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VER HISTORYProviding for the Future, Remembering the Past

1783-2014

Vol. 22, No. 2, Winter 2014

Above photo: When West Glover storeowner Charlie Dow stepped out of thestore and walked east down the roada bit, this is the view he would haveseen. This postcard, mailed in 1917,shows the sawmill on the right (nowgone) with the peak of the roof of theCutler house showing behind thesawmill. Beyond the woodpile on theleft is the Meadow Brook Creamery(now the home of the GloverAmbulance), the Spaulding house(burned, now the site of the home ofGlenn and Bev Lafont) and theCongregational Church. (GHS)

The Heart of West Glover—Part II of II, Turn to Page 5

E.O. Randall’s Store and Post Office, West Glover, today the home of Lake Parker General Storeand Parker Pie. (GHS, Barber Collection)

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Glover HistoryA semiannual publication of the Glover Historical Society, Inc. PO Box 208, Glover, VT 05839

President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Betsy DayVice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Darlene YoungSecretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Joan AlexanderTreasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jack Sumberg

Additional Board MembersConnie Ashe, Eleanor Bailey, Ken Barber, Judy Borrell,Bob Clark, Theresa Perron-Janowski, Nancy Rodgers,John Urie, and Randy Williams.

Thanks to Lucy Smith for compiling our mailing lists andkeeping it up to date, and printing our mailing labels.

Contact us atWebsite: www.gloverhistoricalsociety.orgEmail: [email protected] address: PO Box 210, Glover, VT 05839Phone: Betsy, 525-4051 or Joan, 525-6212

Mission StatementThe mission of the Glover Historical Society is to

advance the study and understanding of the history ofGlover. This purpose shall be pursued by the acquisition,preservation, interpretation and display in a museumsetting of items related to Glover history; by publishing aperiodical Newsletter; and by engaging in or sponsoring of,the compilation, publication and distribution of material,printed or otherwise, pertaining to the history of Glover.

Glover HistoryWinter 2014

In MemoriamRussell F. Darling Jr.

Chester H. GerawDr. Ray E. Griffin

Leo A. PerronJanet A. Urie

Sliding at recess at the Wright School, winter of 1949. (GHS)

In This IssuePresident’s Letter ........................................................................3

The Heart of West Glover—Part II of II ......................................5

Dan Gray’s Account Book, 1823–1850 .....................................14

The Display Box ........................................................................15

Puzzlers from the Paper: The Puzzles and the Winners! ............16

Grist Mill Owner Luther Merriam’s Diaries Given to the GHS ..19

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Bequests and gifts help support the Glover Historical SocietyThe Glover Historical Society relies on the work of

volunteers and the generosity of its members and benefactorsto fulfill its mission of advancing the study andunderstanding of the history of Glover. If you have aninterest in discovering and preserving the history of Gloverand wish to support the work of the Society, please considermaking a gift or bequest to the Glover Historical Society. We thank you.

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Happy holidays, everyone. As I write this,winter is upon us and Christmas will soon behere. We have another great newsletter for you

and a plethora of plans for next year bubbling up.2015 will mark the Glover Historical Society’s 25thAnniversary and we have been brainstorming at least25 goals and events to celebrate the occasion. Staytuned. Our spring newsletter will be full of detailsabout our plans and our society’s history andaccomplishments.

We were originally organized as Friends of GloverHistory in May of 1990. The original members wereMartha and Wayne Alexander, Dean Bailey, BettyPutney, Ruth and Richard Evans, Ruth Darling, CarolBorland, Alice and Don Clark, Peggy Day Gibson,Brendan Hadash, and Mazel Rogers. At the Junemeeting, the name was changed to Glover HistoricalSociety. On June 4, 1993, we filed for nonprofit statuswith the federal government.

Over the years we have recorded more than 50 oralhistories of Glover sons and daughters (the recordingsare currently being converted from video tape todigital format), and we are still at it, having recentlyinterviewed Elizabeth Redington and Ken Barber. Weare noted for being a “publishing” historical society,with eleven books to our credit, and more in theworks. We intend to debut the new Slab City historypublication for our anniversary next summer.

The summer of 2014 was a very busy andproductive one. We participated in Vermont HistoryEXPO in Tunbridge with our Johnny Prindle exhibit,complete with a vaudeville stage and life-size JohnnyPrindle in his top hat, with fiddle and original musicand jokes.

The very next week, we set up the whole thingunder a big tent at the old Parker Settlement andcommenced Glover Pioneer Camp, with a vaudevilletheme, offering focus groups in drama, music, setdesign, cooking over an open fire, two sessions of“working with clay” in our new pottery, and fortbuilding. We had two certified elementary teachers forthe youngest children, a professional musician who dida musical instrument petting zoo and taught the kids tomake their own instruments out of junk, and then puttogether a band to accompany the play, which was thestory of the Statue of Liberty on Lone Tree Hill. Weserved breakfast, hot lunch cooked over the campfire,and a snack after the afternoon swim.

On Friday, the parents and friends of our camperscame for potluck lunch and a vaudeville show, withjug band music, Prindle jokes, a magic show, and theplay. Camp was a raving success! Thanks to theVermont Community Foundation for their support of$1,000, a matching grant from the Lake ParkerAssociation, and $1,000 from the town of Glover. Wehave also just received word that the Kingdom Fundof the VCF has given us $4,000 for next year, for“trailwork, signage, and rustic shelters to benefit boththe camp and connection to the Hinman Settler Road

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Our Johnny Prindle exhibit at History Expo in Tunbridge with Joan,Betsy, and Randy. (Photo courtesy of Randy Williams)

Campers perform their “Statue of Liberty on Lone Tree Hill” play atGlover Pioneer Camp. (Photo by Randy Williams)

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historic trail.” As part of this year’s grant, we hosted aluncheon for local historical societies, and expandedour pioneer camp offerings to other schools andchildren in the county, and formed new collaborationswith other organizations in our community.

The new Slab City monument was dedicated inJuly at the Shadow Lake fishing access, thanks to thehard work of Connie Ashe and Jack Sumberg, whoworked closely with Vermont Fish and WildlifeDepartment.

In September, we co-hosted an old-time socialwith the Lake Parker Association at the settlement ona Saturday afternoon and invited not only the summerfolks, but also the ambulance squad, selectmen, firedepartment, town officers, lake associations, andeverybody we could think of. It was a great successand we intend to make it a summer tradition.

In September, we also attended the VermontCommunity Foundation Annual Meeting at the BasinHarbor Club in Vergennes and made lots of newfriends. We can’t thank them enough for their support!

Finally, we did a major renovation to our museum,thanks to donated display cases and two fireproof file

cabinets from Vermont Yankee. It looks great andgives us so much more display space.

Read on. We have some great stories to tell! Enjoyyour winter. Wishing you Happy Holidays and awonderful New Year.

– Betsy


Clive Gray from Greensboro introduces himself to the other localhistorical society attendees at October’s meeting at ParkerSettlement. (Photo by Randy Williams)

Our museum redo: New bookcases, file cabinets and a display case, all donations from Vermont Yankee, inspired a museum reorganizationand cleaning, completed just in time for visitors from local historical societies to see this fall! (Photos by Connie Ashe)

If you have family items that wecould use to make up one of thesefeatured display boxes, or wouldlike to make a suggestion or idea,

please contact the GHS.

Phone: Betsy: 525-4051 or

Joan: 525-6212

We would appreciate old Glover photos and storiesyou have that we could share in the GHSnewsletter. Please contact us if you would like tomeet with a member.


by Rachel Ann Cree Sherman

The first part of this article began the story of theheart of a village—the general store in West Glover—and of the village’s inhabitants for whom life wouldhave been much more difficult without the sustenanceand camaraderie that it provided. If one wanderedafar, letters from home helped keep a connection toWest Glover. The story continues…

It was Celtic folk, Scottish and Englishpioneers, who were drawn to the grandeur of theNortheast Kingdom’s beautiful rolling hills andvalleys, so like their homeland. Early family names inWest Glover included Vance, Lyman, Boardman,Bliss, Anderson, Donald, Cook, Cutler and Beach,among others.

Catherine Donald Nisbet, a widow, arrived in NewYork, sailing from Glasgow, Scotland, on the shipAffghan in 1849. She brought her boys, John Borland,19, and Matthew Nisbet, 14. Her son, David Cameron,had emigrated on the ship May Flower from Glasgowin 1842 at the age of 20. The differing last names ofCatherine’s sons suggest two earlier marriages prior tothe documented marriage to the elder Matthew Nisbet.It also suggests a life of tremendous loss and courage.This mystery, thus far, remains unsolved.

Catherine’s presumed sister and her sister’shusband, Robert and Janet Donald Anderson, as wellas other relatives and friends from West CentralScotland, were among others who had come orfollowed, settling in Glover, Irasburg, and Craftsbury.The area of Glover where many of these Scottishfamilies settled became known as Andersonville,which still bears that name today.

John Borland’s son, John Calvin Borland, wasborn in 1867. He was instilled with a good sense ofhumor and the heart of an adventurer. The familycame from the Strathaven/Kilmarnock area of WestCentral Scotland, the home of several other Glover,Greensboro and Craftsbury families, including theUries (original settlers James and Rachel Park Urie ofPaisley, Scotland); the Andersons and Gilmours (ofMoss End Farm, Ayrshire, Scotland) and the Youngs.1

By 1890, the Dow and Randall families had beeninvolved with West Glover’s general store for someyears, James Dow having married Elias O. Randall’sdaughter, Florilla E. (Flora). James and Flora’s familyconsisted of George A. (age 27) and Charles E. (age23). Close friends John Borland and Charlie Dowwere the same age (23) in 1890. Charlie had followedhis family’s path and was then owner of the village

The Heart of West Glover—Part II of IIWest Glover bird’s-eye postcard. (GHS)

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store, but young John Borlandyearned to roam.

Following his graduation fromPoughkeepsie Business College inNew York, John left West Gloverand “hit the dusty trail” for theWest. By 1890, the friends werecorresponding as John Borlandfulfilled his dreams, while CharlesE. Dow, “Dealer in GeneralMerchandise,” as his letterheadread, joined the citizens of WestGlover in everyday life.

They would never see eachother again.

On July 24, 1890, CharlieDow wrote in fine penmanship tohis friend with hope in his heart.

“Well Old Boy,” he began,“Your letter came duly to handand for me to say that I was gladto hear from you would not halfexpress it. Everything goes on inits old way here. Nothing takingplace except perhaps a prayermeeting once in a while. Havehad preaching in the P.M. nearlyall the time. Mr. Perkins2 preached2 Sundays and we were glad tohear him.”

Charlie reported that hayingwas in full swing then turned tothe age-old subjects of interest forthose in their 20s. Rather thansettling down right away, he wasmore interested in having a grandtime for a while in company withhis peers, notably females.

“Your Father has JamesWalker3 for help. Mrs. Randall isup on a visit. Have seen her 2 or 3times. I have not had but one letterfrom Lila4 since they moved. Thatwas a rattler, just full of fun andpith. I am enjoying myself prettywell this summer. Miss W——accepts my attentions verygraciously and I think I appreciate

her kindness. But John I don’texpect to ever be any closer relatedto her than I am. She is a splendidsensible girl, too sensible to haveanything serious with me, but, OldBoy, I have come to the conclusionthat a fellow can have a prettygood time if he is single. More of atime than if he was tied. There is agirl in New York at one of thesummer resorts who is a good oneto have a time with, she was herein the store with me alone for

nearly one P.M. and I had a bossold time. Perhaps you would liketo know who it is, it is AnnieBodwell.5 Charlie Cutler’s hiredgirl6 comes next. I believe I couldmake a mash with her if I tried andI think seriously of tryingsometimes but then I will thinkwhat good will it do and so Irepent of it and return to my silentmeditation.

Mr. A. B. Spier7 of Glover ispaying Miss Baker markedattentions this summer and it isthought by some that it will provea match. What is your opinion ofit? I was a good boy the fourth [ofJuly] and stayed at home all daybut went to Irasburgh in theevening. Had a pleasant drive outand back and enjoyed the fireworks [sic] very much. I drove upto dry pond the other day. Wewandered all around on the picnicgrounds. There are some very fineplaces there….”

As is usual in Vermont,weather was not to be left out ofthe communication nor had July, atleast, been quiet. A storm on July8th had done “a good deal ofdamage,” he said. “Sugar placessuffered considerable damage andsheds, and in some places, barnswere blown down and unroofed.No lives lost but lots of firewood made.”

Charlie was mulling over hisfuture and the tendency of theyoung to listen to HoraceGreeley’s advice to “Go West,”following his friend John, the grassbeing always greener on the otherside of the proverbial fence.

“I will sell out if I can find acustomer and can arrange thingssatisfactorily … if I do and haveenough money left I will come outthere and look around. But don’t


John Borland. (GHS, Borland Collection)

Philena Reckard Borland. (GHS, BorlandCollection)

wait for me for I may not sell outfor a long day yet. By Gosh I wishI was there, we would have an oldtear of a time and enjoy life in itshighest phases.

“Well John you can read thisletter or not. It is quite long.

“Write soon to your old Chum,bedmate, school mate, s—t a—sand Darned good friend.

“C.C.D.”

The letter bore the marks ofa joyful young man alreadyoperating a business and planninghis future. It was the last Johnwould hear from Charlie. Fivedays later, he was gone. At theend of the letter, a footnotewritten in pencil in a differenthand, probably John’s, tells ofCharlie’s sad destiny:

Died July 31, 1890 frominjuries received from beingthrown from a road cart on July29, 1890.

A long account of Charlie’sdeath appeared in the OrleansCounty Monitor on August 4th.8 Ittells of a “Sad Accident;” thatJames Dow’s son “had beenthrown from a carriage Tuesdayforenoon, near Hugh Carr’s9 andso badly injured that he diedThursday morning” at the age of23. He had taken a dog cart and ahigh-spirited horse to visit hisbrother in East Albany. It was“supposed, that the holdback orsome part of the harness brokewhile he was coming down the hillnear Mr. Carr’s, and the horsewent into a run, and continued torun until out of sight around thedug way above Mr. Graves’.” Thehorse was unable to negotiate asharp turn and Charlie was thrownfrom the cart down a bank,“apparently” striking his head

against a stone and falling againsta fence. Unconscious when he wasfound, he was taken to Mr. Graves’home, never regainingconsciousness.

“Mr. Dow was a young man ofgood ability, disposition, andspotless character,” the article wenton to say. “He was doing asuccessful business as a merchantand was esteemed by all who knewhim. His loss is deeply felt in all

the community and is almost acrushing blow to his parents.” Hewas buried in the West GloverCemetery.

We may never know whetherCharlie’s letter or a telegramreached John first with thedevastating news. Whatever thecase, John no doubt missed thefuneral and he remained in theWest for some years, unless hemade intermittent trips home,which is doubtful. Through the fewremaining letters that exist, weknow that by the spring of 1891,24-year-old John Borland was atSanta Cruz, California, and hadbeen in Colorado prior to that. ByJanuary of 1894, he had gone on toAsbestos in Jackson County,Oregon, and to Spikenard, Oregon,by springtime, ever traveling on.Rather than setting out to strike itrich or obtain free land, Johnsimply wanted to see the entirecountry, sea to shining sea.

John’s cousin, Martha(Mattie) Cook, aged 28 or 29, wasthe daughter of Calista ReckardCook and her husband, Emery.Calista was aunt to John, the sisterof John Borland’s mother, PhilenaReckard Borland, who had passedaway when John was young. TheCooks lived in the house (now thehome of Merle and Jackie Young)next to the Clarks, what wouldbecome John and May Borland’shouse in West Glover.

Mattie wrote, “Dear cousinJohn” in California during Marchof 1891. She had last received aletter the fall before when he wasin Colorado, and apologized forher belated response. She wasreading The Seven Wonders of theNew World, the New World beingAmerica.


John Calvin Borland as a young boy.(GHS, Borland Collection)

John Calvin Borland as a youth. (GHS,Borland Collection)

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“… I became very muchinterested in the Garden of theGods and Grand Canyons and I donot suppose the half can be toldand you will visit Yosemite and theBig Trees [Redwoods]. O, John,you must come home some timeand tell us all about them! I willtell you what my author gave asthe Seven Wonders of the newworld—they differed from TheSeven Wonders in that they wereall natural—Niagara Falls,Yellowstone Park, Garden of theGods and Canyons of Colorado,Yosemite Valley, Giant trees[Redwoods], and Mammoth Cave.Perhaps you will have visited themall when you come home. I shouldmuch rather see them than theWonders of the old world.”10

John could have seen all ofthose places before his journeysended. And hopefully, Mattie didhear the tales of those manyadventures.

“I meant to send my love toyour sister Mattie the very firstthing.… How pleasant it is for youto be together!” she went on. “Iwonder if Mattie has that picturethat we schoolchildren had takentogether. Mine hangs at the head ofmy bed and Mattie looks at mevery often from that but I supposeit is not a correct likeness becauseshe is so very quiet there andMattie herself is [here she wrote“never,” then crossed it out]seldom that I suppose.”11

Mattie Cook—and her family,presumably—had visited at theBorland homestead the day beforeand had seen a photograph of “Mr.Baldwin’s buildings,” the farmwhere John was presentlyworking.12 “I thought the housemight easily have been taken for aVermont home,” she wrote.

“I suppose you make excellentbutter. Our cream still goes to theMeadow Brook Creamery.13 Justinand Lymie [Lyman] [her brothers]are splitting up their woodpile andbeginning to think about sugaring.I think you and Mattie would liketo run in sometime when we are

sugaring off. We had some sugaron snow yesterday.”

Mattie had been teachingschool, but had spent that winter athome. Her mother hadn’t beenwell, but if she improved with thewarmer weather, Mattie said shewould begin teaching again.

“We have the old school law inVt. again. You read the Monitor Ibelieve, so perhaps have noticed inthe Glover items the account of thetrouble in the So. Glover school.14 Itaught there in the fall but havebeen very thankful that I did notgo back for the winter term. Whatabout schools in Cal.? I still studyshorthand a little but do notimprove very fast. I often givemyself a mental shaking upbecause I do not find or make thetime to practice since I have madea beginning but so many thingskeep coming to take the time.—”

Mattie stated that there waslittle family news. “[Mother] was71 years old the 13th of Feb. and


John Calvin Borland, student atPoughkeepsie Business College. (GHS,Borland Collection)

Meadow Brook Creamery, c. 1900. Today, this building is the home of the GloverAmbulance. (GHS)

the children (except Leone) comehome. It was a complete surpriseto Mother and very enjoyable.”

Relating the state of the restof the family and her peers, shereported: “… Lyman is repairinghis house a little at a time andRuby, Katie’s little girl growspretty and cunning every day. Weare having quite a number ofentertainments for W. G. thiswinter the young people gettingup several plays. Sidney Spafford[of Greensboro] called on mewhen he was home with themeasles. He seems to enjoy hiswork … Chester King has gone toConn. to work in a grocery store.”

Charlie’s brother, GeorgeDow, had taken over the store.Mattie said that she thought hewas doing pretty well. “We like hiswife [Josephine] well,” she wrote,“but miss Charlie.”

“Mother went out to Charlie’sto day but she always wants to beremembered to you: you seem tobe all that is left to her of that dearsister she lost so long ago.15 LastThanksgiving day we were all atCharlie’s. We talked of you andwished you were with us.”

Mattie asked John about hisreading material, stating that fornovels she “had read GeorgeEliot’s Adam Bede andMiddlemarch and like them well.”She signed off “With love fromyour Cousin Mattie Cook” and apostscript:

“I should like to hear from‘Sister Mattie’ too. I ought to havetold you a little more about thehome folks [at the Borland farm].They were well except that JohnMurphy had cut his foot prettybadly while splitting wood. Mr.Mitchell is there now for sugaring.Clark [John’s half-brother] is livelyas ever.”

As an aside here, there werefamily connections between theRandall/Dow families and theBorland’s. Eleanor Clark, sister toJohn’s step-mother, Harriet, hadmarried E.O. Randall. They wereliving in Greensboro when Eleanorwrote to Harriet at the end of

September in 1892. The lettersgenerally concern the comings-and-goings of the family; forClark’s illness, Eleanorsuggested an improvement in hisdiet. E.O. had had serious neckproblems and Eleanor notedseveral remedies, includingcranberry juice.

John had returned home toWest Glover in January of 189416

when one Henry H. Lawton wroteto him from Jackson County,Oregon. Lawton was under theimpression that John would leaveWest Glover again comespringtime. He lamented theslowness of the mails due to “badweather and bad roads,” from

snow to rain to snow, and “Mud allthe time.”

The West was still being settledand opportunities for work wereabundant. Lawton felt that therewas an opportunity for expansionand development in the state ofWashington and encouraged Johnto join him there. He was going to


Beginning of letter from Charlie to John, written onthe store’s letterhead. (Rachel Sherman Collection)

Emory and Calista Reckard Cook, parents of John’s cousin Mattie. (GHS, BorlandCollection)

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Florence, Oregon, by way ofprairie schooner when he wroteagain in the spring, having heardfrom John.

Lawton was busily planningtheir future. “You had better makeup your mind to join us as soon asyou can fix up matters at home,”he wrote. “Florence is bound togrow in a few years and we arebound to be on the ground beforethe boom, and select our sites, andbe ready. I would like to have youfor a neighbor and want you toplan to join me this fall. . . . TheSiwslaw [Siuslaw] River emptiesinto the ocean at this point makinga good harbor and a very possiblefuture for us.” He would keepJohn updated.17

In the meantime, however,John had become involved in thestore with George Dow andWesley Aldrich. In addition, MayLyman, 13 years younger than he,had captured John’s heart. Bythen, John had met a rather loftygoal, if goal it was. He hadfulfilled his dreams, makingfrequent use of his own two legs

as the means by which he sawthis country. May would relatethat he had walked—and she didmean walked, for he loved towalk—throughout all but two ofthe then 48 states, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

May Lyman Borland, who wasalso born a scholar, was teachingschool at the original white-clapboarded Barton Academy.They married in 1904, but John’sjourneys did not end. They made atrip, probably for their honeymoon,to the Louisiana PurchaseExposition (the St. Louis World’sFair), in Missouri that year.Sometime later he moved them tothe state of Washington. May hadentertained no plans to Go Westprior to that. Being the trueVermonter that she was, she was“very, very homesick,” by her ownaccount, and they returned home toWest Glover.

In 1900, E.O. Randall ownedWest Glover’s general store onceagain. In May, the Orleans CountyMonitor related that he wasenlarging it, as “more room has

been needed for some time,” andthat it was now “lit withincandescent vapor gas lights.…brilliant and very satisfactorylight.”18 New library books wereadded in 1909, so there had been alibrary available for some time.Albert and Lillian Webster’sdaughter, Hester, served aslibrarian some 20 years later on.

John’s adventurous spirit andlove of the wilderness wasinherent and that flame was neverto be extinguished. Written inOctober of 1912, a letter fromClarence Pierce of Craftsbury,minister of the Methodist Churchin St. Albans, relates his elation attheir recent hunting trip inCanada. He states that John’s“knowledge of wood-craft andgame added greatly to [the trip’s]success. Even the hardships arepleasant to remember and reallygave spice and zest to theoccasion,” he wrote; the grouphad “enjoyed you much and feltthat you were the real guide andwoodsman of the party.”

It is no wonder, with all of hismany years of varied experiencesin the wild, that they felt thatway. John would trek thewilderness with many othersbefore his days were done, amongthem his daughter, Joyce, heruncle, Mit Lyman and his son,Forrest, Clyde Barber, RossWright and Clyde Heath. SteveCree of Wheelock, who becameJoyce’s husband, also joined in onthe adventures.

No doubt he had Charlie in histhoughts as he helped the Dowfamily with the village store,which offered the town’sprovisions, along with stability andcamaraderie.


Dry Pond was a popular picnic spot for school, church, veteran and social groups. This viewis from a color postcard, published by A.D. Seaver, Barton, c. 1910. (GHS)

The Randall and Dow families’ store now exudesa vitality greater (and to some, more horrifying) thanthose that went before would ever have imaginedpossible, even in the Roaring ’20s. It resounds withmusic where the requirements of daily life are stillaccessible, though it may be two different kinds oftabs that are run, both harking back to different eras.

As Merle Young, Sr., the “Mayor of West Glover”and another past owner of the store, put it: “So manypeople ask me if I could ever have envisioned a barand restaurant in downtown West Glover and I say,‘Never, never would I have ever envisioned it.’”

Neither, probably, would have those who smuggledhooch through West Glover in Pierce Arrows during the1920s, as young Joyce Borland and her friends, ShirleyBarber, Floy and Hester Webster; their families, friendsand neighbors watched in fascination. Then again, forthose among Vermont’s hills who planted potatoes forwhiskey during the 18th and early 19th centuries, itmight not be that much of a stretch.

Times change, though not by much, in the heart ofthe village, and the general store is alive and flourishingonce again in “the little village of the faery sweet-forget-me-not.”19

May it ever be so._________

1. See the Heather Transplant series by Jean UrieBorland; Scottish Andersons from Mossend Farm,compiled by L. Maud Anderson and James L.Anderson Graham; Andersonville: The First 100Years, compiled and edited by Jeannine B. Young;and History of the town of Glover, 1783–1983.

2. The Rev. S.K.B. Perkins, a venerated Gloverminister well appreciated for his sermons.

3. James Walker, 43, “a farm laborer,” lived in WestGlover with his wife, Augusta, 33, and their sons,Elwin, 14, and Eddie, 10, according to 1880census records.

4. “Sweet” Eliza (Lila) Tucker, age 17 in 1880,was a ward of E.O. Randall. In her poem, “LittleMemories in Silhouettes and Other Lines,”Phebe Spalding describes Lila and her friend,Mattie Cook:

“Her chum was Mattie Cook, and both hadmindsWould put the usual college maid to shame,And both true-blue …”

(See www.gloverhistoricalsociety.org)5. According to 1880 census records, Annie Bodwell,

then 11, lived in West Glover with her parents,Edwin, a farmer, and Mary, and her siblings,Edwin, 20, Matthew, 14, Aggie, 12.

6. Census records show no evidence of CharlieCutler’s hired girl in the census. She may havebeen a local girl, not living with the family.

7. Allan Bryce Spier never did marry Miss Baker, oranyone else; his 1920 death certificate shows hedied a single man. He operated a harness shop inGlover village for many years. (His business cardappeared in a recent GHS newsletter.) In the 1880census, he was 19, living with his father, Allan, afarmer in Greensboro, along with younger siblingsMartha J., Robert B., and David G.; both parentswere born in Scotland. His mother, Martha Barr,had died four years earlier at age 34. Miss Bakermay be Emily Baker, aged 20 in 1880, daughter ofDavid and Emily H. Baker. She grew up withsiblings Alida, Edward, Ferdinand, Ernest and Charles.

8. See Janice Ingersoll Boyko’s website, www.nekg-vt.com. Janice grew up in Barton, just over theGlover line.

9. Hugh Carr’s farm was located at the south end ofLake Parker (Beers Atlas, 1878), so Charlie hadalmost reached home.

10. Mattie’s statements emphasize the importance thatshe placed on her intellectual pursuits. Both Mattieand John emulated their parents in that regard.Calista and Philena were the daughters of Rev.Eleazar and Lemira Spalding/Spaulding Reckard(great-grandparents of the author) of Craftsbury.


Home of Emory and Calista Cook on the left, today the home ofJackie and Merle Young III. On the right, the Borland home, now thehome of Judy and Skip Borrell. (GHS, Borland Collection snapshot,undated)

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Philena became a teacher andtaught in Greensboro andBarton. She was anaccomplished writer and artist.(For The Seven Wonders of theNew World, 1885, seehttps://archive.org/details/sevenwondersofne00peck.)

11. John’s “Sister Mattie” is amystery. Neither Jean Borlandnor I have found any evidence

at all that John ever had asister or a half-sister. The onlyMatties I could trace were thewife and daughter of JamesBorland (his cousin?), whowas living in Danville in1880. The writing is difficultto discern in that census, but itappears that there was a year-old daughter named Martha. Itis possible that it was she whowas in John’s vicinity with herfamily, as they do not appearin the census of 1900 (the1890 census does not exist). Ifthose two Matties wereschoolmates, they would havebeen years apart during the1880s, though all grades weretogether in the schoolhouse.Perhaps her dynamicpersonality was due to heryoung age.

Should anyone havephotographs of theschoolchildren of this era orknows “Sister Mattie’s”identity, please contact me.Perhaps this mystery can be solved.

12. This indicates that JohnBorland was sendingphotographs home to hisfamily. Though there are manyfamily photographs, it does notappear that those photos areamong them.

13. The land for Meadow BrookCreamery, where theAmbulance Service is nowlocated, was sold by Aaron andCandice Skinner to WesleyAldrich in 1889 and thecreamery built about 1892.Aldrich sold it to NelsonStevens during the late 1890s,who moved it to his farm onthe Irasburg Road.

14. Mattie went back to teaching atSlab City that fall. Anupcoming book about SlabCity, to be published by theGlover Historical Society, willfill in the rest of this story.Mattie married CortisWoodward on New Year’s Day,1894. They farmed in Irasburg,and Mattie also continued to teach.

15. Philena Reckard Borland haddied in 1870 when John wasonly three years old. His father,John, subsequently marriedHarriet Clark Mason, widow ofDan Mason. They had one son,Clark, father of Alden Borland,the latter who married Jean


The book that filledMattie’s head withwanderlust, The SevenWonders of the NewWorld, by Rev. J.K.Peck (1885, Phillips &Hunt, New York).(Photo from eBay)

Mary “May” Lyman Borland, BartonAcademy graduation, 1900. (GHS, BorlandCollection)

A camping trip snapshot. Clockwise, from lowerleft: Joyce Borland Cree, Forrest Lyman, SteveCree, Mit Lyman, with John C. Borland in thecenter. (GHS, Borland Collection)

Urie. Alden and Jean’s son, Kenneth, and his wife,Carol, carried on the home farm until Ken retired.They, and many Borland descendants, still live onthat land. Harriet Clark grew up in the villagehouse later owned by John and May Borland.

16. Upon John Borland’s return from the West duringthe early 1890s, he joined George Dow andWesley Aldrich in ownership of the general store;another “community effort.” (History of the townof Glover, Vermont, 1983).

17. Based on research, chances are that Henry H.Lawton was born July 20, 1837 in Bridgewater,MA, the son of Howland and Mary Lawton. Heultimately settled in Gardiner, Douglas County,

Oregon; this was known as the “Lake Precinct.”He served as a musician during the Civil War.Though it is likely that he filed for a pension in1890 citing “invalid” status, as a possible result ofa Civil War injury, he was still operating a “farmgarden” at the age of 83.

18. See Janice Boyko’s website, www.nekg-vt.com.(See footnote 8.)

19. From “Little Memories in Silhouettes and OtherLines,” a poem by Phebe Spalding. (Seewww.gloverhistoricalsociety.org.)

The author, John and May Lyman Borland’sgranddaughter, extends everlasting gratitude to all ofthe West Glover/Glover people, and others, who haveshared their knowledge for this article. They includeher parents, Stephen and Joyce Borland Cree, andher grandmother, all three gone now; her cousinJean Urie Borland, who has contributed so much toWest Glover historical records for so many years;and all of those who have gone before. The letterscontained herein are among the family archives;some of those photos, documents and keepsakes maybe seen at the Glover Historical Society. How wewish we had photos of Charlie Dow, Mattie Cook andtheir chums; it may be we’ll discover some at thearchives of the Crystal Lake Falls HistoricalAssociation, where Barton Academy’s archives reside(next summer’s project!). ■


Camping trip snapshot with canvas hung between the two cars.(GHS, Borland Collection)

The GHS first published Westlook Cemetery:Gravestone Inscriptions & Other Genealogical Datain 2002. Years of volunteer research by Dick Brown,Jean Borland, and others went into the book, whichlists alphabetically the over 2,200 burials at WestlookCemetery, the largest of Glover’s four cemeteries.Along with listings of all the inscriptions on thestones, other genealogical info gleaned from vitalrecords, family histories and other sources was addedand cited, making it a wonderful resource.

In 2004, the data was updated and corrections weremade to the first edition, and a second edition waspublished. The 250 copies that were ordered are nearlygone, and GHS volunteers have been getting ready topublish a third edition. We decided to update the bookwith info about all the burials that have been made inthe last ten years.

We have several corrections to the second editionon file that we will make in the new edition. If youknow of any errors/omissions to the second edition(blue cover), please let us know, and we will correctthe record before the third edition is published. Youcan email us at [email protected] or call(802) 525-6212.

The Westlook Cemetery Book: Call for Corrections!

Photo by Randy Williams, 2014

14 Glover HistoryWinter 2014

by Jean Borland, June 2014

In 2009 the Glover Historical Society was offereda “gold mine” of town history, being about 500 pagesof Dan Gray’s accounts at the first bar, store andhotel that had been built in Glover Village, where theUnion House is today.Gray opened it forbusiness in February 1823,and he listed everyone whobought drinks or goodsthat day, and every dayafter that, as well as whatthey paid for them.

As an example of thetrade that was done, let’stake the French family.They lived in the KeeneCorner part of town, todayknown as DexterMountain. The Frenchfamily men who appear ascustomers in the accountbook are Barzilla, Jonah,Lyndol, Nathaniel, Silasand Zenith. On Feb. 21,1823 Nathaniel bought 7yards of cloth at 67¢, 3-1/2 yards sheeting at$1.75, and thread andneedles at 13¢ each. Onthe following day, Feb.22nd, Nathaniel bought1/2 pound spices at 25¢,tea at 72¢, thread at 13¢, and a half paper of pins at13¢. Lyndol bought 3-1/2 yards sheeting at $1.63(delivered to brother George), and two pocketbooks, $2.34.

The French family continued to buy many itemsthroughout the years—flint at 8¢; powder, 13¢;tallow at 64¢; rum, 13¢; and tobo [tobacco] at 17¢, to

name a few. One wonders how Dan Gray purchased all of these

items and kept his bar of rum, brandy and whiskeyavailable. The boys and men bought whiskey by thegallon when they met for military training.

Dan’s spelling is interesting: hors, slay, tobo, sope,waggon, etc.

He kept his horses, anox team, chaise and“waggons” on hand forpeople to rent duringgardening, haying, or fordriving. The charge forrenting a “hors” to go toBurlington was $3.00; totravel to Montpelier with achaise was $3.50. Localtrips were 25¢or less.

This store was opened13 years after RunawayPond in the new village thathad sprung up in what hadbefore been swampland butwas now filled in with thedebris left by the runawaywaters. You can imaginehow hard it must have beento clear the slash, boulders,and rocks along the riverand build roads out ofGlover to Barton and to theParker Settlement. Thehotel flourished as the areagrew. Gray boarded and fed

a great many people and all of the entertainersroomed there.

I have copied a lot of the book and can furnishhandwritten lists of names, dates and purchases ifanyone is interested. The ledger has beenphotographed and will be available on the GHSwebsite in the future.

Wanted: Old and new photos, of camps and campers from Shadow Lake /Stone Pond/SlabCity. Connie Ashe, GHS and Shadow Lake Association member, is gathering photos and

other info to document the history of Shadow Lake and Slab City. Please contact her at [email protected] or 802.525.6936.

Dan Gray’s Account Book, 1823–1850

One page from Dan Gray’s ledger book. The GHS hopes to haveeach page up on the GHS website next year! (Photo by RandyWilliams)


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If you are interested in the fascinating story of the Union House, you will want to read The Union House ofGlover, Vermont, by Marguerite Bean Fiske, published by the Glover Historical Society in 1999.

The newest exhibit in the GHSdisplay case on the counter in the TownClerk’s Office is a gathering of differentadvertising giveaways from our museumcollection. From coin purses to calendars,and plates to pencils, merchants werestamping the business name and phonenumber on freebies that they hopedwould help the customer remember them!Not all giveaways were throwaways, forthese items live on! (GHS)

The Display Box

If you have family items that we could use tomake up one of these featured display boxes, or would like to make a suggestion or idea,

please contact the GHS. Betsy: 525-4051 or

Joan: 525-6212

The following are customer surnames listed in the account book:

Puzzlers from the Paper: The Puzzles and the Winners!


During the 2013–’14 school years, students atGlover Community School were treated to a new twiston the GHS monthly “What is it?” contest. Instead ofguessing what mystery object was on display in thetrophy case at school, students were asked to fill in the

missing word from a Glover item found in the oldweekly newspapers.

Here are photos of the winners, whose names wererandomly chosen from all correct entries, along withthe puzzlers themselves so you can give them a try!

May: Erica Thaler, grade 4

November: Jillian Stevens, grade 3

September: Paige Currier and Dayna Knights,grade 3

April: Reese Borland, grade 5

February: Robin Clark, grade 5

January: Kaitlyn Brown, grade 3

And here are the winners for the 2013–2014 school year:


1. Orleans County Monitor,August 8, 1891:

Capt. O.V. Percival recentlymowed 1/4 acre of grass in________. Pretty well for a man70 years old.

Capt. Orville ValentinePercival was a Civil War veteranwho collected lots of storiesabout Glover’s history. Howlong do you think it would take a70-year-old man to mow a 1/4acre of hay by hand, using acradle or a scythe? Hint: a 1/4acre is about the size of theinfield of a baseball field.

3. Orleans County Monitor, June6, 1904:

James Calderwood found a____ dead in his yard lastSunday morning. It proved to bea ____he had formerly ownedand sold to Allen Gilmour somethree years ago. When Mr.Gilmour found the ____ wassick, he turned it into the yardand went for a veterinarysurgeon. Upon his return the____ was gone. They did notsucceed in finding it and gave upsearching for it about midnight.Meanwhile the ____ wended itsway of nearly two miles to its oldhome and there died.

What kind of animal do youthink it was that went back to itsold home to die? (The sameword fills in all the blanks.)

4. Orleans County Monitor,October 22, 1883:

Roy Christie, a boy nineyears of age, has shot one __A__,five partridges and sevenwoodchucks since summer schoolended.

Orleans County Monitor, August11, 1904:

Clarence Phillips, 17 yearsold, shot a large, gray __B__near Parker Pond Fridayevening. The bird was asleep in atree when it was discovered. Itmeasures 7 feet tip to tip of itswings. It was taken to C.S.Phillips the taxidermist to bemounted.

Hints: Each blank is the nameof a bird, but they are not thesame bird. Today it would beagainst the law to shoot the birdsthat Roy and Clarence shot. Theanswer to A has four letters andthe answer to B has five letters.

6. Orleans County Monitor,February 2, 1919:

Mrs. Betsey Salmon recentlydiscovered a beautiful _______in her kitchen, measuring overfour inches across its wings. Thesupposition is that [it] was onthe firewood and hatched in thewarmth of the kitchen.

What animal do you thinkshe discovered in her kitchen?

2. Orleans IndependentStandard, October 18, 1867:

Mr. M.H. Mason from twoapple trees picked ___ bushels…of apples.

How many bushels of applesin all do you think Mr. Masonpicked from his two apple treesthat fall?

him home and put him in anempty stove in his shop.

The next day Mr. Pattersontook a friend to see him and hegave them to understand that hewas not dead, by uttering a shrillwhistle. He very soon, however,gave himself up to dormancyagain, in which state he hasremained most of the time,partaking of no food since hiscaptivity.

Occasionally he gets tothinking about Spring and wakesup and whistles, turns over andgoes to sleep again. During allthe cold weather he hasmanaged to suck his claws fastenough to keep from freezing.Mrs. Patterson intends to keephim till spring when he proposesto “pardon him” out of hisprison and set him free for hisgood behavior.

What animal do you thinkspent the winter sleeping (andsometimes whistling!) in theempty stove?

American Homestead Autumn, 1868-9, Currier and Ives

5. Orleans County Monitor,February 3, 1873:

Last October Mr. L. W.Patterson, while ploughing,turned up a_______, then in atorpid state. He breathednaturally enough, but with all theshaking, pinching of ears, andtwisting of tail, he would not beawakened to sensibility. He took


9. Orleans County Monitor, June10, 1895:

Jos. G. King took 1stpremium in a sheep shearingcontest at Lyndon last week,beating his competition by fiveminutes. He sheared a merinosheep in ___ ___ .

How much time do you thinkit took Mr. King to shear onesheep? And another puzzler:“Jos.” is an abbreviation for afirst name. What do you think Mr.King’s first name was? ■

You’ll noticethere are nowinners’ picturesfor October,December, orMarch. Thoughmany studentshad creative and

sensible answers, there were nocorrect answers; those puzzles werea just a little too tricky!

1) 45 minutes2) 28 bushels3) horse4) A: loon; B: eagle

5) woodchuck6) butterfly7) eft or newt8) 27 9) 20 minutes

7. Orleans Independent Standard,March 20, 1868:

In 1837…Mr. Stephen Garfielddied. During part of his life hesuffered from a singular trouble.Drinking from a stream of water(commonly clear and pure) in theevening, he imbibed a ______,which continued to live and grow,to change its position from time totime. This afterwards came to thelight, and was seen. Until relieved,the health of Mr. Garfield wasmuch impaired.

What animal do you think Mr.Garfield swallowed by mistake?

8. Orleans Independent Standard,May 8, 1868:

SMART BOY – A son of Mr.Wm. Flood of Glover, aged elevenyears, made this season 174pounds of sugar from ___ trees—having no assistance from anyone.

How many trees do you thinkthis SMART BOY tapped to endup with 174 pounds of maplesugar?

In those days, most people didnot make maple syrup from thesap; instead they boiled the sapdown even more and stirred it fora long time, until it turned into acreamy hard pack, which wouldthen be scraped off to use as asweetener. It is about twice assweet as sugar. A few facts to helpfigure this out: One tree gives anaverage of 10 gallons of sap. Ittakes 30–50 gallons of sap tomake 1 gallon of syrup. One 1gallon of syrup will make 8pounds of maple sugar.

The Glover Historical Society Museum has many interesting items and documents available for viewing. It is also aready resource for those involved in tracing genealogies. The Museum offers many sources of ancestral informationranging from bound volumes of area families, annual lists, various school attendance records, letters, newspaper articles,photo albums and more. The Glover Town Clerk’s office on the first floor has property records that extend back to the1700s.

If you are not able to come to the Museum to do your research, a member of the Glover Historical Society may be ableto do some research for you. We have not charged for this service, though donations to the GHS for research are gratefullyaccepted, and the GHS appreciates family researchers sharing their genealogy and family history to add to our files. Sendemail inquiries to [email protected]. Or write to Glover Historical Society, P.O. Box 208, Glover, VT 05839.

Genealogy Resources

Shearing the Rams, Tom Roberts, 1890

The GHS is always looking for stories, including old diaries, journals, or letters, relating to Gloverduring an earlier time. If you have a story to tell, please submit it to [email protected]. Forthose of you who don’t use the internet, please mail them to Glover Historical Society, Inc., PO Box208, Glover, VT 05839


Last spring, Phil Blumenfeld from Albuquerquecame up to the museum on a late Monday afternoon.He was searching for information about hisgrandfather Luther Merriam, and the grist mill he hadowned and operated in Glover Village in the early1900s. The museum was in disarray because we werein the midst of moving in all the new bookcases andother storage goodies donated by Vermont Yankee, butwe did manage to find old photos of the mill andlocate it on the 1878 Beers Map; Phil was soon off toexplore the old site on the Barton River before the sunwent down.

In September, Phil was back with his aunt EstherMerriam Gray and her daughter, Kathy Gray, bothfrom Lyndonville. They brought a box filled with 27volumes of diaries kept by Luther Merriam, spanningthe years from 1903–1937. Just a quick peek gave ahint at the treasures of everyday life in Glover thediaries contain. Later, Phil provided GHS with twofireproof and waterproof security boxes to store thediaries in.

We can also welcome Phil as one of the newestGlover landowners! He bought a piece ofundeveloped land on the Stone Shore Road that wasonce part of his ancestor Sumner Rich’s farm, later

purchased by Ernest Perron. He had not known of hisown family’s connection when he first looked at theland! He plans to build a vacation cabin.

We thank Esther Gray, Kathy Gray, and PhilBlumenfeld for these gifts! Phil plans to photographall the diaries and create a website for them to makethem available for all. ■

Left to right: Esther Gray, Kathy Gray and Phil Blumenfeld, and thediaries of Esther’s father, Luther Merriam, with some of our newmuseum bookcases behind them. (Photo by GHS)

Grist Mill Owner Luther Merriam’s Diaries Given to the GHS

From the Glover Town Report for the year ending Dec. 31, 1940: “Thefinished building [the new Town Hall] is one of which the town can beproud. If it is even better than we can afford, that is water over thedam, and not all the ifs and buts in the world can put it back in thepond again.”

The New Town Hall

When the Orleans Liberal Institute building, then used as theGlover Village School, burned in 1938, the village lost its school.Also lost was the town meeting venue, as the upstairs hall of theInstitute had long served as the home of town meeting. DaisySherburne Dopp photographed the whole story: the fire itself aswell as photos of the new school, which was ready that next fall,with the new town hall built on the site of the Institute. (GHS)

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Andersonville, French & West Glover Cemeteries. Gravestone Inscriptions & Other Genealogical Data.Researched & compiled by Dick Brown, with major additional research by Jean M. Borland & John E. Parry. 2006.8-1/2”x11”, 85 pp. Spiral bound. $20.00 plus $5.00 for postage and handling, or available at the Glover TownClerk’s office without p&h charge.

Andersonville: The First 100 Years. Compiled and edited by Jeannine B. Young. 2004, 2nd ed. 2006. 8-1/2”x11”,220 pp. Spiral bound. Over 200 photos, charts and maps; diaries, genealogies, letters from Scotland, a history ofAndersonville School, histories of the lots and some of its people, and Andersonville Cemetery gravestoneinscriptions. $28.00 plus $5.00 p&h, or available at the Glover Town Clerk’s office without p&h charge.

Mother and Daughter: Two Diaries of Glover, Vermont Girls. Complete text from the diaries of Edith FrancenaAldrich (1894) and Edith Alexander (1922), compiled and annotated by Joan Alexander. Profusely illustrated. 2004.8-1/2x11”. 176 pp. $12.00 plus $5.00 p&h, or available at the Glover Town Clerk’s office without p&h charge.

Run, Chamberlain, Run. The story of Runaway Pond written for children and illustrated by Daniel Cummings, Sr.2004. 24 pp. $10.00 plus $2.00 p&h, or available at the Glover Town Clerk’s office without p&h charge.

Town of Glover E-911 Map. Geographically accurate map with road names and house numbers. 2004. 18”x24” size$10.00 plus $1.50 shipping and handling. 24” x 36” size $15.00 plus $2.50 p&h, or available at the Glover TownClerk’s office without p&h charge.

Westlook Cemetery. Gravestone Inscriptions & Other Genealogical Data. Researched & compiled by DickBrown, with major additional research by Jean M. Borland. Over 2,100 entries. 2002, 2nd ed. 2004. 8-1/2” x 11”,230 pp. Spiral bound. $20.00 plus $5.00 for p&h, or available at the Glover Town Clerk’s office without p&h charge.

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Glover, Vermont Federal Census for the Years 1800-1810-1820-1830-1840 with Index. Transcribed and edited byWayne H. Alexander. 2000. 8-1/2”x11”, 46 pp. Spiral bound. $20.00 postpaid.

Glover, Vermont 1850 Federal Census with Index. Transcribed and edited by Wayne H. Alexander. 1999. 8-1/2”x11”, 44 pp. Spiral bound. $20.00 postpaid.

Memories of Glover: Reminiscences of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Vermont Village. Letters from the Rev.Benjamin Brunning published by the Orleans County Monitor in 1907. 2000. 5-1/2”x8?”, 32 pp., illustrated. $10.00postpaid.

History of the Town of Glover, 1783-1983. Originally published by the Glover Bicentennial Committee in 1983;reprinted by Glover Historical Society in 1992. 8-1/2”x11”, 140 pp., illustrated. $20.00 postpaid.

Runaway Pond: The Complete Story. Compilation of Resources by Wayne H. Alexander. Third Edition. 2010. 8-1/2”x11”, 90 pp., illustrated. Spiral bound. The nearest thing to a complete collection of contemporary newspaperaccounts and other material relating to the 1810 event. $25.00 postpaid, or $20 if pickup in Glover.

The Union House of Glover, Vermont. By Marguerite Bean Fiske, with additional text and notes by others. 1999.7”x 8-1/2”, 40 pp., illustrated. A history, from the stagecoach days of the mid-19th century to the present, of whatis now the Union House Nursing Home. $6.00 postpaid.

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