| History of Addison County (1886); Chapter XI Medical Society and Physicians | |
| Smith T 1-7.0307/08.001 | pg 181, The following list gives the names of all the physicians who have ever practiced in Middlebury and the periods of their practice: .John Willard, 1787 to 1801; Joseph Clark, 1793 to 1795; William Bass, 1797 to 1849; Edward Tudor, 1804 to 1856; Zacheus Bass, 1815 to 1881; Jonathan A. Allen, 1825 to 1848; Oliver B. Norton, 1826 to 1831; Ralph Gowdey, 1830 to 1840; William P. Russell, 1831 to 1871; John Marshall, 1836 to 1842; Gerry Ross, 1840 to 1855; D. C. Goodale, 1840; Edwin H. Sprague, 1841 to 1843; S. Pearl Lathrop, 1844 to 1849; Charles L. Allen, 1847 to 1862; Joseph Billings, 1847 to 1864; Charles C. P. Clarke, 1848 to 1850; John G. Wellington, 1848 to 1849; William M. Bass, 1848 to 1865; Norman D. Ross, 1850 and now; Hiram Meeker, 1854 to 1860; J. M. Jennings, 1857 to 1858; Joseph N. Steele, 1860 to 1863; Marcus 0. Porter, 1861 to 1863; Smith T. Rowley, 1861 to 1876; Homer Bostwick, 1866; Merritt H. Eddy, 1866 and now; Christopher B. Currier, 1866 to 1878; Edward P. Russell, 1867 and now; Edward 0. Porter, 1867 to 1884; Oliver E. Ross, 1868 to 1870; Miss Emma Callender, 1873 to 1878; Benjamin F. Sutton, 1873 and now; William M. Day, 1874 to 1875; Edward S. Craft, 1874 to 1875; Frederick W. Halsey, 1876 to 1884; Edward 0. Porter, 1878 and now; William H. Sheldon, 1880. Melvin D. Smith, 1883 and now. Two or three others practiced here a few months only. |
| History of Addison County (1886); Chapter XXVIII History of the Town of Orwell | |
| G H | pg 569. The following list
contains the names of those who went out from the town to serve in Vermont
regiments during the late war (e.g. Civil War): pg 570, Volunteers for nine months. -- C. E. Abell, E. C. Ball, J. D. Barber, D. I. Brown, S. E. Griswold, H. E. Hack, H. G. Hibbard, T. W. Lewis, J. A. Munger, D. Rogers, G. H. Rowley, D. E. Royce, A. W. Samson, F. Spaulding, H. Sturdevant, W. D. Walker, C. R. Winchester, J. Wolcott, N. L. Wolcott. |
| History of Addison County (1886), Chapter XXXII, History of the Town of Shoreham | |
| Thomas, 1-5.009 Nathan, |
Thomas Rowley returned in 1783 to the farm he had left at Larabee's Point, where he lived until 1787 with his son Nathan, and then sold the place to John S. Larabee, and removed with his son to the place now owned by Mrs. Luther Parish. In 1795 he went to Cold Spring, in Benson, where he died about 1803, aged more than eighty years. |
| Hopkins probably 1-6.0149 |
Pg 614, Timothy Larabee settled first, in 1784, on the farm owned now in part by George S. Larabee, his grandson, and by Orson S. Jones, and sold it to Hopkins Rowley, in 1792, and went to Georgia, Vt. In 1798 he returned and settled on the place now owned by George S. Larabee, though not inhabited. His birth took place in Plainfield, Conn., on July 6, 1753. He came here from Pownal, and died here on August 21, 1831, aged seventy-eight years. |
| Thomas,
1-5.009 |
pg 616-7, Early Records The first proprietors' meeting of which there is a record was held at the house of Elihu Smith, in Clarendon, on April 28, 1783, Colonel Ephraim Doolittle being chosen moderator. Thomas Rowley was chosen proprietors' clerk, Daniel Hemenway treasurer, and Asa Hemenway collector of taxes. Among the measures of the day which may be of interest now were the following: "Voted, That those Proprietors who have made improvements on the lake shore shall have their twenty-six acres to cover their improvements and no more, in equal width with the other lots for their draft in said division, in proportion to one right of twenty-six acres as above mentioned. Voted, Mr. Daniel Hemenway be a superintendent to oversee the business of laying out of lands voted to be laid out by the Proprietors of Shoreham. Voted, Thomas Rowley, esq., to be the surveyor to lay out the lands voted to be laid out in Shoreham and his wages to be one dollar each day while in service. Voted, To lay a tax of five Spanish Milled Dollars on each right or share of land in Shoreham, to defray the charges of laying out the lands now voted to be laid out, and other back charges against the Proprietary, and that said tax be collected by the first day of October next. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the sun's rising to-morrow morning. The meeting opened according to the adjournment, on the 29th of April, A.D. 1783. Voted, That one hundred acres be surveyed and laid out as aforesaid, to enclose the place where the saw-mill formerly stood, and the same be set to the right of which Ephraim Doolittle was the original grantee: And it is expected that the said Doolittle cause a saw-mill and a grist-mill to be built at said mill place as soon as possible, and that there be reserved, for the use of said mills, sufficient pond room for the use of said mills forever. Voted, That this meeting be adjourned to the first Monday of October next, at one o'clock in the afternoon, then to meet and open at the house of Amos Callender in Shoreham. THOMAS ROWLEY, Proprietors' Clerk." |
| Thomas,
1-5.009 |
The old tavern, which John S. Larabee bought of Thomas Rowley in 1787 and enlarged, and which was burned in 1838, stood on the site of the present hotel, the United States Hotel |
| History of Addison County (1886), Chapter XXXVII History of the Town of Whiting | |
| Benjamin | pg 726, The records, or rather
traditions, that have been left of these early settlements-are meager and
uncertain; but there is little doubt but that the full complement of fifteen
families was in the town previous to, or soon after, the breaking out of the
War of the Revolution. This latter event put a stop to migration, and
those who had made improvements here left
their possessions, either to take part in the great conflict or to seek
localities more remote and less liable to invasion by the enemy. Immediately
after the close of hostilities many of these settlers returned, bringing
other families with them. As we have intimated, much that is stated of the town at that early date is traditional, and hence very liable to error. It is certain, however, that the proprietors' records and other reliable sources show conclusively that twenty men, some of them with families, had begun settlements here as early as the autumn of 1783, viz., John Willson and family, Aaron Persons and family, John Smith and family, Jeremiah Parker, Jehial Hull, Ezra Allen, Ebenezer Wheelock, Jonathan Cormick, Charles Brewster, Joseph Williams, Jeremiah Williams, Captain Benjamin House, Aaron Holbrook, Alfred Hathaway, David Fisher, Preserved Hall, Jonathan Cook, Benjamin Andrus, E. Brown, and a Mr. Adams. In 1874 (note: actually 1774) the heads of families were as follows: Jeremiah Austin, Richard Day, Samuel Beach, Ebenezer Drury, esq., Gideon Walker, Aaron Beach, Thomas McNeill, and Jehial Smith. To these were added in 1785 John Branch, Ichabod Foster, Joel Foster, Benjamin Foster, Asa Hawes, Amos Palmer, Daniel Washburn, David Graves, John Branch, Shubel Branch, and Abel Branch, a bachelor, and probably a few others. In the three years immediately following, the additions, so far as we are able to learn, were as follows: Jehial Munger, Joseph Needham, Philemon Metcalf, Henry Wiswell, Job Hutchinson, Priest Remilee, Elijah Kirkham, Benjamin Andrus, Benjamin Rowley, David Brown, Esquire Brown, Elisha Barker, Stukely Stone, Elihu Ketcham, Christopher Stone, Josiah Stone, Aaron Mack, Ezra Cashman, John Jordan, and Jonas Hubbard The locations selected by a few of these early settlers we have been able to trace as follows: ... Benjamin Rowley, north of the central part of the town |
| History of Addison County (1886); Chapter XXXVIII Biographical | |
| George H. | WICKER, CYRUS WASHBURN, son of Lemuel and Sally (Haskell) Wicker, was born in Hardwick, Mass., on the 12th day of August, 1814, and was brought by his parents to Orwell, Vt,
when he was two years of age. ... The mother of the subject of this
sketch was the second wife of Lemuel Wicker, and was the daughter of George
Haskell, a farmer of Hardwick, who died on the 25th of May, 1837, aged
seventy-six years, just two months and eight days after the death of his
wife, Comfort, who was about the same age as he. Lemuel Wicker, the fourth
child of six boys and four girls, died in Orwell, VT, on the 20th day of
July, 1825, leaving his wife, who followed him on the 22d day of July, 1831,
aged forty-one. Cyrus W. Wicker was the eldest of the five children of Lemuel Wicker. He had three sisters -- Mary, Abigail, and Eliza, of whom the last named was the widow of the late Colonel Clark Callender, of Shoreham, Vt. He also has one brother, Charles, who is now living in New Haven, Vt. He also has one half-brother, who was the son of his mother by her second husband, George H. Rowley, who is now (e.g. 1886) a resident of Essex county, N. Y. |
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