Annals of Brattleboro Volume II
From Brattleboro Community Brain Trust
Annals of Brattleboro - Volume II
Front Matter
Annals of Brattleboro
Title Page
Annals of Brattleboro 1681-1895
Compiled and Edited by Mary R. Cabot
With Many Illustrations
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.
-R. Kipling
In Two Volumes - Volume II
Brattleboro, Vermont Press of E. L. Hildreth & Co. 1922
Contents
FOURTH PERIOD
WESSELHOEFT WATER-CURE-THE ESTEY ORGAN- PRIVATE SCHOOLS - 1844-1861
Chapter L. The Wesselhoeft Water-Cure
Wesselhoeft Water-Cure. Doctor Robert Wesselhoeft - Doctor Wilhelm Weaselhoeft (William H. Klinge) - John H. Gray - Wesselhoeft Water Cure-Letter from Doctor Wesselhoeft to Horace Greeley setting forth the advantages of location - Buildings - Paths along the Whetstone - Doctor Charles W. Grau - First doctor's prescription in Brattleboro - Rules and regulations - Process of cure - Amusements - Christian F. Schuster, musician- Southern guests - Death of Doctor Wesselhoeft - Children - Published works.
Lawrence Water-Cure. Bayard H. Clark - William H. Klinge - Emil Appelbaum - Doctor Grau - C. R. Blackall - William Wier - "The Lawrence" as a summer hotel, Mr. Appelbaum and Emest Heffe, proprietors - Both "Cold Water" establishments sold to Theodore Cole, Parker B. Francis and Leroy Salisbury - Mr. Francis proprietor of the "Wesselhoeft House" - Fanny Fern's praise of Brattleboro drives - Bliss Farm - Scott Farm - Boating - List of guests - The Lawrence made into tenement houses by S. W. Kimball - Henry B. Duclos -Mrs. Duclos - Their animals - Letter from Miss Farley, December 12, 1890.
The Traveling Musician. Alolnzo W. Hines-Lewis Higgins-Musical organizations.
Chapter LI. Guests of the Water-Cure Who Became Residents
Guests of the Water-Cure who became residents - General Simon B. Buckner - John Stoddard - Captain Henry Devens - William H. Fuller - Joseph N. Balestier - James Dalton - Azor Marshall - Professor Elie Charlier.
Mrs. Richard Howland - Miss Martha Howland - The Howland School.
Chapter LII -The East Village
The East Village in 1844-The paper mill-The Vermont Savings Bank.
Chapter LIII - The Semi-Weekly Eagle
The Semi-Weekly EagIe - Broughton D. Harris, William B. Hale, editor - Notes from the Eagle of the Brattleboro Thief Detection Society-The Brattleboro Shade Tree Association.
Chapter LIV - The Post Office
The Post Office. Major Henry Smith, General Franklin H. Fessenden, Samuel Duttona, Asher Spencer, George Kellogg, Daniel Kellogg, Junior, Ranslure W. Clarke, Charla H. Maaaur, Frederick W. Childa, postmaster.
The Brattleboro stamp - Frederick N. Palmer.
Chapter LV - Hotels.
The Revere House, built by James Fisk in 1849 - Henry Field, Asa W. Sanderson, J. J. Crandall, Edwin H. Chase, Colonel H. P. Vanbibber, Henry C. Nash, Fred B. Thomspon, George R. Cushing, O. F. and M. K. Knowlton, - Stevens, L. H. Crosby, George A. Boyden, Henry Harris, proprietors.
The Bratlleborough House, 1850-1861 (The Central Houae)-Liberty Rice, Colonel Paul Chase, Lemuel Whitney & Company, William C. Perry, Charles G. Lawrence, proprietor s
Stage-Driven: Elliot Swan, Sylvanus Wood - John L. Ray's livery stable.
Chapter LVI - The Coming of the Railroad - Formal Opening
Chapter LVII. First Telegraphy. James H. Capen, Junior, Welcome I. Capen
Chapter LVIII - The First News Agency
The First News Agency, established by Edward J. Carpenter-The Brattleboro Book Club-The New Book Club.
Chapter LIX -The Medical Profession
Doctor T. B. Kittredge - Doctor Charlel W. Grau, Doctors Loewenthal and Carley, Doctor C. R. Blackall, Doctor George P. Wesselhoeft. Hydropathists - Doctor J. P. Warren, Doctor James G. Murphy, Doctor E. C. Cross, Doctor Charles W. Horton, Doctor George F. Gale, Doctor J. H. Stedman-Doctors Ezekiel and George H. Morrill, Homeopathists - Doctor S. W. Bowla.
Chapter LX. Organ Manufacture
Organ Manufacture - Samuel H. Jones - Joseph L. Jones -Riley Burdett - S. H. Jones & Company - Jones & Burdett - John Woodbury - Austin K. Jones - Jacob Estey -E. B. Carpenter & Company - Isaac Hines & Company - Jones, Carpenter & Woods - Silas M. Waite - J. Estey & Company - R. Burdett & Company - Burdett invention. -Elmero Bliss - Burdett Organ Company, Chicago.
Chapter LXI - Jacob Estey
Honorable Jacob Estey. The Estey Organ. General Julius Estey - Colonel J. Gray Estey - J. Harry Estey.
Chapter LXII - Skilled Mechanics
John Gore - Edwin Putnam.
Chapter LXIII - The Town Hall. Agricultural Exhibition on the Muster Field
Chapter LXIV - St. Michael's Episcopal Church - List of Clergy
Chapter LXV - St Michael's Roman Catholic Church
St. Michael's Ronan Catholic Church. Priests - Young Ladies' Sodality - St. Michael's Parochial School- Sisters of St. Joseph.
Chapter LXVI - The Windham County Bank, 1856
June 30, 1864, The First National Bank.
Chapter LXVII - The Howe Photograph Gallery
The Howe Photograph Gallery - Caleb L Howe (J. L Lovell) - John C. Howe-Howe family.
Chapter LXVIII - Private Schools
Private Schools - The Melrose Seminary - Fremont School for Young Ladies, Reverend Addison Brown - Select School for Young Ladies, Miss Sarah Hunt - Elm Hall, Mrs. Lucy M. Chase - Burnside Military School, Colonel Charles Appleton Miles - New Brattleborough Academy - Glenwood Ladies' Seminary. Hiram Orcutt - Laneside Boarding School for Young Ladies, Miss Louisa A. Barber.
Chapter LXIX - Biographical Sketches
Biographical Sketches - Pratt family (Wheeler & Pratt) - D. Stewart Pratt - Alfred H. Wright - Oscar J. Pratt -Oscar D. Esterbrook - Silas M. Waite, the Organ Case - The Vernon cannon - Frederick A. Nash - Charles C. Waite - Bethuel Ranger - Charles F. Thompson - Reverend James Herrick - Draper family; Reverend George B. Draper, William H. Draper, M.D., Francis E. Draper. Francis Goodhue, II - Honorable Broughton D. Harris - Fred H. Harris - Charles A. Harris - Honorable Ranslure W. Clarke - Timothy Vinton - William F. Richardson - Isaac N. Thorn - Barna A. Clark - Edward Crosby - Crosby family (Charles B. Rice, Leroy F. Adams, C. W. Wyman, Edward C. Crosby) - John J. Retting - William Alonzo Hopkins-Davenport & Mansur: Alonzo C. Davenport, Charles H. Mansur - Philip Wells - William S. Newton -Honorable George Howe (George E. Howe) - Judge Daniel Kellogg - Kellogg family (Judge Asa O. Aldis, Henry A. Willard) - John Burnham - Henry Burnham -Burnham family - Larkin G. Mead, Junior - The Snow Angel - William Rutherfurd Mead - William Morris Hunt -Richard Morris Hunt - Colonel Leavitt Hunt - Bradley family continued: William C., II - S. Rowe - Richards Bradley - Arthur C. (Richards M.-J. Dorr). Walker family: Reverend Charlel Walker - Stephen A. Walker - Reverend George Leon Walker (Professor Williston Walker) - Henry F. Walker, M.D. Norman F. Cabot (William Brooks Cabot) - Honorable George W. Folsom -Honorable Hampden Cutts - Miss Mary Cutts - George Chandler Hall - Honorable Charles Kellogg Field-Thmoas Thompson - Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson - Item of Thompson will.
FIFTH PERIOD THE CIVIL WAR-QRGAN1ZATION, INDUSTRIAL, PHILANTHROPIC AND SOCIAL 1861-1895
Chapter LXX -The Civil War
The Civil War - First Regiment of Vermont Volunteers - Captain John W. Phelps - Enlistment of first company to go from Brattleboro - List of officers and men-Record of Captain Edward A. Todd - Major Elijah Wales - George M. Colt - Benjamin F. Davis - Charles B. Rice - Fred W. Simonds - Silas W. Richardson - George F. Britton - James Everett Alden - George W. Hooker - Herbert E. Taylor - Isaac K. Allen - Captain Edward Carter - Benjamin R. Jenne - Wallace Pratt - William C. Holbrook - Frank H. Emerson - George E. Selleck - Robert G. Hardie - Major David W. Lewis - Lieutenant-Colonel Cummings - Captain Robert B. Arms - John M. Joy - Major George H. Bond - Henry C. Streeter-Lorenzo D. Keyes - Almon B. Gibbs - Luke Ferriter, detailed to execute sentence on William Scott. Casualties, J. Warren Hyde - Lieutenant-Colonel John Steele Tyler - Lieutenant-Colonel Addison Brown.
Officers and Soldiers from Brattleboro, 1861-1865. Alonzo Granville Draper - The Military Hospital - Memorial stone - War relief
Chapter LXXI - Governor Frederick Holbrook
Chapter LXXII - General John W. Phelps
General John W. Phelps. Emancipation Proclamation - Tribute to General Phelps from General Rush W. Hawkins - Mrs. Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps.
Chapter LXXIII - Further War Records
Further Records. Colonel William Austine - Colonel William Cune Holbrook - Colonel Herbert Edward Taylor - Colonel George White Hooker - Colonel Nathaniel C. Sawyer - Doctor George F. Gale - Doctor Charles P. Frost - Doctor Benjamin Ketchum - Colonel John Hunt - George E. Greene.
The Navy - Commodore Theodore P. Greene.
Chapter LXXIV - The Big Flood of April, 1862
Chapter LXXV - The High School
The High School. Benjamin Franklin Bingham - Assistant teachers - Later principals - Alumni Association.
Chapter LXXVI - The Lyceum
Chapter LXXVII - Vermont Record and Farmer
Vermont Record and Farmer. Daniel L Milliken - Henry M. Burt, "Attractions of Brattleboro" - Reverend Mr. Ketchum - George E. Crowell- E. P. Ackerman - C. Horace Hubbard - F. D. Cobleigh - J. M. Tyler - Reverend Augustus Chandler (Reverend Joseph Chandler-Reverend John Chandler).
Chapter LXXVIII - After the War
Chapter LXXIX - The Household -George E. Crowell - Crowell Water Works
Chapter LXXX - A Flood of the Whetstone
Chapter LXXXI - Fire Department-The Great Fire of 1869
Chapter LXXXII - Development of Job Printing and Publishing
Development of job printing and publishing. George Eaton Selleck. The Brattleboro Times - Edward Bushnell - Daniel Selleck - L L Davis. Frederick C. Edwards -George H. Salisbury. The Tramp Printer, T. P. James - "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" - Edwin L Hildreth & Company - Mrs. Esther T. Housh - Woman at Work-Edward Bushnell -The Leisure Hour - Charles Spencer-The Brattleboro Evening Times.
Chapter LXXXIII - Industries - Banks
Industries. Brattleboro Woolen Mills - Sewing machines, 1859 to 1882 - Knitting-machine needles, J. B. Randall, 1876 - Furniture, 186S-1873 - Cigar industry, John D. Roell, 1869 - Stencil dies, S. M. Spenser, E. M. Douglas - First gas house, Brattleboro Gaslight Company - Organ reeds, J. D. Whitney &: Son, 1876 - Baby carriages, Smith & Hunt, 1873 - Children's toys, S. A. Smith & Company, 1889 - Brattleboro Furniture Company - E. P. Carpenter Organ Factory - Corser & Hidden, overalls, 1890.
Banks. Brattleboro Savings Bank - Peoples National Bank.
Chapter LXXXIV - Organizations, Philanthropic and Social
Organizations. Philanthropic and Social - Freedman's Aid Association, 1867 - Windham County Suffrage Association, 1870 - Anti-Monopoly and Equal Taxation, 1814 - Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 1877 - Brattleboro Liberal Association, 1877 - Professional Club, 1879: presidents, subjects discussed--Woman's Relief Corps, 188S - Windham County Lodge of Free and Accepted Anti-Masons, 1881 - Village Improvement Society, 1886 - Woman's Educational and Industrial Union, 1889 - Natural History Society, 1888 - Associated Charities, 1892 - Home for the Aged and Disabled - Daughters of the American Revolution, 1893. Temperance and Profanity - Brattleboro Temperance Society, 1866 - Good Samaritan Society, 1870 -Sacred Pledge, 1875- St. Michael's Temperance and Benevolent Society - Woman's Christian Temperance Union, 1877- Juvenile Total Abstinence Society, 1880. Young Men's Christian Association.
Chapter LXXXV - Protective Grange-Farmers' and Mechanics' Exchange
Chapter LXXXVI - The Estey Guard- Fuller Battery
Chapter LXXXVII - Musical Organizations
Musical Organizations. Brattleboro Orchestra - Choral Union - First Regiment Band - Philharmonic Society.
Chapter LXXXVIII - Brattleboro Clubs and Associations
Brattleboro Clubs. Forest and Stream, 181~Brattleboro Bicycle Club-Vermont Wheel Club, 188S-Windham County Park Auociation-New England and Vermont State Fair of I866--Valley Fair Association, 1886 Valley Fair parade of 1894 - Board of Trade, 1887 - Order of Red Men. 1888 - New England Trout and Salmon Club, 1889.
Chapter LXXXIX - The Brick Church in West Brattleboro
Brick Church in West Brattleboro - Purchased from Universalists by Estey & Company - Clergy - Salvation Army, 188S - Swedish Lutheran Church, 1894 - Advent Church, 1896.
Chapter XC - The Reformer
The Reformer. Charles N. Davenport - Charles H. Davenport - E. H. Crane. The Vermont Printing Company - Brattleboro Daily Reformer.
Chapter XCI -The Brooks House - Brooks Library
The Brooks House - The Brooks Library - George Jones Brooks. Mrs. Kirkland's House.
Chapter XCII - The Post Office
The Post Office, 1886. Free Delivery - Carriers - Doctor Daniel P. Webster - Colonel Herbert Taylor - Colonel Kittredge Haskins - Michael Moran- Charles W. Wilcox, assistant postmaster fifty-one years - The Listing Department.
Road to Wantastiquet-Wells Fountain, 1890.
Chapter XCIII - Windham County Politics. (By Honorable Kittredge Haskins)
Chapter XCIV - Governor Levi Knight Fuller
Chapter XCV - Biographical Sketches
Physicians. Biographical. Honorable James M. Tyler - Honorable Kittredge Haskins - Henry C. Willard - Peleg Barrows - Reverend Lewis Grout - Reverend Allan D. Brown, LL.D. - Francis W. Brooks - Doctor David P. Dearborn - Henry D. Holton, M.D. - Davenport family: Charles N. Davenport - Charles H. Davenport - Herbert J. Davenport. The Childs family: Walter H. Childs - Rollin S. Childs - Major Frederick W. Childs. William H. Rockwell, Junior - Miss Helen M. French - "Sally Joy White" -Madame Georgianna Mondan - Franklin H. Sawyer (Doctor Charles E. Severance) - Mary E. Wilkins - Lieutenant-Commander George W. Tyler - Newton I. Hawley -Joseph Draper, M.D. - Reverend Charles H. Merrill - Honorable Parley Starr - Jonathan G. Eddy - Honorable Edgar W. Stoddard - James Conland, M.D. - Reverend William H. Collins - Honorable Dorman B. Eaton - Judge George Shea - Reverend Samuel M. Crothers - Reverend George B. Gow - Judge James L. Martin - Judge Hoyt H. Wheeler - Doctor Daniel P. Webster - Reverend Charles O. Day-Reverend James H. Babbitt - Judge Eleazer L. Waterman - William Eaton Foster - Robert Gordon Hardie, Junior - Oscar A. Marshall - Russell A. Bigelow - Doctor William Bullock Clark - Frederick Holbrook, II - Wolcott Balestier - Rudyard Kipling - Wilford H. Brackett - Clarke C. Fitts - Ora E. Butterfield - Professor Starr Willard Cutting - Mary Howe - Madame Brazzi-Pratt.
ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
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