News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-05-07

HOTEL JOHNSON.
the most elegant stores in the
State outside of the cities.
William H. Nye, son of Benja-
min Nye Of Cambridge, was born
in Fairfield in 1855. He was
educated in the district and Man
chester city schools, and engaged
with l.. NJ. Knight as a clerk at
10 years Of age. His services
proved so valuable and were so
well appreciated that he was re
tanned in the business, and, like
the other partners, Knight and
Morse, became in time the ac-
tive manager of the firm. This
plan has been one of the tradi-
tons of the firm for more than
half a century. The volume of
business has largely increased
under the present management,
and two competent clerks are
employed. w. H. Nye married
Miss Susan Cowles, of Aver,
Mass, in 1895. He is a member
of the Odd Fellows organization
and is a village trustees.
A. A. LELAND.
Albert A. Leland, born in
Lowell, Vt, in 1882, has been a
resident of Johnson 40 years.
His father, Chas. Leland, was a
veteran starch manufacturer,
and in company with his son
Albert built the starch factory in
1867, and the latter has been
sole owner since 1888. The most
ever made in a single year was
40 tons, from 1000 bushels OF
potatoes, and the factory has
been run continuously with the
exception of one or two years.
The price of starch is lower now
ChaT neutrality-suspicious. III 50
years. Mr.. Leland also owns a
farm of 125 acres within half a
mile of the village, the milk of
his dairy of fifteen COWS going to
the creamery. He is best known
as a manufacturer of fine maple
sugar. He has a sugar place OF
1850 trees. with turned cedar
buckets, painted inside and out,
and with iron hoops; he uses a
round tin spout easily cleansed,
also the Champion evapOratOr.
His product is put up to order OF
private customers, and brings
good prices. Since 1889 he has re-
ceived five first premiums on sug-
ar at the State Fair: also at the
Sugar Makers Exhibit in Bur
lington in 1894 and a special
prize of $3.50, offered by the
Grimm Evaporation Co.
His family is composed of two
daughters and two minor sons.
L. NJ. JONES.
Lyman M. Jones was early
thrown upon his own resources
by the early and accidental
death of his father, David Jones
depot master at Medheld, Mass
The widow, formerly Louisa
Merrill, soon returned to her pa.
ternal home at Rumney, N. H.
with her three little sons-Svl
vester, Charles and Lyman. The
family remained on the grand
fathers farm until Lyman was
Is years old. His literary ad
vantages were limited, but adj
verse circumstances compelled
him to use well his powers of OBJ
servation and to assume respon
sibilities at an early age.
In 1871 the farm was sold and
the family moved to Lebanon
N. H., and there Lyman worked
seven years in the large fuini
ture shops of the Sturtevant
Manufacturing Co., where hi
learned every detail of the bust
ness and became foreman of &
department. He came to John
son i'll 1873 and engaged with O
w. Stearns & Son in the butter
tub factory and remained sever
years. Impaired health required
a change, and he engaged for {
time in painting, paper hanging
and clerking, some of the tim,
for o. & A. H. Buck, and in fact
he has clerked in almost ever,
store in town.
In 1892 he bought the stock O
paints and oils, sash, doors anC
glass of H. Burnham, rented
the store formerly owned by tn,
Bucks and put in a fine stock O
furniture. He also has the entir
trade in wall paper, thus ena
bling him to carry an extensiv'