Memorial encyclopedia of the state of New Hampshire;

ill

Gc M. L;

974.2

M51e

1214169

GENEALOGY COLLECTION

3 1833 01085 8675

JMcmorial encyclopedia

of the

State of JVcw Rarnpsbirc

Under the Editorial Supervision of
COL. JAMES A. ELLIS

Historian of The American Historical Society

Assisted bji
A Staff of Experienced Qenealogical and Biographical Writers

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY

INCORPORATED

BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO

1919

iforetDorD

EACH one of us is "the heir of all the
ages, in the foremost files of time."
We build upon the solid founda-
tions laid by the strenuous efforts of the
fathers who have gone before us. Noth-
ing is more fitting, and indeed more
important, than that we should famil-
iarize ourselves with their work and
personality; for it is they who have
lifted us up to the lofty positions from
which we are working out our separate
careers. "Lest we forget," it is impor-
tant that we gather up the fleeting mem-
ories of the past and give them perma-
nent record in well-chosen words of
biography, and in such reproduction of
the long lost faces as modern science
makes possible.

Col. James A. Ellis.

12141G9

JToretDort

'HE historic spirit faithful to the record; the discerning judg--
ment, unmoved by prejudice and uncolored by undue enthu-
siasm, are as essential in giving the life of the individual
person as in wrriting the history of a people. The world
to-day is what the leading men of the last generation have
made it. From the past has come the legacy of the present.
Art, science, statesmanship, government, as well as advanced
industrial and commercial prosperity, are accumulations. They constitute
an inheritance upon which the present generation has entered, and the
advantages secured from so vast a bequeathment depend entirely upon the
fidelity with which is conducted the study of the lives of those who have
transmitted the legacy.

In every community there have been found men who were leaders in
thought and action, and who have marked the passing years with large and
worthy achievement. They have left definite impress in public, professional,
industrial, commercial, and other lines of endeavor that touch the general
welfare. They have wrought well and have left a valuable heritage to pos-
terity.

The State of New Hampshire afifords a peculiarly interesting field for
such research. Her soil has been the scene of events of importance and the
home of some of the most illustrious men of the nation. Her sons have shed
luster upon her name in every profession, and wherever they have dispersed
they have been a power for ideal citizenship and good government. The
province of the present publication is that of according due recognition to
such leading and representative citizens, who have thus honored their State
or community. Such a work cannot but have a large and intrinsic value,
both in its historic utility and in the interest attaching to its subject-matter.

The American Historical Society, Inc.

w^

WILLIAM K. CHANDLER

Hon* IKilltam €. Cljanliler

N THE active national affairs of the country in the latter part
of the nineteenth century, William E. Chandler was identi-
fied and participated in all of the important legislations of
that period. He was born in Concord, New Hampshire,
December 28, 1835, son of Nathan S. and Mary A. Chandler.
He was educated at the Academy of Thetford, Vermont,
and Pembroke, New Hampshire, and was graduated at the
Harvard Law School in 1854. In 1856 he was admitted to the bar and
began practice in Concord, identifying himself with the Republican party,
which was organized that year. He was appointed law reporter of the
New Hampshire Supreme Court in 1859, and published five volumes of the
reports.

He was elected a member of the State Legislature in 1862, and was
Speaker of the House in 1864-65. He was engaged by the Navy Depart-
ment in the latter part of 1864 as special counsel in the Navy Yard frauds,
and his conduct in the matter led to his appointment by President Lincoln
as First Solicitor and Judge Advocate-General of the Navy Department.
From June 17, 1865, to November 30, 1867, he was first assistant to Hugh
McCulloch, Secretary of the Treasury. After his resignation he practiced
law in New Hampshire and Washington, D. C.

He was elected a delegate-at-large to the National Republican Conven-
tion in 1868, and was subsequently chosen secretary of the national com-
mittee, holding the position during President Grant's administration.
Meanwhile he had become part owner of the largest interest in the "States-
man," a weekly, and the "Monitor," a daily Republican paper of New Hamp-
shire. In 1876 he was a member of the New Hampshire convention which
met to revise the State Constitution. In 1880 he was elected a delegate to
the Chicago National Convention, He was nominated by President Gar-
field as Solicitor-General in the Department of Justice, but on account of his
radical views on the southern question his confirmation was opposed by
Attorney-General McVeagh and by all the Democratic Senators, and was
rejected on May 20 by a majority of five votes. He was elected a member
of the New Hampshire Legislature in 1880, and served during 1881. On
April 7, 1882, he was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Arthur,
and served until March 7, 1885, making many notable improvements in that
department. He almost entirely reconstructed the complex and expensive
systems of conducting the navy, and brought about the beginning of a
modern navy by building four new cruisers. In 1884 he organized the
Greely Relief Expedition. He was elected to the United States Senate on
June 14, 1887, to fill the unexpired term of Austin F. Pike, which ended
March 3, 1889, and was reelected in 1889, 1895, and 1901. He was president
of the Spanish Treaty Claims Commission.

2 !|)on. mnUam OB. Chandler

William E. Chandler was a man of national prominence; his senatorial
career was marked with a strict application to business, he always having
at heart the interests of his State. As a cabinet official, the Navy received
in him a head fully competent to manage all the details of that trying posi-
tion. His genial disposition, his courteous manner, and ever-willing help
to assist others in their difficulties, won him the friendship and love of his
subordinates. It was, however, as president of the Spanish Treaty Claims
Commission that he became an international figure; his astute business
training, his conception of details and his industry, were all qualifications
that fitted him for this important position.

Senator Chandler's home life was ideal; he ever had the respect and
confidence of the citizens of his native city, and enjoyed every minute spent
in their midst when seeking recreation from the arduous duties of his
national positions. His death occurred at Concord, New Hampshire,
November 30, 1917. Many were the condolences of sympathy received by
his surviving relatives. To the citizens of his State it was not a national
personality that had passed away, but that a dear friend and neighbor was
no longer to greet them with the everready hand of friendship and a smile of
welcome. Though a national figure was forevermore silent, it was those
who were deprived of his daily intercourse and associations who realized
the void thus created.

Hon. 3(acob J|. (S^allinser

HE Hon. Jacob H. Gallinger, late United States Senator from
New Hampshire, was born near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada,
March 28, 1837, the son of Jacob and Catherine (Cook) Gal-
linger. He received an academic education, after which he
first learned the trade of printer, and then took a course at
a medical institute in Cincinnati, Ohio, graduating in 1858.
After studying abroad two years, he returned to the United
States, locating at Concord, New Hampshire, where he engaged in the prac-
tice of medicine and surgery. He soon gained a large and lucrative practice
that extended beyond the limits of his residential State.

A Republican in politics, he was elected to the House of Representatives
of New Hampshire in 1872, 1873 and 1891, and was a member of the State
Constitutional Convention of 1876. In the latter he distinguished himself
by advocating and securing the submission of important amendments to
the State Constitution, which were ratified by the people. He served in ,the
State Senate from 1878 to 1880, being president of that body in the two
latter years. He was Surgeon-General with the rank of Brigadier-General
of the National Guard of New Hampshire in 1879-1880. As chairman of
the Republican State Committee from 1882 to 1890, he stamped himself by
his services a political manager of great ability and shrewdness. He
resigned this position in 1890, but served again in that capacity from 1900
to 1908, when he again tendered his resignation. He was chairman of the
New Hampshire delegation in the Republican National Convention, in 1888,
held at Chicago, Illinois, and seconded by speech the nomination of General
Benjamin Harrison for president. He attended the Republican National
Conventions of 1900, 1904 and 1908, and was a member of the Republican
National Committee from 1902 to 1904. He was chairman of the Merchant
Marine Commission of 1904-05.

Senator Gallinger's career as a national legislator commenced when he
was elected to the Forty-ninth Congress, and he was reelected to the suc-
ceeding Congress. He took a leading part in debate, served on important
committees, but declined a renomination in 1888. The term of Henry W.
Blair as United States Senator expired March 3, 1891, and Mr, Gallinger
was elected to succeed him, taking his seat March 4, 1891. He was reelected
to the United States Senate, and was serving his sixth consecutive term at
the time of his death. He was a prominent member of the committees on
appropriations, finance, rules, printing, besides many others.

Mr. Gallinger received the degree of M. D. from the Medical Institute
of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1858, also from the New York Homoeopathic Medical
College in 1868, and that of A. M. from Dartmouth College in 1885.

He married, in August, i860, Mary Anna Bailey, of Salisbury, New
Hampshire. His death occurred at his summer home, Franklin, NewHamp-
shire, August 17, 1918.

4 ^on. 3[acoIi 1^. 0al linnet

Senator GalHnger was a ready and graceful writer, and a speaker of
much power and influence, being one of the most popular and successful
campaign orators in New England. His high talents and affable and engag-
ing address won him exceptional popularity in his adopted State, and pro-
cured him success in the broad field of national politics.

As a parliamentarian, Senator Gallinger was recognized by his col-
leagues as an authority. His senatorial career was marked by diligent
industry; his work on the various committees to which he was assigned was
faithfully attended to in every detail. A staunch political partisan, his voice
was ever raised in support of the doctrines and principles of the Republican
party. Though of foreign birth, he was an ideal patriot; he was ever, in
thought and action, for the furtherance of his adopted country's interests
not only at home but abroad. Senator Gallinger was a strong supporter of
President Wilson when it became necessary to take war measures against
Germany. He was always at the aid of the President in the various measures
for the creation of a war force and the country preparedness for the event
that was to place the country in the first place among the nations of the
world.

The death of Senator Gallinger removes a familiar figure from the walks
of Washington. For over a quarter of a century he made his home at the
National Capital, spending but a few months in the summer season at his
country home in his adopted State. In his death the country lost a faithful
official, and his resident State one of her most worthy and useful citizens.

I^^rberl iFrrmonl (IIl|aB?r

Herbert JTremont Cfjaper

ERBERT FREMONT THAYER long held distinctive pres-
tige in a calling that requires for its basis sound mentality,
supplemented by a good, thorough professional training,
without which one cannot hope to rise above the mediocre.
The life of this gentleman affords a striking example of a
well defined purpose, with the ability to make that purpose
subserve not only his own ends but the good of his fellow-
men as well. In addition to his creditable career, he proved himself an
honorable member of those energetic men of affairs, whose united labors
have built up the wonderful structure of New England's commercial devel-
opment. His honor and integrity were unimpeached, while his sense of
justice was sure and broad. The entire life of Mr. Thayer was an active
one, and yet however actively he pushed his business operations it was never
at the expense of the precepts of the stern New England morality or dictates
of conscience. In all respects he was a model man, and his death, which
occurred at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, July 4, 1901, was uni-
versally regarded as the greatest personal loss his city could experience. In
his passing away, Manchester lost a man of spotless integrity, fair and
candid in all his judgments, and generous and charitable to all. Joined
with strong intellectual powers were rare courage and tremendous energy,
and nothing seemed to dishearten him. He trod the path of life manly in
all his ways, with an ever enlarging circle of friends, whose respect and
deep esteem for himself increased with their intimacy and their knowledge
of his achievements. The man who achieves success by well directed efforts
of his own natural abilities and strength of character is a type which has
from time immemorial ever appealed with peculiar force to us all. The New
England States have acquired a well deserved reputation for the large num-
ber of keen, progressive men which she has sent out in all directions, and
the subject of this memoir may justly be placed in this class of men, and he
was a fine instance of the man who can be trusted at all times and with
whom it was a satisfaction to transact business. The personality of Mr.
Thayer is one that will not be forgotten by the great host of those who called
him friend, and his manner was frank and open, and he instantly won the
confidence of those with whom he came in contact.

The birth of Herbert Fremont Thayer occurred in Manchester, New
Hampshire, September 13, 1854. the son of David and Sarah (Durgin)
Thayer, who were the parents of two sons: Charles S., who died in May,
1910, and Edgar A., of Manchester. His father, David Thayer, was a native
of Boston. Herbert Fremont Thayer received his education in the public
schools of Manchester, and upon the completion of his schooling engaged
in the tailoring business in his native city. He became associated with
J. B. Handy, under the firm name of Handy & Thayer, and this partnership

6 f^ttbttt iFtemont Cbaper

extended over a long period of years. Later in life Mr. Thayer formed a
partnership with Edwin Adams, under the name of Adams & Thayer, the
business being located in the Shaw Block. In all his business relations, Mr.
Thayer maintained that high standard of justice and fair dealing which his
name ever stood for. The moral principles which he held he strove to
translate into the terms of common every-day conduct that they might
become a practical guide in life. His code of ethics was high and strict, but
no one could call it harsh or puritanic as applied to anyone but himself. For
other men and their shortcomings he had the readiest charity and tolerance,
a tolerance which won for him not only the respect but the affection of all
those who entered into even the most casual relations with him. He was a
man of large heart and a wide familiarity with life and the world-at-large.
His thought and consideration for others extended beyond the boundaries
of his own home and embraced all who were associated wath him. This
example of personal good will and good cheer was without doubt a far more
valuable one than any he could have exerted in the capacity of a consistent
business man or even as a faithful public servant, and it is this above all
things that should be preserved in the records for those who come after him
to note with admiration.

In his political belief Mr. Thayer was a Republican, but a voter only,
as he never aspired to hold public office. It was in the realm of fraternal
orders that he was perhaps better know, as he was affiliated with several
lodges, holding membership in Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, Washington Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Mt.
Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Adoniram Council, Royal and Select
Masters, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar. Mr. Thayer's whole-
some love of human fellowship was a dominant characteristic, and he always
rejoiced to feel that others were enjoying themselves about him, and his
rejoicing was as spontaneous and free as that of childhood. He was a man
whom it was a pleasure to know, and whose pleasing manner always
impressed all those with whom he came in contact.

On December 25, 1879, Herbert Fremont Thayer was united in marriage
with Minnie Frances Hoyt, a daughter of William G. and Ellen O. (Paul)
Hoyt. of Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Thayer was a man of domestic
tastes, devoted to his wife, and finding in the precincts of his home his great-
est pleasure and contentment. The traditions of good citizenship and the
reputation of substantial, honorable business dealings established by Mr.
Thayer are being well maintained by those who have come after him. It is
fitting to close this memoir with the beautiful tribute rendered to Mr.
Thayer by his fellow-members of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar,
which reads as follows:

Again an alarm has sounded at the door of our Asylum and the visitor is the grim
messenger, "Death," whose approach was almost unheralded, and whose departure left
desolation and woe in his path.

Scarcely three moons have waxed and waned since Herbert Fremont Thayer sat
among us, a most pleasing personality, of most honorable birth, with a heart beating
high with hope and purpose for the future, wherein achievement richly won should fill up
the measure of a useful and honorable life, — to-day, cut down in the fullness of middle

^tttett jFremont C&aper 7

life, his body rests in the Valley of the City of his birth, and though the tender grass is
carpeting the mound above him, where loving hands, in tender memory, place beautiful
flowers, whose breath goes up as the incense of love, yet he revives not at these mani-
festations of beauty and of love. "The silver cord is loosed, the golden bowl is broken,
and the Spirit has returned to God who gave it."

How mysterious are the councils of Death ! How strange that through this
mysterious portal all must pass who would gain the realms of light and blessedness and
peace. The passing beyond of our beloved Sir Knight was like the lying down to sleep
and pleasant dreams, surrounded by those that he loved best of all on earth, and for
whose sweet love he fain would stay. Yet he responded to the call of his Commander
like a valiant Knight, true and with fortitude undaunted as he had lived, so he died with
his armor on.

"His work was not done, yet his Column is broken,
Mourn ye and weep, for ye cherish his worth ;
Let every teardrop be sympathy's token.
Lost to the Brotherhood, lost to the Earth."

Whereas, Our Heavenly Father has removed from our midst our beloved Sir
Knight, Herbert Fremont Thayer; therefore.

Resolved, That in the death of Sir Knight Thayer, Capitular Masonry and the
Fraternity generally has lost a courteous, valiant, and accomplished member of this
magnanimous Order, and the social and business circles of our city a just, genial, upright
and much respected citizen.

^laailltam (S. Hopt

'HE memory of William G. Hoyt is cherished by the city of
Manchester, New Hampshire, as one of those whom she
delights to honor. He was one of the "old-time residents"
of that city, who moved there when it was but a village, and
he lived to see one of the most prosperous and thriving com-
munities the sun shines upon spring up, as it were, and grow
more and more fair and beautiful. The death of Mr. Hoyt,
which occurred at his home, at No. 96 Walnut street, Manchester, New
Hampshire, January 29, 1893, was deeply mourned in the community, for his
attractive personality had gained for him many friends from the various
walks of life. He was a true citizen, interested in all those enterprises
which meditated the moral improvement and social culture of the com-
munity. His leading characteristics might perhaps be stated as indomitable
perseverance, an unusual capacity for judging the motives and merits of
men, strict integrity and an unswerving loyalty. He was fortunate to sur-
round himself with faithful friends, whose admiration for his abilities was
surpassed only by their deep respect for his sterling qualities and by the
affection which his many lovable traits of character never failed to inspire.
Mr. Hoyt became one of the best known residents of Manchester, New
Hampshire, enjoying the respect and confidence of the business world, and
the friendship of those whom he met socially. He made for himself an envi-
able reputation as a man of business, straightforward and reliable under all
circumstances, and he was always endeavoring to please his patrons. Mr.
Hoyt stands to-day in the memory of his associates as one of the most highly
esteemed figures in the generation just passed, a man who consistently stood
for the best and most worthy things in the community. Men of his calibre
never compromise with the evil that is to be found in all communities, but
may be counted upon to foster and support all such movements as tend to
the advancement of the common weal, whether materially or in the realm of
ethics, education and general enlightenment.

The birth of William G. Hoyt occurred in Sanbornton, New Hamp-
shire. April 8, 1821, and he was therefore at the time of his death almost
seventy-two years of age. His boyhood days were passed upon a farm, and
his education was obtained in the country schools of that locality. Mr.
Hoyt left the farm at an early age and took up his residence in Concord,
New Hampshire, where for a number of years he drove a stage between
Concord and Nashua, New Hampshire, making his stopping place in Man-
chester, New Hampshire, at Shepard's Old Tavern. In the latter years of
his life, Mr. Hoyt had many an interesting experience to relate of those
early stage-coach days. Like others engaged in a similar capacity, Mr.
Hoyt soon found that upon the advent of the railroads the glory of staging
speedily departed. About this time, which was in 1845, he removed to

Utlliam (S. ^|0Ht

Manchester, and became connected with his father, who had opened the
famous old Amoskeag- Hotel in that city. Mr. Hoyt's business relations
dated from the infancy of Manchester as a city. At that time all the mill
interests were located on the west side of the river, in the vicinity of Amos-
keag. After some experience in the Amoskeag Hotel. Mr. Hoyt started in
the livery stable business, which he soon after relinquished to engage in the
furniture business. He opened a large furniture warehouse in the old
Arcade Building, which in the olden times was located at the corner of
Amherst and Elm streets, and later admitted A. O. Parker into the business
as a partner, the firm name becoming Hoyt & Parker. During the year
1865, Mr. Hoyt sold out his interest to his partner, Mr. Parker, and in 1866
took charge of the City Hall Stables. In 1868 he resumed the furniture
business in the Central Block and followed that occupation for several years,
during which time he met with success, and retired in 1872. His career from
start to finish was characterized by much hard work and persistent expendi-
ture of energy, and the substantial position that he came to occupy in the
life of the community, which he had adopted, was the obvious and appro-
priate reward of application and mental qualifications of a high order. Mr.
Hoyt had always been of a frugal nature, and his success in life was well
deserved, while the uniform happiness of his family relations and his life in
general were the result of his strong and fine personality.

Mr. Hoyt took a considerable part in the general life of the community,
and was keenly interested in all public affairs. From 1878 to 1880, he served
in the Common Council, and represented Ward Three in the State Legisla-
ture, in 1883, serving in both capacities with marked ability, also upon
important committees. He belonged to no fraternities and no clubs and his
time was well apportioned between his office and his home. He was never-
theless a conspicuous figure in Manchester, and always ready to do what he
might to advance the interests of the community in general. For many
years he was a member of the Amoskeag Veterans, and in his religious belief
was a Universalist, being an attendant of the church of that denomination
in Manchester, to which he was a liberal contributor.

Mr. Hoyt was a business man of discerning judgment and keen fore-
sight, and although his dealings extended over a long period of years, and
'touched hundreds of persons, nothing but adherence to the strictest princi-
ples of honor and integrity were ever attributed to him. The friends that he
made in business channels were among the best that lightened his life, for
even when greed frayed the moral fibre of those about him, he remained as
firm in his honorable course as though temptation had not come near, and
indeed it had not, for to such a character as his unfairness was incompre-
hensible. Mr. Hoyt retired from active business life in 1872, and thereafter
was engaged in looking after his property interests, which from time to time
he had accumulated.

Mr. Hoyt was a steady-going man of excellent judgment, and had
applied closeness of application to his work in life. He succeeded in busi-
ness and acquired a large property in legitimate ways. He seemed to com-
mand the respect of those who had known him, and he was highly regarded

lo mUUnm &, t^opt

by his neighbors. He never sought public honors, nor thrust himself for-
ward in public gatherings. He formed his own opinions, spoke and voted
them freely, frankly and fearlessly, held himself in readiness to assume any
place or trust to which his fellow-citizens assigned him, and to do his share
in anything that promised to promote the interests of his party, the Repub-
lican party, his city, his State or his country. He lived sensibly and well,
and he passed away at a ripe age, leaving to his family and friends the record
of a useful, successful and well-rounded life.

Mr. Hoyt's family was one of the most distinguished in the State of
New Hampshire, he being a direct descendant of Meschech Weare, the first
President of New Hampshire. In those days the governor was called the
president. The name of Hoyt has many variations, all coming from the
spelling Hoit. The members of this family are to be found in all the walks
of life, many in the learned professions, divinity, law and medicine. Mili-
tary titles are common among them, and in New Hampshire there were at
one time three generals named Hoyt. In the French, Indian and the Revo-
lutionary wars, the family took an active part, a large number serving as
soldiers and many thereby losing their lives. Mr. Hoyt's brother, Daniel J.
Hoyt, was a prominent physician, died young, aged twenty-eight.

William G. Hoyt married (first) Ellen O. Paul, of Concord, New
Hampshire, with whom he was united at the Amoskeag Hotel, January i,
1846. She died April 28, 1869, after bearing him two children, as follows:
I. Clara Ellen, who died December 20, 1908, and was the wife of William H.
Richmond, of Manchester. 2. Minnie Frances, who became the wife of
Herbert Fremont Thayer, of Manchester, whose memoir precedes this in this
volume. Mr. Hoyt married (second) Sarah F. Colby, April 6, 1871, and she
passed away October 21, 1873. One child was born to them, Mabel Colby,
who died September 24, 1878. Mr. Hoyt married (third) Sarah A. Colby,
November 5, 1874, and she died October 18, 1892. Mr. Hoyt's first wife
traced her lineage to noted Revolutionary stock, she being the daughter of
Captain Amos Paul, of Concord, who served in the patriotic army during the
War of 1812.

The integrity and honor of William G. Hoyt was never impeached
and this fact, combined with his genial manner, his courtesy and considera-
tion of all men, and a certain intrinsic manliness which showed in every
action and word, made him an extremely popular figure and won for him a
great host of friends, whose devotion he prized most highly. There was no
relation of life in which Mr. Hoyt did not play his part most worthily, and in
which he might not well serve as a model for any ambitious youth.

Barnes SRutlelige

HE mind and character of James Rutledge were cast in such
a mould as to inspire confidence and trust in those who came
in contact with him, and his personality was strong, positive
and independent. To do his duty as he saw it was his con-
stant aspiration and determination. His many friends
learned to prize him for his unassumed worth, and such
were the qualities and forces of his character that in any
calling or even under adverse conditions he would have occupied a com-
manding position. The record of his achievements both in the time of war
and in general business was extended and honorable. He was a gentleman
in the highest and loftiest meaning of that term, and his life has shown what
honesty combined with brains and hard work can accomplish. If one were
called upon to select a career that might serve as a model for the youth of the
coming generations, he could do no better than to take that of Mr. Rutledge,
whose entire life, presenting as it did characteristics of a more gracious time,
now alas passing, might well serve to leaven the somewhat thoughtless and
careless customs of our own day. His death, which occurred at his home in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, April 28, 1903, left a gap in the life of the
community which, despite the years which have elapsed, is still unfilled. It
is undeniably true that every one of us shudders at the idea of war and prays
to be delivered from it, and yet it is equally the fact that there is scarcely any
one who does not feel a thrill awakened by the courageous, firm, self-sacri-
ficing figures of those men who heard their country's call, and who showed
themselves worthy of command during the turmoil of national emergency.
The death of Mr. Rutledge marked the passing away of such a figure, a man
well known and well beloved in his community, one who had dealt in the
things of both war and peace, and was not found wanting in either.

The birth of James Rutledge occurred in Newcastle, England, March
19, 1840, the son of Arthur and Nancy (Hunter) Rutledge, both of whom
were highly respected natives of England. It is a well known fact that the
city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is greatly indebted to men of foreigii
birth, who have at various times of her eventful history settled there, and
whose industry and ability, through a succession of years, have added mate-
rially to gain for the community wealth and importance, and to this class
of men Mr. Rutledge most naturally took his place. Upon leaving his coun-
try to come to America he chose Portsmouth as his place of destination, and
shortly after his arrival, he obtained employment in the cloth mills there.
When his adopted country called for volunteers in the Civil War, Mr. Rut-
ledge's enthusiasm was aroused, and he answered the call for arms by enlist-
ing in Company K, Second Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers.
He proved to be a gallant and fearless soldier, and served during three years
of the war. At the second battle of Bull Run he suffered a sunstroke, which

12 3[ame0 EutleDge

greatly undermined his health. On December i, 1868, Mr. Rutledge had a
stroke of paralysis, caused from this sunstroke, and this greatly handi-
capped him during the remainder of his life.

After being mustered out of the service and honorably discharged, Mr.
Rutledge decided to return to his adopted city of Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, to enter into the business world. Accordingly he engaged in the cafe
business on Bridge street, which he conducted for a period of about twenty-
five years, until illness, which was due to his experiences in the Civil War,
compelled him to retire from all active business affairs. During the years
of his business activities in Portsmouth, Mr. Rutledge stood high among
the business men of the city, and was always considered a man of sterling
integrity, whose word was as good as his bond. Surely this is one of the
highest compliments that can be paid a business man, and Mr. Rutledge
rightly deserved it. His cafe on Bridge street became well known through-
out that region for its unusually fine table, which was always amply pro-
vided with viands excellently cooked. Many prominent men were habitues
of the place, and those who once became his customers rarely left him and
never unless obliged to do so for the most cogent reasons.

The progressive business man, if he be at the same time a citizen of
large and public spirit, remains even after his withdrawal from the activities
of the business world a power in the community, lending aid and force to all
that pertains to advancement and betterment. Mr. Rutledge was such a
man, and although he never participated in any way in active political
affairs, he was always ready to promote the best interests of Portsmouth,
his adopted city. In his political opinions he was a Republican, and ever
willing to assist with his advice, but preferred to give his time and attention
to the business interests which he had originated. By diligent application
of his powers, and the practice of the essential principles of commercial
integrity, Mr. Rutledge advanced steadily until he became one of the repre-
sentative business men of Portsmouth. He had many friends, and had the
remarkable faculty of keeping and retaining the friends that he made. He
was indeed a man of more than ordinary merit, and it is no wonder that he
possessed in a special manner the confidence of his fellow-men. For the
many years that he remained in Portsmouth, Mr. Rutledge was ever build-
ing up a large trade, winning the friendship of every one who dealt with
him, and retaining many of his customers throughout the entire period of
his business transactions there. He built up his own career, and the success
he attained came solely from his own efforts and ability.

Mr. Rutledge was a member of the General Gilman Marston Command,
U. V. U., of Portsmouth. His record in military life was a most honorable
and praiseworthy one. Many were the experiences he was enabled to relate
in connection with the terrible conflict between the North and South.

On June 19, 1867, James Rutledge was united in marriage with Annie
M. Lynch, of Boston, a daughter of John and Margaret (Coffield) Lynch.
Mr. and Mrs. Rutledge became the parents of nine children, as follows:
I. William H., deceased. 2. James H., was united in marriage with Myra
Sias, of East Boston, and they are the parents of two children, Arthur and

3[amed EutleOge 13

Harold R. Rutledge. 3. Arthur J,, married Georgia Rose, of Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, and they are the parents of one child, Bradley G. Rutledge.
4. Mabel A., became the wife of Edward L. Butler, of Portsmouth, and to
them was born one child, Theodore R. Butler. 5. Hugh Edward. 6. Carrie
M., became the wife of Alfred M. Barton, of Chester, Pennsylvania, and
they are the parents of two children, Virginia R. and Ruth M. Barton.
7. Lettie E., became the wife of Donald McDougall, of Springfield, Illinois;
Mr. and Mrs. McDougall are the parents of three children, namely: Helen,
Donald R. and Laura. 8. Annie M., became the wife of William Grover,
of Dover, New Hampshire, and they are the parents of two children, Muriel
R. and William Sherman Grover. 9. Laura J., became the wife of Thurston
A. Smart, of Portsmouth, and to them was born one child, Kennard R.
Smart. James Rutledge was devoted to his family, and was one of those
men to whom the ties of home and family are held as sacred.

For about six years previous to his death, Mr. Rutledge's health rapidly
failed, and for quite a while he required constant care and attention. This
was hard for him to bear, as he was of a temperament which craved to be
active, but he did not complain nor bemoan his fate. One of his aims in life
was to see that his wife and family had the best of everything, and it was
only natural that around his home he shed a benign influence which acted
as a ray of sunshine. He was never high-handed in his methods nor unjust
in his treatment of others. The rights of others he considered as sacred,
even more so than his own, and in all his dealings with his fellow-men he
was first and last a gentleman in the best sense of that splendid term. He
combined in very happy proportions the qualities of a practical business man
with those of the public-spirited one, whose thoughts are with the good of
the community. Throughout his long and worthy career Mr. Rutledge
never conducted his business so that it was anything but a benefit to all his
associates and to the community as well. These qualities gave him a host
of friends from every rank and class in society.

aionjo €llion

'ROB ABLY the greatest compliment that can be paid a man
is that he has made himself an honor to his nation in the
commercial, financial and manufacturing world, as well as
to the mercantile community in which he lived. Such a man
was Alonzo Elliott, who by his own honorable exertions
gained for himself all that a man could desire, namely,
friends, affluence and position. In presenting to the public
the representative men of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, who
have by a superior force of character and energy, together with a combi-
nation of ripe qualities of ability and intelligence, made themselves con-
spicuous and commanding in public and private life, we have no better
example to present and none more worthy of a place in this volume than
Mr. Elliott, whose death, which occurred in Manchester, New Hampshire,
August 20, 1909, at the age of sixty years, was felt as a severe loss by his
very large circle of friends and business associates. He was a man honored
in life and blessed in memory. Courteous and friendly, he had won many
friends whom he valued highly, and he was the very soul of uprightness.
The winning of success for himself was not, however, incompatible with the
valuable services rendered to the community-at-large, whose deep esteem
he cherished, and certainly that is the greatest height that a man can reach,
to win and retain the respect and admiration of his fellow-men. He was a
high-minded gentleman, keenly alive to all the varied requirements of life,
and one of those capable of conducting operations of the most extended and
weighty character and influence. In the proud list of her citizens, known
and honored throughout the business world for stability, integrity and fair
dealing, Manchester has no cause to be other than satisfied with the record
of Alonzo Elliott, financier, manufacturer, and president of the Manchester
Board of Trade. It is always interesting to us to find the achievements of
such men set down, as we still hope to find in the details of their careers
some of the secrets of success.

Alonzo Elliott was born in Augusta, Maine, July 25, 1849, the only son
and second and youngest child of Albert and Adeline Waterman (Black-
burn) Elliott. The line of Elliott of this article is of the country about New
Bedford, Massachusetts, where for generations it has furnished hardy sea-
farers to both the merchant marine and the government service. The
absence of authentic records has prevented the tracing of any of the earlier
members of the Elliott family.

Albert Elliott, son of Joshua and Mercy (Gififord) Elliott, was born
January 26, 1813, and died in Tilton, New Hampshire, January 13, 1S91.
He followed the sea in his younger days, sailing from New Bedford, Massa-
chusetts, upon long whaling voyages to the Arctic Ocean, and gradually
rising from a position as a man "before the mast" to mate. He lived in

aion^o OEUiott 15

various places, among which were New Bedford, Massachusetts ; Augusta,
Maine, where both of his children were born; and Tilton, New Hampshire,
to which he removed in 1856, and where he was engaged in the provision
business for fifteen years and where his latter years were spent retired
from all active business life. He and his wife were attendants at the Epis-
copal church. He married in Sidney, Maine, October 6, 1842, Adeline
Waterman Blackburn, who was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts,
March 3, 1823, a daughter of John Carter and Hepsibah Chase (Baker)
Blackburn. She died in Tilton, New Hampshire, October 29, 1907. Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Elliott were the parents of two children, namely: i. Horatio
Anna, who married (first) Levi W. Hill, by whom she had one child, who is
now the wife of William King, of Tilton, and they have one daughter, Alice
Gertrude King. She married (second) Harley A. Brown, deceased, by
whom she had one daughter, Hallie. Mrs. Brown resides in Tilton, New
Hampshire. 2. Alonzo, in whose memory we are writing.

Mrs. Elliott traced her ancestry to a very ancient family. Francis
Baker, son of Sir John Baker, was born in 161 1, in St. Albans, Herfordshire
county, England; he came to America in the ship "Planter" in 1635. He
married Isabel Twining, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Dean) Twin-
ing. Francis Baker died in 1696, and his wife, May 16, 1706. Stephen Dean,
the father of Elizabeth (Dean) Twining, came to America in the ship "For-
tune" in 1621. He came of a very strong ancestry, which can be traced to
the year 600. Daniel Baker, the son of Francis and Isabel (Twining)
Baker, was born September 2, 1650. He married, May 2, 1674, Elizabeth
Chase, a daughter of William Chase, Jr. Shubal Baker, the son of David
and Elizabeth (Chase) Baker, was born in 1676. His wife's name was
Patience. Shubal (2) Baker, the second son of Shubal (i) and Patience
Baker, was born March 24, 1710, and married, in 1733, Lydia Stuart.
Shubal (3) Baker, the third son of Shubal (2) and Lydia (Stuart) Baker,
was born November 11, 1741, and married (first) November 15, 1764,
Rebecca Chase, married (second) in 1787, Elizabeth Chase. Shubal (4)
Baker, the son of Shubal (3) and Rebecca (Chase) Baker, was born July
10, 1772, and married, March 13, 1795, Mercy Smalley. Their daughter,
Hepsibah Chase Baker, born March 3, 1801, died September 10, 1878, having
become the wife of John Carter Blackburn, July 16, 1820, who was born in
England, February i, 1797, and died in Augusta, Maine, March 12, 1827,
and she was the mother of Mrs. Albert Elliott.

Alonzo Elliott was taken by his parents at the age of eight years to
Sanbornton Bridge (as the town of Tilton, New Hampshire, was then
known) and received his education in the common schools there, and later
at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. When but fourteen years of
age. Mr. Elliott accepted a position as clerk in a country store at Tilton, and
later worked in a similar capacity at Colebrook, Coos county, far up in the
"North Country." From there he changed to Wentworth, where he con-
tinued in the same line of business until September, 1869. At this time,
having previously gained a knowledge of telegraphy at Tilton, New Hamp-
shire, he removed to Manchester, in acceptance of the position of ticket

i6 aion^o OBUiott

seller and telegrapher at the passenger depot, and in the employ of the
Concord, Manchester and Lawrence railroads. He was one of the very
first to read dispatches by sound. He succeeded to the position of ticket
agent in 1870, and soon acquired the reputation of being the most expert
ticket seller and telegrapher in the employ of those two railroads. Mr.
Elliott continued in this line of employment until 1893, when he relinquished
his work for the railroads to engage in the insurance and banking business
on his own account. His insurance business became very extensive, his
agency representing some twenty-five leading fire, life and accident insur-
ance companies. He gave his energies to this business until 1896, during
the winter of which year he was thrown from a sleigh and so seriously
injured that he was unable to attend to business aflfairs for a year. It was
while suffering from the injuries caused by this accident that Mr. Elliott
disposed of his insurance business, and so far as possible relieved himself
of all business cares.

Mr. Elliott was one of the incorporators and organizers of the Granite
State Trust Company, subsequently known as the Bank of New England,
of which he was treasurer, and which went out of business in 1898. He
was president of the Manchester Electric Light Company, and a trustee
and one of the organizers of the Guaranty Savings Bank. He held the posi-
tion of vice-president, director and clerk of the People's Gaslight Company,
was secretary of the Citizen's Building and Loan Association, and a director
of the Garvin's Falls Power Company. It was Mr. Elliott who secured the
necessary funds to build the first electric light plant in Manchester, New
Hampshire, and he organized the Elliott Manufacturing Company, which
bears his name, and which is engaged in the manufacture of knit goods,
employing over six hundred operatives, and was its first vice-president and
its first treasurer.

For forty years Mr. Elliott had been an active factor in the progress
and development of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, and no indi-
vidual did more for its expansion. He was a "Booster" always, this being
a favorite term of his, and he was ever found ready to contribute more than
his full share to every cause which promised to enhance the prosperity of his
adopted city. Many of the city's enterprises, which to-day give employment
to thousands of wage-earners, owe their inception to his tireless energy, and
in his death the city lost an energetic factor in its development. He was an
enthusiastic optimist, and possessed a vision which penetrated the future
and foretold the prosperity of the country, even in its darkest days of busi-
ness stagnation. He believed in the future of this country, and of his home
city, and there was not room in his make-up for even an ounce of pessimism.
He was truly a herald of the future and better days, and possessed the
faculty of imparting his resolute and buoyant enthusiasm to others. Mr.
Elliott was intimately acquainted with the subject of finance, and it is
recalled that when the municipality was hard pressed for funds, during the
panic of 1893, to even meet the pay-roll of the street laborers, because of
money being hoarded, he was enabled to procure a temporary loan for the
city of Manchester, in Boston, when all other agencies had failed.

Slon^o dBIliott 17

Mr. Elliott was actively interested in numerous other business organi-
zations, and through his ability to secure capital was instrumental in bring-
ing to Manchester several of its most important industries and enterprises,
including the F. M. Hoyt, Eureka, Cohas, East Side, of which he was presi-
dent, and West Side Shoe companies, and the Kimball Carriage Company.
He was treasurer and director of the Pacific Coal and Transportation Com-
pany, which owns large coal deposits at Cape Lisbon, Alaska, and gold
mines at Nome, Alaska. In company with the late ex-Governor Weston
and John B. Varick, Mr. Elliott owned the valuable hotel property known
as the Manchester House, and gave to the city the new hotel by that name,
in place of the old hostelry which stood there in days past. He was a tire-
less and persistent worker, and his labors and influence contributed mate-
rially in making Manchester, New Hampshire, the business center which it
is at the present time.

Politically, Mr. Elliott was originally a Democrat, but during the free
silver campaign in 1896 he showed his independence by voting for McKinley
and against Bryan, who was the nominee of the Democratic party. In 1902
Mr. Elliott was nominated as an independent candidate for governor, and
was a staunch advocate of the liquor license law, in preference to that of pro-
hibition. Mr. Elliott was also a prominent figure in the fraternal circles of
Manchester, becoming a member of Washington Lodge, No. 61, in 1870,
and in turn took up membership in the higher branches of Masonry, includ-
ing Mount Horeb Chapter, No. 11, Royal Arch Masons; Adoniram Council,
Royal and Select Masters; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar; Bektash
Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and charter
member of the Derryfield Club. In his religious belief, Mr. Elliott was a
Unitarian and a faithful attendant of the church of that denomination in
Manchester. His beautiful and modern residence, known as "Brookhurst,"
was erected in 1893, and is situated on the North River Road. The estate
surrounding the house includes a part of the original historic Stark farm,
which belonged to General John Stark, of Revolutionary fame.

Alonzo Elliott married (first) in 1873, Ella R. Weston, a daughter of
Amos Weston, Jr., and Rebecca J. (Richards) Weston, and niece of the late
ex-Governor James A. Weston. Mrs. Elliott passed away in 1876, at the
age of twenty-three years. Mr. Elliott married (second) in 1878, Medora
Weeks, a daughter of George W. and Sarah (Mead) Weeks, and a direct
descendant of Governor Thomas Dudley. She is also descended from
Leonard Weeks, who was born in Somersetshire, England, and who built
the first brick house in the State of New Hampshire at Greenland. Mr.
and Mrs. Alonzo Elliott became the parents of four children, as follows:
I. Lucille Weeks, died December 29, 1909, and was the wife of Harry Gilman
Clough, of Manchester. 2. Laura Medora, who became the wife of Albert
H. White, of Manchester. 3. Mildred Weeks, who became the wife of
Harold A. Smith, also of Manchester, and they are the parents of one child,
Lucille Elliott Smith. 4. Alonzo, Jr., graduated from Yale University, with
the class of 1913, having been a pupil at St. Paul's School, Concord, New

i8 9Ion50 dBUiott

Hampshire. He is a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and is
a gifted musician and composer of music, the famous and popular song enti-
tled, "The Long, Long Trail," being one of his compositions. The domestic
life of Mr. and Mrs. Elliott was an ideal one, and Mr. Elliott was one of
those men who cherished his home as the dearest spot on earth.

Mr. Elliott was president of the Manchester Board of Trade, and took
an active and influential part in all of its activities. Thus was his career
rounded out, as promoter, manufacturer, financier, and his death at the age
of sixty years and twenty-six days dealt the city of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, a hard blow, from which she has never recovered. The memory of
this exemplary gentleman will linger in the minds and hearts of all those
who had been so privileged as to have been associated with him in any man-
ner, while his many achievements will stand as a monument to his excep-
tional capability and energy.

/( J'( //l/(f//

:j/.,/.,

3(eremtal) Jlolifie

[N presenting to the public a review of the lives of such men
as have deserved w^ell of their fellow-men and citizens, who
although unobtrusive in their everyday life, by their indi-
viduality and force of character mould the commercial desti-
nies and give tone to the community in which they live, we
have no example more fit to present and certainly none more
worthy of a place in this volume than that of the late Jere-
miah Hodge, of Manchester, New Hampshire, whose death, which occurred
at his home in that city, July i6, 1916, brought genuine sorrow and deep
regret to the hearts of all who had been so privileged as to have known him
intimately, and recognized in him the qualities of a true man. Not only did
he rise above the standard of his line of business, but he was also the pos-
sessor in a high degree of those excellencies of human nature that never fail
to make men worthy of regard among their fellow-men. He was not only
high-minded, but liberal as well, keenly alive to all the varied requirements
of life, and one of those capable of conducting operations of the most
extended and weighty character and influence. By his most honorable exer-
tions, Mr. Hodge carved out for himself friends, position and honor. By the
strength and force of his character he overcame obstacles which to others
less hopeful and less courageous would have seemed insurmountable.
Through all the varied responsibilities of life, he acquitted himself with
dignity, fidelity and honor, and his manners were those of the genuine gen-
tleman, frank, kindly and courteous. The setting down of the personal
records of the men who, by dint of worthy and tireless effort, have raised
themselves to a high position upon the ladder of success and secured them-
selves in the respect of their fellow-citizens must always be a work of great
value. Self-made men, who have accomplished much by reason of their
personal qualities and left the impress of their individuality upon the busi-
ness and general life of the communities where they have lived and worked,
men who have affected for good such customs and institutions as have come
within the sphere of their influence, have unwittingly, perhaps, but none the
less truly, reared for themselves monuments more enduring than those of
stone or brass. Such distinction may well be claimed for Jeremiah Hodge,
who was never weary of working for the benefit of the community and iden-
tified himself with many movements undertaken for the general good. He
was an unusual combination of the conservative and of the progressive, ever
seeking to find the good in both the old and the new. Mr. Hodge was a
gentleman of the old school, and all that phrase implies of grace and courtli-
ness, yet he kept well abreast of the time in all practical affairs. He was
indeed a rare and admirable character in every way, and one of those of
whom it may be said that the world is better for his having lived in it.

The birth of Jeremiah Hodge occurred on a farm near Concord, New
Hampshire; he was the son of John and Sarah Hodge, the year of his birth

ao 3feremiaf) l^oOgc

being 1830. He passed his early years in the same manner as did most of
the farmer boys of those days, and in the spring of 1849, having a desire to
start out in Hfe for himself, he secured a place at the State Asylum in Con-
cord, which was then under the charge of the late Dr. McFarland. Mr.
Hodge was a strong, rugged country boy, and stood this disagreeable work
for about fourteen months. From 1847 to 1850 he made his home in
Andover, Massachusetts, for which town he had a fondness. After leaving
his position at the State Asylum, Mr. Hodge gained his introduction into
the business world when he entered the employ of a contractor by the name
of Dow at Concord, and there he learned the carpenter trade. At that time
the highest wages paid a carpenter was one dollar and fifty cents a day, and
Mr. Hodge received fifty dollars a year, and had to purchase his own tools
while learning. Upon leaving Mr. Dow, Mr. Hodge entered the employ of
Henry M. Moore, who thought so well of the young man that he paid him
one dollar and thirty-three cents a day and his board. The public in general
take but little note of the beginning or the ending of a man's business career,
and this is absolutely wrong, as close attention should be given to the life
records of our most substantial and successful business men such as Mr.
Hodge.

In 1853 Mr. Hodge was placed in charge of some buildings at Dunbar-
ton. New Hampshire, which Governor Gilmore was having erected, and he
carried this work through in a most satisfactory manner. In the fall of that
same year Mr. Hodge came to the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, and
engaged himself to a man named Belknap, who was at that time building
the old freight and passenger depots, and on these Mr. Hodge performed his
first work in Manchester. This was the passenger depot which stood where
the Amoskeag play-grounds now are, and the freight house was on the site
of the present Union Station. For a few years after this, Mr. Hodge fol-
lowed the carpentry trade, and then entered that of jobbing. One of his
earliest jobs was the Martin block, which stood where the Western building
now stands, and this was so satisfactory in every way that B. F. Martin
engaged him to build the Martin House at the North End. This house
called for much fancy work and at that time there was no machinery to make
this, so Mr. Hodge hired a shop on Mechanics' Row on the Amoskeag and
there set up a small shop, which was the first of that kind in Manchester,
and here he was enabled to supply material for his own constructions, and
later the material for other jobs. This was about the year 1864, and previous
to that, in 1857, Mr. Hodge had built the house where he died, at the corner
of Hall and Amherst streets, and had spent over half the years of his life
there.

The shop on the Amoskeag soon became too small for the demands on
his business, and Mr. Hodge built an enlargement, which also became in
time too small to adequately handle all his business. In 1873 he obtained
the land at Auburn and Elm streets, and as he had often declared that he
had his eye on this as a desirable place for some time, his wisdom was seen
when one looked out of the office windows into the freight yard. Later Mr.
Hodge built a large brick shop and as his business increased so also did this

3Iercmia|) i^oDge 21

brick shop, as he kept adding to it from time to time. The first buildings
of his new plant were erected in time for him to begin operations of the
plant on the first day of April, 1874, when he started to manipulate it every
day, and up to the time of his death it was continuously operated. Mr.
Hodge was the pioneer wood worker in the city of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, and was respected by all for his rugged honesty and business ability.

He was of that type of business man of whom there are never too many,
and his career had not only been one of great and ceaseless activity for him-
self alone, but for the welfare of the entire city in which he had ever taken
a deep and vital interest. Mr. Hodge had been engaged in business on Elm
street. Manchester, for over forty years, and his office was one of the best
known spots in the town, where many a weighty matter of interest to Man-
chester and her citizens was discussed. During the three years prior to his
death, he had been failing in health, and for the past few months before his
passing away he was restricted to his home for weeks at a time. It maj^ be
said that Mr. Hodge was never a really well man since the death of his son,
Charles R. Hodge, a blow which shook him tremendously and from which
he never fully recovered.

In his political belief, Mr. Hodge was an active, ardent and consistent
Republican, and took a deep interest in all political affairs, always ready
and willing to assist with his advice. He was a member of the city govern-
ment in 1871 and 1872, and at the time when the city acquired the water
works, Mr. Hodge took an active part in this important transaction. He
was also a member of the State Convention which nominated Governor Eze-
kiel Straw. Although Mr. Hodge had not hunted nor fished much in recent
years, in his day he had been an ardent sportsman and still retained the
sportsman's spirit. He delighted in relating the story of a visit he once
made to a Boston specialist, and seemed to regard the conversation with him
relative to hunting and fishing as of much more value than the man's pre-
scription. He had at his own expense re-stocked many a trout brook in the
section where he lived. Mr. Hodge was a member of Hillsborough Lodge,
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

He was a staunch friend always of the firemen, although he never
actively became connected with the department, and was ever ready to do
what he could for the betterment of the service and the assistance of its
members. It may be truly said that Mr. Hodge was never half-hearted in
anything in which he was engaged, and to this characteristic was traced
much of his well earned success. Those who differed with him could not do
otherwise than to respect his opinions, for his sterling honesty and declared
beliefs were known to be founded upon conscientious convictions.

For almost half a century Mr. Hodge was a business man of Man-
chester, New Hampshire, and in his own business used nearly four million
feet of lumber every year, and in addition to this he turned out a large quan-
tity for corporations and other concerns. He employed a large force of
men, and took pride in the quality of the work which he sent out, having
always maintained a reputation for first-class work by employing skillful
men and modern machinery. Besides house builders' supplies, Mr. Hodge

12 3feremia|) ^oDge

manufactured packing-boxes, and like the other departments of his mills
this shop was not only a hive of industry but one of the leading shops in the
city.

On October 6, 1854, Jeremiah Hodge was united in marriage with
Judith A. Colby, a daughter of Abner and Deborah (Gunnerson) Colby, of
Goshen, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Hodge were the parents of two
children, as follows: i. Charles R., who died January 3, 1910; he was united
in marriage with Mary Frances Moore, of New Boston, and their union was
blessed with two children, namely: Frederick Moore Hodge, and Mae
Bertha Hodge. 2. Lucy Emma, who resides in Manchester, New Hamp-
shire. Mrs. Hodge has lived at the home at No. 574 Hall street, Manchester,
since 1857.

Mr. Hodge's integrity and business ability were recognized by the city
wherein he lived for so many years. He was an ardent sympathizer with
every movement making for the uplift of humanity, and his heart was ever
in sympathy with the sorrows of the unfortunate, his hand being ready to
contribute to the alleviation of those in distress. He was greatly beloved
because of his kindliness towards all humanity, and for his generosity and
unselfishness. The community will long remember him, while his memory
will be cherished most highly.

y^..u,.W. //r/r.M. VW^.r/,. //.C/.

ieonarii ilWelbille JFrentj). 01- 30.

The French coat-of-arms is as follows :

Arms — Ermine, a chevron sable, a crescent for difference.
Crest — A dolphin embowed proper.

'HE late Dr. Leonard Melville French, a prominent physician
of Manchester, New^ Hampshire, achieved a reputation of
which any man might well be proud. The profession of
medicine is one which, if it be conscientiously followed,
involves an enormous amount of self-sacrifice, and it is a
source of the greatest blessing to others. So heavily should
these considerations weigh, that it would be difficult to
imagine a return from the community to its physicians that would make or
balance the debt it owes them for all the good received. Hard work, loss of
sleep, and a constant demand upon one's powers of sympathy are the physi-
cian's offerings to humanity. AH these are the essential things that a true
and worthy physician brings with him, a true and worthy physician such
as the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this tribute, and whose
death at his beautiful residence on the River Road, in the North End of
Manchester, New Hampshire, December 22, 1914, in the sixty-fifth year
of his life, left a vacant place in so many hearts. Few if any of the many
brilliant men who have added to the lustre of the medical profession of Man-
chester have exercised a wider influence for the good of the institution of
medical learning than Dr. French. Being a man of great sagacity, quick
perceptions, sound judgment, noble impulses and remarkable force and
determination of character, he commanded the respect and confidence of all
who knew him. It is unnecessary to add that as a physician he was held in
the highest estimation by his fellow-citizens, and the record of his daily life
was filled with evidences of this fact. In all professions, but more especially
the medical, there are exalted heights to which genius itself dares scarcely
soar, and which can only be gained after long years of patient, arduous and
unremitting toil and inflexible and unfaltering courage. To this proud emi-
nence we may safely state that Dr. French rose. He devoted his life to his
chosen profession, and was deservedly crowned with its choicest rewards.
The birth of Leonard Melville French occurred at Ashby, Massachu-
setts. July 26, 1849; he was the son of Dr. Leonard French, who was a
famous medical practitioner in Manchester, New Hampshire. His mother
was Mrs. Sarah (Melville) French, and he was christened for both parents
with the name of Leonard Melville French. Dr. French obtained his educa-
tion at the University of New York and also at Dartmouth College, receiv-
ing his medical degree from the latter college. Being the son of so success-
ful a physician, it was but natural that the son would turn to the profession
of medicine as his course through life. And as his father had met with

24 JLeonacD Q^eltiille JFrenci), 0i. D.

success in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, so the younger Dr.
French located in that city. He began the practice of medicine there in
1873. soon after his graduation, and kept it up actively for about thirty
years. During the latter part of his life. Dr. French had retired from active
practice, although he had attended many cases among his personal friends
and in those families for whom he had formerly held the place of family phy-
sician. He was loved and admired by all, so that it was but a natural out-
come that his death brought genuine sorrow to all who had come in con-
tact with him, even in the most casual way.

Politically, Dr. French was a staunch Republican, but was not active in
politics, and never allowed his name to be used for a candidacy for public
office. He was religiously inclined, and in his religious belief was a member
of the Hanover Street Congregational Church in Manchester, and had been
the president of the First Congregational Society since the year 1906. Dr.
French was a member of various clubs and college fraternities. He belonged
to the American Medical Association and the New Hampshire Medical Soci-
ety. He had offices for the practice of medicine in the Kennard Building,
Manchester. Both Dr. French and his wife were known all over the State
of New Hampshire for their charities and their interest in all philanthropic
work in various directions. Hardly a movement for the relief of the unfor-
tunate and those in distress has been carried on in years in the "Granite
State" but Dr. French and his wife contributed to it and worked in its
behalf, although always in a most modest and inconspicuous manner.

On June i, 1887, Dr. Leonard Melville French was united in marriage
with Emma Blood, of Manchester, a daughter of Aretas and Lavinia K.
(Kendall) Blood. Dr. and Mrs. French became the parents of one child,
Margaret Lavinia French, who married Carl Spencer Fuller, the son of
Spencer H. Fuller, of Lewiston, Maine. They are the parents of two chil-
dren, namely: Mary Spencer and Henry Melville Fuller. The home life
of Dr. French was delightfully happy, and his residence the scene of many
social gatherings. Being an active and busy man. he had not as much time
as his fellowmen in other walks of life to devote to his own fireside, but every
spare moment that was his found him in the home circle surrounded by the
family to whom he was always the affectionate husband and the good, kind
father.

There is something admirable in the profession of medicine that
illumines by reflected light all those who practice it. Something, that is,
concerned with the prime object, the alleviation of human suffering, some-
thing about the self-sacrifice that it must necessarily involve that makes us
regard, and rightly so, all those who choose to follow its difficult way and
devote themselves to its great aims, with a certain amount of respect and
reverence.

In closing this brief biography it is proper that there be here recorded
a splendid tribute to his memory written by his professional colleagues of
the New Hampshire Medical Society, which is as follows:

Dr. French was educated at the Manchester Public Schools, and at Dartmouth
College, where he received his degree. Later he went to New York City, where he

Leonard Q^eltJille JFtencl), Op, D. 25

attended Bellevue Hospital and studied with the noted Dr. Loomis. He began to practice
medicine in 1873, occupying the office with his father, in Manchester, where he was in
active practice for thirty years. He had been president of the First Congregational
Society since 1906, and a trustee of the Amoskeag Savings Bank. He was on the
Medical Staff of the Elliot Hospital from the founding, April the fourth, 1890, until
January the fifth, 1904, when he resigned, which resignation was reluctantly accepted by
his fellow members. The onward and upward march of his profession he regarded with
impressive loyalty. The marvelous changes from the early seventies to 1914. he accepted
with a conviction, devotion and comradeship that was true and noble and divorced from
puritanical prejudices. Progressive surgery and medicine he delighted in, and watched
with interest and pleasure the strides made in both, welcoming and accepting the
researches, discoveries, and phenomena in an enthusiastic and up-to-date spirit, satisfied
and gratified that the profession to which he and his family had devoted their lives and
been so efficiently helpful in, should constantly grow in healing power. His was a life
of righteousness, a good Christian life, with nothing in it to suggest the worldly or the
vain. One cannot say he held this or that important public office, but all his friends
and acquaintances will agree he was a good man. To be able to say that of a man is
better than all others.

In his sick-room ministrations he was tender, cheery and helpful, leaving comfort,
courage and healing in his wake. How valuable a legacy a successful physician of his
temperament bequeaths to his patients is inestimable, but it is very large. Dr. French
was unassuming, approachable, genial to meet as a friend, happy in his companionable
relations, unwavering in his allegiance to the best things in life, always dependable
upon in any hour of stress of deserving causes, and led a spotless life, clean and Christ-
like. He was a good citizen and a likeable man.

As a further tribute in memory to Dr. French, Mrs. French has just
completed a children's ward at the Elliot Hospital in Manchester.

aretas iSIooD

The Blood coat-of-arms is as follows:

Arms — Or, three bucks lodged proper.

Crest — A buck's head erased proper, attired or, holding in the mouth an arrow gold.

N THE death of the late Aretas Blood, in November, 1897,
the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, lost one of its most
substantial citizens. He was a man who was most widely
known, highly respected by all who knew him, and whose
influence was felt in many, many ways. Mr. Blood moved
to Manchester when it was yet in its infancy, and his
advancement was largely connected with the advancement
of the city itself. No one did more to make the city what it is to-day, and no
one was more looked up to in the community than he. In business he was
prominent in many directions, the peer of his associates, and in charity and
benevolence his name was widely known. He helped to found and maintain
many public charities, while his generosity as a private giver was most
marked.

Mr. Blood was a self-made man in every sense of that term, which
is so familiar with Americans. He started out in life a poor boy, with but a
meager education, but by industry and ability he pushed his way forward
and gained emoluments and honor; by his skill and ability, great enterprises
were started and successfully carried on, and his labors were appreciated
and rewarded. His name will ever be inseparably connected with the devel-
opment of the massive locomotive in use to-day, with the inception and
growth of the railroad systems of the United States, and as the builder of
the finest steam fire engines the world has seen. If he had done nothing else
to cause his name to be cherished and remembered, Mr. Blood would have a
lasting monument in the Amoskeag fire engines and the Manchester loco-
motives. The life of Aretas Blood and the history of the Manchester Loco-
motive Works are largely synonymous, and the story of the one cannot well
be told separate from the other. The death of Mr. Blood occurred on
November 24, 1897, at his residence in Manchester, New Hampshire, and
caused general sorrow in the community in which he was so well beloved
and admired.

Aretas Blood was the son of Nathaniel and Roxellana (Proctor) Blood.
His father, Nathaniel Blood, was the great-great-great-great-grandson, in
direct descent, of James Blood. The family was prominent in the early his-
tory of Groton and Pepperell, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Blood's father,
Sewall Blood, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Nathaniel Blood
married Roxellana Proctor, a daughter of Isaac Proctor, also a soldier in
the Revolution, and settled in Windsor, Vermont. He died in Waltham,
Massachusetts, in 1876, having reached the advanced age of eighty-eight

^

/^C^^

aretag ISIooD 27

years. His wife passed away in 1865. Both were active members of the
Congregational church.

Aretas Blood, their son, was born in Weathersfield, Vermont, October
8, 1816. From his ancestors he inherited many sterling qualities, good judg-
ment, sound common sense, executive ability of a high order, courage to
undertake almost herculean tasks, the perseverance to conduct them to a
successful termination, and the requisite caution to keep him from embark-
ing in any unsafe enterprises. His early life was that of all boys born and
reared in the rural districts of the New England of the day. The home life
was simple, frugal, and there was a goodly portion of work to be performed
by all the members of the family. An active life upon his father's farm, the
winters being spent in taking advantage of such meager educational advan-
tages as the common schools of the countryside afforded, gave him a sound
body, a clear mind, a knowledge of the common English branches and a little
more. His religious training was of the kind common in that day, when
life was simple and customs stricter than they are to-day. When he was
three years of age, Aretas Blood's parents removed to Windsor, Vermont,
and it was there that he obtained his early literary education in the common
schools of the time, which were of brief terms and generally taught by indif-
ferently educated teachers. At the age of seventeen years, Mr. Blood was
apprenticed to a blacksmith to learn the trade. He worked at the forge for
about two years and a half, mastering the various details of this sturdy call-
ing, and then turned to something a little broader, which gave him more
opportunity for the use of his mechanical and inventive mind, and became a
machinist. In 1840 he went to Evansville, Indiana, where he remained, fol-
lowing his trade until June, of the next year, when he came East again, in
search of employment. On his return to New England he said that he had
looked the West over and that "Yankee land was good enough" for him.
He said that if a man could not get rich in New England he could not get
rich anywhere. It was not until he reached North Chelmsford, Massachu-
setts, that he found work for his ready and willing hands. He remained
there for a short time, and then went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he
became employed in the Lowell Machine Shop. Seven years of labor here
passed with but little to break their monotony. At the end of that time, Mr.
Blood moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he had a chance to advance
his interests, being given charge of the manufacture for the large machine
shop then in course of erection at that city. Here he took still another leap
in his upward career. Working as a machinist in the shops, the character of
the man began to assert itself. His ability demanded greater scope, and
before long he was enabled to assume the management of the establishment,
devoting his attention to the manufacture, under contract, of tools, turbine-
wheels, locomotives, stationary engines and other machinery. His untiring
energy and devotion to his work found therein reward ; he was master of the
business. From that time on, his rise was a comparatively rapid one.

In September, 1853, Mr. Blood came to Manchester, New Hampshire,
where, associated with Oliver W. Bailey, he established the Vulcan Works,
under the firm name of Bailey, Blood & Company, the business being

28 aretas 15looD

devoted to the manufacture of locomotives. The work was at first carried
on in Mechanics' Row, but in the spring of 1854, buildings were erected on
the site now occupied, and in the same year the company was incorporated
as the Manchester Locomotive Works, with Oliver Bailey as its first agent.
Three years later, Mr. Blood succeeded Mr. Bailey in the active management
of the business, and from then until his death resided in Manchester, and
personally superintended the operations of the works. From a moderate
beginning the business grew and a great many engines were turned out for
the various railroads of the country. The works now cover a number of
acres of ground. The Blood Locomotive Works have acquired an enviable
name and reputation, which is largely due to the personality of the man who
was at the head. Mr. Blood proved one of the most successful locomotive
builders in the country, and many hundreds of locomotives were turned out
at his works. The business had a capacity for giving employment to
upwards of one hundred workmen, and of turning out upwards of one hun-
dred and fifty locomotives a year. In addition to this, the works turned out
the finest steam engines the world has produced, which are known and
valued everywhere. The fire-engine business of the Amoskeag Company
was purchased by Mr. Blood in 1872, together with the patents and good
will. The machine was remodelled and is now the old engine only in name.
Mr. Blood built the first horseless fire engine used in this country. ,A
thorough machinist, one capable of handling large forces of men and con-
ducting large business enterprises, Mr. Blood commanded a large measure
of success, and the Manchester Locomotive Works are regarded as a repre-
sentative manufacturing institution of New England.

While Mr. Blood was devoting his attention to the upbuilding of the
locomotive and fire engine business, he in no ways lost sight of the many
other business opportunities lying around him, and invested in many lines
of manufacture and trade. There are few who had more varied or extensive
business holdings than had Mr. Blood. Whenever he saw a chance for a
sound paying investment he placed his capital. He was conservative and
careful, and to his sound judgment is due much of his success. He was a
director in the Second National Bank, and at the time of his death was its
president. He was president and director of the Ames Manufacturing
Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts, manufacturers of bicycles and other
things; president of the Globe Nail Company of Boston; president of the
Manchester Print Works; treasurer of the Nashua Iron and Steel Com-
pany; president of the Amoskeag Paper Mills; treasurer of the Manchester
Hardware Company; president of the Manchester Sash and Blind Company,
and was interested in many other concerns.

The advancement of years did not impair Mr. Blood's business ability
and he continued as an active business man long past the age when most
men feel as if there were no more work for them to perform. His life in this
direction was characterized by great executive ability, indomitable energy,
industry, foresight, good judgment, and common sense. When Mr. Blood
took up his abode in Manchester, he was a great accession to that city, and
up to the time of his death he was foremost among those whose transactions

3tetas IBIooD 29

tended towards the city's success. His own experience when in search of
work made Mr. Blood considerate to those under similar circumstances. If
he seemed entirely absorbed in his business, it must be remembered that he
carried on his shoulders a great responsibility, and had the welfare of a
great many people in his charge dependent upon his good judgment. He
evinced no small amount of inventive ingenuity, and many valuable improve-
ments in the products of the works in which he was interested were due to
him. He was quick to see the value of new ideas, yet conservative and care-
ful in adopting them. Mr. Blood attributed whatever success he achieved
in life to the early training he received from his mother. When he left the
parental roof his mother cautioned him to shun bad company and try to
please his employers. This he tried to do, and the result shows that he suc-
ceeded. When he was working for others he was devoted to their successes,
and put in his spare time in improving his mind as best he could. He won
the confidence and esteem of his employers in this way, his honesty, faith-
fulness and industry being marked. He stuck to the small things as care-
fully as to the greater ones. This, in his later years, he always demanded of
those employed by him. Probably his largest and most daring investment
after he had passed his seventieth year was when he started the Columbia
Cotton Mills at Columbia, South Carolina. He became president of the
Columbia Cotton Mills and also of the Columbia Water Power Company,
and devoted a large portion of his time and money in building and perfecting
these huge undertakings. The mills at that time were the only cotton mills
in the world run entirely by electricity.

On September 4, 1845, Aretas Blood was united in marriage with Lavi-
nia K. Kendall. Two daughters were born to this union, namely: i. Nora,
who became the wife of Frank P. Carpenter. 2. Emma, who became the
wife of Dr. Leonard Melville French, of Manchester. Mr. Blood's home life
was a quiet one. He enjoyed the pleasures of home and was very fond of
his family. The family attended the Franklin Street Congregational
Church, and this institution Mr. Blood aided in supporting.

Up to within two years of his death, Mr. Blood always enjoyed rugged
health, scarcely knowing a day's sickness. After that period his health was
considerably broken. Had he been willing to give up his business career, his
life might have been further prolonged. In his political views, Mr. Blood
was a staunch Republican, he having voted with that party since its incep-
tion. He cast his first vote for General William Henry Harrison. While
never very active in politics, his endorsement always carried weight, and he
served in a number of offices of trust and preferment. He was twice alder-
man for his ward, and was an elector in the college which voted Garfield and
Arthur into office.

Mr. Blood was an ardent horseman, and there have been but few in
Manchester who could better or quicker judge of the qualities of horses.
During his long and active life he took much pleasure in owning and driving
horses, and at various times possessed some fine ones. He displayed the
same keenness for his business as he did in the management of finances, and
as a result the locomotive works and other concerns in which he was inter-
ested were always supplied with fine draught animals. A sample of his free-

JO aretaisi 'BIooD

handed generosity was his gift to the Woman's Aid and Relief Society of the
twenty-five thousand dollars which made it possible for it to acquire the
building now used for the home on Pearl street, Manchester. For twenty
years Mr. and Mrs. Blood had taken a great interest in this Home, and Mrs.
Blood practically devoted her entire time to its management. It is said that
there was not a day in those twenty years when they have not done some-
thing for the Home, either carrying food and supplies to it, or furnishing
more substantial help. In 1891, Mrs. Blood started out to raise by subscrip-
tion enough money to buy the present location for the Home. Mr. Blood
headed the paper with ten thousand dollars, and later handed Mrs. Blood a
check for twenty-five thousand dollars, enough to purchase the Home and
assist in remodeling it. They had always been the mainstay of the Home,
and although assistance had been received from other sources the Home
would not have weathered the storms but for the liberal patronage of Mr.
and Mrs. Blood. It is rarely that the metropolitan press of the country
write editorials dedicated to the memory of women, but when Mrs. Blood
passed away the following tribute to her memory appeared in one of the
daily papers of Manchester:

Mrs. Aretas Blood went about doing good. With great wealth, with social posi-
tion, with a wide circle of accomplished friends, with a devoted family, with everything
to tempt her to confine her cares and activities to the fields in which the prosperous and
the happy live, and to enable her to command for herself luxury and ease, she turned
aside to the unfortunate, and without neglecting her duties to her family or society made
it her mission to heal the sick, comfort the distressed, clothe the naked, feed the hungry,
and provide homes for the homeless. And year in and year out, until at a great age she
was called to her reward, she gave herself to this work unreservedly, bounteously,
quietly, industriously, successfully. She was the good angel of Manchester. To her
we are mainly indebted for one of our noblest charities. To her hundreds of our deserv-
ing poor and sick have been indebted for all the comfort and relief that human aid could
secure for them. Above all we are indebted to her for an example which was a constant
inspiration to others who were able to give and to do, and a promise to those who were
dependent upon the more fortunate. She was a good woman and a great woman. Good
in every relation of life ; great in her purposes, her methods and her achievements. She
was respected and loved, almost revered, while she lived, and her memory will be ten-
derly and gratefully cherished.

The career of Aretas Blood strikingly illustrates the possibilities of the
typical, sturdy New England character. Mr. Blood did not inherit great
wealth from his ancestors, but he did inherit that which cannot be expressed
in definite terms of value, because it is beyond value. He had the inheritance
of generations of right living. He possessed character, he had by inherit-
ance correct ideas of life. The lesson of his successful and useful life is that
he had prepared himself, fitted himself, for such opportunities as should
come to him, and the opportunities came. Later in life he could in a meas-
ure shape his opportunities, create them, almost, but the great principle, the
important fact, was that he had made himself ready in the first instance by
the development of a splendid character. He was faithful in small things,
and came to be master of great things. And dying, at a ripe old age, he
leaves an example that should be of more value to the young throughout the
New England States, of which he was so proud, than all the wealth that he
left to those to whom it rightfully descends.

^nn. dlnl^n ^l^afif iSay

Hon. 3(o!)n Cfjase 2Rap

^OTH the public and private life of John Chase Ray was a con-
tinuous stream of fine endeavor, which never, however, was
wasted upon useless tasks. Among those who have deserv-
edly achieved prominence and position in public life, this
distinguished gentleman stood in the foremost rank. His
personality and efforts were of more than ordinary influence
in keeping the public affairs of the city of Manchester, New
Hampshire, from dishonesty and corruption, conditions which have stained
the fair name of many cities and nations. In his endeavor to promote the
welfare and integrity in that most important function of civilization, self-
government, he never allowed his enthusiasm to over-balance his sound
judgment, as was the case with many others. No State in the Union has
maintained a longer or more unbroken record of efficient service on the part
of its highest officials than the State of New Hampshire, and no one has
more worthily contributed to this record than John Chase Ray, whose death,
which occurred January 23, 1898, closed a career of great usefulness. After
an honorable life of seventy-three years, Mr. Ray passed over the Great
Divide into the Beyond, a man honored in life and blessed in memory.
Courteous, friendly, and the very soul of uprightness, he had many friends,
all of whom he valued very highly. Faithfulness to duty and a strict ad-
herence to a fixed purpose in life will do more to advance a man's interests
than wealth or advantageous circumstances, and the successful men of the
day are they who planned their own advancement and have accomplished
it in spite of many obstacles, and with a certainty that could have been
obtained only through their own efforts. Mr. Ray was a member of this
class of men, and at the same time he belonged to that class of representa-
tive Americans whose labors resulted not alone to their individual pros-
perity, but were far-reaching in their valuable influence and public aid. For
many years the dignified figure of Mr. Ray, with businesslike mien, was a
familiar sight to the residents of Manchester, New Hampshire, and it was
only natural that when he passed away from earthly view, deep regret was
everywhere expressed. In his death, the State of New Hampshire lost one
of its most valuable and trusted officials, and the city of Manchester one
of its best and truest citizens. At the time of his death, which came upon
him suddenly, in a corridor of the State Industrial School Building, Mr.
Ray was the superintendent of that institution, a position he had filled with
consummate, all-around ability, rare tact, and to the entire satisfaction of
every board of trustees who had officiated during his superintendency,
covering the period from July 2, 1874, when he was first appointed, until
the date of his death, or nearly a quarter of a century.

The coat-of-arms of the Ray family, of which Hon. John Chase Ray
was a representative member, was as follows :

32 !^on. 3Io!)n Cbase Eap

Argent, a fesse azure between two mullets in chief and a lion rampant in base
gules.

Crest — A naked dexter arm erect, holding in the hand a short sword, all proper.
Motto— Fortihidine. (By fortitude).

The birth of John Chase Ray occurred in Hopkinton, New Hampshire,
during the year 1825. When he was seven years old, in 1832, his parents
removed to Dunbarton, New Hampshire, and it was there that he received
his early education in the public schools. His youthful ambition leaned
toward teaching, and accordingly, upon the completion of his schooling, he
taught school for a short time. Later Mr. Ray entered the lumber busi-
ness, in which capacity he displayed unusual business ability, and much
credit must be awarded him for the rapid strides he made in that business
and his quick intelligence in learning a line of business so totally different
to that which he had chosen as his calling in life. He was the possessor of
a great deal of that quality described in this country as "Push," and in every
enterprise undertaken by him he made his way to success through all the
obstacles. When Mr. Ray had barely attained his majority, the town of
Dunbarton elected him to the Legislature, and so favorable was the impres-
sion he made there that he was reelected a second and third time. With
one exception, he was the youngest member of the Legislature during the
sessions in which he served. Such was the reputation that he established
in that town that his fellow-townsmen later elected him chairman of the
Board of Selectmen and Superintendent of Schools, and those offices he
ably and acceptably filled.

When called to the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, by his selec-
tion as superintendent of the State Industrial School, the town of Dun-
barton lost one of its most useful citizens, and his departure was universally
deplored by the town-people of all classes, to whom Mr. Ray had so endeared
himself. From the very beginning of his work in the State Institution, Mr.
Ray never had a vote cast against him at the annual election, and his choice
by the trustees was always unanimous. The State Industrial School rapidly
grew and expanded wonderfully under the management of Mr. Ray and
his delightful and capable wife, who in her capacity of matron achieved a
success fully equal to that of her honored husband. It was an ideal com-
bination and brought to the institution a reputation second to none in the
United States. The position of superintendent of an institution like the
State Industrial School requires exceptional qualities of head and heart.
It demands constant care and labor, business ability of a high order, strict
integrity, and the judgment and tact necessary to not only constantly con-
trol but to reform, educate and train one hundred and fifty inmates, who
have, for one reason or another, fallen into evil habits, become unmanage-
able at their homes, and a menace to society. It was a hard place to fill, but
Mr. Ray filled it, filled it so thoroughly that during the many years he was
at the head of the school public confidence in him never once wavered.

He was most loyal to the institution, and to the State of New Hamp-
shire, even to the last year, when shattered health made it almost impossible
for him to discharge his many duties. For a long time prior to his death,

l^on. 3[o|)n Cjjase Kap 33

Mr. Ray had felt that the burden he was carrying was too great, and he
repeatedly proposed to resign. There was no lack of candidates to succeed
him, but the trustees would not and could not consent to have him go,
because, weak and broken in health as he was, in their candid judgment he
was more useful than anyone else could be. Eulogy need not go much fur-
ther than this, for if he had not been a good husband and father, a good citi-
zen, a strong, honest and loyal man, he could not have made such a life
record.

After becoming an official of the State of New Hampshire, Mr. Ray
ceased from political activities, but in 1881 the voters of Ward Two sent
him to the Legislature. Again, in 1893, he was nominated by acclamation
for State Councilor by the Second District Republican Convention, and was
elected by a large majority. Upon taking his seat in the Governor's Coun-
cil, Mr. Ray resigned his position as Superintendent of the Industrial School,
but again its trustees, with full recognition of the high value of his services,
steadfastly declined to accept his resignation.

Mr. Ray was greatly interested in stock raising, and the cattle of the
Industrial School always attracted attention wherever exhibited. He was
also an ardent lover of a good horse, and his knowledge of them was keen
and practical. Some of the best road horses of past years in Manchester
were his property, and one of the sights of the city was Mr. Ray when he
appeared in the streets driving an eight-horse hitch, drawing a heavily
loaded barge of Industrial School boys.

In social circles, Mr. Ray was a conspicuous figure, although other than
the Grange he was never affiliated with any secret organization. He be-
longed to the Amoskeag Veterans, and was a trustee of the Manchester
Savings Bank and of the Merrimack River Savings Bank. He had never
engaged extensively in industrial and financial ventures aside from the
lumber business, and in his later years in some real estate investments. Yet
he accumulated a large property, paying taxes the year before his death in
fourteen dififerent towns. In his early life he was associated in the lumber
business with the late John M. and David A. Parker, of Goffstown, and
came to be regarded as one of the best authorities on wood and timber land
in the State of New Hampshire.

On December 30, 1857, John Chase Ray was united in marriage with
Sarah A. Humphreys, of Chicopee, Massachusetts, who died December 30,
1913. Womanly gentleness, fervency of spirit, religious life and undaunted
courage distinguished Mrs. Ray, and she will long be remembered. The
union of Mr. and Mrs. Ray was blessed with two children, a son, Harry P.,
who was ex-State Senator, and died January 9, 1916, and Mary E., who be-
came the wife of Theodore McEwen Hyde, who died October 8, 1913. Mrs.
Hyde resides in Manchester, New Hampshire, at No. 198 Pearl street.

If the public life of Mr. Ray was so commendable, not less was his more
intimate intercourse with family and friends. Even though the affairs of
the community were ever uppermost in his mind, at the same time he was
most devoted to his family and in all ways proved to be a faithful husband

NH-3

34

^on. 3Ioftn Cljase Kap

and a wise and kind father. Mr. Ray made an ideal citizen, and one that
any community might hold up as a type for its youth to imitate and honor.
Few men have ever passed away in the city of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, more beloved than John Chase Ray. Of the many tributes to his
memory, none conveyed a deeper significance than that manifested in the
heartfelt grief of the hundreds of boys and girls that he and Mrs. Ray had
reclaimed from idleness and vice, and sent out equipped to become useful
and successful men and women. Among all who mourned, apart from his
devoted family, these were the best witnesses to his ability and worth. Mr.
Ray was indeed a man among men, and his memory will long be cherished.

1 21.-1:1G9

Hon. (j^eorge alien ^RamslieU

iF ALL distinguished men who have shed lustre upon the
State of New Hampshire, none has a better record or a
stronger hold upon the affections of the people in general
than the late George Allen Ramsdell, of Nashua, New
Hampshire, who made his way up to the responsible posi-
tion which he held most earnestly and manfully, and having
become a leader remained one of the people, and thus he
was one of the best examples of the self-made man of our times. No State
in the Union has maintained a longer or more unbroken record of efficient
service on the part of its highest officials, both in its internal affairs and its
representation in the National Government, than the State of New Hamp-
shire, and certainly no one has more worthily contributed to this record
than the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this memoir. Gov-
ernor Ramsdell was altogether a most remarkable man, a man among men,
and as such was instinctively accorded their high esteem and deep regard.
He was, if humanity can ever attain perfection, an absolutely just man in
all his dealings, and beyond the severe demands of justice he was always
kind and even generous to his fellow-men. The world around him had
little knowledge of the constant flow of his charity, of the numberless good
deeds which adorned his daily life. New Hampshire, throughout her Col-
onial and National history, has been exceptionally fortunate in her chief
magistrates, and during the last century many men of conspicuous worth
and efficiency have occupied the government chair. By none, however, was
it filled with greater honor than by George Allen Ramsdell, whose adminis-
tration was marked by executive ability of a high order and by strict adher-
ence to the loftiest principles of integrity. Governor Ramsdell brought to
the discharge of his official duties the fruits of an experience notably broad
and comprehensive. His fellow-citizens had on several occasions placed
him in positions of public responsibility, and in the fulfillment of these
trusts he had developed the statesmanlike qualities which so eminently fitted
him for the high office of governor of New Hampshire. The death of this
noble man, which occurred in Nashua, New Hampshire, November i6, iqcx),
was a real loss to the community, not alone because it cut short all the val-
uable activities in which he had been long engaged, but also because it re-
moved from among his fellow-men a strong and winning personality. The
city of Nashua, in his death, lost one of her best known citizens, and the
State of New Hampshire one of her most highly respected former governors.
George Allen Ramsdell was born in Milford, New Hampshire, March
II, 1834. He obtained his primary education in his native town, and was
fitted for college at Appleton Academy, now known as the McCollum In-
stitute at Mount Vernon. He completed a year at Amherst College, but
was compelled by reason of delicate health to retire at the end of his sopho-

36 ^on. (©corge alien KamsDcll

more year. His ambition, however, to fit himself for a useful career did
not end there, for after a season of rest he entered the office of Bainbridge
Wadleigh, at Milford, where he read law. He completed his preparation for
the profession in the office of Daniel Clark and Isaac W. Smith, of Man-
chester, New Hampshire, and in 1857 was admitted to the Hillsboro bar.
Soon after, Governor Ramsdell located in Peterboro, where he remained
for six years in active practice. In 1864 he was appointed clerk of the
Supreme Court of Hillsboro county, and removed to Amherst, where he
resided until 1866, when the records were moved to Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, and he became a resident of that city, and for nearly thirty-five years
Mr. Ramsdell had been intimately identified and connected with business
and professional circles in that city. Going there while clerk of the Hills-
boro County Court, he continued thereafter to hold that position for many
years, until he resigned in order to devote himself to law office interests,
making a specialty of probate practice. Later Mr. Ramsdell formed a
co-partnership with Lyman D. Cook, under the firm name of Ramsdell &
Cook. This firm continued in business for three or four years, when banking
responsibilities made such a demand upon Mr. Ramsdell's time that he gave
up his court business and became directly identified with the City Guaranty
Savings Bank, of Nashua, as its treasurer, one of the most reliable of the
banking institutions of the State of New Hampshire, which was due to the
business ability and sound judgment of its late treasurer. At the same time
Mr. Ramsdell continued as president of the First National Bank, which
office he held at the time of his death.

The duties of clerk of the court took Mr. Ramsdell out of active prac-
tice, and therefore he was not known as an advocate before juries. His legal
acumen, however, was recognized by the bar, and every justice of the
Supreme Court for twenty-eight years previous to his death appointed him
referee and auditor in a large number of important and perplexing civil
actions. In this judicial capacity, Mr. Ramsdell visited every county and
all the large cities and towns in the State of New Hampshire. His ability
and impartiality in weighing evidence was never called in question, and
although he determined many causes, often involving large pecuniary inter-
ests, in which it frequently happened that bitter feelings were engendered,
there were but few appeals from his judgment and no aspersions relative to
motive. This honorable record was recognized by Governor John B. Smith,
who, upon the death of Judge Allen, in 1893, tendered Mr. Ramsdell a seat
on the Supreme Court, which was refused reluctantly, and in the mean-
time he was honored by Dartmouth College with the degree of A. M. Gov-
ernor Ramsdell did not devote his time and attention wholly to the intricate
problems and science of the law. He administered upon a large number
of private cases and carried many responsibilities in connection with per-
sonal and corporation investments, the wisdom of his judgment being ap-
parent in the fact that those who relied upon his sagacity never had cause
to regret it. He was identified in the temperance movement, and responsive
in everything incepted to promote the w^ell-being of society and guard the
home.

^on, (George 3llen KamsDell 37

Mr. Ramsdell was a staunch member of the Republican party, and did
splendid service in its ranks. He took a deep interest in all political subjects,
and ever advocated that which he considered best for his City, his State or
the Nation. He was intensely loyal to New Hampshire interests, and he
was a worthy son of a noble State. In 1870, 1871 and 1872, he was a mem-
ber of the State Legislature. He served upon the judiciary and other im-
portant committees, and won an enviable reputation as a careful and pains-
taking law-maker, a luminous and convincing debater, and a man whom no
influence could swerve from the path of duty. In the performance of his
legislative duties, as in the performance of duty as a citizen, he was always
a leader of the people, and a fearless advocator of what he believed to be
right. Mr. Ramsdell was a working member of the Constitutional Conven-
tion of 1876, and represented the Third District in the Governor's Council,
in 1891 and 1892.

Selected by the members of his own party in his adopted city as their
choice to win gubernatorial honors, he was elected by the largest plurality
ever given a candidate for governor in the Granite State. He enjoyed the
distinction of being the chief executive of his State at one of the most im-
portant periods of her history. It became his duty when President Mc-
Kinley called for volunteers from that State to raise and equip New Hamp-
shire's quota in the volunteer army, and in a most patriotic and business-
like manner was that duty performed, and under the wise guidance of Gov-
ernor Ramsdell, New Hampshire was able to place her regiment in the field
well equipped, splendidly disciplined, among the first of the States to re-
spond. Under his care one of the best regiments in the entire volunteer
army was sent South to await wherever the call of duty might send them.
The splendid achievements of the American forces having brought the war
to a close before the New Hampshire regiment was needed at the front,
that regiment returned to the State and was disbanded, minus the brave
boys who fell victims to disease. During all the time that the regiment was
in the hot climate of the South, Governor Ramsdell never once lost his
interest in it and did all that came within his province to minister to the
comfort of our brave lads while they were in the service of their country.
When the demand for the return of the regiment was heard, Governor
Ramsdell was prompt to recognize the call, and he respectfully requested
President McKinley to allow the New Hampshire regiment to return home.
The request was granted and the care and sympathetic ministrations show-
ered upon the returning soldiers, and especially upon those who were ill and
suffering, is a matter of history. In those attentions. Governor Ramsdell
took no small part, meeting many of the invalid soldiers at Worcester,
Massachusetts, and accompanying them back to Manchester and Concord,
where everything that was possible was done for them at the expense of
the State or of the Relief Association in which Governor Ramsdell was so
actively interested.

The exemplary life, the straightforward business dealings, and the loyal
citizenship of this noble gentleman, was well known and highly honored in
the city of Nashua, New Hampshire. In all undertakings for the good of the

38 i^on. (Seorge 3llen EamsDcH

city, his advice was sought and judgment relied upon to a marked degree.
In many of the most important business undertakings of his native city, he
took a prominent part and his opinions were deferred to to a remarkable
extent. He was reserved in his tastes, conservative in his methods, and was
a man who brought to his aid the experience of a long legal career in form-
ing a judgment on the matter under consideration. It was characteristic
of Mr. Ramsdell to give a subject careful consideration before announcing
an opinion, and his business and professional sagacity were never questioned
and rarely found at fault. He was ever looked up to as one of Nashua's
most honored citizens, due to the esteem in which he was held, and his hold
upon his fellow-citizens was not surpassed by any other resident of Nashua,
New Hampshire.

Among the minor, yet eqvially important positions, in which Mr. Rams-
dell served the people of the State may be mentioned that of president for
several years of the State Industrial School, and trustee of the Orphans
Home at Franklin, being at the time of his decease a member of the last
named board. He was many times solicited to stand as the Republican
candidate for mayor of the city of Nashua, but owing to onerous duties in
the position mentioned, and the added fact that his duties as president of
the First National Bank, treasurer of the City Guaranty Savings Bank, be-
sides other clients whose interests he must guard in the Supreme and Pro-
bate Courts, the management of the ancestral farm at Milford, New Hamp-
shire, and proper attention to his own private interests, compelled him to
decline the honor of serving as mayor of his adopted city.

The education of Mr. Ramsdell in literary, legal and financial realms
was broad, and his views were liberal and tolerant. He was a sound
reasoner, careful in defining his position, and a man whose word implied
implicit trust. Mr. Ramsdell was an orator of no inconsiderable ability.
For several years he was engaged in gathering material for a history of his
native town of Milford, New Hampshire, which was later published. Liter-
ary in his instincts, his work as historian of Milford and on other subjects
would have won him fame had he depended upon this alone.

Mr. Ramsdell was a Mason in Altermont Lodge, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, at Peterboro, while residing there, and on coming to
Nashua, he became identified with Rising Sun Lodge. He was also a Scot-
tish Rite thirty-second degree Mason, in Edward .A. Raymond Consistory
of Nashua. He was the possessor of a kindly and a noble heart, and matters
pertaining to the uplifting and advancement of his fellow-men were never
disregarded or made little of. In his religious convictions, Mr. Ramsdell
was a liberal Congregationalist and a member of the First Church of that
denomination in Nashua. He was also a member of the Congregational
Society and gave most generously of his means to the Young Men's Christ-
ian Association and kindred organizations. He was one of the leading
members of the New Hampshire Central Congregational Club, and religious
and educational matters always received his support and encouragement.
Neither his religious, social or Masonic life was marked or marred by dis-
play or a forbidding spirit. The summary therefore of the career of this

^on. (QtotQt alien iaam$DeII 39

noted son of New Hampshire will serve as a useful and impressive lesson
to the generations to come, in the community in which he resided, and
where his name is known and revered. His name, however, was respected
far beyond the limits of his adopted city, and he was a citizen whom Nashua
will greatly miss. The public career of Ex-Governor Ramsdell included
nineteen years of service on the Board of Education of Nashua, twenty
years as trustee of the Public Library, and many other positions of trust
and responsibility.

In November, i860, George Allen Ramsdell was united in marriage
with Eliza D. Wilson, who was born September 7, 1836, a daughter of David
and Margaret (Dinsmoor) Wilson, of Deering, New Hampshire. Mr. and
Mrs. Ramsdell became the parents of four children, as follows: i. Harry
W., born February i, 1862. 2. Arthur D., born August 2, 1864. 3. Charles
T., born July 7, 1866. 4. Anne M., born December 8, 1873. Mr. Ramsdell
proved to be a devoted husband and father, and did all in his power to bring
happiness and pleasure to the loved ones at home.

Honorable in purpose, fearless in conduct, George Allen Ramsdell stood
for many years as one of the most eminent and valued of New Hampshire's
men, and the memory of his life remains as an inspiration and a benediction
to those who knew him. And not only by those privileged to enjoy his per-
sonal friendship, but by many who never saw him, will his name be held in
reverence. Above all, will he be remembered as the governor of New Hamp-
shire, the incorruptible statesman who held his high office as a sacred
charge. He was the friend of the people, irrespective of creed, color or
condition, and the people were his friends. His genial manner, his kindly
temperament, his constant effort never to wound the feelings of others, made
him most attractive. Seldom have the annals of any State recorded so rapid
an elevation in the political world, and as a man, as a citizen, as a lawyer, as
a financier. Governor Ramsdell easily stood in the front rank of Nashua's
most prominent citizens, and at his death the entire State joined with his
adopted city in mourning his loss.

^ilas atJliteon JTelton

O say of the late Silas Addison Felton, whose name heads this
memoir, that he rose unaided to rank among the substantial
and successful business men of the city of Manchester, New
Hampshire, is bvit stating a well known fact, and his entire
business record was one that any man might well be proud
of. Beginning at the very bottom of the ladder of success,
he advanced steadily until he occupied a position of prom-
inence allotted to but few to hold in the business world. His business career
was looked upon as a model of integrity and honor, and it was said of him
that he was one of those men who form the backbone and sinew of any com-
munity in which their lot has been cast. His ability and intellectuality won
for him many honors, and his integrity and personality won something
even better and far more valuable, warm friendship and deep respect and
esteem.

The death of Silas Addison Felton, which occurred at his home,
No. 313 Bridge street, Manchester, New Hampshire, November 17, 1907,
brought genuine sorrow to the hearts of many who had recognized in this
noble gentleman the traits of our best New England people, and the sterling
qualities of manhood. He was indeed a striking example of those who secure
their own start in life, and his career illustrates in no uncertain manner
what it is possible to accomplish when perseverance and determination form
the keynote to a man's life. Depending upon his own resources and looking
for no outside aid or support, Mr. Felton rose to a place of prominence in
the business world by dint of tireless energy and great ability. At the time
of his death, he was seventy-five years of age,, and was both prominent and
influential in the general life of Manchester, New Hampshire, his adopted
city. It is always a pleasure to investigate the career of a successful busi-
ness man, for peculiar honor attaches to that individual who, beginning the
great struggle of life alone and unaided, gradually overcomes environment,
removes one by one the obstacles in the pathway to success, and by the
master stroke of his own force and vitality succeeds in forging his way to
the front and winning for himself a position of esteem and influence among
his fellow-men. Such was the record of Silas Addison Felton, who was a
most progressive man in the broadest sense of the word, always giving his
earnest support to any movement that promised to benefit his community in
any manner.

In the town of Marlboro, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1832. Silas
Addison Felton was born, the son of Aaron and Adeline (Baker) Felton,
who were among the best known residents of that place. His father, Aaron
Felton, was a leading and most successful contractor. The son's early train-
ing was given to him in the schools of his native town, as far as schools
could give it, for he passed through the doors of the school very early in

©lias 3DDison jFelton 4»

life. Mr. Felton learned the shoe manufacturing business, and in 1854 went
to the State of Kansas and subsequently to Minnesota. The young man
was assiduous, wide-awake and willing, and his active mind never rested
in routine work or assigned duties. He watched, studied and worked, and
later located in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, where he was for some time en-
gaged in the hotel business. Returning to Marlboro, Massachusetts, after
several years of absence, Mr. Felton resumed the shoe manufacturing busi-
ness, in which he continued until the year 1869, when he took up his resi-
dence in Manchester, New Hampshire, first filling the position of agent of
the shoe shop, then conducted in Amoskeag by Crane, Heidenrich & Coombs.
When this business was abandoned, Mr. Felton began the manufacture of
brushes, first at the S. C. Forsaith Machine Company's building, and later
in the Manchester Traction Light and Power Company's building. This
business rapidly developed and increased its output in a most remarkable
manner, and came to be known as the firm of Silas Addison Felton & Son
Company, of which Mr. Felton was for many years the president. As a
business man he enjoyed the confidence of the community in general, and
had won the respect and esteem of all his fellow-men. His energy, deter-
mination and thoroughness in whatever he undertook could not fail of good
results. He put closeness of application to his work in life, uprightness in
all of his business transactions, honesty and promptness in all matters, and
these are the qualities which will go very far toward securing success. Yet
the success which Mr. Felton achieved both as a citizen and as a business
man was not the result of ability alone, for his talents were unusual, that is
true, but it was really the triumph of his character. No man could have per-
formed the many tasks that he assumed more admirably or with greater
enthusiasm.

In his political belief, Mr. Felton had been a life-long Republican, and
although he never sought political office, he was elected a councilman and
alderman while he was a resident of Amoskeag. He served in the two
branches of the city government with honor to himself and to the city, and
was regarded as a man of excellent judgment, thoroughly honest and con-
scientious, having always in mind the best interests of the his adopted city
of Manchester, New Hampshire. To a fine natural business ability he added
the warmth of a deeply social nature, and a desire to be useful to his fellow-
men. To establish on solid foundations, and to build up an enterprise under
his management, such as did Mr. Felton, requires traits rarely found in the
walks of everyday life. He was a man of marvelous courage, and where
others might have yielded he stood firm. His mind was well balanced, his
iudgment was practical in the highest degree, and his executive ability was
one of his marked characteristics. The methods by which Mr. Felton at-
tained the high position which held the estimation of his fellow-citizens
attested his qualities of mind and heart, ever cheerful, alert to opportunity,
untiring in labor, and always masterful in the management of men, he
carved out of enduring granite his success as a monument to himself and to
his exceptional qualities.

42 ^ila0 aoDison jFelton

On January 20, 1861, Silas Addison Felton was united in marriage with
Mary E. Dudley, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, and the marriage cere-
mony took place in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Mr. and Mrs. Felton were the
parents of three children, as follows: i. David Dudley, who died May 5,
1914. was prominently identified with the business and social life of Man-
chester. New Hampshire, and was one of the city's best known men; he
was born in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, December 27, 1861, and was gradu-
ated from the Manchester High School; in the early eighties, his father,
Silas Addison Felton, took him into the business he was then conducting,
that of the manufacture of brushes, and the firm became known as the Silas
Addison Felton & Son Company. David Dudley Felton became an active
spirit in the management and development of the business, and later the
concern was incorporated under the firm name of S. A. Felton & Son Com-
pany. After his father's death in 1907, Mr. Felton had the entire super-
vision and management of the plant. About two years previous to his death,
David Dudley Felton organized the D. D. Felton Brush Company at Atlanta.
Georgia. He was one of the most popular members of the Derryfield Club,
and in his youth he was one of the active and live members of the Man-
chester Cadets. He was a director in the Manchester National Bank and
the People's Gas and Light Company. He was also a member of the Inter-
vale Country Club. Politically, he was a Republican, like his father, and
was at one time the president of the Young Men's Republican Club, of
Manchester, but never aspired to hold political office. In October, 1888, he
was united in marriage with Mary Frederica Briggs, a daughter of the late
Hon. James F. Briggs, ex-United States Congressmanfrom the State of New
Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. David Dudley Felton were the parents of one
child, a son, James Briggs Felton. 2. Frank P., of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire. 3. Harry, who died in infancy. To Silas Addison Felton his home
was the sweetest spot on this earth, and there the excellencies of his admir-
able character shone forth in great beauty. He was a devoted husband and
father, and preferred to spend his leisure hours at his own fireside sur-
rounded by those he loved best, the dear ones at home.

Being a very companionable man, it was only natural that Mr. Felton
become a member of a number of organizations and social clubs, among
which should be mentioned that he belonged to the Washington Lodge of
Masons, and to the New England Order of Protection. He was an honored
attendant of the Unitarian church, always giving most liberally to its sup-
port. Mr. Felton was looked upon as one of Manchester's most prominent
and highly esteemed citizens, and his death meant the removal of a man
who was long identified with the business interests of that city, benevolent,
charitable and enterprising, and he has been greatly missed in the commu-
nity. Patriotic, loyal, plain-spoken, with a tender heart, a jovial and happy
disposition, and enthusiasm in business as well as in social affairs, Mr. Fel-
ton closed his life, leaving behind him a host of friends who will long
remember him.

.ylffj/n'rr/ // rf.j/f j, r//r ,> •>//>/

'HE late Bushrod Washington Hill, a pioneer resident and
business man of Manchester, New Hampshire, was in the
broadest sense a man of affairs, having achieved high dis-
tinction both as a financier and as a business man. That a
man with the manysided mental equipment which this
record implies must needs bring to the discharge of his many-
duties an exceptional measure of capability, is a fact which
Mr. Hill demonstrated to the unqualified satisfaction of all public spirited
citizens of his adopted city, Manchester. The death of Mr. Hill, which occur-
red at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, March 3, 1904, marked the
closing of a career of a business man who by his great force and energ)' had
well exemplified the fact that constant labor when well applied, especially
when joined with sterling qualities, must invariably win the deep respect and
esteem of his fellow-men. His methods in business were clear and concise,
and the system and ability which he displayed would have been equally as
effectual if fate had decreed to place him in any other line of work. The
death of Mr. Hill left a vacant place in many hearts, affecting not only the
immediate family and his large host of friends, but every one in the com-
munity who received some good from his life and work. His accurate esti-
mate of men enabled him to fill the many branches of his business with
employees who seldom failed to meet his expectation in every way. His
clear and far-seeing brain enabled him to grasp every detail of a project,
however great its magnitude. Genial and courteous upon all occasions, Mr.
Hill easily surrounded himself with many faithful friends, whose admira-
tion and affection for him were exceeded only by the deep respect which
they held for him. His dominant characteristic was his love for his home
and family, to which he was most devoted, considering them as a sacred
obligation. Mr. Hill was one of those men whose lives and characters form
the underlying structure upon which are built the hopes of the prosperity
of America. The careers of such men as he show the possibilities open in
a commonwealth like the State of New Hampshire to those who possess
good business ability and the high integrity that forms alike the good citizen
and the good business man. The ambition of Mr. Hill along the worthiest
lines, his perseverance, his steadfastness of purpose, and tireless industry,
all furnish splendid lessons to the young business men of the coming genera-
tions, and the well earned success and esteem that he gained proved the
inevitable result of the practice of these virtues. His entire life was devoted
to the highest and best, and all his endeavors were for the furtherance of
those noble ideals which he made the rule of his daily life.
The Hill coat-of-arms is as follows:

Arms — Sable, a fess argent between three leopards passant or, spotted sable. The
fess is charged with three escallops gules.

44 15usI)rolJ masttinston l^ill

Supporters — Dexter a leopard gules, spotted or ducally collared, or. Sinister a stag,
azure, attired gules.

Crest — A stag's bead and neck azure, attired gules, on a wreath, over a ducal
coronet.

Motto — Per Demn et fcrriim obtinui.

The birth of Bushrod Washington Hill occurred in Grafton, New
Hampshire, June 26, 1832. He was the youngest of a large family, being
the last one to die. His father was the village blacksmith, and a man of
rugged temperament and practical ideas, who believed that success lay in
the results of hard work, and brought up his family according to this idea.
Mr. Hill learned to know the advantages and disadvantages of boy life in
the country, and at an early age he was made to realize that his success in
life was to be largely of his own making, and he therefore set out to accom-
plish this with a brave energ}^ that characterized his entire life. Thus it was
that Mr. Hill learned the elements of industry, and from his youth to his
ripe age he worked steadily to make a success of his life. In every sense he
was a self-made man, his early educational advantages being exceedingly
limited, and in his young manhood he tried several occupations with vary-
ing success, but it was not until he came to Manchester, New Hampshire,
that he found the business in which he was eminently successful.

Bushrod Washington Hill was one of four brothers who figured in the
early life of the city of Manchester, and he arrived there in the forties, his
elder brothers, Varnum and John M. Hill, having preceded him. Soon after
his arrival, Mr. Hill engaged in the express business, and afterward formed
a partnership with his older brother, John M. Hill, the concern being known
as that of Hill & Company's Express, and its operations were confined to
the line between Manchester and Boston over the Lawrence road. This
business proved highly remunerative, and the company sprang into popu-
larity almost from the very beginning. It was during the year 1882 that
Bushrod Washington Hill succeeded to the business, having bought out
the interest of his brother, and he continued to run the business until 1894,
when he disposed of its trade and good will to the American Express Com-
pany.

In the last ten years preceding his death, Mr. Hill was attached to no
active business interests, but took great pleasure in looking after his farm
on the North Mammoth Road, immediately east of the observatory section
of Derryfield Park. While he probably did not amass great wealth in the
express business alone, it was there that he got his start in life, and he was
a careful, prudent man, making safe investments. After his retirement from
all active business affairs, Mr. Hill gave most of his attention to the improve-
ment and development of his farm, which in fact had become a hobby of
his. and it was there that he sought recreation and rest after a half century
of close attention to business interests and cares.

Mr. Hill became a prominent factor in the financial circles of Man-
chester, New Hampshire, and was the president of the Hillsborough County
Savings Bank, which is the savings institution connected with the Mer-
chants' National Bank, of Manchester, and for some time had been its oldest

^

/%

^.y

ISusftroD COasftington ^ill 45

official. He had been also a long-time director in the New Hampshire Fire
Insurance Company, his connection with which dated back to the company's
very beginning. Mr. Hill was a man known by all of the last generation and
by not a few of the present generation. He was supremely interested in
everything that pertained to the history and growth of his adopted city of
Manchester, and his wise counsel and sound judgment were many times
sought in matters concerning the city's welfare and improvement. Al-
though Mr. Hill did not participate actively in municipal affairs and politics,
yet he had long served his city well and faithfully as one of the trustees of
the Valley Cemetery. In 1902 he was one of the Fourth Ward's representa-
tives in the Constitutional Convention, and it can be readily seen that the
death of this noble gentleman removed one of the most interesting figures
in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Mr. Hill was a member of the Old Residents Association, but otherwise
belonged to no other organizations outside of the Masonic body. There he
was identified with Washington Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mount
Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, and Trinity Commandery, Knights
Templar. In length of membership he was the oldest member of Trinity
Commandery, and a prominent and popular figure of that organization,
while the high esteem and afifection in which he was held was proved in the
set of resolutions passed by Trinity Commandery at the time of Mr. Hill's
death, which were as follows:

Whereas, It has pleased Divine Providence to remove from our midst our esteemed
and beloved Sir Knight Bushrod Washington Hill, who passed beyond to the great
"unknown city" on the third of March, 1904, and

Whereas, To know our deceased Sir Knight was to honor him, to know him inti-
mately was to love him.

As a Sir Knight, a man, a citizen, a friend, a husband, a father, he was all that is
comprehended in that grand phrase, "An honest man, the noblest work of God." His
body rests in peace, his soul is with his God. He lived honored and beloved, he died
mourned by all who had known him.

Whereas, In recognition of our respect to his memory, and the regard which
Trinity Commandery holds for his family and friends, it is hereby.

Resolved, That we extend to them our sincere sympathy in this, their time of
bereavement, and humbly unite with them in that consolation derived from the knowl-
edge of that Truth which reveals to us the unbounded love of God, and teaches us to
believe that,

"Death is the gateway of a higher life,
A life much broader than the one we see,
A volume grand, rewritten and revised.
Of what we are, and what we are to be.

"So let him sleep that dreamless sleep.
Our sorrow clustering 'round his head.
Be comforted, ye loved who weep.
He lives with God, — he is not dead."

Bushrod Washington Hill married (first) Anna S. Appleton, of Man-
chester, New Hampshire, and this union was blessed with two children, as
follows: I. J. Frank, who was united in marriage with Frances Atwood,
and they are the parents of ten children, 2. Sarah Louise, became the wife

46

"BusittoU maslfimton f^ill

of T. Howard Campbell, of Portland, Maine, and they are the parents of
two children. Bushrod Washington Hill married (second) Mrs. Helen M.
(Hayes) Peasley. The marriage took place March 4. 1890, and since the
death of her husband, Mrs. Hill has continued to reside in Manchester, New
Hampshire.

Mr. Hill was a most affable man, and while not at all ostentatious in
the bestowal of favors, was always ready and willing to advise and encour-
age young men who were making their start in life. He was a home man in
all that term implies, and was an affectionate husband and a kind father.
As a citizen he was singularly upright, and his death meant the removal of
one of Manchester's most conspicuous and equitable men.

3o0taf) Carpenter

Carpenter Arms — Argent, a greyhound passant ; a chief sable.
Crest — A greyhound's head, erased per fesse sable and argent.
Motto — Celeritas virtus, fidelitas.

'HATEVER the future may hold in store for New Hampshire,
for New England and for the country-at-large, whatever
may be the product, in manly and womanly character and
patriotic citizenship, of the commingled blood of all the
races now blended in our national life, it is safe to say there
will never be found a nobler type of manhood and woman-
hood than that presented during the last century in our New
England life, in the descendants of the English Pilgrims and Puritans, who
settled the land, builded their homes, conquered the wilderness, established
the church and the school, and laid deep and strong the foundations of free
government in the earlier years. A conspicuous example of this type was
Josiah Carpenter, of Manchester, New Hampshire, a prominent figure in the
financial life of the "Queen City" for many years, a citizen of high char-
acter and commanding influence, who departed from this life on May 22,
191 3, at the ripe age of nearly eighty-four years.

Josiah Carpenter was a native of the town of Chichester, where his
birth occurred on May 31, 1829. The family of which he was a worthy rep-
resentative has occupied a conspicuous place in American and English his-
tory for many generations, its established record going back to the time of
that John Carpenter who was a member of the English Parliament in 1323,
and was the grandfather of the famous town clerk of 1-ondon, of the same
name. The pioneer American settler of that branch of the family of which
Josiah Carpenter was a member was William Carpenter, who was born in
1605, at Wherwell, near Surry, who sailed from Southampton, England, for
America in the ship "Bevis," in 1638, with his wife. Abigail, and four child-
ren, and settled in Weymouth, Masachusetts, where he was made a freeman
in 1640, and elected to the Provincial Legislature in the year following. He
was "Proprietor's" clerk, and manifestly a leading man in the community,
but removed to the town of Rehoboth, in 1645, where he died in 1659, having
been a captain of the militia and otherwise prominent in public affairs, and
having won and enjoyed the friendship and confidence of Governor Brad-
ford.

Some of the descendants of this William Carpenter, of Weymouth and
Rehoboth, found their way to Connecticut and there settled and it was in the
town of Stafford in that State, or province as it then was, that John Car-
penter reared a family of eleven children, of whom the fifth was Josiah
Carpenter, born October 6, 1762. He graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1787, studied for the ministry and was ordained and installed as the first
settled minister of the Congregational church in the town of Chichester,

48 31o0ial) Carpenter

New Hampshire, November 2, 1791. This pastorate was the longest in the
history of the town and one of the most notable in the State, continuing for
thirty-six years, until the dismissal of Mr. Carpenter at his own request,
July 24, 1827. He continued his residence in the town, however, until the
time of his death, March i, 1851, and his life, his character, his teaching and
example as pastor and citizen, left a lasting impress for good upon the com-
munity. He had rendered his country patriotic service in early youth, hav-
ing performed sentinel duty on Roxbury Neck with four brothers, one of
whom was killed, and his entire life had been characterized by a spirit of
devotion to the demands of religion and the obligations of citizenship. On
April T3, 1790, he married Hannah Morrill, of Canterbury, the representa-
tive of another family notable in the history of the State, by whom he had
six children, the second of whom was David Morrill Carpenter, born in
Chichester, November 16, 1793, and who was a soldier in the War of 1812.
On January 13, 1818, he married Mary Perkins, of Loudon, was engaged in
trade in Chichester for many years, and later in farming, and subsequently
removed to Concord, where he passed away, December 9, 1873, having held
various public positions including that of treasurer of Merrimack county
for twelve years.

The second son of David Morrill Carpenter was Josiah Carpenter, in
whose memory we are writing. His early life was spent in labor upon his
father's farm through which, like many another man who has won success
in business life, he established the physical constitution and endurance
essential to such result, and in attendance upon the district school and the
academies in Pembroke and Pittsfield and the New Hampshire Conference
Seminary at Sanbornton Bridge, now Tilton. After completing his school
life, being possessed of an enterprising spirit, with the trading faculty so
characteristic of the intelligent New Englander developed in good measure,
he engaged for some time in the purchase and sale of live stock, ultimately
extending his operations to the southwest, and making the State of Ken-
tucky a field of enterprise. Returning north after a time, Mr. Carpenter's
father having removed to a large farm in the town of Epsom, he engaged
with him in extensive agricultural operations, and was soon after appointed
a deputy sherifif for the county of Merrimack, in which capacity he trans-
acted a large amount of business. He was also deputized to serve in a sim-
ilar capacity for the counties of Hilsborough and Belknap. For some years
before his father's removal to Concord, he had practically the entire care of
the farm which, with various private enterprises in which he engaged and
his official business, furnished ample scope for the full measure of energy
and activity with which he was endowed. In April, 1858, the farm in Epsom
having been sold, he was tendered and accepted the position of cashier of the
bank in Pittsfield, and took up his residence in that town, where he con-
tinued in the efficient discharge of the duties of his position (the bank having
been reorganized under the federal banking law in 1864), successfully ad-
ministering the afifairs of the institution, engaging in various important
individual enterprises, and at the same time taking that active interest in
public affairs which characterizes every loyal, intelligent and broad-minded

3fosia!) Catpentet 49

citizen. He filled various positions of trust and responsibility, serving his
tow^n as representative in the Legislature in 1862 and 1863, and Merrimack
county as treasurer in 1872 and 1873. Having determined to remove to a
broader field of enterprise, and having already erected for himself a fine
house on North Elm street, Manchester, in what is to-day one of its most
attractive residential sections, he removed there in 1877, establishing, with
his talented and accomplished wife and true helpmate, Georgia B. (Drake)
Carpenter, the only daughter of Colonel James Drake, long a leading cit-
izen of Pittsfield, with whom he was united in marriage on September i,
1858, what has since been one of the most charming and hospitable homes
in the "Queen City." He immediately engaged in the work of organizing
and putting in operation the Second National Bank of Manchester, of which
he was director and cashier at the start. This bank, through his manage-
ment, characterized at all times by sound judgment and wise discrimination,
pursuing conservative methods, rather than indulging in "wild cat" schemes,
but ever fostering the spirit of legitimate enterprise, became one of the
strong and successful financial institutions of the city and State and an
important factor in the business life of Manchester and the surrounding
region. Mr. Carpenter was president of the bank for many years, having
succeeded the late Aretas Blood upon the death of the latter. Simultan-
eously with the organization of the Second National Bank Mr. Carpenter
secured a charter for and established the Mechanics Savings Bank, of which
he was a trustee and treasurer until the time of his death, and which in its
standing and success bears ample testimony to his judgment and ability as
a financial administrator. In Manchester, as in Pittsfield, his enterprising
spirit was by no means confined to his banking operations. He recognized
the possibilities and the demands of real estate development in the rapidly
growing city, and became an active factor in that field of enterprise.

Although preeminently a business man, in the general acceptance of
the term, devoting his mind and energy in large measure to the conduct of
business affairs and gaining therein that substantial success which most
men naturally seek and comparatively few secure, Mr. Carpenter never lost
sight of the fact that there are interests in life of vastly greater importance
than those that relate to the ordinary affairs of business, the acquisition of
wealth and the development of the material resources of city. State and
Nation. He was ever true to the spirit and traditions of these pioneers of
American liberty who laid the foundations of our national greatness and
glory on New England soil in the early days when they set up the church
and the school as the first and highest objects of their fostering care and
support beyond the mere subsistence of themselves and their families. He
recognized the paramount claims of morality and intelligence, and gave
constant and generous support to the allied interests of religion and educa-
tion upon which all true progress and prosperity depend. Mr. Carpenter
was an Episcopalian in his religious affiliation, was an active and interested
member of the Grace Episcopal Church of Manchester, New Hampshire,
and a liberal contributor to its support and for the furtherance of the work

NH_4

50 31osia|j Carpenter

of the New Hampshire diocese. He had been a member of the vestry of
Grace Church for thirty-six years ; had served as treasurer for nearly twenty
vears ; and for a long time as junior warden. His last gift to the church was
especially noteworthy, it being a substantial and convenient new parish
house of granite construction corresponding with the church itself, and
supplying a want which had been long felt by the parish. This elegant
structure, which was given in the joint name of Mr. Carpenter and his wife
in memory of their daughter, the late Georgia Ella (Carpenter) Gerrish,
was formally dedicated on April 2, 191 3. Coadjutor Bishop Edward M.
Parker officiated at the services, in conjunction with the rector, with ad-
dresses by two former rectors, and by Judge Robert J. Peaslee, representing
the vestry. The house, which was designed by Ralph Adams Cram, con-
tains a large assembly room, an auxiliary room completely furnished by
Mrs. Carpenter, and rooms for a men's club and other organizations con-
nected with the parish, together with a spacious dining room, all properly
arranged and furnished with every necessary convenience. Although Mr.
Carpenter had been for some time in failing health, he was present at the
dedication, enjoying the exercises and entering into the spirit of the occa-
sion; but, as it happened, this was his last appearance at any public gather-
ing, nor could any more appropriate selection have been made therefor.
Could he himself have chosen he doubtless would not have had it otherwise.
His death occurred May 22, 1913.

Mr. Carpenter was long prominent in the affairs of the New Hampshire
diocese, holding various responsible positions and taking a lively interest
in the work done under its auspices, and had been one of its delegates at all
the sessions of the general triennial convention held during the last twenty
years, attending the convention in Minneapolis in 1895, in Washington in
1898, in San Francisco in 1901, in Boston in 1904, in Richmond in 1907, and
in Cincinnati in 1910. Intently devoted to business as he was, and neglect-
ing none of its demands, he had, nevertheless, found opportunity to travel
widely, accompanied by his wife, for recreation and observation, both in
this country and in foreign lands. His strong interest in the cause of educa-
tion was manifested in more than one direction. He was especially active
and prominent in the establishment of the School for Boys at Holderness,
of which he was trustee and treasurer from its inception, giving care and
attention to the remodeling and enlargement of the buildings made neces-
sary by the growth of the school, and otherwise promoting the welfare and
prosperity of the institution. In connection with the mention of Mr. Car-
penter's love and interest in the Holderness School for Boys, it is appro-
priate to say that in honor of Mr. Carpenter's memory, Mrs. Carpenter has
donated to that institution a handsome brick gymnasium, and also a schol-
arship fund; both as a memorial to her husband. He was also for many
years a trustee of St. Mary's School for Girls, at Concord, another valuable
and prosperous institution fostered by the Episcopal church in that State.
His interest in public education was always strong, and for the schools of
Pittsfield he ever cherished, notwithstanding his removal to Manchester,
an abiding regard which was manifested in a practical manner, as it was

3[o$iab Carpenter 51

through his instrumentality that provision was made for prize speaking in
Pittsfield schools. The most substantial manner in which his interest in
the intellectual welfare and educational progress of the town of Pittsfield
or its people was shown, however, was in the erection and gift to the town,
twelve years before his death, of a handsome and well-arranged library
building of brick and stone construction, which is not only an ornament to
the village in a material sense, but a blessing to the community in a far
more important direction. Since then Mr. Carpenter made liberal contri-
butions of books to the library and Mrs. Carpenter has continued the gifts
since his death. It may not be amiss to remark in this connection that if
more men of means in this and other states would build monuments of this
kind before death, or provide for their erection afterward, their own mem-
ories would be held in more lasting regard, and the general welfare be
greatly promoted. Having at heart the interests of the town of Pittsfield
and the surrounding region, and realizing the need of better transportation
facilities for its development and prosperity, Mr. Carpenter took an active
interest in promoting the construction of the Suncook Valley Railroad, and
was one of the directors of the corporation.

Politically, Mr. Carpenter was a conservative Democrat, adhering con-
sistently to the doctrines of Jeflferson and Jackson. Seeking no office for
himself, he gave hearty support to the policies and candidates of his party,
attending its conventions and serving upon its committees, but he did not
endorse its alliance with the free silver movement in 1896. His business
training and experience naturally made him an adherent of the gold stand-
ard, and he was one of the New Hampshire delegates in what was known
as the Gold Democratic Convention of that year, at Indianapolis.

Two children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter, a daughter,
Georgia Ella, who became the vdfe of Frank M. Gerrish, and died soon
after her marriage, and a son who died in infancy. Mrs. Gerrish was a
woman of rare charm, universally beloved, and wielded a powerful influ-
ence. By her early passing, her parents were bereft of their most precious
treasure.

Josiah Carpenter was a man of sterling character and real worth,
widely-esteemed and respected. Dignified in bearing, courteous and frank,
but never eff'usive in speech, his manner was that of the true gentleman, and
as such he was ever regarded. Resorting to none of the arts by which pop-
ularity is often gained, he won his friends through the power of manly
character and a kindly spirit, and having won them he ever held them fast.
He gained wealth by intelligent eff'ort and sagacious business methods,
and used it generously for the world's advantage. Above all he was a well-
rounded man, realizing fully all his obligations to himself, his family, his
friends and neighbors, to the community, the State and Nation, and to his
Creator, which latter, as he well realized, included all the rest, and he was
true to all. He will long be remembered as one who, having made the most
of his own opportunities, left the world better from having lived therein.

Colonel 3(^ntes Brabe

Drake Arms — Argent, a wyvern wings displayed and tail nowed gules.

Crest — A dexter arm erect, couped at elbow proper, holding a battle axe sable.

Motto — Aquila non capit muscas. (The eagle catcheth not flies).

^HE family of Drake is of great antiquity. The name Drago
or Draco, the Latin for Drake, was in use among the Ro-
mans, and signifies "one who draws or leads," a "leader."
The Romans obtained the name from the Greeks, among
whom it is found as early as 600 B. C, when Draco, the cele-
brated Athenian legislator, drew up the code of laws for
the government of the people. This code of laws bore his
name. Soon after the conquest of Wessex by the Saxons, a family or clan
called Draco or Drago appears to have taken possession of an old Roman
and Briton encampment in what is now the Manor of Musbury, Axmin-
ister, Devon county, England, which subsequently became known as Mount
Drake. From this family it is probable that all of the name in England and
Ireland are descended, as, although the crests of the various families of
Drake in later days varied, their arms were the same, thus proving the com-
mon origin of the famil)^

Ashe, an ancient seat adjoining Mount Drake, was brought into the
Drake family by the marriage, in 1420, of John Drake, of Mount Drake and
Exmouth (the first from whom lineal descent can be traced), to Christiana,
daughter and heiress of John Billett, of Ashe, and remained in the family
about four hundred years. Of this family was Sir Francis Drake, the cele-
brated navigator; Samuel Drake, D. D., and his son of the same name, both
of eminent literary attainments; Francis Drake, M. D., a noted surgeon and
antiquarian; James Drake, F. R. S., whose discoveries in anatomy are not
surpassed in importance by those of Hervey.

John Drake, of the council of Plymouth, one of the original company
established by King James in 1606 for settling New England, was of a
branch of this family of Ashe, several of whose sons came to this country,
one of whom was Robert, born in 1580. He took up his residence in Exeter,
New Hampshire, before 1643, but removed to Hampton early in 1651, where
he died January 14, 1668. He was a man of eminent piety, great influence,
and left a considerable estate.

Colonel James Drake, of whom we are writing, was of the seventh
generation from this Robert Drake, the line of descent being as follows:
(I) Robert Drake, previously mentioned.

(H) Abraham Drake, son of Robert Drake, was a man of especial
prominence both in Exeter and Hampton. His residence in the latter town
bore the name of "Drake Side," and has remained not only in the family
to the present time, but with few exceptions in the name of Abraham. He
was extensively engaged in running town and other boundary lines; was

Colonel 31ame0 Drake 53

marshal of the county of Norfolk for nine years, until the separation of
New Hampshire from Massachusetts in 1679. He was a man capable of
any business, a good penman and forward in all public service.

(HI) Abraham (2) Drake, son of Abraham (i) and Jane Drake, held the
office of selectman for many years, and was the wealthiest man in Hampton,
where he died in 1714, aged fifty-nine years, highly-respected in the com-
munity. He married Sarah Hobbs.

(IV) Abraham (3) Drake, son of Abraham (2) and Sarah (Hobbs)
Drake, married Theodate Roby, granddaughter of Judge Henry Roby, who
held a conspicuous place in New Hampshire's early history. Mr. Drake
was a prominent citizen, much in public business and affairs of responsi-
bility.

(V) Simon Drake, son of Abraham (3) and Theodate (Roby) Drake,
was born in Hampton, October 4, 1730, but settled in Epping about 1752,
when the town was almost a wilderness. The depredations and cruelties
of the Indians severely taxed the courage of those early settlers. He was
a man of remarkable exactness, and his farm was far famed for its neatness
and methodical arrangement. He married Judith Perkins. An older
brother, Abraham, was active in both civil and military affairs. He was a
member of the Provincial Congress, Captain of Horse in the French War,
and lieutenant-colonel in the Revolutionary War.

(VI) Major James Drake, eldest child of Simon and Judith (Perkins)
Drake, was born in Epping, November 14, 1755 (the year of the great earth-
quake). Early in life he went to Pittsfield, and was one of its first settlers.
Although but nineteen years of age when the War of Independence broke
out, he promptly joined the Continental Army, and after faithful service
received an honorable discharge. With characteristic zeal he resumed the
work of clearing his farm and eventually became an extensive owner of real
estate. In the State militia he was major of a regiment, and was one of the
town's most prominent citizens. He was a member of Pittsfield's first
Board of Selectmen, and filled that office for eighteen years, and long served
in the State Legislature with honor. He was a man of great force of char-
acter, possessing a strong will and much determination, tempered by sound
judgment. His physical abilit}'^ has seldom been equalled and for integrity
in all his dealings none could claim a higher place. He died in Pittsfield,
February 26, 1834. He married Hannah Ward.

(VII) We now reach the subject of our sketch. Colonel James Drake,
who was born in Pittsfield, June 29, 1805, and died April 7, 1870. He was
the eleventh in Major James and Hannah (Ward) Drake's family of twelve
children. His youth was passed like that of other sons of well-to-do farmers
in those days, but with the advantage in development which is the outcome
of the stimulus of a large household. Inheriting the fertile and well-equipped
farm from his father, he gradually added to its oversight extensive dealings
in live stock and the acquisition of much outlying real estate. After a few
years he moved to the village in Pittsfield where, because of his mature
judgment and dependableness, he was a leading power. He was president
of thp Pittsfield Bank (afterward a National Bank), holding the position

54 Colonel Slameis Drake

the remainder of his life. His fondness for miHtary affairs resulted in his
rising from a private to the rank of colonel of the Eighteenth Regiment,
which he commanded with signal ability and credit until the abandonment
of the militia system. He had a fine figure, an authoritative voice, and made
a soldierly appearance whether on foot or in the saddle. In politics he sup-
ported the Democratic party, where his efforts and influence were ever for
measures which pertained to the public good rather than personal aggran-
dizement, but in deference to the wishes of his party he served in the State
Senate in 1847-48. Conspicuous among his many commendable qualities
was his staunch and generous support of morality and religion.

On August 13, 1834, he married Betsey Seavey, daughter of George
and Betsey (Lane) Seavey, of Chichester. She was a woman of rare attrac-
tiveness and charm, well-educated (having finished her studies at Hampton
Academy), and possessed those qualities which make of home "a corner of
Heaven upon earth." She died September 28, 1865. They were the parents
of three children: Georgia Butters, born January 15, 1836; Frank James,
November 3, 1842, and Nathaniel Seavey, September 16, 1851.

It seems fitting that the descendants of Colonel James Drake should
have mention in connection with this, therefore will record that Georgia
Butters, inheriting her mother's charm and power which passing years
have enriched, was united in marriage, September i, 1858, with Josiah Car-
penter, then cashier of the Pittsfield Bank. The greater part of their life^
was passed in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Mr. Carpenter died May
22, 1913, at the age of nearly eighty-four years. To them was born, October
13, 1859, a daughter, Georgia Ella, the pride and comfort of their home.
She married Frank M. Gerrish, March 27, 1889, and entered into eternity,
August 29, 1889; also a son, born May 29, 1861, who lived but a day.

Frank James Drake, a man of rare integrity and uprightness, graduated
with honor from Dartmouth College in 1865, and engaged in the wholesale
flour and grain business in Manchester, New Hampshire, until the time of
his death, which occurred at his summer home in Barnstead, August 20,
1891. He married Harriet C. E. Parker, June 7, 1869, and their children
were: James, who died in infancy; and Helen, born April 8, 1871, who grad-
uated at Wellesley College, and on September 9, 1897, became the wife of
Charles S. Aldrich, a prominent lawyer in Troy, New York. They have
one child, Adeline, born December 10, 1901.

Nathaniel Seavey Drake, a dealer in real estate, occupies the paternal
home in Pittsfield village, where he takes an active part in the development
and uplift of his native town. He married Mary A. R. Green, March 17,
1873. The older of their two children is James Frank, born September i,
1880, a graduate of Dartmouth College, who left his position as treasurer
of the Phelps Publishing Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, in May,
1918, in obedience to the government's summons for him to take charge of
a finance division of the Ordnance Department, with rank of major. United
States Army. His wife was Mildred A. Chase, of Plymouth, New Hamp-
shire, the accomplished and attractive mother of three daughters, Ruth,
Virginia and Constance, and a son, James Frank, Jr. The second child of

Colonel 3lame0 Drake 55

Nathaniel Seavey and Mary A. R. Drake is Agnes, born April 2, 1883, who
graduated from Lasell Seminary. She married Calvin W. Foss, a Dart-
mouth College graduate, and they reside in Brooklyn, New York, where two
children were born, Agnes and Christine.

Among the frequent substantial evidences of remembrance and loyalty
to the home town of their father may be mentioned the "Drake Field," an
athletic ground of thirteen acres, handsomely laid out and fitted with the
most substantial modern equipment, presented by Mrs. Carpenter and her
brother, Nathaniel Seavey Drake, also a fine library building of brick and
stone construction, the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter.

Colonel James Drake was typical of that fine class of manhood which
is so characteristic of New England, and upon which, as a sure foundation,
her wealth and prosperity rest. It is to the presence of such men, progres-
sive, wide-awake and full of enterprise, that communities owe their pros-
perity, and it is only appropriate therefore that they should mourn the loss
of them as Pittsfield and the neighboring region did for Colonel Drake.

Bemas Btotnell

HE late Demas Dwinell, a well-known resident of the city of
Manchester, New Hampshire, was for many years one of
the leaders in any movement for the public good of the
community, and to such an extent was this the fact that his
name came to be accepted as a stamp of excellence and his
endorsement of a public or private enterprise regarded as an
evidence of its merit and honesty. His name should be
found among the men entitled to a place in the noble company of those who
when dying left the world better than they found it. In private life the
amiable and generous disposition of Mr. Dwinell endeared him to a number
of friends, and it is men like him who are intelligent factors in every idea
and work that helps to develop the success of all great cities, and it is to be
hoped that there are many more like him fit to follow in his footsteps. Mr.
Dwinell was a well equipped man of prodigious energy, and a possessor of
all those hardy virtues which gain the admiration and affection of all man-
kind. Not every man who has reared to himself the monument of a suc-
cessful career leaves his memorial in the heart of the public, but this was
true in the case of the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this
tribute, and none who had the honor of his acquaintance, and were familiar
with the circumstances of his career, could for a moment doubt that the
vacancy left by his passing away was one difficult to replace. The death of
Mr. Dwinell occurred in Manchester, New Hampshire, May 28, 1913. and
removed from the midst of that city a man who was just, generous and
kind. He left behind him the memory of a nature rarely gifted with those
attributes which made for doing unto others as he would have others do to
him. He was a man of high ideals to which he adhered with an unusual
degree of faithfulness throughout his entire life, and might well be pointed
out as a model of good citizenship. The community-at-large felt the whole-
some and inspiring effect of his example, and it will be long before its mem-
bers cease to miss the genial and kindly influence which surrounded him.
It is always very difficult, if not sometimes impossible, to fully estimate the
effect upon their environment of such men as Mr. Dwinell, whose influence
depends not so much upon the concrete deeds that they have accomplished,
as upon that subtle force which communicates itself unseen to all about
from a fine and gracious personality. Although it is difficult to estimate the
influence for good of such a man, it is at least easy to set it high. Thus
can be readily seen that the death of Mr. Dwinell was a loss not only to his
immediate family and the large circle of devoted friends, which his many
good qualities had won for him, but to his fellow-citizens in general, few
of whom had not benefited in some way by his life and example.

The birth of Demas Dwinell occurred in the northern part of the State
of New York, and he was the son of Harvev Dwinell. Demas Dwinell was

sniicll OVciinilii

Dema0 DtoincII 57

considered one of the best known and most respected citizens in Manchester,
New Hampshire, and especially so in the East Manchester district, where he
had lived for so many years and where he held extensive real estate inter-
ests. He was particularly interested in the growth and development of this
part of the city, the East Side, as it was called, and never missed an opportu-
nity to aid in making that important part of Manchester keep abreast of
the remainder of the city in every way. Mr. Dwinell believed in Man-
chester being a city of progress and improvement, and his faith in the city
led him to invest wisely and extensively in many different kinds of property.

At one time Mr. Dwinell was a merchant in Manchester, but had
retired several years prior to his death to attend chiefly to his real estate
holdings. Even in the prime of life, Mr. Dwinell was progressive to the
highest degree, and his influence was a potent one in the community. To
the virtues of honesty and sagacity he added other graces, so that among
all his associates, whether in the way of business or the more personal rela-
tions of life, he was both loved and admired, and a complete confidence was
felt in him from the start that he would fulfill whatever he engaged to do.
He was indeed a courteous, kindly man, and a citizen of high repute and
worth.

At the time of his death, Mr. Dwinell was sixty years of age, and had
resided in Manchester, New Hampshire, for over thirty years. He was one
of those men who made friends easily, and had the rare faculty of retain-
ing those friendships. His popularity was very widespread, and though the
news of his death was felt as a loss in difl^erent parts of the State yet the
strongest affection was felt for him in Manchester, the place of his adoption,
as it was there that he gave most generously to his friendship and service.

Mr. Dwinell was very charitable to every good work, and could not
bear to witness need without an attempt to alleviate the circumstances. His
support of charitable movements was most generous, and it is probable that
no one, certainly no one outside his immediate family, realized the extent of
these benefactions for he gave with that modesty which is recommended to
us, so that his right hand knew not what his left did. It was rare indeed
that an appeal was made to him for any public movement, of which his
judgment approved, to which he did not respond most liberally, and of those
who came to him privately for aid few were sent away unsatisfied. The
soul of sincerity and honor, his purposes were always high-minded, and he
turned his immense energy and unusual talents chiefly to the use of his
fellow-citizens and to the community-at-large.

Mr. Dwinell was a prominent member of Oak Hill Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, the Acorn Rebekah Lodge, both of Manchester, New
Hampshire, the Passaconnaway Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, and a
member of the Foresters of America. He was a delightful companion, as
he remembered and recounted with vivid power the many interesting exper-
iences he had passed through during his long career as a business men. In
his religious belief, Mr. Dwinell was an Episcopalian.

Demas Dwinell was united in marriage with Minnie L. Jackson. Mr.
and Mrs. Dwinell had one son, who is now Dr. George F. Dwinell, a grad-

58

Demas Dtoinell

uate of Harvard Medical School. Mr. Dwinell was a strong character and
was deeply interested in the affairs of the community, which were ever
uppermost in his mind, and at the same time was most devoted to his own
family ; in all ways a faithful husband and a wise father. He made an ideal
citizen, and one that any community might hold up as a type for its youth
to imitate.

(g^eorge ilpron C|)antiler

'HE CHANDLERS have always been natural leaders in what-
ever community their fortunes happened to be cast, and long
occupied an honorable and conspicuous place in New Hamp-
shire history. A time-honored name in American annals,
among the first in New Hampshire, this has been conspicu-
ous in many States, and is among the most prominent of the
commonwealth to-day. As jurists and legislators, as busi-
ness men and philanthropists, its bearers have done service to New Hamp-
shire and received honor at her hands. It has been said that Roxbury,
Massachusetts, received the best of the English emigrants in Puritan days,
and this family has furnished since those olden days many of the best
pioneers in many States of the Union. Heraldic description of the Chandler
coat-of-arms :

Arms — Chequy argent and azure, on a bend sable three lions passant or.
Crest — A pelican sable in nest vert feeding her young.

Motto — Ad mortem fidelis. (Faithful until death). Matthews American Armoury
1903 and 1908.

William Chandler, the first of the name to come to America, settled
in Roxbury, in 1637, and immediately became prominent in the development
of the new plantation. His descendants participated in the border war-
fares, and one of them, John Chandler, fought throughout King Philip's
War. He was rewarded for his meritorious service with a grant of land in
Narragansett, No. 5, now Bedford, and hither his son, Thomas, emigrated
in 1750. Succeeding generations lived there, improving the homestead,
hewn out of the wilderness by this sturdy pioneer, until Adam Chandler,
the father of the subject of this tribute, occupied the old home.

George Byron Chandler, of the ninth generation from William Chand-
ler, the immigrant of the family, was born in Bedford, New Hampshire,
November 18, 1832, the second son of Adam and Sally (McAllister) Chand-
ler. Three sons, all worthy of their heritage, were born to this couple,
namely: Henry, George Byron, and John M. Chandler. The second of these
robust boys, George Byron Chandler, passed his boyhood days upon the
well-kept farm of his parents, where he laid the foundation of that rugged
manhood which so well served him in the cares of an active life. His parents
were pioneer residents of the town of Bedford, and splendid representatives
of the high-minded, frugal and industrious citizens, who, in the early days
of its settlement, tilled the soil and shaped its affairs. They were anxious
for their son to follow some more lucrative calling than that of his immed-
iate ancestors, and gave him all of the privileges for education that were
possible in his native town, which were later supplemented by instruction in
several State academies, such as Piscataquog, Gilmanton, Hopkinton, and
Reeds Ferry. Possessed of that ambition and energy characteristic of the

6o (©corge 15vton CftanDler

New England boy, George Byron Chandler laid well his plans and carried
them out successfully. He believed in work if success was to be achieved,
and after having made proper use of his educational opportunities, he taught
school in Amoskeag, Bedford, and Nashua, before his majority, at the same
time improving every opportunity to acquire information by reading and
studying alone. Mr. Chandler spent the first year of his manhood in the
service of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, as a civil engineer.
Early in the year 1854, determined to devote himself to a business career,
he entered the employ of Kidder & Duncklee, grocers, in Manchester, New
Hampshire, as a bookkeeper, and there gave such promise of his subsequent
success as a financier that he was ofifered a position of a similar nature, the
following year, in the Amoskeag Bank. This he accepted, when that insti-
tution was beginning to get a start, and his capacity was so demonstrated
that he was promoted in eighteen months to the teller's position, which he
occupied until the organization of the Amoskeag National Bank in 1864,
when, after more than seven years of faithful and efficient attention to duty,
he was chosen cashier. As such he was the real executive officer of that
institution, and his friends may well be proud of the record in growth and
strength of this bank under his administration. This relation continued
until 1892, when Mr. Chandler became president of the bank.

Upon the organization of the People's Savings Bank, in 1874, Mr.
Chandler was made its treasurer, a position which he filled until his decease.
The New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company was another of the institu-
tions to prosper under Mr. Chandler's fostering care. He was one of its
incorporators in 1869, and was its treasurer while he lived. As president of
the Amoskeag National Bank, treasurer of the People's Savings Bank, and
of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, Mr. Chandler was one of
the leading officials in control of large capital. In addition to this he was a
director in the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, the Manchester &
Lawrence Railroad, the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company,
the Moline Plow Company, of Moline, Illinois, the Manchester Gas Com-
pany, and various other corporations and large enterprises. Aside from
other business connections he was entrusted with numerous trusts, involv-
ing wise and skillful management of important and extensive interests. In
fact he was a man of many-sided influences for the good of the public. His
advice was often sought in matters pertaining to investments, and so uni-
versal was the confidence in his tact and proper conservatism that a good
word from him set doubts at rest. The figures of assets tell the story of
the marvelous success of the institutions which Mr. Chandler principally
directed during the half century of his uninterrupted banking life. Under
his guidance their growth was rapid and substantial, and even during the
critical periods, when other financial institutions in various sections of the
country were crumbling and many of them forced to suspend, they stood
the test. At no time did stockholders or depositors fear for their safety.
This fact and the marked prosperity of his institutions is sufficient to give
Mr. Chandler an imperishable place among the great financiers of the
country.

&totst 15pcon CbanDIet 6i

While these have been the interests dearest to Mr. Chandler, he was
ever inclined to assist other w^orthy enterprises especially those calculated
to build up the city of his adoption, Manchester, New^ Hampshire. His v^fell
know^n inclination to help home industries resulted in a unanimous choice
of Mr. Chandler for president of the Manchester Board of Trade, v^hen that
organization wras formed, and he took hold of the work with the vim that
was characteristic in everything he undertook. When he retired from the
presidency, a system had been formulated which made the board a most
material factor in the city's industrial progress. Every worthy enterprise
seemed to receive his hearty approval and financial support. To him in a
large measure the citizens of Manchester are indebted for the busy shoe
industry which has materially increased during the past few years. He saw
in the new industry the probability of success, and through his energy and
financial aid at least three large shoe shops were induced to locate in Man-
chester.

Standing out in bold relief as an illustration of Mr. Chandler's public
spirit and generosity was his work in connection with the New Hampshire
Club, of which he was an organizer and one time the president. His love
for arts and sciences led him to take a deep interest in the Manchester In-
stitute of Arts and Sciences, of which organization he was a benefactor of
incalculable value from its inception. When that institution suffered so
severely by fire, he did much toward its recovery from the blow. It was
due entirely to his generosity that the lost items were replaced, and the
Chandler course of lectures, which have afforded so much pleasure and
instruction, was likewise the fruit of his public spirit. Mr. Chandler was
also one of the leading spirits and supporters of the Philharmonic Society,
of which he was president. In truth it would be difficult to find another
person who has done as much towards affording good healthy entertainment
for both old and young. In this respect, alone, Manchester owes much to
Mr. Chandler's memory. If he had not been freely disposed to make good
the deficits anticipated, the musical festivals, with world-famous artists, as
soloists, would not have been Manchester's portion. He did it because he
loved music and realized concerts were a benefit to the community. Mr.
Chandler also founded an important lecture course in connection with the
Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, and the course bears his name.
At his own expense he brought to Manchester some of the most celebrated
lecturers in the country, who entertained the members of the Institute and
their friends.

Mr. Chandler was at one time commander of the Amoskeag Veterans,
and during the time he was at the head the famous organization flourished
immensely. He was a member of the Derryfield Club, the Wildey Lodge of
Odd Fellows, Royal Arch Chapter, Adoniram Council, and Trinity Com-
mandery. Knights Templar, having joined Lafayette Lodge of Masons in
1854. Governor Batchelder appointed him on the board of trustees of the
New Hampshire Agricultural College, at Durham. He was also a trustee of
the State Hospital at Concord, and for a time was a member of the State
Forestry Commission. While Mr. Chandler always took an active interest

62 ©eotge "Bpton CljanDler

in politics, he never sought political preferment, but, like all patriotic citi-
zens, he was solicitous for the welfare of his Country and State. He was a
Democrat in his political afifiliations, and in 1874 his party nominated him
for State Senator, he being elected in a nominally Republican district. He
was also nominated for Congress by the Democratic party.

On March i, 1904, Mr. Chandler had rounded out fifty years as a banker,
and the occasion was fittingly commemorated by the officials and employees
of the banks with which he was associated, who presented him an elegant
silver loving cup. Mr. Chandler had read much and traveled extensively in
this and other countries. He possessed a wide acquaintance with distin-
guished men in all the walks of life, and had therefore a valuable knowledge
of the resources, customs and characteristics of various sections, which stood
him in good stead in his business transactions, as well as furnishing him in-
valuable material for public addresses and private conversations. As a
public speaker, Mr. Chandler was most pleasing, and in him was combined
the elements of good citizenship. His death, which occurred in Manchester,
New Hampshire, June 29, 1905, at the age of seventy-two years, caused that
city to mourn his loss as she would few others because he had taught her
to love and lean upon him. For weeks and months when it became feared
that he would not live, people of all classes would remark, "Who can take
his place? Who is there so faithful and competent in the handling of trust
properties? Whose advice is so sound and safe? Who is there so capable
to manage the great financial institution of which he was the controlling
spirit?"

In 1863, George Byron Chandler married (first) Flora Ann Daniels,
who died May 3, 1868. One daughter was the fruit of this union, who sur-
vived her mother only a few months. On October 27, 1870, Mr. Chandler
married (second) Fanny Rice Martin, the only daughter of Colonel Benja-
min F. and Mary Ann (Rice) Martin. Mrs. Chandler was a niece of Alex-
ander Hamilton Rice, ex-governor of the State of Massachusetts. Mr. and
Mrs. Chandler were the parents of three children, namely: Benjamin Mar-
tin, Alexander Rice, and Byron, of Reading, Massachusetts.

George Byron Chandler was in many respects Manchester's foremost
citizen. He was public-spirited and interested in everything that pertained
to the city's commercial, industrial and intellectual welfare. He prospered
in business by the aid of his own ability and industry. He was charitable
and there was probably no worthy public charity in which he did not interest
himself. Many kindnesses to individuals will never be known, in fact his
private charities were legion. It was Mr. Chandler's custom every winter
to fit out the men on the Beach and Bridge street car lines with gloves. The
newsboys that delivered him papers were also remembered by him. Almost
everybody who came in contact with him had occasion to know his goodness.

From his early days, Mr. Chandler had been a member of the Unitarian
Society, and had served as its president and director. Although his own
church affiliations were with the Unitarian belief, almost every church in
Manchester had at one time or another to thank him for some substantial gift.

©eotge 'Bpton CljanDIet

63

To both the rich and the poor, Mr. Chandler was the same helpful citizen.
His conservative judgment, ripened by long and wide experience, was highly
valued by his friends and acquaintances, and his advice was never sought in
vain. His good counsel gave hope and ambition to many a young man, and
to many an older man, pressed by difficulties, as well. And so passed a good
man, who was just in all his dealings with the world.

ilenjamm JFranfelm iUlarttn

ENJAMIN FRANKLIN MARTIN, one of the most success-
ful and progressive citizens of the city of Manchester, New-
Hampshire, passed away at his home in that city on June i6,
1886, and the city mourned his loss as a useful citizen and an
exemplary man. He exemplified in an eminent degree the
New England character, being industrious, prudent, far-
sighted, benevolent, and kind in manner and thought. He
had inherited these qualities from old Colonial ancestry, and never caused a
stain to rest upon an honorable name. He was generally beloved, and justly
honored for his sterling worth, high principle and unswerving integrity.
He was. if humanity can ever attain perfection, an absolutely just man in
all his dealings, always kind and generous to his fellow-men.

The name of Martin is not only of frequent occurrence in the old world,
but it became common in America from an early period, and may be found
among the early settlers of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire
and Virginia, besides in other colonies. The name is variously spelled even
in the records of the same family, as Martin, Martyn, Marttin, Marteen,
Martain and Mortine. In nearly all the countries of western Europe, the
name of Martin is very common, and there is nothing in the name alone to
determine the nationality of the family which bears it. Martins for cen-
turies, however, have been members of the aristocracy and gentry of many
lands. The Martin coat-of-arms is as follows :

Arms — Argent, two bars gules.

Crest — An estoile of sixteen points gules.

Motto — Sure and Steadfast.

The first of the name of whom records appear was Martin of Tours,
a Norman, who made a conquest of the territory of Cemmes, about 1077.
Through successive generations the Martins of America have been mostly
honest, good and useful members of society, acting well their part in the
sphere of life in which they were placed, and from their manliness and
probity winning the respect of the communities in which they lived. Many
of them attained political eminence, and among them were judges, gov-
ernors, senators and congressmen. Among the twenty-one families that
accompanied the Rev. Joseph Hull from Weymouth, England, to Weymouth,
Massachusetts, were Robert Martin and wife. They were from Badcome,
Somersetshire, England, and arrived on the Massachusetts Coast, May 6,

Benjamin Franklin Martin, the fifth in descent, was born in Peacham,
Vermont, July 21, 1813, the son of Truman and Mary (Noyes) Martin. His
father was a pioneer settler of that town, and there cleared up a farm and
became one of the representative citizens. When but eighteen years of age,

IBenfamin iFtanfelin Q^artin 65

Benjamin Franklin Martin started out in the world to earn his own liveli-
hood, and for this purpose proceeded on foot to Meredith Bridge, now
Laconia, New Hampshire, where he learned the art of paper-makingf. He
was apt and willing and rapidly mastered the details of this trade. His sub-
sequent career as a business man and manufacturer amply testified the value
of careful preparation and steady pursuit of his calling. After one year in
the mills in Laconia, Mr. Martin was able to accept a journeyman's place,
and proceeded to Millbury, Massachusetts, where he became engaged in
that capacity. His habits were correct, and his earnings were not spent in
youthful follies, so that a few years found him in a position to engage in
business on his own account. Mr. Martin, in partnership with his brother-
in-law, Thomas Rice, leased mills at Newton Lower Falls, near Boston, and
together they operated these mills until the year 1844. During that same
year Mr. Martin purchased a large mill at Middleton, Massachusetts, which
he successfully operated for nine years. Desiring to enlarge his business,
he leased a mill and residence at Lawrence, Massachusetts, and had shipped
his household effects there when his attention was called to the facilities
offered by the water power at Manchester, New Hampshire. Upon inves-
tigation he decided to locate in that city and immediately proceeded to
build a mill at Amoskeag Falls. This proved to be one of the leading in-
dustries of New Hampshire's metropolis city, under the impetus given it
by the master mind of Colonel Martin. After twelve years of extensive and
profitable business, he sold out his interest in 1865, but could not be con-
tented out of its activities, and re-purchased the mill in 1869. Five years
later, Colonel Martin again sold the mill, and retired from his long activity
in paper-making to enjoy the fruits of an industrious and honorable career.

Many of the financial institutions of Manchester owed much of their
success to the keen business instinct, shrewdness and foresight of Colonel
Martin. He became a conspicuous figure in the financial circles of the city,
and his excellent good judgment was sought on many matters of import-
ance. He was a director of the Merrimack River Bank from its establish-
ment, in 1854, and became its president in 1859, resigning in i860. He was
one of the first trustees of the Merrimack River Five Cents Savings Bank,
and was made its vice-president in i860. Colonel Martin was also made a
director of the Manchester Bank, upon its charter by the State, and so con-
tinued after its reorganization as a national bank, and was a trustee of the
Manchester Savings Bank.

Colonel Martin was essentially a man of affairs, and it is no wonder that
his death was greatly lamented by the community in which he had lived
for many years. He was a director of the Concord & Portsmouth Railroad
Company, and of the Manchester & Lawrence Railroad, being elected the
president of the latter road in 1878. He was also president of the Man-
chester Gas Company, and while accumulating a competence was helping
the industrial development of his adopted city of Manchester. Colonel
Martin was furthermore a generous contributor to all elevating influences,
both by example and financial aid, and his interest and influence in every-

N H-5

66 IBcn/amin jTranblin Q^artin

thing that pertained to the material, social and moral advancement of his
home city was marked. His fine residence on upper Elm street was the
seat of hospitality and genial cheer, and his public spirit pervaded all por-
tions and interests of the city.

In his political principles, Colonel Martin was affiliated with the Repub-
lican party, and he became a liberal contributor of time and means to the
furtherance of good government. In 1857 and 1858, he served his city as a
member of the Common Council, and as alderman in i860. During the same
year he was chosen a delegate to the National Convention at Chicago, which
placed Abraham Lincoln in nomination for President of the United States.
In 1863 and 1864 he was representative in the Legislature, and acted as
colonel on the stafif of Governor Gilmore. That a man with the many-
sided mental equipments which this record implies must needs bring to the
discharge of the duties of his office an exceptional measure of capability is
a fact which Colonel Martin demonstrated to the unqualified satisfaction of
all public-spirited citizens. Colonel Martin was a faithful member of the
Protestant Episcopal church, but was not allied with other organizations.
His heart was wide enough for the entire world, and he was ever ready to
help any worthy movement.

On January 3, 1836, Colonel Benjamin Franklin Martin was united in
marriage with Mary Ann Rice, of Newton Falls, Massachusetts, a daughter
of Thomas and Lydia (Smith) Rice. Mrs. Martin was born at Newton
Falls, and was one of ten children, eight of whom lived to be over seventy
years of age. The union of Colonel and Mrs. Martin was blessed with three
children, daughters, of whom only one survives, namely: Fanny Rice Mar-
tin, now the widow of George Byron Chandler, of Manchester, who died in
that city, January 29, 1905. The home life of Colonel Martin was one of
the marked features of his life, as he was a man who greatly enjoyed domes-
tic happiness, and always tender and loving in the home circle, his heart
was no less filled with love toward all humanity.

(J Uy -C-t^

\yuA^y/L

ilenrp CfjurcJjtU

^HE career of the late Henry Churchill presents a fine example

of honesty, integrity, energy and perseverance, struggling

with the adverse circumstances of life, and rising, at last, to

complete triumph. No man v^^as better or more universally

esteemed by his fellow-men, and surely this is the highest

test of manhood. Few citizens have lived in Nashua, New

Hampshire, who have left a brighter record for every trait

of character that constitutes true greatness, and certainly none, whose

memories shall float down the stream of time, will be more honored and

revered.

The death of Mr. Churchill, which occurred in Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, December 4, 1913, at the age of eighty-two years, deprived that
city of a citizen who could be depended upon, the family of its wise coun-
sellor, and humanity of a kind, thoughtful and considerate friend. The many
with whom Mr. Churchill had intimate relations, in which his sterling char-
acter was fully disclosed, felt that his passing away was a personal loss.
In all his words and deeds he was ever faithful to all personal and public
obligations, while his kindness seemed to solicit friendship, his wisdom
invited confidence, and his integrity commanded respect. He earned for
himself the best eulogy that a man can receive from his fellow-men, that he
lived a useful life. He was a gentleman in the highest and loftiest meaning
of that term, and his life has shown what honesty combined with brains
and hard work can accomplish. It is an occupation alike of pleasure and
profit to trace the life histories of those successful men whose achievements
have been the result of their own unaided efforts, who, without even the
average advantages surrounding the typical youth, have worked themselves
up the ladder of accomplishment until they have found secure places in the
regard and admiration of their fellow-men. Such a man was Mr. Churchill,
a man who had dealt in both the times of war and peace and was not found
wanting in either.

The birth of the late Henry Churchill occurred in Lowell, Massachu-
setts, September 15, 1831, the fifth child of Samuel and Sarah (Coburn)
Churchill. Samuel Churchill was born May 28, 1796. He was a wheel-
wright by trade, and built the first water wheels used in operating the cotton
mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was united in marriage, September 18,
1819, with Sarah Coburn, and on account of failing health, he bought a
farm near Thetford, Vermont, where he died, September 9, 1869, at the age
of seventy-three years. His wife passed away in Nashua, New Hampshire,
November 14, 1884, at the age of eighty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Churchill became the parents of eight children, as follows: Rodney, born
September 14, 1820; Stillman, born July 28, 1823; Josephine, born August
22, 1825; Samuel, Jr., born Tune 19, 1829; Henry, in whose memory we are

68 l^enrp Cljutcbill

writing this memoir; Robert Wallace, born January 7, 1834; George Web-
ster, born June 5, 1836; Mary Lawrence, born July 20, 1840.

The history of the English Churchill family dates back to the time of
the Norman Conqueror. The name is derived from the town Courcil in
Lorraine, France. The surname has been spelled Courcil, Curichell, Cher-
icle. Churchil, Churchall, Churchell, and Churchill, the last form being the
one generally accepted for many generations in England and in America.
The Churchill coat-of-arms is as follows:

Sable, a lion rampant argent debruised with a bondlet gules.

Eight generations of the Churchill family have been Dukes of Marl-
borough. Thus, like the majority of English families of renown, the
Churchills trace their lineage to a follower of the Norman Conqueror, and in
France their ancestral line goes to a much more remote period. The branch
from which Henry Churchill, the subject of this tribute, was descended,
settled in Marlborough, Massachusetts, as early as 1630,

Henry Churchill obtained his education in the public schools of his
native city of Lowell, Massachusetts, and when still a youth he learned the
carpenter trade. Like many of his young friends. Mr. Churchill was greatly
attracted by the splendid opportunities afforded in the West and accord-
ingly left his home to make his place in the world in that part of the country.
But a short while after his departure his father's health became impaired,
and he returned to assist with the duties of the farm in Vermont. When
President Lincoln called for volunteers during the Civil War, Mr. Church-
ill's patriotic spirit came to the front, causing him to offer his services and
life to his beloved country. He enlisted with the Vermont Volunteers, and
served his country with valor and honor until the close of the war in 1865.
After the death of his father, in 1869, Mr. Churchill sold the farm in Ver-
mont, and located in Nashua, New Hampshire. He followed the trade of
carpentry, and became connected with the Jackson Company in Nashua, in
which capacity he remained until the year 1903, when he met with an acci-
dent, after which he retired from active business pursuits. Mr. Churchill
was a man beyond the average of intellectual power and skill in his depart-
ment of work. Thoughtful, quick of discernment and prompt in action, he
was particularly successful in his line of work. And to these qualities a
sleepless energy, a perfect system of detail, an intensity of purpose that
never took anything for granted, and one has a fair idea of Henry Churchill.
These qualities, apart from his independence of character, steadfastness of
purpose and indomitable energy, entitle him to a permanent place among
the leaders of the business world. Mr. Churchill came of sturdy progen-
itors, and proved this by walking from Nashua, New Hampshire, to Lowell,
Massachusetts, a distance of fourteen miles, when he was eighty years of
age, a feat of which he was very proud. He was a man of the strictest integ-
rity, and an example of the highest type of citizenship.

On October 13, 1877, Henry Churchill was united in marriage with
Cassandra Sawyer Hathorn, a daughter of John and Hannah (Leslie)

/^^^C27-/(

^enrp Cfturcftill 69

Hathorn, both of whom were natives of Henniker, New Hampshire. Mrs.
Churchill was the youngest of ten children, and was born and educated in
Henniker, New Hampshire. She is a member of the Congregational church
in Nashua, New Hampshire, and resides at No. i6 Prospect street. Mr.
Churchill's home life was a beautiful one, and his home he ever considered
as the dearest spot on this earth.

The death of Mr. Churchill called forth a remarkable expression of
feeling from his numerous friends in the community, and this proved the
depth and sincerity of the affection and admiration in which he was held.
His friends and business associates learned to prize him for his unassumed
worth, and such were the qualities of his mind and the forces of his char-
acter that in any calling Mr. Churchill would have occupied a hig-h place in
the regard of his fellow-men. The record of his achievements both in the
time of war and in general business was most honorable. Success in life is
the result of the most various kinds of effort and endeavor, and the prize of
the most diverse types of character. Many there are who achieve it through
some vigorous stroke which carries them at a bound from obscurity to
prominence, and some few there are of these fortunate enough to accom-
plish their rise without the loss of friendship or the affection of their fellow-
men. But the true nobility is displayed most conspicuously when the same
prominence it attained as the result of long and patient work performed for
its own sake and because it is a duty. Such was the path followed by the
late Henry Churchill.

laatlltam JFranfe Hubbart

'ILLIAM FRANK HUBBARD, for many years a well-known
figure and business man of Manchester, New Hampshire,
enjoyed the respect and confidence of the business world and
the friendship of all those whom he met in a social manner.
He made for himself an enviable reputation as a man of
business, straightforward and reliable under all circum-
stances, courteous and affable to his patrons, whom he al-
ways endeavored to please. Mr. Hubbard was honest and sincere in all
business transactions, ever conducting his affairs along the strictest lines
of commercial integrity. His own labors constituted the foundation upon
which he built his success in life, making him one of the substantial manu-
facturers in Manchester. It is a well known fact that at the foundation of
the prosperity of every great city lies the work of the manufacturer, for it
is he, who, in seeking a market for his products, attracts commerce to his
city, causes factories and business houses to arise, and gives employment
to many. The methods by which Mr. Hubbard attained the high position
which held the estimation of his fellow-men attested his qualities of mind
and heart. Clear judgment, alert to opportunity, untiring in labor, and
masterly in the management of men, he carved out of enduring granite his
success as a monument to himself and his exceptional qualities. When he
passed away at Pinehurst, North Carolina, while upon a pleasure trip, ac-
companied by his wife, on the morning of February i6, 1905, the mourning
of his wide circle of friends and business associates was everywhere apparent.
William Frank Hubbard was born in Boston, Massachusetts, March 6,
1843, the eldest son of William Winchester and Harriet M. (Hoitt) Hub-
bard. The Hubbards were among the oldest and most distinguished families
in early New England. Among the early American names this name has
been found in many parts of England for centuries before any American
settlement by white people. It was widely distributed in England, and is
traced to the Norman Conquest, though not in its present form. Like
thousands of the best known of our names to-day, its transition from the
French form has greatly changed its spelling. Of this family one branch
went to Connecticut, while the other settled in the vicinity of Boston. Abel
Hubbard, the grandfather of William Frank Hubbard, in whose memory we
are writing, was born in 1779, and died in 1852. He lived in Brookline,
Massachusetts, and was a carpenter by trade, being occupied in building
operations at Brookline and other points. His son, William Winchester
Hubbard, father of William Frank Hubbard, was born in Brookline, Massa-
chusetts, in 1819, and died in Manchester, New Hampshire, April 28, 1907.
He was a machinist and wood worker in the city of Boston until he removed
to Manchester, in i860, and opened a wood manufacturing business, at
Winter place, where he continued until retiring from all active pursuits.

mniiam jftanft l^uti&atD 71

Before he was eighteen years of age, he began the construction of a steam
engine, which was exhibited at the first fair of the Massachusetts Chari-
table Fair Association. Mr. Hubbard also designed and constructed the
first steam engine used in the press room of the Boston "Daily Advertiser."
His life was a very active one, and he completed many useful inventions.
He was united in marriage with Harriet M. Hoitt, of Moultonboro, New
Hampshire, who died in 1891. This union was blessed with four children,
namely: William Frank, Martha W., Emma and Harriet Ella Hubbard.

William Frank Hubbard, better known as "Frank" Hubbard, attended
the public school of Boston, through the grammar grades, and graduated at
the head of his class, while there was only one other to equal him in rank in
all the schools of the city. He was given a medal of scholarship at his grad-
uation, which was presented by the governor of the State. It was Mr. Hub-
bard's wish to enter the High School of Boston, but his father required him
to start to work in his shop. Still ambitious to acquire a higher education,
he improved every opportunity to earn money to pay his expenses through
college, accomplishing this purpose by working at civil engineering, teach-
ing school and working in his father's manufacturing factory until he had
obtained the means necessary for entrance to Dartmouth College, where
he took a four years course, and graduated in the class of 1869. For various
reasons, Mr. Hubbard had taken a scientific instead of a classical course at
college, and though it had been his earnest desire to follow a professional
career, he was induced to enter the employ of his father as foreman of the
manufactory, where he soon displayed marked ability. During the year
1888, Mr. Hubbard bought out the business and continued it alone very
successfully until the time of his death. Under his capable management
the business had taken on a new growth, and by ability and diligence he
made a success.

In 1894 Mr. Hubbard built a fine residence on North Elm street, Man-
chester, New Hampshire, where he lived with his family, being a man who
enjoyed home life, preferring it to clubs. A great reader, he was well
informed on all topics, and took a keen interest in passing events. He was
never an uncompromising partisan, but had never accepted any office of
public trust, as he had no time nor taste for public life. Mr. Hubbard was
the possessor of an intensely religious and devout spirit, and was a member
of the Franklin Street Church, to which he was a most generous contributor.
He was one of the earliest members of the Manchester Historic Association,
and was always a regular and interested attendant at its meetings. He was
also a member of the Manchester Art Association, having joined this society
when it was in its infancy.

William Frank Hubbard was twice married, his first wife being Clara
Leach, of New Boston, who died in 1881. On May 22, 1888, Mr. Hubbard
was united in marriage (second) with Isabella M. Kelley, a teacher in the
public schools of Manchester, New Hampshire, and a daughter of Daniel
Richards and Betsey (Richards) Kelley. Mrs. Hubbard's grandfather was
Dr. Amasa Kelley, a graduate of Dartmouth, medical department, and her
grandmother was the daughter of Abraham Richards, of Atkinson, New

72 a^Jilliam Jfrank l^ubbatD

Hampshire. Mrs. Hubbard received her education at Pittsfield Academy
and the Manchester Training School, having taught schools in Ashburn-
ham. Massachusetts, for two years, and eight years in the schools of Man-
chester, before her marriage to Mr. Hubbard.

Mr. Hubbard's life was filled with zest and energ)% and he leaves behind
him in the hearts of his friends an ineffaceable memory of kindness, devo-
tion and courage. He was loyal, generous and unselfish to such a degree
that he may be said to have had a genius for friendship. His ready sym-
pathv and thoughtful devotion, his charming, natural courtesy, and his
fearlessness, were most notable. His character had the fineness of gold,
while his aims and standards were high, unselfish and faithfully adhered to.
To have been honorable and generous in one's dealings with the world, and
true and tender as son and husband, is to leave a memory which is indeed
a priceless heritage.

€ItjaJ) iflorrtll ^Jjato

|NE of the most widely and favorably-known citizens of the
city of Nashua, New Hampshire, in the past generation, was
Elijah Morrill Shaw, who was closely identified with the
public affairs and general life of the community. For many
years the dignified figure of this distinguished gentleman,
with alert business-like mien, was a familiar and pleasing
sight to the residents of Nashua, and when he passed from
earthly view, February 23, 190.3, at the old Shaw ancestral home in Kensing-
ton, New Hampshire, where he had gone to spend the night with his twin
brother, after attending an educational meeting in Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, deep regret was expressed throughout the community. Mr. Shaw was
always the very life of any gathering at which he was present, and this
social, genial side of his nature won him favor with all, while the sterling
traits of his character were many and well developed. Mr. Shaw was not
only one of the best known residents of Nashua, but was for many years one
of the leaders in any movement for the public good of the community
wherein his lot had been cast, and to such an extent was this the fact that
his name came to be accepted as a stamp of excellence, and his endorsement
of a public or private enterprise regarded as an evidence of its merit and
honesty. His name ever stood as a synonym for all that was enterprising
in business and progressive in citizenship, and no history of the State of New
Hampshire would be complete without extended reference to this noble
man. He is justly entitled to a place among those men who, when dying,
left the world better than they found it. It is men like Mr. Shaw who are
always intelligent factors in every idea and work that helps to develop the
success of all great cities, and it is sincerely to be hoped that there are many
more like him, fit to follow his splendid example. The setting down of the
personal records of the men who by dint of worthy effort have raised them-
selves to a high position upon the ladder of success and secured them.selves
in the respect of their fellow-men must always be a work of the greatest
value. Self-made men, who have accomplished much by reason of their
personal qualities and left the impress of their individuality upon the busi-
ness and general life of the communities where they lived and worked, have
truly reared for themselves monuments far more enduring than those of
marble or stone. Such a distinction may well be claimed by Elijah Morrill
Shaw, whose death deprived the city of Nashua, New Hampshire, of one of
its most substantial men of business and a citizen of the highest type.

The birth of Elijah Morrill Shaw occurred in Kensington, New Hamp-
shire, July 16, 1826, and he was one of a large family of fourteen children.
He was of the seventh generation from Roger Shaw, the emigrant of the
family, who came to this country about the year 1630, and first settled in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1647 he purchased a farm in Hampton, New

74 dBHjai) Q^ottill ^fjato

Hampshire, and this farm is still in the possession of the Shaw family.
Elijah Morrill Shaw was descended from a long line of military men serving
in the French War at the siege of Louisburg, while his great-grandfather and
his son served in the War of the Revolution, both being in the same com-
pany. His father was in the War of 1812, and one brother was in the
regular army for five years, and afterwards in the War of the Rebellion,
together with one other brother.

Mr. Shaw's boyhood and early youth were spent in attendance at the
common schools and in the cotton factory of Exeter, New Hampshire, inher-
iting from his illustrious ancestors a fondness for mechanical pursuits. He
lived on the old Shaw farm until he reached his twentieth year, when he
entered Phillips Exeter Academy, but left that institution after one year to
enter the Exeter Manufacturing Company's Mill, thus beginning a career
extending through a period of more than forty years of steadily increasing
prominence in the cotton and woolen manufacturing trade of the New Eng-
land States. For his valuable services in the employ of the Exeter Manufac-
turing Company, Mr. Shaw received at first the meagre sum of eighty-five
cents per day, this sum being gradually increased until before his retirement
from all active business life he received an annual stipend of seventy-five
hundred dollars. As stated in his "Reminiscences," which was a sketch of
his early life and the customs of the times during that period, written by
himself and first printed in the "Exeter News Letter," Mr. Shaw never
asked an employer for an increase in wages, was never discharged from a
position once held, never was heard to complain of his work, and never left
a position except for the purpose of filling a more desirable one elsewhere.
He acquired while comparatively a young man a practical knowledge of
every phase of the manufacturing of both cotton and woolen fabrics, and
his ability for constructing independent lines of action made him the ideal
agent and successful manager. Later Mr. Shaw went to Newburyport,
Massachusetts, and from there to Great Falls, New Hampshire, as a loom-
fixer. In 1853 he was employed as an overseer in the Victory Mills, in Sara-
toga township. New York, remaining there for four years, and then went
to Lewiston, Maine, where he was overseer in the Bates Mills, and after-
wards at Lisbon, in the Farwell Mills, remaining in Maine in this business
for about twenty years.

When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Shaw was engaged in a mill at Law-
rence, Massachusetts, but holding a commission in the Lewiston Light
Infantry, he at once obeyed his country's call to arms and joined the First
Maine Infantry Regiment as second lieutenant of Company F. He served
in this capacity until mustered out with the regiment, September 13, 1861.
When the regiment was reorganized as the Tenth, Mr. Shaw was appointed
adjutant and served in that capacity until January 9, 1863, when he was
commissioned captain of Company H, Tenth Regiment. In this position he
served until mustered out with the regiment. May 8, 1863. Captain Shaw
had also before the war held ofiices by commission in the Maine and New
Hampshire militia, and after its close he was at one time commander of the
Maine Department of the Grand Army of the Republic. While residing in

rnuab Qiortill ^[jato 75

Maine, he was deeply interested in the work of the Grand Army and held
various positions in a subordinate capacity. Mr. Shaw was also a member
of the Sons of the American Revolution and the Loyal Legion. He was a
Mason and a Granger. While living in Lewiston, Maine, he was a member
of the Common Council and served as its president, besides holding other
offices of trust and responsibility in that city. From 1863 to 1866, Mr. Shaw
was connected with the Everett Mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and for
three years afterward was the agent for the Moradnoc Woolen Mill in Leo-
minster, Massachusetts. He then built the Farwell Mills in Lisbon, Maine,
and managed them until 1884. While there Mr. Shaw was elected to the
State Legislature for 1881 and 1882.

Mr. Shaw was next engaged as agent of the Great Falls Mills, which
he placed on a paying basis, but in 1888 he was called to Nashua. New
Hampshire, to become agent of the Nashua Manufacturing Company,
the leading corporation there, and filled that position until 1891, when he
resigned, and retired from all business life. Soon after the close of his life
as a manufacturer, Mr. Shaw was commissioned by the governor of New
Hampshire as one of the Board of World's Fair Managers, which position
he held until appointed executive commissioner from the State of New
Hampshire. These positions Mr. Shaw held from the date of his appoint-
ment in May, 1891, until the close of the Fair in November, 1893, and he
performed the manifold and difficult duties pertaining to these offices with
discretion and unquestioned ability as well as to the State's credit.

Mr. Shaw, whose home was at this time established in Nashua, New
Hampshire, became as prominent there in religious and business organiza-
tions as in his former places of residence, and upon leaving the charge of
the Nashua Corporation he built for himself a beautiful house, where he
spent the remaining years of his life. He occupied various positions as
administrator and trustee of estates while in Nashua, and was besides a
director in the Nashua Trust Company from its formation, and in 1894 was
chosen treasurer of the New Hampshire Baptist Convention, filling this
office for five years. He was an active member of the First Baptist Church
of Nashua, and contributed most liberally to its support, as well as to the
building fund for the Crown Hill Mission Church, after donating the land
upon which it was erected. Mr. Shaw was also an ardent supporter of pro-
hibition, believing it to be the only cure for the evils of intemperance. In
1899 he was elected the business manager of Colby Academy, at New Lon-
don. New Hampshire, which office he held until his death, and was largely
instrumental in clearing the institution of a debt which had encumbered it
for many years.

Elijah Morrill Shaw married (first), April 29, 1852, Amantha C. San-
born, of Brentwood, New Hampshire. Mr. Shaw married (second) Mary
Helen Davison, a native of Prince Edward Island. His children are as fol-
lows: I. Irving Chase, of Kensington, New Hampshire, who married Nellie
Gilpatrick, of Webster, Massachusetts, and they are the parents of three
children, namely: Harry Elijah, Susie Maud and Hattie Isabella. 2. Anne
Elizabeth, became the wife of W. S. Libby, of Lewiston, Maine, and their

76 (ZBHfat) QiorriU ^fjato

union was blessed with five children, namely: Freeman H., deceased; Ger-
trude B.. Harold S., AUie S., and Winifred S. 3. Susie Shaler, deceased. 4.
Elijah Ray, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was united in marriage with Louise
E. Tolles, of Nashua, and they have one child, Frederick Elijah Shaw. 5.
Susie McNeil, deceased. 6. Helen Maud, also deceased. Mr. Shaw was a
man who felt strongly the ties of family affection and might well serve as a
model of the domestic virtues, and indeed of the virtues of well nigh all the
relations of life.

He was high-minded and liberal, keenly alive to all the varied require-
ments of life, and one of those capable of conducting operations of the most
extended and weighty character and influence. He was a true type of the
sturdy New Englander. With patriotic motives he entered the military
service in the Civil War, and after living so many years was able to witness
the fruit of his toil and that of his associates in the armies of the country.
He was truly a man whose usefulness as a citizen has made him worthy of
commemoration and whose memory will live forever, as long as life lasts, in
the hearts of all those who were so fortunate as to have known him.

llcLHey (jo(/u

ISSEalter CoDp

ALTER CODY, whose death at his home in Manchester,
New Hampshire, June 7, 1904, left a gap in the life of that
city impossible to fill and difficult to forget, was another
example of the capable and successful Irishman who. com-
ing to this country without friends or influence, rapidly
makes his way to a position of leadership in the community
which he has chosen for his home, and quickly identifies him-
self with all that is best in American life and tradition. Mr. Cody was a
self-made man in the best sense of that term, successful in all the operations
which he undertook, although in a most unassuming and retiring way. He
was instinctively a charitable man, but obeyed literally the Biblical precept,
not to let his left hand know what his right hand did, so that his liberality
was realized by but a few. While it is common enough to find men whose
careers have accomplished conspicuous results in the community where they
have been run, it is by no means so easy to find those, the net result of whose
lives can be placed without hesitation on the credit side of the bal-
ance, whose influence has been without question enlisted on the side for
good. Successful men there are in plenty, but the vast majority of these
have labored without ceasing in their own behalf, and without any regard
for the welfare of the community-at-large. Not so in the case of Walter
Cody, who never for an instant forgot his city nor his fellow-citizens in any
selfish ambition, and who worked steadily for the advancement of all. It
was his distinction that in every relation of life his conduct was equally
exemplary, that he was a public-spirited citizen, a kindly neighbor, a faithful
friend, and a devoted and affectionate husband and father. All during his
life, Mr. Cody lived up to the best traditions of his race, and when that life
finally ended, when he was sixty-seven years of age, it was one without
blemish or stain. Among the varied and diverse elements which go to make
up the complex fabric of our American citizenship, and which are drawn
from wellnigh ever}'^ quarter of the globe, there are few as large and none
more important and valuable in proportion to its size than that formed by
the great Irish population in our midst. From first to last, they have
brought with them those virtues pectiliar to the race, the brilliant Celtic
qualities of wit, imagination, and a remarkable blend of the keenest practical
sense with a vivid appreciation of the most subtle and illusive forms of
beauty. A fine example of the best Irish type in this country was Walter
Cody, and it is not a cause of wonderment that his death deprived the city
of Manchester, New Hampshire, of one of its most successful business men,
and a citizen of energy and public spirit.

Walter Cody was born in County Kilkenny, Ireland, December 24, 1837,
of highly respected parents. He was the son of Michael and Katherine
(Fitzgerald) Cody, who were the parents of a large family, of which but

78 Mlalter Cod?

two were surviving at the time of Walter Cody's death, and they were Arch-
deacon Cody, who lived in Ireland, and Mrs. Ellen Irish. Walter Cody
received his education in the parish schools of his native place, and finished
with a course in a private Academy at Waterford, Ireland. Early in life he
emigrated to this country, and upon his arrival here lived for a short period
in North Andover, Massachusetts, where he learned the machinist's trade at
the Davis and Furber Machine Company's works. During the year 1855,
he came to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he followed his trade, and
was employed in the Manchester Locomotive Works until the Civil War
broke out. His youthful enthusiasm was the cause of him promptly sacri-
ficing his personal interests in his zeal for the cause of his adopted country,
and on August i, 1861, he was enrolled in the Third New Hampshire Volun-
teers, and started on his military career as a private. On August 22,
however, Mr. Cody received a commission as second lieutenant in Company
C, Third Regiment, which was organized largely by his untiring efforts. He
was assigned to Captain Michael T. Donohoe's command, then to Colonel
Enoch O. Fellows, and later to Colonel John H. Jackson. This regiment
was the second to be raised in the State of New Hampshire for three years,
and it was organized and mustered into United States service in August,
1861, at Concord, New Hampshire. The regiment left the State, September
3, 1861, arrived at Washington, D. C, September 16, and encamped east
of the Capitol, where it was thoroughly drilled until early in October, when
it moved to Annapolis, Maryland. At the battle of Secessionville, James
Island, South Carolina, June 16, 1862, Mr. Cody served temporarily with
Company G, and was seriously wounded by a gimshot in the right thigh,
which caused him to be confined to the hospital at Hilton Head, South Caro-
lina, for a few days. He was then removed to the Massachusetts General
Hospital, where he remained for about four months. He was honorably
discharged from active service, November 15, 1862, for disability caused
by his wound. In speaking of this engagement, in his report, Colonel J. H.
Jackson, said: "First Lieutenant Henderson was in a position near Com-
pany C, and handled his company finely, with the assistance of Lieutenant
Cody, detailed from Company C to assist him. Lieutenant Cody was shot
through the thigh, and Lieutenant Henderson through the arm." Nearly
one-fifth of the regiment's men were killed or wounded in this battle. Mr.
Cody was constantly with his command until wounded, as above stated,
bearing a loyal part in all its duties, and achieved a proud record for efficient
service and soldierly conduct at all times. He was promoted to first lieu-
tenant, June 22, 1862, for gallant and meritorious service, although still inca-
pacitated for service on account of his wound, and in November, 1863, he
was appointed first lieutenant in the Veterans' Reserve Corps, and in this
corps he served at Cleffbourne Barracks, Washington, D. C, Fairfax Sem-
inary Hospital, in Virginia, and in Nashville, Tennessee. Mr. Cody received
honorable discharge at the latter place, from the Veterans' Reserve Corps,
November 30, 1864, by reason of resignation on account of disability.

At the close of hostilities, Mr. Cody returned to Manchester, New
Hampshire, and engaged in the retail boot and shoe business, becoming a

mmtet coDp 79

member of the firm of McDonald & Cody, and continued in this capacity for
twenty-seven years. In 1890 Mr. Cody's business partner died, and he con-
tinued the business alone until February, 1892, when he retired from all
active business affairs, and after that time he occupied himself with his
property and other interests. Mr. Cody was not a politician, but first voted
the Republican ticket on President Lincoln's second term. In 1890 the
citizens of Ward Six, of Manchester, sent him to represent them in the I-eg-
islature, and he served in that body during the term of 1890 and 1891, filling
that office most honorably and faithfully. Soundly honesty clear in thought,
high in his ideals of government, Mr. Cody possessed a magnetism that
seemed to draw all classes and conditions alike toward him. Energetic,
ambitious and zealous, his loyalty to American ideals knew no bounds, and
his life was an inspiration to the growing youth, to maintain a constant
devotion to our beloved country. Whatever duty he was called upon to
perform was done diligently and to the entire satisfaction of superior author-
ity. It is well for the public to review the career of a citizen who gave so
much of his time in their interests, for it inspires emulation, gives honor
where honor is due, and teaches a lesson of true patriotism. Mr. Cody was
a citizen of whom any community could be proud, and was one of those men
who could count a large circle of influential friends, living up to that old
proverb, "A man is known by the company he keeps." Mr. Cody was a
member of Louis Bell Post, No. 3, Grand Army of the Republic, and was
also heartily interested in the Irish cause, and when the Land League was
organized in his adopted city of Manchester he was its first treasurer. In
the summer of the year 1900, Mr. Cody traveled to Ireland and spent a num-
ber of weeks with relatives and friends, visiting his boyhood home and
school. Reverential and conscientious in his nature, Mr. Cody was naturally
religious in his tendencies, and his religious affiliations were with the Roman
Catholic church, of which he was an active member. He was always loyal
to his religion and his nationality, and has shown by his life what a good
American an Irish Catholic citizen can make.

On January 20, 1869, Walter Cody was united in marriage with Ellen
Coughlin, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. William McDonald.
Mr. and Mrs. Cody became the parents of five children, as follows: Gene-
vieve C, deceased; Walter F. ; Ellen M., deceased; Michael D., deceased;
and Mary G. Mr. Cody's wife and children found him a kind and loving
husband and father. In his manner he was unassuming and courteous, and
although he was deeply interested in everything that pertained to the city,
he was happiest at his home, surrounded with the family to whom he was
so devoted.

Those who knew Walter Cody intimately tell of a man who rose from
a moderate position in life to one of unusual prominence and authority in
the business world. This is in itself considered most remarkable and
entitles him to high tribute, but it is only part of the story of a life that was
notable for the spirit of brotherhood and human sympathy. The sterling
integrity which characterized and formed the basis of his honorable and
useful life present a lesson worthy of imitation.

3(o})n Cougj)ltn

S the years pass by and kind "Mother Earth" gathers to her
bosom the men who half a century ago formed the "long thin
line of blue" that stood between union and disunion, the
reverence felt for the old veterans increases as their number
decreases. The young may die, the old must die, is true in
every walk of life, but as each Decoration Day sees new
monuments upon which flowers are to be laid by loving
hands, that truism seems particularly applicable to that notable organiza-
tion, the Grand Army of the Republic, whose youngest members have
reached man's allotted years, that of three score years and ten. One of the
most distinguished soldiers who served in New Hampshire's quota passed
to the great army beyond when John Coughlin, lieutenant-colonel of the
Tenth New Hampshire Volunteers, and the recipient of a medal of honor
from Congress for gallant conduct on the field of battle, died at the homs
of his sister, Mrs. Ellen Cody, now the widow of Walter Cody, in East
Manchester, New Hampshire, May 27, 1912, at the age of seventy-four
years and eleven months.

General Coughlin was a native of Williamstown, Vermont, born June
19, 1837. His parents had emigrated to this country some forty years before
his birth and had engaged in farming in the Vermont town of Williams-
town, where the boyhood days of John Coughlin were passed. They
removed to Manchester, New Hampshire, in the forties, while he was still a
boy, and it was in that city that he grew up to splendid manhood. His edu-
cation was obtained in the public schools, and upon the completion of his
studies General Coughlin engaged in business at the South End, this being
before the outbreak of the Civil War, and he became prominent and active
in Democratic politics. He served in the Legislature from 1859 to 1862,
and took a prominent part in the important events at the State House during
the exciting days of that period. When the majority of his party met in
the Legislature, in caucus, and passed resolutions in opposition to a bill
entitled "Ati Act to Aid in the Defense of the Country," he refused to side
in with them, and fought the resolutions by voice and vote, despite the many
protests of the leaders of his party, among whom was Ex-President Frank-
lin Pierce. The fight was a bitter one, and General Coughlin stood firmly
in the patriotic and loyal position he had first taken.

During the year 1862, General Coughlin was authorized by Governor
Nathaniel S. Berry and his Council to raise a regiment of volunteers, and
he had the distinction of being the only man who ever received such author-
ity as an individual for an entire regiment. He took up this work with
vigor and inaugurated a series of "War Meetings," which were then opposed
by some, who feared they might be taken as a showing of need which
would encourage the South, but General Coughlin declared that enlistments

n^^fev^4>sfe'' '•'-'■

jye^tej^cte ^o/ijf %vnfr/ili

3[oi)n Cou0i)lin 8i

were becoming hard to secure and that the fact must be faced. These meet-
ings proved most successful, and not only was the Tenth Regiment recruited
in this manner, but the ranks of the Ninth, Eleventh and Twelfth were
filled in the same way. General Coughlin would not accept the colonelcy of
the regiment, owing to his inexperience in military work, and on his recom-
mendation Michael T. Donahue, a young man of twenty -two years of age,
was commissioned colonel. General Coughlin accepted the rank of lieu-
tenant-colonel, however, and was commissioned, July 17, 1862. He soon
proved his fitness for the place, and no braver man wore the federal uniform.
He received his title of general when he was brevetted brigadier-general of
volunteers by a special act of Congress for gallantry in action at Swift
Creek, Virginia, May 9, 1864. At the same time Congress voted him a
medal of honor, and with the exception of Captain Charles D. Copp, of the
Ninth New Hampshire Volunteers, General Coughlin was the only com-
missioned officer of the State of New Hampshire who was thus recognized
by Congress with its thanks and deep gratitude.

In all but four of the eighteen battles in which the Tenth Regiment par-
ticipated, Lieutenant-Colonel Coughlin commanded the regiment. The
gallant history of the Tenth Regiment is too well known to need repetition
here, and in the splendid achievements which that regiment performed,
General Coughlin's name had a shining and prominent place. In speaking
of this distinguished gentleman's service a few years prior to his death,
J. A. Sanborn, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a companion and close
friend, said :

General Coughlin, as Lieutenant-Colonel of the Tenth New Hampshire Regiment,
did more than any other man in raising and training this famous fighting regiment, while
the General himself established a reputation as one of the most brilliant officers of this
or any other State. General Coughlin commanded his regiment in nearly all the battles
of the sanguinary period, from May, 1864, to the fall of Richmond, and the surrender of
Lee, in April, 1865. It is also a matter of history that when the Confederate general,
Bushrod Johnson, was ordered to make a night attack in order to break the Union lines,
at Swift's Creek, Lieutenant-Colonel Coughlin, without orders and without support,
charged the head of the rapidly advancing column, and by desperate fighting foiled
three attempts to break through. At Port Walthal and Drewry's Bluff, his services
and his regiment were equally as distinguished. Some histories give credit to Colonel
Guy V. Henry's Corps, for having taken and held the most advanced position of Gen-
eral Smith's front at the great battle of Cold Harbor, on June the third, 1864. It was
Lieutenant-Colonel Coughlin's regiment, led by himself, which carried the first line of
earthworks and held the same under what has been described as the most terrible mus-
ketry and artillery fire of the entire war.

General Coughlin acted as provost marshal in Richmond, Virginia,
after the capture of that city, and when martial law was being enforced, he
was in charge when President Lincoln made his visit there. When Presi-
dent Lincoln addressed the people from the balcony of the Jefferson Davis
mansion. General Coughlin stood in front of him, so that his own body
should shield that of the President from any shot which might be fired at
him by those who had threatened his assassination. General Coughlin was
wounded seriously at Port Walthal, Virginia, May 7, 1864, and again at

82 3Io[)n Cou0l)lin

Petersburg, Virginia, July 30, 1864, at the explosion of a large mine. He
was mustered out of service, June 21, 1865.

At the close of the war, General Coughlin returned to Manchester, New
Hampshire, but remained there for only a short time. In 1866 he went to
Washington, D. C, where for many years he conducted a drug store at the
corner of F and Ninth streets. He had a beautiful home on the Maryland
side, but his residence there was destroyed by fire some years after, and
many priceless records and trophies of the war were also destroyed. Gen-
eral Coughlin retired from the drug business a few years prior to his death,
and this was on account of his failing health. In 1908 he came to the city
of Manchester, New Hampshire, for a visit, for the first time in forty-two
years, and was heartily received by his old comrades and his many friends,
who were both faithful and true. He attended the reunion of the Weirs,
and was the guest of comrades and friends at a banquet at the New Man-
chester House of that city. The affair was arranged by Lieutenant John
G. Hitchinson, the well-known historian of the Fourth Regiment, and Sen-
ator Burnham and Congressman Sulloway were among the speakers who
paid their deep respects to the distinguished visitor. As a souvenir of the
occasion General Coughlin was presented with a copy of the elaborate war
record of the adjutant-general in two volumes, handsomelj'^ bound, and
bearing his name in gold letters. In July, 191 1, General Coughlin again
came to Manchester and passed the summer months with his old comrades
in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In October, he returned to Manchester,
when his nephew. Post Office Clerk Michael D. Cody, was accidentally
killed in the north country while deer hunting, and from that time General
Coughlin remained in that city. General John Coughlin never married, and
is survived by his sister, Mrs. Ellen Cody, who is now the widow of Walter
Cody, at whose home he passed away.

General Coughlin was considered one of the State of New Hampshire's
most distinguished soldiers in the Civil War, and his military career was one
of great honor and merit. General Coughlin was the possessor in a remark-
able degree of those excellencies of character which always make men
worthy of the regard of their fellow-men, and a list of the representative
men of the State of New Hampshire, who have made themselves notably
conspicuous in life by a combination of strong qualities, whose superior
force of character has placed them in the front rank, would be decidedly
lacking in accuracy were the name of General John Coughlin not to be found.

Babtli iSlafee IParnep

N 1843 Manchester, New Hampshire, was little more than a
waterfall, a canal, a few buildings and a plain. The Amos-
keag Company had laid the foundations of a city, but that
was all. To assist in producing the superstructure and to
share in the profits of the enterprise, to cast their lot with a
few earlier settlers and live and die there in what was then
called the little town of Manchester, there came from the
country towns many robust, clear-headed, ambitious youths, and they came
to work. They had no thought of living by their wits, but sought by in-
dustry and skill, intelligently directed, to win their way in the world.
Among them was David Blake Varney, a Tuftonborough lad, who had
learned something of the machinist's trade at Portsmouth, and from that
time on until a fatal illness prostrated him, he was with and of the city of
Manchester, prominent and successful in its industrial enterprises, loved by
a large circle of friends, trusted by business associates, and respected by all
who knew him. For nearly sixty years Mr. Varney was pointed out as a
typical Manchester man, whose advice it was safe to accept and whose
exr.mple it was wise to follow. He was honest, faithful and always agree-
able. He did something all the time and did it well. He prospered and his
prosperity helped others. He enjoyed life and made it enjoyable for those
about him, while there were no flaws in his admirable character. He lived
far beyond man's allotted age, being seventy-nine years old at the time of
his death, which occurred at his residence in Manchester, New Hampshire,
March 25, 1901. The sad news of his passing away spread among his friends,
and everywhere there was grief at the loss of a noble and public-spirited
gentleman, and sympathy for the afflicted family. Those who did not know
the ex-mayor personally mourned his death for the invaluable services that
he had rendered the community. The record of his public services will
always remain a priceless heirloom to his adopted and beloved city of Man-
chester, and as time rolls on will be recognized as one of the brightest jewels
in her escutcheon. An honest man, fearless to do the right as he saw it;
one who always gave freely of his time and effort to find out what was
absolutely right; a man who, by his own exertions and perseverance, had
achieved success in all that he had attempted, both as a business man and in
public life, and socially one whose friendship was to be highly prized, such
a man was David Blalce Varney. He possessed the elements of real great-
ness, and showed in his face the characteristics of a man that could not be
trifled with. His ideals were honorable and high, and his judgment and will
power were his strongest traits.

The name of Varney is one of the most ancient in the United States.
Eight generations have lived in the State of New Hampshire. The Varney
family is not as numerous in this country, however, as some others, but it

84 Dam'D 151 abe l^arnep

has furnished a large proportion of useful, substantial and honorable citi-
zens. The Varney coat-of-arms is as follows :

Arms — Azure, on a cross engrailed argent five mullets of the first.

The immigrant ancestor, William Varney. came from England, to Ips-
wich, Massachusetts, in the early part of the seventeenth century. The
name at that time was often spelled Varnie. David Blake Varney, in whose
memory we are writing, was a lineal descendant of William Varney. and
was born in Tuftonborough, New Hampshire, August 27, 1822, the son of
Luther and Lydia (Blake) Varney. When four years of age his parents
moved to a farm in Dover, New Hampshire, where the son attended the
schools and also helped his father with the chores on the farm. Being of
an ambitious nature, and eager to make a name for himself, he left the farm
and went to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when sixteen years old, and
learned the machinist's trade, remaining there three years. Returning to
Dover, he worked at his trade for two years, and then moved to Manchester,
New Hampshire, and obtained employment in the Amoskeag Machine Shop.
In 1854 he was appointed superintendent of the locomotive department of
the same shops, and continued in that position until 1857. He then became
a partner of H. I. Darling, and the firm of Darling & Varney, brass and
copper founders, began business in a shop on Manchester street, where the
same business continued up to the time of Mr. Varney's death. Mr. Darling
died in 1868, and the extensive works were carried on alone by Mr. Varney
until his death.

In addition to the brass and copper business, Mr. Varney was for many
years identified with the S. C. Forsaith Machine Company, as its treasurer,
and was also vice-president of the Forsaith Electrical Company. For more
than two years he was the proprietor of a flourishing box factory located on
West Auburn street, and here Mr. Varney was to be found daily, engaged
in the direction of its affairs, despite the fact that he was nearly eighty
years of age. In doing this, Mr. Varney exemplified the bent of his nature,
which was most decidedly toward that of activity and industry. He always
wished to be employed, to be doing something, and idleness had no part in
his composition. He was indeed a tireless worker, he himself often remark-
ing that doing nothing a whole day was the hardest work he ever attempted.
He had many things on his hands, and that he did all of them well is a
tribute to his patience and perseverance.

For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Varney was a director in the
Amoskeag National Bank, one of the largest financial institutions in North-
ern New England. He was a member of the Manchester Board of Trade,
and was deeply interested in the welfare of the city, believing in its present
and future, and performed a manly part in its upbuilding. In politics, Mr.
Varney was an ardent Republican, and was a leader in the councils of his
party. He served in the State Legislature in 1871 and 1872 from Ward
Three, was State Senator from 1881 to 1882, and mayor of the city of Man-
chester in 1889 and 1890, winning the election by a splendid margin after

DatJiO 15lnke mtmy 85

one of the warmest political contests in years. As chief executive of his
adopted city he left behind a record of duty well done. During his admin-
istration the first pronounced gain toward giving the city what it needed
in the line of sewer construction was made. It was during his administra-
tion, also, that the fine grammar school building in West Manchester, which
bears his name, was built, and he also purchased, with the city's money, for
the city, seventy-five acres which is now a part of Derryfield Park. Later,
upon the retirement of Mayor E. J. Knowlton to assume the duties of post-
master, Mr. Varney was elected by the Board of Aldermen to fill out the un-
expired term, a position which he retained from May lo, until July lo, when
the Supreme Court declared the action of the aldermen illegal, and decided
that the person chosen as temporary chairman of the board should act as
mayor. The last act of Mr. Varney as mayor of Manchester, in 1890, was to
acquire possession of the land of Stark Park, and his farsightedness in this
respect has many times been named to his credit. The office of mayor of the
city of Manchester, New Hampshire, with its great industry, enterprise,
and zeal, is one which any citizen may well feel proud to hold. The respon-
sibilities attached to the position are great and are deserving of the best
thought and warmest endeavor of the ablest men in the community. Mr.
Varney was active and conscientious in the discharge of his manifold duties
and held the best interests of the city at heart. He was honorable in every
sense of the word, and was faithful and true not only in his private every-
day life, but also in his public career as a representative of the people. No
man stood higher; he demanded implicit confidence and unswerving integ-
rity. His character and reputation could bear the fierce light of investiga-
tion and criticism, and grew brighter and better by its searching rays. Such
men as Mr. Varney are an honor to any community, and the city of Man-
chester, unfortunately, has too few men of his stamp and character. The
loss of such a man is to be lamented and his memory highly cherished, for
in his death Manchester lost one of her most upright, honorable and loyal
sons.

After his retirement from the city government, Mr. Varney never per-
mitted his interest in municipal matters to flag, and it will be recalled that
at the last annual inspection and outing of the board of water commission-
ers, at Lake Massabesic, in 1900, he was an honored guest. For years Mr.
Varney was a member of the Amoskeag Veterans, and also held high rank
in Masonry, being a member of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar,
and of the subordinate organizations. As a companion and friend he was
charming. He was one of those men who in certain circumstances would
have become a martyr rather than change his convictions. In his private
life, industry, probity, and conscientiousness were characteristics of him.
In social life he was most genial and pleasant to meet, and being a true
friend and a wise counsellor, he will be greatly missed in many of the various
walks of life. In all the positions, whether official or otherwise, he was
called upon to fill, he brought to bear those peculiar traits of character that
made his life a successful one. His administration of the city government
was as nearly perfect as it well could be.

86 Dam'D IBlnkt l^arnep

On June 6, 1848, David Blake Varney was united in marriage with
Harriet Bean Kimball, a daughter of John and Hannah (Bean) Kimball.
Hannah Bean was the daughter of Daniel Bean, a native of Warner, New
Hampshire, and Sally (Pattee) Bean. Sally (Pattee) Bean was the daugh-
ter of Asa and Mehitable (Jewett) Pattee, who were married in 1798. Dan-
iel Bean was the son of Daniel and Susannah (Currier) Bean. Susannah
Currier was the daughter of Nathaniel Currier, a soldier of the Revolution-
ary War.

Mrs. Varney's father, John Kimball, was a native of Waltham, Massa-
chusetts, born June 4, 1788. He died in Manchester, New Hampshire,
September 10, 1841. Mrs. Kimball was a native of Warner, New Hamp-
shire, born August 13, 1800, and became the wife of John Kimball, Febru-
ary 10. 1817. Mr. Kimball was one of the pioneer paper manufacturers of
the State of New Hampshire, and built the first paper mill in New Hamp-
shire; he located in Manchester in 1835. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball became the
parents of thirteen children, namely: John H., born July 15, 1818; Henry,
born November 20, 1819; Hannah, born November 7, 1821 ; Miranda, born
March 21, 1823, died April 12, 1848; Maria C, born August 9, 1824; Mar-
shall, born June 22, 1826; Harriet B., born June 21, 1828, became the wife of
David Blake Varney, and died April 24, 1903; Walter Wellington, born
March 20, 1830, died March 6, 1863; Newell Sherman, born November 21,
1831 ; Albert H., born January 7, 1833, died when one year old; Albert H.,
born January 5, 1835; Caleb J., born March 13, 1836; Susan J., born March
21, 1838.

Mr. and Mrs. Varney were the parents of three children, as follows:

I. Emma L., born in Manchester, New Hampshire, July 16. 1849, and
received her education in the public schools of that city, graduating from the
Manchester High School. 2. Annie Maria, born in Manchester, April 28,
185 1, and was educated in the public schools of her native city, graduating
from the Manchester High School. She became the wife of Frederick Wil-
liam Batchelder, a native of Pellham. New Hampshire, and the son of Amos
and Rebecca (Atwood) Batchelder. Mr. Batchelder was a well-known
musical instructor of Manchester, and passed away in that city, October

II, 191 1. Mr. and Mrs. Batchelder were the parents of one child, Harriet
Varney Batchelder, who was born October 12, 1878, died January 12, 1889.
3. Susie Miranda, born October 8, 1858, and passed away November 3, 1863.
Miss Emma L. Varney and Mrs. Batchelder reside in the Varney homestead
in Manchester, New Hampshire. Mr. Varney was particularly fortunate
in keeping his family together, as with the exception of a brief residence in
Springfield, Massachusetts, by Mrs. Batchelder. his family had always been
kept intact. Mr. Varney was an exceptional man in his home relations, was
thoughtful and devoted, and labored with abundant success to make his
home ideal.

Mr. Varney was charitably inclined, and he believed in being helpful
and useful to others, and carried out this belief in his daily life. He was a
faithful and high-minded public character, while his uprightness made him
a power and leader among all men. During his term of ofiice as mayor of

DatiiD laiabe l^atnep

87

the city of Manchester, he gave it wise counsel, and by his intelligent, con-
servative policy contributed largely to its prosperity. Mr. Varney was an
active and influential member of the Unitarian church. It was indeed diffi-
cult for his townsmen to become reconciled to the loss of one who was so
well equipped for service to his fellow-men as Mr. Varney. He is dead, but
his memory will live and his works and deeds as chief executive of his
adopted city will last forever. There is no stain upon his life record. He
did more than a man's work and he leaves to his family and friends a repu-
tation which is to them a precious legacy, because it is that of a man who
deserved of his fellow-men only good opinions.

i^etoell ^Ijerman litmball

EWELL SHERMAN KIMBALL was one of those men
whose long and useful life had been filled with love and
devotion toward mankind, and his death, which occurred
in Chicago, Illinois, was a loss to the business world. Death
in any case is always sad, but when it means the removal of
a man who possesses those sterling qualities of character so
greatly admired in both the business and social world, it
becomes a double grief and a time for sorrow and regret. Mr. Kimball came
of fine old New England stock, his forebears having lived for many years in
the State of New Hampshire, where they were representatives of the best
of New England character. The personality of Newell Sherman Kimball
is one that has not been forgotten, for he was a man who combined gentle-
ness and firmness, yielding easily where his sense of right and justice was
not concerned, but inflexible enough where his conscience had rendered its
decision. He was a delightful companion, as he remembered and recounted
with vivid power the many interesting experiences he had passed through
during his long career.

The Kimball coat-of-arms is as follows :

Arms — ^Argent a fesse within a bordure engrailed sable.

The birth of Newell Sherman Kimball occurred in Warner, New Hamp-
shire, November 21, 1831, the son of John Kimball, who died in Manchester,
September 10, 1841. His mother was a native of Warner, New Hampshire,
and became the wife of John Kimball, February 10, 1817. Mr. and Mrs.
John Kimball were the parents of thirteen children, of whom Newell Sher-
man Kimball, in whose memory we are writing, was the tenth child. John
Kimball was a pioneer paper manufacturer and book-binder in the State
of New Hampshire, and established the first paper mill in that State. He
was a zealous Mason, often being obliged to travel over forty miles to visit
his Lodge and Chapter of the Masonic Order. His Chapter apron was one
of Newell Sherman Kimball's most cherished possessions. This apron was
left to a member of the Oriental Consistory after Mr. Kimball's death.

Newell Sherman Kimball's grandfather fought in the Revolutionary
War, and his maternal grandmother witnessed the battle of Bunker Hill.
One grandfather was with General Washington during the winter at Valley
Forge, and was present at the historic crossing of the Delaware river. With
such an ancestry, whose lives were spent in the trying days of the French
and Indian Wars and of the Revolution, it is not to be wondered at that Mr.
Kimball was always a lover of human liberty and of truth. When a mere
lad he was taken to the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, and there
looked upon a locomotive for the first time. Then and there his life's work
was determined upon. He realized the infinite possibilities of human service

laetoell ^{)etman mimdall 89

which the locomotive would bring and he determined to become a factor
in it. Accordingly he became an apprentice of the Amoskeag Locomotive
Works in Manchester in 1848. After the closing of the Amoskeag Works
in 1856, Mr. Kimball travelled westward, and entered the employ of the
Michigan Central at Detroit, Michigan, where he spent a year. He then
removed to LaPorte, Indiana, where he became connected with the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. In 1858 he moved to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, where he was given charge as foreman in the repair shops of the
old Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad, which at that time extended as far
west as Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and is at present a division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Mr. Kimball remained in that
capacity within a year of a quarter of a century, going to Green Bay, Wis-
consin, in 1882, as division master mechanic of the Milwaukee & Northern
Railroad, which also became a division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway, with which company Mr. Kimball remained until May, 191 1.
He therefore passed fifty-three years in the employ of practically the same
company.

Mr. Kimball was prominent in Masonry, having been raised in Lafay-
ette Lodge, No. 41, at Manchester, New Hampshire, in June, 1854, and
received the Capitular degrees in Wisconsin Chapter, No. 7, at Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, in May, i860. The orders of Knighthood were conferred upon
him in April, 1879, i" St. John Commandery, Milwaukee. This Command-
ery afterwards surrendered its charter and was merged with the Wisconsin
Commandery, No. i, from which it originally sprang. In 1882, Mr. Kimball
became a charter member of Palestine Commandery, No. 20, at Green Bay,
Wisconsin, and served the new Commandery as its eminent commander
for four years. In November, 1885, he received the degrees of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite, in Wisconsin Consistory, at Milwaukee. Dur-
ing the same month he was initiated into Tripoli Temple, Ancient Arabic
Order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.

The funeral services of Newell Sherman Kimball were conducted at
Green Bay, Wisconsin, where his Wisconsin brothers of the Oriental Con-
sistory lovingly restored him to Mother Earth. Mr. Kimball was a brother
of Mrs. David Blake Varney, deceased, and the uncle of Emma L. Varney
and Mrs. Frederick William Batchelder, who is the widow of Frederick
William Batchelder, a well-known musical instructor of Manchester, New
Hampshire. Miss Varney and Mrs. Batchelder reside in the Varney home-
stead on Myrtle street, Manchester.

Newell Sherman Kimball was married, and no story of his life would
be complete did it not include the sweet-faced little New England woman,
who journeyed down through the years with him. Her tender and untiring
care of him were as an inspiration to those who were so privileged as to
know them both.

Newell Sherman Kimball's life was full of achievement. He was dili-
gent in his business, strong in his affections, just in his man-to-man rela-
tions, and a Christian gentleman in all that word implies.

Bartom iiWltlton ^oore

E should not by any means forget those who, although unob-
trusive in their every-day life, yet by their individuality and
great force of character mould the commercial destinies and
give tone to the communities in which they live. In an ex-
tended search it would be difficult to find one who would be
a better example than the late Darwin Milton Poore, for
many years a well-known business man of Manchester, New
Hampshire, and one who enjoyed the respect and confidence of the business
world and the friendship of those whom he met in a social manner. Mr.
Poore was a self-made man in the strictest sense of that term, and his
excellent management of his business interests was mainly due to his good
judgment, decision of character and strict integrity. His success in life
was due to the possession by him of a combination of virtues and talents
greatly in demand in this world. His sterling good qualities were very gen-
erally recognized, and his honor, candor, and the democratic attitude he
held toward all men won for him a most enviable reputation and the
admiration of a host of friends. The death of Darwin Milton Poore occurred
in Orange City, Florida, February 22, IQ12, where he, accompanied by his
wife, was enjoying the winter season. Thus in the midst of life we are in
death, and the anticipation of a pleasant winter in a beautiful country ter-
minated in the death scene. The news of Mr. Poore's death cast a gloom
over the entire business community of Manchester, where he was held in
high esteem for a great many years. At first Manchester relatives could not
give credence to the startling news of Mr. Poore's passing away, but to
their sorrow it proved all too true. The private virtues of Mr. Poore were
not less remarkable than his public, and the deep affection with which his
family and intimate friends regarded him is the best tribute which can be
paid to the strength and sincerity of his domestic instincts.

The birth of Darwin Milton Poore occurred in Gofi^stown, New Hamp-
shire, March 10, 1843, the son of George and Mary (Whitney) Poore, both
of whom were respected natives of New Hampshire. The surname Poore
appears among the early names of New England, and especially of New
Hampshire, in which State it has been honored and has been borne by many
worthy citizens. The line which traces to the early settlement of Goflfstown,
New Hampshire, was located in northwestern Massachusetts until the close
of the Revolution. John Poore, the emigrant ancestor of those bearing the
name of Poore in this country, was born in Wiltshire. England, in 161 5,
from whence he came to America in 1635. He settled in Newbury, Massa-
chusetts, on the south side of the Parker river. In 1661 he had sixty acres
of land assigned to him, and in 1678 built a house which is still standing and
in possession of his descendants. Eight generations were born in this old
historic house and it had been used at one time for an inn. John Poore died
November 21, 1684, from exposure, while lost on a hunting expedition.

Dartoin Qiilton poote 91

Joseph Poore, the fourth lineal descendant of the emigrant ancestor,
John Poore, and his great-grandson, was born August 24, 1737, in Rowley,
Massachusetts, and settled on the west part of the homestead of his great-
grandfather, John Poore. Joseph Poore was a soldier in the French and
Indian War, and was at Lake George in 1757. He served in the Revolution-
ary War and was captain of a company that marched to Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, April 20, 1775. He was deacon of the Byfield Church, and received
a shock of paralysis while attending divine services, February 28, 1795,
from which he died the same day.

Darwin Milton Poore, in whose memory we are writing, was the ninth
lineal descendant of the English emigrant, John Poore, and obtained his
education in his native town of Goffstown, New Hampshire. His desire to
enter business life was a strong characteristic in the yotmg man, and in 1866
he left his home to settle in Manchester, New Hampshire, where he immed-
iately found employment with the Hubbard Sash Factory. Later Mr. Poore
was employed by H. K. Slaton, and then engaged in the grocery business
with his brother, Charles Poore. At the death of his brother, Mr. Poore
became the successor, and it was through his untiring labor that the business
became so well established. For a number of years he conducted the groc-
ery business alone, and then sold it to his son, Fred Poore, and engaged in
the coal and wood business with his uncle, Alfred Poore. Great credit is
due such a man, who started in a small way and by his great energy and
business intelligence increased the growth of his business. To the very
last, as well as in the beginning of his business career, Mr. Poore was ever
ambitious, energetic, and a believer in being an early riser. He retired
about two years before his death, which occurred in his sixty-eighth year.
Mr. Poore spent the greater part of his life in Manchester, New Hampshire,
where he won many friends and gained the confidence of the community
through honest dealing.

Mr. Poore was a Republican in politics, but had no ambition to win
public honor, although he was ever willing to help his party in the way of
advice or financial aid, and thus he moved serenely and unostentatiously
along the different walks of life, unconsciously winning honors of far more
value than those which are attached to public station. He was one of
those men who contented himself with the discharge of his duties as a
citizen and the influence he could exert through his personal association
with others. Mr. Poore was affiliated with the Red Men, and was a member
of the Calumet Club. He found his chief happiness in the intimate inter-
course and associations of his own household, and did not enjoy formal
social life to any extent. He was not a member of many clubs or organiza-
tions, but devoted his time to his business and to his home.

The energy of Mr. Poore has already been commented upon, and his
business acumen was also of the highest type. There were many other sides
to his nature which, while probably not so conspicuous, were quite as worthy
of praise. In his religious belief, Mr. Poore was a Congregationalist, and a
constant attendant of the Congregational church in Manchester. His suc-
cess in life was deserved, and the uniform happiness of his family relations

92 Dattoin ^ilton Poote

and his life in general was the result of his own strong and winning per-
sonality.

On February 15, 1866, Darwin Milton Poore was united in marriage
with Caroline Frances Hadley, the daughter of Nathaniel and Frances
(Jones) Hadley. Nathaniel Hadley was a native of Gofifstown, New Hamp-
shire, and belonged to the sturdy yeomanry of that place, being a farmer,
and was loved and respected by his friends and neighbors. His wife was a
native of Henniker, New Hampshire, and they were the parents of five
children, namely: Franklin, Francina, Sylvia and Celia, twins, Caroline
Frances, who is the widow of Darwin M. Poore. The union of Mr. and
Mrs. Poore was blessed with three children, as follows: i. Fred Harvey,
born in Manchester, New Hampshire; received his education in the public
and high schools there; he entered his father's grocery store, and later
became the proprietor; he was united in marriage with Mary Clough, of
Manchester, and they were the parents of one child, Harold Milton Poore.
2. Gertrude Mary, born in Manchester ; educated in the public schools there;
she became the wife of Almon S. Carpenter, a native of Chichester, New
Hampshire, and they are the parents of three children, namely: Darwin
Milton, Georgia Frances and Charles Hodgen Carpenter. 3. Bertha Frances,
born in Manchester; educated there; became the wife of Edwin S. Lane, of
Boston, and they are the parents of one child, Harry Scott Lane.

The self-reliance, energy and sound judgment of Darwin Milton Poore
brought him success, so that he was able in later years to enjoy the fruit of
a long life of faithful industry. He gave little time to public affairs,
although he was interested in the progress of his country, and always, when
opportunity afiforded, exercised the right and duty of every good citizen.
His character was an unusually strong one, and his life should be an inspira-
tion to every youth who seeks to improve his position in life and earn and
retain the good will of his fellow-men.

3oJ)n JFrands iiWloselep

MONG the successful business men of Concord, New Hamp-
shire, whose labors and achievements placed the community
in her present influential position in the world of commerce,
no name is more synonymous with enterprise and probity
that of John Francis Moseley, whose death, which occurred
at his home in Concord, Augnst 12, 1905, came as a cruel
shock to his many friends and business associates. He
exemplified in every manner the typical New England character, so well
admired by all, and was the possessor in a high degree of those excellencies of
character which are bound to draw all men toward him as if by magnetism.
His methods in business were so clear and concise, and the ability which he
displayed would have been equally as effectual if fate had decreed that he be
placed in any other line of work. By diligent application of his business
ability, and the practice of the essential principles of commercial honor, Mr.
Moseley steadily advanced until he became one of the representative busi-
ness men of Concord, New Hampshire. There are some lives that in their
ceaseless energy are the cause of extreme wonder to their fellow-men, and
might well serve as a model to all those who seek that illusive goddess,
success. The men who are thus endowed undertake enterprises that would
make the average business man pause. Such a man was Mr. Moseley, who
possessed large business capacity, ability and enterprise. After a long and
honorable life of sixty-seven years, he passed away, a man honored in life
and blessed in memory.

The birth of John Francis Moseley occurred in Hill, New Hampshire,
July 20, 1838, he being the oldest of the three sons of Franklin and I.ydia
(Hoyt) Moseley, and was a descendant in the eighth generation of John
Moseley who came in the ship "Mary and John," which sailed from Ply-
mouth, England, March 20, 1630. John Moseley settled at Dorchester,
Massachusetts, in 1630, and was admitted a freeman, March 14, 1639, pass-
ing away there, August 29, 1661. The original bearer of the name Moseley
took it without doubt from the locality in which he dwelt. The assumption
of the name indicates that he was one who dwelt permanently at that place,
and was a person of settled habits. When the religious troubles of the
seventeenth century arose, a descendant of the first English Moseley found
his environment made intolerable by fanatical oppression and removed from
England to the freedom of the New England forests, and settling there was
the first of five generations who lived contentedly, like their descendants, in
the same town. The name and the record of the family both show that the
Moseleys were and still are of that class of citizens who are well thought of
by their neighbors, they loved their home and friends, and succeeded wher-
ever they chose to make their abiding place.

Franklin Moseley, father of John Francis Moseley, and the seventh
descendant of the English immigrant, John Moseley, was born in Weathers-

94 3!of)n jFrancisi Q^osclcp

field, Vermont, August 4, 1804, and died January 12, 1894, in Concord, New
Hampshire. He was the second son and fifth child of Samuel and Priscilla
(Baker) Moseley. His boyhood was passed in his native town, where he
went to school, and between terms rendered such aid as he could to his
father. When about sixteen years of age he went to Boston, and as he had
but little money, but was possessed of a sound physical constitution and
plenty of energy, he made the journey on foot, as was not an uncommon
thing in those days. On his arrival in Boston, he took a place as clerk in a
dry goods store, where he worked for a time. From Boston he went to
New Chester, now Hill. New Hampshire, and in January, 1828, he and his
twin brother, Francis, entered into partnership and opened a general store.
In those days money was not plenty, and many who bought goods could
only pay for them in work. To accommodate this class of customers the
Moseley firm bought palm leaf strips which the women wove into hats that
were sent to Boston to be sold. After the partnership had existed for some
years, Francis Moseley died June 30, 1833, and Franklin continued the busi-
ness alone, and also had other stores at Sanbornton and Danbury. In addi-
tion to the mercantile business, he engaged in the manufacture of shoes. He
had a shop in which he employed twenty or thirty men, and this constituted
a large business in those days, when all the goods were hauled by teams
between Hill and Concord, twenty-seven miles distant, and transportation
between Concord and Boston was principally done by the Boston & Con-
cord Boating Company, which ran a line of boats between those two cities
by canal and the Merrimack river, a distance of eighty-five miles, until 1842,
when the Concord Railroad was finished. Mr. Moseley's business ability
and personal integrity were made evident by the fact that while a resident
of Hill he was elected to and filled the offices of town clerk, selectman, jus-
tice of the peace, and representative in the State Legislature. In 1852 he
removed to Concord and entered the employ of J. A. Gilmore & Company,
wholesale dealers in flour and grain, and on October 30, 1854, he and David
T. Watson bought out the interest of J. A. Gilmore, but kept the old name
of J. A. Gilmore & Company. This firm then consisted of Asahel Clapp,
John H. Pearson, Benjamin Grover, David T. Watson, and Franklin Mose-
ley. Subsequently the name of the firm was J. H. Pearson, Barron & Com-
pany, and Moseley & Company. After his removal to Concord, Mr. Mose-
ley never sought ofiicial recognition at the hands of his fellow citizens. He
attended the South Congregational Church, of which he was a liberal sup-
porter. His political affiliations were Democratic. He was emphatically
a business man, and his life was one of steady and active devotion to busi-
ness and family. He retired from active mercantile pursuits about 1870,
with success achieved through long years of faithful attention to business
and upright dealings. He married, in Hill, New Hampshire, February 24,
1835, Lydia Rowell Hoyt, who was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts. April
12, 1806, and their children were: John Francis, in whose memory we are
writing, and Carroll and Carlos Beckwith, twins.

John Francis Moseley received a common school education, and learned
how to transact mercantile business in his father's store. On the removal

31ot)n jftancis ^osclep 95

of his father's family to Concord, New Hampshire, John Francis Moseley
accompanied them, and from 1853 to 1898 was actively engaged in the flour
and grain business, from which he retired in igoo. During this period he
was associated either as clerk or as partner in most of the firms of which his
father was a member in Concord. For several years before his death he was
interested in the firm of G. N. Bartemus & Company, though not in an active
personal sense. Mr. Moseley was a good business man and took pride in
doing things well. Of a naturally reserved and retiring disposition, the
number of his acquaintances was not large, but limited. He was a man of
high principles and sterling character. Those who were brought into his
favored circle speak in terms of the highest admiration of him. Without
display he acted well the part of an exemplary citizen, and found true suc-
cess in business by giving every man his due. In the sphere where he was
best known he has been greatly missed and truly mourned. His principles
were thoroughly established and he was a sincere Democrat, though he
took no active part in political movements. While he shunned often-prof-
fered ofificial responsibility, he never shirked his duty as a citizen, always
expressing his convictions at the polls, and leaving political preferment to
others who might desire it.

On August 23, 1880, John Francis Moseley was united in marriage with
Abbie Fletcher, who was born June 6, 1845, in Loudon, New Hampshire,
the daughter of James and Catherine (Orr) Fletcher, the former a native of
Loudon, and the latter of Chester or Auburn. James Fletcher was a son of
Joshua and Elizabeth (Chase) Fletcher, who were married in 1799, and
Joshua Fletcher was a son of James Fletcher. The Fletcher coat-of-arms
is as follows:

Quarterly, a cross flory between four escallops argent, first and fourth, second
and third azure, a chevron between three quatrefoils slipped argent.

Crest — An arm in armour embowed, holding in the gauntlet an arrow all proper
pointed or.

Motto — Per angusium. (Through difficulties).

Mrs. Moseley resides in the beautiful house erected in 1899 by her
husband, located on Warren street. Concord, New Hampshire. In memory
of her husband, Mrs. Moseley has donated to the Margaret Pillsbury Hos-
pital of Concord an out-door ward. The need of such a ward had long been
felt by the authorities at the hospital, but the increasing expenses at the
institution had made the building of the addition prohibitory. That such
a gift should come unsolicited made it all the more appreciated, and in many
ways increased the efficiency of the hospital. The ward is for the treatment
of pneumonia and pulmonary diseases, it also being of great value for con-
valescents whose strength depends greatly on out-door air. In the larger
cities such wards have long been established, and the leading doctors of the
country are strongly urging hospitals to establish them. The comfort of
patients is always uppermost in such institutions, and although piazzas to
some extent serve the purposes of out-door wards, in the summer months
when dust as well as flies are apt to annoy persons under confinement, the

96

3[o|)n JFrancis Q^osclep

task of doing away with the nuisance has been most troublesome. One of
the outstanding features of this new ward is that all of the windows will be
fitted with Whitney casement hardware which allows the opening of the
windows at right angles, allowing free passage of air while, when condi-
tions demand, the ward can be closed up tight and heated as well as the
hospital.

Mr. Moseley was one of those lovable and forceful men who seemed to
draw to him all those privileged to call themselves his friends. His high
ideals of business and social life, his unselfish, irreproachable character, his
magnetic nature, so endeared him to all that it was only natural that his
passing away became a personal and direct sorrow. It is not often that a
community is blessed with such men as Mr. Moseley, and he will live in the
memories of those with whom he associated as long as life lasts, not only
because he was a man in the best sense of the term, but because he was the
possessor of those admirable qualities which never fail to inspire respect and
confidence. The good influence which John Francis Moseley exerted was
beneficent to the community in which he had lived the greater part of his
life, and those who come after him should consider it a privilege to keep it
alive in the future.

(S^eorge albert (Sutlli

HE name of Guild has been an honored one from the beginning-
of American history, and has sustained many noble move-
ments and rendered valuable service in every capacity of life.
The name is derived from the word meaning Society or
Lodge, and may have been Guilder at first, that is one
belonging to a guild, and was spelled Gyller, Gylard and
Gildard. As Guilder and Guildard the name was found
among the Huguenots, who emigrated to England and Scotland, and many
of its bearers attained distinction in the yarious professions. John Guild
was born in England about the year 1616, and died October 4, 1682. With
his brother Samuel and sister Ann he came to America in 1636. He settled
in Dedham, Massachusetts, July 17, 1640, that year buying twelve acres of
upland on which he built the homestead, which was occupied by himself and
descendants for more than two hundred years. He was made a freeman,
May 10, 1643.

George Albert Guild was a direct descendant of this sturdy Puritan,
and his birth occurred in Wrentham, Massachusetts, October 31, 1841, the
son of John Edmund and Sarah Ann (Hovey) Guild. His father, John
Edmund Guild, was born in Wrentham, and his wife was a native of Boston.
They were the parents of five children, three daughters and two sons, as
follows: Lucy Ann Jeanette, Ellen Frances, Catherine Augusta, John
Henry, and George Albert Guild, in whose memory we are writing.

George Albert Guild was no exception to his predecessors or contem-
poraries in high standards of mora) living, and business enterprises and
probity. He was one of Nashua's best known residents, a capable business
man, a good citizen, a faithful husband, and a kind and indulgent father.
Coming to Nashua, New Hampshire, at the age of twelve years, he attended
the public schools, and after receiving a common school education, when
still a boy, he entered the employ of the Nashua Manufacturing Company,
and remained continuously in the employment of that company for more
than forty years. For thirty-eight years, Mr. Guild served as an overseer
in the different departments, retiring from active business afi'airs in 1903, on
account of poor health, and he passed away at Nashua, New Hampshire,
January 25, 1915.

When, at the outbreak of the Civil War, his country needed his assist-
ance, Mr. Guild joined the First New Hampshire Cavalry and rendered
patriotic and heroic service. Likewise his brother, John Henry Guild, served
in the Mounted Rifle Rangers, under the command of General Ben. Butler,
and was taken a prisoner, but escaped. This military trait was inherited
from their forefathers, as history records the great-great-grandfather of
George Albert Guild and John Henry Guild, Captain John Guild, was a sol-
dier in the War of the Revolution, serving the entire duration of the war.

98 (Seorge aifiert (5uilD

Mr. Guild, during his long and active business career, illustrated in
himself the composite character of our great American citizenship, and pre-
sented in his temperament and disposition a masterful, forceful, intellectual
and versatile quality of our race. His accurate estimate of men enabled
him to fill the many different positions over which he had charge, with
employees who seldom failed to meet his expectations in every waj'. It can be
trulv said of him that he always commanded the respect of men and women
working under his supervision. His clear and far-seeing brain enabled him to
grasp every detail of a project, however great its magnitude. Genial and cour-
teous upon all occasions, Mr. Guild surrounded himself with many friends,
whose admiration and affection for him were exceeded only by the deep
respect and esteem which they held for him. Hisdominant characteristic was
his love of his home and family ties and his patriotism. He was a member of
the Rising Sun Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Pennichuck
Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and John G. Foster Post, Grand
Army of the Republic, of Nashua.

During the year 1864, George Albert Guild was united in marriage with
Julia Sultina Johnson, a daughter of Volney Hill and Edey (Gould) John-
son. Mr. Johnson was a native of Hancock, New Hampshire, and Mrs.
Johnson was born in Greenfield, New Hampshire. Mrs. Guild's birth
occurred in Antrim, New Hampshire. She attended school in Washington
and in Greenfield, New Hampshire. The union of Mr. and Mrs. Guild was
blessed with two children, namely: i. Emma Alvera, born in Nashua, New
Hampshire, and became the wife of Charles W. Collins, of Nashua. 2. Her-
bert Elmer, born in Nashua, died at the age of eight years.

No more fitting tribute to the memory of George Albert Guild could be
recorded than the resolutions passed at the annual meeting of the First New
Hampshire Cavalry Association, which was held at Weirs, New Hamp-
shire, August 25, 191 5. These resolutions should prove to be an inspiration
to many of the younger generation, who are striving to make their lives
successful in an honorable manner.

A keen and distinct shock will strike the hearts of every member of the First New
Hampshire Cavalry at the announcement of the death of Sergeant George Albert Guild,
which occurred at Nashua, New Hampshire, January the twenty-fifth, 1915. He was a
cordial, courteous, genial man, there was not a more helpful and lovable comrade. He
was a delightful companion and a devoted helper. Comrade Guild was a soldier, a citi-
zen, a comrade and a friend of the highest order, and his passing away is an irreparable
loss to all who knew him. There can be but one sentiment in reading the announcement,
and that is intense grief at the passing of this comrade, whose life illustrated in full and
rounded measure the principles of a citizen and a soldier. Peace to thy eternal rest,
Comrade and friend, you never betrayed a trust, was ever faithful to your God, your
home, your Country and your friends.

It is indeed a distinct pleasure to trace the life story of such a man as
George Albert Guild, for there are many good and beneficial lessons to be
learned therefrom. It is to be regretted that there are not more men like
him, but let us hope that New England will furnish men fit to follow in his
footsteps. Mr. Guild was ever ready to hold out his hand to those in dis-

George ai&ett ($uiIO

99

tress, his love for human kind being one of his strong characteristics. His
familiar figure was long a welcome sight to the residents of Nashua, New
Hampshire, the city of his adoption, where he was greatly beloved and
esteemed. His heart was large, and in it he found room for all classes of
people. He was not a man to judge another by the exterior, for it was the
character of his fellow-man that appealed to him. He was of a hospitable
nature, and greatly enjoyed to pass his leisure hours at his own fireside, sur-
rounded by the loved ones to whom he was so attached. Being born of a
sturdy and honorable ancestry, George Albert Guild did not fall below the
standard which was thus set before him.

>tep|)en ^restott

^UT few men have left a brighter or better life record to the
citizens of Deerfield, New Hampshire, than Stephen Pres-
cott, and none is more worthy a place in this memorial than
this noble gentleman. The great and varied influence that
is always exerted by a man of high aims in his relations to
the community in which he lives was well exemplified by
Mr. Prescott, who was a man of the highest intellectual and
moral integrity. Ambitious, energetic, persevering, courageous, and thor-
oughly honest, he made himself a man to whom the community looked to
for aid and influence. A strong will and a gentle and unselfish nature were
some of the marked characteristics of Mr. Prescott. and his death, which
occurred at his home in Deerfield, New Hampshire, March 31, 1886, meant
the deprivation of a prominent citizen and a noble Christian man. It is cer-
tain that when we can truthfully say of a man that he has been markedly
successful in the affairs of the world, we have paid him the implied compli-
ment of an unusual degree of strength of character and alertness of intelli-
gence, and such was strikingly the case of Stephen Prescott. Measured as
a man, Mr. Prescott occupied a position in the community allotted to but
few to hold. The worth of his citizenship was recognized by all, and the
offices, political and otherwise, that he was chosen to fill, were administered
with the same high efficiency that marked the management of his own pri-
vate concerns. A man of the strictest integrity and lofty purposes, he
counted his friends among the high and the lowly, and his friendsh.ip was
always to be depended upon. He was most kindly of heart, very approach-
able, genial in disposition, and held sacred the rights and opinions of others.
The life-time of Mr. Prescott, in which he arose to a position of prominence
and importance and one of high regard in every relation to his fellow-
citizens, was passed in the vicinity of Deerfield, New Hampshire, and at the
time of his death he was fifty-four years of age. He was a man remarkable
in the breadth of his wisdom, in his indomitable perseverance, his strong
individuality, and yet one whose entire life was as an open scroll, inviting
the closest scrutiny.

Stephen Prescott was a native of Deerfield, New Hampshire, born dur-
ing the year 1832, and was the son of Stephen and Jemima (Currier) Pres-
cott. The Prescott family was one of the early families to locate in Deer-
field, and for generations were well known and prosperous farmers of that
vicinity. Mr. Prescott always lived in Deerfield, and received his early
education there. Upon the completion of his studies, he naturally followed
in the footsteps of his illustrious forebears, and became a successful farmer.
While it is common enough to find men whose careers have accomplished
conspicuous results in the communities wherein their lot has been cast, it is
by no means so easy to find those, the net result of whose lives can be placed

>//r/. /y)r.ur//

%tepi)en l^rescott loi

without hesitation on the credit side of the balance, whose influence has been
without question enlisted on the side of good. Successful men there are in
plenty, but the vast majority of these have labored without ceasing in their
own behalf, and without any special regard for the welfare of the commu-
nity-at-large. Not so in the case of Mr. Prescott, who never for an instant
forgot his duty to his fellow-men in any selfish ambition, but who worked
steadily for the advancement of all. It was his distinction that in every
relation of life his conduct was equally exemplary, that he was a public-
spirited citizen, a kindly neighbor, a faithful friend, and a devoted and affec-
tionate husband.

Mr. Prescott was a public-spirited man, and was an active and promi-
nent worker in social and political affairs. His fellow-townsmen proved
their deep regard and confidence in him by electing him to the State Legis-
lature in 1873, and again in 1874. Mr. Prescott held, besides, many town
offices, among others being one of the trustees of the Philbrick, James
Library, holding this position from the time of the library's endowment.
In his political belief, Mr. Prescott was a staunch Democrat, and his Dem-
ocracy was of the solid, substantial type common to the members of that
party in the "Granite State."

Stephen Prescott was united in marriage with Judith Calvina James, a
daughter of Enoch and Judith B. (Mardin) James, of Deerfield, New Hamp-
shire. The James family is one of the oldest in Deerfield. On her maternal side,
Mrs. Prescott is the great-granddaughter of Major Ezekiel Worthen, of Rev-
olutionary fame. At the time of the Revolutionary War, Major Ezekiel Wor-
then lived in Kensington, New Hampshire, and held many ofifices of impor-
tance during the war, being promoted to the rank of major. He was one of
Washington's most trusted officers, and the history of that period recounts
many of his daring exploits. Mr. Prescott was buried in Tilton's burying
ground in Deerfield, New Hampshire, where he rests, after a life well spent,
in the long, eternal sleep that knows no awakening. Since the death of her hus-
band, Mrs. Prescott has resided in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire,
at No. 1952 Elm street.

It was through his own efforts that Mr. Prescott won his way to suc-
cess, by dint of enterprise and courage linked to indefatigable industry. By
all who came in contact with him, whether intimately or casually, he was
held in admiration and affection and it was in a large circle of associates and
friends that his death was felt as a real personal loss. The success which he
achieved was entirely due to his individual efforts, hard work, and the close
application which he always paid to his own affairs. His reputation was
second to none for honesty, justice and charity to the poor and unfortunate.
By his honorable exertions and moral attributes Mr. Prescott carved out for
himself friends, honor and position. By the strength and force of his char-
acter he overcame obstacles which to others less hopeful and less courageous
would have seemed insurmountable. Perhaps there is no single relation of
life that is more a test of a man's essential worth than that most intimate
one supplied by and in the home, and there as elsewhere Mr. Prescott meas-

I02 ^tepben Pre0(ott

ured up to the highest standards. His family life was in all respects ideal,
and he was never forgetful of the wants and desires of those about him.

Mr. Prescott was also a prominent figure in fraternal circles of his
native town, and was a member of the Masonic order and of the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows. That feeling of sympathy which was so predomi-
nant in him made him delight in the intercourse with his fellow-men, and
he was always quick to enter into the informal social gatherings of his many
friends. Whatever duty he was called upon to perform was done zealously
and to the entire satisfaction of superior authority. Soundly honest, clear
in thought, high in his ideals of government, and the possessor of a magne-
tism that drew to him all classes and conditions alike, he was a man of whom
his community and indeed the entire State could be proud. It is well for us
to review the career of a citizen such as Mr. Prescott, who gave so much of
his time and his life to the interest of the public, for it inspires emulation,
gives honor where honor is due, and teaches a lesson of patriotism. It can
be truly said of Stephen Prescott that he was a man whose usefulness as a
citizen made him worthy of commemoration and whose memory will live
forever in the hearts of those who knew and loved him.

jBtoaf) Clarfe

*HE surname Clark represents one of the oldest and most
respected of families of New England, and there is no name
more numerously represented in the pioneer settlements
than that of Clark. This family is numerous in almost
every New England town, and the name is undoubtedly
derived from an occupation, such as a clerk, pronounced
in the broad English as Clark. The Clark coat-of-arms
is as follows:

Arms — Ermine a lion rampant azure on a chief sable a leopard's face argent
between two crosses crosslet or.

Crest — A demi-lion gules collared or, on the shoulder an estoile argent, in the paw
a baton sable.

The name appears frequently in the records of Rockingham county,
England, and the earliest definite record obtainable on the family herein
traced locates John Clark, who was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
October 15, 1751, and died at Chester, New Hampshire, January 23, 1827.
He married Sarah Wadleigh, March, 1775, who was born at Raymond, New
Hampshire, March 22, 1755, died at Chester, February 22, 1842. John
Clark's father came from England and died when John was young. John
Clark was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, and his widow was granted
a pension for his services in that war, as a private in the New Hampshire
troops for the period of six months actual service. He enlisted in Captain
Baker's company of New Hampshire soldiers in the summer of 1775, and
marched to Cambridge, Massachusetts, and also to Portsmouth, New
Hampshire. He was in the army at Peekskill in the State of New York,
and returned the latter part of the year 1776, being away about one year.
The date of the widow's pension was April 14, 1837. John Clark came to
Candia, New Hampshire, and learned the trade of tanning with Walter
Robie. He purchased of Joseph Dearborn of No. 59, 2d D., P. Q. D., in 1777,
and lived there. The children of John and Sarah (Wadleigh) Clark were:
I. John, of whom further. 2. Abigail, born at Chester, December 12, 1777,
died January 17, 1778. 3. Eleazer, born at Chester, January 5, 1779, went
to Stanstead, Province of Quebec, where he died May 16, 1831. 4.
Abigail (Clark) Robinson, born at Chester, October 29, 1780, died at
Orange, Vermont, January 13, 1874. 5. Benjamin, born October 13, 1782,
died at Boston. 6. Sarah (Clark) Wadleigh-Richardson, born at Ches-
ter, September 12, 1784, died August 17, 1871. 7. Theopelos, born at Ches-
ter, July 29, 1786, died October 5, 1789. 8. Henry, born October 25, 1788,
died at Lyndboro, New Hampshire, April 11, 1867. 9. Charlotte (Clark)
Dustin, born at Chester, January 8, 1791, died at Stanstead, Province of
Quebec, July 19, 1854. 10. Anna (Clark) Norton, born January 4, 1794, died
August 4, 1853. II. Abner, born June 13, 1795. died at New York, Sep-

I04 J13oaJ) Clark

tember lo, 1836. 12. Eliza, born April 10, 1797, died February 16, 1869; not
married. 13. Mary (Clark) Austin, born May 11, 1799, died at Manches-
ter, June 26, 1866. 14. Richard Sawyer, born at Chester, April 21, 1801,
died at Auburn, New Hampshire, July 16, 1870.

John (2) Clark, son of John (i) and Sarah (Wadleigh) Clark, born at
Chester, New Hampshire, May 16, 1776, died at Brown's Hill, Canada, Prov-
ince of Quebec, March 31, 1821. He married Mrs. Anna (Karr) Silver,
widow of Silver, born at Chester, August 26, 1770, and died at Ches-
ter, January 18, 1859. Anna Karr was the daughter of Joseph Karr, born
November 20, 1742, died February 2^, 1835, and Hannah (Ayer) Karr. who
was born in 1748, and died February 25, 1833, and granddaughter of Brad-
bury and Anna Karr, said to be of Welsh origin. Bradbury Karr settled on
Add No. 71, where his great-grandson, George Wood Clark, now lives.
Anna (Karr) Silver had one child, Sally Silver, who became the wife of
John Robie, the saddler, who lived at Candia, New Hampshire, and died in
1867. Sally (Silver) Robie died in 1883. They had one child, Mary, who
became the wife of John Dudly, and lived at Lynn, Massachusetts. The
children of John and Anna (Karr-Silver) Clark were as follows: i. Noah,
of whom further. 2. Jesse Remington, born at Chester. April 19, 1803, died
at Chelsea, Massachusetts, December 27, 1873. 3. John, born at Chester,
July 4, 1805, died at Topsham, Vermont, September 19, 1886. 4. William,
born in Chester, went South, where he married, and had a family, but noth-
ing more is known of him. 5. Lavinia, born at Chester, January i, 1809,
died at Manchester, February 17, 1869.

Noah Clark, son of John (2) and Anna (Karr-Silver) Clark, was born
at Chester, December 29, 1801, died at Manchester, June 3, 1858, and was
buried in the family lot at Chester, New Hampshire. In his early youth he
enjoyed such privileges as were provided by his native town. He moved
to Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1828, where he engaged in butchering, but
returned to his native town, Chester, in 1835, where he followed the occupa-
tion of a farmer until he removed to Manchester, in 1847, where he was in
the real estate business at the time of his death. He married (first) Mary,
daughter of George and Abra (Smith) Wood, June 18, 1823. She was born
at Chester, July 20, 1798, and died at Chester, July 21, 1847. George Wood
was born at Auburn, New Hampshire, in 1770, and died there in 1803. Abra
(Smith) Wood, his wife, was born at Candia, New Hampshire, in 1775, and
died at Auburn, New Hampshire, November 7, 1853. George Wood was
the son of Nathaniel Wood, born August, 1737, died July 16, 1817, and Mary,
his wife, a daughter of William Eaton, who died in 1813. Grandson of
Nathaniel Wood, who came from Boxford, Massachusetts, and died in 1773,
and his wife, Elizabeth (Powell) Wood, widow of Jonathan Goodhue, who
died in 1731. Abra (Smith) Wood was the daughter of Biley Smith, born at
Brentwood, New Hampshire, April 19, 1747, died at Candia, New Hamp-
shire, October 3, 1829, and Mary, his wife, born at Brentwood, New Hamp-
shire, in 1747, died at Candia, in 1820. Granddaughter of Israel Smith, born
1706, and Mary, his wife, born 1709. They were married December 5, 1728,
and were inn-keepers at the Sign of a Horse. Biley Smith was the ninth

Ji3oai) Clark 105

child of Israel Smith, and came to Candia from Brentwood, New Hamp-
shire, in 1771, and settled on the north end of No. 49, 3d D., about 1788,
bought of Jacob Worthen, the gore lot No. 81, 5th D., where his son Biley
lived afterward. Noah and Mary (Wood) Clark were the parents of the fol-
lowing children: i. George Wood, born in Chester, March 15, 1824. 2.
Mary Jane, born in Chester, November 19, 1827. 3. Noah Smith, whose
memoir follows this genealogical record. 4. Francis Carr, born in Quincy,
Massachusetts, April 30, 1832.

Noah Clark married (second) Lois Copp Bixby, in 1849, t>orn at Chester,
December 19, 1823, died at Manchester, August 14, 1852. They had one
child that died in infancy. Noah Clark married (third) Lorana Allen, at
Manchester, May 2, 1853, born at Plymouth, Maine, Septem.ber 15, 1828.
This union was blessed with two children, namely: Ella Matilda, born at
Manchester, May 22, 1854, and Laura Allen, born at Manchester, October
23, ^855-

i^oal) ^mttf) Clarfe

'HE late Noah Smith Clark, one of Manchester's best known
business men and police commissioner for many years, was
strong in his business ability and beautiful in his character.
He passed fifty-five years of his life in Manchester, New
Hampshire, and when he died at the age of eighty years, at
his home there, on April 15, 1910, the sorrow in the com-
munity was universal. Deep regret was everywhere mani-
fest, for through his unselfish, kindly and winning personality he had
obtained a place in many, many hearts. Mr. Clark was a business man of
marked force and energy, and exemplified the fact that constant labor, well
applied, especially when joined with sterling personal qualities, must inevi-
tably win the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. His methods in busi-
ness were clear and concise, and the system and ability which he displayed
would have been equally as efifectual if fate had decreed to place him in any
other line of work. Mr. Clark became one of the recognized business men
of Manchester, and was an example of that species of success which makes
a man a public benefactor. By diligent application of his powers to indus-
trial pursuits and the practice of the essential principles of commercial
honor, it is no wonder that he advanced steadily until he became one of the
representative men of his adopted city. Courteous, friendly, and the very
soul of uprightness, he had many warm friends, whom he valued very highly.
There is always something instructive in the records of such men as Mr.
Clark, because in them we see typified the earnest and unwearied effort
that inevitably spells success. The great and varied influence that is exerted
by a man of high aims in business, and in his relations to the community
in which he lives, was well exemplified in Mr. Clark's career. In every
respect he was a typical representative of the New England character, per-
severing, enterprising, courageous and conservative, and a man of the high-
est intellectual and moral integrity.

The birth of Noah Smith Clark occurred in Quincy, Massachusetts,
May 17, 1830. He was of the fifth generation of the John Clark family,
and the second son of Noah and Mary (Wood) Clark. His father was a
farmer by occupation, and was a native of Chester, New Hampshire, and
his mother was born in Auburn. When five years of age, his parents
removed to New Hampshire, making their home on a Rockingham county
farm, in the historic town of Chester. Noah Smith Clark passed his early
youth as a farmer lad on his father's farm, and received his rudimentary
education in the small public schools of Chester. Afterward he was sent
to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he was admitted to the high school,
from which he was graduated in i8j|8. He left the school well equipped for
the battle with life. Old timers declare that Mr. Clark applied himself with
so much assiduity to his studies that he was one of the most successful
pupils of the institution.

Jl3oa|) %mitt Clark 107

Mr. Clark's first experience in the business world was in the millinery-
store of Amos B. Page, where he remained for a year and a half. He
possessed a taste for mercantile pursuits, and a sound idea of business long
before he had acquired any experience worth speaking of. But he began
at the very lowest round of the ladder. He went to the city of Boston, where
he clerked in the dry goods business, and then successively went to New
York, Chicago and Cincinnati, where he followed the same trade, and
gained an extensive knowledge of the line of work that he designed to
follow. In Chicago, Mr. Clark worked under Potter Palmer, the famous
multi-millionaire of that city. In fact Mr. Clark once seriously considered
starting in business in Chicago, and would have done so but that his capital
was limited. In his early life, he did not waste any of his time in frivolity,
but saved his money and lived frugally yet comfortably. When he came
back to Manchester, New Hampshire, he not only had some capital to his
credit, but he possessed a wide experience that for half a century stood
him well.

Not engaging in business in Chicago, Mr. Clark decided to return to
the East, and arrived in Manchester in 1855. At first he secured a place
as a clerk in one of the local dry goods stores, but kept his eye open for an
opportunity to embark in business for himself. The chance came the fol-
lowing year, and in 1856 he started in business on his own account, in the
building called "The Ark," which was situated at the corner of Elm and
Amherst streets, where the Dunlap block now stands. At present the
modern Marcotte store is located at that same corner, but in the old days
Mr. Clark's first dry goods store was of the old-fashioned sort, but it was,
for those days, well stocked with what was then regarded as the leading
staples. It is worthy of note that Mr. Clark, from his clerkship days to the
time of his retirement, clung tenaciously to the particular line of millinery
and fancy goods. His strict attention to business had its reward, for success
was instantaneous. He gave his personal attention to the business and per-
mitted no one to do what he himself could do. He found that he possessed
a natural aptness for managing a store, and this trait followed him through
life. After one year at the "Old Ark" Mr. Clark saw greater possibilities in
Hanover street as a commercial thoroughfare and determined to move to
that street and enlarge his business, which he did late in 1857. Accord-
ingly he opened a store in what was then known as the Jonathan Straw
block, and remained there for thirteen years, and met with success. But
in 1870 there came a calamity that almost ruined his business. This was
the Manchester fire, July 7, 1870, which reduced Mr. Clark's store with all
its stock to ashes. Undaunted by calamity, he determined to start over
again, and for this purpose he bought the land at the corner of Hanover
street and the present Nutfield lane. He formed a partnership with former
Mayor John L. Kelly, and after remaining with Mr. Clark for several years
Mr. Kelly withdrew, and in 1884 Mr. Clark formed a partnership with
Joshua B. Estey, who remained with him for twenty years, the firm being
known as Clark & Estey, and the store as the "Big Six."

io8 jeoal) SmitI) Clarb

In the olden daj's, it was the fnshion to name the stores in order that
the people might familiarize themselves with the places. There was a dry-
goods store known as "The Eagle" and another as "The Sign of the Star,"
then came "The Big Six." Mr. Clark was the pioneer in starting this
curious custom of naming places of business. For many years there was
suspended in front of the store at the corner of Hanover street and Nutfield
land a large figure six, which swung to and fro in the idle winds, and in
some winds that were not idle. On July i, 1891, all the overhead signs in
the city were ordered down, and the "Big Six" sign went along with the rest,
thus removing an old landmark. Mr. Clark's particular line of business in
the last twenty-five years of his trade career was dry goods and notions,
and he sold goods that would reach the purses of the working people. The
"Big Six" became one of the most popular places in the city of Manchester.
Mr, Clark early developed into one of the most sagacious and practical busi-
ness managers in the city. It was in February, 1906, that Mr. Clark decided
to retire from business and take a rest from his cares. That month he had
been in business in Manchester for half a century. Mr. Clark sold out his
business to Frederick D. Sperry, of Boston. Mr. Clark's relations with his
numerous employees were unusually amicable and happy, he always having
a kindly interest in their affairs.

Mr. Clark never became affiliated with any of the secret organizations,
for he never had the time. But his motto was always, "Live and Let Live,"
just the same. Even in his busy life, he was prevailed upon to enter municipal
life as an ofiice holder, but his length of service was not long. He served
as a member of the Board of Aldermen from Ward Four, in 1876, and was
reelected for another term, serving in the years of 1877 and 1878. He was
afterwards chosen to the Legislature for one term. In his political affilia-
tions he was a Republican.

Mr. Clark was one of the largest holders of stock in the Boston, Con-
cord & Montreal Railroad. It was in the early eighties that a syndicate
was formed to buy the stock of this railroad, and this syndicate was com-
posed of Noah Smith Clark and others. Soon after this syndicate had
acquired holdings in the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, the Boston
& Maine corporation took over the Concord & Montreal road, and from
that time on the holdings became of a value commensurate with the increase
in business of the Boston & Maine Railroad. Mr. Clark was a director in
the Concord & Montreal Railroad, and one of its largest stockholders. His
wisdom and sagacity in business affairs were recognized many years before
this, and he was sought on all sides for his advice. For more than thirty-
five years Mr. Clark was a director in the Manchester National Bank, and
at the time of his death was said to be the oldest member of that bank's
directorate.

On December i, 1893, Mr. Clark was appointed by Governor John B.
Smith a member of the then newly established police commission of Man-
chester. He remained a member until the fall of 1909, when he retired. In
his religious belief, Mr. Clark was connected with the Franklin Street Con-
gregational Church. He was a member of the Derryfield Club.

jeoab %mitlt Clatb 109

Mr. Clark was ever a man who attended strictly to his own business
affairs. He attended faithfully even to the small things. He became a large
holder of real estate in Manchester, and his home at the corner of Elm and
Salmon streets, in the North End residential section, was one of the best
built structures in that aristocratic row. He was a good judge of horses,
and when he was able to be around he drove a good team. He was plain-
spoken in all that he had to say, and was extremely practical, being the
possessor of much more good common sense than the average man. What-
ever he did, he did with good results. He was a good waiter for a good
bargain, and he had no use whatever for anything that was frivolous. No
one ever had any reason to complain of Mr. Clark's manner, when they had
a personal acquaintanceship with him. He was at heart one of the kindest
of men, and whatever he did as a substantial favor for others was not
heralded broadcast. He firmly and devotedly believed in Manchester, and
was ever ready to advance the city's interests. In the old days, when Man-
chester was but a struggling town, he had the same faith in the place. That
fateful day in 1870, when the destruction of his business and stock by fire
left him almost a ruined man, did not dismay him. It was then that he
gave an exemplification of what was in him. An hour had not passed, after
the control of the fire which destroyed a whole square, when he was planning
for a phoenix-like rise from the ashes of a destroyed business. He was ready
to begin all over again, with a renewed vim and an awakened interest. He
was a type of the practical, far-sighted men who made Manchester. He
was one of the few who were left, at the time of his death, and will be remem-
bered as a man who was content to stay in Manchester and fight his battles,
and as a man whose shrewdness and native sagacity, born of a good early
training, served him in good stead in the place that he had made his home
for nearly sixty years.

On March lo, 1858, Noah Smith Clark was united in marriage (first)
with Belinda McKeen, who passed to her reward, September 10, 1885. By
this marriage there were three children born, namely: i. Edward Wilson,
born at Manchester, March 4, 1865, and was united in marriage (first) with
I-otta Kelly, July 12, 1886. She died May 12, 1896. This union was blessed
with three children: Edith May Clark, born in Boston, in 1888, and became
the wife of Dalton Flanders, in 191 1; Morris Smith Clark, born in Man-
chester, in 1889, and died in infancy; Bertha Louise Clark, born in Boston,
in 1890, and died in 1894. Edward Wilson Clark was united in marriage
(second) with Lucy Mulhand, who died at Portland, Maine, and who bore
him one son, Dana Edward Clark, born in 1893, and is now enlisted in the
United States Army. Mr. Clark's third wife was Maud Evelyn Gerald,
who passed away at Caribou, Maine, in 1906. He was united in marriage
(fourth) with Elizabeth May McGeorge, who died in Manchester, July 31,
1916. 2. Clara Bell, born in Manchester, January 20, 1869, and became the
wife of George F. Matthews, of Boothbay, Maine. They are the parents of
two children, namely: Irene, born in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1891,
and became the wife of Theodore Tripp. They are now residing in Los
Angeles, California. Elmer Clark, born in 1893, is now in the service of

no JI3oa!) @mit|) Clark

the United States Army in France. 3. Helen Wood, born in Manchester,
May 14, 1872, and became the wife of Herman Philips, of Lowell, Massa-
chusetts. June 19, 1904.

On August II, 1886, Noah Smith Clark was united in marriage (second)
with Elizabeth Morrison Atwood, the oldest daughter of Daniel Gordon and
Margaret Ann (Barr) Atwood. Mrs. Clark is a direct descendant of John
Atwood, the English immigrant, who settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts,
in 1643. Her father, Daniel Gordon Atwood, was born in Bedford, New
Hampshire, April 12, 1812, of which town she was also a native.

Mr. Clark's interest in Manchester frequently cropped out in late years,
after his retirement from business. Some of the newspaper men had occa-
sion to know this to be true, for when a subject would arise that touched
happenings of many years ago, Mr. Clark with a smile would come forward
and furnish detail as to those occurrences and, considering the years that
had passed by, his memory was accurate to a remarkable degree. Another
noticeable quality of Mr. Clark was his adherence to and faith in men, after
he had tried them. No abuse or criticism would ever turn him from what
he thought was right in his judgment of such men. If he thought well of a
man, itmattered not to him that anybody else thought differently. He
was strong in this characteristic, and it became almost a proverb that the
man Noah Smith Clark backed was safe. And so, in a great many ways,
Manchester lost a remarkable character, a successful merchant, a sagacious
man, and a citizen who was ever mindful of his own affairs, and who was
always painstaking when entrusted with the public's afifairs.

amos Cucfe

HE record of a busy life, a successful life, must ever prove of
interest and profit as scanned by the student who would
learn of the intrinsic essence of individuality. Such a life
was that of the late Amos Tuck, for many years a represen-
tative citizen of Exeter, and one of which his adopted State,
New Hampshire, might well be proud, for his professional
and ofiicial career reflected credit upon the community. A
man of strong mentality, he won success at the bar by his ability, fidelity
and perseverance. He was also known for his sterling qualities, his fearless
loyalty to his honest convictions, his sturdy opposition to misrule in munic-
ipal aflfairs, and his clearheadedness, discretion and tact made him a success-
ful manager and leader.

Amos Tuck was a descendant in the seventh generation from the Amer-
ican ancestor, Robert Tuck, a native of England, from whence he came to
New England, about 1636, accompanied by his wife and four children. He
resided in Watertown and Salem, Massachusetts, and in 1638 was a peti-
tioner, with others, for leave to settle at Winnacunnet, afterwards Hampton,
New Hampshire. The line is traced through his son, Edward Tuck, a native
of England, and for many years a respected resident of Hampton, New
Hampshire; through his son, Deacon John Tuck, probably a native of
Hampton, New Hampshire, who lived to be ninety years of age, and filled a
considerable place in his day and generation; through his son. Deacon
Jonathan Tuck, a native of Hampton, New Hampshire, a well informed and
influential man, said to have been distinguished for his extensive and
accurate geographical knowledge. Through his son, Jonathan (2) Tuck,
a native of Hampton, New Hampshire, where he spent his entire lifetime.
Through his son, John (2) Ttick, a native of Hampton, New Hampshire,
from whence he removed to Parsonsfield, Maine, and there resided until his
death, being principally engaged in agricultural pursuits. About 1800 he
married Betsey Towle, daughter of Amos and Sarah (Nudd) Towle, of
Hampton, and among their children was Amos Tuck, of this review.

Amos Tuck, second son and fourth child of John (2) and Betsey
(Towle) Tuck, was born at Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810. His father,
John (2) Tuck, had moved from Hampton, New Hampshire, where six
generations of the family had lived, because the elder brother Josiah had
spent so much of the family property that all that was left for the younger
brothers, Samuel and John, was two farms of moderate size in the unsettled
region of Maine. The farm of Amos Tuck's father was in the extreme south-
western part of Parsonsfield, bordering on Province Lake, and there the
boy early became inured to toil and hardship. At the age of seventeen Amos
entered the academy in the neighboring town of Efiingham, New Hamp-
shire, where he began to prepare for college, meanwhile teaching during the

112 ^mo$ Cuck

winters. Two years later he went to Hampton to continue his studies, keep-
ing on with his teaching till the winter of 1831, when he became a member
of the freshman class of Dartmouth College. He was graduated in 1835 at
the age of twenty-five. Among Mr. Tuck's classmates was Harry Hibbard,
afterwards his contemporary in Congress, and in the next class, 1836, was
another congressional contemporary, "Long" John Wentworth, of
Chicago, also Samuel C. Bartlett, afterwards president of the college, and
James Wilson Grimes, subsequently United States Senator from Iowa.
Upon graduation Amos Tuck taught one term in the academy at Pembroke,
New Hampshire, and during the following winter became preceptor of
Hampton Academy, where he remained, meanwhile pursuing the study of
law, until the spring of 1838. At that time he resigned his position to com-
plete his studies with Hon. James Bell, of Exeter, subsequently United
States Senator. Mr. Tuck was admitted to the bar in November, 1838, and
shortly afterward became a partner of Mr. Bell, then one of the leading
lawyers of the State. This connection continued for eight years, during
which time the firm enjoyed an extensive practice.

In 1842 Mr. Tuck was chosen representative to the New Hampshire
Legislature, and took an active part in the revision of the statutes enacted
that year. Mr. Tuck was a Democrat at that time, but events were ripening
which soon put him out of accord with the leaders of this party. In was in
1844 that Franklin Pierce, afterward president, decided that John P. Hale,
who had boldly dissented from President Tyler's proposal to annex Texas,
should be deprived of a renomination to Congress. This determination to
sacrifice Hale aroused Mr. Tuck, who said that if Hale was read out of the
party on account of his anti-slavery sentiments, he (Tuck) would go with
him. The crisis came when it was determined to organize an independent
sentiment in the party. At the February term of court held in Exeter in
1845, Mr. Tuck with the assistance of John L. Hayes, of Portsmouth, a
lawyer whose political opinions accorded with his own, issued a call for a
convention to be held on Washington's birthday to form an independent
movement to suport Mr. Hale. Between two and three hundred signatures
were secured for this petition, and on February 22, 1845, in the vestry of
the old First Church in Exeter, was formed the first crystallized opposition
to the extension of the slaveholders' rule in the land. The company called
themselves Independent Democrats, and with the help of George G. Fogg,
they subsequently established a newspaper of that name, published for many
years at Concord. Mr. Fogg, a native of Gilmanton, this State, who after-
wards became minister to Switzerland, was the editor and proprietor of the
paper. Without doubt the Exeter convention became the nucleus of the
Republican party.

At this day, when the principles for which they fought, have so long
been established, it is difficult to realize what courage and zeal must have
animated that little band of reformers, who journeyed over snow-blocked
roads to the convention at Exeter in February, 1845. Dr. Andrew P Pea-
body, afterwards preacher to Harvard College, said of them: " I well remem-
ber the utter hopelessness with which the great public viewed this little

amos Cucb 113

band of Independents in New Hampshire. They were thought to have
destroyed their political future beyond all retrieve."

The poet, Whittier, between whom and Mr. Tuck existed an intimate
sympathy and friendship, broke forth into a paean of joy when New Hamp-
shire, until then the strongest Democratic State in the North, escaped from
party control and placed in the Senate of the United States its first anti-
slavery member. The poet begins :

"God bless New Hampshire ! From her granite peaks
Once more the voice of Stark and Langdon speaks.
The long-bound vassal of the exulting South
For very shame her self-forged chain has broken ;
Torn the black seal of slavery from her mouth,
And in the clear tones of her old time spoken !
Oh, all undreamed-of, all unhoped-for changes !
The Tyrant's ally proves his sternest foe;
To all his biddings, from her mountain ranges,
New Hampshire thunders an indignant No!"

There is another poem of Whittier's, little known, but found in the
complete volume of his works, which was originally published in the "Boston
Chronotype," during 1846. There are some seventeen stanzas of eight lines
each, and it is simply headed "A Letter," supposed to have been written to
Hon. Moses Norris, then representing New Hampshire in the Senate at
Washington. It is crammed full of local allusions, and as one of the rare
humorous effusions of the poet, as well as for the reference to Mr. Tuck and
the times, a few lines may be worth quoting:

"We're routed, Moses, horse and foot,
If there be truth in figures.
With Federal Whigs in hot pursuit,
And Hale, and all the 'niggers.'

"I dreamed that Charley took his bed,

With Hale for his physician •
His daily dose an old 'unread

And unreferred' petition.
There Hayes and Tuck as nurses sat.

As near as near could be, man ;
They leeched him with the 'Democrat;'

They blistered with the 'Freeman.'"

"Charley" was Charles G. Atherton, of Nashua, who had introduced
the gag-law, so-called, into the New Hampshire Legislature: "Papers and
memorials touching the subject of slavery shall be laid on the table without
reading, debate or reference."

The Independent movement, which seemed so hopeless at first, resulted
in the election of John P. Hale to the United States Senate in 1846, and of
Mr. Tuck to Congress in 1847. When Amos Tuck took his seat in Decem-
ber, there were but two other men in the House holding distinctly anti-
slavery sentiment — Joshua R. Giddings, of Ohio, and Dr. John G. Palfrey,

114 Smo0 Cucb

of Massachusetts, and both of these had been elected as Whigs. Another
colleague in that Congress with whom Mr. Tuck formed a strong friend-
ship was a plain, awkward man from Illinois — Abraham Lincoln, whose
future greatness no one could have presaged at that time. Mr. Tuck was
twice reelected to Congress, closing his term of service there in 1853. That
was the year when he called a meeting of anti-slaverj' men of all parties with
a view to better cooperation and united action. The meeting was held,
October 12, 1853, at Major Blake's hotel, later the Squamscott House, in
Exeter, and on this occasion Mr. Tuck proposed the name Republican for
the new party. The credit for the christening is usually given to Horace
Greeley; but his suggestion was not made until the next year; and the great
honor of the name belongs to Amos Tuck.

Mr. Tuck was a member of the presidential conventions of 1856 and
i860, helping to nominate both Fremont and Lincoln, and he took an active
part in the Peace Congress of 1861. President Lincoln tendered a foreign
mission to Mr. Tuck which was declined, and later offered him the appoint-
ment of naval ofificer at Boston, which was accepted. Mr. Tuck held the
latter position until removed by President Johnson in the fall of 1865. Sub-
sequently he was appointed to the office of land commissioner of the Atlantic
& Pacific Railroad in Missouri, which caused him to make his home in St.
Louis for a number of years. Between 1847 ^"^ 1857 Mr. Tuck was asso-
ciated in legal partnership with Hon. William O. Stickney, of Exeter, and
afterwards with his own son-in-law, Francis O. French. Mr. Tuck traveled
abroad several times, and in his later years was engaged with Austin Corbin
of New York City, a native of Newport, this State, in railroad construction
on Long Island.

Amos Tuck was always greatly interested in the cause of education.
He served as trustee of Dartmouth College for ten years, of Phillips Exeter
Academy nearly thirty years, took an active part in the organization of
Robinson Female Seminary at Exeter, and was president of the board of
trustees for several years. An old student of the Seminary writes in grate-
ful appreciation as follows:

Exeter is deeply and lastingly indebted to Mr. Tuck's wisdom and sagacity in the
work of establishing Robinson Female Seminary. He was elected president of the first
board of trustees, and spared neither time nor pains to carry out the will of the founder
to supply "such a course of education as would enable its scholars to compete and suc-
cessfully, too, with their brothers throughout the world when they have to take their
part in the actual duties of life." Forty years ago the idea of the equal education of the
sexes was new to many. Mr. Tuck's aim was "to make the Seminary do for the girls
what the Phillips Academy does for boys ;" and to this end he planned with his co-adju-
tors, the course of study and selected the corps of instructors ; and the more closely his
precedents have been followed, the greater has been the genuine prosperity of the school.
When the present edifice was dedicated, in September, 1869, many and flattering were the
encomiums showered upon the wisdom, judgment and indefatigable labors of Mr. Tuck.
When called upon to speak, he modestly disclaimed the power attributed to him, but
could not deny the ceaseless industry ; ending by saying, "The only reward I desire is the
success of Robinson Seminary and the gratitude of the graduates of the first four years."

Amos Tuck was a man of fine personal appearance, pure and upright
character and exemplary life. A political opponent, who had business rela-

9mo$ Cuck 115

tions with Mr. Tuck, said of him: "He impressed me as no other man ever
did; candid, honest, uncontaminated by contact with evil, with a high and
noble purpose, magnanimous, kind, generous, and deferential, but firm to
his convictions of duty as the eternal hills. He was in every sense a gentle-
man. I never expect to meet his equal." He was generous to his friends
and to every good cause, and gave liberally of his abundant means to schools,
churches, missions and temperance work. Theodore Parker said of him:
"His face is a benediction." A fine marble bust of Amos Tuck, presented
by his daughter, Mrs. F. O. French, of New York, stands in the main hall of
the State Library at Concord. The bust is the work of the noted sculptor,
Daniel Chester French, a cousin of Francis O. French, and himself a native
of Chester, this State.

Amos Tuck was twice married. His first wife, and the mother of his
eight children, was Sarah Ann Nudd, daughter of David and Abigail
(Emery) Nudd, who was born October 13, 1810, at Hampton. New Hamp-
shire, and died February 21, 1847, at Exeter. The children, al! but three of
whom died in infancy, were: Abby Elizabeth, born November 4, 1835;
Charles, December 26, 1836; Ellen, born April 4, 1838; Edward, born June 6,
1841 ; Edward, born August 25, 1842; Isabella, born April 25, 1844; Charles,
born July 10, 1845 ; Amos Otis, born August 26, 1846. The children who
lived to maturity were Abby Elizabeth, Ellen and the second Edward. Abby
E. Tuck, the eldest child, married William R. Nelson, of Peekskill, New
York, and had three children: Laura, Ellen Tuck and Mary Delavan. Ellen
Tuck Nelson married Henry W. Stevens, son of Lyman D. Stevens, of Con-
cord. Mary Delevan Nelson married Rev. George Brinley Morgan, son of
Henry K. Morgan, of Hartford, Connecticut. After the death of her first
husband, Abby E. (Tuck) Nelson married Orrin F. Frye, member of the
firm, Rand, Avery & Frye, of Boston. Ellen, the second daughter of Amos
and Sarah A. (Nudd) Tuck, married, March 5, 1861, Francis O. French,
grandson of Chief Justice William M. Richardson, of New Hampshire. Mr.
French was graduated from Harvard College in 1857, became a lawyer, and
afterwards a distinguished banker in New York City. The children of Mr.
and Mrs. French were: Elizabeth R., who married General Eaton, of Eng-
land; Amos Tuck, who married Pauline LeRoy, of Newport, Rhode Island;
Benjamin B., who died young; Elsie, who married Alfred Gwynne Vander-
bilt. of New York.

Amos Tuck married for his second wife, October 10, 1847, Mrs. Cather-
ine P. Shepard, widow of John G. Shepard, and daughter of John Town-
send, of Salisbury, New Hampshire. She was born January 20, 181 5, and
died without issue October 10, 1876, the twenty-ninth anniversary of her
marriage. Amos Tuck died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Exeter on
December 11, 1879, ^t the age of sixty-nine years. He is buried in the cem-
etery of the town he loved so well, where he spent most of his life, and where
he organized political movements that have helped to make history.

#on. 3o|)n liimball

'HE career of the Hon. John Kimball affords a most interesting

example of the achievements of one who may be regarded as

a worthy representative of an honored ancestry, whose

history has been connected with that of this country from

an early date. He ranks among those men whose versatile

talents command success in every field which they enter,

and who rise to high place in that which ultimately claims

their efforts. He was conspicuously useful in the public service, both at

home and in the State at large, and the city in which he resided owed much

of its advancement to his wise and long continued effort.

The common ancestor of the great majority of Kimballs in this country
was Richard Kimball, who, accompanied by his family, embarked at Ips-
wich, England, April lo, 1634, in the ship, "Elizabeth." The line to the Hon.
John Kimball descends through Richard (2) Kimball, one of the first settlers
of Wenham; Caleb Kimball, who removed from Wenham to Exeter, New
Hampshire, then returned to Wenham ; John Kimball, a resident of Exeter,
New Hampshire; Joseph Kimball, a resident of Exeter and Canterbury,
New Hampshire; John Kimball, also a resident of Exeter and Canterbury;
Benjamin Kimball, a resident of Canterbury, Boscawen and Penacook, New
Hampshire, an active and influential business man. In March, 1834, he was
elected to represent the town in the Legislature, but his health did not permit
him to take his seat. He died at Penacook, July 21, 1834. He married Ruth
Ames, daughter of David and Phebe (Hoit) Ames, of Canterbury, and they
were the parents of John Kimball, of this review.

Hon. John Kimball, eldest child of Benjamin and Ruth (Ames) Kimball,
was born April 13, 1821, in the town of Canterbury, New Hampshire. At
the age of three years, in 1824, he went with his father to the town of Bos-
cawen, and at the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to his cousin, Wil-
liam Moody, to learn the trade of millwright. In 1848 he took charge of the
new machine and car shop of the Concord Railroad at Concord, New Hamp-
shire, and in 1850 was made master mechanic, a position he held for eight
years. He became actively identified with various important interests, and
was for many years treasurer of the Merrimack County Savings Bank,
and a director of the Mechanics' National Bank at Concord ; president and
treasurer of the Concord Gas Light Company, to which he was elected in
1880; and a director in the Concord Republican Press Association. He
was ever been deeply interested in charitable and religious institutions, and
very active in his aid to the New Hampshire Odd Fellows' Home and
the Centennial Home for the Aged, of both of which he was president, and
the New Hampshire Orphans' Home and the New Hampshire Bible Society,
of both of which he was treasurer. He became a member of the South Con-
gregational Church of Concord by letter, June 28, 1849, ^"d was one of the

^on. 3fo!)n CifrnfiaU 117

committee of nine that built the present house of worship of that society.
For thirteen years he was a deacon of the church.

Mr. Kimball had been conspicuously useful in the public service at home
and in the State at large, and the city in which he resided owes much of its
advancement to his wise and long continued effort. In 1856 he was elected
to the Common Council of the city of Concord, and when he was reelected
in the following year he was chosen to the presidency. From 1859 to 1862
he served as city marshal and collector of taxes. He was elected to the
mayorality in 1872, and the efificiency of his administration finds evidence
in his reelection to three consecutive terms following. During this period
the system of water supply from Long Pond was successfully completed
under his immediate direction as president of the Board of Water Commis-
sioners. During his administration as mayor one wooden and two iron
bridges were built across the river within the city limits, and the fire depart-
ment was provided with new buildings and apparatus.

In 1858 Mr. Kimball was elected to the House of Representatives of
the State of New Hampshire, and again in 1859. I" 1862 President Lincoln
appointed him collector of internal revenue for the Second District of New
Hampshire. This highly important position he held for a period of seven
years, during which time he collected and paid over to the treasurer of the
United States the sum of nearly seven millions of dollars, and keeping so
accurately the complicated accounts indispensable to this immense business
that their final auditing at his retirement was promptly accomplished and
without inaccuracy to the amount of a dollar. In 1876 Mr. Kimball was
elected to the convention for the revision of the State Constitution, and he
bore an active part in the deliberations of that body, and aided in formula-
ting some of the most important provisions in the new organic instrument.
In 1877 he was appointed by the governor one of the three commissioners to
whom was committed the erection of the new State prison. In 1880 he was
appointed by the Supreme Court of the State one of the three trustees of the
Manchester & Keene Railroad. In November of the same year he was
elected to the State Senate, and at the beginning of its session received the
high honor of being elected president of that body.

Mr. Kimball was an original Republican, aiding in the formation of the
party in 1856, under the first standard bearer, John C. Fremont, and from
that time one of the most steadfast and earnest of its supporters. He had
frequently sat in the State and other conventions of the party, and always
enjoyed the intimate friendship and confidence of many of the most eminent
statesmen of his day, and particularly during the Civil War period, when
he rendered all possble aid, by effort and means, to the administration of
President Lincoln in its gigantic struggle for the preservation of the Union.
Of cultured mind and reflective habits of thought, Mr. Kimball was deeply
informed in general affairs and in literature, with a particular inclination
toward historical and genealogical research, and his attainments found
recognition at the hands of Dartmouth College, which in 1882 conferred
upon him the degree of Master of Arts. Entirely regular habits of life and
total abstinence from stimulating beverages and drugs (through conviction

ii8 i^on. 31o!)n mimfiall

of conscience as well as for other reasons) preserved to him excellent phy-
sical powers, and his form was tall and erect, and his presence commanding.
While firm and decided in his views, he was ever genial and courteous, and
his wealth of informaton and fine conversational powers made him a wel-
come addition to the most polished circle in his State. His residence was
long in Concord.

Mr. Kimball was first married, May 27, 1846, to Maria Phillips, daugh-
ter of Elam Phillips, of Rupert, Vermont. She died December 22, 1894. Of
this union there was born one child, Clara Maria. Mr. Kimball married
(second), October 15, 1895, Charlotte Atkinson, of Nashua. New Hampshire.

Bantel (j^orlion SttDoolf

MONG the citizens of Bedford, New Hampshire, who achieved
distinction in business, entitling them to be placed among
the representative men of the community, there were many
whose quiet perseverance in a particular pursuit elevated
them to positions enviable in the eyes of their fellow-men,
and as lasting as well-merited. In this class may be placed
Daniel Gordon Atwood, who gained a success in life that is
not measured by financial prosperity alone, but is gauged by the kindly and
congenial associations that go toward satisfying man's nature. Mr. Atwood
belonged to the class of men who in days gone by added to the growth and
importance of his native town of Bedford, and who became prominent by the
force of his own individual character. In that day and age but few citizens
lived in the community that left a brighter record for every trait of char-
acter that constituted real greatness, and Mr. Atwood's life is well worth
preserving in such volumes as this, to furnish instruction for the generations
to come. His name ever stood as a synonym for all that was enterprising
in business, and progressive in citizenship, and his industry and energy, his
courage and fidelity to principle, were illustrated in his career. His personal
character was highly commendable, and he was truly a man of unusual
strength of character and business ability. He was most kindly and com-
panionable, made friends easily, and possessed the rare faculty of keeping
those friendships. The death of Mr. Atwood, which occurred on November
22, 1890, at the age of seventy-eight years, was the cause of general regret.
His native town suffered deeply by his passing away, for the community in
general had learned to love him and to lean upon him when in trouble.
After an honorable and useful life he passed over the Great Divide into the
beyond, a man honored in life and blessed in memory.

The birth of Daniel Gordon .Atwood occurred in Bedford, New Hamp-
shire, April 12, 1812, the third son and sixth child of David and Mary (Bell)
Atwood. His father was also born in Bedford, and remained a lifelong
resident of that place. His death occurred there October 12, 1857. David
and Mary (Bell) Atwood became the parents of eleven children, whose
names were as follows: Hannah, Joseph Bell, Mary Bell, Olive, John, Daniel
Gordon, the subject of this tribute; Sarah, David, Jane Gordon, Clarinda
and Isaac Brooks.

The name of Atwood was originally Wood, and its first syllable was
introduced in America. The Atwood coat-of-arms is as follows :

Arms — Argent on a fesse raguly azure three fleurs-de-lis or.

Crest— On a branch of a tree trunked lying fesseways or, a fleur-de-lis azure
between two sprigs vert.

John Wood, the immigrant ancestor of the Atwood family, arrived at

ixo Daniel <£>orDon ^ttoooD

Plymouth, Massachusetts, from England, as early as 1643. He was united
in marriage with Sarah Masterson.

Nathaniel Wood, the son of John and Sarah (Masterson) Wood, was
born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1652.

John Wood, the son of Nathaniel Wood, was born in Plymouth, 1684.
He changed his name to that of Atwood. In 1700 he married Sarah Leavitt,
and they became the parents of one son. whose name was Isaac.

Isaac Atwood, the son of John and Sarah (Leavitt) Atwood. was born
in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1719. He was united in marriage with
Lydia Wait, August 7, 1740, and was the father of Zaccheus, Wait, Isaac,
Hannah and Lydia.

Isaac (2) Atwood, the son of Isaac (i) and Lydia (Wait) Atwood, was
born in Plymouth, July 17, 1747. In 1777 he settled in Bedford, New Hamp-
shire, and resided there for the remainder of his life, which terminated
March 15, 1836. On April 21, 1770, he married (first) Hannah Chubbuck,
who died Augfust 10, 1798. He married (second) Lydia Whitmarsh, of
Abington, Massachusetts. She passed away October 3, 1841. His first
union was blessed with the following children : Isaac, Hannah, Lydia, David,
John. Submit W., Thomas, Stephen and Zaccheus.

David Atwood, the second son and fourth child of Isaac and Hannah
(Chubbuck) Atwood, was born in Bedford, March 24, 1779, and he became
the father of Daniel Gordon Atwood, in whose memory we are writing.

In early life, Daniel Gordon Atwood was employed in a bobbin factory,
and later became engaged in the manufacture of cider. From the beginning
of his career, agriculture was more to his liking, and accordingly became his
principal occupation. Mr. Atwood followed it with prosperous results, and
he labored persistently and energetically, not only to win success for him-
self, but to make his life a source of benefit to his fellow-men. His heart
was ever in sympathy with the sorrows of the unfortunate and his hand
was ever ready to contribute to the alleviation of those in distress. Mr.
Atwood was indeed a pattern of generosity, charity and affection to all who
were thrown in contact with him, and taken from every angle he was a man
of the most sterling quality. Unlike the majority of his fellow-townsmen,
Mr. Atwood did not confine his sole attention and time to his own business
interests, but was more or less active in civic afifairs, serving with ability as
a selectman for two years. Politically he was affiliated with the Republican
party, and staunchly upheld its doctrines all through his life. In his religious
faith, Mr. Atwood was a Presbyterian, and for many years sang in the choir
of the Presbyterian church in Bedford.

On May 2, 1837, Daniel Gordon Atwood was united in marriage with
Margaret Ann Barr, who was born March 24, 181 5, the daughter of Thomas
and Abigail (Palmer) Barr, of Bedford, New Hampshire. She died August
16, 1887, having reared six children, namely: i. Eliza Morrison, who was
born December 9, 1838, and is now the widow of Noah Smith Clark, of Man-
chester. 2. Caroline, born February i, 1841, became the wife of Hazen K.
Fuller, and they removed to Florida in 1878. 3. Julia Ann, born January

Daniel ($orDon ^ttoooD

121

lo, 1844, became the wife of Leonard Bursiel, who died May 19, 1892.
4. Daniel Webster. 5. Clara, born September 6, 1850, and became the wife
of Bushrod W. Mann. 6. Thomas Byron, born February 5, 1853, deceased.
In his home life Daniel Gordon Atwood was an exceptionally happy
man, and was a devoted husband and a kind father. It was the pleasure of
those about him rather than his own which he strived and studied to pre-
serve and increase. It may be truthfully said in closing that in all the rela-
tions of life he was beyond reproach, and might well serve as an example to
the 3'outh of his community, and to those young men who would follow life's
pathway in a manly manner.

Charles JFretiericfe Ktmtx

'OWHERE can we see more vividly illustrated the truth of the
statement that time is measured by events and not by days
or hours than in the various achievements of such men as
Charles Frederick Tessier, who in their diverse characters
seem to defy the limits of time and space as we count them,
so that what the average man cannot accomplish in the
allotted three score years and ten, they will complete in a
brief period and stand ready for further efforts as though the deed had been
a pastime. Such capable figures we all have seen in the business world of
to-day, and they have been well represented in the life of that busy New
England city, Nashua, New Hampshire, and it would be difficult to find a
better example of the type than that offered by the man whose name heads
this memoir. It is always intensely interesting to us to find the achievements
of such men set down, as we still hope to find in the details of their careers
some of the secrets of success. Yet, after all, their secret is no other than the
secret of all accomplishment, for if they may possess more than the average
of talent, yet it is the conscientious use of this talent that is the real touch-
stone with which the door to success is unlocked, and this we all of us have
it in our power to employ. Hard work, courage, patience in overcoming
difficulties, these are some of the things that really matter, without which
no degree of ability avails to make success permanent. Mr. Tessier was a
man of high ideals, to which he adhered with an unusual degree of faith-
fulness in the conduct of his every-day life. He inherited from a sturdy
ancestry those strong principles that were the inspiration of his active and
useful life. It is a well-known fact that the city of Nashua. New Hampshire,
is greatly indebted to merchants of foreign birth, who have at various
periods of her eventful development settled there, and whose systematic
course of industry and business integrity has aided materially to gain for
the community wealth and importance. In this class of men Mr. Tessier
most naturally took his place, and was long regarded as one of the pioneer
French-American business men in the city of Nashua. All that was useful,
pure and good in the community appealed most forcibly to him, and the
community responded by according to him its respectful admiration and
sincere affection. He was the type of merchant of whom the city is justly
proud, a type whose enterprise and integrity have not only developed the
trade of the city but have given it an enviable reputation for fair dealing and
honorable methods. The death of Mr. Tessier, which occurred in Nashua,
New Hampshire, his adopted city, November 28, 1900, at the age of fifty-
eight years, meant the removal of one of the best known and most admired
French-Canadian residents of the city, and his" departure was mourned by
the community-at-large, for he had endeared himself to all classes.

^/ictrie:^ ^i^ede^icK ^cAiiet*^

Cfjarles JFteDericb Cessier 123

Charles Frederick Tessier was born in Stuckly, Providence of Quebec,
March 5, 1843, the son of Charles and Marie (Boisvert) Tessier, both of
whom were natives of that region. Charles Frederick Tessier obtained his
education in the public schools of his native town, and remained there until
fourteen years of age, when he went to Coaticook, Providence of Quebec,
where he continued to live for five years. At the age of twenty years Mr.
Tessier removed to Montreal, where he became engaged in various kinds
of work, remaining there for about two years. On April i, 1869, he moved
to Nashua, New Hampshire, shortly after reaching his majority. He
entered at once into the grocery business, in company with Eleazer Lucier,
under the firm name of Lucier & Tessier. This was one of the earliest of
French speaking business firms in Nashua, and Mr. Tessier did all in his
power, during his long and well spent business life in that city, to give the
French speaking people of Nashua the high place they have occupied for
being progressive, honest and among the most useful and patriotic citizens
in a city now made up of such a large proportion of thrifty and completely
Americanized French speaking people.

Mr. Tessier dissolved his partnership with Eleazer Lucier, in 1878, and
engaged in the grocery business on his own account, with location in Rail-
road Square. In 1893, owing to his rapidly increasing business, he moved
from the Square to a fine new block which he himself had erected on West
Pearl street, which bears his name, and his grocery store occupied the east
end of the building. Mr. Tessier always maintained a high reputation for
strict integrity, and was a man possessed of much business ability. Honest
and upright in all his dealings with his fellow-men, he held a high place in
the esteem of his associates and patrons. Thirty years of his life had been
passed in Nashua, and during that time he had been identified with the
trades interests of the city. All who knew him always spoke highly of his
unimpeachable character and shrewd business sagacity. It was these attri-
butes that won for him success in life, and will ever make his memory
revered among those who had been so fortunate as to have called him friend.

Mr. Tessier was never a politician, preferring to exert his influence for
the welfare of the community in quiet and unostentatious ways. He had no
ambition to win public honors, or public office, but moved serenely along
the walks of social and business life, unconsciously winning honors of far
more value than those which attach to public station. He devoted his time
and attention to his business interests, and with an unyielding purpose in
the enlargement of his activities and usefulness, he laid the sure foundation
of an honorable and substantial life. His success was the merited reward
of industry, ability and honesty. In all his words and deeds he was ever
faithful to every personal and public obligation, and his commanding influ-
ence among his many friends was the natural product of his moral qualities.
His kindness solicited friendship, his wisdom invited confidence, and his
integrity commanded respect. Mr. Tessier was in every respect a typical
example of the strong, capable French-American, true to his home, true to
his adopted city, and true to his country.

124 Cljatles JFtcDeticb Cessiet

Mr. Tessier was also a well-known figure in the financial circles of
Nashua, New Hampshire, and was a director of the New Hampshire Bank-
ing Company. In his religious belief he was a devout member of the Roman
Catholic faith, and a constant attendant at the Church of St. Louis De Gon-
zague. He was reverential in his nature, and gave liberally to the support
of the church and its maintenance. He was one of the founders of the local
Nashua St. Jean Baptiste Society.

On February 19, 1871, Charles Frederick Tessier was united in marriage
with Anna Olivier, a daughter of Eleazer and Adelaide (Girard) Olivier.
Mrs. Tessier, at the time of her marriage, was a well-known, popular and
talented vocalist. Mr. and Mrs. Tessier became the parents of seven chil-
dren, as follows: i. Dr. George Olivier Tessier, now a leading dentist in
Montreal, Canada; he married Lumina Lagasse, and they are the parents
of ten children: Irene, Germaine, Frederick, Fernande, Olivier, Roger,
Alphonse, Simonne, Joan d'Arc, Jean Peul Tessier. 2. Ernest Frederick, a
leading merchant of Nashua, New Hampshire; he married Albina LeClaire,
of Nashua, becoming the parents of two children, Roland and Marie Anna
Tessier. 3. Dr. Arthur Joseph Tessier, died August 19. 1904; was a gradu-
ate of St. Anselms College of Manchester, New Hampshire, and of the
Baltimore Medical College, where he graduated with the degree of M. D. ;
he married Edith Stacy, of Gardner, Massachusetts, and was just entering
upon a fine practice in Somersworth, New Hampshire, when he was cut off
in the full strength of young manhood. 4. Leon Alphonse, the organist at
St. Mary's Church, in Manchester, New Hampshire; he married Alida Per-
rault. of Manchester, New Hampshire, and they are the parents of seven
children: Beatrice, deceased; Gerald, Armand, Cecile, Robert, Lucien, and
Gertrude. 5. Juliette Anna, became the wife of Dr. Oswald S. Maynard, of
Nashua, New Hampshire. 6. Florette Helen, became the wife of Leo F.
DesParois, of Nashua. 7. Ralph Victor, passed away at Nashua, April 11,
1905, at the age of eighteen years; he was a most promising youth, and at
the time of his departing from this life was preparing to enter the priesthood
at St. Charles Seminary, Sherbrooke, Providence of Quebec.

Charles Frederick Tessier was a devoted husband and father, and found
his chief happiness and interests in the intimate intercourse which centers
around the hearthstone. In all respects he was a model man and his death
was universally regarded as the greatest personal loss the city of Nashua
could experience. If there was in his character one element which stood
forth with special prominence, and could be pointed out as a marked char-
acteristic of his life, it was his "rugged honesty." As a good citizen, and a
true gentleman, in the best sense of the word, Mr. Tessier's memory will
long be cherished.

Baniel WAth^ttv

*HIS great orator and statesman, one of the most distinguished
men our country has produced, came from a fine ancestry.
His line begins with Thomas Webster, born in County Nor-
folk, England, who came to America with his mother and
her second husband, William Godfrey, her first husband
and father of Thomas Webster being deceased. This little
family came to Watertown, Massachusetts, whence Thomas
in his young manhood removed to Hampton, New Hampshire. He married
Sarah,, daughter of Thomas Brewer, of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Their son
Ebenezer served in the Indian war in 1710, and was one of the settlers of
Kingston, New Hampshire, where he married Hannah Judkins. Their son
Ebenezer married Susanna Batchelder.

Ebenezer, son of the last named couple, was one of the strong men of
his day. His education was extremely limited. He served under General
Amherst in the French War and attained the rank of captain. At the out-
set of the Revolution he recruited a force of two hundred men, and at their
head joined Washington at Cambridge. He served at White Plains and at
Bennington, and later at West Point. He left the army with the rank of
colonel at the close of the war, and was chosen to various offices — Represen-
tative, State Senator, Judge of Probate and Presidential Elector. His eldest
son, Ezekiel, was liberally educated, graduating from Dartmouth College,
studying law, and becoming a lawyer. He died in the court house at Con-
cord, while making a plea before a jury.

Daniel Webster, son of Colonel Ebenezer Webster, was two years
younger than his brother Ezekiel, last-mentioned. He was born in a frame
house near his father's original log house, in Salisbury, New Hampshire,
January 18, 1782. When he was about a year old his parents removed to the
town of Franklin, and here the youth came to young manhood. He was
frail, and had few educational advantages as a child. After a few months at
Phillips Academy, he completed his preparation for college under the private
tutorship of Rev. Samuel Wood, of Boscawen, then entering Dartmouth
College, partially supporting himself by teaching and in newspaper work.
He soon made up for the deficiencies of his earlier education, becoming the
foremost scholar in the institution, and distinguishing himself in the college
society debates. After graduating, he studied law, at the same time read-
ing a great deal of general literature. For a few years he taught an academy,
did clerical work, and then returned to his law studies in Boston, where he
was admitted to the bar, then entering upon practice in Boscawen, New
Hampshire.

His public career began in 1812, in his thirtieth year, by his election to
Congress, and his reelection followed. In 1816 he removed to Boston, and
practiced his profession several years. In 1822 he was elected to Congress,

126

Daniel meb$tet

and reelected twice afterward. In 1827 he entered the United States Senate,
and by repeated reelections retained his seat until 1841, when he resigned to
accept the portfolio of Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Harri-
son. In 1843 he resigned the position, and in the following year again
became a United States Senator. This position he again resigned to become
Secretary of State under President Fillmore, holding the position until his
death, October 24, 1852.

The above narrative is all that space here will permit. Of Mr. Webster
it is to be said that his forensic ability, his exalted statesmanship, his broad
knowledge of constitutional law, his wonderful influence over men, and his
illustrious record generally, are too well known to demand repetition.

Ctitoart $ap0on litmball

'HE personal annals of New England contain many accounts
of men who seem in an unusual degree identified with the
development of some particular section of the country, iden-
tified to such an extent, indeed, that they seem almost to play
the part of fairy godfathers to the fortunate communities,
taking share in the running of all their affairs from the most
general functions of government to the private acts of char-
ity to the neglected, helpless ones. Such a part was played for the city of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire, by Edward Payson Kimball, whose death,
which occurred there on March 31, 1910, was a loss to that city quite irrepa-
rable. The banking institutions of any city are a fair index of its commer-
cial character and financial strength, for they are the very centers around
which they are regulated. To this end it is necessary, not only to have
substantial assets and available capital, but wise, judicious and efficient
officers, directors, and heads, whose administration and character strengthen
confidence. Prominent among men of this caliber was Mr, Kimball, and it
is only natural that his passing away came as a severe shock to the com-
munity-at-large.

The name of Kimball in England, as the records show, appears in the
various forms of Kymbolde, Kembold, Kembould, and Kemball. The com-
mon ancestor of the great majority of Kimballs in this country was Richard
Kimball, who with his family embarked at Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk,
England, April 10, 1634, in the ship "Elizabeth." He arrived at Boston, and
from there went to Watertown. Massachusetts, where he settled and became
a prominent and active man in the new settlement. He was by trade a
wheelwright, and was proclaimed a freeman in 1635.

Edward Payson Kimball, in whose memory this memoir is being writ-
ten, was the eighth generation of Richard Kimball, the immigrant ancestor,
and was the eldest son and third child of the Rev. Reuben and Judith
(Colby) Kimball. He was born in Warner, New Hampshire, on July 4,
1834. His father, the Rev. Reuben Kimball, was also born in Warner, and
died in 1871, at the age of sixty-eight years. His first field of labor was at
Kittery Point, Maine, where lie was ordained in 1841. It was pleasant to
Rev. Kimball to be actively employed in the Master's service, and he used
every degree of his remaining strength in the work of the ministry so long
as opportunity was granted him. His knowledge of the Bible was intimate
and extensive, and his faith in its doctrines was sound and discriminating.
His wife, Judith (Colby) Kimball, was a native of Warner, New Hamp-
shire, and died in Ipswich, at the age of seventy-three years. She was the
daughter of John and Sarah Colby, of Warner.

Edward Payson Kimball received his education in the common schools
of Kittery Point, Maine, and later at Hampton and Andover academies.

128 (ZBDtoarD Pap0on I^imtiall

Upon the completion of his studies, Mr. Kimball engaged in mercantile busi-
ness in Kittery Point from 1855 to 1857. The following year he removed
to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he became interested in banking.
He obtained a position as clerk in the Piscataqua Exchange and later in the
Portsmouth Savings Bank. In 1871 he became the cashier of the First
National Bank, in Portsmouth, and ten years afterwards was made presi-
dent of that bank, and also of the Piscataqua Savings Bank. Mr. Kimball
was a commanding figure in the financial circles of Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, a man whose opinion carried weight in the financial world throughout
that section of the country. His mind was clear and far-seeing, and he was
ambitious to grapple with any project that was presented to him, however
great its scope.

Mr. Kimball did not confine his business interests to Portsmouth alone,
for he was connected with other afifairs in the West, in which he met with
success. He was the possessor of strong executive ability, and marked by
a strict adherence to the loftiest principles of integrity. Long will memory
hold him in fond remembrance by his host of friends and business associates,
who learned to esteem him, to deeply love him, and who felt at the time of
his departure from earthly view that out of the community had gone forth
one who was indeed a leader and a friend.

Politically, Mr. Kimball from his youth had adhered to the Republican
party, being a staunch supporter of the measures advocated in its contests
and platforms. Upon his arrival in Portsmouth, he became interested in
the afifairs of the city, and was a member of the city government. In 1885
and 1886 he served in the New Hampshire Legislature. He filled these
offices of public trust with honor to himself and honor to the city, whose
interests and welfare were made his own. He stood forth as a typical man
in the community which he had adopted, and was most conspicuous for his
public service. He gave much thought, time and service to grapple with the
problems and other difficulties that confront our legislative branches. He
was indeed a man of the highest integrity, and always adhered to what he
believed was right and best for Portsmouth.

In his religious belief, Mr. Kimball was a devout member of the Con-
gregational church, and an active worker for its benefit in Portsmouth. In
1871 he was made a deacon of the North Congregational Church, and held
office as clerk and treasurer of the church from 1867 until the time of his
death. His liberality to the church is well known, also his deep concern for
the welfare of the public educational institutions of Portsmouth, and of the
State, and the benevolent and charitable organizations of a private nature.
Mr. Kimball's services along these lines, and in other fields of usefulness,
were of great and lasting value. He elevated the standard of the public
service, he secured many public movements and improvements, and he
extended the good name of Portsmouth, at the same time promoting the
welfare of its people. In his death the city truly lost one whose unselfish
services will long be remembered with appreciation and affection.

On September 13, 1864, Edward Payson Kimball was united in mar-
riage with Martha Jane Thompson, who was a native of Wilmot, New

CDtoarD papson mimliari 129

Hampshire, and a daughter of Colonel Samuel and Anna True (Smith)
Thompson, of Wilmot. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball were the parents of three
children, as follows: i. Elizabeth Colby, born January 27, 1866, and died
March 7, 1880. 2. Martha Smith, born February 28, 1870, graduated from
Smith College with the class of 1892. 3. Edward Thompson, born Septem-
ber 29, 1873, and graduated from Amherst College in the class of 1896.

Mr.Kimball had an idealhome, in which his presence never failed to radi-
ate happiness and content. Reaching out beyond that sacred circle he was
connected with many organizations that stand for philanthropy, for social
service and fraternalism. He had been a member of the Portsmouth School
Board, a trustee of the Cottage Hospital of the Chase Home for Children,
of the Seaman's Friend Society, and president of the Howard Benevolent
Society and of the Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Kimball was
largely instrumental in building the beautiful Young Men's Christian Asso-
ciation building in Portsmouth and contributed liberally to its cost and sup-
port, always taking a keen, personal interest in its work. He was a member
of Piscataqua Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and was one of its
board of trustees.

Although Mr. Kimball held political offices, he was emphatically a man
of business, and his advent into the political world was more from business
interests with a view to proper legislation than any desire to win official
honors for himself. He was in no way a nominal member of the various
other organizations in which he held official rank, but a worker for the end
for which each institution was organized.

It has been said of Edward Payson Kimball that he was a man of
sterling public worth, of strict integrity, and an honor to his family, country
and State. He was a broad-minded gentleman, whom it is neither exag-
geration nor adulation to call a "great man," and it is hoped that his life
story will prove to be an inspiration to other young men, in like circum-
stances, who wish to achieve success in an honorable way.

Babtli Bublep JFelton

MONG the important business men of Manchester the name
of David Dudley Felton is most conspicuous, as much for
the high principle he observed in the conduct of his business
as for the success that attended it. His death, which
occurred at his North End home, May 5, 1914, removed
from the community one w^ho had been prominently identi-
fied with the business and social life of the city, as well as
one of its best-known men. His passing away, while not unexpected, filled
the community with sadness and sorrow, for his acquaintance was extremely
wide and his friends were legion. For more than a year prior to his death,
Mr. Felton had been in failing health. After consulting a specialist in New
York he was informed that his case was most serious and would inevitably
in a short time prove fatal. His character and cheerfulness could not better
be illustrated than the way he received this news. He returned to Man-
chester, cheery, full of grit and displayed a nerve typical of the man. He
never complained nor lost his courage. He made a fight for life that for
bravery astonished his friends.

The birth of David Dudley Felton occurred in Eden Prairie, Minnesota,
December 27, 1861, the eldest son of Silas A. and Mary E. Felton. His par-
ents had moved out to this western town a short time before his birth, from
Marlboro, Massachusetts. After remaining there for about five years, the
Felton family again returned to Marlboro, where they remained until 1869,
when they removed to Manchester, New Hampshire. Silas A. Felton died
in Manchester, November 17, 1907, after a life of fruitful endeavor. "Dud,"
as David Dudley Felton was familiarly known, attended the Ash street
school for his education, and later was graduated from the Manchester
High School. Upon finishing his schooling, Mr. Felton became employed
by the John B. Varick Company and the S. C. Forsaith Company. He later
started to work for his father, who was a manufacturer of brushes, and was
on the road for a short time as a traveling salesman for the concern. In the
eighties his father admitted him into the business, and the firm name was
changed from S. A. Felton to S. A. Felton & Son, and young David Dudley
became an active spirit in the management and development of the business.
Later the concern was incorporated under the name of S. A. Felton & Son
Company, under which name the business continued to be conducted. After
his father's death, in 1907, Mr. Felton had the entire supervision and man-
agement of the plant, which had been increased by a large addition. In fact,
some time before his father's passing away, the details of the business rested
upon his shoulders, as the senior Felton had virtually retired. In addition to
this, about two years previous to his death, Mr. Felton organized the D. D.
Felton Brush Company, of Atlanta, Georgia.

DauiD DuDIep jFelton 131

Mr. Felton has been greatly missed in the business and social life of
Manchester. He was known as a "hustler" in business, and as an enthus-
iast in anything in which he became interested. Bright and witty in conver-
sation, he was a moving spirit in any gathering at which he was present.
He was one of the most popular members of the Derryfield Club, and his
death removed one of the "Old Guard," who had been connected with the
club for many years. After his return from New York, when he well knew
that his days were numbered, with an indomitable will and with a display
of stamina that showed his courage, he spent as much time out-of-doors as
was possible and in the society of his friends. He visited the Derryfield Club
on all occasions possible, and was also a member of the Intervale Country
Club. In his youth Mr. Felton was one of the active and live members of
the Manchester Cadets. He always took a great interest in sporting events,
and attended personally affairs of prominence in that vicinity of the country.

Mr. Felton was also a prominent figure in the financial circles of Man-
chester. He was a director of the Manchester National Bank, and also of
the People's Gas Light Company. Politically, Mr. Felton was a Republican
and, like his father, was at one time the president of the Young Men's Repub-
lican Club of Ward Two, and was most active in promoting the interests of
this organization. He was a strict party man and was always willing to
take hold and help his friends, although he never himself personally sought
any public office.

On October 24, 1888, David Dudley Felton was united in marriage with
Mary Frederica Briggs, a daughter of the Hon. James Franklin and Rox-
anna (Smith) Briggs. of Manchester, New Hampshire. This union was
blessed with one child, a son, James Briggs Felton, who was born February
25, 1891. He received his education in St. Paul School, Concord, and then
entered Yale University, graduating from there with the class of 191 2. He
entered his father's well established business, in which he took a very active
interest, until he responded to the call of his country, when he went to
Plattsburg and was appointed to the first lieutenancy in the Signal Corps of
the Aviation Division. On August 4, 191 5, he was united in marriage with
Beatrice Pike, the daughter of Charles E. and Sarah (Pearson) Pike. Mr.
and Mrs. James Briggs Felton became the parents of one son, James Briggs
Felton, Jr., born January 26, 191 7.

In the intimate intercourse of his family life, David Dudley Felton
proved himself a man of the highest character by that most difficult test of
uniform kindness and consideration, and was an affectionate husband and a
devoted father. He always derived the keenest pleasure at his own fireside.
His mind was exceptionally well balanced, his judgment was practical in
the highest degree, and his executive ability was one of his marked char-
acteristics. His temperament, and his never untiring energy and enterprise
presents a character which has always been greatly admired and which is a
splendid example for the younger generation to emulate. His death, when
in the very prime of life, fifty-three years of age, brought genuine grief to
many hearts, and he left behind him many who mourned his loss. Even
those whose contact with him was the most casual quickly developed a real

132

DaUiD DuDIep Jfclton

affection and admiration for him, and this is perhaps the final test of any
man's worth. Ever patriotic, loyal, and plain-spoken, with a tender heart
toward all humanity, a jovial and happy disposition, and enthusiasm in busi-
ness as well as in social affairs, David Dudley Felton closed his life, leaving
behind him a host of friends and acquaintances who will long remember
him.

Hon. Barnes JFranfelm ilriggs

^EYOND doubt one of the most prominent figures in the public
life of Manchester, New Hampshire, during the past gener-
ation, as well as one of the leaders of his profession, was
James Franklin Briggs, whose death at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. David Dudley Felton, in Manchester, Janu-
ary 21, 1905, was felt as a heavy loss by the entire commu-
nity. Few citizens have equalled him in the number of
affairs with which he was identified, and in the capability of his leadership,
for Mr. Briggs was a leader in whatever movement he undertook, and his
fellow-men recognized this and submitted to a leadership which was always
exerted for their good. Mr. Briggs became one of the best known figures of
the bar in that region, and was equally distinguished as a citizen of great
public spirit. His entire life was useful, laborious and honorable. His mind
and character were cast in such a mould as to inspire confidence and trust
in those who came in contact with him, and his personality was strong,
positive and independent. To his family, Mr. Briggs was intensely devoted,
and within its circle his greatest happiness and joy in life was experienced.
He was a very just and generous man, of calm, deliberate judgment, and he
led an unselfish, helpful life, full of activity, good deeds and kindly acts.

James Franklin Briggs was born in Bury, Lancashire, England, October
23, 1827. the son of John and Nancy (Frankland) Briggs. On his maternal
side, Mr. Briggs was related to Sir Edward Bangs, who had charge of the
construction of some of the largest bridges across the Thames river in
London, England. When he was less than two years of age, the family left
their native land, England, and came to this country, landing in Boston,
March 4, 1829. They lived successively in Andover, Saugus and Amesbury,
Massachusetts, until the year 1836, when they settled in Holderness, now
Ashland, where the father, in company with two brothers, purchased a
woolen mill. The parents were plain, hard-working, thrifty people, imbued
with the loftiest attributes of Christian excellence, and gained the respect
and confidence of all with whom they were brought in contact.

James F. Briggs spent his early life at cloth-making in his father's mills,
learning thoroughly every branch of the business and acquiring in leisure
hours, with the aid of his parents, a fair elementary education from such
books as he could secure. At the age of fourteen years, Mr. Briggs spent one
term at the Newbury, Vermont, Academy, and later attended the Academy
at Tilton, until 1848, working in the meantime at his trade during vacations
to earn the means of defraying his expenses of education. In 1848, he
entered the law oflice of the Hon. William C. Thompson, of Plymouth. New
Hampshire, but owing to his father's death in February, of that year, he was
not permitted to continue the studies which his ambition craved. The death
of his father left his mother with eight children, six of whom were younger

134 ^f"' 3[ames JFranblin 'Btigg0

than James Franklin Briggs, and upon him fell a very large share of their
support, as reverses had throwm the family into limited circumstances.
With great courage and no small self-sacrifice, he returned to his old employ-
ment as a cloth-maker, but continued to devote every spare moment to his
legal education, procuring books from Mr. Thompson for this purpose. At
the end of a year, he entered the office of the Hon. Joseph Burrows, of Hold-
erness. In 1849, t^^ family removed to Fisherville, now^ Penacook, and Mr.
Brisrgs continued his legal studies with Judge Nehemiah Butler, of Bosca-
wen, being admitted to the New Hampshire bar at Concord, in the spring of
1851. He immediately began active practice at Hillsborough Bridge, and
soon gained a large and successful business. Within two years he was one
of the leading lawyers of the town. As a Democrat Mr. Briggs took a
prominent part in politics, and in 1857, 1858 and 1859, represented Hills-
borough Bridge in the Lower House of the New Hampshire Legislature,
being elected each time by an almost unanimous vote. In that body he was
continuously a member of the judiciary committee, and in 1858 received his
party's nomination for the speakership. Mr. Briggs was affiliated with the
Democratic party until i860, and was nominated for councillor upon its
"Peace at any price" platform, but declined the honor, and sided with the
Union men of the North. From the outbreak of the War of the Rebellion,
he became an ardent and consistent member of the Republican party, and
it was only a short time before he was acknowledged as one of the foremost
Republicans of the State of New Hampshire.

When the Eleventh Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers was
recruited, Mr. Briggs promptly offered his services, and was commissioned
regimental quartermaster on the stafT of Colonel Walter Harriman. and
served through the battles of Fredericksburg, the military operations in
Kentucky, and the Mississippi River campaign for about a year. He was
finally prostrated by the malarial fever of the southern swamps and com-
pelled to resign and return to Hillsborough Bridge, where he soon resumed
the practice of his profession. In 1871, Mr. Briggs moved to Manchester,
New Hampshire. For several years he was a law partner of the late Hon.
Henry H. Huse. Major Briggs soon established himself in his profession
and entered upon a career that was both brilliant and useful. Soon after
locating in Manchester, Mr. Briggs was made city solicitor, an ofifice that
he administered with characteristic ability and honor. In 1874, he repre-
sented Ward Three in the Legislature, and in 1876 he was elected to both
the State Senate and Constitutional Convention. In 1877, he was nomi-
nated for member of Congress, without substantial opposition, and was
three times elected, each time by an increased majority. Major Briggs,
however, declined a fourth nomination for Congress. In 1883 and again in
1891 he was elected to the State Legislature, and was chosen a member of
the Constitutional Convention of 1899. He served a seventh term in the
Legislature in 1897, and was elected speaker of the house by a unanimous
vote.

In the fall of the year 1850, James Franklin Briggs was united in mar-
riage with Roxanna Smith, a daughter of Obadiah and Eliza M. (Moody)

J^on, 3[ames jFranklin 15tigQS 135

Smith, both of whom were natives of Holderness, New Hampshire. Mrs.
Briggs passed away on January 2y, 1888. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs were the
parents of three children, as follows: i. Frank O., born in Hillsborough,
New Hampshire, August 12, 1851. He gained distinction by being elected
to the United States Senate from New Jersey. 2. Sarah Frances, born
October 22, 1855. 3. Mary Frederica, born in Hillsborough, August 19, 1866.
She became the wife of David Dudley Felton, of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, and they were the parents of one son, James Briggs Felton, who is
now serving in the Signal Corps of the Aviation Division of the United
States Army.

Major Briggs was regarded as one of the ablest members of the New
Hampshire bar. His sound judgment, his courage and his industry, his
broad and accurate knowledge of the law, his great force of character, all
gave him a reputation which was not confined to the State of New Hamp-
shire alone. He was essentially strong before a court or jury, where his
oratorical ability and power to marshal facts won for him many notable
victories. He was a brilliant public speaker, and for several years was one
of the leading campaign orators. He had also been active and influential
as a promoter of numerous enterprises, and had been president of the Hills-
borough National Bank, of the Granite State Trust Company, and of the
Queen City Land and Building Association. He was a director of the Citi-
zens' Building and Loan Association and of the People's Gas Light Com-
pany.

The Hon. James Franklin Briggs was notable in his long life, which
extended over seventy-eight years, for many things. He was noted for
being a man of principle and for his deep interest in good causes. His strong
and self-confident character was greatly moderated by the most kindly of
hearts and cheerful dispositions. Throughout his entire life, during the
early hardships and privations as well as through the not less difficult
responsibilities of wealth and success, he displayed unbrokenly the virtues
so characteristic of his race, patience, industry, courage, and a sort of
buoyant optimism that simply overlooked obstacles and refused to admit
defeat. His career may well be held up as a credit both to the race which
produced him and to the country which he adopted as his own.

ilenjamm Cbomas ilotoes

^HE wide world has never produced quite such seamen else-
where as those of the northeastern coast of our country,
surely the very type of sailor the world over is the New
England salt of the past generation, a class that is rapidly
fading out of existence as steamships are taking the place
of the magnificent old vessels that with the wind for motor
power swept their way to every port of the globe and about
which there grew up a romance of the seas that seems destined to vanish
with the ships themselves and the men who sailed them. There is probably
no people in the world so famous for their prowess as sailors of the open
main as the hardy maritime folk developed in the New England States
during the days when a sea voyage was a very real peril which only strong
cause would drive a man to embark upon. These men who feared no
weather have made their names and the name of their home region famous
throughout the lands and seas of the world. On November i, 1909, there
died in Keene, New Hampshire, Captain Benjamin Thomas Howes, one of
the best known sea captains, who had but few rivals on the broad seas during
his time for skill, courage and fame. He was a man of fine character, univer-
sally esteemed and respected, and his death was lamented by a large circle of
friends. Captain Howes was a descendant of a family long identified with
the very calling in which he was later himself to take a part. He came of a
sturdy race, a race of adventurous, freedom-loving men and women, typical
of the splendid men who settled New England and made them known every-
where.

Captain Benjamin Thomas Howes was born in Chatham, Massachu-
setts, August 5, 1843. His father, like nearly everyone in Chatham, was a
seafaring man, and the son attended the public schools of his native place,
growing up with the other boys, and becoming familiar with the life of the
fisherman and sailor, so far as a boy's experience is likely to extend. There-
fore, during his boyhood Captain Howes was dreaming of the sea, and at the
early age of fourteen years he shipped for his first ocean voyage, which was
to be of two years' duration, and which was to take him around the world.
The ship on which he sailed was one of the staunch merchantmen of those
days. She sailed around Cape Horn and up the west coast to Mexico and
California, discharging a cargo and loading again for Hamburg, whence she
sailed back to New York. This ocean voyage was taken against Captain
Howes' father's wish, and gave him a splendid opportunity to test the bravery
and courage of his son. He was not spared in the least, and every difficult
and disagreeable task possible was heaped upon his young shoulders. It
was all in vain, the lad's determination was entirely unshaken, and the father
was obliged to become reconciled to his son following the call of the seas as
his chosen profession in life.

^/^\,/>/?u/, ^y.///./////A y/,^ //n^.> y/(/i',

15en|amin Cfjomas l^otoes 137

Captain Howes made good use of his opportunities and studied naviga-
tion and the duties of the master of a ship, in which he became very pro-
ficient, as his long record as a successful and efficient officer subsequently
proved. He rose successfully to the positions of third, then second, and first
mate on different ships, and in 1871 became captain of the schooner "Samos,"
which he was in charge of for three or four years, going to various foreign
ports. He gave himself up to his work with a devotion that brought him
success, and it was not long before he was embarked upon his remarkable
career. Captain Howes next became master of the schooner "Henry Lip-
pitt," and was her captain until she was run down by a large vessel and
sunk one dark night, while at anchor off Old Point Comfort, Virginia, all
on board with the exception of one man being saved. Captain Howes went
down with his ship, but was rescued by a line when much exhausted. He
had sailed the "Henry Lippitt" to all parts of the world, including Australia,
India, and many African, European and South American ports.

After the loss of the first "Henry Lippitt," a second and larger vessel
with the same name was built, of which Captain Howes became the master
in 1895. He remained in command of this vessel until 1907, when his health
compelled him to retire from active work. In his long experience as a sea
captain, he passed through many thrilling adventures, but he was a man of
excellent judgment and ability, and one who did not easily lose his head in
an emergency. He was the recipient of many testimonials for bravery and
efficiency, including a medal from the King of Spain for saving three men,
which in itself was an unusual honor, and also received one from the Life
Service Station of Spain for the same deed.

The character of Captain Howes was an unusually strong one, and
from long habits of command he sometimes seemed almost stern in his
manner, but this was due to the fact that he was a strict disciplinarian and
insisted upon his commands being obeyed. He did not know the meaning
of fear and this, together with a liberality towards those under him, was
what gave him the great hold he had over his men. Like all who ever sailed
the seas, he had all sorts and conditions of men with whom to deal, but his
kind heart and broad sympathies endeared him to all. He was a man of
extremely independent mind, and could never brook to have his conduct
regulated by anything other than the operation of his own judgment and
reason. He remained aloof from political affairs, and there is but little doubt
that it was this and this only that prevented him from occupying many
public offices, for his talents were peculiarly fitted for such activity. As it
was, however, this extreme independence prevented him from any such
career, probably considerably to his own relief, since his fondness for his
home life was so great that he could not have failed to dislike anything that
interfered with that enjoyment. He did not shut himself off entirely from
the ordinary social intercourse which most men enjoy, nor did he fail to
eniov it himself. Captain Howes was a member of the Masonic fraternity,
and of the Pokahoket Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Keene, New
Hampshire. He also belonged to the Social Friends Lodge, Chesire Chap-

138 'Bcni'amin Cfiomas ^otoes

ter. Royal Arch Masons, and the Hugh de Payens Commandery, Knights
Templar. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and also a member of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, New Hampshire Consistory.

Captain Howes had been a resident of Keene for over thirty years, and
the attractions that won so many friends were not, however, of the surface
merely, but had their basis in the strong and sterling virtues of the typical
New England character, a fact well proven by the firmness with which those
friendships were retained through the course of years. Integrity, wisdom
and courage were all his and he may well stand as a model for the growing
generation of the devoted husband, the worthy citizen and the upright man.
In his religious belief, Captain Howes was a Unitarian, and an attendant of
the Unitarian church in Keene.

Captain Howes became connected by marriage with an old New Hamp-
shire family, when he was united in marriage, June 16, 1872, with Maria A.
Holt, a daughter of Ralph J. and Sally Ann (Towns) Holt, of Keene, New
Hampshire. Captain and Mrs. Howes became the parents of four children,
as follows: i. Benjamin Alfred, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, and is now an expert concrete engineer in New York City;
he was united in marriage with Ethel Dench Puffer, of Cambridge, Massa-
chusetts, who bore him two children, Ellen and Benjamin Thomas Howes.
2. Ralph Holt, attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for three
years, and is a large contractor and builder in New York City; he was united
in marriage with Hannah Cushman, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and they
are the parents of one child, Ralph Holt Howes, Jr. 3. Henry Lippitt, died
aged eight years. 4. Josephine Holt, graduated from Wellesley College;
she became the wife of Louis Young Stiles, of Boston, Massachusetts.

Ralph J. Holt, the father of Mrs. Howes, was a native of Alstead, New
Hampshire, where he was born in 1812, his father being David Holt. Ralph
J. Holt was educated in the schools of Alstead and vicinity, and when a
young man was a school teacher for a time. He came to Keene, New Hamp-
shire, in 1846, and was appointed a deputy sheriff in 1854, and thereafter
until his death he served the county as high sheriff or as a deputy. He was
the first sheriff elected by the people under the new constitution in 1878.
At the expiration of that term of office, he was ineligible for another election
on account of his age, but he was reappointed a deputy. Sheriff Holt was
an officer who seldom, if ever, made a mistake in the execution of his official
duty. He had an excellent knowledge of law and never undertook to per-
form any official duty without understanding exactly what it was necessary
for him to do. When in doubt how to proceed to bring about results which
were difficult, the best lawyers in the county often relied upon Sheriff Holt
to assist them, and his advice seldom proved at fault. He was a most
pleasant man to meet, affable in manner, kind hearted and obliging at all
times. He served as alderman in Keene, New Hampshire, from Ward One,
in 1882, making a good officer and favoring reasonable public progress and
improvement.

On May 7, 1844, Ralph J. Holt was united in marriage with Miss
Sally Ann Towns, of Keene, a daughter of John and Nancy (Heaton)

iSenfamin Cf)omas l^otoeg 139

Towns. This union was blessed with three children, one son and two
daughters, namely: i. Charles E. Holt, of Keene, New Hampshire. 2. Mrs.
Mary Josephine Arms, deceased, late of Bellows Falls, Vermont. 3. Mrs.
Maria A. Howes, the widow of Captain Benjamin Thomas Howes, in whose
memory this memoir is being written. Mrs. Howes is a direct descendant
of Seth Heaton, who was born in 1710, and died in 1797. He was one of the
original settlers of Keene, New Hampshire. On the maternal side, Mrs.
Howes is descended from Ephraim Boynton, born in 1734, and died in 1826.
He served as ensign and as second lieutenant in the Massachusetts militia.
On her paternal side, Mrs. Howes is a descendant of Jonathan Bailey, born
in 1737, and died in 1814. He served as an ensign at the battle of Lexing-
ton. He was born and died in Lancaster, Massachusetts.

Since the death of her husband, Mrs. Howes has continued to reside in
Keene, New Hampshire, at No. 36 Marlboro street. The self-reliance and
energy of Captain Howes brought him success in life, so that he was able in
his latter years to enjoy the fruit of a long life of faithful industry. He gave
little time to public affairs, although he was interested in the progress of his
country, and always, when opportunity afforded, exercised the right and
duty of every good citizen in voting his choice. Firm in his convictions, he
was gentle in manner, genial in his nature and generous in his impulses,
qualities which caused him to be respected and beloved by all who knew him.

(S^eorge iSlancljet

''HE career of a successful man not only directly benefits
society, but when the result of individual efifort it affords an
incentive to others for high endeavor and the achievement
of a like success. For this reason worthy examples not only
justify but merit a place on the historic pages, and the career
of the late George Blanchet, of Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, was in the line of these observations. He well exem-
plified in every way the ideal business man's character, enterprising, cour-
ageous and conservative, a man of the highest intellectual and moral integ-
rity. It is an occupation alike of pleasure and profit to trace the life histories
of those successful men whose achievements have been the result of their
own unaided efforts, who, without even the average advantages surround-
ing the typical youth, have worked themselves up the ladder of success and
accomplishment until they have found themselves to hold secure places in
the regard and admiration of their fellow-men. It is an occupation of
pleasure because the human mind is so constituted that it cannot fail to
respond to the story of strong deeds worthily performed, of profit because
the inevitable fruit of such pleasure is imitation of the thing admired, even
though it be unconscious imitation. Such a record, so fraught with benef-
icent possibilities for others, is to be found in the life story of Mr. Blanchet,
who for many years was one of the best known figures in Manchester's
business life, and a representative citizen of that city. The death of George
Blanchet, which occurred at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire,
December 25, 1916, was felt as a serious loss by the entire community. In
his long and successful business career his word was always as good as his
bond, and his private life was without stain or blemish. In his relation with
the business world, he was highly regarded by all those who had the honor
of his acquaintance, and in Manchester, where he was so well known and
beloved, and in which he took such a deep and abiding interest in all that was
for the best interests of the community, his untimely passing away from all
earthly environment left a vacancy that it will be difficult indeed to ade-
quatelv fill.

The birth of George Blanchet occurred in St. Pierre, Province of Que-
bec, January 6, 1849, the son of Norbert and Margaret (Blais) Blanchet.
His ancestors came from St. Amiens, France, and were the first Blanchets
to arrive and settle in Canada. Mr. Blanchet came to Manchester, New
Hampshire, fifty years before his death, in 1866, and during his first years
in the city attached himself to the firm of Stark & Piper, who were at that
time well known photographers. Later he left this position to begin his
career in mercantile life as a clerk for Holton & Sprague, and remained with
that concern for twelve years, in which length of time he acquired valuable
knowledge of business methods and principles which served him well later

(Seotge 'Blancfiet H^

in life. He resigned from that position when he became the proprietor of
the Golden Fleece, an establishment of prominence at that time, and for
fifteen years Mr. Blanchet maintained this store with great success, con-
ducting' it along the strictest lines of integrity and business honor.^ About
this time the insurance and real estate field began to look promising, and
Mr. Blanchet left the dry goods business and entered into this line, soon
after taking his place in Manchester insurance circles. It was in this busi-
ness that he attained the full measure of his success, and for nearly a quarter
of a century he was prominent in the insurance circles of the city, retiring
from all active business work two years prior to his death. Seven years
before his retirement, Mr. Blanchet had organized the Prudential Fire Insur-
ance Company, which is now a most flourishing concern. Throughout all
the varied responsibilities of life this distinguished gentleman acquitted
himself with dignity and fidelity, and although his business dealings brought
him into contact with people from all walks of life, nothing but adherence
to the strictest principles of honor was ever attributed to him. He was one
of those men who seemed to delight in laboring energetically, not only to
win success for himself, but to make his life a continued source of benefit to
all his fellow-men. Although the influence of Mr. Blanchet upon the com-
munity, due to the part he played in the business world, was a great one, it
was not by any means the sum total of that which he exercised, or perhaps
even the major portion of it. This was rather the result of the character of
the man, a character which, coupled with a strong personality such as that
possessed by Mr. Blanchet, could not fail to have its effect upon all those
with whom he came in contact. His graces of manner and disposition made
him at once the charming companion and the most faithful friend.

Besides occupying a prominent place in the business circles of the city
of Manchester, Mr. Blanchet was also actively identified with the political
life. He took a keen interest in all things political, and in his political belief
was a staunch Republican. He was not one of those men who devote all their
time and attention to their own business enterprises, but was on the con-
trary exceedingly public spirited, and the community recognizing this
placed him in responsible places of trust. Mr. Blanchet served as a member
of the Common Council in 1887 and 1888, and represented Ward Four in the
State Legislature in 1890 and 1892. He was appointed a member of the
police commission by Governor Robert P. Bass, and served in that capacity
for a period of three years. Mr. Blanchet also believed in civic betterment
and was constantly working in the interests of his adopted city of Man-
chester, New Hampshire. He was a promoter of the Manchester Board of
Trade, which was later amalgamated with the Chamber of Commerce, and
he served at one time as vice-president and as a member of the board of
directors of that organization. Mr. Blanchet filled all these offices with
honor, and the account of his life and the various activities in which he was
engaged tells far more eloquently than any formal praise of the remarkable
powers possessed by him, especially if it be remembered that his ardent,
enthusiastic nature would not permit his undertaking anything which he
was not prepared to do, or any obligation which he did not observe to the

142 (£)cot0e OSIancljct

fullest. His labors were great, that is true, but his powers were equal to
their adequate performance.

On August I, 1876, George Blanchet was united in marriage with
Celina Z. Blanchet, a daughter of Michael and Theresa (Denis) Blanchet,
both of whom were highly esteemed natives of Quebec. The union of Mr.
and Mrs. Blanchet was blessed with three children, as follows: George A.,
now residing in Arizona; Emile A., of Manchester, New Hampshire, and
Bertha A., who is teaching in the High School of Manchester. In his home
and family relations Mr. Blanchet enjoyed the highest happiness, the house-
hold being rendered by his presence a center of domestic peace and harmony.
His mind never wearied of devising ways and means of increasing the hap-
piness and pleasure of others who made up his home, and in those intimate
delights he himself joined with a gusto and enthusiasm that seemed to be
infectious.

Mr. Blanchet was an ardent automobilist and always owned as good
looking a car as there was to be found in the city. He was affiliated with
many local clubs, including the Club Jolliet, the Cercle National, St. John
the Baptist Society, the Canado-American Association, and the Intervale
Country Club.

The death of this noble gentleman removed one of the most prominent
French residents of the State of New Hampshire, a man who had served in
the Common Council, in the State Legislature, and in the Police Commis-
sion. He was indeed a man among men, deeply respected and esteemed by
his business associates for his high sense of honor and sterling character-
istics. He was a splendid example of an upright, business man of integrity,
both in private and business life, who by reason of his ability, faithfulness
and capacity reached the topmost round of the ladder of success. In all
that he did for himself Mr. Blanchet ever kept the interests of those about
him in mind, and took no step, however conducive to his own ends, if to his
candid judgment it appeared harmful to others. He was the possessor of
those sterling virtues which we all admire and these, coupled with his marked
personality, made him a very decided force in any community. Energy,
self-confidence and a strict adherence to the moral law were the traits which
seemed to lie at the bottom of his character, and to shape and guide its
entire development. His business success, as must all true success, depended
upon his character just as much as upon his knowledge, which was a later
acquirement. George Blanchet has left behind him a priceless heritage, and
his life was so honorable in its purposes, so far-reaching and beneficent in
its effects, that it is no wonder that it left its impress upon the city of Man-
chester, New Hampshire.

^^^^2^

3ames dEttoart iSalcom

[AMES EDWARD BALCOM'S death, which occurred in the
city of Nashua, New Hampshire, March 28, 1888, caused
genuine grief among a vei-y wide circle of friends and busi-
ness associates, and his passing away from earthly environ-
ment left many a vacant place in the hearts of those who
had been so fortunate as to have known him in an intimate
way. He was one of those men who had contributed greatly
to the prosperity of Nashua, New Hampshire, and the welfare and happiness
of his fellow-citizens. He was devoted to the ties of friendship and family,
regarding them as a sacred obligation, and it was only natural that when
he was taken away that the city should mourn the loss of a member of one
of its most representative and prominent families. The name of Balcom
stood as a synonym for all that was enterprising in business and progressive
in citizenship, and certainly no history of the city would be complete without
extended reference to the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this
memoir. Mr. Balcom was so closely identified with many of the public and
private enterprises in Nashua that the vacancy left by him was an unusually
large one, and one which it has been extremely difiicult to adequately fill.
He stood for cleanness both in business and in politics, and was ever found in
the van of any movement tending to advance the progress of his native city.
He justly illustrated in himself the composite character of our American citi-
zenship, and presented in his temperament and disposition the masterful,
forceful, intellectual and versatile qualities which are so characteristic of our
race. His clear and far-seeing brain enabled him to grasp every detail of a
project, however great its magnitude. Genial and courteous on all occa-
sions, Mr. Balcom surrounded himself with faithful friends and admirers,
attracting even those whom he met in a most casual manner, and this is
always the true test of splendid manhood.

The birth of James Edward Balcom occurred in Nashua, New Hamp-
shire, during the year 1826, and he came from old New Hampshire stock,
being the son of Cortez and Phoebe (Temple) Balcom. The Balcom family
is one of the oldest and best known of the many fine old families in Nashua,
and James Edward Balcom was an excellent example and m.ember of one
of these families.

Mr. Balcom received his education in the public schools of his native
city of Nashua, and early in life followed several callings before he settled
down to be one of Nashua's substantial business men. His education was
not completed, as he was eager to enter business circles and to make a name
for himself in the world. He gained an introduction into the business world
in the meat business, in which he was engaged for many years, and then
later became interested in the ice business, being admitted into partnership
with Joel C. Annis. This establishment was run on the best of business

144 31anie0 CDtoatD TBalcom

lines, and was conducted with a high degree of success. Afterward Mr.
Balcom became the founder of the James Balcom & Son Ice Company,
which is to-day the leading concern in its line in the city of Nashua. His
son, George E. Balcom, was taken into the business, and since the death of
Mr. Balcom this son has been at the head of the large business which was
founded and so well established by James Edward Balcom. With his great
mental equipment to strengthen and make effective his natural business
ability, it was only a natural outcome that Mr. Balcom won success. He
was a most ambitious and energetic man, and was also engaged in other
callings and in many enterprises.

It should be recorded that Mr. Balcom was not one of those successful
business men who devote their entire time and attention to the business
enterprises in which they are interested, for on the contrary he was
extremely devoted to the interests of the city of Nashua, New Hampshire,
for the promotion of which he gave unstintedly of his time and influence.
His public spirit was most notable and no pains or effort were too great for
him to take in the interests of the community or the welfare of those about
him. Mr. Balcom set a splendid example of fidelity to civic and religious
duties, which is of lasting benefit to his native city. Such indeed was the life
of this noble gentleman to the very end, so that the community in general
owed him a great debt for the assistance he had given in its development
and advancement.

Mr. Balcom always took an active interest in municipal affairs, and had
served his ward as alderman in 1875. He also represented it in the General
Court, in 1878, and again in 1879, where he was known as a hard and con-
scientious worker for the interests of Nashua and the State. He was made
street commissioner of Nashua during Mayor William's administration, and
also held many other important positions of public trust and responsibility,
both in public and private life. It is well for people to review the career of
a citizen such as Mr. Balcom, who gave so much of his life to their interests.
It inspires emulation, gives honor where honor is due. and teaches a lesson
of patriotism. Whatever duty Mr. Balcom was called upon to perform was
done zealously and to the entire satisfaction of superior authority. He gave
to the city and State the very best that was in him, and was a citizen of
whom his community and the whole Commonwealth could be proud. He
was a brilliant, whole-hearted, brave and generous man, and his memory will
be cherished by the very great circle of his fellow-men who were privileged
to have known him.

In his political belief, Mr. Balcom was a staunch Republican, and if it
had not been for the press of business cares he could have held many more
offices at the hands of his party. Soundly honest, clear in thought, high in
his ideals of government, he was the possessor of a magnetism that seemed
to draw all classes and conditions alike toward him. His sympathies were
so intense and so human, and his mental view of life so broad and generous,
that all realized that the void his death caused could not be filled. He has
lived and will continue to live in the memories of those who knew him as
long as life lasts, not only because he was a man in the best and highest

3[ame0 dBDtoarD iSalcom 145

sense of the term, but a lovable and forceful man who drew to him all those
privileged to call themselves his friends. It is not often that a community
is blessed with such men as James Edward Balcom, and not often that a
business enterprise is helped along by the power of so irradiating an exam-
ple. Mr. Balcom was always a strong force in the direction of a better life,
a higher plane of citizenship, and a firm believer in the upbuilding of our
industry. Every endeavor on his part was in the direction of a more sym-
metrical career, whether in his business relations or in his private life, and
surely this was the outward expression of a true and noble gentleman.

On February 4, 1852, James Edward Balcom was united in marriage
with Sarah Margaret Grimes, a daughter of John Grimes, of Derry, New
Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Balcom were the parents of five children, as fol-
lows: I. George E., who was united in marriage with Ida J. Morse, and
their union was blessed with two children: i. Lillian M., who became the
wife of Howard A. Goodspeed, of Providence, Rhode Island, and the par-
ents of two children, Alta Joseph Goodspeed and Balcom Goodspeed;
ii. Everett M. 2. James E., deceased. 3. Charles H., deceased. 4. Samuel
D., deceased. 5. John C., deceased. Mr. Balcom was devoted to his family
and spent as much time as was possible in their society, continually devising
means for their pleasure and happiness.

At the time of his death, Mr. Balcom was sixty-two years of age, and
was considered one of the best known business men in the city of Nashua,
New Hampshire. His activities were always along those lines which
resulted in improvement and progress, and his worth in the world was
widely acknowledged by those among whom his active years were passed.
As a business man he enjoyed the confidence of the community, and had
won the respect and esteem of his fellow-men. Mr. Balcom was what is
sometimes called a "Rough Diamond," for beneath a rather stern exterior
was a heart as tender as a child's. He was generous in all things, without
letting his right hand know what his left hand did, a good and obliging
neighbor, an affectionate husband and father, and in all his dealings with
his fellow-men was ever honest and of the strictest integrity. Mr. Balcom
was always to be found in the company of those who sought to promote the
best ideals in both public and private life, and his talents and time were
devoted to everv line of work which he undertook.

Cfjarles B* ifKlagoon

^HE death of Charles S. Magoon. which occurred at his home
in Manchester, New Hampshire, February g, 1909, marked
the closing of a career of a business man who by his great
force and energy had well exemplified the fact that constant
labor, when well applied, especially when joined with sterl-
ing qualities, must inevitably win the deep respect and
esteem of his fellow-men. His passing away from life's
fleeting drama removed one who exercised an influence for good upon the
business interests, developments and improvements of the city which will
long be remembered. The name of Charles S. Magoon has ever stood as a
synonym for all that was enterprising in business, and progressive in citi-
zenship, and no history of the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, would
be complete without extended reference to him. His clear and far-seeing
brain enabled him to grasp every detail of a project, however great its mag-
nitude. Genial ind courteous upon all occasions, Mr. Magoon surrounded
himself with many faithful friends, whose admiration and affection for him
were exceeded only by the deep respect and esteem which they held for him.
The great group of cities that one passes in travelling through the State of
New Hampshire are certainly a wonderful monument to the enterprise of
the sturdy New Englander whose efforts have converted what was, his-
torically speaking, but a few years ago an untracked wilderness, into a com-
munity where all the activities of civilization are to be found at work in the
most concentrated form and at the highest level of efficiency. Of these
cities there is not one that has not its full list of names of men, and practical
men of affairs, whose efforts for their own success and the betterment of
their fellow-men have been responsible for the striking results that we now
view. Manchester, for example, may boast of any number of talented per-
sons identified with its progress to whom the general gratitude and honor of
the community is due. Among these men certainly he who deals in real
estate deserves an unusual amount of well merited praise, for he not only
has his own interests at stake, but those of the community as well. Of all
these men no name stands out of recent years more worthy of respect
because of the sterling morality for which it stands than that of Mr. Magoon,
in whose death not only Manchester, but the whole of the surrounding
region, lost a prominent citizen and a conspicuous figure in its daily life.

Charles S. Magoon was born in Stanstead, Quebec, June 27, 1848, the
son of Stewart and Caroline Magoon, natives of Quebec. He was an
unusually alert and industrious boy, and proved himself an apt student in
the national schools of the country, and at Derby Centre, Vermont, which
he attended for his education. Upon completing his studies in these institu-
tions, Mr. Magoon left Quebec, and went to Vermont, first settling at Cov-
entry, where he taught school. He then went to Troy, and to West Derby,

Vermont, where he continued to follow this profession, and where he
became interested in farming. For several years Mr. Magoon was engaged
in the nursery business, in which he was successful, and the work along this
line appealed forcibly to him. He became thoroughly acquainted with all
the details of that endeavor, but decided not to adopt it as his course through
life. Mr. Magoon then moved to Newport, Vermont, prior to his coming
to Manchester, New Hampshire, which was fifteen years previous to his
decease. His pleasing personality, hearty manner, and helpful tendencies,
easily made a place for him in the business and social world of Manchester,
and he became known as one of the most enterprising and active real estate
dealers and auctioneers in the city. It was not long before Mr. Magoon
identified himself with the best interests of Manchester, and became one of
the foremost figures in the real estate circles of the city. He was one of
those forceful personalities whose initiative lead them normally to assume
and to be accorded the place of leaders among their fellow-men. No man,
however powerful his personality, can retain his hold of success and influ-
ence without a foundation of those sterling virtues that are so conspicuous
in the hardy stock from which Mr. Magoon was sprung. Honesty, perse-
verance, self-control, must all be present or men will look elsewhere for a
leader to lead them. But all of these traits of character Mr. Magoon pos-
sessed in full measure, as well as many other qualities of manner and bear-
ing which, if not so fundamental, at least contributed potently to the gen-
eral efifect which his personality produced. Mr. Magoon was exceedinglv
fond of agriculture, and had often been heard to express the hope that he
might end his days on a farm which might be to his liking. Some three
years previous to his death, he purchased the fine residence at the northwest
corner of Pine and Blodget streets, which had been occupied by the Rev.
Charles J. Staples and family, and converted it into one of the most modern
and best equipped houses in the city of Manchester. Since his death, his
widow has continued to reside there.

Mr. Magoon was a man of great public spirit, and throughout his life
took a keen interest in the community of which he was a member. He was
particularly interested in politics, but never aspired to hold public office,
owing to a double circumstance. In the first place he was a firm believer in
the idea that the ofiice should seek the man, and in the second place his busi-
ness was so pressing that he was obliged to refuse any offers made him by
his political colleagues, and to resist the importunities of his friends. In his
political belief, Mr. Magoon was a staunch supporter of the Republican
party, adhering to the principles and policies of that party all his life. He
was a man of independent thought and action, however, but was never
offensive in the expression or carrying out of his beliefs. On February 25,
1869, Charles S. Magoon was united in marriage with Naomi Boynton, a
daughter of Richard and Polly (Davis) Boynton, of Derby, Vermont. Mr.
and Mrs. Charles S. Magoon were the parents of one child, Grace Elva, who
became the wife of Frank H. Drake, of Manchester, New Hampshire. This
union was blessed with one child, Miriam Elva Drake, now deceased. The
domestic life of the Magoons was an ideal one, and Mr. Magoon proved him-

148 Clbatle$ S, a^agoon

self to be a devoted husband and a kind father. Mr. Magoon was also sur-
vived by one brother, Garvin Magoon, of North Straf¥ord, and three sisters,
namely: Mrs. Wilbur Holbrook, Mrs. Charles Taylor, of Derby Centre,
Vermont, and Mrs. Charles Wright, of Coventry, Vermont.

Mr. Magoon's only secret society affiliation was with Memphremagog
Lodge of Masons, of Newport, Vermont, in which order he possessed many
sincere and admiring friends. The company of his wife and daughter was
the society that he enjoyed most, but he was also very fond of the informal
intercourse with his friends and neighbors, such as is represented by what he
called "running in of an evening," in short all those spontaneous little asso-
ciations and amenities of which the best friendship is made up.

Charles S. Magoon was one of Manchester's substantial, solid, trust-
worthy business men, who was steadily adding to his good name when he
passed away. He was a man of marked executive ability, of strong business
and personal judgment, and because of these things largely he prospered.
He lived quietly, finding his greatest compensation in life in business and in
the home. He was ever the soul of honor and integrity, and his word was
never challenged. He lived without an enemy and left no stain or blot
upon his life record.

•V?^Z'^rei'?^ ,^.^^ .,/(^,WJ:/^ ^^^H)y Or/rrn

3Reb. JFatber M^ttin Henrp €gan

^HERE is one satisfaction greater than fulfillment, and that is
forbearance, for forbearance in one thing always means at
least a partial fulfillment in something greater. This might
well be the motto of those good men who, with complete
self-sacrifice, give up the pleasures and objectives of worldly-
achievements to devote themselves to the good of their
fellow-men in this and the next world, for if what they put
aside is great, yet still greater is that which they take up, the task of making
God's truth prevail upon earth. Of no group of men can this more truth-
fully be said than of that great army who have devoted their lives to the
service of the Roman Catholic church, and whose efforts are continually
directed toward furthering the cause of that great institution in all the
countries of the world. A representative of the finest type of this priest-
hood was the late Rev. Father Martin Henry Egan, whose sudden death
at Keene, New Hampshire, May 7, 1913, deprived that community of one
of its most zealous citizens, the Catholic church of one of the most promising
of her priests, and the entire community of a very potent influence for good.
The church from its very inception has wielded a power superior to that
of the State, for the reason that the spiritual pervades and moulds, and
sooner or later dominates the temporal. In the history of our race this
truth has been repeatedly exemplified, most notably in the lives of some well
known and well remembered ecclesiastics. That the influence of the church
has steadily increased during the last century can not be questioned by
thoughtful and penetrating observers, and while perhaps less obviously and
institutionally exerted, it is for that very reason more persuasive and power-
ful. Especially is this the case when the leaders of the church are men of
broad minds, quick to discern the signs of the times, and men of the type
so forcibly represented in our own day by Father Egan. That the influence
of the church is declining is a remark frequently made by those who lack
the discernment to perceive that while creeds and outward observances are
undoubtedly losing their hold upon the world-at-large, there is convincing
evidence that the essentials of religion are daily becoming more deeply
rooted in the heart of mankind, and it is to such men as the late Rev. Father
Egan, who devoted their entire lives to this purpose, that our sincerest
praise should go forth.

The birth of Rev. Father Martin Henry Egan occurred in Nashua, New
Hampshire, July 30, i860, so that he was in his fifty-third year when that
grim messenger "Death" came as a visitor to his home, leaving desolation
and woe in his departure. Father Egan was the son of Martin and Maria
(Gorman) Egan, both of whom had been residents of Nashua for many
years. His education was gained in the schools of his native city of Nashua,
and later he attended St. Hyacinthe's College, Province of Quebec, being

I50 Keto. jFat&et Q^am'n l^cntp Cgan

prepared for the priesthood at Levi University, Quebec, where he took up
the ecclesiastical course. Father Egan was ordained to the priesthood in
Manchester, New Hampshire, January 24, 1886, by the late Bishop Bradley.
His first appointment as a curate was at St. Anne's Church, in Manchester,
where he remained for six months. Then he went to Concord, New Hamp-
shire, where he became assistant to the late Father Barry, remaining for a
year and a half. Father Egan was then appointed pastor of the church at
Penacook, remaining there for five years. From Penacook he was trans-
ferred to Lebanon, where he had charge of a sixty-mile series of missions,
including the towns of Hanover, Enfield, Canaan, Grafton, Danbury,
Andover, Bristol and adjacent territory. He became one of the most pop-
ular among the younger priests, and he held a high place in the affection
of both the older and younger ones. Father Egan went from Lebanon to
St. Bernard's Church as pastor, April 24, 1907, after fourteen years of
service in Lebanon. He at once gained the love and respect of those of
his church, and all others in the city as well. Father Egan's work for the
church, all of which was with ardent enthusiasm, was successful in every
way In the six years that he had been pastor of the Catholic church in
Keene. New Hampshire, he had made hosts of friends both in and out of his
denomination by his cheerful, yet reserved mannerisms. He was highly
respected by his people, by the many priests who knew him, and by his
superiors in the church. His kindliness and generosity made him a popular
figure with all who were so privileged as to know him.

When word of Father Egan's serious illness reached the Rt. Rev.
George A. Guertin, Bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire, he started at
once for Keene, New Hampshire, by automobile, for there was an unsual
bond between the head of the church in that diocese and the loyal priest.
When Father Egan was in Lebanon, Father Guertin, then a young priest,
was his curate.

Father Egan celebrated the silver anniversary of his ordination in
Keene, New Hampshire, January 24, 191 1, just two years before his death.
There was a large attendance of priests from all over the diocese, and the
jubilee sermon was preached by Bishop Guertin. At the jubilee entertain-
ment a purse of several hundred dollars, contributed by the members of
Father Egan's parish, was presented to the faithful priest. He was also
the recipient of many silver testimonials from priests and laymen through-
out the State of New Hampshire.

Father Egan is survived by four sisters, two of whom had made their
home in Keene, New Hampshire, with him, namely: Maria and Jennie
Egan, the other two being Mrs. Michael Connor, of Nashua, and Mrs.
Patrick Delaney.

Patrick Delaney passed away from earthly view, August 15, 1916, at
his home in Nashua, New Hampshire. He was one of that city's most
widely known and respected citizens, having resided there for nearly fifty
years, and during the greater part of that time Mr. Delaney was a valued
employee of the Nashua Iron and Foundry Company. He was a member of
Division i, Ancient Order of Hibernians, of Nashua, and at the time of his

HetJ. jFatijet Q^attin ^enrp Cgan 151

death was considered one of the oldest members of that order. Mr. Delaney
also belonged to Court Nashua, Foresters of America.

On September i6, 1874, Patrick Delaney was united in marriage with
Katherine E. Egan, a daughter of Martin and Maria (Gorman) Egan, of
Nashua, New Hampshire, and a sister of the Rev. Father Martin Henry
Egan, in whose memory we are writing. Mr. and Mrs. Delaney were the
parents of three children, as follows: Edward J. Delaney, M. D., of Concord,
New Hampshire, Martin H. and Emma F. Delaney. The home life of Mr.
Delaney was an exceptionally happy one, and he proved himself to be a
devoted husband and a kind father.

There is always something tragic about an untimely death, and this
feeling is accentuated by the possession of unusually brilliant talents and
abilities on the part of those who die. A tribute to the sentiment in which
he was held by the community which witnessed the major part of his efforts
was the funeral which was accorded to Father Egan. The solemn High
Mass was celebrated in St. Bernard's Church, Keene, New Hampshire, by
Rev. Thomas E. Reilly, of Dover, assisted by the following: Deacon, Rev.
A. J- Timon, of Franklin; Sub-Deacon, Rev. P. S. Cahill, of Hinsdale;
Preacher, Rev. T. W. Coakley, of Walpole, New Hampshire; Master of
Ceremonies, Rev. Thomas M. O'Leary, of Manchester, Chancellor, and the
Rt. Rev. George A. Guertin, Bishop of Manchester. It was one of the
largest and most imposing funerals ever held in the town, and the church
was filled to the doors. There was also a large number of people from out-
of-town as well as a large delegation of clergymen from various parts of the
diocese who wished to pay a last tribute to a brother and a sincere friend.
The interment was at Nashua, New Hampshire.

Death is sad in any case, but doubly so when such a useful character as
Father Egan has been taken away, for there are too few such men to spare
any. His life was one from which those young men who are preparing
themselves to become priests can derive many valuable lessons, and was one
of usefulness to the town of Keene, New Hampshire, to his fellow-men and
to his Maker.

JFrancts ^. Buffp

F ONE attempted to enumerate the men of talent and capabil-
ity of the Irish race, who have appeared even in a small
portion of the community, he would be confronted by such a
list as would discourage the most enterprising. The city
of Keene, New Hampshire, for instance, can show amongst
its citizens so large a proportion of those who owe their
origin to the "Emerald Isle" as to excite wonder and admi-
ration. A splendid example of these men was Francis P. Dufify, whose
death, which occurred at his home in Keene, New Hampshire, January 17,
1900, was a loss to the business world in that region and to the community
in general. All felt that death had removed a man of fine and natural
endowments, and the feelings with which his passing away was regarded
were of the most spontaneous and sincere kind. Mr. Dufify was well known
for his high integrity and the absolutely upright life which he led. The suc-
cess of Mr. Dufify in his chosen business was due to the possession by him
of a combination of virtues and talents greatly in demand in this world. To
a remarkable courageous spirit, that kept him cheerful and determined in
the face of all obstacles, he added a practical grasp of afifairs. Both of these
qualities, it is hardly necessary to point out, are most valuable ones in the
business world. In all the relations of life, in all his associations with his
fellow-men, these same qualities stood out in a marked manner, gaining
for him the admiration and affection of all who came in contact with him,
even in the most casual way.

The birth of Francis P. Dufify occurred on January 30, 1830, in Bally-
farnon, County Roscommon, Ireland. Coming to this country in January,
1850, Mr. Dufify was virtually a stranger, and spent some time seeking
employment. He was engaged in a number of positions until he learned the
currier's trade in Winchester, New Hampshire, with L. H. Alexander, and
followed this line until the outbreak of the Civil War. When President Lin-
coln called for volunteers, Mr. Duffy's patriotism was aroused, and he
offered his services, enlisting with the First New York Volunteers. He
was with Sherman in the famous "march to the sea." At the close of the
war, Mr. Duffy resumed his trade, working in nearly all the large tanneries
of the New England States. Being a man of great enterprise, Mr. Duffy's
effort was to engage in business on his own account, and this he finally suc-
ceeded in doing through the practice of close attention to his work. In
1879 he left the tannery owned by John Symonds, and became actively
engaged in business in Keene until about one year before his sudden death,
when his health began to fail.

Mr. Duffy's success was largely due to the close and careful attendance
to all the details of his business enterprise, never leaving important matters
to the judgment of any one else, but overseeing all himself. He was

JTtancis! j^, Duffp 153

extremely industrious and a hard worker, and when not attending to his
business affairs he was always to be found by his own fireside at home, pre-
ferring the comforts and intimate intercourse of his immediate family and
household to any other form of social life and pleasure. Mr. Duffy's quali-
fications for success in his chosen calling were many and great, and included
abilities both natural and acquired. It was said of him that he was a man of
great independence of character, a strong personality, and an undaunted
courage.

Mr. Duffy was essentially a self-made man. He had little opportunity
for acquiring an education in his younger days, and even into late manhood
he took advantage of every opportunity to study, with the result that he was
an especially well read man. He had a strong desire in his youth to attend
college and regretted greatly the circumstances which rendered it impossi-
ble. He was not, however, of the temperament which allows obstacles to
discourage him, and while he could not take a formal course of studies in
any advanced institution, he continued all through his life an independent
scholar, so that there were but few men better informed upon general topics
or more widely cultivated than he. Mr. Duffy acquired a taste for history
and was a lover of fine editions of historical works. He gave all of his child-
ren the best educational facilities, as he keenly felt the handicap of his early
efforts to educate himself.

It was not alone in his effect upon business that Mr. Duffy's influence
was felt in the community. Of broad sympathies and a very human outlook
upon life, it was impossible that a personality of his strong character should
not exercise a potent effect upon affairs in general. In his religious belief,
Mr. Duffy was a devout Catholic, and an earnest and effective advocate for
the principles and tenets of his faith. He did much to support the work of
the church in Keene, and was unstinted in his financial support of the faith
he professed and lived up to. To those who knew Mr. Duffy best and were
intimately associated with him in business and social life, his chief quality
appeared as a benevolent heart which never displayed itself in ostentatious
forms, but in generous effusion through channels calculated to produce the
greatest good. He was a man of the most kindly nature, always considerate
of all men, while his sympathies were quick and his affection strong and
enduring. Politically, Mr. Duffy was a staunch Democrat, and a great
influence in the politics of his party, but he always refrained from holding
any public ofiice. He rather avoided than sought any office for himself,
resisting the representations of his friends who held that he would make an
excellent candidate for political office in view of his great personal popular-
ity. But although he would not accept ofiice, Mr. Duffy gave freely of both
his time and means in support of the campaigns waged by his party in the
city and State.

In 1857, seven years after his arrival in the United States, Francis P.
Duffy was united in marriage with Mary A. Kelly, a daughter of Thomas
and Bridget Kelly, of Winchester, New Hampshire. This union was
blessed with sixteen children, as follows: i. Thomas Emmet, deceased.
2. Elizabeth Sarah, deceased. 3. Mary Elizabeth Jane, who became the

154 Jftancis p. Duffp

wife of John Austin, deceased, of Worcester, Massachusetts; they were the
parents of one child, Mary Ellen Austin. 4. Anna B., deceased; became the
wife of Dennis Kearney, of Keene, New Hampshire, and they were the
parents of one child, Catherine Mary Kearney. 5. Francis Joseph, deceased.
6. John Martin, was united in marriage with Harriett Elizabeth Zimm.er-
man, of Keene, New Hampshire; three children were the result of this
marriage, namely, John F., Mary Joan and Harriett Elizabeth. 7. Margaret
Agnes. 8. James Bernard, D. D. S. ; Dr. Duffy is a prominent dentist in
Keene, New Hampshire; he graduated from the Boston Dental College in
1897; upon receiving his degree as Doctor of Dental Surgery, he returned
to his home town, where he has since practiced with exceptional success
and popularity; Dr. Duffy is a member of the New Hampshire State Dental
Society, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks ;
he is also a past district deputy of the Knights of Columbus; he was united
in marriage with Cornelia F. Gore, deceased, of Keene, New Hampshire,
who bore him one child, Frances Gore Duffy. 9. Edward L.. died June 19,
1917; he was united in marriage with Maud Young, of Bellows Falls, Ver-
mont. TO. Ellen Frances. 11. Catherine, deceased. 12. Rose Madeline.
13. Rev. Father Dominic Stephen Duffy, who is rector of St. Peter's Parish,
North Walpole, New Hampshire. 14. Patrick, deceased. 15. Joseph,
deceased. 16. Winifred, deceased.

Mr. Duffy was a man in whose heart there existed the spirit of kindness
and charity, and all who knew him were his friends. As a neighbor he was
ever ready to accommodate and to contribute in any way to make the
neighborhood pleasanter and happier. His death, at the age of seventy
years, has created a void that will be difficult to fill, and as the years roll
by he will be more greatly missed, for then his true character will be more
properly estimated. Mr. Duffy also distinguished himself during the Civil
War. with the result that his war record was a highly honorable one.

The funeral services of Mr. Duffy were held at the Roman Catholic
church in Keene, New Hampshire. The funeral was an extremely large
and impressive one, it being found impossible almost to accommodate all
who were present. All the available carriages and sleighs obtainable in
the city were in use. The special mass was conducted by Father Ryan,
celebrant, the Rev. Father O'Neil, deacon, the Rev. Father Dunn, formerly
assistant pastor in Keene, was sub-deacon, and Edward Hayes, master of
ceremonies. Mr. Duffy will be held in the memory of the community-at-
large as one who was interested in its welfare, and as one whose upright
course secured for him the respect and esteem of his fellow-men.

C})arles Stearns JFaulfener

'HE title of an "upright man" is one of the most honorable
that can be borne by any business man. It is a distinction
won in a warfare and against temptations that exist in the
business world. Not many come through a protracted
course unscathed and untainted, and it is an occasion for
congratulation that the City of Keene, New Hampshire,
shows a long list of successful business men who have hon-
ored their occupations by pure lives and honest trading. The name of
Charles Stearns Faulkner is one that was well-known in the business annals
of that State, and it is written prominently among the best and most success-
ful men of his day. Always cool and prudent in his methods, and prompt
to the moment in all his engagements, he held a verbal promise as an abso-
lute obligation, even in trifling matters. The death of Charles Stearns
Faulkner, which occurred at his home in Keene, New Hampshire, July 28,
iSjq. was mourned and deeply regretted by all classes of the community,
for he was one of those masterful kind of men who always forge ahead, and
in doing so win the affection and admiration of their fellow-men in the
various walks of life. The loss of such a man is to be lamented, and his
memory highly-cherished, while his career, like that of many a son of New
England, should teach a lesson to the coming generations, that success in
life may be assured as the fruit of industrious habits, thoroughness of work,
and the strictest integrity. The memorials which such men as Mr. Faulkner
leave behind them should be preserved and recorded in volumes such as
this, for his life story will prove to be an inspiration to many a youth
struggling to make a name for himself in the business world.

The birth of Charles Stearns Faulkner occurred in Keene, New Hamp-
shire. August 17, 1819, which made his age at the time of his death sixty
years. He was descended from an old and distinguished family. His father,
Francis Faulkner, who was the son of Francis, a clothier, at Watertown and
Billerica, Massachusetts, was born in 1788, at Watertown, Massachusetts.
The great-grandfather of Charles Stearns Faulkner was Major Francis
Faulkner, who, with the Middlesex Regiment of Militia at Lexington and
Concord, April 19, 1775, harassed the British on their retreat. He was a
lieutenant-colonel at the battle of White Plains in 1776, and also at the
surrender of Burgoyne in 1777, and conducted the prisoners to Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Colonel Faulkner was a courageous officer, an able legis-
lator, and an exemplary Christian gentleman. It was he who built the mills
which for a century and a half have been known as the Faulkner Mills. At
first they were only a saw and grist mill, later a fulling mill. The old Faulk-
ner house is thus described by a writer in the "Middlesex County History:"
"No tongue and no record fix the original date of this ancient landmark.
It is safe to call it two hundred years old, some parts of it at least. It was a

156 Cl)acle$ ^teatn0 jFauIknet

block house, and in the early Colonial times it was a garrison-house, where
the settlers in the neighborhood would gather in the night for protection
against the assaults of the Indians."

Edmund Faulkner was the immigrant ancestor of this illustrious family,
and was born in England about the year of 1625. He was the ninth settler
in order of their coming to Andover, Massachusetts, and was licensed in
1648 as the first inn-keeper in that town. He was one of the ten freeholders
who organized the Andover Church, in 1645, ^"^^ was one of the few men
honored with the designation "Mr." in the records. Since 1735 the Faulk-
ners have been millers, clothiers, and manufacturers of note, at Acton,
Massachusetts, and in every case, at Acton, Billerica, Massachusetts, and
Keene, New Hampshire, the Faulkner descendants have been owners of, or
possessed large interests in the mills of their ancestors. As the father of
Charles Stearns Faulkner was so closely identified with the beginning of
the manufacture of woolen goods in Keene, New Hampshire, it is well to
dwell briefly upon the career of this strong, business personality. Young
Francis Faulkner learned the clothier's trade at his grandfather's mills in
Acton, Massachusetts, and moved to Keene at the age of twenty-one years.
He worked in the clothier's mills on the Ashuelot river, and in 181 5, in
partnership with Josiah Colony, he formed the firm of Faulkner & Colony,
purchased from John Maguire all the mills and water privileges on the
Ashuelot river in Keene, with the exception of those owned by Azel Wilder,
and began that very successful business which their descendants still con-
tinue on greatly extended lines. Mr. Faulkner, Sr., was essentially a man
of business, with clear perceptions and sound principles, and never sought
political honors nor ofiice. He passed away at the age of fifty-four years,
in 1842. He was united in marriage with Eliza Stearns, of Lancaster,
Massachusetts, and they were the parents of six children, namely: Charles
Stearns, of further mention; Elizabeth Jones, Francis Augustus, William
Frederick, and two who died in infancy.

Charles Stearns Faulkner, the oldest son of Francis and Eliza (Stearns)
Faulkner, like his brother, the Hon. Francis Augustus Faulkner, who died
May 22, 1879, was for years prominent in public affairs, and distinguished
for keen business qualities, enterprise and public-spirit. His education was
acquired in the public schools of his native town of Keene, New Hampshire.
Upon the death of his father, when he was only twenty-three years of age,
Mr. Faulkner upheld the family name in the firm, and accumulated a large
property. He became senior partner in the firm of Faulkner & Colony,
woolen manufacturers, and considered one of the oldest firms in the "Gran-
ite State." Mr. Faulkner's integrity and honor were never impeached, and
this fact, combined with his genial manner, his courtesy and consideration
of all men, and a certain intrinsic manliness, which showed in every action
and word, made him an extremely popular figure, and won for him a great
host of friends, whose devotion he returned in kind. Mr. Faulkner had
always taken a deep interest in political affairs, both local and national, and
in his political belief was affiliated with the Republican party. He was
chosen a delegate to the National Republican Convention that nominated

Cbarles Stearns jFauIknet 157

General Ulysses S. Grant for President of the United States. He was twice
elected representative to the Legislature, in which capacity he displayed
many qualities which fitted him for his position.

On February 24, 1852, Charles Stearns Faulkner was united in mar-
riage with Sallie Eliza Fames, of Bath, New Hampshire, and their union
was blessed with eight children, as follows: Charles Edmund, died June
20, 1861 ; Frederick Augustus, who was united in marriage with Emma
Manning, of Keene, New Hampshire, and they are the parents of two
children, Richard and Julia Faulkner; Jane Hutchins, who passed away
August 22, 1858; Herbert Kimball, John Charles, William Edward, Mary
Johnson, who resides in Keene, New Hampshire, at No. 70 West street;
Robert Fames. The home ties were considered and held as sacred by Mr.
Faulkner, and the closeness and strength of the ties that bound the family
together, and the charm of the home life of the Faulkner family, were
revealed in many ways. It was not only in this relation of life that Mr.
Faulkner proved his great worth in the world, but in most every relation of
life, and surely the record of his life story might well be held up as an
example to the ambitious who wish to achieve success in a strictly honest
way.

Mr. Faulkner was a kind-hearted, genial gentleman, ever ready to
assist in every good work, and liberal and generous toward the poor and
needy. The life of Mr. Faulkner was a successful one, not alone from a
financial point of view but, public-spirited and charitably inclined, he aided
many over the hard places with encouraging words and substantial help.
He never lost sight of his goal, and never forgot nor neglected the require-
ments of the present. He was one of the best-known and wealthiest men in
Keene, New Hampshire, and was widely and favorably known throughout
the State. Nothing more truthful can be said of him than that he was one
of those men of whom any community might justly feel proud, and whose
memory it should deeply cherish.

^HERE is something intrinsically admirable in the profession
of medicine that illumines by reflected light all those who
practice it. Something that is concerned with the prime
object, the alleviation of human suffering, something about
the self-sacrifice that it must necessarily involve that makes
us regard, and rightly so, all those who choose to follow its
difiicult way and devote themselves to its great aims, with
a certain amount of respect and reverence. It is true that to-day there has
been a certain lowering, on the average, of the standards and traditions of
the profession, and that there are many within its ranks at the present time
who have proposed to themselves selfish or unworthy objects instead of
those identified with the profession itself, whose eyes ai'e centered on the
rewards rather than the services, yet there are others also who have pre-
served the purest and best ideals of the calling and whose self-sacrifice is
as disinterested as that of any who have preceded them. To such men we
turn to seek the hope of the great profession in the future, to the men who,
forgetful of personal considerations, lose themselves either in the interest
of the great questions with which they have concerned themselves or in the
jov of rendering deep service to their fellow-men. A man of this type was
Doctor Thomas Wheat, of Manchester, New Hampshire, whose work in
that cit)^ in the interests of its health did the public an invaluable service.
The life of Dr. Wheat, which terminated at his home in Manchester, New
Hampshire, March 25, 1895, exemplified in the highest degree the sterling
virtues which it is necessary to possess in order to fully live up to the demand
of this great profession, and so highly were these virtues regarded by the
community in which he dwelt and practiced, that his death was felt by all
his fellow-townsmen as the loss of something like a personal friend. Dr.
Wheat was a courteous, kindly man, a well-beloved and honored physician,
a devoted and loving husband and father, and a citizen of high repute and
worth. In him were happily blended the characteristics of a strong man,
decision, toleration, firmness, and with all he was approachable, compan-
ionable and lovable. He has gone to his reward, but his splendid spirit and
influence remain, and always will remain as long as life lasts.

Dr. Thomas Wheat was born in Candia, New Hampshire, January 22,
1821, the son of Dr. Nathaniel and Sally (Fitts) Wheat. Dr. Nathaniel
Wheat was born in Canaan, New Hampshire, November 12, 1783. He
studied with Dr. Jacob B. Moore, of Andover, Massachusetts, and located
in Candia, New Hampshire, in 1809. In 1819 he was united in marriage with
Sally Fitts, a daughter of Moses Fitts. This union was blessed with three
children: Thomas Wheat, in whose memory we are writing, and two who
died in infancy. After a very successful practice of about twenty years in
Candia, Dr. Nathaniel Wheat removed to Concord, in 1834. In 1838 he

%, ///,.„/

C&oma0 M3l)eat, ^. D. 159

returned to Candia, and the following year he removed to Manchester, New
Hampshire, where he practiced medicine more than twelve years. He passed
away January 15, 185 1. He was a very ingenious mechanic, as well as a
skillful physician. In 1822 he made a pipe organ of moderate size, which
was later set up in Master Moses Fitts' hall, and was often played upon by
the builder and others. He was the first physician in Manchester to apply
electricity in the treatment of nervous diseases, and was the first to own
an electric machine. He was at one time the president of the New Hamp-
shire State Musical Society. The first great temperance movement which
was the means of making Candia one of the most temperate towns in the
State owed much to his untiring efforts.

Dr. Thomas Wheat studied with his father, who at that time kept a
drug store on Elm street, where the Z. F. Campbell drug store is now
located. Later he attended the Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, a
well-known institution, from which he graduated in 1847. Soon after, he
returned to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he began the practice of
medicine. Dr. Wheat had an ofiice in the Dunlap block for many years, and
remained in continual practice until the time of his death, at the age of
seventy-four years. The success of Dr. Wheat in his chosen profession was
due to the possession by him of a combination of virtues and talents greatly
in demand in this world. At the basis of his character were the fundamental
virtues of sincerity and courage, a sincerity which rendered him incapable
of taking advantage of another, and a courage that kept him cheerful and
determined in the face of all obstacles. Both these qualities, it is hardly
necessary to point out, are most valuable in the profession of medicine and,
indeed, Dr. Wheat's work as a physician amply showed this happy union
of qualities. In all the relations of his life, in all his associations with his
fellow-men, these same qualities stood cut in a marked manner and gained
for him the admiration and aflfection of all who came in contact with him.
Dr. Wheat was one of Manchester's oldest and best-known physicians,
having been in practice there for nearly half a century. He became one of
the most prominent figures in the community, and exercised there, from first
to last, a potent influence for good. His practice was large and brought him
into intimate personal relations with a very great number of his fellow-men,
and everywhere he went he seemed to bring with him good cheer and hope-
ful optimism. Dr. Wheat's grandfather was a Baptist minister, and was an
officer in the War of the Revolution, serving with General George Washing-
ton at Valley Forge.

On July 3, 1865, Dr. Thomas Wheat was united in marriage with Irene
Augusta Hunt, a daughter of J. T. P. and Irene (Drew) Hunt, both of
whom were highly-respected natives of New Hampshire. J. T. P. Hunt
was born in Gilmanton Iron Works, and his wife in Alton. Mr. Hunt for-
merly lived in Lowell, Massachusetts, then located in Manchester, New
Hampshire, in 1837. He was a contractor and built many of the large mills
in Manchester. His death occurred February 23, 1865. Dr. and Mrs.
Thomas Wheat became the parents of one child, Dr. Arthur Fitts Wheat,

i6o CI)omag mbt^u ^* ^*

who was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Aug-ust 8, 1871. He
attended the schools of Manchester for his education, and graduated from
Harvard Medical College. After his graduation he entered his father's
office in Manchester, where he has since continued to practice. Recently he
offered his services to his countr)^ by enlisting in the Medical Reserve Corps
of the United States Army, with the rank of captain. On July 19, 1913, he
was united in marriage with Rachel Flint, a daughter of Joseph Almy and
Frances (Home) Flint. They are the parents of one child, Arthur, who was
born August 5, 1915. Since the death of her husband. Mrs. Wheat has con-
tinued to reside in the Wheat homestead on Elm street, in Manchester.
Another of Dr. Wheat's strongest instincts was the domestic one, and it
was in the familiar intercourse of his home that he really found the greatest
delight and comfort. Dr. Wheat was a member of the New Hampshire
Medical Society, and an attendant of the Franklin Street Church, in Man-
chester. He combined in himself to a rare degree the culture and skill of a
physician with the unselfishness and devotion of a warm personal friend.
He died the death of the righteous, and left behind him a large circle of
sorrowing patients and friends.

It is unnecessary to say that as a physician Dr. Wheat was held in the
highest estimation by his fellow-citizens, and the record of his daily life was
filled with evidences of this fact. In all professions, but more especially the
medical, there are exalted heights to which genius itself dares scarcely soar,
and which can only be gained after long years of patient, arduous and unre-
mitting toil, and unfaltering courage. To this proud eminence we may
safely state that Dr. Thomas Wheat rose. He devoted his life to his profes-
sion and was deservedlv crowned with its choicest rewards.

3|on. JTreeman aiei^anlier Huss^ep

'EW citizens have lived in our midst who have left a brighter
record for every trait of character that constitutes true
g-reatness than the late Freeman Alexander Hussey, of
Somersworth, Nev^r Hampshire. Certainly none whose
memory shall float down the stream of time will be more
honored and revered. It is utterly impossible to estimate
the true value to a town of such men. The influence which
they exert branches out through all the commercial, financial and industrial
life, extending itself to the whole social economy. Every man from the
toiling laborer to the merchant prince receives benefit from them. Aggres-
sive, cool, prudent, far-seeing but exact, prompt to the moment in all his
engagements, holding his verbal promise as an absolute obligation even in
trifles, Mr. Hussey belonged to that class of distinctively American busi-
ness men who promote public progress in advancing individual prosperity,
and whose private interests never preclude active participation in move-
ments and measures which concern the general good. A large amount of
his time was devoted to the performance of public duties, and he justly ranked
among the most useful and public-spirited citizens of the State of New
Hampshire. He exemplified the sturdy virtues of the old stock from which
he was descended and which were transplanted to the genial and friendly soil
of the Granite State. He exercised an influence for good on the commercial
interests, developments and improvements of both the place of his business
and of his home, which will long be remembered.

Freeman Alexander Hussey was born in Somersworth, New Hamp-
shire, January 23, 1852, and died in the town of his birth, February 9, 1918.
He was a son of John and Mary (Locke) Hussey, his father being a native
of Acton, Maine, and his mother a native of Barrington, New Hampshire.
John Hussey was a carpenter and contractor of Somersworth, New Hamp-
shire, and he built many of the buildings in that town, among them the high
school and some of the fine old residences of the place.

Freeman Alexander Hussey attended the grammar schools of Somers-
worth, New Hampshire, and Acton, Maine, and as a boy he entered the
High street bakery and learned the baker's trade with James A. Locke, and
remained in the employ of Mr. Locke as a journeyman baker for several
years, at which time he purchased the business from Mr. Locke, and
remained an occupant of the one building, first as an employee of Mr. Locke,
and then as proprietor of the baking business, for a period of thirty-seven
years, at the end of which time he sold out and retired from active business,
but continued as a very busy man, settling estates, mostly for his own family.
Mr. Hussey was very prominent in other lines of endeavor, although the
baking business occupied most of his time and attention. He was vice-
president of the Somersworth National Bank, and was also one of the

i62 ^on. jFreeman aiexanDet Ipusstp

directors of the Somersworth Savings Bank, and at the time of the remodel-
ing and the making of extensive repairs on the Somersworth Savings Bank's
building, Mr. Hussey was selected as the man under whose direction these
repairs could be the most satisfactorially made, and he gave much time and
attention to this work at the time. He was a Republican and took much
active interest in the welfare of his party in Somersworth, and served one
term as mayor of that town. He always took an active part in all matters
pertaining to the betterment of the civic affairs of his native town, and
served as selectman and in various other offices, and also served his town as
representative in the State Legislature for several terms. He was prom-
inent in fraternal circles, being a member of the Masons and of the Odd
Fellows, and was a member of the Baptist church for forty years, serving
as treasurer of the Sunday school for more than forty years, and was also
chief warden of this church for several years.

Mr. Hussey married, October 23, 1878, Celia A. E. Fall, who was also
born in Somersworth, New Hampshire, a daughter of Noah L. and Amanda
(James) Fall, formerly of Lebanon, Maine. Mr. Fall, in early life, learned
the trade of bobbin-maker, which he followed for several years, but later
entered the grocery business. The latter part of his life he lived retired.
Mrs. Hussey was their only child. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Alexander Hus-
sey were the parents of two daughters : i. Leona Etta, who became the wife
of Jordan Savithes, of Detroit, Michigan, and they are the parents of one
daughter, Edith Dorothea. 2. Edith Amanda, who became the wife of
Chester R. Adams, of Attleboro, where he is employed as a telephone
inspector. Mr. and Mrs. Hussey were also the parents of one son, Kirk
Herbert, who died as a child. Mrs. Hussey still retains her membership in
the Baptist church.

Brief mention has already been made of Mr. Hussey's activities in the
political and fraternal life of the community. He was a member of the Board
of Selectmen in 1887-1888, and after the incorporation of the city he was
elected alderman and served three terms from Ward Three. In 1900 he
was elected representative to the General Court and served at the following
session. He was a member of Libanus Lodge, No. 49, Free and Accepted
Masons, Edwards Chapter, No. 21, Royal Arch Masons, and St. Paul's
Commandery, Knights Templar; also a member of Washington Lodge, No.
4, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and served in the Independent Order
of Odd Fellows as past grand. He was also a member of Great Falls
Encampment, No. 15.

The success which Mr. Hussey achieved both as a business man and
public official was not the result of ability alone, although his talents were
unusual, but it was also the triumph of character. Perhaps the richest and
most beautiful traits of his character were his strong domestic sentiments
and habits, which impelled him to seek his highest happiness in the home.
His success was the merited reward of industry, ability and honesty. In
all his words and deeds he was faithful to every public and personal obliga-
tion, and in return the people of Somersworth bestowed repeated honors
upon him. His commanding influence in public affairs and among his

^on. JFreeman aieiattDet ^U0scp

163

friends was the natural product of superior and mental and moral qualities.
Energetic, ambitious and zealous, his loyalty to American ideals knew no
bounds, and the memory of his life will remain as an inspiration and bene-
diction to the growing youth to maintain a constant devotion to our beloved
country. Clear in thought, high in his ideals of government, he possessed
a magnetism that drew to him all classes and conditions alike. To all who
knew him, and therefore loved him, his memory must recall the noblest and
gentlest personality, all that constitutes the most essential worth, the purest
charm of character, and the highest Christian manhood.

3o!)n Wlmsloto Kihbim

|NE of the most conspicuous figures in the life of Rochester,
New Hampshire, during the past generation, was John
Winslow Tibbitts, whose death, at East Rochester, New
Hampshire, on October 28, 191 5, was felt as a real loss by
a very large circle of friends and acquaintances, and in his
passing away the city of Rochester and its environs lost one
of its oldest, best-known and most successful citizens.

John Winslow Tibbitts was born in Dover, New Hampshire, January
5, 1831, a son of Samuel H. and Belinda (Cross) Tibbitts. The family name
was formerly spelled Tibbetts, but was changed to Tibbitts by Samuel H.
Tibbitts, the father of John Winslow Tibbitts. Samuel H. Tibbitts was
born near Dover, New Hampshire, in what was for many years known as
the old Heath House, which was located in the heath, directly opposite the
county farm. Samuel H. Tibbitts later became proprietor of this hotel, and
ran it for many years.

Tibbitts is the usual spelling of the name in present use, though a part
of the family employ the form, Tebbets, Tibbets, or Tibbits. It is among the
earliest in New Hampshire, and has been continuously associated with the
development of the State in worthy ways. From southeastern New Hamp-
shire it has spread to all parts of the United States and is found in con-
nection with pioneer settlements in many localities.

(I) Henry Tibbetts, the ancestor of nearly all of the name in America,
was born in England about the year 1596, and embarked from London, July
13, 1635, i" the ship "James," bound for New England. He was accom-
panied by his wife, Elizabeth, born in the same year as himself, and sons,
Jeremiah, born 1631, and Samuel, born 1633. He was a shoemaker by trade,
and soon settled in Dover, New Hampshire, where he had a grant of three and
one-half acres of land for a house lot, at Dover Neck. At different times he
had other grants, including one of twenty acres, situated on the west side of
Back river (now called the Bellamy river) and another of one hundred
acres adjoining the Newichawanock river, in what is now Rollinsford, then
Dover. He held several minor offices in the town, was a hardworking,
industrious farmer, and for some years was the only shoemaker in the place.
He died in 1676, at the age of eighty years, having survived his wife, Eliza-
beth, several years. They had several children born after their arrival in
America.

(H) Jeremiah Tibbetts, eldest child of Henry and Elizabeth Tibbetts,
born in 1631, in England, died in the summer of 1677. His will was dated
May 5, and proved October 31, of that year. His widow, Mary, survived
him and married a Mr. Loomis. He lived at Dover, where he was a farmer,
and for several years kept the jail or prison of the colony. He had several
grants from the town, one embracing one hundred acres of land in what is

^yy/// /////., /r//' . ///////>

^ ^/^/v//.// y^/////.)

now RoUinsford, and another of three and one-half acres at Dover Neck,
for a house lot, on which he built his residence. He inherited the greater
part of his father's land, including the one hundred acre tract in Rollins-
ford. He married Mary Canney, daughter of Thomas Canney, a neighbor
who lived but a short distance from the Tibbetts home. She died at Dover,
July 2, 1706. They had eight sons and four daughters.

(HI) Jeremiah (2) Tibbetts, eldest child of Jeremiah (i) and Mary
(Canney) Tibbetts, was born June 5, 1656, and died some time after June
27, 1735. and before December 17, 1743. He lived at Dover, New Hamp-
shire, and was a farmer. He married Mary Twombly, daughter of Ralph
and Elizabeth Twombly, and they were the parents of a large family of
children.

(IV) John Tibbetts, son of Jeremiah (2) and Mary (Twombly) Tib-
betts, was born about 1685. He was alive in 1743, and died before May 2,
1756. He resided in Dover, and followed the trade of carpenter. He mar-
ried (first) Sarah Meader, daughter of John and Sarah Meader, of Dover.
She died, and he married (second) Tamsen (Meserve) Ham, widow of
Joseph Ham. He had three children by the first rriarriage, and one by the
second.

(V) John (2) Tibbetts, eldest child of John (i) and Sarah (Meader)
Tibbetts, was born November 14, 171 1; the date of his death is unknown.
He spent his life in Dover. He married Tamsen Ricker, daughter of Eph-
raim Ricker, of the same place.

(VI) Ichabod Tibbetts, son of John (2) and Tamsen (Ricker) Tibbetts,
was born about 1745, but the date of his death is not known. He resided in
Dover, and married Hannah Tibbetts, daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia
Tibbetts, of Barrington, New Hampshire. She was born February 10, 1754,
and died in 1831. They had twelve children.

(VII) John (3) Tibbetts, son of Ichabod and Hannah (Tibbetts) Tib-
betts, was born July 5, 1784, and died in 1821. He resided in Dover, New
Hampshire, and was a farmer. He married Deborah Ham, of Barrington,
New Hampshire, who died February 8, 1858. They had four children.

(VIII) Samuel Ham Tibbitts, eldest child of John (3) and Deborah
(Ham) Tibbetts, was born February 11, 1807, and died September 23, 1858.
He resided at Dover, and married, December 7, 1826, Belinda Cross, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Mary (Hayes) Cross, of Rochester, New Hampshire.
She was born April 23, 1808, and died October 29, 1846. He had six children,
John Winslow Tibbitts, whose name heads this memorial, was the second of
these six children. The Tibbitts coat-of-arms is as follows:

Arms — Azure, in chief three lions rampant.
Crest — A bee volant in pale sable.
Motto — Per industria.

(IX) John Winslow Tibbitts spent his boyhood years in his native town,
Dover, New Hampshire, and in accordance with the custom of those days,
he attended the local schools for a few weeks each year. When about fifteen
years of age he started to learn the carpenter's trade, which business he

66 1 3lo5n Witt!Slo\s E^ibbim

followed for many years. He came to East Rochester in 1850, at which
time there were only five houses standing in the village. It can truly be
said of Mr. Tibbitts that he has either built or helped build the greater part
of the houses and buildings now standing in East Rochester, and among
them should be mentioned the hotel, which he built and which he conducted
up to the time of his death, the last few years prior to his death, it being
under the management of his daughter, Mrs. Cora B. Hayes, under whose
capable ownership and management it is still being conducted. It was in
1854 that he bought the lot on which now stands the Glendon House, but at
that time he built but a small house on this lot; in 1880 he erected the hotel,
and at the time of his death he was the oldest hotel man in Strafford county.
Although widely known as a popular and successful hotel man, it was prob-
able that he was better known throughout New England as a prominent and
successful operator in lumber and timber lands. He was the senior member
of the well-known firm of Tibbitts, Hayes & Manson, whose business was
that of buying up timber lots and operating mills to put the lumber into
shape for the markets. In his connection with this firm, he made the name
of Tibbitts especially well-known throughout the New England States.
Although a very busy man, Mr. Tibbitts did not neglect his duties as a
citizen, and as such he took an active interest in all civic and State affairs.
In politics he was, in early life, a Whig, but upon the formation of the
Republican party he, like most other men of that period who were then
Whigs, transferred his allegiance to the newly-born Republican party, and
as such he served two terms (1873-1875) in the New Hampshire State Legis-
latiu-e. He was also active in local politics ; was one of the selectmen in the
last vear of the town government, and he became one of the first councilmen
under the city government. Mr. Tibbitts was always proud of the fact that
his first vote, cast in 1852, before the formation of the Republican party,
was cast for the Whig candidate. General Winfield Scott. He was very
well-known in fraternal circles, being a member of the Masons, taking the
degrees as far as the council, and he also received all the degrees in the Odd
Fellows.

John Winslow Tibbitts married (first) Charlotte F. Chamberlain, who
died eight months later. Mr. Tibbitts married (second) Clarinda W. Blais-
dell, a native of Lebanon, Maine, and a daughter of Jonathan and Sally
(Wentworth) Blaisdell, who were both members of fine old families from
Lebanon, Maine, where for generations both the Blaisdells and the Went-
worths were among the most prominent families of that region of New
England. John Winslow Tibbitts and his wife, Clarinda W. (Blaisdell)
Tibbitts became the parents of two daughters, Cora B., and Avie E., the
latter of whom died in 1900. Cora B. Tibbitts became the wife of the late
Joseph O. Hayes, who became a member of the lumber firm of Tibbitts,
Hayes & Manson. Mr. Hayes died February 15, 1919. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes
were the parents of one son, Harry Tibbitts Hayes.

John Winslow Tibbitts was a man of keen business judgment, and one
who was looked up to as capable of giving advice in many lines of business.
He was a director in the Rochester Loan & Banking Company, and although

X'

^/v.' /j. ./y^//-rV/.j

3io|)n minsloto Cibftitw 167

he was advanced in years his intellect was unimpaired to the last. He was
a strict temperance man, and always conducted his hotel as a temperance
hotel. The home life of Mr. Tibbitts was an exceptionally happy one, and
he did all in his power to make his loved ones happy and contented. It was
at his own fireside that he experienced more real happiness than he could
extract from any other form of occupation, and every hour which he felt
free to dispose to his own pleasure was thus spent among those he loved
best. Mr. Tibbitts was in the best sense what is most aptly described in
the typical American term, "self-made." It was through his own eflForts
that he won his way to success, by dint of enterprise and courage, linked to
indefatigable industry. In all the relations of life, private as well as those
in connection with his business, his conduct was ever above reproach, dis-
playing at all times those more fundamental virtues upon which all worthy
character must be based, courage and honesty, and those scarcely less com-
pelling qualities of kindliness and sympathy. By all who came in contact
with him, he was held in admiration and afifection, and it was in a large circle
of associates and friends that his death was felt as a personal loss. The
success which he made was entirely due to his own individual efforts and the
hard work and close application which he always paid to his business afifairs.
His reputation was second to none for honesty, justice and charity to the
poor and unfortunate, and in his death the New England States lost one of
her best citizens.

V

3o0epl) ©. Hapes

*HE list of important men of the town of East Rochester, New
Hampshire, would not be complete without a memorial of
the life and career of the late Joseph O. Hayes, a man pecu-
liarly useful and successful in every direction in which his
preference took him. He was a well-known resident and
citizen of his adopted town. East Rochester, and was for
many years one of the leaders in any movement for the
public good of the community, and to such an extent was this the fact that
his name came to be accepted as a stamp of excellence, and his endorsement
of a public or private enterprise was regarded as an evidence of its merit and
honesty.

Joseph O. Hayes was born in Gonic, New Hampshire, in 1847, and died
very suddenly at his home in East Rochester, February 15, 1919. He was a
son of Joseph and Armine Garland Hayes, and was a descendant of one of
the oldest families in that section of New England.

The name Hayes is of Scotch origin. It was originally written Hay,
and means an enclosed park or field. Four families of the name Hayes came
to New England in the seventeenth century. Thomas Hayes settled in
Milford, Connecticut, in 1645; Nathaniel Hayes settled in Norwalk, Con-
necticut, in 1652; John Hayes settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1680;
and George Hayes settled in Windsor, Connecticut, in 1682. George Hayes,
born in Scotland in 1655, lived at Windsor and Simsbury, Connecticut, dying
at the latter place, September 2, 1725. His great-grandson, Rutherford,
born July 29, 1758, who lived at Brattleboro, Vermont, and served in the
Revolution, was the grandfather of President Rutherford B. Hayes. It is
probable that the present branch of the family, like all others born in New
Hampshire, is descended from John Hayes, who came to Dover in 1680, and
married Mary Home.

There is a pretty tradition in connection with the Hayes coat-of-arms.
In the reign of Kenneth III., of Scotland, A. D., 980, the Danes were pursuing
the fleeing Scots from the field, when a countryman and his two sons
appeared in a narrow pass, brandishing an ox-yoke; they rallied the fugitives
and turned the course of battle. The king in reward for their valor gave to
the countryman and his two sons, afterward known as Hay, as much land
on the River Tay as a falcon, flying from a man's hand, could cover prior to
settling down. This tract, six miles in length, was afterwards called Errol.
The stone on which the falcon alighted is still pointed out in a little village
called Hawkstone. For eight centuries the family of Hay have borne "three
escutcheons gules" with a broken ox-yoke as a part of the crest, two Danes
in armor as their supporters, and the motto, Renovate animos. The earls of
Errol bear this motto, together with a falcon crest. In Scott's library at
Abbottsford, among other coats-of-arms is that of Hayes, which has a cross

CV,^AA.ovuv

v^ —

31O0CP& ©, images 169

between four stars, the falcon crest, and the motto, Rccte. The present
English family of Hayes, of Arborfield, Berks, have the "three escutcheons
gfules," and the falcon crest.

John Hayes, the immigrant ancestor of nearly all in New Hamp-
shire bearing that name, settled in Dover Corner, New Hampshire, about
1680. He had a grant of twenty acres of land, March i8, 1694, and this was
laid out November 4, 1702. It lay between localities known as Barbadoes
and Tole-end, and it is probable that most of his land was secured by pur-
chase. He died October 25, 1708, of malignant fever, four days after he was
taken sick, as appears by the journal of Rev. John Pike. He was married,
June 28, 1686, to Mary Home.

Joseph O. Hayes was raised in Gonic on the home farm, and during his
younger years he assisted his brother, Benjamin, in the management of this
farm. Later he came to Rochester and was employed in the hardware store
operated by the late Captain A. W. Hayes. More than thirty years ago he
came to East Rochester and bought a part interest in the livery and lumber
business of the late John W. Tibbitts, and they were engaged in business
for many years. Later he secured entire control of the livery business and
was conducting the same at the time of his death. He had been greatly
interested in the welfare of that community, giving much time, energy and
money towards the bringing of new business to that place, he being one of
the hardest workers in raising the necessary funds to procure enough money
to buy the old factory at East Rochester which the N. B. Thayer Company
now occupies. Mr. Hayes was a liberal giver in all war work, and where
assistance was needed for the poor he was always a heavy contributor.
Fraternally he was a member of Dover Lodge, Benevolent and Protective
Order of Elks, Motolina Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of
Rochester, the Edwin Forest Club and Rindge Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
of East Rochester. He was a charter member of the Rochester Agriculture
& Mechanical Association, and had been a director for years. Politically he
was a life-long Republican, holding commanding sway in his community
for years. He served a number of terms as councilman, two terms (1883-
1890) as a Representative, and as delegate to various conventions at various
times. Possessing a sunny, congenial disposition, "Joe" Hayes, as he was
best known, was a prominent figure in his county. No one will be any more
missed, as it was a very rare occasion that people would go to East Roch-
ester that they did not see "Joe" Hayes around the hotel or stable, or some-
where on the streets. He was very active, economical in his business affairs,
and through his business sagacity had amassed a snug sum of money. He
was also one of the largest real estate owners in East Rochester, being con-
nected with the real estate firm of Tibbitts, Hayes & Manson.

Joseph O. Hayes was united in marriage with Cora B. Tibbitts, a daugh-
ter of the late John Winslow and Clarinda W. (Blaisdell) Tibbitts. Mr.
Hayes is survived by his wife and one son, Harry Tibbitts Hayes.

Mr. Hayes was a devoted husband and father, and in every relation of
life his conduct was well worthy of being held up as an example to the youth

of the community. He was quick to enter into the informal social gather-
ings of his friends, of whom he had a host. He took a very keen interest in
the affairs of East Rochester, and did much to promote its interests, so that
the community owed him a great debt for the assistance that he gave to its
development. His public spirit was most notable, and it seemed that no
pains or eft'ort were too great for him to take in the interest of the commu-
nity or the welfare of those about him. With his mental equipment to
strengthen and make effective his natural business ability, he won success,
and the great influence which he exerted in life was at once beneficent, and
those who came after him should consider it a privilege to keep it alive in
the future. The town of East Rochester is justly proud to number Mr.
Haves among her representative citizens, and the memory of his useful
career will be kept green in the hearts of many.

Cljarles Bennett

T is very difificult for those of the present generation, who are
accustomed to view with but little passing interest the won-
ders of modern inventions, to understand and appreciate
the hardships and trials which those hardy pioneers of past
generations took as a matter of course. We, of the present
generation, with such everyday conveniences as the tele-
phone, telegraph, electric lights, fast-moving trains, and also
such wonders as the airplanes, wireless telegraphy, to say nothing of the
now very common automobile, must not, however, think of those people of
the early part of the nineteenth century as living lives devoid of pleasure and
happiness, as those hardy people were just as happy, just as useful and
perhaps more healthy than the people who populate this fast-moving world
to-day. Certainly it cannot be said that Charles Dennett and his good wife,
Abigail (Ham) Dennett, were not just as useful and just as happy as any
couple who are living in Strafford county at the present time, although the
period of Mr. and Mrs. Dennett's activities embraced those years which
constituted the first half of the nineteenth century. Both were of good old
New England stock, both were honest. God-fearing, and both lived happy,
useful and contented lives.

Charles Dennett was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, September 28,
1788, and was the sixth in descent from Alexander Dennett, the immigrant
ancestor. He was also descended from those two Dennetts who were among
the original settlers of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. In early youth Charles
Dennett showed a remarkable aptitude for mechanical work, and at the age
of fourteen years he was apprenticed to a cabinet-maker in Gilmanton, New
Hampshire, with whom he remained seven years. After his apprenticeship
had been completed, young Dennett hired out to his "master" at a salary of
eight dollars a month and board, but was compelled to take part of his pay
in clock cases, trusting to luck and to his ability as a salesman to sell them.
In 1812 he came to Rochester, New Hampshire, and soon began business
for himself as a cabinet-maker. It was at that time considered a very diffi-
cult task to veneer mahogany, but Charles Dennett's first attempt at this
difficult work was successful, although he had never seen the work done.
He was a very artistic workman and to this day there are many inlaid
clockcases, sideboards, secretaries, bureaus and tables in existence which
testify to his skill and workmanship, they being made by himself and his
apprentices. Mr. Dennett's upright habits and steady industry soon won
for him the respect of the citizens. He had been in Rochester but a short
time when his neighbor, Mr. Upham, offered him the loan of some money.
He replied that he had no security, when Mr. Upham answered, "As long
as I hear that you are at work every morning at four o'clock I need no other
security." From his first coming to Rochester he interested himself with

172 C|)atle0 Dennett

the moral interests of the town, did much to help uplift the community, was
g-reatly interested in the schools and did much in sustaining the old academy
during- its existence. Soon after coming to Rochester he became a Meth-
odist and was largely instrumental in establishing the church in that city.
He, with James C. Cole and Simon Chase, took charge of building the first
Methodist Episcopal church, erected in 1825, and he contributed largely
towards its support. His home was the home for ministers who traveled
horseback on a circuit before the church was able to support a settled pastor.
Mr. and Mrs. Dennett were literally pioneers in the Methodist Episcopal
church in Rochester, New Hampshire.

At that period in this country's development, open fire-places were used
for cooking, and in about 1823 Mr. Dennett bought the first cooking stove
ever used in the town, and people came from many places, far and near, to
see it as a curiosity, often declaring that they would never have such a black-
looking thing in their house. Candles and whale oil lamps gave dim lights
in public places and private homes. The convenience of lucifer matches
was unknown. When Mr. and Mrs. Dennett began housekeeping it was
then customary to keep liquor in the house to ofifer guests, ministers as well
as others, but in later years Mr. Dennett became known as one of the most
zealous advocates of temperance and he spent much time, strength and
money for that cause. Mr. Dennett had quite an amount of inventive talent,
and in 1822 he constructed a corn-sheller which would shell a bushel of corn
in three minutes. He also invented a lock which was used many years on
the vault of the bank in which he was a director, which lock repeatedly defied
the efforts of burglars. At the age of forty-one he gave up cabinet-making,
as machines were then taking the place of handwork, and he then devoted
himself to surveying, and to the administration of estates, drawing up wills
and other legal documents, and devoting so much time and attention to
probate business that he soon became an authority in such matters. He
filled various offices of trust, having served as town clerk, county treasurer,
representative to the State Legislature, and was deputy sheriff eighteen
years. He was on the first board of directors of the Rochester Bank, which
was organized in 1835, and was on the first board of trustees of the Norway
Savings Bank when that institution was organized in 1851, and was also its
president for many years. His integrity and sound judgment were fully
recognized, and he was often chosen as arbitrator in cases among his towns-
men, and also acted as guardian for children.

Charles Dennett was a prominent Free Mason and Odd Fellow. He
joined the Masons in early life, and was master of the lodge for fifteen years
and treasurer fourteen years, and also served as district grand master four
years. He was a charter member of Motolinia Lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, and its permanent secretary for twenty-one years. He was in
early life a Democrat, but joined the Free Soilers when Honorable John P.
Hale made his great departure, and was always afterwards an earnest
Republican.

On November 11, 1813, Mr. Dennett married Abigail Ham, born at

Cl)atle0 Dennett 173

Rochester Neck, New Hampshire, January 8, 1792, died September 24, 1876,
a daughter of Israel and Mehitable (Hayes) Ham. Israel Ham was a soldier
in the Revolutionary War, having entered the Continental Army at the age
of seventeen years. Charles Dennett's father was also in the same war,
having entered at the age of eighteen. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dennett were
the parents of nine children, all of whom are deceased with the exception of
Abbie H. Dennett, who is still a resident of Rochester, New Hampshire.
Miss Abbie H. Dennett lives in the old house which has always been her
home, and which was built in 1813. She is a member of the Mary Todd
Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Her great-grandniece,
whom she raised from childhood, is the wife of Rev. J. M. Adams, a Congre-
gational minister, and they are the parents of two children: Myron Dennett,
and Margaret Dixon.

Charles Dennett was a remarkable penman, having taken writing
lessons for some time after his marriage, and was considered as one of the
best of the old style penmen in Strafford county. In the death of this remark-
able man, which occurred on March 4, 1867, the entire community lost one
of its foremost citizens, his family lost a devoted husband and father, and
the people of Rochester lost one of its oldest and most useful men, a man
whose place has never been completely filled.

Cljarles 3St. Wlalfeer

IHARLES K. WALKER, a well-known resident of West Man-
chester, New Hampshire, passed away there at the old
ancestral house in which he was born, at the ripe old age of
four score years and two. His death, which occurred Sep-
tember 9, 1912, brought forth many expressions of genuine
sorrow and regret from his many friends, and to those with
whom he had come in contact even in the most casual
manner. He was the most likeable of men, the possessor of a pleasing dispo-
sition, a genial nature, and ever ready to do a good turn towards one of his
fellow-men. It is not always that a man who has served with distinction as
a public official has the advantage of ancient lineage. In fact there are those
who maintain that men of action are seldom men of birth. Even if this be
so, it must be admitted that Mr. Walker was an exception to the rule, inas-
much as he filled for many years a very responsible public position, and the
fact of his patrician descent is beyond dispute, as he came of the sturd)'^
stock that from its bone and sinew and its moral fibre has built up the State
of New Hampshire and given character to her institutions. His death, at
what was apparently the zenith of a most successful and useful career, was
not alone a severe blow to those connected with him by the ties of friend-
ship or blood, but was a loss which affected the entire city of Manchester.
He was a man of dynamic quality, a man who stood for cleanness in busi-
ness and politics, and was ever to be found in the van of any movement tend-
ing to advance the progress of the city in which he lived. Mr. Walker illus-
trated in himself the composite character of our American citizenship, and
presented in his temperament and disposition a masterful, forceful and intel-
lectual quality which abound in our race.

Charles K. Walker was born July 8, 1830, in what was then known as
Bedford, now annexed to Manchester, New Hampshire, the son of James
and Betsey (Parker) Walker. Mr. Walker descended on his father's side
from one of the first settlers in Bedford, and on his mother's side from the
largest landowners of the town, the Parker holdings in the early days taking
in a large part of what is now West Manchester. His paternal ancestor,
the Rev. George Walker, rector of the Parish of Donoughmore, was one of
the leaders of the besieged inhabitants of Londonderry, Ireland, in 1689.
Although an aged man, he was active in the defense of the city, and did
much to assist the starving inhabitants in their efiforts to obtain food. He
was a man of great force of character, a natural leader, and it is natural
that from this forceful man should spring a family noted for its energy and
strong character.

(I) In 1714, a descendant of the Rev. George Walker, Andrew, by
name, came over from Londonderry, and settled in Billerica, Massachusetts,
afterwards removing to Tewksbury, where he died. He was accompanied

€Aa,-/<. .:^/^^^.-

Cbatles 1&. malktt 175

by his wife and two sons, Robert, and James, of further mention, who were
afterwards reinforced by seven other children: Alexander, who married a
Caldwell; Margaret, who married Nathaniel Davidson; Mary, who married
Robert Davidson; Sarah, who died single; Nancy, who married James Carr,
of Goffstown; Hannah, who married Francis Barnet, of Bedford; Jane, who
married William Barnet, of Bedford. At what time Andrew Walker, the
common ancestor, died is uncertain. There is in the possession of the family
of Charles K. Walker, of West Manchester, a power of attorney dated 1739,
given by Captain James Walker to his father, Andrew, then residing in
Tewksbury, Massachusetts.

(II) Captain James Walker, son of Andrew Walker, was three or four
years old when he arrived in this country. In 1734 Robert and James went
to live with their uncle, Archibald Stark, father of General John Stark, then
living in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Here for three years they made
turpentine from the pitch pine trees growing abundantly in the forest. In
the fall of 1737 they crossed the Merrimack river and built a log cabin for
shelter during the winter, thus becoming the first settlers of the town of
Bedford. During the winter they felled the trees, and in the spring finished
clearing the first piece of land in the town. Here, too, they were joined in
the spring by Matthew and Samuel Patten (brothers) from Dunstable,
Massachusetts, who assisted in clearing the land and lived with them until
their own house was completed. Robert was a noted hunter, while James
excelled in fine horses. In one instance a man stole from him a fine mare;
he traced the thief by a peculiar mark (figure of a pipe) on one of the shoes,
made purposely by the blacksmith, and overtook him beyond Boston where
he recovered his mare. He cleared up his farm, set out an orchard, enter-
tained travelers, and built one of the first frame houses in town, still occu-
pied (1905) by his descendant. He resided on his farm until 1783, and then
moved to a small fifty acre lot in Gofifstown, where he lived with his wife,
daughter Charlotte, and black servant until his death in 1786. He was a
sutler in the regiment of his father-in-law, Colonel Goflfe, during the French
and Indian War, and at its close was commissioned captain of a troop of
horse by Governor Wentworth. He was in the Patriot Army during the
Revolution, and was among the Bedford men who fought with General
Stark at Bennington. He married Esther, daughter of Colonel John GoflFe,
by whom he had seven children: Silas, James, of further mention; Sally,
Esther. Jennet, Mary and Charlotte. Sally married Joseph Moor, who was
killed at the raising of Piscataquog bridge.

(III) James (2) Walker, son of Captain James (i) and Esther (Goffe)
Walker, married Mary Wallace, of Bedford. They had eight children:
Josiah, Sally, Reuben, Polly, James, of further mention; Rebecca, Stephen
and Leonhard.

(IV) James (3) Walker, son of James (2) and Mary (Wallace) Walker,
was born in Bedford, December 2, 1789, and died in Manchester, February
9, 1875. He was a farmer, merchant and surveyor. He married, January
30, 1827, Betsey Parker, daughter of William and Nabby (Parker) Parker,

176 Cftarles 1^, malktt

and widow of James Parker. She was born in Bedford, September 23,
1791, and died in Manchester, November 8, 1865. They had two sons:
James P., born in Bedford, February 7, 1828, and Charles K., born July 18,
1830.

(V) Charles K. Walker received his education in the local district school
and Bedford Academy, then located where the South Main Street Congrega-
tional Church now stands. At the age of eighteen he left home and found
employment with a railroad surveying party, which established the bent
of his life and led to his becoming a successful civil engineer, he learning
the profession under the tutelage of the late General Stark, in Nashua. His
first employment was on the survey of the Stony Brook Railroad, and he
continued in that connection until the completion of the road. From that
road he went to the Wilton Railroad, thence in turn to the New York &
Erie, and the Marietta & Cincinnati. Finishing his railroad work in the
West, Mr. Walker returned to New Hampshire and entered the employ of
the Suncook Valley Railroad, being associated with former Governor James
A. Weston, who was his schoolmate at the Bedford Academy. Leaving the
Suncook Valley Railroad, Mr. Walker went to the East Jaflfrey Railroad,
the Lowell, Framingham & Hopkinton Railroad, and Montpelier & Wells
River Railroad. He was appointed superintendent of the Manchester Water
Works in 1875, which office he held until he retired in 191 2. The water
system was built in 1874 by the city, and Mr. Walker was the first superin-
tendent, so that the whole period of the development was under his direction,
and the fact that the Manchester water system is recognized as the equal
of any water works system in the country is a guarantee of his ability.
When Mr. Walker took hold in 1875, the earnings of the department were
$32,ocx) in a year, while last year the income exceeded $170,000, and this in
spite of several reductions in the rates and big outlays for equipment taken
from the earnings of the department. Had the original rates been in effect
last year, the earnings would have been more than $250,000. Under Mr.
Walker the system has been developed from the small, original reservoir in
East Manchester to the present high pressure system, and the steam power
has been largely supplanted by the modern electrical motive power. At the
time of his retirement the water board passed a highly eulogistic resolution
on his fidelity and the able management of the department by the retiring
superintendent for the thirty-seven years it has been in existence. The
well-earned rest he sought, though, was of short duration. Old age found
him at peace, happy, even joyous, like "Cato" of old, he was a man "full of
faith" and the memory of his life remains as a rich legacy to all who knew
him.

October 4, 1852, Mr. Walker was united in marriage with Ann Maria
Stevens, of Wentworth, New Hampshire, daughter of John and Louisa
(Glines) Stevens. They were the parents of two daughters : i. Ellen Parker,
born in West Manchester, July 20, 1855; married Charles Howe, in 1897,
who died October 10, 1916. 2. Henrietta Clinton, born in West Manchester,
January 6, 1862, now living with her sister, Mrs. Howe, at No. 106 Carrall
street, West Manchester. , ,

C!)arle0 m. mmtt

177

Mrs. Ann Maria Walker, wife of the late Charles K. Walker, died at her
summer home in Weare, New Hampshire, Tuesday, June 4, 1918. She was
born in Wentworth, New Hampshire, in 183 1, but the greater part of her life
was spent in Manchester. She came of good Revolutionary stock, and
possessed a very charitable nature. She was deeply interested in the
Women's Aid Home, and the Manchester Children's Home, becoming a life
member of both institutions. As a member of the South Main Street Con-
gregational Church she took much interest in its work, and her life was
marked by unselfishness and a genial spirit.

Hon, Cljarles ^ilinep 1!0a{)ite|)ouse

'HE distinguished gentleman whose name heads this memoir
won great distinction both as a business man and as having
filled many responsible offices of public trust. He was born
at Gonic, New Hampshire, September 3, 1827, and died there,
March 4, 1899, the son of Nicholas V. and Susan (Place)
Whitehouse.

Charles Sidney Whitehouse attended the district school
until he was thirteen years of age, and in 1840 he entered the academy at
Strafford Corner, where he spent two terms, and in the summer of 1841 and
1842 he attended the academy at Durham, New Hampshire, and in the
winters of these years he was at the academy at Rochester, New Hampshire.
In 1843 he became a student at the Phillips Exeter Academy, at Exeter,
New Hampshire, remaining at that famous academy for two years, then
entered the store of W. E. Andrews, at Dover, New Hampshire, as a clerk,
and in the latter part of 1846 he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, as a clerk
for Benjamin T. Hardy. In January, 1848, he returned to Gonic, and entered
his father's mill to learn the business. Being of an active temperament, he
at once entered into the life of the village, and as soon as he reached the age
of twenty-one he engaged in the political affairs of the town and county.
He was very energetic in the political revolution of 1854-55, which resulted
in the birth of what is now the great Republican party, and which at that
time at once became the leading political party of both the town and the
State in which Mr, Whitehouse lived. Mr. Whitehouse was possessed of a
very beautiful voice, and when the presidential campaign of 1856 opened at
Wolfeborough, New Hampshire, he joined, with his brother. Freeman, and
with George and Smith Scates, two young men from Milton, but who were
then employed in Rochester, and also with William Beedle, in organizing
the Fremont Glee Club, and they sang at the gathering which was presided
over by the Hon. John P. Hale. Mr. Hale was so impressed with the power
and influence such singing would exert in a political campaign that he urged
them to continue in the work and from that date until after the election in
November their services were in constant demand at mass meetings, flag
raisings and other political gatherings.

Mr. Whitehouse represented Rochester in the Legislature in 1862, and
was a member of the New Hampshire Senate in 1863-64. For the next ten
years he devoted himself to the factory, with his father, but all the time he
was foremost in all matters pertaining to the general prosperity of the
village of Gonic, and of the whole town. In 1875 he was nominated by the
Republicans of the First Congressional District for member of Congress,
but although he conducted his campaign with vigor and credit to himself
and to his party, he was defeated by his Democratic opponent, Frank Jones,
of Portsmouth. Declining a renomination, which would have meant his

^on. Ci)arle0 ^jDnep mWtiiomt 179

election in 1877, he devoted himself to manufacturing, having in 1875
assumed charge of the woolen mills at East Rochester, where he remained
five vears, and then retired from the business.

In 1882 Charles Sidney Whitehouse received the appointment as United
States weigher in the Custom House at Boston, and served as such with
credit until he was removed from the office by the Democratic administra-
tion in 1886. In 1882 he was appointed by Governor Charles Bell the first
State auditor under the new law, and was reappointed in 1883. He was
also delegate to the National Republican Convention at Philadelphia which
nominated U. S. Grant for his second term. Since 1886 he had not been
engaged in active business other than looking after his own private affairs.
Few men were more active in the affairs of the town than was he. He was
always public-spirited in his acts, and liberal in his views. In many ways
he served his neighbors and townsmen faithfully and well, his life being
one of ceaseless activity, his mental energy, indomitable will, tenacious
memory, his habit of investigating all theories before accepting them as
facts, and his diligence in studying all intellectual as well as commercial or
political questions, had marked him out as a predestined leader in society.
His sharp insight into the character of the many classes of people with
whom his business had brought him into contact had enabled him to main-
tain a strong bond of sympathy between himself and those whom he
employed. Few men had more genuine regard for the common brotherhood
of man than he, and to that fact much of his popularity was naturally due.
He had great local pride, and as a recognized leader, quick in thought,
prompt in action, he awakened sluggish minds into useful activity. One of
the sides of Mr. Whitehouse's character was his great love for nature, and
it was directly due to his influence that the people were induced to plant
shade trees and ornament their houses and grounds, until Gonic became one
of the most beautiful country villages in the State. The meeting-house at
Gonic was delapidated, services thinly attended, and the faithful few much
discouraged. Becoming superintendent of the Sunday school, Mr. White-
house organized and led the choir and then very materially aided in rebuild-
ing the meeting-house. He was very active and much interested in school
affairs and also in the fire department of the town. To his executive ability
as superintendent of the first town fair was due in a great measure its suc-
cess. His natural musical gifts had enabled him to create a healthy musical
sentiment in the community. As far back as 1842-43 he sang in the old
Congregational church on the Common, and from that time until his death
there was not an Old Folks' concert or a Choral Union in which he did not
take part. His earnest work in all those affairs was not for notoriety, but
to accomplish results for public good. He was a writer of no small ability,
pleasing and convincing as a speaker, and generally carrying his point.
Rochester was fortunate in having a citizen so thoroughly public-spirited
and possessed of such solid sense as Charles Sidney Whitehouse.

On September 30, 1852, Charles Sidney Whitehouse was married to Ellen
Frances Foster, of Norway, Maine, a daughter of Nathan and Sally (Gil-
son) Foster. Her father was a native of Norway, Maine, while her mother

]8o t^on. Ci)acle0 ^IDnep mbitttoust

was from Dunstable, Massachusetts. They were farmers and were among
the most highly-respected people of that section of New England. They
were the parents of eight children, all of whom are now dead, with the
exception of Mrs. Whitehouse. Mr. and Mrs. Whitehouse were the parents
of two children: Walter Barker, born September 25, 1854, deceased; Alice
Atherton, now the wife of W. C. Sanborn, the druggist of Rochester, New
Hampshire; they are the parents of the following children: Morrill, Louise,
Marion, now the wife of Guy Smart; and Charles, who was in the United
States Army, now deceased.

Mr. Whitehouse was a man of high ideals, to which he adhered with an
unusual degree of faithfulness in the conduct of his life, and might well be
pointed out as a model of good citizenship. He inherited from his sturdy
ancestry those strong principles that were the inspiration of his active and
useful life. In his career as public-servant he showed himself without any
personal ambition, and actuated with no desire other than to further the
advantages of the community and to strengthen his party. His private
virtues were not less remarkable than his public, and the deep affection with
which his family and intimate friends regarded him is the best tribute which
can be paid to the strength and sincerity of his domestic instincts. The
influence of his fine Christian life will long remain to be an inspiration in
Rochester and Gonic, where the majority of his years were passed.

S^ult(4>m ^im(^e ^Moivllo7t

IS

aniireto ilWorse ifWouIton

'HE State of New Hampshire has been the scene of events of
vast importance, and the home of some of the most illus-
trious men of the nation. Her sons have spread htster on
her name in every line of business and profession, and where-
ever they have gathered they have been a power for ideal
citizenship and good government. We should not forget,
however, those who, although unobtrusive in their everyday
life, yet by their individuality and great force of character, mould the com-
mercial destinies and give tone to the communities in which they live. But
few citizens have lived in Exeter, New Hampshire, who have left a brighter
record for every trait of character that constitutes real greatness than the
late Andrew Morse Moulton, and the record of his life is well worth pre-
serving, furnishing instructions for the generations to come. His name ever
stood as a synonym for all that was enterprising and progressive in citizen-
ship, and his industry and energy, his ability and courage, and his fidelity
to principle, were illustrated in his career. The purpose of a biography and
memorial is to set forth the salient features of a man's life that one may
determine the motive springs of his conduct, and learn from the record that
which makes his history worthy of being preserved. Mr. Moulton's career
was, indeed, characterized by high ideals of life's purposes and its objects,
and a continuous endeavor to closely follow them. His death, which
occurred at his home in Exeter, New Hampshire, December ir, 1914,
deprived his adopted town of one of its foremost and best beloved citizens.
Mr. Moulton was born in Hampstead, New Hampshire, June 2, 1847, a
son of Caleb and Abigail (Morse) Moulton. He received an excellent edu-
cation, having graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy with the class of
1869, and spent two years at Dartmouth. Upon leaving school and college,
he returned to Hampstead, where his father was a prominent farmer, having
also served at one time as sherifif. Following in the footsteps of his father,
Andrew Morse Moulton took up farming as his chief vocation in life, and
continued as such for many years. He was very prominent in local politics
in Hampstead, being a life long Republican, and he served his native town as
selectman, chairman of the board, and as moderator. He was always con-
sidered one of Hampstead's most prominent and influential citizens, and one
who was always held in the highest esteem by his neighbors and, in fact, by
all with whom he came in contact. Having devoted many years of his life
to the arduous duties of his farm, Mr. Moulton decided to retire from active
labor in the fields, and in 1907 he moved to Exeter, where he had spent many
happy days during the time he had been a student at the academy, and where
he had made many lasting friends.

Andrew Morse Moulton was twice married. His first wife was Caroline
A. Smith, by whom he had two children : Walter H., and Clara, who became

i82 SnDteti) ^or0e Qloulton

the wife of Frank Darling, and the mother of three children, Louis, Phillip
and Esther. After the death of his first wife, Mr. Moulton married Helen
G. Smith, who, although of the same name, is no relation to Mr. Moulton's
first wife. Helen G. (Smith) Moulton is a daughter of Charles C. and Mary
W. (Berry) Smith, her father a native of Exeter, and her mother a native of
Pittsfield, New Hampshire. Her father was a son of Josiah Coffin Smith,
and was long one of Exeter's leading men. In the boyhood and young
manhood days of Mr. Moulton, while a student at the academy at Exeter,
he became acquainted with Helen G. Smith, and at an early age they became
sweethearts, but upon Mr. Moulton leaving Exeter, they became separated,
Mr. Moulton marrying, but many years later they were reunited, completing
very happily the romance which had begun in their youth. Upon their mov-
ing to Exeter, Mr. and Mrs. Moulton took up their residence in the old house
in which Mrs. Moulton was born, and in which she resided when Mr. Moul-
ton would come to see her so many years before. Mrs. Moulton's parents
were the parents of three children besides herself. They were: Marianna
Berry, who became the wife of Rev. Charles H. Cole, now deceased, a former
minister in the Baptist church; Charles Josiah. deceased, of further men-
tion; and Caroline, also deceased.

Charles Josiah Smith, who died in Exeter, New Hampshire, January 17,
1893, was one of the most prominent men in Exeter, of which town he was a
life-long resident, having been born in Exeter, September 11, 1848. He
attended the Exeter grammar and high school, but left high school prior to
his graduation to enter Burlinghame's machine shop to learn the trade of
machinist. Mr. Smith became a thorough master of his trade and worked
for that one concern up to the time of his death. Mr. Burlinghame in com-
menting upon Mr. Smith's remarkable record and ability as a machinist and
all around mechanic has often remarked that in all the years that he worked
for Mr. Burlinghame he was never known to ask for more pay, nor did he
ever think of leaving Mr. Burlinghame's employ, nevertheless, Mr. Smith's
services were so highly valued that he became the highest paid man in the
shop. He was ever steady and industrious, and never married, but always
resided in the old Smith home on High street. By his industrious habits and
saving disposition he became the owner of some very valuable property in
Exeter. Mr. Smith was a member of the New Hampshire Legislature at the
time of his death and was also a member of the Odd Fellows.

Andrew M. Moulton endeared himself to many friends, especially in
the neighborhood in which he lived, both in Hampstead and in Exeter, and
also in the First Parish Church, of which he and his wife were attendants,
and of which church Mrs. Moulton is still an attendant. Mr. Moulton also
had many friends among the Masons, he having been affiliated with St.
Mark's Lodge and the Mount Nebo Council at Derry. He was also a mem-
ber of the Haverhill Lodge of Odd Fellows, and of the Squampscott Club.
The funeral services were under the auspices of the Star in the East Lodge of
Masons, and were conducted by the chaplain. Rev. Edward Green, assisted
by Rev. George H. Driver. The pallbearers were Clarence M. Collins, Henry
E. Durgin, William H. Seward and Herbert L. Eaton, all members of the

^nDreto ^ot0e ^oulton

183

lodge. There was also a second service at Derry, which was attended by
the Masons and others, and the burial was at Hampstead. The floral
tributes were most beautiful. Mr. Moulton was known to be kind and genial
to all, a man of rare nobility of character and usefulness of life, being the
possessor of the strictest integrity, and of whom it can be truthfully said
that his word was as good as his bond. His true monument is in the hearts
of the many who knew him, and it is our sincere hope that there will be
many more fit to follow in his footsteps.

3o})n proctor prentice SSiellp

*0 say of John Proctor Prentice Kelly, whose name heads this
memoir, that he rose unaided to rank among the substantial
successful business men of the town of Exeter, New Hamp-
shire, is but stating a fact, and his entire business record was
one of which any man might well be proud. Beginning at
the very bottom of the ladder of success, he advanced stead-
ily until he occupied a position of prominence allotted to but
few to hold in the business world. His business career was looked upon as
a model of integrity and honor, and it was said of him that he was one of
those men who form the backbone and sinew of any community in which
their lot is cast. His ability and intellectuality won for him many honors,
and his integrity and personalit}'^ won something even better and far more
valuable, warm friendship, deep respect and esteem. The death of John
Proctor Prentice Kelly, which occurred at Exeter, New Hampshire, Janu-
ary lo, 1894, brought genuine sorrow to the hearts of many who had recog-
nized in him the traits of our best New England people, and the sterling
qualities of manhood. He was indeed a striking example of those who
secure their own start in life, and his career illustrated in no uncertain
manner what it is possible to accomplish when perseverance and determina-
tion form the keynote to a man's life. Depending upon his own resources
and looking for no outside aid or support, Mr. Kelly rose to a place of prom-
inence in the business world by dint of tireless energy and great ability.
At the time of his death he was seventy-four years and seven days of age,
and was considered as one of Exeter's old-time and best-known business
men. It is always a pleasure to investigate the career of a successful man,
for peculiar honor attaches to that individual who, beginning the great
struggle of life alone and unaided, gradually overcomes environment,
removes one by one the obstacles in the pathway to success, and by the
masterstroke of his own force and vitality succeeds in forging his way to the
front and winning for himself a position of esteem and influence among his
fellow-men. Such was the record of John Proctor Prentice Kelly, who at
the time of his death was Exeter's senior merchant and a citizen of special
prominence.

John Proctor Prentice Kelly was born at Northwood, New Hampshire,
January 3, 1820, the only son and the second of five children born to Hon.
John and Susan (Hilton) Kelly. As a boy he attended the grammar schools
of his native town, but in 1831 his father receiving the appointment of
Register of Probate, the family established their residence in Exeter. Hon.
John Kelly soon became recognized as one of Exeter's most useful and hon-
orable citizens. He served as Register of Probate for eleven years. He
became the editor of the Exeter "News Letter" in 1833, continuing as such
until 1853. While a resident of Northwood he had served two terms in the

31ol)n proctot prentice Clellp 185

Legislature, and in 1845 he was again elected to the New Hampshire Legis-
lature, this time representing the town of Exeter. In 1847-48 he sat in the
Executive Council, and in 1850 he was a member of the Constitutional Con
vention. He was also for thirteen years treasurer of Phillips Exeter
Academy.

John Proctor Prentice Kelly, in 1836 entered Phillips Exeter .Academy,
and in the same class were many young men who later became men of great
prominence. Among them may be mentioned Amos T. Akerman, after-
wards attorney-general of the United States; Dr. Howland Holmes, who
died at Lexington, Massachusetts; Richard Wenman Swan, long of the
Academy faculty; George Walker, who was afterwards consul general at
Paris; Rev. George Osgood, of Kensington, and others.

Mr. Kelly had as a boy an ambition to follow a sea-faring life, but upon
graduating from the Academy in 1839 he was offered a position as clerk in
what later became the house of Kelly & Gardner, and at six o'clock on the
morning of July 9, 1839, he began his connection with this store by opening
up and sweeping out the place. On the morning of July 9, 1892, Mr. Kelly
celebrated his fifty-third anniversary in his connection with this store by
opening up at six o'clock in the morning, the same as he had done fifty-
three years before. This famous old hardware and grocery store in its age
and hereditary character probably did not have its counterpart in the
country. It was founded in 1770 by Ward Clark Dean, and about 1800 its
founder associated with him his son-in-law, George Gardner, whose son,
George Gardner, and grandson, John E. Gardner, successively, succeeded to
partnership. The scope of the firm's operations in hardware and groceries
long included the entire State of New Hampshire and part of the State of
Vermont, and for years each winter would bring the annual visit of custo-
mers from sections as far remote as Coos county, who bartered sledloads of
products of their farms for a year's supply of such commodities as they stood
in need of. Naturally Mr. Kelly's early years of mercantile life afforded him
a vast store of entertaining reminiscences which he delighted to tell. He
had a very retentive memory, and from his father he inherited a fondness
for local history, biography and genealogy, and few men could converse as
entertainingly on Exeter men, events and inclinations. As a citizen Mr.
Kelly always took a keen interest in all of the town's affairs, and his integ-
rity, worth and companionable qualities early won and kept the respect and
esteem of the townspeople. Mr. Kelly had an active interest in Masonry,
and was one of the oldest and most zealous members of the Star in the East
Lodge. He also had membership in the St. Alban Chapter and the Olivet
Council.

On January 10, 1861, Mr. Kelly was united in marriage with Harriett
N. Safford, who was born in Concord, New Hampshire, a daughter of Wil-
liam B. and Dolly N. (Bott) Safford. William B. Safford was a native of
Exeter, New Hampshire, and in early life he learned the trade of carriage
trimmer, but for years was a merchant in Concord. His wife, Dolly N.
(Bott) Safford, was a native of Salem, Massachusetts. Mr. Kelly is sur-
vived by his wife and an adopted daughter, Ellen, now the wife of William

1 86 3IoI)n Proctor prentice iKellp

W. Gale, and they reside in Worcester, Massachusetts. They are the parents
of one daughter, Elenore. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kelly for years were members
of the Second Church of Exeter, of which church Mrs. Kelly is still a
member.

The personality of Mr. Kelly was one that will not be quickly forg-otten
by the great host of those who called him friend. He was a man who com-
bined gentleness and firmness, yielding easily where his sense of right and
justice was not concerned, but inflexible enough where his conscience had
rendered a decision. He was a delightful companion, as he remembered
and recounted with vivid power the many interesting experiences he had
passed through during his long and eventful life. He enjoyed the respect
of his fellow-men in a measure that was the reward of very few others, and
with their respect that yet rarer and more precious gift, their affection. In
all Mr. Kelly made an ideal business man and citizen, and one that any
community might hold up as a type for its youth to imitate. He loved his
home and also loved all the members of his household, and the planning of
their happiness and pleasures occupied a great share of his time. This
fondness extended, however, beyond the immediate family to a host of good,
staunch friends, which his personal attractions and virtues had gathered
about him, and there were few pleasures that he relished more than receiv-
ing a group of such friends about his hospitable hearth and indulging in the
informal intercourse of intimate friendship. The attractions that won Mr.
Kelly so many friends were not, however, of the surface merely, but had
their basis in the strong and sterling virtues of the typical New England
character, a fact well-known and proven by the firmness with which those
friendships were retained through the years. Integrity, courage and wis-
dom were all his, and he may well stand as a model for the growing genera-
tions of the devoted husband and father, the worthy citizen and the upright
man.

r.9.

>^/r///r// (>/^/.)r. /Y^v/^/^v

)ttp\)tn Cljase ifJleatier

FINE example of the successful New Englander, who has
derived his sterling qualities from a long line of sturdy-
ancestors, but has of his own efforts climbed the ladder of
success, was Stephen Chase Meader, who died at his summer
home at York Beach, Maine, June 3, 191 5. He was one of
the distinguished men of business of Rochester and Gonic,
New Hampshire, and an example of the qualities that we
have come to look upon as typical of those men who are responsible for the
prosperity of that eminently flourishing region. He was descended from
one of the oldest of the New England families, his paternal immigrant ances-
tor having been John Meader, who came from England in 1650, and settled
at Oyster river, between Portsmouth and Dover, New Hampshire, and
where he had a land grant in 1656. John Meader had a son, Daniel, among
others, and at least seven of Daniel's sons settled in Rochester, New Hamp-
shire, between 1750 and 1760, and took up land in that part of the town
known as Meadeboro. One of Daniel Meader's sons, Benjamin, had a son
Stephen, who was the grandfather of Stephen Chase Meader, and he was
born in Rochester, New Hampshire, in 1782. He resided on a farm near
Meadeboro Corner, the farm being now in the possession of one of his
descendants. Levi Meader, the father of Stephen Chase Meader, was born
in Rochester, New Hampshire, February 4, 1813, and in 1837 he married
Amanda Eastman, of Peacham, Vermont. The Meader coat-of-arms is as
follows :

Arms — Gules, a wyvern sejant wings elevated or.

Crest — A dove rising argent, holding in its beak a laurel branch vert.

Motto — Persevera et vince. (Persevere and win).

Stephen Chase Meader was born in Rochester, New Hampshire,
December 14, 1840, and his boyhood days were spent on the farm with his
parents. He attended the district schools, helping in the meantime with the
arduous duties of the farm life, incidental to that period of the State's devel-
opment, thereby laying a foundation of a strong and healthy physique.
When he was about fourteen years of age his father moved to Gonic village,
as it was the father's desire that his large family of children should have
better educational advantages than those afforded by the district school.
Here Stephen Chase Meader continued his studies, in the meantime working
in the mills during the intervals of the school sessions. In 1856 he entered
the Friends' School, now known as the Moses Brown School, in Providence,
Rhode Island, where he remained as a student for four years. He was a
most diligent student, excelling in mathematics and chemistry. In i860,
completing his schooling at Providence, he returned to Gonic and entered
the employ of the late N. V. Whitehouse, working in the various depart-
ments of the mill, and from this time forward his mastery of the details of

1 88 ^teplien Cl)a0e a^eaHet

manufacturing was rapid, his methodical habits and quick insight into the
various processes, united with good judgment and faithfulness, hastened his
promotion to the position of dyer, then finisher, superintendent, and finally
to that of agent. He was appointed to the position of agent for the Gonic
Manufacturing Company in June, 1881, filling that position up to the time
of his death, during which time the affairs of the Gonic Manufacturing Com-
pany were in excellent condition.

While Mr. Meader won great distinction in the manufacturing world,
he was none the less active in other lines of endeavor. He was a director
in the Rochester Loan & Banking Company, a trustee of the Rochester
Library, and a director in the Rochester Loan & Building Company. He
also had been elected twice to represent his town in the State Legislature.
Mr. Meader always took deep interest in civic matters and all things pertain-
ing to his town's welfare, and had served in the council for several years.
He had often been asked to accept the nomination for mayor, but always
refused to accept this honor.

In September, 1871, Stephen Chase Meader was married to Efifie Seavey,
a native of Farmington, New Hampshire, and a daughter of Calvin and
Hyrena (Clark) Seavey. Mrs. Meader's father, who was a farmer, was born
in Farmington, New Hampshire, and his wife was a native of Strafford,
New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Chase Meader were the parents
of one daughter, Gertrude Amanda, who is now the widow of Henry D.
Andrews, late of Boston, Massachusetts.

This simple account of his useful life and the activities he engaged in
tells far more eloquently than any formal praise of the remarkable powers
possessed by Mr. Meader, especially if it be remembered that his ardent,
enthusiastic nature would not permit his undertaking anything which he
was not fully prepared to do, any obligation which he did not observe in
the fullest. His labors were great, but his powers were equal to their ade-
quate performance. Perhaps it was for this ideal of conscientious and
enthusiastic energy that the personality of Mr. Meader stood in the minds
of his fellow-men, yet it was only one of many commendable qualities for
which his life might serve as an excellent example. The prominent points
of his character were quiet, unobtrusive ways, firmness, and a conscientious
regard to duty. He was always seeking for the best results and shaping the
means at his command with excellent judgment to obtain them. He was
constantly alive to the requirements of the position he held, and was
possessed of indefatigable industry and perseverence. While holding to the
faith of a long line of ancestors as a member of the Quakers, he was liberal
to all denominations and a generous contributor to the village church. He
was a man of strong domestic instincts, and although a Mason, and possess-
ing many friends in that great fraternity, and being an exceptionally busy
man in many ways, it can truly be said of him that his happiest hours were
those spent at his own fireside surrounded by those he loved. He was also
a devoted and most faithful friend and one whose attitude towards his
fellow-men in general was open and candid, yet genial in the extreme, so that
he easily won and retained the friendship and respect of all those with whom

^tepl)en Ctiase ^eaDec

189

he came in contact. The personality of Mr. Meader was an unusual one, so
that it cannot help but impress those who were so fortunate as to have
known him, and the duties of such volumes as this is to preserve for all time
the records of the lives of such men as Stephen Chase Meader, to serve as
an example and inspiration for those who are to follow him.

Hon. Bantel e. 3RoUtn$

'HIS history would not be complete without at least brief men-
tion of the lineage and life of Hon. Daniel G. Rollins. Of
his ancestry, we have the names of nearly a hundred who
sleep within or near the limits of Rockingham and Strafford
counties. Of these, Nicholas Frost, ancestor, it is believed,
of all who in this county bear his surname, was one of the
three who established the line between Maine and New
Hampshire. Rev. John Wheelwright and Elder William Wentworth were
of the Exeter Confederation of 1639. Hon. John Plaisted was speaker of
the New Hampshire Assembly in 1696, and judge of the Superior Court for
twenty years. Hon. John Pickering was speaker of the same body in 1677.
Major Richard Waldron, of the Indian wars, was long time commandant
of the provincial forces, and Hon. Ichabod Rollins was judge of probate for
the county of Strafford at the organization of the State in 1776.

Hon. Daniel G. Rollins was born in Lebanon, Maine, October 3, 1796,
but it was in this State that he spent most of his long and useful life and
proved himself worthy of his honorable ancestry. While yet a child he made
frequent and extended visits to the home of his paternal grandfather, now
that of Frank Hale, on the banks of the Salmon Falls river, in Rollinsford,
and neither that town nor any of the towns about it has perhaps ever had an
inhabitant more familiar than he with every road and by-way, nook and
corner, important fact and interesting tradition in its local history. Mr.
Rollins was the son of John and Betsey (Shapleigh) Rollins, both of
unmixed English descent, and the ancestors of both had lived in America for
almost two centuries. James Rollins settled in what is now Newington, in
1634, and Alexander Shapleigh, as agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, went to
Eliot, Maine, about 1630. Both these men were from Devonshire, England.
They established their homes almost directly opposite each other, on the
shores of the beautiful Piscataqua river, and the farms which that river
watered have never been alienated except by death, but have remained in
their possession and the possession of their respective descendants for almost
two hundred and fifty years, and unto this day. Mr. Rollins was the third of
eleven children, nine sons and two daughters. All of them were born in Leb-
anon; all of them, save one, an infant, survived their parents; and when their
mother died at their old homestead all the living except one were at her bur-
ial, and there has not been a death in their family for half a century. Of such
sturdy stock came Judge Rollins. His boyhood was largely spent upon his
father's farm, admirably located in a community intelligent and religious. It
was there that his character and health, for which inheritance had done
so much, was fashioned and strengthened, so that at early manhood, when
he went out into the great world for himself, he carried with him the
elements and assurance of a successful life. The year 1822 he spent in

I^ort. Daniel a. KoIIins 191

Boston, and he often afterwards loved to fancy the story of his life as it
would have read had he remained there. From 1823 to 1826 he was
a^ent of a sugar refining company in Portsmouth, and while there, until
his marriage in 1825, he was a fellow-boarder in a private family with the
Hons. Ichabod Bartlett, W. H. Y. Hackett, and Ichabod Goodwin, all then
young, unmarried men, and the friendships which then began lasted through
the lives of all. From 1826 to 1835 he resided in Wakefield, and from the
last date until his death, in Great Falls. Until 1848 he was engaged in mer-
cantile and manufacturing pursuits, sometimes extensively, always success-
fully. Afterwards he was for four years president of the Great Falls &
South Berwick Railroad. Of the Great Falls & Conway Railroad he was
treasurer five years and president two years. He was a director in the
Great Falls Bank sixteen years, and from the time of its organization until
his death was vice-president of the Somersworth Savings Bank. His fellow-
citizens gave frequent expressions of their estimate of him. Five times in
Wakefield they chose him one of the selectmen of that town. Of Somers-
worth he was selectman seven years, town treasurer eight years, and three
years he was one of its representatives in the State Legislature. From 1857
to 1866, when he reached the age of seventy, and was thereby incapacitated
by the State constitution from longer service, he was judge of probate for the
county of Strafford.

Judge Rollins was fortunate in his marriage. It was during his resi-
dence in Portsmouth that he first met Susan Binney Jackson, who was there
as a pupil at a boarding-school. Connected with their early acquaintance is
a pleasant little romance, which limited space will not allow us to give.
Sufficient to say that it ended, if it has yet ended, in a marriage altogether
harmonious and ideal. Miss Jackson was of Watertown, Massachusetts, of
a family prominently associated with the early settlement of that State,
and of military distinction during the Revolutionary War, and she brought
to her new home health, hope, culture, good cheer, and a large circle of
delightful friends. They were married February 3, 1825, by Rev. Dr. Borie,
of Watertown, Rev. Dr. Francis, afterwards for many years chaplain of
Harvard College, giving her in marriage, and David Lee Childs, afterwards
the husband of Lydia Maria, Rev. Dr. Francis' sister, serving as best man;
they celebrated their golden wedding February 3, 1875, only twenty days
before his death. What domestic joys and sorrows, hopes and fears, for
themselves and their family, were crowded into their fifty years of wedded
life! During all that time, however employed and whatever his sources of
pleasure, it was in his home that he found his rest, refreshment, inspiration,
and largest delight. To that he gave his best thought and his whole heart.
Of his eleven children, two died in early life and nine survived him, and are
still living. His sons are: Franklin J., of Portland, for many years United
States collector of internal revenue in the district of Maine; Edward A.,
speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1861-62, after-
wards and for a long time United States Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
and now president of the Centennial National Bank of Philadelphia; Daniel
G., Jr., whose sketch follows, and George F., of the Treasury Department,

192 ^on. Daniel 0. HoIIins

Washington. His daughters are: Mrs. Thomas C. Parks, of Newton,
Massachusetts; Mrs. Oliver W. Shaw, of Austin, Minnesota; and Mrs. John
P. Pope, Carie E., and Mary P., who, with their beloved mother, still enrich-
ing their lives and the lives of all the rest, keep the generous, hospitable doors
of the old homestead in Great Falls wide-open, as they have been kept for
more than a generation.

Mr. Rollins' opportunities in early life for education at school were
limited, as were those of most boys of his time and locality, but his wide
mind was disciplined by its constant, judicious exercise, and filled by his
natural aptitude for the selection of the best things to read and study and by
absorption from all his surroundings. He was well-informed, and along
with his love for the useful and the practical he had a marked poetic taste,
and several early productions of his own pen are rhythmical and tender, and
abound with sentiment. He gave his children the advantages of the best
high schools and academies of their times, and two of his sons were grad-
uated at Dartmouth College. He was a man of unusual enterprise. Before
living in Great Falls, and when the village was small, he erected half a
dozen of its largest buildings. His steam-mill on the Berwick side of the
Salmon Falls was the first in all this section of the country. He was largely
instrumental in the projection, construction, and management of the Great
Falls & Conway and the Great Falls & South Berwick railroads. He was
an incorporator of the Great Falls Bank, and of the Somersworth Savings
Bank, and had much to do with the action of the town in the selection and
purchase of what is now Forest Glade Cemetery, which he named.

Mr. Rollins' enterprises were successful because of his industry and
energy, and especially because these were guided and controlled by sound
judgment. His heart was warm and his sympathies quick, but his judgment
was logical, and where the rights of others were involved, superior alike to
friendships and enmities. These qualities especially fitted him for the per-
formance of the duties which devolved upon him as judge of probate, and
won for him, while he occupied that office, the high respect of the bar and
the approbation of the public. The unfortunate and disappointed made him
their confidant, and it is the privilege of few to render to such, more service.
He had the rare power of discerning the moral quality and the motives of
men, of weighing well their worth or worthlessness, and in its exercise he
rarely made mistakes. His integrity was never challenged nor suspected;
he was a man of rare personal purity; his speech was never unclean, pro-
fane, or irreverent; he was subject to no evil habit; his whole moral nature
was elevated. Reared in a Christian home, he was always attracted and
controlled by religious truth. In the town where he lived he was always a
constant attendant of the Congregational church, but it was not until 1857
that he publicly professed his faith in Christ and became a member of that
church. He was always interested in its welfare, and almost his last work
was with reference to the alteration of the church edifice and the enlarge-
ment of its vestry. The improvements which were made after his death
were in harmony with the plans which he prepared in his life. He never
grew old, for his heart at seventy-eight was as young as at forty, and to the

l^on. Daniel <Q, KoIIins 193

last he was the companion of his children and grandchildren, no less than
their counselor and guide. Only two or three days before his death he
assisted them in the preparation of charades for private exhibition. Yet all
the while he was ripening naturally and gradually for another and a better
world. Taking large interest in existing things and current events in his
neighborhood, State and country, he had a yet larger interest in the univer-
sal and the immortal. His hold upon the material and the apparent grew
measurably less and still less, and the glories of that country of which the
Scriptures make prophecy and full promise grew brighter and yet brighter,
until on the morning of February 22, 1875, as quietly and restfully as a
ripened leaf falls in the autumn, he gave up the ghost and died in a good old
age — an old man full of years — and was gathered to his people, and his sons
buried him in the place which he had prepared for himself, and the whole
community mourned for him as for one of its best and most beloved citizens.

lANIEL G. ROLLINS, Jr., of New Hampshire birth and ances-
try, became a leading member of the New York bar, few
members of that bar enjoying a more extensive acquaintance
or higher reputation. He served in high position, and as a
public prosecutor in the criminal courts displayed eminent
ability. In his social life and career Mr. Rollins enjoyed a
reputation on a footing with that which he acquired as a
lawyer. He was a candidate for judicial honors, but his party being in the
minority he failed of election, but by a close margin. His life was full of
honors, however, and while he would have adorned the bench of the Supreme
Court his career was not marred by his defeat, on the contrary, the splendid
vote he received added to his fame and popularity.

Daniel G. Rollins, Jr., was born at Great Falls (now Somersworth), New
Hampshire, October i8, 1842, died at his summer home on Beacon street,
Somersworth, New Hampshire, August 30, 1897, having gone to the old
homestead about four weeks prior to his death. After completing prepara-
tory study he entered Dartmouth College, whence he was graduated with
high honors, class of i860, the youngest graduate of that college. Later he
entered Harvard Law School, a classmate being Judge Cowing of the New
York Court of General Sessions. Mr. Rollins, upon receiving his degree in
1863, located in Portland, Maine, where he remained three years. In 1866
he was appointed assistant United States district attorney with headquar-
ters in New York City, an office he held three years, then resigned and
established in private practice in New York City, his particular field of
practice being the United States courts. He remained in private practice
four years, then returned to the public service, being appointed assistant
district attorney in 1873 by Benjamin K. Phelps, the district attorney. He
served as assistant under Mr. Phelps during the successive terms to which
he was elected, and upon the death of his chief, soon after his election in
1879, Governor Cornell appointed Mr. Rollins district attorney. As a public
prosecutor he has gained high reputation. As a cross examiner he displayed
the shrewdest tactics; he was almost invariably successful in securing convic-
tion, and it was the verdict of the leading members of the bar of that period
that he was one of the ablest criminal lawyers of the State. His long exper-
ience as assistant district attorney, his familiarity with every branch of crim-
inal law, as well as his wide acquaintance and popularity among lawyers,
made his appointment to higher office thoroughly in keeping with public
sentiment. He served out the remainder of Mr. Phelp's unexpired term end-
ing January i, 1882, then entered upon a full term as district attorney, to
which he had been elected by the people the preceding November.

Among the important cases in which Mr. Rollins conducted the prose-
cution while in the district attornev's office were the Lambert and Case

Daniel &, laoIUns, 3It., ^^* D. 195

insurance trials; the "Joe" Cobiirn case; and a series of arson and perjury
trials which in the opinion of insurance men did much to prevent incendiar-
ism in New York City. Before succeeding to the office of district attorney
he had been a candidate for the office of recorder, and although he ran ahead
of his ticket he was defeated by Frederick Symth. There is nothing perhaps
in his entire career which is a more significant tribute to his ability than the
fact that during his candidacy for the recordership a flattering endorsement
was tendered him by thirteen jurymen who had been impressed by his indus-
trious, skillful management of cases in which they had served. In 1883, Mr.
Rollins was elected surrogate by a majority of fifteen thousand, an office he
held until 1887. The most important of his decisions as surrogate were given
in the Hoyt, Marx, Hamersley, Paine and Darling cases. He at all times
enjoyed a reputation among lawyers of the city for his prompt and efficient
disposition of all matters coming into the Surrogate's Court.

In 1887 Mr. Rollins was nominated for judge of the Supreme Court of
New York State, but after a close contest he was defeated by his Democratic
opponent. His name was later mentioned as a candidate for judicial honors,
but he continued devoted to his private practice which was very large. His
last prominent appearance in court was as counsel for the American Tobacco
Company, at its arrangement bv the district attornev's office of New York
City.

Mr. Rollins was president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association of New
York City from 1880 to 1884; and in the latter year received from his alma
mater the honorary degree, LI,. D. He was a member of Psi Upsilon from
his college days, and throughout his life retained his interest in that frater-
nity. He was a member of the Union League of New York, his clubs, the
Lawyers, Century, City and Downtown Association.

John Putnam Pope was born in Danville, Vermont, March 27, 1827,
died December i, 1855. He was educated in the public schools and Phillips
Academy, Danville, Vermont. On September 10, 1854, he married Susan
A. Rollins, daughter of Hon. Daniel G. Rollins, whose biography forms a
chapter of this review. Mr. and Mrs. Pope left a daughter, Elizabeth Put-
nam Pope, born July 26, 1855, who now (1919), resides in the Rollins home-
stead at Somersworth, formerly Great Falls, New Hampshire. It was at the
old homestead in Somersworth that Daniel G. Rollins, Jr., of New York,
died, he having gone there when stricken with what proved his last illness.

j^on. albert IfailaUate

'HE death of Hon. Albert Wallace, of Rochester, New Hamp-
shire, which occurred very suddenly at his beautiful home on
South Main street, on Thursday morning, September 28,
1916, was a profound loss to the entire community, with the
affairs of which he was so closely and progressively identi-
fied. The city, almost as a single man, expressed its deep
regret and the respect it felt for the distinguished member
who had departed, and prior to the funeral services at the late home, Sunday
afternoon, October i, 1916, the remains lay in state from twelve-thirty to
one-thirty, where they were viewed by many people, including a large num-
ber of the employees of the Wallace Shoe Factory. The local press and the
various organizations of which he was a member united in a chorus of
praise, which took the form of editorials, obituary articles and formal reso-
lutions. Few men in the history of the city of Rochester have been more
prominent than Hon. Albert Wallace. As a partner in one of the largest
manufacturing concerns in the State, a life-long resident, and a member of
one of the oldest families in the city, his father before him one of the most
prominent manufacturers of the Granite State; as a stockholder and director
in various enterprises, interested in the political fortunes of the Republican
party at times; as a candidate for various offices or as a worker in the rank
and file of the party, Albert Wallace may be placed among a very select list
of Rochester's leading citizens, not only of his own day but of the long list
of public-spirited and prominent men who have made their homes in that
citv. Mr. Wallace was in very poor health for a number of years, but the
impaired condition of his health was very noticeable to his immediate rela-
tives the year previous to his death. He sought assistance from some of the
best specialists, but to no avail.

Hon. Albert Wallace was born in Rochester, New Hampshire, June 6,
1854, a son of Ebenezer G. and Sarah (Greenfield) Wallace. He was edu-
cated in the town schools, later attending the Berwick Academy with his
brother, both graduating from that institution and entering Dartmouth
College, from which institution they received diplomas in 1877. Then, in
company with his brother, Sumner Wallace, they went into the shoe business
of E. G. and E. Wallace, the concern being one of the most successful shoe
manufacturing concerns in New England. Upon the death of his father, and
uncle, Edwin Wallace, the management of the factory was assumed by
Albert and Sumner Wallace, in partnership with a cousin, George E. Wal-
lace. Later the interest of the cousin was purchased, and since the settle-
ment of the Ebenezer G. Wallace estate the two sons have been in charge.
Early in 1916 negotiations were commenced for the purchase of the shoe
factory by a company, which sale was consummated March i, 1916, the new
concern assuming entire charge at that time and doing business under the

!^on. aiftett maWact 197

name of the E. G. and E. Wallace Shoe Company. The fact that the pro-
prietors disposed of the business was due in a great measure to the ill-health
of both, although the Wallaces retained a large financial interest in the
company.

While personally affiliated with the shoe business, Mr. Wallace's inter-
ests were directed in other enterprises. For many years he had been presi-
dent and a director of the Page Belting Company of Concord, a director of
the Worcester, Nashua & Rochester Railroad, a stockholder, and at one time
an official, of the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, and vice-president
and director of the Rochester Loan & Banking Company. He was also inter-
ested in other railroad projects. Politically he was a life-long Republican,
and had served two terms in the State Legislature, and nine years as council-
man in the City Council. While he was naturally public-spirited and an
enthusiastic contributor to all philanthropic enterprises, this work was
always done very quietly, and many charitable deeds done and contributions
made by him will be known only by those whom he has assisted. He was one
of the incorporators and hearty supporters of the Gafney Home for the Aged
in Rochester, and served as the president of the corporation for many years;
he was a contributor to many of the churches of Rochester, although he and
his family were affiliated with the First Congregational Church. Mr. Wal-
lace's residence in Rochester was an evidence of the interest he took in his
home. The estate is one of the beautiful spots in Rochester, a handsome
residence surrounded by well-kept lawns and during the summer decorated
with shrubbery and flowers, while nearby is a private conservatory and
garage. Fraternally, Mr. Wallace was very prominent, he having been
affiliated with all the Masonic bodies in Rochester, including Palestine Com-
mandery. Knights Templar.

Albert Wallace was twice married, his first wife being Rosalie K. Burr,
of Rochester, New Hampshire. She died five years after their marriage.
On October 24, 1894, he married Fannie Swift Chadbourne, of Watertown,
Massachusetts, a daughter of Henry R. and Sarah Lydia (Green) Chad-
bourne. By this marriage he had five children: Sara Josephine, Eben,
Dorothy, who died in 1918; Ruth, and Kathryn. He is also survived by a
son by the first marriage, Louis Burr Wallace, and by a brother, Hon.
Sumner Wallace, and three sisters, Annie Wallace, Mrs. Josephine Sweet
and Mrs. Carrie Hussey, all of Rochester.

The manufacturing world is the debtor to Albert Wallace because of his
interest and hearty cooperation in all things pertaining to its welfare; the
city of Rochester is his debtor because he gave his time and strength to all
which belonged to a better civic life; the church acknowledged her debt to
him, as he was ever generous and loyal in meeting the demands for its sup-
port ; society was his debtor for his cooperation in everything which made
for a happier and more cheerful life.

It is notable to have lived a life compelling such a demonstration in
endorsement of it as took place to the memory of Albert Wallace. The
master director of industry, who is at the same time alive to all the best
interests of the community in which he lives, and as indefatigable a worker

198 ^on. Albert tOallace

in the one field as in the other, is both a potential citizen and a desirable one.
He increases the business activity of the place of his residence, and at the
same time helps to make it a better city in which to live. In these tw^o
directions Hon. Albert Wallace was conspicuous in Rochester, New Hamp-
shire. He possessed solidity of character, and those virtues of industry,
thoroughness and reliability that men have always respected and always
will respect. The vacancy that he left was visible, and the lesson of his life
should not be overlooked by the coming generations. He was a man of
strong and forceful personality, and a business man of the highest type. He
won success in his business by honorable methods and a strict adherence
of the principles that honorable and upright men adher to, and never did
he deviate from them. He was prominent and influential in business circles,
and was an energetic worker, devoted to his business interests, but when his
day's work was done his own fireside claimed him, and there his hours "off
duty" were spent. No man attained higher reputation for honorable dealing
than he, and in the business world his firm friends were many. His prom-
ises and statements could always be relied upon, for he held his word sacred,
and his excellent business judgment often enabled others to profit as well
as himself. Mr. Wallace was charitably inclined, and was very liberal in
contributing to deserving objects, but preferred to be an anonymous giver.
Such a man's name will be recorded in history for having made the world
all the better for his having been in it, and leaves a memory gratefully cher-
ished by many outside the family, and a circle of personal friends.

C{)arle0 IKoobman 3|apes

ERTAINLY among all the communities of the State of New-
Hampshire, great or small, there is none that can point with
pride to a higher average of good citizenship among its
members than the City of Dover, New Hampshire, none
which can boast of a greater number of their sons per unit
of population whose names deserve to be remembered as
having had to do with the development and growth of the
place. Among these names, that of the late Charles Woodman Hayes stands
high. Self-made in the truest sense of the word, successful in his business
undertakings and aims, his career was an apt illustration of the value of
character in determining the measure of success possible to attain. Indus-
try, thrift and perseverance marked his way through life, and to these quali-
ties he added business ability of a high order, and an honesty of purpose
that enabled him to avoid those business and moral pitfalls that abound
everywhere to trap the unwary. His death, which occurred in Madbury,
New Hampshire, September 26, 191 5, while on a visit to the place of his
birth, was not only a severe loss to his loved ones, but to the entire com-
munity in which he had lived for so many years. It is of interest to note
that Mr. Hayes died in the same house in which he was born. Mr. Hayes
was a member of one of the oldest of American families, and inherited from
various New England ancestors those qualities of enterprise and industry
which lead to success and have made the New Englander preeminent
throughout the United States and many other sections of the world.

Charles Woodman Hayes was born in Madbury, New Hampshire, Sep-
tember II, 1836, the second son and youngest child of Samuel Davis and
Comfort (Chesley) Hayes. The name Hayes is of Scotch origin. It was
originally written Hay, and means an enclosed park or field. Four families
of the name of Hayes came to New England in the seventeenth century.

(I) John Hayes, the immigrant ancestor of Charles Woodman Hayes,
settled in Dover Corner, New Hampshire, about 1680. He had a grant of
twenty acres of land, March 18, 1694, and this was laid out November 4,
1702. It lay between localities known as Barbadoes and Tole-end, and it
is probable that most of his land was secured by purchase. He died October
25, 1708, of malignant fever, four days after he was taken sick, as appears
by the journal of Rev. John Pike. He was married, June 28, 1686, to Mary
Home.

(II) Deacon John (2) Hayes, eldest child of John (i) and Mary
(Home) Hayes, was born in 1687, and lived in Dover, at Tole-end. He
was deacon of the first Dover church, being the third in succession from the
establishment of that church. He died June 3, 1759, and was buried on Pine
Hill, and his tomb-stone is still in existence. He married (first) Tamsen
(Wentworth) Chesley, widow of James Chesley, and daughter of Deacon
Ezekiel Wentworth, of Somersworth. She died December 30, 1753, at the

200 Ci)arle0 ^ootiman \^apt$

age of sixty-five years. He married (second) Mary (Roberts) Wingate,
widow of Samuel Wingate.

(Ill) Hezekiah Hayes, fifth son of Deacon John and Tamsen (Went-
worth-Chesley) Hayes, was born February 2, 1720, in Dover, New Hamp-
shire, and settled in Barrington, New Hampshire, where he died, February
24, 1700. He entered the army August 7. 1778. He married Margaret Gate.

(iV) Elihu Hayes, second son of Hezekiah and Margaret (Gate)
Hayes, was born August 18, 1757, in Barrington, New Hampshire, where he
was a farmer. He married, in Barrington, April 28, 1772, Elizabeth Davis,
daughter of Samuel Davis, and granddaughter of James Davis, one of the
earliest settlers of Madbury, New Hampshire.

(V) Jonathan Hayes, eldest son of Elihu and EHzabeth (Davis) Hayes,
was born April 25, 1774, and married Mary Ham, July 3, 1794. She was
born in Barrington, New Hampshire, April 11, 1773. They lived in New
Durham for three years, and in 1797 moved to Madbury, which became their
permanent home. He died March 27, 1851. His wife died December 25,
1859.

(VI) Samuel Davis Hayes, second child and eldest son of Jonathan
and Mary (Ham) Hayes, was born in New Durham, April 8, 1796. His
parents moved to Madbury when he was two years of age, and that place was
his home during the remainder of his life of eighty-eight years. In 1814 he
went as drummer with the Madbury Gompany of State Militia to the defense
of Portsmouth. He afterward held all the company offices in the militia.
He was seven times elected selectman, and he held other town offices. He
married Gomfort Ghesley, third daughter of Samuel and Nancy Ghesley, of
Madbury. She was born October 8, 1806, married July i, 1827, and died
August 6, 1870. Immediately after their marriage they moved to a new and
comfortable house on a farm adjoining his old homestead. This house was
the successor of the original log garrison, and the farm, until their occu-
pancy, had been occupied by three generations of the Daniels family, to
whom it had been originally granted by the English crown. Samuel D.
Hayes died February i, 1884, having outlived his wife fourteen years. He
and his wife were the parents of three children, the 3^oungest of whom was
Gharles Woodman Hayes.

When Gharles Woodman Hayes was a child of but two years of age
he met with a thrilling experience. While out in the pasture with his
brother, he strayed ofif and was not seen after four o'clock in the afternoon.
All night the search for him continued, and the next morning at eleven
o'clock he was discovered mired in a swamp a few rods from the Bellamy
river, about one and one-half miles from home. Mr. Hayes attended the
public schools, and then fitted for college at the military g>^mnasium at
Pembroke, New Hampshire, and graduated from Dartmouth Gollege,
Ghandler scientific department, in 1858. He taught school nearly ten years.
While teaching in Eliot and Baring, Maine, he took an active part in relig-
ious matters, acting as leader of the choir and superintendent of the Sunday
school. In 1866 he returned to Madbury to take care of his parents and
cultivate the farm. He at once became actively interested in the affairs of
the town, especially educational and religious matters. He held the office

///'.y r'/A'// /A//-/^/ ■ Vr/ yr-.j

Cf)arle0 ^ooDman leaped 201

of superintendent of the school committee for a period of six years, and was
a member of the school board eight years. In June, 1869, he canvassed the
town for the establishment of a religious meeting and Sabbath school at
Madbury town house. The people united with the Congregational Society
at Lee Hill in the support of a minister. For ten years services were held
at Madbury, during which time Mr. Hayes filled the position of leader of the
choir, superintendent of the Sabbath school and chairman of the financial
committee. Since 1858 Mr. Hayes practiced engineering and land surveying
in Madbury and neighboring towns; he was a collector of taxes in 1872, and
town treasurer for twenty-two years.

On November 8, 1866, Mr. Hayes married Ellen Maria Weeks, a daugh-
ter of William and Mariah (Clark) Weeks. Mrs. Hayes was born April 29,
1843, at Strafford Corner, New Hampshire. William Weeks, her father,
was born in 1812, and married. May 12, 1842, Mariah Clark, daughter of
Hezekiah and Hannah (Ham) Clark. Mrs. Hayes is a granddaughter of
Elisha and Polly (Potter) Weeks, and a great-granddaughter of Daniel
Weeks of Gilford, New Hampshire. The Weeks coat-of-arms is as follows:

Arms — Per chevron gfules and sable, three annulets or.
Crest — A dexter hand grasping a scimitar proper.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Woodman Hayes were the parents of four chil-
dren, all daughters: i. Nellie Marie, married October 30, 1895, George E.
Crosby. 2. Anna Lillian, married June 19, 1901, Charles Sumner Fuller, of
Cambridge, Massachusetts. 3. Cora Eunietta, died April 17, 1879. 4. Clara
Comfort. In the fall of 1898 Mr. and Mrs. Hayes and family moved to
Dover, New Hampshire, where Mrs. Hayes still resides, at No. 61 Belknap
street.

There is a pretty tradition in connection with the Hayes coat-of-arms.
In the reign of Kenneth III, of Scotland, A. D., 980, the Danes were pursu-
ing the flying Scots from the field when a countryman and his two sons
appeared in a narrow pass, brandishing an ox-yoke; they rallied the fugitives
and turned the course of battle. The king in reward for their valor gave to
the countryman and his two sons, afterward known as Hay, as much land
on the River Tay as a falcon, flying from a man's hand would cover prior to
settling down. This tract, six miles in length, was afterwards called Errol.
The stone on which the falcon lighted is still pointed out in a little village
called Hawkstone. For eight centuries the family of Hay have borne "three
escutcheons gules, with a broken ox-yoke as a part of the crest, two Danes
in armor as their supporters, and the motto Renovate animos. The earls of
Errol bear this motto, together with a falcon crest. In Scott's library at
Abbottsford, among other coats-of-arms is that of Hayes, which has a cross
between four stars, the falcon crest, and the motto Recte. The present Eng-
lish family of Hayes, of Arborfield, Berks, have the "three escutcheons
gules," and the falcon crest. The following is the arms of the family herein
under consideration:

Arms — Argent, three inescutcheons within a bordure nebulee gules.
Crest — A hand proper holding an ox yoke or, bows gules.
Motto — Renovate animos. (Renew your courage).

202 Ciiarleg SOooDman ^ape0

Charles Woodman Hayes was a man of high ideals, to which he adhered
with an unusual degree of faithfulness in the conduct of his life, and might
well be pointed out as a model of good citizenship. In all the relations of
life he displayed those cardinal virtues that have come to be associated with
the best type of American character, an uncompromising idealism united
with a most practical sense of worldly afifairs. His success was of that quiet
kind which integrity and just dealing with one's fellow-men is sure to bring
when coupled with ability such as his, a success of the permanent type which
the years increase and render more secure because it rests on the firm founda-
tion of the trust and confidence of his community. In his career as public
servant he showed himself without any personal ambition, and actuated
with no desire other than to further the advantage of the community, and
to strengthen his party wherever that did not conflict with the public wel-
fare. His private virtues were not less remarkable than his public, and the
deep afifection with which his family and intimate friends regarded him is
the best tribute which can be paid to the strength and sincerity of his domes-
tic instincts. He was the most devoted of husbands and fathers, ever seek-
ing the happiness of those about him, and the most faithful friend, winning
by his charming personality a host of intimates who repaid his fidelity in
like kind. The community at large has felt the wholesome and inspiring
eflfect of his example, and it will be long before its members cease to miss
the kindly and genial influence which surrounded him, and bettered those
with whom he came in contact.

Barnes (S^reenougl) (S^eorge

*0 THE minds of all of us the term "a New England character"
presents a fairly definite picture. We think in the first place
of these fundamental virtues upon which all worthy char-
acter must be based, courage and honor, and in addition to
those we think of a somewhat unusual combination of ideal-
ism and practical common sense, the presence of which any-
where is almost sure to spell success for its possessor. It is
these qualities which, first possessed by the English ancestors of our New
England people, drove them out to all quarters of the world to explore the
wilderness and finally subject it to the needs and requirements of human
life. This character we find admirably expressed in the life of James
Greenough George, whose name heads this memorial sketch, just as we also
find it in so many other of his fellow-countrymen and among his own fore-
bears. The death of Mr. George occurred at his home in Plaistow, New
Hampshire, in 1873. He was born in what is now Plaistow, but in former
years was known as Kingston, New Hampshire, in 1799, a son of James and
Tabitha (Noyes) George.

The name, George, first a forename and later a surname, is derived from
two Greek words, and signifies "earth-worker," or "farmer." The families
of this name are probably of diflferent ancestors, and are scattered through-
out the United States. The members of the George family who settled in
Massachusetts Bay Colony about the middle of the seventeenth century
came from the southeastern part of England, and as traditions of the family
indicate, there were three brothers arriving in America at nearly the same
time.

Arms — Argent, a fess gules between three falcons volant azure, beaked and mem-
bered or.

Crest — A demi-hound sable, collared or, ears and legs argent.

Motto — Magna est Veritas et praevalebit. (Truth is great and will prevail.)

James George, one of the three brothers mentioned above, was in Haver-
hill, Massachusetts, as early as 1652, when he was chosen as herdsman of
the town. For this service he received a compensation of twelve shillings
and six pence per week, payable in Indian corn and butter. He was "to Keep
ye herd faithfully as a herd ought to be kept; if any be left on the Sabbath
when ye town worships they who keeps are to go ye next day doing their
best endeavor to find them." He was not permitted to turn his flock into
the pasture on the Sabbath until the "second beating of ye drum." He
worked for William Osgood, of Salisbury, as early as 1654. When the
boundary between Salisbury and Haverhill was established in 1654, because
of it he became a resident of part of Salisbury, since known as Amesbury.
He was a townsman at the incorporation of that town, March 19, 1655. He
received grants of land in 1655, 1658 and 1666. He is found in the list of

204 3Iame0 ©rcenougl) ©corge

"commoners" or owners of common lands in 1667-68, and subscribed to the
oath of allegiance in 1677. He married Sarah Jordan, daughter of Francis
and Jane Jordan, and they were the parents of five children : James, Samuel,
Sarah, Joseph and Francis.

James Greenough George, sixth in descent from James George, the
immigrant ancestor, was raised in the town of his birth, Plaistow, New
Hampshire, and with the exception of a short time spent in Haverhill, Mas-
sachusetts, about 1838, at which time he was in the shoe manufacturing
business, he spent his entire life in that town. He became a man of promi-
nence in his locality, and although never a politician he was elected and
served several terms in the New Hampshire State Legislature, being what
was then termed an "old fashioned Democrat." In early life he was a shoe
manufacturer, but later he purchased the general store at Plaistow, which
he operated many years with success, and was also for several years depot
master and postmaster at Plaistow. He was always a staunch friend of
temperance and gave up a great deal of his time in furtherance of that cause.

James Greenough George married Rebecca Plumer Bradle3% a daughter
of Benjamin and Elizabeth (Currier) Bradley, and they became the parents
of five children: Isaac Bradley, deceased; Eliza Ann, now the widow of
Elijah Fox; James Newell, deceased; Cyrus Albert, now a resident of Lex-
ington, Massachusetts; and Edgar Wallace.

3oJ)n ^Sutler ^mttJ)

O STATE in the Union has maintained a longer or more
unbroken record of disinterested and efficient service on the
part of its high officials than the State of New Hampshire,
and none has more worthily contributed to this record than
the distinguished gentleman whose name heads this imper-
fect appreciation, John Butler Smith, manufacturer, man of
affairs and Governor of the State from 1893 to 1895, whose
death on August 10, 1914, at the age of seventy-six years, was felt as a direct
loss by the whole Commonwealth.

The stock from which Governor Smith was descended was a strong and
hardy one, and has contributed many of America's most prominent citizens
and many of the strongest figures in her political and industrial life. His
progenitor in this country was Lieutenant Thomas Smith, a native of the
North of Ireland, who was one of the group of men who formed the famous
Londonderry (New Hampshire) Colony of 1719, and was one of the
grantees of the nearby town of Chester. From him the line descends
through a number of most worthy ancestors to Ammi Smith, the father of
John Butler Smith, who flourished during the first two quarters of the
nineteenth century. Ammi Smith was born in the town of Acworth, and
when a young man operated a saw mill at Hillsborough. He later removed
to Saxton's River, Vermont, where he was engaged in the manufacture of
woolen goods for some time, but eventually returned to Hillsborough,
where he retired from business and where his death occurred in 1887, at
the venerable age of eighty-seven years. He married Lydia Butler, and
they were the parents of a family of seven children, one of whom was John
Butler Smith.

John Butler Smith was born April 12, 1838, at Saxton's River, Ver-
mont, the third child of Ammi and Lydia (Butler) Smith. He inherited
from his ancestors the sterling character which had marked them, characters
that were developed most effectively in him by his early training and the
environment of his youth. His father, while successful in his business, was
in no sense of the word wealthy, and his son was brought up in that stern
school of hard work and the simple wholesome pastimes of outdoors, which
has been the cradle of the best type of American citizenship. The first nine
years of his life were spent in his native town of Saxton's River, and it was
here that his earliest associations and impressions were formed. At the age
of nine, however, he accompanied his father to Hillsborough, where the elder
man went for business reasons, and it was in the public schools of that town
and the Academy at Francestown that he received his education. In the
latter institution he took the course which is given preparatory to entering
college, but left before graduation in order to enter upon a business career.
in which he had a most laudable ambition to excel. The first few years of

2o6 31ol)n Sutler ^mitb

his new endeavor were passed in a number of different places and in various
occupations, all of which, however, increased the knowledge and experience
of his young and receptive nature, and became mental and spiritual assets
which were of advantage to him in his subsequent life. He worked in New
Boston, Saxton's River and Manchester, spending a year or more in each
place, and he also passed a similar period in Boston, in all of which places
he acquired considerable experience in business and industrial methods. In
1864, in his twenty-sixth year, he became associated with that line of busi-
ness which he was to follow with such marked success during so many years
of his life. He became connected with a mill in Washington, New Hamp-
shire, which was engaged in manufacturing knit goods. A year later he
entered upon a better position in a similar mill in Weare, and after another
year engaged in an enterprise of his own, building a small mill in Hills-
borough, and upon which was laid the foundation of his future great success.
During forty years of continuous labor he carried on the enterprise, and
always in harmony with the highest business standards. He built up the
great corporation known as the Contoocook Mills, one of the best known
and most substantial industries of its kind in America. While in one
respect his policy in connection with this industry was conservative, in that
he never accepted any of the more modern and less purely ethical standards
of business, it was nevertheless progressive in the best sense of the word.
There was no hesitancy in adopting modern improvements in his manufac-
turing plant; he kept steadily abreast with the times, and when he passed
away he left behind him an immense establishment fully equipped with
every device which modern inventive genius had supplied to the industry.
His reputation for probity was second to none, and the esteem with which
his enterprise was regarded by the general public was made apparent by the
response of investors both large and small, when in 191 5 a new issue of
Contoocook stock was offered to the public through the Boston Bank.

Besides his own great business talents, Governor Smith possessed that
power which all truly great leaders must have — that of being able to select
efficient and capable lieutenants. It was in no small degree due to this power
that his great success in the industrial world was achieved, since he seemed
to have an almost intuitive faculty for picking out the right man for the
right place, from the very highest positions down to the lowest in his great
plant. His relations with his subordinates also had much to do with his
success, since he was able, through the esteem and affection by which he
was held by his employees, to gain a far greater amount of work. He was
vice-president of the Home Market Club, an organization which has done
much for American industry, and which has had a national influence in the
scope and character of its work. Governor Smith was very wise in investing
no small portion of his fortune in real estate, and he was at the time of his
death the owner of a very large estate both in his native region in New
Hampshire and in the city of Boston, where several valuable properties
belonged to him. He was for a number of years president of the Hillsbor-
ough Guaranty Savings Bank, and was also affiliated with several other
important business and financial concerns.

3[oi)n IButler %mith 207

But while Governor Smith was a very well known figure as a business
man and industrial leader, it was really as a man of afifairs and through his
connection with the public and political life of his State that he came to be
best known to the general public. From early youth he had been a staunch
supporter of the principles and policies of the Republican party, and partic-
ularly of the principle of high tariff for which that party has stood for so
long- and so consistently. His influence as vice-president of the Home
Market Club broug-ht him into very considerable notice by the leaders of his
party in this connection, and it was felt by them that no man could better be
its standard-bearer in the State campaign than Mr. Smith. He had already
held a considerable number of minor offices, and in 1884 had been chosen as
an alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago,
and in the fall of the same year as one of the presidential electors from New
Hampshire. Still later, in 1887, he was chosen a member of Governor
Charles H. Sawyer's executive council, and distinguished himself as a mem-
ber of that important body. From 1888, for a number of years, his name
was prominently mentioned in connection with the gubernatorial candidacy
in New Hampshire. In 1888 his friends were vigorous in supporting him for
the Republican nomination, but on that occasion David H. Goodcll, of
Antrim, was nominated and afterwards elected. Two years later, agitation
in his favor was again taken up, but on this occasion Mr. Smith would not
allow the use of his name, because of his friendship for another candidate,
the late Hon. Hiram A. Tuttle, of Pittsfield. The claims of Mr. Smith, how-
ever, were becoming more and more fully recognized year by year, and in
1892 the Republican State Convention nominated him by acclamation. He
was shortly afterwards elected successfully at the polls, in what was the first
popular election in several years.

He was inaugurated governor in January, 1893, and at once set to work
at the great task which he performed with such distinction, of serving in
every way the best interests of the commonwealth of which he was the head.
Many important subjects came up for discussion and decision during his
administration, among which were those of forest preservation and highway
improvement, then indeed not given their due importance by the people
generally or by any save those few far-seeing men such as Governor Smith,
who realized how greatly the future welfare of the State depended upon
them. He brought to the management of the State's affairs the same keen
sense of what was practical that he had displayed in the conduct of his
private business, nor had he ever worked harder or more devotedly for his
own interests than he did now for the public weal. Speaking of his success
as an executive, the "Concord Evening Monitor" said editorially:

The successes of Governor Smith's term have been most brilliant and the Gov-
ernor's frequent appearance at public functions as the representative of the State has been
characterized by a dignity of person befitting his high standing and by a moderation and
strength of utterance fully in keeping with the traditions of the Commonwealth. Gov-
ernor Smith receives the congratulations of the people upon the unqualified success of
his administrative labors and retires from office to become one of the foremost citizens
of his State.

2o8 3[o[)n 'Butlet Smitt

Although from that time on until his death, not a senatorial election
was held in New Hampshire at which his name was not mentioned as a pos-
sibility, ex-Governor Smith had consistently refused to allow himself to be
a candidate for nomination and has prevented his friends from seeking the
honor for him. He did not desire further political honors, and although his
service to his party in many ways, but particularly as a member of the State
committee, continued to be notable, he gradually retired to a certain extent
from the public eye and to a more private mode of life.

John Butler Smith was united in marriage, November i, 1883, with
Emma Lavender, old and highly respected residents of Boston, the latter a
lady of unusual personal charm and culture. The long married life of Mr.
and Mrs. Smith was an unusually happy and harmonious one, and the home
which formed the environment for the early development of their children
was an ideal one. They were the parents of the following children: Butler
Lavender, born March 4, 1886, at Hillsborough, New Hampshire, and died
at St. Augustine, Florida, April 6, 1888; Archibald Lavender, born February
I, 1889, at Hillsborough, graduated from Harvard University with the class
of 191 1, and received the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and Norman Smith,
born May 8, 1892, at Hillsborough, prepared for college but did not enter.
Mrs. Smith, who survived her husband, is a member of the ancient Lavender
family of Kent county, England. Both Mr. and Mrs. Smith were Congrega-
tionalists in their religious belief and attended the church of that denomina-
tion at Hillsborough with their children. Mr. and Mrs. Smith always held
the welfare of this church very much at heart, and contributed most gen-
erously in support of its work, particularly that of a benevolent character.

It will be appropriate to close this sketch with a number of the tributes
paid to Governor Smith at the time of his death by many who had come into
contact with him, either in personal, business or political relation. There
was indeed an extraordinary number of such tributes even for a man so
prominent as he and nothing can speak more eloquently of the personal
esteem and affection in which he was universally held than their volume
and character. The press of New Hampshire was in unison in a chorus of
praise at the time of his death. The "Mirror" spoke of ex-Governor Smith
in the following terms :

John Butler Smith, Governor of New Hampshire in 1893 and 1894, was generally-
recognized as one of the ablest and most accomplished chief executives this State ever
possessed. He retired from office acclaimed as one of the foremost citizens of the State,
a position he had ever since held with dignity and honor. He had not sought, nor
allowed his friends to seek for him, any further political preferment, although there
has not been an election of United States Senator since the years of his governorship
of which mention has not been made of his eminent fitness for representing his State
in the upper branch of the National Congress.

Commenting editorially, the "Concord Evening Monitor" spoke in the
following terms regarding ex-Governor Smith :

The active, successful, beneficent life of the late John Butler Smith touched that
of his fellow men in so many useful, helpful and honorable ways that the news of his
death creates a very wide circle of sincere mourners. As chief executive of New Hamp-

3Ioi)n IButler ^mitft

209

shire he gave the State a splendid business administration characterized by good gov-
ernment and sound economy. For half a century he typified that class of manufacturers,
proud of their product, just in their dealings, efficient in management, who have contrib-
uted so much to the material prosperity of the State. His other business interests and
his real estate holdings were extensive and judicious, proving his unusual ability as a
man of afifairs. A Mason of high degree and one of the most prominent Congregational
laymen in the State, Governor Smith took a lively and substantial interest in all move-
ments for the public welfare and the true fraternity of his fellowmen. Within the past
few years the owners of the "Monitor" and "Statesman" and the active stafJ of these
papers have come into intimate relations with Governor Smith, in the respective capaci-
ties of tenant and landlord, and thus have been enabled to appreciate even better than
before his courtesy, kindliness and honor as well as his keen business judgment and
public-spirited enterprise. In his death New Hampshire has lost one of her most hon-
ored, most useful and best-loved citizens.

ilenjamin fierce Ctjenep

T Hillsborough, New Hampshire, a substantial stone wall has
been erected around a small piece of land and upon a large
boulder which marks the exact location is a bronze tablet
thus inscribed:

In Memory
of

BENJAMIN PIERCE CHENEY

who was born here

August Twelfth, 1815,

died at

Elm Bank, Wellesley, Massachusetts,

July twenty-third, 1895.

The preservation of the memory of one of New Hampshire's honored
sons who won fame beyond her borders is a particularly appropriate recog-
nition by the family of Mr. Cheney of the fact that in New Hampshire he
developed the rugged honesty of his nature and obtained that start in life
which made him a power in the business world. When finally the great
express and railroad interests he founded took him to greater business
centres, he did not forget his native State, but generously remembered her
great educational institution, Dartmouth College, and in the city of Concord
stands a statue of Daniel Webster presented to the State of New Hamp-
shire by Benjamin Pierce Cheney, his lifelong friend. At the unveiling of
the statue, Mr. Cheney made a brief address and alluded to the deep satis-
faction it gave him to see the fruition of a hope that he had long cherished
to do that which would fitly express his admiration for "a son of New Hamp-
shire who as a patriot was unexcelled, and as an orator and statesman was
without a peer." So, too, the rock and tablet which marks his own birth-
place is a mark of loving respect for another "Son of New Hampshire," who
in his achievement as a builder and founder of great express and railroad
corporations gave to the entire country substantial benefits. He was one
of the pioneers in the express business, and had accomplished much before
he came into association with William Harnden and the other founders of
the American Express Company, of which he became the largest stock-
holder, director and treasurer, so continuing until his retirement.

His leading characteristics were great tenacity of purpose, positive
convictions, frankness and loyalty. A gentleman who was long connected
with him testified that he had never known a man possessing a deeper sense
of honor or sounder business judgment. Said Richard Olney, than whom
there is no higher authority:

Mr. Cheney was one of the self made men of New England and possessed in large
measure the qualities to which their success in life is to be attributed. From his youth
up he was temperate, industrious, persevering and resolute in his purpose to better the
conditions to which he had been born. He brought to its accomplishment great native

'Benjamin Pierce Cijenep 211

shrewdness, a kindly, cheerful and engaging disposition, a sense of honor, the lack of
which often seriously impairs the efficiency of the strongest natures, and an intuitive
and almost unfailing judgment of human character and motives. The reward of his
career was not merely a large fortune accumulated wholly by honorable means but the
respect and regard of the entire community in which he lived.

Mr. Cheney was well born, descending from John Cheney, of Newbury,
Massachusetts, a man of prominence in that community. The line of descent
from John Cheney was through Peter Cheney, 1639-95, a mill owner of
Newbury; his son, John (2) Cheney, 1666-1750,' a house carpenter and mill-
wright ; his son, John (3) Cheney, 1705-53, of Sudbury, a member of the town
cavalry company; his son. Tristram Cheney, a farmer, and deacon of the
Sudbury church; his son, Elias Cheney, 1760-1816, a soldier of the Revolu-
tion and farmer of Hillsborough and Antrim, New Hampshire, who enlisted
when a youth of seventeen in the Second New Hampshire Regiment, was
wounded at Ticonderoga and was present at the surrender at Yorktown;
his son, Jesse Cheney, 1788-1863, a blacksmith of Hillsborough, married
Alice Steele, 1791-1849, daughter of James and Alice (Boyd) Steele, of
Antrim, New Hampshire. Jesse and Alice (Steele) Cheney were the parents
of Benjamin Pierce Cheney, to whose memory this appreciation of a valuable,
useful life is dedicated. He was named for Governor Benjamin Pierce, of
New Hampshire, at the Governor's request, so intimate were the families.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney was born at Hillsborough, New Hampshire,
August 12, 181 5, died at his beautiful country seat, "Elm Bank," near Wel-
lesley, Massachusetts, July 23, 1895. He attended public schools until his
tenth year, then began working in his father's shop although his friend.
Governor Pierce, offered to finance his future education and put him through
college. Before his twelfth year he was a clerk at Francestown, and at the
age of sixteen began driving stages between Nashua and Exeter, New
Hampshire. The stage coach was then the accepted mode of public convey-
ance, largely patronized, and he became an expert horseman, taking pride
in his work and skill. It was while driving stages that he became acquainted
with many noted public men, including Daniel Webster, who was his life-
long friend. He was often the custodian of large amounts of money in
transit to and from Boston banks, and he won high reputation for honesty,
fidelity and intelligence in executing such trusts. It was this reputation
that brought him his first start in the field of effort in which he was to
become famous. Several connecting stage lines combined their interests
in one company and controlled a system of lines covering parts of New
Hampshire and Vermont and extending into Canada. A general manager
and agent was needed to control the working of the system and Mr. Cheney
was selected for what was then a very important and responsible position.
He made Boston his headquarters and home, drew a large salary, and man-
aged the system until 1842. In that year he organized the firm of Cheney
& Company, with Nathaniel White, of Nashua, and William Walker, and
established an express line between Boston and Montreal. In 1852 he added
to his line the express business of Fisk & Rice, thus gaining control of the
route between Boston and Burlington, Vermont, by way of the Fitchburg

212 'Benlamin pierce Cfjenep

railroad. Now began a wonderful period of expansion for the pioneer
express manager. He consolidated other express companies, controlling
routes in other directions, and founded the United States & Canada Express
Company to bring them all under one management. The railroads had then
superseded the stages, giving him greater opportunity, and his express lines
covered the northern part of the New England States. Mr. Cheney's won-
derful grasp of detail, his ability to systematize and keep accurate accounts,
and his untiring industry, easily made him a leader among the pioneers of
the express business, and his success in organizing and controlling the busi-
ness of northern New England lines made him an object of interest to other
men who were gaining control in other sections.

In 1879 the great business he founded was merged with that of the
Am.erican Express Company under the name of the latter, and Mr. Cheney
became a potent force in national and transcontinental lines, both express
and railroad. He was elected a director and treasurer of the American
Express Company, places of responsibility he ever held, and he became the
largest individual holder of the company's stock. His large interest brought
him into intimate relation with the Wells Fargo Express Company and
with the Vermont Railroad Company, and through these into close connec-
tion with transcontinental railroad building. He was one of the pioneers in
the building of the Northern Pacific railroad, was heavily interested in the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe system and in the San Diego Land and
Town Company, serving as a director in all for many years. He was one
of the incorporators of the Market National Bank of Boston, and of the
American Loan and Trust Company, the foregoing being but the greater in
a long list of corporate enterprises in which he was officially interested. He
was loyal to the corporations with which he was connected and those in
which others were induced to invest through his connection with them. At
the time when the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe liquidated, he refused to
abandon the smaller stockholders, but sustained a heavy loss with them
although other directors of the road took advantage of the same knowledge
Mr. Cheney possessed and sold their holdings before the crash came. He
amassed a large fortune in his various activities and gained a leading position
among financiers and men of business importance. But his wealth was
gained fairly and wisely used.

In 1854, while on a trip to Canada, he was in a railroad accident which
caused the loss of his right arm, but this in no way interfered with his
business activity nor did it afifect his cheerful disposition. In 1862 he made a
trip to California, going by stage from Atchison, Kansas, to the coast, travel-
ing in a stage coach by day and resting at the usual stopping places at night.
During this time there was a run on the bank controlled by the Wells Fargo
Company, but Mr. Cheney stood back of them, telegraphed to New York
and Boston for funds, even went behind the counter to help out, and suc-
ceeded in securing the necessary money, and consequently in forty-eight
hours the trouble was at an end. During the progress of the Civil War,
upon the request of the governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Cheney purchased

IBeniamin Pietce Cljenep 213

every horse used in that struggle by the State of Massachusetts. He per-
sonally examined the hoofs and looked into the mouth of every horse pur-
chased, and also paid for them out of his own money. The Governor
informed him that it was impossible for him to reimburse him at that time,
but that he would later, and one year hence he gave him a check for the
amount paid for the horses, and in addition the interest thereon. Mr.
Cheney would not accept this check, stating that he would only accept the
money expended and not the interest thereon. He was drafted "three times,
but owing to the loss of his right arm could not do army service; although
it was not required of him to send a substitute, he did so in each case, paying
the required money for the services of these men.

Mr. Cheney gave freely of his wealth in numerous channels, benevolent
and charitable, especially remembering Dartmouth College. Education,
which had been denied him in his youth, had in him an ardent champion,
and there is in a small Washington town an academy which bears his name,
founded through his generosity. He was a well-read man of a high order of
intelligence, deeply interested in New England history and genealogy, a
member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society. He gave the
statue of Daniel Webster to the State of New Hampshire in 1886, and his
benefactions were large, timely and frequent. His country residence, "Elm
Bank," near Wellesley, was an estate of about two hundred acres, sur-
rounded on three sides by the Charles river, and a beautiful example of the
landscape gardener's art. "Elm Bank" was ever a source of joy to him, and
after his retirement its beautifying was his greatest delight. His estate lay
near historic Nonantum, where John Eliot preached his first sermon to the
Indians, and five large elms planted by the Indian converts yet adorn the
grounds near the site of the Cheney mansion. He was fast approaching his
eightieth year when death claimed him; in fact, another month would have
classed him with the octogenarians. But his work was done and well done,
and he passed "to that bourne from which no traveler ever returns." leaving
behind him the memory of a gracious Christian gentleman which shall
endure so long as men cherish high ideals of character.

Mr. Cheney married, June 6, 1865, Elizabeth Clapp, who survived him
with three daughters: Alice Steele, Mary, and Elizabeth; and a son, Benja-
min Pierce (2), a graduate of Harvard, class of 1890. Mrs. Cheney is a
daughter of Asahel and Elizabeth Searle (Whiting) Clapp, of Dorchester,
Massachusetts, and a lineal descendant of Nicholas Clapp, an early settler
of Dorchester, and of Captain Roger Clapp, Major-General Humphrey
Atherton, as well as other notables of the Colonial period. Her mother,
Elizabeth Searle (Whiting) Clapp, was a descendant of the Rev. Samuel
Whiting, whose wife, Elizabeth (St. John) Whiting, was of Royal descent
and a sister of the Lord Chief Justice of England, in the reign of Charles I.

Cfjester ilratilep 3ortan

I HESTER BRADLEY JORDAN belonged to that splendid
type of New England manhood which had its training in an
environment of hard and even harsh simplicity. His child-
hood and early youth were spent upon one of those unfertile
farms, which require an expenditure of the most tremendous
energy and unremitting endeavor to make even a livelihood
from, and which had even more of personal hardship than
was the lot of the average farmer's son of that region and period. There
was something in the character of him and of his type, however, that seemed
to thrive on misfortune, so that all the strongest and best characteristics of
his nature were fostered and developed and fundamental virtues of life were
purified as though by a refiner's fire. This environment has been the cradle
of a majority of the strongest and most monumental figures in the history of
our country, and undoubtedly has produced the most capable and effective
type of our citizenship.

Born October 15, 1839, at Colebrook, New Hampshire, Chester Bradley
Jordan was the youngest of the family of ten children born to Johnson and
Minerva (Buel) Jordan, old and respected residents of that place. His
father met with financial reverses and was obliged to depend for his living
upon a sterile New Hampshire farm, and it was here that his son was reared
to manhood, and took perforce a part in the necessary tasks and labors
there. Such time as he could spare from this work, almost too hard for
childhood, he spent in the somewhat primitive district school, but though
the advantages there were decidedly meagre and his opportunities for
attendance most uncertain, so strong was his ambition that he overcame
every obstacle, and by dint of his own consistent application and much
reading out of school, gained for himself an excellent general education.
The great school in which he learned, however, was that of experience, and
how much he benefited by this hard tuition may be seen in the use he made
of it during his subsequent life. His taste for learning was so great that
for a time he followed the profession of teaching, for which he was fitted,
and prepared at Colebrook Academy. He began as a teacher in the local
schools, where he remained for eighteen years, the last two of which were
spent as principal of Colebrook Academy. While teaching, however, he
also carried on his own studies and graduated from Kimball Union Acad-
emy at Meriden in 1866, when he already had been superintendent of schools
in his native town for three years. He continued his studies privately after
this and did not abandon them until the day of his death. He gave much
time and attention to the study of history, especially that connected with his
own State, and became a recognized authority in this branch of knowledge.
As a mere youth Mr. Jordan had begun to take an interest in local political
affairs, as well as in those broader issues connected with State and country.

dLbtattt 'BraDIep 3[orDan 215

In the year 1867 he became a selectman of Colebrook, this being but one
year after his graduation from the Kimball Union Academy, and he was
also nominated by the Republican party for representative in the State
Legislature. In March, 1868, Mr. Jordan received the appointment as clerk
of the Supreme Court for Coos county, and took up his duties in that capacity
the following June. In October, 1874, however, he was removed for political
reasons from this office by the Democratic administration, which had just
come into power. But Mr. Jordan had in the meantime been making a study
of the subject of the law, and upon losing his position continued the same in
the law office of Judge William S. Ladd, of Lancaster, New Hampshire.
After a time he entered the law office of Ray, Drew & Haywood, where he
completed his studies. He was admitted to the State bar in November,
1875, and to practice in the United States courts in May, 1881. He con-
tinued with this firm after his admission, and upon the retirement of Mr.
Haywood from active practice in May, 1876, was admitted as a junior
partner, the style of the firm becoming Ray, Drew & Jordan. Still later, in
1882, Mr. Philip Carpenter was admitted and the firm became Ray, Drew,
Jordan & Carpenter. Since that time the name has undergone numerous
changes, but eventually became Drew, Jordan, Shurtleflf & Morris. It is
interesting to note that Irving W. Drew and Mr. Jordan were fellow stud-
ents at the Colebrook, Stewartstown and Kimball Union Academy, and
that after their association as attorneys, they practiced law together for
about thirty years.

But as well known as Mr. Jordan was in connection with the legal pro-
fession, he was probably still better known to the rank and file of his fellow-
citizens because of his connection with public afifairs. As a matter of fact
he did not by any means seek public office and actually refused many oflfers
of such, for instance, when he declined the postmastership of Lancaster, nor
would he accept an appointment to the Supreme Bench of the State, as well
as several other distinctions which his admirers and colleagues urged him
to. Nevertheless his services in such positions as he did hold were of so
noteworthy a character as to win for him the gratitude of the community-
at-large, and a wide popular reputation. In politics he was a Republican,
and early in life was actively identified with that party. His first vote, which
was cast at Colebrook, was for Abraham Lincoln as President, and the first
cast by him in Lancaster, where he later removed, was for Grant. In the
year 1880 he was elected representative to the General Court on the Repub-
lican ticket, and though it was his first term as legislator he was chosen
speaker of the House by a handsome vote. In the year 1886 he was unani-
mously nominated for State Senator from the Coos District, normally a
Democratic stronghold, and though he was defeated that year by a few
votes, was renominated the following year and was triumphantly elected
bv a majority as great as his opponent's total vote. He was unanimously
elected as president of the Senate in the years 1897 and 1898, an extraordi-
nary honor, it being the first time that this had happened for more than one
hundred years in New Hampshire. The crowning event of Mr. Jordan's

ai6 €btstet 'BtaDIep 3IotOan

political life was his election as Governor of New Hampshire in 1900. He
had already, in 1898, refused to accept the nomination and had to decline it
publicly three times before his refusal would be considered. When in 1900
he was once more urged, he finally agreed to do so provided the nomina-
tion should come unsolicited and unsought. He took up the duties of his
new ofiice in January, 1901, and his administration rapidly developed into
one of the most notable in the history of New Hampshire. The various
services which he performed for the State are too many to be enumerated,
but among them it may be stated that the State debt was reduced over four
hundred thousand dollars during his administration and that the State
treasury, at the close of it, contained over six hundred thousand dollars in
its vaults, an amount never before approached. He also reformed and
greatly improved the judicial system of the State, and he is said to have
regarded this as his most valuable service to the community. After the
expiration of his term of office he returned to his legal practice in Lancaster
and continued actively so employed up to the time of his death. He was
actively associated with a number of important organizations, business,
social and fraternal, in the community, among which may be mentioned the
Lancaster Trust Company, of which he was vice-president and director;
the Lancaster National Bank, of which he was a director; the Grafton &
Coos Bar Association, in which he held an office. He was also identified
with the Grange and with the Masonic order, having been a member in the
latter of Evening Star Lodge, No. 37, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons;
North Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; and Edward A. Raymond Con-
sistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua.

Governor Jordan was united in marriage, July 19, 1879, at Lancaster,
New Hampshire, with Ida Rose Nutter, a native of this town, born March
31, i860, a daughter of Oliver and Roxannah (Wentworth) Nutter, of this
place. Governor and Mrs. Jordan were the parents of four children, as
follows: Roxannah Minerva, born in Lancaster, January 19, 1882; Hugo,
born May 26, 1884, died May 7, 1886; Gladstone, born May 15, 1888; and
Chester Bradley, born February 15, 1892. Although he nominally retired
from the firm in the year 1909, Governor Jordan actually continued to be
identified with it up to within a short time of his death. He did, however,
allow himself a greater share of recreation than he had previously taken,
and nothing pleased him so much as to spend his vacations fishing in the
beautiful regions about the Connecticut lake and Millsfield ponds. He was
a devoted lover of nature, and was never so happy as when out in the open
engaged in some expedition with his children. His death eventually
occurred on August 24, 1914, after a long and lingering illness, the trials of
which he bore with an unusual degree of Christian fortitude.

It will be appropriate to close this all too brief and inadequate sketch
with the words of those who were acquainted personally with Governor
Jordan, and who did not fail to express their heartfelt admiration for him
both as public official and as man at the time of his death. The following
extract occurs as the foreword in a most interesting volume entitled "Life
and Reminiscences," by Governor Jordan's son, Chester Bradley Jordan, Jr. :

dLttnttt TStaDIep 31otDan

217

It is the purpose of this book to place between its covers as much of Chester Brad-
ley Jordan, man, citizen, able actor in, and keen observor of, New Hampshire public
life of the last half century, as is possible through the instrumentality of cold print, and
the limitation of one volume. This is not a eulogy over the body of a dead man, this is
not a memorial in the usual sense of the word, but a book of the living, an attempt to
perpetuate to continued life the best thought and deeds of a good man, that they may be
an inspiration to future sons of the State for which he builded so well, and a source of
delightful reminiscences to his friends and sincere admirers.

The greater part of this volume is, therefore, made up of the writings and utter-
ances of Chester B. Jordan. There is a brief biographical sketch designed merely to
give a view of the principal events of his full life, that the life may be considered in its
entirety with continuity. This is followed by extracts from the interesting and intimate
autobiographical notes found among his personal effects.

Cfjarles Hart ilopnton, 01* ®*

'HE annals of the medical profession in New Hampshire are
full of many notable names, names of men of the highest
ideals and abilities, by whom the traditions of the past have
been fully realized; men who are leaders in all branches of
medical science and practice, who have stood at the head of
their profession in research and the application of new
methods to the practical problems of life. Among them also
are to be found many who by sheer virtue of their great personality have
made themselves famous in the various communities where they have lived
and worked, and whose professional ethics towards the alleviation of suffer-
ing have been rendered doubly effective by the good cheer which they carried
with them wherever they went. Among those no name deserves greater
prominence nor a more general respect than that of Charles Hart Boynton,
whose death on August i6, 1903, deprived the community of Lisbon, New
Hampshire, of one of its best loved and most universally respected members,
a man who had done as much as any in the way of valuable service to the
town.

Dr. Boynton was a member of a family which could claim a very great
and honorable antiquity, it having existed in an unbroken line in England
from the tme of the Norman Conquest. It was seated in the eastern part
of Yorkshire, England, at the village of Boynton, and the first mention of
the name as a surname is of one Bartholomew de Boynton, Lord of the
Manor of Boynton, A. D., 1067. It is probable that the family derived its
name from the place, as was so very common at that time, a practice which
was the origin of a very large group of our modern family names. From
that time until about the middle of the seventeenth century the members of
the Boynton family continued to reside in this region, and it was in the year
1638 that one William Boynton, of Barmston, Yorkshire, came to America
with a brother John and settled at Rowley, Massachusetts. This William
Boynton was the founder of that branch of the American family of which
Dr. Boynton was a member, he being of the seventh generation in direct
descent from the immigrant ancestor. Dr. Boynton's father was Ebenezer
Boynton, who was a farmer near the little town of Meredith, New Hamp-
shire, and it was from this fine old farming stock that Dr. Boynton was
descended. His mother before her marriage was Betsy S. Hart, also of that
region, and Dr. Boynton was one of his father's eleven children.

The early years of the childhood of Dr. Boynton were spent on the
home farm, and during that period he attended the local district schools,
which, if they did not carry their students very far, nevertheless gave them
a thorough grounding in the elemental branches of knowledge. While not
at school, the lad helped his father in the work about the farm, his time being
regarded as belonging to his parents until he had attained his majority, after

C!)arle$ ^art IBopnton, 00. D. 219

the good old custom. At the age of eighteen, however, he paid his father
one hundred dollars for the remaining years of his time, and made his way
to Brighton, Massachusetts, where during the next twelve months he was
variously employed. He returned, however, to New Hampshire at the end
of this time and apprenticed himself to a carpenter in order to learn that
trade. For a portion of the time during the following seven years he worked
at his craft, thereby earning a sufficient sum of money to enable him to carry
on his education. He himself stated that he never had a dollar until he
earned it. Such laudable ambition as this certainly deserved success, and
it is pleasant to record that his efforts were highly successful. He was
enabled to attend the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Northfield
(now Tilton), New Hampshire, for four terms, during which time his mind
was becoming more and more developed and more and more firmly fixed
upon the idea of a professional career. His choice centered finally on the
medical profession, and he began the study of his subject with Dr. W. D.
Buck, of Manchester, New Hampshire. He also took a course at the Berk-
shire Medical College at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and was graduated there-
from with the class of 1853. The following winter he spent at the Harvard
Medical School in post-graduate work, and then in the early part of 1854
settled at Alexandria, New Hampshire, and there began his active practice.
In the year 1858, however, Dr. Boynton removed to Lisbon, which became
his permanent headquarters, and where before long he reached a position of
leadership in his profession. The young physician was admirably qualified
for such leadership. He seemed, indeed, to possess practically all the traits
in combination which spell success in his chosen field of labor. He was, in
the first place, a profound student of his subject, and in the second, possessed
that type of cheerful personality which is often more effective in producing
the desired cures than the more theoretical branch of therapeutics. A keen
practical sense of how theory should be applied to the circumstances of real
life, and an almost intuitive insight into the ailments he was called upon to
diagnose, were the happy possessions of Dr. Boynton, and still further an
absolutely unwearied energy and a willingness to go as far as need be and
under all circumstances, even the most difficult, in response to a call for
help, and that without regarding whether the subject was high or low, rich
or poor. There is no question that the profession has never been honored
by one who labored more disinterestedly to alleviate not only the physical
but the mental ills of his patients, and for forty-five years he traveled over
the New Hampshire hills, alike in stormy and clear weather, night and day,
summer and winter. There were few families within a radius of many miles
of Lisbon who had not called him at one time or another, and who were
supported and aided by his ready sympathy and presence of mind which
seemed to teach him instinctively to do the right thing in the right place.
The tax upon Dr. Boynton's strength made by these professional demands
required some sort of relaxation, and for this he turned to agriculture. He
was keenly interested in all kinds of domestic animals, as well as in the
growing of the vegetable world, and was very successful in what he

220 Cljarles ©art llSopnton, 99. D.

attempted along these lines, considering how comparatively limited was the
time he had to spend on them.

Dr. Boynton was a member of the White Mountain Medical Society,
serving as its president for two years, and of the New Hampshire Medical
Society. He was a prominent Mason, and belonged to most of the Masonic
organizations of Lisbon. For one whose time was so much occupied, Dr.
Boynton was affiliated with quite a remarkable number of activities in his
home town. At the time of his death he was president of the Lisbon Light
and Power Company, and of the Lisbon Building Association, a concern
which erected the Boynton Block. He was also a director of the Parker &
Young Company, and of the New England Electrical Works. He was a
trustee of the State Hospital at Concord, and there were not many charitable
movements undertaken in this region of the State with which he was not
identified. He was also an active participant in the public life of the com-
munity, and served for a number of years on the Lisbon Board of Educa-
tion, and was one of the originators of the Lisbon Public Library. In politics
he was a Republican, and was elected on that ticket to represent the town
in the State Legislature during the years of 1868 and 1869. As a very young
man, Dr. Boynton became a member of the Free Will Baptist Church in his
native town, but in later years he did not identify himself with any religious
denomination.

Dr. Boynton was united in marriage, October 19, 1854, at Lisbon, New
Hampshire, with Mary Huse Cummings, a daughter of Joseph and Mary
(Huse) Cummings, old and highly respected residents of this town. To Dr.
and Mrs. Boynton one child was born, a daughter, Alice, September 30,
1857, at Alexandria, New Hampshire. She attended the Lisbon public
schools, Plymouth State Normal, and graduated from the Montebello Ladies'
Institute, Newbury, Vermont. For three years prior to her marriage she
served in the capacity of teacher in the Lisbon public school. She married,
September 15, 1887, at Lisbon, New Hampshire, William Wallace Oliver,
formerly of Magog, Province of Quebec, Canada, and resides at Lisbon.
Children: Mary Boynton, born June 7, 1890; Charles Edward, born February
II, 1895, died February 8, 1898; and Alice Louise, born April 2, 1899. For
several years Mrs. Oliver was a member of the school board of Lisbon
public schools, treasurer and secretary of said organization; a member of
the Congregational church of Lisbon ; of the Lisbon Woman's Club ; of the
Friends in Council, one of its originators in 1897, having served as its secre-
tary and president ; and had held office in the New Hampshire Federation of
Women's Clubs, serving as its treasurer.

^^SS^ZSgk

ifjflaurtce €ben ISttmball

'OR many years one of the principal figures in the business life
of North Haverhill, New Hampshire, Maurice Eben Kimball
was one of the most eminently respected and venerated of
this community's members, where he so long enjoyed a repu-
tation for the most complete and unimpeachable integrity in
all his business dealings, and where he passed away in July,
1903. He was a member of a good old New England family,
and a son of Charles C. and Hannah (Morris) Kimball, who were lifelong
residents of North Haverhill before him. It was here that he was born, in
October, 1843, ^^^ here that he enjoyed the then somewhat meagre educa-
tional advantages offered by the local school. His business career was begun
on a very humble scale, but by dint of perseverance, hard work and unweary-
ing patience, he built up what eventually became one of the largest enter-
prises of its kind in this region. For forty years or more he was actively
connected with the well known general store which bore his name, and
which enjoyed a long and well established patronage. It was inevitable that
a man who became so prominent in the commercial life of the community
should extend his interest into other lines of enterprise and endeavor, and
he became many years ago a director of the Woodsville National Bank of
this place.

His activities, however, extended into departments of the community's
life quite separate from personal interest or endeavor, and in his connection
with the more general affairs of the place he displayed a disinterestedness
and an ability which did good service for his fellow-citizens and won for
himself their hearty approval and esteem. He held a large number of local
town ofifices and also represented North Haverhill in the General Court of
New Hampshire.

Maurice Eben Kimball was united in marriage, March 7, 1867. with
Gazilda C. Moran, a native of Derby, Vermont, and a daughter of Lawrence
and Harriett (Brooks) Moran, old and highly respected residents of that
place. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball were the parents of the following children:
Addie M., born May 19, 1870, became the wife of Frank N. Keyser, of Haver-
hill; Louis Maurice, born in 1876, and Roy E., born in 1877, who engaged
in business with his elder brother.

There is much in the life of the late Maurice Eben Kimball to command
admiration, but it was not more his strict adherence to the principles of
right and justice that attracted men to him, than his unfailing kindness and
spirit of self-sacrifice. On the latter trait, his great popularity with all who
knew him was based, while the respect of the business world was the out-
growth of a career known to be honorable, upright and without guile.
"Good business" with him did not mean necessarily volume, but quality;
and everything he said and everything he sold was, in his belief, exactly as

222 e^mtitt €ben l^imftall

he represented it. His personality was most pleasing, dignified and courtly;
he was the personification of kindness, and no sacrifice was too great, if it
brought happiness to those he loved. His home life was ideal, and there the
excellencies of his character shone forth in all their beauty. He was a
gentleman, not of the "old school" but of every school, and nowhere was he
more appreciated than by those whose lives brought them into daily contact
with his gentle, kindly spirit.

I^enrj Cutler Stearns

'HE name of Henry Cutler Stearns stood high among the long
list of capable physicians who have honored the medical
profession in the State of New Hampshire. He enjoyed a
great and well deserved popularity at Haverhill iri this
State, and was regarded as one of the leaders of his profes-
sion throughout the entire region. Dr. Stearns came of
good old New England stock, and was a son of Josiah Heald
and Sarah (Russell) Stearns, the former having been for many years a
farmer in the region of Lovell, Maine. Josiah Heald Stearns was a sur-
veyor, and followed that profession with a considerable degree of success in
his native region. At the time of the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted
in the Union army and became first lieutenant in the Twenty-third Regi-
ment of Maine Volunteer Infantry. During this troubled period, his ability
as a surveyor made him valuable to the government, and he was shortly after
the close of hostilities appointed United States surveyor in Florida, under
his cousin, Governor Marcellus Stearns. He and his wife were the parents
of a number of children, one of whom was Dr. Henry Cutler Stearns.

Born on August 21, 1866, at Lovell, Maine, Henry Cutler Stearns was
brought up in his native region. It was there that his earliest impressions
were formed, and there that he gained the elementary portion of his educa-
tion, attending for this purpose the local public schools. Later his father
sent him to the Fryeburg Academy at Fryeburg, Maine, and here he com-
pleted his general education and was prepared for college, his expenses
through college being defrayed by money earned in teaching school for
many terms. The young man had by this time decided to make medicine his
profession in life, and accordingly entered the Dartmouth Medical College,
where he established for himself an unusually fine record for scholarship.
He was graduated from this institution in the month of November, 1895.
He immediately began the practice of his profession at Bartlett, New Hamp-
shire, remaining for one year, and then removed to Haverhill, New Hamp-
shire, which, with the exception of a break of three years, had continued his
home and his headquarters since then. In the year 1904, however, he took
a post-graduate course at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital, it being
his policy to keep abreast of the latest developments in his science and pro-
fession, and he also pursued a post-graduate course at Harvard Medical Col-
lege. After ten years' residence at Haverhill, where he became very well
known and had developed a large and remunerative practice. Dr. Stearns
removed to Concord, New Hampshire, where he resided for three years,
actively engaged in practice during that time. He then returned to Haver-
hill and remained a constant resident of that place until his death, which
he met in an automobile accident on August 23, 191 5. He became very well
known throughout the region as a man of unusual rectitude and a physician

224 ©enrp Cutlet Stcatns

of great ability, while his character was of that optimistic and cheerful kind
which is so great an asset to the physician and is an important element in
his treatment of all kinds of sickness. He was on the staff of physicians at
the Woodsville Cottage Hospital.

Dr. Stearns was a staunch Republican, and had exceedingly strong
views on political matters, which he was ever ready to defend with great
intelligence and a spontaneous wit. In spite of this, however, he never had
any ambition for public office or political preferment, probably feeling that
the onerous demands made upon him by his profession rendered it impos-
sible for him to take part in certain departments of activity for which his
talents had otherwise so well fitted him. The nearest approach to public
office that he ever held was that of trustee of the Haverhill Academy, a posi-
tion which he consented to take on account of the very keen interest which
he felt in the subject of juvenile education. Dr. Stearns was, however, a
conspicuous figure in medical, social and fraternal circles, and was affiliated
with a large number of orders and other organizations of a similar character.
Among these should be mentioned the State and County Medical Societies;
Haverhill Grange, No. 212, Patrons of Husbandry, of which he was master
at the time of his death ; Blazing Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons, of Concord, New Hampshire; Franklin Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons, of Lisbon, New Hampshire; and lona Chapter, No. 39, Order of the
Eastern Star. His club was the Wonolancet of Concord, New Hampshire.
In his religious belief. Dr. Stearns was extremely liberal. During his resi-
dence in Concord he attended the Unitarian church regularly.

Dr. Stearns was possessed of very strong literary tastes, and these, in
connection with his social instincts, led him to take part quite actively in
many delightful informal gatherings, and particularly in amateur theatri-
cals, which were popular in his community. He was himself the author of
manv clever and attractive plays, many of which have since been published.
He was also an effective speaker, and was chosen by his community on a
number of different occasions as Memorial Day orator.

Dr. Stearns was united in marriage, September 30, 1897, at Haverhill,
New Hampshire, with Mary Louise Poor, a daughter of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Swasey) Poor, old and highly respected residents of Haverhill. To
Dr. and Mrs. Stearns one child was born, Joseph Poor, March 17, 1899.

Dr. Stearns exhibited throughout his career that devotion which char-
acterized the really great physician, and to this he added an energy and
strength that seemed indefatigable. Of any man who takes up medicine as
a profession, with the true realization of what is involved in the way of
sacrifice and a sincere intention to live up to its ideals, it may be said that
he has given himself for humanity's cause. This was unquestionably true of
Dr. Stearns, and it met with the reward which was truly merited, that of
an active response on the part of the community to his ministrations. For
Dr. Stearns had resisted to a certain extent the great tendency towards
specialization which was and is in evidence to-day, and had retained the
character of the old-fashioned physician save for the fact already men-

^enrp Cutler Steatn$ 2*5

tioned, that he kept thoroughly abreast of the times in science. He was
exceedingly generous in his treatment of the poor and those of limited
means, never pressing his bills against those who were unable to pay, and
in many cases never sending a bill for his services. There was much to
suggest the gentleman of the old school in Dr. Stearns, and the courtesy of
this type and the uncompromising firmness of the practical man of the
world, fittingly complement and modify each other. During the many
years of his residence in Haverhill, New Hampshire, he had been looked up
to as were few other men in the community with respect for the unimpeach-
able integrity, the clear-sighted sagacity, the strong public spirit that
marked him, and with affection also for his tact in dealing with men, his
spontaneous generosity, and the attitude of charity and tolerance he main-
tained toward his fellow-men which made him easy of approach and a sym-
pathetic listener to the humblest as well as the proudest.

)eneta Augustus Eatilj

^HE type that has become familiar to the world as the success-
ful New Englander, practical and worldly-wise, yet gov-
erned in all matters by the most scrupulous and strict ethical
code, stern in removing- obstacles from the path, yet g-ener-
ous even to his enemies, was nowhere better exemplified
than in the person of the late Seneca Augustus Ladd, of
Meredith, New Hampshire, who carried down into our own
times something of the substantial quality of the past. The successful men
of an earlier generation, who were responsible for the great industrial and
mercantile development of New England, experienced most of them in their
own lives, the juncture of two influences, calculated in combination to pro-
duce the marked characters by which we recognize the type. For these men
were at once the product of culture and refinement, being descended gener-
ally from the most distinguished families, and yet were so placed that hard
work and frugal living were the necessary conditions of success. Such was
the case with Mr. Ladd, who was descended from fine old French and Eng-
lish ancestry, the descendants of which have from the early Colonial days
down to the present maintained the same high standard which was set for
them by their predecessors.

Edward Wilds Ladd, of London, England, is authority for stating that
his ancestry, "the first Lads, came from England with William the Con-
queror from France and settled in Deal, Kent county, where a portion of
land was granted them, eight miles from Dover. Not many years after the
Norman Conquest, and ever since that day, descendants of that family,
spelling the name De Lade, De Lad, Lad and Ladd, have held land in that
and adjoining counties."

The Ladd family, of which the late Seneca Augustus Ladd was the rep-
resentative in the last generation, was founded in this country by one Daniel
Ladd, who sailed from London, England, March 24, 1633, in the good ship,
"Mary and John." Upon reaching the New England colonies, which were
his destination, he settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he remained
until 1638. In that year he became one of the founders of Salisbury, and
two years later of Pawtucket, on the Merrimac river. He appears to have
been' of exceedingly enterprising disposition and character, and to have
found an irresistible attraction in accompanying those hardy bands of
pioneers who continually ventured forth into the wilderness to found new
settlements. He was one of those who founded Haverhill, and this town
probably remained his residence for the remainder of his life. Later his
descendants removed to New Hampshire, and it was in this State, at the
town of Loudon, that Mr. Ladd's parents were living in the early part of the
nineteenth century. These parents were Gideon and Polly (Osgood) Ladd,

Seneca 2luqustm LaDD 227

who were well known and highly respected residents of this community,
and it was here that Seneca Augustus Ladd was born, April 29, 1819.

Seneca Augustus Ladd was the fourth son of his parents and one of
twelve children. His childhood was spent in that wholesome environment
which has undoubtedly produced the very best type of American citizenship,
namely, that of the farm, with the work of which he became acquainted at
an early age. Up to the time that he was ten years of age he attended the
local public schools during the summer months, but after that period, when
he was supposed to have enough strength to assist with the lighter tasks
about the farm, he went to school in the winter and gave up his summers
to this other kind of work. He was a bright lad and displayed considerable
precocity in his studies, and one of his teachers, the Hon. John L. French,
afterwards president of the Pittsfield Bank, appreciated these qualities and
encouraged him strongly to continue his studies. He undoubtedly proved
one of the strongest influences in the young man's life, and developed the
natural taste for study and scientific reading which young Mr. Ladd
possessed. A habit was thus formed which continued throughout the
remainder of his life, so that it may truly be said that much of Mr. Ladd's
excellent education was gained through his individual efforts rather than
through any school work which he did. When only thirteen years of age he
went to Raymond and thoroughly learned the carriage maker's trade, com-
ing to the town of Meredith when seventeen, where he worked for a time
with John Haines, a wheelwright. The year from nineteen to twenty he
spent in Boston and worked as journeyman at the pianoforte business with
Timothy Gilbert, in the second pianoforte manufactory established in the
United States. The young man developed qualities of industry and thrift
during these years which enabled him, when twenty years of age, to purchase
a house, for which he gave his note in part payment. At the same time he
married and settled down to housekeeping.

About this time he formed a partnership with Sewell Smith, the young
men engaging in the manufacture of carriages. They met with considerable
success in the first few years, but their plant was destroyed by fire, a disaster
which put an end to their enterprise. Mr. Ladd was one of those characters,
however, which appear not to know what discouragement is, and he immed-
iately leased an unused plant in Meredith, and as soon as he had closed up
his affairs in connection with the carriage manufactory, he started in an
entirely new line. His brother, Albert W. Ladd, had settled in Boston, and
had there begun the manufacture of the celebrated A. W. Ladd & Company
pianos, and it was a branch of this large industrial enterprise which Seneca
A. Ladd established in Meredith. In this he was highly successful and con-
tinued actively engaged until 1869, when a serious impairment of his hearing
caused him to give up this business. Once more, however, his enterprising
nature suggested a new line of endeavor, and once more his organizing
ability and business judgment brought success to his scheme. His new
plan was to found a savings bank in Meredith, with the idea of encouraging
young people to save their earnings, and thus inculcate habits of prudence

228 Seneca au0U0tu$ LaDD

and thrift. Mr. Ladd was always keenly interested in the welfare of the
young", and in his capacity of banker was far more to his young depositors
than a business association of the sort would imply. He was a counsellor
and adviser, to whom they were only too willing to listen, as his good will
and sincerity of purpose were apparent on the surface. For nearly twenty
years he continued at the head of this concern and developed it until it had
assumed important proportions in the financial world of the region. From
the time of his death the Meredith Village Savings Bank has been per-
petuated under the management of D. E. Eaton, who has held the office of
treasurer for more than a quarter of a century.

There was much to suggest the gentleman of the old school in Mr
Ladd, and the courtesy of this type, combined with the firmness and shrewd-
ness of the practical man of the world, were fitting complements to one
another in his character. Dviring the many years of his residence in Mere-
dith he was looked up to as were few other men, and enjoyed a reputation
for unimpeachable integrity, clear-sighted sagacity, and strong public spirit,
which so marked his career. But it was more than admiration which was
felt for him by his fellow townsfolk, who regarded him with a warmer feel-
ing of affection, due, no doubt, to his tact in dealing with men, his spon-
taneous generosity and the attitude of charity and tolerance which made
him easy of approach and a sympathetic listener to even the humblest. He
made some temporary enemies, being outspoken and decided in the utter-
ance of his opinions, but he had the rather unusual ability of not only form-
ing his judgments sensibly, but of expressing them so clearly and convinc-
ingly as to give others his own point of view. He never used liquor, even as
a medicine, and being strongly opposed to the use of tobacco he formed an
Anti-Tobacco Club among the boys and did all he could to encourage the
breaking off of the habit with old and young alike. The interest which Mr.
Ladd took in scientific subjects of all kinds and his taste for reading have
already been remarked. To these may be added his intense love of flowers
and gardening, and to these pleasures he turned whenever the opportunity
arose, and despite the many calls upon his time and energy he devoted a
large part of his attention to all these subjects. He made a number of
handsome collections, connected with the various branches of geolog}' and
its kindred sciences, which of all his studies interested him the most. A fine
collection made by him is now in the public library of the town. He united
with a church in his youth, but always held very broad and liberal views on
religion as on almost every other subject. He was long a member of the
New Hampshire Historical Society.

Mr. Ladd married (first) Susan Tilton, a native of Meredith, with whom
he was united March 24, 1840. Two children were born of this union:
Charles F. A., who died in infancy, and Frances C. A., who became the wife
of Daniel Wadsworth Coe. Mr. Ladd married (second), June i, 1852, Cath-
arine S. Wallace, of Boston. One daughter was born of this marriage. Vir-
ginia B. Ladd.

It is often a difficult, if not impossible, matter to express in terms of

Seneca augu$tu0 laDD 229

material accomplishment the real value of a life, of a career, or to give an
adequate idea of the position which a man has won for himself in the regard
of a community. In the case of such men as, for example, Mr. Ladd of this
article, whose death on January 22, 1892, was a loss to the community of
which he was a member, it is apt to be highly misleading to state in bold
terms that he succeeded in such and such a calling, since the true significance
of a man is not so much to be found in this wealth or in that honor acquired,
as in the influence which as a personality he exerts upon those with whom
he comes in contact. The acquirement of wealth or honor does indicate that
a certain power exists, that certain abilities must be present, so that to
enumerate these things does serve as an illustration of the subject's quali-
fications for success. But it ends there. An illustration, although a rude
one it is, but as a gauge of these powers it has practically no value, for while
the proposition is true that the presence of those perquisites which the
world showers upon genius proved the genius of which it is the reward, the
converse is not true at all, since half the genius, at the very lowest estimate,
goes unrewarded. It is the duty of the biographer, therefore, to penetrate
below the surface, in so far as his poor abilities will permit him to, to seek
for those hidden springs of action which, although they do not often raise
their heads into the region of the obvious, are at bottom the true gauges of
effort and success. In the case of Mr. Ladd, the truth of the above is amply
apparent. He did, it is true, have a very considerable success in business,
and had his partial deafness not proved so serious a handicap might have
won a much larger share of recognition from the world. The position which,
as a matter of fact, he occupied in the community was not due, however, to
any increment of fortune but to the native virtue of his character and the
worth of his personality. He was without doubt a model man, and a public
spirited citizen in the highest sense of the term.

JFrantfe ^mttf) Sleeper

^EYOND doubt Francis Smith Sleeper, late of North Haver-
hill, New Hampshire, where his death occurred January ii,
191 1, was one of the best known figures in this region where
for so many years he had carried on his successful business
operations.

He was born at New Hampton, New Hampshire, April
13, 1833, a son of Hiram and Sarah (Mason) Sleeper, and
his early childhood was spent in his native place. He became a pupil at the
local schools as a child, but was later sent by his parents to the schools of
Newbury, Vermont, and there remained until he had completed his thir-
teenth year, at which youthful age he began the serious business of earning
a livelihood. He went to North Bridgewater (now Brockton), Massachu-
setts, and there learned the boot and shoe trade. After completing his
apprenticeship he made his way to the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, and
there followed his trade for a number of years. After six years of this kind
of work he was given a position as traveling salesman for a boot and shoe
dealer in Boston and continued successfully in this line for a quarter of a
century. It was finally in the year 1893 that he left this business entirely
and organized the firm of F. S. Sleeper & Company to deal in grains and
feeds. This concern was successful from the outset and is still carrying on
a large and prosperous trade in this locality under the management of his
son, Finlay P. Sleeper, who is mentioned briefly below. Mr. Sleeper was a
staunch Republican and became a prominent figure in his party, taking a
leading part in the county organization. He was the successful candidate
of the Republicans for the State Legislature in 1897, and during his mem-
bership in the House served on the committee on insurance. He was a
Methodist in his religious belief and attended the church of that denomina-
tion at North Haverhill. He was also very prominent in the Masonic order,
having received the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry. He was a mem-
ber of Pawtucket Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Lowell,
Massachusetts; Omega Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Plymouth; Hiram
Council, Royal and Select Masters, of Lisbon; St. Gerard Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Littleton, New Hampshire; Aleppo Temple. Ancient
Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston, Massachusetts; and
New Hampshire Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret.

Francis Smith Sleeper was twice married, the first time to Hannah
Clay, of Blue Hill, Maine. After her death he married (second) Jane F.
Page, a daughter of Henry and Eliza (Southard) Page. He was the father
of two sons, as follows: Eugene H. and Finlay P., one child by each wife.
Eugene H. Sleeper became a lieutenant in the quartermaster's department,
United States Army, stationed in New York City.

Finlay P. Sleeper was born March 21, 1883, and attended the public

ftmtifi %mitb Sleeper

231

schools of North Haverhill, New Hampshire. He graduated from the St.
Johnsbury Academy at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, in 1902, after being pre-
pared for college. He then entered Dartmouth College, and after four years
of the usual classical course was graduated with the class of 1906 and the
degree of Bachelor of Arts. In 1907 he entered the banking brokerage firm
of Bright, Sears & Company, of Boston, and remained there two years.
Upon the death of his father, in 191 1, he returned to North Haverhill and
there took charge of the large business that had been developed here by the
elder man and continues to conduct it most successfully at the present time.
He is a Republican in politics, and a member of Grafton Lodge, No. 46,
Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and the Phi Gamma Delta college fra-
ternity. He married Helen E. Carr, daughter of Clarence and Hittie (Land)
Carr, March 20, 1916.

Casstus ifWontgomerp Clap Ctottctjell

'ASSIUS MONTGOMERY CLAY TWITCHELL, of Milan,
New Hampshire, whose death at his home there on June 9,
1904, removed one of the most prominent fibres from the
general life of the community, and especially the industrial
and business world, was a member of an old New England
family, which has been associated with this State for the
better part of three generations. He was a son of Adams
and Lusylvia (Bartlett) Twitchell, and the grandson of Cyrus Twitchell,
the first of the name to come to these parts. Cyrus Twitchell was a resident
of Bethel, Maine, in the early part of the nineteenth century, and came from
that town to Milan, New Hampshire, in the year 1824, settling first on Milan
Hill and afterwards moving into the village proper. He was one of three
men authorized to call the first town meeting at Milan and was the first
justice of the peace there. His son, Adams Twitchell, was a native of Bethel,
born January 2y, 1812, and came to Milan with his parents. At the age of
twenty he purchased his time from his father for one hundred dollars and
began his long and successful career. He owned a valuable farm at Milan
and made his home there, but never farmed for profit, giving most of his
time and attention to the great lumbering business, buying and selling
timber lands both in New Hampshire and Canada.

Born October 12, 1852, on his father's farm at Milan, New Hampshire,
Cassius Montgomery Clay Twitchell passed his childhood and early youth
amid the healthful rural surroundings which have been the cradle of the
finest type of American manhood. The elementary portion of his education
was received at the local public schools and, after completing his studies at
these institutions he became a pupil at the Lancaster Academy. Upon his
graduation from this academy, Mr. Twitchell engaged in the serious busi-
ness of earning his own livelihood, not because it was necessary, as his
father was very well ofif, but because he possessed that sturdy independent
spirit of the typical New Englander, which impelled him to be making his
own way in the world. For a few years, while still a mere youth, he worked
for the Glen House at the foot of Mount Washington where, during the
summer season, he was employed as driver of a stage coach. He then secured
a place with a house on the summit of the mountain and worked there for
about two seasons. The winters during this time were spent by him on his
father's farm. Later Mr. Twitchell became a contractor of the Berlin Mills
Company and was thus engaged for a number of years, until, in association
with George W. Blanchard, under the style of Blanchard & Twitchell, he
purchased the township of Success from the late E. S. Coe, of Bangor. This
valuable timber tract they proceeded to develop by building a railroad into
the heart of it and cutting out the lumber for the market. This enterprise
proved remarkably successful, and Mr. Twitchell remained actively engaged

Cas0iu0 g^ontgometp Clap Ctoitcftell 233

in it until within a few years of his death, when he sold his share of the
business to his partner. He then purchased the property of the Brown
Lumber Company, which included extensive lumber lands "in Jefiferson and
Randolph. These he resold to the Berlin Mills Company for a very hand-
some figure, which netted him a large profit. Mr. Twitchell was also a
member of the Berlin firm of Twitchell & Holt, his partner being Giles O.
Holt, of that town, a concern which owns a controlling interest in the Cas-
cade Electric Light & Power Company, the Berlin Water Company, and
which conducts a large sale stable. In addition to these interests, Mr.
Twitchell was connected with the City Bank of Berlin, the large pulp manu-
facturing plant at Brompton Falls, Province of Quebec, Canada, and many
similar concerns.

Mr. Twitchell was a staunch Republican in politics, but never took a
very active part in local affairs. His associates urged him strongly to allow
his name to be used as the party candidate to the State Senate in the year
1901 and he finally consented to do so. In the election which followed he
was chosen to represent his country by a substantial majority. He entered
into his legislative duties with the energy and care that had characterized
his conduct of his business aff^airs, and served most efficiently on a number
of committees. He was a member of Androscoggin Lodge, Independent
Order of Odd Fellows, an organization which he joined soon after it was
instituted in Milan. Neither Mr. Twitchell nor his father were formal mem-
bers of any church, although both were liberal supporters of the various
religious bodies in this part of the country, and the former attended the
Union Church of Milan, together with all the members of his family.

Cassius M. C. Twitchell was united in marriage, October 5, 1S80, at
Lancaster, New Hampshire, with Leonora Ella Wentworth, a daughter of
Joseph and Lovina (Newell) Wentworth. Their union was blessed with
four children, as follows: Mark Antony, born April i, 1882, married Janu-
ary 14, 1908, Anne R. Weston, of Harrison, Maine; Sidney Seymour, born
January 4, 1884, married, October 25, 1916, Florence A. Murray, of Berlin,
New Hampshire; Eva Aurilla, born June 3, 1886, married, September 7,
1910. J. Clare Curtis, of Berlin, New Hampshire; and Marion Marr. born
February 14, 1888, and on September 20, 1916, became the wife of Dr. Phillip
C. Brackett, of Portland, Maine, a dentist.

3Iosepf) Crastus Eombart

T WAS a natural transition from tilling to selling farm lands,
and in all New Hampshire there was not a better farmer
nor a more successful, extensive real estate operator than
Joseph E. Lombard after he adopted that as his exclusive
business. He held high position in the business world, and
in Democratic party councils was listened to with respectful
attention. Brimfield, Massachusetts, was long the family
seat of the family founded in New England by John Lombard, who went to
Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1646, but in 181 5, Dr. Lyman Lombard, of
the seventh generation, located in Columbia, New Hampshire, there prac-
tising his profession until 1818, when he settled in Colebrook, there purchas-
ing the residence and succeeding to the practice of Dr. Thomas Flanders.
There Dr. Lombard practised both medicine and surgery, and on horseback
rode the lonely roads and trails north to the Canada line, south to North-
umberland and Guildhall, east to Errold and Dummer. Later, as the trails
gave way to roads, he traveled in a gig and for nearly half a century defied
the winter's snow, cold and storm, and the fierce summer heat. He was a
true type of the "country doctor," the confidant of the young, the hope of
the aged, adviser, counsellor, friend and healer, rejoicing at weddings, sor-
rowing at funerals, everybody's friend, with his books crowded with accounts
which would never be paid and which the "good doctor" would never try to
collect.

A Democrat in politics. Dr. Lombard served his district in the State
Legislature ; was master of Evening Star Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ;
surgeon of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, New Hampshire State Militia ; and
a Universalist in religion. In i860 Dartmouth College conferred the hon-
orary degree of M. D. upon him.

Dr. Lombard married Betsey Loomis, a woman of superior mind, her
diary religiously kept being an epitome of the last fifty years of her life. He
died in Colebrook, October 21, 1867, his wife on March 22, 1872. They were
the parents of six sons and daughters, Joseph Erastus, of further mention,
being the youngest of the family.

Joseph Erastus Lombard was born in Colebrook, New Hampshire,
December 28, 1837. His education, begun in Thetford, Vermont, and North
Bridgton, Maine, schools, was completed with courses at Colebrook Acad-
emy. He began business life as a farmer, and for several years he continued
as an agriculturist. He then relinquished farming, and has since been
engaged in the real estate business, operating largely in the Colebrook sec-
tion and in different parts of the State. He was a good judge of land values,
dealt fairly with everybody, and made his large business a successful one.
Mr. Lombard was a Democrat in politics, was a selectman for several years,
and held other offices. In 1867 and 1871 he represented Colebrook in the

3Iosepi) €ra0tus JLomfiatD

235

State Legislature. He was made a Mason in Evening Star Lodge, Free
and Accepted Masons, of Colebrook, in 1861, his father having been made
one in the same lodge in 1823, wras master in 1865 and 1866, and both sons
vi^ere later masters of the same lodge. He w^as also a companion of North
Star Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Lancaster, and a Knight of Pythias.
In religion he was a Congregationalist.

Joseph E. Lombard married, January 7, 1863, Ellen L. Merrill, daugh-
ter of Hon. Sherburne R. Merrill, of Colebrook, New Hampshire, and a
descendant of Nathaniel Merrill, who settled at Newbury, Massachusetts,
in 1634. Mr. and Mrs. Lombard were the parents of two sons : Darwin and
Lyman Merrill, who, under the firm name, Lombard Brothers, are now
engaged in mercantile and lumber business in Northern New Hampshire
and Canada.

Cbtoart Utram g)turtebant

^URING a lifetime extending over more than the Scriptural
allotment of "three score years and ten," Mr. Sturtevant
won honorable standing in the business world, the last half
of his useful life being spent in Franklin, New Hampshire, as
treasurer and manager of the Franklin Needle Company.
But that was only one of his activities, his interest extending
to about every Franklin enterprise and even beyond State
limits. He was a man of intense energy, active in all good works, prominent
in the Masonic order, and deeply interested in public affairs. He was the
eldest son of Hiram and Eliza S. (Corey) Sturtevant, of Craftsbury, Ver-
mont, and of the eighth generation of the family founded in New England
by Samuel Sturtevant, who is of record as a settler in Plymouth, Massachu-
setts, as early as November, 1640, living on what was known as the "Cotton
Farm." The line of descent from Samuel Sturtevant, the ancestor, is
through his fourth child, Samuel (2) Sturtevant, and wife, Mercy: Their
second child, Samuel (3) Sturtevant, and his wife Mary; their second child,
Lemuel, and his wife, Deborah Bryant; their son, Lemuel (2) Sturtevant,
who moved to Lyme, New Hampshire, later to Barton, Vermont, a soldier
of the Revolution, and his wife, Priscilla Thompson, of whom it was writ-
ten: "She was one of the holy women of the Congregational church, a
mother in Israel gifted with a strong mind of much argumentative ability,
and studious nature, given to hospitality, delighting to minister to the tem-
poral wants of the saints, her house much frequented by ministers of the
Gospel."

The line of descent continues through Ezra Thompson Sturtevant,
fourth son of Lemuel (2) and Priscilla (Thompson) Sturtevant, who set-
tled in Craftsbury, Vermont, and his wife, Lucy Menifield; their son, Hiram
Sturtevant, a farmer of Craftsbury, Vermont, until 1853, when he moved
to Barton, Vermont, there remaining twelve years before removing to
Lebanon, New Hampshire. He married. May 3, 1843, Eliza Scott Corey,
who died June 11, 1905, aged eighty-three. He died December 8, 1894, aged
seventy-five. They were the parents of Edward Hiram, of further mention;
Mary E., married David G. Thompson, whom she survived; Ezra T.. who
became a lumber dealer of Chicago, Illinois ; Henry H., a merchant of Zanes-
ville, Ohio.

Edward Hiram Sturtevant was born in Craftsbury, Vermont, April 27,
1845, and died in Franklin, New Hampshire, March 6, 1913. He attended
the public schools until twelve years of age, then was a student at Barton
Academy for four years, graduating therefrom in June, 1861, and the fol-
lowing winter taught a district public school. He spent two years with the
mercantile firm, William Josslyn & Sons, then for two years was head clerk
in a drug store in Wellington, Ohio, acting as buyer and manager the last

(IBDtoatD ^iram Sturtetjant 237

year. His health failed under the rigor of the climate and overwork, and in
1866 he resigned his position, returning to Lebanon, New Hampshire, there
opening a drug store in April, 1866. That business he soon sold to Dr. I. N.
Perley, after demonstrating its possibilities as a profit maker, and soon
afterward joined with his former employers, William Josslyn & Sons, open-
ing a drug store at Colebrook, New Hampshire. He managed that store
two years, then sold his interest and spent several months prospecting
throvigh Michigan and Iowa. But he became convinced that the New
England climate best suited his needs, and early in 1869 he opened a drug
store at Woodstock, Vermont, later admitting his brother, Ezra T., to a
partnership and adding boots and shoes to their Hne. This partnership con-
tinued until April, 1879, when the brothers sold out, Edward H. going to
Franklin, New Hampshire, where he bought an established drug business
to which he added another just across the river at Franklin Falls. These
stores were later sold, the Falls store to Frank H. Chapman, the Franklin
store to W. W. Woodward. In 1883 he began his successful career as a
manufacturer by purchasing a half interest in the Franklin Needle Com-
pany, the business then employing twenty-five hands. Mr. Sturtevant, as
treasurer-manager, was potent in the expansion of the business until the
product of the plant was in general use throughout the United States,
Europe, Canada and South America ; hundreds of hands were employed. In
addition Mr. Sturtevant was a director of the Franklin National Bank; vice-
president of the Franklin Power & Light Company ; president of the Frank-
lin Falls Company; director of the Sulloway Mills Company; Kidder
Machine Company; Franklin Building & Loan Association; and secretary-
treasurer of the Hemphill Manufacturing Company of Pawtucket, Rhode
Island.

A Republican in political faith, Mr. Sturtevant never sought office, but
in 1893-94 represented Franklin in the New Hampshire Legislature, and in
1896 was elected mayor of Franklin, both offices coming to him unsought.
In the York Rite of Free Masonry he held the degrees of Meridian Lodge,
of Franklin ; St. Omar Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Franklin ; and Mount
Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar, of Concord. In the Scottish Rite he
held the thirty-second degree of Edward A. Raymond Consistory, and was
a noble of Bektash Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He also belonged
to lodge, encampment and canton of the Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, and in religious faith was a Unitarian. He most generously aided in
securing a free public library building in Franklin, and lent substantial aid
to every laudable enterprise. His life was one of success, but it came
through energetic, well directed effort and a strict adherence to the strictest
interpretation of just and upright dealing.

Mr. Sturtevant married. May 12, 1869, Ada E. Martin, daughter of
Joseph A. and Elvira L. Martin, of Stratford, New Hampshire. They were
the parents of two daughters: i. Eva E., married, October 9, 1891, George
L. Hancock, of the Franklin Needle Company. 2. Ruth B., married, Octo-
ber 7, 1903, Arthur Murry Hancock, of the G. W. Griffin Company, of
Franklin.

(S^artner Caleb Htll

DEALS in medicine have changed much in recent years just as
they have in almost every department of life, but the change
is very nearly pressed home to us in the case of this profes-
sion because of the close relation that must obtain between
ourselves and our physician. In the main, of course, the
change is the same as that wrhich has everyv^'here taken
place, because an alteration in our fundamental outlook is
responsible for them all, and one of its most typical expressions is the change
from men of general learning and culture into specialists who must concen-
trate with every faculty upon the chosen matter or run the risk of being
distanced in the race. How true this is may easily be seen by taking such
a figure as that of Dr. Gardner C. Hill, late of Keene, New Hampshire, a
man who might truly be called an ideal physician, and comparing his wide
sympathies and undertakings, not only of his subject, but of the human
creatures that came under his care, with the highly developed, one had
almost called it rarified, knowledge of the specialist to-day. Dr. Hill was
a force, not only in his profession, but in the community, where his strong
and helpful personality was felt by all those with whom he came in contact.
Gardner Caleb Hill came of good old New England stock, and was a
son of Caleb and Polly (Howard) Hill, old and highly respected residents
of Winchester, New Hampshire. He was born in this town, March 20,
1829, and spent his childhood and early youth there. The elementary por-
tion of his education was obtained by attending the local public schools of
his native town and later the academy at Chesterfield, and Mt. Caesar Acad-
emy at Swanzey, New Hampshire. Still later he attended the well known
academy at Saxon's River, Vermont, where he was prepared for college.
He had in the meantime definitely determined upon the profession of medi-
cine as his career in life, and accordingly matriculated at the Castleton Med-
ical College in Vermont, from which he was graduated with the class of

1856, taking the degree of M. D. He also went to the medical school in
connection with Harvard University and took post-graduate work there in
1866. Dr. Hill did not begin the practice of his profession at once upon
receiving his medical degree, but taught in the high school in Winchester
for one year, completing his work as a teacher, he having taught twenty
terms in all, in this way earning the money for his medical education. In

1857, however, he went to Warwick, Massachusetts, and here began the
active practice of his profession. He continued thus occupied for some ten
years, and then in 1867, after having completed his post-graduate course at
Harvard, he returned to his native State and settled in the town of Keene,
where he once more began his medical practice. It was not long before he
was recognized at Keene as one of the most capable physicians in that part
of the State, and before many years had elapsed he was one of the acknowl-

(SarDnet Caleb ^ill 239

edged leaders of his profession thereabouts. For many years Dr. Hill con-
tinued actively engaged, not only in Keene, but in the whole outlying region,
and this practice he continued until within three years of his death, being in
active practice of his profession for over fifty-five years. Even then he did
not discontinue his work altogether, but continued an office practice to
within two and a half weeks of his death, when he was seized with his last
illness.

In spite of the great demands made upon his time and energies by his
professional practice, Dr. Hill was an active participant in many other
departments of the community's life, especially those connected with oublic
affairs. He was a staunch Republican in political belief and was very prom-
inent in the local councils of that party for many years. He held a number
of important public offices also, being a member of the Common Council of
the city from Ward Four for three years, president of that body for two
years, and county treasurer for two years. He was also county commis-
sioner for three years, city physician for seven years, and a member of the
Board of Education in Warwick for nine years, being keenly interested in
all educational matters. He was on the Board of Education in Keene for
twenty-five years, and held the responsible position of county physician for
five years. In all these capacities Dr. Hill proved himself a most efficient
and disinterested public servant, and did an invaluable service to the entire
community. He was for many years president of the Republican Club of
Ward Four, and was very active in working in the interests of his party.
Dr. Hill was also affiliated with a number of important financial and busi-
ness concerns in Keene, among which should be mentioned the Keene Sav-
ings Bank, of which he was president from 1897 until his death. He was
also a member of the Keene Board of Examining Surgeons for the govern-
ment, and was affiliated with the Cheshire County Medical Society, the
Connecticut River Medical Society, and the New Hampshire Medical
Society. He served for many years as a member of the staff of the Elliot
City Hospital of Keene, and was president of the staff for several years.
He was also an instructor in the school for nurses connected with that insti-
tution. Dr. Hill always maintained a keen interest in historical matters,
especially in connection with his native region, and was the author of a
number of valuable contributions to this subject, which appeared with illus-
trations in the "Granite Monthly" of Concord, New Hampshire. He was
also a contributor to several other periodicals on the same subject and was
regarded as an authority thereon. He was possessed of a remarkable mem-
ory, which was invaluable to him in his historical studies, to say nothing of
the other activities of his life.

Dr. Hill married (first), in 1856, Rebecca F. Howard, of Walpole, who
died in 1893. Dr. Hill married (second), in 1894, Carrie R. Hutchins, of
Keene, New Hampshire, a daughter of Benjamin Dorr and Lucy (French)
Hutchins, old and highly respected residents of that place. Mrs. Hill sur-
vives him. Having lost two children in infancy, named Harriet and Wil-
liam, he adopted three children: William H., Rebecca E., and Daisy M. Of
these, only William H. Hill is living.

240 ©atDnet Caleb i^ill

The death of Dr. Hill, which occurred April 30, 191 5, was felt as a severe
loss by the community-at-large and was the occasion of many expressions
of admiration and regret on the part of those who knew him. The local
press joined its voice to this chorus of praise, and in the course of a long
obituary article appearing in the "New Hampshire Sentinel" occurred the
following: "Dr. Hill was for many years one of the best known practition-
ers in Cheshire county, covering a wide field in his professional visits and
doing a great deal of work among the poorer people, for which he never
received any financial remuneration. He was ready to respond to every
call, however, and his benefactions were by no means confined to his pro-
fessional work alone."

The place held by Dr. Hill in the community was one that any man
might desire, but it was one that he deserved in every particular, one that
he gained by no chance fortune, but by hard and industrious work, and a
most liberal treatment of his fellow-men. He was a man who enjoyed a
great reputation and one whose clientele was so large that it would have
been easy for him to discriminate in favor of the better or wealthier class of
patients, but it was his principle to ask no questions as to the standing of
those who sought his professional aid and he responded as readily to the
call of the indigent as to that of the most prosperous. It thus happened
that he did a great deal of philanthropic work in the city and was greatly
beloved by the poorer classes there. It is the function of the physician to
bring good cheer and encouragement almost as much as the more material
assistance generally associated with his profession, and often it forms the
major part of his treatment, and for this office Dr. Hill was pecuHarly well
fitted both by temperament and philosophy. There is much that is depress-
ing about the practice of medicine, the constant contact with suffering and
death, yet the fundamental cheerfulness of Dr. Hill never suffered eclipse
and was noticeable in every relation of his life. In his home, as much as his
large practice would permit him to be in it, Dr. Hill was the most exemplary
of men, a loving husband and a hospitable and charming host.

i^arfeer 3(etoett Jlopes

|EYOND doubt, the late Parker Jewett Noyes, of Lancaster.
New Hampshire, was one of the most prosperous and influ-
tial figures in the life of this striving community, and
although not a native of the place had been for many years
closely identified with its general life and afifairs. Mr. Noyes
came of a good old New England family, and was a son of
Michael and Sophronia (Cass) Noyes, being one of a family
of five. His father, Michael Noyes, was a farmer who resided at East
Columbia, New Hampshire, where he was a prosperous and influential mem-
ber of the community.

Born March 22, 1842, on his father's farm at East Columbia, Parker
Jewett Noyes was but three months of age when his father died. His mother
married a second time and as a mere lad he went to live with a cousin, Eben
Noyes, of Colebrook. His brother James had already gone to Franconia
and made his home in that town, and eventually Parker Jewett joined him
there. A large portion of his elementary education was received at the
schools of Franconia, but he afterwards entered Newbury Academy to pre-
pare for college. He had been a student at this institution for only a year
when the outbreak of the Civil War completely changed his plans, and in the
fall of that year he and two brothers and a half-brother enlisted in Company
C, Eighth Regiment of Vermont Volunteer Infantry, which was at that
time quartered at St. Johnsbury. This regiment went into winter quarters
at Brattleboro, Vermont, and then in the early spring was ordered to New
Orleans to take its place in the division commanded by General Butler.
Here Mr. Noyes saw two years of active service, and was present at the siege
of Port Hudson. At the end of that period he was commissioned lieutenant
in the Seventy-fourth Regiment, United States Infantry, stationed at Ship
Island, and there did garrison duty until the end of the war. After the close
of hostilities he continued at Ship Island for a number of months, the clos-
ing up of the afifairs of Ship Island being deputed to him. After completing
four full years of service, he returned to the North and took up his abode
at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, where he secured a position in the drug store of
Silas Randall. Here he learned thoroughly all the details of the drug busi-
ness, and after a year in Mr. Randall's establishment he went to Barnet,
Vermont, where he opened a similar establishment of his own. It was in
1868, one year later, that he came to Lancaster, and from that time up to
the close of his life this community remained his home. In Lancaster he
purchased the building so long occupied by him, and there opened the drug
store which for forty-four years has been known by his name, and which,
because of his indefatigable labors and unimpeachable integrity, gained a
reputation second to none of its kind in the region. In the year 1910 Mr.
Noyes finally retired from active business, and from that time until his

242 Ipatbcr 31etoett I3ope0

death, two years later, enjoyed a very well-earned period of leisure. His
business, which began in a very small way, he saw developed from stage to
stage until at his retirement, when he left it in excellent hands, it was a great
m.anufacturing and wholesale establishment, with a market which embraced
practically the whole of the New England States.

But Mr. Noyes did not make the mistake of so many successful business
men of this day and narrow himself by a too close application to business
affairs. He did devote a large proportion of his great energies to the build-
ing up of the great establishment which bears his name, but his mind was far
too broad to permit him to forget the interests of other people, and he always
took a keen and active interest in local public affairs. In politics Mr. Noyes
was a staunch Republican and identified himself prominently with the
activities of his party organization in the community. He became a leader
in Republican politics hereabouts, and in 1910 was elected to the House of
Representatives, on his party's ticket. Mr. Noyes never forgot the associa-
tions which he had formed during the Civil War and kept them alive and
vital by his membership in the great veteran organization of the Civil War.
He was a past commander of Colonel E. E. Cross Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, and was always active in Grand Army affairs. He was also prom-
inently associated with the Masonic fraternity, and was a member of North
Star Lodge, No. 8, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; North Star Chap-
ter, Royal Arch Masons ; Evening Star Council, Royal and Select Masters,
of Colebrook; past commander of North Star Commandery, Knights Tem-
plar, of Concord; and Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine. He was also a member of North Star Lodge of Perfection,
and was past noble grand of Coos Lodge; Independent Order of Odd Fel-
lows, and a Patron of Industry. Besides his fraternal affiliations, Mr. Noyes
was an associate member of Unity Club and an active member of Lancaster
Club of Lancaster. In his religious belief he was an Episcopalian and
attended St. Paul's Church of that denomination at Lancaster,

Parker Jewett Noyes was united in marriage. May 14, 1856, at St. Johns-
bury, Vermont, with Clara Isabel Randall, a daughter of Silas and Laura
Ann (Weed) Randall, Mr. Randall having been his old employer at St.
Johnsbury. To Mr. and Mrs. Noyes one child was born, a daughter, Ger-
trude, January 25, 1869.

Energy, self-confidence and a strict adherence to the moral law and
those principles of human conduct that play so vital a part in the moulding
of society, were the traits which lay at the base of the character of Mr,
Noyes, acting as the mainspring of his life, shaping and guiding its entire
development. His business success, as must all true success, depended first
upon his highly moral character and then upon the special knowledge of
his subject, a later and acquired power. In all that he did for himself, Mr.
Noyes kept the interests of those about him ever in sight and made no step,
however conducive to his own advantage it might seem, if, in his candid
judgment, it appeared inimical to theirs. It was in line with this— it should
not be called a policy, for it was too spontaneous for that— but in line with
this instinct, that all his relations with his fellows were carried out. He

Parker 31etoett jQopes 243

would not allow, for instance, his extremely exacting occupation to inter-
fere with what he considered to be due his family, any more than he erred
in the opposite direction and allowed domestic ties to interfere with the dis-
charge of his obligations to the outside world. Indeed, the only person
whose inclinations and comfort he consistently sacrificed to the rest of the
world was himself, for he rose early and retired late to fulfill his engage-
ments with others and minister to their wants. Mr. Noyes was a man of
very strong character, but a strength that was governed by the keenest sense
of honor and justice, and tempered by gentleness to all those about him. Of
firm convictions, he yet preserved an open mind and no one was more ready
to listen to the ideas of other men or more tolerant of opinions that crossed
his own. He was very well read, and could talk with understanding on the
widest range of subjects, his conversations possessing a peculiar sort of
vividness that rendered him a delightful companion. He had a truly demo-
cratic outlook upon life and was no respecter of persons, the humblest find-
ing him as easy of access and as sympathetic as did the proudest. It was
perhaps this characteristic that accounted for his popularity and the host of
devoted friends, more than any other, for there is nothing that men more
value than this quality, and indeed nothing more worthy, approaching very
closely to the Christian virtue of charity.

amo0 ISaebster Breto

|NE of the families of most ancient and honorable lineage in
old England was that which bore the name of Drew, which
has been transplanted in this country and is now widely
spread through its various parts. According to a preamble
of the Drew pedigree given by the King of Arms, the descent
may be traced back to Richard, Duke of Normandy, the
grandfather of William the Conqueror. In all probability,
therefore, the ancestor two generations later accompanied his cousin, the
Conqueror, to England and settled there, at a point which is not definitely
ascertained. From here, however, the family spread until now it is to be
found in England, Scotland and Wales. One branch of the family are now
residents of Drewscliffe, Devon, and bear for their arms an ermined lion
passant gules langued and armed. The crest is a bull's head erased sable,
in his mouth three ears of wheat or. The motto: Drogo nomen et virtus
arma dedit. It is not often that a name so completely baffles us in searching
for its origin as that of Drew, which cannot be definitely referred to any
of the great groups of names, such as those which come from nicknames or
from earlier Christian names or yet from localities or trades. Its derivation
is lost in an obscure part and the best we can do is to conjecture somewhat
vaguely concerning it. It was founded in this country by a number of
immigrants from the old world, but that branch of it with which we are
especially concerned and of which Irving Webster Drew, the distinguished
gentleman whose name heads this sketch is descended, was founded by
one Drew, a grandson of Sir Edward Drew, of Drewscliffe, Devon-
shire, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1589, and who came to this
country and settled in the New England colonies, where many of his
descendants still reside.

Among these was one Samuel Drew, a native of Shapleigh, Maine,
where he was born about 1756. He removed to Plymouth, New Hamp-
shire, just prior to the outbreak of the Revolution, and was the founder of the
family in this State. He enlisted July 11, 1775, at the age of nineteen in the
company of Captain James Osgood, in the regiment commanded by Colonel
Timothy Bedel, which was made up of rangers and which soon joined the
Northern Continental army under General Montgomery. It took an active
part in the compaign which followed in the north, and was one of those
which participated in the investment of the fortresses of St. John and
Chambly, and reduced them to surrender. Samuel Drew remained with the
army which besieged Quebec, and was finally discharged in December,
1775, after a campaign of great hardship and peril. He was one of the
twenty men of Captain Osgood's company which reenlisted in the company
of Captain Charles Nelson, which was one of the four which formed the
detachment of Major Brown. This was stationed on the advanced line of

amos mehtittt Dreto 245

the American army and took part in the attack on Quebec, in which Gen-
eral Montgomery was killed. The detachment remained with the army,
however, and served successively under Generals Arnold, Wooster, Thomas
and Sullivan. After taking part in the famous retreat to Crown Point in
July, 1776, and having served as a private for two years and six months, he
was honorably discharged December 31, 1777. On January 29, 1779, he was
married to Elizabeth (Webber) Webster, a daughter of Edmond Webber
and the widow of Amos Webber, who was killed at the battle of Saratoga,
October 7, 1777. Samuel Drew and his wife then removed from Plymouth
to Bridgewater, New Hampshire, in 1785, and the citizens of Bridgewater
held their first town meeting at his residence. He and his wife were the
parents of the following children: Amos Webster, Benjamin, who is men-
tioned below; Elizabeth, Samuel, Sarah, Mary and John.

Benjamin Drew, the second son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Webster)
Drew, was born at Plymouth, New Hampshire, April 17, 1785. He removed
with his parents to Bridgewater, where he became prominent in public affairs
and was elected to every office within the gift of his fellow townsmen. He
was selectman for six years and also represented the community at the
General Court of New Hampshire in 1830 and 1831. He was a man of
unusually fine character, charitable, generous and honorable to the last
degree. He married, July 6, 1807, Sarah Harriman, a daughter of John and
Sarah (Heath) Harriman, of Bridgewater. Benjamin Drew died October
5, 1869, and his wife, December 10, 1870. They were the parents of the
following children: Amos Webster, who is mentioned below; Mary Harri-
man. Lucy, Sarah, Benjamin and Edwin Warren.

Amos Webster Drew, eldest son of Benjamin and Sarah (Harriman)
Drew, was born at Bridgewater, New Hampshire, April 5, 1808. He accom-
panied his father to Stewartstown, in 1821, and eventually settled in that
place immediately after his marriage in 1835. Like his father before him, he
took an active part in public affairs and held many offices. He was town
clerk of Stewartstown two years and selectman six years. In 1843 he went
to live at Colebrook, where he was elected selectman for six years, and in
1847 ^"d 1848 represented the town in the State Legislature. In 1850 he
returned to South Hill, Stewartstown, and there made his home on a farm
near the old homestead for many years. Although a Democrat in politics,
Mr. Drew was an active figure in the anti-slavery movement of that day,
and when the Southern States proposed secession, wholly condemned their
action and spoke and worked for the Union. His speech at the meeting held
in the town hall of Colebrook, after Fort Sumter had been fired upon, made
a strong impression on his auditors, and he was very active in the recruit-
ing cause, being appointed special recruiting agent for Stewartstown,
Clarksville and Pittsburgh. In 1834, when he was a young man, Mr. Drew
was commissioned ensign in a State militia company by Governor Samuel
Dinsmore, and the year afterward he served in the Indian Stream War, a
disturbance of considerable magnitude between the residents of Canada and
the people of the "North Country" over disputed boundaries. On August
17, 1836, he was made lieutenant by Governor Isaac B. Hill. In 1838 wa?

U6

3mos SjQebstet Dteto

commissioned captain, and in 1842 adjutant of the Twenty-fourth Regiment.
He was an excellent officer and a good tactician, and in those capacities and
in the many other offices which he held he won for himself a most enviable
reputation in his community. His death occurred March 22, 1888, at the
age of eighty. On November 15, 1835, he married Julia Esther Lovering,
of Colebrook, a daughter of Hubbard and Abagail (Bumford) Lovering, of
that place, and they were the parents of thirteen children, seven of them
living to maturity, as follows: Lucy Abigail, born May 4, 1843; Irving
Webster, born January 8, 1845; Benjamin Franklin, born June 29, 1848;
Edwin Warren, born June 28, 1850; Julia Ellen, born August 28, 1855 ; Hol-
man Arthur, born August 21, 1857; and Edward Everett, born September
24. 1859.

3(ame0 ^eltien ^Ijtpps

AMES SELDEN PHIPPS, late of Berlin, New Hampshire,
where he was prominently engaged in banking and other
enterprises for many years, and whose death there on April
3' 1905. was felt as a loss by the entire community, was a son
of James Monroe and Lydia (Gould) Phipps, old and much
respected residents of Milan, New Hampshire. James Mon-
roe Phipps was well known in the community where he
dwelt as a successful merchant and farmer, and was a member of an old
New England family.

Born at his father's home at Milan, March 15, 1847, James Selden
Phipps passed the early years of his life in his native place. There he
attended the local town schools, and after completing his general studies
took a business course at the Concord Commercial College. The first busi-
ness venture of his long and successful career was engaged in by him at
Milan, where he became a partner in his father's mercantile establishment
together with a relative, a Mr. P. A. G. W. Phipps. the firm being known
as J. M. Phipps & Company. He continued in this association for a period
of about ten years, during most of which he also served as postmaster of
Milan. In the year 1890, however, the Berlin Savings Bank & Trust Com-
pany of Berlin, New Hampshire, was organized, and Mr. Phipps, whose
business ability had became very well known throughout the region, was
elected its treasurer. Under his careful and progressive management the
new concern flourished greatly, and Mr. Phipps continued to serve it in his
responsible capacity until the year 1900. About this time, however, certain
changes in the directorate occurred which did not meet with his approval,
and he accordingly felt constrained to resign. But in the month of October
of the same year the City National Bank of Berlin was organized and Mr.
Phipps was elected cashier of this institution. Another banking institution
was organized in Berlin in February, 1901, and opened its doors for business
the following May. This was the City Savings Bank of Berlin, which shared
the offices of the City National Bank, and of this also Mr. Phipps was elected
treasurer. These two offices were held by Mr. Phipps until the time of his
death, and his conduct of them won for him an enviable reputation in bank-
ing circles throughout the State. In addition to his banking activities, Mr.
Phipps made himself very well known and added to his reputation as a con-
servative and capable man by taking an active part in the general life and
affairs of the community. He was a Republican in politics, and a staunch
supporter of the principles and policies of his party. He held a number of
local offices, acting as town clerk for nearly fifteen years. He also took the
census of the town for the years 1880 and 1890. He represented Milan in
the New Hampshire State Legislature in 1888, and it was through his activ-
ities that the handsome steel bridge was erected across the Androscoggin at

248 3iame0 ^elDen Pi)ipp0

Milan, the State aiding in the appropriations for carrying on the work. After
coming to Berlin, however, Mr. Phipps gave up political activities to a great
extent and devoted himself undeviatingly to the banking business. He was
a member of the Androscoggin Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows,
of Milan, having joined that body when it was organized in the year 1884.
He was also affiliated with the Masonic order, having joined it in early life,
and was deeply attached to this order and greatly interested in its welfare
and work. He attained to the thirty-second degree in Free Masonry, and
was a member of most of the Masonic bodies in the region. Among these
should be mentioned Gorham Lodge. Free and Accepted Masons, of Gor-
ham, New Hampshire, where he took his first degree; North Star Chapter,
Royal Arch Masons; Omega Council, Royal and Select Masters; the Com-
mandery, Knights Templar; and KoraTemple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles
of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewiston, Maine, which he joined March 23, 1893,
and where he took his thirty-second degree in August, 1894. Mr. Phipps
was not a member of any clubs.

James Selden Phipps was united in marriage, June 17, 1875, in the city
of Portland, Maine, with Ellen Maria Edwards, a daughter of Clark Swett
and Maria Antoinette (Mason) Edwards, for many years residents of that
city. The married life of Mr. and Mrs. Phipps was an ideal one, Mrs. Phipps
proving a companion and advisor to her husband in an unusual degree. The
domestic tastes and instincts of both were unusually strong, and it was in
the home that he found the relaxation and recreation after his arduous
labors in bank or offices which the majority of men seek elsewhere. It was
to Mrs. Phipps that he turned to advice, advice which she was eminently
capable of giving. These conditions, together with their conscious efiforts
to this end, resulted in the establishment of an ideal home for the upbringing
of children, two of whom were born to Mr. and Mrs. Phipps, Maude Lillian,
born January 26, 1877, and Marcia Edwards, born November 9, 1889.

James Selden Phipps was a man of the strictest business integrity and
of the highest ethical ideals in all the relations of life. His excellent judg-
ment won for him the unreserved confidence of the general public, and
many people came to him for advice, not only in matters of business, but in
personal affairs as well. He possessed the only too rare quality of knowing
when to say no, and what is more of meaning it, and his inflexible will was
valued as a tower of strength by his associates and friends. His own stand-
ards made him particularly dislike anything like sharp practice, and he
could not tolerate to have dealings with any who had recourse to it.

3fo|)n €i)mWv attooob

[OHN CHANDLER ATWOOD, late of Landaff, New Hamp-
shire, where he was engaged in numerous and various activ-
ities, was one of that class of industrial pioneers to which
New England has contributed so many distinguished names
and to which the country at large owes such a debt of grati-
tude. His career was typical of the best traditions of the
great State in which he was born and in which he lived,
climbing, as he did, from the bottom of the ladder of success to a high place
in the esteem of the community, and his death removed from this region one
of its leading citizens and a man whose essential integrity and honor had
never been questioned. He was a son of Joseph and Prudence (Chandler)
Atwood, of Landafif, and came of the sturdy farming class of New Hamp-
shire, his father having followed this occupation all his life. The elder Mr.
Atwood was himself prominent here many years ago and represented Lan-
daff in the State Legislature about the third decade of the nineteenth
century.

Born October i8, 1818, at Landaff, New Hampshire, John Chandler
Atwood attended the local common schools of his native region. His formal
educational advantages were few and far between, but he learned readily
in the great school of experience, and as a youth gained a first hand knowl-
edge of farming methods on the home place. He also learned the black-
smith's trade while young, and practiced it to some extent until within
about ten years of his death. He also operated a saw mill with consider-
able success, but his chief claim to distinction in the industrial world came
from his pioneer efforts in connection with the manufacture of potato starch.
In this enterprise he was highly successful and owned and operated a mill
of his own. He was largely interested also in several other mills, and was
one of the chief factors in getting this important industry started in this
part of the State. But although interested in these large manufacturing
projects, he never altered the place of his abode from the old farm where he
was born, and finally died there. May 14, 1894. This place was in the
ownership of the Atwood family for a period of more than one hundred and
twenty years.

John Chandler Atwood was a Democrat in politics, but although active
in local affairs, he rather avoided than sought political preferment or public
ofiice. In spite of this fact, however, and because he was so strongly urged
to by his friends and colleagues, he held practically every office in the gift
of the town, a great tribute to his personal popularity and the esteem in
which he was held by his fellow citizens. He was sent by the community
to represent it in the State Legislature in the years 1875, 1876 and 1877. and
was also a member of the Constitutional Convention of the State in 1876.
The members of his familv were all identified with the Methodist Episcopal

250

3iOl)n CfjanDIet attoooD

church of Landaff, and although not a formal member himself. Mr. Atwood
was a liberal supporter of it and of the work that it did in the community of
which he heartily approved.

John Chandler Atwood was united in marriage, in 1844, at Landaff,
New Hampshire, with Mary Doyle Simonds, a daughter of William and
Sally (Page) Simonds, old residents of this place. Born to Mr. and Mrs.
Atwood were the following children : Emily Eliza, who became the wife of
Henry Noyes Whitcher, whom she survives; Mary Alma, who became the
wife of Holmes Drew Titus, and died June 29. 1916; William Henry, who
married (first) Minnie Edwards, and (second) Susan Brooks; Amanda S.,
who became the wife of Moses Whitcher, whose death occurred April 30,
1903 ; Ada Francena, unmarried ; and Warren Bertrand, who married Martha
J. Miner.

ifWloolip Currter

[T IS extremely difficult to express in words the value to the
world of such a man as Moody Currier, governor of New
Hampshire, and long- one of the most successful and prom-
inent men of the commonwealth. As a business man, a
scholar and philanthropist, he rendered distingtiished serv-
ice to his native State and to humanity in general. Born
amid conditions of poverty and misfortune, he rose superior
to environment and achieved a success in his chosen lines which is vouch-
safed to but few men even when blessed with every advantage at the start.
His example will ever remain among those most worthy of emulation as an
inspiration and encouragement to ambitious youth everywhere. His fame
was not confined to one State, but extended over many, and the great final
reckoning of mankind alone can tell the benefits of the world of his unblem-
ished life.

He was born April 22, 1806, in Boscawen, Merrimack county, and died
at his home in Manchester, August 23. 1898, in his ninety-third year. To
him was given length of days and wisdom of a high order. His boyhood was
passed in an agricultural community where books were rare, but he used
his leisure hours in the pursuit of knowledge. Compelled to labor diligently
and almost incessantly in order to live,, from a very early age, he yet estab-
lished the basis of that wide information which made his mature years so
bright and useful to both himself and the country. A few weeks at the
rural winter school enabled him to gain a footing at the base of the tree of
knowledge, and by his own efiforts he secured a preparatory training at
Hopkinton Academy, and he finally entered Dartmouth College, where he
paid his way by teaching and farm work, being graduated from the classical
course in 1834. He was the honor man of his class, delivering the Greek
oration, and none disputed his title to honors so nobly earned. He now set
about preparation for admission to the bar, engaging as a means to that end
in the work of teaching, for which he was fitted by nature, and like all his
undertakings, this was carried on with enthusiasm and thoroughness. He
was employed in a school at Concord, was principal of the Hopkinton Acad-
emy and of the Lowell (Massachusetts) High School. Having pursued his
legal studies successfully while teaching, he was admitted to the bar at
Manchester in the spring of 1841 and immediately set about the practice of
his chosen profession, locating in that city. For two years he was associated
with Hon. George W. Morrison, and subsequently pursued his profession
alone, acquiring a handsome and valuable practice and continuing until
1848, when he entered the field of finance, for which he was so admirably
fitted. He was the moving spirit in the organization of the Amoskeag Bank,
of which he was cashier until its reorganization as a National Bank, becom-

252 e©ooDp Cuttiet

ing at that time its president. This responsible position he held until failing
health compelled his resignation in 1892. He was the first treasurer and
subsequently president of the Amoskeag Savings Bank, and was the founder
and one of the directors of the People's Savings Bank. In the broad field
of industrial and financial development, he was a master, and his connections
extended to nearly every useful and growing institution of his home city.
He was a director of the Manchester Mills Corporation; was treasurer of
the Concord Railroad Company, and of the Concord & Portsmouth Rail-
road; was chosen president of the Eastern Railroad in New Hampshire in
1877; was a director of the Blodgett Edge Tool Company and director of the
Amoskeag Axe Company during its existence; was president and director
of the Manchester Gas Light Company ; and was for many years treasurer
of the New England Loan Company, the first to issue debenture bonds.

It was natural that such a forceful mind should take an active interest
in the conduct of public business, and we find him on record as clerk of the
State Senate in 1843-44, to which position he was chosen as a Democrat.
The slavery agitation caused him to join the Free Soil party, and he was
among those who aided in the establishment of the Republican party in
1856. In that year he was elected to the Senate, and was president of that
body in the latter part of its session in the succeeding winter. In 1860-61
he was a member of the Governor's Council, and as chairman of the com-
mittee charged with filling the State's quota of soldiers for the Union armies,
he rendered the State and Nation most valuable service. In 1876 he was
chosen as presidential elector, and was urged to become a candidate for
governor in 1879. I'o this he would not consent, but in 1884 he became his
party's leader, and was triumphantly elected to that high office. His admin-
istration was characterized by dignity, success and honor to all concerned.
Besides an intimate knowledge of Greek and Latin, he possessed a knowl-
edge of French, Spanish, Italian, German, and other modern languages, in
which he read frequently in order that his acquaintance with them might
not lapse. In recognition of his learning and distinguished services, both
Dartmouth and Bates College conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of
Laws. While teaching in Concord he edited a literary journal and, for some
years after locating in Manchester, he edited and published a newspaper.
He was an able writer of both prose and verse, and was a deep student of
religious and scientific questions. His State papers, published since his
death, furnish edifying reading for those who appreciate pure and classical
English. In speaking of Governor Currier, a local historian says: "A dis-
tinguished classical scholar," he was "learned in the literature and proficient
in many of the languages of modern Europe. * * * For elegant expres-
sion and polished style and fitness for the occasion, his address accepting in
behalf of the State the statue of Daniel Webster has never been excelled."
His proclamations, though without formality or dogmatism, were religious
in tone and moral in sentiment. The following short stanzas disclose the
soul of a poet, and are given as one of the gems from Mr. Currier's pen:

Q9ooDp Cuttfet 253

When one by one the stars go out,

And slow retires the night,
In shining robes the sun appears

And pours his golden light.

So, one by one, we all depart.

And darkness shrouds the way ;
But hope lights up the sacred morn

Of Life's eternal day.

Mr. Currier was thrice married, but left no offspring. His first wife
was Lucretia Dustin; the second was Mary Kidder; the third, Hannah A,
Slade, daughter of Enoch and Penelope (Wellington) Slade, survived him
and treasures most worthily his honored memory. The best summary
possible of the noble life and service of Governor Moody Currier is supplied
by the following paragraphs, which were written by one who knew inti-
mately all the phases of his long life and noble character:

The long list of New Hampshire's successful and eminent men contains few if any
names that are entitled to precedence over that of ex-Governor Moody Currier, who died
at his residence in this city Tuesday noon, and there is certainly no other whose career
illustrates more strikingly the rewards that are open to ability, integrity, industry and
perseverance. His home reflected his large means, great learning and cultivated tastes
His house and grounds were ornaments of the city and the delight of all admirers of sub-
stantial architecture and floral beauty. His family idolized him, and in his declining
years ministered to him with the greatest watchfulness and tenderest care. He lived
almost a century with his mental facilities unimpaired and enjoyed as few can the old
age which crowned his long life. He leaves to his family and friends a record which is
to them a precious legacy and to all an inspiration. He was the most learned man with
whom we were ever acquainted. For more than eighty years his books were the constant
companions of his leisure hours. He never read merely for amusement, but always for
instruction. Probably in all his life he did not read ten works of fiction. He read slowly,
passing nothing which he did not understand, and when once he had finished a volume he
never forgot what it contained. His knowledge of the Bible surpassed that of almost
any New Hampshire man of his time. He could read and write several languages,
ancient and modern, and was a master of pure English. He knew science, art and litera-
ture. He was versed in philosophy, astronomy, geology, botany, and natural history.
He was a mathematician of a high order. The geography of the world was in his mind
and the world's history was familiar to him. He was always informed upon current
events, and new inventions were the subjects of his constant study. He studied social,
moral, theological, industrial and political problems, and was always able to discuss
them intelligently. His mind was a storehouse of rich and varied knowledge upon nearly
every subject. And yet he never displayed his learning and only his intimate friends
knew how profound and extensive it was.

As a financier he had no superior in the State. In the investment and management
of capital his judgment was seldom at fault. The moneyed institutions which he founded
prospered from the first and grew steadily in size and strength until they stood unshaken
monuments to his courage, wisdom, prudence and skill against panics and depressions
and all other adversities.

Among all the corporations in which he has been a controlling director there is not
one which has proved a disappointment to those whose money was invested in it. There
are no wrecks along the paths through which investors followed Moody Currier. He was
a public-spirited citizen. He helped lay the foundations of Manchester and build the
superstructure upon them, and whatever in his judgment promoted her prosperity com-
manded his support. He never gave because others did. He never tried to buy noto-
riety. He never placated opposition by bribes, but for the causes in which he believed
he had a willing hand and an open purse. He was a man of very decided opinions and

154 99ooDp Curtfet

therefore a strong partisan. From the birth of the Republican party he was one of its
most courageous leaders, wisest counselors and most liberal contributors. He held
many public positions and displayed in all of them the same ability which was so con-
spicuous in his private affairs.

During the War of the Rebellion he was a member of the governor's council, and in
this position his financial and executive ability contributed immensely to the advantage
of the State and Nation. Probably New Hampshire was more indebted to him than to
any other man for her honorable record in providing money and men in response to the
repeated calls of the government.

As governor of the State he won a national reputation. His State papers are the
classics of our official literature, and all his acts were such as to steadily strengthen him
in public confidence and esteem.

He was a generous patron of art and literature. In his religious views he was a
liberal. Far from being an infidel, he rejected the creeds and ceremonies and supersti-
tions of past ages and found his religious home in the Unitarian church, of which he was
a firm supporter. He was not an effusive or demonstrative man. His self control was
perfect at all times and under all circumstances. He was always calm, deliberate and
quiet. He never sought popularity. He never contributed to sensations. He was
always the thoughtful, earnest, steady-going, self-reliant and reliable citizen. Until
within three days before his death his mind was as strong, as well balanced and as active
as ever. He was an ardent lover of nature and a worshipper of her truth and beauty.
He hated shams, hypocrisy and pretenses, and abominated Pharisees and demagogies.
He had strong likes and dislikes. He remembered his friends and did not forget his
enemies. His companionship was delightful and helpful to all who appreciated solid
worth and enjoyed sound instruction. None could be much with him without growing
wiser. His advice was sound. His example showed the road to honorable success and
was an invitation to whoever was strong, ambitious and determined.

IKtlltam Huse Cummtngs

"ILLIAM HUSE CUMMINGS, whose death on July 15, 1891,
at Lisbon, New Hampshire, removed from that community
one of its most public-spirited citizens and one of the most
conspicuous figures in its general life, was a member of a
wealthy family which can claim a great and honorable antiq-
uity, both in this country and abroad. Its origin is uncer-
tain and may be said to be lost in the mists of an obscure and
remote past, but there seems to be reason to believe that it was derived from
the town of Comines, near the city of Lille, on the frontier between France
and Belgium. There are indeed a number of legends which purport to
account for a still earlier origin, but to these no great value can be attached
in a historical sense. However this may be, it is certain that the family
resided for many generations in Scotland and at times its members played
very important parts in the destinies of that kingdom. We find the name
there as early as 1080, A. D., though whether it came there originally from
Flanders or the low country on the continent or not, would be difficult if
not impossible to ascertain. We find it under all sorts of spellings during
that age of orthographical laxity, and among others as Comines, Comynes,
Comyns, Comings, Comyn, Cummungs and Cumings. There is a tradition in
the family that it descended from one "Red Cumin" of Badenoch, in the south-
eastern district of Invernesshire, a wild mountainous country in which occur
great stretches of bleak moorland. Here the Cumin clan flourished from
about 1080 to 1330 A. D. After this it began to decline. In the Chronicle of
Melrose, we find an account of the first of the name to come to these parts
and who is stated to have been slain with Malcolm III., of Scotland, on the
field at Alnwick in the year 1093. It is stated that he left two sons, John
and William, and that it was from the former that all the Cumins of Scot-
land were descended. Sir John, the Red Cumin, or Comyn, was the first
lord of Badenoch, and in 1240 was an ambassador from Alexander II. of
Scotland, to Louis IX. of France. His son John, who rejoiced in the name of
the Black Lord of Badenoch, was not inferior to any subject in Scotland
for wealth and power and was one of the great nobles who vowed to support
Queen Margaret, the daughter of Alexander III., in her title to the crown.
At her death he himself became a competitor for the crown of Scotland, "as
a son and heir of John, who was son and heir of Donald, King of Scotland."
The son of this great noble, who was also known as the "Red Cumin," was
the last lord of Badenoch to bear this name. In the year 1335 a number of
the clan of Cumin were slain in the feudal battle, Calbleau in Glenwick,
where a stone still stands to mark the spot. The badge of the clan was
"Lus Mhic Cuiminn," which is the Gaelic for the Cummin clan.

The first of this ancient family to appear in America was Deacon Isaac
Cummings, who is believed to have come from England to the New England

256 tiOUIiam ^u$e Cumming0

colonies in 1627. He settled at Salem, Massachusetts, and became a prom-
inent man in the community. He had a number of children, from one of
whom John, the eldest, a well known New Hampshire family is descended,
while from his second son, Isaac, the line of which the subject of this sketch
is a member, originated,

Joseph Cummings was a native of New Hampton, New Hampshire,
born July 6, 1781. He was a carpenter by trade, and removed in early man-
hood to Lisbon, where he died February 10, 1864. On June 17, 1812, he was
married to Mary Huse, a native of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, born Aug-
ust 2, 1787. To Mr. and Mrs. Cummings seven children were born, as fol-
lows: Greenleaf ; William Huse, mentioned below; Joseph, who died June
1, 1865; Stephen H.. Noah, Mary H., and Betsey.

William Huse Cummings, born January 10, 1817, at New Hampton,
New Hampshire, second son and child of Joseph and Mary (Huse) Cum-
mings, passed his childhood and early youth in his native town. His edu-
cation was obtained largely through private reading and study, a habit
which thus acquired in early youth remained with him throughout his entire
life. He was of an exceedingly ambitious temperament, and when but
seventeen years of age he left the parental home and came to New Chester,
New Hampshire, where he sought and found employment as a clerk in the
store of Major Ebenezer Kimball. His salary during the first year that he
was thus employed was scarcely munificent, amounting as it did to thirty-
five dollars per year and his board. He continued to work in this capacity
for some three years, and at the end of that time purchased his employer's
business, which he conducted independently for the two years following.
This was in 1837, and in 1840 he came to Lisbon, New Hampshire, where he
entered the employ of the firm of Allen & Cummings. After twelve months
of hard work with this concern, he went to Haverhill, New Hampshire, and
spent eight years at that place, during most of which time he was engaged
in business in partnership with John L. Rix. Upon the retirement of Mr.
Rix, Mr. Cummings conducted the business on his own account, but at the
end of the year, 1849, ^e returned to Lisbon and there took up his permanent
abode. From that time during the more than forty years which intervened
between that and his death, he was most prominently identified with the
business and commercial interests of the town and took an exceedingly
prominent part in its public affairs. The old firm of Allen & Cummings, by
which he had been employed before, was still doing business and he becarne
a member, the firm name becoming Allen, Cummings & Company. This
concern was engaged in a mercantile business and also in lumbering and
manufacturing. James Allen died in 1853, and Greenleaf Cummings in
1865; the firm was succeeded by a number of others, but W. H. Cummings
merely owned the store building and had no further connection with the
business. He retired from active business life in 1875. Mr. Cummings did
not by any means confine his activities to the conduct of this enterprise. On
the contrary he was affiliated with many financial and industrial interests in
and about Lisbon. For more than eighteen years he was president of the

mnuam l^use Cumming0 257

Wells River National Bank at Wells River, Vermont, and he vv^as also inter-
ested on a large scale in real estate in the neighborhood of Lisbon and dealt
largely therein. He owned in the neighborhood of sixty houses, which he
afterwards placed on the market and disposed of on the installment plan to
people desiring homes.

Mr. Cummings was a very conspicuous figure in the general life of his
adopted community and held a number of important public posts at different
times in his life. He was a strong supporter of the principles and policies of
the Democratic party and became one of the leaders of the local organiza-
tion in the county. He was elected to represent the town of Lisbon in the
State Assembly in 1856 and again in 1873, and was State Senator in 1877
and 1878. In the year 1876 he was sent as a delegate to the National Demo-
cratic Convention which nominated Mr. Tilden for the presidency. Mr.
Cummings was a very prominent Mason, having joined in early life that fra-
ternity as a charter member of Kane Lodge. For twenty-six years he was
an active member of Franklin Chapter and served in all the offices of these
two organizations. He was a charter member of St. Girard Commandery,
Knights Templar, of Littleton. In his religious belief he was a Congrega-
tionalist and was one of the group of men who founded the society of that
denomination at Lisbon in the year 1878. For thirteen years thereafter,
Mr. Cummings was treasurer of the society and chairman of the board of
trustees, and in 1893, two years after his death, his family presented the
church with a pipe organ in his memory. He was a man of exceedingly
charitable instincts and impulses and did much to relieve the poverty that
existed in the region. He was, however, exceedingly unostentatious and
obeyed literally the Biblical injunction not to let his right hand know what
his left was doing. It was in 1853 that he built the charming and commod-
ious house on a tract of land purchased by him on the eastern side of the
Ammonoosuc river. This property, which was formerly owned by Hamlin
Rand, stood upon the crest of a hill overlooking the village of Lisbon. At
the time of his purchase the property was nothing more than rough pasture
land, but under Mr. Cummings' skilled hand, it was developed into a charm-
ing and highly cultivated estate.

William Huse Cummings was united in marriage, August 3, 1843, with
Harriet Sprague Rand, daughter of Hamlin Rand, and a native of Bath,
New Hampshire, born April 8, 1817. Mr. and Mrs. Cummings were the
parents of three children, as follows: Harriet S., born August 24, iS-h, at
Haverhill, New Hampshire, became the wife of Oliver P. Newcomb, of Lis-
bon, October 20, 1869, and died April 29, 1903 ; William Edward, born March
12. 1846, at Lisbon, died March 12, 1867, when just twenty-one years of
age; and Mary Rand.

The character of Mr. Cummings was one particularly well balanced, in
which the sterner virtues were relieved by a most gracious exterior, his
attractions appearing upon the former like blossoms on a gnarled apple
tree, increasing the effect of both. An almost Puritanic sense of honor and
the discharge of obligations was the very essence of his nature, but this

NH-17

258 William ^use Cummin00

Puritanic conscience existed only in so far as his own conduct was concerned
and for others he was tolerant to a fault, if that be possible. His industry
and the courage with which he surmounted all obstacles in the way of his
aim were well worthy of remark and all praise. These were the qualities
that brought him success and the admiration of those with whom he came
into contact, but there were others which, if less fundamental, were not less
potent in their influence upon those about him. Such was his hearty friend-
ship, his open candid manner, his warm greeting, which did not alter for
rich or poor, high or low, and such also was his ready charity which made
all men feel that he was a friend who would not desert them in the time of
need. In every relation of life, his conduct was irreproachable; in the home,
in the marts of trade, or the forum of public opinion, in all he may well stand
as a model upon which the youth of the community can afford to model
themselves.

BabttJ ilarbej 0ootieU

|AVID HARVEY GOODELL was born in Hillsborough, New
Hampshire, May 6, 1834. When he was a small boy his
parents moved to Antrim, and he lived upon the farm which
his father purchased, until the time of his death, January 22,
1915-

He obtained his early education in the public schools of
Antrim, afterwards attending the academies in Hancock,
New Hampton and Francestown. In 1852 he entered Brown University,
but on account of poor health was obliged to leave in his sophomore year
and devote himself to a more out-of-door life. He taught school some, but
in 1857 he settled upon the home farm with the expectation of making farm-
ing his principal business. It was about this time, however, that another
opportunity was presented and he was elected treasurer of the Antrim
Shovel Company and afterwards general agent of this company. He held
this position until the business was sold to a Boston firm. In connection
with Mr. Carter, the copartnership of D. H. Goodell & Company was
formed and later the corporation of Goodell Company, of which Mr. Good-
ell was president and treasurer, and an extensive business in the manufac-
ture of apple-parers, seed-sowers, cutlery and hardware specialties has been
established. The goods are sold all over this country and in many foreign
lands.

In 1894 an electric light plant was installed for furnishing lighting for
the factories, commercial and street lighting, about the towns of Antrim
and Bennington. In 1909 more power being needed for the growing busi-
ness than the water privilege could furnish, an 800-horsepower electric
plant was put in at North Branch and power was furnished for his own
factories and any others that desired it.

For seven years Mr. Goodell was a member of the State Board of Agri-
culture and gave unsparingly of his time for the development of the science
of agriculture throughout the State of New Hampshire. He operated a
large farm where many of the improved methods were tested. In the year
1881 he built a large concrete silo on his farm, being one of the first in this
country to appreciate the possibilities of what is now so universally recog-
nized as necessary. For nearly thirty years he maintained a large herd of
registered Holstein Friesian cattle which were somewhat famous in this
section of the country.

Mr. Goodell was always deeply interested in the uplift and improvement
of the town. He was town clerk and superintendent of schools and repre-
sented the town in the Legislature several times, and was honored by the
State in being chosen to fill the highest office she could give, that of governor.
When his term was but half spent it seemed unlikely that he would ever
see his successor. Stricken with a desperate illness, he hung for weeks on
the brink of the eternal, and, for the only time within living memory, the

26o Dat)iD l^aiViep ^ooDell

president of the Senate was called upon to exercise all the functions of the
chief magistracy. Yet he, thanks to the sturdy physique which was his
inheritance from a long line of robust New England ancestry, lived to see
thirteen of his successors take office, to witness the passing of all eight of
his predecessors who graced his own inauguration, of six of the men who
followed him, of all five of his council and of the Secretary of State who sat
with them, and of most of those whom he commissioned into the State
service. This is by no means to say that he lagged superfluous upon the
scene. The facts are to the contrary, and there has been hardly a day during
the twenty-five years intervening when he was not found taking a keen and
active interest in public affairs and devoting himself to the problems which
an expanding business laid upon him.

He came to the governorship by natural approach and through merit.
He was born of Democratic stock, but the events of the Civil War led him
into the Republican ranks and he early became a prominent figure in the
local councils of the party. In the early seventies he was elected to the
Legislature, and it is interesting to note that some of the highly contro-
verted incidents of that period of legislative strife centered about his title
to the seat which he continued to hold. In 1883 he served in the Council of
Governor Hale, and of that group, too, he was a survivor. In 1886 he was
first advanced as a candidate for governor and the support which he then
secured made it evident that he was to be a central figure in the campaign
of two years later. His nomination crowned a canvass of unprecedented
activity. The convention ballotted for hours and without result, and when
the end finally came, with a spectacular shift of alignment which brought
him success, it was with a sense of certainty on the part of the delegates
that the leadership of the party had been committed to safe hands.

Those were days of Republican stress in New Hampshire. The Democ-
racy was alert, well-led, amply supplied with all the equipment of contest,
and for the first time the national administration was in their hands. Two
years before, one of the congressional districts had been carried by a Demo-
crat and it was evident that if the Republicans were to win, it would be only
through superior organization and by means of an aggressive canvass before
the people. To the Republican victory of that year the candidate for gover-
nor made a signal contribution. He had secured the nomination over two
strenuous contestants, who had dominated the earlier balloting in the con-
vention. But he could hardly be called a compromise candidate. His sup-
port was a natural support, drawn to him by his high character and by the
knowledge that a man like him was required to bring unity to the party.
This expectation was speedily fulfilled and was strengthened as the cam-
paign developed. On election day in 1888 he saw New Hampshire safely
aligned in the Republican column and he himself chosen governor by the
largest popular vote which had ever been received by a candidate in this
State and which has since been exceeded only six times, even during the
years of the almost total submergence of Democratic strength.

His administration was dignified and honorable. It followed the spec-
tacular "railroad fight" of 1887 and the new governor's inaugural address

DaDi'D ^arbep <$ooDeII 261

said, "Let us have peace." Through his signature peace was secured in the
passage of the Act creating the Concord & Montreal Railroad and providing
the modus vivendi vi^hich existed until the railroad consolidation of 1895. At
his initiative the Soldiers' Home at Tilton was established and one of the
last of his official functions was to preside at its dedication. His appointees
made the last codification of our laws; at his suggestion the board of bank
commissioners was given permanency; and many other helpful features of
administration were inaugurated. He was the last of our governors to call
the Legislature together in special session, the occasion being the confusion
arising from the questioned outcome of the election of 1890; and it was
his calm courage that strengthened the Republican majority in its success-
ful effort to maintain its rights. The appreciation of the State for his serv-
ices was such that if he had desired he undoubtedly would have been given
a seat in the United States Senate.

Mr. Goodell was a strong temperance advocate and was a leader in the
work in its pioneer state. He was president of the Anti-Saloon League for
many years and was honorary president at the time of his death. Politically,
he believed the Republican party the best means for advancing the temper-
ance cause, even, though sometimes it grieved him deeply, as for example,
in 1902, when the first steps were taken to supplant prohibition with local
option, and in the meantime when the party had stood firmly for the policy
then adopted. In the convention of 1902 he led the forces which favored
the old order and before the Legislature which ensued he marshalled the
advocates of prohibition. His efforts were fruitless as to the main question,
but his great practical sense led him to take advantage of the opportunity
to strengthen the temperance laws which were to be left in force in no-
license territory. He never ceased to hope that some day New Hampshire
would again be a prohibition State.

Mr. Goodell was a member of the Antrim Baptist Church for nearly
sixty-four years and a deacon of the church for about twenty-eight years.
He was always greatly interested in everything that was for the uplift of
humanity and advancing the cause of Jesus Christ here upon the earth. He
was a very constant attendant at all the church services and even in his
busiest years found time to attend the mid-week prayer meeting of the
church. He considered it a greater honor to be a deacon of the church than
governor of the State.

Mr. Goodell married (first) Hannah J. Plumer, of Goffstown, who died
in 191 1 ; and (second) Emma S. McCoy, of Antrim, who, together with his
sons, Dura D. Goodell and Colonel Richard C. Goodell, and grandson, Claire
D. Goodell, survived him. He was always very much attached to his home.
Undoubtedly the following tribute from one of his friends expresses the
feelings of many others:

To me his death means not only that a strong character has gone out from among
us, that a successful business man has dropped out of the ranks of our industrial life, that
an elder statesman has passed from the council table, but a helpful moral force has ceased
from personal activity here ; but it means that out of my own life I have lost an afTection-
ate relationship of such paternal nature that it can never be replaced, but the memory of
which will warm and bless all the years yet to come.

Cfjarles 3acob amtDon

'HE name of Amidon has for many generations been a distin-
guished one, at first in Massachusetts and Rhode Island,
and later in New Hampshire, but it had never come into such
prominence as that which it has reached during the present
generation and that just preceding it, in the persons of
Charles Jacob Amidon and his son, Philip Francis Amidon.
The family was founded in this country by one Roger Ami-
don. who is believed to have been a French Huguenot who, obliged to flee
from his native land at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
lived for a time in England and finally emigrated to America. Although
the exact date of his arrival here is not known, it is certain that it was
extremely early in the Colonial period, since he is mentioned in the records
of the Salem Colony in 1637, when he was alloted land there, so that he must
have been there prior to that date. He lived in several different parts of the
Massachusetts Colony, and finally took up his abode at Rehoboth, where
his death occurred about November 11, 1673. The family continued to
reside in that region until the time of Jacob Amidon, of the fourth genera-
tion from Roger Amidon who, in 1782, purchased property at Chesterfield,
New Hampshire, and probably settled in the town shortly after. He was the
grandfather of Charles Jacob Amidon, of this sketch, and his son, Otis
Amidon, was born at Chesterfield, April 26, 1794. Otis Amidon was a well
known figure in the life of this place, served as selectman of the town for a
number of years, and represented it in the General Court of New Hamp-
shire. He married Nancy Cook, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 16,
1825, and they were the parents of five children, of whom Charles Jacob was
the only one to survive childhood.

Born April 23, 1827, at Chesterfield, New Hampshire, Charles Jacob
Amidon was educated at the public schools of that place and the Chesterfield
Academy, where he was a student for a number of years. Upon completing
his studies he became for a time a teacher, but in 1849 ^^ formed a partner-
ship with Henry O. Coolidge, at that time one of the most prominent busi-
ness men of Cheshire county, and the firm at once began business in Chester-
field Center. In the year 185 1, however, the partnership was dissolved and
Mr. Amidon removed to Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he engaged
independently in a mercantile enterprise. In the year 1862, after ten years
of successful business, he became associated with Dr. Frederick Boyden and
Sylvester Bishop for the manufacture of woolen goods, the firm being known
as Boyden, Bishop & Amidon. Not long afterwards both of the elder men
died, leaving Mr. Amidon as the sole owner of the large and prosperous
concern, and later his two sons, P. Frank and William O., were admitted
into the firm which was continued under the style of C. J. Amidon & Sons.
The industrv thus founded and continued became in course of time one of

Cftatles 3faco6 3miDon 163

the most important in the region, and the "Hinsdale Woolen Mill," as it was
generally called, was well known in the industrial world. For a number of
years great quantities of the goods known as cashmerettes were turned out
here, but later, in 1873, goods for use in the rubber industry became the
principal product. The firm also purchased, in 1894, a large mill at Wilton,
where men's wear was turned out in great quantities, but this was sold in
1917, since the death of Mr. Amidon. In addition to the manufacturing
concerns with which he was directly associated, Mr. Amidon was also a
director of many others, especially of banking houses in various places,
among which should be mentioned the Hinsdale Savings Bank, the Vermont
National Bank of Brattleboro, Vermont, and the Ashuelot National Bank
of Keene, New Hampshire. Although very far from taking part in politics
in the usual sense of the term, Mr. Amidon was keenly interested in local
affairs and in the broader aspects of politics as well, and it was quite out of
the question that a man so prominent should be able to keep entirely aloof.
As a matter of fact he held many public offices in the gift of the community
and served town and .State in various capacities. He was postmaster of
Chesterfield in 1849 ^"<^ 1850; State Bank Commissioner from 1855 to 1857;
postmaster of Hinsdale from 1861 to 1872; and represented his town in the
Legislature of the State in 1861-64, 1876-77, and 1883. He was State Sen-
ator in 1878-79-80, and held many town offices such as selectman, moder-
ator, etc. He was one of the committee to formulate plans for the new
State Library in Concord. For many years he was rightly regarded as the
most influential citizen in Hinsdale. In politics he was originally a Whig,
but afterwards became a Republican and was a leader of that party for many
years. His name was frequently mentioned for important State offices and
especially as a candidate for governor and for Congress, but his own impulse
was rather to shun than to seek such preferment. He was a charter mem-
ber of Golden Rule Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Hinsdale,
and was always ready to aid in any way possible any movement undertaken
for the advantage of the community. He was one of those who accom-
plished the erection of a handsome town hall which, however, was burned a
few months prior to his death.

Charles Jacob Amidon was united in marriage, May 11, 1851, with Mary
J. Harvey, a native of Chesterfield, New Hampshire, and a daughter of
Loring and Elizabeth Harvey, old and highly respected residents of that
place They were the parents of the following children: i. Philip Francis,
born June 27, 1852. 2. Mary Elizabeth, born July 13, 1859; married, October
28, 1886, Dr. R. B. Whitridge, of Boston, Massachusetts; she died Septem-
ber I, 1888. 3. Esther Maria, born February 4, 1862, died August 7. 1S65.
4. William Otis, born November 24, 1864, who died November 18, 1908.

The death of Mr. Amidon occurred at his home in Hinsdale, August 21,
1900, and closed a life full of successful and altruistic effort and achieve-
ment. It will be appropriate to bring this brief notice to an end with the
quotation of a tribute paid him while he was still alive by a friend who knew
and admired him. Writing to a mutual friend, Ezra S. Stearns, editor of

264

Cijatles 3lacob SmiDon

the "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire,"
said :

Among his associates in State service, Mr. Amidon has been quickly recognized as
the able, clear-headed man. His services have been valuable. Good judgment, directed
by an honest purpose, has given him power that commanded universal esteem and
respect. In very public position he has filled he has been foremost in influence, and his
good common sense has attracted attention. Among his friends he is loved as a
thoroughly honest, upright man, and he is a firm friend to those he deems worthy of
such regard, but he will not tolerate anything that approaches treachery or double deal-
ing. He is a faithful, sincere, truthful, honest man, and has a clear head and a vigorous
intellect. He might have held many more positions of public trust, but he has never
sought honor — all he has enjoyed have been freely tendered, and many possible honors
have been declined. He is an example of the self-made man of New Hampshire.

JFreliericfe C ^atoper

FREDERICK T. SAWYER, son of Jabez and Hannah (Emer-
son) Sawyer, was born in Bradford, May 13, 1819, and died
in Milford, July 14, 1898, aged seventy-nine. He spent his
boyhood in Bradford, and there started in life on his own
account as a clerk in a general store. In 1840 he went to
Nashua, and was similarly employed for some years. About
1845 ^^ formed a partnership with a Mr. Roby, and under
the firm name of Roby & Sawyer, they engaged in the manufacture of
scythes, in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, until 1850. In 1854 Mr. Sawyer
went to Milford, New Hampshire, where for two years he was employed as
station agent of the Nashua & Lowell Railroad. At the end of that time he
and the late William R. Wallace formed the firm of Wallace & Sawyer,
dealers in general merchandise, which did a prosperous business for some
years. In 1869 the firm dissolved and Mr. Sawyer was made cashier of the
Souhegan National Bank, an office which he filled to the time of his death
with efficiency and conscientiousness that was a credit to him and gave
satisfaction to bank officials and patrons alike. From the date of its organ-
ization till his death he was a director of the bank.

On October 19, 1874, the Souhegan National Bank was robbed in the
following manner: About one o'clock in the morning six men, masked and
heavily armed, effected an entrance into Mr. Sawyer's residence on the east
side of the river and bound and gagged him and the members of his family.
Leaving three of their number there, the remainder of the robbers took Mr.
Sawyer across the river on a footbridge to the bank, and by torture com-
pelled him to open the vault. There the robbers seized spoils to the value of
$135,000, mostly non-negotiable bonds. They then conveyed Mr. Sawyer
to his home, bound him in a chair, and fastened it to the floor. The children
of the family were locked in closets, and about three o'clock in the morning
the robbers departed. As soon as they were out of hearing, Fred W. Saw-
yer, then a boy of twelve years, broke out of his place of confinement, gave
the alarm, and then liberated the other members of the family. The burglary
made a great sensation, and the selectmen of the town offered a reward of
$3,000, and the bank a like sum, for the capture of the criminals, but they
were never caught. A few months later the most of the stolen bonds were
recovered by the bank on payment of a reward for their return.

Mr. Sawyer was elected town treasurer in 1871, and continued to fill
that office by consecutive annual elections the remainder of his life, a period
of twenty-seven years. He was also notary public for many years. In
politics he was a Republican, but his political belief was not of the rancorous
type that denies the existence of any merit in other parties. He was elected
to the State Legislature in 1864, and reelected in 1865. He was elected
moderator in 1873. Mr. Sawyer's long residence in Milford, nearly forty-

266

jFteDetick C %atoper

five years, had g-iven him an intimate acquaintance with the people of that
town. He was a man of sterling character, good judgment, familiar with
the best business methods, attentive to duty, a firm, true friend and a valued
citizen.

Mr. Sawyer married, January 7, 1859, Sarah S. Lovejoy, who was born
in Amherst, August 22, 1833, died in October, 1905, daughter of William
H. and Hannah (Shedd) Lovejoy.

Babtlf Jl. Patterson

|AVip N. PATTERSON, for many years one of the most
active and prominent business men of Contoocook, New
Hampshire, was born June i, 1800, in Henniker, Merrimack
county, and died March 28, 1892, in the village of Contoo-
cook, at the venerable age of ninety-two years, nine months,
and twenty-eight days. He was of Scotch-Irish ancestry,
so called, being a direct descendant of John Patterson, who
on account of religious persecution fled from Scotland to the northern part
of Ireland, where his son Robert and his grandson, who, it is thought, was
named Alexander, were born. The latter emigrated to America in 1721,
bringing with him his family, which included a son, Alexander (2).

Alexander (2) Patterson, married Elizabeth Arbuckle, who was born
in 1720, on board the ship in which her parents came to this country. He
settled first in Londonderry, New Hampshire, where he held office in 1751,
but subsequently removed to Pembroke, New Hampshire, in the early days
of its settlement, and was one of the first selectmen of the town. He served
as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His wife, a well educated woman
for those days, taught school several terms. In 1799 they migrated to Thet-
ford, Vermont, going thence to Strafford, Vermont, where both died in
1802. They had nine children, Alexander, the third to bear that name, being
the next in line of descent.

Alexander (3), born July 10, 1763, married Mary Nelson, of Sterling,
Massachusetts, and settled in Henniker, New Hampshire. In 1806 he erected
a building on the site now occupied by the residence of W. P. Cogswell, and
put in water works, which were used until 1878. He was very prominent
and popular among his fellow-men, full of humor and ready wit, and was
generally accosted by young and old as "Uncle Sandy." He died January
12, 1827, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He had a family of eleven
children, of whom David N., the special subject of this biographical -sketch,
was the seventh born. Their daughter, Mary M., the next younger child,
became a very successful teacher, being endowed with a strong personality
and a remarkable gift for imparting knowledge. She began teaching at the
age of eighteen, and taught in Henniker and Warner until 1828. Going
then to Cambridge, Washington county. New York, she taught in that local-
ity twenty years. In 1844 she received a State license on parchment, and
continued her labors until 1869. devoting forty-nine years to the education
of the young. Her husband, Hervey Culver, to whom she was married in
1846, dying in 1875, she removed to Vassar, Michigan.

David N. Patterson left home at the age of sixteen years, going to
Weare to work for his brother-in-law, John Chase. Four years later he
began working at the clothier's trade with his brother Joab, a woolen manu-
facturer in Deering, New Hampshire. In 1829 the two young men came to

268 DatJiD je. Patterson

Contoocook, establishing themselves in business, first in carding rolls, then
engaging in fulling and shearing, eventually engaging in the full manufac-
ture of cloths, their old mills standing on the site of the present silk factory.
There w^ere several mills in that vicinity, including a saw mill, a grist mill,
a sash, door and blind mill, a kit factory, a woolen mill, etc., all of which
were destroyed in the fall of 1871, the silk mill having since been erected.
The Patterson brothers continued in business until i860, building up a sub-
stantial and profitable trade from one which at the beginning was largely
an exchange. David N. Patterson continued his residence in the village
until his death, preserving his mental and physical activities in a remark-
able manner. He was very influential in local affairs, a strong worker in
the temperance cause, and an enthusiastic laborer in the Free Will Baptist
church, of which he was a member and for sixteen years the superintendent
of the Sunday school. In 1842 and 1843 he was one of the selectmen of
Hopkinton, and in 1845 ^^'^ 1846 was a representative to the General Court.
In his younger days he served four years as lieutenant in a company of
militia.

On March 17, 1830, David N. Patterson married Maria Woods, a daugh-
ter of William S. and Betsey D. (Dutton) Woods. Mr. Woods settled in
Henniker in 1800, purchasing mills at West Henniker, and was the first to
carry on the clothier's trade there to any extent. A citizen of prominence,
he served as selectman in 1813, 1814 and 1815, and was a member of the State
Legislature in 1832 and 1833. He died at a good old age, March 29, 1847;
and his wife passed away October 31, 1849. Mrs. Maria Woods Patterson
died May 19, 1873, leaving four children, namely: Susan M., wife of Captain
D. Howard, of Concord, New Hampshire; William A., of Contoocook; and
Annette and Jenette, twins. The latter first married Charles Upton, of
Amherst, New Hampshire, and after his death became the wife of Charles H.
Danforth, of Contoocookville. On June 15, 1875, Mr. Patterson married for
his second wife, Mrs. Sarah W. Batchelder, widow of Moses Batchelder, and
daughter of Samuel and Mary (Gove) Philbrick, of Andover, New Hamp-
shire. She died June 14, 1890, aged seventy-nine years and eight months.

Wm

Hon. Cfjarles l^enrp g)atDper

HE Sawyer family, which was worthily represented in the
present generation by the late Hon. Charles Henry Sawyer,
was of Eng-lish extraction, and the members thereof in the
various generations have figured conspicuously in the
United States Senate, in the ministry, in law and in various
other callings.

Thomas Sawyer, the American ancestor, son of John
Sawyer, of Lincolnshire, England, was born there about 1626, and when
ten years old came to this country with two elder brothers locating in the
State of Massachusetts. In 1647 he was one of the first settlers of Lan-
caster, removing thither from Rowley. He married, in 1647, Mary, daugh-
ter of John and Mary (Platts) Prescott. The next in line of succession was
their son, Caleb Sawyer, born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, April 20, 1659,
and there died February 13, 1755. He married, December 28, 1687, Sarah,
daughter of Ralph and Jane Houghton. She was born February 16, 1661,
and died November 15, 1757. The next in line of succession was Seth Saw-
yer, born December 31, 1704, at Lancaster, and died March 29, 1768. He
married, October 12, 1732, Hepsibah, daughter of Richard and Elizabeth
(Sawtelle) Whitney. She was born in 1710, and died in May, 1797. The
next in line of succession was Caleb (2) Sawyer, born in 1737, in Harvard, a
part of Lancaster. He married (first), December 9, 1760, Relief Fairbank,
daughter of Joseph and Mary (Brown) Fairbank, of Harvard. She was
born December i, 1730, and died December 2, 1764. He married (second),
in 1766, Sarah Patch, and the next in line of succession was one of their sons,
Phineas Sawyer, born in Harvard, 1791, married Hannah, daughter of
Deacon Israel and Hannah (Mead) Whitney. She was born April 23, 1773,
and died in Lowell, in 1849. The next in line of succession was Jonathan
Sawyer, born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, June 17, 1817, and died in
Dover, New Hampshire, June 20, 1891. After completing his studies, he
learned the art of dyeing on his own account, conducting the business until
1839. In that year he went to Watertown, New York, where for two and
one-half years he was employed as superintendent of the Hamilton Woolen
Company, and later he manufactured satinets on his own account in Water-
town until 1849, ii^ which year he removed to Dover, New Hampshire, where
he and his brother, Zenas Sawyer, associated themselves under the firm
name of Z. & J. Sawyer, and they operated a grist mill and a custom carding
and clothdressing mill. In 1832 the old woolen mill was enlarged and
adapted to the manufacture of flannels, and at the end of two years Francis
A. Sawyer, another brother, took the place of Zenas, and the name of the
firm became F. A. & J. Sawyer. Jonathan Sawyer was a man of enterprise,
skill and ability, and in all that concerned the public welfare he was an
interested partaker. He was one of the founders of the Free Soil party, and

Tjo ^on. Cljatles ^enrp Satopec

after the organization of the Republican party he was one of its strongest
supporters. Jonathan Sawyer married, in Barnard, Vermont, June 25, 1839,
Martha, daughter of Cyrus and Martha (Childs) Perkins, of Barnard. They
were the parents of Charles Henry Sawyer, of this review.

Hon. Charles Henry Sawyer, eldest child of Jonathan and Martha
(Perkins) Sawyer, was born in Watertown, New York, March 30, 1840. He
was educated in the public schools of Watertown, New York, and Dover,
New Hampshire, the removal of his parents to the latter place having been
made in 1849, when Charles Henry was about nine years old. When seven-
teen years of age he entered the Sawyer Mills as an ordinary operative to
learn the business of flannel making in its different branches, acquiring a
thorough knowledge of all the processes through which the material passes
from the raw state to the finished product. At twenty-six he was made
superintendent of the mills, at the time when the company was extending
its sphere of operations, and adapted its machinery to the manufacture of
high grade of woolens for men's wear, and upon the incorporation in 1S73
was made agent, and from 1881 to 1898 was president of the company.

At an early age Mr. Sawyer's ability and position made him conspicu-
ous and an available party leader. He was offered, accepted and was elected
to seats in both branches of the City Council of Dover, and in 1869-70, and
again in 1876-77, he was elected to the Lower House of the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, where he served his constituency in such a manner as to
secure their hearty approval and attract the attention of the State. He was
appointed on the staff of Governor Charles H. Bell, in 1881, and was a dele-
gate to the National Republican Convention held in Chicago, 1884, when
James G. Blaine was nominated for the presidency. Though a political
cour.se was not the course Mr. Sawyer had started out in life to pursue, cir-
cumstances had made opportunities for him, and his service in public life
had been such as to make him conspicuous among the Republicans of the
State as an available and sagacious leader, and in 1886 he was nominated
for governor by nearly a three-fourths vote of the delegates to the guber-
natorial convention. There was no choice by the people and the Legislature
elected him. During his term of office various centennial celebrations were
held which he, as executive head of the State, attended. Notable among
these was the centennial celebration of the promulgation of the Constitu-
tion of the United States, held at Philadelphia; the centennial celebration of
the inauguration of President Washington in New York, and the laying of
the corner-stone of the Bennington Monument at Bennington, Vermont.

During Governor Sawyer's term of office arose the memorable struggle
over the "Hazen Bill," a measure designed to facilitate the leasing of certain
railroads. One powerful railroad corporation championed the bill, another
opposed it, and arrayed on one or the other of the sides were all the politi-
cians in the State, and much feeling was displayed. It was proved by testi-
mony given before a legislative committee that unquestionable methods
had been used both for and against the measure. In view of these facts,
when the bill reached the governor, he vetoed it, not basing his action upon

^on, Cljarles; lj)cnrp ^atopec 271

any objections to its intrinsic merits, but upon the unfair methods used in
support of it, and acting on the principle which prompts courts of justice to
refuse to help either of the parties to an illegal proceeding; the court refused
"not for the sake of the defendant, but because they will not lend their aid
to such a plaintiff." The governor in summing up his objections to justify
his refusal and express his disapproval of the methods of the party said in
his veto message: "The most effectual way to check such practices is to
have it understood that no bill attempted to be passed by such means can
become a law. When the promoters of a measure see fit to offer bribes to
members, they cannot be allowed to excuse themselves on the ground that
their offers were not accepted. If it comes to be understood that successful
attempts of this nature will not imperil the passage of a bill, such offers will
become much more frequent. If the offer is accepted, neither party will be
likely to disclose the fact. If it is rejected, it is, in this view, to be consid-
ered of no consequence, and hence no harm could be done to the prospect
of the bill. The bare statement of such a doctrine is its best answer." This
courageous, wise and patriotic stand in favor of legislative purity taken by
the governor was worthy of the commendation of every fair-minded person
in the State; but instead of approbation it drew a storm of denunciation from
certain sources, especially from newspapers retained to advocate the passage
of the bill.

Governor Sawyer was connected with many business enterprises both
in Dover and in other places, and in most of them he was a leading member.
Governor Sawyer was an attendant of the First Church in Dover (Congre-
gational), and was a prompt and generous giver whenever it needed financial
support. From 1865 until his death he was a member of the Free and
Accepted Masons; was twice master of Strafford Lodge, No. 29, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Dover, and was also a member of Belknap Chapter,
No. 8, Royal Arch Masons; of Orphan Council. No. i. Royal and Select
Masters, and of St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he was
for many years eminent commander.

Mr. Sawyer married, in Dover, February 8, 1865, Susan Ellen Cowan,
daughter of Dr. James W. and Elizabeth (Hodgdon) Cowan, of Dover.
Governor Sawyer died in 1908.

augusttn Cfjarles Cttus

UGUSTIN CHARLES TITUS was one of that group of suc-
cessful men whose careers have been closely identified with
the greatest and most recent period in the development of
the city of Newport, State of Rhode Island, one of those
broad-minded, public-spirited citizens whose efforts have
seemed to be directed quite as much to the advancement of
the city's interests as to their own. The death of Mr. Titus,
which occurred March ii, 1900, at Newport, Rhode Island, was a loss to
the several communities in which he had resided, and was felt most keenly
by a great host of personal friends whom his warm and genial personality
had won him.

Born April 27, 1842, at Bath, New Hampshire, Augustin Charles Titus
was a son of Jeremy and Mary (Hunt) Titus, his father having been a suc-
cessful farmer and lumber dealer in that region for many years. Here it was
that he formed his first childish impressions, and here it was that he received
the elementary portion of his education, attending for this purpose the local
public schools. He later attended the public schools at Haverhill, New
Hampshire, and it was while a scholar that he began to show the marked
business talents which characterized his mature life. In the month of
September, 1861, he left his parental home, though only nineteen years of
age at the time, and made his way to Fall River, Massachusetts, where he
secured a position with the firm of Flint Brothers, who were engaged in the
house furnishing business. He worked for this concern as a salesman for
a time and went overland to Newport, Rhode Island, where he took orders
in various housefurnishing goods. He continued this work for about a year,
and was so successful that at the end of that period he was able to purchase
an interest in another business of that kind at Newport, and thereafter took
part in the management of the concern. During the next few years he made
such great strides in business that he was able to buy out his partners and
conduct the business entirely on his own account. So great were the strides
made by him after he came into full control of the establishment that it was
not long before he erected a large new building, with a handsome store on
the ground floor, for his establishment, where he carried everything for
household use. To this handsome establishment he gave the name of Titus
Emporium, and it became one of the most popular and largely patronized
stores in the region. Later he admitted his brother, I. W. Titus, as a
partner in the business, and the firm of A. C. Titus Company was formed.
It was through his energy also that the first street railway established in
Newport was built, and there were few departments of the city's life in
which he was not a leading figure. Besides the street railway, which was
one of the most important features in the development of the community, he
was also largely responsible for the introduction of electric lights and for
a number of other improvements.

auffustfn Cljarles mms 273

While Mr. Titus was in no sense of the word a poHtician, and rather
avoided than sought public office of any kind, vet it was difficult for him to
resist the pressure brought upon him by his friends and associates to accept
various offices. He did so nevertheless, excepting in the case of his nomi-
nation to the City Council of Newport. Mr. Titus was a conspicuous figure
m the social and club life of Newport, and was affiliated with the Business
Men's Club of that city and the local lodges of the Masonic order and the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery of Boston, the most ancient military organization in
the country, and always took a keen interest in its afifairs. In his religious
belief Mr. Titus was a Methodist, and was for many years an active member
of the Thames Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Newport.

Augustin Charles Titus was united in marriage at Haverhill, New
Hampshire, December 9, 1864, with Judith Henrietta Cogswell, a native of
that city, a daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Ruth (McConnell) Cogswell.
Mr. and Mrs. Titus were the parents of the following children: Harry
Augustin, born July 27, 1866; Alonzo Flint, born April i, 1870; Nettie
Louise, born February 14, 1872; Mary Estelle, born November i, 1874; and
Raymond Stanton, born October 6, 1883. Mrs. Titus and her children sur-
vived Mr. Titus, and Mrs. Titus then made her home at North Haverhill,
New Hampshire.

The welfare of his adopted city, where Mr. Titus began his career so
humbly, and where he became so influential a figure, was very dear to him,
and he was never a laggard when it came to a question of doing anything
for the general advancement. He was justly regarded as one of the most
public-minded members of the community, for he was always ready to give
his aid in any form to all movements for the public weal. His personality
had the effect of making all those who came in contact with him feel instinct-
ively the value of life; the question of the pessimist as to what is its use
seemed never to have occurred to him, and his own healthy, normal activity
was the best of answers to it. In the height of his prosperity and good for-
tune he never forgot the difficulties of his own youth and was ever ready
to hold out a helping hand to such as were less fortunate than himself.
Various and large as were his business interests, a remarkably large portion
of his time and attention was devoted to these more altruistic purposes, and
he never allowed, like so many successful men, his private pursuits to warp
his generous feelings or shake his charity and faith in life and the goodness
of his fellows. He himself had started out with high ideals which neither
hardships nor prosperity could shake, and he credited others with the same
idealism. And what may seem strange is that he very seldom was mis-
taken, for it had been rightly said that men are apt to show the traits we
attribute to them, good or bad. His career had been a busy and useful one,
and all men, himself as well as others, had benefited by it. Nor were his
virtues less apparent in his family life than in his relations with the outside
world. He was possessed of a strong and religious faith, which it was his
purpose to make practical in his everyday life.

Henrp Jfrancfe (Screen

'ENRY FRANCIS GREEN, late of Littleton, New Hamp-
shire, where his death occurred on May 9, 191 7, was for
many years most intimately identified with the life and
affairs of this community, both in connection with its busi-
ness interests and as an influence in public matters gener-
ally. He was the only son of Henry and Marilla (Smith)
Green, of Lyndon, Vermont, and it was at that place that he
was born, February 6, 1844. His father followed the occupation of farming
during his entire life and thus the lad had the advantage of growing up
among the most wholesome surroundings in the world, those of the Amer-
ican farmer. The elder man died, however, and the mother later became the
wife of James Kimball, of Bath.

It was at the age of sixteen that Henry Francis Green accompanied his
mother to the new home in Bath, and there lived for a short time. He then
went to Poughkeepsie, New York, where he took a course at the celebrated
Eastman Business College, thus fitting himself the better for the business
career he had determined upon by that time. Having completed his studies,
he secured a position as station agent, at Barton, Vermont, on the Passump-
sic Railroad, and there he remained some eighteen months, gaining much
valuable knowledge of the railroad business and of business methods gen-
erally. At the expiration of that period the young man, feeling the lure of
the West, left behind him all that he was familiar with and removed to
Indianapolis, Indiana, where he became connected with a large flour busi-
ness as a bookkeeper. In the meantime his two sisters, Mrs. Charles Eaton
and Mrs. H. H. Southworth, had come to Littleton, New Hampshire, and
made this town their residence, and so it happened that when Mr. G'-een
returned to the East he also came here. This was the beginning of his long
association with Littleton, during which he came to occupy so very prom-
inent a place in the community's affairs. It was in the year 1877 that he
first made his dwelling place here and a little later another sister, a Mrs.
George W. Jackman, removed here from Bath. The first business associa-
tion of Mr. Green in Littleton was with Mr. Eaton, a brother-in-law, in the
Brackett store, later owned by F. H. English. Some time afterward, he
entered the employ of the Saranac Glove Company, a concern that just at
that time was doing a great business and prospering highly. It was under
the management of Ira Parker and George M. Glazier, and these two capable
business men soon realized the talent of their new employee. He was
therefore rapidly advanced in position and gained a very complete knowl-
edge of business and industrial methods, especially in connection with the
financial side of the concern. Later the business was reconstructed and for
a time Mr. Green was not connected with it, but again Mr. Glazier became
interested and finally gained complete control of it, whereupon he recalled

I^entp JFrancis <5rccn 275

his old assistant, and Mr. Green became treasurer. This post he continued
to hold from that time until his death, and during that long period continued
to give most valuable service to the company and exercised a very import-
ant share in the management of its affairs. Another of the business concerns
of Littleton with which Mr. Green was closely identified was the Littleton
National Bank, of which he was elected a director in the year 1898. In
1909, upon the retirement of Oscar C. Heath from the presidency, Mr. Green
stepped into that place and from that time until the close of his life actively
discharged its duties. His extremely capable management resulted in a
long period of great prosperity for the institution, which developed so
rapidly that it is to-day recognized as one of the strongest institutions of
the kind in the State of New Hampshire.

But even more in the world of public affairs than in that of business and
finance was Mr. Green well known throughout his adopted region, while in
both he was equally honored. While still a young man his peculiar qualifica-
tions for caring for the affairs of others had manifested themselves, chief
among which were his absolutely essential honesty and his courage in
resisting anything like corrupt pressure. He had become the manager of
the Littleton Water and Light Department while it was still under private
control and ownership, and his work there did much to render the depart-
ment more efficient and improve the service. Not long afterwards he was
elected to the Littleton Board of Education and here again his efforts
resulted in a great improvement in conditions and the rapid development of
the schools followed. He served eleven years on this important board and
then, in the year 1892, he was elected a selectman of Littleton. He remained
a selectman until 1899, and showed remarkable administrative ability. It
was during this period that the town building and the fine bridge across the
Ammonoosuc river were built. Shortly after this Mr. Green was elected to
the position of County Commissioner and served three terms in this capacity,
during which time he instituted many much needed reforms. Among these
should be mentioned the modern steel structure for the county jail at Haver-
hill, which replaced a structure that had for long been a reproach to the
community. A still wider scope was given to his work by his appointment
to the Executive Council of the Governor, by the late Governor Rollins, and
this experience put him into close touch with State affairs and made him a
prominent figure in the politics of the region. In 1901 he was elected to the
State Legislature and became chairman of the appropriation committee.
For six years he was a member of the Bank Commission, a position for
which he was especially well qualified, and he was also a member of the
Constitutional Convention in 1902. He also served as a member of the
Littleton Board of Health and the Water and Light Commission.

Henry F. Green was united in marriage, on June 18, 1872, with Jennie
M. Smith, a native of Chittenango, New York, and a daughter of Harry
Smith of that place. One son, Harry D. Green, and a grandson. Henry
Francis Green, of Worcester, Massachusetts, survive. Mr. Green was a
prominent Free Mason and belonged to Burns Lodge, Ancient Free and

276 f^emy jFtanci0 ©teen

Accepted Masons, of Littleton, New Hampshire; Franklin Chapter, Royal
Arch Masons, of Lisbon, New Hampshire ; St. Gerard Commandery, Knights
Templar, of Littleton, New Hampshire; and the New Hampshire Con-
sistory.

This brief notice cannot close more appropriately than with the words
of Judge A. S. Batchellor, who wrote of Mr. Green as follows :

His strong good sense, conservative instincts, and wide acquaintance with men and
affairs in this region have rendered his service to these institutions (the banks) especially-
valuable. * * * It is, however, in public affairs and political relations that Mr.
Green has been, from the beginning of his residence here till the present day, the most
effective producer of results among all his political co-workers and contemporaries in
this region. If he had subordinated the success of his party to any private interest, his
closest confidants would find it difficult to name that interest. He is sagacious, far-
sighted and persistent in all those concerns which relate to party plans, party organiza-
tion, party methods and party achievements. He is always true to his purpose and loyal
to his friends. When he became a resident here he found his party in an apparently
chronic minority status. He supplied the talent for organization, managernent, adapta-
tion of means to ends, and adherence to definite purposes, on correct conceptions of polit-
ical strategy without haste and without rest, which the local leaders lacked or had not
discovered in their twenty or thirty years of almost uninterrupted defeat. From the
outset Mr. Green has been recognized by his political opponents, as well as by his polit-
ical associates, as an astute and potential mover in political events, unobtrusive and
imperturable, far-sighted and tireless, an adept in the art of ultimate arrival !

(George 3Ro0coe Caton

ITH the passing of George Roscoe Eaton, of Lancaster, New
Hampshire, Lancaster and the State of New Hampshire lost
an eminent citizen, and the business world a man of acumen,
enterprise and resourcefulness. His life was one of well
directed efforts from the time he entered railroad employ at
the age of fifteen until its close, and during its course he
reaped the honors of public life as well as the emoluments of
business life. Until his death he was president of the Lancaster National
Bank, and made Lancaster his home. He was a native son of Maine, son of
Stephen Woodman and Miranda B. (Knox) Eaton, and of the ninth gener-
ation of the family founded in New England by John and Anne Eaton, who
came with their six children prior to 1639, as in that year their names appear
on the proprietors' books of Salisbury, Massachusetts. Salisbury, Massa-
chusetts, Hampton (now Seabrook), New Hampshire, Buxton and Port-
land, Maine, have been towns in which Eatons of this branch lived.

George Roscoe Eaton was born in Portland, Maine, November 16,
1837. and died in Lancaster, New Hampshire, February 10, 191 1. He
attended Portland grade schools and Yarmouth High School until fifteen
years of age, then entered the service of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence (Grand
Trunk) Railroad, his particular assignment being a clerkship in the office of
the general superintendent, S. T. Corser. There he spent two and a half
years, then for an equal period was connected with the freight department of
the Grand Trunk in the Portland office. This brought him to the age of
twenty, and a resolution to leave railroad employ, which he did, going to
Berlin, New Hampshire, there becoming agent for the mill and manager of
the store owned and operated by H. Winslow & Company. Although the
ownership of mill and store changed several times he retained his position
for fourteen years, until 1872. when he established in the mercantile business
in North Stratford, New Hampshire. For ten years he successfully con-
ducted business there, associating with him E. B. Merriam, under the firm
name, E. B. Merriam & Company. During his business life in New Hamp-
shire, Mr. Eaton fully comprehended the value of the timber tracts of the
State, and as he was able, acquired all the acreage he possibly could. E. B.
Merriam & Company marketed a great deal of the lumber from these tracts
and purchased more, they operating largely along the lines of buying and
selling timber lands and lumber manufacturing. Mr. Eaton's foresight and
business ability had brought him financial success, and soon he was sought
in furtherance of important business enterprises. He became president of
the Lancaster National Bank, organized in 1882,. and became a resident of
that city. In 1887 the Siwooganock Guaranty Savings Bank was organized
with Mr. Eaton as one of the incorporators, and until his death he continued
a trustee of the same. He was senior member of the firm, Eaton & Sawyer,

278 C5eor0e Koscoe Caton

lumber manufacturers of Columbia, New Hampshire; partner in Marshall
& Eaton, carriage manufacturers of Lancaster, was interested financially in
the Mt. Washington Stock Farm Company, promoter and president of the
Lancaster Driving Club, and was everywhere known as a man of sound
judgment and integrity. He performed every duty well, and was highly
esteemed by his business associates. In addition to his manufacturing
activities he dealt largely in real estate.

In politics he was a Democrat, and very influential in party councils.
He represented Berlin in the New Hampshire Legislature, 1872-73; was
selectman in both Berlin and Stratford; was a member of the New Hamp-
shire Constitutional Convention of 1876; member of Coos County Board of
Commissioners, 1879-83; and county treasurer, 1885-91. He was a Unitar-
ian in religion and most generous in his support of the Lancaster church.
He was a member of the Masonic order, and among the selfmade men of
his day none was more reliable or more naturally qualified for leadership.

Mr. Eaton married, April 10, i860, Sarah J., daughter of Josiah Parker,
of Saco, Maine, and they were the parents of three daughters: Minnie P.,
Georgia May, Sarah J., a twin with Georgie May.

CommoDore (JJeorge Hamilton ^erfetns

;OMMODORE GEORGE HAMILTON PERKINS, second
child and eldest son of Hamilton E. and Clara B. (George)
Perkins, was born in Hopkinton, October 20, 1835, and died
in Boston, Massachusetts, October 28, 1899. He lived in the
country and enjoyed the outdoor life of a country boy until
he was about eight years old, when he accompanied his
father's family to Boston where he spent the next three
years. Then returning to Merrimack county, he engaged in the sports and
learned the lessons that fall to the lot of a vigorous lad who grows up under
circumstances embracing life on a farm or in a small town. He was always
busy, sometimes in mischief, performing the tasks set for him to do, taking
interest in every beast and bird, and often reluctantly learning the lessons
a watchful and loving mother required him to learn. He attended the
academy of Hopkinton somewhat irregularly during his early years, and
later studied at Gilmanton.

When young Perkins was fourteen years of age, Hon. Charles H.
Peaslee, at that time a member of Congress, urged George's parents to
accept for their son an appointment to the United States Naval Academy at
Annapolis, which they finally did. While there he wrote many letters home,
always showing the greatest attachment to home and everything connected
with it. This love for home and friends was one of the strongest impulses
of his nature throughout life. He graduated at the Naval Academy in 1856,
and was ordered to the sloop of war "Cyane," Captain Robb. The ship went
to Aspinwall, Central America, where trouble had grown out of the filibus-
tering expedition of General Walker. Here he saw a great deal that was
new, and learned much that was useful to him in later life. In this ship he
also cruised as far north as Newfoundland and back to Hayti, when he was
transferred to the "Release," and made a voyage to the Mediterranean, and
afterwards to South Africa, with the Paraguay expedition. At Montevideo
he was transferred to the "Sabine," returning to the United States for his
passed-midshipman examination. This being over, he was ordered to the
west coast of Africa as acting master of the United States steamship "Sum-
ter." On that station he saw a great deal of dull, monotonous, and trying
service, where there were only a few small white settlements on a coast of
thousands of miles in extent, the elements of danger from storm and disease
always being great. In June, 1861, he was made acting first lieutenant, a
great compliment under the circumstances to a young man of twenty- four.
He makes a calculation about his time, and finds that since they left New
York they had run over fifty thousand miles. The "Sumter" soon returning
to the United States, the young officer was ordered to the United States
gunboat "Cayuga" as first lieutenant, a berth which he wrote home he
found "as onerous as it was honorary." The "Cayuga" was ordered to report

28o Commodore ^eotge Hamilton perMttd

to Commodore Farragut at Ship Island, and was soon one of the great fleet
prepared to attack New Orleans. In the attack of that city, which occurred
April 24, the "Cayuga" led, and Lieutenant Perkins had the honor of pilot-
ing the vessel, and his quick observation and skillful management in steering
the vessel took the "Cayuga" past Forts Jackson and St. Philip in safety,
though masts and rigging were badly shot through by the rain of projectiles
hurled at her. Once past the forts she was attacked by eleven of the enemy's
vessels, but made such a great fight that she crippled and took the "Gov-
ernor Moore," the ram "Manassas," and a third vessel. Then, with the
arrival of the remainder of the fleet, the day was won. The "Cayuga" led
the way to New Orleans, and there Comodore Farragut ordered Captain
Bailey to go on shore and demand the surrender of the city. He selected
Lieutenant Perkins to go with him, and they two went ashore and passed
through a howling, frenzied, threatening mob of citizens to the City Hall
and performed their mission. Doubtless they would never have returned
alive to the ship if Pierre Soule had not worked a ruse to attract the mob
while these two brave ofiicers were taken to the boat landing in a carriage.
Lieutenant Perkins' action in the battle at the forts and the events that
followed marked him as one of the coolest and bravest men in the navy and
brought him unstinted praise.

He next commanded the "New London" and then the "Pensacoia" on
the Mississippi and along the coast. He was next appointed to the com-
mand of the "Chickasaw," a new and untried monitor. In the battle of
Mobile Bay, which followed on August 5, Captain Perkins pitted his vessel
against the rebel ram. "Tennessee," disabled her and forced her to surrender,
having shot away her smokestack, destroyed her steering gear, and jammed
her after-ports, rendering her guns useless, while one of the shots wounded
the rebel commander. Admiral Buchanan. This brilliant action of Lieuten-
ant-Commander Perkins elicited the highest encomiums from his compan-
ions-in-arms from the admiral down, and from the newspapers. He had
obtained leave to visit his home before he assumed command of the "Chick-
asaw,'^ and only volunteered to command her in the attack on the fleet, but
he was not detached until July 10, 1865. The winter following he was super-
intendent of the ironclads in the harbor of New Orleans, and the next year,
in May, 1867, he was sent on a three years' cruise in the Pacific as first
lieutenant of the "Lackawanna."

After this cruise he was ordered on ordnance duty in Boston. March 19,
1869, and continued in that position until March, 1871, when he took the
steamer "Nantasket" on her trial trip to New York. January 19, 1871, he was
appointed commander in the navy. In March, 1871, he was ordered to
command the "Relief," which carried stores from the United States to
France, at that time sufifering from famine resulting from disorder of the
Communists. After an absence of six months he returned to the Boston
navy yard, but was soon after transferred to the position of lighthouse
inspector of the second district, and continued to reside in Boston, which
had now become his home. In 1877 he was ordered to China to take com-

Commouote ©eotge IDamilton IpetWns 281

mand of the United States steamer "Ashuelot." He performed the routine
duties of his station until October, 1878, when he received orders to cruise
as far south as Bangkok, and to visit various ports in Japan, China and the
Philippines. While lying at Hong Kong, General Grant and party arrived
on their trip around the v^rorld, and Captain Perkins was ordered to convey
them from Hong Kong to Canton and back, which proved a very enjoyable
voyage to all. After his return, Captain Perkins gave up his command of
the "Ashuelot" to Commander Johnson, who had been appointed to suc-
ceeded him, and returned to the United States. In March, 1882, Captain Per-
kins received his appointment as captain in the navy by regular promotion.
In 1884-85 he made a year's cruise in command of Farragut's famous old
"Hartford," then flagship of our Pacific squadron. This cruise included the
Pacific ports of North and South America and Honolulu. He retired from
service in 1891 as captain, after forty years faithful service upon the active
list of the United States Navy, and by special act of Congress, in January,
1896, was honored with the rank of commodore.

Commodore Perkins was married in 1870 to Anna Minot Weld, daugh-
ter of William F. Weld, of Boston, Massachusetts. Of this marriage there
was one child, Isabel, who became the wife of Lary Anderson, of Brookline,
Massachusetts, and Washington, D. C. Commodore Perkins died at his
home in Boston, October 29, 1899, ^^'^ was buried in the cemetery at Forest
Hills. A magnificent monument to his memory was erected by his widow
and daughter in the State House enclosure, facing State street. Concord,
and presented to the State of New Hampshire with appropriate exercises,
April 25, 1902. In the presence of many persons of official and social prom-
inence, and more than ten thousand citizens, the statue, the work of Daniel
C. French, of New York City, was unveiled by Mrs. Lary Anderson, escorted
by her uncle, Mr. Hamilton Perkins, of Boston. In behalf of the donor,
Rear Admiral George E. Belknap, United States Navy, presented the statue
to the State of New Hampshire, which was accepted in behalf of the State
by his Excellency Chester B. Jordan. Governor of New Hampshire.

3o»)n abbott

;OHN ABBOTT, eldest child of Amos and Judith (Morse)
Abbott, was born November 15, 1805, at the old homestead
in West Concord, New Hampshire, on the farm that has
been owned by the family since the founding of the town.
He was educated in the local public schools, and early in
life engaged in the lumber business. From 1835 to 1849 he
was in partnership with Captain Abel Baker, father of Gov-
ernor Nathaniel Baker. Together they bought and cut off tracts of timber,
and rafted their product down the Merrimack to Lowell and Boston. Mr.
Abbott was expert in woodcraft and was often called upon as referee in
placing valuation upon standing timber, sometimes going as far as the Adir-
ondacks in this capacity. Mr. Abbott lived on the ancestral homestead until
after his marriage, when he bought the house in Concord, 236 North Main
street, which was the family home until 1905. This house, previous to the
Abbott occupancy of half a century, was successively owned by Dr. Peter
Renton and Dr. William Prescott, physicians of note in their day.

Mr. Abbott was a man of great kindness of nature and of unswerving
integrity. Of a sweet and serene disposition and absolute uprightness in
every relation of life, public and private, he held the respect and confidence
of the community to a degree possessed by few. "Honest John Abbott," as
he was familiarly known, was frequently called upon to serve the public,
and he filled nearly every official station in the town. He was selectman in
1849 ^"d 1851, and alderman in 1854. The city government was founded in
1853, and during the next twenty years he served twelve times as assessor.
This office seemed to devolve upon him by natural right because the public
had such faith in his honesty and judgment. In January, 1856, he was
elected mayor by the city government to fill the unexpired term of Mayor
Clement, who had died on the twenty-third of that month, and he was five
times subsequently elected to fill the oflice at the March meetings in 1856-
57-58 and 1866-67. No man has ever received the office so many times by
popular vote, and no man discharged its duties, including at that time the
supervision of the highways and the care of the poor, in more honorable
manner. Mr. Abbott was a trustee of the New Hampshire Savings Bank,
a director of the Page Belting Company and a member of the City Water
Board. In politics he was a Whig and among the founders of the Repub-
lican party. He was a regular attendant of the North Congregational
Church, belonged in earlv life to the Odd Fellows, and at the time of his
death was a member of Blazing Star Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted
Masons. Mr. Abbott's tall and commanding form, six feet four inches in
height, made him a marked figure in any public gathering.

On November 12, 1856, John Abbott married Hannah Matilda Brooks
at the home of her parents "in Warner, New Hampshire. She was born

31oi)n mbott 283

March 14, 1828, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and was the only daughter
and sole surviving child of Samuel and Hannah (Cogswell) Brooks, both
members of old Bay State families. In 1835, with her parents and yo'ung-er
brother, Thomas Emerson, who died October 18, 1838, she removed to
Warner. There in a delightful old house, which was the scene of constant
hospitality, her happy youth was spent. Many of the winters were passed
near Boston, either visiting or attending school. From her father Matilda
Brooks inherited marked intellectual ability, and she received unusual edu-
cational advantages, culminating in 1846-47 in a year at the private school
connected with the famous Brook Farm Community, at West Roxbury,
Massachusetts. Here she met many of the distinguished people of the dayi
and lived in a most stimulating intellectual atmosphere. She was a favorite
pupil of George Ripley, the head of the school and one of the foremost
American men of letters. Charles A. Dana, afterwards editor of the New
York "Sun," and Horace Greeley, were members of the Community at that
time. Some of the pupils were from Cuba and the Philippines, regions far
remote in those days. Mrs. Abbott was probably the only resident of New
Hampshire ever connected with Brook Farm, and she regarded her year
there as one of the great and special privileges of her life.

At intervals, from the age of fifteen to twenty-eight years, Mrs. Abbott
taught several terms of school in various places near her home. Her energy
of character, magnetic personality and active mind made this occupation a
delight, and she always spoke with the greatest pride and pleasure of her
school teaching days. Her interest in education never flagged and in later
year';, when her children were pupils, she was as regular in her visits to the
schools as any of the committee. Mrs. Abbott possessed a remarkable per-
sonality. She had great social charm, logical and brilliant mental powers,
and the most unswerving spiritual ideals. She was especially fond of young
people, and her fluent talk and ready wit made her always an entertaining
companion. Few people were better informed on local history. Her mind
was a storehouse of dates and genealogies, and her memory was infallible.
Her standards of life and literature were of the highest; her judgment of
character was instantaneous and unerring; her love of truth and justice, a
passion. Courage, fidelity, affection and extreme conscientiousness were
her marked characteristics.

John Abbott died instantly of heart disease at the home in Concord on
the evening of March t8, 1886, at the age of eighty years and three months.
His father died in the same way at the same age. Mrs. Abbott, who had
long been a sufiferer from nervous exhaustion, died at the home on the
morning of April 22, 1898, aged seventy years and one month. Their three
children, all born in the home at Concord, were: Frances Matilda, born
August 18, 1857; John Boylston, born April 5. i860; and Walter Brooks,
born December g, 1862.

R. LELAND J. GRAVES was a progressive physician of
Claremont, who by the introduction of more advanced ideas
in the treatment of disease aided considerably in carrying
the healing art to its present high standard of excellence. It
is a well-known fact that the greatest amount of good in the
way of scientific development has been accomplished by self-
made men, and the subject of this sketch belonged to that
worthy type of American citizenship.

Leland J. Graves was born in Berkshire, Franklin county, Vermont,
May 24, 1812, son of David J. and Mary (Leland) Graves. The founder of
the family came from England, where its printed genealogical record covers
a period of eight hundred years. The original form of the name was Greaves.
Thomas Greaves, who ranked as a rear admiral in the Royal Navy, settled
in Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1636, and his family was prominent in
early Colonial affairs. His son was one of the first physicians graduated
from Harvard College; and a grandson, who also graduated from that insti-
tution, became a judge. Dr. Graves's great-grandfather was Peter Greaves.
His grandfather, Luther Greaves, who resided in Leominster, Massachu-
setts, was born April 20, 1749. Luther served in the Revolutionary War as
a minute-man in Sergeant Samuel Sawyer's company, and was a lieutenant
in the company of Captain Ephraim Harris from May, 1778, to July 31,
1779. He died in Leominster in 1790. He married Phoebe Jewett, of that
town, and had a family of ten children. His widow married Colonel John
Boynton, and moved to Weathersfield, Vermont. David J. Graves, who
was born in Leominster, October 2, 1785, accompanied his mother and step-
father to Vermont, where he was brought up as a farmer. The latter part
of his life was spent in Wisconsin. His wife Mary, whom he married in
Weathersfield, became the mother of four children; namely, Sereno, Leland
J., Calvin Jewett, and L Franklin.

As soon as he was able to make himself useful, Leland J. Graves began
to assist upon farms in his neighborhood. He did not attend school until he
was fifteen years old. An ambition to advance developed with his mental
faculties; and in April, 1829, he bound himself to his uncle, Cyrus Boynton,
with the understanding that he was to have three months' schooling each
year, and that his wages were to be given to his father. That he made good
use of these limited educational' facilities is attested by the fact that when
he reached his majority he was competent to teach school. He taught in the
winter and worked at farming in the summer, saving his earnings, and at
intervals attending Chester, Cavendish, and Ludlow academies. He was
about to enter college when he was attacked by a severe illness, which in
spite of constant medical aid continued for four years. The suffering he
endured at this time caused him to change his plans for the future. Exces-

LeIanD 31. (©tatjcs, og. D. 285

sive doses of calomel, prescribed by the physicians to break up his stubborn
fever, produced such injurious results upon his system that he decided to
study medicine, with a view of ascertaining if less dangerous and more
effective modes of treatment could not be devised. Upon his recovery he
entered upon a course of preliminary medical instruction under the guidance
of Drs. Crosby, Peaslee, and Hubbard. He attended lectures at Dartmouth
College, and subsequently received his degree on his thirtieth birthday.
Shortly after he entered upon his profession in Langdon, New Hampshire.
When firmly established. Dr. Graves began to depart from the usual course
of treatment recognized in those days. In the treatment of fevers he sub-
stituted fresh air and water for mercurial preparations. He acquired a large
practice, his regular circuit including the towns of Langdon, Acworth, Wal-
pole, and Charlestown, and other places ; and for a quarter of a century he
devoted himself to his professional duties.

In 1868 he decided to rest from his labors, and with a view of perma-
nently retiring he moved to Claremont. Popular pressure, however, was
such as to make it impossible for him to carry out his resolution at that
time; and he continued in practice here for some years afterward. He was
especially noted for his charitable and patriotic disposition. The poor and
needy were never turned away, and during the war of the Rebellion he
steadfastly refused to accept pay for treating soldiers or their families. He
was a close student of botany, geology, and astronomy, and was familiar
with the terrestial formation and vegetation of the United States from the
State of Maine to the Rocky Mountains. With the practical value of plants
he was thoroughly conversant. A large collection of minerals which he had
spent years in collecting, was later presented to Durham College by his
daughters. In politics he was originally a Whig, and he became an ardent
Republican at the formation of that party. He was Superintendent of
Schools in Langdon for fourteen years, and he was a member of the Legis-
lature during the years 1867 and 1868. For fifty years he was a leading
member of the Baptist church in Springfield, Vermont. He was a member
of the New Hampshire State and Connecticut River Medical Associations.
In Masonry he had advanced to the commandery, was at one time eminent
commander, and was the organizer of the commandery in Claremont. He
died February 22, 1891, at his home in Claremont, nearly seventy-nine years
of age.

On May 24, 1843, Dr. Graves was united in marriage with Caroline E.
Strow, daughter of Reuben and Elizabeth (McEwan) Strow, of Weathers-
field, Vermont. Previous to her marriage she taught in the Unity Scientific
and Military School. She was a woman of superior mental endowments and
noble character. She died August 29, 1885, leaving three daughters— Mary
E., Harriet M., and Agnes J.

(J^obernor Cjefetel a* Strata

GOVERNOR EZEKIEL A. STRAW, eldest son of James B.
and Mehitable (Fisk) Straw, was born in Salisbury, New
Hampshire, December 30, 1819, and died October 23, 1882.
His early education was secured in the public schools of
Lowell, Massachusetts, whither his father had moved his
family after a few years residence in New Hampshire. Later
he became a student in the English department of Phillips-
Andover Academy, where he gave his special attention practical mathe-
matics. He left the academy in 1838. The Nashua & Lowell railroad was
then in process of construction, and he became assistant civil engineer on
this line. On July 4, 1838, he came to Manchester at the request of the con-
sulting engineer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, to take the
place of the regular engineer, who was ill and unable to work. He came
expecting to remain in Manchester only a few days, but made it his home
ever afterward. At the time of his arrival in Manchester, the canal was
unfinished, and no mill had been built on the east side of the river. Among
his first assignments were the surveying of the lots and streets, and what is
now the principal part of the city, and assisting in the construction of the
dams and canals. At the end of six years (1844) he had acquired so full a
knowledge of the processes and needs of the business that the Amoskeag
Company sent him to England and Scotland to obtain information and
machinery necessary for making and printing muslin delaines. The knowl-
edge and skill that he brought back with him enabled the Manchester Print
Works to introduce first this process in the United States. Mr. Straw
remained with the Amoskeag Company in the capacity of civil engineer until
July, 1851, when he took the position of agent of the land and water power
department of the company. At that time the mills and machine shops
were under separate agents. Five years later, in July, 1856, the first two
were united and put in charge of Mr. Straw; and in July, 1858, all three were
combined under his management and he took entire control of the com-
pany's operations in Manchester.

Mr. Straw being so prominent in the construction of the mills, then, as
now, the most important feature of the city, it was very natural that he
should be appointed a member of the committee to provide plans and specifi-
cations for the rebuilding of the town house in 1844, and one of the first com-
mittee appointed to devise plans for the introduction of water works into the
city. He was connected with all subsequent measures for supplying the
city with water, and in 1871, when the board of water commissioners was
appointed to take charge of the present water works, he was made its presi-
dent, and held that office for many years. In 1854 he was chosen a member
of the first board of trustees of the Manchester Public Library, and held that
office for a quarter of a century. He was elected assistant engineer of the

(©oiiernot dB^ekkl a. Strata 287

Fire Department in 1846, and was repeatedly reelected to that position. His
public service to the State at large began in 1859, when he was elected Rep-
resentative to the State Legislature. He was reelected in each of the four
years next following, and during the last three years served as chairman of
the committee on finance. He was elected to the State Senate in 1864,
returned in 1865, and made president of that body. The same year he was
chosen on the part of the Senate one of the commissioners to superintend the
rebuilding of the State House. In 1869 he was appointed by Governor
Stearns a member of his stafif. In 1872 he had been employed almost con-
tinually in the service of the State for thirteen years, and had been in one
way or another connected with all the questions of public interest of that
time. In that year the Republican party elected him Governor of the State,
and reelected him the following year. In 1870 the commission to arrange
for the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876 was appointed, and
President Grant made Governor Straw a member of that committee from
New Hampshire.

From the organization of the Namaske Mills, in 1856, till their dissolu-
tion, Mr. Straw was the treasurer and principal owner, and after 1854 until
near the end of his business career was the sole proprietor. In 1874 he was
chosen a director of the Langdon Mills. He was president and a director
of the Blodget Edge-Tool Manufacturing Company from its organization
in 1855 until its dissolution in 1862, and during the existence of the Amos-
keag Axe Company, which succeeded it, he was a director. He was one of
the first directors of the Manchester Gas-Light Company, when it was
organized in 1851, and was chosen its president in 1855, holding the office
until January 29, 1881. In i860 he was elected a director of the Manchester
& Lawrence Railroad Company, and in 1871 became president of the corpo-
ration, resigning in 1879. Upon the organization of the New England Cot-
ton Manufacturers' Association he was chosen its president, and was also
president of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company from its organi-
zation in 1869 until 1880, when he resigned. He was one of the founders of
the First Unitarian Society in 1842, its clerk and treasurer from that time
until 1844, its president from 1853 to 1857, and was chairman of the com-
mittee which built the present house of worship. In 1879 Mr. Straw was
compelled by ill health to resign the management of the Amoskeag Manu-
facturing Company, and after a prolonged sickness he died October 23, 1882.
In the "History of Hillsborough County," Governor Straw's biographer
said of him, "Mr. Straw was emphatically a great man, not only in his pro-
fession, in which he towered far above nearly all others, but in all the various
positions to which he was called. He was not known as a brilliant or a
sharp man. He had but little need of the helps which men gain by dazzling
or outwitting friends or foes ; for there was a massiveness about him, a solid
strength, which enabled him to carry out great plans by moving straight
over obstacles which other men would have been compelled to remove or go
around. His mind was broad, deep and comprehensive; he had rare good
judgment, great self-reliance, and a stability of purpose which seldom failed.
He was peculiarly fitted for the management of vast enterprises. His plans

288 aotiernor C^ebiel a. Strata

were farreaching and judicious, and his executive ability was equal to the
successful carrying out of whatever his mind projected and his judgment
approved." Clark's "History of Manchester" (1875) says: "Governor Straw,
in our judgment, is the ablest man in New Hampshire. In a room full of
people, the judges of our courts, the managers of our railways, the professors
of our colleges, he would take the lead of all. He is conversant with more
subjects than any other man we know of, whether art or science, manufac-
tures or financial themes. He is a great reader, and his tenacious memory
makes all he reads his own. Not long after he came to this city, the Amos-
keag Company began to look upon him as competent to manage its whole
business and gradually it fell into his hands. In time, the other corpora-
tions, the city and State, looked to him for advice, and for many years he has
been the foremost man in Manchester, and for the past few years the leading
man in shaping the policy of the State. Of great mental capacities, he is
able to turn off a vast amount of work with the greatest ease. He never
seems in a hurry, though probably surrounded by more business than any
other man in the State. He never looks to others for his opinions, and
though willing to fall in line with his friends and his party in nonessential
things, he cannot be swerved from his idea of what is right by political con-
siderations or fear of unpopularity. He enjoys truth, and takes pleasure in
doing what his judgment dictates. A very generous man, liberal in his gifts
to the poor and to all charitable institutions, to him more than any other
man is Manchester indebted for its great prosperity."

Ezekiel A. Straw married, April 6, 1842, at Amesbury, Massachusetts,
Charlotte Smith Webster, who died in Manchester, March 15, 1852. To
them were born four children : Albert, who died in infancy ; Charlotte Web-
ster, the wife of William H. Howard, of Somerville, Massachusetts ; Herman
Foster, who became superintendent of the Amoskeag Company's Mills in
Manchester; Ellen, the wife of Henry Thompson, of Lowell, Massachusetts.

'HERE was much in the life of the late Charles William
Cheney, of Manchester, New Hampshire, to command the
admiration of his fellow-men, but it was not more his strict
adherence to the principles of right and justice that attracted
him to others than his unfailing kindness and spirit of self-
sacrifice. Upon these traits his great popularity with all
who were privileged to know him intimately was based,
while the respect of the business world was the outgrowth of a life known to
be honorable, upright and without guile. "Good business" with him did
not necessarily mean volume but quality, and this fact was appreciated more
by those whose lives brought them into daily contact with his gentle and
kindly spirit. His personality was most pleasing, dignified and courtly, and
he was truly one of those men whose lives and characters form the under-
lying structure upon which are built the hopes of the prosperity of America.
His ambition along the worthiest lines, his perseverance, his steadfastness
of purpose, and tireless industry, all furnish splendid lessons to the young
business man of the coming generations, and the well-earned success and
esteem that he gained proved the inevitable result of the practice of these
virtues. The entire life of Mr. Cheney was devoted to the highest and best,
and all his endeavors were for the furtherance of those noble ideals that he
made the rule of his daily life. The success which he won as a business man
never elated him unduly, nor caused him to vary from the usual tenor of his
way. But any estimate of his character would be unjust that did not point
to the natural ability and keien mental gifts which he improved by daily and
hourly usage. He had a profound knowledge of human nature, and his
judgment was sound and unerring. His strong and dominating person-
ality, and his power over other men, was not the result of aggressiveness,
but of the momentum of character and strength. In all the walks of life,
Mr. Cheney acquitted himself as to be regarded as a most valued and honor-
able citizen, and as a representative business man, and his death, which
occurred at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire, September 14, 1914,
meant the removal of one who had been endowed by nature with many fine
traits of character, and an influence of inestimable value. Mr. Cheney was
a progressive man in the broadest sense of that word, and gave his earnest
support to any movement that promised to benefit his community in any
manner. His was a long life of honor and trust, extending over seventy-
two years, and no higher eulogy can be passed upon him than to state the
simple truth that his name was never coupled with anything disreputable,
and that there never was a shadow of a stain upon his reputation for integ-
rity and unswerving honesty. He was a most consistent man in all that he
ever undertook, and his career in all the relations of life was utterly without
pretense. He was held in the highest esteem by all who had known him, and

NH-19

290 Cl)atle$ ^iUtam Ci)enep

the city of Manchester, New Hampshire, could boast of no better man or
more enterprising citizen.

The birth of Charles William Cheney occurred in Goffstown, New
Hampshire, October lo, 1842, the son of Charles William Cheney, Sr., who
was born in Deering, New Hampshire, August 29, 1818, and on September
28, 1 841. was united in marriage with Louisa Roberts, a daughter of Adam
and Mary (Ring) Roberts. The history of the Cheney family is a most
interesting one, and is exceeded by none in England. John Cheney, the head
of the Newbury line of Cheneys, came to Roxbury, Massachusetts, as early
as 1635, and brought with him four children. Later he went to Newbury,
Massachusetts. His allotment of land was exceedingly large, and we learn
from the Historian Cofifin that John Cheney took great interest in Governor
Winthrop's campaign for the governorship of Massachusetts against Sir
Harry Vane. John Cheney was admitted as a freeman, May 17, 1637, was a
member of the Board of Selectmen, and was considered one of the most
prominent and influential men in the Colony. His son, Daniel Cheney, was
born in England, and became a resident of Newbury, Massachusetts. Dan-
iel Cheney, the third in descent, the son of Daniel Cheney, was also a resi-
dent of Newbury, and was a prosperous farmer by occupation, being the
owner of a large estate. He was one of the brave defenders of the town
against the attacks of the Indians, and he died in 1755. Thomas Cheney,
the fourth in descent, and the son of Daniel Cheney, became a prominent
resident of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and later of Plaistow, New Hamp-
shire. He was born in Newbury, Massachusetts, February 25, 1703. His
son, Daniel Cheney, the fifth in descent, was a resident of Salem, New
Hampshire, and later of Goffstown, New Hampshire, where he bought land
in 1780. Thomas Cheney, the sixth in descent, and the son of Daniel Cheney,
passed away, September 17, 1862, and was buried in Goffstown, New Hamp-
shire. He was the grandfather of Charles William Cheney, the distin-
guished gentleman whose name heads this memoir, and such is the line of
descent and the sterling New England stock from which he came. His
traits of character, as exemplified in his industry, his strict integrity, broad-
mindedness, and high type of citizenship, bears out the old and true saying
that "Blood will tell." He was in everything and in every way a worthy
descendant of his honored forbear, John Cheney, Sr., who was the staunch
friend of Governor Winthrop, and one of the long list of the pioneer build-
ers of our country.

Mr. Cheney obtained his education in the schools of his native town
of Goffstown, and also received a course of private instruction, thus laying
a splendid foundation for his business career. At the time of his death, Mr.
Cheney had been a resident of Manchester, New Hampshire, for forty-one
years, or for the major part of his producing years. For thirty-five years of
that period he had been a valued employee of the Amoskeag Corporation,
and entered into that concern in 1880. His marked advancement in the
Amoskeag Mills, from carpenter to master mechanic, was due largely to his
native ability and power of strict application to all the tasks that came to
his hand. At the time of his death, Mr. Cheney was at the head of the land

Cbarles miUiam Cljenep 291

and water department of this corporation, a position that called for execu-
tive ability of a high degree. He attributed his success in life to the training
which he had received from his parents, while at his home in Goffstown,
during his boyhood days. His younger days were spent on the farm, where
he learned the trade of carpentering, and then the yearning to enter the
business world became strong and induced him to start his career in a larger
city. Thus he came to Manchester, New Hampshire, and worked for a large
firm before entering the employ of the Amoskeag Corporation. He proved
his worth to this corporation before he had worked many years, and was
advanced rapidly, until he became master mechanic of the department. Mr.
Cheney also held the position of overseer of buildings and repairs. On
account of illness, Mr. Cheney was obliged to give up his active work in the
mills, and he had high hopes that inactivity and freedom from all worry
over business would enable him to regain some of his lost strength and
health, but it was too late. The best part of his life had been given over in
perfecting the wonderful organization and work of the Amoskeag Corpora-
tion. His services were deeply and fully appreciated, and his worth in the
business world was acknowledged by those men whose opinion is best worth
having.

In his political belief, Mr. Cheney was a consistent and staunch Repub-
lican, and always worked for the best interests of his party. He never
aspired to any great office in politics, but he served one term, in 1899, in the
State Legislature, as representative from Ward Three, of Manchester. He
never attempted, however, to gain any higher honors, and during his term
in the Legislature he served as chairman of the committee of labor. Mr.
Cheney was the possessor of that frank, open manner that is so attractive,
and his democracy was so fundamental and genuine that he never felt con-
tempt for the humble, and thus drew all classes toward him as by magne-
tism. During his business too, he had to deal with the most various classes
of men. but with all he displayed a remarkable control of himself, and a
self-possession which marked him as a leader of men. One may well be
amazed at the enumeration of his achievements, of the offices which he filled,
and the duties which he discharged.

In fraternal circles, Mr. Cheney was a well known and prominent figure,
being a member of the Masonic order, holding his membership in Washing-
ton Lodge. He also belonged to Mount Horeb Chapter, Adoniram Council,
Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, Bektash Temple, Shrine, Ruth
Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, Ridgley Lodge of Odd Fellows, the Social
Lodge of Rebekahs, and was a member of the Calumet Club of Manchester,
New Hampshire. There have been few men better known or more highly
esteemed in Manchester's business and social circles than Mr. Cheney, and
it is safe to say that if it were possible for any man never to have had an
enemy, he was Charles William Cheney. In his religious belief, Mr. Cheney
was affiliated with the Baptist church, and for many years was an influential
member of the First Baptist Church of Manchester.

Charles William Cheney was twice married, his first wife being the
mother of two children, namely: i. Lucy, deceased. 2. Georgia May, who

292 Cf)atle$ mnUam €htntp

became the wife of Charles H. Marshall, of Laconia, and they are the parents
of two children, twins, John and Richard H. Marshall. On January 31,
1900, Charles William Cheney was united in marriage with Lizzie J. Ladd,
of I-awrence, Massachusetts, who survives him, and since his death has con-
tinued to reside in Manchester, New Hampshire, at No. 302 Orange street.
The private life of Mr. Cheney was a model of virtue, his home relations
ideal, and it was there that he turned for rest and recreation after the ardu-
ous labors that claimed so much of his time and energy. His devotion to his
home and family was one of the most attractive characteristics of this alto-
gether lovable man.

The various testimonies to the love and veneration in which Mr. Cheney
was held are merely examples of the general popular feeling that was
dominant throughout the city for this noble gentleman. It will be appro-
priate to close this memorial with the following resolutions which were
passed by the Knights of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, on the
occasion of Mr. Cheney's death. These resolutions read as follows:

IN MEMORIAM.

Sir Knight Charles William Cheney was a native of Goffstown, New Hampshire,
and in early life learned the trade of a carpenter. After applying himself to his trade
in the vicinity of Manchester, he became identified with the Amoskeag Corporation,
where, by his high moral character and his loyalty to his employers, he won distinction
in his work, and at the time of his death was Master Mechanic in the Land and Water
Power Department of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, in whose employ he had
been for a term of thirty-five years.

Resolved, That in the passing away of our beloved Sir Knight Charles William
Cheney, the community has lost an upright and honorable citizen. Trinity Commandery
has lost a true and courteous Knight, and his family an indulgent and loving husband
and father. And we as brother Sir Knights unite with the family in this hour of their
sorrow and bereavement ; and be it further

Resolved, That these Resolutions become a part of our records, and that a copy
be sent to the family of the deceased.

3(ame0 JTrancfe iSrtggs

'HE late James Francis Briggs belonged to that class of men
who, possessing by nature and inheritance excellent busi-
ness abilities, are successful in more than one kind of activ-
ity. Throughout his life he made his home in Manchester,
New Hampshire, where he was well known and highly
esteemed, not only in business circles but in social life as
well. His bright and happy disposition attracted many
friends, and won for him popularity and confidence. His high ideals and
exemplary character were interwoven with his activities and were thor-
oughly appreciated by his family, friends, business associates, and all others
who knew him. The essence of a man's true and honorable success, as well
as the very foundation, is his worth, and no higher compliment can be paid
a man than to make the statement that he is a member of the class known
as the worthy business men. No better example of this class can be found
than Mr. Briggs, whose death, which occurred in Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, February 3, 1913, came as a sorrowful shock to his many friends and
acquaintances. His friends were indeed a legion, numbering many high in
official and business life, who received the tidings of his death with great and
deep regret. Mr. Briggs was blessed by nature with gifts of a high order,
which he did not hesitate to use. He developed a strong business ability,
and possessed a progressive habit of closely following the trend of modern
thought. He was self-made, inasmuch as he rose to affluence and success
through his own individual efforts, and not through a lucky turn of fortune's
wheel. What was even better, he was one of the last men to ascribe the
least merit to himself.

The birth of James Francis Briggs occurred in Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, June 20, 1870, the son of James and Anna (Cullenton) Briggs. His
father, James Briggs, was one of Manchester's best known business men,
and passed away March 26, 1901, at the Sacred Heart Hospital, in Man-
chester. Mr. Briggs, Sr., was a native of England, and emigrated to the
United States when a young man of twenty-one years of age. Soon after
his arrival in this country, he located in Manchester, where he embarked in
the stove and house furnishing business. It was not long before he became
one of the largest dealers in that line in the city, and was considered as such
up to the time of his decease. His absolute integrity and faithfulness in the
discharge of every obligation was the foundation of his success in life. He
was a Catholic and a member of St. Anne's Parish, Manchester. He was a
Democrat, staunch in his support of his party, and held office in Ward Five,
besides receiving the nomination of his party for several important positions
in Ward Six. He was a man in whose heart there existed the spirit of kind-
ness and charity, and this was manifested even in performing the sometimes
disagreeable duties of a public officer. As a neighbor he was ever ready to
accommodate, and generously contributed of his means to make the neigh-

294 3!ames JFtancis IBriggs

borhood more pleasant and happy. His death created a void that it will be
hard to fill, and as the j'ears pass by and his friends and business associates
more properly estimate his true character the more fully will they realize
their great loss in his death.

James Francis Briggs did not encounter the insuperable obstacles that
beset other boys in securing an education, as he received the training
afforded by the Old Park Street School, in his native city of Manchester.
After his graduation he worked for his father for some time, and then
engaged in the grocery business, on his own account, in the block owned by
his father on Lake avenue. Early in life Mr. Briggs learned the value of
punctuality and steadfastness, which he magnified throughout his daily life.
Mr. Briggs remained in the grocery business for about three years, but on
account of his not being wholly satisfied nor the business agreeing with him,
he sold his interest and engaged in the milk business, which he followed for
a period of eleven years. Through his hard work and industry a large and
growing trade was developed, and his business sagacity, accompanied by
untiring energy, made him a man among men. Success came to him
because he rightly deserved it, and it came through industry, thrift and
ability.

About four years previous to his death, Mr. Briggs became interested
in the wholesale confectionery business, and at the time of his death was
looked upon as one of the most enterprising men in this line. He had an
extensive trade, and his strict honesty and integrity made for him a host of
friends, both socially and in the business world. Energy, self-confidence
and a strict adherence to the moral law and those principles of human con-
duct that play so vital a part in moulding society were the traits which lay
at the bottom of Mr. Briggs' character. His business success, as must all
true success, depended first upon his highly moral character, and then upon
the special knowledge of his various subjects which was a later and acquired
power. In all that he did for himself Mr. Briggs kept the interest of those
about him ever in sight, and all of his relations with his fellow-men were
carried out in like manner. He would not allow, for instance, his exacting
occupations in the business world to interfere with what he considered to
be due his family, any more than he erred in the opposite direction and
allowed domestic ties to interfere with the discharge of his obligations to
the outside world.

Mr. Briggs never took an active part in the public affairs of the com-
munity, although he lived up to the tasks and duties imposed upon him by
virtue of his citizenship. He was an extremely industrious man, and when
not attending to his business affairs, was always to be found by his own
fireside at home, preferring the comforts and intimate intercourse of his
immediate family to any other form of social life or pleasure. He was a
member of Derryfield Lodge, N. E. O. P., where his genial disposition won
him many friends. He was one of those men positive in his opinions, but
considerate of the opinions of others. In almost every emergency he was
self-possessed, cool and quick to realize what was necessary. In his reli-
gious feeling and thought Mr. Briggs' views were very liberal, for religious

3[ame0 jFrancis ISriggg 295

bigotry had no place in his nature. He was a Catholic, and a member all
his life of St. Anne's Catholic Church. For many years he was a member
of Court Queen City, giving- his time and means to upbuild the Court. Mr.
Briggs was also a member of the Holy Name Society, and of the Ancient
Order of Foresters.

In 1894, James Francis Briggs was united in marriage with Mary E.
Kuhn, of Raymond, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs became the
parents of seven children, as follows: Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Irene,
Frederick and Francis, twin brothers, and Charles Briggs. Mr. Briggs' own
fireside was the seat of his real enjoyment and happiness of life, and though
many mourned his departure from earthly view, it was in the family circle
that the greater vacancy and the deeper mourning was to be found. Mr.
Briggs was always intensely devoted to his family. His private virtues were
not less remarkable than his public, and the deep affection with which his
family and intimate friends regarded him is the best tribute which can be
paid to the strength and sincerity of his domestic instincts.

Mr. Briggs was a very just and generous man, of calm, deliberate judg-
ment, and he led an unselfish, helpful life, full of activity, good deeds and
kindly acts. In all the relations of life he displayed sterling traits of char-
acter which stood out in a marked manner, and gained for him the admira-
tion and affection of all who came in contact with him. With an unyielding
purpose in the enlargement of his activities and usefulness, he laid the sure
foundation of an honorable and substantial life. We are always interested
and impressed by the success won by unusual talents and powers out of the
common, for it appeals to a very fundamental trait in all of us. For instance,
such records which describe how worth has won its way upwards through
doubts and difficulties to a recognized place in the regard of men, and
trusted to no power but its own indomitable courage and indefatigable
patience for the result. Such an example we may find in the life career of
James Francis Briggs, who by sheer perseverance gradually forged his way
upward to one of influence and control in the business world. His life was
a short one, less than half a century, but in the years of his business career
in Manchester he stamped himself as a man of great worth.

Wttlliam ^vut Cass

■ILLIAM TRUE CASS was born February 7, 1826, under the
shadow of old Kearsarge Mountain, in Andover, New
Hampshire, son of Benjamin and Sarah (True) Cass. His
father was a farmer, first in Andover, later in Plymouth,
and the boy grew to manhood among the scenes of a country
life. He attended the country schools and was a student at
the Holmes Academy, Plymouth, for several years.
In 1855 the family moved to a farm in that part of Sanbornton which is
now Tilton, then known as Sanbornton Bridge. Here the banker of the
future followed the vocation of farmer, like his father and grandfather
before him. He worked for his uncle one year and carried on his farm for
one hundred and fifty dollars, paying his wife's board out of that sum. He
sawed his own wood evenings, and in the winter season when the land could
not be tilled, he worked days in a mill, fulling cloth, and in that way length-
ened out his purse. But such was not long to be his work, for in January,
1856, he was chosen cashier of the Citizens' Bank of Sanbornton, and com-
menced his new duties one afternoon, having spent the morning at his labors
in the mill. The bank was then but a small affair, and had been in existence
only a short time. It occupied one room in the brick dwelling which has
been Mr. Cass' residence ever since he took possession of the bank and house
together that January day. Although not familiar with banking, he studied
the books of the institution until he had mastered them, and knew just how
to keep them, and even till his last days he proved a good accountant and
well versed in the best methods. The business of the bank rapidly increased,
and in 1865 it was made a national bank, with increased capital. Mr. Cass
continued cashier until 1889, when he resigned to accept the position of
president, which he retained until his death. He was one of the directors
of the bank almost from the beginning of his connection with it. In 1870
the lona Savings Bank was established, largely through the efiforts of Mr.
Cass, and he was made treasurer, in which office he continued the rem.ainder
of his life. He saw the institution grow from a new bank with no deposits
to nearly a half a million at the time of his death. At the latter date he was
the second oldest bank official in the State in point of years of service, having
been continuously in the work for more than forty-five years. His long
experience in this connection gave him a wide knowledge to be sought for
upon many matters outside of banking interests. He was for eighteen years
treasurer of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary, and had been a
trustee of that institution for forty years. He was also one of the board
of three trustees in charge of Park Cemetery. He was for two years treas-
urer of the town, served for several years as moderator at the annual town
meeting, and had been supervisor of the checklist, but he never sought polit-
ical honors, and refused them whenever possible. A man of quiet domestic

mniisim Crue Cas0 2^7

tastes, he preferred the comforts oi hoP^^ to the excitement of political life,
and the pleasures of the outside world nevef appealed to him to any great
extent.

Mr. Cass became a member of the Methodist Episcopal church when
only fourteen years of age. He had been connected with the Methodist
Episcopal church of Tilton during the entire period of his life here, had been
a class leader for forty years, a member of the quarterly conference, and
president of the board of trustees for many years. He was almost all his life
a teacher in the Sunday school, and was at one time superintendent. He was
always actively interested in all that pertained to the church, gave liberally
to all its benevolences, and never failed to be in his place at all the services
unless prevented by sickness. He was a very intelligent Christian man. He
loved the doctrines and polity of Methodism, and delighted in strong,
earnest, evangelical preaching. He was always a generous supporter of the
benevolent enterprises of the church. His knowledge of the Bible gave him
an aptness in prayer and speech that was very marked. He held and prac-
ticed the old-fashioned views of family piety, constantly maintained his
family altar, and exercised a generous Christian hospitality. He commanded
public confidence by his honest vipright dealings, so that his fellow-citizens
trusted him without reserve. He finally allied himself with every moral
reform that promised the wellbeing of men, and did not hesitate to speak out
boldly in their behalf. In politics, Mr. Cass was a Democrat until the Civil
War. He then became a Republican, and, although loyal to party, he was
not slow to see any defects or weaknesses in party lines, and was always
ready to help correct the same. His State and his country were always
uppermost in his mind, and he was careful to obey his convictions of duty.
Therefore, it was his custom to go to the party primaries as a proper place
to correct errors or advocate reforms.

Mr. Cass married, September t8, 1851, Mary Emery Locke, who sur-
vived him. She was born at East Concord, New Hampshire, September 19,
1830. Their children were: i. Alfred Locke, born October 28, i860, died
September i, 1862. 2. Mary Addie, born March 5, 1863, married Abel Wesley
Reynolds, October 29, 1889; children: Margaret, born September 23, 1890,
died November 8, 1896; Alice, born December 30, 1893; Kenneth Cass, born
May 28, 1897; Chester Abel, born February 6. 1900; Arthur Wesley, born
April 2y, 1902, died October 31, 1902. 3. Arthur T., born April 9, 1865.
4. William Daniel, born January 27, 1872, died May 7, 1879. Mr. Cass died
May 26, 1901. His death came suddenly, after an illness of less than a week,
of pneumonia.

Jf r^berttfe it^ltllarmon (Bilbtxt

FREDERICK MILLARMON GILBERT was a prominent
figure in the industrial and business world of Walpole, New
Hampshire, where, although he was not a native of the place
or indeed of the State at all, he was closely identified with its
general life for a number of years. He was a member of an
old New York family, and his father was associated with the
industries of the Empire State for many years, as was Fred-
erick M. Gilbert also before coming to Walpole, New Hampshire. He was
a son of Colgate and Martha (Austen) Gilbert. Mr. Gilbert, Sr., was a resi-
dent for many years of New York City, and was there engaged in the manu-
facture of starch, meeting with a high degree of success in business. He and
his wife were the parents of a family of children, among whom was Fred-
erick Millarmon.

Born June 26, 1854, in the city of New York, Frederick Millarmon Gil-
bert, son of Colgate and Martha (Austen) Gilbert, did not remain in his
native place for more than the first few years of his life. He was taken by his
parents to Buffalo, New York, whither his father removed to continue his
manufacturing enterprise, and it was in this western city that the lad
received his education or rather the elementary portion thereof, attending
for this purpose the local public schools. He was later sent by his parents
to the Zeigler School at Newburgh-on-the-Hudson, and still later attended
the Horace Briggs School at Buffalo. Throughout his school years, Mr.
Gilbert showed great aptitude as a student and established an enviable repu-
tation for himself both in this connection and as a young man of good char-
acter. He was popular with his fellow under-graduates, and won the
approval and respect of his instructors and masters as well. Upon com-
pleting his studies at the Horace Briggs School, he turned his attention to
the serious business of earning his livelihood and was admitted by his father
as an employee into the latter's starch factory at Buffalo. Here the young
man, working up from a humble position through the various steps of
employment, learned every detail of this industry until he became an expert
on the manufacturing of starch. It was perhaps, however, the mechanical
side of the operation involved in the turning out of this product which inter-
ested young Mr. Gilbert the most, and as time went on his taste for mechan-
ics grew and was developed. Eventually, Mr. Gilbert found his attention
so drawn to this subject that he decided to give up the starch business alto-
gether and turn his attention and energies into his favorite line of work.
Accordingly he began on his own account the manufacture of gasoline
engines, and in the year 1892 came to Walpole, New Hampshire, where he
continued his enterprise, developing a large and satisfactory trade in gaso-
line engines, his plant having been one of the most important of its kind in
that region. The type of engine manufactured by Mr. Gilbert stood high

iFrcDerick Q^illarmon (Silfiett 299

in the g-eneral trade, and as he used only the best material and workmanship
in its production, it commanded a large and excellent market. In addition
to his industrial interests, Mr. Gilbert was also interested in enterprises of
various characters in the West, especially at Des Moines, Iowa. Here he
was an important figure in the financial situation, and was director of the
Iowa National Bank of that city. While in no sense of the word a politician,
his time and inclination both preventing him from actively identifying him-
self with local affairs, he was, nevertheless, keenly interested in the great
political issues and questions of the day. As is the case with most men of
intelligence, he identified himself with no party, but was an Independent in
his political attitude, using his influence in favor of that candidate or policy
which he believed would be most beneficial to the community-at-large, quite
without regard to what party supports or opposes him, or indeed of partisan
considerations altogether. During his residence in Buffalo, Mr. Gilbert was
a member of the City Club of that place, an organization not now in exist-
ence. In his religious belief Mr. Gilbert was a Unitarian, and since his resi-
dence in Walpole attended the church of that denomination.

Frederick Millarmon Gilbert was united in marriage January 30, 1879,
at Buffalo, New York, with Alice Clifton, a daughter of Henry and Elizabeth
(Dorsheimer) Clifton, old and highly respected residents of that city. One
child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, Colgate, May 29, 1896. Mr. Gilbert
died in 1902.

Cpler UEestgate

'YLER WESTGATE, Judge of Probate of Grafton county,
New Hampshire, postmaster of Haverhill, the incumbent of
many other offices of responsibility and trust, and one of the
most prominent figures in the life of his community, was a
member of a good old New England family, which has
resided in these parts for many years. His death, which
occurred on June 6, 1917, deprived the community of which
he was a member, of one who had ever been actively interested in its welfare
and a leader in all movements undertaken to advance its interest. Not only
during his own life and career was the name of Westgate closely associated
with the courts and legal life of the community, but his father before him
was an eminent attorney of Enfield, New Hampshire, for more than thirty
years. He was a son of Nathaniel Waite and Louisa (Tyler) Westgate,
old and highly respected residents of Grafton county. New Hampshire, the
former having held a number of posts there in which he was afterwards suc-
ceeded by his son, the Mr. Westgate of this sketch. Nathaniel Waite West-
gate was register of probate of Grafton county from 1856 to 1861, judge of
probate for the same county from 1861 to 1871, and upon his retirement from
that office was elected to represent the community in the New Hampshire
State Legislature. He and his wife were the parents of a family of six chil-
dren, of whom Tyler Westgate was one.

Born December 2, 1843, ^^ Enfield, New Hampshire, Tyler Westgate
passed the years of his childhood and early youth at his father's home in that
town. The elementary portion of his education was gained at the local
public schools, but he was later sent to the Haverhill Academy, where he
studied for a time, and still later to the Kimball Union Academy, from which
he was graduated with the class of 1864. It was natural that as a son of his
father Mr. Westgate should early be interested in court procedure and legal
afifairs generally, and he had not long graduated from school when he
accepted the offer of assistant clerk of the Supreme Court of Grafton county.
He held this position from 1865 to 1871, and then, just ten years after his
father's resignation from the position, became register of probate and con-
tinued in that office from 1871 to 1874. He was again appointed register of
probate in 1876 and served for three years following. In 1876 he was also
chosen clerk of the New Hampshire State Senate, a post that he held for one
year and in which he gave eminent satisfaction despite the many difficulties
involved therein. Mr. Westgate was a staunch Republican in his political
belief, and in the year 1881, when Garfield became President, he was
appointed postmaster of Haverhill and served in that capacity during the
administration of that gentleman. During this time he did much to improve
the postal service at Haverhill and brought his important department up to
a high state of efficiency, instituting many much needed reforms. In the

cpiet mtstmt 301

year 1890 Mr. Westgate was appointed judge of probate and continued in
this office until the year 1913, when he reached the age limit and resigned.
During the twenty-three years of his service in this responsible post, Judge
Westgate established a most enviable reputation for just and impartial deal-
ings and for the wisdom and good judgment he displayed in his decisions.

In addition to his many official capacities, Judge Westgate was also
actively engaged in several business enterprises in which he met with a high
degree of success. For a considerable time he conducted a large coal busi-
ness and he previously had entered the insurance line and become a success-
ful agent for the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, Indeed his
activities made him a prominent figure in the industrial and business life
of the community and played no small part in stimulating business activity
there. He was also a conspicuous figure in the general life of the com-
munity, and was a trustee of Haverhill Academy for many years. He was
affiliated with the Masonic order and for a long period was a member of
Grafton Lodge, No. 46, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Another office
in which Mr. Westgate served for many years and in which he established a
most enviable reputation was that of justice of the peace.

Judge Westgate was united in marriage, August 30, 1881, with Lucretia
M. Sawyer, of Malone, New York. Mrs. Westgate died, however, a few
years later, and on August 15, 1888, Judge Westgate married Phebe Jane
Bean, of Limington, Maine, a daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Waterhouse)
Bean, old and highly respected residents of that place. Of this second union
two children were born, as follows : Louise B., July 17, 1890, and Elsie Mae,
April 18, 1892,

©Itber €rnesto ilrancb

[ORN in that part of Ohio which at one time constituted the
Western Reserve of Connecticut, Oliver E. Branch was by
blood through both of his parents a Connecticut Yankee,
who, contrary to the prevailing tendency of his time, came
East to seek his fortune, and finally found success in New
England, which his grandparents had left one hundred years
before. Family pride was always one of his marked char-
acteristics, and no sketch of his life would be complete without some account
of his ancestry.

Mr. Branch was a direct descendant in the seventh generation of Peter
Branch, who sailed from England in 1638 on the ship "Castle," and who died
during the voyage. With him upon this journey came his son John, then a
boy about ten years of age, who was born in Kent county, England, about
1628. After his arrival in America this John Branch probably spent the
early years of his life at Scituate, Massachusetts, but eventually settled at
Marshfield, Massachusetts, where he died August 17, 171 1. His son, Peter
Branch, was born May 28, 1659, at Marshfield, Massachusetts, whence he
moved as early as 1680 to Norwich, Connecticut, and later to Preston, Con-
necticut, where he died December 27, 1713. His son, Samuel Branch, was
born September 3, 1701, at Preston, Connecticut, and died in the year 1756.
His son, Samuel Branch, Jr., was born at Preston, Connecticut, August 6,
1729, and died February 15, 1773. His son, William Branch, was born at
Preston, Connecticut, September 3, 1760, and died at Madison, Ohio, April
13, 1849. His son, William Witter Branch, was born at Aurelius, Cayuga
county. New York, August 31, 1804. He married, July 3, 1834, Lucy Jane
Bartram, and died May 25, 1887, at North Madison, Ohio. Their son, Oliver
Ernesto Branch (christened Erastus), was born July 19, 1847, ^t North
Madison, Ohio, and died June 22, 1916, at Manchester, New Hampshire.

Mr. Branch's grandfather, William Branch, was a fine type of the Revo-
lutionary soldier and pioneer, whose life was full of hardship and adventure.
At the outbreak of the Revolutionary War he was only fifteen years old, and
his first attempt to enlist at the age of sixteen was thwarted by an older
brother who secured his discharge on account of his youth. On April i,
1777, he enlisted again, however, in Colonel John Durkee's Connecticut regi-
ment and served until the end of the war. He fought at Brandywine, Ger-
mantown. Fort Mifflin, Monmouth and Yorktown, and spent the winter with
Washington at Valley Forge. About 1790 he settled in Cayuga county,
New York, then known as Onondaga county, where he held the office of
sherifif for three years. Thence he moved to Chautauqua county, New York,
thence to Erie county, Pennsylvania, thence to Kirkland, Cayuga county,
Ohio, thence to Madison, Lake county, Ohio. He married, November 27,
1796, Lucretia Branch, a second cousin, who was born April 3, 1775, at Pitts-

SDWoet (Ccnesto 'Btanclj 303

field, Massachusetts, and died December 5, 1857, at Madison, Ohio. During
the War of 1812 he raised a company of volunteers, known as the "Silver
Grays," of which he was elected captain, but was never ordered into service.
He was a farmer by occupation, a Whig in politics, and in religion he was
a Presbyterian and a deacon of that church.

Mr. Branch's father, William Witter Branch, followed in his early years
the movements of his father from Cayuga county, New York, to Chautauqua
county. New York, thence to Erie county, Pennsylvania, thence to Kirkland,
Ohio, thence to North Madison, Ohio, in 1837, where he afterwards resided.
In his youth he learned the trade of a wagon-maker, but later took up the
study of law and became one of the leading lawyers and most influential citi-
zens of Lake county. From 1847 to 1852 he was judge of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas for that county. He was one of those who first foresaw in part
the tremendous developments which lay ahead of the American railroads
and he became widely known as one of the organizers of the Cleveland,
Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad. He himself obtained the charter for this
road, which subsequently became a link in the great Lake Shore system.

Upon his mother's side also Mr. Branch was descended from distin-
guished Revolutionary and Colonial ancestry. His mother, Lucy Jane (Bar-
tram) Branch, who was born at Huntington, Connecticut, May 25, 1816, and
died at North Madison, Ohio, May 17, 1897, was the daughter of Uriah
Bartram, who was born at Reading, Connecticut, January 9, 1782. He was
one of the early settlers of the Western Reserve and moved with his family
to Madison, Ohio, in 1810, when there were but ten families in town and the
whole country was covered with a dense forest. He was a captain in the
War of 1812. He was the son of Daniel Bartram, who was born at Reading,
Connecticut, October 23, 1745, and who was a soldier of the Revolution.
He was the son of David Bartram, who was born at Fairfield, Connecticut,
about December 13, 1702, and died at Reading, Connecticut, in 1768. David
Bartram was the son of John Bartram, who died at Fairfield, Connecticut,
December 11, 1747, and who was probably the son of John Bartram, who
died at Stratford, Connecticut, in 1675.

On the maternal side of the house the Bartrams were descended from
the Chauncey family, which was founded in this country by Charles Chaun-
cey, a native of England, who was the first minister at Scituate, Massachu-
setts, and the second president of Harvard College. His son, Israel Chaun-
cey, was born at Scituate, Massachusetts, in 1644, and was one of the
founders of Yale College. His son, Charles Chauncey, was the father of a
second Israel Chauncey, who in turn was the father of Ellinor Chauncey,
who married Gurdon Merchant, of Fairfield, Connecticut. Their daughter,
Ann Merchant, married Daniel Bartram, and was the grandfather of Lucy
Jane Bartram.

William Witter and Lucy Jane (Bartram) Branch were the parents of
the following children: William Wirt, born September 5, 1835, and died
April 12, 1907; John Locke, born October 4, 1837, and died March 27, 1909;
Cornelia, born September 19, 1839, and died April 20, 1891 ; Ida Anna, born

304 miMtt aBtnc0to 'Brancb

August 27, 1842; Martha Lucretia, born March 19, 1845; Oliver Ernesto
(christened Erastus), born July 19, 1847, and died June 22, 1916; Mary
Alma, born October 2, 1850, and died November 29, 1916; Charles Coit, born
July 25, 1852; Happy Ella, born June 17, 1855.

Oliver Ernesto Branch v^^as one of a family of nine children. He passed
his childhood at North Madison, Ohio, and his early education was obtained
in the public schools of that town, but he later attended Whitestown Semi-
nary at Whitesboro, New York, where he prepared for college. He entered
Hamilton College in 1869, from which he was graduated in 1873 with the
degree of Bachelor of Arts and the highest honors of his class. The two
years succeeding his graduation he spent in teaching, as principal of the
Forestville Free Academy at Forestville, New York. In 1875 he came to
New York City and entered the Columbia University Law School. During
the two years that he was a student there he was also instructor in Latin
and history at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, thus accomplishing a
dual task which might well have taxed his energies. He graduated from
the Columbia Law School in 1877 with the degree of LL. B. In 1876 he had
received the honorary degree of Master of Arts from Hamilton College, and
in 1895 he received the same degree from Dartmouth College. In 1908 the
degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Hamilton College.
From 1877 to 1883 Mr. Branch practiced law in New York City with his
brother, John L. Branch, but in the latter year was obliged to give up his
business for a time on account of illness. Accordingly, he removed to North
Weare, New Hampshire, the home of his wife, where he hoped to regain his
health, and was so far successful that in 1889 he was able once more to take
up active practice. During his residence at North Weare he compiled and
edited three volumes of selections for public speaking, which formed a series,
published under the title of "The National Speakers."

In 1889 he opened an office at Manchester, New Hampshire, and
resumed the practice of law, which he continued uninterruptedly up to the
time of his death. He took up his residence in the city of Manchester in
December, 1894. During this period he was one of the general counsel
of the Boston & Maine Railroad in New Hampshire, and had a large and
varied practice. He was, in fact, connected with much of the most important
litigation in the State from 1889 to 1916, and was recognized as one of the
leaders of the New Hampshire bar. Among the notable cases in which he
was engaged was that of the State of New Hampshire vs. Manchester &
Lawrence Railroad, begun in 1895, in which the State sought to recover
claims amounting to six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Branch
took a leading part in the successful defense of this action. He was also one
of the associate counsel for the defendants in the famous "next friend" pro-
ceedings of Eddy vs. Frye, et c/., begun in 1906, which involved the question
of the mental capacity of Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of Christian
Science. In 1908 he was one of the counsel for the defendant in the case of
State of New Hampshire vs. Boston & Maine Railroad, the so-called "rate
case." which involved questions of the interpretations and validity of the

ffl)Iii)et (Btntffto 15tmtb 305

statutory limitations upon the rates of fares and freights contained in the
acts which authorized the leasing and consolidation of New Hampshire
railroads.

Soon after coming to New Hampshire, Mr. Branch became interested in
politics. He was always a Democrat and was twice elected representative
of the town of Weare to the New Hampshire Legislature, and served as a
member of that body during the sessions of 1887 and 1889. During both of
these sessions he was a member of the judiciary committee and at the com-
mencement of the session of 1889 he was the Democratic candidate for
speaker of the House of Representatives.

The legislative session of 1887 was the most famous of New Hamp-
shire history on account of the noted "railroad fight" which grew out of the
opposing efforts of the Boston & Maine Railroad and the Concord Railroad
to secure legislation which would give one corporation or the other control
of the railroad system of the State. In this contest Mr. Branch took a
prominent part, favoring the passage of the Hazen bill, so-called, which per-
mitted the union of the Boston & Maine and Concord railroads, and the
enactment of which was desired by the Boston & Maine interests. In advo-
cacy of this bill Mr. Branch made a remarkable speech, which is acknowl-
edged to have been one of the greatest ever heard in the House of Repre-
sentatives at Concord. The final passage of the bill was in a large measure
due to the effect of this speech and it brought instant fame and prominence
to its author. Thereafter, until 1896, when the Democratic party was dis-
rupted by the Free Silver issue, he was one of the leading figures in the poli-
tics of the State. During the legislative session of 1889 he further enhanced
his reputation as an orator and debater by his successful advocacy of the
Australian Ballot Law and by a notable speech in favor of Woman Suffrage.
In 1892 he was elected chairman of the Democratic State Convention and
received this honor again in 1904. In 1894 he was appointed by President
Cleveland United States District Attorney for the District of New Hamp-
shire and discharged the duties of that responsible office for four years with
efficiency and success. In 1903 he was elected president of the New Hamp-
shire Bar Association and for several years prior to 1910 he was a member
of the Board of Examiners appointed by the Supreme Court to examine can-
didates for admission to the bar.

Always impatient of pretence or evasion, and always prompt to cham-
pion a cause which he believed to be just, Mr. Branch was an early and con-
sistent advocate of Woman Suffrage. He became greatly aroused over the
situation which developed in the city of Manchester with reference to the
liquor traffic under the old prohibitory law. Under the so-called Healy
system which took its name from that of the chief of police of Manchester,
the sale of liquor was permitted to go on openly for years, the dealers who
engaged in this business being practically licensed by a system of fines,
always for first offenses, regularly imposed in the police court. Mr. Branch
attacked this system in a series of editorials which were published m the
Manchester "Union" under the common heading of "The Reign of Lawless-

3o6 flDIitoet (Btmfito TBrancb

ness," and performed a great public service in thus laying bare the workings
of the system. When a group of New York capitalists succeeded in securing
the passage by the New Hampshire Legislature of the notorious New Eng-
land Breeders' Club Charter, which was designed to legalize racetrack
gambling in New Hampshire, Mr, Branch gladly lent his aid to the "Com-
mittee of Twelve" which was organized to combat this institution, and made
a notable speech upon the subject at a huge mass-meeting held at Mechanics
Hall in Manchester.

As an orator Mr. Branch was extremely versatile and effective. He was
equally at home in arguing questions of fact to a jury, or questions of law
before an Appellate Court. His services as a campaign speaker at political
meetings were always in great demand and he was frequently called upon to
speak upon important public occasions. He was always an unsparing critic
of his own work and his judgment as to the relative worth of his public
addresses was probably correct. Among those in which he took most pride
were an address entitled "John Marshall, the Statesman," prepared to be
delivered at a banquet of the New Hampshire Bar Association held in 1901
in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Marshall's appointment
as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; an address in favor
of Woman Suffrage, delivered at a mass-meeting in Representatives Hall,
Concord, in 1903, in reply to Dr. Lyman Abbott, who had made a strong
anti-suffrage argument from the same platform on the previous evening;
and another address entitled "American Democracy Still on Trial," deliv-
ered by him as president of the New Hampshire Bar Association at its
annual meeting in 1904.

Mr. Branch's interests in life centered chiefly in his family. Social
functions had but slight attractions for him, and he spent but little time in
the clubs to which he belonged. During his college days at Hamilton he
became a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity and his high rank as a
student brought about his election as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa fra-
ternity. He was a Mason, and a member of the Derryfield Club and the
Intervale Country Club, both of Manchester. He was also a member of the
New Hampshire Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the New
Hampshire Historical Society, and the sons of the Revolution. From 1905
to 191 1 he was one of the trustees of Hamilton College. In religion Mr.
Branch was a Congregationalist. He was one of the organizers and a mem-
ber of the church of that denomination at North Weare, and after his
removal to Manchester he was a constant attendant at the Franklin Street
Church.

Mr. Branch was married, on October 17, 1878, at North Weare, New
Hampshire, to Sarah Maria Chase, who was born in that village, April 2,
1857. Se was the daughter of John Winslow and Hannah (Dow) Chase,
both natives of that town. Mr. Chase, her father, was the inventor of a
skiving machine and was for many years engaged in the manufacture of
these machines at North Weare. The death of Mr. Branch occurred at
Manchester, New Hampshire, October 6, 1906.

auiStin Corbm

USTIN CORBIN— Third of his direct line to bear the name
of Austin, Mr. Corbin in his business activity and efficiency
is a worthy successor of Austin (2) Corbin and Austin (i)
Corbin, both of whom were men of great prominence in the
business world. Perhaps no section of this country owes
more to the enterprise and genius of one man than Long
Island owes to Austin (2) Corbin, whose success in reorgan-
izing the Long Island Railroad and in developing the attractions of Long
Island as a summer resort is well known. The Corbins are of ancient New
England family, and in New Hampshire many generations of the family
were born. They were substantial land owners of the State, and a roster of
the State Senate reveals the fact that they were also prominent as legis-
lators. The founder of the family in America was Clement Corbin, born in
1626, who came to America in 1637.

Austin (i) Corbin was a wealthy land owner and prominent business
man of Newport, New Hampshire, and for a time was State Senator. He
married Mary Chase. Austin (2) Corbin, born in Newport, New Hamp-
shire, July II, 1827, died at his country estate in the town of his birth, June
4, 1896, his death the result of being thrown from a carriage. He was edu-
cated in private schools, academy and Harvard College, completing his
studies with a law course and graduation from Harvard Law School, class
of '49. Before entering law school he was a clerk in Boston, and while pur-
suing his legal studies also taught school. Forming a partnership with
Ralph Metcalf, afterwards governor of New Hampshire, he practised law in
Newport until 185 1, then went West, locating in Davenport, Iowa. His
keen foresight and business acumen led him into several business under-
takings and the founding of the banking house of Macklot & Corbin, the
only private Iowa bank which weathered the panic of 1857. In 1863 he
organized and was chosen president of the First National Bank of Daven-
port, that being the first institution organized under the National Banking
Act. In 1865 he located in New York City, was appointed receiver and later
president of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroad, that being his
introduction to the transportation business, a line of activity in which he
became famous. In 1873 he founded the Corbin Banking Company and did
a large business in mortgage loans on western farm lands. In 1880 he was
appointed receiver of the Long Island Railroad Company, and a year later
was chosen its executive head.

From that time forward until the close of his life, Mr. Corbin was a
recognized power in railway and financial circles and the promoter of many
large business undertakings which he carried to successful issue. He was
prominently concerned in the reorganization of the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company, of which he was first a receiver and afterwards presi-

3o8 3u$tin Corliin

dent. He was also president of the New York & New England Railroad
Company, the Elmira, Cortland & Northern Railroad Company, the New
York & Rockaway Beach Railroad Company, the Manhattan Beach Com-
pany; a director in the American Exchange National Bank, the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the Nassau Fire Insurance Company and the
Mercantile Trust Company. He was the first to conceive the plan of tunnel-
ing under the Hudson river to bring trains from the West and South into
New York City direct. He brought Charles M. Jacobs, an English engineer,
to this country to make the necessary borings, and interested the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad in the project, which was eventually carried out by that
system, with Mr. Jacobs as engineer. He planned a free port and a steam-
ship terminal at Montauk Point, Long Island, and was on the point of carry-
ing these plans to a successful conclusion at the time of his death. Notwith-
standing his high position in the business life of New York, he ever retained
his pride in and love for his native State, maintained a large estate in New-
port, his native town, and there spent his vacation periods. He established
near his home at Newport, New Hampshire, the largest fenced game pre-
serve in this country, the Blue Mountain Forest, containing 24,000 acres,
and stocked with buffalo, elk, deer and wild boar. He was a member of
numerous social and other organizations outside the realm of business, these
including the Manhattan, Metropolitan, Lawyers, South Side, and Players
clubs of New York City, and the Somerset Club of Boston. He also belonged
and was much interested in the Sewanaka-Corinthian Yacht, the Meadow-
brook Hunt and South Side Sportsmen's Club.

Austin (2) Corbin married, in 1853, Hannah M. Wheeler, daughter of
Samuel Wheeler, a prominent citizen of Newport, New Hampshire. Chil-
dren: Mary, deceased; Isabelle C, married George S. Edgell; William,
deceased; Anna W., married Hallet Alsop Borrowe; and Austin (3).

. JEREMIAH W. WILSON, who was for fifty years a
prominent physician of Contoocook, Merrimack county, was
born January ii, 1816, in Salisbury, New Hampshire. He
was a descendant of Thomas Wilson, who came with his
wife from Exeter, England, in 1633, and located in Rox-
bury, Massachusetts. The line of descent was continued by
Humphrey Wilson, born in 1628, who married Judith
Hersey, and settled in Exeter, New Hampshire; Thomas Wilson, born May
20, 1672, who married Mary Light, and continued his residence in Exeter;
Humphrey Wilson (second), born December 9, 1699, who married Mary
Leavitt, and located in Brentwood, New Hampshire; Nathaniel Wilson,
born June 24, 1739, who married Elizabeth Barker, and settled in Gilmanton,
New Hampshire; and Job Wilson, M. D., born in Gilmanton, who was the
father of Dr. Jeremiah W. Wilson.

Job Wilson, M. D., removed from his native town to Salisbury, where
he practised his profession for many years, finally removing from there to
the town of Franklin, locating near the Daniel Webster place. He was a
very skilful physician, and considered an authority by his professional breth-
ren on small-pox. When that disease was epidemic in New Hampshire, he
was employed by the State to take medical charge of the patients. His
death occurred in Franklin. He inherited the ancestral homestead at Gil-
manton, which was entailed to the children of his son. Dr. Jeremiah W.
Wilson. His wife, whose maiden name was Nancy Farnham, bore him
seven children.

Jeremiah W. Wilson attended the public schools and the academy at
Franklin. At the age of twenty he began the study of medicine under the
instruction of his father. Subsequently he attended a course of lectures at
Hanover, New Hampshire; and prior to receiving his degree of Doctor of
Medicine at the University in Castleton, Vermont, he practised with his
father and Dr. Ephraim Wilson, his brother. After his graduation he came
to Contoocook, buying out the practice of Dr. Sargent, an old and well-
known practitioner; and for the remainding fifty years of his life he was
actively engaged in his professional labors, residing for the entire time in
the house he at first occupied. His practice extended over a large territory,
embracing every town and village in this vicinity, and he was eminently
successful. In the diagnosis of the diseases brought to his notice he was
particularly fortunate, being rarely mistaken; while as surgeon his skill was
unquestioned. He had a rare delicacy of perception, and a refinement of
thought and feeling very gratifying to the sick. Combined with these quali-
ties were a decision and firmness of character that inspired confidence, and
caused him to be regarded by his patients as a friend and counsellor as well
as a physician. A close student, he kept up with the progress of his pro-

3 lo 3[etemiai) m, milaon, 09, D.

fession, and as a rule adhered to the regular practice, although his brother
Ephraim, a physician in Rockville, Connecticut, was a warm advocate of
homoeopathy.

Ever heedful of the call of distress. Dr. Wilson gave his time and skill
without making question of compensation; and, being a poor collector, fees
amounting to hundreds of dollars, that the debtors could well afford to pay,
have long since been outlawed. In his visits to the poor he often con-
tributed necessary articles of clothing or food to needy families, besides
gratuitously giving his services to the sick. Frank and outspoken, he never
hesitated to express his honest opinion, and defend it when necessary. He
bought a tract of land in Contoocook, and for some years did a little farming,
intrusting the manual labor oftentimes to those owing him for professional
work and unable to find ready money with which to pay their bills. Although
other physicians located in the town, he maintained the even tenor of his
way, never forgetting the ethics and courtesy of his profession. He never
aspired to political honors, but was always an earnest supporter of the prin-
ciples of the Republican party. He was held in high respect by his medical
brethren, and was a valued member of the County Medical Society. For a
time he served as surgeon of the Twenty-first Regiment of the State militia,
to which he was appointed in 1845.

On March 31, 1847, Dr. Wilson married Miss Elizabeth Gerrish, who
was born September 5, 1820, daughter of Thomas and Betsey Gerrish, of
Boscawen. She died November 8, 1882, having borne him three children.
Doctor and Mrs. Wilson took Miss Martha J. Chase into their family when
she was a girl of twelve years. She subsequently repaid the loving care they
bestowed upon her by tenderly watching over the Doctor in his declining
years. Both the Doctor and his estimable wife were earnest and sincere
Christians in the true sense of the term. Though they were connected with
the Congregational church of Hopkinton for a period of fifty years, they
worked harmoniously with the Baptist and Methodist Episcopal churches of
Contoocook. In 1890 Dr. Wilson had a cataract, which threatened his sight,
successfully removed from his eye. In the last years of his life his chief
enjoyment was the reading of the leading newspapers and medical journals
of the day as well as the choice works of the library. He died in Contoocook,
April 30, 1896, having outlived by a full decade the Scriptural limit of human
life.

s

Ceorge Augustus ifWarben

EORGE AUGUSTUS MARDEN, son of Benjamin Franklin
and Betsey (Buss) Marden, was born in Mont Vernon, New
Hampshire, August 9, 1839. He was descended from Richard
Marden, who took the oath of fidelity at New Haven, Con-
necticut, in 1646, and is supposed to have come direct from
England. The name Marden is said to have been originally
"mass-y-dwr-dn," a Welsh combination, signifying "field of
the water-camp." By contraction this became Mawarden and Marden.
George A. Marden's preparatory education was obtained in Appleton Acad-
emy in Mont Vernon, afterwards McCollom Institute. In later life he
became president of the board of trustees of this school. In boyhood he
was taught the shoemaker's trade by his father. He worked at that inter-
mittently, and during vacations from the age of twelve till he was through
college. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1861, being the eleventh in
rank in a class of fifty-eight. Among his classmates was Rev. William
Jewett Tucker, afterwards president of the college. In 1875 Mr. Marden
was commencement poet of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and in 1877 deliv-
ered the commencement poem before the Dartmouth Association Alumni.
He was president for each of these societies for the term of two years.

Mr. Marden served three years during the Civil War. In November,
1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Second Regiment of Berdan's
United States Sharpshooters, and on December 12 of that year was mus-
tered into the United States service as second sergeant. In April, 1862, he
was transferred to the First Regiment of Sharpshooters, and served during
the Peninsular campaign under McClellan from Yorktown to Harrison's
Landing. On July 10, 1862, he was made first lieutenant and regimental
quartermaster, which duty he held until January, 1863, when he became
acting assistant adjutant-general of the Third Brigade, Third Division,
Third Corps. He served in this position until the fall of 1863, taking part
in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Wapping Heights, and
was then ordered to detached service on Riker's Island, New York. Soon
after, by his own request, he was sent back to his own regiment, with which
he remained until it was mustered out in September, 1864.

Coming back to New Hampshire, Mr. Marden entered the law office
of Minot & Musgridge, at Concord, and also wrote for the Concord "Daily
Monitor," then just established. In November, 1865, Mr. Marden pur-
chased the Kanawha "Republican," a weekly paper at Charleston, West
Virginia, which he edited until April, 1866. He then returned to New
Hampshire and worked for Adjutant-General Head in compiling and editing
the histories of the State's military organizations during the Civil War.
In the meantime he was finding his true vocation in journalism. He wrote
for the Concord "Monitor," and in July, 1866, became the Concord corre-
spondent of the Boston "Advertiser." January i, 1867, he was made assist-

312 (George 3u0ustu0 Q^atDen

ant editor of the Boston "Advertiser," which position he held until the next
September. At that time, in partnership with his classmate, Major E. T.
Rowell, he purchased the Lowell "Daily Courier" and the Lowell "Weekly
Journal," which he continued to conduct until his death, nearly forty years
later. The partnership of Messrs. Marden and Rowell lasted for a quarter
of a century, or until the Lowell Courier Publishing Company was formed,
when both partners retained their interest in the corporation. In January,
1895, this became the Courier-Citizen Company by consolidating with the
paper of that name. The "Citizen" was made a one cent morning paper, and
Mr. Marden continued in editorial charge of both papers.

Mr. Marden soon became known as a speaker as well as a writer. His
first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, and since 1867 there has been no
election, State or National, when he did not appear on the platform. During
the presidential campaign of 1896, in company with Major-General O. O.
Howard, Major-General Daniel E. Sickles, General Russell A. Alger, and
others, he addressed more than a million people. They travelled over eight
thousand miles on a platform car, and spoke in fifteen different States of the
Middle West. Mr. Marden's ready wit, which caused the Lowell "Courier"
to be quoted all over New England, soon made him in demand as an after-
dinner speaker, and for various celebrations like Dartmouth banquets. Old
Home Week observances. Memorial Day or Grand Army reunions. In 1889
and 1892 he spoke at the banquets of the New England Society held in New
York on Forefather's Day. He considered these invitations the greatest
honor ever accorded him. In 1873 Mr. Marden was elected to the Massachu-
setts Legislature. He became clerk of the House in 1874, which office he
held until he became speaker in 1883 and 1884, and in 1885 he was chosen
to the State Senate. In 1885 he was appointed trustee of the Agricultural
College at Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1888 he was elected treasurer of
the Commonwealth, which office he held for five consecutive years, the con-
stitutional limit. In 1899 he was made assistant treasurer of the United
States at Boston, which office he held until his death, December 19, 1906.
He became vice-president of the Hancock National Bank in Boston in 1895.
Mr. Marden always retained a great love for the place of his birth, Mont
Vernon, New Hampshire. Although his newspaper and legal residence was
at Lowell, Massachusetts, he kept a summer home at Mont Vernon, which
he visited every year. He owned much property there, built many fine
houses, and was always the first to take hold of anything which promised
to help the town. At the time of his lamented death, he was editing a his-
tory of Mont Vernon, begun by C. J. Smith of that place.

George A. Marden married, at Nashua, New Hampshire, December 10,
1867, Mary Porter Fiske, daughter of Deacon David Fiske, of Nashua.
They had two sons: Philip Sanborn, born in Lowell, January 12, 1874, who
was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1894, and from Harvard Law
School in 1898. He married, June 12, 1902, at Goffstown, New Hampshire,
Florence Sophia Shirley, of Shirley Hill, Goffstown. Robert Fiske, born
at Lowell, January 14, 1876, who was graduated from Dartmouth in 1898,
married, June 12, 1901, Ella B. Pote, of East Boston.

CDtotn ilurbanfe ^tfee

^DWIN BURBANK PIKE was born in Haverhill, New Hamp-
shire, April 7, 1845, the son of Isaac and Sarah Morse
(Noyes) Pike, and the youngest of six children. He died
at Pike, New Hampshire, August 24, 1908. Mr. Pike was
a descendant, ninth in line, from John Pike, of Longford,
Oxfordshire, England, who came to this country in 1635
and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts.
Owing to the death of his father, when he was about fourteen years of
age, Edwin B. Pike was thrown upon his own resources, but he managed to
study for a time at Haverhill Academy, Haverhill, New Hampshire, and
also at Newbury Seminary, Newbury, Vermont. When he was about seven-
teen years old he made his first trip selling whetstones, but thinking there
was not enough opportunity in that line at the time, he took up other busi-
ness. After selling specialties in the hardware and mill supply line for a
few years, he became associated in the early seventies with the Enterprise
Manufacturing Company, of Philadelphia, then in its infancy, but which
since has become one of the largest concerns of its line in the world. He
was the first travelling salesman for this company, and later, as their busi-
ness increased, remained at the head of their sales force, representing the
company at the famous Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and
later at the Paris Exposition of 1878. On his return from the Paris Expo-
sition in 1878, he suffered a severe attack of rheumatic fever and was
obliged to give up travelling for a time. He had previously sold scythe-
stones made by his brother, A. F. Pike, and after his illness decided to
devote his time to the scythestone business. His unbounded energy and
ability as a salesman resulted in the immediate and steady expansion of the
scythestone business, and in the incorporation in 1884 of the A. F. Pike
Manufacturing Company, with Alonzo F. Pike, president, and Edwin B.
Pike as vice-president. Through his initiative a general line of oilstones,
razor hones, and other sharpening, grinding and polishing stones was added.
In 1889 the company was again enlarged by taking over the eastern scythe-
stone quarries and properties of the Cleveland Stone Company, and in 1891,
upon the failing in health of his brother, Alonzo F. Pike, he became president
of the Pike Manufacturing Company, which ofiice he held until his death.
Under his direction, driven by his tireless energy, the modest scythestone
business established by his father and continued by his brother developed
into the largest business of its kind in the world, until to-day the Pike name
and trademark are known in every market of the civilized world.

Mr. Pike's business activities demanded too much of his time to permit
of his active participation in politics, although he had always a keen interest
in public affairs. He was a member of the New Hampshire Constitutional

314 dBDtaJin IButbanb pike

Convention in 1902. He was instrumental in the establishment of a ceme-
tery commission in the town of Haverhill, and was chairman of the commis-
sion from its establishment in 1905 until his death. He was a lifelong
Republican. Mr. Pike endeavored to enlist in the Union army at the age of
eighteen, but was prevented by his mother from entering the service. Later
he went South and served with the commissary and railroad department
until the close of the war. Mr. Pike was vice-president, for New Hamp-
shire, of the National Association of Manufacturers, and a member of the
American Hardware Manufacturers Association. He was one of the char-
ter members of the Pike Station Grange, No. 291. He was also a member
of the Hardware Merchants' and Manufacturers' Club, of New York. In
his religious affiliation he was a member of the Congregational church, of
Haverhill, New Hampshire, and later one of the charter members and chief
supporters of the Bethany Congregational Church, of Pike, New Hamp-
shire, which was organized through his efforts.

Mr. Pike married (first) in Salem, Massachusetts, Adelaide A. Miner,
who died in 1887, leaving three children: Edwin Bertram, born July 24,
1866, resident of Pike, New Hampshire; Winifred Alta, born May 21, 1869,
later Mrs. Walter L. Emory, of Honolulu, Hawaii; and Archie Florence,
born September 24, 1873, died December 15, 1887. Mr. Pike married
(second) September 10, 1890, Harriet D. Tromblee, of Montpelier, Vermont.
Their children were: Mary Dorothy, born May 20, 1892, died February 14,
1896, and Harriet Katherine, born December 13, 1895, married, September
25, 191 5, William V. M. Robertson, Jr., of Birmingham, Alabama.

Mr. Pike was a man of very strong personality and of a most genial,
generous disposition. He was a genuinely public spirited man, interested in
everything that affected in any way the life of the community and town,
and always worked for its betterment. The attractive school house and
the store block in the little village of Pike are evidences in part of his
generous interest in the welfare of the community. He took great pride in
his business, often saying that he felt his company were producers in the
best sense of the word, for they went into the earth and took from it that
which did not impoverish it, but added in many ways to the benefit and
comfort of his fellowmen. A quotation from an address delivered by Mr.
Pike at one of the annual conferences of salesmen and department heads of
the Pike Manufacturing Company expresses briefly the purpose actuating
him in personal and business life: "It has been my intention and effort for
years that whatever I touched should be benefited by my connection with
it. * * * And that is a principle that I want to carry out in my own life
and in the life of the Pike Manufacturing Company. Whatever we do let
it be a benefit to all those with whom we come in contact. I want to put
honesty and kindness, as well as push and perseverance, into our business."

3(of)n Cpler

[OHN TYLER, well known in Claremont as an inventor and
builder, was a son of John Tyler and a grandson of Benjamin
Tyler, both eminent mechanics. Benjamin, who settled in
Claremont in the spring of 1776, built the first dam across
the Sugar river at West Claremont, and was for many years
one of the most public-spirited men in town.

John Tyler was born in Claremont, March 26, 1818. He
learned the trade of millwright, serving an apprenticeship of seven years,
and was then for eight years foreman of the shop where he learned his trade
in Barre, Vermont. He went to West Lebanon in 1850, and for several years
did a large business in building mills, sometimes employing fifty men. He
returned to Claremont in 1872. He was engineer and superintendent in
building the Sugar River paper-mill, and was a principal stockholder and
the president of the company.

Mr. Tyler was the inventor of the Tyler turbine water-wheel, which he
had patented in 1856, and which he manufactured for many years. His was
the first iron water-wheel made, and nine different patents were subse-
quently granted him for improvements upon it. These wheels found their
way all over the country, some of them also finding their way abroad ; and
for years they were considered the best turbine wheels manufactured, this
fact being thoroughly developed some years ago by a comparative and com-
petitive test of the products of other makers of similar wheels. He was also
the inventor and patentee of Tyler's copper cylinder washer for washing
paper stock. In 1874 he built the reservoir known as the Bible Hill Aqueduct,
which supplies over two hundred families in Claremont village with pure
fresh spring water for household purposes. He was a stockholder of the
Ben Mere Inn at Sunapee Lake, also in the Woodsum Steamboat Company.
In both of these enterprises Mr. Tyler was deeply interested. He not only
used his influence to make Sunapee Lake what it is to-day, but he opened his
purse wide to aid in its improvement. He was a far-seeing and sagacious
business man. If he started into any kind of business that was backward
in getting on to a paying basis, he labored the harder for it. He was a
staunch Republican. He was a member of the Legislature in 1891-92, and his
record was a clean one. He was a public-spirited, genial man; and in his
death Claremont lost a most worthy citizen. He was a lover of good horses
and in his stables could always be found the best blooded and handsomest
to be had. In religious convictions he leaned toward the Universalist faith;
and he always attended divine worship at the First Universalist Church,
although never uniting with the society. He was a most liberal man and no
worthy cause was brought to his notice that failed to receive assistance at
his hands. He died at his home, November 28, 1896.

3i6

31of)n Cplet

While a young man working at his trade in Barre, Vermont, he married
Roxalana Robinson, of that town, who died on the first anniversary of their
marriage. Not long after he married Miss Mary J. Smith, of Rutland, Ver-
mont, with whom he lived for fifty years, she passing away at their home on
Pleasant street. Mr. Tyler married for the third time, October 31, 1894,
Miss Anna Maria, daughter of Taylor and Sybil (Lawton) Alexander, who
survived him.

Samuel Bmitl) ^age

[AMUEL SMITH PAGE, who for more than forty years was
one of the most esteemed residents of Hopkinton, was born
September 30, 1822, in Dunbarton, New Hampshire. He
was a descendant of Benjamin Page, who was born in 1640,
in Dedham, fifty-seven miles northeast of London, England.
In 1660, on account of religious differences, Benjamin came
to America, locating in Haverhill, Massachusetts, where on
September 21, 1666, he married Mary Whittier, who belonged to the family
from which the poet, John G. Whittier, sprang. Their son, Jeremiah, the
eldest of a family of sixteen, born September 14, 1667, was the next ancestor.
He married Deborah Hendrick, of Newburyport, Massachusetts, July 2,
1696; and they reared seven children, two sons and five daughters, the sons
being Caleb and Joshua. He died in 1752.

Caleb Page, the next in line of descent, was born August 16, 1705. and
died in 1785. He married in 1728 or 1729 Ruth Wallingford, of Boston,
who died in 1738. In 1740 he married a widow Carleton, of Newburyport,
who weighed three hundred and fifteen pounds. She, together with a huge
arm-chair, now in the possession of the Stark family, had to be carried to
meeting on an ox sled. In 1749 Caleb Page removed from Haverhill, Massa-
chusetts, to Atkinson, New Hampshire, where he is said to have owned
land measuring one mile in opposite directions from the site of the present
academy. In 1751 he sold his lands in Atkinson for his wife's weight in
silver dollars, and located in Dunbarton, this county. The country was then
infested with Indians; and his daughter Elizabeth, who later became the
wife of General John Stark of Revolutionary fame, often stood, musket in
hand, as guard at the rude block-house. In 1758 Governor Wentworth
appointed Caleb Page captain of Provincials. The commission given to him
on this occasion is copied in full in the "History of Dunbarton." Caleb, who
is said to have had a noble and benevolent spirit, had ample means to indulge
his generous impulses. His money, comprising golden guineas, silver
crowns and dollars, was kept in a half-bushel measure under the bed. He
owned many slaves. His house was the abode of hospitality and the scene
of many a happy gathering. In 1753, previous to receiving his captain's
commission, the governor sent him as a guide with Colonel Lowell, of Dun-
barton, Major Talford, of Chester, and General John Stark, to mark out the
road from Stevenstown, now Salisbury, to Coos. He was a firm patriot, and
in 1775 was the first delegate from Dunbarton and Bow to the Provincial
Congress. His children were: Caleb, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, and Molly.
Caleb Page, Jr., who held a lieutenant's commission in the French and
Indian War, together with his company was ambushed by Indians between
Crown Point and Ticonderoga, and killed in the ensuing massacre with

3i8 Samuel %mitb page

several of his men, January 21, 1757. Elizabeth, born in 1736, who died in
1817, married General John Stark, by whom she had eight children; namely,
John, Caleb, Archibald, Charles, Ellen, Polly, Sophia, and Frank. Molly
married Deacon James Russell, of Bow.

Jeremiah Page, born in August, 1730, died November 29, 1807. I" I745
he bought land in Dunbarton, and from that time until his death was actively
identified with local afifairs. He served as justice of the peace, and did most
of the surveying for Hillsborough county. In 1784 he was appointed judge
of the New Hampshire courts. In 1752 he married Sarah Merrill, of Bil-
lerica, Massachusetts, who was born in 1732, and died September 5. 1807.
Their children were : Caleb, the grandfather of Samuel Smith Page ; Sarah,
born in Dracut, Massachusetts, December 24, 1754, who married A. Stinson,
and died in 1835. Jeremiah, a native of Dunbarton, born in 1756, who died
in 1842; Achsah, born September 25, 1759, who died in 1831, and whose suc-
cessive husbands were first B. Plummer, Esq., who died in 1816, and Captain
C. Coffin; Elizabeth, born August 2, 1765, who married William Tenney, and
died August 22, 1838; John, born in 1767, who married M. Story in 1810, and
died August 14, 1837; and Ruth, born in 1770, who married Dr. S. Sawyer,
and died June 27, 1804. Caleb Page, the third bearer of the name, was born
in Dracut, Massachusetts, in April, 1751, and died June 3, 1816. His wife,
Hannah, bore him seven children, three of the sons being named Caleb,
John, and Peter Carleton. Peter Carleton Page, the father of Samuel S.
Page, was born July i, 1783, and died October 15, 1858. He married Miss
Lucy Smith, who was born November 26, 1792, in Hopkinton. They reared
three sons ; namely, Caleb, Samuel Smith, and George.

Samuel Smith Page received his education in Pembroke^ Hopkinton,
and New Hampton. Ill health forced him to abandon further study; and at
the age of eighteen years he began teaching school in Weston, Massachu-
setts, where his mathematical ability was well displayed. A pupil relates that
when the text-book was completed the young teacher propounded questions
that, he said, had baffled Dartmouth professors, the class often spending its
energies for a whole week on some of them. After his marriage he bought
the Greenough homestead on Dimond Hill, on the dividing line between
Concord and Hopkinton, and there successfully carried on general farming
until his death, which occurred on Thursday, October 22, 1896.

In 1852, June 10, Mr. Page married Miss Ellen Maria Cutter, of Weston,
Massachusetts, one of his pupils, who was five years younger than himself.
He was a man of great intelligence and force of character, having the ,
courage of his convictions, which he was never unwilling to express or
defend. He served several terms as moderator of Dunbarton, was a member
of the superintending school committee, and in 1864 and 1865 was one of the
selectmen of Hopkinton. In 1840 he united with the Baptist church of his
native town, having been converted during a revival, and for more than half
a century after was devoted to the Christian work of that denomination as
well as to the broader needs of humanity, his large and loving heart beating

Samuel %mitb Page 319

in sympathy with those of every sect and clime. Throughout his long illness
he was a most patient and cheerful sufferer, trusting serenely in the good-
ness of the Divine Master. His death was a sad loss, not only to his imme-
diate family, but to the community in which he had so long lived. The only
child of Mr. and Mrs. Page was a daughter — Lucie Elizabeth, who became
the wife of Arthur Borden, of Denver, Colorado.

Herman HM. 6xttm

ERMAN WELLS GREENE, formerly a lawyer of consider-
able note in Hopkinton, was born there, April ii, 1836, son
of Herman H. and Ellen Chase (Little) Greene. After
receiving- his early education in the public schools of Hop-
kinton and at Pembroke and Gilmanton Academies, he
became interested in the legal profession, and read law with
George & Foster, of Concord, and later with Beard & Nick-
erson, of Boston, Massachusetts. On his twenty-first birthday he was
admitted to the Suffolk county bar. At first he practised with Charles E.
Pike, afterward with Ithmar W. Beard and James P. Sullivan. Subse-
quently, on account of failing health, he returned to his native place, and did
not practise for about seven years. On resuming his profession he was for
a time associated with Carlos G. Hawthorne. In politics he was an enthu-
siast, and he held various offices of trust. He was moderator of the town
meeting for over twenty years all together, was superintendent of schools
for five years, and State Representative in 1881, 1889, and 1891. In 1891 he
took an active part in the debates of the legislature, and served on the judi-
cial and railroad committees. He was county solicitor of Merrimack county
five years, during which period he was obliged to be in Concord much of
the time. In early life a Democrat, he afterward became a Republican, and
served on the Republican State Committees, and generally attended the
conventions. He was for a number of years curator of the Hopkinton Anti-
quarian Society, and was chairman of the library trustees.

Before he was of age, Mr. Greene married Miss Frances Adeline Willard,
of Hopkinton, who was brought up by her grandmother, Mrs. Sophia Teb-
bets. Mrs. Greene died March 2, 1873, leaving one son, Willard T. On Sep-
tember 18, 1877, Mr. Greene married for his second wife Miss Anstice Irene
Clarke, daughter of Daniel W. and Ruhamah (Cochran) Clarke, of Canaan,
New Hampshire. Mrs. Clarke, who was left a widow by the death of her
first husband, married Judge Horace Chase when Anstice was but nine years
old ; and they went to Hopkinton to live.

Mr. Greene was an accomplished public speaker, ready with telling
argument and bright repartee. He was versatile and quick to discern the
drift of legislation. The important positions intrusted to him showed that
he had the esteem and confidence of all. For years he was president of the
State Republican League, and with that body attended the Baltimore Con-
vention. Throughout his own State he was a noted speaker. In making
public addresses he used no notes except for headings, and never wrote but
one address. In his legislative career he was associated both in an official
and warmly personal way with Dr. Gallinger, of Concord, the well-known
United States Senator.

i^ctman m, (2)tecne

321

Mr. Greene died of apoplexy, March i, 1896, at the age of sixty years.
He had felt that death was impending, and had shortly before made the
most orderly settlement of all his affairs. He was a tall, well-proportioned
man. in manners affable and courteous, and in disposition calm and cheerful.
Always a man of correct habits, his life was well-nigh blameless. He was
an unusually well-read man; and he had strong tendencies to art, especially
to music. A warm affection existed between him and his mother, partly
because he was the only son left her. He remained with her for this reason,
and these family ties kept him from going elsewhere and opening a law
office. While he was not a member of any secret society, he belonged to St.
Andrew's Episcopal Church, of which he was warden. The latter church
contains a beautiful family memorial window designed by his niece, a noted
artist. Miss Elsie Roberts, of Philadelphia.

'Mm

3o{)n g), Ittmball

OHN SHACKFORD KIMBALL was an enterprising lawyer
of Boston and a business man of Burlington, Iowa. A son
of David and Abigail (Perkins) Kimball, he was born at
Pembroke, New Hampshire, April 28, 1812. His descent
from Michael Kimball, who married Bettie Runnells, came
through David Kimball of the second generation and David
Kimball of the third, who married Abigail Perkins. Mr.
Kimball's parents died at Pembroke when he was thirteen years old, leaving
nine children — Betsey, Asa, Perkins, John Shackford, Abigail, Sarah Towle
(widow of Timothy Colby, of Concord), Joseph, Mary Lewis (widow of
Samuel B. Wright, of Burlington, Iowa), and Harriet. Mary, who was about
five years old at the death of her parents, subsequently lived in the family
made famous at that time by the noted Prescott murder. Perkins, after
spending some time in the printing business, was later employed in the
Boston custom-house, and then kept a store in partnership with J. Frank
Hoyt in Concord. On retiring from business, he returned to Hopkinton,
and died there December 15, 1876. He first married Lydia Reed Wilde, of
Boston, a sister of Joseph Wilde, of the well-known firm of Lawrence, Wilde
& Co., furniture dealers, Cornhill, Boston. His second marriage was made
with Savalla Mason, of Grafton, New Hampshire, who survived him. with
one daughter, Sarah Underwood Kimball.

When a young man, John Shackford Kimball went to Concord and
worked in a bakery. Afterward he entered Hill & Sherburne's printing
office, and there learned book and job printing. While yet new in this occu-
pation, he gained considerable fame as a card printer by the introduction of
enamel work. In his school life at New Hampton, New Hampshire, he was
an associate of the Hon. John Wentworth, and was one of the founders of
the Social Fraternity Library. He was clerk in the old Franklin book
store in Concord for a time, and was associated in the printing business with
his brother Perkins.

From Concord he went to New Haven, Connecticut. Later he was for
three years a night clerk in the post-office at Portland, Maine. While there
he read law with District Attorney Haynes. Afterward he took the law
course at Harvard College, and was associated in practice with the noted
Robert S. Rantoul, of Boston. In 1838 he went to Burlington, Iowa, where
his youngest brother, Joseph, was conducting a general store in company
with Nathaniel Chase from Warner, New Hampshire. Mr. Chase soon
dying. Mr. Kimball bought out the latter's interest in the business; and he
and Joseph were partners till the latter's death. The firm then became
J. S. Kimball & Co., the company being his brother-in-law, S. B. Wright.
Shortly after starting the business, prompted to the step by his failing

31ot)n ^. mmbm 323

health, he retired from the legal profession, and came east in the capacity of
buyer for the firm. The sales of the firm in the course of time increased
from eight or nine thousand dollars a year to more than one million dollars,
this being the largest business of the kind in the State. In 1863 the business
cleared above all expenses one hundred and ten thousand dollars upon an
investment of three hundred thousand dollars. In 1864 quarters were
secured in Chicago, but owing to Mr. Kimball's ill health nothing was done
there. He, however, outlived all the partners he ever had except Mr.
Wyman, formerly a clerk of the firm, and Erastus Chamberlain, who was
sent to the firm from Massachusetts. In 1866 Mr. Kimball sold out to
William Bell, a Scotchman, and retired from the business. In 1854 he pur-
chased a summer residence at Hopkinton, which became his permanent
home, but his business interests were still with the Burlington firm. He
spent much time in Boston, especially during the winter. Another of his
associates in the law business was General N. P. Banks, who had been one of
his fellow-students. His services in the legislature were mainly on the judi-
ciary and banking committees. He was an able, persistent, and forcible
speaker. He was a careful student, was well read in history, and had
attained considerable knowledge of German, so that in his later life he was
able to undertake translations from the German. He paid a bounty to the
first ten men who enlisted in Hopkinton, besides advancing the money for
the State bounty.

Mr. Kimball married Mary E. Stevens, daughter of Dr. John Stevens,
of Goflfstown, New Hampshire, afterward a noted physician of Charlestown
and Boston. She was brought up in Boston and was married there. The
children of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball were: John Stevens, Robert Rantoul,
George Alexander, Mary Grace, and Kate Pearl.

Mr. Kimball contributed liberally to all the churches, while he had no
professed creed. He did much to assist in local developments, and was most
active in all progressive movements. His burial place is in Forest Hills
Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts.

INDEX

INDEX

Abbott, Amos, 282

Hannah M., 282

John, 282
Amidon, Charles J., 262

Jacob, 262

Mary J., 263

Philip F., 262, 263
Atwood, Ada F., 250

Daniel G., 119, 120

Daniel W., 121

David, 119, 120

Isaac, 120

John C, 249

Joseph, 249

Margaret A., 120

Mary D., 250

Warren B., 250

William H., 250

Balcom, Cortez, 143

George E., 145

James E., 143

Sarah M., 145
Batchelder, Annie M., 86

Frederick W., 86
Blanchet, Bertha A., 142

Celina Z., 142

Emile A., 142

George, 140

George A., 142

Norbert, 140
Blood, Aretas, 26, 27

James, 26

Lavinia K., 29

Nathaniel, 26

Sewall, 26
Boynton, Charles H., Dr., 21S

Ebenezer, 218

Mary H., 220

William, 218
Branch, Oliver E., 302, 304

Sarah M., 306

William, 302

William W., 303
Briggs, Frank O., 135

James, 293

James F., 133, 293, 294

John, 133

Mary E., 295

Roxanna, 134

Carpenter, David M., 48

Georgia B., 49

John, 47

Josiah, 47, 48

William, 47
Cass, Arthur T., 297

Benjamin, 296

Mary E., 297

William T., 296
Chandler, Adam, 59

Fanny R., 62, 66

Flora A., 62

George B., 59, 66

Nathan S., i

William, 59

William E., i
Cheney, Benjamin P., 210, 211

Benjamin P., Jr., 213

Charles W., 290

Charles W., Jr., 289, 290

Elizabeth, 213

Jesse, 211

John, 211

Lizzie J., 292
Churchill, Cassandra S., 68

Henry, 67, 68

Samuel, 67
Clark, Belinda, 109

Edward W., 109

Elizabeth M., no

John, 103, 104

Lois C, 105

Lorana, 105

Mary, 104

Noah, 103, 104

Noah S., 106
Cody, Ellen, 79

Mary G., 79

Michael, Tj

328

Walter, y]

Walter F., 79
Corbin, Austin, 307

Austin, Jr., 307

Hannah M., 308
Coughlin, John, Gen., 80
Cummings, Harriet S., 257

Isaac, 255

Joseph, 256

Mary R., 257

William H., 255, 256
Currier, Hannah A., 253

Lucretia, 253

Mary, 253

Moody, 251

Delaney, Edward J., Dr., 151

Emma P., 151

Katherine E., 151

Martin H., 151

Patrick, 150
Dennett, Abbie H., 173

Abigail, 172

Alexander, 171

Charles, 171
Drake, Abraham, 52, 53

Betsey, 54

Frank J., 54

James, Col., 52, 53

James, Maj., 53

Nathaniel S., 54

Robert, 52

Simon, 53
Drew, Amos W., 244, 245

Benjamin, 245

Julia E., 246

Samuel, 244
Duffy, Dominic S., Rev., 154

Francis P., 152

James B., Dr., 154

John M., 154

Mary A., 153

Rose M., 154
Dwinell, Demas, 56

George P., Dr., 57

Harvey, 56

Minnie L., 57

Eaton, George R., 277
John, 277

SnDci

Sarah J., 278

Stephen W., 277
Egan, Jennie, 150

Maria, 150

Martin, 149

Martin H., Rev., 149
Elliott, Albert, 14

Alonzo, 14, 15

Alonzo, Jr., 17

Ella R., 17

Joshua, 14

Medora, 17

Faulkner, Charles S., 155, 156

Edmund, 156

Francis, 155

Mary J., 157

Sallie E., 157
Felton, Aaron, 40

David D., 130

Frank P., 42

James B., 131

Mary E., 42

Mary F., 131

Silas A., 40, 130
French, Emma, 24

Leonard, Dr., 23

Leonard M., Dr., 23
Puller, Carl S., 24

Margaret L., 24

Gallinger, Jacob, 3 .

Jacob H., 3

Mary A., 3
George, Cyrus A., 204

Edgar W., 204

James, 203

James G., 203, 204

Rebecca P., 204
Gilbert, Alice, 299

Colgate, 298

Frederick M., 298
Goodell, David H., 259

Emma S., 261

Hannah J., 261
Graves, Caroline E., 285

David J., 284

Leland J., Dr., 284
Green, Harry D., 275

Henry, 274

JnDtE

3*9

Henry F., 274

Jennie M., 275
Greene, Anstice I., 320

Frances A., 320

Herman H., 320

Herman W., 320
Guild, George A., 97

John E., 97

Julia S., 98

Hayes, Charles W., 199, 200
Clara C, 201
Cora B., 169
Elihu, 200
Ellen M., 201
Harry T., 169
Hezekiah, 200
John, 169, 199
Jonathan, 200
Joseph, 168
Joseph O., 168, 169
Samuel D., 199, 200
Hill, Anna S., 45
Bushrod W., 43, 44
Caleb, 238
Carrie R., 239
Gardner C, Dr., 238

Helen M., 46
J. Frank, 45

Rebecca F., 239

William H., 239
Hodge, Jeremiah, 19

John, 19

Judith A., 22

Lucy E., 22
Holt, David, 138

Ralph J., 138

Sally A., 138
Howe, Charles, 176

Ellen P., 176
Howes, Benjamin A., 138

Benjaman T., Capt., 136

Maria A., 138

Ralph H., 138
Hoyt, Ellen O., 10

Sarah A., 10

Sarah F., 10

William G., 8
Hubbard, Abel, 70

Clara, 71

Isabella M., 71

William F., 70, 71

William W., 70
Hussey, Celia A. E., 162

Freeman A., 161

John, 161
Hyde, Mary E., 33

Theodore M., 33

Jordan, Chester B., 214
Chester B., Jr., 216
Gladstone, 216
Ida R., 216
Johnson, 214

Kelly, Harriett N., 185

John, 184

John P. P., 184
Kimball, Benjamin, 116

Caleb, 116

Charles C, 221

Charlotte, 1 18

Clara M., 118

David, 322

Edward P., 127

Edward T., 129

Gazilda C, 221

John, 88, 116

John S., 322

Joseph, 116

Louis M., 221

Maria, 118

Martha J., 128

Martha S., 129

Mary E., 323

Maurice E., 221

Newell S., 88

Reuben, Rev., 127

Richard, 116, 127

Roy E., 221

Ladd, Catharine S., 228

Daniel, 226

Edward W., 226

Gideon, 226

Seneca A., 226, 227

Susan, 228

Virginia B., 228
Lombard, Darwin, 235

Ellen L., 235

330

Sndei

John, 234
Joseph E., 234
Lyman, Dr., 234
Lyman M., 235

Magoon, Charles S., 146

Naomi, 147

Stewart, 146
Marden, Benjamin F., 311

George A., 311

Mary P., 312

Philip S., 312

Robert F., 312
Martin, Benjamin F., 64

Mary A., 66

Truman, 64
Meader, Benjamin, 187

Daniel, 187

Effie, 188

John, 187

Levi, 187

Stephen, 187

Stephen C, 187
Moseley, Abbie, 95

Franklin, 93

John, 93

John F., 93, 94

Samuel, 94
Moulton, Andrew M., 181

Caleb, 181

Caroline A., 181

Helen G., 182

Walter H., 181

Noyes, Clara L, 242
Gertrude, 242
Michael, 241
Parker J., 241

Oliver, Alice, 220
William W., 220

Page, Benjamin, 317
Caleb, 317. 318
Ellen M., 318
Jeremiah, 317, 318
Peter C, 318
Samuel S., 317, 318

Patterson, Alexander, 267
David N., 267

John, 267

Maria, 268

Sarah W., 268
Perkins, Anna M., 281

George H., Com., 279

Hamilton E., 279
Phipps, Ellen M., 248

James M., 247

James S., 247
Pike, Adelaide A., 314

Edwin B., 313

Harriet D., 314

Isaac, 313

John, 313
Poore, Caroline F., 92

Darwin M., 90, 91

Fred H., 92

George, 90

John, 90

Joseph, 91
Pope, Elizabeth P., 195

John P., 195

Susan A., 195
Prescott, Judith C, loi

Stephen, 100

Stephen, Jr., 100

Ramsdell, Anne M., 39

Arthur D., 39

Charles T., 39

Eliza D., 39

George A., 35

Harry W., 39
Ray, John C, 31, 32

Sarah A., 33
Rollins, Carie E., 192

Daniel G., 190

Daniel G., Jr., 194

Edward A., 191

Franklin J., 191

George F., 191

John, 190

Mary P., 192

Susan B., 191
Rutledge, Annie M., 12

Arthur, 11

Arthur J., 13

Hugh E., 13

James, 11

James H., 12

3nD«

331

Sawyer, Charles H., 269, 270
Frederick T., 265
Jabez, 265
Jonathan, 269
Sarah S., 266
Susan E., 271
Thomas, 269
Shaw, Amantha C, 75
Elijah M, 73, 74
Elijah R., 76
Irving C, 75
Mary H., 75
Roger, 73
Sleeper, Eugene H., 230
Finlay P., 230
Francis S., 230
Hannah, 230
Helen E., 231
Hiram, 230
Jane F., 230
Smith, Ammi, 205
Archibald L., 208
Charles C, 182
Emma, 208
John B., 205
Josiah C, 182
Norman S., 208
Thomas, 205
Stearns, Henry C, Dr., 223
Joseph P., 224

Josiah H., 223

Mary L., 224
Straw, Charlotte S., 288

Ezekiel A., Gov., 286

James B., 286
Sturtevant, Ada E., 237

Edward H., 236

Ezra T., 236

Hiram, 236

Lemuel, 236

Tessier, Anna, 124

Charles, 123

Charles F., 122, 123

Ernest F., 124

George O., Dr., 124

Leon A., 124
Thayer, David, 5

Herbert F., S

Minnie F., 6

Tibbitts (Tibbetts), Avie E., 166
Charlotte F., 166
Clarinda W., 166
Henry, 164
Ichabod, 165
Jeremiah, 164, 165
John, 165
John W., 164, 165
Samuel H., 164, 165
Titus, Augustin C, 272
Jeremy, 272
Judith H., 273
Tuck, Amos, 11 1

Catherine P., 115

Edward, iii

John, III

Jonathan, iii

Robert, 11 1

Sarah A., 115
Twitchell, Adams, 232

Cassius M. C, 232

Cyrus, 232
Tyler, Anna M., 316

Benjamin, 315

John, 315

Mary J., 316

Roxalana, 316

Varney, David B., 83, 84
Emma L., 86
Harriet B., 86
Luther, 84
William, 84

Walker, Andrew, 174

Ann M., 176

Charles K., 174, 176

George, Rev., 174

Henrietta C, 176

James, 174. i75

James, Capt., 175
Wallace, Albert, 196

Ebenezer G., 196

Fannie S., 197

Louis B., 197

Rosalie K., 197
Webster, Daniel, 125

Ebenezer, 125

Thomas, 125
Westgate, Lucretia M., 301

33*

Nathaniel W., 300
Phebe J., 301
Tyler, 300
Wheat, Arthur F., Dr., 159
Irene A., 159
Nathaniel, Dr., 158
Thomas, Dr., 158

Intti

Whitehouse, Charles S., 178

Ellen F., 179

Nicholas V., 178
Wilson, Elizabeth, 310

Jeremiah W., Dr., 309

Job, Dr., 309

Thomas, 309

2375

mi

i'iH'

■'?l.

';,i;i!;::iiri!