Gazetteer of Washington County, Vt., 1783-1889, Part 51

Author: Child, Hamilton, 1836-, comp; Adams, William, fl. 1893, ed
Publication date: 1889
Publisher: Syracuse, N. Y., The Syracuse journal company, printers
Number of Pages: 898


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Loomis was born in 1787. He married Lucy, daughter of Thomas Averill. In 1824 he removed to Middlesex, Vt. He was a successful farmer, and acquired a competence. Mr. and Mrs. Loomis were parents of eleven chil- dren. Mr. Loomis died in 1875, and his wife in 1877. William H. Loomis, son of Eleazer, before mentioned, married, in December, 1847, Miss Eliza M. Andrews, of Berlin. He taught a school ten winters, and has served as justice of the peace a long term of years. The children of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Loomis are George B., Jennie E., and Edmund A.


Silas Rice, a Revolutionary soldier and pensioner, moved into Northfield in 1810, and settled on West hill. His son Silas, Jr., from Acworth, had settled in the neighborhood a short time before. Soon after Silas, Jr., sold out to Harry Ainsworth and returned to New Hampshire. Titus Rice, son of Silas, Sr., was born in Rockingham, Vt., August 2, 1798. He married Louisa Jones, who was born in Charlestown, N. H., May 1, 1801, and settled on the homestead with his aged parents. He was industrious and a hard worker; and later in life was crippled with rheumatism. Mrs. Rice's mother lived to the great age of ninety-eight years, and could read at that age with- out spectacles. It happened that Mrs. Rice was alone with an invalid son of her own, and Mr. Rice's father and mother, who were so aged and infirm that they were unable to do anything for themselves. At this time the wind was blowing strong. Mrs. Rice thought she heard the crackling of fire, and looking about she found the roof of their house in flames. With admirable presence of mind she carried water quite a distance to the attic, and put the fire out on the inside so she could open the scuttle. She then climbed to the roof and quenched the fire there also.


Ariel Egerton was born in Norwich, Conn., June 8, 1796. His father moved with his family to Brookfield, Vt. Mr. Egerton came to Northfield in the fall of 1811. The following winter he taught school on the East hill, and the next he taught near Judge Paine's factory. In 1815 he built a house and store at the Center village. His store was the first building erected in that village for business purposes. He continued there in trade until the year 1819. In 1824 he bought of Judge Paine the grist-mill on the East hill, which he carried on about five years, when the mill was abandoned. In 1829. he bought a large building at the South village, and started a chair factory, which he kept in operation about five years, and then removed from North- field. Mr. Egerton was among the first in this vicinity to observe the inju- rious effects arising from the use of liquors, and very early he became active in the cause of temperance. In the winter of 1826 he invited the people living in his neighborhood to meet at their school-house and listen to some statements with regard to the use and abuse of intoxicating drinks. About forty people were present, and that was, as we believe, the first attempt in this state, aside from pulpit addresses, to present the temperance question in a public lecture. In 1828 about twenty of the citizens of the town united to form a temperance society. Mr. Egerton was elected its first president, and


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Orange Hovey, secretary. Mr. Egerton delivered an address in the Center meeting-house, which was published in the Montpelier Watchman and other papers in the state. Mr. Egerton died in Quechee, Vt., in 1859. In No- vember, 1813, he united in marriage with Abigail P., only daughter of Cap- tain Abel Keyes, who was born in Putney, Vt., August 11, 1796. Their children were Almira E., Laura E., Olive S., Cynthia M., Abby S., Charles B., John S., and Joseph K. Joseph Keyes Egerton lived in Quechee, Vt., until the death of his father, when he moved to Norwich, Vt., where he resided fifteen years, then came to Northfield in March, 1877. He married Sarah F. Tyler, of Claremont, N. H., in 1856, and they were parents of two children, viz .: Edith K., born in 1858, and Fred T., born in 1862. Mr. Egerton has had a number of offices conferred upon him, which he has filled with credit to himself and to his fellow citizens. He was clerk in J. C. Brooks's store, in Hartford, four years, one in Cleaveland's, at Brookfield, and one year with Camp & Thayer, in Northfield. He was postmaster at Quechee from 1853 to 1861, then removed to Norwich ; was town agent, town treasurer, and justice of the peace ; joined the Odd Fellows in Northfield in 1852, and the Masons in 1854, and was Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Vermont three years, from 1867 to 1870. He is now engaged in the insurance busi- ness, and is the clerk of the town of Northfield.


Thomas Coburn came from Brookfield, Me., and settled on West hill, in Northfield, in 1815. He bought wild land and cleared it for a farm. He married Rebecca Warren, of Monmouth, Me. Their only son, Washington, born in August, 1816, has always lived in Northfield. He married Harriet N. Thompson. He and three of his sons, George F., Benjamin F., and Charles H., served in the late war for the Union. Benjamin F. Coburn mar- ried Lucinda, daughter of William Sulham, of Cabot.


Joel Simonds settled in Northfield in 1816. His permanent location was east of Paine Mountain, and the homestead is now owned by his son, Rev. Joel Simonds. The old farm house, built by Mr. Simonds in 1828, is still standing. Mr. Simonds was one of the founders of the Christian church and one of its deacons, and was influential in building the first school-house in the Loomis district. He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Luman Judd, in Strafford. He married Lydia, daughter of John Braley, and their children were Daniel, Polly, Joel, Horace, Albert, Clark, Charles, Rufus, Seth, John, Lydia, Harriet, and John. Rev. Joel Simonds, their son, resides at the Center village, is a minister of the Christian church, and has spent most of his past life in Northfied. He married Olive, daughter of Jonathan and Betsey (Cummings) Pitkin, of Hartford, Vt., from Hartford, Conn. Rev. Clark Simonds, another son, married, first, Abagail Drew, and for his sec- ond wife Rhoda McDonald. He has been a Christian preacher forty-eight years.


Samuel Dunsmoor came with his bride (Anna Powers) from Charlestown, N. H., and settled on West hill, in Northfield, in 1814. He cleared the farm


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where he first settled, and resided on it until 1848. He enlisted in the War of 1812, was a volunteer to go to the battle of Plattsburgh, and in conse- quence was a pensioner. Mr. Dunsmoor was a member of the Free Bap- tist church. His youngest son, Edwin, born in 1835, served three years in the late war. William, son of Samuel Dunsmoor, was born in 1815, mar- ried Maria Ainsworth, and died at the age of sixty-eight years. His children were Walter H., Alice, Elsie, Francis, Victoria, Willie E., Ida, Mary, Frank, Ella, and Kate, and three who died in infancy. Walter H. Dunsmoor mar- ried Julia, daughter of Samuel Wales, of Roxbury. The issue of this mar- riage is four daughters and two sons.


Samuel Dole, a native of Bedford, N. H., removed from Danville, Vt., to Northfield, in 1818, and settled on Dole hill. After a residence there of ten years he removed to the South village, and conducted a saw-mill and a grist- mill. Mr. Dole returned to Dole hill in 1838 or '39, and died there in Au- gust, 1841, aged fifty-three years. He married Mary Sargent, of Danville, and their children were Christopher, Jane, Mary, Cynthia, Harriet, Samuel, George, Jason, and French. Christopher married Harriet, daughter of Amos A. Howes, and spent his life on the farm now owned by his son, Rev. Walter Howes. He died in June, 1888, aged sixty-six years. Their children were Charles, Heman, Walter, Harry C., Mary M., Martha A., and Jason E. Charles Dole was seventeen years professor of political economy in Norwich University, and nine years superintendent of schools. Heman died in the Union army. Rev. Walter is a Universalist clergyman, and Harry C. is a journalist. Jason E. Dole married Anna S. Pike, of Stowe, in 1863. Their children are Ella M. (Mrs. Des Rochers), Hermon E., Amy A., George W., Fred J., and Arthur L.


Samuel Fisk was born April 13, 1795. He married Keziah, daughter of Thomas Averill, September 7, 1820, and settled at once on Dog river. March 7, 1831, he removed to the farm where his son Elliott C. now lives, on West hill. He was a substantial farmer and highly respected. Mr. Fisk died July 24, 1848. His children, all born in Northfield, were Levina A., born in 1821; Eveline M., born in 1827; Elliott C., born in 1832; and Elizabeth A., born in 1836. Mrs. Fisk survived her husband many years and resided with her son Elliott C. on the homestead. She was honored by a surprise party on her eightieth birthday. Levina A., her daughter, married Daniel D. Dyke, in 1840. Mr. Dyke came to Northfield from Cavendish in 1831, and died in 1873. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Dyke are Frederick C., Maria E., El- liott C., who enlisted in Co. H, 17th Vt. Regt., and died at City Point, Va., August 25, 1864, Samuel J., Ella L., and Carlos E. Eveline M. Fisk mar- ried Almon Latham, who was born in 1821. Their children now living are Emma L., Eunice M. (Roberts), Addie E., and Eva L.


Charles H. Dutton, son of Ashley H. Dutton who was an early settler in Moretown, was born in Moretown in 1843. He has been a farmer and em-


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ployed in woolen-mills generally. In the late war he was a soldier in the 3d Vt. Battery, where he served to the close of the war.


Isaac Kinsman moved to Northfield from Williamstown in 1820, and settled on West hill. He died at Gouldsville. He married Matilda Knapp, who bore him eleven children, of whom Mrs. Zilpha Balch, Mrs. Philura Carpenter, and Mrs. Diantha Chamberlin are living. Zilpha, his second daughter, married William D. Balch, who served in the war for our Union, and died in the service of his country, at New Orleans, October 12, 1862. Seven of their ten children are now living.


David and Jonathan Rich were born in Strafford, Vt., where their ancestors from Connecticut were pioneer settlers. About 1820 David and Jonathan wended their way to Washington county. December 5, 1822, David married Sophia Coburn, and settled in the southwestern corner of Berlin. They en- joyed the unusual long period of sixty five years of wedded life, and reared six sons and three daughters. Three of their sons, Alden, Luther, and Hollis, and two daughters, Luvia (Mrs. Locklin) and Julia (Mrs. Smith), still survive and reside at Northfield falls. Jonathan Rich married Prunella Corey and settled in Northfield. They were parents of ten children, two of whom, Eugenia and Anna, reside at Northfield falls.


Samuel U. Richmond, Esq., born in 1803, came to Northfield with his father in 1823. He was prominent in the Methodist church, and a leader in the Democratic party. No man was ever turned hungry from his door. He was prompt, industrious, well regulated, and his word was as good as his bond. He moved to the depot village in 1867, and died very suddenly in 1873. He married Sophia, daughter of Capt. Henry Knapp.


Samuel L. Adams, born in Brookfield, in October, 1796, married Harriet Cobleigh, in July, 1828, and settled in Northfield. He was a believer in the doctrine of the restitution of all things, and a good Mason. His wife died in 1849. Mr. Adams died at the home of his oldest daughter, in Revere, Mass., in December, 1877, aged eighty-one years. His remains were brought to Northfield and buried at the Center cemetery with Masonic honors.


Hiram Henry was born in Alstead, N. H., January 14, 1804. He came to Northfield and settled on West hill. Afterwards he bought the Col. Robin- son farm, on East hill, where his son John now lives, and where he died in 1851. He married Polly Bean, of Gilmanton, N. H., who was born January 8, 1805. Their children were Jane A., born in 1828; Johnson H., born in 1829 ; John, born in 1833 ; Mary, born in 1844 ; and Martha, born in 1846. All were born in Northfield. John Henry, son of Hiram, married Helen M. Foss, (who was a native of Concord, N. H.,) in January, 1859. He has lived at his present home the last fifty years, and has reared five daughters and three sons.


Amos Howes was born in Windham, Conn., in 1792. He married Melinda, daughter of Libbeus Bennett, Esq., who was born in Bernardston, Mass., in 1799. Their children, 'all born in Chelsea, are Augusta, born in 1820;


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Harriet, born in 1822; Fannie, born in 1827; Lucinda, born in 1830; Maria M., born in 1832; Elizabeth, born in 1834; Seymour, born in 1837 ; Adelia L., born in 1840; Edward H., born in 1843; and Libbeus, born in 1847. Edward H. Howes married Susan S. Putney and has two sons.


Caleb Winch, from Troy, N. H., settled on a farm on Starkweather hill, Northfield, in 1826. He married Lucy Farral, and their children were Eliza, William, and Caleb M. His son William, born in 1819, an honored deacon of the Congregational church, married Lydia Nye and settled on the home farm. Their children are George W., born in 1845; Caleb M., born in 1847 ; Susan E., born in 1850; John H., born 1855; and Samuel W., born in 1858. Dr. John H. Winch, son of William, began the study of medicine with Dr. W. J. Sawin, of Chicopee Falls, Mass., graduated from the Medical department of the University of Vermont in the class of 1880, and located for the practice of his profession in Northfield. In November, 1880, he mar- ried Ella M. Sylvester, of his native town.


Dr. Daniel Johnson was born in Sheldon, Vt., in 1853, fitted for college at the Vermont Methodist Seminary, graduated from Dartmouth College in the class of 1878, and from the Medical department of that institution in 1881. He began practice in Highgate, Vt., and about two years after, in April, 1883, he settled in Northfield, where he has a constantly increasing practice. In 188t he married Miss Minnie E. Gregg, of Northfield.


Marvin Simons, Esq., was born in Williamstown, Vt., December 11, 1806, and settled in Northfield in 1829, where he resided until his decease, in 1829. He was one of Northfield's most respected citizens, and had shared in the honors and responsibilities of the town's affairs. He served nineteen years as justice of the peace, was selectman twelve years, and held during his life many positions of trust involving large amounts of property. His sound judg- ment and unswerving integrity fitted him to discharge impartially and acceptably all the duties delegated to him by his townsmen. March 24, 1829, he was united in marriage with Olive Fisk, of Williamstown, who was born December 11, 1806. Their children were Marcellus M., Lycurgus L. (deceased), Darwin A., Cordelia J. (Mrs. J. W. Gould), Olive M. (deceased), Alma A. (Mrs. D. R. Melcher), of Cambridgeport, Mass., and William G. Darwin A. and William G. Simons are extensive dealers in house furnish- ings at Manchester, N. H. Olive, widow of Marvin Simons, still survives, at the great age of eighty-two years, and resides at Gouldsville.


James Steele was born in Antrim, N. H., in 1793. In 1815 he married Esther Smith, in East Roxbury. In April, 1829, Mr. Steele, with his wife and three children, removed from Brookfield to Northfield. He drew his goods the last two miles on a hand sled, through the woods, without a road, to his log cabin covered with hemlock bark. This domicile had neither floor, doors, windows, or fireplace. Their fire was built on the ground in the center of the cabin ; the smoke escaped through an aperture in the roof ; light was ad- mitted through oiled paper pasted over holes cut in the walls ; and a blanket


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was hung up for a door. Mr. Steele died at his homestead, April 16, 1869. Mrs. Steele survived until December 29, 1875. Their children are Fannie E., Sylvanus, Marcia M., James E., S. Warren, and Frederick W. James, Jr., married Esther Smith, and settled on West hill in Northfield.


John H. Blodgett, a native of New Hampshire, came with a family to Roxbury. At the age of twenty-one years he went to work for Judge Paine, in his factory, and remained in his employ about five years. He married Lucinda Royce, and they were parents of Orlando F., born in 1832, and Cor- delia E., born in 1838. Mrs. Blodgett died in 1877.


Michael Wentworth Leavitt, the youngest of a family of eight sons and one daughter, was born in Deerfield, N. H. He was a soldier in the War of 1812, stationed at Portsmouth, and was discharged from service in February, 1815. He settled in Northfield in 1827, and died in Chelsea in 1845. His widow, Sally (Collins) Leavitt, born in Salisbury, N. H., in June, 1796, still survives, and is one of the oldest persons living in Northfield.


Oscar O. Miller was born in Charlestown, N. H., and was brought by his uncle, Hoit Glidden, to Northfield in 1832. He was then an infant, and was reared in his uncle's family. Mr. Miller settled on the farm where he now lives, in 1851.


David C. Roberts was born in Westmore, Vt., in 1812, and married Fanny E. Steele. Their sons are Francis H., who married Eunice M. Latham, and James H .; their daughters are Alice (Mrs. W. H. H. Slack), Esther E. (Mrs. W. W. Spearin), Ann O. (Mrs. Henry A. Culver), and Mary R. (Mrs. Chan- dler Culver). Mr. Roberts came to Northfield in 1832. He died in Octo- ber, 1881.


Stephen Thresher was born in Connecticut, in 1788. He settled on West hill, in Northfield, in 1831, on the farm now owned and occupied by Jonathan Edwards. His place was then a wilderness, which he cleared and converted into a home. His son Freeman, then a lad of twelve years, drove the only cow, with a young calf and some other stock, alone, and the last four miles through the woods after dark. Later he gained notoriety as a school teacher. Mr. Thresher married Sally Smith, of Ran- dolph, who was born January 11, 1790. He died in 1857. Mrs. Thresher survived until 1878. They were parents of ten children, viz .: Lewis B., Lyman, Mary M., Emeline, Freeman, Betsey, Cephas, Fidelia, Wilbur, and Infant. Lyman settled where A. Grandfield now lives, on road 4, and raised three sons and two daughters.


Gurdon Randall, a native of Scotland, Conn., born in 1795, married Laura S. Warner, of Putney, Vt., who was born in 1803, and settled in Northfield in 1832. In early life he studied medicine, but never practiced. He fol- lowed the vocation of millwright and carpenter, and held the office of justice of the peace. He died in 1861. Mrs. Randall survived until February 16, 1880, aged seventy-six years and nine months. Their children are Gurdon Paine, born in 1821; Frencis Voltaire, born in 1824; Laura T., born in


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1825 ; Jean J. R., born in 1828 ; Maria M., born in 1831 ; Rouena M., born in 1834; Edward H., born in 1837 ; Citizen Francis Voltaire, born in 1839 ; and Charles Rush, born in 1842. Gurdon P. Randall was an architect. He removed to Chicago, and died there September 20, 1884. Laura T. married Samuel Hildreth, of Roxbury, now deceased. J. J. R. Randall is an archi- tect in Rutland. Maria M., who married W. H. Morris, is deceased. Rou- ena M. is the wife of Col. C. H. Joyce. Rev. Edward H. is the rector of St. John's Episcopal church, of Poultney. C. F. V. Randall was train dis- patcher for Central Vermont railroad. Charles R. was drowned in childhood.


Hoit Glidden came to Northfield from Unity, N. H., in April, 1832, and settled on a farm of forty five acres, which he bought of David Carpenter. His purchase included a small clearing and a log cabin. About three years later he built a more commodious house, in which he lived the remainder of his life. He died in August, 1884. His widow, Drucilla P. (Pierce) Glidden, now (1888) aged eighty-one years, resides with her son George F. Their daughter Malvina is the wife of Rev. E. W. Culver.


Wallace Felch was born in Henniker, N. H., and came to Northfield in 1852. He married Estella Houghton, daughter of James. Their only daughter, Della M., married Walter Ordway, of Barre. She died February 5, 1888, and left one child.


Lyman L. Putney was born in New Hampshire in 1825. In 1834 he went to Northfield and resided in the family of Rev. Joel Winch. He mar- ried Orinda, daughter of Israel Briggs, and their children are Elwin L., Su- san S. (Mrs. E. H. Howes), and Clara E. (Glidden).


Dan Guild was born in Coventry, Vt., in 1816, where he resided until 1875. He then removed to Northfield. His first wife, Sophronia (Sias). Guild, bore him six children. In 1866 he married Lucretia R., widow of Theodore L. Smith, and daughter of Chester Bancroft, a descendant of an old family in Barre. Her two daughters by her first husband are Dora L. (Mrs. W. W. Holden), and Miss Minnie E. Smith, a milliner in Northfield.


Gen. Alonzo Jackman, LL. D., was born in Thetford, Vt., March 20, 1809. He was the son of Joseph and Sarah (Warner) Jackman. Alonzo's father, a worthy farmer, died when he was only three years old, and left his mother in destitute circumstances with three small boys, Enoch, Alonzo, and Joseph. Young Jackman's early life was spent in hard labor for his support, and with but little opportunity for schooling. In 1820, at the tender age of eleven years, he and one brother left home never to return again, with this parting admonition from their mother : " Go for yourselves and remember there is a God." She had married Eli Clark in 1816. At the age of twen- ty-one Alonzo received from his employer the munificent sum of $4, and two days' provisions for six years' hard labor. The contract with his employer was that he should have three months each year at school, which he received only in part. He passed the next three or four years at labor, with an oc- casional term at school. About December 1, 1833, he entered Franklin


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Seminary, at Norwich, with the determination of pursuing a regular course of study. While he was pursuing his own studies in the academies he taught mathematics, his favorite branch, to pay his way. Norwich University had been opened in 1834, and in December, 1835, he entered the senior class of that institution, and graduated with the degree of A. B. in August, 1836. He was the only graduate that year, and the first from that institution. Soon after he accepted the chair of mathematics in the "N. U.," and remained in connection with the university, with the exception of two periods of about three years each, until his death, February 24, 1879. He wrote and pub- lished an article on the subject of a submarine oceanic magnetic telegraph, in which he gave detailed plans for the construction and the method of lay- ing the cable across the Atlantic. The same year (1846) Hon. Amos Ken- dall, president of a telegraph company at Washington, D. C., communicated through a Philadelphia paper the difficulties of crossing large bodies of water with a telegraph. Mr. Jackman wrote Mr. Kendall how all difficult- ies could be surmounted, and sent the article to periodicals in Washington, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, but the editors refused to publish it as too visionary. He procured its publication in the Vermont Mercury, of Woodstock, Vt., in the number issued August 14, 1846. He sent copies of this number to scientists and prominent men in the United States, Canada, England, and France. Thus he secured the credit to himself of being the originator of the plan of this gigantic and beneficent enterprise.


Prof. Jackman was an excellent tactician and drill-master, and was ap- pointed by the governor of New Hampshire brigade drill-master with the rank of major, and drilled the officers of the militia of that state in 1847 and '48. In 1857 the cadets of Norwich University were organized as an infantry company under the malitia law, and Prof. Jackman was commissioned cap- tain. In 1859 he was commissioned colonel of the Second Regiment, and the next year the Vermont militia were consolidated into one brigade and he was its brigadier-general. At the beginning of the late war Gov. Fairbanks summoned him, with Generals Baxter and Davis, to St. Johnsbury, for con- sultation. The Governor offered Gen. Jackman any position in his power to grant if he wished to go to the front, but wished him to remain and prepare others for duty. In this field he was untiring. He prepared and got the old militia in readiness, organized new regiments and sent out cadets to drill new companies in all parts of the state, and gave clear, precise, and thorough in- struction to officers. Honor is therefore due the General for the good results for the state and Union.


James Hopkins, from Scotland, was an early settler in Williamstown, where he reared a large family and lived to an advanced age. His grandson, Marshall Hopkins, was born in Williamstown, in March, 1816. In 1840 he married Prudence Jones, and three or four years afterward settled in North- field. Their children were Edwin B. (deceased); John G., a farmer in North- field; and Francis H., a manufacturer of granite in Barre.




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