The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-10-01
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HIRAM A. HUSE.

This community was profoundly
moved on Tuesday morning by intelli-
gence of the sudden and dangerous ill
ness of Hiram A. Huse at Williams
town, whittier, with Mrs. Huse, he
had gone the day before to seek pc
riod of rest and quiet at the Gulf, a
secluded spot of great natural attrac-
ton. This community was smitten
this morning with a keen sense of
personal loss when the tidings went
around that Mr.. Huse's malady had
been fatal and the strong man had
fallen. Bereavement was on the
countenance and in the accents of the
voice as his former friends and asso-
ciates wrestled with the dread tidings
and sought to fathom its significance.
Among those who we're near him in
personal and professional affairs Mr..
Huse was greatly beloved; among
his fellow citizens he was everywhere
regarded with the respect unusual
qualities, high nobility of nature, en-
tire integrity of character and recti.
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with the suddenness of the lightning's
play, the unexpectednesss of the bolt
from the cloudless sky. Mr.. Huse
was the last man in this city his fell
low citizens, OH the opening of this
week, would have singled out for the
next to die. Few men have departed
from this community whose death has
made so profound an impression, who
in unnumbered ways, in public and
private affairs, as guide, philoso-
pher and FRIEND" will be so deeply
missed and mourned
The barren facts of Mr.. Huse's
birth, life and career, make sunless
story of this mans existence. Time
and circumstance do not permit a just
and deliberate analysis of his charac-
ter. His truest biography abides in
the souls of those who have been his
intimate associates in life, his trusted
friends and confdants. His best eu-
logy is the unspoken emotion that
wells in the hearts of the bereft.
In time and Oh fitting occasion public
honor and personal homage will be
paid the dead.
Hiram Augustus Huse was born in
Randolph, January II, 1913. In early
childhood his parents moved to Wis
consin. He was a graduate of the
''little red school house." and typi-
cal exponent of the teachings of this
university of the people, in which he
became an instructor. Subsequently
he took a course in more exclusive
education, graduating in 1865 from
Dartmouth College, from the Albany
law school in 1867, gaining admit
lance to the New York bar in the
same year. In 1869 he regained re-
sidence in Vermont and was admitted
in that year to the Orange county bar.
His patriotism moved him to volun-
teer for the defense of the Union. He
left the clustered precincts of Dart
mouth, in August, 1862, in the dark
est hour of the Union cause, to
take up arms for his country, serving
in the Twelfth Vermont till the regi-
ment was mustered out in July, 1868.
The unwritten story of his military
services discloses the characteristics
of the typical Green Mountain warrior.
Mr.. Huse began the practice of law
in Montpelier, in 1872, eking out his
revenues and kindling the earlier fires
of his fame by writing editorial arti
cles and doing other newspaper work
for the Green Mountain Freeman. He
had been State librarian since 1878.
In the law firms of Pitkin and Huse,
formed in 1883 and continuing seven
years, and in the succeeding associa-
tion of Dillingham;, Huse and How
land, his legal services and achieve
ments were harvested. These were
neither few nor small. He seemed to
know the law by intuition. He had
an intuitive sense of justice, the man
hood and independence to do justice,
and a manner and power Of advocacy,
especially when his spirit was aroused,
down of strongholds. His rank,
quality and characteristics as a law
yer must be the work Of some gifted
and appreciative brother in the legal
profession.
In politics Mr. Huse was in his ele'
ment. He loved the discussions and
contests of political life. Politics
was with him a study, the facts of po'
litical history were wrought into hi
mental fibre, the principles of govern
ment we're thoroughly conned ant