The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-03-17
Rev. Walter Follett.

Rev. Walter Foilet.
Rev. Walter Follett, Of Temple, N. H.,
dicd at the residence of his son.in.law,
Geo. A. Collins, at Hannibal, Mo-, on
Saturday evening, at half past 0 o'clock,
aged IS years. His health had been
feeble for years.
The most assiduouS attendance posSi-
Jle. upon an invalid wife, who had for
several years of helplessness been wholly
dependent on him, had helped to break
down n once strong constitution, and
when few days since he was attacked by
pneumonia, he was found in an advanced
stage of consumption. In week his
work on the earth was finished.
Mr.. Follett was native of Vermont,
born about the beginning Of this century
His father dying when he was eleven
years of age, be was left to support him.
self and younger brother and sister.
Remarkably tall and muscular, he was
soon able to do mans work. and was
Independent.
Finding himself possessed Of remark
able slight in chopping, he went to the
extreme West, more than 100 miles, into
the centre of New York where farms
were being opened in the heavy timber.
There he soon found himself in pos
session of seven hundred dollars and an
irresistible longing to become minister.
Having month longer to work, he got
his stent laid off and finished it in seven.
teen days,
And then, at the age of seventeen, he
turned his feet towards Middlebury, Yer.
mont, and nine years course of study.
According to the custom of the times
be stopped for hospitality one night, with
a "Country Pastor" and after he had left
the next morning, the old gentleman cal.
led out to him and, as he looked back
said to him:
"You will soon come to the fifty.mllt
woods. Every little while the way viii
seem to close up just ahead Of you ant
you will seem to be just at the end OF The
road. But keep right on, the way viii
open before you, just as fast as you wan
1t. Good.bye.
Hs did "keep on through the wood
and through life, with always just tina
experience.
lie went through preparatory ant
college course, at Middlebury. and theo
logical course, at Andover, with constan
credit to himself and qualification te hi
instructors educating his brother at tn,
) same time.
During his course Of study he delayed
awhile to take charge o. the Castletol
) Seminary. one of the prominent instituti"l
of New England. The precep.ress wa
} Miss Maria ID. Bowman, lady Of rar
, advantages for education and culture il
both city and country, and most gifte'
} and successful teacher.
Her mother-descendc from Priscil
J Mullins, the first woman to set foot o
Plymouth Rock, the heroine Of Longtcl
lows poem Of Miles Standish, and irou
! John Alden-was now the wife Of Andrcv
, Leach, Of Pittsford, Vermont. aud mothe
of three other daughters who becam
most successful teachers, and marric'
clergymen. Miss Maria was married t
, Mr.. Follett.
He was elected Secretary of the Ameri
can Tract Society, and they began mar
, ried life in Boston. But although he wa
emincntly successful, they had their heart
, set on the pastorate as the only satistyin
field of activity, and, ere long, he VIA
settled in Southboro, Massachusetts, an
aiterward in Dedham, where, in the ex
ercise Of the very qualities seen in tn
! money. making boy, and those highe
qualities belonging to the true pastor, Ii
r fulfilled the duties Of an honored ministry
t Having occasion to make anothc
d, change, with the same shrewdness. b
, looked not up, but down. lie sought t
r find place where he could end his mir
istry, and then be at home. Such an on
q he found in Temple, N. ii.
t While making the change, he was told
/. They have been accustomed to pay sue
=. q salary. and always to have the receip
3 for it in full before sunset Of the last do
Of the year But, for q man like yol
= they will pay more" mo" said h
: that is enough for them, ard thoug
o they might pay more for awhile, the
e would sooner become restive and deman
change. Let it remain as it has been.
}, He went, ,ciM his earnest, capabi
' sultirated household, into that rough hill
D side perish, and at once there began
emanate from thence, the products (
8 systematic. intellectual, social and rclig
: Gus culture
v His brother. now wealthy capitals
! Of Boston. purchased for him the mo-
:, desirable residence Of the place. wit
forty acres of land attached, and ther
q in the enjoyment of all that could rend,
i home happy, and life desirable, he passe
a the remainder of his ministry.
His sons and daughters grew up
vigor and capacity, and went forth to I'll
battle Of life with superior endowmen
=, and to meet cordial welcome from su,
:, cessful predecessors.
: One of his daughters being most fol
tunately married in Hannibal. Mo-, the
= = were led to make their home with he
. and there with her. and PEACEFUL
= passed from earth to heaven.-S,
; dalia Times.
. A young married woman in Lansing
hnro N Y who was recentlv called int