Windham

LANE, Henry Clark

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, pp 238-239 
(portrait p 239)

Henry Clark LANE, of Westminister, was born 26 January 1824 in Westminster 
[Windham County, Vermont], son of Ithamar and Lucinda (CLARK) LANE. Received 
his education in the common schools of his native town, and Walpole Academy, 
Walpole [Cheshire County], New Hampshire, from which he graduated at the head 
of his class. Upon graduation he voluntarily relinquished his hope of a 
professional career and assumed the cares and responsibilities of his invalid 
father's estate, which he found, in consequence of his parent's ill-health, 
to be seriously burdened with debt. He applied himself, and in due time the 
obligations were fully discharged. He had, however, now reached the age 
which made it practically impossible for him to take up and prosecute his 
studies again with any hope of realizing his early ambition, and finding 
farming a congenial pursuit, he continued to follow this vocation until the 
age of thirty, when he gave his attention to the settlement of estates and 
devoted himself largely to the public affairs of the town.

In 1866 Mr. LANE was elected a selectman and held that office continuously 
for twelve years, during which time the state erected the William FRENCH 
monument, and the management was given by Governor CONVERSE into his hands, 
which duties he discharged with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of 
the state. Republican. Elected in 1874 a justice of the peace, and has 
continued in this office to the present date, and it is doubtful if any other 
justice in this section of the state has heard so many cases as he has. He 
has an unusual faculty for financial affairs, and in 1881 was elected a 
trustee in the Bellows Falls Savings Institution [Windham County, Vermont], 
and in 1882 was advanced to its presidency, and has continued to fill that 
position to the present time. On 11 September 1850 he [Henry Clark LANE] was 
married to [Miss?] Mary P., daughter of Frederick and Elizabeth T. (PENIMAN) 
NUTTING. Of this union were four children: Fred L., Emma E., Caroline L., 
and Nellie V., all of whom are married. Mrs. LANE [Mary P. LANE] died 19 
March 1874.

Submitted by Cathy Kubly