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(1X) John, youngest child of Daniel (3) and Abigail (Almy) Knowlton, was born January 24, 1745. in Framingham, Massachusetts, and resided in Dublin, New Hampshire. He married (first),
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Martha Jennings, and their children were: John, Elizabeth, James (died young), Abigail, Betsey, Thaddeus, Simeon, Henry and James. The mother of these died October 2, 1797, and Mr. Knowlton was married (second), February 19, 1798, to Elizabeth A. Wight. Her children were : Eliza, Luke, Ira, Mary and Levi.
(X) Luke, son of Deacon John Knowlton and second child of his second wife, Elizabeth A. Wight, was born August 1, ISO1, probably in Dub- lin, New Hampshire, and resided in that town in early life and removed to Marlboro, in April, 1849, where he died December 4, 1882, aged eighty-one years. He was married, December 28, 1826, to Mercy Bemis, daughter of James and Lois ( Walker) Bemis of Dublin. She was born September 12, 1804, in that town and died, November, 1892, in Marlboro. Their children were: James, Luke, Eli B., Caroline E., Charles, Lois, Jane ( died young), Sarah Ann and Maria Jane, died young.
(XI) Luke (2), second son and child of Luke (I) and Mercy (Bemis) Knowlton, was born Sep- tember 5, 1830, in Dublin. He was educated in the common schools of that town and of Marlboro, and his early labors were in the saw mill of his father in Marlboro, where he con-
tinued two years. He then in 1851, went
to Worcester, Massachusetts, and was ein-
ployed by the Curtis Machine Company for a period of seven years; during this period he taught school for a term in New Worcester. At the end of that time he established a retail grocery store in Wor- cester with a partner, under the style of Nixon & Knowlton, which continued some two years. For five years succeeding this he was engaged in the carpenter work in Worcester. Returning to Marl- boro, he enlisted in 1862 in Company A, Fourteenth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and served during the remainder of the Civil war as a soldier. The regiment was first stationed for a short time at Washington, and thence proceeded up the Potomac river, where it remained six months, at the end of which time it was again ordered to Washington, and remained there nearly a year. It then proceeded to New Orleans and was commanded by General Banks for a time. Returning to Washington he was engaged in the campaigns in the Shenandoah Val- ley, and subsequently procceded to Savannah, Georgia. From that point the regiment went to Augusta, Georgia, and was finally discharged at Savannah, in 1865, he being mustered out a non- commissioned officer. He is a member of John Sedgwick Post No. 4, G. A. R. Upon his return to Marlboro, Mr. Knowlton engaged in the manu- facture of wooden ware and operated a grist mill, and conducted a grain business with his brother, James Knowlton, which business continued for a period of thirty-four years. Since 1899 Mr. Knowl- ton has been practically retired from business. He is a member and has been of the committee on fi- nance of the Congregational Church. Ile has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, and has served as treasurer of the local lodge of that order for thirteen years, passed all of its chairs, member of the grand lodge, and past dis- trict deputy. In political principle he is an earnest Republican but has never sought for official station. He was in former years active in advancing his party's interests, serving on local committees and as president of the local Republican flub. His chief public service has been in the capacity of representative in the legislature, which station
he filled in 1885, serving as secretary of the com- mittee on mileage. He was married November 29, 1854, to Jane Pierce, of Millbury, Massachusetts, who died November 2, 1861, leaving one child, Jen- nie M., who was three weeks old at the time of her mother's death. Jennie M. married Alden M. Rip- ley, of Swanzey; by whom she had four children- Mary, Charles, Grace and Minnie. Mrs. Ripley died in July, 1893. Mr. Knowlton was married ( second) September 5, 1867, to Hannah M. Town- send, daughter of James and Sarah (Kilham) Townsend. She was born May 24, 1837, in Gilsum, New Hampshire. She is the mother of one daugh- tet, Carrie T. Knowlton, born August 12, 1878.
(IV) William (3), son of Captain William and Ann Elizabeth ( Smith) Knowlton, was born 1615, in England, and resided in Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was a bricklayer. He was a member of the Congregational Church, and was a freeman in 1642. He was granted commonage with pasturage for one cow and a share in Plum Island. He pur- chased a lot of John Andrews, which he sold De- cember 12, 1643, to Edward Bragg, of Ipswich, to- gether with a house thereon. He died in 1655 and the inventory of his estate was made July 17, of that year. The valuation of the estate was placed at £37, 2 shillings, I penny. His debts amounted to £27, 14 shillings, I penny. His wife's name was Elizabeth Ann Smith, and their children were: Thomas, Nathaniel, William, John, Benjamin, Sam- uel and Mary.
(V) John, fourth son and child of William (3) and Elizabeth Knowlton, was born 1641, and resided for a time in Ipswich, whence he removed to Man- chester, Massachusetts, about 1670. He was made freeman in 1669, and took the oath of allegiance in Manchester in 1680. He was a carpenter, and an industrious and thrifty man, and dealt largely in real estate. He was captain of the local militia. He married Bertha Carter and their children were : John, Robert and Ezekiel.
(VI) Ezekiel, third son of John and Bertha (Carter) Knowlton, was born 1679, and resided in Manchester, where he died in 1706. He was mar- ried January 29, 1698, to Sarah Leach, who sur- vived him and was appointed administratrix of his estate, November 4, 1706. Their children were : Deborah, Robert, Ezekiel and Saralı.
(VII) Robert, eldest son and second child of Ezekiel and Sarah (Leach) Knowlton, was born July 17, 1701, in Manchester, Massachusetts, where he resided and died in 1775. By occupation he was a carpenter. He was married December 24, 1724, to Lydia Bishop, and their children were: Lydia, Sarah, Anna, Rachel, Robert, Mary, Ezekiel and John.
(VIII) Ezekiel (2), second son and seventh child of Robert and Lydia (Bishop) Knowlton, was born April 1, 1740, in Manchester, and resided in that town where he died January 6, 1818. He enlisted in the colonial armny at the age of cighteen years, and served in the French and Indian war, enduring great privations and much suffering. At the close of the war he returned to his native place, and was married February 5. 1762, to his cousin, Elizabeth Woodbury. She died May 6, 1826, having survived him more than eight years. Their children were: Robert, Sarah, Ezekiel, Jolın, Mary, Levi, Nathaniel, James and Lydia.
(IX) Robert, eldest child of Ezekiel (2) and Elizabeth (Woodbury) Knowlton, was born 1761, in Manchester. He was a sergeant in the American
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army in the War of 1812. When a young man he lived for a time in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, whence he removed to New London as a pioneer of that town. He cleared land there and was also prominent as a school teacher. Among his pupils was the wife of his son Samuel, who is mentioned below. Late in life he moved to Vive, Indiana, where he died. He married Jemima Smith and their children were: Robert, Samuel, Josiah, So- phronia, John, Julia, Sally, Eliza, Sophia and Daniel. (X) Samuel, second son and child of Robert and Jemima ( Smith) Knowlton, ws born June 16, 1791, in New London, New Hampshire, and died . September 13, 1846, in Sunapee, and was buried in the cemetery in that town. He received a good education, and was a representative citizen and an influential man. He cleared up a farm and made farming his occupation but was frequently called upon to serve the town and was its representative in the legislature two years. He was married No- vember 11, 1813, to Betsey Pike, who was born Sep- tember II, 1787, in New London, and died August 28, 1881. She was buried beside her husband in the Sunapee cemetery. Their children were: Dennis G., Moses F. and John P. The three of these liave been representatives in the state legislature. (John P. and descendants receive notice in this article.) (XI) Dennis G., eldest son of Samuel and Bet- sey ( Pike) Knowlton, was born September 23, 1814, in New London, and died in Sunapee, April II, 1894. He was educated in the public schools and followed farming until 1862, when he went into trade. At first he took a store alone and was later in partnership with his two sons, Moses F. and Charles A. He was married, June 1, 1843, to Eliza- beth Chase, who was born October 8, 1813, and died August 10, 1894. She was the daughter of John and Elizabeth (Rogers) Chase, and a granddaugh- ter of John Chase. The latter was born July 16, 1739, a son'of Elihu (1) Chase (see Chase, VIII). He died July 4, 1811. His son, John C. Chase, was married in 1794 to Elizabeth Rogers, and they were the parents of Elizabeth Chase, above named as the wife of Dennis G. Knowlton. The children of the last named couple were Moses Flanders and Charles A. The last named, born November 21, 1846, married Emily Trow, and had one daughter, Alice L., who now resides with Captain John P. Knowlton. (A sketch of the latter appears in this article).
(XII) Moses Flanders, eldest child of Dennis G. and Elizabeth (Chase) Knowlton, was born July 24, 1845, in Sunapee, and received his primary edu- cation in the public schools of that town. He was subsequently a student at Colby and New London academies. He was engaged in farming from an early period in life until 1852, when he became asso- ciated with his father and brother under the firm name of Dennis G. Knowlton & Sons, in the mer- cantile business. For about twenty years he con- tinued this association in Sunapee, and then re- moved to Newport, and for four years conducted
the Hotel Phenix. Subsequently for a period of two years he was engaged in the livery business at Sunapee. He has been largely employed in the pub- lic service. He served seven years as selectman, during four years of which time he was chairman of the board. In 1890 he represented the town in the state legislature. In early life he served some time as town clerk, and has recently been a member of the committee appointed by the governor and coun- cil to lay out state highways. For four years he
was deputy sheriff of Sullivan county under High Sheriff Holt. In 1890 Mr. Knowlton erected his present commodious residence of nineteen rooms near Lake Sunapee, where he entertains summer tourists and vacationists. It is one of the finest homes in Sunapee, occupying a most delightful location on an elevation overlooking Sunapee Lake. Besides this he is the owner of shore lands and dwellings in Sunapee and New London. He is a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge at Sunapee and the encampment at Newport of the same order.
He was (first) married in August, 1869, to Jennie Farmer, who died January 14, 1879. He married ( second) February 22, 1882, Lucy I. Dickinson, who was born May 16, 1843. They had one son, John D. Knowlton, born July 4, 1887, in Newport, and died in Sunapee, April 16, 1903.
(XI) Captain John Perkins, third son of Sam- uel and Betsey ( Pike) Knowlton, was born October JO, 1821, in Sunapee, and received his education in the town schools. He was reared upon a farm, and upon attaining manhood was employed as a farm laborer upon the home farm and elsewhere. Though his wages were small. he was industrious and pa- tiently preserved his earnings, and in time became interested in a mercantile business. At the age of twenty-one his worldly possessions consisted of one hundred twenty-five dollars. In the year 1844 he entered into partnership with his brother in the mercantile business. and after eight years he bought out his brother's interest and continued as sole pro- prietor until 1862. He then disposed of the mercan- tile business and retired to his farm. In 1870 he erected the Knowlton Block in the village of Sun- apee, which is the principal business building of that place. He erected under his personal supervision a handsome residence which stands upon his fine farm of twenty-five acres, and here he enjoys the fruits of his early industry and frugality. For some years he was a director of the First National Bank of Newport, ultimately resigning that position. He was commissioned first postmaster of Sunapee, September 12, 1845, and for eleven years he served in that capacity. He was commissioned by Gov- ernor Gerard B. Williams, January 4, 1848, as cap- tain of the local militia, known as the Sunapee Guards, and he continued in command of that or- ganization for several years. He served the town as clerk for four years, and was one term town treasurer. In 1856-7 he represented the town in the state legislature. and for many years he served as justice of the peace. In politics Captain Knowlton is a Democrat, and in religious faith a Universalist.
Captain Knowlton began life without any ad- vantages, and has made his own way in the world. Conditions since the time of his youth have very much changed. He felt that he was getting large wages when he received a dollar per day for the long days in haying time, in his youth. Today much larger wages are paid for a considerable shorter day. His success in life has been fairly earned, and he is in the enjoyment of the respect and es- teem of his fellows, and the evening of his life is passed in contentment in the community, which he has scen developed from small beginnings. In 1906 he made a gift to the town of Sunapee of ten thousand dollars, which abolished the debt of the town, and in appreciation of this he received a handsomely engrossed copy of the thanks of the town from the selectmen and his portrait was placed in the town hall. This crowning act of generosity reflects great credit upon Captain Knowlton, and
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is another illustration of the noble and generous character of the man. He' was married October 23, 1848, to Abbie S., daughter of William and Mary ( Stevens) Morgan. She was born April 16. 1826, in New London, and his wife was born April 27, 1797. in Newbury. They were married October 25. 1821, and he died October 7. 1875, being survived more than ten years by his wife who died Novem- ber 19, 1885. Their children were: Thomas. Bel- den, Abbie S., Marietta, Alonzo. Marshall, Franklin W. and Simeon S.
Those bearing this patronymic have con- DANA tributed to the growth and development of New England and the United States by service in divinity, the law, in medicine, litera- ture, and in worthy effort along all lines of Ameri- can life. Among its most distinguished representa- tives may be mentioned : The late Charles .1. Dana, who made the New York Sun one of the best news- papers in the country; Francis Dana. minister to Russia, chief justice of Massachusetts : Daniel Dana, president of Dartmouth College; United States Senator Judah Dana, of Maine ; and numerous able ministers of the gospel in many states.
(I) The family was founded in America by Richard Dana (first written Danie and Dany), who was (according to tradition) born in France about 1612-15. Richard is believed to have come to our shores from Englund about 1640. He was an carly resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he sold a farm in 1656 to Edward Jackson. This was situated in the western part of old Cambridge (now Brighton) and known as the Hannwell farm. Rich- ard and his wife were members of the church at Cambridge in 1656. He was a builder, and his death was caused by a fall from a scaffold, April 2, 1600. He married Ann Bullard, who died June 15, 17II. Their children were: John, Hannah, Sam- uel, Jacob. Joseph, Abiah, Benjamin, Elizabeth, Dan- iel. Deliverance and Sarah. (Mention of Daniel and descendants appears in this article).
(II) Jacob, third son and fourth child of Rich- ard and Ann (Bullard) Dana, was born February 2. 1654. in Cambridge, and died December 24, 1698. His estate was appraised June 19, 1699, and an ad- ministration upon the estate of his widow Patience was granted in 1711, indicating the time of her death. His property was divided among his chil- dren, including Samuel. the eldest, Jacob, a minor, and daughters. The list of his children is as fol- lows, according to the History of Cambridge: Jacob (died when an infant), Hannah, Experience, Sam- uel, Abigail and Jacob. From the fact that Hannah was alive in 1706, it is apparent that "eldest" in the division means eldest son, not child. One record also credits to him daughters, Elizabeth and Patience.
(III) Jacob (2), younger son of Jacob (1) and Patience Dana, was born August 13, 1699. and was a posthumous child. For this reason it has been difficult to trace his line, and only the discovery of the appraisement of his father's property, with its clivision, made his identity authentic. He settled in Pomfret (or Ashford, now Eastford), Connecticut, where he died in 1791, aged ninety-two years. His children were: Jacob, Anderson, Experience (died young), Mary. Abigail, Zeruiah (died young), Ex- perience, Zeruiah, Robena, Sarah, Priscilla and Elmer.
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(IV) Anderson, second son and child of Jacob (2) Dana, was born October 17. 1733. in Ashford. Connecticut, and was educated as a lawyer. In 1772
he settled at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. where he acquired a large tract of land and engaged in prac- tice. He was killed during the terrible Wyoming valley massacre, July 3, 1778. His wife escaped with her children and returned to Connecticut, car- rying her husband's papers in a pillow case. The children were put out to live among the farmers of the vicinity, and grew up hardy and industrious citizens. Their names were as follows: Eunice. Daniel. Susanna, Sarah, Anderson, Asiel, Sylvester and Eleazer, all born in Ashford. About 1785, An- derson, Asiel and Sylvester returned to Wilkes- Barre and settled on the land owned by their late father, and the first two of these remained there. (An account of Sylvester and descendants is a part of this article). The mother, Susanna Huntington, was born June, 1730, in Lebanon, Connecticut, and died February 7. 1818, at the home of her son in Orford, New Hampshire. At the time of . Mr. Dana's removal to Wilkes-Barre, that region was considered a part of Connecticut, and he was ad- mitted to the legislature of his native state as rep- resentative of the town of Westmoreland, Pennsyl- vania, in 1778.
(V) Daniel, eldest son and second child of An- derson and Susanna (Huntington) Dana, was born September 16. 1760. in Ashford, Connecticut, and was at school in his native state at the time of the Wyoming massacre. He became a lawyer in En- field, Connecticut, where he resided until about 1795, and was a prominent man. On March 14, 1789. the marking of his stock was recorded, and during that year hc received several town orders for services rendered. On January 23, 1791, with his wife, he was admitted to the church at Enfield, and on May I following three of their children were baptized. On November II, 1793, he was "chose" with two others "chorester", to lead the singing in church; and again November 10, 1794, one of four "quaris- ters" for same service. His name then disappears from Enfield records. He was married February 9, 1785, to Dorothy Kibbe, of one of the oldest En- field families, and their children were as follows : Persis K., Dolly (died an infant), Anderson, Nancy, Sarah and Mary (twins, who died when seventeen days old). Sarah (died one year old), Sarah, Daniel Huntington. Mary. Harriet (died at six months), William Kibbe, Harriet. Edward and Dolly Jane. The first became the wife of Thomas Carlyle, and resided at Lancaster, this state. About 1795, Mr. Dana moved to Guildhall, Vermont, where he was subsequently probate judge for many years. His last days were spent at the home of his son in Warren, Ohio. where he died Novemher 8, 1839.
(VI) Anderson, eldest son and third child of Daniel and Dolly (Kibbe) Dana. was born Janu- ary 15. 1790, in Enfield, Connecticut, and was a child when his parents moved to Vermont. He became register of probate under his father, and subse- quently went to Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where he was for a short time engaged in trade. He re- turned to Guildhall, and in the winter of 1823-4 moved to Pembroke, New York. In his last years he lived in or near Warren, Ohio, and died there. Ile was married in Vermont to Ann Denison, a woman of strong character, a descendant of one of the oldest and best New England families. They were the parents of four children, Charles A., Jun- ius. Ann Maria and David Denison.
(VII) Charles Anderson, eleventh and youngest child of Anderson and Sarah (Stevens) Dana, was born in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, August 8, 1819.
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He lived in the home of his parents, and attended school until he was old enough to perform the duties of a clerk, and then went to Buffalo, New York, and worked in a store until he was eighteen years of age, by which time he had fitted himself for col- lege. He entered Harvard in 1839. but serious trouble with his sight temporarily disabled him, and prevented his finishing the university course. After two years in college he became enamored of the communistic ideas which were being carried into effect at "Brook Farm," and, probably with the no- tion that open air living such as he would get under the regulations of that institution was the best thing for his health, he joined in the experiment with a number of educated and cultivated associates, among whom were Theodore Parker, William Henry Channing, George William Curtis, Nathaniel Hawthorne. George Ripley, and Margaret Fuller. The Brook Farm Association of Education and Agriculture was an expression of transcendentalismn and the Fourier communistic movement in Europe. The experiment was in many of its phases a pro- test against the Calvinism which had long domin- ated New England thought and action. The asso- ciation had a farm of two hundred acres at West Roxbury. Massachusetts, where those who lived upon it plowed. hoed, and made hay, and tried to make hutter. The community became quite Fou- rierite by 1843, and a year later very much Sweden- borgian. Mr. Dana was the only person connected with the enterprise who had the practical business nature to attack the complicated economic questions brought to his notice, and when a fire in 1846 burned part of the buildings the undertaking was at an end.
Mr. Dana's first newspaner training was obtained about this time in connection with a social journal called the Harbinger. After about two years of editorial work on Elizur Wright's Boston Cleron- type, Mr. Dana joined the staff of the New York Tribune, in 1847. . The next year he spent eight months in Europe, and after his return he hecame one of the proprietors and the managing editor of the Tribune, a part which he held until April 1. 1862. The extraordinary influence and circulation attained by that newspaper during the decade pre- ceding the war of the rebellion was partly due to the development of Mr. Dana's genius for journal- ism. This remark applies not only to the making of the Tribune as a newspaper but also to the man- agment of its staff of writers, and to the steadiness of its policy as the leading organ of anti-slavery sentiment. The great struggle of the Tribune un- der Greeley and Dana was not so much for the over- throw of slavery where it already existed, as against the further spread of the institution over unoccupied territory and the acquisition of slave holding com- tries outside of the Union. It was not less firm in its resistance of the designs of the slave holding interest than wise in its attitude toward the extreme- ists and implacables of the north. In the Tribune opposition to the attempt to break down the Mis- souri Compromise and to carry slavery into Kansas and Nebraska, and in the development and organ- ization of that popular sentiment which gave birth to the Republican party and led to the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Mr. Dana bore no unim- portant part. Mr. Greeley was hopeless of the polit- ical situation of 1854. but did not attempt to re- strain his associates in their opposition to the slave- holding power. Mr. Dana and others opened and continued a powerful opposition in the columns of
the Tribune, and did very much to rally and re- assure the friends of freedom, and to nerve thent for the fight. In 1861 Mr. Dana went to Albany and used his influence for the nomination of Horace Greeley for United States senator. in the contest between Greeley, Evarts and Harris. Mr. Dana was almost successful in his efforts, but the Evarts men supported Mr. Harris at the last moment, and he received the nomination. A divergence of opinions regarding the proper military operations. in the first year of the war, caused a disagreement between Mr. Greeley and Mr. Dana which resulted in the resigna- tion of the latter after fifteen years service on the Tribune. He was at once offered by Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war. a position of importance in that department, which he accepted. In - 1863 he was appointed assistant secretary of war, an office which he held until hostilities terminated. In the war department the powers given to Mr. Dana and the confidence placed in him, enabled him to be of the greatest service to the Union cause, and to exercise an appreciable influence upon the progress of the war. He possessed the rare and valuable faculty of judging men, his discernment being un- erring in regard to the appointment of officers to high positions and their assignment to grave and important duties. He was a firm friend to General Grant at a time when Grant's character and probable usefulness were unknown quantities, and when most powerful influences were at work to do him injury. Mr. Dana's duties obliged him to make frequent rapid journeys to different parts of the country for the purpose of observing and reporting to Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Stanton the condition of affairs. During the campaigns of northern Mississippi and Vicksburg and at Chattanooga he was in the saddle at the front most of the time.
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