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Glover History Winter 2007 1

Providing for the Future, Remembering the Past1783-2007

Vol. 16, No. 1 Glover Historical Society, Inc. Winter 2007

GL VER HISTORY

From the PresidentAnother year has passed and become history. We

have had a successful year and have published a longawaited second cemetery book consisting of theAndersonville, West Glover, and French cemeter-ies. It contains the same format as the Westlook bookwith much genealogical information. We have alsoprinted a second edition of Andersonville, the First100 Years book.

The Runaway Pond Park access road is to bepaved by the State next summer when they pave VTRt. 16. The Glover Selectmen have graciously

applied a six-inch gravel bed to the access road asrequested by the State in preparation for the asphalt.All of this will benefit our plans for the 200thanniversary in June 2010 of the historic event of thepond running away. We are open to any commentsand ideas as to what should be involved in a grandcelebration. This coming June will leave only threeyears to finalize plans.

As previously mentioned in past newsletters, ourSociety rooms are open by appointment by calling525-8855, or during the winter months 525-6212.

- Bob Clark

2007 Vermont History Expo Exhibit

Scooters, sleds and saucers:

There hasn’t been much snow yet this winter, butthat is not stopping us from thinking of one of themost popular winter activities: sliding! This year’stheme for the 2007 Vermont Historical Society’s Ver-mont History Expo at the Tunbridge Fairgrounds onJune 23 and 24 is “Travel & Transportation: HowVermonters Got There from Here.” The Glover His-torical Society’s exhibit will feature memories of slid-ing in Glover, one of the most fun ways to get fromthere to here.

The inspiration for the exhibit is a woodentraverse sled donated to the GHS a few years ago byMarion Darling Cubit. Marion remembers hearingher father tell about flying down the Sheffield HeightsRoad on that sled, all the way from the top of the

sliding down the hills of Glover by Joan F. Alexander

Rachel Urie (now Lafont) on traverse sled made by hergrandfather, John Armour Urie, pulled by her brother JamesUrie and his calf. At Foster and Bessie Urie’s Hillcrest Farm,at the top of Beech Hill, circa 1936. This farm is now gone,but is identified as the J. Urie place on the 1878 Beers map.Jean Borland believes the sled is gone now too; “ I think wejust wore it out.” Photo courtesy of Jean Urie Borland

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Museum organizing: we are ready to roll!

Glover Historical Society goals for 2007At the September 2006 GHS meeting (the last

until April 2007), members compiled a list of to-dosfor 2007. It’s ambitious!

* Have the plantings at Runaway Pond evalu-ated: what is weed, what is flower, what needs to bedone? We want to begin sprucing up the place inpreparation for the 200th Anniversary of the runningaway of Runaway Pond, which will be in June 2010.

* Museum acquisition work* Queens of Hearts cards: make a full deck!* Update Glover 911 map and republish* Update website

* Spruce up the Glover room at the Old StoneHouse before the next Old Stone House Day in Au-gust 2007.

Not a member? Please join us!As you will note from our financial report, our

coffers are getting slim! We hope you will considerjoining if you are not already a member. The cost ofbecoming a member of the Glover Historical Societyis not very much, but dues money does add up andhelps the GHS continue to preserve and shareGlover’s past. Please join and support our efforts.

This fall the GHS purchased a computer softwareprogram to help us keep a database organized recordof all the museum acquisitions. After checking withother historical societies and with Glover’s ownDarlene Young, who has a wealth of museum collec-tions experience, we chose Past Perfect, a museumcollection management program. It wasn’t cheap(over $600), but we did get a 20% discount by or-dering it with a bulk order through the Vermont Gal-lery and Museum Alliance. Also, we ordered about$300 worth of archival, acid-free tissue, folders andboxes so that we can preserve more of our collec-tions in safe ways. However, one of our preservationefforts was absolutely free! One of the three museumrooms did not have window coverings, and in the

archival world, light is the biggest culprit. But now,thanks to Pearl and John Urie’s donation of somedrapes they had, Harriet King’s work at the sewingmachine, and Don Atkins hanging the hardware, theroom is light free when it needs to be!

This spring, we hope to start tackling the nextsteps in our organizational work, which will be mak-ing a list of everything in the museum, checking itagainst the entries in our acquisition book, enteringeach item into the software program, and making sureeach item is stored properly. Want to help? It wouldbe a wonderful chance to see Glover’s past. Pleasecall Joan Alexander if you are interested. There willlikely be day and nighttime work bees.

Website updateIf you log on to the Glover Historical Society

site (www.gloverhistoricalsociety.org) you will notnotice any new postings, but rest assured, things arehappening. Your secretary, Joan Alexander, has hada tutorial in how to update the site and, time willing,things should begin to happen! But if you have notyet checked the site out, do! There is plenty to seeand read about Glover and the GHS.

Glover HistoryA semiannual publication of theGlover Historical Society, Inc.

P.O. Box 208, Glover, VT 05839

Additional Board Members:Martha Alexander, Eleanor Bailey, Jean Borland,

Gisele Clark, Harriet King,Randy Williams

President .................. Bob ClarkVice President .............. Betsy DaySecretary .............. Joan AlexanderTreasurer ............... Michael Ladd

Thanks to Lucy Smith for compiling our mailinglist and keeping it up to date.


Heights to Glover Village, right through the LowerVillage before it petered out of momentum! The sledwas made by her grandfatherLaban Darling who was ablacksmith. The sled is insome need of repair today, butwhen you see the metal run-ners, pegged and nailed woodjoints and worn wood, 6 anda half feet long (!), you canimagine those trips! We arehoping others will remembertheir adventures on sleds, to-boggans, scooters and saucersdown Glover’s hills. Our ex-hibit will showcase actualsleds, photos and the tales ofthe trips folks have taken withthem.

Jean Borland shared what may be Glover’s earli-est recorded reference to sliding, written by Civil Warsoldier Dan Mason who was home on leave in De-cember 1863. On Christmas Day he wrote in his di-ary, “Emily and I went to Mr. Perkin’s donation. Hada good time sliding on the ice by moonlight with thefair ones.” (Jean believes “the fair ones” referred toDan’s sister Emily and his own sweetheart, HarrietClark, whom he married.)

What are your sledding memories? Students at

Queens of Hearts Project stillcollecting Queens

the Glover Community School will be gathering sled-ding stories, mapping some of the most popular slid-

ing spots and traditionsthrough the years, and, hope-fully, compiling a “Sled Mu-seum” at the school. Wewould like to photograph anysleds or other sliding contrap-tions you may have in yourattics or barns. Hopefully wewill have enough snow by theend of the project to have asliding party at school for allthose who have shared theirstories for the project.

We’d love to add yoursliding memories to our ex-hibit! Where did you slide?On what? With whom? What

was your favorite kind of sled? What is your favoritesliding memory? Happiest trip? Scariest trip? GiveGHS Secretary Joan Alexander a call (525-6212) ifyou have a story or photograph to share, or a sled,scooter or saucer we could photograph, or borrowfor the Sled Museum at school or our Expo exhibit.If you live far from town, please jot down your memo-ries and send them to the GHS at P.O. Box 208,Glover, VT 05839. We hope to have all memoriesgathered by the end of April 2007.

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Do you know a Glover woman, past or present,whom you would like to honor with a “Queen ofHearts” title? Blank forms are available at the TownClerk’s office, along with a notebook of completedcards for about 30 Glover women from three

Detail of traverse sled built by Laban Darling, nowat the GHS Museum. Laban was born in 1845 anddied in 1814, so perhaps the sled was made about1860-1870. Photo by Joan Alexander

different centuries. Several more cards are in theworks now, and we hope to fill the book with afull deck! Please call Joan Alexander (525-6212)if you have questions.


Glover’s Civil War places by Joan F. Alexander

Last fall Vermont historian and author HowardCoffin stopped in Irasburg to talk with folks abouthis current project. Coffin is traveling around the state,urging people to document places in their towns thatare connected to the Civil War. Places might includethe building where men signed up, or a house wherea Gettysburg veteran lived out the rest of his life.Coffin hopes to compile a book that would list anddescribe all these Civil War spots.

Members of the Glover Historical Society havebeen working to compileGlover’s list. Here iswhat we have gatheredso far. Please let us knowif you know of somethingwe have omitted. Pleasecontact GHS SecretaryJoan Alexander at P.O.Box 208, Glover, VT05839 if you have addi-tions for the list.

1. The Union House,Glover St., Glover Vil-lage (now a nursinghome, then an inn) Re-cruits signed up here, ata desk that is now at theOld Stone House Museum in Brownington. After thewar, this is where the GAR Post No. 16 (Mason Post)and the Women’s Relief Corps (Erastus Buck ReliefCorps) regularly met until they disbanded in the 1930s.

(I remember reading an interesting account ofGen. Grout (from St. Jay or Danville?) walking allover the county trying to enlist but always arrivingtoo late to sign up. Finally after walking all night hedid make it to the Union House in Glover, and wenton to become a general. –J.A.)

2. The Old Stone House Museum, Brownington,VT. Here in the Glover Room, you can see the deskthat was in the Union House where Union recruitssigned on. Also there is a U.S. flag that was pur-chased by the town of Glover in 1883, and presented

that same year to the Mason Post No. 16, GAR ofGlover. Glover’s poet laureate, Harry AlmanzoPhillips, carried this flag in his role as color bearerfor the Post for almost 30 consecutive years, and inMemorial Day parades until his last parade in 1940or 1941. When the GAR post disbanded in the 1930s,an “Official” came to claim the property belongingto the Post, but Fred D. Percival, an associate mem-ber of the Post and a Glover resident, protested andinsisted that the flag stay in Glover. Mr. Phillips wrote

a short poem about theflag that is with his col-lection of poems at theGHS museum.

3. Westlook Cemetery,just south of Glover Vil-lage at the junction ofRt. 16 and Rt. 122.There are 12 graves atWestlook of soldierswho died in the CivilWar (in battle, hospitalsor prisons) and 52 in allwho were soldiers. Youwill notice their GARflag holders and flagsnear their stones. One of

the 52 was a New Hampshire Volunteer, one a MaineVolunteer and one from Sheffield, Vermont, but theother 49 were all Glover boys and men. The follow-ing are men whose stone inscriptions refer to theirCivil War duty with more than just Company andRegiment listings:

- Dan Mason gravestone monument. Dan Ma-son, who lived on a farm at the end of a road thatbroke off to the left of at the foot of the Dexter Moun-tain road (identified as the MH Mason place on the1878 Beers map), enlisted Oct. 15, 1861 and serveduntil his death (of “fever”) near Brownsville, TX onNov. 20, 1865, at 26 years. He was Captain, Co. H,19th Infantry “of a colored regiment” in Texas. ThePercival history states, “It may be worth while to add

Some of the Civil War collection at the GHS Museum: photo ofCaptain Dan Mason, billfold and cooking pot used by CarlRoss, and, on wall, letter from Thomas Mitchell to RosettSherburne. Photo by Joan Alexander


that Capt. Dan Mason and Alex Davis after their pro-motion were with their Co. at the attack on Peters-burg when the experiment of the exploding a minewas tried….”

Mason fought in 16 battles, including Gettysburg,and all the battles are listed on one side of his obeliskmonument. The GAR Post in Glover was named inhonor of him.

While home on leave in 1864, Dan married hissweetheart Harriet Clark, of West Glover, who livedin West Glover in the home now owned by Skip andJudy Borrell (identified as the J Clark place on the1878 Beers map).

Contact Jean Borland, Borland Road, WestGlover, if you are interested in more about Dan Ma-son. Jean’s husband was descended from Mason, andshe has access to Mason’s Civil War diary, letters,photos and other information.

- Willard Leonard gravestone: died August 31,1864, at 47 years, in Andersonville Prison, Georgia.His cause of death is listed in Glover’s vital recordsas “cruelty and starvation.”

- Chester Bogue gravestone Died at New Or-leans, 7th Reg., Co. H” died Oct. 1862

- Oscar Bogue gravestone Died at New Or-leans, 7th Reg., Co. H” died Oct. 1862

- Carlos Drew gravestone 19 years old, died atBrandy Station, VA, Co. D 6th Reg.

- WH Chamberlin gravestone died in Charleston, SC in 1864 (Co. F, 11th Reg)

- Carlos Dwinell gravestone died Aug. 24, 1864at Baltimore, of wounds received at Charleston, VA(Major, 6th Reg.)

- Samuel Forsyth gravestone (Co. D, 6th Reg.)died at Battle of the Wilderness with Co. I, 1st VtCavalry

- Simeon Metcalf gravestone died 1862, at age19, in VA (Co. I, 1st Vt. Cavalry)

- William Hibbard gravestone died Nov. 4,1863 in Leavenworth, KS, at 31 years

- Spencer C. Phillips died and buried in Alexan-dria, VA in 1863

- Orange S. Williams gravestone died Aug. 30,1862 at 22 years, at Newark NJ (Co. D, 6th Reg)

- William Dwyer gravestone died 1912, age 70;Co. D, 3rd Regiment. Though there is no mention ofmore Civil War information on Dwyer’s stone, he

does have an interesting association that we knowof. Pvt. Wm. Dwyer was a member of the 12-manfiring squad charged with carrying out the executionorder against Pvt. William Scott of Groton, the“Sleeping Sentinel,” who was spared after his motherimplored a pardon from President Lincoln. (Dwyerwas actually a Sheffield resident at the time of hisdeath.) He had been chosen to be on the firing squadbecause he was a fellow member with Pvt. Scoot ofCapt. D.G. Kenneson’s Co. D, 3rd Regiment.

A newspaper clipping from the CaledonianRecord (undated, but assumed to be from the late1900s) also adds that Dwyer was living in Salem (nowcalled Derby) and had to walk from Newport to St.Johnsbury in order to enlist because there was norailroad in the state north of St. Johnsbury. He en-listed June 1, 1861, and was discharged at Burlington,July 27, 1864. He fought at Bull Run, Savage Sta-tion, Antietam, Williamsburg, Fredericks-GettysburgWilderness, Spotsylvania, Petersburg, Cedar Creek,Fisher’s Hill and Vicksburg. On discharge, he wasable to ride the train to Barton, as the rail line hadbeen extended during his service. Dwyer was a “scoutfor the Army, and at times wouldn’t see the main bodyof his Company for two weeks at a time. He wouldbe ahead scouting the land.” (from handwritten noteon the Caledonian newspaper clipping.)

- The others are: John Arthur (Co. I, D 15),George Baker (Co. D, 11th Reg.), Freeman Bean (Co.I, 15th Reg.), Homer Bradley (Co. K, 10th Reg.),Willard Chamberlin, Portus Clark (Co. H, 9th Reg,NH Vol.), Martin Clark, Elias Coomer, Francis Corliss(Co. C, 4th Infantry), Ira Day, Rufus Drew (Co. D, 6th

Reg.), Gustavus Philemon Fisher, Frank Fuller,Sherlock Gray (Co. D, 6th Reg.), Thomas Hastings(Co. E, 3rd Reg.), John Holloway (Co. D, 6th Reg.),Calvin Hood (Co. I,15th Reg.), Richard Hubbard (Co.F, 1st Reg.), Reuben Jones (Co. I, 11th Reg.), Wm.Kelton, Augustus Kimball, Hiram King, Thomas King(Co. D, 6th Reg.), William O. Lang (1st Maine Cav-alry, Native of Scotland), Zelora Marsh, (Co. D, 11th

Reg.), Norton McLellan; Oliver O’Hara, John Prindle,Wilber Scott, Benj. Simonds, Hiram Simpson,Ephriam Stebbins (Co. F, 11th Reg.), Elijah Stone (Co.D, 6th Reg.), James Walker (Co. D, 4th Reg.), RobertWalker, Asa Williams, Nathan Wilson, and Dea. J. P.Woodman (Co. I, 8th Reg.).


John Holloway (see previous paragraph) survivedthe war, but thirty years later, in March 1895, wasmurdered after a dance at the home of G.F. Heath inGlover. His vital record lists strychnine poisoning asthe cause of death. The Orleans County Monitor’sstory (March 8, 1895) gives this account:

“Was it a Murder? On Friday, night last, therewas a dance at the residence of GF Heath, attendedby quite a number of junketing people, among thenumber being J. Ellsworth Holloway, better knownas ‘El’ Holloway, his wife, her paramour, one Chase,and others. There was some liquor in use, and aboutmidnight Holloway got so far over the dam….”

The story goes on to state that Holloway wasfound dead two hours later, and that “Chase and Mrs.Holloway are under arrest.” However, the nextweek’s issue of the Monitor makes a serious correc-tion: “It was James Gilman, not Chase that was heldby the town authorities with Mrs. Holloway.” Thisreport goes on to say that when the autopsy was done,the body was “in a condition that indicated he had agreat aversion to soap and water….” The followingweek’s article states, “The correspondent of theMonitor and doctors disclaim being responsible tothe soap and water business in the item.” (What fi-nally happened to Mrs. Holloway and her paramourwas not researched.) (The 1878 Beers map shows anE. Holloway living by Daniels Pond, just after thefirst bend on what today is called Salmon Place.)

4. Andersonville Cemetery, Andersonville Road,West Glover

One grave of a Civil War soldier is here: RobertWhite (Co. I, 15th Reg)

Andersonville Cemetery: A Legend: At theAndersonville Cemetery is also the grave of DavidFleming, died May 13, 1862, born Feb. 19, 1829.Ann Wilson of Craftsbury related this family story toJ.A. (Nov. 14, 2006) that as a young girl going forrides with her dad, Earl Wilson of Craftsbury, andher dad always remarking, “Well, there’s old DaveFleming’s stone; I wonder who’s under that stone.”Ann always remembered hearing that remark, butnever stopped to question it until she was a little older.One day she asked him, “What did you mean?”

He told her that David Fleming had gotten in somealtercation, either shot someone or killed someone,

and ended up in the Irasburg jail. He complained tothe jailer that the blackbirds were waking him up tooearly in the morning, and asked for a shotgun to takecare of them. The jailor obliged (This part sure soundsa little implausible; he must have trusted him!), andcame back to the cell after hearing a shot, shouted,“Oh my gosh, David Fleming has killed himself!”Fleming left in a coffin, and was buried inAndersonville. (He and his wife, Margaret Gilmour,were both Scotland natives living in the Andersonvillearea of Glover.)

Here the story jumps to Earl’s grandfather, whowas a Union soldier who helped work with the horses,not a cavalryman himself, but responsible for caringfor the horses. (He was at Gettysburg.) One day heran into Amos Macomber of Craftsbury, anotherUnion soldier whom he knew.

“I’ve just seen David Fleming,” Amos told Earl.Couldn’t be, Earl declared, he’s dead. No, Amos in-sisted, that had all been just a hoax. The jailor hadarranged for Flanders to leave if he promised to leavetown and join the army, and he had. (I tried to searchfor information from the local newspaper, butFleming’s death is not mentioned. Curiously, nei-ther is there a death record for Fleming in 1862 inthe vital records for Glover. No one else in Gloverhad ever heard this story, but all agree it is fascinat-ing! –J.A.)

5. West Glover Cemetery, Cemetery Loop, GloverNine graves of Civil War veterans are here:David H. Barber, Almon S. Colburn, (Co. B, 3rd

Reg.), Charles W. Cook (Co. I, 15th Reg.), Wm.Mitchell, Wm. B. Stiles (Co. B, 3rd Reg.), GeorgeTelfer, John S. Woodward, Leander M. Scott andCharles J. Ufford

6. Glover Historical Society Museum, 51 Bean HillRoad, Glover Village, located upstairs at the GloverMunicipal Building, open by appointment. At themuseum are the following Civil War related items:

- Veteran GAR Civil War medal or decoration- Civil War (?) belt, leather with brass buckle,

with letters “US” on buckle- Item # 91.22.17 Letter written October 12,

1862 on stationery that is headed “The Girl I leftBehind” from “directions Thomas B. Mitchell, Co.


E, 6th Regiment , V.V. M, Washington DC, Care ofCapt Barker” to “Rosett Sherburne, Glover, Vt.” Do-nated by Marguerite Bean Fiske, Rosett’s grand-daughter.)

- Roster for 1917 Mason Post #16 and also for1912

- Official Tour 1912 GAR National Encamp-ment, Los Angeles booklet

- Billfold used in Civil War- Civil War Diary of Elijah Stone, letters writ-

ten home, razor, 6th Army Corps pin- Newspaper clipping, undated, from the Inde-

pendent History of “Glover, Seventh Paper,” withdetails of Glover’s involvement in the Civil War.

- Copy of Harry Almanzo Phillips poem “Glover’sVeteran Parade Flag: A Tribute”

- Small cast-iron cooking pot with lid andhandle and leather billfold (stamped MADE BYEMIL WEISSBROD), that were used in the CivilWar by Carl Ross of Waterford. Ross was taken pris-oner and spent time in Andersonville Prison, but didsurvive and returned to Waterford. Carl was the fa-ther of Bertha Ross Wright, wife of Charles Wrightof Glover.

- Handwritten Glover Civil War history:“Glover’s Noble Sons” article by Capt. Orson Valen-tine Percival, 1888, handwritten in pencil in his record“Military Book,” in which he recounts Glover’s mili-tary history. Jean Borland transcribed the informa-tion in 1996.

- Excerpt from George Hinton’s “History ofGlover,” 1949 with a three-sentence Civil War re-port (95 enlisted men, 19 of whom died; expense tothe town: $23,175.)

- Photocopies of information about Glover CivilWar soldier Capt. John S. Thompson. Thompsongrew up on farm on the Lake Parker Road, nowowned by Dennis and Peggy Day Gibson (identifiedas the CJ Barker place on the 1878 Beers map).

Thompson served in the Vt. Vol., Co. B, 3rd Reg.,was wounded twice. John’s younger brother Samuelwas killed while they fought side by side in May 1864at the Spotsylvania Court House. John had musteredout of the war in July 1865 and “battle weary,”returned to Glover. In 1869, he married a Glover girl,Alma Stone. Alma grew up on Bear Call Road whereRoz Gittleman now lives, and was a sister to ElijahStone, another Glover Civil War veteran. In 1871 theThompsons moved to Kansas to take advantage ofthe Homestead Act. John and Alma built a dugouthome, where Alma started the first public school inthe town (then Eldorado, now called Bushton) in herhome. They had three children. Alma came home fromKansas to visit her family in Glover in 1891, and uponher return to Kansas, wrote a letter to Elijahdescribing the Gettysburg Cyclorama Exhibition shehad stopped off to see in Chicago on her way back.She wrote: “… I found out there was a place in theCity where the Battle of Gettiesburg [sic] was shownin picture like you and Augustus was talking about. Iwent to see it. The admittance was .25. I thought itwas about the grandest thing I ever saw. There wassome brush scattered on the ground and I could hardlytell where the picture commenced.” Thompson hadbeen chronically ill and despondent after the war, andwas found dead in Plum Creek near his Kansas homein 1891. In 1985, Richard Clem, a Civil War buff fromMaryland was using a metal detector at a battlefieldnear Funkstown, Maryland, and found Thompson’sidentification tag, which was about the size of aquarter, and stamped with “J.S. THOMPSON, Co.B, 3rd REG., VT. VOL., GLOVER.” Clem then wenton to research Thompson’s life. Clem says findingthe ID tag is what “many relic hunters would call‘the ultimate discovery.’”

Do you have something to add to this list? Pleaselet us know!


“Dies from Shotgun Discharge”:

I grew up hearing about Oscar Shute, the hiredman who died on my dad’s farm more than 15 yearsbefore Dad was even born. The Alexander-Aldrichfarm was at the end of a long winding dirt road sosecluded it was called “Lover’sLane” when my dad, WayneAlexander, was born there in1926. In fact, their farm was theonly place on that road off Route16, just south of Glover Village.

Blood stains on the chimneyDad and his five siblings

used to play in the shed anddared each other to climb up thenarrow steps that led to the va-cant rooms that once had servedas an apartment for the hiredhand. The chimney was againstone side of the stairs, and thekids were certain the dark,splotchy drips on the brick werethe dried blood of Oscar Shute.(As adults, they came to realizewhat they had imagined to beOscar’s blood may really havebeen only creosote, though oneremembered blood on the old beams as well.) Whentheir cousins came to visit, they too would be daredto climb the stairs. One cousin, Rod Wells, remem-bered being there in the shed and looking up at thestairs and feeling it was “spooky.” Rod’s mom, EdithAlexander Wells, was in the house the day of Oscar’sdeath. Though she was only three years old, the eventwas such a traumatic happening that she still remem-bered it, over 80 years later.

The story as Dad told it was that one Septemberday back in 1910, Oscar Shute had come home drunkafter being at the Barton Fair, got in an argumentwith his wife upstairs in their apartment over the shed,and wound up somehow shooting himself and fall-ing down the stairs (hence the “blood” ending up on

the chimney). When Dad told the story, we childrenwere enthralled. (No one had ever died at our ownchildhood home, much less from a gunshot wound.)Now it was a summer home, with the barn, ice house,

sugar house, shingle mill, and allthe other outbuildings long gone,and the fields all grown up. Thehouse still stood, virtually un-changed from the way it lookedwhen our family last lived there.The few times we drove up tothe old home farm, which thefamily had lost during the De-pression, we would grow quietthinking about the gunshot deathon the stairs and the drippingblood, wondering if Oscar’sspirit still might be haunting thisplace.

Fast forward to 1985. NowI am an adult, teaching inIrasburg, living in Barton. Mydad was researching his “roots”and, since I was living right inhis old neck of the woods, heasked if I would help by search-ing through weekly issues of the

old Orleans County Monitors on microfilm at theJones Memorial Library in Orleans, and look for infoon different branches of our family. It proved to be awonderful task, with fascinating stories contained inthe Glover town correspondent’s reports. But withexactly 100 years to plow through, it was a labor-intensive job, and so, out of necessity, I developed apretty efficient groove. I would pop in the roll, windquickly ahead past the front page of each issue topage 4 where (usually) the town news items appeared,and scan down the Glover and West Glover columnsfor any tidbits about the Salmons, Perrons, Aldriches,or Alexanders. Occasionally articles on the front pagewould grab my attention as I whizzed the film along.

the story of Oscar Shute by Joan F. Alexander

Oscar Shute, cabinet card. Oscar was bornin Albany, VT on March 21, 1881.Photo courtesy of Bruce and Amelia Clark


Newspaper account of the death “Dies From Shotgun Discharge” was one that

caught my eye, as accounts of violent deaths wererare enough. It headlined a front-page article of theSeptember 14, 1910 issue. I read on, and was aston-ished to see Oscar Shute’s name. The story from ourfamily legend, that I had half-thought might have littleor no truth behind it, was indeed fact. Oscar Shutewas not just a made-up story.

The newspaper accountdid confirm the Barton Fairpart of the story, and thatOscar had been intoxicated.But even the news accountof his death reported withina week of when it happeneddid not reveal all the details.As the article stated, “Thereal facts will never beknown.”

I copied down the ar-ticle and read it to my fa-ther over the phone. So be-gan another chapter in thestory of the shooting ofOscar Shute. My dad,armed with the newspaperaccount, began discussingit with his siblings andspeculating on what mighthave actually transpiredthat September day. Moredetails of what each re-membered being told were shared. Dad talked withAunt Edith, now in her eighties, to see what she re-membered. (If you recall, she was the little three-year-old girl who had been in the house that day.)

Aunt Edith had pleasant memories of Oscar; sheremembered that he often talked to her. “I think hewas a good man, but every fair time, he would getdrunk,” she recalled. “…He had been drinking andhe came back. I remember I was playing on his lap.Mother knew he’d been drinking, so she called medownstairs. And when I was downstairs, he startedfighting with his wife and he shot himself somehow….His wife was just a little tiny thing. I remember herbeing downstairs and Mother holding her in her arms

and rocking her to try and quiet her hysterics.” AuntEdith’s recollections were the only on-the-scene ac-count my generation had ever heard firsthand, andeven those, as she herself admitted, were slim. “Iwas only three years old, so my memory is kind ofsketchy.”

When my father shared the newspaper accountwith her, telling her that the final pronouncement hadbeen that he shot himself in the back of his head, she

paused to consider it. “I suppose if you’re drunk andyou carried your gun (she held her hands up as ifholding a gun above her head), you could. I neverheard anything about it, except that he got shot.”When Dad shared the information from the newspa-per report with his older brother Warren, Warren wasincredulous about the part about being shot in theback of the head, as he had always understood thatthe death was from suicide. “In the back of the head?”he repeated, pondering it. “It must have had a bentbarrel,” he mused. (Joseph Alexander, Warren andWayne’s father, was eight at the time of Oscar’s death,and the oldest child in the family, so one might as-sume that perhaps he remembered the day the most

Orleans County Monitor, front page,September 14, 1910 (“Dies from ShotgunDischarge”) From Jones Memorial Librarycollection. Though this article says thefuneral was at the home of his sister, Mrs.Henry Lewis, a note under the Albany Newscolumn in the same issue says the funeralwas held at Carl Bean’s in Glover. TheClark’s genealogical records show thatMrs. Henry Lewis was Oscar’s sister Mabel,the ninth child of Nathan and Addie. Theirrecords also show that Mary Clark,daughter of another of Oscar’s sisters,Frances, remembered attending Oscar’sfuneral in Albany. (Town correspondentssometimes did make errors in theirreporting.) The child mentioned may havebeen Grace’s from an earlier marriage asBruce and Mimi Clark had heard from theirclosest living relative, Iva Gravel Lack,daughter of Blanche Shute, that neitherOscar nor any of his brothers had children.(Iva died in 2003 at the age of 94.) TheClarks do not know anything else about this“one child left,” though their research ofthe 1910 census indicated a daughter livingin the same household as Oscar and Grace.


accurately of the three Alexander children, thoughWarren said that his dad didn’t talk about it much.(Though the kids seemed to have talked about itplenty!)

Warren remembered the story being that Oscarhad come home from the fair “pretty drunk” and wasabusing his wife in their upstairs apartment, and soEdwin Alexander, his employer and Edith’s father,had gone up and told him to stop the commotion,and told him that it was time to do chores. “Just as[Edwin] was going downstairs, a shotgun went off,right over his head, and it didn’t take but one boundto get out! Grampa stopped, and heard somethingdripping. His first thought was ‘The fool shot a holein the vinegar barrel’, whichused to be up there.” Butthen, he had quickly realizedthat it wasn’t vinegar drip-ping, it was blood.

Dad had also questionedhis Uncle Erwin AlexanderAldrich, Edith’s olderbrother, who would havebeen six at the time. UncleAlec’s version had a slightlydifferent twist. When Oscarcame home from the fair, hehad held and played withAunt Edith a little bit, andthen went upstairs to hisapartment. Soon there wassuch a commotion ofhollering that Alec’s mother,Francena Aldrich Alexanderhad gone up to try to quiet things down, and soonwas joined by her husband Edwin, who had heardthe fracas from the barn. Edwin flew up the stairsto find Oscar abusing Grace. After more commo-tion, Oscar ran and grabbed a shotgun that wasalways kept next to the butter room window (forshooting birds in the garden) and shot himself inthe head.

What really happened?Over 75 years after the fact, everyone in our family

began speculating on what might have happened.After all, it seemed unlikely that a person could

shoot himself in the back of the head, especiallywhen drunk. Adding to the mystery was the line inthe newspaper that the gun had discharged “acci-dentally or otherwise.” What could be a more plau-sible story?

Theories abounded. Some said maybe Oscar,crazed by drink, had threatened his wife, and she hadeither killed him accidentally while trying to wrestlethe gun away from him, or killed him in self defense.When the Selectmen and State’s Attorney showedup to investigate, I imagined something like the scenein To Kill a Mockingbird when the sheriff decides it’sbest to cover up the murder of a man knowing it wasa murder done to protect an innocent person. Others

speculated that Edwin mighthave shot Oscar to protectOscar’s wife from harm, orbecause Oscar was threaten-ing to kill him. Had therebeen a tussle trying to get aloaded gun away from in-toxicated Oscar and Oscarwas killed accidentally? In-stead of clearing up the storyonce and for all, the news-paper account seemed onlyto enhance the legend andthe stories.

Not long after, anotherstory of Oscar surfaced. Mybrother Peter’s wife, JeanneAllendorf’s grandfather (gotall that?) Dan Dyer hadgrown up in Albany, Ver-

mont. High up in the hills behind the Dyer farm wasan area of town called Shutesville (still calledShutesville today) where Oscar’s family had lived.Dan was just a young boy when this story of Oscarand the pitchfork happened. Dan grew up to be ateacher, then principal then superintendent of schools.Once when taking a Vermont history course in the1970s, Dan recorded his memories of the pitchforkincident which had happened just two years beforeOscar’s death. When my dad and Dan were talkingone day, they realized they both had stories of thesame Oscar Shute, and soon Dad a copy of the storyDan had written.

Alexander-Aldrich home farm, around 1922. Glover,VT. Although there are photographs of this home takenmore closely to the year that Oscar Shute was livinghere, this one best shows the upstairs apartment overthe shed where the Shutes stayed. The room above thekitchen (by the porch) was the hired man’s apartmentbedroom. The lower window over the shed was in thebutter room and the higher window in the attic.

Photograph from Alexander family collection


The Pitchfork StoryDan Dyer’s story was titled, “Watch Out There,

Oscar!” (This story, too, was confirmed with a frontpage Monitor article, this one titled “Stabbed withPitchfork,” dated August 12, 1908.) Dan gives Os-car Shute an alias in his story, calling him Oscar Sims,but anyone who lived in Albany and knew Oscarwould have known who he was talking about, forDan’s physical description of him was dead-on: “aslim, six foot four inch bachelor, approaching his 30th

birthday.” Dan also gives an alias last name to thestabber as well as the “stabee,” changing Oliver’s lastname from to Martin to Manson.

Dan’s story of Oscar and the pitchfork continues:

“Oscar was… a resident of the hill countryand one of a large family. He appeared to bevery contented to stay around his parents’ homewhile his brothers and sisters flew the coop andfended for themselves. Nevertheless, Oscarwould work for short durations at jobs that heldappeal for him. They include the spring log driveon the Black River, a few days at a big sap run,a short spell at sprint’s work, a week to tendays during haying season with no barn choressuch as milking and now more than three dayscutting corn with a sickle.

“This last activity appealed to him verymuch. Because of his great height and longreach he could beat all competitors to the endof the long rows of corn. He greedily cherishedhis employer’s praise for such prowess.

“Oscar was a sort of a dandy. He woulddress up, perfume his breath with Sen-sens, hopinto his dad’s Ryan Rattler buggy and drivethe family’s Morgan mare at a fast clip downthe hilly roads to the village.

“Although Oscar had slim reason for goingto the village as often as he did he would de-fend such excursions by saying he had to pickup the mail. Needless to say the mail was verymeager except when his dad’s monthly pensioncheck came. Of course Oscar was always on handfor any dances, local or traveling shows and othercommunity affairs and entertainments.

“Usually when Oscar arrived at the villagehe would drive the mare slowly about the few

streets and finally stop in front of Roscoe’sstore. There he would proudly exhibit his well-groomed animal, the highly polished buggy andharness and especially the expensive rawhidewhip which stood straight up from its socketon the dashboard, displaying its many polishedmetal ferrules.

“Several of the older spectators must havewondered how Oscar’s part-time employmentincome could support his various social activi-ties and allow him so much free time.

“Evidently he possessed a faculty for get-ting his dad to ‘lend’ him a portion of hismonthly Civil War pension. He also had an ap-titude for locating picnics and farmer get-togethers such as ‘last of haying’ celebrationsto which he would invite himself, partake freelyof the fare and also cast his eye at the ladiespresent. Since Oscar was neat, took good careof this clothes and saw to it that he did fewfarm chores that might produce ‘barn smell’ hispresence at these events was tolerated.”

Dan goes on to relate that one August day (heremembers it as 1910, but the newspaper accountplaces it in 1908), a neighbor hurriedly pulled her

Orleans County Monitor, front page, August12, 1908. From Jones Memorial Librarycollection


horse into their driveway, and shrieked, “Mame,Mame!” calling to Dan’s mother. “Oliver Manson hascommitted murder. He drove a pitchfork throughOscar Sim’s neck. Yes, sir, right through both jugu-lar veins and pinned him to the door!”

“It was not until nightfall, after the farmchores were done, that we learned more aboutthe fracas at Burton’s farm. Oliver had indeedstabbed Oscar in the neck with a pitchfork.However, the wound was superficial, the jugu-lar vein was untouched and after treatment bythe local physician Oscar was back on his feet.

“The story finally came out that on that fate-ful Saturday Oscar had informed a crony that a‘1st day’ haying event was to take place at Burt’sfarm. Hiram was about Oscar’s age but muchsmaller and less aggressive. He generally hadsome liquor on hand and as much free time asOscar had. Together they headed for the cel-ebration at Burton’s farm hoping for a littleexcitement.”

It seems that Oliver had been helping with thehaying at his brother Burton’s when he noticed Bur-ton running toward the house. Oliver figured some-thing was wrong for Burton to leave the hay wagonand horses so suddenly, so he headed up to the househimself, with his pitchfork still in his hand. WhatBurton and his son Allie came upon was a fracas inthe kitchen, as Allie later told Dan’s mother.

“When Pa and I got to the kitchen doorwaywe saw Oscar a shakin’ Uncle Burtonsomething awful and a cuffin’ him about theears. Cousin Marcel rushed to help his dad.When he did Oscar drawed off and struckMarcel and knocked him flat, then Zuber pickedhim up. As I said, Pa was standing in the kitchendoorway. He was leaning just a bit on his fork.The end of the handle was on the floor and thetimes were straight up. You know, Mame, themtines are peaked and very sharp. All at onceOscar swung Uncle Burton around near wherePa and I stood in the kitchen doorway. Youknow Oscar is very tall. He’s a lot taller thanUncle Burton.

“Now, when he swung Uncle Burtonaround near Pa, Oscar, being tall, ketched hisneck on one of them sharp tines of Pa’s fork.The very second it happened I heard Pa sayvery loud, ‘Look out thar, Oscar. You’re onmy fork.’ That’s the way it happened, Mame,’cause I was there.”

Dan tells how Oliver immediately panicked andran off to his own home, packed some food and be-longings, and struck out on foot for the VermontCanadian border, some 25 miles away, to be free ofany US warrant for his arrest.

“Most of the mountain and valley peoplewho were acquainted with Oliver felt that henever should have run away. It was the generalopinion that he was simply trying to save hisbrother from rough and humiliating treatmentat the hands of a strong, young show-off. Atany rate the law enforcement officials did notattempt to bring charges against him…. Withintwo days following the stabbing incident.Oliver’s eldest daughter, Sarah, came to ourhouse and informed Mom that she and the restof the family would be going to Canada withina week’s time. “The departure was made pos-sible with the help of neighbors and Uncle Bur-ton who transported the family and their mea-ger belongings to the railroad station.

“The family never returned to Vermont. Itwas later reported that Oliver soon becamegainfully employed and the family’s living con-ditions were markedly better than when theywere on the stony hill farm.

“Oscar, on the other hand, became sort ofa self-styled hero for a short while, as he exhib-ited his stab wound to all who gave the slight-est inkling of being interested. I will remembersuch an occasion in front of Roscoe’s store.There was quite a large group looking on. BertShanks, the very respected town jack-of-all-trades, took a good look at it.

“‘Hell, Oscar,’ he said. ‘That’s only a littlepin prick. I thought you to hurt.’

“After that judgment the whole affairseemed to fade quietly into oblivion.”


The newspaper account of the pitchfork incidentis slightly different. In the newspaper account Martinis arrested, with hearing held the next day and thecase set to continue on August 25. (Perhaps it wasafter the first hearing that Oliver fled to Canada.) Thenewspaper article ends with: “Shute was bleeding in-ternally. The doctors stopped the flow of blood, andShute now appears to be gaining; it is expected hewill recover. Wine and women are said to be the causeof the fight.” Less than a month later (September 19,1908), Oscar was mentioned in a short item in theAlbany news column: “OscarShute has so far recovered fromhis injuries as to go to his friendsin Craftsbury.” Perhaps the incidentspurred him to finally “fly thecoop.” Two years later he was liv-ing with a wife and young child atthe Alexander farm in Glover, hold-ing down a full-time job. His daysof dandying around, doing piece-meal work here and there, seemedto be over.”

All because of a T-shirt!Now, fast forward again to the

summer of 2005. My cousinAlexander Strong, who lives inCalifornia, was home visiting hismom, Becky Munson, Dad’s sis-ter, in Colchester. He was going to garage sales inthe area, and followed signs that led to a house inEssex Center. Alex just happened to be wearing hisGlover Day T-shirt and that prompted a commentfrom the man outside the house. “Are you fromGlover?” Alex explained that he wasn’t, but that hismom grew up in Glover, and that he had been to theGlover Day celebration that year.

“Well, I had a great uncle who lived in Glover.”Alexander and the man, Bruce Clark, began exchang-ing details, and before long realized that their fami-lies were entwined. Bruce’s great uncle had been noneother than Oscar Shute. Bruce went inside the houseand came out with a photo of Oscar and the same“Dies of Shotgun Discharge” newspaper clipping thatour family had.

Just last month, I visited Bruce Clark and his wife,

Mimi. They took up genealogy after Bruce’s retire-ment from IBM. Bruce discovered a cousin living inWinooski who had lots of family photos, includingone of Oscar as a dashing young man, and one ofOscar and his wife, Grace. It was so exciting andinteresting for me to finally put a real face to themythic Oscar Shute. I was struck by how handsomehe was, and how much Dan Dyer’s description ofhim matched his photo: so tall, confident, and a dandydresser. Mimi and Bruce believe the photo of Oscarand Grace together is their marriage photo. Even

though that photo is quite dark, Iwas entranced to see pictures ofOscar and Grace.

More memories, more theoriesAnd just when you think you

have heard all the details to beheard, something else pops up.Just last month, my Aunt Beckytold me a part I had never heardbefore.

Becky remembers her mothertelling her that when Oscar camehome from the fair he had gone tothe barn to help with chores, butthat he was so inebriated his gaitwas impaired and milk was slosh-ing out of the pails as he tried tocarry them. Edwin ordered him to

get out of the barn. Being banished from the barnhad angered Oscar so much that he had taken his gunand told his wife he was going to shoot Edwin, and astruggle with the gun ensued. (This version supportsthe “at some slight provocation became angry” notein the newspaper article.) Becky also told me thatmy Aunt Eleanor, one of Becky’s older sisters, al-ways loved to read, and as a girl loved to steal awayto an attic room for some peace and quiet. Ellie lovedto read the letters stored in an old trunk in the atticand one day was reading one written to EdwinAlexander, her grandfather.

Before he married Francena and became a farmer,Edwin had been the minister in Glover, and some-times still filled in at the pulpit when needed. Thewriter of the letter was admonishing Edwin: howcould he get up in the pulpit and preach after what

Oscar Shute and Grace Griffith Shute,tintype. They married in 1906. Grace wasfrom Sugar Notch, PA; her parents werefrom Wales. Photo courtesy of Bruce andAmelia Clark


he’d done? Ellie’s mom discovered her reading theletter and took it away telling her it was all rubbish,and not even worth reading. Becky thinks this letterwas probably written by someone who believedEdwin had been the one who had shot Oscar. Beckyremembers that when she first moved to ChittendenCounty after marrying, a Rawleigh salesman hadcome to the door. The salesman turned out to be arelative of Oscar Shute. He told her that he alwaysthought Edwin Alexander had shot Oscar. PicturingEdwin, it is hard to imagine Oscar being intimidatedby Edwin: Edwin was only 5’5” tall and “wouldn’tweigh 110 pounds wringing wet with an overcoaton,” as his daughter once remarked. But, if Oscarknew of Edwin’s reputation for being a star wrestlerwhile a student at Stanstead College, maybe Edwinwould have given even Oscar reason to pause. “Hewas as strong as a bull for a little man. There was nolimit to his strength,” Warren remembered.

The plot thickens: yet another theoryAfter meeting with Mimi and Bruce, there was

yet another detail and version to consider. They hadcopies of the Civil War pension request filed byOscar’s mother, Addie Lanpher Shute, who was sepa-rated from Oscar’s father, Nathan. One of Oscar’seleven siblings, a younger sister, Beatrice ShuteLaDuke, had written to the pension office on behalfof her mother, supporting her mother’s request toreceive half of Nathan’s pension.

In her deposition, dated March 6, 1914, she wrotethat her parents had separated because of her mothersiding with her oldest son, George, rather than withNathan. “I asked him why he left and he said that itwas on account of my brother George. He told methat he told mother that she could choose betweenhim and George and that he told him she would takeher boy.” The sister explains that she didn’t ask morequestions at the time because she was upset aboutthe separation and “Then, too, I had just lost my fa-vorite brother Oscar and I don’t know how I keptup.”

Her deposition continues: “Oscar had shot himselfafter he had been drinking liquor given him by George.I think that he had intended to shoot somebody elseand then himself, but he fell and was found mortallywounded at the foot of the stairs with his gun under

him. I think that he intended to shoot Grace or George,but I don’t think that they were intimate. Georgethought a great deal of her and right after Oscar’sdeath wanted to marry her, but she didn’t care forhim.” George himself had lost his wife, WinnieDemeritt, a little over a year earlier. Grace movedback to Sugar Notch, Pennsylvania, after waiting fiveor six weeks for Oscar’s life insurance payment andmarried a man named Evan Williams.

So, now there is a whole new scenario to con-sider. Was Oscar’s brother George really to blame?Had he provoked Oscar by proclaiming his affectionfor Oscar’s wife, or by scheming to get Oscar drunkand inciting him to kill himself? Did George seize onan opportunity to kill his own brother so that he couldmake a move on Grace? (If that was the case, it didn’twork, as Grace rebuffed George’s advances after thedeath of Oscar and left the area, finally settling inPennsylvania and remarrying.) Bruce’s dad, PhilipClark, often related that one of his uncles shot theother due to fighting over a woman. Perhaps, just asthe newspaper reporter had pronounced at the end ofthe pitchfork incident article, wine and women werethe cause.

It seems amazing that the fact that Oscar’s brotherGeorge was at Oscar’s home at the time of his deathwas never passed down in my family stories of thedeath. Perhaps Edwin and Francena were protectingthe reputation of Grace, and willing to have othersspeculate that Edwin was involved rather than let thestory spread about George lusting after Grace.

I thought perhaps there might be court records atthe state’s attorney’s office as the newspaper articlestated that the state’s attorney, along with the Gloverselectmen, was involved in an “examination” of thedeath. Mimi and Bruce Clark had already found thatthe selectmen in Glover at the time were W.O. King,C.M. Borland, and G.W. Anderson. At the Newportoffice of the state’s attorney, I was told that all therecords are now in the state records in Middlesex,and, once there, I was told that those records aresealed for 100 years, which would mean that until2010 no one can look at them. Since then, I havespoken with Steve Sweeney, Records Officer of thestate court records, and have learned that if I can findsome record of Oscar Shute’s name on file in courtrecords, and have a docket number, I will be allowed


to see the records, as they arepublic documents, and that it isonly to protect Social Securitynumbers that court records arerestricted. So I have some moredigging to do to see if perhapsthere are notes from the inves-tigation on file.

“The facts will never beknown…”

If nothing else, trying to un-cover the truth about Oscar’sdeath has shown me just howdifferent people’s recollectionsare about what they have heard.Perhaps the real story has bitsof everyone’s versions in it. AsMimi and Bruce wrote in theirgenealogy, “The facts will never

Resources:

Alexander, Joan Mother and Daughter: Two Dia-ries of Glover, Vermont Girls (Glover, Vermont:Glover Historical Society, 2004).

Dyer, Dan “Watch Out There, Oscar,” 1970. 5 pagedocument, unpublished.

Clark, Bruce and Amelia Shute Family Genealogy,unpublished.

Orleans County Monitor (Barton, Vermont news-paper published weekly 1853–1953.) Microfilm atJones Public Library, Orleans, Vermont.

Telephone/personal/e-mail interviews with:Alexander Strong, Roderick Alexander Wells,Rebecca Alexander Munson, Bruce and Mimi Clark,Steve Sweeney. All interviews done in November/

be known…. You will have todraw your own conclusions asto what really happened.” Iguess I have to agree withthem. I do know that the storyof Oscar Shute is a colorful,fascinating one, mysteries andall. He was so kind that a littlegirl always remembered hisgentleness, and so dear, he wasthe favorite of a sister who hadfour others to choose from. Hecould be a hard worker, but atthe same time a dandy, adrinker, a show off and a flirt.Dead at only 29 years old, andno one still alive knows exactlywhy or how, it seems like themystery with the sad endingwill continue.

Gravestone of Oscar Shute, Albany VillageCemetery. The smaller stone on the other sideof the tree is for Oscar’s mother, AdeliadeLanpher Shute, who died in 1930.

Photograph by Joan Alexander.

December 2005 and January 2006 by Joan Alexander.

Video interview with Edith Alexander Wells, Janu-ary 29, 1991, by Wayne H. Alexander. Location oftaping was Danville, Vermont. Edith Alexander Wellswas 84 years old at the time. Part of Glover Histori-cal Society Oral History Project.

Video interview with Joseph Warren Alexander andWayne H. Alexander, October 16, 1990, by WayneH. Alexander. Location of taping was the Aldrich-Alexander home, Glover, Vermont. Warren was 66and Wayne 64. Part of Glover Historical Society OralHistory Project.

Wharton, Virginia, editor. History of Albany, Ver-mont, 1806-1991


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