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In 1902 he resigned his position for a more Incrative one in the Rut- gers college preparatory school in New Jersey, where he held the po- sition of Greek master for one year. During the summer of 1903 he met Allen S. Holbrook of Newport, and with him formed a partnership which culminated in the purchase of the Lyndonville Journal on July 9, 1903.
In the summer of 1889 announce- ment was made of Mr. Fuller's en- gagement to Miss Mabel Susie Jos- lyn of Barton Landing, whose death occurred a few months later. Both of Mr. Fuller's parents are still liv- ing and two brothers: Raymond, aged eighteen years, and Robert, aged ten years. One brother, Leigh, died of asthma in 1895.
FLETCHER. The Fletcher fam- ily in America date back to 1630, when Robert1 Fletcher came with his family (which included three sons) from England and settled in Con- cord, Massachusetts. William2, the second son of Robert, at one time owned a farm that comprised all the land where the city of Lowell is now situated. Joshua3, the second son of William", was the father of Captain Joseph+, who was the father of Jo- seph5, the father of Joseph", who was born in 1:52, and married, first,
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Molly Cummings, and after her death married a Widow Read. Jo- seph lived first in Dunstable, and later at Pepperell, where he died in 1832. He reared a family of five children, Polly, Isaac, Catharine, Betsey, and Joseph7. Joseph", the youngest son, came to Lyndon, Ver- mont, about 1838, and settled upon the farm now owned and occupied by his son, Joseph8 Alfred Fletcher, where he lived until his death in 1863. He married Ruth Elliott, and they had seven children, Catherine C., born in 1830, Abigail S., born in 1832, Joseph8 A., born in 1834, Har- riet E., born in 1836, William H., born in 1838, Isaac F., born in 1840, and Francis A., born in 1842. Will- iam H. and Francis A. both served in Vermont regiments in the War of the Rebellion.
Joseph& Alfred married Mary A. Bradley, daughter of Abner and Mariah (Graves) Bradley, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, November 2, 1870, and they have three children, Carrie M., born in 1871, who mar- ried Charles Fassett and resides at St. Johnsbury; Allen Joseph, born in 1876; Earl H., born in 1886.
We find from records that twen- ty-one Fletchers served in the Amer- ican army in the War of the Revolu- tion, and seven were in the battle of Bunker Hill. About eighty were in the Union army in the War of the Rebellion, twenty-three of whom lost their lives in the service of their country.
WALTER, CHARLES T., son of Angustus P. and Betsey (Brockway) Walter, was born in Burke, Ver- mont, in 1863. His great-grand- father, Augustus Walter, removed from Connecticut to Vermont shortly after the elose of the Revo-
lutionary war, and was a pioneer set- tler on a tract in the eastern part of the town, clearing the land and making a productive farm. Here were born three successive gen- erations, his son, Porter, his grand- son, Augustus P., and his great- grandson, Charles T. Walter. Au- gustus P. Walter was born in 1832, and died in 1871.
Educated in the common schools and at Newbury seminary, he was a farmer, and also a teacher of note in his day. His capabilities as an edu- cator seem to have been inherited by his younger son, Herbert E. Walter, who graduated from Bates college and received the A. M. from Brown university in 1893, studied two years in Germany, and is now a successful teacher of biology in the public schools of Chicago.
C. T. Walter completed his edu- cation at Lyndon institute and Bates college, from which he graduated in 1885, and in 1888 received the de- gree of Master of Arts.
His early and strong inclination and talent for journalism was man- ifested while editing The Mercury during his preparatory course, and also during his college days as one of the editors of the Bates Student, a college monthly of repute, and as a successful reporter on the Lewiston (Maine) Daily Journal. In 1885, at the founding of the St. Johnsbury Republican, Mr. Walter was made the business manager, and since that time he has been almost contin- uously connected with that paper. In 1898, when the Republican Pub- lishing company was incorporated, Mr. Walter became president of that company, as well as editor and man- ager of the paper. Under the able direction of Mr. Walter The Repub-
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lican has taken high rank as one of the ablest of the state papers, bright, newsy, and reliable, and with the largest circulation of any paper in this section of the state. Mr. Wal- ter is a lifelong and ardent Republi- can, well versed in the traditions and principles of the party, and has frequently served as a delegate in local and state conventions.
With Mrs. Walter, he is a member of the First Congregational church of Lyndon, which he serves as a trustee, also having been superin- tendent of its Sunday-school.
Mr. Walter married, in 1886, Miss Mabel S. Hall, a lady of rare social and mental gifts. Her father, the late Dudley P. Hall, was widely and favorably known in Vermont and Michigan as an extensive lumber manufacturer, and as a man of strong character, liberal and active in the promotion of public interests, especially of education.
"Riverside," the old Hall home- stead in Lyndon, the present home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter, is bright- ened by their three children, Doro- thy Charlotte, Elizabeth Gregory, and Edward Hall Walter.
WEBBER, JAMES F., son of James F. and Nicenia (Gaskell) Webber, was born at Roxton, Province of Quebec, in 1858. He was one of a family of seven children and came to Ver- mont May 1, 1874. He worked on a farm until he was 21 years of age, when he began to peddle for J. C. Eaton & Co. He worked for them eleven years and was the first man on the road to start their wholesale trade, then began to travel for gro- cery firms. For the past seven years he has been in the employ of the Daniels, Cornell Co., traveling on
the line of the railroads, and is a very successful salesman. He mar- ried on March 2, 1880, Mary E. Wells of Lyndon. Four children were born to them: Leis, born May 24, 1882, who died October 20, 1900; Ethel, born August 18, 1884; Cora, born April 12, 1888, died September 25, same year; Erma, born November 16, 1891. On October 5, 1900, Mrs. Webber died. Mr. Webber, on August 7, 1901, was again married, taking as his
JAMES F. WEBBER.
partner Elizabeth P. Shanon. Mr. Webber and his family lived for some years at East Lyndon, but moved to Lyndonville some four or five years ago, and at present occu- pies his own fine residence on Main street.
WATSON, HENRY E., was born in West Burke, Vermont, March 4, 1844, a son of Lornord Watson, Esq. He was a farm
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bred boy and received a good common school education in town. At the age of twenty-four years he engaged to work for Robert Petti-
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grew on his farm at Bemis hill, where, with ability and close atten- tion to his employer's interest, he soon won the confidence of not only Mr. Pettigrew, but especially the oldest daughter, Mary Rowena Pet- tigrew, whom he persuaded to be- come his partner for life. They were married in 1868, and were soon established in a home of their own on the same farm of about 300 acres, where he continued a prosperous farmer until he sold the place in the fall of 1887, and removed to Church street, Lyndonville, where they now reside. They have nine children, viz., Cora Adell, Claud, now doing a prosperous furniture business, Ellie, wife of P. S. Clark, Edna B., Guy IT., late graduate of the Norwich
university as civil engineer, Mary E., Robert P., now at the same univer- sity, Josephine, and Homer.
Mr. Watson is a strong Republi- can, and always interested in home and national politics, and for the in- terest of his town and village. He is a member of the Odd Fellows and other social organizations.
BRADLEY, HERMAN P., was born at St. Johnsbury, December 1, 1856, son of Jason and Salona M. (Parker) Bradley, educated at the public schools in St. Johnsbury and Lyndon, was married June 18, 1881, to Rubie L., daughter of Ed- ward B. and Olive W. (Perry) Ked- ney. In 1882 they bought and moved on to the farm which they still occupy, consisting of two hun-
HERMAN P. BRADLEY.
dred and thirty-eight acres, which is a model dairy farm. There is also upon the same a sugar orchard of over one thousand trees. The farm
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is finely located, in good condition, and provided with good, comforta- ble buildings.
Mr. Bradley does considerable business outside of his farming, is agent for the Belcher & Taylor Ag- ricultural Tool company, for Listers' and Quinnipiac phosphate, and farm tools in general. He has been lister in Lyndon eight years, justice of the peace four years, and filled other of- fices for many years, has handled estates, in trust, to quite an extent, is a hearty supporter of church and school, and is one of the solid hill farmers of Lyndon. Three children have blessed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bradley: Blanch I., born Sep- tember 8, 1885; Edith M., born June 29, 1888. and Curtis H., born Aug- ust 4, 1897.
RANNEY, ScorTo C., was born in Kirby, February 19, 1837, a son of Sullivan Ranney, who moved from Coventry, Vermont, in 1833, to the Josiah Joslin farm in Kirby, and be- gan life without capital, but with good health and energy made farm- ing a success and acquired a large property. Scotto, the oldest son, when eleven years of age, lost his left hand in a threshing machine, but it was said that he could do more work with one hand than many could with two. He was educated at the common schools and at the Lyndon and St. Johnsbury academies. Af- ter leaving school he was employed in Boston for some two years, driv- ing a baker's wagon. Becoming dis- satisfied with city life he returned to Vermont and worked at farming. October 10, 1860, he married Phi- lena E. True. They began life at Burke. In 1864 he bought the Rob- ert Ford farm in Kirby. After some twenty-eight years of hard but sue-
cessful labor, failing health necessi- tated a change and they sold their farm and bought a small one in Lyn- don.
SCOTTO C. RANNEY.
Five children have been born to them, Pliny O., married Minnie Isham; Winfred, died in infancy; Lizzie S., died February 2, 1885, aged twenty years; George E., mar- ried Nellie Eggleston, who died in 1889, and he died in 1892; and Eugene S., who married Evalyn Bowen, and who, with his wife, came home to live in 1898 to care for the farm and their parents, since which time Scotto has been on the road selling tinware and ready-made clothing. He is also agent for life and accident insurance and is a prominent member of the Odd Fel- lows and Knights of Pythias.
BIGELOW, ELISHA, the subject of this sketch, is a grandson of Sam- uel Bigelow, who moved from Mas- sachusetts to Wheelock early in the
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century, and in 1844 moved to Lyn- don and settled on what is now the Theodore N. Vail home farm. He was a successful farmer and drover. His only son, Calvin, in due time be- came the owner of this fine farm and here conducted very successfully
Lyndonville National bank he was elected one of the directors and suc- ceeded Charles A. Harris as its president, which position he occu- pied until his death.
He was also a director in the sav- ings bank. He served the town ac-
ELISHA BIGELOW.
a general line of farming until 1883, when he sold the farm to Mr. Vail and bought the meadow farm just below the Center village, where he resided until his death in 1896.
Calvin Bigelow was a very promi- nent and useful man in all public matters. At the organization of the
ceptably in various official positions. He was always in demand in the set- tling of estates, which he managed with skill and promptness.
In 1854 he married Mary Sanborn of Lyndon. Their two children are Elisha and Flora. The latter mar- ried Everett Clifford of Wheelock
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and they now reside on the Bigelow farm.
Elisha Bigelow was born in Lyn- don in 1857. His boyhood days were spent upon the home farm, where he received a thorough train- ing in the practical affairs of life. At the age of twenty he graduated from the Lyndon Institute. He continued farming until 1882, when he entered the service of the Pas- sumpsie Railroad company, and was employed as station agent at Lyn- donville for four years. He then went on to the road as brakeman on passenger trains. In 1889, his ex- ecutive ability having been recog- nized by the railroad officials, he was promoted to the position of passen- ger conductor, which position he has since occupied very acceptably to his employers and the public. He was a charter member at the organi- zation of the Order of Railway Con- ductors. He is a member of Cres- cent lodge, F. & A. M., of Haswell chapter, and Palestine commandery. He has been seleetman of Lyndon for three years, and chairman of the board for the past two. In 1885 he married Miss Lula A. Huse of Stan- stead. They own and ocenpy a fine residence in the village of Lyndon- ville.
NORTON, NATHAN ABBOTT, at- torney, only son of Elijah A. and Dolly (Abbott) Norton, was born in Glover, Vermont, September 21, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of Glover, supple- mented by a course at the Johnson State Normal school, from which he was graduated in 1888, after which he taught school until 1892, when he commenced the study of law with E. A. Cook of Newport, Vermont. In 1894 he entered the University
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Law and was admitted to the Wash- tenaw county bar of Michigan and to the Vermont bar in 1895. He began the practice of law in his na- tive town, where he remained until May, 1900, when he moved to Lyn- donville, Vermont, where he has an office in the Masonic building. In January, 1897, Mr. Norton married Viola Robinson, daughter of Demas
NATHAN A. NORTON.
and Lucy (Smith) Robinson of Fletcher, Vermont.
GOSS, WILLIAM DAVID, son of Horace C. and Louisa M. (Hicks) Goss, and grandson of Philip and Decintha (Pierce) Goss, was born at Lyndon, December 24, 1852. He was the oldest son in a family of thirteen children. He lived at home on the farm until twenty years of age, when he went away and began life for himself, his only capital
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being good health and habits, grit and ambition. For three years he worked for George Ide in the mill and on the farm. In 1875 he was married to Martha, a school teacher and daughter of Deacon Isaac Hardy of Hardwick. They moved to Vic-
In 1890 he had paid the mortgage, built a new house, repaired all out- buildings and much improved the farm in general. He thinks farming can be made to pay.
Three children have been born to them, Horace Philip, who is fore-
WILLIAM D. Goss.
tory, and carried on a farm for two years. In the spring of 1877 they purchased the farm where they have since resided, on Bemis hill. The farm and buildings were in a run- down condition, with no house upon the farm, and he mortgaged them for $2,000 and started for business.
man in the steam-fitting department of C. H. Goss of St. Johnsbury, Clarence W., deceased in 1902, and Emma Gordan Goss, who is a music teacher and a teacher in the public schools, whose home is with her parents.
Mr. Goss is at present one of the
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selectmen of Lyndon, which position he has held for two years. He is an officer in the Congregational church, and has been superintendent of the Sunday-school for the past ten years. The perspective from Grand View Farm, as this home is called, is very fine, and has attracted many city boarders for several years.
BEMIS, WELCOME A. The Bemis family in Lyndon came from Spen- cer, Massachusetts, and settled on what is known as "Bemis hill" about 1800. Wait Bemis was born in Spencer, and married Relief Avres. Six children were born to them, viz .: Nancy, Hiram, Relief, Samuel, Otis, and Emery. Elias Bemis, a native of Spencer, located in Lyndon in 1:96, married Content Jenks, and reared six children: Welcome, Elias, Jr., Amasa, Laura, Catherine, and Alonzo. Alonzo be- came, in after years, proprietor of the hotel at Willoughby lake, a very popular summer resort.
Two of the sons of Elias. Amasa and Welcome, settled on farms on Bemis hill, lived upon the same, and raised their families on the old paternal acres, both dying at a ripe old age at their farm homes.
Amasa. married Eliza A. Hall. To them were born: A. O. Bemis, Joshua, Catherine, and Harris. Joshua married Alma Bennett and resides on the old Bemis farm. Welcome married Sarah Evans, and a family of ten children were born to them, viz .: Emeline, Aveline ('., Sarah C., Mary R., Eleanor, Kate D., William A., Alfred, Welcome A .. and Lucy E. Welcome was a promi- nent man in public affairs, a great lover, breeder, and trainer of Mor- gan horses, as well as of choice cat- tle. He served his town as select-
man several years, and in various other capacities. He represented Caledonia county in the Vermont senate two terms. He died in 1877, aged eighty years. Welcome A., son of Welcome, owns and carries on the old farm on which he was born. He keeps a fine stock of horses and cat- tle, and the farm and buildings are in modern shape. Mr. Bemis is a familiar figure for many miles around, and a much respected citi- zen.
HENRY H. FRYE.
FRYE, HENRY H., son of H. B. and Rebecca (Hovey) Frye, and grandson of Deacon John and Ma- tilda (Brown) Frye, was born at Lyndon, September 24, 1842. His grandfather was born at Royalston, Massachusetts, in 1722, and his grandmother at Norwich, Connecti- cut, in 1772. They were married January 1, 1798, and moved to Con-
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cord, Vermont, where they always after lived until their death at a good old age. Henry's father was born at Concord, and his mother at Waterford. They resided all their lives in Concord and at Lyndon, the mother dying in 1850 and the father in 1864.
January 26, 1862, Henry H. was united in marriage to Laura A., daughter of Hiram and Louise Tay- lor. Mrs. Frye was born January 24, 1842, at Lyndon. Three children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Frye, only one of whom lived to mature years, Stella J., born August 13, 1871.
Mr. Frye was educated in the Lyn- don common school and academy. He has served Lyndon as selectman, also agent for the Lyndon Water company. He owned and conducted a meat market, and run a meat cart for twenty-seven years at Lyndon, and made of the business a success. Mr. Frye is a member of the F. and A. M.
LANG, SHERBURN, a son of John H. and Louella (Weeks) Lang, is a native of Bath, New Hampshire (as also were both of his parents). He was born June, 1859. His par- ents moved to Monroe when he was a young lad. Here his mother died when Sherman was only nine years of age. In the following March the family moved to the state of Iowa, where they lived for about three years, then returned to Bath, remained there about three years, then moved again to Monroe, where the father remained until his death. The father was quite an extensive dealer in cattle.
Sherburn received his education in the old-fashioned country schools
of Bath, Monroe, and in Iowa. In his early manhood he conducted a wood business of some three or four thousand cords annually, in company with O. A. Kinne. After this he spent some three years in Kansas, Indian territory, and Tex- as. When about thirty years of age he came back to Monroe and soon began the lumber business in its various stages. He was for some time connected with the Van Dykes and among other matters operated a portable sawmill. He later as- sociated himself with the Parker & Young company of Lisbon.
Mr. Lang at present owns in his own right and in company with others, some 6,000 acres of timber land.
He later moved from Monroe to Lyndon, bought the Lincoln mill on the East Burke road, and here he conducts a very extensive lumber business, logging, sawing and dressing all kinds of lumber. He is also a prominent member of the Burke Granite company, which is operating quarries in the town of Kirby.
In February, 1881, he was mar- ried to Hattie Johnson of Monroe, New Hampshire. Four children were born to them, viz .: Edward, Lucinda, Orlin, and Grace. Mrs. Lang died in June, 1889. He was again united in marriage, this time in November, 1890, to Jennie I. Nichols of Monroe, New Hamp- shire. Five children are the fruit of this union, viz .: Freeman, Philo, Lillian, Marion, and John.
Mr. Lang and family now own and occupy their fine home on a incadow farm, about one mile from Lyndonville, where "Sherb." can sometimes be found, when his ex-
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tended business matters do not take him away.
LOCKLIN, HORACE WILLIAM, the subject of this sketch, is a son of William K. and Nancy C. (Coe) Locklin, and a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Locklin, who came in early life and settled on the farm in the east part of Lyndon, where they resided until their death, and where William K. was born and always lived until his death in 1892. Will- iam K. Locklin had two children, Harriet B. (now of Manchester, New Hampshire), born March 4, 1867, and Horace W., born May 9, 1871. Horace was educated in the common schools of Lyndon, and at the Lyndon Institute. He worked on the old farm until his father's death, then went into the Boston & Maine railroad shops for one sea- son, then worked as carpenter at Speedwell farms one year, then one season upon the Ide block at Lyn- donville, then took up the repairing of bicycles for a little time. In Oc- tober, 1896, he went into the em- ploy of the Lyndonville Electric plant, and being naturally of an in- genious and inventive turn of mind he soon came to be of special value to the company and to the public, and he remained in their service until March 1, 1904. About April 1 of the same year he entered the employ of George B. Chadwick & Co., at Portsmouth, New Hamp- shire, as superintendent of their electrical department in that city. November 25, 1897, Horace W. Locklin was married to Dessie M., daughter of Palmer W. and Laura J. (Chase) Russell of Kirby, who was born May 14, 1822. (See W. P. Russell, Kirby.) The fruit of their
marriage is one daughter, Nellie, born November 26, 1900.
RANDALL, DANIEL, was born at Sandwich, New Hampshire, October 15, 1800. His wife, Ruth Burley, was born August 9, 1800. They were married January 22, 1823, at Sandwich and had a family of four boys and two girls. Lyman T. Ran- dall, the youngest of the family ex- cept one, was born at Lyndon Feb- ruary 3, 1837, and lived there until
LYMAN T. RANDALL.
married, March 9, 1857. He mar- ried Delia G. Phippen. They then moved to Lyndon, where, with the exception of ten years' work at Man- chester, New Hampshire, they have lived most of the time. They had one daughter, Rosa D., born at East Burke, June 23, 1865, and who mar- ried Fred MeAlister and lives at Medford, Massachusetts. Mr. and Mrs. McAlister have two girls, Ruth
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and Emily C. Mrs. Delia Randall died at Lyndon June 14, 1902.
Lyman worked on roads in Lyn- don from 1890 to 1895, when he be- gan to work for the Lyndonville Creamery company, and has been in their employ from that time to Sep- tember 1, 1903, driving a cream- gathering team, which, with Lyman on the seat, was among the farmers for many miles around their most familiar and genial visitor, and one that always came, pleasant or stormy. He has now removed to Manchester, New Hampshire.
BARNET.
Population, Census of 1900, 1,763.
The first settlement made in Caledonia county was in Barnet, March 4, 1770, by Daniel, Ja- cob, and Elijah Hall and Jonathan Fowler. The first house in the town and county was built by the Halls at the foot of the falls on the north side of Stevens river. The Halls and Fowler received one hun- dred acres each from the proprie- tors, to induce them to settle the town. Sarah, daughter of Elijah Hall, was the first child born in the town and county. She married James McLaren in 1:87. Barnet, son of Jonathan Fowler, was the first male child born in the county. John Galbraith came in 1776, and located on the Passumpsie, near the C. C. Harvey place, at the mouth of the Enerick brook. Archibald MeLaughlin, William Stevenson, and James Cross settled in town, on the Harvey tract, in 1776, and James Gilchrist on the MeIndoe plain in 1:77.
The town charter was granted September 16, 1763, under the
British crown, by Benning Went- worth, governor of New Hamp- shire. The governor reserved five hundred acres for himself, and one share was reserved for the propa- gation of the gospel in foreign parts, one share for a glebe for the church of England, one share for the first settled minister, and one share for schools. The American Revolution swept away the eondi- tions of the charter, but the United States government confirmed the grants. It is not known when the town was organized, and the first meeting held according to the char- ter. In Willard Stevens' collection of documents were found some loose papers, worn and torn, con- taining brief minutes of town-meet- ings during the Revolutionary war. At the earliest, September, 1778, Alexander Harvey was chosen rep- resentative to the general assembly. and intrusted with the votes for governor, lieutenant-governor, and conneilors. The state records show that the town-meetings were regu- larly held to choose Colonel Har- vey a delegate to the three conven- tions of 1777, and a representative to the legislature from its first meeting, March 12, 1778, until the regular town-meeting in March, 1783. Enos and Willard Stevens of Charlestown, New Hampshire, chief proprietors of the township of Bar- net, made a contract in July, 1221, with Colonel John Hurd of Haver- hill, New Hampshire, to build at the falls on Stevens river, in Barnet, a sawmill, the ensuing fall if conven- ient, otherwise by the first of July, 1771. and a grist-mill six months after that time, both to be kept in good repair during five years, the dangers of the war excepted. Ac-
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