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ORANGE COUNTY's LEGISLATORS.
Some Interesting Facts Concerning Town
Represe tation.

ORANGE COUNINS
Some Interesting Facts Concerning Town
Represe ntatiOn.
Since the organization of our State Sen
ate Orange county has had the following
/ members: 1S36-3S, a. b. w. Tenney of
| Newbury, Thomas Keyes of Nershirc and
William Hebard of Randolph 1879,
| 1ebbens Edgerton of Randolph, Jonathan
Jenness of Topsham and Daniel Cobb of
STAFFORD 1910, Timothy Morse of New
bury, Simeon Short Of Thetford and Ma
thaniel Wheatley of Brookfield; lS4l-42,
Calvin Blodgett of Chelsea, Royal Hatch
of STAFFORD and Tappan Stevens OF New
bury; 1894, Elijah Farr of Newbury,
Loren Griswold of Randolph and Ebene-
ger Bass of Williamstown ls45-46 Horace
Fifeld of Orange, Reuben Page of Cor
| NTH and Levi B. Villas of Chelsea; lSi7 As,
Henry Kcyes of Newbury, William
Sweat of Thetford and Jefferson u. Kid
der of Randolph; 1s49-50, j. w. ID. Par
ker of Bradford, Simeon NJ Bigelow of
Brook field and stephen Thomas of West
( Fairlee lS5l-52, George p. Baldwin of
Bradford and Benjamin Thurber, Jr., of
Washington; 1853, Daniel Colt of Brook
field and George Sleeper Of Corinth !;
1854 50, Joseph Atkinson of Newbury and
John Waite of Randolph 1856, j. NJ
Flint of Randolph and Henry c. Dwight
of Nershire; 1851, Henry G. Dwight of
dolph; 1858 50, b. w. Bartholomew of
Washington and r. NJ. Bill of Topsham ;
1sG0-6l, lIoratio Brock of Newbury and
Zends NJ Upham OF Brooktield lS62-G3
Alvah Bean OF West Fairlee and j. NJ
Bass of Willlamstown; 1S6465, John h.
Ia, Il, nal
Clement OF Corinth; 1S6667, Durham
Martin OF Chelsea and Hiram Barrett OF
STAFFORD lS6S69, X. Farnham Of Brad
ford and JAS hutchinson, ,Jr. of Braintree;
1870, Heman A. White of Washington and
Harry n. Niles of Thetford; 1872, Lyman
Shedd Of Newbury; 1874, John w. Rowell
Of Randolph and WIN. I. George of Tops
ham; 1876, John Lynde of Williamstown
and Edmund p. George of West Farlee
1873, John b. Mead of Randolph and John
G. Stearns Of Bradford 1880, Marcus
Peck of Brookfleld and Samuel NJ. Gleason
of Thetlord 1852, W. II. Gilmour of Fair
dee and n H. BoyGen OF Randolph 1854
:. b. Hebard of Chelsea and Henry c. Nc
Dufle Of Bradford.
From the above statistics certain facts
appeal. Randolph and Newbury claimed
ana secured the lions share of county
senators. During the first thirteen years
ont of thirteen elections each of these
towns had 4 senator nine times. During
the first twenty-five years up to and IN
Guiding the year lSGl, out of twenty-siN
elections each town had Il senator thirteen
times, Since then the town of NewbulI
seems TO have retired with appetite stated
RlndOlph, however, still claims the lion
share, having with "A single exception dur
ing eight succeeding biennial elections
secured Il senator each alternate time
NeWburN, however, has had but Il single
senatUr-Alr Shedl in lSi2-since hcnuia
elections began. In all Randolph has hat
. Il senator nineteen times and NeWbUrN
fifteen out of the forty-tWO senatorial cleo
tons which Orange county has had
Since lN1l this county has been entitled It
but two senators, PhineaS Molltun OF
F.. randolph who was also IA senator tha
year with Mcssrs. Baldwin n Thurbcr
, above named, having been dropped the
l next year, OF the fifteen remainin.
, towns in the county two, Braintree anC
r. Orange, have had Il senator but twice eacf
and falriee but once, and Tunbridge ha'
} never had one. OF the remaining clever
towns Bradford and Chelsea have had
/ senator eight times, BrOokiield seven
> ThetfOrd and Nershire four each, Strat
ford six and Corinth, Topsham, Washing
} ton, West Falrlee and WilliamstOwn five
f eacA. The average of these eleven towns
brings about six to Il town.
Representatives of the town of Chelsea
since 1901 are as follows; Theophllu
Huntington, 1871, ., -, 800, = and .
: Samuel Badger, 1884 ; ,Ioshut Elderkin
795 stephen buchanan, 1896; Reuber
Hatch, li9i, rs and lSOl Josiah Dana
1903, u, 5 and 9 hlihu Hyde, ST., lSU4
: 10 Elisha lIOtchkiss, 1901, II. II and ID
= benjamin H, Oak, lSlO; ID. AFRO \: Buck
+ lslG, ~, >, o. ., 30, "a and 30 H. f. &
, Mclaughlin, 1873, '2l and 81 Benjamin
: Rolfe, 1924; Harry Hale, ls2S, '32 anC
'36 Thomas Winslow, 1887, $ and Q; Lev
= b. Villas, $50, !, 2and .; Perley c, Jone