Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-10-25

Periehceu FEWER symptoms of unhaaItb;
almost any other man amongst us mr. 'uaa
situated In life rapidly growing in nor'' veF
and pubic favor he seemed Certainly da,,'g
in all human probability, to longca.oa es,'ned
mess and usefulness While manv 90 :, VI nap
bers of the Historical Society are agr5 way men,
apparently hold on to life by very f.al, "ao
ure' yet they are permitted to gladden. =. "h'
and again with their presencesand be or ~ 's'n
tainty of whose life for many years wa ' s' Ger
most complete assurance has beor ''' al
first to fall, to be wept over and Iar,oS. "s The
A biographical sketch which Shall nro.a,..
leading events of career so short. can 10 '"c
prlsed IN afew words. Thomas GlaeJ ~ YUM
in Lyme Regis. Dorset County, Ern,oa1 UOln
Sth, lS26. and was the second CO., ouy
John Gleed, and Elizabeth P. t,Iead n. "e''
nal grandfather was a day laborer VII" pa'ef-
in small tenant house, attached to , To-. "'eo
tate and labored as common tinsr % e.
ground until in his old age he removed 10 A. 'I'
OF London to live and die with his sons WHY
already become prosperous merchants % n 'l
metropolis. Mrs. Elizabeth p t;lood "a'
daughter of wealthy Englishman, the propri. ,as
of a large estate, with the title Of :. Eyon,S ."
She was woman of great culture and stnn.,
OF intellect and of irmness only s.rnossoS
her benevolence
In June, 1885, when the subject Of tbi,
was six years old Rev. John Gleed l,rdos , wv.
his family at Quebec, with the intention v,
making the States y his home. He ron...N'
in Canada, however, until the rebellion % ~,
broke out and finding no facilities for clro..,,
his children, he removed to Berkshire Fro,1.n
County Vermont, where he remained nc ,h,,
tor OF the Congregational Church two veor. 49,,
IN 1889 he removed to Waterie. in Lamollo
County where, during the last TWENTY-FIVE yo.,n
he has made his home, and preached, 10 ssvnr.,
churches.
During his boyhood, Thomas Glced cD;or.,
only the facilities which the common ,cbn,,
then so far inferior to it in its present oIov,,J
condition, afforded for an education and .,..
here, his studies were often Interrupted bv limo
intervals of labor both summer and wiutor o.
the farm. In the winter of lS4l,5 ha ton.h.
his first school in horistown, and in the srrlr.
OF 1871 having previously attended the Acalemc
Tor u short season, he commenced the stud, o.
law at Morisylle, in the office of Hon. l. p
roland the present Chief Justice Of Vermont
lie subsequently, spent some time with W
Ferrin, Esq, then of wolcott, and having oocnr1
ah once Tor himself at Waterville, in the spring
OF 1919, he was admitted to the bar at the lime
Term of the Lamoille County Court If that
year.
he remained at Watcryille until the fall orlSJ?,
when having been elected to the Office of States
Attorney, he locaetd himself at Moris,jc
where he resided until his death, In lSj4he
was again chosen STATES Attorney. The next
year he was chosen a member of the council
of censors, and in 1856, was elected to the
State Senate He remained in the Senatc. two
years, and for the two years succeeding repe,cnt
ed the town of Mouiotown IN the House of
Representatives,
1t is impossible for Inc to say what other i'm.
portant services his fellow citizens would have
deemed him competent to perform had his life
, been spared few years longer. Certainly, as
he had done nothing to diminish their cstima-
ZION of his fitness for public duties, ii is fair
to presume that they would have regarded far
higher honors than these as not too much 10
bestow upon one so earnest and faithful IN the
discharge OF what he conceived to be right. But
Providence saw Mt to withhold any farther be-
stowment of worldly honor A most malignant
typhoid fever seized upon his constitution in the
month of August last. and after struggle of two.
weeks with the disease, much of the time deH-
ous, and only relieved from his intense suffering
by brief periods of total Inconsistencies. be died
on the 30th of that month, aged 50 years.
Although so few words are required to narrate
the events which have given most prominence to
his life, were we to indulge in all the reflections
that might arise in contemplation of the various
influences such life may cast, volumes could not
contain them. In this instance we certainly
Should be led into a lengthy retrospect were we
toallow onr thoughts full liberty. We know
that the memory of him or whom we speak will
be cherished by many with no ordinary devotion
that he possessed over the minds of those most
intimate with him controlling power that SEEM
ed almost magical that there are men in his own
vicinity who regarded their fortunes and destiny
as indissolubly linked with his and who would
have considered no sacrifice too great that should
contribute to his advancement and success
There were those who while he lived, looked
upon this estimate as false who judged the con-
fidence so readily reposed in him as misplaced
OF at least too strong to abide the test of time
The frequency with which his name was be
fore the people of his section as candidate fol
public office, as there was not year from hi
first election as States Attorney, until his death
in which he was not honored with some pubic
trust of importance, gave occasions enough fol
uniavorable comments on his life and character
But all these he met with quietness and ap
parent indifference of demeanor which gave Il
his friends an assurance that was utterly irres,
tible And no one can now be found who is no
willing say that there was in his character
vast preponderance OF good qualities over any o
an opposite nature
The amount of professional business that h
conducted was uncommonly large for the localit!
| in which he lived, and it was despatched with al