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this beginning his judgment, enterprise, integrity and industry car- ried the Olzendam hosiery works to the large and substantial proportions of today, when they occupy one of the largest and best equipped mills in the state, giving constant employment to about three hundred persons and turning out a great variety of knit goods, the reputation of which is established in every trade center in the country. Mr. Olzendam was a Unitarian in religion and a Republican in politics, and in church and party he was always at the front. He never sought office, but the Republi- cans were not slow to recognize his services or his strength as a candidate. He represented Ward three in the lower house of the New Hampshire legislature in 1873 and 1874. Manchester district in the senate in 1886 and was unanimously nominated in 1892 as a presidential elector. He was one of the trustees of the People's Savings Bank from its organization till his death, also the Amoskeag National Bank, and held other positions of trust and responsibility. He was a thirty-second degree Mason, and a mem- ber of Washington Lodge, No. 61, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons ; Mt. Horeb Royal Arch Chapter, No. 11; Adoniram Council, No. 3, Royal and Select Masters; and Trinity Commandery, Knights Temp- lar. He also belonged to Aleppo Temple, Order of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston, and Edward A. Ray- mond Consistory, of Nashua. He was also a mem- ber of Hillsborough Lodge, No. 2. and Wonolancet Encampment, No. 2, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and an honorary member of the Amoskeag Veterans. Mr. Olzendam was a successful manu- facturer, but he was more than that. He was al- ways one of Manchester's most public spirited citi- zens, one of the best of neighbors, one of the truest and most devoted of friends. He was honest and frank as the noonday sun. His integrity was above suspicion ; his generosity was almost boundless, and knew neither nationality, creed, nor class. No one went cold or hungry if he could prevent it, and he was as modest and unassuming as he was generous and true. He married (first ), October 1, 1851, Therese Lohrer, of Dresden, Saxony, born July 19, 1828, died November 25, 1867. They were the parents of eight children : Climentina A., born June 28, 1852; Milton, June 15, 1854, died May 12, 1858; Alexander H., in Massachusetts, September 12, 1856, now residing in Londonderry, New Hampshire ; Gustavus A., June 10, 1859, now of Lowell, Massa- chusetts; Sidonia C. (deceased), April 4. 1861, mar- ried Clementine Valley ; Selnia, September 11, 1862, died July 14, 1864; Louis H., May 8, 1866, now residing in New York; Arthur, November 23, 1867, died November 8, 1868. Mrs. Olzendam died in
1867, and in 1872 Mr. Olzendam married (second) Mrs. Susan J. Carling, daughter of John Kemball and widow of John Carling, who survives him (see Kemball, VI).
WHITNEY The Whitneys of this article are descended from one of the oldest and most distinguished families of the west of England, the Whitneys of Whitney, where on the banks of the Wye the crumbling ruins of their ancestral castle could once be seen surviv- ing centuries of border warfare. The family can be traced back through a long knightly line of Whitneys and De Whitneys to the twelfth century, when the name originated, and beyond thein to Nor- man ancestors, with other names even to the con- quest.
One or more of the forefathers of this line went on a crusade to the Holy Land, one fought under Edward I, in the Scotch war of 1301, another twice represented Richard II abroad in important affairs of state, and was slain "at the capture of Edmund Mortimer," a fourth followed Henry V in the tri- umphs of English arms in France, a fifth risked land and life for the "White Rose" and had his praises sung by the Welsh bard. Glyn Cothi, and nearly every one was sheriff of his shire, and sat in the great national council. They quartered on their shields the arms of numerous noble families, and their marriage alliances were almost without excep- tion in the families whose names are great history, through at least two of which the Whitneys of today may claim blood relationship to royalty from Wil- liam the Conqueror to Edward I.
The family name of Whitney, or as originally written De Whitney, was derived from the name of the parish where the castle stood. Aluard, a Saxon, held the land before the conquest, but at the time of "Domesday Survey," 1086, A. D., it was "waste" with no owner, save the king as lord paramount. A grandson or great-grandson of Sir Turstin, one of the Conqueror's knights, commonly known as "Tur- stin the Fleming," sometime between 1100 and 1200 A. D., engaging in the border wars, built a strong- hold and took up his residence at Whitney, on the banks of the Wye, and thus after the custom of his times, acquired the surname of De (of) Whitney, as one of his neighbors gained that of De Clifford. The first mention of a De Whitney in any record now extant is that of "Robert De Wytteneye," in the Testa de Nevil, in the year 1242.
(I) Sir Robert Whitney was knighted by Queen Mary in 1553, and represented Herefordshire in par- liament.
(II) Thomas Whitney, son of Sir Robert, was a native of Herefordshire. From his native county he went to "Lambeth Marsh." a name still applied to a locality near the Surrey end of Westminster bridge, where he long resided. Of the life of Thomas Whitney nothing is certainly known be- yond the foregoing and the following facts: "On May 10. 1583, he obtained from the Dean and Chap- ter of Westminster a license to marry Mary, dangh- ter of John Bray, in which he is described as 'Thomas Whytney of Lambeth Marsh, gentleman.' and on May 12 the marriage ceremony was per- formed in St. Margaret's. There were born to him nine children, viz .: Margaret, Thomas, Henry, Arn- waye. John, Nowell, Francis, Mary and Robert, but only three, viz. : John. Francis, and Robert, survived childhood. Of these John emigrated to Watertown. Massachusetts. Francis died at Westminster in 1643,
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and Robert in the parish of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, in 1662. In 1611 it is recorded that Thomas paid the subsidy tax, and December 6, 1615, on the probate of the will of his father-in-law, John Bray. he was appointed executor. February 22, 1607, he apprenticed his son John, and November 8. 1624, his son Robert. The record of the latter, like the marriage license, describes him as a 'gentleman.' September 25, 1629, he buried his wife, and in April, 1637, died himself. His eldest surviving son, John, being then out of England, administration of his estate was on May S, 1637. granted to the other two, Francis and Robert."
(III) John, fifth child and fourth son of Thomas and Mary (Bray) Whitney, was born in 1589, and was baptized July 20, 1592, in St. Mar- garet's, the parish church standing in the shadow of the famous Westminster Abbey. He probably re- ceived for those days a good education in the fa- mous "Westminster School," now known as St. Peter's College, and February 22, 1607, at the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed by his father to Will- iam Pring, of the Old Bailey, London. The latter was a "Freeman" of the Merchant Tailors' Company, then the most famous and prosperous of all the great trade guilds, numbering in its membership distin- guished men of all professions, many of the nobility, and the Prince of Wales, and on March 13, 1614, Whitney, at the age of twenty-one, became a full fledged member. Marrying soon after he took up his residence at Isleworth-on-the-Thames. eight miles from Westminster, where he dwelt from May, 1619, to January, 1624. There his father apprenticed to him his younger brother, Robert, who served seven years. Soon after 1824 he moved from Isleworth, probably back to London. Entries in the registers of the parish of St. Mary, Aldery, indicate that he lived there-in "Bowe lanne," near Bow Church, where hang the famous bells-for several years. Early in April, 1635, he registered with his wife, Elinor, and five sons as a passenger in the ship "Elizabeth and Ann," Roger Cooper, master, which, a few weeks afterward. completed her lading and set sail for the New World. They settled, in June, 1635, in Watertown, Massachusetts Colony, where John Whitney was admitted freeman March 3, 1636, and the following year was for the first time elected one of the selectmen of the town. He held the office for many years afterward, until 1655, at which time he was elected town clerk. June 1, 1641, he was appointed constable at Watertown by the gen- eral court, at their quarter session held in Boston. His early admission as a freeman, and his election as a selectman, show that he held a respectable so- cial position in the community. He was a grantee of eight lots in Watertown. and purchaser of sixteen acres, his homestead lot, where he continued to re- side. His eight lots amounted to two hundred and twelve acres, to which he subsequently made addi- tions. Elinor Whitney died in Watertown, May II, 1659, aged about sixty years (though called fifty- four). After her death John Whitney married, Sep- tember 29, 1650, Judah (Judith) Clement. John Whitney died in June, 1673, aged about eighty-four years. He and his wife Elinor were the parents of Mary, John, Richard, Nathaniel. Thomas, Jonathan, Joshua, Caleb and Benjamin. (Mention of Richard and Benjamin and descendants appears in this ar- ticle).
(IV) John (2), second child and oldest of the eight sons of John (I) and Elinor Whitney, was born at Isleworth-on-the-Thames, England, in 1620, baptized September 14, 1621, and died in Watertown,
Massachusetts, October 12, 1692. In September, 1631, he was placed in the Merchant Tailors' School, where, according to the registers, he remained as long as the family were in England. In 1635 he ac- companied the family to America. He was admitted freeman, May 26, 1647, aged twenty-three, and was selectman from 1673 to 1680, inclusive. He first settled (1643) and always resided on a three acre lot on Lexington street, in Watertown. The name of John Whitney is one of twenty names of soldiers, who in 1675 were impressed with provisions, arms and ammunition for the defense of the colony. His will, written by himself February 27, 1685, and sub- scribed in 1690, though informal, not proved, and not on record, may be found in the files of the Middle- sex probate office, and provides, inter alia, as fol- lows: "If any of my sonnes or sone-in-laws or daughters be quarelsome by going to Law or troublesom to the brethren I say they shall lose the share of what I have bequeatted them. I desire they should live in love to God and one toward anothr." The inventory of his estate, dated October 26, 1692, embraced eighteen lots or parcels of land amounting to two hundred and ten acres, and appraised at one hundred and ninety-seven pounds fifteen shillings. He married, in 1642, Ruth Reynolds, daughter of Robert Reynolds, of Watertown, subsequently of Weathersfield, latterly of Boston. They had ten children : John, Ruth, Nathaniel, Samuel, Mary, Joseph, Sarah, Elizabeth, Hannalı, and Benjamin. (Mention of Joseph and descendants forms part of this article).
(V) Nathaniel, second son and third child of John (2) and Ruth (Reynolds) Whitney, was born in Watertown, February 1, 1646, and died January 7, 1732. He resided in Weston, Massachusetts. The farm he lived upon was in the possession of Whit- neys for five or six generations. He married, March 12, 1673, Sarah Hagar, who was born September 3, 1651, and died May 7, 1746, in Weston. They had eight children: Nathaniel, Sarah, William, Samuel, Hannah, Elizabetlı, Grace and Mercy.
(VI) William, third child and second son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Hagar) Whitney, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, where he died January 24, 1720. He married, May 17, 1706, Martha Pierce, born December 24, 1681. Their children were : Wil- liam, Judith, Amity, Martha, and Samuel, whose sketch follows.
(VII) Lieutenant Samuel, youngest of the five children of William and Martha ( Pierce) Whitney, was born in Weston, Massachusetts, May 23, 1719, and died in Westminster, January 1, 1782, aged sixty-three. He was a leading man in the settlement of Westminster, and was frequently elected to office. He went from Weston soon after his marriage, prob- ably in 1742. He was frequently elected selectman, and during the Revolutionary war was a lieutenant. He located on lot No. 51. near the North Common. He was a prominent, capable and much esteemed res- ident of the township, one of the executive com- mittee of the propriety, and selectman three years after incorporation. He also held a commission in the militia of the province. He was a man of wealth and influence, having a large landed estate, which enabled him to give cach of his sons a farm, it is said, before or at his decease. He married, October 20, 1741, Abigail Fletcher, who survived him. They were the parents of thirteen children, as follows : Abigail, Mary, Samuel, Abner, Achsah, Silas, Martha. died young : Elisha, Alphens, Phineas, Han- aniah, Martha and Susanna.
(VIII) Samuel (2), eldest son and third child
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of Lieutenant Samuel (1)' and Abigail (Fletcher) Whitney, was born in Westminster, February II, 1746. He died in IS12, in Westminster, where he always resided. He married, in Westminster, prob- ably June 30, 1784. Thankful Wilder, who after his death moved to Oswego, New York, and resided with her son Moses. Their children were: Moses, Pliney, Smyrna and Salome.
(IX) Smyrna, third son and child of Samuel (2) and Thankful (Wilder) Whitney, was born in Westminster, March 5, 1786, and died May 16, 1857, aged seventy-one. He was born on a farm, and was fitted for college at the academy at New Ipswich. New Hampshire. but was prevented from continuing his studies by the sickness and death of his father. He settled on the old homestead farm, where he lived till upward of sixty years of age, when he sold out and moved to the village, where he died. He taught school several terms. He was a pros- perous farmer, and a substantial, honored citizen, active in public affairs, serving some years as select- man, and as one of the school committee, and in less conspicuous places. He married, November 26, 1812, Ruth Whitney, born November 12, 1790. daughter of Nathan and Eunice (Puffer) Whitney. She died November 25, IS57. Their children were: Lucinda, Eunice, Samuel and Caroline (twins), Charles H., Nathan, and George E.
(X) George Edwin, youngest child of Smyrna and Ruth (Whitney) Whitney, was born in West- minster, Massachusetts, June 5, IS31. After obtain- ing his education in the common schools and at the academy of Westminster, he taught school during the winter months for some years. He was after- ward employed in the Walter Hayward chair fac- tory three years. and then went to Greenfield, where he and Joseph Adams were partners in the bakery business about one year. He was afterward em- ployed by the John Russell Cutlery Company, of Greenfield, six years. He went to West Claremont, New Hampshire, and was engaged as paper maker for his brother Samuel, in the Jarvis mill, and after a year's service there went to Bennington, New Hampshire, where he was employed by his brother Samuel for three years, at the same business. Set- tling in Keene in IS71 he with with brother Nathan entered into partnership association with Crossfield & Scott in the manufacture of sash, doors and blinds, under the firm name of Crossfield, Scott & Co., which was changed to the Nims-Whitney Company, in 1872. when Lanmon Nims and the Messrs. Whitney purchased the interest of their first partners, Messrs. Crossfield and Scott. Subsequently Mr. Charles W. Morse purchased the interest of Mr. Lanmon Nims after the latter's death. Mr. Whitney has been a member of the same firm or its successor, and in the same business at Keene, for thirty-six years. His stable and upright character and business ability have inspired the confidence and respect of the citi- zens of Keene, and he has been a member of the council of the city of Keene one year, during which time he served as president of that body. He was elected representative to the state legislature, and served one term, 1902. He is a member of Beaver Brook Lodge, No. 36. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Keene, and also of Commandery, No. 90, of the United Order of the Golden Cross. He is a Republican in politics, and in religion a Con- gregationalist. attending Court Street Church of that denomination.
He married (first), in 1853, Sarah J. Tolman, born in 1830, daughter of Calvin and Mary Tolman.
Mrs. Sarah (Tolman) Whitney died in 1875. He married (second), Lura L. Nims, born November 6, 1850, daughter of Gilman and Charlotte (Stone) Nims, of Roxbury, New Hampshire. The children of the first wife were: Frederick W., a physician of Chicago. Emma L., who married Marvin R. Lewis, of New York city. Anna, died young. Julia Bertha. who died at eighteen. The children of the second wife were: Charlotte Ruth, born IS78. Mary Belle, born 1881. Ida Nims, born ISS2. Ralph Edward, born 1890.
(IV) Richard Whitney, second son and third child of John and Elinor Whitney, was born in England in 1626. He was admitted a freeman May 7. 1651. He probably settled in Stow prior to the division of that town from Concord. as his name ap- pears among the proprietors of Stow in 1680. In 1697, being over seventy years of age, he was re- leased from further military training by the court. March 19, 1650, he married Marthia Coldam, and was the father of Sarah, Moses. Johannah, Deborah, Re- becca, Richard, Elisha and Ebenezer.
(V) Moses, second child and eldest son of Richard and Martha (Coldamn) Whitney, was born in Concord, August 1, 1655. He served in King Philip's War, 1675-76, and on April 8 was granted land in Stow, which was incorporated. as a town two years later. He was married September 30, 1686, to Sarah Knight, of Stow, and had a family of eight children. namely: Sarah, Moses, Abraham, Jonas. Jason, Lemuel, John and Ephraim.
(VI) Abraham, third child and second son of Moses and Sarah (Knight) Whitney, was born in Stow, May 29, 1692. In 1749 he conveyed to his son land which he had received from his father. He died in May, 1782. He married for his first wife Mary Stone, daughter of Isaac Stone. She was born in 1698, and died October 7, 1766. The Chris- tian name of his second wife was Elizabeth. His children were: Jemima, Kezia, Ephraim, Abraham. Isaac and Mary.
(VII) Abraham (2), second son and fourth child of Abraham and Mary (Stone) Whitney, was born in Stow, July 31, 1724, and died there April 3, ISI8, at the advanced age of ninety-three years. Decem- ber 19, 1745, he married Marcy Perry, who was born in Sudbury, October S. 1726. She lived to be one hundred and two years old, her death having oc- curred December 28, 1828. She was the mother of eleven children, namely: Lucy, Isaac, Abraham, Jacob, Levi (died young), Ruth, Molly, Levi, Mary, Rhoda and Marcy.
(VIII) Jacob, second son and fourth child of Abraham and Marcy (Perry) Whitney. was born in Stow, July 7. 1754. He served in the Revolutionary war as a member of a company from Bolton, under the command of Captain Sargent, and after the com- pletion of his term of service he returned to Stow, where he died October 24, 1844. He was married in Bolton, September 30. 1779, to Esther Wolcott, who was born March 5, 1761, and died December 18, 1837. The children of this union were: Levi, Keziah. Josiah, Jacob, Jesse, Abraham, Lydia, Isaac and Eunice.
(IX) ' Jesse, fourth son and fifth child of Jacob and Esther (Wolcott) Whitney, was born in Stow, January 26, 1790. He remained beneath the paternal roof, assisting his father upon the farm and attend- ing school, until reaching the age of nineteen years, when he went to Boston for the purpose of learning the shoemaker's trade. After serving an apprentice- ship of four years he went to Framingham, Massa-
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chusetts. and entered the employ of a Mr. Buck- minster as a journeyman shoemaker. Succeeding to the business a short time later he conducted it until the autumn of 1825, when he removed to Nashua and entered the employ of the Nashua Manufactur- ing Company as a belt maker, remaining with that concern for a period of ten years. He then engaged . in the retail boot and shoe business and continued in trade the rest of his life, which terminated Janu- ary 28, 1858. In politics he was a Whig, and in his religious belief he was a Presbyterian. He was married in Medfield, Massachusetts, November 19, 1818, to Rebecca Newell, who was born in Sher- bourne, February 2, 1795, and died in Nashua, June 16. 1856. She bore him ten children, namely : Helen Louisa, George Henry, Elizabeth Wheelock, Mary Antoinette, Eunice Newell. Edward Payson, Charles Frederick, William Andrew, Eugene Francis and Richard Dexter.
(X) Hon. George Henry, second child and eldest son of Jesse and Rebecca (Newell) Whitney, was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, February 24. 1821. His education was completed at Crosby's Literary Institute, Nashua. and at the age of seven- teen years he began an apprenticeship at the ma- chinist's trade. After serving the customary term he went to New York city, but returned to New Hampshire a short time afterward and obtained em- ployment as a journeyman in the machine shops of the Amoskeag Company at Manchester. Returning to Nashua some nine months later he obtained the position of foreman of the shop wherein he had learned his trade, and he retained it until 1852, when with David A. G. Warner he was admitted to part- nership under the firm name of Gage, Warner & Whitney. Under the new administration the busi- ness developed into large proportions, and it was subsequently found necessary to remove to more spacious quarters on East Hollis street, which the firm erected and equipped for their special purpose. They were the original manufacturers of machinists' tools, and later began the manufacture of the Swain turbine waterwheel, so largely used throughout New England and the middle states, and employed a large force of machinists. In 1862 the senior partner, Mr. Gage, was accidentally killed, and the firm was re- organized under the name of Warner & Whitney, continuing as such until 1873. when the death of Mr. Warner left Mr. Whitney sole proprietor of the business, and he conducted it successfully until 18So, when he sold out to the Swain Turbine Manufactur- ing Company.
Aside from his prominence in the industrial de- velopment of Nashua, Mr. Whitney was for years identified with military companies in Nashua and the State Guards, in which latter he held a first lieutenant's commission. He was a representative to the legislature in 1855-56, was a member of the Nashua board of aldermen in 1857-58, and in 1875 was elected mayor by a large majority. He later served the city as a member of the board of as- sessors. Politically he acted with the Republican party. He was a member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Meridian Sun Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; St. George Com- mandery, Knights Templar; Edward A. Raymond Consistory, and had therefore attained the Thirty- second degrec. Ile also affiliated with Granite Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a Congregationalist in his religious belief, and a member of the Pilgrim Church. He died in Nashua March 7, 1895. On April 25. 1844, Mr. Whitney was
united in marriage with Susan G. Stickney, daughter of Luther A. and Ruth (Glover) Stickney. Of this union there were seven children, namely : George F., who will be again referred to; Clarence R., born July 24, 1849, died October 8, 1868: Willis I., born March 21. 18448, died June 10, of the same year; Charles H., born June 22, 1851. married (first) Liz- zie J. Genteer, of Waldoboro, Maine, and (second) Anna F. Fisher, of Nashua; Alice G., born Septem- ber 26, 1853, was the wife of William H. Sexton, deceased ; Engene P., born November 28, 1855, and died October 20, 1906. married for his first wife Elizabeth L. Jobert, and his second wife Myra B. White; and Susa May, born December 23, 1859, and died January 2, 1860.
( XI) George Frederick, eldest child of George H. and Susan G. (Stickney) Whitney, was born in Nashua, November 2, 1846. He attended the public schools, and after completing his studies learned the machinist's trade. After his father's death he s110- ceeded to the business. He is now local agent for the Swain Turbine Manufacturing Company of Lowell, Massachusetts. He is quite active in civic affairs, having served in the common council three years and on the board of aldermen two years, and at the present time is an engineer in the fire depart- ment. His fraternal affiliations are with the Odd Fellows. He attends the Pilgrim Church. On No- vember 15. 1871, Mr. Whitney married Elthea Davis, daughter of Henry Davis. Their children are: Ada, married Arthur H. Cummings, of Nashua: Lottie May. married Fred. A. Horne, of Nashua : and Frederick Henry.
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