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Asa Maynard, Jr., the father of Walter B., was born November 10, 1801. Immediately after his marriage he settled down as a farmer on the place now owned by the present Mr. Maynard, and resided there for the rest of his life. His wife, Lucy, who was born April 5; 1808, had four children - Emily, Eliza, Wal- ter B., and John F. Emily, born June 21, 1832, died June 21, 1851. Eliza, who was born October 30, 1836, became the wife of Augustus R. Manning, and had two children, namely : Mary F., born January 1, 1854; and Frank O., born September 28, 1861. Both Mr. and Mrs. Manning are now deceased. John F., who manufactures the well-known Plymouth gloves, born March 15, 1846, mar-
ried Harriett Draper, who died. Then he married Henrietta, his deceased wife's sister, with whom he now lives in Plymouth, N. H. The father died February 8, 1848. The mother, who survived him, afterward became the wife of Gardner Batchelder, a farmer of Loudon. The latter died in September, 1860; and her death occurred in 1894, February 27. There were no children by this second mar- riage.
Walter B. Maynard received a common- school education. All his life has been passed on the old homestead. After his father's death he took charge of the farm. He now owns about three hundred acres in Concord and Loudon. In 1869 he considera- bly improved the property by erecting new buildings. He carries on general farming, raises some fruit, and makes rather a specialty of the milk business, keeping about twenty- five cows. In 1864, May I, he married Lu- ella C. Sanders, of Hopkinton, N. H. She was born February 26, 1843, the daughter of Reuben L. and Abigail (Locke) Sanders, both of Epsom, N. H. Mr. Sanders, who was suc- cessively a shoemaker and a farmer, died Oc- tober 6, 1876. His widow, who subsequently married William K. Holt, of Concord, now deceased, still resides at the age of seventy-six in East Concord. Mr. Maynard and his wife have had six children - Frank W., Harry E., Roy F., George S., Warren S., and Roy W. Frank W., born March 4, 1866, was married December 25, 1889, to Nancy B. Cate, of Loudon. He died September 12, 1896; and his widow now lives with her father-in-law, the subject of this sketch. She has had three children - Walter Edward, John W., and Har- riet E. Harriet died September 27, 1896. Harry E., born March 1, 1869, is at home with his parents. Roy F., born December 23, 1871, died April 22, 1877. George S.,
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who was born October 20, 1874, lives at home. Warren S., born May 25, 1880, died February 4, 1881. Roy W., born August 27, 1882, is also with his parents. Mr. Maynard, who has never been an office-seeker, is a Republi- can in politics, and has invariably given that party his support. He is an attendant at the East Concord Congregational Church. Throughout his life he has been a hard-work- ing man, earning well the prosperity he now enjoys.
RANCIS L. QUIMBY, a Selectman and a thriving farmer of Unity, was born in this town, December 25, 1827, son of Benjamin Quimby (second) and Percis (Gee) Quimby. His grandfather, Benjamin Quimby (first), the first of the family to settle in Unity, was engaged in agriculture here for the rest of his life. The maiden name of the grandfather's wife was Otis. Benjamin Quimby (second), born in Unity in the year 1800, tilled the soil with success during his active years; and his death occurred in the spring of 1859. Percis Gee, his wife, who was a native of Marlow, N. H., became the mother of four children - Milan W., Francis L., Melissa D., and Wilbur B. Milan W., who is a prosperous farmer of Claremont, N. H., married Lucy A. Neal, of Unity. Melissa D., who married Ezra G. Johnson, of Unity, died in 1892. He died in 1896. Wilbur B., who is carrying on a farm in Cor- nish, N. H., married Lucinda Marshall, of this town. Mrs. Benjamin Quimby (second) died in June, 1870.
Francis L. Quimby was educated in the district schools and at the Milo Academy. At a very early age he began to assist his father upon the farm. Since succeeding to its pos- session he has managed it ably and with ex- cellent results. Considerably interested in the
raising of stock, he has the reputation of hav- ing produced many valuable specimens. Po- litically, he is a Republican; and he has served for four years upon the Board of Select- men. On May 22, 1849, he was joined in marriage with Lydia Johnson. She was born in Unity, June 8, 1825, daughter of Amos and Huldah (Green) Johnson, both of whom were natives of Wears, N. H. Amos Johnson settled near the locality in this town called the Quaker City, and there followed the shoe- maker's trade, and was engaged in farming until his death, which occurred in 1856. His wife died in 1863. They were the parents of eight children; namely, Moses, Enoch, Han- nah, Ezra, Lydia, Almeda, Elmira, and Annie.
Mr. and Mrs. Quimby have six children, as follows : Irving W., Adella L., George E., Lewis J., the Rev. Herbert F., and Emerson A. Irving W. married Josie Reed, of Ac- worth, N. H., and is engaged in farming in Unity. Adella L. is the wife of John M. Howe, a merchant in Claremont. George E., now in the dry-goods business in Decatur, Ill., married Lillian Davis, of Waltham, Mass. Lewis J., who wedded Martha Dow, of Cor- nish, N. H., is a grocer in Claremont. The Rev. Herbert F. Quimby pursued his theo- logical studies in Burlington, Vt., and at Bos- ton, graduating in each place, and is now a Methodist minister in Moultonboro, N. H. He married for his first wife Eva M. Hodg- man, of Mason, N. H., and for his second Jen- nie Elliot, of Reed's Ferry, N. H. Emerson A., who is in the grocery business with his brother in Claremont, married Jennie A. Perry, of North Charlestown, N. H. Mr. Quimby, Sr., has been a member of Unity Grange, No. 230, Patrons of Husbandry, since its organization. Both he and Mrs. Quimby are members of the West Unity Methodist
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Episcopal Church. He serves the society as steward, trustee, and collector; while Mrs. Quimby is a teacher in the Sunday-school.
21/1 TORACE J. CHASE, one of the lead- ing business men of Hopkinton and a son of Enoch J. and Sarah (Holmes) Chase, was born on Clement Hill, Hopkinton, October 11, 1825. His grand- father, Enoch Chase, came here from Port- land, Me., and was for many years Selectman and Collector of Taxes. The account book used by Enoch is now in the possession of his grandson, Horace J. Chase. His son, Enoch J. Chase, was born in Hopkinton. In his early life he was a shoemaker and a cooper. At a later date he built a mill on his farm, and went into the lumber business. He also built some lumber-mills in Wilmot, but sold them after a short time. Both in lumbering and farming he was quite successful. Five hundred acres of his farm land, which was bought for five dollars an acre, afterward sold for one hundred dollars an acre. The last years of his life were spent with his son Hor- ace; and he died in St. Johnsbury, Vt., at the age of seventy-eight, while on a visit to one of his daughters. He was married twice. His first wife was Sarah Holmes Chase, a daughter of Dr. Holmes, of New York. They had four children - Lucinda, Mary Jane, Harvey, and Horace J. Harvey now carries on the old farm. Both Lucinda and Mary Jane are deceased. By his second wife, Nancy, who came from Salisbury, his children were: Nancy, George W., Melvida, and Me- linda. Melinda died in childhood, and George is now in California.
Horace J. Chase, when a young man, lived at home with his father and helped him with the lumber business. Before he was twenty
years old, he drove a five-horse team into Ver- mont, carrying freight. Then for three or four years he was a conductor on a freight train to Boston on the Claremont Railroad. Subsequently the manager assigned him to the business of buying lumber for the use of the road. He remained in this position for three years, making higher wages than any other employee of the road. In 1852 he bought an old tannery in Hopkinton, built by Thomas Cass, that was burned down soon after. Eight years later he erected the present build- ings which are now landmarks in the town. He has been in the tanning business now for over forty years. In the early days, when the work was done by hand, he used to em- ploy as many as eight or ten men at a time. Now he uses the best of modern machinery. He has put in an engine, so that the mill may be run either by steam or water. His entire product has always been consumed by two firms in Concord, namely : Abbott & Downing, coach builders; and James I. Hill & Co., harness makers. He has always followed the old-fashioned processes of tanning, using cold liquors and no chemicals. His produce com- mands the best prices in the market, some- times six cents more per pound than that of other tanneries. He has constantly super- vised the work in person, doing some of the special parts with his own hands. In addi- tion to this his main industry, he carries on a large farm containing about two hundred acres of fine farm and timber land. This year he shipped over two hundred and forty barrels of apples to St. Johnsbury, Vt. He owns the Colby saw-mills, where he has sev- eral acres of good timber land, also the High- land House in Contoocook, which he has re- modelled, making several additions. At one time he owned the lumber-mills in Wilmot which his father bought. Mr. Chase has
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served the community as Selectman. The water service at Hopkinton was put in under his supervision. He has always been a Demo- crat in politics, as his father and grandfather were before him.
On January 8, 1850, while in the employ of the Claremont Railroad, he married Mary Ann Dodge, a daughter of Stillman and Mary (Highland) Dodge, both of Wenham, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. Chase have had five children, of whom one died in infancy. The others were : Frank S., Edward E., Horace Sumner, and Willard Hamilton. Edward E. is now en- gaged in the ice business in Hopkinton. Horace Sumner is the proprietor of the St. Johnsbury House, Vermont. Willard Hamil- ton was accidentally drowned at the age of four. Frank S. was employed on the N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. as engineer for several years, during which time he never had an accident. On December 16, 1886, while look- ing back at his train from the engine steps, he was struck on the head by a pole and in- stantly killed. Mr. Chase is a jovial, good- natured man; and, although considerably ad- vanced in years now, he still shows the out- lines of a powerful physique. He is much respected in his native town, both for his business integrity and for his public spirit.
HARLES SUMNER HALL, the junior member of the firm Silver & Hall, general merchants of Goss- ville, and an ex-member of the New Hamp- shire legislature, was born in Epsom, N. H., June 3, 1854, son of John C. and Martha E. (Rand) Hall, late of Epsom. The father, a native of Lee, N. H., was born January 26, 1806. In early life he came to Epsom and followed the trade of a carpenter here for some time. Later he opened a store, becoming a
prosperous merchant ; and he also conducted a large farm. Politically, he was in his later years a Republican ; and he took an earnest in- terest in public affairs. He died at the age of seventy-seven years. His wife, Martha, was born February 25, 1813, daughter of Stephen Rand, of Chichester. She became the mother of nine children - Sarah E., Martha E., James W., Amanda S., John H., Deborah, Georgia A., Luther T., and Charles S. Sarah E., born May 28, 1833, married James K. Taylor, of Neponset, Mass., and her children are: Ella, Mattie, Alberto, and Maud. Martha E., born June 3, 1834, is the wife of J. M. Emery, of Suncook, in the town of Pembroke, N. H., and has two daughters - Anna and Hattie. James W., born November 13, 1837, married Sarah Emery, of Suncook. Amanda was born September 1, 1839. John H., born March 19, 1842, married Nellie Farnham, of Great Falls (now Somersworth), N. H. ; and his children are: Bert, John, George, and Alice. Deborah, born May 5, 1845, is now the wife of F. G. Stebbins, of Adrian, Mich. Georgia A., born November 10, 1848, and now deceased, first married William Desilets, who died leaving one daughter, Katherine. A second marriage united her to Charles Chapin, of Worcester, Mass., who has legally adopted her daughter by her first husband. Luther T. was born September 8, 1851. Mrs. John C. Hall died at the age of sixty-three years. She and her husband were members of the Free Will Baptist church.
Charles Sumner Hall attended school in his native town, and completed his studies with a commercial course at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Manchester, N. H. After leaving school, he engaged in mercantile pur- suits with his father, and remained with him for several years. In 1883 he became asso- ciated with his present partner in business.
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Messrs. Silver & Hall, of Gossville, are widely and favorably known as enterprising and successful merchants. The junior partner owns a large farm containing five hundred acres, seventy-five acres of which are under cultivation. He ranks high among the fore- most agriculturists of this section.
On December 11, 1876, Mr. Hall was united in marriage with Ellen M. Dolbeer, daughter of Calvin Dolbeer, of Epsom. Mr. . and Mrs. Hall have no children. In politics Mr. Hall is a Republican. For many years he served as Town Clerk, and was elected a Representative to the legislature in 1889. He is Secretary of Evergreen Lodge, No. 53, I. O. O. F., of Short Falls, and is connected with the Patrons of Husbandry of Epsom. He is one of the successful men of this locality, and his upright character and business integ- rity are highly spoken of by his fellow-towns- men. Both he and Mrs. Hall are members of the Free Will Baptist church.
EVI A. SMITH, one of Unity's repre- sentative farmers, was born in this town, August 13, 1843, son of Jo- seph G. and Elizabeth (Young) Smith. The father, born October 24, 1797, was a prosper- ous farmer throughout the active period of his life, owning the farm which his son now occu- pies, and died May 3, 1882. His first mar- riage was contracted with Lucy Howe, who, born in Acworth, N.H., August 14, 1799, died December 9, 1833. His second wife, Elizabeth Young Smith, who was born Sep- tember 14, 1812, died in May, 1888. He had sixteen children, nine by his first union and seven by his second. Those of his first wife were born as follows: Lineas S., November 7, 1820; Sidney, January 10, 1822; Joseph G., May 4, 1823; Alonzo A., December
2, 1824; Jefferson, August 5, 1826; Thomas J., April 17, 1828; David L., August 12, 1829; Lucy Ann, May 2, 1831; and George WV. A., September 28, 1832. Of the children by his second marriage two died in infancy. The others were: Izanna E., born May 31, 1838, and residing in Goshen, who is now the widow of Dr. Wheeler, formerly a prominent physician of Goshen; Emily M., born Sep- tember 1, 1840, who married Edward Gates, a native of Gilson, and resides with him in Gardner, Mass .; Levi A., the subject of this sketch; Freeman H., born December 16, 1844, who died February 25, 1846; James F., born November 23, 1848, now a chair manufacturer in Gardner, Mass., who married Della Gates, of Gardner.
Levi A. Smith attended school in Unity, and assisted upon the home farm until after his first marriage. He then settled upon a farm in the northern part of the town, and tilled the soil industriously for eighteen years. After the death of his father he returned to the homestead, and has since resided there. He owns one hundred and fifty acres of well- improved land. He has the reputation of a capable and successful general farmer. In politics he is a Prohibitionist, and he served with ability as a Selectman for three years. He has carried the United States mail be- tween Unity and Charlestown since 1872. He is a member of the Advent church.
On September 15, 1864, Mr. Smith married Abbie E. Johnson, daughter of Edward and Mary (Marshall) Johnson, both of whom were natives of Unity. She died in June, 1887. Of that union were born four children, namely : Freeman J., on September 16, 1867, who is no longer living; Fred L., November 4, 1868, who is a prosperous farmer of Unity ; Arthur W., May 30, 1877, who is still under the parental roof-tree; and Listina E., Au-
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gust 28, 1880, also residing at home. Fred L. Smith married Anna Walker, and has two children - Elvis C. and Arthur W. On Jan- uary 1, 1891, Mr. Smith, Sr., wedded for his second wife Emma Davis, who was born in Unity, December 5, 1861, daughter of Samuel Davis. By this marriage there are no chil- dren.
JDGERTON RAYMOND, a well-known resident of Boscawen, was born Decem- ber 3, 1841, in Concord, N. H., son of Thomas P. and Permelia (Derby) Raymond, both natives of Vershire, Vt. His grand- father, Captain Liberty Raymond, of the Ver- mont militia, was a large land-owner and a prominent man in the latter town. Cap- tain Raymond died at Vershire, and his wife, Mary, at Quechee, Vt. Their children were: Thomas, Lyman, and Liberty, all now deceased. The last named became a well- known builder and real estate dealer in Manchester, where he erected several large structures. He was also a pioneer of the shoe business, in which he was engaged at the time of his death.
Thomas P. Raymond was a tanner and cur- rier, and lived in Concord till April, 1845. His wife died about that time; and he then moved to Hopkinton, N.H. By a second mar- riage he was united to Nancy Stone, of Can- ada. Later on he came to Boscawen, where he settled on a farm, and purchased a tannery. He carried on the tannery in company with his son Edgerton until 1866. His death oc- curred September 22, 1879, and that of his wife in 1895. There were no children by the second marriage. Those by the first, besides a child that died in infancy, were: Lucy B., Liberty George, and Edgerton. Lucy, now living in Charlestown, Mass., married Daniel Y. Bickford, an organ manufacturer of Con-
cord and Boston, who died April 29, 1876. Liberty enlisted in 1861 in Company E of the Seventh New Hampshire Regiment, and was killed at Fort Wagner, South Carolina, July 18, 1863. A brave soldier and a great favorite, he was the first man of his regiment to lose his life.
Edgerton Raymond received his education in the common school and in the academy at Boscawen. At the age of sixteen he went to old Salem, Mass., and worked there for a time. Then, returning to Boscawen, he fin- ished his schooling. He next went to Man- chester, and was there employed in the ar- mory making guns during the late war. After this he worked for his uncle Liberty in his boot and shoe store in Manchester, where he remained until September, 1865. At that time he went to Syracuse, N. Y., and was in the employ of the New York Central Railroad for six months, after which he returned to Boscawen, and settled on his present farm. He and his brother-in-law were also engaged in the tannery business until fire destroyed their plant in October, 1870. He rebuilt the tan- nery in 1871, and afterward conducted it alone until 1885. On his farm of forty acres, which he has much improved by the erection of new buildings, he carries on general farm- ing.
In 1869, October 20, Mr. Raymond married Ellen F. Raymond, his cousin. She came from Manchester, and was a daughter of Lib- erty and Almina (Smith) Raymond. Her father, who was a merchant, after the death of his first wife married Mary P. Putney, who belonged to a prominent Manchester family, and now resides in Contoocook. The children of Edgerton Raymond are: Jessie P., born August 16, 1870; Lucy May, born February 14, 1874; and George Albert, born June 14, 1878. Lucy teaches stenography, and is now
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superintendent of that department in a busi- ness college in Lebanon, Pa. Since his mar- riage Mr. Raymond has resided on the farm with the exception of one year, during which he was in Boscawen Plains. He has been a member of the School Board and the Audi- tor of the town, and he is now Selectman. His vote has always been thrown for the Re- publican party, whose principles he strongly upholds. He is a member of the Knights of Honor, Kearsarge Lodge, No. 276, of Pena- cook. Both he and his wife are members of the First Congregational Church, and he is a Deacon of the society. The Raymonds rank with the leading families of Boscawen.
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OHN A. MCCLURE, a successful farmer of Boscawen, was born here, October 22, 1822, son of John and Sallie (Potter) McClure, his father being from Exeter, N.H., and his mother from Pittsfield, N.H. His grandfather, James McClure, was an Adjutant-general in the Revolu- tionary War, but subsequently went to Dublin, Ireland, where he died. The father, a sea captain, sailed from East India and other places. Later he moved to Springfield, N. H., and then came to Boscawen. Here he settled on a farm, which was his place of residence, and lived there until his death in March, 1869, at the age of eighty-five years. His wife survived him until 1879, being ninety years of age at the time of her death. They had three children - Louisa L., John A., and Mary. Louisa, who married W. WV. Kil- bourne, died January 25, 1897. Mary is the widow of John L. Sargent, and resides in Gil- manton, N. H.
John A. McClure received only a common- school education. In 1877 he moved to his present estate of about one hundred acres,
known as the old Flanders farm, which he has since made his home. Since then he has made several improvements on the place, in- cluding the erection of substantial buildings. He also owns the old homestead on High Street in Boscawen, where his son lives, con- taining about one hundred and fifty acres. An industrious man, he carries on general farming very successfully.
In 1849 Mr. McClure married Phoebe C. Stone, of Webster, daughter of Peter and Ruth (Call) Stone. Her parents, who resided in Webster on a farm, are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. McClure had four children, born as follows: Edwin P., in July, 1850; Addie V., August 18, 1853; Alice P., November 6, 1855; and Charles J., March 2, 1858. Edwin is now at home with his father; Addie V. is the wife of Richmond Simpson, and lives in Webster; Alice P. is the wife of John W. Ford, of Ford & Co., foundrymen at Concord, N.H .; and Charles J., who married Mary Esther Shepherd, now lives on the old Mc- Clure homestead in Boscawen, and is the father of two children - Lillian F. and Phoebe Stone. Mrs. Phoebe C. McClure died July 20, 1864.
Mr. McClure contracted a second marriage on March 5, 1871, with Susan W. Moore, of Canterbury, N.H. She was born January 22, 1837, daughter of John S. Moore, a farmer and lumber dealer of Canterbury, N.H. Her mother, Lucinda French Moore, also of Canterbury, died in 1849, after which Mr. Moore entered a second marriage with Hannah Dow, of Concord, who died in 1891. Mr. Moore died in 1870. His children by the first marriage were: Clara H., Charles H., Albert Ames, Sabrina C., Sylvester F., Susan IV., Lucinda F., and Eliza T. Eliza T., the widow of Deacon Sewell, is now a teacher in Farmington, Me. With the exception of Mrs.
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McClure, all the others are deceased. Sabrina died at the age of twenty-two; Sylvester, aged fifty-three years; and Lucinda, aged twenty- eight. Born of the second marriage were two children - Hannah and John H. Hannah died in 1854, at the age of four years. John H., now a resident of Penacook, married Isa- bella B. Blackington, and is a travelling sales- man for a firm in Dover, N.H.
Mr. McClure's only child by his second marriage, Sarah E., born September 28, 1875, having completed the course of the training school in Concord, is now a teacher in that city. The present Mrs. McClure and two of her stepsons are members of the Congrega- tional church in Boscawen. The daughter residing in Concord is a member of the Meth- odist church in that city. In politics Mr. McClure is a Democrat, and has invariably voted with that party. He has been a hard- working man, and has been fairly successful in his business. He is well-known and highly regarded throughout the vicinity of Boscawen.
LISHA HATCH CARR, a well-known business man of Newport, was born in Hillsborough, November 17, 1842, son of Robert and Cleora (Goodale) Carr. The grandfather, Robert Carr, who was among the early settlers of Hillsborough, cleared his land, and became a successful farmer, living to be more than eighty years old. He fought in the war of the Revolution. Of his five children Robert, one of the elder, became the owner of the farm, spent his life there follow- ing the occupation of general farmer through- out his active period, represented his district in the State legislature, and died at the age of eighty-one years. Robert was a liberal in religion, and his wife was a Methodist. She died at the age of seventy-seven.
Their seven children, all still living, are: Robert G., who resides in Haverhill, Mass .; Cleora A. Morrill, a resident of Peterboro, N. H .; Abbie J. Hadley, of Hillsborough Bridge; Sarah J. Barker, residing in Nashua; Angeline Gunnison, residing in Newport; and Celestia M. Booth, who resides in Worcester, Mass.
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