Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1912-03-08
DR.. c. II. sHoLEs DEAD.
Formerly owned the Oak Ridge Farm In
Dummerston, one Of the Largest Es.
tates In Windham County.

DR.. Charles II. sholes, 49, died in Bos-
ton Sunday, Feb. rs. The funeral SER
vices were held in the Massachusetts
crematory at Forest Hills the following
Tuesday. DR.. Sholess will provided that
his body should be cremated and the
ashes strewn over the graves of his par
ents in the cemetery in Goshen, N. II.
The will named Charles r. Bait of
Newton, Mass, as executor and provided
for requests to charitable organizations
amounting to $4,000, as follows: Home
for Aged Men, 1873 West Springfield
street, $4,000 Home for Aged Women, los
Revere street, $4,000; Massachusetts Home
Missionary society, $500; Society for
Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants,
$500; Boston Society for the Care of
Girls, $500. and the Boston Floating hos
pital. $500. The will was executed Nov.
8. 1911.
DR.. Sholes was large owner of real
estate in Boston, paying taxes on prop
erty of this class to the value of be-
tween 100000 and 100000 and it is I'M
derstood that he had other valuable
holdings to a large amount.
DR.. Sholes was the owner of the Oak
Ridge farm in Dummerston 10 years or
more. He sold this estate in May 1892,
to Charles Miner of Brattleboro, taking
the Milestone building in this village,
near the Main street bridge, in ex-
Change. lnlS one OF the IneSt III
Windham county, containing upwards of
S25 acres in one parcel, was brought to a
high state of cultivation under DR..
Sholes's ownership. 1t was stocked with
ITO head of fine cattle, mostly registered
Jerseys, and its corn crops were among
the largest raised on any farm In New
England. 1t was customary to grow 25
acres of corn in single field, and the
raising was conducted at times as an
experiment under the direction of we'll
known fertilizer concerns. Special re-
ports on the Sholes system of corn cul-
tivaton and harvesting were used by the
agricultural department in Washington.
For some years after the farm in Dunn
merston was sold DIR. and Mrs. Sholes
spent a large part of each year at the
Brooks House, and DR.. Sholes continued
to be a frequent visitor to this town up
to five years ago.
DIR. Sholes made his will at one time
so that large part of his fortune would
be left after his death for the establish
ment of hospital in Brattleboro. After
the money from the Thompson fund be-
came available for the establishment of
hospital here he changed his
will A little over a year ago Mrs.
Sholes died and the doctor wrote to
friends here at that time stating that
his own health was failing and he did
not believe he had long to live.
LIT. SnOleS was man OF Str1KlnS IN
dividuality of wide experience, of keen
intellect and ready wit. He was al
ways an interesting. entertaining and in
structive conversationalist. He welded
a facile pen and his letters on his trav-
els through the Southern and Western
states were interesting features in The
Phoenix IL to Is years ago.
Many of the older residents of Brattle-
boro and Dummerston will remember
10 or oh
mans attack on DIR. Sholes in August,
1854. The doctor was on his way from
Dummerston Station to his farm. accom- =
panied by Mr.. and Mrs. George Cook,
employees at the farm, when they were
accosted near the Salmon brook bridge
by a masked man who ordered them to
halt. Cook, who was driving. whipped
up the horse. The highwayman fired
four shots. The occupants of the car
riage escaped uninjured, but two of the
bullets struck the horse and the valuable
animal died after the farm was reached.