Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Obituaries.

ture and for several years he had been the lead
ing trial justice. As IA magistrate, n citizen and
man, he won and retained the confidence and |
respect Of all who knew him
Mrs. MARY b. NYE, widow Of the late Alan
son Nye, Esq, died at her home in Cambridge
port, Massachusetts, on the 18th instant, in the
seventy-seventh year of her age. Her remains
were brought to Montpelier and committed to |
Green Mount cemetery on Sunday last, with APP |
propriate services, Rev. Mr. Wright officiating. |
or Mrs. Nye we have no need to speak, especially |
to our older residents, for she was Familiarity |
known and respected by all. native Of Lenox,
Massachusetts,, she came with her father the late |
Rev. Zadock Hubbard, to Vermont in 1910 While |
residing in Barre she married her late husband |
and both became residents Of Montpelier, where
they remained for more than forty years Some |
ten years since they removed to the vicinity Of |
Boston to spend lifos evening in the society Of
their children. Both have now been removed by |
death. Mrs. Nye inherited from her father re-
markable force OF character and was endowed |
with uniformly cheerful spirits. During her life |
in Montpelier she was an active and efficient |
member OF Bethany church, and removing to |
Massachusetts, she transferred her church rea- |
ton and maintained the same active and useful |
service there. The loss to her children is irrepar-
able, but to her the end was emphatically rest
and peace. large circle Of sympathizing friends
gathered here at the funeral.
JOHN CAIN.-This gentleman who has long been
prominent in local and political matters the west
side Of the state, born in Castletown, Isle OF
Man. January 2S, 1902 and died at his residence in
Rutland Tuesday, the 10Th inst He had been
sick for about thirteen weeks. During the greater
part of this time he was compelled to sit erect In
chair but during the last week OF his illness he
was able to lie down. His disease was gangrene
OF the lungs from which he has been n great
sufferer. He emigrated to this country In 1882,
| at the age Of twenty-three years, and settled in
Rutland with a brother, as an architect and
| builder. In 1884 he married Mary Billings Mr..
Cain was closely identified with the interests Of
| the town OF Rutland for more than quarter OF
century, and held various town offices Of trust
He superintendent the construction OF several pub
| lie buildings. At the organization OF the Rut-
| land and Woodstock railroad, he was elected its
| president lie was a lifelong and active Demo-
| crat; was delegate to four Democratic national
| conventions; was postmaster OF Rutland under the
administrations OF Franklin Pierce and James
Buchanan; was twice the candidate of his party
for congress; was the founder and proprietor Of
the Rutland Courier, which was for a series Of
years the organ OF the Democratic party in west
ern Vermont. The Courier proved his financial
ruin, and after its suspension he led a quiet and
retired life, as one Of the agents OF the Vermont
| Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Mr.. Cain was
a man of ardent temperament and unguarded ex-
| preston, which often involved him in enmties.
| lie was warm friend and bitter opponent, yet
| htaI ,.fn. ~ haa
| nifty against any man." He was genial and
social gentleman in his intercourse with his fell
| lowmen.
JAMES lIoLDEN.-The subject of this sketch
was the first settler on Heart Prairie Walworth
county Wisconsin. lie was born in Mddesex,
Vermont, August 3, 1918, and died at his home
February Odd aged sixty-six years. When about
twenty years Of age his father died, and he was
thrown upon his own resources to care for him
self and earn a livelihood. Having brother in
| Boston, he eventually went there and soon found
a situation in Fanueil Hall Market, remaining
| about four years. But the confined life and rou-
tine OF city business was not congenal to his bold
and venturesome spirit. So in 1887, when twenty
four years OF age he left Boston to find farm
and make home for himself in the far west. He
first went to Chicago, thinking to make a claim
in illinois, but not finding there unoccupied land
that suited him. he went on foot to Walworth
county, and made his first claim at Sugar Creek.
Business calling him away for month, on his
return he found, as many another pioneer had
done, his claim jumped by squatter soyer-
eign." Not at all disheartened, he pushed on,
and on ascending the highest point Of the bluff,
which he called " Lone Tree Bluff" he beheld
for the first time the beautiful and fertile prairie
where he was the first white settler. Here, labor
ing under almost every conceivable disadvantage,
known only to pioneers, he began the herculean
task Of making him home. After two years Of
privations and hardships, he visited his native
state, where he remained two years In October,
1871, he was united in marriage to Patience,
daughter OF Deacon Cyrus Barber OF Barre, YER
mont. Then he returned to Heart Prairie, where
he ever since resided He was the father of seven
children, six Of whom, with his widow, remain to
mourn his loss. His old neighbors bear witness
that he was never known to do an underhanded
or mean act, which is positive evidence that he
was an honest and upright man. He was friend
OF the widow and fatheress, and sympathized
with all in aflction. lie was a teetotaller, a
Halter of tobacco and an enemy Of all demoraliz-
ing practices In short, he was a devoted hus-
band and father, an obigng neighbor, an ex-
emplary citizen, with a character beyond re-
proach
CHARLES c. FRosT.-This great unknown u
died at his home in Bratteboro, the 18th instant
in the seventy-ffth year Of his age. Though this
man was born and has lived in Vermont beyond
the allotted span Of human life, and, for half a
century, has been in some departments OF science
; the highest authority among scientific men of two
continents, and has been the recipient OF dis
tinguished honors from societies and institutions
Of learning in Europe and America, by far the
greater number of his fellow-citizens will learr
E for the first time Of his name and fame in tn,
D public notices Of his death-so quiet and unosten
b tatious has been his life. Mr. Frost was the SOL
t of shoemaker, and early in his teens learned hi
fathers trade In his boyhood days he developed
wonderful mathematical talent which was dis
= played in the frequent calls of schoo-feows
many years his senior to solve their Difficult
. sums" Becoming by chance the possessor Of
. | copy OF Huttons Mathematics then Textbook
D. at West Point and the most comprehensive
. treatise of this science then extant he mastere,
J. the complete course at nineteen, and then wen
: into astronomical mathematics, took up chemistry
learned very much OF natural science in every de
= partment, and all the while attended to the dutie
| OF his business as a shoemaker Visiting dis
u tingushed New York physician to be treated 70
d mucous dyspepsia, he was frankly told that med
; cal treatment would be frutless, but having oil
l. served his fondness for flowers, this wise advise
d directed him to walk one hour In the mornin
IL and one in the evening looking for flowers" Thi
|; was the beginning Of researches that were to max
/ him the leading botanist Of his time Havin
At ordered Fries book on botany from London, an