SUCCESSFUL MEN OF
ELMORE
1912 Hollenbeck, P.
A. East Elmore
News and Citizen 7/3/1912 - Mr. Hollenbeck is one of the delegates from Elmore
and he will
represent the town well at the County Convention.
1882 Merriam, Bert Emery and Mrs. Clara Lake area
From the History of the Methodist Church and correspondence - “Bert Merriam,
standing tall and erect was, likewise a pillar of the church in his younger
years. Bert Merriam worked in the Vermont schools until 1902, when he went to
New Jersey as supt. of schools,(also educational director and psychologist in
the NJ State reformatory) and was there for seven years, came back to Vermont
in 1916 where he was supt. of Schools again at Bellows Falls. In 1917 he went
to France to work with the YMCA and was in charge of the work at Bordeaux,
France. In 1919 he was sent to Siberia and was there for three years and then
was sent to Shanghai in 1923. Later that year he became a YMCA worker in the
Philippine Islands and was interned by the Japanese throughout World War II in
Manilla, emerging with his wife after their captivity somewhat wane but in
excellent spirits, being at the time over 80 years of age.”
1870 Slayton, William T. East Elmore
News and Citizen 11/1897 - Dr. William T. Slayton, son of Capt. Aro P. and Lucy
B. Slayton, was born in Elmore 1/11/1870. He received his academic education at
Worcester and Calais, Vermont. He graduate from the Baltimore Medical College,
Baltimore, MD with the degree of MD in the class of 1894. In May 1894 he
commenced the practice of his profession in Boston, in the meantime continuing
his studies in the Medical Dept. of Harvard University and Mass. General and
graduated with a degree of MD from Harvard University in 1895. He took a
special course in Guy’s Hospital, London and then moved back to Hyde Park where
he practiced medicine.
1995 Wigner, Eugene P. Lake area
Eugene Wigner, 92 of Princeton, NJ, a Nobel Prizewinner and atomic age pioneer,
passed away January 1, 1995. Dr. Wigner was also a longtime landowner in
Elmore. He was born November 17, 1902 in Budapest, Hungary and came to the U.S.
in 1930 taking a position at Princeton University. He was a pioneer in ideas
involving nuclear physics involving the behavior of electrons. He was part of
the Enrico Fermi team which built the world’s first atomic pile producing the
first controlled chain reaction on a squash court in Chicago. He was one of
three scientists in 1939 who wrote to President Roosevelt warning him that an
atomic bomb was a possibility. This was the letter that essentially launched
the Manhattan project. After WW II Dr. Wigner worked toward the development of
nuclear energy and urged the construction of bomb shelters - one of which he
built in Elmore.
1862 Woodbury, Urban & Pauline Darling Merriam
Woodbury, Ubran Andrain, governor of Vermont was born in Acworth, NH, July 11,
1838; son of Albert Merill (a native ofCavendish, Vermont) and Lucy Lestina
Wadleight; grandson of Albert and Mary (Chatterton) Woodbury and a descendant
of John Woodbury, who landed at Cape Ann, Mass. from Somersetshire, England in
1630, and moved to Salem in 1634. In 1840 Urban A. Woodbury moved with his
parents to Morristown, Vt. where he attended the common schools and
subsequently the People’s academy of Morrisville, and was graduated from the
University of Vermont, M.D., 1859. He was married February 12, 1860 to Paulina
Livonia, daughter of Ira and Sarah (Stone) Darling of Elmore, Vt. He enlisted
in the 2nd regiment of Vermont volunteers. See further info under Woodbury,
Urban.
SUCCESSFUL MEN OF ELMO.RE
1915 Woodbury, Urban
& Pauline Darling Merriam
Morrisville Messenger 3/1915 - Mrs. George Powers has received news of the
serious illness of
her father, ex Gov. U. A. Woodbury of Burlington who went to the Battle Creek Sanatarium
at
Mt. Clemens, Michigan several weeks ago for treatment. Mrs. U. A. Woodbury’s
brother is
Alonzo Darling.