Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-01-20
"REMINISCENCES OF AN OLD GLOVER
RESIDENT.
Editor Monitor:

Editor Monitor:
cannot tell whether you will care
for the following to publish in your
paper or not; but brother of mine
sent me the MONITOR of Nov. 18th,
containing an account of the death of
Mrs. Janette Chamberlain Phillips,
with a slight biographical sketch, the
reading of which revived my memory
of many things in the village and town
of Glover of go years ago and later.
Among my first acquaintance was
this same Janette Chamberlain, who
worked for Mrs. Grin French when [
was an apprentice with Grin French
at the shoe makers trade. She was
ten years my senior and we had been
| intimate and pleasant friends ever
| since. l knew the whole ia mily from
father and mother down to Alonzo,
who now lives in Spencer, Iowa. The
| familiar "Men about town." full of life
and business at that time, were Enoch
! and James Simonds, Ira Strong, VIM.
II. Palmer, Jack Drew, Grin French,
Joseph H. Dwinell and Solomon, his
brother, Moses Goodwin, Amos P.
Bean, the father of Mrs. Elmer
Dwinell, Hiram and Jonas Phillips,
older brothers and Samuel, the thus
band of the late Mrs. Janette Phillips.
Older yet than these were Judge
Hardy, the father of Charles, Matthew
Norton, Mr.. Gleason, Mr.. Bartlett,
Samuel Bean, Moses Mason, Amos
Cook, senior, and his brother Paul.
Still older were Rev. Mr.. Mason,
father of Moses Mason, Uncle Eber
Frost and Grandfather Leonard and
y the grandfather of "Cnet" Sherburn,
and some others. Again among the
live and active men we're Lindol,
Nathaniel and George French, Clifton
Williams and Philander Owen. The
younger tribe and mates of mine were
Hiram and Frank Mcclellan, Chas
Hardy, Charles and Amos Cook, junior,
Miles Norton, VIM. Drew, Jack P. Ell
lis, while the men that are now living
there were but young and little boys,
among whom were Elmer Dwinell and
Charles, George and Charles Leonard,
E. A. Norton, Lyman Darling, Sam
French and others. | remember we'll
DR.. Atherton who died young. re-
member also the Rev. Mr.. Pearson,
the Congregationalist minister, who
used to come up from Barton to
Glover to preach. The older min
listers in Glover were Rev. Nathan
Scott, Methodist, who came from
Greensboro, Rev. James Ford, Univer-
salist, and afterwards Rev's Tenny
and Severance of the Unlversalist
church and Rev. Stone of the Congre
gationalist, the latter fine speaker.
In those times UNCONVENTIONAL contro
versies were loud and sharp and relig
iOus prejudices were of the bitter,
bigoted order and sermons from one
to two hours long. Theology was of
the strongest so that even Father Ma
son has preached the old Calvinistic
doctrine of infant damnation, although
| never heard him, but Grin French
and others told me he used to preach
| it. Thank God there is more Christian
unity nowadays and Christians are
getting nearer together than ever be-
fore, so much so that here in this place
l have supplied for both the Baptist
and Presbyterian clergymen when
they were i'll, Universalist though
am.
The politics of Glover we're always
keyed up to concert pitch and so near
was the town a tie between wings
and democrats that for thirteen sue
cessive years the represen tatives were
alternated, neither party sending a
representative two years in success
sion and the majorities ranged only
from to 7, and it was said that these
few were bought over each time.
One year knew of wing who voted
the democratic ticket FOR a common
shovel and there are some living there
now who would remember the man if
1 would but tell his name. One of the
most prominent men of those days
was Joseph II. DWinell who was town
clerk for % years or more, Justice of the
peace, and known to all the younger
people of those days as the almost
perpetual singing teacher. Of course
there were many others, some of whom
we're Stillman Bickford, John Crane
and his father, Duncan Bliss and
Dutton, Daniel Frost, Tim Wyman,
the cartridges, Clarks, Wheelers and
Grays, the Cutters, Sargents, Leonards
and men up the river the Bankers,
Wilson and Coomers and on South
Hill, Smiley, and the Hurlburts.
In 1871 when | went to Glover, the
| evidences of the raVapes of HDry