The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-04-13
As a Man and Citizen.

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ment; but when he has been candi.
date for civic honors he has been ac-
copied, and the acceptance has been
such an expression of the good will of
his citizens, and such recogni-
ton of the ability and worthiness of the
candidate as carries with it real honor
and real satisfaction TO the recipient of
the honor.
DIR. Hoton has been more or less in
politics, but he is not classed as a pol
itician. He has been called into pub
lie life because of what he can bring
into the public service, whereas, the
politician is apt to get himself into Of
flee for what he can get out of it, in
material benefits or in the satisfaction of
basking in its grateful light. DIR. Hol-
ton is one of those rare men who-for
example--if a wise and efficient chair
man OF the school board, or the head of
public library association, is wanted
in community, is by common assent
recognized as the man for the place
the man who has the varied equipment
and the willing and patriotic spirit to
serve the community with tact and eff
iciency. So we find in the record of
his life the fact stated that he has been
for some twenty years an active men,
Der of the Brattleboro school board,
and its chairman during large part Of
this time; we find, also, that he was
one of the first trustees of the Brattle-
boro Free Library, and in the manag-
ing boards of the local financial and
business associations his name fire.
quently occurs as director or president.
In bis profession he is the man recog-
nized as fit, by reason Of his practical
skill as we'll as by his erudition and ex-
ecutive capacity, to bear its official hon.
ors and in its convocations TO be its
representative. He has held the chief
offices of the local and State medical
associations, and the vice-presidency Of
the American Medical Association. We
find him delegate to the international
medical congress held in 1875 at
Brussels, and during visit to England
his eminence in his profession gained
for him membership in the British
Medical Association. In various other
prominent associations of his profess
sion in this country, in the East as well
as on the Pacific coast, he has been
chosen to places of trust and honor, and
he has been appointed to responsible
Offices in the public institutions Of this
State dealing with the manifold ills to
which humanity is heir. His profess
sional ability and usefulness, and the
versatility of his talents, have been
further shown by his contributions to
medical literature, and his essays have
been extensively published by medical
journals. DR.. Holton is distinguished
and highly honored by the men and
associations of his profession at home
and abroad. His national reputation
was more recently recognized in his APP
pointment as president of the board Of
trustees of the Pan-American Medical
Congress, an association under the
patronage of the United States govern
ment, and one of the most important Of
the kind on this hemisphere. These
varied appointments are high testimony
both to DIR. Holton's professional ability
and his executive capacity. Less con-
spicuous, but perhaps of higher local
and patriotic saver, was his three years.
service as surgeon, with the troops Of
Vermont, during the War of the Re-
bellion.
This prophet has not been without
political honor in his own country. In
1884 DR.. Holton represented Windham
county in the State Senate, and Brattle-
boro in the House of Representatives
in 1888. In the important measures Of
those sessions he took an active inter-
est particularly in those relating to
education, taxation, the public health,
the highways and the railways, and his
quality as legislator was recognized
by his appointment as chairman or
member of the committees having
these important interests in charge.
DR.. Holton's interests were always with
the people, his sympathies and convic-
tions were on the side of the community
at large. He invariably had the cour-
age of his convictions, but he was just
in his judgments and was actuated by
NO other purpose than to deal fairly, in
law-making, between the State and
every interest in the State, individual
or corporate. His interest in public
measures has not been confined to the
times when he has been the official rep
resentative of the people in the Legis-
lature, but has been an abiding and
active agency for the highest welfare of
the State. DR.. Holton was one of the
commissioners for Vermont of the
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