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 118

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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(VII) Samuel Knowlton, only son of Bradbury and Hannah (Farnum) Gill, was born November 2, 1842, in the house in which he always lived and where his life ended July 17, 1902, in his sixtieth year. This is the paternal home in North Spring street above referred to. His education was sup- plied by the public schools of the city, and he began early to assist his father in the work of the shop, so that he unconsciously acquired the trade of his father, in which he developed unusual skill. He continued at this occupation with his father while the latter lived, and then disposed of his interest in it to his foster brother, Bradbury J. Carter, and turned his attention exclusively to farming, which had previously occupied a part of his time. For some years preceeding his death his health was not robust, and he found outdoor employment most congenial and practicable. Mr. Gill was an attend- ant at and supporter of the North Congregational Church, and was a steadfast Republican in political principle, though he had no taste for public life. He attended to his own affairs, and earned and en- joyed the respect and esteem of his fellows to a marked degree. Ilis disposition was of the kindest, liis principles of conduct were firmly fixed, his tastes were quiet and he lived the upright life of a good American citizen, worthy of emulation. His place in the hearts of those who knew him best can never be filled. Ile married, December 15, 1875, Julia F. Fifield, born May 28, 1850, at Pena- cook, a daughter of Moses 11. and Mary Ann (Mor- gan) Fifield, natives respectively of Weare and Bow, New Hampshire. Moses Fifield died Novem- ber 6, 1905, in Weare, where his widow now resides. Two children were given to Samuel K. Gill and wife, namely: Ilannah Blanche, died in infancy, and Bertha Bradbury, now (1907) in her last year at the Concord High School.

HUBBARD Among the early American names this has been found in many parts of England for centuries before any American settlement by white people. It was widely distributed in England and is traced to the Norinan conquest though not in its present form on its ar- rival in England. Like thousands of the best known of our names to-day, its transition from the French form has greatly changed its spelling. The new- ness of surnames in use among the common English people at the time of the Puritan emigration to America, as well as the absence of settled rules for English spelling among the immigrants, also caused strange metamorphoses in our American names.

(I) George Hubbard, born about 1600, was of Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England, and came to America about 1633, spending a short time at Concord, Massachusetts. He soon settled in that part of Wethersfield. Connecticut, now the town of Glastonbury. Lands were assigned him, a portion of which was in possession of liis descendants quite recently. Mr. Hubbard married Mary Bishop. He was a man of considerable note in the colony, and at the commencement he made a deposition concerning the purchase from the Indians of lands constituting Wethersfield, by the General Court, which was ordered to be printed. He was a member of the first General Court in 1638, and in several subsequent years. In 1644 he removed to Milford and in 1648 to Guilford. He had four sons and five daughters.

(II) John, eldest son of George and Mary (Bishop) Hubbard, was born about 1630, in Eng- land. He married Mary Merriam of Concord, Massachusetts, about 1650, and four of his children were born in Wethersfield. About 1660 he was one of a company including thirty heads of families, that went with Rev. John Russell to Hadley, Mas- sachusetts, and he was there made a freeman, March 20, 1661. Five children were born to him in that town. About 1692 he moved to Hatfield, and there died at the home of his youngest son in 1702. His children were born as follows: Mary, June 27, 1651, (died young) ; John, April 12, 1055; Hannalı, De- cember 5, 1656; Jonathan, January 3, 1659; Daniel, March 9, 1661; Mercy, February 23, 1664; 1saac, January 16, 1667; Mary, April 10, 1669; Sarah, No- vember 12, 1672.

(II]) Jonathan Hubbard, fourth child and second son of John and Mary (Merriam) Hubbard, was born in Wethersfield. Connecticut, January 3, 1659, and died in Concord, Massachusetts, July 17, 1728, to which place he moved as early as 1680. He married there, January 15, 1681, Hannah Rice, who was born in Concord, April 9. 1747, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth (King) Rice, of Sudbury and Marlboro, Massachusetts, and granddaughter of Edmund and Thamezin Rice. Their children were : Mary, Johnathan, Hannah, Samuel, Joseph, Elizabeth, John, Daniel, Thomas, Abigail and Ebenezer.

(IV) Jonathan Hubbard, eldest son and second child of Jonathan (1) and Hannah (Rice) Hubbard,

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was born in Concord, Massachusetts, June 18, 1683, and died in Townsend, Massachusetts, April 7, 1761. He lived a while in Groton, where four chil- dren were born. Thence he removed to Townsend, where he held the office of selectman from 1748 to 1752; and was "major" deacon, town treasurer and one of the original founders of the town of Rindge, New Hampshire. He also lived in Lunen- burg, Massachusetts. He was married, September 26, 1704, at Watertown, Massachusetts, by Jonas Bond, Esq., to Rebecca Brown. She died in Townsend, November 2, 1751. Their children were: Rebecca, Grace, Hannah, Ruth, Jonathan, Abigail, John, died young, Mary and John.

(V) Rebecca Hubbard, eldest child of Jonathan and Rebecca (Brown) Hubbard, was born in Con- cord, Massachusetts, February 11, 1710-II. She married Joseph Blanchard. ( See Blanchard IV).

(IV) Thomas, ninth child and sixth son of Jonathan and Hannah ( Rice) Hubbard, was born August 27, 1696, in Concord, where he lived and died. He married Mary Fletcher of that place, and had the following children : Abigail, Mary, Huldah and Nathan.

(V) Nathan, only son of Thomas and Mary (Fletcher) Hubbard, was born February 23, 1724, in Concord, and resided in Groton, Massachusetts. He was married, April 2, 1745, to Mary Patterson, and they had children named as follows: Thomas, Nathan, Hezekiah, Mary, Betty, Phineas, Jona- than, Lucy, Elizabeth, Hannah, Susannah, Abigail and Amy (or Emma).

(VI) Thomas, the eldest son of Nathan and Mary ( Patterson) Hubbard, was born December 28, 1745, in Groton, and died May 25, 1807. He mar- ried (first) Eliza Conant, who bore him a son, Thomas, about 1775. He married (second), Oc- tober I, 1777, Lois White, of Lancaster, Massachu- setts, who was born April 30, 1747, and died March 26, 1734. Her children were: John, Abel, Nathan, Luther (born August 13, 1782, and died March 2, 1857, in Manchester, New Hampshire), Jonas and Amos (born December 13, 1783; the first died 1825, in Providence, Rhode Island; the second in 1858, Amherst, New Hampshire), Hannah, Anna, Phineas and Lucy.

'(VII) Abel, second son and child of Thomas Hubbard and his second wife, was born October 5, 1779, in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and died No- vember 3, 1852, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He became a carpenter, removed to Boston early in life, and was occupied in building operations at Brook- line and other points. He married Martha Win- chester, who was born June II, 1785, and died Oc- tober 15, 1836. Abel and Martha (Winchester) Hubbard had three children, namely: George Dun- bar, Martha Ann and William Winchester.

(VIII) William Winchester, only surviving off- spring of Abel and Martha (Winchester) Hubbard, was born August 2, 1819, in Brookline, and was a small boy when his parents moved to Boston. In 1826 he entered the Franklin School of that city and was later a student at the Mayhew School. Ill

health compelled him to leave school in 1839 before completing the course prescribed. He had pre- viously learned his father's trade, and had de- veloped a gift in handling tools and the construc- tion of machinery. As he once aptly expressed it, he "was apprenticed to himself to learn by practice the machinist's trade." As early as 1836, before he was eighteen years old, he began the construction of a steam engine, and with it he operated a gauge lathe and grindstone. This engine was exhibited at the first fair of the Massachusetts Charitable Fair Association, in the fall of 1837, and was fired up and operated by its builder during the two weeks of the fair. He received the Association's diploma, and has since received several of its medals for exhibits. Mr. Hubbard designed and constructed the first steam engine used in the press room of the Boston "Daily Advertiser." Until the present day he has been accustomed to use his engine lathe for pastime. In 1884 he built from his own designs a mill for making architectural woodwork in Man- chester, one of the most complete and efficient plants of the kind, and it is still in active operation, having been conducted by his son, William F. Hubbard until his untimely death in 1905. The life of Mr. William W. Hubbard has been a very active one, and he has completed many useful inventions. He has always made his own working drawings and models, has generally been his own attorney in dealing with the United States patent office, and has constructed many valuable machines for others as well as for his own use. He is a member of the Franklin Street Congregational Church of Man- chester, to which he was transferred from a church in Ashburton Place, Boston. During his early life he was a Volunteer fireman in Boston, joining En- deavor Engine Company No. 4, after it had been reorganized as a strictly temperance company. Mr. Hubbard was never an uncompromising partizan, but has usually supported the Republican party, has always devoted himself to study and invention, and never had time or taste for public life. He married, July 4, 1841, Harriet M. Hoitt, of Moultonboro, New Hampshire, born September 20, 1820, died De- cember 28, 1891. She was a daughter of Ezekiel and Betsey (Buzzell) Hoitt, of Maine. The bereaved husband says of Mrs. Hubbard: "She was truly a crown to her husband." They were the parents of four children, namely: William Franklin, Martha WV., Emma Harriet and Harriet Ella. The first is deceased, as above noted; the second resides with her father in Manchester, unmarried; the third married Charles C. Colby of Chicago; and the fourth died in infancy.

The subject of this sketch, Alvah SULLOWAY W. Sulloway, one of the best known business men of New Hampshire, was born in Framingham, Massachu- setts. Christmas day, in the year 1838. He is the only son and eldest child of Israel W. and Adeline (Richardson) Sulloway, to whom three daughters

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were born. His father was a native of Salem. New Hampshire, and sprung from Revolutionary ances- try on both sides of his house. He began work in textile mills at an early age, and was for some time overseer in the Saxonville Woolen Mills, Framing- ham, Massachusetts.

When Alvah W. was about ten years of age, his family removed to the town of Enfield, New Hamp- shire, where his father engaged in the manufacture of yarn and hosiery, introducing the process of manufacturing the celebrated Shaker socks by ma- chinery. In his father's mill at Enfield, Alvah W. gained a practical knowledge of the business. He secured a good academical education at Canaan, New Hampshire. Barre, Vermont, and the Green Mountain Liberal Institute at South Woodstock, but a considerable portion of his time between the ages of ten and twenty-one was spent in mill work. He engaged in business for himself as soon as he became of age, forming a partnership with Walter Aiken, of Franklin, for the manufacture of hosiery. This business connection continued for four years, when a new firm, consisting of Mr. Sulloway and Frank H. Daniell, of Franklin, was formed under the name of Sulloway & Daniell, for operating a new mill. In 1869 Mr. Daniell withdrew, and until January. 1888, Mr. Sulloway was sole proprietor.

The mill contained in 1869, four sets of cards, but in 1887 an addition was built and four more sets were added. The following year the business was incorporated. taking the name of Sulloway Mills, with a capital of $100,000. In 1897 another addition was built for the manufacture of full- fashioned hosiery, and the capital increased to $250.000. The mills are of brick and are situated on the lower power of the Winnipiscogee river, op- posite the mills of the International Paper Com- pany. Mr. Sulloway was among the first to engage in the manufacture of full-fashioned hosiery in this country after the passage of the Dingley Tariff Bill in 1897. The mills employ about seven hundred and fifty hands and make about one thousand seven hundred and fifty dozens of cotton and wool full- fashioned and seamless hosiery daily.

Mr. Sulloway has been actively identified with the Mayo Knitting Machine Company since 1888, and practically organized the Mayo Knitting Ma- chine & Needle Company, in 1896. of which he was an active director until January, 1902, when the company clected him president. He is interested in many other enterprises and was one of the organ- izers of the Franklin National Bank in 1879, was elected its first president and has ever since held that position; he was also one of the organizers of tlre Franklin Savings Bank, of which he has ever since been one of the trustees and for a long time one of the committee of investment and now presi- dent : he is a director of the Boston & Maine and the Maine Central railroads : president of the North- ern (New Hampshire) Railroad, Concord Clairmont Railroad, and the Peterboro & Hillsboro Railroad ; president of the Franklin Light & Power Company : president of Kidder Machine Company ;

director in the Androscoggin Pulp Company, of Portland, Maine.

In spite of his varied business interests. he has found time to devote to politics. He was a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives in 1871-72-74-75. elected railroad commissioner in 1874 and served three years, a member of the state senate in 1891, a delegate to the New Hampshire Constitu- tional Convention in 1876 and 1889, has been a miem- ber of the Franklin City government since Franklin. became a city, a delegate to every Democratic Na- tional Convention from 1872 to 1896, and a member of the Democratic National Committee from 1876 to 1896, when he resigned and retired from politics.

In 1866 Mr. Sulloway was married to Susan K. Daniell, daughter of Jeremiah F. Daniell, of Frank- lin. They have three children, two sons and one daughter.

1. Alice. born August 5, 1871. married, October 16. 1900, Fredrick L. Thompson, of Vermont. They have one child, Richard Leland, born March 6, 1902.

2. Richard W., born February 15, 1876, is a graduate of Harvard College, class of 1898. now assistant superintendent of the Sulloway Mills.

3. Frank J., born December 11, 1883, graduate of Harvard College, class of 1905, and of the Harvard Law School, class of 1907.

So far as known the present fam- CARTLAND ily is the only one of the name in the United States. Most of the Cartlands have lived in New Hampshire, a few migrating to Maine, one branch settling later in Nantucket, while individual members have resided at different places in New England. The numerous. migrations to Maine were probably the result of a mild form of persecution to which many Quakers were subjected. during the Revolutionary period, because of a suspicion that they were not friendly to the cause of the Colonies. Being Quakers they refused, in accordance with one of the tenets of their faith. to take up arms, hence were suspected by some of being Tories; in consequence of which they went with their families to the wilds of Maine and there settled permanently. This is known to be true of some Massachusetts Quakers, and un- douhtedly applies to those from New Hampshire as well.

(1) Jolın Cartland, the first of the family in Amer- ica, was of Scotch descent. He came from England about 1700 and settled at Back River, in Dover, New Hampshire, where he married and appears to have left two children, Joseph and Hannah. or Mary. Nothing is known definitely in regard to Mary's marriage nor of her descendants.

(II) Joseph, son of John Cartland, was born in Dover, probably in 1721, because it appears that on December 21 of that year he was baptized by the Rev. Hugh Adams, of Oyster River. He was left an orphan in carly life and went to live in the fam- ily of Daniel Meader. a Friend or Quaker, who brought young Cartland up to become a member of that religious organization to which most of the

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Cartlands since have belonged. He became a farmer and during life followed that occupation. In 1737 he received from Daniel Meader, as compensation for six months' services. the deed of twenty-five acres of land in that part of Durham which is now the town of Lee, and in the following year added by purchase twenty-five acres, and later twelve acres adjoining the original lot, which sixty-two acres he bequeathed at his death to his son Jon- athan.

Joseph Cartland married (first), November 7, 1745, at Dover, Lydia Allen, and at about this time built a part of the house still standing and occupied by the family at the old homestead in Lee. They had five children. I. Pelatiah, the oldest, was born December 14, 1746, and in 1777 married Anna Han- son, of Dover. In 1778 they moved to Parsansfield, Maine, where three children were born to them, Charles, Abigail and Silas. Pelatiah died May I, 1830, and his wife died April 10, 1849. 2. Eunice. born March 17, 1749, married Tobias Varney, of Dover. 3. Miriam, born October 21, 1751. married Daniel Gove, of Weare, New Hampshire. 4. Elijah, born August I, 1755, married Abigail Scales. 5. Abigail, born October 1, 1758, married Isaiah Jen- kins. Asa, a son of Elijah Cartland, married Sally Lawrence, of Lee, and moved to Augusta, Maine, and a daughter Abigail married Nathaniel Oak, of Exeter, Maine. Samuel, a younger son of Elijah, born March 15, 1791, was graduated from Dart- mouth College, the first college graduate from the town of Lee, and practiced law in Haverhill, New Hampshire. He was a judge of probate for Grafton county, a member of each branch of the legislature, president of the senate and as such served-during an interregnum-for twenty-four hours as governor of New Hampshire. He sustained an unblemished character through life, and died February 24, 1852. Joseph Cartland married (second), October 27. 1763. Anna Hanson, a daughter of Tobias Hanson, and a granddaughter of Ebenezer Varney, of Dover. They had six children: Sarah, born November 24, 1764, married Levi Green, of Weare, New Hamp- shire; Tobias, born September II, 1766; Hannalı, died in infancy; Jonathan, born July 16. 1769; Lydia, born November 30, 1772, married Edmund ·Gove ; and John, born July 22, 1778, married Tabitha Pope and removed to Varsalboro, Maine.

(III) Jonathan, third son and ninth child of Josephi Cartland by his second wife, Anna Hanson, was born in Lee, New Hampshire, July 16, 1769. He married, September 17, 1801, Elizabeth Austin, daughter of Moses Austin, of Farmington, New Hampshire. They had seven children: Hannah. born June II, 1802, married Andrew E. DeMerritt, of Lee, New Hampshire ; Caroline, born January 7, 1804, married, May 18, 1840, Daniel Osborne. of Dover; Moses A., whose sketch follows; Anna, born December 8, 1806; Joseph, born February 2. 1810, married Gertrude E. Whittier. of Dover ; Phebe A., born September 9, 1811; Jonathan, born June 4, 1815, married Mary Jane Smith, of Lee. Jonathan "Cartland died in 1823, and Elizabeth Austin Cart- land in 1838. Jonathan lived in Lee all his life, en-

gaged in farming and attending to settlement of es- tates and other probate or similar business. At the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Austin, of Farmington, September 17, 1801. he added about sixty acres to the farm, purchased with his wife's money, and subsequently added by purchase thirty- nine acres more. The old homestead thus consti- tuted has since remained in the possession of the family, and is now owned and occupied by Jon- athan's grandson, Charles Sumner Cartland. In the days of slavery it was one of the stations of the un- derground railway, and many runaway slaves-some of whom are now known to be living-owed their success in escaping from bondage more or less to the assistance which they here received. One now living in Philadelphia, recently revisited the "Old Place" and recounted his experiences during a pro- longed stay there, about 1845, when "Anna" and "Phebe" taught him his letters and to read and write.

(1V) Moses Austin, eldest son and third child of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Austin) Cartland, was born in Lee, New Hampshire, November- 17, 1805. He was educated in the Friends' School at Provi- dence, Rhode Island, where he remained and taught four years after he had completed his education. About the middle of August, 1834, he opened the school which afterwards became noted as Clinton Grove Academy at Weare. New Hampshire, and for fourteen years was its successful principal. He was one of the most noted teachers the state had ever known. He possessed a remarkable personality and was endowed with a peculiar faculty for inspiring the love and confidence of his pupils, without in any degree detracting from his ability to govern and properly control his school. He had an ac- curate knowledge of human nature and used to say that all he needed to know of a boy in order to de- termine how to deal with him was to see him pass from the door to his seat in the school-room. The reputation of the Clinton Grove school spread so rapidly, although advertising was never resorted to, that it soon became necessary to build a boarding- house for the accommodation of pupils from out of town. Most of these came from New Hampshire and Maine, but at one time there were pupils from Alabama and Texas. His sisters, Caroline and Phebe A., were valttable assistants, the former more particularly in school work while the boarding- house was under the supervision of the latter, and the old pupils can abundantly testify to Phebe A.'s ability to provide for the "inner man," while Moses and Caroline fed the brain.

After retiring from Clinton Grove Academy, Mr. Cartland returned to the old farm in Lee, hav- ing in the meantime. April 26, 1846, married Mary P. Gove, of Henniker, New Hampshire, a daughter of Joseph and Abial (Chase) Gove, and a grand- daughter of Daniel Gove, who married Miriam Cartland as already related. There for a time he gave his attention to agricultural pursuits, later es- tablishing a school which he taught for several years. In the autumn of 1853 he went to Weare again and settled upon a farm at Page's Hill near

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North Weare village. Here he remained, engaged in farming, teaching and newspaper work, until shortly after his wife's death. which occurred July 21, 1860, when he returned with his family of five children to Lee.

The children were: Caroline, born July 6, 1847, married Charles B. Shackford, of Conway, and later of Dover, New Hampshire; Mary Elizabeth, born May 24, 1849, who was for a number of years a suc- cessful teacher in the public schools of Dover and else- where; Charles Sumner, born March 19, 1851 ; Ellen Gertrude, born November 4, 1853, married Charles F. Thompson, of Lee, and Jane Smith, born Sep- tember 29, 1858. married Rev. Frank O. Tyler, of Exeter, New Hampshire. Caroline (Cartland) Shackford died November 21, 1897, but the other four children are still living.

Aside from his occupation as a school-master, Mr. Cartland spent much time in furthering various reforms. He was an ardent temperance man and consistent total-abstainer from the use of any form of intoxicating liquors. He was one of the earliest abolitionists, and while at Clinton Grove established an Anti-Slavery Society in Weare which grew to sixty members. Vigorous in debate, though possess- ing none of the arts of studied oratory, he was an impressive and effective speaker, carrying conviction to the minds of his hearers by his zeal and earnest appeals to the nobler instinets of the heart. kindling within them something of his own hatred of every- thing tending to brutalize or degrade.

Mr. Cartland wrote much for the public press- usually anonymously-and his articles were char- acterized by conciseness, sometimes abrupt but al- ways forcible. He was associated with Whittier in the publication of an anti-slavery paper in Philadel- phia, and was at one time educational editor of the New Hampshire Journal of Agriculture, published in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was also con- nected with the White Mountain Torrent and wrote much for the Herald of Freedom. He was also at one time Washington correspondent of the Inde- pendent Democrat, published by George G. Fogg, at Concord. New Hampshire, and a striking in- stance of his ability to read and interpret the thoughts of men, or of his prophetic vision, oc- curred at about this time.

Speaking of different members of the United States senate in 1851, he said, "Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, is another quite young senator who is pretty full of fight. * He would like to figure in a new republic but whether he ever has the opportunity or not remains to be seen,"-a pretty accurate prophecy of events to occur ten years later. Mr. Cartland was representative to the state legislature from the town of Weare in 1861-62, and was superintendent of schools for a number of years, both in Weare and Lee, holding that position in the latter place at the time of his death. In June. 1863, he went to Newport, Rhode Island, to deliver the annual address before the Alumni Association of Friend's School. and return- ing was taken sick at the residence of his brother,

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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 118

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