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( II) Rufus Noyes, eldest child of Daniel P. and Maria ( Blandin) Gordon, was born at Bethlehem, New Hampshire, November 28, 1868. He was edu- cated in the public schools, and clerked in a hotel at Littleton for six years. In1 1892 he returned to his native town of Bethlehem and started his present hotel, the Mount Washington. This is lo- cated near the Maplewood, at the eastern end of the street, accommodates seventy-five guests, and is one of the most attractive of the many summer resorts in that beautiful town. Mr. Gordon has served three times as selectman, and has also been school commissioner and school treasurer, and is an enter- prising, well read and intelligent man. He married Effie B., daughter of Charles L. Bartlett, of Bethle- Tiem.
The family now being considered is probably descended from Alexander Gordon of Exeter.
(I) William Gordon, of Exeter, was a Revo- lutionary soldier and is credited with eight years service in the Continental army. A record of his birth is not at hand. He was married March 27,
1788, to Joannah Ladd, born February 7, 1768, daughter of Daniel and Susannah ( Dow) Ladd. Daniel Ladd, who served in the expedition against Louis- burg in 1743, was captured by the enemy and sent as a prisoner of war to France. He finally returned and settled in Deerfield, New Hampshire.
(II) Simeon Ladd, son of William and Joannah (Ladd) Gordon, was one of the pioneer paper man- ufacturers of New Hampshire, in which he was associated with his brother-in-law, Moses Cheney, and his successes and vicissitudes form an interest- ing chapter in the history of that industry. For many years he resided in that part of Holderness which is now Ashland. His death occurred in 1876. He married Ruth Cheney, who was born about 1791, daughter of Elias and Sarah ( Burbank) Cheney, and they were the parents of eight children: Wil- liam, Henry Ladd, Sally, Ann Maria, Clemmie, Mary Ladd, Hannah M. and Emma.
(III) William, eldest son and child of Simeon L. and Ruth (Cheney) Gordon, was born in Ash- land, April 11, 1821. Learning the paper-maker's trade he eventually engaged in that business on his own account, and for many years was prominently identified with that industry, establishing mills in various places in this state. About the year 1857 he engaged in the paper manufacturing business in Canaan, and carried it on successfully until the breaking out of the Civil war when he rented his mill in order to enlist in Company F, Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, and was chosen, captain. At the siege of Port Hudson he was severely wounded and left on the field for dead, but ultimately recovered and was finally mustered out with an honorable record. After his return from the army he resumed the management of his paper mill in Canaan, but sold the plant in 1870 to Messrs. George and Bugbee and established a mill in Andover, New Hampshire, for the manu- facture of straw wrapping paper. He subsequently engaged in the hotel business, first at what is known as the Potter place in the town of Andover, New Hampshire, and later at Canaan. In politics he was a Republican, and while residing at the Potter place he served as postmaster. In his religious belief he was a Free Will Baptist. His business prominence and military record gained for him a wide circle of acquaintances throughout the state, and he is especially remembered by his more intimate friends as a talented musician. Mr. Gordon died in Canaan, August 16, 1904. He was married in Bridgewater, this state, October 5, 1843, to Augusta J. Sleeper, who was born either in Bristol or Alexandria, New Hampshire, October 17, 1823, and prior to her mar- riage resided in Hermon, Maine. She died March 21, 1897. Mrs. Gordon was the mother of six chil- dren: Charles Sleeper, Clemmie A., Frank Les- lie, Willie, Mary Ella and George Henry.
(IV) Charles Sleeper, eldest son and child of William and Augusta J. (Sleeper) Gordon, was born in Ashland, New Hampshire, November 8, 1844. Having completed his education at the Canaan Union Academy he entered his father's paper mill as an apprentice, but did not remain there for any length of time, as prior to his majority he became an employee at the well known Willard Hotel in Washington, and remained at that hostelry some eight years. In 1871 he went to the Arlington Hotel, where with the exception of eighteen months he was employed in a responsible capacity for a period of twenty-seven years, and his long connection with these principal hotels of the national capital natur-
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ally brought him in contact with many noted men, including statesmen, politicians, leading army and navy officers, and distinguished foreigners. From 1900 to the present year he has been much of the time associated in a clerical capacity with Senator Gallenger, of New Hampshire; was for four years door-keeper and in charge of the west end of the lobby of the United States Senate Chamber; and is now serving as messenger of the Senate committee which frames the laws governing the District of Columbia. Politically Mr. Gordon is a Republican. He is a Master Mason and belongs to Summit Lodge, No. 98, of Canaan. He attends the Congre- gational Church.
On November 9, 1866, he was united in marriage with Matilda A. Bucklin, daughter of Alanson and Sarah (Cole) Bucklin, of Grafton, New Hampshire. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon are the parents of two chil- dren : Grace Augusta, born July 1, 1867 ; and Charles Henry, born October 7, 1886. Both attended the Washington public schools, and Charles 11. is a graduate of the Bliss Electrical School.
A large number of persons of this name STONE in the United States are descended from two English immigrants who like the great majority of those who settled in America in early days, came here on account of their relig- ious belief. The family has been particularly strong in men who became locally prominent, both in early and late times.
(1) Rev. Timothy' Stone, a non-conformist min- ister in the West of England, had three sons : Simon, Gregory and Samuel, all of whom came to New England. (Gregory and descendants receive extended mention in this article).
(II) Deacon Simon Stone embarked at London, England, April 15, 1635, for New England, in the ship "Increase," Robert Lea, master. At this time he was fifty years of age, and was accompanied by his wife, Joan (Jane in the records) aged thirty- eight, and their five children. Gregory Stone, a younger brother of Simon, was also one of the com- pany.
Simon Stone settled in Watertown, Massachu- setts, where he took the freeman's oath, May 25. 1636, and was a deacon in the church, and selectman seven years between 1637 and 1656. He died in Watertown, September 22, 1665, aged about eighty years. His will was proved October 3. 1665, the inventory of his estate being £127 17s. He married in England, as suggested. Joan - , and they had seven children: Francis, Ann, Simon. Marie, Jo. (John), died young ; John and Elizabeth.
(III) Simon (2), second son and third child of Simon (1) and Joan Stone, was born in England, and came to America with his parents at the age of two years. Ile was a member of the church, a man of substance and character, was many times selectman and town clerk, and was a member of the general court from Watertown in 1678-79-So-SI- 82-83-84-80-89-90. Ile died February 27, 1708, aged about seventy-seven years. He married Mary Whip- ple, who died June 2, 1720, aged eighty-six. They had these children: John, Matthew, Nathaniel, (died young), Ebenezer, Mary, Nathaniel, Eliza- beth, David, Susanna and Jonathan.
(IV) Ebenezer, fourth son and child of Simon (2) and Mary (Whipple) Stone, born in Water- town, February 27, 1663, died at the age of eighty- five years. Ile bought thirty acres of land in New Cambridge (Newton) in 1686, and settled there.
He owned a house supposed to have been built by Richard Parke, which was probably his first resi- dence in the town. In 1700 he sold that place and removed to the castern part of the town and built another house. He was a man of much influence, and held many public offices; was selectman ten years, deacon, representative nine years, and coun- cilor. A letter written by him and dated February 27, 1748, ( his eighty-fifth birthday) is composed 111 a good and firm hand. He died October 4, 1754, aged ninety-two. He married (first), 1686, Mar- garet Trowbridge, born April 30, 1666, daughter of James and Margaret (Atherton) Trowbridge, of Dorchester, afterward Newton. She died May 4, 1710, and he married (second), Abigail Wilson ( ?). She died 1720. and he married (third), April 8, 1722, widow Sarah Livermore. The children all by the first wife, were: Ebenezer, Margaret, Samuel, John, Nathaniel, Mindwell, David, Mary, Simon, James and Experience.
(V) Samuel, second son and third child of Hon. Ebenezer and Margaret (Trowbridge) Stone, born in Newton, July 1. 1690, settled in Framingham, where he was the owner of an estate which was sold by his heirs in 1748. He was selectman in Framing- ham in 1722, and twice thereafter. He married, in Watertown, May 21, 1716, Hannah Searle, of Rox- bury. She died November 4, 1724, and he married ( second ), November 25, 1725, Mary Haven. He died August 30, 1726, and his widow married Sep- tember 24, 1734, Deacon Ephraim Ward, of Newton. The children of Samuel and Hannah ( Searle) Stone were: Hannah, Mary, Esther, Matthias, Nehemiah and Samniel.
(\1) Matthias, eldest son and fourth child of Samuel and Hannah (Searle) Stone, born in Water- town, Massachusetts, October 23, 1723, was left without a father at the age of three years. When five years old he went to live with his great-uncle, Deacon David Stone, a blind man, and remained with him until about twenty-three years old, when he went to Worcester. From that place he moved to Barre, and was deacon in the Congregational Church there. He removed to Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1770, and was for more than twenty years one of its most prominent and valued citizens. While there he was moderator of the town meetings in 1774-77-79-81 ; was selectman in 1774-75-76-77-79- So-S2; was member of the committee of safety for Claremont, 1776; circulated the test oath and re- ported the members who signed and those who de- clined, 1776; and was delegated to the convention which convened at Exeter in 1788 to consider the constitution of the. United States. He opposed its adoption in the present form to the last. He was also a justice of the peace, and as such officiated at inany marriage ceremonies. The town of Claremont paid for bounties and hire of soldiers during the Revolution, £1563 9s 4d Ifar. Matthias Stone was one of the fifty-three persons who paid this amount, and his tax was £40, the average amount paid being a little less than £30 per capita. . \ con- troversy arose in Claremont in relation to the Con- gregational meeting house, which continued some years. During this time Mr. Stone erected a stiit- able building for the purpose, and offered to donate it to the town for a meeting house. At a town meet- ing called to consider the matler, it was voted not to accept the gift probably on account of the location -and the structure was never used as a place of worship, but was removed to his farm, where it now stands, and has been used as a barn. Four of his
Charles F. Stone.
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sons removed to Cabot, Vermont, when that town began to be settled, and about 1790 or later he joined them, and there died at the age of ninety-one years. He married, in Worcester, Massachusetts, Susan Chadwick, by whom he had fifteen children, ten sons and five daughters. His wife died, and he afterward married Huldah Fletcher.
(VII) Colonel John, son of Deacon Matthias and Susan (Chadwick) Stone, born in Claremont, New Hampshire, January 15, 1775, removed to Cabot, Vermont, in 1797, and began clearing a farm on the ground now occupied by the Lower Village Cemetery, then an unbroken wilderness from Cabot to Marshfield. Three of his brothers also settled in Cabot. He was a man physically and mentally strong, and became a prosperous farmer and a prominent man in military affairs. He rose from private to colonel of the First Regiment, Third Brigade, Fourth Division, Vermont Militia, and was said to be one of the best commanders of the bri- gade. He died February 20, 1856, and his wife on February 22. Both were buried in the same grave, on the spot where he began clearing his farm. He married, in 1803, Betsy Huntoon, of Kingston, New Hampshire, and to them were born seven sons and three daughters, four of the sons being Congre- gational ministers. Their names were: John, Bet- sey, Levi H., Mary, James P., Hiram, Moses, Mat- thias, Jr., J --- and Cynthia. All grew to adult age, and seven raised families, and their average age at death was seventy-six years. Not one of the sons used tobacco or ardent spirits, or gambled.
(VIII) Rev. Levi H., second son and third child of Colonel John and Betsey (Huntoon) Stone, was born in Cabot, Vermont, December 18, 1806, and died January. 1892, in Castleton Vermont. His education was acquired at the common schools and from a private tutor. At the age of about twenty- eight he entered the ininistry, and in the fall of 1839 was ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in his native town of Cabot. Ilere he labored successfully six years, and then removed
to - -, where he preached with great success the following decade, and then went to Northfield and preached eight years, and finally to Paulet, Vermont, where he ministered to the spiritual wants of a congregation for five years, when, on account of failing health and the coming of age, he resigned the ministry after preaching the word thirty-three years.
Mr. Stone was a strenuous advocate of temper- ance, and an uncompromising and aggressive aboli- tionist. When the war of the Rebellion broke out he went to the front as the chaplain of the First Vermont Infantry, a three months' regiment, and served for the time of enlistment. He was then fifty-four years of age, and suffered from the effects of the climate, else he might have returned to the service. He was a man well liked by the members of his church and community, his services were always in demand, and he was always busy. He was never idle for want of a place to preach. He was a representative type of the New England Con- gregational minister of his time; and an easy and eloquent platform speaker.
He married (first), Mary Clarissa Osgood, horn in Cahot. Vermont. 1806, died in Cabot. 1843, daugh- ter of Solomon and Ruth (Marsh) Osgood, and they were the parents of the following children : Harriet, married Bradford Barker: Parsons ; Laur- iston L .; James P .: Clarissa ; John H. ; Solomon O .; Charles F. He married, again, Lucy Laiton. horn in Nashua. New Hampshire, 1823, and died in
Northfield, Massachusetts. 1866; and they had three . children : Clara, George WV. and Martin L.
(IX) Charles Francis, youngest child of Levi II. and Mary C. (Osgood) Stone, was born in Cabot, May 21, 1843. He passed his early years on a farm and in the common schools of his native town. He prepared for college at Barre (Vermont) Academy, and then entered Middlebury College in 1865, graduating with the class of 1869. He defrayed the expenses of his college course by teaching school. After graduation he studied law in the office of Hon. J. W. Stewart. of Middlebury, and at the same time filled the position of principal of the graded school at Middlebury. In 1870 he removed to La- conia, New Hampshire, where he pursued the study of law in the office of Judge Ellery A. Hibbard, and was admitted to the bar in 1872, beginning the practice of law in the same year as the associate of George W. Stevens. He was then alone in busi- ness for a time, and in ISSo formed a partnership with E. P. Jewell, under the firm name of Jewell & Stone. This partnership continued until 1894.
Mr. Stone was chairman of the Democratic state committee from 1882 to 1890, and served in the leg- islature in 1883-4, and in 1887-8. In the latter ses- sion he took a prominent part in championing the "Atherton bill" as against the "Hazen bill," two antagonistic measures bearing upon railroad in- terests in New Hampshire. He was president of the Laconia board of education for several years. In 1892 he was the nominee of his party for congress and made a remarkable contest for that office. In a district where there are forty-five thousand votes and a large Republican majority, he came within a matter of six hundred votes of being elected. In 1894 with- out solicitation on his part, he was commissioned by President Cleveland naval officer of the port of Boston. This place he filled four years, and at the same time did considerable practice in the courts of Belknap county. He was nominated for governor on the Democratic ticket in the fall of 1898 and re- ceived a very flattering vote, receiving a majority of the votes polled in Laconia. in Belknap county, and in the city of Manchester, all of which are normally Republican by a good majority. At the following session of the legislature. 1898-9, he received the full party vote for United States senator. In 1901 he was appointed one of the judges of the superior court and still fills that position. He was counsel for the Laconia Street Railway Company, and is now a director of that organization and of the First National Bank of Laconia, and trustee of the Citi- zens' Savings Bank. Judge Stone is a member of Laconia Grange, and of the Belknap County Pom- ona Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, and has been a Mason over forty years, having been received into that order in 1865, while a student at Barre. He is now a member of the Mount Lebanon Lodge, No. 32, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Union Royal Arch Chapter, No. 7. and Pilgrim Com- mandery, Knights Templar, of Laconia. He is also a member of Chocorna Lodge, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Laconia.
Nature has liberally endowed Judge Stone with those qualities that assure to their possessor success in life. He has a genial temperament and a pleasing personality that attract men, and his upright char- acter and correct deportment make one, once his friend, always his friend. He is popular, as has been demonstrated by the votes he has received in political contests. As a citizen he has been distin- guished by his unblemished character, his broad
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views and his support of those ideas that stand for what is best in American citizenship. As a lawyer he is thoroughly prepared for whatever may arise in the conduct of a case: a rapid thinker, and a clear and persuasive speaker. As a judge, he is studious, fair, honest and well-balanced, rapid and logical in his conclusions and correct in his decisions. Judge Stone married. first, July 27, 1870, at Royal- ton, Vermont, Minnie A. Nichols, born at Sudbury, Vermont, October 15. 1848, died September 22, 1875. They had one child. Flora Minnie He married, second. September 12, 1896. Isabel M., widow of Benjamin Muncie, and daughter of Colonel Noah E. Smith, of Laconia, New Hampshire. She was born in the City of Mexico in 1845. (See Smith).
Noah E. Smith ( father of Mrs. Stone), was born in Meredith. New Hampshire. in 1SOS. His grand- parents were among the earliest settlers of that town, riding from Exeter to their new home, the wife upon a pillion, in the fashion of the day, bear- ing an infant in her arms.
The couple located on land at the head of Round Bay, near the present Lake Village. Here Noah's father was born, and being the first male child born in Meredith, the town gave him one hundred acres of land-the tract now known as "Hadley Place," on the west shore of Long Bay. When Noah was ten years old his parents removed to Gilmantown, and here he remained until of age, when he left the paternal roof to scek his fortune. He went to New York City, where a company was being formed to operate a stage line from Vera Cruz, upon the coast, to the City of Mexico, and of this line Smith soon after became the general superintendent and executive officer of the company. and soon after his appointment made the acquaintance of Santa Anna, who was then about to be inaugurated president of the Republic, for his first term. After operating the stage line for three years. it was sold to a com- pany of Mexicans, and Smith decided to return home, but another company being formed in New York, he was induced to remain as director of the new line. After directing the new line for several years, Smith went into business for himself, and en- gaged extensively in the buying and selling of mules and horses. Ile also had extensive dealings with the Mexican government, and supplied it with many horses for the army, and not only did he become prominent in business circles, but established inti- mate relations with the people among whom he dwelt. and had an extensive acquaintance, and was on the most friendly terms with those high in authority.
For some time.after the breaking out of hostilities upon the Rio Grande. Smith was unmolested, but he was finally ordered to leave the city, and did so, conveying at the same time important dispatches to General Scott, at Pueblo, also giving Scott valuable information as to the location of the Mexican army. and finally became Scott's guide, and was attached to his staff as interpreter, and was with Scott in all his engagements and on his entry to the City of Mexico. After the close of the war. Smith returned to the United States, Soon after Smith's return to New Hampshire he joined a party of gold seekers and with them went to California by way of Cape Horn in a steamer called the Oregon, but after a stay of some time in California was obliged to re- turn home on account of sickness. In 1852 he was appointed mail agent for the Pacific Coast, and his duties led him repeatedly to Aspinwall and occasion- ally to San Francisco, but after a service of three or
four years he resigned and returned to Gilmanton. The latter years of his life were spent with his daughter, Mrs. Munsey, at Laconia.
(II) Gregory, son of Rev. Timothy Stone. sailed from Ipswich. April 15, 1635, in company with brother Simon and landed in Boston. He settled in Cambridge, where he was admitted a freeman May 25, 1636: united with the church shortly afterward and became a deacon. In 1638 he represented Cam- bridge in the general court. He resided in the vi- cinity of Mt. Auburn, and his death occurred No- vember 30, 1672, at the age of eighty-two years. He was married in England to Lydia Cooper, who ac- companied him to America, and died in Cambridge, June 24, 1674. Their children were: John, Daniel, David, Elizabeth, Samuel and Sarah. (Mention of Samuel and descendants appears in this article ).
(III) John, eldest son and child of Gregory and Lydia (Cooper) Stone, was born in England, about 1619. and sailed from London at the age of sixteen years. He resided in Cambridge with his father until attaining his majority. when he went to Sudbury as one of the original proprietors, but sub- sequently removed to Framingham. At the death of his father he returned to Cambridge. Besides huis property in Sudbury, which he sold to John Moore in 1645. he acquired by grant six acres in "Natick Bounds." In 1654 he was town clerk in Framingham, and in 1656 he secured from the general court the confirmation of a purchase from the Indians of land at the falls of Sudbury river, and more land was granted him in 1658. In the records of 1659 the road to John Stone's house is referred to in the de- scription of property in the bounds of Natick Planta- tion. He was a church member and appears in the records as both elder and deacon. He was elected a representative to the general court, from Cambridge, in 1682-83, and he died May 5, of the latter year. His will was dated April'16, 1683, and recorded June I. He married Anne How, probably a daughter of Elder Edward How. of Watertown, and was the father of ten children: Hannah, Mary, Daniel, David. Elizabeth, Margaret, Tabitha, Sarah, Na- thaniel and John.
(IV) Nathaniel. third son and ninth child of John and Anne (How) Stone, was born May II, 1660. He resided in Framingham, where he served as a selectman from 1706 to 1710 and was admitted to the church, May 16. 1725. His will was made June 23. 1732, and probated November 2, of that year. He married. April 25. 1684. Sarah Wayt. of Malden. She bore him eight children, whose names were: Nathaniel. Ebenezer, Jonathan. Isaac. John, Mary, Sarah and Hezekiah.
(V) Ilezekiah, sixth son and eighth child of Nathaniel and Sarah (Wayt) Stone, was born in Framingham, March 4. 1710-11. He received from his father the homestead, known as "Bridgefield." together with the latter's interest in Baiting Brook meadow. llc was chosen a selectman, 1759, and served two years. He subsequently removed to Ox- ford, Massachusetts and died there July IS. 1771. He married Ruth How, of Sudbury, and she became the wife of Deacon Brancroft, of Ward. Heze- kiah Stone was the father of eight children: Eli- phalet. Jesse Hephzibah, Ruth, Sarah, Lois, Israel and Hezekiah.
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