Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-01-20
TWO NOTEWORTHY MIDDLEBURY
MEM
ANDREW GARRETT.

ologist, died at his residence on the Is
land of Huahine, Society Group, South
Seas, on November /, 1887, in the sixty
fifth year of his age. For some months
past he had suffered from severe form
of cancer in the face, which at last
brought about his death. Mr.. Garrett
was the third child in family of four
teen and was born ON April 8, 1923, in
Beaver street. Albany. His mother was
Joanna Van Mean Campaneaux, native
of Belgium. of good education and speak
ing several languages, and his father
was Francis Garrett, a native of Canada.
Both parents lived to old age, the mother
attaining seventy-two wears and the faith
er eighty-four years. The early life of
Andrew Garrett was spent in Vermont,
where he very soon manifested decided
scientific turn of mind. On one occasion
when eight years of age, he left home
without warning to visit museum about
one hundred miles away. He accom-
plished his object and returned home in
safety. He had a great fondness for
travel, and to satisfy the longing he went
to sea at the age of eighteen years. As
shell collector he made his first acquain-
lance with the South Pacific in 1913, and
in 1852 he ultimately adopted that island
stubbed ocean as his special field of re-
search. Since that time Mr.. Garrett has
visited almost every island of note in the
various groups of the South Pacific,
spending considerable time in each group
his studies not only embraced shells of
the marine, fresh water and land orders,
but also birds, fishes and other objects of
natural history. For one period of ten
years he was professionally engaged in
the interests of the Goddefroi Museum.
Hamburg, during which time was pub
lished "Andrew CARROTS Fische der
Sudsee," in six parts, edited DIR. Albert
Gunther of the British Museum. Mr..
Garrett was also for a time associated
with Professor AgassiZ. In addition to
visiting and residing in every group of
islands of the South Pacific, Mr.. Garrett
visited and explored many parts of the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts of South AM
erica the East and West Indies, the Sand
witch Islands, and some parts of the Uni
ted States. His diligence and learned re-
searches soon gave him place as an au-
thority among conchologists-an author
ity now everywhere recognized His
correspondents were very numerous, re-
siding in every part of the world. Mr..
CARROTS private collection of shells (now
on sale) consists of over 5000 species
and comprises over 80, 900 examples, rep
the globe. Of this large collection Mr..
Garrett himself collected some 1000 spe-
cies. He was a corresponding member
of the California Academy of Science
and of the Philadelphia Academy of
Natural SCIENCE
When Garrett was five or six years old
his parents moved from Albany to Mid
dlebury and spent the remainder of their
lives here. Andrews father was an IRON
worker and was for many years in the
employ of the Wainwrights at their foun-
dry which stood near the site of the up
per mill of the Green Mountain Pulp Co.
Andrew got the little book-learning that
he secured in early life at the old red
brick school house which stands just this
side of the bridge at paper MILL falls.
He developed Il taste for adventure and
when quite young started off on a whal-
ing voyage, taking along another youth
from this region. The crew were abused
by the captain and when off the coast of
Brazil Garrett and his friend stole one of
the ships boats in the nighttime and
made for the shore. They landed in the
woods two hundred miles below Rio, but
finally reached that city and shipped for
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trip to the South Pacific in lS4S, bring
ing lot of the shells then collected.
That was the last seen of him here, and
the last heard of him, till the other day
one of his bOyhOOd friends saw the no
tice of his death above quoted.
MATTHEW W. sURoHARD.
In the Detroit (Mich.) Journal of Nov.
26 is the portrait and a sketch of the life
of Matthew W. Burchard. who lives in
that city and will be 100 years of age on
the 4th of July next. He was born in
Western Massachusetts, but when very
young his parents moved to Shoreham,
this county, where, the account continues,
after gaining common school education
and teaching few terms, he engaged in
trade with Mr.. Samuel Buck, first as a
clerk and afterwards as partner.
There he married Amanda Turrell, of
Shoreham, who died in Detroit March "a,
1856. Mr.. Burchard traded in Middle
bury about six months and then moved
to Brandon, where he kept store and
hotel from 1913 to 1881. During this
period he was for many years town
treasurer, selectman, justice of the peace
and representative in the legislature.
From 1881 to 1884 he kept store and
packing house at Watch Point, but re-
turned TO Brandon in 1885, and for some
years controlled line of stages between
Brandon and Montpelier. In 1899 he
moved to Detroit, then town of only
nine thousand inhabitants, and engaged
in trade and building operations, in
which he met with a fair degree of sue
cess. Soon after the death of his first
wife he married Miss Maria Rockwell,
proprietress of well known ladies'
seminary. At the age of eighty
eight, with his family, he visit
ed the centennial exhibition, and in New
York he devoted day to sightseeing on
his own account, until his family became
alarmed and reported his absence to the
police. When Informed of this on his re-
turn he asked with some show of indig-
nation IAN not old enough to take
care of myself?' Shortly after becoming
ninety he met with few business losses
and became convinced that he was too
old to take care of himself, and so volun-
tarily walked into the probate Office and
asked to have guardian appointed,