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R. G. LEWIS.
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Gordon and Oliver. The mother died in Marlow, in 1858.
(VII) Gurdon, fourth son of William and Anna Lewis, was born February 29, 1804, in Marlow. In the records of that town his name is frequently written with both spellings-Gordon and Gurdon. He was an industrious and successful farmer in Marlow, where he was married April 6, 1826, to Lucy Huntley.
( VIII) Francis, eldest child of Gurdon and Lucy (Huntley) Lewis, was born about 1827, in Marlow, and settled in Wisconsin. He enlisted as a soldier of the civil war there, in the Second Regiment of Volunteers, and was subsequently discharged on account of physical disability. His death occurred in Keene, in 1870. He married Mary Thompson, daughter of Christopher Thomp- son, of Lempster, New Hampshire, February 20, 1851, and had a family of three children, namely : Emma, who is no longer living, Lovilla and Frank T.
(IX) Frank Thompson, only son of Francis and Mary (Thompson) Lewis, was born in Marlow, this state, January 17, 1859. He was educated in the public schools of Marlow and Stoddard, and was reared to agricultural pursuits. General farm- ing and teaming constituted his principal occupation until 1893, when he located in Nashua and en- gaged in the livery business. Enterprising and progressive his equipment is always up to date, and reliability is, in his estimation, just as important a feature as is the character of his horses and ve- hicles. His stable contains fifty-five stalls and he keeps on hand from twenty to twenty-five trusty horses for livery purposes. He also boards and cares for some thirty horses for private parties, and employs an average of six experienced stable men. Politically Mr. Lewis acts with the Re- publican party, and has served in the common council one year, on the board of aldermen two years, and in the lower house of the state legis- lature one term. He is a prominent Odd Fellow, and affiliates with the Beverbrook Lodge in Keene, Nashua Encampment, No. I, of Nashua, and Can- ton A, Patriarchs Militant, No. 9, of Nashua. He married, January 31, 1885, Ada Scott, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Barber) Scott, of Stoddard, and has two sons-Harold W., born July 26, 1886, and Guy S., born August 4, 1897.
The family of Lewises of this sketch
LEWIS seems to have been represented in New- bury for a century and a half before an ancestor left that place to seek the frontiers of the North Country. Robert Lewis came from Bristol, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, whence he moved to Newbury, where he died March 4, 1643. From him this line is probably descended.
(I) Jonas Lewis, of Newbury, was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, serving as follows: In Captain Brattle's company, Roxbury, Massachusetts, fifteen days; Captain Batchellor's company, Read- ing, three months, fourteen days; Captain Kelton's company, Needham, three months, fourteen days ; Lieutenant Richardson's company, Royalston, three years. In 1793 he was in Lempster, New Hamp- shire, whence he removed to Littleton, New Hamp- shire, where he resided until his death in 1833 or 1834. He was a loyal citizen and a brave soldier. He was a miller by occupation, and in politics a Whig. He married Susanna Dix, who was born in England, and came to America and lived in the
family of Captain Moses Little, of Newburyport, Massachusetts. She died in Littleton in 1837 or 1838. Their children were: Jonas, Samitel, Joel, Solomon, Tryphosa and Tryphena (twins), James, Sally, Susannah, Jasper and John.
(II) Samuel, second son and child of Jonas and Susanna (Dix) Lewis, was born in 1783. He ac- companied his parents when they moved to Little- ton, he being then eight years old. He resided in Littleton from 1793 until he died in 1839. He was a farmer, and in his day Littleton was a frontier settlement where there was abundance of work in clearing away the forest, and great crops on the virgin soil rewarded the farmer's industry. He mar- ried, September 9, 1800, Margaret Henry, who died in Littleton. Their children, born in Littleton, were: Alonzo, Hiram, Henry, Nancy, Mary Ann, Phebe and Valeria.
(III) Alonzo, eldest child of Samuel and Mar- garet (Henry) Lewis, was born in Littleton, in October, ISor. He preferred an independent life, though it involved toil, and followed farming, the occupation of his ancestors for generations. all his life, and died in Littleton, May 2, 1873. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a Republican. He married Sophia Dunbar, who was horn in 1802, and died in Littleton, June 15, 1871, daughter of David Dunbar. Their children were; George Dunbar and Charles Frank.
(IV) George Dunbar, son of Alonzo and Sophia (Dunbar) Lewis, was born in Littleton, March 15, 1834. He resided in Littleton from birth until 1883, when he removed to Bethlehem, where he now re- sides. He has been a lifelong farmer, a staunch Re- publican, and a consistent member of the Congre- gational Church. He married (first), July 19, 1857, Julia A. Mason, who was born in Lyman, January 13, 1837, and died in Littleton, December 3, 1888, daughter of Joshua and Lydia (Garland) Mason, of Lyman; (second), October 5, 1896, Sophronia L. Fisher, who was born in Dalton, October 27, 1831, daughter of Lorenzo D. and Eliza B. (Crandall) Fisher. She married (first) Jonathan W. Wallace ; (second) Nelson C. Farr. The children of George D. and Julia A., all but George H., born in Little- ton, are: Charles Frank, a farmer in Brownington, Vermont ; he married, in 1877, Ida C. Hatch. Fred- erick D., who is mentioned below. Abbie, who mar- ried Fred L. Smith, of Littleton. George Henry. of Littleton. Carrie J., who married, August 18, 1885, Alonzo M. Higgins, and resides in Littleton. Harry A., farmer of Bethlehem, who married, November 16, 1892, Mabel R. Wallace. Infant daughter, died young. Walter J., who resides in Bethlehem.
(V) Frederick Dunbar. second son and child of George D. and Julia A. (Mason) Lewis, was born in Littleton, January 16, 1860. Until sixteen years of age he worked on his father's farm and attended the common schools. For five years following that time he drove a meat wagon summers, attended school springs and autumns, and taught in the dis- trict schools of Littleton winters. Possessing a good business education, abundance of energy and a sterling character, he has made every day count, and now finds himself a man of means while still comparatively young in years. He has a farmi of four hundred acres on which is a fine set of build- ings. One hundred acres of his land is under plough, and he cuts annually one hundred tons of hay and keeps thirty cows and other stock. He also devotes considerable attention to lumbering, and with his brother, Harry A., carries on a prosperous
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provision business at Bethlehem, under the firm name of F. D. Lewis & Company. He is a successful man. and has been called often to serve as a public officer. He has been chairman of the board of selectmen several terms : has been supervisor and a member of the school board, and for ten years past moderator of the town meetings. In politics he is a Republi- can. He married. March 13, 1884. at Boston, Mas- sachusetts. E. Alice Mansfield, who was born Sep- tember 25, 1862, at Roxbury, daughter of Gideon and Almira ( Foster ) Mansfield, of Boston, Mas- sachusetts. They have one son. Frederick William. who graduated civil engineer with the class of 1907 from Tufts College. He made an enviable record there. both as a student and an athlete. Also an adopted daughter, Fokeliena Severin, born in Bos- ton, Massachusetts. February 24, 1888. She grad- uated from the high school of Bethlehem at the age of fifteen years and has since devoted her time to music. She plays the piano and violin and is an excellent horsewoman, having made an enviable rep- utation as a fine rider.
LEWIS Among the families that settled early in New Hampshire, the greater part of which was then nothing but a wilder- ness, was that of Lewis, and throughout the inter- vening years their name has been intimately asso- ciated with the development of this section. One of the members of the family, at any rate, took an active part in the struggle for our national inde- pendence.
(1) Jabez Lewis. born about 1741, supposed to have been in the Revolutionary war, in battle against Burgoyne, married Mary Hyman or (Himan) about 1763
(II) Frederick Stewart, son of Jabez and Mary (Hyman or Himan) Lewis, a millwright, born De- cember II, 1798, at Claremont, came to Newport in March. 1835. Married, 1822, Zylinda Thomas, of Claremont, born April 15. 1799. Their children : Betsey Stewart, died young: Frederick W., John Thomas, Charles H., Betsey L., married John Tilton; Harriet Z., married Roswell J. Kelscy.
(III) Frederick W .. son of Frederick S. and Zy- linda (Thomas) Lewis, horn April 12, 1828, at Clare- mont, was hired out to work on a farm at eleven years of age, at twenty-five dollars per annum, and continued at farm work three years. At the age of fourteen he entered the store of Bela Nettleton, of Newport, as a clerk. At twenty-four he was ad- mitted as a partner in the same store, where he con- tinned until the death of Mr. Nettleton seven years later, when he purchased the entire stock and con- tinmed the business until 1863. In 1862 he was chos- en cashier of the Sugar River Bank and held the position iintil 1865, when the bank was re-organized by him as a national bank, taking the name of "The First National Bank of Newport." He was elected cashier of this bank, which position his son now oc- cupies. Through his efforts, mainly, in 1868, a charter was obtained for the Newport Savings Bank. The bank was organized and commenced business in September of the same year. He was elected treas- urer of the institution, and held the position until his death. He served as town clerk one year, town treasurer five years and was chairman of the com- mittee which was chosen to superintend the building of the new town hall and court house, and in the erection of which he took a lively and active in- terest. He was instrumental in procuring the es- tablishment of the telegraph to Newport, and worked early and late to secure the building of the railroad
through the town. In early life he was active in military affairs, holding various commissions. He was an active and interested member of the Uni- tarian Church and society since its organization in Newport. Never soliciting or aspiring to political preferment, he had nevertheless frequently been nominated as candidate for selectman, representative and state councillor. His substantial and elegant residence on Cheney street was erected by him in 1876. He married, October 2, 1856, Mary J. Travis. of Natick, Massachusetts, born January 13, 1835, and she still survives. He died December 31. 1889. in Bermuda. One child, Samuel DeWolf, was born of this marriage.
(III) John Thomas, third child of Frederick S. and Zylinda ( Thomas) Lewis, born August 5. 1832, diedi July, 1861. He was a merchant at Newport. Married, January 21, 1858, Hannah M. Karr, daugh- ter of James and Harriet (Presby) Karr. Their children: 1. Frederick J., born in 1858, de- ceased : married Ida M. Beebe, of near Bangor, Maine, and they have one son, Hartwell Lewis. 2. George E .. born April 14, 1861. the day and hour they fired on Fort Sumter. He was educated in the public schools of Newport. and graduated from the high school, class of 1880. After leaving school he clerked in a clothing store in Lawrence, Massa- chusetts, and at the age of twenty-four entered the Savings Bank of Newport as a clerk. In April. 1890. he was elected treasurer of this institution, in which capacity he has since served. At present (1907) he is a member of the school board and was during 1905-06 town treasurer of Newport. In Ma- sonic circles he is past master of Mt. Vernon Lodge. and member of chapter and commandery of Clare- mont. He is past grand representative of the In- dependent Order of Odd Fellows. He married ( first). October 14. 1889. Ida G. Dame, of New- port : she died September 15, 1895, leaving one son. George J. He married (second). December 25, 1903. Mabel L. White. a native of Marlboro. New Hampshire, and a lincal descendant of the Whites that came over on the "Mayflower."
(IV) Samuel DeWolf, son of Frederick W. and Mary J. (Travis) Lewis, was born January 3. 1867. in Newport. New Hampshire. He attended the public schools of Newport, Phillips Exeter, three years, and at the age of sixteen entered the first National Bank of Newport. He is counted among the substantial banking men of the state. having a comprehensive knowledge of this business, having filled every office up to cashier, he succeeding his father in this position. He erected several substan- tial buildings in Newport, which he owns. is a promoter of outside enterprises entering Newport. and is identified with every measure tending toward the improvement of the town. He enlarged the Opera House, which has one of the best stages north of Boston, and superintended the building of the two schools in Newport. He served the town as selectman for a period of four years, and was a member of Governor Rawlin's staff. Mr. Lewis was one of the organizers of the Brampton Wollen Company, an industry which has been founded upon a most substantial basis and promises to be an im- portant manufacturing interest of the town. Dur- ing Mr. Lewis' incumbency of the office of select- man he labored assiduously and effectively toward the improvement of the roads. He married. June 4. 1890. Maude Isabelle Bibby, daughter of William Bibby, born in England, and Charlotte Brown (Ar- nold) Bibby, who dates her ancestry back to Charle- magne (see Arnold, XXV), and is a member of
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the Order of the Crown. They are the parents of one daughter, Goldina Vivian Lewis.
The Lewis family of this sketch is de-
LEWIS scended from a Welsh ancestor who came to America in 1820. The earlier generations, time out of mind, resided in Wales.
(I) William Lewis was born, lived and died in Wales.
( Il) William (2), son of William (1) Lewis, was born in Wales, and died in Utica, New York. In 1820 he came to the United States, and passed the remainder of his life farming. He married, in Wales Jane Owen, who was also born in Wales. They had eighteen children.
( III) Owen J., son of William (2) and Jane ( Owen ) Lewis, was born in Utica, New York. Jan- uary 13, 1839, and was educated in the public schools of that city. At twelve years of age he became clerk in a store, where he served until he was seven- teen. He then opened a shoe store on his own ac- count, which he carried on until 18-, when he re- moved to St. Louis, Missouri. His trade was well managed and continued to expand until it grew into a wholesale and commission business of large pro- portions, and now has, besides the principal business in St. Louis, offices in New York and Boston,
Mr. Lewis resided in Boston the greater part of the year, and the remainder, during the warm sea- son, at his summer home in Wilton, New Hamp- shire. For eighteen years past, ending with his death. the picturesque scenery and agreeable cli- mate of Wilton attracted him to that town. He was a member of Trinity Church, Boston, the Merchants Club, and a Masonic lodge. He married Clara E. Proctor, daughter of Moses Proctor, of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
LEWIS This family apparently has no connec- tion with the Lewis family of Laconia, New Hampshire, but owing to insuffi- cient date. it has been impossible to trace the an- cestry of this branch.
(I) James Lewis lived in Roxbury, Massachus- etts. He was the son of James Lewis, who belonged in the western part of the state. James (2) Lewis was a farmer. His second wife was Theodosia Mackey Chorley, daughter of John Wilson Chorley. They had two children: Josephine Virginia, born September 25, 1837, married William Cowles, and lived in Somerville, Massachusetts; and James Franklin, whose sketch follows. His first wife was Mary Glover. Their children were Mary Glover Lewis, born March 30, 1822, and Hannah Seaver Lewis, born Dec. 13, 1823, also Ebenezer Lewis born Aug. 20, 1825. His first wife died October 10, 1826. James (2) Lewis died August II, 1869, and his wife die! March 30, 1866.
( 11) James Franklin, son of James (2) and The- odosia Mackey ( Chorley ) Lewis, was born in Dor- chester. now a part of Boston. Massachusetts, Oc- tcber 20. 1832. He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of seventeen he learned the silver- smith's trade. He worked at this for forty years. In 1895, feeling the need of a change, he came to Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, where he built a house and made his permanent home. On Septem- ber 3, 1863, James Franklin Lewis married Hannah Jane, daughter of William Hunt, of England. They had five children: Jennie Frances, born May 26, 1864. Lillye Theodosia. born December 16, 1868; James Edward, born September 18, 1873: Myrtle Horbury, born November 21, 1879; Beatrice Ger- trude. born April 30, 1883.
(I) John Lewis, son of Hezekiah Lewis, was
born in Watertown, Massachusetts, August 15, 1775, and died in Pembroke, New Hampshire, February 23, 1850. He married, November 25, 1802, Jane Noyes, of Bow, who was born in Bow, August IO, 1782, and died in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Decem- ber 27, 1866. Their children, all born in Pembroke, were: William, Eliza Jane, George Washington, Hannah, Noyes, John Adams, Hiram, Olive Gay, Willmene, Joseph. Benjamin, Uduay Follansbee and John Quincy Adams.
(1]) Joseph, ninth child and fifth son of John and Jane (Noyes) Lewis. was born in Pembroke, July 30, 1819, and died February 22, 1875. He resided in Suncock. He married, December 22, 1842, Mary Jane Lear, who was born March 3, 1822. They had ten children: Areanna Augusta, George Alonzo, Frank Pierce. Charles Henry, Sarah Jane, Joseph Matthew, John Hiram, Fred Spaulding, Mary Olive and Julia Etta.
(Il]) The last named was born March 19, 1861, and married, January 10, 1885, Walter S. Cass. (See Cass, VIII.)
The Kennetts are an old Scotch
KENNETT family, one of whose branches, de- scended from Robert, is now in New Hampshire. The industry and high character of the Kennetts have always been conspicuous virtues, and they have ever enjoyed the respect and esteem of their contemporaries.
(1) Robert Kennett is said to have come to America in 1741, and settled in Kittery, Maine, where he married Mary Fernald. From Kittery he made his way through the woods to Wolfboro, New Hampshire, where he lived for a time and then re- moved to that part of Eaton which is now Madison, where. says the History of Carroll County, "Robert and John Kennett were carly on the soil," that is, soon after 1787. "Robert Kennett, a Scotchman, gave his name to the hill where he settled." His children were: Isabella, Polly, Annie. Betsey, Rob- ert, killed by a playmate at nine years; Coffin and Abigail.
(II) John. son of Robert and Mary (Fernald) Kennett, raised a quite large large family near his father's homestead. and then moved to Effingham, where he died. He married and became the father of children: Robert and George (twins), Ami, John. Alva, Sewall, Belinda and . Sarah.
(III) John (2), son of John (1) Kennett, was born in Madison. He was a mariner and was drowned at sea in 1847. He married Lydia Ann Gile, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gile, of Andover, Massachusetts. The children of John and Lydia were: John. Amasa and William.
(IV) William, son of John (2) and Lydia A. (Gile) Kennett, was born in Madison, November 22. 1839. and died in Conway, August 16. 1902. He owned a large and well stocked farm and was the largest lumber operator in Madison. Two years before his death he located in Conway, where he continued to carry on his lumbering and milling op- erations. He built the spool factory now the property of the Conway Manufacturing Company. In poli- tics he was a Republican and served a term in the state legislature. He was a man of great activity and executive ability, and at the time of his death was the owner of a handsome property. He mar- ried Sarah E. Russell, who was born in Conway, daughter of Alvar C. and Asenath (Davis) Rus- sell. of Conway. Five children were born to them : Alpheus Crosby, mentioned below. Frank R., once a merchant in Madison, now deceased. William C., of Conway, Ernest C., of Madison. Sarah E., Mrs. Frank L. Kendall.
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(\') Alpheus Crosby, eldest child of William and Sarah Eastman (Russell) Kennett, was born in Madison, July 27, 1859. His early ycars were spent in attending the public schools and New Hampton Institute, from which he graduated in 1878. and in doing such work as would fall to the lot of a boy whose father had plenty of work for him on the farm, in the woods and at the mill. At seventeen years of age he became telegrapher and station agent for the Boston & Maine railroad, serving a year at Salmon Falls, four years at South Berwick, and five years at West Ossipee. In 1888 he began the manufacture of spools at Conway. His business was carried on at first on a small scale, but he suc- ceeded so well in his enterprise that he soon doubled his capacity, and gave employment to fifty hands. As the volume of his business increased, he erected a planing mill, a box factory, and other accessories and soon did a large and flourishing business. His spools were sold from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and went to the Clark Thread Manufacturing Com- pany, the Eureka Silk Company. the Morse & Kelly Manufacturing Company, the Wareham Point Com- pany, the Barbour Linen Thread Company, and others. Of lumber, bark, and wood he handled im- mense amounts. For ten years he supplied the Excelsior Mills with five thousand cords of wood annually, and in recent years this amount rose to ten thousand cords a year. In the manufacturing of lumber he used portable saw mills and operated as many as eleven at one time. In his various indus- tries Mr. Kennett employed three hundred men. To keep this small army busy and supply the de- mands of his various customers he cut over many thousands of acres of timberland. In 1903 he sold his manufacturing plants and has since dealt in timber and timberlands. He is one of the largest landowners in that portion of the state wherein he resides : and at one time he owned seven thousand acres in Chatham, twelve thousand in Jackson, five thousand in Fryeburg, Maine, ten thousand in Al- hany, Maine, six hundred at Hale's Location, five thousand five hundred in Freedom, fifteen hundred in Bartlett, four thousand at Stowe, Maine, fifteen hundred in Stoneham. Maine, fifteen hundred . in Madison, and other tracts at Ossipee, Tamworth, and other places. the whole aggregating seventy thousand acres. In 1904 he became manager for B. F. Sturtevant . & Company, manufacturers of shoe pegs. and has since directed the affairs of that large concern with signal success.
He has always been notahly energetic and in- dustrious, and these two elements in his composi- tion associated with excellent judgment have brought him the success which has made him a leading citi- zen of Carroll county. His diligence and unremit- ting industry are made manifest by a glance at his record: he never lost a day while he was in the employ of the railroad company. and has never taken three days' vacation since he has been in business for himself. The only monetary institution in which lie is is interested is the Conway Savings Bank, of which he is a director. In 1892 03 he represented Conway in the house of representatives and was chairman of the committee on county affairs. In 1895 he was elected to the senate and while a member of that body served as chairman of the committee on manufactures, and was a member of the commit- tees on finance, towns and banks. He was one of the three senators who sustained the district state tax. He introduced and brought about the passage of the state library law, obtained an amendment to the tuberculosis bill, which was vetoed, making towns pay one-third damage, and effected the passage
of the bill prohibiting the placing of saw-dust in brooks. He was appointed aide-de-camp on the staff of Governor Ramsdell with the rank of colonel, and served two years. In fraternal organizations Colonel Kennett is equally as popular and prominent as in business, social, political and military circles. He is a member of Carroll Lodge, No. 57. Free and Accepted Masons, of Freedom, Maine; Signet Chap- ter Royal Arch Masons, of North Conway; Pales- tine Commandery. Knights Templar, of Rochester; and New Hampshire Ancient and Accepted Scot- tish Rite of Nashna. He is also a member of Cha- laque Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men, of Conway.
He married (first), 1884. Carrie B. Gerrish, daughter of Dr. C. P. Gerrish, of South Berwick. Maine. She lived but a year after marriage. He married (second), October 31, 1888, Lora Ferren, of Madison, who was born September 22. 1870, daughter of John G. and Melissa Ferren, of Mad- ison. They have one child, Frank Edson. born October 22, 1896.
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