St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-10-12
STATE Personals.
Judge Redfeld is to sail from Que
bee for Europe this week.


stoned as postmaster at BartOnville.
Arson B. Hoyt, editor of the Dan
Vile North Star, had a sleigh-ride |
October ,.
Prof. w. e. Crippen, formerly of the
Johnson Normal school, is now at
Dawson. Dakota.
Fred c. Camp, formerly of the Amer
lean hotel, Burlington, is now clerk at
the Pavilion in Montpelier.
S. B. Pettingill, late of the St. Al
bans Messenger, is now one of the
editors of the Portland (Oregon) Daily
OregOnian.
The wife of j. r. McKelvey, the we'll
known temperance lecturer, died ut
Greenbush, n. Y, Oct. 6, after linger-
ing illness, aged thirty three years.
Tie widow of the late Henry B.
Stacy of Burlington died Oct. 8. Mr..
Stacy was for eighteen years, prior to
1916, publisher of the Burlington Free
Press, and subsequently United States
consul at Revel, Russia.
Mrs. H. NJ. T. Cutler, the woman
suffragist, writes to the Woman's
Journal that the cordiality with which
she has been received during her trip
through Vermont far surpassed her
most sanguine hopes.
H. Royce Bass, former teacher in
the Normal school at West Randolph,
who went to Southern California for
his health few months since, is very
low with a lung trouble, and his re-
covery is hardly possible.
c. b. F. Palmer, reporter of the last
session of the state senate, and f.
Grace Human, only daughter of 6. ID.
Human of New Haven, were married
at New Haven, the ceremony being
performed by President Hamlin of
Middlebury college.
NJ. l.. Green, assistant chief of the
Eastern division pension office, died
Friday mt Albuquerque, New Mexico,
where he had been spending his vaca-
ton, aged siXty-four years. He was a
native of Vermont, but had resided in
Washington and been attached to the
pension Office for over nineteen years.
His family resides in Washington.
Lemuel Goulding died at IIartland
at the age of ninety-siX years. He
was born IN ClaremOnt, n. H., and in
former years was the ferryman between
Claremont and Weatherstield. He had
ten children, but never saw them all ut
home at one time. His grandchildren
numbered fifty, his great grandchild-
rem tifty-three, and he had one great
great-grandchild.
Rev. Isaac Hosford died at North
ThetfOrd, Monday morning, aged near
ly eighty-Seven years. He graduated
from Dartmouth college in 1926, Sal
mon p. Chase being among his class
mates, and ut Andover Theological
seminary three years later. He was
settled over the Congregational church
of SaXonville, Mass, for 10 years,
served us city missionary of Lowell foI
seven years, and was chaplain of the
Worcester (Mass.) hospital for three
years. In 1860 he came to ThctfOrd,
his native town, and, from that time
up to about five years ago, regularly
supplied the pulpit of the Union
church at North Thctford.
Rev. Isaac Blake of Morgan Centre
died ut Lowell, in this state, Sept. %
where he had gone for the purpose of
preaching on the Sabbath and visiting
Olt llltuuS- Alltl dlllNlIS db HE
destination, in company with relatives,
he stepped into Il ncighbor's, and in
answer to Il question relative to his
health and spiritual condition, said.
~ find it the best way to be good,
and while attempting to say more fell
back, gasped and was dead. He APP
parently suffered no pain, and died
suddenly, as he had often expressed 4
wish IN regard to death. He was
seventy-nine years of age i'll June
During his ministry he had preached
in thirteen states and in Canada
! When the rebellion broke out he en-
listed in the eighth regiment and spent
some years in the service.
Hon. jefferson p. Kidder, who died
at st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. ,, aged sixty
seven years, was born in Braintree
prepared for college at the Orange
county grammar school, graduated
from Norwich university and was q
tutor therein. He was Il member OF
the constitutional convention of 1913
was states attorney of Orange county
from 1912 to 1917, state senator il
lS47-4S, acknowledgements in 1853
"a, removed to the west in 1857, anC
served in the Minnesota house of repre-
sentatives three terms. In 1865 he was
appointed associate justice of the su.
preme court of Dakota, and served ter
years. He was delegate in congress,
two terms after which he was agair
appointed member of the suprem,
bench. He was the last survivor O
the last democratic administration il
this state. In 1853 the election fol
state officers resulted in no choice by
the people-Erastus Fairbanks (Whig
receiving 2O,649 votes for governor
John S. Robinson (dem.) 1912 and
Lawrence Brainerd free soiD 1921
In the Legislature, by a coalition be
tween democrats and free sellers, Mr.
Robinson was elected governor anC
Mr.. Kidder lieutenant governor.