The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-03
SONS OF VERMONT.
A Native of Wilmington.

the baking business there, n son ,
wilmington, and for Il few years. nea
nan century ago, a blacksmith
Dover. died Saturday morning of ap,
pieXy, at his home IN Austin stree
Charlestown. He had been sick abor
three weeks, the result of sever;
shocks. The funeral was held Tucsda
and the burial was in Forest Hill
cemetery.
Mr.. Stetson was born iE Wilmingto
Jan. 2, 1925, the son of Ezra an
Ciarissa tAdanis) Stetson. one of |
children, was educated in the commo
schools except for Il single term in on
OF the Old select schools and worke,
on the farm until he was 81. AZ tn
age OF 81 he went TO Boston. where h
found employment as IA driver of
bread wagon, which occupation h
followed for two years. His next oc
ccnpation was that of porter in Wild
Hotel, on Elm street, where he re
manned for six months, going theme,
to the Marlboro Hotel. where he wa
for about the same length of time
He was afterward employee at tn,
Blind Asylum in South Boston, wher,
he remained for a year. Then he re
turned to Vermont, married Merriam
owen, daughter of Rev. Linus Over
OF Dover. purchased Il blacksmith shor
and carried on that business for foui
years. Returning then to Charles
town he engaged in the baking bushes
with his former employer, Orrin Gil
more, under the firm name of Gilmore
q Stetson. This partnership contin-
ued for 10 years, when Mr.. Stetson
went into business on his own account,
which he continued until about two
years ago, when he surrendered it 10
his son. Altogether Mr.. Stetson was
IN the baking business about 30 years.
lie was a member Of the Charles
town City Government in 1870
and Il. Mr.. Stetson was member
OF the Odd Fellows, and passed through
the chairs of Bunker Hill Lodge, Bunk
er Hill Encampment and Mystic Re.
bckah Lodge. He was also member
of the Knights of Honor. and has
passed through tho chairs of Charles
town Lodge, besides being a member
and officer of various other organiza.
tions of the Bunker Hill district. He
was a vice president and trustee of the
Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank.
Asister of General Hayes and Grand-
Daughter of Brattlcboro.
Mrs. Z. Martin, IA sister of the late
Rutherford b. Hayes. died last week
Wednesday at kirkwood, suburb of
st. Louis. She was a few years the
senior of her distinguished brother.
they were separated in early youth.
Mrs. Marvin was reared and educated
by an old southern family then rcsid
ing in Southern Illinois. When the
civil war broke out the brother joined
the Union army and the strong preju-
diccs of the family with which Mrs.
Marvin was connected having estranged
her from him and they never met again.
The Rebel General Bragg. of Vermont
Ancestry.
The Springfield town history which
has been II years in preparation is
largely the work of G. II. Hubbard and
Justus Dartt. 1t is illustrated with
many pictures of old homesteads and
public buildings and the features of -
men who are or have been. citizens of
The town. Among other families
prominent in town, the family which
claimed General Braxton Bragg of the
confederate army is mentioned. Nico-
as Bragg came to Springfield at an
,arly date with a large family his son,
Nicholas ir,, built a house in the
amous Eureka district and in it Brax
on Bragg's father and 20 other chill,
lrcn were born. They scattered very
widely, and John, the eldest being Il
amous bridge builder.
John KEENAN,, father of George Ken
IAN, the Siberian traveller, died at
n. j., Wednesday, aged 90
ears. Mr.. KEENAN,, "A son of Rev. |
Thomas KEENAN,, and was born in
VT, in 1903
Mrs. Susan Moore Root, the oldest
woman in Greenfield, Mass, celebrated |
Ter 90th birthday anniversary a few
lays ago. The Moores came to this
ountry from England in 1881, and
lrs. Roots grandfather and six of his !
rothers fought at the battle of Bunker
ill. After the revolutionary war Mrs. /
,oot's father and others settled in
hat is now Wilmington. and it was
ere that Mrs. Root was born, Her
arents moved to Greenfield, Mass.
hen she was II. Mrs. Root was mar.
led in 1929 to Justin Root, then "A
akcr and prominent citizen of Oxford,
lass. In 1885 Mr.. and Mrs. Root
loved to Greenfield, where his death
ccurred in 1868.
Prof. Owen II. Gates of Oberin
1llege, former st. Johnsbury man,
as been invited to read paper before
le Chicago society of Biblical Re
,arch upon THE Restoration Of
.reai in the Persian period.
One of the most interesting articles
! Eugene Field. which his death has
llled out, appeared in the February
amber of the Chaperonc Magazine of
t. Louis. 1t is from the pen of Mrs.
me NJ. kellogg Fisher of that city,
Brattleboro girl whom many people t
low under the nom de plume of {
Jane McAfee. :
Rev. George II. Idle of milwaukee, is
liable to accept an invitation to deliver
Ie Memorial day address at St.Johns
iry. DR.. Ide is native OF that
ace--one of the many of whom st, u
may well be proud. He went 5
the war after one year at Dartmouth,
I'd made a name for himself as orderly !.
reeant of Co. X of the old 18th Vt, J
ii. proctor's regiment He is one Of |
e noted clergymen of the Northwest, |
a salary of $50. 600 year. l
Frank S. Streetor of Concord, elected !
10 of the New Hampshire delegates =
the st. Louis convention is u native
Charlestown and graduate of Dart
outh. He began the practise of law
Oxford. " II. and later entered part d
rship with Hon. Wm. VI. Chase, be- Il
me one of the most prominent law. y
RS of the state. and general counsel
r the Concord 4 Montreal railroad.
all of whose important litigation he "
G been prominent for the past six N
ars. He has served in the legislature h