The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-09-07
Jlarke, of Middletown, and was admitted
o the bar in Rutland County, September,

Clarke, of Middletown, and was admitted
to the bar in Rutland County, September
1889.
He married, in the winter Of 1910
Miss Green, daughter of Joseph Green
of Dandy, and removed in June after, tC
Finley, Ohio. The last ten years of his
life, he lived in Kosciusco Co., Indiana
He leaves widow and several children
lie joined the Congregational Church in
Mddletown, in 1881. "Mr Bigelow,
writes an intimate friend, chad good tai
ents, was a ready wit and quick at repair
tee, ,butlacked industry, therefore and never
obtained much reputation as lawyer
Some years before he left Ohio, he nearly
or quite abandoned his profession, on ac.
count of deafness. When he went to In.
diana he bought farm, to which he de-
voted his time during the remainder OF
his life
EDWARD MERRILL was born iii Middle
bury, Janary =, 1923, and died June 10,
1869, in Waco, Texas, aged 46 years.
He was the youngest son of the late
Rev. Thomas A. Merrill, D. d. He
prepared for College at the Addison Co.,
Grammer School. After graduating, he
spent several years teaching in the South
time, the study of Medicine.
Returning to Middlebury about the
time of his fathers death, he began to
attend medical lectures at Castleton, in
1855. After completing his course he
returned to the State of Louisiana. In
1857 he married, and about the be-
ginning of the recent war, removed to
Waco, Texas.
He leaves widow and five children.
DAVIS JEFFERSON RIcn was born in
Shoreham, Vermont, January "A, 1927,
and died in Raleigh, North Carolina,
February 16, 1869, aged ~ years.
He was the son of Judge Davis Rich
and Affia wright Rich, of Shorcham.
He fitted for College at Newton Acade-
my, in Shoreham. Soon after his grad
uation in 1S4S, he went to Michigan,
where he remained with sister and other
relatives until 1852. when he returned,
and in 1858, in company with his oldest
brother, engaged in manufacturing in
Mooers, Clinton County, New York. He
continued in this business until late in
1856, studying law, in the meantime, with
Thomas Armstrong, Esq. After he was
admitted to the bar he went into practice
in company with Mr.. Ayerill, of Cham.
plain, New York, where he remained I'M
til the commencement of the war. He
then raised company of infantry in
northern New York, was appointed Cap
tain, joined the army in May or June, at
Alexandria, Virginia. Early in 1862 he
resigned, came back to Clinton County,
n. Y, raised another company and join
ed the army at Washington, ID. g. Soon
after which he was detached from the
company and appointed Assistant Adju-
tant General to Gen. Slough, where he
remained to the close of the war. Soon
after the war he was an assistant to Gen.
Laufin, who had been appointed L. S.
Marshal, and was stationed at Richmond,
Va, which Office was soon abolished
In the autumn of 1865 he, with youn-
ger brother and three others, bought a
large plantation in Pitt County, North
Carolina, which, proving very disastrous,
las did all othcrs) after running two years,
they sold. Still remaining in North Car
olina and taking a deep interest in the
welfare of the State, he wa. elected a
delegate, from the county of Pitt, to the
State Convention, which met in January
1868, to form new Constitution. Early
in 1869 he appears in Raleigh, a. sena.
tor. where after an illness of five days, he
died ofpneumonia. Besides these positions
of trust and confidence in his adopted
State, he was elected Sheriff of Pitt coun.
ty, and was appointed by the Governor
Colonel of Militia.
His death was noticed with marked in
terest by both branches of the General
Assembly of North Carolina. A COM
mittce was appointed to accompany the
remains to Vermont, for burial, and res.
olutions were passed which drew forth a
very warm tribute of affection and respect
from different members of the Legis
lature.
In the various addresses thus elected
it is pleasant to notice full recognition
of his clear, bright and cultivated mind
his kindness and tenderness of heart, hi
love of justice, and dislike of all shan
and affectation, his rare gift of good senst
and mother wit, with vein of dry hu
NOR and sarcasm, keen but always kind
ly-that same peculiar blending Of wit ano
humor, so quiet and seemingly uncon
scious, which in the class room over TWEEN
ty years ago, as some ofus well remember
was wont to extort sudden and uncontrol
liable bursts of laughter, even from tn
keen-minded Prof. Stoddard--a rar
achievement for college youth.
Allusion has been made to his sense O
: justice. The funds with which he pur
chased his plantation, and which wer
; supplied, to large extent, by relative
at the north, he was of course unable a
the time, to repay. To secure ther
against ultimate loss, AS is supposed, h
; insured his life about six months befor
his death, in two responsible companies
for thirty thousand dollars.
MIR. Rich was never married.
A lad escaped from the county jail 4
Chicago, few days since, by soapin