Gazetteer and business directory of Lamoille and Orleans counties, Vt., for 1883-84 .. . sted all the materials per-taining to the history of his adopted town, and no man was better fitted forthe task, or could have performed it in a more satisfactory manner. He wasborn at Springfield, Vt., October 6, 1822, the son of John and Bethia HoltonWhite. At the age of three years he was left fatherless and in poverty, andbefore he was fifteen was made an orphan. He had always a predispositionto learning, and a great thirst for knowledge. His early education wasreceived at Limerick (Me.) Academy, where
Gazetteer and business directory of Lamoille and Orleans counties, Vt., for 1883-84 .. . sted all the materials per-taining to the history of his adopted town, and no man was better fitted forthe task, or could have performed it in a more satisfactory manner. He wasborn at Springfield, Vt., October 6, 1822, the son of John and Bethia HoltonWhite. At the age of three years he was left fatherless and in poverty, andbefore he was fifteen was made an orphan. He had always a predispositionto learning, and a great thirst for knowledge. His early education wasreceived at Limerick (Me.) Academy, where he was a student from his eighthto his fifteenth year. He then spent a few years as a clerk in a store atWalpole, N. H., his leisure hours being assiduously devoted to reading andstudy, developing those peculiar traits of industry that characterized his after-hfe. He studied law with Hon. William C. Bradley, at Westminster, Vt.,and having access to his well selected library, he was afforded excellent op-portunities for the cultivation of his taste for reading and literature, and the. ^^ ^TL^{ TOWN OF COVENTRY. 237 well known historical tastes of his instructor probably gave direction and de-velopment to his own natural inclination toward historical inquiry, whereinhe became so justly celebrated. November 24, 1843, he was admitted tothe Windham county bar, and practiced his profession from April 15, 1844until 185 I, when he became editor of the Brattleboro Eagle. He severed hisconnection with that paper in December, 1852, and in January, 1853, heremoved to St. Johnsbnry, engaging as a clerk in the establishment of , in whose employ he remained until August, 1857. From he went to Amherst, Mass., where he was connected, from Au-gust 15, 1857, to May 7, 1858, with the pubHcation of the Ha7npshire andFranklin Express. Having for a long time privately pursued theologicalstudies, he was licensed to preach, and preached his first sermon at West-minster, Vt
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