St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-09-28
State Personals.

John P. Howard has returned to
Burlington.
DR.. c. l.. Case of Brandon died Sept.
ID, aged sixty-five years.
The engagement of Miss Maud Ely
Goddard to the Prince Poniatowski is
announced.
James S. Morrill,, son of Senator Nor
rill, goes into ex-Congfessman Tyler's
law office at BrattlebOrO.
Ex-Governor Converse is at Frank
lin, n. H., in declining health. He is
accompanied by his family.
Rev. c. b. Moody of Centre HarbOr,
n. H., has accepted the call of the Con-
gregational church at Barton.
Rev. DIR. Stevens Parker of New York
has declined the passionate of ST. Peters
Episcopal church at Bennington.
Rev. G. w. Lawrence of Lyme has
accepted Il call to become the pastor of
the Congregational church at Newfane.
Robert Hardie, Jr the artist, who
has been i'll Europe for five years, has
returned and is at BrattlebOro visiting
his parents.
John Wyman of Cambridgeport, who
died ut the age of eighty years, had
been Il member of the NJ f. church for
fOrtytwO years.
The Congregational church of st.
Adams has voted a unanimous call to
Rev. George E. Hall of Vergennes. but
he declines the call.
Rev. j. Loring Pratt has been en-
gagged by the COngregationalists of
tn
bert, whose eyesight has failed.
Rev. w. w. Foster, Jr., of PittsfOrd,
is to take the passionate of the NJ. E.
church i'll Bennington, made vacant by
the removal of Rev. Mr.. HuIburd.
Rev. Edward p. Lee has accepted
call to Grace Episcopal church, West
Rutland, of which he was rector until
he resigned and went to Portland, Me.
Hon. Norman Atwood, leading man
in LamOille county, died at Cambridge
Sept. Is. aged seventy-four years. One
of his sons is principal of the Rutland
high school.
Hon. Ira c. Paine, the oldest mem
Der of the bar of Racine, Wis, who
died on the 10Th inst, was born in
MonktOn in 1905, and removed to Ra-
cine in 1917.
Daniel w. Kimball, newspaper re-
porter, who died in Brooklyn, n. Y,
on Friday, was born in Vermont in
lS;}5 and went to New York when
nineteen years of age.
Mrs. Julia C. X. DORIS song, 90
Wind That Blows out of the West"
published in the Century few months
ago, has been set to music by Charles
ii. Stewart, precentOr of Chester ca
thedral, England.
Rev. DIR. Edwin F. Hatfield, Pres
byterian Clergyman from 1892 to 1863,
from that time financial agent of the
Union Theological seminary, who died
at Summit, n. j., Sept. %, graduated
from Middlebury college in 1929.
A bronze bust, of heroic size, of John
=. Howard, Esq, has been decided on,
in place of Il bas-relief, to be placed in
the new university building, and j. S.
Hartley, the distinguished New York
sculptor, is now at work on the model. !
Austin Bartlett of Morgan, who died
on the 10Th at the age of eighty-three
years, was one of a family of nine chill |
dren. Three are still living, and the |
united ages of the nine, living and |
dead, is over 736, or eighty-two years
each.
Hon. James w. Sheehy of Port Hen
ry, n. Y, died suddenly on Wednes- |
day. His wife had just taken the train
for New York with the Burlington ex-
cursiOn party, and was stopped at Ad- |
Olson Junction by telegram announc-
ing his death.
The engagement has been announced
of James F. Herrick of the Springfield
Republican, formerly of the Rutland
Herald, and the eldest daughter of Rev.
DIR. Terhune of Springfield. Mrs. Ter
hume is better known as the popular |
writer, marion Harland."
Hon. Joel II. Lucier of Vergennes, it |
is rumOred, will shortly leave an estab-
lished law practice, extending over Il
period of fourteen years, and remove
to Montpelier. He was formerly state
attorney of Addison county, and has
held other honorable and responsible
official positions.
Rollin Smith, the veteran station
agent at SwantOn Junction, has re-
signed his position and his son, E. p. |
Smith, takes his place. Mr.. Smith
went to SwantOn junction before trains
commenced to run regularly over the
then new road from st. Adams to st.
Johns. Then there were but two trains
each way day, one freight and one
passenger.
Mrs. Harriet E. Bishop, who died re-
Gently at st. Paul, Mimi, was born in
Nergennes, and went to st. Paul in
lS47 to establish school at the in
stance of Governor Slade of this state.
president of the National Popular Ed
ucatiOnal society. st. Paul was then
small village with only few log huts.
Mrs. Bishop taught many years, after
wards lectured and published several
books.
j. NJ. Hannaford, who has been ap-
pointed assistant superintendent of
freight traffic on the Northern Pacific |
road, is only thirty-three years of age. |
In 1862 he entered the service of the |
Vermont Central railroad, in the gen
eral freight department. In 1872 Mr.. |
Hannaford accepted the appointment
of chief clerk in the freight department |
of the Northern Pacific In NAV, 1881.
he was appointed general freight agent |
of the road, a position he has held till |
his recent promotion to the trust he |
now discharOes