Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-01-30
THE MEN OF VERMONT.
II. CARLOS COOLIDGE.

Carlos Coolidge, the seventeenth and !
oldest surviving Governor Of Vermont, !
was born in Windsor, in the County of I
Windsor, and State of Vermont, in the /
year 1892, and has always resided in the |
town of his nativity.
He graduated at MiddIebury College in
the class OF 1871, class distinguished for
ability and scholarship. Among his class
mates were Rec. Eleazer s. Bauoacs, Pro-
fessor in Hamilton College; Hon. Titus
BrOaon, President of the Senate of New
Hampshire Hon. Charles Da0is, Judge
of the Supreme Court of Vermont Rec.
Calria Hitchcock, ID. d., an eloquent and
learned Congregational clergyman of
Massachusetts Hon. Jacob Lansing, of
Albany; Rec. Joel II. Liasley, d, d.,
for time Pastor of Park Street Church,
! Boston-and since President of Marietta
College, Ohio; Thomas p INatthe,cS, III.
d., of Michigan, formerly Lecturer on
Anatomy, Physiology and Chemistry in
the Vermont Academy of Medicine Rec.
Benton Pirley, Missionary to the Usage
Indians; Rec Miles p Squier, d. d.,
Secretary of the Geneva Agency Of the
American Home Missionary Society, and
Professor of Mental and Moral Science in
Beloit College, Wisconsin and Hemon
,Swif, w. d., skillful physician at Ben
nington, and for a time member of the
Senate of Vermont.
In 1911, after the completion Of his
collegiate course, he commenced the study
of law, in the office of Hon. Peter Starr,
at Middlebury, and pursued his studies
under his direction fo- about two years.
In 1918, he returned to his native town
and entered the Office of the Hon Jonathan
II. Hubbard of Windsor, then Judge of
the Snnreme Court of VArnnnt, and g.
merly Member OF Congress. He re-
manned with Judge Hubbard until 1914,
when, having finished his studies, he was,
at the Windsor County Court, admitted
to the bar. Immediately after his ad-
mission to the bar, he opened an Office,
: and commenced the practice of his pro-
E fession at Windsor, and has ever since con-
tinued in practice in that place twenty
seven years of which time he held the of
fee of Justice of the Peace for Windsor
County.
He was elected States Attorney for the
County of Windsor in 1881, and held the
office, by annual reflections until 1886
He represented the town of Windsor il
, the General Assembly of Vermont in
b, 1884, and was reelected in 1885 ant
, 1886, and again in 1889, 40 and Al
t He was Speaker of the House of Rerre
y sentatives in 1886, SO, 40 and Al ant
d was distinguished for the ability and i'm.
partiality with which he discharged the
:. arduous and delicate duties of that station
He, also, represented the town of Wind.
d sor in the Constitutional Convention OF
, 1850.
q He was one of the first board of Bank
a Commissioners of the State of Vermont,
s composed of three members, appointed, il
irssaance of an act of the Legislature
passed in 1881. to inspect the affairs o
!. the several monied CO, co,,~norations of the
Q State.
& On the assembling Of the Legislatuh'
Ii 184s, Carlos Coolidge, was, in joint as
q s,ambly, elected Governor OF Vermont
iand was reelected in 1849 In both in
: stances, he was the candidate of the VIII
- Party, for that office, but failed to receiv
majority of the popular vote.
During his administration several i'm
ne portant measures were adopted. Anon
u these was-the exemption of homestea
r. to the value of five hundred dollars fror
= attachment and sale on execution. tt
judiciary system of the State was mater
ally altered by establishing Suprem
o. Court, to consist of three Judges, and
"a dividing the State into four judicial ci
as es cults, and electing circuit Judge for eat
RS circuit, these with the county judges forr