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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...but has sometimes been drawn by his associates into the arena of public life, and while at Middlebury was engaged to some extent in campaigning. He there filled the office of town grand juror, and after coming to St. Albans, served as president of the village before the incorporation of the present city, having been elected in the spring of 1895 and re-elected in 1896. He was for a short time a member of the prudential committee of the old village government and since the organization of the city, was chairman of the board of school commissioners from 1899 to 1902. Mr. Royce's fellow-citizens showed their appreciation of his labors in their behalf and testified to the esteem in which they held him by electing him, in 1900, senator from Franklin county. While a member of the legislature he served on the judiciary committee and was chairman of the committee on education. He is one of the committee of three, including himself, the state librarian, and Supreme Court Judge Seneca Hazelton, appointed to prepare a new digest of the supreme court reports. Mr. Royce is the working member of this committee, the labor of which has been for some time in progress and is not yet completed. Mr. Royce is a member of the State Bar Association, in which, for one year, he held the office of vice president. While at college he belonged to the Delta Psi, and at graduation was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society. Mr. Royce married, October 31, 1888, Christiana M., daughter of the Rt. Rev. Alexander Burgess, bishop of the diocese of Quincy, Illinois. They have two children, Alexander Burgess and Edith Edmunds. EEROY W. BAEDWIN. LeRoy Wilbur Baldwin, president of the Empire State Trust Company of New York city, and either president or director of a score of other financial and c...