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CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.
E.
A Correction.
A Garden — T.aiira Garland ("arr.
"All Fair in Love" — Henrietta
i*:ige
Ancestry of Gen. J. A. Garfield—
L. r. bodge, ....
An Invitation — Mary II. Wheeler,
An Old English Historian— Prof, E.
D. Sanborn, ll, i>
An Old-Tinie Courtship — Fred Mj^-
lon Colby
A Sliort Sketch of Manchester —
W
A Slight Mistake in the History of
New Hampshire,
A Song of the Hour— L, R. H, C,
A Trip to Cardigan — Elisha Payne
— Ex-Gov. Walter Harrinian, .
Autumn — Fannie Huntington Run-
nels.
Benetit of Clergy — Hon. J. E. Sar-
gent, LL, D.
Beyond — Henrietta E.
Bibliography of JS'ew
J. N. McClintock,
Book Notices, ....
Canterbury — J, N, McClintock, .
Capt. Robert Neal, Senior, and His
Wife. Margaret Eear Neal — Hon.
Thomas L. Tullock, .
Centennial Address at Northfleld —
Prof, Lucian Hunt, .
Centre Harbor — Isaac W, Hammond,
Chandler Genealogy — D. F. Secomb,
Chester — Benjamin Chase, .
Cloud-Land — Lizzie Lin wood,
Dartmouth College — Rev. S.
Dead — Laura Garland Carr, .
Descendants of Thomas Whittier
New Hampshire — Rev. W.
Whitcher, ....
Diary of Capt. Peter Kimball
1776 — Charles Carleton Cotlin.
Diary of Rev. Timothy Walker,
Page,
Hampshire —
C.
in
F.
in
of
Concord, N. II,, for the year 1780
— Joseph B, Walker. .
Dunbarton — Past and Present— J,
B, Connor, .....
Early Dawn — Addison F. Browne,
Easter — Lida C, Tullock,
Ensnared — Helen Mar, ,
Elijah Parker, Esq,
Franconia Iron Mine, •
Gambetta — G. W. Patterson,
Gilsum — Silvanus Hayward,
Historical Addi-ess — Rev. F. D, Aj'er,
History of Antrim,
Hon, George Byron Chandlei- —
J. N. McClintock,
Hymn— K. J. K., .
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155
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335
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286
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387
266
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336
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423
285
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120
132
History of Music in the First Con-
gregational Societv, Concord, N,
H.— Dr. W. G, Carter,
History of the First Congregational
Suniiav-School, Concord. N, H, —
John C. Thorn
History of the Four Meeting-Houses
of the First Congregational
Society i'l Concord — J. B, Walker,
Temp-
Ilolderness and the Livermores —
Fred Myron 0)lby. ,
Hon, Asa Fowler — Editor, ,
Hon, Charles H. Bell — John
leton,
Hon. Dexter Richards — Joseph W.
Parmelee,
Hon. Frank Jones — H, H. Metcalf,
Hon. George Washington Nesmith
—J. N. McClintock, .
Hon. Hosea W. Parker— H. H. Met-
CcilX^ • • • •
Hon. John Kimball — J. N.
tock, ....
Hon. Nathaniel White- J.
Clintock
Hon. Phinehas Adanas — Arthur
Dodge, ....
Hon. Richard Bradley — Joseph
Walker,
Hon. William Henry Haile — D,, .
Hotels of New Hampshire, ,
How they Built a Meeting-IIouse in
Old Times — Charles A, Downs,
Hymn — George Kent, .
Increase my Faith — Henrietta E.
McClin-
N. Mc-
B.
Orchard — Laura Garland
Page,
In the
Carr,
It Rains — Laura Garland Carr,
Journal of Abbe Robin, Chaplain of
Count Rochambeau's Army, Relat-
ing to the Revolution — Hon.
George W. Nesmith, i.l. u.,
Kearsarge — M. J. Messer,
Lake Village— O. W. Goss, .
Letter of James Madison to Gen.
John Stark, and his Answer — Geo.
W. Nesmith, ....
Lieut. -Governor David Dunbar's
Connections — Rev. A. H. Quint,
Londonderry, ....
Bartlett, i). d.. i>i>, d,,
Madrigal — William C. Sturoc,
Major B'rank — Samuel C. Eastman,
Esq 32, 81. 112,
Mary Wood well — Ex-Gov. Walter
Harriman, , . . . .
Mary Teviotdale; or Athyne's Heir,
— William C. Sturoc, Esq.,
320
313
240
272
175
1
460
89
211
259
475
435
49
307
395
485
467
328
210
31
346
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424
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487
506
263
125
149
386
143
233
118
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Mines and Mining at Surry Moun-
tain — L. P. Dodoe, M. E., .
Mines in tlie Vicinity of Lisbon, .
Miranda Tulloelv. ....
Natlianiel Peabody Eog'ers — Parlier
Pillsbury, Esq
New Hainpsliire Men in Mieliigan-
No. 1— Mary M. Culver, .
Obituary, .....
Pastors of the First Congregational
('hurch, C;oueord, N. iL, .
Paymaster Thouias L. TullocU, Jr.,
U. S. Navy— Hon. Thomas L.
Tullock
Pleasant Pond — Geo. W. Browne,
Poem— Mood V Currier,
Prof. David Crosby— Wm. O.
Clough
Prof. Hiram Orcutt. A. M., .
(^uery — F. M. Steele,
KeminiscenccS;— Joseph W. Parme-
lee.
Reminiscences
of Distinguished
Men— George Haueroft Griffith,
Keininiscenees of Daniel Webster,
No. 3 — Hon. George W. Nesmith,
liemoval of Judges — Hon. Geo. W'.
Nesmith,
Rev. Leandf^r S. Coan— J. N. Mc-
Clintock. .....
Ptiehard Taft
Rev. >Sil;is Ketchum— Darwin C.
Blanehard
Record of Bliths and Marriages iu
the Town of Canterbury. ;W1. 4:^1
Something About Mariow — George
Bancroft Griffith,
Scripture and Evolution — Prof. E.
D. Sanborn, ll. d., .
Skt-tch of Keene, ....
Something About tlie Early History
of Candia — F. B. Eaton, .
135
434
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281
501
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209
42
489
417
379
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404
Slavery in New Hampshire in the
Olden Time — Isaac W. Hammond,
Sonnet — Hon. E. D. Rand, .
The Bells of Bethlehem— James T.
Fields
The Birthplace of a President — Fred
Myron Colby, ....
The Country Boy — George Bancroft
Griffith
The Crime of Isaac Dole, and his
Punishment— W. A. Wallace, .
The Dartmouth Cavalry — John
Scales,
Tlie Fourtii New Hampshire Turn-
pike—John M. Shirley, 219, 291,
428,
The Governor Weare Estate — Fred
Myron Colby
The Name and Family of TuUoch —
Thomas L. Tullock, .
The Keene Raid, ....
Tlie Locomotive
Kent, .
The Minstrel's Curse — F. W. Lane,
The Pemigewasset — A Reminiscence
— L. W. Dodge
The Ring— F. W. Lane.
The Story of a New Hampshire
Girl^Marv Dwinnell Chellis, .
The Tori(>s of 1706 anaiiufr for )(ublication the Genealogy of the Ips-
wich Familv of Fowlers, from whiciihe descended.
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lies of Fowlers are shown by the records
to have been living contemporaneously
early in the i yth century, came from
thence with his family, to Massachusetts
in 1634, in the ship " Mary and John"
of London, having taken the oath of
allegiance and supremacy to qualify him
as a passenger at Southampton on the
24th of March. He must have em-
barked in February, since by an order
of Council dated Feb. 24, the vessel
was detained in the Thames until the
Captain gave bond in ^100, condition-
al, among other things, that the service
of the church of England should be
read daily on board and attended by
the passengers, and also that the adult
male passengers should take the oath
of allegiance and supremacy. All this
having been done, the ship was allowed
to proceed on her voyage, but did not
reach New England until May. Sept.
3, 1634, he was admitted freeman at
Boston, obtained a grant of land in
Ipswich the same year, on which he
settled in 1635, ^'""^ where he resided
until his death on the 24th of June,
1679, ^^ '^'"'^ ^g^ of 88. During h's
long life, he made a variety of records,
but none that any descendant need
blush to read. It is remarkable that
his homestead in Ipswicli has ever since
been, and still is occupied by one of
his descendants, bearing the family
name. His wife, Mary, mother of his
children, died Aug. 30, 1659, and he
again married Feb. 27, 1660, Mary,
widow of George Norton, early of Sa-
lem, afterwards Representative from
Gloucester. There came over in the
same ship with Philip Fowler senior,
and family, his daughter, Margaret, and
her husband, Chistopher Osgood,
whom she had married the previous
year, and who was the common ances-
tor of most of the Osgoods of Massa-
chusetts and New Hampshire.
Joseph Fowler, son of Philip senior,
born in England, date unknown, mar-
ried in Ipswich, Mass., Martha Kimball,
who came over from Ipswich, England,
in 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth" with
her parents, and is stated t9 have been
then five years of age. Her father,
Richard Kimball, settled in Ipswich,
Mass., and is believed to have been the
ancestor of nearly all the Kimballs in
this country. His wife, Ursula Scott,
was the daughter of the widow Martha
Scott, who came over with the Kim-
balls at the age of sixty, supposed to
have been the wife of Hon. John Scott
of Scott's Hall, Kent Co., England. Jo-
seph Fowler was killed by the Indians
near Deerfield, Mass., May 19, 1676, on
his return from the Falls fight. He
was a tanner by trade.
Philip Fowler second, eldest son
of Joseph, was born in Ipswich, Mass.,
Dec. 25, 1648. When only two or
three years of age, he was adopted,
with the consent of his parents, by his
grandfather, Philip senior, who made
him his heir by deed dated Dec. 23,
1668. He received the rudiments of
his education at the famous school kept
by Ezekiel Cheever. He was a man
of superior ability, and as a merchant,
deputy marshal and attorney, quite dis-
tinguished. He acquired a large
landed estate, which he divided by
deeds of gift among his four sons, a
valuable farm to each. He married
Jan. 20, 1674, Elizabeth Herrick, born
about July 4, 1647. He died Nov. 16,
1 715. His wife died May 6, 1727.
She was the daughter of Henry and
Editha (Laskin) Herrick. Henry Her-
rick, born at Bean Manor in 1604,
was the son of Sir William Herrick,
and came from Leicester, Eng., to
Salem, Mass., where he arrived June 24,
1629.
Philip Fowler third, ninth child of
Philip second, was born in Ipswich,
Mass., in October, 1691 ; married
there July 5, 1716, Susanna Jacob,
daughter of Joseph and Susanna (Sy-
monds) Jacob, and great grand
daughter of Deputy Governor Samuel
Symonds of that town. He is report-
ed to have fitted for Harvard College,
but did not enter, engaging instead in
trade and carrying on the tanning
business, until he sold out and remov-
ed to New Market, N. H., in May,
1743, where he died May 16, 1767.
His widow died there in 1773. Before
removing to New Market, he purchased
of his brother-in-law, Joseph Jacob, for
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the consideration of ;^20oo, two hun-
dred and thirty-six acres of land in
" New Market in the township of Exeter
and province of New Hampshire, with
two houses and two barns thereon."
The deed is dated Feb. 14, 1737. For
fifty-six acres of this land, including
the homestead, he was sued by Josiah
Hilton in 1 760, and after two trials, one
in the Common Pleas and the other
in the Superior Court, both resulting
in verdicts in Fowler's favor, Hilton
appealed to the Governor and Council,
some of whom were directly interested
in the event of the suit as lessors of
the plaintiff, and they in 1764 render-
ed judgment in favor of Hilton, from
which the defendant appealed to the
King in Council and furnished bonds
to prosecute his appeal in England.
The Governor and Council granted this
appeal, which vacated their judgment,
and then at once issued a writ of posses-
sion founded thereon, upon which Fow-
ler was turned out of the land and com-
pelled to pay costs. He had executed
his will. May 22, 1754, therein devising
his large landed estate to his three sons,
Philip,Jacoband Symonds,and requiring
them to pay legacies to his daughters.
The land in controversy with Hilton was
devised to the two former sons. The
appeal was prosecuted in England by the
father and these devisees until after the
declaration of American Independence,
and in 1777, the Legislature of New
Hampshire passed an act authorizing
these devisees to bring an action of
Review in the Superior Court for Rock-
ingham county to determine the title to
this land. Such action was brought by
them, and at the September Term, 1778,
of that Court, they recovered judgment
for the land, costs of Court and costs
of former litigation. On the 14th of
September, 1 778, the Sheriff put them
into possession of the property from
which their father had been wrongfully
ejected fourteen years before. Sarah,
daughter of Philip, one of these sons,
was the wife of Governor William
Plumer and the mother of his children.
SvMONDS Fowler, the tenth of four-
teen children of Philip third, born in
Ipswich, Mass., Aug. 20, 1734, removed
to New Market, N. H., with his father
in 1 743, where he married July 12, 1756,
Hannah Weeks, born in the old brick
house in Greenland, N. H., August
12, 1738. By the will of his
father he inherited a farm adjoin-
ing the station at New Market Junction
on the Concord & Portsmouth and
Boston & Maine Railroads, upon which
he lived until he removed, in May, 1778,
to a farm in the western part of Epsom,
N. H., upon Suncook river, where he
resided until his death, April 6, 182 1,
His wife, Hannah, died there Dec. 9,
1807.
Benjamin Fowler, the sixth of elev-
en children of Symonds, was born at
New Market, N. H., June 16, 1 769, re-
moved with his father to Epsom, N. H.,
in 1 7 78, married in Pembroke, N.H.,Jan.
15, 1795, Mehitable Ladd, only child of
John and Jerusha (Lovejoy) Ladd of that
town, and grand daughter of Capt. True-
worthy and Mehitable (Harriman)
Ladd of Kingston, N. H. He settled
in Pembroke, after his marriage, on a
farm he purchased, and died there
July 24, 1832. His widow survived
him until Sept. 9, 1853.
Asa Fowler, the ninth of eleven
children of Benjamin, was born in Pem-
broke, N. H., Feb. 23, 181 1. His child-
hood was spent on his father's farm,
his means of education after he was
seven or eight years of age being limit-
en to eight or nine weeks of winter
school, his services after that age in sum-
mer being required in farm work.
There were very few books to which he
had access, except the Bible and ordi-
nary school books, and his early read-
ing was confined to these. At the, age
of fourteen he had a very severe attack
of typhoid fever, which left him in such
enfeebled condition as to be incapable
of severe manual labor. Under these
circumstances he was sent to the
Blanchard Academy in his native town,
then under the charge of Hon. John
Vose, but with no other intention than
that he might become qualified to in-
struct a common district school. But
with opportunity to learn and to read,
a desire for a liberal education was
awakened, and by alternately working
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upon his father's farm in the spring and
summer, attending the Academy in the
fall, and teaching school in winter, he
succeeded in not only fitting himself
for college, but in preparing to enter the
sophomore class, having attended
school only sixty weeks after he com-
menced the study of Latin. With so
meagre and defective a training, he
entered the sophomore class at Dart-
mouth College, at the opening of the
fall term, 1830, and although he taught
school every winter, was able, never-
theless to maintain a highly respectable
standing until his graduation in 1833,
when, among the parts assigned to the
graduating class according to scholar-
ship, an English oration was given him.
He was never absent or unprepared at
any recitation during his three years'
course. In his junior year he was
elected a member of the PJii Beta
Kappa SocL-ty, as being in the first
third of his class. He has never
sought or received any honorary de-
gree from his Alma Mater. After leav-
ing college, he taught the Academy at
Topsfield, Mass., for a single term in
the fall of 1833, thereby raising suf-
ficient funds to liquidate all indebted-
ness incured to defray his college ex-
penses, over and above what he receiv-
ed from his father's estate. Imme-
diately upon leaving Topsfield, having
determined to adopt the legal profes-
sion, he entered his name as a student
in the office of James .Sullivan, Esq.,
then in practice in Pemljroke, occupy-
ing the office of Hon. Boswell Stevens,
disabled by a paralytic attack from
which he never recovered. He con-
tinued to read books from Mr. Sul-
livan's library through the following
winter. In March, 1834, he came to
Concord, N. H., where he has since re-
sided, and entered the office of Hon.
Charles H. Peaslee, then a rising young
lawyer, and continued with him until
, admitted to the Merrimack County
Bar in February, 1837. While a stu-
dent in Gen. Peaslee's office, he and
Hon. Moody Currier, then a teacher in
Concord, undertook the editorship, as
a matter of amusement and with no
hope of pecuniary reward, of a small
literary paper, called the Literary
Gazette. It was published weekly for
six months, and then once a fortnight
for another six months. After Mr.
Currier retired from the editorship,
Cyrus P. Bradley, a youth of wonder-
ful precocity, and the author, when
a mere boy, of a life of Governor
Isaac Hill, became associated with
Mr. Fowler in the management of the
Gazette. During a considerable por-
tion of the period in wliich he pursued
the study of the law, Mr. Fowler sup-
ported himself by writing for other pa-
pers. In June, 1835, he was elected
Clerk of the New Hampshire Senate,
which office he continued to hold by
annual elections for six successive years,
discharging its duties to universal sat-
isfaction. In 1846 he was appointed
by the Hon. Levi Woodbury United
States Commissioner for the District
of New Hampshire, which office he
has held ever since, except from May,
187 1, to May, 1874. In 1845 he was
a member of the New Hampshire
House of Representatives from Con-
cord and served as Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee. Again in 1847
and 1848, he was one of the Represen-
tatives of Concord in that body and
served upon the same committee in
both years. In 1855 he was nominat-
ed by the Independent Democrats, or
Free Soilers, as their candidate for Gov-
ernor, and was frequently assured by
prominent Know Notliings that if he
would join their order he might and
would be made their candidate, also ;
but he was deaf to all such suggestions.
After that party came into power and
decided to change the judiciary system
of the State, he was engaged to draft
t^ie bill for that purpose which subse-
quently became a law. Afterwards, at
the earnest and repeated solicitation of
Gov. Metcalf, although at first he abso-
lutely declined to do so, he accepted a
position on the bench of the Supreme
Court as Associate Justice, which he
continued to hold, at a great pecuniary
sacrifice, from hag. i, 1855, to Feb. i,
1 86 1, when he voluntarily resigned it.
During this period of five and a half
years, he performed his full share of the
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arduous labors of a judge of our high-
est judicial tribunal, and gave general
satisfaction to the bar and the public.
If his opinions at the law terms as
reported are not so labored as those of
some of his associates, they are more
numerous, and not less sound and clear.
Immediately upon his resignation,
Judge Fowler was appointed by the
Governor and Council a delegate from
New Hampshire to the famous Peace
Congress, which met in Washington in
February, iS6i, for the purpose of
averting, if possible, the threatened
secession of the Southern States from
the Union, and continued its sessions
through the entire month. His asso-
ciate delegates were Hon. Levi Cham-
berlain, of Keene, and Hon. Amos
Tuck, of Exeter. In 1861 he was ap-
pointed Solicitor for the county -of
Merrimack, and held the office until he
resigned m 1865, upon his being ap-
pointed one of the Commissioners to
revise the Statutes of the State. He
was associated in that commission with
Hon. Samuel D. Bell, of Manchester,
and Hon. George Y. Sawyer, of Nashua.
Upon it he labored diligently and suc-
cessfully, alone superintending the
printing of the Commissioners' re-
port, and subsequently, the printing
of the General Statutes as finally
adopted by the Legislature of 1867.
He also attended almost constantly,
during the whole period of that Leg-
islature, upon the sessions of the
joint select committee to whom the
report of the Commissioners was refer-
red, and greatly aided in procuring the
speedy action of that committee, and
the final adoption of the report of
the Commissioners, as amended by the
General Court, without protracting the
session beyond its usual length. In
18 7 1 and again in 1872, Judge Fowler
was a member of the House of Rep-
resentatives from Ward 6, in ('oncord,
serving on the Judicary committee in
187 1, and presiding over the delibera-
tions of the House, as Speaker, in 1872,
with dignity, impartiality and complete
success.
Judge Fowler has been one of the
most diligent, laborious and successful
lawyers in the State, and the extent of
his practice for many years has rarely
been exceeded. In September, 1838,
after practising alone for a year and a
half, he formed a copartnership with the
late President Pierce, which continued
until April, 1845. During this period
of six years and a half, their practice was
probably as extensive as that of any
individual or firm in the State. Gen.
Pierce engaged in the trial of causes as
an advocate in nearly every county,
while Judge Fowler attended chiefly to
office business, the preparation of causes
for trial, and briefs for argument at the
Law terms of Court. Hon. John Y.
Mugridge completed his preparatory
studies in Judge Fowler's office, and
upon his admission to the bar in 1854,
Judge Fowler formed a business con-
nection with him for one year, which
expired about the time of Judge Fow-
ler's appointment to the bench. Soon
after his resignation of the judgeship
in 1 86 1, he entered into partnership
with Hon. William E. Chandler, which
continued until Mr. Chandler's ap-
pointment as Solicitor of the Navy, in
1864.
During his long residence in Con-
cord, Judge Fowler has been quite fa-
mihar with the forms of legislation, and
has probably drafted more bills for our
Legislature than any other man, living
or dead. He has originated many laws
and procured their enactment, when
not a member of the Legislature.
Among those thus originated and procur-
ed to be enacted maybe mentioned the
statute authorizing school districts to
unite for the purpose of maintaining
high schools, and that authorizing
towns to establish and maintain public
libraries. He worked zealously with
Gen. Peaslee to secure the establish-
ment of the Asylum for the Insane, was
very active and persistent in securing
the establishment of a Public Library
in Concord, and a High School in
Union District. He has always shown
a deep interest in the cause of public
education, and for more than twenty
successive years served as pruden-
tial committee, or a member of the
Board of Education in Concord. He
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has always been fond of literary pur-
suits, and has quite an extensive and
well selected miscellaneous library.
For the last three or four years he has
belonged to a class in English Litera-
ture, whose weekly meetings, during
the winter season, have been devoted
with much pleasure and profit to read-
ing the works and discussing the lives,
character and times of English and
American authors of reputation. He
has been more or less connected with
various moneyed institutions. He was
a Director of the State Capital Bank
from its organization under a State
charter until his appointment to the
bench, when he resigned. He was a
Director and President of the First
National Bank from its organization
until he lost confidence in its cashier,
when he disposed of his stock and re-
signed. He has long been, and still is,
a Director of the Manchester and Law-
rence Railroad, and for several years
was its President. In his religious sen-
timents he is a liberal L^nitarian, al-
though in early childhood he memor-
ized the Westminister Assembly's
Shorter Catechism. Educated a dem-
ocrat, but with strong anti-slavery con-
victions, he acted with the democratic
party until its devotion to the extension
of slavery compelled its abandonment
in 1846, and for the next ten years he
acted as an independent democrat.
Upon the formation of the Republican
party he joined it and continued in its
ranks until in 1875 he resumed his
connection with the democracy.
In the spring of 1877, forty years from
his admission to the bar. Judge Fowler
determined to retire from active prac-
tice. A severe illness in the fall of that
year confirmed his resolution. Before
his full recovery, by the advice of his
physician, he decided to visit Europe.
Accompanied by his wife, daughter, and
third son, he left Boston on the 13th of
April, 1878, and returned to New York
on the I 7th of October following, hav-
ing, during his absence, visited the prin-
cipal points of interest in England,
Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland,
Bavaria, Austria, Bohemia, Saxony,
Prussia, Hanover, Holland, Belgium,
Germany and France. He returned
home with renewed strength and energy,
and has since been in the full enjoy-
ment of health and happiness, in the
quiet of his pleasant home in Concord
and his beautiful cottage by the sea,
near Rye Beach.
Judge Fowler has been peculiarly
fortunate in his domestic relations. On
the 13th of July, 1837, he married Mary
Dole Cilley Knox, daughter of Robert
and Polly Dole (Cilley) Knox, of Ep-
som, N. H., and grand daughter of Gen.
Joseph Cilley of the Revolution, who
is still living, and by whom he has had
five children, four sons and one daugh-
ter, all now living. Their names are
Frank Asa, George Robert, Clara Ma-
ria, William Plumer and Edward Cilley.
The oldest son is a lawyer by profes-
sion, and has always lived at home.
The second son married Isabel, eldest
daughter of Hon. Josiah Minot, by
whom he has three children, two daugh-
ters and a son, and resides at Jamaica
Plain in Boston. The daughter has al-
ways resided with her parents. The
third son lives in Boston. The two last
named sons are lawyers in successful
practice in Boston, as partners. The
fourth son is married, has no children,
is a farmer, and resides in Orange,
Mass.
THE COUNTRY BOY.
THE COUNTRY BOY.
READ AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF HIRAM PARKER, OF
LEMPSTER, N. H.
BY GEORGE BANCROFT GRIFFITH.
Far from the crowded mart, not long ago,
A boy grew weary of his rural home ;
He longed to see the glitter and the show
Where traffic centered, and in freedom roam.
How small and cheerless had the homesteaei grown,
But how expansive looked the scene afar 1
No more in beauty o'er the hay-field shone
The sun for him ; nor e'en the evening star
With smiling lustre o'er his sweet-heart's roof,
What time the fire-flies rose a tangled braid !
And so he kissed his mother's trembling lips,
Bade Kate adieu beneath the old elm's shade,
Pressed father's hand, and sought ambition's goal.
In speeding train he drew life's future plan —
Great business secrets he would quickly learn ;
For had he not the stature of a man,
And did he not for fortune's favors yearn ?
Yes, neighbors called him " smart," and haply, now
The day had dawned to try his latent powers ;
A smile lit up his smooth unclouded brow,
He saw no thorns among the blooming flowers.
" A few short months." he mused, " will see me rich
Then to youth's (juiet haunts will I return,
And bring the maiden of my wiser choice ;
And then" — a flying spark his eyelids burn.
Soon on the stony pave of city grand
He roams delighted, — 'tis a novel scene ;
Block after block looms up on every hand
So close a corn-husk could not slip between !
His eyes with wonder ev'ry moment fill ;
How brilliant do the great store-windows gleam !
No one around him stands an instant still —
It seems the shifting glories of a dream.
All day with bounding heart he strays around,
At night beneath the gas-light sees the street ;
But somehow he has not true pleasure found ;
He's foot-sore, weary of the noise and heat.
So leisurely he finds his boarding-place,
Wond'ring who milked the kine at close of day,
THE GRANITE MONTHLY.
Who brought the wood — and pictures mother's face,
More sad and thoughtful now her boy's away.
Confused by all the sights, with tired brain
He tumbles into bed and restless lies ;
The slowly dawning truth comes back again —
" A stranger I, 'mong strangers," — and he sighs.
The yielding mattress has no soothing charm
Like that old cot beneath the attic stair ;
For song of katydid comes fire-alarm,
The hurly-burly, and the midnight glare.
Across the room where wide-awake he lay,
All night the street lamps' shadows weirdly flit,
He missed the softning touch of moonlight ray
On the white coverlid dear fingers knit ;
The old black cat curled in the cane-seat chair
Beside his couch and the bright valance there !
And oft he thinks of Katy's rozy cheeks
And dimpled elbows with a tender pain ;
And wonders if she's dreaming now of him
With his last rose bud 'neath her pillow lain.
And every time he turns himself in bed
He feels more strongly that he's out of place ;
Thinks of his sweet home life with aching head, —
Strange he had never prized its rural grace, —
For when the sun that morning rose in view
Plump up it came o'er tiles and blackened roof;
No bannered pomp was there, the eye to woo.
The very chimneys coldly stood aloof !
A great homesickness surged within his breast,
His little store of gold he counted o'er ;
Went out and wandered aimlessly, — nor looked
At things that pleased so much the day before.
And drifting on he came to open door.
The depot's portal through which he had pressed
So eagerly to join the city's roar.
And grasp its riches, — now he longed for rest.
He saw a train all ready to go out,
The black smoke pouring from the engine's stack ;
He heard, as in a dream, the porter's shout
And looked with longing down the shining track !
And something drew him in among the throng
That moved as if in fear of being late
Toward the ticket-window, — and ere long
He held a card, the symbol of his fate ;
For joy it brought among the granite hills,
In two farm houses, with his swift return ;
Fond mother's eyes with tears of rapture fills
And little Katy's cheeks, with blushes burn ;
But good support will worthy old folks gain.
And comfort going down life's sloping shore,
THE COUNTRY BOY. 9
Sweet Kate a husband, good and pure, tho' plain,-
The mart a loafer lost, perhaps, no more.
Think not, dear readers, I ha\-e drawn for you
A scene from out the boyhood of our host ;
'Tis but a simple tale, yet grandly true,
And proves that plodder, if content, does most
To fill a sphere of usefulness and joy,
By walking faithful in the beaten track.
" Far from the madding crowd" and glory's boast,
Who would not rather be the Country Boy,
That from the city's glitter turned him back,
Than he who joins the great ignoble strife
And mid'st temptation wears away his life ;
Or perishes among the throng that meet
To snatch the bauble from king mammon's feet !
Here, within sight of his own chimney smoke,
From early youth our host has plowed the soil ;
His father e'en this glebe round homestead broke
And taught young Hiram in the fields to toil.
YWi fiftx years of life in Lempster spent,
Behold our townsman, loved so long and well ;
His brow wears aureole of sweet content,
These fields and crops of worldly comfort tell.
Perchance, he too, in youth did strongly dream ;
The Western fever may have seized his frame,
But yet he saw t'was Ignis fattnts's gleam,
And knew that fortune was a coy old dame.
And so he chose the wise, the better plan,
Well knowing that our climate, rough and stern,
Would yield to ev'ry patient husbandman
A timely and a generous return.
To-night we gladly meet ; we take his hand,
Proud of his skill, his influence and truth ;
A factor in the glory of our land,
A bright example to our rising youth.
Long may his uplands gleam with waving wheat,
Long may his valleys bear the tasseled corn ;
In age may riches cluster around his feet,
Poured by our Father's hand from plenty's horn !
May baby lips pronounce that grandsire's name,
The tenderest hands his slightest wish attend ;
And all here gathered fondly hold his fame,
As honored host, as townsman and as friend !
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THE GRANITE MONTHLY.
A TRIP TO CARDIGAN— ELISHA PAYNE.
BY EX-GOV. WALTER HARRIMAN.
On a balmy morning of July, 1880,
the writer started off for a long-con-
templated visit to the summit of Car-
digan Mountain. At Franklin, in
accordance with previous arrangements,
he was joined by an eminent member
of the bar of Merrimack County, and
the two performed the journey, made
the ascent of the mountain, visited
historic places, as well as mines,
churches, and cemeteries, and returned
triumphant at night.
A brief account of this trip may
not be entirely devoid of interest. Just
above Franklin village, as the readers
of this magazine generally know, the
train whirls along the shore of a spark-
ling sheet of water which is popularly
called "Webster Lake," from the fact
that Daniel Webster, all through his
lifetime, was often found fishing in its
waters. But Webster gave to this gem
of a pond the poetic appellation. Lake
Como, from its resemblance to the
picturesque lake in Italy by that name.
At East Andover and along the bor-
der of Highland Lake, the upward
bound train runs due southwest for a
time, and directly towards the village
of Contoocookville in Hopkinton, but
it soon swings to the right and passes
up the Blackvvater valley between
Kearsarge and Ragged mountains. It
spins along with lightning speed, giv-
ing the alert passenger a bare glimpse
of the famous notch at Beetle village,
thence onward, passing the coal-kilns
on Smith's river, through the deep
excavation at Orange Heights, and
reaching the " city of the plain" (East
Canaan) at noon.
At the Cardigan House in this cleanly
village, dinner and a team were ready
on our arrival. My friend (Mr. B.)
having ascended the mountain some
twenty years before this day, felt com-
petent to follow the scanty track un-
aided, and a proffered guide was re-
spectfully declined. Part way up the
mountain slope we pass a small ceme-
tery which is on the right, and a mile
further on we pass another, at the
"common," which is on the left.
These two cemeteries on the Orange
hills are well fenced and in complete
order. The graves of the departed
are generally marked by white marble
slabs. A comely, one-story edifice,
painted white and having green blinds,
standing between these two " cities of
the dead," is the Orange church,
where not only " the poor have the
gospel preached to them," but the rich
as well. This church stands on a
table-land and commands a broad and
magnificent view to the south and west.
There is no house or other building
near it. We enter this sacred temple
on the mountain, as bolts and bars are
not required in that moral atmosphere
to preserve it from desecration. As-
cending the preacher's desk, and open-
ing an ancient bible lying thereon, my
friend, reverently, and with great elocu-
tionary exactness, read the fifteenth
Psalm.
We pass on over broken ground and
deep chanViels cut by mountain streams
when swollen by the floods ; pass the
mica or isinglass quarries, and reach
the terminus of the carriage road.
Here is a small farm occupied by a
large family. As we reached this place
a slight rain came on, and the thought-
ful lady of the house said :
" You better put you horse into the
barn ! "
" Pray, madam, where is your barn ? "
" Oh, you are in it now ; but we call
this side the house, and the other side
the ham! "
The sun emerges from the vapory
clouds, and, in tropical heat, we toil
up the devious way. Just before leav-
ing a wooded ravine and coming out
upon the silver-grey ledges forming
A TRIP TO CARDIGAN— ELISHA PAYNE.
II
the summit of the mountain, our burn-
ing thirst is quenched at a spring as
clear and refreshing as the waters of
Meribah.
Cardigan Hfts its silvery head 3100
feet above the sea level. A vast area
of smooth, grey rock (embracing hun-
dreds of acres) crowns the summit of
this elevation, and the visitor can go
from point to point in making obser-
vations, without hindrance. The first
thing that we discovered, in our ascent,
after getting above the region of trees
and foliage, was a small flock of sheep
standing like silent sentinels on the
crest of the mountain. They had
sought refuge here from the armies of
insects and the excessive heat which
prevailed on less elevated positions.
We saw no other living thing on that
bald height. The day was all we
could ask, the air was clear, and ihe
views in every direction were extensive
and inspiring. Mountains, lakes and
shaded valleys made a landscape never
to be forgotten.
We descended the mountain. At
its base we made a detour to visit the
site vvhereon stood the dwelling-house
and farm-buildings of Col. Elisha
Payne, which were erected six or seven
years above a century ago. The his-
tory of this remarkable man, — though
but little known, — is of deep and
thrilling interest. He was born and
reared in the state of Connecticut, and
he probably graduated at Yale College.
His birth occurred in 1731, the year
before that of Washington. The town-
ship of Cardigan was granted Feb. 6,
1769, by the provincial governor of
New Hampshire, under the authority
of the king, in one hundred and two
equal parts. Each of the one hun-
dred and one proprietors had one
part, and a glebe for the church of
England constituted the other part.
The grantees were Elisha Payne, Isaac
Fellows and ninety-nine others. The
first settlements in this township were
made in 1773, by Payne, Silas Harris,
Benjamin Shaw, David Fames and
Capt. Joseph Kenney. Payne at this
time was forty-two years of age. The
town was incorporated by the name
of Orange, in June, 1 790. Payne
went back into the dense wilderness,
far beyond the reach of any human
habitation, and selected a swell of
good, strong land for his farm, near the
base of the mountain. The old cellar
(28x30 feet) remains, but the place
was deserted and the buildings were
removed long years ago.
Payne was a trustee of Dartmouth
College from 1784 to 1 801, and was
its treasurer in 1779 and 1780. His
connection with the college explains
the fact, that when the small-pox broke
out at Dartmouth, subsequent to i 780,
the afflicted students were carried to
this remote and lonely mountain-seat
for treatment. Payne had removed to
East Lebanon, and setded on the shore
of Mascoma Lake, before this occur-
rence. Several of the students died
and were buried, but no stone marks
the place of their peacefiil rest. The
Payne house, from this time forward,
was called the Pest House, and was
used as such, at a later day, by the
authorities of Orange.
Payne had a son (Elisha Payne, Jr.)
who graduated at Dartmouth, and who
was a man of character and ability.
He was the first lawyer to open an
office in Lebanon. This office was at
East Lebanon, which was then the
chief village in that town. He served
in both branches of the legislature of
this state, but died at the early age of
about forty-five.
Elisha Payne, senior, was a man of
strong mind and great decision of
character. He was the leader, on the
east side of the Connecticut river, in
the scheme to dismember New Hamp-
shire and annex a tract, some twenty
miles in width, to Vermont. July 13,
1778, he was chosen, under the stat-
utes of Vermont, a justice of the peace
for the town of Cardigan, in a local
town-meeting held that day. He was
a member of the " Cornish Conven-
tion " of 1778, and of the "Charlestown
Convention" in 1781. He was represent-
ative from Cardigan in the Vermont
legislature, under the first union, in
1778, and was representative from
Lebanon, under the second union, in
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THE GRANITE MONTHLY.
April, I 78 1. In October of the same
year, he was chosen Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor of Vermont, by the legislature of
that state, then in session at Gharles-
town, New Hampshire. In this legis-
lature, fifty-seven towns west of the
Connecticut and forty-five towns on
the New Hampshire side of that river
were represented.
The details of these singular trans-
actions cannot be given in this article.
They would occupy too much space.
[See History of Warner.] It is enough
to say here, that when the bitter and
prolonged strife between the two ju-
risdictions, (New Hampshire and Ver-
mont) was nearing the crisis, and
Bingham and Gandy of Chesterfield
had been arrested by Vermont officials
for resisting the authority of that state,
and thrown into jail at Charlestown,
and Col. Enoch Hale, the sheriff of
Cheshire County, had proceeded under
orders from the President and Council
of New Hampshire, to release them,
and had been seized and summarily
committed to the same jail, and the
militia of New Hampshire had been
put on a war footing to rescue Hale
and the other prisoners at Charlestown,
Governor Chittenden of Vermont,
commissioned Elisha Payne of Leba-
non (the lieutenant-governor) as briga-
dier-general, and appointed him to
take command of the militia of that
state, to call to his aid Generals Fletcher
and Olcott and such of the field offi-
cers on the east side of the Green
Mountains as he thought proper, and
to be prepared to oppose force to force.
But, bloodshed was happily averted.
The Continental Congress took hostile
ground against the scheme to dismem-
ber New Hampshire, and Gen. Wash-
ington put his foot upon it. In this
dilemma the authorities of Vermont,
for the sake of self-preservation, relin-
quished their claim to any part of New
Hampshire, and in February, 1782,
the second union between the disaf-
fected towns on the west side of this
state and Vermont came to an end.
In addition to the offices already
named, Payne held that of chief jus-
tice of the supreme court of his cher-
ished state (Vermont), a state then
stretching from the head-waters of the
Pemigewasset to Lake Champlain.
After a life of adventure, of strange
vicissitude, of startling success and
crushing defeat, Elisha Payne quietly
fell asleep in East Lebanon, at the age
of seventy-six years. He was buried
in the unpretending cemetery near his
place of residence in that village. His
wife, a number of his children, and
other members of the family, — in all.
seven persons, — were inurned in the
same cemetery-lot, but about a quarter of
a century ago, in the late fall, there came
a fearful storm, and the gentle brook
whose course lies along the border of
this receptacle for the dead, suddenly
became a rushing torrent, and, break-
ing from its channel, swept in among
the quiet sleepers and carried away
most that remained of the Payne fam-
ily. Winter closed in, but the next
Spring such bones as had not found a
lodgment at the bottom of Mascoma
Lake, as it is usually called, were gath-
ered up — all put into one box and re-
deposited in the earth in another part
of the cemetery, whereon has been
erected, by family relatives, a substan-
tial and appropriate monument. And
so ends the story of a life of stern
conflict and romantic incident.
ANCESTRY OF GEN. J. A. GARFIELD.
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ANCESTRY OF GEN. J. A. GARFIELD.
BY L. P. DODGE.
Two hundred and fifty years liave
come and gone, since Edward Garfield,
the first of the name in America, left
Chester, England, and landing at. or near
Boston, settled in Watertown ; and
there in the beautiful cemetery of the
town, lie buried five of his descendants.
There is a tradition in the family that
he was married to a German lady, on
the passage out ; but this is apocryphal,
and in fact the record of the ensuing
one hundred and fifty years is confined
to the half obliterated histories upon the
mouldering headstones standing over
their mossy graves. Then, in 1766,
Solomon Garfield, the general's great
grandfather, was married to a widow,
Mrs. Sarah Stimpson, and moved to
Weston, Mass., where he remained
until the close of the Revolutionary
war — in which he bore an active part —
when, gathering his household Gods, he
joined one of the many parties migrat-
ing to central New York, and moved to
Worcester, Otsego county, bought land,
made a clearing and reared his family.
Solomon Garfield's son, Thomas, the
grandfather of Gen. Garfield, arrived at
the years of manhood, married in the
town of Worcester, managed, like his
father, to wrest a scanty living from the
obdurate soil, and died in 1801, leav-
ing four children, Abram, the young-
est — and the General's father — being
only two years of age. This son was
bound out to a relative of his mother's,
living near them, named Stone, and by
him treated as one of his family. At the
age of fifteen — a sturdy broad-should-
ered young man — he left his home with
Mr. Stone, and went to vSt. Lawrence
county, N.Y., where he obtained employ-
ment on a farm, remaining there three
years, emigrating thence to Newburg,
Ohio, where he was engaged in chop-
ping, and clearing land for the next three
years ; and in 1820 pushed on to Zanes-
ville, Ohio, where a settlement had al-
ready been started by some of his old
friends from Otsego county, among
whom was the family of Ballou, with
whose children he had been intimate in
New York, attending the same school,
and sharing their sports, and soon
after his arrival, on the 3d of Feb.,
1820, he was married to Eliza Ballou,
the mother of Gen. J. A. Garfield.
Some fifty years subsequent to the
arri\al of Edward Garfield at Water-
town, Mass., the revocation of the Edict
of Nantes drove to our'shores a party of
French protestants who settled in Cum-
berland, R. L The acknowledged
leader of this colony was Maturin Bal-
lou, who caused the erection of a meet-
ing house, in which for years he preach-
ed the pure faith of the Huguenots.
As they had neither nails, nor saw-mills
in those days, the building was con-
structed of hewn oak, the exterior cov-
ered with shingles, and the whole
fastened by pins, and remaining as per-
fect to-day as when first constructed.
From this eloquent divine is descended
that celebrated family whose names
have been so distinguished in the an-
nals of theology, jurisprudence and
statesmanship, and who as a race have
been remarkable in the possesion of an
energy, and force of character which
has lost nothing in its transmission to
the soldier-statesman, the subject of
this sketch. 1\\ 1770, Maturin Ballou,
a grandson of the French refugee, left
the settlement at Rhode IsUind, and
moved to Richmond, N. H., where he
was ordained pastor of the Baptist
church ; his youngest son, Hosea, the
founder of Universalism in America,
was born in this town the same year.
The house in which he was born has
long since been numbered among the
things that were, its successor stand-
ing upon the same site being now owned
and occupied by Mr. Noah Perry. El-
der Maturin Ballou, the Baptist pastor,
is buried near the old homestead, a
rough stone bearing the initials M. B.,
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THE GRANITE MONTHLY.
alone marking the spot where he
sleeps. He was accompanied from
Rhode Island, to Richmond, by his
cousin James Ballou, who bought a
farm in the east part of the town, near
the Massachusetts line, and on this farm,
in i8oi,was born Eliza Ballou, the moth-
er of Gen. Garfield. The house in which
she was born, judging from the area of
the foundation ruins, was about fifteen
feet by twenty, one story in height ;
but of this nothing is left, save frag-
ments of the cellar walls, and these are
so overgrown with trees, bushes and
briars, as to be almost obscured ; a
birch tree eight inches in diameter is
growing in one corner of the cellar,
and some twenty feet to the south-east
of the house, 'neath an old half decay-
ed apple tree, may be traced the out-
lines of the well, like the cellar walls,
covered with a thick growth of shrub
and bushes. In the rear of these rel-
ics was the orchard, once a field of two
or three acres, now a half tnicket of
thrifty pines and birch, interspersed
with a few moss covered mournful look-
ing apple trees, whose withered branch-
es in the fading twilight seem
spectre guardians of the desolate ruins.
The property is now owned by Dennis
Harkness, P^sq., and forms a portion of
his farm. James Ballou resided on this
place until 1808, when he moved to a
farm near the center of the town, now
owned by Mr. Roscoe Weeks ; this
place being on the then main road
from Boston, via Concord to Windsor,
Vt. ; he opened a store upon the premi-
ses and combined merchandising with
his farming operations, achieving a
remarkable degree of success, and there
continuing until his death in 18 12,
when his widow, disposing of the prop-
erty, emigrated to Otsego county, N.
Y., and settled in the town of Worces-
ter, in which place several of her Rich-
mond friends were already located, and
where Eliza Ballou and Abram Garfield
first met as school children. James
Ballou is supposed to have been bur-
ied in the large cemetery near his
place ; but a careful examination fails
to furnish any reliable data ; any one
of the half dozen weather-beaten, half
defaced slabs of slate, standing near
where other Ballous are laid, may be
his ; but it is involved in too much of
doubt and obscruity to be stated for a
fact. He was generally known among
his townsmen as Conjurer Ballou, and
obtained a high reputation among them
as a fortune-teller, his predictions, or
guesses, being remarkable for their ac-
curacy ; he even foretold the hour of his
own death, and his prophetic soul sail-
ed out o'er the unknown sea, on the
day appointed. Some ten years ago
Gen. Garfield and his mother visited
Richmond, and at the Weeks house,
she pointed out the room in which her
father died. At the ruins of his birth-
place, the General found some bits
of broken pottery, which he carefully
cherished as a memento of his mother's
early home. The old storehouse at
the Weeks place, was torn down forty
years ago ; the turnpike road having
been changed there was no encourage-
ment to keep it up. The house is a
one story, unpainted, common looking
structure, with nothing in its architec-
ture or surroundings to arouse interest
or attract attention ; in a few years,
when it shall have crumbled to decay,
its site may become a modern Mecca,
but not till then. A younger brother of
fames Ballou, named Silas, lived and
died on a farm, near the birth-place of
Mrs. Garfield ; he was a sailor until he
was twenty-one, and it is perhaps from
him that Gen. Garfield acquired his
early love of the sea. At the time that
Silas left the briny deep he was unable
to read or write, and a sneering remark
in relation to his ignorance acted as an
incentive, and caused him, all unaided
as he was, to procure an excellent edu-
cation ; SA a mathematician he was su-
perior to any with whom he came in
contact, even compiling an algebra of
examples all his own. In addition to
his other acquirements he wrote a
number of patriotic songs ; one of them
written for a townsman, a Mr. Cook, and
sang by him among his friends, began
as follows :
" Old Englaiirl forty years ago,
WIr'u we were young and slender,
Aimed at us a inortai lilow,
But God was our defender."
ENSNARED.
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And another, alluding to the early
settlers of the town :
" JlMitiiis, Coiiks, Knllons, iind Hnyces,
H:irkiU'ss, HowiMi, lioorii and Stone,
I'liiisc the I,i)r 
