Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888, Part 36

Author: Child, Hamilton, 1836- comp. cn
Publication date: 1888
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., The Syracuse journal company, printers
Number of Pages: 836


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Edward Robie; son of Walter, and a native of Candia, N. H., came to Corinth in 1789, and here remained until his death at the age of fifty-seven years. He married Sarah Emerson, of Candia, N. H., and their children were Nancy, Jonathan, Susie, John, Sally, Edward, Eliza, Nathaniel, Mary, Ichabod, Hannah and Richard E. The latter married Sarah Kasson, of Topsham, daughter of Thomas and Clarissa (Hutchins) Kasson, and resides on a farm on road 20, in this town, where he has made his home for over twenty- eight years.


Jethro, Ezra, Ezekiel and Joshua Sleeper and Joshua George, came from Sandown, N. H., and settled in the southwest part of this town about 1793. Jethro Sleeper moved to the west village in 1809, where he built the two-story house which stands opposite the store, and bought the grist-mill and saw-mill and carried on the business of manufacturing lumber for many years. He reared three sons and three daughters, viz .: George, David, Roswell, Nancy, Deborah and Caroline. He died at the age of seventy-six years.


Daniel Cooke, born in 1766, came to Corinth soon after attaining his majority, with a cash capital of $14. His father was Phineas Cooke, a wealthy resident of Newton, Mass., who, during the Revolutionary war, raised a company, equipped them, and paid their wages, through which lib- erality he became poor. Daniel engaged in merchandising, keeping store in one room of the house of John Nutting, a short distance northeast of the present village of Corinth. He also established a tannery, potashery, grist- mill and distillery, also dealt largely in cattle and dressed beef, which he took to Boston market. He owned a large landed property, and built the brick


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store now owned by his grandson, in which the family have continuously carried on the mercantile business since 1818. He also built the large house at the southwest corner of the streets and kept hotel there. He was a popu- lar citizen, and served the town acceptably as representative. He married, first, Mary, daughter of John Nutting, about 1791, by whom he had one son, Leander, born in 1793, his wife dying at that time. He afterwards married Dorothy, a sister of his first wife, by whom he had six sons and five daughters, of whom George died young. Theodore was a merchant in Corinth all his life. Albert was a tanner in this town. Daniel R. and Henry C. succeeded their father in the brick store. Charles O. is a farmer in this town. Lean- der was second and Theodore the fourth postmaster at Corinth. Daniel R. was justice of the peace many years. He married Caroline Sleeper, and their only child, George C., who has been in trade here since 1865, has been town clerk since 1867, and postmaster for the past two years.


Joshua Merrill, a descendant of Nathaniel Merle, who came to America from France in 1635, came with an ox team from Atkinson, N. H., to Corinth in 1795, and settled in the eastern part of the town in the Taplin neighborhood. He was a man of prominence in the town, was justice of the peace over thirty years, selectman and lister. He died at the age of seventy-five years. His wife was Dorcas Richardson, who became the mother of sixteen children. Thomas E. Merrill, the second son, was born in Corinth in 1797, and died here in 1868. He was a well-to-do farmer, and owned the farm upon which his grandson Rodney E. now lives. He mar- ried Mary Crook, daughter of Reuben, by whom he had two sons and two daughters-Mary A., John, Emily C. and George H. Rodney E. Merrill, son of John and Martha L. (Brown) Merrill, is of the fourth generation of the family in Corinth.


Stephen Merrill was an early settler in Corinth, on the farm now owned by Isaac H. Wiggins. He came with his wife from Deerfield, N. H., and passed the remainder of his life in this town. He was twice married, first to Mary Hoyt, by whom he had one son and two daughters, and second to Abigail Sawyer, who bore him one daughter, Louisa, widow of Cheney D. Williams. He died in 1842, aged seventy years. Cheney D. Williams, born in Chelsea, died July 2, 1867, aged thirty-eight years.


Samuel Currier was a native of Hampstead, N. H., where he died, aged sixty-five years. His son Samuel, also a native of Hampstead, came to Corinth among the early settlers. . He married Demarius Stephens, and their children were Stephen, Samuel, Sally, Susan, Aphia, Eliza, Polly, Calvin and Ruth. Calvin married, first, Lydia Ward, of this town, who bore him two children, Laura and Sabin, now dead, and second, Diantha Lang, daughter of William and Hannah (Dustin) Lang, and resides on a farm on road 34, where he has lived twenty years.


John W. Wilson, son of William, who was a son of Robert, was born in Chester, N. H., and at the age of ten years came to this town with his father,


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who was the first settler on the farm now occupied by M. Dickinson. He married Louisa Thurber, of Corinth, and their children were Caroline, Man- dana, Aaronette, Julia, Lucy and Harrison A. The latter served in Co. G, 9th Vt. Vols., three years during the late war. He married Helen Cooke, of this town, and their children were Arthur G., Nettie M. and Herbert A. The latter married Rosa S., daughter of William and Aurora (Craft) McFarlin, and their children are Cora B., Annie M. and Helen L. He resides on a farm on road 33, in this town. William McFarlin also served in Co. G, 9th Vt. Vols.


Christopher Avery, a native of New London, Conn., came to this town with his wife, Sally Jones, on horseback, among the early settlers, and located on the farm now owned by Miller Richardson. He died in this town about 1845. His children were Oliver, Alvah, Lura, Nathaniel, Christopher, Sally, Putnam, Simon, Philander, Harriet and Elias J. By a second marriage, with Sophia Lund, his children were Noah L., Newell T., Leonard, Caroline R., Melville M. and Joel. Elias J. married Mary S. Woodman, of Washington, daughter of Peter and Mary (Glines) Woodman, by whom he had children as follows : Fernald S., Almeda M., Osgood, Sally and George B., all of whom are dead. Elias J. Avery now resides on a farm on road 66, where he has lived fifty- two years.


Alvah Avery, son of Christopher, was born in Corinth. He married Abigail Brown, of Vershire, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary (Whittier) Brown, of Taplin, N. H., and reared one adopted son, William B. D., a son of Mrs. Alvah Avery's sister, Fanny Brown. William B. D. Avery married S. Jan- nette Clement, of Corinth, daughter of Obadiah and Phebe (Merrill) Clement, and their children are Jennie L. (Mrs. Timothy G. Bronson), of Dakota, Effie A., Alvah D., Louie, Ellen J. and Abbie B. Mr. Avery resides in this town on a farm on road 66, where he has lived fifty years. He has been active in town affairs, and held the office of selectman two years.


Phebe Clement, mentioned above, daughter of Samuel and Phebe (Fuller) Merrill, came to this town from Topsfield, Mass., with her parents who were among the early settlers. She married Obadiah Clement, and their children are Mary E., of Lowell, Mass., S. Jannette, Laura A., Julia A., Lucinda D., Lucy J. and Evelin M.


Edmond Eastman, who came from Londonderry, N. H., was one of the early settlers of Corinth, where he died at the age of over eighty years. His children were Jesse, Orsamus, James, Harvey, Lydia, Polly and Edmund. The latter married Polly Currier, of Newburyport, Mass., who died in 1876, aged ninety-four years, he dying in 1858, aged eighty-one years. Their children are Ransom, Calvin, Lyman, Addison, Betsey, Lucinda, Polly, Nancy, Mandana and Emerson E. The latter married Charlotte Scribner, of this town, and they have one son, Winfield S., who married Jennie S. Batchelder, of Topsham, and their children are Fred L, Henry E. and Willie C. He


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resides in this town with his father, on a farm on road 7, where the latter has. lived for over thirty years.


Reuben Locke, a native of Rye, N. H., came to this town about 1795, and remained until his death, aged sixty six years. He married Phebe Chap- man, of Epsom, N. H., and they were among the twelve members who organ- ized the first Congregational church in the town. Their children were Reuben, John, Blake, Haynes, Alice, Anna, Mary, Sarah and David. The latter married Olive Bickford, of this town, and their children were Reuben, John, Armedia, Anna, Mary A., Olive, Phebe, Martha, Julia, Annice, Sarah, Blake, Bickford, David, Charles, Reuben, Jannette and John B. The latter married Caroline, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Robie) Taplin, of Fairfield, and their children were Frankie and Joseph, deceased, Julia A., Helen C., Emma S., Spaulding F., Harmon J., David B. and William E. William Elroy Locke, M. D., was born in Corinth in 1861. He attended the Brad- . ford academy, and studied medicine with Dr. J. H. Jones, of Bradford, grad- uating from the Hahnemann Medical college of Philadelphia, Pa , in 1884. He soon after purchased the good will and practice of Dr. M. J. Bixby, of Cookeville, where he has since been in practice. He married Lena A.,. daughter of John and Martha (Sanborn) Sanborn, of Barton, Vt., in 1884. Blake Locke, mentioned above, married Mary A., daughter of Evans and Annette (Bickford) McCrellis, of this town, and they have had born to them four children, viz .: Mabel, Nettie E., Ira and Willie. He resides on a farm on road 35, where he has lived since his birth.


Samuel Corliss, a native of Haverhill, Mass., located in Haverhill, N. H., at an early day, where he remained four years, when he removed to this town, his family being the fourth to locate here, and where he died aged about eighty years. He married Hannah Silver, and their children were Willoughby, Daniel, Polly, Jonathan, Deborah, Nancy, John, Lodisa and Jonathan. The latter married Polly Taplin, and their children were Smith, Guy, Voda, Jonathan, Jr., Moody, Alden, Johnson, Deborah, Polly and Bliss. Bliss mar- ried Amanda M. Taplin, and they have two daughters and one son, viz .: Sophronia A., Amanda M. and Edwin R., the latter of whom married, first, Sarah Taplin, and second, Lutheria, daughter of George W. and Mary (Metcalf) Stevens. By his first wife he had one son, Everett. Sophronia married George W. Bacon, of Fall River, Mass. Amanda M. married George E. Divoll, and they have one daughter, Mabel A., of Fall River, Mass. Edwin R. served in Co. D, 8th Vt. Vols., during the late war, and was honorably discharged.


Daniel Corliss, son of Samuel, was a native of Haverhill, Mass., came to. Corinth in 1794, and was the first settler on a farm off road 10, where his son Daniel now resides. He married Hepsibeth Taplin, of this town, and their children were Willoughby, Samuel, Lodica, Hepsibeth, Marietta, Sally, Mansfield, Nancy A. and Daniel. The latter married, first, Mariah Under- hill, of Bradford, who bore him two children, Ella B. and Hannah M., and


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second, Susan S., daughter of Jacob and Betsey (Taplin) Farr, of Corinth, by whom he has had three children-Albert Z., Willie H. H., and Hiram. Mr. Corliss resides in this town on the homestead farm where he was born.


John Richardson came from Andover, Mass., and established a cloth dressing mill just below the present grist-mill at West Corinth village about 1 800, which business he continued until his death, when his eldest son, John, Jr., then a lad of sixteen years, assumed it. Mr. Richardson bought the house in which his grandson, Victor, now lives, one of the first frame houses erected in this part of the town, and in which his family of eight children were born. John, Jr., carried on the clothier's business about thirty-five years. He married Deborah Sleeper and reared.two sons, Rodney and Victor, two daughters and one son dying in childhood. He was known by the title of "'Squire," and from the age of twenty-nine until his latest years was in some public office and bore his part in all public enterprises. He died in March, 1881, in the same room in which he was born, aged eighty years. His sons Rod- ney and Victor have carried on singly or in company the mercantile busi- ness since 1857. Rodney served in various town, county and state offices, and was pension agent several years.


John Edwards, a native of Boston, Mass., came to Corinth about 1800, and engaged in the distilling and tanning business, and here remained until his death, in June, 1820. He married Nancy Orr, of this town, and their child- ren were John, Susan, Roanna and William. John married Azuba, daughter of John and Polly (Towle) Orr, and their children were George I. and William M. He died August 1, 1882, aged sixty-eight years. William M. Edwards married Sarah, daughter of Henry and Philura (Beede) Dickin- son, of Keene, N. Y., and they have one son, Fred S. Mr. Edwards is now a hotel keeper at Corinth Center.


Josiah Dearborn was a native of Chester, N. H., and died in the town of Weare. He married Susannah Emerson, and his children were Henry, Edmund, Samuel, Peter, John, Josiah, David, Moses, Susanna, S .. lly, Jonathan and Nehemiah. The latter was born in 1780 and died in 1846, aged sixty- six years. He located in this town in 1801, where he married Judith C. Huntoon, and their children were Nathaniel A., Susan H., Hannah M., Fanny J., Susan O., Charles C., Mary S., Caroline P., John A. and George M. The latter married Mary E., daughter of Ichabod and Janette G. (Robie) Robie, of this town, and their children are Jessie M., Van Allen, William B. and Georgina M. He now resides in Corinth on a farm on road 34. Mr. Dear- born was born in West Fairlee, August 5, 1841, and for twelve years was a resident of Vershire, where he held the usual town offices and represented that town in the state legislature in 1872, '82 and '84, serving on the com- mittees on education and state and county expenses. He served in Co. G, 9th Vt. Vols., three years, and is now town superintendent of schools, which office he has held in Corinth and Vershire eight years.


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age of eighty-two years. He married Apphia Kenniston, and their children were Benjamin, Philip, William, Sarah, Elijah, Job, Stephen, Rebecca and Elisha. The latter came to Corinth in 1805 and settled on a farm on road 14, where he remained until his death in 1843, aged seventy-nine years. He married Sarah Keniston, of Andover, N. H., and their children were Sarah, Joel, Elisha, Benjamin, William, Polly, Apphia, Susanna and John. The latter married Luvinia Greenleaf, of Bradford, daughter of Samuel and Han- nah (Rowe) Greenleaf, and they have one daughter, Nancy J., who married William N. Worthley, of Corinth, and has two children, George W. and Mable E.


Peter, Stephen I. and Henry Eaton, brothers,.came to Corinth from Salis- bury, Mass. In 1807 Stephen bought the farm now owned by his son, Frederick P. He was a carpenter and for the seven years preceeding had worked at his trade and at farming with his brother Peter. He married Susannah Currier, of Newburyport, Mass., in 1800, and was one of the prominent men of Corinth, holding the offices of representative and select- man for many terms, and that of justice of the peace forty-six years. His brother Peter also represented Corinth three years. Stephen had two sons and three daughters, viz .: Liberty (deceased), Frederick P., Abigail (Mrs. David Dearborn), Mary Ann (Mrs. Hubbard Fellows) and Lurana.


Charles H. Burnham was born in Corinth in 1808. He carried on mer- cantile business eight or ten years in the old union store at West Corinth, where he was instrumental in establishing a postoffice in 1861. He was the first postmaster here, and held the office twenty years, dying in 1881.


Aaron Smith, a native of Hanover, N. H., located in Bradford about 1800, where he followed the dual occupation of farmer and mason until his death. He reared a family of seven children, viz .: Moses, Epaphras, Aaron, Harvey, Ann, Abigail and Judith. Epaphras, who was born in Haverhill, N. H., located in East Corinth village, in 1807, where he practiced his profession of physician until his death in 1850, aged seventy years. He married Susan Taplin and their children were Susan L., Mariah, Curtis K., Aaron and Erdix T. The latter married, first, Emily M., daughter of Winthrop and Susan (Corliss) Green, of this town, who bore him two children, Charles B. and Erdix T., Jr., the latter deceased, and second, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Euphemia (Skinner) Halley, of Glasgow, Scotland, by whom he has had one son, Erdix T., Jr. Mr Smith is a homoeopathic physician and surgeon, and has been in successful practice in this town for thirty-three years. He is a graduate of Hanover college, and has held many offices of trust in the town.


Daniel Brown, of Chester, N. H., came to Corinth previous to 1800, where he remained until his death in 1804. He married Susanna Durgin, of Northwood, N. H., and their children were James, Mary, Susan, Daniel, John and Walter. The latter married Lydia Keniston, of Cabot, Vt., daughter of Nathan Keniston, and their children are Emily, Julia A. and Oliver W.


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The latter married Grace, daughter of John and Ann (Eva) Durkin, of this town, and they have had three children-Estella M., Birdie E. and Ann E., the latter deceased. Oliver W. resides in this town on road 19, where he has made his home during his whole life.


Dr. Alvah Carpenter was born in Plainfield, N. H., in 1802. He came to this town in 1805, where he died in 1883, aged eighty-one years. He grad- uated from Castleton (Vt.) Medical college in 1828, and was the first medi- cal graduate to practice in this town. He was of the allopath school and practiced successfully here for fifty years. He married Ann Julia, daughter of Daniel and Dorothy (Nutting) Cook, of this town, who survives her hus- band and resides on the homestead at the age of seventy-five years. Their children are Julia L., Abigail A., Alvah M. and Minerva A. Alvah M. mar- ried Helen C. Locke, of this town, daughter of John B. and Caroline (Tap- lin) Locke, and resides in this town on road 49, where he has lived since his birth. He has been sheriff of Orange county two years, deputy sheriff eighteen years, and constable and collector twelve years.


Nehemiah, Henry, Edmund, Dea Samuel and David Dearborn, brothers, from Weare, N. H., settled in Orange county about seventy-five years ago- Nehemiah in Vershire and the others in Corinth. Nehemiah married Judith Huntoon and had born to him nine children, six of whom are living. He was one of the Plattsburgh volunteers in the War of 1812, and died in 1847. Three of his sons served in the late war. Henry was in trade many years at West Fairlee. Cornelius Van Ness Dearborn, son of Deacon Samuel, was a lawyer at Nashua, N. H., and United States bank inspector.


Samuel Scribner was born in Andover, N. H., and his wife, Katharine Marston, the same year. They were married November 2, 1796, and in 1800 removed to Washington, with one son, Josiah, then three years of age. They were the parents of five sons and six daughters. Josiah was a farmer, and located in this town on the farm now owned by John M., in 1817, first work- ing for the widow of Benjamin Brown whose daughter Melinda he soon after married. He lived upon this farm sixty years, and was known as Captain Scribner, having acquired that military title in the militia. He had born to him three sons and three daughters, of whom one son, John M., and two daughters, Celestia and Maryette, are living. John M. Scribner went to New York state and engaged in preaching, and was also interested in manu- facturing paper. James went west and died in the civil war. Caleb H. was a farmer and passed his life in Orange county, dying in Chelsea .. John M. was born on the farm he now occupies, in 1837. He married Nancy (Mer- rill), widow of Edwin Jackman, and they have two sons and one daughter. He has served several years as selectman and also in other town offices.


James Thompson, son of James, of English descent, was a native of Wal- pole, N. H. He located in Washington about 1850, an finally came to this town, where he died in 1875, aged eighty-three years. He married, first, Mary, daughter of Hial Paul, and second, Sophia Currier. His twelve child-


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ren, all by his first wife, were Ira, Moody, Philander, Luther, James, Hial, Hiram, Horace, Mary A., Marcia, Louisa and Sylvester. The latter mar- ried, first, Frances Toben, by whom he had two children, Lizzie, deceased, and Ida, of Boston, Mass., and second, Mariah H. Hudson, of Boston, daughter of James and Abbie (Chubbuck) Hudson, of Maine. He has been a resident of East Corinth for the past seventeen years.


James Jenne was a native of Derby, Vt., where he died. His children were Job, Tolman, Stillman, Thomas and Betsey. Stillman Jenne was born in Derby and is now a resident of West Newbury. He married, first, Mi- randa J. King, of Whitefield, N. H., daughter of Asa and Sarah (Burnes) King, and their children were Sarah, William S., Viola M., Cora S. and Roswell C. The latter married Lestina E., daughter of Roswell F. and Av- arissa (Simpson) George, of Bradford, and is an allopath physician and sur- geon at East Corinth village, where he has been in practice for sixteen years, having graduated from Hanover college, October 30, 1872. He served in Co. B, 6th Vt. Vols., and also in Co. I, 17th Vt. Vols., and was elected represen- tative of the town for the term of 1884 86.


Lester Fox was a native of Suffield, Conn., where he died in 1860, aged seventy years. He married Harriet Gibbs, of his native town, and their child- ren were Edward L., Francis S., Leverett, Jane, Lucy A., Mary A. and Will- iam C. The latter married, first, Dresta Beeman, of Granby, Conn., by whom he had two children, Phelps and Mary A., and second, Marilla E. Downer, of Williston, daughter of Nathan J. and Eliza B. (Downer) Downer, and by her has one son, Charles N., who married Estella L., daughter of Ezra L. and Louisa (Flowers) Marston, of Weathersfield, Windsor county, and they have three children-Henrietta E., William C., and Charles N. 'The latter graduated from the University of Vermont, in 1884, and is now a practicing physician and surgeon at East Corinth village.


Zenas Stearns, a native of Walpole, N. H., came to Corinth in 1832 and settled on a farm on road 9, where he died at the age of eighty-two years. He married Betsey Heath, of Bradford, daughter of Isaac, a Revolutionary soldier, and their children were Betsey, Phineas, Sophronia and Isaac. . The latter married Lodica, daughter of Jonathan and Polly (Taplin) Corless, of this town, and their children were Alvira (deceased), Sophronia E., Polly A., Maryette, Merinda and George B., the latter a resident of California. Isaac Stearns resides in this town on road 9, where he has made his home for fifty- two years.


Joshua Prescott, a native of Connecticut, located in Washington, where he remained until his death, aged over eighty years. He married a Miss Mar- tin, and their children were George, John, Aaron, Hilas, Nelson, Nancy, Emeline, Abigail, Rachel, Louisa and Hannah. George Prescott located in Montpelier, and finally in Topsham, where he died at the age of forty-four years. He married, first, Fanny Robinson, and their children were Dexter, George and Mariah, and second, Hannah Corliss. George married Edna A.


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Corliss, of Corinth, daughter of Capt. Jonathan Corliss, and their children were George, Fred Harry, Henry, Mabel, Anna M. and Daisy. He served in Co. G, 9th Vt. Vols., and was pronounced the best soldier in his brigade by General Devens, at headquarters of 3d division 24th Army Corps, Jan- uary 27, 1865. He was honorably discharged at the close of the war.


Benjamin Martin, a native of Bradford, came to Corinth, where he re- mained until his death, aged seventy-three years. He married Mary Harri- man, of New York, and their children were Stephen, Mary, Abner, Albert, Benjamin, Emily and George. The latter first located in Bradford, where he remained two years, when he removed to Topsham, where he died March 8, 1873, aged fifty years. He married Alice K., daughter of Hezekiah and Pru- dence (Sawyer) Felch, of Topsham, and their children are George H. and Hezekiah B., both of whom reside on road 7, where they have lived three years. Mrs. Martin survives her husband, and is sixty-four years of age.


Thomas Minard, who served in the War of 1812, came from Massachu- setts to Strafford, Vt., about 1798, and later to Chelsea, where he died in 1850, aged fifty-five years. He married Lydia Hopkins and their children were Amos, Daniel and Thomas. The latter married Sarah P. Blake, of Strafford, by whom he has had children as follows: Lydia, Sarah P., Elijah B., Amos M., Augusta M., Thomas H., Selden H., Josiah G., Almira H. and Henry W. The latter married Patience A. Frost, of Groton, Caledonia county, and their children are Francis H., Orange M., Josie M. and Nellie M. He has resided on a farm on road 7, in Corinth, for thirteen years.




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