The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-01-20

r, and graduate of the Medical De-
partment, U V NJ Practiced his pro-
fession in Flushing. N Y. and Norfolk,
Va.
March 22 Royal Houghton, an old
New York merchant and banker, at San
Augustine. Fla Born in Guilford. in
l79S.
March 23-Rev + S Bliss, at Greens.
boro, N G.; for fifteen years pastor of the
Universaist church at Barre.
March 25-Rev Nehemiah Pierce, at
Springfield, III, aged 80, a graduate Of
the University Of Vermont, 1865; or.
daiUed as Baptist minister in 1S6S,and
officiated at Bellows Falls.
March 26-Douglass A Danlorth, at
Chicago, Ill, aged 60 A native of Geor.
sia, Vt, studied law; for several years
edited the St. Adams Republican, and
subsequently the Burlington Sentinel.
Was Postmaster at Burlington from 1858
to 1861,
March 26-Ho N p Nelson of Crafts.
bury; a prominent citizen and member o
nAc Council Of Censors in 1855.
March 3l-Cyrus NJ Fisher, lost on
the i'll .fated Atlantic" Was for some
years prominent citizen of Addison Coun-
ty represented Vergonues in the Iegisa-
ture in 1862.
April 2-Capt w Gray, at Sheffield,
aged 70; soldier of the war Of 1912.
April 5-Gen Pardon T Kimbal, a.
Fayetteville, aged 76 for two years u
member of the State Senate, and fifty
years in local offices.
April Capt Nathan Fay, of Rich.
mond, for four years member Of the
Legislature; sclectman twenty years, and
justice of the peace thirty years.
April Hon George H Paige, of
Cabot, aged SO. Was postmaster four
gears and had been a member of both
branches of the Legislature.
April 9-Rev Philander Bates, at
Ludlow, where he had been settled over
the Congregational church for two ,eors.
April 10-Henry A Norton, of Ben.
son. aged 81. Was for many years a
popular express messenger on Lake Cham.
plain steamers, and between Burliogton
and Ogdensburgh.
April 26--Licut Thomas f Wright,
of Norwich, killed by the Modocs; grad.
uate of Norwich University; captain in
the Walker fllibustering expedition; col.
oncl in the Goth California regiment 10
the rebellion.
April 27-Dr BENJAMIN Weeks. Of
Clarendon, at Penfeld, n Y, aged rs; Il
skilful medical practitioner.
May 2-Hon A II Gilmore, of Fair
lee, aged 6S; had represented Fairlee 10
the Legislature, and was for several wears
Judge of Probate.
May 2-Rev Joel Parker, d d Of
New York. A native Of Vermont. For
two years was President Of the Maine
Theological Seminary.
May 2-Heury Day, of Bristol, aged
6o. He gave his estate, worth $4,000,
to the United States.
May 5-Hon VIM II Jones, o. DQyer.
sg:d &C. .Hl Had been sSsF Site o the Leg.a
ture
May l2- Josiah Parker,ot Vcrg,nnes,
aged So. He had filled many positions
of trust, and was for twenty years a dea.
con in the Congregational church
May 13-Hon Charles Marsh, prom
incnt citizen of Woodstock, ., San Diego,
Cal.
May l4-Hon VIM Collamer,of Wood.
stock, aged 40; graduate Of the Uni
versity of Vermont; lawyer; State Sen
ator in 1869-70.
May l4-Rev Daniel Wild, at Fair
field born in West Fairlee in 1901
graduated from the University of Yer
mont. in 1882 oflioiated at West Fair
lee, Brookfeld and Fairfield.
May 26--Chipman Swain, u native Of
Halifax, at Baraboo, Wi, aged 7S; for
three years Supt of the Vermont State
Prison.
June 2-John D Ward, at Jersey
City, N j, aged 10; formerly a rromi.
nent iron manufacturer of Vergenncs.
June 6-Ilon John r Blake, in Bos.
ton, aged 10. A prominent citizen OF
Bratteboro leading business man; a
member Of both branches Of the Legisia-
ture for several terms.
June 9-Wm b Thrall, at Circicyilc,
Ohio. aged IA; native of Vermont and
for II years connected with the Circle.
vile Herald. and thereafter with the
Ohio State Jonrnal
June l7-Gen Joel A Dewey, sudden
ly in the Circuit Court Room at Knox.
vile, Tenn,ag 33 served in the Union
army through the rebellion with honora'
BILE distinction; graduated from the Al
bauy Law School in 1867 was attorney
general of his circuit.
June l9-Rev Moses Strong Royce
at Nashville, Tenn. born in Rutland il
1925; graduated from the University o
Vermont in 1874; established an Eoisco
pal Church, at Greenville, Tenn, lS47
and conducted his ministerial labors Their
and at Franklin, Tenn.
June l9-Iion Henry Z Sioughtou
at New ork torn,ly of Bellows Falls
long a leading member OF the Bar in thi
; State, and member of the State Senat
= in lS61-62.
June 27-lIiram Powers, the eminen
sculptor, at Florence, Italy. Born i
Woodstock in 1905; produced an idea
statue of Eve, and subsequently, bis cclC
brated statue of the Greek Slave.
D July l-.Nathaniel Read, of Cambridgt
aged S5 graduated from the Universit
!. of Vermont in 1911, and was an Office
}. in the war Of 1912.
r July l4-Hon Benjamin II Steele, {
:, Hartland. at Farbault, Minr. Born
If Stanstead p Q, in 1887 /; graduated fsol
!, Dartmouth College in 1857 came to th
r Bar in 1858 and began practice at De
by Line Was made judge Of the St
n preme Court 10 1865, from which be T.
# tired in 1870 Was member OF Il
I. State Board Of Education. one of Il
trustees of the State Library; and one