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The grist-mill of James Bullock, at East Poultney, he erected in 1876. He grinds about a car load and a half per month, in addition to his custom work.
J. W. Ripley commenced making harnesses here in the spring of 1878.
The steam sawing and planing-mills of Ripley & Stanley were originally erected in 1854 by Bosworth, Colvin & Beals, and were used in making doors, sashes, blinds, mouldings, etc. William Bosworth died in 1860; M. Colvin
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left in 1866, and the concern was sold to Copeland & Co. After numerous changes in ownership Charles Ripley and Theodore Stanley acquired the property and have since carried on the business under the firm name of Ripley & Stanley. On July 2, 1878, and again on April 25, 1879, the mills were de- stroyed by fire, and at once rebuilt. The slate-mill was added in 1883. They have two quarries, employ in all about fifty men, and receive froni sales about $60,000 annually.
The grist-mill of Solon Sherman came into his hands in February, 1882, when he purchased it of E. J. Williams. E. R. and R. McGrath, Bullock & Beach, and James Bullock have operated it in former times. It has a capacity for grinding about five hundred bushels of corn daily.
In the spring of 1883 James B. Carrigan succeeded J. C. Wilson in the undertaking business, and in 1884 began manufacturing furniture. He has had nearly twenty years experience in both branches of his present business.
Attorneys .- The more prominent of the attorneys who have practiced in Poultney in the past have received mention in Chapter XVII. Of those still in practice here, the one of longest standing is John B. Beaman, who was born in Poultney on the 13th day of September, 1819; was graduated from Union College in 1840, studied law with Zimri Howe, of Castleton, and E. L. Orms- bee, of Rutland ; was admitted to the bar of Rutland county in the spring term of 1843, and opened an office at once in Poultney. He has been associated with F. S. Platt since May 7, 1877.
Hon. Barnes Frisbie was born on the 23d of January, 1815, in Middletown, Vt .; he studied law in the office of Caleb B. Harrington, of Middletown, and was admitted to practice in Rutland county in 1842. He practiced in Mid- dletown until 1863, when he came to Poultney. For further particulars con- cerning his life, see the biographical sketch which appears in a subsequent page.
Elijah Ross was born in Shrewsbury, Vt., in 1819. He studied law with C. B. Harrington in Middletown, and was admitted in September, 1845. He practiced nine years in Middletown and one in Wells. In 1867 he came to Poult- ney and has engaged in the practice of law and in the nursery business since that time.
F. S. Platt was born September 9, 1853, at Enosburg, Vt. He studied law in the office of Ormsbce & Briggs, of Brandon, and was admitted at the March term of the County Court in 1877. On the 7th of May of the same year he entered into partnership with John B. Beaman, of Poultney.
William H. Rowland was born in Fairhaven, Vt., December 5, 1854 ; stud- ied law with George M. Fuller, of Fairhaven, and John B. Beaman, of Poult- ney. Since his admission in the fall of 1878, he has practiced in Poultney.
E. S. Miller was born on the 11th of May, 1854, in Hampton, N. Y .; stud- ied law with John B. Beaman at first and concluded with C. B. & C. F. Eddy,
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of Bellows Falls, Vt. ; he was admitted to practice in Windsor county in Sep- tember, 1878, and came to Poultney in March, 1878, as partner of the firm of Frisbie & Miller.
Physicians. - The early physicians of Poultney and the rest of the county having received sketches in a former chapter, we will here confine ourselves to brief notices of those now in practice. Dr. George L. Bliss was born on the 23d of December, 1818, at Castleton, Vt., and was graduated from the Castleton Medical College in the fall of 1844. He came to Poultney on January 14, 1848, the intervening period being passed in practice in Hydeville, and in at- tending lectures in the northern part of the State.
Dr. L. D. Ross was born in Poultney on the 4th of July, 1828. He was graduated from Castleton Medical College in 1857 ; practiced in East Poultney until 1861 ; was surgeon in the Rebellion two years ; practiced the next three and a half years in Benson, Vt., and resumed his practice in this town (west village) in the spring of 1869. He was graduated from Middlebury College in 1851.
Dr. A. E. Horton, East Poultney, was born in Mount Holly, Vt., June 9, 1835. He was graduated in the spring of 1858, from the medical department of the University of Vermont. He practiced six years in Shrewsbury and came here in the fall of 1864.
Dr. J. Knowlson was born in Troy, N Y., on the 31st of March, 1836. He received his medical education in the New York City College of Physicians and Surgeons, and at the Castleton Medical College, being graduated from the latter in 1857. He also became a graduate of Williams College in 1855. He practiced two years in Troy ; in Omaha, Neb., as surgeon of the Union Pacific railroad three years, and was also in United States service as a surgeon ; in 1871-75, in Granville, N. Y., whence he came to Poultney in 1875.
Dr. E. D. Ellis was born in Fairhaven, Vt., August 3, 1850, was graduated from the medical department of Harvard University in June, 1877, and came in 1878 to Poultney to practice.
Dr. A. B Bixby was born in Mount Holly, Vt., on the 26th of June, 1834 ; received his medical education at Castleton and at the Bellevue Hospital, New York ; graduating from the former college in 1858. He practiced in London- derry, Vt., until 1883 (except two years when he was surgeon in the army), when he came to Poultney.
Dentists .- Dr. S. L. Ward was born October 6, 1828, in Hampton, N. Y .; he commenced the practice of dentistry here in 1867.
The Press .- Poultney has been singularly gifted with material for an in- teresting paragraph in the history of its press. East Poultney, as is well known, was the early home and workshop of Horace Greeley. The Northern Spectator, ยท with which he was connected, started in East Poultney in 1822 (in November) under the name of Poultney Gazette. Sanford Smith and John R. Shute were
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editors and proprietors. The first issue of the paper under its new name was in January, 1825. On December 28, 1825, Smith & Shute published their valedictory and sold their interest to a company for which D. Dewey and A. Bliss were agents. E. G. Stone soon succeeded them in the agency. In Jan- uary, 1830, the paper was discontinued. The first publications of the Gazette were in the building now owned by Stephen Scott, but early in 1823 it was removed into the building now occupied by Zebediah Dewey, which had been erected by Stephen W. Dana.
Horace Greeley, though born in New Hampshire, moved with his father to Westhaven in 1811. He secured a position in the Spectator office in 1826, and remained there four years and two months, when the paper was discontin- ued, and Horace took his remarkable journey to Erie, Pennsylvania.
The Owl, was the name of a paper published a few months in 1867 by James H. Lansley.
The next paper published here was the Poultney Bulletin, the first number of which was issued March the 12th, 1868, with John Newman, D. D., editor, George C. Newman, assistant editor, and J. A. Norris, publisher. In Septem- ber, 1870, H. L. Stillson and William Haswell purchased this property; in August, 1871, Haswell succeeded Stillson and continued the publication until November, 1873. In December, 1873, R. J. Humphrey bought the Bulletin office and on the 19th of that month the first number of the Poultney Journal was issued by Frisbie & Humphrey, publishers, and B. Frisbie, editor. Three years later Humphrey sold out to Barnes Frisbie and J. H. Hayles. In 1879 E. V. Ross succeeded Hayles. In the spring of 1881 C. W. Potter succeeded to Frisbie's interest and in a few weeks acquired the entire property. In about eleven months he sold to R. J. Humphrey, the present publisher and editor. The Poultney Journal is a four paged, 26x40 paper with eight columns in a page ; is independent in politics, with a leaning towards the Democratic party. An extensive job department has been developed and steam power added to the old fashioned hand-press used in the beginning.
Banking Interests .- The First National Bank of Poultney was organized in July, 1881, with a capital of $50,000. The first and present officers are, J. B. Beaman, president ; Leonidas Gray, of Middletown, vice-president ; M. D. Cole, cashier. There are now thirty-three stockholders in the concern.
Post- Office .--- Post routes were established in Vermont soon after the close of the Revolutionary War, and in 1783 Anthony Haswell, of Bennington, was appointed postmaster of Vermont. In 1791, when Vermont was admitted to the Union, the general government appointed David Russell postmaster of Vermont. It seems probable that a post-office was established in Poultney in January, 1799, with John Stanley postmaster. Timothy Crittenden succeeded Stanley, and was followed, February 10, 1809, by Daniel Sprague. Daniel Mallary was appointed in 1815. Henry Stanley resigned the position in
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August, 1824, and in the following month the office was changed to West Poultney. 'The following postmasters have officiated since 1836: Samuel P. Hooker from 1836 to 1841; Isaac Leffingwell from 1841 to 1842; James Richardson from 1842 to 1845 ; Samuel P. Hooker from 1845 to 1849; John B Beaman from 1849 to 1853 ; Henry Clark from 1853 to 1860, and Merritt Clark from 1860 to 1877, when Henry T. Hull was appointed. The present postmaster, R. J. Humphrey, was appointed December 21, 1885. The name of the office at the west village was changed back to Poultney September 28, 1857.
The post-office was established at East Poultney under the name of Poult- ney, on the 4th of August, 1824, and Stephen W. Dana was appointed post- master. The following have been postmasters since his retirement in 1827 : Daniel Mallary from 1827 to 1829 ; Harris Hosford from 1829 to 1832; Will- iam Wheeler from 1832 to 1834 ; Simeon Mears from 1834 to 1840; William M Bosworth from 1840 to 1841 ; James P. Harris from 1841 to 1846; Will- iam McLeod from 1846 to 1849; Paul M. Ross from 1849 to 1853 ; J. C. Derby from 1853 to 1861 ; and Edwin S. Dewey since then. The name of the office was changed to East Poultney in 1857.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF SHERBURNE.
S HERBURNE lies in the eastern part of the county, and is bounded on the north by Stockbridge, on the east by Bridgewater, on the south by Shrewsbury, and on the west by Mendon. It is twenty-two miles distant from Windsor, and nine from Rutland. It was chartered by the name of Kill- ington on the 7th of July, 1761, to Ezra Stiles and Benjamin Ellery, of New- port, R. I., and originally contained 23,040 acres. On the 4th of November, 1822, a tract of land called Parker's Gore, lying east of the old town of Kill- ington, was annexed to it. The first proprietors' clerk was Archibald Camp- bell, who took the oath of office May 20, 1762, before Martin Steward, justice of the peace in Newport, R. I. In the proprietors' records for April 16, 1774, the town of Killington is mentioned as lying within the province of New York.
The first recorded attempt at settlement was probably in the summer of 1774, when a majority of the proprietors made overtures to Gideon Walker, of Rutland, offering a gift of 100 acres of land on about thirty- six or forty rights within Killington, to such as should immediately settle thereon, and urging
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him to procure pioneers to begin that fall. A grist-mill was also to be pro- vided them. In answer, Mr. Walker writes from Rutland, November 10, 1774, that he had seen a number of men there who had readily fallen in with the idea, and apparently offering his assistance. He advised that no grist-mill be erected until grain should be raised in town, but that a saw-mill should be started immediately in order that the settlers might be provided with lumber sufficient to build themselves comfortable habitations.
The town had already, in 1774, been surveyed and lotted by Simeon Stevens. The town, however, was settled with great difficulty, owing to its natural isolation, and mountainous surface. Quechee River rises in the north- west corner of the town, and after running a northwesterly course for seven miles, enters Bridgewater. Several of the tributaries of this stream furnish power for mills. The town contains three natural ponds, each containing an area of about ten acres. One of these is the source of Thundering Brook, in which is a considerable fall of great beauty. The surface is very mountainous and the greater part is not susceptible of cultivation, though there is a rich in- tervale along the Quechee River. In a series of letters written in 1796 or 1797 by J. A. Graham, descriptive of Vermont, the author thus speaks of this town : " In the quality of these lands there is but little difference, except Kill- ington, which is principally mountain, and designed by nature more for the hab- itation of beasts of prey, than for the abode of man. Killington Peak is said to be highest land of any in the Green Mountains ; the top resembles a sugar loaf, and altogether it has an appearance of elegance and grandeur, beyond any power I am master of, to describe ; nor do I conceive it possible for any description to convey any adequate idea of its beauty, grandeur and magnifi- cence."
The moose, bear, fox and porcupine, are, more or less, found by the hunter in these districts. The title of Killington Peak to the credit of having the greatest altitude in the State is now disputed, but Killington stands 4,380 feet above the level of the sea, and affords from its summit a view of the Green Mountains, White Mountains and the Adirondacks, with the intervening val- leys and lakes and streams, which baffles all attempts at description.
The settlement of the town was undoubtedly begun by Isaiah Wash- burne in 1785. In 1791 there were thirty-two inhabitants in town. John Anthony came soon afterwards from Newport, R. I., and settled on land em- bracing the present farm of C. W. Adams. He was the father of John An- thony, jr., Albro, Joseph, Samuel, and several daughters, and was a very prom- inent man in town.
Joseph Wood, sr., another early settler, was a soldier in both the French War and the War of the Revolution. The family came to Killington from Hartland, Vt., and began farming on land which is now marked by their last resting place, a small cemetery in the south part of the town, enclosed by a
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stone wall, marble posts and an iron gate, with a monument of marble, all the work of Charles Clement, esq , of Center Rutland, whose wife is the sole sur- viving member of the family in Vermont. She is the daughter of Josiah Wood, jr., and Judith (Woodbury) Wood. Josiah Wood, jr., was, more than any other one man, instrumental in promoting the success of the building of turnpike road through Sherburne from Bridgewater to Rutland. He took an active part in the War of 1812.
Asa Briggs was also an early inhabitant of Sherburne. He lived in Sher- burne Hollow.
The town was organized in 1794. The first meeting was held at the house of Nathan Eddy, inn-keeper, and resulted in the election of the following offi- cers : Town clerk, Albro Anthony ; selectmen, John Anthony, Nathan Eddy, sr., and Seth Fuller; listers, Samuel Anthony, Amasa Fuller and Richard Es- tabrook; grand juror, Nathan Eddy; pound-keeper, Asa Briggs ; hayward, Samuel Anthony ; tything- man, Asa Briggs. Israel Church Anthony was the first town treasurer; Nathan Eddy, jr., first constable ; Simeon Rosson, first fence viewer, and Israel C. Anthony, Nathan Eddy, and Benjamin Mason, first sruveyors of highways. The first marriage recorded is that of Nathan Eddy, jr., and Rebecca Safford, October 28, 1794. The first birth recorded is that of Luther, son of Asa Briggs, in 1790. There being no further records concern- ing the early history of Sherburne, recourse is had to the trustworthy expedi- ent of interviews with living witnesses whose remembrance includes all the im- portant events of the town history for the past seventy or eighty years. Un- doubtedly the oldest man living who has been an inhabitant of this town from early times is Richard Estabrook, now of Boston. The writer called upon Mr. Estabrook, and gained some valuable information from him. He was born November 10, 1798, in Sherburne, two miles south from the Coffee-house. His father was Richard Estabrook, who came to Killington in about 1791 ; and his mother was, in maidenhood, Hannah Fuller. They came from Freetown, Mass. The subject of this sketch married Dorcas, daughter of Silas Colton, May 6, 1823. Silas Colton came to Sherburne, from Row, Mass., in 1819. Mr. and Mrs. Estabrook have had twelve children (nine sons and three daugh- ters), ten of whom are now living, viz., Dudley E. and Danford M., aged re- spectively fifty-nine and fifty-four years, still live in Sherburne ; Douglass S., in Nebraska; Dennis, in Kansas; Dalston, in Mass .; Luther, in Texas; Han- nah More, South Lowell, Vt., Harriet, wife of John S. Smith, Boston, Mass .; M. M. Estabrook, Boston, and Merritt Gay Estabrook, Boston.
Mr. Estabrook's memory dates back to about 1805. At that time there were about fourteen families in town ; and there was little or no increase as late as 1812 or 1813. According to his recollection the first grist-mill in town was built by Jabez Bennett of Woodstock, as early as 1805. It stood on Roaring Brook, a little north of the present school-house site in Sherburne Hollow. A
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heavy freshet in 1812 washed out the stones of this mill, and it was never afterwards used. There was no saw- mill in town until about 1808 or 1810, when Stephen L. Dain built one on Quechee River, just below the present site of the hotel. Ichabod Johnson used to keep tavern before the turnpike from Stock- bridge to Rutland was opened in 1808, on the farm now occupied by George Frink. This old tavern was built of logs. Sometimes five or six guests with teams would stay over night with Mr. Johnson. The roads were at that early day little more than cow paths, and naturally the houses were some distance apart. The first house north of Ichabod Johnson's tavern was that of Zebedee Sprout, who lived about two miles north of the Coffee-house site. Nathaniel Fuller in those days made potash near where the Coffee-house now stands.
Mr. Estabrook also distinctly remembers the cold season of 1816. Not an ear of good corn, he says, was raised in New England. In the middle of June snow was half-leg deep in Sherburne. His father used then to buy provisions of Mr. Slason, of Rutland, paying him $3.50 per bushel for corn. Money be- ing scarce, was obtained in small amounts by making salts out of lye, and sell- ing the product for $5 per hundred.
In 1800 the population of the town numbered ninety, in 1810, it had in- creased to 116; in 1820, to 154 ; and in 1830, to 422. It was about this time that Hon. Daniel W. Taylor came to town. He was born in Plymouth, Vt., June 18, 1823, and removed to Sherburne March 1, 1831, with his father, Nathan Taylor. The family have ever since occupied the farm now owned by Daniel W. Taylor. D. W. Taylor married Elmira A. Tyrrell, of Ludlow, Vt., on the Ist day of November, 1848. They have had seven children, five of whom are living. Mr. Taylor has been senator from Rutland county two terms, 1860 and 1861, has represented the town three times, 1865, 1866, and 1876, and has held for years all the important offices within the gift of the town. Benjamin Maxham came to Sherburne in March, 1834. He was born January 27, 1810, at Carver, Mass. In 1834 there were two hotels in town, both of which were built the same year, about 1832. Rufus Richardson, of Mendon, built the lower one, just below the present residence of Mr. Collins. It was known as Richardson's Hotel. Rufus Richardson, jr., kept it a good many years. M. A. Ballard owned it in 1862, when it was destroyed by fire. The other hotel was built by William Lewis, and was the same building now occupied by Frank Spaulding as a store. Lewis kept tavern there about two years and discon- tinued it. Since then it has been used almost exclusively for mercantile pur- poses.
The Coffee-house was built more than thirty years ago by Mr. Thrall, of Rut- land, and was used as a tavern untill about 1883, the present occupant, Dud- ley Estabrook, having kept it last.
The hotel now kept by Jerome Taylor, in the Hollow, was built about the year 1840, for a private dwelling house, by Albert Wilson. Mr. Wilson used
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occasionally accommodate wayfaring people for a consideration. About 1863, however, Bradford Chase enlarged the old structure and converted it into a tavern. After a short time he was followed by A. D. Estabrook, who remained in the house only three months, and was succeeded by Benjamin Maxham, in April, 1865. Mr. Maxham, who then became the owner of the house, kept it eighteen years, meantime establishing an imperishable reputation for jocularity. In August, 1884, he sold out to Jerome Taylor, the present proprietor.
In the War of the Rebellion Sherburne furnished her full quota promptly, and with men who performed the perilous duties of a soldier's life unflinchingly and faithfully. When the war closed the town was accredited with two men above the number required by all the calls combined. This praiseworthy re- eord should be credited largely to the patriotic efforts of Hon. Daniel W. Tay- fro, who at one time pledged and paid $780 in addition to the sum given by the town, to seven men needed to fill the quota.
The following letter from the provost-marshal is self-explanatory : - " RUTLAND, April 19, 1864. "DANIEL W. TAYLOR, EsQ., Sherburne, Vt.,
"SIR : Your communication respecting quota of Sherburne is received. The credits, as they appear in our announcement of quotas, under date of April 14th, include all reported up to the 12th inst. Those mustered on or since that date have not yet been reported, but will be passed to your credit as soon as proper returns are received. Allow me to congratulate you upon your escape from the draft, under this last call. Sherburne has done her work well, and com- pletely.
"I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
"C. R. CRANE, Captain, Provost-Marshal."
Volunteers for three years credited previous to the call for 300,000 volun- teers of October 17, 1863. - John R. Barnes, Davidson M. Barr, co. H, 11th regt .; George R. Breck, eo. C, 6th regt .; Warren S. Clark, co. G, 8th regt .; Darius G. Demary, co. D, 4th regt .; Alonzo Evans, 7th regt .; Royal Y. Frink, co. G, 5th regt .; Daniel P. Hadley, co. F, 3d regt .; Henry H. Holt, co. H, 11th regt .; George G. Hutchins, co. E, 8th regt .; Alonzo Madden, co. H, 7th regt .; Azro J. Maxham, co. F, 3d regt .; Cyrus H. Mead, co. C, 10th regt .; Edgar S. Newton, co. H, 7th regt .: George A. Parker, co. C, 6th regt .; Albert L. Spauld- ing, Amasa Stevens, 7th regt .; John W. Spofford, eo. B, 7th regt .; John Taylor, 9th regt .; William Town, 2d s. s .; Lorenzo O. West Ist bat .; Henry Willard, Oliver Willard, co. D, 7th regt .; Charles H. Wilson, Hiram H. Wilson, co. C, 6th regt ; Lucius W. Wilson, 7th regt .; Richard W. Wilson, eo. F, 3d regt .; Arzell Wyman, co. G, 5th regt .; George W. York, 2d s. s.
Credits under call of October 17, 1863, for 300,000 volunteers and subse- quent calls. Volunteers for three years. - Leonard B. Adams, co. H, 11th
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regt .; Edwind J. Baird, 3d bat .; John Brown, 17th regt .; Frank L. Casavan, John M. Casavan 3d bat .; Daniel Conway, 17th regt .; Alson S. Goodrich, 3d bat .; Albert S. Hastings, Myron L. Ordway, co. H, 11th regt .; Moses White- hill, John H. Withington, 17th regt.
Volunteers for one year .- George S. Cummings, Joel S. Frink, Oscar S. Newton, Charles D. Shedd.
Volunteers re-enlisted .- Daniel P. Hadley, George G. Hutchins, Charles H. Wilson, Lucius W. Wilson.
Veteran Reserve Corps .- Warren S. Clark.
Volunteers for nine months .- Oren W. Bates, Walker Bates, Henry F. Col- ton, William O. Doubleday, John F. Hadley, Lawriston E. Manley, Simon F. Sawyer, Horace P. Stone, Josiah C. Tailor, John P. Turner, Enoch E. White, Company H, Fourteenth Regiment.
Furnished under draft and paid commutation. - Nathan C. Adams, R. D. Esterbrooks, Edwin R. Gates, Milo J. Moore.
Post- Office. - The Sherburne post-office was established some time before 1830 by the appointment of Josiah Wood. He did not keep it long, and was followed by Thomas Fish. Then a man named Barker, from Brandon, filled the position for a year and retired. About the year 1836 Benjamin Maxham was appointed, and after five or six years was nominally succeeded by Solo- mon Adams, though for a year after Mr. Adams's appointment Mr. Maxham performed the duties of the office, and under President Taylor was re-appoint- ed, and was again nominally succeeded by a member of the Adams family. He did not suspend the performance of the postmaster's duties, however, and in 1861 was again re-appointed. During President Grant's second term he resigned, and Frank Derby became, for two years, his successor. Mr. Max- ham came into the position again and kept it until August, 1884, when he again resigned. Maxham ran a store in connection with his office. His suc- cessor, Jerome Taylor, is the present incumbent.
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