The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-02-03
HONORABLE
LIFE CLOSES
Col. Joseph I'll. Goulding of
Wilmington, Dies in
Daughters Home
FORMER TREASURER
OF SAVINGS BANK
Rendered Important Service in Civil
War and Became Prominent in G..
A. R. = Held Appointments on Stats
of Two Governors.

mington, prominent Vermonter and
Grand Army man and for years treas
,urer of the Wilmington Savings bank
until he retired two years ago on ac-
count of i'll health, died at 1870
o clock yesterday forenoon in the home
of his daughter, Mrs. Willis NJ. Ross,
in Rutland. His death was due to a
progressive spinal trouble. Col Gould
ing recently returned from California,
where he was visiting his son, James
NJ. Goulding. Being taken seriously i'll
there, he wished to return to his native
state. The cross-continent trip was
made under the care of a trained
nurse, the two arriving last week in
New York, where they We're met by
Willis NJ. Ross of Rutland and Miss
Matilda Goulding, a daughter.
Col. Goulding was born in Potsdam,
\. Y, June 5, 1912, second son of
James Marshall and Amanda (Sanford)
| Goulding. He attended St. Lawrence
| (N. " and Williston (Vt.) academies
and at Norwich university. While a
| cadet at the latter institution he was
ordered for examination, in August,
| 1868 before a board in Washington,
| d. c., of which Gen. Silas Casey was
president, and in September, 1863. was
/ appointed by President Lincoln a sec.
ond lieutenant ii the Sixth Regiment
United States colored troops Gnfan.
try, reporting for duty at Philadelphia
to Gen. Louis Wagner, later past com
mander-in-ehief, G. A. r. He served
with his regiment on the peninsula
during the winter of 1868 and '64. II
May, 'G4, he was detailed, by order.
emanating from the headquarters o.
the Department of Virginia and Nortl
Carolina, Fort Monroe, as ambulane,
officer and acting assistant quartermas
ter, and served continuously thereafte
as such in the Eighteenth, Twenty
fifth and Tenth Terry 81 Army Corp
in the armies of the James and tn
Ohio.
His command was engaged at Peters
burg June IS, 1864; Petersburg 9TH
Nine July, 1864; New Market Height
Va, Sept. %, 1864; Fair Oaks, Oct
p, 1864; the expeditions against For
Fisher, December, 1864, and January
1865: Sugar Loaf Hill, \. c.. January
! 1863 Sherman S march on Raleigh an
Joe Johnston s surrender. 1865. H.
was promoted to first lieutenant i
May, 1865, and mustered out of servic
with his regiment in September, lS6:
4 Returning to Vermont, he settled i
q Rutland, where he joined Robert
Post No. IA, department of Vernon
IN 1868. He was post adjutant to Pos
Commander w. G. Neazey in 1869, 1877
y and 1871, served as assistant adiutar
= general of the department two term
. 1872 and 1873 (when Colonel Veaze
= was the commander), was on the d
partment council of administration j
the years 1879, 70 and II, elected d,
partment Commander in 1880. an
again in 1881, repeatedly Representa-
the department III the national encam
ment, and was on the national counc
r in 1872 and 1873.
On August IA, 1890, at the nation
encampment held in Boston. he W;
q appointed adjutant general of the ord
"a by Commander in-Chief Veazey, al
" was sworn as such by Past Comma
Y der-ln-chief Charles Deyens. His a
/. ministration of the affairs of II
adJutant general s department W
- widely commended.
= In 1878 he acted as the adiuta
y general of the first Vermont Soldier
reunion at Rutland, an occasion viii
was the largest gathering of the XII.
n ever held in the state and which
~ claimed to have been the first geneI
Iu soldier s reunion held after the w.
II In August, 1876, he was the adiuta
general of the Bennington Centenn
celebration, in which New Hampshi
Mt Massachusetts, and Vermont Joined,
nj sending militia and citizens and for
ing what the press termed, "A gu;
procession in pint town.
Governor john l.. Barstow of V
hg mont in 1882 appointed him colo
all and chief of staff for the years Is
}; he was chosen compiler of the m
. tary records of the town of Rutla
in 1889.
lie was appointed by Gov. Levi
Fuller Of Brattleboro in October, Is
secretary of civil and military affa
I'm of the state of Vermont for two We;
At commencement in June, 1898, \
- witch university conferred upon |
the degree of Master of Arts,
trustees holding that his leaving
class to 90 to the front in time of
ought not to bar him from a pl
among the alumni of the institute
After settling in Rutland in the
of 1865 he entered the employ of
mo. Rutland railroad, having charge of
far settling of the accounts of the /
red with the quartermaster s departn
and of the government for some time.
ore ''A'e. " aus Deediiie secretary 10
mn president of the company, a place
held for years. He audited the vo
n a ers of United States Pension A!
ppi Barstow at Burlington many terms
cor. In 1881 he was made secretary
for treasurer OF the Dorset Marble Co.
ant continued as such until It's amalGf
ada ton INTO the Producers Marble Go
luse was IN the employ OF the Rutland
mos hank aud later made aSSiS
any postmaster at Rutland, reslgnlng
Get position to accept the appointment
suf- Governor Fuller.
feet Upon the termination of his ten
or office as secretary of civil and
tary affairs he went to Wilmington