VT BIO - Addison Co - ARCHIBALD, Thomas Henry

Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont: A Record of the 
Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding 
of a Nation. Carleton, ed. New York & Chicago: Lewis, 1903, pp 632-633

The Rev. Thomas Henry ARCHIBALD, of Middlebury [Addison County], Vermont, was 
descended from a Scottish family which has been represented in this country 
for more than three-quarters of a century, the name being distinguished, for 
two generations, as that of leaders in the Baptist churches of America.

Henry ARCHIBALD, the founder of the family in the United States, was born in 
Musselborough, Scotland, 14 August 1786, and was the son of John and Barbara 
ARCHIBALD. He came to this country in 1818, was ordained in 1823 to the 
ministry of the Baptist denomination, and served acceptably as the pastor of 
the various churches in Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. He [Henry 
ARCHIBALD] married Rebecca MARSHALL, who was descended from Kenelm WINSLOW 
(1), brother of Governor Edward WINSLOW, of Plymouth Colony, who came from 
England to America during the colonial period. He [Edward WINSLOW] had a 
son, Job (2), whose daughter, Elizabeth (3), married John MARSHALL. Their 
son, Thomas MARSHALL (4), married Rebecca ACKLEY, and was the father of a 
daughter, Rebecca (5), mentioned above as the wife of Henry ARCHIBALD.

Thomas Henry ARCHIBALD, son of Rev. Henry and Rebecca (MARSHALL) ARCHIBALD, 
was born 02 October 1821 in Killingworth, now Clinton [Middlesex County], 
Connecticut, and in 1844 graduated at New Hampton Institute, in New 
Hampshire. Having chosen for his life work the calling of his father, he 
applied himself, on the completion of his literary education, to the study of 
theology, and on 03 March 1847, was ordained in Concord [Merrimack County], 
New Hampshire, to the ministry of the Baptist church. His first field of 
labor lay in what was then the far west, the state of Iowa [which had become 
a state in 1846], where in the towns of Dubuque [Dubuque County] and 
Davenport [Scott County], he led for four years the arduous and devoted life 
of a home missionary. At the end of that time he removed to East Greenwich 
[Kent County], Rhode Island, and soon after, in 1853, to Vermont, where he 
was settled in the course of years over various parishes in the counties of 
Addison, Bennington, and Rutland. During the entire period of his ministry 
he labored zealously in the interests of the Baptist denomination, of 
education and humanity. The work of education appealed to him in a special 
manner, and for sixteen years, from 1854 to 1870, he was a trustee of the New 
Hampton Institute, at that time located in Fairfax [Franklin County], 
Vermont. He was chairman of the committee appointed in 1868 by the Vermont 
Baptist State Convention to establish a Baptist academy. The founding of the 
Vermont Academy at Saxton's River [Windham County] was the result of the 
labors of this committee, and a lasting monument to the well directed ability 
of its chairman. He was one of the corporate trustees of this institution, 
retaining this position until 1887. For ten years he served as secretary of 
the board of managers of the Vermont Baptist State Convention. In 1875, in 
recognition of his distinguished labors in the cause of Christianity, 
Middlebury College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Divinity.

When a young man Dr. ARCHIBALD entered the lecture field, meeting at the 
outset of his career as a public speaker with such success [p 633] that for 
many years he occupied the platform. As a writer he exerted not less 
influence than as a lecturer, and in the papers which he contributed to 
various periodicals, he wielded a forceful and persuasive pen. He was 
prominent in the proceedings of the Vermont Baptist Historical Society, being 
for some years its president, and various religious organizations to which he 
belonged were indebted to him alike for his efficient labors and wise 
counsels, the result of a singularly clear and sound judgment combined with 
remarkable powers as a thinker and reasoner. A man of strong convictions and 
great frankness, he naturally became a leader both in denominational and 
educational and literary circles, commanding in every sphere in which his 
influence was exerted, high respect for his elevation of character, and 
winning sincere affection for his kindness of heart and truly benevolent 
disposition.

Dr. [Thomas Henry] ARCHIBALD married, 03 March 1847, the daughter of his 
ordination to the ministry, Susan Wadleigh TUCK, born 08 August 1823 in 
Dorchester [Grafton County], New Hampshire. Mrs. ARCHIBALD, in common with 
her husband, was a graduate of New Hampton Institute, and possessed unusual 
intelligence and ability. Dr. and Mrs. ARCHIBALD [Thomas Henry and Susan 
Wadleigh (TUCK) ARCHIBALD] were the parents of four sons and two daughters. 
One of each died in infancy. Samuel Henry, the eldest of the survivors, is 
pastor of the Baptist church at North Springfield [Windsor County], Vermont; 
Wilberforce Ewing is engaged in the insurance business at Ogden [Weber 
County], Utah; Frank C. is a practicing lawyer in Manchester Center 
[Bennington County, Vermont]; Susan Elizabeth, for many years a teacher, 
resides in Middlebury [Addison County], Vermont.

Mrs. [Thomas Henry] ARCHBALD belongs to an old colonial family, being a 
lineal descendant of Robert TUCK, who came from England to this county in 
1636. John TUCK and other members of the family were prominent in the 
settlement of Hampton [Rockingham County], New Hampshire. Robert TUCK (1) 
the father of Edward (2), whose son John (3) married Bertha HOBBS. Their 
son, Edward (4) married Sarah DEARBORN, and they had a son, Samuel (5), who 
married Anna MOULTON, and whose son, Edward (6), was a soldier in the 
Revolutionary army, and married Mercy SMITH, daughter of Israel SMITH, who 
was also a Revolutionary soldier.

Samuel TUCK (7), son of Edward (6) and Mercy (SMITH) TUCK, married Margaret 
SMITH, and their daughter, Susan Wadleigh (8), as mentioned above, became the 
wife of Thomas Henry ARCHIBALD, and the mother of his children. Mrs. [Susan 
nee TUCK] ARCHIBALD died 25 June 1899 at Middlebury [Addison County], 
Vermont, and her body was deposited in Greenwood Cemetery, Bristol [Addison 
County], Vermont. Mr. [Thomas Henry] ARCHIBALD died 26 April 1900, while on 
a visit to his son in Rutland [Rutland County, Vermont], and his remains were 
placed beside those of his wife in Bristol.

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