Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Ex-Governors of Vermont. [ARTICLE]

Ex-Governors of Vermont.

Tnere are living at the present time eleven ex-Governors of Vermont. Tho venerable war Governor of the State, Frederick Holbrook, is still living at Brattleboro. He was elected to office thirty-five years ago, and Is the oldest of those who have filled Vermont’s executive chair. George W. Hendee, of Morrisville, filled out the unexpired term of Peter T. Washburne, who died In 1870, and John W. Stewart, of Middlebury, was Governor from 1870 to 1872. In 1878 Senator Redfield Proctor, President Harrison's Secretary of War, was elected Governor. His successors, all of whom are living, were Roswell Farnham of E ladford, John L. Barstow of Shelburne, Samuel E. Pinjree of Hartford, Ebenezer J. Orrosbee of Brandon, William P. Dillingham of Waterbury, Carrol B. Page of Hyde Park, and Levi K. Fuller of Brattleboro.