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USA > Vermont > Lamoille County > Successful Vermonters; a modern gazetteer of Lamoille, Franklin and Grand Isle counties, containing an historical review of the several towns and a series of biographical sketches > Part 2
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Lamoille County, it starts upon its second half century stronger than ever, and better than ever prepared to stand as the pillar of financial strength upon which all legitimate enterprises of Lamoille County can safely lean. It offers the public within its legitimate sphere of busi- ness every facility, every advan- tage and every accommodation which can be offered consistent
K. Gleed of Morrisville, John B. Page of Cambridge and C. W. Bry- ant of Westfield.
The present board of officers is as follows: President, Carroll S. Page; vice-president, Henry M. McFarland; cashier, Edward L. Noyes.
The president and vice-president, with the following gentlemen, con- stitute the present board of direct-
LAMOILLE COUNTY NATIONAL BANK AND LAMOILLE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY BUILDING.
with safety and the rules of good banking.
Among the well-known names -- familiar to all the older citizens of Lamoille County-which have been upon the board of directors, may be mentioned Hon. Columbus C. Chadwick of Johnson; Orlo Cady, Esq., of Morrisville; for- mer Congressman Powers, Judge Edward P. Mudgett of Cambridge, Phineas S. Benjamin, of Wolcott, Henry Smilie of Cambridge, Philip
ors, to wit: Isaac L. Pearl, John- son ; Herbert F. Brigham, Bakers- field; Clarence A. Knight, Hyde Park ; Harry A. Noyes, Hyde Park ; Levi V. Smilie, Cambridge.
THE LAMOILLE COUNTY SAVINGS BANK AND TRUST COMPANY. This institution was organized and be- gan business January 21, 1889. The growth of the bank has been steady from the date of its begin- ning business to the present time. Despite the panics of 1893 and
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1896, each year has shown a sub- stantial gain until now the depos- its amount to $688,728.71, while the present assets of the bank are $833,950.93. Besides the capital stock, $50,000, there is an accumu- lation of surplus and undivided profits, amounting to $56,119.18, which, together with the liability of the stockholders, makes a guar- anty fund of $156,119.18 that every depositor in this bank will re- ceive his money with interest, when called for. This showing places the bank in the front rank of Ver- mont's strong financial institutions.
The position of this bank on the question of investments is unique in the history of Vermont Savings Banks. It has never loaned a dol- lar outside of Vermont. The di- rectors believe that this is not only the safest but the most loyal course to Vermont. They believe that a Vermont savings bank owes a duty to Vermont, and, so long as Ver- mont's money is sent out of the state for investment, and Ver- mont's young men go after it, just so long will Vermont continue to fail to take her rightful position in the march of progress. They believe that the first allegiance of a bank is to the people from whom it derives its support and that the money deposited by the people should be used for their advance- ment and for the building up of their commercial and industrial in- terests. Such a course, honestly pursued by the savings banks of Vermont, would do much to give Vermont a high rank among the most prosperous of her sister states, whether they be East or West. The great trouble is Ver- mont has not been true to herself, but happily the people are begin- ning to realize it and to appreciate
the loyalty of such a course as the Lamoille County Savings Bank and Trust Company has ever pursued, as is evidenced by the favor with which this bank has come to be re- garded throughout the state.
Such an institution is both a credit and an aid to any com- munity. It is at once not only a safe depository of the people's money, the savings of youth and the accumulations of old age, but it is a worthy and powerful pro- moter of all legitimate enterprises. A community that can boast such an institution is to be congrat- ulated.
The present directors of the bank are Carroll S. Page, president; Henry M. McFarland, vice-presi- dent; Seth A. Fife, Arba A. Pike, Roger W. Hulburd, and Russell S. Page.
PAGE, FORMER GOVERNOR CAR- ROLL SMALLEY of Hyde Park, and son of Russell S. and Martha Mal- vina (Smalley) Page, was born in Westfield, January 10, 1843.
His ancestors on the Page side were from Londonderry, New Hampshire, his grandfather, James Page, removing from that town about 1785. He was one of the first settlers of Hyde Park.
On the mother's side Mr. Page is a
direct descendant of William Hyde, one of the 35 original found- ers of the town of Norwich, Con- necticut.
Captain Jedediah Hyde, Mr. Page's great-grandfather, was an officer in the Revolutionary War. At the close of the war he came to northern Vermont, then practi- cally an unbroken wilderness, se- lected for himself and other Nor- wich, Connecticut, friends the site of the town, secured a charter for it and it was named in his honor,
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"Hyde Park," and it was here that Mr. Page's father and mother were born.
Governor Page married, April 11, 1865, Ellen Frances, daughter of Theophilus Hull and Desde- mona (Jackson) Patch. Three children have been born to them, namely : Theophilus Hull, born December 22, 1871; Russell Smith, born April 19, 1877, and Alice, born June 5, 1879. The eldest son died in 1898. The younger son, Russell, is with his father in business.
The eldest son, Theophilus, mar- ried Emeroy, daughter of Aman- dus L. Goddard of Hyde Park, and from that union Governor Page has two grandsons, Carroll G., born May 8, 1894, and Proctor Hull, born February 12, 1896.
For nearly forty years Governor Page has been closely identified with public affairs in Vermont. At the age of 26 he was elected to the General Assembly and re-elected in 1870. In 1872 he was made a member of the Republican state committee, an office which he held until 1888, at which time, being a candidate for the office of governor, he declined a re-election. He was for several years its secretary and treasurer and during the last years of his incumbency of that office, was its chairman. In 1874 he was elected to the state senate. For about ten years he was register of probate for the district of Lamoille and in 1880 was a delegate to the Republican national convention at Chicago which nominated James A. Garfield for president. In 1884 he was appointed inspector of finance, an office having direct supervision of the savings banks of Vermont, and it was in this position that he became especially known as the
champion of Vermont investments for Vermont savings banks. Up to 1884 the law had placed no limit upon the amount which could be loaned by Vermont savings banks on mortgages in the West but in that year, after a somewhat stren- nous contest, the limit was by law made 58 per cent. and that limit was still further reduced to 50 per cent. in 1886. Mr. Page was re- appointed inspector in 1886 and held the office until 1888, when in anticipation of his candidacy for the governorship, he declined a re- appointment. In 1890 he was elected governor.
As a banker he is known as the president of the two banks at Hyde Park, the Lamoille County Na- tional and the Lamoille County Savings Bank and Trust Company. He is also the largest stockholder in the Swanton Savings Bank and Trust Company of Swanton. Mr. Page's motto has ever been, "Ver- mont's money should be kept in Vermont to foster Vermont indus- tries and to develop Vermont en- terprises," and no applicant for loans outside of Vermont has ever been successful in securing funds . at any of the three banks which Mr. Page controls.
It is as a dealer in green calf- skins, in which line his business has been regarded as the foremost in the United States, that Governor Page is best known to the business world. Commencing in this line when a mere boy, in 1855, he has persistently pushed the business until his trade reaches the larger part of the United States and the more important nations of Europe.
BRIGHAM, HON. WALDO, came of Puritan ancestry, tracing his genealogical line to Thomas Brig- ham, who came from England and
WALDO BRIGHAM.
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located at Cambridge, Massachu- setts, about 1634. He was born at Bakersfield, June 10, 1829, the youngest child, in a family of 10, of Asa and Sally Hardy Brig- ham, and died after a long and painful illness at Hyde Park, April 2, 1900. ITis early education was obtained in the district school and at Bakersfield Academy. After completing his course at the acad- emy, he entered the University of Vermont, from which he gradu- ated with honor in the class of 1854. Among his classmates were Reuben Clark Benton, until his death in 1895, a prominent lawyer of Minneapolis ; Charles H. Heath, late of the Washington County bar, and Charles Merritt Gay, at one time editor and publisher of the Living Age.
After one year spent in teaching at Potsdam, New York, he took up the study of law, first in the office of Hon. W. C. Wilson in Bakers- field and afterwards in the office of John A. Child and Whitman G. Ferrin at Hyde Park. He was admitted to the bar of Lamoille County at the May term, 1857, and shortly thereafter entered the office of Hon. Homer E. Royce, then a member of Congress from Vermont, at East Berkshire. Re- maining there in the practice of his profession four years, he re- turned to Hyde Park in 1862, when he formed a partnership with George L. Waterman. This partnership continued until dis- solved by reason of the failing health of Mr. Waterman, in 1884, covering the period of the greatest activity in Mr. Brigham's legal ca- reer. During this time, spanning almost a quarter of a century, there was hardly a case of any promi- nence on the Lamoille County
docket in which did not appear Brigham & Waterman, and in the lists against them, Hon. II. Henry Powers and Hon. Philip K. Gleed of the firm of Powers & Gleed, or Hon. George W. Hendee. In 1884 Mr. Brigham formed a partnership with Henry M. McFarland, which continued for three years. His re- tirement from this partnership by reason of ill health, the seeds of which were sown in the care and overwork of more than a decade before in the semi-public service, given to the building of what is now known as the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Railroad, of which he was the first president, practically marked the close of Mr. Brigham's professional labors.
His strength as a lawyer lay chiefly in a thorough knowledge of legal principles, grounded in com- mon sense. He was not a case law- yer. The reports were for him an immense storehouse of legal princi- ples, clothed with facts, individ- ualized, never a compendium of decisions simply. The bench and bar of our state, as well as a client- age extending over almost a quar- ter of a century, testify to the ability and integrity which Mr. Brigham brought to the practice of his chosen profession.
Mr. Brigham was more than a lawyer. He was an unselfish and high-minded citizen, always plac- ing above private interests the in- terest of his town, his county and his state. His years after reach- ing maturity were filled to the full with business and professional ac- tivities, activities not self-cen- tered, but self-sacrificing, public spirited, altruistic. His was a life that looked out and beyond self for its motives, its aim, its highest en-
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joyment. He lived to serve, not to be served.
Always a Democrat in a state where there was no hope of public preferment, Mr. Brigham held few offices. He represented Hyde Park in the Legislature in 1866-'67-'68, serving with credit on important committees. Though his party could elect him to no county or state office, it signally honored him by naming him at various times for the offices of state's attorney, county senator, lieutenant-gov- ernor, member of Congress and senator of the United States. He also represented his party as a del- egate to the national convention which named Governor Seymour for the presidency.
In 1858, shortly after his admis- sion to the bar, he married Lucia Ellen, eldest daughter of Hon. Lucius Noyes of Hyde Park. From this union were born three daughters, all of whom are now living. Julia, the eldest, married Henry M. McFarland of Hyde Park. Mary is the wife of James Buckham, eldest son of President M. H. Buckham, and resides in Melrose, Massachusetts. Blanche, the youngest, late preceptress of the high school at The Dalles, Ore- gon, is unmarried. Mary and Blanche are graduates of the Uni- versity of Vermont.
Such, briefly told, was the life of Waldo Brigham. While it was not perfect, its motives were right, and, as said Antony over the dead body of Brutus at Philippi, so may it be said of him :
"His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, 'This was a man.' "
MCFARLAND, HENRY M., of Hyde Park, traces his genealogical line to the Clan MacFarlane in the Highlands of Scotland. The an- cestor of the MacFarlanes was Gil- christ, brother of Malduin, third earl of Lenox, proof of which is found in a charter still extant by which the earl gave to his brother a grant of "Arrochar," which es- tate continued in the possession of the clan for 600 years.
A great-grandson of Gilchrist was named Partholan, Gaelic for Bartholomew, which soon came to be written Pharlan and Pharlane, then, prefixing Mac, meaning the son of, became MacPharlan and MacPharlane, which was aspirated or softened into MacFarlan and MacFarlane, and was adopted as the patronymical surname of the clan, notwithstanding the fact that for three generations before this they had been known as MacGil- christs.
In 1608, when the clan MacFar- lane was decreed rebels by law, many of them went to the north of Ireland, settling in the County Londonderry and thenceforth, with others who went from Scotland to Ireland about that time were called Scotch-Irish. From a peculiarity of the Scotch pronunciation the final "e" was changed to "d," giving us MacFarland.
Among the Scotch-Irish immi- grants who landed in Boston in 1718, was Nathan McFarland. His son, Moses McFarland, great- grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in London- derry, New Hampshire, February 19, 1738, and died April 7, 1802.
He was a veteran of two wars, having served in the French and
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Indian War and in the struggle for independence. His services won for him the rank of major, as well as the personal friendship of Gen- eral Washington. September 3, 1765, he married Eunice Clark, a descendant of James Clark, one of the original 16 settlers of Lon- donderry. She was born Septem- ber 23, 1748, and died January 13, 1820. Osgood McFarland, son of Moses McFarland, was born Au- gust 8, 1781, and died at Water- ville, July 21, 1865. He married Mary Bartlett of Haverhill, Massa- chusetts, September 14, 1806. She was born March 9, 1786, and died June 5, 1861. Moses McFarland, son of Osgood McFarland, see Waterville, was born at Marietta, Ohio, June 25, 1821, and now re- sides in Waterville. October 22, 1849, he married Livonia A. Leach, who was born in Waterville, May 29, 1820, and died May 22, 1889.
Henry M. McFarland, second child of Moses and Livonia A. Mc- Farland, was born at Waterville, August 5, 1852; graduated from the People's Academy and Mor- risville Graded School in 1875, and from the University of Vermont as valedictorian in 1878; was princi- pal of the Lamoille Central Acad- emy at Hyde Park for the three succeeding years, and is one of its trustees, as he has been for many years; studied law with Brigham & Waterman and was ad- mitted to the bar of Lamoille County in 1881 ; was elected state's attorney for Lamoille County in 1884, holding the office for two years, and was a delegate from Vermont to the National Republi- can Anti-Saloon Convention which met in Chicago in 1886. In 1888 he was made a director of the La- moille County National Bank, and
later its vice-president, in which position he still serves. He was one of the incorporators of the La- moille County Savings Bank & Trust Company in 1889 and its first vice-president, which office he now holds. He was secretary of civil and military affairs under Governor Carroll S. Page from 1890 to 1892. In 1891 he was elected a director of the Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and has served in that capacity since that time. About twenty years ago, as an incident of his law business, he started the La- moille County Insurance Agency, which under his management has developed into one of the leading agencies in this part of the state. Since his coming to Hyde Park, in 1878, he has been actively inter- ested in various industrial enter- prises, and is now secretary and director of the Hyde Park Lumber Company, and of the Morse Manu- facturing Company. He is now filling out the sixth year of service on the board of trustees of the vil- lage of Hyde Park. During his service as chairman of the board, the municipal light and power plant, costing nearly twenty thousand dollars, was installed and the village sewer system put in. He has served his town as super- intendent of schools, as well as in various other capacities, and has always been keenly alive to all mat- ters of public interest. He is a member of the Second Congrega- tional Church of Hyde Park, and is active in its support, having served as chairman of the build- ing committee, under whose super- vision a new church, costing up- wards of eight thousand dollars, was erected in 1899. He is a mem- ber of the Masonic Fraternity, hav-
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ing taken the Knight Templar de- grees. He is also an Odd Fellow, having served the order as grand master of the state in 1897, and as grand representative in 1898-'99. He is a member of the Vermont So- ciety of the Sons of the American Revolution, tracing his connection to the struggle for independence through his great-grandfather, Major Moses McFarland.
Mr. McFarland married Julia, eldest daughter of Hon. Waldo Brigham, a graduate of the Uni- versity of Vermont, class of 1854, eight years president of the St. Johnsbury & Lake Champlain Rail- road, and in his lifetime a lead- ing attorney of Northern Ver- inont, December 22, 1881. See page 12. They have three chil- dren : Helen Marion, born Novem- ber 27, 1885, now a sophomore at Wellesley College; Grace Brigham, born September 24, 1888, now a student at St. Johnsbury Acad- emy, and Brigham Wheeler, born April 5, 1891.
HULBURD, HON. ROGER WILL- IAM, a son of Benjamin and Juli- ana (Miller) Hulburd was born October 22, 1856.
The Hulburd family is one of the oldest in America. History tells us that William Hulburd came from England and settled in Dorchester in 1630, moving to Windsor, Connecticut, five years later. In 1655 he helped to settle Northampton and died there in 1694. His son, William 2d, was born in 1654, lived in Enfield and New Haven, Connecticut. Oba- diah, son of William, was born in 1703 and in 1729 married Love Parsons. William, 3d, son of Oba- diah, was born in 1730 and mar- ried Tibitha Warner in 1750. Their son, William, 4th, was born
in 1752, and in 1773 married a Miss Phelps. William, 5th, son of William, 4th, was born in 1774. No authentic record of whom he married has been found. His son, Benjamin F., father of Hon. Roger William, subject of this sketch, was born at Milton in 1822 and in 1851 married Juliana Miller of Johnson.
Tradition says that William 1st or 2d was given 400 acres for services in Indian wars. William 4th's name appears as one of Ethan Allen's famous "Green Mountain Boys," in "New York and the Revolution, " published by New York state, on page 49, edition of 1900. The name, even in Ver- mont, was sometimes spelled Hul- burt, which sometimes causes con- fusion in looking up facts con- nected with the family history in Vermont. Helen H. Brown was a granddaughter of Ebenezer, a brother of William 4th.
These eight generations of Hul- burds have been sturdy, stanchi and true, original and thinking men who have lived their convic- tions and hewed to the line.
Benjamin F. Hulburd enlisted in the ill-fated Seventh Vermont, and, enduring the malaria of the swamps of Louisiana, was dis- charged for physical disability. As soon as his health permitted he re- enlisted in the Second Vermont, went through Gettysburg cam- paign, the last grand advance on Richmond and was killed in the battle of Cedar Creek, October 19, 1864.
Roger W. was born at Water- ville, receiving his early school training in that town. He at- tended the Montpelier Seminary, graduated from the People's Acad- emy at Morrisville in 1877 and
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from the classical course of the University of Vermont, class of 1882. In the fall of that year he became principal of the Lamoille Central Academy at Hyde Park, and continued for three years, meanwhile pursuing his legal stud- ies in the office of Brigham & Mc- Farland. He attended the Al- bany Law School, 1886-'87, was admitted to the bar in 1887 and at once entered upon the prac- tice of the law at Hyde Park. By close attention to his profession, he rapidly pushed forward and is now ranked among the leaders at the Vermont bar.
In politics, Mr. Hulburd is a Republican. In 1894 he was elected state's attorney for La- moille County and administered that office for two years with marked ability. In 1896 he was nominated, without opposition by the Republican county convention, for state senator, and was elected by one of the largest majorities ever given in the county. In this body he easily became leader and his work was such as to bring great credit and public praise. In the fall of 1896 he was appointed by Governor Grout chairman of the board of trustees of the State In- dustrial School to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Lieutenant-Governor Fisk. By successive re-appointment he still holds this important office. Here his sound judgment and splendid executive ability has made him a most desirable public servant. He has filled the various town offices and was postmaster of Hyde Park during the Harrison administra- tion. He has for several years been a trustee of the Lamoille County Savings Bank ; is president of the Hyde Park Warehouse Com-
pany and is now serving as a mem- ber of the state board of examiners for admission to the bar.
All in all, Mr. Hulburd is a strong, clean, able man, with high ideals of professional accomplish- ments. Socially, he is decidedly genial, full of wit and quick at repartee.
In 1884 he was united in mar- riage to Mabel J., a daughter of Hon. Lucius H. Noyes of Hyde Park, a lady of refinement, whose devotion to home and family is her greatest delight. Four children have been born of this happy union : three girls and a boy.
SMALL, LEANDER S .- George Small, father of Leander S. Small, was born at Amherst, New Hamp- shire, July 1, 1789, removing to Morristown in 1818, where he re- sided in the same neighborhood until his death. He married Or- pha Wilkins of Amherst and they had five sons and five daughters: Lucinda (1), Leander S. (2), George F. (3), Joseph B. (4), Ly- dia (5), Hiram M. (6), Harriet (7), Vernon W. (8), Nancy (9), Mary (10).
Mr. Small was a strictly honest man, always conscientious, but ever active, genial and social, and had the respect and esteem of all who knew him. To illustrate one trait of his character, his father, a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and the father of 14 children, found it rather hard to keep even with the world, and had accumu- lated debts before his death. George, as a matter of course, went to work to pay up his father's creditors, which he did to the last penny.
After coming to Morristown, he engaged in farming, and was hon- ored by various public offices, hav-
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ing served two terms in the Legis- lature, and many times as justice of the peace, selectman and lister. Although conservative and a Dem- ocrat, he was an admirer and fol- lower of Lincoln and his adminis- tration, and an advocate of the conduct of the war. He died May 27, 1875.
HIon. Leander S. Small was born in Morristown, December 3, 1820. He was reared on the farm and educated in the common schools. At 21 he took up the study of law in the office of Butler & Wil- kins, at Stowe, and was admitted to the bar in 1845. He then, as partner, entered the office of the late Hon. George Wilkins of Stowe, where he remained for three years, when, owing to ill health, he gave up for a time the practice of law and devoted his attention to teach- ing. In 1852 he came to Hyde Park, opened a law office and there practiced his profession for many years. In 1853 he married Cor- nelia M., daughter of Almond Boardman of Morristown. In
1861 he was elected county clerk and served for seven years. In 1878 he was elected second assist- ant judge, and in 1880, first assist- ant. He was a successful practi- tioner, well versed in the law, of which he was always a close stu- dent, and his knowledge of ele- inentary law was considered re- markable. He was, too, an untir- ing worker in behalf of his clients, and would labor as faithfully to effect an amicable settlement when he believed it for their interests as in his preparation for trial. He was frequently called upon to act as referee, which position his im- partial judgment and sound legal training enabled him always to fill very satisfactorily. He began the
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