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    Cavendish is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The town was likely named after William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire. The population...
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  • Cavendish, Christchurch Cavendish, Idaho Cavendish, Vermont, a town Cavendish (CDP), Vermont, the central village of the town Fort Cavendish, Illinois, British...
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    Phineas Gage (category People from Windsor County, Vermont)
    for the Rut­land & Bur­ling­ton Rail­road south of the village of Cav­en­dish, Ver­mont. Setting a blast entailed boring a hole deep into an out­crop of...
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    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    the Hoover Tower, part of the Hoover Institution, before moving to Cavendish, Vermont, in 1976. He was given an honorary literary degree from Harvard University...
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    Park Pollard (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    Democratic Party of Vermont, as well as several terms in the Vermont House of Representatives where he represented the town of Cavendish. He was the Democratic...
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    Cavendish is a census-designated place, the central village of the town of Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. Until the mid–nineteenth...
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    Calvin Coolidge (category Burials in Vermont)
    in the Vermont House of Representatives. His cousin Park Pollard was a businessman in Cavendish, Vermont and the longtime chair of the Vermont Democratic...
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    John Martyn Harlow (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    His practice in Cavendish, Vermont, where Gage's accident occurred in 1848, brought Gage under his care. In 1857, he left Cavendish due to poor health...
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    Nettie Stevens (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    Y chromosomes. Nettie Maria Stevens was born on July 7, 1861, in Cavendish, Vermont, to Julia (née Adams) and Ephraim Stevens. In 1863, after the death...
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    a historic country estate farm at 4203 Twenty Mile Stream Road in Cavendish, Vermont. It includes one of the state's grandest Colonial Revival mansion...
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    Clarence Adams (criminal) (category Deaths from pneumonia in Vermont)
    burglaries he was later believed to have committed. Adams was born in Cavendish, Vermont on November 18, 1857, to Washington Adams and Dene H. (Walker) Hagar...
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    and other New England colonies, such as Salmon Dutton, a settler of Cavendish, Vermont. Dutton emigrated in 1782 and worked as a surveyor, town official...
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    Edward H. Williams (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    physician. While working on the Rutland & Burlington railroad in Cavendish, Vermont, with his former physics teacher Hosea Doton, he was the first physician...
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    University dormitory Atherton Farmstead, a historic farm property in Cavendish, Vermont Atherton Islands, off Antarctica Atherton Peak, South Georgia Atherton...
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    under Soviet surveillance, and settling in the small U.S. town of Cavendish, Vermont. Born: Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality;...
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    Cavendish Universalist Church is a historic church building on Vermont Route 131 in Cavendish, Vermont. It was built in 1844 by Scottish immigrant stonemasons...
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    Henry A. Fletcher (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    service as the 38th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1890 to 1892. Fletcher was born in Cavendish, Vermont on December 11, 1839, the son of Ryland Fletcher...
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    Lizzie Aiken (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    her parents were from Cavendish, Vermont. In 1826, at the age of nine, the family returned to the Atherton Farmstead in Cavendish, which was owned by her...
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  • own Green Mountain State. Elish, Dan (2005). Vermont. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 978-0-7614-2018-7. "Vermont Changing Its Tune". The Washington Post. June...
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  • the oldest buildings in the state of Vermont in the United States of America, including the oldest houses in Vermont and any other surviving structures...
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    The 2000 United States presidential election in Vermont took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election....
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    of Vermont Piers Anthony (pseudonym), science-fiction author Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, author, editor, and publisher; born in Cavendish, Vermont Lemuel...
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    copied from a house in Alburg, Vermont, to the structure's cornice. Salmon Dutton built Dutton House in Cavendish, Vermont, in 1781. Having emigrated from...
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  • York), listed on the NRHP in New York Brook Farm (Cavendish, Vermont), listed on the NRHP in Vermont Brook House (disambiguation) Brooks House (disambiguation)...
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    Fletcher D. Proctor (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    51st governor of Vermont, who served from 1906 to 1908. Proctor was born in Cavendish, Vermont, on November 7, 1860, the son of Vermont Governor Redfield...
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    Thomas O. Seaver (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    admitted to the Vermont bar and practiced law, serving as a judge for many years, until his death. Seaver was born in Cavendish, Vermont, but after his...
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    Ryland Fletcher (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    of Vermont from 1854 to 1856, and then was the 24th governor of Vermont from October 10, 1856, to October 10, 1858. Fletcher was born in Cavendish, Vermont...
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    William H. Proctor (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    Assembly, representing Columbia County. Proctor was born in Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont, a son of Asa Proctor and Lorena (Wheelock) Proctor. Proctor...
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  • severity of the weather to Cavendish, Vermont. Cavendish consists mainly of farm ground and small areas of forestry. Cavendish's population was 13 in 1909...
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    Harriett Ellen Arey (category People from Cavendish, Vermont)
    Harriett (sometimes "Harriet" or "Hannah") Ellen Grannis was born in Cavendish, Vermont, on April 14, 1819. Her parents were John Grannis, a merchant, and...
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