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a member of the Grange, belonging to Grafton Star Grange, No. 60, and also to the Junior Or- der of American Mechanics of Hanover.
Our subject is a Republican in politics, and has served as road surveyor. Chester M. served as a member of the school committee. He has served on the Jury of the United States Circuit Court at Concord, N. H. On the night of Aug. 7, 1893, Mr. Fairbanks' barn was struck by lightning and totally consumed by fire. The new one, erected in the place of the old struct- fre, thus destroyed, is a model of convenience. Pipes from the village mains supply water to the farm, and furnish power to run a water mo- tor, which in turn transforms the power so that the machines for grinding feed, the churn, and the separator, are all run in the simplest man- ner, with very little trouble. Mr. Fairbanks makes a fine quality of gilt-edged butter for the market, which finds a ready sale in the large cities at fancy prices.
DR. EDMUND HERBERT NOYES, a ris- ing young physician of Haverhill, came to that town, and entered upon his present well-defined practice May 1, 1896. His elementary educa- tion to the age of twelve was secured in the schools of his native town, Newburyport, Mass .; arriving at that age, he went into a drug store to clerk for the proprietor, and employed his spare time in studying medicine under the direc- tion of Drs. Samuel G. Tilton and George W. Montgomery, graduates of Bowdoin /College. For two months our subject was in the drug store, and then was two more years in a grocery store, one year in a hardware store, and in a drygoods store for one year. In 1882 he en- tered the Medical Department of the University of Ohio at Cincinnati, and graduated in 1885. The initial years of his practice were spent in Cambridgeport and Gloucester, Mass., coming direct from the latter named place to Haverhill.
The grandfather of Dr. Noyes was Samuel M. Noyes, who was born at and spent his life in Newburyport, Mass., engaged chiefly as a bill- poster and as a stage-driver, driving from Bos- ton to Newburyport. He was an advanced Mason, having taken the 33d degree. He was a son of Samuel Noyes, a grocer of Newburyport,
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who died when about 60 years of age. Samuel 11. Noyes married Mary B. Chaney of South Berwick, Me., and from this worthy couple is the father of our subject descended. Mr. Noyes died in 1870, when over 75 years of age.
William S. Noyes, the father of Dr. Edmund Herbert, was born at Newburyport, Mass., and died at the age of 41, in 1876. He followed the express business throughout his life, being the local agent for the express company in that town. He never belonged to any fraternal or- der. He was lieutenant of the old Cushing Guards organization, and a member of the An- cient and Hororable Artillery Company. Dur- ing the progress of the late war he was drafted for the service, and desired to go, but was re- jected because of a disability received from the kick of a horse when he was a boy. He car- ried a gold medal five years for his marksman- ship in the Cushing Guards, and also had in his possession for five years a gold cup for the best shot. Before the days of the railroad he used to do a good deal of stage driving. He married Emma Hinchey, who was born in London, Eng- land, the daughter of John and Ann S. Hin- chey. John was a shoemaker by trade and left the old country about 1849, and took up a new home in Old Haverhill, Mass. Both he and his wife are now deceased. John Hinchey was a son of Dr. John Hinchey, a mason and great temperance man, who held a prominent place in the medical circles of London.
Dr. Edmund Herbert Noyes was born in Newburyport, Mass., Feb. 16, 1865, and passed the years of his boyhood there. He was the sixth child of the following seven children born to his parents: Emma Florence, William Al- ton, Charles Dickens, Kate Bassett, Ella M., Edmund Herbert, and Ernest Waldron.
Dr. Noyes belongs to the Order of Sons of Temperance, and was Deputy Grand Patriarch from 1890 to 1896; in 1892 he was appointed State Deputy Grand Worthy Patriarch, and in 1893 was elected Grand Conductor, having filled all offices that were subordinate to it in the division. ITe is a member of Wennchins Di- vision, No. 41, of Lynn. In 1894 he was on the committee of finance and foreign correspond- ence. He is a member of the K. P., Syracuse Lodge, No. 3. of Ipswich, Mass., and has served as master-at-arms one term, keeper of the R.
and S. two times, and as a member of the staff. He is also a member of Philo Senate, No. 371, Gloucester, Mass., a lodge of the Knights of the Ancient Essenic Order, in which he was a char- ter member, and served as surgeon of it. He was a member of the committee of finance of the grand senate, which met at Springfield, Mass.
Dr. Noyes was married Feb. 21, 1892, at Sa- lem, Mass., to Emma S. Spencer of Ipswich, Mass., a daughter of James E. Spencer of Wil- mot, Nova Scotia. Her mother was Lucy Sanford of Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. Twelve children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Spencer: May Irene, Emma Sanford, Maude Blanche, Sadie Luella, Osee Delia. William Ernest, Dan Freeman, Lucy Belle, Henry Walter, Ingram Benjamin, John Albert, and John Albert. To our subject and his wife has been born one child: Clifford Alton, May 14, 1893. Mrs. Noyes is a mem- ber of the M. E. Church. In politics Dr. Noyes is a Republican and served on the Republican City Committee of Gloucester for two years. He came within two votes of being elected city physician of Gloucester. He is vice-president of the Puritan Club of Gloucester. In his medi- cal practice he is progressive and up-to-date in all of his methods, and deigns to use only the best and latest appliances in the art of healing. Few physicians have so completely gained and secured the confidence and good-will of their patrons as Dr. Noyes.
EBEN C. WEED, the leading general mer- chant of Oliverian Village, "The Brook," in the town of Haverhill, Grafton County, N. H., is the eighth of ten children born to William and Susan (Davis) Weed; our subject's brothers and sisters in order of birth were named as follows: George, Miriam, Elijah, Jane, Rhoda Ann, Jo- seph, Lois, Eben C., and two who died in in- fancy. William Weed was the son of Joseph Weed, an old settler of Vermont, coming from the State of Maine. Joseph Weed was a Re- publican in politics; he married Susan Currier, a lady of Scotch extraction, and lived to be near- ly ninety years old. William Weed was reared at Topsham, Vt., and passed his life there, en-
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gaged in the pursuits of agriculture, dying in 1886, at the age of 82. He was a strong Re- publican, and formerly an old line Whig. When a young man, he was struck in the head by a club, and his skull crushed, and ever after he wore a silver plate to protect the tender spot.
Eben C. Weed was born at Gratton, Vt., June 12, 1841; from the age of two years, he was reared in Topsham, where he attended schools until about eighteen, undergoing such difficul- ties in the securing an education, as walking five miles every morning of the eight weeks of winter school. Mr. Weed enlisted Sept. 3, 1861, at Haverhill, in Company I, 4th Regiment, N. H. Vol. Inf., and served four years, being dis- charged Aug. 28, 1865; during this time he was home twice on furlough. He went in as a pri- vate, and left the army a first lieutenant. He saw service in the States of South Carolina, Flo- rida, North Carolina, and Virginia, and was present at the following struggles: 'Taking of Port Royal, Ft. Pulaski, Ft. Marion at St. Au- gustine. Ft. Fisher, Petersburg, Cold Harbor, and White House Landing.
Upon Mr. Weed's return from the army, he worked in a paper-mill for three or four years, and then went into the lumber business at Top- sham, Vt., for six years. After seven years more work in the manufacture of paper, he filled out six years as deputy sheriff, and jailor, being appointed in 1885; then for one year he was not actively engaged in business. In 1892 Mr. Weed bought the residence, store and stock of F. T. Kirnan, at "The Brook," and is now car- rying on an extensive business in his well- stocked general country store.
Our subject was married Dec. 10, 1865, in Piermont, to Helen Frances Burns, the daugh- ter of James and Rachel (Hilliard) Burns, and granddaughter of James, Sr., and Mary Emily (Hunt) Burns. James Burns, Sr., was born in the barracks of the standing army of Great Britain, in which associations he was brought up: during the years of his army connection he was all over the world, wherever the British ariny goes. Coming to America he secured em- ployment as a weaver of cassimere and such goods on hand looms. He then went into a factory as a dresser of cloth. Rachel Hilliard was born in Corinth, Vt .. and was a daughter of Samuel and Rachel L. (Lovell) Hilliard;
Samuel Hilliard was a farmer, and a son of Ebenezer Hilliard, also a farmier by occupation. Rachel Lovell was a daughter of Nehemiah and Sophia (Taplin) Lovell; three of her brothers were taken prisoners in the operations around Plattsburgh, N. Y., during the Revolutionary War, and taken to Montreal, Canada. To James and Rachel (Hilliard) Burns were born the following children: Abigail G. married Alexander Smith of Topsham, Vt .; Helen Fran- ces, the wife of our subject; Clarissa Elmira married Allen Hood of Boston, Mass .; and James C., who lives in Richford, Vt. Helen Frances Burns was born in Grafton, Mass., and was reared and educated in Topsham, Vt. When fourteen years of age, a Presbyterian minister, attracted by her superior ability, en- couraged her to teach school; he secured a suit- able school for her, and from that time she taught a number of summer schools. Later on she taught winter schools, containing from thirty to thirty-five pupils. Her mother is still living and makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Weed.
To our subject and his wife has been born one son, Allah C., who departed this life at the age of nineteen. Mr. Weed is a member of the G. A. R., Nat Westgate Post, No. 50, of North Haverhill, and has held all the chairs. He is a Mason, belonging to Grafton Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 46, of Haverhill.
SILAS CHANDLER, a farmer, living at Aetna, town of Hanover, now retired from active work at his calling, was born near Aetna March 27, 1819: he is a son of Silas, Sr., and Diana (Davis) Chandler.
The Chandler family in America sprang from William and Annis Chandler, who came from England in 1637, settling at Roxbury, Mass .; four of the six children born to them could claimt England as their birth-place; the other two were born in this country. William Chand- ler. was a Christian, God-fearing man like his Puritan associates. Of property he possessed no very large amount, being a small land-owner; his sons were far more successful in life in a worldly way, and became very well-to-do. Wil- liam Chandler died of consumption the 26th of
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November, 1641. Of his six children, John, known as Deacon John, was the fifth; he mar- ried Elizabeth Douglas Feb. 16, 1658. She was born in Woodstock, Conn., in 1610, and died July 23, 1705. in New London: her father. Wil- liam Douglas, governor of the colony of New London, Conn., married Anna Mattle, a daugh- ter of Thomas Mattle of Northampton, Eng. Deacon John Chandler, Sr., served many years as selectman, and was moderator in 1694. He was a deacon of the church, under Rev. Josiah Dwight, and died at the age of sixty-eight, April 15, 1703. Hon. John Chandler, the son of the above, married Mary Raymond of Wood- stock, Conn., who was born in New London, Conn., March 12, 1671-72. He was a very prominent man of that time, and a leader in all town enterprises. In the militia he held the dif- ferent offices of Captain, Major, and Colonel at various times. He was town surveyor, and a representative at General Court in Boston, in 17II. He represented the town in the legisla- tive body of the Colony of Connecticut, and for sixty-nine days service received £15:8:0., as the old records give it. He was also the First Judge of Probate for Worcester County, Conn. He obtained a license to keep a place of public en- tertainment, and thus became one of the earli- est landlords of his town.
Hon. John Chandler's grandson, Daniel Chandler, is the grandfather of our subject, Silas Chandler, Jr. Daniel Chandler came from Con- necticut at an early date, and settled in almost the center of the town of Hanover, as one of its pioneers; he died at the age of ninety-four. He was married in his native State to Mary Galusha.
Silas Chandler, Sr., was born in the town of Hanover, N. H., and pursued the vocation of a farmer until his death, at the age of seventy- nine. His wife, who lived to the age of sixty- seven, was a daughter of Basiliel and Mary (Wright) Davis. Three children were born to our subject's parents, as follows: Charles Ga- lusha: Silas; and Diana.
Silas Chandler, Jr., passed his boyhood days in the town of Hanover; when seventeen years old, he started out for himself, and learned the carpenter's and joiner's trade, serving his ap- prenticeship in Concord with John Miller. Bo- coming a journeyman at the age of twenty, he
worked at his trade about Hanover and Man- chester, N. H., for a time, and then went to Utica, N. Y., and worked in a machine shop in a suburb of that city, until the outbreak of the war. He enlisted Sept. 23, 1862, in Company F. 26th Regiment, N. Y. Vol. Inf., and was dis- charged March 12, 1863, having been injured when jumping a ditch, when going into the Bat- tle of Fredericksburg. Returning to Utica, N. Y., he remained but a year and a half, removing then to Hanover, where he engaged in farming until 1880, when he gave up farm labor, and bought his present home, where he lives with his sister. In politics he is a stanch adherent of the Republican organization. He is a mem- ber of L. D. Gove Post, G. A. R., of Hanover. He is a man of honorable, upright intentions, and may be deservedly called a helpful, earnest citizen of a family, which has been long identi- fied with Hanover's growth.
FRANK W. JOHNSON, a passenger con- ductor on the B. & M. R. R., and a resident of Woodsville, N. H., was born in Guilford, N. H., March 13, 1861, and is a son of William L. and Lvdia A. (Whitten) Johnson, and grandson of Nathaniel and Catherine Johnson. Nathaniel Johnson was a farmer of Talmouth, N. H. His son, William L., was born in Talmouth, N. H., and was engaged in agricultural labors previous to the war. At the Battle of Gettysburg he lost an arm; upon his return home he took up the trade of a machinist, dying Sept. 28, 1895. In politics he was a firm, unyielding Republican, and took a keen interest in local and national issues; went as representative from the town of Guilford in 1877-8 to the Legislature. Religiously he favored the Free Will Baptist Church. He married Lydia A. Whitten, daughter of Albert and Elmina, who lived in Lakeport; the former lived to be 80 years of age. Frank W. John- son is the third of five children born to them, of whom two survive. Our subject was reared at Guilford and Lakeport, attending the High School at Lakeport.
At the age of 13, he first became connected with railroad life, obtaining a position at that age in the railroad office at Lakeport. At the age of 14, he began braking, and kept it up
HON. WILLIAM G. HULL.
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for four years. At the age of 18, he took charge of a freight run as conductor. In 1883 he was given a passenger run, which he has held ever since. On June 1, 1880, he was united in mar- riage to Miss Mary A. Jackson, who was born in Warren, and is a daughter of George W. and Catherine C. Jackson. Mrs. Johnson is an at- tendant of the Episcopal Church of Woodsville. Mr. Johnson is a 32d Degree Mason, being a member of Kane Lodge, No. 64; Franklin Chapter. No. 5: Omega Council. No. 9: St. Girard Commandery, K. T .; Edward A. Ray- mond Consistory; Mt. Sinai Temple of the Mys- tic Shrine. He is also an Odd Fellow, belong- ing to Moosehillock Lodge, No. 25, I. O. O. F. He is also a member of the New England Divis- ion, No. 157, of the Order of Railway Conduc- tors of Boston. Mr. Johnson's social qualities are well developed, and he is very popular among his fellow employees. To the patrons of the road he is ever the same, obliging, whole- souled and genial in his manner.
HON. WILLIAM G. HULL, Postmaster of Plymouth, N. H., is the son of Moses Hull, and grandson of Jonathan Hull.
Jonathan Hull was a farmer by occupation and an early settler of Hebron, N. H. He passed the greater part of his life in that town; the last few years, however, were spent in Plymouth, where he died at the age of eighty-one. His first wife was Miss Lovejoy of Hebron. Five children were the result of this union: Jonathan, Jr., Moses, Jacob, Nathaniel, and Phineas. His second wife was Lois Merrill of Rumney, N. H. Jonathan Hull was a self-educated man. His judgment was remarkably sound and discrimi- nating: his decisions in matters of dispute often prevented law-suits. He was very conscientious in all his dealings, and once having fully shaped an opinion, he was very slow to change it. He did 110t receive much school education in his youth, but obtained his knowledge from that grand book of Nature-experience and observation. He was a voracious reader and acquired great stores of knowledge by his regular habits of reading. His children all inherited a taste for music, which he took some pains to develop, so that all became quite accomplished in the art.
Moses Hull was born on the homestead in
Hebron. He received his somewhat limited edu- cation in the schools of Plymouth. He assisted in the cultivation of his father's farm during his parent's lifetime. The last fifteen years were spent with his son, William G. Hull in Plymouth, and no one that ever lived there was more re- spected than he. Although a man of excellent judgment and well qualified to hold office, he could never be prevailed upon to accept any of the public posts of responsibility and trust, always declining on the plea that he had not sufficient education to satisfy the requirements of the office. It would be a grand thing for our country if every office-seeker and office-holder were governed by a similar scruple. He was thoroughly honest and an exemplary citizen. He was married to Zilpha, daughter of Isaac Ward of Plymouth. She was born on what is known as Ward Hill. She was an excellent wife and mother, and lived a long, useful life, replete with good deeds, dying at the age of seventy- seven. Mr. Hull finished this life and was called home in his seventy-sixth year. Four children were born to them: William G., the subject of this sketch: Harriet A. (Stafford), who is now living on her grandfather's old homestead on Ward Hill: Arthur W. was accidentally killed at the age of fifteen; and Mary E., who died, aged thirteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Hull were mem- bers of the M. E. Church. Mr. Hull was a Democrat.
William G. Hull was born in Plymouth, Dec. 13, 1826. He received his education in the dis- trict schools, and in Holmes Academy. At an early age he started out to fight life's battles. With a small bundle of his possessions under his arm he came into the village of Plymouth and secured a place to work for his board and to attend school. After spending two seasons in Holmes Academy he was informed by his in- structor that he was qualified to teach. He ac- cordingly obtained a school and taught for one season ; but as he was offered a chance to clerk in a store, he dropped school teaching and accepted the offered position. A few years later he en- gaged in the mercantile business on his own account and carried it on for three years. He then went into the manufacturing of gloves in the firm of Ward. McQuesten & Hull, at that time the largest firmi of that kind in town. He remained in this business for five years and then
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opened up a summer boarding house and con- tinued managing the same until 1880, when he lost his wife.
After her death he went to Livermore and superintended a large lumbering business for fifteen years. In 1895, upon the request of his many friends, he accepted the Postmastership of Plymouth, and is now serving in the second year of his term.
Mr. Hull was married, in 1854, to Elizabeth, daughter of Benaiah S. Crockett of Holderness. Mrs. Hull was born July 6, 1828, in Holderness; she was a lady of high culture, gifted as a writer, but especially loved and respected as a wife, a mother, and a friend. She died in October, 1880, and left two children: Arthur C. and Heber W. Arthur C. is a traveling salesman, representing the wholesale house of J. C. Norris & Co. of Concord, N. H. Heber W. is a conductor on the Boston & Maine R. R .; both brothers make their home in Plymouth.
Mr. Hull has his own self to thank for his present success; it took many years of toil and sacrifice, but it was worth the price. The diffi- culties he encountered in obtaining an education have made him the friend and assistant of many a young person, who has been desirous of secur- ing an education or a place in the business world. He has often advanced them money to tide them over pressing difficulties; his thought- ful acts are held in grateful memory by many a young person, now entering upon a successful career. In commercial circles he has proved himself to be a most competent business man and qualified to fill any office of trust. He is an attendant of the Congregational Church. In politics, he is a pronounced Democrat, and has served in all the town offices, from road agent to representing the town in the State Legislature. While a representative he served as a member of the Committee for the Asylum for the Insane at Concord, and as chairman directed its busi- ness. Such duties as devolved upon him were performed in a faithful and painstaking manner; he has at many times received compliments for his efficient work,
As one of the leading and representative citi- zens of Grafton Co., and worthy to be classed with the best in the State, we place a portrait of Mr. Hull in this volume, in connection with this sketch.
ALBERT PINNEO, a selectman of the town of Hanover, living on his farm, which is situat- ed on the north slope of Prospect Hill, was born in the same house in which he now lives, June 26, 1844. He is a son of Orramel and Laura (Foster) Pinneo. The latter was a daughter of Caleb Foster, who lived at Salisbury, N. H., a tanner by trade, who lived to be eighty- six years old. His daughter was born in Han- over, N. H. Her first husband was a brother of Orramel Pinneo, Jesse, who left no issue when he died.
The Pinneo family is of French descent. The great-great-great-grandfather of our subject, James Pinneo, was a Hugenot of Lyons, France, who was forced to flee his native country, like many others of his associates, to escape the per- secution that followed close after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. He left France about 1685, and was a lad of sixteen summers when he landed at Plymouth, Mass., without a cent in his pocket to pay even his passage. As the custom was then, the captain of the vessel sold him to a person, who, in return for the services of this bond-servant for a stipulated length of time, paid the passage money. He was accord- ingly sold for a period of four years, but he proved himself to be so good and faithful a serv- ant, that he was released in less than one year. On July 22, 1717, he bought land at Lebanon, now Columbia, Conn., where the family made their home for many generations. Previous to this he had owned a farm in Bristol, R. I., which he purchased April 2, 1713; he was a weaver by trade. May 9, 1706, he married Dorothy, his wife.
James Pinnco, known as Deacon Jamies Pin- neo, son of the James, of whom we have spoken above, was born in Bristol, R. I., probably; he married Priscilla Newcomb, June 16, 1731, and died Feb. 18, 1789, aged eighty-one years. His wife was called to her long home Jan. 5, 1792, at the age of 82. Deacon James Pinneo, Jr., was born April 5, 1734, and married Jerusha Strong Jan. 8, 1758; his wife died June 14, 1824.
Joseph Pinneo, the grandfather of our sub- ject, and son of the preceding, was born Nov. I, 1718, in Columbia, Conn., from which locality he came to our subject's farm, when his son Orramel was four years old: this was in 1793. He mar- ried Azuba Wright, daughter of Jabez Wright;
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he died Feb. 8, 1845. He served in the Revolu- tionary Army from Connecticut. His wife died Aug. 21, 1856, aged ninety-one years. There is an apple-tree standing on our subject's farm, that bore fruit the year after his grandfather, Joseph Pinneo, came here, over one hundred years ago.
Orramel Pinneo was born in Columbia, Conn., Nov. 25, 1789, and after coming to Hanover with his parents spent the rest of his life on our sub- ject's farm; he died at the age of ninety, Jan. 13, 1879. He was educated in the district schools, and afterwards was a teacher. He served the town of Hanover as selectman, road surveyor, school committeeman; politically, lie was a Whig, and later a Republican. In the Congregational Church of Hanover, of which lie was a devoted member, he was Deacon. By his first marriage he was joined with Eunice Hough, and became the parent of seven chil- dren; his second marriage to the widow of his brother, Jesse Pinneo, who died without issue, was productive of one child, Albert, the subject of this personal history.
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