Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-01-10
Neurology in Vermont. 1871.
ny CHAUNCEY X. WILLIAMS.

ny CHAUNCEY X. WILLIAMS.
January 3-Jonathan Dixie, at Crown
Point. n. Y, aged 81 years, lie was
deputy sheriff Of the county Of Rutland
from 1912 to 1919, and sheriff from $40
to 1882.
January 15-B. +. Mason, an er j.
nent portrait painter, at Woodstock.
January-Rev. Nelson Bishop, for
many years editor of the Vermont Chroni-
Gle
February lT-Ilon. Joseph w. COL
burn, OF Springfield, aged II years, He
was senator from Windsor county in lS4S
aud 1856; assistant Judge of Windsor
County Court four years; member st the
Council of Censors in 1869; president Of
the Exhange Bank of Springfield from its
organization TO its close, and subsequent
ly a director in the national bank Of that
place President Of the Vermont State
Agricultural Society; 1865 ana 1866.
and one of it, directors twenty year, and
treasurer ten years.
February 20-llon. David Manning
Camp, at Derby, aged 80 years. Hewas
born at Tunbridge, April 81, 1TeS, and
graduated at the University of Vermont,
in 1910, studied law with Hen. Vim.
Brayton ofSwanton, and admitted to the
bar at the August term, in 1872, Of
Franklin County Court anl alter prac-
ticing his profession one year at Swanton,
removed to Derby in 1918, and for the
next fifteen years was an officer in the
Custom House lie was States Attorney
of Orleans County in 1916, and Judge of
County Court in 1881, 1882, 1888, 1885,
1886. He represented the town Of Der
by in the General Assembly in 1925,
1926, 1884 and 1885, and was Senator
from Orleans cnuuty n 1912, lS43 and
1874. In 1886 he was eloc cl Lleuten-
n.-GovelnJr, and as such, under the .hen
new constitution, became the president of
the Senate, being the first to hold that
position. He was reelected in 1887 +,
lS4S, 1S49 and 1850. The first rules OF
the Senate were prepared and aIraged by
him, most of which are 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 oi
schools of Derby, and afterwards oi
Montpelier.
March-Hon. David Crawford, at Put
ncy. In the war of 1872 he held vari.
Gus military commissions, and distinguish
2 ed himself in several hard fought battles
He represented the town Of Putney il
1927 and 1929, 1882 and 1888; was {
, member Of the last executive council ii
1884; elector of President and Vice
, President in 1886; Senator from Wind
ham county in lS4O-4l; member o
the Constitutional Convention in lS43 ; ;
, member of the Council of Censors in S4S
March-Hon. William Spencer, of Cor
inth, aged SO years. He represented il
the General Assembly in 1910, III, ~
90, '2l, '26, '27 and '35; and in th'
:. Constitutional Convention of 1850 HI
/ was Chief Judge Of the Orange Count,
y Court from 1912 to 1925, and upon tn
e chance in the Constitution, abolishing tha
I office, was elected lst asst judge whicI
$ he held continuously until and including
e the year 1880. lie was Judge Of Pr, bat
for the Corinth district of Orange Count
from 1895 to 1910, both years inclusive
March 29-Danicl D. Howard, Of Bur
lington, at Geneva, Switzerland, at tn
: age of 60 years. He was a clerk on tb
u the Phoenix when it burned on LAX
Champlain, September Sd, 1919, an
C distinguished himself for his coolness an
y efforts to save life and property. He wa
e a teller in the Bank of Burlington an
l. subsequently engaged in mercantile bus
e ness in that place. He acquired consider
i able celebrity in connection with hotels
G being successively proprietor and keepe
a of hotels in Kecsvile and Troy, N. Y {
o the Exchange Hotel, Howard House
: Irving House and Hoffman House {
New York Chy.
d April 3-John @. Dickinson, of Benso
II assassiLated at Marianne, Fla. He W;
IS a graduate of Middlebury college, an
served during the Rebellion in the II
n Regiment, Vermont Volunteers, beir
II successfully second and first Lieutenant
J. Company 9, Quatermaster and CAPITA
d of Company L. After the close of Il
At war he was Secretary of the Florida Se
in ate, and clerk of the Superior and Di
r, trict Courts of that State. His remai
re were brought to Benson for interment.
r April 15-Jackson A. Vail, of Mon
OF pelier, at the asylum in Brattleboro. I
Sc was formerly leading lawyer and pror
SO inent politician of Montpelier, and W
" the first representative Of the prese
le town of Montpelier, after the division
ne the old town.
an May William f. Barnes, Ruilan
to aged IS. He was the pioneer Of the d
us velopment of Rutland marble was for
e. erly Methodist clergyman, and repi
ne sentcd Rutland in the General Assemt
he Of the State two years.
en- June l --Jedediah S. Bushnell,
at Middlebury, at the age of SO. He grat
lis ated at Middebury college, 1926, studi
SO law and was admitted to the Adds
county bar, and practiced his profess
OK at Middlelury. He was Register of P
ed bate for the district OF Addison fir
*, ls4l to his death was County Audi
ed and member of the Constitutional G
nd vention of lS43.
ing June 25-- Charles G. Dewey, of Il
re- land, at the Hartland Retreat for the