Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-03-23
An old-time Editor.

lhe Springfield Republican ana 81.
Johnsbury Republican pay handsome
and well-deserved tributes to the memo
ry of distinguished Vermont Journal
ist, the late Thomas Hale. Mr.. Hale
was an influential member of the YER
mont press for many years, but SO
ephemeral is newspaper work, and so
fleeting is the reputation of an editor,
that there are probably but few of the
present generation of Vermonters that
ever heard his name. Yet he was a
prominent man in his day, and did
good and useful work-work that has
lasted, too, if the workers name has
perished. The Springfield Republican
says of him;
An old New England editor Of the
most honorable type passed away re.
Gently in New Jersey. This was Thorn
as Hale. brother of Matthew Hale Of
Albany and the late William B. Hale
of Northampton-both men of conse-
quence-and a descendant of an early
settler of New England. Thomas
Hale was born in Chelsea, VT, Jan.
Is, 1913, and died at Plainfield, Nj,
March 4, in his Slst year. He began
as lawyer in 1874, but his health
gave way, and he went South to teach
in Louisiana returning to Vermont,
he resumed his profession at Windsor,
but shortly exchanged the law for Jour
aalism edited the Vermont journal at
Windsor, the Sentinel at Keene, \. H.,
the Fitchburgh Sentinel and q number
of other newspapers. In 1863, when
53 years old, he married Sara Ballou
Potter at Keene, and his widow and
son survive him. OF his fathers fam
ily Of Is children, only two brothers
aud sister remain-M. Hale OF AL
bany, Rev. Stafford +. Hale of Eliza
bethtown, Nj, and Mrs. w. G. Her
rick Of Castleton, VT. Mr.. Hale was
one of the most pronounced and out
spoken Of journalists. He stirred the
hearts of his constituents in the time of
the war for the Union, and he never
was bigoted partisan, but condemned
the wrong in the Republican party as
strenuously as in the opposition. He
was strong, brave and true worker
for principle, and viii be so remember
ed wherever he was known.
To this may be added that the family
TO which Mr.. Hale belonged was one
Of the most notable that Vermont has
ever produced. All of its members were
persons of uncommon ability, strongly
marked character, and power in the
communities in which their lots were
cast.
The father, Harry Hale of Chelsea,
came OF Revolutionary stock and was
one of the prominent Vermonters of
his tine. The late Thomas Hale was
his son by his first wife. BY a second
marriage he had, among other children,
four sons( who were consequently half
brothers of Thomas Hale, Stafford f.,
Henry, r. S., and Matthew. Stafford
was distinguished physician. Henry
won fame and fortune as lawyer at
st. Paul. X. 5. Hale, who died twelve
years ago, was one of the most distin-
guishea lawyers of his day. He served
as member of Congress and held other
important offices in the State and in the
nation. John G.. Hale, who died the
other day, was a well-known clergy
man and Matthew is leading lawyer
of Albany, n. Y.
The contents of Wide Awake for March |
are delightfully."- fresh and breezy. "A
Windy Story" is a typical March tale, by /
Nora A. Smith. The daughter of Canon 1
Kingsley-R g. Kingsley-gives /
sprightly account of hunt for real old I
lace in the s'Rag Market at Bruges," by 4
four English girl travellers. The pen 4
sketches Of this old Flemish city are by /
Joseph Pennell, who has just been so sue
illustrating "To Gipsy Land" in I
the Century Magazine. The other illus
traitors in this number are Henry Bacon, /
Frank r. Merrill, Maria l.. Kirk and Paul I
de Longpre. Both Harvard and Yale are 1
in this issue. Our Little Men I
and Women is also on hand with its entic- /
ing poems, sketches and stories. With a /
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