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When just turned of his majority, in June. 1812, he was admitted to the bar in Benning - ton county. The same year he came to Rut- land to reside.
He had been here but a few months when the office of a puty collector of the direct-tax was conferred upon him, unsolicited and un- asked. It was a position which required en- ergy and tact. The war had been denounced. It was not popular with New England. It had swept her shipping from the seas, and the direct-tax was deemed an outrage upon Americans. Many protested that they would never pay it, and some men never did, but their wives paid it for them, to save their farms from the auction hammer. He suc- ceeded in collecting the tax, and it made him personally acquainted with the land holders of his district. It was a good acquaintance, in a professional point of view.
When he returned to his practice, the peo- ple knew him, they liked him, and they em- ployed him. His business soon became large. To be a good lawyer is an honor, but to gain a high position, to be ranked among the first at a bar which at that time and subsequently contained such men as Phelps, Bates, Royce, Foot, Williams, Ormsbee, Mallary, Kellogg Langdon, and others of that stamp, was no mean success.
The limits of this article do not allow an extended analysis of style, manner or pro- fessional character, but it is no disparage- ment to the best to say, that, whoever, in particular departments of the profession, may have been superior, upon the whole field, Robert Pierpoint was second to none. If an adversary had a more courtly style and easy diction, he had a way of saying, in effect if not in words, I am no orator as Brutus is but as you know me all a plain, blunt man. I on- ly speak right on. If an opponent had invec- tive he could parry it with ridicule. If he
* From an obituary article printed in the Rutland Herald of Oct. 6, 1804.
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was met with an insinuating sophistry, his plain statement would lift it from all entan- glements to dissipate itself in the clear light of reason. If opposed by precedent, he struck not at the precedent, but clear back of that, to the reasoning upon which it was founded. For the greater portion of his life, he held some position of trust and honor. He represented the town of Rutland in the State legislature in the years 1819, 1823 and 1857, was member of the Constitutional Con- vention in 1822 and '28, member of the State Council in 1825, '26, '27,'28, '29 and '30, and State Senator in 1836, '37, '38 and '39. Coun- ty Clerk from June, 1820 to April, 1839 ; Judge of Probate from Dec. 1831, to Dec. '32 ; Clerk of the House of Representatives in 1332 and 33; Trustee of the University of Vermont from 1823 to '33. Lieutenant Gov- ernor in 1843 and '49, The degree of Mas- ter of Arts was conferred upon him by Mid- dlebury College in 1826 and by the Univer- sity of Vermont in 1838. He was a Judge of the Circuit Court, under the old system, from 1850 to '56, and was a member of the Committee to revise the laws of the State in 1838.
Such a record of public services, through so many years, and of such a varied character, speaks all that need be said. To fill such positions, so many, and so long, requires a man of great ability, great integrity, and the constant, unfailing confidence of the people. He had all these elements.
In the affairs of the town and village, he always took an active part and was looked up to as a man who had no selfish aims to gratify.
Unostentatious and undemonstrative, he nevertheless was the friend of the poor and unfortunate. Many a poor family in this village has been relieved from want out of his purse, without ever knowing to whom they were indebted.
To sum up his character in few words, he was an able and good man, and died, as he had lived, peacefully.
His example may well be imitated by the living, and longer than he lived among us, the traditions of the community will enshrine his name as one of its most worthy repre sentatives. In years hereafter, when anoth- er generation repairs to the quiet groves and walks of Evergreen Cemetery where he lies, none will approach his grave without an in-
stinetive respect for the memory of Robert Pierpoint.
PIERPOINT FAMILY: * David Pierpoint, born in New Haven, Conn , July 26, 1764 ; a cab- inet maker, said to have been a man of high moral character, extensive reading, gentle- manly manners and great personal beauty, married Sarah Phelps, born in Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 4, 1766. Judging from what she was in old age, she must have been a woman of no ordinary character. They kept house a few years in Litchfield village and removed to a farm about 3 miles distant, their home the rest of their days, and in possession of their descendants. David died in 1826, his wife in 1852 or '53. Their children : David jr., born Dec. 19, 1788, died in Richmond N. Y., 1862; Robert (see above) ; Edward. born July 1, 1793, died in Litchfield, Conn., 1870; War- ren, born Aug. 7, 1795, lives in West Bloom- field, N. Y, ; Sarah Ann, born Aug 2, 1797, married a Green ; died in Bay City, Mich ; William, born Jan. 31, 1800, resided in Roch- ester, N. Y., died in Watertown, N. Y., 1859; Charles, born May 22, 1802, died at Allen's Hill, N. Y., Oct. 30. 1375 ; John, born Sept. 10, 1805, now Chief Justice of the State, re- sides in Vergennes; Laura, born Sept. 12, 1808, now Mrs. Pope, resides in Bennington, Michigan.
ROBERT PIERPOINT. (above) was married to Abigail, youngest daughter of Joshua Ray- mond and Phebe [Collins] Raymond, Dec., 1814, and the following suminer commeaced housekeeping in the house which they occu- pied the remainder of their lives, and where they made a home such as few are blessed with. Their children were: Evelyn, Julia, Charles, Robert Raymond, Susan Skinner, Mary Isham. Charles, a member of the sen- ior class of Middlebury College, died Dec. 16, 1837, in his seventeenth year. Mary, after having entered Mount Holyoke Seminary, died July 12, 1845, in her seventeenth year.
Robert R. went to California in 1849; practiced law in Sonoma and afterwards in Napa City; died in 1858, in his 35th year, leaving a wife and an infant son that soon died. The remaining son and two daughters are still living in Rutland, the daughters oc- cupying the house which has been the home of the family for more than sixty years.
When young, he (Judge Peirpoint) was quite active in the militia service; passed
* From Family Papers. Ed.
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from one rank to another till he reached that of Major, but military titles never clung to him. He united with the Congregational church of Rutland March 5, 1826.
Mrs. Abigail Pierpoint, wi low of Judge Pierpoint, died at Rutland, May 6, 1865. aged 70 years.
RUTLAND RAILROAD.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS AND COR- PORATION.
From the Record Books of the Rutland Railroad and other sources.
The enterprise having been duly canvassed, presented before the Legislature, and Acts of Assembly obtained Nov. 1. 1843, and Oct. 31, '44, Commissioners of THE CHAMPLAIN AND CONNECTICUT RIVER RAILROAD met at Rutland May 6, '45, and organized the corporation :* Tim. othy Follett of Burlington, chairman, and Am- brose L. Brown of Rutland, clerk. Voted-to open subscriptions for stock, June 10, 1845.
June 12, '45, more than 2000 shares having been subscribed to the capital stock, stockhold- ers were notified to meet at the courthouse in Rutland for choice of nine directors.
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July 3, 12 o'clock. George T. Hodges, chair- man pro tem .. (Timothy Follett absent) George T. Hodges and Edgar L. Ormsbee appointed assistant chairmen : nine directors chosen by ballot : Timothy Follett, Samuel Barker, Ira Stewart, Charles Linsley, John A. Conant, Chester Granger, George T. Hodges, William Henry and Henry N. Fullerton.
" Voted-on motion of Ebenezer N. Briggs, to raise the capital to $ 2,500,000.
SAMUEL SWIFT, clerk."
First Directors' meeting July 3d, 5 o'clock ; electing Hon. Timothy Follett president, and George T. Hodges, vice-president: voted-to hold an annual meeting at Rutland, the 3d Wed- nesday of January, at 1 o'clock; appointed Messrs. Conant and Barker to confer with Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Tracy on re-surveying the route.
July 4, 1845 : voted-John A. Conant and Thomas Barrett to superintend survey of line from Rutland to Connecticut River : George T. Hodges to receive from stockholders $ 2,00 on each share, as needed to meet expenses. Fol- let, Hodges, Linsley and Fullerton to procure foreign subscriptions to stock: Linsley and
Swift to prepare and report a bill for extending the line of the Champlain and Connecticut Riv- er Railroad from Burlington to Canada line.
RESIGNATION OF DIRECTORS : Document pre- sented :
" To Samuel Swift, Esq., Clerk of the Champlain and Connecticut River Railroad;
"Sir :- We hereby resign the office of Direet- ors of the Champlain and Connecticut River Railroad Corporation, to take effect from and after the first day of September next .- Rut- land, July 4, 1843."-[ Signed by the mine direc- tors for which no reason is given inrecord .- Ed.
At the stockholders' first annual meeting- Rutland, Jan 14, 1840, voted,-on motion of Hon. Robert Pierpoint, to accept the Act of As- sembly of October session, '45, as part of this charter. On motion of General Brown of Rut- land, the Chair appointed a committee of 28 to nominate to the stockholders thirteen directors for the year ensuing. Ou motion of D W. C. Clarke, the chair appointed D. W. C. Clarke, Hon. D. A. Smalley, Hon. R. Pierpoint, Sam- uel Morgan, Hon. H. Bell, Hon. A. G. Dana, H. Needham, Esq., Hon. J. J. Barrett and Joseph Warner, to prepare a report to stock- holders, and draft resolutions for the meet- ing. The courthouse quarters becoming too small, the meeting was adjourned to the north meetinghouse, where, to a crowded house, W. B. Gilbert, who had surveyed the route, ad- dressed the meeting to great acceptance, follow- ed most happily by Nathan Rice, Esq. of Bos- ton, who presented the proceedings lately ad . opted by the Fiteliburg railroad company.
The proceedings of the corporation had been stoutly opposed before the Legislature: the very project of the railroad from the first had been severely contested in the State newspapers: Clarke of Brandon, and Stacy of Burlington, en- tered conspicuously into this paper war. Now had come the tug of battle. The stockholders were in the right mood, and a crowd of those not stockholders, in every aisle, in every win- dow, filling the lobby, and around the door, all intensely interested. Mr. Clarke appeared with his resolutions-animated addresses were niade on eacli. Prentiss and Hale of Keene spoke on them, Bishop of Bridgeport, Ct .- a delegate from the Housatonic railroad company-Marsh of Shrewsbury, Conant, Judge Sprague of Brandon and Clarke. The resolutions present- ed were adopted with great unanimity-bnt two votes in the negative. The most sanguine among them were astonished, the most cool
* Efforts were made in 1844 and '45 to get up sub- subscriptions to its stock, but not enough to warrant its construction until Feb., 1847. when the first blow was struck in the town of Rockingham, near Bellows Falls .- J. A. Conant.
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enthusiastic over it. The meeting was a great success .*
The following were chosen directors : Timo- thy Follett, Samnel P. Strong, William Nash, Charles Linsley, John A Conant, Chester Gran- ger, George T. Hodges, Nathaniel Fullerton, William Henry-all of Vermont ; John Elliott of Keene, N. II. ; Horace Gray, Samuel Dana and Samuel Henshaw of Boston. George W. Strong of Rutland presented a communication from Leonard Sargeant-A. P. Lyman, George W. Strong and C. W. Fenton, committee of cor- respondence and arrangements from the West- ern Vermont railroad company.
January 14, 1846: Follett, Conant and Hodg- es made an executive committee to transact all business in the recess of the meetings of the directors : S. P. Strong, C. Linsley, William Nash to superintend northern terminus of the road: Follett, Henry and Wentworth to arrange the point of junction with the Cheshire Rail- road.
DIRECTORS' MEETINGS .- Office of Samuel Henshaw, Boston, Feb. 20, 1816; chose a com- mittee to arrange point of meeting with the Connecticut River Railroad: Vermont Hotel, Mddlebury, June 2d, voted an assessment of five per cent on stock shares : the president and Mr. Hodges to confer with the Housatonic Rail- road Co. for connection .- Bellows Falls, July 29th, elected Samuel Swift treasurer "during the pleasure of the Board, with such reasona- ble compensation as may hereafter be agreed on by the Directors:" the president authorized to draw money from the treasury by his order in writing, specifying the accounts on which said money is drawn, viz. grading, bridging and masonry of the road from Connecticut river to Duttonsville, aud 35 miles, not exceeding, as shall be selected by the president and exec- utive committee, west of the mountains, to be immediately prepared and put under contract by them.
Keene. N. H. November 18-voted that the road be advertised for contract to and including Mount Holly Summit-do. road from Burling- ton to Rutland, soon as new subscriptions in
Boston reach $ 200,000-$ 100,000 to be paid. President Follett was appointed superintendent of building the road : "who shall devote his time to that purpose." Follett, Hodges and Fullerton were the committee of construction from Bellows Falls to ME. Holly Summit includ- ed ; Strong, Nash and Liusley from Burlington, to Salisbury south line : thence to Mt Holly Co- nant, Hodges and Granger. Appointed to settle land-damages from Burlington to Ferrisburgh N. line, the President-thence to N. line New Haven, Gen. Strong-thence to Salisbury S line Charles Linsley-thence to Mt. Holly Summit, Conant, Granger and Hodges-thence to Bel- lows Falls, Fullerton, Henry and Abram Ad- ams of Ludlow. William B. Gilbert appointed chief engineer.
STOCKHOLDERS' 2D ANNUAL MEETING, Rut- land, January 13, 1847 : and directors' meeting following. The old board of directors retained, with exception of Gray, Dana and Henshaw, of Boston, Nathan Rice, John Howe and Benja- min T. Reed, of Boston, instead, and Paris Fletcher, Bridport, Vt. Bids of contract award- ed, No. 1, 2d section on Bellows Falls division to L R. B. Wales & Co .; sections 4 to 18, and Mount Holly, section 7, to Decker & Warner: Bellows Falls, sections 19, and 12. Mt. Holly section 3, to S. & P. Carroll; 20 and 21, Bellows Falls section, and 1 to 7, Mt. Holly sections. to George Clarke ; do. 9. 10 and 11, to Me Culloch, Clarke & Co .; do. 13 and 14 to Appleton, Reves & Co. Charles Linsley appointed, with Pres't, to execute contracts. Bids on Rutland division, awarded June 4th : to Myers & Hale, sections I to 6; to William Nash & Co., 6 7, 10, 16 and 20; to Chamberlain & Strong, 8, 14, and 25 to 34 : to Frost & Brown, 9 to 13; to N. HI. Decker & Co. 11, 12, 19, 22 and 23 : all to take 20 per cent in stock; the road to be ready for superstruc- ture, October 1, 1843. Voted to apply to the Legislature for a change of name to the
RUTLAND AND BURLINGTON RAILROAD CO .: [Granted by Act of November 6, 1847.] Voted $ 5.00 assessment as needed.
Jan. 12, 1843, 3D ANNUAL MEETING: voted additional pay. per yard, for solid rock, to Decker & Warner, and Chamberlain, Strong & Co. From Director's report: arranged with Cheshire Railroad Co. to use in enmon, depot grounds and building, at Belows Falls ; quantity of land taken for road-bed and depots varied according to prospect of futuro need; opportunity presented at Burlington for pur- chase of about 70 acres, on ternis so favorablo
* H. B. Stacy, editor of the Free Press, Burlington ; Consul to Russia at the time of his death [see vol. II., pp. 959-60.] On Stacy's last visit to Burlington, the evening before he left, we heard him and Clark talk over this campaign and its grand finale in this meeting, which both looked back upon as the most unexpected triumph they had ever witnessed-to which they had come determined to fight; but not expecting more than half success at best .- Ed.
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that it was at once embraced ; giving lake front of about 2800 feet. contiguous to the bu- siness part of the town, around our depot buildings; depot grounds, at Rutland, laid out in reference to connection with the Rutland and Washington railroad, soon to be built, with the Whitehall & Saratoga railroad, opening to us the waters of lake Champlain, at the head of navigation, the markets of the Hudson river, and the immense trade and tract of the great West. "The private negotiations with propri- etors for land have been generally successful, though appraisals by commissioners had to be made occasionally, in every county but Chitten- den ; ' $ 116,417.39 in hands of treasurer ; work paid, from the commencement, every month; 1000 copies of report ordered printed.
Directors' meeting, February 3d: Paris Fletcher added to committee for locating branch road at Vergennes, provided for by act of Leg- islature the preceding Fall: point of junction. west line between Middlebury and Brandon : station honse at Vergennes, to be 40 to 50 by 20 to 25; at Middlebury and Brandon. each, 60 to 80 by 25 to 30: at Pittsford, 30 by 35; Rutland, 150 by 50: passenger depot at Bur- lington, not to exceed 200 by 50 feet ; freight depot not to exceed 100 by 30; Vergennes and Pittsford, do., 50 by 35; Rutland do, 150 by 30 : President's salary fixed, exclusive of trav. eling and office expenses, at $ 2,500 per year ; Treasurer's do .. $ 1,300, from November 10, 1846, Charles E. Follett, clerk of the president, $ 600, $1,50 per day for treasurer's clerk.
tion: annual meetings to be held on the 3d Wednesdays of June, hereafter.
FROM PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS TO STOCKHOLDERS:
" The outlay upon sections will considerably exceed our original expectations; but an offset in part is found in the certainty that the rocky ramparts of Mount Holly will have been sun- dered in less time, and at less expense, than some other portions of the line, of less enviable notoriety. Your engineer reports 4,263,921 yards of earth excavation, 263,056 yards solid rock and 15,225 yards loose rock done : 986,- 209 yards of earth, 40,305 solid rock, and 70,- 170 loose rock to be done. The track is com- pleted from Bellows Falls to Chester, 14 } miles : some of the gentlemen before me have this day enjoyed the pleasure of passing over it. The grading between Chester and Ludlow is neariy completed. We shall then have reached the eastern slope of the mountains, 25 milos from Bellows Falls. The laying of the rails has been commenced at Burlington, about 6 miles southward completed. A body of track layers are to immediately cominence at Vergennes: other parties, between Middlebury and Rut- land, proceeding to Cuttingsville, where we reach the western slope of the mountains, coin- pleting from Burlington to Cuttingsville, 75 miles ; and only 15 miles from Cuttingsville to Ludlow will remain unfinished."* "The grading of your branch-road from the main line to the navigable waters of Otter Creek at Vergennes, giving access to the iron and other materials land- ed there has cost, thus far, $ 10,050.90. Consid- erable portion of your car furniture in construc- tion at Brandon-so far as examined-is alike creditable to the contractors, and satisfactory to us. This establishment-new and quite ex- tensive-upon the line of our road it is hoped will receive the patronage so extensive and costly an enterprise deserves." "But what was our surprise on learning the Vermont and Canada Railroad, contrary to charter regulation to extend to Burlington, had been surveyed to terminate 6 or 8 miles east of the village of Burlington." He relates the survey in accord- ance with the charter made at the expense and great care of the Rutland and Burlington Rail- road, and hopes the Vermont and Canada Rail- road company may yet be indneed to adhere to this more feasible and original plan.
August 2, voted to bond the road, 90 cents on the dollar, for $ 400,000, payable by installments of 20 per cent. per montil : Dec. 26th, allowing Vermont Central railroad to come on to our grounds at Burlington, referred to executive committee : freight depots to be built of wood, except at Burlington and Bellows Falls: the present engineers, with S. P. Strong, to build, or contract for, depot buildings at Burlington and Ferrisburgh-with Paris Fletcher and Lins- ley, at Middlebury-with J. A. Conant. at Bran- don-with Chester Granger at Pittsford, Nathan- iel Fullerton at Chester and Ludlow: to pay $ 333.33 toward survey of Valley Road, and charge to Valley corporation : to put on a force (the contractors failing to do so) sufficient to finish Mount Holly section in time, and charge to the contractors .- Rutland courthouse, June Lullow. Aug. 15. Voted to notify the president of the Cheshire R. R. we have 20th ; allowed D. W. C. Clarko assessments on his stock, for services in Boston, in 1815, * Two years and nine months sufficed to complete promoting there the interests of this corpora- I the Road, it was opened through, Dec. 18,1849,-J. A. C.
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opened our road for freight and passengers from Bellows Falls to Ludlow, and request their connection with us at Bellows Falls. Voted an increase of capital to $ 3,000,000 ; Voted stock assessments unpaid Sept. 20th next, forfeited to corporation ; stock sold for non payment, under 70 cents, to be bought in for corporation; only daily passenger trains to and from Bellows Falls till shelter is provided at Ludlow ; arranged for building depot. First table of fares established, from Burlington to Vergennes, 22 miles, .62}; to Middlebury. $ 1 00; Brandon, $ 1.50; Pitts- ford, $ 1.75 ; Rutland, $ 2.00; Cuttingsville, $ 2.30; Ludlow, $2.75; Proctorsville, $2.88} ; Duttonsville, $ 2.90; Gassets, $ 3.00 ; Chester, $ 3.15; Bartonsville, $ 3.30; Rockingham, $3.40; to Bellows Falls, $ 3.55. The present fare from Burlington to Bellows Falls, 1876, is $5.00. Hon. T. Follett, appointed tempora- ry supt. of the Road : Voted Executive Com- mittee select site and erect engine-house and machine-shop for repairs at Rutland ; Hodg- es and Linsley attend to the interest of this corporation before the Legislature.
Nov. 17, Voted to call stock holders meet- ing to see if they will accept the amendment of their charter by Legislature to extend their road to St. Albans.
Rutland, Jan. 17, 1850-Voted Fletcher, Conant, Reed and Linsley com. to negoti- ate a loan in New York and pledge stock or bonds; voted, parties of pleasure, 20 or more, be taken in regular trains for half fare.
Brandon, Feb. 21,-Voted to establish a depot at Mack's Bridge.
Boston, Mar. 7, resignation of W. B. Gil- bert, chief engineer ; vote of thanks; supt's salary fixed at $ 1,200 per annum. Mr. Linsley, at salary fixed, declined being can- didate, and L. Bigelow unanimously elected ; Linsley appointed chancellor for corporation.
June 19, 1850. Annual meeting at Meth- odist church, Middlebury. From director's report read by president : " A train of cars from the ocean and another from the lake, each full freighted with stock-holders and friends of the enterprise, met and exchanged congratulations in the rock excavation on summit of Mc. Holly, on Dec. 13, 1819, being 13 days in advance of the period when this whole work by your order was directel to be finished. From that day to the present, reg. ular daily trains for passengers and freight have passed each day over the entire line."
New roads have seldoin been so well equip- ped. Hon. John Elliot resigned as director ; rec'd vote of thanks for his able services since the organization: Voted Pres. and V. Pres. arrange with John Bradley for run- ning Troy & Rut. R. from Rutland to Castle- ton : Voted: building com. erect suitable buildings at Rutland, paying j stock-bonds and } cash if necessary; buildings not to exceed $ 25,000. do. engine and pa-senger house at Burlington, not to exceed $ 10,000 cost. Paris Fletcher resigned as director, and Joseph Warner was elected and ad led to finance committee .: Voted, the passes to cler- gymen null after the 1st of Jan. next, and that no more such be issued : Voted, engine house at Rutland be built on plan of Boston and Maine engine-house at Lawrence: at Bur- lington a 1 story passenger house for 3 tracks, about 200 feet long, and a house for 4 en- gines.
Bellows Falls, July 31st, appointed exec- utive committee and B. T. Reed to adjust con- nection with Vt. Valley R. R. & Sullivan R. R .: authorized the President to take a deed of land from the Bellows Falls lock and canal Co., 26 ft. wide on west border of the depot grounds at Bellows Falls.
Rutland, Sept. 17th, President and John Bradley appointed to confer with the Champ- lain Trans. Co. for terms for the U. S. Steam- er to run from Rouse's Point to Burlington, and build or charter such steamboat or steam- boats to make convenient and easy connec- tion with the Northern N. Y (Ogdensburgh) R. R. at Rouse's Point.
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