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(VI) Phineas (2), eldest son of Lieutenant Phineas (1) and Ruth ( Wood) Upham. was born in Malden, May 22, 1659. Ile married Mary Mellins. or Mellen, probably in 1682. He appears to have been a prominent man in his community. He held the office of selectman for many years, was town treasurer from 1697 to 1701 inclusive, and during the time settled many estates, was five times chosen rep- resentative to the general court. He died in Malden, in October. 1720. Ilis wife survived him, and there
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is no record of her death. They had eight children.
(VII) Phineas (3), eldest son of Phineas (2) and Mary (Mellins) Upham, was born in Malden, June 10, 1682. He married, November 23. 1703, Tamzen Thomasen Hill, daughter of Isaac and Sarah (Bicknell) Hill. She was born December 10, 1685, died April 24, 1768. He is early mentioned as yeo- man, and soon after his marriage he removed from what was known as Malden Center to North Malden, of which place he was one of the first inhabitants. In the year 1707-8 he is mentioned as Ensign Phineas Upham. He was repeatedly chosen to fill town offices. It is probable that he died in 1766. The old Upham homestead, still standing in Melrose, form- erly North Malden, has been occupied by descendants of Phineas (3) to this day. There were thirteen children. (Mention of Jacob and descendants ap- pears in this article).
(VIII) Jabez, fifth son of Phineas (3) and Tamzen Thomasen (Hill) Upham. was born Jan- uary 3, 1717. in Malden. He married Katherine Nichols, also of Upham blood, a great-granddaughter of Lieutenant Phineas Upham. He settled in Brook- field, studied medicine, and became distinguished in the practice of his profession. He was captain of the company from Brookfield which marched for the re- lief of Fort William Henry during the French and Indian war. He represented Brookfield in the gen- eral court from 1756 to 1760 inclusive. He died No- vember 4, 1760. His wife died March 12, 1774. Dr. Jabez Upham and wife Katherine had eleven chil- dren, all born in Brookfield. Joshua, the second son, graduated at Harvard College in 1763. He was a loyalist and an officer in the British army during the revolution. After the war he went to New Bruns- wick, where he became a judge of the supreme court. His brother Jabez served in the Continental army, and later removed to New Brunswick.
(IX) Phineas (4), oldest son of Dr. Jabez and Katherine Nicholas Upham, was born in Brookfield, October 4, 1739, married (first) Susanna Buckmin- ster, May 20, 1762. She died March 23, 1802. He married (second) in November, 1802, Elizabeth Sher- burne. In the Brookfield records the following, evi- dently militia, titles are applied to him by the dates given-second lieutenant. 1761 ; captain. 1774; colo- nel, 1775. Although it does not appear in the rec- ords, a note in the "History of Worcester" indicates that he also bore the title of major. He was captain of a company of cavalry in the battle of Saratoga. He was representative to the general court from Brookfield for the years 1781-1782-1785 and 1707. He died June 24, 1810. There were ten children.
(X) George Baxter, of Claremont, third son of Phineas (4) and Susanna Buckminster Upham, was born December 27, 1768, in Brookfield, Massachu- setts. He married, December 31, 1805. Mary Dun- can, of Concord. She died September 11, 1866, aged eigthy-one years. George Baxter Upham was grad- uated from Harvard in 1789. and studied law with his brother Jabez, in Claremont. Succeeding to the business soon after being admitted to the bar, he ac-
quired a lucrative practice and was considered a safe and able counselor. He was a member of congress. in 1801, and from IS17 to 1821 ; speaker of the house in New Hampshire legislature, 1809, and state sena- tor 1814-15. He was president during its existence of the first Claremont Bank, was for many years a member of the Episcopal Church. He died Febru- ary 19, 1848. Children of George Baxter and Mary (Duncan) Upham : 1. George Baxter, married Fran- ces Ewing, lived in Newark, Ohio. 2. Robert Har- ris, supposed to have died in Texas. 3. Frances, married General Dwight Jarvis, of Canton, Ohio. 4. Mary Ann. 5. Jabez Baxter, graduated at Dartmouth and Harvard Medical College, was a surgeon in the army, 1862-3: married Catherine Choate Bell. 6. Harriet Harris, married John S. Walker, of Clare- mont. 7. James Henry, died in infancy. 8. James Phineas. 9. Edward Buckminster, married Mary Hursthall. lived in Massillon, Ohio.
(XI) James Phineas, the fifth son of George Baxter and Mary (Duncan) Upham, was born in Claremont, October 27, 1827. He married, Novem- ber 5. I851, at South Berwick, Maine, Elizabeth Walker, daugliter of Captain Samuel Rice (formerly of Portsmouth) and Ruth Foster Brewster. She was born December 24, 1831, and died in Claremont, April 11, 1876. It is observed that she was gifted with singular beauty and rare graces of mind and manner. and that her domestic virtues and christian life and example were none the less conspicuous and endearing. James Phineas Upham was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1850. Soon after his graduation he acquired an interest in the iron foun- dry and machine shop, later the Sullivan Machine Company, which he organized in 1869, and of which he was president for twenty-five years. He was a representative in the New Hampshire legislature in 1865-6, and was warden of Union Church (Episco- pal), West Claremont. He died April 8, 1895. Chil- dren, all born in Claremont: 1. James Duncan, born November 7. 1853, married Katherine Deane, of Claremont. He graduated at Cornell University, in 1874; is treasurer of the Sullivan Machine Company. Two children-Katherine and Elizabeth. 2. George Baxter, born April 9. 1855, married Cornelia Alice Preston, daughter of E. C. Preston, of Dover, New Hampshire. He was graduated from Cornell Uni- versity in 1874. and Harvard Law School in 1876; admitted to the Suffolk county bar in Boston. Feb- ruary, 1877. In 1890 he engaged in the practice of law, firm of Upham & Proctor, Equitable Building, Boston. Two children. Margaret Ruth and Preston. 3. Ruth Brewster. born February 24. 1858, married Robert Upham, and resides in New York. 4. Sam- nel Rice. 5. Elizabeth, born September 1. 1868. mar- ried (first) Henry C. Radford; ( second) Richard Dana. lives in New York.
(XII) Samuel Rice, third son of James Phineas and Elizabeth Walker (Rice) Upham, was born Oc- tober 9, 1861. He was educated in the public schools of Claremont, in Stevens high school, two years, and at Granville Military Academy, North Granville,
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New York. Studied medicine in the University of Vermont Medical College. at Burlington, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York city, and was for over two years in the Rhode Island Hos- pital, at Providence. He opened an office in Clare- mont in 1892, where he has since practiced. He makes a specialty of surgery and has achieved dis- tinction in his profession. Dr. Upham is vice-presi- dent of the New Hampshire board of trustees for the establishment of a sanitorium for tuberculosis. He is a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society, an Episcopalian, and in politics a Republican. Novem- ber 7, 1905, Dr. Upham married Marguerite Bailey, daughter of Herbert and Alice ( Sulloway) Bailey. She was born in Claremont, February 23, 1878, was educated in the schools of Claremont, Bellows Falls. and at Mrs. McDuffee's School, in Springfield, Mas- sachusetts.
(VIII) Jacob, seventh son and thirteenth child of Phineas (3) and Tamzen (Thomasin) Upham, was born in Malden, April 30, 1723. His name is in the list of voters in Reading in 1771 ; also among the names of pewholders in the First Baptist meeting house, where he had Nos. 38 and 39. He died Sep- tember 30, 1775, and his will was proved in 1779. He married in Reading, January 19, 1748, Rebecca Bur- nap, who was born January 18. 1727, and died March 14, 1779. Their children were: Rebecca, died young ; Rebecca, Sarah, died young : Sarah, Mary, Tamzen, Ruth, and Jacob, whose sketch follows.
(1X) Jacob (2), youngest child of Jacob (1) and Rebecca ( Burnap) Upham, was born in Reading, Massachusetts, May 16. 1766, and died April 1, 1849. He moved from Reading to Amherst, New Hamp- shire, in 1792, the year following his marriage, and there purchased from John Damon the farm two miles southeast of the village, upon which his grand- son, Jacob Upham, afterwards lived, and for which he paid seventy pounds and eighteen shillings, the deed being dated November 13, 1792. He was a farmer and continued to live on this place until his death. He married ( first), November 17, 1791. Sarah Pratt, of Reading, who was born April 20, 1759, and died November 17, 1826. He married (sec- ond), April 15, 1827, Sarah Whittemore, of Charles- town, who was born July 25, 1775, and died April 28. 1849. The children, all by the first wife, were: Sally, Jacob, and another who died young.
(X) Jacob (3), only son of Jacob (2) and Sarah (Pratt) Upham, was born in Amherst, Octo- ber 29, 1798. and died there of consumption, Octo- ber 14, 1850, aged sixty-one. One of his sons said of him: "He was born, lived, and died on the same farm in Amherst, which had been his father's. He was an honest, industrious, cheerful. hopeful and con- tented Christian man. unambitious for rank or wealth. In appearance, slender, and rather tall; somewhat delicate in health during the greater part of his life. In religious faith he was a Congrega- tionalist, and in political preference a Whig, later a Republican : but he never held or aspired to any con- spicuous office. He brought up a large family, nine
of whom reached mature years, and remembered their father with sincere love and gratitude." lle married, November 20, 1822, Sarah Hayward, who was born in North Reading, Massachusetts, August 31, 1804, and they had ten children: Jacob Burnap, Sarne Tamzan, Mary, Emily Dorcas, Susan, John Henry, Ruth Elizabeth, Jesse Hayward, George Wil- liams, and Warren.
( XI) John Henry, sixth child and second son of Jacob (3) and Sarah (Hayward) Upham, was born in Amherst. November 21, 1835. He was brought up on a farm and attended the district school until seventeen years of age, and then spent two years farming, and the next three years in peddling through the country. Buying a farm in Amherst, he occupied it over four years, spending a portion of the time in buying furs, which he sold in Boston. He sold this place and resided a year or two in Merri- mack, and then removed to Amherst and bought a farm on which he lived twenty-three years. In 1800 he sold that property and removed to Merrimack, and settled on the farm of his father-in-law. Mr. Up- ham's life was one of continuous industry until his retirement from active employment a few years ago. He has always taken a hearty interest in agriculture, has been an exemplary citizen, and has tried to do his part toward the promotion of morality and good government in his neighborhood. For thirty-five years he has been a member of the Patrons of Hus- bandry, and for many years a member of the Con- gregational Church of Amherst, of which he has been deacon for ten years past. He is a progressive Republican, and has been road surveyor and lumber surveyor. He married, April 22, 1862, at Reed's Ferry. Catherine E. Colburn, born at Merrimack, No- vember 28. 1840. daughter of John H. and Elizabeth (Fields) Colburn, of Merrimack, and granddaughter of John Fields, who served seven years in the Revo- lutionary war. She was educated in the common schools at Mont Vernon, and at Magaw Institute, and taught school before her marriage. She is a member of the Congregational Church of Merrimack, and has been a member of the Grange for many years. Their children are: Charles Henry, George F., and Osgood F. Charles H. is a farmer in Merri- mack. He was born March 27, 1863, and married, June 27, 1890, Isabel Woodward. George F., born September 9, 1865. married, September 25. 1891, Ella S. Hodgman, and lives in Merrimack, Osgood F. is the subject of the next sketchi.
(XII) Osgood Fifield. youngest of the three sons of John H. and Catherine E. Colburn, was born in Amherst. August 29. 1869. He was educated in the common schools, and at Magaw Institute, and Bryant & Stratton's Business College in Boston. At fifteen years of age lic began his life's labors driving a lumber team for his father. For ten years he was a farmer. In 1902 he bought the grocery store of A. B. Colby, of Merrimack, which he has since success- fully conducted. He is a man of energy and good judgment, and has served one term in the office of selectman, to which he was elected by the Republican
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party, of which he is a member. He is a member of the Congregational Church, and of the Patrons of Husbandry. lle has belonged to the latter order twenty years, and has filled the chairs in Thornton Grange. No. 31. He is a member of Pennichuck Lodge, No. 45. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Nashua. He married, June 18, 1902, Cora Gid- dings, of Thornton's Ferry. born in Bow, 1870, daughter of Edward P. and Mary J. ( Morgan) Gid- dings. She was educated in the Concord schools and Magaw Institute, and taught school after leaving the latter institution. She is a member of the Congrega- tional Church, and for eighteen years has been a member of Thornton Grange. No. 31, of which she is now ( 1907) assistant steward.
SIKORSKY The free institutions, equality of all men before the law, and great op- portunities for advancement are among the chief attractions that brought Dr. Sikor- sky to this country.
Vladimir Nicholas Sikorsky, M. D., was born in the city of Kieff, Russia, June 14. IS67. His father was a member of a noble family and an officer in the Russian army. lle married Vasilisa Alexandroff, and they had five children. Vladimir N. being the only one in this country. Vladimir N. attended the gymnasium ( high school) of Kieff, and graduated from it June 9, 1889, receiving the highest honors. In January following he entered the Imperial Uni- versity of Moscow, from which he received in 1895 the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Subsequently he took post graduate courses in medicine in France and Germany, thoroughly fitting himself for the practice of his profession. In 1807 he came to America, and located at Manchester. New Hampshire, where he practiced until igot, when he removed to Salem Cen- tre, where he has a large patronage. While in En- rope he made a special study of nervous diseases, and has been highly successful in the treatment of them since coming to this country. In 1906 he took a special course in general surgery in the Harvard Medical School under Drs. Monroe and Bottomly. He is medical examiner for the Mutual Life Insur- ance Company of New York, the Mutual Life Insur- ance Company of Connecticut, and others. He has buen financially fortunate, and has valuable property in Salem and in Haverhill.
He is a member of the New Hampshire Medical Society, the Gynecological Society of Boston, and the American Medical Association. He was made a Mason in Union Lodge, No. 79, Free and Accepted Masons, September 29, 1899; is a member of Bell Royal Arch Chapter. No. 25, of Derry; Nashua Council. Royal and Select Masters, of Nashua ; St. George Commandery, Knights Templar; Edward A. Raymond Consistory. thirty-second degree, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, of Nashua ; and Bektash Temple. Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Concord. He is also a member of the Pilgrim Fathers. New England Order of Pro- tection, No. 26, and the Grange, Patrons of Ilus- bandry, of Salem.
Ile was married in Manchester, November 20, 1807. by the Rev. Mr. Colby, pastor of the First Bap- tist Church. to Maria Kushch Ignatieff, who was born June 10. 1877. daughter of John and Olga (Kushch) Ignatieff, of Russia. They have two chil- dren: Lucy Nina, born January 13, 1899, and Jean- nette Vera. February 9, 1901.
ROLFE Tradition has said that all of this name in the United States were descendants of two brothers who came from Eng- land and settled in Newbury. Massachusetts, in 1635, but records show several others at other points in Massachusetts and in Connecticut in the early Puri- tan days. New Hampshire has been the home of several branches of the family, who have lost none of the vigor of the colonial forebears. Those located in Boscawen and Concord are the posterity of one of the Newbury brothers. John and Henry. These brothers came from "Melchitt Parke." Wiltshire, England, and sailed from Southhampton in the ship "Confidence," in 1638. Melchet Park is about nine miles southeast of Salisbury, England, in the Hundred of Alderbury.
(I) Henry, the younger brother, supposed to have been born in 1590. was in Newbury before 1642, with his wife, Honour. He died March 1, 1643, and his widow died at the house of Thomas Blanch- ard in Charlestown. Massachusetts. December 19, 1650. Their children were: Anna (wife of Thomas Blanchard), Hannah, John and Benjamin.
( II) Benjamin, youngest child of Henry and Honour Rolfe, was born about 1638, probably in England, and was a weaver of Newbury, where he was a freeman in 1670. He was married November 3. 1659, to Apphia Hale, only daughter of Thomas Hale, a pioneer of Newbury and ancestor of a nu- inerons progeny scattered over the United States. Benjamin Rolfe and wife were admitted to the church at Newbury in 1674. She died December 24, 1708, and he passed away August 10, 1710. Their children were: John, Benjamin, Hannah, Apphia, Mary (died young). Samuel, Mary, Henry, Eliza- beth, Nathaniel, Abigail and a daughter that died in infancy. (Henry and descendants receive men- tion in this article).
(III) John, first child of Benjamin and Apphia (Hale) Rolfe, was born October 12, 1660. in New- bury, and subseribed to the oath of fidelity there in 1678. He was married in 1680-90 to Dorothy Nelson, and both were admitted to the church in 1698. They had children: John. Apphia and Jonathan.
(IV ) John (2), eldest son of John (I) and Dor- othy (Nelson) Rolfe, was born March 24, 1691, in Newbury, and was married October 7. 1713, to Ju- (lith Dole. Their children were: Richard, John, Hannah, Enoch and Benjamin. Hannah, born De- cember 25. 1720. became the wife of Nathaniel Rolfe, mentioned elsewhere in this article (see IV of other line).
(V) Benjamin (2) Rolfe, son of John Rolfe. born December 25, 1731. came from Newbury, Mas- sachusetts, and settled in Concord on High street. He died in 1823. He married Lydia Pearsons. De- cember 25. 1760. They had six children: I. John, born July 27, 1762. 2. Elizabeth, February 20. 1765. 3. Silas, January 28. 1767. 4. Judith, December 31, 1760. 5. Amos. died in infancy. 6. Benjamin, born January 20, 1773.
(VD) Benjamin, sixth child and youngest son of Benjamin and Lydia ( Pearsons) Rolfe, was born January 20. 1773. and died January 19. 1857. He succeeded to the homestead of his father. He had a fondness for mechanical work, and in addition to the care of the farm. employed himself making wood aqueducts and pumps. Nearly all that kind of work in the east part of the town was done under his direction. Many of the pumps made from the
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old white pine are now in use, and are preferred by some per-ons to the modern inventions. He married Margaret, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Searle, of Salisbury, and they had six children, of which three died young. Those who grew up were: Enoch S .. born May 12, 1819: Henry P., February 13, 1821; Charles B. born April 1, 1823, died 1851.
(VII) Henry Pearsons, son of Benjamin and Margaret ( Searle ) Rolfe, was born in Boscawen, February 13, 1821, and died in Concord, May 30, 1808. He was educated in the public schools. at New Hampton Institute, and at Dartmouth College, graduating from Dartmouth in 1848. After pursu- ing a course of legal study in the office of Hon. Asa Fowler, of Concord, he was admitted to the bar in 1851. He immediately opened an office in Con- cord, and maintained himself with credit, advanc- ing in professional reputation and influence, and winning in 1860 an appointment as United States district attorney under President Grant, holding this office five years. During the years 1852-53 he was a member of the board of education, serving as chair- man one year. He was a representative in the New Hampshire Legislature as a Democrat in 1853, re- turning as a Republican, during the years 1863-64. when the war of the rebellion was raging its hottest ; he was appointed by President Johnson as postmas- ter of Coneord, but was not confirmed by the senate. He also served on the lake commission in 1878-79, by appointment of Governor Prescott. He was Democratic candidate for state senator for the term 1859-60, and candidate for the electoral college on the Douglas ticket of 1860. He was always a strong Prohibitionist, and never used either tobacco or liquor. In the midst of a very busy professional career he found time to devote to literature. and in his spare time he wrote the history of Salisbury, New Hampshire. Mr. Rolfe was in his later years one of the oldest practitioners at the New Hampshire bar. His practice extended over a period when in- tellectual giants stood before the tribunals of the state, and among those men he easily maintained himself with credit. In all branches of his profes- sional life he won great success, and stood in the front rank of the eminent practitioners of the bar of the "Granite State." As a counsellor his sagacity was unerring. as an advocate his career was marked with triumph.
He was married. November 22, 1858, to Mary Rebecca, daughter of Robert H. Sherburne. of Concord, and they were the parents of five children. Marshall D., the eldest, died at the age of eight years. Margaret T., the second, died in infancy. Hen- rietta M., died in her second year. Robert Henry is mentioned at length in the succeeding paragraph. George Hamilton also receives extended notice in this article.
(VTIT) Robert Henry, second son and fourth child of Henry Pearsons and Mary R. (Sherburne) Rolfe, was horn October 16. 1863. in Concord. His early education was secured in the public schools, and he graduated from the Concord high school, and entered Dartmouth College, from which he graduated with the class of 1884. After studying law for a time he entered the railroad service. In 1880 he removed to Zylonite, Massachusetts, where he engaged in business, but soon returned to Concord and became connected with the Monitor and States- man, first in the circulation department and later as cashier In 1883 he joined Company C, Third Regi- ment, New Hampshire National Guard, as a private,
Twice he was an enlisted man, returning to the ranks after having a captain's commission, which his removal from the state compelled him to relin- quish. For two years he was sergeant-major of the Second Regiment, and his first commission was as first lieutenant in Company C. Subsequently he be- came senior major of the Second Regiment, in com- mand of the First Battalion. Major Rolfe was ap- pointed in 1893 a member of the committee to re- vise the military law of the state of New Hamp- shire. When the Spanish-American war broke out he was appointed colonel of the Twenty-second Regiment, and went to Chickamauga and remained with his command until the close of the war, when it returned to Concord and was mustered out. Fol- lowing this he went to Cuba as inspector-general, and served under General Brooks and later under General Wood. He also acted as deputy-quarter- master. In 1901 he came to Washington, and thence went to San Diego, California, where as quarter- master he built Fort Rosecrans. From there he was ordered to Nagasaki, Japan, where he is now ( 1908) quartermaster, with the rank of captain, United States Army. He married, Grace Stearns, daughter of Governor Onslow Stearns, of New Hampshire. ( See Stearns VII). They are the parents of three children, namely: Onslow Sher- burne, Mary Rebecca, and Grace Stearns.
(VIII) George Hamilton, fifth and youngest child of Henry P. and Mary R. (Sherburne ) Rolfe, was born December 24. 1866, in Concord, in the public schools of which he received his primary education. Subsequently he attended Holderness School for Boys at Plymouth, New Hampshire, and fitted for Dartmouth College, but did not pursue the collegiate course. He entered upon his business career as a clerk in one of the offices of the old Concord rail- road, in 1886, and continued in this employ until March, 1903, when he resigned the position of freight cashier for the Boston & Maine railroad at Con- cord. He then became a partner with B. H. Orr in the heating. plumbing and electrical business in Con- cord, and has helped to build up the leading estab- lishment of its kind in the city. The number of men in their employ has increased with the develop- ment of their business from eight to thirty, and the firm's contracts extend over all the New England states. Mr. Rolfe is a Thirty-second degree Mason and a charter member of Bektash Temple of the Mystic Shrine, in Concord. He is a member of the Wonalancet and Passaconaway clubs, and of the Capital Grange, and is ex-governor of the local colony of Pilgrim Fathers. He is a communicant of Saint Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church. Po- litically Mr. Rolfe is a staunch Republican. He has served as councilman in the city government from 1003 10 1005 and as alderman from 1905 to 1907. At present (1908) he is a member of the general court from Ward 5, serving as chairman of the Merri- mac county delegation, also as member of the New Hampshire state hospital committee.
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