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 121

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

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to the Mary Fletcher Hospital in Burlington, and was at the same time a member of the staff of the Fanny Allen Hospital of Winooski.

Dr. Woodward is a member of the American Medical Association, the New York Academy of Medicine, the Societe Francais d'Opthalmologie, the New York County Medical Society ; the New York Athletic Club, the Fencers' Club and the Republican Club of New York city. He is a frequent contributor to medical journals, has published a number of pamphlets, and is fre- quently called upon to lecture before medical societies. He is author of the section on diseases and injuries of vision and audition in Witthaus & Becker's "System of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology," which is the standard work on that subject, comprising several volumes.

Referring briefly and not inappropriately to the ancestral history of Dr. Woodward, the earliest of which we are able to record in this connection was Jonathan Woodward, who had a son Theodore, who was born at Hanover, New Hampshire, and removed to Barre, Vermont, where he lived up to the time of his death. A man of great intellectual accomplishments, he became a noted chemist, philosopher and geolo- gist. The christian name of his wife was Martha and their children were George, Don Judas, Martha and Rebecca.

Theodore Woodward, grandfather of Dr. Woodward, was born and reared in Barre, Ver- mont, and was a man of considerable mental force. He studied medicine with Dr. Gridley, and he secured the charter and founded the old Castleton Medical College, the first institution of the kind in Vermont. He was professor of sur- gery and obstetrics in that college from 1818 until his death in 1838, a period of twenty years. During that time he continued in the active prac- tice of medicine in Castleton, and as consulting surgeon over a territory extending over the en- tire state of Vermont and throughout northern New York. He was the leading surgeon of Ver- mont for many years. He was a surgeon in the war of 1812 and took care of the wounded at the battle of Plattsburg. He married Mary Win- nington, and they were the parents of the fol- lowing named children: Lucia, who married Dr. John H. Philip, the father of the late Rear Admiral John W. Philip; Edwin Carlos, who

was a merchant in Castleton, Vermont, and fa- ther of the late Captain Edwin T. Woodward, of the United States navy; Caroline M., who mar- ried Dr. Egbert Jamison, who was formerly a practicing physician at Racine, Wisconsin; Dr. A. T. Woodward, father of Julius Hayden Wood- ward; and Mary Adelia, who married Dr. John Ross, a physician.

Dr. A. T. Woodward, father of Dr. Julius Hayden Woodward, was born at Castleton, Ver- mont, July 17, 1827. He graduated from Cas- tleton Seminary in 1845, and Castleton Medical College in 1847, at the age of twenty years. He has thus at the present time been in the active practice of medicine more than fifty-five years. Not unlike his father, he was for many years a leading surgeon of the state, and his clientele also extended all over northern New York as well. He was for four years located at White- hall, New York. He was later connected with the Albany Hospital, and at the same time held the chair as demonstrator of anatomy in the Al- bany Medical College. He was subsequently professor of obstetrics and diseases of women and children in the Castleton Medical College, until he removed to Brandon in 1860. He has been engaged in private practice at that place since that time. During this time he was for several years professor of surgical diseases of women in the University of Vermont, and con- sulting surgeon at the Mary Fletcher Hospital at Burlington. He was surgeon of the Four- teenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, in the Civil war, and saw service at the battle of Get- tysburg, Spottsylvania Court House and the Wil- derness. He was part of the time a member of the state examining board of volunteer surgeons.

Dr. Woodward is a member of the Vermont State Medical Society, the Rutland County Medi- cal Society and the American Medical Associa- tion. He has written numerous papers and pamphlets, many of which have been published. Fraternally he is a member of the Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Legion.

Dr. Woodward married Miss Martha Chapin, of Whitehall, New York, and they became the parents of two children, both of whom are de- ceased. His wife dying in 1853, at the age of

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twenty six years, he married for his second wife Lois C. June, a daughter of Milton June, of Bran- don, Vermont. Of this union were born two children : Julius Hayden; and Irving, who died at the age of nine years.

CHARLES HOWARD FAULKNER.

Charles H. Faulkner, an enterprising and pros- perous merchant of Readsboro, was born No- vember 25, 1862, in Whitingham, the birthplace of his father, Levi Faulkner, and of his grand- father, Willard Faulkner. His great-grandfather, Willard Faulkner, Sr., removed from Connecti- cut to Vermont towards the close of the eighteenth century, being one of the pioneers of Whiting- ham, where he took up a tract of wild land, and improved a farm.

Willard Faulkner, Jr., was born on the home farm in Whitingham, and was there a tiller of the soil during his life, dying when but sixty years of age. By his union with Roxana Boyd, seven children were born, as follows: Royal H., of Wilmington, Vermont; Lucretia J., deceased ; Levi, father of Charles H .; Willard R., of Whit- ingham; Julia, wife of L. P. Dalrymple, also of Whitingham; Roxanna, deceased; Albert J., also of Whitingham. Both of the parents of these children were members of the Universalist church.

Levi Faulkner, born on the ancestral home- stead in Whitingham, spent his entire life of forty-two years in that town, being actively en- gaged in agricultural pursuits. He married Mary A. Howard, of West Dover, a daughter of David and Mercy (Hall) Howard, who reared the fol- lowing named children: Henry; Ballard; Aman- da ; Armena, deceased; Mary Ann, who married Levi Faulkner; her twin sister, Marietta; Har- riet, deceased, and who was wife of Willard Faulkner ; and Hannah, deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Howard were also members of the Universalist church. Of the union of Levi Faulkner and his wife eight children were born: Willard, a car- penter, living in Whitingham; Roxanna, wife of R. S. Houghton, of West Dover ; Charles H., the special subject of this sketch; Frank E., of Whit- ingham ; Annette A., wife of Arthur H. Lyons, of New London, Connecticut; Ernest L., who was killed in 1898 in a railroad accident; Erbern C., living with his widowed mother; and John,

deceased. Both parents united with the Univer- salist church when young.

Charles H. Faulkner acquired a thorough training in the various branches of agriculture on the home farm, obtaining a practical education in the district schools. On reaching man's es- tate he went to Wilmington, where he was en- gaged in farming six years. Returning to Reads- boro in 1888. he entered the store of Mr. Elmer I. Bullock, with whom he remained as a clerk for a period of ten years. In 1898, in partner-

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ship with H. H. Hanley, of North Adams, he bought out his former employer, and has since carried on an extensive and lucrative business, employing three clerks. The store is finely stocked with a choice line of goods, including boots, shoes, dry-goods, clothing, rubbers, groceries, hardware, paints, oils, wall papers-in fact, every- thing demanded by the trade, being the most complete in all departments of any store between North Adams and Brattleboro. Politically Mr.

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Faulkner is a Democrat, and has served as con- stable, bailiff, chairman of the board of selectmen, and was a representative to the state legislature in 1898, serving on the committee on corpora- tions. Fraternally he belongs to Deerfield Valley Lodge, I. O. O. F.

Mr. Faulkner married, February 18, 1889, Clara Faulkner, who was born in Wilmington, Vermont, a daughter of R. H. Faulkner. Her father married, first, Minerva Boyd, who bore him seven children, as follows: George R., who married Dora Gallup; Samantha, who married W. E. Winchester ; Dwight, deceased; Oscar, de- ceased; Flora, wife of Frank Flagg; Herbert, who married Rosa Tyler; and Clara, wife of C. H. Faulkner. Mrs. Faulkner's father, who is still living, married for his second wife Maria Brown, by whom he has one child, Lulu, wife of Walter Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner are the parents of two children, Merrill and Pauline.

LOUIS SHELDON NEWTON.

Louis Sheldon Newton, a prominent archi- tect of Hartford, Vermont, and a man held in high estimation in commercial and social circles, is a descendant of David Newton, born March 25, 1753; one of the pioneer settlers of the town, having emigrated from Hartford, Connecticut. David Newton was united in marriage, Septem- ber 16, 1773, to Mary Hazen, who was born Sep- tember II, 1754, and sixteen children were born to them.

When Sheldon, the first born, was twenty- one years of age there were fourteen children living at home with their parents. The family record of David Newton is believed to be the most remarkable in the United States, if not in the world, in respect to the number of children, their individual length of life, and the aggre- gate ages of the whole family.

The first death in the family occurred nearly fifty-two years after the marriage of the parents, and the second death was that of Mary (Hazen) Newton, the mother, which occurred in 1823; at that time her oldest child was in his forty-eighth year, and the youngest child was nearly twenty- four years old. The average age of the sixteen children was nearly seventy years, and, added to that of their parents, made the total twelve

hundred and seventy-two years. David Newton died December 29, 1839, aged eighty-six years, and his wife died September 4, 1823, in the sixty-ninth year of her age.

Sheldon Newton, grandfather of Louis Shel- don Newton, was born July 1, 1774; he mar- ried, for his second wife, Nancy Wilder, and the following named children were born to them: Betsy, Emmeline, Maria and John Newton. Mr. Sheldon Newton's death occurred January 2, 1849, he being then seventy-four years, six months and one day old.

John Newton, father of Louis Sheldon New- ton, was born October 13, 1818, and married for his second wife, June 6, 1849, Mary Jane Dut- ton, the seventh daughter of Elijah and Susan Hoar Dutton; she was born November 4, 1826, and died October 3, 1889. John Newton died July 29, 1893, aged seventy-four years and ten months.

The Duttons in America are of Saxon nativ- ity. The ancient family of Duttons assumed their surname from the place of their residence-Dun- tune-now contracted to Dutton, a township lying about five miles east of Frodsham, on the river Wever, in Cheshire. The Duttons in Vermont are descendants of the Duttons who emigrated to New England about 1630, many of whose de- scendants settled in Connecticut. The Duttons in Hartford are lineal descendants of Thomas Dutton, of Wallingford, Connecticut.

Louis Sheldon Newton is the youngest of five children born to John and Mary Jane Dutton Newton, on March 21, 1871. He acquired an excellent education at St. Johnsbury Academy, and upon the completion of his studies devoted his attention to the profession of architecture, being employed in offices in Boston, and he also pursued a course of study in evening classes, where he soon perfected himself in his vocation. He then opened an office in Lebanon, New Hamp- shire, where he remained for a short time, sub- sequently removed to Hartford, and many of the public and private buildings in various sec- tions of New England are monuments to his proficiency and skill.

He had remodeled and constructed many of the private residences in Woodstock, several of the residences connected with Dartmouth Col- lege, Hanover, New Hampshire, the addition to

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the National Bank at White River Junction, sev- cral residences and mercantile buildings at Leba- non, New Hampshire, the handsome residence of T. N. Vail, the banker of Lyndonville, the Wilder Club and Library building at Wilder, Vermont, and has just completed ( 1903) the re- modeling of the Second Congregational church of Hartford, his services in this work being a gratuity, as they are in the nature of a memorial to his father and mother.

Mr. Newton is especially successful in re- modeling and rebuilding, having performed con- siderable work in this branch of the business on various churches, schools and institutions in this section of the state. Superior skill in the line of his chosen calling, special preparation for the work supplementing natural artistic taste, com- bined with reliability, promptness and energy, are the qualities which have insured his pros- perity and made him one of the leading repre- sentatives of commercial interests in the town of Hartford, Vermont; and those familiar with the high grade of Mr. Newton's work regard him entirely equal to metropolitan architects.

HARLEY E. FOLSOM.

Harley E. Folsom, division superintendent on the Boston & Maine Railroad, and superintendent of the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad, is a native of Vermont, born in Lyndonville, Jan- uary 14, 1850. He was reared upon a farm, and received his education in the district schools. He entered upon his active career at the early age of sixteen, when he obtained employment as clerk in a store in his native town. After he had passed four years in this occupation he became a clerk in the general freight office of the Pas- sumpsic Railroad, at Lyndonville, and here dis- played those qualities and that aptitude for rail- way affairs which brought him promotion, and made transportation affairs his life work. When twenty-three years of age he was appointed gen- eral freight agent on the same road, and he served in that position with such acceptability that two years later, at the age of twenty-five, he was made superintendent. He subsequently be- came president of the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad Company, and division su- perintendent of two lines, the Passumpsic Rail-

road and the Connecticut River Railroad. Mr. Folsom holds a high place in railroad circles, recognized as master in transportation affairs, and to him is awarded high credit for promoting railway facilities throughout the region in which operate the lines with which he is connected.

Mr. Folsom, aside from his official duties, has accomplished much toward advancing the inter- ests of that portion of Vermont in which his activities have been exerted. He was married to Miss Jennie Louisa, a daughter of the late Dr. Charles M. Darling, of Lyndonville (who is written of on another page of this work). She was educated at Lyndon Institute, St. Johns- bury Academy, and Lasell Seminary, Auburn- dale, Massachusetts. Of this marriage was born a son, Charles D. Folsom, deceased, and a daugh- ter. Flavia G. Folsom.

CHARLES HENRY WILLARD.

Charles Henry Willard, whose hotel experi- ences have embraced connection with a number of the most notable season hotels of the United States, has for the last year ( 1902-03) conducted with signal success the Hotel Putnam, Benning- ton, Vermont. He was born in Pawlet, Ver- mont, October 11, 1855. He is a son of the late Barton and Almeda (Wetherill) Willard, both of whom were natives of Vermont. The grand- father of Barton Willard was the first white man to locate in what is now the site of the town of Danby, of which he was one of the original proprietors. Mrs. Almeda (Wetherill) Willard was a granddaughter of the Samuel Purdy who had the distinction of being the first white child born in the town of Manchester. The first of the Willards to locate in Rutland county was Jonathan Willard,who brought his family through the wilderness from Sheffield, Connecticut, where the founder of the American family of Willards had located from Sheffield, England, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and it was through this settler that the Connecticut town obtained the name of Sheffield. This Jonathan Willard was the man commissioned to settle the boundary dis- putes between New York and New Hampshire, as applying to the towns of Danby and Pawlet, and so successful were his negotiations that neither of these places were disturbed through

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the bitter contests waged for territorial possession by the contesting claimants. Moving from Dan- by to Pawlet, Jonathan Willard became one of the original proprietors of the latter place, and at one time held title to three-fourths of the en- tire township. From this he cleared and culti- vated a farming property. He was otherwise prominently identified with the affairs generally of his community, and contributed in many ways to its substantial development. His son, Jona- than, was born in Pawlet, December 25, 1770, was a currier and tanner by trade, and, as was the almost invariable rule in that early day with men of his calling, was a maker of boots and shoes. In 1845 he removed to Sandusky, Ohio, where he died in 1850. He married Deborah Haskins, whose parents were Connecticut people.

Burton Willard was the youngest son of this marriage. He was born in Pawlet, January 4, 1812, became a farmer, and carried on that voca- tion first in Pawlet and subsequently in Man- chester, Vermont, where he died July 1, 1879. He was twice married. His first wife was Abby J., daughter of Amos Wilcox, a farmer of Paw- let. She died, leaving two sons and a daughter, of whom one son survives, Mark L. Willard, of Luzerne, New York. The deceased son, Amos W. Willard, was a soldier during the Civil war, in Company C, Sixteenth New York Volunteer Infantry, and died from the effect of wounds received at the battle of White Oaks, Virginia. By the second wife there were six children, of whom four survive, viz .: Burt Willard, Charles H. Willard, Mrs. Anna E. Baldwin and Mrs. Charles E. Meacham, all of Bennington, Ver- mont. Burton Willard was a life-long, devoted and consistent member of the Congregational church. Politically he was a Republican, was active in upholding his party's interests, but never held or aspired to hold office.

Charles H. Willard received his education in the public schools of his native place, and was thereafter variously employed in different locali- ties up to the attainment of his majority. At this period he was in charge of one of the depart- ments of the commissary of the Denver, South Park & Pacific Railroad Construction Company. He was thus employed for five years, and in this capacity acquired much of the knowledge which equipped him for his subsequent career

in hotel-keeping. In 1885 he was located at Manchester with Franklin H. Orvis, the founder, and up to the time of his decease owner of that famous Green Mountain summer hotel, "The Equinox." Mr. Willard served as assistant stew- ard of "The Equinox" through the summers of five years,, and during the winters of these years in a similar capacity with Mr. Orris' hotel prop- erty, "The Putnam," at Palatka, Florida. Fol- lowing this employment he was engaged suc- cessfully as steward of the Tampa Bay Hotel (Florida), Hygeia and Chamberlain (Old Point Comfort), and other large season houses up to 1902, when he became associated in a managerial capacity with "The Putnam," Bennington.

Mr. Willard married, November 1, 1874, Marion, daughter of Darius Labdell, of Middle- town Springs, Vermont. Mrs. Willard died two years later, leaving one son, Burt W., who is now associated with his father in business. Mr. Willard's second marriage, in March, 1897, was to Mrs. Vina M. (Durgan) Irish, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and who has a daughter, Bessie, by her first marriage. Mr. Willard is a member of Adoniram Lodge, No. 42, F. & A. M., and Bennington Lodge, No. 567, B. P. O. E.

E. K. GOODALL.

On Thursday, September 29, 1900, there died in the city of Brattleboro, after a long period of confinement to his well known home on the Put- ney Road, the gentleman whose name we have the privilege to present above. He was very highly esteemed in the community of which he had been a resident for the past twenty years. He was born in Enfield, Maine, October 13, 1834, and was a son of Solomon Goodall. His mother's maiden name was Anna Allen. Solomon Goodall was a native of Halifax, Windham county, while his wife was born in Westmoreland, New Hamp- shire.

The family moved to Littleton, New Hamp- shire, when the son was seven years of age. At the age of fifteen he went to the city of Boston, where he remained for three years, then sailed on a ship bound for Australia, and for the follow- ing three years was in that country, and in China and Japan. On his return to America he settled in Boston, where he conducted a produce business

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in the old Faneuil Market until 1876. In that year he bought the estate on the Putney Road, which he afterward developed and improved, building a farm house in 1877 and his own resi- dence in 1878. He retained an active interest in the Boston business house for thirty years after coming to this community. The style of the firm was E. K. Goodall & Company in its earlier existence, and later changed to Goodall, Mitchell & Dexter. In both of these firms Mr. Goodall was the active and controlling spirit. He was recognized in Boston produce circles as a mạn of great energy, broad business activity, and a leader who was looked up to and relied upon. During the Civil war Mr. Goodall served for nine months as a member of the Eleventh Massa- chusetts Battery. The rigorous service, how- ever, was too much for his constitution, and he was discharged for disability. In Brattleboro Mr. Goodall was a familiar figure in the public life of the community, being actively and help- fully interested in the affairs of his adopted city. He was a man who had a keen wit at his com- mand, and made a most genial and pleasant com- panion. Some six years previous to his death he suffered a severe accident by fire, and this was the beginning of the decline which grew more marked in succeeding years. This brought on complications of an epileptic nature, which dis- ease was hereditary in his family, and which compelled him gradually to withdraw from actual communication with the outside world. During all this time he had the ready and constant help and sympathy of his neighbors in the community on the Putney Road. Their assistance was also faithfully rendered to Mrs. Goodall in her de- voted personal care of her husband, which was maintained to the very last.

The Goodall family was of great distinction in the early history of this country, having been granted a distinct coat of arms by the king of England in 1612. This coat of arms represented a silver eagle with gold claws and beak, a red shield, a cornucopia and a chaplet of grass and flowers, the chaplet being a reward of military service. The first name of which we have au- thentic record is that of Robert Goodall, who was born in 1604, and whose wife's first name was Katherine. She was born in 1606. They left Ipswich, England, in April, 1634, with their

three children, Mary, Abraham and Isaac. There was a later son named Zachariah, born in Ameri- ca in 1639, who married Elizabeth Beauchamp. This couple lived in Salem, Massachusetts, and were the parents of eleven children. John Good- all, the next in line, was born in 1679 in Salem, and married Elizabeth Witt in 1703. He resided in Marlboro, and died in that town, May IT, 1752. Nathan Goodall, his son, was born June 15, 1709, and married Persis Whitney in 1726. His death occurred January 14, 1780. A bit of family tradition concerning the burial of this member of the family is that the depth of snow was so great at the time that the body was car- ried to the cemetery on a hand-sled. Rev. David Goodall was the next in line of succession. He was a man of distinguished mould, a graduate of Dartmouth College in 1775, participated in the Revolutionary war as a private in Captain Israel Curtiss's company of Home Guards. He married Elizabeth Brigham, December 17, 1778, and six years later he was settled as a minister in Halifax, Vermont, where he resided until 1796. The remainder of his life was spent in Little- ton, New Hampshire, where his death occurred March 4, 1830. He was the father of Solomon Goodall, who was the father of our deceased subject.

It is of interest to note that the early spelling of the family name changed frequently, assum- ing the following forms at different periods : Goodel, Goodell, Goodall, Goodeal, Goodale. The following constitutes the family record from the old family Bible of the Rev. David Goodall as to the birth of his children: Elizabeth, Jan- uary 7, 1781, deceased November 25, 1858; David, January 7, 1783, drowned May 12, 1812; Persis, November 1, 1784; Solomon August 24, 1786; Ira, August 1, 1788.

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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 121

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