The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-03-17

justice OF the supreme court Alabama,
were his sons.
Elijah Paine of Williamstown-180l-
1S42--was born at Brooklyn, Connecticut,
January 81, 1857, and graduated at Har-
ward college in 1881. He remained at
Cambridge, as president graduate" three
years, in the meanwhile studying law with
Benjamin Lincoln, and removed to Will
Jamestown and commenced its fi-st settle
ment In June, 1884. He never, TO any ex-
tent, entered upon the practice Of his pro-
fession but was, in the language of his
biographer, ga farmer, road maker, and
"more than that an extensive pioneer in
the manufacture Of American cloths,
For thi, purpose he constructed an es-
Enlistment at North1eld, costing forty
"thousand dollars. 1t was based on a
solid foundation, as he earned the money
to pay for it. He was matter-of-fact
man-no financial schemer who devised
"splendld bubbles, ever liable to explode
and carry ruin to all within their reach.
His improvements in agriculture, con-
Quoted on AM analogous scale, were ex-
"tensive and yielded the best results"
He was member, and secretary, of the
constitutional convention of 1886 repre-
sentative from Williamstown 1887, 1888,
1889 and 1890; judge of probate 1888
1881 one of the commissioners to arrange
the New York controversy judge Of the
supreme court of Vermont 1791-1704 I;
United States senator 1894 to 1901 ap-
pointed judge of the United States district
court in August. 1901 which office he held
until April 1, 1s42. He died April 2S,
1912, aged cighty-hve years. He was the
father of Charles Paine, governor Of Yer
mont 1S41-43; of Martyr Paine, an emin-
ent medical practitioner and author and
of Judge Elijah Paine, we'll known for his
decision in the Lennon slave case that
slaves voluntarily brought into free state
by their master, became ipSO tdcto free.
Samuel Prentss of Montpelier -1S42-
1S57-was born at Stonington, Connect
cut, March 81, 1882; studied law with Sol
onion Vose at Mortified, Massachusetts,,
and John W. Blake at Brattleboro, and
was admitte, to the bar in Windham coun-
ty, in December, 1902, before he had ar
rived at his majority. In 1924 and 1926,
he represented Montpelier in the the gen.
eral assembly; VS. elected judge of the
supreme court in 1922, but declined; judge
of supreme court 1S25-1S29; chief justice
in 1929; United States senator 1S31-1S42;
appointed judge of tho United States dis
trict court for Vermont April 8, 1912, and
held the office until his death January Is,
1857, in the seventy-sixth year of his age
David A. Smalley Of Burlington-1S57-
1S77-was born In Mlddiebury, Vermont,
April l., 1909 studied law with Benjamin
III. Smallley of st. Adams, and admitted
to the bar in franklin county in April,
1881 practiced in Jericho and Burlington;
state senator from Chittenden county In
1S42 collector of customs 1853 to 1857 !;
appointed judge of the United States dis
trict court in January 1857, and died March
10, 1877,
Hoyt II. Wheeler Of Jamaica
born in Chesterfield. N. H.. August so,
1888, studied law with Charles X. Field
and was admitted to the bar in Windham
county in 1889; representative from ia
maica, 1867 senator from Windham coun-
ty, 1868 and 1869; elected Judge of the
supreme court of Vermont in 1869 to sue
coed Judge Prout, who declined re-elec-
ton, and has been annually, or biennially,
reelected ever since by unanimous votes.
He is now, with one exception, the young
est member of our state supreme court, and
ls of the came age of Judge Paine at the
time of his appointment as district judge.
That he will moro than MAINTAIN the Ju-
dicial reputation of the court as established
by his predecessors We know, and that he
may attain the years of Chapman, and the
length Of service of Paine, we all ardently
hope.