History of Hinesburg, (Chittenden County) Vermont United States of America

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Ezra Hoyt Byington, clergyman, was born at Hinesburg, Vt., Sept. 3, 1828. He was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1852, and from Andover theological seminary in 1857. For more than thirty years he was a parish minister: at Royalston, Vt., 1857-58; at Windsor, Vt., 1858-69; at the American Presbyterian church in Montreal, 1870; at the College church in Brunswick, Me., 1871-78, and at Monsen, Mass., 1880-87. After that time he made his home at Newton, Mass., and preached in the vicinity of Worcester and Boston; served for many years as an active member of the New England historic genealogical society, the American society of church history and a number of other societies of the same character. From 1890 to 1894 he was engaged in teaching theology. In 1855 he received the degree of A.M. and in 1890 that of D.D. from the University of Vermont. He published in 1896 The Puritan in England and New England. Mr. Byington died at Newton, Mass., May 16, 1901.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Alanson Howard, representative, was born in Hinesburg, Vt., April 8, 1813; son of Dan and Esther (Spencer) Howard; grandson of Henry Howard, of Easton. Mass.,and a descendant (through Henry3 and Major Jonathan2) of John Henry Howard, of West Bridgewater, Mass., who was in Duxbury as early as 1643, and died in Charlestown in 1672. William Alanson Howard was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker at Albion, N.Y., 1827-82, and prepared for college at Wyoming academy, 1882-35. He was graduated at Middlebury college in 1889, having suffered from delicate health throughout his college course. He taught in a select school in Genesee county, N.Y., 1889-40, and was a mathematical tutor in a branch of the University of Michigan, 1840-42. Meanwhile, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1849, practising in Detroit in partnership with Alexander Buel until 1848, when Mr. Buel was elected a representative in the 31st congress. Mr. Howard was a representative from Michigan in the 84th, 85th and 86th congresses, 1855-61. In the 86th congress he successfully contested the seat claimed by George B. Cooper, and took his seat, May 15, 1800. Throughout his congressional service he was a member of the committee on ways and means. He was also chairman of the Kansas investigating committee. He was an earnest advocate of antislavery. He was chairman of the state central committee, 1860-66; a presidential elector at large for the state in 1872 and 1870, and a member of various other committees. He was appointed postmaster of Detroit by President Lincoln in April, 1861, and served until removed by President Johnson in 1865. He declined the office of U.S. minister to China tendered by President Grant in 1869. He was a delegate to the Republican national conventions of 1868, 1872 and 1876, and as leader of the Michigan delegation in 1876, turned the convention to Rutherford B. Hayes, as the Presidential candidate. He was appointed land commission of the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad in 1869, and in 1872 of the Northern Pacific railway. He was appointed governor of Dakota territory in 1878, which office be held at the time of his death. He was married, March 1, 1841, to Ellen Jane, daughter of Matthew W. Birchard, of Detroit, Mich. Their yonngest son, James Birchard Howard, was graduated from Yale in 1877. Governor Howard died in Washington, D.C., April 10, 1880.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

William Lamb Picknell, painter, was born in Hinesburg, Vt., Oct. 23, 1854; son of the Rev. William and Ellen (Upham) Picknell; grandson of Samuel and Sarah (Lamb) Picknell, and of Joshuah and Mary (Nichols) Upham, and a descendant of John Upham, who was born in England in 1597; came to New England in 1635, with his wife and three children; was one of the founders of Weymouth, Mass., and later aided in founding the town of Malden. William L. Picknell began the study of art under George Inness in Rome in 1872; was later, 1875-77, a pupil of G?r?me in Parks, and studied in Brittany under Robert Wylie, 1877-81. Heexhibited at the Royal Academy, London, and at the Paris Salon, where he received honorable mention in 1880, and in 1882 opened a studio in Boston, Mass. He was elected a member of the Society of American Artists in 1880, of the Society of British Artists in 1884, and an associate of the National Academy of Design in New York city in 1891. He received a silver medal in 1881, and a gold medal in 1884, at the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association Fair; a medal at the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893; a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1895; the Lippincott prize at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1896; and a medal at the Atlanta, Ga., exposition in 1896. He was married, April 18, 1889, to Gertrude, daughter of John and Ann (Goodwin) Powers of Boston. His strength lay in landscape work, and prominent among the localities chosen for his subjects are Normandy and the South of France, the new forest in England, the Mexican frontier, Southern California, Florida and the New England coast. Among the more important paintings are: Breton Peasant Girl Feeding Ducks (1877); The Fields of Kerren (1878); The Concarneau Road, in the Corcoran art gallery, Washington (1880); On the Borders of the Marsh, in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Aris (1880); A Stormy Day (1881); Coast of Ipswich, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1882); Sunshine and Drifting Sand (1883); A Sultry Day (1884); Wintry March, in the Walker art gallery, Liverpool (1885); Bleak December, in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (1886); After the Storm (1886); November Solitude (1887); Edge of Winter (1891); Le D?clin de Jour (1894); A Toiler of the Sea, in the Carnegie art gallery, Pittsburg, Pa., (1889); Late Afternoon, Florida, in the Brooklyn Institute Museum of Arts and Sciences (1890); Morning on the Loing (1895); Morning of the Mediterranean, in Luxembourg collection, Paris (1896); The Road to Nice (1896), and Sand Dunes at Ipswich (1896). He died at Devereaux Rocks, Marblehead, Mass., Aug. 9, 1897.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor