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THE DESCENDANTS OF

ISAAC DENISON

RESIDENT OF BURKE,

CALEDONIA COUNTY, VERMONT

Compiled by his Daughter

ROSALIA DENISON BOWMAN

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ST. JOHNSBURY, VERMONT
1904

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THE DESCENDANTS OF

ISAAC DENISON

Isaac Denison was born in Stonington, Conn.,
April 23, 1778. He was a descendant of Capt.
George Denison, who came from England in IG^jS
and settled in Stonington.

Isaac Denison, when about fifteen years old, came
to Ludlow, Vt., with his father, Elisha Denison. He
attended the district school (which was his only
chance for an education) and mastered the English
branches sufficiently to become a successful teacher.
On October 21, 1798, he married Electra Newell,
who was bom in Farmington, Conn., September 10,
1780, in Tinsworth, Vt. She was the daughter of
Daniel and Nancy Curtis Newell.

In the spring of 1799 they moved into the town of
Burke, Caledonia County, Vt., and settled on a hill
in the western part of the town, where they com-
menced a pioneer life, full of hardships and priva-
tions. There were no good roads, most of the travel
being on horseback. Religious services were held
four miles distant, and they were as constant as pos-
sible in their attendance. Eleven children were born
to them, five boys and five girls reaching adult age
and marrying from the old home.

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Children : —

Nancy Curtis married T. O. Brown of Norway, Me.

Almira married Silas Gilkey of Vershire, Vt.

Lucius married Katharine Bemis of Lyndon, Vt.

Nathan married Sila Stoddard of Sutton, Vt.

Rebecca married Alonzo Bemis of Lyndon, Vt.

Minerva married Edwin Fisher of Burke, Vt.

Adna C. married Hannah True of Sutton, Vt.

Oscar Alanson married (1st) Mary Evans, (2d)
Adaline Stoddard, (3d) Lydia Putney.

Isaac A. married Laurestine Bemis of Lyndon, Vt.

Rosaha married (1st) Harley M. Hall, (2d) N. P.
Bowman of St. Johnsbury.

In 1852 Mr. Denison moved to Norway, Me., to
be near his three sons, who were in business in that
place. He died January 9, 1867, in Norway, his
wife surviving him only three years. She died in
Burke, with her youngest daughter, Mrs. Harley M.
Hall, August 22, 1870.

Isaac Denison was an honest, upright, reliable
man, hospitable and generous, as many a fatherless
boy could testify. He served the town in many ways
— as selectman, town clerk, overseer of the poor — but
it is, after all, as a kind father, a generous friend and
an upright citizen that he is best held in remembrance.
He and his wife were charter members of the first
Baptist church organized in Burke. They are bur-
ied in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Paris, Me.

Children of Isaac and Electra Denison: —

Nancy Curtis, born Sept. 25, 1799; died Sept.
6, 1861.

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Children — Continued.

Almira, born Jan. 14, 1802; died Mar. 14, 1871.
Lucius, born July 27, 1803; died June 26, 1882.
Nathan, born Apr. 2, 1809; died Nov. 31, 1854.
Maria, born Oct. 13, 1806; died May 31, 1813.
Rebecca Newell, born May 5, 1811 ; died Feb. 18,

1893.
IMinerva Chestina, born June 13, 1813 ; died Oct.

23, 1884.
Adna Curtis, born Nov. 15, 1815; died Aug. 18,

1897.
Oscar Alanson, born Dec. 13, 1817; died Feb. 7,

1901.
Isaac Avery, born June 18, 1820.
Rosalia Samantha, born Aug. 12, 1823.

NANCY CURTIS DENISON

Nancy Curtis Denison was named for her grand-
mother, Nancy Curtis Newell. She was educated at
tiie common schools and at Concord Corner, where
Prof. Reed Hall and Eliza Dascomb were teachers.
Soon after her marriage — November 13, 1827 — to
T. O. Brown, they removed to his home, Randolph
Hill, where they kept a hotel for several years. A
very sad accident occurred while they were living here.

Being a little short of sleeping rooms, they had a
swing bed in the sitting room which ]\Ir. and Mrs.
Brown occupied. One morning, having a number of
teamsters to get breakfast for, they arose very earl}',
]\Irs. Brown going to the kitchen to assist the girl
about breakfast, leaving her three months' old baby

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sleeping in the bed. Soon the girl went into the sit-
ting room to tidy it up, and not thinking of the little
one, swung the bed in place. Mrs. Brown coming
into the room soon after, saw the bed in position, ex-
claimed, "Oh, my baby !" and fell fainting to the floor.
Mr. Brown came at once to the rescue, but the little
life had gone out and the mother's heart was nearly
broken by the sudden bereavement.

From Randolph they removed to Grey, N. H.,
from there to Norway, Me., where he spent the re-
mainder of his life. Nancy, his wife, died Septem-
ber 6, 1861. He died April 2, 1878. They are
buried in Pine Grove Cemetery, South Paris, Me.

Titus O. Brown, Jr., and Nancy Curtis Denison
v/ere married Nov. 13, 1827, by Elder Jonathan
Woodman of Sutton, Vt. Their children : —

Persis Sophia, born Oct. 11, 1829, at Randolph,
N. H.

Nancy Ann, bom Jan. 5, 1831, at Randolph,
N. H.

Rosalia Denison, born Nov. 19, 1832, at Ran-
dolph, N. H.

Eliza Jane, born Aug. 31, 1834, at Randolph,
N. H.

Charles Denison, born Feb. 16, 1836, at Nor-
way, Me.

Electra Newell, born Apr. 4, 1839, at Norway,
Me.

Annie Maria, born July 12, 1844, at Norway,
Me.

Ellen Frances, born Mar. 22, 1846, at Norway,
Me,

Persis Sophia and Sewell W. Danforth were mar-
ried at Norway, Sept. 7, 1854, by Rev. Asa L.
Loring.

Charles Hazen Danforth, born at Waupen,
Wis., July 17, 1855, died at StiUwater,
Minn., Dec. 23, 1879.

Persis Sophia Danforth died at Madelia, Minn.,
July 10, 1898.

Sewell W. Danforth died at Rush Lake, Wis., Apr.
27, 1903.

Rosalia Denison Brown and Hannibal I. Kimball
married at Norway, Me., Aug. 30, 1853, by Rev. A.
S. Loring.

Rosalia Denison Kimball died at New Haven, Conn.,
Mar. 11, 1858.

Hannibal I. Kimball, born May 16, 1832, died at
Brookline, Mass., Apr. 27, 1895.

Nancy Ann Brown died at Randolph, N. H., Mar.
18, 183i.

Eliza Jane Brown died at Norway, Me., July 20,
1837.

Charles Denison Brown and Abba F. Shurtleff mar-
ried at South Paris, Me., Dec. 20, 1860, by Rev. Mr.
South worth.

Charles Alva Brown, born in Portland, Me.,

Feb. 1, 1863.
Frank Olcott Brown, born Feb. 14, 1865, in

Portland, died in Portland, Apr. 19, 1865.

Charles Alva Brown and Eliza B. Rogers married
in Gloucester, Mass.

Howard Calef, born in Salem, Mass.,
Dec. 21, 1893.

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Children — Continued.

Charles Denison, 2d, born in Salem,

Mass., June 6, 1895.
Olcott Mitchell, born in Salem, Mass.,

Mar. 9, 1899.
Alva Stacy, born in Salem, Mass., Nov.
1, 1900.
Annie Maria Brown and Charles Dexter Noble mar-
ried at Norway, Me., Aug. 26, 1868, by Rev. S. K.
Noble.

Jennie Brown Noble, born in Louisville,
Ky., June 4, 1869, died in Norway, Me.,
Aug. 8, 1882.
Ellen Maria Noble, born in Oberlin, Ohio,

July 15, 1871.
John Olcott Noble, born in Oberlin, Ohio,

Feb. 9, 1875.
Carrie Kimball Noble, born in Oberlin,

Ohio, July 3, 1878.
Arthur Denison Noble, born in Oberlin,
Ohio, Nov. 5, 1882.
Carrie Kimball Noble and Thomas B. Barbour mar-
ried at Norwalk, Conn., Oct. 8, 1902, by the Rev.
S. K. Noble.

Arthur Denison Noble and Helen Irene Burke mar-
ried at Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 21, 1902.

Arthur Dexter Noble, born at Flat-
bush, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 15,
1903.

ROSALIA S. DENISON

Rosalia S. Denison and Harley M. Hall married
in Burke, Vt., by Rev. Rufus Godding, February 26,

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1846. Harley, the seventh son of Sylvester and
Lucy Hurlburt Hall, was born in Burke, Vt., August

8, 1818, on the farm where his father settled on com-
ing from Connecticut in 1804. In 1842 he and his
brother, Harris, entered into a copartnership, taking
the old home farm, paying off accumulated debts and
caring for their father and mother. They were in-
dustrious farmers, making a specialty of fine horses,
Devon cattle and Cotswold sheep. Harris died May

9, 1865. This was a great blow to Harley, as they
were very devoted to each other. Harley repre-
sented the town in 1858-9, and was Senator from the
county in 1868-9. In the fall of 1874 he had a se-
vere sickness, from which he never fully recovered.
He died October 6, 1878, of strangulated hernia,
after a brief illness of only four days. His funeral
was attended at his home, where people from all parts
of the county assembled to pay their last tribute to
one whom they honored and respected.

In May, 1867, Mr. and Mrs. Hall took into their
home little Minnie Belle Williams, who was born in
Craftsbury, Vt., September 8, 1863, and gave her
the name of Minnie Belle Hall.

Minnie Belle Hall and Will P. Bundy married De-
cember 20, 1882.

Rosie Martha Bundy, born Jan. 17,
1884.

Nathan P. Bowman and Rosalia D. Hall were mar-
ried in Chelsea, Mass., at the residence of Mrs. Carrie
D. Higgins, by Rev. C. T. H. Nason, April 7, 1885.

Nathan P. Bowman was born in the town of West-

ford, Vt., August 24, 1822, was educated at the com-
mon schools, lived on a farm in his native town till
1851, when he entered a store for eighteen months;
was sheriff of Chittenden County. In 1853 was
appointed deputy collector of customs at Island Pond.
In 1863 he was appointed paymaster in the U. S.
Arm}'^, with headquarters at Newburn, N. C. Soon
after the close of the war he came to St. Johnsbury,
Vt., where he has since resided.

ALMIRA DENISON

Almira Denison was married April 14, 1822, to
Silas Gilkey, who was born March 24, 1792. He
died in Burke, Vt., April 7, 1847. She died in Milo,
Michigan, March 14, 1871. They were married in
Burke by a Methodist minister. Rev. Mr. Hoyt.
After he had pronounced them man and wife he took
from his pocket a large bandana handkerchief, spread
it on the floor very deliberately, knelt upon it and
asked God's blessing on the newly wedded pair. The
prayer must have been heard and answered, as they
were a very happy couple. They went directly to
Vershire, Vt., lived there eight years, and then moved
to Charleston, Vt. He went into the mercantile busi-
ness for ten or twelve years, when he moved to Burke,
Vt., where he died April 7, 1847. She afterwards
married Mr. Spalding, whose first wife was a sister
of ]Mr. Gilkey, went to JNlilo, Michigan, and died
there March 14, 1877.

Ladorna Electa, born Apr. 21, 1823, Vershire,
Vt.

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Children — Continued.

Isaac Denison, born Feb. 24, 1825, Vershire, Vt.
Sullivan Newell, born Apr. 18, 1826, Vershire,

Vt. ; died in Norway, Me.
Rosalia Elesif, born Apr. 20, 1830, Vershire,

Vt.; died June 18, 1885.
Marietta, born Feb. 26, 1833, Charleston, Vt. ;

died June 12, 1890.
Lois INIaria, born Oct. 11, 1835, Charleston, Vt. ;

died 1901.
Rebecca M., born Aug. 24, 1841, Charleston, Vt.
Malvina A., born Oct. 1, 1846, Burke, Vt.

Ladorna E. Gilkey married David jNIarcott, who
served in the Civil War. She now lives in Minnesota
and gets a pension.

David Lewis, born Oct. 13, 1848 ; died Apr.

13, 1849.
Willie Freddie, born Dec. 6, 1855 ; died Dec.

25, 1855.
Mary Addie, born Sept. 19, 1852.
Mira Denison, born Feb. 1, 1864.

Mary A. Marcott married Walter A. Mulineux at
Cedar Falls, Iowa, March 16, 1870. He died May
30, 1898. He was a soldier of the Rebellion.

Arthur E., born Jan. 16, 1871, Cedar
Falls, la.

Alice C, born Feb. 2, 1873, Cedar
Falls, la. ; died Dec. 25, 1880.

Freddie W., born Apr. 27, 1876 ; died
Dec. 31, 1880.

Adna C, born Feb. 24, 1882, Spring-
field, Minn.
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Children — Continued.

Ada C, born Feb. 24, 1882, Spring-
field, Minn. ; died Aug. 5, 1896.

Fay M. J., born Oct. 27, 1890, Spring-
field, Minn. ; died May 12, 1897.

Lester W. R., born Sept. 16, 1894.

Mira Denison Marcott married Lincoln L. Stacy,
Dec. 10, 1883.

Arthur B., born June 8, 1885.
Hazel E., born Jan. 23, 1891.
Addie M., born Mar. 17, 1892.
Lloyd L., born Jan. 31, 1897.

Sullivan Gilkey, who was bom April 18, 1826,
married Martha Beal of Norway, Me. Had one
child, a daughter, who died young. All are buried
in Pine Grove Cemetery, Norway, Me.

Isaac Denison Gilkey married Abbie Parsons, June,
1855. She was born July, 1829.

Willie B., born June 5, 1856; died Dec. 6,

1862.
AHce, born May 8, 1858; died Aug. 27,

1858.
Henry S., born Nov. 11, 1860.

Henry S. Gilkey married Marion Shipley, April
28, 1887.

Hansel D., born Mar. 28, 1888.
Marion, born Dec. 25, 1896.

Rosalia E. Gilkey married Oliver S. Andrews, who
died July 8, 1897.

Clarence D. Andrews, born May 28, 1853.
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Children — Continued.

Charles Spalding Andrews, born Mar. 3,

1859; died Apr. S9, 1859.
Harley H. Andrews, born Aug. 12, 1863.

Harley H. Andrews married ]\Iary Irving.

Marion E., born Feb. 26, 1898.
Clarence D. Andrews married Cora W. Parsons,
Oct 14, 1880.

Roy C. Andrews, born Mar. 3, 1885.

Dorothy Andrews, born July 29, 1895.

Martha Andrews, born July 29, 1895.

Marietta Gilkey married Dr. R. S. Hawley, Aug.

25, 1858.

Hattie R. Hawley, born April 21, 1863.

Lois Maria Gilkey married Calvin Ford. They
had no children. He died Oct. 22, 1880. Lois M.
Ford died in 1901.

Rebecca M. Gilkey married Augustus H. Mills,
Nov. 22, 1864.

Bessie E. Mills, born April 17, 1867.
Maurice A. Mills, born Dec. 25, 1871.
Gary G. Mills, born Sept. 1, 1874.
Bessie E. Mills married Charles Sedgwick, June 28,

1889.

Dale Sedgwick, born Dec. 13, 1891.
Beryl Sedgwick, born Jan. 19, 1894.
Maurice A. Mills married Mina S. Garrett (born
Oct. 6, 1873).

Floyd G., born Dec. 19, 1897.
Malvina A. Gilkey married John Brandstetter, who
was born in Waterbury, Germany, Sept. 22, 1840.

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Children : — ^

Edith Ahuira, born Apr. 29, 1866.
Dora Rosalia, born Aug. 9, 1869.

LUCIUS DENISON

Lucius Denison, oldest son of Isaac and Elcctra
Denison, was born July 27, 1803, on the West Hill,
in Burke, Vt. His education was acquired at the dis-
trict school and Peacham Academy, where he went
M'ith DcSelim Newell, an uncle of about his age and a
life-long friend. Soon after coming of age he bought
a farm of one hundred acres near his father, on which
he built a good house and barn. On November 24,
1827, he married Catherine Bemis, who was born in
Lyndon, Vt., October 24, 1805, — a very estimable
woman. They at once commenced housekeeping in
their new home. The winter after his marriage a
neighbor who was clearing some land told him he
might have all the wood he would cut and draw. He
gladly availed himself of the offer. One day about
2.30 P. M. a man passing his home as he was driving
into his yard with an oxload of wood told him that a
fox had just crossed above his house. He at once
took his dog and gun and started in pursuit. A lit-
tle before dark he returned with two foxes. His good
wife in the meantime had unyoked the oxen and put
them in the barn. In 1831 he moved to Burke Hol-
low and went into trade with Daniel Beckwith. A
few years later he and Alonzo Bemis bought of Joel
Trull, senior, his house and store and began keeping
a hotel in conection with the store, under the firm

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name of Bcmis and Denison. Burke Hollow was then
the principal village in town. He was postmaster
many years, the mail coming into town only twice a
week. On December 11, 1841, his wife passed away.
In 1842 he married Adaline Hobart. In 1853 he
moved to Island Pond for a short time, thence to Bos-
ton, where he went into the grocery business. In
1861, he removed to Norway, Me., and went into the
dry goods business with his brother, I. A. Denison.
He died June 26, 1882, and was buried in the ceme-
tery at Norway. His wife outlived him just nine
years to a day.

Lucius Denison and Catherine Bemis, married No-
vember 24, 1827. Catherine Bemis Denison died
December 11, 1841. Lucius Denison and Adaline
Hobart married November, 1842, Adaline Hobart
Denison died June 26, 1891.

Caroline Nancy, born Sept. 5, 1828.

Elias Bemis, born Feb. 6, 1831 ; died Feb. 24,

1903.
William Barbour, born Apr. 20, 1833.
Kate S., born Oct. 7, 1843; died Mar. 12, 1875.
Ellen J., bom Feb. 7, 1846.
Arthur E., born Dec. 5, 1847.
Alice, born Nov. 8, 1849 ; died Nov. 2, 1879.
Adaline M., born June 27, 1853.
Emma M., born Nov. 21, 1856; died Apr. 18,

1898.
Lucius H., born July 7, 1858.
Herbert R., born June 5, 1863.
Nathan N., born May 1, 1865.

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Caroline Denlson married Jan. 1, 1853, George W.
Higgins, who died Nov. 3, 1877.

William D. Higgins, born June 15, 1854.
Helen A. Higgins, born Aug. 8, 1856.
George Higgins, bom Jan. 12, 1858; died

Nov. 1, 1858.
Lucy A., born Aug. 9, 1860.
Edward E., born Apr. 4, 1864.

William D. Higgins married Mary E. Copeland,
June 26, 1889.

Helen A. Higgins married Charles H. Higgins,
April 18, 1888.

Caroline D., born Aug. 15, 1889.
Edward William, born Aug. 21, 1891.
Robert H., born Dec. 24, 1892.
Edward E. Higgins and Mary Austin White, mar-
ried June 10, 1896.

Austin Dcnison, born June 12, 1897.
Philip White, born July 17, 1898.
Elias Bemis Denison married Mary S. Thaxter,
May 3, 1871.

Edward E., born March 9, 1872.
Winfred T., born June 30, 1873.
Robert L., born May 28, 1875.
Katharine, born July 3, 1886.
William B. Denison married Elvira Parker Ken-
dall, Feb. 23, 1862.

William Kendall, born May 17, 1869.
Grace Mary, born Dec. 12, 1872.
Grace M. Denison married Robert Kimball Shep-
pard. May 25, 1898.

Ruth Shcppard, born June 29, 1900.
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Arthur E. Denison married Ida Ezilla Wright, Oct.
22, 1873.

Kate Chase, born May 8, 1878; died Oct.

15, 1876.
Arthur Wirt, born Dec. 3, 1878. Married
Dorothy Clare March, July 8, 1903.
Kate S. Denison, who died March 14, 1895, mar-
ried Cyrus S. Tucker, Oct. 10, 1866.

Kate Tucker, born Dec. 7, 1869 ; died July

2, 1876.
Carrie Tucker, born Sept. 1, 1871.
Agnes Tucker, born Mar. 8, 1875.
Ellen J. Denison married Amos L. Millet, May 18,
1865.

Helen D. Millet, born Doc. 11, 1870.
Ahce L. Millet, born Sept. 16, 1878.
Helen D. Millet married Lyman B. Chipman,
Feb. 19, 1896.

Alice Denison married Horace Cole, Jan. 2, 1870.
Edward D. Cole, born Aug. 19, 1871.
Herbert D. Cole, born Aug. 20, 1873.
Anne M. Cole, born July 12, 1875. Mar-
ried Louis Wilson, Feb., 1903.
Edward D. Cole married Louise Golding, June 27,
1894.

Adaline M. Denison married Charles Gilman Blake,

Oct. 16, 1878.

George Orville, born Sept. 28, 1879, killed
while hunting, November, 1893.
Emma M. Denison married Orville W. Collins,
M. D. She died April 28, 1898.

Mildred Denison, born Feb. 20, 1882, at
Norway, Me.

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C'hildren — Continued.

Louise True, born June 23, 1885, at Nor-
way, Me.
Lucius Hobart Denison married Emma Bader of
Grinnell, Iowa, Feb. 18, 1885.

Lucius Bader, born Jan. 2, 1886.
Philip Hobart, born Sept. 9, 1889.
Bertha Helen, born Feb. 16, 1891.
Ruth, born Mar. 23, 1896.
Herbert Roswell Denison married Cora May Dawes,
June 25, 1890. She was born in Harrison, Me.,
Aug. 10, 1869.

Lawrence Hathon, born Dec. 16, 1891,

Newtonville, Mass.
Hobart True, born Jan. 19, 1895, Newton-
ville, Mass.
CHfford Dawes, born Jan. 26, 1898, New-
tonville, Mass.
Nathan Newell Denison married Elizabeth M.
Boardman, Dec. 14, 1889. She was born Jan. 25,
1868.

Orville Boardman, born Oct. 5, 1890, at
South Framingham, Mass.

The following obituary appeared in a Portland
paper :

E. B. DENISON

A few words relative to E. B. Denison cannot be
out of place. Mr. Denison was a citizen whom Port-
land can ill afford to lose. An upright, quiet and mod-
est man, he filled a position of usefulness in the com-

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munity far more important than that of many who
make themselves more conspicuous pubhcly. His in-
tegrity and sound business abihty won for him the
respect of all who came in contact with him. There
is no position among men where a man can accomplish
more for other men than that of the head of a large
industrial business. The captain of industry in a
future not far distant is to stand in the first rank of
the world's benefactors. A well-known financial man
said of Mr. Denison : "I have never known but one or
two men who after failing in business and settling
with creditors at a percentage, afterwards when suc-
cessful paid in full with interest, but this is what Mr.
Denison did." The remarks of citizens when his
deatli was announced show the esteem in which he
was held by all. Said a large manufacturer, "He
was one of the best men I ever knew." Said another,
"He was a first-class man in every respect," and an-
other, "He was a man of most lovely character." To
win universal approval is better for a man than the
possession of titles.

NATHAN DENISON

Nathan Denison, second son of Isaac and Electra
Denison, married Sila Stoddard, April 12, 1830.
She was born in Sutton, Vt., January 5, 1807. He
settled on a farm south of his father's, where he lived
eleven years. In September, 1835, he was baptized
by Rev. Jonathan Woodman and united with the
Baptist Church at East Burke, Vt. Soon after this

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he felt called to preach the gospel and thinking his
education not equal to such a calling, he disposed of
his farm and with his little family removed to the
town of Derby and entered the Derby Seminary, then
in its infancy (1841). While studjang he preaclied
at East Charleston and Salem. He was ordained at
Derby, February 24, 1842. He read the hymn be-
ginning, "Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave
and follow thee." During th.e first year of his pas-
torate in Derby he baptized twenty-two persons — one
of whom became a minister. From Derby he went to
Hardwick, from there to Skaneateles, N. Y., from
which place he removed to Mendota, 111., October,
1854, where he died November 31, 1854.

Adaline Nancy, born Aug. 17, 1831 ; died April

3, 1871.
Oscar Isaac, born July 6, 1833.
Ehza Ann, born June 17, 1835; died Dec. 16,

1884.
Jeptha Spaulding, born June 4, 1837 ; died j\Iay

17, 1838.
Jeptha Curtis, born March 3, 1839.
Nathan Lincoln, born June 11, 1841.
Henry Hovey, born May 22, 1844.
George S. Norcross, born May 1, 1846.
Mary Marie, born Sept. 21, 1849.
Frank Herbert, born Aug. 17, 1852.

Adaline N. Denison married Whipple Warner of
Hardwick, Vt., March 25, 1854.

Hattie May, born Jan. 16, 1866.
Nathan Denison, bom Aug. 9, 1867.
Frank Stoddard, born June 9, 1869.
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Frank Stoddard Warner married Gertrude Samp-
son, June 21, 1894.

Ella Frances, born Aug. 13, 1895.

Hattie M. Warner married Adison B. Obear of
Burlington, Vt., June 29, 1898.

Ruth Harriet Obear, born Jan. 6,

1900.
Constance W. Obear, born Sept. 16,
1902.
Oscar Isaac Denison married Maggie G. Blair of
Hardwick, Vt., Sept. 7, 1856. Lives in Oakland,
Cal.

Adna Alanson, born June 7, 1861.
Albert Nathan, born Mar. 25, 1864'.
William Blair, born July 25, 1865; died

Nov. 2, 1891.
Lcland Walter, born June 20, 1869.
Lincoln Laird, born Jan. 4, 1871.
George Haigh, born July 2, 1875.
Adna Alanson Denison married Adrianna G.
Mervy, Dec. 6, 1893.

Allen Mervy, born Aug. 30, 1895.
Adrianne, born Mar. 23, 1898.

Albert Nathan Denison married Mina B. Hardy of
Oakland, Cal., Dec. 27, 1884.

George Haigh Denison married Louisa Caroline
Parrish, Oct. 25, 1897.

Lincoln Laird Denison married Harriet Louise Un-
derwood, Sept. 21, 1898.

Jeptha Curtis Denison married (1st) Sarah A.
Evans, Oct. 18, 1865; (2d) Ella F. Clifford, Sept.

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21, 1887, died May 9, 1895; (3d) Harriet B.
Schmidt, Nov. 18, 1896.

George Willis, born July 10, 1868.

Leo Evans, born Apr. 3, 1872 ; died June 8,

1875.
Mabel Denison, born Jan. 1, 1877 ; died

June 27, 1883.
Curtis Hanford, born Oct. 9, 1897; died
Oct. 14, 1897.
George Willis, son of Jeptlia, married Aug. 9,
1893, Leona Alice Felton.

Carl George, born Sept. 3, 1894?.
Eliza Ann Denison married Clark Lamb of Hard-
wick, Vt., Sept. 2, 1856.

Ida Edna, born May 22, 1858; died 1888.
Willis Hill, born Aug. 14, 1860; died Jan.

9, 1861.
Lida May, born Jan. 1, 1866; died June 6,

1884.
Henry Denison, born July 17, 1864.
Alice Angier, born Sept. 28, 1867.
Henry Denison Lamb married Carrie Mabel
Hough, Nov. 26, 1889.

Harrold Clark Lamb, born Aug. 26,

1890.
Frank Gilbert Lamb, born Jan. 27,

1893.
Frederick Hough Lamb, born Jan. 8,
1895.

Henry Hovey Denison married Jennie M. Burdick,
Nov. 25, 1869.

Lizzie May Denison, born May 30, 1871.

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(Iiildren — Continued.

Ella Edith Dcnison, born Aug. 30, 1873;

died Sept. 7, 1876.
Henry Hovey Denison, born Feb. 19, 1876.
Lizzie M. Denison married Martin A. Pease, May
15, 1889.

Kenneth Elmer, born Dec. 21, 1890.
Donald Denison, born July 14, 1892.
Vernon Aubrey, bom Jan. 16, 1894.
Henry Elton, born June 22, 1895.
Nathan Lincoln Denison, born June 11, 1841;
married Jennie E. Wilson, May 10, 1881. Live at
Caledonia, Mich.

George Norcross Denison married Hattie Carpen-
ter, Sept. 30, 1873, in Mendota, 111.

Mary Gertrude, born June 3, 1876.
Marguerite Edith, born May 30, 1877.
Jessie Imogene, born Sept. 24, 1879.
Florence E., born Oct. 20, 1881.
Faith Carpenter, born Jan. 19, 1887.
Franklin Herbert Denison married Ella Saunders.
Edna Alberta, born Oct. 22, 1875.
Herbert Saunders, born Feb. 18, 1878.
Stella May, born May 22, 1884.
Gertrude LiUian, born Feb. 1, 1889.
Edna A. Denison, daughter of Frank Denison,
married Charles H. Lewis, May 29, 1897.

Leshe Denison, born Aug. 28, 1902.
Herbert Saunders Denison, married Minabel
Walsh, Nov. 26, 1902.

Mary Marie Denison married Frank Erwin Tous-
ley, Jan. 1, 1871.

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Children : —

Erwin G. Tousley, born Feb. 23, 1873 ; died

Mar. 31, 1880.
Edwin Denison Tousley, born Jan. 1, 1875;

died Feb. 12, 1876.
Ethel May Tousley, born Oct. 21, 1878.
Frank Harold Tousley, born June 5, 1881.
Ethel May Tousley married Robert M. Jackson,
Oct. 18, 1899.

Mary Eloise Jackson, born Aug. 8,
1901.
Mary M. D. Tousley married ]Mr. Wadsworth of
Englewood, 111., Nov. 26, 1902.

REBECCA DENISON

Rebecca N. Denison married August 12, 1832,
Alonzo Bemis, who was born February 26, 1809.
They first settled in Lyndon. Afterwards he became
proprietor of the Willoughb}^ Lake House, where
they remained many years. They then went to
Brighton, near Island Pond, where they celebrated
their golden wedding, August 12, 1882. There were
one hundred and fifty persons present — nine who were
present at the original wedding. Mr. Bemis died the
last day of February, 1886. Mrs. Bemis died at the
home of her daughter, jMrs. John L. Tuttle, in Win-
stcd. Conn., February 19, 1893, after a long and
painful illness. She was buried at Island Pond by the
side of her husband.

Adna Denison Bemis, born May 31, 1834.

Annie Bemis, born Aug. 31, 1836.

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Children — Continued.

Isaac Denison Bemis, born Sept. 13, 1841.
Laura A. Bemis, born June 3, 18i5 ; died May 8,

1883.
Elias Alonzo Bemis, born Feb. 25, 1848.

Adna D. Bemis married Ellen Young, Jan. 1, 1856-

Lilla E., born Feb. 18, 1857; died Oct. 4,

1874.
Mary Rebecca, born Mar. 29, 1865; died

Apr. 17, 1869.
Charles P., born Nov. 1, 1859.
Charles P. Bemis married Maud Daniels, Nov. 26,
1891. They had one child, Mary Rebecca, born
April 3, 1893.

Annie Bemis married John L. Tuttle, Jan. 3, 1859,
at Willoughby Lake.

Fannie Denison Tuttle, born June 18, 1863 ;

died Feb. 23, 1902.
Edward Leverett Tuttle, born Sept. 22,
1866.
Fannie Denison Tuttle married George W. Bene-
dict, Nov. 12, 1885. He was born Oct. 10, 1856.

Ralph Tuttle Benedict, born Oct. 14,

1886.
Eric George Benedict, born Sept. 8,

1890.
Doris Benedict, born July 28, 1900.

Edward L. Tuttle married Alice Belle Buckland,
Dec. 29, 1891.

Lewis Buckland Tuttle, born Aug. 10,
1898.

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Isaac Denison Bemis married, June 30, 1863, Kate
Gushing, who died April 11, 1886.

Carrie R. Bemis, born Aug. 17, 1867.
Fred C. Bemis, born Mar. 2, 1870; died

July 5, 1887.
Cornelia M. Bemis, bom May 15, 1878.
Isaac Bemis and Betsey B. Walter married July 28,
1887.

Carrie R. Bemis married Charles H. Noyse, June
20, 1898.

Herman Bemis Noyse, Mar. 18, 1899.
Mabel Rebecca Noyse, July 15, 1901.
Elias A. Bemis married, Jan. 23, 1870, Diana Cob-
leigh, who died April 28, 1876.

Alonzo Cobleigh Bemis, born Feb. 29, 1872.
Annie E. Bemis, born Aug. 30, 1874; died

Sept. 2, 1881.
Mary Rebecca Bemis, born April 3, 1876;
died June 3, 1880.

Elias A. Bemis and Mary Cobleigh married Dec.
28, 1877.

Laura A. Bemis married Freedom Cobleigh.
Annie Laura, born May 26, 1875.
Adna Bemis, bom July 3, 1877.
Annie Laura Cobleigh married Willie E. Tripp,
May 26, 1894.

Ralph Cobleigh Tripp, bom Mar. 29,

1895.
Albion Freedom Tripp, born April 17,
1900.
Adna B. Cobleigh married Carrie B. Deland, Sept.
6, 1898.

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Children : —

Laura Isabel, born Oct. 29, 1899.
Leota Pearl, born Sept. 8, 1901.

Alonzo C. Bemis, only son of Elias A. Bemis, mar-
ried Lilla May Evans (born Nov. 23, 1877), Jan. 31,
1896.

Ida Elsie, bom July 31, 1897.

Leon Alonzo, born Aug. 4, 1891.

MINERVA DENISON

Minerva C. Denison, born June 13, 1813.

Edwin Fisher, born March 4, 1809.

Married February 14, 1834, by Rev. Jonathan
Woodman. They settled in the eastern part of the
town near his father's. They afterwards moved to
Derby Line, then to Norway, Me., and later to Lyn-
don Centre, where she died October 20, 1884, and
where she was kindly cared for by her daughters. She
was a good wife, loving mother, ever ready to care for
the sick and suffering.

Edwin Fisher died in Lyndon, May 10, 1896.

Amanda Malvina, born Nov. 27, 1834 ; died Apr.

2, 1901.
Curtis, born Feb. 25, 1836; died Aug. 20, 1856.
Electa Denison, born June 6, 1837 ; died Aug.

12, 1854.
Rosetta Tyler, born May 25, 1839.
Lucia Matilda, born Aug. 8, 1841.
Lucius Denison, born Jan. 29, 1843; died Apr.

18, 1891, at Lake Valley, N. M.

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Children — Continued.

Adallne Calista, born May 4, 1846.
Emilie Evans, born Feb. 13, 1855.

Amanda Fisher and Abner Rowland were married
at the residence of H. M. Hall, Jan. 26, 1869, by
Rev. Daniel Ladd.

Rosetta Fisher and Oliver Andrews were married
in Chicago by Rev. F. Emrlch, Aug. 17, 1886.
Oliver Andrews died in La Verne, July 8, 1897.

Charles Bennett and Rose F. Andrews were mar-
ried Nov. 20, 1900, at Addle Cahoon's, in Lyndon,
Vt.

Adaline C. Fisher and Dr. Charles C. Cahoon were
married at the residence of H. M. Hall, Feb. 19, 1876.
by Rev. W. T. Bennett. Dr. Cahoon died April 8,
1881.

Lucia M. Fisher married George Weston.

George Edwin, born March 14, 1881.
Gertrude M., born Nov. 25, 1884.

Lucius D. Fisher married Kate Warner, April,
1881 ; died April 18, 1901.

Emilie E. Fisher and Frank C. Miller, M. D., mar-
ried Sept. 28, 1875. He died March, 1882.

Grace M. Miller, born March 18, 1877.

David Cushing and Emilie Miller married April 18,
1900.

ADNA C. DENISON

Adna C. Denison was an active, energetic business
man. In 1842 he removed from Sutton, Vt., to Nor-
way, Me., where he engaged in the grocery business

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and was largely engaged In suppl3ang contractors on
the Grand Trunk Railroad. In 18^8 he commenced
the manufacture of paper on the most improved plan.
The name of A. C. Denison will long be remembered
as a benefactor of the town of Mechanic Falls

Adna C. Denison, born in Burke, Vt., Novem-
ber 15, 1815. Married Hannah True (born Sutton,
Vt., May 22, 1818), on September 13, 1838. A. C.
Denison died August 15, 1897. Hannah True
Denison died March 21, 1881.

Adna True Denison, born Sept. 1, 1839.
Frances May Denison, born Jan. 16, 1847.
Adna T. Denison married December, 1862, Sarah
Cousins Welch, who died April 21, 1864.

Francis Winson, born Jan. 16, 1864.
Adna T. Denison and Sarah W. Gunnison were
married in Portland, Me., March 29, 1866.

Ansel True Denison, born May 30, 1869.
Hannah Adnah Denison, born May 12,

1873.
Adna Curtis Denison, born April 12, 1875.
Ansel True Denison and Kate Louise Babcock were
married June 22, 1891.

, Ansel Morell Denison, born May 8,
1892.
Harvey Adna Denison, born INlay 2,
1894.
Adna C. Denison, 2d, and Adele Marguerite Carter
were married Sept. 6, 1898, at 21 Dix Street, Dor-
chester, Mass.

Hannah Adnah Denison and Charles T. Wentworth
married at Dorchester, Mass., July 2, 1900.

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Frances M. Denison and Calvin Morse Cram mar-
ried Oct. 3, 1866.

Agnes Denison Cram, born Sept. 3, 1870.
Fannie W. Cram, born Oct. 24, 1872.
Calvin Edward Cram, born Oct. 14, 1878;
died Oct. 24, 1878.
Agnes D. Cram and George T. Thatcher married
in New York, Dec. 7, 1892.

Hilda Ella Thatcher, born Sept. 27,

1893.
Barbara Thatcher, born July 29, 1895.
Fannie Warner Cram and Alden Palmer Webster
married in New York, May 6, 1896.

Prudence Webster, born April 17,

1897.
Priscilla Webster, born Feb. 18, 1899.

OSCAR A. DENISON

Oscar Alanson Denison and Mary R. Evans
were married Sept. 26, 1837. Mary R. Evans died
June 30, 1839.

Avery Elisha Denison born Sept. 1, 1838.
O. A. Denison and Adeline Stoddard married Dec.
17, 1840.

Adelbert Stoddard, born March 3, 1846.
Adelbert Stoddard Denison married Estelle Mat-
tocks.

Eva Denison, born April 23, 1872.
O. A. Denison and Lydia Putney married Sept. 1,
1850.

O. A. Denison died Feb. 7, 1901.
Lydia Denison died March 30, 1890.

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Avery E. Denison and Diantha Godding married
Mar. 18, 1864.

Mary H., born May 17, 1869.
Diantha Godding Denison died Oct. 15, 1869.
Avery E. Denison and Cynthia Wells married Jan.
4, 1871.

Hattic L. Denison, born Sept. 18, 1872.

Plattie L. Denison married Herbert Deland, Jan.
25, 1888.

Merrill Denison Deland, born July 27,

1891.
Maurice Albert Deland, born March

25, 1894.
Harley Alanson Deland, born July 20,

1895.
Adelbert Carlos Deland, born July 6,
1897.
Alanson lived on the old home farm in Burke for
over thirty years, then moved to Burke Hollow, thence
to L^nidon. Later he went to Mechanic Falls, At
the time of his death he was with his son Avery, at
Biownington Centre, Vt., where his funeral was at-
tended. He is buried in the cemetery at East Burke.

ISAAC AVERY DENISON

Isaac Avery Denison, youngest son of Isaac
Denison, married Laurestine Lucy Bemis, only daugh-
ter of Elias and Hulda Hall Bemis, April 23, 1844.
When quite young he entered the store of his
brother, Lucius. After his marriage he was in the
mercantile business at Ljmdon Centre, Vt. From
there he moved to Norway, IMe., from which place he

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moved to Mechanic Falls, Me., where he still resides
and has a grocery store.

Isaac Avery Denison, born June 18, 1820. Laures-
tine Lucy Bemis, born Sept. 17, 1825. Married April
23, 1844.

Hulda Electa, born Jan. 22, 1845.

Rosahe H., born May 24, 1846; died Sept. 8,

1852.
Julia S., born Dec. 23, 1849; died Jan. 12,

1868.
Clara Rebecca, born July 14, 1854.
Katie S., born Mar. 23, 1859.
Hulda E. Denison and Rev. Webster Woodbury
(born Apr. 20, 1841) married Sept. 1, 1868.

Harrold Denison, born Sept. 9, 1869 ; died

Mauch Chunk, Pa., Feb. 22, 1888.
Clarence Hale, born Feb. 13, 1873; died
Milford, Mass., Aug. 2, 1893.
Clara R. Denison and Rev. Fred E. Emrich (born
N. Y. City, Aug. 25, 1848) married Aug. 8, 1885.
Katharine Denison, born Sept. 1, 1889
Hilda Woodbury, born May 29, 1895.

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