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(I) James Marden, whose origin does not seem to have been discovered, was a very early settler in what is now New Hampshire. It is not certain whether he located in what is now Rye, or in New Castle. It is known that he had a son William, and it is probable that James, Nathan and Sarah were also his children. Inasmuch as the name was not very numerously represented in the New World at that time, there can be little doubt that all these were his.
(II) William, son of James Marden. resided in Newcastle. No record can be found as to his marriage, but the list of his children shows that the mother's baptismal name was Dorcas. Their chil- dren were: William, Samuel, Jonathan, Mary, Dorcas, David and Jemima, born from 1705 to 1727.
(HII) David, fourth son of William and Dorcas Marden, was born about 1720, and settled in Brad- ford, Massachusetts, where he died. ( His sister Sarah married, December 29, 1743, William Atwood. also of Bradford.) No record is found of his mar- riage, but it is known that he had Lemuel and prob- ably William.
(IV) Lemuel, son of David Marden. was born in Bradford, Massachusetts. August 30, 1745. He was married in 1769 to Hannah Greenough, of Bradford, the youngest of six daughters. He was by occupation a mason and farmer. He served three enlistments in the revolutionary war. In 1785 he removed to New Boston, New Hampshire, and set- tled on the Daniel Hardy place. He was a large land owner, and dealer in lumber and real estate. For a time he was in Boston, Massachusetts, assist- ing in building the state house. Politically he was a Democrat, and was honored with election to town
offices. Religiously he affiliated with the Presby- terians. Their children were: Hannah, born Au- gust 29, 1770 ; Greenough, October 17, 1772 ; Solomon, March 24, 1775: Nathan, May 25, 1777; Francis, November 6, 1779: Samuel, July 13. 1782; Mehitable. December 29. 1785: Jonathan, July 5, 1788; and Sarah, September 4, 1791. (Mention of Nathan and descendants appears in this article.) He died and was buried at New Boston, January 9, 1819. 1His wife died October 12, 1843.
(V) Jonathan, sixth son and eighth child of Lemuel and Hannah (Greenough) Marden, was born July 5, 1788, in New Boston. He was a farmer and mason. He owned a saw mill, and did more or less lumbering. Denominationally he was a Presby- terian, as also was his wife, whom he married De- cember 31, 1815. as Sally Foster, of Ashby, Massa- chusetts. Their children were: Elizabeth Foster. born February 6. 1817. married Caleb Reed, June I, 1842; John Foster, born July 6, 1818; Jonathan, born
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September 26, 1820; married, March 9, 1847, Eliza Jane Norton, of Vermont; Harriet, born August 29, 1822, married, May 29, 1845, Frederic H. Ober, of Hopkinton; Alfred, born November 22, 1828, married, December 30, 1852, Augusta H. Emerson ; Charles, born July 21, 1830; and George Waterman, born October 13, 1832. The father died November 18, 1860, and his wife Sally died April 10, 1869; both are buried at New Boston.
(VI) John Foster, eldest son and second child of Jonathan and Sally (Foster) Marden, was born in New Boston, July 6, 1818. He received his education in the district schools, and after leaving school taught for a time. By occupation he was a mason and farmer. He learned the mason's trade in Lowell, Massachusetts, after leaving there worked in Boston and vicinity, living a number of years in Milton, Massachusetts, then moving to Nashua, New Hampshire. His first wife, who was Jerusha H. Adams, daughter of Lemuel and Hannalı Adams, of Milton, whom he married November 30, 1843, died November 14, 1856, and was buried with her youngest child at Nashua, New Hampshire. He then removed to his old home in New Boston, and September 10, 1864, he married Mary Caroline, daughter of Charles Martel Fisher, native of Franklin, Massachusetts, and Olive Boyden, native of Medfield, Massachusetts, Mary Caroline being born in Medway, Massachusetts, February 18, 1829. She was a lineal descendant of Anthony Fisher, who came to Dedham, Masachusetts, in 1637, from Syleham, England. John Foster Marden early in life became a member of the Presbyterian Church and Society, as was his second wife, his first being a member of the Congregational Church. Politically he was a Whig, afterwards voting for Fremont and later for Abraham Lincoln, and as a Republican was elected to town offices. He and his second wife were charter members of Joe English Grange, No. 53, Patrons of Husbandry, later he was master, and his wife Ceres. He was a member of Peter- borough Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, for many years. He, by his first wife, had five children,' as follows: Georgianna M., born Sep- tember 12, 1844; Annette J., October 18, 1846; John A., September 28, 1848; Ella R., February 26, 1851 ; and Caroline S., August 9, 1855. By his second wife he had: Charles Fisher, born September 20, 1865; and Sarah Olive, born March 19, 1871; she married, July 19, 1898, Frank E. Andrews, of Man- chester, New Hampshire. They now have two daugh- ters. John Foster Marden died August 23, 1887, and Mary, his second wife, died November 3, 1906.
(VII) Charles Fisher, eldest son and child of John Foster and Mary C. (Fisher) Marden, was born in New Boston, September 20, 1865. He was educated in the public schools of the town. His occupation is farming and mason work, but he has handled some real estate. Politically he is a Re- publican. He has served as selectman for five years, and for four years was a supervisor of the check list. He has been a member of the board of health eleven years, and of the fire department sixteen years, being at the head of the department two years. He has served as tax collector one year. He has been an insurance agent since his father's death, and is a notary public and justice of the peace. He is a member of the Baptist Church, as is his wife. He is also a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, including Rebekah and En- campment, and was formerly a member of Joe English Grange. He was united in marriage, Sep- tember 20, 1898, to Elvina S., daughter of Gustaf
Anderson, of Manchester, New Hampshire. His wife was educated in private schools. They have one son, Howard Anderson, born October 13, 1899.
(V) Nathan, third son and fourth child of Lemuel and Hannah (Greenough) Marden, was born in New Boston, New Hampshire, about 1776. He married Susannah Stevens, daughter of Calvin and Esther ( Wilkins) Stevens, who was born in Hillsborough, New Hampshire. She was a descend- ant of Colonel Thomas Stevens, of Devonshire, England, who was a signer of instructions to Gov- ernor Endicott and contributed fifty pounds to the Massachusetts Company, and sent three sons and one daughter to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Calvin Stevens fought at Concord and Bunker Hill, and his wife's father and grandfather, Timothy Wilkins, Sr., and Timothy Wilkins, Jr., both took an active part in the Revolution. Nathan and Su- sannah ( Stevens) Marden had children, among them Benjamin Franklin, whose sketch follows; and Na- than Richmond, who was born in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, October 17, 1812, married Abigail D. Fiske, of Weld, Maine, and lived in Frances- town, New Hampshire.
(VI) Benjamin Franklin, son of Nathan and Susannah (Stevens) Marden, was born in New Boston, September 26, 1807. He lived in early life at Wilton, New Hampshire, where he was en- gaged in tanning and in the manufacture of boots and shoes. In 1837 he moved to Syracuse, New York, then to Mont Vernon and Nashua, New Hampshire. In 1847 he returned to Mont Vernon, which he made his personal home. On March 20, 1830, he married Betsey Buss, second daughter and fourth child of Stephen and Sarah (Abbot) Buss, who was born in Wilton, New Hampshire, August 3, 1810. Stephen Buss, born January 19, 1777, was a farmer in Wilton, New Hampshire. He married, December 8, 1803, Sarah, daughter of Jeremiah and Chloe (Abbot) Abbot, who was sixth in descent from George Abbot, of Andover, Massachusetts (see Abbott Genealogy). The nine children of Benjamin Franklin and Betsey (Buss) Marden were: Sarah Luthera, born in Wilton, May 5, 1835, married George G. Averill, of Mont Vernon. Benjamin Franklin, born in Wilton, May 12, 1836, died at Syracuse, New York, April 5, 1838. Susan, born at Wilton, June 23, 1837, died in 1859. George A., mentioned below. Frank, born in Nashua, New Hampshire, March 31, 1841, married Mary Frances Biddle, of Concord, New Hampshire, May 16, 1882. Maria Theresa, born in Nashua, March 6, 1844, mar- ried E. Gerry Martin, May 28, 1869, and lived in East Boston, Massachusetts. Hannah Catherine. born in Mont Vernon, December 16, 1846, married Samuel Sewall, Jr., of Lowell, Massachusetts, No- vember 27, 1873, and died August 27, 1886. Wendell Phillips, born in Mont Vernon, May 6, 1850, married Melvina Drew Nutter, of Concord, New Hampshire, October 28, 1878. Benjamin Franklin Marden died in Mont Vernon, March 25, 1901, and his wife died February 1, 1901, in Mont Vernon.
(VII) George Augustus, second son and fourth child of Benjamin Franklin and Betsey (Buss) Marden, was born in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, August 9, 1839. He is descended from Richard Marden, who took the oath of fidelity at New Haven, Connecticut, in 1646, and is supposed to have come direct from England. The name Marden is said to have been originally "mass-y-dwr-dn," a Welsh combination, signifying "field of the water-camp." By contraction this became Mawarden and Marden. George A. Marden's preparatory education was ob-
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tained in Appleton Academy in Mont Vernon, aft- erwards McCollom Institute. In later life he be- came president of the board of trustees of this school. In boyhood he was taught the shoemaker's trade by his father. He worked at that intermit- tently, and during vacations from the age of twelve till he was through college. He was graduated from Dartmouth in 1861, being the eleventh in rank in a class of fifty-eight. Among his class- mates was Rev. William Jewett Tucker, afterwards president of the college. In 1875 Mr. Marden was Commencement poet of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, and in 1877 delivered the commencement poem be- fore the Dartmouth Association Alumni. He was president for each of these societies for the term of two years.
Mr. Marden served three years during the Civil war. In November, 1861, he enlisted as a private in Company G, Second Regiment of Berdan's United States Sharpshooters, and on December 12 of that year was mustered into the United States service as second sergeant. In April, 1862, he was trans- ferred to the First Regiment of Sharpshooters, and served during the Peninsular campaign under Mc- Clellan from Yorktown to Harrison's Landing. On July 10, 1862, he was made first lieutenant and regi- mental quartermaster, which duty he held till Janu- ary, 1863, when he became acting assistant adjutant- general of the Third Brigade, Third Division, Third Corps. He served in this position till the fall of 1863, taking part in the battles of Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Wapping Heights, and was then ordered to detached service on Riker's Island, New York. Soon after, by his own request, he was sent back to his own regiment with which he remained till it was mustered out in September, 1864.
Coming back to New Hampshire Mr. Marden entered the law office of Minot & Mugridge, at Con- cord, and also wrote for the Concord Daily Monitor, then just established. In November, 1865, Mr. Mar- den purchased the Kanawha Republican, a weekly paper at Charleston, West Virginia, which he edited till April, 1866. He then returned to New Hamp- shire and worked for Adjutant-General Head in compiling and editing the histories of the states' military organizations during the civil war. In the meantime he was finding his true vocation in jour- nalism. He wrote for the Concord Monitor, and in July. r866, became the Concord correspondent of the Boston Advertiser. January 1, 1867, he was made assistant editor of the Boston Advertiser, which position he held till the next September. At that time, in partnership with his classmate, Major E. T. Rowell, he purchased the Lowell Daily Courier and the Lowell Weekly Journal, which he continued to conduct till his death, nearly forty years later. The partnership of Messrs. Marden and Rowell lasted for a quarter of a century or until the Lowell Courier Publishing Company was formed, when both partners retained their interest in the corporation. In January, 1895, this became the Courier-Citizen Company by consolidating with the paper of that name. The Citizen was made a one cent morning paper, and Mr. Marden continued in editorial charge of both papers.
Mr. Marden soon became konwn as a speaker as well as a writer. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln, and since 1867 there has been no election, state or national, when he did not appear on the platform. During the presidential compaign of 1896, in company with Major-General O. O. Howard, Major-General Daniel E. Sickles, General Russell A. Alger and others, he addressed
more than a million people. They travelled over eight thousand miles in a platform car, and spoke in fifteen different states of the Middle West. Mr. Marden's ready wit, which caused the Lowell Courier to be quoted all over New England, soon made him in demand as an after-dinner speaker, and for various celebrations like Dartmouth Ban- quets, Old Home Week observances, Memorial Day or Grand Army re-unions. In 1889 and 1892 he spoke at the banquets of the New England Society held in New York on Forefathers' Day. He considered these invitations the greatest honor ever accorded him. In 1873 Mr. Marden was elected to the Massachusetts legislature. He became clerk of the house in 1874, which office he held until he became speaker in 1883 and 1884, and in 1885 he was chosen to the state senate. In 1885 he was appointed trustee of the Agricultural College at Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1888 he was elected treasurer of the Commonwealth, which office he held for five consecutive years, the constitutional limit. In 1899 he was made assistant treasurer of the United States at Boston, which office he held until his death, De- cember 19, 1906. He became vice-president of the Hancock National Bank in Boston in 1895. Mr. Marden always retained a great love for the place of his birth, Mont Vernon, New Hampshire. Al- though his newspaper and legal residence was at Lowell, Massachusetts, he kept a summer home at Mont Vernon, which he visited every year. He owned much property there, built many fine houses, and was always the first to take hold of anything which promised to help the town. At the time of his lamented death, he was editing a History of Mont Vernon, started by C. J. Smith of that place.
George A. Marden married at Nashua, New Hampshire, December 10, 1867, Mary Porter Fiske, daughter of Deacon David Fiske. of Nashua ( see Fiske, XIII). They had two sons: Philip San- ford, born in Lowell, January 12, 1874, who was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1894, and from Harvard Law School in 1898. He married, June 12, 1902, at Goffstown, New Hampshire, Florence Sophia Shirley, of Shirley Hill, Goffs- town. Robert Fiske, born at Lowell, January 14, 1876, who was garduated from Dartmouth in 1898, married, June 12, 1901, Ella B. Pote, of East Bos- ton. Both sons are on the editorial staff of the Lowell Courier Citizen Company.
This is among the earliest Ameri-
EMERSON can families, and has been traced to various localities in England, and has been associated with some of the most stirring events in American history, both past and present. The records show that a coat-of-arms was granted in 1535 to Radus (Ralf, Raffe or Rauff) Emerson, of Foxton, county of Durham, England. No pedi- gree was registered with it. In 1569 the general muster of the county of Durham included forty-one Emersons.
Thomas Emerson, who was born sometime about 1540, was a resident of Great Dumnow, in the county of Essex, England, where his three children are registered, namely: Robert, Joan and John. It has been assumed that he was a son of Ralph, of Foxton, and he is presumed to be identical with Thomas, of Rumford, county Essex. Seven miles from Great Dumnow is Bishop's-Stortford, in the county of Herts. There is found a record of the inarriage of Robert Emerson. on November 24, 1578, to Susan Crabbe. He owned a field on the north quarter of the parish called Muggles Dale,
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and in earlier times, Muffles Dane. Robert Emerson was buried at Bishop's-Stortford, January 6, 1620, and his widow, November 20, 1626, at the age of seventy years. Their children were: Alice, Mar- garet, Thomas, Ann, Robert and John.
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(I) Thomas Emerson, of Ipswich, Massachu- setts, is recorded in the church warden's book of St. Michael's church, in 1630, as collector for the poor. His wife, Elizabeth Brewster, is supposed to have been a daughter of William Brewster, of Scrooby, and the famous elder of the Pilgrims, 1620. It has been proven that Major-General Deni- son, a close friend of Thomas, and mentioned in the latter's will, emigrated from Bishop's-Stortford. Thomas Emerson was probably born in Sedsfield parish, county of Durham, England, and died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, May 1, 1666. He was baptized at Bishop's-Stortford, England, July 26, 1584, and was married July 1, 1611, in that parish to Elizabeth Brewster, Their children as recorded in St. Michael's Church at Bishop's-Stortford, were : Robert, Benjamin, Ralph, James, Joseph, Elizabeth, John, Thomas, Nathaniel and Susan. Tradition says that they came from England in the ship "Elizabeth Ann," in 1635. He was at Ipswich, Mas- sachusetts, as early as 1638, when eighty acres of land were granted to him. In the same year hie re- ceived a deed of one hundred and twenty acres from Samuel Greenfield, a weaver of Ipswich, and this was the Turkey Shore farm, which remained in the family for generations. He is mentioned as a com- moner in 1641, and in 1646 was one of the "seven men," equivalent to the present selectmen. He was the possessor of considerable property and the records show that he received damages from the town for the loss of a yoke of oxen that backed off a bridge. The inventory of his estate amounted to two hundred and twenty-five pounds three shillings. The records of England show that the family was nonconformist. and they probably found difficulty in getting out of England. The reference to Thomas Emerson as a baker in the Massachusetts records probably arises from the fact that he assumed the character of an artisan in order to make his removal from England less difficult.
(II) Robert Emerson, of Rowley, Massachu- setts, is believed by good authorities to have been the eldest child of Thomas and Elizabeth (Brew- ster) Emerson, who was baptized May 24, 1612, at Bishop's-Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. He was probably a resident of Bishop's-Stortford in 1642. He was in Rowley, Massachusetts, as early as 1655, and took the oath of fidelity there in 1671, and removed thence to Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he was made freeman April 9, 1678. He subscribed to the oath of fidelity in 1671, and in 1672 received from the town compensation for the care of an orphan child. Before 1675 he had a house there. He died June 25, 1694. He was married, October 22, 1635, to Elizabeth Grave, of Bishop's- Stortford, England, and she was buried there June 22, 1636. His second wife was named Frances, and he married (third) in Rowley, November 4, 1658, Ann Grant. She was drowned. July 28, 1718. His children were: Elizabeth, born in England, 1637, Thomas, Joseph, Ephraim, Stephen, Benjamin and Lydia. The elder son was killed by the Indians, with his wife and children, March 15, 1697. ( Men- tion of Benjamin and descendants appears in this article.)
(III) Stephen, fourth son and fifth child of Robert Emerson, was among the original petitioners for and proprietors of the town of "Penniecook." now Concord, New Hampshire, in 1721. At a meet-
ing of the proprietors February 8, 1726, at An- dover, Massachusetts, he drew lot 9, range 3, con- sisting of five and one-half acres in the great plain ; and house lot No. 9, in the first range, consisting of one and one-half acres. A search of the records of Concord fail to disclose any further mention of him in that town, and it is probable that he did not reside there. No further account of him has been found. On a petition for the parish of Hampstead to be erected out of Haverhill, Massachusetts, Janu- .ary I, 1744, appears the name of Stephen Emerson, but this was probably his son Stephen, who became a resident of that town. He was married December 7, 1698, to Elizabeth Dustin.
(IV) Stephen (2), son of Stephen (1) and Elizabeth (Dustin) Emerson, was born February 23, 1701, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was one of the original members of the North Parish Church in 1730, and was admitted to the parish of Hamp- stead by letter from there, June 3, 1752. About 1762 he removed from Hampstead to the eastern part of Weare, New Hampshire, where he died. When the province line was established in
1741, he found himself
to
be outside of
Massachusetts, and petitioned for the estab- lishment of a new parish in Hampstead. He was a resident of the West parish in 1740. The records of Hampstead Church would seem to indi- cate that he had strayed somewhat from the narrow path, as shown by the following entry: "May, 29, 1761, voted that Stephen Emerson should again partake with them on his acknowledgement that he had gone contrary to ye Gospel in forsaking their communion." He married Hannah Marden, who was born 1716, daughter of James and Abigail (Webster) Marden, of Rye, New Hampshire. She was an original member of the North Parish Church 111 1730, and was admitted to the Hampstead Church June 3. 1752. Their children were : Ensign Stephen, Lieutenant Marden, Susannah, Abigail, Elizabeth, Moses, Mary and James.
(V) Deacon James, youngest child of Stephen (2) and Hannah (Marden) Emerson, was born January 10, 1739, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and went with his father to Weare in early life. He resided for a time in Hampstead, and removed after 1760 to Weare. He and his wife owned a covenant in the Hampton Church, January II, 1761. He was deacon of the church at Weare, and was very strict about keeping the Sabbath. On one occasion while going to church, he observed a fox pursuing a rabbit, and was urged by his wife to scare away the fox and relieve the frightened bunny, but he insisted that such an act would be a profanation of the Sabbath, and refused to do so. In relating the circumstance his wife said that she was in doubt as to whether he was too pious or too lazy to dismount and do this act of kindness. He died in Weare, in 1814. He married Lydia Hoyt, who was born April 6, 1740, in Salisbury, Massachusetts, a daughter of Moses and Mary (Carr) Hoyt. The records of the Hampstead Church show that both James Emerson and his wife were admitted there from the church in Weare, August 30, 1778. Their children were: Moses, Hannah (died young). Susannah, James, Lydia, Polly, Hannah and Stephen. All except the first were born in Weare.
(VI) James (2), second son and third child of James (I) and Lydia (Hoyt) Emerson, was born May 26, 1767, in Weare, and settled on part of lot 27, range I, of that town, not far from the spot where his father first settled. About 1799 he sold his land and moved to Newbury. New Hamp- shire, where he died. He married Polly Cilley
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and their children were: Jonathan, Stephen, James and Lydia.
(VII) Jonathan, eldest child of James (2) and Polly (Cilley) Emerson, was born August 25, 1792, in Newbury, New Hampshire. He later removed to Newport, and finally settled in Lebanon, where he died February 12, 1872. He was a farmer by occupation, and a respected citizen. He was married in 1813 to Polly Collins, of Danville, New Hamp- shire, who was born July 3, 1787, and died Sep- tember 8, 1861. Their children were: Hiram, Susan, Jonathan, Arvilla B., James, Moses W., Algrove B., Lucena A. and Lucina M., the last two being twins.
( VIII) Jonathan (2), second ' son and third child of Jonathan (1) and Polly (Collins) Emer- son, was born September 2, 1817, in Grantham, whence his parents removed to Newbury in his early childhood. He died August 12, 1897, in New- port, New Hampshire. He received an ordinary education in the town of Newbury, and learned the "blacksmithing trade. He began business on his own account in Northville, and was counted one of the best horse shoers of his day. He was mar- ried, June 7, 1840, to Lucretia W. Martin, of Weare, New Hampshire, daughter of Jonathan and Emma (Brown) Martin, of that town. She was born July 8, 1815, and died August 1, 1887. Her grand- father, Jonathan Martin, came from Goffstown previous to the Revolution and settled in Weare. His wife was Sarah Quimby. The children of Jonathan (2) and Lucretia (Martin) Emerson were: Christann Lucretia, Charles Martin and Addie L., all of whom now reside in Newport, New Hampshire. The elder daughter is the wife of Edwin Wakefield, and the younger of Charles 11. Matthews.
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