. Biography of the bar of Orleans county, Vermont . g bachelors hall a few months he secured a companion in hiswilderness life in Miss Eunice White, to whom he was marriedDecember 6, 1792. In 1801 he moved to Barton, Vt., being oneof the first settlers of the town, bringing with him his wife andfour children, our subject then being six years of age. John H. was brought up to work on his fathers farm. He earlyevinced a great fondness for books, and made rapid progress in hisstudies. March 14, 1815, being then nineteen years old, he deter-mined to have a liberal education, left his home, and wal
. Biography of the bar of Orleans county, Vermont . g bachelors hall a few months he secured a companion in hiswilderness life in Miss Eunice White, to whom he was marriedDecember 6, 1792. In 1801 he moved to Barton, Vt., being oneof the first settlers of the town, bringing with him his wife andfour children, our subject then being six years of age. John H. was brought up to work on his fathers farm. He earlyevinced a great fondness for books, and made rapid progress in hisstudies. March 14, 1815, being then nineteen years old, he deter-mined to have a liberal education, left his home, and walked insnow and snow-storms to Concord, N. H., his entire capital onleaving home being , of which he spent $ in making thejourney. He remained there, working on his grandfather Kimballsfarm until December, when he entered Phillips Academy at Ando-ver, Mass., where he fitted himself for Dartmouth College, gradu-ating from that institution August, 1821. He paid his expenses incollege by teaching school winters and working in the hay and har-.
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