Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-07

years, the former especially in Gov.
Fuller part and the latter in that OF
his father and grandfather, and
both, according to the best judges,
developing most hopeful capacity.
In all the relations of life, in poll
tics, in village and town matters, in
the great variety of church, educa
tional and charitable associations with
which he has been identified, in the
local Y. NJ. c. A. in which he has
been above all others the vitalizing
force; as bailiff, selectman. captain.
colonel and general in the militia, the
same qualities of level -headedness and
fairness have ever been manifest He
has had his full share. and taken his
full part in all the questions and con
troversies of the past 80 years, but al
ways with that breadth of view and
that genuine even chivalric good
neighborlinesS that have left results
free from permanent bitterness and for
that reason all the more potent for
good. There is not a man in Brattle
boro or with whom he ever came in re-
lations that will not hear the news of
Julius Estey's death today as of per
sonal grief and bereavement And con-
sidering the active and positive part
he has taken in life. there can be no
greater tribute.
Ii has ever been characteristic of
the Estey house. keen and shrewd in
the acquisition of wealth, to recognize
the duty that goes with it and with
prosperity, and of all the rich ones of
America there have been none who
have devoted a larger share of their
gains to the good of their fellows. The
Shaw university for colored youth in
North Carolina, of which they were
chief supporters, the Chicago univer
sity which had their contributions when
it seemed to need them, the Vermont
academy at Saxtons River. the Mis-
sionary Union and the Home Mission
airy society, the Judson project, the
multitude of Baptist churches built
by them, the constant stream of young
men helped through college and edu /
Gated for the ministry, are only among
the monuments along the way. AT the |
time of Dea. Estey's death gentle 4
man conversant with the facts, figured /
up for the writer the amount of these /
benevolences at not less than $1,000, /
coo. Gen. Estey, personally has had /
his full part in these works of good, (
as he did his fathers prac
tical sagacity in placing money where /
it would be most useful, with the pro-
found religious earnestness and Bibli- I
cal culture of his mother. Desdemona
Wood, and the deep vein of tenderness
that enriched and beautified the lives
Of both out of the worlds sight.
1t was one of the greatest of the
world s thinkers who observed that there
could be no great man without large
feminine element, the touch of woman
iness, in him: and in his broad sym
pathies. the delicate touch of his us
lally happy good nature, the spirit of
lelpfulness animating him and of
hearty cordiality guiding his steps,
We have seen in Gen. Estey this hap
py blending of the masculine and fem {
nine that best dignifies manhood.
The employees, always met with
,heery word, the thousands of gradu- '
ties of the Estey business all over the /,
and with whom such will ever be
cherished memory, the comrades in 5
chool, shop, business and social ac- :
ivity who have walked by his side up