Background

Orton, Vrest was born on September 3, 1897 in Hardwick, Vermont, United States. Son of Gardner Lyman and Lelia (Teachout) Orton.

Education

Student, Harvard University, 1923.

Career

Partner, Baccus & Orton, Los Angeles member, United States Consular Svc., Mexico, 1924-1925; member of staff, American Mercury Magazine, New York City, 1925-1927; advertising manager, Saturday Review of Literature, 1927-1928; founder, editor, The Colophon: Book Collectors' Quarterly, New York City, 1930; with advertising public relations, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928-1930; founder, general manager, editor, Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro, Vermont, 1931; founder, general manager, Countryman Press, Weston, Vermont, 1935; counsel public relations, Mary Fletcher Hospital, Dartmouth College, Wesleyan College, others, 1935-1941; a founder, Vermont Guild Old-Time Crafts and Industries, Weston, 1936; secretary-treasurer, Vermont Guild Old-Time Crafts and Industries, Weston, 1936-1938; founder 1st restored country store in rural United States, 1945; established Voice of the Mountains national mail order catalog for The Original Vermont Country Store, Weston, 1945-1985. Consultant unites states department Defense, Washington, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan.

Achievements

• Vrest Orton has been listed as a notable Merchant, publicist, author by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The American Cider Book

    (History of Cider Old Time and Modern Principles of Making...)

  • The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace

    (The Story of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an Ame...)

  • Goudy master of letters

    (Lang:- eng, Pages 109, It is the reproduction of the orig...)

  • Homemade Beer Book (Tut books. R)

    (Originally privately printed as a limited edition in 1932...)

  • Dreiserana A Book about His Books

    (Bibliographic material on Dreiser's work to the year 1929...)

  • Cooking With Wholegrains

    (Today more and more people are turning to cooking with wh...)

  • Cooking with Wholegrains: The Basic Wholegrain Cookbook (Revised) By ( Author ) Oct-2010 Paperback
  • Vermont Afternoons with Robert Frost

    (Vrest Orton's loving remembrance of Robert Frost is a tou...)

  • The Forgotten Art of Building A Good Fireplace

    (Since its original publication in 1969 by Yankee, Inc.,Vr...)

  • The American Cider Book: The Story of America's Natural Beverage

    (Book by Orton, Vrest)

  • The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace: How to alter unsatisfactory fireplaces & to build new ones in the 18th century fashion

    (how to book)

  • The Forgotten Art of Building A Good Fireplace by Orton, Vrest(January 1, 1969) Paperback

    (New copy. Fast shipping. Will be shipped from US.)

  • AND SO GOES VERMONT A Picture Book of Vermont as it is
  • Observations on the Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace; the Story of ...
  • Proceedings of the Company of Amateur Brewers Dulce Est Desipere in Loco
  • The American Cider Book by Vrest Orton (1973-01-01)
  • And So Goes Vermont
  • The American Cider Book by Orton, Vrest (1973) Paperback
  • By Vrest Orton - The Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace: The Story of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an American Genius & His Principles of Fireplace Design Which Have Remained Unchanged for 174 Years (12/16/68)
  • The History of the Vermont Country Store
  • Observations on the forgotten art of building a good fireplace;: The story of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, an American genius & his ... which have remained unchanged for 174 years
  • Observations of the Forgotten Art of Building a Good Fireplace, the Story of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (How to Alter Unsatisfactory Fireplaces & to Build New Ones in the 18th Century fashion)
  • The American Cider Book: The Story of America's Natural Beverage by Orton, Vrest (1995) Paperback
  • Homemade Beer Book (Tut books. R) by Orton, Vrest (1973) Hardcover
  • The Forgotten Art of Building A Good Fireplace by Orton, Vrest (2005) Paperback
  • Dreiserana; a Book about His Books

Membership

Member board curators, vice president Vermont History Society, 1929-1954, chairman Vermont History Sites Commission, 1951-1959. Public relations officer Philadelphia Ordnance District, 1942-1943. In charge public relations for contract termination and surplus property, staff War Department, 1943-1945.

Member Vermont Law Enforcement Council. Director public relations Vermont for Eisenhower State Committee, 1952. Delegate Republican National Convention, 1952, alternate delegate, 1956.

Member executive committee Vermont for Reagan as President of the United States, 1979-1980. With United States Army, Army Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919. Member Association History Sites Public Officials (founder, president 1956), Brook Club, Harvard Club of Vermont (vice president 1953), Bentley Drivers' Club.

Connections

Married Rosita Lefkov, 1926 (divorced 1932). 1 child, Geoffrey Dean Conrad. Married Mildred Ellen Wilcox, January 12, 1935.

Children: Lyman Kennerly, Jeremy Roderick (deceased).

Father:

Gardner Lyman Orton

Mother:

Lelia (Teachout) Orton

Spouse:

Mildred Ellen Wilcox

Spouse:

Rosita Lefkov

child:

Geoffrey Dean Conrad Orton

child:

Lyman Kennerly Orton

child:

Jeremy Roderick Orton (deceased)