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crected by him in 1881. In politics he is a Re- publican. His church affiliations are with the Pres- byterians. In December, 1871, Mr. McQuesten married Miss Sarah Bradt, daughter of Daniel Bradt of Litchfield, and a successful school-teacher. She died July 21, 1872, having borne one son- Daniel B., who died in infancy. On October 22, 1874, he married for his second wife Miss Kate Maria Jones, daughter of Archibald and Eunice (Robey ) Jones, of Salisbury, New Hampshire. The children of this union are: Grace Louise, born June 10, 1878, now a music teacher in Man- chester; and Margaret Bradt, born June 18, 1884; she attended the Boston Art Museum for two years, and received special mention in drawing in 1906. (IV) Henry, sixth son and seventh child of James and Anne (Moore) McQuesten, was born in Litchfield, August 14, 1803. The active period of his life was devoted to farming in his native town, and his death occurred February 24, 1867. He married Elizabeth Wingate Chase, who was born in Litchfield September 14. ISO1, and died November 17, 1886. She became the mother of four sons, namely : Benjamin, William, Henry Wingate and James Franklin.
(\) Henry Wingate, third son of Henry and Elizabeth Wingate (Chase) McQuesten, was born in Litchfield, January 7. 1834. His early education was acquired in the district schools, and he con- cluded his studies at the Manchester Academy. At the age of nineteen years he went to California, where he spent seven years in the gold diggings, and upon his return he engaged in farming at the homestead, which he inherited at his father's death. Later he settled in Merrimack Village, where he died July 29, 1902. Politically he was a Democrat. In his religious belief he was inclined to be liberal, and he attended the Congregational Church. He and his wife were members of the Grange. Decem- ber 10. 1863, Mr. McQuesten married Sarah Eliza- beth Jones, daughter of David and Rosanna (Tewksbury) Jones, of New Boston. She was educated at the McGaw Normal Institute, the Nashua Literary School and in Plymouth, and prior to her marriage taught school in Litchifield, Amherst, Plymouth and Montreal. She is a mem- ber of the Congregational Church. The children of this union are: Henry Wingate, Jr., born March 20. 1866; Rose Elizabeth, born February 4, 1869, died May 22, 1872; George Dow, born March 20, 1871; Frank Jones, born February 28, 1874; and David Maurice, born March 16, 1876.
(11) Simon, third son of William McQuesten, was born in 1739, in Litchfield, and died there in 1816. He was married (first) to Esther Harvell, who was born in 1738, and died in 1776. They were the parents of: John, Peter, Simon, and William. He married (second) Rosanna Nahor, of Litch- field, who was born in 1748 and died in 1785. Their children were: James, Esther, Robert and Margaret. He married (third) in 1790, Lettice, a widow of Hon. Wyseman Claggett.
(III) Robert, son of Simon McQuesten and his second wife, Rosanna ( Nahor) McQuesten, was born April 15, 1783, in Litchfield, where he con- tinned to make his home through life and died May 14, 1848. He was married on Christmas Day of ISIo to Lydia Barrett, of Iludson, and they were the parents of Isaac, Sarah, Robert, Charles, Elizabeth, Mary and Thomas.
(1V) Captain Isaac, eldest child of Robert H. and Lydia (Barrett) McQuesten, was born in
Litchfield, October 18, 1811, and died December 3, 1896. His education was confined to the common schools, which he attended eight or ten weeks each year until he was fourteen years of age. He then went to work for wages as a farm laborer, but he was an industrious and thrifty young man, and at the time of attaining his majority he was able to come into possession of the homestead of his parents upon which he ever afterward lived. In 1840 he formed a copartnership with Captain Samuel Chase, which continued twenty years. They were tensively engaged in the lumber trade, and for several years were proprietors of the store at the center of the town. On the removal of Captain Chase to Nashua the firm dissolved, in 1860, and Captain McQuesten continued the business until 1878. He was the son of parents who were poor but worthy persons, descended from ancestors whose good example and influence is still felt, and he set out in life to make the most of his op- portunities. His natural good sense, integrity, and industry brought him a much greater measure of success than fell to many whose start in life was far better than his. He was interested in public questions and took a part in shaping the policy of his town. Under the old state militia he held a commission as captain in the Fifth Regiment. In politics he was a Democrat, and held numerous offices as the gift of his fellow citizens. He was representative four years, was elected road com- missioner for Hillsborough county in 1849; from IS62 to 1868 was first selectman and town treasurer. and discharged the duties of those offices with fidelity and in a manner creditable to himself. In 1868 and 1869 he was the Democratic candidate for state senator. From 1870 to 1891 he was justice of the peace and quorum for the state, the principal magistrate of the town, and often em- ployed in the writing of deeds, wills and other in- struments. Captain MeQuesten was one of the leading church members of his neighborhood, and from 1851 to 1896 was clerk of the Presbyterian Society, and from 1875 to 1896 was superintendent of the Sabbath school. At the time of his death he was one of the oldest inhabitants of Litchfield. He married, December 29, 1842, Margaret A. Chase, born in Litchfield, July 14. 1819, died September 20, 1899, daughter of Major Francis and Dorothy ( Bix- by) Chase, of Litchfield. They were the parents of three children: I. Engene F., see forward. 2. Francis H., born in Litchfield, April 18, 1847. He has been engaged in the lumber business for many years, and was a member of the state legislature in the eighties. He married (first) Addie Woodward, and they had one child, Harry F., born December 31, 1876, died October S, 1901. He married (sec- ond) Katherine Frye, and they have one son, Donald F., born February 9, 1892. Mr. McQuesten and his sister, Mrs. F. L. Center, now own the old MeQuesten homestead. 3. Jennie F., married Frederick L. Center.
Dr. Eugene F. McQuesten, eldest child of Isaac and Margaret Ann (Chase) McQuesten, was born in Litchfield, October II, 1843. He re- ceived his early education in the public schools, graduating from the Nashna high school in 1860. In the following autumn he enrolled at Blanchard Academy, Pembroke, and after a two years' course entered the scientific department of Dartmouth College, where he pursued his studies the two years next following. In 1864 he commeneed the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Josiah G. Graves,
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of Nashua. After taking one course of lectures at Dartmouth College he matriculated at Jefferson Medical College, where after two years of study he was graduated with the degree of M. D. in the class of 1866, on the ioth day of March. In 1872 and il, 1892 he took a full course of lectures at the Jefferson Medical College. Dr. McQuesten first practiced at Lynn, Massachusetts, but a few months later returned to Nashua, where he established himself January 1, 1867, and where he continuously resided and practiced until his death. He was then the oldest practicing physician in Nashua, though not the oldest physician in point of years, and was generally conceded to stand first among the city's medical practitioners. His clientele was very large, and included many of the, foremost people in and near Nashua. He was pre-eminent in surgery, in which he became prominent for the abdominal sec- tion and the various gynecological cases coming under his care. He was widely known and fre- quently called to perform difficult operations in all sections of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. Although Dr. McQuesten's professional talent would undoubtedly have brought him distinction, there was a kindly, sympathetic manner about him that attracted and inspired his patients with confidence in his skill, and added another element of success. His pleasing personality and recognized ability made him a favorite with the public . and the medical profession, which honored him with various official positions. He was city physician in 1871; secre- tary of the board of education in 1871-72; repre- sentative from ward two in the state legislature in 1873-74; and secretary of the board of pension examiners from 1893 to 1897. He was a member of the American Medical Association, American As- sociation of Railway Surgeons, the New Hamp- shire Medical Society, holding the office of presi- dent in 1895; the Nashua Medical Society of which he was president in 1892, and of the New York Medico-Legal Society. He frequently appeared in the capacity of expert witness in courts of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and among the cases in which he was called were some of very much importance. He was a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Commandery, and Mystic Shrine. He travelled extensively both in America and in the Old World. Dr. McQuesten's practice though always large, did not keep him from tak- ing an earnest and active part in social and political affairs, where the highest type of citizenship ought to be manifest. · His political affiliations were with the Democratic party. He married, in 1868, Lizzie M. Spalding, daughter of Solomon Spalding, of Nashua. She died in 1877, and he married in 1879, Mary A. Howard, daughter of Joseph Howard, also of Nashua. She died in 1885, and in May, 1887, he married Anna E. Spalding, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, October 8, 1856, daughter of Wil- liam R. and Mary Abby (Ham) Spalding, of Law- rence. They had three children: Philip, Josephine, and Eugene F. Dr. McQuesten died July 19, 1906, at Squirrel Island, Maine.
MACFARLAND The descent of the Clan Mac- Farlane from the ancient earls of the district in which their possessions were situated is the only one, with the exception of the Clan Dannachie, which is fortified by a charter still extant.
All historians agree that the ancestor of the MacFarlanes was Gilchrist, brother of Walduin,
third earl of Lenox, the proof of which is the above mentioned charter, by which he made to his brother Gilchrist a grant "de terris superiore, Anocher de Luss" (?), which lands continued in the possession of the Clan for six hundred years, until the sale of the estate in 1784, and have at all times constituted their principal inheritance, says Brown's History of the Highlands.
(I) Daniel MacFarland, to whom the Concord, New Hampshire, family of MacFarlands trace their descent, was of the remarkable company of Scotch Presbyterian colonists who came to this country in 1718 from the province of Ulster, Ireland, where they and their fathers had sojourned about a century, having gone thither from Argyleshire, which is just across the channel, in Scotland, when James I was King of England. These colonists came over in a fleet of five ships which sailed into Boston Harbor, August 4 of the year above men- tioned. It was by them that the town names of Antrim, Coleraine, Londonderry and others where given. Daniel and his son Andrew, then twenty- eight years old, settled in Worcester, Massachusetts, and the original homestead is still in possession of descendants of the family. Duncan, a brother of Daniel, went to Rutland, Massachusetts. The Wor- cester colonists were not so fortunate as to obtain a friendly recognition from their English Congre- gational neighbors. They were subjected to various minor annoyances, and in 1740, after worshiping in an old garrison house twenty-one years, they com- menced building a church, when the Congregation- alists assembled in the night, pulled down the building and carried away the materials. There- upon most of the Scotchmen left Worcester, but among those who remained were the McFarlands, who appear to have shortly afterward connected themselves with the established church, First Con- gregationalist.
(II) Andrew, son of Daniel MacFarland, mar- ried Rebecca Grey, and died June 4, 1766, aged seventy-one years. His wife died March 20, 1762, aged sixty-two years. Their children were: Wil- liam, James and Daniel.
(III) James, son of Andrew and Rebecca (Grey) MacFarland, was a farmer and lived in Worcester. He married Elizabeth Barbour, and died April 9, 1783. Their children were: Sarah, Rebecca, Robert (died in infancy), Lydia (married Matthew Gray and settled in Petersborough, New Hampshire), James, Elizabeth, Ephraim, John and Asa.
(IV) Asa, youngest son of James and Eliza- beth (Barbour) MacFarland, was born April 19, 1769, and reared on his father's farm in Worcester. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1793. He was principal of Moore's Charity School at Hanover for two years, and a tutor at Dartmouth two years. March 7, 1798, he was ordained to the ministry and became pastor of the First Congre- gational Church of Concord, New Hampshire. His pastoral labors appear to have been of the most exhaustive character. Rev. Dr. Bouton's "History of Concord" says: He preached two sermons every Sunday, besides attending a third service. In time of revivals he preached in outer districts, after go- ing from home to home. For three years he was chaplain of the state prison. He was a leader in vocal music, and did much to promote good sing- ing in the church. He was a member of the Mer- rimac Musical Association, and at one time presi- dent of it. It is known that he performed some
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missionary work in the Pequaket country about Conway, New Hampshire, and Fryeburg, Maine. He seems also to have been in demand as a preacher at ordinations. A not very extended research dis- closes the fact that he performed that office at Am- herst (at the ordination of Rev. Nathan Lord, afterward president of Dartmouth College), Candia, Epsom, Groton, and other places. He preached many sermons in important cities and towns on special occasions. He served as trustee of Dart- mouth 1809-1821 ( which covered the existing period of the Dartmouth College Controversy). He was also President of the New Hampshire Missionary Society. He left the manuscripts of two thousand and fifty-four sermons, and the names of four hun- dred and forty-one persons were added to the church rolls during his ministry which closed in 1824. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Vale College in 1809. He died February ÍS. 1827. Ilis son Asa wrote of him in 1876, "All iny recollections of my father are of a very agree- able description. He was of commanding person, handsome countenance, in stature nearly six feet." He married (first), January 21, 1799, Clarissa Dwight, of Belchertown, Massachusetts. She died October 23, 1799. He married (second), June 16, 1801, Nancy Dwight, of Belchertown, who died September 8, 1801. He married ( third), Septem- ber 5, 1803, Elizabeth Kneeland, of Boston, who clied November 9, 1838. Elizabeth Kneeland Mac- Farland was a woman of bright intellect, warm sympathies and devoted piety. She was prominent in all missionary matters of her time. Her memoir was published by Dr. Bouton in 1839. The children of Rev. Asa and Elizabeth ( Kneeland ) MacFar- land were: Asa, Susan Kneeland, Elizabeth, Wil- liam. Sarah Abbott, Andrew, Miriam Phillips and Clarissa Dwight.
(\') Asa (2), son of Rev. Asa (1) and Eliza- beth (Knceland ) McFarland, was born in Concord, May 19, 1804, and died December 13, 1879. He was educated in the public schools of Concord and at Gilmanton Academy. In his youth he was at- tracted to the art of printing, and through ap- prenticeship in Boston and Concord became a master of the craft, so that the establishment which he set up in Concord in 1834 became widely known for correct and tasteful productions of the press. He kept a personal interest in this business until Janu- ary, 1869. He was a member of the state legislature in 1859 and 1860, and state printer in 1846, 1859 and 1860. Being an casy writer, he became for two periods an editor of the New Hampshire Statesman, namely from 1844 to 1849 and from 1851 to 1869. A country editor was then expected to discuss a wide range of topics. This he did with marked ability, originality and diligence, never forgetting the duties of the hour, and the interests of his town. One of his biographers says of him that his work was "unexceptionable in style, candid in statement and elevated in tone." Visiting Europe in 1850, he wrote thence a series of letters, afterward printed in a book entitled "Five Months Abroad." Being a lover of home, country and friends, he left an interesting manuscript entitled "An Outline of Biography and Recollection," which was printed in 1880 as a gift to his towns- people. He was a man of the strictest integrity and everybody's friend, an early member of the South Congregational Church ( formed in 1837) and for a long period one of its deacons. Ile married, November 2, 1830, Clarissa Jane Chase, of Gilford,
New Hampshire. Their children were Henry, Elizabeth K., Annie Avery, and William K.
(VI) Susan Kneeland, daughter of Rev. Asa and Elizabeth (Kneeland) MacFarland, was born in Concord, January 17, 1806, and died September 11, 1842. She married Rev. Edward Buxton, of Boscawen. Their children were: Elizabeth and Edward.
(VI) William, son of Rev. Asa and Elizabeth (Kneeland ) MacFarland, was born in Concord, August 28, 1811, and died June 21, 1800. He was a shipmaster, commanding ships sailing out of Salem and Boston. He married Susan D. Perkins, of Salem. Their children were: William, Eliza- beth Kneeland.
(Vl) Sarah Abbott, daughter of Rev. Asa and Elizabeth ( Kneeland ) MacFarland, was born in Concord, October 25, 1815. She married George N. Guthrie, of Zanesville, Ohio, September 19, 1839. Their children were : William Edward, Clara Dwight, George C., and Sarah Elizabeth.
(\']) Andrew, son of Rev. Asa and Elizabeth (Kneeland ) Mac Farland, was born in Concord, July 14, 1817. and died November 22, I891, at Jacksonville, Illinois. He was a physician of wide repute in treatment of the insane, many years in charge of hospitals in New Hampshire and Illinois. He married, October 23, 1839, Anne Peaslee, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire. Their children were : George Clinton, Harriet, Mary, and . Thaddeus Fletcher.
(VI) Clarissa Dwight, daughter of Rev. Asa and Elizabeth ( Kneeland) MacFarland. was born in Concord, May 13, 1822, and died June 26, 1853. She married October 18, 1842, John W. Noyes, of Chester, New Hampshire. Their children were : Elizabeth MacFarland and Nancy Aiken.
(VI) Henry, son of Asa and Clarissa Jane (Chase) MacFarland, was born in Concord, July 10, 1831, and educated in the public schools and at Pembroke Academy. At the close of his school course (1849) he worked in a printing office and book store in Concord, going thence to a place with the Concord Railroad Company. Ilis first position was that of office boy in the office of the superin- tendent. In 1850 he took a position as clerk in the office of the Lake Michigan Steamboat Com- pany in Chicago, Illinois, which ran a line of steamers on Lake Michigan. In 1858 he returned to Concord as one of the owners of the New Hamp- shire Statesman, and took the position of editorial writer and business manager of, that paper, and was connected with it in various ways till 1871. In the second year of the Rebellion (1862) he entered the military service and was attached to the general staff as paymaster, where he served till 1866, a good part of the time with the Army of the Potomac. While paymaster he handled enormous amounts of money. During one period of four months his disbursements to soldiers were one million five hundred fifty-six thousand seven hun- dred forty-two dollars and eighty-eight cents, and total disbursements while paymaster were four mil- lion seven hundred twenty thousand nine hundred twenty-two dollars and forty-four cents, an amount nearly equalling the gold product of California in 1849. During the later months of the war he was stationed in Concord and at the war's end he re- mained with the Statesman until he went in 1871 to Boston, Massachusetts, and became cashier for the Union Pacific Railroad Company. 11 1877 he was promoted to the treasurership of the company_
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In 1885 he was made a vice-president and trustee of the Union Pacific road, and his disbursements while in the employ of this great corporation were two hundred forty-seven million eight hundred fifteen thousand five hundred thirty-one dollars and . forty-nine cents. These positions he held till 1888, when he resigned and returned to his home in Con- cord. Since his return to his native city he has be- come interested in financial institutions and is a director in the Capital Fire Insurance Company, director in the First National Bank, vice-president of the New Hampshire Savings Bank, and a mem- ber of its Investment Committee.
After returning to Concord Mr. MacFarland printed for distribution among his friends a book entitled "Sixty Years in Concord and Elsewhere," a work of over three hundred pages, describing men and events not only in New Hampshire but in other parts of the United States. It gives an account of the city of Concord, its history and growth, and the
manners and customs of carlier days. The author's career and experiences while an army paymaster are described, and an account given of his acquaint- ance and relations with prominent army officers. His story of occurrences while an official of the Union Pacific Company and of the distinguished men, both natives and foreigners, that he met is well told and interesting. The book from preface to finis is full of information. Mr. MacFarland wrote two chapters in the "History of Concord" lately published (1895), one on railroads, and the other on canals, stage lines and taverns. While in the printing business Mr. MacFarland was state printer two years, and at another time served as alderman in Concord two years. He is now (1905) a man of seventy-four years of age, hale and hearty, and agreeable, and it is doubtless greatly due to his good health and good nature that so large a measure of success has come to him. His home · has nearly always been in Concord, where he was bori, and here he is highly appreciated as a citizen, and one who has a high regard for his native city and its people. He married, October 20, 1859, Mary Frances Carter, daughter of Eben Carter, of Law- rence, Massachusetts. Mrs. MacFarland is a mem- ber of the South Congregational Church, and of the Woman's Club, in both of which bodies she is an influenital member.
DWIGHT The Dwight family have been very widely noted for their love of liberty. their belief in progress, and their readiness to adopt progressive ideas looking to the continued advancement of humanity and civiliza- tion. Many of the men of this family are remarkable for their natural executive ability under whatsoever conditions may confront them, whether in material concerns or matters affecting the higher interests of the community.
(1) John Dwight, the common ancestor, came with his wife Hannah and daughter Hannah, and two sons, Timothy and John, from Dedham, Eng- land, to America, in the latter part of 1634 or the beginning of the year 1635. He settled in the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, where he is found of record September 1, 1635, the day of the first town meeting, held by the twelve persons who constituted it. He was a well-to-do farmer, the second man of wealth in the town, and was eminently useful in the community. He is described in the town records of Dedham as "having been publicly use- ful," and "a great peacemaker." He was select-
man for sixteen years, 1639-55. He was one of the founders of the Church of Christ, which was formed in Dedham in 1638. His wife Hannah died Sep- tember 5, 1656, and he married (second) a Mrs. Elizabeth Ripley. He died February 3, 1660. His children were all by his first wife: I. Hannah, born in England, 1625; married Nathaniel Whiting, of Dedham. 2. Captain Timothy Dwight, born in England, 1629, died January 31, 1717-18. 3. John, born in England, 1632, died March 24, 1638. 4. Mary, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, July 25, 1635; she is mentioned in the town records as the first child born there; she married Henry Phillips. 5. Sarah, born June 17, 1638, in Dedham; married Nathaniel Reynolds.
(11) Captain Timothy, second child and eldest son of John and Hannah Dwight, was born in England in 1629, and came to America with his father, settling in Dedham. He was made a free- man in 1655; was for ten years town clerk; select- man for twenty-five years (1664-89) ; and a repre- sentative of the town to the general court, 1691-92. In his younger years he was cornet of a troop, and afterward a captain of foot. He went out ten times against the Indians, nine of whom he killed or took prisoner-such was the constant predatory warfare that they kept up against the town. It is recorded of Captain Dwight that "he inherited the estate and virtues of his father, and added to both." He is thus described in the church records : "Timothy Dwight, Esq., a gentleman truly serious and godly, one of an excellent spirit, peaceable, generous, charitable, and a great promoter of the true interests of the church and town." He mar- ried, November 11, 1651, Sarah Sibley, who died May 29, 1652. He married (second) May 3. 1653. Sarah, daughter of Michael Powell, who died June 27, 1664, and their children were: I. Timothy, born November 26, 1854. 2. Sarah, born April 2, 1057. 3. John, born May 31, 1662. 4. Sarah ( sec- ond), born June 25. 1664. He married ( third). January 9, 1664-65, Anna, daughter of Rev. Henry Flint, of Braintree, Massachusetts; she. was born September II, '1643, and died January 29, 1685-86. Of this marriage were born ten children: I. Josiah, born October S. 1665. died young. 2. Nathaniel, born November 20, 1666. 3. Samuel, born Decem- ber 2, 1668, died young. 4. Rev. Josiah, born Febru- ary 8, 1670. 5. Seth, born July 9, 1673. 6. Anna, born August 12, 1675. 7. Captain Henry, born De- cember 19, 1676. 8. Michael, born January 10, 1679-80. 9. Daniel, born September 23. 1681, died young. 10. Jabez, born September 1, 1683. Captain Timothy Dwight married for his fourth wife, Janu- ary 7, 1686-87, Mrs. Mary Edwind, of Reading, Massachusetts, a widow; she died without issue, August 30, 1688. He married for his fifth wife. July 31, 1690, Esther Fisher, daughter of Hon. Daniel Fisher ; she died January 30, 1690. He mar- ried for his sixth wife, February 1, 1691-92, Bethiah Moss; she died February 6, 1717-18, without issue. Captain Dwight died, full of age and honors, Janu- ary 31, 1717-18, aged eighty-eight years.
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