Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-07-06
GssrS County Gerald.
ISLAND PcAD, ULr6.
L.EG EoRINScN.

goes who has only his own fam
ilv relations, though lie may be
tondly attached by them, grief at
his going is confined to that in
tensely sad little group. When a
man has only a single design
which he is accomplishing with
his own Individual brain and
hands, and leaves it, his goods
are easily taken away and acpa-
rated from the worlds common
stock. disposed OF, and his place
is quietly arranged for another,
But when one goes whose rcIa-
lions and work run i'll varied
reticulation through many and
complicated public, quasi public,
and individual designs, the whole
public feels his going as one great
family losing paternal care ana
guardianship. This latter condl-
ton attached to the subject OF
this notice. As president OF the
bank. one of the principal mana
gers of two extensive lumber en-
terpriscs, an active member OF a
firm doing an extensive business
here and in the west, deputy col
lector in cha.gc Of the port of
Island POnd, superintendent with
Others of extensive public works,
and alone of numerous lesser en-
terpriscs, he gave his utmost
energies up to and including the
dav Of his death to the accom-
plishncnt of results from which
he took nothing for himself but
all of which he left for Others to
take, publicly and individually.
However we may look upon his
life he gave to the world many
wears Of sober industry, care,
competency and extraordinary
labor, for which it has given him
nothing in return except his
means of subsistence while in its
service. 1t would indeed be I'M
kind, uncharitable and migrate
full for the world to regard with
indifference the work and pro-
ductive life of any such lndustrl-
GUS and cnterprising man. To
what purposes faithful toiling
lives are given we maynot know
Reason only tells us that ener-
getic life work is noble, and is a
contribution to some grand de
sign; and it further tells us that
an idle, indifferent existence here
on earth is contemplate. Mr.,
Robinson was born of that hon
est hardy class of men who as
pioneers in northeastern Yer
mont, shaped and fashioned its
moral forms and ideas. His
grandfather came from Connecti-
cut to Holland in 1900, where
the father of the subject of this
sketch, J. c. Robinson, was born
in 1904, being one of the first
children born there. In this town
Eber c. was born on the 18th
day of June 1882. He married
Eliza Bartlett April 4, 1855,
She was a daughter of Jarvis
Bartlett, one of the most promi-
nent and exemplary men of his
times. TO them three children
were born, Lila, now Mrs. BOs-
worth of New Richmond, Wis,
Mamie, deceased, and Alice 9.
now Mrs. Story of Lancaster,
N. H. Mrs. Robinson died Aug
ust 10, 1875. On the 9th day OF
September 1877 he married Clara
M. Stewart, daughter of the late
Hon. Emera Stewart of Derby,
who with her daughter, Belle s,
survive. He moved from Hol-
land to Island Pond, in 1866,
and died there June 26, 1894, at
the age of 81 years. After APP
proprlate and solemn exercises
very numerously attended, and
conducted by Rev. Geo. O. Howe
on the Goth day of June he was
buried at Derby Centre.
Standing in the old Derby
cemetery, which is silently pass
ing through so many interesting
years with all its quiet but
pungent memories, mellowing
ripening, growing rich and falline
away in the passing years will
each individual who bears then
into the great unknown; memo
ries growing in intensity and in
terest in the hearts of the living
but plucked away at short inter
walls by death until soon no liv
ing memory of its beginning will
remain; standing there men ant
memorials take imaginativ
form and congregate about eacl
guest as he takes his silent cham
Der there. 1t is true our frien,
was not to this manor born
but he so corresponded to it
characteristics that he seemed t,
have been, for so interlaced ar
the relations of that localIt
with the surrounding country, s.
connected was he by business as
Sociations and by consanguinit
to it, and so firmly were thos
rigid puritanical sentiments tina
the grandfathers of the town er
tertained impressed upon hi
mind by youthful education tina
he carried those early convic
tions through life. They wer
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