The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1885-02-06

their notorious leader. David Atkinson.
were invading, marrying, burning and set
| ting at uaught the free Topeka constitution,
| determined that Kansas should enter the
| Union, when II came, IA slave State. OF Mr..
Meacham's position on all the grave ques-
| tons TO which the conflict gave rise. If is
enough to say that it met the approval of u
| Vermont Constituencies is Witnessed by
| the fact that he WAS twice, nay thrice, re-
elected. l might add that his rank as II
scholar was recognized in Washington by
his being chosen one OF the regents of the
Smithsonian Institute.
During his terms in Congress, Mr.. Meach-
| am kept the house and farm he had bought
on Weybridge street. Mrs Meacham re-
| tanned them some years after his death.
which occurred at home, Aug, %, 1886. The
! house and farm afterward, about 1860, be-
came the property of Prof. Robbins, and
now belong to Oliver Severance, believe.
She bought, and occupied for some years,
the house now owned by Mr.. Wright on
| Pleasant street. After leaving this, she
| lived for "A while in New Haven, and in the
spring of 1867 moved to Burlington, pur-
chasing. though not Immediately. and occu.
pying the house in which John q. SAKE for
merly lived. This dwelling she sold only
two or three years since On the marriage
of her daughter she went with her to Bev-
erly, Mass, and last May removed with her
children to Detroit, where, as your readers
| nave bttU lOlit sue tlltNl Oll lllt OOlu VI Dt-
cember last, at the age of 81, and was
brought to Middlebury for burial. She
sleeps now 10y her husband in the cemetery
south of the college.
shall never forget the first time | saw
Mrs. Meacham and her beautiful and regal
sister. Miss Emma Clifford, afterward Mrs.
Perry Fletcher of Bridport. 1t was after
their return from Washington, whittier they
| accompanied Mr. Meacham for the winter.
| 1t was ON a Sunday. | was in my place where
all good freshmen were expected to be. and
We're in the students gallery of the COngre-
gatiOnal church, The door of the lobby be-
low opened, and two stately women, ele-
gantly dressed, and to my boyish eyes of
queenly bearing entered. sailed up the east
ern aisle to the very steps OF the pulpit and
then We arinE to the right came to anchor IN
their slip, the second on the left Of the
preacher. What the text or the sermon of
the erudite DR.. Kendall was that day
whether, indeed, he preached ran exchange
stood in his place, have utterly forgotten (;
but | wildly remember the forms and the
faces that confronted the country boy that
forenoon. That did not break out into
paraphrase of BuIke's rhapsody over the
Dauphness of France was possibly due to
the place, but more probably TO the fact
that | had not then read the peerless Brit
sh orator.
My acquaintance with Mrs. Meacham be-
gan in the fall of 1867, more than Il year
after Mr.. Meacham's death. For some rear
.ba onanad bar dnors tLo+ ta,i,,, a,,d Manu-
TOD fdnr et1dnrts 70 bar taiiaNC = 81
hmm and r1ysaif of tha so,,;or cIoSs ond r.
+. Plumbe and :. b. Partridge of the
freshmen Among the pleasantest of my
Of orr walks m VIII; loo straat 70 tbat
low-roofed v;ne-b;ddan c6tt,ga of has the
kiudlv oraet;nr,, Of o,,, ,.or,a1v Gostass tLo
warm interest she took in onr stndent-lifn
and tha Wholesome cbaer Of ber ,notcbIaSS
table Shomld this "inLowasting TOW If m;n,,'
a,.,r MT no 40, 81 tbaea 7bN'a fniin,,
studants-the ono 81 indga in Pittsford an
other AN editor j., C6irar,o and tha third a
missionary in ChinaNthe nreceding son.
fence will sci vihrntiug a RESPONSIVE chord
in each heart 7 know The ncnuaintanca
thus heonn rinaned dnring INV tntorini and
nrofessioriaI Years ,ntC a fr;endsbin wLi,.b
/ hone I NAV saw was mItnallv cordi,i
And now Iat me say that ''''''
~, r.,
I nro' -he ~ was warm iTIenu Oh the
EoIiese. ue Noileh "a niluuleoirg VINO
nave oV ~ warm lileHuS VI Tue GolleBe are
lnanS ny 9iiet'l "''oA "eS o'li my uIelh-
Ury' oey9 lhat oI any one no" HNlHR
mere ana they owen mere no" III our own
uaS. Dut II VIII not ne lnNI,'l1,!s III ne 10
Say 'nat Ill loNe lor the Soile8t ars' Meach-
am yielus 10 none OF mem She vas inter-
esleu III .ne p9rsoheI ol Tue iaculty, ia the
fi = - ~ ~ ~ ~
ana III those 10 "holh tha' good name Is 80
lhucI iltrusleu.t hOuRh at times tney az
pear 10 forget n-t9e Students Like i,r'
Laparee, she seemed Always 10 nave the
S0lleRe on lne 3ralh' az we used TO say.
sue le ,. Iilsee,' an opportunity TO speak
q s hoou ,M MJru ioI lhe lIistltulon "heh away
from niluuieouIy' ana she never tailed
Wheh there 10 give her hand ana her heart
70 any R9ou WORK III us ala, Whether cost
lhR 'liIe' laoor' or money anu II was char-
acltrlSllc Oh her Itiat sue never ana anything
ny nalVes; or seiushly II II lay IN the line
OF lrlehdshlp' her sincerity IN her fnend-
shlis c1uld never can IN question.
MIS- MeeachaiH was woman OF JGcWty, |
as view hlielanuers pIrase II she had III
elnihence 'he SocoT J0lre' as the French, |
WIN Htler shauilg' express II ana TINS
mace her prominently woman OF affairs,
actVe ana eihcleh Wherever there was
anything 10 DE done put her hrst duty |
was zone where charlty Is sad to begin
al nome ana III her lainlly: She was an
aulhllHple nousekeeper' as Kitchen, dining |
ROOM parlor ana piazza constantly testified.
sue was mistress o. what some are fearful
IL laSt becoming iost art among American
WomehIthe arr OF cookery. ard she knew |
now tc ihduct her servants INTO The mystic
rleS OF IL. she TOOK Just pride in knowing |