History of Franklin and Grand Isle Counties, Vermont; 
Edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich; Syracuse, N.Y.; 
D.Mason & Co Publishers; 1891.

County:  Franklin
Township:  Richford

ROUNDS, McKENZIE W.,  grandson of Reuben Rounds, a pioneer of 
Richford, was born August 15, 1839.  His father was William and his mother 
was Fanny (Heath) Rounds.  The father went to California in 1849 and died 
there within two years.  When a young man McKenzie W. Rounds became a 
clerk in the store of Lester Rounds, and in 1864, having saved some money, 
he went into business for himself in the dry goods trade, in which, with the 
exception of about fifteen years, he has since been engaged.  In 1865 he 
married Abbie, daughter of Guy Fletcher.  In politics Mr. Rounds is a 
staunch Republican.  He held the office of postmaster from 1865 to 1872 
and again from 1880 to 1885.  In 1872 he was elected to represent the town 
in the General Assembly.  Reuben Rounds, the grandfather of McKenzie W., 
raised to maturity a family of fourteen children, but they and their 
descendants nearly all went to the West, leaving but few representatives of 
the Rounds surname now in the town.

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