History of the town of Rockingham, Vermont, including the villages of Bellows Falls, Saxtons River, Rockingham, Cambridgeport and Bartonsville, 1907-1957 with family genealogies, Part 47

Author: Lovell, Frances Stockwell, 1897-
Publication date: 1958
Publisher: Bellows Falls, Vt., Published by the town
Number of Pages: 690


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SIDE JUDGES: Louis J. Robertson, retired paper mill executive, was appointed to the position of side judge of Wind- ham County Court in 1942 by Gov. William H. Wills. Due to


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ill health, Mr. Robertson resigned in 1948, a year before his term expired and Gov. Ernest W. Gibson appointed Walter C. Hadley, real estate dealer, to replace him.


PHYSICIANS


1910. E. S. Allbee, John Blodgett, W. D. Bowen, E. R. Campbell, George H. Gorham, William F. Hazelton, J. Sut- cliffe Hill, Edward Kirkland, J. P. Lenahan, Arthur Liston, James O'Brien, F. L. Osgood, Ira H. Prouty, J. T. Rudden, A. L. Miner, George Murray.


1915. John Blodgett, John J. Brosnahan, Windsor D. Bowen, Edward R. Campbell, George H. Gorham, W. F. Hazel- ton, J. Sutcliffe Hill, Edward Kirkland, J. P. Lenahan, A. C. Liston, Albert L. Miner.


1920. J. H. Blodgett, W. D. Bowen, W. F. Hazelton, J. S. Hill, George C. Kelley, J. P. Lenahan, A. C. Liston, A. L. Miner, James F. O'Brien, F. L. Osgood, J. T. Rudden, W. T. Tilley.


1925. J. H. Blodgett, W. D. Bowen, J. S. Hill, J. P. Lena- han, A. C. Liston, A. L. Miner, Bayard T. Mousley, F. L. Osgood, J. T. Rudden, W. T. Tilley.


1930. J. H. Blodgett, W. D. Bowen, J. S. Hill, J. P. Lena- han, A. C. Liston, B. T. Mousley, F. L. Osgood, Lee C. Stillings, John A. Stewart, W. T. Tilley.


1935. J. H. Blodgett, W. D. Bowen, Edwin C. Hebb, J. S. Hill, J. P. Lenahan, A. C. Liston, F. L. Osgood, L. S. Stillings, J. A. Stewart, W. T. Tilley.


1940. W. D. Bowen, E. C. Hebb, J. S. Hill, A. C. Liston, Michael F. Powers, Christopher Shaw, Joseph Shelc, J. S. Stewart, W. T. Tilley.


1945. Richard C. Fuller, E. C. Hebb, F. L. Osgood, M. F. Powers, J. A. Stewart, W. T. Tilley.


1950. R. C. Fuller, Harry Goldman, J. A. Stewart, W. T. Tilley, E. C. Hebb, M. F. Powers.


1955. R. C. Fuller, J. A. Stewart, M. F. Powers, David Stewart, Edith Woodelton, E. C. Hebb, Walter Butterick.


Many beloved doctors have given of their untiring services to the community over the years and perhaps a few foot notes concerning some of them might be appropriate here. Dr. James Sutcliffe Hill, a local physician for nearly 60 years, died in July, 1945 at the age of 85. He was the local health officer for about 35 years, taking up the work soon after his arrival in Bellows Falls in 1888 and continuing until his death with the exception of a few years beginning with 1919 when a district officer was appointed. He served in this capacity during the hectic days of the influenza epidemic of W. W. I. Born in England, he decided, during a visit to his grandfather in Saxtons River when he was twenty-one to remain in this country and went to the University of New York to study medicine. A member of


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practically all existing medical societies and for over 30 years official surgeon for the Rutland Railroad, he was always a familar and dignified figure about town with his frock coat, tall hat and clipped beard and always carrying one of the four gold-headed canes given him by grateful patients. He was always ready to regale passersby with humorous stores, often corraling them with the hook of his cane. To the end he remained the typical English gentleman.


Dr. George Gorham had his office in the Square for 25 years, closing it in 1916. Dr. James O'Brien was a surgeon from 1898-1926. Dr. John Blodgett practiced medicine from 1899-1935. For many years Dr. Arthur C. Liston was a well- loved doctor of the town, opening his practice in North Walpole and later operating his own hospital in the Lockwood house in King's Field. In 1914 he left town to live with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio but returned to enter the service in 1918 and the next year moved his office to this side of the river, into the house on Rockingham Street where he also resided. He became a member of the staff of the Rockingham Hospital, specializing in X-ray work. In 1928 he opened a small hospital in the build- ing with his office in conjunction with Dr. W. T. Tilley, surgeon in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. Dr. Liston died in his new home which he built in Rockingham in November, 1942 after many months of illness. Probably no other doctor ever left more friends behind him than Arthur Liston. Dr. Harry Goldman took over Dr. Liston's office and in 1945 accepted a three-year appointment to study radiology in Boston. In 1942 he purchased the old Col. Bellows Homestead in Walpole for use as a convalescent home. In 1949 he opened his own office in his new home on Williams Street with the newest types of X-ray and therapy treatment for cancer and skin diseases. At the death of Dr. Edward Kirkland in 1921, Dr. George Kelley, also a homeopath, and coming from Woodstock, opened a prac- tice here, buying the Dr. Gorham Place on School Street, now the Manor but remaining only a short time.


Dr. John Lenahan died in April, 1936 when only 58, having practiced in Concord and Walpole, N. H. for 15 years and coming to Bellows Falls in 1926. Dr. John T. Rudden came to Bellows Falls in September, 1892 and died here March 10, 1929. Dr. Michael Powers of the UVM Medical School, opened an office in 1937 and was in the service of W. W. II. Dr. Lee Stillings practised in Bellows Falls for several years after W. W. I and died in 1938 in Knoxville, Tennesee of pneumonia. Dr. Richard C. Fuller opened a practice in Saxtons River in 1938 but removed to Bellows Falls and went to Boston in 1939 as resident surgeon on obstetrics and gynecology at the Boston City Hospital for two years, Dr. Christopher Shaw taking over his office on School Street. He was made a Fellow of the Ameri- can College of Physicians in 1941. Dr. Shaw became Lt.


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Commander in the U. S. Navy, graduating from the Naval School of Aviation Medicine at Pensacola, Florida where he was appointed instructor in cardiology in the same school. Dr. Joseph Shelc, UVM 1938, opened a practice here the next year but closed it to take an army commission. Dr. Osgood of Saxtons River was given a reception in 1947, having practiced in the vicinity for 51 years and is still going strong. Dr. Windsor DeForest Bowen first practiced in Saxtons River where he conducted a private hospital and was later in Bellows Falls for 25 years where he was also health officer for Westminster. He died in October, 1941. Dr. John Stewart has been practicing in Bellows Falls for 30 years. Two new doctors joined the staff of the new Rockingham Hospital in 1955 with offices in the build- ing formerly used as a nurses' home, Dr. Butterick and Dr. David Stewart, the former later removing to Walpole. Dr. Albert L. Miner practiced in town for 33 years, dying in 1929. Bellows Falls gave three presidents to the Vermont Medical Society, Dr. Edward R. Campbell in 1887, Dr. Gorham in 1907 and Dr. Miner in 1914. Dr. Campbell passed away June 23, 1923.


CHIROPRACTORS


Drs. Fred and Celia Brown practiced in Bellows Falls for eight years with offices in the Arms Block, before leaving for Rutland in 1929. They were followed by Dr. Morris Humphrey in 1932 who died in 1946. Dr. O. W. Rysse practiced here from 1929-1946 when he left for California. Present practitioners are Dr. Earl Gilman and Dr. Donald W. Roach.


OSTEOPATHS


Dr. Everett E. Task has practiced in Bellows Falls since 1920 and replaced Dr. Ralph Hopkins.


DENTISTS


Dr. Charles F. Meacham, once assistant postmaster under Quartus Morgan and George Guild, practiced dentistry here from 1900-1934 when he retired, dying in Elmira, N. Y. in 1942. Dr. Charles T. Clarke, a native of Saxtons River, opened an office there in 1888 and practiced for 20 years including Alstead, Walpole, N. H. and Bellows Falls where his office was first in his home on Burt Street and later over the Trust Company in the Square. Probably like many doctors of his day, he often took his pay in produce like the woman who paid for her new set of teeth with "cheeses." Dr. R. C. Elmer opened his office in 1903, dying in 1947, Dr. Ralph Buck taking over his office in July of that year. Dr. Thomas Hagan came to Bellows Falls in


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1937 and is still practising. Dr. William Collins entered the; office of Dr. Fred Jewett in 1947, taking it over upon the death of Dr. Jewett in 1955 who had practiced since 1917. Dr. Charles Houghton opened his office in 1934 and practiced for 22 years until illness forced him to retire. His office has been occupied by Dr. Ray F. Griffin since 1957. Dr. Vera Congdon started her practice here October 2, 1914. Dr. E. W. Knight practiced for many years at his home on School Street as did his sons, Ralph M. and Leroy E.


OPTOMETRISTS AND OPTICIANS


For over 20 years, Dr. G. H. Greeley practiced in Bellows Falls but upon moving his home across the river, was restrained by new state law, from continuing his work in Bellows Falls. He then opened an office in the home of George Roland at the New Hampshire end of the Arch Bridge and advertised exten- sively, offering glasses "more reasonable than ever" and probably suffered no loss of business. At the same time, Dr. M. B. Franklin came to town once a week from Keene to see patients in Dr. Clarke's dental office. Dr. Clyde Seale prac- ticed in the Union Block from 1935-1952 and was succeeded by Fred Pratt in 1953 an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist. Dr. William Berg opened an office in the Union Block in 1949 and moved to new quarters on Oak Street in 1956. Dr. W. T. Tilley, an M. D., opened an office in his home on Atkinson Street February 1, 1922. Dr. George G. Murray, an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist, died shortly before 1922 after many years of practice in Bellows Falls.


VETERINARIANS


For many years Dr. F. C. Wilkinson was a popular doctor of animals, passing away in 1916. Dr. E. W. Robinson practiced in Bellows Falls for 40 years, opening an office here in 1914 and passing away in 1954. Dr. Michael Ross, came to town in 1947, residing in the old M. H. Ray house and was followed, a few years later by Dr. Tucker Burr who removed to Walpole, leaving Bellows Falls at present with no resident veterinarian.


POLICE DEPARTMENT


The Bellows Falls Police Department consists of the chief, four regulars, 10 auxiliary and six special policemen. Chief Burke was appointed to the force in 1944 and made head of the department in 1949. He is a graduate of Springfield high school, the F.B.I. National Academy in Washington, D. C., of the Police International City Administration Course and holds 15 certificates of Vermont Police schools. Each of the past five


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years the department has received an honor roll plaque in the annual National Safety Traffic contest for no fatal highway accidents in the village. When Burke became chief, the police force included only 3 regular policemen and a few specials. To- day, added to the regular force is a policewoman, Mary E. Painter, who controls traffic outside the Elementary School. There is a communication system consisting of a two-way radio and 10 units in the town of Rockingham which is also hooked up with surrounding towns. In 1955 a new Chevrolet cruiser was purchased for the department with radio, siren, rotating red light and containing emergency equipment. At the police station on Canal Street, a newly appointed chief room has been set up in addition to a radio and office room. Police chiefs: 1891-1910, Arthur H. Thompson; 1911-1922, William Severance; 1923-1936, George Tracy; 1937-1939, Kenneth Perkins; 1940- 1945, Ansel D. Munroe; 1945-1947, Carl Prescott; 1947-1949, William E. Burgess; 1949 --- , Edward A. Burke.


The State Police of Windsor and Windham Counties have made their headquarters in Bellows Falls since 1951 with eleven troopers of District D. on hand for accidents, to check cars and apprehend speeding cars and criminals. In September, 1956, these headquarters were moved from the Arms Block to the house formerly owned by Nick Janciewicz at the Junction of Routes 5 and 103. At that time troopers consisted of Lt. Kenneth Fletcher, Sgt. Foster Corliss, Sgt. Lloyd Potter, Corp. Roger Patrick and Troopers Hobart Page, Truman Way, Darwin Rogers and Joseph Cioffie.


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Other town officers for 1955 were as follows: SECOND CONSTABLE, John O. Tucker; AUDITORS, Maurice F. Lawlor, Parker B. Blake, Katharine K. Ryan; TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC MONEY, Max D. Bliss, Alvah G. Buxton, Harry W. Allen; TOWN AGENT, Albert T. Bolles; COMMISSIONERS FOR OAK HILL CEMETERY, Preston H. Hadley, Elmer E. Pierce, Norman F. Faulkner, O. Gordon Noyes, Harold H. Cady; COMMISSIONERS FOR SAXTONS RIVER CEME- TERY, Guy M. Simonds, George S. Buxton, Raymond S. Hemingway, Robert W. O'Connor, Clarence B. Coleman; COMMISSIONERS FOR ROCKINGHAM CEMETERY, Frank W. Weeden, John B. Abbott, George F. Webb, George P. Kenyon, Ralph W. Wright; TRUSTEES OF PUBLIC LIBRARY, William B. Barker, Hilton C. Holland, Hardy A. Merrill, Gardner D. Cottle, Natt L. Divoll, Jr., Edward W. Toomey, Herbert G. Bancroft, Donald T. Brodine, Humphrey B. Neill.


Sexton of all town-owned cemeteries today is Kenneth King of Rockingham appointed in 1956.


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1908 Myron H. Ray


1924 Dr. John H. Blodgett


1910 Natt L. Divoll, Sr.


1926 Walter B. Glynn


1912 Fred H. Babbitt


1928 Morton Downing


1914 Herbert Ryder


1930 E. S. Whitcomb


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1918 W. C. Belknap


1936-1942 Byron Robinson


1920 Henry Weeden 1944-1948 Katherine Belknap


1922 Dr. F. L. Osgood 1950-1952 J. Emerson Kennedy


1954-1956 Raymond Moore


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1910 George L. Gorham


1920-1926 Dr. F. L. Osgood


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1934 E. S. Whitcomb


1916 Natt L. Divoll, Sr. 1950-1956 Henry Stoddard


TOWN MANAGERS: Sidney L. Ruggles, April 1, 1927, resigned 1931; Morton Downing, 1932-1940; Claire Congdon, 1940, was commissioned Captain in the U. S. Engineering Corps and entered the Army October 3, 1942. Byron Robinson accepted the office during his absence. Congdon returned in 1945 and resigned in 1946 for a position in Berkeley City, Michi- gan. Cecil A. Bissonnette accepted the position in 1946. He was elected President of the Vermont Town Manager's Associ- ation in 1950. In 1918 it cost just $1.51 more to run the town than the preceding year but over $2,000 more for school expenses.


The town manager system was first suggested in 1926 but was not voted in until the next year. Votes for the first few years ran as follows:


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In 1933, at the regular town meeting, the system was voted down by 72 votes. Claims that the ballot was misleading led to a special town meeting at which the system was voted back again. It has been voted for each year ever since.


OVERSEER OF THE POOR: 1907-1916, Peter Dorand; 1917-1926, A. G. Rice; 1927, A. G. Rice, Sidney Ruggles; 1928, Sidney Ruggles. The town manager is now both Road Com- missioner and Overseer of the Poor. Today most "poorhouses" are extinct in Vermont as social security and public assistance have run them out of business. Rockingham still maintains the Town Farm in Bartonsville to care for the needy.


ROAD COMMISSIONERS: 1907, J. H. Lawrence, W. W. Barry; 1908, J. H. Lawrence, J. B. Woolley, Fred A. Smith; 1909, J. B. Woolley, F. A. Smith; 1910-1913, F. A. Smith, J. B.


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Woolley; 1914, F. A. Smith, J. B. Woolley, H. A. Davis; 1915- 1916, J. B. Woolley, H. A. Davis; 1917-1918, J. B. Woolley, H. A. Davis, W. W. Barry; 1919-1923, J. B. Woolley, F. A. Smith; 1924-1925, Lewis C. Lovell; 1926, J. B. Woolley; 1927- 1930, J. B. Woolley, Sidney Ruggles.


Some of the old town officers, dating from pioneer days, are still duly appointed each year. In 1956 the list was as follows: Frank W. Weeden of Rockingham, Ralph Forrestall and Richard Barnes of Saxtons River, FENCE VIEWERS; John B. Abbott of Rockingham and Henry Brosnan of Cambridgeport, POUND KEEPERS; Harold Mathers, George H. Lanou of Saxtons River and Archie G. Prior, SURVEYORS OF WOOD AND LUMBER; Stanley T. Adams of Saxtons River and Norman F. Faulkner of Bellows Falls, WEIGHERS OF COAL; and Cecil A. Bissonnette, TREE WARDEN.


BARTONSVILLE MENNONITE CHURCH


The Mennonite Church at Bartonsville is a permanent mission church of the Mennonite Franconia Conference of Pennsylvania. It was started in 1949 when regular services were held after two years of summer Bible schools held in the Grange Hall in that village. In May, 1952, plans for a church building were laid, building began September 29 of that year and a dedicatory service was held on December 14. The first resident pastor was Samuel Det- weiler who died in July, 1949. In Oct. of that year Ivan J. Rohrer came to the church and was ordained the next year by Bishop Jacob J. Moyer at the Jesse Ehst homc. On August 7, 1953, regular business meetings of members were started at the home of James and Martha Woolley. This church is believed to have its origin in the Netherlands as the Netherlands Anabaptist Movement which resulted in the Mennonite Church whose women are re- cognized by their demure black bonnets on the street and white ones in the home.


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ADDENDUM


*1 The Star Restaurant closed in May, 1957 and the space is now occupied by the Aubuchon Hardware Store, opening October 3, 1957.


*2 In January, 1958 the Noyes & Whitehill store became the Whitehill Hardware Company, Mr. Whitehill buying out Mr. Noyes.


*3 The George Page Store was sold to Claude Dexter in July, 1957. Mr. Page died in January, 1958.


*4 E. S. Whitcomb, Inc., became the A. J. Tidd Co., Inc., in 1957.


*5 The Tog Shop became the Jack and Jill Shop, selling children's apparel and owned by Mr. and Mrs. Preston Belknap. This was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kinerson of Walpole, N. H. in January, 1958.


*6 After closing his store, following his father's retirement, Harold Gould is now employed by the new Super Duper Market on Atkinson Street which opened on October 10, 1957.


*7 The Rockingham Memorial Hospital purchased the James Williams property in 1957, to be remodeled into professional offices.


*8 The Byron Robinson Memorial on the north side of the American Legion Home on Rockingham Street, was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1957.


*9 In 1957, nine members of Pierce-Lawton Post, No. 37, American Legion, were appointed to National Committees as announced by National Executive Committeeman, Harry O. Pearson of the local post. They were Francis A. Bolles, Henry E. Bussey, Jr., John R. Curtin, Raymond H. Moore, Natt L. Divoll, Jr., H. William Johnson, Edmund P. Lawlor, John R. O'Hearne and Norman C. Richardson.


*10. Mrs. Edward Cray of Bellows Falls was appointed district nurse in June, 1957.


*11 Scout Executive Arlon Cota resigned in 1957 to take a post in Bridgeport, Conn. and was replaced by Robert Patrick.


*12 The First full-time school nurse was Mrs. Arena Damon who went on duty in 1942 and left in 1956 for a position at Kurn Hattin Homes. She was replaced by Mrs. Mary Pollard of Saxtons River. A school for re- tared children open in Bellows Falls in 1954 and now uses rooms in the old Atkinson Street School. A change was made in the administration of local schools when the Rockingham-Westminster School District was dissolved in 1957 and a separate Rockingham District created.


*13 In January, 1958, Burton Martin, band and orchestra instructor in the local schools, organized a Community Band in town on the principles of the old Wheeler Band.


*14 A new parking lot for cars on Rockingham Street in the Square was opened in June, 1957.


*15 According to Commissioner of Vermont Agriculture, Elmer S. Towne, there were 1,000 more people than cows in Vermont in 1957.(Rutland Herald, October 2, 1957.) However, Thurston Adams, Vermont Extension Service agricultural economist, reported that on January 1, 1958, Vermont's cow population was on too again with 421,000 while humans were only 376,000. In 1957, dairy cattle declined 9,000 in the state, a 3% drop. But in 1957, Vermont produced more milk than ever before in its history as production per cow rose to an all-time high of 6,400 pounds. (Rutland Herald, March 12, 1958.)


*16 The Rockingham Swimming Center was opened July, 1958. At this time the original Swimming Pool Organization which functioned from 1953 to 1954 to raise money for the project, disbanded.


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ABBREVIATIONS


B. F.


Bellows Falls


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aged


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Saxtons River


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residence


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married


unm.


unmarried


d.


died


bpt.


baptized


*


see History of Rockingham


by L. S. Hayes


Genealogies of Rockingham Families


The following family lines have been set up, where necessary, and ar- ranged by Leverett Charles Lovell. His experience in this work was of great help. The following pages include many families originally in the History of Rockingham by L. S. Hayes and records of such families have not been repeated here but are marked with an asterisk for reference. We feel that the inclusion of these genealogies, carrying on the old families from the pre- vious book and many new ones, add much to this book as published records of family history. We have followed as nearly as possible, the plan used by Mr. Hayes, to more easily correlate the old families with the new record and which plan was that used by the New England Genealogical Society. In tracing families back several generations, the first name used is that of the emigrant ancestor.


AMADON*


ANNA PAULINE BALLOU,3 m. Mar. 24, 1896, Frederick G. Harris res. Roselle, N. J .; d. 1927. Child:


1. DONALD GILBERT,4 b. Jan. 13, 1897; d. Nov. 16, 1955; m. (1) 1924, Jane Greer Fiegler; d. 1924; m. (2) 1925, Ruth Rist Louden. Child:




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