History of Brattleboro, (Windham County) Vermont United States of America

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Selah Chamberlain, engineer, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., March 4, 1812. He was a contractor for the constructing of the Erie extension of the Pennsylvania canal and of other large canals in the state of Pennsylvania. In 1845 he superintended the improvements made in the Canadian canals along the St. Lawrence river. Returning to his native state he was contractor for the Rutland and Burlington railroad. In 185l he completed the construction of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh railroad. In 1871 he was made president of the Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling railroad, of which he was the builder. He died in Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 27, 1890.

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

William Eaton Foster, librarian, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., June 2, 1851. He was graduated at Brown university in 1873; was librarian of the public library, Hyde Park, Mass., 1873-76; cataloguer of the Turner free library, Randolph, Mass., 1876-77; and in the last named year became librarian of the public library, Providence, R.I. He was elected a member of the American antiquarian society, the American historical association, and the R.I. historical society. He contributed to various periodicals, and edited "Early Attempts at R.I. History," published in Collections of the R.I. historical society, volume 7 (1885). His other publications include: Literature of Civil-service Reform in the U.S. and The Civil-service Reform Movement (1881); Libraries and Readers (1883); Stephen Hopkins, a R.I. Statesman (1884); References to Political and Economic Topics (1885); References to the History of Presidential Administrations, 1789-1885 (1885); Town Government in R.I. (1886); References to the Constitution of the U.S., with an Appendix (1890); Public Support of Public Libraries (1891); Some R.I. Contributions to the Intellectual Life of the Last Century (1892).

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

Jonathan Hunt, representative, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 12, 1780; son of Lieut.-Gov. Jonathan and Lavinia(Swan) Hunt, and a descendant of Jonathan Hunt, who came from England and married Mary Webster, daughter of the fifth governor of Connecticut, about 1640. He was graduated at Dartmouth, A.B., 1807, A.M., 1810, and was admitted to the bar in 1812. He represented his town in the Vermont legislature, 1816, 1817 and 1824, and was a representative in the 20th, 21st and 22d congresses, 1827-32. He was married to Jane Maria Leavitt, and had two sons?Richard Morris, and William Morris. He died in Washington, May 15, 1832.

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

William Ruthertford Mead, architect, was born in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 20, 1846; son of Larkin Goldsmith and Mary Jane (Noyes) Mead. He was educated in the schools of Brattleboro and was graduated at Amherst in 1867. He studied architecture with Russell Sturgis, Jr., of New York city, 1868-71, and then went to Europe and pursued the study of his profession in Florence, Italy, until 1873, when he returned to the United States. He became a member of the firm of McKim, Mead & White, architects in New York city, in 1875. This firm were the architects of Columbia university, New York university, the University of Virginia, the Boston public library, the Metropolitan club, University club and Century association buildings, the private residences of Henry Villard, H.M. Twombly, Frederic W. Vanderbilt and L. C. Tiffany, the office buildings of the New York Life Insurance company at New York, Kansas City and Omaha; the New York Herald building, Madison Square Garden, Rhode Island capitol building, the Agriculture and New York state buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 and many other important buildings. Mr. Mead was married, Nov. 13, 1883, to Olga, daughter of Prof. Moritz Kileny, of Budapest, Hungary.

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