The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-04

The first church organization was Aug
ust y, 1871, but there were missionaries
here prior to this. One Of them was Zeph-
aniah HOLSTER Smith, who returned to his
native place, Glastonbury, Conn, when he
left the orthodox communion, and became
an eminent lawyer. lie was father to the
Smith sisterr' who have lately figured in
the papers as resisting the payment of
taxes because they were not allowed to
vote. There were five of there sisters, all
OF whom were finely educated by their
father No one of them was ever married,
and two of them still live at very adj
vanced age, noted for their liberality. they
being possessed of great wealth. DIR. Lewis
Beebe was the first settled minister, and
had the lot reserved for that purpose. He
did not stay long, but became profigate.
DIR. Lemuel Chapman was the first physi-
clan, and also the first president of the
Vermont medical society. He was repre-
sentative from the town eight years and
county judge lie revoved to Richmond,
N. Y, III 1898, where he was supreme
court judge. DR.. John Sargent was here
at all early day, and was the first president
of the Rutland county medical society.
The first lawyers who settled here, but
who only remained a few years, were
Jonathan Brace, Israel Smith, Noah Smith
and Truman Squier, all OF whom we're col
lege graduates. Jonathan Brace, dis
appointed in his expectations, went back
to Connecticut, where he became a senator
in congress. He WAS the father of Thomas
X. Brace, who for long time was an
official Of the Htna insurance company,
ard was native of this town. He was
named for the first husband of his mother,
Thomas Kimberly, who was killed by the
explosion of a powder mill in 1776 Mrs
Brace. was an officious, meddling lady and
would interrupt her husband in the trans
action of business by saying, SHOW, Mr..
Brace, you are certainly mistaken" etc.
Mr.. Brace, when out of patience, retOrted,
The greatest mistake ever made was in
l77G" referring to the date of their mar
riage. She was fond of "od Jamaica"
and said to her grocer, MIR Brace ID
stingy ! want a gallon now shant buy
by the quart, as Mr. Brace made forty
pounds at the last Rutland court"
Israel Smith, the Handsome governor
was for time resident of this town, as
my father, who knew him well, has often
told me, though our historians have II that
he resided in Rupert. His brother, Noah
Smith. who graduated with him at Yale,
lived here several years. He removed to
Bennington and there delivered an Grafton
1870 he Grct n
the battle of Bennington. The address
WAS printed in pamphlet form at Hartford,
Conn, copies of which are yet extant and
it has, also, been -republshed in the first
volume of the collections of the Vermont
historical society. HOn,that occasion an OK
was roasted whole. He was a supreme
court judge for five years, living at Ben
tenden county.
Truman Squier, noted lawyer, was
here several years, but removed to Man.
chester about 1900. where he held several
prominent positions, and died in 1916.
Pliny Smith, for several years chief
judge Of Rutland county, first settled here
with his brothers. Nathaniel and Ira, but
soon removed to Orwell. '.a
Col. Stephen Pearl settled here and kept
store and tavern, but, falling in business,
he removed to Burlington, where Pearl
street was named for him. He was gal
liant officer, and when the militia of the
several towns in the county we're called on
to sustain the courts in Rutland in 1885.
overawed by a mob. he was the first with
his Pawlet troops TO arrive at the scene OF
| action. sYt
Gideon Adams was here in ITO, was
| representative to the general assembly in
1778, and was town clerk and justice forty
years.
Col. William Fitch was among the first
settlers at the village, which was known as
| Fitch's Mills, WAS commissary at the time
of Burgoynes invasion and had charge OF
military stores and plumber taken from the
enemy. lie had six daughters, whose hus-
bands names wero Lemuel Chapman,
Cyrus Chapman, Ozias Clark, Philip Reed
and Nathaniel Harmon. -1ma
Deacon Joseph Hascall was another
prominent early settler. He raised q
family Of six sons and four daughters.
Five Of the sons were professional men OF
eminence. Ralph settled in Essex, n Y,
and was in the state senate and assembly.
Asa went " Malone, N. T., and repre-
sented his district in congress. Daniel was
the founder Of Hamilton theological ihsti
tute, which, from a capital Of .thiFeer
dollars to begin with. is now worth ovel
half II million. He was the first principa
Of the institution and continued in that
position several years. He spent asfew OF
his last years In West Rutland, where he
had married the widow of Jeptha Moses
Deacon HascaNPs oldest daughter, Clara
married Major Joel Harmon, jr., who pub
lished manual OF music In 1909, cSlle(
the columbian Minstrel" which Is. still
extant. His second daughter, Alice, mar
ried Nathaniel Harmon, who for forty
years practised law ia this town.
Capt. Simeon Edgerton was another
father of the town, his descendants num-
bering at his widows death two hundred
and nine. w AZ h1gsif7 ~ ~
There were many others worthy of men
ton, but to name them would unduly
lengthen this paper. We have ascertainet
the names of seventy lone revolutionary
soldiers who came here at the close OF tn
war or before, OF these the average sg
of fifty-four is eighty-three years. Tn
age of the remaining seventeen could no
be ascertained, though probably as great a
the others. The current opinion that wa
demoraliZed its votares Is hardly yetifie,
In the case OF our soldiers of the revolution
They were the substantial men of the tbwn
and though most Of them were addicted {,
the free use Of liquor, their lives do ndt ap
pear to have been shortened or theit use
fulness impaired.
AS we have before intimated, this tow
was about the first settled, and one Humid
red years age. was the most populous tow
In the county The first mills we're erecte