Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-04-11

Mr.. John w. Martin of Mddlebury, who,
with another brother, Nh. c. G. Martin
of Ferrisburgh, and Mrs. II. w. Ham
mond of this town and Miss Anna G.
Allen of North Ferrisburgh, were among
the 200 guests present. An interesting
feature of the occasion, in addition to
AN original poem and congratulatory
add""""""- was the speech OF the host,
extended account
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III which ne gave an
of his early life. The following Is "a.
substance of Ills remarks:
"Now for my history: | was born
in Ferrisburg, VT, the 10th of April,
1914; was raised on a farm of 800 acres
owned by my father. all exemplary
man, large and strong. My mother was
a small woman, but she was good one.
She was not of the modern sort. She
had fifteen children, of whom was the
middle one. That good woman visited
Wisconsin five times, coming clear from
Vermont, and father made the trip six
times, to see their two boys who came
to Wisconsin in 1896. came i'm the
spring and brother Stoddard in the fall
of that year, and the way ! came was a
caution. | was just about - years old
when | left Vermont. a young friend
of mine furnished an old horse and wag-
on, and we put our trunks in and started.
He had some Yankee notions that he
calculated to pay hotel bills with. but he
was so proud he never offered cents
worth on the road. Our horse was the
LATEST one | ever saw. One of us tried
to whip him continually. We got to the
Erie canal little west of Albany, and
there put our trunks on boat and whip
ped our old horse through to Buffalo;
then took steamboat for Detroit. again
loaded orr trunks into our wagon and
started for St. joseph. AT ST. .Joseph
there happened TO be a schooner in the
bay bound for Chicago. so we nut the
horse on lighter. pushed out TO the
schooner. and raised the horse with a
tackle on the schooner. At Chicago we
fell in with Mr.. Gregg, who afterward
settled in Brooktield. lie proposed TO
take nv place i'm the wagon and agreed
to pay my fare on a schooner going to
Milwaukee. He paid cabin fare. but [
was seasIck. | left the boat at South
port. now Kenosha. and footed it to Mil
YANKEE throuph mud and water. arrived
there about the last of Nav. 1896. There
was at that time about twenty houses
in Milwaukee.
FLOWING Up EAST WATER STREET.
g, fou. dave ,etor orri,od thoro tbo,.
oouIn,annoJ ,,lowing tbrnu~L East Watcr
etrnat 80 n'al,o :, r3od cn,7nt,,. fosbion
soon after I enoaged win Daniol WelIs
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t;ni H. y.os al :. ID, donso fornst ar tba+
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.nd ,,.otorrn,or now o,,naj h, ira,,
u.io dn~ rho frst vol ,bot wos aSar
dur In III nart Of tho nountrr for
We G. navitt uorI,od fnr tbasa
mon For Tho tirst vol,a Of nxon thot I n,.ar
nu.mod nnrl,ad aftor I nnt n',, o,'a,,
on nv claim ne iong b,G anvtbino to
oa, -" s,d r,nnid cIo,o nm NV. .Iont,9 ~,
the wintar and ro to Nilwan,,en ma do
choras for DaniaI walls Ir for nv
hoard kenninr INV oven in , iiftIa stohie
tbnt I huitt no,,s1lf Nr WeIIs vonid
telI me where 70 90 and cut wood ". one
Mace was ,houf two hIorks west Of
Where rho pinnl,,nton bou.n now stards
and onotbor ,l,co nom !, boro rho ,ourt
house now stands.
IL lived from hand to mouth on NV
clam in summer and in Milwaukee in
winter, until Nov. II. 1899 when | left
Milwaukee on the steamboat Madison. on
nv way to Vermont. to see if could
find Girl who would consent to come to
the wids of Wisconsin with me. In the
couI ST. of the winter became acquainted
with Betsev F. Munson. and in about six
weeks after our first acquaintance. lust
fifty wears AFRO to-day. we were married
in Bristol. VT. and as soon IA navigation
opened. we started for Wisconsin. COM
inc on a canal boat rs far as Buffalo.
We then took the steamboat Boston for
Milwaukee. making the entire trip in
four weeks. left my wife in NJilwau-
kee. came out on foot. bought some hard