Businesses 1877

Based on Vermont Year Book, formerly Walton's Register, heavily edited for clarity:

WALTON'S VERMONT REGISTER AND FARMERS' ALMANAC 1877

CABOT, WASHINGTON COUNTY — Population, 1279. 20.1 miles northeast of Montpelier; Stage twice a day, 4 miles south to (the railroad station at) Walden. Stage three times a day, five miles to (the railroad station at) Marshfield.

NB: RAILROAD at WALDEN: The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad planned to connect Portland, Maine to Ogdensburg, New York. The plan failed. In 1880, the Vermont section was reorganized and leased by the Boston & Lowell Railroad. The St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad (StJ&LC) began construction in December 1869, part of the Vermont Division of the Portland and Ogdensburg Railway. The plan was to connect the Great Lakes with the seaport at Portland, Maine. The P. & O. was completed July 17, 1877, when Governor Horace Fairbanks drove a silver spike in Fletcher. The line ended at Swanton in 1877.The Vermont Division extended to Rouses Point in 1883, to link to the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad and reach the Great Lakes.The St. Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad served northern rural Vermont for more than a century, until flood damage and aging made the line unusable and it was too costly to repair. The line closed in 1995. The State of Vermont is converting the 93 mile route from St. Johnsbury to Swanton to the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail. It will be a multi-use recreational trail, the longest rail trail in New England. The route passes Joe's Pond in West Danville.

NB. RAILROAD at MARSHFIELD: The Montpelier and Wells River Railroad started as a single-track, standard-gauge, steam railroad. It expanded later. The main line extended a little over 38 miles, from Montpelier easterly to the town of Wells River, on the Connecticut River. It incorporated in 1867, and opened to traffic in 1873. Rails were salvaged for scrap in 1957. The route is a section of the Cross Vermont Trail, the Montpelier & Wells River Rail Trail.

OFFICERS — Clerk, Allen Perry; Treasurer, Milton Fisher; Selectmen, E. T. Hopkins, Roswell Laird, Lucius Herrick; Constable. B. F. Scott; Superintendent, I. A. Hills; 5«pi n J. M.Fisher; Listers, T. H. Lance, Geo. M. Webster, Geo. L. Paige; Overseer, C. M. Fisher ; Agent, B. F. Scott.

Postmasters — A. F. Sprague; East Cabot, E. H. Clark; South Cabot, Louis Paquin; Lower Cabot, Mrs. J. J. McDaniels

Justices — M. P. Wallace, T. H. Lance, N. K. Abbott, J. M. Fisher, S. R. Moulton, John Brown, N. Perry

Churches— Adventist, Albert Gordon ; Congregational., B. S. Adams ; Methodist, F. H. Roberts

Hotel— Winooski House, W. P. Whittier.

Telegraph Agent — Hiram Weils

Lawyer — J. P. Lamson.(NB. Joseph Philbrook Lamson, Esq., son of David and Phila.(McClintock) Lamson, was born in Elmore, February 9, 1840 (1838?), studied at the People's Academy at Morrisville. Admitted to the bar 1860. Attorney and counselor at law, master in chancery, justice of the peace, and practitioner in U. S. courts. States Attorney, Assistant Secretary of the Vermont Senate. Judge Lamson descended from Barnabas Lamson, an English Lord, who came to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1624. A photo of his house, on Elm Street, is under Historic Buildings.)

NB:Theron Howard, the first lawyer to settle in Cabot, practiced there from 1827 to 1832. Mr. Howard went to Danville, then to Groton. John W, Twiss, afterwards in Chelsea, practiced in Cabot in 1841 and 1842. Timothy P. Fuller practiced in Cabot from 1847 to 1850. John McLean practiced in Cabot in 1850 and died there.

Livery Stable — J. M. Fisher NB. Author of 1882 Historical Gazetteer - Cabot section

Manufacturers — carriages, Cabot Carriage Manufacturing Co., B. P. Elmer; coffins, caskets and cnmping forms, T. A. Town; furniture and coffins, John Brown; lumber, I. A. Town ; shingles, B. J. Lance;i woolen goods, Ira F. Haines

Mechanics — blacksmiths, George Marcott, H. B. Ford, Marshall Buchanan, Lafayette Myres; carpenters, Nelson Morse, J. T. Silley (Cilley?) coopers, Alden Hopkins. D. G. Farrington, James Marsh ; harness maker. 0. R. Collins; painters, A. P. Marshall, S. E. McLean; shoemakers. J. H. Gerry; South Cabot, Louis Paquin; tinsmiths, S. D. Whittier, Frank Warner

Merchants — Sprague A Wells, F. P. Brown; Lower Cabot, Mrs. J. J. McDaniels, Geo. W. Burnham; millinery, Miss S. S. Philbrook, Mrs.J. H. Gerry; Lower Cabot, Mrs. E. C. Haines; stoves and tinware. Frank Warner; watches and jewelry, J. B. Knights

Physicians - S. L. Wiswell, M. P. Wallace; Lower Cabot, John Lance

Dentist U. G. Williams