Person:Joshua Vail (1)

Joshua Youngs VAIL, of Montpelier, was the son of Abraham and Betty (LEE) VAIL, and was born in Pomfret, Vt., August 30, 1784. I think he came to Montpelier to live before Timothy MERRILL did, but that he was not admitted to the bar until after Mr. MERRILL had opened an office in Montpelier. Mr. VAIL graduated at Middlebury College, August 17, 1808. He taught Montpelier Academy the winter preceding his graduation

J.Y. VAIL, when the county was organized, had been admitted to the bar and was a partner of Judge PRENTISS. He settled in Montpelier immediately after graduation. His and Mary TUTHILL's intention of marriage was published December 31, 1809, and they were married by Rev. Chester WRIGHT, January 27, 1810. She was a sister of Abraham G. D. TUTHILL, a portrait painter, who was a pupil of Benjamin WEST. They had nine children, two of whom are now living in Montpelier: Oscar John Tuthill VAIL, born March 7, 1824, and Laura Davis VAIL, wife of H. H. DEMING, Esq. Joshua Y. VAIL was clerk of the court, beginning in 1819, for about twenty years. He was the first secretary and treasurer of the Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which early had its office in a small building which now stands back of Mr. DEMING's house, and which had formerly been Mr. VAIL's law office, on the site of the Ballou bulding near the bridge, but which, in the flood of July 27, 1830, floated off and landed near the present Central depot, whence it was drawn to the lot where it now stands. Mr. VAIL died of lung fever, April 3, 1854.