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M CINDOE, LYMAN J., was born in Barnet, Vt., January 17, 1819. His grandfather, John, came from Claren, Scotland, and settled in Barnet, Vt., about 1784. He married, first, Janet Lourie, and had two children, Robert and James. He married second, Widow Agnes Furge- son. He died about 1806. His son James, born February, 1782, in Scot- land, married Abigail, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rich) Baker. Her father, John Baker, was a Revolutionary soldier, and died at Man- chester, N. H., in 1815. Elizabeth, his wife, died June, 1812. Abigail died May 15, 1852. Their children were John Baker Way, born Jannary 21, 1812; Robert, born December 25, 1813; Eliza Jane, born January 21, 1816; Lyman James; Lovinia Sophia, born July 8, 1821 ; David, born April 26, 1824; George C., March 4, 1828 ; and Laura Ann, born Decem- ber 17, 1831. Lyman James McIndoe removed with his parents, at an early age, to Newbury, Vt. When about twelve years of age he had a se- vere illness which left him with a cough, that followed him through life, and in a condition of general health that led his parents and himself to regard the printer's trade as favorable to his prospects. With a bare common
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school education, he began to learn that trade with John R. Reding, of Haverhill, N. H., at the age of fifteen. After completing a regular appren- ticeship, he continued to work in the same office for some time as a jour- neyman, and with rigid economy and unwearied labor, he continued to lay up a small sum of money on which to make a beginning in the world. Being called to settle a brother's estate in Nashville, Tenn., he remained in that city about a year. He set up business for himself at Newbury about the year 1846, and printed the Christian Messenger for a year or two. In 1848 he commenced the publication of the Aurora of the Val- ley, and issued it for two years as a semi-monthly, and then changed it to a weekly paper. Steadily gaining in funds by rare enterprise and tact, and in reputation by skill and success in the newspaper business, he pur- chased a paper in Bradford, Vt., and published the same as the Orange County Journal, in 1856 and some years thereafter. In 1857 he bought the entire establishment of the Vermont Journal, at Windsor, Vt., and in November of that year he assumed the proprietorship and editorial care of the same, and devoted to it the maturity and strength of his life. Un- der his supervision this paper was made to rank among the foremost in journalism. In 1863 he also became proprietor of the Vermont Chron- icle, a double folio sheet, " not excelled either in size or adaptation of its contents to its readers by any country religious newspaper in the land." For the purpose of enhancing the local department of his papers, in 1868 he entered upon the plan of publishing different editions of his paper for different localities. In October, 1869, he issued the Granite State Jour- mal, designed especially for circulation on the New Hampshire side of the Valley of the Connecticut. Within the year prior to his death he laid the foundation for and issued two additional newspaper publications, viz., The Valley Farmer, designed especially for the wants of the Ver- mont and New Hampshire agriculturists, and the Aurora of the Valley, " for racy, entertaining and useful reading in the family." Indeed, he seemed to place no limit to his enterprise in enlarging his field of news- paper publication ; the last months, even, of his life were occupied with plans which he had hoped might surpass in interest and usefulness all his previous endeavors. The following written by one who knew him well sets forth the traits of character which gave to Mr. McIndoe his success as an editor and publisher : "He was indefatigable in his industry, unas-
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suming in his modesty, frugal in personal matters, broad and liberal in giving his readers the most and the best, far reaching and enterprising in his plans, unbounded in his devotion to his profession, and untiring in his application to his duties." His constant study and endeavor were to give his publications high tone. He would never print any article or story corrupting to morals or taste. His publishing enterprises were a finan- cial success, beyond most publishers of his time. In his will he bequeathed the Vermont Journal, and Granite State Journal subscrip- tion list, good will, press, engine, and all fixtures for printing, to the Ver- mont and New Hampshire Bible Societies ; the Vermont Chronicle to the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont. Mr. McIndoe died at his home in Windsor, December 24, 1873. He married, first, Lucia K. Porter, of Lyman, N. H. Robert H. McIndoe, born March 22, 1849, a resident of San Francisco, Cal., is the only child by this marriage. He married second, June 13, 1854, Abbie, daughter of David and Florinda Locke, born in Lyman, September 15, 1834. The children by the second marriage were Lucia A., born March 12, 1856, died November 3, 1864; Clara Alice, born August 24, 1859, married De- cember 31, 1878, Marsh O. Perkins, editor-in- chief of the Vermont Jour- nal ; Abbie, born February 2, 1878, died March 17, 1878 ; and Florinda, born July 9, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have four children: Locke McIndoe, born November 20, 1879; Gail Giddings, born August 4, 1882; Margaret and Marion, twins, born September 9, 1889 ; Herbert Marsh, born January 19, 1891.
S 'TEARNS, DANIEL, was born in Reading, Vt, July 26, 1807, the third in a family of eight children of Daniel and Sarah (Pratt) Stearns. Two brothers, Charles and Thomas Stearns, came from Eng- land about 1630, and settled in Watertown, Mass. The subject of this sketch descends the sixth generation from Charles. The line of descent is as follows: first, Charles, the emigrant ; second, Rev. Charles ; third, Thomas, of Leominster, Mass .; fourth, Daniel; fifth, Daniel; sixth, Daniel. Daniel and Paul Stearns, sons of Daniel, fifth, above, came from Leominster and settled in Reading in 1796: Daniel on the place now occupied and owned by Jarvis Pratt, who married his daughter; Paul, on the place now owned and occupied by his son Honestus. Daniel
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Stearns was twice married, but all his children who reached adult age . were by his second wife, Sarah Pratt. They were Justin, now an old man living in Fitchburg, Mass .; Hannah, wife of Jarvis Pratt, named above; Daniel, subject of this sketch ; James M., died in Weathersfield, Vt., in 1873; Betsey, wife of James Boutelle, died in Canada, Septem- ber 17, 1837, aged twenty-four years ; Rufus, living in Reading; Mary, died single in Reading; and Charles, died aged eighteen in Reading. Daniel Stearns, the father, died in Reading, March 22, 1831, aged fifty- nine years ; his wife died January 10, 1828, aged fifty two years. Daniel Stearns in 1837 commenced merchandising in Reading, where he con- tinued in trade five years. In 1844, in company with his brother-in- law, Major Levi C. Fay, he leased the Dartmouth Hotel at Hanover, N. H., which they ran about nine months. He then engaged in merchan- dising at Windsor, and continued in trade until 1851. He was elected by the Legislature a director of the Vermont State Prison for a number of years, and was chairman of the board of directors of the Windsor Savings Bank for several years. For four years he ran a livery stable at Windsor. While a resident of Reading Mr. Stearns filled the positions of deputy sheriff and tax collector. After his removal to Windsor he received the appointment of deputy United States marshal, a position he held for many years. He also represented the town of Windsor two terms in the Legislature. Mr. Stearns has been retired from active busi- ness for a number of years. He is a man of extensive acquaintance, is well respected by all who know him, and enjoys in a large measure the esteem of the community in which he lives. He married, Novem- ber 2, 1830, Flavilla, daughter of Ezra and Olive (Lincoln) Fay. Mrs. Stearns was born in Reading, November 5, 1810. A sketch of the Fay family will be found on another page of this work. Mr. and Mrs. Stearns have no children.
A MSDEN, CHARLES, was born in West Windsor, Vt., May 6, 1832, being the youngest son of America and Nancy Amsden. Our sub- ject's grandfather, Abel Amsden, came from Marlboro, Mass,, and cleared a fifty-acre farm in the town of Reading, Vt., locating on the same July 3, 1787. He had served four years in the Revolutionary army, and had taken part in some of the most important battles. He built a log house in Reading, also afterwards a brick tavern, and was for a long time its
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popular proprietor. He was a strong Universalist in his religious belief, and on settling in the town was accompanied by his father, Abram Ams- den, who died in Reading. In 1821 he built a grist-mill and died in 1828, aged seventy-one years. Abel was married three times, and had six- teen children, ten of whom survived him. His youngest child, Mrs. Char- lotte L. Hawkins, is the only living representative (1890) and resides in Reading. America, the son of Abel, was born in Reading, June 22, 1796. He spent his early life in his native town, but subsequently removed to West Windsor, and was engaged in farming. He married, first, Clarissa Davis, and their children all died in infancy. He married, second, Mrs. Nancy Ward, nee Child, and their two children, are Rollin, a resident of Windsor, Vt., and Charles. America Amsden was possessed of a genial disposition, and discharged faithfully and creditably all the duties of an American citizen. He was accidently drowned October 4, 1869, during
the great freshet. Mrs. Nancy Amsden, who by her longevity has be- come a historical character in Windsor county, was the youngest daugh- ter of nine children of Daniel and Lydia Child, who were pioneer settlers of Westminster, Mass., where she was born July 20, 1790. When twenty- five years of age she married Jonas Ward, by whom she had three children, only one of whom, John Ward, a prominent lawyer at Detroit, Mich., is living. Her parents, in 1826, removed to Cavendish, Vt., and two years after she married America Amsden, the fruit of their union be- ing the two sons mentioned above. Her centennial birthday was appro- priately observed, she receiving on that day about one thousand guests, being seated in a bower of evergreens and flowers under an arch inscribed in evergreens, " 1790, Nancy Amsden, 1890." The subject of our sketch had no advantages of an education excepting what could be obtained at the district schools. He passed his early life on his father's farm and en- gaged in mercantile business in March, 1849, when he came to what is now Amsden, and engaged in the milling business. The following year he commenced operating the lime kiln, which business he has carried on ever since. As early as 1850 he carried on a general store, but built his present store in 1869. For years he has done a large jobbing business in flour and grain. In business circles in different parts of the State Mr. Amsden is also interested; he is director of the National Black River Bank, also of the Home Scale Company, of Rutland; was for two years-
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1886-87-a director in the Rutland Railroad. In politics, a Republican, he has represented Weathersfield in the Legislature of 1870 and 1890; has been town treasurer since 1876, and postmaster since Amsden be- came a post-office, excepting when his political offices required him to resign a United States appointment. Mr. Amsden married, first, Miss Abby E. Crague, by whom he had one child, viz .: Mary Malvina, wife of Charles E. Woodruff, a flour and grain merchant of Woodstock, Vt. He married, second, Miss Mary L. Stackin, of Weathersfield.
B ALDWIN, ALBERT F., the second son of Nahum and Philanda (Harvey) Baldwin, was born in Chester, February 22, 1818. His father was a native of Marlboro, N. H., and besides our subject had the following family: Edwin, who died in Oshkosh, Wis .; Fannie (deceased), married Oris Dwinell; Charles O., died at Hartford, Conn .; Silas, resides at Grafton, Vt .; and Maria Rosaline, died at the age of eight years. He followed farming for a livelihood and was unable to give our subject only the benefit of an education at the district schools. When Albert was twenty years of age his father gave him his time and he worked as a farm laborer, receiving twelve dollars per month. His first employer settled with him by giving his note for $100, which Mr. Baldwin still holds for payment. But not being disheartened by his loss he made up his mind to save $100 a year, and at the age of twenty-five years he purchased a farm of Thomas Williams in the southern part of the town, his first pay- ment being $500. He has always been engaged in farming, and after living in the southern part of the town for a number of years he removed to the Stedman farm, situated near Sawyersville. He built the present house on that farm and resided there fifteen years, when he removed to where he now lives. He is an active member of the Congregational Church. In politics a Republican, he has been called on by his towns- men to fill the offices of selectman and lister. He married October 27, 1842, Laurenza Sawyer, daughter of Thomas and Betsey (Sawyer) Will- iams. She was born in Chester, April 9, 1821. They had three chil- dren, viz .: Abbie, wife of George S. Robbins of Chester; Lizzie, died at the age of twenty-six years ; and George born in Chester, March 21, 1861, married Juliette Dwinell and has three children: Robert Dwinell, Eliza- beth and Harold H. He resides in Chester. Mrs. Albert F. Baldwin died April 1, 1886.
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F AY, MAJOR LEVI CHAMBERLAIN, was born in Reading, Vt., April 25, 1807, the fifth in a family of nine children of Major Ezra and Olive (Lincoln) Fay. His father was the first of the family who came to Vermont. He came from Westboro, Mass., where he was born, and took up two hundred acres of land in the town of Reading. He married, first, Sarah Newton of Westboro. The children by this union were Mary Ball, wife of Dr. Wakefield; Elizabeth Hastings, wife of Ja- cob Gilbert; and Sarah Newton, wife of Calvin Wardner. He married, second, Mrs. Olive Chamberlain, nee Lincoln, a descendant of Governor Lincoln of Massachusetts. By this union there were children as follows: Olive, born March 8, 1801, married Luther Parker, now a widow living in Lebanon, N. H., ninety years of age; Lucy Lincoln, born July 10, 1802, married Frederick Woodward of Plainfield, N. H., where she died; Louisa, born April 7, 1804, died aged twenty-one years; Ezra, born De- cember 22, 1805, died in Felchville, Vt., in 1872; Levi Chamberlain, subject of this sketch; Emily, born January 2, 1809, married Elijah Bur- nap of Plainfield, N. H .; Flavilla and Aurilla, twins, born November 5, 1810,-the latter died young, Flavilla married in 1830 Daniel Stearns, a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work ;- and a daughter who died in infancy. Ezra Fay died at the residence of his son, Levi C., in Reading, January, 1841. Olive Lincoln Fay died at Felchville in 1854. Levi Chamberlain Fay received his education in the common schools of Reading. When ten years of age he had a fever sore in the foot, which compelled him for several years to use crutches, and from the effects of which he never fully recovered. On this account he decided to learn the tailor's trade and went to Woodstock for that purpose, but soon abandoned it and took up in its stead the shoemaker's trade, and worked at that trade for three years in Reading with David Hammond, and at the end of that time bought out Mr. Hammond, the business then embracing boots, shoes, harness and agricultural implements. He car- ried on this business nine years. In 1838 he bought the Slayton Hotel at South Woodstock, repaired and moved into it, which was burned three months thereafter. He then leased the Ransom House in South Woodstock which he kept two years. Selling his property in South Woodstock in 1840 he returned to Reading, built a residence and carried on merchandising for four years, then sold out and in company with his
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brother-in-law, Daniel Stearns, leased the Dartmouth Hotel at Hanover, N. H., which they kept about nine months, then sold out, went to Felch- ville, where he again engaged in merchandising, a business which he con- tinued for twenty years. In 1863 he sold out to his sons and purchased the stock in three stores at Windsor, Vt., the Union store, Charles Hawley and Samuel R. Stocker. His sons, selling out at Felchville, were taken into partnership in his stores at Windsor. He subsequently sold out to his sons and Marvin C. Hubbard and retired from the mercantile business. From 1843 to 1885 Mr. Fay has made yearly trips to the West for the purpose of loaning moneys on real estate mortgages. He has dealt largely in real estate, built the Fay block and quite a number of dwelling houses in Windsor. The Major has been too much occupied with his own business affairs to be a seeker for, or to desire, public positions. However, he served as town treasurer of Reading many years and also was a director in the Springfield National Bank. He has been a mem- ber of the Congregational Church at Windsor since 1868. For the past two years he has been on the invalid list, being confined to the house much of the time. He married, first, December 15, 1829, Susan, daughter of Edmund and Lovisa (Sherman) Stone, who was born in Cavendish, Vt., July 31, 1810. There were seven children by this union, two of whom died in infancy. Those who reached adult age were Amanda M., born May 6, 1833, married December 16, 1862, Hon. Chester Pike, a prominent citizen of Cornish, N. H. They have but one child living, Chester Fay, born May II, 1868; Colamer T., born Decem- ber 10, 1834, married September 14, 1859, Carrie I. Watkins, born No- vember 18, 1838. Their children are Frank Edmund, born September 2, 1860; Lillian Watkins, born December 22, 1862; Mary Caroline, born February 26, 1870; Levi Elisha, born March 5, 1875; and Julia Pike, born January 10, 1878. Colamer T. is a successful merchant at Holyoke, Mass .; Emeroy, born in 1836, died aged three years and three months ; Edmund Stone, born October 19, 1840, married, December, 1861, Fran- celia M. Kendall, born June 4, 1842, died October 7, 1875. They have one child, Herbert William, born April 24, 1866. Edmund S. is a mer- chant and interested in a number of the leading industries of Ports- mouth, N. H., and is the present (1890) mayor of that city; Julia A., born October 19, 1842, married July 3, 1867, Joseph A. Chapin, teller in
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the National Bank of North America, Boston, and resides in Medford, Mass. Their children are Susan Fay, born May 26, 1868, and George Farnsworth, born May 29, 1871. Mrs. Susan Fay, the Major's wife, died in Windsor, March 27, 1870. She was a granddaughter of Samuel Sherman, of Weathersfield, Vt., who came from Connecticut, taking along with him the name of "Weathersfield," the town in Connecticut where the Shermans had lived, and gave it to Vermont, where he set- tled. The family were of German origin and quite numerous. Senator George F. Hoar and his brother, Judge E. R. Hoar, of Massachusetts, General W. T. Sherman and Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, and Judge Edgar J. Sherman, of Lawrence, Mass., are connected with same family. Mrs. Fay possessed in a large measure those rare womanly qualities which characterize the true wife and devoted mother, and she com- manded the love and esteem not only of her own immediate family and relatives, but of the entire community where she resided. Major Fay married, second, Mrs. Jane A. Cummings, daughter of Alpha and Lydia (Ransom) Rowley. She was born in Winsted, Conn., July 24, 1827. Kate R., born March 11, 1856, wife of I. R. Clark, a lawyer in Boston, and Jennie E., born December 17, 1859, wife of A. P. Pierce of Red Wing, Minn., are her children by a former marriage.
H ALL, ALFRED. This gentleman descends in the sixth generation from John Hall, born in England, in 1627, died in Medford, Mass., October 18, 1701, married April 2, 1647, Elizabeth, daughter of Percival and Ellen Green. She died February 4, 1713. Of their ten children, Percival, born in Cambridge, Mass., February 11, 1672, died in Sutton, Mass., December 25, 1752, married October 18, 1697, Jane, daughter of Thomas and Grace (Fay) Willis, who was born October, 1677, and died October 28, 1757. Percival Hall " was a very prominent and effi- cient man in both church and town affairs." Of the twelve children of Percival and Jane Hall, Willis was their youngest child. He was born March 8, 1720, in Medford, Mass., died in Sutton, April 10, 1800, mar- ried, first, May 15, 1746, Martha Gibbs, of Hopkinton, Mass., who died February 1, 1756. He married second, December 9, 1756, Anna, daugh- ter of William and Anna Coye, who died April 7, 1800. Of Willis Hall it was written, "He was universally respected, and never had an enemy."
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He had five children by his first marriage, and of his six children by his second wife, Jonathan, father of Alfred, was the eldest. He was born October 21, 1757, and died September 24, 1845. About 1780 he mar- ried Mercy Cady, who died December 19, 1860. Jonathan came to Windsor, Vt., in 1788, and located on a farm near the village, which is still owned by his son Alfred. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. He was a pleasant and social man, in personal appearance a rather spare form, a pleasant countenance, brown hair, with features modestly prominent.
Alfred Hall is the only one of his seven children living. He was born in Windsor, Vt., February 20, 1804. He has passed his whole life in Windsor, and, with but one exception, is the oldest native resident in the town. His principal occupation has been farming. He owns and occu- pies the old Hall homestead. He was president of the Windsor Savings Bank for many years, has filled the positions of overseer of the poor and selectman twenty years each. He has been a trustee of the bridge com- pany at Windsor, and its treasurer for many years. In politics he is a Democrat, having cast his first presidential vote for Andrew Jackson. Successful as a business man, a safe adviser, a genial, social disposition, Mr. Hall has always commanded the respect and esteem of the entire community in which he has passed a long life. He married August 26, 1833, Catharine Morgan, born June 16, 1815, died October 15, 1869. Their children are Rachel Morgan, born August 18, 1834, married Sa- rah Dorr, and has children as follows: Frank E., Jesse L., deceased, Harry W., Mary and Allen M. He is overseer in the machinist depart- ment of Vermont State Prison ; Sophia Blood, born April 1, 1837, mar- ried Daniel A. Barnard, of Windsor; Licortus Brewer, born Septen- ber 30, 1839, married August 14, 1888, Anna M. Camden. They have one child, Alfred Camden. Licortus B., is a graduate of Dartmouth Col- lege, was afterwards one of its professors, and is now a specialist in the treatment of the eye and ear in Philadelphia ; Eugene C., born Septem- ber 20, 1844, married, first, Ella Knowlton. They had one child, Fred M. He married, second, Etta Alton, of Worcester, Mass. He is a machinist by trade, and lives in Worcester ; Charles Alfred, born January 25, 1850, married December 31, 1871, Flora Belle Harris. They have one child, Cora Belle. He is also a machinist and resides in Worcester ; Adge-
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lon K., born November 26, 1855, married October 7, 1877, Lilla Belle, daughter of M. L. Horton, of Windsor. He lives at the homestead, car- rying on the home farm, and is overseer of the poor for the town of Windsor.
H AYES, FRANCIS B., was born at Boston, Mass., March 10, 1861, and is the only son of the late Hon. Francis B. and Margaret (Mar- riatt) Hayes. His father was a prominent attorney of Boston and largely interested in railroads throughout the country. Our subject was fitted for college at the Adams Academy at Quincy, Mass., also by private tu- tors. Owing to his father's death in 1883, which required his supervision of his father's affairs, he was obliged to relinquish his original idea of at- tending college. In 1887 he located in Weathersfield and since that time has become a permanent resident of Vermont. He is engaged in literary pursuits and is a correspondent for various Boston papers.
PORTER, JOHN, the first of the name to settle in New England, was born in 1590 at Wroxhall Abbey near Kenilworth, in the county of Warwick, England, was married and had a family of children. Ani- mated by a desire to try his fortunes in New England he sailed with his family from London and arrived at Dorchester, Mass, on the 30th of May, 1627. They remained at Dorchester till 1635, and in that year re- moved to Windsor, Conn. William Porter, a descendant in the fourth generation from John Porter, was born in Lebanon, Conn., on the 4th of September, 1749. From Lebanon he removed to Hartford, Vt., in 1780 there settled, and in due time was married to Mary Hodges. They had nine children, among the number, John Porter, subject of this sketch, born in Hartford the 8th of April, 1798. In those early days the means for securing an education at the common schools were scant, but such opportunities as came within his reach he fully improved, supplying all deficiencies in this direction by the exercise of a resolute will. At the age of eighteen he taught school one term in the neighborhood where he lived, and then took charge of a school in Rodman, N. Y. As a good illustration of his native energy and perseverance it may be mentioned that while thus engaged he twice made the entire journey to Rodman
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