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Billings, Franklin Swift b. May 11, 1862 d. January 16, 1935
Vermont Governor. A member of one of Vermont's most wealthy and prominent families, he graduated from Harvard University in 1885, worked on a Kansas sheep ranch and then engaged in the import-export business in New York City. In 1903 he moved to Vermont and was a director of the Woodstock Railway Company, Woodstock Hotel Company, Woodstock Aqueduct Company, Woodstock Electric Company, and other corporations. Billings was also President of the Woodstock Ice Supply Company, and Treasurer of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Riverside Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Brigham, Paul b. January 17, 1746 d. June 16, 1824
2nd Vermont Governor. He was a Captain in the Revolutionary War, serving with the Continental Army at Germantown, Monmouth, Fort Mifflin and other battles. After the war he moved to Norwich, Vermont, where he became a local and state leader, serving in numerous offices including Member of the Vermont House of Representatives, Delegate to Vermont's constitutional conventions, High Sheriff of Windsor County, presidential elector, and Major General of the Vermont Militia. Brigham was Windsor...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Fairview Cemetery, Norwich, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Bronson (Buchinsky), Charles b. November 3, 1921 d. August 30, 2003
Actor. Best remembered for his roles in the movies, "The Great Escape" (1963), "The Dirty Dozen" (1967), and the "Death Wish" series of movies. Born Charles Buchinski in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, to a family of Lithuanian immigrant coal miners, he followed his father and brothers into the coal mines after high school, until World War II, when he joined the Army Air Force, serving as a tail gunner on B-29 bombers in the Pacific. He flew 25 missions, and was wounded in action, receiving the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Brownsville Cemetery, West Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Cleveland, Orestes b. March 2, 1829 d. March 30, 1896
US Congressman. Elected to represent New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1869 to 1871. Served as Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey in 1864.
Fairview Cemetery, Norwich, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Collamer, Jacob b. January 8, 1791 d. November 9, 1865
US Senator. He moved with his father to Vermont where he attended the common schools and graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington in 1810. He was an officer in a militia unit in the War of 1812 and in 1813 studied law at St Albans, Vermont. He was admitted to the bar 1n 1813 and opened a law office in Royalton, Vermont where he remained for 20 years. Upon entering politics he was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives and was then appointed as an associate justice of the...[Read More] (Bio by: Tom Todd)
River Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Converse, Julius b. December 17, 1798 d. August 16, 1885
Vermont Governor. He was educated at Vermont's Randolph Academy, studied law, and became an attorney in Bethel in 1826. Converse served in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1833 and the Vermont Senate from 1836 to 1840. He then moved to Woodstock, where he resumed practicing law and served as Windsor County State's Attorney from 1844 to 1847. He returned to the Vermont House in 1847, serving until 1849. From 1850 to 1851 Converse was Vermont's Lieutenant Governor. He served in the Vermont...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
River Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Coolidge, Calvin b. July 4, 1872 d. January 5, 1933
30th United States President, United States Vice President, Massachusetts Governor. He is often remembered as "Silent Cal," for his dry Yankee wit and frugality of expression. At a dinner party, a young woman once remarked to him that she could get him to speak at least three words, to which he replied with a grin, "You lose”. Born in Plymouth, Vermont, he was the son of a village storekeeper. He graduated from Amherst College with honors, and entered the practice of law in Northampton...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Coolidge, Carlos b. June 25, 1792 d. August 15, 1866
Governor of Vermont. Graduate, Middlebury College, 1811. Studied law, admitted to bar, practiced for over fifty years. Windsor Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk. County Attorney, 1831-36. State Representative, 1834-37, 1839-42. Speaker, 1836-37. President, state Whig Convention, November 1847. Convention passed resolutions against Mexican War and acquisition of territory by conquest and in favor of Wilmot Proviso. Governor, 1848-50. In elections of 1848 and 1849, selected by...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Old South Church Cemetery, Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Coolidge, Grace b. January 3, 1879 d. July 8, 1957
Presidential First Lady. She was the main reason and is given full credit for her husband's rise in politics. Grace Goodhue was born in Burlington, Vermont and grew up an only child, her father a safety steamboat inspector while her mother was a homemaker. She received an excellent education from the University of Vermont where she was very outgoing participating in many activities. Upon graduation she went to work for the Clark School for the Deaf as a teacher. She lived across the street...[Read More] (Bio by: Donald Greyfield (inactive))
Plymouth Notch Cemetery, Plymouth, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Denison, Dudley Chase b. September 13, 1819 d. February 10, 1905
US Congressman. A native of Royalton, he graduated top three of the University of Vermont 1840 class, was admitted to the bar in May 1845 and commenced his practice in Royalton. He served in the Vermont State Senate from 1853 to 1854 and it's House of Representatives from 1861 to 1863. He was the Windsor County State Attorney from 1858 to 1860 and the US District Attorney from 1865 to 1869. A staunch Republican, he represented Vermont's Second District for two terms in United States House of...[Read More] (Bio by: Thom Painter)
North Royalton Cemetery, North Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Durbin, Maud b. November 9, 1874 d. December 25, 1936
Actress. Born in Moberly, Missouri, she was a popular New York stage performer when she made her debut in the silent film "The Ne'er To Return Road" (1913), which she was the screen writer for. She appeared in "Tom's Little Star" (1919) and the remake of "The Ne'er To Return Road" (1921). She was also the wife of actor Otis Skinner and mother of actress, Cornelia Otis Skinner. She died in New York City. (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
River Street Cemetery, Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Evarts, William Maxwell b. February 6, 1818 d. February 28, 1901
Presidential Cabinet Secretary, US Senator. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he was the grandson of Founding Father, Roger Sherman and the cousin of Roger Sherman Baldwin. An 1837 graduate of Yale and an alumnus of Harvard Law School, he was an author of political articles, an assistant United States attorney, and the successful counsel in the Lemmon Slave Case, which gave freedom to a slave who had escaped in New York City while being taken from Virginia to Texas by ship. In 1860 he headed the...[Read More] (Bio by: Ugaalltheway)
Ascutney Cemetery, Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Everett, Horace b. July 17, 1779 d. January 30, 1851
US Congressman. Elected to represent Vermont in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1829 to 1843. Also served as a Member of the Vermont State Legislature.
Old South Church Cemetery, Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Flanders, Helen b. May 19, 1890 d. May 23, 1972
Musicologist and Author. The daughter of inventor, businessman and Vermont Governor James Hartness, in 1911 she married inventor and businessman Ralph Flanders, who served in the US Senate from 1946 to 1959. In 1930 the Vermont Commission on Country Life asked her to record New England folk songs before the expansion of popular music resulting from the advent of commercial radio stations ended the practice of these traditional songs being passed down orally. For more than 30 years she traveled...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Summer Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Flanders, Ralph b. September 28, 1880 d. February 19, 1970
US Senator from Vermont. Internationally known inventor and engineer. Son in law of engineer, inventor, executive and Vermont Governor James Hartness. Moved with parents to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1886. Attended public schools in Providence and Central Falls. Graduate, Central Falls High School, 1896. Studied engineering. Became a machinist apprentice in Providence, 1897. Editor, Machinery magazine, 1905-10. Moved to Springfield, Vermont, 1910. Married Helen Hartness, 1911. Engaged...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Summer Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Fletcher, Ryland b. February 18, 1799 d. December 19, 1885
Governor of Vermont. He attended Norwich University and became a farmer. Fletcher also served in the Vermont Militia, achieving the rank of Brigadier General before resigning in 1836. He was a noted anti-slavery and temperance advocate who became a Republican when the party was founded in the 1850s. He served in the Vermont Senate before winning election as Lieutenant Governor, an office he held from 1854 to 1856. Fletcher was then elected Governor, serving from 1856 to 1858. During his term...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Cavendish Village Cemetery, Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Hartness, James b. September 3, 1861 d. February 2, 1934
Governor of Vermont. Father in law of US Senator Ralph Flanders. Grew up in Cleveland Ohio, and Connecticut. Began working as a machinist at age 16. Married Lena Pond in Connecticut, 1885. Daughters Anna, born 1889 and Helen, 1891. Joined Jones and Lamson Machine Company, Springfield, 1889. Company president, 1900. Awarded patents for dies, lathes, sundials, telescopes, and other inventions. Royalties on inventions made him Vermont's wealthiest man. President, American Society of...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Summer Hill Cemetery, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Hemenway, Abby Maria b. October 7, 1828 d. February 24, 1890
Author and publisher. She attended Ludlow's Black River Academy, became a teacher, and decided to publish Vermont literature. Refused backing from established sources, in 1858 she accomplished her initial venture on her own, producing "Poets and Poetry of Vermont", and this success encouraged her to publish "the Vermont Quarterly Gazetteer". She planned to produce histories of every Vermont town, which advanced history as a social science by pioneering the concept of using local authors to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bill McKern)
Pleasant View Cemetery, Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Henry, William b. March 22, 1788 d. April 16, 1861
Member of Vermont State House of Representatives, 1834, Member of Vermont State Senate, 1836, U.S. Representative from Vermont, 1847-1851.
Brookside Cemetery, Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, USA
Hubbard, Jonathan Hatch b. May 7, 1768 d. September 20, 1849
US Congressman. Elected to represent Vermont in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1809 to 1811. (Bio by: K)
Old South Church Cemetery, Windsor, Windsor County, Vermont, USA

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