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(IV) George T., youngest son and child of John and Fanny (Miles) Pitman, was born at Alexandria, in 1833. He completed his education at the Barnstead high school, and when a young man turned his attention to manufacturing, be- coming an operator in a bobbin mill in Nashua. Re- turning to Alexandria he purchased a farm which he carried on for a number of years until 1833. when he removed to Barnstead and engaged in the real estate and lumber business and farming. His death occurred February 26, 1895. He took an interest in all matters pertaining to the moral and religious welfare of the communities in which he lived. Politically he was a Democrat. In 1865 he married Aurilla M. Brock, daughter of John and Maria ( Seruton) Brock, of Stratford, New Hamp- shire. She bore him three children, namely : Arthur J., Albert G. and Eva M.
(1) Arthur J., eldest son and child of George T. and Aurilla M. ( Brock) Pitman, was born in
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Alexandria, July 4. 1868. His early education was acquired in the common schools of Alexandria, the high school in Pittsfield, and the Austin Academy. He was a medical student at Dartmouth College, graduating in 1891, pursued a post-graduate course at the Harvard University Medical School, and these professional preparations were augmented by much valuable experience and observation at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and the States Alms House at Tewksbury. His profes- sional career was inaugurated at Auburn, New Hampshire, in 1892, and after remaining there about a year and a half he removed to Candia, where he has ever since been engaged in the general practice of medicine, with gratifying success. In 1903 he took one year in post-graduate work in Boston, Philadelphia and New York, also taking a post- graduate degree from the Post Graduate School of New York City. He is a member of the Rocking- ham County and the New Hampshire State Medical societies, and the American Medical Association ; the Masonic fraternity, Order of the Eastern Star, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Re- bekahs.
On April 24, 1892, Dr. Pitman was united in marriage with Ida M. Bunker, daughter of Milo WV. and Mary E. ( Pendergast) Bunker, of Barn- stead. She was educated in the common and high schools of Farmington and Plymouth Normal School, and for a period of six years prior to her marriage was a successful teacher. Dr. and Mrs. Pitman attended the Congregational Church.
(I) Joseph Pitman, says report, was born in London, England, about 1759, and emigrated to New England a short time prior to the American Revolution, in which he took part as a privateers- man. After the war he went to Bartlett and be- came one of the original settlers of the town, taking up land on Stark's location. From the time of his settlement to the time of his death he was a most valued and useful citizen. He was moderator of the first town meeting, and carly held the office of selectman. He married Alice Pendexter, and they had eleven children : William, Samuel, John, Joseph, Walter A., Sally, Rebecca, Alice, Dorcas A., Susan and Polly. Dorcas and Polly died young. Sally married Joseph Philbrick. Rebecca became the wife of A. D. Gardner. Alice married Wood- man Carlton, and Susan married J. T. Wentworth.
(II) Joseph (2), fourth son and child of Joseph (I) and Alice (Pendexter) Pitman, was born in Bartlett, July 25, 1788, and died October 23, 1875, aged eighty-seven. He was a lifelong farmer, residing for some years on the old homestead, and then settling on a farm in the east part of the town, where he resided the remainder of his life. He was a man of broad and liberal ideas, strong in his own convictions and considerate of the opinions of otliers. He was a Democrat, a local party leader, and the holder of various offices. He served in the principal town offices, was a representative of the general court, and in 1851 was a member of the state senate. He was a member of the Universalist Church, and was staunch in his religious tenets, as he was in his political ideas. He married Joanna Meserve, who was born August 15, 1786, and died May 12, 1862. They were the parents of six children: Ezra M., born December 12. 1812. Jonathan M .. Augu-t 19. 1814. who served in the various town offices, and was twice a repre-
sentative to the general court; Dorcas .A., Septem- ber 10. 1816, who married Joseph K. Garland ; George W. M., whose sketch follows: Joseph, Octo- ber 24, 1823; and Frances A., February 6, 1826, who married Edward C. Sinclair.
(III) George Winthrop Marston, fourth child and third son of Joseph (2) and Joanna (Meserve) Pitman, was born in Bartlett, May 8, 1819 and died December 2, 1899, aged eighty years. Ile lived with his parents until the age of twelve, and then went to the tavern of his cousins, Stephen and Ezra Meserve, where he remained three years, and then returned home. He was educated in the public schools of Bartlett and in the academies of North Conway and Fryeburg, and after leaving school taught five or six years. Turning his attention to surveying he made many of the original surveys of the locality about him, and probably did more surveying and platting than any other man in the state, and so fully demonstrated his ability that he was frequently called as an expert. After com- pleting a course of law reading he began practice in 1855. and made law the principal business of his life thereafter. For many years he was a leading lawyer of Carroll county. From 1850 to 1888 he was engaged to some extent in mercantile pursuits, but his commercial business was secondary to his law business. He was a staunch Democrat in politics, active and influential, and was elected to many offices. He filled various town offices, including chairman of the board of selectmen for twenty years ; was county commissioner from 1856 to 1859. inclusive; judge of probate, 1874 to 1876; member of the general court twelve terms, from 1853 to 1869; state senator from 1870 to 1872, and presi- dent of the senate during his second term; and three times delegate to constitutional conventions. the only citizen of the state thus honored. Judge Pitman was a man of quick perceptions, strong natural abilities, unblemished integrity, ripe judg- ment, and large experience ; which qualities, coupled with a dignified demeanor and an affable and genial nature, made him a favorite among the people and a strong man in any position he was called to fill. He married in the fall of 1840, Emeline Chubbuck, who was horn in October, 1822, and died March I, 1889. daughter of Levi and Ann M. (David) Chub- buck, of Bartlett. Eleven children were born to them : John M., Mary A., Angevine, Winthrop M., Lycurgus, Adnah, Levi C., William, Joseph H., Emma and Andrew J.
(IV) Lycurgus, fifth child and third son of George W. M. and Emeline ( Chubbuck) Pitman, was born in Bartlett. April 0, 1848. After availing himself of the school privileges his native town afforded, he turned his attention to the study of music, for which he had a fine taste and a marked natural aptitude, with a view to becoming a teacher of vocal music. For the purpose of taking a thorough course in voice culture, he placed himself under the instruction of the distinguished professor. S. B. Ball, of Boston, and received a good musical education. On his return to Bartlett he taught several terms with marked success, but throat trouble developing he was compelled to relinquish his chosen vocation and seek other employment. In 1870 he engaged in business as a druggist at North Conway, and has since carried on that busi- ness there successfully. Besides caring for his private business he has promoted various improve-
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ments and cont. ienves of a public nature at North Conway. In 1883 he organized the North Conway Water Works Company, and through his energy and enterprise the project was brought to a success- ful completion. He was the originator of the North Conway & Mt. Kearsarge railroad, and for years one of the directors and clerk of the corporation. He was also the promoter of the North Conway Loan & Banking Company, organized July 5, 1900, of which he was president from the time it was instituted until 1905. He has given much time and attention to developing the attractions of the village where he resides, and twenty years ago Pit- man's Arch, a striking piece of natural scenery. received its name in his honor. Fond of the ex- citement and activity of political campaigns, he has found pleasure in shaping party measures and legislation for many years. A staunch Democrat, he aspired to and soon attained a position of leader- ship. He was a delegate to every state convention, numerous times to district conventions, and to the national convention at Cincinnati in 1880. In 1886 he was made the candidate of his party for state senator in district No. 2. embracing a part of Car- roll and Grafton counties, and was elected by a plurality of six hundred and seventy-three. It is worthy of note that he was the third member of his family who had successively filled the position of senator. his father and grandfather having been previously honored by election to this office. He served on the committee on military affairs, claims, asylums for the insane, and judiciary. In 1896, when the questions of free trade and silver coinage be- came prominent features in the Democratic plat- form. Mr. Pitman repudiated them and embraced the principles in the Republican platform of that year promulgated at St. Louis. In 1889 he was a member of the constitutional convention; in Janu- ary. 1901, was appointed aide-de-camp on Governor Jordan's staff, with the rank of colonel, and in 1904 was an alternate delegate of the Republican national convention at Chicago. In 1870 Mr. Pit- man became a Free Mason, and since that time has done much to promote the prosperity and usefulness of that ancient and beneficent order. He is a mem- ber of Mt. Washington Lodge, No. 87, of North Conway, of which he has been three times worship- ful master. He was twice grand district lecturer for the sixth Masonic district, and twice deputy grand master. He was made a member of Oriental Royal Arch Chapter, No. 13. of Bridgton, Maine, and was first high priest of Signet Chapter, No. 26. of North Conway. Ile is a member of Portland Commandery. No. 2, Knights Templar, of Portland. Maine; Orphan Council. No. I. Royal and Select Masters, of Dover; New Hampshire Consistory, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, of Nashua, in which he took the thirty-second degree; and Aleppo Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Boston. He is also a mem- her ci Sara Valley Lodge, No. 25. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, since its re-establishment ; and also a member of Highland Lodge, Knights of Pythias, of North Conway, in which he has served two terms as deputy, and the Knights of the Macca- bees.
Lycurgus Pitman married (first) December 25, 1870, at Jackson, New Hampshire, Lizzie I. Merrill, who was born August. 1852, and died November, ISor, daughter of Caleb and Emeline B. (Kenney)
Merrill, of Conway. Three children were born to this union: Minnie E., Lena E. and Millie I. Min- nie E. married George T. Barnos, and died leaving two children: John L. and Ruth M. Lena E. re- sides with her father. Millie I. married Winfield S. Wood, of Portland, Maine. He married ( second ), 1902, Anna C. Bragdon, widow of Dr. W. H. Brag- don, and daughter of Stephen and Asenath Mudgett. of Intervale.
(IV) William, son of George W. M. and Emeline (Chubbuck) Pitman, was born in Bartlett, October 31, 1855, and educated in the common schools and at Fryeburg Academy. At twenty-one years of age he opened the East Branch Hotel at Lower Bartlett, which he managed with success until it was destroyed by fire, in May, 1898. While keeping hotel he was also in the insurance business, which he still carries on. He is a director of the North Conway Loan & Banking Company. He also deals largely in real estate, and owns and cultivates a farm. Politically he is a Democrat, and takes a prominent part in public affairs. He has served as selectman ten years, and has been chairman of the board since 1899. He was superintendent of schools two years : member of the school board six years ; district school treasurer ten years; deputy sheriff of Carroll county six years: and member of the legislature, 1906-07. Fraternally he is a member of Mt. Washington Lodge, No. 87, Free and Accepted Masons; of Signet Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, No. 26. He married, November 16, 1879, Jennie O. Eastman, daughter of Rev. Benjamin D. and Nancy F. Eastman. Mr. Eastman was formerly pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of North Conway. Four children have been born of this union: Jennie Pillsbury, Leah Curtis, Doris Emeline, and Rhoda, who died young.
(I) The Pitman family has been well and favorably known in Belknap county from the time of the first settlement of this region. At the first town meeting held in the town of Meredith. Ebene- zer Pitman was one of the officers elected to serve the young municipality, and he afterward served as representative and town clerk.
(II) Ebenezer (2), son of Ebenezer (1) Pit- man, was born on his father's farm in Meredith, and resided in that town all his life. He was a prominent man in colonial days and served the town as clerk for many years, and also as representative in the legislature several terms. He was a man of high integrity and well versed in legal matters and law forms, and for many years wrote most of the legal documents for his fellow townsmen. He married Abigail and they were the parents of these children : Hannah, Ebenezer, Reuben M., Betsey, Nancy, Joseph P., John MI. and Abigail.
(III) Joseph Prescott. third son and child of Ebenezer (2) and Abigail Pitman, born on the ancestral homestead in Meredith, January 12, 1809, died in Laconia, February 10, 1883. His early life was passed on the farm and in attending the public schools; he also attended the academy at New Hampton. His education was considered good for that place and time, and before he attained his majority he had taught several terms of school and served two years as a clerk in a general store in Concord. Returning to Meredith Bridge (now Laconia) he began business there at the age of twenty-one. He was at first associated with Daniel
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Gale in the general trade, and later with his brother, John M. Pitman, and still later with Daniel .A. Tilton, who had entered Mr. Pitman's employ as a clerk in 1845. Mr. Pitman's ability as a business man was developed and recognized by the time he was twenty-five years of age, and about that time ( 1835) he was made agent and treasurer of the Winnipesaukee Lake Cotton and Woolen Mann- facturing Company, a place he filled till 1841. As agent of the Lake Company, he was superintendent and manager of all the mills at Lake Village, and sold all the goods they manufactured. The owner of the mills at that time was David Pingree. Dur- ing a part of the time Mr. Pitman was agent for the mills he was also engaged in business at Lake Village in company with John V. Barron.
About the year 1853 Joseph P. Pitman and Daniel A. Tilton. who for some years had been a clerk for Mr. Pitman. formed a partnership under the name of Pitman & Tilton and long continued the business under that name. In 1868 these part- ners as Pitman, Tilton & Company began the manti- facture of knit goods. The venture was well con- ducted and prosperous and furnished employment to a large number of operatives, and in 1875 was in- corporated as the Pitman Manufacturing Company, J. P. Pitman, the principal owner, becoming presi- dent, and holding that position until his death, and D. A. Tilton becoming treasurer, and filling that position till he died, November 25, 1889. Mr. Pitman was a director of the Winnipesaukee Bank, and of the Belknap County Bank. In 1876 he became a trustee of the Belknap Savings Bank, and held that office as long as he lived. His well known financial ability made Mr. Pitman a conspicuous figure in railroad affairs in this state. He was a director of the Winnipesaukee Steam- boat Company. of the Concord railroad, and presi- dent of the Pemigewasset railroad, and at the time of his death was senior director of the Boston, Concord & Montreal railroad, his position in the directorate having been continuous from his elec- tion to the place in 1858. It was his connection with this last that afforded him an opportunity to show his foresight, resourcefulness and financial tact, and restore to prosperity a corporation whose failure seemed almost certain.
In politics Mr. Pitman was a believer in the principles advocated by Andrew Jackson, for whom when a young man he voted. Although not desirous of place and political honors he was elected to the legislature, and represented Meredith in that body in 1851-52. He was prominently identified with church affairs, and for forty-three years was a member of the Congregational Church. When its new house of worship, one of the finest church edi- fices in New Hampshire, was rebuilt in 1874 he was the chief member of the building committee having charge of the work.
Mr. Pitman saw the development and growth of the railroad systems of New Hampshire; he also saw a great development in the manufacturing in- terests and financial institutions of his native state. especially in the region where he was born and where his life was spent. With his foresight he was able to realize the coming of these things soon enough to take advantage of circumstances and make them profitable. His very steady habits and persistence coupled with honesty and ability made the realization of his financial hopes and
desires easy. No man in Laconia made fewer mis- takes than he. As a citizen he held an enviable position ; as a business man he filled a commanding place which he used in many instances for pro- moting the growth and prosperity of the town and the betterment of the condition of its people. lle was a christian gentleman, a man upon whose word all relied, and whose virtues are still pleasant memories.
lle married. May 9, 1841, Charlotte Abby Par- ker, daughter of Charles and Abigail Parker, a woman of strong character and many estimable qualities, who in her youth was noted for her beatity. They were the parents of five children : Elizabeth W., married Hon. Charles U. Bell, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, associate justice of the superior court of Massachusetts; llelen M., de- ceased, was the first wife of Mr. Bell; Charles F., mentioned below : Joseph W. ; and Walter H., whose sketch follows.
(IV) Charles Frank, eldest son and third child of Joseph P. and Charlotte Abby ( Parker) Pitman, was born at Meredith Bridge (now Laconia). Octo- ber 6, 1847. His youth was spent in attending the schools of his native village, in assisting in his father's store, and at the New Hampton and the Phillips Andover academies. On his return from school he entered the store of Pitman & Tilton, with which he was connected from 1865 to 1870. In the latter year he entered the hosiery manufac- turing business and was with The Pitman Manu- facturing Company for . four years where he was manager. When the firm became a corporation in 1874, he was made general manager, and on the death of his father he became president of the corporation, which carries on one of the most im- portant industries of Laconia, furnishing employ- ment to a large number of operatives and producing a larger output of both cotton and woolen hosiery than any other factory in the city. Mr. Pitman's management of this plant has proved him to be a very competent man and a worthy successor of his father. He is a Republican and takes a lively interest in all matters affecting the good of the general public. but has never accepted a public office for profit. Fle is vice-president of the La- conia National Bank, trustee of the Belknap Savings Bank. trustee of the Gale fund for a city library and park, one of the managers of the La- conia Hospital, president of the Congregational Society, and a deacon of that church, and a mem- ber of the New Hampshire Society of Colonial Wars.
He married. in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Octo- ber 15, 1890, Grace A. Vaughn, a native of La- conia, daughter of Hon. Osina A. J. and Mary E. (Parker) Vaughn, of Laconia. Mrs. Pitman is a member of the Congregational Church, of the Woman's Club of the Colonial Dames, and of the Laconia City Hospital Aid Society. They have had two children: Ruth Marion, died in infancy, and Charles Joseph. born January 22, 1895.
(IV) Walter H. Pitman, youngest child of Joseph P and Charlotte Abby ( Parker ) Pitman, born in Laconia. August 28, 1856. received his education in the public schools of his native town, and at Tilton Seminary, After leaving school he took his place in the store of Pitman & Tilton and from that time he has always been engaged in mercantile business. After the death of his father Mr. Pitman
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and his brother Joseph W. succeeded Pitman & Til- ton. under the firm name of J. P. Pitman & Com- pany, carrying a large line of hardware, mill sup- plies, cutlery, small wares, and so on. Mr. Pit- man has an interest in the Pitman Manufacturing Company : possesses large real estate interests in Laconia, has an elegant residence, and owns and rents numerous cottages in the city. He is a Re- publican in politics, and in religion a Congrega- tionalist, being a member of the North Church, and quite active in all the affairs of the church and church society. He married, in Laconia, Octo- ber 10. 1889. Flora E. Jackman, daughter of Hum- phrey and Emma ( Nichols ) Jackman. They have had five children: Helen Elizabeth, born July 29, 1890, died February 27, 1898; Joseph Prescott, May 9, 1892; Florence Ruth, August 5, 1894: Richard Jackman. October 7, 1901 ; Stanley Herbert, No- vember 12, 1906.
PAINE This name has been traced to an earlier period than it is possible to trace most names. Because of the general lack of surnames among the English people it has been ex- tremely difficult to trace any line for any consider- able period previous to the emigration of the Puri- tan settlers in America. In the "Visitation" of Suffolk county, a werk originally compiled in 1561. and subsequently extended, is found considerable matter treating upon old families and upon this family. According to the various writers, they were residents in Leicestershire, upon the famous field of Bosworth, where the last great battle of the Roses was fought, being one of the places where Pagen of Domesday fame had land. The identity of the lineage is made practically certain by the continued use of the coat of arms by the family in Bosworth, and afterward in Suffolk, by two generations of the original American families.
(I) The first of the family according to the list in the "Visitation" was Sir Thomas Payne, knight of Market Bosworth, who married Margaret, daugh- ter. of Sir Thomas Pultney, knight. He must have been born in the early part of the fifteenth cen- tury, and had three sons. Robert, William and Edmund.
(II) Edmund, youngest son of Sir Thomas Payne, was alive in 1540, the thirty-second year of the reign of Henry VIII. His place of residence was undoubtedly at his place of birth, Bosworth. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Walton, of Lester county, and had several sons.
( FHI ) William, eldest son and heir of Edmund Paine, removed to Suffolk county and took up his residence at Hengrave in that shire. He carried with him the use of his grandfather's coat of arms and which came to be known in heraldic history as a coat or crest of Lester and Suffolk county, and is especially known as belonging to "Payne of Hengrave." He was bailiff of the manor in the service of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. After the death of the latter he retired to private life. He married Marjorie. daughter of Thomas Ash. and had twelve children: Henry, John, Thomas, George. Nicholas, Edward. Anthony, Aga- tha, Elizabeth, Agnes, Anna and Frances.
(IV) Anthony, seventh son of William and Mar- jorie ( \ch) Paine, lived at Bury Saint Edmunds at the manor of Nowton, settled upon him by his eldest brother who never married. He was buried
at Nowton, March 3, 1606. In his will made in the previous month he disposed of various properties. He married Martha Castell, who died June 28, 1603. They had four children : John, Thomas, William and Ann.
(V) William (2), third son of Anthony and Martha (Castell ) Paine. was baptized December 2. 1555, at Saint Mary's Church. Nowton. He lived at Nowton, parish of Saint Edmunds, Bury. one of the principal towns of Suffolk county. He purchas- ed the manor of Nowton for three thousand pounds and thus became lord of the manor, and as such held his first court there. October 6. 1609, in the sixth year of James I. His last court was in 1621, after which he sold out to Sir Daniel DeLigne. The public records show that he was buried Novem- ber 21, 1648, and that his wife was buried on the twenty-ninth of the April previous. He must have been at the time of his death eighty-three years of age. The records do not establish the fact that the American ancestor was the son of this William Paine, but every circumstance points to that fact. Among the most conspicuous of these is the use of the coat of arms which belonged exclusively to his line.
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