Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-10-29

WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN.

WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN.
The year 1913 witnessed political rev.
olution in Vermont. The Republican
party, which had so long been in power,
were defeated, and the government Of the
State was placed in the hands Of the Fed
erahsts. Martin Chttenden was elected
Governor in the place Of Jonas Galusha.
and William Chamberlain Lieutenant
Governor in place of Paul Brigham
WILLIAM CHANBERLAIS, the eighth
Lieutenant Governor Of Vermont, was
born in Hopkinton in the County of Mid
dleseX, Massachusetts,, On the 21th day Of
April, 1853. lie removed, with his father,
from Ilopkinton, in 1913, and settled in
Loudon, Merrimack County, New lIamp-
shire. They were among the early set
tiers Of Loudon, which was incorporated
january Odd, li'3, and was organized and
its first town meeting held on the 23d Of
March of the same year.
In 1913, he enlisted as volunteer in
the army and was appointed orderly SER
geant Of his company. He was one Of the
eleven hundred men composing the Ex-
petition to Canada who September 18th,
l775, having marched from Cambridge to
Newburyport, embarked on board of elev-
en- transports, and sailed the next day for
the kcuncbec River. After two days,
/ they entered the kcnnebec and sailed up
the river to the town of Gardiner, with
out any material accident Here their
hard struggles, sutterings, and dangers
began. Eleven hundred men, with arms,
ammunition, and all the apparatus Of war,
burdoued with the provisions for their
sustcnancc.and clothing to protect them
from the inclcmencies of the weather,
passed through region wild, and DESC
late, forcing their battcauN against swift
currents and carrying them and their
contents on their own shoulders around
rapid, and cataracts, over craggy prcci-
pieces, and through moras-cs, till they
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