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Henry attended the district school and at sixteen mowed his turn with the men in the hay field for the last time, for that autumn he went to Charleston, S. C., into the dry goods store of his brother-in-law.
Three years at Williston Seminary pre- pared him for Yale with one hundred and sixty-two others to make the class of '63. He had jumped from college to the Theo- logical Seminary, and the next step was into the army as chaplain, having received the unanimous vote of the officers of the 12th C.
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V., for that position. From Hartford to Ship Island, then up the Mississippi, the first troops to land at New Orleans, where they guarded the upper defenses while General Butler reigned supreme. Up the far famed Teche to the Red River, thence to Port Hudson for a forty-two days siege, then down the river to the old camp ground at Brasier City ; the regiment re-enlisting re- ceived a veteran furlough. Back to New Orleans and around to Bermuda Hundred and Washington and up the Shenandoah " whirling up the valley " with Sheridan. In bloody work at Winchester, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek and on up to Staunton and return. Mustered out of service with the regiment, completed a war experience of singular freedom from sickness or wounds. He then went as a home missionary to Hud- son, Wis., on the St. Croix, for two years. Coming East for reformatory work his ser- vice in Westboro (Mass.) State Reform School three years; Connecticut Industrial School four years, and Masssachusetts Pri- mary School three years gave him a broad experience and enabled him to leave his impress upon hundreds of young lives, that have none too much sympathy and care. A few months at Howard Mission, New York, then to Washington where he has been for twelve years a part of what is called The United States Government. Preaching almost every Sabbath, chaplain in Post and Department of the Grand Army and the Loyal Legion, active in church, temperance and charitable work, he has lived a busy life and not less so has Mrs. Bradford, carrying all over the country the fame of the " Ben Hur Tableaux," her own creation ; and train- ing her two girls and two boys into a model family.
Chaplain Bradford is never so happy as when breathing the pure air of Vermont, which state he visits with delight and leaves with regret, for her hills and valleys and people are very dear to him.
Chaplain Bradford was married August 19, 1865, to Ellen J., daughter of Sylvester and J. Sophia Knight of Easthampton, Mass. Their children living are : Mary Knight. Harry Bonnell, Horatio Knight, and Faith.
BRIGHAM, HOSEA WHEELER, of Win- chester, N. H., was born at Whitingham, May 30, 1837, the son of John and Huldah (Wheeler) Brigham.
Educated in the schools of his native town and at Barre Academy he followed farming until 1862 when he removed to Boston, Mass., where he made his home until 1871. Resolving to follow the legal profession he entered the office of Judge Asa French, of Boston, in 1869. and com- pleted his studies under H. N. Hix, of Sad-
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awga. Admitted to the Windham county bar in 1872 he practiced his profession at Sadawga until 1881, being achnitted, in the meantime, to practice in the Supreme and United States cirenit and district courts. Removing to Winchester, N. IL., in 1881, he was admitted to the New Hampshire courts, and has since lived at that place, en- joying a hierative practice.
Mr. Brigham is a staunch Republican, was a member of the New Hampshire con- stitutional convention in 1889, member of the House of Representatives 1893-'94, postmaster at Sadawga 1872-'78, justice of the peace, chancellor, and four years a member of the Winchester board of educa- tion. He is also town clerk.
Prominent in Masonry, he is a member of Philesian Lodge, No. 411, and of the Royal Arch, Council and Knight Templar.
Mr. Brigham married at Whitingham, Sept. 14, 1858, Florilla R., daughter of Joseph and Rebecca Farnum. Of this union are three children : Eva C., Ulric U., and Maud F.
BROWN, ORLANDO J., of North Adams, Mass., son of Harvey and Lucina (Fuller) Brown, was born in Whitingham, Feb. 2, 1848.
His early education was received from his parents, people of sturdy, representative New England stock, and at the public schools of his native town, later supplemented by several terms at Powers Institute, Ber- nardston, Mass. He began teaching in the public schools at the early age of sixteen. Successful in this pursuit, he not only ac- quired an education, but earned the means for fitting himself for his early chosen pro- fession, that of medicine.
He graduated from the University of Ver- mont with the degree of M. D. in 1870. After studying in the hospitals of New York for the remainder of that year, Dr. Brown began his practice of medicine and surgery in Adams, Mass., Jan. 1, 1871. In 1872 he moved to North Adams, where he has been an honored and successful practitioner to the present time. Determined to keep apace with the improved methods of practice, he has taken several special courses of study at the hospitals and medical schools of New York and Chicago. He excels particularly in the treatment of diseases of women and children.
Dr. Brown is prominent in the political and social affairs of North Adams, and has a wide reputation throughout the state. He was appointed one of the state medical ex- aminers for Berkshire county in 1882, which position he still holds. In 1889 he was one of the Republican nominees for representa- tive in the First Berkshire District and was
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elected. In the House he was vigilant and active, meriting special credit for his work with the committee on public health. Dr. Brown is a member and officer of the Massa- chusetts State Medical Society, Massachusetts Medico Legal Society, Medical Association of Northern Berkshire, and Berkshire Dis- triet Medical Society. He has been a health officer of the town most of the time since 1880, and has served the state continuously since 1878 as a medical officer of the Massa- chusetts Volunteer Militia. He belongs to the order F. & A. M. and other fraternal and beneficiary organizations, and is a mem-
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ber of the First Universalist Church, of which he has been deacon since 1885, and superintendent of Sunday school since 1872, was member of the building committee for new church in 1892, besides holding other important offices.
Dr. Brown was married, Nov. 22, 1871, to Eva M., daughter of William and Amelia (Blakeslee) Hodskins, who died Oct. 14, 1873. Of this union there was one child : William O. (deceased). Of his second mar- riage with Ida M., daughter of Homer and Martha (Phelps) Haskins, which occurred Sept. 13, 1876, is one daughter : Agnes O., his only child surviving. The mother died at the birth of a second child, Ida M., in 1881. Dr. Brown's present wife is Alice, daughter of Edward and Celestia (Stevens). Stowell, to whom he was married Dec. 16, 1884.
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BRUCE, ELI MANSFIELD, of Philadel- phia, son of Rev. Mansfield and Grace 'Goddard) Bruce, was born in Wilmington, April 25, 1825.
He was educated in the public schools of his native town and by hard application dur- ing his leisure time. Fifteen years of age found him teaching and his aptitude and ability to gain the good will and esteem of those under his charge soon placed him in the front ranks of the instructors of Wind- ham county, and in after years when he was in Ohio and Illinois he had no difficulty in maintaining the reputation of the "Yankee
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School Master." In 1857 he commenced a business life by engaging with the late Dea- con Estey-famous the world over as the manufacturer of the Estey organs-and he still carries a gold watch taken in exchange for one of the melodeons. In the winter of 1858-'59 he visited in the East and was in- duced by Deacon Estey to go to Philadel- phia and open a market for the Estey or- gans, and the trip proved so successful that his teaching was given up and he removed to Philadelphia, where a store for Estey or- gans was opened, in which he is still success- fully engaged.
Mr. Bruce enlisted and served three months in the 44th, or "Merchants' Regi- ment" emergency men, about the time of the battle of Gettysburg. In politics he is a Republican but has never taken more than a voting interest. Uniting with the Baptist church in 1840, Mr. Bruce has led an up-
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right Christian life since, and for the past twenty-eight years has been thoroughly in earnest in his efforts to pursuade his fellow- men to turn from their evil ways and in his belief that nothing less than entire and un- reserved consecration is required of every one who professes Christianity, his energy and money have been freely given for that purpose.
Mr. Bruce united in marriage Sept. 27, 1843, to Harriet, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Moore) Snow, of Wilmington. Of this union are two daughters : Kate, and Ellen H. The golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce was celebrated Sept. 27, 1893.
BUTTERFIELD, L. ALONZO, of Akron, Ohio, son of Ezra T. and Mary (Leonard) Butterfield, was born in Wilmington, July 24, 1846.
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He was educated at the district schools of Wilmington, Wesleyan Academy and the Bos- ton University. Since his graduation he has devoted his entire time to teaching, having followed that profession for twenty years ; one year in Wesleyan Academy and several terms in the Vermont Methodist Seminary, state normal school and the New Hampton (N. H.) Literary Institution. He taught for three years in the Boston University ; was instruc- tor in the Newton (Mass.) Theological In- stitution, and for several years at Dartmouth College ; was for several years associate prin- cipal of the Boston School of Vocal Physi- ology, with Prof. Alexander Graham Bell.
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From 1878 to 1883 Prot. Butterfield developed an original system of voice cultine, and has become widely known as a specialist in voice culture for speakers and siugers and in the treatment of all forms of defective speech. For several years he was a professor in the Emerson College of Oratory, Boston, Mass., resiguing in June, 1891, to accept a call to the chair of rhetoric and oratory at Buchtel College, Akron, O., which position he still holds. Dr. Butterfieldl has been prominently connected with summer schools and institute work, having had charge of the department of voice culture and oratory at the National Summer School at Saratoga and Glens Falls, N. Y., for five summers, beginning in 1887. In 1883 he was elected to a fellowship in the Society of Science, Letters and Art, of Lon- don. He received the degree of Ph. D. from the Emerson College of Oratory in 1888.
Dr. Butterfield united in marriage, July 3, 1877, to Ruhamah, daughter of Hiram and Betsey D. (Canney) Felker, of Barrington, N. H. Of this union is one daughter : Alice.
BUEL, ALEXANDER W., was born in Rutland county, in 1813, graduated from the Vermont University in 1831, taught school for many years in Vermont and New York, during which time he prepared him- self for the practice of law. In 1834 he took up his residence in Michigan; in 1836 was attorney for the city of Detroit; in 1837 was elected to the state Legislature ; in 18.13 and 1844 was prosecuting attorney for Wayne county ; in 1847 was again elec- ted to the Legislature; and from 1849 to 1851 was a representative in Congress from Michigan.
BURKE, EDMUND, was born in West- minster, Jan. 23, 1809; was educated by private tutors, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1829 ; removed to New Hamp- shire in 1833, where he established in Sulli- van county the New Hampshire Argus. He was a representative in Congress from New Hampshire from 1839 to 1845, and by P'res- ident Polk was appointed commissioner of patents in Washington.
CARPENTER, MATTHEW HALE, son of Ira and Esther Ann ( Luce) Carpenter, was born in More- town, Dec. 22, 1824.
When he was six years old, Paul Dillingham told him to be a good boy at home, and the best pupil in school, and when he was fourteen to come to his house and he would make a lawyer of him. The boy then bore the name of Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter, and changed it to Matthew Hale Carpenter when residing in Beloit. The lawyer forgot the promise, but the boy did not, and when he was fourteen Merritt made his appearance as requested, charmed Mrs. Dillingham, as he had her husband, and the promise was kept.
In 1843 Merritt was appointed a cadet at West Point, remained there two years, re- signed in August, 1845, returned to Water- bury, resumed the study of law, and was ad- mitted to the Washington county bar at Montpelier in November, 1847 .. His mother died before he left Moretown, and while at Waterbury he had a home in Mr. Dilling-
ham's family, as well as a student's place in his office.
Upon admission to the bar he went to Boston to continue his studies in the office of Rufus Choate, who came to admire and love him. In 1848 he went to Beloit, Wis., opened an office, got a sign painted and didn't have the fifty cents to pay for it, but he did have a good library which Mr. Choate had enabled him to buy by becoming re- sponsible to a Boston firm for payment.
In 1849 Carpenter was stricken by what threatened to be permanent blindness, found his way to New York, where he remained sixteen months for treatment. Choate loaned him money to pay his expenses. After his New York sojourn, and a few weeks spent at Waterbury, he returned to Beloit. There Matt Carpenter, as he was called by every- body in Wisconsin, soon won distinction in his profession, and in 1858 he moved to Milwaukee, which was thenceforward his home.
During the rebellion he was one of those patriots who were known as War Democrats. His services as a soldier were not permitted because of physical disability, but he was a tower of strength to the Union cause through- out the Northwest.
In January, 1869, he was elected by the Republicans of Wisconsin to the United States Senate. In January, 1875, he was de- feated for re-election, but in January, 1879, the state again returned her first citizen to
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the Senate chamber, but he was then in de- clining health and, Feb. 25 1881, he died.
He married, Nov. 27, 1855, Caroline Dill- ingham, daughter of Paul Dillingham. Mrs. Carpenter survives him. Of their four chil- dren two died in infancy, and two, Lilian, and Paul D., are living.
No attempt is here made to even outline the work of the most brilliant personality of all the Sons of Vermont. His genius was not only the capacity of taking infinite pains, but in person, in voice, in grace and charm of speech he had no rival. The light of the inward fire glowed for those who heard and saw him. He was a student, as the midnight lamp bore witness ; profound lawyer, as the highest courts of the land recognized ; a statesman, who gave the logical ground for his party to stand on in its work of recon- struction, and an orator who moved not only juries and courts, but was the idol of the peo- ple, and whose winged words made true for him what he once said when asked to make a political speech, that the only ceiling under which to do that was "God's blue sky."
CAMP, ISAAC N., of Chicago, Ill., son of Abel and Charlotte (Taplin) Camp, was born in Elmore, Dec. 18, 1831. Both parents were natives of Vermont. His father, a farmer, was the postmaster and a leading man in town, and had charge of a large tract of land left to the University of Vermont by Guy Catlin, who gave him the disposal of a scholarship in the University ; the father died Dec. 22, 1890, aged ninety years.
Our subject prepared for college at Bak- ersfield Academy, paying his board by teaching music. At the age of twenty he entered the University of Vermont, earning the money necessary to meet his expenses, graduating in 1856.
He immediately became assistant princi- pal of Barre Academy, where he remained teaching mathematics and music until 1860 when he became principal of the high school at Burlington, a position which he filled until his removal to Chicago in 1868, forming a partnership with H. L. Story, firm name Story & Camp. In 1884 the Estey Organ Co. bought Mr. Story's interest and the firm became Estey & Camp, and has continued such. Mr. Story received $250,000 for his interest ; the capital of the firm today is close to $1,000,000, and it is one of the most substantial and reputable in Chicago.
In religion, Mr. Camp is a Congregation- alist, a director in the Chicago Theological Seminary, a member of Union Park Congre- gational Church and president of its board of trustees.
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In politics, he is a thorough-going Repub- lican. He is a member of the Illinois and Union League clubs, a director of the Chi- cago Guaranty Life Society and the Royal Safety Deposit Co. In April, 1891, he was elected a director of the World's Columbian Exposition, and was a member of its com- mittee on agriculture and liberal arts.
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Mr. Camp is a man of fine physique, pleasing address and genial in manner : gen- erous to church and charitable enterprises ; the architect of his own fortune; he is highly esteemed in the city of his adoption.
He was united in marriage, Jan. 1, 1862, to Flora M., daughter of the Hon. Carlos Carpenter, of Barre. The fruit of this union was four children, three of whom are now living : The daughter is Mrs. M. A. Farr: the oldest son, Edwin M., is in business with his father ; the youngest, William C., is fit- ting for college. Mr. Camp, with his family, has travelled extensively in Europe and in the United States.
CARTER, EDMUND H., of Wahpeton, N. D., son of Rev. Ira and Elizabeth B. (Shedd) Carter, was born in Springfield, August 9, 1848. He is a descendant of Thomas Carter, who came over in the ship Planter in 1630 and settled at Salisbury. Mass. His maternal great-grandfather was Col. Jonathan Martin, an officer in the Revolutionary army and a member of the first constitutional convention of New Hamp- shire.
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Edmund's education was begin in the district schools of Springfield and com plated at the M. E. Conference seminaries ot Springfield and Newbmy. He learned mercantile business of Robbins & White of Cavendish and Tisbury & Stone of Windsor, and for five years from 1874 was in the dry goods business at Felehville. In 1886 took up a government homestead in the Red River Valley, Richland county, Dakota Ter- mitory, where he has since been extensively
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engaged in farming. He owns the Cherry Hill ranch at Mantodore, N. D., where he raises Clydesdale horses and Exmoor ponies.
In 1884 formed, with Hon. R. N. Ink, the Farm Loan Co. of Ink & Carter; in 1890 Mr. Ink withdrew, leaving Mr. Carter sole manager of an extensive loaning business. It is his proud boast that no investor has ever lost a dollar through him.
Mr. Carter is a Republican in politics ; in religion a Methodist.
CASWELL, LUCIEN B., of Fort Atkin- son, Wis., was born in Swanton, Nov. 27, 1827. At three years of age he removed to Fort Atkinson, Wis., with his mother, gradu- ated from Beloit College, studied law with the late Matt. Carpenter, was admitted in 1851, and began the practice of his profes- sion. Was district attorney, 1855-'56 ; mem- ber of the Legislature in 1863, 1873-'74 ; was commissioner of the Second District Enrol- ment Board of the state, 1863-'65 ; delegate
to national Republican convention, 1880 ; elected to the Forty- fourth, Forty fifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses.
CATE, GEORGE W., was born in Montpelier, Sept. 17, 1825 ; received a com- mon school education, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845 at Montpelier ; removed the same year to Wisconsin and located at Plover ; was elected a member of the state Legislature in 1852-'53 ; was elected judge of the circuit court in April, 1854, and held that position continuously until March 4, 1875, when he resigned upon being elected a representative from Wisconsin in the Forty-fourth Congress as an Independ- ent Reformer.
CHAMBERLIN, EDSON J., of Ottawa, Ont., son of Joseph M. and Roeann (Abbott) Chamberlin, was born in Lancaster, N. H., August 25, 1852.
His early education was accomplished at the high school of Bethel and supplemented by a course of study at the Montpelier Metho- dist Seminary. December 6, 1871, Mr. Chamberlin entered the employment of the Central Vermont R. R. and held success- ively the positions of time keeper in the car shops at St. Albans, clerk in the paymaster's department and in the office of superintend- ent of transportation. In 1875, he became corresponding secretary of the general super- intendent, and in 1877 the private secretary to the general manager. April, 1884, to Sep- tember, 1886, he acted as general manager of the Ogdensburg & Lake Champlain R. R. and the Central Vermont line of steamers running between Chicago and Ogdensburg. September 1, 1886, he assumed the position of general manager of the Canada & Atlantic R. R.
Mr. Chamberlin has never entered politi- cal life nor has he held town or county offices. He is a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Engelsby Lodge of Burlington, a past high priest of Champlain Chapter, No. 1, and a Sir Knight of Lafayette Commandery and of the su- preme council Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
He was united in marriage to Sarah G., daughter of James and Clarissa Place, of Highgate, Sept. 18, 1876.
CHANDLER, ALBERT BROWN, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was born in West Randolph, August 20, 1840, and is the youngest son of William Brown Chandler, a man whose life, covering almost ninety years, was marked by an eminently Christian spirit that em- bodied in its law both of these great princi- ples that were declared as embodying all the law and the prophets; and whose
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wife, Llecta Owen, was a woman of rare ment, possessing imcommon intellectual endowments as well as high character ; she lived to seventy years old, and both, through- ont their long lives, were sincerely respected and loved. Albert Chandler's first ancestor in America was William Chandler, who settled in Roxbury, Mass., in 1637. From the three sons of this man came the New England branches of the family, among the members of which were several men who distinguished themselves in civil or military life in colonial times. The Hon. Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, United States Senator from that state and Secretary of the Interior under President Grant, was a descendant of William, the eldest of the three ; the Hon. William E. Chandler, senator from New Hampshire, who was Secretary of the Navy under President Hayes, and Commander Benjamin F. Chandler, an officer in the navy, are descendants of Thomas another of the three. Albert B. Chandler is a de- scendant of the third brother, John, and he numbers also among his ancestors, in a direct line, Mary Winthrop, daughter of John Winthrop, the first Governor of Massa- chusetts, and sister of John Winthrop, founder of New London and the first Gover- nor of Connecticut.
Of studious tastes, Mr. Albert B. Chandler made effective use of the opportunities af- forded him for securing an academic educa- tion, and in the intervals between school proved his native industry by working as a compositor in a printing office in his native town and in Montpelier. There was a tele- graph office located in a bookstore at West Randolph in connection with the printing office in which he worked, and this enabled him to acquire the art of telegraphy. For a time he was telegraph messenger and oper- ator. In October, 1858, through the influ- ence of his brother, William Wallace Chan- dler, he was appointed manager of the Western Union telegraph office at Bellaire, O. In February, 1859, he was promoted to a posi- tion in the office of the superintendent of that Railway Co., at Pittsburg, and on May 1 of the same year he was appointed agent of that com- pany at Manchester, opposite Pittsburg. He occupied this position with much credit until the end of May, 1863, and there became familiar with the various branches of railway service. On the Ist of June, 1863, he entered the U. S. military telegraph service as cipher operator in the War Department at Washing- ton, D. C. In October of the same year he was made disbursing clerk for Gen. Thomas T. Eckert, superintendent of the Department of the Potomac, in addition to his duties as cipher operator. Here he became personally acquainted with many officers of the govern-
ment, and particularly with President Lincoln and Secretary Stanton.
Early in August, 1866, before the general consolidation of the several telegraph inter- ests into one company had become fully organized, he removed to New York City and became chief clerk of the general super- intendent of the Eastern division, and was also placed in charge of the trans-Atlantic cable traffic, which had then just com- meneed. In addition to these duties Mr. Chandler was appointed, on the first of June, 1869, superintendent of the sixth district of the Eastern division. He continued in this service until January, 1875, when, soon after the election of General Eckert as pres- ident and general manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co., Mr. Chand- ler was made assistant general manager of that company. In June of the same year he was appointed secretary, and the following year he was made a member of the board of trustees, and subsequently treasurer and vice president. In December, 1879, after the resignation of General Eckert, Mr. Chandler was elected president, continuing in that position until the complete absorp- tion of the Atlantic and Pacific company by the Western Union in 1882. The property was combined with that of the Western Union, as to its operation, in the spring of 1881, and his duties in connection there- with, after that time, were only such as were made legally necessary by its separate cor- porate existence. In the summer of 1881 he acted as treasurer of the Western Union company during the absence of that officer.
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