The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-03-13
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
1851 81 uoIsW 'XepuoW
INVENTED BY vERMoNTERs

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The Greater Vermont association
has recently issued leafiet in which
are noted some of the first" happen
ings credited to residents of Vermont
| or to men who were born in the shad-
ows of the Green Mountain. The bull.
letin, which was prepared by Rollo G.
Reynolds at the Office of the commits.
sioner of education at Montpelier
gave the following first facts about
Vermont:
Samuel de Champlain, the first
white man to see Vermont, July 4
1909.
The first settlement in Vermont was
made in Vernon, not later than 1890.
Colonel John Sergeant, the first
English person born in Vermont, Brat
tleboro, 1892.
William French, the first man killed
in the revolution, Westminster massa
ere, Vermont, March 4, ITS.
Vermont first declared independent
January Is, 1777. Name "Verd Mont
adopted.
First constitution Of Vermont form
ed July 8, 1777.
| Thomas Chittenden, first governor Of
Vermont, March IL, 1778.
| Vermont, the first state to be admit
ted to the Union after the original 1;
states.
y The first act for the admission of q
state into the Union.
THE state of Vermont, having pc
titioned the congress to be admitted q
member Of the United States. sl,a5
BE it enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the United
States of America in congress assem-
bled, and it is hereby enacted and de
clared, That on the fourth day oil
March, one thousand seven hundred
and ninety one, the said state, by the
name and style of The State of Yer
mont shall be received and admitted
into this Union, as a new and entire
member Of the United States of Amer
ica."
Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
speaker of the house OF representa-.
tives.
John Adams, President of the
senate.
Approved. February the 18th. 1891.
George Washington, President of the
United States.
Vermont produced:
The first man to make a globe for
school purposes.
The first man to make swivel
| plow
The first man to advocate civil ser.
| vice-Dorman B. Eaton.
T., The first man to make -Bessemer
steel in America-John F. Winslow.
The first; man to make ia successful
time Iotk-James Sargent.
The first man to make a saw. for
saving arbleAHiram A. Kimball
The first man to make cook stove
-Philo Stewart. o lellrl 7l
The first man to make an electric
motor-Thomas Davenport ~
The first man to make gimlet-
Thomas w. Harvey. sool 81 sggh
The first man to make q carpenters
square-Silas Harris. vnos 4oE
The first man to build an elevated
road in New York-Albert NJ. Billings
The first man to take battleship
around Cape Horn-Charles E. Clark.
The first man to make an electric
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS O. Cotton.
The first man to baptize Chinaman
in the Christian faith--Ira c. Tracy.
The first man to can meat in Amer.
ica-William B. Clapp.
The first man to print the Country
Gentleman-Arthur Tucker.
The first man to make a steam CALI.
ope-Joshua c. Stoddard.
The first man to discover the roller
process for making four-V. l.. Rice
The first man to tell Lincoln of his
e-electiOn-Charles A. Tinker.
Vermont leads the world in:
The manufacture OF scales.
The manufacture Of wire screens.
The manufacture of shoddy.
The manufacture OF maple sugar
tools.
The manufacture Of granite and
marble machinery.
/ The manufacture of silos.
The manufacture of children's wash
clothes,
| The handling Of green calf skins.
The manufacture Of soapstone pro-
ducts.
The manufacture of dyes for but.
ter.
! Vermont leads the rest of the United
states in ,a
The production OF marble.
The production Of granite.
The production of asbestos.
The production of pipe organs.
The production of portable ovens.
The production of stereopticons.
The production Of butter per capita
The production of maple sugar.
Vermont was the first state to es
tablish normal school on the North
American continent.
Vermont was the first state to for
bid slavery by constitution.
Vermont was the first state to pro
vide by law for complete system OF
education.
The Phrase "Mere Man."
In his book. ''The Pulse of the World:
Fleet Street Memories" Malcolm Stark
gives what he believes is the origin Of
the expression mere man." a Scottish
doctor, he says, wrote as follows:
The earliest use of the phrase known
TO me Is in the shorter catechism,
where it is said, mo mere man since
the fall is able in this life perfectly to
keep the commandments" The phrase