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(VII) William Hooper, eighth son and eleventh child of Moses and Betsey ( Philbrick) Dearborn, was born May 8, 1847, in South Weare. After the usual period of youthful study in the district schools he became a student of Tilton and Francestown academies, and subsequently entered Tufts College, from which he graduated in 1873 with the degree of B. D. In 1904 his Alma Mater conferred upon him the degree of S. T. D. His first pastorate was with the Universalist Church at Jamaica, where he continued two years, and was subsequently sta- tioned for the same period at Augusta, Maine. For the succeeding period of sixteen years he was pas- tor at Hartford, Connecticut, and from there went to Medford, Massachusetts, where he continued five years. His last pastorate was in New York City. He is retired from the active labors of the ministry. He was married, in 1877, to Sarah H. Cushing, of Augusta, Maine, daughter of John Cushing. Her father was treasurer of the Maine Central railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Dearhorn had two children, Elsie N. and Harold, both of whom are now deceased.
(III) Cornet Jonathan, youngest child of Deacon Thomas and Hannah ( Colcord) Dearborn, was born at "Drake Side," in Hampton, November 18, 1686, and dicd September 10. 1771, aged eighty-five. He lived on his father's homestead. He married (first) Mary, who died April 1. 1744. aged fifty-eight years: (second), April 24, 1746, Sarah Waite, of Amesbury. Massachusetts, who died October 22. 1762. aged seventy-three years. His children. all by the first wife, were: Jonathan, Elizabeth, Nathaniel, Daniel. Shubael, Abraham and Mary.
(IV) Shubael, fifth child and fourth son of Cor- net Jonathan and Mary Dearborn, was baptized January 30, 1719. He was a farmer and shoemaker, and lived in Hampton until about 1770. when he re- moved to the north fields of Canterbury. He owned a homestead and also had land on and around Bay street, which he sold in 1793 to Joseph Hancock for three pounds. He was a soldier in King George's war, and went out under Sir William Pepperell, and was one of the three thousand men in the expedi- tion to Louisburg. At the close of the war he brought home with him a French musket which he has obtained at Louisburg and used till the war was over. He married, March 25. 1750, Sarah. daughter of James Fogg, of Hampton. She was born in 1731. Their children, all but the youngest, born in Hamp-
ton, were: Nathaniel. Shubael, John, Elizabeth, Abraham, Jonathan, Mercy, Sarah and Mary.
(V) Shubael (2), second son and child of Shu- bael (I) and Sarah (Fogg) Dearborn, was born in Hampton, July 12, 1753, and died in the north fields, February 19, 1802. aged forty-nine. He and his wife were married in homespun and began housekeeping in the north fields in a house with but one pane of glass. A few years later he built a new house, drawing the material, except the frame, boards, and shingles, from Portsmouth with an ox team. When he was twenty-one years of age the Revolution began. His father, who was too old to go to the war, presented the son with the gun he had brought from Louisburg, and told him to use it for his country and, should he return. to bring it back in good order. The son went through the war and brought back the musket as good as new. Later it went into the service in 1812 in the hands of Benjamin Glines, the father of Mrs. Shubael Dearborn. The gun came back and is now in the possession of Shubael Dearborn, of Concord. Shu- bael Dearborn married, in 1779. Ruth Leavitt, of Hampton, who died April 19, 1854. She was the daughter of Jonathan and Ruth Leavitt. They had two children: Jonathan and Shubael (the latter receives mention, with descendants, in this article).
(VI) Jonathan, the elder of the two sons of Shubael and Ruth (Leavitt) Dearborn, was born in Northfield, in 17SI, and died July 16, 1852, aged seventy-one. He was rocked in a sap trough for a cradle. He was a farmer, surveyor and civil en- gineer. and was also surveyor to the town's poor. He married Elizabeth Kenniston, of Northfield, who was born in 1783, and died in 1866, aged eighty- three. They had seven children: David, Ruth. Shubael. Eliza. Cynthia, Emily and Jonathan.
(VII) Captain David, eldest child of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Kenniston) Dearborn, was born in Northfield. April 14, 1804, and died November 3. 1880, aged eighty-five. He was a blacksmith, and resided on the paternal acres, where he erected a new house near the old one. For some years he was captain of the militia company in Northfield. He and his wife went west and lived with their son for some years, and then returned to the home- stead where they died. She was Nancy ( Clay) Dearborn, of Wilmot, who was born at Wilmot, ISo7, and died November 23, 1892. aged eighty-five years. She was the daughter of Jonathan Clay. Two children were born of this marriage: Da- rius S. and Oliver Dearborn.
(VIII) Dr. Darius Stearns Dearborn, the elder of the two sons of Captain David and Nancy ( Clay ) Dearborn, was born in Northfield, January 4. 1834. He attended the common schools from which he went to Tilton Seminary and Francestown Academy. He taught school in Illinois for some years, and then returned to Northfield, and read medicine in the office of Dr. Luther Knight, of Franklin. Having thus laid the foundation for a medical education. he became a student at Dartmouth, and attended the first course of medical lectures ever delivered there (1857). He attended the New York Medical School in 1859. and then went to Illinois a second time, and after practicing for a time in that state removed to Brookline in 1875, and practiced there for the four years next following. Ile then went back to the west, but later returned to New Hampshire, and set- tled in Milford, where he has been a successful practitioner of medicine for twenty-six years. IIe married. September 8. 1875. Marion Janette Adams. daughter of Joal Adams, of Barry, Massachusetts. She was a member of the Woman's Club. During
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the time of the Civil war she was active in relief work. She died October 19, 1899.
(VI) Shubael (3), son of Shubael (2) and Ruth (Leavitt) Dearborn, was born in 1783. He lived in the house his father built and kept things up in the same prosperous style as his ancestors had done, and was a thriving farmer who gave his large family of children a good education and trained them up to know how to do things and he industrious and worthy men and women. He married (first), Nancy Dearborn, who had one child Mary, who married Stephen Haynes; married (second), Sally Glines, daughter of Benjamin Glines. She died in 1869, aged eighty-six years. Her children were: Char- lotte, who married David Fowler; Statia, Abra Ann, John Smith, who is mentioned below; Har- riet, who married David Clay; Josie, Frank B. and Eliza.
(VII) John Smith, eldest son and fourth child of Shubael (3) and Sally (Glines) Dearborn, was born September 8, 1824. He inherited the fine old home- stead of his grandfather. He died December 2, 1896, in Dover, having given up farming, and removed there a few years before that. In 1900 the farm was sold and passed out of the possession of the Dear- born family, which had owned and occupied it for one hundred and thirty years, four generations. Mr. Dearborn was buried in the Northfield cemetery in which lies the ashes of the three Shubaels who pre- ceded him. He was an industrious and successful farmer; a good citizen in every way; he never sought or held public office. He married, Decem- ber 30, 1850, Hannah Haines, widow of Darius Winslow. She was born May 20, 1824, and married her first husband September 26, 1843. John Smith and Hannah (Haines) Dearborn had two sons : Mark Wilson and Thomas Haines. Mark Wilson was born January 19, 1852, and married Elva Man- son. To them were born two children: Ethel and Henry. Thomas Haines is mentioned below. Mrs. Dearborn is still living, at the age of eighty-three years, healthy and active, and a pleasing conver- sationalist.
(VIII) Thomas Haines, second son of John Smith and Hannah ( Haines) Dearborn, was born in Northfield, August 21, 1860. He was educated at Tilton and at Exeter, besides the good training his parents gave him at home on the farm which four generations of his ancestors had cultivated. and thrived on and made it one of the most productive in that county. He is proud of the success of his ancestors as farmers, and maintains an interest in agriculture and stock raising, but somehow he did not fancy farming as a vocation for himself, so when he was sixteen years old his father consented for him to go to Exeter and enter the employ of his brother-in-law, W. H. C. Follansby, then a lead- ing dry goods merchant in that town. There he worked as a clerk for four years, learning the busi- ness thoroughly from sweeping the sidewalks and washing the windows in the morning, up to judging of the quality and price of goods and what the popular demand was likely to be. That four-years' course of study with Mr. Follansby was better than any commercial school could have afforded; it was all practical from A to Z. He enjoyed the work, and has profited from it in his later years. Being clerk and confidential assistant to Mr. Follansby was all right and satisfactory, but young Dearborn was ambitious to achieve fame and fortune on his own account; this ambition led him, in 1880, when he was not quite twenty-one, to go west and try his luck with those wide-awake New England people who had gone before and were sending back glowing
reports about opportunities in the "Great West." He went to Texas and engaged in stock raising, making a specialty of sheep on a large ranch. Here the granger traits of his ancestors had full play. He enjoyed life on the ranch, and prospered for two or three years, as the price of wool was suffici- ently high to make sheepraising profitable ; but when the election of Grover Cleveland came in sight in 1884, the wool business in the west made a tremend- outs slump; prices ceased to be profitable, and Colonel Dearborn packed his trunk and started for the east. He arrived in Exeter, rich in experience, if not so rich as he expected to be otherwise, when he obeyed Horace Greeley's advice "go West young man, go West." It gave him broader views and a knowledge of human nature which has profited him much in business since 1884. In September of that year he entered into two partnerships with the family of the famous schoolmaster of Exeter, Professor Sperry French. On the 15th of that month he was united in marriage with Mr. French's daughter, Mary Robinson French; shortly after that he en- tered into a business partnership with Mr. French's son, Frank Newell French, and they opened a dry goods store in Dover, under the firm name of Thomas H. Dearborn & Company. Both partnerships have remained in tact, happy and prosperous to the present day; from the former have grown a beauti- ful home and a lovely family of children; from the latter a good degree of wealth and a business reputation of honesty, honor and truth. Colonel Dearborn attended strictly to business without med- dling in political affairs up to 1900; that year he was urged to serve as alderman from ward four, and consented to occupy a chair in that branch of the city councils two years, and was one of its most valuable and level-headed members. When Gover- nor Batchelder was inaugurated in January, 1903, he appointed Mr. Dearborn colonel of his staff. In 1902 he was appointed one of the state Republican committee of Dover, which office he has continued to hold to the present time. When the police com- mission was established for Dover, Colonel Dear- born was appointed one of its number, which office he still holds. These various political positions have brought Colonel Dearborn to the front as one of the leaders of the Republican party. He has not neglected his dry goods business during these later years; not at all; business first, and politics afterward; but he has shown marked ability as a party leader. In society matters he has membership in various orders. He is a member of the First Church; member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution ; Moses Paul Lodge of Masons: Weco- hamet Lodge of Odd Fellows: Wonalancett Tribe of Red Men: thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason; the Mystic Shrine; Lodge No. 184, Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks, of which he is a past exalted ruler. He is also a member of the Bellamy Club, the leading social club in Dover, hav- ing spacious quarters in the Strafford Bank build- ing.
Colonel and Mrs. Dearborn have four children. namely: John Sperry, born January 13, 1887, died June 5. 1896. Ruth French. August 28, 1889. Thomas Arnold. April 13, 1897. Eleanor Follansby, May 12, 1899.
(I) Jonathan Dearborn resided in Danville, New Hampshire, where he married a Miss Hill, of Ches- ter, and reared a family.
(II) James, son of Jonathan Dearborn, was born in Danville.
(III) George W., son of James Dearborn, was born in Danville, February 22, 1840, and died March
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II, 1900, aged sixty years. April 8, 1864, he went to Manchester to live and there spent the remainder of his life. He was employed in the grain store of Horace Watts for three years, then in the hardware store of Deacon Daniels, and finally in the store of John B. Varick & Company. where he re- mained until a short time before his death. He was an honest, straightforward citizen, well known and popular and noted for his amiable disposition and acts of charity. He took an active part in politics and was a member of the city government and served in the legislature in 1887-8. He was a trustee of St. Paul's Church, and Elliott Hospital. He married January 4. 1863, Lydia A. C. Blair (or Bean), daughter of a Methodist minister. She died April 5, 1906. They had one child, George, died February 20, 1905.
DINSMOOR This is among the noted Scotch- Irish families which have contrib- uted many prominent citizens to New Hampshire as well as to other states. It has been one of the most prolific of New England fam- ilies, and many jurists, poets and other professional men have been numbered among the descendants. The first of whom we have any account in family tradition was a landed proprietor of Auchen Mead, in Scotland. His naine has not been preserved, but the accounts of him indicate that he was a man of independent means and aristocratic nature.
(I) John Dinsmoor, a younger son, became of- fended because his father required him to hold the stirrup while an older son mounted his horse. Con- sidering this a great indignity, he ran away from home at the age of seventeen years, and proceeded to county Antrim, Ireland, where he lived to the great age of ninety-nine years, and was noted for his piety and strength of character. He had four sons, the elder of whom, John, emigrated to Amer- ica, the first one of the name to come to this coun- try. He was probably among the company that ar- rived late in 1718. and was scattered along the coast through the succeeding winter. Of his brothers we have no account. He proceeded ultimately, after great hardships and a narrow escape from burning by the Indians, to Londonderry, New Hampshire, where he received a grant of sixty acres of land.
(III) David, a grandson of John (1) Dinsmoor, was born in 1714, and was a tailor by occupation, which he followed in northern Ireland before com- ing to this country. His employer, one Kennedy, died, and David subsequently married the widow. About 1745 they sailed from Londonderry, Ireland, and landed in Boston after a voyage of three months, during which they were put upon short ra- tions. They brought with them a flax and linen wheel, and the wife immediately began the manu- facture of linen thread for sale. They soon moved to Londonderry, and here the husband worked at his trade. On May 8, 1747, he received a deed of lot number twenty-two, fourth division of Chester, which was in Derryfield. Eleven years later he pur- chased the west half of lot number cighty-four, sec- ond part of the second division of Chester, on which he settled. His wife lived to a great age, dying in 1807 at the age of ninety-seven. The children of David and wife were: Samuel, James, David, Thomas, Arthur, Robert and Mary.
(IV) James, second child of David and Eliza- beth Dinsmoor. was born, 1743, probably in Lon- donderry, and resided in what is known as the Eng- lish Range in that town. He married Mary Ander- son, and they were the parents of David, Robert,
James. Samuel, Agnes, John, Mary and William. (V) Robert, second son and child of James and Mary (Anderson) Dinsmoor, was born June 6, 1774, in Londonderry, and settled soon after attaining his majority, in Dunbarton. New Hampshire. He mar- ried Betsy Jameson, and they were the parents of: Alonzo, Daniel Jameson and Mary Jameson.
(VI) Daniel Jameson, son of Robert and Betsey ( Jameson) Dinsmoor, was born in Dunbarton, . March 4, ISII, and died in Laconia, February II, 1889, in the eightieth year of his age. He was a harness maker by trade, and lived in Laconia until the time of his death. He was a Republican, and attended the Unitarian Church. He married Caro- line Stark.
(VII) Daniel Stark. son of Daniel J. and Caro- line (Stark) Dinsmoor, was born in Laconia, Sep- tember 23, 1837; and died in Laconia, March 24, 1883. He received his early education in the village schools, and, Gilford Academy, where he exhibited, among other qualifications, a marked ability in dec- lamation. After completing the course at the acad- emy he went to the New London Literary and Sci- entific Institution, from which he graduated with high honors in 1860. For some time after gradu- ating he read law in the offices of Honorable Wil- liam Blair, George W. Stevens, Esq .. and Honora- ble A. J. Vaughn, and was admitted to the bar in 1864. Upon the organization of the Laconia Na- tional Bank, in 1865, he was chosen as its cashier, and filled this position up to the time of his death. He was frequently selected for political honors, and held many important offices, such as county treas- urer, register of probate, representative to the legis- lature in 1875. and many minor offices. He was a member of Governor Cheney's staff, and in Novem- ber 1882, was elected senator from the Laconia dis- trict. He was prominent in Masonic circles, being a past master of Mount Lebanon Lodge No. 32, and a member of Union Chapter No. 7, R. A. M. He was a man of forceful character, and influential in town affairs, much loved, and respected by the early settlers, and even by the Indians, for his hon- esty and uprightness. He was a descendant of Gen- eral John Stark of revolutionary fame, "The Hero of Bennington,"whose family name he bore. He mar- ried in 1865, Amelia M. Whittemore, of Benning- ton. The record gives their ages as twenty- eight and twenty-five respectively. She was born April 18, 1840, and now resides with her son. Two children were born of this marriage: Amos Jame- son, and Arthur Walker.
(VIII) Amos Jameson, second son of Daniel S. and Amelia M. Dinsmoor was born in Laconia, January 3, 1874. His education was obtained in the Laconia common schools, at the Moody school at Northfield, and at New Hampton Academy. He is an expert bookkeeper, and has kept the books of several large firms of Laconia. In 1902 he became a partner in the firm of Longee, Dinsmore & Parent, the largest dry goods store in Laconia. He follows in the political path his father and grandfather trod, and is a staunch Republican, and takes a lively in- terest in politics. He has been ward clerk three terms, and a member of the city council four years. He married. June 14, 1899, Mabelle Jackman Smith, adopted daughter of John P. Smith, of Laconia. They have two children: Harold J. and Francis J. (I) Captain Thomas Dinsmore, a descendant of John Dinsmore, of Londonderry, perhaps a son of Thomas, who was a son of (III) Davis, was born November 20, 178Q. It is possible that he was a grandson of the John Dinsmore who was killed by
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the Indians at Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 1754. He resided in Montpelier, Vermont, prior to 1814, in which year he came to Jaffrey, this state, and he settled on what is known as the turnpike, his property being designated as lot 4, range 6. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that occu- pation until his death, which occurred August 5, 1839, at the age of fifty years. On July 17, 1810, . he married Polly Moore, who was born in Whate- ly, Massachusetts, December 1, 1793, daughter of John and Belinda (Bardwell) Dinsmore. She sur- vived her husband many years, her death having occurred February 15, 1875, at the age of eighty- one. Their children were: John, Austin, Jane, Mary, Lucy, Martha and Nancy.
(II) John, eldest child of Captain Thomas and Polly Moore (Dinsmore) Dinsmore, was born in Jaffrey, October 6, 18II. For a number of years lie followed the tanner's trade in Hancock, New Hampshire, and in 1852 removed to Petersborough, where he found employment in a cotton factory. In 1875 he removed to Munsonville, New Hamp- shire, and was residing there in 1889. He was mar- ried October II, 1836, to Rowena M. Johnson, of Hancock, who died May I, 1884. She was the mother of eight children: Martha A., who became the wife of George S. Petts. Emily F., who be- came the wife of Allen W. Nay, of Petersborough, and afterwards of Rochester. New York. Ellen M., wife of Charles Wilson of Petersborough. John E., who will be again referred to. Jane E., twin of John E., is the wife of James C. McDuffee, of Hooksett, New Hampshire. Arvilla A. Alvin A. Willis J.
(III) John E., fourth child and eldest son of John and Rowena M. (Johnson) Dinsmore, was born in Hancock, May 3, 1845. Having learned the machinist's trade he followed it in Worcester and Fitchburg, Massachusetts, and in Petersborough, this state. From 1875 to the present time he has resided in Manchester, where he is known as a skilled mechanic. He is a member of the Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics he acts with the Republican party. October 1, 1868, he married Sarah Frances McDuffee, of Hooksett, and has two sons : Clinton E., who is now state inspector of electricity, residing in Nashua, and Dr. Herman H., mentioned below.
(IV) Herman H. Dinsmore, M. D., youngest son of John E. and Sarah F. (McDuffee) Dins- more, was born in Petersborough, November 10, 1873. He attended the public schools of Manches- ter, was for three and one-half years a student at Dartmouth College. but withdrew during his senior year to enter the medical department of the Univer- sity of Vermont, and was graduated in 1897. Hav- ing concluded his professional preparations with a six months course of practical experience and ob- servation in the hospitals of New York City, he first located for practice in Brattleboro, Vermont, and some five years ago removed to Enfield, New Hampshire, where he is now residing. Possessing much natural ability he applies it with excellent re- sults and is rapidly attaining high rank in the med- ical profession. In politics he is a Republican, and although not active in public affairs has rendered his share of service to the town as a member of the board of health. He is a member of Titigaw Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Enfield, and of Golden Rule Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of Man- chester. On September 8, 1896. Dr. Dinsmore was united in marriage with Martha L. Seaver, of Ma- lone, New York, daughter of O. Seaver.
This name is probably a variation
DENSMORE of Dinsmore or Dinsmoor, the more common forms. The Dins- mores of Londonderry, New Hampshire, who came from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1719, are descended from Achenmead near the river Tweed in Scotland. Stratton upon Dunsmoor is not far off in Cumber- land. whence the name originated. Governor Sam- uel Dinsmoor, of Keene, New Hampshire (1766- 1835), and Governor Samuel (2) Dinsmoor, also of Keene (1799-1869), were descended from the Lon- donderry stock.
(I) Joel Densmore was born in 1802-03. He married and became the father of eight children : Harry, George, Azro, John, William, mentioned be- low ; Carrie, Fannie and Alma, who married George Allen. Joel Densmore died in 1885.
(II) William, fifth son of Joel Densmore, was born at Vershire, Vermont. He had a common school education, and for several years was a farmer in Chelsea, Vermont. He afterwards bought a ho- tel in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, where he remained till his death, about the year 1854. Mr. Densmore attended the Free Will Baptist Church, and was a Republican in politics. He married Lydia Ann Da- vis, and they had three children : Milton, Jason, whose sketch follows, and Edson.
(III) Jason, second son and child of William and Lydia Ann (Davis) Densmore, was born in Chelsea, Vermont, October 10, 1843. He was edu- cated in the common schools of Washington, Ver- mont, and at the age of eighteen entered the army for the defense of the Union. He enlisted as a pri- vate and was subsequently promoted to corporal of Company G. Tenth Vermont Volunteers, and was sergeant upon his return. He served three years, and was in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsyl- varia, Antietam, Cold Harbor and Petersburg. Af- ter the close of the war he returned to Washington, Vermont, and went to farming. In 1867 he moved to Hanover, New Hampshire, and during 1870-71 carried on the Hanover town farm. He then came to Lebanon where for thirteen years he ran a truck team. In 1884 he began the manufacture of brick, making a specialty of diamond and round-cornered brick. He attends the Congregational Church, and is a member of Franklin Lodge, No. 6, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Order of the Eastern Star; Mount Support Lodge, No. 15, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and James B. Perry Post, No. 13, Grand Army of the Republic, all of Lebanon. He is a Republican in politics, and was special police of the town for several years. On February 18, 1869, Jason Densmore married Maria E. Dimick, daughter of Alfred B. and Lydia Dimick, of Lyme, New Hampshire. There are two sons: Alfred J., born July 5, 1885, and George A., born November 4, 1886, both of whom are now (1907) students at Brown University. Mrs. Densmore died January 16, 1907, at Lebanon, New Hampshire.
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