Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 55

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876

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owned and operated by the C. B. Lancaster Shoe Company, to which they have made many improved additions. Mr. Greene is a thoroughly practical boot and shoe manufacturer, conversant with every branch of the business, and besides attending to his duties of president and general manager also gives his personal attention to the buying and sell- ing.

In addition to the extensive business above mentioned, Mr. Greene is actively interested in the lumber business in connection with his brother, David S. Greene, and John S. Rand, under the name of the Pittsfield Lumber Company, this being one of the leading industries of the town. Mr. Greene is a man of business ability and aeumen, progressive in all his ideas, and therefore has gained for him- self an enviable reputation in the commercial worid and ranks high in the estimation of his business as- sociates. He is a member of Suncook Lodge, No. Io, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Pitts- field, New Hampshire. He affiliates with the Free Will Baptist Church, and has been a member of the choir of that church for several years, succeeding his father in that position. He possesses a rich bass voice, and his services are eagerly sought for at all musical entertainments in Pittsheid and other towns. He married, in Pittsfield, May 2, IS82, Fannie J. Merrill, of Gilmanton, New Hampshire, daughter of Deacon Joseph and Caroline C. ( Wise) Merrill.

(IX) Harris Leon, only son of Charles H. O. and Frances B. ( Hill) Greene, was born in Pitts- field, December 27, 1876. He learned carpentry under the supervision of his father, and now re- sides in Pittsfield, where he conducts a large and thriving business as a carpenter and builder. He married Laura E. Brock, of Pittsfield, born July 9, 1870, daughter of Walter Brock, and their chil- dren are: Mabel F., born October 5, 1897; Samuel L., April 20, 1901; Leon H., June 4, 1904; Howard L., August 14, 1905; Theodore W., September 23, 1900.

GREEN There can be no doubt that the Green family herein traced is an offshoot of the Old Hampton Green family, which has contributed so much to the development of New Ilampshire. It is quite probable that this branch is descended from Richard Green, who resided fu Rye before 1778.

(I) Thomas Green was born in the year I811, in Rye, and died September 14, 1893, at the age of eighty-three years. At an early age he ap- prenticed himself to Johnathan Barker, of Ports- mouth, with whom he learned the mason's trade. He was employed many years in building operations 111 Portsmouth, and walked to and from his residence in Rye, ten miles each day. For several years he was a partner with George Whitehouse in Ports- mouth, where they carried on numerous building contracts. Hle married, in Rye, Elizabeth ( Wen- dell) Foss, born May, ISII, mn Rye, and died Junte I, 1868. She was a daughter of Job and Patty ( Berry ) Foss (sce Foss, V1). He married ( second ) Lizzie A. Ayers. The children born of the first marriage were: Thomas Otis, Mariah E., Rosella. Bracket B., Alexander F., Alonzo K. W., Mary Adelaide, Sarah W., Charles and Ella.

(11) Alonzo Knight Warren, sixth child and fourth son of Thomas and Elizabeth W. (Foss) Green, was born October 14. 1845, in Rye. He was educated in the common schools of Rye, and in

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December, 1861, went to Portsmouth and was en- gaged with Richard Walden in the grocery business the following ten years. He then learned the wood calker's trade of Benjamin M. Bailey, of Ports- mouth, and worked at that trade about ten years. After the death of Richard Walden he purchased the grocery store which the latter had conducted, on Water street, which he has carried on from that time till the present. Mr. Green is a successful business man, and a director of the Portsmouth Trust Company. In politics he is a Democrat, and was alderman of old ward three, in 1882-83, and has served as selectman and overseer of the poor. He is a member of Piscataqua Lodge, No. 61, Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; of St. Andrew's Lodge, No. 56, Free and Accepted Masons; Wash- ington Royal Arch Chapter, No. 3; Davenport Council, No. 5, Royal and Select Masters; De Witt Clinton Commandery, Knights Templar, of Ports- mouth ; Edward A. Raymond Consistory, Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret, thirty-second degree, of Nashua; and Aleppo Temple, of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Bos- ton. Also of the Mechanics Fire Society and the Portsmouth Yacht Club.

He married, February 6, 1868, S. Amanda Wal- den, born in Portsmouth, November 19, 1842, daugh- ter of Richard and Sarah T. (Foss) Walden. Mr. and Mrs. Green have had two children: Bertram Walden and Grace Knight Green, both deceased.

GREENE The Greene family from which the subject of this article descended were early settlers of the Souhegan Val- ley, an energetic, honest and industrious race of people.

George W. Greene, son of Francis and Nancy (Stecle) Greene, was born at Nashua, December 20, 1838, and died in Nashua, February 25, ISSI. Dur- ing his childhood his parents moved to Malden and resided there a few years. He got his education in the common schools of his native town, and sup- plemented it with a good knowledge of business which he acquired unaided. Soon after attaining his twenty-first year he went to Nashua, where he entered the store of Caleb J. Emery as clerk. Sub- sequently he engaged in the grocery business for himself, and from that time till his death he was one of the most successful business men in Nashua. He was director in the Indianhead National Bank for a number of years before his death, and was as- sociated with other enterprises which in later years have developed into prominent institutions. In 1880 he was elected superintendent of the Pennichuck Water Works, and a few months before his death was elected treasurer of the company. In these po- sitions he labored early and late for the success of the enterprise, and in so doing undermined his health. He was a selfmade man, one who put all his energy into whatever he undertook, and won success where less energy would have failed. He was emphatically a business man, and though inter- ested in all publie questions, and in no sense a politician. He was a member of Rising Sun Lodge, No. 39. Ancient Free and Accepted Masons; Meri- dian Sun Royal Arch Chapter, No. 9; Council No. 8. Royal and Select Masters; and St. George Com- mandery, Knights Templar. lle married, June 14, 1865, Abby D. Steven-, who was born in Nashua, August 15. 1838, daughter of Francis E. and Ilannah (Colby) Stevens, of Bennington, who survives him.

Of the Cottons who settled in New COTTON England in early times the most dis- tinguished was Rev. John Cotton, of Boston. His son, Rev. Seaborn, was the minister at Hampton, New Hampshire, and his son John succeeded him in the sacerdotal office. The Cottons of this sketch are probably of this family dis- tinguished for the number and quality of its college graduates and ministers of the Gospel.

(I) Thomas Cotton was a resident of Pownal. Maine, where he died aged eighty years. Married and had Thomas, Jeremiah, Jacob, Asa and Betsey.

(II) Asa, son of Thomas Cotton, was born in Pownal, Maine, 1793, and died there in 1853. aged sixty. He was a blacksmith, but as he never en- joyed sound health he gave up work at his trade at the age of forty-seven, and spent the last twelve years of liis life retired. He was a man of good business ability, highly esteemed by his fellow citi- zens and filled various town offices. In religious belief he was a Methodist, and in politics a Republi- can. He married Priscilla Blake, who died in 188.4, aged eiglity-one years. Eight children were born to them: Calvin, Mary Abbie, Mary, Betsey, Susan, Catherine, Eunice and Henry B.

( JI1) Henry Blake, youngest child and second son of Asa and Priscilla (Blake) Cotton, was born in Pownal, Maine, February 20, 1840. He attended school until he was fourteen years of age, and then became a sailor and followed the sea eleven years. His first voyage was to Florida in the brig "Lori- etta" sailing from Freeport to Jacksonville and back in three months. He afterwards made five voyages to the West Indies. and at different times was sailor, carpenter, and mate. In the latter capacity he made a voyage round Cape Horn from New York to Valparaiso in the ship "Harry of the West," loaded with a general cargo. Afterward he sailed to Valencia, Spain, to Liverpool, and back to San Francisco. California, and around the Horn to New York, this voyage requiring twenty-four months. In another voyage he visited Bristol, England, and Cardiff in Wales, taking out a cargo of wheat and returning to New York laden with railroad iron. After the Confederate armies made transportation in American bottoms a hazardous and unprofitable business, he quit the sea and worked for the Boston & Maine railroad, as a carpenter, building sta- tions. He then carried on a farm in Norway, Maine, five years, and for nine years cut and manu- factured lumber in that town. In 1873 he removed to Conway, New Hampshire, and forming a partner- ship with Stephen H. Cummings, under the firm name of Cotton & Cummings, carried on the same line of business. Soon afterward he became sole proprietor of the enterprise, which included timber lands, water privileges, saw mills, a box and heading factory, etc. For twenty-two years he has made piano boxes for the Everett Company and other leading firms, employing from twenty to thirty men and having his own private line of track connect- ing his establishment with the Maine Central rail- road. His business was of such magnitude as to be credited with being the chief cause of the prosperity that in the last few years has come to Conway Centre. He deals largely in flour and feed, is finan- cially interested in the Kearsage House in North Conway, is a director and trustee of the North Con- way Loan and Banking Company, and was a director of the J. R. Wyman Manufacturing Company in Fryeburg, and also in the chair factory at Frye- burg, both now dissolved; is a director in the Frye-

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burg electric plant, the Fryeburg Water Com- pany of which he is president, all of Fryeburg, Maine, and director of Conway Aqueduct Company. Ile sold out his saw mill interests in the vicinity of Conway in 1900, but still retains his other manu- facturing enterprises, the capacity and output of which are constantly increasing. In the industrial. financial, political and social circles of Carroll county, Mr. Cotton is well known and highly esteemed. By unceasing and well directed energy he has built up manufacturing enterprises that have made him an independent fortune and helped others to better positions and better wages. His command of capital made him a welcome accession to various industrial enterprises where he held only minor interests, and to the financial companies where capital and influence were needed. Mr. Cotton has been elected to various municipal offices, as a Democrat. He has served as selectman five years, town treas- urer seven years, representative to the legislature in 1887-88, where he served on the railway com- mittee, and from 1892 to 1896 was county commis- sioner of Carroll county. He is a member of the three great fraternal orders, in the local affairs of which he takes a deep interest and a prominent part. He is a member of the Mount Washington Lodge, No. 87. Free and Accepted Masons, and Signet Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, both of Conway; and Portland Commandery, Knights Templar, of Port- land, Maine, and Kora Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, of Lewis- ton, Maine. Also of Saco Valley Lodge, Independ- ent Order of Odd Fellows, of North Conway, of which he is a past grand; and of the Knights of Pythias, of North Conway.

He married. in 1864, Esther Penley, daughter of Charles and Sarah Penley, of Norway, Maine. Mrs. Cotton died at Conway, in 1886, aged forty-two.

COOPER The Cooper name has honorable dis- tinction among the early settlers of our country. The most distinguished member of the family in America is without doubt James Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, who is de- scended from James Cooper, born at Stratford-on- Avon in 1661. This James Cooper came to America before 1682, in which year he received a grant of land in New Jersey. In 1683 he bought a lot of land in Philadelphia, situated on Chestnut street, opposite the marble custom house. Several generations of this family were Quakers. Another early immigrant of note was Thomas Cooper, of Boston, born about 1650, probably in London. He was the founder of the famous Brattle Street church in Boston, and he inherited the "Green Dragon Tavern," another land- mark from Governor Stoughton, whose niece, Me- hitable Minot, he had married. Their son, William Cooper, born March 20, 1694, was ordained pastor of the Brattle Street Church in 1716. He was a graduate of Harvard, the presidency of which he afterward declined, and he married Judith Sewall. daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall. The present branch is descended from a still earlier settler than either of those mentioned. Probably no family in New Hampshire can show an unbroken continuity of deacons through so many generations or a higher record for probity and public service than here follows.

(1) Deacon John Cooper, the ancestor of all the Coopers of Croydon, New Hampshire, was born in England, in 1618. His father died comparatively young, and his mother, Widow Lydia Cooper, mar-

ried Gregory Stone. She had two children by her first marriage: John and Lydia; and six children by her second marriage: John, Daniel. David, Samuel, Elizabeth and Sarah Stone. The whole family of Stones and Coopers migrated to Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, before 1636. John Cooper became a man of influence in his new home, serving as selectman of Cambridge for thirty-eight years, from 1646 to 1690, and as town clerk from 1669 to 168I. Ile was deacon of the church there in 1688. Deacon John Cooper married Anna Spar- hawk, daughter of Nathaniel Sparhawk, of Cam- bridge, who was born in England, and came to this country with her parents. They had eight children : Anna, born November 16, 1643: Mary, John, Samuel, whose sketch follows: John, Nathaniel, Lydia, and Anna, born December 26, 1667. Deacon James Cooper died August 22, 1691, and his widow married James Converse, of Woburn, Massachusetts, and was living in 1712.

(II) Deacon Samuel, second son and fourth child of Deacon John and Anna ( Sparhawk) Cooper, was born January 3, 1653, probably in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He inherited the homestead of his father, was chosen deacon of the church, March 22, 1705, and was selectman twelve years, from 1702 to 1716. On December 4, 1682, Deacon Samuel Cooper married Hannah Hastings, daughter of Dea- con Walter and Sarah Hastings, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 9, 1656. They had nine children : Hannah, Lydia, Sarah, Samuel (2), whose sketch follows: Mary, Elizabeth, Walter. John and Jonathan. Deacon Samuel Cooper died in Cambridge, January 8, 1717, and his widow died October 9, 1732.

( III) Deacon Samuel (2), eldest son and fourth child of Deacon Samuel (1) and Hannah (Hast- ings) Cooper, was born in Cambridge, Massachu- setts, March 29, 1689. He inherited the homestead of his father, which he sold in 1730 to Ebenezer Frost, and removed to Grafton, Massachusetts. There he became a member of the first church, formed December 28, 1731, and about a month later he and James Whipple, grandfather of Deacon Moses Whipple, of Croydon, New Hampshire, were chosen the first deacons of said church. Deacon Samuel (2) Cooper was moderator of Grafton in 1738, se- lectman in 1735. 1738 and 1743; school committee- man in 1738; and town clerk in 1739. the first to hold that office. He was evidently a man of educa- tion, for the Grafton Records of 1738 contain this entry : "Paid Deacon Samuel Cooper three pounds, four shillings for keeping school." On March 29, 1719, Deacon Samuel (2) Cooper married Sarah Kidder, daughter of Deacon Samuel and Sarah (Griggs) Kidder, who was born in Cambridge, August 17, 1690. The children of whom we have any record were born in Cambridge: Nathaniel, born July 21, 1720 ; Samuel, Joseph, John and Sarah. The date of the deaths of Deacon Samuel (2) Cooper and his wife is unknown.

(IV) Deacon John (2), fourth son and child of Deacon Samuel (2) and Sarah (Kidder) Cooper. was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 4, 1725, and moved with his parents to Grafton, Massa- chusetts, in 1730. After marriage he settled in Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he lived till 1769. when he moved to Cornish, New Hampshire, the first of his line to come to this state. He remained in Cornish but a year, and in 1770 moved around Blue Mountain to Croydon. With his wife and eight children he settled on the farm which after-

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wards descended to his grandson. Deacon Otis Cooper, Deacon John (2) Cooper and Moses Whip- ple were chosen deacons of the first church in Croydon in 1783. Deacon Cooper was tythingman in 1773 and 1781 ; town treasurer in 1773; town clerk, 1772, 1773 and 1774; moderator seven times, and se- lectman nine years. His honorable distinction at Croydon was but a continuation of his record at Hardwick, Massachusetts, where he was deacon twenty years, assessor ten years, town clerk five years, selectinan one year, and schoolmaster many times. On March 15. 1748, Deacon John (2) Cooper married Mary Sherman, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Sherman. who was born in Grafton, Massa- chusetts, December 9. 1726. She was a cousin of the celebrated Roger Sherman, of Connecticut. They had ten children, all born in Hardwick, Massachu- setts : Sarah, Nathaniel, Mary, John, Joel, Huldah. Sherman, Matilda, mentioned below; Barnabas and Chloe. Deacon John (2) Cooper died at Croydon, New Hampshire, August 10, 1805, and his wife died there September 4. 1796.

(V) Matilda, eighth child and fourth daughter of John (2) and Mary (Sherman) Cooper, became the wife of Aaron Whipple, of Croydon ( see Whip- ple, VI).

TRUESDELL In "Auld Scotia" this name is borne by a vigorous and thrifty race, whose strong characteristics have been transmitted through two hundred years of residence in the United States to descendants who still show plainly the mental and physical fea- tures of their honored Scotch progenitors.

(I) Ichabod Truesdell came from Scotland about 1700 and settled in South Woodstock, Con- necticut. He had four sons : Asa, Darius, Thomas and John.

(II) Darius, second son and child of Ichabod Truesdell, served in the war of the Revolution, and was at Valley Forge in that time of terrible want and distress-the winter of 1777-78. He was wounded in the side, narrowly escaping death from a ball which struck a large, old-fashioned pocket- book which he carried in his vest pocket. He died a few years after the war from the effects of the wound.

(IV) Thomas, son of John Truesdell. was born in Woodstock, Connecticut, and died in Hooksett. July 21. 1788. He was made superintendent of mills at Newton, of which he had charge forty- five years. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, is a Universalist in religious belief, and politically a Republican. He married ( first) Mary Borden, who died in Boston, Massa- chusetts, in 1805. They were the parents of chil- dren: Calvin B .. Mary E., Edmund E., Calvin B. and Mary E. He married ( second) Lucinda A. Chapman, widow of Bradbury Jewell, and mother of Colonel David L. Jewell. now agent of the China, Webster, and Pembroke Mills, and Mary C. Botter, of Pembroke. By this second marriage there was one child, Oscar B. Truesdell, born in Newton.

(V) Edmund Erskine, son of Thomas and Mary ( Borden) Truesdell, was born in Jewett City, Connecticut, March 3. 1845. He attended the pub- lic schools from the time he was five till he was fifteen years of age, and then began work in a cotton mill at Newton Upper Falls, Massachusetts. While attending school he delivered the daily news- papers to subscribers, which was a source of finan- cial ail to him, as he was very successful in that work Disposing of this business he took a course in Comer's Commercial College in Boston. 1Ie then returned to the cotton mill and took the po-

sition of second overseer in the carding . department, where he remained two years. He was then pro- inoted to overseer of the cloth room. where he also discharged the duties of shipping clerk and as- sistant superintendent. October 20, 1866, he began the performance of similar duties on a much larger scale, at the Webster and Pembroke Mills, in Sun- cook. New Hampshire, at the instance of the owner of the Newton Mills, who was treasurer of the Suncook Mills. The changes and improvements he made in his new position were highly advantageous to his employers. The China Mill was started in 1869, and then Mr. Truesdell's duties were greatly increased, but with a method reduced to its mini- mum he was enabled. without much extra exertion. to carry the work incident to the three corporations -producing twenty-nine million yards of cloth per annum-with as little effort apparently as he did the two. In 1870, on the resignation of the agent of the China, Webster and Pembroke Mills, the super- intendent was promoted to the vacancy thus formed, and Mr. Truesdell was promoted to superintendent and paymaster. a position which he has since filled with credit to himself and satisfaction to his em- plovers.

In politics Mr. Truesdell is an adherent of the party of Lincoln and Roosevelt, and for years he has had the local leadership of his party at Suncook. He was elected treasurer of the town of Pem- broke in 1878-78-80-SI, member of the house of representatives of New Hampshire in 1879-80, and state senator in 1887-88, and each session served on the committee on manufacturing. His long ex- perience as a manufacturer, his familiarity with the needs of the business of manufacturing, and his sound judgment on all matters pertaining to it. made him a valued and leading member of the com- mittee. His stalwart principles and activity as a politician, made him popular with Republicans, while his wholesouled geniality and vigorous advocacy of what he believed to be right made him popular with both parties. Mr. Truesdell is the senior member of the firm of Truesdell & Blodgett. one of the best conducted and finest stocked stores in the town. Mr. Truesdell is a Mason. a past master of Jewell Lodge, of Suncook, of which he is one of the con- stituent members and which he was mainly instru- mental in forming. He is also a member of Trinity Royal Arch Chapter. No. 2. Horace Chase Council, No. 4. Royal and Select Masters, and Mount Horeb Commandery, at Concord. IIe is a member of the supreme council, having taken all the Scottish Rites up to the thirty-third degree, and is an active mem- her of the Massachusetts Consistory Supreme Princes of the Royal Secret, thirty-second degree. Boston. He is a member of the New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, and of the New Hampshire Club of Boston. He is an attendant of the Baptist Church, of which he is a liberal supporter. ITe is a lover of home, a constant ex- ample of one who lives the simple life, is inter- ested in all that pertains to the welfare of his town. county and state, a good neighbor, a man ambitious for success in his business, and a strenu- ous worker in anything he undertakes.

June 11. 1872 he married Mary Wilkins Austin. daughter of David Austin, born in Suncook, and has one child.

The earliest authentic records of the CARROLL Carroll family show that in the year 1672 Nathaniel and Mary Carroll were residents of Essex and Norfolk crities, 191 the state of Massachusetts, At that time cach was

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thirty-five years of age. They are known to have dwelt there from 1672 to 1682, and probably much longer. They are supposed to be the ancestors of all the Carrolls of Croydon, New Hampshire. On the records of Sutton, Massachusetts, the nanie was formerly written "Carriel," but none of the family use that form at the present day. To Nathamel and Mary Carroll was born a son, Nathamel. Na- thaniel was the father of two sons-Samuel and Daniel-who were among the early settlers of Sut- ton, Massachusetts. The authenticated descent be- gins with Samuel Carroll.

(I) Samuel, son of Nathaniel and

Carroll, and grandson of the original Nathaniel and Mary Carroll, was born about 1699. He married, in 1721, Rebekalı -, and they had nine children : 1. Samuel, born 1722, married May 4, 1742, Anna Eastey, and they had four children. 2. Nathaniel, born January 23, 1724, married October 2, 1752, Jane Dwight, and they had seven children. 3. Abigail, born January 22, 1726, 4. Sarah, born June 25, 1728. 5-6. Joseph and Mary, twins, born January 3, 1732; Joseph married, 1761, Judith Chase. 7. Jonathan, born May 28, 1734, mar- ried, November 25, 1750, Elizabeth Greenwood. 8. John, born April 13, 1736, married, December 12, 1765, Tamar King, and they had four children. 9. Hannah, born July 10, 1738.

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Genealogical and family history of the state of New Hampshire : a record of the achievements of her people in the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation, Vol. III, Part 55

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923 Publication date: 1908 Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co. Number of Pages: 876

Author: Stearns, Ezra S; Whitcher, William F. (William Frederick), 1845-1918; Parker, Edward E. (Edward Everett), 1842-1923
Publication date: 1908
Publisher: New York : Lewis Publishing Co.
Number of Pages: 876