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Philip Goss, son of John, who came to America from England, in 1630, married Hannah Hopkins, and reared five children. His son Philip married Judith Haywood, and reared ten children. Samuel, son of Philip, Jr., settled in Winchester, N. H. Of his four children, Willard married Mary White, of Londonderry, Vt., in 1830, and reared five children, viz .: David, Mary A., Harriet H., Lorenzo W. and Samuel E. The latter married Jane A. Fowler of Windsor, Vt., has two children, Willard J. and Florence E., and resides at Lyndonville. He served in the late war, in Co. F, 5th N. H. Vols., three years, and was twice wounded.
Enoch Badger was an early settler of Danville, where he died at the age of eighty years. Jonathan, one of his five children, married Alvira Clifford, and reared seven children, viz. : John, Wells M., Asher R., Sarah J., Rhoda R., Electa and Oliver M. He died at the great age of ninety-six years. Oliver M. married Delilah A. Curtis, and has four children, namely, Harley T., Lil- lian S., Royal M. and Maud D. He has resided in Lyndonville seventeen years.
Rev. E. C. Smalley, son of Dr. Henry S. and Parmelia (Chamberlain) Smalley, was a native of Stowe, Vt. When sixteen years of age he moved to Albany, Vt., and finally to Sheffield, where he died in 1875, aged fifty-one years. He was a minister of the Freewill Baptist church, married Johanna Stiles, and reared three children, Horace H., Emily C. and George H. The latter married Viola I., daughter of Dr. Hiram P. Hoyt, and has one son,
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Howard H. Mr. Smalley is engaged in the life insurance business, and re- sides at Lyndonville.
Michael McCann came from Ireland about 1850, went to St. Johnsbury, and finally came to Lyndon, where he died at the age of fifty-six years. He was an employee of the Passumpsic Railroad Company, married Ellen Con- nors, and reared three children, namely, Mary, Maggie and John C. The latter married Maggie McFarlin, of Canada, and his two children, Charlie and Clar- ence. He is a locomotive engineer, and resides at Lyndonville.
Joshua Stoddard, Jr., married Abigail Lawrence, reared thirteen children, and died at the age of ninety-one years. His son Frederick W. married Dorothy B. Quimby, has three children, William F., Ann J. and Emma A., and resides at Lyndon Center.
Ezeriah Webb, a native of Lunenburgh, Vt., was a colonel in the Revolution- ary war, and died at the great age of ninety-eight years. His son Joshua R. married Dorothy Sanborn, of Lunenburg, Vt. Charles, son of Joshua" R., married Juliet Foster, of St. Albans, and has two children, Willie and Annie, the latter an adopted daughter. Mr. Webb is the proprietor of Webb's Hotel, of this town. His son Willie N. married Luella Cobleigh, and is in the hotel with his father.
Ebenezer Severance, a Revolutionary soldier, resided in Walpole, N. H., and reared four children. His son Ebenezer married, first, Roxy Johnston, who bore him one son, Quartus, and second, Rebecca Chandler, and had born to him three children, Mary, Roxana and Chandler A. The last mentioned mar- ried Sophronia M. Chapman, of East St. Johnsbury, and has two children, Mrs. Carrie R. Alcott and George I.
Joseph Kenyon was a native of Plainfield, N. H., served in the war of the Revolution, and reared eight children. His son Philo C. married Orissa Thorndyke, and reared five children, viz .: Fred W., Edgar W., Sidney P., George F. and William H. The last mentioned married Mary A. Weston, and resides at Lyndonville.
Elder Hicks, a native of Scotland, came to this country about 1790, first settled in Burke, and was one of the first preachers of the town. His son Peleg married, first, Mercy Tute, and second, Sally Buckingham. He reared eight children, and died in 1852. His son Jesse, born January 7, 1800, married Maria Calkins, and reared ten children, seven of whom are living. He died July 31, 1863. His son Abram H. married Caroline S. Tute, of · Burke, has one daughter, Roanna Stevens, of Woodsville, N. H., and resides at Lyndonville. He served six years in the Mexican war, and was an ensign in the United States navy four years.
Artemas Southworth married Alvira Woodbury, and reared six children, three of whom are living, namely, Mrs. Pamelia Aldrich, of Lowell, Mass .; Elizabeth Sherman, of Lisbon, N. H., and Edwin W., of this town. He died in Concord, Vt., at the age of forty-five years. Edwin W. married Mary Mc- Allister, and has two children, Henry A. and Ellen E. Mr. Southworth served
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in the late war, in Co. D, Ist Vt. Cav., and was confined in Andersonville prison six months.
Capt. Samuel Knight married Mehetable Goss, of Waterford, and moved to Canada, where he died at the age of eighty years. His son Samuel married Julia A. McGaffey. of Canada, and reared six children. One son, George W., who came to Lyndon in 1881, married Sarah V. Dean, of Rockland, Me., and has six children, viz .: Annie, George H., Viola, Susie, Gertie and Franklin.
John Sleeper went to Newark, Vt., about 1820, married Olive Thayer, and reared eight children. John, Jr., married Chastina Powers, and reared two children, Lyman O. and Alison P. The latter married Idella A. Corliss, of Newark, Vt., has two children, Mabel and Ethel, and resides in Lyndonville.
Jacob Twombly, a native of Ashland, N. H., was an early settler of Hold- erness, married Tamma Hill, who lived to the great age of ninety-six years, and reared seven children, four of whom are living. His son Samuel married Arvilla Flanders, and reared seven sons, of whom Aaron married Mary A. Aldrich, and has three children, viz .: Mrs. Ida F. Randall, who has one child, Lena; Albert L., who married Clara R. Baxter, and is at Lyndonville, engaged in the dry goods trade with his father ; and Fred, also with his father.
Jonathan Tillotson married Jerusha Rolland, reared thirteen children, and was an early settler of Topsham, Vt., on a farm where he died at the age of fifty years. His son Henry L. married Lucinda Cilley, and had born to him one child, Willie C. The latter is a physician, and first commenced practice at Lyndonville. He married Fannie Kidder, of Barre, Vt.
Americus J. Carter, a native of Kentucky, graduated at Jefferson Medical college, at Philadelphia, and from the State University of Missouri, at St. Louis, and commenced practice at Forth Smith, Arkansas, where he remained five years. He then moved to Cassville, Mo., moved to Wheelock in 1863, and finally came to Lyndon Center, where he now remains. He married Mary A. Leavitt, of Wheelock, and has five children. His son Oscar E. is a practicing physician at North Danville.
Richard Hovey, a Revolutionary soldier, moved to Peterboro, N. H., as an early settler, and died there at the age of eighty-five years. Stephen, one of five children, married Martha Ferson, and reared four sons and three daugh- ters. Joseph, son of Stephen, married Mary A. Shoneyo, of Canada, and has three children, namely, Hosea E., Joseph L. and Mary A. Mr. Hovey has been a resident of Lyndonville thirteen years.
David Morrison married Sally Clark, and reared eight children, viz .: Han- nah, Joseph C., David, Fannie, Susan E., Philinda T., Sally and George G. of this town. The last mentioned married Amanda M. Robie, and has had born to him three children, namely, Philinda I., Carrie, now dead, and Byron G. The latter married Stella Hutchinson, and resides in St. Johnsbury.
William Pearl, a native of Barrington, N. H., married Rachel Twombly, and moved to Sheffield, Vt., about 1790, as one of the first settlers. Nicholas,
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one of his six children, married Johanna Grey, of Wheelock, and reared seven children, of whom Jeremy married Samantha Folsom, and has had born to him four children, James and Lydia S., who are now deceased, Hiram M. and Ida S. He resides in Lyndonville, on Park street. Hiram M. is cashier of the Lyndonville National Bank, and Ida S. is cashier of the Lyn- don Savings Bank.
Samuel Chapman, long a resident of Brownington, Vt., died in Coventry, Vt., at the age of seventy-two years. His son Amassa married Isabella Plast- ridge, and had born to him four children. One son, Charles P., married Edna Billing, and has three children, namely, Claud A., Mable and Dora I. He resides in Lyndonville, on Broadway.
Rufus Howe was an early settler of Grafton, Vt., where he died at the age of eighty years. Rufus, Jr., one of his eight children, married Susan D. Stewart, and had born to him nine children. One son, Leroy S., married Samaria M. Gibson, and has had born to him five children, namely, Percy L., now dead, Royal M. and Rosa V., twins, Albion and Irene E. Mr. Howe served in the late war, in Co. D, 16th Vt. Vols., and was at the battle of Gettysburg. He resides in Lyndonville, and is an engineer on the Passump- sic railroad.
Lemuel Dow, of Hanover, N. H., married Abigail Dodge, and died in that town, in 1850, aged seventy-nine years. His widow died in 1852. Francis, one of his four children, married, first, Mary Church, of Hancock, Vt., and second, Sarah French, and reared thirteen children. Francis, Jr., married three times, first, Emily Kingman, of Orford, and second, Mrs. Naomi High- land, who bore him two children, Mrs. Hattie Wilson, of Massachusetts, and Frank E., who is located on the northern coast of Africa, on the flag ship, Brooklyn, of the United States navy. Mr. Dow married for his third wife, Mrs. Julia A. Tarlton, who had three children by her first husband, Charles F., Charles A. and Jennie.
Abial Goodell, of Pomfret, Conn., married Margaret Brown, reared six children, and moved to Westminster, Vt., where he died in 1830, at the age of eighty-three years. Abial, Jr., married Mary Goodrich, and reared six children, viz .: William, Ira, Mary, Fannie, Roxanna and Dan. The last men- tioned married Mary Potwine, and has one daughter, Mary, who married Syl- vester S. Doud, of Sutton, Vt., and has one son, Arthur V. Mr. Goodell resides in Lyndonville, and has been deacon of the Congregational church seven years.
Robert Shirley served in the War of 1812, and resided in Chester, N. H., where he died at about seventy years of age. James, one of his four children, married Clara Forsyth, and had born to him four children, namely, Lucinda, Margaret, George H. and John. The last mentioned married Dorcas Col- lins, and has one daughter, Clara E. His wife died in 1876, aged forty-four years. Mr. Shirley served in the late war, in 3d Vt. Bat., and now resides in Lyndonville.
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Bernard Hoye, a native of Ireland, moved to Wheelock in 1858, married Catherine Doran, and reared five children. His son Patrick D. married Mary A. O'Brien, of Lyndon, and has two children, William J. and Josephine A. Mr. Hoye is an engineer on the Passumpsic railroad, and resides in Lyndon- ville.
William Bullock, son of Samuel, was a native of Rehoboth, Mass., married Susannah Kent, of Swansea, Mass., and reared twelve children. One son, Samuel, married Silence N. Bowen, and also reared twelve children. His son Jesse married Mercy Chandler, of Plymouth, Mass., and had born to him three children. Halsey Bullock, of this town, married Helen M. Ladd, and has four children, viz .: George I., of Illinois, Katie B., Fred C. and Charles H.
Thaddeus Potter, a pensioner of the Revolution, died at Waterford, Vt., aged about ninety-five years. Thaddeus, Jr., married Charlotte Newton, of West Topsham, Vt., and reared seven children. One daughter, Charlotte, married, first, Orville H. Peck, and has reared four children, viz .: Julia E., Mary L., Susan M., and Charles W., who married Hattie Chesley, of Sheffield, Vt. Mrs. Peck married for her second husband Edwin W. Barker, who served in the late war, in Co. E, 6th Vt. Vols., and died in 1881, aged sixty- four years. His widow survives him, lives at Lyndonville, and draws a pension.
Pearly Stone, a native of Massachusetts, reared four children, and moved to St. Johnsbury in 1834. His son Loren M. married Lydia Pierce, of St. Johnsbury, and resides in that town, to which place he came at the age of fourteen years. He has had born to him four children, namely, Alice C., Susan J., Abel P. and Albert M. The last mentioned married Lucy A. Ful- some, has two children, Agnes and Louise M., and resides at Lyndonville.
Dea. Benjamin Sanborn was born in Wheelock, October 16, 1798. He was the fifth child of a family of twelve-eight boys and four girls-all but one of whom lived to adult age. At the age of twenty Benjamin purchased of his father the remaining year of his minority, and struck out in life for himself. October 26, 1830, he was married to Miss Abigail B. Stanton, daughter of Isaac W. Stanton, of North Danville. At the age of thirty-two, having accumulated by industry and strict economy one or two thousand dollars, he purchased the farm in Lyndon, where he lived and died, a large part of the land being then heavily timbered with the stately maple, elm and hemlock. His own strong arm felled the forest, and by years of earnest, manly endeavor, the farm became one of the most productive and valuable in town. In the summer of 1866 he sold to the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers Railroad Company 150 acres of the farm on which to locate and build the general offices and repair shops of the company, and where the thriving village of Lyndonville now stands, reserving to himself about forty acres of the meadow land, now owned and occupied by his son, Isaac W. Sanborn. He had two children, I. W. Sanborn, last named, and Martha A., now the wife of Dr. J. W. Copeland, of Lyndonville. Mr. Sanborn was a
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man of regular habits, strong and robust in health, possessed of good com- mon sense, sound judgment, and a well balanced mind. He was an active member of the Free Baptist church in town for over thirty years, its deacon nearly as long, and until his death. In his early years his political views were Democratic, and later he was a Free Soiler and Republican. He lived a long and useful life, was honored and respected by all, and passed to his rest August 28, 1876, after a brief illness, like a shock of corn fully ripe, in his seventy-eighth year.
Joel Trull was born in Dracut, Mass., in 1779. His father was a large farmer. When about twenty-one years of age Joel emigrated northward, and located in Danville, where he bought a farm. He came to Danville with a horse and $100.00 in money. About 1809 he sold his farm, taking his pay in potato whiskey, which he sold to Boston parties and received in exchange a stock of general merchandise, with which he started in trade in Burke, about 1810. He continued in business there until about 1849, when he came to Lyndon, where he did business for about four years, and erected the build- ings now occupied by J. Hidden. He died here in 1855. While doing busi- ness as a merchant he served his town in various positions of trust. He married, first, in Danville, a Miss Pettengill, who bore him one son, Joel, Jr., and two daughters. He married for his second wife Cynthia Newell, daughter of Daniel Newell, of Burke, and had five children-two sons, Justus and Daniel N., and three daughters, Philena (Mrs. S. B. Crane), deceased, Philura (Mrs. O. P. Wakefield), of West Concord, Cynthia (Mrs. J. B. Negley), of Pittsburg, Pa. Justus Trull carried on the carriage and mercantile business at Lyndon about fifteen years, and died in 1870. Daniel N. received an academic education, attended lectures at Woodstock in 1853, and graduated from Dartmouth Medical college in the class of 1855. He practiced in Lyndon for a year following, and in 1857 and 1858 in St. Johnsbury, suc- ceeding to the practice of Dr. Bancroft. Being overworked in the large practice which devolved upon him, he was prostrated by disease, and for a year was confined to the house. He has never engaged in general practice since, but for twenty-four years has been connected with the carriage manu- facture at Lyndon. During the war he was recruiting officer for the north half of Caledonia county, and has been connected with the directory of the National Bank of Lyndon several years.
Walter E. Ranger, A. M., principal of Lyndon Institute since 1883, was born in Wilton, Me., November 22, 1855. His parents were Peter and Eliza (Smith) Ranger. He prepared for college at Wilton academy, and was graduated at Bates college in 1879. During the next year he was acting principal of Nichols Latin school, Lewiston, Me. Previous to his removal to Lyndon, he was principal of Lenox (Mass.) high school.
The First Congregational church was organized November 30, 1817, and re-organized as the "First Congregational Society," March 18, 1861. The church originally had nine members, and Rev. Samuel G. Tenney was the
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first pastor. The church building was erected in 1827-28, though it has been extensively repaired since. It will now comfortably accommodate 300 per. sons, and is valued, including grounds, etc., at $4,000.00. The society has ninety members, with Rev. George W. Kelley, pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal church, located at Lyndon village, was organized in 1835. The church building was erected in 1839. It is a wooden struc- ture, capable of seating 250 persons, and is valued, including grounds, at $5,- 000.00. The society now has sixty-six members, with Rev. Sylvester Don- aldson, pastor.
The Free Will Baptist church, located at Lyndon Center, was organized by its first pastor, Rev. T. P. Maulton, with nine members, in 1843. The church building was erected in 1853, of wood, will seat 400 persons, and is valued, including grounds, at $3,000.00. The society now has eighty-six members, with Rev. E. Owen, pastor.
The First Congregational church, of Lyndonville, was organized by a coun- cil of churches, convened for the purpose, in December, 1870. It had origin- ally forty-one members, and Rev. P. B. Fisk was the first pastor. The church building, erected in 1872, at a cost of $10,000.00, will comfortably accom- modate 500 persons, and is a neat wooden structure. The society now has 160 members, with Rev. C. B. Hulbert, pastor.
The Roman Catholic church, located at Lyndonville, was organized by its present pastor, Rev. J. B. Bursinault, with fifty communicants, in 1875. The church building, erected during that year, will seat 400 persons, and is valued, including grounds, etc., at $3,500.00. The society now has 200 communicants.
The Methodist Episcopal church, located at East Lyndon, was organized in 1877, with 100 members. Rev. Elder Morgan was the first pastor. The church building, erected that year, will seat 200 persons, and is valued at $1,- 800 oo. The society now has fifty members, with Rev. Elder Bemis, pastor.
The Methodist Episcopal church, located at Lyndonville, was organized by W. H. Wight, with twenty-five members, in 1878, and Rev. W. R. Daven- port was the first pastor. The church building was also erected that year. It is a wooden structure, capable of seating 225 persons, and is valued at $2,- 000 00. The society now has sixty-six members, with Rev. Sylvester Don- aldson, pastor.
The Universalist society, of Lyndonville, was organized in 1885. Services are held in the Matthewson block. The society has twenty-five members, with Rev. Mr. Jenkins, of St. Johnsbury, pastor.
N EWARK lies in the extreme northern part of the county, in latitude 44° 42' and longitude 5° 8', bounded northeast by Brighton, southeast by East Haven, southwest by Burke and Sutton, and northwest by Westmore. It was chartered August 15, 1781, to William Wall and others, under the usual restrictions and reservations of the state charters.
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The surface of the township is broken and to a certain extent mountain- ous, affordling some very fine scenery, though it is not sufficiently rough to prevent its being a good farming district, possessing an arable soil. The original growth of timber upon two-thirds, of its area consisted of maple, beech and birch, maple being in the excess; many beautiful groves of this useful tree have been cut down, but many yet remain. The eastern slope of a mountain which extends from East Haven to the center of the town (a distance of three miles) is covered for two miles or more with a continuous forest of sugar-maple. Many tons of sugar are made here annually. The township is well watered, as the Passumpsic river has its rise here, while the locality is noted for the abundance of fine springs. On the road from New- ark to Island Pond is a mineral spring, the waters of which are supposed to run through a stratum of coal, as it is strongly impregnated with carbonic acid There are three large ponds of water in the town, one of which is sit- uated exactly in its center, and is called Center pond.
In 1880 Newark had a population of 679 souls. In 1886 the town had nine school districts and nine common schools, employing two male and twelve female teachers, to whom was paid an average weekly salary, including board, of $5.50 to the males and $4. 16 to the females. There were 150 scholars, only one of whom attended private school. The entire income for school purposes was $895.02, while the total expenditures were $838.42, with A. B. Stoddard, superintendent.
NEWARK, (or " Newark Street," as it is generally known,) is a small post village occupying a sightly location in the southwestern part of the town. Still it has less than a dozen dwellings, a church, school-house and village hall. In times long ago there was a store here, doing a good business. The first one was kept by a man named Morse, in 1835-36. A few years later, by Burns & Kimball, then by Kimball alone for a few years. The first hotel was kept by Philomen Hartwell, and later one by Daniel Smith. Previous to 1842 the only way to reach the section north of this vicinity was through the "Street," and there was then a good amount of travel this way, and quite a business sprung up here in store and hotel trade. About 1842 the road which passes through East Haven by East Newark postoffice was opened, and in 1853 the Willoughby Lake road, in the western part of the town, was opened, taking a large part of the travel. Hollis Bruce had the first blacksmith shop here, but there has been none for sixteen years. Some years since David Johnson, . Oscar Woodruff and Nathaniel Bruce bought a school-house, moved it to a suitable location, repaired it, and now keep it as a public hall. About 1860 there was a church on road 10, used chiefly by the Baptists, but it was burned down a few years since. The eastern part of the town seems to have been very unfortunate in the matter of fires. From 1865 to 1875 there were burned eleven houses, mills and starch factories. In 1879 the diphtheria raged quite severely. Seventeen school children, in district No. 4, were taken sick in one day, and eleven died in less than a week.
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EAST NEWARK (p. o.) is a hamlet located in the northeastern part of the town, on a branch of the Passumpsic river.
Abel F. Carpenter's saw-mill, on the outlet of Center pond, on road 12, was built by him in 1882. The first mill on this site was built by Hollis Bruce. It outlived the days of its usefulness, was torn down, and, about 1876, was succeeded by another. This was burned, and then Mr. Carpenter built the present mill. It has the capacity for turning out about 1,500,000 feet of lumber per year.
Wallace W. Bruce's shingle-mill, on Sleeper brook, near the intersection of roads 10 and II, was built by him in 1882. It has the capacity for manufac- turing 600,000 shingles per year.
The saw-mill owned by David Silsby, of St. Johnsbury, on the outlet of Newark pond, road 18, manufactures coarse lumber, using about 500,000 feet of logs per year. The business is operated by Henry Gero.
Marshall W. Stoddard's saw-mill, on the West Branch of the Passumpsic, road 4, was built by him in 1877. (In 1848 a mill was built here by him, which was destroyed by fire in 1876.) It has the capacity for turning out 1,000,000 feet of lumber and a large amount of shingles per year.
S. D. Hobson & Sons' steam saw-mill, located in the eastern part of the town, is operated by a forty horse-power engine. It turns out a large amount of lumber, though it is only operated during the winter season. The firm resides in Brighton.
The saw-mill owned by Samuel Nelson, of St. Johnsbury, on the West Branch of the Passumpsic, on road 18, cuts about 500,000 feet of lumber per annum.
The first land cleared within the limits of the town was near the boundary of Burke, in the year 1795. In September, 1797, James Ball came with his family and settled upon the farm now occupied by his grandson, Albro Ball. In 1801 Eleazer Packer came and settled some two miles deeper still in the forest. Charles Palmer came in 1804. These were the first settlers. Others came in soon after, and the town was organized in 1809. These families suffered many privations. The nearest grist-mill was at Lyndon, twelve miles away, and the cold summer of 1816 destroyed nearly all their crops. In the course of a few years, however, large tracts of forest land were cleared of their timber, and bountiful harvests repaid the settler for his labors and placed his family in comfortable circumstances. At the first town meeting Eleazer Packer, James Ball and John Sleeper were chosen selectmen; David Pike, treasurer ; and Miles Coe, constable. Eleazer Packer was also the first jus- tice, chosen in 1808, and the first representative, in 1811. The first merchant was James Morse, in 1832, and Ursula Newell was the first school teacher, in 1810. The first birth was that of Arnold, son of James Ball, and the first death was that of Eleazer Packer, Jr., April 3, 1806. The first marriage was that of Philemon and Sally Hartwell, by Eleazer Packer, June 28, 1812.
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