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Bishop Niles is president of the corporation of St. Paul's School, of St. Mary's School for girls at Concord. and of Holderness School for boys at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and these educational institutions are showing by their successful work what an advantage it is to have at their head not only a man of ability, but also a practical educator. At the time of the establishment of the Churchman in Hartford, he was appointed joint editor. Since then his ripe scholarship, practical ability and good judgment have been further recognized and required by his appointment by the general convention as a member of the commission to revise the book of common prayer and later as one of the com- mission to revise the marginal readings of the English Bible, in both of which cases his services were very efficient. In secular affairs the bishop has long been recognized as an able man and for several years has served as vice-president of the New Hampshire forestry commission, through the influence of which much is being done to check the destruction of the forest arca of the state in locali- ties where both natural beauty and public utility demand it.
Bishop Niles married, June 5, 1862, Bertha Olm- sted. of Hartford. Connecticut. daughter of John and Mary Ann (Bull) Olmsted, born in Hartford, September 16, 1833. a descendant of James Olm- sted, one of the original grantees of Hartford. Their children are: John Olmsted, born March 24. 1863, died May 3. 1873; Edward Cullen, mentioned be- low: Mary, September 12, 1867, at home with parents; William Porter, November 29. 1860, now rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd (Episco- pal). Nashua ; Daniel Swit, April 30. 1872, died August, 1873; Bertha, April 29. 1874. tcacher of art and modern languages in St. Mary's School, Concord. New Hampshire.
(VIII) Edward Cullen, son of Bishop William Woodruff and Bertha (Olmsted) Niles, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, March 28. 1865. His carly education was acquired in the public and private schools of Concord. In 1883 he graduated from St. Paul's School, Concord, and in 1887 took the degree of B. A. cum honore on graduation from Trinity College, Hartford. Ile subsequently at- tended Harvard Law School, from which he gradu- ated with the degree of LL. B. in 1892, and was admitted to the New Hampshire bar the same year.
RIGHT REV. W. W. NILES,
BISHOP OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
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He opened an office in Berlin, New Ilampshire, and practiced successfully in that part of the state until 1896, when he removed to Concord, where he now resides. in the enjoyment of a good and constantly growing law practice. as a member of the firm of Sargent, Remick & Niles.
His political faith is Republican, and he has filled different offices at the instance of his party. He has served as a member of the common council of Concord, and as member of the board of alder- men, 1900 to 1904. He was a member of the New Hampshire constitutional convention of 1903. In church matters he is very active, and is deputy in the Diocesan Convention of the Episcopal Church, and in 1904 was delegate from the New IJampshire Diocese to the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He is a member of Eureka Lodge, No. 70, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Concord, New Hampshire. He is also a member of the Passaconoway and the Wonolancet clubs.
lle married, July 12, 1893, Ethel Abbe, of New- port News, Virginia, daughter of James E. and Octa Terry Abbe, born April 17, 1869. They have one child, Edward Abbe, born May 31, 1894.
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CHEEVER The earliest members of this ancient and honorable name in Massachu- setts were engaged in occupations of the greatest importance to their fellow citizens. They left a fine record which many of their de- scendants have striven to follow. .
(1) Ezekiel Cheever, the famous master of the Boston Latin School, was born in London, England. January 25. 1614, and came to America and settled in Boston, in 1637. He removed probably the next year to New Haven and afterward to Ipswich, then to Charlestown, and finally, in 1671, to Boston, where he died August 21. 1708, aged ninety-four. He is buried in the old Cranery burying ground at Boston. about midway between the Franklin monument and the Park Street entrance. Here a new stone was erected over his grave with appropriate ceremonies in 1904. It bears the inscription of birth and death, and also that he was for seventy years a teacher, thirty-eight years of which time he was headmaster of the Boston Latin School. He married (first) Mary -, who died in New Haven, January 20. 1640. He married (second), November 18, 1652, Ellen Lathrop, sister of Captain Thomas Lathrop, of Beverley. She died in Boston, September 10. 1706. The children by the first wife were: Samuel, Mary, Ezekiel (died young). Elizabeth, Sarah and Han- nah. By the second wife he had: Abigail. Ezekiel, Nathaniel, Thomas, William, and Susannah, twelve in all. (Ezekiel and descendants receive mention in this article).
(II) Rev. Thomas, third son and child of Eze- kiel and Ellen (Lathrop) Cheever, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, August 23, 1658. He grad- uated from Harvard College in 1677, was admitted a member of the First Church, Boston, July, 1680, and took the oath of freeman October 13, 1680. He be- gan to preach at Malden "14 day of February 1679." and was ordained there July 27. 1681, as colleague of the Rev. Michael Wigglesworth. He was charged with what they denominated in those days "scan- dalous immoralities," that is, writing and circulating some opinions of his which did not suit the govern- ment. For this he was tried by the council. April 7, 1686. The result was that the council which ad- journed to meet in Boston, where meetings were held May 20 and 27, and June 10, 1686, advised the
church to grant him a "loving dismission." He soon afterward removed to Rumney Marola, then a part of Boston, where he taught school "four dayes in a weeke weekly for ye space of one year," and was paid "out of the Town Treasury after the Rate of Twenty Pounds £ common for his service." On the formation of the church in Rumney Marsh, Oc- tober 19. 1715, he was ordained as its first minister. He was much respected at home, and his records bear complete testimony of the regard which was felt for him by the neighboring churches. In con- sequence of his age and infirmities, it was de- termined that the 7th of October, 1747, should be observed as a day of fasting and prayer for the pur- pose of imploring the direction of Almighty God in the choice of a minister as a colleague with the Rev. Mr. Cheever. It does not appear that he preached after this time: and died in November, 1749, re- taining the unabating affection of those to whom he had dispensed the word and ordinances of the gos- pel. He married (first) Sarah, daughter of James Bill, Sr., of Pullen Point. She died January 30, 1705. He married (second), in Boston, July 30, 1707, Elizabeth Warren. She died May 10. 1727, aged sixty-four. He married (third) (published August 31. 1727), Abigail Jarvis, who survived him, and died in Boston, June 20, 1753, aged eighty-four. His children, all by his first wife, were: Thomas, Sarah, Joshua, Abigail, Ezekiel and Nathan.
(III) Thomas (2). gentleman, eldest son of Rev. Thomas and Sarah ( Bill) Cheever, gentleman, was of Rumney Marsh as late as 1702, and in that year moved to Lynn. He is styled in earlier deeds cordwainer, yeoman and tanner. With Ebenezer Merriam he built, in 1723, the first mill on Saugus river, at Boston street crossing. He was an enter- prising man, and the church, town, and county rec- ords give ample evidence of his ceaseless activity. He took the foremost part in the formation of the church in the third parish of Lynn, of which his son Edward was the first minister. He was one of the directors of the Manufactory Company in 1740. He died in Lynn, November 8, 1753. He married ( first), in Boston. February II, 1701, Mary Bord- man, daughter of William Bordman. Married (sec- ond). in Lynn, August 6, 1712, Mary Baker, who died in Lynn, May 10, 1753. Married (third), Octo- her 19. 1753. Mary Emerson, who survived him. The children he had by his first wife, all born in Lynn were: Mary, Thomas, William and Abner. Ilis children by his second wife, all born in Lynn, were : Ezekiel, Joshua, Edward, Abijah, John, Mary, Sarah, Abner and Elizabeth, thirteen in all.
(IV) William (1), third child and second son of Thomas (2) and Mary ( Bordman) Cheever, was born in Lynn, May 21, 1708. He is mentioned as gentleman. His will is dated May 13. 1748, and was probated September 19, 1748. He married (pub- lished in Lynn, January 28, 1728), Sarah Wait. Their children were: William, Ezekiel, Sarah and Mary.
(V) William (2), second child of William (1) and Sarah (Wait) Cheeve, was born in Lynn, De- cember 22, 1728. He was a cordwainer. He mar- ried. in Lynn, June 21, 1750, Mehitabel Newhall. A William Cheever. probably this William, married, in Lynn, January 10, 1763, the widow Anna Eaton. His children were: Lois, William, Israel and Sarah.
(VI) William (3). son of William (2) and Mehitabel (Newhall) Cheever, was born in Lynn, May 17, 1753. He removed, in 1798, to Hardwick, Vermont, where the remainder of his life was spent.
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He built a log house twenty-four feet square, with a great stone fireplace in the center, with a hollow log for a chimney. In this house his family of eleven persons lived ; and for six months at one time he also sheltered under the same roof the family of Thomas Fuller, which also consisted of eleven persons.
(VII) Nathaniel, son of William (3) and Mehitabel (Newhall) Cheever, was born in East Hardwick, Vermont. He was a farmer, and his entire life was spent in Hardwick. Nine children were born of this union: 1. Josiah. 2. Nathan. 3. Moses. 4. William. 5. Amos. 6. Nathaniel. 7. Samuel G. 8. Eunice. 9. Emily.
(VI11) Samuel G., youngest son and seventh child of Nathaniel Cheever, was born in East Hard- wick, Vermont, September 3, 1817. He was edu- cated in the common schools, and followed agricul- tural pursuits until ill health made necessary a change, when he engaged in merchandising and huckstering, which he kept up until 1872. He died in 1887. After 1858 he lived in Nashua, New Hamp- shire. He married Sophia Buck Dow. who was born in Vermont, April, 1819. and died in Nashua, She was the daughter of Hazen Dow, and was re- lated to Jonathan Edwards. The four children of this marriage were: William H., Eunice R., Nathaniel F. and Hattie A.
(IX) Major William Henry, second son and child of Samuel G. and Sophia Buck (Dow) Cheever, was born in East Hardwick, Vermont, August 27, 1845, and was educated in the country schools of his native town until he was thirteen years old, when he attended his father's family on their removal to Nashua, New Hampshire. On en- tering the schools of Nashua he was able to take his place in the fourth grade, and within one year, so rapid was his progress, he finished the primary and grammar grade studies. He then entered the high school, where he remained until he was ob- liged to became a wage carner in a bobbin shop, where he received for his services twenty-five cents a day. Subsequently he was in the employ of var- ious merchants in Nashua, and in 1871 he became a traveling salesman for the Textile Company of Bos- ton, Massachusetts. He continued with that firm until 188t, and then accepted the position of special representative of the Mutual Life Insurance Com- pany of New York for the state of New Hampshire. This position he has since filled, and is known as one of the most energetic and successful men in his line of business in the state. In politics he is a Republican, but he is not a politician. In 1877 he enlisted as a private in Company F. Second Regi- ment New Hampshire National Guard, known as the City Guards of Nashua, then considered the crack organization of its kind in the United States. He wais devoted to the work of the company, was a good soldier, and popular with officers and men, and was rapidly promoted to corporal. sergeant, first lieutenant, and in 1890 became brigade inspector with the rank of major. He organized the first and present system of riffe practice, which has proved a very acceptable improvement.
Major Cheever is a man of pleasing personality, youthful in appearance and manner, and has a fine record as a man and citizen. A patent lately issued for automatic extension car steps gives promise of being a signal success, and placing him. James H. Fassett, of Nashua, and John Warren, of Greenfield. in the list of promoters of public safety and comfort. He is fond of the society of his fellow
men, and belongs to numerous social organizations. He is a member of the Veteran Association, and was one of the charter members of the Guards' Club, but is not now ( 1907) a member, and for forty years has been an Odd Fellow, in Pennichuck Lodge, No. 44. He is a member of Ancient York Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, No. 89, and Meridian Sun Royal Arch Chapter, No. 9. He mar- ried, in Nashua, October 20, 1870, Adine Ormsby Hale, who was born in Nashua, December 8, 1846, daughter of John and Emeline (Greene) Hale, of Nashua. They have three children : Fred Bell, Annie Hale, and William Whittle.
(VII) Simeon, son of William (3) Cheever, was born in Hardwick, and was there engaged in farming and resided there many years, later he re- moved to Walden, and died there at the age of eighty-four years. He was the father of Alonzo, Ozias, Simeon, Melissa.
(VIII) Ozias, son of Simeon Cheever, was born in Walden. Vermont, 1825, and died in the same town in 1883. He was a farmer and cabinet maker. He removed, in 1859, to Kansas, where he was en- gaged in farming and carpentry until 1862, when he returned to Walden and remained there until his death. He married, in Walden, Isabella Scott, who was born in Craftsbury, and died in Barre, Vermont, daughter of Royal Scott, of Craftsbury, Vermont. They were the parents of nine children, of whom four are now living: Esther and Davenport. in Walden : Edward H. in Barre, Vermont; and Ozias in Montpelier, Vermont.
(IX) Lewis A., eldest living son of Ozias and Isabella (Scott ) Cheever, was born in Walden. Ver- mont, July 1, 1862, and educated in the common schools of that town. At the age of twenty years he began to work at the carpenter's trade and con- tinned in that employment in Barre, Vermont, for fifteen years. In 1899 he entered the employ of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as a solicitor at Barre and Montpelier, Vermont. In the same year he was appointed assistant manager in Burling- ton, and in May following became superintendent of the Manchester and New Hampshire district, which position he has since held. at present employing thirty men. He is an attendant at the Episcopal Church, and a member of Granite Lodge. No. 35, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, of Barre, Ver- mont. He married, 1887, at Barre. Harriet E. Clark, who was born in Georgeville, province of Quebec, daughter of Edward Clark. They have two daugh- ters: Florence E. and Beatrice.
(II) Ezekiel (2), sighth child of Ezekiel (1) Cheever, was born July 1, 1055. He was one of the signers of the petition of the Salem Troop for com- missioned officers in 1678. He took the oath of fidelity the same year. and the oath of freeman May 11, 168r. He was one of the original members of the church at Salem Village, "at the first Embody- ing, on ye 10, Novr. 1680," and was soon subjected to its discipline. "Sab. 30 March 1690 Brother Cheevers who having in distress for a horse upon his wives approaching travell about five or six weeks past taken his neighbor Joseph Putnams horse out of his stable & without leave or asking of it, was called forth to give satisfaction to the offended Church, as also the last Sabbath he was called for the same purpose, but then he failed in giving satis- faction, by reason of his somewhat minsing in the latter part of his confession, which in the former he had more ingenuously acknowledged, but this day the Church received satisfaction as intestifyed by
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their holding up of their hands. And upon the whole a word of caution by the Pastor was dropt up the offendour in particular, & upon all in generall."
At the hearing which took place before the magistrates, March 1, 1692. in Salem Village, in the cases of Sarah Good, Sarah Osburne, and Tituba, the Indian woman, the first persons charged with the crime of witchcraft, he was deputed to take down in writing the examination of those unfor- tunate persons. This was the opening scene in the terrible tragedy of the Salem Witchcraft. At the trial of Martha Corey he made the following de- position, March 19, 1692: "Mr. Ezikiel Cheevers affirmed to ye jury of inquest : that he saw Martha wife to Giles Cory examined before ye magistrates at which time he observed that ye sd Cory sometimes did bite her lip; and when she bit her lip Mercy Lewis and Elizath Hubbard and others of ye afflicted persons were bitten also when s'd Cory pinched her fingers together : then Mercy lewise Elizabeth Hub- bard and others were pinched; and according to ye motions of s'd Martha Coryesbody; so was ye afficted persons afflicted ; this he affirmed to be true according to ye best of his observation Mr Edward Putnam affirmed ye same to ye jury of inquest that Mr. Cheevers doth Mr. Thomas Putnam affirmed ye same: all upon oaths all of them."
He owned lands in Dracut, and was one of the Committee of the Proprietors to lay out undivided lands there. His name appears on the rate list of Salem Village as late as 1731. His will, dated No- vemiber IS, 1724, was probated December 30, 1731. He married. in Salem, June 17, 1680, Abigail Lip- pingwill., Their children were: Abigail. Ezekiel (died young), Thomas, Ezikiel (died young), Sam- uel, Ebenezer, Nathaniel, Ezekiel, Benjamin, and perhaps others.
(III) Peter, probably a son of Ezekiel (2) and Abigail (Lippingwill) Cheever, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, September 6, 1703. He married (first) Lydia Haley. of Salem, by whom he had Peter, Daniel, and Samuel; (second), Lydia Elkins, of Salem, by whom he had Hannah, Margaret, Ben- jamin, Nathaniel, Lydia, and Henry.
(IV) Benjamin (1), third child and eldest son of Peter and Lydia (Elkins) Cheever, was born in Salem, January 28, 1744. and died January 8, 1832, aged eighty-eight. He married (first) Ruth Os- good, May 23, 1772, and (second), April 22, 1784, Mary Card, widow of John Card. The children by the first wife were: Ruth and Benjamin; by the second wife: Mary, Priscilla, Sarah, and Eliza.
(V) Benjamin (2), second child and only son of Benjamin (1) and Ruth (Osgood) Cheever. was born January 28, 1775. He married Anna Collins, and had children: Ruth, Benjamin (died young), John, Benjamin, Anna, and Charles W.
(VI) Benjamin (3), fourth child and third son of Benjamin (2) and Anna (Collins) Cheever, was born March 9, 1804, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He acquired his education in the common schools, and in early youth was apprenticed to Thomas Moses. merchant, with whom he remained till Mr. Moses' death, and succeeded him in business. He soon removed from the old stand on Congress street to Market street, where he was in business over fifty years. In the great fire of 1844 his store was burned, but immediately rebuilt with brick. He retired from business in 1867, and from that time until his death in 1894 he dealt heavily in real es- tate. He erected the first buildings in the Creek
district, upon which a large part of Portsmouth has since been built. He put this property on the mar- ket, and it is probable that with possibly one or two exceptions his name appears more times on the deed records of Rockingham county than that of any other man of his time. He was the promoter of Harmony Grove Cemetery, and Sagamore Ceme- tery, and for years was their superintendent, and took pride in keeping them up. For many years he was a director of the Howard Benevolent Society. He was an honorary member of the Associated Mechanics and Manufacturers of New Hampshire, and of the Mechanics' Fire Society. In early man- hood he became interested in Free Masonry, and with the late John Christi. Esq., became a member of Pythogoras Lodge, and continued that relation until the lodge was merged in St. John's Lodge. He was never an active member after that time. He belonged to no other secret fraternal orders, although he recognized and freely admitted their usefulness to human society. In politics he was a Whig, and filled various local offices, being overseer of the poor a number of years, representative to the gen- eral court, and at the time of the incorporation of the city of Portsmouth, chairman of the board of selectmen. He was an early supporter of William Lloyd Garrison in his crusade for the abolition of slavery, and was one of those who by their opposi- tion to the search for fugitive slaves and resistance to United States Marshals caused the enactment of the fugitive slave law, which finally resulted in the Civil war and the emancipation of the slaves in the United States. During the years that immediately preceded the great rebellion he was the local man- ager of the celebrated underground railroad by means of which slaves were conveyed to Comnada, and many of them received food and shelter in his hospitable home. In this humane enterprise he was the associate of Garrison. Phillips, Parker, Lucy Stone, Abby Kellogg. and all that small but resolute band which fought, now openly and now secretly, but ever zealously for human rights, and many a time were they guests in Mr. Cheever's old colonial home. With him in Portsmouth were associated James Nowel, Joseph Knowlton, Brackett Hut chins. and Fred W. Rogers, they being the five original abolitionists of Portsmouth. When the Republican party was formed Mr. Cheever joined it, and ever continued a firm adherent to its principles. He once owned the old Temple, and for many years managed a course of lyceum lectures therein for the Mechanics' Association. He was a member of the South Parish Unitarian Church, and for a long time one of its wardens. He married. September 10, 1825, in Portsmouth. Mary Tarlton Holbrook, who was born in New Castle, New Hampshire, November 22, 1800, daughter of Miriam and Benjamin Holbrook, of Newcastle. She died February 21, 1880. The children of this marriage were: William, John H., Joseph, Charlotte, and Eliza. John Howard mar- ried Caroline Patten and had a son Benjamin, who is now a prominent physician in Portsmouth ; also a daughter Mary, now the wife of James Kingman, of Middletown, Connecticut. Joseph is the subject of the next section Charlotte married Dr. William DeLaney, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, since deceased, and has a daughter, Josephine, and son, Harry C. Eliza Cheever resides in the old homestead.
(VII) Joseph, third son and child of Benjamin (3) and Mary ( Holbrook) Cheever. was born in Portsmouth. and educated in the public schools. He succeeded his father in business, accepted as a part-
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ner Josiah Brown, and as Cheever & Brown they carried on business for a number of years. Mr. Cheever sold his interest to his partner and entered the railway postal service, in which he has now been employed thirty years. He is one of the trustees of the Thomas Murphy estate, and his residence, a part of the estate, is what was the Stoodley Tavern, which Paul Jones and many other ancient worthics patronized in the latter part of the eighteenth cen- tury. Mr. Cheever is a thirty-second degree Mason. He married, at Portsmouth. Ella J. Murphy, who was born in Portsmouth, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca ( Tuck ) Murphy. She died in 1901, leaving two sons-Dr. John Cheever, of Leominster, Massa- chusetts, and Rev. Ralph Cheever, pastor of the Universalist Church at Woodstock, Vermont.
MCCLARY The name McClary occupies a very conspicuous place in the history of the town of Epsom. The early bearers of this patronymic were of that Scotch- Irish stock which did so much to make New Hamp- shire distinguished in the Revolutionary struggle, and has furnished so many men of renown in both the civil and military annals of the state. Of all the worthy men produced by the town of Epsom in a century and a half who have held prominent positions of trust and honor in the state and nation, none stand out in so bold relief or are more worthy of rememberance than the McClarys. For nearly one hundred years the men of this family were the leading citizens in all the civil, political and military affairs of their town, and for eighty-three successive years from 1739 some members of this family were placed in offices of trust and power by their towns- men.
(1) Andrew McClary, a man of family in Ire land, found the wrongs and oppressions of that unfortunate island more than he could longer en- dure, and in 1733 with his wife and children, he emigrated to Londonderry, New Hampshire, where he lived until 1738, and then removed to Epsom, where he soon afterward died. He and his wife were possessed of the highest elements of character, but opportunity for displaying them never came to the parents as it did to their children. The town records show that Andrew AlcClary held town office in 1739. His children were: Andrew, John, Mar- garet, Jane and Ann. (Jolin receives extended mention in this article.)
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