The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-04-03
A. M. Jackman Passes Away
at Bridgeport Home.
AFTER A WEEKS ILLNESS
Suffered Stroke of Paralysis Last Mon
day--was in Good Health and Wig
orous Until Then--0ne Of Bar
res Oldest Residents.


Word was received in Barre today
that A. NJ. Jaclxman passed away early
this morning at Bridgeport, Conn.,, at
the advanced age Of 92 years and one
month. Death was due to stroke
Of paralysis which he suffered week
ago today. Up to that time Mr.. Jack
man was vigorous and in the full en-
ioyment of all his faculties. He con-
Quoted all his business affairs up to
the time of this shock. Mr.. Jaekman's
body viii be brought to Barre tomor
row afternoon and the funeral win be
held from the Universalist church at 2
o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Rev Mr.
Dillingham; of Bridgeport officiating at
Mr. Jaelxman's request.
Although Angler NJ. Jackman had for
the past few years made his home in
Bridgeport, Conn, near his son, he can
fairly be claimed with one exception, as
having been BarTes oldest resident.
Born in Corinth, March 2, 1919, he at
tended her district schools until he was
III. His father having died when be
was seven years of age, he resided with
his sister nutiI 1880, when he came to
Barre, was apprenticed to Leonard Keith
to learn wool carding. He worked at
| his trade two years after completing
| his apprenticeship, receiving for the first
| year SIS and his board and the second
| year SIG. AT the age OF e3 he rented
| the shop of his former employer and
ran it successfully for three years, when
| he bought the business and carried it on
until they were burned out in 1853. He
then worked at farming and carpenter
| ing for three years. In 1856 he bought
small farm Of 80 acres in the village,
running back from North Main street
| towards Goddard seminary. The resi-
dence in which he lived from the time
| be purchased the farm until he removed
/ to Bridgeport stood at the corner Of
Merchant and North Main streets where
| the A. Tomasi block now is. The house
itself stands on Merchant street next
/ to DR. Whitaker's. Mr.. Jackman served
| the town in various offices through the
greater period of his residence here. In
| 1S49 be was elected constable, and with
| the exception Of one year, held an Office
| in the sheTitf's department for 25 con-
secutiye years, part of that time be-
| ing during the war He also held the
Office of trial justice for nearly q quar-
| ter Of century. From 1883 to 1888 he
again served as deputy sheriff and in
1898 was elected bailiff. Mr.. Jaeiman
| married April II, 1897, Christina, daugh
| ter of David French. She died in 1887,
| leaving three children, Eveline J., who
married Frank III. Roberts, Methodist
minister, John Fl. Jacknan of Chicago
and George w. Jackman Of Bridgeport,
| Conn.,
Shortly before going to Bridgeport,
Mr.. Jackman sold the block now occu-
pied by c. w. Ayerill & Co., and a
| year or two later disposed of his old
home place to Al. Tomasi.
Every summer, since he had been a
| resident Of Bridgeport, Mr.. Jackman
made an extended visit to Barre, visit
! ing old friends and neighbors and re-
calling the days when Barre was only
| q country village. His memory was
good to the last. I'm 1908, on his Goth
birthday, be wrote the following inter
esting "reminiscences of himself and Bar
re for The Times:
"This being my Goth birthday ami
yersary | thought ! would celebrate II
in writing short history Of myself
and others in the town Of Barre in the
early thlrtles
Il went TO Barre Lower Village, as
called then in 1890. was then II
years, old to learn the trade of wool
carding and cloth dressing of Leonard
Keith, who owned the premises where
Dr J Henry jackson now resides and
also a factory on the ground where the
fork shop now stands. My trade of
wool carding and cloth dressing was then
called the best mechanical business in
the state. Today it is unknown. When
! ] went to Barre IN 1880 the population
| of the whole town was about 2,100
and only one postoffice in town, and
that was at Barre Upper Village, as
| called then, as that was the Oldest and
rather largest village; but the Lower
| Village gained the fastest and / think
| in about 1888 the Lower Village petit
toned for q postoflice and the govern
ment gave us the Barre postoffice and
named the Upper Village South Barre
office.
! "At that time there was a hotel on
the grounds now owned and occupied by
| DIR. Worthen and Mrs. ANGELA French,
which was owned and kept by Mr.. James
| Hale who was the first postmaster iii
/ what is now Barre city. Mr.. Hale held
the Office several years until his death.
His daughters assisted him in his last
years.
There was but very little granite bust
ness done when | went to Barre or for
several years after. There was no mon
umental work done for several years.
The most of the granite work then was
| getting out underpinning and window
caps and sills for brick buildings and
stone post The underpinning and win
dow sills and caps were cut very fine.
In looking over the historical souye-
/ irs Of Barre, VT, published at Barre
in 1894 by Nickerson and Cox in naming
! the early settlers of Barre on page
2 it says that William Bradford came