NEWELL, Oliver, M.D., was one of the early settlers in Farnham, Province of Quebec, where he died at the age of seventy years. He was an allopathic physician and surgeon. His children were George, Seymour, Herbert, Charles, Warren, Cynthia, and Lucy. Herbert Newell was born in Farnham, P. Q., and is now a resident of West Shefford, P. Q., and is a hardware merchant. He married for his second wife Melvina Stone, daughter of George and Hannah Stone, of Stanbridge, P. Q., and his children are George, Addie, Ednah, and Charles H. The latter was born in Farnham, P. Q., January 5, 1861, and came to Swanton in 1879. He married Mattie L. Jewett, of Swanton, September 8, 1886. Mrs. Newell died August 29, 1890, at the age of twenty-six years. Mr. Newell is now a dealer in coal and a member of the firm of Jewett & Newell.
PERCY, Ephraim, born in Troy, N. Y., died in Chateangay, N. Y., at the age of about eighty years. He served in the War of 1812 with two or three of his sons. By his wife, Elizabeth, he had seven children, Ephriam, James, Samuel, Garret, Robert, Jemima, and Mary. His son Samuel was born in Schenectady, N. Y., in 1875, and died at the age of seventy-five. He married Laura, daughter of David and Anna (Smith) Beach, and died in Chateangay, at which place his wife also died in 1865, at the age of sixty-seven. Her father was a captain in the war of the Revolution and drew a pension. Their children were Laura A., Samuel, Jackson A., and Orpha R Laura Percy married Chauncey Smith, of Chateangay, N. Y., son of Lines and Mary Smith, and is now a resident of Swanton.
REYNOLDS, John, was born in Alburgh, Grand Isle county, Vt, where he died at an advanced age. His wife bore him three children, Lorinda, Lorancy, and Henry L. The latter died at Alburgh in 1837. He married Jane Sowles, of that town, daughter of Lewis and Mary Sowles, and had one son, Charles H. Reynolds, who was born in Alburgh in 1835, and came to St Albans in 1854, where he was postmaster for three and one-half years. In 1875 he came to Swanton, where he now resides. he was elected post-master of Swanton in February, 1887. Mr. Reynolds married Alice H. Blake, of Swanton, September, 7, 1876, and their children are Arthur H. and Carlos C. He served in the late war in Company I, Tenth Vermont Volunteers, and was promoted to quarter-master-sergeant, to quartermaster, to captain, and to adjutant quartermaster volunteers, being discharged in December, 1865. He has served as selectman and as justice of the peace in Swanton each two years.
RICH, Charles Wright, who lived for fifty years on his farm in Swanton, Vt, midway between St. Albans and Swanton villages, came here from Richville, in the town of Shoreham, Vt, in 1840. He was the son of Judge Davis Rich and the grandson of Charles Rich, the latter of whom had come among the pioneers to Shoreham with his father and uncle from Warwick, Mass., in 1785, and who was a member of Congress from 1813 until his death in 1824. Charles W. Rich was born March 29, 1817, and died August 27, 1889. In 1836 he graduated from the University of Vermont (where he was a classmate of Bishop Bissell, and a college mate of Alexander Mann and of Henry J. Raymond), and afterwards taught school in Plattsburgh and practiced civil engineering, during which time he helped survey a line for a railroad projected through the wilderness in the northeastern part of New York state, but which was never built. Impelled by a fondness for country life, which he always retained, he determined to devote himself to farming, and after some time spent in searching for a locality commending itself to his taste, in surroundings of natural beauty, he bought the farm of Dea. Benjamin Fay. In 1847, having found thereon an abundant store of lime rock, he built kilns and commenced burning lime for sale to his neighbors, his trade extending through the county. Four years later the Vermont Central Railroad was built, and its course lying through his farm the new facilities for transportation brought additional trade, and a few years later lime burning had become his principal vocation, although he always preferred to be styled » farmer, and made various additions to his original farm from time to time. He was very active in business, for in addition to the lime burning he established and ran for a number of years barrel stock and shingle-mills in Ellenburgh and Mooers, N. Y., and was the first in this part of the country to engage in pressing and shipping hay. Subsequently he ran hay presses in Canada, and engaged in the manufacture of straw paper at Au Sable Chasm, N. Y. He never aspired to public office, and discouraged his friends from using his name in connection with politics, although he took an active interest in all matters of public good, and contributed freely to public and private charities. He was an unusually kind hearted and genial man, and had a mind well stored with information, to which he added constantly by reading and study. His first wife was Julia E. Parker, daughter of John G. Parker, of Rochester, N. Y, whom he married in 1851. and by her had two children, Charles and John Parker. In 1863 he married Mrs. Louisa H. Hayden, daughter of Benjamin R. Harwood, of Boston, by whom he also had two children, Ellen Harwood and Robert Davis. His second wife, with John P. and Ellen H., still survive him.
RICH, Joseph, was born in St. Johns, P. Q., and in 1883 came to Swanton, where he died in 1884, aged ninety-three years. He served in the English army and fought at the battle of Plattsburgh. He married Margarate Trombly, of St. Johns, and their children were Alexander, Margarate, Joseph, Rossie, Eliza, Julia, Mary, Louisa, and Edward. The latter was born in St Johns, June 15, 1836. and came to Swanton in 1836, where he now resides. He married, February 3, 1859, Eliza J., daughter of Christopher and Isabella (Walton) Carr, of Stanbridge, P. Q., and their children are Christopher J., Nellie J., and Edward E.
RICHARDSON, John, was born in Fairfax, Vt, March 7, 1792, and came to Swanton, Vt., where he lived several years, and died in Alburgh, Vt., at the age of seventy. His wife, Lydia Holden, was born August 7, 1794, and died May 24, 1850, at Fairfax. Their children were Lovisa, Amanda, Etta, Serena, Rosetta, Sarah, and Eli. The latter was born in Fairfax and died in Swanton, March 20, 1882, aged fifty-two. He married, in 1860, Lucia A. Lowell, of Fairfax, daughter of Joseph and Aura (Webster) Lowell. Mr. Richardson served nine months in Company K, Thirteenth Vermont Volunteers. and his widow, who now draws a pension, survives him at the age of forty-nine. She lives in Swanton and has an adopted daughter, Sadie, who married Oliver Kittridge, of St. Johnsbury, Vt., son of Luther Kittridge, and they have two children, Harry and Allen. Oliver Kittridge is now a conductor on the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad.
ROBINSON, Stephen, came from Connecticut to Clarendon and from there to Swanton in 1800. He was born in 1760, and was among the early settlers of the town, being the first permanent settler on the farm in the northeast part of Swanton. He died February 19, 1843,aged eighty-three. He married Phebe Butler, who died in 1840, at the age of seventy-four. He lived on the farm until his death. His children were Stephen, Phebe, Eli, Dura, Isaiah, Hannah, Brown, Olive, Obed, and Warren. Brown Robinson was born in Clarendon, July 12, 1798, and married Sally daughter of William and Martha (Keith) Orcutt, who were early settlers of the town. His children are William O., Caroline, Ambrose W., Amos, Sarah, and Horatio. The latter was born in Swanton, September 13, 1822, where he has been a life-long resident. He married, November 15, 1849, Harriet E. Keith, who was born in York, Livingston county, N. Y., a daughter of Edward and Chloe (Burnell) Keith, and his children are Lizzie E., Henrie H., Nettie G., and Eva M. He is now a resident farmer on the homestead farm of his grandfather, living in the same house built in 1807. Nettie G. married Walter F. Jennings, of Baltimore, Md., and they have one daughter, Marion F., and are now residents of Boston, Mass. Edward Keith and his son, Edward, were natives of Chesterfield, Mass., and Edward, jr., settled in York, N. Y. He was born in August, 1783, and his wife was Chloe, daughter of Manasseh and Jane (Orcutt) Burnell. They had nine children, who were Roxanna, Alpheus, Edmund, Edward, Hiram B., Lewis N., Harriet E., Henry, and Mary J. William Orcutt came from Chesterfield, Mass., and was one of the early settlers of the town.
ROYCE, Hezekiah, born in Claremont, N. H., in 1774, came to Swanton in 1800, settling on Swanton Hill. He died in East Swanton in 1867, at the age of ninety-three. His wife, Polly Rhoda Royce, died March 18, 1848, aged seventy-two years. His children were Ruth, Harvey, Lyman, Jotham, Eliza, Jared C, and Harvey. The latter was born at Swanton Hill in 1803, and died at East Swanton, August 27, 1879, aged seventy-six. He married Mary A. Ives, of Salisbury, N. H., a daughter of John and Mary (Thomas) Ives, who was born December 20, 1812. Their children are Rhoda, Mary, Louise, Almira, Albert H., Martha A., Maryette, and Addie.
ROYCE, Jotham, was born in Claremont, N. H, and settled in Dickinson, Franklin county, N. Y., at the time of the War of 1812, where he remained until his death in 1877, at the age of ninety-three. His occupation was that of a farmer. He married Fanny Pierce, by whom he had four children: Albert, Edward, William, and Adaline. William Royce was born in Dickinson, N. Y., where he now resides, at the age of seventy years. He married Elvira Cady, of the same town, a daughter of Reuben and Eliza (Allen) Cady, and a descendant of Ethan Allen. His children were Mary E., Harriet, Angelo, Bella &, Sidney &, Holla W., Celia, Willard R.. Lillian B., and Albert P. Albert P. Royce was born in Dickinson, N. Y., November 2, 1847, and came to Swanton in 1872. He married, second, Mary Ann Chadwick, of St. Albans, Vt., daughter of Amos and Rhoda Chadwick, and had by her two children, Daisy C. and Hallie. His first wife was Addie F. Royce, of Swanton, Vt., daughter of Harvey and Mary Ann Royce. By her he had one son. Herman C, who now resides on the farm known as the Dr. Janes place. Mary Ann Royce survives her husband at the age of seventy-seven.
SARTWELL, Jason, son of Jacob and Hannah, and a native of Vermont, came to Swan-ton in 1830, where he remained until his death, August 9, 1878, at the age of eighty. He was a farmer by occupation, and married Lydia Hunkins, of Fletcher,Vt, daughter of Moses and Hannah (Schedgell) Hunkins. She died August 10, 1879, aged eighty-six years. His children were Moses H., William, Leonard, Horace, Mariah L., Melvina M., and Mary E. The latter was born in Swanton, April 17, 1832, and married Thomas N. Bradley, of Williamstown, Vt, son of Eben and Mary Bradley. He died in 1875, in Williamstown, at the age of fifty-three. Their children were Addie M., Edward T., and Jesse L., the latter of whom was drowned June 15, 1883. Mrs. Sartwell married, second, William Honsinger, of Alburgh, Vt., a son of Emanuel and Mary Honsinger, who died August 10, 1883, aged seventy-seven. She survives him, and resides in Swanton, at the age of fifty-eight, with her daughter, Addie M. Bradley. Edward T. Bradley was born in Richmond, Vt, July 28, 1860, and married Abbie M. Blake, of Swanton, daughter of William H. and Helen Blake. They have two children, Ina J. and Mildred V. Mr. Blake is of the firm of Blake & Bradley, at Swanton village.
SMITH, John, born September 27, 1769, in Connecticut, came to Underhill, Vt., where he died June 19, 1815. He married, January 1, 1797, Mary Rogers, who was born September 25, 1774, and died January 19, 1849. Their children were Eliza, born October 18, 1797; Augustus, born January 6, 1800, died January, 1835; Harry, born March 2, 1802, died June 16,1887; Frederick, born June 29,1804, died February 3, 1866; Joseph R., born June 8, 1806, died December 31, 1887; George, born January 15, 1809, died September 30, 1872 ; Charles, born August 29,1811, died December 2, 1868; and Mary A., born November 2, 1814, died April 14, 1864. Harry Smith came to Highgate, Vt., in May, 1842, and died in Swanton. He married Almira Naramore. November 15, 1827, daughter of Justin and Bethia (Hawley) Naramore, of Underhill, and their children were Francis B., born January 30, 1829; Helen, born February 2, died May 19, 1831; Marcia E., born October 8, 1832, died November 25, 1833; Marcia E., 2d, born July 5, 1835; Mary, born July 9, 1837, died February 2, 1861; and Harriet, born May 23, 1843, died April 23, 1851. Mrs. Almira Smith survives her husband, and resides in Swanton, at the age of eighty-four.
SMITH, Lines, was born at Athol, Mass., and came to Grand Isle, Vt., but finally moved to Phillipsburg. Can., and died in Brome, Can., at the age of ninety years. His wife. Mary, died at Phillipsburg, Can., at the age of seventy-five. His children were Abner, Asa, Henry, Chauncy, Lines, Lydia. and Lucy. Chauncy Smith, born at Grand Isle, Vt., January 6. 1808, moved to Alburgh, where he died at the age of eighty-two. In 1889, September 28th, he married Mary Steward, of Canada, and his children were Henry, Mary Ann, Barbara, Edward, and Charles F. Charles F. Smith, who was born in Canada, came to Swanton in 1867, where he now resides. He married Frances E. Keyes, of Swanton, daughter of William Keyes, and their children are Mary E., Lena, and Chauncy W. He is now the proprietor of Hotel Champlain at Maquam Bay, Vt., and proprietor of a sales stable and a dealer in carriages, sleighs, robes, etc., at Swanton. His mother, Laura A. Smith, survives her husband in Swanton at the age of sixty-six years. Edwin E. Smith and wife Martha are residents of Sacramento, Cal., where they have lived for sixteen years. Barbara Smith married A. J. Belle, of Swanton, son of William H. and Eliza (Whitman) Belle, and her children are Andrew J., Willis H., Clarence E., Frederick S., Edward M., and Charles F. The Hotel Champlain was built in 1877 by A. B. Jewett and 0. M. Gallup (and owned by the Maquam Land Company) at the cost of $100,000, including a farm of 750 acres of land. Edward Belle married Anna Belle Herrick, of Swanton, daughter of A. P. Herrick, April 9, 1890.
SNOW, Barney, was born in Wales in 1808, and came to Boston. Mass., in 1884, where he died the same year at the age of seventy-six. He was engaged in the iron foundry business. He married Betsey Pitts, of Richmond, Vt., and his children were George, Elihu. Robert, James, Sarah, Jane, Gertrude, Emily, and Mary Ann. Elihu Snow was born in Lewis, Essex county, N. Y., October 3, 1845. He married Mary E., daughter of William H. and Mary (McOhune) Hancock, May 14, 1867, and his children are George H., of the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., William H., Ernest E., Susie M., and Eunice. He was educated at the common schools in New York and took a thorough Methodist Episcopal theological course. He commenced preaching at Gaysville in 1870, and later in Stockbridge, Windsor county, Vt, where he remained three years. From there he removed to Plainfleld, where he remained three years, and thence went to Ludlow, where he was located three years. He then moved to Franklin, where he preached three years, and from Franklin came to Swanton, where he has labored two years. He enlisted in the late war at the age of eighteen, in Company K, One Hundred and Eighteenth New York Volunteers, for three years, and was honorably discharged at City Point, Va., February 6, 1866, from the Ninety-sixth New York Volunteers. He had the rank of principal musician. Rev. Mr. Snow has held the office of department chaplain of the G. A. R. of Vermont, and was chaplain of the House of Representatives in 1888.
STONE, David T., was born in Guilford, Conn., October 9, 1769, and his wife, Thankful Smith, was a native of Massachusetts. Mr. Stone came to Jericho, Chittenden county, Vt., where he lived several years, and died in Westford, Vt, September 3, 1845, at the age of seventy-six. His wife died in Underhill in 1834. Mr. Stone was a farmer. Their children were Hervey, Hiram, and Electa. Hervey Stone was a native of Jericho, and died in Swanton in 1887, at the age of eighty-seven. He married Eliza Smith, of Underhill, Chittenden county, Vt, a daughter of John and Mary (Rogers) Smith, and his children were John S., Mary E., Lucia E. (who died in New Jersey, aged fifty), Harriet M., and Henry M. The latter was born in Jericho in 1828, and in 1852 came to Swanton, where he now resides. He married Olive Barker Sawyer, of Rutland county, Vt, daughter of Noah W. and Olive (Barker) Sawyer, September 4, 1851. His children are Charles H., of Minneapolis, Minn.; Emily 0., also of Minneapolis; George B., a clergyman, of Baltimore, Md.; Edward S-, a clergyman of Enosburgh, Vt; Walter H., deceased; Arthur W., a law student in New York city; and Florence M. Mr. Stone has been justice of the peace ten years, and held many offices of trust in the town and county of Franklin. He was associated with F. Tarble in building the water works at Swanton. He has built two stores, and is an extensive dealer in lumber. His mother, Eliza Stone, survives at the age of ninety-two, and resides at Swanton.
SUTER, Samuel, was born in Ober-Entfelden county, Aaran, Switzerland, where he lived and died at the age of eighty-two. He was a weaver by trade, and was twice married, his children being Andrew, who died in Switzerland at the age of seventy-three; Jacob, who died in New York city ; and Andrew, who married Ann Kiburtz. Andrew Suter had the following children: Theopholus, Jacob, Henry, Anna, and Daniel. The latter, a native of Switzerland, was born March 16, 1837, and came to New York city in 1864. January 20, 1869, he removed to Swanton, Vt, where he now resides. He married Venera, daughter of Daniel and Elmira Walther, of Switzerland, and his children are Emil, Daniel, Henry T., Louis W., and Charles S. Mr. Suter is now a jeweler and a farmer in Swanton, where he has lived since 1869.
THAYER, Amasa, born in Massachusetts, came to Swanton from Bennington, Vt., in 1800, where he died at the age of seventy-four years. His children were Amherst, Polly, Sumner, Wheelock, and Clarinda. His son, Amherst, a native of Bennington, came to Swanton, where he died at the age of sixty-four. He married Barbara Cheney, and his children were Millicent, Amherst C, Wheelock S., Andrew M., and Lucy P. Wheelock S. Thayer, a native of Swanton, married, first, Julia Samantha Church; his second wife was Juliette Foster; and his third wife was Julia C. Kitts. He has one daughter, Mary A. Mr. Thayer has been a life-long resident of Swanton, and enjoys life at the age of seventy-four. He is a blacksmith and a farmer by occupation, and has been town clerk for thirty-four years, has served as justice of the peace for several years, and has held the office of town treasurer. He is a representative citizen and an enterprising man.
TOBIN, Theabold M., a native of Weybridge, Addison county, Vt., is a son of William and Mary A. (Flannigan) Tobin, and married Sarah Chase, of Fair Haven, Vt., by whom he has three children, Phillip, Mamie, and Don. March 10, 1870, he started the publication of a weekly Republican sheet called the Swanton Courier, published at Swanton. This is a live paper, containing each week an interesting gist of well-edited news, a particular feature being his original caricatures and sporting notes. It has a circulation of 800 subscribers. Mr. Tobin is a successful editor, outspoken in all that tends to the development of local interests and the welfare of the community.
WARNER, Isaac, son of Capt. John Warner, was born in Swanton, Vt., where he died at the age of about seventy years. He served in the War of 1812, and married Experience Allen, a relative of Ethan Allen, of Revolutionary fame. His children were John, Nelson, Hiram, Clark, Amanda, Experience, Polly, Isaac, and James A. The latter was born in Swanton, where he died at the age of sixty-eight He was at the battle of Plattsburgh. He. married Sarah Mix, of Stansted, P. Q., a daughter of Samuel and Mary Mix, and she died in 1870, aged sixty-eight Their children were William P., Laura, Louisa, and Jerome B. Jerome B. Warner was born at Swanton, March 15, 1839, and married Louisa M. Warner, of New York state, daughter of Lyman Warner, and their children are Nettie, Allen, Edwin, and Van Buren W. The latter is a farmer and resides in Swanton on the homestead. William P. Warner was born in Swanton, June 27, 1824, and married, first, Julia, daughter of Isaac Comstock, by whom he had six children, viz.: Frank P., David. Mary A., Orlo C, Bertha F., and Lena I. His second wife was Violetta C, daughter of John B. and Jane (Donaldson) Mack, and by her he has had two children, Rolla A. and Ralph G. He is now a farmer in Swanton. Capt. John Warner was a physician, and served as captain in the Revolutionary war.
WAUZER, Hill, a native of Connecticut, died in New Hampshire. His children were John, Hill, Thomas, Jerusha, and Betsey. John Wauzer, also a native of Connecticut, came to Swanton at the time of the War of 1812, in which he served under General Wool, and finally settled in Fairfax, Franklin county, Vt., where he died at the age of seventy-eight. He married Jerusha Colburn, by whom he had eight children, as follows: Willard, Jay, Helen, Daniel, Alfred, Theoda, Lina, and John. The latter, born in Berkshire, Vt., in 1826, came to Swanton in 1848 as a section foreman on the Central Vermont Railroad. He married, first, Sarah Webster, of Troy, N. Y., daughter of Thomas and Sally Webster. His second wife was Jane, daughter of David and Janette Lawrence. Mr. Wauzer served in Company B, First Vermont Volunteer Cavalry, enlisting September 16, 1861, and was honorably discharged December 31,1863, at Stephensburg, Va. He re-enlisted the same day and served until August 9, 1865. when he received his second honorable discharge, this time at Burlington, Vt. He was present at the battles of Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Cedar Creek, Winchester, and Gettysburg, and was at Richmond at the lime of Lee's surrender. He now draws a pension.
WILDER, Col. Ransom E., was born in Jericho, Chittenden county, Vt., in 1805. He was colonel of a militia regiment, and was a general merchant in St. Albans Bay for a few years, but finally moved to Sheldon, Vt., where he was a farmer for many years, and where he died April 13, 1860, at the age of fifty-five years. He married Harriet Fish, March G, 1831, a daughter of Daniel and Sybil Fish, of Sheldon, Vt., who died at the age of fifty-three. They had eight children as follows: Harriet E James E., Ed-gar, Daniel F., Alanson D., Allen D.. Ellery J., and Hoyt R. Daniel F. Wilder served in Company B, Vermont Cavalry, and was commissary-sergeant. He was taken prisoner at Hagarstown and died at Finley Hospital, Washington, he had a hand-to-hand conflict with a Rebel officer, whom he shot to save his own life. Ellery J. Wilder served in the late war in the frontier cavalry suggested by the St. Alban's raid. Hoyt R. Wilder, son of Ransom, was born in Sheldon, Vt., October 2, 1848, was educated at Fairfax Institute, and was graduated from the University of Michigan and Detroit Medical College in 1869 and in 1870. In 1872 he came to Swanton, where he has since remained, practicing as general physician and surgeon. After his graduation he practiced for two years in Fairfield, Vt. He married Venia M., daughter of Joseph and Malvinea (Mansfield) Knowles, of Cowansville, P. Q., and his children are Herbert A., Henry L., Florence E., Annie G., and Howard Edgar.
WOOD, Abraham, a native of Scotland, came to Chesterfield, N. H., where he died in September, 1838, at the age of seventy-two. He married Sarah Loren, of Sudbury, Mass. He was educated at Hartford, Conn., and was a Congregational minister under King George at Chesterfield, N. H. His children were Abraham, Loren, Cornielius, Rebecca, Mary, Sarah, and Flavilla. Cornelius Wood was born in Chesterfield, N. Ii., and died at the age of eighty-five. He married Fanny Doolittle, of Winchester, N. H., daughter of Benjamin and Editha (Field) Doolittle, and his children were Lucy, Stearnes, N. A., Loren, Fanny E., Cornelias E., Mary A., Sarah E., Eben D., Rodney T., and Benjamin D. The latter, born in Swanton, January 11, 1824, married Sophia E. Pratt, of Swanton, daughter of Allen and Asenith (Wait) Pratt, by whom he had these children: Allen A. and Edgar C. She died in Swanton, July 26, 1886, at the age of sixty-two. Allen A. Wood married Flora Redfield, of Kansas, daughter of J. C. Redfield, and has one daughter, Carrie E. They are now residents of Wichita, Kan, Edgar C. Wood married, first, Belle Janes, of Swanton, daughter of William and Calista Janes, and had one son, Charles. His second wife is Dora Gaylor, of St Armand, P. Q., daughter of Orren and Mary Gaylor, and he is now a resident farmer in Swanton with his father, who has lived on the Laselle farm for thirty-two years. Fanny C. Wood married Royal S. Cushman, of Georgia, Vt., son of Salmon and Highley Cushman, and their children are Frances A., Phila E., and Alice L. Phila E. Cushman married Henry G. Hammond, of Dunbarton, N. H., son of Thomas and Hannah Hammond, and they have two children, Alice C. and Phila M. They are now residents of Burlington, Vt.
