History of Cabot, (Washington County) Vermont United States of America

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Zeriah Colburn, educator, was born in Cabot, Vt., Sept. 1, 1804, son of Abla Colburn. As a boy he showed remarkable powers of computation, and his father refused him a college education proffered by President Wheelock of Dartmouth, and exhibited him through the United States and in England and France as a mathematical prodigy. While in England he performed mathematical calculations for Dr. Thomas Young, secretary of the board of longitude. He attended school in France where he devoted himself to acquiring a knowledge of the French language; and then studied at Westminster, England, for three years. His father died in 1824 and he returned to the United States, attended the University of Vermont and supported himself by teaching French. He became a Methodist minister and after preaching ten years accepted the chair of modern languages in Norwich university, Vermont. Upon reaching manhood he lost his faculty for mental computation. He published his memoirs in 1833. He died in Norwich, Vt., March 2, 1840.

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

Oscar Franklyn Davis, educator, was born in Cabot, Vt., March 21, 1861; son of S. W. and Lucy (Luther) Davis, and grandson of J. E. and Polly (Kimball) Davis. He was educated at the public schools, Barre academy, and at the University of Vermont, but was not graduated. He was principal of the Bellows Falls high school, 1880-86; of McCallom institute, 1886-91; and president of Salt Lake college, Utah, 1891-94. He was ordained a Congregational minister in 1894, and was pastor of the Chiltonville Congregational church, Plymouth, Mass., 1894-97. He was married Nov. 26, 1895, to Anne M. Dickerman of Wait River, Vt. In 1897 he was elected president of Gates college, Neligh, Neb. He received the degree of D.D. in 1899.

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

Emory James Haynes, clergyman, was born in Cabot, Washington county, Vt., Feb. 6, 1847; son of Zadoc Seymour and Marion Walace (Bayley) Haynes; grandson of Walter Haynes of Vernon, Vt., and a descendant of John Haynes of Sudbury, Mass., who came with his brother Walter from England to Boston, Massachusetts Bay, in 1638. He was graduated from Wesleyan university in 1867, and joined the Providence conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in that year. He was pastor at Norwich, Conn., 1868-70; St. Paul's church, Fall River, Mass., 1870-71; was transferred to the New York East conference in 1872, and built and was pastor of the Hanson Place Methodist Episcopal church in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1872-74, and of Grace church in Brooklyn, 1875-76. He was converted to the Baptist faith and was pastor of the Washington Avenue Baptist church in Brooklyn, 1877-81, and pastor of Tremont Temple, Boston, Mass., 1881-87. He then returned to the Methodist denomination, and was pastor of the People's Methodist church, Boston, 1887-93. In 1894 he accepted the pastorate of St. James Methodist church, New York city. He received the degree of D.D. from Wesleyan university. He is the author of: Are These Things So? excerpts from sermons preached in 1879 (1880); Fairest of Three; Wedding in War Times; Dollars and Duty; None Such (1893); and A Farm House Cobweb; and of editorial contributions to the New York Mail and Express and other papers.

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