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For many years Mr. Hubbard made his residence at the place of his birth, and for most of that period was employed in farm- ing, but after his marriage he removed to the home of his wife, where he remained until 1892, when his position of county clerk required his immediate presence at the county seat.
He was united in marriage at Lunenburg, Oct. 13, 1871, to Ida M., daughter of Lor- enzo and Ann (Woods) Manning of Guild- hall. One son was born to them and died in infancy. One daughter, Addie Manning, and an adopted child, Ethel May, are living.
Mr. Hubbard is an active Republican, and has been selectman for five consecutive terms. He has also been town superintend- ent, and was elected to represent Guildhall in the Legislature of 1890.
He is a quiet, self-respecting man of good moral principles, and gives promise of a long career of usefulness.
He has been a member of the P. of H. at Guildhall.
HUBBARD, LORENZO W., of Lyndon, son of Richard and Loraine (Weeks) Hub- bard, was born in Lyndon, Feb. 3, 1841.
He received his education in the common schools of his native town and at Lyndon Academy.
September 1, 1863, he enlisted in Co. M, IIth Regt. Vt. Vols., and on the completion of its organization he was appointed ser- geant. Serving in this capacity one year he was made hospital steward of the regiment and served as such until the close of the war.
He then studied medicine at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, from
which he graduated March 1, 1867. In the following April he went to Lunenburg, where he practiced medicine six years ; then located permanently at Lyndon.
Dr. Hubbard represented Lyndon at the General Assembly in 1882 and 1886. In each session he was a member of the com- mittee on the insane, and offered in the House the joint resolutions requesting the Governor to appoint a commission to inves- tigate as to the advisability and location of a separate building for the care of the criminal and convict insane, which resulted in the construction of the asylum at Waterbury. In 1883 Dr. Hubbard was made president of the St. Johnsbury board of examining sur- geons for pensions, which office he accept- ably filled for more than two years.
Dr. Hubbard is a deacon of the Congre- gational church. He is a practitioner of the regular school and since 1867 has belonged to the White Mountain Medical Society ; he is also a member of the Vermont Medical Society, and was one of its license censors two years and has served as treasurer of the Lyndon Republican Club.
He is a member of Crescent Lodge F. & A. M., Lyndonville, and of Chamberlin Post G. A. R., No. 1, of St. Johnsbury. He has taken great interest in the academy and graded schools of Lyndon, serving on the committee for the past twelve years.
Dr. Hubbard was married, Nov. 10, 1868, to Mary E., daughter of Bela and Martha (Perry) Halton. Of this union there was issue : Charles Bela, May E. (deceased), and one son who died in infancy.
HUBBELL, MYRON R., of Wolcott, son of Seth and Sylvia (Spaulding) Hubbell, was born in Wolcott, April 6, 1835. His grand- father was the first settler of the town of Wolcott. Coming there in 1789, he endured privations and hardships, carrying his corn on his back twelve miles to mill for several years. Under such conditions he reared a family of seventeen children. Seth, the father of the subject of the present sketch, was a life-long resident of the town, and Myron R. was brought up among the usual surround- ings of a New England farm.
Completing his education in the common schools, when he arrived at man's estate he went to the Northwest on a tour of observa- tion, but soon returned to the paternal home- stead, devoting himself to the care of his parents during their declining years. At their death he sold the farm and removed to the village.
Mr. Hubbell has a decided talent for in- vention and for twenty years has devoted himself to this pursuit, constructing his own models and patterns, and has obtained in all fifteen patents. He has devoted much
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time and thought to improving reversible plows, and is the origmator of the theory that the draught attachment of a reversible plow should be adjusted to the right and left furrows, alternately, at each tum of the mouldboard. To accomplish this object he devised and patented the shifting lever elevis now so generally used on reversible plows, and also patented the rod running length wise of and swiveled to the beat for the same purpose.
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It is unnecessary to say more in reference to this matter, as the great value of his im- provements in reversible plows are generally and widely known. He has also invented and patented a car-coupler, which those who are conversant with this subject unhesitat- ingly declare to be far in advance of all others they have ever examined. Mr. Hubbell and W. W. Cate, of Wolcott, are joint invent- ors in a spiral rotary cylinder for planers, which is now in operation and is doing superior work.
He married, April 2, 1862, Miss Mary, daughter of Ralph and Sybil ( Powers) Mar- tin, of Wolcott; their only living child is Ralph M., of Wolcott. Mr. Hubbell has always been attached to the Republican party, but has never cared for or accepted official positions. He is a member of Min- eral Lodge, No. 93, F. & A. M., of Wolcott.
HUDSON, SOLOMON S., of East Haven, son of Calvin and Philomelia (Powers) Hud- son, was born in Athens, July 22, 1836.
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He was an industrious pupil of the public schools, and made the best use of his limited opportunities to obtain an education.
At the early age of nineteen he took to himself a wife, and with this responsibility commenced to clear a farm in the unbroken wilderness, carrying his worldly possessions on his back. In this enterprise he was en- gaged five years, when he was summoned to the field by the outbreak of the civil war. In 1862 he enlisted in Co. A, roth Regt. Vt. Vols. He remained in the army about three years, most of the time on detached service, and was discharged when the regi- ment was mustered ont. Returning to his farm at the close of the war, he remained there until 1886, when he moved to his present location in East Haven village, and has since been engaged in general trade.
Mr. Hudson has held many responsible positions in town, having been for many years justice of the peace and selectman. Hle represented East Haven in 1880, and under a Republican administration received the appointment of postmaster, a position which he worthily filled for six years.
In 1855 he married Eunecia I .. , daughter of Russell and Almira Hosford. She died Jan. 29, 1881. He contracted a second alli- ance with Lydia Gero, daughter of Holden and Viantha Partlow.
Mr. Hudson has received the first three degrees of the Masonic fraternity, and is a member of Island Pond Lodge, No. 44. He also belongs to Erastus Buck Post, G. A. R., of that place. He stands prominently forth in the community as a moral, industrious. and energetic man of good judgment and ability.
HUMPHREY, CHARLES TIMOTHY ALLEN, of East Burke, son of Timothy and Sabrina (Cushing) Humphrey, was born in St. Johnsbury, Jan. 2, 1822.
His father was one of the early settlers of the town and Mr. Humphrey received only such educational advantages as were afforded by the public schools. At the age of fourteen he commenced to labor for a livelihood. Four years after he bought his time from his father for $125, chopped cord wood and drove teams from Boston to Portland in order to reimburse his father for the time he had pur- chased. In 1840 with twenty dollars in his pocket he started for the West. Arriving at Conneaut, Ohio, he remained two or three years in this place, engaging in farming and trading ; then removed to Geneva, in the same state, and in 1847 returned to Burke, and finally took up his abode in East Burke, where he employed himself in general trade.
Mr. Humphrey has held many responsible offices. Has been justice of the peace, lister, overseer of the poor, notary public, and town
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agent to settle claims. He received the honor of an election by Republican votes to the "war session" Legislature of 1860-'61. In 1877, he was elected associate judge of the Caledonia county court, serving the full term of two years. He has been director of the Merchants' National Bank, of St. Johnsbury, for more than eleven years; has been the administrator for many valuable estates, and has acted as guardian in many cases. He attends and supports the Methodist church of that place.
CHARLES TIMOTHY ALLEN HUMPHREY.
He was united in wedlock Sept. 1, 1841, to Flavilla Pamelia, daughter of Matthew and Resia Cushing, of Burke, who died April 1I, 1880. Four children were born to them : Violetta M. (Mrs. Olin Smith, of Springfield, Mass., deceased), Edwin Payson (deceased), Rose Sabrina (deceased), and Celia C. (wife of Dr. Frederick Newell, of Barton).
Judge Humphrey contracted a second alliance Sept. 14, 1880, with Mary L., daugh- ter of Samuel and Emily (Harvey) Prouty, of Burke.
HUMPHREY, JULIUS AUGUSTUS, of East Burke, son of Erastus and Hannah I. (Johnson) Humphrey, was born in that town Nov. 3, 1830.
His father came from Connecticut to East Burke very early in the present century and Mr. Humphrey attended the public schools until seventeen years of age ; since that time he has always lived and labored on the farm where he was born and which he purchased
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in 1889, giving especial attention to the breeding of Devon cattle, and horses of the Wilkes strain of blood. For forty years he has been called upon to discharge the du- ties of various offices of the town and was sent to the Legislature as the representative of a Republican constituency in 1868, 1869 and 1882, giving his service to the commit- tees on the grand list, highways and bridges, and on public buildings. Being drafted for service in the army he was rejected on ac- count of physical disability. He is a mem- ber and for several years has been steward of the M. E. Church in Burke.
Mr. Humphrey married, Feb. 25, 1856, Lucia A., daughter of Benjamin F. and Annie (Miner) Belden, of Burke. Four children have been born to them : Mary Helen ( Mrs. Sumner G. Prescott of Lyndon ), Frank Eras- tus, Annie B., and Inez L.
HUNTER, ELLSWORTH M., of Fair Haven, son of Mahlon and Susan Hunter, was born in the town of Hubbardton, April IT, 1862.
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He received his early educational train- ing in the common schools and afterwards took a course of study at a business college. At the age of twenty-one, Mr. Hunter, who had adopted journalism as his profession, was made business manager of the Rutland Daily Review, and in the following year was employed as an editorial writer on the Platts- burg (N. Y.) Telegram, afterwards founding
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the Chipper at Fort Ann. He returned to his native state in 1887, and for the last fom years has filled the position of editor and manager of the Vermont Record. P=23
He was united in marriage Sept. 5, 1886, to E. Vida, daughter of Lyman and Marie ( Broughton) of Fort Ann, N. Y. Of this marriage there have been three children : Gertrude, Anna, and Frances MI.
In 1886 Mr. Hunter was elected a mem ber of the Republican county committee of Washington county, N. Y., and with four others composed the executive board of that committee. After his return to Vermont he entered politics and assisted in 1888 in forming several Republican league clubs, and was secretary of the John A. Logan Club at Castleton. Twice he was elected a delegate to the Republican state convention of Vermont. He was a delegate to the press congress of the World's Fair. He was clected justice of the peace for two succes- sive terms, being nominated on the tickets of the Republican, Democratic and Labor parties, the last named of which nominated him for assistant judge in 1890, when his vote was much larger than that of his party.
Mr Hunter is a charter member of Fair Haven Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., of which he is an officer.
HUNTLEY, EBER W., of Duxbury, son of Gilbert and Mary E. (Nash) Huntley, was born in that town, Nov. 11, 1839.
He availed himself of the school training of his native town and then pursued a course of study at the Peoples Academy of Morris- ville. He early manifested an aptitude for mechanical pursuits, and soon after his ma- jority commenced working at the carpenter and joiner's trade, and later was a millwright and house builder.
In the fall of 1886 he purchased the mill site in Duxbury, near Waterbury, a wonder- ful natural water privilege. There he re- built the mill and put in a large plant for planing, dressing and matching hard and soft wood lumber, which is sold as a finished product. A large share of his stock is pur- chased in the neighborhood and thereby the farmers are furnished with a convenient home market for their surplus wood products.
Mr. Huntley was elected by the Republi- cans of Duxbury to the Legislature of 1882, where he was a member of the committee on corporations. His personal standing in the community has resulted in his being called to the occupancy of many town offices since he was twenty-one, and among these he has been the incumbent of the town clerkship and also town treasurer for more than a score of years.
He has received the degree of the Blue Lodge in the order of Free Masonry, and has twice occupied the chair in the east.
He married, August 26, 1863, Minta F., daughter of Janus and Eurette (Crosby) ('rossett, of Duxbury. One child is issue of this union : Mertie E.
HUSE, HIRAM AUGUSTUS, of Montpe- lier, son of Hiram Sylvester and Emily Mor- gan ( Blodgett) Hose, was born at Randolph, Jan. 17, 1843.
His parents moved to Wisconsin in 1845 and that was his home till 1868. In the West he went to school at the red school- house, at Willard Seminary in Watertown, Wis., and at Dixon. Ill., and taught district school several terms. In 1860 he went to Randolph where he fitted for college (in part under Edward Conant), at the Orange county grammar school, and also taught dis- trict school again, and in 1871-'72 was Mr. Conant's assistant in the State Normal School.
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He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1865, and from the Albany Law School (of which Amos Dean, formerly of Barnard, was then the head) in 1867, and was admitted to the New York bar in Albany. After a year at his home in Wisconsin, he moved to Vermont, where he was admitted to the Ver- mont bar in Orange county, June term, 1869.
While in college he enlisted August 19, 1862, at Randolph and served as a private in Co. F, 12th Vt. Vols., till the regiment was mustered out July 14, 1863.
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He moved to Montpelier in 1872, begin- ning the practice of law, and for some ten years served as editorial writer on the Green Mountain Freeman.
He has been state librarian since 1873, represented Montpelier in the Legislature of 1878, and was elected state's attorney in 1882.
January 1, 1883, a law partnership was formed by Clarence H. Pitkin and himself under the firm name of Pitkin & Huse, which continued seven years. At the close of William P. Dillingham's term as Governor in October, 1890, the partnership of Dillingham & Huse was formed, and by the admission of Fred A. Howland in 1892, the firm is now Dillingham, Huse & Howland.
Mr. Huse married at Randolph, Jan. 30, 1872, Harriet Olivia, daughter of Melzar and Eunice Harriet (Smith) Woodbury. They have two children : Harriet Emily, and Ray Woodbury.
Mr. Huse's mother died at his home in Montpelier, May 29, 1890, and his father now resides with him.
He is a comrade of Brooks Post, G. A. R., and a member of Aurora Lodge, F. & A. M., and of the Sons of the American Revolution.
HUTCHINSON, JAMES, of West Ran- dolph, son of James and Sophia (Brown) Hutchinson, was born in Randolph, Jan. I, 1826. The grandfather, John Hutchinson, was one of the earliest settlers of Braintree. Noted for his industry and honesty, he was much in public life and represented the town in the Legislature for seventeen years, while his father, James, was an enterprising and prosperous farmer, enjoying the confidence and respect of the neighboring community.
The education of the subject of the pres- ent sketch was obtained first in the district and then in a private school in West Ran- dolph, and after this course of instruction he was engaged in teaching for three consecu- tive winters.
November 2, 1847, Mr. Hutchinson was united in the bonds of wedlock to Miss Abby B., daughter of Elijah and Patience (Neff) Flint, of Braintree (who died May 4, 1879).
He settled upon the old homestead in Braintree, where he lived till 1869, when he moved to West Randolph. While in the former place he filled many town offices and was elected delegate to the state Constitu- tional Convention in 1856. For two years, 1864 to 1866, he was associate judge of the county.
Judge Hutchinson was elected state sena- tor in 1868, and also in the following year, while in 1870 he received the appointment of county commissioner, and was in 1872
chosen a delegate to the national Republican convention at Philadelphia. He was ap- pointed postmaster at West Randolph in 1872, which office he held till 1887. With a few others, Judge Hutchinson petitioned the Legislature of 1889 for a charter for a savings bank in West Randolph, and on the organiz- ation of the institution, he was elected its
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president, a position in which he continues to the present time.
Among the earliest founders of the Repub- lican party, he was always an active worker in its behalf, and even previous to its exist- ence, in the days of anti-slavery agitation, he was an enthusiastic disciple of Garrison and Phillips, ever extending a hearty welcome to all who were interested in the cause of aboli- tion. For five years he filled the office of vice-president for Vermont of the New Eng- England Anti-Slavery Society. During the troubles in Kansas, Judge Hutchinson was connected with the Emigrant Aid Society, and in the company of the state agent visited several places in the state to raise men and money to aid in freeing Kansas from the trammels of the slave-holders, and at one time he himself accompanied an expedition for this purpose. He has held leading posi- tions in the temperance societies of Vermont and has always been a devoted adherent of the cause, strongly advocating the law of prohibition.
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IDE, HENRY CLAY, of St. Johnsbury, son of Jacob and Lodaska ( Knights) Ide, was born in Barnet Sept. 18, 18.1.1.
He conducted his preparatory studies at the St. Johnsbury Academy and then entered Dartmouth College from which he graduated with the highest honors of his class in 1866.
Ile was principal of St. Johnsbury Acad- emy from the time of his graduation until the summer of 1868, when he was appointed head master of the high school of Arling- ton, Mass,, which position he filled till the antinin of 1860, when he read law with the late Judge B. II. Steele of St. Johnsbury till December, 1870, when he was admitted to the bar. He immediately began to practice in St. Johnsbury and in 1873 formed a part- nership with Hon. H. C. Belden which con- tinued till 1884, when the firm of Ide & Staf- ford was formed, which in 1890 was changed to that of Ide & Quimby. This last partner- ship was dissolved in 1892 and since then Mr. Ide has practiced alone. In 1890 hc was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. During this period Mr. Ide was engaged in much of the most important litigation in Northern Vermont, and stood in the front rank of his profession.
He was united in wedlock, Oct. 26, 1871, to Mary M., daughter of Joseph and Sophia Matcher, of Stoughton, Mass., who passed from life April 13, 1892. Of this marriage four children were born : Adelaide M., Annie L., Harry J. (deceased), and Mary M.
Mr. Ide has been honored with many of- fices in the gift of his fellow-citizens. For three years he was state's attorney for Cale- donia county and was twice sent to the state Senate, in which he served on several im-
portant committees. He was prominent in carrying through measures securing the prop- erty rights of married women, simplifying legal procedure, etc. In 1884 he presided at the Republican state convention, and was chosen delegate to the national convention at Chicago in 1888 where he served on the committee on credentials.
Mr. Ide was appointed by President Har- rison a commissioner on behalf of the United States to act with others appointed by Eng- land and Germany to settle the disputes in Samoa. Chosen by that commission as its chairman, he rendered important service in organizing, formulating and carrying on its work. In November, 1891, he resigned this appointment on account of sickness in his family, returning to this country with expres- sions of regret from the King of Samoa, his associates, and all other officials with whom he had come in contact in the course of his official duties. On his return he also re- ceived from the president a letter of thanks for his efficient and valuable services as com- missioner.
He has been for years a director of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury, the Passumpsic Savings Bank-one of the largest institutions in the state-the Tredegar Na- tional Bank of Jacksonville, Ala., and in va- rious manufacturing and railroad corpora- tions, all of which trusts he has carefully and honorably fulfilled.
In 1893 he was appointed chief justice of Samoa, and on the 6th of October left St. Johnsbury and on the 20th of that month sailed from San Francisco to enter upon his new and most important duties in those dis- tant islands of the South Pacific.
JACKMAN, A. M., of Barre, son of Abel and Dorothy (True) Jackman, was born in Corinth, March 2, 1813. His father came from Salisbury, Mass., and was one of the early settlers of Corinth.
The son, left an orphan at an early age, went to Barre and learned the trade of a wool carder and cloth dresser. His oppor- tunities for education were limited to the common schools of Corinth and a few terms at the Barre district schools.
Working with untiring industry and living prudently, laying up and not squandering the liberal wages he received, he was enabled in 1836 to hire and three years after to pur- chase the mill in which he was employed, and he conducted the business until the factory was destroyed by fire in 1853. In February, 1856, Mr. Jackman bought an
estate in Barre. Much of this he has sold, and this portion of the property is now occu- pied by the thriving village of Barre. When he commenced his business everyone, with perhaps the exception of the doctor, lawyer, and clergyman, wore homespun, the product of the family loom, woven and fashioned in the home circle, and there was but one cloth manufactory in the state, that of Governor Paine of Northfield, the only product of whose mills was exclusively indigo blue broadcloth. Mr. Jackman has lived to see an entire change in the population of the town of Barre, and he is the only one that remains of the bygone generation of Barre village.
He took to wife, April 11, 1837, Christina, daughter of David and Delia (French) French. Their union was blesssd with four
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sons and one daughter : Orvis French (a soldier of the Union, deceased in 1885), John, George W., Eveline ( Mrs. F. H. Rob- erts), and Charles Edgar (deceased). Mrs. Jackman departed this life in 1885.
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Mr. Jackman has always been a Democrat, and has taken an active interest in town and county affairs. For twenty-five years he was sheriff or deputy sheriff, and also justice of the peace. He was strongly in favor of a resolute prosecution of the war for the pres- ervation of the Union, and one of his sons lost an arm in the service. Mr. Jackman carries the cares and labors of his four score years bravely, with form still erect and his mental faculties unimpaired.
JACKMAN, HENRY A., of East Corinth, son of Winthrop T. and Mary ( Elkins) Jack- man, was born in Barre, Feb. 18, 1829.
His mother died when he was four years old and for two years he resided with an aunt, then he was compelled to push his own way, working on a farm till he was twenty-one and obtaining such instruction as the winter terms of the district school afforded. After attaining his majority he went to Boston where he remained nine years engaged in teaming.
At the commencement of the civil war Mr. Jackman enlisted in the 2d Mass. Light Bat- tery. This battery was first stationed at Baltimore and afterwards sent to Fortress Monroe and witnessed the naval contest be- tween the Monitor and Merrimac. Soon
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after he accompanied the command to Ship Island and New Orleans in General Butler's expedition. He was present at the first at- tempt of Farragut to capture Vicksburg, and afterwards participated in almost all the bat- tles and hostile expeditions in the depart- of the Gulf including the successful attack upon Mobile. When his term of service ex- pired he promptly and patriotically re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer, and with his command marched from Mobile to Montgomery and thence to Vicksburg, where he remained till honorably discharged in August, 1865, after more than four years of active and continuous service, during the latter part of which he acted as quartermaster-sergeant.
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