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 115

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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(III) Edwin A. Cook. M D .. only child of David IL. and Sarah L. (Willoughby) Cook, was bw rn in Columbia, New Hampshire, October 20, 1870. He was educated in the public schools of Leaming- ton, Vermont, and the Academy at Colebrook. New Hampshire, and from the latter school went to Balti more. where he completed his medical studies and received the degree of M. D from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in April, 1802 Immedi- ately afterward he opened an office in Colebrook where he has since established a successful and con- stantly growing practice. He is a prominent mem- ber of the Coos County Medie. I Society, and has

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prepared and read various interesting papers at its meetings. He is a member of Excelsior Lodge, No. 73, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which he is a past grand; and of Colebrook Lodge, No. 35, Knights of Pythias, of which he is a past chancellor. He married October 10, 1901, Maude A. (Hurlbert) Hammond, who was born in Clarks- ville, New Hampshire, 1881, daughter of Gilman and Amanda Hurlbert, and widow of Guy S. Ham- mond, of Colebrook. They have one child, David Hurlbert, who was born in Colebrook, September 18, 1905.

AMEN .A family of Huguenots of this name removed from France to Switzerland, where descendants still reside. Some have held high public offices in recent years, one of them filling the presidency of Cantons, the highest office in the gift of the people of Switzerland. Durst Ammen entertained opinions on matters of religion and politics that were incompatible with those of the higher powers in Switzerland, and he removed to America about 1750. His descendants, Ammen and Amen by name. have resided princi- pally in Virginia and Ohio. Admiral Daniel Ammen and General Jacob Ammen are representatives of the Virginia and Ohio family.

Harlan Page, son of Daniel and Sarah Jane (Barber) Amen, was born at Sinking Springs, High- land county, Ohio, April 14, 1853. . He received his early education in the schools of Sinking Springs and in the high school at Portsmouth, Ohio. His edu- cation beyond that afforded by the common schools was dependent entirely upon his own efforts; while a pupil at the Portsmouth high school he supported himself by working as a stock boy and as a book- keeper in a wholesale and retail bookstore. After leaving the high school, he was employed as a clerk in a bookstore for two years, during which time he devoted all his spare moments to study, thereby gaining the good will and encouragement of in- fluential persons, among whom were his former school principal at Portsmouth, Ohio, and the phys- ican of his native town. In 1872 he entered Phillips Academy at Exeter, New Hampshire, with only thirty-five dollars in his pocket, and supported him- self there by various forms of work, including pri- vate tutoring, which enabled him not only to meet his expenses promptly, but also to lay up something for future needs. In his senior year at Exeter he won the Gordon scholarship amounting to one hundred and twenty dollars, the second largest prize then existing in the school, gaining it in close com- petition with William DeWitt Hyde, now president of Bowdoin College, who was his room-mate at the academy and in college. He graduated from Phil- lips-Exeter in 1875, and the same year entered Har- vard University with honors. where he won a schol- arship in each year of his course. In 1879 he grad- nated with the degree of A. B., and went to Pough- keepsie, New York, where he taught the classics, mathematics, and English in the Riverview Academy mintil 1882: he in that year became associated with Otis and Joseph B. Pisbee, in the management of the bisiness affairs of the academy, and continued to teach Latin and Greek During the sixteen years, 1870-05. the attendance at Riverview, which prior to 1880 had been constantly decreasing. increased from forty-one to one hundred and eighty-four pupils During the last ten years of Mr. Amen's connection with the school, that is between 1885 and 1805, Otis Bisbee having died in the former year, Mr. Amen and Joseph B. Bisbee were equal prin- cipals and proprietors. In the latter yorr Mr. Amen

became principal of Phillips-Exeter Academy and professor of Latin, and has since filled that position. His administration has been highly successful, and the academy continues to sustain the rank that has elicited from most competent judges unstinted praise of its work.

In 1886 Mr. Amen received from Williams Col- lege the honorary degree of A. M. In 1888 he was elected an honorary member of the American Whig Society of Princeton University. He is a member of the Harvard Twilight and University clubs, of New York; the Appalachian Mountain, University, Twentieth Century, and New Hampshire clubs of Boston; the American Archaeological Institute; the American Philological Society ; the American His- torical Association : the New England Association of Colleges and Preparatory Schools, of whose ex- ecutive committee he was a member from 1896 to 1006, and of which he was vice-president, 1904-06, and president 1906-08: he was also for many years member of the executive committee of the Head- Masters' Association of the United States; member and officer of various educational and civic organi- zations. He was president in 1900 of the Harvard Teachers' Association ; president the same year of the New Hampshire Association of Academic Teach- ers! and was made an associate member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati in 1905. He has been a member of the Presbyterian Church since 1880, and in 1890 was ordained an elder in that church. He is a trustee of various funds and prop- erties, including the Phillips Exeter Academy. the Joseph C. Hilliard Estate, the Exeter Cottage Hos- pital, the Pious Use Fund of the Second Parish, etc. He holds other important fiduciary positions. In 1802 Mr. Amen spent four months on a trip abroad, visiting the public schools of England, Rugby, Eton, Harrow, Winchester, St. Paul's, Chel- tenham, Charterhouse. and others, as well as a num- her of the leading secondary schools of Germany and France. He visited Europe again in 1900, spending the greater part of the time in the mountainous sections of Bavaria, Germany, Switzerland, and Northern Italy.

He married, in Whitinsville. Massachusetts. April 5. 1882, Mary B. Rawson, who was born in Whitinsville, July 24. 1858, daughter of George Warren and Susan E. Rawson. Four children have been born to them: Margaret Rawson, Elizabeth Wheeler, Rachel Perne and John Harlan.

The Maxfields are of English de-

MAXFIELD scent and the first of the name in America was John Maxfield, who was assessed in Salisbury, Massachusetts, for the first time in 1652, purchased the right to commonage there in 1692 and died suddenly December 10, 1703. The christian name of his wife was Elizabeth, and he was the father of eight children. Although the posterity of the Salisbury settler is quite numerous there seems to be no available source from which to glean the necessary information even for a brief summary of their family history.

(I) - Maxfield, a descendant of the above- mentioned John, was a prosperous farmer of Gilman- ton, New Hampshire. residing in that part of the town which is now Belmont. He married and was the failier of Arthur Livermore Maxfield, late of Ashuelot, and the grandfather of Samnel Willis- ton Maxfield, of that town.

(II) Arthur Livermore, son of - Maxfield, was born in Gilmanton, August 31. 1818. When sixteen years old he left the homestead farm and went to Lowell, Massachusetts, where he obtained

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employment in the cotton mill of the Boott Corpora- tion, beginning in the humble capacity of a bobbin boy and advancing in the short space of ten years to the position of an overseer. About the year 1844 he went to Ilallowell, Maine, as overseer of a cotton factory, but after remaining there a few months ac- cepted a similar position at Chicopee Falls, Massa- chusetts, and during his ten years' stay in that town was the first expert in America to instruct Irish girls in the art of weaving. Going to Holyoke, Massachusetts, he occupied the position of paymaster at the Hampden Mills for the succeeding decade, and at its conclusion organized the company and erected the Holyoke Warp Mills, with which he was identified for a number of years. From Holyoke he went to West Swanzey as superintendent bf the Stratton Mills, and while there introduced the manu- facttire of cotton warp. He subsequently organized the Ashuelot Warp Company, placed' it in success- ful operation and directed its affairs with ability for the remainder of his life, which terminated in Ashuelot, August 24, 1890. He married Orissa An- derson and had a family of nine children, namely : Mary Anna, Orissa (who died in early childhood), George A., Ella, Sadie B., Susan M., Samuel W., Fred G., and another child who died in infancy.

(III) Samuel Williston, seventh child and eldest son of Arthur L. and Orissa ( Anderson) Maxfield. was born in Holyoke. May 14, 1859. He attended the public schools of Holyoke, West Swanzey, and Ashuelot, and concluded his studies at the Saxtons River (Vermont) Academy. His training for active life was directed by his father in the Ashuclot Warp Mills, where he rose to a position of responsibility and trust, and he is at the present time a leading spirit in the management of that enterprise, which is one of the most important industrial establishments in that town. Mr. Maxfield is a prime factor in the local Republican party organization, being a mem- ber of the Republican town committee and has been supervisor of the check-list. Mr. Maxfield is and has been for several years associate justice of the police court of Winchester. He affiliates with the Masonic Order and the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks. On November 18, 1905, he married Vera Alice Wilkins, of Ludlow. Vermont. She is the daughter of Franklin M. Wilkins, and her mother was before marriage Cordelia E. Cobleigh.

This name has been written Hutch- HUCKINS ins, Huckins, Huckens and Huggins, the first being the common form, though it is probable that all are more or less in- terchangeahle. Thomas Huckins, the first American ancestor hearing the name, was born in 1617, and came to Boston or its vicinity before he was twenty- one. He was one of the twenty-three original men- bers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com- pany chartered in 1638, and in 1630 bore its standard, a distinguished honor in those days. A few years later he moved to Barnstable, where he was con- stable in 1646 and for many years afterward; on the board of selectmen for eight years between 1668 and 1678; and deputy to the colony court eight times between 1660 and 1678. He held many other town and colonial offices, and on October 4. 1675, was ap- pointed commissary general of the colony, and had the sole management of procuring the supplies and forwarding them to the soldiers engaged in the In- dian war. He owned a wharf, and was one of the partners that hired the Cape Cod fisheries. He held a large amount of real estate, was a member of Mr. Lothrop's Church, and seems to have been a man of prominence and standing in every way. Thomas

Huckins was twice married, his first wife being Mary, daughter of Isaac Wells, of Barnstable, to whom he was tinited in 1642. She bore three daughters, lydia, Mary and Elizabeth. and died July 28. 1648. On November 3 of that year, Thomas Iluckins married the Widow Rosa Hyllier, of Yar- mouth, who bore him four children : John, Thomas, Hannah and Joseph. Thomas Huckins and his son Joseph perished in a gale November 9. 1679, the former being in his sixty-second year, and the latter aged twenty-four.

Another early Huckins. who may or may not have been related to the Barnstable family, was James Huckins, of Durham, New Hampshire, whose father was named Robert, who was constable in 1683, had an eldest son Robert, and was killed by the Indians in August. 1689. Still another New Hampshire Iluckins was Robert, who was in Dover in 1649, and had an only son named James. There is little doubt that the following line, owing to the similarity of Christian names, is descended from one of the three families just mentionel, but there is a gap in the early records.

(I) Deacon James Huckins, son of Robert Huck- ins, was born October 14, 1746. He lived at Barn- stead. New Hampshire, then at Gilmanton, and final- ly at New Hampton, where he died in 1838, at the age of ninety-two. The name of his wife is un- known : but among their children was Robert, whose sketch follows.

(II) Robert, son of Deacon James Huckins, was born May 25, 1775. and lived most of his life in New Hampton, New Hampshire, where he was a prosperous farmer and accumulated quite a prop- erty for that time, leaving an estate valued at three thousand dollars. He was twice married and had seventeen children in all, fourteen by the first and three by the second marriage. Robert Huckins's first wife was Deborah Gordon, born December 17, 1781, who died February 28, 1819. aged thirty-seven years. They had fourteen children: Rebecca, Abi- gail M., Eliphalet, Jonathan, Thomas, James, Nancy, Susan, Polly, Jonathan G .. Henry, Deborah, Stephen P. and Orlando. It is probable that several of these children died in infancy. The second wife of Rob- ert Huckins was Abigail Mudgett, and they had three children: Orlando, Stephen and Deborah. Robert Huckins died at New Hampton, January 10, 1843, in his sixty-eighth year.

(III) James (2). fourth son and second child of Robert and Deborah (Gordon) Huckins, was born March 20, 1807, in New Hampton. New Hampshire .. He was a successful farmer in his native town, and also carried on the shoemaker's trade. Between 1834 and 1840 he moved his shop to Holderness, now Ashland, this state, where he continued the shoe- maker's business up to the time of his death. He was one of the first Free-Soilers in Whig times, and was representative to the New Hampshire legislature in 1848 and 1849. On October 27, 1831 James (2) Huckins married Louisa Plaisted, who was born January 12, 1800, at New Hampton. They had two children: Cordelia M. and James Ford. whose sketch follows. James (2) Huckins died January 22. 1886, at Ashland, aged seventy-nine years, and his wife died July 16, 1878, at Ashland, aged sixty- nine years.

(IV) James Ford, only son and second child of James (2) and Louisa ( Plaisted) Huckins, was born Angust 13, 18440, in Holderness now Ashland, New Hampshire. He was educated in the schools of his native town, and was afterwards employed by his father in the shoemaker's shop, where he remained till 1867. For the next five years he was engaged

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with White & Warner in the manufacture of wool- ens at Ashland. He then formed a partnership with F. L. Hughes, under the firm name of Hughes & Huckins, dealers in general merchandise at Ashland. This partnership continued till January 1, 1887, when Mr. Iluckins was retired from active business for five years. In 1892 he established a corporation store in Ashland under the firm name of the Ash- land Mercantile Association, of which he was man- ager and treasurer for nine years. Since that time he has relinquished active business duties. Mr. Huckins is a Republican in politics, and was select- man in 1888-89, and county commissioner from 1891 to 1000. Ile is a member of Mount Prospect Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Ashland: of Pemigewasset Chapter. Plymouth; and of Eastern Star, Ashland. In 1864, James Ford Huckins mar- ried in Ashland, Mary Sewall Smith, daughter of Sewall and Mary ( Goss) Smith. of Meredith. She was born in Meredith Upper Village, now Meredith, November 18, 1844. They have two sons: Frank Sewall, and Harry Shepard. Frank Sewall Huckins. born August 28, 1865, at Ashland, married June 6. 1000, Bessie Canney, daughter of John and Alice. ( Penniman) Canney. He is now postmaster of Ashland, and a member of Mount Prospect Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. Harry Shep- ard Huckins, born August 30, 1870 at Ashland, mar- ried August 6, 1902, to Mina A. Worthen, daughter of Warren and Grace Worthen, who was born April 7, 1878. They have one child, Reginald W., born June 16, 1906. Harry S. Huckins is treasurer of the Draper-Maynard Company, of Plymouth, New Hampshire, and a member of Mount Prospect Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. '

The first now discoverable of this IlUCKINS line was Miles Huckins, who was born in 1704 in Freedom, New Hampshire. The names of his parents cannot be discovered in the vital statistics of the state, and no member of the family has yet been found who can supply them. Tradition states that they removed from Lee to Freedom, and there can be little doubt that this family belongs to the old Durham family of the name hereinbefore mentioned. He and his wife cleared the land in the wilderness in Freedoni, and participated in all the hardships and dangers of pioneer life. On one occasion while the Indians threatened the house, which was a garrison, they were frightened away by the rapid firing of guns by the few persons constituting the family. Miles Huckins was a farmer and cooper, and died Oc- tober 9. 1866, in Freedom, at the age of seventy-two years. He was twice married. No record appears of his first marriage, but the family tradition gives the maiden name of his wife as Gilman. He was married ( second) February 2, 1832, in North Effing- ham. by W. Cushing, justice of the peace, to Betsey Runnels of that town. He had three sons and a daughter: Ann, the eldest. married David Judd, of Freedom, and now resides in Manchester, a widow. The sons were: Simon. Lorenzo and Joseph. The second resides in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and the third in Freede m.

(II) Simon, son of Miles and (Gilman ) Huckins, was born December. 1825, in Freedom, and grew up in his native town. Ilis education was lim- ited, and from the age of twelve years he supported himself by his own efforts. He worked on the farms and learned the carpenter's trade, and early in life went to Manchester, New Hampshire, where he had charge of the repairs of the Amoskeag Corporation. At the age of forty-five years he returned to Free-

dom and settled on a farm and engaged quite ex- tensively in lumbering. At the time of his death in January, 1893. he was the owner of more than two thousand acres of land, most of which is in the town of Freedom. He was a Universalist in religious faith and affiliated with the Masonic fraternity in Manchester. He did not care for any part in public affairs, and attended assiduously to his own business and earned a handsome property by his diligence and prudent management. He was married to Cor- delia Noble, who was born in 1826, daughter of Na- than and Amelia (Jordan) Noble. Her father was a teacher. merchant and farmer. Simon IJuckins and wife were the parents of five sons and two daughters. Mehitable died at eight years of age. Gilbert Noble, is a farmer, residing in Freedom. Ada B., is the wife of E. A. Thurston of Free- dom. Simon O., receives further mention below. Charles Sumner is a resident of Boston, Massachus- etts. Eddie Lincoln, died at three years of age. Edwin, resides on the paternal homestead in Free- dom.

(III) Simon Osgood, third son and fourth child of Simon and Cordelia ( Noble) Huckins, was born November 15, 1855, in Freedom, where he grew to manhood. In addition to the privileges afforded by the public schools of Freedom, he attended two terms of high school at Porter village, and at the age of eighteen years left the schoolroom to engage in the practical concerns of life. Before entering the high school he was a teacher, and taught several winter terms of school, occupying the intervening summers with work upon the farm. For the period of fifteen years he operated an express between Freedom and Centerville, and also from West Os- sipee to Tamworth. About 1892 he began lumbering on the Saco river, and since that time has given his attention chiefly to this line of industry. His method of operation was to purchase land and cut off the timber, which he sold sometimes in bulk and at other times he sawed on contract. During the last year he has been the owner of a portable steam mill and has engaged quite extensively in converting logs into merchantable lumber. His principal markets are at Rochester. New Hampshire, and Providence, Rhode Island. During the last three years he has produced about four million feet of lumber per annum. For some time he has been engaged in the conduct of a general store at Center- ville, or Center Ossipee Station, and in 1906 he bought and rebuilt the store on the west side of the railroad track, in which he maintains his lumbering office. It is now the finest mercantile building in the village or town, and is occupied by a superior stock of merchandise. His residence lies beween the village of Center Ossipee and the station, occupying a commanding position and is surrounded by suit- able farm buildings. It is located on a tract of twen- ty-five acres, and here Mr. Huckins engages in farm- ing in a small way. He was made a Mason in Freedom as a member of Ossipee Valley Lodge, No. 74, and now affiliates with Carroll Chapter, No. 23. Roval Arch Masons of Wolfboro. During his residence in Freedom he was the senior deacon of his lodge. Mr. Huckins has given very little time to political affairs, but is an earnest Republican, and while a resident of Freedom served the town as se- lectman. He was married March 6, 1881, to Nellie Jane Harmon, who was born in Freedom, a daugh- ter of Charles P. and Annette ( Moulton) Harmon. They are the parents of two sons, Ernest Charles and Albert Osgood. The former is his father's as- sistant in his office. He was married in March, 1904, to Jane Topliff Merrow, of Freedom. daughter of

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Edward T. and Nancy T. ( Barker) Merrow, of that town. He has one daughter, Beatrice.

MASON Mason has been a distinguished name in New England from the early settle- inent of the country, and no generation since then has been without leading citizens of this cognomen. There are several unrelated families of this namc.

(I) Samuel Mason married Hannah Neal. and lived at Stratham. Their children were: Daniel and Nicholas. The latter died in France in 1783.

(11) Daniel, son of Samuel and Hannah (Neal) Mason, was one of the petitioners of Rye, requesting the general court to appoint "Samuel Jenness for a magistrate," January 20, 1784. The tax of Daniel Mason about 1776-78 was £2, Ios; and in 1782 his rate was £2, 175, 7d. He died October 30, 1834, aged ninety-two years. He married, April 30, 1775. Elizabeth Norton. daughter of William and Ruha- mah (Wells) Norton, of Rye, and probably a grand- daughter of Bonus Norton, the immigrant, who set- tled near Flampton causeway, and died in 1718. The children of this union were: Samuel, Daniel, Nich- olas, Ruhamalı, and Robert.

(III) Daniel (2) was the second son and child of Daniel (1) and Elizabeth (Norton) Mason. Dan- iel Mason was a private in Captain Jonathan Wedg- wood's alarm list company. raised March 8, 1813. He was a farmer and cordwainer. He moved to Portsmouth about 1823, and there resided the rest of his life. In religious faith he was a Baptist. He died in 1849. He married April 7, 1807, Mercy Rand, who was born in Rye, March 26, 1788, and died March 30, 1869, daughter of Stephen (2) and Sarah (Fogg) Rand. Stephen (2) Rand, born September 12. 1759. was the only child of Stephen (1) and Mercy ( Palmer ) Rand, of Hampton. Stephen (I) died in 1759, on his way home from the French War. Their eleven children were: Elizabeth, Mary. Caroline. Emily. Maria, Sarah Ann, Daniel, Woodbury, Nich- olas, Rufus, and Clarissa.

(IV) Daniel, first son and seventh child of Daniel (2) and Mercy (Rand) Mason, was born in Ryc. September 30, 1821. He remained with his father until he was fourteen years old, and then learned the carpenter's trade, and worked at that until 1856. He spent ten years, 1845 to 1855, in George Raynes' shipyard, where he was employed in the model rocm. In 1854 he with George W. Pendexter formed the firm of Pendexter & Mason, and carried on saw milling and the preparation of mantels, brack- ets and the like for housebuilding ; and many of the brackets now in the houses of the city are the prod- ucts of that mill. In 1869 the mill burned and the firm dissolved, then he built a mill and conducted the same business alone, when he sold as above in 1899, being then seventy-eight years old. In 1809 he constructed for himself a residence and outbuild- ings which are of very superior style of architecture. on Middle street.

Mr. Mason is a Democrat, but has never paid much attention to politics, and never considered po- litical office-holding as advantageous to his business. Once during the fifties he held the office of select- man one year. He is one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the state. He joined Siloam Lodge. No. 2, of Boston, September 28. 1843, and later became a charter member of Piscatqua Lodge, No. 6. of Portsmouth, and afterwards Strawberry Bank En- campment, No. 3, and Canton Center, No. 9, and Union Rebekah Lodge, No. 31. in all of which he is a member in good standing. The Masonic so- cieties of which he is a member are as follows :

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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 115

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