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Hardware Business Politicians in Vermont
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  John Emery Buxton (b. 1839) — of Moingona, Boone County, Iowa; Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa; Middletown Springs, Rutland County, Vt. Born in Middletown Springs, Rutland County, Vt., October 20, 1839. Republican. Hardware merchant; mining business; member of Vermont state house of representatives, 1900; member of Vermont state senate, 1904. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Luther Buxton and Semantha (Paris) Buxton; married, November 20, 1865, to Antha M. Clift.
  Ezra C. Dike (b. 1838) — of Bristol, Addison County, Vt. Born in Bolton, Chittenden County, Vt., 1838. Republican. Hardware merchant; member of Vermont state house of representatives from Bristol, 1910. Protestant. Burial location unknown.
  Washington Irving Howard (1831-1899) — of Steuben County, Ind.; Rochester, Fulton County, Ind. Born in Jamaica, Windham County, Vt., May 7, 1831. Republican. Lawyer; hardware dealer; member of Indiana state senate, 1873; newspaper publisher; member of Indiana state house of representatives, 1887; defeated, 1856. Member, Delta Kappa Epsilon. Died in Spencer, Owen County, Ind., 1899 (age about 68 years). Burial location unknown.
  Presumably named for: Washington Irving
  Relatives: Son of Mary Louise Killeen; married to the sister-in-law of Michael Luther Essick; married 1856 to Mary Rowley Stocker; grandfather of Robert Lendon Bibler.
  Political family: Howard-Bibler-Merriman family of Indiana.
  David Safford Walbridge (1802-1868) — also known as David S. Walbridge — of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich. Born in Bennington, Bennington County, Vt., July 30, 1802. Hardware merchant; miller; member of Michigan state senate 5th District, 1849-50; postmaster at Kalamazoo, Mich., 1849-53; U.S. Representative from Michigan 3rd District, 1855-59. Died in Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Mich., June 15, 1868 (age 65 years, 321 days). Interment at Mountain Home Cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich.
  Relatives: Son of David Walbridge and Isabel (Brush) Walbridge; married, October 23, 1823, to Eliza Taggart; first cousin of John Jay Walbridge; first cousin once removed of Ephraim Safford; first cousin twice removed of Cyrus Packard Walbridge; second cousin of James Safford and Anson Peacely Killen Safford; second cousin once removed of Ebenezer William Walbridge, Henry Sanford Walbridge and Robert Crawford Safford; second cousin twice removed of Edward L. Safford; third cousin of Hiram Walbridge; third cousin once removed of John Hill Walbridge and Henry E. Walbridge; third cousin twice removed of Hiram Augustus Huse; third cousin thrice removed of Clair Hiram Walbridge.
  Political families: Morris-Ingersoll family of New York and Connecticut; Upham family; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family of Connecticut and New York; Weeks-Bigelow-Andrew-Upham family; Livingston-Schuyler family of New York (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Find-A-Grave memorial
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