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- According to his WWI Draft Registration, John was of medium height and medium build with black eyes and dark hair.
According to his WWII Draft Registration, John was illiterate, as he made his mark with an "x".
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North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Thursday 13 Jul 1926
NORTH POWNAL
Mrs. John Arbour, daughter Gertrude, and son Harold have returned to their home following a trip to West Point and Kingston.
North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Thursday 31 Jan 1929
NORTH POWNAL
John Arbour has been confined to his home by illness for several days.
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North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Monday 08 Jul 1935
BROTHERS CAUGHT IN HENHOUSE BREAK -- One Arrested Here After Tri-State Search -- One Sentenced -- Gets One To Two Years In Bennington Court Today For Entering Coop Of Pownal Men
Noyes and Everett Thomas, brothers of Hoosick Falls, NY, gave the police of three states, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York, a little business Saturday night and Sunday morning after allegedly breaking into a henhouse owned by John Arbourand T. G. Brownell at Sunnybrook Farm in Pownal, VT. After passing through the hands of officers in all three states, they were arraigned this morning in thecourt of Bennington, VT, on charges of breaking and entering in the night. Everett Thomas, 25, pleaded guilty to this charge and was sentenced to not less than one year nor more than two years in thestate's prison. His case was continued until Friday afternoon by Judge George A. Mather and he was placed under $500 bail. JudgeMather will assign counsel at that time. The rather involved proceedings leading up to the court appearance started when a burglar alarm sounded and turned on the lights in a henhouse at Sunnybrook Farm at about 12:40 o'clock Sunday morning.Aroused, Mr. Brownell and Mr. Arbour arrived just in time to see a car driving off their property. Mr. Brownell fired several shots at the car but failed to find his mark. The two Pownal men then gave chase and followed the car in the direction of this city. When they arrived here they notified the local police, who, a short time later, picked up the car they described on West Main Street, arresting Noyes Thomas who was in the machine alone, his brother having apparently sneakedinto the woods at Pownal. Yesterday morning Corporal Hillfrank of the New York State Police Barracks at Petersburg notified the local police that he wanted both the Hoosick Falls brothers. He came to this city for Noyes Thomas and spent sometime looking for Everett Thomas in this city and Williamstown. Everett Thomas was picked up later by Corporal Hillfrank at his home in Hoosick Falls. The New York State Trooper then turned both men over to Vermont authorities in Bennington.The owners of the Pownal farm say that there were 200 fowls in the henhouse which was broken into and 125 in another nearby coop.They also say that an attempt was made to break into the henhouse about three weeks ago.
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North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Monday 23 Nov 1936
JOHN ARBOUR FRACTURES LEG
John Arbour is at the Mary McClellan Hospital, Cambridge, NY, where he was taken on Saturday afternoon following an accident at his home in which he sustained a broken leg. The fracture was reduced by Dr. Vickers and Dr. Maxon of the hospital staff.
North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Wednesday 25 Nov 1936
NORTH POWNAL
John Arbour returned to his home yesterday from the Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge, NY.
North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Monday 20 Jun 1938
NORTH POWNAL
John Arbour is recovering at his home here from a minor operation on his nose performed by Dr. W. L. Curran of North Adams.
In 1940, John reported that he had earned $728 in 1939.
North Adams Transcript (MA) -- Thursday 25 Jun 1942
NORTH POWNAL
John Arbour is confined to his home with an acute attack of rheumatism.
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Times Record (Troy, NY) -- Friday 17 May 1946
POWNAL
Mr. and Mrs. John Arbour and Miss Gertrude Arbour recently attended thefuneral of Mrs. Arbour's stepfather, Henry C. Armstrong, of Bennington.
Bennington Evening Banner (VT) -- 21 Aug 1956
NORTH POWNAL BRIEFS
John Arbour, Miss Gertrude Arbour, and Harold Arbour visited relatives in Schenectady, NY, Saturday.
Bennington Evening Banner (VT) -- 06 Sep 1956
NORTH POWNAL BRIEFS
Miss Gertrude Arbour and her father, John Arbour, left Wednesday for Roanoke, VA, where they will visit Mr. Arbour's son, Harold J. Arbour, who is an instructor at Hollins College in Roanoke. Mr. Arbour has been spending the summer with his father and sister here.
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Troy Record (NY) -- 31 Dec 1959
JOHN D. ARBOUR
John D. Arbour, 81, formerly of Hoosick and a retired meat market proprietor in North Pownal, VT, died suddenly yesterday at Roanoke, VA. He and his daughter Miss Gertrude Arbour had been spending the winter with his son, Harold J. Arbour, an instructor at Hollins College. Born in Canada, Mr. Arbour resided in Hoosick and Bennington before moving to North Pownal in 1903. He was the son [sic] of Mrs. Rebecca Gower Arbour, who died in 1956. Besides his daughter and son, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Minnie Nadeau, North Pownal. Funeral Services will be Saturdayat 3 pm, from the Mahar Funeral Home in Bennington, where Rev. John J.McCarthy, rector of All Saints' Episcopal Church, Hoosick, will officiate. Entombmentwill be in Park Lawn Cemetery until spring when burial will be in HoosickRural Cemetery.
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About John's kids, from Linda Hall, Director of Solomon Wright Public Library in Pownal, VT, on 11 Mar 2005 : Gertrude Arbour died in December1993. She lived in North Pownal and her bachelor brotherhad also livedwith her. She was born in 1903 in Bennington, VT, and moved to North Pownal, VT, when she was two. She went to business school after high school (perhaps Bliss School in North Adams) and worked for a Judge in Adams, MA, for more than 30 years. She joined her brother atHollins Collegein Virginia and returned to VT for the summers. Harold Arbour taught in the Navy schools of business administration then at Hollins for 15 years. Both retired in 1970. Harold died in 1985. She left some money toa church in Hoosick, NY, in memory ofher parents. (article does not say their name). You probably can check the Soc. Security Index for the dates of their death. I can get this from the cemetery stones in the late spring after the mud has dried. They bothare buried in the cemetary across from their home in North Pownal, VT.
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1878 - 1959 (81 ans)
