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...Uncle Dan" Willard was born on a farm near North Hartland, Vt. during the first year of the Civil War. The first locomotive he saw ran by the farm on the old Central Vermont. Aged 16, he taught school for a spell. Aged 17, he was sent to Massachusetts Agricultural College. Bad eyesight compelled him to give up his studies, get a job in a track gang. Three years later he was an engineer on the Connecticut & Passumpsic River, now a part of the Boston & Maine. Then he went West. When next seen he was "hogging" (driving a locomotive...
Andover relies on E. H. Hills and R. W. Wingate Jr. for many points, while F. W. Waterman, H. W. Hartland and H. C. Emery, all of Exeter, are sure point winners in the dashes, the half-mile and the weight events respectively. Huntington has a star in A. H. Farley, while A. T. Hutman is a consistent all-around performer for Worcester...