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70. CHARLES D. MILLER: In 1810 Oren Hall sold the south half of the above lot to Henry Rice, then swapped north and south; Hall sold south half 1811 to Isaac Cobb; 1815 to David Bliss of Surry; 1816 to George Watkins; 1865 his other heirs sold to his daughter Harriet R. Lucke. She left this property to Walpole Town Congregational Society; 1905 to Frank E. Hawkes; 1906 to George A. Pierce; 1911 to G. Irving Pierce; 1917 to Fanny P. Mason; 1933 to Raoul J. and Emma M. McKenven; 1936 to Isabel C. Butler; 1956 her estate to Charles D. and Helen C. Miller.
71. DONALD MACNAUGHTAN: This was from the land Phebe Bellows Grant had from her father, and was bounded on the south by her brother Caleb's property. In 1809 the Grants sold to Joseph Bellows Jr .; 1811 to David Stone who is supposed to have built the house. He was in business
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Hourand S. Anders 1962
Old Lucke House
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with Josiah Bellows 3rd in the old brick store, with a branch (fur business) in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was away much of the time, and in 1828 the family moved to Dayton, Ohio, selling this place in 1830 to Dr. Jesseniah Kittredge. He practiced medicine in Walpole for 40 years, hav- ing studied medicine with his father. In 1868 sold to Warren H. Smith of Rutland. During his ownership Mrs. Wright ran it as a summer boarding house. In 1882 Smith sold it to Abel P. Richardson and Curtis R. Crowell who continued the business for 16 years. In April 1898 Mrs. Julia Wier from Drewsville took over. In 1903 George E. Sherman bought, selling to Copley Amory who was building the Walpole Inn; 1907 to Blanche Bruce Wotkyns of Troy, N. Y .; 1930 to Donald McNaughtan of Lowell, Mass., who christened it Old Colony Inn. During earlier ownership it had been The Elmwood.
72. HERBERT R. TUCKER: In 1808 Stephen Rice bought a lot here six rods wide and probably built the house; 1811 to Thomas Seaver; 1817 to William G. Field; 1829 to Thomas Bellows; 1831 to Macy Adams; 1862 Clarinda Adams to Walton Mead; 1862 to Harriet Thurston; 1863 to Oliver Martin whose heir Clara Ivanetta Sargent sold 1904 to Julia Ann
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Wier; 1924 her son Willard H. Lovell of South Hadley, Mass., to George A. and Lizzie B. Hatch; 1944 their children, Lelia King of Charlestown, and Fred D. Hatch of Langdon, sold to Lucile Bragg; 1952 to Myra F. Tucker.
Mrs. Bragg replaced the old chimneys, built two fireplaces, and re- moved the front porch.
73. LESTER CHICKERING-FAIRVIEW COTTAGE: Mrs. Bragg reserved the south part of the lot and built a new house, using material from the barn at the place next south. She lived here until her death.
74. ROBERT SAWYER, known as Galloway house: In 1801 Samuel Grant bought the lot from Gen. Benjamin Bellows, Thomas Swan building a house on the lot at the time; 1803 to Eliphalet Fox, Thomas Swan re- siding here; 1806 to Amasa Allen; 1806 to Asa Sibley, Stephen Steward occupying; 1810 to Davis Carpenter and Alexander Watkins (innholders 1813); 1813 to Thomas Bellows; 1817 to Thomas Seaver. In 1836, Thomas Seaver resided here, bought more land on the south; 1846 David Buffum took the property by an attachment on Thomas Seaver and Thomas H. Seaver, apothecaries, and sold to James and Sarah K. Stowell; 1852 to Oliver Martin; 1866 to John B. Russell (18 acres); 1875 to Curtis Crowell (two acres); 1894 to Miriam Nicholson. She left to her children John E. Nicholson and Isabella N. Doremus; estate sold 1946 to Lucile Bragg. It was already a two family house. Robert Sawyer and family had lived here more than 25 years. She made the extra two room portion into a third apartment and Miss Mary Buffum lived there. The barn she tore down. Robert Sawyer now owns the property.
75. ADELINE CHICKERING: In 1809 Caleb Bellows sold to Derick Sibley. He removed to Montpelier, Vt., and sold in 1810 to Widow Betsey Lath- wood the northeast part of lot with buildings; 1825 to Sally Lathwood who resided here until 1842. Her maiden daughter, who weighed some 250 lbs., lived with her. The young people called on them frequently to hear the mother address her daughter as "my dear little lamb". This was the old #1 school built 1771 on the east side of North Main Street, moved here when the brick school was built.
In 1842 Oliver Martin bought the Lathwood house and lot; 1844 to Daniel Harvey Jr .; 1848 to Albert Wight; 1851 to Fanny Parker (referred to as the Widow Parker); 1865 to Oliver Martin; 1869 to Mary Ann Wat- kins; 1901 to Carl Smith; 1904 to Ralph W. Slade; 1909 to Addie J. Knowlton; 1952 to Adeline Chickering.
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76. NORMA P. CREHORE AND JOHN D. CREHORE III: The south part of the lot above, which Derick Sibley had from Caleb Bellows, he sold 1811 to Benjamin Reed; 1814 to Otis Daggett; 1817 to Daniel Turner; 1818 to Abel Bellows. During the following period there is confusion in owner- ship, it being attributed to Nancy Perkins but no deed recorded in her name. Various tenants had the place: Polly Livingston 1851, Samuel Porter 1856, Nancy M. Perkins. Oliver Martin bought in 1859 and sold 1868 to Abel P. Richardson; 1888 to Samuel H. Elwell; in 1908 Henry M. Elwell inherited; 1914 to May Elwell White; 1917 to Fred A. and Grace U. Metcalf who removed to Brockport, N. Y. and sold 1930 to Annie M. Hall of Belmont, Mass .; 1938 to Horace A. and Maude V. M. Palmer. Winthrop Houghton married their daughter, bought from the other heirs, and sold to Mrs. John Crehore.
GUNHOUSE: Next to the street, on the south side of the above lot, was the gunhouse. Asa Sibley sold the land to the state in 1806, the gunhouse being here then. In 1851 Abel Bellows bought from the state the land and the gunhouse, absorbing it into his other property here.
77. FRED R. PERHAM: In 1823 Caleb Bellows sold 53 acres here to Jonathan Mason; 1824 to Nathaniel Holland; 1832 to Ephraim Holland; 1834 ten acres next to the gunhouse to Macy Adams; 1835 to Theron Adams; 1853 to Oliver Martin; 1856 to John W. Lovejoy, a house lot, which he left to the New Hampshire Missionary Society; 1882 to Josephine A. Joslin; 1897 to Oliver J. Butterfield; 1906 to Julia E. Morse; 1945 to Ralph N. Johnson; 1945 to Fred R. and Mary Q. Perham.
78. DR. WALTER W. BUTTRICK JR .: Out of the lot above, next south of John W. Lovejoy's, Oliver Martin sold a lot to Hiram Wotkyns, physi- cian; in 1866 Wotkyns added four acres more from John B. Russell on the south. In 1892 Helen Wotkyns, sole heir, sold to Ida L. Butterfield; 1918 to Martha J. and Edward H. Kidder; 1935 estate to Dwight W. and Florence B. Harris; 1941 to Malcolm D. and Charlotte K. Williams; 1955 to Dr. Walter and Barbara Buttrick.
79. WALTER FELCH: When Oliver Martin owned the O'Brien farm and the Holland Meadow to the north, he sold this lot (ten acres) to John B. Russell. Charles Russell built the house and lived here; in 1889 to Irving W. Felch, still in the family. The house stands on a ridge running parallel with the road and commands a wide view of the Connecticut Valley.
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80. FLOYD J. SUTTON: Bought 1947 from Donald Cram who had owned the Guest Store, north corner Main and High Streets. They had resided here before buying. It had formerly been a blacksmith shop.
81. MAURICE E. ROBBINS: Oliver Martin bought 1877 from Edward Mahogany (See Main Street #90) and built the house for his daughter Emily (Mrs. Charles Fisher). In 1890 she bought an extra four feet on the north side of her lot (from Mrs. Farnsworth) and added a bay window to her house. (It is said that Oliver Martin built more new houses and remodelled more old houses than anyone else in town.) In 1911 Mrs. Fisher's heirs sold to Abbie E. Chappell; 1919 to Mrs. Addie Cole; 1954 her daughter, Mrs. Edith Cole Tiffany, sold to present owners.
82. NEIL ROBERT SWIFT: In 1883 James Brady of Brooklyn bought the Hitchcock shop property on Main Street and the Hooper property next east. There was a 25-foot carriageway along the north side of the lot, which came to be known as Brady Lane. (See Main Street #90 and #91.) In 1889 he sold to Eleanor Brady Farnsworth. The piece between her house and High Street George Huntington sold 1869 to William Farn- ham "reserving house now on said premises to be taken off within 45 days." In 1886 Mrs. Farnsworth had bought this piece from Martha Farnham. In the fall of 1890 she remodelled her house to face High Street instead of Main Street and/or Brady Lane. She lived to be 98. In 1938 the other heirs sold to Nellie J. Wilson; 1953 Charles E. Farns- worth, who had inherited the property, sold to present owners.
83. HENRY A. JENSEN: This large two story, two family house was orig- inally Samuel Grant's saddler shop which stood on the site of the present library. Benjamin Willis, who was a very nervous man, considered this building a fire hazard to his own residence on Main Street (Jennison 1962), and had it moved to this location on High Street, George Sabin doing the actual moving for him.
Mrs. Willis was a May, sister of Mrs. Bronson Alcott. The Alcotts lived in the west side of this house for a time. Judge Bellows wrote thus of the family in Walpole:
"The Alcott family came here about 1850 and as the fame of Louisa Alcott, the nov- elist, has become worldwide, they deserve mention. The reason of their seeking Walpole was, I fear, rather mundane. Bronson Alcott, whom the late Ralph Waldo Emerson considered the great philosopher of the century, and who, although he might have been a sage, was the most visionary and most unpractical of men, found himself, to use a common expression, financially 'flat on his back'. Through the intercession of Mrs.
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Willis, Mr. Willis offered to his brother-in-law here shelter, firewood, and enough crumbs from the overflowing larders of the Wells' house to sustain his philosophic life, and the lives of that little brood, whom his philosophy had engendered. He thought, and Emerson agreed with him, that the world did not comprehend his great- ness, but to the common folks, he seemed too lazy to saw his own firewood, and so much given to speculating on the woes of others that he entirely forgot those whom he had begotten.
"As I remember him, he was a tall, spare man, with the Greek head, a fine head it was, with a white full beard. His wife, Mrs. Alcott, was the very antipode of her speculative husband, as practical as he was unpractical. Nature planned her for a notable housewife, and she devoted her time and thought to providing for the daily needs of her little flock, and caring for the philosophic selfishness of the man whom, notwithstanding all his faults, she tenderly loved, and cheerfully followed in all his esthetic flights or idiosyncrasies.
"His character is well shown by little incidents like these. Like all philosophers, he thought most highly of his own gifts, and the vast importance of his own thoughts, accordingly, he would never set them down, except on full sized sheets of unlined legal cap, cream laid, and highly finished and expensive. In the center of each sheet he would write eight or ten lines of the philosophy, leaving wide margins. All this, to the intense disgust of his good brother-in-law's thrifty mind. When old Mr. Willis sent him his winter firewood, for we all burned wood then, and had it cut up and placed in the shed, in a very short time the Alcotts would come over to the Wells' house to. borrow a few sticks of wood to get their scanty supper with. 'Why, Mr. Alcott, what have you done with all the wood I sent you?' Mr. Willis would exclaim. 'My poor neighbor, Owen Burns, was out of wood, and I gave it to him.'
"He had settled the diet question, and was a very ardent vegetarian, with all the Hindoo's reverence for life, but without knowing anything of the modern bacterio- logical cult, so ideas became so sublimated that personally he would not eat anything that did not grow between Heaven and Earth, though he allowed his family to eat grosser roots that were supplied from subterranean sources.
"His four daughters were rather attractive girls, somewhat large in bone and flab- bily plump. I know my brother, Dr. Alfred Hosmer, rather a bright man, always used to speak of them as the 'Watery Vegetables'. The oldest daughter, Annie, who out- lived all the rest, and was my first school teacher, by the way, more nearly resembled the practical mother. Louisa, the second child, is now known wherever the English language is spoken as the authoress of that delightful book LITTLE WOMEN. This, by the way, is a most accurate sketch of their early life here, and the family. Lizzie, the third daughter, died here, of consumption, I think, after a long illness. I can remember little about her, but she had the reputation of being a very sweet girl. The youngest daughter, May, we know as Abby here, had some artistic taste, illustrated her sister's books and afterward dabbled with sculpture. I went to school with her for several years, and she was about my age, quite a nice girl as I remember her, but then showing no signs of future greatness.
"All of the girls had quite a taste for private theatricals, and in conjunction with some of our townspeople founded a dramatic company distinguished in those early days, and the first to give plays in the modern style. They first presented ROUGH DIAMOND, and BOX & COX. Mrs. Tobey, then the village beauty and belle, and Dr. Blake were the particularly bright stars, although John Hayward and his brother
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Waldo, and Judge Howland then but a lad in college (he entered at 15) were not far behind them. The first plays were given in Mrs. Banning's house (then owned by the Atkinsons, now Whitmore) in the long hall. Another representation followed with new plays at Aunt Louisa Hayward's, who then lived in the Barnes house at the summit of Prospect Street, and the company, the next summer, took more permanent quarters in the attic of the Elmwood on Washington Square, where they produced with great éclat Sheridan's comedy of THE RIVALS, in which Louisa Alcott played Mrs. Mala- prop, and Howard M. Ticknor, a son of the Ticknor of Ticknor & Fields, played Falk- land. By the way, Ticknor became known as the best amateur actor in the country, and created a sensation in New York where he played at the Sanitary Fair in 1864, in the same play in which he had won a success here, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP.
"Miss Louisa Alcott was a great novelist in her way, having almost unequalled power in describing the character and characteristics of the people whom she met in her ordinary life."
In 1859 Benjamin Willis sold the property to William Farnham who resided here with his wife Martha. The property was owned next by their daughter Mary F. (Mrs. Oscar W.) Rogers. In 1909 her estate to George O. and John H. Taggard; 1911 to Mary and Hannah Callahan and Willis C. Foster; 1913 to Retta M. (Mrs. Ira) Ramsay; 1951 estate to Humphrey B. and Evelyn T. Neill; 1953 to Henry A. and Ida May Jensen.
84. HOLLIS G. RHOADES: In 1870 Mrs. Farnham and the Rogerses sold to George H. Holden the two acres east of their house "reserving ice house and shed on west side of said tract with right to remove". He built the house here; 1922 his sons Newell G. and Charles H. Holden sold to Charles S. Bain; 1952 his estate to John W. Good (Mary E.); 1958 the house and lot to the present owners.
John Good cut up the rest of the two acres into houselots and in 1952 deeded to the town "Land for public highway running from north side of High Street northerly, easterly, and southerly returning to north side of High Street". Beginning at the southeast corner of the tract, and con- tinuing northerly, then westerly the houses are as follows:
85. DWIGHT K. JEFFREY: Bought 1952 "with new house thereon".
86. PAUL A. LAMOTHE: In 1952 Good sold to Rosamond E. Wentworth of Alstead the next lot north with house; 1959 to present owners.
87. JOHN W. GOOD.
88. RANDALL P. DANIELS: In 1957 Good sold to George H. and Vera O. Piper the place on the north side of the Circle; 1961 to present owners.
89. STEARNS P. WRIGHT: Bought in 1953 the next place west.
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MAIN STREET, EAST SIDE, NORTH FROM HIGH STREET 90. BRIDGE FUEL & GRAIN CO., INC .: In 1793 Benjamin Bellows Jr. sold to Amasa Allen for £180 the lot where the Guest Store stands, about four rods frontage on the east side of Main Street, 14 rods deep. Samuel Grant owned to the east and south. Allen apparently erected the store building and perhaps the small building in the rear before he sold for £230 in 1795 to Royal Crafts; 1798 to Isaiah Thomas of Worcester, Mass. Down- stairs he had the Walpole Bookstore and upstairs his printing business. On April 11, 1793, he had begun the publication of the FARMER'S MUSEUM (see Decade to 1800).
In 1827 Thomas sold the premises to Thomas Wilder who advertised to do "painting-Coach, Chaise, House, Sign, Military Cap. Standard and all kinds of ornamental painting"; 1836 to Elnathan D. Warner; 1851 to John P. Maynard; 1852 to George G. Warner. At this time there was a lane north of the store leading to the Farnsworth house, known as Brady Lane, gate on Main Street. In 1851 High Street had been newly laid out through Warner land when he sold to George Huntington; 1877 his estate sold west portion of this land and buildings to George H. and Edward M. Holden, east part to Edward A. Mahogany and he to Oliver Martin. In 1877 E. Wells had his shoe shop here.
In 1912 Edward M. Holden sold to Clara Belle Snow. The property then included the blacksmith shop at the rear. There was apparently a harness shop in the Main Street building; 1919 to Fred H. Atwood of Westminster; 1920 to Elizabeth O. Loring of Boston, still including the blacksmith shop; 1924 to Frank W. Leete of Amherst, Mass .; 1943 to Donald B. and Doris M. Cram; 1945 to Robert G. and Pauline L. Guest "the Holden block so-called containing store and three tenements but reserving the house on premises", the Suttons residing there; 1962 to present owners.
91. GUY BEMIS: Johnson Tavern-Amasa Allen had this from Benjamin Bellows Jr. and sold 1794 to Caleb Johnson, land and buildings. John- son had a tavern here and was also a merchant. When he bought this lot, the Red Store at south corner of Main and Westminster Streets was included. Probably he built the store on the south part of this lot; sold 1796 to Stephen Higginson of Boston the land with dwelling house, store and other buildings; 1797 to Samuel and Stephen Salisbury; 1833 to Jonathan H. and Aaron K. Chase; 1865 their heirs sold the north part of the lot with the old tavern to Frederick K. Wier; 1876 to George F. Wier; 1884 his heirs to William A. Craig; 1895 to Sarah S. Sherman; 1914 her
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heir, Grace F. Sherman, to Jonathan G. Howe; 1915 to Henry A. Slade; 1946 to Guy Bemis. The house is now made into apartments. Dr. Eben- ezer Morse had his office here.
The south part of the lot on which the old Johnson store building stood, the Chases sold 1859 to Mary K. Hooper of South Charlestown; 1865 to Henry Hitchcock; 1883 his heirs to James Brady of Brooklyn who tore it down in 1884. It was a two story building with first and sec- ond story piazzas. Downstairs there was a tin shop as early as 1794. Up- stairs was the cabinet shop of Holland Burt, which was later used by Henry Hitchcock.
92. RICHARD BELLOWS: This was a piece from the north side of the Johnson Tavern lot with a small piece on the north side from the Bisco property next north. The south part Jonathan H. and Aaron K. Chase sold 1834 to George Kilburn; 1835 to Levi H. Griffin; 1837 to William Guild; 1851 to Mary Jane Guild; 1851 to George Aldrich; 1906 his son George T. of New York his share to his sister Mary L. Aldrich; 1918 estate to William J. Hall; 1927 estate to Richard F. Bellows.
93. RICHARD F. O'BRIEN: Henry Foster bought the old tannery lot next north; the lot was next owned by Levi H. Foster; 1882 to Dares A. De- Wolf; 1885 to Mary K. Wier; about 1897 to her daughter Nellie F. Rich- ards (Mrs. Fenelon O.); 1921 to Ola A. Hubbard; 1953 to Hubbard Farms; 1954 to Richard F. O'Brien.
TANNERY: In 1787 David Stevens, tanner, bought land here on Mad Brook; 1796, having removed to Rutland, Vt., he sold to Samuel Grant; 1811 to Daniel W. Bisco. Bisco's tannery stood on the north side of the brook about ten rods south of Mrs. Graves' house #94, and his dwelling was in what is the garden spot of the next place south. His son Leonard carried on the business for several years, 1837 sold to Harvey Reed;
"meaning to convey and sell all tanner's and currier's tools ... giving Harvey Reed right to use water which shall flow into the pond . . . for purpose of grinding bark and carrying on the tanning and currying business for two years or such time as shall be put into operation on said premises a steam engine or some other power and ma- chinery for carrying on aforesaid business. . . . "
January 1, 1845, the following advertisement appeared in the N. H. Sentinel:
"Wanted 200 cords of Hemlock Bark in exchange for leather, or half cash for first quality bark to be delivered at my tanyard in Walpole Village."
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August 26, 1848, Harvey Reed sold to Henry Foster, lot where "tannery building (was) lately consumed by fire". He advertised for sale tanyard with about 30 vats.
Upstairs over the tannery the French brothers had a carriage manu- factory at the time of the fire. Both businesses suffered heavy loss. Reed seems to have left Walpole; the Frenches continued business on Turn- pike Street.
94. JOHN G. PARSONS: Leonard Bisco built this house while he owned the tannery next south; 1841 to Pelatiah Armstrong (Betsey L.) who was engaged in teaming to Boston; 1857, having removed to Bennington, Vt., to George Bundy; 1862 to Henry J. Watkins; 1896 to his widow; 1901 to Emma S. Graves (Mrs. Russell). She died in 1961. The Graveses added the wide portico and the second story bay window in 1905. In 1962 Emma S. Graves Estate to John G. and Katharine B. Parsons.
The land on the east side of Main Street north from Gen. Benjamin Bellows' north line (at Graves' place #94) was part of the holdings of Rev. Jonathan Leavitt. He is supposed to have had a mansion some- where here, but nothing more is known of it. He sold 1777 to Thomas Sparhawk. The latter died intestate, his son-in-law Josiah Bellows, who had married first his daughter Rebecca and second his daughter Mary, receiving the share of each daughter from the estate. This land from the Graves' place to North Road was part of that property.
95. JOHN DAVIES STAMM: In 1865 Mary Ann Bellows (widow of Josiah 3rd) and Josiah G. Bellows sold to Henry W. S. Griswold five acres in the southwest corner of their property here, 13 rods on the street; 1874 assignees same to Frances A. Bates (Mrs. Silas). This was in the heyday of the shirt manufacturing business and the Bateses and Hoopers (next south of Jennison house) tried to outdo each other in the grandeur of their new houses, using such details as silver doorknobs, mahogany trim, spiral stairway, stairwell to third floor, fourth floor stairway entering cupola, and marble basin slabs in bathroom with copper basins. Frances A. Bates left the place to Josephine F. Houghton, to Clarence W. Hough- ton, to Sarah Feathers Houghton whose estate sold in 1957 to John Davies and Sarah Babbitt Stamm of New York City.
M. J. Britton occupied this place several years.
96. ERNEST L. MITCHELL: The next place north was the Bellows home for three generations. In 1814 Josiah and Mary Bellows sold five acres, 26 rods frontage, here to their son Josiah 3rd who built a plain colonial
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house which his son, Josiah G., considerably embellished. The house re- mained in the family until after the death of Mary Bellows Quincy, daughter of Josiah G., and was sold in 1944 to the present owners.
97. HOWARD S. ANDROS:
In 1832 "after the death of her husband, Mrs. Louisa Bellows Hayward returned to Walpole to live and soon built a cottage near her father's residence and on part of his farm. Here she lived with her children until her removal to her Prospect Hill farm. While building her cottage she boarded with her uncle, Thomas Sparhawk, and it is interesting to note, as showing the cheapness of living sixty years ago, that the whole charge for board for herself, three children and nurse was $4.50 a week." Bellows Genealogy P. 190 (1895).
Louisa Hayward bought the lot (13 rods on the street) in 1842; sold 1855 to James Hooper, Jr .; 1870 to Joseph H. Plaistridge; 1886 his heirs to Joseph Schnepf. He was a German, who had no connection here when he died. He lived with Eliza Floyd on the Kathan place, inherited her property, moved to the village, and left his property to the Josiah Bel- lows family who lived next door. The estate was settled in 1896. In 1935 Mary Bellows Quincy sold the place to Grace R. Canfield who left it to Ellen Bellows Endicott; 1950 to Howard S. and Marion W. Andros.
Because Mary Bates had rented this house, it is known as the Bates Cottage. There is some indication that there was a house here previously. 98. ESTHER M. ANDROS: In 1860 Mary Bellows sold the next lot north with 29 acres to the east to Henry G. Wheelock; 1867 to John W. Hay- ward; 1867 a house lot here to Dr. John W. Knight who had come to Walpole about 1852, and who had first lived on School Street. He built this house in 1868. He was clever mechanically, as well as in his profes- sion, doing much of the building and making his furniture himself. He was much annoyed by the boys rattling his picket fence. He practiced medicine for some years, then retired and led a quiet private life. In 1902 he auctioned his household goods, sold his house to John W. Hayward, and removed to Farmington where he died in 1904.
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