Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-01-14

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Probate for the district of Manchester fol
FIVE years 1S24-2S, and Judge OF the su
preme court of Vermont twenty years. A
purer or more honest man never sat upon
the bench. His moral sensibilities were
so acute that his presence on the bench
was very dangerous to person accused
OF crime He seemed to regard the fact
Of indictment as prima facie evidence OF
guilt. In civil cases, and when time was
given him for study and reflection, his
/ Judgment was almost unerring. he was
a devout and active Christian, a member
Of the Congregational Church, in his mid
die life an enthusiastic Sabbath School
teacher and superintendent; and in his
later years, a decided and earnest advo-
| cate of the advanced views of temperance.
| July 10. Gamaliel B. Sawyer, of Bur
| ington. He was graduated at the Uni
| yersity of Vermont in 1919, at the age OF
nineteen, and was one of the best bellies
lettres scholars that has ever been gradua-
ted at the University. He was admitted
to the bar in 1921, and practiced at Bur
| lngton, New York and Kalamazoo. He
was clerk III the Department of State
several months in 1871, and in the Gus
tom House in New York some years. Mr..
Sawyer was man of extraordinary bril-
liancy. lie had memory of wonderful
rrtentiveness, had most intimate know
ledge of Greek, Latin and English litera-
ture, and was profoundly learned in civil
and political history. He was singularly
gifted in the use of the pen, and wrote
pure and strong Saxon in a delightful
style. One of his best productions was a
memoir of Gov Van Ness in the New
York Times Had he devoted himself
Systematically md assiduously to letters
he would have gained high rank among
American authors.
July 20 Daniel Cobb, of Strafford. He
was lawyer by profession, hut was much
more in favor of settling disputes than of
litieating them. He was the representa-
tive of Stratford in 1915, '16, II, "a. %,
II anu IL, Il IleInoeT Vi tHt eAcCuIiNe
council 1s31'-34, and senator from
Orange county in 1887 and 80.
August 10. George w. Bailey, of Mid
dlesex. He was soldier in the war Of
1912, when only sixteen years old, and
took part in the sanguinary battles OF
Chippewa and Bridgwater, and in the
storming of Fort Erie He was the rep
resentative of Elmore in 1Si042, sheriff
Of Lamoille county in 1913, senator from
Lamoille county in 1851 and 1852, and
Judge of probate in Washington county
two years He was an earnest and de-
voted Christian, conscientious and cir
cumspect in all his ways. and Jealous
Methodist
August James Amber, of Huntington
Pittsburgh, town clerk of Huntington
from 1915 to 1916 and representative in
1912, ID, II, 10, '23, pa, '26, ~ and '33.
At his first election he was the youngest
of the House.
September s. Thomas Jameson, of Iras-
burgh. \ representative in 1S43, mem
Der Of the constitutional convention in
1850, and sheriff of Orleans county ten
years, lS2G-1e35.
October %. Andrew Tracy, of Wood
stock. He began a, collegiate course at
but did not complete it. He
studied law and began practice at Que
chez, in Hartford, of which town he was
the representative for five successive
years, 1S33-1S37 About 1889 he removed
to Woodstock, and was the representative
Of that town, and the speaker of the
House of Representatives three years,
1S42-1S44 In 1852 he was elected to
Congress. but he absolutely refused to be
a candidate for reelection. Gov. Paine
rendered him the appointment of United
States senator 10 fill the vacancy occa-
stoned by the resignation of tho Hon.
Samuel Prentiss, but he declined. His
life was devoted to the practice of law,
and for the last thirty-fve years of his
life he was one of the recognized leaders
Of the Vermont bar. His physical consti-
tuition was weak, bat his intense nervous
energy rendered him a vigorous speaker,
and he had a power of sarcasm and in
veetive unequalled by any of his contem-
poraries at the bar, except the late Hon.
s. 5. Phelps
November , Benjamin f. Foster, OF
Dummerston, a graduate of Amherst col |
lege in 1929, and n Congregational minis
ter for thirty-seven years. He was pastor
in Salisbury, n. IL. thirteen years, and
in Dummerston twenty-one years. Two
Of his sons were soldiers in the army of
the union,
November II. Stephen Royce, Of Berk-
shire. lie was graduated at Middlebury.
in 1907. et.aiea law with Ebenezer Mar
vim, Jr., of Sheldon, and practiced at
East Berkshire, Sheldon, and St. Adams.
He was the representative of Sheldon in
1915, 'iG, states attorney for Franklin
county in 1916 and 1917, the representa-
ii We Of ST. Adams in 1922, 1928, and 1924, |
and member of the constitutional con-
vention in 1922 In 1925 he was elected |
q Judge of the supreme court, and, with
the exception of two years, held that Office
till 1852, twenty-five years, during the
last six of which he was chief justice.
In 1854. at the organization of the Repub-
hcan party in Vermont, he was nominated
for governor, and was elected by major
ity of eleven thousand. The next year
he was elected by an equally decisive ma
lority. His executive messages were
by brevity, comprehensive
ness, weight of thought, and felicity of
expression. When his term of service as
governor had closed, he retired altogether
from public life He was naturally re-
served, and modest in speech but courte-
Gus, pure hearted and considerate, and he