Wed, 05/26/2021 - 7:32pm sarahp
NEW HAVEN Lynn Hoyt Bottum, 76, passed away on May 18, 2021, after a seven months’ stay at the Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Middlebury.
Born in Burlington Nov. 3, 1944, Lynn was only child of Julius Hoyt Bottum and Virginia (Chase). His boyhood was spent in New Haven, where his father was the fifth generation to operate the Bottum dairy farm and where Lynn completed 9th grade at Beeman Academy. The family moved to Shelburne in 1960. Lynn graduated from Vergennes High School in 1962. He had already begun longtime memberships in the Vermont Historical Society and the Steamship Historical Society of America. He subsequently attended Lyndon State College and in 1967 received B.A. degree (major in history) from the University of Vermont. In these college years he was active with Young Republicans, and in 1968 narrowly lost a three-way race for a seat in the Vermont legislature.