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

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identified with the business inter
ests and local affairs of Hyde
Park. He was elected chairman
of the Village Trustees on the in
corporation of the village in
1895, and reelected in 1896, and
has been active in all recent pub
lie improvements.
He is vice-preSident of both the
National and Savings banks and
until recently was active as sec
rotary of the Hyde Park Lumber
Co., all lumber being billed and
settled for through his Office. He
served the town as Superintend-
ent of Public Schoolsin 18S1-2-3.
He was Secretary of Civil and
Military Affairs under Gov. Page
in 1890. He was a charter men,
Der and the first N. G. of Sterling
Lodge, l. O. O. F., and is now
Grand Master ofthe Grand Lodge
of the state. In the Masonic
fraternity he has received the de-
grees Of Ancient Craft Masonry
and those conferred by Tucker
Chapter and Burlington Com
mandary.
Mr.. Mcfarland was united in
marriage in 1881 to Julia, daugh-
ter of Hon. Waldo and Ellen
(Noyes) Brigham of Hyde Park.
Three children are gathered
about their freside-Helen, Grace
and Brigham.
REV. FREDERICK COWLES TAYLOR.
Rev. Frederick Cowles Taylor
was born in CRANKY, Mass, in
1860. His academic education
was obtained at South Hadley
High School and at Williston
Seminary. He graduated from
Amherst College in the class of
'84. He was principal of the
High School at Cranky, his ma
tive town, during the three years
ensuing. He resolved to give his
life work to the ministry, and
pursued a three years course at
the Yale Divinity School and
graduated in the class of'91. In
, October of that year he accepted
a call as pastor of the Congl
church of Hyde Park. The church
at that time had only twenty
members, there being only four
|, male members. Mr.. Taylor
entered upon his work with
the enthusiasm and energy of
youth, and during his six years
pastorate has increased the
membership three fold. During
the last four years he has attend
ed services at Centreville, a ham,
let about three miles distant,
where a Christian EndeavOr So
ciety and a Sabbath school have
been organized.
Mr.. Taylor married Louise
Chamberlain of Grafton, Mass,
and their home is cheered by the
presence Of two children-Fred-
erick and Helen.
G. b. FOSS.
1t is a somewhat remarkable
fact that with scarcely an excep-
ton, the leading business men OF
Hyde Park were born and reared
here, but the many attractions OF
the place are an explanation. The
subject of this sketch is a native
and lifelong resident of the town.
He was educated at the Lamoille
Central Academy and the Evans
Business College of Burlington.
He married Miss Angie An.
drews of Morrisville in 1887,
: and two children brighten their
l home life. In 1894 he opened
his present drug store, having
, his residence on the second floor
of the same building.
Besides drugs and medicines he
: keeps the usual stock of notions.
e toilet articles, candies, cigars.
and CONTEMPORARIES, periodicals
. and a thousand and one eject
4 eras. He is a registered pharma
cist, and attends strictly to bus
u mess. He delights in musica
recreation, being a member o
both the band and orchestra
and is with all a genial goot
fellow.
ROGER w. HULBURD.
1t is a cardinal article in Tx
creed of all progressive Americans
that Every man is the architect
of his own fortunes" While this
is almost an axiom, it is equally
true that whatever of will power
brain resource, or moral hbre VIZ
each possess as a native endow
ment, was inherited as a hxeC
capital from ancestors, and we
cannot feel Indifferent to tht
claims of ancestry, be such claims
based on merit or manhood, not
on pelf or title.
The subject of this sketch is
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