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 22

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

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Mr. Whitcomb married Miss Marilla Shel- den, a daughter of Moses Shelden, of Calais, Vermont. Six children were born to them: Moses Shelden, special subject of this sketch : Icena H., Meroa E., Jennie A., Mary J. and Hattie Whitcomb, the two youngest now deceased. Jennie A. married Parker S. Balch, of Richmond ; Meroa marired John Mason, of Richmond ; Mary J. resides in Lexington, married Dr. M. J. Jacobs, now deceased. Mr. Whitcomb died in August, 1898, and his wife passed away in January, 1901.

Moses Shelden Whitcomb, only son of Uzziel Stevens and Marilla (Shelden) Whitcomb, was born in Canada December 21, 1842, coming

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to Underhill in childhood. He was educated in manufacture of sleighs. Subsequently he located the public schools and then became a student at m Beardstown, Ilinois, where he followed the the Williston and Underhill academies, where he received an excellent education. After complet- ing his studies he remained on the old homestead, where he was employed by his father for twenty- five years, working by the year. Subsequently he purchased the farm, which consists of twelve hundred acres of choice, productive land. He makes a specialty of dairy products, in which he has achieved marked success, being known as one of the largest dealers in that section of the state, keeping one hundred and fifty cows. trade of pattern making, and after continuing in this line of work for two years, he returned to the state of Vermont and settled in Brattleboro, where he was employed as a mechanic for several years ; he then entered the Estey Organ factory, where he was engaged in setting up machines in the carly history of that business ; he also designed some tools for the use of the company and so- valuable did his services prove that he was re- tained in their employ for most of the period of thirty years. He was also engaged for a short space of time in the construction and perfecting

Mr. Whitcomb has been actively engaged in local politics for many years, his first public office being that of selectman, a position he held for three years; he also served as lister for one year, and in 1902 was elected as representative to the state legislature. He is a member of the Congregational church of Richmond, Vermont, for which he acts in the capacity of deacon and treasurer. When in the legislature he was on the committee of claims. He was one of the in- corporators of the Jonesville creamery and has been treasurer and director since.

In September, 1887, Mr. Whitcomb was united in marriage to Miss Lily Green, daugh- ter of E. B. Green. She lived only a few months after her marriage, her death occurred the fol- lowing spring in April. In November, 1897, he married Miss Josie Glen Fuller, a daughter of Josiah Fuller, of Stocktown, Vermont. The following named children have been born to them : Sarah Ann, Uzziel Shelden and Howard Fuller Whitcomb.

HALE RIX ROSE.

Hale R. Rose, late of Brattleboro, Vermont, was born in the town of Guilford, Vermont, May I, 1821. He was reared in that town and when quite a young boy he removed to Halifax, where part of his time was spent in attending school, and the balance of the time he worked upon the farm of which Mr. Marsh was owner. At the age of sixteen years he was employed in a carriage shop, where he became very familiar with the use of tools; he remained at this occupation for one year and a half, and the following two or three years he was engaged in a shop devoted to the

HALE RIX ROSE.

of sewing machines and as an adjuster, which latter occupation he followed in different places. His work was very laborious and therefore very trying to his health and strength, and having ac- cumulated a comfortable competence, Mr. Rose retired from the active duties of life fifteen years

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prior to the date of his death, November 21, 190I. He was a man of considerable individulity, having a strong character, a public spirit and broad- minded, generous principles.

Mr. Rose was united in marriage to Miss Cordelia Bond, and one child was born to them, whose death occurred on the same day as that of its mother. Mr. Rose chose for his second wife Miss Mary L. Charter, daughter of David and Anna (Gould) Charter, the former named be- ing a resident of Colerain, Massachusetts, whence he removed to Marlboro, Vermont, where he purchased a farm of between four and five hun- dred acres of land, which was devoted to the pro- duction of a general line of garden produce ; he was also a successful stock-dealer and was con- sidered one of the substantial men in that section of the state. He married Miss Anna Gould, and six children were born to them: David K., Sarah A., Sylvester, Mary L., Eliza and George D. Charter. The father of these children died November 29, 1861, at the age of sixty-six years, and his wife passed away in October, 1885.

Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Rose: Frank H., who is employed at present as a salesman on the road for the firm of Valentine & Company, of New York; he was united in mar- riage to Miss Catherine Carpenter on September 12, 1888. She was the daughter of George W. Carpenter, a prominent business man of Syracuse, New York. One child has been born of this union, Hale Frank Rose. The second child of Mr. and Mrs. Rose was Sarah Jane, who is un- married and resides at home.

E. B. WHITING.

E. B. Whiting, a prominent journalist and leading _ business man of St. Albans, Ver- mont, where he resided for so many years, was descended from one of the oldest and most respected families of Massachusetts. The founder of the family in America was Nathanael Whiting, son of Nathanael and Hannah Whiting. He was born in England in the seventeenth century, and joined his country- men in the new world, finding a home in the colony of Massachusetts Bay. He married, whether before or after his emigration is not

known, Joanna Gay, March 29, 1664, and died in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Jonathan Whiting, son of Nathaniel and Joanna (Gay) Whiting, was born October 9, 1667, and married December 13, 1689, Rachel Thorp. Jonathan Whiting, son of Jonathan and Rachel (Thorp) Whiting, was born November 8, 1896, and married, January 27, 1725, Anna Bullard. William Whiting, son of Jonathan and Anna (Bullard) Whiting, was born January II, 1726, and married, April 11, 1754, Hannah Ellis. Enoch Whiting, son of William and Hannah (Ellis) Whiting, was born July 18, 1781, at Dedham, Massachusetts, where, if we may judge from the record, the life of the family had for several generations run a quiet and uneventful course. Enoch Whiting, however, moved from the ancestral home to Amherst, Massachusetts, where he conducted a large tannery, which he sold in 1834, and moved again, this time to St. Albans, Vermont, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was a member of the Congre- gational church, and married, October 13, 1803. Catherine Smith, born December 27, 1781, at Dover, Massachusetts, descended on the maternal side from the Richards. Their children were : William, born December 5, 1804, died January 21, 1837; Willard, born August 19, 1806, and he and his wife were cast on Cape Hatteras and lost their lives on October 9, 1837 ; Hannah Ellis, born August 15, 1808, died June 25, 1849: Emeline Celia, born January 3, 1811, died May 20, 18II ; Calvin, born June 4, 1812, died April 17, 1884; Enoch Bangs, born February 26, 1816. died April 3, 1898; Catherine Smith, born May 23, 1819, died May 9, 1845, and she married Benjamin F. Russell, and their child Catherine died September 17, 1845; Henry Lewis, born October 4, 1821, died July 4, 1893 ; Eliza Draper. born August 21, 1823, died June 15, 1883, and married John P. Clark ; and Francis Ellis, born November 2, 1827, was drowned May 14. 1832.

Enoch B. Whiting, son of Enoch and Cather- ine (Smith) Whiting, was born February 26. 1816, at Amherst, Massachusetts. He had the advantage of a practical training for his future career as a journalist, having worked in the printing offices of the Hampshire Gazette. North- ampton, and also in the offices of the Boston Journal. He then went to St. Albans, Vermont.

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where he had a brother living, and in 1837 bought out the local paper and founded the Messenger. By Ins time abilities and untiring efforts, this paper was for over thirty years an important factor in the development and prosperity of the town, and not only of the town, but of the state also. Soon after the breaking out of the Civil war, the Daily Messenger was established, and a bookbindery and bookstore were added to the printing basiness. In 1872 Mr. Whiting became interested in the Burlington Brush Company, and on the closing up of that company in 1873, he bought the right and interest in certain fibre- combing machines and established a new in- dustry, that of dressing and preparing fibre for brushes. In commerce he was no less successful than he had been in journalism, the business conducted by him being one of the most flourish- ing in Vermont.

In politics Mr. Whiting was a stanch Re- publican, but preferred to devote himself to ad- vancing the best interests of the community as a journalist and business man rather than an office holder. Mr. Whiting was an active and devoted member of the Congregational church, a liberal participant in its benevolent enterprises, and in disposition extremely charitable. He never lost his interest in the newspapers of Vermont, and was one of the few honory members of the Ver- mont Press Association.

Mr. Whiting married at St. Albans, Vermont, November 24, 1841, Mary Loraine Fairchild, who was born March 21, 1817, in Georgia, Vermont, a daughter of Philo Fairchild, who was one of the early settlers of Georgia, Vermont, and later of Flint, Michigan, where he went in 1836. Mrs. Whiting was a woman of fine educational attain- ments and before her marriage had been a teacher. Their children were: William Ham- mond, born at St. Albans, February 3, 1843, graduated at Amherst college in 1869, and fol- lowed the profession of journalism, and died in St. Albans, Vermont, December 29, 1874; Mary Catherine, born, as were the following named children, at St. Albans, November 12, 1844, graduated in New York, and married E. H. Bowers, cashier in a bank of Rock Island, Illi- nois ; Harriet Eliza, born March 18, 1851, gradu- ated in a Brooklyn school, and married Horatio Hickok, a large manufacturer of boxes, etc., of

Burlington, Vermont : and Alfred Catlin, born February 23. 1853. attended the University of Vermont, engaged in the manufacture of brush fibre and married, October 9, 1878, Lillie Lewis, after whose death he married Ada Bartlett.

In 1882 Mr. Whiting removed to Burlington, Vermont, where he resided until his death on April 3, 1898, at the advanced age of eighty-two, leaving behind him the record of a progressive, public-spirited citizen, and an honorable, courte- ous and kindly man.

ALFRED CATLIN WHITING.

Alfred Catlin Whiting, a leading maunfac- turer and highly esteemed citizen of Burlington, Vermont, is a representative in the present gener- ation of the Whitings, a family known and re- spected in Massachusetts for more than two centuries, the full genealogy of which is traced in the sketch of E B. Whiting, father of Alfred Catlin Whiting.

Enoch Bangs Whiting, sixth in descent from the emigrant ancestor, Nathaniel Whiting, was born February 26, 1816, received a common school education and learned the printer's trade in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was a book- seller in St. Albans, and publisher of the Messen- ger for thirty-three years, after which he was interested in the dressing of brush fibre in Burl- ington, Vermont, and continued in this business for the remainder of his life. He was a leading member of the Congregational church in St. Albans and Burlington and was always a strong Republican. He died in Burlington, Vermont, April 3, 1898. Mr. Whiting married, November 24, 1841, Mary Loraine Fairchild, born March 21, 1817, daughter of Philo Fairchild, who was the son of Joel Fairchild, grandson of Stephen Fairchild, and great-grandson of Thomas Fair- child, the common ancestor of all the bearers of that name who trace their descent from the original colonist. Thomas Fairchild was one of the first proprietors of Stratford, Connecticut, and was also the first magistrate. Mrs. Whiting died March 3, 1876.

Alfred Catlin Whiting, seventh in descent from Nathanael, the founder of the family in America, was the son of Enoch B. and Mary L. (Fairchild) Whiting and was born in St.

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Albans, Vermont, February 23, 1853. He at- tended the public schools of his native town and the private school of J. W. Taylor in the same place, and later the University of Vermont, at Burlington.

In June, 1873, Mr. Whiting, in partnership with his father, established in Burlington, a new industry, that of dressing by machinery brush- fibre for brush-makers, under the name of E. B. & A. C. Whiting. This business was opened with very imperfect machinery in the brush factory on Battery street, foot of Cherry street. There was over forty thousand dollars spent by the brush company and over twenty thousand dol- lars by the Messrs. Whiting, before the business was on a paying basis. Such were the enterprise and business ability of Mr. Whiting and his father, that success finally crowned their efforts. In 1891 the firm of E. B. & A. C. Whiting bought of Flint & Hall, of Boston, Massachusetts, a lot on the northeast corner of Pine and Howard streets in Burlington and erected a large factory thereon. They had now the most flourishing business of the kind in the country, and the future seemed to hold for them nothing but un- interrupted prosperity, but on January 13, 1902, this factory was destroyed by fire. The firm, undaunted by this calamity, proved itself equal to the occasion. Temporary quarters were se- cured in one of the Marble Mill buildings, and the trade supplied by working night and day, until a new factory, on the site of the old, was finished in October, 1902.

Mr. A. C. Whiting was director of the Bald- win Manufacturing Company, being vice-presi- dent and treasurer for several years; also presi- dent of the Bourdon Company of Boston; di- rector of the Burlington Manufacturing Com- pany; director and treasurer of the Vermont Electric Company for a number of years.

In politics Mr. Whiting is a Republican, but, like his father, prefers to serve the community as a private citizen rather than in any official capacity. While in school Mr. Whiting was a Good Templar and during his college course be- came a member of the Sigma Phi society. He joined the First Congregational church in St. Albans, and in 1885 transferred his member- ship to the College street Congregational church of Burlington, where he is an active member,

having been in 1894-95-96, a member of the pru- dential committee, treasurer in 1898, and since 1895 chairman of the pew committee. Mr. Whit- ing is interested in the benevolent enterprises of the town, having been for several years a direc- tor of the Y. M. C. A., and having filled the same office from 1902 in the Old Ladies' Home.

Mr. Whiting married in Burlington, October 9, 1878, Lillie, daughter of Dr. James and Abigail B. (Mason) Lewis, of Burlington, Vermont. Mrs. Whiting was a graduate of Vassar College, of the class of 1875, and was prominent in church circles, in the Y. W. C. A., and in charitable work generally. Their children were: Alfred Lewis, born, as were all the other children, in Burlington, Vermont, on July 26, 1879; Mar- garet, born December 5, 1881 ; Marion, born Sep- tember 30, 1884, died February 2, 1887; Grace, born December 23, 1886; and Lillie, born April 14, 1894, died August 6, 1894. Mrs. Whiting died April 16, 1894, at the age of forty-one years, and on July 15, 1896, Mr. Whiting married Ada Damaris Bartlett, dughter of Luther and Jane Goss (White) Bartlett, of Norwood, New York ; the marriage took place at the house of her sis- ter, in Ogdensburg, New York. Mrs. Whiting was a student at the Potsdam Normal School and graduated at the Oswego Normal College.

Alfred Lewis Whiting, eighth in descent from the founder of the family, is the son of Alfred Catlin, seventh in descent, and Lillie (Lewis) Whiting. He was born July 26, 1879, in Burl- ington, Vermont, and was educated in the pub- lic schools of his native town and at the Montclair Military Academy, Montclair, New Jersey. In 1901 he was New York agent of the Bourdon Company, of Boston, and in January, 1902, he entered into the brush-fibre busines with his father.

CORNELIUS PELTIAH RHOADS.

C. P. Rhoads, now retired, is one of the rep- resentative men of Richmond, Vermont, where he was born March 19, 1827, being a son of Asa and Adeline C. Rhoads. Asa Rhoads, his grandfather, was born on the 15th of July, 1763. After completing his education, which was ac- quired in the common schools, he was engaged for many years as a teacher in a public school,

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and in 1802 he compiled and published a spell- ing book, which was revised in 1804 and univer- sally used in all the schools of that period. In 1817 he removed to Richmond, Vermont, where he established a private school, which he con - ducted successfully for some time, and in connec- tion with this enterprise he purchased a farm and employed his spare time in its cultivation. On that place he planted a grove of mulberry trees and started the industry of raising silk worms, but that did not prove a successful venture. In 1787 Mr. Rhoads married Miss Lucy Comstock, of Smithfield, Rhode Island, and five children were born to them : Lucy, born January 4, 1788, Daniel, born November 4, 1789; Johanna, born December 15, 1793; Nathan, born June 23, 1795 ; and Hannah, born December 4, 1797. The mother of these children died in 1798, and he then mar- ried Miss Christian Jewell, June 6, 1799, she being the daughter of Jonathan Jewell, of Adams, Massachusetts. Six children were born of this union : Mary Collins, born April 20, 1800; Asa, born March 15, 1803: Rachel, born June 17, 1805; Jonathan, born July 17, 1806; Betsy, born May 6, 1812; and Clarissa, born July 1, 1815. Mr. Rhoads died July 21, 1843, having been a member of the Society of Friends, and his wife survived him for many years.

Asa Rhoads, Jr., the father of C. P. Rhoads, was born in North Adams, Massachusetts, March 15, 1803, and moved to Richmond, Ver- mont, in 1817. He received his education in the common schools of his native town, and later in life purchased the old homestead, where he de- voted his time to agricultural pursuits, and was considered a thoroughly practical and progressive farmer, and through industry and perseverance was enabled to accumulate a comfortable com- petence. In his political views he was a firm ad- herent of the principles of the Republican party. In 1826 Asa Rhoads, Jr., was united in marriage to Miss Adeline Russell, a daughter of Peltiah Russell, who was a son of John Russell, a resi- dent of New Hampshire for many years, but later removed to Richmond, Vermont, where he was one of the first settlers and was proprietor of a tavern for many years. Two children blessed the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads: C. P .; and Josephine A., born May II, 1835. The daughter married B. N. Jones, who died at Har-

per's. Ferry while participating in the Civil war, and they had one child, Bertha A. Jones, who became the wife of Eugene Weston; after her husband's death Mrs. Jones married Dr. Lorain Chamberlin, of Jericho, Vermont, and after his death she became the wife of A. B. Edwards. Mr. Rhoads died June 19, 1871, and his wife passed away on the 25th of December, 1899.

Cornelius Peltiah Rhoads received his educa- tional advantages in the common schools of Rich- mond, Vermont, and upon reaching young man- hood purchased the old homestead, also the Rus- sell farm, and he now has a landed estate consist- ing of five hundred acres of land, all of which is under a fine state of cultivation. He makes a specialty of dairy products, for which he always finds a ready market. Under his careful man- agement and by taking advantages of all the re- sources in his power he is now the owner of one of the best farms in the town, well supplied with every modern appliance and excellent stock. He is now living a retired life, enjoying the fruits of his former energy and industry. Mr. Rhoads is a stanch Republican, and has been honored by his townsmen by being elected to the offices of selectman, justice of the peace and lister. He has always been one of the representative men of the town, always ready and willing to render aid in all enterprises that tend to promote the welfare of the community. His religious views are in harmony with the Universalist church, and he is prominently identified with North Star- Lodge No. 12, F. & A. M.

On the 2d of January, 1851, Mr. Rhoads was united in marriage to Miss Mariette P. Smith, a daughter of Abraham and Phoebe (Russell) Smith, and three children were born to them: Lizzie, born November 7, 1855, married F. W. Fay, and they had one daughter, Edith Ellen : Mrs. Fay died September 25, 1898. George, born October 7, 1859, received his education at Goddard Seminary, of Barre, Vermont, and at Henniman College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; he began the practice of medicine at Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and is now an eye and ear special- ist at Springfield, that state; he married Miss Harriet Barney, of South Hadley, Massachusetts, and they have one son, Cornelius P. Rhoads. Edwin A., born September 9, 1861, on the old homestead, married Miss Agnes Barber, of Jeri-

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cho, Vermont, and one child has been born to them, Etta Bell Rhoads. Mrs. C. P. Rhoads died on the Ist of April, 1901, after a happy married life of more than half a century.

FAYETTE G. NICHOLS.

The Nichols family, from which is descended Fayette G. Nichols, a prominent business man of Richmond, Vermont, had for its early ancestor Captain Timothy Nichols, who was a native of Connecticut ; he was a sea faring man during his early life, and commanded various merchant vessels.

Timothy S., son of Captain Timothy Nichols, was born in Connecticut and was a cabinet-maker and cooper as well as a farmer and followed the former named occupations in Hinesburg and Essex. He was a man of high character, and a deacon in the Baptist church. He married Rhoda S. Chaffee, of Wallingford, Connecticut, and they lived, in turn, in Huntington, Hinesburg and Richmond, and finally in Essex. They were the parents of two sons: Timothy W. R., and Ira Jay Nichols. The father died at the age of sixty-seven years, and the mother lived to slightly exceed the age of an octogenarian.

Timothy W. R. Nichols, the elder son of the parents before named, was born September 30, 1815, in Huntington, Vermont. He received an excellent English education in a select school, and in young manhood was engaged as a wheel- wright and in the furniture business. He after- wards served as clerk in a general store con- ducted by Mark Hull, in Hinesburg, and in an- other in Essex Center, kept by Thaddeus Fletcher, and yet later in another at Paiges Corner. He subsequently conducted a mercan- tile business on his own account, and then went to Boston, where he took employment in the dry goods house of Pearl, Smith & Company. Dur- ing these years he had diligently pursued a course of legal reading, and he now returned to Essex and engaged in the practice of law, and built up an excellent business, which marked the. beginning a highly useful career in a new field. In 1862 he was elected town clerk, and his con- duct of this office was so able that he was con- tinued in the position, by successive re-elections, during the remainder of his life, covering the

unusual period of thirty-seven years, and he was also for many years a justice of the peace. Dur- ing the Civil war he was United States enrolling officer for four towns. For four years he occu- pied the position of judge, and he served in various other offices of honor and trust, in all ac- quiting himself with a degree of integrity and ability most creditable to himself, and redounding to the benefit of the interests committed to him.

Judge Timothy W. R. Nichols was married February 22, 1844, to Miss Susan Annis Tubbs, a daughter of John and Sarah (Tyler) Tubbs, of Essex. Her father was a son of John Tubbs, who came from Canaan, Connecticut, to Ver- mont ; he was a member of Washington's body- guard during the Revolutionary war. During the war with Great Britain in 1812, John Jr., enlisted to go to Plattsburg. Judge and Mrs. Nichols were the parents of two children: Jane E., born November 16, 1849, who became the wife of Charles E. Green, May 2, 1872; and Fayette G. Nichols. The mother of these chil- dren died in 1866, and the father in February, 1899.

Fayette G. Nichols, only son of Judge Nich- ols, was born July 24, 1851, in Essex, Vermont. He began his education in Essex Academy, and prepared for college in the Essex Classical Insti- tute. His first busines employment was in the fire and marine insurance business, first with S. & R. S. Wires, of Burlington, then with Griswold & Frizzell, and for a time with his father at Essex. He was subsequently teacher of pen- manship in the Classical Institute, and he was for two terms assistant principal of that institution. He then located in Richmond and became book- keeper and salesman for Hilton & Stevens, with whom he remained for thirteen years. In 1889 he purchased the clothing department of the busi- ness, which he has conducted to the present time. His busines career has been, on the whole, suc- cessful in high degree. But he suffered a serious loss February 3, 1891, by the partial destruction of his stock of goods by fire.

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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 22

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