 R. Sullivan, Amanda (Mrs. Orville O. Rog- 
 ers,) Eliza, (Mrs. WilWam, L Rogers,) and 
 Samuel. 
 
 Hiram Wilson married Rizpah Neff, and 
 their children were Hiram, Julius, Augustus, 
 Milton, Rachel and Sarah. Julius of this 
 family was born in Bethel, Vt., May 30, 
 1830, and was a life-long resident of this 
 place. He married Josephine Sargent, July 
 13, 1859, who bore him four children, viz: 
 Carrie, born January 10, 1863, died April 20, 
 i856; Don, born July 14, 1867, now a farmer 
 in Bethel, unmarried ; a son died in infancy ; 
 and Hugh C, born August 18, 1879. Julius 
 Wilson died in 1895, and his widow now re- 
 sides with her son Don, in Bethel. 
 
 Jay Wilson married Laura Childs in 1829, 
 and their -chiidren were Mary, James J., 
 March, Olivia, Dudley, Laura and Harriet. 
 
 (i) Mary married Fred Parsons, and they 
 moved to the South where she died. 
 
 (2) James J. Wilson, born May 16, 1831, 
 attended the public schools of his native 
 town, and the academy at Randolph, studied 
 law in the office of Augustus P. Hunton at 
 Bethel, and was admitted to the bar of 
 Windsor county in 1858. A Republican ia 
 politics, he was elected senator of Windsor 
 county in 1874. (See Legal Proftssion.) 
 On November I, 1858, he married Jane 
 Flynn, whadied April 17, 1868, leaving one- 
 son. Guy, born July 11, 1864. Mr. Wilson, 
 married Mary L. McCoy, August 5, 1869,, 
 and they have thirteen children, all living at 
 the present time (1895). Thev are as fol- 
 lows: March, born August 25, 1870; Mary 
 L., born February 29, 1872 ; John J., born. 
 December 15, 1873; Robert C, born July 
 18, 187s ; Susan E., born September 19,. 
 1877; Richard D., born November 10, 1879 ^ 
 Hugh D., born November 3c, 1881 ; Charles 
 C-, born October 28, 1883; Geannie L.,born 
 September 16, 1885 : Amy D., born Decem- 
 ber 27, J887; James H., born October 10, 
 1889; Joseph, born March 14, 1891; and 
 Lois Loretta, iiorn J-anuary 27, 1893. 
 
 Guy Wilson, son of James J. and Jane 
 (Flynn) Wilson, married Abbie M. Fisher, 
 and they have two children; Gladys M.,born 
 December 29, 1890, and Paul F., born Janu- 
 ary 26, 1892. 
 
 (3) March, (4) Olivia, (^) Dudley and 
 (6) Laura, all died without issue. 
 
 (7) Harriet Wilson is now a resident of 
 Royalton, unmarried. 
 
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 Harriet daughter of Samuel and Rachel 
 (Holden Wilson never married. 
 Samuel, son of Samuel, died without issue. 
 
 BERRY. 
 Eleazer Berry was born in Chatham, N. 
 Y., February 12, 1792, and was married at 
 Poultney, Vt., January 10, 1814, to Hannah 
 Rugg of Pownal, Vt., who was born March 6, 
 1788. Shortly, after their marriage they 
 came to Bethel, where Mr, Berry followed 
 the trade of dyer and clothes dresser for 
 some time, and was also a carpenter for sev- 
 eral years. At one time he taught schools in 
 Bethel and the adjoininj^ towns. There 
 
 ELEAZER BERRY. 
 
 were six children born of this marriage, viz : 
 Lorena, born August 4, 18 14, died at the age 
 of sixteen ; William H., born September 22, 
 1817, died at the age of thirteen; Charles C, 
 born July 21, 18 19, and died in Bethel, Octo- 
 ber 19, 1873 i Benjamin F., born October 8, 
 1821, and died in Bethel, June 3, 1838; George 
 W.;and Mary A. Berry, born January 27, 1829. 
 George W., born in Bethel March 5, 1824, 
 received his education at the public schools, 
 and at the age of fourteen he started out for 
 himself, and was employed at Rochester, 
 Braintree, and Northfield at different times. 
 
 In 1843, he was located in Boston, where he 
 learned the cabinet maker's trade, working 
 at his trade until i86o, when he started in 
 business for himself as a manufacturer of 
 furniture, and carried on the same for four- 
 teen years, retiring from active business at 
 the end of that time. In 1871 he built his 
 present residence at Bethel and spends the 
 summer months at this place. Mr. Berry 
 has business interests in Bethel at the pres- 
 ent time, bSing a stockholder and director 
 in the Bethel Shoe Factory. On April 30, 
 1857, he was married to Henrietta E. Harris, 
 a daughter of Josiah Harris of Charlestown, 
 Mass. 
 
 MORRIS. 
 Ephraim Morris, born March [7, 1772, 
 came to Vermont with his wife, Pamela 
 (Converse) Morris, to whom he was married 
 in 1796, from Stafford, Conn., and located at 
 Roxbury in ^804, His farming venture in 
 that locality being unsuccessful, he moved to 
 Bethel in 18 12, and purchased a small tract 
 of land with a house on the premises, and 
 immediately started in business at his trade 
 of tanning hides, purchasing the yard owned 
 by Peleg Marsh in the rear of his other 
 property, on the banks of the White River 
 branch. In 1830 his tan yard was washed 
 away by the high water, and he bought and 
 carried on the tan yards at Rochester for 
 some time. He was one of the promoters of 
 the first brick church built in Bethel villao-e, 
 and also assisted in the building of the first 
 Congregational church built in the town. In 
 connection with his other business, he bought 
 sheep pelts which he carted to Uanvers, 
 Mass,, and sold, returning with a load of 
 hides for Bis tannery. He also retailed 
 boots and shoes to people in this vicinity. 
 He was selectman of the town in 1824-25 and 
 served as grand juror in i83i-'32-'34. In 
 1845 he closed his business and retired from 
 active work, but continued to reside in Bethel 
 until his death, which occurred October 7, 
 1852, his wife having died February 2, 1846. 
 Of their eleven children only two are now 
 living. They were as follows: Sylvester, 
 born October 23,1797; Amanda, born Sep- 
 tember 20 1799: Edward, born September 
 15, 1801 ; Pamela, born October 6, 1803; 
 Jesse Converse, born August 7, 1805, at Rox- 
 
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 bury, died March 4, 1806; Jessie C., born 
 March 7, 1807, at Roxbury; Mary, born 
 November 27, 1809, at Roxbury; Joseph, 
 born February 4, 18 12, at Roxbury; died 
 at Bethel July 21, 1813; Julia, born at 
 Bethel March 11, 1814, married Irvin 
 Weston, and now resides in Bethel, (See 
 Weston Sketch) ; Eliza, born in Bethel De- 
 cember 24, 1816; and Joseph, born in 
 Bethel February 14, 18 19, now residing in 
 Chicago, 111. 
 
 HATCH. 
 Judah Hatch was born in Tolland, Conn., 
 October II, 1764, and removed to Alstead, 
 N. H,, in 1772, with his father Joseph Hatch, 
 who died March 6, 1802, aged eighty-four 
 years. On November 25, 1785, Judah was 
 married to Cate Beckwith. and they came to 
 Bethel March 31, 1816, and settled on a farm 
 three miles north of the village. Judah 
 Hatch died October 28, 1848, There were 
 ten children born of this marriage, viz: (i) 
 Lynda, who died in infancy ; (2) Hial, died 
 when eighteen months old; (3) Lynda, born 
 February 25, 1790, married first, Isaac Tem- 
 ple of Alstead, and second. Captain John 
 Tiffany of Randolph. 
 
 (4) Alvin, born May 22, 1792, was in the 
 mercantile business at Newport, N. H., and 
 died there. 
 
 (5) Hial, born July 14, 1794, married 
 Nancy Wilson of Bethel, and their three 
 children were Alvin, Holden, and Harriet. 
 
 Alvin married Maria Wright, and two of 
 their children grew to maturity, viz : Edward 
 and Lizzie. 
 
 Holden married Cornelia Saunders, who 
 died February 17, 1858, leaving three child- 
 ren, Harriet, now Mrs. Eber N. Smith ; Hial 
 Alvin, now a farmer in Bethel ; and Nancy 
 C, who married Albert Hutchins and died 
 in Balco, Mo. Holden Hatch married Mary 
 Belle and died March — , 1895, leaving three 
 children, Edward, Anna and Ethel. ^^ ^ 
 
 Harriet Hatch died unmarried. 
 
 (6) Judah, born January 17, 1796, married 
 Eliza Swift Russell, January 12, 1817, who 
 died October 16, 1854. Mr. Hatch moved 
 from Bethel to Woodstock, Vt., in 1833, 
 and died November 16. 1879, at the age of 
 eighty-three. The children of this marriage 
 were: Mary Ann, born January iz, 1819, 
 
 married Dr. Harry H. Palmer, who died 
 August 9, 1872. Mrs. Palmer died October 
 4, 1893; Alvin, born December 31, 1821, 
 married Sarah Jones, now a resident of 
 Woodstock, Vt. 
 
 Lucetta E., born August 2, 1829, married 
 James Miller Mcintosh of Bethel. (See 
 Mcintosh Sketch.) 
 
 Caroline, born October 5, 1835, married 
 Austin E, Simmons of Woodstock. 
 
 Tracy died when eight months old. 
 
 Oliver T., born October 10, 1840, married 
 Mary S. Pinks, July 29, 1890. 
 
 (7) Cate^ born April 11, 1799, married 
 Benjamin Haridan. 
 
 CEORGE S. HATCH. 
 
 (8) George S. Hatch, born February 3, 
 1802, died in Bethel February 21, 1892. He 
 was prominently connected with the busine.^.s 
 interests of Bethel, and during his long life 
 served as selectman, lister and trial justice, 
 and he had charge of the building of the 
 White River bridge in the village. The 
 early part of his life was spent in the farm- 
 ing industr}-, but he moved to the village 
 about i860, and was located on Church 
 street up to the time of liis death. He mar- 
 ried November 24, 1830, Irene, daughter of 
 Chester and Irene Shepherd) Webster, who 
 
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 died without issue, June 2r, 1890. Mr. 
 Hatch was a liberal and kind-hearted citizen, 
 and during his life was always ready with a 
 helping hand. He left, besides several be- 
 quests to his relatives, his residence on 
 Church .street to the Congregational church 
 as <i parsonage. 
 
 (9) Harry, born March 26, 1805, died at 
 Woodstock, \'t., August 7, 1886. 
 
 ( 10 Philo, born .March 6, , died at 
 
 Woodstock, Vt., April 12, 1882. 
 
 MOIiSE. 
 
 Jeremiah .Morse, a Revolutionary veteran, 
 with his wife Meriunn (Barrett) Morse, came 
 to Bethel from Southbridge, Mass., in 1794, 
 and settled on the farm where Clark IJavis 
 r.ow lives. He died December 7, 1836, and 
 his children were Charles, Jeremiah, Eliphalet, 
 Marion, Polly and Betsy. 
 
 Jeremiah, the second son, born August 29, 
 1792, was thrice married. His first wife, 
 Hannah Frost, to whom he was married 
 January 26, 1818, died March 9, 1841, leav- 
 ing seven children, viz : Roscoe, Alexander, 
 Laura, Alvira, Jeremiah, Orlando and Nelson. 
 On March 14, T842, Mr. Morse was married 
 to Roxa Chandler, who died December 28. 
 1863. His third wife, Aurelia Vintou, to 
 whom he was married September 26, 1864, 
 died December 26, 1887. He died April 7. 
 1867. Roscoe Morse, the eldest child of 
 Jeremiah and Hannah (Frost) Morse, was 
 born December 31, 1818, He married Maria 
 Mor?e, who bore him two children, only one 
 of whom is now living, viz ; Myron Morse. 
 Roscoe Morse died August 10, 1846. 
 
 Alexander Morse, born November 19, 1881, 
 married Sovilla Owen, November i, 1839, 
 who died March 28, 1893, leaving five child- 
 ren, viz : (t) Ellen, born November 8, 1842, 
 married Ira Emery, February 28, 1861, who 
 was killed in the civil war. They had one 
 daughter, Clari-belle, now Mrs. Whitney. 
 Mrs. Emery married Augustus King of West 
 Randolph, and their daughter Gertrude was 
 born in April, 1878. 
 
 (2) Mariette, born November 18. 1847, 
 married Lafayette Richardson, October 29, 
 1865, and now resides with her father. Her 
 children are : Nellie M., born February 17, 
 1867, now Mrs. Vincent; Kate L., born April 
 26, 1868, now Mrs. Appleby, of Brad- 
 
 ford, Pa.; (Jarl Clayton, born September 11, 
 1870, and ^ied April 19, 1878 ; Fred M., 
 born August 9, 1874, now in Dickenson, 
 Dakota; Minnie O., born March 6, 1S76, 
 now in Bradford, Pa., with her sister, and 
 Stella B., born May 15, 1878, died June 13, 
 1878. 
 
 (3) Clara Morse, born July 29, 1853, 
 died when eight years old. 
 
 (4) Frank Morse, born December 3, 
 1857, died when eight years old. 
 
 (5) Hermon Morse, born March 14, 
 1864, married Jennie Clogsden,and they now 
 reside in Randolph, Vt. 
 
 Alexander Morse worked on the farm with 
 his father during the early part of his life, 
 and purchased the McGebeny farm, which 
 he afterwards sold, and bought the Dana 
 Burbank farm in 1853, and is now carrying 
 on the same. 
 
 Jeremiah Morse, fifth child of Jeremiah 
 and Hannah (Frost) Morse, married Emma 
 D. Thayer, of Chelsea, Vt., and their only 
 son, Roscoe, was born July 6, 1856, Jeremiah 
 died December 28, 1888, and his wife died 
 in 1S91. Mr. Morse was a farmer, and with 
 the exception of four years, always resided in 
 Bethel. The former home of Mr. Morse is 
 now known as the Clark Davis place, and is 
 located on the Randolph road about two 
 miles from the village. 
 
 Roscoe W. Morse married Emma E. 
 Byam, February 25, 1885, and they have two 
 children, Josephine, born December 22, 18S7, 
 and Evelyn H , born September 22, 1891. 
 
 AlORKILL. 
 
 Samuel .VIorrill came to Bethel from Tun- 
 bridge, Vermont, in 1818, and settled in the 
 East village. Mr. Morrill was a practical 
 mason and carpenter and followed the occu- 
 pation of a builder. On January 22, 1820, 
 he married Achsa Piersons of East^ethel. 
 who bore him three children, viz : William 
 P., born January 15, 1821, and died October 
 27, 1848; Henry, born October 19, 1822, 
 and died June i, 1824; and Mary, borji 
 .March 2, 1826, now Mrs. Kilburn Day of 
 East Bethel. (See Day Sketch.) 
 
 William married Rosetta C. Angel of Bar- 
 nard, and their two children were William 
 W., born May 22, 1846, now residing in 
 Kennebunk, Maine ; and Williamina Rosetti, 
 
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 born January 30, 1849, now married and re- 
 siding in Derry, N. H. 
 
 Samuel Morrill died August 14, 1872, and 
 his wife died September 18, 1873, both over 
 eighty years of age. 
 
 DAY. 
 KiLBURN Day, son of Danforth and Mary 
 (Goodnough) Day, was born in Royalton, 
 Vermont, June 2c, 1815. His education was 
 limited to the winter terms of the district 
 schools, and at the age of ten, he went to 
 live in the family of Deacon Leonard Fisk of 
 East Bethel, where he remained until he was 
 
 KILBURN DAY. 
 
 twenty-one years old, working on the farm. 
 He then began teaming between Bethel and 
 Boston, carrying farm products to the cit}', 
 and returning with molas.ses, sugar, and 
 other merchandise, carrying this on for a 
 period of twelve years until 1848, when the 
 railroad came through the state and the 
 prices of freighting were reduced so low that 
 it was impossible for teamsters to make it 
 pay. He then began to learn the trade of 
 millwright with Don Crane,and worked at this 
 trade and carpentering until 1861, when the 
 war began, and Mr. Day enlisted in Com- 
 pany E, 8th Vermont Volunteers, and served 
 
 two years under General Butler, having been 
 mustered out in 1863, on account of his dis- 
 abilities. He first came to Bethel, but moved 
 to Wolcott shortly after his return, and 
 opened a hotel at that place, selling the same 
 three years later, and moving to Montpelier, 
 Vt., where he had charge of valuable real 
 estate, and carried on a carpenter and build- 
 ing business for several years. At the open- 
 ing of the Wells River railroad, he entered 
 the employ of that company and had charge 
 of the construction of most of the buildings 
 built for the road, during the first part of its 
 existence. In 1884 he again returned to 
 East Bethel, where he opened a hotel and 
 has since carried on business at that place 
 Mr. Day was married January 21, 1844, to 
 Mary F. Morrill of East Bethel, a daughter 
 of Samuel and Achsa (Peirsons) Morrill, 
 and they have one adopted son, William O. 
 Day, born January 31, 1854. 
 
 WEBSTER. 
 
 Moses Webster, born in Hartland, Vt., 
 March 4, 1783, came with his wife Rhoda 
 (Stoddard) Webster to Bethel in 1806. He 
 purchased a farm in the west part of the 
 town, which his brother occupied for a time. 
 He went back to Hartland, returning to 
 Bethel in i32i, and resided in this town un- 
 til his death which occurred February 15, 
 1872, his wife having died a few years pre- 
 vious. The four children of Moses and 
 Rhoda (Stoddard) Webster were Charles 
 P., Sarah E., S. A., and Rosamond R 
 
 Charles P. Webster, born November 20. 
 j8ii, married Isabelle Wellington, January 
 2, 1840, who bore him three children, and 
 died in Bethel, March 16, 1891. Maria I., 
 the eldest, born June 10, 1843, is now Mrs. 
 A. F. Colburn of Boston, .Mass. Clara J., 
 born September 18, 1845, inarried W. A. 
 Boutelle, and died in Chicago, 111., Novem- 
 ber 20, t894. Sarah J., born January 18, 
 1854, marrigd C. A. Kershaw, and now re- 
 sides in Lawrence, Mass. Charles P. Web- 
 ster now lives in Bethel village. 
 
 Sarah E. Webster, born April 26, 1813, 
 married Lewis Turner, and died in Bethel 
 February 15, 1846. 
 
 S. A. Webster, born October 4, 1815, 
 married Nancy Brooks, January 29, 1845, 
 
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 and they now reside in Betliel where Mr. 
 Webster is engaged in farming. 
 
 Rosamond R. Webster, born January 19, 
 1820, married Henry Goodalc, and died in 
 Arvada, Colorado, February 15, 1891. 
 
 Mcintosh. 
 
 John Mcintosh, a native of Scotland, was 
 born near Kdinburgh, and at the age of nine- 
 teen was pressed into the English army, be- 
 ing the only son of a widow. Soon after 
 being mustered into service, he was sent to 
 Canada, and served during the French and 
 Indian war. At the close of the war he 
 settled in Bedford, N. H., where he died. His 
 children were William, John, James, Samuel, 
 Isaac, Isabelle and Mary. William, Samuel, 
 Isaac and Mary settled in Bethel in t8io, 
 and shortly after they purchased farms ad- 
 joining and lived and died in Bethel. A 
 grandson of Isaac, Appleton 1. Mcintosh, 
 now lives on the old farm. 
 
 William Mcintosh, son of John Mcintosh, 
 •was born in Bedford, N. H., November 6, 
 17^76, and on February 8, 1810, he was 
 married to Jane Patterson, who was born in 
 New Boston, N. H., August 13, 1785. In 
 the latter part of 1810, they settled in the 
 northwestern corner of Bethel, on the farm 
 now occupied by Mrs. James Miller Mc- 
 intosh, widow of his only son. William Mc- 
 intosh died May 6. 1863, and his wife died 
 March 22, 1870. Their children were Martha, 
 Gisey, Susan Mary, Isabelle and James 
 Miller. 
 
 (1) Martha J. Mcintosh, born October 
 9, 181 1, married Samuel G. Granger, Septem- 
 ber 6, 1832, and died September 17, 1859, 
 leaving six children, viz : Ellen Granger, 
 born June 8, 1833, and died September 4, 
 1864; Ann Granger, born October 16, 1834 ; 
 Earl Granger, born November 7, 1836 ; 
 Joseph Granger, born August 28, 1843; Edna 
 Granger, born June 26, 1850, and Rush 
 Granger, born April 3, 1852. 
 
 (2) Gisey Mcintosh, born August 16, 
 1814, died April — , 1815. 
 
 (3) Susan Mcintosh, born April 13, 
 1817, married Justin Lillie, April 2, 1839, 
 who died October 3, 1874. Their children 
 were; George Alonzo, born March 11, 1840 ; 
 William LeRoy, born January i, 1842; James 
 
 Mills, born February 17, 1844, and died 
 August 29, 1845 ; Mary Jane, born August 
 8, 1846, died December 13, 1867 ; Willis Gay- 
 lord, born September 6, 1848 ; Alma Aqubah 
 born October 20, 1850 ; Benjamin Rush, 
 born January 20, 1853 ; Dora Susan, born 
 June 19, 1855 ; Rollin Justin, born January 
 to, 1858, and died January 30, 1881 ; -and 
 Martha Ellen, bora March 27, i860. 
 
 (4) Mary Mcintosh,, born April 29. 
 1819, married David S. Washburn, May 25, 
 1843, and died October 21, 1864, leaving 
 two children, viz: George M. Washburn, 
 
 J. MILLER MclNTOSH. 
 
 born April 21, 1845, and Lucy Jane Wash- 
 burn, born July 28, 1853. 
 
 (5) Isabelle Mcintosh, born March 3, 
 1822. 
 
 (6) James Miller McIntosh, only son 
 of William and Jane (Patterson) Mcintosh, 
 was born in Bethel, Vt., December 20, 1825. 
 Mr. Mcintosh was a successful farmer, and 
 in connection with his business interests, he 
 found time to devote to the welfare of his 
 town and fellow citizens. During his life 
 he was always a staunch Republican, and 
 held many ofEces of trust in bis native place. 
 He was chosen selectman in 1858, and held 
 
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 that office for ten years. He was lister of 
 Bethel for a period covering thirteen years ; 
 overseer of the poor for twenty-one years ; 
 grand juror nine years ; town auditor six 
 years ; and for two years was a justice of the 
 peace. He was chosen by his party as a 
 representative of the Legislature in i866 and 
 1867, serving two years. In 1882 and 1883 
 he was elected State Senator and was com- 
 missioner of licenses in 1885 and 1886. He 
 was a regular attendant at the Methodist 
 Church, and a liberal contributor to its 
 support. 
 
 Mr. Mcintosh was married March 2, 1853, 
 to Lucette E., daughter of Judah and Eliza 
 
 HERBERT M. McINTOSH. 
 
 (Russel) Hatch, who was born in Bethel 
 August 22, 1829. Their two children were 
 Ellen Jane, and Herbert Miller. Mr. Mc- 
 intosh died at Saratoga, N. Y., September 6, 
 1887, and his widow now resides on the old 
 homestead. 
 
 Ellen Jane Mcintosh, born February 9, 
 1854. was married in 1893, and has one 
 daughter. 
 
 Herbert M. McIntosh, born in Bethel, 
 August 2, 1861, attended the public schools, 
 and was graduated from the State Normal 
 School, at Castleton in 1885. After teaqh-. 
 
 ing school fn his native town for a short 
 time, he entered the University of Vermont 
 at Burlington, taking a course in civil en- 
 gineering, and was graduated in the class of 
 1890. He was employed by the Vermont 
 Marble Company, but resigned to accept the 
 position of city engineer at Burlington, to 
 which he was elected by the Republican 
 party in 1892, which office he still holds. He 
 is a member of the Algonquin Club, and 
 also of the Washington Lodge, F. and A.M., 
 of Burlington. 
 
 BUCKMAN. 
 
 Jeremiah Buckman came to Bethel among 
 the early settlers and here he irrarried Rath 
 Bannister, who bore him six childreji, viz : 
 Ruth, Joel, Lorenda, Cyrus, Calvin, and 
 Charity, ' " 
 
 Ruth Buckman, born in Bethel, Septem- 
 ber 23, 1788. 
 
 Joel Buckman, born in Bethel, November 
 6, 1790. 
 
 Lorenda Bnckman, born in Bethel, Jan- 
 uary 13, 1793. 
 
 Cyrus Buckman, born in Bethel, March 
 22, 1795. 
 
 Calvin Buckman, born in Bethel, June 15, 
 1797. 
 
 Charity Buckman, born in Bethel, August 
 30, 1799. 
 
 Calvin married Olive Barnes, April 13, 
 1829, and their four children were Ellen E., 
 Calvin C, Mary Elizabeth, and Lucia M. 
 Calvin Buckman was a prosperous and suc- 
 cessful farmer, and accumulated a comfort- 
 able jiroperty. He was prominent in the 
 affairs of the town, and served as .selectman 
 for several years, besides holding other town 
 offices. He died in Bethel December 22, 
 1878, eighty-one years old. His wife died 
 September 27, 1878. 
 
 Ellen E. Buckman. eldest child of Calvin 
 and Olive (Barnes) Buckman, was born in 
 Bethel July 22, 1828, and married Charles 
 Curtis. (See Curtis Sketch.) She died 
 August 29, 1891. 
 
 Calvin C, born in Bethel February 2, 
 1833, married Eliza A. Terry of Bethel, and 
 they had four children, only three of whom 
 are living. 
 
 , Hattie, born October 6, 1862, died May 2, 
 1866, 
 
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 George C, born June 2, 1867, now a 
 book-keeper in the employ of C. W. Reed, of 
 Enfield, N. H. 
 
 Lucy E,, born September i, 1869, married 
 Edward S. Rood of Bethel, March 28, 1889, 
 and now in millinery business in Bethel. 
 
 Mary A., born June 13, 1876, married 
 jFred G. Cox, March 27, 1895. 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, third child of Calvin and 
 Olive (Barnes) Buckman, was born in Bethel 
 June 16, .1835, and married Chauncey R. 
 Chadwick, May 11, 1853, (see Chadwick 
 Sketch) and died in Bethel February 5, 1874. 
 
 Lucia M., born in Bethel October 10, 
 1838, married Irwin Morse, and they now re- 
 side in Wilmington, Mass. 
 
 BROOKS. 
 
 Simeon Brooks and his wife, Elizabeth 
 .(Strong) Brooks, came to Bethel in 1780. 
 Their children were Eli, who died in Brain- 
 tree ; Simeon, who died in Bethel ; Ira, who 
 died in Bethel ; Asa ; Anna, who married 
 Ellis Fish, and died in Randolph; Betsy, 
 who died in Bethel, unmarried; and Almira, 
 who was drowned in childhood. Asa 
 Brooks, son of Simeon Brooks, was born in 
 Bethel, July 31, 1788, and was married Jan- 
 uary 16, 1814, to Lucy Stevens, who was 
 born November 27, 1792, and died March 
 29, 1876. Asa Brooks died August 7, 1871. 
 There were seven children born of this mar- 
 riage, viz: (i) Lucy Hay ward, born Octo- 
 ber II, 1814, died at the age of nine years; 
 (2) Nancy S., born May 3, t8i6, married 
 S. A. Webster, and they now reside in 
 Bethel. (3) Asa S., born August 2J, 1819, 
 4ied when four years old. 
 
 (4) Albert A., fourth child of Asa and Lucy 
 (Stevens) Brooks, was born in Bethel, Octo- 
 ber 18, 1824. His education was received in 
 the public schools, and at an early age, he 
 was engaged in farming, continuing in that 
 occupation until he was eighteen years old. 
 He then started in mercantile trade, and 
 after working for other parties several years, 
 he opened a general merchandise store in 
 ■Gaysville, Vt., in 1856. In 1875, Mr. 
 Brooks sold his store in Gaysville, and came 
 to Bethel, where, in company with G. K. 
 Montgomery, he purchased th« business for- 
 merly carried on by Merrick Sylvester, and 
 this business was conducted three years under 
 
 the firm name of Brooks & Montgomery. 
 The present partnership was then formed, 
 and the firm now consists of Albert A. 
 Brooks and Seth M. Washburn, under the 
 firm name of Brooks & Washburn. 
 
 With Nelson Gay, Chester Downer and 
 F. P. Holden, Mr. Brooks was interested in 
 the Gaysville Manufacturing Company, which 
 company was engaged in the manufacture of 
 underwear from 1879 to 1888. A stock 
 company was formed during the latter year, 
 and the factory was destroyed by fire during 
 the same year. Mr. Brooks was postmaster 
 at Gaysville from 1861 to 1873, a period of 
 twelve years. He is a director of the White 
 River National Bank, and president of the 
 Bethel Shoe Company. 
 
 On December 24, 1848, Mr. Brooks was 
 married to Miss Jennett Wliitcomb, and 
 their two children were Jennie, born Sep- 
 tember I, 1849, married J. A. Chedell of 
 Gaysville, Vt., and they have three children; 
 and Kate, born July 17, 1854, married Seth 
 M. Washburn and they have four children. 
 (See Washburn Sketch). 
 
 (5) Samuel H., born January 29, 1827, 
 died in infancy. 
 
 (6) Julius P. Brooks, sixlh child of Asa 
 Brooks, was born October 25, 1828, married 
 Sarah Gambell, who bore him two children, 
 viz: Willard J., and Charles. Julius P. 
 Brooks died in Auburn, California, in 1861, 
 
 (7) Sophia Brooks was born October 31. 
 1832, married Albert F. Waterman and re- 
 sides in Tunbridge, Vt. 
 
 SHEUD. 
 
 Abijah Shedd and his wife, Sophia (Blood) 
 Shedd came to Bethel from Hollis, N. H., 
 in 1816, bringing with them their eldest 
 child, and settled in Bethel village. Mr. 
 Shedd followed the occupation of a black- 
 smith, and two of his sons learned their trade 
 of him in Bethel. The children of Abijah 
 and Sophia > Blood) Shedd were William 
 Farley, Rodney Sylvester, Frederick Page, 
 Franklin Cummings, Amanda Sophia, An- 
 jennette, Edmund Earl, and Solon Marsh. 
 
 William F. married Priscilla Jones who 
 bore him two children, Laura and David 
 Watson, He was a musician and died while 
 returnmg from the civil war, in which he 
 served as a member of a band. 
 
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 Rodney S., born in Bethel August i6, 
 1818, was a blacksmith and worked at his 
 trade in Bethel iifty years. He was married 
 October 28, 1840, to Orilla Jones of Bethel, 
 and their only son, Edgar Rodney, was 
 born in Randolph November 26, 1841. He 
 married Adelaide Fay of Royalton, and was 
 killed by a fall from a building June 7, 1881. 
 Rodney Shedd died December 7, 1888, and 
 his. widow resides in Bethel. 
 
 Frederick P. Shedd married Eliza Turner, 
 who bore him one daughter, Adelia. He 
 died in Bethel in 1845. 
 
 Franklin C. Shedd, married Francis Blan- 
 din of Camden, Maine, and their three 
 children were Christopher, Frederick and 
 Cora. He died in Boston, and his widow 
 now resides at North Dana, Mass. 
 , Amanda S. Shedd, born in Bethel January 
 ,22, 1825, married John Noble, January 5, 
 1843, and they had twj children, viz : Willis, 
 born October 10, 1843, and died when thir- 
 teen years old; Robert, born October 13, 
 1850, married Cherry Brown of Gaysville, 
 and they have three children, John, Austin 
 and Robert Shedd. See Noble Sketch.) 
 Amanda (Shedd) Noble now resides with 
 her son Robert, in Bethel. 
 ' Edmund Earl Shedd, born in Bethel July 
 16, 1828, married Aurelia Thompson of 
 London, Ohio, who bore him seven children, 
 yiz : Virginia Sophia, Franklin James, Flora, 
 lEdmund Earl, Frederick. I larry and Carlos 
 Butler. The family now reside in Columbus, 
 Ohio. 
 
 Solon Marsh Shedd, born January 5, 1837, 
 married Fannv E. .Miner of Columbus, Ohio, 
 and their three sons arj Willi.im Davidson, 
 Denman Kinsell and Lester. They now re- 
 side in Columbus, Ohio. 
 
 Abijah Shedd died in Bethel September 3, 
 ^1866, and his wife died May 17, 1855. 
 
 SHAW. 
 Andrew Shaw came to Bethel from Stock- 
 bridge in 1808, and settled on the farm now 
 owned by Myron Morse. His wife. Adelia 
 (Abbott) Shaw bore him twelve children, 
 viz: Amelia, John .M., Triphena, Mary, 
 Hannah, Samuel, Jane. Fanny, Harvey. 
 Loi.sa, Annie and Harriet. Andrew Shaw 
 died July 28, 1840, at seventy-five, and his 
 wife died November 26, 1S69. 
 
 Amelia Shaw married Rufus Lyon, and 
 they moved to New Gloucester, Cumber- 
 land County, Maine, where she died, 
 
 John M. 'Shaw was born December 31, 
 1801, and on November 4, 1827, he married 
 Cynthia Potter of Schroon, N. Y., who bore 
 him six children and died November 17, 
 1869. Their children were as follows: (l) 
 Melvin born April 29, 1829, married Aurelia 
 Gilson. They moved to New York state, 
 where he died May 7, 189s, leaving one son, 
 George. (2) Frank J. Shaw, born Decem- 
 ber 22, 1833, died at the age of forty, un- 
 married. 
 
 (3) Oscar P. Shaw, born October 19, 
 1835. married Laura E. Wallace, July 18, 
 1857, and they had three children, viz : Flora 
 I , Frank P., and Will G. Mr. Shaw en- 
 gaged in farming for several years, and after- 
 wards carried on a meat and grocery business 
 in Bethel, in the same locality as the present 
 town hall. He moved to Chelsea where he 
 was in the ?ame line of business, and later he 
 was located at White River Junction. Since 
 1884 he has* been on the road as salesman 
 for the Norfolk Oyster Company of Boston, 
 Mass., making his home at Bethel. 
 
 Flora L S.haw, born September 25, 1858, 
 is now in the mil.inery business at South 
 Royalton. Frank P. Shaw, born October 
 5, i860, died July 5, 1864. 
 
 Will G. Shaw, born October 4, 1862, be- 
 gan his business career as traveling agent for 
 George W. Smith of White River Junction 
 in the candy business. He remained in this 
 place sevep years, and in 1891 accepted a 
 position in the employ of the wholesale gro- 
 cery house of Spaulding & Kimball of Bur- 
 lington, and now represents this house on 
 the road. He has been twice married : his 
 first wife was Margaret Rhodes of Alburgh, 
 N Y., to whom he was married September 
 23, 1883. She died May 30, i8go, leaving 
 one .son, Ralph Shaw, born January 3, 1888. 
 On December 23, 1892, he was married to 
 Nellie Turner of Lincoln, Vt., and their 
 home ia novv in Bethel. 
 
 (4) Dennis .Shaw, born December 20, 
 1837, married Nancy Wilson June 27, 1867, 
 and they now reside in Bethel where Mr. 
 Shaw is engaged in farming. 
 
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 (5) Enieroy, born November lo, 1842, 
 married Nelson Chapman, and their son 
 Fredericlc was born in Bethel. 
 
 (6) Helen, born September 12, 1850, died 
 at the age of twenty-four, unmarried. 
 
 John M. Shaw has always been a farmer, 
 although he has been interested in the lum- 
 
 Trephena Shaw, third child of Andrew 
 and Adelia (Abbott) Shaw, married Holland 
 Sylvester, and moved to Stockbridge, where 
 she died. 
 
 Mary Shaw never married, and now re- 
 sides in Stockbridge at the age of ninety. 
 
 Hannah, born in 1807, married Charles 
 
 FOUR GENERATIONS OF THE SHAW FAMILY. 
 
 JOHN M. SHAW. OSCAR F. SHAW. WILL G. SHAW. RALPH SHAW. 
 
 ber traffic in New York state for a number of 
 years. He is the oldest man in Bethel, and 
 at the advanced age of ninety-four, is able to 
 assist in the work on his son's farm, and has 
 the life and vigor of a much younger man. 
 He -makes his home with his son, Dennis 
 Shaw, about one mile from the village. 
 
 Wilson of Stockbridge, and they moved to 
 Chester, where he died. His widow now re- 
 .sides in Chester. 
 
 Samuel Shaw, born December 31, i8li, 
 married Saphrona Fish of Randolph, who 
 died leaving one daughter, who now resides 
 with her father in Ohio. 
 
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 Jane married Charles Savage, and died at 
 Granville, N. Y., leaving one son. 
 
 Fanny married Hiram Towsley, and died 
 in Chester, N. Y. 
 
 Harvey married Ann Sanford, who died 
 leaving one son, Dana Shaw. His second 
 
 wife was Collins, daughter of Harry 
 
 Collins of Stockbridge. He died in Bethel, 
 January i, 1893. 
 
 Louisa married Sholes, who died, 
 
 and she afterward married Fish. She 
 
 is now a widow, and resides in Missouri. 
 
 Annie married Albro, and now 
 
 resides in New York. 
 
 Harriet died at the age of tw© years. 
 
 WESTON. 
 Irvin Weston, born June 30, i8oo, came 
 to Bethel from New Braintree, Mass., in 
 1823, his brother, Daniel Weston, having 
 previously settled in the town. He accepted 
 a position in the employ of his brother for 
 several years, and afterward entered into 
 partnership with him in the manufacture of 
 fancy wood work, which partnership was 
 continued until the death of the elder 
 brother. Irvin Weston then carried on the 
 business successfully alone until his death 
 which occurred October 23, 1874. He was 
 married September 12, i84r, to Julia Morris 
 of Bethel, and their son, Ephraim Morris 
 Weston, now carries on the business left by 
 his father. Mr. Weston was a prominent 
 member of the Congregational Church, and 
 after the death of his brother often officiated 
 as deacon, although never elected to that 
 oiBce. 
 
 CHAMBERLIN. 
 Washington Chamberlin, born in Stock- 
 bridge, Vermont, April 23, 1796, came to 
 Bethel about 1822, bringing with him his 
 wife, Aseneth (Kellogg) Chamberlin, and 
 one of his nine children. They located on 
 the farm now owned and occupied by Melvin 
 Chamberlin, and here four children were 
 born. They moved from there to Lillyville, 
 then to the farm now occupied by Warren 
 Preston on Lympus Hill, and later they re- 
 sided on the farm with their son, Francis H, 
 Chamberlin, where they died. The children 
 of Wasliingtonand A^enetb (Kellogg) C1iam- 
 
 berlin were Lucy M., Martin J., George W., 
 John L., Hiram M., Francis H., Nancy A., 
 Julia A., and William. Washington Cham- 
 berlin died January 19, 1875, and his wife 
 died November n, 1878. 
 
 Lucy M.^ Chamberlin, the eldest child, 
 born December 17, 1820, married Charles 
 Davis, May 18, 1842, and they now reside 
 on a farm in Bethel. (See Davis Sketch.) 
 
 Martin J., born September 8, 1822, mar- 
 ried Jane Hubbard of Windsor, who died 
 leaving one daughter, Jennie, since deceased. 
 He married Kate Hubbard, and they now 
 reside in Springfield, Mass. 
 
 George W., born September 23, 1824, 
 married Dorcas Billings of Bethel, Vt., and 
 they now live in Bethel,. Iowa. 
 
 John L., born March 8, [827, died August 
 18, 1852. 
 
 Hiram Morgan Chamberlin, born June 6, 
 1829, married Mary M. Kendall of Caven- 
 dish, Vt., August 4, 1856 at Weathersfield, 
 Vt. Three cliildren were born of this mar- 
 riage, viz: Samuel K., born in Weathers- 
 field, Vt., August 10, 1858 ; Luther H., born 
 in Springfield, Mass., May 5, 1868, and died 
 in Felchville, (Reading) Vt., July i, 1880; 
 and Katie M., born in Felchville, Vt., June 
 6, 1874. 
 
 Mary Mi (Kendall) Ch mberlin, died in 
 Springfield, Mass., May 21, 1886, and Mr. 
 Chamberlin now resides in Rutland, Vt. 
 
 Francis H., born December 28, 1831, 
 married Augusta P. Davis April 37, 1871, 
 and their oiily daughter, Mary Belle, was 
 born March 3, 1872. 
 
 Francis H., went to Massachusetts before 
 reaching his majority, and for fifteen years 
 was engaged in business there, although he 
 made yearly trips to Bethel, and always con- 
 sidered this place his home. He went to 
 Windsor, Vt., from Boston, and located in 
 Bethel permanently in May, 1874. Since 
 that time Mr. Chamberlin has been engaged 
 in farming north of Bethel village. 
 
 Nancy A., born October 2, 1835, resides 
 on the farm with her brother and is unmarried. 
 
 Julia A,, born September 8, 1842, married 
 Henry Pond, and died in Bethel January 10, 
 1882. 
 
 William, born October 21, 1844, died 
 March 9, 1846. 
 
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 ADAMS. 
 William Adams, born in Randolph, Vt., 
 in i8io, came to Bethel in 1830, where he 
 followed his trade as a wheelwright and cab- 
 inet maker for a number of years. He 
 served as deputy sheriff for several years, and 
 later he bought a farm where he resided un- 
 til his death, which occurred September 17, 
 1852. He married Irene Marsh in 1834, 
 who bore him three children, and died 
 in Bethel April n, 1872. The children of 
 this marriage were William R., Ellen M., 
 and Rush M. 
 
 WILLIAM R. ADAMS. 
 
 William R. Adams was born in Bethel, 
 Vt., January 26, 1835. His early life was 
 spent on the farm with his father, and in 
 1863 lie started in business for himself at 
 Bethel village, dealing in books and sta- 
 tionery, and a few years later he added a 
 printing office to his establishment. Mr. 
 Adams has been in business for a longer 
 time in this locality than any other merchant 
 on the street. He was elected town clerk in 
 1865, and with the exception of two j-ears he 
 has held that office ever since. He was 
 chosen town treasurer in 1865, and served 
 for several years, and he has been justice of 
 the peace for the last twenty years. Mr. 
 
 Adams has always been interested in the 
 Universalist church, and for a period of 
 nearly forty years has been a member of the 
 choir at that church. He was one of the 
 original promoters of the first band organ- 
 ized in Bethel, and was a musician in the 
 same for over thirty years. 
 
 He was married in 1856 to Dora A. Davis, 
 daughter of Rev. S. A. Davis, a former pastor 
 tor of the Universalist church in Bethel, and 
 they have reared a family of thirteen child- 
 ren, ten of whom are living, viz: (i) Leslie 
 R., born March ii, 1857, married Clara I. 
 Latimer of Middlebury, Vt., September 14, 
 1892. Mr. Adams is now with the Pennsyl- 
 vania Roofing Company, in Philadelphia, 
 Penn. (2) RoUin M., born May 24, 1858, 
 married Cora E. Parker of Boston, Septem- 
 ber 9, i885, and they have one son, Rollin 
 Parker, born August 7, 1893. They reside 
 in Boston, Mass. (3) Mary Ellen, born 
 January 3, i85o, resides in Bethel. (4) 
 Minnie J., born July 25, 1861, died August 
 25, 1864. (5) Elmer D., born April 19, 
 1863, died September I, 1864. (6) Florence 
 I., born January 25, 1865, now at Northamp- 
 ton, Mass. (7) Gilbert L., born 'August 3, 
 1866, and resides in Visalia, California. 
 (8) Bennie W., born April 30, 1868, died 
 September 23, 1868. (9) Percy R., born 
 August 29, 1869, now living in Bethel. (lo) 
 William D., born November g, 1870, mar- 
 ried lola E. Latimer of Middlebury, Vt., 
 July 3, 1895, and they reside in Philadelphia, 
 Pa, (11) Harry E., born January 11,1873, 
 in business with his father in Bethel. (12) 
 Stella E., born February 16, 1877, at home 
 with her parents in Bethel. (13) Arthur A., 
 born June 13, 1878, now in Bethel. 
 
 Mary Ellen Adams, daughter of William 
 and Irene (Marsh) Adams, was born in 
 1841, and died when fourteen months old. 
 
 Rush M., born June 2, 1845, ^nd died in 
 Crawford, Nebraska, April 23, 1889. 
 
 GILSON. 
 Samuel Gilson (born in Peperill, Mass., 
 April 13, T795) with his wife, Fanny (Pin- 
 ney) Gilson, came to Bethel in 1840. He re- 
 mained here a short time, and afterward lo- 
 cated in Hartland, Stockbridge, Berlin, 
 Conn., and New York City, from which 
 place he returned to Bethel in 1847. He 
 
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 died in Bethel August 29, 1871, and his wife 
 died February 25, 1885. Ten children were 
 born to Samuel and Fanny (Pinney) Gilson, 
 viz : 
 
 (i) James IVIartin, born October 9, 1818, 
 married Emily Waller, daughter of Daniel 
 Waller, January 9, 1844, and died at Leaven- 
 worth, Kansas, April 2, 1888. His wife 
 died April 26, 1894. Their two children 
 were Fanny M., born May 22, 1847, "ow re- 
 siding in Brookfield, Mo., and Durrell, horn 
 February 15, 1850, married Rilla E. Mooney, 
 February 16, 1883, and resides in Brook- 
 field, Mo. A daughter, Edith Emily, was 
 born July 20, 1887. 
 
 (2) Frederick Alonzo, born in Northfield 
 January 22, 1820, married Jane E. Chamber- 
 lin of Barnard, December 28, 1841, and died 
 in New York June 15, 1870, leaving two 
 children, viz : Edna Maria, born at Gays- 
 ville April 10, 1847, and an adopted daugh- 
 ter, Emma M. Pinney, born at Windsor, Vt., 
 July 2, 1841, married John Crosby, June i, 
 1879. M'l's- Frederick A, Gilson, with her 
 daughter, Edna Maria, now resides at Charles- 
 town, N. H. 
 
 (3) Maria Fanny, born at Northfield, Vt., 
 October 4, 1823, married Merrick Sylvester, 
 July 5, 1854. (See Sylvester Sketch.) 
 
 (4) William Henry, born in Hartland 
 September 22, 1826, married Emma Taylor, 
 January 3, 1859, and died in New York 
 April 17, 1865. There were three children 
 born of this marriage, viz : Fanny E., born 
 in New York November 25, 1859, niarried 
 November 5, 1890, to Dr. George Terriberry 
 of l^aterson, N.J. ; William Henry, born Oc- 
 toDer 27, i86r, now resides in New York 
 City, unmarried; and Walter Samuel, born at 
 Spuytendervel, N Y., January 4, 1863, and 
 resides in New York City. 
 
 (5) Sarah Ann, born in Hartland October 
 24, 1828, married Edwin Sturtevant of Bethel, 
 October 24, 1849. (See Sturtevant Sketch). 
 
 (6) Elizabeth Newberry, born at Barnard, 
 October 7, 1830, married John Taylor of 
 New York, May 28, 1857, and died April 25, 
 1893, leaving seven children. 
 
 (7) Hiram Harlehigh, born at Barnard 
 January 17, 1832, married Jennie S. Gay De- 
 cember 25, 1862, who died May 8, 1892, 
 
 leaving one adopted daughter, Mary, born 
 January 9, 1881. Mr. Gilson was for many 
 years engaged in active business in Bethel, 
 but has now retired from business life, and 
 resides in Bethel. 
 
 (8) Carlton Simons, born in Gaysville, 
 October 15, 1834, married Louisa M. Brink, 
 July 10, 1861, and their three children are: 
 Ella L., born in New York April 22, 1862, 
 unmarried ; Carl Edwin, born in Bethel, 
 September 29, 1869, married Minnie A. 
 Lewis, January 10, 1891, who bore him three 
 children, viz: Raymond, ^b,9rn October 14, 
 1891; Marion, born December 9, 1892, died 
 August [o, 1893, and an infant, Margaret 
 Louise, born July 8, 1895; Mabel Edna, 
 third child of Carlton S., and Louisa B. 
 Gilson, Wtjs born at Nyack, N. Y.,' June 8, 
 1875. 
 
 (9) Francis Samuel, born at Stockbridge, 
 Vermont, April 26, 1838, died in New York 
 April II, 1895. 
 
 (10) Edward Alerick, born at Gaysville, 
 November 17, 1841, married Clara Conant 
 February i6j 1865. Their three children are : 
 Frank, born at Yonkers December 5, 1865, 
 and died April 25, 1895 ; Edward Carlton, 
 born in Passaic N. Y., May 14, 1870; and 
 Gertrude Clara, born in New York April 12, 
 1878. 
 
 GRAHAM. 
 
 Alexander and Lucy (Kimball) Graham 
 came to Bethel from Lebanon, N. H., in 1841, 
 and here Mr. Graham purchased a farm 
 which he carried on until his two sons took 
 charge of the farm and still own the same. 
 The elder son, Guy Graham, was born in 
 Lebanon, N. H., January 13, 1825, and 
 came to Bethel with his parents in 1841. 
 One year later he entered the employ of 
 George Francis in a general merchandise 
 store at Bethel village, where he remained a 
 few years, and then opened a store for him- 
 self. His store was destroyed in the fire of 
 1878, and Mr. Graham did not rebuild, al- 
 though he has been quite an extensive 
 dealer in wool and hops, which he ships to 
 the larger markets. He was appointed post- 
 master during the administration of President 
 Lincoln, and served eight years. Mr. Gra- 
 ham was married May i, 1868, to Martha 
 
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 Sparhawk, of Randolph, and they have two 
 daughters, viz: Lucy M., born April 4, 1870, 
 and Annie L., born July 27, 1878, both of 
 whom are residing with their parents in 
 Bethel. The Graham residence, situated on 
 a portion of the old homestead farm, is one 
 of the fine residences of Bethel.* 
 
 Andrew J. Graham, younger brother of 
 Guy Graham, was born in Lebanon, N. H., 
 February 10, 1827, and was fourteeen years 
 old when his parents settled in Bethel. He 
 has followed the avocation of a farmer for 
 nearly all his life, still residing in the old 
 home in Bethel village. He was married at 
 Royalton, Vermont, November 3, 1854, to 
 Susanna A. Lyman, of Royalton, and their 
 three children are : Ada Louise, born January 
 14, 1855, married John Bradley, and they 
 now reside at Ludlow, Vt. They have two 
 children, Annie and Henry. Nellie AL, born 
 April II, 1858, married George Tupper, of 
 Bethel, January 25, 1882, and they have four 
 children. (See Tupper sketch.) James, born 
 July 16, 1869. married Nellie Terry, of Bethel, 
 and they reside in Barre. 
 
 * Guy Graham died at Bethel, October 25, 1895. 
 
 SYLVESTER. 
 
 Barzallia Sylvester, son of Lemuel and 
 Betsy (Packard) Sylvester, came to Bethel 
 from Stockbridge, Vermont, where he re.sid- 
 ed with his son, Merrick Sylvester, who had 
 come here previous to that time. His wife. 
 Julana Gay, to whom he was married in 1816, 
 bore him four children, viz : 
 
 (i) Merrick. Sylvester, born May 11, 
 1818, after a common school education was 
 engaged as clerk in the general merchandise 
 store of Merrick Gay at Gaysville, for eleven 
 years, leaving that place to start in busine-;s 
 for himself at East Bethel, where he remain- 
 ed .seven years. He sold his business at the 
 end of this time and moved to Columbus, 
 Ohio, where for the following two years he 
 was engaged in the dry g:oods business. Mr. 
 Sylvester came back to Vermont in 1855, and 
 opened a general merchandise store in Bethel, 
 in company with Allen Meserve. In 1857 
 he purchased his partners interest, and con- 
 tinued the business alone for several years, 
 when he took in as a partner H. C. Smith, 
 who remained two years Edwin Sturtevant 
 
 was his next partner, and he sold to Mr. 
 Sylvester, who continued to carry on the 
 business alone until 1875 when he sold to A. 
 A. Brooks. In 18S2 he accepted the position 
 of cashier of the White River National Bank, 
 which position he still holds. A Democrat in 
 politics, Mr. Sylvester has held several town 
 offices, and, with the exception of a few 
 years, was town clerk of Bethel from 1856 to 
 1882 On July 5, 1854, he was married to 
 .Maria F. Gilson, and they had two children, 
 viz: William E., born April 3, 1855, married 
 Edith Raines, September 18, 1886, and they 
 now reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. Francis E., 
 born June 10, i860, married Adele F. Fogg, 
 
 MERRICK SYLVESTER. 
 
 August 31, 1882, and their son, William M., 
 was born January 29, 1884. Francis E. died 
 October 15, 1886, and his widow now re- 
 sides in Boston. 
 
 (2) Bazillia, born April 30, 1820, married 
 Beulah Thacker, and they reside in Sundance, 
 Wyoming. 
 
 (3) Elbridge, born in 1824, died March 
 26, 1856, at Woodstock, Illinois. 
 
 (4) Julana, born March 4, 1835, is un- 
 married and now resides in Bethel. 
 
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 WELLINGTON. 
 
 Abel Wellington, with his wife and seven 
 children, came to Bethel from Walpole, N. 
 H., in 1827, and located on a farm in the 
 western part of the town, which was at that 
 time wild timber land, with only a small por- 
 tion cleared. Here he labored and here his 
 children grew to maturity. Three were born 
 in Bethel, only two of whom are living. The 
 cjhildren of Abel Wellington were^as follows: 
 Sarah, Eben, Mary, Isabelle, William, Jane, 
 John, Warren, Augusta, and Wallace. 
 
 Sarah R. Wellington, born August — , 
 
 1814, is now Mrs. Benjamin Abbott of 
 Stockbridge, Vt. 
 
 Eben S. Wellington, born October 7, 
 
 1815, was twice married. His first wife was 
 Fanny Bullard of Bethel and he married sec- 
 ond, Anjennette Chapman. He died in 1885. 
 
 Mary E. Wellington, born Jnne 2, 1817, 
 married Oilman Brilton, October — , 1837. 
 
 Isabelle S. Wellington, born June 16, 
 1819, married Charles Webster and died 
 March 16, 1891. 
 
 William Wellington, born March 18, 1821, 
 married Lavinia Tenney. 
 
 Jane Wellington, born March i, 1824, 
 married Thomas Arnold, May i, 1845. He 
 died March 26, 1876 (See Arnold Sketch). 
 November 3, 1887, she married | David Tolles 
 and he died in Bethel June — , 1890. She 
 now resides in Bethel with her son, Fred 
 Arnold. 
 
 John L. Wellington, born November 5, 
 1826, married Susie Gage of Randolph, and 
 they now reside at Eagle Bridge, N. Y. 
 
 Warren A. Wellington, born March 25, 
 1828, died Augusts, 1833. 
 
 Augusta H. Wellington, born July 4, 1832, 
 married Oliver Bullard of Bethel, and they 
 live in Bridgeport, Conn. 
 
 Wallace C. Wellington, born January 4, 
 183s, married twice. His first wife was 
 Josephine Uensmore. His present wife was 
 Fanny Tenney, and their home is at Har- 
 vard, III. 
 
 CHASE. 
 
 Moses Chase, born in Sutton, N. H., 
 
 moved to Williamstown, Vt., and later to 
 
 Rochester, Vt., where he died leaving two 
 
 children, Simeon and Abner. The latter was 
 
 twice married, first to Susan Slade, daughter 
 of John Slade, of Broojjfield, Vt., who bore 
 him three children,' viz: Lovinia, married 
 Oliver Smith, and died in Rochester. Joel 
 died in infancy, and Joel 2d died in infancy. 
 The second wife of Abner Chase was Hannah 
 Slade, a sister of his first wife, by whom 
 he had four children, Mary, married Hiram 
 Thurston, and died at Palatine, 111. ; Moses ; 
 Fanny, (Mrs. Lester Gay) now residing in 
 Oregon; and Lyman, who died at the age of 
 sixteen. Abner Chase and his second wife 
 died in Rochester, Vt,, and his first wife 
 died in Ohio. 
 
 J)R. R. M. CHASE. 
 
 Moses Chase, son of Abner and Hannah 
 (Slade) Chase, was born in Rochester, Vt., 
 April 30, 1821, and spent his early years in 
 his native town. He was married November 
 15, 1846, at Lowell, Massachusetts, by Dr. 
 A. A. Miner, to Rosina, daughter of Benja- 
 min and Sarah (Scales) Hill, born in Sharon, 
 Vermont, April 4, 1823. They returned to 
 Vermont, living at Pomfret and Royalton 
 until they came to Bethel in 1857, which place 
 they afterward made their home. Mr. Chase, 
 although a carpenter and joiner by trade, 
 bought a farm about two miles out of Bethel 
 village, which he conducted during the latter 
 
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 part of his life. He died at Riverdale, Neb., 
 April i6, 1894, having sold his farm and 
 moved to that place in October, 1893. There 
 were four children born to Moses and Rosina 
 (Hill) Chase, viz: 
 
 (i) Moses Roscoe, born in Pomfret, Vt., 
 May 10, 1849, married Eva Graves, and they 
 have one child, Hervey, born March 31, 1884, 
 He is now a dentist, practicing at Ludlow, Vt. 
 
 (2) Flora Rosina, born July 17, 1850, 
 married Wallace Keyes, of Palatine, 111., 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Dunham have had two sons, 
 viz: Leon C, born at Bethel, June 17, 1886; 
 and Rolla West, born March 31, 1888, and 
 died July 7, 1890. 
 
 (4) Dr. Rolla Miner Chase, fourth 
 child of Mose"s and Rosina (Hill) Chase, was 
 born in South Royalton, Vermont, Septem- 
 ber 4, 1854. His early education was receiv- 
 ed in the public schools of Bethel and at the 
 age of eighteen he commenced the study of 
 dentistry in the office of Dr. F. M, Cilley, of 
 
 RESIDENCE OF Dr. R. M. CHASE. 
 
 and now resides at Riverdale, Neb. Their 
 three children are Jessie F., born in Palatine, 
 111., February 3, 1875; Ollie Nellie, born 
 October 16, 1883, at Palatine, 111., died 
 January 31, 1884; and Nathan Moses, born 
 April 22, 1895, at Riverdale, Neb. 
 
 (3) Fannie, born October 25, i85i,is the 
 wife of Henry C. Dunham, and they now re- 
 side at Colorado Springs, Col., at which place 
 Mrs. Moses Chase now makes her home. 
 
 Bethel, where he remained two years. He 
 entered the Boston Dental College in 1874, 
 and was graduated from that institution in 
 1876, receiving his degree of D. D. S. He 
 immediately returned to Bethel and opened 
 an ofBce in the practice of his profession. 
 While practicing dentistry he continued the 
 study of other branches of the healing an, 
 and in 1889 entered the Baltimore Medi- 
 cal College, from which he was graduated 
 
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 April 15, 1890, taking tlie degree of M. D. 
 While the doctor has a large and extensive 
 dental practice, he devotes some of his time 
 to general medicine, having quite an office 
 and village practice in this department. The 
 Doctor is a pushing and enterprising citizen, 
 and is always identified with anything for the 
 advancement and improvement of the village. 
 He was one of the originators of the Bethel 
 Shoe Company, and is one of the directors 
 and vice-president of that company at the 
 present time. He is also president and one 
 of the directors of the Bethel Electric Light 
 and Power Company. Dr. Chase has held 
 several minor town offices, having been 
 grand juror for the town, and served on the 
 school board of the Whitcomb High School 
 for several years. He is a Mason, and was 
 Master of White River Lodge, No. 90, for two 
 years. He was one of the organizers of the 
 Vermont Dental Society in 1876 ; was on the 
 executive committee for several years, and 
 served as president for one year. After the 
 State dental law was enacted in 1882, Dr. 
 Chase was appointed by the Governor of the 
 State one of five constituting the Poard 
 of Dental Examiners, a position which he 
 has since held, having been secretary and 
 treasurer of the board until 1894, when he 
 was made president. He has been State 
 editor and correspondent for several dental 
 jovirnals ; is a member of the New England 
 Dental Society; a member of the Vermont 
 Medical Society, and he was a member of 
 the International Medical Congress, held at 
 Washington, D. C, in 1888. In politics Dr. 
 Chase has always been identified with the 
 Republican party, and was one of the vice- 
 presidents ot the National Republican League 
 in 1894-1895. He has been the inventor of 
 several useful articles, both in and outside 
 of his profession. On June 18, 1879, Dr. 
 Chase was married to Susan Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Cornelius and Mary (Berry) 
 Newall, who was born in Bethel, June 14, 
 1855, and they have two children, viz : 
 George Berry, born June 19, 1880, and Susie 
 Newell, born April 15, 1882. 
 
 MESERVE. 
 Charles H. Meserve, with his wife Mary 
 (Young) Meserve, cnme to Bethel from 
 Thetford, Vermont, in iSj-9. He owned and 
 
 carried on the farm now occupied by Charter 
 Dunham, and in connection with his farming, 
 he bought and sold hops, doing quite an 
 extensive business in this line. He died in 
 Bethel, February 26, 1881, and his wife died 
 in June, 1874. Their children were Betsey, 
 Mary, Hannah, Mehitable, Susan, Rosetta, 
 William, Allen, John and Elmira. 
 
 Of these ten children, seven are now living. 
 
 Hannah married Charter Dunham and 
 resides in Bethel. 
 
 Mehitable married Chester Cooley, and 
 now resides in Providence, R. I. 
 
 Susan married Horace Torry, and now 
 lives in the West. 
 
 Rosetta, born September 13, 1826, married 
 Augustus Marsh, January 31, 1858. (See 
 Marsh sketcji.) 
 
 William married Jane Davis, and now 
 resides in Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 John marred Lizzie Carey, now living in 
 Johnstown, N. Y. 
 
 Ehniia marritd Henry Pease, and they 
 reside at Spenserport, N. Y. 
 
 CHADWICK. 
 
 Chauncey Cliadvvick, son of Benjamin and 
 Olive (Fish) Chadwick, was born in Brain- 
 tree, Vt., November 22, 1827, and at the age 
 of sixteen, began the trade of carriage mak- 
 ing. After working one year in Braintree, 
 he went to Randolph, where he was employed 
 at this trade in the carriage shop of W. li. 
 Cady, moving to Rochester four years later, 
 where he remained seven years. He then 
 came to Bethel and in company with Charles 
 Curtis, purchased the farm on which Mr. 
 Curtis nowilives, and for two jears they car- 
 ried the farm on successful!). On July i, 
 1855, he purchased the Enos BuUard farm 
 where he has since resided. His residence 
 burned in 187 r, and he immediately biiilt his 
 present house. 
 
 He has been twice married, first, on 1^'ay 
 II, 1853, to Mary E. Buckman, by whom he 
 had one son, Clarence L., born at Rochester, 
 July 17, 1856. Mrs. Chadwick died Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1874. and he married on December 
 17, 1874, Eliza A. Spau'din?, daughter of 
 Zebina F., and Harriet (Morse) Spaulding, 
 and their two children are, Dana L., born 
 December i2 1877. and Clara, born Decem- 
 ber 21, 1883 
 
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 CUSHING. 
 
 Willard ]. Gushing, with his wife, Fanny 
 (Ainsworth) Gushing, to whom he was 
 married May 8, 1817, came to Bethel from 
 Putney, Vt., in l8l7and settled in the village. 
 Willard Gushing died August 11, 188 1, and 
 his wife died August 12, 1877. 
 
 They had eight children, viz : Daniel, 
 Josiah Dana, Fanny, Hattie, Don, Henry, 
 Irene and Olivia. 
 
 (i) Daniel, born in Bethel, June 12, 1818, 
 married Amanda Woodbury, and they moved 
 to Grand-da-tour, Illinois, where he died. 
 
 JOSIAH DANA GUSHING, 
 
 (2) Josiah Dana, second child of Willard 
 J. and Fanny (Ainsworth) Gushing, was 
 born in Royalton, August 25, 1820. He re- 
 ceived his education in the common schools, 
 and at an early age began farming on the 
 farm with his father. Later he learned the 
 trade of harness making, and for several 
 years he was engaged in this line of business 
 in Bethel. In 1870 he sold hia harness busi- 
 ness, and in company with Lucius B. Wright 
 he purchased the saw and grist mill at the 
 north end of the village, and forseveral years 
 this business was conducted under the firm 
 name of Wright & Gushing. They sold the 
 
 milT to B. G. Eagley a few years later, and 
 Mr. Gushing started in the tannery business 
 at Bethel, selling the same to J . B. Alley & 
 Co., in 18S2. From that time Mr. Gushing 
 was not engaged in mercantile persuits, but 
 dealt quite extensively in real estate, buying 
 and selling farms, and carrying on the .same. 
 A Democrat in politics, Mr. Gushing's public 
 life was confined to the several town offices 
 which he held in Bethel. 
 
 Mr. Gushing was married three times, his 
 first wife, Harriet Jones, to whom he was 
 married in December, 1842, bore him two 
 children, and died September 17, i860. 
 Their children were Charles, born April 29, 
 1846, and died June 24. 1852, and Elizabeth 
 H., born April 15, 1856, died January 30, 
 1861. Mr. Gushing married Mrs. Sarah E. 
 Cooper, 7iee Rich, and she died October 27, 
 1S67, leaving no issue. On January 7, 1859, 
 he was married to Mrs. Maitha McPherson, 
 ?iee Perigo, who bore him one son, Carl 
 Dana. Mr. Gushing died October 31. 1890, 
 and his widow now resides in Bethel. 
 
 Carl Dana Gushing, only son of Josiah 
 Dana and Martha (Perigo) Gushing, was 
 born in Bethel, Vt., October 3, 1869. After 
 his school work in Bethel, he attended the 
 Goddard Seminary at Barre, Vt., and was 
 graduated in the class of 1888, entering Tufts 
 College the same year. His father dying in 
 1890, he gave up his college work and return- 
 ed to Bethel, where he took charge of his 
 father's business and carried it on success- 
 fully. In 1894 he- entered into partnership 
 with William Wright, purchasing a half inter- 
 est in the grist and saw-mill business, of Mr. 
 Wright's former partner, G. W. Reed. The 
 business was carried on under the firm name 
 of Wright & Gushing until Mr. Wright's 
 death, which occurred March 16, 1895. Since 
 that time .Mr. Gushing has been alone in the 
 management of the mill. He is somewhat 
 interested in real estate, and is a stockholder 
 in the liethel Shoe Company, one of the lead- 
 ing manufacttiring interests in Bethel. Mr. 
 Gushing is now one of the board of trustees 
 of the VVhitcomb High School. 
 
 On January 5, 1S92, he was married to 
 Nellie L. Harrington, daughter of Edwin and 
 Mary (Holland) Harrington, and they have 
 one daughter, Leila. H., born June 27, 1833. 
 
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 (3) Fanny Gushing, third child of 
 Willard J. and Fanny (Ainsworth) Gushing, 
 born December 22, 1822, married Augustus 
 W. Bigelow, and moved to Barnard, Vt., 
 where she died. 
 
 (4) Hattie Gushing, born Angust 24, 
 1825, married Hiram Augustus Putnam, and 
 they now reside in Barnard, Vt. Their ten 
 children are, Emma, Augustus. Frank A., 
 Hattie, Sarah, Ruth A., Edwin S., Jessie B., 
 Charles E., Libbie and Williard G. 
 
 (5) Don Gushing, born March 21, 1828, 
 married Sarah Jaquish, who bore him four 
 
 CARL D. GUSHING. 
 
 children. The family moved to Vancouver, 
 Washington, where they now reside. 
 
 (6) Irene Gushing, born January 29, 
 1831, married Monroe Whitcomb, of Wood- 
 stock, Vt., and they now reside at that place 
 
 (7) Henry Gushing, born May 13. 1833, 
 married twice ; his first wife was Olive Ains- 
 worth. He married Rhoda French, who died 
 leaving four children, Anna, Fred, Frank and 
 Kate. 
 
 (8) Olivia Gushing, born December 5, 
 183s, married Solon Stevens, and they now 
 rLside in Auburft, C'alrfornia. 
 
 GILSON. 
 
 James Gilson, and his wife, Clarissa (Ash- 
 ley) Gilson, came to Bethel from Hartland, 
 Vt., in October, 1832, and settled on the 
 farm now owned by L. A. Rood, on the 
 Gaysville road. Their five children were 
 Caroline, Martha, George, Aurelia and Jane. 
 
 Caroline, born November 6, 1822, married 
 Jason Burbank in 1843, and they now reside 
 in Windsor, Vt., where their daughter, Nel- 
 lie C. Burbank, was born September 12, 1845. 
 
 Martha, born July 15, 1824, married Con- 
 stantine Ghadwick of Randolph, Vt,, and 
 died in Windsor, Vt., April 10, 1894. 
 
 George, born in Hartland, Vt.,, May 17, 
 1826, married Ellen Woodbury of Bethel, 
 and they had four children, viz : (l) George 
 D., born in Bethel, Vt., November 2, 1846, 
 married Mary B. Chambers of Waretown, 
 N. Y., Deceniber 25, 1872, and died Novem- 
 ber 28, 1879, leaving two children, viz: 
 George William, born July 26, 1874, and 
 Frank B., born April 17, 1878. His second 
 wife was Belle Roderick, who bore him one 
 daughter, Jennie. George D. Gilson with 
 his wife and daughter, now resides in Port- 
 land, Oregon. 
 
 (2) Mary Virginia, born June 10, 1851, 
 married Frank H. Bascom, January 16, 1872, 
 who died November 17, 1890, leaving four 
 children, who now reside with their mother 
 in Boston. Kitt. H., born October 26, 1872; 
 Nellie, born May 17, 1875; Kate, born July 
 26, 1882 ; and Grace, born February 10, 
 1885. 
 
 (3) Edward, born in Bethel July 16, 1854, 
 resides in Bethel. 
 
 (4) Rollin, born in Gaysville, May i, 1862, 
 resides in Bethel. 
 
 George Gilson died September 20, 1885, 
 and his widow resides with her sons in 
 Bethel. 
 
 Aurelia, fourth child of James and Clarissa 
 (Ashley) Gilson, was born December 25, 
 1829, married Melvin Shaw, and they now 
 live in North Hudson, N. Y. 
 
 Jane, fifth child of James and Clarissa 
 (Ashley) Gilson, born December 18, 1831, 
 married Lemuel Putnam Gilson, June — , 1850, 
 and they had three children, viz : Jennie 
 Alice; born iff Bethel, May 12, 1851, married 
 March 16, 1873, Albert E. Cutter, and now 
 
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 resides at Jamaica Plain, near Boston, Mas?. ; 
 Willis Daniel, born in Barnard, Vt., Sep- 
 tember 7, 1853, married Ida J. Wilson of 
 Keene, N. H., October 3. 1882, and they 
 now live in Brattleboro, Vt. ; and Carrie Es- 
 tella, born at Hartland, Vt., October 26, 
 i860, married Edward F. Luitzsinger of Bn;t- 
 tleboro, Vt., December 31, 1880. 
 
 HARRINGTON. 
 
 Edwin Harrington, son of Enoch and 
 Lucinda (Davis) Harrington, was born i 1 
 Stockbridge, Vermont, April 4, 1825, a-ntl 
 died September 23, 1891, aged sixty-six 
 years ; the second in a family of eight child- 
 ren. Their names were: 
 
 Maria, who married Alexander Packard, 
 and died in Stockbridge, Vt. 
 
 Edwin. 
 
 Stephen, now resides in Massachusetts. 
 
 Martha, who married Lyman Parmentcr 
 and died in Pittsfield, Vt. 
 
 Sherman C, now residing in Gaysville, Yl 
 
 EDWIN HARRINGTON. 
 
 Almira, who married Philander Packard, 
 and died in Stockbridge, Vt. 
 
 Orwell, now a resident of Gaysville, V.. 
 
 Emma S., who married Russell Woodward, 
 and died at Barnard, Vt„ 
 
 Enoch Harrington died in Pittsfield, Vt., 
 and his wife, Lucinda, died at Barnard, Vt. 
 
 Edwin Harrington attended the district 
 schools of Kis native place, staying at home 
 on the farm until twenty years of age. He 
 
 Mrs. Et)WIN HARRINGTON. 
 
 first went to Fitchburg, Mass.,- where he 
 worked as a general helper in a machine 
 shop and foundry ; from there he went to 
 Clinton, Mass., but after seven years went to 
 Worcester, Mass., where he again obtained 
 work in a machine shop, and became a skill- 
 ful machinist, and laid the foundation of a 
 successful business career. For several 
 years he worked as a journeyman at his trade, 
 building machine tools. He then engaged 
 for five years under the name of Rice & Har- 
 rington, in the manufacture of the first organ- 
 reeds in use, and which are now so com- 
 monly in use in musical organs, for house, 
 Sunday-schools, and other places. He sold 
 his interest in the reed business, and en- 
 gaged in the manufacture of mowing ma- 
 chines, under the name of KnifTen & Har- 
 rington, which were then a new invention, 
 and from h\s past experience at farming, he 
 introduced and sold a large number of what 
 are now in general use among farmers. In 
 connection with the business, he also, during 
 
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 the late civil war, manufactured fire arms for 
 the United States government, but the war, 
 closing sooner than was expected, caused a 
 serious Joss and the closing out of his busi- 
 ness. 
 
 Two years later, he again engaged under 
 the name of Armsby & Harrington, in the 
 manufacture of machine tools for iron work, 
 in which he continued for several years, until 
 the death of Mr. Armsby, his partner, which, 
 for want of sufficient capital to continue, he 
 
 tension lathes, which are to-day, a specialty 
 of the business. 
 
 In August, 1889, a stroke of paralysis 
 obliged him to retire from active business, al- 
 though he retained his interest up to the 
 time of his death, at the age of sixty-six 
 years, September 23, 1891, his sons carrying 
 on the same under the name of Edwin Har- 
 rington, Son & Co. 
 
 On October 8th, 1848, Mr. Harrington 
 was married to Mary E., daughter of Elisha 
 
 RESIDENCE OF Mrs. EDWIN HARRINGTON. 
 
 sold out to Lucius W. Pond, a well-known 
 manufacturer of Worcester, Mass. 
 
 In May, 1867, he removed to Philadelphia, 
 where he again engaged in the manufacture 
 of machine tools, resulting in the employing 
 of two hundrfd men in the different depart- 
 ments. 
 
 He was a man of recognized ability, and 
 many of the machines manufactured were the 
 result of valuable improvements by him. 
 Among them were portable hoists and ex- 
 
 and Lucy (Whitcomb) Holland, who was 
 born in Stockbridge, Vt., March 12, 1829. 
 Their childrqn were Melvin H., born in Wor- 
 cester, Mass., September 21, 1849; married 
 May 16, 1877, to Mary E. Hobbs of Worce.s- 
 ter, who borS him three children, viz : Allen 
 H., born December 5, 1881 ; Arthur Melvin, 
 born July 26, 1884; and Mary Helen, born 
 June 17, 1890. 
 
 Edwin Leroy, born in Worcester, Mass., 
 September 12, 1854, married Mary C. Jardan, 
 
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 of Philadelphia, November 21, 1883. They 
 have no children. 
 
 Mary Ella, born in Worcester, Mass., Oc- 
 tober 12, 1857, died in Philadelphia, August 
 
 28, 1870. 
 
 Nellie Louisa, an adopted daughter, was 
 born in Philadelphia, February 10, 1872, 
 married Carl D. Gushing of Bethel, Vt., Jan- 
 uary 5, 1892. 
 
 Mr. Harrington was a member of Morning 
 Star Lodge, No. 3, F. & A. M., having joined 
 that fraternity in 1862. He was transferred 
 to Lodge No. 3, of Philadelphia, and also 
 was a member of St. John's Commandery of 
 Knight Templars, No. 4, of Philadelphia, and 
 after his residence at Bethel, became a mem- 
 ber of White River Lodge, No. go. 
 
 The last few years of his life, when seek- 
 ing relief from the cares attendant on his 
 business, Mr. and Mrs. Harrington fre- 
 quently visited the scenes of their earlier 
 days, resulting in their removal to Bethel, 
 Vt., in 1890, where they built a fine residence 
 on the outskirts of the village, and where his 
 widow resides. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Harrington were among the 
 foremost supporters of the Universalist 
 Church, and there are few public charities in 
 which Mrs. Harrington has not assisted. 
 
 She has erected the second finest cream- 
 ery in the State. She has also given practic- 
 al assistance in the establishment of a large 
 shoe shop at Bethel and a button factory at 
 Gaysville. 
 
 SPAULDING. 
 
 Junius Spaulding, born in Windsor, mar- 
 ried Rebecca Jordan, and she was the mother 
 of eleven children. Those living to maturity 
 were Rebecca, Zebina, Eliza, Verulum, 
 George, Andrew, Americus V., Mary A., 
 Julia Emiline and Charles. 
 
 Zebina Spaulding, born at Windsor, March 
 
 29, 1 8 16. was the first one of this family to 
 locale in Bethel, which he did in 1845. His 
 first wife, Harriet Morse, came with him, 
 and to them were born four children, 
 Romanza, Eliza A., Charles and Hattie. 
 Mr. Spaulding first settled on the farm now 
 occupied by John Aldrich, where he remain- 
 ed seventeen years, when he moved to his 
 present farm near the Finley bridge. He 
 has been prominent in the affairs of the town. 
 
 and has served as selectman and also justice 
 of the peace. Mrs. Spaulding died and Mr. 
 Spaulding married Charlotte Dunham ; his 
 third wife was Mary Rowell, and his present 
 wife was Mrs. Mary Albin, nee Cross, of 
 Braintree, Vt. 
 
 Romanzo Z., oldest child of Zebina Spauld- 
 ing, was born March 31,1841, and married 
 Melvina Bugbee, October 29, 1863. He died 
 September 16, 1882, leaving- seven children, 
 viz : Willard, Wilbur, Clayton, Minnie, Nina, 
 Nathan and Charles. 
 
 Eliza A., born November 2, 1843, married 
 C. R. Chadwick, and they have two children. 
 (See Chadwick sketch.) 
 
 Charles Spaulding, born November 16, 
 1845, now married and living in Deadwood, 
 Dakota. 
 
 Hattie Spaulding, born August 24, 1859, 
 is now in the millinery business in the western 
 part of Pennsylvania. 
 
 The only other representative of this 
 family living in Bethel is Charles Spaulding, 
 youngest brother of Zebina. He came to 
 Bethel in 1855, bringing with him his wife, 
 Elmira S. (Johnson) Spaulding, to whom he 
 was married April 5, 1854. They located on 
 a farm on Camp brook, but later moved onto 
 the farm formerly occupied by Zebina Spauld- 
 ing. They now reside with their son on the 
 old Davis farm. Four children have been 
 born to them, viz -. Ella J., born January 12, 
 1856, married Charles Hayward in October, . 
 1877, and she now resides in Lowell, Mass. 
 
 Ida R., born February 27, 1858, married 
 Clarence Messer, August 10, 1882, and died 
 in Iowa, May n, 1885. 
 
 Elmer E., born August 21, 1861, now owns 
 and carries on a farm near Bethel village. 
 His parents make their home with him. 
 
 Jessie M., torn May 15, 1873, 's a school 
 teacher, and resides in Bethel. 
 
 WIGHT. 
 William Wight and his wife Isabella 
 (Williams) Wight, came to East Bethel 
 from Tunbridge, Vermont, in 1856, and pur- 
 chased the place formerly known as the 
 Hibbard place. Mr. Wight was a successful 
 farmer, and carried on the farm with the as- 
 sistance of his sons until his death, which oc- 
 curred July 9, 187 1. His wile died March 
 22, 1894. There were two children born to 
 
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 William and Isabella (Williams) Wight, viz: 
 Francis W., born July 5, 1847, married 
 April 21, 1875, Sarah Smith, of Bethel. He 
 is a farmer by occupation, but has done quite 
 an extensive business in house and carriage 
 painting, a trade he has followed to some ex- 
 tent since his boyhood. 
 
 Howard Wight, born September 12. 1850, 
 married Helen Gifford, of Randolph, and now 
 resides in that town. He has one son, 
 Clayton. 
 
 ELLISON. 
 Nelson Ellison, son of William and Rachel 
 (Redfield) EUi.son, was born at Chester, Vt., 
 
 NELSON ELLISON. 
 
 (FROM A PICTURE TAKEN IN 1850.) 
 
 June 6, 1813. His parents moved to North 
 Springfield, Vt., when he was a small boy, 
 and in the latter place he received a common 
 school education. He went to Boston before 
 he became of age, and was engaged for a num- 
 ber of years as clerk in a wholesale carpet 
 house, then located at 164 Washington street, 
 the largest establishment of the kind in 
 Boston, at that time. He gave up his 
 position a few years later and returned to 
 Vermont, locating at Gaysville, where he 
 married February 15,1837, Roxana, daughter 
 of Daniel and Lucy (Barnes) Abbott. She 
 
 was born in Gaysville, February 12, 1816. 
 They returned to Boston, but owing to the 
 ill-health of Mrs. Ellison, came to Bethel 
 about 1840 and purchased a farm located on 
 the Gaysville road, about a mile from Bethel 
 village. Mr. Elliscn and his wife made 
 several changes, and in 1850 they came to 
 Bethel and located permanently. In 1863 
 Mr. Ellison built the house in the village 
 where Mrs. Ellison now lives. He was con- 
 stable of Bethel for quite a number of years, 
 and is remembered by the older citizens as 
 an efficient officer. He was chosen repre- 
 sentative to the General Assembly in 1858, 
 but did not serve. In connection with his 
 other business, he was engaged in buying 
 and selling real estate, and also dealt in 
 lumber to sbme extent. He died in Bethel, 
 January 31, 1892, leaving a \vidow, who 
 resides in Bethel village. 
 
 CHAMBERLIN. 
 Isaac Chamberlin, son of Isaac and Ara- 
 bella (Bailey) Chamberlin was born in Stock- 
 bridge, Vt., May 21, 1819, and his parents 
 moved to Bethel, when he was but eleven 
 months old, and settled in that part of the 
 town known as South Limpus. He followed 
 farming as a business, and married July 16, 
 
 1843, Abbie" Bowen, who bore him three 
 children, viz: Hattie E., born October 24, 
 
 1844. and died when two years old ; George 
 L; and Sarah A., born December 18, 1853, 
 married Lincoln E. Bolton, and now resides 
 with her father. Mrs. Isaac Chamberlin 
 died September 10, 1889, and Mr. Chamber- 
 
 -lin now carries on a farm in the west part of 
 Bethel. 
 
 George L. Chamberlin was born September 
 7, 1849, and on December 28, 1870, he was 
 married to JJJettie Harrington, who was the 
 mother of six children, viz : Eslie, born May 
 13, 1874; Walter E., born April 30, 1880; 
 a daughter died in infancy; Robert G., born 
 April 15, 1885; Hugh I., born April 20, 
 1886; and Abbie L., born- April 7, 1890. 
 George L. Chamberlin is now a successful 
 farmer in the western part of the township, 
 near his father. 
 
 EMERY. 
 Ira Emery with his wife Betsy (Richard- 
 son) Emery, came' to Bethel in 1850, bring- 
 ing with them eight children, and located" at 
 
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 Bethel Gilead. They afterwards moved to 
 the Church district, and from there to the 
 Allen Dunham place, where they remained 
 twelve years, and then moved to the farm 
 owned by their son, Alonzo, where Mr. 
 Emery died January 7, 1883. His wife died 
 August 7, 1874. They had ten children, viz.: 
 Ezra H., Emiline T., Jane G., George (died 
 at the age of four), Lyman S., Ira, George 
 S., Alonzo, Eliza B., and Ellen. 
 
 Ezra H., born June 6, 1831, served in the 
 Civil War, and died in the hospital at Baton 
 Rouge, La., October 4, 1863. He was a 
 member of Company E, Eighth Vermont 
 Volunteers. 
 
 Ira was a member of Company A, Six- 
 teenth Vermont Volunteers, and was killed 
 at the Battle of Gettysburg July 3, 1863. 
 
 Emiline T., born September j, 1832, died 
 at Stockbridge, October 23, 1879. 
 
 Jane G., born September 22, 1834, married 
 Nelson Hunt, and now resides in Stock- 
 bridge, Vt. 
 
 George, born September 12, 1836, died in 
 1840. 
 
 Lyman S., born January 3, 1839, "ow re- 
 sides in Washington, D. C. 
 
 George S., born December 17, 1843, "ow 
 living in Washington, D. C. 
 
 Eliza B., born September 23, 1846, died at 
 Randolph, Vt., February 21, 1887. 
 
 Ellen, born October 5, 1850, now living in 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Alonzo Emery, born March 31, 1845, rnar- 
 ried Angeline J. Leach of Bethel, December 
 24, 1872. With his father he owned and 
 carried on the Dunham farm until 1876, then 
 he bought the Cotton farm, where he now 
 resides. He has served the town as lister, 
 grand juror, moderator, and is now serving 
 his third term as school director. His two 
 children are Clarence E., born August 7, 
 1875, now at college in Burlington, Vt., and 
 Josephine S., born February 2, 1877, now at 
 home in Bethel. 
 
 WILSON. 
 Theophilus E. Wilson, son of Nathaniel 
 and Abigail (Varnum) Wilson, was born in 
 Cabot, Vt., May 8, 1814. He married No- 
 vember 26, 1840, Rosetta M., daughter of 
 Fifield and Judith (Heath) Lyford, who was 
 born in Cabot, February 28, 1821, and died 
 
 in Bethel September 13, 1888. The four 
 children of Theophilus and Rosetta (Lyford) 
 Wilson were (i) LouLsa, born September 
 14, 1841, married August 24, 1865, Dr. Se- 
 1am N. Welch, and they now reside in Sut- 
 ton, N. H. 
 
 (2) Martha, born December 25, 1843, 
 married James P. Thurber, and died April 
 II, 1863. 
 
 (3) Edward F., born August 8, 1848, mar- 
 ried Ida Flint of South Royalton, September 
 21, 1874, and their three children were Earl, 
 born May 13, 1876; Pearl, born September 
 2, 1877, and Richard, born February 2, 1881, 
 and died March 17, 1882. 
 
 (4) Emogene, born May 22, 1854, mar- 
 ried October 23, 1872, Westley Heath, who 
 died December i, 1892, leaving three child- 
 ren, viz: Carrie M., born May 12, 1873; 
 Josie L., born April 9, 1875; and Frank W., 
 born September 15, 1878. 
 
 On April 2, 1893, Mrs. Heath was married 
 to Gardner J. Wallace, and they reside in 
 Bethel. (See Wallace Sketch.) 
 
 Theophilus Wilson resided in Cabot until 
 1836, when he engaged in teaching school, 
 and had charge of schools in Cabot, Wood- 
 bury and Peacham. He setded on a farm in 
 Cabot in 1840, and for twenty-one years, fol- 
 lowed the occupation of' farming. He then 
 purchased the hotel property at Cabot, and 
 carried on that business until 1868, and two 
 years later he sold his business interests in 
 Cabot, and moved to Bethel, where he pur- 
 chased and carried on the Wilson House, 
 (which house still bears his name) until 
 August 17, 1887. Mr. Wilson then sold the 
 hotel property, retired from active business, 
 and resides in Bethel. 
 
 HIBBARD. 
 John Winthrop Hibbard, son of Samuel 
 and Charlotte (Fraser) Hibbard, was born 
 August 24, 1825. He learned the wheel- 
 wright trade at Tunbridge, Vt., moving from 
 there to Keene, N. H., thence to Peterboro, 
 and from that place to Randolph. He after- 
 ward worked in Lebanon, N. H., at his trade, 
 and came to Bethel in 1850. In company 
 with Ira Maxham he carried on a successful 
 business at house painting, and in i8j2, the 
 mill near his present home having been com- 
 
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 pleted the previous year, he began work at 
 his trade, which he has since carried on. 
 
 He was married May 4, 1851, to Laura E. 
 Woodbury, daughter of Samuel and Electa 
 (Buckman) Woodbury of Bethel. 
 
 ARNOLD. 
 
 Thomas Arnold, was born in Westmore- 
 land, N. H., October 7, 1803. He was a 
 traveling salesman in his native state, and 
 was the first man to sell goods by sample in 
 northern New Hampshire. He afterward 
 retired from the road and carried on a farm 
 in Westmoreland for several years On May 
 
 Hon. FRED ARNOLD. 
 
 I, 1845, he was married to Maria J. Welling- 
 ton, and their three children were Edwin T.. 
 Charles H., and Fred. Mr. Arnold moved 
 with his family to Randolph in 1852, and in 
 1867 located in Stockbridge. He came to 
 Bethel in March, 1874, where he died March 
 26, 1876. 
 
 Charles H. Arnold was born in Westmore- 
 land, N. H., January zz, 1847, now living in 
 Stockbridge, Vt. 
 
 Fred Arnold, youngest son of Thomas 
 and Maria J. (Wellington) Arnold, was born 
 in Randolph, December 7, 1856. His early 
 education was received in the common 
 
 schools and at Randolph Academy. He at- 
 tended the State Normal School at Randolph 
 Center, and. was gra.duated from that institu- 
 tion in the class of 1872. With his parents 
 he came to Bethel and immediately com- 
 menced the study of law in the office of James 
 Wilson, and was admitted to the bar of 
 Windsor county in 1882. Mr. Arnold is a 
 prominent man in the affairs of the town, 
 and has always been among the leaders in 
 any enterprise for the advancement of Bethel. 
 He has held several minor town offices at 
 different times, and has been active in the edu- 
 cational interests, serving as .superintendent 
 of schools for several years. He was chosen 
 representative to the General Assembly at 
 Montpelier in 1892, serving two years, and 
 in 1894 was elected Senator for Windsor 
 County for two years. He is a Mason, and 
 a member of White River Lodge, No. 90, at 
 Bethel, Whitney Royal Arch Chapter at 
 Randolph, and of the Mount Zion Com- 
 mandery at Montpelier. 
 
 On October 17, 1882, Mr. Arnold was 
 married to Martha P. White of Providence, 
 R. I. They have seven children, George 
 Hunter, born January 20, 1884; Emma 
 Louise, born May 6, 1885 ; Wallace Welling- 
 ton, born December 28, 1887; Edwin 
 Thomas, born September 10, 1888; Christo- 
 pher Noble, born May 10, 1891 : Alfred 
 White, born April 6, 1892; and Josephine, 
 born September 6, 1895. 
 
 CLOUGH. 
 Daniel M. Clough, son of Daniel M.. and 
 Anna (Hunt) Clough, was born at Bath, N. 
 H., October 11, 1826, and after a common 
 school education, he began work with his 
 father, learning the blacksmith trade. He 
 afterward went to South Troy, Vt., where he 
 completed His trade in the blacksmith shop 
 of James Houston, remaining there nearly 
 two years. In 1847, he began work at his 
 trade on the Central Vermont Railroad, which 
 was then being built, and his headquarters 
 were at Bethel village. He afterward opened 
 a shop here,, where he remained five years, at 
 Which time He bought the J. Wilson farm on 
 Christian HjU. This he afterward sold and 
 moved to the village, but bought the property 
 back in 1885, and has since bought the ad- 
 joining farm, making it one of the largest 
 
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 and best in this vicinity. In 1862, Mr. 
 Ciough was one of the first to enlist from 
 Bethel, and was a member of Company A, 
 Sixteenth Vermont Volunteers, serving nine 
 months under Captain Henry A. Eaton, re- 
 turning with the rank of first lieutenant. He 
 immediately re-enlisted in Company F, Sev- 
 enteenth Vermont Volunteers, in command 
 of Captain Lyman E Knapp. Here he found 
 plenty of active service, and was at the bat- 
 tles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court 
 House, and was wounded at the battles of 
 Poplar Grove in front of Petersburg and at 
 Spottsylvania. At the former place he was 
 taken prisoner on September 30, 1864, and 
 was exchanged December 24, of the same 
 \ ear. He was laid off on account of disa- 
 bility, and after being sent from Annapolis to 
 Montpelier, he was mustered out June 12, 
 1865. Mr. Ciough has always been a demo- 
 crat and was chosen selectman in 1889, serv- 
 ing three years. He is a member of White 
 River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M. On 
 June 19, 1850, he married Laura L. Brooks 
 of Bethel, and they had four children, two of 
 whom are living, viz ; Fred M. and Laura E. 
 Fred M., born June 30, 1853, married Kate 
 Ferguson of Stillwater, N. Y., and their two 
 children are Daniel Allen, born March 4, 
 1886, and Ralph, born December — , 1893. 
 
 Laura Elva, born March 5, 1857, married 
 James Welch, who died leaving one daugh- 
 ter, Ella Laura, born December 12, 1880. 
 On May 15, 1887, Laura E. married E. G. 
 Carpenter of Bethel. 
 
 SARGENT. 
 
 Moses Belknap Sargent, born at Chester, 
 N. H., March 7, 1812, with his wife, Louisa 
 (Grant) Sargent, came to Bethel in 1841, 
 and bought a farm in the town near the line 
 between Bethel and Randolph, where he re- 
 mained until 1889, when he came to the 
 village where he now resides. His wife died 
 December 17, 1892. They had six children, 
 viz ; 
 
 Moses B., born August 31, 1836, married 
 Tammie, daughter of Dr. James Woodworth, 
 November 28, 1866. He died November 18, 
 1870, leaving one son, James B., born Febru- 
 ary 3, 1869. 
 
 Josephine M., born March 29, 1838, died 
 May 25, 1838. 
 
 Josephine Louise, born July 29, 1839, 
 married Julius Wilson, July 13, 1859. (See 
 Wilson sketch.) 
 
 Joseph G., born in Bethel, August 6, i84r, 
 after completing his studies in the common 
 schools, attended the academy at West Ran- 
 dolph, and finished his education in East- 
 man's Business College, at Poughkeepsie, 
 N. Y., from.which he was graduated in 1866. 
 His first position as a clerkship in the general 
 merchandise store of G. E. Graham, at 
 Bethel, where he remained four years. He 
 purchased the tin and hardware store of S. 
 T. Coy, and in partnership with his brother, 
 carried on the same for several jears. In 
 1873 he sold out his interest in the hardware 
 bu.slness, and returned to his old position in 
 the employ of G. E. Graham, remaining here 
 until the great fire of 1877, which destroyed 
 this store and its contents. He then started 
 a general nrterchandise store which he has 
 since carried on. In politics Mr. Sargent is 
 a Republican, and has held several town 
 ofBces, among them that of town treasurer, 
 having held that office since 1884. He was 
 appointed postmaster in April, 1868, and 
 served about eight years. Mr. Sargent is a 
 member of White River Lodge, No. 90. F. 
 and A. M.. and of Whitney R. A. Chapter, 
 No. 7, at West Randolph. On June 18, 
 1872, he was married to M. Frances Messer, 
 of Rochester, and their only son, Francis 
 Joseph, waSr born in Bethel, February i8, 
 1884. 
 
 Ann, born in Bethel June 27, 1844, is un- 
 married and resides with her father in Bethel 
 village. 
 
 Abraham S., born October 9, 1853, died at 
 Springfield, November 27, 1875. 
 
 WILLIAMS. 
 
 Thomas Williams, with his wife, Olive 
 
 ( ) Williams, came to Bethel Irom 
 
 Cornish, N. H., among the early settlers. 
 Their six children were Benjamin, Thomas, 
 Olive, Peggy, Scenia, and Mary. 
 
 Thomas Williams, son of Thomas, born 
 May 18, 1798, married Phila Kimball of Roy- 
 alton, Vt., October 15, 1820. He resided in 
 Bethel where he carried on farming until his 
 death, October 9, 1875. His wife died No- 
 vember 19, 1878, and their children were as 
 follows ; (i) Loisa G., born August 18, 1831 
 
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 married April 3, 1842, Joseph Bowen and 
 their children were Melissa L., (Mrs. T. R. 
 Neff,) Julia, Margie S., Julia, (Mrs. Waldo 
 Flagg), Lulu E., Willie J., and Joseph W. 
 
 (2) Benjamin, born August 29, 1822, died 
 April 21, 1824. 
 
 (3) Sarah Jane, born February 11,1824, 
 married June 28, 1846, Charles Morse. Mr. 
 Morse was killed at the Battle of Gettysburg, 
 and his widow is now the wife of Abel Bowen 
 of Bethel. Her four children by her first 
 husband were LaForrest, who married Nellie 
 Howe, and they now live in Athol, Mass.; 
 Sumner F., now in Great Falls, Montana; 
 Lizzie J., now Mrs. William Griffith of 
 
 THOMAS WILLIAMS. 
 
 Bridgeport, Conn.; and K. W. Morse, who 
 married Etta Raymond, and they reside at 
 White River Junction. Mr. and Mrs. Bowen 
 are now residents of Bethel. 
 
 (4) Leonard K., born June 2, 1825, mar- 
 ried June 10, 1849, to Nancy Mor.se, and 
 died September 14, 1894. 
 
 (5) Susan A,, born November i, 1826, 
 married Newell Batchelder April 18, 1853, 
 who was killed by a train at Bethel village. 
 Her second husband is Franklin Parsons, 
 and they reside in Bethel. 
 
 (6) Am.os H., born January 2, 1828, died 
 April 16, 1848. 
 
 (7) Amplias, born April 6, 1829, married 
 Marion Rajph of Northfield, July 2, 1854, 
 and he now' lives in Randolph. 
 
 (8) Poliy-A., born October 7, 1830. 
 
 (9) Charles L., born July 23, 1832, mar- 
 ried Everelda Chamberlin, November 17, 
 1857. His second wife was Mrs. Mark 
 Deering, and his present wife was Emma 
 Kinney. He now lives in Royalton. 
 
 (10) Amanda R. born September 17, 1833, 
 married April 7, 1855, to Chapman Morse 
 of Rochester, Vt., where they now live. 
 
 (11) Thomas R., born January 2, 1835, 
 married Laura Fisher March 12, 1859, a"d' 
 was killed in the Civil War, May 3, J863. 
 
 (12) John K., born September 3, 1836, 
 married Martha Barnes November 4, 1858. 
 Their chil'dren were Frank W., Arthur, 
 Haile, and Gertrude. 
 
 (13) Esther A., born April 17, 1838, 
 married David Dyke, March 14, 1858, and 
 resides in Bethel. Their children are Effie E., 
 born December 25, 1858, married Melvin M. 
 Cox, August 20, 1878, and died March 26, 
 1883, leaving one son, Glenn D., born April g, 
 1880. Adelbert, born November 23, 1864, 
 married Stella Lyman of Royalton, July 24, 
 1887, and their two children are Pearl, born 
 May 18, 1889, and Mildred, born March 24, 
 1893. 
 
 (14) Wallace E., born December 11, 
 1841, married Beaumelle Parish, March 22, 
 1865, who bbre him two children, Aggie and 
 Parish. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Daniel Child, son of Stephen and Mercy 
 (Chase) Child, was born at Cornish, N. H., 
 August 6, 1779. On November 11, 1804, he 
 was married to Apama Lyman, a daughter of 
 Josiah and Eunice (Tiffany) Lyman, who 
 bore him nine children, viz. : Emily, Laura, 
 Abel, Philander, Eliza, Elijah Lyman, Lucy, 
 Stephen and Unity M. 
 
 Elijah Lyman Child, sixth child of Daniel 
 and Apama (Lyman) Child, was born in 
 Rochester, Vermont, July 31, i8i6,and came 
 to Bethel with his parents, when he was two 
 years of age. He resided in this town all his 
 life, carrying on a farm until 1854, when he 
 
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 moved to the village, where he died November 
 3. 1893. He married June 26, 1838, Eliza- 
 beth E. Blanchird of Pomfret, who, with two 
 of the four children of this marriage, survive 
 him. The children were Elizabeth Janette, 
 born July i, 1840, now a practicing physician 
 in Bethel; a child died in infancy; Daniel 
 Lyman, born June 25, 1852, married Josephine 
 M. Clark of Bethel, April 17, 1883, and is now 
 in the ice business in Bethel; and Mary, who 
 died when two weeks old. 
 
 Enos Child, a brother of Daniel Child, 
 was born in Cornish, N. H., January 10, 
 1783, and was married August 23, 1806, to 
 Sarah Bemis. They moved to Bethel, Vt., 
 about 1813, and here Mr. Child died January 
 30, 1839. Their son, Asaph Bemis Child, 
 was born in Bethel, Vt., August 22, 1813, 
 and on January 7, 1840, he was married to 
 Eusebia Sabine. He was a graduate of the 
 Medical College at Burlington, and practiced 
 in Bethel for a few years. He afterward 
 moved to Boston where he entered upon the 
 practice of dentistry. 
 
 DAVIS. 
 Samuel Davis, son of Samuel and Sally 
 (Coffin) Davis, was born in Weathersfield, 
 Vt., May 25, 1812. On September 30, 1839, 
 he married Desire, daughter of Isaac and 
 Azubia Chamberlin, and they resided in 
 Bethel, Mr. Davis having come to this town 
 ten years previous. Mr. Davis died in 
 Bethel May i, 1886. The three children of 
 Samuel and Desire (Chamberlin) Davis 
 were Clark S. ; James, born in Bethel, Aug- 
 ust 28, 1845, "°w ^ resident of Lowell, Mass.; 
 and Abbie, who died when thirteen years old. 
 Clark S. Davis was born in Bethel July 17, 
 1840, and has always made this place his 
 home. He was brought up on a farm, and 
 has always followed that busines.s, together 
 with lumbering, which he has carried on 
 quite extensively. He has been active in the 
 affairs of the town, and has always been a 
 firm adherent to the republican party. He 
 served as selectman from 1886 to 1890, has 
 been lister, and is now serving the third year 
 as road commissioner. 
 
 Mr. Davis has been twice married. On 
 February 25, 1863, he married Alice N. Gid- 
 dings, daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Boyn- 
 ton) Giddings of Bethel, who died June 21, 
 
 1865. Their only son, Walter, born May 
 21, i86j, died June 3, 1865. On April 17, 
 
 1866, he married Hattie M., daughter of 
 Enos and Martha (Holden) Town, and their 
 three children were as follows : Willis Clark, 
 born June 9, 1867, married Edith Hatch ; 
 Fred L., born May 9, 1871, now a farmer in 
 Bethel ; and Barton E., born December 20, 
 1873, now with his father, at home. 
 
 HUNTON. 
 
 AuGUSTtrs P. HuNTON is the son of Ariel 
 
 and Polly (Pingry) Hunton. Mr. Hunton's 
 
 father, Ariel Hunton, M. D., was born at 
 
 Unity, N. H., July 5, 1789, studied medicine 
 
 Hon. a. p. H.UNTON. 
 
 with Dr. Long of Warner, and Dr. Howard 
 of Springfield, and married March 18, 1809, 
 Polly, daughter of William and Mary (Mor- 
 rillj Pingry. She was born at Salisbury, N. 
 H., September 6, 1791, and died April 29, 
 1874, at Bethel, at the residence of her 
 daughter, Mrs. Mary A. Parker. 
 
 Dr. Hunton was the son of Nathaniel and 
 Dorothy (Thurston) Hunton. After his 
 marriage he. resided in Salisbury until 1814, 
 when he removed to Groton, where Augus- 
 tus Pingry Hunton was born, February 23, 
 i8i6. Dr. Hunton removed to Hyde Park, 
 
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 Vt., July 24, 18 18, and there resided until 
 his death, November 25, 1857. He was "a 
 practicing physician forty-three years and 
 resided in Hyde Park thirty-nine years. He 
 was well read and skillful in his profession, 
 was a good citizen and neighbor, a kind 
 husband and father. He was honest in his 
 dealings, and punctual in his engagements; 
 kind to the poor, and manifested a deep in- 
 terest in the cause of education." 
 
 Their children were Parmenas, born at 
 Salisbury, N. H., November 30, 1809; studied 
 law, was admitted to the bar; married Laura 
 Parsons of Randolph, Vt., May, 1838; died 
 at Charleston, S. C, August 4, 1839. 
 
 Sylvanus, born at Salisbury, June 2, 181 1, 
 married September 5, 1841, Clarissa M 
 Bailey, of Unity, N. H. He lived many 
 years with his great uncle, John Thurston, 
 of Unity. He graduated at the Castleton, 
 Vt., Medical College, and died at CarroUton, 
 Ga., February 25, 1847. 
 
 Eudosia, born at Salisbury, May i, 1813, 
 died at Hyde Park, August 3, 1844. 
 
 Augustus P. 
 
 Tryphena R., born January 10, 1827. 
 
 William P., born November 24, 1832; died 
 February 22, 1856. 
 
 Mary A., born November 24, 1832; mar- 
 ried July ,8, i860. Rev. Sylvester A., son of 
 William B. and Malvina (Miner) Parker, 
 who was born June 10, 1834. 
 
 Augustus Pingry Hunton married, April 
 29, 1849, Caroline, daughter of Dr. Alfred 
 and Sarah (Bigelow) Paige, who was born 
 February 14, 1817. They had two children, 
 (i) Mary, born April 25, 1851. Married 
 February i, 1877, William Brunswick Curry, 
 son of Rev. Moses P. and Jane F. (Curry) 
 Stickney. Their children are William, born 
 March 6, 1878, and Mary, born November 
 24,^1882; (2) Albert, born June 20. 1853, 
 died July 18, 1864. (See Legal Profession). 
 
 ARCHER. 
 Samuel Archer, with his wife, Edna (Cox) 
 Archer, came to Bethel from Chester, Vt., in 
 1862. He was married three times. His 
 first wife, Harriet Finley, to whom he was 
 married April 5, 1844, died September 13, 
 1849, leaving one daughter, Jennie, born 
 August 22, 1848. She died March 2, 1869, 
 unmarried. 
 
 His second wife, Charlotte Wyman, to 
 whom he wis married in 1854, died January 
 31, 1859, leaving two children, Hattie, born 
 March 9, 1855, and Abbie, born June 11, 
 1857. Hattie died February 23, 1856. Ab- 
 bie married Marcus Moody January 25, 1882, 
 and they now reside in Bethel where Mr. 
 Moody is engaged in the grocery trade. 
 
 On May 12, i860, Mr. Archer married 
 Edna E. Cox of Barnard. The first two 
 years of their residence in Bethel were spent 
 on a farm which Mr. Archer carried on to- 
 gether with a lumber business. In 1864 
 they moved to the village, making their home 
 at the hotels, and Mr. Archer did not again 
 enter active business life. He died June 6, 
 1887, and Mrs. Archer now makes her home 
 in the family of Mr. Moody. 
 
 WOOD. 
 Lyman Mt Wood, son of Lyman and Polly 
 (Morgan) Wood, was born in Plymouth, 
 N. H., September 2, 1837. From his child- 
 hood he followed the occupation of a farmer. 
 He moved to Woodstock in 1866, remaining 
 there two years, when he came to Bethel, 
 and purchased the Benjamin Fisk farm in the 
 East village, where he has since resided. 
 Mr. Wood was selectman of the town for 
 three terms, and has also served as lister, his 
 interests being with the Republican party. 
 He is unmarried. 
 
 WEEDEN. 
 Samuel Weeden, son of Samuel and 
 Martha (Cady) Weeden, was born in Hart- 
 land, Vt., October 18, 1822. He engaged in 
 farming at Hartland until he was nineteen 
 years old when his parents moved to Reading, 
 Vermont. Two years later he worked in 
 Woodstock, and moved from there to Bridge- 
 water, where he remained until 1852, when he 
 went to California and engaged in mining. 
 After spendfng one summer in the mountains 
 he went to Sacremento, and from there he 
 made a trip to the southern mines, where he 
 worked for a short time. He was taken sick 
 in September, 1852, and was located in San 
 Francisco from September until December 
 of that year. He afterwards worked in Oak- 
 land, Cal., for John- A. Hobart, a former 
 resident of Randolph, Vt. In September, 
 1854, he returned to Vermont locating at 
 
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 Bridgewater. In 1866 he came to East 
 Bethel and bought a saw-mill which he car- 
 ried on for some time but afterwards sold, 
 and in company with his son-in-law bought 
 the grist-mill, but sold his interest in this 
 business in 1883. 
 
 He was married December 27. 1843, to 
 Selemna R. Doten of Woodstock, and they 
 had three children, only one of whom is liv- 
 ing, viz : Rosamond, born July 5, 1849, mar- 
 ried M. B. Brown of Lebanon, where they 
 now reside. 
 
 PARKER. 
 
 Rev. S. a. Parker has lived in Bethel 
 thirty-three years. He came here May 1. 
 1862, and was pastor of the Universalist par- 
 ish sixteen years, and has lived in the house 
 in which he now resides 32 years. He has 
 led a very busy life ; for thirty^years he never 
 lost a Sunday's preaching, and has never 
 known from experience the meaning of a 
 " summer's vacation." 
 
 Having lived so many years in this town 
 and supplied so many different pulpits, his 
 acquaintance is quite extensive. Through 
 his efforts two churches have been built and 
 six have been remodeled and renovated. He 
 has been Secretary of the Universalist Con- 
 vention of Vermont and Province of Quebec, 
 for ten years, and still holds that office and 
 is " special agent " for that convention. He 
 has taken a great interest in masonry, and 
 received the first three Masonic degrees in 
 Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 15, in Newport, 
 N. H., November 10, 1857 — the chapter de- 
 grees in King Solomon's Chapter at Mont- 
 pelier, Vt, May 3, i860. He was the iirst 
 Master U. D. of Mystic Lodge in Stowe, 
 Vt., and gave it its name. He was elected 
 the first Master of White River Lodge, No. 
 90, and held the office ten successive years. 
 On retiring from the " chair " the lodge pre- 
 sented him with a Past Master's Gold Jewel, 
 which he most highly prizes. 
 
 He is a sincere believer in the principles of 
 Masonry and has done what he could in 
 building up the institution. He has been 
 Assistant Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of 
 Vermont. 
 
 Mr. Parker was born in the town of 
 Lempster, N. H., June 10, 1834, and was a 
 member of a family of five children. His 
 
 father was William B. Parker, who died in 
 1890 aged 8o' years. He was a descendant 
 Of Abraham Parker, who married Rose 
 Whitlock in Woburn, Mass., in 1644. They 
 afterwards settled in Chelmsford, Mass., and 
 were the parents of ten children. His mother 
 was Amanda M. Miner — daughter of Benajah 
 Ames Miner and Amanda Gary. She is still 
 living, having reached the age of eighty-four 
 years. 
 
 Having received a common school educa- 
 tion he attended the academy at Lempstei , 
 N. H., Tubb's Union Academy at Washing- 
 ton, N. H., also the academy at Hopkinton, 
 N. H. He was brought up in a Universalist 
 
 Rev. S. a. PARKER. 
 
 home and he desired to attend school where 
 the religious atmosphere was congenial to 
 him. Hence he went to South Woodstock, 
 Vt., and entered the Green Mountain Liberal 
 Institute and graduated in the class of 1855. 
 During these three years he was on the board 
 of instruction as teacher of penmanship and 
 pen drawing. He was student a short time 
 at Tuft's College. He married. May 10, 
 1856, Nancy M. Greene, a graduate of his 
 class at Woodstock. She was a daughter of 
 Captain Calvin and Nancy (Tupper) Greene 
 of Barnard, Vt.. and was born in Barnard, 
 
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 Vt., April, 3, 1836. He and his wife went to 
 Warren County, Georgia, ten miles from 
 Alexander Stephens', and took charge of 
 Oak Grove Academy. They remained there 
 through 1857 and till July, 1858, when they 
 went to Kenansville, N. C, where his wife 
 died August 8, 1858. 
 
 He then came back to the North. H-e 
 married, July 8, i860, Mary A. Hunton, 
 daughter of Dr. Ariel and Polly (Fingry) 
 Hunton of Hyde Park, Vt. She was born 
 November 24, 1832. 
 
 The home in which he was born, the 
 church that he attended, and the influence of 
 his uncle. Dr. A. A. Miner, all tended to 
 call his attention to the Christian ministry. 
 He received the fellowship of the New Hamp- 
 shire Convention of Universalists held at 
 Enfield, N. H., June 16, 1859. He was or- 
 dained at Stowe, Vt., August 25, 1859, dur- 
 ing the session of the Vermont State Con- 
 vention. For some time he studied under 
 the direction of Dr. Eli Ballou of Montpelier, 
 Vt., and had access to his library. He sup- 
 plied the Calais and Stowe parishes. His 
 first settlement was in Stowe where he re- 
 mained three years and then came to Bethel, 
 where he still resides. 
 
 BOWEN. 
 
 David Bowen and his wife Betsy (Gush- 
 ing) Bowen, came to Royal ton, Vt, from 
 Rehoboth, Mass., and located on Royalton 
 Hill, about two miles south of Bethel village. 
 Of their children, eight grew to maturity, 
 viz : Patience, Letis, Russell, Olive, Crom- 
 well, Lucy, Adeline, and Orville. David 
 Bowen died in Bethel, Vt. ; Russell Bowen 
 moved to Ohio, when a young man, but re- 
 turned to Bethel where he died in 1881. 
 
 Orville Bowen, youngest child of David 
 and Betsy (Gushing) Bowen, was born 
 March 23, 1810, and was engaged in farming 
 for a number of years, after reaching his ma- 
 jority. He soon learned the trade of car- 
 penter and joiner, and for over fifty years was 
 engaged in this line of work in and about 
 Bethel. On December 25, 1833, he was 
 married to Sarah A. Fisk of Bethel, who was 
 the mother of seven children, viz : Roselle, 
 Orson O., Solon, Zenus C, Mariette, Judia, 
 and Albert., 
 
 Roselle, born at Bethel, Vt, October 23, 
 1834, died March 10, 1885. 
 
 Orson O., born in Stockbridge, Vt., May 
 13, 1837, was married twice. His first wife 
 was Mary Spencer of Springfield, Mass., who 
 died without issue. His second wife, Marion 
 Williams, bore him two children, Eva and 
 Howard C. 
 
 Solon died April 23, 1846. 
 
 Zenus C, born in Bethel, Vt., April 23, 
 1843, marrieH Harriet Clark, and they have 
 one daughter, Edna Bowen. 
 
 Mariette Bowen, born in Bethel, Vt., 
 April 16, 1-844, married Edmund C. Cush- 
 man of Windsor, Vt., and they now reside in 
 New York state. 
 
 Julia Bowen, born in Bethel, May 16, 1845, 
 married Edwin Henry, and they have two 
 children, Frank, born December — , 1869, 
 and Mary A., born October — , 1872. 
 
 Albert Bowen, born November 17, 1847, 
 married Anna Moriarty January i, 1877. 
 They have three children, viz: Florence A., 
 born October ig, 1878; Orville A., born 
 February 2, 1880; and Edward C, born 
 May 13, 1885. Mr. Bowen is a carpenter 
 and resides in Bethel village. 
 
 CHADWICK. 
 Constantine Chadwick, son of Rufus and 
 Mahala (York) Chadwick, was born in Ran- 
 dolph July 23, 1826. After completing his 
 studies in the common schools, he began to 
 learn his trade of carpenter and joiner with 
 his father, and remained with him until 1848, 
 when he moved to Bethel, locating in the 
 western pzxi of the town, and followed his 
 trade until the Civil War, He enlisted in 
 Company H, Eleventh Vermont Volunteers, 
 and served under Captain J. D. Rich. He 
 was wounded by a minnie ball at Gold Har- 
 bor, from the effect of which he lost his arm. 
 He was in the hospital at Washington for 
 some time, and after being transferred to 
 Montpelier-in December, 1864, he was dis- 
 charged from the service in June, 1865. On 
 September i, 1846, he was married to Martha 
 Gilson, who died April 10, 1894. Their 
 children were Aurelia, born July 4, 1847; 
 Jennie, born June 6, 1869; George, born 
 April 5, 1871; and Emma, born May 15, 
 1873. Mr: Chadwick now resides in the 
 East village, where he moved in 1875. 
 
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 ABBOTT. 
 
 Lewis H. Abbott, son of Lewis H., and 
 Arabella (Stevens) Abbott, was born in 
 Kingfield, Maine, September 25, 1842. He 
 came to Vermont and settled in Roxbury, 
 moving to Randolph, and was graduated 
 from the Normal School at Randolph Center 
 in 1863. He went West in 1872, and was 
 employed as a teacher in the schools of Illi- 
 nois, Michigan, and Kansas for several years, 
 and engaged in stock raising in the latter 
 state, returning to Vermont in 188 1. He 
 settled in Bethel, where he has since made 
 his home. He married Louisa Jones of Tun- 
 bridge, Vt.,and their two children are John 
 B., born in Bethel January 5, 1883, and 
 Thomas J., born January 31, 1885. 
 
 GAY. . 
 Paul W. Gay was born in Stockbridge, 
 Vt, June, 1797. He married Philena Ab- 
 bott, who was born in 1802, and they resided 
 in Stockbridge until 1849, when they moved 
 to Bethel, remaining one year. They then 
 located in Royalton, where they remained 
 until April, 1851, and then came to Bethel, 
 where Paul W. died on December i, i860. 
 His wife died November 4, 1887. There 
 were four children of this marriage. Paul, 
 the eldest, was born in Stockbridge, De- 
 cember 5, 1824, and his early days were 
 spent on the farm with his father. In i86r, 
 he left the old homestead, and moved onto 
 the Gilson farm, located' one mile above 
 Gaysville in Stockbridge, and two years 
 later, he moved to Gaysville village. He 
 moved from Gaysville to Barnard, where he 
 remained three years, and after two years 
 spent in Bridgewater, he came to Bethel and 
 has resided in his present location on River 
 street ever since. From 1873 to i88r, he 
 carried on grocery business in Bethel in com- 
 pany with his son, Frank P. Gay. Since 
 the latter date Mr. Gay has been a wholesale 
 and retail dealer in lumber, shipping to dif- 
 ferent parts of the country. He has always 
 been a staunch democrat and a firm believer 
 in the platform of that party. On May 27, 
 1847, Mr. Gay was married to Minerva, 
 daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Cox) Per- 
 kins, and they had three children, viz : Ella G., 
 born January 30, , now residing in Lowell, 
 
 Mass.; Frank P., born July 24, 1854, and died 
 July 8, 1879 ; a^d Hattie L., born March 4, 
 1864, married Elmer C. Bradbury of Chelsea, 
 Vt., May 25,1893, and they reside in Bethel. 
 
 TERRY. 
 Ephraim Terry, with his wife Lucena 
 (Bugbee) Terry, came to East Bethel from 
 Connecticut among the early settlers. They 
 raised a family of eight children, viz : Oliver, 
 Priscilla, Elisha, Rebecca, Polly, Lucretia and 
 Lucena (twins), and Roxana. Of these, 
 Elisha, bora in Bethel November 21, 1786 
 lived and died in the town of Bethel, and 
 with the exception of five years, resided on 
 one farm the whole of this time. He was 
 married four times, and died October 26, ' 
 i860. There were four children born to his 
 first wife, viz : Abbie, born September 27, 
 1809; Mary, born July 9, 181 1; Oliver, born 
 May 7, 1813; and Martha, born March 6, 
 1815; di«d March 9, 1833. His second 
 wife was the mother of six children, viz : 
 Orville, born October 10, 1816; Zeruah, born 
 January 5, 1818; Orvis, born October 6, 
 1819; Ormon; Roxana, born April i, 1823; 
 and George, born January 30, 1825. The 
 two children of his third wife were Caroline, 
 born January 27, 1835, and Laura, born Oc- 
 tober 3, 1836. Caroline married Albert San- 
 derson, and they now live in Brookline, 
 Mass. Laura was twice married; first to Al- 
 bert Davis, who died January i, 1879, leav- 
 ing one son, Charles Davis. She married 
 Dana Carpenter of Randolph, and they now 
 make that place their home. Orville Terry 
 studied, medicine and settled in New York 
 State, where his brother Ormon afterwards 
 studied. 
 
 Ormon Terry, born June 23, 1821, after 
 studying medicine in the office of his brother, 
 attended Castleton Medical College from 
 which he was graduated in the class of 1846. 
 He married Deborah Baker in 1853, at Sara- 
 nac, N. Y., who died in Bethel in 1865, 
 leaving five children, viz : Marcellus, Emma, 
 Carrie, Wilmarth, and Ruth. His second 
 wife, Jennie Demming of Cornish, N. H., to 
 whom he was married in i868, bore one 
 child, a daughter, Nellie. 
 
 Marcellus married Myra Tower, of East 
 Randolph, and they now reside in Boston, 
 Mass. 
 
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 Emma died in Tunbridge. 
 
 Carrie married Franii Kittredge, and they 
 now reside in Massachusetts. 
 
 Wilmarth married Ella Mann of Brain- 
 tree, and they now live in Randolph. 
 
 Ruth married James Coleman, and their 
 present home is in Boswick, Nebraska. 
 
 Nellie married James Graham, and they 
 now reside in Barre. 
 
 Dr. Ormon Terry settled in Bethel in the 
 spring of 1865, and made this place his home 
 until his death, September to, 1880. 
 
 TUPPER. 
 
 Royal H. Tupper came from Rochester to 
 Bethel in 1864, and located in Bethel village, 
 residing in the house now owned by Mrs. 
 William Wright. Although not a merchant 
 in this, place, he was actively engaged in buy- 
 ing and selling wool and hops in this section, 
 and for several years was president of the 
 White River National Bank. He was twice 
 married. His first wife, Sarah (Farrington) 
 Tupper. died in Rochester, February 22, 
 1850, leaving three children, viz: John R., 
 born December 4, 1 841, married Susan Ray- 
 mond of Stowe, Vt., and they now reside in 
 Rochester; Robert, born March 26, 1843, 
 died August 25, 1855 ; and Sarah Frances, 
 born November 26, 1848, married F. P. Hol- 
 den of Gaysville, Vt., and they now live in 
 Penacook, N. H. They have one son, 
 Royal D., born November 5, 1880. Mr. 
 Tupper married, June 9, 1851, Martha Rog- 
 ers, who bore one .son, George H. Tupper. 
 
 Royal Tupper died November 26, 1881, 
 aged seventy-one. 
 
 George H. Tupper, son of Royal and 
 Martha (Rogers) Tupper, was born in Roch- 
 ester June 4, 1855, and received his educa- 
 tion in the public schools of his native place, 
 and the Goddard Seminary at Barre. After 
 completing his school work, he returned to 
 his home at Rochester, and was employed on 
 the farm with his father, for a short time. 
 He then came to Bethel, and during the 
 years 1881 and 1882, he was employed in the 
 White River National Bank. In the latter 
 part of 1882, he went to Kewanee, 111., where 
 he remained seven months, returning to 
 Bethel at the end of that time, and purchas- 
 ing the hardware business of J. G. Fassett, 
 which he still carries on. 
 
 Mr. Tupper is a staunch Democrat, and the 
 family has been connected with that party 
 through several generations. He has been a 
 member of the Democratic County Commit- 
 tee for several years, and was appointed 
 postmaster of Bethel on May 13, 1885, dur- 
 ing the first year of Mr. Cleveland's admin- 
 istration. He served four years, and was re- 
 appointed October 3, 1883, the office having 
 been changed from a fourth to a third rate 
 office. Mr. Tupper is a member of White 
 River Lodge, No. go, F. and A. M. 
 
 He wa3 married Jaijuary 25, 1882, to Nellie 
 M,, daughter of A. J. and Susan (Lyman) 
 
 GEORGE H. TUPPER. 
 
 Graham, and their four children are Grace 
 L., born January 29, 1883; Harry A., born 
 October 21, 1886; Frank H , born March 26, 
 1894, and Marion M., born May 3, 1895. 
 
 STURTEVANT. 
 
 Edwin Siurtevant, son of Thomas Foster 
 and Rosilinrf (Taylor) Sturtevant, was born 
 in Hartland, Vt., September 24, 1826. At 
 an early age he became a railroad engineer, 
 and was employed on the Ogdensburg and 
 Lake Champlain railroad for several years, 
 having previously run on the Central Ver- 
 mont railroad. In 1859 he moved to New 
 
York city, where he engaged in business for 
 about eiglit years, when he came to Bethel 
 and here became interested in mercantile 
 trade, which he continued until 1876. He 
 then engaged in monumental business, which 
 he carried on until his death, which occurred 
 August 31, 1894. Mr. Sturtevant was a 
 member of White River Lodge, No. 90, F. 
 and A. M. He was a republican, and was 
 elected by that party to represent the town 
 of Bethel in 1876, besides holding several 
 town offices. 
 
 On October 24, 1849, Mr. Sturtevant was 
 married to Sarah A. Gilson, who survives 
 him, and now resides on River street in 
 Bethel village. 
 
 CHADWICK. 
 
 Samuel Chadwick came to Vermont from 
 Falmouth, Mass., about 18 14, and located at 
 Randolph, where he married Polly Miles, a 
 native of Claremont, N. H. They raised a 
 family of seven children, viz ; Catherine, 
 Annah, Lucien, Maria, Francis, Jason and 
 Sarah. 
 
 Lucien came to Bethel in 1849, *"d was 
 twice married. His first wife, Louisa San- 
 ders, died in 1872, leaving three children, 
 Laura, Elizabeth and Mary, He married 
 Saphronia Pember of Randolph, who died in 
 Randolph in 1894. Lucien Chadwick died 
 ■in Bethel in 1893. Francis Chadwick, a 
 younger brother of Lucien, came to Bethel in 
 1849, where he married Abbie Fiynn. They 
 moved to Rochester, N. Y., where he now 
 resides. 
 
 Jason Chadwick, born in Randolph, No- 
 vember 30, 1832, came to Bethel in 1851, 
 where he married Sarah Bennett, who bore 
 him nine children, viz : Lucien, born August 
 26, 1856, died October 4, 1889; Henry, born 
 in Hancock, May ri, 1859, married Ida 
 Haskins, and they reside in St. Albans ; 
 Belle, born in Bethel February 18, 1862, 
 married Frank Beckman, and they now re- 
 side in Gardiner, Mass. ; Adelle, born in 
 Stockbridge, May 16, 1864, died August 27, 
 1865; Alice, born in Bethel August i, 1867, 
 married Charles Allen, and they reside in 
 Bethel ; Jessie, born in Bethel May i, 1870; 
 Freddie, born July 21, 1872, died November 
 4, 1876; Harry, born in Bethel July 6, 1874: 
 arid" Annah, born July 16, 1879. 
 
 Jason Chadwick now resides in Bethel, 
 where he foUows his trade as a carpenter and 
 builder. 
 
 SOPER. 
 
 Almon Alonzo Soper, s.on of Jesse and 
 Betsy (Hutft) Soper, was born in Brandon, 
 Vt., September 22, 1828. After a common 
 school education, he began the blacksmith 
 trade in Brandon, and he remained there five 
 years. His parents lived in Leicester and 
 Middlebury when he was a boy, but after- 
 wards returned to Brandon. Mr. Soper 
 came to Bethel in 1856, and opened a black- 
 smith shop in the village, but four years later 
 moved to his present location on the Gays- 
 ville road. On June 6, 1858, he was married 
 to Elizabeth M., daughter of Samuel and 
 Electa (Buckman) Woodbury, and they 
 have three children, viz : Clinton, born Octo- 
 ber 13, 1859, married Mabel Cox of National 
 City, California, January 3, 1893, and their 
 son, Fred, was born July 28, 1894. Florence, 
 born August 19, 1866, is a school teacher, 
 and now resides with her parents; Robert 
 W., born January 7, 1880, now attending 
 school at Bethel. 
 
 Mr. Soper has never been identified with 
 politics, devoting his whole time to his 
 business, and for thirty-five years has been 
 located in this present shop, where he has 
 established and carries on a successful trade. 
 
 CURTIS. 
 
 Asa Curtis, born January 31, 1782, came 
 to Bethel in 1800, and here he married Lucy 
 Fish, December j, 1805, who bore twelve 
 children, five of whom are living, viz : 
 Amanda, Ellis, Abigail, Chastina, and 
 Charles W. Asa Curtis died in 1865. 
 
 Amanda Curtis, born May 28, 1807, mar- 
 ried Thwing Buckman, who died, and his 
 widow now lives in Windsor, Vt. 
 
 Ellis Curtis, born May 26, 1813, married 
 Eliza A. Richardson, and their children were 
 Andrew J. and William. 
 
 Abigail Curtis, born May 29, 1815, mar 
 ried Edmund Chadwick and they had cne 
 son, Frank Chadwick. Mr. Chadwick died, 
 and his widow now lives with her son, in 
 Randolph. 
 
 Chastina Curtis, born October 7, 1819. 
 married Orvis Terry, who died leaving six 
 
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 children, viz: Eliza A., Alma, Ella, Marion, 
 Fred and Sarah. Chastina (Curtis) Terry 
 now resides in Randolph, Vt. 
 
 Charles W. Curtis, born March 7, 1824, 
 married Ellen Buckman, who died August 
 29, 1893, feaving^ three children, viz: Adel- 
 bert, born November 11, 1855, ^^'^d February 
 7, 1858; Carrie A., born April 3, i860, now 
 assistant principal in the graded schools at 
 Lancaster, N. H.; Nettie B., born February 
 4, 1863, now Mrs. Charles Davis. 
 
 Charles W. Curtis is now a successful 
 farmer about one mile north of Bethel village 
 on the Randolph road. In politics he is a 
 Republican, and has held several town offices 
 in Bethel. 
 
 STEARNS. 
 
 Charles Curtis Stearns, was born at Straf- 
 ford, Vt., October 2, 1829. He enlisted in 
 Company E, First Vermont Volunteers, in 
 1862, serving three months. This company 
 was organized at Northfield, and was the first 
 regiment out of Vermont. In 1867 he came 
 to Bethel, where he was employed as station 
 agent by the Central Vermont Railroad and 
 continued in that position for fourteen years. 
 He was a member of White River Lodge, 
 No. 90, F. and A. M.; also a member of the 
 Episcopal Church of Bethel, in which he 
 served as warden for several years. Mr. 
 Stearns was married twice. His first wife, 
 Helen M. Shaw, to whom he was married 
 
 April 29, 1856, died . Their 
 
 only son, William G. Stearns, born July i, 
 1857, married Helen Pease of Hartford, and 
 their children are Allen P., Charles N., and 
 Helen A. 
 
 Mr. Stearns was married March 19, 1862, 
 to Adelaide R. Blodgett, at Randolph Cen- 
 ter, and died in Bethel September 5, 1881. 
 Their two children were Charles B., born 
 June 28, 1865, and died March 4, 1887 ; and 
 Mary A., born August 24, 1870. Mrs. Stearns 
 and her daughter now reside m Bethel village. 
 
 CHADWICK. 
 Theodore A. Chadwick, born July 28, 
 1845, came to Bethel from Braintree, Vt., in 
 December, 1863. He was first employed by 
 J. D. Gushing in the harness business, and 
 worked for him until he sold his business to 
 
 Henry A. Fairbanks in 1870. He continued 
 in the same shop under Mr. Fairbanks, Hor- 
 ton & McCuUoch and George Wallace, and 
 on March 5, 1875, he started in business for 
 himself, which he still carries on. At the 
 call for men in the beginning of the Civil 
 War, Mr. Chadwick enlisted in Company F., 
 1 2th Vermont Volunteers, serving nine 
 months,. and was mustered out in July, 1863. 
 He is a Charter member of White River 
 Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M. 
 
 He was married May 2, 1869, to Ellen 
 Blake of Bethel, and their only son, Lynn 
 T., was born June 2, 1873. 
 
 WHITCOMB. 
 Albert Whitcomb, son of Branch and 
 Olivia (Baker) Whitcomb, wns born in Stock- 
 
 ALBERT WHITCOMB. 
 
 bridge, Vt., December 2, 1815. Although 
 he received only a common school education, 
 he spent much of his spare lime in reading 
 and study, His early life was spent on a 
 farm, and \vith his brother he purchased a 
 part of the old farm, over which a debt was 
 standing, earning the money to pay for the 
 same by working out, the greater part of the 
 work being done at night. His first invest- 
 ment in the way of speculation, was the 
 
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 purchase of a calf, which he raised to a cow, 
 and afterward let out, thus laying the foun- 
 dation of his large fortune. He moved to 
 Bethel, where he died January 7, 1890, leav- 
 ing large bequests to public chanties. The 
 High School at Bethel, which bears his 
 name, was remembered with thirty thousand 
 dollars, and twenty thousand was bequeathed 
 to the town of Stockbridge, to be paid after 
 his sister, Mrs. Nancy Houghton has the 
 use of it through her life. Mr. Whitcomb 
 was a member of the Builington Commandery 
 of Knight Templars. 
 
 He married Miss Etta Northup of Fair- 
 field, Vt., who died December 18, 1885, 
 leaving no issue. 
 
 WHEELER. 
 
 Minot Wheeler, born in Hollis, N. H., in 
 1777, was one of the early settlers in Bethel, 
 coming here in the beginning of this century. 
 He married Sarah Farley, who bore him ten 
 children. 
 
 The children of Minot and Sarah (Farley) 
 Wheeler, were, (1) Sarah, born in Hollis, 
 N. H., June, 1800, and died 1801. (2) Sa- 
 rah, born in Hollis, N. H., April ig, 1802, 
 died August 18, 1804. (3) Royal, born at 
 Royalton, Vt., July 4, 1804, died January 20, 
 i86g, unmarried. (4) Rebecca, born in 
 Hollis, N. H., October 10, 1806, married 
 Joel Day, and died October 25, 1893. (5) 
 Mary Ann, born at Royalton, December 25, 
 1808, married John Wallace and died January 
 25, 1880. (6) Susan, born August 11, 1810, 
 died March 25, 1816. (7) George, born 
 February 15, 1812, died June 29, 1816. (8) 
 Minot, born February 5, 1814, married Sarah 
 Page, and died February S, 1882. (9) 
 George, horn April i6, 1821, married Emma 
 Locke, and died April 12, 1873. (10) 
 Gardner Wheeler, born January 26, 1824, 
 began life as a farmer with his father in 
 Bethel, and followed that Tme of business 
 until 1866, when he sold his farm, moved to 
 the village and bought the place where he 
 now resides. In connection with his farm- 
 ing he was a cooper, and continued in this 
 line until 1889, when he was obliged to give 
 up active work on account of poor health. 
 He was a musician during his younger days, 
 and for fourteen years played in a local or- 
 chestra during the winter months. 
 
 Mr. Wheeler married March i;, 1843, 
 Jane E. Woodbury of Bethel, and they re- 
 side in Bethel on Main street. Their child- 
 ren were Wilbur G., born September 23, 
 1844, died October 25, 1862: Charles M. 
 born June 17, 1846, died February 3, 1866; 
 Ella E., born June 23, 1848, died February 
 26, 1867; Orren, born January 16, 1852, died 
 March 12, 1866; Frank, born June 30, 1858, 
 died February 11, 1859. 
 
 LINCOLN. 
 Spencer Lincoln, son of Abijah and 
 -(French) Lincoln, was born in West- 
 
 moreland, N. H., April II, 1803. His par- 
 ents died when he was only five years old, 
 and he came to Bethel to live with an uncle 
 at what is called South Limpus. Here he 
 grew to maturity, and here he received a 
 common school education. He worked on 
 the farm with his uncle for several years after 
 reaching his= majority, and afterwards bought 
 the Gilson farm on the Gaysville road, now- 
 owned by L. A. Rood, where he remained 
 for several years. He did a large business 
 here, and carried on an extensive dairy. He 
 decided to give up farming and moved to the 
 village, where he bought the house in which 
 Mrs. Lincoln now lives, then in process of 
 construction. After he settled in the village 
 he was engaged at carpenter work for several 
 years, but finally gave that up on account of 
 ill health. He died in Bethel November ig, 
 1881. 
 
 On May 4, 1834, he married Eunice R. 
 Warren of Charleston, Vt., who survives him. 
 Their children were Adeliza H., born Jan- 
 uary 21, 1839, died at five years of age ; Gil- 
 bert, born June 16, 1840, was drowned in the 
 Connecticut River at Norwich, Vt., August 
 2, 1862; Albert, born December 18, 1842, 
 married Martha Connell, and their daughter. 
 Lola, was born October 23, 1881 ; Ella M., 
 born September 21, 1850, now resides with 
 her mother, and is unmarried. 
 
 FISHER. 
 Edwin Fisher, son of Marcus C, and 
 Fanny (Hall) Fisher was born in Cabot 
 Vt., June 15, 1825. He fitted for college in 
 the school at Danville, but did not continue 
 his school work, but returned to Cabot, where 
 he learned the trade of tanning with his 
 
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 father. He continued in this line of business 
 until 1869, his father having died, and for 
 several years he carried on the business 
 alone. At the close of his work in Cabot, 
 he came to Bethel, where he became inter- 
 ested in the tannery of E. T. Bugbee & Co., 
 and for one year was a partner in that firm. 
 He later carried on business alone, dealing 
 in leather findings. This he followed four 
 years, and in 1875, he was chosen postmaster 
 holding that office for ten years. Mr. Fisher 
 is a member of White River Lodge, No. 90, 
 F. and A. M. 
 
 He has been a deacon in the Congrega- 
 tional Church at Cabot, and has also served 
 in that office in the Congregational Church 
 at Bethel. He was elected by the Republi- 
 can party to represent Cabot in the legisla- 
 ture of 1863 and 1864, and was representa- 
 tive of the town of Bethel in 1886. 
 
 He has been twice married. On May 17, 
 1848, he married Mary L. Collins of Dan- 
 ville, who died July 17, 1863, leaving three 
 children, viz: a son, born February 13, 1853, 
 died in infancy; Francis H., born September 
 17, 1854, married Lizzie Green of Burlington, 
 and of their five children, three are living, 
 viz: Wilson H., Louis, and Florence. 
 
 Kate C. Fisher, born March 4, 1858, mar- 
 ried January I, 1878, Herman H. Dewey of 
 Plainfield, Vt. They have one son, Ralph 
 Dewey. 
 
 Edwin Fisher married Emiline N. Putnam 
 of Cabot, Vt., May 4, 1864, and they have 
 had four children, viz: Edwin P., born 
 November 10, 1867, married Annis Dickey, 
 January 25, 1894, and they have one daugh- 
 ter, RuthE., born August 18, 1895. William 
 M., born November 8, 1869, married Lucy 
 Dunbar of Hartland, Vt., March 24, 1892. 
 Their only son, Allen D., born July 20, 1893, 
 died July 3, 1894. William M, Fisher is 
 now in the employ of the United States Pos- 
 tal Service, traveling between Springfield, 
 Mass., and Newport, Vt. Fanny M. Fisher, 
 born October 23, 187 1, married H. K. Wing 
 of Boston, July 10, 1894, and died November 
 24, 1894. 
 
 BROOKS. 
 Reuben Brooks and his wife, Annie 
 (Terry) Brooks, were among the first fam- 
 ilies to locate in Bethel when this town was 
 almost a wilderness, and settled on a farm on 
 
 Christian Hiil, now owned and occupied by 
 Anson Marsh. Ten children were born to 
 them, viz: Osmand, Pardon, Fanny, Thora. 
 Mary, Nancy, Sabrina, Reuben, James and 
 Harrison. 
 
 (i) Osmand married Polly Perham, and 
 their five children were Alonzo, George, 
 Laura, Frederick and Eugene. 
 
 Alonzo married Ursula Burt, and their 
 five children were Frederick, Ida, Hattie, 
 George and Emma. Of this family, Hattie 
 married Charles Coy, and Ida married Mon- 
 roe Kendall. (See Kendall Sketch.) 
 
 George Brooks, son of Osmand Brooks, 
 married Betsy Corey, who was the mother of 
 five children, viz : Birdsell, Elizabeth, Will, 
 Eugene and Celia. Bird.sell is now a carpen- 
 ter and builder in Bethel village; Will is a 
 farmer, and resides on Christian Hill; Eliza- 
 beth married Albion Spices, and their home 
 is at Greenfield, Mass.; Eugene and Celia 
 both reside in Bethel unmarried. 
 
 Laura Brooks, daughter of Ormand, mar- 
 ried Daniel Clough. (See Clough Sketch.) 
 
 (2) Pardon Brooks married Lavinia Lillie 
 of Bethel. They moved West where four 
 children were born to them, viz: Fannie, 
 George, Albert and Hattie. His widow now 
 resides in Independence, Iowa. 
 
 (3) Fanny Brooks, daughter of Reuben 
 and Annie (Terry) Brooks, married John 
 Perham. 
 
 (4) Thora went West where she married 
 and resided until her death. 
 
 (5) Mary'married Eleazer Burt. 
 
 (6) Nancy married Timothy Richardson. 
 
 (7) Sabrina married Walker. 
 
 (8) Reuben Brooks, born July 18, 1803, 
 married Philena Burt of Walpole, N. H. 
 Four children were born of this marriage, 
 viz: Mary, born May 26, 1842, now resides 
 in Bethel, unmarried; Helen, born August 
 31, 1845, married Aaron Davis of Bethel, and 
 died September 8, 1886 ; Walter, born Sep- 
 tember 26, 1847, died April 5, 1893. Jennie, 
 born March 26, 1850, married Lewis S. 
 Bird of Bethel. (See Bird Sketch.) Reu- 
 ben Brooks died January 6, 1878, and his 
 wife died September 8, 1889. 
 
 (9) James Brooks married Irene Reed of 
 Bethel, and they moved to the West. 
 
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 (lo) Harrison Brooks moved West when 
 he was eighteen years old, married, and 
 raised a family of children. His home is 
 now at Fort Wayne, Indiana. 
 
 Mrs. Alonzo Bird died January 6, 1891, 
 and Mr. Bird married Mrs. Flint of Chester, 
 Vt.,and they now reside in Lilyvillein Bethel 
 township. 
 
 BIRD. 
 
 John Bird was a pioneer in the town of 
 Bethel, and many of his decedents reside 
 in this vicinity. His children were Thomas, 
 Hannah, Sarah, Abigail and Alonzo B. and 
 Buzzell (twins). 
 
 (i) Thomas Bird never resided in this 
 vicinity after his boyhood, having moved to 
 Canada when eighteen years old. 
 
 (2) Hannah Bird married Joshua Bates of 
 Natick, Mass., and they afterwards resided 
 at that place. 
 
 (3) Sarah Bird married Stone, and 
 
 they moved to Michigan. 
 
 (4) Abigail Bird married Nott, and 
 
 moved to Ware, Mass. They returned to 
 Vermont, locating at Brandon, where she 
 died. 
 
 (5) Buzzell, born May 13, 1819, married 
 Cordelia Bryant, and they moved to Stock- 
 bridge, Vt. 
 
 (6) Alonzo Bird, born May 13, i8ig, 
 married Sarah- Bugbee, who bore him eight 
 children, as follows : Lorenzo, born Decem- 
 ber 15, 1842, died February — , 1893. Ca- 
 lista, born June 20, 1843, married Perley 
 Blanchard, and they now reside in Rutland. 
 
 Lewis Bird, born May 18, 1846, married 
 Jennie Brooks, March 25, 1872. They had 
 three children, viz : Blanche L., born Sep- 
 tember 19, 1873, died January 1, 1895; Jessie 
 M., born February 26, 187 J, died May 18, 
 1895; and Robert B., born July 25, 1886, now 
 attending school in Bethel. Mr. Bird now 
 resides in Bethel village. 
 
 Ellen, born April it, 1849, married Mer- 
 ritt Brink, and they are now residents of 
 Bethel. 
 
 Lorette, born June 22, 1850, married 
 Charles Wright. 
 
 Addie, born December 15, 1852, married 
 M. H. Boynton. 
 
 Julia, born — — , 1854, married 
 
 Charles Cutler and they live in Bethel village. 
 
 Waller, born ■ ^, 1856, died when 
 
 ten months old. 
 
 KIMBALL. 
 
 Richard Kimball and Henry Kimball, two 
 brothers, were probably the ancestors of most 
 of the numerous families of the name of Kim- 
 ball in New England. 
 
 On the loth of April, 1634, O, S., they em- 
 barked at Ipswich, in the county of Suffolk, 
 Old England, in the ship Elizabeth, William 
 Andrews, Master, for Massachusetts, and 
 landed at Ipswich, in New England. Rich- 
 ard first settled in Watertown, but soon after 
 removed to Ipswich, where it is recorded 
 February 23, 1637-38, that he was granted 
 by the town "a house lot next adjoining to 
 Goodman Simmonds at the west end of ye 
 town." There came with him his wife, Ur- 
 sula (Scott) Kimball and seven children. 
 
 Richard Kimball, son of Capt. John and 
 Jerusha (Mecham) Kimtiall, the seventh 
 generation decended from the above Rich- 
 ard, born in Pomfret, Conn., August 21, 
 1762, and his wife, Susanna (Holden) settled 
 in Randolph, having bought the farm about 
 one mile north of Randolph post office, 
 owned since 1837 by Luther Granger, of 
 James Tarbox, November 1, 1796, where he 
 lived until his death, November 23, 1828. 
 They had fourteen children, nine of , whom 
 died in infancy, the oldest being less than 
 six years. Those reaching mature age were 
 John Holden Kimball, born May 1, 1796, 
 and died August 5, 1875, at West Randolph, 
 Vt. Hiratp Kimball, born December 18, 
 1803, and died April 23, 1865, at West Ran- 
 dolph, Vermont; Lloyd Kimball, born October 
 16, 1805, and died March 21, 1865, ^t Mc- 
 Indoes Falls, Vt,; Aveline (Kimball) Beers, 
 born July 23, 1807, and died May 5, 1887, at 
 Syracuse, N. Y. ; Melora Kimball Hobart, 
 born May 6, 1810, and died November 19, 
 1S84, at Vineland, N.J. 
 
 John Holden Kimball married June 11, 
 1828, Katherjne Williams, who was born at 
 Plainfield, N. H., and died in Vineland, N. 
 J., January 7, 1878. Their children were: 
 
 (i) Susan, born in Marshfield, November 
 14, 1820, married Norman W. Healey March 
 
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 I, 1848, and died at Vineland, N. J., Novem- 
 ber 6, 1887, leaving two children, viz: Carl- 
 ton K., born at Bridgewater, September 23, 
 1858, and Evelyn Heaiey, born at Hartland, 
 Vt., October 14, 1849. 
 
 (2) Sarah, born in Randolph, Vt., October 
 13, 1 83 1, and died at Gaysville, October 14, 
 1852. 
 
 (3) Emily W., born at Bethel, Vt., Aug- 
 ust i, 1835, and died at Gaysville, May 7, 
 1873- 
 
 (4) Hiram A., born in Stockbridge, Oct, 
 I, 1837, married Caroline Wainwright, Janu- 
 
 GEORGE H. KIMBALL. 
 
 ary 17, 1865, and died at Vineland, N. J., 
 February 16, 1890. 
 
 (5) Elburt B., born in Stockbridge,Novein- 
 ber I, 1839, marned Ursula Lazelle, October 
 24, 1862, and they now reside in Burlington, 
 Vt. Their two children are Frederick E., 
 born at Stockbridge, August 19, 1869, and 
 Clara L., born July 16, 1876, died at Gays- 
 ville, April 30, 1885. 
 
 (6) George H. Kimball, son of John H., 
 and Catherine (Williams) Kimball, was born 
 in Stockbridge, Vt., April 23, 1843. At the 
 close of his public school studies the civil 
 war broke out, and Mr. Kimball, then a lad 
 ot eighteen, enlisted and served in Co. C, 6th 
 
 Vermont Volunteers, from which he was dis- 
 charged in December, 1862. He returned to 
 Vermont, and for a short time attended the 
 Orange County Grammar School, then lo- 
 cated at Randolph Center. In 1863 he went 
 to Philadelphia; where he spent the next five 
 years in the employ of his brother of the firm 
 of H. A. Kimball & Co., manufacturers of 
 artificial limbs. After his return to Ver- 
 mont he o*ned and carried on a grocery 
 business in Randolph, where he remained 
 until after the death of his fatherand mother, 
 and in 1875, clcsed out his business inter- 
 ests and accepted a position in the employ 
 of his brother, E. B. Kimball, in a general 
 merchandise store at Gaysville, in the town of 
 Stockbridge. He remained here until 1S90, 
 when he purchased the grocery and meat 
 business at Bethel owned by E. A. Burnett, 
 and has since conducted the same. He is a 
 member of Daniel Liilie Post, No. 61, G. A. 
 R., and is a Colonel on the Staff of Depart- 
 ment Commander B. Cannon. 
 . On November 16, 1865, he was married to 
 Elizabeth M. Oliver, of Burlington, N. J., 
 and they have eight children, viz : Emily C, 
 born November 16, 1867, married George 
 Wyman, December 26, 1889, and their 
 daughter Alice was born February 9, 1892. 
 
 Kate O., born March 23, 1870, married 
 W. E. Webster, December 5, 1893; John S., 
 born June 6, 1872, married Grace Moreland, 
 October 3, 1894; Anne F., born June 25, 
 1876; Mary E., born March 28, 1879; Lizzie 
 O., born October 25, 1880 ; Robert H., born 
 August 19, 1886; George E., born December 
 7, 1888, 
 
 (7) Hannah Ella, born August 21, 1847, 
 married C. W. A. Putnam, August 21, 1865, 
 and died at Vineland, N. J., July 26, 1880, 
 leaving two children, viz : George K. Putnam, 
 born at Randolph, August 8, 1865, and 
 Edward H.., born November 27, 1868. 
 
 CADY. 
 Samuel C. Cady, son of Chester and Betsey 
 (Stevens) Cady was born at Barnard, Aug- 
 ust 30, 1830. At the age of seventeen, he 
 went to Troy, N. Y., where he learned the 
 trade of harness-making, remaining three 
 years; he then went to Albany, working at 
 his trade there for Seven years. He returned 
 to his native place in 1857, and opened a 
 
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 harness 'store on his own account, and for 
 nearly seventeen years did an extensive busi- 
 ness. In 1875, ^^- Cady came to Bethel 
 and opened a harness business in the build- 
 ing now used as a grist and saw mill on Main 
 street, and moved to his present location in 
 the Arnold Block in 1891. He is a member 
 of the White River Lodge, No. 90, F. and 
 A. M., and also of the Whitney R. A. Chap- 
 ter, No. 7, at Randolph. Mr. Cady was 
 married in Albany, N. Y., July 29, 1852, to 
 Miss Eliza A. Hood, who died October 24, 
 1858, leaving one daughter, Annie W., born 
 June 25, 1853, who married George I. Ab- 
 bott of Stockbridge, June 10, 1879, and they 
 have three children; Samuel Lee, born No- 
 vember 4, 1882; Mary Lucy, born April 13, 
 1885, and George L Jr., born April 21, 1892. 
 Mr. Cady was married to Angela W. Wood 
 of Barnard, August 21, 1859, who died May 
 6, 1875, leaving one son, A. Lee, born Feb- 
 ruary 8, i868. On September 7, 1879, Mr. 
 Cady was married to Laura J. French of 
 Barnard, and their only daughter, Maud E., 
 was born September 17, 1882. 
 
 A. Lee Cady, son of Samuel C. and Angela 
 (Wood) Cady, was a, student at West Ran- 
 dolph High School, after completing his 
 studies in the schools of Bethel, and after 
 wSrking for a short time as clerk in the gro- 
 cery store of M. A. Moody, he entered the 
 service of G. N. Tapper in the hardware 
 business, and has since been in his employ. 
 He is interested with his father in the har- 
 ness business, and the firm name is Samuel 
 C. Cady & Son. He is a member of White 
 River Lodge, No. 90, F. and A. M. 
 
 On June 5, 1894, he was married to Lillian 
 C. Martin, daughter of Frank L., and Lena 
 (Campbell) Martin of Bethel. 
 
 MAXHAM. 
 Edgar W. Maxham, son of William and 
 Amanda (Abbott) Maxham, was born in 
 Quechee, Vt., January 21, 1833. After com- 
 pleting his studies in the common schools 
 and the academy at West Randolph, he en- 
 tered the service of Skinner & Blodgett, as 
 clerk in their general merchandise store at 
 Rovalton. Two years later he left the store 
 and attended the academy at South Royal- 
 ton. He started in the drug business at 
 Roya;ton in 1855, which he carried on for 
 
 nine years, moving to South Royaltpn at end 
 of that time." Here he remained six years, 
 and came to Bethel in 1870, and carried on 
 the drug business in this place for twenty- 
 three years. This business he sold to J. T. 
 Sisco & Son in July, 1894, and has not been 
 in active business since that time. 
 
 While in Royalton, Mr. Maxham was 
 Superintendent of Schools for two years, and 
 he was chosen by the citizens of Bethel to 
 represent them in the General Assembly at 
 Montpelier in 1882. He was married Octo- 
 ber 21, 1S57, to" Ella E. Dow, and their son 
 Frank Maxham, was born in Bethel, Decem- 
 ber 19, i860. 
 
 BULLARD. 
 Oliver BUDard, born in New Hampshire, 
 married Abigail Gay of Stockbridge, Vt., 
 and they had nine children, one of whom 
 died in infancy. The others were Luther; 
 Mumford, a Methodist minister, died in 
 Northern Vermont; Andes, a Methodist min- 
 ister, died in Randolph, Vt., October 12, 
 1889; Abigail (deceased) married Abijah 
 Twitchell; Betsy, (deceased>. married John 
 Baker; Fanny, (deceased) married Mark 
 Chamberlin; Azuba (deceased) married 
 Ephraim Twitchell. Luther Bullard, born 
 in Francistown, N. H., January 5, 1801, 
 married Nancy Greenleaf, who was born in 
 Lancaster, Mass., in 1805. They had eight 
 children : Paraclia resides in Bethel; Pen- 
 field; Oliver, died in Bethel; Christina, (de- 
 ceased) married Andes Twitchell; Martha, 
 (deceased) married Moses Dustin; Calvin, 
 died in Bethel; Frank, now living in Stock- 
 bridge; and Nancy, wife of Christopher R. 
 Noble of Bethel, 
 
 PARKER. 
 Joseph Parker, a native of Braintree, Mass., 
 came to Bethel, moving from here to Brain- 
 tree, Vt., where he died. His children were 
 Joseph, Abraham, Nathan, Enos, John, 
 Stephen, Lemuel, Ephraim, and two daugh- 
 ters, one of whom married a Goodno, and 
 the other a Lewis. Nathan Parker, born in 
 Braintree, Mass., April 4, 1787, died May 26, 
 1864. He was married three times. His 
 first wife was Lucinia Razie. His second 
 wife, Bethiah Jackson, nee Peck, bore him 
 
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 four children, viz : John, Lucinia, Mary and 
 Nathan. His third wife, Polly Janes, left 
 one son, George, now a resident of Royal- 
 ton, Vt. Nathan Parker, son of Nathan, 
 was born in Bethel, October 20, 1820, and 
 married Mary L. Bliss, who died January 19, 
 leaving two children, Amma Lida, now Mrs. 
 Myron Morse, and Sophia Rebecca, widow 
 of Frank W. Harding, and now residing in 
 Royalton, Vt. Mr. Parker carried on farm- 
 ing all his life, and for over fifty years re- 
 sided on one farm in Bethel. He has served 
 the town as lister, and has been selectman 
 for six consecutive years. He died in Bethel. 
 
 O'CONNELL. 
 
 Peter M. O'Connell was born June 21, 
 1829, at Balleyshire, Ireland. He attended 
 the village schools until he was fourteen 
 years old, when he began an apprenticeship 
 with his brother at the wheelwright trade, 
 and continued in that place for five years. 
 On August II, 1848, he sailed from the city 
 of Limerick for America on a sailing vessel, 
 landing at Quebec September 18, 1848. He 
 went from that place to Randolph, Vt , where 
 an older brother was living at that time. 
 The first six months he worked on the farm 
 of Solomon Hobart, and afterwards was em- 
 ployed on the farm of Joel Mann for a short 
 time. He did carpenter work for Monroe 
 Colburn and later entered the carriage shop 
 of Samuel Howard, remaining in that place 
 five years. He came to Bethel in 1858 and 
 commenced work in the shop of Irvin Wes- 
 ton at carriage making, living in his family 
 until May i, 1868, when he was married to 
 Joanna Keily of Randolph. Mr. Weston 
 was succeeded at his death in 1875, by his 
 son Ephraim Weston, Mr. O'Connell having 
 been in his employ up to the present time. 
 
 Two children have been born to Peter and 
 Joanna (Keily) O'Connell, viz: Mary, born 
 February 14, 1869, now Mrs. John Rourke of 
 Somerville, Mass., and Josephine, born May 
 3, 1870, now Mrs. Edward A. Davis of 
 Bethel. 
 
 MILLER. 
 
 George M. Miller was born in Roxham, 
 
 Canada, August 16,- 1843. Before reaching 
 
 his majority he was employed as a clerk in 
 
 the clothing business at Champlain, N. Y., 
 
 and here he completed his education in the 
 public schools. He remained in Champlain 
 ten years and then returned to Roxham, and 
 from there to Hemmingford, Canada, where 
 he carried on the drug business for a period 
 of about ten years. He came to Bethel, Vt., 
 in October, 1888, and purchased the drug 
 store then owned and carried on by Greene 
 & Chase, and still carries on same. Mr. 
 Miller has always been an earnest worker in 
 religious affairs, and his interests are now 
 with the Congregational Church at Bethel. 
 He has been twice married. His first 
 wife, Amelia E. Hammond, to whom he was 
 married May 20, 1868, was the mother of 
 four children, viz: J. Wesley, born in Rox- 
 ham, March 3c, 1869. now in business with 
 his father at Bethel; Annie L, born June 9, 
 1872, now teaching i^chool; Julia B., born 
 November 21, 1879; ^"'^ Emma M., born 
 May 14, 1884. Mrs. Miller died September 
 6, 1884, and on September 24, 1885, Mr. 
 Miller married Chastina M. Norton. 
 
 BAKER. 
 
 Wesley F. Baker was born in Vergennes, 
 Vt., February 10, 1843. When he was four 
 years old, his parents moved to Ripton, Vt , 
 and here he received a common school edu- 
 cation, leaving school when only thirteen 
 years old to accept a position in a machine 
 shop at the' latter place. Three ye rs later 
 he came to Bethel where he was engaged in 
 farming the following two years. He en- 
 listed in i86j in Company A, Sixteenth Ver- 
 mont Volunteers, serving nine months, re- 
 turning to Jiethel at the end of that time. 
 One year later he re-enlisted in Company K, 
 Seventeenth Vermont Volunteers with the 
 rank of Sergeant, .served until the close of 
 the war, and was mustered out August 23, 
 1865. After he returned to Bethel he en- 
 gaged in farrning until 1889, when he began 
 carpentering, a trade he h,id followed to some 
 extent when a small boy, his father having 
 been a carpenter and builder. 
 
 On January 27, 1867 he was married to 
 Sarah Neff, who bore him one son, Walter 
 H. Baker, now in the employ of the Central 
 Vermont Railroad Company at Bethel. Mr. 
 Baker now resides on Church street in Bethel 
 village. 
 
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 WRIGHT. 
 WiLLiAJi Wright, son of John and Mary 
 (Huntoon) Wright, was born in Hanover, 
 N. H., February i6. 1832. He received a 
 public school education, and was employed 
 in a grist mill in Etna during his early man- 
 hood. He bought the grist mill at Lebanon 
 in 1862 and carried it on for several years, 
 doing a successful business. Several years 
 after, he sold his milling property and 
 became interested as a partner in the 
 Sturtevant Manufacturing Company, and for 
 eighteen years was a member of this firm, 
 iMr. Wright traveling in the interests of the 
 
 WILLIAM WRIGHT. 
 
 business the greater part of that time. This 
 company manufactured sash, doors, blinds, 
 and furniture, and their goods were sold in 
 most all parts of the United States. When 
 Mr. Wright closed his labors in this concern, 
 his health was much impaired, but he im- 
 proved and gained in strength, although he 
 never had his former vigor and health again. 
 He was interested in the firm of Mead, Ma- 
 son & Co., for a number of years, and came 
 to Bethel in i888, where, in company with 
 his son-in-law, C. W. Reed, he leased the 
 mill property of Hiram Gilson in the north 
 
 part of the village, and did a successful grist 
 and lumber business. Two years later they 
 bought this property and their busines was 
 carried on under the firm name of Wright 
 & Reed. In 1894, Mr. Reed sold his inter- 
 est in the business and the firm name was 
 changed to Wright & Gushing, Mr. C. D. 
 Gushing being the junior member of the 
 firm. Mr. Wright died of pneumonia March 
 16, 1895, after a brief illness. 
 
 He was a member of Franklin Lodge No. 
 6, F. and ^. M., and of Mascoma Lodge, 
 No. 20, I. O. O. F. He was not a member 
 but a constant attendant of the Methodist 
 Ghurch and a liberal contributor to that cause. 
 
 Mr. Wright was married October 10, 1851, 
 to Sarah J Corey of Hanover, N. H., and 
 their only daughter, Mary E., was born 
 April 26, 1865. On December 22, 1886, she 
 was married to Clarence W. Reed, and they 
 had two children, only one of whom is liv- 
 ing, viz : Florence W., born August 19, 1888; 
 and Ikey May, born June 11, 1894, and died 
 February 25, 1895. Mr. Reed is now in 
 business in Enfield, N. H., and there Mrs. 
 Wright makes her home, 
 
 WASHBURN. 
 
 Seth M. Washburn, son of Levi and Pru- 
 dentia (Flint) Washburn, was born in Ran- 
 dolph, May 23, 1849. His education was be- 
 gun in the common schools of Randolph, 
 and he was graduated from the Normal 
 School at Randolph Center in the class of 
 1868. After completing his studies he taught 
 school for several seasons, and in 1874 he 
 accepted a position in the Alaska Commer- 
 cial Company, at Alaska, and there he was 
 located four seasons, returning to Vermont 
 in 1877. He settled in Bethel and purchased 
 the interest of George A. Montgomery in 
 the firm of Brooks & Montgomery, and the 
 business has since been conducted under the 
 firm name of Brooks & Washburn. Mr. 
 Washburn was married May 22, 1878. to 
 Kate S. Brooks, of Bethel, and their four 
 children are : Mary A., born February 15, 
 1879; Lucy J., born July 23, 1884; Ben M., 
 born June I, 1886, and Albert B., born Janu- 
 ary 24, 1891. 
 
 Mr. Washburn is a stock-holder and a 
 director in the Bethel Shoe Company. 
 
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 IWALDO. 
 
 Joseph H. Waldo, son of J. W. Waldo, 
 
 2d, and Nettie (Woodworth) Waldo, was 
 
 born in Royalton, Vt., October 15, 1864. 
 
 He attended the public schools and the Koy- 
 
 JOSEPH WALDO. 
 
 alton Academy, and completed his education 
 in the graded school at West Randolph. He 
 was first employed in the office of the Central 
 Vermont railroad at South Royalton, but 
 cafne to Bethel shortly after and was tele- 
 graph operator of the Bethel office for a 
 period of three years. He was then promot- 
 ed to agent, and stationed again at Royalton, 
 but after three months service in that place 
 he was transferred to Bethel, and has been 
 agent of the Central Vermont at this station 
 since December, 1890. 
 
 Since his connection with Bethel he has 
 been interested in real estate, and has built 
 several houses which he now owns. He is a 
 member of the Rising Sun Lodge, No. 7, F. 
 and A. M., at South Royalton, of the Ran- 
 dolph Lodge, No. 48, L O. O. F„ and of the 
 Patriarch's Militant, at White River Junction. 
 
 Mr. Waldo was married October 24, 1888, 
 to Fannie A. Flowers, of Sharon, and they 
 have one daughter, Mabel G., born April 14, 
 i8qo. 
 
 KENDALL. 
 Monroe N^ Kendall is the son of Allen C. 
 and Diantha (Newton) Kendall, and he was 
 the oldest in a family of nine children, five of 
 whom are now living. The children of Allen 
 C. and Diantha (Newton) Kendall were 
 Monroe N., Albert A.;. Abbie- D., Mary 
 Frances and Martha, (twins), Minerva A., 
 Lillian S., Jennie C, and Frank L. 
 
 Monroe N. Kendall was born in Barn- 
 ard, Vt., November 23, 1843, and during his 
 boyhood worked on the farm with his father, 
 attending the public schools of that place. 
 He was nineteen years old when the Civil 
 War broke out, and he enlisted in Company 
 G, i6th Vt. Volunteers, September 4, 1862, 
 serving under Capt. Harvey N. Bruce. His 
 regiment saw considerable active service, and 
 he was present and took part in the battle of 
 Gettysburgh. He was discharged from 
 service August 10, 1S63, his time having ex- 
 pired, and he then returned to Bethel. 
 Shortly after he began work at freight team- 
 
 MONROE N. KENDALL. 
 
 ing which he followed eighteen years, leaving 
 this to carry on the meat business in which 
 he is still interested. Mr. Kendall is a 
 member of the G. A. R., is Past Commander 
 
98 
 
 of Daniel Lillie Post, and has served as 
 Officer of the Day for the past five years. 
 
 He was married September2o, 1865, to Ida 
 L. Brooks, of Bethel, a daughter of Alonzo 
 D. and Ursula S. (Burt) Brooks, born in 
 Eden, Peoria County, 111., September 12, 
 1847. Of their four children three are now 
 living. The children of Monroe and Ida 
 (Brooks) Kendall were Jennie M., born 
 February 16, 1867, now living with her 
 parents ; Kate M., born February 10, 1869, 
 married February 14, 1894, John II. Miller, 
 proprietor of an art store in Springfield, 
 Mass. ; Frank M., born February 28, 1871, 
 now in the meat business with his father, and 
 Fred B., born November 19, 1876, died 
 February 18, 1882. 
 
 (2) Albert A. Kendall, born February 8, 
 1845, married Sarah L. Collins, a native of 
 Royalton, Vt., August i, 1874, and they re- 
 side in Stowe, Vt. 
 
 (3) Abbie D. Kendall, born August 18, 
 1847, married O.J. Wood, of Barnard, and 
 and they have two children, Mabel and 
 Allen C. 
 
 (4) Mary Frances Kendall, born October 
 27, 1849, died October 9, 1875. 
 
 (5) Martha Kendall, born October 27, 
 1849, died December — , 1869. 
 
 (6) Minerva A. Kendall, born January 19, 
 185 1, married William Andrews, of Hines- 
 burgh, Vt., May i, 1889, and they reside in 
 Hinesburgh, Vt. 
 
 (7) Lillian S. Kendall, born March 28, 
 1853, married Edward Gilson, of Barnard, 
 Vt., and they have no children. 
 
 (8) Jennie C. Kendall, born October 30, 
 1855, died ■ 1863. 
 
 (9) Frank L. Kendall, born April 14, 1857, 
 died 1863. 
 
 Diantha (Newton) Kendall died December 
 10, 1862, at the age of forty- four, and Allen 
 C. Kendall now lives in Bridgewater, at the 
 age of seventy-five. 
 
 MARTIN. 
 Frank Leslie Martin, son of Shuman B. 
 and Emeline (Claflin) Martin, was born at 
 Hancock, Vt., May 21, 1852. He attended 
 the public schools of Hancock, and took a 
 short course at Goddard Seminary, in Barre, 
 
 Vt. On his return from school, he entered 
 the employ of F. F. Washburn, at Roches- 
 ter, remaining there four years. Incompany_ 
 with W.H. Campbell he started in the hard-, 
 ware business, and for four years the busi- 
 ness was carried on under the firm name of 
 Martin & Campbell. At the end of this time 
 he sold to Mr. Campbell his interest in the 
 business, came to Bethel and entered into 
 partnership with George H. Tupper in the 
 hardware business, the firm name being 
 Tupper & Martin. He sold his interest to 
 Mr. Tupper in 1889, having been appointed 
 postmaster by President Harrison. At the 
 close of his term of office, he entered into the 
 grocery business at his present location, 
 carrying a line of general merchandise. 
 
 Mr. Martin was married May 20, 1871, to 
 Miss Lena Campbell, of Rochester, Vt., and 
 their only daughter, Lillian C, was born 
 October 24, 1873, and on June 5, 1894, she 
 was married to Lee A. Cady, of Bethel. (See 
 Cady sketch.) 
 
 ROGERS. 
 Edward C. Rogers, son of Robert H. and 
 Abigail (Allen) Rogers, was born in Orwell, 
 Vt., January 4, 1841. He received a common 
 school education, and was first employed in a 
 cabinet shop at Ciota, N. Y., where he re- 
 mained until he was seventeen years old. 
 He than began farming which he followed 
 until 1861, when at the call for soldiers he 
 enlisted in Company F, 5th Vermont Volun- 
 teers, and was mustered in August 4, 1861. 
 He served until the close of the war and was 
 mustered out June 29, 1865, having partici- 
 pated in nearly a hundred battles. He re- 
 turned to Orwell, Vt., and remained there 
 until 1877, when he went to Michigan, and 
 for thirteen years was a farmer in Mecosta 
 county in that State. He returned to Ver- 
 mont in 1890, settled at Shoreham, moving 
 to Middlebury three years later. He came 
 to Bethel in 1894, and is a partner in the 
 grocery firm of Smith & Rogers. He is a 
 Republican in politics, and has been a mem- 
 ber of Post French, No. 28, G. A. R., since 
 1879. On April 24, 1868, he married Nellie 
 B. Smith, who was born at Mooers, N. Y., 
 October 21, 1850. Two of their children are 
 living, viz: Robert W., born September i, 
 1873, and Willard C, born October 15, 1874. 
 
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 CLOUGH. 
 
 L. WiLLARD Clough, son of Moses T. and 
 
 Mary 0. (Bean) Clough, was born in Hop- 
 
 kinton, N. H., July 17, 1863 His primary 
 
 ■education was obtained in the district schools 
 
 DR. L. W. CLOUGH. 
 
 and in his twelfth year he entered Contoocook 
 Academy, taking the Dartmouth College pre- 
 paratory course and graduating therein four 
 years later, just previous to his i6th birthday, 
 the two remaining years he devoted to teach- 
 ing, and in 1881 he entered upon the classic- 
 al course in the Simonds High School at 
 Warner, N. H., from which he was gradua- 
 ted in the class of '83. To become a physi- 
 cian had been a constant passion from boy- 
 hood, and after completing the course at 
 Warner, he entered the office of G. P. Conn, 
 M. D., of Concord, N. H., where he began 
 ihis medical studies. In the spring of 1885 
 .he entered the medical department of the 
 University of Vermont, taking therein two 
 primary and three regular courses of lectures. 
 He graduated in the class of '87. being one 
 of five to receive a special honor diploma for 
 •excellence in all the departments of study. 
 Itamediately after graduation he began 
 practice in Bradford, N. H,, and in the fall 
 of 1891 he removed to Bethel, where he now 
 
 has a lucrative practice. Dr. Clough is a 
 member bf the N. H. Medical Society, 
 the Center District Medical Society, Bethel 
 Lodge No. 35, I. O. O. F., White River En- 
 campmenti No. 19, I. O. O. F., and is Secre- 
 tary of the Board of Examining Surgeons for 
 pensions at Randolph, to which office he 
 was appointed in 1893. 
 
 Dr. Clough married Mary Elsie Ballou, of 
 Burlington, Vt., October 20, 1886, and their 
 children are, Gladys P., born May 4, 1888, 
 and Lee, born November 24, 1893. 
 
 STEARNS. 
 Albert L. Stearns, son of Benjamin H. 
 and Selina(Keflf) Stearns, was born in Rock- 
 ingham, Vermont, November 6, 1845. He at- 
 tended the public schools, and after complet- 
 ing his studies, began farming with his father, 
 which occupation he followed until 1872, 
 when he came to Bethel. He bought the 
 livery business formerly conducted by Rollin 
 Gurnsey, then located on the land where the 
 
 ALBERT L. S'lEARNS. 
 
 IJnviU & Washburn store now stands. One 
 year later he moved to his present stand 
 wliere he continues to do a large business in 
 fine livery teams. 
 
lOO 
 
 Mr. Stearns was married November 15, 
 1868, to Miss Josephene N. Loomis, of Rox- 
 bury, Vt., and their only son, Roy L., was 
 born in Betliel, May 24, 1875. 
 
 EBER N. SMITH. 
 
 SMITH. 
 Eber N. Smith, son of William C. and 
 Mary (Allen) Smith, was born in Mooers, 
 N. Y., August 27, 1854. His parents moved 
 to Nashua, N. H., when he was a small boy, 
 and here he attended the common schools, 
 completing his education in Mooers, N. Y., 
 to which place his parents afterwards re- 
 turned. When he was twenty-one years old 
 he began work as an employee of the Wiscon- 
 sin Central railroad, and later in the employ 
 of the Northern Pacific railroad, following 
 this line of business for a period of eighteen 
 years. He came to Bethel in the spring of 
 1894, and here he entered into a business 
 partnership with Edward C. Rogers. They 
 purchased the grocery business formerly 
 owned by C. H. Rood, and still carry on the 
 same, located in the Bascom House Block or 
 Main street. Mr. Smith is a member of Star 
 Lodge No. 41, I. O. O. F., at Billings, Mont. 
 He has been twice married. 
 
 First to Alzada Averill, of Mooers, N. Y.,. 
 on October 19, 1880. She died June 23, 
 1892, leaving one son, Guy, born in Vern- 
 dale, Minn., December 10, 1884. On 
 September 23, 1894, he married Mrs. Hattie 
 Wheeler nee Hatch of Bethel. 
 
 EDSON. 
 John Haskell Edson, son of Edwin G. 
 and Anna (May) Edson, was born in West 
 Randolph , Vt. , January 30, 1 864. He attended 
 the public schools of Randolph, and at the 
 age of twenty-one he entered the employ of 
 L. F. Sparhawk, beginning the trade of 
 photography, which he has since made his 
 line of business. He remained with .Mr. 
 Sparhawk three months, when he accepted a 
 position in 'the studio of H. H. H, Langill, 
 at Hanover, N. H., where he was employed 
 for nearly four years. He came to Bethel in 
 January, l8§g, and opened a photograph 
 gallery and is still carrying on the same in 
 the Child block. Mr. Edson has gradually 
 improved in workmanship until his photo- 
 graphs now stands with the leading artisfs- 
 
 J. H. EDSON. 
 
 of this section. Many of the pictures of this- 
 book was taken from his photographs. Mr. 
 Edson was married July 2, 1887, to Lillian. 
 E. Brown, of Bethel, Vt. 
 
ADAMS. 
 R. Scott Adams, son of John Quincy and 
 Phikna (Roberts) Adams, was born in Pom- 
 fret, Vt., January 6, 1861. His educational 
 advantages were limited to the public schools, 
 
 R. S. ADAMS. 
 
 and at the age of fourteen he was engaged in 
 farming, although he attended school during 
 the winter for several years later. He first 
 worked for H. N. Bruce where he remained 
 eight months, and he was employed in 
 several places at farming until he was nine- 
 teen 3'ears old. He then went to South 
 Acton, Mass., where in the store of L. C. 
 Baldwin he began his trade of jeweler. He 
 moved to Worcester three years later, and 
 there he was employed in the jewelery store 
 of J. P. Wexler for two years, and he was in 
 tlie store of E. Sagendorph, of Worcester, 
 for one year. In January, 1887, he came to 
 Bethel, taking and carrying on the jewelery 
 business formerly run by L. H. Edson. A 
 gianite quarry has recently been developed 
 in the eastern part of Bethel and Mr. Adams 
 has taken an active part in the advancement 
 of the same. A company has been formed 
 called the R. S. Adams Granite Company, 
 and Mr. Adams now divides his time be- 
 tween these two lines of business. 
 
 He was married June 18, 1887, to Fanny 
 Chadwick, of Norwich, Vt., and their only 
 son, Robert, was born December 19, i8gi. 
 
 FISH. 
 Willis L. Fish, son of Leonard and Belinda 
 (Carpenter) Fish, was born in Ira, Vt., 
 December 30, 1858. He completed his edu- 
 cation in the select school at Middleton, Vt., 
 and worked on the farm with his father until 
 he was twenty-one years old, when he started 
 out to worker himself He carried on farms 
 on shares at Castleton and Rutland and after- 
 wards went to Hinesburgh, Vt.. where for 
 four years he had charge of a large stock and 
 dairy farm, closing his labors there to come 
 to Bethel and enter the creamery business 
 on an extensive scale. New buildings and 
 machinery were put in by Mrs. Mary E. 
 Harrington, and everything necessary for a 
 thorough equipped creamery were added, and 
 the business carried on under the name of 
 the Harrington Creamery. At the start only 
 a few of the community were patrons of this 
 
 WILLIS L. FISH. 
 
 enterprise, but by diligent labor and honor- 
 able dealing, Mr. Fish has succeeded in 
 gaining the good will and confidence of the 
 people, and the industry has nearly a hundred 
 
patrons on the list at the present time, and 
 the amount of milk handled has increased 
 fourfold. This industry is now one of the 
 solid business enterprises of Bethel. Mr. 
 Fish was married February 25, 188;, to Miss 
 Maria L. Esterbrooke, of North Sherburne, 
 Vt., and their only daughter, Ruby Hol- 
 land, was born September 14, 1889. 
 
 C. W. MAKSTON. 
 
 MARSTON. 
 
 Charles W. MakSton, son of Ezpa and 
 Louisa (Flowers) Marston, was born in 
 Cornish, N. H., March 17, i860. When he 
 was six years old his mother died and his 
 father moved to Warren, N. H., where he 
 lived with his grandparents and attended 
 school for a time. He afterwards attended 
 the Newbury Seminary, and the New Hamp- 
 shire Commercial College, and was graduated 
 from the latter institution in the class of 18S2. 
 For the nine years following his graduation 
 he taught school, filling positions in Rumne)', 
 Orford, Plymouth and Haverhill, and for two 
 years was an officer and teacher in the Rhode 
 Island State Industrial School at Cranston. 
 
 In 1892, while visiting his sister in Bar- 
 nard, Mr. Marston was attracted to Bethel 
 by the splendid business outlook offered 
 
 by this place, and leased the store on Main 
 street now occupied by Frank L. Martin, 
 where he opened a large department store. 
 Eight months later his health failing, he sold 
 his stock to Frank L. Martin, and returned 
 to New Hampshire. In February, 1893, he 
 returned to Bethel and opened a store in the 
 southern part of the village, removing to his 
 present location in October, 1895. Mr. Mars- 
 ton has one of the largest variety stores in 
 the State, carrying nearly everything found in 
 a house furnishing store, and a complete line 
 of five, ten and twenty-five cent goods. 
 
 Mr. MariSton was married January 15, 1891, 
 to Jennie H. Clark, of Rumney, N. H., and 
 they have one daughter, Maud, born Novem- 
 ber 30, 1891. 
 
 STOCKWELL. 
 
 KiLES Paul Stockwell, .son of James P. 
 
 and Emily A. (Gleason) Stockwell, was born 
 
 in Rochester, Vt., October 30, 1870, and after 
 
 a complete course in the public schools of his- 
 
 K. P. STOCKWELL. 
 
 native town, he attended the State Normal 
 School at Randolph Center, from which he 
 was graduated in January in the class of 
 1892. During his course of study he taught 
 school a year in Rochester, and at the close 
 of his school work, he accepted a position in 
 
I03 
 
 the general merchandise store of Brooks & 
 Washburn, at Bethel, Vt. He remained 
 with them until July, 1894, when he accepted 
 a position as clerk and general manager of 
 the mercantile business of the W. A. Jones 
 estate of Waitsfield, Vt., where he remained 
 one year and came back to Bethel in July, 
 1895. He purchased the drug and variety 
 stoi-e formerly occupied by J. T. Sisco & Son, 
 successors to E. A. Maxham, and has re- 
 fitted and stocked the same, making it the 
 best equipped drug store in Bethel, combining 
 with the same a line of boots and shoes not 
 surpassed by any stock in town. Mr. Stock- 
 well was married July 5, 1894, to Emily S. 
 Dickey, of Washington, Vt. 
 
 JOHNSON. 
 
 Bent V. Johnson, son of Francis and 
 Fanny (Haven) Johnson, was born in Ben- 
 son, Vt., Npvember 17, 1877. His parents 
 moved to Brandon, Vt., and he completed 
 his education in the public schools at that 
 place. At the close of his school work, he 
 began work in the store of J. H. Talbot, 
 of Northfield, Vt., learning the tailor's trade. 
 He first came to Bethel, September i, 1895, 
 and here he started in business for himseJf 
 as a custom tailor. His store is located on 
 Main street, in the Wilson House block. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Abbott, L. H., 
 Adams, (Family History) 
 Adams, R. S., 
 
 Ainsworth, (Family History) 
 Arclier, Samuel, 
 Arnold, (Family History) 
 Baker, Wesley F., 
 Bennett, Rev. John O., 
 Berry, (Family History) 
 Bethel, History of, 
 Bethel Shoe Company, 
 Bethel Tannery, The, 
 Bethel, Town of, 
 Bethel Village, 
 Bird, (Family History) 
 Blackman, Rev. Virgil W., 
 Bowen, (Family History) 
 Brooks, (Family History) 
 Brooks, (Family History) 
 Buckman, (Family History) 
 Bullard, (Family History) 
 Burnett, (Family History) 
 Cady, ( Family History) 
 Chadwick, (Family History) 
 Chadwick, (Family History) 
 Chadwick, Constantine, 
 Chadwick, Theodore, 
 Chamberlin, (Family History) 
 Chamberlin, (Family History) 
 Chase, (Family History) 
 Chase, ( Family History) 
 Child, (Family History) 
 Christ Episcopal Church, 
 Clough, (Family History) 
 Clough, Dr. L. M„ 
 Congregational Church, 
 Curtis, (Family History) 
 Cushing, (Family History) 
 Davis, (Family History) 
 Davis, (Family History) 
 Davison, Frank P., 
 Day, Kilburn, 
 East Bethel, 
 Edson, J. H., 
 Ellison, Nelson, 
 Emery, (Family History) 
 
 86 
 66 
 loi 
 49 
 83 
 79 
 95 
 16 
 
 S6 
 I 
 
 45 
 
 n 
 12 
 12 
 92 
 21 
 
 85 
 62 
 
 91 
 61 
 
 94 
 50 
 93 
 71 
 
 88 
 
 8S 
 89 
 
 65 
 77 
 5° 
 69 
 81 
 16 
 79 
 99 
 
 72 
 
 53 
 82 
 
 23 
 
 59 
 
 13 
 
 100 
 
 77 
 
 n 
 
 Family History, 
 Fish, Willis L., 
 Fisher, Edwin, - 
 Gay, Paul, 
 
 Gilson, (Family History) 
 Gilson, (Family History; 
 Gould, (jhester S., 
 Graham, (Family History) 
 Harrington, (Family History) 
 Hatch, (Family History) 
 Hibbard; John W., 
 Hunton, (Family History) - 
 Johnson* B. V., 
 Kendall, Monroe, N., 
 Kimball, (Family History) 
 
 Legal Profession, 
 Arnold, Hon. Fred, 
 Bliss, William S., 
 Blodoiett, Dudley Chase, 
 Blodgett, Luther, 
 Chase, George, 
 Converse, Hon. Julius P., 
 Dudley, Allen P., 
 Gilman, Moulton J., 
 Hunton, Hon. Augustus P., 
 McWain, Edwin J., 
 Miller, Oliver Hazard Perry, 
 Mills, Mason P., 
 Morgan, Isaac T., - 
 Newell, James 
 Stickney, William B. C, 
 Walker, Ronianza, 
 Weymouth, Daniel Fulsom, 
 Williams, Charles H., 
 Wilson, Guy, 
 Wilson, Hon. James J., 
 Wilson, March M., 
 
 Lincoln, Spencer, 
 Longevity of Life in Bethel, 
 Marston, C. W., 
 Marsh, (Family History) 
 Martin, Frank L., 
 Maxham, Edgar W., 
 Mcintosh, (Family History) 
 
 46 
 loi 
 90 
 86 
 66 
 
 44 
 67 
 74 
 57 
 78 
 82 
 103 
 97 
 92 
 
 27 
 
 32 
 32 
 30 
 27 
 28 
 28 
 30 
 31 
 28 
 
 32 
 
 30 
 
 28 
 
 31 
 30 
 32 
 30 
 30 
 
 32 
 33 
 31 
 33 
 
 90 
 
 24 
 102 
 
 94 
 60 
 
io6 
 
 Medical Practitioners, 
 
 33 
 
 Dr. Bradford, Philander D., 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Burbank, Asahel, 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Chase, Rolla Miner, 
 
 36 
 
 Dr. Child, Elizabeth J., - 
 
 36 
 
 Dr. Clough, L. W., 
 
 36 
 
 Dr. Denison, Joseph A., 
 
 - 34 
 
 Dr. Farnham, 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Fiske, 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Gallup, Joseph A., 
 
 33 
 
 Dr. Greene, L. M., 
 
 36 
 
 Dr. Greene, Olin D., 
 
 36 
 
 Dr. Kendrick, Asahel, 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Morgan, Hiram, 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Morse, John M., 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Nichols, George, 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Paige, Alfred, - 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Paige, Alfred, Jr., 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Palmer, Henry, 
 
 34 
 
 Dr. Perry, C. C, 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Spaulding, M. C, 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Terry, Ormon, 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. VanDusen, George, 
 
 35 
 
 Dr. Woodworth, James M , 
 
 34 
 
 Meserve, (Family History) 
 
 71 
 
 Miller, George M., 
 
 95 
 
 Moody, ( Family History) 
 
 52 
 
 Morrill, (Family History) 
 
 58 
 
 Morris, (Family History) 
 
 56 
 
 Morse, (Family History) 
 
 58 
 
 Noble, (Family History) 
 
 50 
 
 O'Connell, Peter M., 
 
 95 
 
 Parker, (Family History) 
 
 94 
 
 Parker, Rev. S. A., - 
 Place, Griffin, 
 
 Richardson, (Family Histor} ) 
 Rogers, Edward C, 
 
 43 
 
 Roll of Bethel Soldiers, 
 
 26 
 
 SafFord, M. G., 
 
 - 44 
 
 Sanders, (Family History) 
 
 52 
 
 Sargent, (Family History) 
 
 80 
 
 Shaw, (Family History) 
 
 63 
 
 Shedd, (Family History) 
 
 62 
 
 Smith, (Family History) 
 
 46 
 
 Smith, Eber M., 
 
 - 100 
 
 Soper, Almon A., 
 
 88 
 
 Spaulding, (Family History) 
 
 - 76 
 
 Stearns, Albert L.. 
 
 99 
 
 Stearns, Charles C, 
 
 89 
 
 Stockwell, K. P., 
 
 102 
 
 Sturtevant, Edwin, 
 
 87 
 
 Sylvester, (Family History) 
 
 68 
 
 Terry, (Family History) 
 
 86 
 
 Town Representatives of Bethel, 
 
 23 
 
 Trevett, Rev. J. B., 
 
 18 
 
 Tupper, (Family History) 
 
 87 
 
 Universalist Meeting House, 
 
 13 
 
 Vermont Hair Company, 
 
 43 
 
 Waldo, Joseph, 
 
 97 
 
 Wallace, (Family History) 
 
 54 
 
 Washburn, Seth M., 
 
 96 
 
 Weeden, Samuel, 
 
 83 
 
 Webster, (Family History) 
 
 59 
 
 Wellington, (Family History) 
 
 69 
 
 Weston, Irvin, 
 
 65 
 
 Wheeler, (Family History) 
 
 - 90 
 
 Whitcomb, Albert, 
 
 89 
 
 Whitcomb High School, 
 
 21 
 
 Williams, (Family History) 
 
 80 
 
 Wilson, (Family History) 
 
 - 55 
 
 Wilson, (Family History) 
 
 78 
 
 Wight, (Family History) 
 
 76 
 
 Wood, Lyman M., 
 
 83 
 
 Wright, William, 
 
 96 
 
Index to Cuts and Illustrations. 
 
 Adams, R. S., 
 
 Adams, William R., 
 
 Arnold, Hon. Fred, 
 
 Berry, Eleazer, 
 
 Bennett, Rev. John O.. 
 
 Bethel Town Hall, 
 
 Bethel Village, (1895) 
 
 Blackman, Rev. V. W., 
 
 Burnett, Myron, 
 
 Central Vermont R. R. Depot, 
 
 Chase, Dr. R. M., 
 
 Christ Episcopal Church, 
 
 Clough, Dr. L. W., 
 
 Congregational Church, 
 
 Cushing, Carl D., 
 
 Cushing, Josiah Dana, 
 
 Davison, Prof. F. P., 
 
 Day, Kilburn, 
 
 Edson, J. H., 
 
 Ellison, Nelson, 
 
 Factory of the Bethel Shoe Company, 
 
 Finishing Room, A part of East Side 
 
 of, (Tannery) 
 Finishing Room, A part of West Side 
 
 of (Tannery) 
 Finishing Room and Russet Depart 
 
 raent, (Tannery) 
 Fish, Willis S., 
 Gould, Chester S., 
 Harrington, Edwin, 
 Harrington, Mrs. Edwin, 
 Hatch, George S., 
 Hunton, Hon. A. P., 
 Kendall, Monroe N., 
 Kiihball, George H., 
 Main Street, looking south, 
 Marston, C. W,, 
 Mcintosh, Herbert M.. 
 Mcintosh, J. Miller, 60 
 
 lOI 
 
 Parker, Rev. S. A., 
 
 84 
 
 66 
 
 Place, Griffin, 
 
 43 
 
 79 
 
 Residence of Dr. R. M. Chase, 
 
 70 
 
 S6 
 
 Residence of Mrs. Edwin Harrington, 
 
 75 
 
 IS 
 
 Richardson, Mrs. Patty, 
 
 49 
 
 u 
 
 Safford, Myron G., 
 
 44 
 
 3 
 
 Sanders, Albert, 
 
 53 
 
 20 
 
 Scene on White River at Bethel, 
 
 27 
 
 51 
 
 Scene on W.hite River at Bethel, 
 
 29 
 
 31 
 
 Shaw, John M., 
 
 64 
 
 69 
 
 Shaw, Oscar P., 
 
 64 
 
 17 
 
 Shaw, Ralph, 
 
 64 
 
 99 
 
 Shaw, Will G., 
 
 64 
 
 19 
 
 Sorting Skins, (Tannery) 
 
 39 
 
 73 
 
 Smith, Asa, 
 
 47 
 
 72 
 
 Smith, Eber N., 
 
 100 
 
 23 
 
 Stearns, Albert L., 
 
 99. 
 
 59 
 
 Stockwell, k. P., 
 
 102 
 
 100 
 
 Sylvester, Merrick, 
 
 68 
 
 77 
 
 Tannery Employees, A group of, 
 
 37 
 
 - 45 
 
 Tupper, George H., 
 
 87 
 
 e 
 
 Universalist Church 
 
 14 
 
 42 
 
 View of Church Street from East Hill, 
 
 5 
 
 e 
 
 View of Ri^ei- Street from East Hill, 
 
 r 
 
 42 
 
 Waldo, Joseph, 
 
 97 
 
 - 
 
 Wallace, Gardner J., 
 
 54 
 
 41 
 
 Weighing Skins, (Tannery) 
 
 39 
 
 lOI 
 
 West side of Main Street and Wright 
 
 
 44 
 
 & Cushing Mill, 
 
 9 
 
 74 
 
 Whitcomb, Albert, 
 
 89. 
 
 74 
 
 Whitcomb High School, 
 
 22 
 
 57 
 
 Williams, Thomas, 
 
 81 
 
 83 
 
 Works of the G. & E. G. Place Tannery 
 
 38 
 
 97 
 
 Wright, William, 
 
 96 
 
 93 
 
 Yard and Sphtting Room, North End, 
 
 
 25 
 
 (Tannery) 
 
 40 
 
 - 102 
 
 Yard and Splitting Room, South End, 
 
 
 61 
 
 (Tannery) 
 
 40.