A memorial of the town of Hampstead, New Hampshire : historic and genealogic sketches. Proceedings of the centennial celebration, July 4th, 1849. Proceedings of the 150th anniversary of the town's incorporation, July 4th, 1899, Volume I, Part 20

Author: Noyes, Harriette Eliza, b. 1848, comp
Publication date: 1899
Publisher: Boston : G.B. Reed
Number of Pages: 676


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Abigail Brown, daughter of Joseph Brown.


Elizabeth Emerson, daughter of Deacon John Emerson.


Mary Emerson, daughter of Deacon John Emerson.


Abigail Little, daughter of Moses Little.


Ann M. Howard, teacher several years.


Hannah J. Bailey, daughter of Horace Bailey.


Mary Abbie Merrill, daughter of Simon Merrill (mar. Rev. Geo. O. Jen- ness).


Susan Putnam, daughter of Thorndike Putnam (mar. George Merrill). Julia Williams, daughter of Jonathan Williams.


Dolly Ann Williams, daughter of Jonathan Williams.


Elvira L. Johnson, daughter of Capt. William Johnson, teacher several years (mar. Wm. A. Aldrich).


Helen M. Putnam, daughter of Henry Putnam (mar. Wm. E. Buck).


Helen H. Eastman, daughter of Joseph Eastman (mar. Elmer S. Harris). Abbie Nichols, daughter of Hiram Nichols.


Sally Marshall, daughter of Caleb Marshall.


Hannah Irving, daughter of Jacob Irving.


Sarah Ellen Irving, daughter of Jacob Irving (mar. William Cowdery).


Annie L. Heath, daughter of Eliphalet Heath (mar. Calvin Merrick).


Grace H. Moulton, daughter of Bruce Moulton (mar. Russell Hooke). Annie E. George, daughter of Warren George, teacher thirty years,-at present at Newton, Mass., as Master's assistant in Williams school.


Mary E. Noyes, daughter of Edward R. Noyes (mar. Lorenzo F. Hyde).


Harriette E. Noyes, daughter of Joshua F. Noyes.


Abbie A. Johnson, daughter of Nathan Johnson.


Orrie Belle Little, daughter of Wm. C. Little (mar. Rev. Edwin E. Pressey).


Lillie E. Noyes, daughter of Edward R. Noyes (mar. Geo. A. Sawyer).


Alice M. Little, daughter of William C. Little.


Annie Fitts. daughter of George Fitts (mar. John C. Sanborn).


Helen P. Lake, daughter of Thorndike Lake, teacher (mar. Harry A. Tucker).


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Mary E. Lake, daughter of Thorndike Lake (mar. Charles H. Sweet). Grace M. Bassett, daughter of Charles Bassett, teacher present time. Minnie Townsend, daughter of Jacob Townsend (mar. Dr. Minot Steele). Emma S. Nichols, daughter of Osa Nichols, teacher present time. Flora Nichols, daughter of Osa Nichols, teacher present time.


Jessie M. Little, daughter of Eben and Mary (Nichols) Little, teacher of music, present time.


Etta Tabor, daughter of John Tabor (mar. Amos Fitts).


Abbie M. Grover, daughter of C. H. Grover, teacher present time.


Annie G. Smith, daughter of Nathaniel C. Smith, teacher.


Mary B. Smith, daughter of Nathaniel C. Smith, artist. Susie C. Smith, daughter of Rufus C. Smith, teacher.


Alice N. Smith, daughter of Rufus C. Smith, teacher.


Emma E. Emerson, daughter of Daniel H. Emerson (mar. Elwin A. Edgerly).


Mary E. Emerson, daughter of James H. Emerson (mar. Harry I. Noyes). Esther G. Bailey, daughter Charles W. Bailey, teacher, spring 1899, in Hampstead.


Dana O. Marble, son of Giles Marble, deceased, teacher at Hillsboro, N.H. J. William Carr, son of Daniel Carr, Instructor at Harvard College, 1899. Elsie M. Hyde, daughter of George H. Hyde, teacher present time. Mary F. Heath, danghter John H. Heath, teacher present time.


SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEES.


FROM TOWN RECORDS.


1801. Rev. John Kelly, John Calfe, True Kimball.


1802. John Calfe. True Kimball, John True.


1803. Rev. John Kelly, True Kimball. John Calfe.


1804.


1805. 1806.


1807. 1808.


1809 to 1815. True Kimball, Rev. John Kelly, John True 1815. Nathaniel Little, John Emerson Jr., John True ..


1816. Rev. John Kelly, True Kimball, James Knight.


1817. Rev. John Kelly, Jeremiah Spofford, James Knight.


1818 to 1º21. Rev. John Kelly, Isaac Tewksbury Jr., John True.


1821. Nathaniel Little, Samuel Smith, Jesse Gordon.


1822. Rev. John Kelly, James Knight, John True, Isaac Tewksbury.


1823. Rev. John Kelly, John True, Samuel Marshall.


1×24. Rev. John Kelly, Isaac Tewksbury, James Knight.


1825. Rev. John Kelly, Samuel Morse, Isaac Tewksbury.


1826. Rev. John Kelly, Samuel Marshall, Jesse Gordon.


1827. Rev. John Kelly, James Calef, Isaac Tewksbury.


1839. Rev. Jolin M. C. Bartley, B. B. Bunker, Josiah C. Eastman. 1842 to 1844. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, Isaac Smith, Josiah C. Eastman.


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1845. Rev J. M. C. Bartley, James Calef, Benjamin B. Garland.


1846. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, A. B. Marshall, Caleb Moulton.


1847. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, A. B. Marshall, James Calef.


1848. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, J. C. Eastman, A. B. Marshall.


1849. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, Isaac Smith, A. W. Marshall.


1850. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, Isaac Smith, James Calet.


1851. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, Isaac Smith, Caleb Moulton.


1852.


Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, Caleb Moulton, F. J. Stevens.


1853. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley, Caleb Moulton, F. J. Stevens.


1854. Caleb Moulton. F. J. Stevens, Henry Putnam.


1855. F. J. Stevens.


1856. Benjamin Pillsbury, Samuel Morse, Henry Putnam.


1857. Rev. J. M. C. Bartley.


1858. Caleb Moulton.


1859. Caleb Moulton.


1860. Rev. T. C. Pratt.


1861. Josiah C. Eastman (resigned), and Caleb Moulton (appointed).


1862. Rev. T. C. Pratt.


1863. Rev. George W. T. Rogers.


1864. Rev. T. C. Pratt.


1865. Rev. T. C. Pratt.


1866. Rev. T. C. Pratt.


1867. Rev. T. C. Pratt.


1868. Rev. T. C. Pratt. Caleb Moulton, William C. Little.


1869. Charles S. Boynton, William C. Little, Caleb Moulton.


1870. George O. Jenness.


1872. Rev. E. W. Bullard.


1873. Rev. E. W. Buliard.


1874. Miss Mary E. Noyes.


1875. George O. Jenness, resigned, Caleb Moulton appointed.


1876. Caleb Moulton.


1877. Caleb Moulton.


1878. Rev. Albert Watson.


1879. Rev. Albert Watson.


1880. Rev. Albert Watson.


1881. Charles W. Peaslee, deceased, and William (. Little appointe Apr. 8th.


1882. William C. Little.


1883. William C. Little.


1884. Dr. Josiah C. Eastman.


1885. Rev. Albert Watson.


1886. The Board of Education consisted of JJohn D. Ordway, elected for one year; James H. Emerson, two; and Moses C. Morse, three.


1887. James H. Emerson, one year; Moses C. Morse, two; John D. Ord- way, three.


1888. Moses C. Morse, one year ; John D. Ordway, two; James H. Emer- son, three. 1889. Andrew M. Moulton, one year; James H. Emerson, two; John F. McCollister, three.


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1800. James H. Emerson, one year; John F. MeCollister, two; George R. Bennette, three.


1891. John F. McCollister, one year; George R. Bennette, two; Sarah O. Brickett, three.


1892. George R. Bennette, one year; Sarah O. Brickett, two; Moses C. Morse, three.


1993. Sarah O. Brickett, one year; Moses C. Morse, two; Forrest E. Mer- rill, three.


1894. Moses C. Morse, one year; Forrest E. Merrill, two; Sarah O. Brickett, three.


1895. Forrest E. Merrill, one year; Sarah O. Brickett, two; Andrew M. Moulton, three.


1896. Amelia F. Bennette, one year; Andrew M. Moulton, two; Elmer E. Lake, three.


1897. Andrew M. Moulton, one year; Elmer E. Lake, two; Oliver Put- nam, three (deceased).


1898. Elmer E. Lake, one year; Irving Leighton, two; James W. San- born, three (resigned), and Adin S. Little appointed.


1899.


Irving Leighton, one year; Henry Noyes, two; Walter A. Allen, three.


John S. Corson, Clerk of School District from 1886 to 1900.


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PUBLIC LIBRARY.


The value of public libraries as a means of education was early shown by the people of New Hampshire and soon after the close of the Revolution, library associations were char- tered rapidly in the state, at the rate of twenty a year, but relying wholly upon private enterprises.


They were not free libraries. The people of Peterborough established the first free library in New Hampshire, and were also the first in the United States to maintain free libraries by taxation. Hampstead was the first promoter of the act, as on Friday, June 29, 1849, Dr. Josiah C. Eastman introduced a bill in the legislature entitled " An act providing for the es- tablishment of public libraries ;" this was approved July 7, Samuel Dinsmoor being Governor. The text of the law was as follows :--


" Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened. That any town in this state at any legal meeting notified and holden for the purpose, and the city council of any city in this state may raise and appropriate money to procure books, maps, charts, periodicals, and other publications for the establishment and perpetual maintenance, within the limits of such town, or city, of a public library ; for the purchase of such lands and the erec- tion of such buildings as may be necessary for the suitable ac- commodation ; and for the compensation of such officers or agents as may be necessarily employed in the establishment and management of such library.


Sect. 2. Every public library established under the pro- visions of this act shall be open to the free use of every in- habitant of the town or city where the same exists, for the general diffusion of intelligence among all classes of the com-


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munity, subject to such rules and regulations, for the well ordering and careful preservation thereof as may be established and ordained by such town or city.


Sect. 3. Any town or city shall receive, hold and possess, or sell and dispose of all such gifts, donations, devises, be- quests and legacies as may be made to such town or city for the purpose of establishing, increasing or improving such public library ; and may apply the proceeds, interests, rents and prof- its, accruing therefrom in such manner as will best promote the prosperity and utility of such library.


Sect. 4. Every town or city in which a public library shall be established under the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to receive annually a copy of the laws, journals and all other works published by authority of the state, for the use of such library, and the secretary of state is hereby authorized and required to furnish the same from year to year to such town or city.


Sect. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its pas- sage."


Massachusetts followed the example two years later and other states soon after. Thus Dr. Eastman, fifty years ago, planted libraries, open to the free use of every inhabitant, which have sprung up in nearly every city and town. Another step forward was taken in 1891, in which the state could furnish money for the nucleus of a free public library in any town willing to care for it.


But Hampstead through the munificence of one of her pul)- lic-spirited citizens had received a bequest for the purchase of books, with a permanent library in view, three years before the act of legislature. The town had what was called a So- cial Library with a collection of valuable books, as long ago as 1796, but we find recorded under the work of the annual meeting held Nov. 6th, 1888, " Whereas the town on the 29th day of March last voted to accept the proposal of Nelson Ord- way in regard to the purchase of books and the location of & library, now, in order that there may be no mistake or


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misunderstanding between the town and the said Ordway : Re- solved, That the proposal between the town and said Ordway be as follows, viz. :-- That said Ordway shall pay the sum of one thousand dollars, to be expended in books to be selected and purchased by Henry C. Ordway and others elected as trustees by the town, and that the town shall furnish a suit- able place for keeping said books, and taking care of them in some suitable building, now or hereafter built between the town house and Col. A. L. Eastman's house in Hampstead, and that the books and the building for keeping the same forever, be located within the limits aforesaid. The aforesaid sum shall be payable by said Ordway when a place for keeping the books is provided as aforesaid, and is called for by the aforesaid trus- tees."


The brick house owned by Willard F. Williams (known as the Gibson House ) was selected for the keeping of the books and rooms fitted for the purpose.


The town elected Henry C. Ordway, Dr. Josiah C. East- man, Dr. George R. Bennette, Samuel Morse, and Wm. A. Em- erson, as trustees for one year, also chosen to purchase the books, and Willard F. Williams was selected as librarian, which place he filled until 1896, when Mrs. Fannie S. Foote was chosen one year, to 1897.


The following proposition was given by Nelson Ordway, March 10th, 1896, to the inhabitants of the town of Hamp- stead.


" As I feel interested that the town of Hampstead should have a suitable publie library, in a suitable location, and should have a public library properly cared for and well supplied with books for the free use of the inhabitants, I make this offer.


That I will give to the town of Hampstead, at my decease, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3000) for the use of the Library, said sum to be kept invested by the Selectmen of the town as a permanent fund, in such securities as are author- ized by the laws of the State of New Hampshire, for the in-


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vestment of funds by guardians and trustees, and the income arising therefrom to be paid over annually, or as much oftener as the Selectmen may see fit, to the board of trustees selected by the town to manage the affairs of the Library, and applied and used by them for the purchase of new books for the Li- brary or the rebinding of old books when necessary. I will also give to the town the further sum of one thousand dollars ($1000) towards the purchase of a suitable lot, and erecting thereon a suitable building to be used for the purpose of the Library, to be paid as soon as the conditions as to the lot and buildings are complied with. I offer to give these sums on these conditions : That the town shall, within six months from the date of this offer, procure a suitable location for a library building, obtain plans for the building, raise and appropriate a sum of money in addition to the sum of one thousand dol- lars ($1000), sufficient to purchase the lot, and build and fur- nish the building for the uses of the Library, and commence the erection of the building. The location and plans to be subject to my approval, and that the town, by the acceptance of the gift of three thousand dollars ($3000) for the purpose above specified, shall be forever bound to furnish all suitable arrangements for the care and keeping of the Library, and de- livery of books therefrom for the use of the inhabitants of the town."


The town accepted the bequest from Mr. Ordway, and Charles W. Bailey, Charles W. Pressey, and Herrick C. Hun- toon were elected a committee on library building. The Hampstead Public Library was dedicated with appropriate exercises in the Library Hall, and continued in the Congre- gational Church, on the afternoon of May 18th, 1897. Charles W. Garland, Chairman of Selectmen, was president of the occasion. Rev. Rufus P. Gardner delivered the principal ad- dress of the afternoon, followed by Judge Isaac William Smith, and Wm. E. Buck of Manchester, N. H., Rev. M. P. Dickey of Milton, and others.


The following have served as trustees of the Library, name- ly :


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James H. Emerson, Geo. R. Bennette, Andrew M. Moul- ton, John S. Corson and Francis H. Sawyer, elected in 1889 for one year.


1890-Geo. R. Bennette, John S. Corson, and Moses C. Morse.


1891-John S. Corson, Isaac Randall, and Geo. R. Bennette.


1892-Geo. R. Bennette, for three years, John S. Corson, for two years, Daniel N. Hoyt, one year.


1893-Daniel N. Hoyt, three years.


1894-John S. Corson, three years.


1895-Geo. R. Bennette, three years.


1896-Daniel Emerson, three years.


1897-John S. Corson, three years.


1898-Rufus P. Gardner, three years.


1899-Daniel Emerson, three years.


Miss Mary Lillian Hoyt was elected in 1897 and is the present librarian.


In addition to the books purchased by the fund of one thous- and dollars ($1000) in 1888 from Mr. Nelson Ordway, he has since given one hundred dollars ($100) for the same purpose. Other individuals interested in the Library have, from time to time, made gifts of books. Hannah M. Millard, a native of Hampstead but lately of Providence, R. I., left by will " To the town of Hampstead, two hundred dollars ($200) for the pur- chase of a set of standard library books, upon art or science, for the Public Library in said town, said books to be approved by the executors thereinafter named, to be suitably inscribed with my name, and they shall always be kept in the Library building." Thus, we have a LIBRARY of well selected and valuable books numbering nearly fifteen hundred volumes, valued by our people as a means for the promotion of intel- ligence and education of our community.


RELIGIOUS WORK IN HAMPSTEAD.


The Pioneers of Hampstead had been taught the principles of the Congregational faith, the established church of New England. They brought with them their love of that form of religion, and early built their first rude house for public worship. The history of that building as far as known to us, and the reasons for the erection of the " new meeting-house" will be found in the historical addresses of the Centennial and 150th Celebrations. The efforts to secure a pastor and final settlement of Rev. Henry True, as well as the extensive repairs and addition of porch and steeple, will be also found in another part of this work, as well as the causes that led to the leaving of the "old meeting-house" in 1837 and the erection of a new church building by the minister people (as they were then called) for their own exclusive use. The church stood on the same site of the present church edifice and cost three thousand dollars. From some cause the build- ing was deemed unsafe, in 1860, and early in the spring of 1861, about two week before the Civil war was declared, a church meeting was holden and a decision agreed to take down the church and rebuild a new and more commodious one. Had that decision been deferred a few days, the plans must have been stayed for a time at least. Dea. William Sanborn and Frederick A. Pike were a Committee to remove the old building, and build the new one.


The old church was taken down and removed to Merrimac, Mass., where the lumber was used in one of the carriage factories there, and the present building erected on the spot.


The chapel was added to the church building in 1886 at an expense of nearly $2000 and dedicated, free from debt, Jan. 27, 1887.


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The prosperity and advancement of the age is marked in the comparison between the rude log house in which our fathers worshipped, with its seats and pulpit of the rudest form, without fire or other conveniences, and the house in which we worship today, heated with furnace, its cushioned seats and carpeted floors, its handsome pulpit set and chandeliers, its pipe organ and piano, its hymnal for church services, and gospel song books for devotional meetings, its well appointed chapel, with audience room neatly furnished with pulpit set, organ, chandeliers, etc., its walls handsomely frescoed and graced with pictures of several of its pastors, its pastor's study, ladies' parlor, dining room, kitchen and cupboard, well filled with dishes, etc.


PASTORS AND DEACONS.


The Congregational church was organized June 3, 1752, with sixty-eight members, thirty-one males and thirty-seven females, and on the 24th of the same month Rev. Henry True was ordained pastor, which position he held thirty years, until his death, May 22, 1782. During his pastorate eighty- three members were received into the church. The church was without a pastor for ten years after Mr. True's death, during which time only five members were added to the church.


Rev. John Kelly was ordained pastor Dec. 5, 1792, and continued forty-four years, receiving one hundred and sixty- eight into the church. He was dismissed Oct. 12, 1836, when seventy-three years of age. Rev. John M. C. Bartley was installed the day of Mr. Kelly's dismissal, and served as pastor twenty-one years, during which time one hundred and four were received into membership. The church was again with- out a pastor from December, 1857, to June, 1859, when Rev. Theodore C. Pratt was ordained. During his ministry of eleven years sixty-six were added to the church. Rev. Ebenezer W. Bullard was installed Dec. 14, 1870, and dismissed Oct. 25, 1875. He received twenty-two into the church membership. Rev. Albert Watson was installed March 23, 1876, and dis-


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missed June 11, 1893. One hundred and eighty-two were added to the church during his pastorate. The present pastor, Rev. Rufus P. Gardner, commenced work Nov. 1, 1893, and was installed one month later, Dec. 5th of the same year. Fifty-eight members have been united with the church during his pastorate to October, 1899, thirty-seven of them on con- fession of faith.


In 1828 the church contained one hundred and ten mem- bers ; in 1834, eighty-one; in 1844, ninety-five; in 1858, sixty-eight (its original number) ; in 1861, eighty-three; in 1876, seventy-two; in 1887, one hundred and fifty-seven ; at the present time, one hundred and sixty-five.


PARSONAGES.


Tradition says that " the Rev. Mr. Parker and other neigh- boring ministers, while in Hampstead, lived where Mr. Charles Damon (the Kent and Chandler homestead) now resides." The Rev. Henry True owned the lands and lived on the lo- cation where the home of the late Francis Merrick was burned, until about 1766-7, when he built and occupied the house where Francis H. Sawyer now resides, and remained there until his death. The " parsonage farm " was where Mr. Charles Rundlett now occupies, and the Rev. Mr. Kelly resided at that home until he built the house now occupied by Mrs. Moore and grandson, A. Sidney Little, and family, in 1808. Rev. Mr. Bartley first lived, for a short time, where Mr. Orren B. Rundlett's summer home stands, but the greater part of his pastorate he lived where Andrew M. Moulton re- sides. The last few years he lived at the Cogswell house (the " brick house," as it is now called).


Mr. Pratt lived in the house now occupied by Jacob Town- send, and afterwards in the house last mentioned.


Rev. Mr. Bullard and Rev. Mr. Watson lived during their pastorates in the house where Dr. E. E. Lake now lives.


The present parsonage was built in 1893, and the Rev. Mr. Gardner occupied it since near the beginning of his pastorate.


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During the one hundred and forty-seven years of its existence nineteen persons have served as deacons, their terms of service beginning as follows :---


Daniel Little,


Aug. 6, 1751.


Peter Eastman,


Benjamin Kimball,


Jan. 23. 1754.


John Calfe,


Apr. 20, 1773. June 1, 1776.


Samuel Currier,


Timothy Goodwin,


Moses Little,


May 3, 1804.


Job Kent,


April 30, 1812.


John True,


May 2, 1816.


John Emerson.


March 2, 1821.


Jonathan Kent,


Dec. 23, 1824.


Joshua Eastman,


Nov. 24, 1848.


Joseph Chase,


Aug. 16, 1859.


William Sanborn,


Caleb W. Williams,


Aug. 31, 1872.


Charles W.Pressey,


Dec. 31, 1884.


John W. Garland,


Dec. 30, 1891.


William H. Davis,


Dec. 30, 1896.


Forrest E. Merrill,


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The four last are now in office.


During the nearly one hundred and forty-eight years since its organization the church has had only seven pastors-a fact worthy of note. They have all been earnest, zealous workers in their time, and have left an influence in the town that will go on through all time. The church prayer meeting has been through all these years a power for good in the community, and at the present day is as largely attended as any in New England (in proportion to the" population), averaging on pleasant evenings from fifty to ninety people.


SUNDAY SCHOOL.


From the old records there are indications of a class or school for Bible study during the early history of the church, but no authentic account of an organized Sunday school is


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given prior to 1818. From that date up to within the last quarter of a century, the records were very imperfect, so that we find nothing definite regarding the early management of the school. At the present time the school numbers two hundred and thirty-seven, including the Home Department. There are fourteen classes, divided into three grades-Senior, Intermediate and Primary. The school has a fine library of 450 volumes.


The present officers are as follows :-


Superintendent-Forrest E. Merrill.


Assistant Superintendent-John C. Sanborn.


Assistants-Miss Ethel L. Sanborn and Lillian D. Rundlett.


Secretary and Treasurer-Miss M. Frances Heath.


Librarian-Mrs. E. Cecil Mills.


Chorister-Forrest E. Merrill.


Pianist-Mrs. Frank W. Emerson.


Board of Management, in addition to the officers-Mrs.


Albert H. Little and Mrs. Henry W. Tabor.


LADIES' AID SOCIETY.


The oldest records of the Ladies' Aid Society commenced in 1862. An account was then given of the annual meeting of the "Ladies' Charitable Society," so we infer that an organization existed previous to that date. The officers chosen at that time were :-


President-Mrs. Adeline Eastman.


Vice President-Mrs. Lillian Sanborn.


Secretary and Treasurer-Miss Ann M. Howard.


Assistant-Miss Judith Eastman.


A committee, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. R. Kimball Brick- ett, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Ordway, Mrs. Swan, Mrs. Adeline Eastman, and Miss Ann M. Howard, were chosen to select and purchase cushions for the seats, and carpet for the aisles and platform, of the new church. There were forty members at this time. In 1868 there were three members. In 1870




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