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The following complete Roster of men who went from Ben- nington County, as commissioned officers, and of those, who enlist- ing in the ranks were subsequently promoted to a commission, is compiled from the Adjutant and Inspector-General's reports of 1866, and from other sources. For convenience sake the names are arranged in alphabetical order, the dates refer to commissions, the date of muster is omitted. Those marked with an asterisk (*) were not mustered in under the latest commission.
Several of the regiments re-enlisted, and therefore appear as being finally mustered out subsequent to the term of original en- listment.
TERMS OF ENLISTMENTS .- SECOND REGIMENT, Infantry, muster-
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ed in June 20, 1861, for three years, was finally mustered out July 15, 1865. FOURTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in Sept. 21, 1861, for three years, finally mustered out July 13, 1865. FIFTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in Sept. 16, 1861, for three years, finally mustered out June 29, 1865. SEVENTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in February 12, 1862, for three years, finally mustered out March 14, 1866. EIGHTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in February 18, 1862, for three years, finally mustered out June 28, 1865. TENTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in Sept. 1, 1862, mustered out June 29, 1865. FOURTEENTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in October 21, 1862, for nine months, mustered out July 30, 1863. SIXTEENTH REGIMENT, Infantry, mustered in October 23, 1862, for nine months, mustered out August 10, 1863. SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT, In- fantry, mustered in by companies in 1864, mustered out July 14, 1865. SECOND REGIMENT U. S. SHARP SHOOTERS, Co. H, (Third Vermont Company,) mustered in December 31, 1861, for three years, mustered out December 31, 1864. FIRST BATTERY LIGHT ARTILLERY, mustered in February 18, 1862, for three years, mustered out August 10, 1864. FIRST REGIMENT CAVALRY, mustered in November 19, 1861, for three years, finally mustered out August 9, 1865.
ROSTER OF FIELD, STAFF AND COMPANY OFFICERS.
Charles Albro, of Bennington, age 22, 2d Lieut., Co. A, 14th Regt., Aug. 27, '62, mustered out of service July 30, '63. Nathan L. Andrew, of Arlington, age 33, Ist Lieut., Co. C, 14th Regt., Aug. 28, '62, mustered out of service July 30, '63. Edward W. Appleton, of Bennington, age 23, private, Co. A, 2d Regt. Inf., May 14, '61 ; Ist Sergt., June 20. '61; 2d Lieut., Co. H, Sept. 12, '61; Capt. Co. B, Jan. 25, '62 ; discharged for disability, Sept. 25, '62.
Merritt Barber, of Pownal, age 26, ist Lieut., Co. E, Ioth Regt., Aug. 7, '62 ; Capt., Co. B, June 17, '64; appointed Capt. and A. A. G., U. S. Vols., Dec. 31,'64 ; Brevet-Major, Oct. 19, '64, for gallantry in every action since May 5, '64, and par- ticularly at Cedar Creek, Va., Oct. 19, '64.
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George H. Bean, of Pownal, age 34, Ist Lieut., Co. G, Ist Regt. Cavalry, Oct. 18, '61; Capt., April 10, '62 ; dismissed from the service, April 28, '63.
Dennis M. Blackmer, of Bennington, age 22, 2d Lieut., Co. G, Ist Regt. Cavalry, October 18, '61 ; Ist Lieut., April 10, '62; resigned July. 18, '62.
George Brown, of Rupert, age 25, Sergt .- Major, 7th Regt., Feb. 12, '62; 2d Lieut., Co. E, Aug. 28, '62; Ist Lieut., Dec. 9, '62; dishonorably dismissed from the service December 23, '64, for habitual intoxication and being a worthless, ineficient officer.
Samuel E. Burnham, of Manchester, age 22, 2d Lieut., Co. E, 5th Regt., Aug. 30, '61 ; Ist Lieut., July 24, '62 ; Capt., Co. E, Oct. 6, '62 ; resigned Feb. 17, '63.
Gideon H. Burton, of Bennington, age 23, 2d Lieut., Co. A, 4th Regt., Aug. 27, '61 ; Ist Lieut., Co. C, July 17, '62 ; re- signed Feb. 14, '63.
Wm. H. Cady, of Bennington, age 24, 2d Lieut., Co. A, 2d Regt. Inf., May 14, '61; Ist Lieut., Co. A, Jan. 22, '62 ; Capt., Co. A, May 21, '62 ; wounded at Wilderness May 5, '64; mustered out of service June 29, '64.
Howard C. Chapin, of Readsboro, age 20, private, Co. A, 4th Regt., Aug. 13, '61 ; corporal, Sept. 21, '61; Sergt .; 2d Lieut., Co. B, Aug. 1, '62; Ist Lieut., Co. F, April 1, '63 ; Capt., Co. C, May 5, '64; mustered out of service July 13, '65.
Waldo J. Clark, of Rupert, age 18, private, Co. G, Ist Regt. Cavalry, Sept. 27, '61; Sergt., Nov. 19, '61; 2d Lieut., April 28, '63 ; re-enlisted Dec. 28, '63 ; wounded May 30, '63 ; mustered out of service Nov. 18, '64.
Burr T. Cole, of Shaftsbury, age 19, private, Co. A, 2d Regt. Inf., Sept. 15, '62 ; wounded May 6, '64 ; corporal, Dec. I, '64; rst Sergt., Feb. 7, '65 ; 2d Lieut., June 7, '65; mustered out of service as Ist Sergt., July 21, '65 .*
Eugene O. Cole, of Shaftsbury. age 27, private, Co. A, 2d Regt. Inf., May 7, '61 ; Sergt., June 20, '61; Ist Sergt., Sept. 14, '61; 2d Lieut., Co. A, May 21, '62 ; Capt., Co. A, Oct. 17, '62 ; mustered out of service June 29, '64; re-entered the
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service from Bennington, age 31, appointed Major, 5th Regt., Dec. 26, '64 ; brevet Lieut .- Col., April 2, '65, for gallantry in the assault on Petersburg, Va., April 2, '65; Lieut .- Col., June 9, '65 ; mustered out of service as Major, June 29,'65 .* William D. Collins, of Bennington, age 37, Major, Ist Regt. Cavalry, Nov. 1, '61 ; resigned May 7, '63.
Frederick W. Cook, of Manchester, age 22, private, Co. G, Ist Regt. Cavalry, Sept. 28, '61; Co. Com. Sergt., July 19, '63 ; re-enlisted Dec. 30, '63; 2d Lieut., Co. G, Nov. 19, '64; Ist Lieut., May 9, '65 ; mustered out of service June 21, '65. Henry T. Cushman, of Bennington, age 24, enlisted as Regt. Qr. M. Sergt., 4th Regt., March 1, '62; Quartermaster, Jan. 29, '63 ; mustered out of service, Sept. 30, '64.
John H. Cushman, of Bennington, age 32, Quartermaster, 4th Regt., Aug. 10, '61 ; resigned, Jan. 24, '63.
Hymenius A. Davis, of Landgrove, age 18, private, Co. H, 8th Regt. Inf., Dec. 23, '61 ; corporal, Feb. 18. '62 ; Sergt. ; re- enlisted Jan. 5, '64; Ist Sergt., April 12, '64; 2d Lieut., March 3, '65 ; mustered out of service June 28, '65.
Warren R. Dunton, of Dorset, age 22, private, Co. E, 5th Regt., Aug. 14, '61; Ist Sergt., Sept, 16, '61; 2d Lieut. Co. F, June 21, '62 ; transfered to Co. C, July 9, '62 ; Ist Lieut. Co. B, Nov. 22, '62 ; honorably discharged March 31, '63 for wounds received in action at Fredericksburgh, Va., Dec. 14, '62.
Otis V. Estes, of Bennington, age 25, private Co. A, 2d Regt., Inf., May 17. '61 ; Sergt. June 20, '61 ; Ist Sergt, May 21, '62 ; 2d Lieut. Co. A, Oct. 17,'62 ; wounded May 12, '64 ; mustered out of service June 29, '64.
ยท Charles Field, of Dorset, age 36, quarter-master 14th Regt., Oct. 8, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30, '63 ; afterwards brigade quarter-master and then division quarter-master, was breveted major and discharged 1865.
Russel Fisk, of Bennington, age 36, private Co. A, 2d Regt., Inf., Dec. 1, '63 ; Sergt-Major, Feb. 7, '65; 2d Lieut., June 7, '65 ; mustered out of service as Sergt-Major, July 15, '65 .* Lewis P. Fuller, of Stamford, age 45, 2d Lieut., Co. K, 14th Regt., Sept. 18, '62 ; resigned March 9, '63
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Jerome Gleason, of Manchester, age 28, private Co. E, 5th Regt., Sept. 27, '61 ; corporal, Sergt., Ist Sergt. ; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63; wounded May 5, '64; Ist Lieut. Co, E, Nov. 10, '64; honorably discharged June 2, '65, for disability.
Ransom O. Gore, of Bennington, age 28, Capt. Co. A, 14th Regt., Aug. 27, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Walter Graham, of Arlington, age 21, private Co. E, roth Regt., July 19, '62 ; corporal Nov. 29, '62; Sergt., Dec. 27, '62; Ist Sergt., Dec. 31, '62; 2d Lieut., June 15, '65 ; mustered out of service as Ist Sergt., June 22, '65 .*
Samuel Greer, of Dorset, age 22, private Co. C, roth Regt., Aug. 5, '62, Corporal, Sept. 25, '63, Sergt., July 23, '64; wounded Oct. 19, '64; 2d Lieut., Co. C, Dec. 19, '64; Ist Lieut., Feb., 9, '65 ; mustered out of service June 22, '65. Nathaniel B. Hall, of Bennington, age 36, major 14th Regi- ment, Sept., 25, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30th, 1863.
Geo. D. Harrington, of Bennington, age -, entered the service as commissary of subsistance, May 3, 1862, promoted to rank of major, March 13, '65, and on same date to Lieut- Col .; July 24th, 1865, promoted to rank of colonel, sta- tioned, most of the time, at Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, discharged in the autumn of 1865.
Gilbert Hart, of Dorset, age 34, Capt. Co. H, 2d Regt., U. S. sharp shooters, Dec. 24, '61 ; resigned Aug. 13, '62.
Alvah R. Haswell, of Bennington, age 19, private Co. G, Ist Regt. Cavalry, Oct. 2, '62 ; Sergt., Dec. 24, '62 ; wounded Dec. 13, '63; re-enlisted Dec. 30, '63 ; Ist. Lieut. Co. G, Nov. 19, '64; Capt., Co. G, May 9, '65 ; transferred to Co. E, June 21, '65, by reason of consolidation of regiment ; mustered out of service, Aug. 9, '65.
George Hicks, of Bennington, age 23, Ist Lieut. Co. F., 17th Regt., April 9, '64; Brevet. Capt. July 6,'64, for gallant and meritorious services in charge near Shand's House, Va., killed in action July 30, 1864 ; captain's commission dated Nov. 1, 1864 .*
Guilford S. Ladd, of Bennington, age 30, Adjut. of 2d Regt. Inf., June 11, '61 ; resigned July 17, 1862.
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Josiah B. Munson, of Manchester, age 26, Capt. Co. C, 14th Regt., Aug. 28, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30, '63. William H. Munn, of Shaftsbury, age 24, Ist Lieut. Co. K, 14th Regt., Sept. 18, '62 ; Capt., Feb. 15, '65 ; mustered out of service July 30, '63.
William Newell, of Dorset, age 35, private Co. H, 2d Regt., U. S., Sharp Shooters, Nov. 1, '61; Ist Sergt., Dec. 31, '61 ; 2d Lieut., Dec. 1, '62 ; Capt., May 18, '64; honorably dis- charged as 2d Lieut., Oct. 17, '64, for wounds received in action before Petersburgh, June 21, '64.
Abel K. Parsons, of Bennington, age 32, Ist Lieut. Co. A, 4th Regt., Aug. 27, '61 ; killed in action at Cold Harbor, Va., June 4, '64.
John E. Pratt, of Bennington, age 26, Capt., Co. A, 4th Regt., Aug. 27, '61 ; Major, April 30, '64; Lieut. Col., March 14, '65 ; mustered out of service July 13, '65.
Harrison Prindle, of Manchester, age 23, Adjutant, 14th Regt., Oct. 8, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Frank Ray, of Bennington, age 23, private Co. G, Ist Regt., Cavalry, Sept. 26, '61 ; Ist Sergt., Nov. 19, '61 ; Ist Lieut., Co. G, Oct. 4, '62 ; Capt., Co. G, April 28, '63 ; wounded May 11, '64; killed in action at Mount Olive, Va., Oct. 9th, '64.
Thomas Reade, of Shaftsbury, age 21, private, Ist Battery Light Artilley, Dec. 1, '61 ; Q. M. Sergt., Feb. 8th, '62 ; 2d Lieut., July 14, '62 ; Ist Lieut., Feb. 14, '63; resigned Dec. 14, '63.
Edward Rice, of Shaftsbury, age 23, 2d Lieut., Ist Battery Light Artillery, Jan. 15, '62; Ist Lieut., Feb. 13, '63; mustered out of service Aug. 10, '64.
Geo. H. Sessions, of Manchester, age 21, enlisted in the Vet. Res. Corps, Sept. 16, '63 ; transferred into Co. - , May 7, '64; Ist Lieut., Co. I, 5th Regt., July 25, '64; Capt. Co. E, Nov. 10, '64 ; mustered out of service June 29, '65.
Joshua A. Shattuck, of Winhall, age 19, private Co. E, 5th Regt., Dec. 8, '63; wounded June 3d, '64; Corporal, Oct. 24, '64; Sergt., Dec. 16, '64; 2d Lieut., June 4, '65 ; mustered out of service as sergeant, June 23, '65."
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James A. Sheldon, of Rupert, age 39, Capt., Co. G, Ist Regt., Cavalry, Oct. 18, '61 ; resigned March 12, '62.
Nathan A. Smith, of Shaftsbury, age 19, private, Co. A, 4th Regt., Sept. 2, '61 ; Corporal, July 31, '63 ; re-enlisted Dec. 15, '63 ; wounded May 5, '64; Sergt., Sept. 21, '64; Regt. Q.M. Sergt., Feb. 4, '65; 2d Lieut., Feb. 27, '65 ; mustered out of service July 13, '65.
Newton Stone, of Bennington, age 23, Ist Lieut., Co. A, May 14, '61 ; Capt., Co. I, 2d Regt., Jan. 22, '62 ; Major, Jan. 8, '63 ; Lieut. Col., Feb. 9, '63 ; Col., April 2, '64; killed at Wilder- ness, Va., May 5, '64.
Pratt Stone, of Readsboro, age 26, private, Co. A, 2d Regt., Inf., May 20, '61 ; Sergt., Nov. 1, '61 ; Ist Sergt., Oct. 14, '62; wounded May 3d, '63 ; re-enlisted Dec. 21, '63; Ist Lieut., Co. D, June 20, 64; Capt., Co. F, Dec. 24, '64; re- signed June 9, '65.
Edward N. Thayer, of Bennington, age 28, Ist Lieut., Co. A, 14th Regt., Aug. 27, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30, '63.
Ira W. Thomas, of Readsboro, age 22, 2d Lieut., Co. I, 16 Regt., Inf., Sept. 20, '62 ; resigned Jan. 13, '63.
Alonzo B. Valentine, of Bennington, age 32, Q. M., 10th Regt., July 31, '62 ; promoted Capt. and Com. of Subsistance, U. S. Vols., March 5, 64; promoted to Brevet Major, June 28, '65, for meritorious services ; left the service on account of close of the war July 1, '65.
Arnold P. Waite, of Dorset, age 26, private Co. D, 7th Regt., Dec. 11, 61; Corporal, Feb. 12, '62; Sergt., Oct. 1, '62; Ist Sergt., May 1,'63 ; re-enlisted Feb. 16, '64; ist Lieut., Co. D, Feb. 28, '65 ; honorably discharged Aug. 13, '65, for dis- ability.
James H. Walbridge, of Bennington, age 34, entered the service as Capt., Co. A, 2d Regt., Inf., May 14, '61; promoted to Major, May 21, '62 ; Lieut. Col., Jan. 8, '63; Colonel, Feb. 9. '63 ; resigned April 1, '64.
Albert Walker, of Bennington, age 49, entered the service as commissary of subsistance, with rank of Captain, Nov. 18, '62, resigned after the close of the war in June, '65.
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Charles A. Watson, of Dorset, age 19, private, Co. E, 17th Regt.
March 15, '64 ; Sergt., April 12, '64; wounded June 26, '64, st Sergt. ; 2d Lieut., July 6, '65 ; mustered out of service as Ist Sergt., Co. E, July 14, '65 .*
Madison E. Winslow, of Bennington, age 41, Capt. of Co. E, Ioth Regt., Inf., Aug. 7, '62 ; resigned Dec. 25, '62.
Henry D. Young, of Manchester, age 25, 2d Lieut., Co. C., 14th Regt., Aug. 28, '62 ; mustered out of service July 30, 63.
The number of engagements in which the several Regiments, Batteries and Detached Troops, (officered in part by Bennington County men,) bore honorable part during the War, are as fol- lows :-
Second Regiment, Infantry 28
Fourth Regiment, Infantry 26
Fifth Regiment, Infantry. 25
Seventh Regiment, Infantry 5
Eighth Regiment, Infantry 7
Tenth Regiment, Infantry 13
Fourteenth Regiment, Infantry I
Sixteenth Regiment, Infantry I
Seventeenth Regiment, Infantry. 13
Second Regiment, U. S. Sharp Shooters 24
First Battery Light Artillery 4
First Regiment, Cavalry 73
TOTAL LOSS AND CASUALTIES TO STATE TROOPS .- The total number of men from this State, wounded during the war, was 4,360.
OF THE 5, 128 MEN LOST BY DEATH, 64 commissioned officers and 1,007 enlisted men were killed in action.
37 commissioned officers and 664 enlisted men died from wounds received in action. 29 commissioned officers and 2,616 enlisted men died from diseases.
"4 were shot by Sent., G. C. M." [Supposed to mean, by sen- tence of general court martial.]
3 commissioned officers and 626 enlisted men died while pris- oners, and 3 commissioned officers and 75 enlisted men died from accident.
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OF THE 5,022 MEN DISCHARGED, 317 commissioned officers re- signed, 61 commissioned officers and 3,865 enlisted men were discharged for disability, 44 commissioned officers and 596 en- listed men, for wounds received in action. 11 enlisted men were paroled prisoners. 28 commissioned officers and 100 enlisted men were dishonorably discharged.
Among the whole number of troops, it is to be expected that some were not true, and the records show that 2,219 men (mostly if not all of whom were substitutes,) deserted.
Statement of men furnished by each town of Bennington County, in reference to all calls for troops from April, 1861, to September 30, 1865, and the United States enrollment of each town :-
TOWNS.
U. S. Enrollment.
Deficiency.
Surplus.
Total Number of Men Furnished.
Arlington
126
3
129
Bennington
344
14
358
Dorset. ..
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121
Glastenbury
12
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Landgrove.
34
34
Manchester
150
6
156
Peru.
43
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42
Pownal
109
4
113
Readsboro
75
3
78
Rupert
86
6
92
Sandgate.
57
3
60
Searsburg
20
20
Shaftsbury
142
5
147
Stamford.
53
53
Sunderland
51
2
53
Winhall.
73
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3
76
Woodford
29
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I
30
Total
1525
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50 1574
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IN CONCLUSION.
It may be well to state that the War Department accredited to this State, thirty-five thousand two hundred and forty-two men; being one thousand and four, more than are shown by the State records, and gives the State credit over the aggregate quotas under all calls, of fifteen hundred and thirteen men. "This discrepancy may be and probably is to be accounted for," says Adjutant General P. T. Washburn, "by enlistments in organiza- tions of other States, to the credit of this State, which appear upon muster rolls of those organizations and were not reported to the State."
ARLINGTON.
Arlington was chartered by the Governor of New Hampshire, July 28, 1761. It is one of the central of the western border towns and contains 24,960 acres. The surface is extremely un- 'even. The principal mountain peaks are Red, Bald, Big Spruce, West and Grass Mountains, Spruce Peak and Buck Hill, of the Taconic range. The principal stream is the Battenkill River, enter- ing the town from Sunderland, near the north-east corner, flowing in a tortuose course southwesterly ; when it turns nearly at right angles and flows northwesterly, between Red and West Mountains, and then westerly into New York State. Warm Brook and Peters Branch rising in Shaftsbury, and Roaring Branch from Sunder- land, flow north into the Battenkill. Green River flows south into the same river. Elderkill Brook flows west from Big Spruce Mountain, south-west into New York. In the valleys of the Bat- tenkill and of Warm Brook, the soil is fertile, but generally else- where in the town, the surface is too rugged and barren for profit- able farming.
Natural wells or sink holes are found in the town, one two-thirds the way up from the river, towards the top of Red Mountain, has been explored by lead and line for a distance of 170 or 180 feet
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without finding bottom. A cave in the north-east corner of the town has its entrance at the side near the bottom, and has been explored with torches by climbing to the height of 75 or 80 feet without finding its top, and proved to be a narrow well. These wells originated in the disintegration of the lime stone and slate rocks by the action of water in the remote ages. An intermitting spring and several blowing springs, one of which it is said will ex- tinguish a candle at a considerable distance, are among the natural curiosities of the town.
Several valuable marble quarries have been worked in this town, but at present none are operated except for local building purposes.
The Bennington & Rutland Railway passes through the eastern part of the town.
The population of the town in 1880, was 1,531, all of which were white.
During the year ending September 30, 1880, the town contained nine school districts, and employed four male and thirteen female teachers, at a cost for wages of $1,260.35. The number of pupils attending the common schools was 325 ; the amount expended for school purposes was $1,356.30. Rev. J. C. McCollom was the superintendent.
ARLINGTON, a post village, in the central eastern part of the town, and a station of the B. & R. Railway, is beautifully situated in the valley of the Battenkill.
The summit of the hill north-east and a short distance from the village of Arlington, affords quite extensive views in three direc- tions, north, west and south, that combine in a very rare man- ner the picturesque and the sublime.
The gorge, formed by the sudden breaking down of mountains nearly 3,000 feet high on either side, through which the Battenkill flows, west to the Hudson, gives the village during the summer, sunlight an hour and a half after it has disappeared to those who reside half a mile north or south of it, and often furnishes sunset- cloud scenes of surpassing brilliance and beauty.
The village contains two churches, (Episcopal and Roman Catholic,) one hotel, two general stores, one hardware store, one
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wagon shop, two blacksmith shops, one chair factory, one shoe peg factory, one planing mill, one bending shop, one shoe shop, and, a little west of the village, one handle factory, planing, clap- board and feed mill, and about 400 inhabitants.
W. & J. G. Flint's Shoe Peg Factory was erected in 1863, since which time it has been under the superintendency of Lysias E. White. Seven to eight hundred cords of wood are converted into about 40,000 bushels of shoe pegs annually, a large portion of which find a European market.
Orlando Canfield manufactures sash and blinds in the building formerly occupied by the car shops.
The Arlington Manufacturing Company, Limited, was organized May, 1879, with a capital stock of $200,000. R. T. Hurd is president. The company own 50.000 acres of timber land and employ 150 men. They manufacture, at Arlington, chairs, tele- graph pins, brush backs and wagon stock; in Sunderland, lum- ber and clothes pins, and in Sandgate, shoe peg stock and lum- ber.
EAST ARLINGTON, a post village on Warm Brook and Peters Branch, one mile easterly from the Arlington station, of the B. & R. R'y, contains two churches, (Congregational and M. E.,) one hotel, two general and two millinery stores, one chair factory, one wash-board and buck-saw frame factory, three handle and general wood turning and finishing shops, one planing mill, one machine, two blacksmith, one wagon, and one harness shop, one livery stable and a tailor shop.
Dorrance Barney's saw mill and brush handle factory, on Warm Brook, at East Arlington, was built in 1866, at a cost of about $15,000. He manufactures about $800 worth of brush stock per month, and 250,000 feet of lumber per annum.
B. W. Safford's handle and pump factory, on Peters' Branch, was first built about fifty years ago for a woolen mill, by Henry Galusha ; about twenty-five years later it was converted into a wash-board factory, and for the last four years the present busi- ness has been conducted. Mr. Safford also owns a saw mill a few rods above, (originally built about 1805,) which cuts now about 400,000 feet annually.
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The Arlington Edge Tool Company's Works stand on Roar- ing Branch, just over the line in Sunderland, nearly a mile from East Arlington, Formerly known as the Douglas Manufacturing Company, the present title was assumed in 1877. They manu- facture about $10,000 worth of edge tools per annum, but the works have capacity for $100,000 worth, the main building being 250 by 30 feet, and driven by water power, almost inexhaustable, having a head equal to sixty-five feet. The upper dam is thirty- five feet high by seventy-five feet long, firmly built between solid ledges of rocks. A reservoir of fifteen or twenty acres can be 1 .
obtained if needed.
Judson & Deming's saw-frame, saw-buck and wooden wash- board factory, at East Arlington, was established about 1852, by Billings & Co. Several changes were made in the firm previ- ous to 1877, since which time it has been as now. Mr. J. R. Judson added about 1875, to the business, that of making boys saws and saw-bucks, and several other articles of small ware. They employ twelve to fifteen men and manufacture $15,000 to $20,000 worth of goods annually.
Hale's chair factory, recently erected on Roaring Branch, East Arlington, is an extensive establishment.
Meerworth & Brown's East Arlington grist mill, on Peter's Branch, was probably built about 1789, for in February of that year a grist mill, principally owned by Ozi Baker, was burned, un- doubtedly the same his father, Remember Baker, had built a little more than twenty years before.
WEST ARLINGTON, (p. o.) on the Battenkill, is a hamlet con- taining two general stores, one harness, one blacksmith, and one marble shop, and about a dozen houses.
About 1872, O. & A. D. Canfield organized a stock company, with a capital of $52,000, for the manufacture of railway cars at Arlington. At the end of about four years the business was abandoned, the Canfield's continuing the sash and blind business, at which they had been engaged for many years, and being the same now managed by Orlando.
Warren Cole erected a saw mill, on road 25, in the winter of 1879-80. In connection with this he has a carriage shop built
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TOWN OF ARLINGTON.
in 1842, and a cider mill. He manufactures from 50 to 100,000 feet of lumber, and 1,000 to 2,000 barrels of cider annually. Warren's father, Simeon, came from Saratoga County to this town, about 1820, and located on the farm now owned by War- ren. Simeon moved to Illinois about 1863, and from there to Iowa.
The first settlers in Arlington were, John, Isaac and William Searl, Dr. Simon Burton, Ebenezer Wallis. - Peck, who lo- cated in 1763. The next year, Capt. Jehiel Hawley and his brothers; Abel, Josiah and Gideon; Phineas Hurd, Isaac Bisco, Samuel Adams, Ebenezer Leonard, Zacheus Mallory, Thomas Peck, James Frume, and others, came in from Newtown, Conn. Remember Baker, a millwright from Roxbury, Conn., also joined the party. Soon after the arrival of this party, a proprietors meeting was held, May 16, 1764, at which Capt. Jehiel Hawley, was elected moderator. It was "voted to give fifty acres of land, including a valuable mill privilege, to any man who will erect a grist mill within certain limits, if ready and fit to grind before Nov. 1, 1765." Remember Baker accepted the offer and built a grist-mill and saw mill, near the present grist mill at East Arlington.
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