Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-01-04

blended combination of the inherited
qualities of all. These, sturdy
enough in either, combined in this
descendant, thus endowed. all the
tough fibre and indomitable will of
such descent, go preparative for th e
conflicts and labors of after life and
equally as necessary in the con-
struction and support of that fabric
OF influence and usefulness which he
wrought, and all as important |
adjuncts to that success as any of the |
experiences, trials, and triumphs
which were essential to the compost
ton of the tissue of the resolute, all |
conquering, and romantic history of
all these races of men.
1t has been said that it is to mans
first and greatest advantage to be
we'll born, that is, to inherit body
full of nervous, restless vitality, a
sound mind, firm will, health, inner
tied determination and conscience.
Bearing all these in mind and stand
ing at the fountain we are able to
''decipher the man." to connect tie
moulding influences of environing
I circumstances with the work he did,
with the power of his example, and
his relation to the men and the eve nts
of spearly half century of untiring
- labor and ambitious resolve.
The son of New Eng'and farmer,
his early life was of that incessant
W toll Dat falls to the lot of farmers
l1, this ahthe vigor of mind and body
D" and abunding vitality which rural
o. life anolabor are so we'll calculated
Is to begeand nourish. By the Preside
rs0 ing bega. He was bright, eager to
excel, an easily became the athlete,
IN mentally nd physically, of those
schools. The lessons derived from
zes Misunderstanding Book. Colburn's
M Mental Athmetic, and Porter's
rus Rhetorical eader, coupled with the
aso fact that @ was an omnivorous
mis- reader of allhe books at home and
anu accessible 1.-THE neighborhood, in
and o,ra;no an .r1u ooonoirtonca with
lty' and study of hat Incompatible lin
10 guistic reposiry of philosophy and
10 maxims,-Bur' poems, parts Of
Dor which early he,mmitted to memory
to all which condud to the contributive
ind, ond formative ements of founda
OF ton compact, m, and enduring
ana interviewer witt all the multiforn
TO dreams and ids of an aspirin,
thin +annerament. Hbad decided To he
It's a coma LAWYER. arwith this in view
ts he ba nnrsued a cole IF academica
.ded, stodv and trainin,antered upon
'ence course of legal sly at the LAY
esui' school in PougnKesie, N. Y, and
il the graduating therefro continued tn
On III study Of the law the office G
and Thomas BARTLETT. atE,don VT an
LIS was admitted TO Actice at tn
December term ore Caiedoni
J ana county court, at the of twenty
nj OF one years.
egant He commenced the ptice of til
pres law at Barton village, I'll the Iargel
lstice, and most enterprising Nge in til
one county. The bar of Oras count
ressed MOS then composed of 81 ahle an
Ell the exnerienced lawyers as J, r.. FL
Sc to wards, Jesse Cooper, j. >iPrentic
ute to FL. 6. Wilson, J. E Dickeln. JOB
p. SartIe. and n T. Sheafe1d tho,
0rn in Titans in the law. Thomas tlett,
!, May B. Colby, and T. P. Redt. VIII
,posed though not resident attorn, reg
r any larlv attended the sessioLf I'll
innate county courts, two of whom re- &c
entage the manor boru," and all gr' lay
On the vers and eloquent advocat-
n New the acute Steele, then VIM /
40, and spurs and golden opinions, VIII
IS that sequently, at the age of twenty h
IN was became an associate justice t
led for state supreme court,-a stron.
md IN we'll disciplined bar.
olitical And to this bar came young
ial and ardent and enthusiastic, suppl'
husetts elastic in body and mind, aHap
lrse OF courteous, fully confident of his
ire and TO achieve success and forge b.
hard to prominence and public and
h char esteem, standing at the ou1se
merican some knight or paladin in full
,ophilus with lance ia hand, and with
lam, re- before him not then discernloie
ed there Local litigation soon afforde
the ex- the opportunity to display his
ourn in he became Immediately pl6teo
'phronia John P. Sartle, aresident village
ed as a ney, and local history abounds IL
7 intelli- ents connected with these LEI
for her counters, where upon either p'
She was air was resonant with a copl