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KING, AARON N., of Tunbridge, son of Eld. Nathaniel and Lydia (Noyes) King, was born in Randolph, July 1, 1820. His father Elder King was one of the earliest settlers of Tunbridge, and was one of the first preachers of the Freewill Baptist denomination west of the Connecticut river. So marked was his ability many were the revivals that followed
his preaching. Through his efforts largely was the first conference of the denomination organized at Tunbridge. To him came the committee appointed to prepare the articles of faith, and the doctrines outlined by him and written down by the committee were the articles of faith found in the Treatise of the denomination. He preached from stumps in the woods, in barns and later in houses of worship. The days not spent in preaching were spent in labor and by his frugality and industry he accumulated a large property. Ile represented Tunbridge in the Legislature thirteen years and held many offices of trust, he found time however for study and was noted as a Bible student and theologian in the yearly meetings of the denomination in this state.
Mr. A. N. King was the youngest of thir- teen children. In his earlier business life he was a farmer and was succesful in this pur- suit.
December 2, 1841, he was married to Eliza B. Nutter at Northfield. Two sons were the
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fruit of this union : Heber A., and Millard T. In 1854 Mr. King embarked in mercantile business in Tunbridge, and is still engaged in it. At about the same time he engaged in banking and was for several years a director in the Royalton bank. He was also a director in the Orange County National Bank, of Chelsea, and for several years, until its suc- cessful close in 1893, president of the First Na- tional Bank, of Chelsea. At the expiration of the charter of this bank the National Bank
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of Orange County was organized through his efforts, and he was elected its first president. He has nearly completed forty years service as a bank officer. He has bought farm after farm until he is one of the largest landed proprietors of Orange county, and, at an age when other men retire from active business, is continually at work looking after various interests.
He has been an active member of the Republican party since its organization and represented Tunbridge in the Legislature in 1868 and 1869, was for twenty-five years postmaster, several years town treasurer and has held other offices in Tunbridge.
His elder son, Heber A., was early asso- ciated with him in his mercantile business, continuing in this until his death, Dec. 2, 1889. The younger son, after getting his education at Randolph Academy, entered the store of his father and has for a long term of years been the junior member of the firm of A. N. King & Son. He, like his father, is an active member of the Republican party and represented Tunbridge in 1884-'85 and was a senator from Orange county in 1888-'89. Has been treasurer of the town the greater part of the time since 1881. He has been post- master several years and is a director of the National Bank of Orange County.
KING, CHARLES W., late of Lunenburg, son of Willard and Laura L. (Ladd) King, was born at Lunenburg, Nov. 9, 1832. His father, Captain Willard King, was an old resident of the place, industrious, frugal, conscientious, and ever a most zealous worker in the cause of temperance and religion. He started in life with no capital but his two hands and an axe, cleared for himself a farm about three and one-half miles from the present village, and there lived, labored and reared his family of eight children.
Charles W. was early trained to labor, and his opportunities for an education in the district school were but meagre. After the crops were harvested he was able to attend school a few weeks, boarding at home and walking seven miles. But he had an insa- tiable desire for knowledge, and every spare moment was spent in reading and studying. He taught school at seventeen, and at twenty-one was elected superintendent, and for several years was an important factor in educational movements in his town and county. Mr. King was bred a farmer, and to this occupation was given his chief atten- tion, though he was also successfully engaged in other business. He was everywhere re- cognized as a man of keen insight, at once sure and rapid in his conclusions, and of excellent general ability. He was frequently
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trusted with the management and settlement of estates, invested funds for others, and occupied responsible financial positions in large enterprises. January 18, 1884, he was elected treasurer of The Browns' Lumber Co., of Whitefield, N. H., and occupied that position till his decease. He was for a long time a director of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury, and was in his last years its vice-president.
Republican in politics, as such he repre- sented Lunenburg in 1874, and served on the committee on education, and was influ- ential in abolishing the board of education and electing a state superintendent. In IS78 he was chosen to the state Senate from Essex county, and again served on the com- mittee on education. He was trustee of Johnson State Normal School and two years county road commissioner, also many years justice of the peace. In all of the varied and private trusts committed to his hands Mr. King was faithful, diligent and efficient, and earned the respect and esteem of his associates.
He married, Dec. 25, 1860, Jennie, daugh- ter of Reuben and Fannie Chandler. Their children are : Charles C., and Willard G.
Mr. King died at Whitefield, N. H., August 12, 1893, regretted by all to whom he had become known by his public, business and social life.
KING, CHARLES M., of Benson, son of Mosley F. and Juliette King, was born in Benson, Feb. 26, 1849.
He received a careful training in the com- mon schools of Benson and Barre Academy, forming the industrious habits and sound ideas which were to render him efficient ser- vice in the events of his after life. Like so many citizens of the Green Mountain state, Mr. King has devoted himself to farming in the town where he was born. This vocation he has pursued in all its branches, and by patient and unremitting toil has met with merited success, attaining a high position among the citizens of Benson. He is a Re- publican in his political faith, and has dis- charged acceptably the duties of selectman and other town offices. He has been for many years a director of the Rutland County Agricultural Society, and is also a director in the Western Vermont Agricultural Society. His high reputation for intelligence and energy met with a fitting reward in his choice as representative of Benson to the Legislature in ISSS, where he manifested the same careful and attentive consideration which had always characterized his private life, in his attention to his legislative duties, giving his services to the committee on agri- culture.
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Mr. King united with the M. E. Church in 1881, and is now filling the office of one of its stewards.
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He was married at Fair Haven, March 31, 1880, to Martha J., daughter of Nathaniel and Dorcas (Kenyon) Fish. They have one daugh- ter and one son : Candace D., and Carl F.
KING, ROYAL DANIEL, of Benson, son of Horace and Eunice (Belden) King, was born in Benson, Nov. 17, 1824. His grand- father, a Revolutionary veteran, after the war of independence moved from Connecticut and settled in the town of Benson.
Mr. Royal D. King received his prelim- inary instruction in district and private schools, fitted for college at Castleton Sem- inary, and graduated from the University of Vermont in 1846. His life has been mainly devoted to the profession of teaching, though he spent some time in the law office of Smalley & Phelps of Burlington. He has been an instructor both in his native state and in Illinois.
His first presidential vote was cast for Henry Clay, and he has acted with the Re- publican party since its inception. He has taken an active part in the public work of Benson, serving for a long period as town superintendent of schools, and being select- man at the outbreak of the rebellion he was especially energetic in the enlistment of soldiers, till he himself was mustered into the United States service Sept. 10, 1862, in Co.
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D, 14th Regt. Vt. Vols., with which command he honorably served till after the victory of Gettysburg, when he was mustered out with the regiment July 30, 1863.
Mr. King received the compliment of an election as representative from Benson to the Legislature in 1852 and 1854 and was ap- pointed a member of the committee on edu- cation in both sessions. He was reappointed town superintendent and held the position up to March, 1880. He was also elected senator from Rutland county in 1880, where he again served on the committee on educa- tion and also on that of the library.
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For several years he was secretary of Aca- cia Lodge, F. & A. M.
KINGSLEY, JEROME ORLANDO, of Athens, son of Billy Gray and Lucy (Pal- mer) Kingsley, was born in South Wood- stock, Sept. 29, 1822.
Receiving a limited education in the dis- trict and select schools of South Woodstock, he lived at home until he was twenty-six years of age, teaching in district schools during the winter and laboring on the farm in summer. In 1849 Mr. Kingsley went to Plymouth and bought a farm, where he lived eleven years, during which period he held the offices of first selectman and super- intendent of schools for three and four years respectively. In 1860 he sold his farm property and purchased an estate in Chester in 1861, where he remained for seven years,
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until 1868, acting as selectman during two years of his residence in that place. He then sold his farm and removed to Athens, where he has since lived.
In 1870 he was the delegate from Athens to the Constitutional Convention, and repre- sented the town in 1870 and 1884. He has
discharged the duties of lister and justice of the peace, and selectman for several years.
Mr. Kingsley was married on the 29th day of March, 1849, to Angeline E., daugh- ter of John and Rebecca (Eaton) Sargent. Of this union there was one child : Eugene S. His wife died August 27, 1884.
LADD, CHESTER M., of Worcester, son of Mark P., and Harriet (Hildreth) Ladd, was born in Worcester, March 16, 1848. In early life his father was a Methodist preacher, and later a large and successful farmer, still continuing occasionally to labor in the former vocation in Worcester.
The son divided his time during the days of his boyhood between farm labor and an attendance of the schools of Worcester, and upon the death of his father, went to Chicago, where in connection with his brother he established a mercantile business and also dealt in real estate. In 1882, on account of the failure of his wife's health, he returned to Worcester and bought the large lumber mill which he has since conducted with an ability that has met with well-deserved suc- cess. His business has steadily increased and he is now able to turn out one million feet of lumber annually. At the same time he is an agriculturist, owning an excellent meadow farm which he cultivates with in- dustry and care, thus giving to himself a pleasant rural home.
Mr. Ladd is a member of the M. E. Church, and is a Republican in his political allegiance. He represented Worcester in the Legislature of 1892, serving on the com- mittee of highways. He is a member of the school board, and has held other town offices.
He was united in marriage Sept. 2, 1868, to Ella S., daughter of William and Lydia (Carr) Bruce of Worcester. They have two children : Mildred E., and Mark P.
LANDON, MILLS J., of New Haven, son of Elisha H. and Charlotta (Hoyt) Landon, was born in New Haven, Dec. 14, 1845.
He received his education at Beeman Academy at New Haven, and Black River Academy at Ludlow. He is and always has been a practical farmer and dealer in young stock. He has made a specialty of the dairy business, breeding Durham cows to quite an extent, has a well-laid-out and productive farm which he carefully cultivates, and is one of the successful farmers of Vermont.
In political faith he is a Republican and has held many town offices, including select- man, lister, and justice of the peace, which last position he has held for many years past. He represented his town in the Legislature
of 1886, and served on the committee on the grand list. While there he made a most conservative record, and reflected credit upon the place of his nativity.
Mr. Landon is a Free Mason and is affili- ated with Libanos Lodge, No. 47. He has been a member of the Congregational church since 1868, and has held for many years the position of treasurer of the society. He also served as chairman of the building commit- tee of the beautiful church recently erected in New Haven.
He was married on Feb. 25, 1868, to Harriet L., daughter of Deacon Oliver and Louisa Dexter, of Windham county, of this marriage three children survive : Charlotta L., Mary Ann F., and Ralph Dexter.
Mr. Landon is a man of energy and un- questioned integrity. He is yet in the prime of life and has a career in the future as one of the leading men of his town and county.
LANDON, O. B., of Johnson, son of John S. and Lucy (Hinckley) Landon, was born in South Hero, June 28, 1839.
He attended the common and private schools of his native town and this, with three months' instruction at the Commercial Col- lege of New Haven, Conn., completed his education.
Mr. Landon labored as a farmer in South Hero till he was nearly thirty years of age and then took up his abode in Colchester, where he engaged in the manufacture of lum- ber and land plaster. Removing to Milton, for seventeen years he continued in the same employment and also conducted an exten- sive grist mill. In Johnson for some time he has been doing a business in feed and western grain, but his chief enterprise has been the erection of a creamery in connec- tion with his mill. This he commenced to operate in 1892, and he has increased the original capacity of the plant, which was 5,000 pounds of milk daily to nearly five times that amount. By his careful and sys- tematic management it is calculated that thirty per cent more product is realized than under the old system.
He married, June 4, 1867, Alice M., daugh- ter of Horatio and Beulah (Bliss) Chapin of Williston, who has borne him two chil- dren : Persis L., and Wilbur A.
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Mr. Landon enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. C, 12th Regt. Vt. Vols,, commanded by Col. A. P. Blunt, served ont his term and re- ceived an honorable discharge when the regiment was mustered out of service. Since that thne he has been a member of Old Brigade Post, G. A. R., of Johnson. Though an ardent Republican he has never sought for nor accepted any political office.
LANE, EDWIN, of Lanesboro, son of Willis and Laura (Cutler) Lane, was born in Barre, April 2, 1835.
His father moved to Orange when he was a child, and he received his education in the common schools of that town and at Barre Academy. Soon after attaining his majority, he was engaged for six years in building at Barre, and later in the wood and lumber trade at Montpelier. In 1867 he desired to see something of the world, and visited the
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state of Michigan on a tour of inspection, where he was employed as a millwright and su- perintendent. Two years afterwards, he built a steam mill in Marshfield, and soon formed a partnership with his father, which continued about twelve years. He then form- ed a partnership with his uncle, Dennis Lane, which continued till the death of the latter, and entered upon a similar enterprise at Montpelier, running the Pioneer Mills of that place, and finally located his business at Lanesboro, where he has built up a large and successful lumber business. During his
residence at South Marshfield, in two years his mills were thrice burned, and a man with less courage and determination would have surrendered himself to despair ; and again in 1892 he suffered a loss of $7,000 by the destruction of his plant at Lanesboro, but his energy and force of character were now called into action, and in less than two months the present large, convenient and well appointed mill was constructed. He has always been considerate in his treatment of his employes, and consequently has never suffered from the inconvenience of a strike.
Mr. Lane was united in marriage in De- cember, 1860, to Ann L., daughter of Will- iam and Ann Perrin, who died two years after their union. He contracted a second alliance with Lilian, daughter of Jerry and Mary Webber of Rochester, N. Y., with whom he lived eleven years. In 188) he married Effie P., daughter of Nathan and Philena Skinner, who passed from earth January, 1893. By his first wife he had one child : Lilian A. Lane. Of the second mar- riage there were issue : Arthur E., Glen C. (Mrs. Charles M. Bennett of Montpelier), and Fred C. Hallie E., and Effie were the children of his last marriage.
Mr. Lane was Republican in his politics, but with one exception has always refused the honors of office. He, however, con- sented to represent the town of Marshfield in the Legislature of 1892.
He is a Free Mason, affiliated with Granite Lodge, No. 24, of Barre.
LANE, HENRY CLARK, of Westminster, son of Ithamar and Lucinda (Clark) Lane, was born in Westminster, Jan. 26, 1824.
He received his education in the common schools of his native town and Walpole Academy, Walpole, N. H., from which after a four years course he graduated at the head of his class. Mr. Lane's ambition was to qualify himself for a professional life, but upon his graduation the duties of a son to an invalid father so strongly impressed him, that he voluntarily relinquished his ambitious hopes and assumed the cares and responsi- bilities of his father's estate, which he found, in consequence of his parent's ill-health, to be seriously burdened with debt. Having decided as to what was his present duty, he applied himself to the work and in due time the obligations were fully discharged. He had, however, now reached that age which made it practically impossible for him to take up and prosecute his studies again with any hope of realizing his early ambition, and finding farming a congenial pursuit he continued to follow this vocation until the age of thirty, when he gave his attention to the settlement of estates and devoted him- self largely to the public affairs of the town.
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In 1866, Mr. Lane was elected a select- man and held that office continuously for twelve years, during which time the state erected the William French monument, and the management was given by Governor Converse into his hands, which duties he discharged with credit to himself, and to the satisfaction of the state. Republican in his political creed he was elected in 1874 a justice of the peace and has continued in this office to the present date, and it is doubtful if any other justice in this section of the state has heard so many cases as he
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has. Mr. Lane has an unusual faculty for financial affairs and in 188 I was elected a trus- tee in the Bellows Falls Saving Institution, in 1882 was advanced to its presidency, and has continued to fill that postion to the present time.
He was married, Sept. 11, 1850, to Mary P., daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth T. (Peniman) Nutting. Of this union were four children : Fred I., Emma E., Caroline L., and Nellie V., all of whom are married. Mrs. Lane died March 19, 1874.
LANE, HENRY JAMES, of East Burke, son of Sylvanus and Martha (Balch) Lane, was born in Lunenburg, March 1, 1855.
He received his preparatory education in the public and graded schools of Lunenburg, entered the U. V. M. in 1881, and four years later graduated from the classical depart- ment. In 1887 he received the degree of M. D. from the Burlington Medical College,
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and soon after fixed his abode at East Burke where he entered upon the practice of his profession and where he still continues to reside.
Born and reared upon a farm, during his educational career he partially gained his support by employment as a clerk at Burke in the intervals of study. Dr. Lane has been appointed to serve on the state board of health and is special health officer for Burke and East Haven, has been made superin- tendent of schools, and in 1892 was elected as a Republican to the lower branch of the Legislature, where he was a member of the joint special committee for public health and reform, also on special committee on elec- tions in Caledonia county.
May 20, 1876, he espoused Sarah E. Phil- lips. By her he has had issue : Jessie E., and Charles S.
Dr. Lane is an ardent advocate and staunch supporter of the cause of temperance and served on several special committees in the Legislature appointed to consider this
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important subject. In his religious creed he is Congregational, and is a member of Union Lodge, No. 4, I. O. O. F., Lyndon- ville. He also takes an active interest in the order of Good Templars and by all means in his power labors to advance the cause of total abstinence and prohibition.
LATHROP, CYRUS U., of Williams- town, son of Urbane and Eliza (Wiggins) Lathrop, was born in Chelsea, Oct. 31, 1839.
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He was the youngest of a family of six children, and his mother, left a widow when he was only three years of age, by great industry and prudence managed to keep the family together. Cyrus commenced at the common school, and by strong personal effort was enabled to continue his studies at the Chelsea and Newbury Academies. At the age of twenty-two he purchased a farm at Williamstown, and the cultivation of this estate has been his principal occupation
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ever since. He was one of the pioneers in the formation of the Williamstown Granite Co., and chairman of the board of railroad commissioners for the town of Williamstown in their bonding and contracting for their railroad, and is at present chairman of the Williamstown Construction Co. He has settled many estates and gives an active support to every wise measure for the ad- vancement of the interests of the town.
When the Union of the states was threat- ened with dissolution by the slave aristoc- racy, Mr. Lathrop determined to battle for his country's flag, and he enlisted for three years in Co. C, 8th Regt. Vt. Vols., under the leadership of General Stephen Thomas. He followed the standard of his regiment in every engagement after his enlistment until the war was ended, and he received an honorable discharge from his military duties in June, 1865.
He has ever been a stalwart Republican, and been thought worthy by his party to
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hold many responsible offices in town and county. For four years he was associate judge of the Orange county court, and in 1892 was elected to represent Williamstown in the present Legislature.
Judge Lathrop is a comrade in the G. A. R. He was a member of Waterson Post, No. 45, of Chelsea, but later became charter member and commander of William Wells Post, No. 113, of Williamstown.
November 24, 1861, Judge Lathrop was united in marriage to Frances A., daughter of Denison and Eliza (Luce) Hopkins, of Williamstown. One son, Frank D., has been the fruit of this marriage.
LAVIGNE, JOSEPH W., of Winooski, son of Henri and Francoise (Beausoleil) Lavigne, was born in the town of St. Da- masse, district of St. Hyacinth, Province Quebec, July 14, 1844.
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In 1848, the father with his family came to Williston, where they continued to live till 1852. He then moved to Essex, and remained there two years. From this place he removed to Indiana and remained two years, coming back to Essex in 1856, where they lived till 1864. In Essex, Joseph, as a boy and young man, attended the common schools and the classical institute, and re- ceived his education which he subsequently improved by reading and studying at home. From the age of sixteen till he reached twenty-four, he assisted his father in the
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manufacture and sale of brick. In 1872 he entered the employ of the J. & J. Rogers Iron Co. of Ausable Forks, N. Y., in the brick manufacturing business, where he continued about thirteen seasons. He then entered the wholesale grocery house of George W. Kelley of Burlington. At the end of a year he established himself in a retail grocery store in Winooski, where he has carried on the business ever since, and in which he built up an extensive and lucrative trade. In this business, as well as in his previous career, he has earned the reputa- tion of being an honest and upright man. These qualities, together with good business qualifications and sound judgment induced his fellow-townsmen to elect him to various town and village offices, among which may be mentioned that of member of the board of school commissioners, which he held for a period of eight years, selectman, grand juror, trustee of the village, and town representa- tive, which he was elected in 1892. In politics he is a Democrat, and has been a hard worker and influential member in the local councils of the party.
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