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 7

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

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Resolved, That these resolutions be enrolled upon the permanent records of this Post and that

the a ljutant transmit a copy of them to the afflicted family.

Headquarters Stannard Post No. 2, G. A. R.,

Burlington, Vermont, December 3, 1886. Official

W'M. C. SCHRODER, Post Adjutant.

MR. CUNNINGHAM, S. V. Commander. Per order of the Post

E. H. TRICK, Post Commander. O. J'. RAY, S. V. Commander.

Brave and fearless as a great general and patriot, stern and resolute when serving his country, but mild, genial and companionable when with friends or surrounded by his home cir- cle ; a kind and affectionate husband, and lenient father and a friend to those who were less favored than he ; the loss of such a man not only his family feels, but he left such a record that the nation mourned his demisc.

General Stannard was married in September, 1850, to Emily, daughter of Jeremiah Clark, of St. Albans, and three daughters and one son were born.

JACKSON MILLER.

Jackson Miller, one of the noted agriculturists of Williston, Vermont, is a worthy descendant of an old and honored English family. The line of descent is as follows: Thomas Miller, a native of England. emigrated to this country, and lo- cated in the state of Massachusetts. His son, John Miller, was the father of the following named children: John, Thomas, Ebenezer and Samuel. John Miller, Sr., was killed by the In- dians in a skirmish which took place in Spring- field, Massachusetts. Samuel Miller was the father of these children : Samuel, Jonas, Thomas, Benjamin, Ichabod, Ruth, Mehitable and Sarah Miller. Thomas Miller was the father of five children : Sarah, Thomas, Ruth, Solomon and David Miller.

Solomon Miller, great-grandfather of Jack- son Miller, was born October 9, 1731, and after receiving the usual education in the district schools he engaged in the occupation of manu- facturing agricultural tools. He was united in mariage to Miss Desire Smith in 1756, and nine

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children were born to them: Solomon and Sam- uel, who died in infancy ; Solomon (2) ; Samuel (2), born in 1764; Elisha, born in 1766, died in 1847 ; Desire, born in 1769, died the same year ; Epaphis, born in 1770, died June 25, 1850; Anna and Alexander, born in 1776, died in 1844. One of the above named sons had the honor of being the founder of Middlebury College. Both Mr. and Mrs. Miller died in Wallingford, Vermont, in the year 1807.

Elisha Miller, grandfather of Jackson Miller, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1766. He acquired his education in the district school, and later he removed to Wallingford, Vermont, where his time and attention were occupied in shoemaking and tanning. Subsequently he lo- cated in Williston, Vermont, making the journey from Wallingford in a sleigh. While a resident of Wallingford, Vermont, Mr. Miller was united in marriage to Miss Loraine Jackson, a daughter of Abraham Jackson, one of the first settlers of that section. She was also the first white child born in that town. Mrs .. Miller died in 1806, and Mr. Miller married, in 1807, Miss Sarah Elliott, and by these two marriages he became the father of seventeen children, all but two of whom were born in Williston, Vermont.

Elisha Miller, father of Jackson Miller, was born in Wallingford, Vermont, August 4, 1792. He acquired his education in the common schools of his native town. He participated in the war of 1812, serving on the frontier, and by a peculiar oversight of the military authorities he was never discharged from the service, and thus he remained a soldier until his death. Politically Mr. Miller was a member of the Whig party and afterwards a Republican, and served as justice of the peace for many years. He was a consistent member of the Congregational church for several years, but eventually became a freethinker.

On March 9, 1825, Mr. Miller married Miss Angeline Munson, who was born in Williston, Vermont, August 24, 1804, and died in Williston, March 6, 1878. Four children were born to this union. namely: John Harrison, born in Willis- ton, Vermont, July 13, 1827, died January 10, 1840. Norman Elliott, born July 23, 1830, mar- ried March 9, 1853, Miss Mary Ann McBurney, who was born in Edinburg, Scotland, April 14, 1835, daughter of Sarah McBurney, and died

September 25, 1887; they had three children : Ellen A. E., born July 28, 1856, married Professor Otis S. Johnson, of Bakersfield, who died in Jan- uary, 1886; Samuei H., born April 4, 1858, died .December 5, 1873 ; S. Louise, born June 27, 1867 ; Norman E. Miller was a member of the state legislature in 1822. Jackson was born May 27, 1833. Ellen Elizabeth was born November 29, 1836, and died January 31, 1840.

Jackson Miller, son of Elisha and Angeline Miller, was born in Williston, Vermont, May 27, 1833. He attended the common school of the town, and later was a student in the Burlington high school. After his graduation from the latter school he decided to follow the occupation of his ancestors, that of farming, and he has met with a well merited degree of success. He has made a specialty of dairy products, for which he al- ways finds a ready market.

Mr. Miller is a firm adherent of the principles of the Republican party, and he has been chosen to fill the offices of justice of the peace, selectman, school director and superintendent of schools, all of which duties he has performed with credit to himself and to his fellow townsmen. In religious thought Mr. Miller is independent. Mr. Miller- was united in marriage, October 29, 1856, to Miss Hannah A. Ferre, who was born August 20, 1838, a daughter of Eliza K. L. Ferre, who was born September 2, 1806, and died February 2. 1892. Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs .. Miller, namely : Charles E., born August 12, 1858, and Laura Angeline, born January 4, 1867. married, September 6, 1894, Mr. R. L. Parker. engaged in the wholesale tobacco and cigar trade in Burlington, Vermont ; they have one child. Laura Jackson, born August 2, 1895.

GUY A. LAMSON.

Guy Adams Lamson, of Williston, Vermont, was born January 7, 1879, a son of Anderson E. and Mary (Fobes) Lamson. He began his edu- cation in the public schools of his native place. completed a course in the Essex high school. and took advanced studies in the Troy Confer- ence Academy, in Poultney, Vermont. While a student in the latter named institution he was a member of the Delphin Society, and president of the commercial class. The greater

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part of his mature life has been passed in begins with Aun Bradford, wife of Samuel Wild- mercantile pursuits in Williston, where his in- bore, and she was a daughter of Thomas Brad- terests are cast, and where he is regarded as among the stable and enterprising members of the community. ford, of Dorcaster, Yorkshire, England. Mary Deau ( 2) married Shadrach Wilbore, of Taunton, and died March 27, 1691. Joana Neal (3), born Mr. Lamson was married February 13, 1901, to Miss Florence Chase. She was born in Bur- lington, May 3, 1880, a daughter of George D. and Sarah ( Minckler) Chase. Of this mar- riage was born a son, Harold Chase Lamson, March 8, 1902. in Braintree, Massachusetts, May 27, 1680, mar- ried Shadrach Wilbore, of Taunton. Phoebe White (4), born in 1726, at Taunton, married Abijah Wilbore, of Rayorham, and died August 26, 1812. Rachel Wittam (5) married Abijah Wilbore. Asenath Wilbore (6), born April 13, 1770, married William Wilbur, her second cousin, LA FAYETTE WILBUR. and died February 26, 1832. Betsy Fuller (7), born October 6, 1802, married William Wilbur, The Wilbur family of Vermont, in its own history and in that of the families with which its members have intermarried, presents an interest- ing chapter of New England genealogy, which has been written in extenso by one of its descend- ants in the eighth generation, La Fayette Wilbur, a prominent lawyer and author of Jericho. February 21, 1826, at Westmoreland, New Hamp- shire, and died November 12, 1888, at Eden, Ver- mont. Mercy Jane Morse (8), born May 12, 1840, married La Fayette Wilbur, January 9, 1861, and their children were Earl Morse Wil- bur and Ralph William Wilbur. Dorothea Dix Eliot (9) ) married Earl Morse Wilbur, of Port- land, Oregon, June 30, 1888, and Alice Dunbar Heustis (9) of Boston, Massachusetts, married Ralph William Wilbur, June 26, 1894.

The founder of the family was Samuel Wild- bore (which was the original form of the name), of Boston and Taunton, Massachusetts, who died September 29, 1656; he married Ann Bradford. Shadrach (2), of Taunton (Rayorham), died in February, 1697-8, he married Mary Dean, who died December 27, 1691. Shadrach (3) was born December 5, 1672, and died November 8, 1749; he married Joanna Neal, born May 27, 1680. Philip (4), of Rayorham, who wrote his name Wilbore, married Mary Leonard, of Taunton, December 29, 1737. David (5), of Royorham and Westmoreland, New Hampshire, was born in 1743, and died August 2, 1819, at Waterville (Coit's Gore), Vermont. He married Tibitha Briton, who was born April II, 1748, and died March 28, 1840, at the age of ninety-two years. William (6) was the first to give the family name its present form of Wilbur. He was born August 13, 1772, at Westmoreland, New Hampshire, and died April 19, 1835, at Waterville, Vermont. William (7) was born March 8, 1801, in Westmoreland, and died at Waterville, March 7, 1882. La Fayette (8) was born May 15, 1834, at Waterville. Earl M. (9) and Ralph W. (9) were born at Jericho, Vermont, April 26, 1866, and March 30, 1869, respectively.

The material ancestry of La Fayette Wilbur

William Wilbur (7) was a farmer and mer- chant. His parents removed to Waterville, Ver- mont, when he was about two years old, when the region was mostly a wilderness and the settle- ment went by the name of Coit's Gore. He had a common school education, but being a man of strong character he made this the foundation for an ample equipment for the duties of life. He came to occupy various important town officer, was postmaster for over twenty years, and in 1842 and 1844 represented the town of Waterville in the legislature. He was a member of the Congre- gational church, in which he was a deacon for the period of forty years, until his death. In politics he was originally a Whig, and he connected him- self with the abolition party at its formation. He became a Free-soiler afterward, and when the Republican party came into being he affiliated with it and was one of the most earnest supporters during the remainder of his life.

. His son, La Fayette Wilbur (8), was born during one of the most severe snow storms known in the history of Vermont, two feet deep, May 15, 1834. Considering the conditions at the time, he was highly favored in an educational way. He began his studies in the district school at Water-

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ville, and subsequently attended academies at Bakersfield, Underhill Center, Fairfax and Mor- risville. He took up the study of law under the preceptorship of a local lawyer, Thomas Gleed, who was interested in him, and he was admitted to the bar, Lamoille county in December, 1851, and from that time to the present has been actively and usefully occupied with the duties of his pro- fession in Chittenden and adjoining counties. A lawyer of an old school, his practice has been al- most entirely confined to civil law, and his meth- ods have been marked by absolute precision and conscientious devotion to the real principles of jurisprudence, trickery and indiscretion being constantly avoided. It has been the good fortune of several who subsequently took highly respect- able positions at the bar, to receive their instruc- tion under his guidance.

Deeply versed in knowledge of the growth and development of his state, and loyally devoted to the preservation of its history, he performed a monumental work in the production of his "Early History of Vermont," in four volumes of some four hundred and fifty pages each, published in 1889-1903, and of his "Life of La Fayette Wilbur and Family Genealogy." Both of these excellent works have been utilized to good advantage in the writting of this history of Vermont, and orders for these works have been received from all parts of the United States, also from London, England. His is the only full history of the state ever writ- tén.

In early life Mr. Wilbur was a member of the Congregational church, and for many years was clerk of that body in Jericho, and superin- tendent of the Sunday-school. He subsequently became a member of the Unitarian church in Bur- lington, with which he is yet connected. He was one of the founders of the Republican party, and cast his first vote for Fremont. During the Civil war he was a zealous member of the Union Lea- gue. He has held various town offices, and is a member of the Masonic order.

Mr. Wilbur was married to Miss Mercy Jane Morse, of Underhill, a daughter of Calvin and Mercy ( Mead) Morse. Her father was a farmer and was distantly related to Professor S. F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph. She was educated in the public schools, and in the acade- mies in Johnson and Bakersfield. Of her mar-

riage with Mr. Wilbur were born two children : Earl Morse Wilbur was born in Jericho, Vermont, April 26, 1866. He entered the University of Vermont, when sixteen years of age, and was graduated in 1886. He taught Latin, Greek, German and French at Fishkill on the Hudson, New York, in 1887. He entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1887, and graduated in 1890, and was ordained as a Unitarian minister. He preached in the city of Portland, Oregon, for eight years, from 1890 to 1898, and now preaches in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and is instructor in the Theological School in that city. He was mar- ried at Portland, Oregon, June 30, 1898, to Dorathea Dix Eliot, a daughter of Thomas L. Eliot, D. D.

Ralph Williams Wilbur was born at Jericho, Vermont, March 30, 1869. He was educated in the common schools, in an academy and at the high school in Burlington, Vermont, and at the University of Vermont, and also graduated from the business college at Burlington, Vermont, and at the Boston University School of Law, grad- uating from the last named in 1892. The same year he began the practice of law at Portland, Oregon, where he now resides. He married Alice Dunbar Heustis, of Boston, June 26, 1894. The following is the genealogy of the families closely allied with that of Wilbur :

Robert Fuller (1), of Salem and Rehoboth, married Sarah Bowen ; they died May 10, 1706, and October 14, 1676, respectively. Jonathan (2), of Attleboro, was born at Salem about 1640, married Elizabeth Wilmarth, and died February IO. 1709. Robert (3) was born at Attleboro, March 2, 1673, and died in 1710: he married for his second wife Mary Titus, who was born March 30, 1681, and died in 1779. Josiah (4), of Reho- both, was born at Attleboro, November 18, 1704, and died in January, 1753 ; he married Mehitable Ormsbee, October 22, 1728, and she died in March, 1779. Noah (5). of Rehoboth, Wren- tham and Westmoreland (locating in the place last named in 1779), was born March 17. 1728-9, and died in March, 1809; he was twice mar- ried, first to Dorothy Hunt, who died in 1762, and then to Esther Ware, born May 30, 1739. and died in March. 18og. Joshua (6), of Westmoreland, born February 10. 1774, and died April 22, 1849, married Mercy Felt, June 22,

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1801 ; she was born December 14, 1776, at Wren- tham, and died at Waterville, Vermont, Decem- ber 17, 1862; she was the daughter of Joshua Felt, son of Aaron and Mary ( Wyatt ) Felt. Joshma Felt was born June 21, 1751, at Lyim, Massachusetts, and lived at Parkersfield, Keene and Westmoreland, New Hampshire; he served in the first company which marched from Lyn to Lexington, April 19, 1775, and he was wound- ed at Concord ; he died about 1822, at Westmore- land. Betsy Fuller (7), daughter of Joshua (6), was born at Westmoreland, October 6, 1802, and died November 12, 1888: she married William Wilbur, of Waterville, who was born at West- morciand, and died March 7, 1882. La Fayette Wilbur (8), was born May 15, 1834, in Water- ville ; January 9, 1861, he was married to Mercy Jane Morse, who was born May 12, 1840. Their children are elsewhere mentioned in this sketch.

The Morse family begins with Samuel Morse, born in England, in 1585, who came to America in 1635, and died in Medfield, April 5, 1654; his wife was named Elizabeth. Daniel (2), of Med- field, was born in 1613 and died June 5, 1688; his wife, who was Lydia Fisher, died in 1690. Jonathan (3), of Sherborn, was born in 1643, and died August 30, 1727 ; his wife was Mary Bar- bour. Jonathan (4), of Sherborn, born July II, 1667, married Jane Whitney. Paul (5), born February 14, 1700, and died in 1760, married Sarah Sheffield. Daniel (6), born July 27, 1735, and died in 1808, married Ruth Morse, his fourth cousin, January 25, 1758, and she died August I, 18II. Levi (7), born January 8, 1772, at Dublin, New Hampshire, and died February 9, 1818, at Jericho, Vermont, married Sally Grimes. Calvin (8), born January 7, 1804, at Dublin, died at Jericho, Vermont, September 1I, 1880. He married Mercy Mead. Mery Jane (9) be- came the wife of La Fayette Wilbur.

The founder of the Mead family was William (1), who came from England to Stamford, Con- necticut, about 1635; he was born in 1600 and died in 1663; he married Ruth Hardy, who died September 19, 1657. John (2), of Horseneck (Greenwich), Connecticut, was born in 1634 and died in 1699; he married Hannah Potter. Jonathan (3) was born in 1665, and died in 1727; his wife was named Martha. Tim- othy (4), born in 1701, removed to Manchester,

Vermont, with his wife, who was Martha Weeks, and six children, m 170g, and there they both died. Captain Zebulon Mlead (5), born at Horse- neck in 1729, settled in Rutland, Vermont, in 1770, and died January 26, 1787; he married Anna Thompson, and after her death he married Mercy Carey, who was born in 1735 and died February 3, 1811. Martin (6), born at Pittsford, Ver- mont, March 17, 1767, and died May 6, 1850, re- moved to Underhill, Vermont, in 1807 ; he married Freclove Wright, November 12, 1796; she was born October 28, 1774, and died November 24,. 1858. Mercy (7), born at Pittsford, Vermont, January 11, 1807, died December 26, 1881, mar- ried Calvin Morse, who was born at Dublin, Ver- mont, in 1804, and married January 14, 1830, and died September II, 1880. Mercy Jane Morse (8), daughter of Calvin and Mercy (Mcad). Morse, became the wife of La Fayette Wilbur.

CARROLL S. PAGE.

Hon. Carroll S. Page, of Hyde Park, Vermont,. former Governor of the state and favorably known throughout its bounds for his persistent and suc- cessful efforts in the encouragement and develop- ment of local industrial enterprises, was born in: Westfield, Vermont, January 10, 1843. His par- ents, Russell S. and Martha Malvina (Smalley) Page, were both natives of Hyde Park.

His grandparents on both his father's and mother's side were among the first settlers of that town. His mother's grandfather, Capt. Jedediah. Hyde. came to Hyde Park soon after the Revolu- tionary war, in which he served as captain, sur- veyed and chartered the town and gave to it his name "Hyde" Park.

Mr. Page was educated in the common schools of Hyde Park, at the People's Academy in Mor- risville, Vt., the Lamoille County Grammar School at Johnson, Vermont, and the Lamoille. Central Academy at Hyde Park, Vermont.

Among the public positions held by him may be mentioned that of Representative from Hyde- Park to the legislature of Vermont, 1869-72, Member of Vermont state senate 1874-1876; member of Republican state committee, 1884- 1888; chairman of Republican state committee, 1884-1888; inspector of finance of Vermont, 1884-1888 ; governor of Vermont, 1890-1892.

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Mr. Page has been quite extensively interested in banking and has been director of the Lamoille County National Bank since 1874, and its presi- dent for the last ten or more years. He organized the Lamoille County Savings Bank and Trust Co. in 1889 and has been its president since its organization. His maxim during his whole banking life has been, "Vermont money should be kept in Vermont to foster Vermont industries and to develop Vermont enterprises," and during his entire management of the two banks at Hyde Park neither of these two institutions have ever loaned a dollar outside of Vermont.

It is perhaps as a dealer in green Calfskins that Mr. Page is best known to the financial world, his business in this line extending from the Pacific ocean on the west to Asia in the east, and being regarded among the trade as the largest in its line in this country, if not in the world.

Governor Page was married April 11, 1865, to Miss Ellen Frances, daughter of Theophilus Hull and Desdemona (Jackson) Patch of John- son, Vermont. Three children were born of this marriage; Theophilus Hull, who died in 1898 leaving two children, Carroll G. and Proctor H .: Russell S., who is now associated with his father in business at Hyde Park, and Alice.

HENRY ALEXANDER PHELPS.

Henry Alexander Phelps, of Barre, Vermont, belongs to one of the oldest families of New Eng- land, the founder of which left his ancestral home in the older England and joined himself to one of the earliest companies of those fearless and de- voted men who crossed the sea to found a nation on the shores of the new world.

William Phelps (1), the emigrant ancestor, was born August 19, 1599, in the old town of Tewkesbury, England, beneath whose walls flows the Avon, which, not far off, mingles its waters with those of the Severn, the two rivers richest, perhaps, in all England, in poetical associations. In early life William Phelps allied himself with the Puritans, with a company of whom he sailed, in 1630, for the colony of Massachusetts Bay, where he found a home in the settlement of Dor- chester, removing thence, in 1635, to Windsor, Connecticut. There, we are informed, he mar- ried his second wife, whose name was Mary

Dover. In regard to his first wife history is en- tirely silent. The death of William Phelps prob- ably took place at Windsor, Connecticut, on the homestead where his descendants remained for three-quarters of a century.

Timothy Phelps (2), son of William and Mary (Dover) Phelps, was born September 1, 1639. probably at Windsor, Connecticut. From the fact that he was known as "Lieutenant" Phelps, it is evident that he was a soldier in the colonial army, the frequent Indian wars doubtless render- ing his military career an active one. He mar- ried, May 19, 1661, Mary Griswold, and, in all likelihood, died on the homestead where he had passed his life.

Nathaniel Phelps (3), son of Timothy and Mary (Griswold) Phelps, was born January 27, 1677, at Windsor, Connecticut. While still a young man he removed to Hebron, Connecticut, where he planted another homestead. He mar- ried, March 28, 1700, Hannah Bissell, and, no doubt, passed all the latter part of his life in the place whither he had migrated.

Solomon Phelps (4), son of Nathaniel an.1 Hannah ( Bissel!) Phelps, was born July 29, 1716. in Hebron, Connecticut, where he appears to have passed his entire life. He married, May II, 1738. Temperance Barber.

Bissell Phelps (5), son of Solomon and Tem- perance (Barber) Phelps, was born February 16. 1754, at Hebron, Connecticut. He was only twenty-one when "the embattled farmers" of Lex- ington and Concord "fired the shot heard 'round the world," and not long after he enlisted in Washington's army, in which he held a captain's commission from Quartermaster General Ne- hemiah Hubbard. After participating in the campaigns of the first two years of the war, he re- signed, re-enlisting in the army of Lafayette. un- der whom he served during the remainder of the war. When the restoration of peace allowed him to return home, Captain Phelps removed from Hebron, Connecticut, to Middlefield, Massachu- setts, where he remained only a few years, travel- ing, in 1791, with his two yoke of oxen, to Waits- field, Vermont, where he was one of the earliest settlers. Captain Phelps married, January 12. 1775, Lovina Skinner, after whose death, on March 28, 1802, he married, February 27, IS03. Sally Waterman, who was born January 31, 1772.

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at Killingly, Connectient. The eventful life of Captain Phelps was prolonged beyond the limit of four score and ten years, his death occurring in Waitsfield, Vermont, October 25, 18.15. His wife attained almost to the state of a centenarian. dying April 6, 1871, after passing her ninety-ninth birthday.

Alexander Phelps (6), son of Bissell and 1.0- vina (Skinner) Phelps, was born October 6, 1780, at Hebron, Connecticut. While he was still a child the family removed, first, to Middlefield. Massachusetts, and then to Waitsfield, Vermont, which was his home during the remainder of his life. He married Rachael Steele, daughter of John and Sarah (Cobb) Steele, of Tolland, Con- necticut, where she was born June 19, 1780. Alexander Phelps died May 29, 1826, and his wife survived him many years, her death oc- curring at Waitsfield, Vermont, July 8, 1857.

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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 7

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