Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 108

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876

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(VI) Thomas (3), eldest son and second child of John and Sarah (Drake) Berry, was born in Chichester, October 13, 1805. The Berry home is situated on a very picturesque hill commanding an extensive view. The buildings, which are in good repair though over one hundred years old, were built of native timber cut on the place. Mr. Berry owns a farm of three hundred acres, and has a port- ible mill in use for cutting timber on the place as it is needed. His principal business is dairying. Ile has served his town as selectman and represen- tative to the legislature. Politically he is a Democrat ind religiously a Baptist His wife and her cousin, widow of Sylvester H. French, are the two oldest members of the First Baptist Church of Pittsfield. Mrs. Berry, who is now ninety-six years old. at- tributes her longevity to a strong and sound con- titution, plenty of fresh air and hard work. Her education was obtained in the district schools of 'Loudon, having to walk two miles to enjoy the privilege. She has been used to the spinning wheel and has woven in the loom. She still has a piece of embroidery on which the letters of the alpha- bet are wrought in silk, with the date of her birth at the bottom of the piece, as a memento of her school days. She has cooked with a fireplace and dipped candles after the oldtime custom. She reads without glasses, has a very retentive memory, and is spry for one at her advanced age.

Mr. Berry married Olive, daughter of Jonathan and Martha ( Clough ) Gove, of Loudon. New Hampshire, February 5. 1835. His wife was born September 9, 1810, and was the third child and daughter of her parents. Her father was born August, 1772, and died April 23, IS45. Her mother was born June 4. 1777. and died September 2, 1866. The date of their marriage was January, 1799. Their children were: Martha, born September IS, ISOI, married Jonathan Perkins. April 9. 1823: Ruth, Sep- tember 4. 1805. married William 'Leavitt. October, 1825; Olive, who married Thomas Berry ; Jona- than, September 21. 1812, died April 23, 1870; he married Mary Ann Sargent, March 13. 1845; and Sarah Ann. July 28, 1819, married Abiel F. French, February 7, 1838. The children of Thomas (3) and Olive (Gove) Berry are: Martha A., born May 24, 1838; John Hale, June 17. 1839: Hannah Brown, June 18, 1841, married, January 1. 1862, Joseph Porter, and died March 5. 1896; Alvah Clin- ton, February 7. 1844; Thomas Munroe, October 22, 1846: Jonathan Gove. April 10, 1849, and Edson Cummings, December 17. 1852.

(Second Family.) (I) Eliphalet Berry was born in Barn-

BERRY stead, in 1797, and died December 13,

1859. He married Elizabeth Locke, who was born in ISor, and died January 10, 1877. Their children were: Ira Locke. Eliza Ann, Lucy, and William II. Both of the daughters died young. William H. married Josephine Evans, who survived him. He enlisted August 15, and was mustered in as corporal August 30. 1862, in Company B. Twelfth New Hampshire Regiment, and died from wounds received May 3, 1863, in the battle of Chancellors- ville, Virginia. at Potomac Creek, Virginia, May 17, 1863.

(II) Ira Locke, eldest son and child of Eliphalet and Elizabeth (Locke) Berry, was born. 1829. in Barnstead. He received his education in the pub- lic schools of the town, a private school and Gilman- ton and Northfield academies. For a time he fol- lowed teaching in Barnstead and other towns in New Hampshire, also in Rhode Island. Returning to the old homestead, to which he had fallen heir, he served as selectman, and part of the time chair- man of the board. for fifteen successive years, also as county commissioner, and justice of the peace. His wife Lavina, daughter of Joseph Drew, a de- scendant of John Drew, was educated at Gilmanton and Northfield academies, and was a school teacher before marriage, and after marriage in Rhode Is- land. He died February 28. 1892. Their children were: Fred C. Berry; Lucy A .. who became a pop- ular school teacher, married J. W. Whitney. of Syracuse. New York, and is now a physician in Homer, New York: and Myra E., who married E. H. Shannon, of Laconia, New Hampshire.

(III) Fred E., eldest son and child of Ira Locke and Lavina (Drew) Berry. was born in Barn- stead. After attending the public schools he com- pleted his education at New Hampton Academy. He then worked for two years at Beverly. Massa- chusetts, in the express business. For the next seven years he was employed in mercantile business in Tampa, Florida. Returning north he was for a time associated with a box manufacturing company, at Saco, Maine. Returning to Barnstead. he has ever since occupied the old homestead comprising nearly three hundred acres, and has given special attention to the production of milk. He is a mem- ber of Liberty Lodge of Masons, of Beverly. Mas- sachusetts. and also of the Crystal Lake Grange. He married, March 27, 1890, Edith M., daughter of

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Charles L. and Julia A. (Tuck) Tarbox, of Bidde- ford, Maine, by whom he has had three children :

Helen J., Grace E., and Edith F.

The first Allard mentioned in the

ALLARD records of New Hampshire, is Hugh, who was in the state as early as 1674, and from him those of this sketch are probably descended.

(I) Henry Allard was one of the first settlers of Conway, and a pioneer millwright in that section of the state, where he was widely known as a mechanic. He married and had Stephen and James ( twins), Aaron, David, Robert Henry, Samuel, Gershom and daughters.

( II) Samuel Haven, son of Ilenry Allard, was born in Conway, 1784, and died June 22, 1878, aged ninety-four years. He cultivated a farm for some years in New Durham. He married Judith Fall, who was born in Bartlett, and died in Madison, 18,8, aged eighty-eight years. They had three sons : William. Samuel and James Madison, whose sketch next follows.

(III) James Madison, youngest son of Samuel H. and Judith (Fall) Allard, was born April 9, 1819, in that part of Eaton which is now Madison, and died in North Conway, March 24, 1888, aged sixty-nine. He learned the carpenter's trade and later settled in Conway, where he owned and culti- vated a farm and also worked at his trade. He maintained a standing above the average in his town and was elected constable and also selectman: January 2, 1839, he married Eleanor Howe Gile, who was born in Bethlehem. New Hampshire, daughter of Nathaniel and Lydia ( Hall) Gile, both natives of Enfield (see Gile, V). Eight children were born of this union : Ellen, born November 20, 1839, died young; Lydia G., born March 29, 1874, for many years a teacher in Conway; James Ver- non, December 28, 1875, died young : Charles Fifield, December 19, 1817, died young; Nelson, August 30, 1850, died December 28, 1865; Frederick, October 22, 1852, died February 26, 1872; Frank P., men- tioned below; and Clara Ellen, March 4, 1859, who died young.

(IV) Frank Pierce Allard was born on the Allard homestead in Conway, April 1, 1857, son of James MI. and Eleanor Howe (Gile) Allard. After completing his studies in the common schools he devoted his energies almost entirely to agriculture, but in 1890, he began to deal quite extensively in farm implements, and for a number of years spent a large part of his time in travelling in the interests of his business. He is a Democrat and served as deputy sheriff of Carroll county eight years, is a member of North Conway Lodge. No. 21, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and also of Pe- quawket Grange, No. 146. Patrons of Husbandry, and of Ilighland Lodge, Knights of Pythias. He is a Past Noble Grand of North Conway Lodge and a past master of Pequawket Grange. Frank Pierce Allard married, July 3, 1878, Clara Ella Martin, who was born in Jackson, New Hampshire, September 16, 1858, daughter of Alfred and Betsey (Keniston) Martin. Alfred Martin was born in Portsmouth, February 8, 1817, and was a carpenter and farmer. He resided in Jackson. then he re- moved to Conway, where he died in 1877. He married, March 1, 1841, Betsey Keniston, daughter of James and Lydia (Randall) Keniston, of Con- way. Eight children were born to them: James G., now of Allston, Massachusetts, who married Anna Kenny, and has five children: Emily, who died young; Almira O., who married Samuel Hoyt,

and died in 1875, leaving three children; Josephine R., who married Charles S. Meserve, and died in September, 1872, leaving one son; Lucy A., who died young; Oscar W., who died young; Clara E., men- tioned above; and one other, who died in infancy. To Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Allard three children have been born : Roger M., Frederick E., and Eleanor. Roger M., born October 30, 1880, was educated at the Brewster Free Academy of Wolfboro. He married Edith M. Currier of Eaton, New Hampshire, September 19, 1905. Ile is a carpenter by trade and lives in North Conway. Frederick Earl, December 25, 1882, died young; Eleanor, was born September 5, 1900. They have also an adopted daughter, Myra Hoyt Allard, a daughter of Mrs. Allard's deceased sister, Almira Martin Hoyt. She is a graduate of Brewster Free Academy, took a special course of study at the Boston University, and is now a well known and successful school teacher.

(V) Nathaniel, second son and child of Noah and Elizabeth (Howe) Gile, was born at Enfield, July 8, 1777, and died in Conway April 8, 1840, aged sixty-three. He devoted the principal part of his life to agriculture. In religious faith he was a Baptist, and sustained a good reputation among church people and in the community where he re- sided. In 1802 he married Lydia Hall, daughter of Ezekiel and Mary (Leonard) Hall, of Enfield. She was born June 23, 1780, and died October S, 1852, aged seventy-two. They had seven children : John Hall, Reuben, Clarimond, Mary Leonard, Noah, Lydia and Eleanor Howe.

(VI) The last mentioned was born February 21, 1817, and married, January 2, 1839, James Madison Allard ( see Allard, III).

TROW The Trow family is one whose descend- ants will be found scattered throughout various sections of New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, and some of them have wandered west, and have been successfully engaged in farming and various industries there. Joseph and Jesse Trow, brothers, were among the early settlers in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire, and an- other brother settled in Goshen, New Hampshire, and all the Trows of that place are his descendants. The Trows in Vermont are descendants of the brothers who settled in Mont Vernon, New Hamp- shire.

(1) Josiah Trow, the first of whom we have nitich recorded information, was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. May 31, 1773. He had a brother who came to Sunapee, New Hampshire, and later removed to that portion of Massachusetts which is near the junction of New Hampshire and Vermont, and had a son who was a physician. Another brother in Beverly had a daughter, Emma, who married - Jackson. Josiah Trow came to Sunapee. New Hampshire, in the spring of 1796, and cleared twenty acres of land where he later built a log house, and about five years later a frame house in which he resided until his death. By means of industry, fru- gality and thrift he subsequently acquired several more parcels of land. Ile returned to Beverly in the winter of 1796, and remained until the follow- ing spring. when he went back to Sunapee, and com- meneed the cultivation of his land, planting ten acres with corn. and ten acres with rye. His death oc- curred in the last days of November, 1847. He married, March. 1797, Mary Smith, and had chil- dren: 1. Hepzibah, who married her cousin, Wil- liam Trow, of Beverly (see William Trow). They had children: William. Mary, Francis, Emma, and

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two who died in childhood. 2. William, born Au- gust 23, 1799, married Mehitable Perkins, and had children: Warren, married Ruth Davis and had a large family. Perkins, who married three times. 3. Francis, born February 17, 1802. married a Miss Davis, sister of Mrs. Warren Trow, and had five children. 4. Nathan, born March 28, 1804, mar- ried a Miss Chose, and after the death of his wife he and his sons removed to the west. His children are : Elihu and Anthony, who raised a large family. 5. Mary, born April 2, 1807, married Francis Smith, and had no children. 6. John, born May 18, 1809, died August 24, 1887. He married Hannah D. Smith, born December 14. 1815, died September I, 1904. Their children were: James F., born Octo- ber 30, 1840. married Mary Bean and had children : Emma S., born October 24, 1864, married Daniel Rollins, of Sunapee, and had one son who died a few years ago; Frank J .. born June 8, 1866, mar- ried Sara Abbott, lives in Worcester, Massachusetts, and has four children. John S., born October 5, 1844, owns and resides on the farm of his grand- father. Married Jennie Lear and has no children. Joseph H., born October 14, 1847. is a Methodist preacher in Henniker. He married (first) June 28, 1876, Ettie W. Votney ,who died May 11, 1877. He married ( second ), June 3, 1886. Julia Estelle Locke, who died December 10, 1886. He married (third), September 17, 1889, Mrs. Hattie (Harriman) Clark, and his children: Henry G., born October 8, 1890; Grace E., February 10, 1892, died June 12, 1895: and Alberta E., June 2. 1894. died February 2. 1896. Mary Ellen, born December 21, 1849, married Rev. Edward Perkins in ISSI. They have three children ; Henry Edward, Wesley and Earnest. Eliza,

born June 7. ISIL, married Abraham Davis and had children: Frank and Elizabeth. 8. Emma, born April 28, 1813, died in infancy. 9. Josiah, born No- vember 13. 1814. married a Miss Osborn, and had a number of children. 10. James, born January I, 1818, was twice married, and by his first wife had a daughter, Serena, who married a Mr. Stone. resides in Lynn, Massachusetts, and has a number of children.

(11) William, son of Josiah and Mary Trow. was born in 1704. He married Hepseby Trow, his cousin (see Josiah. I), who was born in 1797 and died September 27, 1847. William Trow died March 22, 1875.

(111) James Warren, son of William and Hepseby ( Trow) Trow, was born at the Trow home- stead on Trow Hill, Sunapee, New Hampshire, June 24, 1814. He was raised on the farm, and his education was limited to a few months of district school in the winter. He learned the carpenter trade and later engaged in the saw mill and shingle mill business. He binlt mills in Sunapee and Croy- don, New Hampshire. He was well known as a lumber man, and dealt extensively in the rough and finished product. He came to Newport, New Hampshire, in 1874. James Warren Trow married Ruth A. Davis, daughter of Eli and Eunice ( Pin- gree) Davis. of Sunapee, New Hampshire. They formerly lived in Springfield, New Hampshire. Ruth was born December 10, 1820. James W. and Ruth (Davis) Trow had six children. Elvina, died young ; Willis W, who-e sketch follows. Alice A., born in June, 1852, married Edward A. Todd, and lives in New London. New Hampshire. William Henry. born March 15, 1855. died April 3. 1875. Anna MI., born December 9. 1860, married William Locke, of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Chester E .. born April 28, 1867, lives at Sunapee, New Hampshire, a mem- ber of the Trow Lumber Company. James Warren

Trow died April 5. 1875. His wife died, 1904. Both are buried in the Eastman cemetery at Sunapee.

(IV) Willis W., eldest son and second child of James Warren and Ruth A. (Davis) Trow, was born on the family homestead at Sunapee, New Hampshire, January 30, 1851. His early educational opportunities were limited. When about eleven years of age he began working in a saw-mill and he grew up in the mill business. In 1897 he came to Sunapee Harbor, New Hampshire, and established himself in a saw-mill on Main street, near where he is located at present. He conducts business on a large scale, and in 1904-05, over two hundred thous- and feet of rough lumber was purchased and dressed. During 1905-06 saw-mill machinery was added and the firm now manufactures all kinds of building sup- plies needed to complete a house. During 1906 from six to seven car loads were handled. Willis W. Trow has been twice married. His first wife was Nettie A. Sawyer. daughter of John B. and Julia A. (Copp) Sawyer, of Sunapee. New Hamp- shire. She was born March 18, 1854. Her father was born September 10. 1817, and her mother was born May 25. 1820. Willis W. and Nettie A. (Saw- yer) Trow had one son, Harlen .A., whose sketch follows. Mrs. Trow died in 1897, and Willis W. Trow married for his second wife Eliza A. Tucker. daughter of Joseph Tucker. Before her marriage she was a popular and successful school teacher and is still teaching. Both Mr. and Mrs. Trow are mem- bers of the Methodist Church at Sunapee. Mr. Trow belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. (V) Harlen A., only son of Willis W. and Nettie A. (Sawyer) Trow, was born at Sunapee, New Hampshire, October 12, 1879. He was educated in the public schools of Sunapee, graduated in the class of 1897, and then took a business course in Boston. He completed his education at the Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire. He left there during his senior year and lived in Bos- ton for a year, and then returned to Sunapee and went to work in the mill with his father. He is now superintendent of the mill, and junior member of the Trow Lumber Company. On June 10. 1903, he married Bertha Choat, daughter of A. E. Choat, of Henniker, New Hampshire. She was born in Bradford, New Hampshire.

This is an old New England

WILLOUGIIBY family, and was founded in this country by Francis Willough- by, who was a deputy governor of the Massachus- etts colony.

(II) Nehemiah. son of Governor Francis Wil- loughby, was born June 18, 1644.

(111) Jehin, son of Nehemiah Willoughby, was born December 11, 1638.

(1V) It is suggested by some genealogists that John (2) Willoughby was a son of John (1), but no documentary evidence has been produced to es- tablish this. John (2) Willoughby was a resident of Billerica, Massachusetts, from 1735 to 1745. In the last named year he removed to HIollis, New Hampshire, and two years later established his residence on the west side of Pine Hill in that town. He died there February 2, 1703. He was married in Billerica, March 27, 1735, to Anna Chamberlain, who was born April 3. 1712, a daughter of John and Margaret ( Gould) Chamberlain of Billerica. He was married second in Hollis, June 28, 1774, to Elizabeth Sprague, who was born June 20. 1727, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Burge) Sprague. This name appears in the Hollis record

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as Sprake. He had six children born in Billerica, and six in Hollis. He was one of the grantees of Plymouth, New Hampshire, and was one of the exploring party which visited the territory in 1762. (V) Susanna, daughter of John (2) and Anna ( Chamberlain) Willoughby, was born May 26, 1744, in Billerica, and became the wife of Jonathan Powers of Hollis. (See Powers, III.)

Charles A. Downs, was horn in South

DOWNS Norwalk, Connecticut, May 21, 1823. His father, Horatio Nelson Downs, was of Irish decent, born in Trumbull. Connecticut. and was named after the great English admiral of that name. His mother's family name was Burritt, a relative of Elihu Burritt. "the learned blacksmith." His maternal ancestry descended from John Bouton, a French Huguenot who came to America in 1635, and from Thomas Benedict, who came in 1638, said to be the last of his name in England and the first in the United States. He was prominent in colonial affairs, both civil and military. Mr. Downs was married November 22. IS48. to Helen K. Sey- mour. of Lanesboro. Massachusetts, a daughter of Captain Levi Seymour, of that town, and a grand- daughter of Captain Seth Seymour, who served in the Revolutionary war. Six children have been born to them, five of whom are now living, one son dying when quite young. Four sons-Charles A., Jr., Eugene S., Clarence H. and Allan B., reside in Leb- anon, and their only daughter. Anna K. Durkee, lives in Corona, California.

Mr. Downs was highly favored with a strong constitution and robust health, and was naturally of a studious turn. He attended the schools and academy in his native town, and after spending one year at the Oneida (New York) Institute, he went to Concord, New Hampshire, to attend the Concord Literary Institution and Female Seminary, and live in the family of his maternal uncle, Rev. Nathaniel Bouton. D. D., a noted preacher and historian, who doubtless exerted a lasting influence in shaping the mind of his nephew and pupil. In this school Mr. Downs fitted for college, and was associated with John H. George, Isaac Andrew IIill. Amos Hadley, Moses Woolson, John J. and Samuel N. Bell. Mellen Chamberlain, John B. Bouton and other celebrities. After his course in Concord he entered Dartmouth College, and remained something over a year, when he transferred himself to the University of the City of New York, taking there the same grade he had held at Dartmouth, and was graduated in 1845. We find in a leading New York City paper the follow- ing in reference to Mr. Downs' graduation in 1845: "English salutatory address by Charles A. Downs. with whose principal features the memorable Burns being associated, it commanded a most close and reverential hearing. The young orator chose and handled his subject well." On leaving the Univer- sity, Mr. Downs began at once the study of his profession in the Union Theological Seminary of New York, and graduated in 1847. Almost imme- diately or to be exact. July 5, 1848, he went to Lebanon as a candidate for the pastorate of the Congregational Church, and was duly installed in that office November 22. 1849, being the fourth pas- tor of the Church. He succeeded Rev. Phineas Cook, who had served the church for nineteen years. A considerable number of members were about to withdraw to form a church at West Leb- anon, but Mr. Downs at once commanded the re- spect and confidence of the community : his elo- quence. equanimity and good judgment were soon recognized. The church increased in numbers rapidly,

and was soon one of the strongest in this section . of the state. He remained pastor for a quarter of a century, when the connection was severed at his own request. October 23, 1873, after a council had once declined to recommend it, his pastorate being the second longest in the existence of the church. During his connection with this church he received all the ecclesiastical honors that could be bestowed. He was moderator of the General Association of Congregational and Presbyterian churches, held at Rochester, New Hampshire, in 1871, preached the annual sermon, and was chosen a delegate to the National Council held in Oberlin, Ohio, the same ycar.

Rev. C. A. Downs was a man of many-sided tal- cnts ; his thorough education and natural gifts made liis sermons, public addresses and contributions to the press models of clear cut statements, arranged in logical order. It was but a natural sequence that a man with his varied acquirements and well-known public spirit should be called upon to take part in matters outside his profession. He was a delegate to the State Convention that nominated Ralph Met- calf for governor, and on that occasion made a vigorous speech that was highly complimented by the active men of that day. In 1864 and 1865 he represented Lebanon in the general court as a mem- ber of the house of representatives, and made the nominating speech in the caucus that chose Hon. Aaron H. Cragin a candidate for United States senator. He was for some time secretary of the board of education when the system of county commissioners of education was in operation. His duties called him into every county in the state, and his experiences in "boarding round" will hard- ly find a parallel in those of the teachers of olden times, for he had to shiver in the best beds all about the state. His addresses on geography at the Teachers' Institutes are mentioned in high terms. He was among the first to urge ventilation and proper attention to hygiene in our schools. In 1876 he was appointed by the governor and council to be state superintendent of public instruction, and ad- ministered the office faithfully and with credit to himself and the state. He served many years as town superintendent of schools. and many a can- didate who appeared before him for a certificate of qualification to teach will testify to his useful hints on teaching, "not found in the books." Besides his offices connected particularly with education, he served as selectman. town treasurer, precinct clerk and treasurer. clerk of police court, police judge, and town clerk.

In his taste for research, he accomplished much labor in indexing records: arranging old documents and similar work. He was a civil engineer of more than ordinary skill, owing largely to his taste for mathematics, and in this capacity had much to do with laying out the streets and highways in this section, fixing land lines and important sur- veys for the Northern railroad and was fre- quently called as an expert in court disputes. For many years he made a study of sanitary sub- jects and for a long time served as chairman of the local board of health. being often called upon to act promptly, fearlessly and firmly to prevent the spread of contagious disease.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 108

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876