Windsor

PARTRIDGE, Henry V.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, p 301

Henry V. PARTRIDGE, of Norwich [Vermont] was born 10 December 1839 in Norwich 
[Windsor County, Vermont], son of Capt. Alden and Ann Elizabeth (SWAZEY) 
PARTRIDGE. His father, Capt. Alden PARTRIDGE, was born 12 January 1785 in 
Norwich [Windsor County], Vermont, and was the son of a Revolutionary 
soldier. Captain PARTRIDGE graduated from West Point in 1806, having entered 
that institution in 1805, his junior year at Dartmouth College. The 
following year he was appointed professor of mathematics at the military 
school of the United States and the September following was made professor of 
engineering. Afterward he was promoted to the post of superintendent of the 
school and discharged the duties of that position, wit one or more 
intermissions, until 1818, when he resigned and went out in charge of a 
surveying party sent to the northeast frontier of the United States in order 
to determine the boundary line. In 1820 Captain PARTRIDGE founded the 
American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Norwich, which he taught 
with much success until 1825, when he removed the school to Middletown 
[Middlesex County], Connecticut. In 1832 Capt. PARTRIDGE returned to Norwich and 
reopened the school. Two years after a charter was obtained from the 
Legislature and the academy became a military college with Captain PARTRIDGE 
as its first president. Under his supervision the institution ranked second 
only to the National Academy. Captain [Alden] PARTRIDGE died 17 January 1854 
at Norwich [Windsor County, Vermont].

Henry V. PARTRIDGE received his education in the public schools of Norwich, 
from private instruction, and at Bristol College, Pennsylvania. In 1859 he 
went to Illinois, where he entered an office for the purpose of making 
himself a member of the legal profession, and a year after removed to Warren 
[Warren County], Pennsylvania, to continue his studies. In April 1861 he 
responded to President LINCOLN's first call for troops and raised a company 
of the Thirty-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers (Tenth Reserves), 
McCALL's Division. He participated first in the battle of Gainesville and 
afterward in McCLELLAN's Peninsular campaign, but was discharged for physical 
disability in August 1862. In 1863 he was appointed to a position in he 
paymaster general's office at Washington [D. C.] and remained in that 
capacity about three years. Then he became an attorney for the Union Paper 
Collar Company of New York, continuing in their service for five years. 
Since that time he has made his residence at Colbrook [Colebrook, Litchfield 
County], Connecticut, and Norwich [Windsor County, Vermont] from which latter 
town he was elected to the Legislature in 1882.

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