History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 61

Author: Aldrich, Lewis Cass. ed. cn; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Syracuse, N. Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1260

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TOWN OF BRIDGEWATER.

ing, at the west end. Mr. Mackenzie has confined himself to the manu- facture of Shaker and fancy flannels, also flannel suitings and cloakings, and employment is given to from seventy-five to eighty hands. An open canal, which ran between the mills and roadway, formerly furnished the power, but in 1888, 610 feet of six foot tubing was laid and the water was carried under ground. In connection with J. C. Parker & Co. and the A. G. Dewey Co., Mr. Mackenzie owns the Woodward Reservoir. situated about ten miles from his mills in the town of Plymouth. This reservoir overflows about 400 acres and is used in case of shortage of water. The mills are located six miles from Woodstock, the buildings being in the best of order and the grounds surrounding the same are or- namental and picturesque. By the census taken in 1890 Bridgewater, with but one exception, is the only town in Windsor county that shows an increase in population during the last decade, the cause of which is due wholly to the fact of the maintenance of a successful manufacturing industry within its borders.

The pioneer residents of the town of Bridgewater seem to have been mindful of the spiritual welfare of the people of the community, but later generations do not appear to have exercised the same thoughtful con- sideration, at least in the matter of maintaining regular services, and the erection of church edifices. The society of the Congregational church was the first organized in 1793, and John Ransom was the first ordained preacher. The church edifice of the society was erected in 1828. The present pastor is Rev. Vincent.

The Universalist church was built in 1829, and burned with other property a number of years ago. The society of Adventists has a house for worship in the Center, but no regular services have been held there. The last minister of the society was Henry C. Holt, who still lives in the town. The other religious societies of the town, past and present, are Baptists, Methodists and Christians.

For school and educational purposes the town of Bridgewater is divided into eleven districts, suported on the district plan. There are eleven school-houses, and eleven teachers are employed, at an estimated annual expense of $1,650.

The present town officers of Bridgewater are as follows: Alfred Sar- gent, moderator ; George E. Smith, clerk ; D. O. Robinson, Eugene

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W. Stevens and C. T. Josselyn, selectmen ; Charles Babcock, treasurer ; R. W. Pinney, overseer of the poor; M. J. Hudson, constable ; E. R. Rob- inson, George E. Smith and Royal B. Perkins, listers ; H. L. Rodiman, Lemuel Shattuck and William D. Johnson, auditors ; E. M. Allard, R. W. Pinney and Abel Shattuck, fence viewers; E. A. Davis, grand juror ; E. J. Robinson, pound-keeper ; R. W. Pinney, measurer of wood and lumber ; Allen E. Woods, inspector of leather; Alfred Sargent, town agent ; Lemuel Shattuck, school supervisor.

Succession of Representatives to the General Assembly .- 1784 to 1790, John Hawkins ; 1791, Benjamin Perkins; 1792-3, John Hawkins; 1794-6, Benjamin Perkins ; 1797, John Hawkins; 1798, Phineas Williams ; 1799, Benjamin Perkins ; 1800, John Hawkins ; 1801-2, James Topliff; 1803-6, Phineas Williams ; 1807-10, James Topliff; 1811, James Southgate; 1812, James Topliff ; 1813-14, James Southgate ; 1815, James Topliff ; 1816-17, James Southgate; 1818-19, James Topliff; 1820-1, James Southgate ; 1822, James Topliff; 1823-8, Isaiah Raymond; 1829-30, David Thompson ; 1831-2, James Munger ; 1833-7, Lyman Raymond ; 1838-40, Isaiah Raymond; 1841-2, Alvan Lamb; 1843-5, Ovid Thompson ; 1846-7, R. W. Southgate; 1848-9, Charles S. Raymond ; 1850, John Osgood ; 1851, none ; 1852, Gilbert White ; 1853-4, Josiah Josselyn ; 1855, Calvin Carpenter ; 1856, William H. Lemmex ; 1857. George W. Topliff; 1858, Justin S. Montague ; 1859, William C. Dodge ; 1860, Justin S. Montague ; 1861, William T. Pierce ; 1862, John S. Slack ; 1863-4, Columbus B. Carpenter ; 1865-6, Charles N. Woods ; 1867-8, Henry L. Rodiman; 1869, Alpheus B. Simons ; 1870, William C. Bug- bee ; 1872, John D. Mitchell; 1874, Peter King; 1876, Calvin Josselyn ; 1878, George E. Smith ; 1880, Charles Babcock; 1882, William Ray- mond ; 1884, Andrew J. Pinney ; 1886, Elihu M. Shaw ; 1888, Lemuel Shattuck.

OLD FAMILIES.

It would be impossible within the compass of this work to give a genealogical sketch of each family that has been connected with the town. The remainder of this chapter is devoted to those who feel and have manifested an interest in preserving the records of their ancestors. For sketches received too late for insertion in this chapter please refer to a later chapter of this work.

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Bridge, Rodolphus D .- This family are of English origin. Simeon Voutt, grandfather of Rodolphus, lived and died in England. John Bridge, his son, was born in England in 1818. At the age of nineteen he came to America as an English soldier, and upon his arrival at Quebec, Canada, not liking the service, did what many another English soldier has done under like circumstances, deserted, changed his name from Voutt to Bridge, and was never known in this country by any other name. He first settled in Woodstock, Vt., then worked for five years on a farm in Pomfret for Nathan Dana. He married Harriet Augusta Briggs, a native of Plymouth. After marriage he settled on a farm in Bridgewater. Besides farming he carried on the trade of a mason. He died at his house in Bridgewater, September 10, 1885. His wife died there April 8, 1888. Their children were Charles E., George S., Rodolphus D., Mary J., Emily A., Josephine A., Edwin J., Alberton H. Rodolphus D. Bridge enlisted September 14, 1864, in Com- pany A, Ninth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, but after four months' service with that regiment he was transferred to Company C, Sixth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, Colonel Lincoln commanding. He received his discharge June 19, 1865. He married January 21, 1866, Emma J., daughter of Albert L. and Mary A. (Pinney) Spaulding. Mrs. Bridge was born in Woodstock, May 20. 1848. They have one child, a daughter, Nora I., born June 17, 1870. Albert L. Spaulding, father of Mrs. Bridge, was a son of Azil Spaulding, of Woodstock, whose widow is still (1889) living at the advanced age of ninety-five. He was a drummer in Company H, Seventh Regiment Vermont Volun- teers, and died at the Marine Hospital, New Orleans, in 1862. His children living are Emma J., Ma. y Isabelle, Albert Dighton, and Clara Anna. In 1873 Mr. Bridge built his residence and chair-stock and shingle-mill on the Quechee River in West Bridgewater. and has carried on that industry successfully since. He is Republican in politics, and is a member of the Free Mason Lodge, No. 31, Woodstock.

Capron, Jonathan, grandfather of Chester K., was a native of Marlboro, N. H., a blacksmith by trade and a soldier in the war of the Revolution. He married Lois Por- ter, by whom he had eleven children, all born in New Hampshire. About the year 1810 he moved from New Hampshire and settled in the town of Reading, Vt. He died at the residence of his son Stephen, in Bridgewater, May 4, 1837, aged eighty-four. His wife survived him and died in Keene, N. H., at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Lois Ingalls.

Capron, Stephen, was born in New Hampshire in August, 1798. He was about twelve years old when the family moved to Reading. He married, in Reading, Mary Kellogg, and had a family of thirteen children. In the spring of 1829 he moved to Bridgewater and lived there till his death, which occurred May 21, 1864. His wife is still living with her youngest son, Colamer Capron, in Bridgewater.

Capron, Chester K., was born in Reading, Vt., September 29, 1824. He lived with his father until he was twenty-two years of age. He married, January 31, 1847, Eliza A. Cary, of Clyde, N. Y., where he resided from 1847 to 1851, then in Bridgewater one year. In 1853 he settled in Plymouth, where he resided thirteen years, and then moved back to Bridgewater, where he still resides. His children are as follows : Dexter S., born December 21, 1849, married Anna Brown. Their children were Lillian E., born March 15, 1874; Myrtie, born March 13, 1879; and Floyd, born March 18, 1888. Ed- ward W., born April 11, 1852, married Mary Etta Rogers, of Weare Center, N. H. Their children were Gertrude F., born October 16, 1876; Ernest W., born November 22, 1877 ; Bernice E., born September 12, 1879; and Claude R., born August 10, 1886. Dexter S. and Edward W. are residents of Bridgewater village. Stephen B., born in Savannah, N. Y., December 31, 1847, a soldier in Company G, Seventeenth Regiment Vermont Volunteers, was killed at Petersburg, Va., April 2, 1865; he enlisted Marchi, 1864.

Derby, Augustus R., was born in Orford, Grafton county, N. H., November 14, 1846. His father, John Derby, was also a native of Orford, born in ;1801, and died there in

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1856. His mother was Fidelia S. Freeman, who, after the death of her husband, be- came the wife of Peter Shattuck, of Bridgewater. She died in Bridgewater in 1881. The children of John and Fidelia S. Derby were Martha L., Henry B., George Edwin, Francis E., Charles F., Mary F., and Augustus R. The latter lived in Orford till he was twelve years old. He lived with his mother three years after her marriage to Peter Shattuck. He then worked on a farm summers, and went to school winters. In 1866 he went to Lawrence, Mass., where he was employed in the Pacific Mill up to the fall of 1879. He married, May 13, 1880, Eva S. Giles, who was born in Clifton, Me., October 3, 1857. They have one child, Will B. Since his marriage Mr. Derby has carried on general merchandising in Bridgewater village.

Furber, Dr. Zophar W., was born in Dublin, N. H., October 9, 1806. He was gradu- ated from Castleton Medical College, March 10, 1829. He married October 27, 1830, Caroline Edgerton, born in Hartford, Vt., October 8, 1808. He commenced the prac- tice of his profession in Weathersfield, Windsor county, Vt., then in Charlestown, N. H., where he secured an extensive practice. He next settled in Quechee, where he re- mained about four years. In 1840 he settled in Bridgewater, where he practiced his pro- fession until 1852. In the latter year he went to California, where he died January 22, 1860. Twice during that period he returned East, with the intention of remaining, but was obliged, on account of the climate not agreeing with him, to go back to California. His primary object in going to California was for gold, but he also practiced his profes- sion while there. He was an early Abolitionist, and was a staunch Free Soiler. He was held in high esteem as a man and as a physician in every community where he lived. Eliphalet Edgerton, his wife's father, was a native of Norwich, Conn. He came to Hartland and married there Wealthy Willard, a descendant of one of the early set- tlers of Windsor county. The children of Dr. and Caroline Furber are Emily Edgerton, born August 21, 1831 ; Edwin Edgerton, born December 9, 1833, died November 15, 1867 ; Luther Edgerton, born May 5, 1843; and Mary Frances, born January 26, 1845. Emily and Mary have carried on a millinery and ladies' furnishing goods trade in Bridge- water for the last sixteen years. Luther Edgerton Furber married October 2, 1866, Ellen, daughter of Joseph and Lucy (Clark) Headle. Mrs. Furber was born in Plym- outh, Vt., March 1, 1844, one of a family of ten children, seven of whom are living. Mr. Furber was educated in Bridgewater, and at Eastman's Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He was employed in the woolen factory now owned by F. S. Mackenzie, in dif- ferent positions, for about twenty years. In 1870 he took charge of the company's boarding-house in the village of Bridgewater, and still retains that position. The chil- dren of Luther E. and Ellen Furber are Edwin E., born July 14, 1867, a student in the Harvard Medical College, Boston, and Alice E., born July 10, 1869, living at home.

Josselyn, Josiah, was born in Pembroke, Plymouth county, Mass., August 25, 1799, the eldest in a family of six children of Josiah and Ruth (Howland) Josselyn. Charles Jos- selyn, his grandfather, married Rebecca Keene. Their children were Charles, Jabez, Jacob, Elisha, Josiah and two daughters. Josiah was the youngest of his children. He moved from Pembroke with his family and settled in Woodstock, Vt., on a farm pur- chased of Josiah Crocker, in the southwest part of that town. He remained here till the death of his wife, which occurred August 16, 1848. He was a shoemaker by trade, but carried on merchandising in Pembroke. He was a life-long Democrat. He sur- vived his wife sixteen years, and died in Tyson, town of Plymouth, at the residence of his son, Jairus Josselyn, April 30, 1864, and was burried beside his wife in the Bridge- water cemetery. With the exception of a daughter, who died in Pembroke, the follow- ing were his children : Jairus, Lewis, Ruth and Robert. Josiah Josselyn was sixteen years old when his father moved to Vermont. He learned the " clothier " trade of Elihu Smith. He remained at home until he was twenty-one years old, and for the next four years he followed peddling in Vermont and New Hampshire. Starting with nothing but credit, he closed his peddling career $2,000 ahead. He married in Bridgewater, Oc- tober 16, 1825, Ann, daughter of James and Abigail (Dimick) Topliff, who was born in

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Bridgewater, November 19, 1803, and died at their residence, October 3, 1876. For two years after marriage he was in trade in Woodstock, in company with his brother Lewis. In 1827 he came to live with his father-in-law, Mr. Topliff, and in 1830 he pur- chased the Topliff farm, and from that time to the present (1890) Las owned and car- ried it on. He has always taken a deep interest in every movement looking to the elevation.and betterment of the farmer. He built the finest Grange hall in the State, known as the " Josselyn Hall." He has been a life-long Democrat. He has filled most of the town offices, and represented the town two terms in the Legislature. He is liberal in his religious belief. The children of Josiah and Ann Josselyn are Andrew Jackson, born April 10, 1830, married September 18, 1855, Roxa, daughter of Peter and Ruth (Freeman) Shattuck, born in Bridgewater, June 6, 1836. He lives at the home- stead and carries on the farm. Their children are Lewis E., Charles H., and Arthur A. Lewis E. married Nellie A. Blake, March 23, 1885. She was born in Bethel, June 18, 1866. Calvin Topliff, born March 16, 1836, married October 6, 1859, Ellen A., daugh- ter of Charles and Arminda (Fales) Walker, who was born in Unity, Sullivan county, N. H., September 9, 1839. Mr. Josselyn represented the town of Bridgewater in the State Legislature in 1876, is now (1890) serving his second term as selectman, and was superintendent of the schools two years, and has taught in the schools of Bridge- water and neighboring towns twenty winters. For the last nineteen years he has owned and carried on the farm nearly adjoining his father's in Bridgewater. Their children are Iney May, born May 29, 1861, wife of A. H. Morse, of Ascutneyville ; Horatio Seymour, born May 13, 1863; Chandos Fales, born October 20, 1867 ; Ann A., horn August 21, 1869, wife of Charles B. Weeden, a spinner in the Bridgewater woolen- mills ; Charles Josiah, born March 23, 1877; and Nellie, born May 13, 1879.

Marsh, Ziba Aldrich .- Joseph Marsh, grandfather of Ziba A., born in Henniker, N. H., August 6, 1750, married Mehitable Harriman, June 17, 1784. The latter was born Jan- uary 24, 1767. They died in Henniker, the former July 7, 1837, the latter March 24, 1816. They had sixteen children, of whom Joseph, father of Ziba, was the seventh child. Ile was born in Henniker, March 26, 1793, married Betsey (Aldrich) Hathorn, widow. Two children, Ziba A. and Mary, were the issue of this marriage. The latter became the wife of Charles Rice. of Lansingburg, N. Y. Lyman Hathorn, son of Betsey by a former husband, is now living in Cuttingsville, Shrewsbury, Rutland county, Vt. Joseph Marsh died in Henniker, September 11, 1823. His wife subsequently mar- ried Elisha Johnson, of Shrewsbury, Vt., and she died there. Ziba A. Marsh was born in Henniker, December 21, 1818. He was ten years old when his mother married Mr. John- son, and he lived four years with his stepfather in Shrewsbury. In 1832 he came to Bridge- water, where he learned the shoemaker's and tanner's trades, with Messrs. Flint & Bailey, remaining seven years with them. He married, April 23, 1840, Orpha, daugh- ter of Emanuel and Submit (Foster) Sawyer. Mrs. Marsh was born in Plymouth, Vt., July 14, 1820. His father settled in Plymouth before his marriage (May 20, 1804). There are ten children in the family, three of whom are deceased, six are still residents of Windsor county, and one a resident of Detroit, Mich. Her mother died in Plym- outh, her father in Bridgewater, and both are buried in the Bridgewater cemetery. After his marriage Mr. Marsh settled in Bridgewater village, and lived there till his death, which occurred May 6, 1885. He carried on the boot and shoe business at the stand now occupied by E. A. Davis for twenty years. He was postmaster of the vil- lage for twenty-four years, justice of the peace two years, and overseer of the poor fourteen years. These positions of public trust sufficiently attest the estimation in which he was held in the community where he lived. An only child, Mary A., born June 30, 1842, became the wife of Clarke Raymond. She died June 28, 1866. Two children, the issue of this marriage, died in infancy.

From William Shattuck, as their common progenitor, have descended nearly all, if not every one, of those who now bear the name in America. He was born in England in 1621 or 1622, and died in Watertown, Mass., August 14, 1672, aged fifty years. Though

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a weaver by trade, agriculture was his principal employment. He sustained the char- acter of a sagacious, energetic and successful business man, of an honest, upright and worthy citizen. He married about 1642. His wife's christian name was Susanna. They had ten children, five sons and five daughters, of whom second, William, born in Watertown in 1678, married Susanna Randall. He died October 19, 1732, in the eight- ieth year of his age; his wife died May 8, 1723. They had eleven children, six sons and five daughters, of whom third, Benjamin, born in Watertown, July 30, 1687, mar- ried Martha Sherman, whose father, John Sherman, was grandfather of Hon. Roger Sherman, ex-United States Senator from Connecticut. Benjamin Shattuck was a grad- uate of Harvard College in 1709, studied divinity, and was ordained the first minister of Littleton, December 25, 1717. They had eleven children, seven sons and four daugh- ters, of whom fourth, William, the fifth child, was born in Littleton, January 1, 1718. He was a leading man in the town affairs of Littleton, as afterwards in New Ipswich, N. H. He was eight years its selectman, a delegate to the Provincial Congress, a rep- resentative to the Legislature in 1776. In 1794 he moved to Jaffrey, N. H., where he died, January, 1806, aged eighty-eight. He married, November 20, 1750, Abigail Reed, born in 1733, died in February, 1820. Of their eight children, nifth, Peter, was their fifth child, born in Littleton, in 1762. He was thrice married. His first wife was Lydia Henney. In 1800 he moved to Bethlehem, N. H., where he died, July 18, 1824. Sixth, Peter, eldest child of Peter and Lydia, was born in New Ipswich, July 15, 1778; first settled in Lunenburgh, Mass .; in 1806 removed to Canaan, N. H .; in 1820 to Lebanon ; and in 1830 to Bridgewater, Vt., where he was killed by a tree falling upon him, April 20, 1835. He married in Lunenburgh, January 1, 1803. Ruxbey Whiting, born April 20, 1782, daughter of Leonard and Mary Whiting. She died in Bridgewater, October 23, 1851. Peter Shattuck, the eldest of five children of Peter and Ruxbey Shattuck, was born in Lunenburgh, December 19, 1804. He was employed in the grist-mills at Leba- non and Hartford from the time he was sixteen until he was twenty-six years of age. In 1830 he settled in Bridgewater, on what is known as "Shattuck's Hill," on the farm where he still resides. He married, February, 1830, Ruth H., daughter of Caleb F. Freeman, who died April 10, 1858. He married, December 2, 1858, Fidelia Derby, widow of John Derby, and sister of his first wife. His children by the first marriage were George P., born December 12, 1830, died May 12, 1832; Roxey, born June 6, 1835. wife of Andrew J. Josselyn, of Bridgewater; Abel Storrs, born February 11, 1839, married, September 18, 1860, Addie O., daughter of Ebenezer K. and Elizabeth (Holmes) Bartlett. She was born in Plymouth, November 20, 1838. They have one child, Mary Ruth, born December 3, 1871. Abel Storrs carries on the homestead farm. Cyrus E., born January 9, 1844, died March 10. 1850. Mr. Shattuck has followed farming in Bridgewater, and made it a success. He has filled a number of town offices. For the past five years he has failed in his eyesight; thoughi not totally blind, he is not able to recognize faces. He enjoys in the fullest measure the confidence and esteem of the community in which he lives. Lemuel Shattuck, a younger brother of Peter, and living in Bridgewater a near neighbor, has been connected largely with educational interests, and has been prominently identified with the public affairs of the town.

Taft, Andrew J., was born in Woodstock, September 3, 1825, the fifthi in a family of six children of Timothy and Jerusha (McWain) Taft. Artemus Taft, his grandfather, married a Miss Staples, and raised a family of six children. Artemus Taft died in Rut- land, his wife in Woodstock. Timothy, born August 25, 1777, married Jerusha, daugh- ter of Andrew and Rebecca (Seaver) McWain. After marriage he settled on the farm in Woodstock now owned and occupied by C. J. Taft, his grandson. He subsequently exchanged farms with Jesse Williams, a place now owned and occupied by Mrs. Lucia Taft, widow of his son, Wales A. Taft. Here he died July 16, 1861, aged eighty-three. His wife died May 26, 1856, aged sixty-one. Their children were Charles F., Wales .1., Edwin S., Adaline L., Andrew J., Marshall W. Andrew J. lived until he was thirty-one years of age on the homestead in Woodstock, and received his education in the district

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school of the town. He married April 18, 1858, Emily, daughter of Israel and Clarissa (Seaver) Blake. Mrs. Taft was born in Bridgewater, January 10, 1830. Her father was born in Keene, N. H., April 29, 1795; her mother August, 1800. He died March 28. 1873; she died March 8, 1872. Mrs. Taft, and a brother, Henry T., are their only chil- dren living; the latter a farmer living in Stockbridge, Vt. Mr. and Mrs. Taft lived the first three years after marriage in the village of Bridgewater ; the next twelve years on a farm in Woodstock. In 1873 he purchased the Gilman White farm in Bridgewater, one-half mile north of the village, where he still resides. Andrew McWain, his grand- father on his mother's side, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution, serving from the beginning of the war to its close, and lived to the advanced age of ninety-nine years. one month, and thirteen days. He died in Woodstock, Vt., at the home of his son-in- law, July 29, 1837. The children of Andrew J. and Emily Taft are Ethan A., born July 29, 1863, living at home; Hattie A., born July 4, 1869, wife of Forest E. Taylor, living in Bridgewater village.

Washburn, Oscar F., was descended from one of two brothers who emigrated from England and settled in West Bridgewater, Mass. His grandfather, Nehemiah, and his father, Hattil, were both born there. When eight years of age his father went with Dr. Silas Burgess to Goshen, Mass., and there married Martha Putney. They had a family of ten children. Hattil Washburn died at the residence of his son, Amos, at Vernon, Vt., in 1860. His wife died in Goshen in 1846. Of their ten children, only three are living, Amos, Oscar F., and Martha, who married William Webster, of Spring field, Mass. Oscar F. lived with his father in Goshen until he was thirty years of age. He married November 29, 1845, Mary A. Wing, of Goshen, who died in March, 1849. Marion O. is their only child. Mr. Washburn married May 30, 1854, Eliza J., daughter of William and Eunice (Brooks) Lacore. The latter was born in Southampton, Mass .. September 15, 1838. The children by this union are as follows: Hattie A., Oscar F .. Mary E., Lydia M., Lizzie B., Carrie G. and Florence G. Mr. Washburn carried on the watchmaking trade in New York city ten years. In 1863 he came to Bridgewater, Vt., to explore the gold bearing rocks of that town, and for five years was manager for the "Quartz Hill and Pioneer Gold Mining Company," remaining with them until their failure. The yield of gold obtained varied from 5 to 37 cwts. per ton, 21g karats fine. Thereafter, for several years, he carried on the mill on his own account. In 1869 everything was carried away by a freshet, which left him penniless. He then engaged as superintend- ent for Senator Pomeroy, in the " Portis Gold Mine," in North Carolina. He occupied that position five years. Upon his return North he invented " Washburn's Automatic Fire Escape," and remaided in New York city during the disposal of the patent. In October, 1888, he returned to Bridgewater, Vt., where he engaged in the development of his gold mining interests. He is now (1890) sixty-six years of age.

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History of Windsor County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 61

Author: Aldrich, Lewis Cass. ed. cn; Holmes, Frank R Publication date: 1891 Publisher: Syracuse, N. Y., D. Mason & Co. Number of Pages: 1260

Author: Aldrich, Lewis Cass. ed. cn; Holmes, Frank R
Publication date: 1891
Publisher: Syracuse, N. Y., D. Mason & Co.
Number of Pages: 1260