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

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Francis Fisher Browne, editor and author, was born at South Halifax, Vt., Dec. 1, 1843; son of William Goldsmith Browne, a well-known poet and editor. He learned the printer's trade in his father's office in Chicopee, Mass. In the summer of 1862 he enlisted in the 46th Mass. regiment, in which he served for one year in North Carolina and in the Army of the Potomac. In 1866 he entered the law department of the University of Michigan. In 1867 he removed to Chicago, Ill., where he devoted himself almost exclusively to literary work. He was editor of The Western Monthly and The Lakeside Monthly from 1869 to 1874; afterward was literary editor of The Alliance, and in 1880 founded The Dial, which he edited, serving meanwhile as literary adviser to a leading publishing house. Besides his critical writings, he wrote many short poems, some of which have found a place in standard literary anthologies. His books include: The Every-Day Life of Abraham Lincoln, Bugle Echoes, a collection of Poems of the Civil War, Northern and Southern, Golden Poems by British and American Authors, and The Golden Treasury of Poetry and Prose. He also edited an extended series of popular poems.

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

Henry Clay Fish, clergyman, was born in Halifax, Vt., Jan, 27, 1820; son of a Baptist minister. He attended Shelburne Fails academy and became a school teacher in Massachusetts. In 1840 he removed to New Jersey; was graduated from Union theological seminary in 1845; was ordained to the Baptist ministry, June 26, 1845, and was pastor at Somerville, N.J., 1845-50, and at Newark, N.J., 1850-77. The University of Rochester conferred upon him the degree of D.D. in 1858. He published: Primitive Piety Revived (1855); The Price of Soul Liberty, and Who Paid It (1860); Harry' s Conversion (1872); Harry's Conflicts (1872); Handbook of Revivals (1874); and Bible Lands Illustrated (1876). He also compiled History and Repository of Pulpit Eloquence (1856); Pulpit Eloquence of the Nineteenth Century (1857); Select Discourses Translated from the French and German (1858); and Heaven in Song (1874). He died in Newark, N.J., Oct. 2, 1877.

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