Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-07
From Middlebury Register ]
A NIiddIebury BOY.
CLEVELAND. O., March 10. 1870,


Editor Of tie Register DEAR SIR: Ii
connection with what had to say abou
New England men, in my last letter.
now desire to speak of one from your owl
place, DIR. Theodatus Garlic.
In a published sketch of the representa-
tive men of this city, the above name ap
pears The writer of it says that "Dr
! Garlic had the fortune, and probably q00C
fortune, to be born in Middlebury, VT.
March 80, 1905, in view of the Greer
famous for marble, slate, iron ore, anC
hardy young men, generally known al
Green Mountain Boys"
| An older brother of DR.. Garlic, having
| been apprenticed to a marble cutter, came
out west some time after the war of 1912.
and located at Cleveland. In 1916, at
eleven years of age, the doctor had also
drifted as far west as Erie, Penn, about
95 miles east of this city, and came tc
Cleveland three years later.
Both of these young men had some ar.
tistic skill, and soon set themselves to
work. No marble being in this region
they found a substitute for it in the fine
grained blue sandstone, and erected a
mill for saving it, as is still done, into
convenient and handsome forms for use.
These young men were early impressed
with the idea of self-support. They es-
tablished marble-yard, all but the mar
BILE, Of which they had none, at least to
begin with, but like true Yankees, went
to work on such material as they could
find. Abel, the elder brother, marked
out the letters on the grave-stones with a
pencil, and Theodatus carved them with
his chisel Most of the renowned sculp-
tors of Ohio, it is said, took their first
lessons in this way, aud all of them have
left samples of their untutored skill in
various angels and cherubs, now moulder-
ing in the old churchyards. The blue
sandstone monuments on which DR.. Gar
lie cut inscriptions fifty years ago, are
still to be seen in the early cemeteries of
the Western Reserve, some of which were
impressive, and others that could not be
particularly admired as specimens of the
true art. ...e. ...
Among the earliest efforts of DR. Gar
lie in this department, were two signs of
stone, cut in an oval form, to be laid into
the front of new store. Both of these
stones were in existence until the ground
on which the building stood was cleared
to make place for new bank, when these
stones were broken up and laid into a
part of the cellar hall But the genius,
which first INDUCED in working out with
the chisel its early conceptions of the fly
ing cherubims, with their voiceless trum-
pets. was not destined to confine itself to
working the old blue sandstone. He
finally determined to become physician,
and after some years of the usual expert
ence of medical students, he entered the
medical department of the University Of
Maryland, in the city of Baltimore, where
he graduated in 1884. No sooner was
his diploma received than the artist again
appeared. He suddenly produced bas-
reliefs in wax, of five favorite professors,
without sittings, which were pronounced
perfect hkenesses. General jackson and
Henry Clay gave him short sitting, and
the next day their statuettes were on ex-
hibition. Mr.. Clay expressed his satis-
faction for his own, in an autograph let
ter. Another miniature in relief of Chief
Justice Marshall, from a portrait by
Waugh, was pronounced by Mr.. Bullock,
an English Virtuoso, or equal to anything
produced by Therwaldsen.
: But being surrounded now by medical
men, who, like men of all professions, re-
gard their own as more important than
any other, DIR. Garlic was induced to turn
his artistic skill upon anatomical models.
He located at Youngstown, Ohio, the
same year that he graduated, at which
place, and at the Medical College of Cleve-
land, he devoted nearly two years in get