Essex

PHILBRICK, Jonathan

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 311

Jonathan PHILBRICK, of Guildhall [Essex County, Vermont], was born 26 October 
1836 at Bartlett [Carroll County], New Hampshire, son of Thomas P. and Susan 
(BOSTON) PHILBRICK. His father was for many years a stage driver of the old 
school, an employment that has fallen into disuse under the aggressive and 
universal advance of the iron horse. He removed to Maidstone [Essex County, 
Vermont], when Jonathan was six years old. Jonathan received his education 
in the schools of Maidstone and also in those of Guildhall [both in Essex 
County]. Leaving the paternal roof when he had attained his eighteenth year, 
he was for a period employed on various farms in the vicinity. Later he 
removed to Holyoke [Hampden County], Massachusetts, and labored in a paper 
mill for two years. He then made his residence in Boston [Suffolk County] 
where he was engaged by the Boston and Providence Railroad Corporation to 
serve them, first as fireman and afterward as locomotive engineer, and in 
this responsible capacity he remained, careful and diligent in the 
performance of his duties, for twenty-nine years. In 1858 he purchased the 
estate where he now lives and as a solace to the declining years of his 
father, settled his parent in this comfortable home and thirty years after 
took possession of the property himself and from that time has made it his 
abode. In every way he has improved the farm which, under his vigorous and 
successful management, has always furnished abundant and remunerative crops. 
Mr. PHILBRICK is a Democrat, but though belonging to the minority party, 
received the compliment of an election to represent Guildhall in the 
Legislature of 1892, and he has also filled the position of selectman in the 
town. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. On 25 
October 1876 he [Jonathan PHILBRICK] married Amelia F., daughter of E. M. and 
Mary (BOSTON) HAYES, of Boston [Suffolk County, Massachusetts.]

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