People, Vermont, New England USA
Native Sons & Daughters The first “Vermonters” The Native American in Vermont James Angell Educator, psychologist Chester A. Arthur US
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history
Seth Warner (1743-1784)
American Revolutionary soldier, born in Roxbury, Connecticut. He came to Bennington in 1765, a skilled botanist (despite only a common-school education) and
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Royall Tyler (1757 – 1826)
Lawyer, jurist, educator, author and playwright, born in Boston, Massachusetts. He served in the American Revolution and then took up
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Theodore Newton Vail (1845-1920)
US telephone industrialist, president of AT&T (then American Telephone & Telegraph) from 1885 to 1889, and again from 1907 to
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Anne Story (1741-1817)
Born in Preston, Connecticut. At the age of 14, she married Amos Story, and together they produced five children. Wanting something
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Molly Stark (1737 – 1814)
Elizabeth “Molly” Page was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, the daughter of the first Postmaster of New Hampshire. She married John
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Norman Rockwell (1894 – 1978)
Illustrator, born in New York City. He studied at the Chase School of Art, theNational Academy of Design (1909), and
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Samuel Herrick
Revolutionary War leader who came to Bennington in 1768 and relocated to Springfield, New York after the Revolution. Little else is known
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Paul P. Harris (1868 – 1947)
Lawyer, born in Racine, Wisconsin. He grew up in Vermont, received his law degree in Iowa in 1891, later settling
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Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
Poet and teacher, born in San Francisco. He studied at Dartmouth and Harvard but never took a degree. He was
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