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This name is generally spelled Doue on DOW all original records in Massachusetts, Where u and v were usually exchangeable. The Dows of early New England or at least a large part of them are descendants of an early set- tler of Watertown, Massachusetts, and Hampton, New Hampshire.
(1) The first of whom record is now found, was John Dow, who resided at Tylner in the county of Norfolk, England. His death occurred during the month of July, 1561, as indicated by his will, which was executed on the seventh and proved on the twenty-third of that month.
(II) Thomas, son of John 'Dow. resided at Run- ham in the county of Norfolk with his wife Mar- garet. They had sons Henry and Christopher, and two daughters whose christian names are not pre- served.
(III) Henry, elder son of Thomas Dow, re- sided in Runham and had a wife Elizabeth. He died about the end of the year 1612 or the begin- ning of 1613. Ilis children included Thomas, Henry, Edward, Mary, Frances and William.
(IV) Henry (2). second son of Henry (1) and Elizabeth Dow, was born about 1608, in Run- ham, and was there married February 11, 1631, to Joanne, widow of Roger Nudd, who was then
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lately deceased. Having decided to emigrate to New England, he applied for permission, and was duly licensed April II, 1637. His examination showed that his age was then twenty-nine years, and that his wife was thirty years of age, and that their four children and a servant (Anne Man- ning, seventeen years old), accompanied them, "who are desirous to pass into New England to inhabit." He first settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where his wife died and was buried June 20, 1640. He was married (second), in 1641, to Margaret Cole, of Dedham, Massachusetts. About the close of 1643, or the beginning of 1644, he removed to Hampton, in what is now New Hampshire, where he had previously purchased a house and several parcels of land for a farm. This estate remained in the hands of his descendants until 1854. He was selectman of Hampton in 1651, was deputy to the general court of Massachusetts in 1655-56, and in 1658 was placed on a committee to examine all grants of higliways. This work was still unfin- ished when he died April 21, 1659. His widow mar- ried (second), October 23, 1661, Richard Kimball, of Ipswich, Massachusetts. The children of Henry Dow were: Thomas (died young), Henry, Simon, Joseph, Daniel. Mary, Hannah, Thomas and Jere- miah. besides the third, who died in infancy, un- named). (Joseph and descendants are mentioned in this article.)
(V) Simon, third son and child of Henry (2) and Hannah ( Page) Dow, was born March 4, 1667, in Hampton and passed his life in that town, where he engaged in agriculture. He was mar- ried (first) November 5, 1685, to Sarah, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Eastow) Marsten, and granddaughter of Captain William Marsten, the patriarch of that family. (Sce Marsten.) She was born November 20,' 1665. and died Alarch 8. 1698. He was married (second) May 29, 1700, to Me- hitabel, daughter of Isaac and Mary (Cass) Green and granddaughter of Henry Green of Hampton. (See Green.) She survived him and married (sec- ond) Onesiphorus Page. There were four children of the first marriage and four of the second, name- ly : Mary, Hannah, Simon, Sarah, Isaac, Jonathan, Mehitabel and Henry.
(VI) Simon (2), eldest son and third child of Simon (1) and Sarah (Marsten) Dow. was born December 5, 1690, in Hampton and probably re- sided in that town where he died February 20, 1764. He was married January 8, 1713. to Mary Lancaster. Their children were: Sarah, Simon, Richard, Jeremiah, Hannah, Mary and Noah.
(VII) Jeremiah, third son and fourth child of Simon (2) and Mary (Lancaster) Dow, was born December 10, 1723 and resided on what is known as Shaw' Hill in Hampton and was a farmer. He was married, September 25, 1746, to Abiah, daugh- ter of Thomas and Dorcas (Fanning) Brown of Hampton. She was born December 25, 1721, in Hampton. They were the parents of: Jeremiah, Elizabeth Allen, Richard, Betty Allen, Benjamin Brown and Simon.
(VIII) Benjamin B., third son and fifth child of Jeremiah and Abiah (Brown) Dow, was born 1759 and baptized May 13 of that year. He resided in Kensington and was married May 12, 1789, in that town, to Tahitha Blake. Their children were: John, Tabitha, Elizabeth, Sarah, Lydia, Lucy, Abi- gail and Benjamin.
(IX) Benjamin (2), youngest child of Benja- min (1) and Tabitha (Blake) Dow, was born Feb- ruary II, ISI0, in Kensington, New Hampshire, and resided for a time in the town of Epping, sub-
sequent to which he removed to that part of the old town of Gilford which was set off to form Laconia. He is remembered as a man of good education, a school teacher of excellent capacity and considerable experience, and also as an indus- trious farmer. In 1853 his reason was temporarily unseated through intense religious enthusiasm and after being restored to comparative health he found employment as watchman at Meredith Bridge (Laconia). He died in Lakeport in 1879. His wife was Mary A. Everts, daughter of Josiah Everts of Moultonborough, New Hampshire, and by whom he had eleven children, the first and second and tenth and eleventh of whom died in infancy. Those who grew to maturity were as follows: I. George WV., . a steamship engineer on the Pacific and of whom nothing has been heard in many years. 2. Sarah, who became the wife of F. F. French, of Lynn, Massachusetts. and is now a widow living in that city. 3. Helen G., married W. H. Smith and is now dead. 4. John H., a prominent busi- . ness man of Lakeport, New Hampshire. 5. Charles G., who lived and died in Laconia. Georgiana, who married Joseph Ayer and is now dcad. 7. Leander, now living in Concord, New Hampshire.
(X) John Henry Dow, sixth in the order of birth of the children of Benjamin W. and Mary A. (Everts) Dow, was born in the town of Guilford May 3, 1843, and since ten years old has made his own way in life. Soon after his father's mis- fortune he began working and made his way against every obstacle until he reached a position in business life that placed him beyond the necessity of further endeavor. but he is still engaged in active pursuits and today stands among the foremost men of Lake- port. For seven years he was an employee in the carding room of the old Belknap mill in Laconia, and in the second year of the civil war. August 12, 1862, enlisted in Company F. Twelfth New Hampshire Infantry, entering the service as a private, and afterward being appointed corporal and then sergeant. At Cold Harbor he was wound- ed in the leg. but remained in service until the end of the war and was mustered out in Concord in July, 1865.
Soon after his return home Mr. Dow went to Lynn. Massachusetts, worked there at shoemaking. and later at the same occupation in Hartford, Con- necticut. About 1870 he returned to New Hamp- shire and worked a few months in a mill, and then for the next six or more years carried on a gen- eral grocery and meat business in Lakeport. For the last twenty-five years he has been proprietor of an extensive coal, wood and ice business at that place, and has also been agent for Standard Oil Company for past fifteen years. At one time he took considerable interest in general and local pol- itics, but the extent of his political holdings has been the office of roadmaster, which he filled three years. On February 20, 1871, Mr. Dow married Alice L. Sanborn, daughter of Levi Sanborn of New Hampton, New Hampshire, by whom he has one son, Charles H. Dow.
(XI) Charles Henry, son and only child of John H. and Alice L. (Sanborn) Dow, was born in Lake Village, New Hampshire, November 4. 1872, and received his education in common schools and New Hampton Academy. After leaving school he be- gan work with his father and later served four years as deputy sheriff of Belknap county. He also gave considerable time to the study of law, but did not apply for admission to the bar. He then returned to Lakeport, and became permanently as- sociated in business with his father, under the firm
ISRAEL DOW.
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name of John H. Dow & Son, a relation which is still maintained. On March 4, 1903, Mr. Dow mar- ried Lillian Page, daughter of Ezra Page of La- conia, and has two sons, Sheldon Page Dow, born February 8, 1906. John Henry, born April 9, 1907. (V) Joseph, third son and child of Henry and Joanne Dow, was born, March 20, 1639, in Water- town, Massachusetts, and resided in Hampton, where he was a sergeant of militia. His home was close to the Salisbury line in what is now Seabrook, and there he died, April 4, 1703. He was married December 17, 1662, to Mary Sanborn. Their chil- dren were: Joseph, John, Mary, James, Hannah, Henry, Jeremiah, Josiah, Thomas, Charity, Samuel and Aaron.
(VI) Samuel, eighth son and eleventh child of Joseph and Mary (Sanborn) Dow, was born June 4. 1687, in Hampton and resided in Salisbury. He was married February 17, 1711, to Sarah Shepard, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Page) Shepard. She was born August 11, 1689, in Haverhill.
(VII) Samuel (2), son of Samuel (1) and Sarah (Shepard) Dow, was born about 1716. in Salisbury and resided in that town. His wife's name was Mercy, but her family name is not on record.
(VIII) Elijah, son of Samuel (2) and Mercy Dow, was born in Salisbury, February 22, 1746, and probably passed his life in that town. The Chris- tian nanie of his wife was Hannah.
(IX) Jacob, son of Elijah and Hannah Dow, was born November 18, 1780, in Salisbury, Massachu- setts, and removed thence to New Hampshire about 1816. He died February 20. 1864. He resided in the towns of Raymond and Deerfield and had chil- dren in cach of those towns. He was a millwright and carpenter and a thorough mechanic.
(X) Israel, son of Jacob and Judith Bartlett Dow, was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire, January 18, 1815, and died while on a visit to his daughter at Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1898. He resided with his parents until he attained his majority and obtained his education in the schools of Deer- field and Raymond. His inclination was to a me- chanical line and by the time he was twenty-one years of age he was skillful in this direction. At the time the project of building the mills of Manches- tet was being agitated, Mr. Dow seeing an opening, went to Manchester in 1838, and obtained employ- ment at once, working at his trade. He was active- ly engaged in building the first mills crected there, working especially in that department relating to the construction of the wheels and lockgates of the canal. He first worked on the Stark corporation. but for the most part was employed on the Amos- keag, although during his long residence there he served as master mechanic of the Manchester print works for two years, and for a little over a year worked on different mill jobs in Lowell and Law- rence, Massachusetts. It was at this latter place, when the mills were first being constructed, that he was employed to hang the shafting, and it is said that his hands put up the first line of shafting which was ever turned by water power in the city of Lawrence. During the war, when the Langdon corporation was extending its plant by building over the old Blodgett paper mill and changing it to a cotton mill, it was Mr. Dow who superintended the work. While on the Amoskeag corporation, in 1855, he superintended the laying of the water pipes to the Amoskeag reservoir at the head of Brook street from the river and from the reser- voir to and through the mill yards to supply the plant with water. He resigned his position on the Amoskeag on his seventieth birthday. During his
long and busy life Mr. Dow was called upon to represent his fellow citizens in the legislature bodies of the state, and he served in that capacity in 1857 and 1858 from ward seven, then known as "Squog," and as senator from the Amoskeag dis- trict in 1883.
Mr. Dow was a man whose attention was given to his daily employment. His natural love for the kind of work he engaged in made labor a pleasure and the construction of mills and machinery a de- light to him. constituted as he was, full of natural ability and ambition, he rapidly rose in the esti- mation of his employers and was soon placed in the highest position they had at their disposal in his line of employment, and they never had occa- sion to regret it. In political affairs he was equally careful and diligent in the discharge of his duties, but political life, though he appreciated the honor of it, never gave him the satisfaction which he found in industrial employment. Mr. Dow was connected with the Manchester fire department in the ten years from 1860 to 1870, and for two years was chief the department. He was also a member of the Amoskeag Veterans, and at one time captain of that organization. He was fond of company and took pleasure in fraternal association. He was a mem- ber of Lafayette Lodge, Free and Accepted Ma- sons, No. 41; Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. II; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Masters, and Trinity Commandery, Knights Temp- lar, of Manchester.
July 1, 1846, Israel Dow and Lavinia Hobbs, who was born July 22, 1822, at Sandford, Maine, daughter of Thomas Hobbs, were united in mar- riage at the bride's home in Great Falls. Upon returning to Manchester they started housekeeping in what was then known as Overseers' block, on Mechanic street, where they resided about a year. Mr. Dow then built a house on the west side, and it was there their children were born. July 1, 1896, Mr. and Mrs. Dow celebrated their golden wedding at their home on the North River Road. Their house and grounds were handsomely dec- orated for the occasion, and a throng of friends called to congratulate them on their attainment of fifty years of wedded felicity, and to bring them fitting tokens of their esteem. Mr. Dow survived this date two years, and Mrs. Dow died the same year. They were the parents of four children : Anzonette, died young : Julietta, died young : Perry H., Edna M., now Mrs. John Morse, of Brattle- boro. Vermont; and Herbert, died young.
(XI) Perry Hobbs, only son of Israel and La- vinia (Hobbs) Dow, was born in Manchester, July 8, 1854. His education was obtained in the com- mon schools, and in 1871 he graduated from the Manchester high school. He went directly from the high school into the engineering and draughting department of the Amoskeag corporation, then su- perintended by Edwin II. Hobbs, and in these de- partments he has ever since remained, and is now (1906) in the thirty-fifth ycar of his service. Upon the death of Mr. Hobbs, in 1890, he succeeded to the position of civil engineer of the corporation. In the time he has been connected with the Amos- keag corporation most of its large mills have been built or rebuilt.
Mr. Dow, though busy with the many projects of his employer, has been somewhat active in local and state politics. He served as ward clerk four years, was on the Manchester school board four years, and in 1889 represented ward one of his native city in the New Hampshire house of repre- sentatives. In 1891 he was elected to the state senate, and served on the committees of the judic-
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iary, banks, manufacturing, of which he was chair- man, and of towns and parishes. He is active in furthering the city's material interests, and has served on many committees for that purpose. He was one of the organizers and for some years a director and treasurer of the Derryfield Sash and Blind Company, one of the largest of the kind in the state; and was vice-president and a director of the Manchester Building & Loan Association up to January, 1907. He is the owner of a farm of two hundred acres, formerly part of the old Blodgett farm, situated three miles north of Manchester on the west bank of the Merrimack, on which are lo- cated the golf grounds of the Intervale Country Club. His professional ability and standing, his high in- tegrity and social nature have made him a favorite in various circles of the leading citizens of Manches- ter.
He is a member of the Free Masons, and holds membership in the following organizations of that order: Washington Lodge, No. 61; Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. II; Adoniram Council, No. 3. Royal and Select Masters; Trinity Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Manchester, and Aleppo Temple, of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He joined the Derryfield Club in his twenty-first year, and was the first member elected following its for- mal organization. He was elected president of this club in 1891 and has now served sixteen years. In addition to the clubs mentioned of which he is a member are the Intervale Country Club, and the Cygnet Boat Club, of which latter he is commodore. He married, July 25, 1877. in Manchester, Susan C. Cook, who was born Sept. 10, 1855, daughter of Captain Harvey and Susan Cook, of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Three children have been born of this union: Bertha, who died at six and a son who died in infancy, and Clinton I., born April 12, 1886, a graduate of St. Luke's school, Wayne. Penn- sylvania, and also a student of Dartmouth Col- lege one year, class of 'o8, and now his father's as- sistant.
(Second Family.)
This line is, no doubt, connected with DOW the one previously given, descending from John Dow of Tylner, England.
(I) Thomas Dow, who was probably a brother of Henry (2) Dow, was an early settler of New- bury. Massachusetts, and removed thence to Haver- hill, where he died May 31, 1654, at the age of about thirty-nine years. His will was made two days before his death and was proved April 8, 1656. He left a widow, Phoebe, and children John, Thomas. Stephen, Mary and Martha. The widow was married November 20, 1661, in Haverhill to John Eaton of Haverhill.
(II) Stephen, third son and child of Thomas and Phœbe Dow, was born March 29, 1642, in New- bury and subscribed to the freeman's oath in Haver- hill in 1668. He died in that town July 3, 1717. His will was made on the first day of that month and was proved on the seventeenth. He was mar- ried (first) September 16. 1663, in Haverhill to Anne Storie of Salem (probably Anne Stacy), and she died February A, 1715. He was married (second). February 7, 1716, to Joanna Hutchins. She survived him more than seventeen years, and died October 29, 1734. His children, all born of the first wife, were: Ruhamah, Samuel, Hannah, Stephen, Martha. and John.
(III) Stephen (2), second son and fourth child of Stephen (1) and Anne (Storie) Dow, was born September 10, 1670, in Haverhill, and was still
living in that town in 1717. He was married, De- cember 14, 1697, to Mary Hutchins.
(IV) Richard, son of Stephen and Mary (Hutchins) Dow, was born February 15, 1706, in Haverhill. and was there married, February 28, 1728, to Phobe Heath. She was born June 25, 1705, in Haverhill, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Bradley) Heath. It is probable that Richard lived in that part of Haverhill which was cut off in 1741 from Massachusetts, and became a part of New Hampshire. The records of Salem, New Hampshire show the births of the following chil- dren of Richard and Phœbe (Heath) Dow; Ren- ben, Oliver, Richard and Asa.
(V) Oliver, second son and child of Richard and Phœbe ( Ileath) Dow, was born July 28, 1736, probably in Haverhill, and resided in Salem. New Hampshire. His wife's name was Hannah, but the vital records of New Hampshire fail to show her family name. They give the names of four children, namely : Phoebe, Hannah, Ellice and Simeon, the last named born in Hopkinton, which would indicate that Oliver Dow removed from Salem .to Hopkinton before 1774.
(VI) Ellice (or Alice), third daughter and child of Oliver and Hannah Dow, was born September I, 1768, in Salem and was married, March 24, 1791. to Benjamin Leach of Londonderry. (See Leach.) Nothing can be found in the vital records of New Hampshire to show the parentage of Benjamin Leach.
Herman A. Dow, of Warner, is one of DOW the most extensive farmers and cattle dealers in the Granite State, and followed in the footsteps of his father, who in addition to large business interests in other directions owned and cultivated an extensive agricultural estate. Un- der the stimulating influence of modern conditions his progressive ideas, inherent energy and indo- mitable tenacity of purpose are brought into full play, and it is to such enlightened farmers as Mr. Dow that the state of New Hampshire may look for the preservation and still further advancement of her agricultural supremacy.
(I) Amos Dow came to New Hampshire from Amesbury. Massachusetts, settling in the vicinity of Davisville, and was an industrious tiller of the soil. His wife was before marriage Mary Brown. (II) Samuel Harris, son of Amos and Mary (Brown) Dow. was born in Hopkinton, June 10, ISIS. From the time of his majority he was led onward by a spirit of enterprise into various im- portant business undertakings, which included farm- ing. contracting, lumbering and the prepartation of fire-wood for railroads, when that fuel was used exclusively on locomotives. For a period of many years he supplied the Northern Railroad with from three thousand to five thousand cords of wood an- nually, and his lumbering operations were equally extensive. As a contractor his reputation for re- liability was of a high standard, and he erected several of the finest buildings in the city of Con- cord. His farm in Warner, containing one thou- sand acres of arable land, was conducted upon the same sound business basis as that which character- ized his other enterprises, and was therefore the source of more than ordinary profit. As a business man he ranked among the foremost of his day, and his ability was of the kind which enriched the community as well as himself. Politically he acted with the Republican party. Samuel H. Dow was three times married. First to Harriet Currier, daughter of Daniel and Clara (Felton) Currier.
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Second to his first wife's sister, Matilda Currier ; and on July 29, 1857, he married for his third wife Emily Rand, who was born May 17, 1838, daughter of Smith and Marion (Goodhue) Rand of Hopkin- ton, this state. The children of his first union are Frances C., born November 13, 1847, and married Oscar L. Rand, of Canaan, now living retired. They have had three children: Oscar S., born in Bristol. December 3, 1873, died February 2, 1902; Herman S., born in Canaan, October 15, 1879, died there April 1, 1881; Blanche E., born in Canaan, March 22, 1866. Harvey S., born August 16. 1849, married Bertha E., daughter of Eleazer and Emiline Barney, died October 8, 1890. Chil- dren, four: Edith Mariam, born January 29, 1878; Pearl Emmeline, born January 29, 1880; Florence Bertha, born April 28. 1883; Archie Samuel, born December 2, 1885, died in infancy. Those of the third marriage are: Herman A., who will be again referred to: and Emily G., who was born January 13, 1861. She married Fred H. Savory. (q. v.) (III) Herman Adelbert Dow, was born in Warner September 8, 1858. He was educated in the public schools including the Warner High School, and acquired a knowledge of farming and lumbering under the direction of his father. He has advanced along the same progressive lines fol- lowed by his able predecessor, and has proved himself a worthy successor. He owns and culti- vates a farm of two thousand acres devoted to general farming and stock raising; keeps on hand an average of one hundred and fifteen head of cattle; and is widely and favorably known as an extensive breeder of live stock. His buildings. which are the largest as well as the best in that section, are kept in excellent repair, and the march of improvement is visible on every hand. Six ex- perienced assistants are regularly employed upon the estate, which, to the passing observer presents an air of prosperity, plainly denoting the sub- stantial character of its owner. In politics he is a Republican, but has never indulged in official as- pirations, believing that he can most effectively serve the community by keeping the wheels of business constantly in motion.
Mr. Dow married Miss Stella G. Wright, daugh- ter of Henry P. and Sarah A. (Holmes) Wright of Bradford. Mr. and Mrs. Dow have two children- Samuel Harris, born December 13, 1890: and Har- old Wright, born September 27. 1897. Mrs. Dow is deeply attached to her home and children, and prac- tically her only interests are those centered in her pleasant family circle.
This line is descended from the GILCHRIST ancient Scottish clan Killcreast. They lived in Ayr (Ayrshire) the next county north of Glasgow prior to the conquest of Scotland by William the Conqueror in 1071. At the time of the Reformation they became Pres- byterians under John Knox. In about 1602 many of this family with other Scots were induced by James I of England to settle in the North of Ire- land. Here they lived for more than a century. (I) In about 1725 Robert Gilchrist and his brother William emigrated to America. Robert went directly to the Scotch-Irish settlement in Londonderry, New Hampshire and William remain- ed at Andover, Massachusetts, till 1740. Then he went to Chester, New Hampshire, where Robert had moved and settled on twenty acres of cleared land he had bought in 1732. Robert married Agnes, daughter of William Kelso, of Londonderry, who was the son of William Kelso, of Hampton. New Hampshire. Robert died in 1746. His will was
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