News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1896-09-10

a careful observer of current
events and unusually well in
formed. He is a member of Mys-
tic Lodge, No. Sc, and is sociable
and affable i'll his tastes.
b. H. LUCE.
Byron H. Luce is one of the
present representatives of a for
merly very numerous family in
town. Though successful in bust
ness affairs and and one of the
extensive land owners in town,
and First Selectman, he is one of
the most retiring and modest
of men. He was one of a family
of thirteen children of Zebina
Luce, a small farmer, and was
born in 1884. BY the early death
of the father, the members of
this family early learned to hoe
their own row. Il. A. Luce is
living at East st. Johnsbury.
B. H. for many years of his life
worked out upon farms. In
1856 he followed the advice OF
Horace Greeley, went West to
Minnesota Territory, then for
the most part unsettled, took up
a claim of 100 acres of govern
ment land, built a shanty and
remained three and a half years,
and by that time concluded that
Stowe was good enough for him,
sold his farm and returned. After
serving Richard Waite faithfully
some four years on his farm, he
married his daughter Stella and
continued in his employ four
years after the marriage. Dur
ing the later years of Mr.. Waite
life he was cared for by Mr.. and
Mrs. Luce, and upon his death
Mrs. Luce became the owner o.
the farm.
This farm is situated in what
is called Stowe Hollow, one O
an excellent tier of farms lying il
a fertile valley one and a hal
miles east of Stowe. 1t contains
about 14O acres, is on a south
ern slope facing Worcester Mt.
and the buildings and farms are
among the very best in town
There is a splendid sugar place
of about 1000 naples in on
body. One year Mr.. Luce hun&
1913 buckets and made 200 lbs
Mr.. Luce has kept zoos sheep, anC
now has 20 COWS and considera
BILE other stock. He owns two
or three other good farms in thu
neighborhood.
Among other farms especially
worthy of mention are those o
Chandler Watts, S. G. Fuller, thu
Hodge farm, and the farms o
Smith Bros. and T. B. Smith &
Son, each with a fine sugar or
chard. E. G. Gibbs has a saw
mill and butter box factory 10
Gated in the center of this neigh
borhood, rented by White &
Town, and a steam mill located
near the Waterbury line two
miles south.
B. H. Luce has worked his way
to success by industry, persever
ance and good judgment, but il
now in impaired health. He is
ably assisted in the care and la
bors of his farms by his sons, H
w. and D. Il. Luce, who reside
with him.
L. c. MOODY.
Lewis c. Moody, lawyer, i;
one Of the live young men who i:
helping to work out the "mani
fest destiny" of Stowe. He il
one of the sons of G. S. and AL
nina Benson Moody, a scion o
one of the early families, and was
born in 1855. His education was
completed at Waterbury Semi
nary. When he attained his ma
| jority he determined to try hi;
fortunes in the West, and wen
to Iowa and the next spring tt
the Black Hills. This was in tn,
red hot mining excitement, anC
Deadwood was then a slab city
of rough boards with a hetero
geneous population. Lewis Ell
gagged in mining at Hayward
where he obtained considerable
experience but not much golC
dust, and in the fall of II he re
turned to Stowe.
The next spring he commenced
in the butcher and meat business
and ran a cart summers until the
autumn of 1882. In the fall O.
1873 he began the study of law
which he continued during the
winter season, spending the win
ter of 1882 in the office of Hon
Geo. Wilkins, and was admitted
at the April term of Lamoille
County Court in 1888. He
bought out L. S. Thompson Of
Stowe and Immediately went
into t,ractica here He had q