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"John Tyler was born in Claremont, March 26, 1818. He learned the trade of mill- wright, serving an apprenticeship of seven years, and was then for eight years foreman of the shop where he learned his trade in Barre,
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JOHN TYLER.
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Vt. He went to West Lebanon in 1850, and for several years did a large business in build- ing mills, sometimes employing fifty men. He returned to Claremont in 1872, where he has since resided. He was engineer and superintendent in building the Sugar River paper-mill, and was a principal stockholder and the President of the company.
"Mr. Tyler is the inventor of the Tyler turbine water-wheel, which he had patented in 1856, and which he manufactured for many years. His was the first iron water-wheel made, and nine different patents were subse- quently granted him for improvements upon it. These wheels found their way all over the country, some of them also finding their way abroad; and for years they were considered the best turbine wheels manufactured, this fact being thoroughly developed some years ago by a comparative and competitive test of the products of other makers of similar wheels. He was also the inventor and patentee of Tyler's copper cylinder washer for washing paper stock. In 1874 he built the reservoir known as the Bible Hill Aqueduct, which supplies over two hundred families in Clare- mont village with pure fresh spring water for household purposes. He was a stockholder of the Ben Mere Inn at Sunapee Lake, also in the Woodsum Steamboat Company. In both of these enterprises Mr. Tyler was deeply in- terested. He not only used his influence to make Sunapee Lake what it is to-day, but he opened his purse wide to aid in its improve- ment. He was a far-seeing and sagacious business man. If he started into any kind of business that was backward in getting on to a paying basis, he labored the harder for it. He was a stanch Republican. He was a mem- ber of the legislature in 1891-92, and his record is a clean one. He was a public- spirited, genial man; and in his death Clare-
mont lost a most worthy citizen. He was a lover of good horses, and in his stables could always be found the best blooded and hand- somest to be had. In religious convictions he leaned toward the Universalist faith; and he always attended divine worship at the First Universalist Church, although never uniting with the society." He was a most liberal man, and no worthy cause was brought to his notice that failed to receive assistance at his hands. He died at his home, November 28, 1896.
While a young man working at his trade in Barre, Vt., he married Roxalana Robinson, of that town, who died on the first anniversary of their marriage. Not long after he married Miss Mary J. Smith, of Rutland, Vt., with whom he lived for fifty years, she passing away but a few years since at their home on Pleas- ant Street. Mr. Tyler married for the third time, October 31, 1894, Miss Anna Maria, daughter of Taylor and Sybil (Lawton) Alex- ander, who survives him. She is also a Uni- versalist.
AMUEL SMITH PAGE, who for more than forty years was one of the most esteemed residents of Hopkin- ton, was born September 30, 1822, in Dunbar- ton, N. H. He is a descendant of Benjamin Page, who was born in 1640, in Dedham, fifty- seven miles north-east of London, England. In 1660, on account of religious differences, Benjamin came to America, locating in Haver- hill, Mass., where on September 21, 1666, he married Mary Whittier, who belonged to the family from which the poet, John G. Whit- tier, sprung. Their son, Jeremiah, the eldest of a family of sixteen, born September 14, 1667, was the next ancestor. He married Deborah Hendrick, of Newburyport, Mass., July 2, 1696; and they reared seven children,
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two sons and five daughters, the sons being Caleb and Joshua. He died in 1752.
Caleb Page, the next in line of descent, was 'born August 16, 1705, and died in 1785. He married in 1728 or 1729 Ruth Wallingford, of Boston, who died in 1738. In 1740 he married a widow Carleton, of Newburyport, who weighed three hundred and fifteen pounds. She, together with a huge arm-chair, now in the possession of the Stark family, had to be carried to meeting on an ox sled. In 1749 Caleb Page removed from Haverhill, Mass., to Atkinson, N. H., where he is said to have owned land measuring one mile in opposite directions from the site of the present acad- emy. In 1751 he sold his lands in Atkinson for his wife's weight in silver dollars, and lo- cated in Dunbarton, this county. The country was then infested with Indians ; and his daugh- ter Elizabeth, who later became the wife of General John Stark of Revolutionary fame, often stood, musket in hand, as guard at the rude block-house. In 1758. Governor Went- worth appointed Caleb Page Captain of Provin- cials. The commission given to him on this occasion is copied in full in the History of Dunbarton. Caleb, who is said to have had a noble and benevolent spirit, had ample means to indulge his generous impulses. His money, comprising golden guineas, silver crowns and dollars, was kept in a half-bushel measure under the bed. He owned many slaves. His house was the abode of hospitality and the scene of many a happy gathering. In 1753, previous to receiving his Captain's commis- sion, the governor sent him as a guide with Colonel Lowell, of Dunbarton, Major Talford, of Chester, and General John Stark, to mark out the road from Stevenstown, now Salisbury, to Coos. He was a firm patriot, and in 1775 was the first delegate from Dunbarton and Bow to the Provincial Congress. His children
were : Caleb, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, and Molly. Caleb Page, Jr., who held a Lieutenant's com- mission in the French and Indian War, to- gether with his company was ambushed by Ind- ians between Crown Point and Ticonderoga, and killed in the ensuing massacre with sev- eral of his men, January 21, 1757. Eliza- beth, born in 1736, who died in 1817, married General John Stark, by whom she had eight children; namely, John, Caleb, Archibald, Charles, Ellen, Polly, Sophia, and Frank. Molly married Deacon James Russell, of Bow.
Jeremiah Page, born in August, 1730, died November 29, 1807. In 1745 he bought land in Dunbarton, and from that time until his death was actively identified with local affairs. He served as Justice of the Peace, and did most of the surveying for Hillsborough County. In 1784 he was appointed Judge in the New Hampshire courts. In 1752 he mar- ried Sarah Merrill, of Billerica, Mass., who was born in 1732, and died September 5, 1807. Their children were: Caleb, the grandfather of Samuel Smith Page; Sarah, born in Dracut, Mass., December 24, 1754, who married A. Stinson, and died in 1835. Jeremiah, a native of Dunbarton, born in 1756, who died in 1842; Achsah, born September 25, 1759, who died in 1831, and whose successive husbands were first B. Plummer, Esq., who died in 1816, and Captain C. Coffin; Elizabeth, born August 2, 1765, who married William Ten- ney, and died October 22, 1838; John, born in 1767, who married M. Story in 1810, and died August 14, 1837; and Ruth, born in 1770, who married Dr. S. Sawyer, and died June 27, 1804. Caleb Page, the third bearer of the name, was born in Dracut, Mass., in April, 1751, and died June 3, 1816. His wife, Hannah, bore him seven children, three of the sons being named Caleb, John, and Peter Carleton. Peter Carleton Page, the
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father of Samuel S. Page, was born July I, . 1783, and died October 15, 1858. He mar- ried Miss Lucy Smith, who was born Novem- ber 26, 1792, in Hopkinton. They reared three sons ; namely, Caleb, Samuel Smith, and George.
Samuel Smith Page received his education in Pembroke, Hopkinton, and New Hampton. Ill health forced him to abandon further study ; and at the age of eighteen years he began teaching school in Weston, Mass., where his mathematical ability was well displayed. A pupil relates that when the text-book was com- pleted the young teacher propounded questions that, he said, had baffled Dartmouth pro- fessors, the class often spending its energies for a whole week on some of them. After his marriage he bought the Greenough homestead on Dimond Hill on the dividing line between Concord and Hopkinton, and there success- fully carried on general farming until his death, which occurred on Thursday, October 22, .1896.
In 1852, June 10, Mr. Page married Miss Ellen Maria Cutter, of Weston, Mass., one of his pupils, who was five years younger than himself. He was a man of great intelligence and force of character, having the courage of his convictions, which he was never unwilling to express or defend. He served several terms as Moderator of Dunbarton, was a member of the Superintending School Committee, and in 1864 and 1865 was one of the Selectmen of Hopkinton. In 1840 he united with the Bap- tist church of his native town, having been converted during a revival, and for more than half a century after was devoted to the Chris- tian work of that denomination as well as to the broader needs of humanity, his large and loving heart beating in sympathy with those of every sect and clime. Throughout his long illness he was a most patient and cheerful
sufferer, trusting serenely in the goodness of the Divine Master. His death was a sad loss, not only to his immediate family, but to the community in which he had so long lived. The only child of Mr. and Mrs. Page was a daughter - Lucie Elizabeth, who is now the wife of Arthur Borden, of Denver, Col., and has one child, Marguerite Borden.
OBERT W. HOIT, of Mast Yard, Concord, N. H., son of Robert B. and Hannah (Goodwin) Hoit, was born July 15, 1859, on the ancestral estate on Horse Hill, Penacook, where he still makes his home.
His great-grandfather, Oliver Hoit, born in November, 1747, married first Rebecca Gerald, and second widow Rhoda Hoit Whittier. He had by his first wife fifteen children, thirteen of whom lived to maturity. Mrs. Rebecca G. Hoit died in 1808, aged fifty-eight years; and Mrs. Rhoda Hoit died in 1851. Oliver Hoit died September 11, 1827. Oliver Hoit settled in 1772 on Horse Hill in the north- western part of Concord, being the first settler in that part of the town. On March 7, 1775, a parish of Concord voted to lease him the eighty-acre school lot for nine hundred years, he paying six dollars annually ; but this vote was reconsidered March 4, 1777, and the Se- lectmen were directed to receive of him one hundred dollars in full consideration for said lot.
The son Enoch, born to Oliver and Rebecca, August 16, 1783, eventually came into posses- sion of the farm. He married a widow, Mary French Hoyt, who had five children by her former husband; namely, Freeman, Sewall, Mary French, William, and French Hoyt. The children of Enoch and Mary Hoit were as follows: Robert B., Gillman T., Oliver, Pris-
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cilla, Rosette and Jeanette (twins), Henry, Enoch, and Wyette. The twin to Oliver died young. Enoch Hoit was an industrious farmer, and added many improvements to the farm. He died July 31, 1856. His wife Mary died August 1, 1848.
Their son, Robert B., the next proprietor of the homestead, where he was born, received such education as was afforded by the district schools. He was always a farmer; and, with the exception of a few years in Massachusetts, he spent the whole of his life on the estate, which he enlarged. He built a fine set of brick buildings about thirty years ago, and these still stand out very prominently in the town. He died July 18, 1887, on his seven- tieth birthday. He was a very prominent citizen, and served as Selectman and as Coun- cilman, and was two terms in the State legislature. He married in 1843 Hannah Goodwin. She died April 9, 1896, aged sev- enty-four years. They had five children - Katherine P., Mary F., Lucy, Willie, and Robert W. Lucy and Willie died young. Katherine P. Hoit married Sherwin Colby. They reside in West Concord, and have four children - Evelyn M., Kate P., Idella, and Clarence Colby. Mary F. Hoit married George French. They reside in Boscawen, and have no children.
Robert W. Hoit, of Mast Yard, N. H., was born at the homestead on Horse Hill, as above stated, about thirty-eight years ago. He was educated here, and has always made this place his home. His father bequeathed the estate to him, and he is now in possession. He mar- ried November 20, 1882, Bessie B. Deatherage, who was born February 29, 1864, at Waverly, I11.
Mr. Hoit is a loyal Republican. He is known to be keenly interested in all the lead- ing questions of the day, and well informed in
political and educational and other public matters. He takes an active part in political affairs, and has served as Councilman. His first Presidential vote was cast for James A. Garfield.
REDERIC AUGUSTUS BRIGGS, a.well-known hotel man of Claremont, N.H., was born in Charlestown, this State, September 9, 1838, son of Joseph Gil- man and Abigail (Woods) Briggs. Some in- teresting facts concerning the origin of the Briggs family may be found in Burke's "Peer- age" and in the History of the County of Norfolk, England, by Bloomfield. It is shown that before the time of Edward I. (1272) the representatives of the family as- sumed the surname of De Ponte or Pontibus. Many of them from the time of de Ponte de Salle, whose son John was born in 1383, be- came men of mark, and held high and respon- sible positions in church and State, or accom- plished deeds of renown. One Thomas Brygge, of Holt, in 1392, in company with Sir Thomas Swinbourne, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Sepulchre; and an account thereof, written by himself, is still extant in a manu- script preserved in the library of Caius Col- lege, Cambridge University, England.
Thomas Bryggs, Rector of Risingham in 1539, subsequently became Chaplain to Lady Mary, sister of King Edward VI. He was also Vicar of Kenninghall and later Vicar of Windham. Henry Brygge, born at Halifax, Yorkshire, in 1556, was a mathematician. In 1617 he visited Napier at Edinburgh, and in- duced him to make an important change in his recently invented system of logarithms. Augustine Briggs, a determined Royalist, fought for Charles I., joining the Earl of Newcastle's forces, and taking part in the siege of Lynn in 1643. His son William be-
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came a physician and oculist of great repute, and was a friend of Sir Isaac Newton. In 1682 he published a work entitled "Theory of Vision," and three years later a Latin version of the same, to which Sir Isaac Newton wrote the preface.
The earliest mention of the name Briggs in this country appears in the records of the Plymouth Colony, wherein one Clement Briggs is said to have arrived in the good ship "Fortune," November 9, 1621. Mention was made of him by Bradford in his letter to John Winthrop in 1631. He settled in Dor- chester in 1630-31, and married Joan Allen. Two years later he removed to Weymouth. He had children as follows: Thomas, Jona- than, John, David, Clement, Redmond, all of whom, together with his second wife, Eliza- beth, executrix, are mentioned in his will. He was born, it is positively known, in Bar- mundsey Street, Southwark, England, and died July 28, 1659.
The line was continued as follows: Jona- than, the second son of Clement, married and had a son Jonathan, whose son John married Ellen Hewitt, and had William, who married Ellen Rice; and their son Eliphalet, born in 1734 at Norton, Mass., settled in Keene, N. H., and married Mary Cobb. At the time of his death, October 11, 1776, he was Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen of Keene, one of the Town Committee of Safety, and had been a delegate to the Safety Convention held at Walpole. This convention was called by order of a subcommittee of the several Com- mittees of Safety in the county. He was Captain in the Indian War. His wife died June 9, 1806, and left Eliphalet, Jr., born in Keene in 1765, who died in 1827. He mar- ried Elizabeth Stiles, daughter of Captain Jeremiah Stiles, one of the early settlers of Keene and one of its most prominent citizens.
He was Captain of the Keene company in Paul Dudey Sargent's regiment, and was at the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill. He was continually in office from 1765 until his death in 1800. He was Keene's delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1778.
Joseph Gilman Briggs, son of Eliphalet, Jr., and Elizabeth, and father of Frederic Augustus, was born in Keene, N.H., June 10, 1805. He served an apprenticeship as a cabinet-maker with his eldest brother, Eliph- alet, in Keene. He was a gifted and an ac- complished singer. He taught the first sing- ing-school in Keene, and for several years was the leader of the First Congregational Church choir; and Miss Woods, who became his wife, was his leading soprano. After his marriage he removed to Montpelier, Vt., where he went into business, but by the urgent request of his uncle William, of Charlestown, N.H., he was induced in 1828 to go to that town. William Briggs, of Charlestown, a graduate of Dartmouth, class of 1799, was a lawyer by profession and a stanch Whig. In 1824 he was appointed a committee to build the vault and stone work of the first Connecticut River Bank, and was a Director of that institution during its ex- istence. He was President of the new bank from its beginning until his death in 1847. In that year Joseph G. Briggs removed to Claremont, where he engaged extensively in the manufacture of furniture, looms, school furnishings, etc. He built many houses in town, including the Terrace School-house. He was liberal, and encouraged everything that tended to the growth and prosperity of the town. Briggs Street was named in 1860 by the Selectmen in his honor. He married Abigail Woods, daughter of Elijah, who was the son of William and Naomi (Langley) Woods, the former one of the early settlers of
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Keene. Elijah Woods married Sally Brown, who was of the sixth generation in descent from Peter Brown, one of the Pilgrim Fathers who landed from the "Mayflower " at Plym- outh in 1620.
Joseph G. Briggs died November 12, 1876. His children were: William Henry; Joseph G., Jr .; Juliet Elizabeth, born in 1831, died in 1832; Sarah Louisa; Charles Lyman; Samuel Edgar; Frederic Augustus; Abba; and Mary Elizabeth. William Henry Briggs, born in 1827, married Mary Augusta Ander- son, of Boston, Mass. Joseph G., Jr., born 1830, married Ellen L. West, of Charles- town, N. H., was a famed hotel man in his day, and died February 10, 1894. Sarah Louisa, born in 1833, married Francis R. Stebbins, of Adrian, Mich., one of the pioneers of that city and founder of the Adrian Ex- positor, who died in 1892. Charles Lyman, born in 1835, married Maria Hall Tripler, of New York, and is proprietor of the Clarendon Hotel and manager of the "Florence" in that city. Samuel Edgar, born in 1836, who was graduated at Norwich University, Norwich, Vt., married Mary A. Hoover, of Los An- geles, Cal., and died at Fitzwilliam, N.H., in 1888. His two children were: Mary Louisa, who died; and Lillie, who married Dr. MacGowan in 1890, and resides in Los Angles, Cal. Abba Briggs, born in 1841, married Stephen Batcheller, of Fitzwilliam, N.H., son of Dr. James Batcheller, of Marl- boro, N. H. They have one child, Fanny, who married Donald McIver Blair, of Boston. Mary Elizabeth Briggs, who was born in 1844, and died in 1874, married George W. Merri- field, of Claremont, N. H.
Frederic Augustus, the seventh child of his parents, and the subject of our sketch, married Juliette Rebecca Cowles, daughter of Albert and Rebecca (Wark) Cowles, grand-
daughter of Leman and Clara (Bunnel) Cowles, and great-grand-daughter of Timothy and Sarah (Stilson) Cowles, of Farmington, Conn., who settled in Claremont in 1780. The children, all born in Claremont, except Robert Percy, are as follows: Abba Louisa, born April 16, 1863; Frederic Augustus, Jr., born August 8, 1864; Mary Rebecca, born March 27, 1866; Joseph Albert, born Decem- ber 24, 1867, who married Margrette Sur- rette, April 12, 1889, and has a child, Bertha Augusta, born March 6, 1890; Juli- etta Augusta, born October 29, 1869; Sarah Eunice, born August 30, 1872, who married Charles S. Wilson, December 6, 1893, and had a child, Paul Dunbar, born in Claremont, October 22, 1894; Robert Percy, born in New York City, October 2, 1875; Lilla Steb- bins, born June 19, 1877; Justina Adeline, born February 26, 1879; Emily Victoria, born May 23, 1884.
® OBERT H. ROLFE, the courteous and efficient cashier and advertising manager of the Republican Press Association at Concord, N. H., was born here, October 16, 1863, and is the son of Henry Pearson and Mary Rebecca (Sherburne) Rolfe, of this city. In his boyhood he attended the public schools of Concord, and, after graduat- ing from the high school, entered Dartmouth College, where he was graduated in the class of 1884. He then for a short time engaged in the study of law; but, feeling more inclina- tion for a business career, he abandoned the thought of a profession, and entered the employ of the Boston & Lowell Railroad as an accountant. He afterward served the Boston & Maine Railroad in the same capacity. In 1889 he went to North Adams, Mass., as assistant superintendent of the Zylonite Man-
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ufacturing Company, with which concern he stayed until it was sold out to the Celluloid Company of New Jersey. He then returned to Concord, and soon after was offered his present position of cashier and advertising manager of the Republican Press Association, which he fills with great acceptance to all con- cerned. After graduating from- college, he entered the New Hampshire National Guard as a private in Company C of the Third Regi- ment of New Hampshire, and has been rapidly promoted until three years ago he attained the rank of Colonel in the regiment, and has held it ever since.
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Colonel Rolfe makes a fine officer; and not only is he a very popular young man among his own particular friends and associates, but he also possesses the good will of his fellow- townsmen generally.
ORACE LEROY CHOATE, a well- known and respected farmer of Hop- kinton, N.H., was born in Henni- ker, Merrimack County, April 20, 1833, a son of George and Betsey Davis Choate. He is a lineal descendant of one John Choate, who was a son of Robert and Sarah Choate, and was baptized at Groton, Boxford, Colchester, Eng- land, June 6, 1624. In 1643 John emigrated to New England, and at the age of nineteen was a resident of Chebacco in Ipswich, Mass. Soon after he bought up shares of common lands allotted to the proprietors on Hog Island (which acquired its name from its resemblance to a hog lying on its back in the water), and in 1690 he was almost the sole owner of its three hundred acres. The earliest deed extant, dated in 1678, was for the site of the present Choate house, the birthplace of the Hon. Rufus Choate, New England's great jurist and advocate. John Choate was often
in disgrace, the records showing that he was frequently before the magistrates, and not al- ways for the offence of some one else. He was tried for stealing apples, but was acquitted; and he was arraigned for lying, but the charge was dismissed. In numerous other cases by the use of his own keen wit he succeeded in evading punishment. He was a natural liti- gant and lawyer, and his fertility of resource in defence seems to have been transmitted to his descendants with increasing power.
Thomas Choate, son of the first John, born at Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass., in 1671, resided on Hog Island. A very prominent man, he was familiarly known as Governor Choate; and he served as a Representative to the General Court, to which he was first elected in 1723, for several terms. He was married succes- sively to Miss Mary Varney, Mrs. Mary Calef, and Mrs. Hannah Burnham, and died in 1745. His last wife survived him until 1782. His son Ebenezer, the next in line of descent, was born in 1706, and died in 1766. Ebenezer was an innkeeper, a Notary Public, and the Coroner of the town. In 1730 he married Miss Elizabeth Greenleaf. Their son John, born December 27, 1745, in Newburyport, Mass., married January 8, 1767, Abigail Tyler; and their only child was John Tyler Choate. John Tyler, who was born in New- buryport, July 11, 1768, married Hannah Pearson, also a native of Newburyport, born July 15, 1770. After their marriage they removed to Hopkinton, N. H., locating first near the centre of the town. Afterward they removed to the part in which his grandson, Horace LeRoy, lives. John Tyler subse- quently acquired the adjoining farm, where he afterward carried on farming and worked at his trade of blacksmith until his demise on February 20, 1844. Shortly after his widow with her eldest child went to Underhill, Vt.,
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where her death occurred, November 14, 1848. Their children were: Susanna, Nabby, John Tyler, Michael, Isaac Newton, Polly, George, Thomas, Ebenezer, Thirza, Benjamin, Aaron, Langdon, and William Pearson. Susanna, born March 2, 1790, married first Amos John- son, second James Dodge, and died April 6, 1870. Nabby, born October 4, 1791, died in infancy. John Tyler, born October 21, 1792, first married Abiah Stanley. After her death he wedded Mrs. Lydia Powell Lincoln, and died August 18, 1871. Michael, born August 12, 1794, died two days later. Isaac Newton, born June 1, 1795, successively married Amarilla Bostwick and Elizabeth Chamber- lain, and died in March, 1870. Polly, born April 6, 1797, died April 1, 1829. George, born January 5, 1799, died September 13, 1888. Thomas, born September 8, 1800, married Harriet Swan, and died March 13, 1885. Ebenezer, born April 15, 1802, who successively married Phebe Hanson Hull and Betsey Harvey, died in April, 1882. Thirza, born November 24, 1803, married Marshall Morse, and died March 28, 1885. Benjamin, born June 16, 1805, married Mar- garet Stearns, and died March 15, 1858. Aaron, born November 28, 1807, died January 3, 1888. Langdon, born September 7, 1810, married Deborah V. Jones, and is now living in Hamilton, Hancock County, Ill. William Pearson, born February 10, 1812, married Martha Bailey, and died October 29, 1879.
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