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(VI) Luther Ingalls. sixth child and fourth son of Joseph and Sarah (Abbott) Ingalls, was born in Pomfret, Connecticut, August 24, 1758, and died in Hanover, New Hampshire, July 4. 1855. He was a soldier of the Revolution from Pomfret. He mar- ried, June 25, 1781, Lucy, daughter of Joseph Utley. She was born May 18, 1760, and died January 7. 1831. They had eight children: Royal, born March 20, 1783, died October II, 1793. Sylvester, April 25, 1785, married Mary Turner. Lucy, May 30, 1787, died January 3. 1805. Sarah, August 27. 1789, mar- ried Timothy Owen. Elizabeth, October 26, 1794. Polly, April 8, 1797, died March 9, 1880, married Silas T. Vaughan. Luther, May 5, 1799, married Mary A. Levering. George, May 20, 1805. died Jan- uary 2, 1843.
(VII) Polly Ingalls, daughter of Luther and Lucy (Utley) Ingalls, was born April 8, 1797, and chied March 9, ISSo. Slie married Silas T. Vaughan, whose father, Captain Jabez Vaughan, is believed to have been born in Middlebury, Massachusetts, in October, 1763. and served with credit during the Revolutionary war. He died June 16, 1813. His son, Silas T. Vaughan, was born August 28, 1797, and died April 20, 1862. The children of Silas T. and Mary (Ingalls) Vaughan were: Orsino A. J., Alvin, Silas Orcasto, Sophronia, Elizabeth, Phineas, Mary. Ellen, Orville, Royal, Myra and William Vaughan.
Elizabeth Vaughan was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, September 27, 1825, and died May 4, 1872. She married, April 17, 1845, Edwin Perry Knight (see Knight III), who was born in Han- over. August 15, 1816, and died October 22, 1857. Their children are: Edwin F., William Franklin, Charles E., Emma E., and Myra V. Knight.
America for centuries has been LINEHAN the land sought by the poor and oppressed of all nations, and that their coming here results in the betterment of their condition is seen in almost every instance, and in many cases such is the influence of our free institutions that the poor immigrant of a few years ago is the man of rank and standing of to- day. The following account is illustrative of what is brought about by energetic industry directed by quick intelligence in a free land.
(I) John Linehan was born in Macroom, county of Cork, Ireland, December 16, 1816. His immediate ancestors were Cornelius and Hanora
(Vaughan) Linehan and John and Mary (Riordan) Linehan. His mother died soon after his birth. His grandfather, for whom he was named, took him when this event occurred and he made his home with him until he reached manhood. He re- ceived a good education in a noted private school kept by a man named Burden. Several generations of the family has been engaged in the grain and mmilling business. On the death of his grandfather he inherited his property and business. At the age of twenty-one, in 1837, he married Margaret Foley, the daughter of a well known farmer in the adjoining parish of Kilmichael.
The terrible experience of the famine period taught him, as it taught thousands of others, that there was no earthly hope of success for either him- self or family in Ireland; so like so many of his race he turned his face towards the west, and came to the United States in the fall of 1847. He landed in New York City. A little later he came to New Hampshire, where he entered the employ of Super- intendent Lombard of the Northern Railroad. His family, consisting of his wife and five children, followed him in the fall of 1849. From their arrival until May, 1852, they made their home in Dan- bury. In May of the latter year he removed to
Penacook, where practically a home was made per- manently. For some years he was foreman of the Penacook section, and later was in the employ of Barron, Didge & Company, at the flour mill. Still later he was in the cabinet shop of H. H. Amsden & Sons. He died July 7, 1897, in his eighty-first year, and his body was laid beside that of his wife, whose death had preceded his, as she had departed this life October 14, 1891, aged seventy- six. Both rest in Calvary cemetery, Penacook. He was well versed in the history of his native land, and sympathized with every movement for the advance- ment of its people. He was a good citizen and a public-spirited man. He was fully naturalized five years after his arrival here, and never failed to cast his ballot for the candidate of his choice. Politically he was a Democrat, but independent ; his first presidential ballot was cast for James Buchanan, his last for William McKinley.
In religion he was a Catholic-a loyal adherent to the faith of his fathers. He was one of the pioneers of his creed in Penacook, and while in life one of its most liberal supporters. He was a faithful husband, an affectionate, indulgent father, and a kind neighbor. He was blessed in his wife. She was one of the most devout as well as one of the most modest of her sex-a perfect type of the race of women whose piety and love of virtue have given their native land a world wide reputation. Eight children, five sons and three daughters, blessed their union. Their names are: Mary, John Cornelius, Annie, Joanna, Timothy Patrick, An- drew, George Henry, and Michael Joseph, the last three being born in America.
(II) Hon. John Cornelius Linehan, second child and eldest son of John and Margaret (Foley) Linehan, was born in Macroom, county of Cork,
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Ireland, February 9, 1840, and died in Penacook, September 19. 1905. He came to this country with his mother, his brother Timothy and two sisters, in October, 1849. Another sister followed a year later. His father had emigrated two years before, settling temporarily in Danbury, New Hampshire, where his family joined him. In 1852 he removed with his people to Fisherville, now Penacook, making his home there permanently. His opportu- nities for securing an education were limited; he attended school in Ireland two years, and in America one. He studied hard at home under the direction of his father who, more fortunate, had been able to acquire a good education in his native land. At the age of twelve he went to work in the Penacook cotton factory, which was then owned and operated by H. H. and J. S. Brown. He labored there from 1852 to 1857, five years, beginning as a doffer in the spinning room and ending as a loom fixer in the weaving room. At the latter date he entered the employ of Rolfe Brothers, sash, blind, and box manufacturers, and remained there nearly five years, being foreman of the box department for the greater part of that period. He be came a member of the Fisherville cornet band in 1860. On August 15, 1861, with six of his associates, he enlisted in the band of the Third New Hampshire Volunteers for service in the Civil war. Ile did his duty as a musician, and at the battles of James Island and Secessionville he and the other mem- bers of the band laid aside their instruments, and devoted their energies to bringing off the wounded. Many of these soon afterward expired. To those about to die he offered the comforts of religion. Among the many pathetic inci- dents of the war there were few more touching than that of the youthful Linehan repeating the litany at the request of a soldier who had received his death wound and was dying far away from his own regiment and from any con- fessor of his faith. On his discharge August 31, 1862, he again re-entered the employ of Rolfe Brothers, but closed his connection with them in December. During the year 1863 he had charge of the packing department of the flour mill. In Janu- ary, 1864, he was engaged by Caldwell & Amsden, then owners of the cabinet shop. He worked for this firm until April 10, 1866, being for the greater part of the time one of the shipping clerks. On the last date mentioned he entered into co-partner- ship with Moses H. Bean, who was engaged in the mercantile business. A month later Henry F. Brown, one of his tent mates in the army and a lifelong friend, bought out the interest of Mr. Bean, and under the firm name of Brown & Line- han the business was continued until May, 1869, when he purchased Mr. Brown's interest in the firm, operating alone until he finally sold out in January, 1891. He was located for nearly twenty years in the Exchange block on Washington square.
During his business career he acquired a repu- tation for honesty and integrity not confined to Penacook. In religion he was a Catholic, and
through life loyal to his faith, Like his father he was a liberal contributor towards the support of the church, and for forty years one of the most active member in Penacook. For twenty-five years he was superintendent of the Sunday school con- nected with the Penacook parish. The best proof of the efficiency of his labors is the fact that while under his supervision not a Catholic child in Pena- cook was an absentee except in case of sickness from the Sunday school. In 1867, at the earnest solicitation of Rev. J. E. Barry, whose pastorate included Penacook, he negotiated for the purchase of the building occupied for many years as a place of worship by the Methodists. To secure a note given for payment, he and John Thornton, another member of the congregation, mortgaged their houses to John L. Tallant, from whom the money was borrowed, as additional security, as he was unwilling to accept the mortgage on the church alone. When additional land was secured for Woodlawn cemetery, of which he was one of the trustees, he made an appeal to his associates to set aside a part of it for a cemetery for the Catholics of Penacook. His request was granted, and the land deeded to the bishop of the diocese in trust for the Catholic congregation in the village.
When Brown's band was organized in 1865 he was one of its first members, and during its exist- ence, until 1902, was its secretary and treasurer. He was president of the Fisherville Lyceum Associ- ation during the greater part of its existence. This was founded shortly after the war, and was the means of providing some of the best speaking talent in the United States for the people of the village. He affiliated with the Republican party from early manhood, and was honored by being elected or appointed to various positions of honor and trust within its gift. He filled nearly every office in ward one. He was a member of the common coun- cil in 1872-73, and a member of the board of alder- men from 1877 to 1878. lle was chosen a member of the executive council of the state of New Hampshire to serve during the term of Governor Charles H. Saw- yer in 1887-88 and during his term of office was chair- man of the committee on state prison. He was ap- pointed trustec of the Industrial School by Governor Samuel W. Hale in 1884, and except for a brief inter- val of a few months served continually until the time of his death. Ile was secretary of the board for several years, and from 1897 until his death he was its president. He was also one of the com- mittee chosen to build the Penacook public school, and was one of the committee to select the location for the Concord soldier's monument, as well as to select its design and inscription.
Ile was appointed insurance commissioner of New Hampshire for three years by Governor David H. Goodell, on September 28, 1890. He was re- appointed in 1803 by Governor John B. Smith, in 1896 by Governor Charles A. Busiel, in 1899 by Governor Frank W. Rollins, in 1902 by Governor Batchelder, and 1905 by Governor McLane. The last appointment was made less than ten days before
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the death of Mr. Linehan, at a special meeting of governor and council at Portsmouth. His record as insurance commissioner is well known. lle was fearless and conscientious in the performance of his duties, and received the commendation of his superiors, the governors and councils, as well as the people of the state. Circumstances when he was first appointed obliged him to face a situation re- quiring courage as well as discretion. How well it was done the records of the insurance depart- ment, as well as the press of the state, bear witness. A leading journal of the state commenting on his course in office speaks of him as follows: "When he was called to the important office of commis- sioner he has a right to feel, as others did, that he had won it by his merits. This good opinion he justified during all the years he had the supervision and to a large extent the control of the vast in- surance interests of the state. No suspicion of cor- ruption or unfaithfulness of any kind ever touched his administration. No favoritism ever shaped his policy or dictated his official acts. For whatever he believed was for the good of the honest com- panies and the policy holders of the state, for what his judgment and his conscience approved, he stood fearlessly and unflinchingly; and with the univer- sal grief over the loss of the man and the friend goes the feeling that his place as a public servant can hardly be filled."
He was one of the charter members of William I. Brown Post, Grand Army of the Republic, and its first commander, filling the position for over two years. He always took an active interest in the welfare of his own post, and before its forma- tion had been partly instrumental in the formation of the Fisherville Memorial Association, which was composed mainly of Brown's band and several pub- lic-spirited citizens, for the object of observing Memorial Day. With a few exceptions he was the president of the day on Memorial Days every year after the institution of the post. He was chosen to represent the department of New Hampshire, Grand Army of the Republic, at the National En- campment at Albany in 1878, and a member of the national council of administration in 1880-81. He was elected department commander of New Hamp- shire in 1883-84, and appointed a member of the national pension committee, serving until 1887, when he was unanimously chosen junior vice-commander- in-chief, Grand Army of the Republic. He was president of the New Hampshire Veterans Asso- ciation in 1885-86, and from its institution, with the exception of a few years, its musical director. He was a trustee of the Loan and Trust Savings Bank of Concord, a member of the New Hamp- shire Historical Society, Knights of Columbus, Charitable Irish Society of Boston, and the Amer- ican-Irish Historical Society. He was the treas- urer and one of the founders of the latter.
Although a busy man through life he found time to study, became a fine scholar, especially strong in history, and wrote much for publication. In con-
junction with his lifelong friend and comrade, D. Arthur Brown, he wrote a memorial history of Pen- acook in the Civil war. The book contains a sketch of every person, so far as known who served in that great contest from Penacook, and also of the com- rades of William 1. Brown Post who came to re- side in Penacook or vicinity since the close of the war. When completed the book was placed for preservation in the New Hampshire state library. The type-written sheets Mr. Brown had bound in book form, for the use of the post room.
He was a steady contributor to weeklies and periodicals. Ile contributed a chapter "The Irish in New Hampshire," to MeClintock's History of New Hampshire, also a chapter to the History of the First New Hampshire, on "The Irish of New Hampshire in the Civil War," and a chapter to the Ilistory of the Seventeenth New Hampshire, on "Music and Songs of the War." He also wrote many sketches on the early Irish settlers in the thirteen colonies, which have been published in papers and magazines. For his services in this line he received a degree from Dartmouth College, in 1887. Ile was a witty, eloquent, and convivial speaker, and an interesting lecturer, and spoke more or less during every political campaign from 1884 till 1904. He was a great reader and had a wonder- ful memory, and any story he came across was stored away for future use, but he very rarely told a story, even an old one, unless it was to illustrate a point. He had a keen sense of humor and a genial disposition, and with these he liked to make the world happier, and everybody went away from his presence with a smile. He was much sought after as an after dinner orator and did not require the sparkling glass to beget brilliant wit, for all liis life he was a total abstainer.
When the movement to mark the regimental positions on the Gettysburg battlefield was first mentioned in 1880 at the national encampment, Grand Army of the Republic, in Dayton, Ohio, he warmly advocated it. In 1885 he was appointed one of the directors of the Battlefield Association, holding that position until 1895-ten years. The government then assumed charge of the field, and presented each of the retiring directors a beautifully engraved testimonial for the services rendered. While serving on this board of directors he was largely instrumental in securing appropriations from the New Hampshire state legislature for the placing of monuments marking the positions held by the New Hampshire organizations on that great battle- field. In response to the invitation of the surviving veterans of the Second and Fifth New Hampshire Regiments, and the New Hampshire batallion of sharpshooters, he accompanied them to Gettysburg in the summer of 1887, and received from them, on behalf of the directors, the monuments of the three organiz- ations. By special request he also received the monument of Meagher's Irish Brigade, which was dedicated at the same time. As a recognition of his labors his name is cut with that of the other directors on the high water mark monument lo-
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cated near the historic copse of trees which was the objective point of Pickett's men in their celebrated charge on July 3, 1862.
Colonel Lineham was perhaps the most promi- nent American citizen of Irish birth in New Hamp- shire. He was an ardent advocate of all measures for the betterment of his native land, and had a part in the various Irish movements, his interest for the well-being of those whom by birth he peculiarly represented making him the selfsacrificing friend of Ireland, to whose voice and pen her cause is much indebted. He was a devout Catholic, and his name deserves to be remembered by future generations of Catholics in New England as one who did not conceal his faith, minimize its meaning or require- ments. or iail to practice it. Few laymen did more according to their opportunities for the spread of the faith than he, and yet there was no man in New Hampshire more openly honored or more sincerely respected by men of all creeds and parties. The old soldiers who had carried guns in hard fought cam- paigns, loved him for what he was, and bestowed upon him the highest honor they had in their power to bestow as commander of their state department.
In politics, unlike most men of his faith and race, he cast his lot with the Republican party. It was his conviction of right, and he was a sincere and disinterested advocate of his party's principles. He was influential in his political party and held some of the most important state offices in its gift, because he was a strong man and willing to help in all honorable ways, and filled well all places he occupied. In private life he sustained an unblem- ished character, and his oldest acquaintances were his best friends. Ilis marriage and his home life were ideal.
He was wedded on January 2, 1864, to Mary E. Pendergast by the Rev. John O'Donnell at the par- ochial residence in Nashua. She was born in Dracut, Massachusetts. Of the children born to them iour survive-Margaret Ann, born October 2, 1804; John Joseph, October 9, 1866; Timothy Patrick, December 7, 1869; Henry Francis, June 27, 1877. The eldest is known as Sister M. Joseph of the Sisters of Mercy of Portland Maine. The second is engaged in mercantile business in Wor- cester, Massachusetts. The third resides in New York. The fourth resides in Penacook.
WINKLEY The Winkleys (also properly spelled Winckley) of New England, never a numerous family, but emi- nently respectable and highly connected, are de- scendants of the ancient English family of that name, with arms : an eagle displayed countercharged, argent and gules, mothi spes. The family in Amer- ica dates from about the year 1680.
(1) Samuel Winkley came from Lancashire, England, about 1680, and landed at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He settled first at Kittery, Maine, where in 1684 he married Sarah, daughter of Francis Trickey, and lived at Crooked Lane estate, which was granted to Trickey by the town af Kit-
tery in 1656 "in honor of gallant deeds." They after- wards moved to Portsmouth, where Samuel was en- gaged in trade and commerce, and where he died in 1736, aged about seventy years. His children (according to "Old Kittery and Her Families") were Samuel, Michael, William, Francis, Nicholas, Sarah, Elizabeth and Samuel, the latter the second child so named.
(II) Francis (I), fourth child of Samuel and Sarah (Trickey) Winkley, was born at Crooked Lane, Kittery, Maine, in 1689, and died April 23, 1776, aged cighty-seven years. He was a boat builder. He married, November 12, 1724. Mary, daughter of Rev. John Emerson, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She died March 17, 1745, aged forty-one years. Their children were John, Eliza- beth, Samuel, Francis, Mary, Emerson and Saralı Winkley.
(III) Francis (2), son of Francis (1) and Mary (Emerson) Winkley, was born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, October 25, 1733, and died October 9, ISIS. He married Martha, daughter of Mark Hunk- ing, of Barrington, New Hampshire. She was born 1734, and died January 16, 1807. They lived in Bar- rington, and had children: Mark H., Mary, John, Martha, Francis and Sarah Winkley.
(IV) Mark Hunking, eldest son and child of Francis and Martha (Hunking) Winkley, was born October 28, 1763. He married Tamson, daughter of Paul Hayes, Esq., of Alton, New Hampshire, and their children were Mary, Francis, Martha, Paul and Dennis Winkley.
(V) Francis (3), son of Mark H. and Tamson ( Hayes) Winkley, married Sarah Lougee of Strai- ford, New Hampshire, and had a daughter, Tamson Hayes Winkley.
(VI) Tamson Hayes, daughter of Francis and Sarah (Lougee) Winkley, married John P. Clough, of Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. ( See Clough VII).
This name, which was originally
KELLEY spelled Kelleigh, can be traced back to a period prior to the Norman con- quest, and its bearers are undoubtedly descended from the ancient Britons. It has been claimed that the name is of French origin, but there seem to be little or no conclusive evidence to substantiate this belief. The principal manoral seat of the family in England has been for many centuries located in the small parish of Kelly in Devonshire, but whether the community derived its name from the family, or vice-versa, cannot be determined. Burke and Shirley both agree as to its great antiquity, and the latter asserts that the Kellys have been lords of the manor at Kelly from the reign of Henry II., ( 1154-1189). In Ireland, Kelly has for centuries been one of the most common surnames, and in the Irish language is called Ceallach, signifying strife, or war. A family of the name of Kelly has pos- sessed a free hold in the Isle of Man from time immemorial. The English Kellys furnished their share of early colonists in New England.
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(1) Richard Kelly resided in Exeter, Devon. (Il) John, son of Richard Kelly, the immi- grant ancestor of the New Hampshire Kellys now under consideration, arrived at Boston in the ship "Hector" in 1633, and is said to have come from Newbury, England. He settled in Newbury, Massa- chusetts, in 1635, and was one of the early grantees there, receiving a four acre house lot, and was later (1639) assigned four acres of planting land on the marsh. The house lot he evidently did not use for the purpose intended, and when ready to erect a dwelling-house he secured a location on Oldtown Hill, some distance from the original settlement on the shores of Parker river. Coffin's "History of Newbury," contains a story based upon tradition that this immigrant's father went from Ireland to Newbury, England, but this cannot be corroborated. Another tradition which is probably a more truthful one is, that John the immigrant was a native of Exeter, in the county of Devon, and was connected with a family that took its name from the parish of Kelly, already referred to. In reference to this ancestor the Ilon. John Kelly, a reliable anti- quarian, of Exeter, New Hampshire, states that he must have possessed some wealth as he brought with him goods in two chests, which fell to his grandson Richard. His death occurred at New- bury in 1644. The maiden name of his wife does not appear in the records. His children were : Sarah and John.
(III) John, only son of John the immigrant, was born in Newbury, July 2, 1642. He took the free- man's oath in 1669. In addition to the land owned by his father he was granted by the town five acres more of the great marsh, and prior to 1690 he built a house at the foot of Graves Hill, on the west side of the road. About the year 1694 he moved from Oldtown Hill to the upper woods (now West New- bury), and he was authorized to maintain a ferry at Holt's Rocks. He died March 21, 1718. On May 25, 1663, he married Sarah Knight, who was born March 23, 1648, daughter of Deacon Richard Knight, and a full list of members of the Second Church made June 20, 1714, at which time the Rev. Mr. Tufts was ordained pastor, contains the names of John Kelly and Sarah his wife. The latter died shortly after that date, and on March 15, 1716, he married for his second wife Lydia Ames, of Brad- ford, Massachusetts. His children were: Richard, John, Sarah, Abiel, Rebecca, Mary, Jonathan, Joseph, Hannah and Abigail.
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