Orleans

HILDRETH, David Wesley

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 220

David Wesley HILDRETH, Newport [Orleans County, Vermont], editor and 
publisher, was born 24 January 1853 at Hallowell [Kennebec County], Maine, 
son of Levi and Abby (BASFORD) HILDRETH. Educated in the public schools. 
Came to Vermont at the age of nineteen years; station agent Thetford [Orange 
County] 1872-1874; spare and telegraph operator Barton Landing [Orleans 
County] 1874-1879 [name "Barton Landing" changed to "Orleans" in 1909]; began 
drug business 1879, and built business block in town [Newport]; purchased the 
the "Express and Standard" at Newport 1897, and has since conducted that 
paper in connection with jobbing plant and wholesale and retail store. 
Possibly more widely known as a writer of dramas, short sketches, and stories 
under the nom-de-plume of "David HILL." Republican. Member Memphremagog 
Lodge No. 65, Free & Accepted Masons; and the Knights of Pythias. In 1882 he 
[David Wesley HILDRETH] married [Miss?] Etta N. DODGE of Barton Landing.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly