History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 41

Author: Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925. 1n; Rann, William S
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1170

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The method of circulating newspapers at that period is shown in the an- nouncement of Abraham Sprague, made in January, 1796, wherein he stated that he had engaged to ride from the printing-office in Rutland through Ira, Castleton, Fairhaven, Westhaven, Benson and Orwell, adding, " he will set out every MORNING," and carry papers to subscribers. This route was soon after taken by Oren Kelsey. Simeon Lester was carrying the mail in that year from Rutland to Albany.

Meanwhile the little village (if it can be thus designated), along the main street of Rutland, was growing and before the beginning of the century had assumed considerable importance, as will be detailed in the subsequent munici- pal history.

In the year 1802-3 there was considerable danger in this locality from the approach of small-pox, and the selectmen took action to secure the " innocu- lation " of the inhabitants. At the meeting of April Ist, 1803, it was voted, in substance, that the selectmen be authorized to license one or more houses, (under the act to prevent the spreading of the small-pox) " for the purpose of innoculating persons for the small-pox until the 20th day of April instant, at which time innoculation shall cease until the first day of September next, when

the said selectmen shall be again authorized to license such house or houses as they may think proper until the Ist day of April next, under such regulations as they may think necessary and proper," etc.

Major Gershom Cheney, whose settlement here has been described, kept a diary from the year 1793 to 1828, with some brief intermissions, which is now in possession of Lyman S. Cheney, of Rutland, and has been kindly loaned us. While there are few entries bearing sufficient general interest to warrant their

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publication in these pages, there are still several references to important occur- rences which, coming down through the years with the stamp of absolute cer- tainty on their face, are of deep interest to the reader of to-day. The first en- try in the little book is as follows: " Moved from Londonderry, N. H., to Rut- land in the spring of 1793." Then follows an interval of ten years in which only some private memoranda were made. The winter of 1803-4 is charac- terized by the writer as "a dredful hard winter," while that of 1811-12 was " harder than that of 1803-4. Hay at twenty dollars per ton ; " and the next winter is noted as " dredful sickley; the following persons died in Rutland : Jonathan Wells, esq., died January 18; Esq'r Mathew Fintin [Fenton] and wife 24th do ; March Ist, Henry Reynolds died ; 18th do., Mason Hatch died ; 29th, Sally Jane Cheney; 30th, Lewis Meacham ; 31st, Benjamin Cheney died ;" Daniel McGregor and wife died also in March. This disease which proved so fatal was a spotted or lung fever.

It will be remembered that in the year 1811 occurred the most disastrous flood in the history of the county ; it is but barely mentioned in Mr. Cheney's diary, but it carried away three-fourths, or more, of the mills and bridges in this town and was even more disastrous in other localities. The freshet oc- curred in July, and its effects are noted in the town histories of those sections where it wrought the most havoc. The day of the flood opened bright and clear ; but about nine in the forenoon black clouds arose in the west, and the rain fell in torrents the greater part of the day. The greatest destruction en- sued, perhaps, in the towns of Middletown and Tinmouth, to the histories of which the reader is referred.

On the 21st of August, 1813, Mr. Cheney noted in his diary that " Benja- min Cheney got home from the army at Burlington," which shows that the inhabitants of the county had not forgotten their old spirit of patriotism and were as ready to relieve their free institutions from oppression as they were in Revolutionary days to win them, even at the muzzle of the musket. In the same month Major Cheney, as the diary informs, " left off keeping tavern, after keeping eleven years." This tavern was located half way between Rutland and Pittsford, and was very popular with travelers from Vergennes to Boston. In the same year appears in the diary the following quaint counsel : "When you run a nale in your foot put on Beef's gall or burn black greased wool and steam your foot and bind on the cinders, or put on a poltis of wheat Brand and Vinegar, sum one of the above will cure your foot."

Under date of December 3d, 1813, is this entry : " At night David Oli- ver's house was burnt and five of his black children all to a crisp."

Relative to the murder of Joseph Green he wrote under date of February 15, 1814, the " day that Joseph Green was murdered by James Anthony and found in James Anthony's shop under a pile of wood on the 18th." Two months later, April 15th, he continues : "James Anthony is condemned to be

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hung between the hours of I and 3, but he disappointed ten thousand people by hanging himself in the jail this morning."1

Returning to Major Cheney's diary we find the following entry: "The Brit- ish prisoners passed through Rutland between the Ioth day of March and the 3d day of April, 1815 - about 1,500 in three divisions - they stole all they could get their hands hold of; tha were from Pittsfield on their way to Cannada."

Our chief object in making reference to this old diary was the fact of its containing a vivid and, of course, thoroughly authentic account of the progress of what is still remembered as " the cold summer " (though the unusual tem- perature continued through a part of two seasons, 1816-17). The summer of 1816 shows the following entries, which tell the story in detail: "This spring is very cold and backward. 17th of May ; snow on the ground and the ground is froze hard enough to bear a man. 22d, planted the corn. 4th June ; apple trees are hardly in full bloom. 5th, warni day. 6th, very cold with snow squalls which we think this day the coldest that we ever knew in June - men work with their great coats and woolling mittens on. 7th ; this morning ice as thick as winder glass. 8th; this day very cold, windy and cloudy. 9th, this day very cold --- eclipts on the moon this evening. 10th; this morning ice 2 inch thick. 11th ; cold and very dry, the corn all that is up is cut off by the frost. 12th, the weather is midling warm. 30th; this morning the frost killed the corn and beans in low land. July 6th, this day is vary windy and vary cold. 9th ; this morning the ground is covered with frost, the corn is all killed on low ground. I saw ice on a leaf in the garden this morning as large as

1 Simeon Ide furnished a sketch of this crime for the Vermont Historical Magazine, from which the following is condensed : Mr. Green was a young merchant and early in February had made his usual preparations to go to Boston for more goods ; the stage on which he was to go started very early in the morning. He took leave of his family in the previous evening, and with his valise and a consid- erable sum of money, started to the hotel whence he was to board the stage. From the evidence given on the trial it appeared that Mr. Green stopped at Anthony's hat shop, and was there killed, stripped of his clothing and money and his body concealed under a wood pile in the back part of the shop. The next day it was discovered that Mr Green had not taken the stage and later it began to he sus- pected that he had been foully dealt with. It was said that Anthony met Mrs. Green the next morning, greeted her pleasantly and asked after the health of her husband and children. Excitement prevailed when it was found that Mr. Green had not gone on the stage, and it is said that Anthony's face showed evidence of his having had a struggle with some one, which fact probably led to his being suspected of the crime. James D. Butler asked Anthony how his face became injured, and he replied that he fell down stairs in the night. Elder McCuller, who was present, was dissatisfied with the explanation, and ran his cane among the wood in the shop where he felt something soft, and requested the removal of the wood. This led to the discovery of the body. Anthony was at once arrested. He was found guilty and hung himself in his cell as stated above. In Mr. Ide's diary he made the following entry :- "April 14, 1814. This day attended the execution of a dead man! The assemblage to witness the execution of James Anthony was unprecedented in this part of the country, the village was literally filled. I was called out to do military duty on the occasion. About noon we were marched from the Green to the place of execution (in the meadow), one or two hundred rods northwest of the old origi- nal framed meeting-house . where the gallows was erected and the same exercises performed that would have been, had not Anthony hung himself."

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peas ; corn not half spindled the first day of the month and the driest summer we ever knew. 22d ; this morning a hard frost, it killed many fields of corn. Aug. 29th ; this morning the ground was white with frost. October 18th, this morning the snow is six inches deep; the springs not risen any yet. Feb. 14th, this is the coldest day that ever was in Vermont."

Thus ends the record for that year, as far as it relates to the remarkable character of the weather. It will be seen that crops generally were destroyed, and that at a period when they were greatly needed. The country was suffer- ing from the expenses of the war and a general scarcity of provisions, and con- sequently the destruction of the crops caused a double degree of distress. The frigid temperature extended throughout the Northern States, rendering it im- possible to look to other favored localities for relief. Every person who had succeeded in raising part of a crop, felt the necessity of keeping it for the next year's seed ; while others, with that selfishness often developed at such times, would not spare of their store except at greatly advanced prices. To make matters worse, during the summer of 1817 the cold weather continued to an extent not generally known, except by the very few who can remember so far back. On the 20th of May, according to the diary of Major Cheney, " the ground was white with frost. The 28th, this morning a very hard frost. 31st, this morning the ground is froze, ice as thick as winder glass. June 8th, this morning a white frost. 17th, this morning a white frost ; I saw ice on potatoe tops." A warmer period now intervened until the latter part of August. On the 25th is the entry : "This morning a white frost, but not to do damage, the first since June. October Ist and 2d, hard frost, the first that killed the corn. October 24th, some snow and very cold, the ground froze hard."

There was a good deal of suffering throughout the State ; but probably not nearly so much as in some regions more affected by unusual cold. The gen- eral height of the cultivated lands of Vermont were in her favor, and more of the crops were saved from frost than in many other sections.

A few more entries are found in the old diary of interest to the local reader. On the 22d of February, 1818, is this: "At four o'clock this morning John Fenton's house took fire and he was burnt to death. The house took fire from ashes that was set in the back room in a tray ; he was 68." On the 24th of the same month it was considered of sufficient importance for him to chronicle the fact that " Moses L. Neal this day came to Rutland with 3 loads of goods from Boston, 12 days gone."

Advancing to December, 1819, he wrote, "we have had a fine season for corn as I ever knew ; the summer has been very warm and fine. Pork $5 a 100; beef $4.50; corn 50 c. bushel ; wheat $1 at Troy ; cider $1 a barrel at the press ; a hard time for farmers to pay debts." In the same year he records that " this summer built the new brick meeting-house in part- 300,000 brick. I have worked the most part of the summer and superintended the building of

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the brick and timber. Ephraim W. Bisbee took charge of the cornice of the house and up one tier of timber above the bell-the cost thus far has been about 7,000 dollars." The church structure progressed and under date of August 19, 1821, we find this : " Carried on the sled to the new meeting house 6 cherry pillars for the pulpit to stand on "; and September 19 he wrote : " Dedication of the new brick meeting house to-day ; about 1,000 people."

We conclude our extracts from the diary with the record of June 28, 1825 : " La Fayette arrived at Whitehall this day ; we heard the cannon very plane."

But little remains for us to record of the general history of the town down to the railroad era of 1850, when a period of development began which has continued to the present day, presenting one of the most remarkable instances of growth in New England. The town officials inaugurated such occasional public measures as the times seemed to demand, and, while there were no spasmodic periods of advancement, the development of the various agricultural, mechanical and mercantile interests was steady and healthful.

A proposal came up in the town as early as 1813 for the erection of a pub- lic school-house " on the Green, so-called, in the East Parish in Rutland "; but the selectmen promptly voted it down. In March of the following year the selectmen were "requested to dispose of such of the town poor as have be- come an annual charge, at public auction to the best bidder for the interest of the town." This was in former years the method of providing for the board and lodging of paupers, a method which seldom worked satisfactorily and has fortunately given way to the present more humane provisions for the destitute. Rutland was one of the first to see the injustice of the former plan, and in March, 1815, it was " voted that the selectmen and overseers of the poor for the town of Rutland be instructed to procure a poor-house in which to keep and employ the poor of the town." This action was the forerunner of the pur- chase of the town farm in 1831, at which time it was " voted that $2,000 be raised by the town, payable in four equal installments of $500 each year there- after for four years, for the purpose of purchasing or hiring a farm and suitable buildings for the support of the town poor." The commissioners to carry out this measure were Robert Temple, Francis Slason and George T. Hodges. In pursuance of this action a farm was acquired by the town, situated just east of the present West Rutland marble quarries. It is now the property of H. H. Brown. It contained about 150 acres and was purchased of Philip Proctor in March, 1831, for $2,000.

In the year 1838 there was considerable agitation of the subject of making different arrangements from those then existing for the care of the town poor. Francis Slason had been for a few years previously overseer of the poor, and in March, 1838, it was voted in town meeting that the town was willing to associate with not less than eight other towns, under the act of October 31,

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1837, - the selectmen to learn what other towns would join in the movement -- and all to submit to this town any arrangement that may be recommended for the several towns to make in relation to the poor. This agitation of the matter proved abortive. Francis Slason was at the same time appointed to take charge of the town farm ; but this action was rescinded in March, 1839, and the care of the farm remained with the selectmen. In the same year Sam- uel Griggs and George T. Hodges were appointed to appraise all property and adjust the accounts of the town farm and make a report, of which 500 copies were ordered printed. Matters remained stationary until 1841 when a com- mittee of two, William Y. Ripley and Samuel Griggs, was appointed to con- sider the expediency of building a new house or repair the old one on the town farm; and in the same year a committee consisting of Edward Dyer, Moses Perkins and Francis Slason was appointed to sell the farm and buy another, if deemed expedient ; this was not done, and in 1842 the overseer was directed to provide for the poor elsewhere, if it could not be properly done on the farm then owned.

There were no important changes made in the arrangements for support of the poor until 1876, when the farm was sold to Lorenzo Sheldon, in January, for $5,500. The present town farm was purchased the year previous to this sale, and lies near the southwestern corner of the town. It contains between 400 and 500 acres of land, with appropriate buildings, the whole possessing a value of about $12,000.

In the year 1884, according to the last published report, there were forty- seven inmates of the poor-house, the expense of caring for whom was $3,658.37. In the same year $5,506.82 were expended for the maintenance of outside poor in the town. The inventory of property on the farm, outside of farm and build- ings amounts to almost $4,000.

The prosperity of this town, in common with that of other parts of the county, was somewhat checked during the financial crisis of 1837-38, as fully detailed in the preceding chapter on the financial interests of the county ; but this entire State suffered less from this cause than many other regions; and the prosperity of Rutland county was too firmly grounded in the thriving agricul- tural industry, the promising condition of her manufactures, the conservative and judicious character of her business men generally and the industry and fru- gality of all her inhabitants, to be permanently or seriously interfered with, by even so general a crisis as that referred to. General growth and advancement continued, though slower than many would have been glad to experience, for want of rapid and adequate transportation in and out of the county previous to the railroad era. Surplus products had to be transported by teams to White- hall (after the completion of the Northern Canal in 1823), and mercantile goods and manufacturers' stock must come in by the same slow and costly route. But a day was at hand when all this would cease and such a period of develop-

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ment be inaugurated as few, even of the most sanguine, dared to hope for. The building of the railroads of the county and the wonderful consequences to the various communities has been fully described in a preceding chapter on the internal improvements of the county, and in subsequent municipal history, and need not again be entered into here. Let it suffice to say that the town of Rutland at once assumed a degree of commercial importance not surpassed by that of any other in the State ; especially was this the case with the village of Rutland. An era of extensive building operations began ; the village grew phenomenally ; manufactures multiplied ; the great marble industry doubled and redoubled, and the town entered upon a permanent career of thrift and growth which now distinguishes it among all others in the State.

Following are the present town officers of the town :- Town clerk, Edward S. Dana ; selectmen, John O'Rourke, George E. Royce, F. D. Proctor, S. W. Mead, W. C. Landon ; treasurer, H. F. Field ; first constable and collector, A. T. Woodward ; second, P. F. O'Neil ; listers, C. H. Granger, L. Valiquette, jr., O. D. Young, W. T. Capron, W. C. Landon ; auditors, E. H. Ripley, P. M. Meldon, G. T. Chaffee ; trustee public money, W. H. B. Owen; grand jurors, E. D. Reardon, D. N. Haynes, T. W. Maloney, T. H. Brown, E. D. Merrill ; fence viewers, J. G. Griggs, H. H. Dyer, Michael Kennedy, Nahum Johnson, B. W. Marshall, J. W. Lamphier, George C. Underhill, John Raleigh ; Inspector leather, L. Valiquette ; pound-keepers, G. C. Thrall, A. J. Newton ; town agent, George E. Lawrence ; superintendent schools, J. J. R. Randall.

THE TOWN OF RUTLAND IN THE WAR OF THE REBELLION.

To the reader who has perused the chapter in this work devoted to the military history of the county, as it relates to the Rebellion, little need be added concerning the part taken in that gigantic contest by this particular town, aside from the complete list of recruits as given a little further on. The action of the inhabitants of the town towards aiding in putting down the Re- bellion was prompt, and when the time came that money and other mater- ial support of the people was needed to advance the good cause, they were not backward in supplying it.

The first reference we find in the records of public action relative to en- listments was made on January 20, 1863, when the selectmen were authorized to raise money to reimburse G. P. Hannum, David Morgan and John W. Cramton for bounties theretofore paid to recruits, not to exceed $17,000. In July of that year it was resolved that " until the 5th of January next, or until the quota under the recent call for troops is filled, the selectmen are author- ized to pay recruits not exceeding $500." In November, 1863, it was re- solved (in substance) that the selectmen be authorized to borrow on the town credit $65,000, or as much thereof as necessary to pay each man who should volunteer from the town between that date and January 5, 1864, or had there- 23

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tofore volunteered, to make up the last quota, $500 to each resident of Rut- land and $200 to each non-resident. It was also voted to pay drafted men of the town under the then late draft, $100. The $200 above noted as to be paid to non-resident recruits was afterwards raised to $300 and $200 more af- ter six months of honorable service, or at the time of his discharge, or to be paid to his heirs if he died in the service. The moneys raised on the town credit were secured by the issue of town orders bearing six per cent. interest and payable in annual installments of $10,000 each, beginning in 1868. On the 21st of September, 1864, it was voted to pay re-enlisted men, who were credited on the then last call for 500,000 men, the sum of $500.

On the 5th of January, 1865. the selectmen were authorized to issue orders to the amount of $50,000 to pay the indebtedness incurred in raising volun- teers since December 19, 1864, and to others who might enlist under the call for 300,000, payable $5,000 each year from 1867 to 1876 inclusive. This res- olution was subsequently rescinded and the selectmen authorized to raise $50,- 000 payable in four, six and eight months, with interest.

All other means that seemed desirable for the advancement of enlistments under the various calls and the consequent avoidance of a draft, were promptly adopted by the town authorities and energetically carried out by the people. Mass meetings were held, private subscriptions liberally made and all neces- sary labor efficiently prosecuted.

The following detailed alphabetical list shows the enlistments in the town and the organizations which they joined :-

Volunteers for Three Years, Credited Previous to the Call for 300,000 Vol- unteers of October 17, 1863 .- Emerson Aldrich, co. G, 5th regt. ; Eugene Alex- ander, 2d battery ; Arthur A. Allen, co. C, 11th regt. ; Charles Allen, co. D, 7th regt .; Henry Ance, co. B, 7th regt .; John Austin, co. D, 7th regt .; Alvin C. Bailey, Charles H. Bailey, co. B, 2d regt .; James J. Bailey, co. F, Ist s. s. ; James J. Bailey, co. E, 2d s. s. ; Lemuel J. Balch, co. B, 3d regt. ; John Bal- lard, co. G, 5th regt. ; Isaac Barker, co. B, 7th regt. ; James Barrett, co. G, cav .; Joseph Belair, co. E, 5th regt .; Amasa P. Bigelow, co. I, 7th regt .; Eben Bishop, co. D, 7th regt .; Jesse Bishop, co. G, 5th regt .; Smith B. Bishop and Thomas C. Bixby, co. D, 7th regt. ; John Blake, co. B, 7th regt. ; George E. Blossom, co. G, 5th regt .; David Bover, co. B, 2d regt .; Samuel R. Brewer, jr., co. B, 9th regt. ; Hammond L. Brockenraid, co. B, 2d regt. ; Martin V. B. Bronson, co. F, Ist s. s .; Gardner E. Brown, co. D, 7th regt .; George L. Brown, co. H, cav. ; John A. Brown, co. D, 7th regt. ; Henry B. Brush, co. I, 2d regt. ; Samuel T. Buel, q. m. 7th regt. ; Michael Burke, co. H, cav. ; John Burns, co. B, 7th regt. ; Edward Butler, co. I, 7th regt. ; James Butterfly, co. B, 2d regt.'; Oliver J. Cain, co. D, 7th regt. ; William J. Cain, q. m. s., 2d regt .; Patrick Callaghen, co. H, cav .; Patrick Carney and James Caton, co. F, 6th regt. ; Calvin H. Chapman and George A. Cheney, co. D. 7th regt. ; Lo-

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renzo Cheney, co. G, 7th regt .; William S. Cheney, co. H, cav .; Justus C. Clark, co. D, 7th regt .; Joseph A. Clifton, co. B, 2d regt .; John Coffee, co. C, Ioth regt .; Joseph Collett, co. I, 7th regt ; Timothy Collins, 2d battery ; Ben- jamin E. Combs, co. C, 2d regt. ; James Conlin, co. B, 7th regt. ; Edson A. Cook, co. H, cav .; Palmer Coppins, George Fox and George Croft, co. D, 7th regt .; Frank Currier and Loren Curtis, co. G, 5th regt. ; William W. Cutting, co. F, Ist s. s. ; James Daley, co. G, 5th regt. ; Daniel Danforth and William Devline, co. F, 6th regt .; George Eddy, co. B, 2d regt .; Henry O. Edson, co. H, cav .; Thornton N. Elliott, co. A, 7th regt .; Albert Falk, co. C, 10th regt .; Eugene Felio, co. B, 7th regt. ; Henry C. B. Fillmore, co. D, 7th regt. ; Will- iam H. Fisher, co. G, 5th regt. ; William H. H. Fisher, co. D, 7th regt. ; William E. Fitzgerald, co. H, cav .; Henry S. Foot, co. C, 11th regt. ; Daniel W. Freeman, co. G, 5th regt .; Zebulon Garue, co. H, cav. ; George W. L. Gary, co. B, 2d regt .; Gardner L. Gates, co. G, 5th regt .; Edwin A. Giddings, co. F, ist s. s. ; William Gilman, co. M, 11th regt. ; John Glannon, co. G, 5th regt .; Michael Gleason, Ist battery; Frederick Gould, co. I, 7th regt .; Joseph B. Graham, co. B, 9th regt. ; William W. Graham, co. C, 9th regt. ; Dunham J. Green, co. D, 7th regt. ; Joseph Guertin, co. H, cav. ; James Hagan, co. G, 5th regt. ; Joseph Hagan, co. F, Ist s. s. ; Patrick Haggarty, co. K, 3d regt. ; George R. Hall, 5th c. s. ; Henry C. Hall, co. B, 7th regt. ; George W. Ham- mond, co. G, 5th regt. ; Thomas Hartney, co. F, 6th regt. ; Albert Hathorn, co. I, 2d regt .; Samuel A. Hathorn, co. D, 7th regt .; William H. Hathorn, 2d regt .; John Hazelton, co. H, cav .; James H. Hewitt, co. B, 2d regt .; John A. Hicks, jr., 10th, s. m .; Daniel A. Hilliard and Henry Hinckley, co. G, 5th regt .; James Hinckley, co. B, 2d regt .; Charles H. Hines, co. C, 11th regt .; Edward W. Hines, co. F, Ist s. s .; Alonzo D. Hodges, co. B, 2d regt .; George J. Howard, co. G, 5th regt. ; Albert W. Hunt, co. F, 6th regt. ; Frank T. Huntoon, co. H, cav .; Edward F. Jackson, co. F, Ist s. s. ; George Johnson, co. I, 7th regt .; Henry Johnson, co. B, 2d regt .; James Johnson, co. D, 7th regt .; George E. Jones, 7th regt, c. s; William M. Jones, co. H, cav. ; Daniel E. Kellogg, co. B, 9th regt. ; John F. Kelley, co. B, 2d regt. ; Patrick Kelley, 2d bat. ; Francis Kennedy, co. C, 10th regt. ; John Kennedy, co. K, 2d regt. ; James W. Keyes, co. C, 9th regt. ; John B. Kilburn, co. D, 7th regt. ; Joseph W. Kimball, co. G, 5th regt .; Nelson King, co. C, 10th regt. ; Henry W. Kingsley, 10th regt., q. m. s. ; John F. Kirk, co. G, 5th regt. ; George W. Knight, co. H, cav .; Hiram B. Kyser, co. B, 5th regt. ; Wallace E. Ladd, co. I, 7th regt. ; Patrick Lahany, co. G, 5th regt. ; Joseph Lamb, co. H, 5th regt. ; Chauncey R. Lamphere, co. F, Ist s. s .; Solomon Langley, co. I, 7th regt. ; John E. Leonard, co. M, 11th regt .; Nathaniel B. Lewis, co. H, cav. ; Patrick Lloyd, co. B, 2d regt .; Ralph Locklin, co. H, cav. ; Arunah A. Long, co. D, 7th regt. ; Peter Lovett, co. M, 11th regt .; William W. Madison, co. G, 5th regt. ; Joseph Makin, co. F, 4th regt .; John A. Manahan, co. F, Ist s. s. ;

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History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 41

Author: Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925. 1n; Rann, William S Publication date: 1886 Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co. Number of Pages: 1170

Author: Smith, H. P. (Henry Perry), 1839-1925. 1n; Rann, William S
Publication date: 1886
Publisher: Syracuse, N.Y., D. Mason & co.
Number of Pages: 1170