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thumb Henry R. Start (December 28, 1845 – November 7, 1905) was a Vermont lawyer, judge, and politician who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and a Judge of the Vermont Supreme Court. ==Biography== Start was born in Bakersfield, Franklin County, Vermont on December 28 1845, the son of Simeon Gould and Mary Sophia (Barnes) Start. He attended Bakersfield and Barre Academies.〔Jacob G. Ullery, (Men of Vermont Illustrated ), 1894, pages 374-375〕 He joined the Union Army for the Civil War and served in Company A, 3rd Vermont Volunteers.〔Vermont Secretary of State, (Legislative Directory ), 1904, pages 50-51〕 Discharged in July 1865, he returned to Franklin County and read law under M. R. Tyler. He was admitted to the bar in St. Albans in 1867. Start commenced practice in Bakersfield and formed a partnership, Cross & Start, with A. P. Cross of St. Albans.〔Hiram Carleton, (Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont ), Volume 1, pages 343-344〕 A Republican, he served as State's Attorney for Franklin County from 1876 to 1878.〔Vermont General Assembly, (Journal of the Vermont House of Representatives ), 1877, page 586〕 Start served in the Vermont State Senate in 1880 and served on the Judiciary committee and as chairman of the joint standing committee on the reform school.〔Vermont General Assembly, (Journal of the Vermont State Senate ), 1880, pages 234, 299, 305〕 He was a Trustee of the Vermont Reform School from December 1880 to December 1888.〔Vermont Secretary of State, (Legislative Directory ), 1898, page 347〕 Start served as a presidential elector in the election of 1888, and cast his ballot for Benjamin Harrison.〔Conrad Reno, Leonard Augustus Jones, (Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England ), Volume 1, 1901, page 53〕 In 1890 Start served in the Vermont House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker, but resigned after being elected Judge of the Vermont Supreme Court.〔Vermont General Assembly, (Journal of the Vermont House of Representatives ), 1890, page 9〕〔Vermont General Assembly, (Journal of the Vermont State Senate ), 1890, pages 433-434〕 Start served on the court until his death. He died at his home in Bakersfield on November 7, 1905 and was buried in Bakersfield's Maple Grove Cemetery.〔, retrieved January 3, 2014〕 He was succeeded on the Vermont Supreme Court by Willard Wedbery Miles.〔Frederick W. Baldwin, (History of "Bank of Orleans," "Irasburgh National Bank of Orleans," "Barton National Bank," "Barton Savings Bank," and "Barton Savings Bank and Trust Company" ), 1916, pages 115-116〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry R. Start」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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