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Osgood True, born in Plainfield, August 5, 1789, died October 26, 1856. After complet- ing his public-school education, he stayed for a short time as a helper on his father's farm, and later assumed the management of the farm and carried it on until his death. He raised large numbers of cattle and sheep as well as some garden produce. He was Selectman for a number of years ; and he represented the town in the State legislature for a time, fulfilling the obligations of these important trusts to the full satisfaction of his constituents. For many years prior to his death he was a Dea- con of the Baptist church. Educational mat- ters obtained considerable attention from him. He took an active part in the service of the militia, being finally chosen Captain. He married Betsey Morgan, daughter of Nathaniel Morgan, a well-to-do farmer of Plainfield. She was born July 10, 1793, and died .Novem- ber 9, 1875. Their six children were: Mar- cia E., born July 1, 1820; Ellen M., born July 8, 1822; Benjamin O., born June I, 1824; Nathaniel M., the subject of this sketch; David P., born August 18, 1829; and Ellen M. (second), born July 13, 1833. Mar- cia married Jasper H. Purmort, a prosperous farmer of Lebanon, and has a family of chil- dren. Ellen M. (first) died in infancy. Ben- . jamin O. died in November, 1845, at the age of twenty-one years, having just graduated from Kimball Union Academy. David P., who is a successful farmer in Minnesota, first married
Lucy Kidder, and had two children His sec- ond wife, whose maiden name was Crowe, bore him one daughter, now a physician well known in her profession in the West. Ellen M. (second) married Thomas E. Hough, who has been a successful farmer and travelling agent, living in Claremont and in New York State. They have four children - Clement T., Elizabeth E., Della M., and Kate M.
Nathaniel M. True attended Kimball Union Academy. After finishing school, he worked on the homestead farm, assisting his father in the management for a time. When the health of the latter became poor, he took full charge. The farm, which is a large one, containing nearly five hundred acres, has a handsome resi- dence and numerous well-kept buildings. Mr. True has given his personal attention to all the details of his business, which he finds quite enough to occupy his full time. He has never cared for public life, nor aspired to po- litical preferment. On October 13, 1853, he married Ruth L. Hough, daughter of Clement Hough, of Lebanon, a leading farmer of his time in that place. Mrs. True was born May 25, 1834. They have no children.
IZRA TAFT SIBLEY, a retired manu- facturer of Newport, Sullivan County, was born in Auburn, Mass., Febru- ary 3, 1817, son of Ezra and Marcia (Taft) Sibley. His grandfather, Reuben Sibley, who was also a Massachusetts man, and is said to have been born in Sutton of that State, car- ried on general farming for a time. Reuben went to Maine and settled in the town of Jay, Franklin County, where he conducted a ferry on the Androscoggin River during the re- mainder of his life. His son, Ezra, born in Sutton, September 21, 1787, was a scythe maker - a trade which he learned when a
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young man. He conducted a successful busi- ness in Auburn, Mass., several years, was a liberal in religion, and a Democrat in poli- tics. In the year 1815 he married Marcia Taft, a native of Uxbridge, Mass., who died at the age of twenty-eight years. They had two children: Ezra T., the subject of this sketch; and Evelyn, who married Mr. Lowell Sweetzer, of Wakefield, Mass., and died in June, 1871. . His second marriage was con- tracted with Elmira Golding, who lived to a good age. He died March 13, 1830.
Ezra T. Sibley lived in Auburn until the death of his father, which occurred when he was but thirteen years of age. Then he went to his grandfather's at Uxbridge, remaining there for two years. At this time he went to Millbury, Mass., where he entered the employ of Hale & Whipple, scythe manufacturers, and learned the trade which he has since made his business. He remained with that firm about three and one-half years, after which he worked at his trade in Chelmsford, Mass., for one year, and in New London, N. H., for nine years. In 1845 he came to Newport, N. H., and bought a half-interest in the scythe factory owned by Mr. Larned. The factory had been conducted by Larned & Sibley for three years, when on account of the failure of his health Mr. Larned disposed of his interest in the business to William Dunton, of Newport. Three years later Mr. Sibley bought out Mr. Dunton, and thereafter ran the business alone until 1873, when he took his son into partner- ship. In 1891 he retired after a continuous business life of forty-six years, being at that time the oldest manufacturer of scythes in the United States. He still carries on his farm, and also operates a lumber-mill at North New- port. He has been largely instrumental in building up the present business successfully carried on by his son. His political prin-
ciples are Republican, and he has served Newport in the capacities of Selectman and legislative Representative.
On July 19, 1838, Mr. Sibley married Lydia D. Gay, who was born in New London, N. H., March 10, 1820, daughter of David and Asenath (Davis) Gay. Mr. and Mrs. Sibley have had six children, as follows: Amelia R., born April 7, 1840; Frank A., born January 28, 1851 ; Anson, who died at the age of two years; Isabelle, who died aged six and one- half years; and two who died in infancy. Amelia R. is now the wife of Samuel Allen, who is employed in the scythe factory ; and she has eight children. Frank A., who married Mary M. Putnum, and has three children, is now carrying on the scythe-manufacturing business established by his father. A self- made man and one of the oldest residents of the town, Ezra Taft Sibley has the sincere respect of his fellow-townsmen.
AVID N. PATTERSON, for many years one of the most active and prominent business men of Contoo- cook, N. H., was born June 1, 1800, in Hen- niker, Merrimack County, and died March 28, 1892, in the village of Contoocook, at the ven- erable age of ninety-one years, nine months, and twenty-eight days. He was of Scotch- Irish ancestry, so called, being a direct de- scendant of John Patterson, who on account of religious persecution fled from Scotland to the northern part of Ireland, where his son Robert and his grandson, who, it is thought, was named Alexander, were born. The lat- ter emigrated to America in 1721, bringing with him his family, which included a son, Alexander second.
Alexander Patterson, second, married Eliza- beth Arbuckle, who was born in 1720 on board
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ship in which her parents came to this country. He settled first in Londonderry, N. H., where he held office in 1751, but subsequently re- moved to Pembroke, N. H., in the early days of its settlement, and was one of the first Se- lectmen of the town. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. His wife, a well- educated woman for those days, taught school several terms. In 1799 they migrated to Thetford, Vt., going thence to Strafford, Vt., where both died in 1802. They had nine children, Alexander, the third to bear that name, being the next in line of descent.
Alexander third, born July 10, 1763, mar- ried Mary Nelson, of Sterling, Mass., and settled in Henniker, N. H. In 1806 he erected a building on the site now occupied by the residence of W. P. Cogswell, and put in water-works, which were used until 1878. Ile was very prominent and popular among his fellow-men, full of humor and ready wit, and was generally accosted by young and old as Uncle Sandy. He died January 12, 1827, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. They had a family of eleven children, of whom David N., the special subject of this biographical sketch, was the seventh-born. Their daughter Mary M., the next younger child, became a very suc- cessful teacher, being endowed with a strong personality and a remarkable gift for imparting knowledge. She began teaching at the age of eighteen, and taught in Henniker and Warner until 1828. Going then to Cambridge, Wash- ington County, N. Y., she taught in that local- ity twenty years. In 1844 she received a State license on parchment, and continued her labors until 1869, devoting forty-nine years to the education of the young. Her husband, Hlervey Culver, to whom she was married in 1846, dying in 1875, she removed to Vassar, Mich.
David N. Patterson left home at the age of
sixteen years, going to Weare to work for his brother-in-law, John Chase. Four years later he began working at the clothier's trade with his brother Joab, a woollen manufacturer in Deering, N. H. In 1829 the two young men came to Contoocook, establishing themselves in business, first in carding rolls, then engag- ing in fulling and shearing, eventually engag- ing in the full manufacture of cloths, their old mills standing on the site of the present silk factory. There were several mills in that vicinity, including a saw-mill, a grist-mill, a sash, door, and blind mill, a kit factory, a woollen-mill, etc., all of which were destroyed in the fall of 1871, the silk-mill having since been erected. The Patterson brothers contin- ued in business until 1860, building up a sub- stantial and profitable trade from one which at the beginning was largely an exchange. David N. Patterson continued his residence in the village until his death, preserving his mental and physical activities in a remarkable manner. He was very influential in local affairs, a strong worker in the temperance cause, and an enthusiastic laborer in the Free Will Baptist church, of which he was a mem- ber and for sixteen years the superintendent of the Sunday-school. In 1842 and 1843 he was one of the Selectmen of Hopkinton, and in 1845 and 1846 was a Representative to the General Court. In his younger days he served four years as Lieutenant in a company of militia.
On March 17, 1830, David N. Patterson married Maria Woods, a daughter of William S. and Betsey D. (Dutton) Woods. Mr. Woods settled in Henniker in 1800, purchas- ing mills at West Henniker, and was the first to carry on the clothier's trade there to any extent. A citizen of prominence, he served as Selectman in 1813, 1814, and 1815, and was a member of the State legislature in 1832 and
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1833. He died at a good old age, March 29, 1847; and his wife passed away October 31, 1849. Mrs. Maria Woods Patterson died May 19, 1873, leaving four children, namely : Susan M., wife of Captain D. Howard, of Concord, N. H. ; William A., of Contoocook ; and Annette and Jennette, twins, the former of whom lives in Concord. The latter first married Charles Upton, of Amherst, N. H., and after his death became the wife of Charles H. Danforth, of Contoocookville. On June 15, 1875, Mr. Patterson married for his second wife Mrs. Sarah W. Batchelder, widow of Moses Batchelder, and daughter of Samuel and Mary (Gove) Philbrick, of Andover, N. H. She died June 14, 1890, aged seventy-nine years and eight months.
William A. Patterson, born at Contoocook- ville, N. H., December 12, 1836, received but a limited education, being obliged to go into the mill and feed the carding machines as soon as he was tall enough to reach the carding places. At the age of seventeen he went to work for his uncle, Dutton Woods, a bridge contractor and builder, remaining with him six or more years. In 1859 he entered the blacksmith's shops of the Northern Railway Company, continuing until March, 1862, when he returned to Contoocook, accepting a posi- tion in the kit shop. On August 7, 1862, Mr. Patterson enlisted for a term of three years in Company B, Second New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry. Three days later, August 10, his marriage with Olive Amanda Allen, one of New Hampshire's brave and patriotic daughters, was solemnized. The following day he was mustered into service, and, leav- ing his bride, joined the Army of the Potomac. Ten days afterward he participated in the second battle of Bull Run, was taken prisoner, kept in the rebel lines a week, then paroled and. sent to Camp Parole, where he was ex-
changed. At once returning to his comrades, he joined them at Falmouth, December 17, 1862, while on their retreat from the first attack on Fredericksburg. He subsequently was at the front in many important battles, in- cluding Gettysburg, and saw much hard ser- vice. On July 1, 1864, he was made Corporal of his company. June 7, 1865, he was dis- charged from the hospital at Hampton, Va., where he had been ill for six months, although he was never wounded.
On returning to Contoocook, Mr. Patterson worked for a year on the railway, and then re- sumed his former employment with his uncle, assisting in building bridges on the Concord Railroad for two years, also working on the Claremont and Passumpsic railway's for four years. Since that time he has had charge of the branch office of Kimball & Lane, under- takers, of Concord, N. H. He is now serving his third year as Town Treasurer, besides which he is Treasurer and one of the stock- holders of the Contoocook Electric Light Company. He is not an active politician, but always votes the straight Republican ticket. He is a member of the society connected with the Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife is an active member. He is one of the leading Odd Fellows of this place, belonging to Kearsarge Lodge, I. O. O. F., and to Eagle Encampment, and in each body has been through all the chairs.
Mrs. Patterson is a grand-daughter of John and Hannah (Goldthwait) Allen, and a daugh- ter of Willard Allen, who was born in Cor- nish, N. H., September 3, 1811, and died in Contoocook, June 21, 1882. Mr. Allen was a brickmaker by trade, following it first in Chelsea, Mass., and later in Croydon, this State. In 1853 he came to Contoocook, and in company with Warren M. Kempton started a factory for making mackerel kits in the
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building now occupied by J. I. Morrill as a saw-mill. He had various partners, usually one of the Morrills, and continued in active business about twenty-five years. In 1838 he married Elvira Stone, of Grantham, a daughter of Daniel Stone. She died October 17, 1881, just a few months prior to his demise. They reared two children, namely : Olive Amanda, now Mrs. Patterson; and Walton Perkins Allen, of Hopkinton, N. H.
G EORGE WALLACE FISHER, a well-known farmer in Boscawen, N. H., was born June 26, 1837, in New London, this State. His father, Levi Fisher, was a native of Francestown, N. H. ; and his mother, Fannie Wilkins Fisher, was born June 12, 1808, in Merrimack.
Mr. Fisher's ancestors can be traced back nine generations, as follows: Anthony Fisher first, who is said to have lived at Wignotte, in Sylcham Parish, England, married Mary Fiske, daughter of William and Anne Fiske, of St. James, South Elmsham, County Suffolk. He doubtless died at Syleham, as he was buried there April 11, 1640. Anthony sec- ond, the third child of Anthony first and Mary, and one of a family of six children, was baptized at Syleham, County Suffolk, England, April 23, 1591. He came to New England with his wife Mary and his children in the ship "Rose," June 26, 1637, and settled at Dorchester, Mass. He was made a freeman, May, 1645. His first wife died, doubtless in Dorchester; and he married, in 1663, Isabel, widow of Edward Breck. He held the office of Selectman in Dorchester. On May 5, 1662, he was allowed by the town four pounds for killing six wolves. He died intestate, April 18, 1671, in his eightieth year. An- thony third, his eldest son, settled in Dedham
in 1637. He married September 7, 1647, Joanna, only daughter of Thomas and Joan Faxon, of Braintree. He removed from Ded- ham to Dorchester, where he died February 13, 1670. His widow died October 16, 1694. Their youngest son, Eleazer, the fourth in line, born at Dedham, September 18, 1669, died there February 6, 1722. He married October 13, 1698, Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Lane) Avery. She was born Au- gust 21, 1674, and died at Stoughton, March 25, 1749.
Their son David was born in Dedham, June 21, 1705. The spot where David's house stood in South Dedham is even now well known. He married first Deborah Boyden, second Elizabeth Talbot. The former died in July, 1770, aged fifty-nine years. David Fisher, first, died July 30, 1779. His chil- dren, all by his first wife, were: David, second, born January 22, 1733; Thomas; . Jacob; Deborah; Hannah; Nathan; Oliver ; Abigail; Mary; and Abner, the youngest, born June 20, 1755.
David second, eldest son of David and Deborah Fisher, and the sixth in the ancestral line, married Abigail Lewis, September 21, 1758, and settled on Morse Hill in Sharon (then Stoughtonham), Mass., where David third, who represents the seventh generation, was born June 26, 1759. He married Mehita- ble Hewins, born in Sharon, February 20, 1762.
David Fisher third, with other settlers from Dedham and Sharon, removed to Francestown about the year 1780, and cleared the farm known as the Jones Whitfield place, on the north-eastern slope of Oak Hill. Here he reared a family of thirteen children. He was large and athletic, his common weight, when in the prime and vigor of life, being two hundred and fifty pounds. He was known in
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both Dedham and Francestown as "King David." He entered the Revolutionary army when sixteen years of age. He died in Fran- cestown, November 8, 1829; his wife, Mehit- able, died in the same town, May 4, 1849. Their children, who were of the eighth gener- ation, and all save one born in Francestown, were: Mehitable, born February 18, 1782, married Ebenezer Burtt, of Hancock, and died in Francestown, September 17, 1854; David, born December 15, 1783, married Nancy Chandler, of Canton, Mass., and died in Charlotte, Me., March 11, 1842; Ebenezer, born August 11, 1785, married Sarah Johnson, of Sharon, Mass., went to Charlotte, Me., where he was a prosperous farmer and held various official positions, besides representing the town in the legislature, and died at Char- lotte, February 4, 1850; Juel, born July 16, 1787, married Anna Gage, of Merrimack, died in Bedford, August 23, 1834; Susannah, born" in Sharon, November 5, 1790, married Asa Howe, of Merrimack, died in Cooper, Me., February 26, 1860; Increase, born July 17, 1792, married Eunice Johnson, of Sharon, died in Charlotte, May 11, 1866; Enoch H., born March 16, 1794, married Roxana Lakin, of Francestown, died December 17, 1882, at Charlotte, Me. ; Benjamin, born February 22, 1796, married Mary Starboard, of Portland, Me., died in Francestown, March 13, 1848; Asa, born October 1, 1798, married Mary Gage, of Merrimack, died in Sutton, Febru- ary 28, 1846; Nancy, born October 10, 1800, married Walter Chadwick, of Sutton, died in Francestown, February 28, 1841; Levi (father of George W. Fisher), born March 14, 1803, married Fanny Wilkins, daughter of Alexan- der Wilkins, of Merrimack, was a farmer, and resided at Merrimack, where he died No- vember 29, 1880; Mary, born April 17, 1805, married Jefferson Jones, of New Boston, also
William Lovejoy, of Amherst, died in Goffs-, town, March 24, 1882; and Thomas, born May 12, 1808, married Lydia Hanson, of Weare, was a cabinet-maker, resided in Weare, N. H., where he died December 18, 1834.
Levi Fisher was a farmer. He removed from New London to Merrimack when his son, George W., was five years old; and he died there, November 29, 1880. His wife survives him, and lives with her son, Levi W., in Merrimack. Their children were five in num- ber, as follows: Levi W., Sarah W., George W., Anna L., and Cynthia M. The first of these, Levi W., was born September 19, 1829. He married Lucy A. Freeman, who died January 26, , 1875. He then married Frances E. Bowen. There was one child by the first marriage, Maria L., now the wife of Frank P. McAfee, of Nashua. By the second marriage there were three children: Fannie W., Ella Grace, and Edwin Milo, the first born March 9, 1884, the second March 3, 1886, and the third September 20, 1889; all are living at home. Levi Fisher's second child, Sarah W., was born February 6, 1832, and married Chester Bullard, of Nashua. Both are now deceased, he having died Novem- ber 12, 1884, and she January 3, 1896. They had no children. Anna L. was born March 4, 1840, and married Hazen G. Dodge, a farmer of Merrimack, born August 24, 1837. They reside there, and have one child - Elwin H., a machinist in Nashua, born De- cember 4, 1867. Cynthia M. was born Janu- ary 14, 1843, and became the wife of Edwin M. Shepherd, a watch-maker and jeweller of Malden, Mass., where they reside. They have two children : Grace Emery, wife of Charles Bennett, of Malden; and Florence, a teacher in Chelsea, Mass.
George W., the direct subject of the present sketch, remained at home with his parents
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until he was eighteen years old, when he went In Nashua, where be engaged in the sash, door, and blind business for five years. On October 7, 1861, he enlisted in Company I, Seventh New Hampshire Volunteers, under Colonel Putnam and Captain Joseph Freschl. He was in engagements in South Carolina and Florida. On account of poor health he was discharged at Portsmouth Grove, R. I., Octo- ber 29, 1863, and returned to Merrimack. He remained there till spring, then went to Man- chester, N. H., and again entered into the sash and blind business. He also did carpentering, and continued thus engaged for eight years. In 1872 he came to Boscawen, and engaged in carpentering for his father-in-law, making no change until 1876, when he bought his present farm. He has carried on general farming here ever since. He owns two hundred and thirty acres, has made various improvements on his property, keeps three horses and ten cows, and does quite a dairy business, shipping milk to Boston.
Mr. Fisher was a charter member of Ezekiel Webster Grange at Boscawen, has been Master three years, and has held other offices in the grange for nine years. He is connected with the G. A. R., having been a member of a post in Manchester, and being now a member of W. I. Brown Post at Penacook, N. H. Since July, 1868, he has belonged to Hillsborough Lodge, No. 2, I. O. O. F., of Manchester, of which he was at one time Chaplain. He has Iven Justice of the Peace for the past nineteen years, and for four years a member of the Board of Selectmen, being at present Chair- than ; and has been six years a member of the School Board and Chairman two years. He is a Republican in politics and an active worker 1. r that party.
Mr. Fisher was married December 14, 1865, to Mary R. Green, a native of Litchfield, born
December 6, 1836. She was the daughter of Hartwell W. and Sarah (Turner) Green, of Merrimack, both of whom are now dead. Mrs. Fisher died April 1, 1868; and Mr. Fisher was married November 30, 1869, to Esther P. Coffin, of Boscawen, who was born Decem- ber 15, 1843, a daughter of Peter and Eunice (Couch) Coffin, the former of whom was a native of Boscawen and the latter of Webster. By this second marriage there were three chil- dren - George F., Winfred, and Levi P. George F. was born June 23, 1871, mar- ried in 1896 Lizzie A. Bachelder, of North- field, and is engaged at home on the farm. Winfred was born May 18, 1873, was gradu- ated at Bryant & Stratton Commercial Col- lege, Manchester, and became a member of the firm of Balch, Chandler & Co., grocers, in Penacook. He died February 23, 1896. Levi P., born October 12, 1876, was graduated at the above college and is now at home.
Mr. Fisher and his wife both belong to the Congregational church, of which he has been a member at Nashua, Manchester, and Bos- cawen for thirty-eight years; and he has been superintendent of the Sunday-school for three years.
ANIEL GILMAN CHESLEY, one of the largest land-owners of Epsom, Merrimack County, was born upon the farm he now occupies, July 2, 1837, son of John and Joanna (Tibbetts) Chesley. The Chesley family is believed to be of English origin; and the great-grandfather of the sub- ject of this sketch was Lemuel Chesley, who resided in Lee, N. H.
His son, John Chesley, Sr., grandfather of Daniel Gilman, was born in Lee. When a young man he went to Chichester, N. II., where he learned blacksmithing of James Blake. After his marriage he settled in
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Epsom and continued to work at his trade for some time. He also followed agricultural pursuits quite extensively in this town, and kept a hotel. He died at the age of sixty years. He married Betsey Blake, sister of James Blake, with whom he served his appren- ticeship. Betsey Blake was a daughter of Samuel Blake, one of the first settlers of Epsom, who purchased from the Indians a large tract of land near the centre of the town for the paltry sum of ten shillings, and turned in his jack-knife for one shilling of that sum. Samuel Blake, generally called Sergeant Blake, came to Epsom at the age of fifteen ; and several years later his father, Lieutenant Blake, moved into town. In the early days the frontier settlers were kept in a state of almost continual alarm by the incursions of the Indians, whose ferocity and cruelty were doubtless very much averted by friendly con- ciliating conduct on the part of the white in- habitants toward them. This was particularly the case in the course pursued by Sergeant Blake. Being himself a skilful marksman and an expert hunter, evincing traits of character and abilities in their view of the highest order, he soon gained their respect; and by kind treatment he secured their friendship to such a degree that, though they had opportunities, they would not injure him even in time of war. An industrious pioneer, he cleared and improved a good farm, which is now owned by his descendants, Daniel Gilman Chesley and John Augustus Chesley. John and Betsey (Blake) Chesley had a family of six children ; namely, John, Samuel M., Betsey, Jonathan S., James B., and Josiah C., none of whom are now living. The death of Mrs. Betsey B. Chesley occurred previous to that of her hus- band.
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