The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1895-03-29

hOAoNA III IIS SlOdhlCl y NI
! Dexter is wealthy and successft
business man, and maintains
summer residence at his old HON
in Topsham.
Advanced schools were former
ly maintained, Rev. N. r. Johr
son teaching at East Topshar
and Rev. S. L. Eastman at Yves
Topsham, but there is at presen
in town no school of high grade
the more advanced pupils attend
ing neighboring academies.
Owing no doubt to the excel
leut dispositions and good bust
ness methods of the citizens
there has been very little busines
for the lawyers. Hon. r. M
Harvey is the only lawyer il
town. The first lawyer in Yves
Topsham, was the now venera
BILE and we'll known Asa M. Dick
ey of Bradford who settled there
about 1850, and later J. O. Liv
ingstone. Messrs. Baker, Aus
tin and Batchelder have practicet
at East Topsham.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
We will present brief sketches
of few of the many worthy
men who left their impress upon
this community.
Thomas Chamberlain, the first
settler in town, was born in 1875,
also a pioneer of Newbury came
to Topsham in the summer of
1870, built log house and cleared
several acres of land, and the
next March moved his family to
his log house, subsisting his
small stock on browse of trees
until spring opened. This place
was the family home for two sue
ceeding generations.
DR.. Richard III. Huntley, the
firK1 physician, settled in town
as early as 1913 or 4,
and was the only practicing ply
sician until about 1918, when he
was succeeded by DIR. James
Petrie. His practice was very
and remunerative.
John George, born at Ames-
bury, Mass, in 1749, moved to
so years later, on what
IS known as Ga1usha Hill. We
nay ditnly infer the number of
lis descendants when we state
hat he was the father of seven
;een children, fifteen of whom
ived to marry and have families.
His grandsons, Hon. James F.
George, and William T. George,
ESQ.,, were men we'll known in
his town and section.
Dea. David Bagley, born in
Newton, N. H., in 1777 moved to
'Zion's Hill" in 1900, was a
armer, and about 1912 COM
nenced in trade and successfully
continued the business nearly
wenty years. In religious belief
| Freewil1 Baptist, and a deacon
If that church many years. He
vas an earnest anti-slavery advo-
ate, and liberal donor to char
table and religious objects.
DR.. Levi Barton, born in Wash
ngton in 1903, a student at the
University of Vermont, and a
graduate of Berkshire Medical
ollege, practicing at first alter
lately at Washington and West
Nopsham, and later at West
Topsham more that thirty years,
nd was a useful and successful
PRACTITIONER.
Hon. Jonathan Jenness, born
n 1880, moved with his family to
Vest Topsham in 1907, and soon
vas recognized as leading spirit |
n the development of the town.
n 1913 he was elected to the leg !
stature, a post in which he was
etained fifteen out of the twenty
wo succeeding years. Upon the
Iteration of the constitution of
yermont providing for state
enate, he was elected a state
enator for Orange county in
and refused a nomina-
ion in 1910, in which year his
anne was placed on the electoral
icket for the support of Van
,uren. Four times he was
lember of the constitutional con-
ention, and 1880 and 1910, was
.ssistant u. S. Marshal. Mr..
enness was largely engaged in
lrming, but was more widely
nown as the proprietor of the
enness House. This, for the
me, large and elegant hotel was
uilt at West Topshan in 1922,
nd was consumed nearly seventy
ears later. Decisive and ener-
etic in his business relations,