The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-02-28
THE REFoRMER BRATrLEBoRo Friday FEBRUARY g. 1896.

with heart trouble. He worked his
way through college by teaching schoo
and then in 1Si9 went to New York tC
take clerkship in a dry goods honse.
Eight years later, in 1857, he rose tt
he the junior partner in the firm oi
/ Smythe Sprague & Cooper. In 1864
the firm was changed to Sprague, Coop
or a Colburn and again in 1867 tc
! Cooper, Vail a. Co. He retired from
active trade in 1882, but he retained
his large business interests in western
states. He also was the president OF
/ the Standard National bank, Madison
avenue and Twenty third street; a
director of the American Surety com
pany, a director of tho Citizens Say
trustee of the Sturtevant estate. In
1885 he was appointed one of the United
States railroad commissioners which
inspected the Sou bern Pacific. He
was an ex president Of the New Eng
land society, and was ii member of the
Union club, the Union League club
and the Republican club. Mr.. Coop
er was never married Mrs, Julia l..
Webber, sister: NJ. G. Webber, p.
L. Webber. DR.. George p. Morris of
Randolph Vt, and Wi lson G. Morris,
all nephews, and Mrs. f. b. johnson, a
niece, are his surviving relatives.
Mrs Cordelia Kimball Ross died re-
Gently at Horizon, Warren county, N. Y.
al the home of \. A. Ross, aged 81
years She was a native of Vermont and
sister of the late Charles Kimball of
Westford and sister of Mrs Eleazer Taft
late of WiIliston. Her husband was Lins-
ley Taft of Starkboro where the deceas
ed spent the early part of her life.
Hon. Orlando Dana Murray, one of
the oldest Odd Fellows in New Hamp-
shire, q native of Hartland and for
of Nashua, n. H., died at his home
in that city at midnight Sunday at
the age or u, lacking less than Il
month. He received his education at
Pinkerton and Pembroke academies.
In 1884 he began an apprenticeship
in the Office Of the Nashua Gazette,
and was also clerk in the postotiice.
In 1871 he went TO Manchester and
purchased a half interest in the Man
chester Memorial, becoming editor,
and later published the Iris. Il month
~. He established the Oasis, which
was successful paper. having the
largest circulation in that section. He
was one Of the prime movers in the
of the card and glazed
paper business, which has grown into
one Of the chief industries OF the city,
and from which Mr.. Murray secured
fortune before he retired. He was Il
Republican, and held many offices,
serving as state senator. He was u
prominent Mason. \ widow a'd two
sons Survive him.
The Hunt Memorial committee.
made up of representatives, of all the
art societies in New YORK. met Monday
and decided upon Il plan to commemo-
rate the memory of the late Richard
NJ. Hunt, Il son Of Brattlcboro, who is
regarded as the greatest architect that
this country has ever produced. The
plan of erecting grand arch at the
Fifty ninth street entrance to Genital
Park designed by Mr.. Hunt, was pre-
sented, but many objections were made
and il was practically abandoned. The
will probably have some con
nection with the Observation-Disclosures
Of Art, but wha. il is the members of
the committee refuse to say.
John A. Kendall, a prominent citi
zen of Grand Prairie, Mich, and
native Of Windsor county, died the LIST
from paralysis of which he has had Il
succession of shocks for three years
His age was a. He grew up TO man
hood on the home farm and Aug. 10,
1913, he married Eliza NJ. Taylor and
within week or two the young people
started for Michigan. They came as
far rs Troy, n y. behind an OK team
driven by Mr.. Kendall's father.
The Sheffield, H., Times of last
week gives an extended biographical
sketch of the late Horatio \. Hough
ton, IA native of Marlboro who died at
the 3lst. uIt., at the age Of 50 !
nearly. He went at the age of Is from |
Marlboro to Halifax where he lived !
until he was 81, and then went to Troy, I
where he learned the carpenter trade |
which he followed for number of |
years. At the age of - he went to |.
New Orleans and soon became associ !
lted in company with a Mr. Alger in |
The ice business. They had ice houses /
in several of the southern cities and /
came to Peru to harvest their crop, |
hen in the spring tloated it down the
liver to its destination, where it was
'etaied to the public. 1t was here /
hat Mr. Houghton made his first start !
II life towards accommodating his for .
une He soon had SO, 1000 which he
anne to Illinois, and loaned. The
FINES says:
Judge f. d. Shattuck of Portland,
)re. "a son of Bakersfield who has been
N the bench i'll Oregon most OF the
imc for 80 years, was the recipient of
handsome testimonial in the shape
# a gold watch, locket and chain, and a
,old headed cane, suitably inscribed,
presented. with complimentary adj /
lress, by the bar of Portland on his
LIST birthday lately. The entire bar
# the city assembled to do him hon
II, and committee escorted him to the
ourt house, where Judge Williams
made the presentation address. Judge
,hattuck, after graduating at the
franklin academy and the University
f Vermont, studied law in the Office
f Parmalee & Fitch in Malone. NY,
moved to Oregon in 1858, and was
lected judge of the state Circuit
yourt in 1862, and resigned in 1867.
n 1874 he was again elected to the
anne office, and served until 1878. In
s6S he was again elected, and re-
lected in 1892 Besides serving as a
Judge and practicing law he has found
ime to manage and improve a beauti
al farm near Portland, and the Ore {
onion says that he has always had {
ne confidence of the lawyers of the
tate. ii
Fred, son of Louis Goulett, was I'M
,aItnr lnn. n Lincoln laGt WpHnnG- Z
ay, when a large one rolled off the l
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