Biographies of Windsor County Vermont
History of Windsor County Vermont
Lewis Cass Aldrich published in 1891
KENNEY, ASA W ., the youngest son of Zurishaddai and Rachel (Belding) Kenney, was born in Barnard, Vt., September 22, 1819. His father was a farmer, and in early life Asa W. followed that occupation, having only the advantages of a common school till 1836 and two or three years thereafter, when he attended for short periods the academies in Randolph, Royalton, and Montpelier. After this he studied law in Montpelier with George B. Manser and Ferrand F. Merrill, and was admitted to the Washington County Bar in 1840. Governor Paine appointed him state librarian in 1839, which office he held about three years. He did not practice law, but was engaged in mercantile business several years. In August, 1859, he was chosen cashier of the Bank of Royalton, Vt., which position he retained in this bank, and the National Bank of Royalton, into which this bank was converted in 1867, till the National Bank went into voluntary liquidation in 1882. Since the last date he has been engaged in making loans at the West. He was married in 1873 to Mrs. Cornelia A. Gladding, of Waterbury, Conn. They have no children. Biographie Index
KIDDER, Rev. MOSES , was born in Walpole, N. H.. November 14, 1817, the third son, and sixth child, in a family often children, of Abiah and Achsah (Winchester) Kidder. His father was born in Tewksbury, Mass., September 14, 1786, and at the age of two years came to Walpole to live with his grandfather, Dr. Jesseniah Kittridge. The latter was a celebrated physician of that locality, and was famous for his skill in all bone diseases, and was the originator of the " Kittridge Ointment." Mr. Kidder attended the local schools of his native town ; also the Literary and Scientific Institute of Hancock, N. H., and the Hampton Falls Academy, of Hampton Falls, N. H. He finished his studies in the latter institution in the summer term of 1841. He came to Woodstock in June, 1842, and was ordained as a minister in the Christian church, March 15, 1843. After his ordination he preached part of the time in connection with Mr. Hazen, to January, 1847, since which time he has been the pastor of that church in Woodstock. During his ministerial career he has married 1,172 couples, and preached 2,364 funeral sermons. These statistics, coupled with the fact of his almost forty-eight years of continued services in one pulpit, abundantly attest the estimation in which he is held by his church and the community in which he has passed his professional life. Mr. Kidder married, August 29, 1844, Laura W., daughter of Rev. Jasper and Abigail C. (Thomas) Hazen. She was born in Woodstock, September 30, 1822. They have had a family of four children, viz.: Ella, died in infancy ; Ellery W., born June 12, 1849, a resident of Woodstock; Warton H., born January 31, 1852, was engaged in railroad business, and died in Council Bluffs, October 7, 1883; and Fred T., born October 14, 1858. The latter, after attending the public schools, prepared for college under a private tutor, and entered the University of Vermont, and was graduated from that institution in 1880. He then commenced the study of medicine with Dr. Edwin E. Hazen, of Woodstock, and, after three courses of lectures, graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Vermont ill 1883. In the fall of that year he commenced the practice of his profession in Woodstock. Dr. Kidder is a member of the State and the White River Medical Societies. Biographie Index
LEMMEX, WILLIAM HENRY , was born in Demarara, British Guiana, South America, September 7, 1805. Henry Elliott Lemmex, his father, a native of Ireland, came to Boston, where he married Elizabeth Lord, a sister of Captain Robert Lord, who was for many years a resident of Windsor, Vt., and died there. Soon after his marriage, Henry Elliott went to South America where he purchased the Hibernia estate, a very extensive property, and here all of his children were born. The following are the children who reached adult age: Jean, was the wife of James Marsh, of Boston, and died in Windsor; William Henry; Harriet, was the wife of A. G. Hatch, who was for twenty-four years postmaster of Windsor, Henry Lemmex Hatch, of Chicago, and Mrs. N. P. Lovering, of Boston, are her only surviving children, and her daughter, Mary Ellen, was the wife of James Gardner of Boston, and died in Boston; John, died at New Orleans, during an absence from home, and Mary, died in Boston aged eleven years. Henry Elliott Lemmex died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, while on a journey to the States from South America. His wife survived him about thirty years. She died in Windsor in 1844. As her children reached school age, she brought them from South America to the States to place them in school, making for that purpose fourteen ocean voyages in sailing vessels. William Henry was five years old when he was brought to the States and placed in school at South Reading, Mass. When nine years of age, he attended Captain Dunham's school at Windsor, Vt. His next school was the Kimball Union Academy, at Meriden, N. H., and finally the Norwich University, at Norwich, Vt. His first business engagement was as clerk in the store of Benjamin Bugbee, of Randolph, Vt, where, in the person of Mr. Bugbee's niece, he first met his future wife. At the age of twenty-one he opened a store in company with a Mr. Bixby, in Windsor, the firm becoming Lemmex & Bixby. After three years he sold his interest and removed to Hartland, where he carried on a store and woolen manufactory for fifteen years. About the year 1844, he purchased the woolen factory at Bridgewater and in 1848 moved there. In 1866 he sold out to L. C. White, and retiring from active business, returned to Windsor. He died there May 17, 1876. Mr. Lemmex was one of the most prominent of the early manufacturers of Vermont, and was respected in business circles alike for his progressive ideas and sound judgment, as well as for his strict honor and integrity.
He was by nature calculated to be a leader among men, and this trait was well shown by his influence over the men in his employ, whom he managed with the least possible friction. Ever ready to help the poor and unfortunate with counsel and with substantial aid, he raised in their minds a juster estimate of true Christian manhood. Socially, he was a gentleman of the old school. Quiet, dignified and reserved in general society, he was at his best with his near friends and in his home, where the finest qualities of his heart and mind shone forth, rendering him a most entertaining companion, and the home, brightened by his presence and that of his genial and hospitable wife, a delightful place. He was a member of the Hartland Congregational Church, and afterward of the same church in Woodstock, until the Congregational Church in Bridgewater was organized, in the founding of which he was largely instrumental, and was finally a member of the old South Church in Windsor. A Republican in politics, though not an aspirant for political office, he served one term in the Legislature as representative of the town of Bridgewater. He married, June 28, 1828, Elvira, daughter of William Warner, and grand-daughter of William, who was brother of Colonel Seth Warner, and an officer with the latter under General Ethan Allen. Mrs. Lemmex was born in Hartford, Vt, July 18, 1808, and died February 29, 1876. They had four children, viz.: Harriet Elizabeth, born March 25, 1829, married Jason B. Pierce. She resides in Alleghany, Pa., with her only surviving child, William Lemmex Pierce. Mr. Pierce was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1880, and is now practicing as an attorney in patents in Pittsburgh, Pa. He has two children, Elizabeth Denny and William Henry Lemmex. Elvira Jane, died aged two years. Pollen Maria, born July 11, 1833. is the wife of the Rev. Henry M. Morey, a Presbyterian clergyman residing in Ypsilanti. Mich. Mr. Morey was born March 3, 1837, at West Bloomfield, N. Y., and was graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1861, and at the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., in 1865. They have two children, Alice Elvira and Jean Lemmex. Mary Elliott, born May 5, 1844, married July 26, 1866, first, Silas A. Smith, of Malone, N. Y., who died March 3, 1867. She married, second, Colonel Milton Kendall Paine, who was born in Boston August 15, 1834. Colonel Paine has been one of the leading manufacturing chemists and pharmacists of the State, but at present is retired from business. The colonel is well known as a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity. Colonel and Mrs. Paine reside at Windsor. They have no children. Biographie Index
MACKENZIE FAMILY, THE . Among the old families of Scotland were the Monros and Mackenzies. Captain David Monro, who was shot at the Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690, married Mary, daughter of Sir John Davis, of Whitehall, Carrickfergus. They had one son, Joseph, who in 1695 married Elizabeth Ross of Balblain. They had two children, David and Margaret. David became a distinguished lawyer in Edinburgh, and was a writer to the Signet. From 1720 to 1760 he was a prominent and successful business man of Edinburgh and thereby was enabled to redeem his ancestral estate, which, during his father's life, had suffered from lawsuits and various unjust attempts that were made on the property. Included in his purchase was the estate of Mickle Allan. He died in 1767, unmarried. Margaret, the sister of David, married John Mackenzie, who owned corn mills and resided near Inverness. Five sons were the issue of this marriage, viz.: David, Mal-comb, Alexander, Charles and Joseph. Charles, mentioned above, at the request of his uncle, David Monro, took his name and settled on the estate of Mickle Allan. He married, first, Mary MacLeod, daughter of Laird of Granils, in 1769. She died in 1800, leaving no issue, and he married, second, Catharine, eldest daughter of Hugh Houston, esq., of Craik, Sutherlandshire. They had a family of two sons and four daughters. Charles died in 1818. David, son of Charles, served for a few years as ensign in H. M. 76th Regiment, and married Elizabeth, only daughter of William Bennett, esq. Of their family of eight children, six were sons, viz.: Charles, born in 1834, was a lieutenant in the Fourth Bombay Rifles, and died in 1855 on board the steamship Euxine, and was buried in the Bay of Biscay ; William served as ensign in the Seventy-sixth Regiment; David, a lieutenant in the Madras Staff Corps and inspector-general of Constabulary of Scotland, married Louisa, daughter of Hon. Charles Pelly of the Madras Civil Service ; Francis, captain in the Madras army, married Eugenia, daughter of Charles Mackey, an officer of the Madras Civil Service, by whom he had one child, Archie Claude Allen Monro, born at Raepore, India, February 28, 1872, was adopted in 1881 by Frank S. Mackenzie, and resides in Woodstock, Vt; Robert Clifford Lloyd was lost at sea in January, 1855, when a midshipman on the Madagascar; George Alexander Ross, lieutenant Fourth King's Own Regiment, died in the twenty-first year of his age. Joseph, son of John and Margaret (Monro) Mackenzie, was born at Paisley, Scotland, January 1, 1733, and married December 7. 1761, Elizabeth Calhoun, who was born in Edinburgh, March 23, 1744. He learned the weaver's trade in Edinburgh, and in June, 1775, embarked with his family from Greenwich, England, for America. The British at this time occupied Boston Harbor, and after a voyage ot sixteen weeks Mr. Mackenzie landed at Marblehead, Mass. He finally came to Londonderry, N. H., where he remained nine years, then removed to New Boston, N. H. After eight years' residence at the latter place he removed to Hartland, Vt , where he died July 30, 1825 ; his wife January 10, 1827. He had a family of nine children, viz.: John and David died in infancy; Charles, born November 29, 1768, died at Hartland, January 5. 1847; Peter, born July 20, 1771, died at Berlin, Vt., June 4, 1810 ; John, born January 3, 1774, became a blacksmith, and settled in Woodstock, where he died July 29, 1854; Joseph; Betsey, born September 22, 1779, died at Hartland, August 11, 1858; Margaret, born March 23. 1782, died at Woodstock, March 2, 1848 ; and David, born November 15, 1785, died at Hartland, November 13, 1800. Joseph, above, born at Londonderry, N. H., August l1, 1776, married September 5, 1805, Mercy, daughter of George Thomas of Woodstock. Her father was a Revolutionary soldier, and purchased the farm now occupied by Joseph C. Mackenzie in Woodstock with Continental money received for his services during the war. Joseph Mackenzie came to Woodstock in 1799 as apprentice to his brother John, and from that time till his death, December 16, 1869, was a resident of the town. His wife died June 28, 1856, aged seventy-two years. Their children were Mary, born July 20, 1806, married Bela F. Simmons, and died in Woodstock ; George T., born in 1808, married Angeline Comstock, and in 1835 settled at Adrian, Mich., where he died ; Joseph C. and John F., twins, born April 11, 1813 ; the former resides in Woodstock; the latter died August 13, 1841 ; Justin F.; Theresa, born October 24, 1819, married Ransom M. Russell, and resides in Woodstock; Harriet, born February 10, 1822, married R. C. M. Howe and resides at St. Johnsbury, Vt.; and Valucia, died in infancy. Justin F., of the above family, was born in Woodstock, May 5, 1816, and lived till he was eighteen years of age on his father's farm. In May, 1834, he emigrated West with his brother, locating at Adrian, Mich. The following year he returned to his native town, having contracted fever and ague in Michigan. In 1836 he was employed by Jasper Strong, at Ouechee, in erecting a woolen-mill at that point, and with A. G. Dewey made all the leather belts by hand used in supplying the mill. Mr. Mackenzie continued to be employed at these mills till the spring of 1838, when, owing to financial difficulties, they were shut down. From this time till the fall of 1839 he had charge of the dye-house of Mallory & Co., at Quechee, and from the latter date till 1842 he was employed by Francis Kidder & Co., of Bristol, N. H., as head dyer. On account of the failure of Messrs. Kidder & Co. Mr. Mackenzie returned to Ouechee, and for a short time was employed in the mills there ; but in the latter part of 1842 he purchased a farm in the northwestern part of Woodstock. From this time till 1858 he was engaged in farming, though at different intervals he was employed in woolen-mills ; from 1854 to 1858 he had charge of the dyeing at the Woodward mills. In the winter of 1858 Mr. Mackenzie formed a partnership with A. G. Dewey and William S. Carter, under the firm name of A. G. Dewey & Co., and manufactured woolens at the lower mill in Ouechee. He retained this interest till his death, July 25, 1889. Mr. Mackenzie married, December 26, 1842, Mary, daughter of John Dewey. They had two children, Frank S. and Charles. He removed from his farm to Quechee, where he continued to reside till the winter of 1869, when he came to Woodstock village, purchasing the property situated at the head of the park, the house having been built by the late Dr. John D. Powers. Mr. Mackenzie was largely interested in the building of the Woodstock railroad, and was at the time of his death its vice-president. He represented Woodstock in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1884. In 1885 he superintended the building of the Norman Williams Memorial Library, and also obtained the charter for the Woodstock Aqueduct Company. Biographie Index
MARSH, FREDERICK W ., is descended from Rev. Elisha Marsh, a graduate of Harvard College, and who was pastor of a Congregational church at Westminster, Mass , from October 20, 1742, till 1757. He afterwards removed to Walpole, N H., and practiced law, and was a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Cheshire county, N. H. He had a large family, and one of his sons, Benjamin by name, born June 7, 1754, settled in Chesterfield, N. H., about 1785. He married, in 1788, Mrs. Hannah Graves, who was born in November, 1757. Benjamin died April 17. 1811. His wife died April 12, 1819. They had a family of two sons and two daughters. Asa, their youngest son, and the father of our subject, was born April 22, 1791, and married, in 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac Hall. They had a family of six children Frederick W., the fourth child and third son, was born at Chesterfield, January 14, 1831. After attending the district schools he became a student at Chesterfield Academy, where he remained till he was eighteen years of age. He then was employed by Zelatus Dickinson in the dry-goods trade at Brattleboro, Vt., with whom he remained a year. He afterwards was employed for a year by John Frost, who carried on the grocery business in the same town In 1852 Mr. Marsh went to California, but returning the fall of the same year he became a partner in the firm of J. L. Pierce & Co., at Londonderry, Vt. They carried on a general store, and the partnership continued till 1859. Mr. Marsh continued to reside at Londonderry till the spring of 1864, when he came to Chester. In the fall of 1865 he formed a partnership with P. H. Robbins, which continued for 23 years. Mr., Marsh has been a life-long Democrat, having followed his father's footsteps. Though differing with a majority of his townsmen in politics, he has been called upon to fill various offices. He has held the positions of justice of the peace and town grand juryman for a number of years. He married, first. Miss Mary Jane Robinson, of Boston. His second wife was Miss Ellen M. Allen, of Boston. The issue of this marriage is one child, George F., born February 2, 1877. Biographie Index
MARTIN, ALONZO A ., was born in Nashua, N. H., December 2, 1842, the fourth in a family of seven children of Nason C. and Cynthia G. (Center) Martin. His father, a native of New York State, was born April 9, 1810. He moved from York State and settled in Litchfield, N. H., where he married, in 1836, Cynthia G. Center, born in Litchfield in 1817. After his marriage he removed from Litchfield to Nashua, N. H., where all his children were born. In 1852 he went to California, and was engaged in business at Sacramento city for two years. Upon his return East he moved from Nashua to Barnard, Vt., where he remained three years, when he moved to Woodstock, Vt., where he lived till 1863 and then moved to Hartland, and in company with his son, Alonzo A., carried on the sash, door, and blind manufacture. He also carried on a woolen manufactory. The establishment of these manufactories by the Martins gave the name of " Martinsville" to the hamlet in Hartland where they are situated. The father retired from business in 1870, removing to Claremont, N. H., where he died April 12, 1874. His widow survives him, and lives in Martinsville. Their six children were William D., dealer in machinery in Chicago; Eliza A., wife of George Thompson, a retired farmer, living in Claremont, N. H.; Alonzo A.; Henrietta, died, aged two years; Frank P., manufacturer in company with Charles Stickney, at Martinsville; and Clarence L., jobber and contractor, living in Claremont.
Alonzo A. received his education in the common schools of his native town. At the age of nineteen, and on his birthday, he enlisted in Company H, Seventh Vermont Regiment. He received his discharge, on account of disability, June 23, 1863, at St. Rosa Island, near Fort Pickens. Upon his return from the war he engaged with his father in the manufacturing business at Martinsville. He purchased his father's interest in the business in 1866, and has carried it on by himself ever since. His business will average from $20,000 to $30,000 per year. He married, September 28, 1868, Ella M. French, born in Windsor, January 19, 1850, daughter of Robert E. and Lucia A. (Bagley) French. They have no children. Biographie Index
MCINDOE, LYMAN J ., was born in Barnet, Vt, January 17, 1819. His grandfather, John, came from Claren, Scotland, and settled in Barnet, Vt., about 1784. He married, first, Janet Lourie, and had two children, Robert and James. He married second, Widow Agnes Furgeson. He died about 1806. His son James, born February, 1782, in Scotland, married Abigail, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rich) Baker, Her father, John Baker, was a Revolutionary soldier, and died at Manchester, N. H., in 1815. Elizabeth, his wife, died June, 1812. Abigail died May 15, 1852. Their children were John Baker Way, born January 21, 1812; Robert, born December 25, 1813; Eliza Jane, born January 21, 1816; Lyman James; Lovinia Sophia, born July 8, 1821 ; David, born April 26, 1824; George C, March 4, 1828; and Laura Ann, born December 17, 1831. Lyman James Mclndoe removed with his parents, at an early age, to Newbury, Vt. When about twelve years of age he had a severe illness which left him with a cough, that followed him through life, and in a condition of general health that led his parents and himself to regard the printer's trade as favorable to his prospects. With a bare common school education, he began to learn that trade with John R. Reding, of Haverhill, N. H., at the age of fifteen. After completing a regular apprenticeship, he continued to work in the same office for some time as a journeyman, and with rigid economy and unwearied labor, he continued to lay up a small sum of money on which to make a beginning in the world. Being called to settle a brother's estate in Nashville, Tenn., he remained in that city about a year. He set up business for himself at Newbury about the year 1846, and printed the Christian Messenger for a year or two. In 1848 he commenced the publication of the Aurora of the Valley, and issued it for two years as a semi-monthly, and then changed it to a weekly paper. Steadily gaining in funds by rare enterprise and tact, and in reputation by skill and success in the newspaper business, he purchased a paper in Bradford, Vt, and published the same as the Orange County Journal, in 1856 and some years thereafter. In 1857 he bought the entire establishment of the Vermont Journal, at Windsor, Vt., and in November of that year he assumed the proprietorship and editorial care of the same, and devoted to it the maturity and strength of his life. Under his supervision this paper was made to rank among the foremost in journalism. In 1863 he also became proprietor of the Vermont Chronicle, a double folio sheet, not excelled either in size or adaptation of its contents to its readers by any country religious newspaper in the land. For the purpose of enhancing the local department of his papers, in 1868 he entered upon the plan of publishing different editions of his paper for different localities. In October, 1869, he issued the Granite State Journal, designed especially for circulation on the New Hampshire side of the Valley of the Connecticut. Within the year prior to his death he laid the foundation for and issued two additional newspaper publications, viz., The Valley Farmer, designed especially for the wants of the Vermont and New Hampshire agriculturists, and the Aurora of the Valley for racy, entertaining and useful reading in the family. Indeed, he seemed to place no limit to his enterprise in enlarging his field of newspaper publication; the last months, even, of his life were occupied with plans which he had hoped might surpass in interest and usefulness all his previous endeavors. The following written by one who knew him well sets forth the traits of character which gave to Mr. Mclndoe his success as an editor and publisher: "He was indefatigable in his industry, unassuming in his modesty, frugal in personal matters, broad and liberal in giving his readers the most and the best, far reaching and enterprising in his plans, unbounded in his devotion to his profession, and untiring in his application to his duties." His constant study and endeavor were to give his publications high tone. He would never print any article or story corrupting to morals or taste. His publishing enterprises were a financial success, beyond most publishers of his time. In his will he bequeathed the Vermont Journal, and Granite State Journal subscription list, good will, press, engine, and all fixtures for printing, to the Vermont and New Hampshire Bible Societies ; the Vermont Chronicle to the General Convention of Congregational Ministers and Churches of Vermont. Mr. Mclndoe died at his home in Windsor, December 24, 1873. He married, first, Lucia K. Porter, of Lyman, N. H. Robert H. Mclndoe, born March 22, 1849, resident of San Francisco, Cal., is the only child by this marriage. He married second, June 13, 1854, Abbie, daughter of David and Florinda Locke, born in Lyman, September 15, 1834. The children by the second marriage were Lucia A., born March 12, 1856, died November 3, 1864; Clara Alice, born August 24, 1859, married December 31, 1878, Marsh O. Perkins, editor-in-chief of the Vermont Journal; Abbie, born February 2, 1878, died March 17. 1878 ; and Florinda, born July 9, 1869. Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have four children: Locke Mclndoe, born November 20, 1879; Gail Giddings, born August 4, 1882; Margaret and Marion, twins, born September 9, 1889; Herbert Marsh, born January 19, 1891. Biographie Index
MORGAN, CHARLES , was born in Bethel, Vt., July 30, 1818. He married, September 3, 1851, Julana, daughter of Hiram and Lucinda (McWain) Hodgkins, born in Stockbridge, January 4, 1825. Her grandfather, Thomas, was a colonel in the Revolutionary War. He was a native of Connecticut, and moved from Hampton, in that State, and settled in Rochester at an early date. He married Tryphena Durkee, and reared a family of two sons and three daughters, all of whom are deceased. Colonel Thomas and his wife died in Rochester, and are buried there. Hiram, her father, born in Rochester, December 14, 1799, married Lucinda McWain, and had four children, viz: Julana; Diana, born December 23, 1827, died October 21, 1852; Jane, born August 10, 1829, was the wife of Philander Baker, died in Rochester, August 4, 1869; Hiram, born August 17, 1831, married Frances, daughter of John Emerson, of Rochester. They have three children, viz.: Lana, Georgiana and Royal T. He lives in Ames, la. Ann B., born May 17, 1836, died October 12, 1840. Hiram her father, died January 30, 1881, in Rochester. His wife died in Binghamton, N. Y., March 1, 1883.
Charles Morgan received his education in the district schools of Bethel, and at an academy at East Randolph. He was clerk in stores at Bethel and Rochester in the early years of his life. He became a permanent resident of Rochester in 1 830, where he engaged in general merchandising. He was postmaster for many years, and represented the town in the Legislature in 1877-78. He was State Inspector of Finance in 1875 and 1876. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan had one child, Wills H., born December 30, 1852, died March 27, 1856. They have adopted one child, Jessie M., born October 19, 1868. Biographie Index
MORGAN, HARVEY D ., was born in Stockbridge, December 1, 1816. Justin Morgan, his grandfather, came from Springfield, Mass., with his family, and settled in Randolph, Vt., and died there. He married Elizabeth Lee, and reared a family of seven children, one son and six daughters. Of the latter, Mrs. Emily Edgerton was a prominent lady of her time. He introduced into the State the world-wide famed " Morgan " breed of horses. Justin, his only son, and father of Harvey D., was born in Springfield, Mass. He married Sally Durkee and died in Stockbridge. His wife died in Binghamton, N. Y., but was buried with her husband in Stockbridge. Their children were Justin, died in Pittsburgh, Pa., and Mrs. Walter Mahony, of Columbus, O., is his only child living; Harvey D.; Charles, died in Rochester, Vt; Azro B., died in Troy, N.Y.; and Elizabeth, wife of Josiah B. Rogers, farmer, in Binghamton, N. Y. They have one child, Annie Morgan. Harvey D., when a young man, clerked in the store of Cushman & Flint, at Warren, Addison county, Vt., and subsequently became a partner with them. Afterwards Mr. Flint retired, and the business was continued in the name of Cushman & Morgan. Mr. Morgan then went to Columbus, O., where, for five years, he clerked in the hardware store of Gere & Abbott. In 1860 he returned to Stockbridge, where he purchased half of the homestead farm of Dr. Timothy Fay, his wife's father, which he carried on till his death. He also carried on the mercantile business during the same period. He was postmaster from 1861 to 1886. He was a thorough business man. filled a number of the town offices, and commanded the esteem of the entire community in which he lived. He married, June 14, 1841, Emily D., daughter of Dr. Timothy Paige and Eunice (Denison) Fay, born December 25, 1817, in Stockbridge. Her father, born in Hardwick, Mass., May 9, 1788, came with his parents to Vermont when six years of age, settling in Gilead, town of Bethel. He practiced his profession in Stockbridge many years, and died there August 29, 1865. His wife, Eunice, was a daughter of Daniel and Eunice (Stanton) Denison, born in Lisbon, Conn., June 17, 1785, and died in Stockbridge, September 29, 1839. They had eight children, five of whom, all daughters, lived to adult age, and were married. All are deceased except Mrs. Morgan. Mr. Morgan died at his residence in Stockbridge, November 3, 1886. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan have no children living. Mrs. Morgan survives her husband, and owns and carries on the homestead farm in Stockbridge. Biographie Index
MORRISON, MARQUIS F ., was born in Windsor, Vt., March 2, 1825. He descends the fifth generation from (1) Robert, probably born in Ireland, died in Londonderry, N. H.; settled therein 1719, was one of the 119 persons to whom the charter of the town was given. His wife's name was Elizabeth. They had three children, viz.: Robert, William and Sally. Robert, born in Ireland in 1714, was half owner with his brother William of the homestead farm in Londonderry, an elder in the West Parish church, never married, and died February 7, 1794. Sally married a Mr. Coburn, and lived and died in Derry, N. H. (2) William, born in Londonderry, November 30, 1726, died February 28, 1788. His wife was Jane Rogers; she died in 1794. Their children were : Robert, Hannah, Jane, Lizzie, David and Mary. Of these (3) David, grandfather of Marquis F., born in Londonderry, October 14, 1756, settled in Windsor, Vt., about 1794, and died there January 5, 1826. He took a deed of his farm in Windsor, October 12, 1795. His wife was Margaret McGrath, born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 5, 1766. Her father was a native of Ireland. In February, 1781, he went as a soldier in the army of the Revolution. She died August 30, 1843, aged seventy-seven years. The children of David and Margaret Morrison were William, Hannah, John Bush, Eliza, Daniel, Diadama, Relief and Lorenzo. Of these children (4) Daniel, father of Marquis F., was born in Windsor, November 9, 1796, and died there January 12, 1839. He married, June 2, 1822, Chloe Bishop, born in Barre, Vt., June 12, 1800. She died June 10, 1852. Daniel Morrison was a shoemaker as well as farmer, working at his trade after his day's work on the farm was done. Their children were Solon. Marquis F., Lorenzo and David. Solon, born April 14, 1823, was educated at the academy at Unity, N. H., at Meriden, N. H., the New England Seminary at Windsor, Vt., at Longueuil, and three years in college at St. Hyacinth. He paid especial attention to the study of the languages, having acquired the ability to speak and write in seven different languages. While in Longueuil he wrote his first letter as correspondent of the Vermont Journal, a correspondence which he has kept up for forty-five years. At the centennial celebration held in Windsor, July 4, 1874, he delivered the poem. He has followed the profession of teaching in the main as an occupation, but at the present time has retired from active work. He resides at Rougemont, Canada. Lorenzo, born June 5, 1827, married February 4, 1850, Adaline L,, daughter of Jonathan and Sophia (Lull) Davis, born November 14. 1833. He was educated for the medical profession, but practiced it but a short time. He lives at Windsor with his daughter, Mrs. Roswell Boyd. David, born May 4, 1830, died April 5, 1877, and was twice married, first, to Ellen Blood, born September 13, 1831, died March 6, 1864; second to Sarah D. Towne, born September 4, 1833. David filled positions of trust in Windsor and West Windsor, and was selectman of Windsor at the time of his death. Marquis F. lived till nine years of age on the place of his birth, the farm now owned by A. B. Blood. In 1834 his father purchased and moved onto the Zimri Kimball farm, and here he has lived ever since. The present farm house and most of the barns were built by him in 1858, and soon after the death of his father he purchased the interest of the heirs in the place, and became its owner. To the original sixty acres he has added, by purchase, ninety acres adjoining. His education was limited to attendance upon the common school. Farming has been his life work, but it is speaking within bounds to say that no man in the region about has been oftener called upon to attend to matters of public interest. Between the years of 1858 and 1875 he was selectman, fourteen years, and most of the time first selectman. Eight years of that time he was overseer of the poor, representative of the town in the Legislature in 1864, 1865 and 1880, administrator and executor on many different estates, and for the past forty years has been guardian of more or less minor children and orphans. He was district clerk and treasurer for more than twenty years, and lister two years. He is a Universalist in religious belief He married, December 16, 1847, Caroline S., daughter of Jonathan and Sophia (Lull) Davis, born June 3, 1830. Their children were, Alice L., born April 5, 1849, married, March 15, 1870, John S. Ainsworth, born in Hartland, Vt., February 9, 1844, farmer residing in Reading, and their children were Lena A., born April 5, 1876, and Ethel M., born September 1,1881; Alma E., born October 4, 1851, died April 27,1852; Galo, born June 27, 1853, died September 18, 1859; Lola S., born August 24, 1859, married May 12, 1885, Sidney A. Boyden, farmer living in Woodstock, and have one child, Mabel, born May 24, 1886; Milo, born July 14, 1860, died July 29, i860; Isabel, born March 27, 1863, married April 5, 1889, Frank D. Brannock, she lives at home, and has one child, Verne Clinton, born October 2, 1889; Hattie C, born April 14, 1864, married, March 10, 1885, Dr. George W. Worcester, a practicing physician and surgeon in Newburyport, Mass., they have had two children. Hazel A., born October 18, 1887, died October 28, 1889, and Ercell C, born August 24, 1890; Etta, born January 18, 1866, died April 2, 1866; Galen H., born August 11, 1869. died December 10, 1869, and Eva F., born November 11, 1870, died February 24, 1871. There have been eleven births and eleven deaths in the house since Mr. Morrison resided there. Biographie Index
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