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Of Revolutionary ancestry, his education was obtained in the common schools and the People's Academy of Morristown, at which academy he was prepared for Middlebury College, which he entered in the class of 1860. He remained in college till his junior year, when he enlisted in the Union army.
In December, 1863, he was mustered into the service as Ist sergeant of Co. C, 17th Regt. Vt. Vols., and participated in the bat- tles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, and North Anna. He was then taken sick and sent to Campbell Hospital, and then to his home on furlough. To such a degree was he reduced by illness, that he was brought the whole way on a stretcher. At the ex- piration of his leave of absence, he went to the General Hospital at Montpelier and be-
ing convalescent was put in charge of the muster rolls at Sloan Hospital. He received an honorable discharge from the service in 1865.
Soon after leaving the army, Mr. Gates entered the drug store of J. C. Brigham of St. Johnsbury. In 1868 be removed to Morrisville and engaged in the same busi- ness, and built up an excellent trade, from which ill health compelled him to retire in 1803.
He was united in marriage, June 7, 1869, to Florence H., daughter of Col. Jonas and Delia ( Prouty ) Cutting, formerly of Stowe. Their children are : Lillian 1. ( Mrs. Hollis M. Chase), who was an adopted daughter, Henry Franklin (deceased), and Albert Oscar.
Mr. Gates is a Republican in his political predilections, and has been auditor of ac- counts fifteen years, member of the board of trustees of People's Academy and is one of the school directors of Morristown. He has served upon the Republican committee of the First District of Vermont and been ap- pointed chief of staff of Governor Fuller with the rank of colonel.
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Colonel Gates has for thirty years been affiliated with Free Masonry, during which period he has belonged to Mt. Vernon Lodge. He was a charter member of J. M. Warren Post, No. 4, G. A. R., Morrisville, has held the position of adjutant and for three years been its commander. He has
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been for two years inspector of department of Vermont and twice has been honored with the office of delegate to the national encampment.
GIDDINGS, WILLIAM H., of Water- bury, son of William, Jr., and Betsey (Wal- lace) Giddings, was born in Bakersfield, Oct. 24, 1840.
After the customary common school edu- cation in Bakersfield he resolved to follow the medical profession and for this purpose commenced his studies with Dr. W. R. Hutchinson of Enosburgh. He then entered the medical department of the University of Vermont from which he received a diploma, graduating in the class of 1866. He com- menced the practice of his profession in his native town where he remained actively en- gaged until April, 1892, when he was chosen acting superintendent of the Vermont Asy- lum for the Insane, and the wisdom of his selection to this position was confirmed by his appointment as superintendent a few months after. This office he still continues to hold.
He was united in wedlock in Bakersfield, Feb. 11, 1868, to Sarah A., daughter of John and Betsey (Pierson) Perkins. One child has been born to them : Florence E.
Dr. Giddings was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1870 and by the vote of his Republican constituents he was sent as town representative to the Legislature ten years after, and was finally elected senator from Franklin county in 1888, where he served with marked ability as the chairman of the committee on the insane.
GILL, DANIEL OSCAR, of Springfield, son of Charles and Sophia ( Healey) Gill, was born at Hartland, August 15, 1837.
When Daniel was three years old, he was adopted by his uncle, Daniel A. Gill, and educated in the public schools of Springfield and at Kimball Union Academy at Meriden, N. H. Mr. Gill was bred a farmer, and never forgetting " that the cultivation of the earth is the most independent labor of man " has remained a farmer during a long and useful life. He now owns and superintends several estates. On one of these his father was born and lived eighty-nine years. Dur- ing the last five years Mr. Gill has resided in Springfield, where he has some important interests, and is a partner in the firm of Noyes & Gill. He is also a stockholder and director in the Jones & Lamson Machine Co., of Springfield. He has been often called upon to settle estates and act as guardian, all of which trusts he has ably and faithfully discharged.
As a member of the Republican party he
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has been called continuously for thirty years to some town office and has been a justice of the peace for nearly a quarter of a cent- ury. In 1886 he represented Springfield in the House and was a member of the com- mittee on railroads. The only secret society with which he is affiliated is the Springfield Grange, P. of H.
Mr. Gill was united in marriage Jan. 27, 1864, to Helen C., daughter of Captain John and Elizabeth (Clough) Westgate, of Plainfield, N. H. She died within two years of their marriage. He contracted a second marriage with Miss Jennie L., daughter of Rev. George D. and Fanny (White) But- terfield, of Monticello, Iowa. Two children have blessed their union : Frank D., and Fred Butterfield.
GLEASON, CARLISLE JOYSLIN, of Montpelier, son of Huzziel and Emily H. (Richardson) Gleason, was born in Warren, Oct. 23, 1831.
He was prepared for college at the West Randolph Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth College with the class of
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1856, receiving the degree of A. B. In col- lege, he was a member of the Social Friends and Delta Kappa Epsilon societies. Enter- ing the law office of Timothy P. Redfield in Montpelier, he pursued his studies there until February, 1857, when he was made principal of the Central grammar school, Peabody, Mass. During this time he con-
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tinued his legal studies, returning to Mont- pelier in July, 1858, where he resumed his place in Mr. Redfield's office. He was admitted to the bar Oct. 4, 1858, but still continued with Mr. Redfield as studeut and assistant till Jan. 1, 1861, when he became a partner under the firm name of Redfield & Gleason. He was associated with Mr. Red- field until the latter was elected, in 1870, a judge of the Supreme Court. During this time he was actively engaged in his pro- fession.
In 1856 and during the extra session of 1857 he was reporter of the Vermont Senate and in the following year he performed the same duties in the House of Representa- tives. Though almost a stranger in Mont- pelier, he received the appointment of reporter of the Senate in the contest insti- tuted by the late Hon. E. P. Walton, upon whom at that time devolved the duty of making this appointment. There were ten or twelve candidates, and just before the opening of the session, Judge Luke P. Poland was to deliver an opinion in a case of considerable importance. On the morning of the day on which the opinion was to be delivered, Mr. Walton informed the aspirants that he would appoint the candidate who should produce the best report of it. Mr. Gleason's report was judged the best, and he received the appointment. In 1859 and 1860 Mr. Gleason was secretary of the Ver- mont Senate.
January 1, 1872, he formed a copartnership with Henry K. Field, Esq., and they carried on a successful practice at Montpelier. Their clients were largely from Boston and New York. In 1881 Mr. Gleason retired from the active practice of his profession. In 1882 and 1883 he was chairman of the board of listers and assessors and also justice of the peace. In the spring of 1885, he took charge of the American Mortgage and Investment Co., in Boston, Mass., and acted as attorney, director and treasurer in closing up the business of that company. In June, 1885, he was elected director and treasurer of the American Investment Co., of Nashua, N. H., and had charge of the Boston office of that company till March, 1891, when he returned to his former residence in Mont- pelier, which he has since made his home. He is now a member of the firm of Goss & Gleason of Vergennes, manufacturers of kaolin and owners of the Monkton Kaolin Works. Mr. Gleason claims to have retired from active business, but there are few men who are more industriously employed. His real estate investments in Montpelier and Washington county require his constant care and he bears the reputation of being a care- ful and successful financier.
He was married, Dec. 12, 1860, to Ellen
Jeannette, daughter of Oramel Il. and Mary (Goss) Smith, of Montpelier.
Mr. Gleason is a staunch Democrat, but he has not sought political office, preferring to give his attention to professional duties and in later years to business pursuits. He has been United States commissioner since his appointment by Judge Woodruff in 1873 ; the office came to him unsolicited.
GLEASON, HENRY CLAY, of Rich- mond, son of Rolla and Jenette T. ( Mason) Gleason, was born in Richmond, March 28, 1851.
His education was obtained from the common schools of his native town and at Barre Academy. When quite young he entered on his business career in a small way as a speculator in poultry and farm pro- duce ; from the profits thus realized he pur- chased a farm and followed by other invest- ments in real estate. For a period of eleven years beginning under Grant's last adminis- tration he was mail agent on the Central Vermont R. R., between St. Albans and Bos- ton, and having half the time to devote to his personal affairs he continued in other lines of business and also operated in the lumber trade in which he is still engaged. Since leaving the mail service he has given special attention to farming and dairy products. In this he has been successful and by his advanced methods has been en- abled to winter sixty cows and four horses. Among his other enterprises was a creamery which he started simply as a private affair to manufacture the butter from his own dairy. From this small beginning it has increased to such an extent that he is now receiving the milk of some 5,000 cows from which his daily manufacture of butter is more than 3,000 pounds.
He was married in 1879, to Katie D., daughter of Albert and Mariette (Williams) Town. Two daughters were born to them : Grace J., and Gladys M.
Mr. Gleason is a sound Republican in his political faith. His father was an active and well known politician and the disposition to take a deep interest in all public matters seems to have been inherited by the son ; his private business, however, has occupied so much of his care and attention that he has been unable to accept many of the town offices which have been tendered him. He represented his town in the Legislature in 1888 and is at the present time serving as one of the state senators of Chittenden county.
GLEASON, JOSEPH THOMAS, of Lyndonville, son of George and Sabrina (Thomas) Gleason, was born in Lunenburg, June 18, 1844. He is the seventh in lineal
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descent from John Howe of Sudbury, Mass., whose progenitor was John Howe, a War- wickshire squire, and kinsman of Sir Charles Howe of Lancaster in the reign of Charles I. John Howe of Sudbury was one of the petitioners in 1657 for the grant constitu- ting the town of Marlboro, Mass. Both the paternal and maternal grandfathers of J. T. Gleason served in the war of the Revolution, the latter holding a commission as lieuten- ant in a New Hampshire regiment. His grandfather, Joseph Gleason, came to Lunen- burg in 1802 where for half a century he was deacon in the Congregational church. His father, George Gleason, eighty-four years of
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age, lives in Lunenburg, one of its solid men, a former captain of militia and a deacon of the Baptist church.
After receiving his education in the schools of Lunenburg Mr. J. T. Gleason en- listed in December, 1861, in Co. K, 8th Regt. Vt. Vols., drilled with the regiment for a brief period and was then rejected on account of his extreme youth. Anxious still to serve his country in her hour of peril he re-enlisted in Co. E, 15th Vt. Vols., in August, 1862. When the regiment took up the route for Gettysburg Mr. Gleason, or- dered to the hospital by the surgeon on ac- count of illness, refused to obey and marched with his command to Gettysburg, serving with it until it was honorably discharged at the close of its period of enlistment. During the war he contracted disabilities from which he has never fully recovered.
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After his return he engaged in agricult- ural pursuits. In 1874 he began the study of law in the office of Joseph P. Lamson,. Esq., of Cabot, and then pursued his pro- fessional researches under W. W. Eaton, Esq., of West Concord, until the spring of 1875, when he opened an office for himself. He was admitted to practice at the Vermont bar in 1876 and entered into copartnership. with O. F. Harvey, Esq., at West Concord which connection was dissolved in 1877. A year afterward he removed to Lyndonville. where he was the first member of his pro- fession to open an office and where he now resides. Well read in the law and trusted by the people of the vicinage he has built up. a large general practice embracing the set- tlement of many estates, while of all the suits he has brought, he has never lost but one. His title of judge he derives from his. election to an associate judgeship of the Caledonia county court. Coming to Lyn- donville two years before its incorporation Judge Gleason drew up its charter, put it through the Legislature and at once took a prominent part in settlement of the many questions that would naturally arise in the new town and was identified with every step of its progress. His readiness of speech and clearness of statement gave him a prom- inent place in the deliberative assemblies of Lyndon, where, a staunch Republican, he has been for several years auditor and modera- tor, also serving since 1886 as chairman of the Republican town committee.
He owns and resides in one of the hand- some mansions of Lyndonville, having been married, Sept. 9, 1884, to Mary S., daughter of Roswell and Laodicea ( Holbrook ) Aldrich. They have one daughter : Louise M.
Judge Gleason is a Congregationalist in his religious belief and has taken a deep and abiding interest in the Masonic order, being a member of Crescent Lodge No. 66, F. & A. M., Lyndonville, and Palestine Com- mandery K. T., Caledonia Council R. & S. M., Haswell Royal Arch Chapter of St. Johnsbury. He is serving his second term as Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of the Order Eastern Star of Vermont and is also a member of Farnsworth Post No. 106, G. A. R., of Lyndonville and is its efficient adjutant.
Joseph Thomas Gleason serves as an illus- tration of a typical New Englander, who, coming out of the war broken in health and without a dollar, commanded success from adverse circumstances.
GLEASON, RICHARDSON J., of Waits- field, son of Huzziel and Emily (Richard- son) Gleason, was born in Warren, Dec. 28, 1828.
Mr. Gleason's early youth and manhood
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were passed upon the farm, and he received such an education as could be obtained in the conmmon schools of Warren and Waits- field. In 1849 he entered the employment of Ah. Richardson of the latter place and remained with him three years. He then removed to Royalton and gave his services to Daniel Tarbell for two years. At the end of that time he returned to Waitsfickland was employed as clerk by Cyrus Skinner. In 1855 he conducted a union store in the village and afterward formed a mercantile partnership with Judge J. H. Hastings which continued for four years. Since then he has been in trade at Waitsfickl, and has been an important factor in the business life of the place.
Mr. Gleason is a Republican. The esti- mation in which he is held is amply attested by the trusts conferred upon him. He has held nearly every town office, settled several estates and acted as trustee in many im- portant matters. Among the many impor- tant appointments bestowed upon him are town clerk and treasurer. These positions he has occupied for nearly forty years. He was made assistant postmaster in 1858 and in 1861 was appointed postmaster, which place he retained until his resignation in 1889. He was sent to the state Legislature in 1890 and served on the grand list com- mittee.
He married, March 31, 1856, Mary L., daughter of Captain Crowell and Almira Pease Matthews of Waitsfield. Their chil- dren are : Herbert C., Mary E., Jennie M., and Louise R.
Mr. Gleason belongs to the Congrega- tional church and for a long time has been the treasurer of that society in Waitsfield.
GLEASON, SAMUEL MILLS, of Thet- ford, son of Richard Mills and Harriet (Moxley) Gleason, was born at Thetford, June 28, 1833.
He was fittted for college at Thetford Academy, under Hiram Orcutt, and gradu- ated at Dartmouth College in 1858. He read law with Cornelius W. Clarke, Esq., of Chel- sea, and was admitted to the bar in 1861.
He at once commenced the practice of law at Thetford Center, where he has con- tinued ever since. He is one of the best known and most successful lawyers of this section. He was state's attorney in 1864 and 1865, and again in 1868 and 1869. While acting in that capacity he conducted successfully many important criminal cases. In the long contested chancery case of Bick- nell and Pollard against the Vermont Copper Mining Co., supposed to involve the sum of $500,000, he was associated with Hon. John W. Rowell, and argued the case for an entire day before the general term of the Supreme
Court, receiving the congratulations of Chief Justice Pierpoint. In 1883 he was appointed receiver of all the immense mining and other property in controversy (in the snits against the Vermont Copper Mining Co., Vermont Copper Co., and Ely Goddard & Cazin), which was once valued at more than a million dollars, and he has successfully dis- charged that trust.
Judge Gleason married, May 19, 1862, Sarah Lysenbee, daughter of Dr. Enoch Hil- ton and Arvilla Smith ( Brown) Pillsbury of Hubbardston, Mass.
He represented Thetford in the Legisla- ture in 1864 and 1865 and was senator in 1880. He is one of the trustees of Thetford Academy, and of the State Normal School
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at Randolph, and was a director and attor- ney of the West Fairlee Savings Bank. He was elected in 1893 a trustee of the Brad- ford Savings Bank and Trust Co. In 1880 he was appointed by Governor Farnham chairman of the board of railroad commis- sioners for two years, and filled this respon- sible position to the satisfaction of the public as well as of the railroad companies. He has been town clerk many years, and was elected judge of probate for the district of Bradford in Orange county, in September, 1886, by a large majority, and later by every vote of both political parties in the district, which office he now holds.
Judge Gleason is a man universally es- teemed for his many estimable qualities.
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GOODELL, JEROME WINTHROP, of Burlington, son of Ira and Sila (Holmes) Goodell, was born in West Townshend, Oct. 29, 1842.
His educational advantages were received in the Townshend public schools followed by one term in the Leland & Gray Seminary of that place. He then worked with his father and at Keene, N. H., in a lumber mill, till
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he arrived at his majority. Returning to his father with whom he remained till 1864, he then changed his residence to Boston, Mass., where he was employed as a clerk in a fur- nishing store on Washington street for six years. In 1870 he commenced to act as a commercial traveler for the house of George M. Glaziel & Co. In 1874 he settled in Burlington, where he held the office of superintendent of the Burlington Manufact- uring Co., but two years after the firm of J. W. Goodell & Co. was established which continued until 1885 when the copartner- ship was dissolved and Mr. Goodell con- tinued his business alone, engaging in the working of marble and granite which has proved both successful and remunerative. He is also engaged in the manufacture of patent box binders.
Mr. Goodell for two years served as alder- man for the 5th ward of the city of Burling- ton and since the establishment of a board of managers for the water system has been one of the commissioners. He has been elected to many minor offices by the votes of the dominant party.
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He has taken thirty-two degrees in the order of Free Masonry and has held most of the offices in the various organizations. He is Sublime Prince of the Royal Secret and member of the Vermont Consistory of Bur- lington. He has also taken all degrees in the order of Odd Fellows, was made Grand Patriarch in 1890, Grand Master in 1891 and the following year was elected by the Grand Lodge as Grand Representative for Vermont for two years. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum and the American Legion of Honor. He adheres to the tenets of the Methodist church.
Mr. Goodell married, March 16, 1871, Mary C., daughter of Luther and Mary (Thomas) Sampson of Wayne, Me.
GOODELL, TYLER D., of Readsboro, was born in that town, Nov. 10, 1849, the son of David and Sabrina ( Hicks) Goodell. The parentage of Mr. Goodell was of New England stock and he inherited many of the characteristics for which New Englanders of the old school are distinguished.
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The early life of Mr. Goodell was spent in acquiring an education and upon the farm, and for ten years from his twenty-fifth birth- day he was a stage driver from Readsboro. About 1874 Mr. Goodell purchased the Goodell House of Readsboro, and since that time has successfully conducted that well- known establishment, making it a model country hotel and presiding over his guests
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with a grace conalled only by the boniface of old.
Mr. Goodell married, first, June 25, 1871, Flora 1., daughter of Rev. Jeremiah Gifford. She died Dec. 26, 1874. The fruits of this marriage were Hallie T., and Flora E. He married, second, Feb. 12, 1879, Ida MI., daughter of E. W. and G. M. Robertson of Readsboro. Of this union were four sons, two of whom are living : Earl W., and Har. vey E.
Always affiliating with the dominant party he has received many honors at their hands. Besides holding many local positions he has three times represented his town in the Leg- islature, viz. : in the sessions of 1880, 1886 and 1892.
Although not rabid on the subject of tem- perance, Mr. Goodell believes in the uphold- ing and honoring of the prohibitory laws of the state, and has fully demonstrated that Vermont hotels can be successfully con- ducted without selling liquor.
GOODHUE, HOMER, of Westminster West, son of Deacon Ebenezer and Lydia
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(Ranney) Goodhue, was born in Westmin- ster, March 4, 1811.
He received his early education in the common schools of his native town and at the Deerfield, Mass., and Bennington Academies, graduating from the latter in 1828, when he returned to Westminster and
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tanght school for two winters, spending. his sminmers on the farm.
In 1831 he went to Charlestown, Mass., where he was employed as an attendant in the MeLane Asylum for the Insane, from which place he was promoted, after three years of service, to that of supervisor, which position he held for eighteen years, when he resigned and returned to Westminster in 1852.
In 1853-'54 Mr. Goodhne travelled cx- tensively in the United States and British provinces, in the company of a private patient under his carc.
After his return Mr. Goodhue took a lead- ing part in town affairs, and since that time has held all the various town offices, and represented his town in the Legislatures of 1863 and 1865. He was also elected state senator in 1866 and 1867, and filled the position creditably to himself and acceptably to his county and state. He served as county commissioner from 1860 to 1875, and was appointed by the Legislature in 1867 a commissioner of the insane, and re- appointed in 1868.
In 1882 he was chosen one of the state board of supervisors of the insane, which position he has continuously held since that time, serving the board as chairmain during the past eight years. Mr. Goodhue has never yet failed to be present at the regular monthly meetings of the board in Brattle- boro and generally in Waterbury. He has had more practical experience in the care and management of the insane and insane asylums than any other man in Vermont, and probably in New England. His judgment has often been sought by persons engaged in this specialty.
Mr. Goodhue was married March 8, 1855, to Delyra, daughter of James and Patience (Hallett) Tuthill. She died Nov. 21, 1893.
GOODENOUGH, JONAS ELI, of Montpelier, son of Alonzo E. and Elizabeth . (Roulston) Goodenough, was born in Berlin, Oct. 22, 1860, on the farm originally bought and settled on by Joseph Goodenough in I 794.
He was educated in the district schools and Washington county grammar school, taught school several winters, and studied dentistry with Dr. O. P. Forbush of Mont- pelier, receiving a certificate of qualification from the state board of dental examiners.
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