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Josiah Rogers, a wholesale merchant in New Ips- wich and Petersham, Massachusetts, and at one time paymaster in the Revolutionary war. She was born in 1771, and died in 1855. In 1812 the Rev. John Jackson removed with his family to the eastern townships of what was then known as Lower Canada. He purchased a farm of three hundred acres in Brome, and for several years was one of the pioneer preachers in those towns. He died there in 1844. Four of his sons pos- sessed themselves of adjoining farms which be- came known as "The Jackson Neighborhood," while a fifth was a medical practitioner in the village.
Horatio Nelson Jackson, the father of the subject of this sketch, born in 1810, was married to Eliza Maria Hollister in 1833. She was born in Hinesburg, Vermont, in 1801, and was a daughter of Stephen Hollister and Sarah Far- rand. Her grandparents, Jonathan and Mehit- able Hollister, were from Fairfield, Connecticut, while her maternal grandparents, Dr. Samuel Farrand and wife Anise Washburn, were from New Midford, Connecticut, and Sandy Hook, New York, respectively. Miss Hollister was edu- cated at a select school in Vergennes, conducted by a Miss Smith, and for two years was a pupil of the celebrated Mrs. Willard in Middlebury.
For thirty-five years Mr. and Mrs. Jackson lived on their farm in Brome, Canada, and were held in high esteem by all who knew them. They were largely instrumental in founding and sus- taining the Congregational church in that town, of which Mr. Jackson was the senior deacon, as also one of Her Majesty's justices of the peace. In 1869 they removed to Montreal, where Mrs. Jackson died in 1881, her husband surviving her fifteen years, dying in 1896. They had three chil- dren, Joseph Addison Jackson, M. D., a physician in Manchester, New Hampshire, who died Feb- ruary 20, 1903 ; Rev. Samuel N. Jackson, M. D., of Burlington, Vermont ; and John Henry Jack- son, M. D., a physician in Barre, Vermont, and a professor in the medical faculty of the State Uni- versity.
The Rev. Samuel N. Jackson, M. D., was edu- cated in Dr. Jacob Spaulding's Academy in Barre, Vermont, and in the Congregational College and McGill University, Montreal. In addition to his classical and theological courses, he studied for
two years in McGill Medical College and received the degree of M. D., from the medical department of the University of Vermont. Some of his earlier years were spent in the territory of Nebraska, where he was a printer, and ultimately part pro- prietor and editor of a western paper.
On April 26, 1866, Dr. Jackson was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Parkyn, of Mon- treal. Miss Parkyn's father was a native of St. Austell, Cornwall, England, and was born in 1807 : he became a resident of Montreal in early " manhood. He and the Hon. John Molson were the proprietors of St. Mary's foundry and ma- chine shop, where a large business was done. Later, on his own account, Mr. Parkyn con- structed a number of steamboats, among which was the first iron vessel made on this continent. On retiring from business he was made chief steamboat inspector by the Canadian government, which position he relinquished, and embarked in a large scheme for the development and use of the hydraulic power on the Lachine Canal at St. Paul, Montreal. Here he established several factories and flouring mills, the largest, "The Mount Royal Mill," absorbing his attention up to the time of his death in 1876. The mother of Miss Parkyn was Margaret Holmes, who was born in 1810 and died in Montreal in 1847. Her father, James Holmes, was from Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and her mother, Bar- bara Brodie, was a daughter of William Brodie, the Laird of Bankside, Kilbirnie, in Ayrshire, Scotland, an estate which had been in the posses- sion of the family for more than three centuries. The mother of Barbara Brodie was a Burns, cousin of Robert Burns, the poet. But two of Mr. and Mrs. Parkyn's children survive, James Park- lyn, of Chicago, Illinois, and Mrs. Jackson.
The Rev. Samuel Nelson Jackson was or- dained pastor of St. Paul's Union church, Mon- treal, in 1866, and remained in charge until 1871, when he removed to Toronto to assume the pastor- ate of Zion Congregational church. That pastor- ate he held until 1877, when he accepted a call to the First Congregational church at Kingston, Ontario, filling that office for seventeen years. During his professional career in Canada, Dr. Jackson held at different times various ecclesias- tical offices in the Congregational denomination1. Among these were the editorship of the Canadian
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Independent and the Congregational Year Book, the secretaryship and afterwards the treasurer- ship of the Home Missionary Society. He was chairman of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, and for ten years lecturer on Con- gregational polity and church history in the Con- gregational College at Montreal. In 1891 Dr. Jackson was one of the delegates to the Interna- tional Congregational Council held in London, England, before which body he delivered an ad- dress on the "Claims of Canada on the Sympathy and Aid of the Congregational Churches of Eng- land and the United States." At the request of the Congregational Union of Ontario and Que- bec he wrote and published in 1894, "A Handbook of Congregationalism," a volume of more than two hundred pages, embracing outlines of de- nominational history, polity, practices, etc., two editions of which have been exhausted.
In 1895 Dr. Jackson was invited to become the pastor of the Congregational church in Barre, Vermont, whereupon he resigned his charge in the city of Kingston, and assumed the new duties, which he continued for six years. His retirement from active church duties occurred at the close of the year 1900, when he carried out a long cher- ished purpose of extensive travels on the con- tinent and in the east. He was accompanied by Mrs. Jackson and their son, the Rev. W. Parkyn Jackson.
The Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Jackson have had seven children, the two eldest of whom, Maggie Parkyn and Forest Holmes, died in Montreal. The oldest of the five surviving sons is Dr. John Holmes Jackson, who in 1891 married Miss Caro- line D. Smalley, daughter of Colonel and Mrs. B. B. Smailey, of Burlington, Vermont ; they re- side in Burlington, Vermont, and have one child, Bradley Smalley Jackson. The second is Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, who married, in 1899, Miss Bertha R. Wells, daughter of General and Mrs. William Wells, of Burlington, Vermont, in which city they reside. The Rev William Parkyn Jackson, formerly a Congregational minister, in Canada, is now exercising his ministry in Ver- mont. Samuel Hollister Jackson is an attorney at law. The youngest son is Dr. Joseph Addi- son Jackson; in 1902 he married Miss Eva F. Fairbank, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Fairbank, Oakland. California; they have one
child, Mary AA. Parkyn Jackson, born April 14, 1903.
When Dr. Jackson returned from abroad he purchased a residence in Burlington, where he is now living a retired life, after thirty-eight years of active ministry spent in four parishes.
JOSEPH HENRY HICKS.
Joseph Henry Hicks, a mill owner and oper- ator, farmer, and the first selectmen, of Man- chester, was born in this town, October 22, 1847, a son of Joseph Hicks. He comes of pioneer
JOSEPH HENRY HICKS.
Vermont , stock, his great-grandfather, Daniel Hicks, Sr., having migrated to Vermont in 1787, settling in Manchester, where he took up land not far from the Depot, in what is now known as dis- trict No. 12. His children, Benjamin, Hannah, Daniel and Mary. all excepting the oldest, spent their lives in Manchester.
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Daniel Hicks, Jr., the grandfather of Joseph H., came here with his parents when a small boy, and following in the footsteps of his ancestors, became a tiller of the soil, laboring with the energy and perseverance characteristic of the early pio- neer to improve a homestead, continuing in active pursuits until near the close of his long life of eighty-five years. His wife, whose maiden name was Olive Glazier, survived him, dying at the ad- vanced age of ninety-five years. They were the parents of ten children, namely: Joseph, Polly, Hannah, Ruth, Harrison, Rhoda, Daniel, Olive, Louis, and James. Of these but one survives, Olive, wife of Joel Wright, of Manchester Depot.
Joseph Hicks, father of Joseph H., grew to man's estate on the ancestral homestead, near the Depot, receiving a good common-school educa- tion and a thorough training in agriculture. Dur- ing the greater part of his active career, he car- ried on general farming, including cattle and poultry dealing, and for many years kept a hotel. Prior to his death, which occurred at the vener- able age of ninety-two years, he resided in the village of Manchester. He served in various town offices, being selectman, constable and over- scer of the poor, and was a strong anti-Mason. Both he and his wife were members of the Bap- tist church. The maiden name of his wife was Flavia Wilcox. She was born in Sunderland, a daughter of Chitman Wilcox. Of the seven chil- dren born of their union, five are living, as fol- lows: Sarah, widow of Sewell Bourn; Lucy, wife of John Wilcox. of New York; William, of Manchester Center : Ellen, wife of Merritt John- son ; and Joseph H.
Joseph Henry Hicks assisted in the labors in- cident to farm life during his boyhood and youth, attending the public schools of Manchester and the Burr and. Burton Seminary. At the age of twenty-one. he began farming and milling for himself. In 1880 he purchased a sawmill, which he has since operated successfully, and has en- larged his plant by adding a lumber and planing mill, one of the largest in this section, in which he carries on a profitable business in the manu- facture of clothes racks and chairs. Mr. Hicks is a steadfast Republican in politics, served as third selectman in 1892, was afterward road com- missioner, and in 1901 was elected first selectman.
Mr. Hicks married, May 27, 1869, Sarah Eddy, who was born in Manchester, a daughter of Daniel D. Eddy, granddaughter of Stephen Eddy, and great-granddaughter of James Eddy, a native of Rhode Island, and an early settler of Adams, Massachusetts, where he spent his last years. Stephen Eddy was born and reared in Adams, Massachusetts, coming from there to Manchester, Vermont, in 1810, afterwards re- moving to Hoosick, New York, then to Wayne county. His wife, Sally Dane, daughter of Job Danc, a revolutionary soldier, died at the age of seventy years, having borne him nine children, of whom Daniel D. is the only survivor. Daniel D. Eddy was born in 1811, in Manchester, Vermont, where he spent his early life. He is a man of ver- satile talents, and has been employed in various lines of business, including those of tanner, cur- rrer, shoemaker and farmer. He carried on tan- ning and currying in Bennington and Manchester, but is now living on his farm in Manchester, a hale and hearty man, retaining in a remarkable degrce his youthful and mental vigor. He married Lucy Ann Taylor, who was born in this town, a daughter of Arad Taylor, and granddaughter of Jonathan Taylor, a pioneer of Manchester ; she was the youngest of a family of five children, of whom three are living. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks are both members of the Daughters of Rebekah. in which Mrs. Hicks has held the office of secretary. Mr. Hicks is a member of Adoniram Lodge, No. 42. F. & A. M .; and of Hope Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he is treasurer. Both formerly belonged to the Good Templars, and both are members of the Baptist church.
COLONEL OSMAN DEWEY CLARK.
Colonel Osman Dewey Clark. of Montpelier, secretary of the National Life Insurance Com- pany, was born in this city. November 26. 1855. a son of the late John Wesley Clark. and a direct descendant in the ninth generation from Edward Clark. the immigrant. The line of descent is thus traced: Edward Clark (1). the founder of the branch of the Clark family from which the Col- onel is descended, was living in Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, in 1650. in Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, in 1663. later removing to Kittery, Maine. and dying in 1675; Edward Clark (2), who was
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born in 1622, and died in 1682, married Dorcas Bosworth, who died February 13, 1681; Ham- miel Clark (3), a resident of either Haverhill or Methuen, Massachusetts, married, August 20, 1678, Mary Gutterson; Sammel Clark (4), who died May 21, 1751, married, August 14, 1721, Abigail Gutterson : Samuel Clark (5), who died June 9, 1782, married, March 22, 1749, Hannah Harris; Silas Clark (6), whose birth occurred June 29, 1763, and his death in 1838, married, at Windham, New Hampshire, September 14, 1786, Elizabeth Campbell, who was born March 28, 1766, and died September 5, 1847; Oliver Clark (7), who was born in Acworth, New Hampshire, January 27, 1794, and died in 1878, married, May I, 1815, Lucia Brown, who was born May I, 1795, and died July 1, 1885 ; Captain John Wesley Clark (8) ; and Colonel Osman Dewey Clark (9).
Silas Clark (6), the first of the family to lo- cate in Vermont, settled as a farmer in Berlin, where he reared a family of twelve children, Oli- ver being the fifth child. Oliver Clark (7) was a prosperous farmer of Berlin, and was active in local affairs, serving his townsmen in various offices of trust and responsibility. Of his union with Lucia Brown the following named children were born : Julia Ann, March 9, 1816; Septimas, July 17, 1817; Luther, October 25, 1819; Val- entine O., May 23, 1821 ; Silas, February 29,' 1824 ; Lucia, May 26, 1826; John W., the father of Osman D. ; Louise L., July 24, 1832; and Car- oline M., August 29, 1833.
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Captain John Wesley Clark (8) was born in Moretown, Vermont, October 22, 1830, and re- ceived his education in the common schools and at Newbury Seminary. He began the battle of life when but a lad, and by his persistent energy and good judgment overcame all obstacles. In 1849, more than a year before attaining his majority, he took the overland route for California, at Lit- tle Rock, Arkansas, joining a party of sixty who were making the trip in typical "prairie schoon- ers," provisioned for several months. Reaching the point of his destination, he was engaged in mining and mercantile pursuits for several years, and took an active part in public affairs, serving for sometime as sheriff of Mariposa county, and being a member of the Vigilantes. On his return to Vermont he established himself in business in Montpelier, being successfully engaged as a car-
riage manufacturer until the breaking ont of the Civil war. On September 28, 1861, he entered his country's service as quartermaster of the Sixth Vermont Volunteer Infantry, and participated in several important engagements, including the bat- tles of Lee's Mills, Williamsburg, Golding's Farm, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Crampton's Gap, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Maryland Heights, Gettysburg, and others of minor importance. While in charge of a wagon train guarded by convalescent soldiers, on July 28, 1863, near White Plain, Virginia, he was. wounded while repelling a charge of rebel cav- alry, for gallant conduct during the engagement being awarded a medal of honor by Congress. On April 7, 1864, he was promoted to captain and assistant quartermaster of volunteers. Return- ing to his home at the close of the conflict, he re- sided in Montpelier until his death, August 4, 1898. A wide-awake, energetic man, possessing great force of character, liberal-minded and sym- pathetic, he was recognized as a patriotic, loyal citizen, and his portrait, entitled "A Vermont Hero," rightfully occupies a conspicuous position. in the Wood Art Gallery at Montpelier. He was a member of the Loyal Legion, Vermont Com- mandery. Captain J. W. Clark married, in 1854, Betsey Ann Dewey, daughter of Osman and Re- becca (Davis) Dewey, and great-granddaughter of Jacob Davis, the founder of Montpelier. She is still living, making her home with her only son, Colonel Osman D. Clark, in the house where her- entire married life has been spent.
Osman Dewey Clark was graduated from Amherst College with the class of 1876, after which he turned his attention to the study of law, and was admitted to the Washington county bar in September, 1879. He at once began the prac- tice of his profession in the office of Clarence H. Pitkin, in Montpelier, also conducting a local fire- insurance business until 1885. Entering the office- of the National Life Insurance Company as as- sistant secretary, he continued in that capacity un- til 1899, when he was elected secretary of the company, a position that he still retains. En- listing in Company H, First Vermont National Guards, September, 1880, as a private, he served through all the grades to lieutenant colonel, and received his commission as colonel of the regi- ment on January 10, 1898. At the breaking out.
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of the Spanish-American war, Colonel Clark went with his regiment to the front, serving from May 16, 1898, until November 7, 1898. On April I, 1899, he resigned his position.
He is prominently identified with several pa- triotic and fraternal organizations, being a mem- ber of the Sons of the American Revolution; of the Loyal Legion, to which his late father also belonged ; to the Medal of Honor League; to the Military Order of Foreign Wars, of which he is commander ; to Aurora Lodge, F. & A. M .; King Solomon Chapter, R. A. M .; the council, R. & S. M .; Mount Zion Commandery, K. T .; and to Mount Sinai Temple, Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of Apollo Club, which he has served as president, and was one of the city Republican committee seventeen years, and later of the state Republican committee. Colonel Clark married, November 29, 1882, Elizabeth DeWitt Atkins, by whom he has two children, namely: DeWitt At- kins, born July 10, 1886; and Barbara, born Sep- tember 12, 1889. August 12, 1902, he married Lucy Harriett Jacobs, of Montpelier.
RODNEY ROBY.
The Roby family are descendants of an old and honored English ancestry, and they trace their history back to Henry Roby, the progenitor of the American branch of the family, who emi- grated from England in 1639 and took up his residence in New Hampshire. Rodney Roby, whose name has been prominently identified with the building interests of Burlington, Vermont, was born in Corinth, Orange county, Vermont, October 26, 1827. Ebenezer Roby, his father, was born May 26, 1790, and was united in mar- riage to Miss Mehitable Toplin, who was born June 8, 1791 ; the following named children were born to them: William, born March 18, 1813, died June 6, 1848, was the first member of the family to locate in Burlington ; John, born Feb- ruary 22, 1815 ; Hylas, born March 26, 1817, died March 13, 1890; Lorinda, born April 18, 1819, died December 25, 1865; Cyrus, born July 24, 1821; Caroline, born November 30, 1823; Rod- ney; Joseph, born December 20, 1834, was for many years a prominent druggist in Burlington, and his death occurred October 4, 1871.
For many years after the Roby brothers set-
tled in Burlington, they engaged in their chosen occupation of building, working by the day; in 1851 they organized a company under the firm name of H. Roby & Brothers, and by looking carefully after their interests, being honest and reliable, and proving themselves to be shrewd and far-seeing men of business, the firm grew in prom- inence and for fifty-four years ranked among the representative firms in the city of Burlington. During that period of time they erected many of the largest business blocks, public buildings and palatial residences, which stand as monuments of their skill and handiwork; some of the more prominent buildings were E. W. Peck's residence, Fletcher Hospital, Wells & Richardson's block, Henry Johnson & Lord's block, Chittenden coun- ty court-house, Merchants National Bank, R. B. Stearns & Company's block and express office, and many others. Rodney Roby performed the principal part of the drawing for the firm, and he also superintended the construction of the man- sard roof for the custom house in 1869, and in 1874 he performed a similar work on the Platts- burg (New York) custom house. The firm con- sisted of Hylas & Rodney Roby, the other broth- ers having previously dissolved their connection with the firm, and in 1890 upon the death of Hy- las Roby, Rodney Roby, having accumulated a comfortable competence, retired from the active duties of a commercial life to enjoy the fruits of his long business career. In his political affilia- tions he was a firm adherent of the principles of the Republican party, but never sought or held public office, preferring to devote his time and attention to his profession.
On January 17, 1854, Mr. Roby married Miss Katherine Davidson, and one child was born to them, Mary C., now the wife of Charles E. Kat- telle, a prominent jeweler of Boston; they have one son, Walter Roby Kattelle. Mrs. Roby died in 1854, and on May 9, 1877, Mr. Roby married for his second wife Mrs. Harriet A. Sheldon, nee Hubbard, to whom two daughters were born, Grace L. and Florence H. Roby. Mrs. Roby is a descendant of Scotch ancestors, some of whom participated in the colonial wars. On the paternal side she is a direct descendant of Lazrus Hub- bard, who served seven months and five days in the Revolutionary war, being in the battle of Bun- ker Hill and other engagements : he married Miss
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Abigail Gilmore on February 23, 1764, and his son, Jesse Hubbard, father of Mrs. Roby, fol- lowed agricultural pursuits in Cambridge, Ver- mont, and later removed to Burlington, Vermont, where he died in 1884, at the age of eighty-seven years ; his wife, Aurisa Wilson, who was born in Cambridge, Vermont, was the mother of four children, Mrs. Rodney Robey being the only sur- viving child ; Mrs. Hubbard died January 5, 1883. On the maternal side Mrs. Roby is a lincal de- scendant of Sir Colin Campbell, a nephew of Sir Robert Bruce, the greatest king Scotland ever had; he became the first of the great family of Argyle which afterward enjoyed such power in the highlands. One of the prominent members of this family was Danicl Campbell, who de- scended from Sir John Campbell, Duke of Argyle- shire in the reign of King William ; he had a son, Henry Campbell, who came to America in 1733, and became the American ancestor of this branch of the family. Mrs. Roby is a Daughter of the American Revolution, belonging to the Green Mountain Chapter in Burlington, Vermont. John Roby and Cyrus Roby, two brothers of Rodney Roby, retired from business, live in Burlington, Vermont.
HENRY CHAPIN COLTON.
Henry Chapin Colton, a representative busi- ness man of Montpelier, is president of the Colton Manufacturing Company, one of the leading in- dustries of this section of Vermont. He was born at Enfield, Massachusetts, May 26, 1836, of Pur- itan stock, being a direct descendant in the sev- enth generation from Quartermaster George Col- ton, the immigrant, the lineage being thus traced : George, Thomas, Ebenezer, Henry, Henry, David, Henry Chapin.
Quartermaster George Colton (I) emigrated from Sutton, Caldfield, England, to Windsor, Connecticut, prior to 1644, the year in which he married Deborah Gardner, of Hartford, Connec- ticut. Removing to Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1645, he settled in the southern part of the township, in what is now Longmeadow, being its first settler. Like most of the early settlers of New England, he was a Puritan, of strong relig- ious convictions, unfaltering in his support of the church, which he served in various capacities. He
was active in civil affairs, being chosen deputy to the general court in 1669, and again in 1671. In 1668 he was appointed quartermaster of the Hampshire Troop, of which John Pyncheon was captain; was appointed ensign in 1681, and pro- moted to lieutenant in 1688. He died December 17, 1699.
Thomas Colton (2) born May 1, 1651, in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where he spent his entire life, dying September 30, 1728. He was a man of eminent picty, and a famous Indian fight- er ; was commissioned lieutenant in 1686 by Jo- seph Dudley; twice commissioned as captain in 1600 by Simon Bradstreet, and 1699 by the Earl. of Belle Mont. On September 11, 1677, he mar- ried Sarah Griswold, a native of Lyme, Con- necticut.
Ebenezer Colton (3), a life-long resident of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and, undoubtedly, a farmer by occupation, was born July 23, 1696, and died August 19, 1765. He married Deborah. Chandler, of Enfield, Connecticut.
Henry Colton (4), born at Longmeadow, Massachusetts, January 8, 1738, was a resident of that town during his entire life, probably being engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, November II, 1787. On March 2, 1777, he en- listed as a private in Captain Gideon's company, Colonel David Leonard's regiment, at Spring- field, Massachusetts, with his comrades march- ing to reinforce the northern army at Ticon- deroga. He was discharged from the service. April 10, 1777.
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