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The Methodist Episcopal Church of Poultney was formally organized in
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1826. Among the first members of the society, which was organized in April of the same year, were Daniel Mallary, Welcome Phillips, Anthony Austin, Newton Sanford, Samuel Cleveland, William Wells, Isaac Taylor, John Allen, Alanson Rice, Rufus Maynard, Henry Stanley, Joel Beaman, John W. Austin, Noah Wells, and others. Poultney, however, was a subject of more or less frequent visitations from the circuit preachers. Lorenzo Dow's first arrival was in 1797. Rev. Tobias Spicer received an appointment to preach in East Poultney in 1810. The first house of worship was the old stone church erected in 1822. This was used until the winter of 1841-42, when the present edifice was dedicated. It will seat six hundred persons and cost originally about $12,- 000. It has undergone extensive repairs and improvements several times since it was built. The Sabbath-school was organized almost contemporaneously with the church, the average attendance whereof is about 140, while the church membership numbers about 160. The present value of the church property is $12,500, including the parsonage. The present pastor, Rev. C. A. S. Heath, came in the spring of 1885. The Sabbath-school superintendent is Frederick Cook. The present stewards and trustees are, A. E. Knapp, John Richards, T. Stanley, H. P. Prouty, D. F. Southworth, C. F. Harris, C. C. Loomis, H. Rowe, J. W. Ripley ; class leaders, H. P. Prouty and H. Clark. The treasurer is H. P. Prouty and the secretary, J. W. Ripley.
St. John's Church (Episcopal). - This church was not properly organized until the period intervening between 1820 and 1825, although there were prob- ably a few adherents of this faith in town from about 1792.
In the year 1800 Rev. Amos Pardee, rector of the Hampton (N. Y.) par- ish, took up his residence in East Poultney, and accepted an invitation from friends to " preach in town as special occasions should call for and convenience would permit." Notwithstanding the incomplete organization of the society, it was represented in the convention of the diocese, in 1809, by Ebenezer Can- field, and in 1811 by Lerial Lewis. In 1824, probably the year when the church organization was finally effected, the new parish was represented in the annual convention by Philo Hosford. In July, 1828, Rev. Moore Bingham assumed charge of the parish. At this time the following persons constituted the number of communicants: Abijah Williams and wife, Mrs. Persis Bailey, Mrs. Fanny Mallary, Mrs. Prindle, Lerial Lewis and wife, Mrs. Lucy Gifford, Aaron Lewis, Sarah Young, and Mrs. Hosford. Services were held in the school-house at East Poultney. The corner-stone of the church edifice was laid May 27, 1831, and the building was first used in exactly one year after- ward. Mr. Bingham's rectorship continued until Easter, 1837. Rev. Luman Foot followed him for about one year; after Easter, 1840, Rev. Lucias M. Per- dy officiated as rector for over two years and was followed in January, 1843, by Rev. Norman W. Camp; he remained for but one year. During the holi- days of 1844-45 Rev. Benjamin Daniels took charge of the parish, to which
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he ministered until his death in the following'September. For the six months following the end of July, 1845, Rev. James Stephenson was rector. The rec- torship of Rev. Oliver Hopson began the Sunday after Easter, 1847, and con- tinued to Easter, 1865. He was succeeded in 1866 by Rev. Nathaniel F. Put- nam, who began also to hold services in Joslin Hall for the west village. These services were so well attended as to justify the erection of the church edifice in the west village, which was consecrated in the fall of 1868. The present rector E. H. Randall, began his labor here in the fall of 1869. The present officers of the church are as follows: Seth B. Woodworth, senior warden ; William B. Prindle, junior warden ; George Ward, Reuben R. Thrall, John Knowlson, M. D., vestrymen. There are now about 115 communicants in the parish, and at the Sabbath-school, of which the rector is ex-officio superintendent, there is an average attendance of about forty pupils. The church property is valued at $10,000.
The Christian Advent Church was organized in February, 1858, with a membership of about 120 members. Asa J. Rogers, Asa B. Cook and Justus L. Knapp were the first deacons. The first pastor was Rev. John Howell, who remained about two years. Meetings were held in the old stone church until November, 1869, since which time their services have been held in the Odd Fellows Hall. No regular services, however, have been held for years, although Rev. J. A. Libby, of Castleton, preaches here occasionally. There are about fifty regular attendants.
The Roman Catholic Church edifice was erected in 1864, under the direc- tion of Rev. Thomas P. Lynch, then resident at West Rutland. Services had previously been held at irregular intervals for a number of years. Rev. J. C. O'Dwyer, resident at Fairhaven, was the second priest, and succeeded by the present priest, Rev. P. J. O'Carroll. The church is a Fairhaven charge. The cost of erecting the edifice in 1864 was about $3,000. The property is now valued at $3,500.
Educational. - The Troy Conference Academy was founded in 1833, the " beauty, healthfulness, temperance, good order, and freedom from influences baneful to a school, of Poultney," determining its founders to build it up in this place. The people of Poultney, among whom, it is said, Henry Stanley was the most generous, were very liberal in their donations. The charter granted by the Vermont Legislature in 1834 contained the names of the following cor- porators, John Stanley, Benjamin Barnet, Samuel P. Hooker, Tobias Spicer, Samuel D. Ferguson, Noah Levings, Sherman Miner, Peter C. Oakley and Timothy Benedict. The building was completed in September, 1837. The academy was opened, however, in 1836, in a select-school building. Sabin S. Stocking was the first principal. The new building cost more than $40,000, and embarrassed the conference with a heavy debt. In 1855 the property was, therefore, given by perpetual lease to Rev. Joshua Poor, who conducted what
HUGH G. HUGHES.
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was, in reality, a private school in it until 1863. Rev. John Newimand Prof. Seaman A. Knapp then purchased it, and kept what they denominated the " Ripley Female College " until 1865. when Mr. Newman became sole proprie- tor, and continued until August 26, 1873. In 1871 he published a proposition looking to the re-establishment of the conference academy, which resulted in the resolution by the conference to adopt it as a conference school, if it should be presented to them free of incumbrances. A number of the citizens of Poult- ney offered contributions sufficient to effectuate this object, and the property accordingly passed to the conference trustees. In 1873-74 Rev. N. S. Cramer carried on a day school under the direction of the trustees, and on the 27th of August, 1874, the academy began its second career under favorable circum- stances, with a complete faculty and boarding department. The principals, after the retirement of Rev. S. S. Stocking in 1837, have been the following : Rev. Daniel Curry, D. D., 1837-38 ; Rev. James Covel, A. M , 1838-40; Rev. Jesse T. Peek, D. D., 1840-48; Rev. John Newman, A. M., 1848-51; Rev. Oran Fayville, A. M., 1851-52; Rev. Jason F. Walker, A. M., 1852-55 : Rev. William H. Poor, A. B., 1855-56; Lewis Collins, A. M., 1856-58; Rev. R. M. Manley, A. M., 1858-60; Revs. William H. Poor, A. B., and George S. Chadbourn, A. M., 1860. The first principal after the restoration was Rev. M. E. Cady, A. M., who remained a number of years. His successor, the present principal, Rev. C. H. Dunton, came here in 1877, and conducts a most admi- rable school.
The graded school of Poultney is excellent in all its appointments, The building was erected in 1884 at a cost, including furniture, of $12,000. It is divided into four departments.
The Slate Interest. - The general history of the slate business in the county has received attention in Chapter XIII. We will therefore confine our state- ments to the history of the Poultney interests. The first quarry was opened in 1851 by Daniel and S. E. Hooker on the farm then owned by Daniel Hooker, about three miles north of Poultney village, and a little more than a mile south of the old "Eagle " quarry in Castleton. This firm, Hooker & Son, it has been said, were the third to engage in the slate business in Vermont. In 1854 they enlarged their business. A. W. Hyde at one time had a controlling interest in the quarries. Daniel Hooker is now deceased, and S. E. Hooker is con- ducting the drug business in the west village. Some time before 1875 Hugh G. Hughes obtained possession of the quarries, and still further increased the business.
The Eureka Slate Company was organized in 1878. The present owner, Captain Reginald Roberts, went in with Hugh G. Hughes that year, and suc- ceeded to the entire interest, when the latter was killed in the quarry a little more than two years ago. The average production of these three openings is 1,200 square feet of unfading green slate per month ; 600 feet of purple, and 50
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300 feet of sea-green. The mill for sawing this slate was built in 1834, and is the only mill in the world in which slate is sawn for roofing purposes. About sixty-five men are employed. The plot of land on which the quarries are sit- uated is thirty-two acres in extent.
The " Farnum Quarry," so called, was opened in 1853 and worked until 1868 by William E. Farnum & Son, on the farm now owned by Merritt Clark, but is not worked now. The quarries on the present farm of William L. Farnum are leased, but not at present working. George B. Boyce has one quarry in operation, the farm lying next south of Mr. Farnum.
The Evergreen Quarry, north of the Hooker farm, was first opened by Griffith Hughes in about 1860. The Evergreen Slate Company, originally comprised of James Wiswell, W. A. Clark, Andrew Clark and Griffith Hughes, was incorporated November 19, 1868. In the summer of 1875 work was sus- pended for a time. The present company of Ainsworth & Cole, composed of H. Ainsworth, and M. D. Cole, was formed in May, 1884. The color of the slate is a purple and a permanent green ; a stratum twenty feet deep of the former, resting on one of a much greater depth of green, which is worked chiefly into billiard beds and mantel stock. About fifty men are employed.
Nearly three- fourths of a mile south of the Hooker farm above mentioned are seven openings on the farm of L. C. Spaulding, the first opening having been made in the fall of 1865. Only four of these are at present worked, and are leased to William Lloyd, Richard E. Lloyd, and Lloyd & Jones, all of Fairhaven.
The new Empire Slate Company, formed in 1879, succeeded then to the interest of Evan E. Lloyd, who began in 1853; Captain William H. Jones, his partner, came in 1879. They have an interest in three quarries, one of which they now work, about one and a half miles south of Poultney village. This quarry was opened in 1860 by George W. Gibson. It produces about 2,000 squares per annum. This company also contract largely for the purchase and sale of slate.
We take from the history of Poultney several facts which we are informed are true to-day as they were in 1875. The Gibson quarry, about two miles south: of the village was discovered and opened in 1864 by Owen Williams, and was afterwards purchased by a Schenectady company, and worked in connec- tion with another quarry in the immediate vicinity, called the Schenectady quarry. A short distance north of these openings is the Horton quarry, opened in 1871 and for some years worked by Cyrus E. Horton. It produces green roofing slate.
The Green Mountain slate vein, discovered by the late William R. Williams in 1866, and opened by himself and his brother, John R. Williams, the same year, is about one hundred rods east of the railroad track on land then owned by Aaron Lewis.
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G. J. Davis opened the Olive Branch quarry in 1867, in the same vicinity. The slate about here is a mottled green color.
Just east of the Green Mountain quarry, on the farm of Asa J. Rogers, is a vein of sea green slate, discovered and opened in July, 1871, by William Griffith and William Nathaniel, who now work five quarries there under the firm style of Griffith & Nathaniel. In 1879 they built their office near the depot and carry on the business with great regularity. The production of their quarries amounts to 1,500 or 2,000 squares per month, the slate being shipped even to Australia and different parts of Europe. It is used entirely for roofing purposes.
The firm of Auld & Conger have quarries in the south part of the town, which have been worked for seven or eight years past with good success. The product of the quarries is a fine quality of sea green roofing slate. Messrs. Auld & Conger have been together since the quarries were opened.
Ripley & Stanley, hereafter mentioned at greater length, added a slate mill to their other factory, in November, 1883.
Richard L. Jones, Seth Roberts and Thomas Edwards, under the firm name of Jones, Roberts & Edwards, work a quarry of sea green slate in the south part of the town, which was discovered by Mr. Edwards in 1882, just before the present partnership was formed. The production ranges from 2,500 to 5,000 squares a year. Mr. Edwards has also three quarries on his farm south of the above, which he leases respectively to Auld & Conger, of Cleveland, Ohio ; Parry & Jones, of Poultney, and Owen Davis, of Poultney. Mr. Edwards worked these quarries himself until 1884. They produce from 10,000 to 15,- 000 squares a year, in all.
S. Coombe, manufacturer of marbelized slate mantels, lamp bases, etc., started here in August, 1884, and already does about a $50,000 business.
The Poultney Slate Works have three openings on the farm before men- tioned, formerly belonging to Hooker & Son, and a large till within ten rods of the quarry. It is a stock company, incorporated in August, 1884, under the laws of the State of New York, with F. T. Sargent for president ; H. C. Deri- vera, treasurer and general manager, and Salvador Ros, vice-president and sec- retary. M. B. Mayhar is the general superintendent of the works. They have warerooms at 513 and 515 Sixth Avenue, New York, at 916 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, and 178 Tremont street, Boston. The New York office is at 117 Pearl Street. They employ on an average seventy men and finish about four hundred marbelized mantels monthly, the mills having a capacity for about 16,000 feet of stock per month. The quarry was opened for the gentlemen now composing the company in May, 1881, by M. D. Mayhar. The largest opening is about 200 feet long, 100 wide and 100 deep, and contains an under- ground cavity tunneled about one hundred by eighty feet.
Besides the quarries and companies mentioned, a number of skillful slate
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men contract with the companies dealing in slate, and furnish it at their own expense. Robert O. Roberts contracts now with Ripley & Stanley and formerly contracted with Griffith & Nathaniel. He began here in the summer of 1884.
Since 1875, it is said, the slate business of Poultney has more than doubled in volume, and has also greatly increased in profits. It is comparatively in its infancy yet, however, and if properly developed, will be a source of great wealth to the town.
The Poultney Industrial Society. - This society was organized on the 3d of September, 1881, by the election of the following officers: Honorable Ralph Richards, president : R. J. Humphrey, secretary ; and Edward Clark, treasurer. It was reorganized on the 4th of August, 1882, and incorporated under the laws of Vermont. The officers for 1885 are N. C. Hyar, president; M. O. Stoddard, vice-president : R. J. Humphrey, secretary ; M. J. Horton, treasurer ; R. H. Clark, general superintendent ; directors, T. B. Clark, R. T. Ray, E. R. Pember, R. R. Thrall, H. C. Rann, J. A. Benedict. The society enjoys the peculiar advantage of freedom from the control of horse-jockeys, no trotting being exhibited during the season of its fairs. Fine, commodious buildings have been erected on the grounds of the society at an expense of about $2,000. The last report of the treasurer shows the sum on hand to be $1,300, with no outstanding liabilities.
Town Officers. - The officers of the town of Poultney, elected in March, 1885, are as follows: William H. Rowland, town clerk; Charles Ripley, L. C. Spaulding, Joseph F. Morse, selectmen ; J. W. D. Deane, treasurer; Alonzo Herrick, constable and collector ; Charles A. Rann, Edward S. Miller, Walter Metcalf, listers ; F. S. Platt, M. Costello, G. D. Belden, auditors ; Charles A. Rann, overseer of the poor; Rev. Calvin Granger, superintendent of schools ; Charles S. Lewis, J. H. Tay, Charles Beals, fence viewers ; William Rowland, representative.
Municipal History. - Little concerning the history of the villages, in addi- tion to what is contained in foregoing pages, can now be said. Prior to the building of the Rutland and Washington railroad through the west village in 1852, East Poultney had from the beginning been deemed the business and social center of the town. All the churches were located there, town meetings and freemen's meetings, military trainings, holiday celebrations, and public gatherings of every sort were all held there. But the opening of railroads in- variably shifts the channels of trade. The west village soon after 1852 began to increase in population and business importance, and the east village suffered a corresponding diminution in enterprise. In 1868, after years of zealous effort and the enkindling of many bitter animosities, a vote to have the town meet- ings held in the west village was passed and the change was complete. The bulk of the business of the town is now in the west village.
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Hotels .- One of the two hotels now open in town, viz., Beaman's Hotel, was the stage station before stage lines were superseded by canals and rail- roads. It is not the first hotel in town, that distinction belonging to the tav- ern of Thomas Ashley, on the site of the school-house on the main road ; but it is very old and historic. The site, then partly covered by a single storied house, was purchased by John Stanley in 1794. Subsequently he erected a two storied house, which now comprises a part of the hotel, and in 1805 or 1806 opened a tavern there. Joel Beaman bought him out in 1809 and there- after kept public house until his death in 1846. His son, J. D. Beaman, suc- ceeded him then until 1849, when the present proprietor, C. C. Beaman, also son to Joel Beaman, took possession and has remained owner and proprietor ever since. The house has been rebuilt several times, the most complete trans- forination being effected by Joel Beaman in 1824. About thirty guests can be comfortably accommodated.
The Poultney House was erected by Henry Stanley about 1834 and oc- cupies the site covered by the store of John Stanley about the opening of the present century. A. H. Brown kept the hotel longer than any other landlord and preceded the present proprietor, Mr. Joselyn.
Mercantile Interests. - The oldest store in town is the one kept by Deweys & Co., of East Poultney, which was built before 1816, and first kept by Bryan Ransom and Harvey D. Smith. Amos Bliss ran the store for several years following about 1820. David Potiwin followed Bliss and in two or three years was succeeded by William P. Noyes, who remained until about 1850. His successors were Zebediah Dewey and Peter Farnam. T. D. and E. S. Dewey also kept there for some years. The present firm formed August 31, 1874, by the addition of I. G. Bliss to the Deweys.
W. W. Hibbard, dealer in books and stationery, drugs and medicines, es- tablished the last named department in the summer of 1860, and afterwards added the stationery stand. He is the better qualified as a druggist from hav- ing graduated from the Castleton Medical College in about 1850.
L. E. Thompson bought out the grocery and crockery store of Charles Ripley about twenty years ago, and until within two years kept store in the eastern part of the village.
The dry goods store of Charles Leffingwell was started by him in May, 1870.
The business now carried on by George H. Ripley, dealer in boots and shoes, trunks, bags, etc., was established about 1873 by J. C. Derby. Mr. Ripley bought him out May 5, 1885.
In the fall of 1876 S. E. Hooker bought the stock of drugs and medicines belonging to Dr. Hiram Meeker, and has since carried on the business him- self. He was formerly a member of the firm of Daniel Hooker & Son, slaters.
P. Brennan, grocer and general merchant, succeeded P. H. Hill in the fall of 1877. Hill had been in the business here about a year previous.
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M. J. Horton, dealer in hardware and stoves, groceries, paints, house fur- nishing goods, etc., started here in June, 1877, as successor to E. C. Rich- ardson.
E. M. Bixby, dealer in coal, wood, lime, cement, etc., bought out the coal business of Henry Ruggles in the spring of 1877.
The store of Rann & Frisbie, comprising a stock of gentlemen's furnishing goods, clothing, trunks, bags, robes and horse clothing, was started by H. C. Rann and J. S. Frisbie, the present proprietors, May 1, 1878. Mr. Rann had had considerable mercantile experience before that, both here and in Rutland.
F. P. Allen purchased the stock of L. A. Hawes, dealer in jewelry and gents' furnishing goods in September, 1878, and now carries on business.
J. W. D. Deane and D. F. Southworth, dealers in clothing and men's fur- nishing goods, formed the partnership of Deane & Southworth, September I, 1885. Mr. Southworth had before that carried on a general mercantile busi- ness here since 1880. Mr. Deane has, separately, a general store, which he started in November, 1880.
The firm of Chapin & Smith (M. D. Chapin and Pratt G. Smith) was formed in the spring of 1882 ; they now run a hardware store and are exten- sively engaged in the manufacture of creameries and churns. About two hun- dred creameries are annually sold in New York alone, and 400 to 500 churns. Mr. Chapin began to manufacture them in the spring of 1879.
M. A. Howard, jr., druggist and general merchant, on the 22d of July, 1885, bought out C. W. Potter, who had been in the business for about two years.
The dry goods and general store of M. M. & M. Myers was started by them in the fall of 1883.
Isaac Cane, who deals in clothing and fancy dry goods, began his mercan- tile career liere in 1856, and from 1868 to 1879 ran a store in the village. His present business he founded in September, 1885.
The restaurant and grocery of E. A. Clayton was started by Jerry Lewis in 1868. Mr. Clayton bought him out in March, 1885.
The restaurant and grocery of D. J. Benedict was started by A. C. Camp- bell in 1883. Mr. Benedict purchased his stock and good will in February, 1885.
Manufacturing Interests .- The manufacturing business of greatest antiquity in Poultney is the widely known " Ruggles foundry." The land on which the foundry building now stands was purchased by John Stanley from Jeremiah Adams soon after the flood of 1811, which bared the rocks in the river in this place, and developed the water-power here. Suitable buildings being soon erected on this site, Mr. Stanley commenced manufacturing shearing-machines, and operated also a carding and cloth-dressing factory here. After a few years he relinquished the manufacture of shearing-machines to his sons Henry
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and Myron N. Henry Stanley afterwards, succeeded the firm, and in 1828 added the foundry business. In 1829 a fire destroyed everything but the foundry, which thereupon received the entire attention of Mr. Stanley. It be- came in a short time a stove manufactory of wide reputation. Henry J. Rug- gles purchased the property in 1844, and continued the business until the time of his death in May, 1869. From that time to 1878 his sons, Horace M. and Henry, owned and managed the concern. Since the latter date Henry Rug- gles has been sole proprietor. No stoves are made here now, the principal product of the foundry being machinery of all kinds. Slate-sawing and plan- ing-machines, which were made here soon after 1850, are still a specialty. Mr. Ruggles has recently added steam power to the foundry. He employs from twenty-five to thirty men.
The business of manufacturing furniture here was established by George Peppler in 1852, who still continues the business.
Harvey Rowe began the manufacture of granite and marble monuments as early as 1865.
The origin of the business of the Moseley & Stoddard Manufacturing Com- pany dates back to about 1866, when F. W. Moseley, the inventor of Mose- ley's cabinet creamery, had a shop near Hampton Bridge, in which he manu- factured agricultural implements, etc. The firm of Moseley & Stoddard was formed in 1872 for the purpose of manufacturing agricultural implements and dealing in stoves and tinware, and occupied the building now used by Rann & Frisbie as a clothing store. In 1874 they erected their present building and began to manufacture dairy apparatus. The present stock company of the Moseley & Stoddard Manufacturing Company was incorporated in 1881 with a capital stock of $40,000. The first officers were : F. W. Mosely, president ; M. O. Stoddard, treasurer; Cyrus Gates, secretary ; F. W. Moseley, M. O. Stoddard, Charles Ripley, T. B. Clark and Henry Ruggles, directors. The present officers are Henry Ruggles, president ; M. O. Stoddard, treasurer ; Cyrus Gates, secretary ; Henry Ruggles, M. G. Stoddard, Charles Ripley, T. B. Clark and J. H. Tay, directors. A full line of dairy apparatus, including the Moseley cabinet creamery and the Stoddard churn are made here. From twenty-five to forty men are employed. The company has survived a suit for infringement which lasted from 1879 to 1882, and in which this company, as defendant, was successful.
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