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In the fall of 1869 he was married to Sophia M., daughter of Capt. Timothy Joslyn of Brownington, in whom he found a fitting helpmeet. Six children have resulted from this union, richly en- dowed with the graces which give joy to the present and promise to the future. The tragic death of the eldest, a boy of some ten years, by drowning in Lake Memphremagog, brought crushing sor- row to a happy home.
As a citizen Judge Austin is eminently public spirited, ever ready to do his part and more, social and genial, with a lively interest in education, temperance and religion, in whatever tends to elevate and ennoble human life and character.
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Claiming no ideal perfection, admitting faults and foibles common to humanity, considering the breadth of character and attainment, in no fulsome sense may the words of the immortal bard be ap- plied to the subject of this sketch :
" His life was earnest, and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world, ' This was a man.""
AMOS HERBERT CARPENTER.
By HON. JONATHAN ROSS.
A MOS HERBERT CARPENTER, the son of Amos B. and Cosbi (Parker) Carpenter, was born at West Waterford, Vt., January 1, 1855. He fitted for college at the St. Johnsbury Acad- emy, graduating in June, 1874. He entered Dartmouth College that fall, and graduated in the class of 1878. As a student he was characterized, rather by persistency and thoroughness, than by rapidity in acquiring and brilliancy. Immediately upon graduating he entered upon the study of the law, first with Belden & Ide of St. Johnsbury, then at Bath, N. H., with his uncle, now Judge A. P. Carpenter, and finally with John Young, Esq., of Derby Line, Vt. He was admitted to the bar at the September term of Orleans county court for 1880. While pursuing his classical and legal stud- ies, he taught several terms of school successfully. In the fall of 1880 he opened an office at Middlebury, Vt., and practiced until the following summer, when he was laid aside for awhile by an attack of fever and ague, contracted two or three years before while on a visit in the West. In the fall of 1882 he formed a part- nership with C. B. Leslie, Esq., of Wells River, for a year. At the close of his year he went to Minnesota and formed a partnership with Martin V. B. Drew, Esq., a son of the late Theophilus Drew of Danville, Vt. He showed himself so faithful and competent in the practice of his profession while with Mr. Drew, that on January I, 1884, he was offered the position of attorney and collector for the house of Osborne & Co. of Minneapolis, who were doing an extensive business throughout the West in the manufacture and sale of farming implements. He accepted the position, and worked for the firm a year on salary. At the close of the year he was
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employed by some Eastern parties to go to Stockton, Cal., to con- test the will of a person recently deceased, who formerly went from the East. He is reported to have been successful in preventing the probate of the pretended will, and is at present at Stockton looking after the interests of the heirs to the estate. In the practice of his profession, as in his academic and college life, he has shown himself faithful, thorough, persistent and competent.
EDSON N. CONNAL.
T HE subject of this sketch was born at Newport, Vt., February 25, 1853. He is the son of Peter Connal, a native of Ster- ling, Scotland, who emigrated to this county in 1850, and settled at Newport. Mr. Connal served ten years in the British army as sergeant-major. After coming to this country he soon took out his naturalization papers, and at once took a great interest in the pros- perity and growth of the republic. The people of Newport have shown their appreciation of his efforts by electing him to positions of public trust and responsibility, such as selectman and justice of the peace.
Edson N. worked on his father's farm summers, and attended the school of his native district what time he could obtain until he was eighteen years of age. He then entered the State Normal School at Johnson, where he graduated in 1874. He then contin- ued his studies at St. Johnsbury Academy, where he remained two years, paying his way during all this time by his own labor in vari- ous ways. After leaving the academy he taught school for awhile, then entered the office of Grout. & Prouty at Newport. In the spring of 1878 he continued his law studies with Judge L. H. Thompson of Irasburgh, and in 1879 was appointed register of pro- bate, thereby becoming self-sustaining. He completed his prepar- ation, and was admitted to the bar of Orleans county court at the February term, A. D. 1880. In the spring of 1881 he went to Bur- lington, Kan., where he has since resided, practicing his profession with excellent success. He was married September, 1881, to Julia A. Thompson, sister of Hon. L. H. Thompson of Irasburgh, and has one child.
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WILLIS E. DODGE.
T HE subject of this biography was born in Lowell, Vt., May II, 1857. His father, William B. Dodge, was a farmer of lim- ited means, the son of Andrew J. Dodge, formerly from Montpelier. His mother was Harriet N. Baldwin, the only daughter of Asa Baldwin, late of Lowell. The circumstances of the parents of our subject prevented the gratification of the disposition manifested in the son during his earlier youth, to acquire an education. How- ever, he attended the district and select school of his native town, . and being an apt scholar and disposed to make the most of the advantages at his command he had, at the age of thirteen years, acquired quite a thorough knowledge of the elementary branches usually taught in district schools. In the fall of 1870 and 1871 he attended the Westfield Grammar School, then under the charge of Mahlon C. Dix, a superior teacher. In the fall of 1873 young Dodge went to Barton, and entered the store of O. D. Owen as clerk. Here and in the store of James W. Hall he remained until the spring of 1877. His experience as a dry goods clerk was very satisfactory, both to his employers and himself, and the spring of 1877 found him making active preparations to establish himself in the mercantile business at Barton, a friend having expressed a will- ingness to furnish him a stock of goods, when a slight circumstance turned the whole current of his life.
The facts are given as related to the writer by himself as follows : " One night after closing the store and starting for home, some one engaged in spirited debate in the office of Hon. W. W. Grout across the way attracted my attention, and upon entering found the Gen- eral and my uncle, F. W. Baldwin, earnestly engaged in trying before a justice court jury a trespass case about some hay, both of these able expounders of the law being in their best style on such occasions, and both apparently wrought up to the highest pitch of endeavor for his client. This was my first experience in the court- room, and no Roman youth ever watched the combat of two gladi- ators in the arena with keener interest or more awe-struck counte- nance than I, the judicial disposition of that load of hay. To me it was the most wonderful revelation, and aroused within me feel- ings and aspirations dormant until then. I became as much inter- ested and excited as the contestants, and much more so than their
JA J Will be. Posso
M. Dodge!
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clients appeared to be. The jury disagreed and I went home late, but not to sleep. Interest in the case, disgust for the jury, mingled with natural solicitude for the safety of both lawyers when they should again meet, (for I entertained the highest regard for both), kept sleep from my eye-lids, and caused me to think seriously about myself and my life work. Before another week had passed I had fully decided to fit myself for the profession of the law." Young Dodge at once entered St. Johnsbury Academy, and graduated in the scientific and classical course in the class of 1879. During this time and while pursuing his law studies, he taught with excellent success schools at West Glover, Albany, Barton and Barton Land- ing. In 1879 he entered the office of F. W. Baldwin at Barton, where he had previously spent all of his spare time, for the study of the law, and was admitted to the bar of Orleans county court at the September term, A. D. 1880, and believing that the great West with her enterprise and broader field of action offered greater inducements to a young and ambitious man than he could hope to find at home, he started out, and arrived at Fargo, Dak., October 6, 1880. He immediately entered the office of Roberts & Spauld- ing, the latter being from Orleans county, where he remained until January 22, 1881, familiarizing himself with the code practice of Dakota. He was admitted to the bar of Dakota in November, 1880, and in January, 1881, entered into copartnership with Albert A. Allen at Jamestown, the pioneer lawyer of that place, and soon assumed a prominent position at the bar of his county ; and so well has he maintained the reputation universally achieved by "Green Mountain " boys, that he is today recognized as one of the leading lawyers of North Dakota, and commands a fine practice. In April, 1883, he was elected city attorney for the city of Jamestown, which position he has ever since acceptably held. He is also attorney for the Dakota division of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, the offices of which are at Jamestown, also secretary and attorney for the Northern Dakota Elevator Company, of which he is a stock- holder and director. He is also recognized as one of the leading criminal lawyers of Dakota, and has had an extensive practice in that line, both in the Territorial and United States courts, where he has been almost universally successful. The following we take from the Jamestown Alert :
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" Honor to whom honor is due. The Alert takes great pleasure in noting the prosperity of W. E. Dodge, who from well earned laurels is now recognized as the leading attorney of Jamestown, and who has attained that distinction, and we may say eminence, for it is an eminence to occupy that position among such legal talent as Jamestown affords. It is well earned by Mr. Dodge, for he has given close application to his profession, and is known as an inde- fatigable worker for his clients, and rarely fails to win his case. He has a fine library, a commodious office, and a practice that already extends beyond the limits of the territory. Though comparatively young in years he is old in his profession, and in numerous cases has already grappled with the ablest and most noted attorneys of the territory, and won in cases involving the most intricate and abstruse questions of law. He came to this country from the far distant state of Vermont a few years ago, and by dint of hard work and indomitable perseverance has already accumulated a compe- tence, and an honorable record in his profession that is above price."
On March 27, 1882, Mr. Dodge was married to Hattie M. Crist of Vinton, Iowa, and they have one child, a daughter. At the present time he has for a partner E. W. Camp, the firm name being Dodge & Camp.
HENRY HARRISON MARTIN.
T
HE subject of this sketch was born in Enosburgh, Vt., June
22, 1855. He was the son of William H. and Fanny (Libby) Martin. Henry attended the common schools and Enosburgh Academy until his father removed to Barton, on to the Baxter homestead near Barton village, in February, 1868. Subsequently he worked on the farm summers, taught winters, and attended the Barton Academy and Graded School and St. Johnsbury Academy until 1878, when he entered the office of Frederick W. Baldwin, Esq., at Barton for the study of the law. During this time he had taught successfully schools at St. Johnsbury Center, Enosburgh Falls, North Troy and Coventry Falls. He had during the time he was teach- ing at Troy and afterward studied law to some extent in the office of Col. William R. Rowell of that place.
He was admitted to the bar at the September term, 1880, and in December of that year went to Canon City, Col., and opened an
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office for the practice of his profession. On his way West he caught a severe cold, and hardly reached there before he was pros- trated with lung fever. He rallied somewhat after the fever had its run, but it was soon evident he had consumption. He returned at once to Vermont, but only to die, his death taking place May I, 1881.
FRANCIS SUMNER ROGERS.
F 'RANCIS SUMNER ROGERS was born at Troy, Vt., on the 3d day of December, 1854. His father, C. S. Rogers, M. D., practiced medicine in Troy for more than twenty years, and his mother was the daughter of Samuel Sumner, Esq., of that place.
After pursuing preparatory studies at Derby and St. Johnsbury Academies, he entered Dartmouth College, and graduated in 1878. He studied law with H. E. Powell, Esq., of Troy, and with P. K. Gleed, Esq., of Morrisville, and was admitted to the Orleans county bar at the February term of 1880. Since then he has practiced his profession at Troy with good success. He married Alice A. Aiken, daughter of Leander Aiken of Sutton, P. Q., April II, 1882, and they have two children.
JOHN G. FOSTER.
OHN G. FOSTER, the son of Austin T. and Sarah Gilman J Foster, was born in Derby, Vt., March 9, 1859. Stephen Fos- ter, his grandfather, the fifth descendant of Thomas Foster who came to Massachusetts in 1635, was born in Rochester, Mass., July 30, 1772. January 3, 1802, he married Mary King, daughter of Jonathan King, and shortly afterward moved to what is now known as East Montpelier, in the then almost unbroken wilderness and settled, rearing a family of ten children. He died April 3, 1850. Austin T., the youngest son, when in his fifteenth year left Mont- pelier, and entered his brother Stephen's store at Rock Island, P. Q., as a clerk. When he was nineteen years of age he was admitted a member of the firm of Spalding & Foster of Derby Line, since which time he has been one of the most prominent business men of the place, and has occupied many places of public trust and responsibility. He has been president of the National Bank of
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Derby Line since 1872, has represented Derby in the legislature, and has recently been nominated to the state senate.
John G., his oldest son, industriously attended the school of his native village until he went to Goddard Seminary, Barre, Vt., where he fitted for college, and in 1872 entered Tuft's College, graduating in 1880. He immediately commenced the study of the law with Edwards, Dickerman & Young at Newport, and was admitted to the bar at the September term, A. D. 1881. Wishing to be fitted in the most thorough manner for the profession of his choice, he went to Boston and took a full course of law lectures at the Boston University. Upon his return he opened an office at Derby Line for the practice of his profession. Mr. Foster is a young man of good native ability, and has been favored with most excellent prep- aration for his life work. Now with close application, and hard work, his friends may expect the realization of their highest hopes of his professional standing.
EUGENE L. EMERY.
T HE subject of this biography was born at East Andover, N. H.,
August 12, 1855, the son of Willard A. and Sarah (Brown) Emery. His father and grandfather were farmers, the latter having cut the first tree upon the old farm where our subject and his father were both born. He attended the school of his native district and the village school at East Andover until the age of fifteen, when he entered the academy at New London, N. H. (The course of study was preparatory to entering college). He graduated in June, 1873. The same month, before completing his seventeenth year, he was examined for admission to Dartmouth College, and entered there at the fall term. His lot was similar to many farmers' sons, who have to work their own way to some extent. His father was ever willing to help him what he was able, but he was under the neces- sity of obtaining fully one-half of the expense for his four years' course from manual labor or school-teaching. During his senior year seventeen weeks out of the thirty-eight were spent in teach- ing. Graduating from Dartmouth in the class of 1877, he com- menced the study of the law in September of that year in the office of Copeland & Edgerly at Great Falls, N. H. In November he left to teach a three months' village school in Hampton, and again in
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the fall of 1878 was out of the office to teach a term of school at Newington. In December, 1879, he went to Sherbrooke, P. Q., and entered the office of Brooks, Comirand & Hurd, where he was able to do office work to pay expenses. Soon after this, notes which he had given during his college course becoming due, the school-room was once more resorted to. At a public examination of teachers held at Sherbrooke, May 5, 1880, he received a first class academic diploma, which entitled him to teach in any school in the Province of Quebec. In August he engaged for one year to conduct the Frelighsburgh Grammar School at Frelighsburgh, P. Q. In the fall of 1881 he became principal of the Barton Academy and Graded School at Barton, Vt. Here he diligently pursued the study of the law during his spare time in the office of Frederick W. Baldwin, Esq., and at the February term of the Orleans county court, after a very thorough examination, was admitted to the bar, and soon started for the West, and was admitted March 21, 1882, at Fargo to practice in the district court of Dakota. He settled at Grand Forks and commenced practice. From the first he gave much of his attention to loaning money for Eastern parties, and this branch of his business soon grew to such an extent that the loans made by him in 1884 would aggregate fully one hundred thousand dollars. In February, 1885, the Grand Forks National Bank was established with an authorized capital of one hundred thousand dollars, and he was elected one of its directors. He was also elected one of the directors of the Grand Forks roller mills, a joint stock corporation manufacturing wheat flour, with a capital stock of the same amount as the bank. In June, 1885, Mr. Emery revisited his native state, and organized the New England Investment Company with a capi- tal of one hundred thousand dollars, and in July it was incorporated under the laws of Dakota, and Mr. Emery made its secretary and general manager. Mr. Emery has relinquished his law practice, as these large financial interests require his whole time. His thor- ough education and extensive reading well fitted him for the pro- fession of the law, but it none the less fitted him to discharge the arduous and responsible duties now devolving upon him. For the short time that Mr. Emery has been in the Northwest he has been highly successful, and bids fair to be one of the leading men of Dakota. He was married October 30, 1883, to Miss Isabel M.
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- Stevens, an estimable lady of Great Falls, N. H. June 24, 1886, the degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon him by Dart- mouth College.
FRANK H. RAND.
F `RANK H. RAND was born at Irasburgh, Vt., August 3, 1861, and is the son of William H. and Lucy (Forbes) Rand. His father has been a prominent man in the affairs of Orleans county for many years, having represented Irasburgh in the legis- lature in 1853, and was deputy collector of customs at Newport, Swanton and Troy from 1861 to 1880, and has been Deputy United States Marshal since 1867. Young Rand received his early educa- tion at the common schools and academies of his native county, and later attended the academy at St. Johnsbury. In 1879 he graduated from Eastman's Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He pursued the study of the law for a time in the office of Col. William R. Rowell at North Troy, and from there entered the law school at Albany, N. Y., where he graduated in June, 1882, and was admitted to practice in the courts of the state of New York. At the September term, A. D. 1882, he was admitted a member of the bar of Orleans county, and immediately commenced the prac- tice of his profession at North Troy, where he remained until July, 1884, when he entered the employ of J. C. Ayer & Co., of Lowell, Mass., and is now traveling for them throughout the South.
DON ALNEY STONE.
D ON ALNEY STONE, the son of Alney and Marcia (Parsons) Stone, was born in Westford, Chittenden county, Vt., Decem- ber 8, 1853. His primary education was obtained at the common schools and at the New Hampton Institution, Fairfax, Vt. He graduated from the University of Vermont in the class of 1878, and studied law with Hon. L. H. Thompson of Irasburgh, and was admitted a member of the bar of Orleans county at its February term, A. D. 1883. In June, 1884, he was appointed deputy collec- tor and inspector of customs for the district of Vermont, and sta- tioned at Burlington where he still resides. He was married September 24, 1884, to Bessie F. Macomber, youngest daughter of J. H. Macomber of Westford.
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EDWIN A. COOK.
T HE subject of this sketch, the son of Amos C. and Sarah (Norton) Cook, was born in Glover, Vt., November 19, 1857. His grandfather, Amos Cook, was among the early settlers of that town. Nathan Norton, the grandfather of his mother, came in 1803 from Strafford, Vt., to Glover, and built the second frame house in the town, and kept a hotel for a number of years. Nathan, Jr., the third of his nine children, was a prominent man in the town, holding most of the town trusts. He died in 1865, aged seventy years. He reared seven children. Edwin H. received his education at the common schools of his native town, Johnson Nor- mal School, and St. Johnsbury Academy. In 1876 he commenced the study of the law with F. W. Baldwin at Barton, and later pur- sued its study with Hon. L. H. Thompson at Irasburgh, and from his office was admitted to practice in the county and supreme courts of the state of Vermont, October 31, 1884, being the first person to be examined and admitted under the new rules adopted by the supreme court, requiring all examinations to be made by the committee appointed by the judges of the supreme court, at its general term each year. Immediately upon his admission to the bar he commenced the practice of his profession at Glover. He was married February II, 1885, to Carrie A. Morse, and they have one child.
INDEX.
Abbott, Thomas
174
Cahoon, Edward A. I57
Adams, Ira F.
286
Camp, David M. 59
Akeley, Healey C. .
194
Carpenter, Amos H.
290
Alfred, Frank E.
275
Carpenter, B. F. D. 218
Allen, James T. . 235
Carr, John L.
282
Allen, Charles P. 252
Carter, Ezra
49
Austin, Orlo H. 286
Chadwick, David
I58
Baldwin, Frederick W. 267
Chase, Moses
45
Baldwin, George
187
Clark, Nathaniel S. 168
Barker, Rinaldo A.
193
Cooper, Jesse 98
Barron, William T. 165
Colby, Stoddard B. 148
Bartlett, Thomas 38
Colby, John 188
Bartlett, Don A.
189
Connal, Edson N.
291
Bartlett, Enoch H
212
Cook, Edwin . 299
Bartlett, Amasa
192
Cowles, Elijah S. 230
Bartlett, Leavitt
210
Crane, Walter D. 213
Bassett, Horace . 52
Cushman, Isaac N. 169
Bates, Alonzo D.
194
Cushman, Seth
I5
Bates, Wm. G. P.
197
Daggett, Charles B. 245
Bates, Henry C.
24I
Dale, George N.
245
Baxter, William
46
Dale, Solomon N.
250
Baxter, Carlos
104
Davis, Charles
65
Benton, C. Henry
243
Dickerman, Wm. M.
163
Bentley, George C. 276
Dodge, Willis E.
292
Bisbee, Lewis H.
227
Dorman, Julius S. . 225
Bloss, Chester W. .
65
Eaton, William W.
253
Boardman, Norman
152
Edwards, John L. 158
Bradley, Joseph C. .
46
Ellis, Joseph H. .
52
Brigham, Charles O.
277
Emery, Eugene L. 296
Brown, Oliver T.
166 Erwin, John W. 27I
Bulkley, Roger G. 53
Farr, Elijah
I22
Burbank, Peter
57
Fleming, Charles N. 226
Burk, Asahel M.
220
Fletcher, Isaac 22
Burke, John C. .
28I
Fletcher, Josiah A. I 56
Burton, Harvey
80
Foster, John G. . 295
Bell, James
18
Dickerman, Jerry E. 182
302
INDEX.
Frost, Henry H.
176
Paddock, Ephraim 36
Frost, Hezekiah
52
Paddock, James A. 82
Fuller, Myron H.
257
Parker, Charles A. . 165
Fuller, John L. 52
Poland, Luke P. I3I
Gilman, Fred 254
Poor, B. W. 167
Gould, David 77 Powell, Homer E. 274
Grout, William W. 204
Prentiss, Charles W. I22
Grout, Josiah
238
Prentiss, John H. I54
Grout, Theophilus 258
Prentiss, Henry F. . I4I
Harrington, Fernando C. 178
Prouty, Charles A. 279
Hatch, Uriel C. . IO2
Rand, Nelson 272
Heath, William 175
Rand, Frank H. 298
Hill, Nathan S.
93
Randall, Eben A. 169
Hill, Merrill J.
22I
Redfield, Isaac F. 84
Holbrook, Albert M. 179
Redfield, Timothy P. 14I
Howe, William .
69
Read, Nathaniel, Jr.,
71
Johnson, Elbridge G. III
Reynolds, Charles
52
Johnson, Franklin 119
Richardson, Wm.
70
Keeler, George P.
250
Robinson, Charles 190
Kendall, P. Redfield
269
Robinson, J. Barney
226
Kimball, John H. 78
Robinson, Wallace I.
273
Kimball, Daniel F. IO3
Rogers, Frank L.
295
Leslie, Miron
94
Rowell, Wm. R. 254
Lewis, John L.
278
Rowell, Charles J. 276
Manson, Albert . I4I
Sartle, John P. I74
Mason, George M. . 80
Sawyer, Joshua 53
Marsh, Joseph
48
Shedd, Lyman M. 259
Marsh, Lewis
8I
Sheafe, Nathaniel T. 180
Martin, Wm. H.
1 56
Shurtleff, Amos J. . 265
Martin, Henry H.
294
Simpson, James G. 285
Mattocks, John .
9
Simonds, David K. 249
McGregor, Frank P.
283
Smalley, David A. . 124
Meigs, Charles 74
Starkweather, Elisha H. . 77
Miles, Willard W. 263
Steele, Benjamin H. 197
Mott, Frederick .
191
Steele, Sanford H. 266
Moulton, Israel A. . 251
Stewart, Edward A. 203
Nichols, L. H.
269
Stone, Don A. 298
Nye, Salmon .
73
Story, Charles 102
Olds, Jesse
50
Sumner, Samuel 96
INDEX.
303
Taylor, Sebastian F. 109
West, George C. 74
Todd, George W. 236
Wead, H. M. I20
Thompson, Leonard S. 25I
Williams, Charles 224
Thompson, Laforrest H. . 260
Willard, Samuel A.
97
Tucker, George . I86
Winchester, Elkanah 168
Tupper, Fred L.
285
Wilson, Henderson C. 172
Tyler, Milton R.
223
Wilson, William D.
209
Tyler, William D.
238
Works, Henry
51
Upham, Samuel . 52
Wright, Riley E.
236
Vail, Charles I.
224
Wyman, George D. 231
Vilas, Levi B.
IO5
Young, Augustus 55
Wallace, John
56
Young, John .
232
Walworth, Charles H. ยท 284
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