Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-03-23

ilc oiitto l@utty ONhVN biiO |
Harris Horse up Wallingford way and |
stood him there. The horse stood also
at the Lower village in Huntington. |
should say Hiram Eddy owned him when
he first came to town; supposed he
brought him from Wallingford way.
Mr.. Barber of Burlington says: Gray
Rose would weigh about 1000 lbs. 1872
high. Mr.. Byington bought her, he
thinks, for Mr.. Backman, and as he
wanted a Harris lIambletonian mare, he
got him one, though the Harris HANDLE
tonian had been dead number of years
before the mare was born. Mr.. Fergu-
son, of whom Byington bought the mare,
raised three colts from her. Gray Rose
was gray, most white when bought; had
a long neck pretty well cut up; not very
coarse head; rather rangy must have
been 10 or II years old when Mr.. Bying-
ton bought her. This was before the
war. She had cling-fasts behind.
Mr.. Lemuel Drew of Burlington says
that he once owned the grandam of the
Maine trotting colt Nelson; bought her
of Enos Blinn of Burlington when about
five years old. She was bob-tailed bay
mare of Morgan build, Isl, 800 lbs.
Reuben Ferguson, proprietor of the
hotel at Essex Center and Il very excel
lent witness, says: Hiram Eddy worked
for my uncle before | went to Hunting
ton. went there March. 1881. when II
years old. He brought the Harris Horse
there two or three years after. His wife
and my uncle's wife were sisters. Eddy
kept the horse in uncle's barn. | think
it was in the spring of the year when he
brought him to Huntington. He was
there during the summer. Did not stand
anywhere else. He charged but 81 for
his services. His color was bad and they
did not think much of him and he got
very few mares. Shouldn't think he had
him there more than one season; took
him back to Wallingford, or near there
where he brought him from. | know
! Eddy had him but one year at Hunting
ton and don't think he had him there il
| the winter. don't think he went any
= where with him that season he kept hin
| in uncle's barn, and worked himself
e part of the time at his trade, a carpenter
g Manfred G.. Foote, now of Middlebury
, VT, IS years old, says: Was born il
e New Haven, VT, in 1910 and lived unit
5 1860 on farm one-half mile south of tn,
4 farm occupied by John Eddy and his sol
r Cyrus Eddy, to which farm the Harris
a Hambletonian was brought by Samue
: Eddy (brother of Cyrus Eddv) iron
/ Wallingford. VT, or that vicinity, | thinl
o in the spring of 1S2S-I know it was tn
e year that Clark c. Cady kept the taver
t at New Haven Mills. Mr. Cady kept tn
e tavern only one year. William Hale, VIII
h lived with John and Cyrus Eddy at tn
l time the Harris Hambletonian wa
II brought there. brought the horse (Ial
n ris' Hambletonian) to my house to show
d within a few days after he was brougl
e from Wallingford way. He was kept o
n the John and Cyrus Eddy farm one yea
S until the next spring OS29). | think h
d was kept or stood in Salisbury. VT.
n part of the season of 1929, in charge of
II man by name of McDaniels. And then
n think, Russell Harris of New Haven Mill
~ who afterward became the owner of hin
l. may have kept him for awhile, and
1t 1880 or 81 he was taken to Wallingfort
N VT, or that vicinity, by Hiram Edd.
~ who subsequently took him to lluntin:
L ton or that vicinity, and he passc
through the hands of the Remingtons
at Hinesburgh and Huntington to Russ
1t Harris of New Haven Mills, who pu
" chased him about 1889 or 40, and owno
Sc and kept him at his place until he die
n about 1916. remember seeing Media
he ies ride him at the time he kept the hor
in Salisbury. He used the horse badl
at He (IIarris' Hambetonian) was Il vel
ly powerful going horse, but not trotte
ne We add the following letters:
he I'm the last REGISTER we made NJ
TO Thomas say, IL must have been ii
nd teen or twenty when the gray hor
IN was in Salisbury" 1t should read "f
T. teen or So.