{"page_1": " For - Samuel Eliot Howard\nSubject - Biographical information on some Rutland, Vt. \"SAMS\"\nDate - March 6, 1988\nSamuel A. Howard\nBorn before the Civil War, Perry Center,\nN.Y.\nJoined the Congregational Church in Rutland, Graduated from Amherst College Came to Rutland in,\nsay\nMay 4\n1858\n1886\n1882\n1884\nThe Directory of the Corporate Village of Rutland\nshows him\n1. Living in Fern Cottage \"opposite, Dorr Bridge,\" now known as River Street Bridge\n2. \"Clerking\"\nat\nVermont Marble Company, so he must\nhave worked at what\nwas known as Ripley\nMill, now owned by Carris Reels.\n1887\n1887\n3. Superintendent of \"Vermont Marble Mills.\"\n1890\n4. First Vice President of Vermont Marble Company, using the Clarendon and Pittsford Railroad\nto \"commute\" from Rutland to Proctor. From about 1891-1938\n5. Retired\n1938\n6. Upon retirement, he toured Europe visiting quarries maybe making contracts for supply of marble. was accompanied by Charles\nPartridge, then,\nand now, of\nProctor.\nThey took Mr. Howard's 1938 Buick\n\"straight\neight\" yellow convertible with them on the ship.\n1938\n7. Sam, Sr. must have died between 1938 and 1947.\nNow it has been determined that he died in\n1946\nHe was married to Estelle Bartlett in 1892.\nShe died December 4, 1918.\nThey had two\nchildren: Myron, born 1892, (epileptic) died early age--never married\nSamuel, Jr., born June 3, 1894\nFern Cottage at one time was part of the property known as The Maples\nand owned by Julia C. R. Dorr, poet laureate of Vermont.\nShe was a Ripley,\ndaughter of the first President of the Rutland County National Bank, now The Howard Bank (no connection with Samuel Howard).\nHis name was\nWilliam Y.\nW. Ripley, a General in the Civil War, as were his sons\nWilliam Y. Ripley and Edward Ripley. ", "page_2": " Samuel A. Howard, Jr.\nBorn June 3\nGraduated from Amherst College\nHe was in World War I and name\nis on plaque in church\nNot many biographical facts, except he cut a wide swath with his convertible.\nThe\nbank tellers and clerks downtown were in awe of his fur coats.\n1894\n1917\nHe must have been adventuresome, because\nhe found work in New York City and, on his own worked up in the New York Telephone Company.\nMarried Janet Mcleod 2\n1947\nSam,\nJI. and Janet were married probably at the\nMadison Ave.\nPresbyterian Church.\nWe know the\nreception was at the Hotel Roosevelt.\nThereafter, Sam, Jr. and Janet maintained two homes,\ncommuting between the Manhattan apartment\nand Fern Cottage.\nSamuel Howard, Jr. died September 7, 1959, leaving funds to\nnot only support his widow but leaving a bequest to the Congregational Church of Rutland,\nVermont,\nInc., now Grace Congregational\nUnited Church of Christ.\nThat bequest, together with additional moneys received by our church from the Howard family in 1987, has supported many worthy purposes through the years.\nThe balance in the fund 12/31/87 showed $95,586.74.\nSo, even though the Howards had no children, they left that legacy.\nSam, Jr. is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Rutland.\nJanet M. Howard moved to Fern Cottage, declared Rutland her residence,\nafter a few years,\nmarried Samuel Stratton, President of Middlebury\nCollege.\nThey lived at Fern Cottage.\nDr. Stratton died in 1969.\nJanet\nlived alone in Fern Cottage until she moved to Manchester,\nVermont in\nabout 1979.\nShe died a resident of Manchester on October 15, 1983.\nFern Cottage was a center of learning and culture from 1947 to 1980, but the little\n\"red-haired girl\" from upstate New York could keep pace with\nthe best of the Howards, the McLeods, and later the Strattons.\n2 Janet was born in upstate New York, 4/13/05. She was a career newspaper-\nwoman,\nfirst with the Buffalo Evening Star,\nand then with the New York\nDaily News.\nShe moved to Manhattan in 1940.\nMcLeod.\nHer father was Dougald\nHer brother was\nJames C. McLeod, a professor from Evanston, Ill. "}