The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-04
States was made in Brattleboro

1845
st. Johnsbury has the largest scale
works in the United States
Montpelier was made the capital of
the state in 1905, and Thomas Chitten-
den was first governor of the state and
served from 1778 to 1889. He was re-
elected as the third governor in 1890
and died in 1897, serving a total term
of eighteen years. The present gov
ernor is Charles w. Gates.
On Lake Champlain was fought the
first important naval engagement of
the American Revolution, in which
Benedict Arnold showed great bravery
as the American commander. For
more than two centuries after its dis
covery by Samuel Champaign it was
often the scene of conflict. 1t was at
Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain that
Ethan Allen first lowered the British
| flag in the long contest for American
independence.
The battle of Plattsburg was fought
on Lake Champlain in 1914, in which
Marlborough won most important
and decisive victory for American
arms. 1t was on this lake that the
first successful steamboat ever operated
was launched but few months after
Fulton Is Clermont began to navigate
the Hudson.
William French, who was shot at
Westminster in 1875, was the first mar
tyr of the Revolution and was a resi-
dent of Brattleboro at the time.
The first man born in Vermont who
reached a position of sufficient i'm
lportance to admit his name to any En-
Encyclopedia of Biography was Jonathan
Hatch Hubbard, born in Windsor IL
1868. He became congressman from
Vermont and Judge of the supreme
court. 1t is n peculiar fact that th'
third man born in Vermont who at
tanned prominence was a full bloodet
, negro named Prince Saunders, born il
Thetford in ITS, who became a law
yer and attorney general of Hayti.
Vermont has produced twenty fiv,
, chief justices for Is states, fourtee
United States senators from othe
states, and I31 United States congress
men were born in Vermont who hav
:. represented twenty-eight differen
!. states She has furnished the natio
: with thirty-three brigadier general
: and eleven major generals in the a
: my, and to the navy she has given on
captain, one commodore, nine rear a,
mirals and one admiral.
y Vermont has given to the natio
:, three fathers of presidents of II
= United States, two unsuccessful cal
! didates for president, one presiden
" one vice president, three secretaries
e war, one secretary of the. treasury, OF
- postmaster general and one attorne
- general.
In Vermont was born the founde
! of the Mormon church, the founder
- civil service reform in this countr
- the builder of the Monitor, the fir
:. man to make Bessemer steel In Amer
= ca, the inventor of the time lock, Il
70 saw for saving marble, the saw T
- saving granite the cook stove, the ele
- tric motor, the refrigerator car, Il
! carpenter S square.
: The builder of the the first elevate
Al road in New York was born in We
y, mont and in the list of men born
- Vermont who have attained prom
= nence might be mentibned the folio
4 ing: Alvin Adams, founder of Adar
- Express Co.; Andrew jackson Aiker
af long editor of the Milwaukee Sen
!. mel and originator of patent inside
:, for newspapers Charles Edgar Clar
a. rear admiral in, the navy and I
an nero o. the -OTeSoH LuSeHe
~ Foss, former governor of the Mass
=. chusetts; Henry T. Mayo, rear admir-
~ IF the navy; William Freeman Vii;
IA former postmaster general; George
be Rcwell founder of the first advert
~ ing agency in the United States; w
liam Tyler. first bishop of the Rom
m Catholic diocese of Hartford: Saml
no Gregory, founder in 1S4S in Boston
10 the first female medical college in t
o. world; Benjamin Franklin Stevel
NJ founder of the world famous Lond
q firm of book dealers; Nathaniel Fl
> more, father of Millard Fillmore, f
"a mer president of United States; S
~ phen A. Douglas, congressman, ser
~ tor and candidate for president
nm 1860; William Morris Hunt, famo
be artist, born in Brattleboro in 1S2
y John Stephen Michaud, born in b