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a. C. Whipple.
G. B. Whipple-
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not endure a constant strain any more than other people's, he never seemed to have a thought that such reasoning in any way applied to himself, but Jabored on as one who never knew fatigue." Dr. Whipple was held in the highest esteem as a citi- zen. Ile was a staunch Republican in politics. He belonged to the New Hampshire Medical Asso- ciation, to Mount Prospect Lodge, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, Ashland, to Pemigawasset Chapter, Plymouth, and to Crafton Lodge, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Ashland, of which he was a charter member.
On December 24, 1876, Dr. Ashley Cooper Whip- ple married Frances Anna Hoyt, daughter of George and Frances Moody ( Smith) Hoyt, who was born in that part of Holderness, now Ashland, New Hampshire. June 15. 1857. ( See Hoyt, VIII). They have had two children: George Hoyt and Ashley. George Hoyt Whipple, born at Ashland, August 28, 1878, was graduated from Phillips Academy, An- dover, Massachusetts, in 1896; from Yale Univer- sity in 1900; and from Johns llopkins University, medical department, in 1905. Following in the foot- steps of his father and grandfather he became a member of the medical profession, and he fully sustained the reputation of the family for brilliant scholarship and energy of character. Dr. George H. Whipple is now ( 1907) instructor of pathology at the Johns Hopkins Medical College in Baltimore. Ashley Whipple was born July 9, 1880, and was educated at Abbot Academy and Mount Holyoke College. Dr. Ashley Cooper Whipple died of typhoid fever at Ashland, New Hampshire, April 4, 1880. Ilis lamented death at the age of twenty-eight years was caused by unremitting zeal in the care of his patients. Mrs. Whipple lived at Andover, Massa- chusetts, while her children were being educated, but now makes her home in Ashland. She married. April 25, 1904, Charles Gavin Platt, of Greenfield, England.
(VII) Moses (2), fourth son and fifth child of Aaron and Matilda (Cooper) Whipple, was born in Croydon, New Hampshire, February 19, 1795. He had a common school education and was a farmer by occupation. He attended the Baptist Church, and was a Republican in politics. On April 30, 1820. Moses (2) Whipple married IIeiress Cooper, of Cornish, New Hampshire. They had nine chil- dren, of whom the first four and the sixth all died under the age of five years. The children were: Ilorace D., Baron Stowe, Gilman Cooper, Baron
Stowe, Gilman Cooper, whose sketch follows; Horace, Dellavan Marsh, Lois M. and Edwin M. Dellavan M. Whipple was born in 1841, married Ella 1. Cook, June 2, 1860, and died February 23, 1876, leaving no children. Lois M. Whipple was born in 1843, and married Wallace L. Dow, a suc- cessful builder and architect of Newport, New Hampshire. Edwin M. Whipple, born in 1846, was drowned near the bridge at Croydon Flat on a dark and stormy night, November 2, 1861. Moses (2) Whipple during the last of his life went to live with his daughter, Mrs. Lois M. Dow, at Newport, where he died August 1, 1876. The wife of Moses Whipple died July 9. 1890. in Lebanon. New HIamp- shire, at the home of her son, Gilman Cooper Whip- ple, at whose home she spent the last six or eight years.
(VIII) Gilman Cooper, fifth son and child of Aloses and Heiress (Cooper) Whipple, was born
March 18, 1837, at Croydon, New Hampshire. He was educated in the district schools of his native town. at the high school at Newport. and at Colby Academy, New London, New Ilampshire. For thirty years he was a successful merchant at Leb- anon, New Hampshire, dealing in dry goods and clothing. lle retired from active business in 1889, but is still a silent partner in the firm of Richardson & Emerson, of Lebanon. Although released from the daily exactions of mercantile affairs, Deacon Whipple leads a very active life, and probably no man in Lebanon holds more positions of trust. He is a director of the National Bank of Lebanon, president of the Savings Bank trustee of the Lebanon Public Library, and also of several estates. He is chairman of the school board, and clerk and director of the Lebanon Electric Light & Power Company. He is also business manager of his alma mater, Colby Academy, at New London. Deacon Whipple belongs to the Baptist Church in Lebanon, and has been a deacon, for many years, and church treasurer since its organization. lle is a Republi- can in polities, and represented his town in the legis- latures of 1887, 1905 and 1907. On October 17, 1804. Gilman Cooper Whipple married Clara P. Wood, daughter of Samuel Wood, of Lebanon. She died June 7, 1890, and on August 26, 1891, Mr. Whipple married his second wife, Georgie M. Dudley, daugh- ter of True Dudley, of Hanover, New Hampshire. who died November 22, 1899. There are no chil- dren.
(Second Family.)
A serious mistake has been made by WHIPPLE various commentators in assuming that the Whipples of New England, and indeed of America, are descended from a com- mon ancestor of English origin, and this error be- ing promulgated in various publications has led to much confusion. It is not the design of the present chronicle to correct past mistakes, but merely to record something of the history of a single branch of the now widely separated American family of Whip- ples. This too is difficult in many respects on ac- count of frequently broken links in the chain of descent and the further fact that in New Hampshire there are several families of the surname and in some generations of each the same christian name frequently occurs. The Grafton county and Bris- tol Whipples of the line here under consideration are descendants of Matthew Whipple, of Ipswich, Massachusetts.
(1) Jacob Whipple, of Grafton, Massachusetts, was a descendant in the fourth generation of Mat- thew Whipple, of Ipswich.
( II) Moses, son of Jacob Whipple, of Grafton, was one of the first three settlers in the town of Croydon. New Hampshire, and one of its most in- Ruential men during the period of his residence there. He was a soldier and patriot of the Revolution, and in June, 1777, led a company to Ticonderoga just before its surrender to the British, and was captain of a company in Colonel Chase's regiment which aided in compelling the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga. On the reorganization of the New Hamp- shire militia at the close of the war he was com- missioned colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment. Cap- tain Whipple was born at Grafton, Massachusetts, in 1733, and removed from that town to Croydon, New Hampshire, in 1766, with three of his sons- Thomas, Aaron and Moses-and one daughter-
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Jerusha. "Having a complete mastery of his pas- sions," says Wheeler, "well educated, intelligent, distinguished for energy and decision of character. warm-hearted, hospitable and generous to all, he was well calculated to be-what he indeed was-a father of the town. It is said of him that, so great was the respect entertained for him by his townsmen, his word was law in all local matters. He was elected to more offices than any other man who ever lived in Croydon." Ile was chairman of the committee of safety throughout the period of the revolution, giving freely of his time and means toward provid- ing men for the service; and he was deacon of the church for thirty years. In ISog he removed to Charlestown, New Hampshire, and spent the re- mainder of his years with his eldest son. He died in 1814, aged eighty-three years.
Captain Whipple was by occupation a millwright and land surveyor. In 1762 he was appointed by the governor of Massachusetts an officer in the mili- tia, and in 1774 received from Governor Went- worth his commission as captain. He was a dele- gate to one of the early conventions held at Exeter, and for several years was representative in the state legislature. In 1786 he was appointed one of the "conservators of the peace" to quell the spirit of insurrection which threatened the safety of the state legislature during the period of what is known in history as "Shay's Rebellion." His wife was Catherine Furbush, who shared with her husband all the toils and privations of early settlement. The next summer after their arrival in the town she called all the children to her house and established a school, and continued it for a long time without any compensation for her work. The mother of fourteen children, she died in 1829. (From the centennial address of Thomas Whipple, Esq.)
(IH ) Aaron, son of Captain Moses Whipple, lived in the south part of the town of Croydon, on the farm afterward owned and occupied by his son Moses. Aaron Whipple married Matilda Cooper, and among their children was David Whipple.
(IV) David, son of Aaron and Matilda (Cooper) Whipple, was by occupation a farmer, and in business life and his associations with men and affairs in the town he was regarded as a man of excellent judgment. He' was born in the town of Croydon, October 24, 1788, and died there June 12, 1867. He married, September 5. 1806, Sally Cutting, who bore him nine children: I. Orsamus chied in infancy. 2. Experience C., born November 22, ISOS, died December 1, 1889: married November 30, 1828. Daniel C. Paul of Newport, New Hampshire. 3. Adeline, born September 1, ISIO, died October 12, 1895; married February 9, 1834, Benjamin Barton. 4. Laurey, born April 22, 1813, died April 4, 1882, unmarried. 3. Orsamus A. born June 6. ISIS, died November 25, 1807: married May 23, 1849, Diantha Batchelder. 6. David C., born June 14, 1817, died November 5, 1852. 7. A child, born June 15, 1819, died in extreme infancy. 8. Solomon M .. born July 28, 1820, died January 16, 1884; married January 9, 1851, Henrietta K. Hersey of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. Ile was educated for the profession of medicine at Dartmouth Medical College and the Woodstock Medical School, W adstock. Vermont, and graduated from the latter institution in 1849. The scene of his professional life was laid at New London, New Hampshire, where he gained an envi- able reputation as a practitioner of medicine and
as a contributor to various political and medical journals. 9. Barnabas C., born January 21, 1823, married. September 12, 1849, Sarah J. Whitney, and became a successful farmer in Croydon.
(V) David C. Whipple, sixth in the order of birth of the children of David and Sally ( Cutting) Whipple, was born on his father's farm in Croydon, New Hampshire, June 14, ISI7, and attended school and did work at home until he attained the age of manhood. He then learned the trade of a cabinet- maker at Croydon Flats and was a practical work- man in that line for several years. From cabinet- making he turned to carpenter and joiner work and eventually became a building contractor at Mill Village, now Etna, in the town of Hanover, New Hampshire, with every prospect of success in business life when his career was cut off by the hand of death, at the untimely age of thirty- five years. Mr. Whipple is remembered as a man of excellent business qualities, thorough, reliable and energetic in whatever he undertook to do. He died November 15, 1852. His wife was Clementine Chandler, whom he married January 1, 1845. She was born at Hanover, New Hampshire, November 12, 1818, second daughter and fifth child of Henry 11. and Anna (Wright) Chandler of Hanover. (see Chandler, VIII), and by whom he had two children, Ilenry Chandler and Margaret Perritt Whipple.
(VI) Henry Chandler, only son of David C. and Clementine ( Chandler ) Whipple, was born at Han- over, New Hampshire, June 25, 1846, and for more than twenty years has been closely identified with the business and social life of Bristol, New Hamp- shire. As a boy he received a good common school education and at the age of sixteen years was em- ployed as clerk by his stepfather, John Wright Dodge, of the old firm of Dodge, Davis & Co. In 1873 he went with Mr. Dodge and his family to En- field, New Hampshire, and became connected with the firm just mentioned. In 1884 he went to Bris- tol to fill the position of assistant superintendent of the mills acquired in the preceding year by pur- chasing the interest of the firm of Holden & Co., manufacturers of shaker flannels at that place. In October, 1887, Dodge, Davis & Co. incorporated under the name of Dodge-Davis Manufacturing Company, and on its organization Mr. Whipple be- came treasurer and resident manager. This posi- tion he held until February, 1897, and then was elect- ed president and treasurer, in the former capacity succeeding Mr. Dodge, then recently deceased. Be- sides his connection with the extensive works of the Dudge-Davis Manufacturing Company, Mr. Whipple has been and still is in many other respects identified with the best interests of Bristol. He has been a member of the board of trustees of Bris- tol Savings Pank since 1800; w's one of the or- ganivers of the First National Bank of Bristol, in 1898, and its president since that time; member of the first board of directors of the Bristol Electric Light Company in 1889; trustee of Minot-Sleeper library since 1001, and in 1902 was a member of the special commission appointed to select a site for a public park in Bristol in con- formity to the provisions of the will of the late William G. Kelley. Mr. Whipple married, June 2, 1875. Lilla Josephine Plummer. She was born in the town of Canaan, New Hampshire, August I, 1852, a daughter of Abel P. and Harriet ( Jones) Plummer, of Canaan. Of this marriage five chil-
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dren have been born: Harry Dodge, born in En- field, May 30, 1876: died March 13, 1893. Fay, born in Enfield, June 22, 1880; married, September 17, 1903, Grace Mae Louise Barrett. Anna Clementine, born in Enfield, April 21, 1884; died in Bristol, Sep- tember 2, 1887. Inez Margaret, born in Bristol, July 20, 1886. Ashley Plummer, born in Bristol, April 16, 1891.
(Third Family.)
The Whipple family is a numerous
WHIPPLE one, especially throughout New Hampshire. Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and in some of its branches cer- tainly an influential one, intellectual, industrious, self-respecting and patriotic. It was in Massachu- setts as early as 1632, John Whipple locating at Dorchester at that date or carlier. He was a car- penter by occupation, and received a grant of land on Dorchester Neck in 1637. In 1658, however, he sold his estate there and removed to Providence, Rhode Island, where he ever afterwards resided, re- ceiving there an allotment of land July 29, 1659. He and his son John took the oath of allegiance in 1666. He married Sarah in Dorchester about 1640, and died May 16, 1685, aged 68. The Rhode Island branch are his descendants.
Another John Whipple was one of early settlers of Ipswich, Massachusetts, made a freeman May 13, 1640, and represented the town in the general court in 1640-42, 1646, and 1650-53. He married, Sarah, by whom he had John, probably born in England: Sarah. Susanna, Mary and Elizabeth. His son John married ( first) Martha Reyner, and (second) Elizabeth Paine. His children were John, Susanna, Joseph, Sarah and Matthew. The Goffs- town family are doubtless the descendants of John Whipple, of Ipswich.
(I) Benjamin Whipple was born and died in Beverley. Massachusetts. He was a farmer by occupation, and affiliated denominationally with the Baptist Church. He married Sarah Tuttle and had four sons : Charles, Benjamin. Samuel and John.
(II) Charles, eldest son of Benjamin and Sarah (Tuttle) Whipple, was born in Beverly, Massachu- setts. In course of time he removed to Goffstown, and followed farming as an occupation. He there identified himself with the Republican party and the Baptist Church. He died in Goffstown, March 20. 1863. He married, in 1808, Betsey Brown, of Manchester, by whom eleven children were born to him: John, May 16, 18II: Charles: Israel Brown, August 13, 1813: David H., April 28, 1817: Wil- liam A., April 5. 1820: Sarah A., March 25, 1822; Cynthia B. and Achsah (twins), February 5. 1825: Clara Logan, April 7. 1827; Benjamin, October 20, 1829, and Mary.
(II) John, eldest son and child of Charles and Betsey ( Brown) ) Whipple, was born in Bow, New Hampshire, May 16, 1811. Ile was educated in the district schools, and took up his residence in Goffstown in 1835. As an occupation he fol- lowed general farming. Politically he was a Demo- crat. Religiously he identified his interests with the Methodists. He died in Goffstown. February. 187I. He married Margaret Jane, daughter of Samuel and Polly (Stark) Annis, of Salem. His wife was educated in the public schools, was a member of the Methodist Church, and died Novem- ber 13, ISSS. Eight children were born to them.
as follows: William Stark, born December 3. 1836; Charles A., born March 14. 1839: Amos Wood- bury, born May 15, 1842; John Logan, born January 2, 1844. married April 3, 1871, F. Augusta Little ; Thomas L., born October 8. 1845. died young ; Ilenry L., born January 20, 1848, died young ; Mary F., born August 30, 1850; and Andrew N., born March 6, 1852. Israel Brown Whipple brother of John Whipple, married. September 30. 1838, Lydia McIntire, by whom he had the following children : Edwin Everett, born June 9. 1838, married Carrie P. Smith, March 4. 1861: David Harraden, born January 9, 1841, died; Sarah Melissa, born October 28, 1842; Joseph Henry Gilmore. born August 15, 1844: Mary Etta, born February 13, 1846; and David Edwin, born June 30. 1852. Israel B. died in Dunbarton, February 2, 1890.
(IV) Amos Woodbury, third son and child of John and Margaret (Annis) Whipple, was born in Goffstown, May 15, 1842. He received his cdu- cation in the district schools. For a time he worked on the home farm, but in 1869 bought the Salt Marsh place, where he now resides, and for sixteen years has been engaged in the milk business and general farming. Politically he is a Democrat. and religiously a Methodist. is
He also member of the Grange. He married, May a
28, 1865, Olive. daughter of Job and Eme-
line ( Pollard ) Kidder, of Goffstown. His wife was educated in the public schools, and is also a member of the Grange. Their children are: I. George H .. born February 26. 1868, a farmer resides in Goffstown: he married Genevieve Case. of Canada; they have three children: Earl Case. born August 18, 1896: Stanley Irving, born Decem- ber 19, 1897: and Olive Ellen, born February 18, 1900. 2. Emma L., born October 29, 1870, married Fred Corey, a mechanic, of Manchester ; they have one child. Norris, born June 21. 1803. 3. Bertic .\., born April 10. 1876, married Ethel Wickerson.
William Stark Whipple, eldest brother of Amos Woodbury Whipple, was born in Goffstown, De- cember 5. 1836. He married, August 30. 1856. Lydia Richards, daughter of True and Sophia ( Wright) Richards, of Goffstown, who was born June 20. 1837. Their children were: Emma J .. born March 13. 1858, died July 23, 1860: Willie Everett, born April 13. 1861: Charles IL., born September 5. 1863: Fred S. born June 2, 1866; Warren H., born October 4, 1868, married Mrs. M. Belle McLane. November 20, 1804: Dora E., horn January 28. 1875: Herman M., born October 10, 1877.
This name appears in the early
PITMAN records of New Hampshire when Pit- mans wore inhabitants of Dover. November 20. 1653. William Pitman, of Dover. married at Bosted. Barbara Evans: in 1683 Ezekiel Pitman or Pitnam, was in New Hampshire; and Joseph Pitman, of Dover, in the service of William Tasket, was discharged by the court in 1656 for cruelty to his master. He was killed by the Idians. .August 10. 1704. From the fact of the early rosi- denre of Pitmans in New Hampshire, it would seem that those of the state might have sprung from a common ancestor, but family tradition les it other- wise.
The Pitmans were early settlers in what is now Belknap county. New Hampshire, and have hvil
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conspicuous in the history of that region and other sections of the state from a very early period to the present day. Many of the family have been Quakers, and kept aloof from the public records.
(I) John Pitman was born in Lee. May 7, 1732, and in March 1780, settled in Barnstead, as did also his brother Samuel. His lands were in the east part of Barnstead, where no clearing had been previously made and no public road had been opened in that neighborhood. He begun by culti- vating one acre at a time. The bears and wolves troubled his flocks and crops. He had many diffi- culties to contend with, yet by industry and fru- gality he overcame all obstacles. He was a man of stern integrity, and trained his children to be faithful to their friends, honest in their dealings, and charitable to the distressed. May 7, 1832, on his one hundredth birthday, Mr. Pitman still en- joyed good health. On that day he sent for his pastor, Rev. Enos George, who baptized him and partook of the sacrament with him. It seemed to the old man like the beginning of a new life. About that time he procured a set of teeth, white, strong and fashionable, which was in truth a wonder in the neighborhood and he began to look young again. He lived to the age of one hundred and one years, nine months and twenty-one days, dying February 28, 1834, and was buried in the field where a plain stone bears record of his name and age. His wife, Susannah, died March 6, 1835, aged ninety-five. His descendants to the fifth generation, still occupy the homestead.
(II) John (2), a son of Jolin (1) and Susan- nah Pitman, was born in 1770, and died in Barn- stead in 1856, aged eighty-six. He lived and died on his father's farm. He married Shuah Lougee. who died in 1859, aged seventy-nine. They had John, Longee, Daniel, Henry, Thomas C., and George.
(III) Henry, fourth son of John (2) and Shuah (Lougee) Pitman, was born in Barnstead December 22. 1808, and died March 20, 1882, aged seventy-four years, He, like his forefathers, was a farmer. He married Drusilla Miles, whose father was a soldier and died in the war of 1812. She was born July 28, 1813, and died January 16, 1805. They had four children: Melissa A., Sarah A., Charles H., and Vienna.
(IV) Charles H., third child and only son of Henry and Drusilla ( Miles) Pitman, was born in Barnstead, July 13, 1844. He was educated in public and private schools and at Pittsfield Academy. At the age of twenty-five he left the paternal homestead and went to Farmington and entered the employ of J. E. Fernald as a clerk in a general store, and remained there three years. He then started in business for himself in the same line Three years later he gave up business and returned to Mr. Fernald and took general charge of the office and publication of the Farmington News. He continued this work until 1887, and then opened a job printing establishment and in- surance office which he has since conducted, and later added real estate business. By industrious labor and a reasonable degree of economy Mr. Pit- man has made these enterprises successful. His political sentiments are Democratic and his efforts in behalf of that party have been rewarded by elections to the offices of town clerk, which he has filled six years, and tax collector. which he held
in the years 1888-89 and 1900, and was on the town board of education six years. Ile has a strong regard for fraternal organizations, and is a mem- ber of Fraternal Lodge. No. 71, Free and Accepted Masons; and Columbian Royal Arch Chapter, No. 18; Woodbine Lodge, No. 41, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Mad River Encampment, No. 22; and Harmony Lodge, No. 11, Knights of Pythias, in all of which he has been a member more than thirty-five years.
In July, 1884, he enlisted as private in Company F. Second Regiment, New Hampshire National Guards, which was organized at that time in Farm- ington, and at the first encampment, held in Con- cord in September of that year, he was elected second lieutenant, and the following year was pro- moted to first lieutenant, and February, 1887, was commissioned as captain of the company, which position he held eight years, having been recom- missioned February, 1892. In 1894 he was elected major, but having decided to leave the service on account of business, he declined to accept the posi- tion, and March 20, 1895, he was honorably dis- charged by his own request, being at that time the oldest captain, in point of service, in the state militia, with one exception. He was also a veteran fireman, having served continually as a member of Hercules Fire Company for over twenty-five years, the most of the time as clerk, treasurer or foreman.
He married (first), June, 1872, Emma J. Crosby, who was born in Barnstead, New Hampshire, in 1856; and (second) Carrie L. Pearl, who was born September 16, 1867, daughter of Charles L. and Elizabeth ( Burnham) Pearl, of Farmington. He has by the first wife one child, Minnie L., born May 26, 1874, married Fred Holmes. They have one child. Charles Leslie, born October, 1892.
(III) John (3), probably a son of John (2) Pitman, was reared to agricultural pursuits, and went from Barnstead to Alexandria, this state, where he tilled the soil industriously and with prosperous results. He died in Alexandria, at the age of ninety-seven. In politics he supported the Democratic party, and in his religious faith he was a Congregationalist. He married Fanny Miles, a relative of General Miles, the retired commander- in-chief of the United States army. One of their children died at eighteen years of age; the others were: Warren, Ira, Henry, Fanny, Susan and George T.
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