The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical gazetteer : including a county chapter and the local histories of the towns of Montpelier., Part 93

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Montpelier, Vt. : Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press
Number of Pages: 1064

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Masonic hall were leveled to the ground, and the present Bethany church occupies the site.

Bethany exterior, 124x72, height of nave, 65 feet ; Gothic architecture ; tower height, 68 feet, 21x21 ; chapel, 50 x35; ridge, 36 feet from ground ; church and tower, walls and buttresses, dark red stone : arches, mouldings, etc., dark blue stone ; chapel walls, Burlington stone, almost white, with warm flush of rose ; trimmings, of dark red stone: at eastern vestibule, with wide corridor and three porches, with

opens up : Interior divided by columns into nave and aisle, with an apsidal chan- cel ; church and chancel, deep wainscotted in chestnut, with black walnut cap and base ; beams of the roof cased in chestnut ; ceiling, a clear blue ; walls, a soft stone color ; aisle-roof, nave-roof, arches, clere- story, spandals pierced with capsed open- ings, all highly ornamental ; principal tim- bers of the roof, richly moulded ; roof open quite to the ridge, 60 feet high from the floor of the audience room. The roof of the chancel is supported by detached shafts,

RESIDENCE OF JOSEPH POLAND, SCHOOL STREET.

tall gables finished with cappings of the | their moulded bases resting on corbels in dark blue stone, terminated with foliated the angles of the apsis ; carved ribs rising from these shafts to the stained glass sky- light in the centre ; the chancel is separated from the nave by a richly-moulded arch, resting on clustered shafts ; windows all with arched mouldings, resting on orna- mental corbels. crosses ; and in the gable of the centre porch, in wall-recess, with pointed arch, the great rose-window, rich in tracery and stained glass; from the cornice of the belfry rises the spire, enriched with shafted windows, canopies, ornamental slating, to a finial and cross of gold, 153 feet from the ground ; between the side walls of the church, arched windows, supported by but- tresses, filled with tracery ; roofs of church, chapel porches, covered with slating in al- ternate bands of plain and shell-work.

As you enter from the vestibule, thus it

Choir and organ in the chancel, sepa- rated from the pulpit by columns and in- terlacing arches. The blue ceiling here has crimson and buff borders, panels with ornaments in color and panels with me- dallions. The walls of the chancel are maroon, border of crimson and buff, vine

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of oak leaves in blue ; chancel windows, stained glass, bordered in blue, each with medallion in crimson ; purple wall below each window, border of olive, white and green, with two panels with Gothic heads and spandrels filled with ornaments. The whole coloring of the interior is exceed- ingly rich and chaste, over nave and aisles, as well as chancel. The compartments formed in the blue ceiling by the roof timbers, have wide, rich borders-diag- onal bands of crimson and buff. The roof timbers are a rich maroon, flecked with orange, yellow, and a stellar pattern in lighter maroon ; the shields on the ends of hammer-beams, a white ground with crim- son border and scroll ornaments ; " walls and columns below, neutral gray ; shafts,

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BAPTIST CHURCH, SCHOOL STREET.

arch - mouldings of windows and doors flecked out with crimson, green, purple and flesh color." We are taken with the beauty of the coloring, "the effect" of which "is much enhanced by the rich

colors of the stained glass in the whole interior, chancel, side walls, clere-story, exceedingly beautiful. The chancel win- dows and large rose windows are es- pecially rich," with a declaration of the Most Holy Trinity in the centre light of the great rose window.

Our view represents the Interior of this church. For the history of Bethany, see Mr. Walton's paper, page 288; also 396-407. For the historian who writes up the history of the next hundred years of Montpelier, this handsome edifice of stone will remain perfect, as now; to the old which has already passed away, we there- fore give the more space and the more care to gather up its fragments now, before ir- revocably lost.

The organ is superbly pleasing to the eye, har- monizes admirably with the interior of the church, and for general quality of tone, and characteristic voicing of individual stops, we have never heard ex- celled : The clarionette seems like the veritable instrument itself, the obeo approximates more nearly to the true imitation than any stop we have ever heard called by its name- the vox humana-people hearing it are actually de- ceived by it, and look around to see who is sing- ing. We have many times heard it pronounced sec- ond to no instrument in the country of its size, and are not prepared to deny the statement. Its first concert was the evening before the dedication of Bethany.

AN OLD-TIME SINGING-MASTER,

Col. H. D. HOPKINS, who for 35 years knew all that was going on in all the choirs around ; knew all the leading singers ; kept singing-school; conducted musical con-

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ventions, and for 27 years conducted the music in "Brick" and "Bethany" churches, and so on; who knew the leaders in the "Old Brick" from the first day to the end. and who ought to have been asked for a paper on this subject, and would have been, had the Compiler been aware of his relations to these matters in time. Moses E. Cheney, of Barnard, the old popular singing-master of the State, says, " Brother Hopkins must be remembered when you notice the churches, certainly. He has done more free labor in Montpelier than any other man, and that so well."

The first transient singing-master that ever taught here, says Mr. Hopkins, was Joseph Wilder, from Derby, Vt., and the early choristers of the Brick church were Hon. Joseph Howes, O. H. Smith, Esq., several years, Dr. Gustavus Loomis, Chas. W. Badger, and Moses E. Cheney, who

May, 1839, and was attended by towns- people not only, but by clergymen and lawyers from all parts of the State. The facts relating to this convention should not go unmentioned, and the honor of it should be placed where it belongs, with Moses E. Cheney, the true Vermonter and antiquarian.

John H. Paddock was the first organist here. George W. Wilder, who is in busi- ness now at the head of State street, an esteemed citizen of Montpelier at the pres- ent time, was another organist at the old Brick, also Miss Hosford and a Mrs. Bigelow ; and John and Zenas Wood were leading singers at the " Old Brick" in its palmy days, and perhaps others -- doubtless.

Mr. H. assisted at, and reported for all the musical conventions held at Montpelier for more than 20 years, in which he says, in report of the Annual Central Vermont Musical Conven- tion, held at Wash- ington Hall, in this village, Jan. '67- · four days. Mr. Phillips, of St. Albans, elicited the first hearty applause, and Pro- fessor N. L. Phil- lips, of Barre, the man who perhaps has taught more singers than any other in Central Vermont, appear- ed in a superb solo. We are always MATTHE NS. astonished at the vigor and force of that voice, a grand type of what we

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led the singing of the old Brick church | wish all voices might be at sixty. The 5th and 6th same annual conventions Mr. Hopkins directed.

about 1840, for 3 years, and did much to inspire the service of song with new life. He, also, was the projector and conductor of the first musical convention ever held in Vermont, and it is believed in America. It has been so stated in the public prints, and has never been denied. The con- vention was held in the old Brick church,

His first letter to the Boston Journal was written in 1859, and until the failing of his health, in 1875, he was the only regular Vermont correspondent of that paper. He has also written quite exten- sively for the Montpelier and other State

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papers. For some few years he has been too much of an invalid for business labor, but occasionally now writes a good article for press. We have been indebted on these last pages to his present pen and huge old scrap-book for several articles. As a speci- men of the Colonel's humorous vein, we purloin the following :

TO MY OLD BOOTS. BY SOME ONE.

For three full years, and something more, You've served me a faithful " pair ;" I therefore don't wonder that, all things considered, You're looking " the worse for the wear."

SONG OF THE DYING YEAR. BY JOSEPHINE M. SWEET.

In the race that thou hast run, In this cycle of the sun, Hast thou in life's battle won ? What hast thou done ? What hast thou done ?

When fears shadowed o'er the field, In temptation didst thou yield ? Or hast thou in life's battle won ? What hast thou done ? What hast thou done ?

Hast thou fainted by the way, ' Neath the burden of noon-day ? Or hast thou in life's battle won ? What hast thou done ? What hast thou done ?

RESIDENCE OF MR. M. D. GILMAN, BALDWIN ST., NEXT DOOR WEST OF THE STATE CAPITOL.

Josephine M. Sweet, a native of Montpelier, a contributor to the Watch- man, Green Mountain Freeman, etc, under the nom de plume of "Evan- geline," for many years.

The zephyrs commence to come, the poets from abroad join to help Mont- pelier sons and daughters sing - one, [was it `the Hon. Wm. C. Bradley?] It is like his wit, very, and of his palmy time, joins in a

LAMENTATION,

[Written soon after the adjournment of the Ver- mont Legislature, Nov. 1826.]

Your "bottoms" and "uppers" were "A number one," And fitting so snugly about,

Have made a good place to keep " a foot in," While the damp and the cold you kept out.

Yes, " A number one! " I wear nothing else ; Double soles-oak-tanned and Frenchı calf, Albeit old Crispin, with impertinence, said, "You wear number nine and a half."

'Twas a way you had, much to your credit, In parting, permit me to say, Of being quite constantly " round under foot," And yet, not much in the way.

In bidding you now a long adieu, And remembering the good you have done,

I give you permission, if the d -- I don't get you, To say that your " soles are your own."

And if in the place where you finally stop, There should chance to be paper and quill, Please write me a letter, and tell me if They permit you to " go it boots " still.

Montpelier mourns-her streets are still, Save when the street-yarn ladies spin ; And scarce a stranger's seen at Mann's, Or Campbell's, or at Cottrill's Inn.

The guardians of the people's rights Have done their work, gone home to prove it ; And let the State-house stand, because Barnum and Bailey could not move it.

But though the building stands secure, And long may stand the village boast, The villagers are called to mourn The comforts and the friends they've lost.

Their Butler's gone, their Baker, too; Their Clarkes have fled as Swift as thought; Their Barber's left their chins unshaved, And e'en their Potter's gone to pot.

Their Walkers nimbly walked away, Their Mason and their Smiths are still; Their Carpenters lay down their tools, Their honest Miller leaves his mill.

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Thelr skillful Fisher-man has gone

With Bates to lure and Spear to strike; With hlm are fled the Finney tribe, But more especially the Pike.

The Swan they dearly loved to plek, Has flown, with plumage bright as gold ; Their Buck has bounded o'er the hills, Thelr playful Lamb has broke hils fold.

The Noble and the Young have gone, The Rich have left them to despair ; Thelr Gay, thelr Best attire is lost, And not a Spencer's left to wear.

Thelr learned Proctor, pious Dean, And holy Palmer In the lurch. Have left thelr flocks, and left them, too, Without a Temple, Bell or Church.

And those who loved the mazy dance, Enjoy no more the lively Ball ;

They've lost, alas! their pleasure House. And milss thelr rlehly-furnished Hall.

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They once could boast a pleasant Hill, Delightful Rhodes, a charming Lane, A Warren, Bridge, and Shedd and Barnes, That they may never see again.

Thelr Forrest and their Woods are felled. The Major who thelr forces led, Has broken up hls glittering Camp, And friendly Scott and French are fled.

All's lost ! the men have lost thelr Crafts, They've lost their Ambler and thelr Wheeler, Have lost their Steele, their Peck, thelr Rice; And, oh! thelr women have lost their Keeler.

Yes, all is lost, and those who've gone, Have long ere now, perchance, forgot 'em ; They lost their Solace, lost their Child, And lost their Pride, and Hyde, and Bottum.

Amos W. Barnum, Vergennes. Benjamin F. Bailey, Burlington. His Excellency Ezra Butler, Waterbury. Samuel S. Baker, Arlington. Samuel Clark, Brattleboro; Jonas Clark, Middletown. Benjamin Swift, St. Albans.

David Barber, Hubbardton.

Abel W. Potter, Pownal.

Leonard Walker, Springfield ; James O. Walker, Whiting.

Leonard Mason, Ira.

Ira Smith, Orwell ; Asahel Smith, Ludlow ; Israel H. Smith, Thetford ; Joab Smith, Fairfield.

Luther Carpenter, Orange ; Dan Carpen- ter, Waterbury.

Alexander Miller, Wallingford.

Nathan Fisher, Parkerstown, now Mendon.

Robert B. Bates, Middlebury, Speaker.

Spear-no such name in list of the Legis-

lature in Walton's Register, for 1826. Johnson Finny, Monkton.

Ezra Pike, Jr., Vineyard, now Isle La Motte. Benj. Swan, Woodstock, State Treasurer. D. Azro A. Buck, Chelsea. Shubael Lamb, Wells.

William Noble. Charlotte.

Nathan Young, Strafford.

Moody Rich, Maidstone.

Dwight Gay, Stockbridge. Thomas Best, Highgate.

William Spencer, Corinth. Jabez Proctor, Councillor.

Barnabas Dean, Weathersfield.

William A. Palmer, Danville.

Robert Temple, Rutland.

James Bell, Walden. Charles Church, Hancock.

Abraham Ball, Athens.

Alvin House, Montgomery.

William Hall, Rockingham.

Jarius Hall, Wilmington,

Burgess Hall, Shelburne. Samuel Hill, Greensboro.

William Rhodes, Richmond. Josiah Lane. Wheelock. George Warren, Fairhaven.

John Bridge, Pomfret. Jonah Shedd, Peacham.

Melvin Barnes, Jr., Grand Isle.

Wells De Forrest, Lemington.

Nathan Wood, Vernon; Jonah Wood, Sherburne ; Ziba Woods, Westford.

Major Hawley, Manchester.

David M. Camp, Derby. Richard Scott, Stratton.

Thomas G. French, Brunswick; John French, Minehead, now Bloomfield.

Samuel C. Crafts, Orleans Co. Councillor. James Ambler, Jr., Huntington.

Nathan Wheeler, Grafton. William Steele, Sharon.

John Peck, Washington Co. Councillor.

Ephraim Rice, Somerset. Wolcott H. Keeler, Chittenden.

Calvin Solace, Bridport.

Thomas Child, Bakersfield.

Darius Pride, Williamstown. Dana Hyde, Jr., Guilford. Nathan Bottum, Shaftsbury.

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PATENTS, we have not had any paper prepared for : Dennis Lane took out a patent for improvement in head blocks for saw-mills, Sept. 6, 1864 ; Ashbel Stim- son, in 1876, for spring-hinges for doors.

At THE CENTENNIAL, Montpelier Man- ufacturing Company took the award for children's carriages, and F. C. Gilman for sulky and buggy.

SONS AND CITIZENS OF MONTPELIER ABROAD.

We have not yet obtained a satisfactory list. We will mention here briefly the few not already included in a family no- tice in these pages, that have been fur- nished to us chiefly by Chas. De F. Ban- croft and Mr. Walton, and will be pleased if a more extensive list may be given for the County volume .- ED.

L. L. WALBRIDGE, a native of Mont- pelier, has been reporter for the Boston Fournal, and city editor of the St. Louis Democrat ; is one of the best short-hand writers in the country ; was one of the wit- nesses on the impeachment trial of Presi- dent Johnson.

WM. PITT KELLOGG, present U. S. Sen- ator from Louisiana, the son of Rev. Sher- man Kellogg, we counted once as a " Mont- pelier boy ; " also, HENRY C. NUTT, son of Henry Nutt, of this town, now President of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad ; JOEL MEAD, a wealthy lumber merchant in She- boygan, Wis. ; JAMES MEAD, his brother, a leading banker in Oshkosh, Wis. Their aged mother still resides with us ; WM. P. STRONG, son of the old hotel-keeper here. President of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, a brother of his in Faribault, Minn., and another, a prominent business man in Beloit, Wis. ; EDWIN S. MERRILL, son of the late Timothy Merrill, in Winchendon, Mass. ; GEORGE SILVER, son of Isaiah Silver, in Tivola, N. Y .; JAMES DAVIS, son of Anson Davis, and great-grandson of Col. Jacob Davis, Pro- fessor in an Institution in New York City ; DODGE W. KEITH, son of Hon. R. W. Keith, who gives his father's portrait to the work, a successful merchant in Chicago ; HAROLD SPRAGUE, a merchant in Chicago; R. J. RICHARDSON, of Des Moines, Iowa,

a grain merchant; JAMES and FRANK MULDOON were born poor boys, now successful traders in Wisconsin ; HENRY L. LAMB, in Troy, inspector of banks, has been editor on the Troy Times ; Col. E. M. BROWN, editor of the New Orleans Delta during Butler's administration ; AZEL SPALDING, a member of the Kansas House of Representatives in 1861 ; Hon. A. W. SPALDING, son of Azel, Senator of Jeffer- son County, Kansas, in 1862; FRED. T. BICKFORD, who has been Superintendent of the U. S. Telegraph Co. at Pittsburg, Pa., and Superintendent of the Russian Extension Telegraph Co's. line in Siberia, now at Washington, D. C., we think ; and many others whom the old friends at home would be pleased to see enrolled on their list of sons and citizens abroad.

OMISSION in Mr. Gilman's list of Mr. Walton's printed papers-an address on the death of Stephen A. Douglass in 1863, printed by order of Congress. E. P. W.

Page 365 should read, " we do not give sermons when the statements seem suffi- cient ; " we sometimes give sermons-his- torical ones.

Page 539, " where the sun touches first the grove," not "where the sun touches first the grave." Same paper, page 537, iron-framed ; not corn-framed.

Page 478 should read, an obituary by Dr. Sumner Putnam.

Page 424, The interior of St. Augustine's, for there are two side aisles, but no centre aisle, should read, there are two side aisles and a centre aisle, and " Between the win- dows, in simple black wood frames, the stations," should read instead, in gilt frames. In this last mistake we wholly exonerate our compositors-it was our own mistake, in the press of our cares but too carelessly made ; and it should have been added, the church has very handsome vest- ments and altar adornments, a lovely statue of the Blessed Virgin, and upon a Christ- mas night or Easter morning appears very fresh and beautiful .- ED.

Page 530, John W. Culver in 1833, not'35. Montpelier's Lament, page 572, from old scrap-book of Dr. Bradford, of Northfield.

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EAST MONTPELIER.

BY HON. S. S KELTON.

The town of East Montpelier was organ- ized Jan. 1, 1849, having been set off from Montpelier by the General Assembly at their session in 1848, on the petition of citizens of Montpelier village. The meet- ing for organization was called by Addison Peck, a justice of the peace, on the peti- tion of 6 freeholders to him directed for that purpose.

The officers elected at this first meeting were: Mod. Addison Peck; town clerk, Royal Wheeler ; selectmen, Stephen F. Stevens, Isaac Cate, J. C. Nichols ; treas., A. Peck ; overseer of poor, A. Peck ; con- stable, J. P. W. Vincent.

The first child born in town, after organ- ization, was Clara Davis, daughter of Pear- ley and Cynthia Davis, Jan. 19, 1849. The first marriage was Rodney G. Bassett and L. Amelia Willard, Jan. 21, 1849, by Charles Sibley, justice of peace.

The town is bounded northerly by Cal- ais, easterly by Plainfield and a small part of Marshfield, southerly by Berlin, from which it is separated by the Winooski riv- er and a part of Barre, and westerly by Montpelier and Middlesex, and contains 18,670 acres ; population in 1880, 972 ; grand list in 1881, $9,251.

The township is watered by the Winooski river, which runs through the southerly corner, and along the southerly boundary, by Kingsbury Branch, which, after drain- ing the numerous ponds in Woodbury and Calais, crosses the northeasterly corner of the town, and enters the Winooski : (its name was derived from that of an early settler living near the stream,) and by numerous small streams, affording many excellent mill-sites. The surface of the town is uneven, but the soil is good and productive, and there is scarcely any waste land in town. The prevailing char- acter of the rocks is slate and lime, with granite boulders scattered in the easterly part. Of timber, the sugar maple, beech, spruce and hemlock largely predominate, with a great variety in less quantity.

There are some very fine sugar orchards in this town; that of Cyrus Morse num-

bers 2,750 trees, all supplied with tin tubs, the sugar-house and fixtures being fully equal to the requirements of so large a number of trees. In a good season they make 10,000 lbs. of sugar, for which there is a ready sale, rendering it one of the best industries of a large farm.

The industries of East Montpelier are chiefly, almost exclusively, agricultural ; the farms are of medium size, generally containing from 75 to 150 acres, some of 200 to 300, and a few as large as 400 acres, devoted to a mixed husbandry, the dairy decidedly taking the lead ; some attention is given to the rearing of blood stock,-of horses, cattle, sheep and swine.

There are two small villages in town, EAST VILLAGE,

situated on the Winooski, containing a meeting-house, school-house, store, tav- ern, post-office, established about 1825, a grist-mill, saw-mill with planer, two car- penters and joiners and blacksmith shop.

This village has suffered great loss by fires ; 1817, or thereabouts, a hulling mill was burned; 1825, or '26, a blacksmith shop; 1847, the tavern-house, store, two barns and all the out buildings,-property of John Mellen; 1852, the Union store and goods ; 1859, the blacksmith shop of G. W. Lewis; 1868, the store and goods of C. H. Stevens, together with the barn of C. C. Willard ; 1869, the store of J. C. Nichols, with the goods, the property of Col. Randall ; also in the immediate neigh- borhood, 1857, the house of Norman French ; 1866, the house of George Dag- gett, one of the best houses ever built in town-struck by lightning ; 1871, the barns of C. A. Tabor, together with all the farm produce, tools, and four horses.

[Store and tavern since burned .- ED.] NORTH MONTPELIER,

situated on Kingsbury branch, contains a post-office, store, grist-mill, saw-mill, woolen-factory, boot and shoe-shop, black- smith shop, and the manufacture of musi- cal instruments by E. D. & G. G. Nye. The water power in this place is very ex- cellent.

There are ten school districts in town, each supplied with a good, well-finished

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school-house, where a school is kept from 6 to 9 months each year, besides four frac- tional districts, where the scholars attend school in adjacent towns.

LIBRARIES.

In 1794, a circulating library was estab- lished at the center of the town, in the house of Pearley Davis,-he being librari- an,-containing 200 volumes, made up of history, travels, biography, and works of scientific, philosophic or moral character. These books were freely circulated through the town for a long period of years. The ladies' circulating library was established in East village in 1859, containing 223 vols. A Sunday school library of 290 vols. in 1850 ; one at North Montpelier of 160 vols. in 1867. In 1861, an agricultural library was organized at East village of 116 vols., which was burned in C. H. Stevens' store, in 1868.

CHURCH EDIFICES.

There are four meeting-houses in town ; that belonging to the Society of Friends was first used as such, in 1802, having previously been used as the store of Col. Robbins. The Union Meeting-house at the center of the town was built in 1823, and is also used as a town-house.

At east village is a Universalist house, built in 1833, the Rev. John E. Palmer, of Barre, preaching the dedication sermon, Jan. 8, 1834.

At North Montpelier a Universalist house was built in 1867. This is much the best house, in the belfry of which is one of the best bells in the vicinity.

RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.

In 1793, there was a religious society of Friends organized in the east part of the town, who for many years assembled them- selves together regularly twice a week, a meek and contrite people, under the preach- ing of Clark Stevens. It was their custom to hold silent meetings, when the spirit of the Lord did not move them to speak.

FREEWILL BAPTISTS.

There was a Freewill Baptist church organized in the east part of the town at an early day, and a great awakening in the religious cause, under the efficient labors

of Elder Benjamin Page. They held their meetings in barns, dwelling-houses, or anywhere where the way was open for them. Subsequently there was a church organized by the same denomination in the north part of the town, under the preaching of Elder Paul Holbrook.

UNIVERSALISTS OF EAST MONTPELIER.

Two of the most active pioneers of this so- ciety were the late Gen. Parley Davis of Montpelier Center, and Arthur Daggett, who lived and died near the East village. These first settlers in town had preaching of the faith they cherished, at an early day. Rev. William Farwell, Hosea Ballou, Paul Dean and John E. Palmer were the first ministers. Their society here was organ- ized.Feb. 8, 1834. The cause prospered until there was more of this faith in town than any other. The resident pastors of " The Universalist Society" were Rev. Tracy R. Spencer, R. M. Byram, Simeon Goodenough and Lester Warren. Rev. Mr. Warren, now living in town, says he was employed for this society by Parley Davis, Arthur Daggett and others, in May, 1838. He preached once or twice a month, in the Center and at the East village, for 9 years. And now he has "vesper service" in the new church at the North village, once in two weeks. The meetings are well attended, as are also a "course of lectures" arranged by "The Prudential committee" of "The Lyceum." Rev. E. Ballou also preached alternately with Mr. W. for several years, until the settlement of the late Rev. T. R. Spencer.

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The History of Washington County in the Vermont historical gazetteer : including a county chapter and the local histories of the towns of Montpelier., Part 93

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890 Publication date: 1882 Publisher: Montpelier, Vt. : Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press Number of Pages: 1064

Author: Hemenway, Abby Maria, 1828-1890
Publication date: 1882
Publisher: Montpelier, Vt. : Vermont Watchman and State Journal Press
Number of Pages: 1064