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Date: October 28, 1905; Paper: St. Albans Daily Messenger
J. W. Currier Dead Prominent Democrat Dies at Home in North Troy. Was Ill Of pneumonia for four days.
(SPECIAL TO THE MESSENGER)
North Troy , Oct 28 - John W. Currier, aged 70 years,
died at his home this morning after an illness of only four days, having been in his usual health up to that time.
Arrangements for the funeral have not yet been made.
Mr. Currier is survived by his wife, a son, Charles Elliot Currier, who is in the Phillipines, a private in the United States Army, and an adopted daughter, Mrs. T. L. Wadleigh, of Meredith,New Hampshire; another son, John, is dead.
Mrs. Currier before her marriage November 9 1866, was Eveline, daughter of John E. and Laura (Willard) Chamberlain, of Newbury.
John Winnick Currier, was born in North Troy, April 3rd or 5th (date is hard to read) 1835,
son of John and Mary (Elkins) Currier.
He was a sturdy representative of the American self-made man.
When only 9 years old, he was graduated from the "little red school house", and went with his father into the Cotton Mills, in Palmer,Mass.
After leaving the cotton mills, he went to Holyoke,Mass
where he learned the jeweler's trade, and in 1854 went to
Boston to take charge of a wholesale jewelry store.
In 1854 (difficult to read) he enlisted in the Springfield
City Guards, under Col. Henry S. Briggs and when the civil
war broke out hastened from Pennsylvania to join his
company which had volunteered it's services in response
to President Abraham Lincoln's first call for troups.
After doing duty for a time at the United States Arsenal
in Springfield, he was enrolled for 3 years May 31, 1861
and mustered in as Sargeant in Co. F. 10th Mass. Inf.
with his regiment at the Washington Navy Yard and arsenal
until August 9 1862, when he was sent to Massachusetts
to assist in recruiting a regiment.
January 6, 1862 he was discharged for promotion:
made adjutant of the 1st Va. Vols., November 26 1862
and appointed additional paymaster
United States volunteers January 14 1863, which post he
declined in order to accept from the provost-marshal,
of the Army of the Potomac a position for furnishing
military clothing and equipments.
Being stationed at City Point,Va.
In 1871 ,Mr. Currier returned to this place, bought the
old homestead,and created a handsome residence thereon,
creating a model farm from the estate.
He passed most of his winters in Boston or his southern
plantation.
In Politics, Mr. Currier was a strong adherent of the Democratic Party, having attended every Democratic national
convention since 1872, usually as a delegate or an alternate.
He was a United States Deputy Marshall under President
Cleveland's first administration and had been a
candidate for Lieutenant-Governor and member of Congress.
He had held nearly every important town office and
represented Troy in the legislature in 1878,1882,1898.
He was extensively engaged in the manufacture of lumber
and erected a flouring mill here. He was interested in
building the Clyde River Railroad, now a part of the
Canadian Pacific system.
He was also one of the original constructors of the Atchison, Topeka, and Sante Fe Railroad.
He was a public spirited man and did much for his town.
He planned and was chiefly instrumental in constructing the present village system of waterworks.
Mr. Currier had invented many farming implements, including a Sap spout.
Mr. Currier was an Episcopalian and a member of the
Masonic fraternity.
transcribed from genealogybank newspapers
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