Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-04
Neurology of Vermont, 1871.
BY oHAUSoY X. WILLIAMS.

from 1912 to 1919, and sheriff from 1878
to 1882 "
January 15-B. T. Mason, an eminent
portrait painter, at Woodstock.
January-Rey. Nelson Bishop, fol
many years editor of the Vermont CAton-
icle. II
February 17-Hon. Joseph W. Col
burn, of Springfield, aged Il years. He
was Senator from Windsor county il
1848, 1849 and 1850; assistant Judge OF
Windsor County Court four years men,
Der of the Council of Censors in 1859
president of the Exchange Bank OF
Springfield from its organization to its
close, and subsequently a director in the
national bank of that place President
of the Vermont State Agricultural soci-
city 1865 and 1866, and one of its direct
ors twenty years, and treasurer ten
years.
February 20-Hon. David Manning
Camp, at Derby, aged 81 years. He was
born at Tunbridge, April 81, 1888, and
graduated at the University of Vermont in
1910; studied law with Hon. VIM. Bray
ton of Swanton, and admitted to the bar
at the August term, 1919, of Franklin
County Court, and after practicing his
profession one year at Swanton, removed
to Derby in 1918, and for the next ff-
teen years was an officer in the Custom
House. He was State Attorney of Or
leans county in 1916, and Judge of the
County Court in 1881, 1882, 1888, 1885,
1885. He represented the town of Der
by in the General Assembly in 1926,
1926, 1884 and 1885, and was Senator
from Orleans county in 1912, 1S43 and
1874. In 1886 he was elected Lieuten-
ant Governor, and as such, under the
then new constitution, became the Pres
ident of the Senate, being the first to
hold that position. He was reelected in
1887, 1888, 1889 and 1910 The first
rules of the Senate were prepared and
arranged by him, most of which are still
in force unchanged. He was the first
superintendent of common schools for
Orleans county, and remained as such
until the Office was abolished, and was
subsequently superintendent of schools
of Derby, and afterwards of Montpelier.
March-Hon. David Crawford, at Put
ney. In the war of 1912 he held vari-
GUS military commissions, and distin-
guished himself in several hard fought
battles. He represented the town of
Putney in 1923 and 30, so and SO was
a member of tho last executive council
in 1884 elector of President ana y-rcc-
President in 1895; Senator from Wind
ham County in 1904; member Of
the Constitutional Convention in 1913 !;
a member of the Council of Censors in
1S49.
March-Hon. William Spencer, of
Corinth, aged 80 years. He represented
Corinth in the General Assembly in 1910,
II, '12, 30, 81, '26, 81 and 35 and in
the Constitutional Convention of 1885,
He was Chief Judge of the Orange Conn
ty Court from 1891 to 1925, and upon
the change in the Constitution, abolish
ing that office, was elected first assistant
judge, which he hald continuously until
and including the year 1880. He was,
Judge of Probate for the Corinth dis
trict, of Orange County from 1925 to
1910, DOCII years inclusive.
March 29-Daniel D. Howard, of Bur
lington, at Geneva, Switzerland, at the
age of SO years. He was clerk on the
Phoenix, when it burned on Lake Cham
plain, September Sd, 1919, and distin-
guished himself for his GOODNESS and eff
forts to save life and property. He was
teller in the Bank of Burlinhton and
subsequently engaged in mercantile bust
ness in that place. He acquired consid-
cradle celebrity in connection with hO-
tells, being successfully proprietor and
keeper of hotels in Kecsyille and Troy,
N. Y, of the Exchange Hotel, Howard
House, Irving House and Hoffman
House of New York City
April 3-John Q. Dickinson, of Ben
son, assassinated at Marianne, Fla, -
He was a graduate of Middlebury Col
lege and served during the Rebellion in
the Seventh Vermont Volunteers, being
second and first Lieutenant
of Company c., Quartermaster and Cap
tain of Co. F. After the close of the
war he was Secretary of the Florida Sen
ate, and Clerk of the Superior and Dis
trict Courts of that State. His remains
were brought to Benson for interment.
April 15-Jackson A. Vail, of Mont
pelier, at the Asylum in Brattleboro.-
He was formerly leading lawyer and
prominent politician Of Montpelier, and
was the first representative of the pres
ent town of Montpelier, after the divis-
ion of the old town.
May 7-William f. Barnes. of Rut-
land, aged 65. He was the pioneer of
the development of Rutland marble;
was formerly Methodist clergyman, and
represented Rutland in the General As
sembly of the State two years.
June 11-Jedediah S. Bushnell of Mid |
llebury, at the age of SO years. He
graduated at Middlebury college, 1926,
studied law and was admitted to the Ad-
olson county bar, and practiced his pro-
fession at Middlebury. He was Regis
ter of Probate for the district of AID !
olson from 1871 to his death; was
County Auditor, and a member of the |
Convention of 1843.
June 25-Charles C. Dewey, of Rut-
land, at the Hartford Retreat for the
Insane, aged Al Yeas. He was admit
ted to the Windsor county bar in 1853,
and practiced his profession in Wells !
River, Vt, Rochester, N. Y, and Rut
and. He was assistant clerk of the
Vermont House of Representatives in
1859; States Attorney of Orange coun-