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| Affiliation | Republican |
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| Name | Josiah Grout |
| Address |
, Vermont , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
May 28, 1841
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| Died | July 19, 1925
(84 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | Joshua L.
Dec 20, 2004 03:04pm |
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| Info | Josiah GROUT, of Derby [Essex County, Vermont], was born 28 May 1842 [1841 or
1843? sister Sophronia (Mrs. George O. FORD) born 17 September 1842?] in
Compton [Province of Quebec], Canada, son of Josiah and Sophronia (AYER)
GROUT. When six years of age his father removed to Vermont, and he received
his education in the public schools and Orleans Liberal Institute at Glover
[Orleans County, Vermont]. Commenced a course of study at the St. Johnsbury
Academy [Caledonia County], which he left to enlist 02 October 1861, as a
private in Company I, First Vermont Cavalry. He was mustered in on the
organization of his company as second lieutenant, promoted to captain in
1862, and in 1864 was appointed major of the Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry
which was organized for frontier service after the St. Albans raid. While
serving with the First Vermont he participated in seventeen different
engagements and was badly wounded in a skirmish with the partisan leader
MOSBY, 01 April 1863.
At the termination of the war [Civil War officially ended April 1865] he
entered the law office of his brother, General [William W.] GROUT, at Barton
[Orleans County, Vermont], where he continued until December 1865, when he
was admitted to practice in the Vermont courts. The following year he
removed to Island Pond [Essex County, Vermont] where he had charge of the
Custom House for three years and also served the same space of time in the
same capacity at St. Albans [Franklin County] and Newport [Orleans County].
In 1874 he changed his residence to Chicago [Cook County, Illinois] and
afterwards to Moline [Rock Island County], Illinois. While at Newport,
before going west, he practiced his profession with very great success,
ranking high as a lawyer and especially excelling as a jury advocate. In
1880 he returned to Vermont and has since devoted himself solely to his
extensive model stock farm, his chief delight being farming, and it well
done. Major GROUT's efforts as an agriculturalist and stock raiser have met
with great success and he possesses some of the finest Jersey cattle, blooded
Morgan horses, and Shropshire sheep in the Vermont.
Republican; represented Newport in the state Legislature in 1872, 1874, and
Derby in 1884, 1886, and 1883; was one of the Orleans County senators in
1892; speaker of the House in 1874, 1886, and 1888. Has served as the chief
executive officer of the Republican Club at Derby, and was four years vice
president and one year president of the Vermont League of Republican Clubs.
Liberal in his religious beliefs. Hs been raised to the sublime degree of a
Master Mason. During the three years he was in Chicago he built up a nice
law practice which was reluctantly exchanged for business prospects at
Moline, where for two years he was one of the supervisors of Rock Island
County. [Also Governor of Vermont 1896-1898.]
Devotes himself industriously and with conscientious purpose to the
accomplishment of all his undertakings and can be literally regarded as one
of those who does with his might whatever his hands find to do. Particularly
in this characteristic of faithfulness noticeable in the work he has bestowed
in improving and developing his farm and stock, which with a pardonable pride
he so cheerfully shows all who call to see him. In October 1867 Major
[Josiah] GROUT was united in marriage to Harriet, daughter of Aaron and Nancy
(STEWART) HINMAN, one of the leading families of Derby. They [Josiah and
Harriet GROUT] have one son, Aaron H.
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