Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-01-05
LYMAN j. MCINDOE.

indoe, pupllsher ana proprietor OF this
paper 1t took place at his home on
Wednesday morning 54th INST, at ten
minutes past one o'clock.
Mr. McIndoe was born in Barnet, VT,
Jan. IL, 1919, and with his parents,
James and Abigail McIndoe. he remov-
ed to Newbury, Vt. When about II
years of age he had an extreme illness
which left him with cough that follow
ed him through life, and in condition
of general health that led his parents
and himself to regard the printers trade
as favorable to his prospects. With
bare common school education, and that
very incomplete he began to learn that
trade with John R. Reading of Haver-
hill. n. H., at the age of fifteen years.
After completing regular apprentice.
ship, he continued to work in the same
Office for some time, as a journeyman,
and with rigid economy and unwearied
labor he contriyed to lay up small sum
of money on which to make beginning
in the world. While there. he was hope
fully converted and became member
of the Congregational church in that
place, under the pastoral charge of Rev.
Samuel Delano, now of Straford, Vt.
Being called to settle brothers estate
at Nashville, Tenn, he remained in that
city year, and on his return he set up
business for himself at Newbury village
about the year 1916, and printed the
Christian Messenger for a year or two.
In 1913 he commenced the publication
of the Aurora of the Valley, and issued
1t two years as a semi-monthly, and
then changed it to weekly paper.
Steadily gaining in funds by rare enter
prise and tact, and in reputation, by
skill and success in the paper business,
he purchased a paper in Bradford, Vt,
and published the same as the Orange
County Journal in 1856 and some years
thereafter
In 1857 he bought the entire establish
ment of the Vermont Journal, at Wind
sor, Vt and in November of that year,
he assumed the prorpietorship and edi-
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it the strength and maturity of his life.
Greatly charging it and diversifying its
contents with special adaptation to its
locality as a medium of local and gener-
al news, and as a pure and elevated
family newspaper, he pushed its SUBJ
scriptiOn list to point beyond the dou-
| bic Of its former issue. and pressed fol
| a high mark in the modern race of coun-
| try journalism.
In 1867, he also became proprietor of
the Vermont Chronicle, and with such
aid as he called to his side, he extend
ed his engagements and Improvements
in like manner to its pages, and gave to
its patrons double folio sheet not ex-
/ celled, either in size or adaptation of its
| contents to It's readers, by any country
religious newspaper in the land. En-
| dowed with unbounded native energy,
perseverance, enterprise and ambition for
higher achievements in his chosen call
ing of the Christian publisher, he has
pressed his business with unwonted zeal
within the last three years, and in de-
spite of the remonstran noes of his friends
who have observed in him the inereas-
ing symptoms of decreasing health, he
has within the last year laid the foun-
dation for, and issued two additional
newspaper publications, viz /:
The Valley farmer, designed especial
ly for the wants of Vermont and New
Hampshire Agriculturists, and the Au-
rora of the Valley, for racy, entertain
ing and useful reading, in the family,
on the cars, in the shop or any other
place in which both young and old crave
and need food for the mind, that, while
it stimulates and pleases, does not de-
bauch and injure. Nor did his plans
find limit with the record of the past.
For the future, he had intended the ac-
complishment of other designs which he
hoped might crown his declining years.
But his work is done, and better done
than most men do It, The tireless hands,
the active untiring brain, the wakeful
vigils, the busy persistent forecast, con-
sequent upon an editor and publishers
life, have ceased their functions. Nor
tally has lapsed into Immortality, and
the grave buFies all but the ever durable
and living.
Our friend, if we may credit the evil
dence Of his life. and the shining light
of his last hours, has entered into
rest, the Christian rest.
Finding his health seriously affected
by the severity Of our winter climate,
be made all necessary arrangements for
trip to the South, and was ready to
start. His trunks we're packed and his
tickets were in his pocket, when he came
to the bed from which he has not risen.
but from which, even 10 the very latest,
he had hoped to come with new yigor
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