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 112

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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tember 11, Isaac Waldron, residence Rumford, grantor of land in Nottingham West; 1761, Sep- tember 15, Isaac Waldron, residence Rumford, grantee, and so on. Isaac Waldron is a petitioner on the Dunstable list, May 19. 1748, and on Notting- ham list, April 9, 1754. Dunstable is now Nashua.

Isaac Waldron and his two sons, Isaac, Jr., and Jacob, settled in Warner in 1763. Richard Kenny Waldron was a settler in Stafford about the same time, and is believed to have been a brother of Isaac Waldron. It is said of Isaac that he was brainy, level-headed and public-spirited, but not orthodox, not a church member.

Isaac Waldron was a soldier in Captain John Webster's company for the protection of Rumford, March 4, 1747, and sergeant in Colonel Blanchard's regiment on the Merrimac river, August 23 to No- vember 16, 1755; also on garrison duty at different times. The records give Isaac Waldron on "Alarm list," and Isaac Waldron, Jr., and Jacob Waldron "gone in service," reported as in Captain Daniel Flood's company. 1776, from Warner.

Isaac Waldron married, about 1742, at Rumford, Susanna Chandler. Neither the date of his birth nor death is known. His widow died at Concord, in 1802, aged eighty-three years. No doubt this is Susanna Chandler. The children of Isaac and Susanna Waldron were: Jacob, Isaac and Susanna.

(II) Jacob, eldest child of Isaac and Susannah (Chandler) Waldron, was born in Rumford, March 2. 1743, and settled with his father, Isaac, and his brother, Isaac Jr., in Warner, in 1763. He was lieutenant, March 5, 1774. in the Fifteenth New Hampshire Militia, Twelfth Company, of New Amesbury (Warner) ; and lieutenant in Captain William Stilson's company, the Second Company, in Colonel Wyman's New Hampshire regiment, raised in 1776. He married, July 12, 1764. Sarah Abbott, born March 1, 1743, daughter of James Ab- bott, born January 12. 1717. Harriman's History of Warner gives their children as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Benjamin C.

(III) Benjamin Currier, son of Jacob and Sarah (Abbott) Waldron, was born June, 1790, in Warner, where he died January 26, 1872. in his eiglity-second year. He served as a soldier from that town in the War of 1812. His wife was Jemima Hunt, and their children are noted as follows : Hannah F., wife of David Elliott, died in Boscawen. Theodore D. was a farmer in Warner, where he died. Mary Marinda married Origen Clark, and died in Manchester. Isaac and Lucinda E. were twins, and both lived and died in Warner, on a farm. Dustin W. is the subject of the following paragraphı.

(IV) Dustin Watkins, son of Benjamin Cur- rier and Jemima ()lunt) Waldron, was born in Warner, September 27, 1832. After the attendance at the common schools incident to the time and the locality, he was employed by the Concord & Clare- mont Railroad Company, filled various minor posi- tions, and was conductor in charge of the first train carrying freight into Bradford, New Hampshire, in 1850. He was employed in the train service many-

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years, and was subsequently appointed general bag- gage agent of the Northern road. He held the position till it was leased by the Boston & Lowell. and continued in railroad business, in various im- portant capacities until his death, which occurred August 10, 1898. He was an attendant of the Uni- tarian Church. He was a man in whose fidelity and judgment the railroad company placed great con- fidence, and was highly esteemed as a citizen.

He married, at Bradford, New Hampshire, No- vember 11, 1853, Sarah Elizabeth Carter. daughter of Amaziah Carter (see Carter, VI). She was born February 19, 1835, and now resides in Con- cord. They had two children, Lizzie Evelyn, born June, 1855, died in infancy, and George Dustin.

(V) George Dustin, son of Dustin W. and Sarah (Carter) Waldron, was born in Concord, New Hampshire. August 24, 1871, and was edu- cated in the public schools of that city. In 1889 he took employment in the auditor's office of the Northern Railroad, and when that office was moved to Boston, in 1890, was transferred to the freight office of the Boston & Maine Railroad, remaining till 1892, when he was promoted to local freight agent, taking charge of the freight business of the road at Concord. He is a life member of the Amer- ican Unitarian Association, serving for a number of years on the prudential committee of the Con- cord Society.

He is a Republican and has taken a lively in- terest in public affairs; has served two years in the city council. and is now (1905) a member of the board of aldermen. He enlisted in the New Hamp- shire National Guard in ISO1, and was appointed inspector general on Governor Jordon's staff in 1902, and has since continued to discharge the duties · of that office upon the staffs of Governors Bachelder and McLane. He was made a Mason in 1893, and is now past master of Enreka Lodge, No. 70, An- cient Free and Accepted Masons, Concord. also past master of Horace Chase Council, No. 4, Royal and Select Masters. He holds office in Mt. Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar, is a Thirty-second . degree Mason and a member of Bektash Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine. He is also a member of the Wonolancet Club. He was mustered into the service of the United States, May, 1898, as first lieutenant in the First New Hampshire Volunteers, and made regimental adjutant ; he accompanied the regiment to Chickamauga, and was honorably dis- charged by reason of resignation July, 1898.

He married, May 24, 1894. Grace Elizabeth Un- derhill, daughter of George and Elizabeth Ann (Danforth) Underhill, of Concord, New Hamp- shire, born August 19. 1871, and they have one child, Charles Dustin, born September 30, 1901.

Hood is the name of one of the pioneer HOOD families of Massachusetts, which came from England, and is probably of the same stock as Thomas Hood, the distinguished poet, and Admiral Hood, of the British navy, for the latter of whom Mount Hood, Oregon, is named.

(!) This branch of the family is traced to a

Mr. Hood, who was a resident of Salem. Massa- chusetts. and was killed while a young man by an accident in a well. He was the father of four chil- dren : Abraham, Amos, Isaac and

(Il) Abraham Hood was born in Salem. Mas- sachusetts, where he was educated in the common schools. When about twenty-one years old he went to Chelsea, Vermont, in company with his brother, Amos, and worked on the farm of Enos Hood, a distant relative, who had gone from Connecticut when a poor young man, and after working for hire for a short time, purchased three hundred acres of land in the primeval forest of Chelsea, which by good management and hard labor he converted into one of the best farms in the neighborhood, and made himself what was then and there called a rich man. He lived three and one-half miles from Chel- sea. on West Hill, and was called the best farmer in his vicinity. He had a large number of cattle, made much butter and cheese, manufactured and farmed on a large scale. He married a daughter of William Lane, for whom William Lane Hood was named. They were the parents of eleven children : Asa, Henry. Abraham, William L., Eliza, Martha, David, Hiram, Harriet, Kate and Annie. Each of these married and had families of from eight to ten children each.

(III) William Lane, fourth child and son of Abraham and Eliza (Hood) Hood, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, September 17, 1817. He was educated in the common schools, which he left at the age of fifteen years. After working at different employments, he went to Lowell and learned the carpenter's trade under the supervision of his brother Abraham, who was a very competent car- penter, and at one time he received seven dollars a day to superintend the construction of a bank build- ing in Lowell, which was considered very large wages in those days. William worked at carpentry from the age of twenty-two years until he was sixty. After six years in Lowell he returned to Salem, where he remained till 1854, when he removed to Concord, New Hampshire, where he has since con- tinuously resided. On account of poor health he worked at light outdoor employment for some years after quitting carpentry. When about seventy years old he opened a small variety store opposite Abbott & Downing's factory, at what is now 115 South Main street. where he was in business until eighty- five years old, being then the oldest merchant in Concord. Since that time he has lived at leisure in the enjoyment of a green old age. Mr. Hood was a Whig till that party fell. Since then he has voted for every Republican candidate.

He married, 1884, Ann Maria Dole, a native of Lynn, Massachusetts, daughter of Seth R. Dole, who was an expert mechanic, and came to Concord when the railroad was first constructed to that place, and worked in the machine shop. Mrs. Hood died August 21. 1894. The children of this mar- riage are : Maria, died young : Susan Ella, married John Brooks; Seth Richard, a plumber ; William E., a merchant tailor. All live in Concord.

(IV) William Edwin, son of William Lane and

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Ann Maria (Dole) Hood, was born in Salem. Massachusetts, July 1. 1849. When five years of age he was brought by his parents to Concord, and educated in the public schools of that city. In carly life he became apprentice to a tailor. This occupation he mastered thoroughly, and subse- quently set up in business for himself, and by square dealing and good management has built up a handsome business, having one of the leading custom tailoring establishments in the state. In 1900 he built, and has since occupied, a handsomely appointed establishment on Main street. He is a lirector in the Rumford Building & Loan Associa- tion, of Concord. of which he has been president. He has taken some part in politics, and from 1884 t . 1888 was alderman. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and has been a trustee of the First Church of that denomination in Con- cord. He has been a member of the Masonic fraternity for many years, and is a member of Blazing Star Lodge, No. 11, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Trinity Royal Arch Chapter, No. 2: Horace Chase Council, No. 4. Royal and Select Masters; Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights Tem- plar, and also of the Wonolancet Club. He mar- ried, November 30, 1870. Ella Francella Saltmarsh, born November II, 1848. daughter of George and Lucinda (Sleeper) Saltmarsh. They have had seven children: Harry R., born August 27, 1871. Arthur Edward, January 9. 1875. died July 26, 1897. Alice Ella. April 11. 1877. Edith. September 14, 18,8, died July 18, 1898. Grace, October 5, 1880. Ralph, October 11, 1886, died July 15. 1888. Her- bert. June 16, 1888.

(V) Harry Rensselaer. eldest child of William E. and Ella F. (Saltmarsh) Hood, was born in Con- cord. August 22. 1871. His literary education was obtained in the public schools of Concord. Sub- sequently he took a special course in law at the Boston University of Law. studied in the office of Hon, llarry G. Sargent, of Concord, and was ad- mitted to the bar in March, 1898. For a time he was associated in the practice with Edmund S. Cook. For some years past he has practiced alone, and has a large and constantly increasing business. He has been secretary of the Rumford Building & Loan Association for ten years. He was a mem- ber of the common council and president of that body in 1896-97, and in the year 1898-99 was a member of the board of aldermen. While president of the common council he was instrumental in affecting some important changes in the adminis- tration of city affairs, having the office of city auditor created. and making the office of city clerk permanent, with a regular salary. Mr. Hood was clerk of the police court of Concord from January 1. ISOS, to 1905, when he resigned, as the tenure of the office prevented his practicing in that court. Hc attends the North Congregational Church, and is a member of the Wonolancet Club. Ile married, July 3. 1895. Nellie Wyman Elkins, daughter of William C. and Lona (Bartlett) Elkins, born September 5, 18;1. Three children: Harold Hall, born April 25.

1896. William L., April 20, 1807, deceased. Frances Barker. July 26, 1903.

This surname is borne by persons MAYNARD of English, French and German birth. The name in French is gener- ally spelled Menard, and a German form is Mein- hardt.

(1) August Maynard was born in Schlegel, Saxony, May 18. 1825. In youth he learned milling, which in Germany includes a knowledge of the operations of grinding grain, sawing lumber and expressing linseed oil. He became the proprietor of a inill where these industries were carried on, and was also a baker, and later a distiller. He is now (1907) over eighty-three years, and enjoys a green old age in retirement and plenty. The christian name of his first wife was Theresa. She bore him five children and died in 1862. He mar- ried (second) Mrs. Christina Ramer, by whom he had three children. The children by the first wife are: I. Bertha, who married William Georgi and lived in Manchester: he died July 3, 1904. 2. Augusta, who is married and lives in Germany. 3. Herman F., mentioned below. 4. Henry, who lives in Manchester. 5. Amelia, who is married and lives in Germany. The children of the second wife are: Maria, dicd young; Anna, married Emil Houboldt, in Chemnitz, Germany: and Alfred.

(II) Herman Fred, third child and eldest son of August and Theresa Maynard, was born in Gel- nau, Kreiszwickau, Saxony. October 1, 1854, and learned the various trades which his father was carrying on. In 1872. at the age of eighteen, lie left Germany, and on the 14th of October took pas- sage on the steamer Deutschland, landing at Castle Garden, in New York, on the 28th of that month. From there he proceeded to Manchester. New Hampshire, where he was immediately employed as a gingham weaver in the old bag mill, where he remained for nine months. He then went into the employ of the Amoskeag Company and followed the same employment until 1876. He next went to Clinton. Massachusetts. and was employed until 1880, when he went to Boston and formed a part- nership and engaged in operating a grist mill. Four months later his partner ran away with the funds of the concern, and Mr. Maynard was $2,000 poorer in a financial way, but much wiser in experience. After a short sojourn at Clinton he returned to Manchester and resuming his old position at the loom. worked four months, and was then promoted to loomfixer, at which he served four years, and was then advanced to second hand, and had charge of the weave room for the following eight years. In 1893 he started in business for himself and has since had a constantly increasing trade as dealer in paints, oils and wall paper, and as a sign painter and artist decorator, and now employs fifteen or twenty men in the busy seasons. Mr. Maynard is a busy, energetic and successful business man and stands high in the community. He was made a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Lancaster Lodge, No. 89. Clinton, Massachusetts,

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which he left to become a charter member of Oak- hill Lodge, No. 84, of Manchester. He is also a member of Galilee Lodge, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons. of Manchester; the Amoskeag Vet- erans ; the Ancient Order of United Workmen; the German Männerchor; the Beethoven Club; the Turners, and the Harugari Club. In 1885, accom- panied by his wife. he paid a visit to his old home in Germany. In 1904 he and his daughter Elsie spent four months touring Europe, visiting Berlin, Dresden, Munich, Cologne, Venice, Prague, Vienna, London, Dublin, Belfast. and many other places in Continental and Insular Europe. He married, Sep- tember II, 1877, in Clinton, Annie Duffie, born in Blackburn, England. 1856, daughter of John and Mary Duffie, of Clinton, Massachusetts, natives of Ireland, who lived for years in Blackburn, England, and came to America in 1863. Two children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Maynard: Elsie Etta and Irene.

MERRICK "The Meyricks," says Burke's Peer- age. "are of the purest and noblest Cambrian blood, and have possessed the same ancestral estate and residence at Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales. without interruption about a thousand years. They have the rare distinction of being lineally descended both from the sovereign Princes of Wales of the Welsh Royal family, and from King Edward I. whose eldest son was the first Prince of Wales of the English royal family." The line of descent is traced from Cadvan (Catamantis), descended from a long line of regal ancestors. He was king of North Wales at the end of the sixth century, and had his palace at Aberffraw. He fought at Bangor Iscoed. and is supposed to have been killed there, and buried at Bardsey. Succeed- ing him is another long line of royal and noble personages down to Meyrick ap Llewellyn (Meuric), who was a captain of the guard at the coronation of Henry VIII, April 25, 1509. He was high sheriff of the county Anglesey, which office he held until his death. From him the name "Meyrick," signifying "guardian," is derived as a surname. in pursuance of an act of Henry VIII, requiring that the name of every man at the time should be borne by his descendants as a surname, there being no surnames before that time in Wales. He married Margaret, daughter of Roland, rector of Aberffraw, Anglesey, Wales. His will is dated November 30, 1538. His children were: 1. Richard Merrick. Esq., of Bodorgan. Anglesey, Wales, who succeeded Meyrick ap Llewellyn as high sheriff of Anglesey county. 2. Rt. Rev. Roland Merrick, D. D., Bishop of Bangor, Wales, born 1505. 3. William Merrick, who died unmarried. 4. Owain Merrick, who died unmarried. 5. Rev. John Merrick, rector of Lland- achya, Wales. 6. Rev. Edmund Merrick, LL. D .. Arch-deacon of Bangor, Wales. 7. Rev. Reynault Merrick, rector of Llanlechid, Wales.

Roland Merrick, second son of Meyrick ap Llew- ellyn, was the first Protestant bishop of Bangor, and was buried in Bangor Cathedral. From him

is descended the Philadelphia branch of the family in America.

The Charlestown (Massachusetts) branch is supposed to have been derived from Rev. John Meyrick, fifth son of Meyrick ap Llewellyn. all evi- dence thus far obtainable indicating that source for the four brothers. William, James, John, and Thomas, who settled in Massachusetts in 1636. The English descendants of Meyrick ap Llewellyn had among them many men of prominence in the church, in the army and in letters. Six were knighted by different sovereigns of England. A hasty examination of college records shows that over seventy Merricks graduated from American colleges between 1773 and 1901.

Most of the American Merricks were farmers, and in nearly all cases were owners of the farms they tilled. Many were sailors, and followed whal- ing for an occupation, especially those of the Nan- tucket branch of the family, and were part owners in the vessels in which they sailed. No less than twenty of them were lost at sea from the port of Nantucket alone. The Merricks have been pioneers from the beginning. and they have left their im- press upon the nomenclature of our country, in- dicating a certain priority either of settlement or of influence in the community where they resided. Nineteen places in the United States and Canada bear this nante. The name . Merrick has been spelled in at least eight different ways in the early records of this country; at the present time the name varies from Merrick to Myrick, Merich, and Meyrick.

(I) Lieutenant William Merrick, the eldest of the four immigrant brothers, was born in Wales, in 1603, and came to Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the ship "James" in the spring of 1636. Nothing is known of his early life; he was a farmer after arriving in Massachusetts. He served six years after his arrival in the colony, in the colonial militia under Captain Miles Standish, and is mentioned in the records as an ensign, and later as a lieutenant. "That he gave all his time and attention to his military duties seems to be indicated by the fact that he was not married until 1642, which was at the end of his six year term of service. He ap- pears to have had property both at Eastham and Duxhury. He was probably married at Eastham, but the destruction of a part of the book of records of that town renders it impossible to determine this fact definitely. He certainly lived in both Eastham and Duxbury, within the decade between 1637 and 1647, as some of his children were born at Eastham during that time, and yet he is reported as being a citizen of Duxbury. The records relate that he was a citizen of Duxbury in 1636. when he was allotted five acres of land "Next the Glade at Powder Point." In 1637 he was allotted another twenty acres at Great Head. He was one of the original proprietors of Bridgewater. He was surveyor of highways in 1646, and constable in 1647. May 22, 1655. he became a legal voter in Eastham, and took up his permanent residence there. Paige, in his history of Hardwick, says: "William Merrick, the

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"Daniel Priest Farm." They were among the first settlers to plant an orchard. Besides a farmer, Levi Priest was also a brick manufacturer. He died December 22, 1828, his death being due to a fall from the high beams of his barn, the planks having been removed without his knowledge. His wife died October 25, 1848. They had fourteen children : Lucy, Levi, Mary, Jabez, Daniel, Joseph K., Benjamin, an infant, Betsey, Eunice, died young: Eunice M ... Jonathan, George Washington, Phoda Eveline.

(VII) Daniel, their fifth child and third son, born March 14, 1792, married, October 12, 1816, Nancy Andrews, who died September 26, 1832. They had five children: John B .. Howard E., Joseph K., Isaac A. and Rebecca.

(VIII) Joseph K. Priest, third child and son of Levi, was born September 17, 1824, and died April 3, 1904. He attended publie school in the winter, and when not at school worked for his father on the farm and in a blacksmith shop con- nected with it until he was twenty-one. He then started out as a cabinet maker in the village of Hancock, New Hampshire. He worked his trade six months, and then secured a position with the Nashua Lock Company. at Nashua. New Hamp- shire, in 1845. He continued in the employ of this firm as pattern maker until 1853, when he became foreman for Gillis & Taylor, of Nashua, a firm engaged in building the Howe sewing machine. This position he held until 1855, when he returned to the Nashua Lock Company as foreman of the tool and pattern department, where he stayed until 1858, when he accepted a position in New York as foreman for Howe & Taylor, builders of the Howe sewing machine. In 1860 he began making the Howe sewing machine in Nashua. where he estab- lished a plant which he operated until 1863. when the business was removed to Bridgewater, Con- nectieut, and Mr. Priest went into business for him- self as a builder of machine tools, in which busi- ness he continued until 1866. He next fitted up a shop for the making of a power sheep shearing machine. He invented the first power horse clip- ping machine, which immediately sprang into great demand. The form of wool cutters he designed at that time was copied by English concerns for the Australian market. In 1873 Mr. Priest invented the first toilet clipper for barbers' use. A partnership was formed for the purpose of building these different inventions, under the name of the Amer- ican Horse Clipping Machine Company, of which Mr. Priest was superintendent and one-quarter owner. Two years later ( 1875) the concern be- came the American Shearer Manufacturing Com- pany. Mr. Priest purchased the other interests of his partners in 1882, and in 1887 built the present factory, which he managed until 1891. when he was relieved by his son. lle married Lucinda A. Davis. of Nashua. Their only child is Dr. Fred K., subject of this sketch.

(IX) Dr. Fred K. Priest was born October 12, 1860. He was educated in the common schools and at a commercial school in Boston. Flere his studies

were interrupted by a severe illness, and when he again attended school it was at the University of New York, where he graduated with the degree of M. D., in 1882. He immediately took a position on the staff of the New York charity and maternity hospitals for eighteen months. For six months following he engaged in the study of pathology under Professor Walsh, at Bellevue laboratory. He then accepted a position as assistant resident physician at the Riverside Hospital for Contagious Diseases. under the New York city health depart- ment. He was later, in 1884, made resident physi- cian, which post he held till IS85, when he was de- tailed to fit up and open the Willard Parker Hospi- tal for Contagious Diseases of Children, in East Sixteenth street. His record of one hundred oper- ations was a remarkable one at these hospitals. O'Dwyre's Intubation in Diphtheria. In 1889 he re- signed his position to take up private practice in Brooklyn, New York, where he was located until 1891, when he was called by his father to Nashua, New Hampshire, to assist him in business, and is now treasurer and manager of the American Shearer Manufacturing Company, also vice-president of the Nashua Trust Company. He is an Eighteenth De- gree Mason, a member of Rising Sun Lodge, St. George Commandery. Knights Templar, and St. George Chapter of the Rose Croix. He is a mem- ber of the Boston Yacht Club. He married Mary Costello, and their children are: Chester A. and Fred K.

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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 112

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