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(\') Lieutenant Luke, son of Nathaniel and Rebecca Woodbury, was baptized in Salem, New Hampshire, June 23, 1751. His farm was on the road leading from Salem Centre to Canobie Lake. where he lived until his death which occurred March 6, 1827. He enlisted in Captain Elisha Wood- bury's company, April 23, 1775, and was appointed corporal. His company joined General Stark's regiment, the First New Hampshire, and marched to Medford, Massachusetts. They were stationed at the "rail fence" at the battle of Bunker Hill, where Corporal Woodbury was wounded. He re- mained with the army near Boston until after the evacuation, and then went with the forces under Washington to Albany. He was appointed ser- geant in April. 1776. The following certificate is among his papers. "State of New Hampshire. In Committee of Safety, May 16. 1777. This may certify that Luke Woodbury of Salem is appointed Ensign of the Company commanded by Captain Caleb Robinson, in Colonel Enoch Hale's Battalion. and his Commission is to be made out and sent after him immediately. M. Weare, Chairman."
September 20, 1777, he was promoted to a lieu- tenancy for meritorious conduct at the battle of Bemis' Heights. The following is a partial list of the battles in which he was engaged: Bunker Hill, Trenton, Princeton, Hubbardstown. Bemis' Heights, Stillwater, Saratoga, Monmouth, Che- mung (expedition under General Sullivan against the Indians). He was twice stationed at Crown Point and Ticonderoga, was in command of Fort Montgomery in the autum of 1,80, and was in the service, from April 23, 1775, until April 19. 1781.
The Haverhill (Massachusetts) Gasette in its issue of April 28, 1827. speaks of him as follows : "He was a brave and meritorious officer of the Revolutionary War, and continued service there un- til within a few months of its close. The circum- stance of his having left the service at the time he did, unfortunately deprived him of five years'
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pay to which he would have been entitled, had he continued to serve to the close of the war. In carly life he discovered an ardent attachment to the cause of liberty and the inalienable rights of man. When the tocsin of war sounded through the land, and summoned the foes of tyranny to stand forth and proclaim to the assembled world their readiness to die freemen, rather than to live slaves, our youth- ful hero prompt to the call yielded up the delights of home, and on Bunker's heights gave full carnest of his heroism and future usefulness to his coun- try. On the retreat of the Americans from this 'sacred spot,' being attached to the rear guard, and fearless of danger which surrounded him, hu- manity prompted him to delay his march, which he did by taking a wounded man upon his shoulders, thereby encountering additional danger, until he landed him in a place of safety. He was attached to General Sullivan's army during his campaign into New York, and displayed much bravery and presence of mind in several skirmishes with the Indians. the particulars of which are fresh in the memories of his surviving companions. lle was present at the capture of General Burgoyne in 1777."
On leaving the army he returned to his native town, where he exhibited proof of his merit, as a kind. tender husband, an affectionate parent, a pa- triotic and Christian philanthropist. March 11, 1792, he married Elizabeth Kemp, born in 1761, died January 21, 18441. Following is an account of his children: Luke, born July 5, 1753, married, July 5. 1807, Betsey Saunders. Sarah, April 5. 1785, married Thomas Saunders. Mary, January 26, 1787, married Seth Partridge. Solomon, May 5, 1790, died unmarried 1816. Anna, February 26, 1792, married Captain Henry Walker. Nathaniel, May 2. 1794. is noticed at length below. Elizabeth, Oc- tober 3. 1796, died at the age of sixteen. Clarissa, June 9. 1799, married David Woodbury. Washing- ton. April 28, 1803, married Dolly Ilead Jones. ( The last named and descendants are noticed at length in this article.)
(V1) Nathaniel (2), third son of Luke and Elizabeth (Kemp) Woodbury, was born on the old homestead, and was a prominent citizen of his town. He was a Democrat in politics, and filled the offices of overscer of the poor and selectman. and represented the town in the legislature in 1844- 45. He married Abigail Gordon, of Salem Village, daughter of Joshua Gordon. The children of this marriage were: Oliver G., Mary G., Harriet (died young ). Orlando Ilines, Edwin, Almira Josephine, Alonzo. Harriet, Jackson, John, Andre and Eliza.
(VII) Orlando Hlines, fourth child and second son of Nathaniel and Abigail (Gordon) Woodbury, was born in that part of Salem now called Mill- ville. November 6, 1825, and died November 6. 1889, aged sixty-four. He attended the public schools and Atkinson and Needham academies. The greater portion of his life he spent in farming and making shoes. He owned a farm in Salem, and kept a number of men to make shoes for the manufacture of which he had contracts with parties in Lynn. For four years he was engaged in jobbing shoes in Boston. During the civil war he was a sutler, and followed the Army of the Potomac for two years. He married, December 17, 1849, Mary Elizabeth Corning, who was born in Londonderry, October 13, 1827, daughter of John and Lydia ( Richardson) Corning, of Londonderry, and cousin of Mayor Corning, of Concord. In her young days
she used to go from Salem to sing in meeting at Lawrence, Massachusetts, then only a hamlet. She was educated in the common schools and at the Atkinson Academy, where she took a full course. Later she had a fashionable millinery establishment in Boston for four years. She still enjoys good health and has a retentive memory. One child was born of this union, Frank P., whose sketch fol- lows.
(VIII) Frank Perce, only son of Orlando H. and Mary Elizabeth (Corning) Woodbury, was born in Salem, October 24, 1850. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and at an early age learned shoemaking. In 1872 he bought a small school house about three miles from Salem Depot which he converted into a shop, and with a gang of men began making shoes on contract. He had to do his work under disadvantages, but persevered and made it a success. For some time he carried his sole leather to the nearby brook to wash it. The first machine he ever bought cost sixty-five dollars, and was paid for in installments. In 1878 he built a second factory which his business out- grew, and later he built his present factory at Salem Depot, where he employs about eighty per- sons and turns out annually many thousand pairs of men's, boys', and youths' medium and cheap grade shoes, for which he finds ready sale, prin- cipally in Australia, New Zealand, and other foreign countries. For the purpose of lighting his factory, he installed an electric plant, the first in the town, in which he invested about twenty thousand dollars, his son Ernest having the principal charge of the construction of the works. The plant has since be- come the property of a stock company, has a five hundred horse power dynamo and supplies the vil- lages of Salem and Salem Depot, and hotels and grounds at Canobie Lake. Through representative John W. Wheeler, Mr. Woodbury obtained a charter from the legislature for water works at Salem, and organized a company of which Mr. Wheeler became president, and Mr. Woodbury a director. This company constructed the present water works sys- tem which furnishes water from the Canobie Lake to Salem Depot and Salem Village.
Mr. Woodbury's observation and inventive genius led him to the production of an improved shoe heel upon which he has obtained a patent, and besides the use of it in his own business he enjoys a considerable royalty paid by others who use it. He has a one-fourth interest in the Rock- ingham Hotel, and owns other real estate besides the most expensive and completely furnished resi- dence in the town. He is a successful manufac- turer, and owes his success to no one but himself. Such a man is usually right on public questions, reliable in every way, and popular with his fellow citizens. Mr. Woodbury is known to be popular by all who knew him. lle has been a delegate to many county, congressional and state conventions, and though a Democrat in politics he was elected in 18go to the senate from district No. 21, which had gone Republican for twenty-two years before and ever since that time.
Mr. Woodbury married, in Salem, 1872, Eliza- beth Rant, who was born in Maine. They have two children : Harry Orlando, who is engaged in farm- ing, and Ernest R., who is manager of the Salem Electric, Ileat, Light and Power Company. He mar- ried Anna Glenn, of Salem. They have a daughter, Emeline Josephine.
(VI) Washington, youngest child of Luke and
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Elizabeth (Kemp) Woodbury, was born in Salem, New Hampshire. April 28. 1803, and died in Boston at the home of his daughter, Mrs. I. F. Woodbury, November 14. 1891. He was a carpenter and lived in Concord in 1835. He went west in 1837, but returned the next year to Salem where he remained until 1845. when he again removed to Concord, and bought the house at No. 16 Thompson street. where he lived many years. In politics he was a lifelong Democrat of the Jeffersonian type. He married, June 1. 1830. Dolly Head Jones, born July 12. 1807, in Salem, died November 23. 1886. They had eight children : Charles Francis, born February 7, 1831, died April 7, 1862, unmarried. George Washing- ton, born October 1, IS32, died August 22, 1853, unmarried, of yellow fever at Natchez, Mississippi. where he was foreman in the office of the Natches Il'cekly Mirror. Caroline Taylor, born September 6. 1834, is unmarried and lives at 90 Gardner street. Allston, Massachusetts. Lucia Anne, born July 26, 1836, died October 25, 1864, unmarried. Maria Elizabeth, born February 10. 1840. died September 10. 1858. unmarried. Frank Dana, born April, 1842, resides in Concord, New Hampshire. Louis Au- gustus. born October 1, 1844. lives at Groveland. Massachusetts. Emma Florence, born February 28, 1849, married Isaac F. Woodbury, and resides at 90 Gardner street, Allston district, Boston, Massa- chusetts.
(VII) Frank Dana. son of Washington and Dolly Head (Jones) Woodbury, born at Salem, April 15. 1842, was educated in the public schools. He learned printing and proofreading and was em- ployed for some years in newspaper and printing establishments. He carried on the printing business in Concord, New Hampshire, and afterwards in Everett, Massachusetts. On a certain occasion he was the owner of the New Hampshire Patriot for one day. From Massachusetts he removed to Con- cord. New Hampshire. in 1899. March 26, 1862. he enlisted in Company G. Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Infantry, and served until January IS, 1865. He took part in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged, was twice wounded, and was discharged with the rank of quartermaster sergeant. He is post commander of E. E. Sturtevant Post, No. 2. Grand Army of the Republic; past grand of White Mountain Lodge, No 5. Independent Order of Odd Fellows; and past chief patriarch of Penacook Encampment, No. 2. of Concord. He was made a Mason in 1867. and is past master of Eureka Lodge, No. 70, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. and thrice illustrious master of Horace Chase Council, No. 4: eminent commander of Mount Horeb Commandery, Knights Templar, all of Concord: most worshipful påst grand master of Masons in New Hampshire, of which he is now grand secretary, past grand commander of Royal and Select Masters, and has received the thirty-third degree. He married, July 21, 1868. Imogene Ste- vens. daughter of Zelotes and Susan M. Stevens. of Northfield, Vermont, born March 17, 1851. They have one son: George Stevens, born February 16, 1870. who married Katherine Donnelly, and has one daughter, Frances Imogene.
(VII) Louis A., son of Washington and Dolly Head ( Jones ) Woodbury, was born in Salem, New Hampshire, October 1. 1844. He was educated in the public schools of Concord. At the age of eight- een he enlisted in Company D, Sixteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers. and served until the muster out. After his discharge at Concord he went to Washington, District of Columbia, and was
employed by the government as a forage master. Returning to New Hampshire he began the study of medicine at Harvard University, February 14, 1872, and soon after settled in Groveland, Massa- chusetts, where he has since practiced his profes- sion. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medi- cal Society, New Hampshire Association of Army Surgeons. Harvard Alumni Association, Haverhill Medical Club, surgeon of Post 101. Grand Army of the Republic, and has been United States ex- amining surgeon for pensions. Ile is a member of the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, president of the Village Improvement Society, chair- man of the board of trustees of the public library, a justice of the peace, and secretary and treasurer of the Groveland Mutual Fire Insurance Company. He is also a member of the Northeastern Historic- Genealogical Society, Haverhill and West New- bury Historical societies, Essex Institute, Doric Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of Tilton, New Hampshire : has been a member of Union Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, of Laconia, for more than thirty-five years, and a Knight Templar of Haver- hill Commandery, of which he has been prelate to generalissimo. Dr. Woodbury has contributed several papers to the medical societies of which he is a member, and has done considerable historical and genealogical work. Among his papers and published works are: "A Contribution to the Early History of Medicine in Haverhill, Massachusetts"; "Early Ministers of Bradford": "An Historical Sketch of Bradford in the Revolution"; "Inscrip- tions from the Old Cemetery in Groveland, Massa- chusetts."
Dr. Woodbury has been twice married, first to Alice Chester Stanwood. who died in 1889; sec- ond to Helen Ney Robinson, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Dolly Head Jones, wife of Washington Wood- bury, was descended from the following ancestry :
(1) Evan Jones, a native of Wales, lived in Methuen, Massachusetts, and died February 26, 1764. aged seventy-four years. His wife was Lydia Ord- way, of Newbury, Massachusetts.
(2) Evan (2), son of Evan (1) and Lydia (Ordway) Jones, was born December 14, 1728. in Methuen, and lived in Salem. New Hampshire, where he died, ISo7, in his eightieth year. He was married (first) in December. 1753. to Rachel Emer- son. His second wife was Rebecca Ladd, who was born January 3, 1731. in Haverhill. Massachusetts. (3) Hezekiah, son of Evan (2) and Rebecca (Ladd) Jones, was born June 13. 1760. in Salem, and was married July 29, 1790. to Lydia Allen. He married (second), October 28. 1796, Dolly Head, who was born November 9, 1775, a daughter of General Nathaniel Head (see Head, IV). He resided on the Turnpike in Salem until his death, August 24, IS24. His wife survived him many years, dying November 2, 1857. at Sanbornton Bridge.
(4) Dolly Head Jones, daughter of Hezekiah and Dolly (Head) Jones, became the wife of Wash- ington Woodbury, as above related (see Head).
(II) Peter, youngest child of John and Agnes Woodbury, was born 1640 in Salem, and was mar- ried in 1665 to Abigail Bachelder, who was bap- tized February 12. 1642. She died soon after the birth of her only child, Peter, who was born in 1666, and receives further mention in the course of this article. Mr. Woodbury married (second) in July, 1667, Sarah, daughter of Richard Dodge. He was made a freeman in 1668, and was selectman in
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1679, deacon in 1689, and deputy to the general court in 1689 and 1693. He died July 4, 1704. and his widow survived until 1726, reaching the age of eighty-four years. They had eight children, namely: Josiah, Sarah, Abigail, Martha, Jeremiah, Ann, Priscilla and Rebeckah.
(III) Josiah Woodbury, son of Peter and Saralı (Dodge) Woodbury, was born June 15, 1682. He married, in 1708, Lydia Herrick, and had one son, Josiah, and four daughters.
(IV) Josiah, Jr., only son of Josiah and Sarah (Dodge) Woodbury, was born February 15. 1709. and died in 1773. He married Hannah Perkins, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, who died in 1761. aged forty-six years. They had two sons, Peter and Josiah, and four daughters.
(V) Peter, son of Josiah, Jr .. and Hannah (Perkins) Woodbury, was born in Beverly, Massa- chusetts, March 28, 1738, and died October 11. 1817. His cousins, Josiah and James Woodbury, of Fran- cestown, New Hampshire, served several campaigns in the French and Indian wars, and a tradition in the family is that Peter also was out on one expe- dition to Lake George, although during his early life he is known to have spent some years as a sea- faring man. In 1773 he went to Amherst. New Hampshire, and settled at what now is Mont Ver- non. He served several years as selectman, repre- sentative to the general court in 1776-77, and mem- ber of the first constitutional convention of New Hampshire. He was the first man in the town to subscribe to the test oath, and his name is found in the records of the town after Mont Vernon was set off. He removed to Antrim about the year 1800 and took up his residence with his son, Mark Wood- bury, then a merchant in that town. In 1760 Peter Woodbury married Mrs. Elizabeth Rea, widow of James Rea, and a granddaughter of Richard Dodge, of Beverly, Massachusetts. She is described as a "woman of shrewdness and energy." She died in Antrim. April 19, 1812, at the age of sixty-nine years. The children of Peter and Elizabeth ( Dodge- Rea) Woodbury were: Levi, Jesse, Peter, Betsey, Hannah and Mark.
(VI) Mark, youngest child of Peter and Elizabeth (Dodge-Rea) Woodbury, was born in Amherst (now Mont Vernon). New Hampshire, January 1, 1775, and died in Antrim. New Hamp- shire, March 17, 1828. When a young man he started out for himself and was a storekeeper in Han- cock, New Hampshire, as early as 1703. In the following year he removed to Antrim and for four years kept store in one end of his house, having only one room in which to live. Six years after- ward, in 1800, he moved his store to the opposite side of the highway and enlarged his house to the proportions of a comfortable dwelling, suited to his improved circumstances and the requirements of his family. Ile engaged in merchandizing and farming for many years, and eventually hecame one of the wealthiest men in town. He also filled a number of important offices, such as justice of the peace and representative to the general assembly. Mr. Woodbury married Alice Boyd, who was born June 24, 1780, and is described as "a woman of rare attractions and unusual ability and force." She was a daughter of Deacon Joseph Boyd, grand- daughter of Captain William Boyd, and was de- scended from an ancient and distinguished Scoteli family. She died in Antrim April 15, 1858, aged seventy-eight years. The children of Mark and Alice (Boyd) Woodbury were : Luke, Sabrina,
Mary, Betsey (died in extreme infancy), Betsey B., Mark B., Fanny, Nancy. Levi and John.
(VII) Sabrina, eldest daughter and second child of Mark and Alice (Boyd) Woodbury, was born in Antrim, February 4. 1804, and died in Johnson, Vermont, May 8, 1856. She married, May 20, 1828, George W. Hill. Their children who grew to maturity are: George W., Mary D., Alice R., Susan S., wife of Dr. Morris Christie of Antrim (see Christie. VI), and John R., who removed to Johnson, Vermont.
This family is of English ancestry,
CORNING and its American branch took root in Beverly, Massachusetts, where its immigrant ancestor settled shortly after his arrival.
(1) Ensign Samuel Corning, who was in Bey- erly as early as 1638 and admitted a freeman in 1641. died there prior to March II. 1694. leaving a widow Elizabeth and three children-Samuel. Elizabeth and Remember. He was an extensive landholder, and built a dwelling house in the immediate vicinity of the First Church. This residence was destroyed by fire in 1686, and he thereafter resided on his farm, which was located some two miles from the village. His ability and personal character were such as to command the respect and confidence of his fellow-townsmen. by whom he was elected to some of the important public offices. When the Cabot street sewer was constructed (1893) it fell to the lot of one Samuel Corning, of New Hampshire, one of the supervisors, to carry it through the ant- cient cellar of what was once the residence of his ancestor.
(II) Samuel (2). son of Samuel (1) and Eliza- beth Corning, was horn in 1641. He re-ided in Beverly, and about the year 1669 he married Han- nah Batchelder, who was born May 25. 1645. daugh- ter of John and Elizabeth (Herrick) Batchelder, of Wenham, which was then a part of Salem. 111 1644 John Batchelder was sent to the general court as the first member of that body from Wenham, and he appears to have died in 1647. Samuel Corning died May 11, 1714, and the death of his widow occurred February 17, 1718. Their children were: Samuel, John. Joseph, and Daniel.
(III) Samuel (3), son of Samuel (2) and ITan- nah (Batchelder) Corning. was born in Beverly. June 1, 1670. He resided there his entire life, which terminated prior to 1728. Ile was married about 1692 to Susannah Knowlton, who was born about August 15, daughter of John and Susannah ( Hut- ton) Knowlton, and a descendant in the fourth gen- cration of Captain William and Elizabeth ( Smith) Knowlton. John (3) Knowlton, who resided in Wenham, was twice married-first to Bethia Ed- wards. daughter of Rice Edwards, of that town: second, to Susannah Hutton, also of Wenham, and his daughter Susannah. who became the wife of Samuel Corning. was of his second union. She he- came the mother of eight children, namely: Samuel. Jonathan, David. Elizabeth, Lydia, James, Stephen and John.
(IV) Samuel (4), son of Samuel (3) and Susannah (Knowlton) Corning, was born in Bev- erly. in 1603. October 23. 1717, he married Mary Dodge, who was born in Wenham. in 1695 or '06. daughter of John and Mary (Bridges) Dodge She was a granddaughter of Captain John Dodge, and great-granddaughter of William Dodge, who settled in Salem as early as 1620.
(V) John, son of Samuel (4) and Mary
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(Dodge) Corning, resided in that part of Windham, New Hampshire, which was annexed to Salem in 1756, and he signed the association test in the last- named town in 1776. The maiden name of his wife is wanting. as is also the names of his children.
(VI) Samuel (5), son of John Corning, of Salem, was born in that town, October 1, 1768. He was a prosperous farmer and a prominent citizen. taking an active part in the town affairs, and he served as a captain in the state militia. The latter years of his life were spent in Litchfield, where he died July 12, 1836. In politics he was a Whig. On August 17, 1793, he married Mary Cochran, daugh- ter of Captain Samuel and Sarah (Duncan) Coch- ran, of Litchfield. Samuel Cochran was among the so-called "gentlemen volunteers" who constituted the alarm and emergency service in the Revolution- ary war, and served as a private in Captain Mc- Quaid's company which was raised for the Ticon- deroga expedition in 1777. He afterwards attained the rank of captain, presumably in the militia. The children of Samuel and Mary Corning were: John C., Polly, Samuel, Rachel, Nathaniel, William F., Saralı and Eliza Ann. (Samuel and descendants receive mention in this article).
(VII) John C., oldest son and child of Samuel Cochran (2) and Mary (Cochran) Corning, was born August 17, 1794, and died September 9, 1840. He married Elizabeth Nesmith, born in London- derry, New Hampshire, December 18, 1795. died No- vember 11, 1893, at the age of ninety-eight years, having survived her husband fifty-three years. They had six children: 1. Robert Nesmith, born October 20, 18IS, died June 13, 1866. 2. Samuel Cochran. born June 25, 1820, died in Boston in 1857. 3. Eliza A .. born November 23, IS22, died February, 1905. 4. Cyrus Nesmith, born December 27, 1826, lives in Concord. 5. Mary Jane, born March 23. 1829; lives in Corcord ; married Anson S. Marshall (see Mar- shall, VII). 6. John Franklin, born 1833, died in New York in 1860.
(VIII) Robert Nesmith Corning, eldest child of John C. (3) and Elizabeth (Nesmith) Corning, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire. In early life he was a stage driver, his routes covering the greater portion of the state. He was prominent in public affairs, and from 1855 until the Civil war was brigadier-general of New Hampshire militia. He was originally a Whig in politics. and became a Republican at the organization of that party, and was one of its first representatives elected to the legislature, in 1854-1855. In 1861 he was appointed postmaster at Concord by President Lincoln, and occupied the position until his death, June 13, 1866. He married Mary Lougee Woodman, born in Gil- manton in 1817, died in Concord, February 26, 1898. She was deeply interested in the anti-slavery move- ment. Two children were born of this marriage: Charles Robert Corning, and Elizabeth, who mar- ried John White, and is now deceased.
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