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Mr. Tuck married, January II, 1871, Almira H. Clark, born April 13, 1848, in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, daughter of William W. and Selina (Up- ham) Clark, of Bremen, Maine. They have one son, William A., born May 18, 1874, who is a me- chanic in the employ of the Rollins Machine Com- pany.
The family of this name from which NORWELL a branch has been extended into America, inhabits that portion of Scotland which has furnished to the world many brave and hardy soldiers, thousands of industrious emigrants and a large number of shrewd business men.
(I) Henry Norwell lived in Errol, Perthshire, Scotland, and there married Christina Hood and raised a family.
(II) William, son of Henry and Christina (Hood) Norwell, was born in Errol. He married Jessie Hunter Sclater, daughter of William Sclater. of Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland, and his wife, Jessie Hunter, of Broderick, Island of Arran, Buteshire, Scotland. After his marriage he removed to Glas- gow, where he resided.
(III) Henry Sclater, son of William and Jessie Hunter (Sclater) Norwell, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, February 23, 1832. He was educated in the public schools and graduated from the high school of Glasgow. After keeping books for a time he came to America. Subsequently he returned to Scotland, where he remained about three years, and upon his return to the United States, which was about 1863, he entered the employ of Henry Nor- well, of Nashua. Subsequently he located at Man- chester, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in the dry goods business on his own account until 1867. He then went to Chicago, Illinois, and en- gaged in the same business. In October, 1871, he was burned out in the "Great Fire," and sustained a heavy loss, but with the nerve that characterized the merchants who had to bear that great calamity,
he resumed and carried on trade until 1878, when he returned to Nashua, where the remainder of his life was spent. Opening a“ store on Main street, he put in a large stock of goods, and in time had one of the largest dry goods stores in the state. This enterprise expanded into a department store, and became one of the leading ones of its kind in New Hampshire. Mr. Norwell died January 24, 1903. As a merchant he was clear-headed, far-sighted, enterprising, progressive and successful; and as a citizen he was public-spirited, and held in the high- est esteem by the public. He always contributed his share and did his part toward furthering the ends of the board of trade, in which he was a di- rector, and for the upbuilding of the city, in which he took just pride. He was a trustee of Edgewood cemetery, and a director of the Nashua Trust Com- pany. He was a member of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episcopal), which he served as treasurer, and in the government of which he was senior warden nearly twenty years. He married, June 22, 1865, in Nashua, Matilda C. Flinn, born in Chicopee, Massachusetts, daughter of Samuel and Clarissa (Langley) Flinn, of Nashua, natives of Ire- land and New Hampshire, respectively. They had four children: Harry, born August, 1866, died in August, 1867; Jessie May, born in Chicago, May, 1869; William S., mentioned below ; and Helen Hunter, born in Nashua, November, 1883.
(IV) William Samuel, third child and second son of Henry S. and Matilda C. (Flinn) Norwell, was born in Chicago, November 7, 1870. After at- tending the public schools he was a pupil at Holder- ness School, Plymouth, New Hampshire, where he finished in 1886. In the same year he went to Nashua, and served as a clerk in the mercantile house of H. S. Norwell for one year. From 1887 to 1891 he attended Hobart College. In 1891 he went to Nashua and associated himself with his father, and in 1900 he went into partnership with John C. McCurdy and opened a department store in Rochester, New York, style of firm, McCurdy & Norwell Company, which has developed into one of the largest department stores in that state outside of New York City, doing a business aggregating more than $2,000,000 a year. The death of his father in 1903 necessitated the return of Mr. Nor- well to Nashua to take charge of the large interests, thus left without a guiding hand, which business has taken rank among the commercial establish- ments of New Hampshire. It is situated on Main street, occupying the numbers from 97 to 109, in- clusive, and carries everything in dry and fancy goods. ladies' ready-to-wear apparel, and fashion- able furs, ladies' and children's boots and shoes, draperies, small wares in profusion, and all the novelties usually found in the great department stores of the great cities. It has a floor space of twenty-five thousand square feet, a basement of ten thousand feet more are occupied, and from seventy to one hundred salespeople are employed.
William S. Norwell is treasurer of the H. S. Norwell Company, a director of the Nashua Trust
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Company, and a director of the board of trade, of Nashua. His interests are thoroughly identified with those of Nashua. Being a thoroughgoing and progressive business man, he favors every enterprise calculated to improve the condition of his fellow citizens and promote the growth of the city. He is an Episcopalian and a vestryman in the church. He is a Thirty-second degree Mason. He is also a member of the following named clubs: Derryfield. at Manchester, and Vesper Country Club. He mar- ried, in Wakefield, Rhode Island, 1898, Tillic M. Doucet, of that place.
STRATTON Stratton is the name of several towns in England, and from one of them some man took the name, first to designate the place from whence he had gone, and later he and his descendants adopted it as a surname. The line herein traced may not have been among the first brought to America by the Puritans, but it is found in Massachusetts about the middle of the seventeenth century, and has been identified with the progress of that state and New Hampshire as well as many other states.
(I) The first in America was Samuel Stratton, who was born in 1592, and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was admitted a freeman May 18, 1653. He made his will upon the day of his death, December 19, 1672. He married, in Bos- ton, August 28, 1657, Margaret Parker, widow of William Parker, of Watertown, afterwards of Bos- ton. She died December 7. 1676, aged eighty-one years. He had sons, Richard, Samuel and John, the elder being deceased at the time of making his will. The inventory of his estate amounted to one hundred and seventy-four pounds. His sons Rich- ard and John were probably early settlers of East Hampton, Long Island. but returned to Watertown. (There was a John Stratton, of Salem, in 1637, who was possibly the John of East Hampton, and the father of John Stratton hereinafter mentioned).
(II) John Stratton, whose parentage has not been positively determined, was a resident of Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was married November 26, 1667, to Mary Smith, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Knapp) Smith. She was a sister of Thomas Smith, of Lexington, and James Smith, of Lancaster, and survived her husband, dy- ing in 1695. He passed away April 7, 1691, and administration of his estate was granted jointly to his widow and their son John, on June 16 of that year. Their children were: John, Thomas, James, Mary, Judee, Jonathan, Mercy and Samuel.
(III) Thomas, second son of John and Mary (Smith) Stratton, was born October 26, 1670, in Watertown, in which town he resided. He was married, July 19, 1699, to Dorcas Maxwell, born February 27. 1677, in Boston, daughter of James and Dorcas Maxwell. Their children were: James, Thomas, Mary, David, Samuel, Ebenezer and Mercy.
(IV) David, third son and fourth child of Thomas and Dorcas (Maxwell) Stratton, was born
November 20, 1708, in Watertown, and lived in that part of the town which is now Waltham. He mar- ried, January 30, 1728, Hannah Smith, of Lexington, born September 27, 1707, daughter of Joseph Smith. Their children were: Lydia, Eunice, Abigail, Lois, David, Mary, Jonas and Sarah.
(V) Jonas, youngest son and seventh child of David and Hannah (Smith) Stratton, was born July 14, 1746, in Waltham, and settled in Stow, Massachusetts. He was a soldier of the Revolu- tion, serving in Captain John Gleason's company of Colonel Josiah Whitney's regiment. He married, March 15, 1770, in Boston, Anna Barnard, and their children were: Lois, Lewis, Sewell, Molly, John, Abigail, Anna, Jonas, David, Barnard and Lydia.
(VI) David, ninth child and fifth son of Jonas and Anna (Barnard) Stratton, was born May 5, 1790, in Stow, Massachusetts, and spent much of his early life in Boston, where he was in the employ of the city for a period of twenty-five years. He sub- sequently lived in Amherst. New Hampshire, and removed thence to Hollis, where the last eighteen years of his life were spent at the home of his son Charles. One of his children was fatally burned in Amherst, about February 2, 1835. He died in 1870, aged eighty years. He married Mary Mann, of Exeter, New Hampshire, born September, 1796, and died June, 1888. They were the parents of four children : Charles M., whose sketch is found below ; Mary Elizabeth, died in infancy; Mary Etta, mar- ried Webster Clifford, of Clinton, Massachusetts; and Harriet E., married Charles F. Wright, of Pepperell.
(VII) Charles Mann, eldest child of David and. Mary (Mann) Stratton, was born in Amherst, New Hampshire, August 14. 1831. At the age of thir- teen he went to Lyndeborough, and worked on a farm a short time, and then worked about stables and drove omnibuses in different towns in Massa- chusetts, and also drove a baker's wagon in Boston. About 1861 he bought a farm in Hollis, upon which he lived a short time. He then sold the place and went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was engaged in the baking business for twelve years. At the end of that time he returned to Hollis, bought a farm upon which he resided for a time, and then, selling that, purchased the one upon which he now lives. In politics he is a Republican, and has been active in the affairs of the town. He has been honored with the office of selectman for a number of terms, and was town treasurer thirteen ycars. He is a progressive, active citizen, and has given his children good educations. He is a mem- ber of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, and of Aurora Lodge, No. 49. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hollis.
He married (first), Fanny Whitney, born in Marlborough, Vermont, June 18, 1839, and died April 29, 1864, daughter of Martin and Electa (Buell) Whitney. Married (second) Mary Ann Ober, born in Hollis, August 12. 1844, and died April 14, 1869, daughter of Joseph and Rhoda C. (Colburn) Ober, of Hollis. Married (third) Jennie
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Hartwell, born in Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1838, and died January 31, 1876, daughter of Joseph and Hannah H. (Hodgeman) Hartwell, . of Bedford, Massachusetts. By the second wife he had two daughters: Nellie L., born April 5. 1866, died August 5, 1867; Mary L., born in Cambridge, Mas- sachusetts, December 22, 1867, a graduate of the Hollis high school. and the Normal school at Fram- ingham, Massachusetts. She taught school for some time, but now keeps house for her father. By the third wife he had three children: Lyman C., a graduate of the Agricultural College of Durham, New Hampshire. Edwin H. Jennie, a graduate of the Hollis high school, and of the Normal Art school, Massachusetts, and is now supervisor of drawing in the Attleboro, Massachusetts, public schools.
SPOONER This family is descended from the Spooners of Plymouth and Dart- mouth, Massachusetts, who were among the first settlers in the last named town, and figured quite prominently in the early history of that section of Bristol county. One of the most notable representatives of the family was the Hon. Walter Spooner, a staunch Revolutionary patriot. and descendants of the original settler are scattered through the New England and other states. Will- iam Spooner, the first of the name on this side of the ocean, probably arrived in New England from the mother country in 1637, locating in Plymouth, and as he is first mentioned in the records of that town as an apprentice. it may be inferred that he was a minor. He was admitted a freeman in 1654 and resided in Plymouth until about the year 1660. when he removed to that part of Dartmouth which is now Acushnet. He died at Dartmouth, 1684. His first wife was Elizabeth Partridge, who died April 28, 1648. March 18, 1652, he married for his second wife Hannah Pratt, daughter of Joshua Pratt. His children were: John, Sarah, Samuel, Martha. William, Isaac, Hannah, Mercy and Ebenezer. (N. B. The branch of the Spooner family now in hand is unquestionably the posterity of William, but the line of descent does not appear in either the "Spooner Genealogy" or the "Spooner Memorial." which, with other records of the family, have been consulted for the purpose of obtaining it).
(I) Nathan Spooner resided in Franconia, New Hampshire, and died in that town early in the last century. (There is some reason for believing that lie was a descendant of Amaziah Spooner, a great-grandson of William Spooner, who went from Dartmouth to Hardwick, Massachusetts, prior to 1749). The maiden name of Nathan's wife was Betsey Weare, and she bore him three children, namely: Catherine, Sarah and Thomas.
(II) Thomas, youngest child of Nathan and Betsey (Weare) Spooner, was born in Franconia. December 17, 1816. Although his educational ad- vantages were limited to the primitive common school system of his day, he made good use of such slender opportunities as were within his reach, and
these, together with a large amount of natural ability, enabled him to ultimately become an efficient business man. At the age of fourteen years he en- tered the employ of the Franconia Iron Company, which was at that time an important industrial en- terprise in that locality, and he was shortly after- wards advanced to the position of bookkeeper. Without any knowledge whatever of systematic bookkeeping he accepted the difficult task, depend- ing wholly upon his inherent resources, and by a method of his own he handled the numerous and complicated accounts of the concern in a most sat- isfactory manner. In 1845 he was appointed super- intendent and retained that position until the in- dustry was abandoned some years later. In 1852 he went to St. Johnsbury, Vermont, as assistant manager of the Fairbanks Scale Company, was soon chosen manager of that extensive enterprise, and continued to direct its affairs for the remainder of his life, which terminated June 16, 1883. For many years he served as postmaster and town clerk in Franconia. During the period of anti-slavery agita- tion he was a staunch Abolitionist, and he acted with the Republican party from the time of its or- ganization. His religious affiliations were with the Free Will Baptists, and he was a prominent mem- ber of that church.
In 1837 Mr. Spooner married Ann Johnson Thompson, born in or near Haverhill, New Hamp- shire. October 5, 1818. She was a descendant in the eighth generation of Henry Howland, the emi- grant ancestor of the Howland family of New Bed- ford, Massachusetts, and her mother was before marriage Rhoda Howland, daughter of George Howland, of that place. The line of descent from Henry Howland, who arrived at Plymouth from England, before 1625, is through (II) Zoeth,
(III) Nicholas, (IV) Samuel. (V) Samuel, (VI) George and (VII) Rhoda. George Howland was born about 1752, and in his younger days was a whaleman of New Bedford. He went to Lisbon, New Hampshire, about 1783, settling in Sugar Hill, and he died September 10, 1835. He was first mar- ried to Mary Warner, of North Scituate, Rhode Island, and his second wife. whose maiden surname was Jillson, is said to have felled the first tree in clearing the farm at Lisbon. He was the father of eight children, and Rhoda was the youngest. Mrs. Spooner, who was a devout Christian and Free Will Baptist, died February 5, 1884. She was the mother of eight children, namely: Susan Colby, born April 19. 1839; Ellen Maria, born March 4, 1841 ; Lydia Cole, born September 18, 1844: Charles Edward, born August 5. 1847, died in 1879; Ira Allen, born January 22, 1850, died in 1854; Thomas, born Feb- ruary 4, 1852, died in 1895: Frank, the date of whose birth is recorded in the succeeding paragraph. and Emma Bell, born July 27, 1861, died in 1863.
(III) Frank Spooner, M. D., fourth son and seventh child of Thomas and Ann J. (Thompson) Spooner, was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Jan- uary 22, 1855. His early education was obtained in the common and high schools of St. Johnsbury.
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Ilis professional studies were completed at the New York Ilomeopathic Medical College, from which he was graduated in 1877, and he began the practice of medicine in Colebrook, New Hampshire. In 1880 he removed to Lancaster, where he has practiced successfully for the past twenty-seven years, and he is at the present time serving as health officer.
Dr. Spooner is a prominent member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, being a member of Coös Lodge, No. 135, and has served as grand senior warden and grand high priest of the Grand Encampment of New Hampshire. He also belongs to the Masonic Order, having served as master of North Star Lodge; high priest of the chapter; com- mander in the commandery; thrice potent master in North Star Lodge of Perfection. In 1902 he was elected secretary of all the bodies. He attends the Congregational Church.
In 1878 he married Lucy Hovey, only daughter of Richard and Ruth (Greenleaf) Hovey, of Lan- caster (see Hovey).
This name was spelled in the ROUNSEVEL early generations, Rounseville. and was later written Rounse- vall. It is probably of French origin, but was early transported to England, whence it came to New England and was prominently identified with the settlement and development of the United States.
(I) William Rounseville was resident of Honiton, a market town of Devonshire, England, where it is presumed that he passed his entire life.
(II) Philip, son of William Rounseville, was born about 1678, in Honiton, whence he came to America before 1704 and settled in Freetown, Mas- sachusetts. He was employed in the cloth dressing mills of Captain Josiah Winslow. Subsequently he purchased a large tract of land at Furnace Village, East Freetown, where he erected a dam and a mill, in which he conducted for many years the business of cloth dressing. He died November 6, 1763. He married Mary Howland, born 1672, daughter of Samuel Howland, of Freetown. She died May 8. 1744, and was survived almost twenty years by her husband. Their children included Philip, William and John.
(III) William (2), second son of Philip and Mary (Howland) Rounseville, was born in Free- town and lived on the paternal homestead. In partnership with his brothers he conducted a saw mill. He died in middle age. His wife Elizabeth married (second) an Ashley, and lived to be nearly one hundred years old. By her second marriage she was the ancestor of the distinguished diplomat and historian, John Hay. The children of William Rounseville (2), included William, Sylvester. Jo- seph. Elizabeth and Levi. The last named was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and the ancestor of Rev. William Rounsevel Algier, D. D.
(IV) Joseph, third son of William (2) and Elizabeth Rounseville, was born January 3. 1737, in Freetown. Massachusetts, and lived in East Free- town, or Middleboro, until about 1770. when he re-
moved to Washington. New Hampshire. He built a mill on what is now Water street, in that town, and was one of the most active and influential citi- zens. He was moderator, town clerk, selectman and represented in the legislature the towns with which Washington was associated, in the years 1776-77-78 and 17So. The maiden name of his wife was Coe, but her christian name has not yet been discovered. They had four children born in Mas- sachusetts and one after the removal to Washington.
(V) Alden, son of Joseph Rounseville. was born about 1765, and removed with his father to Washington when a child. There he grew up and lived for many years. Late in life he removed to Unity, same county, where he died and was buried in Washington. He represented Washington in the legislature in 1807-08. He married Hannah Weld, in Washington.
(VI) Alden W., son of Alden and Hannah (Weld) Rounsevel. was born June 1, 1805. For a number of years he resided in Dedham, Massa- chusetts, from whence he returned to Washington, and later removed to Claremont, New Hampshire, where he died February 22, 1880. He married Eleanor L. Bain, and her death occurred in Wash- ington, in 1846. She was the mother of five chil- dren, namely: William B., born in Dedham, Janu- ary 14, 1838; Charles S .. who will be again referred to: Elbridge G., born in Washington, February 3, 1842; Henry A., born in Washington, March 23, 1844; and Lyman H., born in Washington, April 23, 1846.
(VII) Charles S.
Rounsevel, M. D., sec- ond son of Alden W. and Eleanor L. (Bain) Rounsevel, was born in Dedham, August 22, 1839. He acquired his early edu- cation at the South Woodstock Academy. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in Company I, Second Regi- ment, New Hampshire Volunteers, for service in the Civil war, and with the Army of the Potomac he participated in the battles of Yorktown, Will- iamsburg. Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Bull Run, Chantilly, Fredericksburg and other important en- gagements. He was for a portion of the time a non-commissioned officer, and was honorably dis- charged in 1864. He subsequently spent some time in traveling through Pennsylvania and some of the western states. His medical preparations were con- cluded at the Homeopathic School in Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in ISS2, and he be- gan the practice of medicine in Springfield, Ver- mont. In 1884 he located in Nashua, where he has ever since practiced with success. and he is con- sidered one of the family physicians of the homeo- pathic school in the city. Dr. Rounsevel is a mem- ber of the American Institute of Homeopathy, the New Hampshire Homeopathic Medical Society, a Thirty-second degree Mason, and a comrade of John G. Foster Post. Grand Army of the Republic.
In 1882 he married for his first wife, Flora M. Horton, daughter of Marcus L. and Grovia Horton, of Windsor, Vermont. She was earnestly interested in the Woman's Relief Corps, connected with the
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Grand Army of the Republic, and held the office of state treasurer. She died in Nashua. His second wife. to whom he was married January 8, 1893, was Agnes B. Cunningham, daughter of William and Ellen Cunningham, of Charlestown. He has an adopted son, Philip W.
This name, borne to the shores of ANDREWS New England by more than one progenitor, is the patronymic of many citizens in the American commonwealth, who are leaders in various professions and employ- ments. In early times the name was generally spelled without the final "s."
(I) Thomas Andrew, the immigrant, was one of the founders of Watertown, and later of Cambridge, Massachusetts. He died before 1649. His wife's name was Rebecca, and they were the parents of two sons, born at Watertown: Thomas and Daniel. The widow Rebecca married (second), in 1648, Nicholas Wyeth, of Cambridge, by whom she had five children, born between 1650 and 1659. (II) Daniel, second son and child of Thomas and Rebecca Andrew, was born in Watertown, March, 1644, and died of small pox, December 3, 1702. He was a mason by trade, and was a school- master in 1672, and lived in that part of Salem called the village, now Danvers. He was repre- sentative in 1685. In the June session, 1689, the first year of liberty recovered from Sir Edmond Andros, the tyrant, Daniel Andrew was reported, and in 1692 was charged with the preposterous crime of witchcraft, "perhaps because he knew more than some of his neighbors," says the genealogist, Sav- age; "but was released early in the year following, when reason prevailed over the influence of Cotton Mather." He married Sarah, born 1649, daugliter of John Porter, the immigrant, who came from England, and was a settler at Salem Village. Saralı, the wife of John Porter, was the daughter of James Putnam, son of Captain John, son of John Putnam, immigrant, also settler of Danvers, and progenitor of all the Putnams in the country. Sarah (Porter) Andrew died 1731. Four of their children died young. The others were: Daniel, Israel, Sarah and Mehitable.
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(III) Daniel (2), eldest son of Daniel (I) and Sarah (Porter) Andrew, was born at Salem Vil- lage, where he resided, and was a brick mason by occupation. He was baptized at the First Church of Salem, September 2, 1677, and died February 6, 1718. He married Hannah Peabody, who soon died without issue, and he married (second), February 12, 1702, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Hannah (Andrew) Peabody, of Boxford, Massachusetts. She was born August 13, 1680, and died in March, 1741. Her sons were: Thomas, Daniel, John and Samuel.
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