BelvidereBusinessDirectory  

 

 

BELVIDERE – LAMOILLE COUNTY

1883-1884

EXPLANATIONS



Directory is arranged as follows:— 

1.  Name of individual or firm. 

2.  Postoffice address in parenthesis. 

3.  The figures following the letter r indicate the number of the road on which the party resides, and will be found by reference to the map in the back part of this work. Where no road number is given the party is supposed to reside in the village. 

4.  Business or occupation. 

5.  A star (*) placed before a name indicates an advertiser in this work. 

6. Figures placed after the occupation of a farmer indicate the number of acres owned or leased. 

7.  Names in CAPITALS are those who have kindly given their patronage to the work, and without whose aid its publication would have been impossible. 

ABBREVIATIONS.—Ab.,above; ave., avenue; bds., boards; bet., between; cor., corner; E., east; h., house; manuf., manufacturer; N., north; n., near; opp., opposite; prop., proprietor; reg., registered as applied to live stock; S., south; W., west.  The word street is implied. 

Raiload  stations are  Cambridge Junction, 11 ½ miles south, and Jeffersonville, 11 miles south.

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Badge, George L., (Belvidere) r 9, sugar orchard 200 trees, farmer 50.

Brown, Azo P., (Belvidere Corners) r 1, farmer 75.

BROWN, CURTIS, (Belvidere) r 12, town lister, sugar orchard 700 trees, farmer 160.

BROWN, REALTUS J., (Belvidere) r 10, works in saw-rnill and tub factory, petit juror.

Brown & Fullington, (Belvidere) r 13, (James Brown, of Lowell, Orleans Co., and L. M. Fullington, of Johnson, Lamoille Co.,) props of saw-mill, planing-mill, and butter tub factory.

Burroughs, Josiah C., (Belvidere Corners) r 2, farmer 93, has lived in town for 51 years.

BUSKAY, ARTEMAS H., (Belvidere) r 10, works in tub factory.

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CARPENTER, PHINEAS, (Belvidere) r 6, farmer 150.

CHAFFEE, ALVA J., (Belvidere) r 10, 1st selectman and highway surveyor, justice of peace, sugar orchard 100 trees, dairy 10 cows, and farmer 168.

Chaffee, Arnold, (Belvidere) r 8, cooper and farmer 40. Chaffee Frank, (Belvidere) r 8, farmer 40.

CHANDLER, ALLEN G., (Belvidere) r 7, tub manufacturer.

CHAPPELL, EUGENE S., (Belvidere) r 9, sugar orchard 480 trees, dairy 7 cows, farmer 85.

Cheney, George A., (Belvidere) r 12, tub manufacturer.

CHENEY, NORMAN M., (Belvidere) r 12, justice of peace, school committeeman, and farmer 31.

Coburn, Henry W., (Belvidere) r 14, carpenter and joiner.

Cushing, Frank, (Belvidere Corners) r 2, farmer 100.

Cushing, George, (Belvidere Corners) r 2, farm laborer.

Cushing, J. Frank, (Belvidere Corners) r 1, carpenter and joiner. 

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Davis, Merritt, (Belvidere) r 9, sugar orchard 600 trees, cooper, and farmer 100.

Davis, Ransom R., (Belvidere) r 11, farmer, with Reuben 75.

Davis, Reuben A., (Belvidere) r 11, farmer, with Ransom 75.

Davis, Rufus E., (Belvidere) r 11, farmer 40.

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FLETCHER, ARTEMAS, (Belvidere) r 11, farmer 12, and wood land 100. 

Fletcher, E. Royal, (Belvidere) r 13, teamster, and farmer 25.

Fletcher, Harriet, (Belvidere) r 10, widow of Herman L., farmer with Herman 200.

Fletcher Herman S., (Belvidere) r 10, sugar orchard 800 trees, dairy 7 cows, and farmer, with Harriet 200.

FLETCHER, JAMES H., (Belvidere) r 14, carpenter and, joiner, farmer 80, wood lot, and leases of John 75. 

Fletcher, John, (Belvidere) r 14, old resident, aged 88. 

FLETCHER, SARAH J., (Belvidere) r 10, widow of Elias J., farmer 30. 

Foster, Rodney T., (Belvidere) r 9, cooper, and farmer 110. 

Foster, Silas, (Belvidere) r 9, Christian clergyman, carpenter, and farmer 120. 

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HAYES, PATRICK, (Belvidere Corners) r 4, farmer 75. 

Hemenway, Herbert G., (Belvidere) r 7, tub finisher. 

HENCHEY, JAMES, (Belvidere Corners) r 4, farmer 50, served in Co. F, 8th Vt. regiment.

Holbrook, Cornelius D., (Belvidere Corners) r 1, farmer 100. 

Holbrook, Orlo M., (Belvidere Corners) r 1, farmer 100. 

Holbrook, Susan, (Belvidere Corners) r 1, widow of Asa, aged 72. 

HODGKINS, JOEL C., (Belvidere) r 10, prop. of tub factory and saw-mill, farmer 100, wild land 700. 

Horner, Clarence P., (Belvidere) r 10, works in saw-mill and tub factory. 

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Lackey, William, (Belvidere) r 7, farmer 15. 

Lamell, James, (Belvidere Corners) r 4, farmer, leases of Ira Dean 100. 

Lamphere, Philo P., (Belvidere Corners) r 1, farmer 130.

Lawrence, David, (Belvidere Corners) r 3, dairy 26 cows, and farmer 470.

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McCuin, Charles A., (Belvidere) r 16, clerk for J. B. McCuin.

McCuin, John B., (Belvidere) r 16, postmaster, town auditor, proprietor of general store, and farmer 120.

McGoogar, Richard, (Belvidere Corners) r 1. farmer 75.

McGookin, Hannah, (Belvidere) r 10, widow of Richard, supposed to be aged 105 years. Since deceased.

Miller, Hiram, (Bakersfield, Franklin Co.) r 14, farmer 54.

Miller, Lucas, (Belvidere) r 10, dairy 17 cows, farmer 350.

MILLER, RODNEY C., (Belvidere) r 10, works in tub factory, farmer, with Lucas 350.

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Oakes, Daniel B., (Belvidere) r 10, farm laborer.

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PARKER, CHARLES L., (Belvidere) r 8, farmer 80.

Potter, Dwight, (Belvidere) r 13, works in tub factory.

Potter, Merritt, (Belvidere) r 16, house and ornamental painter.

POTTER, OLIVER H., (Bakersfield, Franklin Co.) r 14, blacksmith, wheel- wright, cabinet maker, shoemaker, lawyer, and farmer 100.

Potter, Thomas, (Belvidere) r 16, carpenter, wheelwright, and farmer 171.

Potter, Thomas M., (Belvidere) r 16, farmer, leases of Thomas 171.

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Reynolds, Truman S., (Belvidere) r 14, farmer 2.

ROBEISTOW, ALBERT, (Belvidere Corners) r 4, lumberman and farmer 125.

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Schoolcraft, Simon, (Belvidere Corners) r 4, farmer 25.

Shattuck, Daniel T., (Belvidere Corners) r 4, farmer 75.

Shattuck, Levi, (Belvidere) r 14, retired farmer.

Shattuck, Luther, (Belvidere) r 14, farmer 50 and wild land 25.

Shattuck, Moses C., (Belvidere) r 14, sugar orchard 900 trees, farmer 1/2 of 106 acres.

SHATTUCK, THOMAS W., (Belvidere) r 16, proprietor of grist-mill, farmer 8.

SLATER, WILLIAM W., (Belvidere) r 7, highway surveyor and fence  viewer, sugar orchard 2,000 trees, and farmer 125.

SQUIRES, JONATHAN L., (Bakersfield, Franklin Co.,) r 15, proprietor of saw-mill, farmer 100.

Strater, Robert, (Belvidere) r 6, sugar orchard 300 trees, and farmer 80.

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Tatro, Joseph, (Belvidere) r 8, farmer, leases of I. S. Dean, of Bakersfield, 200.

Thomas, A. Jackson, (Belvidere) r 14, farm laborer.

Thomas, Amos, (Belvidere) r 14,farmer 50, and 130 acres occupied by James J., aged 82.

THOMAS, JAMES J., (Belvidere) r 14, dairy 9 cows, and farmer, leases of Amos 130.

Thomas, Luther E., (Belvidere) r 12, Sugar orchard 700 trees, dairy 8 cows, and farmer 175.

Tillotson, Adelbert D., (Belvidere) r 17, farmer, with Darius G.

Tillotson, Darius Gilmore, (Belvidere) r 17, dairy 22 cows, sugar orchard 1600 trees, and farmer 312.

Tillotson, George O., (Belvidere) r 13, works in tub factory.

Tillotson, Homer C., (Belvidere) r 17, farmer, with D. G.

Tracy, William H., (Belvidere) r 11, sugar orchard 600 trees, dairy 12 cows, farmer 200.

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WESCOM, FRANCIS M., (Belvidere Corners) r 4, dairy 15 cows, sugar orchard 1,000 trees, farmer, leases of Oscar Wanzer, of Fairfield, 180.

WESCOM, JOSEPH B., (Belvidere Corners) r 1, postmaster, 3d selectman, breeder of grade cattle, farmer 400.

Westcot, John, (Belvidere) r 8, farmer 90.

WESTON, CHARLES B., (Belvidere) r 10, town clerk. farmer 10.

Wetherell, Hubert V., (Belvidere) r 11, works in tub factory.

Wetherell, William V., (Belvidere) r 11, works in tub factory.

White, Orrin, (Belvidere) r 7, sugar orchard 750 trees, dairy 12 cows, and farmer in Waterville 45, and leases of I. F. Dean 150.

Whittemore, Ira A., (Belvidere) r 16, (Whittemore & Son,) farmer 50.

WHITTEMORE, LEWIS, (Belvidere) r 17, been town treasurer for 20 years, sugar orchard 800 trees, farmer 90.

Whittemore, Robert D., (Belvidere) r 16, (Whittemore & Son) Christian clergymen, farmer 9. 

Whittemore & Son, (Belvidere) r 16, (Ira A. and Robert D.,) farmers 200.

Willey, Martin C., (Waterville) r 14, farmer, leases of H. Hurlbert 125.

Witherell, William V., (Belvidere) r  11, Carpenter and joiner. 

(Source: Gazetteer of Lamoille and Orleans Counties, VT.;
1883-1884, Compiled and Published by Hamilton Child; 
May 1887, Page 395-406)

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