Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-05
Neurology of Vermont for 1870.

aged eighty-nine years, four months and
twenty-four days. He graduated at Dart
mouth College in 1901, being part Of the
time room mate of Daniel Webster.
Immediately after his graduation he stud
led law, and after being admitted to the
bar, practiced his profession at STAFFORD
and at Norwich. He represented Nor.
witch in the Legislature of Vermont in
1920, 81, %, % and 40, and in the Consti-
tutional Convention in 1923, and was
Chief Judge of Windsor County Court In
1928.
January 16.-Anson Byington, at Char
lotte, at the age of SO years. BE was
one of the pioneers of the anti-slavery
movement in the State, being one of the
leading members of the "Liberty" or
"Free Soil" party in Vermont. He was
an active advocate of the Temperance re-
form, and universally respected as an up
right, sincere and worthy citizen.
January 22d.-Hon. Edward Ayles-
worth, at Arlington, from the effects of
wound which he had made week previ-
GUS in his throat, in trying to commit sui
eide. The wound had been sewed up,
but in his insanity he tore it afresh, and
died soon after. He was one of the Judges
of the County Court for the county Of
Bennington.
February 7th.-Peter Thatcher Wash
burn, Governor of the State, at Wood
stock, at the age of fifty-five years.
He was born at Lynn, Mass, September
7th, 1914, and came to Vermont with his
father in February, 1917. He graduated
at Dartmouth College in 1885, and studied
law with his father and with Hon Will
liam Upham, afterwards United States
Senator from Vermont, and was admitted
to the bar in Windsor county at the De-
cenber term, 1888, and practiced in Lud-
low until 1874, when he removed to
Woodstock. During the same year he
was elected Reporter of the decisions of
the Supreme Court, and was reelected
annually to and including 1851, and pub
lished eight volumes of Vermont Reports
He also published two volumes of the
digests of the Vermont Reports, and had,
at the time of his death, third and con-
Guiding volume nearly ready for publics-
ton. In 1858 and 1854 he represented
Woodstock in the Legislature of Vermont.
On the breaking out of the war he was
commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the
First Regiment of Vermont Volunteers,
and as such accom- panied the regiment
and remained with them during their en-
tire term of service. In October, 1901,
the first session of the Legislature after
his return from the army, he was elected
Adjutant and Inspector General of Yer
mont, and served as such, by annual re-
elections, until the close of the war. His
reports in this capacity are models, and
contain almost history of the part taken
by Vermont in the suppression of the re-
bellion, certainly a history of the part
taken by Vermont could not be written
without liberal and frequent use of
Gen. Washburn's reports. In 1869 he
was elected Governor of Vermont, and
was the first Governor of Vermont who
died in Office.
March 3O-Dugald Stewart, at Middle
bury, at the age of 4S years. He was born
at m1ddIebury, September Goth, 1921, and
graduated at Middlebury College in 1912.
Immediately after graduation he studied
law, and was admitted to the bar, but
naver entered into practice. For several
years he was connected with the Rutland
and Burlington railroad as an Account
ant and Paymaster. He represented Mid
dlebury in the Legislature of Vermont in
1860, 81 and 1862, and was leading and
influential member In 1855 be was APP
pointed Clerk of the Addison County
Courts, and remained such until his
Jeptha Bradley, he was appointed by Gov.
Smith, Auditor of Accounts for the State,
and was annually reelected to that posi-
tion until his death.
April 1st.-Abel ellison, at Springfield
at the age of eighty years, be was born at
Ringe n. H, April Goth, 1889, and came
to Vermont when fifteen years old. He
was volunteer in the war of 1912, and |
beside holding many minor offices was for
many years town clerk, and postmaster |
at Reading. In 1894 he removed to Proc
torsville and established wooden factory, |
and while here he was elected Senator
from Windsor county-serving in this ca
pacity two years 1850, 1861. He was
Justice of the peace for fifty years being
elected and reelected in the different
towns of his residence. In 1869 he re-
moved to Springfield where he remained
until his death.
April 15th-Hon. Augustus Burt, at
Highgate, at the age of ninety ye2rs. He
was at the time of bis death the Oldest
member of the Franklin County Bar, and
had been Judge of the County Court for
franklin county in 1889, 40, II, '43 and
1914, and States Attorney in 1S49 and
1850 In 1S48 he was a member of the
Council of Census that proposed the
to the constitution by which
he election of County officers and Justices
If the Peace was given to the people.
April 26th-John Spalding, at Mont
oelier, at the age of eighty years. He
vas born at Sharon, in this State, and en-
cred upon the mercantile business at
in 1913 and remained in trade
Until 1849, when he transferred his bust
less to his brother. In 1S40-41 he was
me of the Judges of Washington County
COURT, and from 1871 to 1916 was State
Treasurer. Ia
April 30th.-William Clapp, at st.
Adams, at the age of ffty-nine years. He {
vas born at Montgomery, VT, April Both,
81. At the age of II he commenced '
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