Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1882-10-18
Personal.
REV. @. B. Stafford leaves Burlington this
week to reside In Andover, Mass.


REV. @. b. Stafford leaves Burlington this
week to reside In Andover, Mass.
Hon. L. p. WALTON left town last week for
Pennsylvania, to remain about month
GOVERNOR PROCTOR delivered an address be-
fore the tariff commission in New York last week
CHARLES W. MUssEy has been appointed teller
Of the National Bank OF Rutland and has entered
upon his duties
LAURA A. CHAPMAN OF Essex Center has been
appointed to fill position in the board Of instruc-
ton at the reform school at Vergennes.
W. f. BARRETT, late Of the st. Adams Mes
senger, goes to Washington, d. c.. as the cor
respondent of the Boston Daily Advertiser.
DAVID s. THOMAS long Barnums press agent
and one OF the best known Of showmen, is to re-
tire from the road and will have a first class job
printing office in New Haven.
T. r. GABEL, for the past FIVE years steno-
grapher in the Central Vermont general freight
office, goes to FL Paso, Texas, to assume a SINH
lar position on the Mexican Central railway.
Mr.. II. NJ. Burt, formerly proprietor of the
Vermont Record, has bought the Newton Mass.
Republican, which under the name OF the Ne,o-
ton Graphic, he is now conducting with his son,
Frank II. Burt.
CHARLES b. GooDRIcH, law-student with
Heath & Carlton OF this village until admitted to
Washington county bar, has been admitted to
practice in the courts OF New York, and will re-
side at Syracuse.
II. M MORT, formerly of the Brandon Union,
but later of the Champlain, N. Y, mteryie,o, goes
to Plattsburgh to take a position on the Platts-
burgh Telegram. lie has sold his paper to the
Telegram company.
HENRY S. FooT, graduate of Middlebury col
lege, who has Of late been practicing law in
Brooklyn has returned to Middlebury and will
practice his profession there. lie was once states
attorney for Addison county and partner of ex-
Governor Stewart.
EX-GOVERNOR HILAND HALL Of Bennington
will go to Springfield, Mass, to spend the win
ter with his son, Charles Hall. Governor Hall,
In his eighty-eghth year, is still an active man,
having been busiy engaged during the summer
In historical research and other literary occu-
pations.
A. L. INMAN has been nominated for congress
by the democrats Of the Eighteenth New York
district. Mr. Inman is r Vermonter, and was for
many years resident at Burlington as superinten-
dent OF the Champlain Transportation company.
Subsequently he was made treasurer we believe
OF the Crown Point Iron company, and is now
resident at Plattsburgh. lie is a very popular
and upright man, of fine business talents.
CAPT. HORACE X. IDE Of st. Johnsbury, who
will undoubtedly be elected quartermaster-gen-
era, General Kingsley having declined to be
again candidate, is about forty years Of age, and
is the junior member OF the firm of L. T. & II. X.
Ide flour and grain dealers in St. Johnsbury.
He has a brilliant record as a soldier. Enlisting
as private in the First Vermont cavalry in Sep
TENDER, 1861 he served until the regiment was
mustered out on the Dist Of June, 1865 He rose
from the ranks to be captain Of Co. ID Of his regi
ment, and was breveted major for gallant con-
duct on the field OF battle lie participated in all
the great battles Of the east; was twice wounded
seriously and passed number Of months as a
prisoner in Libby prison. He will fill the office OF
Quartermaster-genera with energy and ability.
Hon. JOHN +. FoLLErT who was on the 10th
inst, chosen to represent the first Ohio district in
the forty-eighth congress, is Vermonter. He
was born in Enosburgh, on the East Berkshire
and Montgomery road about fifty years ago. and
belonged to large family. In 1889 the father,
John Follett, Of grateful memory, took his wife,
three daughters and six sons and moved to Ohio,
locating in Granville, where the parents spent the
residue Of their days. None of the sons follow
the vocation OF their father, who was a farmer,
but have all struck out in diff erent ways. Charles
the oldest Of them, is a lawyer. and resides in
Newark, Ohio. He has been judge in the state
courts, and year ago was one of the candidates
Of his party for governor. Alfred another son, is
a successful physician in the town of Granville.
Two sons, Martin D. and John Fassett, are law
yers in Cincinnati, and two other sons are wool
dealers in New York city Marietta (Ohio) Col
lege conferred upon john the subject of this par
agraph, the degree Of Ii. D., year or two since.
The Folett name is not unknown in the annals
Of Vermont legislation. Martin D., the second OF
them, represented Enosburgh in the house in the
years 1888 and 1910 and from 1918 to 1923 inclu-
sive. In 1916 Henry Folett, of the second gener-
alton, represented Berkshire, and in 1913, Martin
D. also of the second generation, represented
Pomfret, and in 1880, Ammi, OF the third gem
Grafton, represented Sharon. Mrs. Follett, the
sacred mother of the Hon John f. Follett was
dau ghter Of John Fassett OF Bennington, who for
eight years, 1778 to 1856, was member OF the
supreme court of the state The senior Follett
was for time judge in the franklin county
court.