William Cullen Kittredge
1800 - 1869
William Cullen Kittredge, born Feb. 23, 1800, graduated at Williams College in 1821, studied law, went to Kentucky and resided a year, where he was admitted to the bar in 1823. He went to Fairhaven, Vt., in .1824, where he lived until his death, June 11, 1869.
The following is from a local historian.
“Judge Kittredge was a man widely known and respected in the community and state, being a lawyer of ability and prominence, and always before the public. For eight years, he represented the town in the legislature, and was county senator for two years; he was two years speaker of the House of Representatives, five years State’s Attorney, six years Judge of the County Court, one year Judge of the Circuit Court; one year Lieutenant Governor, and President of the Senate, and for nearly seven years Assessor of Internal Revenue. He filled these places with honor, and to the acceptance of his fellow men, because his eminent ability and high moral and religious character fitted him to be thus called of his fellow men, without any obtrusive officiousness of office seeking on his part. In politics, Judge Kittredge was a Whig; in religion a Congregationalist; in manners elaborately polite and courteous; in conversation affluent, affable and animated; in statue tall and stately. He was ever the advocate of the conservative and moral. Lt. Governor of Vermont 1852 and 1853. First President of the National Insurance Company of Vermont.
William Cullen Kittredge
Historical tidbits
The following is an excerpt from History of Rutland County Vermont with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers; Edited by H. Y. Smith & W. S. Rann; Syracuse, N.Y.; D. Mason & Co., Publishers 1886; Chapter XXVI. History Of The Town Of Fairhaven (pages 591-616):
The business of sawing marble was here commenced in the fall of 1845 by William C. KITTREDGE, Alonson ALLEN and Joseph ADAMS, under the firm name of Kittredge, Allen & Adams. ALLEN & ADAMS continued the business after October, 1846, until 1852. In the latter year, Ira C. ALLEN entered into partnership with them. From 1854 to 1869, Alonson ALLEN having withdrawn from the firm, the name was Adams & Allen. In the fall of, 1869 Joseph Adams purchased the entire interest, and took in his son, A. N. ADAMS, from whose history we have drawn largely.
The Valido Marble Company, chartered in 1883, with a capital stock of $300,000, is the legitimate successor to the business thus established BY KITTREDGE, ALLEN & ADAMS. The enterprise probably belongs to Rutland (as the quarries are in West Rutland), and is mentioned in that chapter.
Vol. 3 pg. 700 (Paper Mill) Excerpt:
The mill being burned in March, 1806, Mr. Dunehue sold the site to Herring,Colton & Beman, and they re-built the mill. Herring and Colton bought out Beaman in April'11, and Herring sells to Colton, March. '13. Colton sold one half the mill, in April to Geore Warren. The mill was thus in the hands of Messers. Colton & Warren from April. '13. In January, '19. they took David C. Sproat into partnership, and conducted business under the firm name of Colton, Warren & Sproat for several years, engaging also in distilling whisky and selling merchandise. Warren & Sproat failing in 1827, an assignment of the mill and other property was made by Sproat, on the 5th of July (Warren having left town in the early morning of that day) to John P. Colburn, Jacob Davey, Barabas Ellis and Harris W. Bates. The mill was run that season by H.W. Bates & Co. It was deeded in may, '28, by Warren, who was then in Albany, and Sproat to William C. Kittredge, subject to a mortgage to Joel Beaman. Mr. Kittredge deeded to his father, Dr. Abel Kittredge of Hinsdale, Mass; in September; and he sold one half of it back to Sproat, in October, '29. It was burned while owned by them, Jan. 31, 1831, and in July they sold one-third interest therein to Alonzo Safford, and re-built the mill. In August, '35, Abel Kittredge conveys his third part to his son William C; and by him it was sold in December, to Sproat & Safford.