Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1911-04-26
Vermont Pioneers
and Their Families.
Edited by "SHAWSEIIN
Address All Communications and Queries 10
VERMONT PIONEERS
Care of The Monitor Barton, VT.
Edited by "SHAWSHIN"


those who left never returned. With
Macdonough's victory at Plattsburg,
September 18th, 1914, the feeling of
security returned.
Although over fifty miles away, the
sound of the cannonading was dis
tinctly heard here. Some, thinking
the battle was just beyond Eden
hills, set out on foot, through the
woods for the scene of action. To
this war went Captain Hiram Mason,
William Hidden, known to us of the
younger generation as 1.-THE General"
John Towle of whom it has been said,
che was q friend to every man but
himself" Moses and Elias Mason,
James Cohurn, Amory Nelson and
John Hadley.
On the 9th of June, 1916, occurred
very severe frost, followed by a
ground to the depth of foot. Not a
rose to So. 90 per bushel, and enduring
the greatest suffering the settlers
passed the winter of 1857.
In an article written about 1910,
Craftsbury Common is described as
consisting of some 80 houses, two
churches. an academy,a schoolhouse.
town house, two stores, two hotels, two
blacksmith shops, tannery and tin
shop.
1t is hard for Us to comprehend the
Craftsbury of fifty years ago. occupy
ing the first place in the County, with
it's June Trainings, its Celebrations,
it's Manufactures, its School and its
commercial enterprise. 1t was not
till 1918, that any settlement was
made at the South Village. AS bust
ness left the hill and sought the val
legs, it's rise began and still continues
till now it holds the leading place in
Town. To the War of the Rebellion
she furnished 1913 men at cost of
S13, 1854 az. Besides this amount
: s811. so was raised by subscription to
aid in procuring recruits. This added
to the sum raised by taxation gives a
/, total cost of l4.275.92, giving an an
r nual cost to the town of So, 568. IS.
4 = Of these 128 men, 5 we're killed in
action, died of wounds, Is of disease,
in rebel prisons and one was killed
! by an accident.
2 Of the number that left to preserve
the Union one fourth never returned.
Whether they found a resting place at
: last in their native town or filled a
l. numbered grave in some Southern
u cemetery or are covered by a monu-
ment to the unknown dead let US dc
Il them honor, for they offered up their
!, lives that we might become free anc
united.
At first Craftsbury formed a par
J. of Chittenden County, afterwards Of
y Caledonia, but soon the County of Or
i, leans was erected which was composed
. of Eden. Hyde Park. Morrisville, ant
- Wolcott, and its present towns
5 Courts were held alternately a
Craftsbury Common and Browningtol
,O till 1916 when the Shire was moved t.
a Irasburg. While here they were hell
- House, which stood little south o
the present academy. The Count
n was organized at the house of DR.
n Samuel Huntington in Greensboro an
ohm Ellsworth was the first Chic
:. Judge. On the Gath of March. 1890
Is the first County Court was held a
9. Craftsbury. Timothy Human wa
fe, the Chief Judge and Samuel C. Craft
ed and Jesse Odds of Craftsbury the as
sistants. Of these men the descend
70 ants of Human have become widel
81 known. Jesse Odds was afterwar
Clerk of the town of Westfield and
very prominent man in the Valley
Il No one of these was educated to tn
Law. Besides the judges | have a
ready mentioned Craftshury fu
nished the first Sheriff, Joseph Scott
at the first Judge of Probate. Ebeneze
"a Crafts; and the first Treasurer, Ro.
ne al Corbin.
- .Craftsbury in the 100 YEARS of HI
existence has given the State or
Governor; the County one U. S. Sen
lei tor. Samuel C. Crafts. Two Repr
zee sentatives in Congress, Samuel
nd Crafts and Augustus Young. Tin
it will permit only brief mention
he her leading men who have won distin
his tlon IN the aIalrs OF state, IN the pt
lad pit. in medicine, in the law, the art
of The founder of the town, Col. Ebe
,as ezer Crafts. was born at Pomfre
ars Conn.,. in 174O. He graduated at va
The in the class of 1859 and soon aft
ed m arried Mehitable Chandler, line
of descendent of John Winthrop. Ser
ng, ing as Captain in the Revolution
iii the evacuation of Boston, he was SO
ose after elected Colonel of regiment
led cavalry and took part in quelli
his Shay's Rebellion. Removing to V,
in mont at the close OF the War for
dependence. he stamped his cbaract
orv upon the town and for twenty yes
ere was it's patriarch, its friend and CO,
rye sellor. His son, Samuel c. Graf
in was born in 1853 and graduated fir
the Harvard in 1890 in the class with
in siah Quincy. the elder. Laying as
edit all thought of entering any of the p
the fessions, he shared with his father
ant. trials and labor of pioneer.
thirty-seven years he served as To
yere clerk. He filled the office of Rep
lin. sentative and served as CLERK of tt
ok. body. He was Chief Judge of
Col County. member of the Council
and Censors, a Representative in G.
il ia gress, Senator of the United Stat
; of a Governor of the State. While
and m ember of the State Legislature
Olds was Chairman or the committee
TODD decide upon a place Tor the 81
old House. While in Congress he ser
own on the Committee on Public Build
during the rebuilding of the CAPT
lilies AT first his politics were those
the Jefferson bat in later life he wa