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AHIMAN L. MINER (September 23, 1804-July 19, 1886) Born in Middletown Springs, Vermont, the son of Deacon Gideon and Rachel (Davison) Miner; admitted to Vermont bar, 1832; practiced law in Wallingford before coming to Manchester; representative of Manchester in the Legislature, two terms; Senator from Benning- ton County, 1840; clerk, House of Representatives, 1836-1838; state's attorney, 1843-1844; register of probate, eight years; judge of probate, four years; justice of the peace, forty years; chairman, judiciary committee, eight years; in 1840 spoke at famous Stratton Whig Convention with Daniel Webster; was likely candidate for governor, but never succeeded; second marriage to Susan Miner, renowned and beloved in Manchester, by whom he had two sons, A. Louis Miner (1854-1908), a teacher, and George Miner, editor of Sunday edition, New York Sun, at his death in 1918.
LOVELAND MUNSON (June 21, 1843-March 24, 1921) Graduated from Burr and Burton Seminary, 1862; studied law with Elias B. Burton; admitted to Bennington County bar, 1866; law partner of Burton; register of probate, ten years; judge of probate, six years; town clerk, ten years; associate judge, Vermont Supreme Court, twenty-six years; Chief Justice, two years; representative of Man- chester in the Legislature, three terms; Senator from Bennington County, one term; trustee, Burr and Burton Seminary, forty-eight years, president in 1908, and president emeritus, 1919; president, Dellwood Cemetery Association, thirty years; president of the board, Mark Skinner Library; editor, the Manchester Journal, 1863- 1866; author, The Early History of Manchester published here in 1875.
MARY CAMPBELL MUNSON (October 13, 1862-July 13, 1954) Daughter of Ann Maria (Hollister) and Alex Bennett Campbell; granddaughter of Polly (Munson) Hollister; niece of Josiah Burton; graduated from Burr and Burton Seminary, 1880; attended Smith College; married Loveland Munson, 1882; historian, Burr and Bur- ton Seminary, Manchester Congregational church; trustee, Mark
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Skinner Library; officer, Vermont Botanical and Bird Club; mem- ber, Vermont Historical Society; a founder, Monday Club.
J. S. PETTIBONE (1786-1872) The son of Samuel; graduated from Middlebury College; probate judge; representative of Man- chester in the Legislature, several terms; member, Governor's Council before State Senate was instituted; officer, War of 1812; presidential elector; banking inspector; county judge; author of valuable historical manuscript; married Laura Graves; his son, Al- bert W., was mayor of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, during Civil War, and his son, W. B., was a trustee of Burr and Burton Seminary who gave $10,000 for the athletic field; his grandson, Albert, Jr., was a Manchester summer resident, also a benefactor of the Seminary.
SAMUEL PETTIBONE (1740-1822) Wealthy farmer who pur- chased the first house built in Manchester after it was confiscated from the Tory, Samuel Rose; veteran, Revolutionary War; select- man, 1780.
CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS (May 16, 1753-May 16, 1832) Son of John Roberts, who came to Manchester in 1764; went as a boy with Ethan Allen to capture Fort Ticonderoga; later became gen- eral of the militia; veteran, War of 1812.
MARTIN ROBERTS (January 8, 1778-April 25, 1863) Eldest son of General Christopher Roberts; after clerking in Joseph Burr's store, he undertook stagecoach line between Boston and Saratoga which was a financial failure; major-general, Vermont Militia; Grand Master, Vermont Masons; Federalist party leader, northern Ben- nington County; built "The Old Homestead," center of the Rob- ertsville section of Manchester, at close of the War of 1812.
LEONARD SARGEANT (1793-June 17, 1888) Born in Dorset; entered Burr and Burton Seminary at the age of seven, passed col- lege exams at age of twelve, and was admitted to Williams College at age fourteen; studied law in Judge Richard Skinner's office; early practice in Pawlet; member, county court; member, Supreme Court of Vermont; president, Council of Censors; member, Constitu-
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tional Convention; State's Attorney; Senator from Bennington County; representative of Manchester in the Legislature; veteran, War of 1812; judge of probate, seven terms; Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont, 1846-1848; defense counsel, Boorn murder.
WALTER H. SHAW (June 15, 1883-August 24, 1934) Graduated from Burr and Burton Seminary, University of Vermont, 1907; school superintendent; teacher, acting principal, trustee, Burr and Burton Seminary; news correspondent for this area, Associated Press; secretary, treasurer, Manchester District Nursing Associa- tion; treasurer, vestryman, Zion Episcopal church; director, Fac- tory Point National Bank.
DAVID K. SIMONDS (April 5, 1839-March 29, 1917) Born in Peru, Vermont; graduated from Burr and Burton Seminary, Mid- dlebury College (Phi Beta Kappa, 1862); served with 2nd Tennes- see Regiment, Civil War; editor, Newport (Vermont) Express and Standard, 1865-1866; editor, the Manchester Journal from 1870; purchased newspaper from F. H. Orvis, 1871; Village postmaster; town clerk, thirty-four years; secretary, Battenkill Valley Indus- trial Society; representative of Manchester in the Legislature, 1886; Senator from Bennington County, 1888; county examiner of teach- ers; trustee, Burr and Burton Seminary; fellow, Middlebury Col- lege; clerk, Fire District and Village; register of probate; member, Orleans County bar, Bennington County Bar Association; deacon, Sunday School superintendent, choir member of Congregational church; author, American Wit and Humor and War Stories, the former published anonymously with second edition coming out in London; married Ellen L. Clark and was father of Clark Simonds and Anna Louise Orvis.
MARK SKINNER (September 13, 1813-September 16, 1887) Born in Manchester; graduated from Middlebury College; son of Gover- nor Richard Skinner; trained at New Haven Law School; admitted to Chicago bar, 1836; city attorney; appointed District Attorney by President Tyler; Master-in-Chancery, Cook County; member, Illi- nois Legislature; judge, Cook County Court; headed U. S. Sanitary Commission, Civil War; instrumental in organizing Chicago's pub-
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lic school and library systems; an incorporator of Chicago Histori- cal Society, much of his valuable collection of Americana destroyed in the great fire; Manchester's Dellwood Cemetery founded largely through his influence and generosity; Mark Skinner Library given by his daughter, Mrs. Frances Skinner Willing; Manchester G.A.R. post named for his only son, killed in Civil War.
RICHARD SKINNER (May 30, 1778-May 23, 1833) Son of Gen- eral Timothy Skinner; born, educated (including law school) in Litchfield, Connecticut; came to Manchester, 1799; admitted to bar; State's Attorney, thirteen terms; judge of probate, seven terms; associate judge, Vermont Supreme Court, eight terms; Chief Jus- tice, Vermont Supreme Court, 1816; member, 13th Congress; rep- resentative of Manchester in the Legislature, two terms; speaker of the house; defense counsel, Boorn murder trial, 1819; Governor of Vermont, 1820-1823; reappointed Chief Justice, five terms; trustee, Middlebury College.
THEODORE SWIFT (1839-1907) Public-spirited merchant in Manchester, forty-one years (Cone & Burton, Cone & Swift); rep- resentative of Manchester in the Legislature, 1878; trustee, Burr and Burton Seminary, Mark Skinner Library; Congregational church leader.
LESTER H. THOMPSON (November 11, 1888-February 26, 1948) Born in Manchester; in 1922 he founded the Manchester Printing Company with Otto R. and G. S. Bennett and in 1940 on the elder Bennett's retirement, became president; school director, fifteen years; chairman, school board, 1931-1945; trustee, president, Vil- lage; school band due largely to his endeavor; outstanding in I.O.O.F .- Grand Patriarch, 1936; Grand Representative at the time of his death; Lt. Col., Patriarchs Militant; received Decora- tion of Chivalry, 1939; owner-publisher, statewide monthly news- paper, The Vermont Odd Fellow, 1937-1948; shortly after his death, a special fund was started in his memory for purchasing audio- visual aids for Manchester schools.
JOHN H. WHIPPLE (June 13, 1845-March 20, 1922) Employee, later manager, A. G. Clark's gristmill; postmaster, Manchester Cen-
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ter, 1897-1914; cashier, Factory Point National Bank, twenty years; owned drugstore business in 1896 still operating at Manches- ter Center in his name; Grand Master, Vermont Masons, two years; president, Western Vermont Masonic Union; married Mary N. Clark and had three sons, Augustus C., Harris C., and John C. Whipple.
JOSEPH D. WICKHAM (April 4, 1797-May, 1891) Entered Yale at age of thirteen and graduated in 1815; private secretary to Yale's first president, Timothy Dwight; ordained Congregational minister and expert on religious work of his century; headmaster, Burr and Burton Seminary, 1837-1853, 1856-1862; trustee, Burr and Bur- ton Seminary, twenty-five years; professor (1854-1855), trustee, Middlebury College; friend of Samuel Morse, Sir Thaddeus Fair- banks; his great-granddaughter, Elizabeth Page Harris, still owns Wickham home in the Village.
JAMES WILBUR (November 11, 1856-April 28, 1929) Born in Cleveland, Ohio; cashier, N.Y.N.H.H.R.R .; president, Royal Trust Company, later merging to Central Trust Company of Chicago; one of the founders, Institute of American Genealogy; trustee, Li- brary of Congress Trust Fund Board, to which he gave $100,000 as endowment; trustee, American Antiquarian Society, to which he gave $100,000; trustee, University of Vermont, Putnam Memorial Hospital in Bennington, and the New York Historical Society; gave $200,000 to the University of Vermont for erection of the Ira Allen Chapel as monument to the school's founder, whom Wilbur immortalized in Life of Ira Allen (1751-1814), Founder of Vermont; received honorary LL.D. from University of Vermont, 1925; in Man- chester, he was owner of Wilburton Hall, an extensive model farm, and devoted to improvement of roads and highways.
THE ORVIS FAMILY
No one of the Orvis name lives year-round in Manchester, but it will be a long time before that distinguished family is forgotten. The patriarch was Levi Church Orvis, Sr., who came to Manches- ter from Brattleboro and bought lot # 2 as laid out in the town records from the old grant. He was then twenty-one, having been
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born May 19, 1799. On the north end of the Equinox House lot were his brick store and the dwelling he built in 1832, one of the finest in town. The wife of L. C. Orvis was Electa S. Purdy, daugh- ter of one of Manchester's oldest families and a belle of the town.
Orvis, in addition to his store, had several ox teams drawing marble from the Dorset quarries. Due to a cholera epidemic, he was quarantined in Philadelphia while transporting a cargo there. He contracted the disease and died September 25, 1849. Of his seven children, two became outstanding in Manchester history.
Franklin H. Orvis, born July 12, 1824, attended Burr and Burton Seminary and Union Village Academy, Greenwich, New York. He spent some years in mercantile pursuits in Wisconsin, Illinois, and New York before beginning his hotel career. After his father's death, F. H. Orvis bought the family's elegant home with its double parlors, enlarged it, and opened it in 1853 as the Equinox House. F. H. was also proprietor of hotels in Jacksonville and Palatka, Florida, for the winter trade.
With the aid of his sons-Paul, Edward (Ned), William, George, and Louis-Franklin Orvis became the "father" of Manchester's summer business. Though all the residents and property owners did their share toward beautifying the Village, the greatest work and success was shown by Orvis as owner of the Equinox House. He was a man of boundless energy. If something about the hotel or Manchester appeared in the Manchester Journal, he ordered, marked, and sent some three or four hundred papers to people he knew were interested.
He was a most cordial host and the "presiding genius" of his es- tablishment. A fondness for old people led him, on at least three occasions, to entertain all the older people in town at the Equinox Music Hall. He received plenty of free advertising when he became one of the first hotel owners to issue the edict-"No dogs taken." Nearly all the reputable hotels quickly followed his lead.
In 1869 Franklin H. Orvis, as a Republican, was elected to the Vermont senate. When he died, October 30, 1900, the Manchester Journal, of which he was once editor and owner, said :
There has been no public improvement in which he has not taken the lead and borne a good share of the expense. Our marble sidewalks, our
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beautiful cemetery, our three churches, our soldiers' monument, in short all that makes Manchester attractive is due largely to his foresight, energy, and liberality. Manchester is in mourning; she never had a more worthy or loyal son.
Another son of Levi Orvis to win laurels for the family was Charles F., born in Manchester June 19, 1831. A man of many talents and more than average ability, Charles Orvis was at various times a health officer, chief engineer of the fire department, Village trustee, druggist, dentist, postmaster, old-line Democrat, and in- ventor. He was also host of a large summer boarding house, the Orvis Inn. There were few men better informed in the political his- tory of the United States. Orvis was the first passenger on the earli- est express train to run through this valley.
Charles Orvis' chief claim to fame was the Manchester business still bearing his name. In the 1850s he began to manufacture fishing rods, reels, and artificial flies and made a trip to England purposely to learn how to make split bamboo rods. He became eminently suc- cessful and his products are still noted for their excellence. His daughter, Mary Ellen Marbury (1856-1914) assisted him in the fly rod business and wrote the valuable treatise, Favorite Flies, about flies and fly-tying. It won World's Fair prizes and is now a collec- tor's item. She also published a book of square dance music and calls.
Charles F. Orvis died March 24, 1915. Probably the most notable of other members of the Orvis family were Edward Church Orvis and Mrs. George (Anna Louise Simonds) Orvis, son and daughter- in-law of Franklin Orvis.
Ned Orvis (May 18, 1858-March 26, 1918) managed the Equinox House for a while before and after his father's death. He was a Se- lectman for eight years, a representative from Manchester in the Legislature in 1890, and a county Senator in 1908. Active in form- ing the Village corporation in 1901, he was its first president, re- maining in office until 1912. He was a charter member of the Ver- mont Fish and Game League, a treasurer of Dellwood Cemetery for many years, and a trustee of the Mark Skinner Library.
His sister-in-law, Louise Orvis (June 13, 1874-February 22, 1953) was the daughter of Manchester Journal editor, David K. Si-
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monds. She was a graduate of Burr and Burton Seminary. At one time president of Manchester Village, she was also a member of the Republican National Committee for Vermont. Instrumental in founding the "Women's Vermont Republican Club," she was its president in 1925. In Manchester she was president of the Dell- wood Cemetery trustees and a leader in the Garden Club.
Following the death of George Orvis in 1917, she became presi- dent and leading stockholder in her husband's business, the Equi- nox Company. This included the Equinox House and the Equinox Spring Company. Mrs. Orvis was not only one of the first to see the possibilities of Manchester as a ski resort, but she was among the first to encourage the development of golf and aviation as a means of bringing more business to the town.
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CHARLES F. ORVIS
They said he was a scoffer, had no faith- His neighbors on the mountain-village street- And added that he found his drink and meat In argument; of course he shunned the church. His passion was to urge some old-time score, Do battle for each lost Whig cause, He swore And held by the coat to gain a point. When fired by talk he sang the "Marseillaise," His broken voice pitched high to catch the sway And tumult that it stirred within his blood. And then, without a word, perhaps, he slipped away, At eighty, on the mountain-side to stray And fish the streams or hunt with his own hound. When suddenly it came his time to die He spoke without a quaver. His keen eye With piercing glance searched every face near his; And then he called his youngest son apart, The son who was the kernel of his heart- The hidden sweet of all his bitter years- "I'm going across the river by and by. When you come too, lad, bring your rod and fly." They said he was a scoffer; had no faith.
Margaret Steel Hard Harper's Magazine 1920
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ICY PALMER ( (September, 1824-July 9, 1911)
Icy Palmer, the aged Tuscarora Indian, was once Manchester's "darling." Two schools of thought prevail about her origin : either she was born of roaming parents two miles south of the Village in a sugar house or she was brought to Manchester when only a few weeks old by an Indian tribe and given away. Her earliest years were spent with the G. S. Purdy and W. P. Black families, though the training she received failed to change her Indian ways.
Some time later, the Ladies Benevolent Society of the Congrega- tional church and the overseer of the poor enabled Icy to lead an independent life in a small house especially built for her. As a sup- plement to her small income from Manchester benefactors, she gathered quantities of butternuts each fall and in the spring she mixed them with maple sugar to sell.
Everyday, regardless of the weather, Icy walked the roads and toward night trudged home drawing a bundle of wood. If she met anyone, she turned her back and stood with bowed head until they passed. It is said that she once returned to her tribe, but disliking the life, returned to Manchester.
In 1905 Icy still lived alone in her little hut. She was over eighty and losing her mind. Townsfolk fretted when they saw her, dressed for summer, out in the snow. In February 1909 two town fathers accompanied her to the Brattleboro Retreat, which she found a ""sumptuous" place. Reports came back that she was perfectly happy. But two years later, Icy died.
Despite having been Manchester's number one welfare case for nearly a century, she had managed to lay away a bit. Icy Palmer had already bought her own lot and headstone at Dellwood Ceme- tery.
APPENDIX AND INDEX
APPENDIX
MANCHESTER MEN IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR (AS TAKEN FROM THE SOLDIERS' MONUMENT)
Amos Allen
Barnabas Hatch
Cornelius Havens
Jas. Hennessey
Simeon Hine
Robt. Anderson
Elijah Hollister
Dan'l. Arnold
John Howard
Reuben Baker
Benj. Huntley
Martin Barber
Samuel Hull
Gideon Barber
James Jameson
Isaac Barker
Daniel Jones
Thos. Barney
David Lee
Benj. Beers
James Lewis
Lewis Beebe
Robt. Loggan
Rice Beckwith
Benj. McIntyre
Wm. Bedell
Jos. McIntyre
Nathan Beman
Richard McIntyre
Haynes J. Beman Wm. Bennett
Aaron Mason
Peter Black
Jacob Mead
Timothy Bliss
Philip Mead
Jared Boorn
Rufus Munson
Nathaniel Boorn
Thaddeus Munson
Arthur Bostwick
Jonathan Ormsby
Nathaniel Bostwick
Gideon Ormsby
Thos. Bull
Dan'l. Ormsby
Thos. Bull, Jr.
George Olds
Elijah Burton
Jacob Odell
Josiah Burton
John Page
Cal. Chamberlain
Timothy Pearl
Daniel Champion
Stephen Pearl
Christopher Collins
Abel Pettibone
Nathaniel Collins
Sam'l. Pettibone
Elisha Cook
Seth Pettibone
John Daggett
Peter Pixley
Job Dean
Felix Powell
Eliakim Deming
Martin Powell
Wm. Drew
Truman Powell
Duncan Dunn
Benj. Purdy
Asa Farrand
Reuben Purdy
Peter French
Daniel Purdy
Wm. Gould
David Purdy
Silas Goodrich
Philip Reynolds
Jesse Graves
Amos Richardson
Thaddeus Harris
Andrew Richardson
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Dan. Allen Jonathan Allen Seth Allen
Isaac Marks
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Nathan Richardson
Peletiah Soper
Benj. Roberts Chris. Roberts
Solomon Soper
Moses Sperry
John Roberts John Roberts Jr.
Prentice Stores
Joel Rose
Wallace Sutherland
Jesse Sawyer Aaron Sexton
Timothy Skinner
George Sexton
Benj. Vaughn
Jonathan Sexton
James Vaughn
Wm. Sexton
Jeremiah Wait
Daniel Shaw
Sam'l. Walker
Josiah Sheldon
Azel Washburn
Geo. Smith
Stephen Washburn
John Smith
Isaac Whelpley
Nathan Smith
Jeremiah Whelpley
Stephen Smith
John White
Enoch Woodbridge
MANCHESTER MEN ON REVOLUTIONARY PAYROLLS (FROM THE WHIPPLE COLLECTION)
1776
Solomon Soper
Peleg Sunderland
Felix Powell
Benjamin Hicock (captain)
Felix Powell, jr.
Gideon Brownson (captain)
Samuel Beaman
John Roberts
Philip Reynolds
Daniel Purdy
Dan Allen
Prince Soper
Enos Ross
Moses Robinson (colonel)
Ebenezer Wilson
Azel Washburn (surgeon)
Isaac Whelpley
George Sexton
Martin Powel
Truman Mead (fifer)
Solomon Purdy
1777
Reuben Purdy
Nathan Beaman
Jed Jackson
Edw. Soper
Gilbert Bradley
Josiah Burton
Elisha Allen
Peniel Stevens
Amos Chipman
Amos Allen
Isaac Wallis
Hanes Jerry Beaman
Benj. Griffin
Silas Canfield
-Boyce
Nathan Smith (captain)
Ebenezer Alby
Eli Brownson (lieut.)
Jesse Sawyer (captain)
Peleg Sunderland
Samuel Sutherland
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APPENDIX MANCHESTER MEN IN THE WAR OF 1812 (FROM THE WHIPPLE COLLECTION)
James Whelpley Robert Anderson John Black Elijah Burton
Silas Smith Burton Straight
Nathan Thompson
Joseph Burton
Samuel Thompson Thomas Wait
Lemuel Collins
Eliphalet Wells
Benj. Dibble
Samuel R. Whidden
John C. Walker
John S. Pettibone
Benjamin Munson
Alvah Bishop
Leonard Sargeant
Truman Kimpton
David Reynolds
Samuel Folsom
David Glazier
John W. Robinson
Daniel Olds John R. Pettibone
John H. Rule Artemus Gleason
MANCHESTER MEN IN THE CIVIL WAR
Everett E. Adams Henry C. Allen William H. Axtell Timothy F. Bacon R. E. Baldwin James E. Batchelder
William W. Beals Jed D. Bell Orville M. Bell Daniel W. Bennett Harrison T. Bennett Willard K. Bennett Truman Bentley William A. Black Collins Blackmer John C. Blackmer Amos B. Boynton
Charles Brown
Henry Brown
James Brown
William G. Brown
Charles A. Bundy Cyrus Burlingame Nelson Burnham
Samuel E. Burnham
Isaac M. Burton
Orlando J. Burton Edward Campbell W. S. Chapin Charles W. Chapman Brenton Chellis Horace C. Clayton George Coburn Selden H. Coburn
Gurdon Eaton Abram C. Fowler
John Harris Apollas Harvey
Truman Hill Jabez Hawley Serenus Kilburn Dr. Elijah Littlefield Mathew Logan Jeremiah Odel
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Henry Conger Frederick Connor E. W. Cook Frederick W. Cook Samuel J. Covey E. M. Cummings Henry Cummings Hiram P. Cummings Silas A. Cummings W. H. H. Cummings William Cummings
Tom Kearse Benjamin F. Ketchum Andrew J. Kilburn
Serenus Kilburn Joseph U. Leonard William M. Logan James Martin Dyer Mattison
Patrick McCaughey
Albert McCoy
John Mclaughlin
Daniel Curran
Charles Mears Josiah B. Munson
Zimri R. Dailey
Frederick Davis
Samuel Norcross
Henry C. Dawson
Henry O'Hayer
Almon F. Day
Thomas Peer
Joseph Demar
Elijah Phillips
George Dickenson
George H. Phillips
Charles P. Dudley
Henry C. Phillips
Douglas H. Dyer
Charles A. Pierce
Fayette Dyer
Everett W. Pierce
Daniel W. Eddy
Lyman Pike
Truman B. Eaton
Napoleon Plant
Mark Farnsworth
Charles H. Pond
David O. Felt
Harrison Prindle
Thomas Finney
Moses Reaulo
George Fleming
Vietal Reaulo
Horace J. Fuller
Calvin Reed
Egbert Gleason
John Reed
Jerome Gleason Myron Gleason
Charles H. Rideout
Shepherd Gleason
Richard Roberts
R. C. Gray
Silas H. Seaver
George H. Sessions
George W. Sessions Jr.
Charles G. Sheldon
Michael Hanlon
David Kendall Simonds
Frank Smith
Cyrus M. Hard John Harrison
William H. Smith
Merritt B. Haskins
Abram Straight
George H. Swift
Horace S. Sykes
Benjamin Taylor
Edwin A. Taylor Joseph F. Tomb Nathaniel Towsley
Myron Jameson Smith Jameson Richard Johnson Frank A. Jordan
George P. Utley
Myron W. Utley
John M. Vanderlip
Morte Kearse
John Reynolds
Joseph Grenier Dennis Haley J. H. Haley
Lewis H. Hemenway
James Hicks Charles H. Hill William H. Hinkley
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John Vaughn
Thomas M. Waite Charles H. Walker William W. Warner John L. Waters
William Winters William C. Wilson
Sidney D. Way Orsemus W. Weaver
William H. Woodward
Norman A. Wellman
William G. Wright
Henry Wellman
Charles M. Wyman Henry A. Wyman
Alonzo Wheeler
Merrit D. Wyman
D. C. Wheeler
Myron G. Wyman
Warren M. Wyman
Henry D. Young
MANCHESTER MEN IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
Lezem Bovey
John D. Covey
MANCHESTER MEN IN WORLD WAR I
Maurice Abbot
Carl E. Abramson
C. Burr Cadoret
Edward M. Abramson
Luther J. Calahan
Charles Anderson
Niles G. Carlson
Edward Anderson
Nicholas Carr
Robert L. Anderson
Earl B. Charbonneau
Walter H. Bamford
Arthur B. Cherbonneau
William E. Belware George Stewart Bennett
Harry R. Clark, Jr.
Harold P. Bennett
Benjamin G. Cleveland
David Bentley Gordon Bentley Walter L. Bentley
Emile Cody William W. Collette
Samuel Cominsky
Daniel E. Blackmer
Mike D. Cosalio
Fay W. Botsford Ernest J. Bourn Lorimer H. Brown
William Coulomb
Arr Andrew Brownson
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