Capt. Ernest James Waterman, twin

THE BEMIS HISTORY AND GENEALOGY being an account, in greater part of the descendants of Joseph Bemis, of Watertown, Mass. ... By Colonel Thomas Waln-Morgan Draper ... Published 1900, San Francisco, California, p. 27

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Born in Jamaica, Vermont, October 12, 1877; graduated from the Brattleboro High School in 1895 and from Middlebury College, B.A., in 1899. He entered as law student the office of Waterman & Martin. He served with Company I at Chickamauga during the Spanish War, being mustered out October 4, 1898, when he returned to college. Upon the reorganization of Company I, August 9, 1899, he was appointed corporal; afterwards second lieutenant, first lieutenant and captain. He married Miss Susan Mather of Rutland. Children: Ethel Mather, Elizabeth Jane, Harriet. They removed from Brattleboro to New York in 1919.

Find A Grave Banker and Spanish-American War veteran. A Middlebury College student, in 1898 he was elected commander of the Vermont National Guard's Company I, 1st Vermont Infantry Regiment with the rank of captain. The unit underwent training in Georgia, but the war ended before it left the country, and it returned to Vermont later that year. Waterman graduated from Middlebury in 1899, and remained in the national Guard for several years. He was a Trust Officer at Chemical National Bank in New York City for many years, and held the same post for the Berkshire Trust Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts from 1925 until retiring in 1934, when he retired to Brattleboro.