The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19
SONS OF VERMONT.

Miss Mabelle Biggart, daughter Of
the late James Biggart, we'll kno wn
former resident of Pawlet, and at one
time proprietor of the Biggart hotel al
North Pawlet. has for the past few
years been gathering material for her
book on the industrial resources of the
south. She now occupies the chair
of rhetoric and oratory in the Colora
do state college.
Dr. Frederick Vincent Hopkins. a
native of Burlington, the son and 18th
child of the late Rt Rev. John Henry
Hopkins, died May &c, aged 81. at the
hospital in San Francisco. from supu-
rated peritonitis, following a surgical
operation for hernia. He graduated
from the University of Vermont in
1859 and going south was for a time
private tutor in clergyman's family
in Louisiana, where be lived during
the civil war. Shortly before General
Butler entered New Orleans, he was
conscripted for the rebel army, but
made his escape and hoated down the
Mississippi alone in an open boat 200
miles to New Orleans where he was
kept in hiding by friends until after
Buffers capture of the city. In 1863,
having married Miss Josephine Guion
of New Orleans, and studied medicine,
he began to practice as physician OF
the old school, ultimately removing to
California about the year 1870. He
was a skillful physician, and especially
interested in scientific study and re-
search. He became keen microscopic
and ut that early date, when such stud
les were apt to provoke mild derision
he devoted his scanty leisure to what
is now the science of bacteriology.
He reached the now accepted theory
of tuberculosis and its origin in in
fected milk; and presented his con
illusions in pamphlets and medical
journals, but his views failed to catch
the ear of the general public and he
had neither the time nor the money
needed for such researches. He used
his knowledge constantly in his pri
vate practice DIR. Hopkins left wld
ow and five children. Miss Clara Lo-
line. who holds position as teacher
in the public school at New \ lmaden,
Va. Herbert Guion for several years
in a government Office in Washington,
d. c., and Edward, Josephine and
TlGntSt SUN ut hNihts
Armstrong TAYLOR. Il native of Beik
shire. now of Minneapolis. where he has
been located IN the practise of law
since 1887. is candidate for the Re
publican nomination for Judge of pro.
bate in that county. He is now Il
years old, and after securing an acad-
emlc and legal education mainly by
his own efforts, tending school winters
and working on farm summers, he
was admitted to the bar at st. Adams
in 1875. He Immediately removed to
st. Croft county, Wisconsin, and prac
ticed there successfully for II years,
and during one term was county at
torney for that county. The Minneap-
oils Tribune says, while in Wiscon
sin, Mr.. Taylor took an active interest
in politics and was engaged in many
of the campaigns that have made
Northwestern Wisconsin famous.
Since coming here he has not actively
engaged therein. but has pursued the
practice of his profession in all the
courts, including the supreme court
of the United States, where he was
admitted in March. His pros
poets are excellent, and his strong and
edTUest bpceCucS uuIlbE tuls CdupuiSh
have demonstrated his general abil
tiles and have added greatly to his
among all classes of people.
Amaziah Richmond died in White
water, Wis. Sunday evening, May "a,
aged 81 years. He was born at Ath-
ems March 81, 1909, being descended
from long line of Puritan ancestry.
He married Harriet l.. Blackburn.
mother of Mrs. George G. Chaffee OF
Whitewater. After her death in 1894
he married Sarah Ann Currier of
Amesbury, Mass, who was the moth
er of Enos S. and joel W. Richmond.
In 1853 he came to Wisconsin and
settled near Mapison. 1853 he settled
in Whitewater and has since resided
there. In 1885 his wife Sarah preced
ed him to the Better Land. He joined
the Congregational church in .Ames-
bury. Mass. in 1912. and since his re-
n.oval to Whitewater belonged to the
church there.