St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-14
State Personals.

Rev. T. p. Frost of Bradford has
been appointed one of the delegates to
represent Vermont ut the Louisville
educational convention.
Rev. l.. o. Brastow, ID. D., of Bur
lington declines his unanimous and
very urgent call from the Congrega-
tional church at Wyandotte, Kan.
Arthur b. Perkins, ii well-knOwn
business man of Bennington, was mar
ried to Miss May Valentine. the eldest
daughter of Major A. b. Valentine.
Charles Moulton, NJ. d., of Derby
Line was recently married to Miss
Ida d. Cate at Eifingham, n. II. Four
generations of relatives were present
at the marriage feast.
Rev. David Foster Estes has Just re-
signed his paStorate ut Nergenncs, and
accepted the prOfessorship in the Bibli-
cal department of the Freedmen's
school at Atlanta, Georgia.
Conductor II. Bangs died at MilIers
Falls, Mass, recently, after long and
painful illness. He was tifty-t years
of age, and had worked on the Yer
mont and Massachusetts and Fitch
burg railroads for thirty four years.
Rev. E. II. Randall of Poultney has
been granted twelve-months' leave
of absence, which he intends to devote
to missionary work in the southern
part of the diocese. Rev. j. Rice
Taylor has been secured to fill the
vacancy.
Hon. S. NJ. Gleason of Thetford has
been appointed receiver of the Vermont
Copper Mining company, at Vershire,
in the suit against the company
brought by Manager Cain. The re-
ceivership also includes the property
of the Goddard mine at Corinth.
Hon. Daniel Crofoot of Benson died
ut Rutland Sept. ,, at the age of
seventy-nine years. He was for a
quarter of IA century Il justice of peace
in Benson, represented that town two
years in the legislature, and was two
years an assistant Judge of the Rutland
county court.
Augustine G. Pierce, who died at
Concord, n. H., Sept. >, aged eighty
two years, was native of Middlebury,
was merchant at Danville, went to
Concord in 1915, and was for long
time hotel proprietor. He had been
a director of the Concord railroad, a
United States pension agent, county
commissioner and president of the
National bank of Concord.
Judge Jason DOwner of Milwaukee,
Wis, who died Sept. 3, was native of
Sharon and born Sept. 9, 1873 At
nineteen years of age he entered Kim
ball Union academy, Plainfield, n. II.
In 1884 he entered Dartmouth college,
graduating therefrOm in 1888, and soon
after he removed to Louisville, XIV.
There he read law, was admitted to
the bar and began practice. In NOvem-
Der 1912, he removed to Milwaukee.
Hon. Madison Z. Cults, who died at
OskaloOsa, Iowa, Sept. 7, was born in
Orwell May %, 1888. Removing to
the bar, and in 1859 was appointed
prosecuting attorney for Poweshiek
county. In 1861 he was elected to the
state legislature, and in 1872 he was
made attorney general of the state,
serving until 1877. He was elected to
the Forty -seventh Congress as re-
publican.
Rev. Samuel Kelley. who died at
Quincy, Mass, Sept. 6, was born at
Salem, n. H., Feb. |, 1902. He entered
the ministry at the age of twenty, being
to the New England confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal church.
and in 1896 he was sent as delegate
from that conference to the general
conference. During the first few years
of his ministry he was engaged as a
circuit preacher. In 1880 he was set
tied over his first society at Concord,
n. II. From that date until 1870 he
preached in various places in New
Hampshire, Massachusetts and Yer
mont, among them being Mont
pelier, Newbury and Danville. In
1870 he went to Quincy, where he has
since resided. He was chaplain of the
New Hampshire legislature four years.
and also chaplain of the Vermont
legislature one year. He was chaplain
of the New Hampshire State prison
two years, and city missionary of
CharlestOwn, Mass, three years. In
1865 he had charge of the city missions
of Boston, and was also chaplain of
the Massachusetts, State prison for a
period. He held the position of chap
lain of the National Sailors home in
Quincy at the time of his decease.
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