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E .: and Juliette, born December 7. 1843, married James L. Merrick, and lives in Springfield, Massa- chusetts.
(IX) Hiram Ellsworth, third son and sixth child of Lucius and Marietta (Eaton) Conant, was born September 13, 1839, in Mansfield, Massachu- setts, and grew up there, receiving his limited edu- cation in the common schools. At a very early age he was employed in a silk mill with his father, and for many years was an aid to the latter. About 1875 he went to Willimantic. Connecticut, with his cousin, Albert A. They there began the operation of a silk mill, in partnership, and thus continued some seven or eight years. Hiram E. Conant then removed to Stonington, Connecticut, where he operated what is known as a "throwing" plant. From there he re- turned to Willimantic, and soon after, in connection with James L. Merrick, established the Merrick & Conant Manufacturing Company, at East Hampton, Connecticut. He then removed to Conantville and operated a mill for some years. This he sold out. and again went to Stonington, where he was engaged in a throwing plant. He was subsequently at Peters- burg as superintendent of a silk mill. In 1891 he came to Contoocook. New Hampshire, and with his sons established the plant which they still operate under the name of the Conant Manufacturing Com- pany. This is what is known as a "throwing" mill. wbich prepares silk for the weavers. Here Mr. Conant died, August 4. 1893, and his body was in- terred in Willimantic. He was a very industrious man and was active within six months of the time of his death. He was a leading member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and was a Knight Templar Mason. In politics he always acted with the Republican party. He was a man of quiet tastes, and preferred to give his time to his business rather than to public affairs, and so took no active part in politics, though his principles were firmly established. He was a reliable man in every situation, and was respected and esteemed in every community where he lived. He was married, November 28. 1865, to Lena Shattle, a native of Wurtemburg, Germany, horn April 6. 1843. daughter of Jeremiah and Mag- delina ( Mitchell) Shattle. There were two sons of this marriage-Frank Ellsworth and Dwight Eugene.
Frank Ellsworth Conant, elder son of Hiram E. and Lena ( Shattle) Conant, was born August 12, 1867, in Mansfield. Connecticut. He was educated in the Natchaug high school at Willimantic, Connecti- cut, from which he graduated in 1885. He spent one year in a business college at Hartford, and then took up business in association with his father, in the silk mill at Stonington. He subsequently re- moved to Fredericksburg. Virginia, where he was employed for a time, and joined his father on the latter's removal to Contoocook. Here he lias re- mained since that time, and is secretary and treas- urer of the Conant Manufacturing Company, and manages the business department of that concern. which is a most successful one and has grown and developed under the management of Mr. Conant and his brother. He attends the Methodist Church, and is a Republican, but gives his first attention to busi- ness. As a result of this condition his business is prosperous, and as there are plenty of people who are anxious to serve in public capacities the welfare of the community is not injured. Mr. Conant was married, October 17. 1889, to Alice S. Burns, of Stonington, Connecticut, daughter of Michael and Mary J. (Dunn) Burns, natives respectively of Ire- land and Connecticut. Michael Burns was a rail-
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road man, and was killed while in the performance of his duty on the railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Conant are the parents of one child, Paul Winfield, born September 15. 1896, now a student in school.
Dwight Eugene Conant, younger son of Hiram E. and Lena ( Shattle) Conant, was born, April 21, 1872. in Willimantic, Connecticut, and graduated from the Stonington High School in 1889. In the meantime. he had given some attention to the workings of a . silk mill, and after graduating was employed one year in charge of the spinners in the shop operated by his father, operating the first belt spinners. From Stonington he went to Petersburg and was assistant superintendent of the mill operated by the John N. Stearns Company. He removed with his father to Contoocook, and is now president of the Conant Manufacturing Company and superintendent of its mill. He is familiar with every detail of the work, and his competent management of the mill has con- tributed greatly to its success. The brothers co- operate with the utmost harmony, and are thus building up one of the most successful enterprises of Merrimac county. Mr. Conant was married, Janu- ary 26, 1895, to Blanche L. Kemp, a native of Con- toocook, daughter of Frank P. and Jennie S. ( East- man) Kemp. They are the parents of four chil- dren: Hiram A .. born August 12, 1895; Dwight Lucian, born August 25, 1896; Lena Mabel, born May 2. 1898; and George Elmer, born December 19. I000.
WILLIS There were numerous immigrants of this name who arrived from England in the colonial period, and the founder of the family now in hand was perhaps the first.
(I) Deacon John Willis, a Puritan of great re- spectability and considerable distinction, arrived in New England in or prior to 1637, and settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where he entered with spirit into the carly public affairs of that town. In 1657 he sold his property to William Pabodie, and went to Bridgewater as one of the original proprie- tors. He was one of the organizers of the town government, held various town offices, was appointed to solemn marriages and administer oaths, and served as representative to the general court for twenty-five years. He was the first deacon of the church in Bridgewater. His will was dated in 1692 and proved in 1603. He married Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer, nee Hodgkins, widow of William Palmer, and his children were: Deacon John, Nathaniel, Joseph, Comfort, Benjamin, Hannah, Elizabeth and Sarahı.
(II) Benjamin, fifth child of Deacon John, Sr. and Elizabeth Willis, was born in 1657, and died May 12. 1696. He married Susanna Whitman. daughter of Thomas Whitman. She lived to be ninety-eight years Their children were : Thomas, Benjamin, Susanna and Elizabeth.
(III) Thomas, eldest child of Benjamin and Susanna ( Whitman) Willis, was born at Bridge- water in 1604 and resided there his entire life. He was a selectman there in 1760. In 1716 he married Mary, daughter of Samuel Kingsley, and was the father of Susanna, Thomas, Jonah, Mary, Rhoda, Betty. Zephaniah and Nathan.
(IV) Thomas Willis, second child and eldest son of Thomas and Mary ( Kingsley) Willis, was born at Bridgewater in 1721. In 1741 he married Susanna Ames, daughter of Thomas Ames, and went from Bridgewater to that part of Taunton which is
now Easton. His children were: Lemuel, Jedediah, Thomas, Susanna, Asa and Mary.
(V) Lemuel Willis, eldest child of Thomas and Susanna ( Ames) Willis, was born in Easton, June 4. 1742. That he was active in the stirring events which transpired prior to and during the Revolution- ary war is attested by the facts that he was a mem- ber of the committee on correspondence and safety at Easton in 1771: that he served as sergeant in Captain Randall's company of Colonel George Will- iams' regiment in 1776: and in 1778 and 1780 lie served in Rhode Island. He subsequently went to Windham, Vermont, and died there in ISI9. The maiden surname of his wife was Ames. and she was of Easton. He had two sons and several daughters but an authentic list of his children is not at hand.
(VI) Lemuel (2), son of Lemuel (I) Willis, was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, June 29, 1771, and died in Windham in 1849. Information at hand fails to give the maiden name of his wife or the names of his children, but it is certain that he had a son Lemtiel.
(\'II) Rev. Lemuel (3), son of Lemuel (2) Willis, was born in Windham, April 24, 1802. After pursuing the regular course at the Chesterfield (New Hampshire) Academy, he studied theology and, en- tring the ministry, he held pastorates in Lebanon, New Hampshire: Troy, New York; Salem and Haverhill, Massachusetts, and other places. He was a pleasing speaker, was noted for his clear and forcible sermons and his ministry extended through a period of fifty years. His death occurred July 23. 1877. He married Almanda R. Simons, who was born in Westmoreland, New Hampshire, January 23, 1803. daughter of Edward and - · (Witherell ) Simons (?). She died September 23, 1846. They were the parents of five children: I. Lemuel Mur- ray, see forward. 2. Otis W., born 1826. 3. Alger- non. born July 28, 1833; now a merchant in Con- cord, New Hampshire. 4. Mary L., born 1835 ; mar- ried Philip C. Bean. of Warner, New Hampshire ; died August 20, 1869, leaving one son. L. Willis Bean, who is now an employe of the United States government in customs, at Portland, Maine. 5. Harlon Simons, see forward.
(VIII) Dr. Lemuel Murray, eldest child of Rev. Lemuel and Almanda R. (Simons ) Willis, was born in Lebanon, New Hampshire. October 7, 1825. Very carly in life he developed an unusual interest in books, music and languages. While pursuing his studies he taught in the public schools of Elliot, Maine. For a time he studied medicine, then took utp classical studies, and was finally graduated from Dartmouth Medical College in the class of 1847. He then went to France and continued his studies in the hospitals of Paris for one year, being occupied with special work under the auspices of several famous professors, and this experience was of great service to him in his later medical practice. For a time he practiced his profession in Elliot. Maine, then in Canton and Chelsea, settling in Charlestown, Massa- chusetts, shortly after the close of the Civil war, and there resided until his death, January 17. 1893. Throughout the Civil war Dr. Willis served a's a surgeon in the Union army. He was assistant sur- geon. July. 1862, in the Twenty-second Massachu- setts Volunteers, under General Butler, at New Or- leans, and was later appointed surgeon of the Seven- ty-fourth Regiment, United States Volunteer Infan- try. He served at Ship Island and Fort Pike until the close of the war. He was a member of various
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medical societies, and was a Knight Templar and Mason. Ile was not only a successful medical prac- titioner, but was also widely known in scientific cir- cles, having been one of the founders of the Boston Microscopical Society, and its first president. He was a great lover of the beautiful in nature, charac- ter and art, and an expert violinist and pianist. He had ever been an admirer of books. and from youth to ripest age an earnest student. He was a frequent contributor of original and translated papers to scien- tific and medical literature.
Dr. Willis married (first), July 15, 1849, Paulina H. Fogg, daughter of John and Mary ( Staples) Fogg. Mrs. Willis died March 23, 1858, leaving one son: John L. M., born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, February II, 1856. He was educated in the public schools of Elliot, Maine, and in Berwick Academy, and was graduated from the Medical Department of Bowdoin College in 1877. He was appointed house surgeon to the Maine General Hospital, and after a service of one year in that institution he took a post graduate course in the New York University. For many years he was a general practitioner in Elliot. Maine. He was interested in and connected with the public schools of that town as a teacher and superintendent, and has been a trustee of Berwick Academy. He is an ex-president of the York County Medical Society; chairman of the Maine Medical Board of Registration; member of the American Medical Association ; member of the Strat- ford County Medical Association; member of the Maine Historical Society, and of the Warwick Club, of Portsmouth. He is an Odd Fellow. a Thirty-sec- ond degree Mason, and a noble of the Mystic Shrine. He is a trustee of the William Fogg Library, presi- dent of the Elliot Historical Society and for several years edited a historical magazine called "The Old Elliot." He married Carrie Estella Ham, daughter of Freeman C. and Ella J. (Cooper) Ham, and they have children : Elizabeth Gail and Hanlon Parker. Dr. Lemuel Murray Willis married (second), Abbie A. Neal, who died November 21, 1003, daughter of Eben and Priscilla (Hutchins) Neal, of Lynn, Mas- sachusetts. They had children: Harold N .. and Edith G .. now Mrs. Rideout.
(VIII) Harlon Simons. youngest child of Rev. Lemuel and Almanda R. (Simons) Willis, was born in Cambridgeport, Massachusetts. July 18, 1843. He was educated in the public schools of Haverhill, Massachusetts, and Warner, New Hampshire, and upon the completion of his studies, entered the serv- ice of the government as a postal clerk, serving be- tween Boston and St. Albans, Vermont. Shortly prior to his appointment he had enlisted in Company E. First Regiment. New Hampshire Volunteers (Burden's Sharp Shooters), and was engaged in con- siderable active service during the Civil war. He subsequently entered the railroad service, but in 1884 accepted the appointment as a postoffice inspector, and in that capacity has visited almost every part of the United States. At the present time his special territory includes the state of New Hampshire. He is a Republican in politics, and in 1882 and 1884 was a member of the legislature of New Hampshire. He affiliates with the Masonic order and is a comrade of the Grand Army of the Republic. He attends the Universalist Church. He married, September 17, 1870, Susan A. Sawyer, daughter of Joshua and Lavinia (Foster) Sawyer. of Warner and Allens- town. They have had children: Arthur L., see for- ward: Edward S., born December 22. 1881, is em- ployed at the Page Belting Works. Concord; and
Florence C., born November 21. 1883, is a teacher in the public schools of Concord, New Hampshire.
()X) Arthur L., eldest child of Harlon Si- mons and Susan A. (Sawyer) Willis, was born in Warner, New Hampshire, June 25, 1872. He was educated in the public and high schools, being grad- uated from the latter institution with honor. He obtained a position in a printing office. and is a newspaper man of conspicuous ability and exper- ience. For fifteen years he has been connected with the staff of the Monitor and Statesman, of Concord. He was recently appointed deputy secretary of state, and assumed the duties of this office in August, 1907. He is prominently identified with the Concord Uni- versalist Church. being a member of the prudential committee and president of the Laymen's League. Ile married, November 4, 1895, Sarah Mabel Gould, of Hillsboro, New Hampshire. They have no chil- dren.
AYLING The family of Ayling has but a few members in New England, but their records, especially that of the principal subject of this sketch, has been of the most com- mendable character. His service to New Hamp- shire has been important and valuable.
(I) General Augustus Davis Ayling, son of William L. Ayling, was born in Boston, Massachu- setts, July 28, 1840. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Lawrence Acad- cmy. Groton. At the conclusion of his school life he entered the employ of J. C. Ayer & Co., chemists, of Lowell, where he remained until the outbreak of the Civil war. April 6, 1861, he enlisted in the Richard- son Light Infantry, an unattached company, named in honor of Hon. George F. Richardson, of Lowell, which subsequently became the Seventh Massachu- setts Battery. January 4, 1862, he was appointed second lieutenant in the Twenty-ninth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and was made first lieutenant December 6 of the same year. May 26, 1864, he was mitistered out of service. April 25, 1865, he was ap- pointed a first lieutenant of the Twenty-fourth Mas- sachusetts Regiment and made adjutant of the regi- ment. He was also aide-de-camp and judge advo- cate on the staff of Major-General R. S. Foster, who commanded the First Division, Twenty-fourth Corps. January 20, 1866, he was mustered out of service a second time. In the fall of the same year he settled in Nashua, New Hampshire, and for three years was a traveling salesman. Relinquishing that employ- ment, he filled for the next ten years the position of confidential clerk to Charles A. Gillis. During his residence in Nashua he did not confine himself to one occupation, but filled some public offices, both civil and military. He was inspector of the check lists, assessor. and assistant city marshal. Company F. Second Regiment, New Hampshire National Guard, was founded in 1877. and Mr. Ayling was elected first lieutenant, and succeeded to the com- mand of the company, which he retained until July 15, 1879, when under the going into effect of the new law he was commissioned by Governor Ilead ad- jutant-general of New Hampshire, a position he held until 1907, being by virtue of his long service the ranking state adiutant of the United States. To his carnest and intelligent efforts much of the improve- ment in the National Guard of New Hampshire is due. By direction of the legislature the "Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hamp- shire in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865." was prepared by General Ayling, and published in 1895.
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This work in five quarto volumes contains a record of each soldier and sailor from New Hampshire as far as it is possible to get it, who served in the Re- bellion. The plan of the work was a new one and far superior to any upon which previous works of the kind had been based. The names of the members of each regiment were alphabetically arranged in- stead of by companies, and a short sketch of each organization preceded the list of names of its men- bers. Great care was used to secure the correct spelling of each name, and to obtain the information necessary to the compilation of the work all the authorities on the subject were consulted. In order that the record of each individual should be correct nearly fifteen thousand records were sent to Washı- ington to be corrected from the books there. By much care and effort many cases where soldiers ap- pear on the old reports as deserters through informa- tion from the war or navy department they were found to have been regularly discharged, and thus many names were cleared of dishonor. In addition to this. revised and corrected lists of the engage- ments in which each regiment took part were in- serted. This grand work, which for comprehensive- ness, thoroughness, and ready reference is unexcelled and perhaps unequalled by any other work of the kind, will ever remain a monument to the industry, intelligence and fidelity of General Ayling.
General Ayling is a member of John G. Foster Post, G. A. R., of Nashua, of which he was senior vice commander. and for a long time was mustering officer for the department of New Hampshire. He is a member of the Loyal Legion and of several military and social organizations. He is proficient in Masonry and a member of the lodge, Royal Arch Chapter, Royal and Select Masters, Knights Templar. ( 11) Charles Lincoln, son of General Augustus D. Ayling, was born in Somerville. Massachusetts, January 22, 1875. He attended the common and high schools of Concord, New Hampshire, where he lived from the time he was four years old, and graduated from the latter in 1802. He then entered the em- ploy of E. H. Rollins & Sons, bankers, in Boston, Massachusetts, where he was employed until 1900, when he and Montgomery Rollins organized the firm of Rollins & Co., bankers, and carried on the busi- ness under that name until 1005, when a Mr. Baker succeeded to the interests of Mr. Rollins, and the firm became Baker. Ayling & Co., under which name the business has since been continued. Mr. Ayling is an alert financier, and has been unusually success- ful in business. He married Margaret Robertson, daughter of John Robertson, of Chicago. They have one child.
The name Racine will be remembered RACINE as long as the works of the great French dramatic author, Jean Racine. are read. It has been brought into the United States by Canadians who are descended from French ances- tors and feel pride in that cognomen.
(I) Augustin Racine was born in Saint Marc, province of Quebec, and died at St. Pie. He was a carpenter by trade. He married Emelia Tachereau, also a native of St. Marc.
(II) Elic, son of Augustin and Emelia (Tacher- eau) Racine, was born in St. Mare, and died in Ab- botsford, province of Quebec. in 1878. He was a carpenter. He married Esther Bousquet, who was born in St. Pie. and now resides in Concord, New Hampshire. They were the parents of twelve chil- dren, of whom six grew up: Dorita, Arthur A.,
Grazilla, Achille, Josephine, and Arthur Joseph, the subject of the next paragraph.
(III) Arthur Joseph, youngest child of Elic and Esther (Bousquet) Racine, was born in St. Pie, province of Quebec, January 9, 1860. He attended school in St. Hyacinthe, and at the age of twenty years came to the United States and was employed in Worcester nearly two years, and then removed to Suncook. New Hampshire, where he was employed by E. F. Baker & Company, grocers, for eight years. In 1890 he bought out McAfee & Otterson, grocers, of Hooksett, and engaged in trade until April, 1906, when his store and contents were totally destroyed by fire. Mr. Racine is a Republican, and has held the office of supervisor. He is a member of various societies, among which are the Order of Foresters and the Associated Canadio-American. He married, September 22, 1885. Denise Parant, born in L'Abbe Le Fevre, province of Quebec. daughter of Josephine and Philomene ( Martel) Parant. They have four children: Eva H., Frederick A., Philip and Rachel. Four others died in infancy.
Little is a name that was given to a LITTLE man on account of a personal charac- teristic, and became a surname, when surnames became fixed, and hereditary among the middle and lower classes, about the middle of the fifteenth century or a little later. To the individual first assuming it, probably it was appropriate, but like all names of a descriptive character it very soon ceased to be appropriate to the descendants of the person so named. It has been spelled in various ways, the principal forms being Littell, Littel, Litel, Lytel, Lytell, Lyttelle, Littelle, Little, Lytle, Lyttle. These earlier forms have nearly all disappeared, and the form Little is the one almost universally used at the present day.
The family has never made claims to greatness, but the hardy courage, persistent energy and good character of the immigrant ancestor have been present with generations of descendants, whether in making farms as pioneers, and fighting Indians in the Colonial days in New England, or on the west- ern borders of the Union. The records show that as soldiers, as men of peaceful pursuits, or students, lawyers, doctors. preachers, artisans, the Littles have not been behind their neighbors in the average of achievement. Of this family of Littles, six served in the French and Indian wars ; sixteen in the Revo- Intionary : fifteen in the War of 1812; one hundred and fourteen in the Civil war. Twenty-two have graduated from Harvard College; thirty-five from Dartmouth, and many more from other colleges in the different states of the Union.
(I) George Little, the founder of the Newbury family of this name, came, according to long current and probably reliable tradition, from Unicorn street, near London Bridge, England. He migrated to Massachusetts and settled in Newbury, where he worked some years for Mr. Woodbridge, who had advanced money for his passage from England to America. He was a tailor by trade, but is was probably that like others in that day and region he gave much of his attention to agriculture. This is made evident by the fact that he purchased land in September, 1650, acquiring the freehold right of John Osgood, who moved to another town. He subsequently made numerous purchases and became an extensive landholder, one of his farms including three hundred acres. lle was often appointed ap- praiser or overseer of estates, which indicated that he
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had a reputation for judgment and integrity. With his wife he joined the First Baptist Church at Bos- ton, and subsequently united with a small congre- gation of that faith in Newbury, He built a house in 1679, which stood until 1851, when it was taken down. He had five children by his first wife, Alice Poor, and none by the second. ( Mention of Moses and descendants appears in this article).
(H) Joseph, second child and eldest son of George and Alice ( Poor) Little, was born at New- bury, Massachusetts, September 22, 1653, and died in what is now Newburyport, September 6, 1740, in the eighty-seventh year of his age. Captain Jo- seph was much more prominent in town affairs than was his father. He was tythingman in 1685, and selectman in 1692-3, 1700, 1704-5. He seems to have always been connected with the Established (Con- gregational) Church, of which he and his wife were members. It was then the custom to seat the con- gregation according to their rank in the community, and in the allotment of seats after the erection of a new house of worship in 1700 a quite prominent one was given to him. He had valiable holdings of real estate which he later largely increased by inheritance and numerous purchases. He is believed to have lived at Turkey Hill from his marriage until about 1730, when he removed to the part of Newbury, now Newburyport, where several of his sons were engaged in trade. He distributed hus real estate among his sons before his death, and in his will, dated January 27, 1737. and proved October 1, 1740, divides his household goods and part of his estate among his daughters and others. He married, Oc- tober 31, 1677, Mary Coffin, who was born Novem- ber 12, 1657, and died November 28, 1725. She was a daughter of Tristram Coffin, born 1632 in England, and his wife Judith, who was the widow of Henry Somerby and daughter of Captain Edmund Green- leaf. Tristram Coffin was a merchant tailor, and re- sided in Newbury, where he died February 4. 1704. He was a son of Tristram and Dionis ( Stevens ) Coffin, who came from Plymouth, England. in 1642, the former a son of Peter and Joanna Coffin. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Little were as fol- lows: Judith ; Joseph; George; Saralı; Enoch; Tris- tram; Moses; Daniel and Benjamin. (Enoch and descendants are noticed at length in this article).
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