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cases in the county. In 1880 Mr. Gront was chosen member of the Legislature to represent Newport, in which body he served with marked ability on the committees to which had been entrusted the revision of the statutes and the rules. In educational af- fairs, he has always taken an active interest, has acted as superintendent of schools and
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trustee of Newport Academy. In these duties his early experience must have been of service, for he had been an instructor in his youth, having taught in several educa- tional establishments in the northern part of the state.
He was united in marriage Nov. 25, 1873, to Ellen A., daughter of Charles and Mary (Stubbs) Black of Galveston, Texas, and of this union there are issue : Charles T., and Addie Lou.
Mr. Grout is a member of the Protestant Episcopal church, in which he is a warden and lay reader and is active in the work of the Sunday school.
In Free Masonry he has received the honors of the 32d degree and he is the act- ing prelate of Malta Commandery No. 10, of Newport. When he withdrew from pro- fessional practice in 1891 he became editor and proprietor of the Newport Express and Standard, which journal he continues to publish till the present time.
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HAILE, BENJAMIN HARRISON, of Mont- gomery, son of Nathan and Mary Ann (Tar- bell) Haile, was born in Montgomery, Dec. 26, 1846.
The family of Haile came from Scotland to Rhode Island at an early day in the col- onial period. Nathan Haile was an early settler in Montgomery, a farmer and a lum- berman.
Benjamin was the fourth child of a family of five, and was born on the farm where he now resides. He received his education in the schools of Montgomery. Early inured to the labor of a farm, he developed a sturdy physique and unusual executive ability, and from the time of his arrival at man's estate has taken charge of all the business appertaining to his father's farm and also of other properties which he has purchased from time to time. In the winter he devotes his attention to lumbering. In every calling he has met with merited success. He was largely instrumental in establishing a co- operative creamery at Montgomery.
Like his namesake Mr. Haile is a stalwart Republican, and he has filled many public positions. In his native town, composed largely of a foreign element, his wise counsel and prudent advice have been influential and beneficial in the management of public affairs, and he was a useful member of the House of Representatives in 1888. He has been county commissioner.
Mr. Haile married in 1880, Hattie, daugh- ter of A. P. and Harriet (Rawson) Richard- son. Their children are : John Rawson, and Clarence Hamilton.
HALE, HARRY, late of Rindge, N. H., Windsor and Chelsea, was born in Rindge, N. H., Feb. 10, 1780. His father, Colonel Nathan Hale, who had been at home after July, 1777, upon his limited parole to return within the enemy's lines at the end of two years, if not sooner exchanged, had left home pursuant to the terms of his parole, to return within the enemy's lines, and at the time of his son's birth was a prisoner of war in the hands of the British at New Utrecht, L. I., where he died, Sept. 23, 1780, without again visiting his home, so that the subject of this sketch never saw his father. His training, of course, devolved upon his wid- owed mother, a woman of remarkable energy, decision, and intelligence. He was educated at the common schools in Rindge, with the addition of a term or two at New Ipswich Academy, but succeeded in acquiring a thorough practical education, and was al- ways remarkable for his command of pure and forcible English both in writing and in speech.
When about twenty years of age he joined his brother Nathan at Windsor, and either then or on arriving at his majority, entered into copartnership with him under the firm name of N. & H. Hale as country merchants, having a store at Windsor street and, after a few years, another at the West Parish, now West Windsor. He removed from Windsor to Chelsea in 1807, and there continued for some years in partnership with his brother Nathan. On the dissolution of their partner- ship he formed a business connection with Joshua Dickinson for several years, carrying on a country store under the firm name of Hale & Dickinson. They built the structure on the west side of the north common, since known as the Dickinson store. Somewhere about 1825 he retired from trade, and thenceforth devoted himself to the manage- ment of his grist mill and his farms.
He was early chosen a captain of militia and was best known by the title of Captain. He was frequently elected to town offices, selectman, lister, town agent, etc. For many years he was justice of the peace. In 1828, 1832, and 1836 he represented Chelsea in the Legislature. For several years he was county clerk of Orange county and bank commissioner of the state. He was repeat- edly moderator of the town meetings, and in all respects a leading citizen of his town. He always took an active interest in politics ; was an early Federalist, but when John Quincy Adams became a candidate for the presidency warmly supported him against the violent opposition of many of the leaders of the old Federal party. On the breaking out of the anti-Masonic excitement about 1827 and 1828, Mr. Hale, who had never been a Mason, fully sympathized with the hostility to that institution, and was first elected to the Legislature as a candidate of that party. Subsequently he acted for many years with the whigs, but on the organiza- tion of the so-called "Liberty Party," his firm and unyielding hostility to slavery led him to join it, and to it adhered till his death. In 1843 he received its nomination for state treasurer on the ticket with Lawrence Brain- erd as Governor, and this compliment was renewed for several years. It may be added that he never sought office, and that all his nominations and elections came unsought.
In all the relations of public and private life, he bore an honorable and unsullied character, and his whole career was marked by integrity and uprightness. Perhaps his most distinguished characteristic was his firm and exact adherence to justice, which made him a safe umpire not only between his neighbors, a duty he was often called to, but an almost equally safe arbitrator between himself and his neighbor.
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He was a most liberal supporter of the Congregational church, with which he wor- shipped, but never became a member until 1838.
He was never a rich man, but never failed to "pay one hundred cents on the dollar," and but once while in business was com- pelled to ask so much as an "extension of time" from his creditors, which was most freely and willingly granted, and within which his indebtedness was fully met. The generous education which he gave his chil- dren was a continual drain on his resources which he never regretted, although it left him in moderate circumstances, financially, in his old age. He died at Chelsea, June, 1861.
Mr. Hale married, first in Rindge in 1802, Phebe, daughter of David and Phebe (Spof- ford) Adams. She died at Chelsea, Jan. 13, 1815, having been the mother of eleven children, six of whom survived her. He mar- ried, secondly, Nov. 14, 1818, at Chelsea, Lucinda, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Safford) Eddy. She bore him seven chil- dren. All her own children and four of her step-children survived her. She survived her husband and died at Chelsea, August 1, 1871.
On the renovation of the Congregational church in Chelsea in 1876 a memorial win- dow of stained glass was placed in the rear of the pulpit, which describes Mr. Hale as "Foremost among those who builded this house to the worship of God, 1810," adding the text selected by his children, "One that ruleth well his own house, having his chil- dren in subjection with all gravity."
HALE, MARK, son of Harry and Phebe Hale, born August 20, 1806, was appointed a midshipman in the navy in 1825 and re- signed in 1832. No tidings have been re- ceived of him since his resignation, and he probably died many years ago. He is de- scribed in a letter written by one of his ship- mates to his father as a young man of fine person, prepossessing manners, and as highly respected both in his private and official capacity by his brother officers in every grade.
HALE, THOMAS, son of Harry and Phebe Hale, was born in Chelsea, June 21, 1813. He was admitted to the bar in 1844, but never practiced the legal profession to any extent. Most of his life was spent in jour- nalism. He was for many years editor of the Vermont Journal at Windsor, and also founded and edited the New England Ob- server at White River Junction. He was also the editor of the Sentinel at Keene, N. H., and of various other papers in New England. As a journalist he was very suc- cessful, continuing in that profession until
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he was compelled to abandon it by the fail- ure of his sight.
He was married to Sarah Ballou Potter in 1869, and died in Plainfield, N. J., on the 4th of March, 1893, leaving his widow and one son (Thomas) surviving him.
HALE, HENRY, son of Harry and Phebe Hale, was born in Chelsea, June 21, 1814. Graduating at the University of Vermont in 1840, he studied law and practiced his profession first at Orwell, Vt., then at Pough- keepsie, N. Y., and removed to St. Paul, Minn., in 1855, where he resided until his death in December, 1890. Not long after he removed to St. Paul he gave up profes- sional labor and devoted his time mainly to the care of the estate which he accumulated there, and to travel, making frequent visits to Europe, where he spent a large portion of his time.
He married, just before his removal to St. Paul, Mary Elizabeth Fletcher, daughter of Paris Fletcher, Esq., of Bridport. He had two children, who both died in infancy, and left only his widow surviving. By his will he left a large portion of his fortune to the city of St. Paul for the purpose of founding a free library and free dispensary. He was a man of great reading and ability and had a high standing in his profession.
HALE, SAFFORD EDDY, eldest son of Harry and Lucinda Hale, was born in Chel- sea, Oct. 26, 1818, and received his pro- fessional education in the medical depart- ment of Dartmouth College. In 1842 he went to Elizabethtown, N. Y., where he entered upon the practice of medicine, which he continued until within a few months of his death, which occurred April 18, 1893.
With an acute and cultivated mind, pol- ished manners, agreeable presence, lively wit, fine professional attainments and skill, absolute integrity and fearless independence, he at once became and continued to the end to be one of the most respected citizens of Elizabethtown. He felt a lively interest in all matters of public concern, and although not an active politician or desirous of office, he from time to time served the community in such positions as justice of the peace, commissioner of highways, county treasurer, etc. He was for one term president of the Essex County Medical Society and its secre- tary many years.
He married Elizabeth Palmer Churchill, daughter of Joseph Churchill, Esq., of Wood- stock. She died March 8, 1871. He left surviving him three children : Frederick G. (a lawyer at Chicago), Joseph C. (of Lead- ville, Col.), and Clara L., who resided with her father, and still resides in Elizabethtown.
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HALI:, ROBERT SAITORD, second son of Harry and lar inda Hale, was born in Chelsea, Sept. 2.1, 1822. He graduated at the University of Vermont in 18.12, and re- ceived from that college the degree of I.L.D. Hle studied law in Elizabethtown, N. Y., and was admitted to practice in 1847, continu- ing in that professon at Elizabethtown until his death, which occurred Dec. 14, 1881. The following extract from the memorial minute adopted by the Board of Regents of the State of New York on the occasion of his death, gives a concise and clear sketch of his public life :
" In 1856 he was elected judge of Essex county, and in 1859 a regent of the univer- sity. In 1860 he was appointed a presiden- tial elector, and in 1865 he was elected to Congress. In 1868 he was employed as special counsel of the Treasury before the Court of Claims of the United States. In 1870 he was nominated as a judge of the Court of Appeals, but, with the majority of his party candidates, was not elected. In 1871 he was appointed agent and counsel of the United States before the mixed commis- sion of claims under the treaty of Washing- ton. In 1873 he was again elected to Con- gress, and in 1876 he was appointed by the Legislature one of the commissioners of the state survey.
"To the discharge of these various pro- fessional and public duties, Mr. Hale brought a singular combination of powers. His fine natural ability was admirably trained by various study and accomplishments. His mind was a treasury of well ordered knowl- edge. His eloquence was clear, forcible and brilliant ; and his quick sympathies, his pro- fuse and delightful humor, his moral earnest- ness and courage made him one of the most delightful of companions, as he was one of the most persuasive of advocates and most upright of magistrates. His political, like his professional career, was distinguished by that independence which is as rare as it is manly, and which of itself is a public in- fluence of the highest character. In this board, Mr. Hale's service was constant and efficient. In all its deliberations his sound judgment, his clear perception and his great experience were invaluable, and the board are but too sadly conscious that his loss cannot be replaced."
He married Lovina Sibley, daughter of Jeremiah Stone of Elizabethtown, who sur- vives him. He also left five children : one son Harry (who is a practicing lawyer in Elizabethtown), and four daughters, three of whom are still living with their mother at Elizabethtown.
HALE, REV. JOHN GARDNER, third son of Harry and Lucinda Hale, was born at
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Chelsea, Sept. 12, 192.1. He graduated at the University of Vermont in 1845, and Andover Theological Seminary in 1851. In 1852 he was sent by the Home Missionary Society to Grass Valley, Cal., where he re- sided for several years. Before his depart- ure to California he had married Jane P., daughter of Israel Dwinell of East Calais, and after a few years he returned to Ver- mont, and was settled successively at East Poultney, Chester and Stowe. Ilis health was always rather delicate and the clinate ol Vermont somewhat severe, therefore hie again went to California, and settled at Red- lands, where he resided until his death in March, 1892. At all his places of residence he was respected and loved as an able, sin- cere and carnest minister of the gospel. He left surviving him, one son, Rev. Edson Dwinell Hale (a Congregational minister in ('alifornia ), and three daughters.
HALE, WILLIAM BAINBRIDGE, fourth son of Harry and Lucinda Hale, was born in Chelsea, July 20, 1826. He had not the benefit of a college education, but was a great reader and had a wonderfully retentive memory, and was really a better educated man than most college graduates. He was for many years president of the First Na- tional Bank of Northampton, Mass., and a prominent and influential citizen of North- ampton. The following from the Spring- field Republican is a just tribute to his memory.
'In Northampton he was interested in various manufacturing enterprises as well as banking, and for several years was president and manager of the old Florence Sewing Machine Co. in its palmy days. He was also interested in the Knapp dovetailing machine and other industries. He was identified with the affairs of the old town of Northampton, and, in 1860, as president of the Young Men's Institute, did much in bringing about the establishment of the present large and flourishing free library. In town meetings he was a ready and fluent speaker, and always took an active hand in debates, frequently having stirring discus- sions on educational and other questions with Judge Bond, the late Charles Delano and others.
" Mr. Hale was a man of more than ordi- nary ability, of wide reading and possessed an extraordinary gift of language, which at times mounted to eloquence. He spoke in public readily and fluently, and with great effect. His manner was autocratic ; often he expressed himself with impolitic vigor ; his likes and dislikes were apt to be ex- treme ; but his weight of character overbore all the traits that might have made enemies. He was never persuaded to run for office,
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and his transparent unselfishness increased his influence."
He married, first, Harriet Amelia, daugh- ter of Wright Porter of Hartford, who died Dec. 10, 1882. July 7, 1886, he married Mrs. Victoria Morris of Grassdale, Va., who survives him. After his second marriage, he removed to Grassdale, Va., where he con- tinued to reside until his death in Novem- ber, 1892. He left two sons, children of his first wife : Philip, an organist and musi- cal critic of Boston, Mass., and Rev. Edward Hale, a graduate of Harvard, who is now a Unitarian minister at East Orange, N. J.
HALE, MATTHEW, youngest son of Harry and Lucinda Hale, was born in Chel- sea, June 20, 1829. He graduated at the University of Vermont, in 1851, and after- wards received from that college the degree LL.D. He studied law with his brother Robert S. at Elizabethtown, N. Y., and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1853. He settled first in Poughkeepsie, N. Y., then for a few years in New York City ; after- wards in Elizabethtown until 1868, since which time he has been engaged in the practice of his profession at Albany, N. Y. He was a member of the New York state Constitutional Convention of 1867, and of the New York state Senate in 1868 and 1869. In 1883 he was the Republican candidate for justice of the Supreme Court in the Third District, but was defeated by the Hon. Rufus W. Peckham. He has been an active member of the New York State Bar Asso- ciation from the time of its organization, and has been its president. In 1886 he was ap- pointed by the New York Legislature one of three commissioners to investigate and report the most humane and practical method of carrying into effect the sentence of death in capital cases ; and in pursuance of the recommendation of this commission, the New York Legislature in 1888 enacted that the punishment of death should there- after be inflicted by causing to pass through the body a current of electricity of sufficient intensity to cause death. This mode of in- flicting the death penalty has ever since pre- vailed in the state of New York, and has proved more efficient and less painful and revolting than the old method of inflicting capital punishment by hanging.
Since 1884 Mr. Hale has been an inde- pendent in politics. He has been quite prominent in the advocacy of political re- forms, and is now (1893) president of the New York State Civil Service Reform League.
He married in 1856, Ellen S., daughter of the late Hon. Augustus C. Hand, justice of the New York Supreme Court. She died in 1867. In December, 1877, he married his present wife, Mary, daughter of the late
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Col. Francis L. Lee, formerly of Boston, Mass., by whom he has five children, three daughters and two sons, the eldest of whom was born in January, 1879. He still resides and practices his profession in Albany, and is now the only surviving son of his father.
HALE, FRANKLIN D., of Lunenberg, son of Sprague T. and Nancy M. (Moulton) Hale, was born in Barnet, March 7, 1854.
He alternately attended school and worked upon the farm, receiving his preparatory in- struction in the common schools of Concord, and after continuing his studies at the high school of Northfield and at St. Johnsbury Academy, finally graduated in the law de- partment of Michigan University in 1877.
After being admitted to the bar, Mr. Hale
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became a member of the firm of Hutchin- son, Savage & Hale at Lewiston, Me., and some time afterwards spent two years in traveling in the western states. In 1881 he settled in Lunenberg as a lawyer, and also engaged in farming. Here he has continued to reside.
Mr. Hale was married Nov. 2, 1881, to Addie L., daughter of Hon. Levi and Susan (Powers) Silsby. Their children are : Susie M., and Charles S.
The usual town offices have been entrusted to him. He was, in 1884, representative and senator from Essex county in 1886 in the state Legislature, elected by Republican votes. He was state's attorney from 1883 to
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1888. In 1842 he was elected auditor of accounts of the state of Vermont. He also received the appointment of town site trustee in Oklahoma Territory in 1891.
Mr. Hale belongs to the Masonic frater- nity, and is a member of the Knights of Honor ; also a member of the Congrega- tional church.
HALE, JAMES BUCHANAN, of Newbury, son of John and Laura Burns ( Hutchins) Hale, was born in Haverhill, N. H., July 13, 1855, and removed to Newbury in 1867 with his parents, entering the employment of the well-known firm of F. & H. T. Keyes & Co., May 22, 1871. Mr. Hale's instruction in the mercantile profession was thorough and prac- tical. In 1882 he bought the stock of gen- eral merchandise and good-will of Deacon Henry H. Deming in Newbury village, where he still continues, and by his energy and exceptional business ability has built up a large and prosperous concern.
In 1889 Mr. Hale was elected town treas- urer, which office he still holds, and is also a trustee of the Bradford Savings Bank and Trust Co., located at Bradford.
In politics Mr. Hale is a Democrat, in religion a Congregationalist, of which church and society he is a member and officer. December 7, 1880, he married Carrie M., only daughter of Daniel P. and Melissa (Keyes) Kimball. Mr. Hale by this happy union has had one daughter, Mary K., and one son, Harold B. Mr. Kimball has for many years been a resident of Newbury, and one of the largest and most progressive farmers in the Connecticut Valley ; an upright Christian, a deacon of the Congregational church, a man honored by his townsmen and a member of the Legislature in 1880-'81.
HALL, ALFRED ALLEN, of St. Albans, son of R. H. and Mary E. (Crowley) Hall, was born in Athens, Dec. 31, 1848.
He received his education in the common schools and at Leland & Gray Seminary, Townshend. He read law with Davis & Adams at St. Albans and was admitted to the bar in April, 1873.
Soon after he was admitted to the Supreme Court of the state and to the United States district and circuit courts. In 1874 he formed a law partnership with W. D. Wilson at St. Albans, where they have since enjoyed a lucrative practice. Mr. Hall served as president of the board of trustees in 1880- '81. For six years he was a member of the school board, and during three years its chairman. For many years he has been one of the trustses of the Franklin county gram- mar school. He has served seven years as moderator of the town, and has been for fif- teen years treasurer of the public library. In
1882 'S. he was state's attorney. In 1892 he was elected to the Vermont state Senate and was made president pro tem of that body. In June, 1893, he was appointed by the Governor chairman of a commission upon the revision of the laws of the state.
He comes of good Revolutionary stock, and is a member of the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution. He was a member of the National Guard from 1876 to 1886, being promoted from private to the non-conunis- sioned and commissioned staff, and in 1884 was appointed by Governor Pingree colonel and aid-de-camp.
Mr. Hall has had an eminent career as a Mason, He is past Grand Master, past Grand High Priest and past Grand Commander, being the first Mason in the state to receive all these honors. He has repeatedly repre- sented the various bodies of his state at the national gatherings of the order throughout the country, and has attained the 33d and highest degree in the Scottish Rite.
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June 15, 1874, he married Abbie L., daughter of John H. and Loantha Z. Austin. They have two children : Harrie Vaughn, born Feb. 2, 1878, and Leroy Austin, born August 10, 1887.
HALL, CHARLES TAYLOR, of Mont- gomery, son of Samuel S. and Martha M. (Taylor) Hall, was born in Montreal, P. Q., Feb. 23, 1862. He received his early edu- cation in the public schools of Waltham,
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Mass., and completed his education in the high school at Montreal.
His father was a manufacturer of wooden- ware, and the son, manifesting a natural aptitude for the business from the early age of sixteen, had the practical management and was foreman of the factory, remaining in that capacity until he was twenty years old. In 1882 the factory was burned, and he engaged in the manufacture of veneering for five years, at the expiration of which time he purchased an interest in the large butter-tub works of The W. H. Stiles Company, at Montgomery Centre, and has been ever nsice the junior partner and business man-
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