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He remained with us for two years, leaving at the close of Sophomore year, in the Summer of 1862, for
the purpose of entering the service of his country, which he did by enlisting on October 22,
1862, as a private in Company K, Fifteenth Regiment, Vermont Volunteers. At the
organization of the regiment, he was made Sergeant-Major, and in November following, was
promoted to Second Lieutenant, this being followed in March, 1863, by still further
promotion to First Lieutenant. He was mustered out of the Service on July 22, 1863, the
term for which he enlisted, nine months, having expired. Upon his return home, he wrote
to President Asa D. Smith, asking if he could rejoin our class without making up what had
been gone over during his absence. He received an affirmative answer, and at the beginning
of the Fall term in 1863, he started for Hanover, but on the way there he purchased a farm
of four hundred acres, and abandoned his purpose to finish his college course. He soon
bought an additional four hundred acres, and for four years he managed the farm with
abundant success. In 1867 he started a newspaper at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, called The St.
Johnsbury Times, which he continued the proprietor of for a little over a year, with very
satisfactory results, when he sold out at a large advance upon the cost. He next bought some
mill property with eighteen acres of land, in Summerville, Vermont, a suburb of St.
Johnsbury, where his home now is, upon which he has built and sold several good houses.
During the past twelve years, he has owned one store at three different times. He says that
in all things he has had "first-rate luck," that he has a healthy, vigorous family, and is as
happy as a man needs to be in this world.
In his religious views, he is a Universalist; in politics, a Republican.
He was married March 2, 1864, to Miss Ella F. Carr, of Waterford, Vermont. They
had three children: Edith Lydia, born March 29, 1866; Mabel Fanny, born November
26, 1868, and Ella Edna, born December 15, 1870. His wife died
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He was married, second, October 4, 1873, to Miss Sarah F. Hutchins, of St.
Johnsbury, Vermont. They have one child, Bertha Ellen, born August 6, 1875.
Source: "Memorialia
of the Class of '64 in Dartmouth College" complied by
John C. Webster, Shepard & Johnston, Printers, 1884,
Chicago
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