Bennington County Vermont Biographies

O. E. Adams

Amos Aldrich

C. M. Amadon

Martin V. Armstrong

W. D. Arnold

Apollos Bailey

William F. Baker

Charles H. Barber

Myron Barton

Daniel F. Bates

Orrin Bates

Augustus Beebe

Josiah C. Bennett (partial)

J. H. Gould Governor Hiland Hall

Walter P. Jewett, Jr.

Myron B. Paddock

Augustus Beebe

BEEBE, AUGUSTUS, Farmer, Sec. 8; Coral P.O.; was born in Manchester, Bennington Co., Vt., October 16, 1839; came to McHenry Co. July 4, 1845 ; owns house and lot in village of Coral, valued at $500; was Sergeant, in Co. K, One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regt. Ill. Vol. Inf. Married Harriet Oakley, of Willimantic, Conn., July 3, 1865 ; has four children Source: 1877 McHenry County, Illinois Directory - Contributed by K. Torp


J. H. Gould

GOULD, J. H., Farmer, Sec. 18 ; Woodstock P. O.; born in Bennington Co., Vt., in 1824; came to McHenry Co., 1855. Married Johanna Phettleplace, November, 14, 1846, who was born in Berkshire Co., Mass., 1849; has two children. . Source: 1877 McHenry County, Illinois Directory - Contributed by K. Torp


Walter P. Jewett, Jr.

JEWETT, WALTER P., Jr., Farmer, Soc. 27 ; Woodstock P. O.; born in Bennington Co., Vt., November 18, 1835 ; came to McHenry Co. in 1844; owns 20 acres of land ; was in the Fifteenth Ill. Vol. Inf. Married Miss R. A. Montgomery, 1858, who was born in Virginia, February 1836 ; has one child. . Source: 1877 McHenry County, Illinois Directory - Contributed by K. Torp



Myron B. Paddock

Torrington Telegram, (Goshen County, WY), June 19, 1919

DEATH CLAIMS ANOTHER OLD RESIDENT
Myron B. Paddock, for almost twenty years a resident of this community, died early Sunday morning for an infection of the kidneys and bladder of several years standing. A few days prior to his death a minor operation was performed but his condition was found to be beyond surgical help. The funeral was held this afternoon from the United Presbyterian church and the body was laid in the family lot in Valley View cemetery. The pall bearers who were friends and neighbors were: G. W. Gamble, Karl Nodacker, Joe Swarthout, W. M. Berry, A. B. Robertson and B. F. Smith.
Myron Baldwin Paddock was born at Dorset, Vermont, January 9, 1866. In 1885 he came to Minatare, Nebr., and in 1900 homesteaded the farm two miles west of Torrington where he lived until the time of his death. In 1891 he married Maud H. Fenton, at Morrill, Nebr. To them were born three children; Velma (now Mrs. Geo. Townsend), Vernal, of Manville and Nial, who lives on the home place.
He leaves a brother, Henry, of Denver, who arrived Sunday evening, two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Coy, of Torrington, and Mrs. Lena Querry, of Suisun, Calif., who sent word that she could not be here for the funeral. Mr. Paddock's aged mother, Mrs. Harriet Paddock, makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Coy. He also leaves three grand children: Marjory and Raymond Townsend and Enola Paddock.
Mrs. Townsend, the daughter, went to California, with her husband and children a few weeks ago and up to this time has not been heard from since notified of her father's death, due to the telegraph strike.
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