Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-01-28
MEMORIES OF GLOVER.
Its People Sixty-five Years Ago and
Since.

professor In LOmOaiu |
prot Isaac A. Parker, who in lSoz
and after was principal OF the orleans
Liberal Institute, Universalist acad-
envy in II at village, and since then
continuous professor in the Galesourg,
Illinois, University. / received woro
to-day January 49, that you wouio
he willing to crafty your Glover
readers by publishing such recollec-
tions as may be able to give. will
simply state that shall not shine Tor
literary accuracy, nor necessarily
have things in their historically sue
cessive order. However my lie has
been woven into Glover's history
from the fact that l married there
into one of the oldest families, some |
of whom still live there.
wish to state in the beginning |
that am nearly Sc years of age and
may not remember the consecutive
order OF things as l once could, When
much younger, but will do the best
can to please the friends OF my
Younger days, and give information
to the present generation OF young
people. As to my own early history
have only to say that l was born In
England March 2s, 1921, and came TO
Lower Canada with my father and
family in the year 1886. L was the
third child of a family of 10, and my
brother. William Drumming, was the
last ore, being born September ~,
1897 six months after our father died.
The family came to Sherbrooke,
Canada, in July, 1886, and my father
died in March, 1887. But of my own
personal history l have nothing fur
Their to say only that as we were very
poor emigrants, and my father dying
40 soon, we had hard struggle for
bread and butter, but with cheerful
disposition and an indomitable cour-
age we fought our way through life,
enjoy ing more happiness than the
majority of people.
On Christmas day, 1S41, went TO
Glover from Hatley, Canada, for the
express purpose of learning the shoe
making trade with Grin French, VINO
at that time had the reputation OF
being the best shoemaker in orleans
county. At any rate he always TOOK
first prize at the county falr 1or
"men,s stogy boots" and ''women's
calfskin shoes" l was carried doWr
to Glover by one Vernon bean'
Domain TO Mrs. Charlotte French, who
WAS a daughter of the man calico
tJIncle Sam Beam" and the first mai
7 met was this same "Sam Bean," a
his nephew went there and stald tn
first night, after a drive of 40 miles o.
a cold day; and as l now rememoe
with pleasure the cordial greetln
and welcome we received it make
me wish that the hearty, cordial an
warm-hearted friendships existed to
day instead OF the polite, cold for
malism that is so prevalent at tn
nresent time. Uncle Sam Bean wa
living with his second wife, formerl
a Mrs. Percival, one of the klnde
and truest women of the time 81
had one son and two daughter
Orson. who lived long time, was
Intelligent, controversial, and mo-
or less eccentric man, but good eli
zen. Lucy, the eldest daughter, W
IN for a long time, and died sing
The other daughter, Finette, marrl
aMr. Kimball of Barton, a merchar
helieve. but she also died rath
Young. OF that Bean family kne
we'll Amos P. Bean, for those da
one of the most progressive tarme
in all that section, and thereto
exerted an influence beyond the col
mon run of men. He was stro
democrat, and represented the TO-
in the legislature, / think seVe
times. Another son was Samuel, W
lived in Canada for many years
finally returned to Glover to live
die. Then there was freeman
shoemaker. who afterwards beca
a farmer, Nathan and John, who W
mates of mine, and one other, Tn
by name Evlin.
When first went to Glover it
not nearly as large as it is now. 1
the north end there were no hou
between the Metcalf home and Cliff
Williams on the west side of
street end but four on the other
beyond the gristmill. There were
buildings between the Tavern"
the Universalist church. There
no road from that church up the
alongside of the owen sugarpl'
and right south of that church
the neat little home of DIR. Arthert
since remodelled or rebuilt, by
Wiley believe. The outside bu
ing of the village was the ="