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Huzzial Gleason was born in Langdon, N. H., in 1802, and came to Waits- field in 1819, where he resided until 1828. In 1827 he married Miss Emily Richardson, of Warren, and located on a farm in the eastern part of that town, where he resided the ensuing forty-two years, when, feeling the infirmities of approaching old age, he sold his farm and returned to the village of Waits- field, where he now resides. Mrs. Gleason died in 1882. Mr. Gleason has been a public spirited citizen, and identified with the general welfare of the society of which he has so long been a worthy member. He held the office of selectman five consecutive years, and for three at another time, was over- seer of the poor and justice of the peace, and also a deacon of the Congre- gational church of Warren. His three sons are R. J. Gleason, the present postmaster and clerk of Waitsfield ; C. J. Gleason, a prominent lawyer and business man ; and L. P. Gleason, a prominent merchant and manufacturer, of the firm of L. P. Gleason & Co., who reside in Montpelier; and one daughter, Emily, who resides with her father. Richardson J. Gleason was born in Warren in 1828. He was appointed postmaster July 11, 1861, which office he still holds. He has been clerk of the town since 1855, and treasurer the past twenty years. He married Mary L. Matthews, of Waitsfield, and their children are Herbert C., a leading merchant of Montpelier, of the firm of L. P. Gleason & Co., and three daughters, Mary E., Jennie M., and Louise R.
Joseph Joslyn, a native of Leominster, Mass., came to Waitsfield from Weathersfield, Vt., about 1809. He reared seven sons and four daughters, all of whom lived to raise families of their own, and all at one time resided in Waitsfield. He settled in the eastern part of the town, where he died at the age of sixty-six years. His son William was the leading physician of Waitsfield for several years. He came to this town in March, 1810, where he died in 1834, aged fifty-four years. Three of his six children are now living, viz .: Stephen P. Joslin, of Waitsfield; Hubbard Joslyn, of Derby Line ; and Mrs. Harriet Jones, of Barton, Vt. Stephen P. Joslin was born in Newport, N. H., in 1808. February 6, 1837, he married Ruth Pitkin, of Montpelier, and settled where he now lives, and is one of the most successful farmers of the town. Mr. and Mrs. Joslin had born to them two sons and five daugh-
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ters. Those now living are Oramel S., Orrin H., and Sophia P., in Waits- field ; Mrs. Amelia Ward, in Johnson, Vt .; and Mrs. Dora W. Crane, in Mid- dlebury, Vt. Cyrus Joslyn, son of Joseph, was born in Weathersfield, Vt., in 1796, and was twelve years of age when his father removed to Waitsfield. In 1824 he married Calista Campbell, and reared nine children to maturity. Those now living are Gilman C., in Minnesota ; and Roena L., Minerva M., Betsey M., David O., and Edward O., in Waitsfield. Cyrus Joslyn was town clerk and selectman, and a prominent citizen. He died in 1866. Mrs. Joslyn died in 1887, aged over eighty-five years.
Among the early settlers of Waitsfield was John Barnard, who came from Shelburne, Mass., about 1791, and settled on and cleared the farm where his grandson, Rufus H., and his great-grandson, Orlo L. Barnard, now live. He was one of the first deacons of the Congregational church of Warren. Deacon Barnard was blessed with three children, viz .: Rufus, Lydia, and Cynthia. Rufus was two years old at the time his father located in Waitsfield. He mar- ried Jemima Kellogg, of Brookfield, and settled on the homestead. Five of his ten children are living, viz .: Orlo, of Dakota ; Milo, of Geneva Lake, Minn .; Lucius, of Galesburg, Ill .; Lucinda (Mrs. Burr), of River Falls, Wis .; and Rufus H., before mentioned, who resides on the homestead. Rufus H. mar- ried Mehitable, daughter of Benjamin Linfield, of Randolph, who bore him three children, Orlo L., Mary J. (deceased), and Cynthia (Mrs. Frank A. Sawyer), of Clinton, Mass. Orlo L., great-grandson of John the pioneer, married Emma Blake, of Northfield, whose children, O. Eugene, Cynthia E., Mary V., and Milo W., are the fifth generation sheltered by the " old roof- tree."
Orange Smith, M. D., was born in Brookfield, January 27, 1796. He graduated at Randolph Academy, studied medicine with Dr. Daniel Washburn, graduated from the Medical department of the University of Vermont, and also took a course of lectures at Dartmouth College. He commenced prac- tice in Starksboro, but soon removed to Williston, and about a year after settled in Waitsfield, where he remained until near the time of his death, in 1863. He was a skillful physician, and an influential and prominent citizen.
Henry Dana was an early settler and located in the southwestern part of the town, on the farm where John Ferris now resides. Only two of his numer- ous family are now living, viz .: Harvey in Iowa, and Samuel in Waitsfield, whose six sons, Chester S., Edwin H., Samuel J., Henry F., Stillman F., and Wesley E., all served in the war for our Union, returned with an honorable discharge, and are still living.
Joseph Wallis came to this town from Weathersfield, Windsor county, with his father, Jonathan, at an early date, and settled in the eastern part of the town. He married Mary Church, and reared four sons and one daughter. He died in 1860, at the age of seventy-seven years. Three of his children are living, viz .: Otis in this town ; Chapman in Worcester, Mass .; and Mrs. Maria Cushman in Manchester, Conn. Otis was for eight years engaged in railroad bridge building, and has served his town as selectman and lister.
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Hon. Roderick Richardson, Sr., was born in Tolland, Conn., in 1779, and in early life removed to Waitsfield. By trade he was a saddler. He was. for many years postmaster of the town and the owner of the principal store,. and was assistant judge of Washington County Court two years. He married Anna Davis. Two sons and two daughters were born to him. The young- est, Hon. Roderick Richardson, Jr., a man of enterprise and wealth, was for- many years a leader in the business of Waitsfield. He was born August 7, 1807, at Hartford, Conn., but obtained all his schooling at the common school in Waitsfield. He was representative in 1837, '38, '39, '50, and '51, senator from Washington county four years, and assistant judge one year,. elected by joint assembly. He was an earnest Episcopalian, having united. with the church in 1853.
Hon. Ira Richardson, son of Ira and grandson of Lemuel, was born in Waitsfield, October 6, 1816. His father was a native of Massachusetts, and. an early settler in Waitsfield. Mr. Richardson received his education in the- common schools of his town, and had as many days at hard labor in his youth as he had days at school. Thus equipped for the active duties of life, he married Harriet Chapman, of Fayston, who became the mother of six children, five of whom grew to maturity, viz .: Calvin C. and Ira E., who re- side in Minneapolis, Minn .; Clarence M. and Meriden L., of Waitsfield ; and Orville H., of Montpelier. Mr. Richardson was one of Waitsfield's most prominent business men as well as one of her most reliable citizens. He was extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber, was a dealer in merchan- dise, conducted a tannery, and managed all of his large and complicated business successfully. He also took an active part in public affairs, and re- ceived, as the testimonials of the high appreciation or his townsmen, the prominent position of representative in the state legislature two terms, and from the county of Washington the positions of senator and assistant judge of its courts. In early life Mr. Richardson cast his political influence with the "old line" Whig party, and at the organization of the Republican party he marched in its ranks, where he did efficient service. He was an active member of the Methodist church, a large and cheerful giver, and was always foremost in aid of the charitable associations and societies and every enter- prise for the public good. He died in 1877.
John S. Poland came to Waitsfield from Langdon, N. H., about 1820, and settled on the farm where his son Thomas D. now lives. In addition to. farming he was engaged in manufacturing lumber. He married, first, Lucy Dunsmore, and second, Julianna Stoddard. Six of his twelve children are now living. He died about 1848. Thomas D. Poland, before mentioned, resides on the paternal farm. He was previously in the lumber business, but: is now giving his attention to the cultivation of his farm. Another son, Ben- jamin, and a daughter, Susan (Mrs. P. T. Carroll), reside in Warren. On the homestead in Waitsfield the iron works and hoe manufactory of Messrs.
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Rice & Sellick were built at an early date, but were swept away in the freshet of 1830.
Russell Drew, a native of Connecticut, emigrated to Fayston from Char- lotte in 1822. In 1848 he removed to Waitsfield, and located where he now lives. He is a farmer. His daughters, Mrs. Julius J. Palmer and Mrs. Jo- siah Holden, also reside in town.
Garinter Hastings was born in Swanzey, N. H. He removed from his native town to Charlestown, N. H., and thence to Waitsfield, in 1823, locat- ing in Irasville. He subsequently kept a public house about a mile below Waitsfield village. He married Hannah Olcott, of Rockingham, and they had thirteen children, twelve of whom married and reared families. Those now living are Hon. Jonathan H., Yorick C. W., and Mrs. Fannie O. Camp- bell, who reside in Waitsfield ; Julius P., of Bedford, Mass .; and Mrs. Maria A. Dart, of Clinton, Mass. Hon. Jonathan H. Hastings was born in Waits- field in 1824. In 1848 he married Ellen M. Merriam, of Johnson, Vt. Their children are Lucy H., wife of J. W. Gregory, a lawyer residing in Waitsfield ; Mrs. Abbie M. Joslyn, of Minneapolis, Minn .; and Lewis E., of Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Hastings; on account of his good judgment and rare business qualifications, has been closely identified with the interests of Waitsfield, and has held nearly every office in the gift of his townsmen, be- sides that of deputy sheriff twelve or fourteen years, sheriff of Washington county two years, state senator in 1869 and '70, and assistant judge of the County Court from 1880 to 1884, inclusive. He represented his town in 1862 and '63, and has been a director of the Waterbury National bank about thirty years.
Amos Hadley removed from Pomfret, Vt., to Warren, about 1826. He resided there only a few years, and then settled in Waitsfield, where he spent. the remainder of his life. He died January 22, 1887. Only two of his eight children are now living, viz .: George in Morrisville, Vt., and Moses E. in Waitsfield.
John Waterman was born in Royalton, Vt., in 1813, and removed to Waitsfield about 1826. In his early life he followed the occupation of car- penter, joiner, and wheelwright, and has been selectman and lister of his town.
Thomas Prentis, from Weathersfield, Vt., settled in the eastern part of Waitsfield, in 1827, on the farm now owned by Nathan Boyce. Besides giv- ing his attention to his farm he found time to take part in town affairs. His townsmen called him to fill the office of selectman, and elected him to repre- sent them in the legislature in 1832 and '33. Mr. Prentis died in 1877, at the advanced age of ninety-two years and six months. Five of his eight children who arrived to mature age are now living, viz .: Joseph C., Cheney, Roxy (Mrs. Orvis Jones), Susan (Mrs. Lyman Prindle), all of Waitsfield ; and Mrs. Lucia Noyes, of Michigan.
Elijah Berry, of Vershire, settled in Moretown about 1837, where he re- sided the ensuing seventeen years. He then removed to Waitsfield, where
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he spent the remainder of his life. He married Clarissa Holton, of Thet- ford, and three of their children now reside in Waitsfield, viz .: George A., Leonard C., and Julius E.
George W. Olmstead, born in Elmore, Lamoille county, in 1837, is a farmer, carpenter, and manufacturer of butter tubs. Mr. Olmstead has held the offices of deputy sheriff and collector of town taxes.
William McAllister was born in Brookfield, Vt., in 1804, and settled in Waitsfield in 1837. He conducted wool-carding in the building in Irasville now occupied by Fred Parker as a shingle-mill. He also kept a " tavern " at Waitsfield village several years. His sons Ziba H., Wesley G., and Will- iam W. reside in Waitsfield.
Dr. James M. Van Deusen was born in Middlebury, Vt., in 1822. He graduated from the Castleton Medical College in 1849, and began the prac- tice of medicine in Warren in 1850. In 1868 he removed to Waitsfield, where he still practices his profession. In 1851 he married Jennette E. Boyce. Their children are Ella F. (Mrs. Leslie Reed) and Fred E., both residing in Omaha, Neb.
The number of soldiers in the war for the Union credited to Waitsfield by the government is ninety-five. The number of different individuals who were in the service is eighty-seven. Ten died of illness, and eight were killed in action. Several died after they were discharged, from effects of the wounds they received and diseases contracted while in the service. Of the eighty-seven who went from Waitsfield, four were captains, two were second lieutenants, three sergeants, eleven corporals, fifty privates, seven sharpshoot- ers, four cavalrymen, two batterymen, one on the signal corps, one surgeon, one hospital steward, one musician, and one served in the navy .. Most of these belonged to the famous " Vermont Brigade " of the 6th Corps. The town paid bounty for nine months' men, $575 ; for one year's men, $2,700; for three years' men, $6,202 ; for substitutes, $700 ; subsistence of volunteers, $18.10 ; transportation of soldiers, $38.50 ; services of selectmen and agents, $199.53 ; total, $10,433.13.
A Congregational society was formed under the old law, in 1794, and a committee was appointed to lay out a meeting-house and yard. The site chosen is now known as "The Common," near the center of the township, and contained nine acres. Five acres of this site was the gift of Ezra Jones, Esq., on condition that " if the town should move the center from that place" the property would revert to his estate. When, therefore, the meeting-house was occupied at the village, and the town meetings were held there, his heirs took possession of their property. The remainder, containing four acres, is still a common. All the voters in the town, under the old law referred to, were members of this society, unless they filed with the town clerk the decla- ration "that they did not agree in religious opinion with a majority of the society." This law was repealed in 1807.
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Waitsfield Congregational church was organized June 27, 1796, by a com- mittee from the churches in the vicinity, Rev. Ebenezer Kingsbury, of Jericho, presiding. The church then had eleven members. The first pastor of this church, Rev. William Salisbury, was installed in 1801, and the first meeting- house was erected in 1807. It was constructed after the pattern of its con- temporaries, with the usual box pews, high pulpit towering over the deacons' seat and supplied with the necessary sounding board suspended directly over the preacher's head, and the spacious gallery, surrounding three sides,-with- out paint inside, and destitute of any means of warming for several years. The expense of building was met by the sale of the pews, and the committee of construction recommended that a certain portion of the money be paid at the beginning to meet the expenses for " glass, nails, and rum for the raising." In 1845 a new church edifice was built, of wood, a little east of the village, and in 1874 it was taken down, and the present beautiful and convenient edifice in the village was finished in 1875, which has a capacity for seating comfortably 250 persons. The estimated value of the church property, in- cluding grounds and buildings, is $10,000. The membership is 140, with Rev. Elisha S. Fisk, pastor. The Sunday-school numbers 150 scholars.
The Methodist Episcopal church .- About 1804 the itinerant preachers of the Methodist Episcopal denomination occasionally preached in Waitsfield. It was sometime this year that Vershire circuit was divided and the new " Barre circuit " was formed, which included Barre, Plainfield, Middlesex, Montpelier, Northfield, Williamstown, Washington, Berlin, and Orange, and probably More- town and Waitsfield. If the towns last named were not then included, they were subsequently. About this time (1804) a Methodist class was formed in Waitsfield, and the society has since been regularly supplied with ministers, at first no oftener than once in from four to six weeks. Among the early preachers may be named Wilder Mack, Abel Heath, John Cummings, and Nathan Howe. Their first meeting-house was built in 1834. This was repaired, painted, and a spire added in 1853. In 1845 the circuit of Barre was abolished, and Waitsfield and Warren became a station, and in 1868 Waitsfield became a separate charge. The present house of worship was erected of wood in 1870, at a cost of $4,700. It will comfortably seat an audience of 300, and with the grounds and all other church property is worth $5,500. The membership is TII, with Rev. George O. Howe, pastor. The Sunday-school is especially flourishing. Its officers number seven, teachers sixteen, and 150 scholars. The church edifice has recently been repaired, and the church is in a prosperous condition. The Young People's Society of Christian Endeavor embraces both the Methodist and Congregational young people, and is doing good work.
The Universalist society .- This society was formed December 30, 1830, soon after the dismissal of Rev. Mr. Chandler from the pastorate of the Congre- gational church, by quite a number of the prominent men of the town who entertained liberal doctrinal views. They organized by electing Hon. Rod-
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erick Richardson, moderator ; Cyron Burdock, clerk; Roderick Richardson, Daniel Thayer, and Matthias Jones, prudential committee. Rev. Mr. Fuller, who had held service with them as early as 1826, was their first preacher. They held their meetings in school-houses and wherever they could find suit- able places. In 1836 this society, with the newly-formed Baptist society, united in building a good substantial brick meeting-house in the village. The Universalists owned nearly three-fourths of it. The house will comfortably seat 250 persons. The present pastor is Rev. Perry Marshall. During the pastorate of Rev. C. C. Thornton, who officiated from 1856 to 1862, a Sun- day-school and Bible class were organized.
The Baptist church existed only from its organization, in 1835, until the time of the excitement of Millerism, when it was broken up.
The Protestant Episcopal church was organized by the efforts of Hon. Rod- erick Richardson, in 1853, with fifty-two members, and the installation of Rev. John E. Johnston as rector. They repaired and occupied the Universalist house, which that society was not then using, and continued to hold services until 1855.
The Wesleyans organized in 1853, with ten members, and increased to forty- four. They have an interesting Sunday-school, maintain their organization, but hold no service.
W ARREN lies in the southwestern corner of the county, in latitude 44° 6' and longitude 4° II, and is bounded northerly by Waits- field and a part of Fayston, easterly by Roxbury, southerly by Granville, and westerly by Lincoln. It was chartered by Vermont to Hon. John Throop and sixty-seven associates, October 20, 1789, containing 16,660 acres. November 12, 1824, Warren was enlarged by territory annexed from Lincoln. This township is situated between the two ranges of the Green Mountains, and at the place where the ranges diverge.
The surface of the township is uneven and hilly, but not very mountainous. The soil is very good and generally quite free from stone, and well adapted to dairying and stock raising.
The rocks underlying this township are of the talcose schist formation. There is a bed of steatite near the village, one in the southern part of the town, and another of better quality two or three miles northeast from the village. There is also a bed of serpentine in the southern part, and traces of gold in alluvium exist along Mad river.
The town is watered by Mad river and its branches, and by numerous springs flowing from the hills and mountains. Mad river, the principal stream, rises in Avery's Gore, in Addison county, enters Warren about a mile and a half west of the southeast corner of the town, and flows across it in a north- erly direction into Waitsfield. In its course across Warren it receives the
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waters of several tributaries from Roxbury and Lincoln Mountain. These mountain streams abound with trout and afford many good mill sites. Profes- sor Hager, in his report of the geology of Vermont, says: "Far up the mount- ain, in the eastern part of Warren, are several springs of a singular nature, and which we suspect to be medicinal. The water is nearly or quite inodor- ous, but from it are deposited large quantities of the oxide of iron and man- ganese. This sediment, which strongly resembles umber in appearance, forms a crust of considerable depth for quite a distance, and at one of the springs there is an accumulation similar in shape to tufaceous crust that forms High Rock spring at Saratoga. Cattle resort to this spring for drink, and are gradually wearing down the ochery hillock, from the top of which the water issues."
The first settlement was commenced by Samuel Laird and Seth Leavitt, in 1797. This and the next season, at least, the town must have settled rapidly, for we find the first town meeting was held September 20, 1798. The officers then elected were Ezra Miller, moderator; Samuel Laird, town clerk; Ruel Sherman, Joseph Raymond, and Seth Leavitt, selectmen; Samuel Laird, John Sherman, and Joseph Raymond, listers ; Ruel Sherman, collector ; and John Woodard, grand juryman.
At the first freemen's meeting held September 2, 1800, twelve took the freeman's oath. The record shows that Isaac Tichnor, for governor, received twelve votes, and Paul Brigham, for lieutenant-governor, received thirteen. As ballot-box stuffing is not known to have been a "fine art " with our hon- est forefathers, we presume that Samuel Laird, who had been appointed justice of the peace the year before, had taken the freeman's oath previous to this meeting. The town was first represented in the legislature in 1809, by Thomas Gerald. The first child born in town was Cynthia, daughter of Ruel and Olive Sherman, born October 17, 1797. She married Robert Leach, and resided in Randolph at an advanced age. Lucius, son of Seth Leavitt, is said to have been the first male child born in town, March 5, 1798.
The first settled minister in town was Rev. Nathaniel Stearns, a Metho- dist. His salary of $100 per annum was paid in grain. It appears that there was some strife between the Congregationalists and the Methodists to secure the minister's lot. Rev. Mr. Wheelock, Congregationalist, preached occa- sionally, and expected to gain the lot by being installed first. The Metho- dists thought it quite desirable for their minister ; so precipitated the matter by going in the night for Rev. Mr. Stearns, and installed him first. Dr. Fish was the first physician, A. C. Huntoon the first lawyer, and Watrous Mather the first merchant. The wife of Ruel Sherman was the first person who died in town. The first marriage in Warren was that of John Wilcox, of Roxbury, and Abigail Steel, of Warren. Samuel Austin run a distillery in town in early times when "toddy " was considered a necessity in every family. It was then used to keep out cold and to keep out heat. It was necessary at raisings, bees, quiltings, parties, weddings, neighborly visits, funerals, sheep
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washing, butchering, and to entertain the minister when he called to inquire of the spiritual welfare of his parishioners. .
George Scott was the first brickmaker. William Mathers owned and con- ducted the first tannery. Ashbel Miner built the first grist-mill. Israel Ward built the first saw-mill, on the site now occupied by E. Cardell's mill. Winslow Fish and Levi Persons were the first carpenters, and Daniel Steel was the first mason. The pine lumber for the first meeting-house was drawn from Brandon, Vt. That part from which the pews were made was drawn with an ox-team. The first school-house in Warren is said to have been built in 1805, where the school-house now stands in district No. I. We hardly think that the date given is correct, as that is seven years after the town was organized. Some of the towns maintained schools in private houses before the inhabitants felt able to build school-houses. This might have occurred in Warren.
Warren, as we see, effected its organization as a town the next year after the " first settler" entered it, and we see the "new-born" town, with all the machinery of a municipal corporation in successful operation, which has con- tinued thenceforward by regular annual elections at March meetings. Her history after organization is like her sister towns. The pioneers set about leveling the forests, erecting farm buildings, school-houses, mills, stores, and improving the roads. They were young, brawny, resolute men, who were not afraid of the hardships of backwoods life, and they had the strength as well as the courage to endure it all. It is true there were instances of the want of the common necessaries of life, and in a few instances, before they had made much progress in clearing, they were obliged to be contented with the light diet of potato and milk and pumpkin. But that was of short duration. They soon widened their " clearings," and the virgin soil produced so abun- dantly that even with their proverbially large families they knew no want. The brooks and the forest also fed them. The streams swarmed with trout, the moose and deer bounded over their native hills, " and the bears were as plenty as woodchucks." These hardy pioneers were happy in their primitive homes. They had their pastimes at the "raisings," which of necessity were constantly occurring, the logging bees, corn huskings, and quiltings. There were no " sets " then ; society had but one grade. The social element was strong, and at these gatherings the whole town assembled.
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