Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 33

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874

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and then turned his back on law and the courts to take up arms in defense of the union. September 15, 1862, he enlisted as private in Company K, Sixteenth Vermont Regiment, and was promoted to lieutenant, and served as such with his command till the inuster out of the regiment, August 20, 1863. Among the actions in which he participated was that of Gettysburg, July 3-4, 1863, which turned the tide of success in favor of the Union armies.

Returning to Vermont he resumed the practice of his profession with an energy that brought him success. He had a natural taste for politics, and at an early age took a deep interest in the success of his party. In 1870 he was elected from Chester to the lower house of the legislature, where by successive re-elections he served until 1877, inclusive, "and again in 1884. He was elected state senator ISSO and served one term, his entire service as a lawmaker covering a period of fifteen years. In 1884 he was appointed judge of probate for the Windsor District, and filled that position for nearly fourteen years, resigning it in 1898 to accept the appointment of United States pension agent, at Concord, New Hampshire, for the district includ- ing New Hampshire and Vermont. At the expira- tion of his term he was re-appointed by President Roosevelt, and has now (1905) almost completed his second four-year term.

Mr. Henry is a member of Henry Post, No. 27, Grand Army of the Republic, and in 1892 was elected department commander of the Department of Vermont, and served one year. At the time of the incorporation of the Vermont Soldiers' Home he was made one of the trustees, and has served as its president since 1887. He has been a director in the Vermont Valley railroad since 1885, is a director in the National Bank of Bellows Falls, and has been trustee of Bellows Falls Savings In- stitution for twenty-five years. In 1866 he became a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, at Chester, and was subsequently noble grand of his lodge two terms. Later he was a member of Myrtle Lodge at Proctorsville, finally becoming a member of Chester Lodge, No. 39, at Chester, in- stituted in 1889. In 1867 he was made a Mason, joining Olive Branch Lodge, No. 34, at Chester, Vermont. where he is still a member. He is also a member of the Loyal Legion, the New Hampshire Historical Society, the Vermont Veteran Associa- tion of Boston, the Bennington Monument Histori- cal Society, of Bennington, Vermont, the Wono- lancet Club, and is an honorary member of the Vet- eran Firemen's Association of Concord, New Hamp- shire. He is not a communicant of any church, but is a strong Unitarian and a constant attendant at the Second Congregation (Unitarian) Church of Con- cord.

He married, at Chester, Vermont, May 1, 1872, Alice A. Ordway, daughter of George W. and Ange- line (Cady) Ordway, born June 25. 1853. They have two children: Emma C., born May 4, 1878, now employed in the pension office; and Hugh Horatio, born June 13, 1884, who graduated from Yale Col- lege in 1905, and is now (1905) a student at law. Both were born at Chester, Vermont.

CARPENTER This is one of the most widely distributed names of the United States, as well as one of the old- est, and has been notable among the pioneers of New Hampshire and of many other states. It is traeed to an early period in England, and is con- spicuous in the annals of the American Revolu-

tion, and also in civil life through many generations and representatives. It has carried with it New England standards and has given its sons to the public service in many commonwealths.

(I) The first of the name of whom record is found was John Carpenter, born about 1303, who was a member of parliament in 1323.

(II) Richard, son of John Carpenter, born

about 1335, married Christina He re- sided in London, was a "chaundeler," and pos- sessed of wealth for his day.

(III) and (IV) The succeeding generations in this line were represented by John Carpenter, second and third, about whom no particulars can be learned.

(V) William Carpenter, son of John (3), born about 1480, died 1520, was known as "William of Homme."

(VI) and (VII) James and John (4) fill in the sixth and seventh generations.

(VIII) William, son of John (4) Carpenter, had sons : James, Alexander, William and Richard.

(IX) William (2), third son, of William (1), was born in 1576, was a carpenter by trade and resided in London. He rented tenements and gar- dens in Houndsditch. Being a dissenter he was driven to Whirwell to escape persecution, and took the opportunity to join his sons in emigrating to America. He was not contented on this side, how- ever, and returned to England in the ship which brought him.

(X) William (3), son of William (2) Car- penter, was born May 25, 1605, and came to America on the ship "Bevis," from Southampton. He was made a freeman in Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1640, and was representative to the general court from that town in 1641 and 1643. He filled the same position in Rehoboth in 1645, and died in that town, February 7, 1659. His wife, Abigail, passed away February 22, 1687. Three of their children were born in England, three in Weymouth and one in Rehoboth, namely: Jolin, William, Joseph. Anna, Abiah and Abigail (twins), and Samuel. Mr. Car- peuter was admitted as an inhabitant of Relioboth, March 28, 1645, and was made freeman in the following June. He was town and proprietors' clerk from 1643 until his death, being one of the founders and proprietors, and the records show that he was a fine writer. He was a warm friend of Governor Bradford of the Plymouth Colony, whose wife was his relative, and was a man of affairs generally, possessed of much ability. His estate was inventoried at two hundred and fifty- four pounds and ten shillings.

(XI) Joseph, third son and child of William (3) and Abigail Carpenter, was born about 1633 in England, and was married May 25. 1655, to Mar- garet, daughter of John Sutton. He was buried May 6, 1675, near One-Hundred-Acre cove in Bar- rington, and his widow was buried in 1700, at the age of sixty-five years, in East Providence. He was one of the original members of Rev. Myles' Church, the first Baptist society in Massachusetts, in 1663, in Swansea. For his heresy he was fined five pounds and suspended from worship one month, but he seems to have kept up amicable business re- lations with his fellows, and also to have hield to his faith, facts which clearly indicate force of character and genuine worth.

(XII) Benjamin, son of Joseph and Margaret (Sutton) Carpenter, was born January 19. 1658, probably in Swansea, and married Renew Weeks, who was born in 1660, daughter of William and

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Elizabeth Weeks, of Dorchester. She died July 29, 1703. and he was married November 27, 1706, to Martha Toogood, who was living at the time of his death, May 22, 1727. His children, all baptized in Dor- chester, were: Benjamin, Jotham, Renew, Eliza- beth, Hannah, Jane, John, Submit, Job, Kesiah, Hezekiah and Edward.

(XIII) John (5), third son and seventh child of Benjamin and Renew (Weeks) Carpenter, was born March 25. 1692, and resided in Swansea and Mans- field. and Stafford, Connecticut, dying in the latter town in 1766. He probably moved thither in his old age, to be near his son, mentioned at length in the following paragraph. He was married Septem- ber 12, 1717, to Sarah Thurston, who died October 24, 1744, aged fifty-three years. He married (sec- ond ) Martha H , of Windham, Connecti- cut, and (third), March 19, 1748, widow Hannah Martin, of Warwick, Rhode Island. His children, all born in Swansea, were: Hannah, Harriet, Me- lietible, Huldah, Louis, Barnabas, John, Sarah, War- ren. Elizabeth and Eliphialet.

(XIV) John (6), third son and seventh child of John (5) and Sarah (Thurston) Carpenter, was born January 4, 1728, in Swansea, Massachusetts, and was one of the original settlers of Stafford, Connecticut, in 1760, going there from New Lon- don. He was a minute-man of the Revolution, serving eighteen days in the Lexington Alarm, under Captain Freeborn, of Monson, Massachusetts, a town adjoining Stafford. He lived to be nearly eighty-nine years old, dying in Stafford, October 3, ISI6. He is supposed to have been married three times. The second wedding took place June 5, 1755. to Mary Loomis, of Lebanon, Connecticut, who was born in the town of Scotland, that colony, a daughter of Josiah Loomis. She died July 24, ISO1, and he married Judith Horton, September 16, ISO4. His children were: John, Oliver, a daugh- ter (name unknown), who married a Whittaker and resided in Vermont; Sarah, Josiah. Joseph, Thurs- ton, Samuel, Mary (died at five and one-half years), Nathaniel, Irene and Mary.

(XV) Josiah, third son and fifth child of John (6) and Mary (Loomis) Carpenter. was born in October, 1762, in Stafford, Connecticut, and hecame a minister of the Congregational Church. He gra- duated at Dartmouth College, with first honors of his class, in 1787, and was ordained in charge of the church at Chichester, New Hampshire, Novem- ber 2, 1791. He was pastor there nearly thirty-six years, being dismissed at his request July 24, 1827. This long connection testifies to his worth, and his piety, faithfulness and ability need no other testi- monial. He passed away in Chichester March I, I851, at the age of eighty-eight years and four months, and his departure was widely mourned. While a mere boy he enlisted in the Revolutionary service, and was sentinel on Roxbury Neck, with two of his brothers, when one of the others (Oliver) was killed. He was married April 13, 1790, to Han- nah Morril, of Canterbury, New Hampshire, a daughter of David Morril, of Salisbury, Massachu- setts, and descendant of Abraham Morril, who came from England in 1632 on the ship "Lyon." She died February 21, 1847, aged eighty years and two months. Their children were: Nancy, David M., Hannah, Oliver, John. Thurston and Clarissa.

(XVI) David Morril, eldest son and second child of Rev. Josiah and Hannah (Morril) Car- penter, was born November 16. 1793, in Chichester, and died December 9, 1873, in Concord. He was an active man of affairs, and engaged in mercantile

business at Chichester, later purchasing a large farm which he tilled industriously and successfully. He was a trustee of the Merrimack County Savings Bank and a director of the Mechanics' National Bank, and rarely failed to attend the weekly meet- ings of the directors. His worth was recognized by his fellow citizens, and he was called upon to serve as representative in the state legislature, and was county treasurer from 1837 to 1849. He served as town clerk for the seven years from 1820 to 1826, inclusive, and again from 1829 to IS31. He was selectman in 1835-36 and 1842-43-44, and was subsequently county commissioner. While yet a minor lie served as a soldier in the War of 1812. As a man and citizen lie exercised a wide and worthy influence.

He was married January 13, ISIS, to Mary Perkins of Loudon, New Hampshire, formerly of Wells, Maine. She died November 4, 1866, at the age of sixty-eight years. Her father, Jonathan Chesley Perkins, settled in Loudon in 1788, and cleared up a farm and became a leading citizen. Their children are noted as follows: Charles Hodgdon is the subject of the succeeding para- graph. Mary Jane, died at the age of four years. Mary Jane (2), died when eighteen years old. Jo- sialı is a resident of Manchester, this state. Clara A. became the wife of Samuel C. Merrill, of Man- chester, and resides in Patterson, New Jersey. Sarah L. married James W. Webster, of Concord, a noted educator, and resided in Boston and Mal- den, Massachusetts. Frank P. is mentioned at length in this article.

(XVII) Charles Hodgdon, eldest child of David Morril and Mary (Perkins) Carpenter, was born in Chichester, December 18, 1818. When he was ten years old his parents removed to a farm at Chichester Centre, and there he attained his majority. He received a good practical education, attending the schools when in session, and working on the farm the remainder of the year, until his education fitted him for teaching, when he became an instructor of youth and taught school several winters. At an early age he showed a military spirit, and at nine- teen was commissioned lieutenant of militia, and subsequently promoted to a captaincy in the Thirty- eighth Regiment. Through his influence his com- pany was supplied with uniforms, which the other companies did not have, and thus Captain Car- penter's company became the pride of the regiment. Soon after he was twenty-one Mr. Carpenter went to live with his maternal uncle, Jacob Perkins, who resided on a large farm upon which Mr. Car- penter has ever since lived. In connection with his large agricultural business Mr. Perkins for many years dealt extensively in cattle, which he bought in northern New Hampshire and Vermont, and drove, before the days of railroads in the upper country, through the valleys of the romantic moun- tain region, down Bakers river and the Pemige- wasset and Merrimack to market at Brighton, Mas- sachusetts. Mr. Carpenter, an active and vigorous young man, enjoyed these trips, many of which he made.

The Pittsfield Bank was formed in 1851, and Mr. Carpenter was chosen cashier, and acceptably filled that place for the ensuing five years. Mr. Perkins' health failing at that time, Mr. Carpenter was obliged to relinquish his position in the bank, and devote a larger share of his time to the duties at his home in Chichester. Although removed from the actual transaction of the business of the bank by this change, Mr. Carpenter has always maintained

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a connection with it either as cashier, director or president, having held the latter office from 1870. He has also been president of the Merchants' National Bank of Dover, New Hampshire, since its inauguration. His farming has been of a character and scope to excite more than ordinary attention. His farm in the valley of the Suncook is a model of its kind. The homestead farm consists of seven hundred acres in one body, with over one thousand acres of wood- land and pasture outlying. He cuts one hundred and fifty tons of hay and winters one hundred head of choice cattle. For more than forty years his favorite breed of stock has been a cross between the Devon and the Durham, which he has bred prin- cipally for beef, and which has brought good prices. His farm buildings are models in their way, being among the finest in the state. His handsome and commodious residence commands a fine view of the surrounding country, embracing the valley of the Suncook and the panorama of encircling hills. In addition to farming, Mr. Carpenter has been largely engaged in trading in live stock, and has handled large amounts of lumber, buying on the stump and manufacturing and handling much timber each year. He has extensive interests in Pittsfield, where he has invested considerably in real estate. He was actively interested in starting the Pittsfield Aque- duct Company, and holds much of its stock, and is part owner of the new Opera House block. He was one of the promoters of the Farmers' Savings Bank of Pittsfield, chartered in 1883, and is one of its trustees. He was one of the projectors of the Sun- cook Valley railroad, contributed a share to de- fray the expense of the first survey of its route, and was actively interested in locating and build- ing it, contributing five hundred dollars towards its completion. He has served on its board of directors since its organization, where his judgment and busi- ness experience have proved of value to the cor- poration.

Mr. Carpenter's wealth and success in the man- agement of his affairs have recommended him to his fellow citizens as a very proper agent for the transaction of public business. For well on to two score years he was placed in responsible positions in the interests of the town. He was a member of the legislature from Chichester in 1855-56, and acquitted himself with credit. He is a Democrat with the interests of his country always uppermost in his mind, and in the period of the war of the Rebellion he was a war Democrat of an ardent type. During nearly all those years he served as chairman of the board of selectmen, stood at the helm in providing the town's quota of troops, meet- ing the extraordinary burdens which the war pro- duced, receiving and disbursing all the town's money, and acquitting himself with credit in the discharge of all his duties.

Mr. Carpenter is an active member of the Con- gregational Socicty. Ile appreciates fully the value of religious and educational institutions and philan- thropic works, and contributes to the support of them. The Carpenter family has been prominent in the political, social and business circles of Chi- chester and Merrimack county for three genera- tions, and no member has been more active and successful than Charles Il., whose sound judgment, good common sense and foresight have enabled him to make his life a success, and to assist others in the accomplishment of the same end. Though now (1906) eighty-eight years old, Mr. Carpenter is in

the enjoyment of a green old age, still an alert business man as active as many a man many years his junior, and still makes journeys to Boston to sell his stock and attend to other business affairs. He married, October 28, 1841, Joanna Maxfield, an adopted daughter of his uncle. She died July 5, 1882. She was noted for her generosity and hos- pitality, was an exemplary wife and efficient help and adviser to her husband, and a tender and lov- ing mother to her children. The children born of this marriage were five: Jolin T., Mary J., Electa A., Sally P. and Clara A.

John T., the eldest, was educated at Pittsfield Academy and at Colby Academy at New London. He has since lived on a farm in his native town. He has two children, Albert Perkins, now a resi- dent of Boston, and Stella M., wife ot Arthur War- ren, of Pittsfield. Mary J., the second, was edu- cated at Pittsfield Academy and at Dora Merrill's Select School in Concord. She engaged in teaching and was one of the most popular teachers of hier native town. After her mother's death she assumed charge of her father's household and has gracefully entertained his many friends and carried forward the duties laid down by her mother. Electa A. be- came the wife of John Abbott Goss, whom she survived and succeeded as cashier of the Pittsfield Bank and is now filling that position. Sally Per- kins was educated at Pittsfield Academy and Abbott Female Seminary at Andover, Massachusetts, from which she graduated. She was an assistant in Pem- broke Academy and in Pittsfield Academy and at one time was a teacher in the high school at Am- herst, New Hampshire. She is a member of the Colonial Dames, and with her sister has traveled much in Europe and the North American Continent. Clara A. is the wife of Nathaniel M. Batchelder, and resides in Pittsfield.

(XVII) Frank Pierce, son of David Morril and Mary (Perkins) Carpenter, was born in the town of Chichester, New Hampshire. October 28. 1845. He attended the district school, assisted his father on the Epsom farm, and laid the foundations of good health and rugged constitution among the Granite Hills of New Hampshire. Upon his father's removal to Concord, he pursued his studies at a grammar school, entered the high school of that city and graduated in 1863. He intended to enter col- lege, but in obedience to the earnest wish of his mother, then in poor health, he abandoned this plan and remained at home until he went to Man- chester. New Hampshire, in the spring of 1864. There he entered the employment of J. S. Kidder & Company. flour and grain merchants, with whom he remained five years. At the end of this time he formed a partnership with Frank J. Drake. They conducted a wholesale flour and grain business until 1885, when Mr. Carpenter bought the Amoskeag Paper Mill. with which he has been connected ever since. Under his management it has proved a most successful enterprise. Mr. Carpenter, while giving careful attention to his own business, devotes much time to the affairs of other corporations. He is and has been since its beginning a director of the Second National Bank of Manchester, a director of the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company and a member of its finance committee, president of the Columbia ( South Carolina) Water Power Com- pany, vice-president and director of the Burgess Sulphite Fibre Company of Berlin, New Hampshire. He is a director in the following corpirations : Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, Concord and

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Montreal railroad, Consolidated Cotton Duck Cor- poration and Hanover Fire Insurance Company of New York.

At the decease of Hon. Aretas Blood, late of Manchester, who died intestate November 24, 1897, the care, management and disposition of his estate devolved upon Mr. Carpenter and Dr. L. Melville French, both sons-in-law of the deceased. To this settlement, exceedingly difficult because of the variety and widely separated location of business interests, Mr. Carpenter gave unwearied effort and devoted attention. The result fully justifies the opinion universally formed that no one could have exercised better judgment, business sagacity or more tactful and successful administration than did Mr. Carpenter. He is a regular attendant at the Frank- lin Street Congregational Church, and is president of its Society. Mr. Carpenter has never aspired to political preferment. Acting with the Democratic party he accepted in 1894 an appointment as one of the board of police commissioners, and this duty he discharged with considerate and faithful atten- tion. He is interested in good government and progress, and is ever ready to promote the welfare of his home town.

On the twelfth of September. 1872, Mr. Carpenter was united in marriage with Elenora R. Blood, daughter of the late Aretas Blood. Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter have a son and a daughter. Aretas Blood and Mary Elizabeth. Aretas B. married Alice Burn- ham, daughter of United States Senator Henry E. Burnham, of Manchester, and is treasurer of the Amoskeag Paper Mill. Mr. and Mrs. Aretas B. Carpenter have two daughters, Elizabeth and Ele- nora. Mary Elizabeth is the wife of Charles Bart- lett Manning, of Manchester.

(Second Family.)

This line in Manchester is not CARPENTER connected by any known records with others of the name or Car- penter in New Hampshire.

Nicholas Carpenter was born January 30, 1794. in Marseilles, France. Nothing is known of his parents, but it is probable that his father was Eng- lish or of English stock. The name has always been spelled in its present form, as far as known, which would indicate that it is not of French origin. At an early age Nicholas Carpenter was placed with a brother in the bakery on a man-of-war, to learn the trade. The brother was drowned, and Nicholas left the ship on its arrival in the harbor of Quebec, making his way at once into the rural district on the southern border of the Province of Quebec. He was employed by farmers in Stanstead, and later in Derby, Vermont, and continued in that occupa- tion all of his active life. For a period of twenty- two years he had charge of the large farms of Hon. Pontus Baxter of Derby, who was a member of Congress at the time of his death. Mr. Carpenter purchased land and became a large landowner in Troy and Westmore, Vermont. He lived in the lat- ter town January 5, 1878, near the close of his eighty-fourth year. He was an extensive raiser of all kinds of farm stock, a successful farmer, and reared a large family. The maple trees which he set out are a monument to his forethought and kindness of heart. His wife, Hannah Libby, daugh- ter of Joshua and Hannah (Grant) Libbey, was of English descent. She died at the age of ninety- one years. She was a member of the Advent Church which her husband supported. Mr. Car-

penter was a Whig and one of the first to give support to the Republican party. He served as highway commissioner and a member of the school board, and did all in his power to advance the wel- fare of the community in which he lived. His nine sons and nine daughters included two pairs of twins, one pair of whom died unnamed. I. Joshua, the eldest, was a resident of Hatley, Province of Quebec, where he died. 2. Isaac was a resident of Derby, and died in Boston from an operation for cancer. 3. Sarah married (first) John Gates, (second) Thomas Henry, and resides in South Hadley, Massachusetts. 4. Julia is the widow of Peter Rash and lives in Barton, Vermont. 5. Charles is a resident of Fairhaven, Massachu- setts. 6 and 7. John and James were twins; the former died in Lowell, Massachusetts, and the latter in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. 8. Louis lives at Concord, Vermont. 9. Edward L., see forward. 10 and II. Harriet and Lucy died unmarried. 12. Maria Jeanette became the wife of James Mat- thews, and died in Westmore. 13. Jedediah died of illness contracted while a soldier in the Civil war. 14. Leslie M. is a resident of Smithfield, Rhode Island. 15 and 16. Jane and a boy, unnamed, died in infancy.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. II, Part 33

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 874

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 874