The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-17
Death of Curtis HI.
Bagley at Age of Is
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er passengers on its second trip
to the New England scoast and
settled in Amesbury where the orr
ginal Bagley home hassbecome the
headquarters of tbs. Amesbury
Daughters of the American Revo-
luton.
April IS, 1865, Mr.. Bagley mar
ried Edwina A. Carrick, the
daughter of John and Lydia Car
rlcN OF st. Johnspury. To them
two children have been born: Err
nest W., who died many years ago
at the age Of Il, and Blanche A.,
the wife of Howard e. Gowen of
Lynn, Mass. There is one grand
child, Donald H. Gowen, who was
a great favorite Of his grandfather
in his declining days. About a
year and a half ago, Mr.. Bagley
sold his home in st. Johnsbury
and purchased home near his
daughter in Lynn, although he
retained an active business inter
est in St. Johnsbury because of
his secretaryship Of the st. Johns
bury Merchants Association,
which necessitated frequent visits
to his old home town. ~
Mr.. Bagley began business as
telegraph operator and ticket
agent at the st. Johnsbury office
of the old Passumpsic. railroad, d
position he held for many years
and until he became a. passenger
conductor on the Passumpsic road,
a position he held for. 25 years.
1t was always his pride and boast
that in all his railroad service,
there was never an accident and
never was any passengers injured
on the train he was in charge of.
w hlle in the service Of the rail
road. he took a leave of absence to
become the assistant conductor for
Raymond and Whitcomb on their
first extended trans-continental
trip, and helped to take a large
party to the Pacific coast and AL
aska
After long and acceptable SER
vice for the railroad, Mr.. Bagley
went into the shoe business on
Railroad street with A. B. Prior,
under the firm name of Prior d
Bagley, and continued the stor
in me Avenue House block until
the block was destroyed by fire.
When the St. Johnsbury Mer-
chants association was organized,
Mr.. Bagley was elected its first
secretary, and later its treasurer,
and both these offices he held at
the time of his death. His untir-
ing energy and attention to all
details has made this
as ociation a great success and a
great benefit to the commercial in
terests of the community, until It's
membership has grown from a
handful of local merchants to s3v-
eral thousand, and representing
many states.
Mr.. Bagley was always proud to
speak of one of the activities of
his early business career and that
was the washing down and grading
of a large area of what was up to
that time a tract of waste land in
the north part of the village and
making possible the making of
large portion of what is now up
per Railroad street, Bagley street
and upper Pearl street. This
helped to make him one of the
ploAeers of a larger St. Johnsbury.
Mr. Bagley was a Mason, a
member of Palestine Commandery
and the Shrine, and was always in
terested and active in the good
work of the order. He was a
faithful member of Grace Method
ist church and for many years one
OF rs s. ewards.
Mr.. Bagley was a man of cor
rect views, decided opinions, high
resolves. He was a great lover o.
his home and in the life of the
community was always interested
in the things that were for the
public good. He was a good cit
izen and the record of his long,
active, industrious life is one that
it will be well to remember and
emulate.