News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-11-03

member OF Mount MOTIFS Lodge,
No. SO, and of Tucker Chapter,
F. & A. M.
c. B. SWIFT.
Garfield is a numbering village
containing a lumber mill, store,
school house, and perhaps 10
houses. There is another settle
ment two miles above, with a
saw mill on the Green River and
an artificial pond of 400 acres,
which forms a water reservoir for
both mills. The upper mill is
equipped with a board saw,
planer and hatcher, and most of
the timber being located above
that point about two-thirds of
the saving is done there, usually
a million feet OF more annually.
There is a dressing and a clap
board mill at Garfield, and c. B.
Swift has established a plant for
the manufacture of frst-class
hardwood flooring and erected a
building for kiln drying the same.
The special hardwood foorer
is made by the Glenn Cove Co.,
the machine weighing about five
tons, there being only one other
in the state, that Of Fitzgerald
of Island Pond. With this ma
chine and by the best process of
kiln drying, Mr.. Swift is pre-
pared to furnish a strictly first
class article. There are consid-
cradle quantities of hardwood
lumber in this vicinity, princi-
pally maple and red birch, and
this improved facility will greatly
enhance it's value. All of the log
ging here is done on contract by
jobbers. The men employees are
nearly all Americans, more than
half Of whom have families, and
strikes are unknown. In the
busy season of spring saving
some 20 men are employed in
and about the mill. The lumber
is hauled to Morrisville mostly
by the job, and shipped to Bos-
ton points.
c. B. Swift was born in 1865,
in New Jersey, a son of Captain
J. H. Swift of Washington, D. c.
When he was six years old he
found a home with the family of
Hon. Geo. Wilkins of Stowe, be-
ing a relative of Mrs. Wilkins.
He was educated at the Stowe
High School and at Bryant &
Stratton's Commercial College,
Boston. AT the age of % Chas.
B. Swift came to this settlement
as the foreman and business
manager for Mr.. Wilkins, who
then owned the plant at Garfield.
In 1892 Mr.. Swift bought the
Garfield property and soon after
the Diggings mill above, of Jew
EFT and c. S. Page, and 1900
acres of land. Mr.. Swift also
owns three houses at Garfield,
rents a store and carries a stock
of general dry goods, groceries,
feed and flour. In 1890 Mr..
Swift married Miss Jennie,
daughter of Charles Hastings of
Wolcott. Two pretty children,
: Louise and George Wilkins Swift
gladden. their home. Mr.. Swift
has affiliated with the Odd Eel
lows. He is quiet and unassum-
ing in manner, but impresses one
as being a liberal, candid and
growing man, able and willing
to carry responsibility.
F. H. MCFARLAND.
Fred H, son of Capt. Moses
and Livonia A. Mcfarland, was
born in Waterville. He received
his education in the public schools
of his native town and at the
Peoples Academy in Morrisville
At the age of % Mr.. Mcfarland
was elected superintendent oil
Schools at Waterville. Soon
after this, he was engaged by the
Remington Fire Arms Co. as a
travelling salesman, his route
taking him through the South.
ern States. Later, after conclud.
ing his engagement with this
firm, he went to Iowa., there to
engage in business. After re-
naming there some time, on &C.
count of it's being a malarial -
district he deemed it expe-
dientto return east, and did
so. In 1898 h cameto Hyde
Park and engaged with his
brother, H. M. Mcfarland,
in the insurance business.
This connection lasted over
three years. Mr.. Mcfarland
was appointed Superintend-
ent of Schools of Hyde Park =