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On January 3, 1883, James Horan married Ann, daughter of James and Alice Noonan. They have five children: Daniel James, Katharine Mary, Alice Monica, Charlotte Ann and Mary Helen.
ATKINSON This name has become distinguislı- ed in New England history, and has been borne by some of the most eminent statesmen of that section. New Hampshire claims with pride distinguished sons of the name, and it has been associated with progress and development everywhere.
(1) Thomas Atkinson came from Bury, Lan- cashire, England, and settled in Concord, Massa- chusetts, before 1636. On December 7 of that year he took the freeman's oath, and died in November, 1646. His children were: Rebecca, John, Susannah and Hannah.
(II) John, only son of Thomas Atkinson, was born 1640, in Concord, Massachusetts. After the death of his father he was adopted by his uncle, Theodore Atkinson, of Boston, of whom he learned the hatter's trade. He settled in Newbury, Massa- chusett, where he died. He married (first) Sarah Myrick, who was the mother of all his children, and (second) June 3, 1700, widow Hannah Cheney. She died January 5, 1705. His children were : Sarah, John, Thomas, Theodore, Abigail, Samuel, Nathaniel, Elizabeth, Joseph and Rebecca. The youngest son was killed by the Indians in Maine, in 1706.
(Il) Nathaniel, fifth son and seventh child of Jolın and Sarah (Myrick) Atkinson, was born No- vember 29, 1677. in Newbury, Massachusetts. He was married January 22, 1707, to Deborah Knight, who joined the Congregational Church there in 1729. Their children were: Mary, Sarah, Margaret, Nathaniel and Joseph.
(IV) Nathaniel (2), elder son and fourth child of Nathaniel (1) and Deborah (Knight) Atkinson,
was born March 19, 1717, in Newbury, and resided there until 1769, when he removed to Boscawen, New Hampshire. He died in that town October 26, 1794, at the age of seventy-seven years. Hle was married (first) November 30, 1738, to Elizabeth Greenleaf, with whom he joined the Congregational Church of Newbury in 1741, She died in 1755, and he was married (second) in 1756 to Sarah Morse. The first wife was the mother of seven children, and the second of ten, namely: Parker, Michael, Mary, Stephen, Elizabeth, Susannah, Na- thaniel, Jonathan, Joseph, John, Benjamin, Sarah, Mary, Judith, Eunice, Anna and Theodore.
(V) Sarah, twelfth child of Nathaniel (2) Atkinson and fifth child of his second wife, Sarah Morse, was born January 8, 1763, and died Febru- ary 27, 1844, in Boscawen, New Hampshire. She was married April 28, 1785, to Samuel Morrill (see Morrill, VII).
William Bunker, a Huguenot living BUNKER in England in 1648, had a son, George Bunker, who was born in England and afterward came to America. He married Jane Godfrey in 1645 and was drowned May 26, 1858.
James Bunker, of Dover, New Hampshire, 1653, is supposed to have been the son of George Bunker, the immigrant. This James had a son Jolin, who was one of many persons who in 1690 desired to have the jurisdiction of the colony of Massachu- setts extended over the territory of New Hamp- shire; and this John Bunker is supposed to have been the progenitor of the Barnstead Bunkers. Another authority, however, seems to accord that honor to Benjamin Bunker, who is mentioned as having been born in Barnstead, and afterward re- moved to Lee and thence to New London, New Hampshire. He also is mentioned as a probable descendant of George Bunker, of Charlestown, Mas- sachusetts, who was made freeman there in 1634, and died in 1658. There is hardly a doubt that George Bunker, the ancestor, was identical with George Bunker, of Charlestown, for both accounts agree that he died in 1658, while many other cir- cumstances point to the fact that they were one and the same person. This hypothesis being assumed it is equally fair to assume that John and Benjamin Bunker, previously mentioned, were related, al- though the nearness of their kinship is difficult to determine, as also is the question of relationship of either John or Benjamin Bunker to Dodavah Bunker, of Barnstead, the progenitor of the par- ticular branch of the Bunker family intended to be treated in this place.
Early Barnstead history mentions several mem- bers of the Bunker family who were identified with the life of that town previous to the year 1800, and associates with at least one of the name of Dodavali Bunker in a manner calculated to establish rela- tionship. John Bunker, the miller, settled in Barn- stead in 1769. His ancestors were from Malden, but he came from Durham, New Hampshire, and had five sons and two daughters. His land extended from Dodavah Bunker's hill (since called Pittsfield) to a point beyond the Province road, and included all the land on the east side of the river, with the mill privilege and lands north of the river where "Parade Village" stands. Mr. Bunker served as town clerk, moderator and selectman. and lived to the age of eighty years; and his widow, surviving him, attained the extreme age of ninety-five years. Eli Bunker, eldest son of John, inherited the mill
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property. Ile married and raised a large family, and all of his male descendants are said to have left the town many years ago. His two youngest sons, by an act of the legislature, changed their surname to "Banchor." Joseph Bunker, supposed to have been a brother of John Bunker, the miller, took for his homestead a lot on the "range" about half a mile northeast of the parade. He came from Dover in 1770, and after his death huis son Joseph inherited the place. There were still two other Bunkers among the first settlers of Barnstead-Dodapher and Jonathan Bunker. They came from Dover, and if they were not brothers they at least were closely re- lated and from the same stock; and the suggestion has been made that Dodapher Bunker and Dodavah Bunker were one person. There is evidence tend- ing to show this fact. but it is hardly safe to be taken for granted without satisfactory proof. Jon- athan Bunker died in 1796, aged sixty-seven years.
(1) Dodavah Bunker was a farmer in Barn- stead, and lived at the place which is supposed to have been named in allusion to him, Dodavah Bun- ker's hill. Little else is now known of him, except that he married and had children, among them a son, Daniel Bunker.
(II) Captain Daniel, son of Dodavah Bunker, married Love Edgerly, of Gilmanton, and had four children, Sally, John E., Moses and Alfred Bunker. (III) John E., second child and eldest son of Captain Daniel and Love (Edgerly) Bunker, was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, June 14, 1806, and died June, 1871. He married Eliza, daughter of Eliphalet Nutter, and had children : Joseph N., killed in the battle of Cold Harbor, while serving in de- fence of his country; Daniel, of whom further ; John M., born in Barnstead, where he still resides- he had one son, Roland E.
(IV) Daniel, son of John E. and Eliza (Nut- ter) Bunker. was born in Barnstead, January 23, 1842, and died December 6, 1872. He married Han- nah Tilton. of Pittsfield, New Hampshire. She was born January 26, 1848, daughter of John and Sally ( Davis) Tilton (see Tilton). Mr. Bunker was a well educated man and an intelligent, successful farmer of Barnstead, in which town nearly his en- tire life was spent. His children: Ada N. Bunker, born in Barnstead, November 22. 1866, married, March 18. 1886. Benjamin Sidney Downing; Joseph S. Bunker, born in Barnstead, October 29, 1868, married Nellie Aiken, of Barnstead; George E. Bunker, born in Barnstead, October 12, 1870, mar- ried Lura G. Emerson, and now lives in Chicago, Illinois; Daniel, born Jannary 25. 1873.
Benjamin Sidney Downing, who married Ada N. Bunker, was born .August 10. 1861, on the old Down- ing homestead farm in Farmington, New Hamp- shire. Hle was educated in public schools in his na- tive town and in Rochester, New Hampshire, but early began work as a farmer. He was a continu- ous resident of Barnstead from the time he was fourteen years old until shortly after his marriage. Ile then purchased a farm in Stratford, New Hamp- shire, where he lived several years and then moved to Rochester and engaged in business pursuits.
In August, 1897, Mr. Downing went to the ex- treme northwest territory of the United States and for a time followed mining, but afterward entered into an agreement with the federal government to carry mails between widely distant points in the al- most boundless regions of Alaska. On his tiresome and frequently hazardous journeys he always was
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only companions for days at a time. During this time he also engaged in mercantile business with a partner, and through his carly mining operations and subsequent travels, together with his interest in general merchandizing. he formed a most favorable acquaintance with the scattered inhabitants of a wide region of country and was looked upon by them all as the foremost man and their best friend in all Alaska. In all matters he was their coun- sellor and trusted friend and his opinion was their law. llis principal seat of trade was at Fairbanks. Alaska, where his perfectly honest methods won for him the lasting respect of the entire mining popula- tion of the surrounding country. His business life there was a complete success and gained him a sub- stantial fortune. During these years in the far west Mr. Downing made a visit to his old home in New Ilampshire. In October, 1905, he made a trip through Mexico and California, and on reaching San Francisco it became necessary for him to ask medical advice on account of a trouble with one of his limbs, which had been partially frozen while carrying mails through Alaska in 1902. After care- ful examination it was decided that he must submit to a surgical operation, which was performed in Jan- uary. 1906, and from the effects of which he died January 9. 1906. With his death the people of Seattle and Alaska felt that they had lost their best and truest friend. His body was brought back to Iris New Hampshire home for burial, the funeral ceremony taking place in Barnstead Parade Church, February 21, 1906.
NEWMAN The Newmans of New Hampshire are of ancient English origin, an offshoot of the older branch of the family of that name in Massachusetts, and during the almost three centuries of its continued existence on this side of the Atlantic ocean has been extended not only throughout the New England states but from Maine to California, and from the British possessions on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south. Samuel Newman, of Rehoboth, Massa- chusetts, was born at Banbury, England, in 1602 and died in 1663. His wife Sibel, born 1604 and died 1672, was a daughter of Featly, and is sup- posed to have been of a Yorkshire, England, family.
(I) Thomas Newman was a housewright of Lexington, Massachusetts, and in 1765 was of Bol- ton, Massachusetts, and there joined with other heirs in disposing of the estate left by his wife's father. In November. 1769, he was dismissed from the church in Lexington and was furnished with a letter to the church in Rindge, New Hampshire. He could not have remained long in Rindge, for in 1772 (December 10), he bought land of his brother- in-law, Ebenezer Locke, and in the deed he is men- tioned as of Woburn, Massachusetts. . \t a period not much later, however, he returned to New Hamp- shire and located in the town of Deering. The in- tention of the marriage of Thomas Newman and Hannah Locke was published at Lexington, Febru- ary 2. 1746. Hannah Locke was a descendant in the fourth generation from Deacon William Locke, of Stepney parish. London, England. The children of Thomas and Hannah were: Thomas, Jr .. Ebenezer, Josiah and Benjamin, all believed to have been born in Bolton, Massachusetts. Of Thomas, Jr .. nothing is known except that he was one of the children of Ebenezer and Hannah. Ebenezer, the second son mentioned, married Sarah Dows. In his application for a pension he stated that his parents, Ebenezer
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and Sarah, had five children older than himself. Josiah Newman married Abigail Dows. Ebenezer Newman. of whom mention has been made, was a soldier of the revolution, and after the war went with his father's family to Deering, New Hamp- shire, where he lived many years. From Deering he removed to Andover, Maine, and soon afterward to Weld, Maine, where he was a farmer, and where lie died.
(II) Benjamin, son of Thomas and Sarah (Dows) Newman, was born in Woburn, Massachu- setts, and settled in Deering, New Hampshire, about the year 1776. About 1791 he removed with his family to Washington. New Hampshire, and settled in the mountain district of that town. He married Abby Lewis, who bore him eight children. She died about 1826; he died about 1830. Their chil- dren: Benjamin, Jr., Hannah, Joseph, Abigail, James, Jerusha, Lydia and Samuel.
(III) Benjamin, Jr., eldest son and child of Benjamin and Abby (Lewis) Newman, was born in Deering. New Hampshire, January 30, 1778. and was a boy of about thirteen years when his parents moved to Washington. New Hampshire. After marriage he settled on'a farm north of his father's place, in the mountainous district of the town. He lived there several years, but finding the land in that locality not sufficiently productive in return for the work he put on it, he moved to a farm on the shore of Long pond and there passed the remaining years of his life. He died September 18, 1840. He was a man of considerable influence in the town, and was highly respected in the part of the county in which he lived. Mr. Newman was married, November 26, 1797, in Deering, to Sarah Gordon, of Weare. New Hampshire. She was born in 1775 and died July 28, 1865, aged ninety years. Their children were : John, Jerusha, Clarissa, Jane, Belinda, Eliza G., Sarah, Abigail, Mary A. and J. Henry Newman.
(IV) J. Henry, youngest child and son of Ben- jamin and Sarah (Gordon) Newman, was born in Washington, New Hampshire, July 24, 1814, and for many years was one of the most prominent men of that town, in which his entire life was spent. He married first, June 21. 1849, Clara H. Wilson, . daughter of Asaph Wilson, of Washington. She died January 27, 1861, and on November 1, 1865, he married Harriet A. Gregg. Mr. Newman died August 22. 1901. By his first wife he had four chil- dren : Laurella, Frank P., Abbie D. and Fred H. Newman ; and two children by his second wife : William E. and Berton E. Newman.
(V) Berton Elmer, son and youngest child of the late J. Henry Newman, was born in Washington, New Hampshire, December 23. 1870, and for the last fifteen years has lived in Hillsborough, New Hamp- shire. He was educated in the public schools and Tubbs Union Academy at Washington, graduating from the latter institution in 1887. After leaving school he took up the study of music, for which from childhood he had displayed a strong inclination, and for four years devoted himself assiduously to that work under some of the best instructors in the east, notably Professors Franklin White, of Boston. and Charles N. Adams, of New York City, until he himself became thoroughly proficient and competent to teach. He then returned to New Hampshire and settled at Hillsborough, where he has met with gratifying success in professional work and where he has attained an enviable standing in social and musical circles. Since 1901 he has been music mas- ter in the Hillsborough public schools. Besides his 11-2I
musical attainments, Mr. Newman is an excellent mechanic and devotes much of his leisure to work in his brother's tin shop. He is a choir member in the Congregational Church, and member of Valley Lodge, No. 43, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Hillsborough. He married, September 23, 190I, Alice M. Jackman, who was born March 8. 1874, and a descendant of old revolutionary ancestors. She is a member of Hillsborough Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, and takes an earnest in- terest in charitable work in Hillsborough and its vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Newman have one child, John Henry Newman, born at Hillsborough, Sep- tember 3. 1902.
There is a tradition to the effect that in KELSO 1623, three years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at historic Plymouth Rock, one Richard Kelso came to America and set- tled in one of the plantations of the colony of Mas- sachusetts Bay, in the vicinity of Ipswich, and that afterward for several generations he was not again heard of until one of that name came and took up his abode in New Hampshire, at New Boston, in Hillsborough county, where the name has ever since been well known. Ipswich records of the period contemporaneous with that of Richard do not make mention of his name. and he is not included in the list of freemen of Massachusetts made in 1634. One Thomas Kelson is found among the settlers of Read- ing, Massachusetts, in 1647. In New Hampshire the name Kelso first appears in Londonderry, from whence the descendants of the acknowledged ances- tor made their way over into the town of New Bos- ton, and it is believed that the Londonderry Kelso was the progenitor of nearly if not quite all of that family in later generations in New England.
(I) Alexander Kolso with his three brothers came from the north of Ireland and settled in Lon- donderry, New Hampshire, where he died "when his son William was fifteen years old," which would make the date of his death about 1755, as William attained the age of fifteen in that year. Other than is stated, little is now known of Alexander Kelso, except that liis wife's family name also was Kelso, a daughter of William Kelso and probably a distant relative of Alexander. Besides the four sons re- ferred to. whose names are not given. Alexander had a daughter Margaret, who married Captain George Christy (Christie) and removed to New Boston some time before her brother settled in that town.
(II) William, son of Alexander Kelso, was born in Londonderry. New Hampshire, about the year 1740, and died in New Boston, January 19, 1823. aged eighty-three years. He settled in the town last mentioned about 1763, and was a farmer. He married Agnes Kelso and by her had five chil- dren: Nancy Richards, Elizabeth, Ann, John and William Kelso.
(III) John, fourth child and elder son of Will- iam and Agnes Kelso. was born in New Boston about 1776, and died there March 21, 1850, aged seventy-four years. He succeeded his father on the homestead, the same lands which the latter had bought of Ebenezer Boyd many years before. He married (date unknown) Gizzel, daughter of Deacon Robert Patterson, and had one son, Robert Kelso. Deacon Robert Patterson was born in Londonderry. and was a son of Peter Patterson, and a brother of ilie wife of Deacon William McNeil. He had seven children, three sons and four daughters. He was an
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excellent man and was chosen deacon in the church before the death of Mr. Moore, and afterward served many years during the pastorate of Mr. Brad- ford. He was exact in his notions, slow to conform to new customs and was a man in whom there was no guile. Deacon Patterson died in 1828. (Cogs- well ).
(IV) Robert Patterson, son of John and Gizzel ( Patterson) Kelso, was born in New Boston. Au- gust 22, ISII. and died November 27, 1886. In 1841 he married Juliana Perkins, of Windsor, New Hampshire, a descendant of an old New England family, and had three children: Henry, Mary L. and Ilelen A. Kelso.
(V) Henry, only son and eldest child of Robert Patterson and Juliana ( Perkins) Kelso, was born at New Boston, February 3, 1843, and always has lived in Hillsborough county. For many years he was engaged in mercantile pursuits at New Boston, and afterward removed to the old home farm where his ancestors had lived for three generations before him, and where he and his own family now live. On August 31, 1870, he married Harriett Lamson, who was born April 6, 1850, daughter of William O. and Orinda (Odell) Lamson, of Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Kelso have one son, Walter Lamson Kelso.
(VI) Walter Lamson Kelso, M. D., only son and child of Henry and Harriett (Lamson) Kelso, was born in New Boston, New Hampshire. Feb- ruary 17, 1872. His elementary education was ac- quired in the public school of New Boston, his sec- ondary education at McCollom Institute at Mount Vernon, and his higher education at Dartmouth College, where he entered in 1891 and graduated with the class of '95. In college he was a member of Theta Delta Chi, and during his course in medi- cine he was elected to the Alpha Kappa fraternity. Having determined to enter the profession of medi- cine, Dr. Kelso laid the foundation of a medical edu- cation in the Boston City Hospital, where he was a private and professional nurse until 1902, and fol- lowed the instruction received in that institution with a complete course in the medical department of the University of Vermont, at Burlington, where he graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1905. Since coming to the degree Dr. Kelso has en- gaged in general practice at Hillsborough Bridge. He is a member of the First Baptist Church, and of Harmony Lodge, No. 38. Ancient Free and Ac- cepted Masons. Dr. Kelso married, August 1, 1906, at .Antrim, Carrie May Butterfield, born February 15. 1877, daughter of John C. and Roansa (Robb) Butterfield, of Antrim.
CRAIG This name, which is variously spelled Craig, Craigne and Crage, is undoubt- edly derived from crag, a natural object which would be familiar to the Scotch Highlanders. (1) Robert Miller Craig was born December 17. 1813, in Scotland. He came to this country in early life, was a farmer, and lived at Ryegate, Vermont. On January 24, 1839, he married Nancy Keenan, who was born November 7, 1817. They had eight chil- dren: Daniel R., William P., Albert E., mentioned below: William P. (2), Martha L., Margaret J .. Rockwell F. and Mary E. Robert Miller Craig died May 10, 1855, at Ryegate, Vermont.
(II) Albert Edward, third sen and child of Robert Miller and Nancy ( Keenan) Craig, was born April 30, 1844, at Ryegate, Vermont. IIe saw active service in the Civil war, enlisting in Company G,
Sixth Vermont Volunteers, and serving under Cap- tain Tubbs and General Sheridan. He took part in the siege of Fredericksburg. the second battle of Fredericksburg, the battle of Gettysburg, the Wilder- ness campaigns, the fall of Richmond and Lee's sur- render. After the war he returned to Topsham, Vermont, where he was engaged in farming for a while. He then went to Bradford, Vermont, where he was employed by the Dodge Manufacturing Com- pany for three years. For the next five years he was engaged in farming, the first three years at Bradford, and the remainder of the time at Pier- mont, New Hampshire. While at Piermont he worked a short time for the Dodge Manufacturing Company, and when that was sold to the Pike Man- ufacturing Company he went to Pike Station, New Hampshire. where he worked for them five years. Since then he has lived at Woodsville, where he is enjoying a well earned leisure. On October 18, 1870, Albert Edward Craig married, at Ryegate, Vermont, Catherine Haslett, who was born Septem- ber, 1848, at St. Giles, Canada. There were three children : Ernest E., whose sketch follows: Etta E., and George A .. who died young. Mrs. Catherine (Haslett) Craig died at Woodsville, December 29, 1905.
(III) Ernest Eugene, eldest child of Albert Ed- ward and Catherine (Haslett) Craig. was born at Topsham, Vermont, September 21, 1872. He was educated in the schools of Piermont, New Hamp- shire, and at Bath and Haverhill Academy, New' Hampshire. After leaving school he first went to Stoneham, Massachusetts, where he was employed by the Hovey Grocery and Provision Company for a short time. and them to Lowell, where he remained one year with the Beebe Meat Company. In 1899 he came to Woodsville, New Hampshire, and en- gaged in the clothing business with Quincy A. Scott, who was also the express agent for Woodsville. For three years Mr. Craig worked in the store and did the outside part of the express business. After that he worked for the American Express Company for six years, and then was engaged with the Crown Brothers in the grocery business for a short time. In 1900 he established a grocery and fruit business in Woodsville, which he has continued till the pres- ent time. also conducting a general insurance busi- ness. Mr. Craig is a member of Mooschillock Lodge, No. 25. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Woodsville, and has been secretary of the lodge for the past six years, which position he still holds. He has passed all the chairs in the subordinate and grand lodge, and on October 9. 1907, was elected grand master of the grand lodge of New Ilamp- shire. He was formerly major of the Third Bat- talion of the First regiment. P. M. Mr. Craig is a Republican in politics, and has been supervisor four years, and chairman of the school board for five years. On February 17, 1892, Ernest Eugene Craig married Martha A. Sly, daughter of Henry and Martha (Parker) Sly, who was born May 13, 1873, at Woodsville. They have one child, Harry Earle, born March 14, 1893. at Woodsville.
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