Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2Hiram Carleton Lewis Publishing Company, 1903 - Vermont |
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont. Volume I, Part 2 Hiram Carleton No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 535 - ... late Judge Nehemiah G. Butler until his death a year later, since when he has continued in practice alone, carrying on, also, an extensive insurance business, in which he was associated for a time with the late Isaac K. Gage and, later, with Horace B. Sherburne. He was a member of the House in 1895, serving as chairman of the Committee on Elections and as a member of the Committee on Revision of Statutes; of the Senate in 1897, when he was Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and was a delegate...
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Page 338 - ... for a number of years. He was also a member of the assembly in 1900, and made an active and earnest legislator, and was made secretary of the general committee.