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From: Tucky Sancibrian <>
Subject: [VT-L] BLOOMFIELD, VERMONT
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 21:48:25 -0500


Here's a bit more from "Bloomfield, News and History", Edited by Roger
Couture.

December 21, 1900 - Island Pond Herald.

Monday morning the community was again saddened by the news of the death
of another one of our highly respected young men, Leon JOHNSON, son of
N. M. JOHNSON, a brakeman for the Grand Trunk Railroad, who was killed
in a railroad accident last Sunday night in Gorham. His roommate, D. D.
MATHERSON, was killed the Monday previous. John was a member of the 1st
Vermont Infantry during the last Spanish War.

1900 - DIRECTORY: From Walton's V. Registser

Livery Stable: R. L. ROWELL
Society: Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Kate BURBANK,
President
Boarding Houses: Fannie WILLETT, Thomas GRAHAM, John SCOTT
Merchants: LEWIS Lumber Company, STEVENS and MORSE.
Boots and Shoes: Joseph GOSSELIN

1901 - DIRECTORY Walton's Vt. Register
Livery Stable: Fred NUGENT
Carriages: Joseph LOMBARD
Hardware: A. TAYLOR

1902 DIRECTORY - Walton's Vt. Register
Plumber, Alvin TAYLOR

May 14, 1902 - Leonard WILLIAMS of Bloomfield has died at the age of 56.

April 22, 1903 - George BUNNEAU'S body was found Sunday by the river
drivers at Smith's Island.

July 8, 1903 - Harry EVANS, a blacksmith doing business in Bloomfield,
was os severely burned in the fire which has destroyed the Coos Cottage
(located just north of the present Catholic Church in North Stratford)
that he has died from his injuries.

December 9, 1903 - Daniel DALEY of this village and Miss Phoebe BERGERON
of Bloomfield were united in matrimony at the home of the bride last
Sunday evening.

1904 - Taken from "Successful Vermonters" by William H. Jeffery,
Caledonia, Essex and Orleans Counties - by Rev. Asa Fuller.

MARTIN, Sumner T., was born in Bloomfield in 1872 and is a son of Alonzo
A. and Linda A. (Holbrook) Martin. He received his education in the
public schools of Bloomfield, has always been a farmer of the
progressive type, and together with his father they have 600 acres of
farm land.

SILVER, Albert Allen, son of Arad and Sophia E. (Nichols) Silver, born
October 1, 1834 in Bloomfield. His father, Arad Silver, was born in
1793 the son of Samuel and Abigail Buzzell Silver. As a lad of eleven
years, Arad Silver moved from Concord, NH to Bloomfield. His mother,
after the death of Arad's father, had married Hiram CLOUGH, wo was, like
her first husband, a veteran of the Revolutionary war. Albert A. Silver
was the ninth in a family of ten children. He married September 22,
1857 to Sarah Warren JENNE of Derby. Their six children are: Edgar
Oscar, Elmer Ellsworth, Jennie Laura (died March 1884), Albert Allen,
Jr., Annie Adeline (died December 1885) and Sarah Warren, wife of Dr.
Walter H. PARKER of Boston. In 1872 Mr. Silver removed his home from
Bloomfield to Derby in order that his children might have the advantages
of instruction at the Derby Academy.

SILVER, Albert A. Jr., son of Albert A. and Sarah W. (JENNE) Silver, was
born at Bloomfield, Vermont, March 5, 1865. He was educated in the
public schools of Bloomfield and Derby, and at the University Grammar
School of Providence, RI. He entered Brown University in 1885 but his
college course was interrupted by illness. In December 1898, Mr. Silver
was married to Blanche PRAY of Cambridge, MA. She died three years
later.

April 6, 1904 - Charles LYON, keeper of an alleged disorderly house, was
shot and instantly killed near his home in Bloomfield, Vermont last
Thursday evening. Reuben BRONSON, a neighbor of the dead man, is bound
over for trial by Grand Jury as a result of the preliminary heaing.

January 4, 1905 - Married in Stratford Hollow, Wednesday, December 28,
of last year were Carl BURBANK of Bloomfield to Miss Marion MERRIAM of
Stratford Hollow.

January 11, 1905 - Fred NUGENT, our popular livery man and Mrs. Georgia
HAPGOOD of South Columbia were united in marriage Wednesday at the
bride's home. Rev. Mr. WEYBURTON performed the ceremony..

May 3, 1905 - Some of our young and able-bodied men have enlisted to the
U. S. Army for a term of three year. Lester HOUSE, Everett and Wendall
WILLIAMS and John CONNALLY.

June 7, 1905 - Mrs. Elenor STEVENS of Bloomfield died at her home last
Thursday morning after long and wasting illness. She was 90 years old
and the oldest person in town.

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