Genealogical and family history of the state of Vermont; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol I, Part 112

Author: Carleton, Hiram, 1838- ed
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1032

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of deeply affected friends who held him in affec- tion and reverence. Mrs. Keyes is yet living, as are her daughter, Mrs. Platt, with her three chil- dren, and the two children of her elder daughter, Mrs. Brown.

WILLIAM N. BRYANT, M. D.

Dr. William Nelson Bryant, the dean of the medical fraternity of Ludlow, Vermont, was born at Weston, Vermont, September 26, 1851, a son of the late Rev. W. A. Bryant, who officiated as a minister of the gospel in the Methodist denomina- tion for many years, was an eloquent and force- ful speaker, and well known throughout central and southern Vermont. He was a Republican in politics. The family is of English descent and originally settled in Connecticut. Dr. Bryant's maternal grandfather was Ebenezer Gale, son of Asa Gale.

William N. Bryant was one of the first stu- dents at the Vermont Methodist Seminary at Montpelier, and while pursuing the regular course in that institution he began reading medicine with the late Dr. D. G. Kemp, of Montpelier, Vermont. He then entered Harvard Medical School, and after remaining there for a short period of time completed his course in the medical department of the University of Vermont, from which institu- tion he was graduated, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, in the class of 1873. Immediately after his graduation he located in Northfield, Ver- mont, where he remained six years, removing in the fall of 1879, to Chester, where he successfully practiced his profession eight years, after which he settled in Ludlow, where he has secured a large and remunerative practice. Dr. Bryant is master- ful in his diagnosis and treatment of disease. is a man of genial and sunny disposition, whose very presence has the power to dispel the gloom and sadness of a sick chamber. He is a member of the Vermont State Medical Society, the Con- necticut River Valley Medical Association, and Rutland County Medical Society. He has re- cently been elected state delegate from the state organization to the American Medical Society. He is on the board of United States pension ex- aminers, and was appointed by the governor as member of the state tuberculosis commission authorized by the legislature of 1902. His con-

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trimmtions in the way of papers to medical maga- zines and societies have been nummerons. Dr. Bryant is liberal in his social relations, being a member of the local Masonic bodies, and past master, also past grand of Altimont Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows. For several years he has acted in the capacity of chairman of the board of school directors, and is trustce of the local academy. Hle is a Republican, and is connected with the Congregational church.

September 19. 1871, at Lemington, Vermont, Dr. Bryant married Angelia Holbrook, of Lem- ington, Vermont, and two children have been born to them : Eva May, wife of Eben J. Fullam, treasurer of the Fellows Gear Shaper Company, of Springfield, Vermont ; William Leroy, a for- mer student of electrical engineering at the Uni- versity of Vermont, but now engaged as a draughtsman in the office of the well known firm of Jones & Lamson, of Springfield, Vermont. Mrs. Bryant is a daughter of Thomas Holbrook and Angeline French. The former was a farmer and prominent in town affairs. Among the re- latives are ex-Governor Frederick Holbrook, Nel- son Holbrook, the publisher, with Salem Town. of a series of school text-books bearing his name ; also William French, who was killed at a massa- cre at Westminster, Vermont, in 1775, and to whose memory a monument is there erected.

THOMAS HENRY ARCHIBALD.

The Rev. Thomas Henry Archibald, of Mid- dlebury, Vermont, was descended from a Scot -- tish family which has been represented in this country for more than three-quarters of a cen- tury, the name having been distinguished, for two generations, as that of leaders in the Baptist churches of America.

Henry Archibald, the founder of the family in the United States, was born in Musselbor- ough, Scotland, August 14, 1786, and was the son of John and Barbara Archibald. He came to this country in 1818, was ordained in 1823 to the ministry of the Baptist denomination, and served acceptably as the pastor of the various churches in Connecticut. New Hampshire and Vermont. He married Rebecca Marshall, who was descended from Kenelm . Winslow (I), brother of Governor Edward Winslow, of Plym-

outh Colony, who came from England to Ameri- ca during the colonial period. He had a son, Job (2), whose daughter, Elizabeth (3), married John Marshall. Their son, Thomas Marshall (4), married Rebecca Ackley, and was the father of a daughter, Rebecca (5), mentioned above as the wife of Ilenry Archibald.

Thomas Henry Archibald, son of the Rev. Henry and Rebecca ( Marshall) Archibald, was born October 2, 1821, in Killingworth (now Clin- ton), Connecticut, and in 1844 graduated at New Hampton Institute, in New Hampshire. Having chosen for his life work the calling of his father, he applied himself, on the completion of his lit- crary education, to the study of theology, and on March 3, 1847, was ordained in Concord, New Hampshire, to the ministry of the Baptist church. His first field of labor lay in what was then the far west, the state of Iowa, where, in the towns of Dubuque and Davenport, he led for four years the arduous and devoted life of a home imissionary. At the end of that time he removed to East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and soon after, in 1853, to Ver- mont, where he was settled in the course of years over various parishes in the counties of Addi- son, Bennington and Rutland. During the en- tire period of his ministry he labored zealously in the interests of the Baptist denomination, of edu- cation and of humanity. The work of education appealed to him in a special manner, and for six- teen years, from 1854 to 1870, he was a trustee of the New Hampton Institute, at that time lo- cated in Fairfax, Vermont. He was chairman of the committee appointed in 1868, by the Ver- mont Baptist State Convention to establish a Bap- tist academy. The founding of the Vermont Acad- emy at Saxton's River was the result of the labors of this committee, and a lasting monument to the well directed ability of its chairman. He was one of the corporate trustees of this institution, retaining this position until 1887. For ten years he served as secretary of the board of managers of the Vermont Baptist State Convention. In 1875, in recognition of his distinguished labors in the cause of Christianity, Middlebury College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Di- vinity. When a young man Dr. Archibald entered the lecture field, meeting, at the outset of his career as a public speaker, with such success

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that for many years he occupied the platform. He left in an almost complete manuscript a history of Vermont Baptists. As a writer he exerted no less influence than as a lecturer, and in the articles which he contributed to various periodi- cals wielded a forceful and persuasive pen. He was prominent in the proceedings of the Ver- mont Baptist Historical Society, being several years its president, and the various religious and literary organizations to which he belonged were indebted to liim alike for his efficient labors and his wise counsels, the result of a singularly clear and sound judgment combined with remark- able powers as a thinker and reasoner. A man of strong convictions and great frankness, he naturally became a leader both in denominational matters and in educational and literary circles, commanding, in every sphere in which his in- fluence was exerted, high respect for his eleva- tion of character, and winning sincere affection for his kindness of heart and truly benevolent disposition.

Dr. Archibald married, March 3, 1847, the day of his ordination to the ministry, Susan Wadleigh Tuck, born August 8, 1823, in Dor- chester, New Hampshire. Mrs. Archibald, who, in common with her husband, was a graduate of New Hampton Institute, possessed unusual intelligence and ability, combined with singular beauty of character. In all the varied and ar- duous labors of her husband she was his able and sympathetic coadjutor. Dr. and Mrs. Archibald were the parents of four sons and two daughters. One of each died in infancy. Sam- uel Henry, the eldest of the survivors, is pastor of the Baptist church at North Springfield, Ver- mont ; Wilberforce Ewing is engaged in the in- surance business at Ogden, Utah; Frank C. is a practicing lawyer in Manchester Center; Susan Elizabeth, for many years a teacher, resides in Middlebury, Vermont.

Mrs. Archibald belongs to an old colonial family, being a lineal descendant of Robert Tuck, who came from England to this country in 1636. John Tuck and other members of the family were prominent in the settlement of Hampton, New Hampshire. Robert Tuck (I) was the father of Edward (2), whose son, John (3), married Bertha Hobbs. Their son, Edward (4), married Sarah Dearborn, and they had a son,

Samuel (5), who married Anna Moulton, and whose son, Edward (6), was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and married Mercy Smith, daughter of Israel Smith, who was also a Revo- lutionary soldier.

Samuel Tuck (7), son of Edward (6) and Mercy (Smith) Tuck, married Margaret Smith, and their daughter, Susan Wadleigh (8), as mentioned above, became the wife of the Rev. Thomas Henry Archibald, and the mother of his children. Mrs. Archibald died June 25, 1899, at Middlebury, Vermont, and her body was deposited in Greenwood cemetery, Bristol, Ver- mont. Mr. Archibald died April 26, 1900, while on a visit to his son in Rutland, and his remains were placed besides those of his wife in Bristol.

EDWARD DYER ELLIS, M. D.

Dr. Edward D. Ellis, of Poultney, Vermont, is a native of the state, born at Fairhaven, Au- gust 31, 1850, the son of Zenas Clark and Sarah Bowman (Dyer) Ellis. Zenas Clark Ellis was born in Fairhaven, Vermont, July 25, 1820, the son of Barnabas and Belinda (Kidder) Ellis, who removed from Weathersfield. Vermont, to Fair- haven. in 1813. Barnabas Ellis was a son of Barnabas Ellis, who removed from Hebron, Con- necticut, to Claremont. New Hampshire, in 1767, and two years later married Elizabeth Spencer, this being the first wedding in the town. He was a lieutenant in the continental army, was an active participant in Ethan Allen's expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1775, and served as a lieutenant under General Stark in the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777. The wife of Barnabas Ellis was a daughter of Lieutenant Oliver Kidder, who served for three terms as a member of the state legislature.

Zenas C. Ellis resided for the greater part of his life on the old homestead, and attended the common schools of the neighborhood. He was one of the founders of the First National Bank of Fairhaven, a life-long director. and its presi- dent from 1878 up to the time of his decease. In 1847 he was elected one of the board of listers, a selectman in 1858, and later treasurer of the town, being repeatedly re-elected to all these positions. During the years 1876 and 1878, he served in the capacity of associate judge of the county court,

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and during most of this periol Hon. Hoyt H. Wheeler, since judge of the district court of the United States for the district of Vermont, pre- sided at the Rutland county court. Mr. Ellis mar- ried Sarah B. Dver, a daughter of Edward and Hannah ( Hoxie) Dyer (see sketch of Horace H. Dyer elsewhere), of Rutland, Vermont, in September. 1847. Edward Dyer was a lineal de- scendant of William Dyer, the first clerk of Rhode Island, and Mary Dyer, his wife, who was hanged on the Boston Common, June 1, 1660, as a martyr to lier religious belief, and also a descendant of Roger Williams, the first governor of Rhode Isl- and, who was born in Wales in 1606, and died in 1633. Four sons were born to Mr. and Mrs. Ellis, George W., a prominent lawyer of New York city ; Dr. Edward D .; Horace B., proprietor of the Prospect House on Lake Bomoseen; and Zenas H. Ellis. The mother of these children died July 7, 1876, and Mr. Ellis married Mary A. Smith, December 8, 1880. His death occurred in the year 1883. Edward D. Ellis attended Castle- ton Seminary, was later a student at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, New Hampshire, from which he was graduated in 1869, and then entered Middlebury College, from which he was graduated in 1874. He then ma- triculated in the medical department of Har- vard University, and received his diploma as Doctor of Medicine in 1877. The following year he located in Poultney, Vermont, which has since been his field of labor. Splendidly equipped for his profession, his career has been one of great usefulness to his fellows and highly creditable to himself. He is a member of the Vermont Medical Society and the Rutland County Medical Society, and has served as president of the latter named organization ; and is a member of the Harvard Alumni Association. His political affiliations are with the Republican party, and he has served as chairman of the Republican town committee. In his religious views he is an Episcopalian, and is vestryman and has been treasurer of St. John's church of Poultney, Vermont. His personal characteristics are such as mark the model citizen and exemplary Christian gentleman. Through- ont his life he has given his efforts to every worthy cause, and he has been an active agent in promot- ing the development and well-being of his village and county. Religion and educational interests

have ever commanded his liberal support, and his benevolences have extended to every worthy ob- ject.

At Hampton, New York, October 21, 1885, Dr. Ellis married Blanche Isabella Ray, eldest daughter of Rodney T. and Lydia (Stowe) Ray, the former named being a prominent and success- ful farmer of Hampton, New York. Six children have been born to them, three of whom are living at the present time ( 1903), namely: Rodney Ray, Zenas H. and Elizabeth Spencer Ellis.

REV. HENRY A. GOODHUE.

In connection with this honored name we have the genealogy of a family which has for a period of three centuries been closely connected with the- social and civil life of New England, and one whose long record is unstained by an unworthy act by any of its individual members. This rec- ord as it comes to us is as follows :

Deacon William Goodhuc, the first of the fam- ily of which authentic record is known, was born in England in 1612 or 1613. He emigrated to. America in 1636, and settled in Ipswich, Massa- chusetts, where he died in 1700, having been the father of two sons and one daughter. It is re- corded of him that he was a deacon in the Con- gregational church, and that he held many civil offices of trust, was a representative in the colo- nial legislature, and that he was the husband of four different wives. Margery Watson was the mother of his children, and she was a native of Kent, England.

Deacon Joseph Goodhue was the eldest child of the above named pair, and was born in Ips- wich in 1639. He married in that village, July 13, 1661, Sara Whipple, who died September 2, 1697. He also was a prominent man in his time, being a deacon in the church, and holding office- of trust, and at the time of his death was the rep- resentative of his town in the colonial legislature. He was married three different times, and was the- father of thirteen children, nine by his first, three. by his second, and one by his last wife, whose name was Mercy Clarke.

Deacon Samuel Goodhue was the youngest child of the parents named above, and was born April 6. 1696. In 1717 he married Abigail Bart- lett, and settled in Stratham, New Hampshire.

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He later removed to Nottingham, where he died November 7, 1785. His life record discloses the fact that he was a deacon of the church, was twice married, and was the father of eight chil- dren, all by his first wife. He left an address to his descendants in which is printed the full gen- ealogy of the family so far as we are able to give it.

The Rev. Josiah Goodhue, the sixth child of the above named parents, was born in Notting- ham in 1728. He graduated from Harvard in the class of 1755, and for many years was a pastor of the church at Dunstable, Massachusetts, and Put- ney, Vermont. He married Elizabeth Fletcher, a native of Dunstable. He died November 14, 1797. It is said of him that he was "a man of large influence and much beloved." He was the father of six children.

Deacon Ebenezer Goodhue was the third child of the above named, his birth occurring in 1768 in Dunstable. He passed his life as a resident of Westminster, where he married Lydia Ranney. He, also, in his time was a prominent member of the Congregational church, and a deacon in that organization. He died in 1854, being the father of ten children.

Deacon Ira Goodhue, the sixth child of the above named, was born in Westminster, Decem- ber 20, 1803. He was prominent in the affairs of the town for many years, in the settlement of estates, in holding most of the town offices, and as representative in the legislature for three terms. He also served as senator for Windham county two terms. He was county judge five years, liquor commissioner for a considerable time, and a member of the council of censors in 1861. He lived to the ripe old age of eighty-seven years, and died in 1890. His wife was Almira Sawyer, who bore him five children. Rev. Henry A. Goodhue was the eldest child, and is to be referred to at greater length below.

The Rev. Josiah Fletcher Goodhue, the eldest son of Deacon Ebenezer Goodhue, was born at Westminster. December 31, 1791. He was a graduate of Middleburg College and of Andover Seminary. His wife's name was Elizabeth Hook- er, of Rutland. He was for many years pastor of the Congregational churches at Williston and Shoreham, and left an extended history of the latter town. He died at Whitewater, Wisconsin,

May 3, 1863. His living descendants, two sons and a daughter, reside at present in the city of Whitewater, Wisconsin.

Homer Goodhue, fifth son of Deacon Eben- ezer Goodhune, was born in Westminster, March 4, 1811. He studied in the academies in Deer- field, Massachusetts, and Bennington, Vermont, and graduated from the latter in 1828. For two- years afterwards he taught school in winter and farmed in summer. In 1831 he became an attend- ant in the McLane Asylum for the Insane, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and after three years was made superintendent, a position which he- held for eighteen years and then resigned and re- turned to Westminster. In 1853-54 he traveled extensively in the United States and the British provinces, having the care of a private patient. After returning home he took an active part in public affairs, and was called in turn to nearly all the town offices. He served in the legislature in 1863 and 1865, and in the state senate in 1866-67, with great credit to himself as well as most use- fully to his constituents. He was county com- missioner from 1860 to 1875. In 1867 he was appointed by the legislature as a commissioner of the insane, and was reappointed in 1868. In 1882 he was chosen a member of the state board of supervisors of the insane, a position which he held until 1896, and for ten years was chairman of the board. He had a larger and more continued ex- perience in the care of the insane and of institu- tions for their care than has any other man in Vermont, if not in New England. Of broadly philanthropic and deeply sympathetic disposition, he ever commanded the confidence and esteem of those having the insane in their families or about them, and he performed a truly beneficent work in caring for these unfortunates. He died in 1896. Mr. Goodhue was married March 8. 1855, to Delrya, a daughter of James and Patience (Hallett ) Tuthill. They had no children. She died November 21, 1893.

The Rev. Henry A. Goodhue, whose name in- troduces the narrative, is a native of the West parish of Westminster, and, as before stated. is the son of Tra and Almira (Sawyer) Goodhue. He was born in 1833. was prepared for college chiefly at Orford Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth with honor in 1857. For a pe- riod of two years thereafter he was principal of

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the academy at Plympton, Massachusetts, and, taking up the study for the ministry, became a matriculate of Andover Seminary, from which institution he was graduated in 1862. His first charge was at West Barnstable, Massachusetts, where he remained until June of 1883. He was acting pastor at Croydon, New Hampshire, for a vear, and at Townshend for three years. In 1887 he was installed associate pastor with Dr. Stevens, at Westminster, and continued in the service up to October 1, 1903. His present resi- dence is Brattleboro. During much of the period of his ministry he has been closely connected with the educational interests of the communities in which he has resided, having been superintendent of the schools eleven years at Barnstable, two years at Townshend and three years at West- minster, resigning from the latter service. In the Congregational national council of 1877 held at . Detroit, he represented the Congregational churches in Barnstable county, and in that of 1886 held at Chicago, and 1895 at Syracuse, he was a representative of the Windham county churches. He represented the town in the legislature of 1902, serving as chairman of the committee on education for most of the session. He has also a reputation as a facile writer, having published a number of sermons, a memorial volume for his predecessor, Dr. Alfred Stevens, school reports for some ten years, and is a voluminous and highly interesting correspondent for the local newspapers of Barnstable and Windham coun- ties. He was married December 13, 1864, to Miss Mary I. Perkins, of Plympton, Massachu- setts, who is a descendant in the eighth genera- tion of Miles Standish and George Soule, both of whom came in the Mayflower. There were six children, three of them living. The eldest daugh- ter is Mrs. W. H. Montgomery, at the present time residing in Providence, Rhode Island. The youngest son, Everett W., graduated in 1900 from Dartmouth College, was for two years the holder of the scholarship in sociology at that noted institution, and in 1902 and 1903 filled the professorship of history and science in Montpelier Seminary. It is with pleasure that the authors of this volume give room on its pages for the record of so honorable a family, and one which is to be so highly commended for the standing of its individual members.

MARTIN ADIN BROWN.

Martin Adin Brown, one of the most prom- ising young men of Wilmington, Vermont, was born at Jacksonville, Vermont, February 3, 1874, and is descended from a prominent family well known in the Green Mountain state. His grand- father, after whom he was named, was a mer- chant, lumberman and hotel proprietor in the vil- lage of Jacksonville. He was not only prominent as a business man, but served the public in many positions of trust and responsibility in the town

MARTIN ADIN BROWN.

of Whitingham, Vermont. The parents of Mar- tin A. Brown were Mervin M. and. Almeda L. (Fowler) Brown. Mervin M. Brown served as a soldier during the war of the Rebellion, first enlisting in the Sixteenth Vermont Regiment, un- der the command of Colonel Veasey ; his term of

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enlistment expiring, he re-enlisted and served un- til the close of the war. He is still a resident of the town of Jacksonville, Vermont. Almeda L. Brown was the daughter of Horace L. Fowler, of Halifax, Vermont, he being a life-long and much respected resident of that town.

Martin A. Brown spent the early years of his life in the town of his birth, where he received his education in the public schools of the village. When he reached his fourteenth year, he started out in life to work his way toward that goal striven for by so many ambitious youths, and which leads them along the road toward success. His first engagement was as clerk in the employ of C. H. Shepardson, a merchant of Jacksonville. It did not take long for Mr. Shepardson to recog- nize the marked executive ability possessed by young Brown even at this early age, and the latter's keen sense of honor also soon won for him the favor of his employer, which was shown in his rapid advancement during the five years he remained with him. Part of this time was spent as traveling salesman, and the last six months in the store at Bellows Falls, Vermont. He left this employment when in his nineteenth year to become a partner with his brother-in-law in the mercantile trade, under the firm name of W. A. Brown & Company, which they established at Jacksonville, Vermont. This enterprise developed into a thriving business and they opened a branch store at West Halifax, handling large quantities of maple syrup, sugar and country produce as a side line. In this concern Martin A. Brown was the active manager. Recognizing a wider field for his progressive ideas Mr. Brown withdrew from this partnership after one and a half years of hard work to become book- keeper and salesman for the North River Manu- facturing Company, in which his partner, W. A. Brown, owned a controlling interest. At the age of twenty-one years Mr. Brown became the treasurer and general manager of this company, which was then under the control of the Newton Brothers, and in this capacity served four years. The business was extensive, embracing the man- ufacture and sale of butter tubs, boxes, doors, windows, and incidentally boiled cider and cider jelly. In January, 1899, Mr. Brown came to Wilmington as salesman and agent for the Deer- field River Company and the Wilmington Grain

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Genealogical and family history of the state of Vermont; a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol I, Part 112

Author: Carleton, Hiram, 1838- ed Publication date: 1903 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 1032

Author: Carleton, Hiram, 1838- ed
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1032