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Schools .- The subject of establishing a school in the town was first discussed by the pioneers during the closing years of the last century, but it is understood that the first school was opened about the year 1800. From that until the present time there have been such frequent changes in the number and boundaries of the districts that to follow them would indeed be difficult. Almost with each decade, especially during the first half of the present century during the period of the town's greatest and most rapid growth in population, changes were made in the districts of the town, constantly increasing in number and there- fore decreasing in size. In 1890 the town had thirteen districts oper- ated and supported on the "district" plan as distinguished from the "town" plan; and for these thirteen districts are employed ten teachers. The annual expenditure for the maintenance of the town's schools amounts to $2,235.23, that being the exact amount for the current year, but it may deviate slightly from other years.
Town Representatives from Berkshire .- Stephen Royce, 1796, 1798- 1800; Abel Johnson, 1801-02; Amherst Willoughby, 1803; Elam Jewett, jr., 1804; Stephen Royce, 1805; Elijah Littlefield, 1806; Elam
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Jewett, jr., 1807; Elijah Shaw, 1808; Elijah Littlefield, 1809; Solomon Bingham, jr., 1810-II; William Hamilton, 1813; William C. Ellsworth, 1814; Harvey Clark, 1815-16; Amherst Willoughby, 1817; Harvey Clark, 1818; Nathan Hamilton, 1819; William C. Ellsworth, 1820-21, Pennel Leavens, 1822; George W. Woodworth, 1823-24; Cromwell Bowen, 1825 ; Brainerd Bradley, 1826; Cromwell Bowen, 1827-28 ; William C. Ellsworth, 1829-30; Nathan Hamilton, 1831-33; Mitchel C. Stone, 1834-35 ; John S. Webster, 1836-37 ; Joseph Smith, 1838-39 ; Nathan Hamilton, 1840-41; Joseph Smith, 1842; Henry Follett, 1843; Elias Babcock, 1844; Arza Andrus, 1845 ; Homer E. Royce, 1846- 47 ; Paschal P. Leavens, 1849-50; William S. Rublee, 1851-52 ; B. B. Smith, 1855 ; L. M. Hart, 1857-58 ; S. B. S. Marvin, 1859-60; Hiram Darling, 1861; Homer E. Royce, 1862; Hiram Darling, 1863 ; George C. Ellsworth, 1864-65 ; James R. Stone, 1866-67 ; G. S. Goodrich, 1868-69 ; E. A. Hull, 1870; Henry Ladd, 1872; Henry Comings, 1874; H. E. Wheeler, 1876; Daniel Moren, 1878; L. C. Leavens, 1880; A. P. Pond, 1882; Spencer Stanhope, 1884; Joseph Yaw, 1886, S. G. Marvin, 1888; Kiles A. Paul, 1890.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF FLETCHER.
F LETCHER was chartered August 20, 1781, by Thomas Chittenden, governor of Vermont, to Nathaniel Brush, David Avery, Rufus Montague, and others, none of whom ever resided in town except the last named. It is bounded on the west by Fairfax, north by Fairfield and Bakersfield, east by Waterville and Cambridge, and south by La- moille River, the south end being quite narrow. The estimated area is 24,040 acres. In 1786 Benjamin Fassett surveyed the first division of lots, and in 1789 the second division was surveyed by John Safford.
The soil of the town of Fletcher is varied, and is well watered by numerous streams, the principal ones being Lamoille River and Stone's
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Brook, the latter of which rises in the northern part of the town and flows a southwesterly course into Fairfax. The river farms and some parts of East Fletcher have good interval land, but the greater portion is hilly and in places even mountainous.
In the northern part of the town, nestled among the hills, lies Metcalf Pond, one mile in length by half a mile in width, and in some parts of great depth. Its outlet is at the southern end, forming Dead Creek, which flows a devious course through Cambridge, again through Fletcher, and empties into Missisquoi River. A mile north of the Center lies a body of water half a mile long by a quarter of a mile in width, crescent-shaped, and for that reason called Half-Moon Pond. Its waters flow easterly into Stone's Brook. Except Lamoille River, on the south, the streams are all small, and there has never been a covered bridge in town.
Fletcher was organized March 16, 1790, with these town officers : Elisha Woodworth, clerk; Elijah Daily, constable; Peter Thurston, Lemuel Scott, and Elijah Daily, selectmen. Levi Comstock, chosen in 1795, was the first justice of the peace, and Daniel Bailey, elected in 1797, was the first representative in the legislature.
John Fullington, of Deerfield, N. H., began the first clearing in town on the river farm now owned by Mrs. Helen Freeman Lee, in the year 1787 or '88. Mr. Fullington put up a shanty and returned to Deerfield, N. H., for his wife and four children. They had one horse to ride and one cow to drive. Marked trees served as guides through the wilderness. Two men who had land in the southeast part of Fairfax were with them. Within the limits of Johnson they encamped for the night near the banks of the Lamoille. Here Mr. Fullington found a patch of turnips and improvidently ate one raw, which produced a se- vere attack of bilious colic, and caused his death in a few hours. Next day he was buried by his companions in a rude coffin improvised from a hollow log. Mrs. Fullington and little ones proceeded down the river to the home provided for them, and here the widow became the mother of the first white child born in town, and named her Lamoille, from the river. When grown she married John H. Law and lived in Cambridge, where she died July, 1880, over ninety years of age. Mrs. Fullington became the wife of Elisha Woodworth, and died in Fletcher of small- pox at the age of ninety-five years.
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Lemuel Scott was the next settler. He came from Bennington in 1789, bringing his wife and one child on a sled drawn by a yoke of steers. From Burlington he found his way by marked trees. He set- tled on the farm now owned and occupied by Horace and D. H. Chap- man. His children were Jonathan, Lemuel,-the first white male child born in town,-Seth, Levi, Emily, Abigail, Anna, Jefferson, and Wait. Some of his descendants still live here, George M. and Henry W. Scott being his grandsons.
. Deacon Peter Thurston came next and settled on the south side of Lamoille River, on what is known as the Bishop farm. This farm and two others, contained in a gore of land on the south side of the river, were annexed to Cambridge by an act of the legislature in 1845. Mr. Thurston was one of the first selectmen, and in 1792 was constable.
Elijah Daily came about the same time and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by O. G. Carpenter. He was the first constable.
Elias Blair, Reuben Armstrong, John Kinsley, Samuel Church, Sam- uel Church, jr., Joseph and James Robinson, and Dewey Nichols, all of Bennington, came here in 1795 and settled as follows : Elias Blair on the farm now owned and occupied by his grandson, Noel B. Blair ; Reuben Armstrong on the farm now owned and occupied by his grand- son and namesake, and the last one of the Armstrong descendants left in town; John Kinsley on the farm just east, owned and occupied by John Brush; the two Churches, father and son, on the farm now owned and occupied by Abial Wetherby, a grandson by marriage,-Nelson W. Church, a grandson of Samuel Church, jr., lives at the Center, and Les- lie J., a great-grandson, lives on a farm cut off from the original Church farm ; Joseph Robinson on the farm now owned and occupied by his only son, Demas, and grandsons, Henry and George; James Robinson on the farm now owned and occupied by Cephas Carpenter; and Dewey Nichols on land now owned by E. K. Montague. Excepting Kinsley and Armstrong, these men all settled at or near the Center.
Another John Kinsley came from Bennington about the same time, and settled on the farm now owned and occupied by George E. Robin- son.
Daniel Bailey came with his family from Weare, N. H., in March, 1795, and settled in the northern part of the town. His children were
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Haynes, Jonathan, Nathan, Achsah, Philip, Betsey, Sally, and Polly. The men became prominent in town affairs, and were large land owners. Daniel Bailey died in 1832, aged eighty-four years. Of his once num- erous posterity residing in town there is not one male descendant left, and only one farm is owned by any of his male descendants. R. W. Bailey, who died in 1889, had for some time been the last of the family name, and was postmaster from 1861 to 1885.
George King, sr., Joseph and Nathan Holmes, Michael and Jonathan George, Daniel Gregory, and Peter and Cyrus Danforth were the first settlers of school district No. 4, in the western part of the town near Buck Hollow. For several years there was no school-house in the dis- trict, and the school was kept in private families until a building could be erected. Now, for lack of scholars, there has been no school kept for several years. This district has since furnished eleven teachers, four being graduates. Elias Bellows Holmes graduated from Rockport, N. Y., and has since been a member of Congress from that state. Jo- seph Holmes and two sisters graduated from Bakersfield Academy. This district has fine farms, houses and barns, large dairies, and sugar orchards. Hiram Danforth, only son of Cyrus Danforth, married a daughter of George King, sr., and still lives upon the old homestead. J. B. King, son of George King, sr., lives in comfort near the old home where he first saw the light.
Elias Bingham, born at Windham, Conn., came here with his wife and three children in August, 1809, and settled near what is now called Binghamville. His children were as follows : Betsey, Nathan R., Royal Tyler, W. H. H., Andrew J., Benjamin F., Huldah C., Martha, and Elias, jr., and twins who died in infancy. Betsey married Medad R. Parsons, and lived in the same neighborhood where she was reared until her death, March 5, 1881, aged seventy-five years. She was a woman who lived only to study how she might be useful to others, and conduce to the comfort of her family. She was ever doing for the poor and those who could not recompense her. Five of the six boys located near their father for a time, hence the name Binghamville. Later one went West and another died. This family were all prominent in town affairs, and some of them held offices outside the town. Nathan R. and R. T. still live at Binghamville at an advanced age.
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Lemuel Chapman, of Rutland county, was an early settler here, locat- ing .on a farm just south of the one now occupied by his son, Horace.
James Lamb came on foot to this town from Townshend in 1820, his capital in cash being only fifty cents. He was twice married, and accum - ulated a good property. Of his six children but one is now left, Andrew, who lives at Binghamville and has in his possession a cane used by his father in his pedestrian journey to Fletcher.
Joseph Ellsworth was among the early settlers, locating in the western part of the town. He had a family of six sons and two daughters. Three of his sons married daughters of Elias Blair, sr., and all settled on farms near their father, excepting the oldest and youngest.
Zerah Willoughby represented Fletcher in the General Assembly in 1818, '20, '22, and '23, and in the Constitutional Convention of 1822. He was assistant judge of Franklin county in 1801-06, 1813, 1814, 1818-21, and 1822-23, and chief judge in 1824-25; councilor in 1808 and 1814; and was a farmer, merchant, and landlord.
Royal Tyler, son of Elias Bingham, was born August 10, 1810. He filled various offices : was town treasurer for thirty years; represented the town in the legislature in 1858-59; and was assistant judge in Franklin County Court in 1862 and 1863.
Ecclesiastical .- The first religious interest manifest in town was in the winter of 1817. The following spring Joseph Wilcox, living in the southeast part of Fairfax, began meetings and preached once in two weeks for a year at the Center school-house. A Baptist church, of nine members, was organized July 5, 1817. In 1830 a temperance so- ciety was organized, causing a division of the church, Elder Ephraim Butler, of Fairfax, opposing the society. Rev. C. W. Babcock, of West- ford, came, and finding the difficulty could not be settled the church was disorganized April 12, 1845. Total membership, 98. James Rob- inson served as clerk and deacon during its whole existence. June 26, 1846, another Baptist church was formed of members of the old church. Alvah Chase was chosen clerk, followed by Willis D. Leach in 1852, and he by L. B. Elliot in 1871. James Robinson was appointed deacon and served until his death in 1858, at the age of seventy-seven. Willis D. Leach was then appointed deacon and served until 1871, when Josiah White was appointed He died in 1880, aged eighty years. L. B. Elliot was appointed deacon in 1890.
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A Congregational church was organized January 8, 1826, composed of some of the best families in town. Three different ministers preached to them one-fourth of the time for a few years, but the society is long since extinct.
In 1850 three former members formed a Methodist class, and from this small beginning of three sprang the present church, the largest in town. The society owns a neat and tasty parsonage, built at Bingham- ville in the summer of 1890, on land donated by R. T. Bingham, and near his own residence.
A Freewill Baptist church was organized in the summer of 1851, with John Smith as deacon. Its death came soon after.
A Union church, the beauty of which was freedom from creeds, covenants, and sectarianism, was organized here in 1833, by Rev. Mr. Truair, a former Congregational minister. It was formed mostly of members of the Congregational church, and was short-lived indeed.
Physicians .- The first physician to locate in Fletcher was Sanford Emery in 1827. He was followed by Drs. Swain, Hatch, and John- son until 1838, when Dr. Cassander Ide came and remained three years. Then followed Drs. Drew, Benedict, and Andrew Parsons. In 1849 C. F. Hawley began practice and married here; he remained nine years, and then removed to Fairfax. Dr. Andrews, from Massachusetts, next came, but was soon succeeded by Sylvester Wilson, of Fairfax, who died April 6, 1866, when Enoch W. Kent, of Panton, began practice here and remained one year. Darwin H. Roberts, homœopathist, of Underhill, came and stayed four years. In 1871 Melburn S. Briggs left North Hyde Park after a short practice and came here. He had an in- creasing business, both in this and adjoining towns, being eminently successful in acute and some chronic diseases. Dr. Briggs moved to Nebraska in September, 1885. Dr. D. C. Downing, an excellent young man and able physician, came next, stayed one year, then left, and is now city physician of Manchester, N. H. H. E. Bogue, M.D., next came, stayed eight months, and moved to New Haven. The present physi- cian, Dr. W. R. Morrow, has been here but a short time.
Six of Fletcher's sons have acquired the title of M.D., and six more have been admitted to the bar, but no one of the legal profession ever located in town.
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Merchants .- Jerah Willoughby opened the first store in town in 1820. It was kept in his dwelling house on the farm now owned by O. G. Car - penter. He kept a tavern in the same house, which was known to trav- elers as the Willoughby House. In those days the travel through La- moille Valley was all on the road which was early made on the north side of the river. To-day nearly all such travel is on the south side of the river, or through another part of Fletcher.
Levi Carlton and Lucas Lathrop opened a small store at the Center in 1825. This was kept later by Hiram Hopkins, Horton & Armington, Martin Armstrong, and Safford Scott.
M. P. Blair built the store now occupied by J. & J. M. Robinson in 1837. In 1848 Oel and his son, E. O. Safford, began trade there. Oel died in 1861, but his son continued the business until 1871, when he sold out to P. O. Wetherbee and opened a wholesale store in Burling- ton, where he died in 1889. He was a man of fine intellect, but gave himself wholly to business, in which he showed great acumen. He was reported to have saved about $70,000 while in Fletcher. He married Fannie Effie Majors of this town. P. O. Wetherbee in turn sold out to J. & J. M. Robinson, and the business is still kept up under this name.
Edgar M. Strait built a store where the postoffice is now kept, and began trade in 1875, his family living in apartments over the store. In November, 1882, his store, with most of its contents, household goods, and wearing apparel, was burned. He went West and is now located in Trinidad, Col. The store was rebuilt in 1884 by L. A. Blaisdell, of Cambridge, who soon failed in business and went West. H. N. Gray, of Cambridge, now stocks the store with feed, groceries, etc., and F. W. Hitchcock, the present postmaster, attends to their sale, as did ex-Post- master L. C. Lee.
Elias Blair, jr., built a store at Binghamville in 1852, but this was converted into a dwelling house in 1861. Lovell Putnam built another store just opposite the former one at Binghamville in 1873. Not being a great success this also was changed to a dwelling house. A small feed and grocery store is kept at East Fletcher at the present time.
Mill sites are afforded in several places in town, but as the streams are small few have been utilized, and these not extensively. Elisha Woodworth built the first saw-mill on Stone's Brook where the present
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saw-mill stands. From 1831 to 1884 R. T. Bingham was proprietor, when he sold out to E. K. Lamb, the present owner. This mill has a circular saw and does only custom work.
In 1831 John and Jesse Carpenter, brothers, built a grist-mill on Stone's Brook on the farm now owned and occupied by J. B. Leach and sons, but the stream proved too small at that point, and the enterprise was given up after they had received $100 bounty for building the first grist-mill. Forty-five or fifty years ago there was a potato starch fac- tory at the Center on the same stream. For several years this factory did a good business.
In 1885 Marco B. Hooper bought the sap bucket manufactory of Chase Brothers, established at the village called the Center (though by no means such geographically) about thirty years before, and has since added a wheelwright, repair, and blacksmith shop. About one mile east of the Center there was once a tannery which did a thriving busi- ness and received a fair patronage. Forty-five years ago there was also a tannery about twenty rods below Binghamville, run by Mr. Massey, and later by Eli Bell.
Three years after the first settlement the town had a population of forty-one. In 1800 it was increased to 200 and in 1820 there were about 500 people living in town.
The principal industry of the inhabitants is dairying, stock raising, and the making of maple sugar. The last named has become a fine art, and most of the sugar orchards are now equipped with all the modern conveniences and improvements, and are a source of large income to their owners. The first postoffice was located at the Center in 1832, Elias Blair, sr., being postmaster. The St. J. and L. C. R. R. extends across the eastern part of the town with a station at East Fletcher. A postoffice is kept in the same building, with Charles N. Morse as post- master and station agent.
Personal Sketches .- Norman F. Wood, born in Fletcher, November 4, 1833, was an earnest scholar and teacher, attended school at Johnson, married Sarah J. Leach, of Fletcher, and went to the state of Georgia as teacher for four years. Returning he attended the New Hampton Institute at Fairfax, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859, and located in Bakersfield. He was recruiting officer through the Rebellion,
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elected state's attorney in 1863, county senator in 1864, and died of con- sumption April, 1865, aged thirty one years. He left a young daugh- ter who afterwards married Rev. H. Worthing, of Bakersfield.
Vernon D. Rood was born in Fletcher, April 20, 1842 ; educated in the common schools and New Hampton Institute, Fairfax; enlisted in Company H, Second Vermont Volunteers, wounded at Savage Station, taken to Libby prison, released on parole after four weeks, transferred to Invalid Reserve Corps, and served as wardmaster. After the war he studied medicine at the U. V. M. C., graduating in 1867. He was super- intendent of public schools in Fletcher in 1865, and represented the town in the legislature of 1867. He began the practice of medicine at North Hyde Park in 1868, and removed to Anita, Iowa, in 1870. He built the first drug store of the town, and was very prominent in its secular and religious growth. Mr. Rood again removed, to San Diego, Cal., in 1886. He married Sarah C. Voorhees, of White House, N. J., June 26, 1868.
Leroy Monroe Bingham, born in Fletcher, April 10, 1845, was educated in the common schools at Johnson, Stowe, and New Hampton Institute, Fairfax. He enlisted in Company H, Second Vermont Volunteers, when sixteen years of age, and served three years. He studied medicine at the U. V. M. C., and with Dr. J. H. Richardson, of Winooski, receiv- ing his diploma in June, 1870. He practiced medicine in Stowe four years and removed to Burlington. In 1876 he was commissioned as- sistant surgeon of the National Guards of Vermont, promoted to sur- geon in 1878, and surgeon-general with rank of brigadier-general in 1880. This last appointment was by Governor Farnham, Governor Barstow re-appointing him in 1882. Dr. Bingham has served several years as secretary of the Chittenden County Medical Society and is a member of the Burlington Medical and Surgical Club, attending sur- geon to the Mary Fletcher Hospital, and is one of the board of pension examiners. He was demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School at Burlington from 1876 to '79, and instructor of anatomy and surgery in the preparatory course of the same school for the same years. In 1882 he was elected to the presidency of the Vermont Medical Society. He married Alma M. Edwards, of Norwich, Conn., February 22, 1871.
Military .- Fletcher ranks well among her sister towns in patriotism, having furnished three commissioned officers and sixty-seven enlisted
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men during the late war. Of these, the eighth school district furnished twenty, two of whom were first lieutenants and two more were promoted to corporals. Two in the same district paid commutation money and one hired a substitute. There were also many natives of Fletcher living else- where who cheerfully enlisted.
The proprietors of Fletcher were obliged to pay eight pounds ten shillings per right for their lands. In 1794 the town lines were changed by an act of the legislature. In November, 1797, a land tax was levied upon the town; also October 27 and 29, 1798, and October 30, 1804, an assessment of two and a half cents per acre was made. In October, 1804, an assessment of three cents per acre was made for repairing the post road leading through the town, not less than one-third or more than one-half of the sum raised to be expended in repairs. Also in compli- ance with a petition from Fletcher in October, 1811, for land tax, two cents per acre was levied. October 26, 1827, an assessment of four cents on each acre was made. In November, 1831, the justices of the peace for Fletcher were appointed by a joint committee of both houses of the state legislature.
Fletcher has a remarkable natural curiosity in the form of a large cave, having an entrance on a hillside just north of Metcalf Pond. The entrance, near the base of the hill, is narrow but high; quite level and smooth for several rods, when an opening at the right leads down twelve feet into an apartment having a level floor, the room being twelve or fifteen feet square. From this are openings into other apartments on the same level, and others still lower down. But as it has never been fully explored no minute idea of it can be given. It is supposed by many that a fugitive from justice was once kept concealed in this cave for several days, being supplied with food by friends.
Town Representatives .- Daniel Bailey, 1797; Lemuel Scott, 1798- 1803; John Wheeler, 1804; Lemuel Scott, 1805, 1808-09, 1811, 1813; John Wheeler, 1806-07; Reuben Armstrong, 1810, 1815, 1817, 1826; Joseph Robinson, 1812; Nathan Holmes, 1814; Daniel Bailey, 1816; Zerah Willoughby, 1818, 1820, 1822-23 ; Ira Scott, 1821 (refused to serve), 1831; Elias Blair, sr., 1824-25; Elias Bingham, sr., 1827 ; Ira Armstrong, 1828, 1830, 1833-34; Ira Scott, 1831; Guy Kinsley, 1832, 1835-36, 1850-51; John Kinsley, jr., 1837-38, 1840; Howard
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Watkins, 1839; Ebenezer Bailey, 1841 ; Joseph Ellsworth, 1842-43; Lu- cas Holmes, 1844, 1846; Joseph King, 1847-48 ; none in 1849 ; Hor- ace Stearns, 1853; Reuben Armstrong, 2d, 1854-55 ; Luther Wells, 1856-57, 1860; R. T. Bingham, 1858-59; E. O. Safford, 1861-62; Amos E. Parker, 1863-64; Loren Blaisdell, 1865-66; Vernon D. Rood, 1867; "Honest" John Kingsley, 1868-69; none in 1870; B. F. Bing- ham, 1872; C. B. Parsons, 1874; Albert Parsons, 1876; Cephas Kings- ley, 1878; Peter McGettrick, 1880; Elias Ellsworth, 1882; S. C. Shep- ardson, 1884; John Brush, 1886; John Parsons, 1888 ; G. G. Taylor, 1890.
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