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(II) John, eldest son and third child of Will- iam and Susanna Shattuck, was born in Watertown, February 11, 1647. and according to the records of that town "was drowned as he was passing over Charlestown ferry, September 14. 1675," aged twenty-eight years. He had lands granted to him in Groton, in 1664, but it does not appear that he was an inhabitant of that town for any great length of time, if at all. He was a carpenter, and resided principally in the Middle District-the present vil- lage of Watertown-where he was empoyed by the town in 1669 and subsequently to keep the town mill. then situated near the present bridge leading to Newton Corner. In 1675, the year of the out- break of King Philip's war, John Shattuck was ap- pointed sergeant in Captain Richard Beer's com- pany which proceeded to Hadley. Hearing that Squawkeague, now Northfield, had been attacked, they marched, on September 4, 1675, to its relief, and while on their route were ambushed by a large force of Indians, and twenty of the thirty-six men of the company were killed. Sergeant Shattuck was one of the sixteen who escaped, and was immed- iately dispatched as a messenger to the governor of the colony to announce the result of the expedition. September 14. ten days after the battle, he was drowned as above stated. He married, June 20, 1664, Ruth Whitney, born in Watertown, April 15, 1645, daughter of John Whitney. She married (sec- ond), March 6, 1677. Enoch Lawrence, and in 1678 they removed to Groton with several of his rela- tives, at the resettlement of that town, taking with them the four children by her first husband, and they probably occupied the land granted to John Shattuck, in 1664. From this family the Shattucks in Groton and Pepperell originated. Mr. Lawrence died September 28, 1744, aged nearly ninety-five years. The date of his wife's death is not known. The children of John and Ruth Shattuck were: John. Ruth, William and Samuel. (The last named and descendants receive mention in this article).
(III) William (2), third child and second son of John and Ruth (Whitney) Shattuck, was born in Watertown, September 11, 1670, and died in
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Groton in 1744, in his seventy-fourth year. He lived in Groton with his mother and step-father from 1678 until 1688, when he returned to Watertown, where he resided the principal part of the following fourteen years. In 1691 he was impressed into the public military service of the colony. After his re- turn from the campaign of that year. as a con- sideration for his services, the selectmen voted to give him a lot of land for a dwelling house, near "Patch Meadow," and to allow him to cut timber owned by the town for his house. In 1702 he bought lands and removed to Groton, where he died. He married (first), in Watertown, March 19, 1688, Hannah Underwood, of that town. She died in 1717, and he married (second), in Groton, March 24, 1719, Deliverance Pease, who survived hun. His wives were members of the church, and his children were baptized. The children of William and Han- nah (Underwood) Shattuck were: William. Han- nah, Daniel, Ruth and John.
(IV) William (3), eldest child of William (2) and Hannah (Underwood) Shattuck, was born in Watertown, in 1689, and died in Groton, August, 1757. aged sixty-eight. He lived near Watle's pond, on a farm partly given him by his father, but en- larged by several purchases made. by himself. He married (first), March 15, 1711, Abigail Shattuck, born in Watertown, October 17, 1686, daughter of his great-uncle, Samuel Shattuck. She was baptized in Watertown, united with the church in Groton, December 2, 1716, and died about 1727. He mar- ried (second), in 1729, Margaret Lund, said to have been born in Merrimack, New Hampshire, probably a descendant of Thomas Lund, one of the earliest settlers of Dunstable. She died June 13, 1764. The children by the first wife were: Will- iam, Abigail, Jeremiah, Zachariah and Sarah; and by the second wife: Ezekiel, Margaret and Job.
(V) Zachariah, third son and fourth child of William (3) and Abigail (Shattuck) Shattuck. was born in Groton, March 16, 1724, and was a farmer in Hollis, New Hampshire, where he died, March 20, 1809, aged eighty-five. He was a member of the church and a useful citizen of the town. He mar- ried. March 3. 1747, Elizabeth Fiske, of Groton, born August 13, 1727, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth ( Parker) Fiske. She died in Hollis, No- vember 8, 1815, aged eighty-eight. The children of this union were: Zachariah, Elizabeth, Mary, Abi- gail. Isaac, Samuel, Sybil, Hannah, Abel, Nathan and Daniel.
(VI) Elizabeth, eldest daughter and second child of Zachariah and Elizabeth (Fiske) Shattuck, was born in Hollis, New Hampshire, and married Timothy Wyman. (See Wyman V).
(III) Samuel, fourth child and third son of John and Ruth (Whitney) Shattuck, was born in Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1673. and died in Groton, July 22, 1758, aged eighty-five years. He died intestate, and his estate, valued at two hundred and thirty-six pounds. fourteen shillings. seven pence, was administered upon by his son, Samuel. He married Elizabeth Blood, born April 27, 1675,
and died October 20, 1759, in the eighty-fifth year of lier age. She was the daughter of James and Eliza- beth (Loughley) Blood. Her separate estate valued a year before her death was one hundred and eighty pounds. sixteen shillings, eleven pence, and consisted principally in lands, the title to most of which came to her by inheritance from the Bloods and Loughileys. She united with the church in 1705 and her husband in 1709. Their children were: Samuel, James, Jeremiah, Elizabeth, Ruth, John, David, Sarah. Rachel and perhaps Joseph, whose parentage is uncertain.
(IV) According to his age at death, if stated correctly upon the records, Joseph Shattuck must have been born about the beginning of the year 1707. There was an interval of four years, from 1705 to 1709, between the births of Elizabeth and Ruth, daughters of Samuel Shattuck, during which this Joseph was born. Upon this probability he is connected with the progeny of William. the immi- grant, and placed in the family of Samuel, of Groton. Joseph Shattuck died March 21, 1772, in the sixty-sixth year of his age. He settled upon a farm which he bought partly in 1728 of Stephen Barrett, and partly in 1731 of Zebediah Chandler, in the west parish of Andover, near the Merrimack river, where he resided during the remainder of his life. His will was dated June 6. 1761, and proved April 7, 1772. His estate was valued at two hun- dred and thirty-two pounds and ten shillings. He married, June 3, 1728, Joanna Chandler, born in Andover in 1710, daughter of Zebediah and Sarah Chandler; she died in August, 1792, aged eighty- two. Their children were: Hannah, Joseph, Isaac, Zebediah, Sarah, Abiel, Elizabeth (died young), Mary and Elizabeth.
(V) Joseph (2), second child and eldest son of Joseph (1) and Joanna (Chandler) Shattuck, was born in Andover, November 27, 1731. He was a farmer and lived on the paternal homestead. where he died April 9, 1778, aged forty-six. He married, April 13, 1756, Anna Johnson, daughter of Cornelius Johnson, of Haverhill. She is said to have been a well educated woman and an excellent mother. She died in Hillsborough, New Hamp- shire. The children of this union were: Anna, Joseph, Elizabeth, Alice, Lydia, William, Zebediah, Peter, Hannah, Obed and Anna.
(VI) Zebediah. seventh child and fourth son of Joseph (2) and Anna (Johnson) Shattuck, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, in February, 1771, and settled as a farmer in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, where he died May 2, 1821. aged fifty. He married Elizabeth Martin, daughter of Joseph Martin, of Andover. Their children, born in Hills- borough, were: Zebediah, Elizabeth, Joseph. Myra (died young), Gilman, Myra, Tamasine and Phebe.
(VII) Gilman. fifthi child and third son of Zebediah and Elizabeth (Martin) Shattuck, was born in Hillsborough. September 2, 1802, and died in Nashua, July, 1863. In 1826 he settled in Nashua, where he resided till death. He was one of the leading flour and grain merchants of the town until
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a short time before his death, when ill health com- pelled him to give up business. He was chairman of the board of selectmen of the old town before it became a city, and was town treasurer, assessor and held other public offices. For years he was a di- rector of the Pennichuck Bank. He married (first) Mary Jcanna Conant, born in Merrimack, August 25. 1809, daughter of John and Sarah (Smith) Conant; she died November 9, 1834, and he mar- ried (second), 1846, Emeline B. Dutton. of Hills- borough, who was born there. She died September 17. 1865. There was one child of the first marriage, Gilman C .. and one living by the second, Henry Dutton.
(VIII) Gilman Conant Shattuck, only son of Gilman and Mary Joanna (Conant) Shattuck, was born in Nashua, October 23, 1834. His education was attained in the common schools and at New Hampton Academy. In 1853 he entered into busi- ness with his father, after whose death he carried on the business alone until 1886, since which time he has given his time to financial matters and the promotion of private enterprises. For twenty years he has been treasurer of the Peterboro Rail- road. He deals in investment securities and settles estates. He is a member of the Pilgram Church (Congregational), and has been president of the Young Men's Church Association. In politics he is independent. His interest in public affairs has been constant and he has served his fellow citizens in various public capacities, and in each and all of them he has proved himself a man of good judg- ment, sagacity and fidelity. He was a member of the common council in 1871-72, served his ward in the board of alderman in 1873, and in 1876-77 was the nominee of his party for the mayoralty. He has been for a number of years a member of the board of education, of which he was president one year. Ile has been a member of the board of trustees of the public library for a number of years, and is now ( 1907) secretary and treasurer of that body. He is not a devotee of secret societies, but is a member of Rising Sun Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons. No citizen of Nashua is better known or more highly respected in the financial, social and religious cir- cles of Nashua than Mr. Shattuck. He married (first), October 25, 1855, Caroline W. Barnes, born in Hillsborough, daughter of Gilman and Betsey (Dutton) Barnes; she died May 5, 1866. He mar- ried (second), October 22, 1868, Estelle M. Barnes, born in Boston, Massachusetts, February 23, 1841, daughter of John and Sarah Ann (Locke) Barnes. There was one child by the first wife, Estelle C .; by the second wife there are five now living : Arthur G., Fannie C., Harold B., Ilelen B., and Roger C., a senior at Dartmouth College. Estelle C. graduated from the Nashua high school and is now a teacher at the Mt. Pleasant primary school. Arthur G. was graduated from the Nashua high school, is now teller of the First National Bank of Nashua, and lieutenant-colonel of the First Regi- ment, New Hampshire National Guard, and a Ma- son of high degree. Fannie Conant resides in
Nashına. Harold B., a graduate of the Nashua high school, was graduated in 1897 from the Thayer School of Engineering. Dartmouth College, and is now professor of engineering in the Pennsylvania State College. Helen B. is a graduate of Smith College and an expert cataloguer, and now has charge of the cataloguing of the Forbes Library, North Hampton. Roger Conant is a senior at Dartmouth College.
The surnames Lathrop and Lothrop LOTHROP have been known in New England history since the earliest times of the colony, and whether written Lathropp, Lathrop or Lothrop the meaning is the same and has rela- tion to either one or the other of two half brothers, the first being Rev. John Lathropp and the second Mark Lothrop, both sons of Thomas Lowthroppe, of Cherry Burton. a town about four miles from the ancient seat of the old Lowthrope family in the wapentake of Dickering. East Riding of Yorkshire. England. Lowthrope is a small parish of about one hundred and fifty inhabitants, a perpetual curacy in the archdeaconry of York; and from this parish the family of Lowthrop, Lathrop or Lothrop received its name. Robert de Lowthrop was a chaplain of the church, St. Martin's, in this parish in the reign of Richard II.
In the early part of the sixteenth century John Lowthroppe was living in Cherry Burton, and was a gentleman having landed estates in various parts of Yorkshire. There is no record of his parentage or of any of the members of his own family. except the account of his son Robert, who succeeded to the paternal estates in Cherry Burton, and died in 1558. Among the children of Robert was Thomas. who was born in Cherry Burton, and married three wives, there being issue of each. One of the chil- dren of his second marriage was Rev. John Lath- ropp, the American ancestor of one of the principal branches of the Lathrop-Lothrop families in this country. The third wife of Thomas was Jane, and one of their five children was Mark Lothrop. bap- tized in Etton, September 27, 1597, and with him begins this sketch of one line of his descendants in America.
(I) Mark Lothrop was in Salem, Massachu- setts, in 1643. but removed from thence to Duxbury, and from there to Bridgewater in 1658, and for the remainder of his life held a prominent place in the affairs of the town last mentioned. He took the. oath of fidelity in 1657, was made constable in 1658, and was a juror for trials, grand juror, surveyor of highways, and a leading man in the church. He died October 5, 1685, leaving children-Elizabeth, Samuel, Mark and Edward.
(II) Samuel Lothrop was appointed to admin- ister his father's estate. He was born before 1660. and is reported in 1682 as then of age and one of the proprietors of Bridgewater, Massachusetts. His wife was Sarah Downer, and their children were: Mary, Samuel, Jr., John, Mark, Sarah, Joseph and Edward.
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(III) Mark Lorthrop was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, September 9, 1698, and married, March 29. 1722. Hannah Alden, who was born Feb- ruary 1, 1696, and died in 1777, a daughter of Dea- con Joseph Alden, of Bridgewater, and great-grand- daughter of John Alden of the "Mayflower," by his wife Priscilla Mullins. Mark Lothrop settled in Easton. Massachusetts, on land conveyed to him by his father, and was one of the proprietors of that town when it was incorporated, and was selectman four years and evidently a man of considerable con- sequence in town affairs. The children of Mark and Sarah were: Jonathan, Joseph and Seth.
(IV) Jonathan Lothrop was born March II, 1722-23, and died in 1771, and ten years afterward, 1781, his estate was divided among his children then living. His widow Susannah was made ad- ministratrix of his estate. Jonathan, like his father, bore a conspicuous part in the affairs of the church and the town. His wife was Susannah Johnson, born in 1723, and they married April 13, 1746. She was a daughter of Solomon and Susan- nah (Edson) Johnson, of Bridgewater, Massachu- setts. Their children were: Susannah. born Octo- ber 3, 1748, died December 17, 1748; Susannah, Mary, Jonathan, Sarah, Solomon and Susannah. the latter the third child so named.
(V) Solomon Lothrop was born February 9, 1761, and died October 19, 1843. He settled first in Easton, Massachusetts. and afterward lived in Nor- ton, Massachusetts, where he died. He married Mehitable White, daughter of Cornelius White, of Taunton, Massachusetts. She died September 14, 1832, at the age of seventy-three years. The chil- dren of Solomon and Mehitable were: Celia, Howell, James, Solomon, Mehetable, Susan, Darius and Daniel.
(VI) Daniel Lothrop was born in Easton, Massachusetts. January 9, 1801, and died in Roches- ter. New Hampshire, May 31, 1870. He settled in Rochester when a young man, and in 1826 pur- chased and occupied a farm in that town on what is known as Haven's hill. He was a man of ster- ling qualities, strong in mind and will, but com- manding love as well as respect. He was chosen to fill many important town offices and several times represented Rochester in the state legislature, and in that body his clear judgment and practical sense were of much service to his associates in set- tling perplexing questions of legislation. He was one of the organizers of the old Free Soil political party, and its leader in the town during the period of its existence. While he owned and lived on a farm he was a mason by trade, and much of the time was compelled to he away from his home, but he used his time to good purpose and accumulated a fair property.
Daniel Lothrop married, October 16, 1825, Sophia Horne, of Rochester, New Hampshire, who died September 23, 1848. He married (second). Sep- tember 24, 1849, Mary E. Chamberlin. Sophia Horne was a daughter of Deacon Jeremiah Horne, and a descendant of William Horne, of Horne's
hill in Dover, "who held his exposed position in the Indian wars, hut was killed in the massacre of June 28, 1689." She also was a descendant of Rev. Joseph Hull, minister at Durham in 1662, a graduate of the university at Cambridge, England, and of John Ham, of Dover, and of the immigrant, John Heard. It was her ancestress, Elizabeth (Hull) Heard, whom the old historians call a "brave gen- tlewoman," who held her garrison house, the fron- tier fort of Dover during the early Indian wars, and successfully defended it in the massacre of June 28, 1689. The children of Daniel and Sophia (Horne) Lothrop were: James E., John C. and Daniel; and of Daniel and Mary E. (Chamberlin) Lothrop were: Matthew and Mary.
(VII) James Elbridge, eldest son and child of Daniel and Sophia (Horne) Lothrop, was born in the town of Rochester, New Hampshire, November 30, 1826. His young life was spent at home on the farm, and during the winter seasons he attended district school, but as his father was away much of the time and as James was the eldest son in the family, much of the responsibility of the farm man- agement devolved on him; but notwithstanding this his leisure hours were always devoted to study and not play. At the age of nine he walked from Rochester to Dover, purchased a large Latin lexicon and returned the same day; and at ten it was not an unusual thing for him to take a load of wood to Dover and sell it before seven o'clock in the morn- ing. And it is worthy of remark here that the open market place in Dover was on Franklin square, near where Mr. Lothrop's extensive property interests were afterward located, and where as a man of ma- ture years he could look out daily from his principal place of business upon the very spot where as a boy he often sold wood.
His attendance at the district school did not be- gin to satisfy his desire for a thorough education, and he obtained instruction of higher grade at the academies in Rochester and Strafford, and after- ward became himself a teacher in one of the dis- tricts of the town of Rochester, and later kept a select school in the same place. While engaged in teaching others he also continued his own studies and in that way fitted for college, but instead of matriculating he yielded to the persuasions of his mother's brother, Dr. Jeremiah Horne, who then was in successful medical practice in Fall River, Massachusetts. and took a clerkship in his drug store and at the same time began a course of ele- mentary study under the careful preceptorship of his uncle. He remained there two years and in 1845 returned home, and in the fall of that year started a drug store of his own in Dover, his capi- tal at the time being fifteen dollars paid him by his uncle and three hundred dollars borrowed from his father.
At that time he was nineteen years old, but courage and business capacity do not always wait upon mature years, and from that little beginning as a boy and that little borrowed capital there grew a business which eventually extended itself into
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other municipalities and amounted to more than a million dollars annually. For a year or more he conducted the business entirely alone, doing all the work, and then at night he carried circulars and other advertising papers around to the houses of the citizens, and in the course of a short time he came to need help. Besides that he had become well grounded in medicine and pharmacy and was de- sirous to take a course which would lead to the de- gree in medicine. At the time it was his plan to attend lectures at Brunswick, Maine, and afterward graduate at Philadelphia, and with this end in view he called to his assistance his younger brother Daniel, who then was just prepared for college. He urged upon the young man to take charge of the store, promising by way of inducement an equal share of the profits, and that the firm name should read "D. Lothrop & Co .. " a name which the young brother at the age of five years had scratched on a piece of tin and nailed it against the door of his playhouse. And so the sign was made and put up, and thus began the house of D. Lothrop & Co., a house which in later years came to be known in every state in the Union and even in countries be- yond the Atlantic ocean.
With his brother in charge of the store and the business established on a paying business, Mr. Lothrop proceeded to carry out his previously formed plan, and accordingly entered Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, completed the prescribed course and graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1848. Even at that time the diploma of "Old Jeff" ranked with that of any other school of medical instruction in the country, and while there Dr. Lothrop was a student under the famous old "Faculty of 1841," among whose professors were Gross, that great giant of surgery. and Pancoast, the bold, and DaCosta, the brilliant, and Meigs, the conscientious one, and Bache. the learned one, and others of equal fame and popularity.
Having come to the degree Dr. Lothrop returned to Dover with the intention to enter general prac- tice. but the increasing opportunities of rapidly growing business had become so important that his entire attention was required in that direction and caused him to relinquish the idea. His medical knowledge, however, served a valuable purpose in the drug business, to the success of which he gave his best effort and undivided attention. About three years after it was established it was decided that Daniel Lothrop open a similar store at New- market, New Hampshire, with the firm name of D. Lothrop & Co. over its door, which was done, and Dr. James remained in Dover as the head and finan- cial man of the house. In the course of a short time John C. Lothrop, another brother. was taken into the firm, but the name remained as before. After the departure of the elder brother from home John had necessarily taken his place on the farm, but at length he too demanded a business life ; and he was received on equal footing with his brothers and was placed in the store at Newmarket, where he soon became thoroughly conversant with the business in detail.
"These three brothers," says Quint, "have pre- sented a most remarkable spirit of family union ; remarkable in that there was none of the drifting away from each other into perilous friendships and monied ventures. They held firmly to each other with a trust beyond words; the simple word of either was as good as a bond, and as carly as possi- ble they entered into an agreement that all three should combine fortunes and, though keeping dis- tinct kinds of business. should share equal profits under the firm name of 'D. Lothrop & Co.' After John C. Lothrop had learned the business they pro- ceeded to establish a store at Meredith Village, and still another was opened at Amesbury Mills, Mass- achusetts. All of these prospered and made pur- chases easy ; but as profitable opportunities offered these were all sold. In Dover, where the drug busi- ness in time became concentrated, it had also ex- panded, an dthe old buildings on Franklin square were replaced with a substantial brick block, Alonzo T. Pinkham acquired a half interest in the concern and the style changed to Lothrop & Pinkham, as since known to the business world.
In later years still further changes were made in the Lothrop interests and their business extended into other branches of trade. both mercantile and manufacturing, to follow the detail of which is un- necessary in this place. But in each of these new and extended ventures Dr. Lothrop has had his full share and responsibility, and in still others besides them in which his partners were not interested ; and out of them all has come the reputation he enjoyed of being one of the most widely interested business men in all New England, with a capacity to direct successfully extensive and diversified operations equal to any man in the land. Of course he gained a fortune, and no man will say that his success was not fairly earned by honest effort or that he ever in- creased his own possessions at the cost of his fellowman. The ramifications of business at times called him into uncertain fields and laid heavy exactions on his time and physical resources, yet he proved equal to every emergency and his time ade- quate to every demand. Some of his operations would distract and paralyze the powers of men less favorably constituted, but he apparently was able to sce the end from the beginning, and having care- fully laid his plans procceded to their execution with the serene confidence that all would end ac- cording to his expectation; and subsequent results have proved that his judgment was seldom at fault.
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