Nice Coincidence

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After stamps comes yarn as my second love

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No there isn't -- just "Bryant Pollard, Proctorsville, Vermont"

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After stamps comes yarn as my second love...lol

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FRED DON, POLLARD, Jr. (military puts names backwards)

Second Lieutenant, A.S.A., U.S.A.

Son of Fred Don and Lois (Bryant) Pollard of Proctorsville, Vt.; was born in Proctorsville, Jan. 13,1892. He attended the Black River Academy, Ludlow, Vt., and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1911.

He enlisted at Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass., on Sept. 17, 1917, and served as Corporal in the 301st Infantry until Jan. 5, 1918, when he was transferred to the Air Service. He attended the Ground School at Cornell University from Jan. 5 to March 5, 1918, and was then ordered to Camp Dick, Dallas, Tex., where he remained until April 23. He was sent to Park Field, Tenn., where he stayed from April 23 to Aug. 28, and where he was commissioned 2d Lieut., A.S.A., on July 16, 1918. Subsequently he received further training at Post Field, Fort Sill, Okla., from Aug. 28 to Oct. 28; and at Taliaferro Field, Tex., from Oct. 28 to Nov. 13, 1918. He was ordered to the Air Service Depot, Garden City, N.Y., where he was held from Nov. 13, to the date of his honorable discharge from the Service on Dec. 19, 1918.

Married, Dec. 16, 1918, France Ganguet.

Brothers in Service �"

Rowland P. Pollard, Corp., Co. C, 310th Infantry.

Bryant F. Pollard, 3d Serg't., 58th F.A.

Roy G. Pollard, Private, Dartmouth S.A.T.C.

Sister in Service �"
Mary V. Pollard, Dietitian, Ellis Island Hospital.

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Pollard, Don C., was born in Plymouth, Vt, April 25, 1840, and was the eldest son o
R. P. and Mary A. (Shedd) Pollard. He was engaged in the mercantile business at Ply-
mouth Notch, and came to Proctorsville in the spring of 1863, where"he opened a general
store. He has also carried on the produce business, nnd was for three years partner with
his brother D. M. Pollard, in the wholesale grocery business at Keene, N. H. He has been first selectman of Cavendish fifteen years, al^o delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Cincinnati in 1880, on Democratic State Committee several years, and
candidate for State Treasurer in 1890. He married Sarah J. Moore, and has four chil-
dren : Fred D., Mary V., Parker H. and Dallas F.

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(VI) Don Carlos, son of Roland Parker Pollard, was born in Plymouth, Vermont, April 25, 1840. He attended the public schools of his native town, the Perkins Green Mountain Academy at South Woodstock, the Black River Academy and the Chester Academy. At the age of nineteen he went into business in Plymouth and continued for three years. Afterward he was in business for a time at Proctorsville, Vermont, in the firm of Pollard & Sherwin, subsequently D. C. Pollard & Company. For several years he was in partnership with his brother in the wholesale grocery business at Keene, New Hampshire. The business which he established in Proctorsville was continued by sons under the firm name of Pollard Brothers. For many years he bought butter, cheese and other dairy products from the farmers and shipped them to the markets in Providence, Rhode Island. In later years he has dealt extensively in lumber, buying it in carloads an'! selling at retail. He was vicepresident and is now president of the Proctorsville National Bank. He is also president of the Proctorsville Manufacturing Company and treasurer of the Proctorsville Fraternal Society.

Mr. Pollard has been for many years an active and influential Democrat, keenly interested in public affairs and in the development and welfare of the town in which he lives. He was for seventeen years a selectman of the town, and during sixteen years chairman of the board. He has also held the office of lister, of town treasurer and of overseer of the poor. In 1912 he was elected state senator from Windsor county and served on the committees on elections, military affairs, corporations, printing and state prisons.

Mr. Pollard has taken thirty-two degrees of Scottish Rite Masonry and is well known in the Masonic fraternity of the state. He is a member of Lafayette Lodge, No. 53, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Proctorsville; of Okemo Chapter, No. 28, Royal Arch Masons, of Ludlow, Vermont; Springfield Council, No. 18. Royal and Select Masters, of Springfield, Vermont; Holy Cross Commandery, No. 12, Knights Templar, of Bellows Falls, Vermont; Vermont Consistory, of Burlington, and Cairo Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Rutland, Vermont. He is also a member of Mount Sinai Lodge, and Camp Woodhouse Encampment, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and art honorary mem

ber of Howard Post, Grand Army of the Republic. In religion a Universalist.

He married, January 5, 1861, Sarah J. Moor, who was born at Plymouth, April 8, 1841, daughter of Hiram D. and Abigail (Franklin) Moor, granddaughter of John Moor, who was a native cf Scotland. Children: 1. Don Fred, born November 24, 1861; married, December 31, 1890, Lois E. Bryant; children: Don Fred, born January 13, 1892;