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Herbert Brainerd (b. 1837) —
of St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt.
Born in St. Albans, Franklin
County, Vt., December
25, 1837.
Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; railroad
business; steamboat business; treasurer, St. Albans iron and
steel works; member of Vermont
state house of representatives from St. Albans, 1880; member of
Vermont
state senate from Franklin County, 1882.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Daniel B. Brown (b. 1805) —
of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Plymouth, Windsor
County, Vt., June 12,
1805.
Canal boat operator; supervisor
of Ann Arbor Township, Michigan, 1835-36; Washtenaw
County Sheriff.
Baptist.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Daniel Brown and Polly (Jennison) Brown; married, October
22, 1827, to Anna Vickery; father of Anson Brown. |
| | | Image source: Portrait & Biographical
Album of Washtenaw County (1891) |
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Ellsworth Bunker (1894-1984) —
also known as "The Refrigerator"; "The Sly
Fox" —
of New York; Dummerston, Windham
County, Vt.
Born in Yonkers, Westchester
County, N.Y., May 11,
1894.
Director and officer, National Sugar
Refining Company; director, American-Hawaiian Steamship
Company; U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, 1951-52; Italy, 1952-53; India, 1956-61; Nepal, 1956-59; , 1966-67, 1973-78; Vietnam, 1967-73.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Recipient of two Presidential
Medals of Freedom, in 1963 and in 1967.
Died, in Brattleboro Memorial Hospital,
Brattleboro, Windham
County, Vt., September
27, 1984 (age 90 years, 139
days).
Interment somewhere
in Dummerston, Vt.
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Daniel L. Cushing (b. 1836) —
of Poweshiek
County, Iowa; Quechee, Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt.
Born in Hartford, Windsor
County, Vt., August
4, 1836.
Republican. Civil
engineer; worked on the Erie Canal and railroad
projects; farmer;
member of Vermont
state house of representatives from Hartford, 1882-83; member of
Vermont
state senate from Windsor County, 1886.
Congregationalist.
Burial location unknown.
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Elias Bellows Holmes (1807-1866) —
also known as Elias B. Holmes —
of Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y.
Born in Fletcher, Franklin
County, Vt., May 22,
1807.
Lawyer;
canal boat business; U.S.
Representative from New York 28th District, 1845-49; railroad
promoter.
Died in Brockport, Monroe
County, N.Y., July 31,
1866 (age 59 years, 70
days).
Interment at City
Cemetery, Brockport, N.Y.
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Prescott Metcalf (1813-1891) —
of Erie, Erie
County, Pa.
Born in Putney, Windham
County, Vt., January
25, 1813.
Manager of steamship business; director, North East and Erie
Railroad;
mayor
of Erie, Pa., 1862-64.
Presbyterian.
Died in Erie, Erie
County, Pa., October
14, 1891 (age 78 years, 262
days).
Burial location unknown.
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