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Mr. Stark was a person of tireless energy which required constant employment. During the busier part of his life matters connected with river navi- gation and trade received his attention. In winter there was leisure for public affairs. So prominent and active a man, possessing such keen abilities, could not fail to become identified with the business affairs of the town. His attention to them insured the best possible administration for the best pur- poses, at the least cost to taxpayers. Accordingly he was often called to fill public offices. From 1819 to 1837 he held some town office almost every year. From 1819 to 1823 inclusive he was town clerk. He was on the board of selectmen in 1826-7-9, 1831- 2-4-5-6, and moderator in IS30-1-2-7. He repre- sented the town in the lower branch of the legisla- ture in 1824-5-6, and was a member of the senate in 1830 and 1831. Most of the small quarrels of the neighborhood were brought before him as justice of the peace for trial or adjustment. His record book of trials is carefully written out, and indicates discrete judgment in his decisions. In 1833 he was appointed one of the side judges of the court of common pleas for Hillsborough county, a position for which his business qualifications and knowledge of the county eminently fitted him. He retained the place about three years. "It is generally supposed," says an authority, "that these judges were but orna- mental appendages to the learned judge who ac- tively presided in court; but in addition to the dis- charge of these duties, now substantially performed
by the county commissioners, they often aided the court by their sterling common sense, in matters requiring not legal learning merely, but an acquaint- ance with men and the ordinary concerns of life, which is not always possessed by the learned law- yers." From the year of his removal to Piscata- quog, 1837 to 1842, Judge Stark was high sheriff of the county of Hillsborough.
In 1860 Judge Stark, whose health had gradually declined since the death of his wife in 1856, was stricken by a slight paralytic shock, and on March 26, 1861, he died on the sixty-ninth year of his age. The public journals of that date paid him this just tribute of respect : "Judge Stark was a man remark- able for his industry, energy and correct business habits; and as a result of nearly half a century of public and private business, has left behind a repu- tation for reliability and strict integrity second to no man in the state."
Frederick G. Stark was united in marriage, June, 1815, with Nancy Gillis, born 1791, died September I, 1856, daughter of Jotham and Abigail Gillis. Her father was the first agent of the Amoskeag factory, and lived to be ninety-five years old, dying June 28, 1853. She was a lady in every way calculated to promote her husband's happiness and prosperity, and whose Christian virtues and benevolent life endeared her to all who came within her sphere. Their happy marriage relation continued unbroken through forty-one years, until her decease,, Sep- tember 1, 1856. They were the parents of the fol- lowing named children: Juliet, George, William and Emma. The elder daughter became the wife of her cousin, Henry C. Gillis, and the junior mar- ried Jacob G. Cilley.
(V) General George, elder son of Judge Fred- erick G. and Nancy (Gillis) Stark, was born in Manchester, April 9, 1823, and died in Nashua, April 13, 1892, aged sixty-nine. He attended the cominon schools of the Amoskeag district of his native town until he was nine years of age, and the succeeding four years was a student at the acade- mies in Pembroke and Milford. His attention was chiefly devoted to the study of mathematics, and in his mature years he supplied the deficiencies of liis early education by reading and study, as opportunity offered. When he left the halls of instruction he followed in the footsteps of his father, whose love of practical and applied mathematics he inherited. and returning to Manchester entered upon his career as assistant with the chief engineer and surveyor of the preliminary surveys for canals, factories and streets of the city, whose growth at that time really began. He was employed in this manner one year, and when not at work he attended the academies at Bedford and Sanbornton, and the high school at Lowell, Massachusetts, the last mentioned school then being under charge of Moody Currier, after- wards a noted banker of Manchester, and governor of New Hampshire. In 1836 lie was employed with the staff of engineers engaged in locating the Nashua & Lowell railroad. The next year and until 1846 he spent in alternate seasons of field work with engineers, and study at the academies. After the Nashua & Lowell railroad had been com-
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pleted, he was engaged in locating the road between Nashua and Concord, and later was employed in the same capacity on the Northern road. He sur- veyed and built one of the canals in Manchester, in 1843; surveyed the Vermont Central railroad in 1844, and the Old Colony road in 1845. The time between 1845 and 1848 he spent in the preparation of drawings for mill work, and in making a survey to supply Manchester with water from Lake Mas- sabesic. After this he was employed on the Nashua & Wilton road, on the Stony Brook & Boston, Concord & Montreal. On the last named road he was chief engineer. With these works he practic- ally concluded his labors as an engineer and con- structor. Ill health prevented him from engaging in active work for a portion of 1848, but in 1849, after a season of rest, he became treasurer and assistant superintendent of the Nashua & Lowell road, which position he filled until 1852. In this
year he was appointed superintendent of the Hudson River road, but held that position only a little more than a year. An urgent offer was made him to take the superintendency of the Nashua & Lowell road and its branches, and he accepted the position, and at once entered upon the duties of the place. In 1857, he was made manager of the Boston & Lowell road and its branches, which position he filled with rare ability for the following eighteen years. During that time he assumed tasks of great magnitude and responsi- bility in the construction of the Causeway street depot, Boston, the extension of tracks, and the opening of new lines of travel. Resigning this position in 1875 (?), General Stark engaged in various other railroad enterprises, notable among which was that of the Northern Pacific, in which corporation he was a director and vice-president. This was the last notable enterprise in the con- struction or operation of railroads with which he was connected. Feeling that he had done his part in matters of that character, and willing to let others enjoy in future the pleasures of which he had enjoyed so generous a share in the past, in pro- moting the great transportation facilities of the country, he turned his attention to the less strenuous occupation of banking, and with his son, John F. Stark, devoted his last years to that business in New York and Nashua.
General Stark's life was so full of cares that to a person of less method or less executive ability it would seem he could have no time for anything but business ; but with all he had to do, he had time to make his influence felt in political and military circles. He was a Democrat, but not a partisan. In 1857-8-9 and 1860, he served in the lower branch of the state legislature, in 1860 and 1861, was a can- didate of his party for governor, and in 1863 and 1864 was a candidate for the mayoralty of Nashna. His entry into state military organizations followed soon after his political career opened. In 1857, he was commissioned brigadier-general of the Third brigade, New Hampshire militia, by Governor Haile. In 1860 he was commissioned colonel of the Gov- ernor's Horse Guards, and in 1861, in the capacity of brigadier-general, he proceeded to Portsmouth
and took charge of the troops that were rendez- vousing there for service in the Civil war.
A review of General Stark's life work, covering more than a half century, impresses one with the idea of its magnitude. To have performed as much as he did required method, industry, perse- verance, and executive ability of high order. To these he added a mental equipoise based on a found- ation so deep that it was seldom disturbed, and his temper and demeanor seldom ruffled. He was al- ways quiet, courteous, deliberate-yet accomplishing as much or more than those who make a great show of activity. He took ample time to think, and, his mind once made up, he was firm in maintaining his opinions, but never rude; tenacious of his purpose, without being captious. He had a natural unre- strained manner in conversation, and social quali- ties that were freely manifested in company with tested and worthy friends. As a writer of business documents and reports he manifested power, method and perspicuity, and his manuscript showed a care- ful arrangement, neatness and precision of chiro- graphy quite remarkable in one of his extensive business experiences. His family residence in Na- shua. though showing no taste for ostentation or display, is an elegant structure in the villa style, furnished with every comfort and convenience, and adorned with works of art.
General Stark married first, 1845, Elizabeth A. Parker, daughter of Daniel Parker, of Bedford. She died January 18, 1847, and he married (second) November 20, 1848, Mary Grace Bowers, born February 14, 1818, daughter of Colonel Joseph and ( Rhoda) Bowers, of Chelmsford, Massachu- setts. Two children were born of the second mar- riage. John F. and Emma Grace, the latter the wife of Edward B. Towne, of Newton, Massachusetts.
(VI) John F., only son of General George and Mary Grace (Bowers) Stark, was born in Nashua, April 14, 1851. He attended the public schools of Nashua, prepared for college at Nashua high school, entered Dartmouth College in 1867 and graduated with the class of 1871. From 1871 to 1880 he fol- lowed his profession as a civil engineer in the sur- vey and construction of railroads in New England and in the northwest. In 1880 he became his father's associate in the banking business, in which he has since been continuously engaged. He has inherited many of the characteristics of his ancestors, chief of which are industry, energy, integrity and good judgment, and has been constantly successful in business. He married (first) November 6, 1873, Eva L. Barr, born December 10, IS51, daughter of Matthew and Esther (Allen) Barr, by whom he had two children: Helen Grace, born August 24, 1874, died December 23, 1874; George Francis, born July 2, 1875. She died July 9, 1875, and he married (second) Carrie E. Barr, sister of his first wife, born August 21, 1853.
Tradition says that this name is LANGMAID of Scotch origin, but tradition is often lame or flies on such reck- less wings as to mislead many in pursuit. There can be no doubt that this patronymic is of English
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origin, and was originally composed of two words Jong (or lang) and mead, signifying a long meadow. It was taken as a surname probably by some one who resided in the locality thus described.
(I) The line hcrein traced begins with William Langmaid, of whom no particulars seem now to be obtainable.
(II) John, son of William Langmaid, is given by one of the descendants as the next in line, but 110 history of him seems to be obtainable.
(III) Samuel, son of John Langmaid probably resided in the vicinity of Hampton, New Hampshire.
(IV) John (2), son of Samuel Langmaid, was married October 29, 1765, to Hannah Edmonds, and their children, born in Chichester, New Hampshire were : Abigail, Samuel, Deborah, Sally, John, Han- nah, Edward and William.
(V) Edward, third son and seventh child of John and Hannah (Edmonds) Langmaid, was born November 11, 1787, in Chichester, and cleared up a farm in that town, where he resided. He married Mehitabel Dodge, a native of Wenham, Massachu- setts, daughter of John Dodge, who kept an old tinie tavern in Hampton Falls, where the stages stopped to refresh man and beast. His children were: Ed- ward, Sarah, John, Albert, Samuel, Joseph W. and Sarah Elizabeth.
(VI) Albert, fourth son and child of Edward and Mehitabel (Dodge) Langmaid, was born Jan- uary 23, 1816, in Chichester. At the age of nineteen he left home and went to Concord, where he learned the carpenter's trade. After a time he accepted employment in the car shops of the Concord rail- road at Concord, and became superintendent of the wood working department in those shops. Be- coming tired of the confinement of shop life he retired from that position in 1873, and purchased a farm near the academy in Pembroke, upon which he lived until his death, December 31, 1891. He was a man of upright character, and was widely es- teemed and respected. An active member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he sought every way to promote the progress of that body, and was af- filiated with the order of United American Me- chanics. In politics a Democrat, he was steadfast in principle, but never desired any political preferment for himself. His first wife was Maris M. Whitney, who died without issue. He was married (second) March 28, 1887, to Nancy Jane, daughter of Parker and Phoebe (Lull) Ames, and widow of William Plummer Cilley. She was born November 24, 1828, in Epsom, New Hampshire, and now resides in Concord. She is descended from one of the oldest American families. Her father, Parker Ames, son of Samuel Ames, was born July 15, 1792, in An- dover, Massachusetts. His wife, Phoebe, was born February 26, 1787. They lived upon a farm in Ep- som and died there.
William Plummer Cilley, son of Colonel Daniel Cilley, was born November 24, 1808, in Epsom, and passed the last twenty-five years of his life in Pem- broke, where he died May 17, 1881. Both he and his father were farmers. He was a man of in- fluence, respected and well-liked, and filled the office
of selectman in Epsom. In political affairs he acted with the Democratic party. He married Nancy J. Ames, above noted as the widow of Albert Lang- maid, and their only offspring was Emma Jane Cilley, who was born April 17, 1864, in Pembroke, and died in that town August 17, 1877.
The records state that Stickney is STICKNEY a large village on the Boston road, cight and one-half miles north of Boston station, in the soke of Bolingbroke, Union of Spilsby, Lindsley division, and diocese of Lincoln, England. From this came the surname Stickney.
In the parish register of St. Mary's Church, in the parish of Frampton in the Wapentake of Kirton, Lincoln county, England, three and one-half miles south from Boston, are many records of baptisms, marriages and burials of Stickneys from 1558 to 1609. The name does not appear on those records after that date. Tradition and information obtained in England render it probable that the family re- moved to Hull or its vicinity.
(1) William Stickney, the first settler, was the ancestor of nearly all who have since borne that name in America. It is inferred from records pro- cured in England that he was the William who is mentioned as baptized in St. Mary's Church, Framp- ton, Lincolnshire, England, April 6, 1592, and the son of William Stickney, of Frampton, who was baptized December 30, 1558, and married, June 16, 1585, Margaret Pcirson, and the grandson of Robert Stickney of Frampton, who made his will October 3, and was buried October 18, 1582.
William Stickney, the settler, seems to have come probably from Hull, in Yorkshire, England, in 1637, and from the records of the First Church in Boston it appears that "The 6t of ye 11th moneth 1638 Willyam Stickney a husbandman & Enzabeth his wife" and others were admitted; and "The 24th day of ye 9th Moneth 1039, Our brethren Mr. Henry Sandys, William Stickney x x x by ye Churches Silence were dismissed to ye gathering of a Church at Rowley if the Lord so please." William Stickney with his wife and three eldest children were among the original settlers of Rowley, Massa- chusetts. "On the seventh of October 1640 x x x Willi: Stickney were admitted Freemen." In 1639 William Stickney had land allotted to him upon which he erected a house, on the corner of Brad- ford and Wethersfield streets. He was a member of an important committee in 1652 to draw up "a covenant and agreement," between the town of Rowley and the first settlers of the Merrimack lands, now Bradford. He was clerk of the market, and on jury of trials in 1653, selectman 1656 and 1661, also in 1661 styled lieutenant. The ancient possession books of Rowley contain frequent records of grants of land to him and from him and his wife. In the town books of Rowley it is recorded that William Stickney was buried January 25, 1665. Elizabeth Stickney survived her husband several years. The date of her death is not known. On the two hundredth anniversary of the death
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of William Stickney, a granite obelisk was erected on his grave bearing the following inscription :
WILLIAM STICKNEY BORN IN FRAMPTON, ENGLAND, A. D. 1592.
IVAS, WITH HIS WIFE ELIZABETH OF BOSTON. IN N. E. IN 1638, OF ROWLEY IN 1639, WHERE HE DIED A. D. 1665 ERECTED BY HIS DESCENDANTS JOSIAH STICKNEY, OF BOSTON. MATTHEW ADAMS STICKNEY OF SALEM, JOSEPH HENRY STICKNEY, OF BALTIMORE, MD .. 1865
The children of William and Elizabeth Stickney were :
I. Samuel, born in England, 1633; married Julia Swan; Prudence Gage. 2. Amos, born England, 1635; married Sarah Morse, June 24, 1663. 3. Mary, born in England, 1637; married James Borker, Jr. 4. John born Imo. 14 da. 1640; married Hannah Brocklebank, June 29, 1680. 5. Faith, born 12 mno. 4 da. 1641; married Samuel Gage. 6. Andrew, born 3 mo. II da. 1611: married Eduah Lambert; Eliza- beth Jewett. 7. Thomas, born I mo. 3 da. 1646; married Mehitable Kimball. 8. Elizabeth, born I mo. 3 da. 1646; died December 4, 1659, Rowley, Rec., December 7. Court Records. 9. Mercy, born II mo. 4 da. 1648; died January 14, 1676. 10. Add- ing, born II mo. 4 da. 1648; died September 17, I660.
(II) Samuel (I), eldest son of William and Elizabeth Stickney, was born in England in 1663. He came with his father to Boston, thence to Rowley, and lived with him till he was twenty-one years old; he then received his portion of his father's estate and married. Soon afterward he pur- chased a freehold consisting of "land dwelling house and barn." His name appears in various places on the records as grantor and grantee of land. He was poundkeeper 1662-67. A lot was laid out to him in the division of Hog Island Marsh in 1667. In 1670 and later he was alotted a portion of the Merrimack lands. One part where he settled is now called Groveland. He was selectman of Brad- ford 1671, '81. '82, '89, '91. '93, '94. and '95. He was constable in 1676. He took the "Ooath of Fidelity" in Bradford, December 16, 1678, before Captain Saltonstall, and December 10, 1678, the "Oath of Allegiance before Major General Denison, Esq." at Ipswich. October II, 1682, he took the "Free- inan's Oath." December 27, 1682, a church was organized in Bradford, by the signature of eighteen males to a covenant, of which he was one. He was surveyor of highways and fences. 1684, 1692. 1707- 8. May 8, 1689, and died February 12. 1690, he was representative from Bradford. A sudden revolution had terminated Governor Andros's administration, and in its stead there was established "A council of safety of the people. and conservation of the peace." The town of Bradford chose Samuel Stickney to meet as one of sixty-five delegates from the colony and meet at Boston May 9 to establish and confirm a new government. He is styled lieutenant on the Bradford Records of 1691. He was grand juryman April 13, 1697, and on jury of trials 1701-8, and was appointed tithingman 1704. He died in Bradford in 1709. A portion of his land is still owned by his descendants in the seventh generation.
Samuel Stickney married (first) in Rowley, Feb- ruary 18, 1653, Julian Swan, who died in Bradford between the years 1670 and 1673. He married (second) in Bradford, April 6, 1674, Prudence (Leaver) Gage, who died in Bradford, October 26, 1716, aged seventy-two years. The children of Samuel Stickney were: I. Elizabeth, born May 9, 1661; married Daniel Tenny. 2. Samuel, born 2-5, 1663; married Mary Heseltine. 3. William, born 8-21, 1665; died young. 4. Sarah, born October 20, 1667; died April 15. 1689. 5. William, born Jan- uary 27, 1674; married Anna Heseltine, September 4, 1701. 6. Thomas, born March 19, 1677; drowned in Merrimack river. June 12, 1689. 7. Jonathan, . born February II, 1679, died unmarried.
(III) Samuel (2), second child and eldest son of Samuel (1) and Julia N. (Swan) Stickney, was born in Rowley, February 5, 1663, and baptized there April 4, 1675. In the year 1684 "Samuel Stickney, Jr." was chosen one of the town committee to meet with John Perle and Richard Whomes (Holmes) about setting up a corn mill in Bradford, which was afterwards erected on Johnson's creek, and was the first of the kind put up there. He was selectman 1686, '87, '89, '96, 1701 and '03, assessor 1694, con- stable 1699, and surveyor in 1707. 1708. He received January 28, 1704, by deed of gift his portion of his father's estate, six score acres of land in Bradford, one half of his mowing ground and all his right of land in Rowley. He was grantee and grantor of other land.
Samuel Stickney married Mary, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth ( Langhorne) Heseltine, who was born in Rowley, April 30, 1672. Samuel Stickney died in Bradford; his gravestone is still standing in the burial ground there, bearing this inscription : "Samuel Stickney, died December 30, 1714, in the 51 year of his age." March 17, 1716, Widow Mary Stickney was admitted to full com- munion in Bradford Church, where her children were baptized. She was married (second) by Rev. Thomas Symmes, August 30, 1722, to Joseph Tidd, and May 26, 1723, was dismissed to the church in Lexington, where she died January 4, 1731. The children of Samuel and Mary ( Heseltine) Stickney were: I. Sarah, born December 9. 1690; married Samuel Spofford, June 17, 1717. 2. Mary, born Sep- tember 29, 1692; married Richard Kimball, Jr., June 29, 1716. 3. Thomas, born August 23, 1694; married Mary Mullickin; Dorothy Munroe. 4. Elizabeth, born August 20, 1696; married Benjamin Mullickin. 5. Amos, born October 31, 1699; died before 1716. 6. Samuel, born August 24, 1701 ; married Elizabeth Hardy; Susanna Johnson. 7. Abraham, born October, 1703; married Abigail Hall, February 20, 1728. 8. Ebenezer, born July 25, 1705; died August 2, 1705. 9. Jonathan, born January 19. 1707. married Alice Symonds, January 21, 1734. 10. Richard, born May 9, 1709; married Mary -; Susannah Tucker. II. Dorothy, born March 18, 1712; married Joseph Tidd, July 31, 1731. 12. Ben- jamin, born October 27. 1714: died before 1716.
(IV) Abraham, fourth son and seventh child of Samuel (2) and Mary (Heseltine) Stickney, was born in Bradford, October 16, 1703. He was a servant to Benjamin Thurston. and served under Lieutenant Peter Abbot from July 17 to November 14, 1722. The records also state that he marched for the relief of Fort William Henry from Tewkes- bury to Worcester, in Colonel Eleazer Tyng's regi- ment, as ensign in command of soldiers drawn out of Captain William Brown's company of Tewkes-
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bury, August 16, 1757. He enlisted April 6, 1758, from Tewkesbury, aged filty-five, to go to Lake George, in Colonel Eleazer Tyng's regiment, under command of General Jeffrey Amherst. He lived in Billerica and Tewkesbury, where he was Deacon of the Congregational Church. He died in Tewkes- bury August 23, 1783. He married, in Billerica, February 20, 1728, Abigail Hall, of Dracut. She died in Tewkesbury, June 14, 1785. Their children were: 1. Abigail, born July 12, 1731 ; married James Kittredge, 4th, March 10, 1752. 2. Abraham, born November 28, 1733; married Saralı Kittredge, De- cember 9, 1755. 3. Benjamin, born December 1,
1737 ; married Plummer; Hannah Grover. 4. James, born August 6, 1742; married Mary Belknap. 5. Samuel, born about 1743; married, November 16, 1762; Eleanor Butman. 6. Elizabeth, born about
1745; died young. 7. William, born about 1747; married Elizabeth
(V) Samuel (3), fourth son and fifth child of Abraham and Abigail (Hall) Stickney, was born in Tewkesbury, about 1743. In a deed of March 20, 1767, he is described as "Samuel Stickney of Tewkesbury, house-wright." He enlisted August 22, 1777, as lieutenant in Captain N. Carter's company, Colonel Stearn's regiment, and marched to Williams town, 1778. He settled in New Boston, New Hamp- shire, and was an industrious and pious man. He died at the advanced age of eighty-three years. He married, November 26, 1762. Elinor Butman, and they had six children: 1. Samuel, born Jan- uary 10, 1764; died September 5. 1764. 2. Samuel, born January 22, 1766; married Sarah Gardner, February 21, 1788. 3. Jonathan, born October 13, 1768; married Wealthy Chase, January 1, 1793. 4. Abial, born April, 1770; married Sarah Kittredge, September 15, 1796. 5. Timoth-, born August 6, 1776; married Sarah Trott, 1799. 6. Hannah, mar- ried Josiah Brown, 1797.
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