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September 12, 1854


1. Daniel Roberts – Manchester – (1811 – 1899) – Attorney; Personal Attorney to Governor Page; Attorney for SEVERAL railroads in Vermont; Bank Commissioner, 1853 and 1854; Special agent, US Treasury Dept. 1865 and 1866; State's attorney for Chittenden, County, 1868 and 1869; Strongly anti-slavery he was involved with creating the republican party and helped many fugitive slaves escape to Canada and freedom through the underground railroad.

2. A. L. Miner - Do - Ahiman Louis Miner (1804 – 1886) – Member, US House of Representatives in the 32nd congress, 1851 – 1853; Clerk of Vermont House of Representatives, 1836 – 1838; Member Vermont House of Representatives, 1838, 1839, 1846, 1853, 1861, 1865 – 1868; Member of the Vermont Senate, 1840; Vermont State's Attorney for Bennington County, 1843 and 1844; Bennington County Justice of the Peace, 1846 – 1886.

3. M. Hawley - Do - Major Hawley (1791 – 1877) – Farmer, Businessman, and prominent citizen of Manchester, VT. President of the Battenkill Bank in Manchester.

4. Y Hophins – Illinois

5. E. Martindale – Wallingford – Edwin Martindale (1813 - 1892) Owned a mercantile in Wallingford; Town representative, 1855 and 1856, Served as town clerk for 12 years; Town treasurer for 20 years.

6. Austin C. Baldwin – Dorset – (1831 – 1905)

7. W. G. Obes(?) - Boston

8. H. B. Kent – VT – Manufacturing Confectioner from Burlington, VT

9. Jas. Rice – Pawlet, VT

10. E Ross – Middletown

11. Fayette Potter – Pawlet – (1823 – 1914) - Famous Pawlet Attorney, involved in the formation of the Republican party.





12. Judge Howe – Castleton – Zimri Howe (1786 – 1863) – Prominent Castleton Attorney and Rutland County Judge; Member of the Vermont Governor's council, 1831 – 1835; Vermont State Senator 1836 – 1838; Judge of Rutland County Court 1838 – 1844; Rutland County Trustee 1844 – 1863

13. David Jordan – Ticonderoga

14. Joseph A. Owen - ' ' '

15. Chas (Unintelligible) – R & W RR

16. L(S?). G. Welch - Do

17. Sewall Fullam – Ludlow, VT – (1799 - 1876) -Famous Early Ludlow, VT Attorney, Represented Ludlow in the Vermont Legislature, 1834 – 1841; Member of the 1843 Constitutional Convention; States Attorney for Windsor County, 1842 – 1843 and 1847 – 1848; Father of Volney Sewall Fullam.

18. John OlSaver(?) - W V RR

19. Chas. Fox - Do

20. Jones Patrick – R & W RR

21. Judge Washburn – Ludlow – Reuben Washburn (1781 – 1860) – Respected early Vermont Attorney. Father of General Peter T. Washburn, Civil War Veteran, Governor of Vermont (The first Vermont Governor to die in office 1870. Died of an apparent nervous breakdown)

22. R. N. Patch -

23. D. C. Lennan(?) - Waltham Mass

24. G. Booth - Do

25. J. B. Bromley – Pawlet, Vt – Jerome Bonaparte Bromley (1828 – 1899) - judge of probate for Fairhaven District. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1856-57, State's attorney, 1867-68; represented Pawlet in the Legislature, 1869 and 1870.

26. Dan A. Spencer - Castleton

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