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for his first wife Lettie Currier, of Belmont ; and she bore him three children - Archie, Edward, and Grace. Mrs. Bean married for her first husband Frank Morrill, of Gilford, N. H. By her Mr. Bean has two children - Mattie May and Frank A. Mattie May, born February 26, 1870, was a graduate from the Laconia High School at the age of fifteen, and then took a classical course at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary in Tilton. After teaching school for a time, she in 1892 married Edward G. Rand, a prosperous farmer of Belmont. Frank A., born August 18, 1876, was educated at the seminary in Tilton, and is now managing the homestead farm. Mr. Bean was one of the first to join the Christian Church in Laconia.
OUIS WARNER FLANDERS, M.D., of Dover, prominently identified with the medical profession as a special- ist in treating diseases of the eye and ear, was born April 27, 1864, in Wickford, Washington County, R. I., son of the Rev. Alonzo B. Flanders, D. D., and a grandson of the late James Flanders. The grandfather was a man of some prominence in Vermont, where his death occurred when seventy-six years old.
The Rev. A. B. Flanders, who was born in Chelsea, Vt., December 6, 1829, received his early education in Exeter, N. H. He then studied for the ministry with Bishop Carleton C. Chase, of this State, and was duly admitted to priestly orders at Claremont, N.H., in June, 1853. Soon after this event he was called to Wickford, R. I., where he labored twelve years as rector of St. Paul's Church. At the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted in the Fourth Rhode Island Volunteer Infan- try, and served as Chaplain at the front for two
years. During this time he was twice stricken with malarial fever. The second attack was so severe that only the bravery of his devoted wife, who made her way through the lines and nursed him back to health, could have pre- vented a fatal termination. After his return to Wickford, acting upon the advice of his physician, he went to Vermont, hoping to ben- efit his health by a stay in the mountains. In December, 1868, he settled in Chester, Vt., where he afterward founded St. Luke's Church, of which he was rector for fifteen years. Af- terward he spent a short time at White River Junction, Vt., and then removed to St. Al- bans, in the same State, where he is still actively engaged in his ministry, which now covers a period of more than forty years. He is one of the oldest and most highly esteemed ministers of Vermont. His degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by the Ver- mont University. He is a member of the Standing Committee of the diocese, an Ex- amining Chaplain, and has served as a dele- gate to the General Convention several times. His wife, in maidenhood Sarah A. Ide, was born in Windsor, Vt., daughter of Simeon Ide. Mr. Ide was well known in literary and po- litical circles, having been an editor, pub- lisher, and politician, and the founder of the Vermont Journal and the American Yeoman, both of which he established in 1818. In 1815 he printed in an old blacksmith shop the first edition of the New Testament ever printed in New Hampshire. He was de- scribed as "leader among men," was a mem- ber of the State militia, and he had an extensive acquaintance with the most promi- nent politicians of his native State. He lived to the venerable age of ninety-four years.
Louis W. Flanders obtained his early edu- cation in the common schools of Chester and the Stevens High School at Claremont, N. II.
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Subsequently he entered the University of Vermont, and graduated from the medical de- partment in the summer of ISS5. Then he began the practice of general medicine at Highgate, Vt., remaining there a short time. The Doctor removed then to Brandon, Vt., and in the following year was associated with A. T. Woodward. Going thence to Castleton, Vt., he continued in practice there until 1890, when he gave up his general work and re- moved to Burlington, in the same State. Here he was assistant to J. H. Woodward, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otol- ogy, and Adjunct Professor of the Materia Medica in the University of Vermont. Dr. Flanders remained in Burlington three years, becoming skilled in the branches of study in which he was specially interested. In 1893 he opened an office in Dover, where as an oculist and aurist he now possesses a lucra- tive practice within a circuit of twenty miles.
On December 26, 1890, Dr. Flanders mar- ried Miss Annic Miriam Hilton, of Chester, a companion of his early childhood and a school- mate. Politically, the Doctor is a stanch Re- publican, but takes no active part in public affairs. Socially, he is prominently identi- fied with the Masonic fraternity, belonging to Burington Lodge, No. 100, F. & A. M., of Burlington, of which he is a Past Master; to Burlington Chapter, R. A. M. ; to Orphan Council, R. & S. M., Dover; to Burlington Commandery, K. T .; and to the Vermont Consistory, A. A. S., Northern jurisdiction.
ON. WILLIAM E. WATERHOUSE, the proprietor of a large farm in Bar- rington, his birthplace and present home, was born January 31, 1845, only child of Jeremiah and Martha A. (Winkley) Water- house, and grandson of Jeremiah Waterhouse.
Timothy Waterhouse, the father of Jeremiah Waterhouse, Sr., was the first of the family to settle in Barrington.
Jeremiah Waterhouse, Jr., served a four years' apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade, and then took up the business of building on contract. This he followed successfully for twenty-five years, after which he retired to a farm and engaged in agriculture. Formerly a Whig, after the formation of the Republican party he became an adherent of that organiza- tion. In 1859 and 1860 he was a member of the State legislature; and from 1861 to the time of his death, which happened in IS88, he was Postmaster of Barrington. In the latter office he was succeeded by his widow, who con- tinued to hold it thereafter until her death in 1892.
William E. Waterhouse was educated in the common and high schools of Barrington and at Franklin Academy of Dover. Being the only child, he lived with his parents until their death. In the home farm he has about three hundred and fifty acres. Besides this he owns other land amounting to four hundred and fifty acres. While giving due attention to his real estate and other interests, he has taken a very active part in public affairs. He was first elected to office in 1867, when he became Town Clerk, in which capacity he afterward served the town until 1871. During the next two years he was legislative Repre- sentative. In 1876 and 1877 he served as Selectman, and in 1886 he was re-elected to serve until the spring of 1890; and he was Chairman of the Board for two years of that time. In 1882 he was elected County Com- missioner, and afterward held the office two years. Since 1887 he has been Moderator at town and school meetings. He has served on the School Board for the past four years. In 1893 he was elected to the New Hampshire
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Senate from the Twelfth District, on the Re- publican nomination. For the past twenty years he has been a member of the State Cen- tral Republican Committee.
On February 1, 1868, Mr. Waterhouse mar- ried Miss Elizabeth S. Hale, of Barrington. His children are: Jeremiah, born April 14, 1875; and Ruth, born June 22, 1887. In the fall of 1896 Jeremiah was elected to the legislature, and celebrated the event by giv- ing a supper to over a thousand of his friends. He belongs to the third of the three gen- erations of the Waterhouse family that have represented Barrington in the legislature. The Hon. William E. Waterhouse is a mem- ber of Centennial Grange; of Wannalancet Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Dover; and of Mount Pleasant Lodge, I. O. O. F., of the same place.
ALVIN JENKINS, a successful farmer of Barnstead, was born here, April 30, 1840, son of Joseph and Lydia Ann (Merrill) Jenkins. John Jenkins, Joseph's father, who came to Barnstead from Lee, N. II., purchased a tract of land near Suncook Pond, on which he settled, and subsequently became the owner of considerable land in Lee. He died in the latter place. His children were : John, Joseph, Lois, Hannah, Sally, and William. John, who lived and died in Lee, N. H., leaving five children, represented his town in the State legislature and held other offices. Sally married John M. Chesley, and lived in Barnstead. Lois married Sargent Hanson, and now resides in Madbury, N. H. Hannah married Jacob Odell, of Durham, and had one child, who died while attending col- lege. William, who was a manufacturer of starch in different places in New York, and died in 1895, married Joanna Foss, who died
some years ago. They had five children, of whom Louisa, Fannie, and Emma are living.
Joseph Jenkins, born in Lee, removed when a young man to Barnstead, where he took up farming, and subsequently became the largest land-owner in this town. He was also quite largely engaged in buying and selling timber lots. In politics he was a loyal Republican. Whenever he was a candidate for office, he was always successful. He was Selectman for many years, and he represented the town in the State legislature for two years. In relig- ion he was a strong believer in the tenets of Quakerism. He lived to be ninety two years old. The first of his two marriages was con- tracted with Miss Nancy Walker; and the second with Miss Lydia Ann Merrill, daugh- ter of Elisha Merrill. By the first there were five children; namely, William A., Joseph, John, Oren, and Louisa. Of these, Joseph, John, and Oren are living. Louisa died in girlhood. The children of the second mar- riage were: Charles F., Everett, Lewis and Louisa (twins), Calvin, Melvin, Mary and Lyman (twins). Everett served in the Civil War until a severe wound, received at the battle of Fredericksburg, obliged him to re- turn home. Lewis and Melvin were also sol- diers in the war. Lewis was wounded in the foot. After the war Melvin served for a time on the police force of Manchester, N. H., and there subsequently became the City Marshal. Lyman is now a Deacon in the First Congre- gational Church of Barnstead.
After acquiring a common-school education, Calvin Jenkins took up farming with his father, with whom he remained until he was twenty-six years of age. Then he started out for himself, continuing in the same occupa- tion on a farm on Beauty Hill, that his father gave him, containing one hundred acres. The buildings were subsequently destroyed by fire,
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entailing a heavy loss to him. Afterward, in 1892, he purchased the place at Barnstead Parade where he now lives. Mr. Jenkins is one of the representative farmers of the town. He is prominent in the Republican party. In ISSS and IS89 he was elected Deputy Sheriff of Belknap County, and served two years. Re-elected in 1892, 1894, and 1896, he is still serving in that capacity. On pre- vious occasions, when he was a candidate for office, the Democrats carried the elections.
On February 26, 1862, Mr. Jenkins married Miss Hannah M. Sackett, daughter of Noble Sackett, of Barnstead, who had eleven other children. Mr. Sackett, who came to Barn- stead from Massachusetts and was the first shoemaker in this town, followed his trade up to the age of sixty-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins have one son, Edgar, who is em- ployed by the American Express Company, Boston. Edgar married Grace A. Willey, daughter of Horatio G. Willey, of Barnstead, and now has one child - Harold W., born April 7, 1895. Mrs. Calvin Jenkins is a member of the First Congregational Church.
LVAH B. FLANDERS, Tax Collector of Alton, was born upon the farm he now occupies, in West Alton, son of Andrew and Betsey (Eaton) Flanders. His grandfather, Ezekiel Flanders, in young man- hood accompanied his parents from Amesbury, Mass., to Alton, and later, in West Alton, took up a tract of fifty acres of wild land, and converted it into the farm now owned by his grandson, Alvah B. Ezekiel, who was prob- ably the first settler in this part of the town, besides clearing thirty acres of his land, hauled lumber on sleds to Gilmanton. Hc finally erected a frame house, and resided here until his death. He married for his first
wife Susannah Buzzell, and reared five chil- dren -- Andrew, Enoch, Sally, Elizabeth, and Susan. Enoch, who settled upon land in Gil- ford given him by his father, about one mile from the homestead, married, and raised a family of three sons and three daughters. Sally became the wife of Jacob Leavitt, of Gilford, and left one daughter. Elizabeth married Lyman Blaisdell, a farmer of Gilford; and of her family there is one survivor. Susan married William B. Hinckley, of Alton, and had a family of six children. The mother died at the age of seventy-five; and the father, who was then eighty years old, married Betsey Davis, and passed the last ten years of his life happily with his second bride. His second wife died at ninety-two.
Andrew Flanders, born in Alton in 1790, was nine months old when his parents moved to West Alton. When a young man he settled and erected a house on a part of the homestead property. He finally succeeded to the ownership of the entire farm. Energetic and industrious, he became prosperous, and added about one hundred acres to the tract. He supported the Democratic party in politics, and acted as a Justice of the Peace for many years. He was one of the first Adventists in Alton, and continued in that belief until his death, which occurred in 1872. His wife, Betsey, who was a native of Pittsfield, N. H., became the mother of a large family of chil- dren, nine of whom lived to maturity. These were : John E., Sally, Ezekiel S., Andrew S., Betsey, Amasa K. J., Dana J., Hezekiah B., and Alvah B. John E. died in Laconia, leav- ing one son. Sally became the wife of John Carr. Andrew S. married in Newburyport, Mass., and resided there for the rest of his life. Amasa married, and resided in Alton Dana J. died in Salem, and left four daugh- ters. Betsey died at the homestead, aged
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twenty-two years. Hezekiah moved from Gil- ford to Salem, where he died. Mrs. Andrew Flanders died in 1854, aged sixty-two years.
Alvah B. Flanders was reared and educated in Alton. He belongs to the third of the three generations of the family that have occu- pied the homestead. At his father's death he succeeded to the property, on which he has since successfully carried on farming. In politics he is a Republican, and a local party leader of ability. He has been the candidate of both parties for Tax Collector since 1888. Mr. Flanders married Sarah C., daughter of Daniel Flanders, of Alton. Her parents were active and industrious and sturdy farming people. Mr. Alvah B. Flanders and his wife have five children ; namely, Edwin D., Ellen E., Oscar A., Willie A., and Maurice L. Edwin D., now the proprietor of a flourishing provision business and of some valuable real estate in Nashua, N. H., is married, and has two sons. Ellen E. and Maurice L. reside at home. Oscar A. taught school for a time, and is now employed in a grocery store in Lake- port. Willie A. is with his brother in Nashua.
ON. CHARLES H. LOONEY, a prominent merchant of Milton, and an ex-member of the New Hamp- shire Senate, was born in this town, July II, 1849, son of Francis and Rhoda Ann (Leigh- ton) Looney. His grandfather was Thomas Looney, an Englishman, who late in life emi- grated to the United States, and died soon after his arrival. The father was a native of Manchester, England, where he learned the cotton manufacturing business. In 1820 he came to this country, and for some time acted as agent of the satine mills in Dover, N.H. He finally settled in Milton, where he was en- gaged in manufacturing cotton warp for a
number of years; and he died January 18, 1854. He married Rhoda Ann Leighton, a native of Milton, and became the father of two sons: Charles H., the subject of this sketch ; and Edwin F., who died at the age of seven- teen years.
Charles H. Looney was educated in the common schools and at the Classical Institute of Milton, N. H. When his studies were com- pleted he entered Twombly's grocery store as a clerk; and two years later he was employed in the same capacity in Farmington, N. H., by Captain Herring, with whom he remained a year. In 1871 he engaged in the grocery busi- ness upon his own account in Milton, and there conducted a flourishing trade until 1889, when he was appointed Deputy Collector of Customs for the Portsmouth district. In 1894 he entered into partnership with Mr. Amos M. Roberts in the grocery business, under the firm name of Looney & Roberts, which has been continued until the present time. Mr. Looney is one of the most active and influential leaders of the Republican party in this section of the State, and his political career has been marked by a display of such sterling ability as to insure for him the steady support of the majority of his party. He was appointed Postmaster in Milton by President Grant in 1871, and held the office with general satisfaction for thirteen years. He served as - Town Clerk for twelve years, and was elected to the legislature in 1885 and to the State Senate in 1887. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Nute High School of Mil- ton. He was Deputy Collector of Customs at Portsmouth for five years, and is now a candi- date for the collectorship of that port.
Mr. Looncy married Emily E. Miller, daughter of Robert Miller, of Milton, and has four sons; namely, Ned Francis, Walter E., Robert M., and Harry H. He is connected
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with Fraternal Lodge, F. & A. M., of Farm- ington, N.HI. ; and with the Ancient Order of United Workmen. The family attend the Congregational church.
EWIS A. PROCTOR, a leading farmer of Alton, was born January 19, 1836, on the place where he now resides, son of the late John D. Proctor, and grandson of Thomas Proctor. John Proctor hired out when quite young with Joseph Drew, and after a time married his employer's daughter, Selina. They started out for themselves, were thrifty, prudent, and determined to suc- ceed, and after a time were able to buy a part of their father's farm, about one hundred acres. Later they bought the whole farm, three hundred acres and more. John D. Proc- tor lived to be seventy-five years of age, dying in 1883. He was a Whig and later a Repub- lican. In religious belief both he and his wife were Adventists. Mrs. Proctor died in 1886. Their two children were Lewis A. and Martha J.
Lewis Proctor attended the district schools. After his school days were over, he worked with his father until 1866, when he took charge of the farm. He has built a new two- story house, containing fifteen finished rooms, and has much improved the property. The house is now one of the many pleasant New Hampshire homes open to the tourist during the summer season. Mr. Proctor married Miss Sarah Collins, daughter of Thomas Col- lins, of Alton, and grand-daughter of John H. Collins, an early settler of Barnstead, N. H. Thomas Collins married Dorothy Munsey, and had four children - John, Sarah, Fannie, and Frank. John, a painter, married and is living in Pembroke. Frank is married, and re- sides in Gilmanton. Fannie married Joseph
Yeaton, of Pittsfield. Mrs. Proctor is the mother of six children: John W., Lillian F., Ella M., and Charles H., who live at home; Mabelle F., now Mrs. Frank McDuffce; and Irville T., who married Lillian C. Bennett, and is living on the Dodge place in Barnstead.
EREMIAH Y. WINGATE, a promi- nent druggist of Dover, and the worthy representative of one of the earliest settled families of Strafford County, is of sub- stantial English antecedents. The emigrant ancestor was John Wingate, who came from England to the United States in 1658, and soon afterward purchased a tract of land situ- ated on what is now known as Dover Point. He there began the improvement of a farm which is still in the possession of the Wingate family, being now owned by Mr. Joseph Will- iam Wingate, a brother of Jeremiah Y. and a descendant of the sixth generation. A more extended account of the Wingates will be found in the History of the Wingate Family in England and America, compiled by Charles E. Wingate, and published in 1886 by James P. D. Wingate, of Exeter, N. H.
Jeremiah Y. Wingate was born June 15, 1842, in the town of Dover, son of William P. and Lydia Chandler Wingate, prosperous farmers of this locality. He grew to man- hood on the homestead, obtaining an excellent education in the public schools of the place and at Franklin Academy. When about twenty-one years old, he entered the drug store of Dr. John H. Wheeler, of Dover, with whom he served a full term of apprenticeship. He then formed a partnership with James H. Wheeler, M. D., and for nine years was suc- cessfully engaged in an apothecary's business. At the end of that period the firm was dis- solved; and he went to Conway, N. H., and
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engaged in business there, remaining about a year and a half. Not being satisfied with his trade in that place, he returned to this city, and, opening his present fine store, has since. been actively engaged in the drug business. He has an extensive and profitable trade, hav- ing among his customers many of the leading people of Dover and vicinity.
On November 4, 1870, Mr. Wingate married Miss Arvilla S. Clements, who was born in Dover, daughter of John and Abigail (Dow) Clements. His children are: Florence H., born September 2, 1872, who is now a book- keeper in this city; Maude A., born June 17, 1876, who is a clerk in her father's store ; Martha C., born March 20, 1880, now a pupil of the Dover High School; and Henry, born June 29, 1885. Inheriting the political faith that has dominated the family for eight gen- erations, Mr. Wingate is one of the most earn- est supporters of the Republican party, and takes an active part in local affairs so far as the demands of his business will allow. The family are members of the First Congrega- tional Church, with which he has been united for thirty years.
ENRY QUIMBY DALTON, senior member of the firm Dalton & Ben- nett, proprietors of Lakeside House, Tilton, was born in Northfield, N. H., De- cember 20, 1829, son of Absalom and Harriet B. (Aldrich) Dalton. His grandfather, Sam- uel Dalton, born in Londonderry, N. H., July 29, 1757, was a son of John Dalton, whose father came from the north of Ireland. Sam- uel Dalton enlisted in the Continental army for the short term when eight years old, and afterward re-enlisted for four years. In 1793 he settled upon a farm in Northfield, and died in upper Gilmanton, January 1, 1837. He
married for his first wife Polly. Myrick, who was born in, Hampstead, N. H., March 16, 1778, and died July 18, 1820. His second marriage was contracted with Mrs. Rachel (Gile) Wadleigh.
Absalom Dalton, the father of Henry Q., was born in Northfield, July 31, 1801. When a young man, he taught school in Stewarts- town, N. H. Later, in Massachusetts, he learned the stone cutter's trade, and followed it for some years in some of the largest quarries of New England. Afterward for thirty years he followed agriculture in North- field and Sanbornton. Upon the death of his wife he took up his residence with his son, Henry Q. His death occurred in October, 1888, at the age of eighty-seven years. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife, Har- riet B., who was a daughter of Caleb Aldrich, of Northfield, became the mother of seven children, five of whom reached maturity. Of these there are living : Henry Q., the subject of this sketch ; and Urana M., the wife of Eben B. Calef. The others were Ransom . S., Mary A., and George W. Mr. and Mrs. Absalom Dalton were members of the Free Baptist church.
Henry Quimby Dalton was educated in the district schools. When ten years old, his father's house, including all the furniture, with the exception of a chair and a bed, was sold to satisfy a note which the elder Dalton had indorsed. In consequence young Henry then went to work upon a farm in Hookset, N. H. Thirteen months later, he left Hook- set for Belmont, where he worked upon differ- ent farms. When fifteen years of age, he began to learn the stone cutter's trade with his father at Sanbornton; and he has since fol- lowed it at intervals. When twenty-one years old, he purchased the Jerry Gilman farm. Later he sold that estate; and in 1866 he
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purchased his present property, which now contains about two hundred acres. He culti- vates fifty acres, keeps thirty head of cattle, seven or eight horses, and employs several assistants. The greater part of his farm prod- ucts are used at the Lakeside House. He also owns considerable real estate in Laconia. In 1869 he began keeping summer boarders. As the business increased, he found it neces- stry to enlarge his house. The Lakeside, which occupies a sightly location on the shore of Lake Winnisquam, and has ample accom- modations for one hundred guests, is the larg- est summer resort in Tilton. From May to September it is filled with patrons, some of whom come from Florida and San Francisco. In politics Mr. Dalton is a Democrat. He has served the town well and faithfully in the various capacities of Selectman, Tax Collec- tor, Road Agent, Supervisor of Church List, and Appraiser of the Town. He has acted as a Justice of the Peace for fifteen years.
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