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(VI) Daniel P., son of Daniel (2) and Deb- orah (Battles) Kendall, was born in Mont Ver- non, January 3, 1823, and died August 26, 1891. He was educated in the district schools, and grew up on his father's farm where he developed, simultan- eously, hard muscles, good judgment and indus- trious habits. He spent his entire life in his native town and was always engaged in agricultural occu- pations. He had a large farm which he cultivated with skill and profit, and extensive tracts of wood- land from which he cut and marketed a large amount of timber. In the Order of Patrons of Husbandry he recognized the possibility of much good to the farmer, and became a charter member of Prospect Grange, No. 22, which he served for a time as chaplain. He was a member of the First Congre- gational Church of Mont Vernon and contributed liberally to its support. In politics he was a Demo- crat, and represented his town in the state legisla- ture in 1875-76. He married, in May, 1851, Susan Cloutman, born in Mont Vernon, February, 1823, and died January 8, 1897. She was the daughter of Thomas and Nancy (Stevens) Cloutman. Seven children were born of this union: Andrew P., de- ceased. A daughter died in infancy. A son died in infancy. Esther C., married Alonzo Carlton, of Goffstown. William H., whose sketch follows. An- drew P., deceased. M. Susie, married P. Temple, and resides in Mont Vernon.
(VII) William Henry, third son and fourth child of Daniel P. and Susan (Cloutman) Kendall, was born June 10, 1859, on the old homestead, where four generations of Kendalls have been born. He was educated in the common schools and at Mc- Cullom Institute. He was brought up to farming and has been largely engaged in that occupation the most of his life. In 1880 he went to the state of Missouri and was employed on the Wabash Rail-
road between St. Louis and Kansas City. After spending one year in the west he returned to New Hampshire and settled on the homestead. He en- gaged in general farming for a time and also dealt in lumber. He also conducted a store at Mont Ver- non for one year. Since retiring from the mercan- tile business he has been extensively engaged in the lumber trade. He is a worthy successor of his fa- ther, and is regarded by his fellow citizens as an active and substantial man of good judgment, and has been elected to various local offices. In poli- tics he is a Republican and is always active in town affairs. He has been for six years a member of the school board, serving as chairman of the board, was elected selectman in 1897, has been moderator ten years and was a representative to the general court in 1902-03. He was a member of Prospect Grange, No. 22, of Mont Vernon, in which he has served as master and chaplain; and is also a mem- ber of Custas Moram Lodge, No. 42, Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He joined the First Con- gregational Church before attaining his majority, and was elected one of its deacons in 1889, since which time he has officiated in that capacity. He was superintendent of the Sunday school of his church for ten years. At the time the Congrega- tional Church erected a new edifice (1895) he was an active member of the building committee.
He married, in Mont Vernon, June 19, 1901, Clara Helen Blood, horn in Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, April 29, 1862, daughter of George and Helen M. (Burton) Blood, of Lyndeborough. She was a school teacher, and at the time of her mar- riage had taught fifty-six terms. She belongs to the Woman's Club, is a member of its executive committee, and president (1907).
(V) Ira, youngest child of Daniel and Sarah (Lovejoy) Kendall, was born in Amherst, Janu- ary 9, 1805, and died in Mont Vernon, March 20, 1863. He was extensively engaged in general farm- ing on the old homestead, and also did considerable lumbering. Being a ready penman and a man of good judgment and high character, he was called upon to draw many deeds, contracts and other legal papers, and to settle estates. He was a Democrat, held various town offices, and was representative. He and his wife were members of the Congrega- tional Church. He married, May, 1832, Cyrene Batchelder, died December 21, 1873. daughter of John and Elizabeth (Batchelder) Batchelder, of Mont Vernon. Children were: Emeline A., Eliza- beth C., Kendrick, and Franklin N. F., deceased.
(VI) Kendrick, son of Ira and Cyrene (Batch- elder) Kendall, born in Mont Vernon Janu- ary 26, 1838, was educated in the common schools, and at Mont Vernon Academy. Before attaining his majority he went to Nashua, and was employed there in the Nashua Mechanical Works a year and a half. In 1858 he went to Goffstown, where lie worked the following ten years in a sash and blind factory. In 1868 he and Henry W. Hadley and L. H. Sterts, now both deceased, formed a partner- ship, and as Kendall, Hadley & Company have
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since been engaged in the manufacture of sash, blinds and window frames. For years past as many as eighty operatives have been constantly employed, and goods to the amount of three car loads daily shipped to Boston. Mr. Kendall, on account of ill health, has been retired from active business for some years. He has long been a leading citizen, and held various political offices by virtue of elec- tion on the Republican ticket. He was town treas- urer two years, and representative in 1875. He and his wife are members of the Congregational Church. In 1887 he joined Hillsboro Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, of Manchester, of which he was a member twenty years. Subse- quently he withdrew from that body, and was one of the charter members of Webster Lodge, at Goffstown, of which he is a past grand.
Mr. Kendall married, March, 1864, Rebecca Jane Warren, born in Goffstown, June, 1838, daughter of Daniel B. and Rebecca ( Butterfield) Warren, of Goffstown. They have three children: Frank W., married Nellie Smith, of Somerville, Massachusetts, two daughters: Dorothy S. and Helen R. Annie M., lives at home. Louis B. Since the retirement of their father his son Frank W. has successfully carried on the business he founded.
ORDWAY The family of this name came early to Massachusetts, and did yeoman service in preparing the way for
future generations. The same pioneer work was repeated by later members in New Hampshire. An ancestor of the Concord family fought in the Rev- olution, and many of the Ordways have been prom- inent in war and in peace. Tradition says that James and Abner Ordway, supposed to be brothers, and probably a sister Sara, came to this country between 1635 and 1640 from England or Wales. Abner, presumably the older, was a resident in Watertown in 1643, and in Wenham, afterwards Rowley, in 1659 and 1660. Sara Ordway married, October 8, 1654, Richard Fitz or Fitts, and died April 24, 1667, without issue. Richard Fitz died in 1672 and left legacies to his brother-in-law, James Ordway, and the latter's daughter, Jane.
(I) James Ordway went with other pioneer settlers to Cocheco, now Dover, New Hampshire, in 1641, but afterwards returned to Newbury, Mass- achusetts. Ile was a farmer and the owner of sev- eral boats and canoes employed in lighterage ser- vice in Newbury for many years, and was, after the death of his wife, with one of his children, as late as 1704, mention of him being made in that year in the diary of Rev. Samuel Sewell. In 1648 he mar- ried Anne Emery, daughter of John Emery, from Romsey, England, but then of Newbury, Massachu- setts (see Emery), and from Jame, and Anne (Emery) Ordway probably descended nearly all now bearing that name in this country. Anne died March 31, 1687. Iler gravestone is still standing in the old cemetery at Newburyport. The eleven children of James Ordway were
as follows : Ephraim, James, Jr., Edward. Sarah, John, Isaac,
Jane, Hannah, a child unnamed, Anne and Mary. (II) John, fifth child and fourth son of James and Anne (Emery) Ordway, born November 17, 1658, married, 1681, Mary, daughter of Peter God- frey, and they had ten children.
(III) James (2), third child of John and Mary (Godfrey) Ordway, was born July 4, 1687, and lived in Haverhill and Amesbury. He married, December 8, 1714, Elizabeth Heath, of Haverhill, and they had seven children, as follows: James, Moses, Elizabeth, Elizabeth and Sarah (twins), Jolın and Benjamin.
(IV) James (3), oldest child of James (2) and Elizabeth (Heath) Ordway, was born October 23, 1718. He married, September 23, 1740, Meribah Morse, daughter of Joseph Morse, of Newbury, and lived in Methuen. Their six children were: Meri- bah, Abiah, Daniel, James, Persis and Joses.
(V) Joses, fourth son and youngest child of James (3) and Meribah (Morse) Ordway, was born in Methuen, June 15, 1753. He was a soldier in Captain John Abbott's company in Major Gage's regiment of militia, September, 1777, in service in the northern army. It is said that he was present at Burgoyne's surrender. Joses and his brother Daniel removed to Loudon, New Hampshire, and settled. Their sister Persis had married Moses Ordway, Jr., and preceded them, and possibly in- duced them to locate in London. He was a farmer and built what is known as "the uncle Abiel house." He was a man of ability, honest, upright and much respected. He died of typhus fever, March 5, 1817. He married, April 13, 1794, Lucy Chamberlin, born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, March 16, 1766. She was the daughter of Abiel and Lois (Whitney) Chamberlin, the former born October 6, 1734, and died February 27, 1821, and the latter born Febru- 20, 1739. The children of Joses and Lucy (Chamberlin) Ordway were: Lucy, Lois, Sophia, Abiel, John C., Susan and Harriet.
(VI) John Chamberlin, fifth child and second son of Joses and Lucy ( Chamberlin) Ordway, was born in Loudon, Tuesday, November 3, 1801, and died in Concord, March 5. 1870. When John was sixteen years old his father died. When the prop- erty was divided John had as his portion what was known as "Merrick Farm." and cultivated it some years, his sister Susan keeping house for him. Ahont 1824 he went to Boston and to Quincy, Massachu- setts. At the latter place he was for a year or more in the employ of ex-President John Adams, assisting him in his correspondence, driving out with him, and so on. He was with Mr. Adams when he died. Returning to New Hampshire, Mr. Ordway was in London and Coneord. For some time he was in the store of Isaac Frye Williams, in Concord, and afterwards for many years was engaged in the butcher business, buying and selling hides, tallow, etc. The Concord Directory of 1830 records "Ord- way & Richardson, butchers, Main st," residence corner of State and Capitol Center. He and Ben- jamin Grover were late proprietors of a livery stable. He had a homestead on Center street, where
John C. Ordway.
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he died, and the last twenty years of his life owned and cultivated q _| 1 " the intervale. In poli+: r , and Republican,
., and was an active politician. He never sought office but was for some years assessor of taxes in ward five. He suffered serious losses of property at several different times by the failure of persons for whom he had gone surety at the bank. He was a member of the First Congregational Church, having united with that society in 1829. He sang in the choir for some years in early life. "He was honest, upright, generous, kindhearted, a good friend and a loving father."
He married, at Concord, April 29, 1829, Louisa Waldo Bohonon, daughter of Moses and Lois ( Waldo) Bohonon, born in Salisbury., October 28, 1802, died in Concord, November 28, 1880. She taught school in early life and came to Concord in 1827. At the time of her death she was one of the oldest members of the North Congregational Church. "She was a singularly devoted and self- sacrificing mother, a true and constant friend; all who came under her influence loved her deeply." The children of this union were: Harriet Sherman, born March 16, 1830. Ellen Louisa, December 27, 1831. Eliza Frances, December 29, IS33. John Chamberlin, Jr., mentioned below. The eldest is still living in Concord. The second was the wife of Jaines Sedgley, and resided in Cleveland, Ohio.
(VII) John Chamberlin, fourth child and only son of Captain John C. and Louisa Waldo (Bo- honon) Ordway, was born in Concord, January 30, 1839. He was educated in the public and private schools of Concord, and in Hopkinton Academy, 1853-55. He began active business life at the age of seventeen years, in 1856, as a telegrapher, and was stationed at St. Albans, Vermont, for some years, and at Montreal and other points for a shorter time. He continued in that service until the fall of 1859, when he returned to Concord, and entered the counting room of Lewis Downing & Sons, with whom he remained for about two years. In 1861, at the beginning of the war, he re-engaged in the telegraph service, and after rapid promotions was. at the close of that year, appointed manager of the northern line of telegraph in Boston, in which position he continued until the lease of the latter company's interests to the Western Union Company in 1866. He continued with the latter company in charge of the former department until 1870, when he resigned to accept a position as chief of the mo- tive power and rolling stock department of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, at Cleveland, Ohio. This position he held thirteen years, until 1883, when on account of greatly im- paired health he resigned his position, retired from active business, and after a short sojourn in the south for his health, returned to Concord, where he passed the remainder of his life. He was for many years one of the trustees of the New Hamp- shire Savings Bank, and a member of its executive committee from 1891 till his death. He served as a member of the board of aldermen four years, 111-2
ISS7-1890, inclusive, and as a member of the board of education from March, 1888, until April, 1903. and was president of the board from November, 1895, to April, 1900, "during which time he was fortunate enough to see many of his excellent ideas carried into effect." He was one of the contrib- utors to the "History of Concord," published in 1903, in which his three chapters on the public and private schools of the city formed one of the most interesting portions of the work, being "clear and charming in diction and full and accurate in facts." He was a member of the New Hampshire Histori- cal Society, and had been secretary of that associa- tion since 1891. He was a member of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, and filled the office of state registrar for some years. For two years, 1891-93, he was secretary of the Commercial Club. He was a firm believer in the principles of the Re- publican party. which he uniformly supported.
Mr. Ordway won success in spite of obstacles, and it was to his persistent energy and unvarying courtesy that he owed in large measure the results he accomplished. When a child of five years he was attacked with hip disease from which he suf- fered for the remainder of his life, being compelled after his partial recovery from it to walk with a cane. An incident illustrates his ambition and push. In 1849, when ten years old, he says, in a sketch he left, he had the California gold fever, and with Joe Grover, started for that Eldorado, but walked only to Hoosett, eight miles, where his father overtook the pair and returned them to Concord.
John C. Ordway married, October 2, 1871, Sarah J. Adams, daughter of Rev. Elisha Adams, D. D. (see Adams VII), born in Corinth, Vermont, Feb- ruary 1, 1844. They had two daughters, Mary Adams, married Charles E. Morton; and Louise Adams, a teacher in the Concord High School.
MANNING The ancestors of the present ment- bers of the Manning families, early founded in this country, were from England, where representatives of the general fam- ily had long been numerous. It is claimed that British records, published by order of parliament, show that the name occurred in twenty-two counties in the Kingdom as early as the year 1272. The predecessors of these early inhabitants went to England from what is now Germany. All English- men of the present time make this statement. The accounts differ slightly as to the particular conti- mental province whence their ancestors came, but nine-tenths of them unite in saying that the family is of Saxon origin. In Hasted's Kent (county of Kent, England), published in 1797, occurs the fol- lowing reference to the Mannings: "They are said to be descended from an ancient and noble family which took its name from Manning ( Manheim), a town in Saxony, whence they came to England be- fore the Conquest."
In the Colonial wars the Mannings were repre- sented by nineteen persons bearing their name; on the rolls of the Revolution fifty-two appear; in the
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war of 1812, sixteen; in the war of the Rebellion, eighty; and in the Spanish war, six ;- an indispu- table evidence of the patriotism and fighting quali- ties of the family. In many other ways honors have come to the name through those who have been high in church and state, science and art, and the three learned professions of law, medicine and divinity.
(I) William Manning, the ancestor of this ex- tensive family, came to America about the year 1634, or before. Whence he came has not been learned, but as the Mannings had long been a nu- merous family in England, and as he came conteni- poraneously with the migration of other emigrants from that country, it is certain that he was from a branch of that ancient family. After living in Rox- bury, Massachusetts, a short time he went to Cam- bridge, where he may have been a merchant. He was the owner of a house and of other lots of land, but when he bouglit and sold is not known in full. William Manning was a freeman in 1640. His will is dated February 17, 1665, and proved April 28, 1666. He had removed to Boston as early as Au- gust 25, 1664, when he became connected with the church there, and perhaps earlier.
The name of his first wife, whom he married in England, is not known. She was the mother of his children, and died on the voyage to America. He married (second) Susannah , of whom we know no more than that she died in Cambridge, October 16, 1650. He married (third), perhaps at Boston, Elizabeth - He had two children : William, born in England in 1614, and Hannah ( ?).
(II) William, son of William Manning, was born about 1614, in England, came to the colony of Massachusetts Bay in or before the year 1634, and settling in the latter year in Cambridge, made that town his home throughout the remainder of his life. He early purchased a homestead and other land, and engaged in business as a merchant, a calling he followed throughout his life. This enter- prise was not, however, limited to the mnere selling of goods, for he owned a warehouse and a boat- house on a canal to which boats had free access. Early in life he became one of the most prominent and trusted citizens of the town, and was often called to public offices of trust. He was clected highway surveyor, 1651, and the same year "to size casks," or as a gauger ; constable 1652, '66, "68, '75 '79, and selectinan, 1652, '66-70, '72, '75-81, '83, or a total of fifteen years. His name also frequently appears in connection with different public affairs. IIc often filled offices in connection with the settle- ment of estates. Ile was a freeman in 1643; he was as early as that date a member of the church. After the death of Rev. Mr. Mitchell, in 1668, Mr. Manning was selected by the church to go to Eng- land to prevail upon Rev. Urian Oakes to come to Cambridge and accept the vacant pastorate, and this mission he performed. The most important trust of his life was in connection with, Harvard College, he having been selected, with Deacon John Cooper as an associate, to replace the old college building with
a new one, and to receive and disburse the fund for this purpose. This was in 1682 and the final ac- counting was made in 1684. Each steward received twenty-five pounds for his work. He was one of the inhabitants of Cambridge to whom the Shaw- shin, or Billerica territory, was granted in 1644, he being alloted sixty acres, and who joined in the "great deed" of 1650, conveying it to the Billerica settlers. He left at the time of his death an estate of one hundred sixty-three pounds, two shillings and nine pence, free of all debts and expenses ; and had, during his life time, distributed among his chil- dren three hundred and eight pounds, three shillings and seven pence.
He married Dorothy He and his wife were buried in the now old cemetery of Harvard Square, and the headstones to their graves remain in good condition. They record that William Man- ning died March 14, 1690, aged seventy-six, and Dorothy, his wife, died July 26, 1692, aged eighty years. Their children were : Hannah, Samuel, Sarah, Abigail, John, Mary and perhaps Timothy.
(III) Samuel, oldest son and second child of William and Dorothy Manning, was born July 21, 1644, at Cambridge. He was reared in his native town, and seems to have received a superior educa- tion. Between the years 1664 and 1666 he removed to Billerica, where he afterward resided. His first home was at the northern part of the village, which was the same as the present "Center" village, but at a later period he removed and occupied a farm west of the Concord river. Twice the Indians raided the town and killed some of his neighbors. He was corporal in the militia in 1682, sergeant in 1684, and ensign in 1699. The town elected him to nearly all the offices within the power to bestow. He was surveyor of highways, 1668, 1676-77; sealer of weights and measures, 1675, 1700; constable 1677; trial juryman, 1679; assessor, 1694, 1698, 1702; tithingman, 1679, 1682, 1695. 1697, 1704, 1709, or twelve years; town clerk, 1686, 1690. 1692, 1699, or seven years; selectman, 1673, 1677, 1679, 1682, 1690, 1692, 1694, 1696, 1699, or eighteen years, and repre- sentative to the general court 1695-97. He was sur- veyor and at various times served on committees or alone to survey land, run lines and perform many other trusts and duties of a public nature. He was made a freeman of this colony in 1670. The house he erected on his homestead west of the Concord river still stands. He was a large holder of real estate, for on the death of his father he had become owner of the latter's homestead and warehouse in Cambridge. The large farm he owncd remained directly in the hands of his descendants, passing from father to son several times, until 1880, and is still held subject to the testamentary will of its latest Manning occupant.
Samuel Manning married (first), April 13, 1664, Elizabeth Stearns, daughter of Isaac Stearns, born at Watertown, died June 24. 1671, at Billerica. He married (second), May 6, 1673, Abiel Wight, daugh- ter of John Wight, born at Medfield, January 1, 1654, who died some time after July 3, 1713. Sam-
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uel Manning died at Billerica, February 22, 1711. The children by the first marriage were: Samuel and John, and by the second marriage, Timothy, Hannah, William, Mary, Sarah, Dorothy, Isaac, Ephraim, Elizabeth, Timothy, Eliphalet and Abiel.
(IV) Jolin, second child of Samuel and Eliza- betli (Stearns) Manning, was born August 30, 1666, at Billerica, where he lived for thirty years. He was a carpenter by trade. He took the oath of fidelity "18, 3m, 1685." Sometime between Novem- ber 18, 1696, and January 2. 1698, he removed to Cambridge, his subsequent home. He was elected to minor town offices in 1700 and 1708, and 1712, as tithingman, but was excused. In 1690 he was a soldier in the expedition to Canada led by Sir William Phips against the French in King William's war.
He married Sarah Spaulding, of Chelmsford, sister of his brother Samuel's wife. She was prob- ably born about 1670. John Manning died February 1719, at Cambridge. Children's names : John, Edward, William, Samuel, Benjamin and Sarah.
(V) William, third son of John and Sarah (Spaulding) Manning, was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 21, 1700, and spent his life there, his trade being that of cordwainer. He was a soldier under Captain Jolin Wright from May 5 to August 24, 1721 ; the service was doubtless against hostile Indians, and probably in Maine. From 1759 he was called lieutenant, in the records, which in- dicates that he was prominent in local military affairs in Cambridge, and had been elected to the above office. He served as highway surveyor, 1730; clerk of the market, 1732-35; constable, 1743. and "sworn in court," and sealer of leather, 1749-55-57, 1759-76, or twenty-two years, and for eighteen years continuously. He owned a place at the southeast corner of Winthrop and Brighton streets, which was his home at the time of his death. He died September 17, 1778. His "real and personal estate" was inventoried at four hundred and ninety pounds, twelve shillings and the "Mansion House and half a quarter of an acre of land with the buildings" at two hundred and twelve pounds "in silver money."
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