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Jonathan E. Chase, son of Newton, was born in Fletcher, Vt., November 3, 1838, and came to town with his father in 1849. He enlisted in Co. H, 2d Regt., Vt. Vols., May 1, 1861, from which he was discharged September 21, 1863. He afterwards enlisted in 2d U. S. S. S., Co. E., December 9, 1863, was transferred to Co. G, 4th Vt. Vols., and received a severe wound in the ankle considered equal to the loss of his leg below the knee, on account of which he draws a pension of $24.00 per month. He is now town treasurer, and represented the town in 1880.
C. R. Bartlett was born in Sutton, P. Q., June 17, 1836, and came totown with his father, Enos Bartlett, in 1849. He has held the office of selectinan ten years, and has been lister several times, also constable and collector, and represented the town two years, 1867, '68, and has also held two other town offices.
Jehu Young came to Jay in 1826. He was born in Lisbon, N. H., in 1791, and located on the place where H. S. Ovitt now lives, the town being organ- ized at his house two years later. This is also the same lot that Philander Bailey settled on. He died in 1845, aged sixty-four years.
John Young was born at Lisbon, N. H., June 11, 1816, and was ten years old when he came to Jay with his father, Jehu Young. His farm was the next one north of the one his father located on. He was honored with the dif- ferent town offices and represented the town in 1853 and '54. He sold out September, 26, 1864, and went to Troy, where he still resides.
B. F. Paine, son of Amasa Paine, of Lowell, Vt., was born in Lowell, October 29, 1838, and came to Jay in 1870, where he has been engaged in the manufacture of lumber ever since. He represented Lowell in 1863 -. '64,
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and was State senator from Orleans county in 1878, the only county office ever held by a citizen of Jay. He has also served as selectman, lister, town grand juror, and justice of the peace.
Joshua Hunt was born in 1791, married Eunice Chamberlin, sister of Joshua Chamberlin, and came to Jay in 1829, locating on the farm where Rominer Morse now lives; but he lived in the log school-house on the "meadow" when he first came. He reared a large family of children, his sons being as follows: Israel P., Alfred, Wallace W., Edward K., and Franklin B. He died in 1853, aged sixty-two years. His widow is still living, at the advanced age of eighty-eight years.
Jay now has a bonded indebtedness of $7,000.00, given in aid of the M. & C. R. R. R., upon which it pays an annual interest of five per cent., payable semi-annually. The grand list for 1883, is $1,730.00, or about double what it was when the town was bonded. The other liabilities, including interest on bonds, for this year amounts to $1, 125.00, to meet which a tax of $1,730.00 is raised.
During the late war Jay furnished sixty-five enlisted men, who nobly per- formed their share in sustaining the honor of our old flag.
The Baptist church .- The Baptists hold their meetings at the south school-house. The society is a branch of the Baptist church at North Troy, and consists of about twenty members. They had the first settled minister, Rev. Prosper Powell, the present pastor being Rev. George H. Parker. He was born in Montgomery, Vt., April 5, 1841. At the age of twenty years, August 26, 1861, he enlisted in Co. A, 5th Vt. Vols., and was mustered in as corporal September 16, 1861. He was severely wounded in his side by a fragment of a shell during the seven day's fight before Richmond, June 27, 1862, and in consequence of it was discharged January 6, 1863. He was educated at New Hampton Institution, Fairfax, Vt., and ordained as an evangelist January 30, 1867, at Montgomery, Vt. He represented the town of Reading, Vt., in 1876, and began his present labors here last May, but had preached here three years previous.
The Methodist church .- The Methodists have a meeting-house at the center and hold their meetings there. Their first resident minister was probably Enos Putnam. The society is a branch of the Westfield church, and is considerably larger than the Baptist society. E. A. Emery supplies the pulpit, though he is not an ordained minister.
The Christian church .- Rev. H. C. Sisco is the pastor of the Christian society, and they hold their meetings at the school-house in North Jay, where their pastor resides:
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LOWELL.
OWELL lies in the southwestern part of the county, in lat 44°47', and long. 4° 21', bounded north by Westfield and Troy, east by Irasburgh and Albany, south by Eden, and west by Montgomery, having an irregular outline much in the form of a triangle. It was granted March 5, 1787, and chartered by Gov. Thomas Chittenden to John Kelley, Esq., of New York, from whom it received its original name, Kelleyvale. In two charters, the first for 6,000 acres, being dated June 6, 1791, and the second, for 31,000, June 7, 1791. November 1, 1831, the name of Kelleyvale was altered to the one it now bears. Immediately after its charter the township passed into the hands of Mr. Kelley's creditors, who sold it to a William Duer for $4,680.00, and a considerable portion of the territory still remains in the hands of non-residents.
The town is hemmed in by mountains and hills on three sides. Upon the southern border are Mts. Norris, Hadley and Belvidere. A high range of hills skirt the western border, so abrupt that five ranges of lots on this bor- der were set to Montgomery, owing to the abrupt mountain between them and the center of Lowell. And in the eastern part of the town is a moun- tain which affords only two places for a road, one is the old Hazen road, and the other is the Irasburgh route. Serpentine hill, in the northern part of the town, is also an abrupt elevation. The whole eastern and central portions of the town are very rough and mountainous, yielding generally but scanty returns for the husbandman's labor. The northern part of the township is a fertile, sandy plain, watered by the branches of the Missisquoi river which has its source here, forming the most available farming land in the township. The numerous springs and streams that unite to form the Missisquoi are waters of an exceptionably pure quality, and are peopled with beautiful speci- mens of speckled trout. Large quantities of hard and soft wood timber are standing in the forest, while excellent mill privileges are afforded, and it only needs a convenient mode of transportation to make Lowell an exceedingly busy lumbering town, and this desired consummation is likely soon to be realized in the Burlington & Northeastern railroad.
The main rocks entering into the geological formation of the territory are of the talcose schist variety, though there are narrow veins of clay slate and steatite throughout the eastern part of the town. Among the hills and val- ley are found serpentine, feldspar, amianthus, pudding-stone, and asbestos. Iron has also been dug from the swamp land and worked at Troy. . A min-
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eral spring, impregnated with iron and sulphur, also exists in the northern part of the town.
In 1880, Lowell had a population of 1,057, and in 1882, the town was divided into seven school districts and contained eight common schools, giving employment to four male and nine female teachers, to whom was paid an aggregate salary of $1, 142.29 There were 274 pupils attending common school, while the entire cost of the schools for the year, ending October 3Ist, was $1,261.28, with Rufus King, superintendent.
LOWELL, a post village located near the central part of the town, on the Missisquoi river, contains three churches, (Congregational, Baptist, and Ro- man Catholic,) a tasty public school building, two stores, a grist-mill, saw- mill, tub factory, starch factory, sash, door and blind factory, a tin shop, two blacksmith shops, two carriage shops and about forty dwellings. The village also has a literary association, established in 1864, which now has 300 books in its circulating library, and is in a flourishing condition.
Parker & Kinney's saw-mill, located on the Missisquoi river, occupies the site of a mill built in 1805, by Col. E. Crafts, the first erected in the town. In 1867, Mr. Parker purchased the property of D. E. Works, and in in 1880 Mr. Kinney bought a half interest. The mill has the capacity for manufacturing about 1,500,000 feet of lumber annually.
D. E. Work's grist-mill, located at Lowell village, contains a flour mill and corn crusher and does custom work.
E. B. Edwards's saw-mill located on road 21, gives employment to three hands, and turns out about 400,000 feet of lumber per annum.
T. W. Jones's sash, door and blind factory, located at the village, was built by Edson Kinney, in 1876, upon the site of the mill destroyed by fire during that year. In 1877, it was purchased by the present proprietor, who now does a flourishing business.
Harding & Thayer's tub factory, located at the village, was originally built for a clapboard-mill, by Dwight Root, in 1867, and became the prop- erty of the present owners August 16, 1872. They employ twelve hands and turn out about 35,000 tubs per annum.
Lewis Shufelt's shingle and clapboard-mill, located at Lowell village, em- ploys two hands in the manufacture of these goods.
A great portion of the town is at present newly settled, and the rough log cabins of pioneers are quite numerous. The first settlement was com- menced by Maj. William Caldwell, from Barre, Mass., who began improve- ments on his land in 1803, but did not move his family to the town until April, 1806. Maj. Caldwell is said to have been one of the richest young men in Barre, but in consequence of becoming surety for friends, lost his fortune and came to the wilderness of Vermont to commence life anew. He became a prominent man here, as he had been in Barre, and his memory is kindly cherished by many. In the spring of 1807, John Harding came to the town, drawing, with the assistance of four others, his family and goods on
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three hand-sleds. He was followed soon after by others, and the infant set- tlement was fairly begun.
On March 12, 1812, a petition signed by nine of the inhabitants was ten- dered to Medad Hitchcock, Esq., requesting him to warn a meeting of the inhabitants for the purpose of organizing the town. The meeting was held March 31st, at the house of Capt. Asahel Curtis when the following officers were elected: William Caldwell, moderator; Abel Curtis, town clerk ; Asahel Curtis, William Caldwell, and John Harding, selectman ; Ebenezer Wood, treasurer ; Elijah Buxton, Horatio Walker, and Daniel Sanborn, listers ; John Harding, constable; Joseph Butterfield, grand juror ; John Harding and William Caldwell, surveyors ; David Stewart, and Ebenezer Wood, fence viewers ; Asahel Curtis, pound keeper; Samuel Stewart, sealer of leather ; Benjamin Wood, sealer of weights and measures ; Jonathan Power, tithing man ; Samuel Steward, Jr., and James Butterfield, haywards. The first justice of the peace was Calvin Eaton, in 1810. The fist repre- sentative was Asahel Curtis, in 1810. The first postmaster was Abel Curtis, in 1819, who held the position twenty years. The first birth and death was that of a son of John Harding. The first marriage on record is that of Jonathan Powers and Relief Stewart, December 3, 1812. The first grist- mill was built by Asahel Curtis, in 1812, a little above Mr. Works present mill. Abel Curtis built the first frame house, which he tore down in 1842, to build on the same site. The first church was built by the Methodists and the Congregationalists, in 1842. The first settled minister was Rev. Jubilee Wellman, who drew the ministerial lot, settled in 1849. The first school numbered twelve scholars, taught by Asahel Curtis.
Abel Curtis, from Tunbridge, Vt., came here in 1810, and located in the central part of the town, where his son Don now resides. He taught the first school, built the first grist-mill, was the first justice of the peace, first postmaster, serving in that capacity until 1838, when the new stage route left his dwelling remote, and he resigned. Mr. Curtis was also town clerk twen- ty-seven consecutive years, and also a member of the constitutional convention. He diedin 1879, aged ninety-four years. Don, the second of his four children, was born in 1823, and has always been a resident of the town, with the excep- tion of four years spent in Troy, Vt. He has held the office of town clerk since 1866.
Nathan Parker came to Lowell among the early settlers of the town. Mr. Parker was a captain in the American army during the war of 1812, and was on his way to Plattsburgh when the news of the victory reached him. All but one of his large family of eleven children are living. Harry B., his fifth child, born in 1835, is the senior partner in the firm of Parker & Kinney.
Jonathan Stewart, from Amherst, N. H., came here among the early set- tlers and located on road 13, upon the farm now occupied by his son Harley, who is the only one of his six children now living. He was born in 1819, and has two sons, Albert J. and Henry P.
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John Harding, from Barre, Mass., came here about 1810. He was town representative a long term of years, assistant judge, and also held the other town offices. Three of his nine children are living. Laban S., a grandson of John, son of Hiram L., was born on road 13, where he now lives.
Herod Farman, from Bath, N. H., came to Lowell about 1820, and bought a tract of 400 acres in the northeastern part of the town, though he soon after located where his fourth son, Freeman, now resides. Mr. Far- man was prominent among his townsmen, and served in most of the town offices.
John Stebbins, from the southern part of England, came to Westfield about 1822, and a few years later located in this town on road 12, upon the farm now occupied by his second son, John. He held most of the town offices and reared a family of six children, five of whom are living.
William Knapp was born in Springfield, Vt., January 8, 1797, and came to Lowell in 1829, locating on road 31, near the Notch, where he still resides at the age of eighty-six years. He taught school here several winters, having had considerable experience as a teacher in New Hampshire. Mr. Knapp has been a prominent man of the town, held most of the town offices, and now in his advanced age is respected and honored by all.
Amasa Paine, son of Jacob, was born in Pomfret, Vt., March 12, 1810. When about one year old his parents removed to Hardwick, where. his father died, December 12, 1854, aged seventy-two years. Amasa, in 1838, moved to this town, locating at the village, where he still resides. He kept a hotel twelve years, and has been largely engaged in dealing in real estate and live stock. He has also held most of the town offices, has been postmaster, U. S. collector, and assistant judge. B. F. Paine, of Jay, is his only son.
Roswell Allen was born at Lyme, N. H., July 13, 1801, came to Lowell about 1836, locating on West hill, and died here in 1860, aged fifty-nine years. His only son, William, was engaged in the late civil war, and died thirteen days after his discharge, from disease contracted while in the service.
H. C. Quincey was born in Jericho, Vt., in 1819. At the age of nineteen years he commenced teaching school, and with the proceeds of this labor he purchased the farm he now occupies, on road 22. In 1874, he built his present handsome, commodious residence.
Hosea Sprague came here from Massachusetts at an early date. He reared a family of seven children, two of whom settled in the town. Laban, his youngest son, born in 1800, followed the carpenter trade, dying here in 1865, aged sixty-five years. Laban had but one daughter, who is now the wife of Carlos Farman, to whom she was married in 1866.
Rev. Jubilee Wellman came here from Proctorsville, Vt., in 1850. He was a Congregational minister and preached here until his death, in 1855, aged sixty-three years. Only one of his four children, L. Richardson, en- gaged in mercantile pursuits here, is living.
Nathaniel F. Hutchinson, a native of Hartford, Vt., located in Lowell in
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1852, and in the autumn of 1854, was elected town representative. During the following spring he returned to Windsor county, and did not come back to this town until 1867, purchasing the farm he now owns, on road 13. Mr. Hutchinson has held most of the town trusts, has always been an earnest supporter of the Congregational church, and a hard worker in the Sabbath schools, of which he has been superintendent eight years.
Silas Works, son of Isaac, was born in Ridge, N. H., November 17, 1794, married Rosalinda Baldwin, of Cavendish, Vt., February 20, 1821, and in 1855, came to Lowell, where his son, Daniel E., and daughter, Mrs. N. F. Hutchinson, had located in 1852. He purchased a large farm near the village, and in 1860, erected the grist-mill now operated by his son, Daniel E., and died here August 11, 1879, aged eighty-five years.
William N. Blake, was born in Stratford, Vt., January 17, 1802, where his grandfather settled at an early date. His father, Jonathan Blake, settled in Milton, Vt., in 1806. May 8, 1855, he came to this town, and resided here until 1882, when he removed to Georgia. He was a deacon and clerk of the Baptist church a great many years.
Lathrop Willis, son of Roger Willis, was born in Hardwick, September 20, 1804. When he was seventeen years of age his father moved to Albany, and died there in August, 1871, aged ninety-four years. In 1860, Lathrop came to Lowell and located where he now resides, on road 9, aged seventy-nine years. He has had a family of six children, three of whom are living, one, LaFayette, on the home farm. Don L., the oldest son, was killed at the battle of the Wilderness.
Thomas S. Fisher was born in Keene, N. H., March 6, 1809. His father, Thomas Fisher, was born in the fort at Keene during an Indian siege, Sep- tember 15, 1758. Thomas located at McIndoes Falls, Vt., in 1836, and in January, 1862, he came to Lowell, locating on road 10. Mr. Fisher has three sons and two daughters. Two of the sons, Thomas C. and Charles W., live at home with their father, while the other, William H., resides in Irasburgh.
During the war of 1812, a panic among the inhabitants, in general with those of the other northern towns, was caused. A fort was erected near the present site of the Congregational church, which was afterwards used as a pound. During the late war, the town furnished sixty enlisted men, nine of whom were killed or died from the effects of wounds or disease contracted while in the service. Lewis J. Ingalls enlisted from Hyde Park in the 8th Vt. Vols. In 1862, he was among those who occupied Bayou Des Allemands, thirty-two miles from New Orleans, whence they received their supplies. On September 4th, with a party of seventy-five comrades, Mr. Ingalls left on a train for New Orleans. When about eight miles from their camp they dis- covered that they had been ambushed by a large party of rebels, who had turned a switch so as to throw the train into a ditch. Ingalls, comprehend- ing the danger in a moment, leaped from the engine and reversed the switch,
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exposing himself as a target for 400 rebel muskets. The switch-post was fairly riddled with bullets, while five of the balls were lodged in his body. He was pulled aboard the train, however, which passed the danger, and he now lives in this town, on road 8, to tell the story.
The First Congregational church of Lowell, located at Lowell village, was organized by Rev. Nathaniel Rawson, of Hardwick, and Rev. James Parker, of Enosburgh, with six members, January 10, 1816, Rev. Jubilee Wellman being the first settled pastor, in 1850. The church building is a wood struct- ure, built by the Congregational and Methodist societies in 1842, and after- wards owned entirely by this church. It will seat about 225 persons, and is valued, including other property, at $2,000.00. The society now has eighty- nine members, with Rev. Rufus King, pastor.
The First Baptist church, located at Lowell village, was organized by an ecclesiastical council appointed for that purpose, January 7, 1846, Rev. J. Walden being the first pastor. The church building, erected in 1867, is a wood structure capable of seating 250 persons and is valued, including grounds, at $5,000.00. The society now numbers about fifty members, with no regular pastor, the minister who had been with them about eighteen years having died about a year ago.
The Roman Catholic church of Lowell, located at Lowell village, was or- ganized in 1853. Preaching had been conducted here, however, since 1840, from that year until 1850, by Rev J. O. Callaghan, then by Rev. G. R. N. Caissey from 1864 to 1868, when, during this latter year, Rev. Father Mc- Auley was appointed parish priest, remaining until 1875. Rev. Father Mi- chaud, of Newport, supplied the pulpit until 1879, then it was supplied, until 1880, by Rev. Joseph Calidean. Rev. Peter Matthew is the present incum- bent. The church building was erected in 1868. It will seat about 250 per- sons, and is valued at $2,500.00.
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MORGAN.
ORGAN, a triangularly outlined town, lies in the eastern part of the county in lat. 44° 50', and long. 5° 5', bounded north by Holland, east by Warner's Grant and Brighton, in Essex county, and southeast by Charleston and a small part of Derby. It consists principally of what was originally chartered by the name of Caldersburgh, to Col. Jedediah Elderkin and sixty-three others, November 6, 1780. October 19, 1801, Brownington and Whitelaw's Gore were annexed to this town, while the southeasterly por- tion was set off to Wenlock, a long, narrow town then extending nearly across the center of Essex county, but which has since been taken to form other towns. The name of Caldersburgh was also changed to Morgan, the new name being given in honor of John Morgan, one of the original grantees, of whom the first settlers purchased their lands. That part of the town formerly Caldersburgh contains an area of 15,000 acres, Brownington Gore 3,000 acres, and Whitelaw's Gore 2,000, giving the township an area of 20,000 acres.
The surface of the town is in some parts comparatively level, or gently sloping, while in others it is pleasantly broken into hills and valleys, there being no very prominent elevations, the principal being Eion and Bear hills. Elon hill received its name from a settlement commenced by Elon Wilcox, and Bear hill received its name from the circumstance of a bear having been seen upon it, by a passing stranger, before the settlement of the town. Ferrin's river, Sucker brook, and Mill brook are the principal streams, though there are many minor rivulets. Sey- mour lake, a beautiful sheet of water about four miles long and two miles wide, lies in the central part of the town. Toad pond is a small body of water lying in the northeastern part of the town, and Mud pond, another small collection of water, lies in the northwestern part. The soil is in gen- eral easily wrought and very productive. The timber is principally maple, birch, beech, elm and ash, interspersed with hemlock, spruce, fir, tamarack, and cedar. The rocks in the eastern part of the town are almost entirely granitic, while in the western part they are of the calciferous mica schist formation, cut by a narrow vein of hornblende schist. Some beautiful speci- mens of crystal quartz have been found. No minerals of value are known to abound. The Grand Trunk railroad crosses a small portion of the extreme eastern part of the territory.
In 1880, Morgan had a population of 711, and in 1882, was divided into
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seven school districts and contained seven common schools, employing one male and eleven female teachers, to whom was paid an aggregate salary of $629.60. There were 138 pupils attending common schools, while the entire cost of the schools for the year, ending October 31st, was $705.52, with J. C. Cobb, superintendent.
MORGAN CENTER, a post village located in the central part of the town, on Seymour lake, contains one church (Union), one hotel, two stores, black- smith shop, tub factory, steam saw-mill, granite and marble shop, and about 100 inhabitants.
MORGAN (1). o.), a hamlet located in the western part of the town, contains one church (Union), one store, a blacksmith shop, and about fifty inhab- itants.
Joseph A. Gray's saw-mill, located at Morgan Center, was built in 1879, and purchased by the present proprietor in 1882. He employs ten men, and manufactures 1,000,000 feet of lumber per year.
Thompson & Howard's saw-mills, located on road 8, were built by that firm in 1880 and 1881. The first mill, erected in 1880, manufactures 2,000,000 feet of coarse lumber, 500,000 feet of clapboards, and 300,000 feet of chair stock, per annum. The second mill, connected with the first by a horse railway, cuts about 2,500,000 feet of lumber, 500,000 shingles, 2,500,- .000 lath, and 200,000 feet of chair stock per annum. They give employ- ment to from 50 to 150 men.
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