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 II, Part 120

Author: Carleton, Hiram, 1838- ed
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1044

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tablishment in Boston; Elmira, who married George D. Wood, a hardware merchant, and is the mother of one child, George Arthur; George E., who is a printer in Boston; and Marion, who is now attending Ballston Spa School, a member of the class of 1902. Mrs. Ryder died in 1882, at the age of forty years, and Dr. Ryder subse- quently married Gertrude, daughter of Henry Hardin, of North Pomfret, Vermont. By his second marriage Dr. Ryder has no children.

BENJAMIN F. D. CARPENTER.

B. F. Deming Carpenter, an active practicing attorney of Barton Landing, Vermont, and a na- tive of Derby, Vermont, represents a family long native to the state, but which, scattered through- out the Union, has carried with it New Eng- land standards and given its sons to the public service in many states. Of this fam- ily, but some four or five degrees in relation- ship removed from the line herein written of, were Hon. Mathew H. Carpenter, United States senator from Wisconsin, and Chief Justice Carpenter, of New Hampshire. Jonathan Car- penter, great-grandfather of B. F. Deming Carpenter, was of Connecticut heredity and par- entage, and was a soldier in the war for independ- ence. Colonel Chester Carpenter, son of Jona- than Carpenter, was born in Randolph, Vermont, and was one of the early settlers of Derby; he was a public-spirited and influential citizen, and for many years was a justice of the peace. His son, Hon. Marshall Carpenter, was born in Derby, April 22, 1813, was for some years a merchant in Danville, and afterward took up his abode in Derby. He represented that town in the legislature in 1854, was for the succeeding eight years judge of probate for the district of Orleans, and was prominent in the public affairs of his native town. He died April 8, 1883. His wife was Harriet Deming, a daughter of Hon. B. F. Deming, member of Congress from Ver- mont, a man of character and prominence.

B. F. Deming Carpenter, eldest son of Hon. Marshall and Harriet (Deming) Carpenter, was born in. Danville, Vermont, June 12, 1838. His father removed to Derby while he was yet a child, and he was brought up in the activities of the farm, and was educated in the public

schools and in the academy at Derby. After finishing his school work he became a student in the law offices of Hon. John L. Edwards and E. A. Stewart, of Derby. In 1860 he was ad- mitted to the bar at the June term of the Orleans county court. He began the practice of law in Craftsbury, where he remained four years. For sixteen years thereafter he lived in West Charles- ton, where he continued his profession, a part of the time being in partnership with Hon. George N. Dale. During the past sixteen years he has resided at Barton Landing, rounding out a professional career that makes him one of the oldest practitioners of the country. He has been active in political affairs, and in 1868 and 1869 represented Charleston in the Vermont legisla- ture. For three years following he was state's attorney, and for the last six years chairman of the road commissioners for the county of Or- leans, and in 1884 was a member of the legisla- ture from Barton.

Mr. Carpenter is president of the Orleans County Historical Society, and has been indus- trious in gleaning facts of local history. He is interested, at the same time, in broader histori- cal fields, and his writings cover many lines of investigation.

Mr. Carpenter married Harriet M. Fairchild. of Derby, Vermont, and to them have been born two sons, Ernest Marshall Carpenter, who is chief clerk in the United States railway mail ser- vice for the state of Vermont, and Raymond Car- penter, who is a designer and inventor of ma- chinery in the city of Newark, New Jersey.

JOSEPH WARNER.

Joseph Warner, late of Middlebury, was reck- oned among the most useful and exemplary citi- zens of that town. His lineage has been traced back, through six generations bearing the same name as himself, to the early Puritan settlers of America. The founder of the family on this continent was Joseph Warner, who left England, like many others, to secure the privilege of wor- shiping God according to his faith, and settled in Connecticut, where he died and was buried. Little record is found of his son, Joseph, but the records show that a son of the latter, named Joseph, was born in 1685.

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Joseph Warner, fourth, was born in 175, and his son. Joseph (fifth) was among the pioneer settlers of Sudbury, Vermont, where he lived and died. He cleared a farm, which he tilled, and also engaged in mercantile business, cater- ing to the wants of his neighbors, after the man- ner of country merchants of the time.

Joseph Warner (sixth) was born December 4, 1803, in Sudbury, Vermont, and grew up there, receiving his education in the common schools and the local academy. He succeeded his father in the mercantile business, was suc- cessful as a merchant, but soon outgrew the nar- row environment of the location. He was a man of much strength of character, enterprising and ambitious, and when the Bank of Middlebury was organized he was selected as the proper man for its cashier. Thereupon he moved to Middle- bury and continued to reside there until his death, which occurred December 31, 1865. Possessed of much business ability and having a kind and genial nature, he was useful to the bank and was also identified with other enterprises calculated to benefit the town and its inhabitants.

In early life Mr. Warner was an active sup- porter of Whig doctrines, as applied to national political affairs, and he was among the original supporters of the Republican party. He was an active member of the Congregational church of Middlebury, of which he was many years a trus- tee. At the time of his death, and for a long period prior, he was a trustee of Middlebury Col- lege, in whose welfare he took a deep interest. He served as a member of the state senate, and was one of the electors who placed Abraham Lin- coln in the presidential chair in 1861.

Mr. Warner was married in 1833 to Miss Jane Meech, daughter of Ezra and Mary (Mc- Neil) Meech, representatives of pioneer families. Under proper headings, the history of both the Meech and McNeil families will be found in this work. Three children came to Joseph and Jane Warner, namely: James M., Mary and Ezra Joseph. The daughter became the wife of Arthur Bott, who now resides in Ithaca, New York. In 1860 Mr. Warner married, second, Maria, daugh- ter of Rev. Dr. Joshua Bates, president of Mid- dlebury College. She died in 1862.

General James M. Warner was born Jan- uary 29, 1837, in Middlebury, Vermont, where

he received his primary education. He graduated at West Point and went out in the Civil war as colonel of the Eleventh Vermont Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Spottsylvania Court House, was with Sheridan in the Shenan- doah campaign and commanded the Vermont brigade at the battle of Cedar Creek. For gal- lantry in the latter action, he was made a briga- dier general, in which capacity he served until the close of the war. On the return of peace, he laid aside the accoutrements of military life, and began business at Albany, New York, becoming president of the Albany Card & Paper Company, thus continuing for many years. His death oc- curred suddenly, while on a business visit to New York city, on March 16, 1897.

He married Matilda Allen, of Middlebury, Vermont, where she now resides. Their chil- dren are: James Allen, now treasurer of the Albany Card & Paper Company; and Sophia, wife of John A. Fletcher, of Middlebury.

Ezra Joseph Warner was born March 8, 1841, in Middlebury, and has ever been loyal to his native town. On account of the early death of his mother, he grew up away from Middlebury, and prepared for college at Kimball Union Acad- emy, in Meriden, New Hampshire, graduating there in 1857. He at once entered Middlebury College, and graduation from that institution in 1861. Before the close of that year he went west, and the following winter was spent. in the study of law with an attorney in Wisconsin. He soon became convinced that a professional life would not prove congenial, and determined to enter upon a commercial ca- reer. The result has proved the wisdom of his selection, as he quickly took rank among the financiers of Chicago, where he settled.

In the summer of 1862 he joined Mr. Albert A. Sprague, who had just started in a small way in the wholesale grocery trade. In a short time Mr. O. S. A. Sprague, now deceased, became associated with them, and the business has since been conducted under the name of Sprague. Warner & Company. In 1897 it was incorpor- ated under that title, and Mr. Warner has con- tinued since as vice president of the company. The concern has always been among the leading ones of its kind in the west, and enjoys a large measure of prosperity to-day. Not a little of its

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success is due to the commercial instinct in- herited by its present vice president.

Mr. Warner is a stockholder of banks and other business enterprises in Chicago, and is chairman of the board of directors of the western branch of the Liverpool, London & Globe Insur- ance Company. He has always been a steadfast Republican in politics. He is a member of the Chicago Club and the Presbyterian church at Lake Forest, Illinois, where he resides, and for twelve years was a trustee of Lake Forest Uni- versity. In 1901 he completed Joseph Warner Science Hall, of Middlebury College, as a me- morial .of his father. This is a thoroughly modern building, and is a credit to its donor and a worthy tribute to one who was a warm friend of Middlebury College through many years.

In 1861 Ezra J. Warner was married to Miss Jane Remsen, of Middlebury, a daughter of Will- iam H. and Sarah Remisen, of that place, natives of Long Island. Five children complete the fam- ily of Mr. Warner, namely: Frank, now a resi- dent of Pasadena, California; Maude, wife of Alexander A. McCormick, of Chicago; Ezra J., Jr., secretary of Sprague, Warner & Company ; Ethel and Harold R., residing with their parents.

CAPTAIN DAYTON CLARK.

Captain Dayton Clark, who is engaged in the painting business in Montpelier, and is one of the honored veterans of the Civil war, was born in De Kalb, St. Lawrence county, New York, December 15. 1840, his parents being Leonard E. and Calistia (Warner) Clark. The father was born in Vermont and was a son of Jedediah Clark. Upon the home farm he was reared, and after arriving at years of manhood he wedded Calistia Warner, a daughter of Luther Warner. The young couple then removed to New York and settled in the midst of the forest, where he cleared a tract of land and improved a farm, spending his remaining days thereon. He passed away in 1876 at the age of sixty-five years, and was survived by his wife for about twenty years, her death occurring in 1896, when she had reached the age of eighty-five. They were the parents of three sons and one daughter: Elliott, who is now living in New York; Ethan A .; Dayton; and Laura M.

When Captain Clark was a boy of twelve years he was apprenticed to learn the painter's trade, serving a term of three years. He after- ward worked as journeyman and also further continued his education by attending school for a time. Through the winter months, when there was little doing at his trade, he engaged in teach- ing for three years. In 1861 he came to Mont- pelier and not long after this the Civil war was begun.

Mr. Clark had watched with interest the progress of the trouble between the north and south, and had determined that if the slavehold- ers should attempt secession he would strike a blow in the defense of the Union. He was there- fore among the first to respond to his country's call for aid, and enlisted on the 20th of June, 1861, as a member of Company F, Second Ver- mont Volunteer Infantry. He was with the Army of the Potomac, and took part in many hard-fought battles, among which may be men- tioned the engagements at Bull Run and those of the Peninsular campaign under General Mc- Clellan. He took part in the two battles of Fredericksburg and also met the enemy at Chan- cellorsville and Mary's Heights, being wounded in the leg at the last named place, his injury dis- abling him for duty for three months. Later he participated in the battle of the Wilderness, of Spottsylvania, where he was in command of his regiment, and in reward for his bravery Congress awarded him a gold medal. Few of the large number of the soldiers of the Civil war were thus honored, but Captain Clark well merited this distinction. On the organization of his company he had been made corporal and later was pro- moted to sergeant and subsequently to orderly sergeant. In January, 1862, he was commis- sioned first lieutenant of Company D, and on the 17th of November, 1863, was promoted to the rank of captain, serving in that capacity continu- ously until the close of the war. His promo- tion came in recognition of his loyalty and his meritorious conduct on the field of battle. He was an excellent officer, maintained good disci- pline among his troops, and at the same time commanded their confidence and respect. He also enjoyed the confidence and good will of his superior officers. While he never recklessly ex- posed his men to danger, his own valor inspired

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them many times to deeds of bravery worthy of the highest commendation.

In 1867 Captain Clark again became identi- fied with the business interests of Montpelier, where he has successfully engaged in the paint- ing trade since that time, enjoying a large and lucrative patronage, so that he is continually busy and much of the time employs a number of work- men. It was on the IIth of September, 1865, that he made preparation for having a home of his own by his marriage to Miss Mary Kent, a daughter of William and Martha (Kingsbury) Kent, of Brookfield, Vermont. This union was blessed with two daughters, Laura and Grace M. The Captain has served as a selectman, also as constable, continuously and capably filling these positions through a number of years, and in 1883 he was enumerator of the census. His political support has always been given to the Democracy, and socially he is associated with Brooks Post, G. A. R., thus maintaining pleas- ant relations with his old army comrades who wore the blue. His religious faith is indicated by his membership in the Unitarian church.

JOEL. CLARKE BAKER.

Joel Clarke Baker, of Rutland, Vermont prominent as a lawyer and man of large affairs for more than a third of a century past, was born in Danby, Vermont, son of Edia and Se- leucia (Davenport) Baker. He is of Scotch an- cestry, and seems to have inherited a goodly share of the sterling character and sturdy inde- pendence of his Scottish progenitors.

Stephen Baker (grandfather) was born in Rhode Island, and came to Danbury, Vermont, where he followed the occupation of farming, residing there for fifty years, up to the time of his death. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and a leader in the society at that time. He married Susan Matthewson, and they became the parents of ten children.

Edia Baker, fourth child of Stephen and Susan (Matthewson) Baker, was born in Rhode Island, April 21, 1814, and was between `eight and ten years of age when his parents removed to Danby, Vermont, where he resided until his death. He was a carpenter, joiner and builder formerly, and later became a farmer. In politics

he was a Whig and afterwards a Republican, and he held various town offices. He married Se- leucia Davenport, who died in 1864, at the age of forty-seven years, and his death occurred in 1866, at the age of fifty-two years. They were the parents of two sons, Joel Clarke Baker, born April 16, 1838; and George R., born June 6, 1844, at Danby, Vermont, where he died when twenty-four years of age.

Joel Clarke Baker received his education in the public schools of Danby and Wallingford, and in 1858 began the study of Latin and Greek under Philip H. Emerson, continuing under his instruction for two years. In 1859 he commenced the study of law in the office of Spencer Green, of Danby, and he subsequently continued his studies in the office of David E. Nicholson, of Wallingford, with whom he remained until 1862, when he was admitted to the bar of Rutland county.

The Civil war, however, turned Mr. Baker aside from his profession just as he had com- pleted his preparation for practice. In the year of his admission to the bar (1862) he enlisted as a private in Company B, Ninth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, and was mustered into the service as sergeant, and he was afterwards promoted successively to the grades of first ser- geant, second and first lieutenant, and captain. His military record is an eloquent attestation of his patriotism and soldierly spirit. At the sur- render of Harper's Ferry he was sent as a paroled prisoner, with his regiment, to Camp Douglas at Chicago, where he remained on parole until January 9, 1863, meantime serving as guard over five or six thousand rebel prisoners. After his exchange he returned to the front, where he par- ticipated in many battles and skirmishes, and he was with the Army of the James in the engage- ments at Chapin's Farm and Fair Oaks and in the capture of Richmond. He was among the first to enter that city, and he pulled down with his own hands the rebel flag which he found flying over the residence of Jefferson Davis, and which he took away with him. This he carefully preserved as a valuable memento, until he loaned it to the high school at Rutland for purposes of exhibition, but the building burned down and the historic relic was destroyed in the flames. During a portion of his service in North Caro-

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lina, Captain Baker frequently served as judge advocate on courts martial.

After his return from the army at the close of the war, Captain Baker practiced his profes- sion in Wallingford until 1868, when he removed to Rutland, his present place of residence. The oldest lawyer in Rutland, in years of practice, and antedated by only two in the county, his has been a phenomenal experience, and he enjoys the distinction of being the most prominent and successful of the practitioners at the bar of his county if not of the judicial district, while his practice has also extended to the supreme court of the state, and to the federal circuit and district courts of New York as well as of Vermont, and to the supreme court of the United States. Dur- ing his professional career he has been concerned with much of the important legislation originat- ing in or concerned with his portion of the state. One of the most notable of his cases in recent years was an action brought by a leading manu- facturing corporation against a number of mem- bers of a labor union, for boycotting, intimida- tion of workmen and general interference with the company while it was endeavoring to conduct its business. After a stoutly contested legal bat- tle, Captain Baker succeeded in procuring a ver- dict for his client, with an award of damages in the sum of two thousand five hundred dol- lars, the first verdict rendered by any court in that section in a cause of such character and presenting such conditions.

Captain Baker has throughout his life been actively concerned in various leading commer- cial and financial enterprises. From 1869 to 1873 he was editor of the Rutland Herald, and he was subsequently a director in the Clement National Bank, the Howe Scale Company and the E. P. Chase Manufacturing Corporation, and he has large real estate interests in the city. He has oc- cupied numerous official positions in which he has been highly useful to the community and the county, at various times serving as superin- tendent of schools, grand juror, register of pro- bate, deputy county clerk, auditor and city at- torney. He was elected to the state senate in 1886, and in that body he was chairman of the committee on judiciary and a member of the committees on railway and the insane.

He is an active member of numerous military

bodies-the Vermont Commandery' of the Mil- itary Order of the Loyal Legion, of which he has been commander, Roberts Post No. 14, G. A. R., of which he has been commander, and he has served upon the staff of state and national commanders. He has risen to high rank in the Masonic fraternity; he was junior warden and senior warden of Chipman Lodge No. 52, and he was a charter member of Center Lodge No. 34, Free and Accepted Masons, in which he has served as junior warden; and he is affiliated with Chapter No. 17, R. A. M .; Davenport Council No. 12, in which he was recorder; and Killing- ton Commandery No. 6, K. T., of which he is captain general. He is also a member of Mt. Sinai Temple, Mystic Shrine; of the Benevolent Order of Elks, in which body he is a trustee; and of the Royal Arcanum. He is an Episcopalian in religion, and a Republican in politics.

Captain Baker married, October 8, 1866, Miss Ada O. Howe, daughter of Luther P. and Mary A. (Rounds) Howe, of Mount Taber, and one daughter, Mabel Baker, is the fruit of their union.

WILLIAM B. CABOT.

William B. Cabot, civil engineer and exten- sively engaged in public works construction, is a native of Brattleboro, Vermont, a son of Nor- man B. Cabot, a prominent citizen of the town last named. He was born February 2, 1858, and began his education in the public schools in his native town, completing his general studies in Williston Seminary, and the Hopkins grammar school. He pursued mathematics and engineer- ing, and kindred branches in the Sheffield Scien- tific School, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic In- stitute, whom which he received the degree of civil engineer in 1881. His entrance upon a pro- fessional career was in the capacity of civil en- gineer on the Union Pacific Railroad in the west and north. He subsequently became interested in the iron-making business at Everett, Penn- sylvania, and was so engaged until 1885. Later he became a member of the firm of Holbrook, Cabot & Daly, now Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins, at Boston, and similarly engaged in New York city. The operations in which Mr. Cabot has been to the present time actively engaged are

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extensive and important, and have included the separation of grades at Brockton, Massachusetts, under a contract calling for an expenditure of seven hundred thousand dollars; the masonry on the separation work at Newton and Natick; that on the Albany Railroad, under a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar contract, and grade separation work on the Dedham branch of the New Haven Railroad to the amount of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The firm has also performed extensive engineering work in the city of Boston for the road last named. It also performs a great deal of deep-water work in the construction of drawbridges and they now have in course of construction at Boston the West Cambridge bridge piers and abutments, requiring an expenditure of about one million dollars. In recent years the firm has constructed about fifty caisson piers, necessitating heavy and difficult engineering work. The firm now has in process of completion a section of one and one- half miles of the New York subway, extending from Great Jones street to Thirty-third street, the work requiring the labor of eighteen hun- dred men and calling for an expenditure of the sum of two and one-half millions of dollars. The plant of the firm represents a permanent invest- ment of many thousands of dollars in the most modern and highly improved machinery for car- rying out various lines of construction work, such as steam lighters, scows, steam drills, pile drivers, excavators, derricks, and other necessary ma- chinery and devices, much of it constructed for its special use under the direction of the firm.

Mr. Cabot was married to Miss Elisabeth Lyman Parker, a daughter of Colonel Francis J. Parker, who resides in Boston. Colonel Parker has long been identified with the manu- facturing interests of the city, and during the Civil war was commander of the Thirty-second Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. Mr. and Mrs. Cabot, who reside in Brookline, Massachu- setts, are the parents of five children, Anna Ly- man, Eleanor Forman, Catherine Wyman, Nor- man and Mary Minot Cabot.

JULIUS HAYDEN WOODWARD, M. D.

Dr. Julius Hayden Woodward, New York city, who stands well at the foremost of Ameri- ·can surgeons as a specialist of diseases of the

eye, ear and throat, is a worthy son of the Green Mountain state. Born at Castleton, Vermont, he is a son of Dr. Adrian Theodore and Lois Cornelia (June) Woodward.

He was reared in Brandon, Vermont, whence his parents removed when he was two years old, and was educated in the public schools, Norwich University and Cornell University, graduating from the latter in 1879, with the degree of Bach- elor of Science. He took up the study of medi- cine under the preceptorship of his father and attended lectures in the medical department of the University of Vermont, and was graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, in 1882, with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He captured a Harsen prize and was further honored with the presi- dency of his class. He later took the examina- tion and received the degree of Doctor of Medi- cine from the University of Vermont, and was elected assistant professor of diseases of the throat in that institution in 1886. He received the extraordinary appointment of interne to Bellevue Hospital without examination, and served twenty months, on the second surgical division, an unusual term. After enjoying this peculiar opportunity for surgical practice he be- came a student at Berlin during 1886, under Pro- fessor J. Hirschberg, one of the most celebrated eye specialists in Europe. While pursuing his studies there he received an appointment as in- structor of materia medica in the University of Vermont. He entered upon that position in 1887 and delivered his first course of lectures on ma- teria medica that year in that institution. At the end of the year he was elected to the full chair of materia medica and therapeutics, serv- ing in that capacity seven years. He was elected professor of diseases of the eye, ear and throat in 1889 and served in that capacity for ten years, and during a portion of that time he acted as sec- retary and treasurer of the faculty. Seeking a wider field for his professional skill, he went to New York city in 1897, locating at 58 West Fortieth street, where he soon acquired a large and profitable clientele and has been eminently successful. He was for some time on the attend- ing staff of various metropolitan hospitals, until pressure of his private practice compelled him to resign. He was formerly ophthalmic surgeon

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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 II, Part 120

Author: Carleton, Hiram, 1838- ed Publication date: 1903 Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company Number of Pages: 1044

Author: Carleton, Hiram, 1838- ed
Publication date: 1903
Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company
Number of Pages: 1044