Addison

HOWE, George

Vermont Historical Magazine, No. XI, October 1867, p 831
(extracted from a section on the history of Jericho, Addison County, Vermont)

Dr. George HOWE was the second physician permanently settled in town 
[Jericho, Addison County, Vermont], and the one who practiced longest. He 
was a native of Canaan [Litchfield County], Connecticut, settled here 
[Jericho] in 1810, and practiced nearly to the time of his death; [Dr. George 
HOWE] died in 1857, at the age of seventy-five years. He married Mary, 
daughter of Hon. James A. POTTER, a native of New Fairfield [Fairfield 
County], Connecticut, who was merchant, farmer, town representative, judge of 
county court, a very active and enterprising man [of Jericho, Addison County, 
Vermont]; he [James A. POTTER] died in 1809 at the age of thirty-eight years.

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