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HENRY M. CHENEY.
in 1789 settled on the Horace Peck farm, and after the early death of Thomas, his son Danforth, found a home with his uncle, Abial. Dan- forth and Lois (Pike) Cheney were the parents of eight sons and six daughters, of whom five sons and
Quimby; Henry M. and Reuben G., located at St. Johnsbury, and Lois, wife of Solon Albee of Littleton, New Hampshire. The members of this family possessed unusual men- tal and physical vigor; three of the sons served during the Civil war,
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several were inventors, and all were natural mechanics.
In April, 1864, he came to St. Johnsbury and began to learn the machinist's trade with John H. Pad- dock, and in 1868 entered the em- ploy of the Fairbanks company as a machinist, for a time as a journey- man, but later for more than twenty years as a contractor. He became department foreman in 1898 and now has charge of five hundred men employed in the machine depart- ment, approximately the same num- ber as the entire force in the works when Mr. Cheney began thirty-five years before. Mr. Cheney has an excellent social standing, and is pop- ular, not only with the employes, but with all classes, and is a most efficient foreman.
RANNEY, GEORGE, son of Sulli- van and Phebe (Huggins) Ranney, was born in Kirby, Vermont, De- cember 21st, 1845. Sullivan Ran- ney was an energetic and prosper- ous farmer, residing during his later years on the fine meadow farm near West Concord, now owned by his daughters. George was the young- est of four sons, and at six years of age was bereaved by his mother's death. By a second marriage three sons and four daughters were born to Sullivan Ranney, all of whom are active and useful people. George Ranney remained on the paternal acres during his minority, attended St. Johnsbury academy, and taught several terms of winter school. He then spent twelve years as a travel- ing salesman on the road for the Hanover, the Montpelier, and the St. Johnsbury cracker mannfac- tories.
He settled in Barnet in 1881 as a general country merchant, where he
remained three years. Nearly twenty years ago he established him- self in the grocery and provision business on Main street, St. Johns- bury, during a portion of that time with F. E. Potts as junior partner. W. A. Little has been his confi- dential clerk and foreman for six- teen years.
Mr. Ranney carries probably the most extensive stock of choice fam- ily groceries and provisions in town and conducts a heavy barter trade with farmers, especially in the lines of butter and eggs. He is, in fact, an expert wholesaler and retailer of butter and his trade with the hotels and merchants extends over north- ern New England. Mr. Ranney is an Odd Fellow and a member of the Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank.
His excellent judgment, integ- rity, and rare executive ability have been recognized by his repeated election as village trustee and chair- man of the board of selectmen.
George Ranney married Miss Eva C. Holt of Pittsfield, Vermont. Their three children are Elsie (Mrs. E. C. Thrasher of Detroit, Michi- gan), Lanra M. (who is bookkeeper in the store), and Carleton A. Ran- ney. Mr. Ranney has been for many years a member and one of the stewards of the Methodist church of St. Johnsbury.
GOODRICH, HENRY J., son of Leonard H. and Julia (Hubbard) Goodrich, was born in Norwich, Vermont, June 18, 1861.
His father, a cabinet-maker by trade, was a soldier of the Union, and lost a limb at the battle of Fredricksburg. In Henry's early infancy the family moved to Mont- pelier, and a few years later to Ran- dolph, Vermont, where his mother
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died in 1875. Here he began to learn the tinsmith's trade and com- pleted his apprenticeship by two years' service in Montpelier. He came to St. Johnsbury in 1881 and worked at his trade two years for F. F. Fletcher. The year 1883 is a landmark in the life of Mr. Good- rich.
During that year he became of age, he married Julia E., daughter of Arthur Moulton, became a Ma- son and began his mercautile career by purchasing the tin and hardware business and stock of A. E. Bliss. This business was then conducted in the room occupied by Landry's drug store, but for the past eigh- teen years he has been located in Odd Fellows' block. He has added the features of plumbing and heat- ing of all kinds and built up a pros- perous and increasing business.
Mr. Goodrich is recognized as a genial and accommodating sales- man and reliable business man, and has a host of acquaintances and friends. He is a member of all the Masonic bodies, including Palestine commandery and Mount Sinai tem- ple.
His maternal grandfather, the venerable George S. Hubbard, lived with him during his later years nn- til his death in 1900 at the ripe age of ninety-four. Henry J. and Julia E. Goodrich have a family of three children, Freda, a graduate of the Barbour Business college, who as- sists in the office as bookkeeper and typewriter, Claude M., a student in St. Johnsbury academy, and Vera E.
GRISWOLD, HENRY F., son of Franklin and Caroline E. (Wells) Griswold, was born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, July 10. 1838. Franklin Griswold was a native of Berkshire, Vermont, and Caroline
E. Wells of Greenfield, Massachu- setts.
Franklin Griswold came to St. Johnsbury Center about 1851, and
HENRY F. GRISWOLD.
engaged in the tannery business there two years, then located in East St. Johnsbury, where he continued the business until two years before his death, September 19, 1874, at the age of sixty-six. His wife died four years later. He was a good type of the Vermont mechanic, industrious, economical, benevo- lent, and strictly honorable in every relation of life. He was the first station agent at East St. Johns- bury. The only survivors of the five children of Franklin and Caroline E. Griswold ale Henry F. and Cap- tain Edward F. Griswold.
Henry Griswold received a com- mon school training and one term at St. Johnsbury academy, under the instruction of J. K. Colby.
At the age of twenty, he formed a
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partnership with his father in the tannery business, and he continued in this line until 1893, when the scarcity of hemlock bark and com- petition rendered it unprofitable. He employed from two to five men, and his industry furnished a con- venient market for the hemlock bark of this section. He has continued to finish leather until the fall of 1902. Henry Griswold has been station agent at East St. Johnsbury nearly thirty years, and has discharged the duties of that position with fidelity and uniform courtesy. In 1902 he fitted up the first floor of the tan- nery building as a warehouse, and since that time has dealt extensively in grain and feed of all kinds.
Mr. Griswold is one of the local landmarks of East St. Johnsbury, and no one has done more than he for the moral and material advance- ment of that community. He is a member and a liberal supporter of the Congregational church, and for forty-five years has been a member of the choir and much of the time chorister. He is a kindly, liberal, Christian gentleman.
Henry F. Griswold married, in 1870, Miss Lilla C. Johnson of Bloomfield, Vermont, who died in 1879, leaving four children: Lilla Frances, wife of Marcus .J. Hovey of St. Johnsbury: Caroline M., assistant principal in Montpelier high school; Grace Anna, a stenographer in the Central Vermont railroad office at St. Albans, and Franklin Merrill, deceased.
Mr. Griswold married, in January, 1884, Flora D., daughter of Palmer and Laura J. Russell of Kirby. They have one son, Palmer Russell Gris- wold, a student of St. Johnsbury academy.
CARR, HARRY HIBBARD, son of George W. and Dorcas S. (Hibbard) Carr, was born in St. Johnsbury, September 22, 1866. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and the academy of St. Johnsbury, from which he graduated in 1884. Mr. Carr found employment as a book- keeper and salesman in Fair- banks' dry goods store until January 1, 1890, when he pur- chased the N. M. Johnson dry goods store on Railroad street, which he successfully conducted until he sold it in August, 1899, to L. P. Leach. He then acquired the tailoring busi- ness for many years conducted by W. T. Horton, which he carried on for a year or more.
Mr. Carr was one of the principal promoters and organizers of the Cit- izens' Telephone company; was a di- rector and secretary-treasurer from its inception until 1903. In April of that year he bought the real estate known as Potts Brothers' cold storage plant, and deals extensively in country produce. Mr. Carr is an active and pub- lic-spirited citizen of St. Johns- bury. Ile was one of the organizers of the board of trade, and for sev- eral years its treasurer. He has been secretary and treasurer and practi- cal manager of the Odd Fellows' Building association. For many years he has been a director of the Caledonia County Fair Ground com- pany, and for several years its treas- urer, and perhaps no other citizen is more closely identified with its marked progress and success than Mr. Carr.
He is an Odd Fellow, a Knight Templar of Palestine commandery, and a member of the Mystic Shrine and the subordinate bodies of Ma-
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sonry. He is now serving his third term as selectman of St. Johnsbury.
H. H. Carr married in 1891 Nellie A., daughter of the late Col. A. P. Blunt, U. S. A. They have three children: Mary Blunt, Harold Hib- bard, and Edward Milton Carr.
years in East Burke, came to St. Johnsbury Center in 1853, and there conducted the tanning business many years. A Republican in poli- ties, he was assistant judge of Cale- donia county court from 1872 until 1876, the year of his death, which
DELOS M. BACON.
BACON, DELOS M., son of John, 2d, and Lucy (Marston) Bacon, was born in Coventry, Vermont, Decem- ber 25, 1845. John Bacon, 2d, was a man of strong and unique person- ality, well and favorably known in the business and fraternal circles of this section. He was in trade six
occurred August 11. He was aet- ively connected with the Grand Lodge of F. & A. M. of Vermont, was a Past Master of Passumpsic lodge and Past High Priest of Has- well chapter. His children were Jerome C., of St. Johnsbury; Arzelle A., deceased wife of N. A. Gibbs;
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Roseme E., who died in the army in 1863 at the age of twenty, and Delos M.
Delos attended the village schools and St. Johnsbury academy, and suc- cessfully tanght several terms of win- ter school. After leaving school he remained at home and conducted the tanning business until abont 1890, when, owing to the distance from the great centers and costly freight rates, the business was discontinued. Since that time Mr. Bacon has been employed largely in the discharge of various fidneiary trusts and official positions.
For thirteen years he has been a lister of St. Johnsbury and, with one exception, chairman of the board. He has been a justice of peace twen- ty-two years.
For fifteen years he has been sec- retary of all of the Masonic bodies at St. Johnsbury, after having been at the head of all of them. He was Grand Master of the Grand lodge of Vermont in 1891-92, and Grand Commander of the Grand Command- ery of Knights Templar in 1882-88, and past. Grand Sovereign of the Or- der of Constantine, and has received the Order of the Grand Cross.
Delos M. Bacon possesses in an eminent degree those qualities of head and heart that inspire and re- tain the confidence and esteem of his associates. He has often been a del- egate to county and state Republi- can conventions. In religious belief and support he is a Congregation- alist.
Delos M. Bacon married, in Jan- uary, 1869, Miss Hattie E. Kimball of Bath, New Hampshire. They have three children: Edith M., widow of W. D. Stone of Lakeport, New Hampshire, who resides with
her parents; Lura M., wife of Irvin B. Hutchinson of West Lebanon, New Hampshire, and Perley D., who married Constance G. Hazelton, and resides at St. Johnsbury Center, with his parents at the old home "The Elms," which has been a most hospitable one for fifty years.
ROBINSON, CHARLES ADAMS, son of Amos C. and Eliza (Adams) Robinson, was born in Barton, Ver- mont in 1845.
A. C. Robinson was a pioneer in securing the extension of the Pas- sumpsie railroad from St. Johns- bury to Newport. Ile built the large depot store occupied by Tower Brothers and in company with Gen- eral E. B. Chase, of Lyndon, was there extensively engaged in trade many years.
Ile was an energetic and public- spirited citizen, a Democrat in poli- ties and as such represented Barton in the legislature in 1837.
Charles was the third son of a family of nine children and was his father's efficient assistant in his mercantile business during his youth and early manhood.
Later he was in trade with his father and also with a younger brother a few years. In March, 1882. he removed to St. Johnsbury. In 1868 he became an agent for the United States and Canada Express Co. and continued in their employ until the consolidation with the American Express Co., whose agent he then became, and still fills that position at St. Johnsbury. Last January rounded out thirty-five years of continuous service, the longest of any express agent on the Passumpsie division.
The local business has doubled in amount since Mr. Robinson came
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to St. Johnsbury and three assist- ants are constantly employed. He has formed a wide circle of ac- quaintances and friends and is re- cognized as an efficient and reliable official and genial citizen.
Mr. Robinson married Emily J. Haskell of Barton, January 1st, 1868, and their only son, Charles H. Robinson, is clerk in the express office. Mrs. Robinson died in March, 1897. Mr. Robinson mar- ried Mrs. Anne E. McCracken of St. Johnsbury in September, 1900.
HENDERSON, REV. M. C. This venerable divine was born at Mere- dith, N. H., in 1819, son of David and Rebecca (Chase) Henderson. His minority was spent in the town of Hardwick. He entered the Free
REV. M. C. HENDERSON.
Baptist ministry in 1840, and spent four years in mission work in Nova Scotia. Mr. Henderson has held six different pastorates, the longest,
a period of eight years. at Lyndon Center. During his pastorate at Lakeport, N. H., he received forty persons to church fellowship at one time. He has organized four churches, preached the dedication sermon of thirteen houses of wor- ship, preached nine ordination and four installation sermons, solemn- ized between three and four hun- dred marriages, attended the fn- nerals of fifteen ministers, and offi- ciated at 1,024 funerals. On three different occasions he has officiated at the funerals of four different per- sons at one service. Rev. Mr. Hen- derson served in the legislature of Vermont in 1856, '63, and '64. He married Miss Susan A. Wood of Hartland, Vermont, in 1843. Their only son is O. H. Henderson.
HENDERSON, O. H. There is no other occupation that brings a man in such universal and constant con- tact with all classes of the people as the ticket agent at a railroad cen- ter, and the genial face of O. H. Henderson is as familiar as the ris- ing sun to the traveling public. He was the son of Rev. M. C. and Susan A. (Wood) Henderson, and was born at Corinth, Vt., in 1852. O. H. Henderson received a good academic training at Lyndon institute and at other institutions where his father was located, and graduated from New Hampton Commercial college in 1875.
In July, 1875, he began to learn the railroad business at St. Johns- bury and was appointed station agent in 1876. a position which he still fills to the entire satisfaction of the public and his employers. During the period of his incum- bency the passenger business has more than doubled. There are now
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only two other agents on the Pas- sumpsie division, B. & M., and the St. J. & L. C., that have served as long as Mr. Henderson. He is the
O. H. HENDERSON.
agent for the Allan, the Anchor, the Dominion, and other lines of ocean steamers. Broad gauge in his social affinities, he is a Mason, a K. P., and a member of the N. E. O. P., and U. O. G. C.
But it is in Odd Fellowship that Mr. Henderson has the eminent dis- tinetion of having passed the chairs of all the different branches of the order in the state of Vermont. He was a member of the locating committee of the Gill Odd Fellows' Home at Ludlow, and was a member and is treasurer of the board of trus- tees of the Home. He is now De- partment Commander of the Patri- archs Militant of Vermont. Mr. Henderson married Miss Clara
Smith of Woodstock, N. H., in 1818 and they have five children living.
LAIRD, HIRAM M., son of Will- iam and Caroline (Moody) Laird, was born in East Barton, Massa- chusetts, in 1852. Mr. Laird is a hardy, canny Scotchman, and is a scion of a family who for several generations have been stone-cutters in their native Scotland. His father died when he was fourteen years old, and three years later he began to learn the trade of granite-cutter of his uncle, Peter B. Laird, the pio- neer in the granite business at St. Johnsbury.
After serving his three years' ap- prenticeship, Mr. Laird worked as a journeyman twenty-three years for several prominent firms in the gran- ite centers, obtaining a valuable ex- perience.
In 1896 he began business for himself at St. Johnsbury, with four men, but the business has steadily and rapidly developed and at the present time and for the past two years his force has averaged thirty men.
Ilis plant is located on the side- track of the Boston and Maine rail- road, directly opposite the St. Johnsbury depot, and is equipped with the air compressor, the pneu- matie tools, and all the modern im- provements. Mr. Laird's stock is mainly obtained from the cele- brated dark Barre quarry of Hon. James MI. Boutwell of Montpelier, but he is prepared to fill orders for work of any dimensions from any New England granite. Mr. Laird married Clara Ward of North Dan- ville, and three sons and two daugh- ters have been born to them: Caro- line is the wife of Frank Taylor of St. Johnsbury; Hiram Jefferson died
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in March, 1902, at the age of twen- ty-one; Thaxter and Ralph are stone-cutters, as foreman and as- sistant of their father; Elizabeth is a student at the St. Johnsbury academy.
H. M. Laird also works "on the square" in speculative masonry, be- ing a member of Palestine com- mandery.
the site, the land, the buildings, the location, one mile from Main street, St. Johnsbury, this is one of the most desirable farms in the state.
John Higgins settled on this farm some seventy years ago, and there resided until the close of his long and useful life in 1883. He was a thoroughgoing farmer and im- proved his farm. His three sons,
RESIDENCE OF WILLIAM HIGGINS.
HIGGINS, WILLIAM, son of John and Ella (Ide) Higgins, was born in St. Johnsbury, May 28, 1835. Situated on a broad north- western slope overlooking the vil- lage of St. Johnsbury and the crests of the western hills beyond, is a noble homestead where three gen- erations have found prosperity and contentment. When we consider
J. Clark Higgins, George I. of West Concord, and William Higgins, were born and bred here. The lat- ter remained and assisted his father in the management of the 300-acre farm. He completed his education at St. Johnsbury academy, and in 1862 married Miss Julia C. Blinn of this town. Mr. Higgins is a suc- cessful farmer and has invested a
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portion of his savings in that safe and sound bank, his farm.
He formerly pursued mixed farm- ing, but in recent years the dairy has been the principal feature. He has recently retired from the active management of his farm, which is assumed by his son, Albert J. Hig- gins. Forty-five full blood and high grade Jersey eows and twenty- five young cattle are now kept upon the farm, and the milk and cream are sold at St. Johnsbury village.
In 1884 the large barn, 50x100 with entire basement, was erected. The house was rebuilt and another story added in 1894. The implicit confidence of the publie in the judg- ment and integrity of William Hig- gins is evidenced by his election for thirteen years as seleetman, usually as chairman, and four years as road commissioner. He has had a large experience in the settlement of es- tates.
His eldest son, Charles Il. Ilig- gins, born in 1863, is the proprietor of the Ingleside farm. Albert J. was born in 1868 and is a good rep- resentative of the progressive Ver- mont farmer. He married in 1894 Nellie Marden of St. Johns- bury and they have one daughter, Celia. Miss Ellie B., only daughter of William Higgins, a graduate of St. Johnsbury academy of the class of '93, is residing with her parents.
SCOTT, HARRY M. The name of the popular young mail order merchant of Railroad street is be- coming almost a household word in this section.
Mr. Scott brings to his work the advantages of a favorable heredity and environment. His father, N. M. Scott, is a veteran and prosper-
ous merchant at Barton, and his mother was Elvira Bean, formerly of Glover.
Harry was born in Glover in 1866, the youngest son of a family of seven children. Educated in the publie schools of Glover and Barton, he enjoyed an early and excellent mercantile training in his father's store at Barton, and remained at home until he was twenty-two years of age.
He located in trade at St. Johns- bury Center about 1890, and soon after built the store now occupied by M. D. Park, and remained in trade there nearly four years.
Later he came to St. Johnsbury and bought the meat business of Sylvester & Gray, which he con- ducted two years. He then varied his mercantile experience by nearly six years' service as a clerk in the clothing store of his brother, A. W. Scott.
In 1901 he began the mail order merchandise business, on a small scale, doing nearly all of the work himself. Buying in bulk for spot cash, and selling for cash, he is able by careful management to quote nearly wholesale prices for his cus- tomers.
Mr. Scott takes in farmers' pro- duce of all kinds at eurrent rates, and not only conducts a large local trade, but ships goods to all parts of this section within a radius of fifty miles on mail orders.
He is the pioneer in this unique system of trade. In 1892, H. M. Scott married Abbie A. Hlovt of St. Johnsbury. Their two children are Marion E. and Merritt I. Scott.
RANLET, CHARLES T., son of Daniel W. and Clara Belle (Morri-
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son) Ranlet, was born at Bethlehem, New Hampshire, September 30, 1871.
D. W. Ranlet was a well-known hotel proprietor and manager for many years, and at present is pro- prietor of Ranlet's Café, the high- grade restaurant located in Avenue House block. Charles attended the Bethlehem high school and the Holderness school, where he com- pleted the course in 1888.
CHARLES T. RANLET.
At thirteen years of age he began learning the printer's trade at Beth- lehem, his first work being the printing of the bills of fare at Ran- let's Hotel, and later for all the other hotels. For some time he was em- ployed in Boston and later had charge of the job department of the Nashua Telegraph. He came to St. Johnsbury in 1891 and located a small printing outfit over the First National bank. Later he occupied
rooms over the Citizens bank until July, 1902, when he moved to his present convenient and spacious quarters in Avenue House bloek and conducts a thriving business.
His presses, cutters, and wire stitcher are of the latest models and are run by eleetrie power, and he now employs from three to six as- sistants. His specialties are com- mercial work, booklets, and wedding and address cards, both printed and engraved.
His steadily increasing business shows the public appreciation of skilful work and reasonable prices. Mr. Ranlet was the first in town to introduce automobiles, and is the agent for several celebrated ma- chines. In 1892 he married Ger- trude Isabel Tueker of Bethlehem, New Hampshire.
He affiliates with the Knights of Pythias, Uniform Rank.
FAIRBANKS FAMILY. The name of Fairbanks is indissolubly associated with St. Johnsbury, whose progress and prosperity has been largely built upon the great business enterprise of this family. A volume would fail to do justice to the wealth of historie and biographical ineident connected with the inception and progress of that great enterprise, and the lives and public services of its founders and promoters. In 1815 Joseph Fairbanks and his fam- ily moved here from Brimfield, Mas- sachusetts. He united the occupa- tions of a farmer and a carpenter, and when he moved to Vermont he also built and condueted the saw- mill, soon adding a grist-mill, which were located where Fairbanks vil- lage now stands. His son, Thad- deus, a skilful mechanic and nat- ural inventor, was his efficient assist-
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ant in these enterprises. In 1823 he started a small iron foundry, and joined the following year by his brother, Erastus, they commenced the manufacture of stoves and plows of cast iron. 1829-'30 the raising of hemp became a leading industry, and E. & T. Fairbanks built three of the great machines for dressing hemp, their works being then lo- cated near the site of the hoe fac- tory. It became necessary to pro- vide for accurately weighing the hemp straw. The only scales in use were the even balance and the Roman steelyard, not improved since the days of the Cæsars. The only device for weighing carts was a lever, a stick of timber suspended high up from a gallows frame, from the short arm of which chains hung that could be hooked around the cart axle, and from the long arm a plat- form on which weights could be placed. Mr. Fairbanks' first arrange- ment was to place an A shaped lever in a suitable pit, and upon it balance on knife edges a free platform, level with the ground. To keep this plat- form from rocking on its support, he framed into it a vertical post, well braced and from the top of this at- tached level chains to fixed posts from either side. This scale was ac- curate, but clumsy. This great in- vention was constantly improved, and the magnitude of the operations of the scale company expan led to meet the growing demand for an article of prime necessity. Forty- four carloads of the products of the manufactory have been shipped in a single week. There has never been a strike in the seventy years' ex- istence of the Fairbanks company, and the enterprise exemplifies an al- most ideal industrial situation, with
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