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(IV) Jeremiah, or Jeremy, eldest child of Deacon Zachariah and Rachel ( Andrews) Story, was born May 21, 1715, in Chebiacco, Massachusetts, where he passed his life. He was a ship carpenter by occu- pation. He was married (intention published May 20, 1737) to Margaret Harris, and they became the parents of five sons: Jeremiah, Zachariah, Nathan, Thomas and Joseph.
(V) Nathan, third son of Jeremiah and Marga- ret ( Harris) Story, was a farmer. and like his father " a ship carpenter. The following is the record of Nathan Story as it appears in the Revolutionary War Rolls of Massachusetts: Nathan Story, Man- chester. Massachusetts, was a private in Captain Moses Hart's company, Colonel Paul Dudley Ser- geant's regiment ; muster roll dated August 1, 1775; enlisted May 16, 1775; service twenty-six days ; also, Captain John Wiley's company, Colonel Sergeant's ( Twenty-eighth) regiment; company return (prob- ably October, 1775): also, order for bounty coat dlated December 13, 1775: also sergeant, Colonel Henry Jackson's regiment ; Continental pay accounts for service from May 27. 1777, to December 31, 1779: residence, Manchester; credited to the town
of Manchester: also, Ensign Jabez Barney's com- pany, Colonel Jackson's regiment. commanded by ( Lieutenant Colonel) William S. Smith; pay roll for November, 1778; also Lieutenant Colonel David Cobb's (2d) company, Colonel Jackson's regiment ; muster roll for April, 1779, dated Pawtucket; en- gaged May 27, 1777: term three years ; also, Second Company commanded by Lieutenant Thomas Ed- wards, Colonel Jackson's regiment; company re- turn certified at Camp Providence, July 13, 1779: engaged for the town of Ipswich; also Lieutenant Colonel Cobb's company, Colonel Jackson's regi- ment ; pay rolls for July and October, 1779: also Colonel Jackson's regiment ; regimental return made up to December 31. 1779, dated Camp at Providence.
( VI) William, son of Nathan Story, was a farmer and a native of Essex. He moved to Hop- kinton, New Hampshire. and became the ancestor of the Storys of that town. He married Lydia Knowlton, who was born February 20, 1784, daugh- ter of Ezekiel and Elizabeth (Woodbury) Knowl- ton. (See Knowlton VIII).
(VII) James Knowlton, son of William and Ly- dia (Knowlton) Story, was born in Hopkinton, Au- gust 17, 1814, and was educated in the common schools and at Hopkinton Academy. From 1835 to 1862 he was a traveling salesman, and sold cigars and confectionery from his wagon throughout New England. After 1862 he was a farmer in Hopkin- ton. He was a stirring man and well liked, and represented Hopkinton in the general court in 1856-57. He married, in 1835, his second cousin, Sarah Story, who was born in Hopkinton, January 4. 18:5, daughter of Moses and Sarah (Chandler) Story, granddaughter of Thomas, who was brother of Nathan (3) of this sketch. Their children were: David B., George M., Sarah Annetto and James Henry.
(VIII) David Burnham, eldest child of James K. and Sarah ( Story) Story, was born in Hopkinton, January 19, 1836. He obtained his education in the public schools and at Hopkinton Academy. At the age of eighteen ( 1854) he became a butcher and pursued that occupation until 1864, at one time be- ing proprietor of a meat market at Concord. In the latter named year he engaged in hotel keeping. opening the Perkins House in Hopkinton village, which was demolished by fire in the year 1872. He then removed to Lake Village, now Lakeport, and conducted the Mount Belknap House until 1876. From that year until 1879 he conducted the Laconia House at Laconia, and then became proprietor of the Hotel Weirs, continuing until 1889, when he assumed the management of Story's Tavern at The Weirs. In 1882 he was the proprietor of the Elm- wood House, Laconia. He was a performer on dif- ferent instruments. and was widely known as a mar- tial and orchestral musician. Mr. Story is a Dem- ocrat, active in politics and a frequent incumbent of civil office, holding many minor offices in differ- ent towns besides being deputy sheriff of Merri- mack county, 1871-73, deputy sheriff of Belknap county from 1874 to 1877. selectman of Laconia in 1881-82, and sheriff of Belknap county from 1883 to 1886. Mr. Story married, in llopkinton, February 4. 1857, Sarah Jane French, who was born in South Boston, Massachusetts. May 22, 1835, daughter of Benjamin and Eliza (Stevens ) French, and five children were born to them. as follows: James Henry, Ada Stevens, Fred. Williams, Charles Frank- lin and Benjamin French Story. Benjamin French was born in Bow. 1792. a son of Asa French, who was a farmer, and served in the Continental army and the war of 1812. Benjamin French was for
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years a successful school teacher, and in later life a mechanic and farmer. He also participated in the war of 1812.
(IX) Fred. Williams, third child and second son of David B. and Sarah J. (French) Story, was born in Hopkinton, December 9, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Hopkinton, Lake Village and Laconia. At an carly age he displayed great proficiency in music, playing in public at eiglit years of age. In 1872 he was taken by his parents to Lake Village, now Lakeport. He studied the vio- lin at the Boston Conservatory of Music under Jul- ius Eichberg. In 1875 he joined the Belknap Cornet Band, and was a member of that organization until it disbanded. In 1876 David B. Story organized Story's Orchestra, and shortly afterward Fred. W. became its leader and first violinist. This orchestra was composed of some of the best amateur musi- cians in the state. and gained an enviable reputation in the north country for its rendering of light con- cert and dance music. He was chosen president of the Schubert Club of Laconia four consecutive years. The membership of this club included about one hundred of the best singers and instrumental performers in that city. He was also president of the Laconia Dramatic Club.
In the spring of 1880 he removed to The Weirs and was associated with his father in the manage- ment of the Hotel Weirs, built that spring, and con- tinued with him until 1885, when he purchased from him the railroad cafe business which he car- ried on in connection with a grocery store, dispos- ing of both branches of business in 1895. During this time he was also agent for the American Ex- press Company. In 1888 he purchased the station- ery store of W. F. Chase at Laconia, and enlarged the business by adding pianos, music and musical instruments, and carried on an extensive trade throughout the central and northern parts of the state. He disposed of the stationery department of the business in 1807, and retired from the piano business, January 1, 1898. He was appointed one of a committee of three to construct the lines of the Citizens' Telephone Company of Laconia, and was soon afterward made general manager of the concern, holding that position until November I. 1897. Immediately afterward he took a position with the New England Telegraph & Telephone Company, with headquarters at Boston, where he continued until July 1, 1900, when he was made general manager of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tel- ephone Company, with headquarters at Washing- ton, D. C. He held this position until 1902, and then resigned and returned to Boston to accept the position of assistant to the vice-president of the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company. Later he was made vice-president and director in the several subsidiary telephone companies controlled by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Com- pany and operating throughout New England and New York state. He had always affiliated with the Democratic party, and during each of the Cleve- land administrations served as postinaster at The WVeirs. For several years he held the office of trustee of the Laconia Public Library. He is a member of Mt. Lebanon Lodge, No. 32, Free and Accepted Masons : Union Royal Arch Chapter. No. 7: Pilgrim Commandery, Knights Templar, and Mt. Washington Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, all of Laconia: Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Con- cord ; and the Boston Athletic and the New Hamp- shire Club of Boston.
Mr. Story married. December 6, 1887, at Con-
cord, Dolly Frances Wentworth, of Concord, who was born in Concord. September 20, 1859, daughter of Joseph and Sarah . (Jones) Wentworth (see Wentworth).
CASS This family, which comes of old English stock, is one of the oldest in New Hamnp- shire, and among the distinguished scions who have sprung from it was General Lewis Cass, of Michigan. The family has always been noted for those qualities that have gone so far to put New England in the front rank in the Union, that is-industry, economy, prudence, patience, self-re- liance, integrity of the highest character, and a strong regard for religion.
(I) John Cass came to Hampton, New Hamp- shire, in 1644. where he died April 7, 1675. It is probable that two brothers, Joseph and Samuel, came with him. John married, about 1648, Martha, born in 1633, a daughter of Thomas Philbrick, of Hampton. Their children were: Martha, born Oc- tober 7, 1649. 2. Joseph, October 5, 1656. 3. Samuel, July 13, 1659. 4. Jonathan, September 13, 1663. 5. Elizabeth, June 4, 1666. 6. Mercy, August I, 1668. 7. Ebenezer, July 17, 1671. S. Abigail, Janu- ary II, 1674.
(II) Joseph Cass, a son of John Cass, married, January 4, 1677, Mary, born September II, 1657, a daughter of Thomas Hobbs. She died July 3, 1692, after which he married Widow Elizabeth Chase, daughter of Henry Greene. The children of the first wife were: John, born August 11, 1680, died young. Joseph, born 1685, died January 12, 1687. Mary, February 26, 1687. John, August 19, 1689. By the second wife may have been: Elizabeth, Joseph, born about 1695. Jonathan.
(III) Joseph (2) Cass married Phoebe Nason, November 28, 1720, both of Hampton. They had Nason, born January 28, 1725, died 1804. ( Mention of a younger son, Moses, and descendants follows in this article.)
(IV) Nason Cass married Hannah Chandler. Their seventh child and fifth son was Chandler Cass, who was nearly related to Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan.
(V) Chandler Cass, born August 28, 1766, mar- ried Dorothy Dyer. He was chiefly a farmer on the site of the present village of East Andover, New Hampshire. Children: Elizabeth, Benjamin, Mary, Enoch, William, Dolly and Chandler.
(VI) Benjamin Cass, born January 10, 1789, died May 14, 1866; married Sarah True, born Janu- ary 6, 1789, died March 12, 1860. Children: Sarah, born August 9, 1814, died November 8, 1818; Wil- liam, born May 27, 1816, died January 4, 1820; Hannah T., born November 9, 1819, died Novem- ber 26, 1890; Benjamin Franklin, born March 21, IS22; John Wesley, born May 26, 1824, died April 15, 1832: William True, born February 7, 1826. Sarah Hunter, born August 29, 1827. Joseph W., born July 1, 18IS. Martha Elizabeth, born January 31, 1831, died April 3. 1837.
(VII) William True Cass was born February 7, 1826, under the shadow of old Kearsarge Moun- tain, in Andover, New Hampshire, son of Benjamin and Sarah (True) Cass, and died May 26, 1901, in Tilton, New Hampshire. His father was a farmer, first in Andover, later in Plymouth for a few years, and the boy grew to manhood among the scenes of a country life. He attended the country schools and was a student at Holmes Academy, Plymouth, for several years. In 1855 the family moved to a farm in that part of Sanbornton which is now Tilton, then known as Sanbornton Bridge. Here
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the future banker followed the vocation of farmer, like his father and grandfather before him. He worked for his uncle one year and carried on his farm for one hundred and fifty dollars, paying his wife's board out of that sum. He sawed his own wood evenings, and in the winter season, when the land could not be tilled, he worked days in a mill, fulling cloth, and in that way lengthened out his purse. But such was not long to be his work, for in January, 1856, he was chosen cashier of the Citizens' Bank of Sanbornton, and commenced his new duties one afternoon, having spent the morning at his labors in the inill. The bank was then but a small affair, and had been in existence only a short time. It occupied one room in the brick dwelling which has been Mr. Cass's residence ever since he took possession of the bank and house to- gether that January day. Althoughi not familiar with banking, he studied the books of the institution until he had mastered them, and knew just how to keep them, and even till his last days he proved a good accountant and well versed in the best methods. The business of the bank rapidly in- creased, and in 1865 it was made a national bank, with increased capital. Mr. Cass continued cashier until 1889, when he resigned to accept the position of president, which he retained until his death. Hc was one of the directors of the bank almost from the beginning of his connection with it. In 1870 - the Iona Savings Bank was established, largely through the efforts of Mr. Cass, and he was made treasurer, in which office he continued the remainder of his life. He saw the institution grow from a new bank with no deposits to nearly half a million at the time of his death. At the latter date he was the second oldest bank official in the state in point of years of service, having been continuously in the work for more than forty-five years. His long experience in this connection gave him a wide knowledge of affairs in general, and caused his advice to be sought for upon many matters outside of banking interests. He was for eighteen years treasurer of the New Hampshire Conference Semin- ary, and had been trustee of that institution for forty years. He was also one of the board of three trustees in charge of Park cemetery. He was for two years treasurer of the town, served for several years as moderator at the annual town meeting, and had been supervisor of the checklist, but he never sought political honors, and refused them whenever possible. A man of quiet domestic tastes, he pre- ferred the comforts of home to the excitement of political life, and the pleasures of the outside world never appealed to him to any great extent.
Mr. Cass became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church when only fourteen years of age. He had been connected with the Methodist Episcopal Church of Tilton during the entire period of his life here, had been a class leader for forty years, a member of the quarterly conference, and presi- dent of the board of trustees for many years. He was almost all his life a teacher in the Sunday-school, and was at one time superintendent. He was always actively interested in all that pertained to the church, gave liberally to all its benevolences, and never failed to be in his place at all the services unless prevented by sickness. He was a very intelligent Christian man. He loved the doctrines and polity of Methodism, and delighted in strong, earnest, evangelical preaching. He was always a generous supporter of the benevolent enterprises of the church. His knowledge of the Bible gave him an aptness in prayer and speech that was very marked. He held and practiced old-fashioned views of family
piety, constantly maintained his family altar and exercised a generous christian hospitality. He com- manded public confidence by his honest upright dealings, so that his fellow citizens trusted him without reserve. He finally allied himself with every moral reform that promised the wellbeing of men, and did not hesitate to speak out boldly in their behalf. In politics Mr. Cass was a Democrat until the Civil war. He then became a Republican, and although loyal to party, he was not slow to see any defects or weaknesses in party lines, and was always ready to help correct the same. His state and his country were always uppermost in his mind, and he was careful to obey his convictions of duty. There- fore, it was bis custom to go to the party primaries as a proper place to correct errors or advocate re- forms. Mr. Cass married, September 18, 1851, Mary Emery Locke, who still survives him. She was born at East Concord, New Hampshire, September 19, 1830. Their children were: 1. Alfred Locke, born October 28, 1860, died September 1, 1862. 2. Mary Addie, born March 5, 1863, married Abel Wesley Reynolds, October 29, 1889; children: Margaret, born September 23, 1890, died November 8, 1896; Alice, born December 30, 1893; Kennethi Cass, born May 28, 1897; Chester Abel, born February 6, 1900; Arthur Wesley, born April 27, 1902, died October 31, 1902. 3. Arthur T., born April 9, 1865, see forward. 4. William Daniel, born January 27, 1872, died May 7, 1879. Mr. Cass died May 26, 1901. His death came suddenly, after an illness of less than a week, of pneumonia.
( VIII) Arthur True Cass, son of William Trile and Mary Emery (Locke) Cass, was born April 9, 1865. He was educated in the graded schools of Tilton, and at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary in that town, from which he graduated with a thorough college preparatory training at the age of eighteen years. He then became assistant cashier of the Citizens' National Bank at Tilton, upon whose books he had worked more or less in making entries for several years previous. April I, 1889, he was made cashier of the bank, which position he has since held, serving also for several years as director. He is president of the Citizens' Ice Company, of Tilton, and from 1885 to 1893 con- ducted an extensive fire insurance business, which the increasing pressure of his banking duties com- pelled him to relinquish. He had been active in politics and public affairs, having served as auditor two years; town treasurer two years, and moderator continuously from 1896 to 1902, six years. He was chairman of the Republican town convention, and is now on the executive committee and has been president of the Republican Club of the town. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature in 1901, and served as a member of committee on banks. He took an active part in the debates of the house, and acquitted himself with honor.
He has been a member of the board of education five years; trustee of the Public Library eighteen years. He has been a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for thirty years, and has been the organist at the church since ISS3. He is a trustee of the church for six years past, and has been a mem- ber of the official board since he was eighteen years old, and a trustee of the New Hampshire Conference Seminary. He is a member of Doric Lodge, No. 78, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Tilton, of which he has filled the chairs, and is a mem- ber of Meridian Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Franklin. Pythagorian Council of Laconia, Mount Horeb Commandery, and Bektash Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Concord.
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He is a member of the New Hampshire Historical Society. Mr. Cass is a shrewd politician, a lead- ing citizen, an earnest Methodist, a successful and well known financier, an accomplished gentleman, and socially prominent. He has travelled exten- sively in this country and Europe.
He married, May 16, 1894, Mary Wallace Pack- ard, born September 10, 1869, at South Boston, Massachusetts, daughter of Liberty Dodge and Lucy A. (Kingman) Packard. She is a graduate of La- sell seminary, Auburndale, class of 1889, and also of Emerson College of Oratory, Boston. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; of the Woman's Club of Tilton, and Liberty Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, of Tilton, of which she is vice-regent. Their children are: Kingman Packard, born April 1, 1898; William True, May 27, 1899; Esther Elizabeth, April 10, 1903.
(IV) Moses, undoubtedly a son of Joseph (2) and Phebe (Nason) Cass, was born March 16, 1729, probably in Hampton, and settled in Sanbornton, New Hampshire, on February 8, 1792, removing thither from Epping. He died in Sanbornton, May 9. 1817, aged eighty-eight years, and nearly two months. He married ( first) Molly French, who was the mother of his first child; and ( second) Hannah Cilley, who was the mother of seven. His third wife was Mrs. Sarah (Ring) Berry. He had six- teen children in all, some of whom died in infancy. The names preserved are: Levi, Jonathan, Samuel (died young), Moses, Molly, Tabitha, Sally, Simeon, Jacob, Miriam, Betsey, David and Samuel.
(V) Levi, eldest son of Moses and Molly (French) Cass, was born in Epping, and died in Epsom, at the age of seventy years or more. By occupation he was a farmer. He was married, No- vember 30, 1775, to Mary Sherburne, of North- wood, and they had children including Sally, Eliza- beth, Rachel, Levi and Samuel.
(VI) Samuel, son of Levi and Mary (Sher- burne) Cass, was born August 17, 1786, in Epsom, and died there October 31, 1863, aged seventy- seven. He was a farmer. He was married, March 6, 1806, to Mary Chesley, born in Epsom, who died there November 19, 1866. Their children were : Sally, Elvira, Mary, Hannah, Susan, Moses, Levi, and Samuel S., whose sketch follows.
(VII) Samuel Sherburn, youngest of the nine children of Samuel and Mary (Chesley) Cass, was born in Epsom, August 25, 1828. He attended the common schools of his early youth for short periods as he was able. Later he became apprentice to a shoemaker, and three months later started in the trade on his own account, receiving the prepared material from firms in Massachusetts towns, and making up the shoes at his home. He was engaged in this work for twenty-five years. He then bought a farm of fifty acres in Allenstown, to which he subsequently added thirty-five acres, which he car- ried on until 1898, when he took up his residence with his son Walter, in Suncook. He is a member of the Christian Church, and of McLeary Grange, No. 102. His political affiliations are with the Democratic party, gold standard. He married, in Pembroke, November 19, 1855, Lavinia Jellison Fife, who was born in Chichester, June 29. 1829 (see Fife), and died January 5, 1893. She was the daugh- ter of Stephen and Mary ( Fife) Fife, of Pembroke. They had two children: Walter S. and Anna H. The latter was born in Epsom, August 12, 1859, and died in Allenstown, 1883.
(VIII) Walter Sherburn, only son of Samuel S. and Lavinia J. (Fife) Cass, was born in Epsom,
August 15, 1857. He remained at home and at- tended school and worked on his father's farm until he was eighteen years of age, and then began life for himself. After working on farms for seven years he was a clerk in a grocery store in Suncook four years. He then started in business for himself and dealt in milk for twelve years. The succeed- ing four years he was foreman in the gristmill of Fowler Brothers. In October, 1903, he engaged in the hardware business, which he has since conducted. He has a strong hold on the public confidence, and has held office for many years; member of board of selectmen, 1895-96-97; tax collector for the years 1891-92-93-94 and 1905-06, being now (1906) still in office. He is a member of the Methodist Church, and a Republican in politics. He is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of the following named organizations of that order: Past master of Jewell Lodge, No. 94; member of Hiram Chapter, No. 24, of Suncook; Horace Chase Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters; Mount Horeb Com- mandery, Knights Templar, Concord; and Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, Nashua. He is also a member of Pembroke Grange, No. ITI. He married, January 10, 1885, Julia Etta Lewis, who was born in Pem- broke, 1861, daughter of Joseph and Mary J. (Lear) Lewis (see Lewis II). They have children: Louis W., born August 7, 1886; Anna M., May 7, 1893; and Raymond F., born 1896, died 1899.
WESTGATE The name of Westgate is un- doubtedly of English origin, but information bearing upon the his- tory of the family prior to the settlement of New England is wanting. The family on this side of the ocean was founded in Massachusetts, and branches were subsequently transplanted in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine.
(1) Adams Westgate, the first of the name found in the colonial records, was a mariner, and is said to have resided in Salem, Massachusetts, from 1647 to 1662. It is quite probable that his residence there exceeded the fifteen years intervening between those dates. The Christian name of his wife was Mary, and he was the father of Robert, a son who died unnamed, Thomas, two sons named Joseph, hoth of whom died in early childhood; also two daughters named Mary who died young, and Benja- min, who died in infancy.
(II) Robert, eldest son and child of Adam and Mary Westgate, was born in Salem, July 1, 1647. He settled in Warwick, Rhode Island, and followed agriculture there for the remainder of his life. which terminated December 23, 1717. In 1687 he was chosen constable ( the record stated), and in the year 1700 he contributed the sum of twelve shil- lings toward the erection of a Quaker meeting house at or near Mashapaug. His will in which he ap- points his wife executrix, was dated September I. 1716, and probated January 10, 1718. His wife, who bore the Christian name of Sarah, died Sep- tember 23, 1723. Their children were: Catherine, John, George, Sylvanus, Priscilla, Sarah, Rebecca, Robert, John, James and Mary.
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