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cording to the contraet the millirons were furnished on the spot by E. & W. Stevens. Colonel Hurd built the first mill in town and county, and received as his reward the mill lot on which he built a house and barn, and cleared twenty acres of land.
Dr. Phineas Stevens, brother of Enos Stevens, was the first physi-
The mail was first extended to Barnet in 1808, a weekly mail through the center of the town, and Rev. Mr. Goodwillie was first post- master. About 1812 he procured from "York state" the first four- wheeled vehicle owned and used in Barnet.
Henry Stevens, the well-known antiquarian of Barnet, presented
By courtesy of Vermont, 1903.
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cian in town. William Shaw was the first merchant, having a store at Stevens village, as Barnet was then called, and later Erastus Fair- banks, the war governor, was in trade here. Thomas Denison was probably the first lawyer, and was succeeded by Samuel Chandler, Mordecai Hale, and Joseph Potts. O. S. and O. C. Burke were the last to practice here.
some interesting facts before the Caledonia County Agricultural so- ciety in 1845. By turning to the census of this state, 1790, 1800, and 1810, the fact is shown that at each of these periods the people of Vermont possessed more sheep, ac- cording to their population, than any other state. The census shows that the inhabitants of Barnet man- ufaetured 5,535 yards of linen, 319
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yards of cotton, and 10,830 yards of woolen cloth in a single year. Not a single bill of purchase of woolen blankets or woolen garments out of the state, for our brave soldiers dur- ing the Revolutionary war, has yet been discovered.
The general assembly of Ver- mont, as early as 1786, passed a law that for the encouragement of do- mestic manufactures, the owner of sheep should be credited on his list
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, MCINDOE'S FALLS.
two shillings for every pound of wool shorn, and one shilling for every vard of tow or linen cloth manufactured. Here was protec- tion with a vengeance, and that it bore fruit is attested by the fore- going facts.
There are six settled ministers in town and seven churches, viz .: Bap- tist at Passumpsic, Congregational at East Barnet, Barnet, and McIn- doe villages, on the Boston & Maine
railroad, and three Presbyterian churches in the interior of the town. The town-meetings are held at Bar- net village.
A Congregational church was or- ganized by Rev. Samuel Goddard in 1816, composed of members from Barnet and Lyman, now Monroe, New Hampshire. The church, though small, was moderately pros- perous for some twelve years, and exercised a good influence. It was organized with twenty members, re- ceived into its fellowship about one hundred persons, and held meet- ings alternately at Barnet and McIndoe, Vermont, but never had a settled pastor. In October, 1829, the first Congregational church at MeIndoe was formed. It consisted of three members: James Gilchrist, Willard and J. F. Skinner. Rev. A. Govern was constituted pastor. The church edifice was built in 1853, largely through the efforts of Dea- cou James Gilchrist and the Glea- sons. Prior to 1860 thirty-eight members were received by profes- sion and letter, one hundred and eleven were dismissed, and twenty- five died. The large number of dis- missals was owing to the fact that on September 10, 1858, forty-three were dismissed for the purpose of being organized into a church at Stevens' village, as Barnet was then caled. Rev. A. Govern was pastor three years. Revs. Noah Cressey, J. B. White, E. I. Carpenter, T. E. Ranney, A. O. Hubbard, E. H. Cas- well, E. Cleveland, B. F. Roy, and MI. B. Bradford were successively pastors.
This church now contains one hundred and fifteen members in good standing. There are one hun- dred different members of the Sab-
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bath-school, with an average attend- ance of sixty-five. The usual at- tendance at church services is from one hundred, to one hundred and thirty, and has doubled during the pastorate of Mr. Eldredge.
Rev. A. F. Eldredge, the present pastor, is the fourth in the line of ancestors to continue the profession. He has formerly held prominent pastorates in New Jersey, New York, and Vermont, and is well known, having been twice chaplain of the New Jersey senate. A man of quick sympathies, closely in touch with his people, and abreast of the times, he is also a scholarly man and an able preacher, and the churches have prospered much under his labors.
ABBOTT, EDWARD, son of J. D. and Sarah (Stevens) Abbott, was born at Barnet in 1855. His mother was a granddaughter of Phineas Stevens, who served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary army, taking part in the Long Island campaign, and settled in Barnet as one of the pion- eers, the village being called Stevens village in honor of the Stevens fam- ily. Soloman, one of his four sons, settled permanently in Barnet. He married Sallie, eldest daughter of Clark Cushman of Passumpsic. Mrs. Sarah G. (Stevens) Abbott is the only survivor of a family of eleven children. She is an intelligent and well preserved lady of seventy-eight, and resides with her son and daugh- ter at the family homestead. A
brother, Xerxes C., born in 1832, was a captain in the Fifteenth Ver- mont regiment, settled in Nebraska, and after the war, Richard H., an- other brother, born in 1841, settled in California, where he amassed a handsome property; Soloman Ste- vens spent his later years here and
died in 1897. J. D. Abbott, born in 1822, was one of the nine children of John and Anne (Brock) Abbott, none of whom are now living. He was formerly a teacher, and was in trade in Barnet some twenty-five years after 1850, and was also a far- mer. The seven children of J. D. and Sarah (Stevens) Abbott were Kate, Edward, Fanny (deceased), wife of J. M. Roberts, Ella, Mrs. W. H. Johnson of Nebraska, Charles, who died in infancy, Jerry, and Mary, who resides with her brother at Barnet. Jerry is located at Woodsville, New Hampshire, as treasurer of the savings bank, and is also treasurer of the Barnet cream- ery.
Edward Abbott at an early age assumed the care and labors of his father's farm, and has developed into an energetic and successful man of affairs. He conducts a dairy farm of two hundred acres, and the stan- dard livery stable of the village with half a dozen good teams. Mr. Ab- bott is also interested in the sale of sleighs and carriages. A genial and active man and reliable salesman, few men are as familiar with the men and business of this section.
KENERSON, JOSIAH S., son of John B. and Eleanor F. (Richard- son) Kenerson, was born at Peach- am, November 7, 1832. John B. Kenerson moved from Orange to Peacham in 1830, where he after- wards resided, a respected citizen and farmer until his death at the advanced age of eighty-eight. Jo- seph Kenerson, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a soldier of the Revolution and John B., with others, marched to Platt-burg in the War of 1812, but arrived too late to participate in the battle.
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Josiah S. Kenerson was brought up on the paternal farm and at- tended the excellent public schools of his native town. At the age of
JOSIAH H. KENERSON.
twenty-one he married Abbie S .. daughter of Hiram Leet of Dan- ville, Province of Quebec, and for a time was a shoemaker in Peacham, and in January, 1863, moved to Manchester, New Hampshire.
He enlisted in July, 1863, in the First New Hampshire heavy artil- lery for three years, and was dis- charged at the close of the war, after more than two years of faithful ser- vice in the Army of the Potomac. Soon after his return from the ser- vice he bought a farm in Peacham, and for several years actively en- gaged in the business of auctioneer- ing, and was six years deputy sheriff. In 1872 he moved from Peacham to
Barnet village, where he has since resided. He soon afterward began selling phosphate for the Rumford Chemical works, for four years sell- ing their goods at auction. Later he engaged with the Bradley Fertil- izer company, and was in their em- ploy twelve years, traveling over northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. During the past seven years Mr. Kenerson has traveled for Swift's Fertilizer company, and be- ing a generous, warm-hearted, cour- teous gentleman, he has a wide cir- cle of friends and acquaintances. In 1888 he was elected to the legisla- ture from Barnet, and was a useful member. Mr. Kenerson is a mem- ber of Connecticut River lodge of Odd Fellows of Barnet, and of Aus- tin Goodell post, G. A. R., of Mon- roe, New Hampshire. Mrs. Kener- son died in 1896, leaving one son, A. H. Kenerson, a graduate of Dart- mouth of the class of "76 and a member of the well-known school book firm of Ginn & Co., of Boston.
A. H. Kenerson had two sons, E. H. and John B .; the former a graduate of Dartmouth college of the class of 1903, is an agent for Ginn & Co .; the latter, a freshman at Dartmouth, was drowned in Con- necticut river March 29, 1903. In May, 1875, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah S. Kenerson adopted a little girl named Flora Estelle, who at the age of nineteen married J. H. Watson, and May 9, 1899, was burned to death at Wilder, leaving two little daughters, Ruth and Flor- ence.
November 16, 1897, Mr. Kener- son married Mrs. Elizabeth Stevens, daughter of Rev. Ora Pearsons of Peacham. Her son by a former marriage, George E. Whitehill, M.
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D., and daughter, Mary, wife of L. A. Bigelow, reside in Everett, Mas- sachusettts.
ELLIOTT, DR. HENRY AUGUS- TUS, son of Edmund Harvey and Ellen E. (Cheever) Elliott, was born in Rumney, New Hampshire, July 27, 1867. Edmund Hl. Elliott is a solid and prosperous lumber and ladder manufacturer, a highly re- spected citizen and self-made man. The common school education of Henry A. Elliott was supplemented by a course of study at Colby acad- emy, New London, New Hamp- shire, where he fitted for college. Later he enjoyed the experience of teaching school in his native town. Having resolved to adopt the medical profession he spent a year reading in the office of Dr. Heath of Wakefield, Massachusetts, and then pursued the regular course at the medical department of University of Vermont, from which he grad- uated in July, 1893.
Dr. Elliott settled in practice at Barnet in January, 1894, where he has since remained, and built up a steadily increasing and remunera- tive practice. In June, 1894, he married Hattie, daughter of Charles C. Smart, a prominent business and publie man of Rumney, New Hamp- shire. Their fireside is cheered by the presence of four interesting chil- dren: Howard Newton, Loren Por- ter, Virginia, Maellen, and Harriet Elizabeth.
Dr. Elliott has taken an active and abiding interest in the social life and material progress of Bar- net, and is highly esteemed as a phy- sician and citizen. During the past six years he has been health officer of the town.
As president of the Village Im- provement society he has been in- strumental in providing wholesome amusements and securing substan- tial improvements. He is a member of Mystic Tie lodge, New England Order of Protection of Peacham, and vice-grand of Connecticut River lodge, No. 7, of Odd Fellows, of Barnet. Dr. Elliott is also a mem- ber of the Vermont State Medical society. In the fall of 1900 he took a post-graduate course at Baltimore Medical college.
Dr. and Mrs. Elliott still retain their membership in the Baptist church of Rumney, although con- tributing to the support of the gos- pel at Barnet.
PETER R. GOCHEE.
GOCIIEE, PETER R., son of Jo- seph and Mary (Goodchild) Gochee, was born at Monroe, New Hamp- shire, June 20, 1860. Ile was
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brought up on a farm and is practi- cally a lifelong resident of Barnet. He worked out on farms and in mills for several years after he became of age, and there learned the cost and value of money and saved the nest egg with which he began his busi- ness career. For several years he was actively engaged in real estate, buying and selling farms and farm stock. In December, 1889, he be- came junior partner of the firm of Gilfillan, Morrison & Co., for one year, being the business manager. In September, 1892, he married Jennie, daughter of Smith B. Liv- ingstone of Peacham. Mr. Gochee bought the Robert Brock farm of one hundred and forty-five acres near Passumpsic in January, 1894, which he conducted for eight years, and during this period handled other farm properties. After six months' experience in the feed busi- ness, in March, 1902, he rented the Barnet grist-mill of J. P. Miller & Son, and conducted it a year and a half. In September, 1903, he built his warehouse and started a new flour and feed store near Barnet depot. A jovial and accommodating salesman and a hustler, experienced in this line, his success has exceeded his anticipation. He deals exten- sively with the Ides of St. Johns- bury and is doing a business of more than twenty-five hundred dollars per month.
Peter R. and Jennie Gochee have a family of six promising children: Elsie Mae, Hazen A., Hale P., Wen- dell Stafford, Neil Dow, and Ruth Iva.
VAN DYKE, PHILO B., son of George and Abigail H. (Dixon) Van Dyke, was born in Noyon, Province of Quebec, October 31, 1841. His
parents were both native Vermont- ers. The Van Dyke family is of Dutch descent, coming originally from the state of New York. Abi- gail (Dixon) Van Dyke is still living at Lancaster, New Hampshire, and her children have recently cele- brated her ninety-sixth birthday. Her health is good and her mental faculties active. Her father Cap- tain Joseph Dixon, was a volun- teer Green Mountain boy of the War of 1812. Philo Van Dyke was reared upon a farm, where he formed a vigorous consti- tution and spent most of his minor- ity in the eastern townships of the Province of Quebec. At seventeen years of age he came to northern Vermont, and in 1864 enlisted in the First New Hampshire heavy artillery, and was mustered ont in June, 1865, at the close of the war. He served on the police force at Lawrence, Massachusetts, from 1866 to 1873. Returning to Lancaster, New Hampshire, he as- sisted his brother, George Van Dyke, in his extensive lumber business. In 1877 he removed to McIndoe, where he has since resided, and has man- aged the lumber mills of the Con- nectient Valley Lumber company, which are located here and which have manufactured several million feet of lumber annually, the most extensive lumber business on this river in Vermont. Mr. Van Dyke is a man of tireless energy and unusual business capacity, and no one is more closely identified with the pros- perity of McIndoe than he. He is a liberal contributor to the public in- stitutions of the village. . He owns the Monteith farm, a fine homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, lo- cated in the village, Van Dyke block,
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and several residences, his own the finest in the village, and has been financially successful. Mr. Van Dyke married Annie J., daughter of James Smith of Bloomfield, Ver- mont, in 1883. They have had an interesting family of nine children:
Charles Ver Nooy, M. D., of New York city, and Bertha L., wife of William A. Bellchambers of Brook- lyn.
Mr. Van Dyke, although best known as a successful business man, is liberal in his tastes and interests.
PHILO B. VAN DYKE.
Abbie Jane and Philo B., Jr., are students at Manchester, New Ilamp- shire; G. Dick, Percy J., Gladys M., Norman S., and Alice L., reside with their parents; Gerald H. and Milton died in childhood. Mr. Van Dyke has two daughters by a former marriage: Harriett MI., wife of 19
He is a member of Austin Goodell post, G. A. R., of Monroe, also of Tuscan lodge, F. & A. M., Lawrence, Massachusetts, and of Hector lodge, Knights of Pythias, of McIndoe.
WINCH, GEORGE F., son of Rev. C. M. and Jane E. (Fullam) Winch, was born in Brookfield, October 22,
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1851. His father was an esteemed Congregational minister and filled long pastorates at Worcester, Plain- field, Corinth, and Lower Waterford.
George F. Winch received a good common school education in the towns of Worcester and Plainfield, and at eighteen years of age began his mercantile career.
In 1873 he married Addie Mann of Barre, and engaged in trade one year at Waits River. Later he had
GEORGE F. WINCH.
a valuable and eventful experience as clerk and foreman nine years with the Vermont Copper Mining com- pany at Ely, Vermont, where during the "Ely war" he showed a courage and presence of mind in diverting the attention of the rioters, that saved much valuable property. Later Mr. Winch had charge of a store two years at Lyndonville, and of the Woods store two years at Pas- sumpsic. He commenced business
in McIndoe in the fall of 1888. An accommodating and reliable sales- man, with a varied and ample ex- perience, his business has largely in- creased, and he now carries a $10,- 000 stock. Besides having all of the features of a general country store he carries a full line of undertaker's goods, is an accomplished funeral director, has learned the art of em- balming and is a licensed embalmer, and does a large business in this line. He finished his commodious store, 40x55 feet, in 1894. He also conducts a livery and carries com- mercial travelers. G. F. Winch is a hustler, and a systematic and suc- cessful business man. Mrs. Winch is an attractive and capable lady. The daughters, Ella A. and Flora M., are both graduates of MeIndoe academy. Ella married E. P. Saw- yer of Portland and died May 11, 1902. Mr. Winch is a member of Hector lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a Republican in politics, and for six years was superintendent of the Sunday-school at the Congrega- tional church. He has been post- master at McIndoe Falls for seven years, and four years deputy sheriff, also many years constable and col- lector of Barnet.
PHELPS, WALTER M., son of Anthony J. and Mary A. (Kidder) Phelps, was born in Lunenburg, November 23, 1852. His grand- father, Anthony Phelps, was of Eng- lish descent and one of the early settlers of Lunenburg. His father was born in 1812, and settled on the river farm where the South Lunen- burg schoolhouse now stands, and the family resided there until Wal- ter was twelve years old, when they removed to Concord. Anthony and Mary A. Phelps reared a family of
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ten children. Walter M. was early in life thrown upon his own re- sources, and at the age of sixteen bought his time of his father. He was employed three years in a shoe manufactory at Charlestown, New Hampshire, and later in the ice busi- ness at Worcester, Massachusetts.
He married November 24, 1875. Helen D., daughter of Duncan and Phoebe (Hight) Harvey of Barnet. The next spring Mr. Phelps invested his well-earned savings in the fine hill farm of one hundred and sev- enty-five acres, two miles from Mc- Indoe, which he still owns, and to which he has added one hundred acres by purchase.
Mr. Phelps is a man of great en- ergy, a successful farmer, and a practical business man. The build- ings were old, and he erected in 1887 a model barn, 44x100, with double floor and entire basement. He also rebuilt the house and horse- barn, which were burned to the ground in April, 1894, involving a heavy loss. The same year he erected the present fine house and horse-barn, and continued to reside there until 1899, conducting it as a stock and dairy farm, one of the best in town, when he removed to his present home in MeIndoe. This place contains one hundred acres. It has a fine view of the Connecticut river valley and has been christened "Bonnie View." Mr. Phelps is widely and favorably known as a re- liable dealer in farm stock, and dur- ing the past ten years has exten- sively handled Western and North- ern horses, buying by the carload and selling in this vicinity and in Massachusetts. He is highly es- teemed as a citizen of integrity and ability, has served the town repeat-
edly as a lister, and is now a select- man. He is an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias.
Walter M. and Helen D. Phelps have four children, all of whom have been educated at MeIndoe academy. Alice B. is a graduate of the business department of St. Johnsbury academy, and has held positions as bookkeeper and stenog- rapher; Harvey J. W. also has a di- ploma from Barbour's Business col-
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lege and is actively engaged in buy- ing and shipping live stock; L. Per- ley has commenced the shipment of Iowa horses; while Leonard A., the youngest, is still at home.
CRANE, DENZIL M., son of Charles and Mary (Fisk) Crane, was born in Danville, February 19, 1848. Reared upon a farm, he formed a sturdy, robust physique and habits of industry and economy. He at- tended Phillips academy and taught
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several terms of winter school. He continued to remain on the farm, and finally bonght a portion of it, on which he erected a set of build- ings. In 1879 he sold the farm to his brother and removed to Barnet.
He married in 1877 Nancie Ag- nes, daughter of Jesse G. and Julia A. (Snow) of Brandon.
When Mr. Crane settled in Bar- net he consolidated the Roberts
DENZIL M. CRANE.
Blair and Joseph Gillfillan farms, making a tract of 350 acres of good hill land.
During the past quarter of a cen- tnry he has made many and great improvements. He has doubled the production of the farms, which now carry sixty head of cattle, inchiding an excellent dairy of Jerseys and some fine horses. Ile lias erected a modern barn, 42 x 80, with double floor and entire basement, also a horse barn 40 x40 feet.
The fine two-story farmhouse, finished in hardwood, is a monu- ment of his industry and good taste.
The farm is well adapted for producing hay and top-dressing is an important feature of farm econ- omy.
Mr. and Mrs. Crane have reared a vigorous family of four sons and four daughters and have satisfac- torily solved the help problem on the farm. The eldest, Grace M., married William J. Orr, of Groton. The other children, Emma L. D., Roger, Royal M., Edna A., Nelson H., Alaric J., and J. Helen, reside at home. The three eldest are graduates of MeIndoes academy.
Mr. Crane is an esteemed citizen and a successful farmer and finan- cier.
In 1901 he sold stock to raise money to convert the skimming station at McIndoes into a cream- ery, and superintended the build- ing of the same, and has been pres- ident of the company ever since. It is one of the most successful creameries in this section. The other officers are R. M. Johnson, vice-president, D. M. Crane, R. M. Johnson, Alexander Warden, J. F. Aiken, and Frank Lackie, direct- ors; C. I. Smith, clerk and treas- urer.
GOODRICH, JEDD H., son of Leonard H. and Julia M. (Hubbard) Goodrich, was born in Randolph, September 14, 1868. His boyhood was spent in Randolph, where he at- tended the graded school. At fif- teen years of age he went to St. Johnsbury and there learned the tinman and plumber's trade of his brother, Henry J. Goodrich, where he remained a dozen years. In Jan-
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uary, 1894, he located in MeIndoe and started a tin shop, hardware store, and plumbing business, the first enterprise of this kind in the village. He carries a well-selected stock of general hardware, which in- eludes mechanics' tools and supplies, shelf hardware, agricultural imple- ments, table cutlery, sport-man's goods, kitchen furnishings, tin, iron, glass, and stone ware, drain tile and cement, paints. oils, and varnishes, sugar makers' supplies in their sea- son, also a good supply of stoves and ranges, the Glenwood being the leader. Mr. Goodrich has such a convenient classification of his goods that a customer is at once guided to a discreet selection of the article needed. He has a good location for the business, midway between St. Johnsbury and Wells River, and se- cures a liberal and increasing pa- tronage. The hardware store is a great public convenience, and Mr. Goodrich is a popular and reliable salesman and plumber.
He married. in 1890. Izetta, daughter of Horace Jackson of St. Johnsbury. He is a member of Pas- sumpsic lodge. No. 21, F. & A. M., and of Haswell chapter of St. Johns- burv.
CHASE BROTHERS. Stephen and Theodore W. Chase were born at Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1874 and 1876, respectively. They are sons of Frederick and Mary (Pome- roy) Chase. The late Frederick Chase was well known as treasurer of Dartmouth college, and many years judge of probate of Grafton county. He was formerly a lawyer in New York and Washington. Stephen Chase graduated from Dartmouth college in 1896, and Theodore W. three years later. Both
are college fraternity men and noted as athletes, Stephen holding the world's record in the hurdle race of one hundred and twenty vards. Stephen Chase bought an interest in the Passumpsie Fiber Leather com- pany in the fall of 1897, and has since been actively engaged in devel- oping this promising enterprise. Theodore W. Chase became a part- ner in 1902 and Chase Brothers now own a controlling interest in the stock. With the advent of fresh capital and energy the plant has been greatly enlarged and improved, and this is now one of the largest and best equipped mills of its kind in the country, employs fourteen men, and does an extensive business. It is, in fact, the leading industrial enterprise of Passumpsie. The officers of the Passumpsic Fiber Leather company are: George F. Cushman of St. Johnsbury, presi- dent; Stephen Chase, secretary and manager: Theodore W. Chase, treas- urer. Chase Brothers have recently bought the Kelley farm, one mile from the village, and are doing a considerable wood and lumber busi- ness. They have recently purchased a steam sawmill which will soon be located in this village, and will be a great publie convenience.
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