Saturday, January
12, 1865
The Rev. Henry E. Butler, a graduate of Princeton
Theological Seminary, was ordained by the Champlain Presbytery, the Rev. J.R.
Herrick of Malone preaching the sermon. The young man ministered to the
Keeseville Presbyterian Church, receiving a formal call the following September.
Friday, January 20, 1865
Died at his home known as the General Mooers' house, Col. Amasa Corbin Moore, son of Judge Pliny Moore of Champlain. Jan. 18, 1826 he had married Charlotte Elizabeth Moores, daughter of Gen. Mooers. They had ten children. He was a lawyer in Plattsburgh and in 1843, on the occasion of the celebration of the anniversary of the Battle of Plattsburgh, Col Moore delivered the patriotic address to the large audience assembled in the park in front of the court house.
Thursday, February 23, 1865
A portion of the town of Burlington, about one mile and a half in width and extending along the shore of the lake from the Winooski river, its northern boundary, to a line about six miles south, was chartered as a city.
Tuesday, June 6, 1865
The new Fouquet House was opened to the public.
Paul Marshall, a native of
Hinesburgh, Vt., died at Plattsburgh, where he had carried on a large mercantile business
for many years. His old home on Cornelia street, of a cut limestone and several business
blocks of the same stone, still stand, reminding one of his extensive real estate
holdings. While young, he settled in Beekmantown with his father and there engaged in the
tanning business, continuing the same after his removal to Plattsburgh.
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