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two centuries (1680 to 1891), published by the State, attests his superiority as an editor, collator, compiler, and statistician. "The Town and City Atlas of New Hampshire," published in 1892, which contains more than six hundred distinct maps, showing location of counties, townships, and city wards, also mountains, lakes, rivers, streams, railways, post-roads, highways, with city and village streets, also the precise location of public buildings, manufactories, hotels, private resi- dences, etc., gave in detail the names of owners or occupants thereof. This compre- hensive work, edited by Mr. Carter, is per- haps the most complete publication of geo- graphical and statistical information ever issued in America, indorsed by official and educational patrons throughout the State.
"The Grand Souvenir Album of Eminent New Hampshire Men " contains four hundred and eight biographical sketches and half-tone plate portraits of each of those prominent and illustrious sons of the Granite State. This work, published in 1893, does his talent credit.
His Excellency Governor John B. Smith, in his message to the legislature of 1893, ad- vised the recognition of the interests of wage- earning labor; and in compliance therewith a Bureau of Labor was created, of which Mr. Carter was made chief clerk. He continued in that service until May, 1896, when he was promoted to the position of Deputy Commis- sioner, in charge of the Labor Bureau office at the State House, Concord.
In politics he would in modern parlance be termed "a middle-of-the-road Republican," as he had the distinction of "rapid transit " in true amateur statesmanship, having served with the Free Soil pioneer guard of the Re- publicans of the "Fremont-and-fried-dog" campaign of 1856, and continuously there-
after until the Republican State Convention of New Hampshire in 1884, at which he served as Chairman of the Committee upon Credentials. Yet the very next day he was made Chairman of Committee on Credentials at the Democratic State Convention of New Hampshire, as a "Cleveland and reform " con - vert. Now, in the "free-silver-craze" cam- paign of 1896, he has had his political luggage transferred across the gulf to the Mc- Kinley reservation, as he cannot fully com- prehend that financial scheme requiring the flying of a "twin-tailed " kite for the relief of that class of debtors who absolutely refuse to labor, yet do insist upon a "free-lunch " ad- ministration of every branch of the Federal government.
On September 19, 1854, Mr. Carter mar- ried Catharine Elizabeth Martin, of the town of Dickinson, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. They have two children, namely: Nettie Belle, wife of John F. McCollister, now of Bradford, Mass .; and Susie Isabelle, wife of Joseph G. Norman, residing at the Carter homestead, Hampstead, Rockingham County, N. H.
EORGE H. HAINES, a well-known resident of Chichester, Merrimack 2 County, N. H., for quite a number of years engaged as a carriage and sleigh man- ufacturer, also as an extensive lumber dealer, now partially retired from his former activi- ties, was born in this town, January 27, 1845, son of George P. and Sarah F. (Towle) Haines.
The family is of Colonial origin; and the first ancestor of whom there is any exact knowledge was Robert Haines, who settled in Falmouth, Me., and remained there eight or nine years, or until the Indian outbreak in
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1688. He married Rachel Davis, who was born in Falmouth in 1663, daughter of Law- rence Davis. His son Thomas was a member of Captain Gilmore's company, which pursued the Indians after they had murdered Colonel Hilton at Exeter, N.H., on June 23, 1710. He served at Fort William and Mary, New Castle, N.H., in 1708, and was Captain of a scouting expedition in 1723. He was a weaver, and is known to have been following his trade at Hampton, N. H., in 1733. His first wife, whom he married January 7, 1712, was Abigail Philbrick, born in 1692. She died January 26, 1716; and he married for his second wife Abigail Cole. Thomas Haines was the father of seven children; and his son, Thomas, Jr., born October 7, 1726, was a resident of Hampton in 1776. Malachi Haines, Jr., son of Malachi, Sr., and grand- son of Thomas Haines, Jr., was a prosperous farmer in Chichester throughout the active period of his life, and he died in this town. By his union with Sally Fife, his first wife, who was a native of Pembroke, N. H., he had two sons; and by his second wife also, Mrs. Sarah Peverly, née Sherburne, a native of Canterbury, N.H., he had two children, George P., father of the subject of this sketch, being the elder.
George P. Haines was born in Chichester. When a young man he engaged in mercantile pursuits, and carried on business for some time in Concord, N. H. He later became pro- prietor of a general store and Postmaster in his native town, and was a leading merchant here for fifty years. He was also a shoe man- ufacturer for several years; and he was the first to manufacture friction matches in this locality, being actively interested in that busi- ness for many years. He was originally a Whig, but later voted with the Republican party, and served for a number of years as
Town Clerk. His wife, Sarah F. Towle, was born in Chichester, daughter of Jonathan Towle. They reared six children, five of whom are living, namely: Sarah J. ; George H., the subject of this sketch; Annie M .; Albert H. ; and Alvin M. Annie M. Haines is the widow of John B. Currier, late of Bos- ton, Mass., and has one daughter, Josephine Haines Currier. Alvin M. married Jennie Greenley, of Haverhill, Mass., and has one daughter, Sarah C. Greenley. John P. Haines, eldest son of George P., enlisted as a private in the First Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and later re-enlisted in the Thirteenth Regiment. He was mus- tered out as a Lieutenant at the close of the> war, and died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., from the effects of disease contracted while in the service. He married Nellie Leighton, of Farmington, N. H., and left three children: Ignatius, a graduate of the Harvard University Medical School; Bea- trice; and Brenda, a student at Radcliffe Col- lege, class of 1900. George P. Haines passed his last days in Chichester, and died at the age of seventy-six on January 14, 1888. His wife survived him nine years, residing at the homestead in this town, where she died at the age of seventy-six, March 28, 1897. She was a member of the Baptist church, of which her husband was an attendant.
George H. Haines was educated in the schools of his native town; and when his studies were completed he went to Boston, where he was employed for two years. He then enlisted in the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery, and served with his regiment as a non-commissioned officer until mustered out at the close of the war, when he once more took up his residence in Boston. In 1867 he returned to Chichester, and, establishing him- self in the manufacture of carriages and
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Weighs, he continued in that business quite extensively until 1889, being also engaged in the lumber trade. Since 1889, on account of. failing health, he has retired from manufact- uring.
On November 13, 1876, Mr. Haines was united in marriage with Mary F. Sanborn, daughter of Deacon Jacob S. and Elvira Leavitt) Sanborn, of Chichester. Mrs. Haines has two brothers and two sisters, namely: Jacintha M., of Manchester, who married Edward Langmaid; Ellen A., who married Charles A. Langmaid; Jeremy L., who married Emma Cofran, of Pembroke; and Augustus L., who married Bertha W. Ed- munds. One son, George Smith, born to Mr. and Mrs. Haines in 1877, died in infancy.
In politics Mr. Haines is a Republican. He has served in town offices and many years as Justice of the Peace. In 1869 he united with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Chi- chester, and until the present time has been an official member of the same. Much inter- . ested in the New Hampshire State militia, he was actively engaged in maintaining one of the first companies raised after the war, the Merrimack Guards, and served as Lieutenant and as Commander until compelled to resign on account of ill health.
He is a comrade of George H. Hoyt Post, No. 66, G. A. R., of Epsom, N.H. Mr. Haines is a man of excellent business ability, and is one of the most esteemed and influ- ential residents of Chichester.
- ORMAN A. DEMING, a leading farmer of Cornish, Sullivan County, N. H., is a native of the town. He was born July 18, 1824, son of Harvey and Eunice (Ford) Deming. His paternal grandfather, Ebenezer Deming, came to
this State from Connecticut. He was a school teacher of great success, and taught for forty-six consecutive winters. Harvey Dem- ing, son of Ebenezer, was born at Cornish, December 6, 1769. He owned a farm of four hundred acres, and carried on farming on an extensive scale, raising a large amount of stock, and producing great quantities of hay and grain. In politics he was a strong Dem- ocrat and in religious views a Baptist, and he was one of the Deacons of the church. He died in February, 1835. His wife, whose maiden name was Eunice Ford, bore the follow- ing children: John Milton, born October 27, 1799; Judah Solon, born March 10, 1801 ; Eliza Emily, born February 19, 1803 ; Harvey Ford, born June 17, 1809; Stephen Bial, born November 3, 1812; Daniel Philander, born May 3, 1816; Eunice Jane, born July 22, 1818; and Norman A., the youngest.
John Milton Deming, the eldest son, re- ceived his education in the public schools of the town of Cornish. He became a farmer, and married Charlotte Huggins, and had five children, four of whom - Harvey F., John, Emily, and Alvery O. - are living. Judah Solon became an extensive farmer, and for miles around was noted for his piety. He married Matilda Jackson, who bore him four children - M. J. Deming, Elizabeth, Bell, and Susan. Harvey Ford was educated in the town schools, and then became a school teacher. Afterward he attended the medical college at Castleton, Vt., and upon graduat- ing settled for practice in Maine. He mar- ried Mary Lord, of Ellsworth, Me., and was the father of two children - Harvey and Mary, the former of whom was killed in the United States service while fighting the Ind- ians, and the latter is now Mrs. Hollis Black, of Maine. Stephen Bial Deming, who also is a farmer, married Nancy Ann
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Fisher, and had eight children: Frank; Henry; Charles; Laura; Eunice; Nancy; a child that died in infancy; and Stephen, who died in 1886. Daniel Philander Deming, who was educated in the schools of Cornish and of New London, N.H., became a clergyman of the Baptist denomination, and was twice mar- ried. His first wife, formerly a Miss Clough, bore him two children. His second wife, Abbie Hardy, had one child, Carrie, who is now married, and lives with her widowed mother at Holyoke, Mass. Eunice Jane be- came the wife of Wesson Newcomb, and the mother of Fred W. and H. C. Newcomb. She died April 18, 1879.
Norman A. Deming when a lad was sent to the schools of his native town, and also to New Hampton. He started in life for himself as a farmer, and now owns four hundred acres, and is engaged in dairy farming. He raises large crops of hay and grain and many cattle. He has been very prominent in the public affairs of the town, and takes a deep interest in all questions touching the general welfare; has been Selectman for nine years; and has served a term as Collector of Taxes. As was his father, Mr. Deming is a strong Baptist. He is also a stanch Republican. He has been twice married. By his first wife, who was in maidenhood Lucy Ann Bartlett, he had five children - Herbert, Almina, Jennie, Harvey, and Mattie - of whom Herbert and Almina are the only ones now living. Mr. Deming's second wife, Calista Flower Dem- ing, has borne him three children - Victor, Harvey, and Hugh.
Mr. Deming's son Herbert was born in Cornish, and was sent to school in that town and at Meriden, this State. After completing his education, he taught school at Cornish, at Hartland, Vt., and at Claremont, N.H .; and for three years he was in California. He
is now a prosperous farmer, is Trustee for sev- eral large estates, and has been on the School Board for several years. He is a man univer- sally respected, a member of the Congrega- tional church, and possessor of a host of friends. He married Nellie Hilliard, daugh- ter of Joseph L. and Mary Hilliard, and has four children - Claude and Clyde (twins), Hubert, and Jesse. Jennie Deming became a school teacher, and subsequently married Dr. O. Terry, of Bethel, Vt. Both she and her husband are now deceased. They left one daughter, Nellie E., who married James A. Graham, of Barre, Vt., and has one child, Harry J. Almina Deming married James Fitch, and has two children - Chester and Maurice. Victor, Mr. Deming's eldest son by his second wife, married Mary Bishop, and has one little girl. He has taught school, and is now in the railroad station at Bellows Falls, Vt. Harvey married Nettie F. Merrill, and lives in Manchester, N. H. He is a wholesale and retail dealer in stone and granite. Hugh married Maizie Harris, of Fort Ann, N. Y.
TEPHEN C. PATTEE, one of the most prominent, skilful, and pros- perous agriculturists of Merrimack County, New Hampshire, lives in Warner, on a highly improved farm known as Maple Grange, which has been owned and occupied by his family for more than one hundred years. He was born on this ancestral home- stead, January 1I, 1828, son of Asa Pattee, and is of distinguished English and Colonial stock, tracing his descent from Sir William Pattee, who was physician to Cromwell and King Charles II., and was knighted in 1660. Peter Pattee, son of Sir William, born in 1648 in Lansdown, England, emigrated to
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America when a young man of twenty-one years, settled first in Virginia, and a few years later removed to Haverhill, Mass.
His grandson, Captain Asa Pattee, com- manded a company in one of the Colonial wars, about the middle of the eighteenth cen- tury, and later received a Captain's commission from Governor Meshech Weare. He was the first of the family to settle in Warner, and built the first frame house in the village, it being now known as the Dr. Eaton house. Captain Asa's son John, grandfather of Stephen C. Pattee, settled at Maple Grange in 1786, taking up the land when it was in its primeval wildness, and was afterward through- out his years of activity engaged in the pio- neer labor of clearing and improving. He was an industrious, temperate man, and lived to the ripe old age of eighty-five years. He married Eunice Sargent, a native of Dover, N.H., and the daughter of Benjamin Sargent, who owned the adjoining farm. They had three sons: Asa; Jesse, who removed to West Cambridge, Mass., now Arlington, where he made a fortune as a baker; and Cyrus, who was also a baker by occupation, but died on a farm in Haverhill.
Asa Pattee, son of John, inherited the homestead in Warner; and from his earliest youth until his demise he worked upon the soil, being engaged in general farming, stock- raising, and lumbering. He married Sally Colby, whose father, Stephen Colby, a Revo- lutionary pensioner, was one of the early set- tlers of the town of Warner, where he occupied a farm about a mile east of the village, on which his grandson, Asa F. Colby, now lives. Asa and Sally (Colby) Pattee had five sons and two daughters, namely: Stephen C., the sub- ject of this sketch; John H., who died in Troy, N. Y. ; Susan ; Luther, a physician, who was settled first at Candia, then at Wolfboro,
and later at Manchester, where he practised from 1863 until his death in 1895; Asa, also a physician, and William Herbert, his twin brother, who died in infancy ; and Emma, who died at a comparatively early age in woman - hood. Susan Pattee first married A. Jackson Edmunds, and after his death became the wife of William H. Palmer. She died of consump- tion three years after her second marriage, leaving two children, neither of whom is liv- ing. Dr. Asa Pattee began practice in Merri- mac, Mass., remaining there about five years, and then removed to Boston, where he prac- tised about thirty years, or until his death, which occurred but a few months since, on May 31, 1897. Emma Pattee married first George Quimby, and afterward became the wife of E. C. Cole, editor of the Kearsarge Independent and Times. The Pattee home- stead descended to Asa Pattee's son Stephen, the present owner.
Stephen C. Pattee received his elementary education in the common schools of Warner, afterward studying at private schools in Con- toocook and Bradford. He subsequently taught school in this State and Massachusetts for twenty years during the winter terms; and he has since been actively identified with the educational progress of his native town, hav- ing been for many years a member of the Board of Education, and by the will of the donor, the late Franklin Simonds, being made a life Trustee of the Simonds Free High School Fund of Warner. In his agri- cultural labors Mr. Pattee has met with emi- nent success, his judiciously conducted enter- prises having yielded satisfactory results. In his earlier days he carried on general farming, then turned his attention to wool-growing, and when that was no longer profitable he raised lambs for the market. He has since made money in raising valuable horses, always
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breeding to the best, including as sires Man- brino Wilkes, Almont Eagle, Vittoria, and a son of Viking. For several years he has made dairying his specialty, having a fine herd of grade Holstein and Jersey cows, each of which tests above the standard. He raises some grain every year, as wheat, oats, and corn; and at the World's Columbian Exposi- tion in Chicago in 1893, he was awarded a diploma and a bronze medal for his exhibit of corn.
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Mr. Pattee was one of the managers of the early agricultural association, which was merged into the Kearsarge Agricultural and Mechanical Association, which he has served as President, and which each year holds a fair in Warner. He is very prominent and active in grange work, and for several years served as one of the Executive Committee of the State Grange. He is an authority on all questions connected with agriculture, especially the raising of cereals, and was at one time em- ployed by the Board of Agriculture to give an address on " Wheat Culture " before the Agri- cultural College at Hanover and at various local institutes throughout the State. He has written much on agricultural topics for the press, being a paid contributor to the People and Patriot, Boston Cultivator, New England Farmer, Country Gentleman, and Germantown Telegraph; and his articles invariably attract attention. In politics he has always been a straight Democrat, an attendant of all local conventions, and has served in all the town- ship offices. Fraternally, he is an active Mason, belonging to Harris Lodge, F. & A. M.
On January 9, 1853, Mr. Pattee married Miss Sally Currier, who was born in Canter- bury, N. H., and who died May 5, 1895, leav- ing three sons - Jesse B., William H., and George Quimby. Jesse B. Pattee, who was
admitted to the bar in Plymouth County, Mas- sachusetts, has a fine legal practice in Man- chester, N. H., where he now resides. In the fall of 1896 he was elected a Representative to the State legislature for the term of 1897-98. William H. Pattee, who adopted what may well be termed the hereditary profession, re- ceived the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the Vermont University in Burlington, prac- tised medicine for a time in Loudon, N. H., then spent ten years in Pelican Rapids, Minn., returning from there to Manchester, N. H., where he is one of the leading physi- cians. George Q. Pattee is a book-keeper in Boston.
ESSE H. FARWELL. - In North Charlestown, Sullivan County, N. H., Jesse H. Farwell was born January 22,
1834. His father, George Farwell, was a grandson of William Farwell, who was among the first white inhabitants of the town. On settling in life, George Farwell bought a little corner of the old farm, and built the small house in which all the children were born; but afterward he owned the whole farm, and lived in the old farmhouse.
An editorial in a Vermont journal gives one of the few glimpses we have of the early life of his son Jesse : ----
"His boyhood was a type of that of many from New England farms and firesides, who afterward became leaders, the representative men of the nation. His sole educational ad- vantages were derived from the district school near his old home. An old neighbor details some interesting reminiscences of his early days. Having business with the elder Far- well, he visited him one day at noon, as the industrious habits of the family detained them in the fields from early morn until the evening shadows fell. During the progress of busi-
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ness an intricate mathematical problem was. involved, which neither could satisfactorily solve. Jesse, then a lank stripling of about fifteen years, weighing not over seventy-five or one hundred pounds, clad in a pair of jean overalls, hitched by a single suspender over a partially sleeveless shirt, and with tufts of brown hair waving through the crevices of a broken straw hat, sat on a log by the roadside, improving his 'nooning' by the perusal of a scrap of an old newspaper. Observing the dilemma of the two men, he pried a scrap of bark from the log on which he was resting, and, fishing a portion of a nail from his pocket, soon had the matter correctly ad- justed. The attention of the gentleman being thus called to the boy, he entered into con- versation with him. The picture he pre- sented, as, with bare feet crossed over his hoe handle, in the brilliant summer sunshine, he told. of the progress of their farm work, and how they had helped nearly all their neighbors out, would have made a scene fit for poet's pencil or artist's brush. He also confided to his friend some of his hopes and aspirations for the future, feeling even then that he had outgrown the narrow limits of his birthplace, and longing for new fields of opportunity and labor -- in short, for more worlds to conquer. The father, however, entertained different plans, and about this time took another large farm, hoping, with the assistance of the boy, to pay for it; and when, two years later, Jesse, at the age of sixteen, decided to leave home, the shock and disappointment were such as to seriously affect the health and happiness of the father. It is, however, most gratifying to know that he lived to realize that what he then looked upon as a calamity almost too great for endurance proved a blessing, not only to him and his family, but to his native town and to future generations, who will have
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cause to thank God that such a man has lived."
Mr. Farwell says: "Our home was a mile from any public road, our nearest neighbors across the river in Vermont. The house was small, and near the east bank of the Connecti- cut. The scenery was beautiful. George Farwell, my father, was active, industrious, economical, and intelligent, as good a reader as I ever listened to. For five years after his majority he was in the employ of John and James Howland at New Bedford, then largely engaged in the whale fishery. During that time he met my mother, Aurilla Brownell, an acquaintance of the Howlands, who were descendants of those of the same name who came over in the 'Mayflower,' as my mother was of John Alden and Priscilla Molines, an historic couple in Plymouth in Miles Standish's day. My parents soon after their marriage came to the old homestead, bought twenty-five acres of grandfather's farm, and settled. My mother was a strong, hardy, rosy-cheeked woman. Both were cheerful, happy, and well mated, constant in kind ad- vice and admonition to their children. The prominent admonition of my mother was, 'If you can say nothing good of others, say noth- ing.' I confess that in the hurry and excite- ment of my somewhat active life I have fre- quently broken that rule, violating my better judgment in cooler hours.
"In my very early life industry was as nat- ural to me as breathing, economy a necessity, perhaps a pleasure. Harshness and unkind- ness were strangers to my parents, except as seen in others. My mother's religious train- ing had been in Orthodox Congregationalism, but she became largely imbued with the lib- eral views of the Farwell family, for which they were distinguished.
"With four boys and two girls, one passing
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away when three years old, the other at twenty-one, the house was never lonely; and mother's busy hands had less rest than they needed. Staying on the farm until sixteen years old, I was then to go to Buffalo. My father assented, and gave me ten dollars, which my mother sewed up in my inside coat pocket ; and I left familiar scenes and associa- tions, with varying emotions of affection and hope better imagined than described."
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