Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-11-21

\ SIHGULAE CAREER. Away up, up on
the hill east of Montgomery Centre up
( almost to Westiield line, three miles back
/ from Trout River, and perhaps six hundred
feet above it, up where the naples stood like
giants, thrifty tall and sturdy, up where the
primitive odors of the forest had never been
disturbed 10y any approach OF civilization,
lives Il man whose case will bear mention.
Some thirty years ago Z. Wright Sherman,
Esq, resided, in comfortable circumstances,
in the old town of Fairfield, near St Adams,
but he was in poor health Consumption,
that banc of So many lives in this northern
cline, had apparently taken fast hold of him,
and promised to have him for its early and
easy victim. He was so reduced in strength
that he could not speak above whisper. and
life with its varied duties was becoming a
burden to him. SO lahorous was it To him
to meet people and converse with them that
he cTavcd dciverancc if haply he might
find it, He would gladly have sought
the lie OF rccluse. though he
was by no means nisanthrope. In
this condition he conceived the idea
of leaving the familiar surroundings of his
home in Fairfield and finding "A home in the
dense forest of Wcslfield Mountain. TAX
ing his wife and two or three small children,
he went two miles into this deep, dark
forest, and began life in a shanty. In quest
of rest and solitude and health, and in hope
of gaining the latter, he was willing to en-
counter privaiions. the thought of which
would quail the ordinary heart. saw him
a few days since. lie not only still lives.
but though now upward Of sixty wears of
age, he seems good for years more Of natural
life.
Mr. Sherman is fitted by education ms well
as by natural cndowments TO he an orna-
ment to society and to exert a strong in
tiuence in all public affairs u brilliant con-
versationalist, keen ready dehatcr, and AN
accurate thorough scholar, his impress must
have been largely felt had it not been for the
misfortune of his poor health. He read law
and was admitted to the Franklin county
Bar in 1881, graduated from Middebury
College in 1910, in the same class with +. j.
Phelps, Esq, Nermont's most gifted lawyer,
and between whom and himself Il very init
mate acquaintance has always been kept up
Though by force of circumstances the social
lives of the two have diverged so widely, TO
the credit of our human nature be it said,
that neither has ever forgotten his classmate.
Mr.. Sherman has in thirty years made con
siderable of an opening in the forest and
other venturers have stepped in TO be his
neighbors and keep him company. His
farm is well stocked with good COWS, and
his present house, more pretentious than the
first shanty, is filled or has been with intel
ligent, healthy children who are like olive
plants around his table. His house is sup
piled plentifully with good reading, the best
books and papers are TO he found ON his
shelves and table, and he guards with
jealous eye the moral and intellectual culture
of his children. One of his daughters Is
graduate of Burlington college and another
took partial course One is employed in
teaching in Michigan, another in the State
Normal School at Randolph and still another
in the High School at Brandon. He has
son who is reputed to be one Of the most
skilled pharmacists in the country Dcming
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