Hewitt, Arthur Wentworth, 1883-1971 (Personal Name)

Vermont's sesqui-centennial, 1927: page 40 (Reverend Arthur Hewitt, of Plainfield, Vermont, wrote verses for the occasion)

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University of Vermont Libraries Special Collections viewed June 16, 2014: Arthur Wentworth Hewitt Collection (Arthur Wentworth Hewitt was born in Riverton, Vermont on June 22, 1883. Graduate of Montpelier Seminary. His pastoral life began in 1908 in Plainfield, Vermont, where he served as a Methodist Church minister until 1933. He served in Moretown, Vermont from 1933-1935 and in Northfield and Northfield Falls until 1856. Active in education, he was the head of Montpelier Seminary, organized Vermont Junior College and served as its president from 1923 to 1935. From 1923 to 1935 he was chairman of the Vermont Board of Education. A poet, he published five collections of poetry and wrote a biography "The old brick manse" (1965). Head of the Poetry Society of Vermont for eight years. In 1971 he was recommended by the state legislature to succeed Robert Frost as Poet Laureate of Vermont. He died November, 7, 1971 in Berlin, Vermont.