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Looking for an obituary for Dr. James Marston Ryder who died in a fire in Montpelier, Vermonth on 2/15/1925

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It was an apartment building fire - 23 people were killed. Dr. Ryder was my great grandfather on my mom's side of the family. Any information -a newspaper clipping about the fire, or an obituary, so I can follow up.

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You might start with the public library in Montpelier. They may have a historical collection, or local newspaper on microfilm.

  Kellogg-Hubbard Library

     135 Main St., Montpelier, Vt 05602

     802-223-3338 (phone and fax)

     info@kellogghubbard.org
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They probably do not have obituraries archived online since it the fire occured in 1925.

If you go to Montpelier, there'll be a government building (I cant remember the name off the top of my head), or you could go to a library, and they will have the newspapers archived. If it's a public library, they should let you look for free. I'm not sure about the government building.

Take a roadtrip, that'd be fun. Bring any information regarding your great-grandfather (Birth/death certificates, something) in case they ask. But they should have a record of it in that town.

Good luck!
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There aren't many people from Vermont hanging out here, but the VTGenWeb site is full of great genealogists who are usually happy to pull newsclips and obituaries. A local doctor dying in a fire is sure to have quite a bit of coverage back in that era. Start with this site.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtwash...

Also check out the Vermont pages at http://www.genealogy.com

You can usually find a good local historian hanging out in the state and county pages.
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