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.He married Miss Betsey Hawkins, daughter of Charles Hawkins, 2d, about 1825, and his fim- ily are : George, Cullen, Mason, Charles, Henry and Elizabeth.
JAMES HARRINGTON, a judge of the county court, came hither from Ira, and bought the farm of Judge Witherell, on West street, in August. 1808. His brother, Theophilus, was famous for his decision in the case of the slave brought be- fore him for return to slavery, demanding a bill of sale from the Almighty as authority for such rendition. Judge Harrington sold and returned to Ira.
THOMAS BLANCHARD. from Sutton, Mass., took the freeman's oath here in September, 1809. He is said to have worked for Mr. Davey in the iron works, and for John P. Colburn in the scythe-factory, as an apprentice with Blanchard in making axes and hoes. It is related that while he worked for Mr. Davey, he invented a nail-machine. He started an imperfect model, and a great number of people went to see its operation. Returning to Massachusetts, he after- wards sent Mr, Davey the model of a machine. on which he obtained a patent. At a later pe- riod, he worked in the armory of the U. S .. at Springfield, Mass., and invented a machine for turning gun-stocks.
DR. EBENEZER HURD came hither from Sand- gate, in 1809, buying of Dr. Witherell, in July,
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his home place in the village, on the present site of the Vermont Hotel, making it his home and practicing his profession for 10 years. He had a brother, Gildersleeves, and a sister, Azubah, who died here ; married Maria Betsey Witherell. daughter of Dr. Witherell, at her father's in Poultney, in 1814. He removed to Detroit in '19. where he had a very extensive and success- ful practice. He died in Chicago and was bur- ied in Detroit in 1869.
CAPT. DAVID ROOD, came from Salem. N. Y. to Hampton, in the year 1806. In February, '09, he came to Fair Haven. In February, '13, he purchased of Daniel Hunter the old Dr. With- erell farm and removed to the same. His sons David and Cyrus, were in the military compa- ny here in June, 1813, and he is mentioned as one of the grand jurors and highway surveyors in March, '15; removed soon after September, 1816, to Weathersfield, N. Y., where he died in 1830. He married Sarah Rogers, and had a family of seven children.
RUFUS GUILFORD, a physician, purchased a place here in February, 1809; is said to have removed to North Granville, N. Y., and there practiced medicine, and died, leaving some of the family residing there.
BENJAMIN HASKINS came hither from Sand- gate about 1811, and bought a farm on Scotch Hill in December, '12. He was in the Revo- lutionary war 8 years; then married his cousin, Molly Haskins of Rochester, Mass, and settled there, where three of his children were born. Removing thence to Conway, Mass., about 1790, where four more of his children were born ; he remained there till 1799, when he went to Ar- lington and lived five years, and from there to Sandgate, and thence to Fair Haven. From Fair Haven he went to Trenton, N. Y., where he died. His wife died Sept. 8, 1859, aged 96 years. Their family were : Sylvia, David, Phin- eas, Lydia, Polly, Benjamin, Jeremiah B. Ly- man, Fanny and Betsey.
SIMEON BULLOCK married Rebecca Littlefield. He resided, in 1811, where Otis Eddy does- had a horse and was pressed into the service. with his team, in the war of '12 and '14; died in Concord, Mich., in '64 : children, Sibel, Jed- ediah L., Christopher MI., Dudley, Simeon, Jane, Caroline and John.
DR. ISRAEL PUTNAM, b. March 25, 1785, was a son of Eleazer P. and Rebecca Putnam, of Cor- inth, Vt., and was a practicing physician and surgeon in town as early as '11. In May of this year, on the 20th inst., he married Char- lotte, daughter of Silas Safford, Esq .; and in
March following resided where Dr. Thomas P. Wakefield now does, and also purchased the place of Elisha Parkhill. At the close of the war he re-built the store on Anna Well- los adjoining his own, and opened a store of goods, but sold his place soon after, in August. 1:16, to his brother-in-law, Erwin Safford, and re- moved to Hartford, N. Y., in '17. He died Dec. 10, '35.
His family were: Betsey S., Israel S., Char- lotte S .. Silas S., 1st, Harriet N., Lafayette, Si- las S., 2d, Samuel P. and Fannie Loraine.
He had a brother, Smith Putnam, who kept a store for a time where the old blacksmith shop now stands, opposite Knight's hotel.
Silas Safford Putnam, 2d, b. May 31, '22. in Hartford, N. Y. and Fannie L., b. May 12, '25, are the only living children of Dr. Putnam. Silas S. is the inventor of the celebrated cur- tain fixture which bears his name, and of the "Patent Forged Horse Nails." He resides in Neponset, Mass. Fannie Loraine married J. B. Stockman, and resides in Roxbury, Boston.
JOHN MANNING was here in March. 1512, and had three children in the public school. He manufactured wooden ware and dishes in a fac- tory on the rocks over the iron-works, as late as '16, and afterwards went West.
WILLIAM CATON was a surgeon in the U. S. Navy, and attached to commodore Mcdonough's fleet on Lake Champlain, in the time of the war of '12 and '14. The fleet was stationed at Whitehall during one winter, and Dr. Caton boarded at Thomas Ranney's, who kept a pub- lic house in North Whitehall, whence he came to reside on Scotch ITill in Fair Haven.
He drew a pension of $ 25.00 per year, and boarded at Daniel McArthur's, where he died about 1820.
NATHAN RANNEY-NATHAN, JR .. enlisted in the war of 1812, at 16 years of age. and did efficient service, refusing offered promotion. Ile went to St. Louis, Mo., where he married Amelia Jane Shackford, and is one of the lead- ing and highly respected citizens of St. Louis. His children are. Jane, Julia, Maria, Anna, El- la, Howard and Gertrude.
CHAUNCEY, son of Barnard Ward, born in Poultney Jan. 12, 1790, came hitler about 1812. He removed to Athens, Ohio, in '20; was a Methodist minister, and preached in Galipolis, O. : married Perley L., daughter of Paul Scott, Sept. 12, '11, and had three children born in Fair Haven: Paul Scott, Samuel Newell and Delia Delight. His wife died in Athens, Ohio, Aug. 8, '25, and he married Hannah T. Brown,
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who died July 29, '23 ; when he married again / masons by trade, and all, or all but obe. came to Patty Haywood of Gallipolis, O., and now here, to wit; Oliver, Azel, Jacob, Simeon, Ho- sea and Dennison. resides in Amesville, Athens county, O.
OLIVER KIDDER came from Weathersfield in March, '13, stopping at first for a few months on the Hampton side of the river. He pur- chased land on the Fair Haven bank of the Poultney river. He died April 27, '57, aged 84 years.
Mr. Kidder was married in Weathersfield, to Phebe Hulett, a sister of Mason Hulett, Esq., from Belchertown, Mass. She died in Fair Ha- ven, Oct. 22, '57, also aged 84 years.
Their children were: Eliza, Mark H., Plu- ma, Lavonia, George M., Sophia, Cumela, d .; Philena, d. ; and Asahel H.
GEORGE WARREN, associated with the busi- ness of the town as a paper manufacturer, from 1813 to '27, came from Millbury, Mass., about 1812; was a musician ; was captain of the mili- tia; held the post-office in the town, and was W. M. of Morning Star Lodge, F. & A. M., in '24, '25 and '25: he had two brothers, Jarvis and Oliver, and a son, George, who is now in the music business in New York. He went from Fair Haven to Albauy, and engaged there in the hardware trade, dying of paralysis about 1845 or '46.
RUSSELL MILLER, eldest and only son of Russell, Sen., went to Georgia in 1840, and there gained a reputation in law; but died of consumption in '40.
DR. WILLIAM BIGELOW was born in Middle- town, November 9, 1791: studied medicine with Dr. Ezra Clark of Middletown, and receiv- ed an honorary degree from Castleton Medical College. He married Miss Dorinda Brewster of Middletown, in October, 1815, and came to Fair Haven to reside. In December, '23, he purchased of Maj. Gilbert the old meeting-house, which had been transformed into a dwelling- house and cabinet-shop by Joseph Brown, and made it his home till the fall of '28, when he removed to Bennington, and sold his place to Dr. Edward Lewis, his successor.
He resided in Bennington until '58, when his health gave out, obliging him to abandon the practice of his profession. He was State Sena- tor from Bennington county one term. Remov- ing to Springfield, Mass., in '58, he remained there with his son Edmund until his death, April 20, '63. Ilis widow still survives him.
They had 7 children.
THE WILLARDS of Fair Haven came from West Windsor. There were six brothers, all | being a lawyer of ability and prominence, and
REV. SEPTIMIUS ROBINSON. Rev. Rofus S. Cushman says: " The first male school teacher I can recollect was Septimius Robinson, who studied theology with my father." We f:1 that he taught school in the town in 1819 and '20, giving Tilly Gilbert a receipt in full for Lis two years' service.
In the spring of 1819 he purchased of Jacob Davey, in company with John W. and Eller Robinson, the saw-mill adjoining the grist-mil in the town, and they resided where Cyrus C. Whipple now does. After studying theology with Rev. Mr. Cushman, and being licensed to preach, he went to Underhill. [See biography in the history of Morristown, Vol. II. of this work .- ED.]
A son, William Albert, is pastor of the Con- gregational church at Barton, Vt.
HARRY BRONSON, a lawyer from Richmond. studied with Judge Daniel Chipman of Middle- bury, and came here about 1822, residing about two years, and practicing his profession. He married a daughter of Squire Coleman of West Haven.
WILLIAM C. KITTREDGE, son of Dr. Abel Kit- tredge and Eunice Chamberlain, was born in Dalton, Mass., Feb. 23, 1800: graduated at Williams College in '21, and studied law with Hons. E. H. Mills and Lewis Strong, of North- ampton. He went to Kentucky and resided a year, where he was admitted to the bar in 20; afterwards spending 6 months in the office of Hon. Jona. Sloan of Ravenna, Ohio.
He came to Fair Haven in the fall of '24, and was admitted to the Rutland county bar in De- cember.
He owned for many years a large farm where the railroad and depot now are. In January. '66, he sold his home-place on the west side of the park, and in the summer following built the house now occupied by his family. He diei ere he had fully completed his new residence, a: Rutland, June 11, '69, being on his way to Ben- nington in the discharge of his official duties as U. S. Assessor of Internal Revenue, which office he held at the time of his death. He had been thrown from his sleigh the winter pre- ceding, and received a fracture of one of :'s limbs, from which he had suffered much, ani was but just recovering.
Judge Kittredge was a man widely known and respected in the community and the state.
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always before the public. For 8 years he rep- resented the town in the Legislature, and was county senator 2 years; was 2 years speaker of the House of Representatives, 5 years State's attorney, 6 years judge of the county court, 1 year judge of the circuit court, 1 year lieuten- ant governor and president of the senate, and for nearly seven years assessor of internal rev- enue. He filled these places with honor and to the acceptance of his fellow-men, because his eminent abilities and high moral and religious character fitted him to be thus called of his fel- low-men, without any obtrusive officeiousness, or office-seeking on his part. He was active in the canse of temperance, filling several prom- inent offices in this work, and was at one time leeturer on medical jurisprudence in Castleton Medical College.
Says one who knew him : " In politics Judge Kittredge was a Whig : in religion a Congre- gationalist ; in manners elaborately polite and courteous ; in conversation affluent, affable and animated ; in stature tall and stately : he was ever the advocate of the conservative and mor- al."
On the 30th of May, 1866, he wrote to a friend :
"I relinquished the practice of law nearly four years since, having outlived a whole gener- ation of my brethren of the bar in this county, many of whom were my very kind friends, and whose memory I cherish with sincere, and I may say affectionate regard. I now recall to mind the names of thirty lawyers, members of the bar of Rutland county. who have deceased since I had the honor of being admitted to its privileges-many of whom were strong men, able lawyers, and eloquent orators-kind, intel- ligent associates. Their course is finished, their raee is run, and I am one of a few, very few, lingering upon the verge, almost, of the vast ocean, which I, as they have done, must pass -soon pass, from the present to the great life to come."
the home-place with his mother, and is assist- ant assessor of internal Revenue.
OLIVER KITTREDGE, a physician, who died in Salem, Mass., married Mary Hamilton, a sis- ter of Hiram and Otis Hamilton, and she, being over 80 years old, is now a resident of Fair Ha- ven, living with her daughter, Mrs. Caleb B. Ranney.
DR. CHARLES BACKU'S studied medicine with Dr. Theodore Woodward, and graduated in 1821 : came to Fair Haven and opened a store in the west end of the old Quinton house, about '24; William Dennis, now of Cambridge, Mass., being lis elerk
He removed from Fair Haven to West Troy, N. Y., taking with him a store ready framed. He left Troy and practiced medicine for a time in Rochester, N. Y., but removed thence to Granville Corners, N. Y., in '39, where he fol- lowed his profession.
In 1842 he came back to Fair Haven, and oc- cupied the old Quinton house, his four daugh- ters keeping house for him. and had his office in a room in the old Dennis hotel, after it had undergone transmutation at the hands of John Jacob Davey. Dr. Baceus removed to Hyde- ville, in '46, and died at Castleton Corners in the fall of '52; being buried at Castleton by the Masonic Fraternity, of which he was a member.
He married a Miss Smith of Sudbury, who died in 1841, at Granville, N. Y. The daugh- ters were : Frances, Mary, Charlotte and Ann, of whom Franees only survives, and resides in St. Paul, Min.
JOSEPH ADAMS, born in Londonderry, N. H., Feb. 1, 1802 : his ancesters were Seotch, and came to this country from the north of Ireland with the Scotch-Irisli colony that settled in Londonderry in 1721, and immigrated with his parents in the fall of 1806 to Whitehall, N. Y. He married Stella Miller, a daughter of Wil- liam Miller, Esq., of Hampton, N. Y .. Nov. 6, '23, and came to reside here in January, '25.
Judge Kittredge was married three times: the first time in October, 1527, soon after pur- chasing the place which he made his home in Fair Haven, to Sally Maria Hatch, daughter of Mr. Adams carried on his business of manu- facturing boots and shoes for a number of years, having several men and apprentices in his em- Jonathan Hatch, Esq. of Troy, N. Y .; the 2d in September, '31, to Harriet Newell Adams, daughter of James Adams, Esq. of Castleton ; | ployment. In '31 he built the brick store in and in '38, to Mrs. Charlotte Button, daughter the village, adjoining the present postoffice- then one story in height, and afterwards raised to two. of Daniel Pomeroy, and widow of Nathan But- ton of Brandon. She survives, together with Mr. Kittredge's children : Frances, Harriet, Ile carried on a large wholesale and retail business in manufacturing ladies' shoes, supply- ing most of the country merchants, from Massa- chusetts to Canada line, for a number of years. In 1843 be removed to Racine, Wis., but re- Elizabeth, Charlotte Pomeroy and William C. Six other children died under two years of age, and one, Mary Chamberlain, died July 8, 1856, aged 10 years and 11 mos. William C. occupies
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turned to Fair Haven in the spring of 1845, [ Alden, of Dorset; died March 10, '41, ag-1 75 spending the preceding winter in Hampton, and years. Mrs. Graves still lives and resides in . Sandwich, Ill. entering into arrangements with Alonson Allen and William C. Kittredge for the introduction The eldest son of the family, Nathan. was born in Rupert, where he has lived to a go.di chi age, ( 84 at the present time, 1870) on the same place where he was born-an unusual thing is this time of change. He has four children. of the marble business into the town. To this business he gave his whole time and attention from the day of its inception, in felling the timber for the mill, for more than 20 years. For a number of years after its commencement the business proved unremunerative, and seemed likely, in consequence of the great amount of unsound and worthless marble, and the many and large losses from bad debts, to break down in failure .; but perseverance and energy have carried it through every financial crisis and strain.
In May, 1853, he purchased the old Lyon tavern-house on the corner, and all the land south and west, where his own house and those of his son and daughter stand; and he built his marble residence in 1860 and '61.
His son's dwelling-house was built in the summer of 1861, and that of his daughter part- ly in '62, and partly in '65: children :
1. Edwin R., born Sept. 22, 1:24; died June 25, 1832.
. 2. Oscar F. b. March 14. '26; d. July 19, '26. 3. Ira M., b. May 13, '27; d. June 9, '33.
4. Andrew N .. b. Jan. 6, '30; m. Angie M Phelps, Aug. 1, '55; graduated at Cambridge Divinity School in Harvard University, July 17, '55; settled as pastor of the First Congregation- al church in Needham, Mass .. in September. '55; resigned in June, '57; became pastor of the First Universalist Society in Franklin, Mass, June 1, '58; resigned and removed to Fair Ha- ven in the summer of '60. Children : Alice A., Ada M., Annie E. and Stella A.
5. Edwin S., b, Nov. 29, '32; d. June 18, '33.
6. Helen M., b. June 16, '34; m. David B. Colton, Aug. 16, '52. Children : Joseph E. and David B.
7. John J. b. April 27, '40; drowned in the flame at the marble mill, Oct. 1, '45.
8. Joseph J., b. Nov. 30, '45 ; d. Sept. 25, 1846.
CYRUS GRAVES, b. in Spencertown, Mass., in 1768, m. Roxana Rose, of Rhode Island, and removed to Rupert, Vt., about 1790. IIe re- moved to Fair Haven from Rupert, in 1825, with his wife and the'r four unmarried children : Orpah and Ruth, Eli and Joel, leaving Nathan and Abram on the old homestead in Rupert, and Allen, the elder brother, in India.
Mrs. Graves died of consumption, July 2, 1825, aged 57. Mr. G. married 2d to Mrs. Mehitable
Allen was born in Rupert; m. Mary Ise: was educated at Middlebury College, stl: 1 theology at Andover, Mass., and was sent as 3 missionary to the Mahrattas, by the Am. E. C. F. M., in the year, 1817, where he livel and 1 :- bored thirty years. He effected a translation of the whole Bible into the Mahratta language. which is the version now used. His wilov outlived him about twenty years, remaining with the people among whom her husband Lad labos- ed to promulgate the Gospel. In '33. Allez and wife visited America. On their return to In die. Orpah accompanied them as a teacher. She w33 there married to the Rev. D. O. Allen. S_e ouly survived the climate one year.
Abram, born in Rupert, Vt., July 15. 1737; married Zilpha Rose of Milford, N. Y .. 1523 : remained in Rupert 10 years; morel to Fs : Haven in '33; resided here 19 years; repre- sented the town in the State Legislature + years ; moved to Warrensburg, N. Y .. in '52; resided there 5 years; moved to Greezfels. Ga, in '57 ; resided there 2 years
Eli was born in Rupert in 1803; married Noami Whedon of N. Y., in '29; studied the- ology at Auburn, N. Y., and was lices=1 and ordained by the Rutland Association as 63 evangelist, Aug. 27, 1837. He labored as sarei supply for various churches in Southern Geo :- gia and Florida. He had two children. Sar uel and Mary Ruth, who are both married ani liv. ing in Southern Georgia. He died July 16. 86. of typhoid fever, at Quitman, Brooks county, Ga., aged 63. Naomi died in March, '69, of Leat: disease, at the same place aged 61.
Ruth was born in Rupert, in 1807. though a cripple from childhood, she obtained a good education, and always employed he's. I for the good of those about her, particularly the children and youth-always an example of er- ery thing that was lovely and of gool report. She spent several years of the latter part of ter life at the South, and died in Lee county, Ga., Sept. 15, 'ES, aged 61.
Joel S. was educated at Middlebury College. graduated, and went first to Florida, as a mais. ister ; afterward settled in Georgia-married Eunice -, and has 7 children. He was s
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unionist in the time of the late war, and fled with his family from the rebels, who had threat- ened several times to bang him. Overtaken by them he was robbed of all he had, but succeed- ed in reaching New York, and went thence to Illinois, where he remained till the fall of '68, and then returned to St. Mary's, Ga., where he now preaches every Sabbath, when he is able, to a small congregation.
DR. EDWARD LEWIS, son of Edward Lewis of Hampton, N. Y., commenced the practice of medicine in Benson ; married Caroline, dangh ter of Jacob Davey, Esq., of this town, Dec. 16, 1825, and came here to reside in '29. In '34 he went to Jackson, Michigan, where he died Jan. 1, 1867-his wife died Oct. 6, '48. Chil- dren : Edward P., d .; Mary, d. ; Willard C., Caroline, Lucy D., Edward C., d .; Charles and Israel, d.
JOHN JONES, the first Welshman whom we hear of in town, came hither from Poultney, about 1826, and entered into the mercantile business where the Bank now is, in company with Worcester Morse. Hle married Huldah Miller or Millard, of Ballston, N. Y. ; sold out to Mr. Morse, and removed to Rochester, N. Y., where he died.
STEPHEN H. JUDKINS had a wagon shop about 1829 and '30, where Harris Whipple's house now stands; and was in partnership for a time with James Greenough.
THE ALLENS of this town are the children of Timothy Allen, Jr., whose father came from Woodbury, Ct., to Pawlet, Vt., in 1763. He, himself was an early settler of Bristol, but re- moved to Hartford, N. Y., in 1814-family : Rufus, father of George ; Richard, the father of Ira C. ; Anna, who married James Miller, and settled in this town ; Timothy, Abigail, Ira; Barna, a Baptist minister of Whiting and Hubbardton ; Alonzo and Justus. Ira came into town in '17 or '18; was a tanner and shoe- maker, and was engaged two or three years with Elias Goodrich and others in the lumber business. He married Cornelia A. Smith, and bought in the village in 1939 or 40, and died here in '62, leaving 3 children : Lucy L., Sim- eon, (now engaged in the slate-works) and Eliz- abetlı M.
ALONSON ALLEN, born in Bristol, Aug. 22, 1800; removed to Hartford, N. Y., with his father, in January, '14. When 23 years of age he kept a grocery store one year in Whitehall. Returning to Hartford in '24, he was employed as a clerk for Josoph Harris until the spring of '28, when he entered into copartnership with
Mr. Harris for 4 years, and conducted the busi- ness alone the last 2 years. He was engaged for a time in business with Mr. E. B. Doane, to whom he sold out, and purchased a house and store in Conesus, whither he went in October, '35, with a stock of merchandise; but at the end of three monthis sold out house, store and goods, and returning to Hartford, came in March, '36, to this town, where be purchased of Luke Beaman the store of goods which Beaman had in the old store building where the new bank now stands.
Bringing his family in April, and taking up his residence on the place where Griffith Wil- liams resides ; purchasing the place in Decem- ber, '38, of Nathan B. Haswell of Burlington, and exchanging it with Dennison Willard in February, '39, for the house which he now oc- cupies.
He kept the store and postoffice at the old stand many years. In January, '38, he leased the iron works of J. Davey for 5 years, and carried them on until they were burned down in '42. He removed his store into the old Den- nis house in '38, and there also kept the post- office about 8 years.
He continued in the mercantile business un- der various changes, in company with his nephew, Ira C. Allen, with Joseph Adams, and again with his son Edward, until 1861, and took an interest in the development of the mar- ble and slate business. He was State senator in 1842, '43, '54 '55, and assistant judge in the county court in '60, '61 and '62.
He served the town with efficiency as select- man in raising the town's quota of soldiers in the late civil war, and has since acted 2 years as assistant or deputy assessor of internal rev- enuc.
Col. Allen was a proficient as a military ofi- cer, rising rapidly from the rank of a sergeant to be captain, major, lieutenant colonel and co- lonel of the 175th regiment of the loth divis- ion of the New York State militia-a regiment composed of four companies from Hartford, two from Hebron, and one from Granville ; he com- manding it as colonel in '33 and 34, when he resigned.
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