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This is a name famous in Scotch CAMPBELL history and it has contributed in no small measure to the honor and glory of America. It has long been well repre- sented in New Hampshire, and is widely and cred- itably known throughout the United States.
(I) Sir John Campbell, as duke of Argyle, as- sisted at the coronation of James the First of Eng- land. He was an otScer of William the Prince of Orange in 1690, and participated in the battle of the Boyne Water in the north of Ireland. He later settled in Londonderry, Ireland, where he married and became the father of several children, one of whom was Henry.
(II) Henry, son of Sir John Campbell born 1697. married, 1717, and in 1733 came to America, accompanied by his wife and five children, and set- tled in Windham, New Hampshire.
(III) Henry (2), son of Henry (i) Campbell, married Jeanette Mack, who was born on the ocean and died 1776. In 1765 the family moved to Lon- donderry, New Hampshire, and later Henry Camp- bell resided in Fletcher, Vermont, where his death occurred in 1813. He was the father of five sons, among whom was John.
(IV) John, son of Henry (2) Campbell, born 1786, was a blacksmith and farmer at West Henniker, and was among the best known and most respected citizens of the town, his influence for good being felt throughout the community. ' He was honored by his townspeople with many offices of trust, the duties of which he performed in an efficient and creditable manner. He married, December 23, 1S12, Sarah, daughter of Oliver Noyes, and their children were : Eliza, Cyrus, James, and John C. John Campbell, after an active and useful life, died Sep- tember 7, 1863. His wife died April 30. 1858.
(V) John C, son of John Campbell, born in Henniker, New Hampshire, January 11, 1822, was reared on the homestead and received his education in the district schools. In 1861 he removed to ■ Hillsborough and accepted a position as cashier in the Hillsborough National Bank, which he held up to the time of his death, 1896, the unusual period of thirty-five years, his tenure of office being noted for ability and integrity. His active career was characterized by the sterling qualities which insure good citizenship, and he won and retained the es- teem and confidence of those with whom he was brought in contact, either in business, political or social life. For more than two decades he served as town treasurer, and during the greater portion of this time was elected by both parties, this fact- amply testifying to his popularity. He was a di- rector in the Petersborough & Hillsborough Rail- road and was instrumental in having the line com- pleted from Hillsborough to Petersborough. _ He was treasurer of the Society of the Congregational Church, and was a member of the Blue Lodge and Chapter of Masons at Henniker, in which he held many offices and took great interest. Mr. Campbell
married Julia Darling Butler, born in Boston, Mas- sachusetts, who bore him six children, namely: E. Jennie, married Almon Oate, of Manchester. Mary E., married George A. Upton, formerly a lumber dealer of Townsend. Massachusetts, who died 1899. Julia D., married Walter Steele, of Stoneham. James H., died in infancy. James H., see forward. John B., born December 21, 1866, en- gaged in the express business in Concord, New Hampshire. The mother of these children died in 1898.
(VI) James H., son of John C. Campbell, was born in Hillsborough, July 27, 1865, was reared in Hillsborough Bridge and attended the schools there, also high school and business college of Manchester, New Hampshire. Prior to entering the insurance business in Manchester, in which line of work he is engaged at the present time (1907). he served in the capacity of teacher, for which calling he was thoroughly qualified. Mr. Campbell married Sarah Louise, daughter of Bush- rod W. Hill (q. v.). Mr. and Mrs. Campbell have two childriin : Bushrod Hill, born July 12, 1893 ; John Clififord. April 6, 1897.
This is unquestionably of English RIXFORD descent and was early planted in
New England. It is probably an offshoot of the Connecticut family of Rexford, but the connection has not been established by exten- sive research. The family was strongly represented in the Revolution by William Rixford and his sons, in Massachusetts.
(I) William Rixford was found in ^ledway, Massachusetts, as early as 1751. The records of Mendon, Massachusetts, show that he was married November 13, 1751, to Anna Thayer. He is then stvled of Medway and he resided in that town until March, 1761. when he removed to Grafton, Massa- chusetts. At the Lexington alarm in 1775 he served in Captain Luke Drury's company of Minute Men, and marched April 19, and remained under arms sixteen days. He was still livin,g in Grafton in 1782, and it is conjectured that he removed to Hardwick, Massachusetts. Five children were born to him in Medway, namely: Elizabeth, William, Samuel, Henry and Simon ; and six in Grafton, namely: Anna, Phoebe, Samuel, Elijah, died young; Joseph and Elijah.
(II) William (2), eldest son and second child of William (l) and Ann (Thayer) Rixford. was born December 7, 1754, in Medway, Massachusetts, and lived a few years after 1774 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. He served three enlistments in the Revolution from that town, and about 1782 he re- moved to Winchester, New Hampshire, accom- panied by his brothers Henry and Simon, and set- tled there permanently. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and in the Massachusetts rolls is credited with having marched from Grafton in Captain Luke Drury's company of Minute Men, belonging to Col-
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onel Artenias Ward's regiment, April 19, 1775. Having cleared some ten acres and erected a log cabin he returned to Grafton for the purpose of bringing to their new habitation his family which consisted of his young wife, an infant son and his aged mother, all of whom journeyed thither on one horse. He reclaimed from the wilderness and brought to a good state of cultivation the farm which is now or was recently owned by A. A. Put- nam, and the primitive log cabin that originallly sheltered the pioneer family, stood directly opposite the present dwelling house. It contained a Dutch fire place capable of holding a log eight feet long, and afforded ample protection from the wolve.s which frequently besieged it at night, but finding it impregnable they contented themselves by devour- ing the sheep. He married, January 28, 1779, Lucy Wilson, of Northboro, Massachusetts and his chil- dren were : Luther. Lucy, Ephraim, William, Sally, Artemas. Harriet, Solomon, and Finis, all of whom were natives of Winchester except the eldest.
(HI) Captain William, third son and fourth child of William and Lucy (Wilson) Rixford. was born at Winchester. It is quite probable that he ac- quired his title in the militia. He remained upon the homestead farm, and having assisted his father in erecting a more pretentious frame dwelling, he was left in possession of the cabin, ^ which he continued to occupy for some years, or until completing an- other frame dwelling. Some twenty-five years later he removed to his father's residence, and his death occurred at the old homestead in 1869. He was an upright, conscientious man, a good neighbor and an honored citizen. He married Betsey Willard, daughter of Lieutenant Amos Willard, .and was the father of five children : Eliza, now the widow of Clark Dodge and resides in Keene. Emily, who married (first), Willard Farrington, and (second) Ebenezer Clark, of Keene, where she spent the re- mainder of her life. William, Jr., Willard and Lucius, the two last named being twins.
(IV) Willard, of the children of Captain Wil- liam and Betsey (Willard) Rixford, was born in Winchester, July 25, 1812, and died July 16, 1906. He grew to manhood as a farmer at the homestead, and his active years were devoted to that indepen- dent calling. He resided in the house erected by his father nearly one hundred years ago. up to his decease, when he had attained his ninety-fourth year. He married Rhoda Coombs, and she became the mother of five children : Emily E., Henry W., Harriet E., Mary C. and William, who died in in- fancy. Of these the only survivor is Henry W., of Winchester.
(V) Henry W., second child of William and Rhoda (Coombs) Rixford, was born in Winchester, January g, 1842. He attended the public schools, and at an early age began to assist his father in farming. Like his ancestors he has found agriculture an agreeable and satisfactory occupation, and for many years he has ably managed the homestead farm. Mr. Rixford has always refused to hold office, although he is a Republican of the stalwart type. The family attend the Universalist Church.
On January I. 1868, he married Elsie P. Stowell. born in Winchester, January 18, 1847, daughter of Roswell Stowell, whose birth took place in Ches- terfield, this state, November 17, 1815. Mr. and Mrs. Rixford are the parents of three children:
Delia G., Nellie R. and Jessie P. Delia G. married Burton G. Willard, and has two children: Elsie M. and Ella R. Willard. Nellie R. married Jesse Loreno Putnam, and thev have six children: Willard A., Harold R., Marshall H., Bertha M., Marian B. and Clarence E. Jesse P. married P. H. Willard.
The original bearer of this cognomen MOSELEY took it without doubt from the lo- cality in which he dwelt. The as- sumption 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 de- scendant of the first Moseley found his environ- ment made intolerable by fanatical oppression and removed from England to the freedom of the New England forest, and settling there was the first of five generations who lived contentedly, like their de- scendants, 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, love home and can succeed wherever they choose to make their abiding place.
(I) John Moseley, whose name in the ancient records is spelled with many variations, as Mawdes- ley, Modesley. Madesley, but has long been fixed as Moseley, came probably in the ship "Mary and John," which sailed from Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630. settled at Dorchester, Massachu- setts, in 1630, was admitted freeman, March 14. 1639, and died there August 29, 1661. He married (first) Elizabeth (surname unknown), and by her had a son Joseph or John, born 1638, but whether any more children or not is unknown. His second
wife. Cicely , died November 3, 1661. She
named in her will three children: John, Elizabeth and Thomas.
(II) Thomas, youngest child of John and Cicely Moseley, was born in Dorchester, where he died Oc- tober 22, 1706. He was admitted to the church in 1658. He married, October 28, 1658, Mary, daugh- ter of Thomas Lawrence, of Hingham. She died .\pril, 1723. They had nine children: Increase, John, Mary, Thomas, Elizabeth, L'nite, Ebenezer, Nathaniel and Joseph.
(III) Ebenezer. fifth son and seventh child of Thomas and Mary (Lawrence) Moseley, was born in Dorchester, September 4, 1673, and died Septem- ber 19, 1740. He was constable, 1705, town treas- urer, 1720, town clerk,' 1721, and selectman, 1719-21. He married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of William Trescott, and (second) Hannah, daughter of John Weeks.
(IV) Ebenezer, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (Trescott) Moseley, was born May 19, 1695, mar- ried. May 29, 1718, Elizabeth Atherton, born April 14, T701, daughter of Humphrey and Elizabeth Atherton, of Dorchester.
(V) Thomas, son of Ebenezer and Elizabeth (. Atherton) Moseley, born in Dorchester, June 2. 1728, married. April' 23, 1752, Esther Davis, born in Dorchester, November 7, 1731, daughter of Jona- than, Jr., and Sarah Davis. She died April 21, 1811.
(VI) Samuel Moseley. son of Thomas and Esther (Davis) Moseley, born in Dorchester, Mas- sachusetts, October 3, 1765, died in Weathersfield, Vermont, June 20. 1828, aged sixty-two years. When
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^ young man he went with his brother Ebenezer to Weathersfield, where he resided and carried on the business of tanning. He married, December 29, 1793, Priscilla Baker, daughter of Ebenezer and Abigail Baker. Mr. Baker died May 24. 1798, aged fifty-seven years. His wife died January 24, 1780. The children of Samuel and Priscilla (Baker) Moseley were : Baker, Fanny, Elmira, Laurena, Franklin and Francis (twins), Abigail Preston, Es- ther Christia and Eleanor.
(VH) Franklin, second son and fifth child of Samuel and Priscilla (Baker) Moseley, was born in Weathersfield, Vermont^ August 4, 1S04, and died January 12, 1894, in Concord. His boyhood was passed in his native town, where he went to school and between terms rendered such aid as he could to liis 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 a 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 wo- men wove into hats that were sent to Boston to be sold. After the partnership had existed some years, Francis Moseley died June 30, 1833, and Franklin continued the jjusiness alone, and also had other stores at Sanbornton and Danbury. In addition to the mercantile business he engaged in the manu- facture of shoes. He had a shop in which he em- ployed 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 be- tween Concord and Boston was principally done by the Boston and Concord 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 are made evident by the fact that while a resident of Hill he was elected to and filled the offices of town clerk, selectman, justice 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 fleur and grain, and October 30, 1854, he and David T. Watson bought out the interest of J. A. Gilmore (afterward governor), but kept the old name of J. A. Gilmore & Company. This firm then consisted of Asahel Clapp, John H. Pearson, Benja- min Grover, David T. Watson and Franklin Mose- ley. Subsequently the name of the firm was J. H. Pearson. Barron & Company, Barron, Dodge & Company, J. V. Barron & Company, Howe, Moseley
& Company, John H. Barron & Company, and Moseley & Company.
AiteT his removal to Concord, Mr. Moseley never sought official recognition at the hands of his fellow citizens. He attended the South Congrega- tional Church, of which he was a libera! supporter. His political affiliations were Democratic. He was emphatically a business man, and his life was one of steady and active devotion to business 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, February 24, 1835, Lydia Rowell Hoyt, born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, April 12. 1806. (see Hoyt VII) and their children were : John Francis and Carroll and Carlos Beck- with (twins).
(VIII) John Francis, oldest of the three sons of Franklin and Lydia R. (Hoyt) Moseley, was born in Hill, July 20, 183S, and died in Concord, August 12, 1905. He received a common school education, and learned how to transact mercantile business in his father's store. On the removal of his father's family to Concord John F. accompanied them, and from 1853 to 1898 was actively engaged in the flour and grain business, from which he re- tired in 1900. During this period he was associated cither 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 a pride in doing things well. He was a man of high principles and sterling character. Of a natur- ally reserved and retiring disposition, the number of his acquaintances was not large. Those who were brought into his favored circle speak in terms of highest admiration of him. Without display he acted well the part of an exemplary citizen, and found true success in business by giving every man his due. In the sphere where he was best known he is greatly missed and truly mourned. His prin- ciples were thoroughly established, and he was a sincere Democrat, though he took no active part in political movements. While he shunned often- proffered official 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.
He married, August 23, 1880, Abbie Fletcher, born June 6. 1845, in Loudon, New Hampshire, 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 was a son of James Fletcher. Mrs. Moseley resides in the beautiful home erected in 1899-1900 by her husband, located on Warren street, Concord.
(VIII) Carlos Beckwith. youngest son of Franklin and Lydia R. (Hoyt) Moseley, was born July IS, 1843, in Hill, and educated in the common
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schools of that town and in Concord, after the re- moval of his father to the latter place. In i860 he was appointed to a clerkship in the Concord post- office and filled that place a year. From 1861 to 1863 he was employed as a telegrapher, and the following seven years as a clerk in the offices of the Concord Railroad Company. In 1870 he took a position in the flour and grain business, where he was steadily engaged for the following thirty years, devoting his time and energy to that business, first as a clerk and later as a partner, and meeting with well deserved success. He retired in 1900, at the same time as his brother John, and has since that time been interested in real estate at York Beach, Maine. Diligence in business, reliability, and an affable manner have been three important factors in Mr. Moseley's success. He is a Democrat, but takes no active part in political affairs, and attends the South Congregational Church.
Carlos B. Moseley was married in Concord. No- vember 28, 1872, by Rev. F. O. Aj'er, pastor of North Congregational Church, to Helen A. Morgan, daughter of Charles L. and Josephine A. (Spiller) Morgan, of Concord. They have two children : Charles Franklin, the elder, married Lida B. Knowles, of Fort Fairfield, Maine. Lydia Jose- phine, married Frank Webster Sanborn, and has one child, Waldo Moseley Sanborn. All reside in Concord. In 1S98 Mr. Moseley began the erection af his handsome home, on Merrimack street. Con- cord. It was completed in 1900, and is fitted with the appointments, adornments and comforts of a thoroughly modern dwelling.
The Scotch blood which is borne by DUNLAP many citizens of New Hampshire has
done much to maintain the high moral standard of the state, and has also been active in clearing away the forest and developing its re- sources and industries.
(I) Archibald Dunlap removed from the north of Ireland and was among those to early arrive in New Hampshire, settling in~ Chester. He located on home lot No. 26 of that town. In 1741 he mar- ried Martha, daughter of Joseph Neal, of that town, and their children were : Joseph, James. John, Mary, William, Sarah. Samuel and Martha. The father and the three daughters died within a period of three weeks of a throat disorder, which was probably diphtheria.
(II) Samuel, youngest son and seventh child of Archibald and Martha (Neal) Dunlap, was born in Chester, and was bound out to learn the carpenter's trade. While residing in Chester he worked largely at his trade in Concord, and assisted in erecting the steeple of the first church built in that town in 1783. Soon after attaining his majority he married Nancy Corcoran and settled first in Henniker. In 1797 he removed to Salisbury, New Hampshire, and there died August 2, 1830. On December 30, 1806. he bought a half interest in the saw mill of David Pettingill. on the site of the present Prince Mill, and on the tenth of the following March he pur-
chased the other part of the property, thus becoming- sole owner. To this he added a gristmill and the records show that on April 13, iSii. he sold saw and grist mills to his sons, John and James. His- children were : Sarah, Joseph, Samuel, John, James, William, Mary, Thomas (died young), David, Nancy, Thomas, Daniel and Joel.
(III) David, seventh son and ninth child of Samuel and Nancy (Corcoran) Dunlap, was born April 2, 1794, in Henniker, New Hampshire, and early in life went to Schenectady, New York, where he learned the trade of saddler with his uncle, Will- iam Dunlap. He settled in Newburyport, Massa- chusetts, and died there in November, 1S29. He married in that town, February 4, 1824, Fanny, daughter of Abel and Bridget (Smith) Bartlett. She was born January 15, 1801, in Newburyport, where she died September 24. 1829. Their children were : Joseph D., William and Henry S. The eld- est son resides in Westfield, Massachusetts. The- second in Salisbury and the third in Concord. New Hampshire.
(IV) William, second son of David and Fanny (Bartlett) Dunlap, was born August 23, 1826, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and went to Salisbury, New Hampshire, when three years of age to live with his uncle, James D. Dunlap, and remained with him sixteen years. In the meantime he had the ad- vantages of the excellent schools of Salisbury, and at the same time learned the milling business which he continued for many years. He was a student for a time at Tilton Academy and then entered the employ of Cyrus Gookin at West Salisbury. At the age of eighteen years he went to Concord and for two or three years was employed in the manufacture of sash and blinds, which was conducted by Daniel H. Dunlap. Returning to Salisbury he became a partner of Cyrus Gookin, January i, 1857. and for seventeen years they conducted a mercantile busi- ness at West Salisbury. After the death of Mr. Gookin Mr. Dunlap continued the business alone and purchased the interest of his partner from his heirs, and thus continued until old age compelled his retirement from active labor. He died Febru- ary 23, 1897. For many years succeeding the estab- lishment of a postofKce at West Salisbury he was- the postmaster in charge. He was several years- clerk of the town, and in 1893 represented the town in the legislature. In political principles he was a Democrat. He married (first). May 22, 1851, Emelia T. Severance, daughter and thirteenth child of Joseph and Anna (Currier) Severance, of Andover. She was born April 12, 1826, and died March 31, 1855, in Concord. Mr. Dunlap married (second). May 2, 1858. Ellen C. daughter of Rich- ard and Alice H. (Watson) Fellows, of Salisbury. She was born 'July 16, 1S34. She is the mother of all of his children, namely: Frank H., Willie G. and Fred A. The second resides in Concord and the third in Antrim.
(V) Frank Henry, eldest child of William and Ellen C. (Fellows) Dunlap. was born Jaiuiary 8, t86o, in Salisbury, New Hampshire, where he now resides. After attending the common schools he
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was a student at Proctor Academy in Andover, after which he was employed as a clerk in the store of his father at West Salisbury. In 1857 he went to Meredith, New Hampshire, and was there em- ployed by J. W. Bead & Company, grocers, until 1880. In that year he was engaged by J. T. Taylor, ■of Tilton, with whom he continued four years. He then returned to Salisbury, and was engaged in his father's store until the death of the latter, when he became his successor and is still conducting the business. In 1S84 Mr. Dunlap established a poul- try business in Salisbury, beginning with twenty hens and has now five hundred and out of their •earnings has built thirteen houses for them. Since 1880 this business has netted him about ten thousand dollars. This is a very positive, affirmative answer to the oft-repeated question in agricultural journals, "Do hens pay ?" Mr. Dunlap is a Democrat in prin- ciple, but is independent in political action and is popular with his townsmen. For four years he served the town as treasurer and was elected repre- sentative in 1889. He is a member of Merrimack Lodge, No. 28. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Franklin, and of the Royal Lodge, Ancient Or- der of United Workmen, of the same town. He is a regular attendant and supporter of the Baptist Church. He has been successful in business as a result of his industry and correct calculations.
Mr. Dunlap was married. March 25, 1884, to Cara Prince, daughter of David and Caroline E. (Pierson) Prince, of Salisbury, and his three chil- dren are: Ralph, born February 4, 1888. Clifton, born July 26, 1891. Bernard, born May g, 1S94. The first two are students at Kimball Union Acad- emy, Meriden, New Hampshire.
In the records of the times when sur- HULL names were beginning to be used are
found mention of Nicholas atte Hulle. Jordan de la Hulle, Geoffrey de la Helle and John de la Hill, each designating a person more particu- larly by adding to his name Nicholas. Jordan, GeofTrey or John, a reference to the hull, or hell, that is, hill, on which h« lived. In later times de la was dropped and Hull and Hill became surnames without further reference to the person's place of residence.
(I) George Hull was at Concord in 174", and was taxed there in 1757 and 1758, and were the tax lists preserved they would probably show that he was taxed there about twenty years. He removed to Plymouth in 1765, and February 13 of that year, George Hull, weaver, of Concord, purchased one full right or share in Plymouth, which originally belonged to Meshech Weare, one of the grantees. He died in 1807. His wife's baptismal name w-as Mehitable. Their children were : Nathaniel, Sam- uel, Joseph, George, Mehitable, Moses, Jonathan and John.
(II) Jonathan, seventh child and sixth son of George and Mehitable Hull, was born in Plymouth, 1768, and died September 23, 1S49, aged eighty-one. He lived in Hebron from 1791 to 1807, and then
purchased of his brother John the paternal farm. He was an intelligent, amiable man, fond of reading and music, and took care that the musical taste, which his children all inherited, should be developed in thein. Pie married (first), March 19, 1795, Bet- sey Lovejoy, born in Hebron, daughter of Abial and Mary (Hobart) Lovejoy. She died November 3, 1815. He married (second), July 15, 1816. Lois Merrill. She died January 21, i860. His children, all by the first wife, were : Betsey, Jonathan, Moses. Olive, Jacob Lovejoy, Nathaniel, Isaac Baxter and Phineas.
(III) Moses, third child and second son of Jon- athan and Betsey (Lovejoy) Hull, was born in Hebron. March 29, 1800, and died in Plymouth, July 25, 1878. He inherited the paternal acres, and later owned and tilled what is known as the Phillips farm. He was a man of ability, and an honest and worthy citizen. He was a fine performer of the tenor drum, and for many years was drum major in the militia. In his age he was blind and infirm, but his ability to play the drum still remained. He married, November 24, 1825. after a courtship of eight years. Zilpah Ward, born June 11, 1799, and died September 10, 1875, daughter of Isaac and Polly (Thurlow) Ward. Their children were: William Gould, Harriet Ann, Arthur Ward and Mary Ellen.
(IV) William Gould, eldest child of Moses and Zilpah (Ward) Hull, was born in Plymouth, De- cember 13. 1826. He received his education in the district school and at Holmes Academy. At the age of fifteen years he made his personal belongings into a small bundle which he took under his arm, and went to Plymouth and secured a place where he worked for his board and attended school. After attending Holmes Academy two terms he taught school a term, and then accepted a position as clerk which he filled several years. From 1872 to 187S he was a member of the firm, Webster, Hull & Company, merchants of Plymouth. He then be- came a member of the firm of Ward. McQuesten & Hull, glove manufacturers, then the largest firm of the kind in the town. He was in that business five years, and then opened a summer boarding house, known as "Rose Lawn." in the central part of the village, which he managed until 1880, when Mrs. Hull died. After her death he was employed by the lumber companies as clerk and superintendent in Livermore and Woodstock, but retained his legal residence in Plymouth nearly all that time. In town affairs Mr. Hull's services have been fre- quently sought, and he has been selectman, road agent, representative and postmaster, and has filled acceptably many other positions. While a repre- sentative he served as a member of the committee for the Asylum for the Insane at Concord, and as chairman directed its business. In 1895, upon the request of his fellow citizens, he accepted the post- mastership of Plymouth, and served four years. As a member and treasurer of the Town History Com- mittee, he is kindly remembered by his associates and the writer and his services were fully appre-
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ciated by his townsmen. His duties in all positions have been performed in a faithful and efficient man- ner, and received the endorsements of his fellow citizens. In politics he is a Democrat of the Jack- sonian type. Always mindful of the difficulties he had in acquiring his education, and desirous of help- ing young people to qualify for higher stations in life, he has assisted many of them in obtaining their schooling by lending them money. In social, poli- tical and financial circles his name is respected and honored. He married, July 12, 1854, Laura Eliza- beth Taylor Crockett, born July 6, 1828, and died October 0, 1S80. She was the daughter of Benaiah S. and Mary (Taylor) Crockett, of Holderness, and granddaughter of Rev. John Crockett, of Sanborn- lon. She was a lady of culture and literary attain- ments, and her memory is a sacred treasure of the family. Two sons were born of this union: Arthur C. and Heber W.
(V) Arthur Crockett, son of William G. and Laura E. T. (Crockett) Hull, was born in Plym- outh, April 30, 1857, and educated in Plymouth, Exeter and New Hampton. He is a traveling sales- man, representing the firm of J. C. Norris & Com- pany, of Concord. He resides in Plymouth. He married, May 24, 1896, Annie P. Burgess, daughter of Joseph and Carrie Burgess, of Wareham, Mas- sachusetts.
(V) Heber William, second son of William G. and Laura E. T. (Crockett) Hull, was born in Plymouth, October 29. 1861, and is a conductor on the Boston & Maine Railroad, with residence at Plymouth. He takes a lively interest in politics, is a Democrat, and was selectman in 1902-04; served as chairman of the board one year. March, 1907, he was Democratic candidate for county commis- sioner. He married (first), March 15. 1S87. Mary J. Drinkwater, born in Portland, Maine, October 27, 1859, daughter of A. and May (Patrick) Drink- water. She died August 29. i8go. He married (second), July 3, 1898, Rosa Frances Heath, born in Holderness, June 19, 1877. They have one child, Laura Frances, born in Plymouth, November S, 1901.
(I) Nathaniel Ladd Drury was born in DRLTRY Malone. New York, June 11, 1823, and
died in Claremont, New Hampshire, December 5, 1872. He was a cutler by trade and carried on the manufacture of cutlery for some years in his native town. Later he removed to Clare- mont and spent the remainder of his life there. His wife's maiden name was Harriet Adelaide Brown and she was born in Charlestown. N. H., October 24, 1827. They had three children : Kate, William Herbert and Nellie M. Of the two daugh- ters. Kate died in childhood, Nellie M. still resides in Claremont.
(II) William Herbert Drury, the only son and second child of these parents, was born in Clare- mont, December 22. 1855, and died in Manchester, New Hampshire, April 13, 1901. He was educated in the public schools of Claremont and graduated
from the Stevens High School of that town in the class of 1876. Later he attended St. Lawrence Uni- versity of Canton, New York. As his parents were possessed of only moderate means he was compelled to work his own way in part, which he did with much ability. On completing his preparatory studies he entered the law office of Hon. Hosea W. Parker, of Claremont, with whom he read law for three years and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar in the summer of 1880. He located in Epping, New Hampshire, where he practiced his profession from 1880 to 1887. For a time he also had a law office at Derry, New Hampshire, where he was associated with the late Fred. R. Felch. In November, 1S88, he removed to Manchester and in January, 1889, he formed a partnership with Hon. Robert J. Peaslee under the firm name of Drury & Peaslee. This partnership continued until Mr. Peaslee's appoint- ment as a member of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire in July. 1S98. From that time Mr. Drury continued in business alone imtil February, 1899, when the partnership of Drury & Hurd was formed, Henry N. Hurd, of Manchester, becoming the junior partner. This firm continued until De- cember, 1901, when Mr. Drury became associated with Hon. David A. Taggart and Hon. George H. Bingham, the firm being known as Taggart, Bing- ham & Drury. Here his prospects were of the brightest when, after a few months, he was stricken with the illness which ended in his death. During his residence and practice in Manchester Mr. Drury became recognized as one oi her soundest and most capable lawyers. He was a tireless worker and patient and constant in all of his re- search ; he was a man of the strictest integrity, honorable in all his dealings and was implicitly trusted by those associated with him as well as by all with whom he came in contact. Upon first ac- quaintance he was somewhat retiring, but when once a friendship was formed he was known and appreciated as a genial and sympathetic companion and a firm and helpful friend. He gave to his many clients unsparingly of his ability, and his suc- cess was ol steady growth and was constantly broadening. A great lover of home, his most en- joyable moments were spent with his family at his own fireside. In politics Mr. Drury was a Dem- ocrat and took an active part in political affairs. His judgment in business affairs was ever practical and sound, appreciating which his constituents twice elected him to the office of selectman in the town of Epping; and he was also sent to represent this town as a member of the Constitutional Con- vention of 1889. In religion he was of the Univer- salist faith and attended the First Universalist Church of Manchester. He was both a Mason and an Odd Fellow and in the former order had attained high rank as past illustrious master of Sullivan Lodge. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Ep- ping ; he also held membership in Washington Lodge. Mount Horcb Arch Chapter. Adoniram Council and Trinity Commandery of Manchester, and of Wildey Lodge, Independent Order of Odd'
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Fellows, of the same city. Shortly after coming to Manchester he became a member of the Calumet Club, a social organization^ and was one of the originators and founders of the Manchester Gym- nasium. November 21, 1S8S, Mr. Drury united in marriage with Mary Evelyn Tolles. a daughter of Edwin Wharton and Harriet Elizabeth (Mason) Tolles. The father was a native of Claremont and by occupation a merchant ; the mother was a native of Hartford, Vermont. Mrs. Drury was born in Hastings, Minnesota, but spent most of her early life in Claremont and was there educated in the public schools^ being graduated from the Sfevens High School in the class of 1878. She is also a member and attendant of the same church as was Mr. Drury. Three children were born of this union, two of w^hom, Ralph Howard and Ruth Liz- beth, are now living, and are being educated in the public schools of Manchester.
This ancient occupative surname, DRAPER like Weaver and Taylor, which
came from the calling followed by him who bore it first, is found in the early records of New England, and from those Puritan settlers who brought it here have descended generations of worthy successors.
(I) Jacob Draper was born in that part of Kingston which is now Sandown, about 1750, and died in 1817. He removed to Plymouth and settled in the south part of that town before 1776. He was in the Revolution, serving as a soldier on the fron- tier, in Captain Jeremiah Eames' company from July to October, 1776. He married, in Plymouth, December 4, 1777, Elizabeth Ladd. born in Kings- ton. January 6, 1756, daughter of Nathaniel and Sarah (Clifford) Ladd, of Kingston and Alexan- dria'. Their children were : Jacob, Jonathan, Will- iam, Sarah, Joseph, Nathaniel. Peter, Reuben, Han- nah and Betsey.
(II) Nathaniel, sixth child of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Ladd) Draper, was born in Plymouth, in 1790, and died August 10, 1875. For a time he was a farmer on Ward Hill ; he then removed to Plymouth village, where for several years he con- ducted a meat market and was a dealer in produce. He bought various kinds of goods in Canada which he disposed of in Plymouth. He was selectman in 1824-25. He married (first), in 1814, Mary Gill, born August 24, 1796, and died in Plymouth. De- cember 22, 1837. She was the daughter of William and Ruth (Haselton) Gill, of Newmarket and Bos- cawen. He married (second). February, 1841, Re- becca (Shute) Shattuck, widow of Enos Shattuck. His children, all by the first wife, were: Mary Jane. Jason C, Eliza. Harriet, Nathaniel Fletcher, Emily (died young), and Mary Emily.
(III) Nathaniel Fletcher, second son and fifth child of Nathaniel and Mary (Gill) Draper, was born January 12, 1826, and died November 5, 1S71. After spending some years in farming he went to Manchester, where he was engaged in the retail grocery business for some years as a clerk. From
there he went to Lowell. Massachusetts, and was ins the employ of Puffer & Company, grocery mer- chants, for some years, and also spent a year ir^ Bridgeport, Connecticut. He afterward went to Hunterstown, Province of Quebec, Canada, and had charge of the mills and store of a large corpor- ation six years. In 1857 he returned to Plymouth. He carried on a grocery business in Lower Inter- vale, and was also a partner with T. R. Hawley, in the firm of T. R. Hawley & Company, manufac- turers of gloves. At the end of five years Mr. Draper sold out his business, both grocery and glove manufactory, and formed a partnership with Samuel Blanchard under the name of Blanchard & Draper, for the manufacture of gloves. This firm lasted until Mr. Draper's death. Mr. Draper was a staunch Republican. He married, June 16, 1S49, Emma Bridgman, born in Dorchester. January 12, 1827, and died September 21, 1892, daughter of Elbridge Bridgman. Five children were born of this union : Jason Fletcher, Harriet Emeline, Hen- rietta Florence. Walter Kendrick and Jennie I\Iay. Jason Fletcher is the subject of the next paragraph. Harriet E., born July 5, 1852, married, March 28, 1872. John F. Maynard of Manchester, and died April 12, 1879. Henrietta F., became the wife of John F. Maynard. February 24, 1881. Walter K., born August 23, 1859. died April 19, l8go. He mar- ried (first) Helen Clough, and (second) Lillian Fadden. He lived in Ashland.
(IV) Jason Fletcher, eldest son of Nathaniel F. and Emma (Bridgman) Draper, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, October 10, 1850. He was educated in the schools of Plymouth, at Master Hiram Cass's private school at Center Harbor, and at Tilton Seminar}-. The two years next succeed- ing his school days he was in the employ of Sargent Brothers & Company, dry goods merchants. Boston. Then returning to Plymouth he became a traveling salesman for his father, selling gloves throughout New England and Canada, Continuing for fifteen years. On the death of his father in 1871 he took his place in the business, and was a partner with a Mr. Blanchard for six years, until the latter retired, and Mr. Draper formed a partnership with George A. Draper, of Bristol, and Lemuel Draper, of Win- chester. Massachusetts, which continued for two years. A son, F. Draper, then continued the busi- ness with his brother-in-law, John F. Maynard, o' Manchester, under the firm name of J. F. Draper & Company, until November, 27. 1897. The business was then incorporated under the name of the Draper-Maynard Company, with a capital of $25,000. The company conducted a factory in Ashland nine- teen years, removing the manufacture to "a new fac- tory in Plymouth in December, 1900. In February of the same year the capital stock of the corpora- tion was increased to $50,000, and December 31, 1902, again increased to $100,000, and in July. 1906, raised a third time to $150,000; the officers being: President, John F. Maynard : treasurer. Harry S. Huckins ; general manager. Jason F. Draper ; di- Vectors, the above named officers. The regular
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manufacture of gloves gave place to the manufac- ture of sporting goods in 1904. The average num- ber of pairs of gloves manufactured for some years was many thousands. The number of persons now employed by the establishment is one hundred and fifty. In political faith Mr. Draper is a Republican. He is a member of Olive Branch Lodge, No. 16, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; and Plymouth Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Plymouth, and of the New Hampshire Club of Bos- ton, of which he is one of the early members.
Mr. Draper married, February 26. 18S1, Hattie Cora Russell, born June 3, 1855, daughter of Pela- tiah and Mary Ann (Woodman) Russell, of Plym- outh. Four children have been born to them : Mary Emma, May S, 1882 ; Catherine Muriel. February 25, 1884, died March 21, 1885 ; Harriet Marguerite, July 17. 1S89; and Jason Russell, May 27, 1900.
Dr. Shea, of Nashua, is descended from SHEA the Sheas of county Kerry, Ireland, and therefore belongs to one of the most noted families of the Emerald Isle. Many of this name, which is of great antiquity in Ireland, emi- grated to the United States, becoming useful citi- zens, and their children and grandchildren are now in the midst of successful careers in business and professional life.
(I) John Shea resided in county Kerry and was contemporaneous with the patriots of 1798.
(II) Timothy Shea, son of John, also resided in county Kerry and was a veterinary surgeon.
(III) Daniel Shea, son of Timothy, was born in county Kerry, August, 1840. Emigrating to this country at the age of sixteen years he found em- ployment in the cotton mills of Nashua and was subsequently enabled, through his habits of indus- try and thrift, to purchase a farm, which he culti- vated energetically for the rest of his life. He mar- ried Catherine McDonald, also a native of Ireland, and a daughter of Edward McDonald. Her father, who was at one time the steward of an Irish estate, went to the island of Jamaica, West Indies, where he purchased a plantation, and while visiting the old country for the purpose of removing his family to their new home, he was' seized with a violent at- tack of fever which proved fatal. Mrs. Catherine Shea became the mother of eleven children, six of whom are living: John, who is now superintendent of the Clinton Manufacturing Company's Mills, in Clifton, South Carolina; Timothy H., who is now serving in the United States Marine Corps ; Augustus W., M. D., who will be again referred to ; Mary B., wife of Michael Kelly; Adeline, wife of Thomas F. Mulvanity; and Ann G., who is a school teacher. The family are members of the Roman Catholic Church.
(IV) Augustus Washington Shea, M. D.. son of Daniel and Catherine (McDonald) Shea, was born in Nashua, August 9, 1865. His early education was acquired in the public schools including the Nashua high school, and after being graduated from the medical department of the University of
Vermont in 1887, he pursued a special coarse of study in New York City and completed his profes- sional training abroad. Returning to Nashua, he inaugurated his professional career in the midst of his friends and acquaintances, and having rapidly acquired a high reputation as both physician and surgeon, he has built up an extensive practice. In addition to his private practice Dr. Shea finds ample opportunity for professional work of a semi-public nature as president of the Nashua Emergency Hos- pital, member of the Nashua Hospital Association and local surgeon for the Boston & Maine Railway Company. He is a member of the New Hamp- shire State Medical Society, the American Medical Association, the New York Association of Railway Surgeons ; the Order of Foresters, and the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry. Politically he acts with the Democratic party, and at the present time is serving on the board of public works. He mar- ried. June 25, 1902, Lucy Kelly, of Brooklyn, New York, and has two children : Lucy and Kathryn,
The ancient family of this name
BOISVERT has been long established in the
province of Quebec, Canada, where
it was founded by an immigrant from France long
previous to the English occupation of the country.
(I) Onesime Boisvert was born in St. Thomas of Pierreville. province of Quebec, Canada, and died in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1873. He resided in Pierreville until he came to the United States, and settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, in July, 1865. He married Zoe Faucher, who was born in St. Thomas and died August 23, 1906. at the age of seventy-three years. The children of this union were : Adelia, Adeline, Aime Edward, Emma, Vitaline, Amelia, William W. and Clara.
(II) Aime Edward, eldest son and third child of Onesime and Zoe (Faucher) Boisvert, was born in St. Thomas of Pierreville, July 8, 1863, and came with his parents to Manchester when two years old. He was educated in the public schools of Manchester, St. Joseph's High School and the New Hampshire Business College. When he was ten years old his father died and from that time he earned his own way in life and worked at such occupations as offered the greatest inducement, the law at that time not prohibiting child labor as at present. Up to the age of twenty he was employed as a clerk in dry goods houses in Manchester. He then became the owner of the National Laundry, which he con- ducted four years. May 26, 1889, he was appointed special agent of the General Land office by Presi- dent Harrison, and served until April, 1893. He traveled over the United States and Mexico, in- specting local offices and investigating land claims, also ascertained the birthplaces of all the Indians at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in order to determine whether the Indians were entitled to land in the United States, a number being found at that time who were natives of Canada. In 1893 he began the study of law in the office of Edwin F. Jones, then citv solicitor of Manchester, and was admitted to
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the bar of New Hampshire, June 25. 1895, ^"d to the bar of the United States District Court, Decem- ber 20, 1898. Immediately after his admission to the bar he began practice in Manchester, where he has since continued to reside. His progress has been rapid and continuous and his practice success- ful. In politics he is a Republican and he has been active in public affairs since he attained his twenty- first year. In 1897 he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and served as chairman of the committee on unfinished busi- ness. In 1902, and again in 1904, he was an un- successful candidate for the Republican nomination for county solicitor for the county of Hillsboro. In 1906 he was again a candidate, received the nomination, was elected on November 6 of that year and assumed the duties of the office in April, 1907. Mr. Boisvert is essentially a selfmade man, having received nothing but what he has obtained by his own efforts. He is thoroughly American, having lived practically all his life in the United States, and yet he may be considered the advanced representative of the French Canadian in politics and in law in New Hampshire. He is a bright, ani- mated and logical speaker, and possesses the ad- vantage of speaking both French and English with equal fluency and correctness. His speeches have always received favorable criticism from the press and the public generally. In religious faith he is a Roman Catholic, and a generous supporter of his church. He is connected with various socieites. He is a member of the Society of St. Jean Baptiste d'Amerique, in which he has held the office of doyen or elder ; member of the Association Canada- American, of which he drew the first charter and in which he has held nearly every office, and is the general legal adviser; a member of the Queen City Tent, No. 7, Knights of Maccabees, and Manesquo Tribe, No. 28, Improved Order of Red Men. He married. May 10, 189,3, in Manchester, Alexina Amabilis Jeanclle, who was born at St. Thomas of Picrreville, province of Quebec, Canada, April 10. 1S66, daughter of Francois and Adelaide (Belisle) Jeanelle. She came with her parents to Manches- ter when a child and was educated in the schools of that city and at the Convent of St. Hyacinthe, province of Quebec. The children of this union are : Amelia A. E., William Edward, Clara Arline. Robert Arthur (died young), Ida Robertine, George Ernest and Theodore Robert.
This name which is also found TURCOTTE with the variations Turcot. Tur-
cault and Dutaut, is one of the very early names among the Canadian immigrant settlers, and among the Turcots (as the name was originally spelled) were soldiers. Indian fighters, voyageurs and coureurs de bois. Abel Turcot, miller, of Moulleron, diocese of Maillezais Paitou, was born in 1631, and died Septcinber 17, 16S7. at Ste. Famille, Isle of Orleans. He married Marie Giroux, who was born in 1641, at La Fremblade, diocese of La Rochelle Annis, and died February
25, 171.3. Their children were: Francois, Marie Renee, Marie Madeleine, and Louis. From them there are many descendants.
(I) Jean Turcotte was born at St. Pierre, province of Quebec, in 1822, and died in 1862, aged forty years He was always connected with enter- prises of navigation and for years before his death owned and operated a ship, which he used to con- vey passengers across the St. Lawrence river be- tween St. Pierre and Batiscau. He married Olympe Gauvreau. and they were the parents of children : Alfred, Rezaine. Evangeliste, Xerias, Joseph Octave, Eloise and Arthur. Four others died young. In 1867 Mrs, Turcotte moved with her family to Man- chester, New Hampshire, where the children now reside. She died in 1894, aged seventy-three,
(II) Joseph Octave, fifth child and fourth son of Jean and Olympe (Gauvreau) Turcotte, was born at St. Pierre, province of Quebec, Febrtiary 18, 1858. His father died when Joseph was six years of age. and the mother and a large family of young children were left to make their own way in the world as best they could. Three years later Joseph came with his mother and the other chil- dren to New Hampshire and settled in Manchester. He received his primary education in the schools of that city and at the age of sixteen went to Assomp- tion. province of Quebec, where he attained a higher institution of learning one year. He was ten years old when he began work in the cotton mills, being employed first in the Manchester Mill, then in the stocking mill. At eighteen he became a clerk for Barton & Company, dry goods merchants. A year later he entered the employ of P. McDonough, grocer, and three or four years later, clerked for Gauvreau & Morency, and finally for McQuade Brothers. Since 1885 he has been engaged in trade for himself. Starting in a small way he has con- stantly increased his stock, and now has a large supply of goods, and does a good business as a house furnisher, carrying all kinds of house furn- ishing goods. He is a Catholic in religion and a Republican in polities. He is a member of various societies, among which are the Maccabees, the So- ciety of St. John the Baptist and the St. Augustine Society. He married (first). June 24, 18S3, Mary Louise Monette. born in St. Hyacinthe, province of Quebec. She died in 1900, and he married (sec- ond) Corrine Cabana, of Manchester. The chil- dren of the first wife now living are: Edward L. ; Bcrthilda. married Napoleon J. Pichette, of Man- chester, has one child : Alexie : Corona ; Regina. Of the second wife: Leonard and Yvonne.
With the settlers of Nutfield. the NEALLEY founders of Londonderry, came the ancestor of the Nealleys of New Hampshire and Maine. He was a man of energy and sterling worth, and his descendants, now numerous, partake of the characteristics that made him a worthy man and a respected member of the pioneer settlement.
(I) William Nealley was of a Scotch family,
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born near the city of Londonderry in the north of Ireland, in the latter part of the seventeenth cen- tury. He came to this country with his family in 1718, they being one of the one hundred and twenty families who emigrated from Londonderry and vi- cinity with their religious instructors, and came to New England, landing at Boston, whence they set- tled in several towns, the larger number founding the present towns of Londonderry and Derry. It is not known where William Nealley and his family passed the few years preceding their settling in Nottingham, about 1725, but probably in Boston, and some of his children may have been born there. William Nealley purchased a tract of land from one of the Boston proprietors of that town, just then beginning to be settled. This farm has always been called the "Ledge Farm" from the fact that the house stands on a ledge, about a mile below Nottingham Square. One ledge is on a location which commands a beautiful landscape view, and the farm land is very fertile. The farm has always remained in possession of his descendants since his death, six generations. The name Nealley is spelled in various ways in ancient documents, as Nealy, Neely, Nealley, but the latter has long been the established orthography. William Nealley was a sturdy Scotch Presbyterian ; he was a man of great energy and force of character ; he was not given to office seeking or officeholding, but he did his share in subduing the earth and making it yield its bounty as the Good Book directs. He does not appear to have had any trouble with the Indians, as he is not on record as making any complaint ; but it is quite probable that while he read his Bible and had his morning prayer with the family he was careful to have his trusty gun handy and kept his powder dry. ready for any emergency. He died in 1760; while sitting in his chair before the broad, open fire he suddenly expired without a struggle or murmur. So far as known he had four sons and one daughter. Three of them were: William, Mat- thew and John, who married and had families.
(II) Matthew, son of 'William Nealley, was born at Ballygarry in the county of Derry, Ireland. He came with his parents to America, and grew up in Nottingham. There is no mention of him except his birth record earlier than the time of his mar- riage. He was an industrious, prosperous and worthy citizen, but does not appear to have held any public offices. He brought up his children, as he had been trained by his father, in the good old Scotch Presbyterian ways of living and thinking and walking in the ways of rectitude. The Bible was their text book of schooling, and in its teach- ings they were thoroughly trained by that mother of whom so little is known. He married Margaret Beverland. a native of Ireland, November 27, 1739. The marriage ceremony took place in Portsmouth and the marriage certificate was signed by Governor Wentworth, so probably he performed the nuptial ceremony as he was accustomed to do on many oc- casions. It appears that they resided on the home- stead farm at "The Ledge." They had two sons
and four daughters : Joseph, Andrew. Sarah. Jenny, Peggy and Molly.
(Ill) Joseph, son of Matthew and Margaret (Beverland) Nealley, was born in Nottingham about 1746. He resided on the northwest side of Nottingham Square, a most beautiful spot which commands a grand panoramic view from the White Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean. He was a prominent citizen of Nottingham. He held various offices, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary army. At the be- ginning of the war for independence, in August, 1776, he refused to sign the "Association Test" when the selectmen canvassed the town, by order of the committee of safety, to find out who were willing to take up arms against King George III if it became necessary to fight for their legal rights under the British constitution. The Association Test was a pledge indorsing the rebellion. Joseph Nealley was a man who did his own thinking, in- dependent of what others might say. Like many others he did not then think that all hope of paci- fication had expired; hence he manifested his sturdy independence of opinion by refusing to sign the test. Six months later, however, January 24, 1777, the events that had happened had convinced him that all hope of peace was lost without fighting for it. He decided to fight, hence on that date he en- listed in Captain Weare's company. Colonel Scam- inell's regiment, for three years. During that term he '.vas engr.ged in some of the hardest service of the war. In 1777 he was in the battle of Ticon- deroga, from" which he retreated with the New Hampshire troops before the advance of the British forces. On the retreat he participated in an en- counter at Fort Ann, where the captain of his com- pany, Richard Weare, was killed. Soon after this he was engaged in the battle of Stillwater, follow- ing which he was in the fiercest of the fight at Bemis's Heights, and last of the series at Saratoga, where Burgoyne surrendered the whole British army of the north. Previous to this he had been promoted from the ranks to sergeant of his com- pany. Sergeant Nealley had the proud satisfaction of seeing the haughty Burgoyne and his army march past the American troops after the surrender. Scarcely was the scene over when word was re- ceived from Albany that General Clinton was ad- vancing up the Hudson with a strong force, with the design to capture that town. Sergeant Nealley was one of the command which made a forced march at and from Saratoga to Albany, and arrived in season to prevent Clinton's proposed attack. From Albany Sergeant Nealley went with his regi- ment into the campaign under General Washington in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. One of the great battles in which he was engaged was at Monmouth, where the New Hampshire men fotight so bravely and skillfully that they received the special praise of General Washington. In 1779 he was w^ith General John Sullivan in the great and hazardous campaign against the Seneca Indians in New York. In 1780 he was with the army at West Point when Arnold attempted to betray the post into the hands of the
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British. In 1781 he was in the southern campaign with Colonel Scammell, and participated in the siege of Yorktovvn, where he finally witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis and the British army which practically ended the war. Thus it appears that Sergeant Nealley was present at the greatest crises of the war, the surrender of Burgoyne and the sur- render of Cornwallis. Sergeant Nealley's record is without a flaw.
Sergeant Nealley married, in 1/71, Susannah Bowdoin, who was born about 1752, daughter of John and Huldah Bowdoin, of Exeter. John Bow- doin, a descendant of Pierre Baudoin, a settler at Casco Bay. Maine, in 1687, was a wealthy man. He died in 1765, and the inventory of his estate shows property valued at £7,717. He was of the same family as was James Bowdoin, the distinguished merchant of Boston and governor of Massachusetts, who founded Bowdoin College. Joseph and Susan- nah (Bowdoin) Nealley had six children, all of whom married and left descendants. They were : Jane, Matthew, John, Joseph, Benjamin and Ed- ward. Jane married Greenleaf Cilley, son of Gen- eral Joseph Cilley, of Revolutionary fame, and was the mother of children, two of whom — Colonel Joseph Cilley. of the War of 1812, and Hon. Jon- athan Cilley, Congressman from Maine, had distin- guished careers. The sons also had distinguished descendants.
(IV) Benjamin Nealley, fourth son and fifth child of Sergeant Joseph and Susannah (BowdoinO Nealley, was bo-rn in Nottingham, April 4, 1782. He resided in Nottingham, engaged in farming until all his children had grown up and settled else- where, when he finally removed to South Berwick, Maine, where several of his sons resided, being well established in business. He did not hold public office of any kind, but was an industrious and suc- cessful farmer, a good citizen in every way. and he and his wife trained up a family of boys who were successful in their various walks of life and were good citizens. Benjamin Nealley married, in 1806, Sally Ford, daughter of Captain Eben Ford, of Nottingham. She was born October 22, 1784, at the old Ford farm on the north side of Nottingham Square, w-here her ancestors settled early in the history of the town, coming there from Newbury, Massachusetts. The children of this union were eleven: Eben Ford, John Bowdoin, Benjamin Mason. Andrew Jackson, Charles M. T., George Kittredge, Sarah J., Susan P. and Sylvester, who grew up, and Joseph and Margaret, the fourth and ninth, who died young.
(V) Benjamin Mason, third son of Benjamin and Sally (Ford) Nealley, was born October 3, 181 1, and died July 29, 1S88. He learned all about farming, and when a young man went to Dover and entered the employ of the Cocheco Manufactur- ing Company, at the upper factory where the com- pany first operated a mill. A few years later he went to South Berwick, and engaged as overseer of the card room in the cotton mills there, which position he held until 1858, when he accepted an
oflfer to become overseer of the card room in the mill of the Laconia Manufacturing Company, Bidde- ford, Maine, in which position he worked ten years. In 1868 he became agent of the jute mill in Salem, Massachusetts, which position he held several years, when his health failed and he retired from active labors and went to live in Dover, where his sons were already located in business. He continued to reside in Dover until his death. In all of the posi- tions which he occupied Mr. Nealley was an indus- trious, efficient and faithful man. He was a mem- ber of the Congregational Church in Biddeford. When he went to Dover to reside, in his last years, he became a member of the Washington Street Free Baptist Church, and kept his connection there until his death. He was a sincere Christian worker to the end, ever ready to help in any good cause. In his early years he was a Whig and remained such until that party was dissolved and the Republican party was formed, when he identified himself with it and ever after voted that ticket. He married, August 8, 1836, Abby Pray, born May i, 1817, and died January 29, 1895, aged seventy-seven. She was the daughter of James and Annie (Fogg) Pray, whose ancestors were among the very earliest settlers of Old Kittery, Maine. Nine children were born of this union, five of whom died young, and two sons and two daughters grew to maturity and were married. They were: Benjamin Frank, A. Josepliine, Mary Emma and John Haven. Benja- min F. is mentioned later. A. Josephine, born Feb- ruary 25. 1844. married. May 12, 1S63, Joseph G. Deering, of Saco, Maine, one of the leading busi- ness men and lujnber dealers in that city. Mary Emma, born December 28, 1849, married, January I, 1889, Robert H. Foss, of Chicago, Illinois, who was for many years one of the prominent business men of the city, but a native of New Hampshire. Mr. Foss died in July, 1893, and his widow resides in Dover with her brother, B. Frank. John H., born August 4, 1853, is a dry goods merchant, and resides in Dover. He married. September 12, 1S79, Emma Caroline Gushing, daughter of Thomas Har- rison and Caroline (Torr) Gushing, of Dover. He has been mayor of Dover, representative and state senator.
(VI) Benjamin Frank, eldest son of Benjamin M. and Abby (Pray) Nealley, was born in South Berwick, Maine, October 24, 1839. He was edu- cated in the common schools of his native town and in South Berwick Academy. At the age of eighteen he went to Dover, New Hampshire, and engaged in the dry goods business, in which he con- tinued thirty-six years with marked success. In 1893 he retired from that business, but has kept him- self busy in various useful ways, as the public has made liberal calls for him to serve it. In city affairs he has been identified with many of its most important enterprises. He was one of the directors of the Dover National Bank for nine years, re- signing in 1885. For several years he has been vice- president of the Strafford Savings Bank, and has been one of the trustees of that institution for more
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than a score of years. He has been a director in the Strafford National Bank many years. When the Masonic Building Association was organized lie was made one of the trustees, which position he lias held continuously to the present time, and when it was voted to rebuild the Masonic Temple, after its destruction by fire in March, 1896, he was placed at th^ head of the building committee and superin- tended the construction. In 1878 he assisted in organizing the Dover Navigation Company, and has been its secretary and treasurer since its in- corporation. In 1883 he was representative from Tiis ward in the general court, and served efficiently on important committees. In 1887 he was state sen- ator from the twenty-third district, and was one of its influential members. In 1889 he was elected mayor of Dover and was re-elected in 1890, and his term of office was one of the most important in the history of the city, as measures were devised and steps taken which have had a far-reaching influence for the benefit of the municipality. The old City Hall was destroyed by fire in the spring of 1889, which necessitated erecting a new one, resulting in the fine structure which will be a credit to the com- mittee as long as the building stands. Mayor Nealley served on the committee until the edifice was completed, in 1891. being the chairman from the beginning to the end. He has been prominent in Masonic circles since 1880. He is a member of Strafford Lodge, No. 29, Free and Accepted Ma- sons: Belknap Royal Arch Chapter. Orphan Coun- cil. Royal and Select Masters, and St. Paul Com- mandery. Knights Templar, all of Dover. He was worshipful master of Strafford Lodge, 1886-87; and eminent commander of St. Paul Commandery. 1900- 01. In Scottish Rite Masonry Mr. Nealley has re- ceived thirty-two degrees, and is a member of the Ineffable Grand Lodge of Perfection, and Grand Council Princes of Jerusalem, both of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Chapter of Rose Croix. Dover, and of the New Hampshire Consistory at Nashua. He is a member of the First Church (Congrega- tional), also a member of the. New Hampshire So- ciety of Sons of the American Revolution. He served several years as member of the school com- mittee, in which he rendered efficient service in managing the financial affairs of the board as well as in other ways. He was also city treasurer sev- eral years. In all the years of his residence in Dover. Mr. Nealley has been followed by the con- stant favor of his fellow-citizens, who have repeat- edly placed him in positions of trust, honor and responsibility, and in no instance has he betrayed the confidence placed in him.
Benjamin Frank Nealley married, August I, 1866, Harriet Ruth Colby, of Dover, ' daughter of the Rev. John Taylor Gilman Colby, whose wife was Cornelia Home, of Rochester. Mrs. Nealley ■was born May 14, 1846, and died October 12, 1903. Both of her parents were descended from the first settlers of New England. She was a woman of re- markable gifts as a singer, and beautiful in personal appearance, and was ever ready to lend a helping
hand to any good work. She was a member of the First Church, member of Margery Sullivan Chap- ter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and of the Northern Colonist Society, a local historical society. She took a keen interest in historical re- search, as regards local history, and read several valuable papers before both the chapter and society.
This is one of the oldest French LECLAIR names that has been brought to
America, and is traceable to a very early period in the history of Canada and from that region back to France. Its representatives in New Hampshire, are men of worth, including the pastor of the Holy Rosary Church, at Hooksett.
(I) The first of whom we have record is Jean Leclair, "dit, La Frenaye," whose wife was Perrine Marceau. They resided in the parish of Saint Nich- olas, in the city of Nantes, France.
(II) Jean (2), son of Jean (l) and Perrine (Marceau) Leclair, "dit Francoeur." was the founder of the family in Canada in 1691. He set- tled at LTslet, near Quebec, Canada, and thence re- moved to Saint Ours, where the family has since been continually represented. His wife was Made- line Langlois.
(III) Alexis Leclair, son of Jean and Madeline (Langlois) Leclair, was born at Saint Ours, 1749. He married Maria Josette Ville, daughter of J. Baptiste Ville.
(IV) Joseph Leclair, son of Alexis and Marie Josette (Ville) Leclair, was born January 7, 1782, at Saint Ours, province of Quebec, Canada. He was married to Josette Gatineau, daughter of Jean and Marie L. (Menard) Gatineau.
(V) Francois J., son of Joseph and Josette (Gatineau) Leclair, was born October 10, 1S21, at Saint Ours, and married Marie Ann Thibault, daughter of Toussaint and Marie (Carpentier) Thibault.
(VI) Aime Leclair, son of Francois J. and JMarie Ann (Thibault) Leclair, was born in August, 1832, at Saint Ours, and was reared on his father's farm. After attaining his majority, in 1853, he came to New Hampshire and located at Nashua. He was one of the first to protect the integrity of his adop- ted country, and enlisted July 23, 1861, in Company E, Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. He was known in the army, by the name Emery LaClair, which arose no doubt, from the difficulty of pronouncing French names, among his American comrades. He was mustered into ser- vice, August 23, 1861, as a private, and re-enlisted and was mustered in, February 15, 1864, serving during the war of the Rebellion. On August 16, 1864, he was wounded at the battle of Deep Bottom, Virginia, and was discharged on account of his in- juries, December 31, 1864. This regiment endured great hardships and very severe service, and Private Leclair was never known to falter in his duty. The following e.xtract from the history of Nashua de- scribes some of the experiences of that regiment. "Drewry's Bluff leads the entire line for fatalities.
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In this regiment were many Nashua men. No less than fifteen were wounded and three killed. The engagement following at Bermuda Hundred, in front of Petersburg and Ware Bottom, were mul- tiplied and resulted in severe losses, while at Deep Bottom, Virginia, on August i6, the regiment was nearly annihilated in repeated charges and counter charges. Entering the fight with less than two hundred men, it captured some three hundred pris- oners with many of its men having but seven days to serve, before being entitled to return to their homes. Its killed, wounded and missing numbered ten officers and eighty-three men." Mr. Leclair passed away at his home at Nashua, March 7, iSSg. After the war he was employed, for many years, by the Nashua Manufacturing Company as plumber. This was his occupation until his last illness. He married, March 17, 1864, Marie Lambert, daughter of Edward and Marie (Lusignan) Lambert. Ed- ward Lambert was a member of the Third New Hampshire Regiment, under General Burdette, in the service about New Orleans, and rose to the rank of sergeant. He died in Nashua, in the fall of 1879. Aime Leclair and wife were the parents of nine childen, four of whom are now living: Aime, the eldest, resides at Hooksett; extended men- tion of the second, Francis X., see forward ; Albina, the third, is the second wife of Ernest F. Tessier of Nashua, in which city the youngest, Mary, also re- sides.
(VII) Reverend Francis Xavier Leclair, son of Aime and Marie (.Lambert) Leclair, was born Sep- tember 19, 1871, in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he grew up, receiving his primary education in the public and parochial schools of that city, subse- quently attending college at Saint Hyacinth, in Canada, and finishing his theological course at Saint John's Seminary, Brighton, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He was ordained to the priesthood, December ig, 1896, and his first labor in this calling was in the capacity of assistant priest of Saint Francis parish, Nashua. He was subsequently, for two years, stationed at Lebanon, New Hampshire, and went to Saint Aloysius, Nashua, in 1903. In October, 1904, he was appointed in charge of the Holy Rosary parish at Hooksett, where he has since remained and is also in charge of the mission at Pittsfield, New Hampshire. In each of these charges, about seventy-tive families are included and a paro- chial school is maintained at Hooksett, in which two teachers are employed. Father Leclair is an earnest worker in his field of labor and is highly respected by the citizens of Hooksett, and loved and venerated by his parishioners. He is a culti- vated gentleman, a genial companion and a most excellent citizen of the commonwealth, cherishing the warmest setiments of American patriotism in common with those whose ancestors were "to the manner born."
This is among the best names of early PATTEN New Hampshire, and is intimately as- sociated with the history of ancient
Chester, in connection with several of the present day towns that originally formed it. It is of Scotch origin, and has been borne by men noted for the strong virtues and characteristics of the race. Among the most notable was the Rev. Moses Pat- ten, whose death at Hooksett was widely lamented and which took from earth one of its best and ablest men. A theologian and student, he left an impress upon the life of his time, and his treatise on infant baptism is destined to be an authority among theologians for many generations to come.
(I) The first of the name in this country was Deacon Robert Patten, who came from the vicinity of Edinburgh, Scotland, and settled in Boston about 1725. He was a stone mason and was employed by the colonial government upon the fortifications of Boston Harbor. He had several children born in Boston. In 1739-40 he moved to Exeter, New Hampshire, and soon after to "'Long Meadows," in that part of Chester which is now Auburn. July 7, 1741, he purchased from Samuel Emerson, Lot No. 79, of the second part of the second division of land in Chester, and lived upon it until his death in 1754. He had three sons, Thomas, John and Robert, the last named being the son of the second wife.
(II) Thomas, eldest son of Deacon Robert Pat- ten, was born about 1725 in Boston, on what is now known as Common street, and attended school in that city on Pemberton Hill. In 1740 he went with his father to Exeter, and later to Auburn. In 1752 he married Mary, daughter of David McClure, and two years later he purchased from McClure the west half of the latter's farm, which was Lot No. 30, in the same division as his father's farm, being in what is now Candia. Here his wife died in 1815, and he in 1816, at the age of ninety-one years. Their children were : Elizabeth, Thomas, Mary, Jean, Martha, Sarah, Richard, Margaret. Hannah, Ruth, Samuel and Moses.
(III) Moses, youngest child and fourth son of Thomas (2) and Mary (McClure) Patten, lived on the paternal homestead in Candia. He married Hannah, daughter of Ephraim Eaton (see Eaton, V).
(IV) Rev. Moses, son of Moses and Hannah (Eaton) Patten, was born July 4, 1824, in Candia, and grew up on the paternal farm. He was bred in the New England rule of judicious use of time, as of other things, and applied himself to study with the same diligence which characterized his attention to farm duties. He attended a high. school and Pembroke Academy, and was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1850. Pursuing a thorough course of preparation for the gospel ministry, he was graduated from Andover Theological Seminary in 1855. After supplying several congregations, he was ordained to the ministry of the Congregational Church and in the pastorate at Townsend, Massa- chusetts, June 7, i860. He remained three years at Townsend, and was subsequently in charge at Plympton, West Dracut and Carlisle, in the same state. His health was never rugged and he was ob-
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liged, during this period, to take sea voyages and rests to recuperate his strength. He was in charge of parishes at Greensboro, Rochester, Ripton and Danby, Vermont, and retired from the ministry in 1888, because his health would not permit contin- uous labor as a pastor. He continued to preach occasionally, as opportunity offered, or his strength would permit, until 1900. From the time of his retirement he resided in Hooksett, New Hampshire, and devoted much of his time to the preparation of a work on infant baptism. His deep study and steady application doubtless shortened his life and robbed the world of a most useful and beloved man. The failure of his strength almost prevented the completion of his treatise, which was a work very dear to his heart, and he was barely able to com- plete its publication, being taken away before he could make arrangements for its circulation. It is an exhaustive work, showing deep research and the work of a master mind. No doubt it will find its way into theological schools in time and will be a valued authority, thus continuing the work of this good man in the world. During the last five years of life he was an invalid and suffered much but without complaining. He was a most companion- able man, highly esteemed by his fellow clergy, as well as by all who were priviledged to know him. A contemporary says of him : "He was a fine Bible scholar, conservative in his theology, a keen critic and a clear thinker." Mr. Patten married (first), 1862, Lydia (Eames) Parsons, a widow who died June I, 1884, in Ripton, Vermont. She was the mother of three children: Edith Parsons, now the wife of Edward Green, residing at Lancaster, IMas- sachusetts; Mary Elizabeth and Dana Albee Patten, the latter a citizen of Brooklyn, Greater New York. The second daughter died in 1902, unmarried. In August, 1885, Mr. Patten married (second), Lydia S. Goss, widow of Joseph Towle Goss of Hook- sett, (q. v.), and daughter of Simeon and Lydia (Bailey) Stearns (see Stearns, VI). She was the companion and stay of his last years, and cherishes his memory as that of a noble and kind man.
The influx of Scotch-Irish immigrants HOGG into New England in 1718 was followed
for years afterwards by occasional parties and individuals, friends of the earlier set- tles; among these latter was Robert Hogg, the sub- ject of the next paragraph.
(I) Robert, son of James Hogg, was born in the North of Ireland, February 25, 1732, and came to America at the age of twenty-two, and resided for some time in Londonderry, where his elder chil- dren were born. In 1764 he settled in New Boston and bought three lots of land, including the farms of Solomon and Israel Dodge and John Cochran, and built his house on the hill back of Solomon Dodge's house, and there he and his wife died. Both were members of the Presbyterian Church, and were highly esteemed for their consistent piety. Her maiden name was Margaret Gregg; her parents were Samuel and Mary (Moor) Gregg, of London-
derry. Mrs. Hogg died of consumption at the age of fifty-five or fifty-six. Mr. Hogg died January 23, 179s. aged sixty-three. They had thirteen children, some of whom died young.
(II) Abner, son of Robert and Margaret (Gregg) Hogg, was born in Londonderry, Febru- ary 15, 1759, and went with his parents to New Boston when he was five years old. He remained with his father until 1776, and then enlisted in the Revolutionary army, his brother James having been in the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, I77S- Abner enlisted in June, 1776, under Captain Barnes, of Lyndeborough, and went to Ticonderoga in the division under General Horatio Gates, and returned in December. The next spring he enlisted for three years in Captain Livermore's company, in the Third New Hampshire Regiment, commanded by Colonel Alexander Scamn-.el, went to the vicinity of Ticon- deroga and suffered greatly from sickness and fre- quent skirmishes with the enemy, in one of which he lost everything but his life. He was in the battle of Saratoga and witnessed the surrender of Bur- goyne. Subsequently he joined Washington's army near Philadelphia, and took part in many of those signal conflicts that resulted in the independence of the colonies. He returned home in May, 1780, after having taken part in ten battles. He held the office of sergeant two years, and from March, 1831, until his death he drew a pension. After his marriage he settled on a farm where he passed the remainder of his life. He was chosen second lieutenant by the town in 1787, all military, like civil, officers, at that time being chosen by the voters of the town at their legal meetings. In the years 1844 and 1845 he was elected to represent the town in the legislature, which he did with credit to himself, though more than eighty-five years old. For many years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, but in 1805 he united with the Baptists. He possessed a firm constitution, and retained both physical and intel- lectual powers to a remarkable degree, unimpaired even to the last year of his life. He rendered much valuable aid to the historian of New Boston in the preparation of the sketches of the early settlers of that town. He died October 16, 1856, aged ninety- seven years eight months and one day.
He married, October 21, 1784, Rosanah person, whose mother was born in 1718, during a passage across the Atlantic to America. The children of this union were: Sarah F., Robert, Hannah (died young), Flannah, Jennet F. and Rebecca. Sarah the eldest child, married David Tewksbury, and lived in New Boston (See Tewksbury II). Robert took, as did some of his brothers, the name of Bently.
From several unrelated ancestors EDMUNDS who were early settlers in New England a numerous progeny of Edmundses have sprung, whose surnames has been written in various forms. Edmonds, Edmunds, Ed- mands, being some of them. Among the distin- guished men of the name are an English writer of
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the time of Queen Elizabetli and James, an Ameri- can painter, an American jurist, and an American senator. In the Revolutionary war were seven men who spelled their name Edmond ; fifteen who spelled it Edmonds ; one, Edmun ; two who spelled it Ed- mund; and twenty who spelled their name with the final "s," Edmunds. The vital records of New Hampshire afford little information concerning the name.
(I) The first mention in the New Hampshire archives is Lieutenant Edward Edmonds, of Candia, New Hampshire, who was married in that town December 7, 1790, by Rev. Jesse Remington, to Molly Bagley. Their children were : Jacob Sar- gent, Polly, John, Sally and Edward.
(H) Edward (2), youngest child of Lieutenant Edward (i) and Molly (Bagley) Edmonds, was born November 5, 1802, in Candia, and resided in Chichester, New Hampshire, where he was a farmer and innkeeper throughout his life. He was married in Chichester, December 28, 1820, by Rev. Josiah Carpenter to Betsey Lane, and they were the parents of a large family ; five children grew to maturity : Jefferson, Nathaniel, whose sketch follows ; Eben- ezer ; Sarah Ann and Susan.
(IH) Nathaniel Edmunds, son of Edward and Betsey (Lane) Edmunds, was born in Chichester, and died in the same town. He was a farmer. He married Hannah Goss, and the children of this union were : Edward S., of Suncook, New Hamp- shire. Ida Roxie, wife of William Fowler. Noah, a farmer of Chichester. Frank M., who is mentioned below. Anson, a farmer in Chichester.
(IV) Frank Mack Edmunds, fourth child and third son of Nathaniel and Hannah (Goss) Ed- munds, was born in Chichester, October 15, 1852, and educated in the common schools. He worked at carpentering about home for a time and about 1873 removed to Franklin, where he continued in the same employment for about three years longer. For the next twelve years he had charge of the wood and iron repairs of the Franklin Paper Com- pany. He next became a retail vendor of wood and coal, in which business he has been successfully engaged. In the fall of 1904 he organized the Mer- rimack Coal & Fuel Company, of which he is the principal owner. He married, in Franklin Falls, October 14, 1875, Mary Scribner born in Salisbury, May 24, 1855, daughter of Lowell and Charlotte (Bean) Scribner of Salisbury. They have had two children: Edith Frances, deceased wife of Arthur Chase ; and Arthur Lowell, graduate, 1907 of the Chicago Veterinary College, and now practicing in Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Edmunds are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he and his wife are members of the Order of Pilgrim Fathers, a fraternal insurance society, and New England Order of Protection.
France and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. It is said that these three were the younger brothers of a marquis, and that the original family name was Lorraine.
(II) John, son of John Loring, the immigrant ancestor, was living in Methuen, Massachusetts, about the year 1797 when he immigrated to New Hampshire and settled in Francestown. Three years later he removed to New Boston, where he died December 29, 1804, aged thirty-si.x years. He mar- ried Johanna Morse, a native of Methuen, and a sister of Jacob Morse, of Lyndeboro and Frances- town. She died in Lyndeboro, December I, 1848, aged eighty years. Their children were : John, born in Methuen, Massachusetts, July S, 1793. Hannah, born in Methuen. Thomas, born in Methuen. Sally, born in Francestown. Betsy, born in Fran- cestown. Silas, born in New Boston.
(III) John, son of John and Johanna (Morse) Loring, born in Methuen, July 14, 1792, died in New Boston March 24, 1868. His boyhood was spent with the family of Joseph Kingsbury, of Frances- town, and he was afterward employed by Daniel Fuller for nine years, upon his quarry. He enlisted in the war of 1812, being the first man from his town to offer his services in that war. He knew much of the early history of the towns in his vicin- ity. He married Desire Fuller, daughter of Daniel Fuller, of Francestown, December 30, 1821. She was born September 18, 1802, and died September 24, 1861. Their children were: Lorinda, born Oc- tober 22, 1823. John Eaton, born July 18, 1825, died on the Pacific Ocean on board the old "Golden Gate," April 11, 1853. Daniel Fuller, born July 10, 1827, died March 11, 1838. Aaron Fuller, born August 6, 1829, died August 6, 1854, in Sonora, California. Desire Abigail, born October 27, 1832, wife of James Paige Todd. (See Todd). George Fuller, born June 8, 1834. Sarah Elizabeth, born July 14, 1838, died April 8, 1845. Catherine Hannah, born July 14, 1841.
The Lorings of Tilassachusetts and
LORING. New Hampshire descend from three
brothers, John, David and Solomon,
who emigrated from the province of Lorraine, in
Among the French families long THERIAULT resident in the Province of Que- bec which now have representa- tives in New Hampshire, is that of Theriault.
(I) Jean Theriault, the descendant of a long line of French-Canadian ancestors, born in St. Jac- ques, Province of Quebec, Canada, June, 1801, died in 1879, was a stone mason by trade, and resided at St. Gabriel of Brandon, and later at Joliette. He married Adele Houle, and they were the parents of five children : Jean, Constance, Julienne, Delphine, and Elie, who is next mentioned.
(II) Elie, second son and fifth child of Jean and Adele (Houle) Theriault, was born in St. Gabriel of Brandon, Province of Quebec, Canada, July 22, 1832, and died October 11, 1899. He was an upright and influential citizen, a prosperous tin- smith and hardware merchant, and was several times alderman of Joliette. He married Louise Morin, born in St. Paul de Joliette, in 1839, died at Joliette, October 6, 1901, daughter of France and Marie
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(La Fortune) Morin. They were the parents of thirteen children : Marie Louise, Philomene, Ce- lima, Joseph, Narcisse. Frank, Edward, Elise, Phil- ias, Julia, Adelard, Alfred and Gaspard.
(Ill) Joseph Theriault, M. D., eldest son and fourth child of Elie and Louise (Morin) Theriault, was born in Joliette, Province of Quebec, Canada, March 9, i860. He received his primary education in the common schools of Joliette, then attended Joliette College, and subsequently took the course in medicine in The Montreal School of Medicine and Surgery (now a department of Laval Univer- sity), from which he graduated in 1883. He first located at Ishpeming, Michigan, where he practiced one year, and then removed to Lake Linden, in the same state, where he practiced successfully the next six years. In 1889 he removed to Laconia, New Hampshire, where he practiced seven years, and then, 1896, removed to Concord, where he is the only French physician in a population of one thou- sand, five hundred French-Canadians. Dr. Ther- iault is a man of good judgment, an enterprising, skillful, and successful physician, a good citizen and an entertaining conversationalist. He is a member of the American Medical Association, and New Hampshire Medical Society. He is a popular leader among his countrymen, and was a member of thi? New Hampshire legislature from Laconia in 1893. He is a Democrat of the liberal type, and an ad- mirer of President Roosevelt. Among the fraternal orders of which he is a member are the following : French-Canadian Association, Franco-American Foresters, and Canadian Literary Circle. He mar- ried, in Laconia, in 1895, Mary Foy, daughter of Patrick and Angcle (Bulduc) Foy, the former a native of Ireland, and the latter of St. Marie de la Beauce, Province of Quebec, Canada. They have two daughters, Yvonne and Edwina.
The Huses of New Hampshire are all HUSE descended from an earlier Massachusetts branch and the still older Welsh family of the same name, which is. one of great antiquity in that country. The progenitors of the New Hamp- shire branches were three brothers who came from Amesbury, Massachusetts, soon after the Revolu- tion and settled in the town of Sanbornton. Each of them served with credit in the war then just ended, and each in his new place of abode made for himself a comfortable home, a good name, and raised a family.
(I) Nathan Huse, with whom this sketch begins, was born about 1716 and for many years was a physician in the west parish of Amesbury. He died April 23, 1809, being then in his ninety-third year. He marred Rachel Sargent, who bore him eleven children : Sargent, Elizabeth, Hannah, Nathan, Jo- seph, Ebenezer, Rachel, Sarah, John, William and Nathan (the elder child of that name having died young).
(II) William, son of Dr. Nathan and Rachel (Sargent) Huse, was born in Amesbury. Massa- chusetts, August 22, 1760, and died in Waterbury,
Vermont, in 1838 or '39. Like his brothers he served in the Revolution and soon afterward came to the town last mentioned, locating first on lot 51 of the first division, but afterward settling on the old Mountain road next to the New Hampton line, , where he was the first settler. There all of his chil- dren except the eldest were born. He was a devout member of the Congregational Church, having beer» received in full communion September 24, 1786. On the same day his wife took the covenant and was baptized and received communion. The town rec- ords in Epping show that William Huse married Rachel Bryer (Brier), July 18, 1780. After living many years in Sanbornton he removed to Orange, Vermont, later returned to Sanbornton, but event- ually went back to Vermont with one of his sons and died in Waterbury. William and Rachel (Brier) Huse had children: Rachel, Joseph, Nathan, Hannah, Theophilus N., Mercy, William, Sarah,. Ebenezer, Mary and Abigail.
(III) Joseph, second child and eldest son of William and Rachel (Brier) Huse, was born March 2, 1783, in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, and died in Waterbury, Vermont, January 24, 1856. For many years he was proprietor of Huse's mills at North- Sanbornton, and lived there until 1835, when he re- moved to Waterbury. He married, November 5, 1805, Sarah Emery, born August 26, 1782, died June 27, 1855, daughter of Josiah and Rebecca (Woodman) Emery, and a descendant of John Emery, of Rom- sey, England, who was one of the first settlers in Newbury, Massachusetts (1635). Joseph and Sarah (Emery) Huse had five children: Rachel, Daniel Morrison, William Brier, Woodman Emery and Ebenezer B. Huse.
(IV) Daniel Morrison, second child and eldest son of Joseph and Sarah (Emery) Huse, was born December 8, 1808, and was a farmer in Thornton, New Hampshire, until 1847, afterward in Sanborn- ton and removed thence to Northfield, New Hamp- shire, in 1880. He married, November 25, 1830, Eliza Dudley, born June 16, 1807, daughter of Sam- uel C. and Mercy (Thorn) Dudley, and a descend- ant of Captain Roger Dudley, of England, whose son, Thomas Dudley, was the second governor of the colony of Massachusetts Bay. Children of Dan- iel Morrison and Eliza (Dudley) Huse: Lovina A., Sarah Emily, married Benjamin Ward Plummer, see Plummer, VII, and Ann Eliza Huse.
This name is not a common one in COLLIS New England, but it was probably- brought to America in a later emigra- tion than that of the Puritans. Only one man of the name appears in the Massachusetts war roll. There were and are families of the name in New Jersey. It appears only once in the seven books of Connec- ticut marriages. It has, however, borne an honor- able part in the present day civilization.
(I) The first that we find on record was John Collis, who with his wife Lois lived in South Brim- field, Massachusetts, several years previous to 1778. This town was a parish of Brimfield from 1762 until
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1775. '.vhcii it was incorporated as a separate town, and tliis was subsequently divided and the towns of Wales and Holland were created from it. In the Revolution John Collis was a soldier credited to South Brimfield. He enlisted May 13, 1775, as a private in Captain Amos Waldrich's company of Colonel David Brewer's ninth regiment of Massa- chusetts troops. The muster rolls show that his services at this time cover two months and twenty- three days. He enlisted, September 26, 1777, in Captain Reuben Munn's company of Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment, and was discharged in October following, having served seventeen days, travel in- cluded, in the northern department. He was also with the Massachusetts troops detached to General Gates' army in New York and was credited with thirty days service. He participated in the siege of Boston and the battle of Bunker Hill, and was at Ticonderoga in 1777. In 1778 he removed from South Brimfield to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and it is probable that he removed thence after 1796 to Western, now Warren. Massachusetts. Five chil- dren were born to him in South Brimfield and six in Sturbridge, namely: Solomon, Thankful, Jonas, Benjamin. John. Olive, James, Joseph. Rhoda, Susanna and Jonathan.
(II) Jonathan, youngest of the eleven children of John and Lois Collis, was born October 16, 1790, in Sturbridge, and resided in Brimfield, ;Massachusetts, where he died October 27, 1868. He was a farmer, but had lived in Herkimer county, New York, and later returned to IMassachusetts, and only one child was born in Herkimer county. He married, Novem- ber I, 1810, Phebe Parker, who died May 6. 1864. The children of Jonathan and Phebe (Parker) Col- lis were : Luther, born July 23, 1811, married April 5, 1837, Delina Converse. Maranda, died young. Louisa, married Lemuel Moores. Joseph, born July 23, 1717, married Lydia Howard. John, married Cyntha Ciloway. Charles married Martha Belknap. Ann. died unmarried. Silas, born October 26, 1825. Cyntha, married George Smith, of Amherst. Mass- achusetts. Mary, died young.
(III) Luther, son and eldest child of Jonathan (2) and Phebe (Parker) Collis, was born in the town of Herkimer, New York, July 23, 181 1, and by principal occupation was a farmer, although he spent much time in teaching school during the early part of his life in the towns of Brimfield and Pal- mer, Massachusetts. His first wife, whom he mar- ried April 5, 1837, was Delina Converse. She died December 17, i860. He married, (second)) Decem- ber 30, 1863, Elizabeth Palmer. His children, all by his first marriage, were as follows : Luther W., born January 11, 1838, married November, 1858, Lemira Potter, who died .August 6, 1898. James M., born July 3, 1839, died January 19, 1843. Henry H-., born July 17, 1841, married (first) March 8, 1876, Estella Fermin and (second), March 23, 1880, Dorcas Fer- min. Marcus M., born October 19, 1843, married Josephine Griswold. Mary A. D., born July 29, 1846, married, November 22, 1866, Willard Nelson. Sarah A., born October 25, 1848, married, September 4,
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1873 Franklin Royce. Charles H., born June 25, 1851, married. May i, 1872, Abbey Morse. Martha M., born February s, 1854.
(IV) Marcus Morton, fourth child and fourth son of Luther and Delina (Converse) Collis, was born in Weare, Massachusetts, October 19, 1843. and was a boy when his parents removed to Palmer, Massachusetts. He lived at home on the farm and went to school until he was seventeen years, and early during the Civil war enlisted as private in Company H, Twenty-first Massachusetts Infantry, and from that time until his muster out in 1865 was constantly on duty or, still worse, a prisoner at An- dersonville, Georgia, or Florence, South Carolina. A complete narrative of his army services and ex- periences belongs to a volume, and in this place mention can be made only of some of the more im- portant battles in which he took part with his reg- iment. After muster-in the Twenty-first went to Annapolis, Maryland, and was assigned to guard and garrison duty, but a little later its fighting began. He was with Burnside's expedition to North Car- olina, and was in battle at Roanoke Island, New- berne and Camden, then at Newport News, where the regiment was attached to the Ninth Army Corps. After that he fought at Fredericksburg, Chantilly, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Bull's Gap, Blue Springs, Campbell Station and also took part with his regiment in the siege of Knox- ville. On May 6, 1864, at the Wilderness, Mr. Col- lis was captured with many of his comrades and from that time was a prisoner at Andersonville and Florence until February 26, 1865, when he was re- leased on parole. On May 4 following, he returned to what was left of his regiment and found it con- solidated with the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts In- fantry; and before his service was ended the regi- ment last mentioned was compelled to consolidate with the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts in order to main- tain its numerical strength.
Mr. Collis was mustered out of service with his regiment at Readville, Massachusetts, July 12, 1865. He then went to Palmer, Massachusetts, worked there for a time, then learned the trade of carpenter and millwright and afterward worked in Boston. In 1873 he came to Portsmouth and engaged in mer- cantile pursuits until i8g6. In 1895 he was appointed deputy sheriff and jailer of Rockingham county, under Sheriff Weston, whom he succeeded in office in 1901. This office he still holds. For many years Mr. Collis has been proininently identified with various fraternal organizations and orders. He is a Templar JNIason, an Odd Fellow, past department commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, department of New Hampshire, a Son of the Rev- olution, and a Granger. He married, January 21, 1S70, Josephine Griswold, daughter of Mr. George Griswold, of Granby, Connecticut, and has two chil- dren, Grace A., born April 10, 1871, at Boston, married Clifton Stewart Humphreys, April 30, 1894; they have three children : Mildred Josephine, born April 9, 1895 ; Grace Stewart, born November 30, 1896; and Philip Morton, born October 3. 1898, all
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born at Madison, Maine, where they now live. George L. Collis.
(V) George L., only son of Marcus M. and Jo- sephine (Griswold) Collis, was born July i6, 1S73, and received his education in public schools in Ports- mouth. For twelve years he was a clerk in his father's store, and afterward was a student in Bos- ton University Law School. In 1902 he was ap- pointed deputy sheriff of Rockingham county. New Hampshire, and is now serving in that capacity. He married, June 8, 1904, Carrie L. Brown, of Rye, New Hampshire.
The early history of this noted New H.ARVELL Hampshire family is not easily dis- covered from existing records and genealogical references to the surname are very few. The history of Amherst, New Hampshire, gives the name of John Harvell, who was born in 1736 and died in 1S21, and furnishes a reasonably complete record of his children and some others of his de- scendants, but nothing of his parentage and the earlier generations of the family in New England. The descendants of John Harvell are quite numer- ous in Hillsborough county, and others of them are scattered throughout the east.
James Harvell was a brother of John Harvell, but whether older or younger is not known. The "History of Plymouth" mentions James Harvell as one of a family prominent in the early annals of Litchfield, in Hillsborough county, and the year of his removal to Plymouth is given in 1767. He was an intelligent and honored man, selectman of Plymouth in 1774-75-76; coroner of Grafton county by appointment dated January 9, 1789; one of the committee of safety in 1775 and grand juror from Plymouth in 1805.
James Harvell, of Plymouth, died December 13, 1819. He married (first) Mary Snow, May 10, 1770, daughter of Joseph Snow. Married (second), December 23, 1784, Anna Flagg. Married (third), in Rumney. New Hampshire, November 26, 1794, Mary Morey, of Rumney. In the written papers used in connection with the settlement of his estate appear the names of four "children: Mary (or Polly), who married (first) James Keyes, and (sec- ond) Johnson. Betsey, married
Hough. Gershom and Esther. The mention of only these names is not conclusive evidence that James Haiwell had no other children and there is good reason for the belief that he had a son James, who is known to have lived in Plymouth at a time contemporary with that of the children whose names have been mentioned, although the scene of his life was chiefly laid in the province of Quebec in Canada.
(I) James Harvell lived at one time in Plym- outh. New Hampshire, and removed from that town to Compton, Canada. Of his early life little is known, but it is certain that he was a person of superior education and attainments, and family tradition has it that he was a school teacher of con- sideraldc note ; and upon the same authority it is be-
lieved that he came of a military family, as his bear- ing indicated an association with men in that arm of the service. During his residence in Canada he was for a number of years connected with the militia of the province, and when the so-called Patriot war was in progress (1838) he held a cap- tain's commission. Later he was commissioned major and was so known and addressed. He also was invested with the title and office of Esquire, in- dicating a connection with the judicial branch of government and a familiarity with the laws of the province and their administration. In private life he was a farmer, and his home in Compton was on what is known as Sleeper hill. His wife before marriage was Pettie Spafford, and she bore her hus- band four children: John W., born (probably) in July, 1818, and died in Coadicook, August 28, 1906. Charles, who removed when a young man to New York. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point and afterward served in the Union army during the Civil war. He married and his family now lives in New Jersey. Spafford. whose business life was spent in the cities of Boston and New York, and who died of fever in a Boston hospital. Amanda, who died in childhood.
(II) John W.. eldest child and son of Major James and Pettie (Spafford) Harvell, was a school teacher during the earlier part of his life and later became proprietor of a paint shop and business. He retired from active pursuits several years before his death, .-^bout 1845 he married Sarah Ann Jameson, daughter of William and Nancy Margaret (.Armstrong) Jameson, and had four children: I. Mary, died at the age of seven years. 2. James, a skilled mechanic, who died unmarried .August 15, 1895. In April, 1875, he went to California and from there to Gold Hill, Nevada, where he worked at his trade in connection with the operation of the famous Belcher mine. After about five years in that region he returned to New Hampshire and lived in Laconia imtil about 1883 and again went west, locating in Arizona. After something like a year and a half in that territory he came back to Laconia, much broken in health, and after recovery worked as a machinist in the car shops until a short time before his death. Mr. Harvell was a Mason, having become a craftsman in Coadicook, province of Quebec, in 1874. ^nd afterward demitted to the lodge in Gold Hill. Nevada. He also was a Knight of Pythias. 3. Clara A. (twin), born in Compton, province of Quebec, December 6, 1856, married. Oc- tober 24, 1894, Stephen Coffran Robinson (See Robinson III), of Laconia, New Hampshire, who died August 10, 1905. 4. Charles A. (twin), born in Compton. province of Quebec, December 6, 1856, now lives in Laconia. Mr. Harvell has been 3 member of the Laconia police force more than ten years and since September, 1906, has been assistant marshal. He married Emma Burbank, of Upper Bartlett, New Hampshire. Four children have been born of this marriage : Ralph, born Feb- ruary, 1805 : child, died in extreme infancy ; Ruth, born 1899: Eddie, born 1903. died February. 1905.
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The origin of this name is traced riASELTON to the Hazelton (now town) where hazel bushes grew. This was in the early history of England. Hazelton was sometimes added to the single name of some citizen of that place, or some person who had come from there, as a distinction, and finally became fi.xed as the surname of the family. The same license has been taken with the orthography of this name that was common in centuries past, and it is spelled Hazelton, Hazleton, Haseltine, Hesselton, Hezzle- ton, and in divers other ways. The forbears of the race came to Massachusetts in 1637, and founded a family which has an enviable record for the piety and sturdy probity of its members.
(I) The immigrant ancestor, John Haselton, is first found in Bradford. Massachusetts. Late in life he removed to Haverhill, same colony. While re- siding in Bradford, he gave an acre of land for the site of the meeting-house in that town. He mar- ried Joan Auter, who died July 17, i6g8. having survived her husband more than seven years. He passed away December 23, 1690, in Haverhill. Their children were : Samuel. Mary, Deacon John, and Nathaniel. (John and descendants receive extended mention in this article).
(H) Lieutenant Samuel, eldest son of John and Joan (Auter) Haselton, was born February 20. 1646, and died August 10, 1717, in his seventy- second year. He lived on the paternal homestead in Bradford, and was an ardent member of the church in that town. He married, in Haverhill, December 28, 1670, Deborah Cooper, of Rowley, born August' 30, 1650. in that town, daughter of Peter and Emma Cooper. Their children were: Deborah, Elizabeth, Samuel, John, Nathaniel, died young: Hepsebah and Nathaniel.
(HI) Samuel (2), eldest son and third child of Lieutenant Samuel (i) and Deborah (Cooper) Haselton. was born May 30, 1676, in Bradford. He married, June 10, 1701. at Newbury, Emma Kent, daughter of John and Sarah (Woodman) Kent. She was born April 20, 1677, and died September 7, I7.35> in Tewksbury. She was admitted to the church in Bradford in 1711, and her husband the following year. In 1723 they removed to Billerica, and lived in that part of the town which is now Tevv-ksbury, where he died May 29, 1760. His chil- dren were : Judith. Sarah, Hannah. Stephen, Emma, Samuel. Tabitha, Rebecca and Deborah.
(IV) Stephen, eldest son and third child of Samuel (2) and Emma (Kent) Haselton, was born January 28, 1707, in Bradford, and in manhood set- tled in the town of HoUis, New Hampshire, where he died in 1801. He was twice married, and his first wife was the mother of the .son, mentioned in the succeeding paragraph.
(V) Samuel (3), son of Stephen Haselton, was born 1735, in Hollis, and removed to Hebron, New Hampshire, where he died January, 1812. He married (first) Mary Farley, and (second) Mary Graves, who died December 12, 1801, and both are buried in the private cemetery on his farm in
Hebron. The children by the first wife were: Ben- jamin. Mary, Rebecca, Betsey, Samuel, Sally, Lucy, Johanna and Daniel.
(VI) Benjamin, eldest child of Samuel (3) and Mary (Farley) Haselton, was born February 25, 1762, in Hollis, and died October 8, 1812, in Hebron. He married, , November 20, 1788, Deborah Cross, born 1761. in Methuen, Massachusetts, and they had the following children: Benjamin, Deborah, died young; Mary, William. David, Jonathan and Deb- orah.
(VII) William, second son and fourth child of Benjamin and Deborah (Cross) Haselton, was born June 20, 1794, in Hebron, New Hampshire, and died December 3I, 1838, in Dorchester, same state, where he was a shoemaker. He enlisted as a soldier in the War of 1812, and was drum major, and served in the battle of Plattsburg. He was an old line Democrat, and a man of firm principles. He married. May 22, 1821, Sally Elliott, born No- vember 14, 1800, vyho survived him many years, dying June 5, 1877, in Canaan. After his death she became the wife of Josiah Clark. Jr., with whom she removed to Canaan. William Haselton's chil- dren were : William, Sarah, Deborah, Elizabeth, Charles, David and George W.
(VIII) David, third son and sixth child of William and Sally (Elliott) Haselton. was born in Dorchester, September 2, 1832, and educated in the common schools of Groton and Canaan. Leaving school at the age of twenty-one, he was engaged in farming for nine years in Canaan. He then sold his farm and became a bridge builder for the Bos- ton & Lowell Railroad, and followed that occupa- tion twenty-five years, retiring in iSgo after the road passed into the hands of the Boston & Maine. He had charge of the bridges and buildings of the entire system, and had his office in Boston, but re- sided in Winchester, Massachusetts. After his re- tirement he moved to Concord, and now (1906) re- sides with a daughter in that city. He cast his first vote for Franklin Pierce as a presidential candidate, but since that time has acted with the Republican party. He is a consistent and generous member of the Advent Church. He married, in Canaan, .August 20, 1854, Paulina Dean, born August 18, 1830, in Danbury, New Hampshire, and died April 13, 1902. She was the daughter of Joel and Mary (Sleeper) Dean, of Canaan. At the time of her death she and her husband had been wedded forty- eight years. Two children were born of this union, one of whom died in infancy. Mary Esther, the surviving child, was born January 17, 1S57, and married, in Concord, November 28, 1S76. Isaac Franklin Mooney, of Concord. He was born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, October 2S, 1852, and is a son of Isaac F. Mooney, who was horn in Sand- wich, December 11, 1808. and died December 11, 1892, aged eighty-four, and his wife Mary .Ann (Vickery) Mooney, who was born July 25, 1822, and is now living in Concord. Isaac F. Mooney has been a conductor on the Boston & Maine Rail- road for twenty-five years, and is now on the
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Woodsville division. Mr. and Mrs, Mooney have had four children: Edward Frank, died yoimg; Emma Mary, Edward FrankHn, deceased ; and Harry Haselton.
(II) John (2), third child and second son of John (l) and Joan (Auter) Haselton. was born probably on that part of Rowdey, now called Brad- ford, in 1650. By occupation he was a carpenter and ship builder. He was a deacon in the First Church in Haverhill, where he made his will which was dated June 16. 1732, and proved x^pril 23, 1733. He was eighty-two years old at the time of his death. He married, July 17, 1682, Mary, daughter of Philip Nelson, and they had eight children: John, Philip. Sarah, Mary, Joseph, Benjamin, died young: Elizabeth and Benjamin.
(fll) Philip, second son and child of John (2) and Mary (Nelson) Haselton, was born March 13, 1685. He was mentioned in his father's will in 1732, but had probably left Haverhill before that time. He married, January 9. 1718, Judith Web- ster. They had ten children: John and Philip (twins), James, Tryphena, Ann, Lois, Joseph and Benjamin (twins), Stephen and Asa.
(IV) James, third son and child of Philip and Judith (Webster) Haselton, was born March 28, 1721. He married (first), at Haverhill, Massachu- setts, November 13, 1741, Elizabeth Hutchins. who died July 12, 1750. Married (second), November 5, 1751,' Ruth Ladd. His children were: Asa, Philip, Annie, James, John. Elizabeth, Ruth, Ladd and Trvphena.
(V) Asa, eldest child of James and Elizabeth (Hutchins) Haselton, was born June 15. ^ 1/42. He lived in Atkinson and elsewhere, but died in Manchester, New Hampshire. He married, Decem- ber 6, 1763. Mary Ober. and they were the parents of ten children: Asa. David, Philip, John, James, Stephen, Polly, Betsey, a daughter unnamed, and Nancv.
(VI) John (3). fourth son and child of Asa and Elizabeth (Ober) Haselton, was born in Atkin- son, and died in Manchester, aged seventy-seven. He settled in Manchester and owned a farm near the Londonderry line. He frequently engaged in teaming, and hauled lumber to Newburyport and brought back loads of provisions, using oxen to draw the load. In politics he was a Democrat. He married Lydia Flint, of Reading, and they had twelve children: Lydia. Stephen, Kadmiel. Caleb, Betsey, John, Lucinda. Lavina, Washington, Ada- line. Leonard and Reuben.
(VII) Stephen, eldest son and second child of John (3) and Lyciia Flint Haselton, was horn in Manchester, December 25, 1800, and died in Man- chester. March 15. 1872. He purchased a home near the iiaternal homestead, and resided there all his life. He. like his father, was a Democrat. He married, 1840, Mary Malvina Messcr. daughter of John aiid Sally (Hadly) Messer, of Gofifstown. John Messcr died in 1S20, aged seventy, and his wife died in 1844. aged about seventy-two. Mrs. Haselton died at the hou^c of her son Henry in
Manchester, in 1882. aged seventy-five. Two chil- dren were born of this marriage : George W., long time superintendent of the cotton mills at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, now superintendent of the Pittsfield Mills, Pittsfield, New Hampshire; and Henry I., the subject of the next paragraph.
(VIII) Henry Irving, second son and child of Stephen and Mary (Messer) Haselton, was born in Manchester. March I, 1847. He attended the district schools until he was seventeen years old, and then (1864) became an employe of the JMan- chester Mills. There he worked till 1880, when he was offered better wages to go to the lower Pacific Mills^ in Lawrence, Massachusetts, which he accepted, and was employed there as second hand two years. At the end of that time he was invited to return to Manchester to take charge of the worsted combing department in the then Manchester, now Atnoskeag Mills, at an increased salary. He accepted the offer and is still holding this position ; he has since re- sided in Manchester. By a diligent use of his ability for the benefit of his employers, Mr. Hasel- ton has gradually worked his way from size-boy, card grinder, section hand and second hand to his present position. He is now overseer of the worsted washing, carding, combing and drawing depart- ments of the Amoskeag Mills. Mr. Haselton is a Republican, and has been a member of the school board one year, and of the common council one year, but he is not inclined to take a part in politics, and the oflSces came to him unsought. In religious sentiment he inclines to Universalism. and attends the church of that faith. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason, and is an honored member of the following named divisions of that body : Lafayette Lodge. No. 41 ; Mount Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. 11; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Masters ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, of which he is a past commander, all of Manchester ; and Edward A. Raymond Consistory, of Nashua. He is also past grand master of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of New Hampshire.
He married, in Manchester, January I. 1877, Emma French, born in Norwich, Vermont, Febru- ary 4, 1854, daughter of George and Ellen (Critten- den) French, and great-granddaughter of Nathaniel French, who removed from Connecticut and settled in Vermont. George J. French and wife removed to Plainfield, New Hampshire, and he died after a residence there of more than fifty years. She is still living. Mrs. Haselton is a member of Ruth Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, and is a promi- nent worker in that order, and in the Universalist Church. Of this marriage there is one child, George Irving, the subject of the next paragraph.
(IX) George Irving, only child of Henry I. and Emma (French) Haselton, was bom in Man- chester, July 19, 1878, and educated in the common schools. When twenty years of age he entered the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's Mills, and was employed in the dye house until the fall of 1906. For two years he was a second hand. After leaving the mill he went to Washington, D. C,
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where he is now (1907) taking the law course in the George Washington University. He is a Re- publican, and talces an active interest in politics. He was made president of the common council of Manchester, and was also ex-officio member of the school board, and served in these bodies from 1904 till 1906. He is a past master of Lafayette Lodge, No. 41, Free and Accepted Masons, a member of Mount Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. 11. Adon- iram Council. No. 3, Royal and Select Masters, Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, and Bek- tash Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine. He married, in 1905, Fanny Tren- holm. born in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, May 15, 1881, daughter of Robert Trenholm.
It is probable that John Hasel- HASELTINE tine, who was born November 19, 1780, was a native of Haver- hill, Massachusetts, or that his father was, but noth- ing can be found in the vital records of New Hamp- shire or of Haverhill to locate him. The record of his birth is found in his own handwriting in his family Bible. He died August 5, 1865. in Amherst. He married (first) Betsy Eatchelder, daughter of Captain John Batchelder, who was born in that part of .A.mherst, now Mont Vernon, June 19, 1825, and died April 20, 1842. He married (second), Febru- ary 25, 1845, Mrs. Hannah Smith, born 1793. who survived him nearly twelve years, dying March 10, 1877. The children of the first wife were: Charles, Eliza. John, Roxanna, Frances, Mary A.. Caroline and James G.
(H) James G., youngest child of John and Betsey (Batchelder) Haseltine. was born February 22. 1825, in Amherst, and died May 7, 1903. He at- tended the district school and an academy. Early in life he learned the trade of blacksmith and be- came a machinist. He also engaged in farming, and was an auctioneer. He married at Milford, New Hampshire, Mary J. Hinds, born March 19, 1822. in Sandwich, New Hampshire, daughter of Barzillai and Patience Hinds (see Hinds, H).
(HI) John Edward, eldest son and second child of James G. and Mary J. (Hinds) Haseltine, was born April 9, i860, at Chestnut Hill, in Am- herst. New Hampshire. His education was supplied by the common schools and Mont Vernon Acad- emy, and he abandoned the school-room at the age of eighteen years to engage in farming upon the homestead, wdiere he continued until he was twenty- two years of age. For one year he was a clerk in a grocery store at Amherst, and then removed to Reed's Ferry in the town of Merrimack, where he w-as for five years a clerk in the general store of 1. A. Porter. At the end of this time he purchased the store from his employer, and conducted the business for eight years with a partner under the style of Haseltine & Co. They erected a building on the corner opposite that occupied by the old store, and in this continued business until 1898, when Mr. Haseltine bought the interest of his part- ner and became sole owner. On January i. 1903,
the business was consolidated with the Fessenden & Lowell JManufacturing Company, and Mr. Hasel- tine has continued as manager of the store and is vice-president of the corporation. For eight years he was assistant postmaster, and September 20, 1894. was appointed postmaster, which post he has continued to fill until the present time. Mr. Hasel- tine is a member of the Congregational Church. He has been the school treasurer of the town since 1897, and takes an active interest in every move- ment calculated to promote the welfare of the com- munity. He is a Republican in politics, and was a member of the Grange from the time he was eighteen years old until 1902. He was a member of Hillsboro Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, of Manchester, and became a charter member of the lodge at Reed's Ferry, in which he has filled all the principal chairs. In 1905-06 he constructed a handsome residence at Reed's Ferry. He mar- ried. November 22, 1892, Mabel Lucrecia Lowell, born November 15, 1870, daughter of Levi F. and Hannah B. (Hutchinson) Lowell, of Reed's Ferry. (See Lowell VIII). She was educated at McGaw Institute and Tilton Seminary, and is a member of the Congregational Church. They have three chil- dren. Hazel Louise, born June 14. 1894: Franklin Lowell, born April 10. 1896: and Elizabeth Hinds, born November 4, iSgg.
The name of Brackett, the antique BR.ACKETT spelling of which was Brocket,
originated in Wales and became distributed through England and Scotland. Among the nine hundred colonists who embarked with Governor Winthrcp at Yarmouth, England, .'\pril 7, 1630, were four brothers of this name, said to have been natives of Scotland. They were Captain Rich- ard, who first settled in Boston but afterwards went to that part of Braintree which is now Quincy; Peter, who located in Connecticut : William and Anthony, who came to Portsmouth with Captain John Mason, in 1631. The Bracketts of Plymouth now being considered are probably descended from one of these brothers, and there is some reason for believing that their original American ancestor was Captain Richard.
(I) Samuel Brackett, probably a descendant of Captain Richard, the immigrant, was residing at Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1762. The christian name of his wife was Elizabeth.
(II) William, son of Samuel and Elizabeth Brackett, was born in Dedham. May 7, 1762. He married, November 22, 1784, Anna Lauchlen. born December 26, 1765, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Haws) Lauchlen, and settled in Sudbury, IVIassa- chusetts.
(II) William (2). eldest son and child of Will- iam and Anna (Lauchlen) Brackett, w-as born in Sud- bury, October 9. 1785. In 1799 he went to Little- ton, New Hampshire, as a lad of fourteen years, and in early manhood engaged in trade, opening a general store on the meadows. He subsequently transferred his business to the village, where he
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became a prosperous general merchant and one of the most prominent residents of the town. When Andrew Jackson was nominated for the presidency he withdrew his allegiance from the Federalists in order to support the hero of New Orleans, and he was thenceforward allied with the Democratic party. He served as town clerk from 1814 to 1826, as selectman in 1817 and as representative to the legis- lature in 1819-20. He was a staunch Free Mason, belonging to Morning Dawn and Burns lodges, and is said to have deserted the Federal party on ac- count of its anti-masonic attitude. In his religious belief he was a Gongregationalist. Mr. Bra'ckett died December 7, 1859. February 10, 181 1, he mar- ried Lorana Campbell, born June 12, 1791, daughter of Hector Campbell, of Chester, Massachusetts. Her death occurred May 11, 1874. She bore him six children, namely: William C. Cephas, Laura, Charles W., George S. and Caroline A.
(IV) William Campbell, eldest son and child of William and Lorana (Campbell) Brackett, was born in Littleton. October i., 1S12. Having ac- quired a good knowledge of mercantile pursuits as clerk in his father's establishment, he opened in company with his brother. Charles W., another gen- eral store, which prospered as the population in- creased, and he also engaged quite extensively in lumbering. After withdrawing from trade he be- came local express agent and continued in that capacity until his death, which occurred February 14, 1S63. In politics he was originally a Whig and later a Republican. He married, January 8, 1842, Mrs. Julia A. Hutchins (nee Ross), born in Bath. New Hampshire, February 9, 1817, daughter of Samuel Ross, and widow of George Hutchins, by whom she had two daughters, Julia and Emma R. Mrs. Brackett married for her third husband Col- onel Cyrus Eastman, of Littleton, and died in Bos- ton, May 15, 1898. William C. and Julia A. (Ross- Hutchins) Brackett were the parents of four chil- dren, namely : William R.. who is referred to in the succeeding paragraph ; Edward Dudley, born No- vember 6, 1845 ; Horace, bom May 8, 1848, died June 18, 1849 ; and Harvey Smith, born December 22, 1852.
(V) William Ross, eldest son of William C. and Julia A. (Ross-Hutchins) Brackett, was born in Littleton, • November 24. 1842. He began his education in the public schools of his native town and completed it in Lock Haven. Pennsylvania. His first opening was in the express business at Con- cord with Messrs. Cheney & Company, in whose employ he remained about a year, at the expiration of which time he became telegraph operator at Lit- tleton, and a few years later went to Plymouth in a similar capacity. He was shortly afterwards ap- pointed general ticket agent of the Boston, Concord & Montreal Railroad, and when that road became a part of the Boston & Maine system he was made gene.al baggage agent with headquarters in Boston. This latter ;>osition he retained for eleven years, ana since relinquishing the regular service he has lived in retirement at his pleasant home in Plym-
outh. Mr. Brackett is a Master Mason and a mem- ber of Burns lodge in Littleton.
May 13, 1868, Mr. Brackett married Ella Eliza Stearns, born in Worcester, Vermont, December 15, 1850, daughter of Wilbur C. and Lucy (Reed) Stearns. Mr. and Mrs. Brackett have had three children, of whom the only survivor is Lucy Stearns, born June 23, 1879, was graduated from the Plymouth high school and completed her edu- cation at the Wheaton Seminary, Norton, Massa- chusetts. She resides in Plymouth. The others were: Bessie Stearns, born August 3, 1874, and William Cephas, bom March 15, 1876, both of whom died in infancy.
Like so many surnames, the name SCRIBNER Scribner is derived from the ori- ginal occupation of the early mem- bers of the family. In this case the word scrivener, a professional writer or conveyancer, and the Amer- ican pioneers, following the English fashion, spelled their patronjTnic with a "v." There were at least four families in England named Scri\ener, who we're the owners of considerable landed estate. The first of the name in America was Matthew Scrivener, a member of the Council of the Virginia Colony in 1607. He was spoken of by Captain John Smith as "a very wise understanding gentleman," but he was drowned in the James river a week or two after his arrival. Benjamin Scrivener, of Norwalk, Con- necticut, is said to be the ancestor of most of the Scribners in the United States, He married Han- nah Crampton. March 6, 1680. and they had four sons : Thomas, John, Abraham and Matthew. Matthew Scribner was the great-grandfather of Charles Scribner. the eminent publisher and founder of Scribner's Magazine, The following line does not appear to be connected with the Virginia or Connecticut Scribners, but to be descended from another pioneer, who came directly from England,
(I) John Scribner, born probably in England, settled in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1662. His wife's christian name was Mary, and they had sev- eral children. Among them was Thomas, men- tioned below. John Scribner died in October, 1675.
(II) Thomas, son of John Scribner, was bom in the latter half of the seventeenth century, and lived in Dover, New Hampshire. He moved to Kingston, this state, where he made his will in 1718. The name of his wife is unknown, but one of their children was Samuel, mentioned below.
(HI) Samuel, son of Thomas Scribner, was born early in the eighteenth centur}' and lived in Kingston, New Hampshire. His early married life was spent in that town, wdiere six of his children were born, but on March I, 1753, he bought a lot of land in Salisbury, this state, then called Bakerstown. The land was bought from Jonathan Sanborn, who like most of the other grantees of Salisbury, lived in Kingston, and never actually moved to the new settlement. Samuel Scribner is recorded as fifth in the list of actual settlers of Salisbury, and it is probable that he built his log cabin there in the
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Slimmer of 1753, though his family remained in Kingston for some time after that. On August 17, 1754, Samuel Scribner and his fellow workman, Robert Barber, were captured by the Indians while engaged in haying on the Proctor meadow on Salis- bury North road. They camped that night on the shore of what is now Webster lake, and in the early morning the captors and their victims started for Saint Francis, Canada, which place they reached after a journey of thirteen days. For the last nine days they subsisted on berries, roots, and whatever they could pick up in the wilderness. Scribner was sold to a Frenchman at Chamblee ; Barber was also sold to a Frenchman, but succeeded in making his escape. September 26, 1755, while Scribner remained in Canada for almost two j'cars or until ransomed by the state government. After his return from captivity he went to Kingston where he found his wife and children. Just before Scribner's capture he had got out the lumber for a large two-story house. This had remained untouched during his absence, and after his return he built the house on Salisbury North road. Samuel Scribner married, November 4, 1740, Hannah Webster, daughter of Ebenezer and Susan (Bachiler) Webster, and a sis- ter of Ebenezer, father of Daniel. They had chil- dren : Hannah, married Samuel Raino, lived at Andover, this state ; Captain Iddo, who served in the Revolution, married (first) Mrs. Judith Brown, (second) Mrs. Huldah (Morss) Jewett; Josiah. whose sketch follows : Ebenezer, moved to Tun- bridge, Vermont, afterward returned to Dover ; Susan.
(IV) Captain Josiah, second son and third child of Samuel and Hannah (Webster) Scribner, was born in Kingston. New Hampshire, about 1753. He moved with his people to Salisbury about 1757, and afterward became a drover and cattle dealer at Andover, this state. There seems to be some confusion about his marriage. The Grafton County Gazetteer gives the name of his wife as Phebe Cross, while the "History of Salisbury" says that he was twice married, and that his first wife was named Webster, and that his second was Mrs. Mary A. (Wliite) Farmer. The names of the thirteen children correspond, except that the "History of Salisbury" has omitted John, whose sketch follows. Assuming that its record is correct in other respects, the children of the first marriage were: Samuel, Josiah, Parker and William. The children of the second marriage were: Benjamin F.. Isaac W., a physician and author, Jonathan F.. Phebe, Hannah, Arethusa. Polly, Mary A. It is probable that John was one of the earlier children.
(V) John, son of Captain Josiah Scribner. was born at Andover, New Hampshire, January 28, 1784. He was a successful farmer and cattle drover in his native town, where he lived most of his life, though he spent the last three years in Ashland. John Scribner married .Abigail Emery, daughter of Josiah limery, who was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, October 19. 1787. They had six children: Ambrose, Franklin, John C., Darius, Lewis and Asenath.
John Scribner died January s, 1887, in Ashland, aged eighty-three years, and his wife died there De- cember 18, 1878, aged eighty-nine years.
(VI) Franklin, second son and child of John and Abigail (Emery) Scribner, was born July 9, 1819. at Andover, New Hampshire. He moved to Ashland, and with his elder brother Ambrose began the manufacture of shoes for a Massachusetts firm. Franklin Scribner afterward sold out his interest, and with his brother Lewis built a paper mill, and they manufactured nianila paper and straw board for many years. In 1880 Franklin Scribner was elected treasurer of the Ashland Savings Bank. On May 20, 1855, he married Marcia E. Hackctt, daugh- ter of Chase T. and Susan Hackett, of New Hamp- ton, New Hampshire, where she was born July 6, 1833. They had three children : Ida G., Carrie A., and George E., whose sketch follows. Franklin Scribner died February 9, 1885, at Whitefield, New Hampshire, and his widow died December 3, 1889, in South Framingham, Massachusetts.
(VII) George Edwin, only son and third and youngest child of Franklin and Marcia E. (Hackett) Scribner, was born December 7, 1863, at Ashland, New Hampshire. He was educated in the common schools of his native town, graduated from the Tilton Seminary in 1883, and afterward took a com- mercial course at the New Hampton Institute, this state. After competing his education he entered the employ of the Ashland Savings Bank. In 1886 he helped organize the Ashland Knitting Company, taking the office of treasurer, which he has held ever since. Mr. Scribner is a Republican in politics, and was representative to the New Hampshire legislature in 1907. He is a member of Mount Prospect Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Ma- sons, of Ashland, and a member of Pilgrim Com- manderj'. Knights Templar, of Laconia. On June I. 1897, George Edwin Scribner married Emma H. Mead, daughter of Edward Hilton and Loanna Stevens (Sherburns) Mead, of Northwood. New Hampshire, where she was born November 28, 1863. There are no children.
The McElroys are of Scotch-Irish McELROY origin, and although late-comers to America they possess the same ster- ling qualities as those which predominated in the characters of their predecessors of the same re- ligious and liberty-loving race.
(I) Samuel McElroy, a native of Scotland, went to the north of Ireland and settled in Lon- donderry.
(II) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (i) Mc- Elroy. was born in Londonderry, Ireland, 1800. He learned the trade of gunsmith, which he followed in connection with that of shuttle maker, and also had a small shop for the weaving of linen. He de- voted his attention to these various occupations until his death in January, 1863. In the fall of the year 1863 his family emigrated to the United States, locating in Manchester. New Hampshire. His wife, Martha CMcLane) McElroy, was the mother of
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four sons and four daughters, six of whom attained j'ears of maturity. Their children were: I. Samuel, enlisted in the Seventh Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteers, for service in the Civil war, was wounded three times, and participated in several notable engageinents. 2. Elizabeth, married Daniel Price, resides in Manchester, New Hampshire. 3. Sarah, deceased. 4. Mary, widow of Fred. Holt ; she re'sides in Sunapee. 5. William, see forward. 6. John, deceased. 7. Martha, died young. 8. An infant son, deceased. The mother of these children was a member of Grace Episcopal Church. She died 1887, aged seventy-seven years.
(HI) William, son of Samuel (2) and Martha (McLane) McElroy, was born in Londonderry, Ire- land, March iS, 1851. He arrived in Manchester, New Hampshire, with his mother in 186,3, when twelve years old, and the untimely death of his father made it absolutely necessary for him to con- tribute at that tender age toward the support of the bereft family. The textile mills, wherein so many men of genius began the activities of life, were open to him, and for some years he was an operator in the spinning departinent of one of the large Man- chester corporations. But an inherent ambition for advancement caused him to devote his spare time to study, and after completing a commercial course at a local business college he obtained a position as bookkeeper with the firm of Horatio Fradd & Com- pany, of Manchester, grocers, which he retained for a period of twenty-three years. He then engaged in the tailoring business, but relinquished it seven years later and turned his attention to dealing in real estate, in which line of work he has attained success. He also conducted a retail wood business.
Prior to his majority he was elected ward clerk, and for the past thirty-tive years has been an active participant, officially and otherwise, in local civic affairs. He was chosen a delegate to the constitu- tional convention of 1902; was elected a member of the street and park commission in 1905, and in 1906 was re-elected for a period of six years, and was appointed chairman of the -board, in which respon- sible position he is still serving, having fully demon- strated by his marked ability the wisdom displayed in his selection. Aside from his duties as general supervisor of repairs and improveinents in the streets and parks, he is interested actively in other important matters of a semi-public nature, being president of the Manchester Building & Loan Asso- ciation, being re-elected for a third term in 1907. and his knowledge of the relative value of real es- tate makes liim especially serviceable to that insti- tution. In Masonry he is well advanced, being officially connected with Lafayette Lodge. No. 41. of which he was chaplain many years. Mt. Horeb Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, Adoniram Council. Trinity Connnandcry, Knights Templar, in which he held office many years, all the Scottish Rite bodies up to and including the thirty-second degree, and Bcktash Temple, .A-ncient .Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, in which body he is a inem- ber of the orchestra. He also affiliates with the
-American Benefit Society. Politically he is a Re- publican, being a firm believer in the principles of that party. His religious affiliations are with St. -Andrew's Church, in which he is the present senior warden and treasurer. Previous to joining St. -An- drew's Church he was a member of Grace Church, in which he served as vestryman many years, and as treasurer of the Sunday school for fifteen years. He is a member of the Art Institute and also of the orchestra there. He is proficient in both vocal and instrumental music, and directs the choir at St. An- drew's Church.
Mr. McEIroy married for his first wife Mary H. Schofield, and the children of this union are : Joseph W., a student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. John Samuel, who now assists his father in the wood business. Gertrude M. William F., a student at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. Mrs. McElroy was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but resided in Manchester, New Hampshire, where her father was engaged in the machine printing depart- ment of the Manchester Print Works, now the .Amoskeag Corporation, for many years. Mr. Mc- Elroy married for his second wife Fronia -Adams Richards, of GofTstown, only child of Eliphalet Richards, now deceased, who was a noted lumber merchant in Goffstown, Weare and New Boston.
This family name has been widely dis- GOODWIN tributed not only over England, but
over most of the northern countries of Europe, and instances of its occurrence are to be met with in very early times. -As early as the fifth century it appears in Germany in the forms Gudwin and Godwin. In English records it also appears very early. In 1238 Robert Goodwin was a citizen of Norwich: in 1300 Adam Goodrich was a burgess of Calchester : and in 1347 Galfridas Goodwin was assessed for his lands at Rockland in Norfolk, when Edward III levied an aid for the marriage of his son. Two Goodwins from whom the greater num- ber of the name in New England have sprung are Elder William Goodwin and his brother Osias. The former sailed from London in the ship "Zion," June 22, 1632, and arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, Sep- tember 16 of the same year. He settled at New- town, where he was very soon made a ruling elder in the church, and was for the remainder of his life a leading member of the cominunity. When Osias Goodwin came to -America is uncertain. He first appeared as a landholder in Hartford in 1640. He was not a man of prominence. On account of the loss of some records and ill-kept condition of others, there are many families of Goodwin in New Eng- land who descended from one of these two progeni- tors, but cannot be traced.
(I) Deacon Joshua Goodwin lived in London- derry at the beginning of the nineteenth century. His wife Rebecca died May 27, 1806. aged forty-one years, three months, and twenty days. His second wife was Elizabeth.
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28, 1807. and died July 27, 1893, aged eighty-six. He was a very well known man, of excellent char- acter, a hard worker, and a good neighbor. He was thoroughly conversant with the Bible, which he read regularly and often and interpreted literally. For more than sixty years he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, and active as a superintendent or teacher in the Sunday school. He was a man of great physical strength and possessed of exceptional powers of endurance. He was married in Milford by Rev. Humphrey Moore, D. D., November 24, 1831, to Esther Jones, born December 5, 1810, and died March 9. 1888, aged seventy-eight. She was the daughter of Abram and Hepzibah Jones. No- vember 24, i88r. this couple celebrated with much cheer their golden w'edding, and lived yet seven years to enjoy life on the old homestead in London- derry, where they began life together. Six children ■were born of this marriage : Daniel, Henry, John, Esther, Miranda and Joseph Stone.
(HI) John, third son and child of Josiah and Esther (Jones) Goodwin, was born in Londonderry, May 23, 1838. and died October 27, 1875, aged thirty-seven years. He grew up on his father's farm, and when a young man removed to Charles- town. Massachusetts, where he operated a McKay stitching machine in a shoe factory until a short time before his death. He was a good man, and a faithful and skillful mechanic. He married, in Lon- donderry, New Hampshire, May 17, 1863, Caroline W. BoUes. who was the eldest child and only daugh- ter of Lewis and Eliza H. (Whorf) Bolles, of Lon- donderry ; she was born in Londonderry, December 17, 1843, and died June 18, 1867, aged twenty-four years. One child was born of this union, Elmer D., whose sketch follows.
(IV) Elmer Daniel, only child of John and Caroline W. (Bolles) Goodwin, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, October 12, 1866. He was educated in the public school of Charlestown, at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, and Tilton Seminary. The death of his mother, when he was eight months old, left him in the care of his maternal grandpar- ents in Londonderry, and the father dying when the son was eight years old, he was early thrown on his own resources. In 1882 he was employed for a short time by George S. Rollins, grocer at Derry Depot, and then entered the employ of the Man- chester & Lawrence Railroad, now a part of the Boston & Maine system, as assistant station agent, where he remained about six years, until the forma- tion of the firm of Priest & Goodwin, dealers in coal. Later Mr. Goodwin, the junior partner, sold his interest to Mr. Priest, and took a position in the employ of Brooks & Company, Boston, retail house- furnishers, who had a store at Derry. In 1892 he removed to Manchester, and became bookkeeper for Clark M. Bailey, a prominent wholesaler. In 1899 he bought out the undertaking businej^s of Alfred E. Morse, which he has since carried on with suc- cess. Mr. Goodwin is a gentleman and a man of sterling integrity, and has many warm friends. In politics he is a Republican, and is now serving his
second term as a member of the city school board. He attends the Franklin Street Congregational Church. He is a member of the board of trade, of the Derryfield Club, and a director of the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a member of General Stark Grange, No. 277, a member of Wash- ington Lodge, No. 61, Free and Accepted Masons ; is past high priest of Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chap- ter. No. 11; is past thrice illustrious master of Adoniram Council, No. 3. Royal and Select Mas- ters ; is past commander of Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar ; member of Edward A. Ray- mond Consistory of the Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua ; is past patron of Ruth Chapter, No. 16, Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of Bektash Temple of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is a member of Oak Hill Lodge, No. 97, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Manchester ; is past chan- cellor of Rockingham Lodge. No. 29, Knights of Pythias, of Derry ; past master workman of Derry- field Lodge,. No. 342, Ancient Order of United Workmen ; member of Evening Star Council, No. 10, Order of United American Mechanics ; James E. Shephard Colony. No. 118, United Order of Pil- grim Fathers ; Mt. Hope Lodge, No. 348. New Eng- land Order of Protection ; the Order of High Priest- hood (Concord) ; the Passaconaway Tribe of the Improved Order of Red Men: honorary member of Tresche Post, No. 5, Grand Army of the Republic. He went to California as commander of the Trinity Commandery. Knights Templar. 1904, and traveled over Europe, 1906, with DeMolay Commandery, of .Boston, Massachusetts.
Mr. Goodwin married. August 15, 18S7. in Derry, New Hampshire, Ella L. Sargent, of Searsport, Maine, daughter of Edward M. and Elizabeth A. (Green) Sargent, and they had one child, Louis Byron, born June 22, 1893.
The name of Pottle appears in the
POTTLE early town records of Hampton, New
Hampshire, in wdiich it is sometimes
written Pottell, but the family now in hand is the
posterity of an English emigrant who came over in
the latter part of the eighteenth century.
(I) Rev. Henry Pottle, who was bom in Eng- land, came to America when a young man and lo- cated in Maine. He became a Baptist clergyman and settled near Fryeburg. Maine, about the year iSoo.
(II) Aaron i\Iaztin, son of Rev. Hen i->' Pottle, was born in Maine, 1810. He followed agriculture in his native town and at Sugar Hill, from which latter place he removed to Jefferson, and his death occurred in that town in 1891. He was quite active in political affairs, and supported the Democratic party. He married Serena M. Martin, daughter of John Lang Martin, of Jefferson, and had a family of eight children, three of whom are living, namely: George A., who is residing in Boston ; Serena M., wife of Edwin Moulton. of Lakeport, this state; and John Lang, of Jefferson.
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(Ill) John Lang, son of Aaron M. and Serena M. (Martin) Pottle, was born in Landaff, April 6, 1851. His preliminary studies were pursued in the public schools, and he completed his education at the Lancaster Academy. He was reared to farm life and is therefore an expert tiller of the soil, but being a man of energy and progressive tendencies he does not confine his efforts exclusively to that occupation. Perceiving the advantages of Jefferson as a summer resort he located in that town, and in addition to general farming established himself in the hotel business. At the present time he is proprietor of the Highland House, which has ample accommodations for fifty guests, and his table is supplied with the products of his nearby farm of one hundred and thirty acres, all of which is under cultivation. He also conducts a winter resort at Southern Pines, North Carolina, which is delight- fully situated and well patronized by northern tourists. An unusually active and enterprising man, Mr. Pottle is realizing excellent financial results as a reward for his efforts, and he enjoys the esteem and confidence both of his fellow-townsmen and his guests. He is a Master Mason, and a member of the blue lodge at Southern Pines.
He married Charlotte Crawshaw, of Jefferson. His children are: Frank B. and Florence Irene. Frank B. Pottle, who is associated with his father in business, possesses that keen intelligence and capacity for enterprise which characterized the elder Pottle, and a successful business career is undoubt- edly before him.
Call is a name that is intimately associated CALL with the very earliest settlement in New
Hamp.shire. north of Concord, and the Calls, whose record has come down to us, have been men in the best sense of the word, strong, courage- ous, patriotic, and ever at the front in war or peace.
(I) Philip Call is said to have been one of two brothers who came to America from England. Philip is known to have been at Contoocook (Bos- cawen), as early as 1733. He was the first settler in that township after the granting of the Masonian proprietors, and was subsequently made a grantee, as is shown by the records. In 1753 the grantees voted "to build four houses, and that Philip Call's shall be one of them." This shows that Philip Call already had a house there. His name appears upon the roll of Captain Jeremiah Clough's Company as a scout, from September 26 to December 16, 1733. For his service he received one pound and fifteen shillings, provisions being extra. Again in 1746, from July 4 to December 4, he was on scout service, for which he received eight pounds and thirteen shillings, and again in 1747, from January 5 to No- vember 2, receiving sixteen pounds, ten shillings and ten pence. The Call family was noted for the muscular activity, swiftness of foot and bravery in Indian fighting of its members. The site of the Call house is to be seen and easily recognized by a pile of jjroken bricks and stones, which once con-
stituted the chimney, and a large apple tree in close proximity. The sitfe is on the "Orphan's Home Farm," southwest from the house on the west side of the railroad track, a mile north of the Boscawen line, and near the Salisbury fort. Indians, under Captain John Sasup, attacked the place whcj-e the family resided, August 15, 1754. Philip, his son Stephen, and Timothy Cook, whose father had been killed in 1746 at Clay hill, were at work in a field and witnessed the attack. Mrs. Call and her son's wife and infant were in the house. Upon the ap- proach of the Indians, Mrs. Philip Call met them at the door, and was instantly killed by a blow from a tomahawk. She fell across the threshold. Mrs. Stephen Call, with her infant, crawled into a hole behind the chimney. The Indians, about thirty in number, rifled the house, but she succeeded in keep- ing her child quiet, and was not discovered. When the savages appeared and the purpose of their visit became evident, Stephen wanted to shoot at them, but his father, discovering that there was a large party, would not let him do so for fear the Indians would kill them. The Indians seeing the three whites, pursued them. Cook fled toward the Merri- mack, plunged in, but was shot and scalped. Philip took the path for the fort at Contoocook (Bos- cawen). but finding the Indians close upon his heels, plunged into the Merrimack river and swam to the Canterbury shore. The Indians still pursuing, he swam to the western shore, and thus continuing, he swam back and forth six times, and eventually reached the fort. Stephen ran into the woods and saved himself only by dropping his "nice new hat," which so pleased his pursuers, that while examining it he escaped. Philip served in Colonel Nathaniel Meseroe's Regiment, Captain John Titcomb's Com- pany, in the expedition against Crown Point in 1757. It is said that Philip Call built the house subse- quently occupied by Colonel Ebenezer Webster as a tavern. His son may have owned it, as Philip died previous to November 28, 1763. and probably be- fore 1759, and was buried in the eastern side of the Webster yard. His wife's name is not known. We have a record of children, Stephen and Sarah. Sarah Call, of Durham, spinster, by deed dated May 30. 1759. fc" one himdred pounds old tenor, con- veyed to Stephen Call one-half of two tracts of land in Contoocook, which she had of her father, Philip Call.
(II) Stephen, son of Philip Call, like his father, did scout duty, serving in Captain Jeremiah Clough's Company one month and three days. In Captain Ladd's Company he did scout duty about Canterbury and Concord, in 1746, receiving for his services one pound and ten shillings. He also served in Captain Goff's Company, scouting on the frontier from May 28 to July 15. 1748, receiving four pounds, fourteen shillings and three pence, and in Captain Ebenezer Webster's Company, Colonel Nichol's Regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign of 1776. He was chosen one of the selectmen at the first town meeting after the incorporation of the town and subsequently held other offices. He was
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a man of character and ability. He married a sis- ter of Nathaniel Danforth, who settled at Franklin, formerly Andovcr, about 1750. She died in 1816, and he a few years later. Their children were: John, Nathaniel, Philip, Sarah and Susannah. This John Call was the first white child born in Salis- bury.
(III) Philip, third son and child of Stephen and
(Danforth) Call, was born in Salisbury, New
Hampshire. He removed to Sanbornton, where he was engaged in milling operations, and finally went to Stanstcad, province of Quebec, about 1805. He had a farm of one hundred and fifty acres near Magog, in connection with the cultivation of which he carried on blacksmithing. He married Keziali Morrison, daughter of David Morrison, and they had seven children : James, Richard, Daniel, Phoebe, Polly, Whiting and Amanda.
(IV) Daniel Call, third son of Philip and Keziah (Morrison) Call, was born in Magog, April 14, iSop, and died in Magog, August 14, 1S76, aged sixty-six years. He was a farmer and lived in Hat- ley from 1837 to 1850, when he removed to the paternal homestead where he resided until his death. He was a Conservative in politics, and in religion a Calvanist Baptist, as was his wife. He married Almeda Turner, born in Magog, December, 1809, daughter of Daniel and Adaline (Willard) Turner, natives of Vermont. She died at eighty-five years of age. They had six children : Lucretia W.. de- ceased ; Augusta V., deceased ; Whiting R. ; Philip O., deceased; Emma E., married Henry Gazaille, resides in Manchester ; and Mary P., deceased, all of whom removed to New Hampshire.
(V) Whiting Rexford, third child and eldest son of Daniel and Almeda (Turner) Call, was born in Magog. September 30, 1839. He attended the public schools and the Magog Model School, from the latter of which he graduated in i860. The three years following he taught school, two years of the time in the vicinity of Magog, and one year in his alma mater. In 1863 he removed to Man- chester, New Hampshire. The six succeeding years he was employed as a clerk in the grocery house of Childs & Company. In 1867 he opened a photo- graph studio on his own account, and from that time until now (1907), forty years, he has kept steadily at that employment. He is one of the vet- eran photographers of New Hampshire. The ex- cellence of his work has brought him a large and profitable business, which receives his careful per- sonal attention to the same extent now that it did the day he started out to establish a business for himself. He is a member of the Free Will Baptist Church, was treasurer of the Sunday school from 1889 to 1906. and for more than forty years has been a member of the Independent Order of Good Tem- plars. No man in Manchester is more highly es- teemed for his Christian character and moral worth than Mr. Call. He married, in Manchester, 1868, Ellen Brown, who was born in Bethel, Vermont, September 19, 1845, daughter of Jonathan and Susan Stone (Turner) Brown, the former born in Mere-
dith. New Hampshire, October 20, 1816, died in Manchester, November 16, 1899. aged eighty-three ; the latter born in East Randolph, Vermont, Febru- ary 26, 1817, died December 8, 1892, in Manchester, aged seventy-five.
Right Reverend Denis M. Bradley, BR.'^DLEY D. D., the first Roman Catholic
Bishop of Manchester, was born in Castle Island, county Kerry, Ireland, February 25, 1846, and was the eldest son of Michael and Mary (Kerins) Bradley, who were the parents of five other children : Patrick, Mary, Margaret, Cornelius and John. Margaret and John died in childhood. Shortly after the death of his father, and when the boy Denis M. was but eight years old, his widowed mother, with her family of five small children, came to the United States, settling in ^lan- chester, New Hampshire. The future bishop at- tended the Park Street grammar school several years, and under the direction of the veteran master, Thomas Corcoran, was fitted for college. In 1863 he entered Holy Cross College, Worcester, where he continued until he closed his academic course, in June, 1867. His course in ecclesiastical science was made in the seminary at Troy, New York, and here he was prepared, by the reception of the different orders, for the priesthood, and June 3, 1871, was or- dained priest at the seminary chapel by Bishop McQuaid, of Rochester, New York.
Shortly after his ordination to the priesthood, Father Bradley was assigned duties at Portland, Maine, under Bishop Bacon, and subsequently under Bishop Healey, by whom he was named rector of the cathedral, chancellor of the diocese, and bishop's councilor. For some years he discharged the many responsibilities of his several important charges at Portland in a manner that justified the confidence reposed in him by his ecclesiastical superiors, and merited for him the appointment to the pastorate of St. Joseph's Church, Manchester, which had recently become vacant.
The ceremony of the consecration of Bishop Bradley took place at St. Joseph's Church, now raised to the rank of cathedral, on June II, 1884. The concourse of the people who came from all parts of the city and state to witness this unique and imposing function was immense, only a fraction being able to enter the church. The consecrating prelate was Most Reverend John J. Williams, arch- bishop of Boston, assisted by Right Reverend Louis de Goesbriand, of Burlington, Vermont, and Right Reverend John Moore, of St. Augustine, Florida. Right Reverend James A. Healy preached an elo- quent sermon, in which he paid a well merited and glowing eulogy to the first bishop of Manchester. Other prelates and nearly two hundred of the repre- sentative clergy of New England occupied places within the sanctuary. The Very Reverend John E. Barry, V. G., was assistant priest, while Right Rev- erend Flenry Gabriels read the papal bulls. The esteem and affection of his colleagues in the priest- hood was strikingly shown by the presentation to the
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bishop of the generous sum of $4,000. jNIany other ap- propriate gifts, elegant and costly, were given him by admiring friends ; but the one that was particularly pleasing to him was a beautiful gold church service, valued at $1,000, which had been bequeathed by the late Rev. John J. O'Donnell, of Nashua, to the first bishop of New Hampshire.
The diocese was officially organized, and the bishop entered actively and energetically into the work of spreading religion and upbuilding the faith in every part of the state. So zealously did he apply himself to this subject, that four years after his consecration twenty-seven active and zealous young priests had been added to the clergy of the state. In the large towns and cities new parishes were formed, and handsome churches began to mul- tiply. Parochial schools were built that in material equipment and in educational proficiency are not surpassed by any under the public management. Religious societies and confraternities for the faith- ful were established, whose members and devotional enthusiasm continue to be the cheering evidence of a living and ardent faith. In the semi-annual con- ference in May, 1890, Bishop Bradley e.xpressed a sincere wish to make still further efforts to bring the blessings of religion to those Catholics located in manufacturing villages and in rural communities. His desire was heartily responded to by both clergy and laity, and churches at twenty-nine villages attest the success of the efforts to this end, and masses are now said at stated periods in every town of the state where there are Catholics to be found, and wherever it is possible a church edifice can be built. Within the ten years preceding the death of Bishop Bradley, much missionary work was done. In that time and since priests, encouraged by their bishop, toiled and suffered, walked and drove over long rough roads, in the blazing heat of summer, and the depths of winter, slept in lumber camps, partook of coarse fare, bore with ignorance, sustained con- tempt, and spent years of their lives in the solitude of New Hampshire hill towns. Alone and unseen they progressed, and Catholic faith and Catholic feeling penetrated much deeper into Puritan society than one would suspect. Whole townships and counties received the leaven, and it is fermenting; and communities where prejudice and ill-disguised hostility for anything Catholic once strongly pre- vailed, now fraternize with Catholics, many of them regularly attend Catholic churches, and are received into the fold.
The tenth anniversary of the creation of the diocese of Manchester was marked by the solemn consecration of Saint Joseph's Cathedral. Two years previous the original church had been en- larged, the capacity of the sanctuary increased, and the whole interior richly ornamented in a manner which reveals the highest artistic taste. Costly altars of marble and Mexican onyx, stained glass widows, enriched with beautiful paintings, stations and statues, masterpieces in design and coloring, have contributed to effect such a transformation that it is almost impossible to recognize the lines of the
original structure. Beautiful, chaste and dignified, it has become a noble sanctuary, and worthy of the title of a cathedral church.
But the zeal and activities of the bishop were not confined to the episcopal city, and churches and chapels sprung up to meet the pressing demands. The entire ecclesiastical body had become imbued with the earnest progressive spirit of its worthy head. The system of parochial schools was ex- tended and improved, new charitable institutions were added to those already existing, and the finely equipped hospital of the Sacred Heart under the management of the Sisters of iSIercy was opened to supply a need long felt, not only in Manchester but throughout the state. Fifteen years form but a brief period of the life of an organization, never- the less, within that very limited space of time the Catholic growth in New Hampshire was phenomi- nally rapid, and its results effected in no email degree the religious thought and life of the people of the state. The forty-five thousand Catholics who in 1884 were transferred to the jurisdiction of Bishop Bradley increased to one hundred thousand ; eighty-one diocesan and ten regular priests labored in a territory where thirty-seven had been em- ployed. In the same period the number of churches doubled, fifty-two having resident pastors and nine- teen being used as missions. There were in addi- tion twenty-one chapels, and thirty-three stations. Charitable and eleemosynary institutions multiplied, and their flourishing condition is the best guarantee of their utility and efficiency. There were five orphan asylums, in which four hundred and thirty- two orphan children were cared for by the Sisters of Mercy, four houses for aged women, four homes for working girls, one night refuge for girls, and four hospitals, that of the Sacred Heart, Man- chester, being in every respect equal in efficiency and equipment to any under public management.
Bishop Bradley was ever a popular man. He ma'de a visit to Rome in 1887, and again in 1897, On his return from each of these visits the love and regard of the Catholics of Manchester gave evidence of their attachment for their chief pastor by a great popular demonstration, a grand outpouring of gen- uine affection and esteem, that was not confined to Catholic circles, but was heartily participated in by representative men of all creeds, and of no creed at all. Not only were addresses of welcome read, but generous purses were presented as tokens of sincere gratitude and affection on the part of the people for one whose life and labors were conse- crated to their best interests.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of Bishop Bradley's ordination was celebrated June 3, 1896. It had been his intention to have a private observance of the event, but so great was the love and reverence of his clergy for him, and so important did they deem the event, that they strenuously urged that it should have a public recognition. For once he yielded and the celebration of his silver sacerdotal jubilee was one of the most brilliant and successful ceremonies ever witnessed in St. Joseph's Cathedral.
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In the autumn of 1903 Bishop Bradley's health became infirm, but he discharged the duties of his office until a very few days before his decease ; he departed this life December 13, 1903, at 2 -.3$ o'clock A. M., at the cathedral residence. The body lay in state, watched by the Sheridan Guards until the fol- lowing Thursday. Long before the hour appointed for the burial rites, thou.sands of people filled the square about the cathedral to wait the opening of the church doors. Business throughout the city was suspended, the busy looms of the great mills were stopped, the hum of industry was hushed, all the stores without exception closed their doors dur- ing the hours of the service, and many of them ex- hibited in their windows portraits of the bishop draped in morning. Even the post office was closed for some hours, a thing almost unheard of ; but one of the most touching marks of respect was that given by the management of the street car service. Just at the moment of twelve, all the street cars in Manchester stopped and remained standing two minutes. Within ten minutes after the church doors were opened the entire edifice was filled as it never was before. No church in America could have held all wlio desired to bo admitted. Thousands were disappointed, but even these tarried about the church in the cold, blustering winter morning, hop- ing against hope by some means to gain entrance. Never did Manchester see such an illustrious assem- blage as was gathered within the walls of the cathedral. An arch-bishop, seven bishops, five monsignori, vicars-general, and heads of religious orders, directors of seminaries and colleges, and dis- tinguished churchmen from all over New England, together with two hundred and fifty priests, testified by their presence their veneration for the illustrious dead prelate. The bishops present were the Most Reverend Archbishop Williams, D. D., of Boston, who consecrated Bishop Bradley, on June 11, 1884; the Right Reverend Bishop Harkins, D. D., of Pro- vidence, who delivered the eulogy; the Right Rev- erend Bishop Beaven, D. D., of Springfield, cele- brant of the pontifical requiem mass ; the Right Reverend M. Tierney, D. D., bishop of Hartford; the Right Reverend John Michaud, D. D., bishop of Burlington; the Right Reverend William H. O'Connell, D. D., bishop of Portland; the Right Reverend Bishop Gabriels, D. D., of Ogdensburg, who was in charge of St. Joseph's Seminary, Troy, New York, when Bishop Bradley was a student there. The prothonotaries and monsignori were : the Right Reverend John INIichaud, D. D., bishop Manchester ; the Right Reverend William Byrne, P. A. V. G., of Boston ; Monsignor Dionysius O'Callaghan, D. D., of Boston; the Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas Griffin, D. D., of Worcester ; the Right Reverend Monsignor Arthur J. Teeling, D. D., of Lynn. The priests filled the sanctuary .with its enteral chapels, and occupied a row of seats placed in front of the pews, and another ex- tending down the main aisle. In the front pews sat His Excellency Governor Nahum J. Bachelder, with a number of his staff in full uniform. There
were also present the mayor and members of the city government, post office officials, the officers of the board of trade, the agents of the mills, the board of license commissioners, nearly every min- ister of the Protestant denomination, the vestrymen of Grace Church, and distinguished laymen from every walk of life, and from every part of the state. In the front pews, on either side of the middle aisle, sat the members of the religious orders of women teaching in the church schools. There were Sisters of Mercy from the various houses. Ladies of the Sacred Heart, Sisters of Providence, and Grey Nuns ; all the sisterhoods were represented, two coming from each house. There were brothers of the Christian schools, Marist Brothers, and Brothers of the Sacred Heart. In the same section of the church sat the Bishop's two nieces, and his cousin, a Sister of ]\Iercy, and more Sisters of Mercy looked down from the windows of the girls' school adjoin- ing. The number and character of individuals con- stituting this great concourse assembled to pay the last tribute of respect to the Bishop of Manchester, shows what sort of a man Bishop Bradley must have been, and how highly he was appreciated in life to merit and receive such distinguished honors in death. After the very solemn and deeply impressive funeral ceremonies were concluded, the mortal re- mains of the dead prelate were borne on the shoulders of the body guard of soldiers to the crypt of the church, where the benediction was sung, the last prayer said, and the stone slab shut out forever from view the form and face of the beloved Bishop Bradley.
At his death he left nothing. He kept only one bank account, and that was in the name of the "Roman Catholic Bishop of Manchester," the legal title of his office, so that his successor has but to sign his name and he inherits all that the bishop possessed. During all the years he acted as pastor of the cathedral parish, he drew no salary, and all he asked was that the parish pay his funeral expen- ses. The collection of Christmas day was taken up for that purpose. A small amount of insurance was divided between two orphan nieces of the bishop, and the charitable institutions of the city.
The story of the life of Bishop Bradley is the record of a life devoted to what he believed to be the greatest and highest interests of man. In all things he was intensely in earnest. At alb the schools he attended he was easily noticeable for close ap- plication to study, for docility of conduct, for re- tentive memory, and a firm grasp of the knowledge imparted to him. Froin the day in early manhood, when he heard the call to God's service, to the day of his death, he knew no other object in life, and followed no other than his divine Master. For more than thirty-two years he labored in the min- istry, and many a time in the two years preceding his death, when his labors made grave inroads on his health, he was expostulated with by well mean- ing friends, and urged to take a well earned rest. In answer to one of these, he once said, "When I was ordained I promised God to do all that in me
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lay for His service, and I must go on to the end." The twenty years of his episcopate were full of arduous labors. Long journeys had to be under- taken, and conveniences of travel were not then what they are now. All over New Hampshire went the bishop. Every city, town and hamlet knew his care. During these journeys he bore all kinds of hardships and discomforts. He preached many times in the same day, often driving twenty and thirty miles over mountain roads between mission stations. On these visitations no fatigue ever caused him to omit long hours in the confessional. He was always accessible to the humblest in the parish. No man in the state had so extended and varied acquain- tance, and no one followed with such interest all that concerned the individual members of the flock, whatever they might be. He lived to see the popu- lation of his diocese increase almost three fold, and the number of priests to multiply in the same ratio. New churches sprang up everywhere, and to-day every part of the state is provided for spiritually. He built the beautiful cathedral, the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, St. Patrick's Church, the Rosary Chapel, and various schools, orphanages, hospitals, and an asylum.
He always rose at six, no matter what the fatigues of the day before. His morning medita- tion and prayer over, he celebrated the Holy Sacri- fice of the Mass at seven o'clock, and even on week day mornings he addressed the people a short in- struction appropriate to the feast or the season. All day long he was ready to receive any callers, and his threshold was worn by the footsteps of the poor and the unfortunate. Patient, indulgent, sympa- thetic, he listened to their tales and relieved their wants. As the beginning of the day was spent in meditation, so was the end of it. He passed many hours in the little chapel of the household, seeking light and refreshment.
The relations between the bishop and his priests were most intimate and cordial. Bishop Bradley never had a case of contention in any ecclesiastical court. When correction or reproof was to be ad- ministered it was always done in the kindest, gent- lest manner, and the one admonished never bore resentment. He was more like a father than a superior, and no bishop was ewer more beloved by his priests. No guest was more welcome than he to their homes. His intercourse was always affable, and his conversation easy and entertaining. No man ever heard him say an unkind or uncharitable word of another, and he was always ready to take up the defense of tlie timid, the weak or the unfor- tunate. He in turn held in high esteem the priests of his diocese. To him they were the best priests in the world ; they were to him a source of pride and joy, and he loved every one of them, to the least and last, with the tenderness of a fond father. In his dealings with people in general Bishop Bradley was "All things to all men," that he might win all to God. He remembered names and faces, and never forgot family concerns. Though always dignified and reserved, he always made one feel at
ease in his presence and inspired confidence without fear, and the greatest sinner, as well as the timidest child, felt no hesitation in approaching him in the sacred tribunal of penance.
In the passing away of Bishop Bradley the dio- cese of Manchester mourns the loss of a good shep- herd; the people of the city a devoted pastor; the state an eminent citizen; the poor a friend; the suffering a comforter; the bereaved a consoler; the doubtful a counselor; and all a benefactor.
This name was transported from England RIX to America before the middle of the seven- teenth century, and has since been identi- fied with the progress of New England and other sections of the country. It was very early planted in New Hampshire and is still numerously repre- sented in this state.
(I) Robert Rix was a resident of Canninghall, England, and probably died there.
(II) Thomas, son of Robert Rix, was born 1622, at Canninghall, and was in Salem, Massachusetts, as early as 1649. He was a barber surgeon, and spent his last days with his son James in Old Pres- ton, Connecticut, where he died October 30, 1718. He was buried in the "Rixtown Cemetery" in Old Preston. He was married (first) to Margaret, widow of Miles Ward, who died May 24, 1660. He was married (second) September 3, 1661, to Bridget (Musket), a native of Pelham, England, then the widow of Williarn Fiske. She was the mother of his youngest child. His children in- cluded : Remember, Sarah, Esther, Thomas, James and Theophelus.
(III) James, second son and fifth child of Thomas and Margaret Rix, was baptized in the First Church of Salem, October 18, 1657. He lived in Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts, and in 1703 removed to Old Preston, Connecticut. He was a shipwright and farmer, and had a farm in the last named town, on which he died. He was buried September 29, 1729, in the "Rixtown Cemetery." His wife's Christian name was Margaret, but no record of her beyond that appears. Their children were : Abigail, James, Sarah, Margaret, Thomas, Lydia, Mary and Elizabeth.
(IV) James (2), eldest son and second child of James (i) and Margaret Rix, was baptized in the First Church of Salem in April, 1685. He was not of age when the family removed to Old Preston, Connecticut, where he resided and where his children were born. Before 1752 he removed to Mendon, Massachusetts, and the date of his death does not appear of record. He was married, September 7, 1711, to Anna Herrick, who was born February 5, 1696, daughter of Ephraim and Mary (Cross) Her- rick, The date of her death does not appear, but it occurred before his removal from Preston to Mendon. He was married in the latter town in 1752 to Mehitable Palmer, of Rowley, Massachusetts,' daughter of Samuel and Mary (Felt) Palmer. His children, born of the first marriage, were ; Abigail, Nathaniel and Anna.
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(V) Nathaniel, only son of James (2) and Anna (Herrick) Rix, was born June 6, 1714, in Preston, Connecticut, and was one of the first settlers of Boscawen, New Hampshire, where he located in 1733- He afterward lived in Concord for a time, the first two children being born there, and then re- turned to Boscawen. He was a soldier of the Co- lonial Wars; first, in 1745, in John dough's com- pany, and second, in 1755, in Captain Joseph East- man's company. His death was caused by falling down a flight of stairs in a hotel in Concord. He was married in that town April 17, 1743, to Mary Peters, daughter of Seaborn Peters. Their children were : James, Peter, Sarah, Nathaniel and Christo- pher, besides a daughter who died unnamed.
(VI) Nathaniel (2), third son and fifth child of Nathaniel (i) and Wary (Peters) Rix, was born July i7i 1/53. in Boscawen, New Hampshire, and settled in Landaff, in this state, from which town he served three enlistments during the war of the Revolution. He removed to Stansted, Canada, in 1799, but subsequently returned to New Hampshire and died in Littleton, October 12, 1828. He mar- ried Esther Clark, who was born April 13, 175S, in Newmarket, New Hampshire, daughter of John and Esther (Knights) Clark. She survived him nearly four years and died in the same house, July 18, 1832. Their children were: Nathaniel, Esther, John, Ebenezer, Polly, George, Ruth, Clark, Hale, Margaret and William.
(VH) Nathaniel (3), eldest child of Nathaniel
(2) and Esther (Clark) Rix, was born November 26, 1777, in LandafT, New Hampshire, and resided in Stansted, Canada, until the war of 1812 broke out, when he returned to his native state and settled in Littleton. He was an active citizen of that town and employed many years in town afifairs. He died in Dalton, New Hampshire, October, 1856. He was married March 3, 1802, to Rebecca Eastman, who was born September 23, 1780, in Bath, daughter of Obadiah and Elizabeth (Searls) Eastman. (See Eastman VH). She survived her husband more than ten years, and died in Dalton, April 27, 1867. Their children were : Guy C, Lucretia, Narcissa, Percis, Wilder P., Benjamin F., Charles and Re- becca J.
(Vni) Guy Carlton, eldest child of Nathaniel
(3) and Rebecca (Eastman) Rix, was born Decem- ber 14, 1802, in Stansted, Canada, and was brought up in Littleton, New Hampshire. Like most young men of his time he was reared on a farm, and in the old acceptance of that term was not liberally educated. His schooling was confined to the com- mon schools, but this training was supplemented by careful study and voluminous research. To a strong practical training he added by his own exer- tions an unusual literature culture. He possessed a great taste for the study of classics. In early life he learned the trade of edge-tool making and proved to be a skillful workman. He became an itinerant mechanic, and lived in Barnston, Compton, and a second time in Barnston, Canada ; in Kirhy, Water- ford, Danville and East St. Johnsbury, Vermont ;
Runiney and Littleton, New Hampshire ; Middle- fort, Hartland and Jeddo, New York; and Man- chester and Dowagiac, Michigan. Before living in Dowagiac he spent a second period at Jeddo, New York. He died in Dowagiac, January 14, 1879. He was married January 4, 1826, to Martha Gates, who was born August 10, 1807, in East St. Johnsbury, Vermont, daughter of Thomas and Patty (Plumley) Gates. She survived him thirteen years, and died .A.pril 28, 1892, in Dowagiac, Michigan. Their chil- dren were : Caroline, Guy Scoby, Joel Eastman, Joseph, Thomas, John, Nathaniel, Martha, Benja- min Franklin, Charles and Wilder Pierce.
(IX) Guy Scoby, eldest son and second child of Guy Carlton and Martha (Gates) Rix, was born November 12, 1828, in Littleton, New Hampshire. He received a limited education in the common schools, and attended one term in the high school at Rumney, New Hampshire, and one winter in the common school in Middleport, New York, which was his last schooling. At the age of sixteen he accompanied his parents to Western New York, and in the fall of that year (1844) they removed from Hartland to Middleport, about ten miles away. A year latter they removed to the little town of Jeddo, about five miles from Middle- port, on the "Ridge Road." There he re- mained, working for his father in the shop until 185 1, when his parents removed to Michigan and he returned east to visit his grandparents, who were living at Haverhill, New Hampshire. Here he met the lady whom he afterwards made his wife, and in consequence concluded to live in his native state. He entered the employ of Jonathan S. Nichols, of Haverhill, working in the blacksmith department, and remained until the spring of 1853, when he went to Littleton, his native town. Here he entered the employ of Daniel C. Quimby, a carriage manufacturer, but in July of the same year he left and went to Manchester, Michigan, where his parents were then residing. There he entered into partnership with Mr. Munroe Ingraham in the foundry and machine business. In May, 1854, he returned east for his bride and was married on the date of their meeting after a separation of almost three years. Immediately after their marriage he returned to Michigan, but was taken down in the fall with fever and ague, which malady also at- tacked his wife. Being dissatisfied with conditions there he disposed of his interest in business and returned to Littleton, and again entered the employ of Mr. Quimby. In the spring of 1855 he removed to Concord, New Hampshire, and took employ- ment in the shops of Lewis Downing & Sons, car- riage makers, where he remained until the war of 1861, when he removed to western New York and located in a village between Niagara and Orleans counties. In company with his brother Joel he here began the business of carriage making and custom blacksmithing, and this continued until July I, 1862, when he enlisted as a soldier in defence of the Union and became a member of Company A, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth New Y'ork Volunteer In-
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fantry, under Captain Erastus Spalding and Colonel Peter A. Porter, of Niagara Falls. He was mustered into the service August 22, 1862, at Lock- port, and on the next day the regiment was on the way to Baltimore, Maryland, where it did guard duty in and around the city for some time. On December i8th of that year the regiment was re- organized as the Eighth New York Heavy Artillery. In Grant's campaign, 1864. it was ordered to the front. ]\Ir. Rix was appointed armorer at Federal Hill, Baltimore. October 26, 1862 and became bri- gade armorer at Fort McHenry, Baltimore, Way 17, 1863, and artificer in May of the following year. He participated in the battles of North Anna River, Cold Harbor (June 30, 1S64) and the engagements in front of Petersburg (June 16-17-18-22). In the last engagement he was wounded and taken to the rear. He was taken to Washington. D. C, and placed in Mount Pleasant hospital, where his right leg was amputated July 7, 1864. His wife went to Washington and cared for him until early in No- vember of that year, when they both went to Jeddo, to the old home of his father, which he had pur- chased while in the service. In February, 1865, he returned to the hospital again in Washington, and was discharged March 25 of that year. He returned to Jeddo and commenced the carriage business anew, which he continued for eight years. In 1873 he made a visit to the east, and finding a favorable opening for himself he returned to New York and sold out his plant, and in November, 1873, moved his family to Concord, New Hampshire. Here he entered the employ of the Concord Carriage Com- pany as foreman of the blacksmithing department. In 1879 he was offered flattering inducements to go to St. Louis as superintendent Of a large carriage manufactory, and accepted, and a year later he moved his family to St. Louis, but the climate proved injurious to his wife's health, and he re- turned his family to Concord, but continued to hold his position in St. Louis for a period of four years. At the end of that time his employers abandoned carriage manufacturing and .engaged in the pro- duction of street cars, and he resigned his position and returned to Concord and re-entered the service of the Concord Carriage Company. Since 1898 he has been retired from labor at his trade. Mr. Rix has always possessed a strong taste for litera- ture, and despite his lack of education has turned out some very creditable works. He is the author of an exhaustive history of the Eastman family and of the Rix famib', and has done a great deal- of genealogical work in connection with various fam- ilies. He has been a contributor of material to numerous town histories in his native state, and still at his great age manipulates the typewriter and produces genealogical matter of value to many peo- ple. He has been a strong temperance man all his life, and is probably the oldest "Son of Temperance" in this state, if not in the United States, having been initiated in June, 1847, in Jeddo Division No. 27. by the great temperance advocate, Philip S. White, of Philadelphia. He was also made an Odd
Fellow in Moose Hillock Lodge, No. 25, in Haver- hill, New Hampshire, in January, 1852. He is a member of E. E. Sturtevant Post No. 2. Grand Army of the Republic, at Concord. He is a justice of the peace and quorum. Both he and his wife are members of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Concord. He was married in Warren, New Hampshire, May 28, 1854, by Rev. James Adams, to Abigail Augusta Place, who was born February I, 1835, in Haverhill, New Hampshire, daughter of James and Mary Lovejoy (Gould) Place. Follow- ing is a brief account of their children: Mary Louise, born in Strafford, New Hampshire, is the wife of Samuel Alfred Clay, residing in Concord, and has two children : Martha Abbie, a native of Concord, resides in that town, the widow of Herbert L. Tre- vette, and she has three children ; Guy Carlton, born in Concord, resides in Boston, Massachusetts, and had two daughters; Minnie, a native of Jeddo, New York, is a wife of Howard S. Smart, and resides in Concord, having two children, Frank, a native of Jeddo, is unmarried and lives with his parents. The same is true of James Carlton, who was born in Concord.
The family herein traced was not WHIT,A.KER among the Puritan Pilgrims, but
has long been identified with Massachusetts and New Hampshire in a worthy manner. It seems impossible to discover positively the time of arrival in America.
(I) The first of record appears in Shirley, Massachusetts, where John Whitaker had a son born in 1744. John Whitaker is supposed to have come from England, but no record is found of his birth, death or marriage.
(II) John (2) Whitaker. son of John (i), was born. 1744. in Shirley, Massachusetts, and died Oc- tober I, 1829. He was married in Groton, Massa- chusetts, December 23, 1766, to Thankful Pierce, who was born in the same year as himself, and survived him nearly two years, dying September 6, 1831. They were the parents of ten children, namely : David, John, Susan, William (died young), Susanna. William, Lucy, Asa, Levi and Anna.
(III) David, eldest son of John (2) and Thankful (Pierce) Whitaker, was born January 26. 1767, probably in Groton. and died September 24, 1852. in Pittsford, Vermont. His first wife was Lydia Fish, who died November 24, 1791, leaving one child, Polly, who became the wife of John Rice, and the mother of eight children. Mr. Whitaker married (second) Anna Beach, who was born .Vugust 3. 1771. at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, and died April 21, 1867, in Bethel, Vermont. They were the parents of twelve children, all of whom were born in Windsor. Vermont, namely: David (died young), Ira, Nancy, Marshall. John. David. George, Reuben, Chancey, Lydia Fish, Caroline and Paschal.
(IV) Lydia Fish, second daughter and tenth child of David and Anna (Beach) Whitaker. was born December 23, 181 1, in Windsor, Vermont, and
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died June 21, 1886, in Montpclicr, same state. She was married January 11. 1S2S, to Mulfred Dayton Eullard. (See Bullard, VII).
This is a family long identified with BISHOP the history of New Hampshire, and early implanted in Massachusetts. It was conspicuous in struggles w'ith the Indians, in the days of settlement in the Merrimack \'alley, and bore its part in subduing those enemies of civilization. It was also identified with the pioneer times of other 'sections of the state and aided in settling the Connecticut Valley, as well as the Mer- rimack.
(I) Edmund Bishop, emigrant ancestor of one of the several Bishop families early in New Eng- land, settled before 1640 in that part of Salem Village which is now in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was a husbandman and also a sawyer. His first wife Hannah, the mother of his children, died be- fore 16S0. He married (second) Budget Oliver, widow of Thomas Oliver. She was executed as a witch June 10, 1692, and he married (third), March 9. 169.3. Elizabeth Cash. He was not living in 1715, and his children were : Hannah, Edward and Mary.
(ID Edward (2). only son of Edward (i) and Hannah Bishop, was born in 1648 and baptized April 23, of that year. Previous to 1703 he was a resi- dent of Salem Village, and removed thence to Rehoboth. Massachusetts, where he w-as an inn holder, and there died May 12. 171 1. He married Sarah Wildes, of Topsfield. Massachusetts, and their sons were : Edward, Samuel, Jonathan and Ebenezer.
(III) Edward (3), eldest son of Edward (2) and Sarah (Wildes) Bishop, was born about 1680 in Salem Village, and lived in Salem, Ipswich and in Newbury. The Christian name of his wife was Susanna, and they had sons, Josiah, James, Daniel and Benjamin.
(IV) Josiah. eldest son of Edward (3) and Susanna Bishop, lived in Ipswich until 1727, when he removed to Newbury, Massachusetts. About 1740 he removed to Boscawen, New Hampshire, and was there engaged in clearing land, but it is probable that his family remained in Newbury. Only one member became a resident of New Hamp- shire. In the summer of 1746, while at work in his fields at Boscawen. he was surprised and captured by the Indians, and because of his resistance he was slain. He was married February 7. 1704, to Sarah Adams, who was a daughter of Thomas Adams. Four_of their children were born in Ipswich, and four in "Newbury. They were: Bethia. Susanna, Sarah. Enos, Jeremiah (died young), Lydia, Benja- min and Jemima. ,
(V) Enos, eldest son of Joseph and Sarah (Adams) Bishop, was born January 31, 1705, in Ipswich. Massachusetts. Soon after attaining his majority, before 1739, he removed from Newbury. Massachusetts, to Boscawen. New Hampshire, and in 1754, when the Indians made their memorable at-
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tack on the cabin and the family of Philip Call, Enos Bishop was one of the thirteen men who set out in pursuit of the enemy. The company fell into an ambush, and he was captured and taken to Can- ada. He subsequently escaped and returned to Boscawen, where he lived until 1769, when he re- moved to Lisbon. New Hampshire. In 1775 he served in Captain Jane Osgood's company of rangers upon the northern frontiers, and in the following year he completed an enlistment in Col- onel Bedel's regiment. In the autumn of 1776 he enlisted in the Continental service and served in the first New Hampshire record of ■ Colonel Cilley's regiment. In the descriptive roll of New Hamp- shire soldiers in 1778 he is called fifty-two years of age, and described as five feet seven inches in stature, with light complexion. He was reported sick Januan,- 10, 177S. and died in the service August 8 of that year. He was married in New- bury, Massachusetts, November 21, 1749, to Eliza- beth Belamy. She 'died while he was in captivity, and he sub'^equently married Anna (surname un- known). Two children were born of the first wife, namely : Josiah. who was a prominent citizen of Lisbon (his name is erroneously printed Jonah in the "History of Boscawen") ; and Susanna. The children of the second wife were : John, who lived in Lyme, New Hampshire ; Elizabeth. Sarah, Han- nah, Benjamin (who was a Methodist minister and lived in Lancaster), and Enos, who lived in Lisbon,
(VI) John, second son and third child of Enos Bishop, and eldest child of his second wife. .\nna, was born December 10, 1757, in Boscawen, and was twelve years of age when his parents removed to Lisbon. He was a soldier in Colonel Bedel's regi- ment in 1776. and in the autumn of that year went into the Continental service and was assigned ta Colonel Cille.v's regiment, in which his father served. He was discharged in 1780, and in old age drew a pension for his military services. He resided in Lyme, New Hampshire, and was living as late as- 1840. The records of this town have been burned, and full account of his family cannot be secured.
(VII) John (2), son of John (i) Bishop, was born 1784, probably in Lyme, and resided in Han- over, New Hampshire, where both he and his wife died in 1826. Both were admitted to the church at Hanover Center in 1816. He was chosen -a town officer at the annual meeting in March. 1812. He was married in Hanover, October 29, 1809, to Abi- gail Parker, who was born March 7. 1789. in Han- over, daughter of Dan and Beulah (Smith) Parker. They had children : Harriet ; Mary Ann : John Gil- man, born August 28, 1817; James Monroe, whose sketch follows ; and Isaiah Moody, born September 21. 1824. Dan Parker was a Revolutionary pen- sioner and was living as late as 1840 in Canaan. New Hampshire.
(VIII) James Monroe Bishop, second son and fourth child of John and Abigail (Parker) Bishop, was born in Hanover. New Hampshire. May 14, 1821. and died at Stamford. Connecticut. June 16, iSoi. .^t the age of seven years the death of both
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of his parents left him an orphan, after which he was adopted by his maternal grandparents, who re- moved to Canaan, New Hampshire, about 1840. While living in Hanover he had attended school and there laid the foundation which he had not the means to complete in an academic course, but by working out among the farmers of the locality of his home, and by teaching school during the winter seasons, he earned money sufficient to improve him- self in the academies at Lebanon and Canaan. In the spring of 1846 he took up the study of medicine with Dr. Jones, of Canaan, afterward continued it with Dr. Wheat, and still later spent two years under the preceptorship of Dr. Mead, of East Andover. During this time in connection with his studies he taught school as a means of supporting himself.
In the winter of 1848-49 Dr. Bishop taught school in Maine, and in the following spring went to Plymouth as assistant to Dr. Goodrich, with the intention to succeed him in practice upon his re- moval from that town, which then was his purpose ; but as Dr. Goodrich afterward decided to remain in Plymouth he went to Bristol, New Hampshire, and began practice there in November, 1849, and from that time until his death he was one of the most prominent and popular figures in medical circles in Grafton county.
His professional career was begun in accordance with the teachings of the old school of medicine, and at a time when the doctrines propounded by Hahnemann were attracting great attention in the medical world but were not tolerated in any of the established schools of medical instruction; nor were those who proposed to practice according to the law of similars permitted to matriculate at any of the so-called regular schools. Although he was well grounded in medicine and held a license to practice, Dr. Bishop felt the need of a medical course leading to the degree, and with a determination to accom- plish that end he entered the Eclectic Medical Col- lege at Worcester, Massachusetts, completed the course of that institution and .graduated M. D. in 1855. After graduation Dr. Bishop practiced gen- eral medicine in Bristol and its vicinity under the eclectic system for about fifteen years, and then be- came a full convert to the doctrine of siinilia sim- ilibus curantui: As an eclectic he "was a member of the New Hampshire Eclectic Medical Society, serving as censor, vice-president and president of that body. During the last tvventy' years 'Of -hi* professional life he adhered strictly to the homoeo- pathic practice and was one of the ablest exponents of that school of medicine in the state. He held membership in the Homoeopathic Medical Society