The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-08
OBITUARY.


Dir A ID Putnam.
Dir. A. ID. Putnam, long deep
respected citizen, one of the oldeI
: dentists in the state, and in the coui
, ~ in fact. died yesterday ut d lit
= after IL O'Clock from the complicatio
of troubles under which he has bee
sinking for several weeks And in hil
passes out from among us one OF tn
most interesting links between tn
} Brattleboro of the present and tn
past.
DR.. Putnam was of old Brattlebor
blood, being u grandson OF Julia
Arms and was born at Sharon, n. Y.
January II, 1916, one of seven childre
of Josiah and Susan Willard Putnam
His father, saddler and harnes
maker by trade, went to Charleston N
Y, in 1880 and back to Brattlebor
three years later, settling on the Dicher
man place two and half miles nortl
west of the village, near the McVeigl
farm. Tho Doctor worked on the farm
for the next few years, attending tn
West Brattleboro academy, but il
1896 went to Springfield to learn thu
tailoring trade with Minot e. Savage
anc returned to West Brattleboro
followed this business, and was very
successful for the next lew years, un
til failing health compelled him t.
give it up. He went to Greenwich,
N. Y, in June, 1912, and began the
study of dentistry with DIR. }. b.
Crosby, where he remained till he
finally returned to West Brattleboro
to practice his profession there and
in the adjoining towns. He opened
an Office here in June, 1916, in the
east village hall, a long building on
the east side of Main street. When
Squire" Mead went into the bank
near the Congregational church, DR..
Putnam took his Office in the south
end of Halls block where he re-
NAMED till the great fire in 1869 and
after the building of Crosby block
when he moved to his late Office
there. For AZ years he has had an
office on Main street, where two or
three of his earliest acquaintance
still continue in business. 1t was in
his office that the first telegraph in
strument in town was located. He
was for many years the agent for the
Charter Oak Life Insurance Co. here
and did large business for it until
the failure of the company.
Both DIR. Putnam's father and Uncle
Harvey Putnam, who was at one time
a congressman from York state, were
born on the farm now owned and &C.
cupied by Henry Clark. The Doctors
cousin, James o. Putnam, was con-
sui to Havre under both Lincoln's and
Johnson's administrations. For three
or four winters before the breaking out
of the war Dr. Putnam was accustomed
to 60 to Florida. thence to Nashua,
where he found lucrative employment
at his trade while recuperating his
health. 1t was then common thing
to receive 500 in gold for what is now
furnished by all dentists for $40. His
last trip south was in the winter of
1860 when the excitement incident to
the war was at fever heat The doc
tor was in Georgia on his way home
when Fort Sumter was surrended and
he took the advice of friend TO en-
bark on north bound steamer, first
his money for New York
draft which fortunately he secured
after sitting on the bank steps in Sa-
Tannah for two hours or more before
The hour of opening. Two days after
The doctor sailed the last steamer for
many months sailed from Savannah.
Bailey of Fitchburg,
Who was in the south at the time, was
lot so fortunate, as he, together with |
lis attendant, whom the southerners
we're determined to draft into their ser
ice, was obliged to flee by circuitous
cute for the north.
The Doctor was long the leading den
list of the place. Quiet and reserved
lie took but little part in public af-
airs, but he was man of unusual in
diligence, candor, and kindliness of
Jews, making model neighbor, citi-
en- and friend.
He married Nov. ), 1887 Abigail G..
'rosby, daughter of Watson Crosby,
t West Brattleboro, who survives him
18th one sister, Mrs. Bede Prouty.
Mrs. RosaIie r mer nutterfeid.
Mrs. Rosalie Elmer Butterfeld
office of whose death appears else,
here in our columns and whose re
lains were to day inferred in Prospect
I'LL cemetery, was wellknown to many
YER 90 years she resided. She was
orn in Dummerston FED. IS, 1S47,
i'd died in Ann Arbor. Mich, on
tuesday, after a severe illness of seven
onths in the 10th year of her age.
er remains were laid to rest in this
wn where the most eventful and
'me of the happiest years of
sr life were spent. She was married .
1869 in Pittsfield, Mass, where
e was then living to Oscar H.
lttertield and came at once to this
wn where, with the exception of
ar spent in Freeley, Colorado, she
manned until the early part of 1890.
that time she and her husband
mt to Ann Arbor where their only
n Ora E., was student in the Law
apartment of Michigan University.
} having begun the practice of his
Dfession there and become identified
tn the City government, his father
d mother had come to regard the
iversity town as their permanent
me. In addition to her husband
d son there remains to mourn her
g her mother, Mrs. Edna s. Clark
Pittsfield, Mass, and three broth
! Lucian A. Elmer of Brattleboro,
win Elmer of Omaha, Nebraska,
d Walter Elmer of Pittsfield. The
ath of Mrs. Butterfield is felt as a
avy blow by her immediate family
it was those who knew her in the
st intimate relations who best
Ilized her unobtrusive but sterling
nth. Domestic in her tastes and
tues, she spent her love ane her
lndless energies upon those within
, home circle. Still she made MANY
ends who cherish for her a warm
ection and in this town large num-
will feel her departure as a sharp
'sonal bereavement. She was an in
ko1 Io.. - L.