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Mr. Pillsbury is a forceful debater and a pleas-
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ing public speaker. He has a good voice and presence, and always aims direct to the point he wishes to reach. In the session of 1905 he never spoke unless it seemed to him that there was some point that ought to be cleared, and that he was in possession of the facts to do it, to the end that the most intelligent action might be taken. No other speaking member of the 1905 house was accorded applause from members to the extent that it was given to him. He was induced by friends to become a candidate for governor on a platform of reform and economical administration, and went into the state convention of 1906 with a strong following. On account of the unusual number of candidates with faithful supporters and the impossiblity of making a nomination without bitter strife, in the interests of harmony in the party ranks he with- drew after seven fruitless ballots, in favor of his old friend and schoolmate Charles H. Floyd, in whom he felt that he could trust. In 1892 Mr. Pillsbury was an alternate delegate-at-large to the Republican national convention at Minneapolis which nominated Benjamin Harrison for the presi- dency. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican national convention in Chicago, and a member of the committee to notify Mr. Roosevelt of his nomi- nation. He is serving his fourth term as a trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts. He is most popular among the alumni because of the active interests which he has always taken in all those things that especially ap- peal to the student body. His public spirit, which has been so well manifested at home for the devel- opment of the town and all that pertains to its well- fare, was well illustrated as regards the state in his early offer to contribute $1,000 to a fund that New Hampshire attractions and natural resources might be fittingly represented at the St. Louis International Exposition. No man has been more zealous or unselfish in the efforts which have resulted in the remarkable growth that has brought Derry to the point where it is one of the most populous towns in the state. No movement of a public nature can be advanced there that Mr. Pillsbury is not to be safely counted in its substantial support. He gave the valuable site for the Adams memorial building, and one thousand dollars in cash for the use of the public library. He was initiated into the Masonic order in 1885, and is a member of the following named bodies: St. Mark's Lodge, Trinity Commandery, Edward A. Raymond Con- sistory, and has attained the thirty-second degree, Scottish Rite. He is also a noble of Aleppo Temple. Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. and a member of the Patrons of Hus- bandry, having been the first master of Nutfield Grange. He is also a member of the New Hamp- shire Coon Club, the Derryfield Club, and the Cal- umet Club.
Mr. Pillsbury married at Manchester, 1885, Annie E. Watts, who was born in Manchester, August 7, 1862, daughter of Horace P. and Mona (Boyd) Watts, of Manchester. They have three children : Maria, who is a senior at Abbott Academy ; Horace Watts, who is a third-year boy at St. Paul's School ; and Dorothy, who is at home.
(VII) Captain Leonard Hobart, ninth child of Rev. Stephen and Lavinia (Hobart) Pillsbury, was born December 25. 1835, in Dunbarton, at which time his father was pastor of the church in that town. When he was only one year old his parents removed to Londonderry, and of that town are his
earliest recollections. After the death of his father and while yet a boy, he was attracted by the ex- citing conflict against slavery to Kansas. In that then Territory he preëmpted one hundred and sixty acres of land in 1855, and did his part to make Kansas a free state. Returning to New Hampshire, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy until almost commencement time, when he would graduate, and then under pressure of the call of President Lincoln for three hundred thousand troops he enlisted as a private in the Ninth New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, but was immediately placed in command of Company A, which he subsequently led in several of the hardest battles of the war. As Captain Pillsbury has always been a most earnest peace man, his military career is not easily explaincd, unless one remembers that "Slavery is war," and his hatred of that "patriarchal institution" was so intense as to be comparable only to his abhorrence and hatred of rum, both of which he has ever opposed with all the enthusiasm of his nature. After the war he was a teacher for some years in New York City and an officer in the custom house. Later he again went west, and was for about eight years a farmer in Kansas. For five years he resided in Tennes- see, being a deputy clerk of the United States cir- cuit court and a commissioner of the same. In 1878 he returned to his native state, and for the twenty-seven succeeding years has been in the mercantile business, first as a partner with his father, Colonel W. S. Pillsbury, and later with his son, Ambrose Burnside. He held the office of po- lice judge three or four years, retiring from his judgeship in 1905. He is a noted public and civil engineer, and probably makes more conveyances of real estate than any other person in West Rocking- ham county. He has been for thirty-five years an active member of the American Peace Society, and is one of its vice-presidents, associated with such persons as Robert Treat Paine, Judge Edmunds, the Rev. E. E. Hall, and Professor Eliot, of Har- vard. His activity in the cause of temperance has been recognized throughout the state, and he is on the executive board of the State Anti-Saloon League. The first church ever organized in West Derry was the Baptist Church, and if Captain Pills- bury was not its founder it would be hard to say to whom that honor belongs. His activity and zeal in advocacy of the noble cause which he has es- ponsed have caused him no little friction, and he lias sometimes been misunderstood and bitterly as- sailed, but time, which "evens all things," has caused him to be better appreciated with his advancing years, and he certainly has had no lack of political honors, which have come to him unsought. He married, August 23, 1862, Evelyn F. Sanborn, and five chil- dren have been born to them, all of whom are now living, as follows: Fred S., now of Waterbury, Massachusetts; Ambrose B., of West Derry, who is in the furniture business with his father; Ed- win S., electrician, St. Louis, Missouri; William S., dealer in horses, Kansas City, Missouri; and Grace L., who married Crocker, and resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
Harriet L. Pillsbury and Wallace P. Mack were married February 24. 1892, and reside in London- derry, where he was born March 7, 1863, son of Andrew W. and Frances A. (Preston) Mack, and lineal descendant of John Mack, a pioneer of Lon- donderry, born in 1732. Mr. Mack was educated in the public schools and at Pemberton Academy, and is bookkeeper for Colonel Pillsbury. He
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owns and resides on a farm. The children of this union are: Lillian W., Lavinia P., Andrew P., and Wallace P.
(VI) Moses, third son and child of Micajah and Saralı ( Sargent) Pillsbury, was born in Ames- bury, Massachusetts, June 19, 1786, and died in Sutton, New Hampshire, January 25, 1870, aged eighty-four. He was a farmer and jomer in Sutton. He was a Democrat, was several times chosen se- lectman, was representative to the state legislature, and served as justice of the peace. He married, first, December 11, 1815, Mary, daughter of David Carlton, of Bradford, Massachusetts, who died in 1852; second, November 1, 1854, Mrs. Anna ( Blais- dell) Eaton, widow of Joshua Eaton, of Bradford; third, April .1, 1862, Mrs. Jane Stevens. The chil- dren of Moses and Mary were: Mary, Harriet F., Saralı S., Moses L., and Amanda.
(VII) Moses Lorenzo, fourth child and only son of Moses and Mary ( Carlton) Pillsbury, was born in Sutton, September 10, 1826, and has al- ways made his residence in that town. His family is the only one now living there of the ancient and honorable name and lineage of Pillsbury. He is a successful farmer, and owns and cultivates a farm of three hundred acres. He is also a stone mason. He is, in fact, the typical New Hampshire citizen- honorable, intelligent, and useful, of good estate, and always a gentleman, as was his father before lim. In politics he is a Democrat, and was by the suffrages of his fellow citizens elected a mem- ber of the board of selectmen of Sutton nine years, and representative to the general court in the year 1873. He married in Sutton, March 30, 1852, Hannah Maria Felch, who was born May 2, 1829, daughter of Deacon John and Hannah (Dodge) Felchi, of Sutton. Two sons were born of this marriage : George C. and Herbert L. The former is unmar- ried and resides with his parents.
(VIII) Herbert Larkin, second child of Moses L. and Hannah M. (Felch) Pillsbury, was born inl Sutton October 22, 1865. His education was acquired in Sutton. He has a farm of one hundred and seventy- five acres, which he carries on with success. He has also been for a long time engaged in the lumber business, cutting and preparing large quantities for the market. He is highly respected by his neigh- bors, and was elected in 1903 on the Democratic ticket to the board of selectmen, and the same year to a seat in the New Hampshire house of repre- sentatives. He attends the Baptist Church. He married, August 12, 1893, in Sutton, Lena M. Co- burn, who was born March 18, 1876, daughter of Benjamin K. and Minerva V. (Harwood) Coburn. They have two children: Moses B., born June 6, 1897; and Ruth M., born March 11, 1900.
(V) Parker, third child and second son of Moses (3) and Mary (Parker) Pillsbury, was born in Bradford, Massachusetts, February 11, 1742, and died there February 21, 1821, aged seventy-nine. He was a patriot soldier in the American Revolution, and his record is as follows: Parker Pillsbury was a private in Captain Joseph Ilsley's company of Colonel Coggswell's regiment. He enlisted Sep- tember 30, 1776, and was discharged November 16, 1776, serving two months, including thirteen days (two hundred and sixty miles) traveled home. The roll is dated Newcastle, and the order for payment of the amount of the roll is dated at North Castle and signed by Captain Ilsley. Parker Pillsbury was also a private in Captain Jonathan Poor's com- pany. A copy of a company return and a copy of
a receipt dated Newbury, March 18, 1777, signed by said Pillsbury and others of that company for wages for six weeks' service, appears on the re- verse side of the return. He married first, Apphia Joques, of Newbury. She died November 10, 1769, aged twenty-nine years; and he married second, March 24, 1774, Sarah Dickinson, who died April 13, 1826, aged seventy-five years. The children of the first wife were: Phineas and Moses, and of the second wife: Betsey, Apphia, Parker, Paul, Samuel (died young), Oliver, Samuel, Enoch, Sally, John (died young), and John.
(VI) Deacon Oliver, fourth son and sixth child of Parker and Sarah (Dickinson) Pillsbury, was born in Newbury, now Newburyport, Massachusetts, October 29, 1783. In 1787, when Oliver was four years old, his father moved to West Boscawen (110W Webster), New Hampshire, then a wilderness. At the age of nineteen Oliver returned to Newbury, and after farming for a while, hired himself to a blacksmith. He acquired skill so rapidly that at the end of six months he received full journey- man's pay. Before engaging in business for himself he went to Dummer Academy in Byfield, Massachu- setts, where he had the good fortune to meet a schoolmate, Miss Anna Smith, of Chebacco, now Essex, Massachusetts, whom he married December 8, 1808. They settled in Hamilton, Massachusetts, where he did blacksmith work for a chaise factory. In 1814, on account of the breaking up of the busi- ness by the war, Mr. Pillsbury with his family moved to Henniker, New Hampshire, where he purchased a farm in the southwest part of the town, afterwards owned by Hiram G. Patten. War prices then prevailed, and Mr. Pillsbury incurred a debt of fifteen hundred dollars, which was nearly doubled by the interest before it was finally paid. Not- withstanding this heavy load he was enabled to give his large family a good education, and he cheer- fully bore his full share in building roads, bridges, schools and churches. In 1824 he united with the Congregational Church, of which he was afterwards made deacon, holding the office till his death. He was
frequently superintendent of the Sunday school, and for many years maintained one in his own remote district, beside attending all the regular services at the church, four miles distant. He also maintained a singing school at his house, and invited all the young people of the neighboring districts to attend, rent and fuel free. Deacon Pillsbury was a notable man in his day and generation. He pos- sessed the strong qualities and high moral courage afterwards so conspicuous in his sons. He was an early advocate of the abolition of slavery and of the liquor curse. He was one of the best types of that Puritan character which has made New England. His two ideals were education and religion, and he was willing to suffer and endure all things in their behalf. Mrs. Pillsbury, like her husband, was en- dowed with the highest qualities of unusual vigor, physical and mental. She cheerfully endured the hardships of the time, and left a strong impress upon her large family, who were brought up ac- cording to the highest standards. Eleven children were born to this worthy couple, all of whom had creditable records, and some of whom filled large places in the world. The first three were born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, and the others at Hen- niker, New Hampshire; one only died in infancy. Their eleven children are noted as follows: Parker, born September 22, 1809, married Sarah Hall Sar- gent, of Concord, New Hampshire, January 1, 1840,
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died at Concord, July 7, 1898. Josiah W., born March 20, 1811, graduated from Dartmouth College in 18440, married Elizabeth Dinsmoor, of Windham, New Hampshire, June 1, 18441, and died at Milford, New Hampshire, October 26, 1894. Gilbert, born February 23, 1813, graduated from Dartmouth in 18441, married November 12 of that year, Ann Frances Ray, of Ludlow, Massachusetts, and died at North Abington, Massachusetts, January 3, 1894. Oliver, born March 22, 1815, died April 15, 1816. Oliver (2) is mentioned below; Eliza Ann, born March 12, 1819, married (first) Peter Eaton, of Weare, New Hampshire, in December, 1840; (sec- ond) Obadiah E. Wilson, June 2, 1870, lived in Henniker, and died December 24, 1896; Harriet Newell, born May 25, 1821, married Nahum New- ton, of Henniker, February 22, 1849. Mary Smith, born February 28, 1823, married Leander W. Cogs- well, of Henniker. Enoch, born June 28, 1825, taught school and had unusual talent for music, died at Boundbrook, New Jersey, May 28, 18446. Moses Foster, born April 3. 1827, married Hannah S. Dodge, March 19, 1857, was a farmer, teacher and selectman. died at Henniker, February 20, 1865.
The three eldest sons of this family deserve more than a passing mention. Parker Pillsbury became one of the most noted anti-slavery orators and agitators, the associate of Phillips and Garri- son, Rogers and Foster. A man of remarkable intellectual power, he devoted his whole life to the cause of reform. Josiah W. Pillsbury, after gradu- ating from Dartmouth, became principal of the Academy of Pepperell, Massachusetts, and later of the high school at Weymouth, Massachusetts. His wife was associated with him in teaching. Being obliged to give up his chosen vocation on account of his health, he retired to Milford, New Hampshire, where he became a most useful citizen. His only surviving child, Albert Enoch, born August 19, 1849, became a noted lawyer in Boston, and at- torney-general of Massachusetts. Gilbert Pillsbury paid his way through Dartmouth by teaching and singing winters. After marriage he and his wife taught select schools in New York city and Somer- ville, New Jersey, for several years. In 1854 they returned to Ludlow, Massachusetts, where they founded a young ladies' seminary. which they con- ducted until the Civil war broke out. In 1863 they went to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where he was made agent for the freedmen. During the reconstruc- tion period he was chosen the first mayor of Charles- ton, South Carolina, which office he held for three years. He had previously been a member of the constitutional convention of South Carolina, and had much to do with framing the new Constitution.
Deacon Oliver Pillsbury died at his last home in Henniker, February 27. 1857. After the in- firmities of age had begun to affect his once power- ful constitution, he sold his farm to his son Oliver. and built this house in the village, afterward owned by his daughter, Mrs. L. W. Cogswell. Mrs. Pills- bury reached the age of ninety-four years, dying July 8, 1879. She retained her faculties to the end of her active and beneficent life, and she was borne to the grave by her four eldest and surviving sons. (Mention of Oliver and descendants is a part of this article. )
(VII) Josiah Webster, second son and child of Oliver and Anna (Smith) Pillsbury, was born in Hamilton, Massachusetts, March 20, 18II, and died in Milford, New Hampshire, October 26, 1894. aged
eighty-three. He lived on his father's farm until he attained his majority, and then began to prepare for college, teaching at intervals in the meantime. While attending Phillips Andover Academy he united with the abolitionist society founded among the students there. The Academy authorities con- demned the society and its aims, and its members left the school in a body. It was then and there that Mr. Pillsbury's attitude with regard to slavery became fixed. After the completion of his pre- paratory course at Pinkerton Academy, at Derry, New Hampshire, he entered Dartmouth College in 1836, and graduated in 1840. After his graduation, Mr. and Mrs. Pillsbury, for he now had a wife, took charge as principal and preceptress of the Pepperell Academy at Pepperell, Massachusetts, and later of the high school at Weymouth, Massachu- setts. It was during this period that he began the study of medicine, and his health becoming im- paired by confinement, he abandoned his purpose of becoming a physician, and settled upon a farm in Milford in 1845, and with the exception of five years on a farm in the adjoining town of Amherst ( 1857-1862) and two years in the south, lived there during the remainder of his life. In 1864 he went to South Carolina with his brother Gilbert, who was then commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau of South Carolina, and afterward mayor of Charles- ton. Mr. Hilton served about two years under the military government of that state, filling for a part of the time the position of judge of the provisional court at Hilton Head, having both criminal and civil jurisdiction. In 1866 he returned to Milford. He was hred an Orthodox Congregationalist, and united with that church, but later became an abo- litionist and left the church in view of its intoler- ant attitude toward slavery. Toward the end of his life he became an active and earnest Unitarian, and was one of the founders of the Unitarian Church and society in Milford. Throughout the anti- slavery controversy he took no part in active poli- tics until the formation of the Republican party, with which he thereafter remained identified. He was for many years a member and chairman of the school board of Milford, and was a member of the board of selectmen in Amherst in 1860, and school commissioner of Hillsborough county in 1863-4. He married, June 1, 18441, Elizabeth Dins- moor, who was born in Windham, New Hampshire. Her parents were William and Elizabeth (Barnet) Dinsmoor (see Dinsmoor). The children of this union were: Antoinette A., born in Milford, May 27, 1846, died August 12, 1866; and Albert E., who is the subject of the next sketch.
(VIII) Albert Enoch, only son of Josiah Web- ster and Elizabeth (Dinsmoor) Pillsbury, was born in Milford, New Hampshire, August 19. 1849. After passing through the high school he prepared for college at Appleton Academy, New Ipswich, New Hampshire, and Lawrence Academy, Groton, Massachusetts, graduating from the latter in 1867. He entered Harvard College in that year in the class of 1871, but continued there somewhat less than two years, partly in consequence of a difference with the college authorities (which was subsequently adjusted by the honorary degree of A. M. conferred in 1891), but more from want of money. Subse- quently he went to Sterling, Illinois, and there studied law with his uncle, James Dinsmoor, and taught school; was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1869, and returned Fast and was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1870, and began practice in
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Boston in 1871. Endowed by inheritance with a good constitution and fair health and the same mental gifts that had distinguished earlier members of his family, Mr. Pillsbury's advance was rapid, not only in his profession, but in social, political and financial circles. Five years after entering pro- fessional lite in Boston he became a candidate for political office. He was a member of the Massachu- setts house of representatives from Ward 17 of Boston in 1876-77 and '78. He was a member of the Massachusetts senate from the Sixth Suffolk District in 1884-85 and '86, and presided over that body the last two years. In 1887 and again in 1894 he was offered and declined a seat on the superior court bench, and in 1889 the position of corporation counsel of Boston. He was chosen at- torney-general of Massachusetts in 1892-93 and '94. in each of these offices which he filled, his duties were performed with a scrupulous care and fidelity to the public interests that brought forth expres- sions of approbation, not only from members of his own party, but from those who had politically op- posed him. This was particularly true of his con- duct as attorney-general. On the 4th of July, 1890, be delivered the city oration before the authorities of Boston. After serving as attorney-general he became general or special counsel for various cities and towns, the Metropolitan Water Board, the street railways, the gas and water supply companies and various other corporations, but has never subordin- ated the character of citizen to that of corporation lawyer, nor surrendered any part of his social, po- litical or professional independence. In politics he is a Republican, but has never been controlled by any party boss or bosses.
Since 1895 Mr. Pillsbury has been lecturer on constitutional law in the Boston University Law School: and for the past twenty years has been engaged in so many of the most important trials in Massachusetts, that it would be wearisome to particularize them. He was president of the old Mercantile Library Association of Boston; organ- ized and was president of the Sons of New Hamp- shire in Boston; has been president of the Pills- bury Family Association from its organization till now; is president and director of the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Animals, and of the American Humane Education Society ; first secretary of the Bar Association of Boston, and a member of its council; is trustee of the Lawrence Academy of Groton; vice-president and a director of the United States Trust Company, and a trustee of the Franklin Savings Bank in Boston; member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science; of the Algonquin Art and University clubs in Boston; the Pi Eta of Harvard, and of various historical, literary, political or professional societies or associations too numerous to call for attention here. He has no direct connection with any church, and takes a liberal view of all religious questions. His proclivities are with the Unitarian Church, to the support of which he is a liberal con- tributor. He married, July 1, 1905, in Edinburgh, Scotland, Elizabeth Mooney, of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, who was born in North Hero, Vermont, daughter of Henry Clay and Lucy G. ( Holbrook) Mooney, who is descended through her mother from John Knight. one of the original grantees and set- tlers of the islands in Lake Champlain. Her father, Henry C. Mooney, was a merchant.
(VII) Oliver (2), fifth son and child of Dea- con Oliver (1) and Anna (Smith) Pillsbury, was
born in Henniker, New Hampshire, February 16, 1817. He remained on the farm till the age of seventeen, when he began teaching district schools in the winter. Like his elder brothers he developed a gift for this vocation, and he continued to at- tend and to teach school till the age of twenty-two. In the spring of that year (1839) he went to New Jersey and opened a tuition school. He taught there eight years, the last six at the academy at Bound Brook, Somerset county. In 1847, on ac- count of impaired health and the death of his first wife, who left an infant daughter, he returned to Henniker, New Hampshire, where he remained eighteen years. He purchased the farm then owned by his father, which he conducted with such skill that he doubled its products. In the meantime he took prominent place in the affairs of the town. Like all his people he was deeply interested in the temperance and anti-slavery movements, and he was largely instrumental in changing the politics of the town from hostility to sympathy with these great catises. Mr. Pillsbury was fourteen times elected illoaerator in the Heninker town meeting, sixty times selectman, and three times as representative to the legislature. In 1862 and 1863 Mr. Pillsbury was elected to the governor's council, serving suc- cessively with Governors Berry and Gilmore. Dur- ing this period he was chairman of the military com- mittee, a most responsible position at this time of the civil war. In 1869 Alr. Pillsbury entered upon his life work. He was appointed by Governor Stearns insurance commissioner for New Hamp- shire, an office which had just been established, and which he held till his death, nineteen years later. This office may be said to have been created by Mr. Pillsbury. In 1870 he drafted and procured the en- actment of the present insurance law relative to the insurance companies of other states, thus giving to the people a large degree of protection never be- fore enjoyed. This department has also brought into the state a large annual revenue from licenses over and above the expenses of maintaining the office. Mr. Pillsbury made his permanent home in Concord in 1871. He at once took a leading place in the capital city. Mr. Pillsbury was a member of the legislature in 1876 and 1877; an alderman in 1883 and 1884. He served on the Board of Edu- cation from 1873 to 1884. During the latter part of his term he was president of the board. He was a trustee of the State Industrial School at Manchester, and treasurer of the New Hampshire Prisoners' Aid Society; also trustee of the New Hampshire Savings Bank. While Mr. Pillsbury was a liberal and active promoter of all good work, charitable and religious, the philanthropy with which his name will be permanently associated is the Concord City Hospital. This much needed in- stitution was founded in 1884, and Mr. Pillsbury was one of the active organizers, and president of the first board of trustees. He contributed liber- ally to it during his life time, and at his death he made the institution his residuary legatee, and it will ultimately receive a considerable portion of his estate. It should be remarked that in 1891 the hospital was given a new and costly building by George A. Pillsbury, a native of Sutton, this state, who had made a fortune in the flour mills of Min- neapolis. It has been known since then as the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital, in memory of his wife. The two benefactors of the hospital, though bearing the same surname, were not nearly related. In personal appearance Mr. Oliver Pills-
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