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(V11) Captain Henry Bridge, youngest son and child of Jonathan and Roxana (Ives) Atherton, was born in Cavendish, Vermont, September 21, 1835, and died at his home, Fairmount Heights, Nashua, New Hampshire, February 7. 1906, of pneu- monia, aged seventy-one. He was educated in the public schools of Cavendish, at Black River Acad- emy, Ludlow and Leland Seminary, Townsend, and
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Dartmouth College, from which he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1859. He read law in the office of Joseph Sawyer, Esq., in Alton, Illinois, for a short time, and subsequently in the office of John F. Dean, Esq., with whom he formed a partnership after his admission to the bar. He attended the Albany Law School one year, graduat- ing with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1860.
Lawyer Atherton had been in practice but a short time when the Rebellion occurred, and he hastened back to Vermont, where the governor of the state accepted his .offer to raise a company of soldiers. August 13, 1866, he began the work of enlistment and in just two weeks he had about one hundred and twenty men enrolled. He was elected Captain September 3, and on the twenty-first his
company was mustered with the United States service at Brattleboro as Company C of the Fourth Vermont Volunteers, and the regiment left the next day for the front. This regiment was a part of the First Vermont Briga- diers, and was in the division commanded by Gen- eral "Baldy" Smith and in the fall of 1861 and the following winter and spring formed a part of Gen- eral McClellan's command and participated in the famous "Peninsular campaign." At Lee's Mills, on Warwick creek, April 16, 1862, Captain Ather- ton, while in command of his company attacking the enemy's position, was severely wounded by a minie ball in the right groin, and also sustained a scalp wound from a piece of shell at the same time. On account of the disabilities following these wounds he was incapacitated, and resigned August 12, 1862.
October 27, 1862, he removed to Nashua and very soon afterward took editorial charge of the Nashua Telegraph, which he conducted until April, 1864, when he again entered the practice of law. From that time until his death he was engaged in the work of his chosen profession, though he filled several public positions at different times. He had for a law partner the late William Barrett from 1866 to 1872. He served as postmaster of Nashua from 1872 until 1876. During the year 1867-68 and 1885 and 1887 he was a member of the legislature. He was chairman of the committee on national affairs, and served on the judicial committee. In 1884 he was a delegate to the representative convention which met in Chicago and nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presidency. President Harrison appointed him a member of the Samoan land com- mission under the treaty of Berlin, which post he declined. Through the influence of his old com- rade, Senator Redfield Proctor, then secretary of war, he was offered the governorship of Alaska, but this too he declined. In 1890 he was elected to the board of education for a term of four years, and during the last two years of his incumbency of that place he was president of that body.
Captain Atherton was an energetic and useful citizen. Among the lawyers of New Hampshire he was a leader. As a journalist he was well known for carefully prepared, scholarly and elegantly writ-
ten articles, which covered all sorts of subjects. He was a perspicuous and entertaining public speaker, and made many Memorial Day addresses. He was a past commander of John G. Foster Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and prominent among the members of that order. He was a thirty-third de- gree Mason and a member of the following named Masonic bodies : Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and Edward A. Ray- mond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret.
He married (first), at Ludlow, Vermont, Jan- uary 7, 1861, Abbie Louise Armington, born in Lud- low, daughter of General Samuel Laton and Eunice (Watkins) Armington and granddaughter of Ste- phen Watkins, a soldier in the Revolution. She was a graduate of Black River Academy. She taught school before her marriage. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Ludlow from early life till her death. She died after a long and pain- ful illness, in Nashua, December 8, 1896. They were the parents of the following named children : Maud, born August 2, 1863, married, September 23, 1885, Almon W. Griswold, of New York. Grace, born February 8, 1869, married, December 29, 1892, Dr. William F. Hazelton, of Springfield, Vermont. Robert, born September 26, 1872, died August I, 1873. Anna H., born July 2, 1876, married George S. Snow, July, 1900. Henry Francis, born Augu-t 3, 1883, now a student at Harvard. He married (second), September 8, 1898, Ella Blaylock, born in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, January 4, 1800, daughter of William and Margaret (Schollick) Blaylock, of Lancashire. She was educated in the common schools of Georgeville and at McGill Col- lege, Montreal, and Queen's University, Ontario, graduating from the latter institution with the class of 1887, with the degrees of Doctor of Medicine and Master in Surgery. In 1896 she took a post-grad- uate course at the Post-Graduate Hospital in New York City. She was the first Quebec woman to receive a diploma from a Canadian medical college. She began practice at Newport. Vermont, in 1886. While there she became a member of the Orleans County Medical Society, being the first woman ad- mitted to membership in that body. After prac- ticing two years in Vermont, she came to New Hampshire and located in Nashua, in December, ISSS. Here her ability as a physician was immed- iately recognized, and she at once took rank among the physicians of the city, where she has since suc- cessfully practiced. She makes a specialty of diseases of women and children and abdominal surgery, and perhaps is the only woman in the state who per- forms abdominal sections for her own patients. She is a member of the Nashua Medical Society, of which she was secretary for fourteen years, the New Hampshire Surgical Club, the New Hampshire State Society, American Medical Association and the Hillsboro County Medical Society, of which she is secretary and treasurer. She is also a mem- ber of the Fortnightly Club, the Young Women's Christian Association and the Church of the Good
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Shepherd. Captain and Ella (Blaylock) Atherton are the parents of two sons: Blaylock, born Oc- tober 6, 1900, and Ives, born February 25, 1903.
This family was formerly of some CHAREST political importance in Canada, and its influence was exerted in behalf of the French Canadian people. The general ten- dency of its younger members is towards the higher walks in life, at least two of them being at the present time connected with the medical profession of the Granite State. and the stamp of intellectual superiority is plainly visible in their rapid advance- ment.
(1) Benonie Charest, whose ancestors came from France, was a native of L'Acadie, Province of Quebec.
(II) Benonic (2), son of the preceding, was born in L'Acadie, November 25, 1820. As a young man he became actively concerned in the political affairs of the Dominion, and participated in the Revolution of 1848-49. He subsequently engaged in the real estate business, and establishing his resi- dence in Montreal. he continued his activities in public affairs, vigorously supporting the principles of the political faction known as the Liberal party. He married Henriette Prevost. and the children of this union are: Arsene, Azelie, Azilda, Eulalie, J. C. R., J. Charles B., M. D., Eva. Joseph A .. M. D., and Eugenie. J. C. B. is president of the National Counter Manufacturing Company, of Nashua. Eulalie is the wife of Remi Boyer. J. C. Remi is now residing in Fargo, North Dakota. J. Charles B., M. D., is practicing medicine in Derry, New Hampshire.
(III) Joseph Amedee Charest, M. D .. fourth son of Beronie and Henriette ( Prevost) Charest, was born at L'Acadie, Province of Quebec, Canada, July 18, 1867. He obtained his primary education ir the schools of L'Acadie and at Montreal, and afterward took a medical course at the Tufts Med- ical School of Boston, Massachusetts, from which he graduated with the class of 1896. Following his graduation he opened an office and entered the practice of medicine at Nashua. New Hampshire, where he has since resided. In 1898 he went to Paris, France, where he completed his studies as physician and surgeon. Returning to Nashua he resumed the practice of his profession, and has since advanced rapidly to a position of high pro- fessional standing in that city, where he has built up a large and lucrative practice both as physician and surgeon.
Ile is a member of the New Hampshire State and the Nashua Medical societies, and vice-presi- dent of the latter. Politically Dr. Charest acts with the Democratic party, and was councilman in Nashua in 1905-06. Before coming to the United States he served as a corporal in the Sixty-fifth Battalion of the Canadian militia. In 1004 he or- ganized a stock company known as the National Counter Manufacturing Company, for manufactur- ing heels and counters for boots and shoes, and has
been secretary and treasurer of this company since its organization. In religion Dr. Charest is a Roman Catholic. He is a member of the Catholic Order of Foresters, St. Jean Baptiste Union of Nashua, and the Artisans Canadiens Francais, and is medical examiner for the latter order and also for Les Canado Americains, Les Foresteurs Catho- liques, and the League of the Sacred Heart.
He married, in Nashua, April 24. 1900, Anna Pearl Phaneuf, born in Nashua, August 1, 1879, daughter of Horace C. and Emelie (Fontaine) Phaneuf, of Nashua, formerly of St. Damas, Can- ada. They have two children: Marie Emilie Lorette. born in Nashua, March 6, 1902; and Joseph Amedce Raymond, born in Nashua, March 16, 1905.
SEXTON This family originated in county Kerry, Ireland. Its founder in Amer- ica adopted the independent life of a farmer soon after his arrival, and his children have inherited his habits of industry and thrift.
(1) William Sexton was born in county Limerick, in 1824. He came to America in 1845, a period in Irish history made memorable by a severe famine. Shortly after his arrival he went to Hollis, New Hampshire, and engaged in farming. He mar- ried Johanna Curtin, also a native of Ireland, and she became the mother of seven children, four of whom are now living, namely : Ellen, wife of Will- iam Crown, of Lowell, Massachusetts; Edward M., a prosperous farmer of Norwell, Massachusetts ; Mary, who is now Mrs. James Kivlan, and resides in Lowell; and John B .. of Nashua.
(11) John Bernard, son of William and Johanna (Curtin) Sexton, was born in Hollis, September 15, 1853. He was educated in the public schools of his native town, and going to Nashua at the age of eighteen years he entered mercantile business as a clerk in a dry goods store. His business ability rapidly developed, and in 1880 he engaged in trade upon his own account as a member of the firm of Jackman & Sexton. He later entered the employ of Howard & Company, manufacturers of and dealers in furniture, as manager of their retail store, and in 1900 was admitted to the firm. This con- cern is now known as The Howard-Sexton Com- pany, and is transacting an extensive business. Mr. Sexton is a Thirty-second degree and Sir Knight Mason.
He married Kate B. Emerson, daughter of Will- iam B. and Nancy B. (Presby) Emerson. Mr. Emerson was a second cousin of ex-President Pierce. Their children are: Ralph E., a graduate of Dartmouth College, class of 1894; and Ruth J., who is now engaged in teaching school.
All the Tuck (or Tucke) families which TUCK have lived in Hampton, Rockingham county, New Hampshire, and all of those that went out to other places, with their numerous descendants. are descended from one ancestor, Robert Tuck, whose residence was in Gorlston, a seaboard town in the northeasterly part of Suffolk county, England.
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(I) Robert Tuck was born in Gorlston, Suffolk county, England, but the date of his nativity is not known. He was a tailor hy trade, but does not seem to have followed that occupation after com- ing to America. In 1636 or a little earlier he left England and came to Massachusetts. For a while he lived in Watertown, near Boston, and in Salem. In 1638 he was one of those who petitioned the general court at Boston for leave to settle at Win- nacunnet (now Hampton). The petition was granted, and tradition says that Robert Tuck was one of those who made settlement there in the fall of the same year, September 7, 1639. He was made freeman about 1640, and the town granted him lands which were located as early as 1644. The records show ten acres of upland granted him for a house lot; thirty acres of upland granted to him; twenty acres of upland granted him; five acres of meadow granted unto him. In 1646 the common and undivided lands were divided into one hundred and forty-seven equal parts, called shares, of which Robert Tuck had three. His house was near the meeting house, the social and business centre of the settlement, and was conveniently sit- uated for a public house, and was for many years kept as such, it being the earliest public house in the town. Here he kept what was known as an ordinary, and was allowed to sell by retail to trav- elers and strangers, beer, wine and "strong waters." He was required to furnish food and lodging for travelers, and stabling for horses at reasonable prices, and in Hampton (then a half shire town) entertainment for the court and juries, and clients attending court. After residing in Hampton fifteen years or longer, Goodman Tuck had occasion to visit England on business, to be gone a year or longer, and during his absence his ordinary was closed. Ont his return he reopened his ordinary without a license, and thereby unwittingly violated the law, for which violation he was fined by the law court five pounds, which the general court re- duced to three pounds and required him to pay. He kept the ordinary from this time till the close of his life. He also acted as chirurgeon, that is, a healer of diseases by manual operations, instru- ments, or external applications. There is an entry in the old town records under date of May 15, 1658, in reference to a stranger mentioned as a "seaman lying in Town under God m (Goodman) Tucks hands at surgerie." Another record is of his re- covery of ten pounds and costs of court from Thomas Davis and Stephen Kent for the cure of an Indian. Robert Tuck was selectman in 1648-49- 52-57 ; March 16, 1647, he was appointed town clerk and held that office till May 15, 1650, "2: Mo .: 1649," he was appointed "ye clerke of ye writts for the town of Hampton"; that is, clerk of the com- missioners for small causes (that board being a court of record). Goodman Tuck died intestate October 7, 1664. and administration on his estate was granted to Joanna, his widow, and John San- borne, his son-in-law. The inventory of the estate amounts to three hundred and eighty-five pounds,
seventeen shillings, two pence. Robert Tuck was married and had a child .before his emigration. The name of his wife, who survived him and died ""14: 12 Mo .: 1673."" was Joanna, or as variously spelled in the records, Joanah, Johana, Johannah. They had four children, the dates of whose births are not known; their names are: Robert, Elizabeth, Mary, and Edward, whose sketch next follows.
(II) Edward, son of Robert and Joanna Tuck, was born in England, and immigrated with his parents and sisters to New England. He resided with his parents until his marriage, and afterward continued to reside with them or settled on some part of his father's estate. He died intestate, April 6, 1652, and his widow administered on his estate, which was inventoried at sixty-one pounds, ten shillings, six pence. His real estate, including house and land, adjoining four and one-half acres, fresh meadow. ten acres salt marsh and commonage, was appraised at twenty-seven pounds. ten shillings. He married, about 1648, Mary, daughter of Thomas Philbrick, Sr., who had settled in Hampton not long before. She married (second) James Wall, of Hampton, widower, by whom she had two daugh- ters. The children of Edward and Mary were : Edward, and John, the subject of the next par- agraph.
(III) Deacon John. the younger of the two sons of John and Mary (Philbrick) Tuck, was born in Hampton, in 1652, and died January 4, 1742, aged ninety. Deacon Tuck owned consider- able real estate, and was to some extent engaged in the cultivation of his land. He was a carpenter by trade and followed that vocation, but to what extent is not known. He invested capital in build- ing mills, which in some instances he operated. At a town meeting held September 16, 1686. he was voted liberty to set up a grist and fulling mill on the Nilus river. He built the grist mill and later got permission from the town, November 14, 1689, to build the fulling mill further up the Nilus, where that stream comes out of the Hasica Meadow. This mill was built and operated many years. He built several dams at later dates to in- crease the flow of water to these mills, one of which, called "the fast dam," at the place now called Spring-Heads, is still in part kept up.
Deacon Tuck was a constant reader of the Bible, and read it through in course no less than twelve times between February 13. 1677, and May 21, 1715, as appears from his diary. John Tuck and his wife united with the church February 28, 1697, about seven weeks after their marriage. He was chosen a deacon of the church. July 19, 1714, and held that office till death, more than twenty-seven years. He was highly esteemed both for his ability and in- tegrity, and was often chosen to fill important offices in town. He was selectman in 1680-82-87- 88-94-98: 1700-11-16-17. July 5, 1714, he was chosen town clerk and retained the office until March 10. 1730, a period of almost sixteen years. He was twice elected to represent the town in the general assembly of the province, yet the time of his actual service as a member was in each case
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very brief. His terms of service were in Septem- ber, 1696, and May, 1717. He married, "" ""9: II Mo .: 1677,"" Bethia Hobbs, born in Hampton, ""28: 12 Mo: 1658,"" and died May 29, 1738. aged sixty-one. She was the daughter of Morris and Sarahı (Eastow) Hobbs. The children of this marriage were: Bethia, Mary, John, died young ; Samuel, Sarah, Ilannah, Edward, Jonathan and John.
(IV) Edward (2), seventh child and third son of John and Bethia (Hobbs) Tuck, was born in Hampton, February 7. 1695, and died in Hampton, June 7, 1772, aged seventy-seven. He was a car- penter. He settled in Kensington, where he re- sided the remainder of his life. He married, No- vember 24, 1720, Sarah Dearborn. born June 17, 1699, daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Batchelder) Dearborn, of Hampton. She died January 15, 1756, aged fifty-seven. They had eleven children, Sarah, Bettina, Mercy, Edward, Mary, Elizabeth, Hannah, John, Samuel, Jeremiah and Jesse.
(V) Ensign Samuel Tuck, ninth child and third son of Edward (2) and Sarah (Dearborn) Tuck, was born in Kensington, September 13, 1738, and died November 12. 1777, aged thirty-nine. He lived for a time in Kensington, and removed thence to Brentwood, and lived on the farm next south of his brother John's. He enlisted as a private in the company of his townsman, Captain Porter Kimball, Colonel Stephens Evans' regiment, September 8, 1777, and marched with his command to join the Northern Continental army at Saratoga. He was promoted to ensign, and died in the service, No- vember 12, 1777, after serving two months and five days. He married, December 30, 1762, Anna Moul- ton, born June 24, 1744, daughter of John and Mary (Marston) . Moulton, of Hampton. She survived him more than fifty-eight years, and died August 8, 1836. aged ninety-two years, one month and three days. Their children were: Edward, Samuel, John Moulton, Anna, Mary, Jeremiah, Jesse and Sarah.
(VI) Deacon Edward (3), eldest child of En- sign Samuel and Anna (Moulton) Tuck, was born January 4. 1764, and died April 30, 1843, aged seven- ty-nine. He lived on the paternal homestead. He was a pious and highly respected man, and was a deacon of the Baptist Church in Brentwood more than fifty years. He married, November 29, 1785, Mercy Smith, born February 5, 1768, and died August, 1849. aged eighty-one; she was the daugh- ter of Israel and Elizabeth (Jenkins) Smith, of Pollin, now Tremont. The children of this union were: Samuel, Mercy, Edward, Anna, Aaron, Susan. Sally, Israel, Betsy, Thomas Jefferson, Fanny, Perley C., Lavinia and Jonathan S.
(VII) Samuel (2), eldest child of Edward (3) and Mercy (Smith) Tuck, was born August 31, 1786, and died November 23, 1860, aged seventy- four, He was a farmer. and resided in Tremont. Hle married Margaret Smith, and they had ten chil- dren: Elizabeth A., Harriet W., Mary J., Samuel, Mercy S., Abigail S., Margaret S., Susan W., Al- mira N. and Sally J.
(VIII) Major Samuel (3), fourth child and eldest son of Samuel (2) and Margaret (Smith) Tuck, was born in Tremont or Candia, New Hamp- shire, October 19, 1814 and died in Nashua, New Hampshire, April 19, 1882. He was educated in the public schools of Candia, and for a time was a resident of Manchester. In 1842 he settled in Nashua and was employed several years by Beason & Reed, dealers in dry goods. Subsequently he opened a retail millinery and fancy goods store on his own account, and carried on that business until his retirement, which was five years before his death. He was moderately conservative, but alive to all questions of public interest and a man of strong convictions and decided opinions. In politics he was a Democrat, and the first man of that politi- cal faith elected to the office of city marshal of Nashua. He served the town as constable, and the- city as city marshal in 1861, justice of the peace, member of the board of education and city govern- ment, and represented ward five in the legislature two terms. He was active in military circles, and was a member of Colonel George Bower's staff, with the rank of major, and also a member of the well-known Governor's Horse Guards. He was a member of the Baptist Church. and a teacher in its Sunday school. He joined Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. He was also a member of Granite Lodge, No. 1, Inde- pendent Order Odd Fellows. He married, August 20, 1844, Mary Foster. born in 1816, daughter of James and Betsy (Wilson) Foster, of Deerfield. They had one child, Andrew J., whose sketch follows next.
(IX) Andrew Jefferson, only child of Samuel (3) and Mary (Foster) Tuck, was born in Nashua, May 2, 1845. He was educated in the common schools of Nashua, Crosby Literary Institute, and Dartmouth College. In the latter institution he nearly completed the scientific course, but was com- pelled to leave college in his last year on account of sickness of his father. He was employed as a clerk in Burlington, Vermont, and Boston, Massa- chusetts, and for six years following assisted in his father's store. He then entered the United States inail service, and made trips first between Boston and Keene, and later in the Boston and St. Albans Railway postal service. He resigned after five years to take up his present business, which was estab- lished by Colonel E. P. Emerson in 1849. In 1888 Colonel E. J. Copp and Mr. Tuck became the proprietors, and in 1806 Mr. Tuck became the sole owner. Since taking the business he has materially improved the service and greatly added to the pat- ronage. Insurance of every kind is written, rents are collected, estates cared for and money loaned on city property, for banks and individuals. Two assistants are employed. Mr. Tuck is a man of sound sense and discriminating judgment, and is numbered among the leading business men of Nashua. He is highly estecmed. He is a member of the Baptist Church, is a trustee of its benevolent fund. and for thirty-five years has been
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teacher of the business men's class in its Sunday school. Politically he is a Republican, and has served four years as selectman from ward one; has been city councilman one year and alderman one year, and was representative to the legislature in the term of 1902-3. He assisted in the organization of the board of trade, has been a member of its board of directors from its establishment, and is chairman of the committee on insurance and tax- ation.
Mr. Tuck is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; member of Pennichuck Lodge. Odd Fellows; member of Watananock Tribe, No. 14, Improved Order of Red Men, and the Great Council of Red Men; past chancellor of Nashua Lodge, No. 5, Knights of Pythias ; past captain of S. S. Davis Company, Uni- formed Rank of the Knights of Pythias; member of the Grand Lodge of New Hampshire, and was appointed, 1906, aid-de-camp with the rank of major, on the staff of General Orman T. Lougee.
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