EASTMAN, Francis W., Field Music 1c, USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Dorothy F. Eastman, Rt. 2, Windsor. EASTMAN, Laurence Stuart, Gunner’s Mate 3c, USNR. Father, Mr. Charles W. Eastman, Quechee. EATON, Warren Clark, Pfc., USMCR. Father, Mr. Gayle Eaton, Rochester. EDWARDS, John Owen, Aviation Radioman 2c, USN. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Edwards, Maple and Pleasant Sts., Bristol.
FOURNIER, Bernard Peter, Chief Radioman, USN. Sister, Mrs. Bernardette Holbrook, 46 2d St., Swanton. NEWELL, Fred Rising, Jr., Lieutenant (jg), USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rising Newell, Sr., Chestnut Hill, Brattleboro. WISELL, Stanley F., Pfc., USMC. Mother, Mrs. John O. Wisell, Rt. 1, Rutland.
RAFTER, John Lester, Seaman 2c, USNR. Wife, Mrs. Elsie Rafter, West Rupert. REYNOLDS, Robert B., Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy I. Reynolds, 50 S. Main St., Waterbury. RICE, Gene Roger, Electrician’s Mate 2c, USN. Wife, Mrs. Jaqueline Eva Rice, 33 Union St., Springfield. ROBERGE, Joseph Roger, Aviation Radioman 3c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Romeo Roberge, 29 Proctor Ave., South Burlington. ROBY, Robert Hamlin, Motor Machinist’s Mate 1c, USN. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bertrand Roby, 69 Saxton Rd., Bellows Falls. ROMANO, Donald Charles, Shipfitter 3c, USN. Father, Mr. Dominic M. Romano, 147 Granger St., rutland. ROULEAU, Henry F., … Read more
CAPISTRAND, Kenneth Joseph, Yeoman 3c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Priscilla Capistrand Bixby, 267 1/2 Riverside Ave., Burlington. CAPLAN, Myron I. Pvt., USMCR. Father, Mr. Abraham I. Caplan, 98 Railroad St., St. Johnsbury. CARLISLE, Wendell W. Pvt., USMCR. Wife, Mrs. Wendell W. Carlisle, 17 Church St., North Springfield. CHAPIN, Seth Eaton, Ensign, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Eaton Chapin, Rt. 1, Rutland. CLARK, Donald Cleon, Seaman 1c, USNR. Parents, Mr. And Mrs. Edward A. Clark, Scrabble Rt., Springfield. COLLINS, Leon Anthony, Pfc., USMCR. Mother, Mrs. Edith M. Collins, 22 Railroad St., Waterbury. CONANT, Samuel Kenyon, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1c, USN. Mother, … Read more
NELSON, Bernard Florian, Seaman 1c, USNR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl James Nelson, 54 Wellington St., Barre.
PAIGE, Donald Slayton, Pharmacist’s Mate 2c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Marion Ellen Paige, 29 Slayton Terrace, Woodstock. PAQUETTE, Ralph H., Pfc., USMC. Father, Mr. Frank Paquette, 71 Rose St., Burlington. PARADIS, Clayton Olan, Machinist’s Mate 3c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Mildred Paradis Rivers, Box 35, Island Pond. PAWLUSIAK, Michael Albert, Ship’s Cook 2c, USNR. Mother, Mrs. Katherine Alice Pawlusiak, Water St., West Rutland. PERRAULT, Arthur Clare, Torpedoman’s Mate 3c, USN. Grandmother, Mrs. Margaret G. Bailey, 209 Washington Ave., Bennington. PERRIER, Leo Paul, Apprentice Seaman, USN. Father, Mr. Joseph Perrier, Orleans. PERRY, Howard Burton, Machinist’s Mate 1c, USN. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn … Read more
Noble L. Prentis, a leading Kansas editor for twenty-one years, and for the last decade of his life identified with the Kansas City Star, was born on April 8, 1839, in a log cabin three miles from Mount Sterling, Brown County, Illinois. His parents were natives of Vermont, descended from English settlers, and on both sides of the family came of brave Revolutionary stock. His parents died at Warsaw, Illinois, of cholera during the epidemic of 1849, leaving him an orphan at the age of ten years. He went to live with an uncle in Vermont and remained there until … Read more
There are any number of sufficient reasons why a sketch of Albert A. Robinson should have an important place in the history of Kansas. His home had been in the state for the greater part of half a century. The parent lines of the great Santa Fe system originated in Kansas, and arnong the builders of the Santa Fe Mr. Robinson had been pronounced “the greatest builder of them all.” In this case biography and history go hand in hand and the significant story of the upbuilding of a great railroad system and the development of a large part of … Read more
Hezekiah Stowel, to whom reference has been made, was a Vermont sufferer, and came in from Guilford in that State in 1786, and settled at Bettsburgh, on 220 acres on lot 63, on the east side of the river, and was the pioneer settler on the site of that village. He subsequently removed to the west side of the river, where he is buried, probably at the time he made the exchange with Elnathan Bush. He lived and died in the locality. It is not known that he lived on the place exchanged with Bush in Bainbridge. His children were:–Asa, … Read more
Richard Church came in from Brattleboro, Vt., in the fall of 1788, and settled on the east side of the river, one-half mile below Afton, on the place now owned by the heirs of Levi Church and Andrew Johnston and Joseph Angell, the latter a son-in-law of Billings Church. He was a son of Col. Timothy Church, a Vermont sufferer, who did not settle here, but acquired land as such, on 300 acres of which Richard settled, and which, after the latter’s death, in the spring of 1813, was divided between two of his sons, Billings and Levi, Billings’ portion … Read more
Oliver Easton came in from Wilmington, Vt., in 1809, and settled on Long Hill, where Matthew Long, from Vermont, with a large family of grown-up children, was the first settler at an early day. Easton settled on the farm now occupied by his grandson, Henry Devillo Easton, about three miles north-west of-Afton. He leased 60 acres of gospel lands, which he occupied till his death December 11, 1839, aged 74. Delight, his wife, died January 5, 1860, aged 86. He carried on farming and lumbering, mostly the latter. His children were eleven in number: Chauncey, who married Lucinda, daughter of … Read more
James Willis Gleed, general attorney for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company of St. Louis, was born at Morrisville, Vermont, March 8, 1859. His father, Thomas Gleed, now deceased, was a native of England, who came to America during the ’30s, settling at first in Canada, but later he removed to northern Vermont, where he resided to the time of his death in 1861, when he was but thirty-five years of age. In early manhood he had wedded Cornelia Fisk, a native of the Green Mountain state and a representative of an old New England family that was established in Massachusetts … Read more
Albe B. Whiting, a resident of Topeka for the past forty years, is distinguished as being one of the few survivors of the great free-soil struggle in Kansas during the decade of the ’50m. His home had been in Kansas since 1856, and few men now living have more interesting-experiences to connect them with Kansas history. Of New England birth and ancestry, he was born in Lamoille County, Vermont, November 10, 1835, and had already Imssed the fourscoro milestone on life’s joursey. His parents were Harris and Mary (Dodge) Whiting. His father was of old English celonial ancestry, and died … Read more
Edward C. Willis, superintendent of the State Orphans Home at Atchison, is a graduate of Dartmouth College and came to kansas nearly forty years ago with the equipment and training of a oultured New Englander. His work in this state had been largely of an educational nature, and he had taught, had been superintendent of schools, and was finally appointed to his present post at Atchison, where he had served with the exception of two years since 1907. Nearly all of Mr. Willis’ ancestors were colonial families of New England. The Willis family came originally from the northern part of … Read more
Elna A. Robinson. During a long and active career Mr. Robinson has been prominently identified with Champaign County both in a professional and in a business way. His success in business has enabled him to retire and enjoy a financial competence and he is now a resident of the city of Champaign. Mr. Robinson was born in South Reading, Vermont, December 15, 1839, a son of Ebenezer, Jr., and Adeline (Williams) Robinson. His father was born at South Reading, Vermont, September 30, 1809, and died July 5, 1849. He was married January 4, 1837, to Miss Williams, who was born … Read more
Mark Carley was one of the founders of the city of Champaign: His name appears again and again in connection with the early annals of that city and of Champaign County, and always he appears as a man of force, of almost unlimited enterprise and of a public spirit that was in keeping with his many successes in private life. He knew much of the world by experience and had come to Champaign County soon after returning from an excursion to California during the great gold excitement on the Pacific Coast. His own life was to a large degree the … Read more
Eli Buck. The late Eli Buck was one of the fine, substantial and prosperous citizens of Champaign County. He established his home here in early days, and before his death his name was associated with the ownership of extensive and valuable farm lands and his character and activities were such as all must respect. Mr. Buck was born in Vermont, a son of Gould and Valetta Buck. He married Miss Catherine Hogan, who still survives and makes her home in the village of Penfield. Mrs. Buck was born in Tipperary, Ireland, a daughter of Michael and Mary (Ridden) Hogan. When … Read more
GEN. JOHN H. STEVENS. – This hero of a hundred Western adventures, and a pioneer of the great Inland Empire, was born on a town line in Windham County, Vermont. The son of Asa Stevens, a miller and farmer, he learned to use his hands and brain in practical affairs, and at the village school obtained a good working education. In his youth he followed business in Boston, and was engaged in lumbering in Pennsylvania. In 1832 he came west to Michigan, and at Coldwater, Branch County, kept a hotel, advancing his business also by taking mail contracts, and in … Read more
SOLOMON HOWARD SMITH. – Mr. Smith, a most generous and public-spirited citizen, and a pioneer of so early a day as 1832, was born at Lebanon, New Hampshire, December 26, 1809. He came of Revolutionary stock, his maternal grandfather having been a soldier in the war for Independence, and a relative of the Greeley family. His father was an assistant surgeon in the war of 1812, and died at Plattsburgh, New York, in 1813. The boy Solomon was afforded good advantages, receiving his academic education at Norwich, Vermont; and he studied medicine with his uncle, Doctor Haven Foster, not, however, … Read more
HON. E.L. SMITH – Although these sketches deal mainly with men who came hither in the forties and fifties, we are yet occasionally reminded of the fact that length of residence does not constitute the only just claim to recognition in our annals. Every decade has its pioneers. Nearly every year has seen added to our number someone who by force of character, intelligence and industry has made himself a place in the esteem of the people, and in the business fabric of the country. The subject of the present subject was a pioneer of 1861. Though thus not f … Read more