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For seventy years Mr. Folsom was a business man of Laconia, and during the greater part of that time his position was that of a leader. Though weak while a child, and never enjoying good health till well along in manhood, he was when ninety years old, a much younger looking person than many twenty years his junior, and attended to the busi- ness he had to transact as rapidly and correctly as he did thirty years previously. He was a Whig in his younger days, casting his first vote for General Harrison, and when the Whig party dissolved he became a Republican and from that time supported that party.
Albert G. Folsom married (first) in Gilford, January 5, 1843. Olive B. Robinson, of Gilford, born September 28, 1821, died in Laconia, June 27, 1881, daughter of Aaron Robinson, of Gilford. The chil- dren of this marriage were: I. Albert Frederick, born November 19, 1843, died May 22, 1847. 2. Sarah Olivia. born August 27. 1846, married J. Warren Sanders, resided in Melrose, Massachu- setts, and Chicago, Illinois, and had children : Mabel A., born October, 1871, and Albert Warren, March, IS72, residing in St. Louis, Missouri. 3. Ada Augusta, born May 2, 1848, married Samuel B. Smith, of Laconia, and his children are: Catherine Olive, born March 25, 1870; Bertha Louise, March 15, 1872, died July 29, 1872. Louise C., August 13, 1873; and James I., February 17, 1876. 4. Fitz Elbert, born May 2, 1851, died in infancy. Albert G. Fol- som married (second). April 3, 1883, Imogene F. Harris, born in Franconia, New Hampshire, daugh- ter of William and Jane (Edson) Harris, of Fran- conia, and they had one child, Alberta Frances, born October 26, 1884. Mr. Folsom died March 15, 1907.
This name, according to Mark An- LOWELL thony Lower, the great English au- thority on surnames, is "probably the same as Lovel, or Lovell." Then giving the origin of Lovell he says: "It is derived from the Latin Lupus, wolf, thus Lupus, Loup, Lupellus, Louvel, Lovel. The celebrated Hugh d'Abnucis, Earl of Chester, surnamed Lupus, was a nephew of William the Conqueror, and took part in the battle of Hast- ings. The ancestry from Percival Lowle is traced back in England for nine generations, making a continuous line of twenty-two generations, about six hundred and fifty years, or probably more. The name Lowell is not only distinguished in literature, theology and jurisprudence, but in all the relations of life, and the family is justly honored, having de- rived its high position by works for the public good. The name is fixed upon monuments which can only perish in the wreck of all things.
(I) Percival Lowle, now Lowell, the ancestor of the Lowells of this article, was a native of England, but the particular locality of his birth is not certainly known. It was undoubtedly some- where in county Somerset, England. where his an- cestors for more than four centuries are recorded
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to have lived. He was born in 1571. and his young manhood finds him at or near Kingston-Seymour. in county Somerset, where his father, Richard Lowle, resided. At the age of twenty-six he held the office of assessor of Kingston-Seymour. We next know of him at Bristol, a seaport city in the west of England, engaged in merchandising at wholesale, chiefly imported wares, carrying the firm name of Percival Lowle & Company. In the year 1639 he cut asunder from England, and with his family, consisting of his wife, Rebecca, his two sons. John and Richard. his daughter, Joan, and their respective families. came to Massachusetts Bay Colony from Bristol in the ship "Jonathan," and in June, 1639, settled at Newbury. The history of that colony has this item: "June, 1639. the town (New- bury) also received a valuable addition to its popu- lation in the persons of Mr. Percival, Mr. John and Mr. Richard Lowle, who had been merchants of Bristol."
Newbury, Massachusetts, was organized in 1642 with ninety proprietors. of whom were Percival and John Lowle. At that time. March 17, 1642, Percival was a freeholder. In 1678 all citizens of Massachu- setts above sixteen years of age were required to take the oath of allegiance. Among those thus taking it were "Perciphall." "Tho." and "Ben." Lowle. In 1648. in a deed to Mrs. Gerrish, Percival is called "Gent." meaning a person of high station. Per- cival and his sons had means when they arrived in this country, and purchased real estate quite ex- tensively in old Newbury, Massachusetts, and vi- cinity. "Percefall dyed Jan. 8, 1664," at Newbury, Massachusetts, aged ninety-three years. He married in England Rebecca , who died in Newbury, Massachusetts. December 28, 1645. Their children were : John, Richard, and Joan or Joanna.
(11) Richard, second child and son of Percival and Rebecca Lowle, was born in England in 1602, and died in Newbury, Massachusetts, August 5. 1682. He came from Bristol, England, with his father in 1639, in the ship "Jonathan," landed in Boston and settled in Newbury, Massachusetts. In 1670, in a deed, he is called "gentleman." He had a "freehold right, No. 63, in the upper common in Newbury." In 1674 he and his wife were members of the Newbury church. From the probate record of June 2, 1650, it seems he was sickly and unable to look after the interest of an estate over which he was overseer. He married (first), in England, Margaret, who died in Newbury, January 27, 1642; he married (second), in Newbury, Margaret, born November 27, 1604. She was living as his widow in 1685-86. The children, all by his first wife, were: Percival, Rebecca, Samuel and Thomas.
(III) Percival, eldest child of Richard and Mar- garet Lowell, was born in Newbury, 1639-40. In a deed made in 1670 he is called "planter." November 6, 1696, he conveyed property to his son Richard, to take effect after his (Richard's) departure for South Carolina, and in 1705, being then in Newbury, Mas- sachusetts, he confirmed the conveyance. In 1709. in exchanging land with Samuel Lowell, he is called
"ycoman." He married, September 7. 1664. in New- bury, Mary Chandler, daughter of William and Mary Chandler; she died February 7, 170S. He probably married (second), in 1709, Sarah. The children of Percival and Mary (Chandler ) Lowell were: Richard, Captain Gideon, Samuel, Edmund, Margaret and Joanna.
(IV) Richard, eldest child of Percival and Mary (Chandler) Lowell, was born in Newbury, Decem- ber 25, 1668, and died in the same town, May 29, 1749. He dealt largely in real estate, but like many others of his time he made his mark in signing his name, the amount of education received then being very meagre. In 1720 he purchased land in Rowley and removed there about that time. He was styled "yeoman." He married. April 8, 1695. Sarah Brown, and they had the following named children: Han- nah. Rebecca, John, Mary, Sarah, Hannah, Samuel, Richard and Abigail.
(V) Samuel, seventh child and second son of Richard and Sarah (Brown) Lowell, was born in Newbury, July 12, 1710, and died in Rowley, Janu- ary 3. 1774. He was admitted to the Byfield Church, October 14, 1741. He married (first), in Rowley, September 17, 1735, Hannah Emerson, of Newbury; (second), in Rowley, February 5. 1746, Mrs. Annie Brown, daughter of Ebenezer Stuart; she died in Lunenburg. The children of Samuel by his first wife, Hannah (Emerson) Lowell, were: Hannah, Sarah, Elizabeth, Samuel, Katharine, Catharine, and Nathaniel.
(VI) Nathaniel, seventh child and second son of Samuel and Hannah (Emerson) Lowell, was born in Rowley, April 2, 1753. and died in Rindge, New Hampshire, August 23, 1832. He was a soldier in the Revolution, and his record in the Massachusetts Revolutionary rolls is given as follows: "Nathaniel Lowell, private, muster and payroll, Captain Stephen Jenkins' Company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's Reg- iment : enlisted August 18, 1777. discharged No- vember 30, 1777: time, three months and twenty- seven days: fourteen days travel included; service with Northern army. Nathaniel Lowell, private; list of men who served as scouts under Colonel Jo- siah Brewer in Lincoln county, by order of Briga- dier General Wadsworth; served as private from August 24, to September 29, 1780; sworn to at Bos- ton. July 21, 1781." He with his sister Catharine and mother Annie removed from Rowley soon after his father's death. They stopped for eight or ten years in Lunenburg, Massachusetts, and in Septem- ber. 1784, removed to Rindge, New Hampshire, where he remained till his death. He settled upon the farm in the southwest part of the town, now oc- cupied by William S. Brooks, and was a "farmer," a "yeoman" and "husbandman." His sister Cath- arine resided with him several years. He married in Rindge, January 22, 1807. Lucy Stacy, widow, daughter of Daniel and Jerusha Chapman, of Lun- enburg, Massachusetts, where she was born in 1775. She died December 6, 1861, aged eighty-six years. Their children were: Nathaniel, Stephen, Lucinda, John and Daniel C.
L. F. Lowell.
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(VII) Nathaniel (2), eldest child of Nathaniel and Lucy (Chapman) (Stacy) Lowell, was born in Rindge, February 16, 1808, and died in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, January 19, 1865. He resided first in Rindge and later in Fitzwilliam. He mnar- ried in Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1836, Fidelia Fisher, who died in Townsend, Massachusetts, June 23, 1896, aged eighty-six years. Their children were: John Lafayette, Levi Franklin, Almon God- ding and Selina Damon.
(VIII) Levi Franklin, son of Nathaniel and Fidelia (Fisher) Lowell, was born January 6, 1839, in Rindge, New Hampshire, where the first ten years of his life was passed. He did not receive very much in the way of school education for, at the age of ten years, he was put out to work on a farm, and continued in that way in the towns of Rindge and Fitzwilliam, being two years with one farmer and seven years with another. His life has been one of great industry, and though his early education was limited he has become a well-informed man and is highly respected in the community where so many years of his life have been passed. On at- taining his majority he secured employment in a workshop in Fitzwilliam. Here he continued to be employed in winters and spent his summers in farm labor. In 1861 he went to Townsend, Massa- chusetts, and was there employed for two years in teaming about a mill and on the road. In 1865 he went to Brookline, New Hampshire, and there en- gaged in the manufacture of lumber and barrel heads with a partner, under the style of Fessenden & Lowell. They purchased a mill there and con- tinued its operation for a period of five and a half years, when Mr. Lowell sold his interest and re- turned to Townsend, Massachusetts. Since 1872 he has been a resident of the town of Merrimack, New Hampshire, where a large industry has been built up chiefly through his exertions. He built a sinall mill at Reed's Ferry and also constructed the first house in the southern part of that village, in partner- ship with B. and A. D. Fessenden, and for two years they manufactured exclusively boards and staves. To this was added the production of kits and barrels, barrel heads and kindred goods, and the industry has grown to extensive dimensions. Besides using all the lumber obtainable in their im- mediate neighborhood, they bring in annually many carloads of stock which are worked up into kits. pails and barrels. For thirty-three years Mr. Lowell has continued as the active manager of the estab- lishment, and has contributed no small amount of personal labor in the operation of the plant. In 1903 the business was incorporated under the title of Fessenden & Lowell Company, in which Mr. Lowell is the president and general manager. He is a member of the Congregational Church at Reed's Ferry, and of North Star Lodge, No. 144. Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Townsend, Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Lowell supported Abraham Lincoln for the presidency, having previously been allied with the Democratic party; but since the civil war has been a steadfast Republican. He served three
years in succession as selectman in Merrimack and was its representative in the state legislature in 1885. In 1897 he built the handsome residence which he occupies on the river road, in the village of Reed's Ferry. He married, January 2, 1867, Hannah B. Hutchinson, born January 26, 1836, in Brookline, New Hampshire, daughter of John and Polly Hutchinson of that town. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell are the parents of two daughters: Mabel L. and Bertha L. The former is the wife of John E. Haseltine (See Haseltine) and the latter is Mrs. Arthur Gordon of Reed's Ferry. Of genial and kindly nature, of upright life and strict attention to his own affairs, Mr. Lowell has earned and received the respect and esteem of his compatriots.
BOUTON This name is of French origin and was very early in the American col- onies. It has been conspicuously identified with the development of New Hampshire, and is especially honored in the Rev. Nathaniel Bouton, who was long paster of the First Church and an author of a most valuable history of that town. Dr. Bouton was not only the beloved pastor of his time, but conferred a great benefit upon the posterity of his congregation by his researches in the history of their ancestry. His work has ren- dered it possible for most of the old families of Concord to know something of their ancestry in authentic form. In tradition the name goes back of the fifth century when the tribes of Goths inhabited the country bordering on the river Rhone extending from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean Sea. They proved able to resist the incursions of the invaders from both the north and south, and became very strong and independent. One of the chiefs, known as Clovis, became a Christian through the influence of his wife, and his example was largely followed by his people. From 1530 the military and court records make frequent mention of the name Bouton over a period of two centuries. The race was noted for piety and zeal in religion and for education and intelligence. Noel Bouton was the marquis de Chamilly.
(I) John Bouton, the first of whom continual line is discovered, was supposed to have been a son of Count Nicholas Bouton. He was a Huguenot and during the existence of the great persecution fled to England. The registry of emigrants to the American colonies, kept in London, contains the name of only one Bouton in a period of a hundred years, from 1600 to 1700, and there can be no doubt that this was the John Bouton who embarked from Grave's End, England, in the bark "Assurance," July, 1635. He landed in Boston, in December of that year, at which time he was aged twenty years. He lived in Boston and Watertown, Massachusetts, and early in the settlement of Hartford, Connecti- cut, moved to that place. Soon after the commence- ment of the settlement at Norwalk, Connecticut, he removed there in 1651, and became an influential citizen. In 1671 and for several years thereafter he was representative in the general court of the
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colonies, and also served in various official capaci- ties in the town of Norwalk. The records of the town show that he gave lands to his sons, John and Matthew, and left an estate which continued in the possession of his descendants over two hundred years. His first wife was Joan Turney, who died soon after his settlement in Norwalk. He married there, January 1, 1656, Abigail Marvin, daughter of Matthew Marvin, who came from London, Eng- land. She was born about 1640, at Hartford, and died at Norwalk about 1672. He married (third) Mrs. Mary Stevenson, widow of John Stevenson, who was killed in a fight with the Indians near Norwalk. The children of John Bouton by his first wife were: Richard and Bridget. The second wife was the mother of John, Matthew, Rachel, Abigail and Mary. The third wife bore him Joseph, Thomas, Elizabeth and Richard.
(11) Joseph, fourth son of Jolin Bouton and eldest child of his third wife, was born about 1674, in Norwalk. He resided in or near that town. His will in the probate records of Fairfield county gives various tracts of land in the Bouton meadows and divides the residue of his estate between his four children. He married Mary Stevenson and resided in Norwalk. Their children were: Sarah, Dinah, Jachin and John.
(III) Jachin, eldest son and third child of Joseph and Mary (Stevenson) Bouton, was a resident of Norwalk, and appears frequently in the records of that town. On December 14, 1726, he was chosen one of the five listers of the town and again in 1730 was chosen to the same office. On March 29, 1732, he bought land of Thomas Corsicar, and in 1733 was a grand juror of the town. On December 20, 1737, three acres of land were meted out to him in Roton. Ten days later he bought six acres on the west side of the Norwalk river, adjoining Joseph Bouton's land, for thirty-seven pounds. In Feb- ruary following he bought of Daniel Betts two acres for eleven pounds and fifteen shillings. In the same year he held lot eighty-seven, and on May 16 of that year he bought of Sarah Crampton, land situated north of the highway for one hundred pounds. He bought land of Oliver Arnold, October 16, 1742, and on December 15, 1747, he sold his undivided rights in certain lands to John Bouton. On March 2, 1796, hie quit-claimed twelve acres of land in the parish of Kin to Daniel Weed. It is probable that he was a farmer as his cattle mark is recorded in 1725, and it is evident that he dealt quite extensively in lands. 1Ie was a substantial citizen. Ile is said to have been married twice. His children were: Ebenezer. Sarah, Joseplı, Esaias, Mary, Debbe, Patty, Esther and Moses. Jachin Bouton was a captain in General Montgomery's army, in the expedition against Quebec, afterwards settling on a farm near South Salem, Connecticut. He was chosen an elder of the Presbyterian Church there and held this office until his death, which oc- curred July 8, 1847.
(IV) Joseph, second son and third child of Jachin Bouton, was born 1726, probably at Norwalk, --
and died 1778. He was an officer in the Colonial army in the expedition against the French Prov- inces. He enlisted at the age of nineteen years, according to the history of Norwalk. He married, August 25, 1748, Susannah Raymond, and their children were: William, Susannah, Betty, Joseplı, Rebecca, Joshua, Seth, Ira, Nancy, Debbe and Aaron.
(V) William, eldest child of Joseph and Susan- nah (Raymond) Bouton, was born January 16, 1749, at Norwalk, Connecticut, and died in that town May 30, 1828. He married, February 15, 1769, in Norwalk, Sarah Benedict, born June 15, 1752, in Norwalk, and died August 26, 1844, having survived her husband more than sixteen years. Both were buried in the Pine Island ceme- tery at South Norwalk. Their children were: Isaac (died young), Isaac, William, Betty, Esther, Sarah, Clara, Seth, Joseph, Susannah, John, Mary, Anna and Nathaniel.
(VI) Nathaniel, youngest child of William and Sarah (Benedict) Bouton, was born June 20, 1799, in Norwalk, Connecticut. He attended the public schools of his native town and was exceedingly precocious. At the age of nine years he was so proficient in the rudimentary branches that he was frequently engaged by the teacher in instructing others. At that time neither grammar nor geogra- phy were taught in the district school, but he studied the rudiments of English grammar in a book called Murray's Abridgment. Before he had attained the age of fourteen years he entertained the idea of learning a trade. His father at that time was a subscriber of the Republican Farmer of Bridgeport, in which appeared an advertisement for a boy to learn the printing business. Having obtained his father's consent the lad was regularly apprenticed to Styles Nichols, proprietor of the Republican Farmer, for seven years. A strong mutual attachment soon grew up between the ap- prentice and his employer, and the former was soon employed in the work of conducting the paper. During the spring of 1815 special religious services were held in Bridgeport at which he became deeply impressed, and on the morning of June 20, 1815, his sixteenth birthday, he resolved to give himself to the service of God, and on the first Sabbath in De- cember of that year he with ninety-cight others was received into the First Congregational Church of Bridgeport, under Rev. Elijah Waterman, pastor. He very soon became possessed of a desire to preach the gospel, and he shortly made a bargain to pur- chase his unexpired time for one hundred and seven- ty-five dollars in order that he might engage in study to fit himself for the ministry. By the help of a friend and the sale of some land his father raised the money, and he was thus released from his in- dentures. In September, 1816, he returned to his home and engaged in study in the preparation for college. Shorty thereafter he was offered free board and tuition at the academy at New Canaan by the Rev. Mr. Bonny, pastor of the Congregational Church there. Subsequently he received and accepted
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an invitation to attend school at Wilton, taught by Mr. Harley Olmstead, and was there fitted for col- lege, and in 18IS entered Yale. He kept abreast with his competitors in his class, though he had not en- joyed their advantages. During his college course he never received a reprimand or reproof. He graduated at Yale in the summer of 1820, and im- mediately engaged in religious revival work at Hotchkiss, near New Haven. On the opening of the term at Andover Theological Seminary he was ready to enter upon the course, and was blessed with health so that he lost no time. For complet- ing the course at Andover as valedictorian he was engaged by a committee from Boston to commence his ministerial work in a new church in that city and agreed to remain for three years. Within a short time he was presented with a call from Frank- lin, and on January 29, 1825, he penned a formal acceptance of the call. About this time he origi- nated the idea of a National Missionary Society, and through discussion with others laid the founda- tion of the present Home Missionary Society, which came into existence in New York, May 12, 1826. Mr. Bouton was ordained at Concord. March 22, 1825, in the presence of a large assemblage of min- isters and delegates convened at the Court House. For fifty-three years he continued as pastor of the Congregational Church with great acceptability, never neglecting his obligations as pastor and ac- complishing besides a great amount of historical and literary work. His labors and merits were frequently recognized and rewarded by positions of distinction and honor.
In 18- he was given the degree of Doctor of Divinity by his Alma Mater.
Dr. Bouton married (first), at Lebanon, Con- necticut, September 11, 1827, Harriet Sherman, daughter of John Sherman, of Trenton, New Jersey, and great-grandfather of Roger Sherman, of Connecticut. She died at Concord, May 21, 1828, and he married (second), in Chester, New Hamp- shire, June 8, 1829, Mary Ann P. Bell, eldest daugh- ter of Governor John Bell, of Chester. She died at Concord, February 15, 1839, and he married (third), at Deerfield, New Hampshire, February 18, 1840, Elizabeth Ann Cilley, eldest daughter of Horatio G. Cilley, of Deerfield. She died February 6, 1887, having survived her husband nearly nine years. He passed away June 6, 1878, at Concord, in the seventy-ninth year of his age. His first wife was the mother of two children: Elizabeth Ripley, who became the wife of Rev. John C. Webster, of Hop- kinton, Massachusetts, and later of Wheaton, Illi- nois; Nathaniel Sherman, for many years actively engaged in the foundry business in Chicago, where he has been a prominent citizen. Following is a brief mention of the children of the second mar- riage : John Bell Bouton graduated from Dart- mouth, and became one of the editors and proprie- tors of the New York Chamber of Commerce; Harriette Sherman became the wife of John W. Noyes, of Chester, New Hampshire, Samuel
Fletcher, the third, receives extended mention below. The children of the third wife are noted as follows: William Horatio, died at the age of two years; George Bradbury, died in his sixth year ; Ann Cilley, died at the age of three years.
(VII) Samuel Fletcher, third son and fourth child of Dr. Nathaniel Bouton, and third child of his second wife, Mary A. P. (Bell) Bouton, was born June 23, 1837, in Concord, New Hampshire. He received a fair education for his day, finishing at Pembroke Academy. On leaving school he went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in teaching music, having large classes of pupils on the piano and organ. Throughout his life he was very much interested and active in musical performances, and after his removal to Chicago, in 1856, he was much employed in playing the organ in various churches there. He was associated with his brothers in the foundry and machine business in Chicago. He was successful as a business man, and during his later years maintained a winter home in Dune- din, Florida, where he died January 5, 1902. When about forty years old he united with the Hyde Park Congregational Church of Chicago. He was also a member of the Masonic Order. He was prevented from partaking in public life by a misfortune which interfered with his speech. He was, however, an intelligent observer of events and much interested in the progress of his native land. He was an ardent Republican in politics. He married (first), March 17, 1856, at Lowell, Massachusetts, Ann Louise Hall, daughter of Dr. Robert and Susannah (Capen) Hall, natives respectively of Concord and Stewartstown, New Hampshire. The latter was a daughter of Ebenezer Capen, a native of Concord, who was the first settler at West Stewartstown, New Hampshire. He was born about 1778 and died at the age of eighty-nine years, eleven months, 1867. Mrs. Bouton was born in 1836 at Concord, and died January 2, 1857, in Chicago. Mr. Bouton married (second), January 1, 1860, in Chicago, Mary Ann Hoyt, daughter of William H. Hoyt, of Henry, Illi- nois. She was born November, 1840. The children of Mr. Bouton are accounted for as follows: Tilton C. H., mentioned below; Mary Louise, wife of Frank Wyman, a native of Hillsboro Bridge, and a resident of Chicago; William Christopher, a phy- sician engaged in practice in Waukegan, Illinois ; Charles Sherman, an attorney, residing in Spring- dale, Arkansas, and is largely interested in fruit raising; Eva Bell, married Alexander Douglas Campbell, and resides in Chicago, which is also the home of Ellenora.
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