Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-07-10
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will be given under the auspices of the c.
E. society.
Prof Daniels of the University of Yer
mont was at Rev. l.. 2. Atwood's last
week.-A. r. Atwood has gone to Airing
ton. Mass.-Mrs. w. o. Wright and Miss
Ruth Wright have gone to Massachusetts
on a visIt.-Mrs. Ellen Miller has gone to
a place near Albany, n. Y, to see her son
CharIes.-John Weyler of Albany, n. Y,
who has been in town visiting Fred Curtis,
has returned home.
Mrs. Harvey Williams of Providence, r.
l., is visiting her brother, w. B. Gilpin.-
Truman HurIburt has severed his con-
nection with the Woodwork steam mill
Miss Jessie Woodwork is home from
the University of Vermont. She has en-
gagged to teach one of the schools IN Troy
village next faIl-Miss Minnie Gilpin has
gone to No. Woodstock, n. II. for the
summer, to. do table work in hotel.
On Saturday afternoon, July 1st, Judge
n. G. Hoyt passed away at the age OF IS
years and months. His decease was not
unexpected. In fact the strength of his
constitution was a surprise to his ply
stefan. More than five years ago diff
Guilty appeared which led to Bright's dis
ease and ultimate death. Nevertheless he
continued in active business with unim-
paired sight and hearing and a clear mind,
until January of the present year. He en-
dured his long and wasting sickness with
great patience. He was buried from his
late residence on Monday, July g. The
funeral was under the direction Of the
Masons, the deceased being member Of
the Blue Lodge in Troy and the Chapter in
Newport. A quartette from Troy furnish
ed the music. The floral tribute was gen
erous and appropriate. & number of the
men who came to pay last mark of re-
spect to the departed failed to gain ad-
mission to the house. Rev. j. W. Buzzen
of Troy, the officiating clergyman, spoke
of the honesty of the deceased, of his
friendIiness, his influence, and his faith
fitness to the vows of Masonic brother
hood. Nathaniel c., son of John and
Martha Call Hoyt, was the sixth of fami-
~ of ten children. He was born near
Magog, P. O., January 25th, 1921. He was
emphatically a self made man. He had
three months schooling one year, and two
months another year, making five months.
When seventeen or eighteen years old he
purchased the remainder of his minority
of his father for three hundred dollars.
He worked and paid this, gaining year
for himself. He also gave his father
twenty-five dollars for the latter to move
into the States. In later years he con-
tributed much to the support of his par
ents. Judge Hoyt came to this town for
permanent residence on Thanksgiving
Day, 1871. He continued to work out and
took jobs of chOpping, being an expert
with the axe. A part of his old farm on
the West Hill had been purchased in the
spring of Al; nearly all of this with the
additions he cleared, making a good sized
farm. The first business venture aside
from jobbing and farming was the manu-
facture of potato starch. In 1860. Hoyt in
company with c. Reed, T. Trumpass and
T. o. Brown, commenced the manufacture
of this article on the West Hill, selling the
starch st 3 cts. per pound. In 1862 they
embarked also in the lumber business, the
lumber mill being located near the starch
factory. In short time Reed and Brown
withdrew from the company, and several
years later Trumpass withdrew from the
lumb business. Hoyt took his sOn-in-
law, Willis Wakefield, into partnership.
Hoyt remained in the starch business I'M
til about 1885, and in the lumber business
until few weeks before his death. his
last lumber partner being A. c. Austin.
In 1874 Judge Hoyt bought into the store
now occupied by H. D. Miller, and the
same year moved to the village where he
afterwards resided. He remained in the
mercantile business about ten years, hav-
ing for partners at different times J. H.
Buck, his son, Geo. r. Hoyt, and his SON
in-law, Willis Wakefield. Judge Hoyt
enjoyed business. He possessed excellent
judgment. At one time ne had a good
property acquired, but by reason of losses
sustained by fires, and the mismanage-
ment of some of his partners, this was
much depleted. For years preceding his
death he was Notary Public, drew up legal
documents, and occasionally appeared as
counsel IN justice suits. Politically Judge
Hoyt was first democrat, but in 1856 he
Joined the new republican party, to which
party he adhered Loyalty at the time of his
decease. He held nearly every office With
in the gift of the town. He represented
the town in the legislature of 1867-'6S. He
was justice of the peace for tWenty-eight
years. He was associate judge of the Or
leans county court from 1878 to S2. Upon
the removal of James Hill from town in
1888, Judge Hoyt was elected town clerk.
which office he held until last March. He
was great power in local politics. For
more than thirty years only three men
have represented the town who did not
receive his support. He fought many a
hard battle and usually was victorious. He