The following text comes from her written recollections of Brattleboro in the Civil War years. In 1928 a compilation of Abby (Estey) FullerвЂ™s addresses given to the Brattleboro Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution were published. Fuller would go on to become Vice President of the Estey Organ Company and, in 1896, Governor of Vermont. In 1865 Abby married Levi Fuller, a machinist and mechanical engineer with the Estey Organ Company. The EsteyвЂ™s lived on the east side of Canal Street. Miss Estey attended Brattleboro schools, including the Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro. Jacob Estey was the founder of the Estey Organ Company. | FacebookДЄbby Estey was born in 1842, the first child of Jacob and Desdemona Estey. They brought some of their slaves with them gay-turbaned black nurses were a common sight on our streets in my childhood.' Click below to hear the story.The image shows the military camp at the present public school site on Fairground Road looking northeast, with the barracks seen in the background. Our Water Cures were patronized largely by people of Southern wealth. Ira MillerвЂ™s carriages and wagons were sold to Southern planters on account of their thorough workmanship and durability. вЂњBrattleboro, at the beginning of the war, had business interests in the South. Brattleboro Historical Society - Abby Estey was born in 1842, the first child of Jacob and Desdemona Estey.

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