Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-02-23
ID.

In Williston on the LIST inst, Hon TRUMAN CmTTEN-
DEN, aged 50 years.
From an obituary notice in the Daily Free
Press, we extract the following:
The connection of Judge Chittenden with the
early settlement and history of western Vermont,
as well as the more recent political and Legislative
history of the State, renders it proper that ~
should not suffer his decease to pass unnoticed.
The deceased was the son of Thomas Chitten-
den, the first Governor of Vermont. He was the
youngest of family of nine children, and was
born in Salisbury, Ct, on the Sd day Of August
1870.
1t is usual, in articles like the present. to audo
to the many public stations which its subject has
filled, in order to show the estimation in which he
was held by his contemporaries and the commune
ty in which he lived but in these days, when of
fee has become rather the wages of political ma.
chinations, than the reward of political merit, VIC
may well be excused from measuring the wortl
of Truman Chittenden by the number of official
stations which he occupied. If his ambition had
led him in that direction, he had enough of them
to satisfy his ambition, and it is, perhaps, enough
TO say that he brot to the discharge of all of them
q clear head and an honest heart He was a CO.
temporary of the Chpmans, Van Ness, Seymours
and others whose connection with the political af
fairs of this State has now become part of it:
history and that part, too, of which posterity has
no reason to complain.
Truman Chittenden was possessed of all those
characteristics, which made the early settlers O.
Vermont the men of the time they lived in. Whc
Their it was the hardships of new settlement, the
privations of repeated journeys on foot throus.
the forests of the rugged and mountainous coun.
try in which they lived, the activity and couraa,
which the necessity Of guarding against the dan
r M II n
which developed the minds of these men in so sin
guar manner, it may be needless now to inquire
For the most part uneducated they seemed to un
derstand from intuition, what other men gathered
from books. Unacquainted with the history 0
political or legislative bodies, they discharged the
duties in them with a Judgment and forecast which
hardly ever was deceived. Uneducated in the
graces of polished society," they were the very gen
tlemen of nature, and they have all of them lef
their impress upon the age in which they lived
and now, when one of them, full of years and hon
ors, goes down to his grave, we involuntarily lool
around us for man Of this age to fill his place
and too often look in vain. Mr. Chittenden wa
one of the last Of this class of men, 1t isn't claim
ing too much for him to say that his life has beer
one of activity and usefulness, and although tn,
places of such men may be filled in the council
of the State and Nation their loss is felt in til,
community of which they have so long been mem
beers, and in which their many acts of kindnes
and benevolence will be long remembered 9th
er men may fill more brilliant pages in history
may by their acts and deeds become better known
-" si-s.o 49, i,ioy wuIu Il
a longer more well spent life, or a more quie
and peaceful death-bed than that of Truman Chit
tenden and if when we come to leave this world
we shall leave behind us as few enemies, and a
many warm and devoted friends as he did, W,
may at least hope that our lives have not beer
useless ones, or our missions quite unfulflled.