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(V) Amasa, fifth son and tenth child of Samuel and Elizabeth (Baker) Edes, was born in Antrim, New Hampshire, March 21, 1792. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1817, and was principal of New Ipswich Academy for three years. He also taught the academic school at Hancock several months, and Newport Academy six months in 1823. He was a successful teacher. He studied law for one year with Wilson and Porter, of Belfast, Maine, and completed his studies in the office of Hon. James Wilson, of Keene. He was admitted to the bar in Cheshire county in 1822, and began the practice of his profession in Newport, New Hamp- shire, and lived to be the oldest lawyer in practice in the state. He was for many years president of the bar in Sullivan county. He represented New- port in the legislature in 1834. His life has been characterized by unusual perseverance and industry in his congenial profession, and he acquired an ample competence. He was intellectually bright and cheerful, and occupied one of the foremost places as. a leading and influential citizen of Newport. He mar - ried Sarah Hart, of Keene, who was born in Ches- terfield, New Hampshire, July 5, 1795, and died: in Newport, October 18, 1869. He lived to be over ninety years of age, dying October, 1883. Their children were: Joseph Warren, born May 31, 1823, died June 8, 1828; and Samuel Hart.
(VI) Samuel Hart, youngest of the two sens of Amasa and Sarah (Hart) Edes, was born in Newport, New Hampshire, March 31, 1825. le enjoyed the best of early training in the home, and after a careful preparation of two years in Kimball Union Academy he entered Dartmouth College, and after passing a creditable course of study graduated in 1844, the youngest member of the class. On re- turning to Newport he began the study of law in his father's office. After his marriage in 1847 he settled on a farm on Sugar river, in Sunapee, New Hampshire, and for three years was engaged in stock raising and crops, which was to him such a plca- sant and healthful experience that he never lost his interest in agriculture, and came to control six
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hundred acres in general farming and employed several men.
About 1850 Mr. Edes returned to Newport to complete his legal studies, and was admitted to the Sullivan county bar in 1851. Ever after he made the legal profession the main business of his life. After conung to the bar he entered into copartner- ship with his father, and was thus associated till 1872. when his father retired from the firm and partially from professional business. His mental characteristics admirably adapted him to the work of his profession. His quickness of perception and decision of character often enabled him to occupy and command situations in the presence of an ad- versary that gave him great advantage, but his great strength lay in his sterling common sense as adjusted to a high order of legal attainments. For this reason it is not surprising that among the able lawyers of Newport no one was more successful in his practice. He twice held the po- sition of county solicitor, in 1854 and 1874. In connection with his profession he was interested in various business enterprises. In 1866 he acquired possession of the Eagle Mills property, and 1880 the old Newport Mills, which when thoroughly renovated, improved and furnished with new and better machinery, in the manufacture respectively of flannels and sash and blinds, proved very successful as business investments. In 1856 he purchased the Eagle Hotel property and converted it into a busi- ness block, now known as the Eagle Block, in which he appeared in the role of a dry goods merchant and gave the interest his daily personal super- vision. Mr. Edes was no less interested in matters pertaining to village and town improvements. In 1856, having purchased the Cold Spring property immediately north of the village, which had thus far remained useless, he introduced the water to that part of Main street north of the river, and later built a large reservoir on the public square which has proved of invaluable service in the case of fires.
He was always a stalwart friend of education and supporter of schools, and when in IS77 a law was enacted securing the independent action of Umon district and the appointment of a board of education, he was a elected member, and became its financial agent. The establishment and later success of the graded school system is largely due to his enterprise and good management. Also in the establishment of local institutions, libraries reading rooms and lectures, for the pleasure or bene- fit of the community, he was ever a willing and liberal helper. In politics Mr. Edes was always a constitutional Democrat. He ably represented Newport in the legislature in 1860. After the Re- publican party acquired the supremacy in the state, he liad very little to do with political affairs. He was one of the founders of the Newport Savings Bank, chartered in 1868, and was a member of the first board of directors. In the arrangement of the park, streets, sidewalks, and planting of trees to improve the village, he took a hearty interest.
He married, December 30, 1847, Julia A., daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Wilson) Nourse of Acworth, by whom he had four children: George C. born April 23, 1849; one who died in infancy ; Willie A., born in 1854, and Marcia J .. born Sep- tember 5. 1859. George C. and Alarcia J. alone survive. Both are residents of Newport.
(VII) George C., eldest son and child of Samuel Hart and Julia A. ( Nourse) Edes, was born in
Sunapee. April 23. 1849. He graduated from Kim- ball Union Academy in the class of 1867, and im- mediately entered the dry goods store of his father, in Eagle Block. On attaining his majority, he was admitted to partnership, and ever since has remained in the business succeeding his father. In 1896 the hrm name was changed to George C. Edes & Co. The store is a depot for general dry goods. Mr. Edes is a Knight Templar in Masonry, belonging to the Sullivan Commandery. He was one of the projectors of the telegraph line connecting New- port with Sunapee, now a part of the Western Union Telegraph Company. He was town clerk for Newport in 1873 and 1874, and in 1878 was elected one of the supervisors.
He married (first) Lizzie M. Lyons, November 10, 1873; (second) Amanda L., daughter of Orange and Emeline (Harris) Whitney, and granddaughter of Jazaniah and Rebecca Whiple. By his first wife, who was born February 28, 1854, and died Septent- ber 12, 1896, he had four children-Frank Hart, born 1874, died July 5, 1898; Elizabeth J., born April 3. 1876, died September 16, 1893; and Samuel H., born November 9, 18SI, graduate of Newport high school and University of Virginia, class of 1905; and George L., born November II, 1889, student of Newport high school.
The ancient family of Burton de- BURTON scended, no doubt, from sturdy British stock and numbered among its early colonial progenitors devout, God-fearing Quakers; it now includes a host of representative American citizens.
(I) Boniface Burton, a farmer, was made a freeman in Lynn, Massachusetts. in 1635. He died June 13, 1669, at the age of one hundred and thir- teen years, it is said. But it is probable he was much younger, as in the case of many of the carly immigrants whose supposed ages have been later proved to be exaggerations. He was the ances- tor of nearly all the Burtons in this country.
(II) John Burton, who is said to have been a son of the preceding Boniface Burton, was a free- man in Salem. Massachusetts, in 1638. and died Oc- tober 14. 1684. He was a tanner from 1637 to the time of his death. He was a Quaker, and was the victim of the narrow, prejudiced and bigoted spirit of the Salem people at that time. In 1658 John Small, Josiah Southwick, and John Burton were apprehended in Dedham while on their way to Rhode Island to provide a residence for themselves and families and taken before the governor in Bos- ton, who allowed them to pursue their way by paying costs. Daniel Southwick and another were found guilty of attending a Quaker meeting, fined, and not being able to pay their fines, they were ordered to be sold as slaves to any of the English living in Virginia or Barbadoes. But this barbar- ous order was not executed. November 27, 1660. the wife of Robert Stone, John Burton and other Quakers were prosecuted. December 10, 1661, sev- cral of the Friends were fined as usual. The fines ran from one shilling to ten pounds. John Burton was perhaps a meck Quaker. but on this occasion he showed a brave and manly spirit, and told the justices that they were robbers and destroyers of the widows and the fatherless, and that their priests divined for money, and that their worship was not the worship of God. Being commanded silence. he commanded the court to be silent. He continued speaking in this manner till he was ordered to the
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stocks, where lie was placed to expiate his offense. He was frequently fined for not attending public worship, but led a quiet life during his later years. His farm joined that of Governor Endicott. He had four children : John, Samuel, Isaac and Hannah.
(III) Isaac. son of John Burton, settled in Topsfield, and afterward removed to Salem. His will was probated in 1706 and he died the same vear. He had four sons : Isaac, John, Jacob and Henry.
(IV) John (2), son of Isaac Burton, of Salen1. died about 1750, as his will was filed for probate January 29, of that year.
(V) Jolın (3), son of John Burton (2), with his wife, three sons and two daughters, removed in 1760 from Middleton, Massachusetts, to No. 2, now Wilton. New Hampshire, and settled on lot No. 16, in the fifth range. The remains of the cellar of his house are yet visible. His wife, whose christian name was Abigail, died August 28, 1796, aged eighty-three years. He died February II, 1791, aged eighty years. Their three sons were: John, Jonathan and Abraham.
(VI) General Jonathan, second son of John (3) and Abigail Burton, was born in Middleton, Massa- chusetts, September 18, 1741, and died in Wilton, New Hampshire, April 30, 18II. In 1759 he served in the forces of Massachusetts Bay Colony at Louisburg, in Captain Andrew Gidding's company. He also served as orderly sergeant in Captain Ben- jamin Taylor's company, in the Ticonderoga cam- paign in 1776, and did duty three weeks in Rhode Island in 1780. He kept a journal during his ser- vice on Winter Hill, in which was a roll of Captain Taylor's company. This was the only one of the Thirty-first Company rolls New Hampshire soldiers that could be found in 1885. Jonathan Burton also kept a journal of the Ticonderoga campaign, in which was a roll of Captain Barrow's company. When the militia of New Hampshire was organized he was commissioned captain June 19, 1786. On August 5. 1793, he was appointed brigadier-major by Governor Bartlett, and on December 21, 1795. a justice of the peace, holding the office fifteen years. He was selectman of Wilton fifteen years. IIe lived on a farm situated near the farm of William Andrew Burton. He married, February 29, 1764. Fuldah Nichols, of Middleton. Their children were: Aaron, Samuel, Abigail, Jonathan, Huldah, Olive, Amos Nichols, Moses and Anna.
(VII) Colonel Jonathan (2), fourth child and third son of Jonathan (I) and Huldalı (Nichols ) Burton, was born in Wilton, September 5, 1774. and died March 26, 1862, aged eighty-seven. He was a leading citizen of his town, and enjoyed the confidence and respect of his fellow citizens. He was for many years trustee of the school and ministerial funds; justice of the peace forty-five years ; administrator of many estates; representa- tive in the general court; selectman fourteen years ; town clerk seven years ; and incumbent of military offices to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. For many years he was a Mason, and secretary of the lodge to which he belonged. He married (first). Janu- ary 30, 1800, Persis Warren, of Wilton, who died February 4, 1801, aged twenty-seven years. Mar- ried (second), March 19, 1805, Lucy Hazen, of Shirley, Massachusetts, who died April II, 1874, aged ninety-one years. He had by his first wife one child: Warren; and by his second: Lucy, Per- sis, died young, Persis, Hazen, Samuel, Elizabetli, Andrew Nichols and Maria L.
(VIII) Samuel, fifth child and second son of Jonathan and Lucy (Hazen) Burton, was born in Wilton, August 22, 1814, and died February 19, 1893, aged seventy-eight years. After leaving the public schools he attended New Ipswich Academy, and then returned to the ancestral estate, which he greatly improved and put in a higli state of culti- vation. He was a man who planned wisely and executed well, and succeeded in accumulating a substantial fortune, adding extensively to his farm by purchase of adjacent land. He was a member and constant attendant of the Unitarian Church, and in politics a Democrat. He belonged to the Miller Guards of Wilton, a military organization. He married, December 5, 1839, Elvira M. Jones, born in Marlborough, January 7, 1822, and died in Wil- ton, June 10, 1889, aged sixty-seven years. Her parents were Samuel and Abigail (Merriam) Jones. The children of this union were: Henry Warren, Lucy Maria, Clarence Francis, William Andrew and Charles Solon.
(IX) William Andrew, fourth child and third son of Samuel and Elvira M. (Jones) Burton, was born in Wilton, November 5, 1850. He attended the common schools and later graduated from the New Ipswich Academy, and then learned the paint- er's trade, but was obliged by ill health to give it up. In 1873, on account of failing health, he re- turned to the farm where he and his father were born, and has since resided there in the house built by his grandfather in 1797, a fine specimen of the skillful and substantial architecture of the early days, and now one of the oldest habitations in the town. For the past sixteen years this house has Mr. been a popular resort for summer visitors. Burton is a man of genial disposition and agree- able manners, and popular wherever lie is known. His political faith is Democratic. He is a member of Clinton Lodge, No. 52, Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons, and of Charity Chapter, No. 25. Order of Eastern Star.
He married (first), May 5, 1876, in Wilton, Mrs. Sarah (Cragin) Stone, who died September 12, 1887. Married (second), October 9, 1889, in Boston, Massachusetts, Nellie M. Hardy, born De- cember 9, 1859, daughter of Cyrus and Sarah (Jones) Hardy, of Marlborough, New Hampshire. Mr. Hardy was a farmer in Marlborough, and was a private in a New Hampshire regiment of volun- teers in the Civil war, serving two years. His grandfather, Thomas Hardy, served three years in the Revolution, and was in the battles of Bunker Hill, Bennington and Trenton. Miss Hardy at- tended the Troy high school and MeCollom Insti- tute at Mt. Vernon, and in 1884 graduated from the Boston Training School for Nurses.
The descendants of the Scotch- ANDERSON Irish Presbyterians who came to New England nearly two cen- turies ago have been for a long time a very promi- nent element in the population of the southern part of New Hampshire. Many pages of this work are devoted to the history of old Scotch-Irish families. (I) In August, 1718. several shiploads of Scotch- Irish immigrants landed at the port of "Boston in New England." James and his brother Allen An- derson were of the number who came to Massaclini- setts. James was one of the sixteen original set- tlers of Nutfield, later called Londonderry, New Hampshire, who began life anew there in April, 1719. That portion in which he settled has since
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been erected into a town and called Derry. The children of James Anderson were: . Samuel, Robert, James, Thomas, David, Jane, and Nancy.
(11) James (2), third son and child of James (1) Anderson, married (first) Nancy, eldest of the four daughters of John and Mary ( Boyd) Wood- burn; and (second) widow Elizabeth Barnet. The children of James (2) Anderson, eight by the first 'and four by the second wife, were: James, John, Rufus, Joseph, Mary, Margaret, Alice, Nancy, Alex- ander, Benjamin, William and Jane. Of these James was a lieutenant at the battle of Bunker Hill and afterward a captain in the Continental army; John was a revolutionary soldier; and Rufus a promi- nent minister of Londonderry.
(II1) Benjamin, second son and child of James (2) and Elizabeth (Barnet) Anderson, was born in Londonderry, in 1780, and resided upon the home- stead in that town for many years. Late in life he moved to Derry, where he died in 1861, aged eighty- one. He married Lydia Jackson, who was born in Portsmouth. She died in 1872, aged about eighty years. They were the parents of seven children : Sarah, Rufus, Margaret, Elizabeth, Mary, Daniel and Clara.
(IV) Rufus, eldest sou and second. child of Benjamin and Lydia (Jackson) Anderson, was born in Londonderry, April 20, 1816, and died in Nashua, May J, 1904. In youth he learned the shoemaker's trade, and followed that vocation in his native town until his removal to Amoskeag, where he spent some years, and then returned to Londonderry. After that time he made his home in different places, finally removing to Nashua, where he con- tinued his trade until his retirement, which took place about 1892. In 1849 he married Martha A. Richards, who was born in Nottingham, daughter of Benjamin and Mehitable (Hills) Richards. Seven children were born of this union: Edson S., Frank E., George E., Fred C., Charles H., Arthur C., and Mary E. Edson S., Frank E., George E. and Fred C. are residents of Nashua ; Arthur C. is a resident of Australia; Mary E. died November 16, 1891.
(V) Charles Herbert Anderson, fifth son and child of Rufus and Martha A. (Richards) Ander- son, was born in London, October 12, 1861. He was educated in the common schools at Londonderry and Derry. At the age of nineteen he left school and assisted in the factory conducted by Frank E. and George E., his brothers, for two years, and at the age of twenty-one became clerk in the employ of Plummer & Ilolton, clothiers, of Manchester, and filled that place twenty years, till the dissolution of the firm and the retirement of the partners in 1902. Mr. Anderson's faithful attention to the duties of his position and the interests of his employers while a clerk won their confidence and esteem, and his politeness and tact as a salesman made him a favorite with the patrons of his employer's store. Since that time he has devoted his attention to the care of his various properties. Since 1900 he has been a director in the People's Savings Bank, and he is also a trustee of the Cemetery funds. llc is a gentleman of exemplary character and habits, and a favorite in the upper social circles and finan- cial world of Manchester. He is a member of Washington Lodge, No. 6t, Free and Accepted Ma- sons; Mt. Ilorcb Royal Arch Chapter, No. 1I, Adoniram Council. No. 3. Royal and Select Masters ; Trinity Commandery, Knights Templar, all of Man- chester ; Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua.
Mr. Anderson married, June 6, 1888, Carrie Bell Bartlett, daughter of Ilon. Charles Henry and Hannah M. (Eastman) Bartlett, of Manche-ter. (See Bartlett, VII.)
Anderson as a surname is common ANDERSON in the three divisions of Scandi-
navia and in the countries of Great Britain. The family of this article has re- sided in America less than a century.
(I) Alexander Anderson, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, came . to America, resided a while at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and about 1827 re- moved to Granville, Nova Scotia. lle was a ship carpenter. His death occurred in Granville.
(II) John, son of Alexander Anderson, was also a ship carpenter by trade.
(III) William Henry, son of John Anderson, was born in Maine, December 14, 1856. He was a sea captain, and was killed in a shipwreck in the Bay of Fundy. He married Jane Morrison, and had three children.
(IV) John William, son of William H. and Jane (Morrison) Anderson, was born July 6. 1844. He followed the sea until lie was past age, and then worked at the stone mason's trade, in Maine, till 1874. Subsequently he went to Hampstead. New Hampshire, and engaged in cutting timber and manufacturing lumber. From Hampstead he re- moved to Nashua, in 1889, and was employed by the White Mountain Finger Company eight years. and by the Maine Manufacturing Company eight years. In 1901 he settled on a farm and engaged in agriculture and lumbering. He is an active and industrious man, and a good citizen, and is now (1907) superintendent of the Excelsior Lumber Company of Peterboro. He is a member of the Episcopal Church. He married Edna J. Burt. born in Plattsburg, New York, 1856, daughter of Joseph Burt, of Vermont. They have five children now living: Effie L., married Charles W. Montfort ; Lily J., married Louis E. Spalding : Mary E. : Wil- liam H., whose sketch next follows, and Ethel E.
(V) William Henry, only son of John W. and Edna J. (Burt) Anderson, was born in London- derry, New Hampshire, August 22. 1879. He was educated in the schools of Nashua, and at twenty- one years of age engaged in the real estate busi- ness in Nashua, in which he achieved notable suc- cess, having had the largest real estate business in that city. He also deals in lumber, buying tracts of land from which he cuts the timber and saws it into lumber for the market. He has an excelsior factory at Peterboro, where he employs fifty opera- tives. Mr. Anderson is a man of pleasing person- ality, a genial and social companion, and a person of untiring industry and unlimited energy. He is a self-made man. The youth who passed his twenty- first birthday seven years ago with very little if any property to his credit, is to-day accounted wealthy and an unusually successful business man.
Mr. Anderson married, April 18, 1905, at Mel- rose, Massachusetts, Florence S. Holmes, born July 16, 1882, daughter of Charles E. and Lucy Ellen Monroe (Ranson) Holmes, of Melrose, Masachu- setts. They have two children: Eleanor. horn born February 19, 1906, and William 11., Jr., Fehru- ary 10, 1907.
The Bouchers are of Canadian de- BOUCHER seent and originally came from France. Like many of their coun- trymen they found it both advisable and agreeable
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to emigrate to the United States, in order to cast their lot with their republican neighbors, and they are now enjoying the advantages bestowed by a liberal government.
(I) The founder of the family in Canada. whose christian name is not at hand, emigrated from France (probably) in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
(II) Peter (or Pierre) Boucher, son of the emigrant, was born in Canada in 1808. The active period of his life was devoted to agricultural pur- suits, and he died in 1900. The maiden name of his wife was Cardinal.
(III) Joseph Boucher, son of Peter Boucher, was born in Canada, in December, 1837. Coming to the states at an early age he found employ- ment as a farm assistant, but subsequently served as fireman in a factory in Connecticut. Some fifty years ago, or more, lie settled in Groveton, where he has ever since resided, and for a number of years was the prudential committee of his district. He married Rosella Shannon, a native of Connecti- cut, and reared a family of eight children, namely : Joseph Philias, Delia, who became the wife of Wil- liam Simonds, of Lancaster ; Frank, Georgia, Mary, wife of James McGrath, of Lincoln, New Hamp- shire; Edgar J., Ida and Gertrude.
(IV) Joseph Philias Boucher, eldest son and child of Joseph and Rosella ( Shannon) Boucher. was born in Groveton, March 5, 1866. His attend- ance at the public schools was followed by a course of advanced studies at an academy, and after the completion of his education he taught school for some time in Whitefield and Northumberland, this state. Relinquishing educational pursuits he turned his attention to the manufacture of lumber, being employed for intervals in sawmills at Lancaster, Whitefield, Groveton and Berlin. For a period of thirteen years he held a position in the office of the Weston Lumber Company at Groveton. He finally engaged in the grocery and dry-goods busi- ness at Groveton, having as a partner Mr. Mc- Donald, formerly manager of the lumber company, and purchasing the latter's interest he is now carry- ing on the business alone.
In politics Mr. Boucher was originally a Demo- crat, but differed with his colleagues on the mone- tary issues in 1896, allying himself with that faction of the party which advocated the adoption of the gold standard, and he has ever since acted inde- pendently. For a greater portion of the time during the past twelve wears he has served as a member of the board of selectmen of the town of North- umberland, and is its chairman. In 1904 he was a member of the board of education, from which he resigned in 1905, but was re-elected for the years 1906-07, and he has served upon the precinct com- mission for eight years. His fraternal affiliations are with the Order of Foresters. In his religious belief he is a Roman Catholic.
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