Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-11-13
eoston's Army Of Vermonters.
boston Journal.

hundreds of the best men of Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont have settled
there.
Next to Maine, no other state can claim
as her children so many prominent Bos-
tonians as can Vermont, for she has sent
here strong men, who rank high as states
men, lawyers, soldiers, judges, doctors
and business men.
In Boston proper and the surrounding
districts there are 10000 Vermonters.
Such Nermonters as Judge Sherman
Col. Josiah Benton Hon. George Proctor
Eugene N. Foss, Col. Charles X. Darling
and Col Albert Clarke do credit to their
state and instil in Boston a feeling that
more men of their calibre would be an
preciated here.
Perhaps one of the best types of YER
motors who belong to that class of men
who bring things to pass " is Col. Josiah
ii. Benton, Jr., the president of the Ver-
mont Association of Boston,
lie lived all through his boyhood days
In Addison, vermont; was graduated from
the Bradford Academy and New London
Institute in New Hampshire He taught
in district schools, winters, and had that
joyful experience of boarding round
He served with credit as a private i'm the
Twelfth Vermont Regiment of Volun-
teers during the Civil war, and afterward
entered the Albany Law School, from
which he was graduated in 1866.
Twenty years ago Col Benton came to
Boston, and has practiced his profession
here with eminent success He was gem
eral counsel for the Old Colony Railroad
and Steamboat Companies until 1S93 the
time of the lease of that company's prop
erty to the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Company, when he beanie coun-
sci for that corporation in it's Massachu-
sets interests He has since 1890 lectured
to the Law School of Boston University
on the subject of corporations and rail-
roads and since 1889 has been trustee OF
the Boston Public Library
Col. Albert Clarke, another man who
halls from the good Green Mountain
state" has made his way in the business
world of Boston.
He is a native of Granville Vermont,
and was educated in the common schools
of Rochester and the academies in West
Randolph. He prepared himself for a
legal career at Montpelier After six
years devoted to his profession he went
to st. Adams to engage in editorial work
on newspaper, and in 1881 came to Bos-
ton and engaged in journalism. Later he
gave up newspaper work and became as
sistant to the president of the Boston and
Lowell railroad. He was elected secre-
tary and executive officer of the Home
Market club. He is a sound reasoner and
careful student of all public affairs
Col. Clarke is a member of the Massa-
chusetts House of Representatives and is
chairman of the House committee on
ways and means. He has held various
other civil offices.
In 1862 Col. Clarke enlisted as private
in Company l of the Thirteenth volun-
teers of Vermont and later became first
sergeant of Company G, which he COM
manded at the battle of Gettysburg. He
served as aid-de-camp on the staff OF
Governor Paul Dillingham; in 1887, and was
secretary Of the executive committee to
build monuments at Gettysburg. He was
junior vice commander of the Depart
ment Of Vermont, G. A. r. and few
years ago was judge advocate for the
Department of Massachusetts. In 1896
Col Clarke was chosen advocate general
of the national organization of the
G. A. r.
Eugene N. Foss of West Berkshire, VT,
has been known in the business world of
Boston for number of years He was
manager of the Sturtevant Blower Works
and last year became widely known as the
Republican nominee for Congressman.
Hiram A. Miller, who is engineering the
big Charles river dam proposition, is
Vermonter who lives here.
Elmer e. Silver is a publisher who
ranks among the best in his profession,
He is a native of Bloomfield, Vermont,
and is Il graduate of Brown University.
To Col. Charles X. Darling falls the
honor of being perhaps the only Yer
monter who holds so many distinguished
positions. Col. Darling is the United
States Marshal, a good lawyer, public
speaker, major of the Sixth Massachu-
sets Regiment, editor of Early Laws
in Massachusetts and an officer OF the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany.
Col. Darling was born in Corinth, was
graduated from Dartmouth College in
1886. He was one of those energetic
pushing young men who won fame glory
and place out of the Spanish American
war. When President Mckinley called for
volunteers to free Cuba Marshal Darling
was a major in the famous old Sixth
Ma massachusetts,. He proved himself gal
liant officer under fire in Porto Rico and
became greatly attached to Gen. Miles
whom he greatly admires a soldier and
a man.
In educational lines, the fields of art,
the world of medicine and the mechanical
engineering crafts Vermont is decidedly
to the fore in Boston.
DR.. Charles P. Thayer, the dean OF
Tufts Medical College, is a native OF
Vermont. Among others are: Assistant
Attorney General Ralph A. Stewart, DR..
Frank w. Page, DR.. George H. Payne,
Hon. George o. Proctor ex-mayor OF
Somerville, Davis T. Montaguea prominent
lawyer, Hon. Wallace F. Robinson Hon.
Edgar Sherman, of Tufts College, Capt.
8. Edward Howard, Assistant Attorney
General Arthur w. DeGoosh, William b.
Dennson, Professor Davis R. Dewey OF
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Freeman ]. Doe, Frank w. Durkee, pro-
fessor in Tufts College, DR.. p o. Edison,
Dr. Charles w. Emerson, Col. Alexander
NJ. Ferris, Col. James A. Frye, Hon. Will
liam e. Fuller, George II. Graves Col.
Charles II. Greenleaf proprietor of the
Hotel Vendome, Alfred S. Hall, Jay B.
Benton an editor of the Boston Tran
script, George W. Berry, Hon. George w.
Bishop.
Vermont has two artists here of whom
she is justly proud. They are Frank M.
Cowes, Scott c. Carbee.
Still other noted Vermonters in Bos-
ton are: Hon. Ira A. Abbott, Dr. Clar-
ence j. Allen, Edwin A. Bayley lawyer;
Hon. George w. Bishop, a member of the
Board of Railroad Commissioners; DR.. Ell
mnnd Burnham, DR.. Giles w. Bryant
Murray d. Clement mayor OF Waltham;
Hon. Samuel Cole, Dr. Frederick E. Che
ney and Orrin II. Carpenter.
To promote social intercourse, to per-
petuate common memories and to cele-
brate events in the history of Vermont.
the people of that State here founded
The Vermont Association"
Last February they opened their rooms
at the Westminster Hotel There mem
Der can so at any hour Of the day to read,
write or lounge about.
There are four rooms, all tastefully APP
pointed in quartered flemish oak furni-
ture with green leather trimmings on
the walls are pictures of Admiral George
Dewey, a native of Vermont; Capt. c, E.
Clarke OF the Oregon, with his autograph