January 5

1816    Death of Sir George Prevost, son of Augustine Prevost (a British general of the Revolution), defeated by Macomb at Plattsburgh, 1814.

1830    The first Baptist Society of Burlington formed.

1838     The men interested in the formation of an Episcopal church at Rouses Point met in the stone school house built in 1824 and organized "Christ's Church.".

1846     John Syng Dorsey Taylor, a graduate of the University of Vermont in 1840 in the class with Henry J. Raymond, afterwards editor of the New York Times; Henry Hale of Elizabethtown and James R. Spaulding, editor of the Courier and Enquirer of  New York, was appointed principal of Plattsburgh Academy and retained that position nearly all the time until 1860.  An apt scholar and efficient teacher, a friend as well as an instructor, a noble hearted, pure- minded man he left the impress of his own character on all who came under his influence.  He built the house, now owned by Mrs. Myron G, Baker and made it his home.  Disappointed in his efforts to inaugurate a system of graded schools here, in connection with his brother Joseph W., who had been head of the school in 1857-8, he opened a school in St. Albans which they conducted successfully many years.

1882    Elijah Root, for half a century chief engineer of the Champlain Transportation Co., on account of failing health resigned that position.

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