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BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW
ATLANTIC STATES CAL
VOLUME XXII
CONTAINING LIFE SKETCHES OF LEADING CITIZENS OF
MERRIMACK AND SULLIVAN
COUNTIES
NEW HAMPSHIRE
"Biography is the home aspect of history"
BOSTON BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
1897
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ATLANTIC STATES SERIES OF BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEWS.
The volumes issued in this series up to date are the following : -
I. OTSEGO COUNTY, NEW YORK.
II. MADISON COUNTY, NEW YORK.
III. BROOME COUNTY, NEW YORK.
IV. COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
V. CAYUGA COUNTY, NEW YORK.
VI. DELAWARE COUNTY, NEW YORK.
XVIII. PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
XIX. CAMDEN AND BURLINGTON COUNTIES, NEW JERSEY.
VIII. CLINTON AND ESSEX COUNTIES, NEW YORK.
IX. HAMPDEN COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
X. FRANKLIN COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. XXI. STRAFFORD AND BELKNAP COUNTIES, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
XI. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS.
XII. LITCHFIELD COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.
XIII. YORK COUNTY, MAINE.
XIV. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, MAINE. XV. OXFORD AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES,
MAINE.
XVI. CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NEW JERSEY.
XVII. ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, NEW HAMP-
SHIRE.
VII. LIVINGSTON AND WYOMING COUNTIES, NEW YORK. XX. SAGADAHOC, LINCOLN, KNOX, WALDO COUNTIES, MAINE.
AND
XXII. MERRIMACK AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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NOTE .- All the biographical sketches published in this volume were submitted to their respective subjects or to the sub- scribers, from whom the facts were primarily obtained, for their approval or correction before going to press ; and a reasonable time was allowed in each case for the return of the typewritten copies. Most of them were returned to us within the time allotted, or before the work was printed, after being corrected or revised; and these may therefore be regarded as reasonably accurate.
A few, however, were not returned to us; and, as we have no means of knowing whether they contain errors or not, we cannot vouch for their accuracy. In justice to our readers, and to render this work more valuable for reference purposes, we have indicated these uncorrected sketches by a small asterisk (*), placed immediately after the name of the subject. They will all be found on the last pages of the book.
SEPTEMBER, 1897.
B. R. PUB. CO.
PREFACE.
T HE character and contents of this up-to-date volume of biography are indicated on the title-page; its place in the series we are publishing is elsewhere shown.
. An index at the end renders easy of reference the book, whose ample text may be trusted to furnish many an answer to the question of " Who's who?" in Merri- mack and Sullivan Counties to-day.
" Life is real! life is earnest!" The New England psalmist sings a true note : New England people as a rule have been accustomed to take life earnestly, to improve its opportunities for advancement and enlargement, for using and strengthening native talent, for developing the resources of their rugged region, for cultivating the sterner human virtues,- working manfully and womanfully in various fields and diverse ways to "leave the world better " than they found it. The name and fame of not a few New Englanders of worth and influence in Colonial and later times have been preserved in history; but of many others it can only be said that, beyond a name and a date or two that have rewarded the labors of the genealogist, they have left no memorial. Efforts are being made by the present generation to give honor where honor is due, to testify its regard for living and for recently departed worthies by making and keeping a fuller record of individuals who have distinguished .themselves by usefulness in word and deed, brave rebuke of wrong, and gallant championship of justice and right,-persons who have earned the title of public benefactors. Due at once to all such, clear statement of fact and grateful appreciation, the future, when it will, may rear the monumental stone.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
ON. DANIEL WEBSTER, LL.D.
" With rarest gifts of heart and head From manliest stock inherited,
New England's stateliest type of man."
Born on January 18, 1782, in Sal- isbury, N. H., Daniel Webster was the younger son of Captain Eben- ezer Webster by his second wife, Abigail Eastman. His father was a son of Ebenezer second, grandson of Ebenezer first, and great-grandson of Thomas Webster, of Ormsby, Norfolk County, England, who was an carly settler in Hampton, N. H. Captain Eben- ezer Webster is said to have inherited from his mother, Mrs. Susannah B. Webster, who was a descendant of the Rev. Stephen Bachiler and "a woman of uncommon strength of understand- ing," some of his most prominent mental and physical traits. He has been characterized as a "perfect example of a strong-minded, un- lettered man, of sound common-sense, correct judgment, and tenacious memory." He com- manded a company in the Revolution, and later in life was a Colonel in the State mi- litia. A farmer by occupation, he also held the office of "side justice" in the Court of Common Pleas. By his first wife he had five children, namely : two that died young, Susan- nah, David, and Joseph; and by his second five, as follows: Mehitable, Abigail, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Sarah. In 1783 Captain Webster removed from the homestead where the early
years of his married life had been spent to Elms Farm, as later known, in that part of the town of Salisbury, N. H., that is now Frank- lin, Merrimack County.
Physically frail, the young child Daniel here passed his time for the next few years mostly in healthful play, learning at home to read the Bible so early and easily that in after life he could never remember when and how he did it. He attended the district schools a number of terms; was nine months a pupil at Phillips Exeter Academy ; studied under Dr. Wood at Boscawen, N. H., also a brief time with another tutor; and, entering Dart- mouth College in 1797, was graduated in 1801. In 1800, a youth of eighteen in his Junior year, he delivered a Fourth of July ora- tion at Hanover, N. H. . Studying law at Salisbury and in the office of Christopher Gore in Boston, in the meantime earning money by teaching and by copying deeds in Fryeburg, Me., to help his brother Ezekiel defray col- lege expenses, Mr. Webster was admitted to the bar in Boston in 1805. Returning to New Hampshire to be near his father, whose health was failing, he lived the life of a country lawyer in Boscawen, his practice extending over three counties. In 1807, his brother Ezekiel taking his place in Boscawen and assuming charge of the home farm, their father having died in 1806, he removed to Portsmouth, N. H., where he rapidly rose to prominence in his profession and in politics,
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Elected to Congress in 1812, he took his seat in the following May, his term ending March 4, 1817. He had changed his residence to Boston, Mass., in 1816; and there he devoted himself to his lucrative law practice till De- cember, 1823, when he again became a mem- ber of Congress. He was chosen Senator in 1827, and from that time on till his death, which occurred at Marshfield, Mass., October 24, 1852, with short intervals of retirement, he served his country either in the Senate or in the Cabinet, easily "the first lawyer and the first statesman " in the land.
Mr. Webster had five children, all by his first wife, Grace Fletcher. The three who grew to maturity were: Colonel Fletcher, who was killed at the second battle of Bull Run in August, 1862; Julia, Mrs. Samuel A. Apple- ton, who died in April, 1848; and Major Ed- ward, who died in Mexico in January, 1848. Mrs. Appleton left four children, the eldest a daughter Caroline, who married in 1871, for her second husband, Jerome Napoleon Bona- parte, of Baltimore, and is now a widow re- siding in Washington, D.C. Mr. Webster's first wife died in January, 1828; and in De- cember, 1829, he married Miss Caroline Le Roy, of New York, who survived him.
From a recent article in the Daily Mirror we glean some interesting particulars concern- ing "beautiful Grace Fletcher," of whom little has been written by the biographers of Mr. Webster. She was born in Hopkinton, N. H., in 1781, a daughter of the Rev. Elijah Fletcher. Her father died in 1786; and her mother married the Rev. Christopher Page, who succeeded him as pastor of the Congrega- tional church at Hopkinton, but in 1789 re. moved to Pittsfield, N. H., where he remained till 1796, and where his son James W. was born. Grace Fletcher's school days ended when she left Atkinson Academy at the age of
eighteen. At the home of her sister Rebecca, wife of Judge Kelley, of Salisbury; she met Daniel Webster, then a rising young lawyer of Portsmouth. Acquaintance soon ripened into love; and they were married in Judge Kelley's parlor, June 10, 1808. "They at once estab- lished and maintained for nine years a humble home at Portsmouth, winning the love and respect of all associates. Mrs. Webster, with her superior grace and beauty, inherited ability and intellectual accomplishments, was equal to all occasions, never discouraged, proud of her husband's success, but not unduly elated. Queen at home or in the public drawing- room, she met the most distinguished men of the time." She was much attached to the pict- uresque town of Pittsfield, and was accustomed to make long visits to her sister there, Mrs. White.
Mr. Webster retained to the last the love for farm life, which was doubtless born with him, but was mainly developed, it would seem, after his mental faculties had attained their growth and had long had full play. About two years after the death of his brother Ezekiel, in April, 1829, he became the owner of the old home place in Franklin; and to this he added by purchase other lands, so that Elms Farm came to be a valuable estate of about one thousand acres with many improve- ments. It was long under the management of a tenant farmer from Massachusetts, John Taylor by name, to whom Mr. Webster was wont to write directions like the following, which we quote from a letter in Mr. Lanman's book on his Private Life, dated March 17, 1852: "Whatever ground you sow or plant, see that it is in good condition. We want no pen- nyroyal crops. . . . Be sure to produce suffi- cient quantities of useful vegetables. A man may half support his family from a good gar- den." In 1839 Mr. Webster, having sold his
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house in Boston, removed with his family to his estate of about two thousand acres in the town of Marshfield, Mass. There he freely and expensively indulged his agricultural tastes and his hospitality, and from both de- rived great enjoyment.
To return now to Mr. Webster's public life. First, perhaps, among his memorable ad- dresses should be named his "Reply to Hayne" in the Senate Chamber, January 26, 1830, which has been pronounced "next to the Constitution the most correct and complete exposition of the true powers and functions of the Federal government," a speech "replete with eloquence and power, clear in statement, grand in language, irresistible in argument." One of the grandest mementos in Faneuil Hall, Boston, is the painting by Healy, which reproduces the scene of that matchless elo- quence. There is no questioning the fact, and it cannot be too strongly emphasized, that "Mr. Webster was thoroughly national," with "no taint of sectionalism or narrow local prejudice about him." As a diplomatist he rendered eminent service to the country, en- titling him to honorable fame and lasting gratitude. Not to speak of his great forensic efforts and numerous forceful occasional speeches, his Bi-centennial Discourse at Plymouth, the two Bunker Hill Addresses and the Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson are recog- nized triumphs of American oratory. In his famous 7th of March speech, 1850, it has been said, "he broke from his past and closed his public career with a terrible mistake." A more generous-minded critic argues that his course on that occasion was "consistent with his whole career in postponing all other con- siderations to the supreme need of saving the Union." And Whittier, whose muse had carlier made bitter lamentation .over departed glory, reviewing in the calm eventide of life
the great conflict for Union and Liberty, which sad concessions had availed not to stay, recognizing Mr. Webster's rich endowment, his power to call out the might of men in noble cause, offers gracious tribute to the sleeper by the "lonely northern sea, where long and low the marsh-lands spread " : --
" Wise men and strong we did not lack ; But still, with memory turning back, In the dark hours we thought of thee, And thy lone grave beside the sea.
" But where thy native mountains bare Their foreheads to diviner air, Fit emblem of enduring fame, One lofty summit keeps thy name. For thee the cosmic forces did The rearing of that pyramid, The prescient ages shaping with
Fire, flood, and frost thy monolith.
Sunrise and sunset lay thereon With hands of light their benison.
The stars of midnight pause to set Their jewels in its coronet. And evermore that mountain mass Seems climbing from the shadowy pass To light, as if to manifest
Thy nobler self, thy life at best !"
ILLIAM P. EGGLESTONE, one of the leading agriculturists of Plain- field, Sullivan County, was born in this town, November 5, 1826, son of Colonel Charles and Betsey (Fullum) Egglestone. His maternal great-grandfather, Samuel Will- iams, moved with his family, in 1759, from Connecticut to New Hampshire, where, hav- ing cleared a farm, he cultivated it for the rest of his active period. Samuel married Sarah Lawrence, who was a descendant of John Law- rence, one of the "Mayflower " Pilgrims.
Samuel Egglestone, the paternal grandfather of William P., and a native of Connecticut,
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served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. After his discharge from the army he resumed farming in Plainfield. He was twice married. His first wife, whose maiden name is unknown, bore him one son, Samuel (second). When he returned home from the war, his wife was dead, and his boy had disappeared without leaving any trace. Many years afterward an account, published by the local newspapers, of how one Samuel Egglestone, an aged farmer, had mowed half an acre of land before break- fast, was extensively copied throughout New England. It was seen by his son, then forty years old, who, thinking that it might be his father, came to Plainfield and met him. Sam- uel Egglestone (second) married, and had nine children. His father wedded for his second .. wife Phoebe Williams, daughter of Samuel Williams, of Plainfield. By this union there were four children - Simon, Sibyl, Charles, and Zeruah. Simon resided in Vermont, and reared a family. Sibyl became the wife of Charles Livermore, of Hartland, Vt. ; and Judge Livermore of that State was one of her sons. Zeruah, who became Mrs. Keyes, re- sided in the West, and had one son.
Colonel Charles Egglestone, William P. Egglestone's father, was born and reared in Plainfield. After leaving school, he learned the carpenter's trade, and later became a well-known contractor and builder. He erected several school-houses, academies, and other public buildings in New Hampshire and Vermont, besides many private residences. The house and farm buildings which are now owned by his son, William P., were erected by him in 1842. He served in the War of 1812, and was later commissioned Colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Vol- unteer Militia. Though not active in politi- cal affairs, he served with ability as a member of the Board of Selectmen and in other town
offices. In his religious views he was a Con- gregationalist. Colonel Charles Egglestone died June 25, 1858. His wife, Betsey, whom be married in 1812, was born in Fitzwilliam, N. H. She became the mother of nine chil- dren, born as follows: Lorenzo, October 30, 1812; Lucinda, August 11, 1815 ; Francis F., August 6, 1817; Mary Ann, June 27, 1820; Sarah, April 23, 1822; William P., the sub- ject of this sketch; Ai, November 16, 1829; Henry, March 4, 1832; and Helen M., Oc- tober 23, 1835. Lorenzo, who is no longer living, was a machinist and followed that call- ing in Cambridge and Boston, Mass. He married Elizabeth Lamarau, of Rochester, N. Y., and had a family of six children. Lu- cinda married Raymond Page, of Springfield, Vt., and had two children. Francis F. went to Chicago, and engaged in manufacturing fur- niture. He married Fanny Laughton, and had a family of nine children, of whom the survivors are two sons, now carrying on the business established by their father. Mary Ann married S. F. Redfield, a tailor of Clare- mont, N. H., and had seven children. Sarah married Daniel Kenyon, a farmer of Clare- mont, and had four children, two of whom are living. Ai served in the Civil War as a mem- ber of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Vol- unteers, and afterward settled in Bloomington, Ill., where he died. He married Speedy B. Farrington, of Claremont, N. H., and was the father of three children, one of whom is living. Henry was engaged in the furniture business in Chicago. He married Isabella Laughton, who bore him four children, three of whom are living. Helen M. became the wife of George T. Avery, a prosperous farmer of Plainfield, and had one son, who is still living. Mrs. Charles Egglestone died May 1, 1868.
William P. Egglestone began his education in the common schools of Plainfield, and com-
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pleted his studies at the high school in Hart- land, Vt. When a young man he learned the cabinet-maker's trade in Boston. From Bos- ton he went to Iowa, and later settled in Chicago, where he followed his trade for a number of years. When paying a visit to his parents, his father died. He was then pre- vailed upon by his mother to take charge of the farm, and he has since remained at the homestead. He has a large and productive farm, which affords him ample opportunity for the raising of superior crops. He also has a dairy. For twenty years he was engaged in the manufacture of caskets; and he was an undertaker until 1890, when he gave up the business on account of failing health. Mr. Egglestone has acceptably served the commu- nity in some of the town offices. He attends the Congregational church.
Mr. Egglestone married Caroline V. Seaver, who was born in Gardiner, Me., April 20, 1830. Mrs. Egglestone's parents, John and Catherine (Dill) Seaver, died when she was very young. She is the mother of four chil- dren, namely : Charles, born August 25, 1860; Leonora K., born March 20, 1863; Addie L., born December 30, 1865; and Florida F., born September 16, 1868. Charles has always resided with his parents, and assists in carry- ing .on the farm. He married Elizabeth Davis, who was born in England, July 14, 1871, daughter of Evan Davis; and she is the mother of one son, William Edward, born April 4, 1896. Leonora K. married Lindsley L. Walker, a native of Reading, Vt., and now a blacksmith of Hanover, N. H. Addie L. is the wife of Fred A. Cowen, a merchant in Lebanon, N. H. Florida F. married George WV. Hodges, a maker of fine tools for the Waltham Watch Company, and resides in Wal- tham, Mass. She has one son, Forrest E., born May 30, 1895.
ENRY F. HOLLIS is a rising young lawyer of Concord and a descendant of some well-known New Hamp- shire families. He was born in West Con- cord, August 30, 1869, and is a son of Major Abijah and Harriette V. M. (French) Hollis. The first of the name on record was John Hol- lis, an early settler in Weymouth, Mass. After him came another John, and then, in succession, four of the name of Thomas, all of them natives of Braintree, Mass. The last- named Thomas Hollis, who was the grand- father of the subject of our sketch, was a stone contractor of Quincy, Mass., and one of the leading men of his time in that business. He furnished the stone for the famous Minot's Ledge light-house. In 1826-27 he laid the track of the first railroad ever built in America to haul granite from the quarries to the Ne- ponset River. He was one of the most promi- nent citizens of Milton, and took an active part in all its local affairs. He married Deborah C. Allen, of Braintree, Mass. She was a de- scendant of the Rev. Peter Clark, who was graduated at Harvard in 1712, and ordained minister of the church at Salem village in 1717, and married Deborah Hobart, of Brain- tree, in 1719.
Abijah Hollis was the youngest son of Thomas and Deborah, and one of a large fam- ily of children. He first attended the district schools of Milton, then went to Phillips Exe- ter Academy, and subsequently studied law at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass. He was admitted to the Suffolk County (Mas- sachusetts) bar in 1861. Before entering upon the practice of his profession, however, the Civil War having broken out, and in- spired with patriotic ardor, he enlisted, and was elected a commissioned officer in the Forty-fifth Regiment of Massachusetts Volun- teers, and served out his term of enlistment
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with that regiment. On its expiration he. re-enlisted in the Fifty-sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, and served until the end of the war. At the battle of the Wilderness he re- ceived a severe wound, and at the close of the war his health was so seriously impaired that he found himself unable to withstand the strain of the legal profession. He accordingly decided to turn his attention to outdoor busi- ness. In 1865 he removed to Concord, N. H., and in company with his brother proceeded to open one of the first stone quarries ever worked in this town. This business he successfully · conducted until his retirement in 1895. Major Hollis has taken a prominent part in the political affairs of the State, and held many public offices. In 1876 he was elected to the legislature.
Major Hollis married Harriette V. M. French, daughter of the Hon. Henry F. French, of Exeter and Chester, N. H., who was Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury from the time of Grant's administra- tion to that of Cleveland, and from 1855 to 1859 was Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in New Hampshire. He was the first President of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. His father, Daniel French, was a second cousin of Daniel Webster, and was Attorney General of New Hampshire early in the century. Judge French married Anne, daughter of William M. Richardson, Chief Justice of New Hampshire for many years. Their son, Daniel C. French, is the distin- guished sculptor of New York City, among whose most celebrated works are the statue of the Republic, executed for the Columbian Ex- position, Chicago, and the Minute-man stand- ing at the historic bridge in Concord, Mass. Major Hollis is the father of the following children : Thomas, who is a broker in Boston, Mass. ; Anne R. ; Henry F., of Concord;
Allen, also a lawyer of Concord, N. H. ; and Mary F.
Henry F. Hollis, the subject of this sketch, was graduated at the Concord High School in the class of 1886. In 1886-87 he was en- gaged in railroad engineering between Denver, Col., and San Francisco, Cal., and on a sur- vey of the intervening mountain passes. Re- turning East, he prepared at Concord, Mass., to enter Harvard College, where he was gradu- ated in 1892. He attended the Harvard Law School, and also studied law in the offices of the Hon. William L. Foster and H. G. Sar- gent at Concord, N. H., and was admitted to the Merrimack County bar in 1893. Since that date Mr. Hollis has formed a law partner- ship with Harry G. Sargent and E. C. Niles, of Concord. He has been elected a Trustee of the New Hampshire Savings Bank and a member of the Board of Education, a marked evidence of the confidence which his fellow- townsmen already repose in him. In politics he is a Democrat, and cast his first Presiden- tial vote for Grover Cleveland in 1892. June 14, 1893, he was united in marriage to Grace B. Fisher, of Norwood, Mass. They have two children - Henry F., Jr., and Anne R. Mr. Hollis bids fair to enter the first ranks of his profession and to add fresh laurel's to the family record.
ATHANIEL MORGAN TRUE, a prominent farmer of Plainfield, was born here, February 21, 1826, son of Osgood and Betsey (Morgan) True. The founder of the family, who came from old Eng- land among the early settlers of the Massachu- setts Bay Colony, subsequently settled in Salisbury, N. H. Benjamin True, grandfather of Nathaniel M., was the first of the family in Plainfield. He left an honored name. As did most of the men of his day, he won his
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sustenance from the soil. His first wife, a Sanborn before her marriage, had seven chil- dren, six of whom were: Reuben, Osgood, Hannah, Sarah, Judith, and Abigail. The seventh child, a daughter, married a Severance and lived in Andover. Benjamin True's second marriage was contracted with Mrs. Roberts, a widow, who bore him three children - Lydia, Eunice, and Kimball.
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