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 58

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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of Governor Floyd in January, 1907, and attends the Unitarian Church. Mr. Burpee married April 27. 1887, M. I .. Bachelder, daughter of Nathan G. Bachelder of Manchester, and has one son: Benja- min Pratt Burpee, born March 20, 1889.

(V) Asa Burpee, son of Thomas (4) and Ann (Chaplin) Burpee, was born in Rowley and learn- ed the trade of shoemaking. In 1786 he went to New London, New Hampshire, and settled as a pioneer on what is now Burpee Hill. Ile died in New London October 15, 1843. at the age of eighty-three years. He was married in Rowley to Mary Perley, daughter of Benjamin and Apphia Perley of that town. She died July 23, 1833, aged seventy-three years. Their children were Thomas. Rebekah, Dolly. Perley, Delia, Apphia, Azubah, Sally and Abiel.

(VI) Captain Perley, second son and fourth

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child of Asa (5) and Apphia (Perley) Burpee, was born in New London, June 4, 1790. He resided on Colby Hill and followed the shoemaker's trade in connection with farming. His death occurred Au- gust 21, 1865. The Christian name of his wife was Judith, and she became the mother of six children : Anthony C., Edwin E. (died young). Abiel, Saralı, Judith M., and Edwin P.

(VII) Edwin Perley, fourth son and sixth child of Captain Perley and Judith Burpee, was born in New London, January 10, 1829. He was one of the most prosperous farmers and public-spirited citizens in his day, was noted for his generosity and other commendable qualities, and participated actively in local civic affairs. His death occurred suddenly in Concord, February 5, 1897, while representing his district in the lower branch of the state legislature. and was caused by heart failure. In politics he was a staunch supporter of the Republican party, and labored diligently for its success in his section of the state. In his religious belief he was a Baptist. On February 15, 1899, he married Rosaline Todd, daugh- ter of James and Mary (Dodge) Todd of Newton. She became the mother of five children: Wilfred E., who will be again referred to in the next paragraph; Mary E., who became the

wife Walter Macomber. and resides in

Boston :

Susan Colgate, who died in 1881, aged twenty-three years ; Eliza Colby, wife of Mel- ville H. Robbins; and Hattie T. Burpee. Mrs. Ros- aline Burpee was for many years prominently iden- tified with social and religious affairs and served with marked ability on the board of education. She died November 13, 1906. at the age of fifty-six years.

(VIII) Wilfred Ernest, eldest son and child of Edwin Perley and Rosaline (Todd) Burpee, was born in New London, February 7, 1860. His early education was completed at the Colby Academy, and his professional studies were pursued at the Detroit (Michigan) Optical College, from which he was graduated in 1892. Locating in Manchester, under the firm name of Brown and Burpee, as eyesight specialists, he introduced the latest methods and im- provements in optical science and has acquired a wide reputation, having at the present time optical parlors both in Manchester and Concord. For the past ten years he has been a director on the Young Men's Christian Association. He is a leading mem- ber and a deacon of the Merrimack Street Baptist Church. Mr. Burpee married Lucy Shepherd, daugh- ter of James E. Shepherd of New London. She is a graduate of Colby Academy and the Emerson School of Oratory, Boston, and has won distinction as a public reader. She is also known as an able biographical writer, is actively interested in the Women's Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association, the Federation of Women's Clubs and the Elliott Hospital, of which latter she is a trus- tee. Mr. and Mrs. Burpee have had two children : Helen, who is no longer living, and Mildred Shep- herd Burpee.

The name Robbins has been associat- ROBBINS ed with Mason from the birth of the town. Josiah and Thomas Robbins were two of the incorporators of the town of Ma- son, 1768, and at a meeting held September 19 of that year Josiah Robbins was elected surveyor of highways, with the other first town officers. From the first settlement members of this family have been residents of this town. The family was probably not included among the Puritan emigrants, but was

among those later accessions which came toward the close of the seventeenth century.

(1) Diligent research has failed to discover the parentage of Josiah Robhins, who was born about 1706. He may have been born in Europe. In early life he was a resident of Cambridge, Massachusetts, living in the part of that historic town which is now Arlington. He and his wife were among the orig- inal members of the Precinct Church founded in 1739, and took letters from that body to the church in Townsend, Massachusetts, October 5, 1744. He lived in Townsend eight years and then removed to Mason. New Hampshire. From that town he re- moved to Stoddard, New Hampshire, in 1775, and died there in 1787. He was married in Cambridge, January 29, 1730. to Sarah Fillebrown. There is a tradition in Mason that she died in that town, and there is a record of the marriage of Josiah Robbins in Mason to Mary Campbell, of Townsend, Febru- ary 21, 1764. His children were born of the first marriage and included: Josiah, Nathan, Anna and Reuben, all born in Cambridge, and Thomas, Seth, Amos and possibly others born in Townsend.

(II) Seth, third son and fifth child of Josiah and Sarah (Fillebrown) Robbins, was born in 1745, in Townsend. Massachusetts, and was a child when his parents removed to Mason, New Hampshire. He resided in that town through life and was married there October 17, 1771, to Sarah Scripture, daughter of Samuel and Mary (Green) Scripture. He died in Mason, July 31, 1837, having survived his wife a little over two years. She died June 21, 1835, aged eighty-two years. They were the parents of five or more children, including: Sarah, Abraham, Seth and True.

(III) True, son of Seth and Sarah (Scripture) Robbins, was born in Mason. April 19. 1788, and died January 21, 1851, aged sixty-two. He lived all his life in Mason. He was a farmer in comfortable circumstances, a reliable friend, a good neighbor, and a progressive and respected citizen. He was a Democrat in political sentiment. (His son, Wil- liam. and descendants are noticed in this article.) (IV) Lewis, son of True Robbins, was born in Mason. He was a successful and highly respected farmer. He married Emily Winship. Her parents

were Noalı and - Winship, of Mason. Five children were born of this marriage: Lewis Harlan, George C., now of Greenville; Frederic, of Ash- by. Massachusetts ; Elizabeth, who married George Kimball. of Belmont, Massachusetts; Lilla, wife of O. D. Prescott, of Greenville.

(V) Lewis Harlan, eldest child of Lewis and Emily (Winship) Robbins. was born in Mason, May 10, 1844. He was educated in the common schools, and is engaged in agriculture, having a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, where in addition to gen- eral farming he does considerable dairying. He is a member of the North Star Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Greenville. He married (first) Abbie Wheeler, and (second) Georgia M. Haywood. Two children, Melville and Edith, were born of the first marriage; and one of the second, Paul Austin, now of Ashby, Massachusetts.

(IV) William, son of True Robbins, was born in Mason, and died February 4, 1895. He was a suc- cessful farmer, and resided in Mason. He married Nancy Buckman, who died in Mason, daughter of Joseph Buckman. Her father was a lieutenant in the Revolution. They had one child, William Otis, whose sketch follows.

(V) William Otis, only living child of William

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and Nancy (Buckman) Robbins. was born in Ma- son, May 26, 1844, and grew up on his father's farm. At the age of twenty he became an apprentice to the cooper's trade, at which he worked for ten years. He then returned to the cultivation of the soil, and has ever since resided on his present farm of two hundred acres. He married, 1866, Martha Jane Bar- rett, who was born in Ashby, November 27, 1842, daughter of James P. and Martha H. (Bonett) Bar- rett, of Ashby, Massachusetts. Two children were born of this union: Edward and Nellie, who mar- ried George Blanch, of Greenville.

CONGDON Dr. Charles Everett Congdon, of Nashua, is a representative of an old Rhode Island family, which was established there in the last half of the seventeenth century by Benjamin Congdon, who was born in 1656, and may have been a native of Wales. The supposition that the emigrant ancestor of the Rhode Island Congdons was named James cannot be veri- fied by the carly records, and the name of James Congdon does not appear an immigrant in Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Benjamin Congdon. who arrived in Rhode Island a young man and settled in Portsmouth, Kings Town, died June 19, 1718. He married Elizabeth Albro, daugh- ter of John and Dorothy Albro and his children werc: Benjamin, John and James, the last- named of whom was the ancestor of Dr. Congdon. (IV) James, probably a grandson of James and a great-grandson of Benjamin the immigrant, re- sided in Warwick. The christian name of his wife was Hannah and he was the father of ten children. (V) James (2). fourth son and fifth child of James (1) and Hannah Congdon, was born De- cember 26, 1788. He was also of Warwick.

(VI) Albert I., son of James (2) Congdon, of Warwick, resided in East or West Greenwich. He was an upright citizen and a devout church man.

(VI]) Richard Edwin, son of Albert I. Congdon, was born in East Greenwich. When a young man he became a druggist and is now engaged in the business in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He mar- ried Jeanette W. Chapman, daughter of Nathan Chapman, of Mystic, Rhode Island, and formerly of Noank. Connecticut. She became the mother of five children.

(VIH) Charles Everett Congdon. M. D., son of Richard E. and Jeanette W. ( Chapman) Congdon, was born in East Greenwich, September 27, 1872. He attended the Coffin School in Nantucket and the Chauncey llall School, Boston. He was a student in medicine at Harvard University, from which he was graduated a Doctor of Medicine, and he com- pleted his professional preparations at the Kingston Avenue and the Long Island Hospitals, Brooklyn, New York. His professional career was inaugur- ated as surgeon of an American steamship plying between northern and southern ports, in which ca- pacity he continued for six months, and at the ex- piration of that time he located for practice in Ber- lin, New Hampshire. In August, 1898, he enlisted for service in the Spanish-American war as hos- pital steward of the First Regiment New Hamp- shire National Guards, commanded by Colonel Rolfe and shortly afterward appointed assistant surgeon with the rank of first lieutenant. but owing to the carly termination of hostilities was prevented from active participation in the conflict. After his dis- charge he settled in Nashua and has ever since prac- ticed his profession in that city. He has served with

ability as city physician and chairman of the board of health, is a member of the board of United States examiners in pension cases, and local exam- iner for several of the leading life insurance com- panies. Dr. Congdon is a member of the Nashua and the New Hampshire State Medical societies, be- ing president of the first named body, and is also a member of the American Medical Association. the Masonic Order and the Guards Club. On June 16, 1902, he was united in marriage with Ann Mariah Ramsdell, daughter of the late ex-Governor George Allen Ramsdell (see article on the Ramsdell fam- ily in this work). Dr. and Mrs. Congdon have one son, Robert Densmore Congdon.

This branch of the great Fuller fam-

FULLER ily is probably descended from the

early immigrant, John Fuller, whose sketch is given on a preceding page of this work.

(I) Daniel Fuller was a native of Danvers, Mas- sachusetts. When a young man he removed to Hud- son, New Hampshire, where he spent his life in agricultural pursuits. and became a farmer of consequence.

(If) Joseph Fuller, son of Daniel Fuller, was born in Hudson. 1816, and died 1894, aged seventy- eight years. He was a prosperous man, and devot- ed considerable time to public matters, adhering to the Republican party. He married Baliney Steele, and they were the parents of eight children. Five of whom are now living : Albert, of Hudson; Charles H., of Brockton, Massachusetts; Willis L., who is the subject of the next paragraph; Frank J., of Lowell. Massachusetts ; and Nancy, who mar- ried Alonzo G. Hutchins, of Hudson.

(III) Willis Leroy, son of Joseph and Baliney (Steele) Fuller, was born in Hudson, November 9, 1854. He grew up on his father's farm, and was educated in the public schools of Hudson. He is a well-to-do farmer, and a man of pleasing person- ality and of influence in the community. He is a member of the local lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He married Adelia Vetters, of New York. Two children have been born to them: George, who died young; and Lizzie F., who was born in Hudson.

CLOUTMAN This family is of English origin, and the name was taken from an occupation. The race is not nu- merous, though they were represented in Massa- chusetts in colonial times. The Cloutmans have long been noted for their sterling worth. The name seems to have been Cloudman when it arrived in America, and many of the descendants still use that form. It originated in the Highlands of Scot- land and was planted in America before the close of the seventeenth century. John and Thomas Cloudman, brothers, came to America in September, 1600. from the Highlands of Aberdeenshire. Scot- land. They landed at Plymouth and settled at Mar- blehead, Massachusetts. According to tradition they were noted for their strength and large stature. They were members of the Society of Friends, and per- sons of strict integrity. Thomas Cloudman had a son William who moved from Marblehead to Do- ver, New Hampshire. Edward Cloudman, who is the first in the connected line now known, was prob- ably his son.

(I) Edward (2). son of Edward (I) and Sa- rah Cloutman, was born February 15, 1715. in Dover,. New Hampshire. When twenty-two years of age

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he settled in Falmouth, Maine, and was there mar- ried April 16, 1738, to Anna Collins. of Philadelphia. After his marriage he went to Presumpseot Lower Falls where he had charge of the first saw mill built there. This mill was built in 1735. Mr. Cloutman is said to have been a tall and very strong man, weighing about two hundred and twenty pounds and was a noted wrestler. One night while running the mill alone, he was attacked by an Indian who twice attempted to shoot him, but in both cases the gun missed fire. Cloutman hurled a bar used in oper- ating the mill at the Indian and it hit him on the head, killing him instantly. On the following night the Indians burned the mill. Cloutman took his wife and children in a canoe and paddled down the river and around to Stroudwater. In 1745, he located in Gorham, Maine, and bought a thirty acre lot near Fort Hill. On April 19. 1746, he was surprised by a party of Indians while sowing wheat in his field, and after a desperate struggle was overpowered, carried a captive to Canada. On the 23d of October, he with a companion escaped from confinement at Quebec. and they were never heard from again. It is presumed that they were drowned while attempt- ing to eross Lake Champlain. In the following sum- mer two skeletons. still covered with clothing, were washed ashore by that lake, and in one of the pockets was a compass which was identified as the property of Cloutman. His widow married Abner Anderson, of Windham, Maine, and died December 1, 1802, aged eighty-five years.

(II) Timothy, son of Edward and Anna (Col- lins) Cloutman, was born at Presumpscot Lower Falls. Like his father he was strong and brave and he was accustomed to go on "neighborhood scouts" against the Indians. When he was but fifteen years old he was with a party and fired at the Redskins with the gun his father had taken from the Indian who attempted to shoot him. He settled on a farm in Gorham and first began house- keeping in a log building which he erected. He sometimes worked in the sawmill and enltivated his small farm in the intervals. He was married July 24, 1766, to Katie Partridge, who is supposed to have came from Marblehead, Massachusetts. They had eleven children, namely: Betty, Nancy, Edward, Nathan and Jesse (twins) John, Polly, William, Thomas, Solomon and David.

(III) John. fourth son and sixth child of Tim- othy and Katie ( Partridge) Cloutman, was born February 20, 1776, and settled in Wakefield, New Hampshire, where he was a carpenter and passed his life in his native town. He was married (first) at Rochester, New Hampshire, January 15. 1798, to Hannah Folsom.

(IV) Alfred Cushing. son of John and Hannalı (Folsom) Cloutman, was born in Wakefield, New Hampshire, in 1806. He received his education in the district schools, and worked on a farm in Wake- field. While still a young man he removed to Alex- andria, New Hampshire, and bought a farm upon which he passed the remainder of his life. and died in 1882. He was an industrious man, a good neigh- bor, and a loyal eitizen. In politics he was a Demo- crat, but voted for Abraham Lincoln for president. He married Lydia Horn, of Rochester, New Hamp- shire, born 1804. died 1892. aged eighty-eight years. They had seven children: Sarah, James A., Charles J., Napoleon B., John F., Preston H. and Lydia Ann. Napoleon Bonaparte. third son and fourth child of Alfred Cushing and Lydia (Horn) Cloutman, born in Alexandria, January 6, 1840, received his

education in the common schools of that place. At seventeen years of age he left home and worked on farms in Farmington, Rochester, and Dover. for some years. In 1900 he bought a small farm of fine level land on Clinton street, Concord, where he is engaged in general farming. Mr. Cloutman is a Demoerat in politics ; he has no church connections. He has many of the characteristics of his ancestors, is industrious and prudent, a good neighbor, a moral and upright citizen, and a pleasant companion. He married, June 11, 1865, Mrs. Sarah Louise Page Lamson, born in Swanzey, April 7, 1844. daughter of Leander and Hannah (Brown) Page, and grand- daughter of Ezekiel and Olive (Thompson) Page, of Swanzey. They are the parents of six children : Gertrude Hannah. died August 6, 1907; Clevie N. B., Louie Josephine, Ambrose Leander, Lena Ethel and Bertha Lydia. Mrs. Cloutman's first husband. Brad- ford P. Lamson, died at Savannah, Georgia. in 1862. of spotted fever : he was a member of the Fourteenth New Hampshire Regiment ; he left one child. Sadie Grace, now Mrs. Alfred Marshall, and resides in Concord.

(I) John Cloutman was probably born at Wake- field, New Hampshire, where his father settled. He was a carpenter, and lived to be more than eighty years old. His children were: Mary, John F., Ann, Gilman, Alfred, Hersey. Jeremiah A., all born in Wakefield, New Hampshire.

(II) John F., second child of John Cloutman, was a farmer and carpenter. He died at Memphis, Tennessee, at the age of forty-eight years. He married Patience Tash Edgerly, who was born May 23. 1803, and died in 1894, aged ninety-one years. They had nine children of whom three died. The surviving children were: I. Erastus F., a soldier in the Mexican war. He had his name changed by act of the legislature to Ralph Carlton. He was captain of Company E. Third New Hampshire Vol- unteer Infantry, and was killed at James Island in the Civil war. 2. Martha, married James Davis. 3. John F., mentioned below. 4. Horatio G., lived in Farmington, New Hampshire. 5. James A., lived in Farmington, New Hampshire. 6. Ellen F., mar- ried Edward D. Seymour, and lived in Lynn, Mas- sachusetts, and Farmington, New Hampshire.

(III) John Folsom (2), son of John F. ( 1) and Patience T. (Edgerly) Cloutman, was born in New Durham. December 27. 1831. and died December 7. 1905, in Farmington. He received a limited common school education which he acquired before he was thirteen years old. He then left the farm and went to work in a shoe factory at Farmington. He worked

in the business until he was twenty-two years of age. April 23, 1853, he entered into an agreement with Joseph Whitney & Company of Boston to start a factory and manufacture shoes for them. He started at once and thus founded the shoe manu- facturing business that is still in the family and managed by his son. For nine years he made shoes for Whitney & Company and others. For the next nine years following until 1862 he made shoes at Farmington, and was associated with the Wallace Brothers for about two years. During the six or seven years which followed he manufactured on his own account. In 1871 he became superintendent of the manufacturing plant of Wallace, Elliott & Company, at Farmington, and continued as sueh lin- til about 1893. Besides that he was interested from 1875 to 1879 in the manufacture of shoes with the Wallace Brothers, under the firm name of Wallace & Cloutman. After 1879 the firm became Cloutman

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and Bingham, the Wallace Brothers having a spe- cial interest. In 1877 Mr. Cloutman built the fine brick factory building, which was occupied by Wal- lace. Elliott & Company as a factory. It is forty by one hundred and fifty feet exclusive of the boiler and engine room, and four stories above the basement. They employed about three hundred op- crators and made about one hundred and seventy-five thousand pairs of ladies', misses' and children's shoes each year. which sold for more than four hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars a year. The labor cost more than five hundred dollars a day. In 1900 Mr. Cloutman bought the old Waldron mill with water privilege and installed the first electric light plant in Farmington, which now supplies the town with light and is still owned by the family. Mr. Cloutman was a Democrat in politics, and in 1862- 63. though the town was strongly Republican, he represented it in the legislature. In 1876-77 he was clected state senator from the sixth district and served on the banking and on the manufacturing committees. He was town auditor and town treas- urer, and was a member of the committee which built, in 1881-82, the fine town hall. At the organi- zation of the Farmington National Bank, in 1872, he was elected vice-president. In 1875 the presi- dent. George M. Herring, died and Mr. Cloutman succeeded him in office. He was president of the Farmington Savings Bank until the spring of ISS1. when he declined to serve longer in that place, but still remained on the board of trustees. At the time of his death he was vice-president of the Na- tional and president of the Savings Bank. He was much interested in Masonry, and was an influential and honored member of the following organizations of that order : Farmington Lodge, No. 71, Free and Accepted Masons, of Farmington, of which he was master five years; Columbian Royal Arch Chapter, of Farmington: St. Paul Commandery, Knights Templar. of Dover ; and district deputy grand master of the First Masonic District in New Hampshire. HTe married (first). March 4, 1854. Amanda M. Davis, who was born August 23. 1830, and died June 4 1868, daughter of Eleazer M. Davis, of Al- ton. Married (second), July 3. 1869, Ellen E. Kimball, who was born February 13. 1838. died February 27, 1897, daughter of Samuel A. and Ann M. Kimball, of Bradford, Massachusetts. Two chil- dren were born of the second marriage: Nellie Amanda, born May 28, 1874, married. November 8, 1807, to Will Dean Allen, of Farmington, a descen- dlant of General Ethan Allen, of Vermont. and has one daughter, Ruth Elizabeth, born October 26, 1808. John F., mentioned below.

(TV) John F. (3). only son of John F. (2) Clout- man, was born in Farmington, May 18, 1877, and was educated in the public schools and at St. Johns- bury. Vermont, Academy. He succeeded his father in the shoe business and is a prosperous manufac- turer. In politics he is Independent. He married July 12. 1902, Bessie Estelle Wentworth, who was born August 4, 1881, daughter of Joseph and Mar- tha ( Perkins) Wentworth. of Middleton, New Hampshire. They have two children. Ellen Eliza- heth, born January 29. 1905. Richard F., January 14. 1907.

WOOLSON This name in its primitive form was probably Wolf's son. and dates back to those carly times when patronymies were bestowed according to personal characteristics. We see something of the same kind .

of nomenclature among the American Indians, but do not always realize that our Saxon and Danish ancestors wrought out their family and tribal names after the same process. The Woolsons are not es- pecially numerous in the United States, but they have achieved considerable distinction. The most celebrated member of the family is probably Con- stance Fenimore Woolson, who was born in Clare- mont. New Hampshire, in IS48. She became one of the famous writers of the country, and is unques- tionably the most noted novelist born within the con- fines of our state. She was the daughter of Charles Jarvis and Hannah Cooper ( Pomeroy) Woolson, and a grand-niece of James Fenimore Cooper. An- other woman whose career is worth recording is Mrs. Abba Goold Woolson, daughter of William Goold, of Portland, for many years president of the Maine Historical Society. Mrs. Woolson was born in Windham. Maine. April 30. 1838. lived in Port- land, Concord. New Hampshire and Boston, and be- came widely known as a lecturer on historical and literary themes : she also published several books. Her husband. Moses Woolson, a noted educator in his day. is descended from the same stock as the present line.

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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 58

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