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of the company and its treasurer for three years. In 1873 he, with P. S. Saw- yer, purchased the business and have continued it since. Their stock is wrap- ping paper, paper bags, wooden ware, matches, twines, etc., and they have an extensive trade.
The Tuttle Company, conducting a similar line of business to the above, is an incorporated organization and the direct successor of George A. Tuttle, former publisher of the Herald, and proprietor of the store. Printing and blank book manufacturing is also carried on by the company, and it is the largest wholesale book, stationery, paper and printing house in the State. H. C. Tut- tle is president ; E. C. Tuttle, treasurer, and F. G. Tuttle, secretary.
There is a large business done in wholesaling lumber, both rough and man- ufactured. F. Chaffee & Son have large mills at several different points and a yard and office in the village ; they are also agents for the Akron sewer pipe and deal in flour and grain.
Melzar Edson began the lumber trade about 1850, his being the first yard in the village. Iu 1857 he took as a partner G. P. Hannum, who continued in the firm until 1864, when H. O. Edson, a nephew of the senior member, bought Hannum's interest.
D. M. White Lumber Company are large manufacturers and dealers in lum- ber and sell doors, sash and blinds, feed, etc .; they have steam mills in the town of Chittenden.
Davis & Gould began wholesaling flour, feed, etc., in 1878, succeeding Davis & Curtis in the retail trade. The firm continued until 1883, when Mr. J. A. Gould retired and W. F. Burditt came in. In July, 1884, Mr. Gould again became a partner. In September, 1885, Mr. Davis retired, and the firm took its present style of Gould & Burditt.
W. C. Landon carries on a large trade in hardware, flour, feed, seeds, etc. The firm was formerly Landon & Huntoon.
There is but one wholesale drug store in the place, that of Higgins, Greene & Hyde. A. W. Higgins began this business in February, 1869, and on the first of January, 1884, formed the present firm. The store was formerly un- der the Bates House, and was removed to its present location April 1, 1885. They have a large wholesale and retail trade and carry a heavy stock. The firm are A. W. Higgins, W. E. Greene and C. H. Hyde.
The firm of Van Doorn & Tilson (M. T. Van Doorn, E. H. Van Doorn and J. E. Tilson), have a large stock of crockery, glassware, lamps, wall paper, etc., in a fine store, and carry on a wholesale and retail business.
There is little wholesaling of any kind of dry goods in the place ; but sev- eral of the retail establishments, notably those of Charles E. Ross, Ross Brothers, B. H. Burt and Charles B. Hilliard, will favorably compare with those of many large cities.
Hotels .- In a paper upon the old-time taverns of Rutland county read by
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George H. Beaman before the Historical Society, he makes the following pleas- ant allusions ; after speaking of the necessary absence of means of literary cul- ture at an early day, he said : "Of course, in the absence of these means of intellectual and moral culture, and the restricted measure of their social enjoy- ments, the village tavern became the point of attraction in the leisure hours of the inhabitants, and especially upon all holidays and public occasions. The bar-room thus became ultimately the forum, the field of debate on all matters of general interest, the general 'committee room' for the discussion of grave questions, and the occasional gathering place for the more genial and convivial members of the community. As the villages of those days had each its 'wise men ' - some with 'convictions ' - its eccentrics, its 'ne'er-do-wells,' its wag, its general butt, and a mild infusion of the gay and festive element, it may well be imagined that these chance assemblies were more or less animated and exciting - often interesting, and sometimes profitable; and though the flip-iron (in its season) was always in readiness, and though the music of the toddy stock invariably enlivened these occasions, it is no more than just to our an- cestors to say that these scenes in an old-time Vermont county bar-room were usually decorous, and that marked excesses were rarely witnessed. The early settlers of Rutland county brought with them from Massachusetts, Connecti- cut and Rhode Island enough puritanism to give a natural sobriety to their character, and they were too earnest in the necessary labor incident to their condition to waste time or money in trivial amusements or expensive habits. And it may in truth be said of the old-time keepers of the taverns of Rutland county that they, as a class, shared fully in the sentiments, feelings and con- victions of the better class of the society around them. Peers of their neigh- bors and townsmen, and knowing that the success and reputation of their houses depended mainly upon the traveling public, they had neither the motive nor the desire to foster a local patronage disreputable in itself and destructive alike to the best interests of all concerned.
" From among the names of this class of old-time landlords, those which most readily occur are the following: Henry Gould, Issachar Reed, Major Cheney, Nathan Cushman, Abner Mead, Jacob Gates, Samuel Moulton, Ben- jamin Carver, Reuben Moulton, John Mason, 2d, Joel Beaman, Daniel Par- sons, Pitt Hyde, Daniel Meeker, Apollos Smith, Royal Dennis, Nathan T. Sprague, James Brewster, Levi Finney, Ephraim Fitch and Rufus Bucklin.
" Highly respectable in their characters, these men held prominent posi- tions in their respective localities. Most of them were intelligent, active and energetic business men, as agriculturists, mechanics, merchants, stage- men, etc .; many of them were magistratcs and efficient town officers, and some of them were prominent members of the churches, and yet these men are in modern times held up by over- zealous reformers, and by blatant declaimers on certain occasions, as moral ogres of a past generation and worthy only of execration.
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To the more conservative mind, and to one more conversant with the facts in the case, these denunciations will appear not only ridiculously unjust, but im- politic, because of their unreasonableness. Such a one will remember that in the times referred to the use of spirituous liquors was, as may be said, universal ; that while the inn-keeper dispensed it from his bar, the merchant passed it over his counter ; that it was always to be found on the sideboard, and in the cupboard of the rich and poor alike, and that it was not deemed immoral or derogatory to the character even of the parish clergymen to be seen, on occa- sion, sitting on the tavern porch or the store platform (perhaps watching a game of quoits or an interesting ball play) while sipping his glass of wine, or, perchance, a more potent beverage. In this state of society it is highly cred- itable to the keepers of the respectable public houses of the time that it can in truth be said that they gave no encouragement to excess in that direction.
"As before stated, the first and chief aim and purpose of the keepers of these houses was that they should be kept for the accommodation of the trav - eling public, and that their main support should be derived from this source. No allurements were held out by them to entice the idle or the vicious of the neighborhood or the surrounding country ; cards and the dice were almost uni- versally tabooed ; a billiard table would have been deemed a disreputable ac- quisition, and a bowling alley as an adjunct to a reputable old-time tavern was very rarely or never thought of. Singularly enough, however, all these tav- erns had each its ball-room, while the occasion of a ball or a dance in one of them was an occurance about as rare as the visitation of Encke's comet. Of the three of these ball-rooms best known to me, and with a knowledge of them for half a century, I can say that I never knew of but one dancing party in each of these halls within this period ; though in my early days there was a tradi- tion to the effect that at an anterior date there had been in one of them a fa- mous affair of the kind, and that the music furnished for the occasion was that of the once famous 'black band ' of Rutland.
" In consideration of the views here given, I think it may well be claimed that the old-time tavern of our county was a positive necessity of the day, and while it gave needed accommodation to the traveling and home public, and aided materially in the advancement of the best interests of the county, its influence-though conservative rather than aggressive in its opposition to the social evil of the day - was not quite so baneful to society as it has by some been represented."
Perhaps we have already given the old hotels of Rutland sufficient notice. The old Franklin Hotel, which was the popular " stage house " for many years, was burned in 1868; it was last kept by Gershom Cheney. The Reed House, on Main street, kept in early years by Issacher Reed, and later by his son Willard ; this was also burned. The Page House, kept by Abel Page, and af- terward by Alanson Dyer, was on West street, where Nicholas Davis lives ; it was also burned.
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The Brock House is the oldest hotel now standing in the place. It was kept in early years by Eleazer Wheelock, who was also interested in the stage lines ; it was then a two-story dwelling. Josiah Huntoon subsequently became the owner and added the third story. Later S. A. Brock purchased the prop- erty and added the piazzas. It is to be kept hereafter partly for the accom- modation of summer boarders.
The Bardwell House was built by Otis Bardwell and E. Foster Cook and opened in 1852. John W. Cramton purchased it in 1864, and it has remained in his possession since. H. O. Carpenter is now associated with Mr. Cramton in the management of the house and it has been made very popular with the public.
The first Bates House was built by A. C. Bates and opened by Daniel Kel- logg, jr., in 1866. There were numerous changes in the proprietorship, A. C. Bates having kept it two years; M. Quinn a short time; Paige & Marston about a year ; Paige & Tolhurst a short time, and finally W. F. Paige alone, until it was burned in 1876. The house was rebuilt and opened in 1877, A. C. Bates & Son managing it for four years ; they were followed by J. M. Haven ; it finally passed into possession of Dr. John A. Mead, and was man- aged by W. H. Valliquette until October, 1885, when Morse & Quinn became the landlords. It is a large and finely equipped hotel.
The Berwick House was built in 1868, by C. F. Richardson ; it is a large, airy and convenient house and was managed by Mr. Richardson until 1885, when his son F. H. Richardson and D. N. Haynes assumed the management. Under their care it is a deservedly popular hotel.
The Central Hotel is kept by J. M. Ballou to the satisfaction of his guests, and the Continental, recently opened by S. French is a well-conducted house ; the Farmers' Hotel is kept by Mrs. J. E. Johnson and W. F. Kelley. These latter are largely used as boarding-houses for residents of the village.
As a part of the history of the county and on account of its intimate rela- tions with this village, it is proper to here mention the Killington House, near the top of the Killington Mountain, kept by Vincent C. Meyerhoffer. The road to the top of this mountain was opened in 1860, upon the general belief that the magnificent view from the peak would attract many tourists and per- haps lead to the establishment of a hotel there. When Mr. Meyerhoffer opened the house in 1879 it was a rustic cottage twelve by eighteen feet and intended to shelter himself and wife while camping on the mountain. He conceived the idea, however, of enlarging the house for the accommodation of guests and did so in the following summer. In May, 1880 he erected the present building, which will accommodate forty guests. It is situated about 300 feet below the peak of the mountain and about 4, 100 feet above sea level. A path leads from it to the peak from which is obtained one of the grandest views imaginable; it cannot be better described than in the following language from the pen of Mrs. Julia C. R. Dorr, the Rutland poetess : ---
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" I purposely avoided looking back or around until I had made about half the distance. Then I dropped upon a flat stone, to take breath, and well-nigh lost it utterly, such was the sense of isolation, of dizzy height, of infinite space that overwhelmed me. The house was directly beneath my feet, and I perched in mid-air above it, while near and afar, even to the wide horizon, rolled billow after billow, like the waves of the ocean. Not billows of cloud as you may suppose ; but the everlasting hills themselves, all tremulous with the purple and golden mists of sunset. On either side mountains on mountains as far as the eye could reach. The valley of the Otter Creek seemed like a narrow rib- bon, through which ran a thread of silver." And of the sunrise from the sum- mit she says: "The east was aflame with the glory of the dawn. On the west the huge wedge-shaped shadow of Killington stretched on and on till it touched the far horizon. The upper air was crystal clear, while low wreaths of vapor curled upwards from the valleys. From north to south swept the broad Con- necticut, a sheet of silver ; and in the distance Lake Champlain stretched from Whitehall 130 miles to the northward. Lake George lay like a mist wreath on the horizon. Lake Bomoseen, Pine Hill Pond, and others of lesser note flashed and sparkled at our feet. Rutland, Castleton, Pittsford, Woodstock and a host of others were kindling their morning fires as we gazed. Far to the north Mount Mansfield and Jay Peaks rose up majestically, with banner-like clouds floating from their summits, exchanging signals with Mount Marcy and all the mighty monarchs of the Adirondacks. Near at hand, toward the east, the rounded dome of Ascutney looked like a hillock, while Mount Kearsage loomed dimly beyond it, and, clasping hands, as it were, to complete the glorious circle, came proud Monadnock and old Greylock, Mount Anthony, Mount Equinox, and Mount Dorset. But while we held our breath on this Mount of Transfig- uration the sun rose up, as out of the sea, lighting the whole east with a more than earthly glory ; and lo! a great rose-tinted pearl hung high in the shining heavens - Mount Washington startled us like a vision from the other world ! What wonder if with Peter of old, our hearts, if not our lips, cried out : Lord it is good for us to be here !"
Mr. Meyerhoffer has recently obtained possession of Pico Pond, about four miles distant from his mountain house; this little lake has a more than local reputation as a fishing resort. A trip to the top of Mount Killington is now one of the most important of the many attractive features of a visit to Rutland, and more than repays the tourist.
Secret Societies of Rutland. - There are three lodges, a council, a chapter, and a commandery in the town of Rutland, in the Order of Free and Accepted Masons. The oldest of these is the Center Lodge, which was organized as No. 6, on the 15th of October, 1794. Its charter was given up during the anti- Masonic struggle, and it was reorganized as No. 34 in 1853. The present offi- cers are as follows : Edward Dana, W. M .; Charles Turner, S. W .; David H.
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Barber, J. W. ; Benjamin W. Marshall, treasurer ; Justus R. Hoadley, secre- tary ; Frank P. Robinson, S. D. ; Horace G. Bateman, J. D .; Charles E. Ross, chaplain ; Thomas C. Robbins, marshal; William Metzgar, F. S. Weather- head, stewards; George Willis, tyler.
The second lodge is Rutland No. 79, which was chartered in 1868. Its offi- cers are as follows : J. H. McIntyre, W. M .; Moses Ford, S. W .; George D. Babbitt, J. W .; D. M. White, treasurer ; C. S. Robinson, secretary ; C. M. Glea- son, S. D .; H. R. Adams, J. D .; E. W. Shaw, S. S .; H. P. Wilkins, J. S. ; J. C. Temple, marshal ; E. W. Davis, chaplain ; C. E. Campbell, tyler.
Hiram Lodge No. 101 was organized at West Rutland in May, 1879, the first officers being : Hiram A. Smith, W. M. ; Marcellus Newton, S. W .; Will Tenney, J. W. The present officers are : L. J. Hoadley, W. M. ; E. C. Fish, jr., S. W .; J. G. Crippen, J. W.
Davenport Council was chartered in June, 1867, under the following offi- cers : S. D. Jenness, T. I. M. ; J. B. Chandler, R. I. M. ; W. H. Schryver, I. M. The present officers are as follows : T. C. Robbins, T. C. M. ; H. H. Smith, R. I. M. ; Samuel Terrill, I. M .; L. G. Kingsley, treasurer ; A. S. Marshall, re- corder ; J. H. McIntyre, C. of G. ; C. E. Kendall, P. C .; A. J. Hesseltine, stew- ard; R. Baker, sentinel.
Davenport Chapter No. 17 was organized June 17, 1867. Following are the names of the present officers : S. Terrill, H. P. ; A. J. Hesseltine, K. ; W. S. Terrill, S .; L. G. Kingsley, treasurer ; L. L. Pearsons, secretary ; Rolla Barker, C. H. ; James Everson, P. S. ; A. T. Tyrrell, R. A. C. ; George D. Babbit, mas- ter 3d vail: E. V. Ross, master 2d vail; C. M. Gleason, master Ist vail; C. E. Campbell, tyler.
Killington Commandery was organized in July, 1867. Following are the present officers : Will F. Lewis, E. C. ; J. H. McIntyre, Gen. ; J. C. Temple, captain-general ; S. Terrill, prel. ; A. T. Tyrrell, S. W .; W. S. Terrill, J. W .; L. G. Kingsley, treasurer ; L. L. Pearsons, Rec. ; F. H. Chapman, St. Br. ; E. A. Fuller, Sw. Br .; Charles Clark, warder; G. D. Babbitt, F. J. Wade, C. A. Gale, captains of guard ; C. E. Campbell, tyler.
[For a more complete and detailed account of Masonry in the county, as well as of the other secret societies of this town, the reader is referred to the chapter devoted to the subject in earlier pages of this work.]
Grand Army of the Republic. - There are two posts of this organization in the town. Roberts Post No. 14, was chartered November 11, 1868, with the following as the first officers : William Y. W. Ripley, P. C .; W. G. Veazey, S. V. C .; John A. Sheldon, J. V. C. ; C. H. Forbes, adjutant ; E. A. Morse, Q. M. The first meeting was held in the carpet room of Major L. G. Kingsley's store. The present officers of the post are : L. G. Kingsley, P. C .; E. H. Web- ster ; S. V. C. ; O. P. Murdick, J. V. C .; W. B. Thrall, adjutant ; Oscar Rob- inson, Q. M. ; C. L. Allen, surgeon ; John Fayles, chaplain ; C. N. Chamber-
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lain, O. D. ; I. H. Black, O. G. ; William Cronan, S. M. ; James E. Post, Q. M. S. There are now about 180 members in this post.
Sennot Post No. 12, of West Rutland, has the following officers: George Brown, com .; S. B. Arnold, adjutant; C. H. Sherman, Q. M .; and is in a prosperous condition.
Young Men's Christian Association, Rutland. - This association was first organized in the winter of 1857-58, but lived only about three years, occupy- ing rooms in what is now J. B. Reynolds's residence, opposite the post-office. In 1867 a new association was formed, which continued its work for about seven years, occupying at different periods rooms in the Nickwackett Hall, Morse's block, the National Bank building and the Billings block.
The present association is the result of the labor of the International Com- mittee, and was formed in December, 1882, with a membership of thirty-six ; this was increased by January, 1883, to one hundred and sixty, and the pres- ent membership is about two hundred and seventy-five. The first officers were: President, J. M. Haven ; vice-presidents, (C. V. Railroad), L. L. Pear- sons ; (B. & R. Railroad), F. C. White ; (D. & H. Railroad), -; recording secretary, John F. Merrill ; treasurer, D. L. Morgan ; assistant treas- urer, S. H. Kellogg; railroad secretary, W. A. Guernsey ; representatives of the churches, Charles P. Harris, E. W. Horner, W. C. Walker, George W. Kenney, W. O. Bibbins.
The present officers are as follows : President, George K. Montgomery ; vice-presidents, (C. V. Railroad), W. P. Horton ; (D. & H. C. Co.'s Railroad), D. C. Pierce ; (B. & R. Railroad), H. W. Spafford ; recording secretary, L. G. Brown; treasurer, W. R. Kinsman; assistant treasurer, George B. Spencer ; representatives of the churches, T. L. Drury, H. A Hall, E. W. Horner, W. B. Clauson, Charles W. Pennington ; railroad secretary, W. A. Guernsey.
The association furnishes a reading-room and a library with more than two hundred and fifty volumes ; a boys' branch room, gymnasium, a young men's lyceum, etc. An immense amount of work is performed annually, and the good done in the community by the association is inestimable. It was incor- porated in February, 1885.
West Rutland. - This little village is what constitutes the business center of the " west parish " of the town and is situated about four miles west of Rut- land, on the line of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company's railroad. The richest marble deposits in the county lie in the slopes of the hills near the vil- lage ; hence it has become a very important shipping point. The names of the pioneers in this vicinity and their early deeds have already been described. The village itself boasted little mercantile or manufacturing prominence until William Barnes and his associates developed the marble industry. A few of the early settlers in this vicinity, who have not been mentioned, were Samuel Denison, who came from Lyme, Conn., in 1744; he died in 1825, and was the
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father of William Denison, a shoemaker of West Rutland; the shop of the latter was located where Artemas Ward now lives. Ashbel Lee settled early in Whipple Hollow and died in 1830; he has no descendants in the town. Seth Moses located about three miles north of West Rutland, where he was one of the first settlers; he died in 1801 ; one of his sons was Elnathan Moses, who died in 1825. Daniel Giddings settled on what was known as "Giddings Hill," and had sons, Silas, Chapman and Elijah ; they were all farmers. Avery Ames settled two miles west of the village and died at the age of eighty years ; he had sons, Matthias, Hiram, Charles and Avery ; the first named went to Castleton to live and the others removed west. The Blanchards were pioneers in this section; Benjamin has already been noticed as having built the first mill for James Mead at Center Rutland; Stillman kept a store at West Rutland as late as 1820.
The venerable Artemas Ward remembers the place as far back as 1820; he is a son of Jabez Ward (mentioned among early settlers in a previous page), and was born in 1800. The oldest business structure in the place is the store now kept by William H. Woodward, where mercantile business has been car- ried on for seventy years. John W. Harris had a store there as one of the first ; John T. Duncan, his brother-in-law, then kept it. For a number of years there was no other trade here. Francis Slason had a store for many years. (See biography of Charles Slason in later pages of this work). Mr. Slason succeeded a Mr. Bristol, for whom he had formerly acted as clerk. A tavern was kept where Hiram Smith's house stands by Ephraim Blanchard, and afterward by Jacob Gates, Elijah Corbett and Jonathan C. Thrall ; it burned while in Mr. Thrall's possession. William Denison, already mentioned as a shoemaker, was a sort of natural mechanic and worked a good deal at marble-cutting long before there was any regular quarrying done here. Slabs were dug out, split and then hewn down to an even thickness for the grave- stones that are still to be seen in the old cemetery. Gardner Tripp and Will- iam F. Barnes's father dug out marble in this primitive manner, according to Mr. Ward's memory, sixty-five years ago. Roswell Merrill was an early black- smith, as was also Seth Gorham ; the latter was a prominent citizen and much respected. Benjamin Fay, a brother of William, the publisher, was a shoe- maker in 1820, and William Barney made harness. There has been a post- office here since early in the century ; the first postmaster remembered by Mr. Ward was Francis Slason ; he was succeeded by Asa Perry. Mr. Slason's store was in the vicinity of the old church east of the present village, and when Mr. Perry took the office it was moved over to the west part ; later it was again changed to its former location. Reuben Smith was postmaster for a time, and succeeded by P. L. Goss, James L. Gilmore and J. E. Leonard, the present in- cumbent. (See later pages).
The village, as stated, grew but little until William F. Barnes brought his
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energy and enterprise to bear upon it; the building operations and the growth of the marble industry have combined to make it an active little place. The present mercantile business of the place is as follows :-
William H. Woodward began business as a general merchant in 1866 in the old building described ; he succeeded Norton & Robinson, and they fol- lowed R. Watkins & Co. F. A. Morse has dealt in drugs and fancy goods since 1867. The general mercantile business of Parker & Thrall (William Thrall and C. A. Parker) was begun in 1877 by Parker & Mead ; R. R. Mead and R. R. Mead & Son followed, and were succeeded by the present firm. Wheeler Brothers (F. L., W. W. and T. B. Wheeler), began a general business in 1881, succeeding J. S. Tuttle ; J. T. Freeman and Charles Liscomb kept the store still earlier. L. Conniff, dealer in drugs and fancy goods, succeeded E. W. Liddell a year ago. W. T. Sepp has sold dry and fancy goods since 1878. The Barnes House, built by William F. Barnes, has been kept by Michael Ol- vetti since April, 1885 ; there were numerous changes in the proprietorship of the house since its erection.
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