Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 103

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874

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(IX) Barnes Bigelow, second child and eldest son of Gideon (2) and Sarah ( Rice) Putnam, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, October 1, 1825, and resided nearly all his life in Nashua, where he was considered one of the most skillful carpenters in that locality. He met death in falling from the rafter of the barn of his son Herbert in Merrimack, July 9, 1899. He married, in Amherst, New Hamp- shire, May 15 or 16, 1849, Lucy Ann Maria Bills, born in Amherst, February 5, 1825, and died July 12, 1896, daughter of Jabez and Lucy (Crosby) Bills. Jabez Bills was with Washington when he crossed the Delaware, and Washington drank water out of his (Jabez) shoe at the time. Nine children have been born to them: James Wallace, George Jabez. Lizzie Jane, Herbert Hamilton, Lucy Emma, Loring Edward, Charles Bigelow, Annie Maria, and Mary Kate. Only four of these are living.

(X) Charles Bigelow, seventh child and fifth son of Barnes B. and Lucy Ann Maria ( Bills) Putnam, was born in Nashua, November 23, 1854. He at- tended the public school until he was about fourteen years old, and was then employed in the carpenter business until 1874. when he became connected with the American Express Company, remaining until 1887, and was for a time connected with the Nashua Fire Department. About 1887 he formed a partner- ship with O. D. Kimball. and engaged in teaming and dealt quite extensively in horses. The business was successful, and though dying young he left his family well provided for. He died December 19, 1889, from hydrophobia, after lingering six weeks from the time that he was bitten by a dog opposite his home; he was aged thirty-five. Ile married, in Nashua, December 29, 1875. Ella Agnes Nichols. born in Lowell, Massachusetts, November 3, 1850, daughter of James and Sarah Elizabeth (Swan) Nichols, of Lowell. They had three children born to them: Fred Nichols, Grace Ella, who is a member of the Grace Putnam Society, membership (1907), twenty-eight in the United States, and Anne M.

(VI) Jacob (2), sixth son and eighth child of Jacob Putnam, of Wilton, was born in that town, November 15, 1747. He acquired possession of a farm located on the southwest part of lot No. 16,

range 4, where he followed agriculture with pros- perous results, and he was also an able mechanic, turning out spinning-wheels, ploughs and other use- ful appliances of a most excellent and durable qual- ity. His death occurred June 2, 1821. He was an upright, conscientious man, a devoted church mem- ber and a deacon. In 1770 he married Abigail Burnap, who died June 10, 1812, and he was again married in 1813 to Mrs. Lucy Spofford, of Temple, this state. A list of his children does not appear in the records at hand.

(VII) Jacob (3), eldest son and child of Ja- cob (2) and Abigail (Burnap) Putnam, was born in Wilton. October or November 4, 1771. He was for several years a resident of Vermont, carrying on farms for intervals in Andover, Manchester and Paulet, and from the latter place he removed to Westfield, New York. He married, January 14, 1796, Mary Burton, born in Wilton, January 8, 1773, daughter of Abraham and Mary (Kenney) Burton. Of this union there were fourteen children. namely : Jacob, Polly, Sophie, Abigail, Abram, Amos, Ruth, Lydia, Sophronia, Betsey, Ransom, John, William and George Washington.

(VIII) Amos, third son and sixth child of Jacob and Mary (Burton) Putnam, was born in Andover, Vermont, April 14, 1804. He was a mechanic and also a school teacher. Prior to his marriage and for some time afterward he resided in Wilton, from whence he removed to Westfield, New York. He subsequently returned to Wilton and after the death of his wife he went to reside with his son in Nashua. where he died November 15, 1888. He was a mem- ber of the Patrons of Husbandry, and also of the Baptist Church. On September 2, 1834, he married his second cousin, Dorcas Putnam, born April 8. 1811, daughter of Eliphalet and Dorcas (Abbott) Putnam, and her death occurred in Wilton March 15, 1887. She became the mother of seven children, namely: Mary Augusta, born September 15. 1835. died October 5, of the same year. Emma Frances. born September 3. 1836, died October 20, 1841. Sam- uel Abbott, born in Chautauqua, New York, July 23, 1840, resides in Hyannis, Massachusetts. William Jacob, the date of whose birth will be recorded pres- ently. Emma Dorcas, born February 28, 1844, wife of Charles Otis, of Hancock, this state. George Til- ton, born September 9, 1846, is residing in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Mary Alma, born January 16, 1849, died July 25, 1872.

(1X) William Jacob, second son and fourth child of Amos and Dorcas (Putnam) Putnam, was born in Wilton, April 17, 1842. He was educated in the public schools, and prior to his majority learned the carpenter's trade. Hle subsequently turned his attention to cabinet-making, which he followed until failing health caused him to abandon it and seek a more invigorating occupation. He accordingly en- gaged in farming at Nashua, and having derived much benefit from open air employment he has ever since devoted his attention to agriculture. In ad- dition to cultivating the usual farm products he makes a specialty of market gardening and the rais-

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ing of small fruits, and his farm, which contains seventy-five acres of excellent tillage land, is well adapted to that purpose. In politics Mr. Putnam is a Republican. After his removal to Nashua he continued his activity in public affairs ; was for three years a member of the board of selectmen, serving three years in the common council, two years on the board of aldermen and one term as representative to the state legislature, 1899-1900. His fraternal affil- iations are with Ancient York Lodge No. 89, Free and Accepted Masons, and he is also a member of the local grange, Patrons of Husbandry.

On May 24, 1874, Mr. Putnam was united in marriage with Eldora Tarbell, daughter of Luther A. and Louisa (Farnsworth) Tarbell, of Wilton. Of this union there are two children: Dora Arline, born October 30, 1877, and George William, born February 6, 1883. Dora A. Putnam is an expert stenographer and typewriter. George W. Putnam is a graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1905, and while a student taught in the high school at Hanover. He is now an instructor in Greek and Latin at Dartmouth.

(IV) Lieutenant Stephen, sixth child and fifth son of Captain Benjamin Putnam, was born in Salem Village, October 27, 1694, and died in 1772, aged seventy-eight. He does not seem to have been desirous of office, and the only official position he held were minor town offices. In 1739 he was made lieutenant of the third company of foot soldiers in the town of Salem. He married, at Salem, May 30, 1718, Miriam Putnam, born February 9, 1698, daugh- ter of John and Hannah Putnam, of Salem Village. Their children, all born at Salem Village, were : Stephen, died young; Miriam, Rufus, Timothy, Phineas, Aaron, Sarah, Hannah, Moses and Ste- phen.

(V) Moses, sixth son and ninth child of Lieu- tenant Stephen and Miriam ( Putnam) Putnam, was born in Salem Village, September 23, 1739, and died July 25, 1801. aged sixty-one. Ile was a bright young man and fond of books, and formed a resolve · to obtain a college education. In this he succeeded, graduating from Harvard College with the class of 1759. He taught school a while in Boxford, and in 1776 removed to Wilton, New Hampshire, where his ability and unusually good education made him a leader in public affairs. March 9, 1778, he was elec- ted one of the committee of safety and later he was chosen to represent the town in a convention to be holden at Concord, for "establishing some regu- lations by which our sinking currency may be raised and set upon some more stable basis." He was a member of the board of selectmen for several years, and served on important committees. He married, April 3, 1768, Rebecca Kimball, born March 29, 1740, and died in Wilton, New Hamp- shire, October 15, 1797, daughter of Aaron and Sarah (Wood) Kimball, of Boxford. Their chil- dren, born in Danvers, were: Stephen, Sarah, born in Wilton; Moses, and Aaron Kimball, whose sketch follows.

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(VI) Aaron Kimball, youngest child of Moses and Rebecca (Kimball) Putnam, was born in Wil- ton, New Hampshire, January II, 1784, and died there March 25, 1870, aged eighty-six. He learned - the trade of housefinishing of Mr. Jewett, of Temple, and while he worked at his trade had several ap- prentices. He owned a farm in Wilton, and for many years before his death devoted his attention to agriculture. He married (first), December 12, 1808, Polly Shattuck, of Temple, who died October 10, 1841, aged fifty-tour. Married (second), Nancy Wright, of Mason, who died August 28, 1875, aged sixty-eight. His children, all but the last by the first wife were: Mary Russ, Evelina, Sarah, Aaron Kim- ball (died young), Aaron Kimball (died young), Levi, Hervey, Daniel Platt, Matilda Rockwood, Ru- fus, Anna Jane and Mary Cordelia.

(VII) Evelina, second daughter and child of Aaron and Polly (Shattuck) Putnam, was born in Wilton, May 31, ISII, and married, April 22, 1832, William Emerson, of Wilton. (See Emerson 1.) She died July 23, 1903.

This family name in New Hampshire LOYNE history has been known something more than thirty years, and thor- oughly known throughout the length and breadth of the state by reason of the grand works accomplished. by the founder of the family in New England and his most estimable wife.

Rev. William Arthur Loyne comes of English ancestors and was born in Chatbun, Lancashire, England, March 27, 1849. At the age of about twelve years he was apprenticed under the govern- ment to learn the trade of a tailor, and for a number of years he served under a master and tradesman in. Accrington, where he was brought into daily asso- ciation with apprentices of different trades and pro -- fessions, notably the professions of law and medicine. Fortunately for himself his apprenticeship was ac- companied with privileges of the night school, and in the classroom during that period he laid the foun- dation of a good education in the common branches, and while only a boy directed his attention to those studies which were designed to shape his future to a life in the gospel ministry.

At the age of twenty years young Loyne was second foreman in the largest trade establishment in Accrington, but at that time he was resolved to emi- grate to America and on October 21, 1869, he landed in the city of Boston. From there he soon went to Dover, New Hampshire, as an employee of the firm of D. Lothrop & Co., occupying at first a subordi- nate position, but within the period of the next year he was given in charge of the work room at Dover. This position he held until 1873 and then vacated it to take a special elective course at the Tilton Con- ference Seminary, with a view of fitting himself for the active work of the ministry. After a year at the seminary he went to Boston. for one year at- tending university lectures, and then returned to New Hampshire to begin missionary work in Portsmouth.

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Mr. Loyne performed the duties of city mission- ary in Portsmouth from 1876 to 1881, and then be- gan his more earnest and important work in the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church. While there in 1877 he founded the Old Ladies' Home, the mother institution of homes in New Hampshire. In ISSI he founded St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, and in the following year founded the Man- chester Children's Home, and also the nursery, al- though the latter was afterwards discontinued.

The shaping of his mind for the ministry dated to Mr. Loyne's eleventh year, when as a boy he became seriously impressed by the influence of the rector of the church under whose ministrations he was at that time, but later on when he became more capable of determining his own future and its pos- sibilities he turned to the Methodist Episcopal Church and directed his energies to the study of its doctrines and teachings, and he accepted them full, freely and without constraint. At the age of four- teen years he occasionally read service at the burial of some unfortunate social outcast who knew neither church nor home, and in an immature way he also conducted religious exercises in localities where the influence of the church was unknown. This was a part of the general work afterward taken up by the Salvation Army, and the great good accomplished by that notable organization is now fully appreciated by the Christian world.

Mr. Loyne became a licensed local exhorter in 1870, local preacher in 1871, and was ordained local deacon at Dover in 1876 and as local elder at Claremont in 1881. In 1882 he was admitted on trial in the New Hampshire conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, and in due season was re- ceived in full connection. Having founded St. James' Church in Manchester he afterwards for three years acted as its supply, and in 1884 was ap- pointed pastor of the church at East Haverhill, where he remained three years. In 1888 he was ap- pointed to Colebrook, served there three years and while pastor there organized the Colebrook camp meeting. From 1891 to 1895 he was pastor at Jef- ferson, and in 1896 returned to Colebrook and at the same time served the churches at South Columbia and Pittsburg. In 1897 he was sent to the pastorate at Antrim, and from 1900 to 1904 occupied the same relation to the church at Woodville, where, in 1903 he founded Woodville Cottage Hospital and was its su- perintendent during the year 1904. In 1905 he became pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Laconia and still serves in that capacity, although in addition to his duties in connection with the church he also is one of the trustees of the Laconia City Hospital and one of the founders of the Old People's Home of that city. Ile has been a Mason for twenty-three years, with relations at Lancaster and Nashua, a Knight of Pythias since 1870, having taken the rank knighthood at Dover and now is brigade chaplain of the uniformed rank of that order. Mr. Loyne also is an Amoskeag Veteran.

In the earnest and arduous work of his mnis- sionary and pastoral connections during the last

more than thirty-five years Mr. Loyne has been materially assisted by his unselfish and devoted wife, who for the last fifteen years has filled the responsible office of national superintendent of the lumbermen's department of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, an organization whose especial office is to carry forward evangelistic and mission- ary work among the more than ten thousand men employed in the lumbering regions and along the waterways in this state. Before marriage Mrs. Loyne was Sophia Drinkwater, of Dover, daughter of James and Hannah (Ingham) Drinkwater. Four children have been born of this marriage: Etta Louise, married Arthur J. Davis (now dead) and has one son, Mark Davis. Florence Isabelle ( mar- ried Ernest M. Morse, of Jefferson, New Hamp- shire, and has two children: Merritt L. and Harriet E. Morse. Frederick Pierson, now of Portland, Maine. James M. married Ida Ridgeway, and lives in Trenton, New Jersey.

No spot in New Engand is more BARBER worthy of the veneration of the Cath- olic antiquarian than that where stands the first Catholic Church erected in New Hampshire; and there is nothing more edifying in the records of Catholicism in North America than the story of the family with whom the church is closely connected. This episode of history is little known, and has been compiled largely from Mon- signor de Goesbriand's "Memoirs of Vermont and New Hampshire," and from the "Records of the American Catholic Historical Society."

In 1794 the Rev. Daniel Barber was appointed to minister to the Episcopal congregation at Clare- mont. He then removed from Manchester, Ver- mont, where for years previous he had been pastor of the Congregational Church. A dispute as to the validity of the ordination of ministers of that de- nomination left him unsettled in his faith, and seek- ing truth at the expense of temporal prosperity, he became a member of the Church of England, at a time when that denomination was held in aversion in New England. In addition to the pain natur- . ally accompanying such a change, there was the consequent severance from relatives and friends, which made this a trial not to be forgotten. Mr. Barber had prepared for the Anglican ministry, been ordained a deacon in 1786, and ministered two years later. In this capacity he labored for twenty years, without entertaining a doubt as to the truth of the creed he professed. Again it was the question of orders that shook his faith. He learned in the course of his reading that upon the refusal of the Roman Catholic Archbishop to consecrate Bishop Parker, first bishop of the Church of England, the ceremony had been performed by a certain Barlow, whose only authority to confer such rite lay in a mandate from Queen Elizabeth. He observed like- wise that whereas the Scripture ordains that the sick shall be anointed with oil, this is not done in the Church of England, nor indeed in any Protestant churches. He began to be troubled with doubts,

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and visited Bishop Cheverus, of Boston, for his views on the matter. His questions were answered "with such ease that I marvelled greatly at my own ignorance," he says later. When he returned to Claremont he carried with him several books treat- ing of Catholic doctrine. Having read these him- self, Mr. Barber passed them around among his Protestant neighbors, until a deputation from his congregation waited upon him with a protest. The books were recalled, but were afterwards circulated more privately by other members of his family.

Mr. Barber's youngest son, Virgil, had been educated for the Anglican ministry, and was at this time rector of the Episcopal Church at Fairfield, New York, and principal of the college there. Dur- ing a summer vacation which he and his family spent at Claremont, his father confided to him his religious doubts, and read to him the arguments in favor of Catholic doctrines, which he felt himself unable to refute satisfactorily. The son returned home and made further investigation of the matter, reading "Milner's End of Controversy," and

a novena, and subsequently visited his ecclesiastical superior, Bishop Hobart, and also took council with his fellow preachers, but was not satisfied with what he heard from them. Rev. Father Benedict Fen- wick, Society of Jesus, was at this time admini- strator of the vacant see of New York, and to him Mr. Barber went and spent several hours in re- ligious discussion, and at the end of the conference took away with him several books. He also spent a week in Saint Paul's (Episcopal) Library, weigh- ing the arguments for and against what were now the most important questions in life to him. After returning home he spent a great deal of time in going over with his wife the points and arguments that had been developed. Several discussions of of the points at issue between Mr. Barber and the Protestant Bishop and ministers resulted in his with- drawal from the college and the Protestant Church, and his profession of Catholicism and baptism into the Roman Catholic Church.

Mr. Barber's course made it necessary to re- move to some other place for support, and he went to New York City with his family, where he opened a school, and engaged in teaching the sons of several influential Catholics who became inter- ested in him. Mrs. Barber was admitted to the church a few weeks later.

The new school prospered. The man's duties were discharged in such a manner as to win un- bounded confidence in his talents and experience as a teacher and to augment daily the number of his pupils. But Mr. Barber was not satisfied with his vocation, believing that it was his duty to become a member of the priesthood. To become a priest necessitated the separation from his family, and was the subject of much anxious prayer and painful agonizing before Mrs. Barber could bring herself to take the step which meant separation for life. But at last her sense of justice and her desire to do right prevailed, and she consented to the separ- tion, without regard to the pain it brought her,

feeling it was her duty to do so. The school was given up and the teacher took the first steps toward sacerdotal life. Mrs. Barber was received into the Visitation Convent of Georgetown, D. C., to enter upon her novitiate. The three elder daughters, Mary, Abigail, and Susan, aged respectively eight, seven, and five were admitted to the Academy of the Visitation. Father Fenwick's mother kept Samuel and Josephine, the latter an infant only ten months old, to care for as her own until they should be of school age. A few weeks later Father Grasse, su- perior of the Jesuits in America, president of the Georgetown College, who had come to take a deep interest in the affairs of the Barber family, was called to Rome. He took with him several promis- ing scholastics, among whom was Virgil Barber, in order that they might avail themselves of the advantages which a year at the Rome College would afford. A year later Mr. Barber returned to Georgetown for his theological course. He now in company with Father Ffrench, a Dominican priest, who was himself a convert, visited the older Barber at Claremont, and in a stay of a week the latter admitted seven converts to the church. Among these were the elder Mrs. Barber and her daughter ; Mrs. Tyler, a sister of Daniel Barber, and her eldest daughter. Daniel Barber soon after went to Georgetown and received conditional baptism from the hands of his old friend, Bishop Cheverus.

On February 23, 1820, Virgil Barber and Sister Mary Augustine met in the Georgetown College chapel, and made their religious vows. Their five children were present, the youngest now not quite three years old.

During her novitiate Sister Mary Augustine had many trials, owing chiefly to the poverty of the Vis- itation Convent. This was so great that at one time the sisters were in need of the necessaries of life, and were considered the advisability of dispersing, and the Barber children were clad in the cast off apparel of their companions. This was owing to no unkindness, yet it caused their mother much suf- fering. The sister herself proved a treasure to her community. She was soon made a directress of the academy, where her superior education and capable methods of instruction were greatly needed. Under her direction the school prospered so well that in a few years it numbered one hundred pupils, and bore the reputation of being the best academy in the country.

On the feast of Saint Francis Xavier, December 3. 1822, Virgil Barber was ordained a priest by Bishop Cheverus, and was soon after sent as a missionary to his own home. There he built a small brick church adjoining the wooden structure which had been his father's home, and which was now transformed into an academy. Daniel Barber now returned to Claremont to fill the position of assistant master in the little school, which was so successfully conducted as to draw pupils from far and near, irrespective of religious creed. Among others Father Wiley, Fitton and Tyler were trained here. The latter was a son of the sister of Daniel

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Barber. She and her four daughters were converts of Father Ffrench, and became Sisters of Charity at Emmetsburg, while Father Tyler became the first bishop of Connecticut.

In April, 1826, Mary Barber entered the Ursuline Convent at Boston, and Abigail, the same com- munity at Quebec. Mary took the veil on August 15, with the name of Sister Benedicta, and Abigail on September 15, with the name of Sister Saint Francis Xavier.

Daniel Barber's wife dying, he went south, and spent considerable time at Washington, where he published a pamphlet entitled "Catholic Worship and Piety Explained and Recommended," and in 1827, a second pamphlet styled "History of my own Times." He died in 1834, at the Jesuit Mission, Saint Inigoes, Maryland.

Mary Barber, Mother Saint Benedicta, and her sister Josephine Barber, then a pupil at the Ursuline Academy, at Charlestown, were present in the in- stitution on the night when it was sacked and burned by a mob. Mother Saint Ursula, a sister of Captain Chase, of Claremont, was also there. Susan Barber entered the Ursuline boarding school where she afterwards received the white veil with the name of Sister Mary Saint Joseph.

During the passing of these events Father Barber had spent some tinte ministering to the religious re- quirements of the Indians at Oldtown, Maine.

Samuel Barber was graduated from Georgetown College in 1831, with the degree of B. A., having completed, at the early age of sixteen, a most suc- cessful course. He was then admitted to the Jesuit novitiate, and spent the next two years at White Marsh.

In April 1833, the Visitation Convent at George- town sent a foundation colony to Kaskaskia, Illi- nois, and Josephine Barber accompanied it. Sick- ness, floods, and earthquakes constantly rendered the place desolute, and it was largely in ruins. The poverty of the place prevented the preparation of a convent for the sisters for four years. The one postulant who entered the community, and two of the original number of sisters died from the effects of the hardships endured. Everything was of the crudest sort. In 1836, Sister Augustine was sent to join the Kaskaskia band, where she was soon joined by her mother. Sister Saint Joseph (Susan) was the first of the Barber family to pass into eternity. She died January 24, 1837, aged twenty-four.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 103

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 874

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874