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July 9, 1845, Dr. Stackpole married Miss Elizabeth G. Hills, of Haverhill, Mass., who passed away June 13, 1853. She left three children, of whom the following is the record : Charlotte E., born April 22, 1847, died No- vember 6, 1851; Charles H., born July 22, 1850, is a merchant and manager of a hotel, in business in Worcester, Mass. ; and Harry H., born August 30, 1852, who was gradu- ated from Dartmouth Medical College, is now
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engaged in the practice of his profession in Dover.
HARLES E. PULSIFER, one of the stirring farmers and best known resi- dents of Belmont, Belknap County, was born in Gilmanton, N. H., July 15, 1830, son of Joshua B. and Sarah (Bean) Pulsifer. His paternal great-grandfather, who was a shoemaker by trade and a pioneer farmer of Brentwood, N. H., reared two sons and three daughters. Benjamin Pulsifer, grandfather of Charles E., moved from Brentwood to Gilman- ton, N. H., in March, 1795. He wedded Mary Bean, and had a family of ten children ; namely, Jonathan, Stephen, Joshua, Daniel, Hannah, Lydia, Susan, Elizabeth, Sophronia, and Cynthia. Daniel married Hannah Moul- ton, of Gilmanton, daughter of Nathaniel Moulton, and had six children, one of whom dicd in infancy. The others were named : Henry, Sarah, John, Mary Ann, and Hannah. Henry became a successful merchant, and died en route for New Orleans, La. Sarah had two children by her first husband, Samuel Taylor ; and by Calvin Taylor, her second husband, she had one child. John was a farmer through the active period of his life, and died at the home- stead in 1882. Mary Ann, who attended Gil- manton Academy, married Levi C. Davis in 1881. Hannah also attended the academy, and became the wife of Enoch Thompson. Mary Ann and Hannah are now residing with their cousin, Charles E. Pulsifer, and own a part of the farm which was left to them and Mr. Pulsifer by their father.
Joshua B. Pulsifer, Charles E. Pulsifer's father, was born in Brentwood in 1788. Hc moved with his parents to Gilmanton; and after the death of his father he inherited the farm, which he enlarged considerably during his lifetime. He was a prominent man in his
day, having acted as a Justice of the Peace, and represented Gilmanton in the legislature for two years. He was a member of the Meth- odist church. His death occurred in 1873, aged eighty-four years and eight months. His wife, Sarah Bean, was a daughter of John Bean, of Gilmanton, and a descendant of a John Bean who emigrated to this country from Scotland in 1660. This John Bean married a daughter of a fellow passenger on the voyage, and reared a family of seven children. His son John, who was born in 1662, settled in New Market, N. H. Joshua Bean, the grand- father of Mrs. Sarah (Bean) Pulsifer, born in 1713, moved to Brentwood, and afterward settled in Gilmanton, where he died in 1787. He was twice married, on the second occasion to Lydia Brown, and was the father of twenty- one children, eleven by his first and ten by his second marriage. On December 26, 1761, his eldest daughter, Hannah, wedded Benjamin Mudgett. On that day Mr. and Mrs. Mudgett started on foot from Epsom to Gilmanton, a distance of twelve miles; and Mrs. Mudgett was the first white woman to step within the limits of the last named town. They arrived. at the spot where they were to settle on the following day, and Mrs. Mudgett resided in Gilmanton until the town could boast of a pop- ulation of over five thousand souls. She was the mother of Samuel Mudgett, the first white male child born in this town; and his birth took place February 15, 1764. Mrs. Mudgett died in Meredith, N. H., July 9, 1834, at the advanced age of ninety-five years.
Mr. and Mrs. Joshua B. Pulsifer were the parents of six children, as follows: Hannah Jane, who died at the age of two and a half years; Lyman B. ; Nehemiah; Mary Jane ; John B. ; and Charles E., the subject of this sketch. Lyman B., who taught school in early manhood, and later engaged in the
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hosiery business at Laconia, where he died in January, 1884, married Sarah Sawyer. His son, Charles L. Pulsifer, formerly the master of the Lakeport High School, was for six years a Selectman in Gilford, before that town was divided and a part incorporated within the present city of Laconia. He became a mem- ber of the Laconia City Council, is Vice-Pres- ident of the Lakeport National Bank, and has recently been elected Mayor of Laconia: Ne- hemiah Pulsifer, who is a farmer and resides at the homestead in Gilmanton, married Lu- cinda Sanborn. Mary Jane, now the widow of Stillman Arnold and residing in Lakeport, has had three children - Ella J., Ansel G., and Sydney. John B. Pulsifer, who was in early life a school teacher, and later became a pat- tern-maker, has been three times married. These marriages were successively contracted with Lucy Craig, Harriet Moody, and Lucy J. Pike. His daughter, Hattie Pulsifer, is a public singer of wide reputation.
Charles E. Pulsifer acquired a common- school education and was reared to farm life. The farm in Belmont he now cultivates was left by his uncle, Daniel Pulsifer, as before noted. This property, which originally con- tained but one hundred and sixty acres, now amounts to three hundred acres. He and his cousins also own some valuable woodland. Mr. Pulsifer votes with the Democratic party, but has no political aspirations.
ANIEL W. KIMBALL, a well- known and active business man of Farmington, Strafford County, was born April 15, 1834, in Bradford, Mass., son of Samuel A. Kimball. His grandfather, Samuel Kimball, was for many years one of the leading residents of Goffstown, this State, where he reared his family.
Samuel A. Kimball left Goffstown when a young man, going to Bradford, Mass., where he worked at the shoemaker's trade for a time. Removing then to Farmington, he followed the same business here for about twenty years, after which he went to Milton. While a resi- dent of that town, he enlisted in Company D, Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, as a bugler in the regimental band, and served for three years. At the end of that period he was honorably discharged on account of ill health. Returning then to Milton, he made a short stay, and then came to Farmington, and there resided until his death in May, 1894. A man of much intelligence and strict in- tegrity, he was held in high regard by his fel- low-townsmen, who have most pleasant recol- lections of him as a neighbor and friend. He married Miss Ann M. Griffin, of Groveland, Mass., who bore him seven children. Of these, four are living; namely, Daniel W., Gardner G., James M., and Anna M. Ellen E., the third-born, who became the wife of John F. Cloutman, died March 1, 1897; and Frank P. died in infancy. Walter also is de- ceased. Gardner G. and James M. reside in Bradford, Mass. ; and Anna M. is the widow of the late John Smith, of Winchester, Mass.
Daniel W. Kimball attended the public schools of Bradford and Farmington, afterward completing his studies at the academy in Wolf- boro, N.H. Under the instructions of his father he subsequently learned the details of the shoe business, with which he has since been prominently identified in Farmington. He is an enterprising, clear-headed, and practi- cal business man, and takes much interest in the welfare of his town. He is now serving it as Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, a po- sition to which he was elected in 1894. He is an unswerving Republican in politics, and by his voice as well as his vote supports the
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principles of that party. He occupies an honored position in many of the secret organ- izations of Farmington, belonging to Frater- nal Lodge, F. & A. M., of which he has been Treasurer for twenty-seven consecutive years ; to Columbian Chapter, R. A. M. ; to Wood- bine Lodge, I. O. O. F. ; and to the lodge of the Knights of Honor, of which he has been Master for the past ten years.
Mr. Kimball married August 14, 1855, Miss Mary Wingate, daughter of Benjamin and Lavinia (Davis) Wingate, of this town.
They have an interesting family of five children, born as follows: Clara E., June 17, 1858; Annic, August 3, 1860; M. B. Frank, July 7, 1863; Mary E., November 11, 1876; and Ernest E., December 27, 1879. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kimball are active members of the Congregational church. They sang in the church choir for forty years, and one of their daughters is now the organist of the church.
G EORGE HUNT WADLEIGH, a leading agriculturist of Tilton, Bel- knap County, and an ex-member of the New Hampshire legislature, was born in Sanbornton, November 17, 1850, son of Joseph D. and Sarah S. (Hunt) Wadleigh. His par- ents are both natives of Sanbornton; and on the paternal side he is a descendant of Joseph : Wadleigh, the first known ancestor of the fam- ily in America. James Wadleigh, son of Jo- seph, was a carpenter and millwright by trade, and resided in Epping, N. H. He married a Miss Dearborn, a sister of Miriam Dearborn, who was the wife of Jeremiah Sanborn, the first settler in Franklin Falls.
James Wadleigh, second, great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was born in Ep- ping. For many years he was a teamster in the employ of Lovejoy & Co., of Boston. He
subsequently cleared a farm in Sanbornton, where he resided for the rest of his life. He served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Wadleigh, grandfather of George H., was born in Sanbornton, January 11, 1784. He was a prosperous farmer and a noted horse breeder of his day. For fifty years he was Deacon of the Baptist church, and was highly regarded in that denomination. He married Phæbe Dustin, who was born in Sanbornton, April 5, 1782, daughter of David and Lydia (Kenniston) Dustin. She was a descendant of one of the sons of Mrs. Hannah Dustin, who acquired local fame in the early Indian wars, and is known as the heroine of 1697. David Dustin was probably born in Raymond, N. H., and came from Exeter or Amesbury, Mass., to Sanbornton in 1766. He is said to have built the first grist-mill in Sanbornton ; and, although he began without capital, he became the wealthiest man in that town. He died August 15, 1803. His first wife was Lovie Haman. He married Lydia Kenniston, Phobe's mother, on March 27, 1774.
Joseph D. Wadleigh was born upon the farm in Sanbornton where he now resides, May 11, 1823. He has always remained at the homestead, which he inherited, and as a gen- eral farmer is energetic and successful. In politics he acts with the Republican party. His wife, Sarah S. Hunt, whom he married May 28, 1848, is a daughter of Abraham P. Hunt, of Sanbornton. She is the mother of two children : George Hunt, the subject of this sketch; and Claribel, born January 12, 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Wadleigh are members of the First Baptist Church in San- bornton.
George Hunt Wadleigh was educated in the district schools, and grew to manhood as a farmer. After his marriage be removed to Tilton, entering into a partnership with his
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father-in-law in the cultivation of a large and productive farm one mile from the village, on which corn, hay, and fruit are the chief prod- ucts. He has since added one hundred acres of land, including a fine sugar orchard of six hundred trees. He produces a superior grade of sugar and syrup by the use of an evaporator of his own invention, which enables him to manufacture twenty-five gallons of syrup a day. He has also become quite noted as a breeder of thoroughbred cattle, making a specialty of a breed known as Red Polls, of which there are but two other herds in New England, and keeping an average of twenty-seven head. He is largely interested in poultry, and has a flock of about three hundred and twenty-five hens, which includes white and brown Leghorn, Wyandotte, and Plymouth Rock breeds. He owns some of the heaviest white Leghorns in New England. Politically, he is a Republi- can, and as Representative from this town in the legislature in 1893 he served with ability as a member of the Committee on Labor. In 1897 the citizens of Tilton elected him Chair- man of the Board of Selectmen, and he re- ceived every vote cast.
Mr. Wadleigh married Lilla M. Cass, daughter of Benjamin F. and Mary S. (Smith) Cass, of Tilton, December 13, 1881, and has one son living, Lewis Joseph.
Mr. Wadleigh is a charter member and a Past Master of Harmony Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, of Sanbornton. He was one of the first Board of Directors of the Grange State Fair in Tilton, and has filled successively the positions of Superintendent of Poultry, Super- -intendent of Cattle, Treasurer, and Secretary, which last office he now holds.
Mr. Wadleigh is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, of which he acts as Treas- urer, Trustee, and Steward, and is superin- tendent of the Sunday-school.
HARLES W. ALLEN, an enterprising, influential, and popular citizen of Roch- ester, was born May 5, 1853, on a farm located but a short distance from the one he now occupies. His father, Amasa Allen, was also born on the same farm, son of William Allen, who spent his entire life in this town. The Allen family was first represented in this country by the great - great - grandfather of Charles W., who came to Rochester in the carly part of the seventeenth century, bringing with him his family, which included William Allen, the next in line of descent. Joshua Allen was a Colonel in the War of 1812 ; Samuel Allen was a Major in the same war ; and William, his son, father of Amasa, was a Quartermaster.
Amasa Allen learned the shoemaker's trade when a young man, and for several years followed this occupation. He afterward settled on the farm where he now resides, turning his attention to the cultivation of the soil, and by his energetic industry and excellent management has met with signal success. He is a prominent Republican in politics, although he has never held public office. He married Miss Elizabeth A. Blaisdell, of Lebanon, Me., who has borne him four children, namely : Charles W., the subject of this sketch ; Clara May, who married Charles H. Seavey, of this town, and died April 19, 1894 ; Martha E., the wife of James Andrew Jackson, of Rochester; and John A., who resides with his parents on the old homestead.
Charles W. Allen completed his education at the Austin Academy, which he left at the age of twenty-one years. In the following season he taught school in Berwick, Me. Returning then to his home, he entered into the lumber business in company with his brother. In this profitable industry he has since continued, buy- ing tracts of standing timber, and converting it into lumber, which finds a ready market. Mr. Allen is also prosperously engaged in general
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farming and dairying, keeping thirteen cows. The land owned by him in different localities makes in all two hundred and fifty acres. Be- fore the incorporation of the city of Rochester he served the community in various offices. He represented Ward One in the Common Council for four years, beginning in 1890; and in 1895 and 1896 he was a representative to the State legislature from Rochester. He was also Sur- veyor for several years.
On December 23, 1882, Mr. Allen married Miss Isabel T. Jones, of Lunenburg, Mass., a daughter of William H. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Allen are members of the Walnut Grove Free Baptist Church, and contribute generously toward its support.
OSEPH O. HAYES, a prominent citi- zen of East Rochester, N. H., is pro- prietor of a Jivery and feed stable, and also carries on a substantial business as a dealer in coal, wood, and hay. He was born November 13, 1847, in the town of Rochester, N. H. His father was Joseph Hayes; and his paternal grandfather was Benjamin Hayes, an early settler of Strafford County.
Joseph Hayes was a farmer, and spent his entire life in that section of Rochester known as Gonic. He was a Republican in politics and an active worker in his party, though not an office-seeker. He married Miss Armina Garland, of Bartlett, N. H., who bore him four children, namely : Benjamin F. ; Lydia, deceased; Joseph O. ; and Jennie, who was the wife of Dr. Newell, of Farmington, this county. Joseph Hayes, the father, died in 1850. The mother, Mrs. Armina G. Hayes, is still living on the home place.
Joseph O. Hayes lived on the parental homestead, attending the district school a few months in the year and the rest of the time
assisting in the manual labors of the farm, until eighteen years old. He was afterward employed for eight years as clerk in a hard- ware store, being then obliged to give up his position on account of his health: In 1878 Mr. Hayes embarked in his present business, beginning on a small scale; but he has grad- ually enlarged his operations and is now carry- ing on an extensive and lucrative business, his honorable and upright methods winning for him the confidence of the public and securing him a large patronage. He is very active and influential in political circles, being identified with the Republican party, and has ably filled various offices of trust and responsibility. In ISS3 he was elected to the State legislature, in which he served as Representative two years; in 1878 he became a member of the Board of Selectmen; and he was for a number of terms one of the members of the Board of Health. Fraternally, he belongs to Moto- linier Lodge, No. 18, I. O. O. F., of Rochester; Rindge Lodge, K. of P., of East Rochester; and to the K. A. E. O.
Mr. Joseph O. Hayes and Miss Cora B. Tibbetts, daughter of John W. Tibbetts, pro- prietor of the Glendon House of East Roches- ter, N. H., were married January 4, 1882. They have one child, a son, Harry T. Hayes, who was born September 19, 1893. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes attend the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mrs. Hayes was for some years the organist.
AJOR EDMUND TETLEY, a vet- eran of the Civil War, now en- gaged as a paper-box manufacturer in Laconia, N.H., is a native of Bradford, Yorkshire, England. He was born October 26, 1842, son of William and Mary Ann (Brayshaw) Tetley, both of whom were natives
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of England. His grandfather Tetley was em- ployed in a woollen-mill; and being capable and efficient, as well as a good weaver. for some time he was an overseer of a weaving- room. He died at seventy years of age. William Tetley, born in Bradford, England, also followed the occupation of a weaver. lle first came to this country in 1851. Three years later he returned to England for his wife and child, with whom he settled in Lawrence, Mass., whence he subsequently went to Barnet, Vt., and from there afterward removed to Amesbury, Mass. A year later he returned to Vermont, settling in Gaysville, finally com- ing to Laconia to spend his last days near his son. He died in 1896, aged eighty-one years.
Edmund Tetley was twelve years old when he came to America, so that his education was obtained principally in England. At fifteen years of age, when his parents were residing in Gaysville, he left home to make a living for himself. He first went to Ariesbury, Mass., where he had acquaintances; but, after spend- ing there the winters of 1860 and 1861, at nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at Portsmouth, N.H. He was at the attack on Forts Jackson and St. Philip at the capture of New Orleans by Admiral Farragut, being on board the United States sloop of war "Portsmouth, " a sailing-vessel, which was subsequently sta- tioned at New Orleans for nearly four years. From his enlistment until his discharge in 1865 at Brooklyn, N. Y., he had no furlough. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
At the close of the war he returned to Ames- bury. Later he went to Appleton, Wis. From Appleton he went to Utica, N. Y., thence to Olneyville, R. I., from there to Amesbury, and then to Lowell, where he i member of the following organizations: John entered the paper-box business. On leaving Lowell he obtained a situation in a paper-box
factory in Methuen, after which he went to Haverhill, Mass., whence in 1873 he came to Laconia to work for F. P. Holt in the paper-box business. Five years later he suc- ceeded Mr. Holt, and has since carried. on a successful business on his own account. He has two factories, one at 10 Arch Street, Laconia, and the other at 156 Gold Street, Lakeport. He sells only to the local trade. Some time after the war Mr. Tetley joined Company K, Third Regiment, N. H. N. G., and in 1878 was made Lieutenant. A year later he was made Captain, and served as such until his resignation in 1883. Previous to 1892 old Company K was disbanded; and he organized a new company in the same regiment at Laconia, and was chosen Captain. On May 8, 1894, he was promoted to the rank of Major, and he continues to hold this position.
Three years after his return from the war, in 1868, Major Tetley was married to Ella F. Merrill, of Lowell. They have had seven children, of whom two have passed away. The five living are: Edward B., who is study- ing at Bates College for the ministry; Guy M., superintendent of his father's factory at Lakeport; L. Gertrude living in Lowell; Blanche and Charles, at home and attending the Laconia public schools.
Major Tetley is a Republican. He has served one year as Selectman in Laconia, two years as High Sheriff of Belknap County, 1888-90, and was a member of the first La- conia City Council, representing Ward Four two years. Elected to the State legislature in 1894, he served as Chairman of the Com- mittee on Military Affairs, also as a member of the Committee on the Soldiers' Home. He is very popular in fraternal circles, and is a L. Perley Post, No. 37, G. A. R. (in Lowell he belonged to the B. F. Butler Post, No. 42) ;
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Mount Lebanon Lodge, No. 32, F. & A. M .; Union Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M. ; Pythagorean Council, No. 6, R. & S. M .; Pilgrim Com- mandery, K. T .; the Edward A. Raymond Consistory at Nashua; Aleppo Temple, An- cient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston; Winnepesaukee Lodge, No. 7, I. O. O. F., of Lakeport ; Laconia Encamp- ment, No. 9; and Canton Osgood, Laconia. He is Colonel in the First Regiment, P. M. ; Pontahum Tribe, No. 18, I. O. R. M .; and Mount Belknap Lodge, No. 20, K. of P.
APTAIN PENUEL C. HAM, a vet- eran of the Civil War, who cultivates a farm in New Durham, Strafford County, N. H., was born in this town, April 13, 1823, son of Nathaniel and Clarissa (Chamberlin) Ham. His grandfather, Shad- rach Ham, was a farmer and lifelong resident of Durham, N. H.
Nathaniel Ham was born in Durham, and his boyhood and youth were spent upon his father's farm. He did garrison duty at Ports- mouth during the War of 1812, and some time later settled on a farm in New Durham, where he resided for the rest of his life. He died in 1879, aged eighty-eight years. His wife, Clarissa Chamberlin, was a native of New Durham. They had fourteen children, of whom eight are living, namely : Tamson, who is now Mrs. Boody; Penuel C., the subject of this sketch; Hannah; Betsey; Martha; El- mira; Abigail; and Jacob H.
Penuel C. Ham in his boyhood acquired a common-school education in his native town ; and when a young man he went to Holliston, where he remained some time, afterward being employed in other places. Returning at length to New Durham, he kept a country store in this town for three years. Then came the
outbreak of the Southern rebellion and the call for troops to defend the Union, a call to which he was not slow to respond. In 18GI, the opening year, he enlisted in the Seventh Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, and was appointed First Lieutenant of Company G. At Morris Island he was promoted to the rank of Captain, succeeding Henry Leavitt in the command of the company. At the siege of Fort Wagner he was wounded in the left hip, which disabled him for a while, and after his recovery returned to his command. He took part in the Florida campaign, during which he saw considerable fighting; and he was dis- charged in December, 1864, having served thirty-eight months. In January, 1865, he returned home; and the greater part of his time has since been devoted to agricultural pursuits.
Captain Ham and his wife, Sarah Durgin, a native of New Durham, have had three chil- dren, as follows: Nat F., deceased; Charles G., a schoolmaster in Watertown, Mass. ; and Sarah, who died at the age of seven years.
Politically, Captain Ham is an active sup- porter of the Republican party, and has been a delegate to every county convention for the past twenty years. He served with ability as a Selectman in 1869, was Tax Collector two years, and a member of the School Board nine years in succession. For the last four years he served as Overseer of the Poor, and for some years has acted as a Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge in Alton, N. H., and a Past Commander of Post 49, G. A. R.
HARLES H. TUTTLE, an excellent representative of the self-made men of Strafford County, New Hampshire, has, by his sturdy industry, prudent economy,
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