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William W. Cushman attended the common schools of his native town for the usual period. When sixteen years of age he went to West- boro, Mass., where he was employed for a time as a milk inspector, and in shipping milk from there to Boston. On June 29, 1861, he en- listed in Company K, Thirteenth Massachu- setts Volunteer Infantry, for service in the Civil War, and with his regiment took an ac- tive part in the engagements at Falling Waters, Harper's Ferry, and the second battle of Bull Run, at the latter place being wounded in the left shoulder by a minie ball. The wound obliged him to spend the next four months in the hospitals of Belleview, N. Y., and Newark, N.J. In the latter city he was subsequently discharged from the service, his term of enlistment having expired. There-
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upon he went directly to New York City, where he stayed until December of that year (1863), employed as street car conductor. Returning then to the old homestead, he spent the winter in his native State. In February, 1864, he enlisted in Company E, Thirty- second Maine Volunteer Infantry, with which he took part in the battles of the Wilderness, the engagements at Spottsylvania Court-house, Cold Harbor, and of the North Anna River. He was then transferred to the invalid corps, and sent to Augusta, Me., where, at the close of the war, he received his honorable dis- charge. Throughout the following year Mr. Cushman was unable to work, and resided with his parents. In the spring of 1866 he went again to Westboro, Mass., and for a time worked in a straw factory. From there he went to Worcester, in the same State, where he spent a year engaged in the grocery busi- ness. Disposing of his store at an advantage, he next embarked in the life insurance busi- ness, locating in Rutland, Vt., and having the agency for that State for three years. He was then transferred to Portland, Me., where he had charge of the office in that city for a year. In the following year he was stationed at Biddeford, Me., having charge of the State agency. He was then sent to Middlesex County, Massachusetts, as agent for that part of the State, and for two years had his head- quarters at Lowell. Having in the next year secured a situation with the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, he was sent to Dover, where he afterward held the agency for Strafford County for five years. At the end of that time he established his present livery business, in which he has met with ex- cellent success.
Mr. Cushman married September 1, 1867, Miss Laura E. Keyes, of East Wilton, Mc., who died December 17, 1888, leaving no chil-
dren. On March 4, 1890, he contracted a sec- ond marriage with Miss Emma E. McDuffce, of Dover, who has borne him one child, Ger- trude E. Politically, Mr. Cushman is one of the most earnest and active workers of the Re- publican party. During the year 1882 he was President of the Dover Common Council, was a Representative to the State legislature in "1883 and 1884, served as Alderman in 1888 . and 1889, and in 1893 was elected Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, a posi- tion which he still holds. Socially, Mr. Cushman belongs to the Strafford Lodge, No. 29, F. & A. M., of Dover; and to the Charles W. Sawyer Post, No. 17, G. A. R., of this city. Religiously, he is a member of the Universalist church.
MITH F. EMERY, proprietor of the Moulton House, Centre Harbor, Belknap County, N.H., was born in Sandwich, this State, April 1, 1836, son of David Stiles and Ruth S. (Norris) Emery. He is a lineal descendant of an early colonist, John Emery, who was a son of John, Sr., and Agnes Emery, of Ramsey Hants, England, and was born there, September 29, 1598.
In company with his brother Anthony, John Emery sailed from South Hampton on board the ship " James" of London, William Cooper, master, April 3, 1635, and landed in Boston, Mass., on June 3 of the same year. The Emery brothers were accompanied by their families. Soon after arriving in America, John Emery settled in Newbury, Mass., where he had been granted one-half of an acre of land for a house lot. It is recorded that on December 22, 1637, John Emery was fined twenty shillings for enclosing ground not laid out or owned by the town, but on February 1, 1638, the town granted him full possession of
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the enclosed tract. He was made a freeman in 1641, and recorded as one of the ninety-one frecholders of the town on December 2, 1642. He was a Selectman in 1661, Fence Viewer in 1666, a Grand Juror in the same year, and Trial Juror in 1672, and was appointed to carry the town vote to Salem in 1676. His first wife, Mary, whom he married in England, and whose maiden name is unknown, died in Newbury early in 1649. In 1650 he was again married to Mrs. Mary Shatswell Web- ster, widow of John Webster, of Ipswich, Mass. John Emery died in Newbury, Novem- ber 3, 1683; and his second wife, surviving him, died April 28, 1694.
His son Jonathan, born in 1652, was pressed into service during King Philip's War, leav- ing Newbury on December 3, 1675, and was present on December 19 at the Narragansett fight, where he was wounded in the shoulder. Ile died in Newbury, September 29, 1723. On November 29, 1676, he married Mary, daughter of Edward Woodman. She died September 13, 1723. Stephen Emery (first), son of Jonathan, married Lydia Jackman on February 25, 1715. His will, which was made October 5, 1761, was proved June 21, 1762. Stephen Emery (second) was a soldier in Captain Israel Gerrish's company, which served in the expedition against Canada, and he died soon after his return in 1758. In Oc- tober, 1743, he married Deliverance Stiles, who was born in Boxford, Mass., February 21, 1723, daughter of John and Eleanor (Pearl) Stiles, and it is supposed that his son David, who was baptized in July, 1744, was the great- grandfather of Smith F. Emery.
David Stiles Emery lived in Moultonboro, N.H. It is thought that he went there from Salisbury, N. H., or Massachusetts, and that he was the son of Stephen Emery (second) above mentioned. He was married, and had several
children. His son Othniel, grandfather of Smith F., was a resident of Moultonboro. The maiden name of his wife was Meloon, and their children were: Sally, Charlotte, Re- becca, -Nathaniel, Samuel M., Moses M., David S., Albert M., and Alpheus.
David S. Emery, Smith F. Emery's father, was born in Moultonboro, August 28, 1803. After serving the customary term of appren- ticeship at the blacksmith's trade, he engaged in business upon his own account in his na- tive town, and later removed to Sandwich, N.H., where he plied his calling for some years. About the year 1840 he removed to Centre Harbor, and continued active until his death. He took a great interest in military affairs, and as Captain in the State militia he was regarded as a most capable and efficient officer. In politics he was a Democrat. His wife, Ruth S. Norris, whom he married Octo- ber 23, 1827, was a daughter of Stephen Nor- ris, of Meredith, N.H. She became the mother of four children, and of these two lived to maturity, namely: Sarah L., wife of William A. Page, M.D., of Centre Harbor ; and Smith F., the subject of this sketch. Mr. and Mrs. David S. Emery were members of the Congregational church.
Smith F. Emery was four years old when his parents took up their residence in Centre Harbor, and he was educated in the public school of this town. When a young man he learned the shoemaker's trade, which he fol- lowed as a journeyman for four years, and dur- ing the succeeding two years he was engaged in manufacturing shoes in Centre Harbor upon his own account. Since 1860 he has been proprietor of the Moulton House, which is the oldest hotel at the Harbor. The origi- nal house, however, was taken down, and the present one built on the same spot.
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sixty guests, and during the summer season it entertains from five hundred to six hundred tourists. In connection with the house Mr. Emery carries on a farm of fifty acres, twenty acres of which is devoted to the raising of veg- etables for the supply of his table. He also conducts a profitable business as an insurance broker, and is agent for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company in New Hampshire. Politically, he is a Republican. HIe has served as Town Treasurer two years, was a member of the Board of Selectmen for the same length of time, has been Tax Col- lector, and is now Chairman of the Board of Supervisors.
On January 24, 1860, Mr. Emery married Susan H. Moulton, a representative of the old family of that name, whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers in this county. She is a daughter of Colonel John H. and Susan S. (Porter) Moulton, the former of whom was in his day one of the most promi- nent residents of Centre Harbor.
Mrs. Emery's great-grandfather was General Jonathan Moulton, who commanded an expedi- tion sent out from Dover, N. H., against the Indians, whom they met at Clark's Landing. In the skirmish that ensued all of the savages were killed except one, who while making his escape up the lake on the ice, was pursued, it is said, and killed by the General's dog. Mrs. Emery's grandfather was Benning Moul- ton, a resident of Centre Harbor, and her father, John Hale Moulton, was born in this town in 1795. In carly life he was engaged in trade, and later became proprictor of the Moulton House, which he carried on for twelve years. He was a Democrat in politics, and served as a Selectman, Town Treasurer, and Representative to the legislature for a number of years. He was also Sheriff of Belknap County, a Justice of the Peace, and a Colonel
in the State militia. His wife, Susan S. Porter was a daughter of the Rev. Huntington Porter, a Congregational minister.
Mr. and Mrs. Emery have had three chil- dren; namely, John H., Caroline P., and Alice H. John H. and Alice H. are no longer living ; and Caroline P. is the wife of Walter F. Hill, now living in West Somerville, Mass. Mr. Emery is a Past Master of Chocorua Lodge, F. & A. M., of Meredith, N.H. ; and is connected with Winnepesaukce Tribe of Red Men. Mr. and Mrs. Emery are members of the Congregational church.
RESTON B. YOUNG, M.D., who is actively engaged in the practice of medicine at Farmington, N.H., was born in this town, June 1, 1858, a son of Jon- athan Young. He is of English ancestry, and the descendant of a pioneer family of Strafford County, his paternal grandfather, Benjamin Young, having been born in the town of Strafford, where his father, also named Ben- jamin, was an early settler.
Jonathan Young passed the first years of his life in Strafford. When he was seven years old his father purchased land in Farm- ington, where he was reared to agricultural pursuits. After his father died he retained the home place by paying off the other heirs, and continued to carry on the various branches of farming with skill and success. He was a Democrat in politics, and, though caring little for public office, served as Surveyor a number of years, and for many years as school agent, a position in which he took great interest, and by securing college-taught teachers gained for his district the name of having the best district school in Farmington. The closing years of his life were spent at East Rochester, this county, where his death occurred Decem-
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ber 14, 1895. He married Miss Hannah S. Waldron, of Rochester, and had seven chil- dren, four of whom are now living, namely : Lizzie M., wife of Samuel Forsaith, of East Rochester; Ellen M .; John, a physician in Dover; and Preston B., the special subject of this sketch.
Preston B. Young laid a substantial founda- tion for his future education in the common schools of Farmington, this being supple- mented by a course of study at Austin Acad- emy in Strafford, after which he taught a dozen or more terms of school. Then, with a view of bettering his condition in life, he be- came a student at Eastman's National Busi- ness College in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
After graduating at Eastman's, he taught commercial school a while. in Biddeford, Me. Not yet being satisfied, and desiring then to fit himself for a professional career, he entered the University Medical College of New York City, where he was graduated in 1888. Dr. Young then opened an office in Berwick, Me., where he remained for six years. In 1894 he came to Farmington, settling here in the month of August, and has since had a fair share of the practice of this locality, his suc- cess in his profession having been assured from the outstart.
Dr. Young was married September 14, 1895, to Miss Jennie C., daughter of Hiram Clark, of Berwick, Me. They have one child, John W. C. Young. While practising in Berwick, the doctor served as a member of the Board of Health for five years. He is a Republican in politics, and takes an active in- terest in local affairs. He is also identified by membership with several of the fraternal societies of Berwick, belonging to Echo Lodge, No. 52, I. O. O. F., in which he has filled the principal chairs; to the Grand Lodge of the State of Maine; and to Rath-
bone Lodge, No. 69, K. of P., of which he is Past Chancellor.
ILBRIDGE G. CLOUGH, an ardent and popular Democratic politician of Gilmanton, N. H., where he runs a stage between that town and Alton, was born in Gilmanton in the month of January, 1852. He is the son of John P. and Tamson Hayes Winkley Clough. Simon Clough, his great- great-grandfather, was one of the carliest set- tlers of the town of Gilmanton, arriving there from Seabrook, N. H., in the year 1775. Like our subject, his great-great-grandson, to whom perhaps he may have bequeathed this strain in his blood, Simon Clough seems to have had a strong predilection for politics, and to have taken a keen and active interest in the great public issues of his times. He was one of the one hundred and fifteen signers in the State of New Hampshire to the celebrated "Test Act," passed by the American Con- gress, April 12, 1776, and submitted to the people of each of the thirteen original States for their signatures. He enlisted in the Rev- olutionary War, and was one of the seven men from Gilmanton that were killed in it. Hle was one of a company of thirty-five minute- men, commanded by Captain Nathaniel Wil- son, who served under General John Stark, of New Hampshire, and he was with that Gen- eral, and met his death at the famous battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, a battle which General Stark fought in disobedience to the orders of his superior officer. For winning this victory, so vital to the cause of American liberty at that particular crisis of public affairs, Congress, after first passing a vote of censure for General Stark's insubordination, subsequently passed him a vote of thanks, and promoted him to the rank of a Brigadier-
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general. Simon Clough left at his death a family of children, among whom were Jona- than, Perley, and Joseph.
Joseph Clough, the son of Simon and great- grandfather of Elbridge G., left at his death a family of eleven children, namely: Chase ; Simon; Judith; Joseph; Rebecca; Nehemiah, grandfather of our subject; Parmelia; Moses; Mary ; Isaiah; and Jonathan.
Nehemiah Clough, son of Joseph and grand- son of the Revolutionary patriot and martyr, in whose veins flowed the same ardent love of country, served in the War of 1812. After the close of that war he returned to his native town of Gilmanton, and engaged in farming for the remainder of his life. He married Sarah Rowe, and had the following family of eight children - Phoebe R., Mary P., Lewis O., Elvira, John P., Sarah B., Julia, and Al- bert N. Phoebe R. married Isaac P. Coffin, of Alton, N.H .; Mary P. married Jeremiah Woodman, also of Alton; Lewis O. married Mary Burt, of Vermont; Elvira married David Glidden, of Alton; John P. was the father of our subject; Sarah B. married John Goodwin, of Manchester, N. H .; Julia married Clark M. Bailey, also of Manchester; and Albert N. is a veteran of the Third New Hampshire Vol- unteers.
John P. Clough, the father of the subject of this sketch, was a native of Gilmanton, and after receiving his education he was accus- tomed to teach the district school in the winter season, and to devote the summer to the cultivation of his farm. Ile married Tamson Hayes Winkley, the daughter of Francis Winkley, of Strafford, N. H., and they had the following children : Elbridge G., sub- ject of this sketch; Nahum O., now living in Minnesota; Russell W., now married and liv- ing in Minnesota; and Martha W. married to Jabez Moore, and living in Lawrence, Mass.
In all matters pertaining to education he was much esteemed and looked up to by his fellow- citizens, whom he served for a long time on the local School Board, prior to the time that the town of Belmont was set off from Gilman- ton. He was a member of the Orthodox Con - gregational Church, established by our New England Puritan ancestry.
Elbridge G. Clough was educated in the dis- trict schools of his native town and at the New Hampton Academy. The three succeeding years after leaving school he worked part of the time in a mill in Manchester, and part of the time on a farm in that vicinity. At the expiration of the three years he again returned home to Gilmanton, and engaged in the culti- vation of his father's farm of a hundred acres or more. . For some ten years he carried on the meat business in that town. At the pres- ent time he is engaged in running a stage route between Gilmanton and Alton, N.H. He married Emma Sargent, the daughter of Albert P. Sargent, of Lowell, Mass., a car- penter by trade, and they have a family of seven children, all of whom are boys, to wit : John Page, Guy Sargent, Russell Walton, William Everett, Albert Dexter, Clarence Francis, and Carl Grosvenor.
Mr. Clough is a strong, outspoken Demo- crat, and one of that party's most interested and active workers in this section. He takes a warm and lively interest in all local public affairs, and is a man whose opinion people are compelled to respect, even though they may differ from his views. He is popular, not only in his own political party, but among his townspeople generally, a statement that is plainly evidenced by the fact that, although he is a strong partisan Democrat, living in the midst of a Republican community, yet when he received the Democratic nomination for the State legislature in 1896, his numerous
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friends, irrespective of party lines, relying upon his well-known personal popularity, ex- pected to see him elected to the office beyond all doubt. Although, to the surprise of both parties, he was unexpectedly defeated by his Republican opponent, Mr. George Kelley, yet he ran far ahead of his own party ticket, and was defeated by the small majority of thirteen votes. This was at a time, too, when the widespread business depression of the country had induced a general dissatisfaction with a Democratic administration, and given rise to a strong clamor for a political change.
Mr. Clough is a charter member and Past Master of Crystal Lake Grange of Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire.
, DWIN W. FOLSOM, Treasurer of the Somersworth Board of Trade, and the proprietor of the principal jewelry store in the place, was born September 29, 1849, in Acton, Me. His parents were W. P. and Lucy J. (Goodwin) Folsom, both of whom were also natives of Acton.
W. P. Folsom lived in Acton the greater part of his life, and was engaged in mercantile business. He spent his last years on a farm in Rochester, N. H., where he died at the age of sixty. He was a loyal Republican, and at the time of the Civil War made application for admission to the ranks, but failed to pass the examination. Mrs. Lucy J. Goodwin Fol- som lived to be sixty-five years of age. She was a member of the Free Will Baptist church.
When but fifteen years of age, equipped with a fair common-school education, Edwin W. Folsom started out in life for himself. He first went to North Berwick, Me., where he worked for his board, and attended the high school two years. Returning to Rochester,
he worked for two years in a woollen-mill, then went to Manchester, and worked in a mill until 1869, when he entered the jewelry store of W. H. Elliott, to learn the trade. Having continued with Mr. Elliott in Manchester five years, in 1874 he came to Somersworth, and purchased the store in which he still does business. He carries a good line of watches, clocks, and jewelry, and has a large trade.
In 1875 Mr. Folsom was joined in marriage with Miss Flora A. Richardson, of Littleton, N. H., who died a year and a half later, leav- ing a daughter named Flora Belle. In 1878 he was again married, to Miss Della P. Mars- ton, of Somersworth. Four children have been born of this union; namely, Ethel D., Nellie F., Olive M., and William M., all with their elder sister living at home.
Mr. Folsom, who is a Republican, takes much interest in political matters, but does not care for official honors. He is prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Libanus Lodge, F. & A. M .; Edwards Chap- ter, R. A. M., of Somersworth; St. Paul Commandery, K. T., of Dover; the Edward A. Raymond Consistory of Nashua, N. H. ; and Aleppo Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Boston. He is also a member of Washington Lodge, I. O. O. F., of Somersworth; Great Falls, I. O. O. F. Encampment; and Hia- watha Tribe, No. 10, I. O. R. M., of Somers- worth. For the past five years he has been a Director of the Somersworth National Bank.
EORGE W. LORD, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Tilton, N. H., was born in Medford, Mass., April 24, 1847, son of Cyrus Woodruff and Lydia Thurston ( Evans) Lord. His father was a native of Shaker Bridge, N. H., and his mother was born in Gilmanton. An extended account
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of his ancestry will be found in a sketch of Albert C. Lord, which appears elsewhere in this work.
George W. Lord was brought by his parents to Sanbornton Bridge, now Tilton, when a year old, and he acquired his education in the common schools and at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. For ten years he worked in the spinning and carding room of a woollen-mill, and in 1869 he entered the drug store of Ames & Kelsey. He was employed by this firm and their successors for three years, at the end of which time he went to Franklin, N. H., as clerk for George C. Proc- tor, with whom he remained four years. He continued in the same store with Proctor's suc- cessor, E. H. Sturtevant for two years; and later, becoming a partner in the business, under the firm name of E. H. Sturtevant & Co., was engaged in the drug business in Franklin for twelve years. Selling his in- terest in the Franklin store, he returned to Tilton, and two years later purchased a store in this town, which he ran four years, when he relinquished the drug business. Forming a partnership with his brother, Albert C. Lord, he next turned his attention to the manufact- ure of optical goods, in which he is now en- gaged, the concern being known as the Lord Brothers Manufacturing Company. Politi- cally, Mr. Lord is a Democrat. For the past twelve years he has been a member of the Board of Selectmen of Tilton, and he has acted as its Chairman for nine years.
Mr. Lord and Mary E. B. Johnson, daugh- ter of John Johnson, of Northfield, N. H., were married on September 12, 1871, and are the parents of one daughter, Edith M.
Mr. Lord is well advanced in Masonry, being a member of Doria Lodge, F. & A. M. ; St. Omer Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Franklin; and of Mount Horeb Commandery,
K. T., of Concord. He is also connected with Belknap Lodge, I. O. O. F., and the Encamp- ment ; also Patriarchs Militant, Canton Tilton, No. 17; Tilton Lodge, Knights of Honor; Crescent Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor ; and the A. O. U. W.
ONATHAN YOUNG, a farmer of Gil- manton, N. H., was born in this town, February 16, 1818. His grandfather, Joseph Young, removed from Exeter, N. H., to Nottingham, N. H., where he remained a short time, and then removed to Gilmanton, settling at the foot of Mount Belknap. His farm consisted of one hundred and sixty acres, a large part of which he cleared .. He is said to have brought into the town the first cross-cut saw ever used here; it is still preserved in the family of his grandson, Jonathan Young. Mr. Joseph Young was one of the first inhabi- tants of the town. He married Betsey Shaw, and they had ten children, as follows : Dudley ; Joseph ; Samuel; David S., father of the sub- ject of this sketch; John; Bradbury; Na- thaniel; Hezekiah B. ; Jonathan; and Jane.
Dudley Young married Sally Jacobs, lived near Mount Belknap, and had a large family. A carpenter by trade, he also carried on gen- eral farming. Joseph, who was engaged in farming in this town, married Sally Dimond, and had three children. He died in. this town at the age of forty years. Samuel married Mary Dimond, and had five children -- Judith, Sarah, Mary, Abigail, and Dimond. Mr. Samuel Young died at the age of ninety-five years, having worked at farming until he was eighty-five years old. He was the oldest resi- dent of the town at the time of his death, and had been an industrious and prosperous man. John was a general farmer and also a me- chanic. He died at the age of seventy-four
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