Franklin

DUKESHIRE, Willard Baker

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 174

Willard Baker DUKESHIRE, clergyman, St. Albans [Franklin County, Vermont], 
was born in 1861 at Maitland, Nova Scotia, son of Isaac and Eliza 
(LEADBETTER) DUKESHIRE. He was educated at Maine Wesleyan Seminary, Kent's 
Hill [Kennebac County], Maine, and Westleyan University, class of 1892. Mr. 
DUKESHIRE was a member of Maine Methodist Episcopal Conference, with 
pastorates at Brunswick [Cumberland County, Maine], 1892-1895, and Farmington 
[Franklin County, Maine], 1895-1899; of the East Maine Conference, with 
pastorates at Montpelier [Washington County, Vermont], 1904-1907, and Barton 
[Orleans County, Vermont], since 1907. Republican. Member of Psi Upsilon 
fraternity. Mr. DUKESHIRE also belongs to Orleans Lodge No. 55, Free & 
Accepted Masons, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In 1896 Mr. 
[Willard Baker] DUKESHIRE married [Miss?] Harriet PENNELL of Brunswick 
[Cumberland County], Maine. They have two sons, Robert Pennell and Thoedore 
Skolfield.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly