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banking. At the organization of the Monadnock bank, in 1850, he was chosen cashier, and to an unusual degree was the management of its affairs entrusted to him, partly from the circumstances of the case, but mainly from the peculiar talent he possessed to successfully handle the business. During its early history the institution suffered severe losses from the folly of its first president ; but, nothwithstanding, the skillful management of Mr. Upton en- abled it to recover, and to pay its shareholders an average annual dividend of over seven per cent. up to 1865, when its was re-organized into a national bank, and its capital increased to $100,000. Since that time it has paid over nine per cent. on an average, besides accumulating a handsome surplus, and meeting losses of over $10,000 by fire. In January, 1881, Mr. Upton was elected president of the bank, his only son, Hiram D. Upton, succeeding him as cashier.
In 1870 the Monadnock savings bank was organized, and Mr. Upton, after three months, was chosen its treasurer, and is still retaining the position. His careful, firm control of its affairs, with assets approaching half a million dol- lars, has secured its patrons an annual dividend in excess of the average paid by similar institutions in the state. In September, 1884, the Republican party made Mr. Upton its candidate for the office of councilor in the fourth district, to which he was duly elected by more than the party vote. Commenting up- on the nomination, the New Hampshire Sentinel of September 17, 1884, says : "Mr. Upton has been nominated for a responsible public position, and when elected, he will enter upon its duties with an established character, with tested ability, and with an intimate knowledge of public affairs. He is peculiarly fitted for the position, both by natural gifts and the discipline acquired in the management of large pecuniary concerns. By nature and by habit he is cau- tious, assiduous in investigation, and reaches results with judicial impartiality. If he is not first in arriving at conclusions, he seldom has occasion to retrace his steps or reverse his decisions. Few men who have been so thoroughly identified with affairs of the town in which they live, and brought into contact with so many business men, have enjoyed so fully the unlimited confidence and friendship of his associates. The characteristics of his life are candor and integrity. He never conceals his thoughts nor misleads by ambiguous expression. He is singularly exact in all he says and in all he does, and he richly merits and receives the respectful friendship of all who know him.
Mrs. Upton is a daughter of Hiram Duncan, his first business partner, and Emeline (Cutter) Duncan, who was a daughter of the late John Cutter, or "Tanner John," as he was commonly known nearly a century ago. They . have three children : Mary Adelaide, born November 4. 1856, graduated from Union High school, Lockport, N. Y., in 1877, married, December 24, 1878, Walter L. Goodnow, who is engaged in mercantile business in East Jaffrey ; Hiram Duncan, born May 5, 1859, graduated from Dartmouth col- lege, class of 1879, married Annie F., daughter of Dr. Marshall Perkins, of Marlow, October 14, 1879, was elected cashier of the Monadnock National
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bank, in January, 1881, and president of the Northwestern Trust Company of Fargo, Dakota, in May, 1883, both of which positions he still holds; and Alice Whittemore, born July 5, 1863, graduated from Wellesley college, in class of 1883.
Stephen Adams came to Jaffrey from Hamilton, Mass., about 1807 and settled upon the farm where D. P. Adams now resides, an road 25. He was in the naval service during the Revolution. He married Mehitable Cum- mings, of Marlboro, N. H., and reared a family of five children. His son Jessie married Ruth, daughter of Edward and Ruth Perkins, who bore him six children. He resided on road 26 for many years, or until his death, which occurred December 15, 1863. His son Addison has married twice, first, Mary L. Davis, of Lawrence, Mass., who bore him one son ; second, Mrs. Mary R. Plummer, daughter of Jonathan J. Comstock, who has borne him two children. He resides upon a farm on road 28.
Joel Cutter, son of Joseph, married Mary S., daughter of Col. Timothy Jones, of Bedford, Mass. Nehemiah, one of their ten children, married Emily A., daughter of Col. Oliver and Deborah (Perry) Bailey. He has two children, occupies a farm on road 20, and is a successful farmer and keeper of a summer boarding-house.
Shubael Bascom, an early settler, of Hinsdale, N. H., married Philena El- more and reared a family of eleven children. His son Roswell married Sophia, daughter of Sampson and Thankful Evans. of Hinsdale, who bore him two children. He finally settled in the village of East Jaffrey, where he now resides. His son, William W., is a resident of Ashburnham, Mass., and his daughter, Lucia E., is at home with her father.
Joseph Cutter, a native of Lexington, Mass., married Rachel Hobert, of Pepperell, Mass., and reared a family of ten children. His son John, born October 24, 1780, married Mary, daughter of Daniel and Betsey Batchelder, of Wilton, N. H., who bore him ten children. He died in Jaffrey, January 15, 1857. His son John A. married Nancy H., daughter of Emory and Martha (Hill) Wheelock, and had four children, all of whom are now dead. He is an extensive farmer, and resides on road 32. Dr. Calvin Cutter, brother of John A., served as a surgeon three years during the war of the Rebellion, and was at the battles of Bull Run and Fredericksburg.
Gustavus A. Cutter, was one of the three children of Charles A. and Phi- lena, who resided on road 53. He served in the late Rebellion and was hon- orably discharged.
Jacob Buckwold married Catharine Hahn, of Baden, Germany, March 7, 1858, and has eight children. He came to this country in May 1857, and settled in Jaffrey. He was a soldier in the late Rebellion, enlisting in 1861 in Co. G, 14th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged in 1863. He died August 18, 1882. His family resides in the village of East Jaffrey.
Dr. Oscar H. Bradley was born in Louisville, Ky., February 10, 1826. He was a grandson of Jonathan Holmes, of Londonderry, N. H., an officer
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who served under General Stark, at Bennington, and under Washington through the dark and memorable winter at Valley Forge. At the age of four years Oscar H. moved with his parents to the western part of Vermont where he lived until he reached the age of seventeen. He graduated from Black River academy, at Ludlow, Vt., in 1847, taught school the following winter at Mt. Holley, Vt., and in the spring of 1848 entered the law office of Hon. D. E. Nicholson, of Rutland. In the autumn of that year he com- menced the study of medicine with Drs. Amos and George B. Twitchell, of Keene, N. H., and in 1851 graduated from the Castleton Medical college. He has from its inception been a director of the Monadnock railroad. He was largely instrumental, too, in the establishment of the Monadnock Sav- ings bank, in this town, of which he has been its only president. Soon after he began the practice of medicine in Jaffrey. No physician or surgeon in southern New Hampshire is better known or more generally employed in dif- ficult and serious cases than he. In the medical profession he is particu- larly noted for keeness and accuracy of perception in the diagnosis of disease, and for positiveness of judgment and a self-reliance that rarely errs. His influence in the public affairs of the town has been marked, and has always been exerted in behalf of advancement and progress in all worthy objects. He married Julia A., daughter of Daniel Spaulding, Esq., of Fitzwilliam, in 1853, and has two sons, Daniel Edward and Mark S. The former, born May 16, 1861, graduated from Dartmouth college in 1883, and from Thayer school of civil engineering at Hanover in 1885. He married Annie R. Samson, of St. Albans, Vt., December 31, 1883. He is now employed as civil engineer for the Hoosac Tunnel & Readsboro railroad. Mark S. was born January 16, 1868, and expects to enter Dartmouth college in 1885.
Dr. Daniel Ryan, in 1750, came from Ireland as surgeon on board of a ves- sel, and settled in Marblehead, Mass. His son Samuel, also a physician, came to Sharon, N. H., in 1790, married Mrs. Patty Sawyer, who bore him four children. One of these, Samuel, Jr., married Hannah J., daughter of George and Alice (Sawyer) Shead, of Peterboro, N. H., July 14, 1811, and reared a family of three children, two of whom are now living. He was a farmer and lumberman and the principal owner of the famous steam-mills of Fay, Com- mins & Ryan. He was a leading man in town affairs, and held most of the important offices. . He came to East Jaffrey in 1854, and was selectman several years, town representative in 1863 and 1864, and served twenty-five years as a director of the Monadnock Savings bank, at East Jaffrey.
Marshall H. Adams came to Jaffrey from Danvers, Mass., in 1863, and settled upon the farm where he now resides on road 27. He married Susan B. Patterson, of Danvers, Mass., who bore him four children, three of whom are school-teachers. He has been selectman three years.
Benjamin Frost, son of Benjamin, who settled in Jaffrey in 1783, married Annis, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (Whitney) Pierce, of Jaffrey, and settled in Dublin in 1806. He was a carpenter, millwright and brick-mason.
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His son, Joseph P., first settled in Dublin, but moved to Jaffrey in 1849. He is a public-spirited man, much employed in town affairs, has been select- man three years, and is now town clerk and justice of the peace. He mar- ried twice, first, Sarah E., daughter of Abel and Mary (Spaulding) Cutter, January 4, 1844, and second, Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Polly (Jewett) Osgood, of Milford. Of his four children, only one, J. Albert, now in the Sandwich Islands, is living. John, son of John, and grandson of Benjamin, married Amanda, daughter of Dea. David and Annie (Ryan) Simonds, of Peru, Vt., and has three children. He served three years in Co. G, 14th N. H. Vols., during the late war, and was honorably discharged. He is now a prosperous farmer on road 12, and has been selectman three years.
Jonathan D. Gibbs, son of Joseph S., married twice, first, Rhoda, daughter of Edward and Rhoda (Lawe) Locke, of Westminister, Mass., who bore him one daughter, Elizabeth R., now living; second, Sarah H., daughter of Thomas and Rebecca (Merriam) Wilson, of Mason, N. H. He first settled in Jaffrey upon a farm on road 3, where he remained twelve years, and then moved to Jaffrey Center, where he stayed until his death, March 2, 1882. He published a very accurate map of the town of Jaffrey which is highly prized. His wife and daughter occupy the homestead at the present time.
Joseph Scott was a native of Lancashire, England. Thomas, one of his five children, married a Miss Welch and reared a family of six children. His son John S. married four times, first, Alice Wilder ; second, Lucy Tollman ; third, Louisa Wilder ; and fourth, Sarah A. Hodge. He has three children and resides upon a farm on road 45.
Daniel P. Adams, son of Isaac, and grandson of Stephen, married Emily L., daughter of Edmond and Oliver Burpee, of this town, and resides upon the old homestead of his grandfather, on road 22.
Louis Woodruff, a native of Westfield, N. J., married Damaris N. Winans, of Elizabeth, N. J., who bore him six children, three of whom are living. His son John W. married Susan A., daughter of Luke and Abbie (Dawes) Tucker, of Elizabeth, N. J. Two of his three children, James D., a resident of Minneapolis, Minn., and Frederick S., of Boston, Mass., are now living. John W. Woodruff resides upon a farm on road 3.
Nathaniel F. Stevens, a son of James M., and Mary C. (Fogg) Stevens, was a native of Exeter, N. H. He came to Jaffrey in 1862 and located upon a farm on road 55, on Peabody hill. He married Huldah A. Choate, of Sand- wich, N. H., who bore him three children, two of whom are now living. He served in the late war as captain of a rifle company, under General Wadley of the state militia. He has been a prominent farmer and cattle dealer, but has now retired from business and is living on the homestead with his son Fred I., who married Dora M. Wellman. His daughter, Fannie Winship, resides in Cleveland, O.
Green Towne, son of Deacon Towne, who was a captain under General Green in the Revolution and also served in the French and Indian war, mar-
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ried Lucy, daughter of Capt. Solomon Rand, of Rindge. He reared a family of eight children, five of whom are now living. His son Levi P. married Emily A., daughter of Jonathan and Harriet (Dwinell) Sawyer, of East Al- stead. He has two children and is a thriving farmer on road 53.
David W. Lacy served nine months in Co. I, 16th N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged. He married Emma S. Jaqueth, has two children, and resides on road 61.
Thomas Jaqueth, a native of Hollis, N. H., married Marinda Tarbox, of Londonderry, N. H. Dana S., the second of his thirteen children, married Ada M., daughter of Leeprett and Hannah (Keith) Wilber, of Westmore- land, has two children, and resides upon a farm on road 43. He served three years in Co. A, 2d N. H. Vols., was at the first battle of Bull Run, and was a prisoner ten months, confined in Libby, Parish and Saulsbury prisons. His son Willie L. married Jennie S. Chase, of Mt. Vernon, N. H., and now re- sides on road 55.
Harlon F. Morse, son of Elihu L., married Theoda A. Davis, of Hartland, Vt., and is now a resident of this town. He served four years during the late war, enlisting in Co. B, Sth N. H. Vols., and was honorably discharged.
Henry F. Morse, son of Elihu L., married Lizzie B. Hunt, and has six children. He was a soldier in the war of the Rebellion, enlisting in Co. G, 14th N. H. Vols., served three years, and was honorably discharged. He now resides in Jaffrey.
John Garfield, son of Abraham, and grandson of John who was at the bat- tle of Lexington, married Emily Gould, has two children, and resides on road 60.
Leonard F. Sawyer, son of Josiah, married Mary B., daughter of Albert and Mary P. (Pollard) Adams, of Rindge, and has two children-Etta M. and Ella M., twins. He is a prosperous farmer and has three Summer cot- tages on Contoocook lake, which borders on his farm. He has a large col- lection of natural curiosities, antiquities and geological specimens.
Timothy Bemis, a native of Marlboro, Mass., came to Marlboro, N. H., in 1776. His son James, a commissioned officer in the Revolutionary war, mar- ried Hannah Frost, who bore him nine children, only one of whom is now living, and settled in Dublin. His son Josiah married Sibyl Emery, of Jaffrey,. · and had born to him three children, only two of whom are now living. His- son, Alvin J., married Mary Greenwood, of Marlboro, N. H., who bore him two children, neither of whom is now living. He resides on road 35, in the village of East Jaffrey.
Cummings Sawyer, son of Josiah, married Elizabeth, daughter of W. Ed- ward and Parnell Young, and has three children. He now resides on the homestead farm, on road 39.
Asa and Betsey (Pike) Pierce, from Weston, Mass., located in Dublin about 1786. After a few years he died, leaving his widow and two sons, Asa and Jonas. July 29, 1790, his widow married Thomas Davidson, and removed to- Jaffrey.
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Jonas Pierce, second son of Asa, was born in Dublin, April 8, 1788. He married Lucinda, daughter of Benjamin Bailey, of Jaffrey, September 1, 1811. She died in 1838. He married, second, Mrs. Polly Bowers, September II, 1838, who died March 2, 1875, aged eighty-five years. He died May 28, 1857. He was one of the prosperous farmers of Jaffrey. His children were Asa, Abigail, Addison, Jonas, Benjamin, Amos, Dexter, Betsey, and Emily. Addison, born March 14, 1817, married Millie Prince, of Thompsonville, Conn., and resides on the homestead.
Benjamin Pierce, fourth son of Jonas, born July 11, 1821, married Lucinda, daughter of Isaac and Betsey (Bailey) Stratton, May 12, 1846, and has two children -- George A. and Ada L. He located in Boston, where he accumu- lated a large estate, but finally removed to this town, and now owns the Shedd farm, off road 36. In 1877 he built the Granite State Hotel, which is a valued addition to East Jaffrey. He is a prominent man in town affairs, having held many positions of trust, was town representative in 1870 and 1871, and was delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1876. He is now one of the directors of the Monadnock National bank, and vice-president of the Savings bank of East Jaffrey village.
Asa Pierce, a native of Jaffrey, and the eldest son of Jonas, married Lodica B. Dyke, of Livermore, Me., and reared a family of nine children. His eldest son, Albion D., married Annie J., daughter of Henry and Jane (Mitchel) Lat- timer, of Boston, who bore him two children, Grace A. and Arthur L., now living. His widow now resides on the home farm, on road 30. Her father, Henry Lattimer, came from England to Boston, about 1840, and was a noted military man, and was prominent in politics.
Captain I. B. Proctor, the present owner of the so-called Felt farm, and proprietor of the Proctor House, situated on the pleasant southern slope of Monadnock mountain, is a native of Lunenburg, Mass., where he was born in 1824, and at which place he lived until 1844, when he was appointed pur- chasing agent of the Vermont & Massachusetts railroad, with his office in Gardner. In 1851 he engaged in the wholesale flour and grain business in Fitchburg. In 1854 was elected captain of the Washington Guards, a fine military company of Fitchburg. In 1858 he was elected superintendent of the Middlesex railroad in Boston. In 1861 he entered the army of the late war, and served two years. In 1873 he was appointed, by Governor Wash- burn, a justice of the peace for all the counties in the state, and, in 1864 was appointed by the President a commissioner to examine the Union Pacific rail- road, which required his making several trips across the plains to California. In 1868 he engaged in the real estate business, as broker and auctioneer, at Fitchburg, and remained in that business until he removed to his present home in Jaffrey, in 1881. In 1875 and '76 he was elected president of the Worcester North Agricultural Society, of Fitchburg.
Eleazer W. Heath, son of David, and a native of Corinth, Vt., married Rhoda Merril, of Bradford, Vt., and for his second wife, Mary N. (Gibbs) Gil-
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more, of Jaffrey. Mr. Heath was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Plattsburg. He is now living, at the great age of ninety years, and occupies a farm on road 29, known as the Emory place. He has seven children.
J. S. Lawrence, son of Ithamer, married Sarah, daughter of Zachariah and Rebecca Emery, who bore him three children, all now living, and occupied the homestead until his death. His son Frederick J. married Clara, daugh- ter of Nehemiah and Adaline (Bailey) Cutter, has one child, and resides on the home farm, road 5.
The Congregational church of Jaffrey village .- The grant from the Ma- sonian proprietors stipulated that a meeting-house be built within six years from the date of the charter. There is nothing in the early records of the town, however, to show that anything was done towards this object previous to 1774, when it was voted that such a structure be built. Neglect to build a meeting-house was not the only instance in which the settlers failed to ful- fill the requirements of their charter. From the reports of the settlers to the grantors, testifying of the condition of the colony, we find that they pleaded as an excuse for their neglect the extreme hardships to which they were ex- posed, and begged to be charitably dealt with, as they had done all that was possible to satisfy the conditions of their charter. There is no record of the settlers ever having been molested for this offense, and it is reasonable to suppose that their excuse was satisfactory. In 1774 the town voted to build a meeting-house ; but, probably from the difficulty of raising money, the work was not very rapidly pushed. and the house was not completed until 1799. In 1789 the town voted to sell the pews at auction. The house was very substantially built, and no money was voted for repairs until 1822. At this time the town also voted that citizens should have the privilege of build- ing a steeple to the house, provided they did so without expense to the town. This was done, and in 1823 a bell was purchased and hung in the belfry. From this date to 1870, little was done to the house except to keep it in repair. Since 1844 it has not been used as a house of worship. In 1870 the inside of the house was remodeled, the pews and galleries removed, the lower story fitted for a school-room for the use of the Conant High school, the upper for a hall for the use of the town. The outside is to-day almost precisely the same as in 1822, after the steeple was built. In 1872 the town received from John Conant, Esq., a prominent citizen whose great desire was the prosperity of his adopted town, the sum of $944.00, the principal to be kept for a perpetual fund, the income thereof used in beautifying and keeping in repair the meeting-house. So there is now a prospect that generations yet unborn may behold this grand old structure in external appearance sub- stantially the same as when placed here by our fathers, of whose trials and hardships we can know but little. The church was organized May 13, 1780, with thirty-three members, and the first pastor, Rev. Laban Ainsworth, was ordained December 10, 1782. Their present church building was erected
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in 1844. It will seat 400 persons, cost $2,500.00, and is valued, including grounds, at $3,000.00. The society now has seventy members, with Rev. William H. Livingston, pastor.
The First Universalist society, at East Jaffrey, was organized Novem- ber 16, 1822, and re-organized in 1858, with twenty-five members. Rev. Dolphus Skinner was the first pastor. Their church building, erected in 1844, will seat 275 persons, and is valued, including grounds, at $3,000 00. The society now has about sixty members, with Dr. Sawyer pastor. Their Sabbath-school, organized in 1845, has thirty-five scholars.
Jaffrey East Congregational church .- On the first of December, 1849, the following named persons requested letters of dismission from the church at the Center, for the purpose of organizing a church at East Jaffrey : Jonas M. Mel- ville, Betsey Mellville, Liberty Mower, Mary Ann Mower, William Morse, Sal- mon H. Rand, Emeline A. Rand, Martha W. Lacy, Mary Bacon, Rebecca Ba- con, John Verder, Sarah J. Verder, Samuel Marble, Lucy Marble, Roxanna J., Mower, Angelina S. Mower, Phineal Spaulding, Lyman Spaulding, Susan M. Spaulding, Thomas A. Stearns, Sarah E. Stearns, Samuel N. Laws and Abigail Parker. On the 9th of January, 1850, the new church was organized, and their first pastor, Rev. J. E. B. Jewett, was installed September 25, 1854. Their church building, which will seat 350 persons, and is valued at $5,000.00, was built in 1850. The society now has seventy-two members, with Rev. E. J. Riggs, pastor. They have a Sabbath-school with an average attendance of fifty.
K EENE, the county seat, lies in the central part of the county, in lat. 42° 55' and long. 4° 47', bounded north by Westmoreland, Gilsum and Sullivan, east by Sullivan and Roxbury, south by Swanzey, and west by Chesterfield and Westmoreland. The boundaries thus roughly given in- close a beautiful territory of about 22,010 acres, all included within the cor -- poration limits of the charming little city of Keene. We say "little," for it must be borne in mind that the city is yet in the swaddling clothes of infancy, and despite its large area has a population of less than 7,000 souls. A little over ten years since, this "city" was a township, with a prosperous, thriving, and, as events have proved, ambitious village in its center. As a township, then, we shall for the present consider it, turning back to the year 1732.
In June of that year, Governor Belcher, in a speech to the Great and Gen _. eral Court of Massachusetts, recommended that "care be taken to settle" that. province's ungranted land. In conformity to this hint, it was voted, in the house of representatives, "that there be seven towns opened, of the contents of six miles square - one west of the Narraganset town, one between the equivalent lands and Rutland, one at Poquaig [Athol], one west or the town called .. * * * *
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Northtown, two on Ashuelot river, above Northfield, and the other in the eastern country." On the first of July, 1733, this vote was seconded by the council, and ratified by the governor. A committee was appointed to make a survey of the townships ; but it seems they failed to perform their duty, and on October 19, 1733, it was voted that another committee, consisting of Jo- seph Kellogg, Timothy Dwight, and William Chandler, be appointed to lay out the townships at Poquaig and on Ashuelot river. This committee, in February, 1734, made a return to the general court of a "plat of two town- ships, each of the contents of six miles square, situated on each side of Ash- uelot river, above the tract lately granted to Col. Josiah Willard and others [Winchester], beginning at a spruce or white pine tree, standing about mid- way between the south and east branches of said river, about five perch east of the bank of the main river, and thence running each way, as described on the plat." This line was the boundary between the Upper and Lower Ashue- lot townships, the former indentical with the present territory of Keene, the latter with that of Swanzey.
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