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MOORE, Stephen
MORSE Family
ORDWAY Family
OSGOOD Family
PHIBRICK / PHILBROOK Family
ROWELL Family
SANBORN Family
SARGENT Family by E. Sargent
SARGENT Family by W. Clark
SARGENT, Thomas
STEVENS Family

AIKEN, Walter

The first ancestor, Edward (1), came from the north of Ireland about 1722, and settled in Londonderry, N. H., and became one of the proprietors. His son, Nathaniel (2), lived in Londonderry and was an energetic businessman. One of his sons, Thomas (3), moved to Deering, N. H., and carried on farming there. His son, Matthew (4), was born in Deering, N. H., March 21, 1776, and moved to Pelham, N. H., and was a saddler and harness-maker there. He married Sally Hackett, daughter of Colonel Hackett, of Portsmouth, N. H., who built there the first frigate for the United States government that was engaged in the Revolutionary War.

The children from this union were James Gilman (5), born May 10, 1795, who was a soldier in the War of 1812, and was last heard from by his family as an officer at the battle of New Orleans, where it is supposed he fell, January 8, 1815. Herrick (5) was born in Peterborough, N. H., June 8, 1797. Sally (5), born May 10, 1799, married Phineas Stevens, who was an engineer and built a number of prominent mills in New Hampshire. Emma (5), born June 10, 1802, married David Hamblett, a millwright, of Manchester, N. H., and removed to Beckett, Mass., and there died September 25, 1878.

Herrick (5) first set up in business as a manufacturer of machinery at Dracut, Mass., and moved to Franklin, N.H., and set up business in the old shop of Daniel Herrick, in 1838, which business he carried on in that vicinity for many years. he was an inventor and received letters patent on many useful and cunning machines, among which were a "spiral-brush" and a leather-splitting machine. He also received several medals for valuable inventions. He conceived the plan of using a cog-rail for steep grades on railroads and constructed a model at his shop that worked well. Thinking to apply his invention upon a road to to the top of Mt. Washington, he rode up on horse-back, and although convinced in his own mind that by his plan the summit could be reached, he was unable to convince the railroad men and capitalists that his plan was feasible, and the honor of the achievement, a few years later, went to others. Mr. Aiken was a good citizen, a successful business man and a kind husband and father, and died November 7, 1866.

At Dracut, Mass., February 5, 1830, he married Ann Matilda, daughter of Isaac Bradley, of that place. She was born August 28, 1810, and was a descendent in the fifth generation of the renowned Hannah Dustan, of Haverhill, Mass. She died January 6, 1884.

The children from this union were Walter (6), born October 5, 1831, in Dracut, Mass.; Jonas Bradley (6), born August 23, 1833, at the same place; James Hackett (6), born June 20, 1835, died of cholera in Calcutta.

Francis Herrick (6), born June 10, 1843, in Franklin, N. H. He succeeded his father in business carrying it on successfully. He built a fine residence in Franklin and died January 16, 1876. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, a thirty-two-degree Mason. He married Hannah A. Colby, of Hill, N. H., September, 1865.

Charles Lowe (6) was born July 23, 1845. he resided in Elkhard, Ind., for several years and is now an employe of the Old Colony Railroad Company, at Taunton, Mass. He married Isabella Burleigh, of Thornton.

Jonas Bradley (6), the second son, has been quite prominent among the business connections, although he retired from active business some years ago. He married, first, Helen M. Scribner, of Franklin, in 1864. She died April 14, 1865, the same day upon which President Lincoln died. He married, second, Addie G. Proctor, of Northfield, Vt. The only child from the first marriage, Alice Matilda (7), died in infancy. The children from the second marriage are Mary Louisa (7), born November 19, 1867; Charles Wilson (7), born August 21, 1869; and George Proctor (7), born December 5, 1873, who was drowned May 10, 1876.

Walter, the subject of this sketch, passed his boyhood at the old home, and, in addition to the advantages of the common schools, he attended for two years the Gilmanton Academy and also the institutes at New Hampton and Tilton. He entered his father's machine-shop at an early age, and, having a natural talent for mechanics, he rapidly developed, and at the age of twenty-two years started in business for himself in an upper room in his father's shop, where he invented and built one of the first knitting-machines in the country. A pioneer in the invention and manufacture of knitting-machines, Mr. Aiken has taken out over forty patents, and his latest machine makes a perfect stocking without seam in less than five minutes and works automatically. He also invented a machine to make gimlet-pointed screws. Mr. Aiken is also a woolen manufacturer, producing as many as four hundred dozen pairs of stockings per day. He also built the house on the summit of Mt. Washington, owning one-half of it; assisted in building the railroad up the mountain; became the general manager at the opening of the road, in 1869, and has continued in the capacity, making the most complete success as a financial venture. Mr. Aiken designed the locomotive in use on the Mt. Washington Railway. He, in connection with Sylvester Marsh, has perfected and carried into complete operation the work which Herrick Aiken had so many years before conceived, viz: to build a railroad to the top of Mt. Washington. His residence, on a bluff overlooking the village, is one of the finest in Franklin. Mr. Aiken owns the Hamilton Hotel, at the Bermuda Islands, with all the modern improvements and capable of entertaining two hundred and fifty guests. He built the signal station on Mt. Washington for the United States government in 1873; built the Summit House in 1872. Mr. Aiken is a Democrat; was in the War of the Rebellion; has been a representative to the General Court for four years and is a director of each of the banks in Franklin, and a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity and also of the Odd Fellows. "The old Granite State" may well be proud of such sons. He married, first, Susan Colby, of Warner, in 1853; he married, second, Mary Dodge, of Hampton Falls, January 1, 1867. The children by the first marriage were James (7), born February 5, 1854, and Frederick(7), born November 4, 1855. These children are now living.

Contributed by Herbert L. Girtman, Sr., extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 326-327.

BATCHELDER Family

Reverend Stephen Batchelder the founder of the family in this country, was probably from the southern part of England, as he certainly preached at a village a few miles north of Southampton, in the County of Hants, England. The town of Hampton, New Hampshire was so named at his request. Reverend Stephen lived in Holland a number of years, and saled from London to Boston, Massachusetts and 1632, he went directly to Lynn, where he planted the first church. His daughter, Theodote, wife of Christopher Hussey, also lived at that place. He lived at Lynn until 1636, and went from there to Newbury, Mass., and from there to Hampton, in 1638, and then to Portsmouth, about 1647; lived there until 1650, and went back to England about 1655, and died at Hackney (now London), in 1660, in his 100th year. His third wife, Mary ____, who he married 1650, was a bad investment, and could not live with her. She was a widow, whose real character he did not understand. His third wife, Mary, petitioned the court for divorce soon after, upon the grounds that he married a fourth wife, which there is no evidence of whatsoever, as he was 94 or 95 years of age when he went back. His son Nathaniel had three wives and 17 children; was a man of prominence for many years; in fact, he held a leading position until this death, and 1710. The woman whom Mr. Bachelor was justified in leaving was soon convicted of immorality that brought a sentence of 30 lashes and marking her with the letter A.

There were at least six Batchelders who settled in Loudon, and with families, and were descendants of the Reverend Stephen Batchelder, of England,_____1st., Josiah, born in January, 1767, who was son of the Deacon David of Hampton Falls; Deacon David was son of Josiah, of Hampton Falls; Josiah was son Nathaniel, Jr., of Hampton; Daniel, Jr., was son of Nathaniel, Sr., of Hampton; and Nathaniel, Sr., was a grandson of the Reverend Stephen Batchelder.

Major Nathan Batchelder was born Oct. 25, 1734, and was son of Deacon Ebenezer, of East Kingston. Deacon Ebenezer was son of Deacon Nathaniel, Jr., of Hampton. Nathaniel, Jr. was son of Nathaniel, Sr. the grandson of Reverend Stephen Batchelder. Major Nathan was a brother to Richard. Richard was born Oct. 5, 1736. Nathaniel, brother to Major Nathan, was born February 21, 1740. Abraham and Jethro were sons of Jethro, Sr.; Jethro was the son of Nathaniel, Jr., who was the son of Nathaniel, Sr. who was the grandson of the Reverend Stephen Batchelder. Abraham and Jethro were cousins of Major Nathan, Richard and if Nathaniel. Major Nathan settled at Loudon Ridge, New Hampshire, where are living some of the descendants of this line. After the Major came to Loudon he took the name of Esquire Nathan in all the business matters of the town. The descendants of the Batchelders who resided in Loudon are noted for being good citizens, our public spirited, firm in their principles and honest in their purposes and aims.

Abraham Batchelder, Esq., and Jethro, his brother, came to Loudon (then Canterbury) near the year 1760, as Abraham Batchelder was chosen constable and 1765 in the town of Canterbury.

Abraham Batchelder, Esq., was a man of large business capacity; was a surveyor of land and was engaged in laying out the town of Loudon in lots. Also, he served as one of the selectmen of the town, and laid out and made the return of a large number of the highways. Abraham Batchelder settled on land near the White school house, he having, while traveling in locality and looking for meadowland with his son Abraham, Jr., found the swell of land bordering upon the pond, covered with a most beautiful growth of birch, oak and white ash, and, at the earnest request of his son, concluded to settle at this place. The built a log house just north of the one upon the Ira Osgood farm, and the land in the southeasterly direction to us a school house, was the first cleared. Afterwards Abraham, Jr., built the northeasterly half of the old red Batchelder mansion, as it now stands.

This lot of land was called a pitched lot, and contained 100 acres. It was afterwards divided by the highway leading to Gilmanton, and that part lying westerly of said road passed into the ownership to another person. The irregularity of the line of the boundary of some of the adjoining lots is caused by the pitching of the owner. Several other lots were pitched upon in the same manner. During the first years of clearing the land and many privations had to be endured. In the first year they were short of food for bread, and Mr. Batchelder was obliged to cut some of his rise before was ripe,dry it as much as possible, and carry in upon his shoulders to Canterbury for grinding, a distance of several miles. The corner raised and used for bread was pounded in a wooden mortar into meal. This same mortar is still it in existence, and consist off a maple log about two feet long, with the bark still on, standing upon one end, while in the other is a cavity, made by burning out the wood by fire, in which corn or salt was placed and pounded with a wooden pedestal. The mortar may be seen by examining the attic of the old mansion.

Jethro Batchelder located at the village then known as Batchelder Mills. He was a largely and owner, the proprietors giving him 400 acres as an inducement for him to build mills upon the privilege at that place. The land given embraced that tract now owned by Joseph P. Batchelder, and also the Cate farm. Mr. Batchelder built the first house at the village, and it is known as the Captain P. Robinson house. He was the ancestor of the race of Batchelder's in the south part of the town, and Abraham was that of the line living at the center. The line of descent for Abraham was Abraham Batchelder, Jr., born in 1744. His wife, Anna Judkins, was born in 1755, married in 1772. Their children are Nathan Batchelder, born in 1773; Abraham and Josiah Batchelder (twins), born in 1775; Hannah Batchelder, born in 1776; Josiah Batchelder (2d), born 1779; Philip Batchelder, born in 1781; James Batchelder, born 1783; John Batchelder, born 1785; Sally Batchelder; Jonathan Batchelder, born 1790; Judith Batchelder.

Jonathan Batchelder married Lois Wells and had a family of 12 children, Abraham, Mary, Ann, Stephen W., True, William T., Nathan, Nancy G., Sarah S., Hannah E., H. John, John (2d) and Benjamin.

Benjamin Batchelder married Mary E. Batchelder, of Meredith, New Hampshire, and has a family of two children, named Martha E. and John. He resides upon the farm and occupies the original house in part that was built by Abraham Batchelder, Esq., his great grandfather. He has held the office of post master at Loudon Center, New Hampshire, for a number of years.

Cyrus Batchelder, who was the son of James, brother of Jonathan, lived in Loudon, and had two children, named James K. P. and Georgia, who maried the Reverend Warren Applebee. Mr. Batchelder has been elected to the office of selectmen, has held that of town treasurer and has represented the town in the Legislature.

Jethro Batchelder was born in 1723, married Abigail Lovering and had a family of eight children, named William, Abram, Jethro, Daniel, Libby, Nathaniel, Jacob and Aaron.

Mr. Batchelder was a onetime the largest taxpayer in the town, but for some reason lost and consumed his property, until he was in his old age provided for his children, who built a small house upon the hill near Mr. Abram Batchelder's, where he died, and was buried in the old village burying ground.

Libby Batchelder and Esquire Nathaniel lived in Loudon and had large families, and were men of note in the today.

Capt. Abraham married Betsy Batchelder. Was born in 1759, and they had a family of 11 children, named Smith, born 1785; Zephaniah, born 1786; Olive, 1788; Nathaniel born 1790: Gardner, born 1792; Betsy, born 1793 Asa, born 1795; Lois, born 1797; Enoch W., born 1798; Joseph, born's 1800; and Clarisa, born 1802.

Zephaniah Batchelder married Mary Eastman and had seven children, named Harmon E., Abraham G., Mary, Arvilla, of Genette, Martha and Louisa.

Abraham G. Batchelder Mary Rebecca Fifield, and had five children, named Fred, Frank, Charles, Asa and Frank. Mr. Batchelder is a good representative of the family; is a man of ability and judgment, and is often applied to for advice and assistance in public as well as private life. He has acquired a good property, and has been successful in the profession which he has chosen for a living.

Deacon Harmon E. Batchelder married Clarisa Sanborn and has one daughter, who married Samuel M. True, and she has three children, named Nellie, Blanche and Mary. Mr. Batchelder resides upon the homestead of his father, Col. Zephaniah, and is a large farmer, and is Deacon of the Congregational Church at Loudon Village.

Genette Batchelder, daughter of Zephaniah, married William T. Wheeler and has no children. Mr. Wheeler is engaged extensively in farming, and has been successful in his avocation.

Gardner Batchelder married, first Clarisa Bradley, and, second, Nancy Young, and had a family of 16 children, named Nathaniel S., Emory B., Judith, Stephen, William, Abby, Henry F., Winthrop, Abram and other infant children.

Henry F. Batchelder married Lydia S. Rogers, and has three children, named Marion, Emma and Helen. Marion married Fred Lawrence and has one son, named Henry B.. Emma married Frank E. Robinson. Helen died in 1883. Henry F. Batchelder has been a trader in groceries and dry goods for a large number of years and has acquired a good property. He has held the office of post master at Loudon for 24 years. His life has been marked in his dealings with others by integrity and uprightness, and he is a respected citizen of this town. His business is now carried on under the firm name of Batchelder and Robinson, and they are extensively engaged, and in addition to the trade, in lumber business, and at present are the largest business firm in the town.

Abram Batchelder married______Whitney, of Canterbury, and they have one child, named Ivy.

Asa Batchelder, brother of Zephaniah, married in 1795, Rachel True, and had a family of seven children, named Augustine, Abram, Roscoe G., Ancie and three others, who died in infancy.

Ancie Batchelder married Joseph Wiggin, and had two children, named Nattie and Gertrude. Mr. Wigin married, first, Eliza Walker, daughter of Ruel Walker, and had four children, named Eddie, Willie, Gertrude and ____. Mr. Wiggin commenced the business of a tanner when a young man with Mr. Walker, and afterwards married his daughter. He soon became the owner and has since carried on an extensive business, and is a prominent invaluable citizen.

Asa C. Batchelder, son of Abraham G., married Jennie Badger and has a family of five children, named Edwin, Emory, Kate, Gennette and Lillian.

Nathan Batchelder married Margaret Bean, April 8, 1756, and had a family of seven children, named Richard, born December 8, 1756; Phineas, born Nov. 16, 1760; William, born March 19, 1762; Joseph born Jan. 2, 1764; Ebenezer, born Oct. 2, 1769; Dolly, born February 13, 1772; Josiah, born January 24, 1775. Esq. Nathan settled at Loudon Ridge.

William Batchelder, son of Richard and great grandson of Esquire Nathan, married Mary Sargent, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, and had a family of six children, named Mary E., Jeremiah, Nettie P., William N, Sarah A. and Park B.

Nathaniel Batchelder had the following children: Betty, born February 10, 1783; Sally and Fanny (twins), born Nov. 23, 1784; True, born July 20, 1794.

Libbe Batchelder The following children: Nabby, born June 19, 1779; Peter, born Aug. 2, 1781; Dolly, born March 23, 1784; Polly, born Sept. 28, 1786 Sukey, born March 8, 1790; Manly and Betsy (twins), born Aug. 10, 1793.

William Batchelder had the following children: James, born March 18, 1784; John, born July 25, 1786; William, Jr., born May 28, 1791; Hazen, born April 16, 1793.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 499-501.

BATCHELDER, Joseph

Joseph Batchelder was the son of Capt. Abraham Batchelder (3), and was born in Loudon in 1800. He is the descendant of Jethro, and is the direct line from the Rev. Stephen Batchelder, from England. He married Hannah H. Hill, by whom he had a family of six children, John Q. A., born March 10, 1826; Otis H., born January, 1828, died Nov. 17, 1859; Clarisa, born Jan. 6, 1830; Joseph P., born Oct. 21, 1835; Elvira A., born June 4, 1839; Roseltha, born April 17, 1845, died Sept. 20, 1860.

John Q. A. married Eliza J. Sanborn, daughter of Edmund Sanborn; has lived in Massachusetts since 25 years of age; has no children.

Otis H. married Maria Howard, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, where he was in trade until his death, and left no children.

Clarisa marries Cyrus T. Batchelder, and resides in Peabody, Massachusetts, and is engaged in trade.

Joseph P. married Elvira A. Whitney, of Canterbury, and had one child, named Alfred P.
Mr. Batchelder married, the second time, Abby J. Demmeritt. Mr. Batchelder resides upon the homestead and occupies the pleasant mansion of his father. He is a most thorough and practical farmer and an honored and respected citizen of the town. His son, Alfred P., married Nellie M. Brown, of Canterbury, and has one child, named Ernest L., which constitutes the sixth generation of Batchelders that have been born in this Batchelder mansion and have lived in the same, beginning with Jethro.

Joseph Batchelder died in Loudon March 29, 1877. He was an able, upright and a respected citizen of the town, and was always interested deeply in the cause of education, the progress of science and religion. He, with his wife, where members of the Congregational Church at the village in Loudon for many years. He was an excellent and practical farmer, having one of the finest situations in the town, upon which he has made extensive improvements. He was firm and decided in his opinions, and unyielding in the principles which he believed to the right. He did not interest himself in political matters to any extent, and was never elected to any of the ordinary offices of the town. He was successful in his acquisition of property, and at his death possessed a large and valuable estate. A relic is retained in possession of the family, which is the wig worn by Jethro, Sr, who was a bald headed man. An interesting incident is related at his birth, which is, that while going for the necessary assistance in the case, to a neighbor's, the person, in crossing a brook, caught by an elm tree for support, which uprooted and was transplanted afterward near the residence, and which measured, in July, 1885, 17 feet in circumference. In the year 1808 a bear was killed, which had two young cubs. The oil was taken from the old one. Some of it was sealed up in a small bottle, some of it which was shown the writer in 1885, it being 80 five years old. One of the cubs was killed with its mother; the other was taken to the breast of a woman who had lost a new born babe.

Mr. Batchelder, upon the 50th anniversary of his marriage, was presented, by his connection and friends, with a valuable gold headed cane, which is kept in the family and highly prized.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 510-511.

BROWN Family

General Richard Brown was born in Gilmanton in 1787, and was the youngest child of Job Brown, of that town. Richard was a descendant of John Brown, who was born in Hampton and 1589, and of the sixth generation. He married three times, and had a family of seven children, named Sarah A., John S. R., Jane S. R., Mehitabel, Elvira W., Adeliza and Hulda. Gen. Brown was a distinguished military man in Loudon, in which he kept much pride. He was a strong respected citizen, and was esteemed for his great force of character and firmness of principal.

Deacon John S. R. Brown was born in Loudon in the year 1819, and married Achsa A. Mills, and had a family of seven children, named Anna E., Clara J., Abby M. P., Richard H.P.,Hamlin D., John P. M. and Mary A. Deacon Brown was the only son, and upon the decease of his father came in possession of the Homestead farm, where he has resided and giving his attention largely to that branch of business. He is a man of religious cast of mind, and at one time in his life was chosen as the colporteur for the American Bible Society. He was chosen as one of the Deacons of the First Congregational Church, which office he has filled acceptably and discharged the duties with fidelity. He is strongly identified with the common school interests and is a citizen much respected, and is found upon the side of progress and reform. His Christian life and example is undoubted by his townsmen. Mrs. Brown is an educated and intelligent woman, and is the author of several poems, which have been read in public frequency and were well received and commended.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 502.

BUSWELL Family

Elisha Buswell was born Nov. 10, 1757; married, Jan. 15, 1799, Abigail Perkins, born March 10, 1762, and had a family of four children, named William, Moses, John and Nancy. Moses Buswell married Betsy Jones, and had three children, -- John L. and two others who died in youth.

John L. Buswell married Mary E., daughter of Capt. Daniel L. Sanborn, and has a family of two children, named Frank J. and Abby J.. Mr. Buswell has held important town offices and is a respected citizen in the town. He is a practical farmer and has secured a fine property, with a pleasant location.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 504.

CARR Family

The Carr family descended from Robert Carr, who lived in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and had a family of 14 children, named John, Sylvanus, Joseph, Benjamin, Nathan, Joanna, Abigail, Martha, Elliott, Susanna, Nancy, Betty and Mary.

Elliott Carr married Hannah Dow, and had a family of seven children, named John, Nathan, Hannah, Betty, Nancy, Rhoda and Sally.

Nathan Carr married Elizabeth Chase in 1812, and was born in Salisbury, Massachusetts, in 1781, and came to Loudon, in 1790, with his father, Elliott Carr, and settled upon the farm now owned by Charles D. Carr, and afterwards bought the adjoining farm of Henry D. Carr. This tract of land was part of the 500 acre lot laid out and given to His Excellence the Governor John Wentworth, and is called, in the return of the laying of lots, the Governor Wentworth farm. Nathan Carr had five children, named Charles D., Elizabeth, Nancy, Martha J. T. and Sarah M.

Charles D. Carr was born in 1813, and married Hannah B. Prescott. He had a family of three children, named Georgiana F., Charles F. and Samuel M.. Charles D. Carr was born, and lives upon, the homestead of the Carr family. He is a thorough and practical farmer, has been successful in acquiring property and is an honorable and respected citizen of the town.

Capt. John Carr was a brother of Nathan, and married Sally Brown in 1800, and had 11 children, named Edmund, Elliott, Jemima, Clarisa, John, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Henry T., Hannah and Mary.

Henry T. Carr married Jemima Osborne, and had a family of five children, named Ann Genette, John, Mary, Jane and Sarah. This branch of the Carr family became all of the strong and substantial traits of their ancestors, and are very firm and sanguine in all their undertakings and principles. John Carr has been engaged at the New Hampshire Insane Asylum for several years, holding a position of trust and responsibility, and is held in high esteem by the institution.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 503.

CATE Family

The Cate family in Loudon descended from Stephen Cate, who came from Deerfield, New Hampshire, in 1784. He had seven children, named Shadrach, born Aug. 10, 1779; Charles, born Jan. 2, 1781; John, born March 29, 1783; Stephen and Jonathan (twins), born March 3, 1785; Sally born April 1, 1787; Meshach, born July 6, 1789.

Stephen Cate settled upon the farm now owned by way of W. Cate, where he built a log house for himself and family of two children, the eldest being two and 1/2 years and the youngest but 18 months old. He rode from Deerfield, New Hampshire, on horseback with his wife, each carrying one of the children in their arms as they rode upon the same horse. The following year Mrs. Cate, whose name was Anna, gave birth to the twins, Stephen and Jonathan, whose weight at birth was 22 pounds, who lived and grew to large and strong men, looking so nearly alike as hardly to be distinguished from each other. Three of these boys settled in Loudon, Shadrach, John and Stephen.

Shadrach Cate had a family of 11 children, of whom eight lived, named Hiram and Hannah (twins), Rebecca, Eliza, Sally, Judith, Shadrach and Moses. He married Rebecca Chamberlain, an intelligent and estimable woman. Of his family, Shadrach studied medicine and is a skillful practitioner as well as a gentleman of influence and culture, in the city of Washington, D.C.
John Cate settled upon the home farm; married and had a family of four children; the eldest died at birth. The others were named Nancy, Miles and Benjamin. At the birth of Nancy Cate, John, her father, planted an elm tree, which has been growing 76 years and measures 17 feet in circumference at the base.

Benjamin Cate was born March 23, 1814, and married Eliza A. Wells, daughter of Stephen Wells, of Loudon and has two sons, named William W. and Carter E. Cate.

He was a man of large ability and when a young man was often given places of trust. His public life and influence were extensive, and he became one of the leading men of the town in which he resided. He was chosen to various town offices and represented the same in the Legislature. He was a man of genial turn and manner to everyone, and his assistants and counsel were sought and obtained by his neighbors and friends in time of need. He was every man's friend. His life was noted for the integrity and uprightness of character which he ever maintained. His religious principles were firm and deeply fixed, from which there spread an influence that shaped and guided the thoughts and acts of those with whom he associated.

William W. Cate lives upon the homestead of his father, and he is the fourth generation of the Cate family. His early life was largely devoted to the cause of education, and he engaged in school teaching to quite an extent, his efforts being attended with good success. After the death of his father, he engaged in agriculture, and sustained a high and influential position as such among the citizens of his native town. He has been elected to, and discharged the duties of, several offices in town with care and fidelity. His advice and assistance are largely sought in matters of probate, and he is a man of strong influence in private and public business. His religious principles are strong and fixed, and his life thus far well marked by exemplary conduct and sincerity of purpose.

Carter E. Cate was born Aug. 26, 1852. He fitted for college at Tilton, New Hampshire, and entered the Wesleyan University, at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1872. After two years he went to Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, where he graduated in 1876. He afterwards attended the Boston University, and in June, 1878, was ordained as a minister of the gospel by the Free Will Baptist denomination, at Loudon, New Hampshire, where he engaged as pastor and remained one year. During his stay with this, his own Church and native town, an unusual and deep-felt interest was manifest throughout the whole town in attending divine worship upon the Sabbath, such as had not been experienced for a generation. His preaching was marked with great simplicity and sincerity, which held the mind and attention of his audience from the beginning to the end of his discourse. He engaged at Lake Village, New Hampshire, afterwards, and remained three years; then went Lowell, Massachusetts, and remained one year; then married Electa Dunavan, and moved to Lewiston, Maine. Mr. Cate inherits the Cate family characteristics which are so noticeable in the biography of the family. He is pleasant and affable in appearance, firm in his principles, deeply imbued with respect for Christianity and all its ennobling and elevating principles. His success in life has been most excellent, and a brilliant future seems to await him in the choice of the great calling that he has engaged in as a life work.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 506-507.

CATE, Shadrach M.

Shadrach Mellen Cate was born in Loudon, N.H., on October 24, 1823, and was the tenth child of Shadrach and Rebecca Cate. He studied medicine in the office of Alpheus Morrill in Concord and both became converts to homeopathic practice. S. M. Cate then attended the medical department at Western Reserve College in Cleveland, Ohio (1844-1845) and was admitted to the Ohio Homoepathic Medical Society. In 1845, he and Dr. Morrill removed to Columbus and opened the first homeopathic medical practice there. Dr. Cate then returned to New Hampshire in 1847 and introduced homeopathy in Loudon. He married Martha J. Messer in January 1849 and, in 1854, received an M.D. from the Western Homeopathic Medical College in Cleveland.

In 1850, Dr. Cate was practicing in Augusta, Maine, then, in 1860, in Salem, Massachusetts, where he became a member of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society and was its president in 1866; he appears to have practiced in Salem for many years. In 1893, he was practicing in Harvard, Massachusetts [possibly the source of confusion with Harvard Medical School], then Lancaster, Mass. (1896) and Danvers, Mass. (1898). He certainly published "Treatise on some diseases of the bones and ligaments" (Washington, 1886) and "Correct observation in medicine: an address before the Mass. Homeopathic Medical Society" (1864), "Some suggestions on hydrothorax" (1869), and probably other articles in the homeopathic medical literature.

Shadrach Mellen Cate died April 23, 1898, and is buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery, City of Salem, in the county of Essex, Massachusetts, situated in the way called Laurel Path and numbered 1692 on the plan of the cemetery.

Shadrach M. Cate Sr. was my gg Grandfather and Shadrach Mellen Cate (above) was my g Grandfather. --Peter Mellen Cate, Dr. Wagner-Jauregg-G. 6-8/4/8, A3430 Tulln, Austria

CLARK, Nathaniel

Dr. Nathaniel T. Clark came to Loudon in 1828, married Clara L. Bond, and had one child, named C. Blanche. He studied medicine at Brookline, New York, and has had practice in New London, Bradford and Manchester, New Hampshire.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 505.

CLOUGH Family

Lieut. Abner Clough came from the Epping, N. H., and settled first in Canterbury. He married Sally, daughter of Levitt Clough, of that town, and had a family of three sons, named Levitt, Abner and Jeremiah. Lieut. Abner soon afterward exchanged land and with the Shakers, who then owned the land upon Clough's Hill, where Mr. Clough's descendants now reside. The Shakers located first in Loudon, and held meetings upon this Hill, they being few in numbers at that time.

Levitt Clough married Hannah Sargent and had three children, named Levitt, Jr., David S. and Sally.

Abner Clough married Sarah Haselton, and had three children, named Lucy, Abiel H. and Jeremiah A.

Jeremiah Clough married Polly Hook and had one daughter, named Adeline. He married the second time and had no children.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 502.

CLOUGH, Jeremiah

Rev. Jeremiah Clough was born in Loudon, New Hampshire, February 3, 1792, and was the eldest of the five children of Jonathan and Betsy Clough. His grandfather, Jonathan Clough, Sr., moved from Salisbury, Massachusetts, to Loudon about the year 1771, with five children, and located on that tract which has been known as "Clough's Hill," then a wilderness. He was born in 1724, and married Elizabeth Thompson in 1756. His children were named Joseph, Nathan, Sarah, Jonathan, Jr., and Love. Mr. Jonathan Clough, Sr., was a man of large business capacity, and was chosen clerk of the parish for 17 years and selectman for four years. He was a blacksmith by trade, working both iron and steel. He married three times, but had no children that lived by either of the last two marriages. Jonathan Clough, Jr., married Betsy Clough, of Epping, New Hampshire and had five children, named Jeremiah, Joseph and Benjamin (twins), Jonathan and Sally.

Rev. Jeremiah Clough married Sabrina Clough, daughter of Levitt Clough, of Canterbury, in 1813, by home he had a family of eight children. Six of them died in infancy and before maturity. The two youngest or named Jeremiah L. and Charles C. Mr. Clough married, the second time Deliverance Hodgdon, of Northfield, New Hampshire, Sept. 10, 1840. They had one daughter, named Christiana, who is the only living representative of the nine children born to the Rev. Mr. Clough. After his marriage he moved to Canterbury, with his wife's father, and was, for several years, a large and successful farmer. He acquired a large property, and was an industrious and robust man. He was early taught to labor, and during his whole life was industrious and economical in all his purposes.

In 1819 he professed religion, and was licensed as a preacher of the gospel in 1835. He was ordained in 1838, and preached as an evangelist, for 10 years, the doctrine of the Free Will Baptist denomination. He was chosen pastor of his own church in Canterbury in 1848, and continued in this relation until the year 1872, when he suffered a partial shock of paralysis, and retired from the active labors of the ministry. During his labors with this church a large number were added to it, and it became one of the strongest in the Quarterly Meeting. In the meantime a new and commodious church edifice was erected, to which Mr. Clough was a large contributor. It was dedicated about the year 1853, Rev. Mr. Clough preaching the ordination sermon. He was a man of great natural ability, and processed fully the characteristics required in a man of so strong purposes. He was widely known as an humble and Christian man, devoid of all ostentation and display. His Christian life was above reproach, while he had the most profound reverence for the house of God and all its ordinances, making his worship at all times spiritual and full of devotion. He was full of Christian charity, zeal and unending love for his church in Canterbury; for Christian ministers, making large donations to destitute churches, aiding in building houses of worship; the cause of education and missions; and was always a true friend of the destitute and needy. His word was never doubted nor his veracity questioned.

He was a man of large social qualities, possessing true affability of manners, which made his home social, agreeable and always pleasant to his family, and full of hospitality to friends and strangers. The words of advice and counsel which fell from his venerable lips were wise, safe and full of consolation, especially in times of affliction and trouble. His services were largely sought in affliction by death of friends, to which his words were as "healing balm". He always refused remuneration for all religious service throughout his entire life.

His family trials were severe in the loss of his children, but were borne with Christian fortitude. One of the greatest questions of his life was to decide whether to devote his life work to the ministry or not. This he decided upon his knees in the pasture, beneath a tree, which still lives, and spreads its few branches over the monument of stones which he erected, as a seal of the vow of consecration which he made to his God more than 50 years since. His last act of baptism was performed at the age of 82 years. The Rev. Jeremiah Clough received the honors of his town by being chosen to office and representing it in the Legislature. About 25 years since he moved from Canterbury to his native town of Loudon, where he died at the advanced age of 87 years. Jeremiah L. Clough married Clara Clough, daughter of the Honorable Joseph Clough, of Loudon, and had two children, named Lucy S. and Jeremiah J.

Charles C. Clough married Mary E. Osgood, daughter of Ira Osgood, Esq., of Loudon, and had one child, named Charla E., who lives at the old Clough Homestead in Canterbury. Charles C. Clough died in July, 1861, a noble and highly esteemed citizen and Christian man. His widow married, the second time, the Rev. A. D. Smith, of Laconia, who succeeds the Rev. J. Clough in the ministry at Canterbury.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 509-510.

CORSER Family

The apparently widowed John CORSER came to the settlement from Newbury with his family, except for his son, John CORSER, Jr. (who followed years later). He built the first sawmill in the small community of which he became joint proprietor, or at least its manager with Deacon Isaac Pearson, the partnership continuing until it was ended by a life-threatening accident in about 1745.

John CORSER and his wife, Tabitha KINNEY had eight children. Their children were: Polly, Sarah, Tabitha, Elizabeth, John, Nathan, William, and Hannah. All of John CORSER'S children were born before his settling in Contoocook.

Although there were no marriages between the children of John CORSER and Edward FITZGERALD, there were five marriages between John CORSER, Jr.'s children and Edward FITZGERALD's children. Subsequent marriages among cousins were numerous.

DANIELL, Warren F.

In almost every instance, those who, during the first half of the present century, laid about the waterfalls of New Hampshire the foundations of our manufacturing villages, builded better than they knew. They were generally men of limited ambitions and means, and established their factories without the expectation that they were changing worthless plains and forests into cities or plain mechanics into millionaires. They aimed only to create productive industries and win a fair reward for their labor. But they were skillfull workmen, and under their inspiration and direction their enterprises have grown into great owners and called into being communities that are models of the best that skill and thrift can produce.

To this class belonged Kendall O. and James L. Peabody and Jeremiah F. Daniell, who, over fifty years ago, built a paper-mill in the forest that then grew about the falls on the Winnipiseogee where the wealthy, wide-awake and beautiful village of Franklin Falls now stands.

The Peabodys built a small mill at this point about the year 1828. Their knowledge of the paper business was very limited, their experiment was not at first a success; but they were men not easily turned from their purposes. They secured the services of a practical paper-maker, Jeremiah F. Daniell, who knew the business thoroughly, and was by education, as well as by natural abilities, well qualified to prove an efficient helper to men who, like the Peabodys, were trying to establish a new enterprise in the face of many discouragements. He had worked at his trade in Pepperell, he married Sarah Reed, of Harvard Mass., by whom he had two children,- Warren F., the subject of this sketch, who was born June 26, 1826, and Mary, who died in infancy.

On going to Franklin he was given an interest in the business and became a permanent resident. In the face of many obstacles, he secured from South Windham, Conn., a newly-invented paper-machine, which was transported across the country by two eight horse teams and set up ready for business. Mr. Daniell purchased the interest of J.L. Peabody, and the firm became Peabody & Daniell. The machinery was scarcely in position when a fire destroyed the factory and its contents, leaving the owners bankrupt in nearly everything but courage and a determination to succeed, which enabled them to finally rebuild and proceed in a small way with their business.

The erection of the cotton-mills at Manchester gave them an opportunity to purchase large amounts of paper stock at low prices, and from that time they were moderately prosperous. The next year after the removal of Mr. Daniell from Massachusetts his wife died, and a year later he married Annette Eastman, of Concord. His son, Warren F., was at that time a wide-awake boy of ten years. He had picked up a little knowledge in the Massachusetts schools, and that he might be further educated without much expense, was sent to Concord, where he worked upon a farm for his board and clothes and the privilege of attending school a short time each winter, until, at the age of fourteen, he was called home and entered the paper-mill as an apprentice to learn the business with which his name is now so prominently identified. It was his purpose, at a later period, to attend the academy at Tilton; but on the day on which the term began his father was severely burned, and Warren F. was obliged to take his place in the mill, where he became master of the trade in all its branches. As a journeyman, his wages were one dollard and twenty-five cents per day. Warren F. was ambitious at some time to have a mill of his own, and with this object in view, he went to Waterville, Me., and with other parties erected and ran a paper-mill at that place, when, a year later, he took charge of a mill at Ppperell, Mass., where he remained until 1854, at which time his father bought out Mr. Peabody and asked his son to join him at Franklin, which he did, and the firm became J. F. Daniell & Son, and under that name was for ten years prosperous and successful. In 1864, Warren F. bought his father's interest and became sole proprietor, and so continued until in 1870, when the mill property, which had grown to be one of the largest and best-known private manufacturing establishments in the State, was sold to a company of Massachusetts capitalists, who organized as the Winnipisogee Paper Company. Mr. Daniell then became connected with a large paper-house in Boston; but soon tiring of city life, returned to Franklin, and, with a large interest in the company, became its resident agent and manager, which position he still occupies. This company owns large paper-mills supplied with the best machinery, employs three hundred hands and produces about twenty tons of paper daily, and in its large measure of success is a monument to the sagacity and enterprise of the man who plans and directs its operations, who, without the help of a liberal education, has won his way by hard and patient work to a first place among the business men of the State. While compassing his own success, Mr. Daneill has contributed much to that of others, and in his struggle upward has pulled no one down.

The business world acknowledges him as a man of undoubted integrity, thoroughly responsible and eminently successful; a genial man whose good fellowship never tires, and whose hospitality and generosity are inexhaustible. In 1850, Mr. Daniell married, Elizabeth D. Rundlett, of Stratham, and had one child, Harry W. She died in Pepperell in 1854. He married, second, Abbile A. Sanger, of Concord, October 1860, from which union there are Eugene S., Otis, Warren F., Jr., and Jerie R.

Mr. Daniell is much interested in agriculture, and owns a large farm, which is under a high state of cultivation. He has long been the owner of the best herd of Jersey cattle in the State. His stables contain some of the finest horses; he admires a good dog, and is skillful breeder of swine and poultry. he has contributed much to the introduction of improved stock, crops and farm machinery in his neighborhood; has been active and liberal in sustaining the State and local agricultural societies, and in otherwise promoting the farming interest.

In politics Mr. Daniell is a Democrat, and such has been his popularity at home that he has represented his town, which is Republican, several times in the Legislature, and was twice chosen Senator in a district which no other Democrat could have carried. He represented his party in the National Convention of 1872, and has always been one of its trusted counselors and efficient workers, and but for his refusal would have been its candidate for Governor and for Congress.

During the war he gave himself to the cause of the Union as represented by the "boys in blue" voting to raise and equip all the men who were needed, giving liberally to provide for them and their families and supporting by word and deed on all occasions the cause for which they fought.

Contributed by Herbert L. Girtman, Sr., extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 324-326.

DIMOND Family

Isaac Dimond was born in 1767, and married Sally Shaw, and had a family of 10 children, named Betsy, Isaac, Sally, Polly, John, Abigail, Andrew, Gould and Ruth.

Gould Dimond married Sally, daughter Jonathan Rollins, of Loudon, and had a family of four children, named Isaac P., Lucy M., Mary E. and Jonathan M.

Jonathan M. Dimond married Maria Peaslee, and had three children, named Ardena M., Sadie B., and Inez P.
Lucy M. Dimond married John B. Moore, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire and had a family of four children.

Mary E. Dimond married Nathan C. Clough, and had a family of two children, named Minnie E. and Alice. Mr. Clough is located at the North part of the town, and has been a resident of the same for 20 or more years. He has held the office of selectman and has represented the town in the Legislature. He is a firm and reliable citizen, as well as a man of excellent judgment.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 504.

FITZGERALD, Edward

According to local records, Edward FITZGERALD and John CORSER were among the first thirty-three arrivals in the wilderness that was to become the towns of Boscawen and Webster or Contoocook, as the settlement was then known. Neither man was among the ninety-one grantees of land at the plantation.

Edward FITZGERALD was among the first thirty-three arrivals in the wilderness that was to become the towns of Boscawen and Webster or Contoocook, as the settlement was then known. Edward was unmarried when he reportedly arrived from Newbury settling on land first granted to Richard Hale (father of Nathan "I regret that I have but one life to give for my country!" Hale), Home Lot #37 and Intervale Lot #50. He built his home on what became "Queen Street" "on the Southern slope of the hill (Corser Hill), some three quarters of a mile below the Plain on the road leading to Concord.

Edward FITZGERALD was a farmer who apparently from time to time would supplement his income by working for others. He is known to have helped surveyor, John Brown, extend Fish Street to the town of Franklin. He contributed his labor, when the town hosted the ordination of the Rev. Mr. Phineas Stevens and is identified as a "souldier" of Contoocook in a 1743 petition to the Governor of New Hampshire.

In 1740 Edward FITZGERALD married Mehitable URAN. Together they raised eleven children in the home he had built on Queen Street. Their children were: Jane, Mary, Sarah, James, Rebecca, Edward, Susannah, Dorcas, Rachel, John and Martha.

FRENCH, David J.

David J. French was born in Loudon Sept. 2, 1805. He was the great grandson of Timothy French, who came from Salisbury, Massachusetts, about the year 1773, and settled in the Northeast part of Loudon, and was among the first who settled in that locality. At that time there was no road leading from the old Dr. Tenney corner northwesterly to Loudon Ridge, save a sled path used in the winter season. He cleared the land for his farm, which was a wilderness; built a house and drew the boards from Cram's mill, in Pittsfield, to board it, upon wheels as far as the Tenney corner, and then upon a sled in the month of July to his future residence. His father was Joshua French, who lived upon the farm which has always been occupied in the French name. David J. French lived with his father until about 26 years of age, when he married and soon after purchased the farm where he now resides, and commenced for himself and family a farmer's life, about the year 1832, which avocation he has followed to the present time, and at the age of 80 years was found with a scythe in his hand, able to cut and put into his barn one acre of grass a day. He is a man of robust form, and possesses a strong and iron constitution, for which the French family have ever been noted. He has been very successful in acquiring property; commencing with an indebtedness of $500, he is now the owner of several tracks of land, besides several thousand dollars in banks and upon loan, which he has earned by hard labor, and not by speculation or intrigue. Mr. French received only a common school education, but possesses large, native abilities, which, being well cultivated, have enabled him by persistent effort to to hew his way successfully through life. As a politician he is a most thorough Republican, always attending the annual meetings of the town and manifesting a great interest in every matter that the pertains to the highest and best interest of his native town, and acting at all times in his political life as though conscience of his accountability to a power which is infinite and supreme.

He is a man of strong religious feeling, and has for many years led a life of daily and family prayer. Being retiring in his manner and public religious duties and profession, he has never connected himself with any church, but is a constant attendant upon worship in the house of God whenever practicable. Mrs. French died Jan. 22, 1872. Since her death and that of his son Isaac, Mr. French has lived at the old home alone, patiently waiting the summons that shall call him to meet the loved ones who have gone before.

Dr. Isaac S. French was the only child of David J. French, and died in the year 1878. He married Augusta French and had no family. Dr. French inherited from his father characteristics that were strongly marked in boyhood, and being well cultivated, enabled him to become an eminent and useful man, although young. He was well educated by his father at Gilmanton Academy, and studied medicine with the venerable Dr. Nahum Wight; he attended college at Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and at the medical college at Hanover, New Hampshire from which he graduated as a physician. He commenced practice in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and remained one year, and then returned to his native town and engaged actively in his profession with success. His business relations were extensive, and he occupied positions of trust. He held the situation of assessor of the internal revenue for the Congressional district in which he recited, under the administration of President Lincoln, besides doing a large local business as a justice of the peace in his own town and surroundings. He acquired, by economy, frugality and labor, in a few years a handsome property, and had well established himself among his townsmen in his calling and profession. He died in the prime of his life and in the midst of his usefulness, having large "honor in his own country."

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 512-513.

HILL Family

JOSEPH HILL. Valentine Hill (a), the immigrant ancestor of Joseph Hill, of Winchendon, Massachusetts, was born in England, probably in London. He was an early settler in Boston, where he was admitted to the church June 12, 1636. He was a mercer or merchant from London, the records say. He was a prominent and well-to-do citizen, chief owner of a large wharf property. He was admitted a freeman May 13, 1640, proprietor, town officer and deacon (with Jacob Eliot). He was selectman in 1643-44-45-46, deputy to the general court 1652-53-54-55-57. He bought land at Oyster Bay, then Dover, now Durham, New Hampshire, before 1649 and removed thither. He died in Oyster Bay in 1662. Savage calls him a man of great public spirit. In the settlement of the estate his widow employed Joseph Hill, of Maiden, as attorney, suggesting some relationship between these two prominent Hill immigrants. But there were also several others of this name at Dover, possibly also relatives of Valentine Hill. John Hill, founder of a large family in New Hampshire and Maine, settled first in Plymouth, Massachusetts, removed to Boston in 1630, was admitted a freeman there March 18, 1642, was a grantee of Nashuay, died in 1647, leaving a son John who settled in Dover on land inherited from his father. All things considered it seems that there must have been relationship between John Hill, of Dover and Boston, Joseph Hill, of Malden, and Valentine Hill, of Boston and Dover.

Valentine Hill married (first) Frances who died February 17, 1646; (second) Mary Eaton, daughter of Governor Eaton. She married (second) John Lovering, of Dover; and (third) Ezekiel Knight, of Wells, Maine. There is an interesting entry on the oldest records of Dover births, etc.: "Nathaniel Hill son of Vallentine Hill of douer by his wife Mary was born in Oyster River the beginning March 1659-60. Mrs. Mary Hill alias Knight was before me the 23d of May 1702 and acknowledged that Nathaniel Hill was the son of her first husband Vallentine Hill." (John Woodman, Justs Peac.)"

Children of Valentine and Frances Hill were: Hannah, born March 17, 1638-39, married, January 24, I638-9, Antipas Boyce; John, born September 1, 1640, died young; Elizabeth, born December 12, 1641, died young; Joseph (twin), born 1644, died same year; Benjamin (twin), born 1644, died same year; Joseph, born August 18, 1646. Children of Valentine and Mary were: John, born August 19, 1647; Samuel, born December 8, 1648; Mary, born December 29, 1649, married Rev. John Buss, in whose charge were the records when lost by fire; Elizabeth, baptized May 25, 1651; Nathaniel, born March 31, 1660, see forward.

(II) Captain Nathaniel Hill, youngest child of Valentine Hill (i), was born in that part of Dover now Durham, New Hampshire, March 31, 1660. He was a taxpayer in Dover in 1681. He settled on his father's land on the north side of Oyster river. His farm extended from the falls in the river, near Durham village, across the line of the present Boston & Maine Railroad tracks. He was a leading citizen, captain in the militia and for many years member of the provincial council. He married Sarah Nutter, daughter of Anthony Nutter, and granddaughter of the distinguished Hatevil Nutter. Children of Captain Nathaniel and Sarah Hill were: Samuel, see forward; Valentine.

(III) Samuel Hill, son of Captain Nathaniel Hill (2), was born in what is now Durham, New Hampshire, about 1690. He inherited part if not all of the homestead and lived in Durham, afterwards Lee, New Hampshire. Among his children was Samuel, see forward.

(IV) Samuel Hill, son of Samuel Hill (3), was born in Durham, now Lee, New Hampshire, October 6, 1720 (family record of Frances E. Willard, a descendant through her mother). He died in Danville, Vermont. Miss Willard in her autobiograph says that he was a veritable giant; well-to-do; self-sacrificing; of robust integrity. He married Abigail Hutchins, of another old Dover family. She was born in what is now Lee, New Hampshire, February 20, 1733, died at an advanced age in 1829 at Ogden, New York. Children of Samuel and Abigail Hill were: Nathaniel, see forward; John, born about 1760, married Polly Thompson, 1796, among whose children was Mary Thompson Hill, born January 3, 1805, the mother of the famous temperance advocate, Frances E. Willard. There were probably other children.

(V) Nathaniel Hill, son of Samuel Hill (4), was born in Durham, New Hampshire, about 1745. He was a soldier in the revolution. He was ensign in Captain Alpheus Chesley's company in 1778. Robert Hill, John Hill and Henry Hill were in the same service and three of the four in the same company. They were perhaps brothers. Nathaniel Hill married at the close of the revolution and settled in Loudon, New Hampshire. He was there in 1785, when he signed a petition, and in 1789 his son Nathaniel, Jr. was old enough to sign as an inhabitant. Loudon was incorporated January 23, 1773, from Canterbury, which was some fifty years older. The rest of Canterbury was incorporated as Northfield later. There seems to have been no other branch of the Hill family in this vicinity. Children of Nathaniel Hill were: Nathaniel, born about 1770-5; Levi, see forward.

(VI) Levi Hill, son of Nathaniel Hill (5), was born about 1770-80 either at Lee, New Hampshire, or at Loudon, after his parents settled there. He received a rather brief schooling. He worked with his father developing the farm and remained at home helping his father until his death, when the farm became his. He was a farmer all his life, and raised sheep and cattle for beef. He also dealt in horses considerably. He removed to Springfield, New Hampshire, in his later years and bought a farm, which he carried on until his death. He was a member of the Springfield Congregational church and was a deacon there as well as at Loudon. He was always called Captain Hill from his rank in the state militia. He died about 1861. He married Lydia Wiggin, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, the town of which Loudon was formerly a part. She was a descendant of Governor Thomas Wiggin, who deeded June 4,1663, a large tract of land at Durham, New Hampshire, to his son Andrew. Andrew Wiggin became a sort of patron for the township. His son Jonathan, who died in 1738, had a daughter who married a Mr. Hill. Children of Levi and Lydia Hill were: Langdon Levi, Joseph Wiggin, born December 12, 1805, see forward; Susanna, Cyrus, Levi Franklin.

(VII) Joseph Wiggin Hill, son of Levi Hill (6), was born at Loudon, New Hampshire, December 12, 1805, died November 10, 1886. He attended the public schools there. He removed with the family about 1825 to Springfield, New Hampshire, and helped his father on the farm, but soon afterward removed to Boston and worked in the City Hotel for about five years. He returned to Springfield and bought a tract of wood land, which he cleared and cultivated until 1840. He then traded for a large farm in the eastern part of the town. Later he sold it to his son Joseph and bought another smaller one, which he worked for ten years, sold it and bought the one which he owned at the time of his death. In religion he was a Methodist. In his early days he was a Democrat, afterward a Republican. He was a representative to the New Hampshire legislature for two years, and was on the board of selectman of the town. He was interested in the militia and was lieutenant of the Springfield company. He married, June 8, 1825, Abigail Cole, daughter of Isaac Cole. Her father was a molder in an iron foundry. Children of Joseph W. and Abigail Hill were: Benjamin Franklin, born December 15, 1831, married Lavinia Davis, of New London, New Hampshire, and they have five children-Nellie, George, Hattie, Mabel, Eugene. Joseph, born September 10, 1833. Lydia Jane, born February, 1836, married Leonard N. Heath, of Springfield, New Hampshire, no issue. Susanna A., married John Crocker, of Grantham, New Hampshire. Emily Elizabeth, married Herbert Taylor of Andover, New Hampshire, and they had four children-Albert, Grace, Louisa, Daisy. Nellie, died aged four years.

(VIII) Joseph Hill, second child of Joseph Wiggin Hill (7). was born at Springfield, New Hampshire, September 10, 1833. He was educated in the common schools there. At the age of sixteen he went to Lake Village to school. continuing for two years. He served an apprenticeship of two years, following it in the winter months with his uncle, B. J. Cole, learning the iron moulder's trade. He worked at home on the farm summers during this time and then bought the farm. After working it eight years he sold it and went to Yonkers, New York, where he worked in the foundry of the Clipper Mowing Machine Company about three years. In 1873 he went to work again for his uncle, B. J. Cole, in his iron foundry at Lakeport, New Hampshire. He later worked for C. B. Mahan in his mowing machine works at Lebanon, New Hampshire, and for a year for D. B. Emerson. In 1881 he removed to Keene, New Hampshire, and entered the employ of James B. Elliott, who had bought the Clipper Machine works at Yonkers. Here he remained until 1883, when he removed to Winchendon Massachusetts, and in partnership with his son-in-law, Andrew Bosley, started a foundry. In September, 1905, he built a large new foundry and removed to his present location on Spruce street, near the Boston & Maine Railroad, where the business is prospering greatly. The firm makes all kinds of iron castings. Few men have a more intimate knowledge of the details of their business or a more careful training than Mr. Hill. He attends the North Congregational Church. He is a Republican and was a delegate to the state convention in 1905 and has been to other important conventions of his party. He is a member of the Avon Club of Winchendon.

He married, June 3, 1859, Mrs. Elvira (Lull) Towers, daughter of Gilman Lull, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Her father was a farmer. The children of Joseph and Elvira Hill are: Jennie May. born July 3, 1861, married Andrew Bosley, of Winchendon, and they have four children- Josephine Elvira, born February 5, 1878; Frederick Andrew, born February 24, 1880; Bertha Kate, born January 14, 1889; Hazel Elsa, born March 3, 1890. Kate Marcella, born November 13, 1865, married Frederick Vose, of Peterborough, New Hampshire; have no children. Carrie Abigail, born March 25, 1873, married Frank Joy, of Keene, New Hampshire; has no children.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1907 Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, ... by Ellery B. Crane, Volume 2, pages 101-102.

KENRICK, Stephen

Stephen Kenrick, Esq., one of the oldest and most influential citizens of Franklin, died on the morning of the 4th of August, A.D. 1884, after a lingering illness of several months.

He was born in Haverhill, Mass., June 15, A.D. 1806; his age, therefore exceeded seventy-eight years. He was the youngest member of a family of nine children, born to John Kenrick and Sarah Colby. They were both natives of Amesbury, but became citizens of Haverhill soon after their marriage. The husband was born December 16, 1764; the wife January 25, 1771. John died by a casualty in 1806. His widow subsequently became the wife of David Marsh, and the mother of two other children, viz.: Nathaniel, of Staten Island, N.Y., deceased, and Mary, wife of Rev. G. W. Kelley, resident in Haverhill, Mass., now deceased.

The name of Kenrick, or Kendrick, or Kendricke appears to be of early English origin. The name of John seems to have been adopted as an early favorite by the family. We find the name of John Kendrick, sheriff in London, in 1645. The same name appears as Lord-Mayor of London in 1651. John Kenrick was in Ipswich, Mass., in 1657. John Kenrick, John Kenrick, Jr., and Elijah Kenrick were among the petitioners, in May, 1678 to the Legislature, to set off part of Cambridge and to establish the town of Newton. John Kenrick, Jr., of Newton, marched from that town, and was engaged in the Lexington battle, April 19, 1775. Among the many immediate descendants of John Kenrick, of Amesbury, Mass., who were distinguished in the walks of business and professional life, were Professors Henry L. Kendrick, of West Point Academy, and John Kendrick, of Marietta College, Ohio, both first cousins, and James R. Kendrick, superintendent of the Old Colony Railroad, who was also second cousin of Stephen Kenrick, Esq. These gentlemen were all natives of the town of Lebanon, in this State, and we might enumerate many others of the same family, and their "kith and kin", or collaterals, in different parts of the Union, as being prominent and successful business men, and highly respected in their respective localities.

Early in this century, and prior to 1820, Timothy Kenrick, the elder brother of Stephen, had emigrated to the town of Lebanon, and established there a profitable mercantile business. He had acquired early a good education, and was known and honored by his fellow citizens as a man of integrity by several public trusts. He was town clerk thirty-seven consecutive years, and was several times elected their representative to the Legislature. He was often employed in the settlement of estates of his vicinity, and was for many years director of the Northern Railroad. He well discharged these important trusts. In the meantime his brother Stephen was with his kind father-in-law, Marsh, in Haverhill, where he received good paternal protection and the benefits of the best schools found there until he arrived at the age of fifteen years. He then was committed to the care of his brother Timothy, then of Lebanon, and was employed in his brother's store. Here he received that valuable systematic instruction which proved useful to him in after-life. We next find him for a short time in Bangor, Me. Afterwards he was engaged in trade for himself with Mr. James Howe, at Barnet, Vt.; next, for a short time, at Boscawen Plain, N. H. Then, in 1831, he formed an advantageous co-partnership with Mr. Brewer, of McIndoe's Falls village, Vt., and there continued his business until 1836, when he came to Franklin, and ever since has made his permanent residence here, identifying himself with the business of this town, and becoming one of its most active and prosperous citizens.

For many years he was largely interested in various railroad projects and contracts, in connection with Joseph A. Gilmore and John A. Lyon. From these enterprises he derived much profit, and became a large proprietor in several railroads. He was president of the Concord and Portsmouth Railroad from about 1861 to the time of his death. For many years before his death he was president of the national bank located at Hillsborough Bridge, and was interested in its stock. He was also trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank. He took also a deep interest in the management of the prudential and financial matters of the town, occupying many of the official stations, conferred by his fellow-citizens. He was elected one of the selectmen of the town during the years 1849, 1850, 1851, 1854, and 1872. In 1859 and 1861 he represented the town in the House of Representatives in this State. For many years he was a member of the Congregational Church in Franklin, and was one of its most generous supporters.

In 1833 he married Clarissa A., youngest daughter of Captain Ebenezar Blanchard, late of Franklin, who still survives him. To them were born seven children, four of whom were removed in infancy by death. Another, Dr. Timothy G. Kenrick, died in Naples, Italy, January 29, 1879. He was born July 8, 1849; graduated at Dartmouth College in 1871; studied the medical profession, graduating at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, June 1, 1874. With much enthusiasm he applied himself to the study of insanity, and to the best mode of treating and managing those affected with this unfortunate disease. His mild temper and great power of self-control, united with his skill and learning, gave him signal success in this department of his profession. He was fortunate in early securing the patronage and friendship of Dr. I. W. Barstow, the eminent manager of the Sandford Hall Asylum, at Flushing, N. Y. He had the full confidence of Dr. Barstow, and was employed by him, to the mutual advantage of both parties, up to 1876, when Dr. Kenrick was called into a larger sphere of duties as assistant surgeon in the New York State Lunatic Asylum, at Utica. It is enough to say that his success here met the expectations of his friends, and that his professional attainments commanded the respect and confidence of his associates and the managers of that institution. His life was sacrificed to the malarial climate of Naples while, in devotion to duty, he was traveling for the benefit of the health of one of his diseased and wealthy friends, who was very wisely committed to his professional care. His early, premature death brought extreme sorrow to the hearts of his parents and his many friends, who had witnessed his progress and reasonably indulged high hopes of his future success in life. The lamentation over his loss at home was most sincere. Abroad "he was by strangers honored and by strangers mourned."

Of the two surviving children, Stephen, the eldest, many years since removed to the West, where he has been extensively engaged in various railroad enterprises. We find him now in Wisconsin, married, but without children, and prosperous in other respects, enjoying the income of the office of general superintendent of the Fort Madison and Northwestern Railroad. He is cheerful, and apparently enjoys life well.

The remaining child is a son, in the full vigor of life, under the name of Charles C. Kenrick, now very active, doing the labor of two men, being extensively engaged in building houses, barns, stables, shops. As a farmer, raising more hay and corn than any other person in town, improving largely, by judicious cultivation, his lands; selecting good breeds of cattle and horses, and increasing their number; giving promptly a fair day's pay to a fair day's labor, thus rewarding a large number of laborers, and expending profitably a good amount of capital daily; improving the condition of his estates, and augmenting the wealth of the town. We might here also, with propriety, refer to the extensive traffic in wood and lumber recently carried on by him, not without profit.

During the long life of his father, Charles has enjoyed the benefit of his advice, and followed it. Thereby he gained his father's confidence, and before his death he received from him the conveyance of a large estate, under the sole obligation to render all needed aid to his aged mother in sickness and in health. This obligation his kind nature prompts him to obey to her entire satisfaction.

We now leave the history of the children and again refer briefly to that of the father. While Mr. Kenrick was a citizen of Franklin we found him interested and well informed in the important interests of the town, State and nation. He had leisure, and opportunity to inform himself so as to discharge intelligently his own private trusts and duties, as well as those belonging to the good citizen. His knowledge and experience, acquired by him in trade, banking and railroad affairs, were of much value to himself and useful to others. We have already alluded to his great ability in acquiring and retaining successful a large estate. We must not forget to give due credit to a diligent help-meet, in the name of his wife, who brought to him a considerable pecuniary inheritance that descended from her paternal estate. This inheritance, coming down from a worthy ancestry, would, of course, be highly appreciated. It constituted a valuable accession to the estate, now constantly increasing through the harmonious action, kind care and economy of both husband and wife. It is an acknowledged fact that the accumulation of property generally requires much patience and great mental resources; but a critical world tells us that a wise appropriation or disposition of a large estate requires the exercise of still more sagacity, good judgement and wisdom.

Contributed by Herbert L. Girtman, Sr., extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 321-322.

LOVERING Family

Moses Lovering came from Exeter, N. H. and settled in Loudon in 1784. He married Nellie Taylor, of Exeter, and had a family of 13 children, named Willabee, Nellie, Osgood, Taylor, Nancy, Moses, Jesse, Mary, Zebulon, John, Daniel, William and Sarah, all of whom lived till from 45 to 90 years of age, and were married and raised families of children. He came with nine children on horseback, and drove one cow, upon which depended sustenance of the family in a large degree. The country through which he had to travel, when near Loudon, was a wilderness, and the settlers in those towns below furnished him aid in getting through. He moved into a log house between the dwelling of S.B Lovering and the highway near the sawmill. Zebulon had a family of 11 children; 9 of them lived, and were named, Samuel B., True, Almira, Annis J., Sarah B., Louisa, Laura L., Abigail and Alonzo B.

Samuel D. Lovering married three times and had a family of 10 children, named Nancy A., James P., Harlan P., Abigail M., Clara A., Frank O., Clara A. (2d.) Frank O. (2d.) and Edward E.

The Lovering families settled the adjoining land, and owned at one time nearly 500 acres. Samuel B. Lovering married, first Mary S. Rogers; second, Lucy Grace; third Lavina Hoyt. He owns and has run a sawmill for fifty years, besides being a thrifty farmer. He has represented the town in the Legislature in the years 1866 to 67, and been a justice of the peace for forty years.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 501-502.

LOVERING, Samuel B.

The first of the Lovering family of whom we have any authentic record was Moses Lovering, of Exeter, New Hampshire. He married Nellie Taylor, of Exeter, by whom he had a family of 13 children, 9 boys and 4 girls, viz: Willerby, Nellie, Osgood, Taylor, Nancy, Moses, Jesse, Mary, Zebulon, John, Daniel, William and Sarah. Of these, the first 11 were born in Exeter, the latter two in Loudon. One remarkable facts in a family so large was that they all lived to be from 40 to 90 years of age. They were all married and had families; two of them, Moses and William, were twice married; Mary was the first who died (about 1815), and William died in Springfield (1865).

And the year 1787, Moses Lovering, with his family, left Exeter to make his home in the then sparsely settled region now the populous and thrifty town of Loudon. Their household goods were brought in an ox team, while the ladies road on horseback about 50 miles along a forest pathway over the hills to their future home, a 100 acre lot on the site of Mr. S. B. Lovering's present abode. There was a primitive affair dignified by the title of a mill on the place, and which, by diligence and patience, they could grind a bushel or so of corn. There were none of the comforts, or what would be considered at the present-day the necessities, of civilized life, surrounding them in their frontier home; but with the resolute will which characterized the grand old pioneers of our American civilization, they went earnestly and hopefully to work and soon converted the forest clad hills into smiling fields teaming with cereal productions, and gradually gathered around them property and conveniences. They from time to time added to the original hundred acres until they possessed a landed estate of over 500 acres. The boys were ingenious as well as industrious; all of them could skillfully handle carpenter's tools, and possessed the various requisite qualities and accomplishments for successful pioneers.

In course of time all the brothers married and settled in Loudon, and as each one took to himself a companion, the other brothers would all join together and build for the newly wedded couple a house to live in. In that early day there was no public school system in vogue, there were no school houses, and the only tutorship the children of the neighborhood could obtain was when occasionally an itinerary teacher would come into a community and teach for a few months at a private house, when those children who lived near enough and whose parents were able to pay for their tuition were privileged to attend. Moses Lovering, with a family of 13 children to rear and support, and poor in purse, could not afford to send his children away to school and so they were comparatively uneducated. Some of the boys so far educated themselves as to be able to attend to their business affairs without outside aid in such matters as required record or correspondence, but they all felt severely the need of better education. They were very steadfast in their affection for each other, and each frequently visited the other at their respective homes; and the long winter evenings were spends in social conversation around the hearth stones of those huge old fireplaces, where roared and cracked the blazing wood fires of our grandsires' days.

About 1816, William and Osgood moved to Stewartstown, New Hampshire, Taylor to Canada, Daniel and William to Springfield, Hampshire. From there Daniel went to the West and died. The others died in Loudon and vicinity. The boys were all Democrats in politics.

Zebulon Lovering, the father of Samuel B., was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, July 15, 1777. He married, Jan. 21, 1807, Abigail Buswell, who was born in Kingston, New Hampshire (1787). Upon the death of his father, Moses, Zebulon inherited the homestead in Loudon and resided there until the close of his life. They had 10 children, Samuel B.; Almira, born Sept. 10, 1811, married Kingsley Mason; Anis J., born February 12, 1814, married George W. Neal; Sarah B., born Aug. 14, 1816, married James McAustin; Louisa, born February 17, 1819, married Aaron B. Young; Lara L., born February 27, 1822, married Rev. Stephen Eastman; Abigail, born August 11, 1824, married Osni P. Hamblet; and Alonzo B., born April 13, 1827, married Sarah Davis. Zebulon died December 21, 1830; Mrs. Lovering, Aug. 21, 1861.

Samuel B. Lovering, the eldest child of Zebulon, was born April 13, 1808. In his boyhood days the district schools were usually kept about three months and a year. He began attendance at these went about eight years of age, and continued until he was 18. After he kept lessons of Master Timothy Gleason in writing and arithmetic. He was brought up to work on the farm and at the mill. The year he attended his majority his father died, and the care of his widowed mother and the smaller children devolved upon him. His father left the farm to him upon the decease of his mother. Soon after his father's death he rebuilt the old mill, converting it into a sawmill, and it has been run as such every sinse, sawing lumber, boards, shingles and laths, averaging about 150,000 per year. He has, from time to time, made additions to the real estate he inherited from his father, and now owns about 400 acres of land. He has been a successful and prosperous farmer. He united with the Methodist Episcopal Church when he was about 30 years of age, and from that time to present he has been a consistent member. He is fond of music and accomplished as a singer and instrumental performer. He led the choir in his church for 20 years, and an old militia days he played the clarinet at the muster-grounds for 15 years. He has served his town as selectman and representative to the Legislature. He has been justice of the peace for nearly 40 years, and has been in Probate Court business since his first appointment, and has settled many estates and held other positions of trust.

He married, December 18, 1834, Mary S. Rogers, of Northfield; she was born April 22, 1811, and was a lineal descendant of John Rogers, the martyr. The children were;
Nancy A., born January 31, 1836; married Josiah Young, and lives at Clarksville, New Hampshire.
James E., born March 7, 1838; married Jennie Hamilton, a school teacher, of Brookline, New York. He was for several years manager of the Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, at Jersey City; now lives at Webster, Florida.
Harlan P., born June 12, 1843; married Eliza Wentworth, of Boston, resides at Tampa, Florida.
Abigail M., born May 14, 1845; married Augustus A. Arling, and farmer in Canterbury. He died, and she married George Simmons, of Boston, Massachusetts.
Clara A., born Nov. 18, 1848; died Nov. 5, 1855.
Frank O., born June 1, 1856; died July 7, 1862.
Mrs. Lovering died Nov. 11, 1858
Mr. Lovering's second wife was Lucy Grace, of Hillsboro, New Hampshire. They were married Sept. 4, 1859. She was born February 10, 1826. Their children were:
Clara a, born July 19, 1860; Mary Herman W. Mudgett, M.D.; now resides at Moore's Forks, New York.
Frank O., born April 2, 1863.
Edwin E., born April 7, 1865. Both the latter are at the old homestead, assisting their father in the conduct of the mill and farm.
Mrs. Lovering died March 17, 1878.

Mr. Lovering married in Concord, New Hampshire, Nov. 11, 1880, his present wife, Lavinia Hoyt, of Fisherville, (now Pennacook). She was born every 26, 1832. She is the daughter of Deacon Benjamin Hoyt, deacon of the First Baptist Church of Pennacook from its organization until his death, Sept. 6, 1864. Mrs. Lovering has been a member of the same church since her 19th year. She for many years taught a class of girls at the Sabbath School there, and all of them have subsequently united with the Church.

Deacon Benjamin Hoyt was noted for his moral integrity and strict piety. He was a successful farmer and a highly respected citizen of his town. He was descended from John Hoyt, one of the original settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts. (For a more extended ancestral history of the Hoyt -- or Hoitt family, see biography of Thomas L. Hoitt, in this volume).

Mrs. Lovering's mother was Hannah Eastman, a descendant of Capt. Ebenezer Eastman, who in early life followed the seas, and was one of the pioneer settlers of ancient Pennacook (now Concord, New Hampshire). Another of her ancestors was Capt. Joseph Eastman, who figured in the French and Indian War. Mrs. Hoyt was a very pious woman, and when her husband, the Deacon, was absent from home, attending evening meetings, she would talk and pray with her children, and teach them the importance of God's word; all of them have since become members of the Church.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 511-512.

MARTIN Family

Nathaniel Martin, Esq., came to Loudon it was first taxed in 1808. He was twice married and had a family of 9 children, named Rue, Jane, Elisabeth and Anna (twins), Mary, Abigail, Nancy, Sally and Theophilus B., Esq. Martin was engaged often in town business, and was an important and useful man of the day in which he lived. His name appears often upon the town records as having been chosen to discharge some public duty, which was carefully and satisfactorily performed.

Theophilus B. Martin, Esq., married Sally L. Rowell, and had a family of four children, named Nathaniel (who died), Mary E., Abby and Nathaniel E. But few men have ever lived in town who have been so frequently chosen to positions of trust as Esq. Martin. He has represented town and the Legislature, and been chosen as County Treasurer, besides performing a large amount of probate and private business as a justice of the peace. He early engaged in the calling of a schoolteacher, and continued in it until the middle age of life with success. He was a member of the Church, and was deeply interested in all matters pertaining to the welfare and best interest of the public. He moved with his family to Concord, New Hampshire where he died.

Nathaniel E. Martin, his son, obtained his education at the Concord high school, and afterwards studied law with William E. Chase, Esq., after which he opened an office in Concord, and is now connected with the firm of Abin, Tappan and Martin. That success has attended his efforts which is always the reward of labor and diligence in every calling in life.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 506.

MOORE Family

Samuel Moore was born in Canterbury, and had two wives and a family of 10 children, among whom was Thomas, who was born in Canterbury, and married Comfort Perkins, and Tenney family of nine children, named Polly, Samuel, Joanna, Alexander, Samuel, Sophronia, Comfort, Thomas and Myra. Thomas Moore chosen constable for the town, and was chosen as one of the committee to form school districts.

Stephen Moore was born in Loudon in 1799 and married Mary Q. Greeley, of Gilmanton, and had a family of a children, named Joseph, Albert, Ann Maria, Andrew G., George L., infants son, Caroline A. and Mary R. Mr. Moore married for second wife Mary Bean, of Deerfield, by whom he had no children. Mr. Moore was devoted the last years of his life in fitting up a new cemetery, he having provided a suitable spot and extended a large amount of labor and money in improving the same.

Andrew G. Moore married Laura A. Batchelder, daughter of Col. Zephaniah, and had a family of two children, named Charles L. and Herbert G.. A. G. Moore resides upon the farm owned by his father, Stephen, and is the one cleared by Thomas Moore. Charles L. Moore married Ida Jameson, of Fisherville, New Hampshire, and has no children. Herbert G. died in 1884.

John Moore came to Loudon from Canterbury and bought several lots of land at the Ridge. Was one of the selectman of the town for several years, and assisted in the laying out of the town into lots and also several of the highways. He had a family of 11 children, named Hannah, Jacob, Archelaus, Elkins, John, William, Abia, Betsy, Patty, Polly and Sally.

Archelaus S. Moore, Esq., son of John, had a family of 10 children, named Abigail, Archelaus S ., Jr. Lucinda, Abia, Climena, Hannah, Lydia, David, Julia and Jefferson. The Honorable Joseph Moore, editor of the Manchester Union, is the son of David, and was born in Loudon.

Archelaus S. Moore, Jr., married a daughter of Joseph Clifford, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire. His son, Daniel L. Moore, resides upon the homestead of his father, and has been married twice, having two children living. Mr. Moore married, last, Mariana Sleeper, of Loudon, and has one child. He has a large interest in the new cemetery at Loudon Ridge, in which he has erected a family monument which is both costly and beautiful in appearance and design. Mr. Moore has added many improvements to his farm and buildings, and is a man of fine culture and taste. He devotes his time in attention largely to farming, and is very successful. He is a prominent and respected citizen, he possesses the characteristics which have made the Moore family somewhat noted throughout each generation, one of which is an aptness for action upon any sudden emergency, without any effort or apparent consideration.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 502-503.

MOORE, Stephen

Stephen Moore is the son of Thomas and Comfort (Perkins) Moore, and grandson of Capt. Samuel Moore, who was twice married and had a family of 10 children. He was a native of, and resided in Canterbury, where his father was town clerk. He held a commission as Capt. under King George III but when the revolutionary struggle began he resigned his commission, and, casting his fortunes with the colonies, fought during the war on the American side. He died just before Independence was established, and his son Thomas, then a lad of 15, was bound out to a farmer at old Hampton, but, becoming dissatisfied with his new home, and fired with the martial spirit of the times, he ran away and enlisted in the army, serving about six months.

Capt. Samuel was by occupation a farmer and inn keeper. He kept the hostelry known for many years as the McCrillis Tavern. About a mile south of Canterbury Center.

Thomas Moore was brought up on a farm, to the time of his father's death. In 1785 he began improving the tract of land, in which is now the town of Loudon, where he subsequently made his home. Jan. 11, 1787, he married Comfort Perkins, and, having previously built a small house on his Loudon land, the young couple at once went there and began housekeeping, and there the remainder of their lives were passed. The part of Loudon in which he located was an unbroken forest; he was the first settler in that part of town.

He was, by natural gifts, a bright, intelligent man, but had no educational advantages in his youth. When, in after years, he had gathered a little property around him, and had a child large enough to receive instruction, he and a neighbor named Wheeler hired a private tutor to come to their homes, who, spending his time alternately between the two houses, taught both parents and children. Thomas Moore was always a friend of education, and when the town began to appropriate money for school purposes, but had as yet no school building, he tended the use of his dwelling, and the school was kept in summer time in his barn, and and the winter months in his residence. He was one of the committee who first districted the town for school purposes, and he held various minor offices in the town. His family consisted of nine children, seven of whom reached maturity, viz:
Polly, died unmarried.
Samuel, Mary Charlotte Foster, of Canterbury, and had one child, now Mrs. Kate Rowe, of Rochester, New York.
Joanna, died unmarried.
Alexander, married Mary Page, of New Hampton; had a family of several children, who grew up to maturity.
Stephen, subject of this sketch.
Sophronia, married Jacob A. Potter, of Concord, and had a family of four children.
Comfort, married William A. W. Neal, of Concord, and had one son.
Thomas, died young.
Myra, married Joseph and Wadleigh, of Loudon, and had four children.
Of these nine children of Thomas and Comfort Moore, Stephen is the only one now (1885) surviving.

Thomas Moore was an industrious and enterprising farmer, and did much toward improving the tract of land on which he had made his home. In religious belief he was a Congregationalist, and his wife was a Free Will Baptist.

Stephen Moore, like others of his time and locality, had very limited advantages in the way of schooling. Brought up on the farm, he worked hard in his boyhood, but improved what little time he had for study as best he could, studying nights and at leisure times, and thus obtained a fair English education. Upon his father's decease the property was divided among seven children, but Stephen purchased the interest, from time to time, of the other heirs, until he finally became the possessor or of the home farm and adjacent wild lands, and here, for more than half a century, he toiled and labored and reared a family of children. Like his father, he was hearty, industrious and frugal, and he gradually improved the farm and buildings thereon, and gathered property around him, until he became in very comfortable circumstances, and was the proprietor of one of the best kept farms in his town.

In April, 1809, the barn, home farm of Thomas Moore was burned, together with four oxen, four cows, 10 tons of hay and farming implements. Supposed to be the work of an incendiary. There was no insurance.

The esteem in which Mr. Moore was held by his neighbors was evidenced by numerous small presents, such as lumber, labor, etc.; also a cow given by the Shakers. Within six weeks after his barn was burned, he, with the help of his neighbors, had taken from the woods the lumber, and built the barn which at present stands there. He also built a shed and carriage house connected with the barn, and dug a well. In 1822 -- 23, Samuel, Alexander and Stephen Moore erected a sawmill on a small stream running through as the home farm, for the purpose of sawing their own lumber. A few years later the mill came into the possession of Stephen. Samuel and Stephen also bought and used the first shingle mill which was brought into the town. It cost, with right to use the same, one hundred and fourty dollars. The use it 20 years.

In 1840, Stephen Moore dug a well 50 rods from the building, laid pipes and brought the water to his house and barn. He also builds a small barn, 30 by 36 feet, for sheep, or the northeast side of the large barn. In 1848 he built an ell to the dwelling house, 40 by 20 feet, consisting of kitchen, pantry and wood shed. In 1850 he divided the large barn in the middle, moved one part back, put in an addition of 20 feet, making it 76 544 feet. He also built a shed, 30 by 16 feet, connected with the small barn. In 1858 -- 51 he raised 650 bushels of rye on outtlands, where he had cut wood and timber, and cleared for pasture. In 1860 he sowed four bushels of wheat on two and a half acres of land, and harvested there from a crop of 100 bushels.

In September, 1866, Mr. Moore removed from the home farm to the Village of Loudon Mills, and the homestead came into the possession of his son A. G. Moore, who in 1868, raised the barn and put in a cellar, 76 by 24 feet, with the walls of split granite. In 1869 he built a carriage house and stable, 36 by 26 feet. In 1874 he put new wheels and gearing in the sawmill, and in 1884 he took up the lead pipes laid by his father, Stephen, and in their place laid cement lined iron pipes to the house and barn. He has also continued in various ways to improve the farm, and has been very successful in conducting it.

Stephen Moore married, Jan. 31, 1827, Mary L. daughter of Joseph and Nancy (Wells) Greeley, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire. They had eight children:
Joseph G., born December 12, 1827.
Albert, born February 21, 1831; died in infancy.
Anne Maria, born July 17, 1833; died Sept. 20, 1881
Andrew G., born G. Mary 12, 1836; married Laura A., daughter of Zephaniah and Mary Batchelder; and has one child living.
George L., born March 8, 1838; enlisted in Union Army and died in hospital, Jan. 12, 1864.
Infant son, unnamed, died in infancy.
Mary R., born Sept. 14, 1842; died Oct. 10, 1876.
Caroline A., born Nov. 23, 1848; died Jan. 1, 1852.

Joseph G., married first Mary A. Arlin, and second Anne Nichols. He has five children, all sons, and resides in Dubuque, Iowa, where he is at present engaged in the wood and coal business. He has been, however, for about 30 years, a railroad engineer.

Anne M., married John O. Hobbs, of Deerfield. He removed to Newport, New Hampshire, and was a merchant tailor there to the time of his death. His only child, Ms. Kate Hobbs, graduates from the academy there in the class of 1886.

Mrs. Moore died March 31, 1854. Mr. Moore married, as second wife, Mrs. Mary Berry, widow of Alanson Berry, of Loudon, a daughter of Levi Bean, of Brentwood, New Hampshire. Mr. Moore has given all of his children an academical education, at the various academies of Gilmanton, Pittsfield, Sanbornton and Loudon.

Since Mr. Moore's residence at the Village he has accomplished a work at once unique and interesting. He owned a tract of woodland lying adjacent to the Church in bordering on the Village, which he made overtures to the Village to assist in converting into a cemetery; not meeting with a satisfactory response, he conceived the idea of himself beautifying and adorning the grounds and preparing it for future use as a resting place for the dead. With characteristic energy, he at once set about carrying his plans into execution, and here, toiling day after day, to accomplish his cherished purpose, the last 20 years of his life have been spent. Beginning this enterprise at an age when most men were ready to retire from active life, it is astonishing to see what he has, I unaided and alone, accomplished.

The tract of land selected was, by nature, well adapted to the use to which he had applied it. It is peculiar in its topographical confirmation, there being a deep basin in the center, with level topped ridges surrounding it on three sides, with a slight depression or hollow leading off on the third. It is a beautifully wooded tract, not dense, but nicely distributed over almost the entire surface. This tract consisting of about six acres, Mr. Moore has fenced in with split granite posts, set about 18 inches apart, around three sides of the enclosure and a part of the fourth. The posts stand about three feet and half above ground and about 18 inches under the surface. This fence is to be completed by iron rod traversing the top of the posts and fastened to each, the holes being already drilled for the purpose.

In the valley, in the center of the cemetery, Mr. Moore has leveled off the land and walled the edges of the basin with split granite. In the center of this beautiful little plot is a miniature lake, with water clear as crystal, to which there is no visible inlet or outlet; and in the center of this lake Mr. Moore has constructed a little island and planted it with flowers. He has also constructed a beautiful drive around the park or basin, and built a receiving vault in the hillside, near the entrance to the valley. He has cleared the under brush from most of the tract, and contemplates laying out drives around and through it. In doing this work, Mr. Moore has built to himself a monument that will not only serve to keep imperishable his own memory, but he has prepared a resting place for the generations that will succeed him, credible to himself, ornamental to the town and of service to the community at-large.

Mr. Moore took an active part in building the Congregational Church in Loudon Village and in supplying the same with a bell. He is a member of the Congregational Society.

He has never been an office seeker, but has preferred the quiet walk of the private citizen. In militia days, before the war, however, he took an interest in military matters and held the rank of Captain.

Through a long life he has been an earnest, honest, industrious, hard-working and successful man. Possessed of a strong physique, he still bids fair to survive many years. He began life prior to the present century, being born June 29, 1799. He has outlived all of his immediate family, and most, if not all, of his schoolmates and boyhood companions. His hearing is defective, but with that exception, his senses are remarkably well preserved, and his general health exceptionally good.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 513-515.

MORSE Family

Moses Morse Sr. was born in Methuen, Massachusetts, in 1749, and married Abigail Lovejoy, of Andover, Massachusetts, who was born in 1755 and came to Loudon in 1787. Mr. Morse bought his land of Ezra Blaisdell, which has always remained in the Morse named to the present time. They had a family of 10 children, named Abigail, Jonathan, Persis, Moses, Lydia, Moses, (2} Persis, Deborah, (2) Levi and Isaac. Mr. Morse endured many of the hardships, in common with other settlers who came to Loudon.

Moses Morse Jr. was born April 13, 1788; married Sally Emery in 1815, and had three children, named Harris E., Alvah L. and Julianna P.. Mr. Morse learn the trade of carpenter and wheelwright, at which he worked in connection with farming. He held several important offices in the town.

Harris E. Morris married Sarah A. Eaton and 1842, and had five children, named Mary A., Sarah A., Harris F., Mary E. and Alvah L.. Mr. Morse has filled positions of honor and trust, represented the town and the Legislature and served as Sheriff of for a member of years.

Alvah L. Morse married Della M. Pritchard, and has one child named Myrtie M. He resides upon the Morse homestead, and is the fourth generation. He has held positions of trust.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 504.

ORDWAY Family

The Ordway family in Loudon descended from Abner and James Ordway, who came from Tower Hill, in England, to Newbury, Massachusetts, about 1640. Abner settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and James in Dover, New Hampshire. Abner married, August 15, 1656, Sarah, daughter of Stephen Brown, of Newbury, Massachusetts, she being the widow of Edward Dennis, of Boston, Massachusetts. No descendants of Abner are found. James married, Nov. 23, 1648, Ann Emory, whose father came from England some years before, and had a family of 10 children, named Ephraim, James, Edward, Sarah, John, Isaac, Jane, Hannaniah, Annie and Mary, which were the second generation. The third generation descended from John, son of James. The fourth from James, son of John, whose children were Moses and James.

Moses Ordway was one of the first settlers in the town, and married Anna Huntington. He was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, April 11, 1721. His wife was born March 16, 1716, and they settled near the yellow school house, where some of their descendants have resided from that time. One of the attractions to this locality were the meadows in the immediate vicinity, from which they cut hay for their cattle. Moses, Jr., married his cousin Persis, the sister of Joses, and had 8 children, named Persis, born June 1, 1776; Moses, (3d), born January 1, 1779; Betsy, born March 1, 1781; Stephen, born August 24, 1784; Betsy (2d), born March 12, 1787; Amos, born Jan. 15, 1790; Aaron, born February 19, 1792; Hammond, born June 10, 1795.

Daniel and Joses Ordway were descendants of James. Daniel Ordway married, first time, Deborah Lougee, and came from Andover, Massachusetts, where he had two children born, Daniel, born Sept. 2, 1773; and Isaac, born February 6, 1775. There were born at Loudon, Lemuel, Oct. 12, 1776; Alse, born Nov. 12, 1778; Isaac (2d), born December 25, 1788; Hazen, born April 15, 1783; Polly, born May 21, 1785. He married, the second time, Ruth Moulton, and had Hiram ,Chlora, Statira, Eneas, Justus, Jairus, and Ruth Ann, making a family of 14 in all.

Joses Ordway, brother of Daniel, had a family of seven children, Lucy, born January 1, 1795; Lois, born Oct. 1, 1796; Sophia, born January 1, 1799; Abiel, born May 3, 1800; John C., born Nov. 3, 1801; Sukey, born February 21, 1803; Harriet, born April 10, 1808.

Abial Ordway married Clarisa French, and had four children, Martha S., Abial C., John F. and Mary J.

John F. Ordway married Georgianna, the only daughter of Samuel Huckins, of Loudon, and had a family of four children, named Della P., Effie L., Lillian M. and Cora F.

Hiram Ordway married Sally Blaisdell, and had one child, named Myra E., who married Joseph W. Blaisdell. Capt. Hiram Ordway was an important and respected citizen of his town. He was a carpenter by trade, which avocation he followed for several years. He held important offices in the town and was elected to the Legislature. He was of a most genial and quiet disposition, and his influence was large in his native town, in religious as well as public matters.

Joseph C. Ordway married Martha S. Ordway and had a family of seven children, Nelly, Grace, Walter, Henry, Georgianna, Lilla and 1 infant that died.

Joel S. Ordway married M. Jane Wiggins. He resides upon farm of his father, Lemuel Ordway, and has one child, named Horace F.

Daniel and Joses Ordway were soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Joses served in Capt. John Abbotts company, and Major Gage's regiment, and Daniel in the foot company raised in Methuen and Andover, Massachusetts. After the war they came to Loudon, and settled with their cousin, Moses Ordway.

Stephen Ordway married Rachel Clifford, and had three children, named Mary, Joseph C. and Benjamin (twins).

John Cassey Ordway was the son of Moses Ordway (3d), and married Ruth Sanborn. He had three children, named Eliza, Augusta A. and Benjamin F. Ordway.

The trials and suffering of the first of the Ordway settlers were the same as those of others. Upon one occasion Mr. Moses Ordway, Jr., went to Amesbury, Massachusetts, and brought home one bushel of corn upon his back, it being a year when the crops were cut off by frost, and his family subsisted upon the ground nut while he was gone. A glass bottle of curious device was brought from England by one of the two brothers that first came, and bequeathed to one Moses, upon the condition that it remain in the family of some descendant whose name was Moses throughout all succeeding years. Moses Ordway, III, was the last Moses, and it is now in the possession of John C., whose father was the last.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 507-508.

OSGOOD Family

William Osgood, of the first generation, was born in England in 1609, in came to this country in the year 1638. He sailed from Southampton, on the ship "Confidence", April 11th.

Capt. Chase Osgood came to Loudon from Epping in 1794. He had a family of 20 children. He died in 1807 at the age of 88 he was interred in the burying ground at the Center.

Ebenezer Osgood, Esq., came from Raymond in 1803, and had a family of eight children, named Enoch, James, Polly, Bradley, Ira, Lamila, Nancy and Ebenezer.

Ira Osgood, Esq., was born in Raymond, N. H. in 1799, in came to Loudon when four years of age. He married Sally B. Parsons, and had a family of seven children, named Henry J., Ebenezer P., William P., Charles H., Annie M., Mary E. and Martha E.. Ira Osgood was fitted for college at the Gilmanton Academy, after which he commenced teaching school, and to a large number of terms both in and out of town. He was chosen, and served for several years, as one of the selectman of the town, and afterwards was chosen representative for two years. He was a man of great firmness and in all undertakings and prosecuted them to the end. He devoted several of the last years of his life in compiling the genealogy of the Osgood family, which consisted of the descendants of eight generations. He died in April, 1877.

Henry J. Osgood married Hannah E. H. Batchelder, and had a family of three children, named Mabel, Herbert and Henrietta, and was born in 1825, and by whom the present history has been written.

Ebenezer P. Osgood married Ann Randall, of Laconia, and has one child, named Charles H.

William P. Osgood married Paulina R. Clifford, of Loudon and has two children, named Jennie M. and George B.

Charles H. Osgood married, first Augusta A. Clough, of Loudon and the second time, Ann Lamprey, of Gilmanton, and has no children.

Annie M. Osgood (unmarried) is a schoolteacher of considerable note and lives at the Homestead.

Mary E. Osgood married, first Charles C. Clough, of Canterbury, and the second time, Rev. A. D. Smith, of Laconia.

Martha E. Osgood married Charles H. Bean, of Lawrence, Massachusetts who is a large and extensive dealer in lumber in that city.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 502-503.

ROWELL Family

Moses Rowell, Sr., was the son of Christopher Rowell of Amesbury, Massachusetts, and was born June 111764. He married Alice Currier, of Amesbury, and moved to Loudon in 1791, and located upon Bear Hill (so called), where he died Nov. 4, 1846. He married, the second time, Nancy Levitt, of Chichester, New Hampshire, and had a family of 10 children, named Captain John, Moses, Jr., Nancy, Micajah, Ruth, Asa C., Harris, Cyrus, Rufus and Sally L. Mr. Rowell was engaged for some length of time in teaming from Newburyport, Massachusetts, to Salisbury, New Hampshire.

Moses Rowell, Jr., was born March 21, 1793, and married Sophia French, daughter of John Levitt French, of Loudon, and had three children, named Perley W., John F. and Sarah Ann.

Perley W. Rowell was born December 22, 1823, and married Caroline Clark, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, March 28, 1869, and had a family of two children, named Sarah W. and George W. Mr. Rowell lives upon the homestead of his father, and is a useful and highly respected citizen of his native town.

John F. Rowell was born Jan. 6, 1826, and is unmarried. He commenced his education at the common school in Loudon, and afterwards attended at Weare, Lee and Pembroke, New Hampshire, and graduated at Haverford College, Pennsylvania. He was eminently fitted for a teacher, which avocation he successfully followed for many years in his immediate locality. After which he was called to the Friends' School in Providence, Rhode Island and remained for 20 years. In 1875 he retired from this school, and, wearied with the duties have a teacher's life, went to California, and is extensively engaged in agriculture, together with the manufacture and sale of lumber, of which he has purchased a large and valuable tract. He is an enterprising and deserving man, and has, by his own efforts largely, acquired the position which he has so ably filled. The Rowell family are noted for intellect, ability and great firmness of principal, and are citizens who are interested and active in everything that advances and elevates the human race.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 505-506.

SANBORN Family

The ancestor of this family was Capt. John Sanborn, who married Ruth Rand, 1774, and was born in 1747. His wife was born in 1751.

Captain Sanborn's ancestry is unknown, and the foregoing is from the town record. He was among the distinguished citizens of the town, and took an active part in the organization of the same, and held several offices of importance at several times. He had a family of eight children, named Elisha, born Nov. 1, 1775; Lydia, born June 3, 1777; Betty, born March 24, 1779; Thomas, born June 8, 1781; Sarah, born July 17, 1783; John, Jr. born August 29, 1785; Edmund born July 21, 1788; and William, born June 5, 1791.

Elisha Sanborn married ___ Ladd, of Epping, N. H. and had a family of seven children, named James, John, Nathaniel, Eliza, Sally, Mary and Ruth. Of this family, James went to Iowa, John to Massachusetts, and Nathaniel settled in Loudon. He married Nancy Lougee, and had one child, Charles E.

John Sanborn married Judith Blake, and had a family of six children, named Stephen, Jane, Judith, Edmund, Almira and and Joseph B. Steven Sanborn when South and died. Joseph B. resides in Loudon, upon the homestead of his father, and is a citizen of influence in his native town, having held the important offices of the town. He is a thorough and practical farmer, has acquired a good property and succeeded well in his purposes and efforts. He married Sarah Ann Sanborn, the granddaughter of Jesse and daughter of Jonathan Sanborn, and has two children, named Joseph E. and Jennie M.. His son, Joseph E., married Lizzie Adams, of Pittsfield, N. H.

Edmund Sanborn married Ruth Griffin, and had a family of 9 children, named William, Sally, Daniel L., Clarisa, James S., Jeremiah C., Eliza J., John and True H. The sons of Edmund nearly all settled in Loudon.

Daniel L. Sanborn married Ada Moore, and had a family of five children, named Jacob O., Ruth J., Joseph T., Charles E. and Mary E.. Of Capt. Daniel Sanborn's family, Jacob O. is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and has become an eminent schoolteacher; Joseph T. married Fanny Peverly, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, and resides upon his father's farm, having no children. He is an important and respected citizen of the town, having held important offices in the same.

William Sanborn married Susan Haines, and had two sons, named Richard P., who resides in Concord, and William H., a resident of Loudon.

James S. Sanborn married Mary E. Yeaw, of Rhode Island, and has three children, named John B., Hattie B. and Byron. He has represented the town in the Legislature, and is a man of wealth.

Jeremiah C. Sanborn married Betsy French, of Gilmanton, and has one daughter, named Ida B., who married James S. Tilton, son of Daniel children, and has one daughter, named Maud.

John Sanborn married ___ Thorndike, of Pittsfield, N. H., and resides in Laconia, N. H.

True H. Sanborn married Adeline Green, and has a family of five children.

The Sanborn family have been among the most numerous of all the families of the town. They have been successful in the acquisition of property, and have principally settled in fair native town; our good citizens, and are largely a religious and devoted people.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 503-504.

SARGENT, Thomas

Thomas Sargent, Sr., married Abigail Blaisdel in 1772, and had nine children, named Dolly, born October 28, 1772; Charles, born September 2, 1774; Thomas, born September 18, 1778; Josiah, born November 7, 1780; Sarah, born February 11, 1782; Susannah, born February 12, 1785; Timothy, born November 27, 1786; David, born January 11, 1789; John, born December 5, 1791.

Thomas Sargent, Jr., had a family of five children,— Hannah. Amos, Maria, Susan and John.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 505.

STEVENS Family

Moses Stevens, Sr's, family of six children were named Joseph, Jonathan C., Elisabeth, Hannah, Eliza and Andrew.

Andrew Stevens married Lucinda Sargent, and had a family of three children, named Moses E., John and Hannah.

Moses E. Stevens married Nettie P. Batchelder, daughter of William Batchelder, and has a family of two children, named Winnie M. and William G.

Mr. Stevens is the last representative of the large Stevens family in Loudon and possesses the strong characteristics which have made them so useful as citizens in the town. He is a man of ability and influence, and has held positions of trust conferred upon him by the citizens of the town.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 507.

SULLOWAY, Alvah

From an industrial as well as a political standpoint, the town of Franklin has long occupied a prominent position in the State. Highly favored by nature with the facilities most conducive to the development of manufacturing industry, there has grown up within its limits, or been attracted thereto from other localities, a large class of citizens possessing the enterprise, energy and sagacity requisite to the most advantageous use of those facilities.

There are, indeed, few among our New England towns of corresponding size which include among their inhabitants a larger number of active and successful business men, or whose progress has been signalized during the last quarter by a more substantial industrial development.

Alvah Woodbury Sulloway is one of the best known, most practical, energetic and public-spirited among the enterprising business men of this prosperous and progressive town.

While the State of Massachusetts has drawn from our midst a large proportion of the men whose labors have brought the prosperity and distinction which that proud old commonwealth enjoys, she has given New Hampshire, in return, some of her own sons, whose efforts have contributed, in no small degree, to advance the honor and welfare of the State of their adoption. Among these is the subject of this sketch. Born in Framingham, Mass., December 25, 1838, Mr. Sulloway is now in his forty-seventh year. He is the only son and eldest child of Israel W. and Adeline Richardson Sulloway, to whom three daughters were also born, two of whom are living, - one unmarried, and the other the wife of Herbert Bailey, Esq., a prominent manufacturer of the town of Claremont.

Israel W. Sulloway was born in Salem, N. H., December 24, 1812, and sprang from Revolutionary ancestry on both the paternal and maternal sides, his mother being the daughter of Captain Israel Woodbury, of Salem, who served in the patriot army throughout the war for independence.

He engaged in manufacturing service in youth, and was for some time an overseer in the Saxonville woolen-mills. In 1848 he removed to Enfield, N. H., where he introduced the process of making the celebrated Shaker socks by machinery, being the first manufacturer to engage in this enterprise.

He established a prosperous business, which he carried on about sixteen years, when he sold out to his son-in-law, Mr. Bailey, and retired from active life, locating at Waltham, Mass. He died suddenly, November 20, 1883, - a man of remarkably kind and benevolent disposition, whose sterling qualities won the respect of all who enjoyed his acquaintance.

In his father's mill at Enfield, Alvah W. Sulloway, gained that practical knowledge of the business in which he has since been engaged, which constituted the sure foundation of the success he has attained therein.

He secured a good academical education at Canaan and Barre, Vt., and the Green Mountain Liberal Institute, at South Woodstock; but spent a considerable portion of his time, between the ages of ten and twenty-one years, in active labor in the mill, thoroughly familiarizing himself with the various processes in hosiery manufacture and the general conduct of business in that important line of industry.

Upon attaining his majority, with that ambitious and independent spirit which so generally characterizes the youth of New England, and to which the development and prosperity of all sections of our country are so largely due, Mr. Sulloway determined to go into business for himself. His purpose received the ready encouragement and sanction of his father, and, after due deliberation, he formed a partnership with Walter Aiken, of Franklin, in the manufacture of hosiery. The partnership continued for about four years, when it was dissolved by mutual consent, and another firm was organized which put in operation a new mill.

This firm consisted of Mr. Sulloway and Frank H. Daniell, of Franklin, who carried on business together until 1869, when Mr. Daniell withdrew, and Mr. Sulloway has since been sole proprietor. The mill is situated upon the lower power of the Winnipiseogee, opposite the mills of the paper company, the power being used in common by the two establishments. The building is of brick, three stories high, with basement, contains four sets of woolen machinery, with about seventy-five knitting machines, and furnishes employment for about ninety operatives, besides a large number of women in the vicinity and surrounding towns, whose labor is required in finishing the work which the machines leave incomplete.

The goods manufactured are the Shaker socks, or half-hose, of which more than three hundred dozen pairs are produced daily, giving an annual product of about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The monthly payroll averages about two thousand five hundred dollars, aside from the amount paid for outside labor.

Mr. Sulloway is a business man in the true sense of the term, and as such he has been thus far eminently successful. But while devoting his energies and ability to the development of his own business interests, and thereby indirectly conferring large benefit upon the community in which he moves, he has never failed to contribute by direct personal effort to the advancement of all measures of public utility and material progress, and to his labor and encouragement, personally and peculiarly, as much as to any other among its many enterprising and public-spirited citizens, the town of Franklin is indebted for the advanced position which it holds when regarded from a business, social or educational stand-point. He was a prime mover in the organization of the Franklin National Bank, which went into operation in November, 1879, and has been president of the institution from the start. He has also been a trustee of the Franklin Savings-Bank ever since its establishment, and for several years past a member of the committee of investment. In 1880 he was chosen a member of the board of directors of the Northern Railroad, and in March, 1885, he was appointed president of the same corporation.

In politics Mr. Sulloway is an ardent Democrat, an earnest and enthusiastic worker in the party cause, and his labors in this direction have been largely instrumental in bringing his party into ascendancy in Franklin, which was for many years one of the hardest-contested political battle-grounds in the State, numbering, as it does, among its citizens several of the most active leaders of the two great parties. In 1871, although the town was then decidedly Republican, he was chosen a member of the State Legislature from Franklin, and was re-elected the following year. In 1874, and again in 1875, he was elected to the same position.

In the Legislature, as everywhere else, he proved himself a thoroughly practical man, devoting himself actively to business and leaving speech-making to those inclined to talk rather than work. In 1871 he served on the committee on elections; in 1872, upon railroads; in 1874, was chairman of the committee on manufactures, where his close acquaintance with manufacturing interests fitted him for most efficient service; and in 1875 was again a member of the elections committee. In 1874, when the Democratic party managers set to work systematically to win a victory in the State, Mr. Sulloway was nominated for railroad commissioner upon the ticket headed by James A. Weston for Governor.

Although there was no choice by the people in the election that year, the Democracy won a substantial victory in that they secured a majority in the Legislature, and the election of their candidates for Governor and railroad commissioner followed at the hands of that body. To the triumph of his party in the State the energetic labor of Mr. Sulloway in the general conduct of the campaign contributed in no small degree.

As a member of the Board of Railroad Commissioners for the term of three years, the last year as chairman of the board, he rendered the State efficient service, carrying into his official labors, so far as they extended, the same practical sagacity and judgement exercised in his own private business.

In January, 1877, Mr. Sulloway was nominated by the Democracy of the Second District as their candidate for Congress against Major James F. Briggs, of Manchester, the Republican nominee. The district was strongly Republican, and that party had a popular candidate in the field; yet Mr. Sulloway, with no expectation of an election, made a vigorous canvass and ran largely ahead of his ticket. He was also the candidate for his party in the district at the next election, and again in 1880, making lively work for his successful opponent, Major Briggs, on each occasion. He has been an active member of the Democratic State Committee for a number of years past, and for the greater portion of the time a member of the executive committee of that body, having direct charge of the campaign work.

He was a member of the New Hampshire delegation in the National Convention at St. Louis, in 1876, which nominated Samuel J. Tilden for the Presidency, and was an enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Tilden, not only in convention, but also in the subsequent campaign, in which he was actively engaged as a member of the Democratic National Committee from this State. In 1880 he was again a delegate to the National Convention of his party at Cincinnati, where General Hancock was nominated; and in 1884, at Chicago, he was a zealous supporter of Governor Cleveland.

In religion Mr. Sulloway is an adherent of the liberal faith. He was reared a universalist, and is now an active member of the Unitarian Society in Franklin. In this organization, as in business and politics, he is an earnest worker, and to his encouragement and material assistance is largely due the erection of the finest church edifice in town. He has been trustee of this society from its beginning, and is also a member of the board of trustees of the Unitarian Educational Society, under whose auspices Proctor Academy, at Andover, is conducted.

In 1866, Mr. Sulloway was united in marriage to Miss Susan K. Daniell, the youngest daughter of the late J. F. Daniell, and a sister of Hon. Warren F. and Frank H. Daniell. They have three children; - a daughter and two sons, - the eldest, Alice, born August 5, 1871; Richard Woodbury, born February 15, 1876; and Frank Jones, born December 11, 1883.

Their home is a fine modern residence, erected in 1877, beautifully located in a bend of the Winnipiseogee River, surrounded by handsome grounds, with all its appointments conducive to the comfort of the family and the hosts of friends who share their generous hospitality.

Mr. Sulloway is a man of keen perceptive powers and ready judgement, so that he is enabled to form conclusions on all practical questions presented with more than ordinary promptness and accuracy. His opinion in all matters of public interest and concern in this community in which he resides is as frequently sought and carries as great weight as that of any other man, to say the least, and the same also may be said of his advice in private business affairs.

He is frank and outspoken at all times, and never hesitates to say just what he thinks when called upon to express himself in any direction. He has many warm friends, and enjoys a full measure of popularity in social as well as in public and business circles. He was a moving spirit in the organization of the New Hampshire Club, an association formed by New Hampshire men doing business in Boston, for social entertainment, and has been a leading member of the same from the start. Endowed with an active mind, and healthy and vigorous bodily powers, he has great capacity for labor, and will unquestionably accomplish even more substantial results in the future than have already attended his efforts.

Contributed by Herbert L. Girtman, Sr., extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 322-324.

TENNEY Family

Dr. William Tenney came to Loudon in the year 1793, and married Abigail Rollins; married the second time Peggy Flanders, and had four children, named Abigail, Richard P. J., William D. B. and Joseph J. M. Dr. William Tenney practiced medicine for a long time in town, and at his decease Richard P. J., having studied medicine, commenced his practice in his father's place, and continued until the year 1846, when he located at the enterprising Village of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. He had a large practice and was extensively known as a physician. After his removal he was chosen as a member of the Governors Council, and filled other places of honor and trust, and died at Pittsfield in 1879. He married Hannah A. Sanborn, and had one daughter, named Abby.

J. J. M. Tenney, after having spent some years in travel, settled upon the Tenney homestead and devoted the last of his life to agriculture, and died in 1876.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 505.

TILTON Family

Nathan Tilton, born February 2, 1755, married Susanna Gail, and had nine children, -- Betty, born June 30, 1781; Timothy, born May 3, 1783; Susanna, born Sept. 4, 1785; Daniel, born Nov. 14, 1787; Nathan, born July 15, 1791; Stephen born Sept. 29, 1793; Newell, born Oct. 20, 1795; David, born July 1, 1798; Joseph, born March 4, 1801.

Joseph Tilton, Sr., married, the second time, Coziah Bagley, Oct. 20, 1783, and had three children, -- Anna, born Oct. 3, 1784; Dolly, born Aug. 6, 1787; Timothy, born Nov. 6, 1791. His first wife died April 20, 1783. She had two children -- Joseph born April 19, 1781, and Martha, born March 6, 1783.

William Tilton's family - Eliza Tilton, born July 24, 1788; William J., born May 9, 1790; Timothy, born July 22, 1792; Hannah, born Aug. 9, 1794; Hannah, born December 17, 1796; Amos.

William Tilton, Jr., married Abigail Brown, and had a family of two children, named Louisa A and Charles S. Louisa A. Tilton married Jeremiah Blake, Esq., son of Enoch Blake, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, and had a family for children, named Mary, Ellen, Warren and Alvah. Mr. Blake is a prominent man in the town, and has been extensively engaged in managing and executing the business of the town for many years, and his council and advice is often sought and followed. He has held several offices in the town and commands respect and esteem of its citizens.

Major Daniel Tilton had a family of 8 children, named Sally, Nathan, Harriet, Newell, Joseph, Mary A., John S. R. and Samuel.

Deacon Daniel Tilton had a family of five children, named Nathan F., born April 20, 1797; Shuah, born May 28, 1799; Abigail, born Aug. 19, 1801; Betsy, born May 13, 1804; Daniel, born July 26, 1805.

Daniel Tilton, Jr. married Olive Sargent, and had a family five children, named Charles S., Daniel, John, James S. and Olive E. James S. married Ida B. Sanborn, daughter of Jeremiah C. Sanborn, of Loudon.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, pages 504-505.

Timothy TILTON

A letter written by George Henry Tilton in 1924, when he was in his 80's, regarding Timothy Tilton. Timothy (b. 1718 d. 1785), was a son of Joseph Tilton. Joseph (b. 1677 d. 1744), was a son of Daniel Tilton and Mehitable Sanborn of Hampton NH.

Nathan and Susan had ten children, one son, Stephen (schoolmaster who lived in Loudon until he married Julia Batchelder in 1816 and moved to Northfield) lived long enough to be able to pass family tradition to his nephew, my ggUncle Henry Tilton.

WEEKS, Stephen

Deacon Stephen Weeks was the son of Stephen and Betsy (Weed) Weeks, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire and came to Loudon near 1843. He married, first, Mary A. Stevens, who died in a short time after her marriage. Mr. Weeks married, the second time, Elizabeth W. Haines, of Canterbury, who was an intelligent and accomplished woman. The second marriage of Deacon Weeks resulted in a family of six children, named Adeline, William age, Martha, Abby, Mary J. and Dora V.

Deacon Weeks, during his early life, taught several terms of school during the winter, while any other seasons of the year he bought and sold cattle. Afterwards he bought a farm and gave his attention to farming as a pursuit. Having been successful in this calling, several years ago he purchased the farm upon which the family reside, refitted the buildings and prepared it for his permanent home. During his residence of about forty years in the town he succeeded in laying up property amounting to over $20,000 by diligence, labor and economy. He regarded the interest of the town as a citizen, and gave his influence always in the direction which he considered as right and just. He was liberal in his charity to others, whenever called upon for aid and assistance, often bestowing without invitation whenever and wherever his feelings prompted, and never was known to turn one away empty. His advice was safe and well matured whenever applied for. He was of a deep religious cast of mind, a member of the Free Baptist Church for many years was one of its deacons. His interest in his church was large and sincere, for which he labored ardently and constantly, and being one of the large and ready supporters of the gospel and all its wants. He was a constant attendant, with his family, upon public worship and the Sabbath School. His last acts in life were of beneficence. He died in January, 1885, a worthy and is seen citizen of the town, and will be cherished in the memory of many for the good which he has accomplished.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 509.

WOOD Family

Eliphalet Wood married Elizabeth Tilton in 1788. The children were named Eliphalet, Betsy, William, Sophia, Harry, Mary, Jonathan and Julia. The Rev. Harry Wood was a minister of the gospel and editor of the Congregational Journal at Concord, New Hampshire during the administration of President Pierce he received an appointment as minister to the eastern countries.

Enoch Wood, brother of Eliphalet, was a trader at the old Wood Place, near the Dr. Tenney corner. He was a fine penmen, and was chosen to the office of selectman and clerk for several years. The records of the town, while kept by him, present a handwriting that is very plain and distinct.

Contributed by T. J. Rand, extracted from 1885 History of Merrimack and Belknap Counties, New Hampshire by D. Hamilton Hurd, page 502.