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 90

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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(IV) Irving Elisha, elder son of Elisha Ed- ward and Olive (Stillings) Bedell, was born at Jefferson, New Hampshire, December 25, 1861. He attended school in his native town until the age of twelve years, and then discontinued his education to engage in various occupations. His parents were opposed to the idea of his leaving school so early, but events seemed to justify his course. In 1885 he engaged in the livery business, and when he had been in business three years he had made thirty-one hundred dollars. He conducted a livery business till 1001, when he retired from active management and bought three farms. On one of these he lives himself, one is occupied by his son, and he estab- lished his daughter and her husband on the third. Mr. Bedell is a Republican in politics, and attends the Methodist Episcopal Church. On May 21, 1882, Irving Elisha Bedell married Jennie L .. daughter of Calvin and Margaret Edson, of Jefferson, New Hampshire. There are two children: I: Eleanor, born November 24, 1882, married William N. Daw- son; one child. Wilbert A. 2. Austin J., born Sep- tember 0, 188; married Ethel Gliddon, and has one child, Edward A. Austin J. Bedell was elected county commissioner in the fall of 1904. and was re-elected in 1906. He was selectman for three years. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias.

GOODNOW This name is found under several different spellings in the early Colonial records of New England. Among these spellings were: Goodnough, Good- enough, Goodno, and so on. There were several ancestors and they have left a numerous progeny,

which is largely represented in New Hampshire and 1s scattered throughout New England and the United States. In quality of citizenship they have compared well with their neighbors.

(I) Thomas Goodenow was a brother of Ed- mund and John, all being pioneer settlers in Massa- chusetts. Thomas was one of the proprietors of Sudbury, and was living there as early as 1638. He was made a freeman in 1643, and was one of the petitioners for Marlboro, Massachusetts, in 1656, removing to that town with its early settlers. His house lot there was next to the homestead of Joseph Rice. He was a selectman of that town in 1661-62 and again in 1664. His death occurred in the last named year. Ilis first wife Jane was the mother of his children. The christian name of his second wife was Joanna. The children were: Thomas, Mary, Abigail. Samuel, Susanna and two daughters who died in childhood. The eldest son died about the age of twenty-five years; the second daughter became the wife of Thomas Barnes.

(II) Samuel, second son and fourth child of Thomas and Jane Goodenow, was born February 28, 1648, in Marlboro. His home in that town was in the portion which is now Northboro, and his house in IZII was one of the garrisons of Marlboro. He died in 1722. The christian name of his wife was Mary and they had four or more children. Those found on record were: Thomas, Samuel, David and Mary. The last named was killed by the In- dians in 1707.

(III) Samuel (2), second son of Samuel (1) and Mary Goodenow, was born in Marlboro, No- vember 30, 1675. He passed his life in his native town, living in that part which is now Westboro, and there he died about 1720. By his wife, Sarah, he had the following children: David, Jonathan, Thomas, Mary and Daniel.

(IV) Thomas (2), third son and child of Sam- tel (2) and Sarah Goodenow, was born May 18, 1709, in Marlboro, and lived in Westboro and Northboro, dying May 27, 1790, aged eighty-one years. He married, April 17, 1734 Persis Rice, who was born April 13, 1714, in Marlboro, daughter of Edwin and Lydia (Fairbanks) Rice. They had twelve children, namely: Persis, married John Boyd; Lucy, married David Stow; Thomas, Eliza- beth, wife of Elijah Hudson; Edward, Hannah, Asa, Eli, Patience and three who died young.

(V) Edward, second son and fifth child of Thomas (2) and Persis ( Rice) Goodnow, was horn October 30, 1842, in Marlboro, and lived in Northboro until about 1776, when he removed to Princeton, where he died July 17, 1798. He was a soldier of the Revolution, serving at the Lexington alarm in 1775, in Captain Samuel Wood's company. He was also in Captain Silas Gates' company, and was at Dorchester in 1775 and January, 1776. He married, in Shrewsbury, January 17, 1770, Lois Rice, who was born September 19, 1751, daughter of Elijah and Hulda (Keyes) Rice. They had thirteen children, the first three born in Northboro and the others in Princeton, namely : Persis, Luther, Ezekiel, Edward, Ebenezer, Artimus, Calvin, Susan, Asa, Peter, John, Rice and William.

(VI) Ebenezer, fourth son and fifth child of Edward and Lois ( Rice) Goodnow. was born June 4, 1778, in Princeton, Massachusetts. He removed from that town to Camden, Maine, where he was drowned in December, 1812, on the west shore of Penobscot Bay. He married, in Princeton, July 3, 1806, Lois Howe. After his death she re-

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turned with her three children to her early home in Princeton, and there died September 21, 1849. Her children, all born in Camden, Maine, were: Caroline, Pamela, who became the wife of Captain Lucius Brigham, of Newton; Jerusha Howe, who married Abijah G. Thompson; William Everett, mentioned below.

(VII) William Everett, only son of Ebenezer and Lois (Howe) Goodnow, was born July 9, 1812, in Camden or Old Town, Maine, and was an in- fant when taken by his mother to. Princeton, Massa- chusetts. He began the activities of life as a farmer and tanner in that town, and later turned his atten- tion to lumbering which was thereafter his chief occupation. As occasion required his place of resi- dence, while pursuing this industry, was successively in Amherst, Winchendon, Dorchester, Lyme and East Jaffrey, in New Hampshire. In the last named town he cultivated a farm, and while residing in Amherst conducted a hotel. His death occurred in East Jaffrey, December 12, 1901. He married, in Princeton, Massachusetts, April 21, 1836, Abigail Beaman, who was born July 16, 1818, in that town, a daughter of Gamaliel and Susanna (Myrick) Beaman. They were the parents of five children : William Stillman, Cordelia L., Walter L., Wayland H. and Windsor H. (Mention of Walter L. and Windsor Hervey and descendants appears in this article).

(VIII) William Stillman, eldest of the five children of William Everett and Abigail (Beaman) Goodnow, was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, September 28, 1839, and was two years old when his parents moved to Amherst, New Hampshire. He lived at home until he was grown to young man- hood, attending school whenever he could, but being the oldest boy in the family it was his duty to help his father with the work in which he was engaged in the various places in which he lived. When he became of age he engaged in business with his father, but after about two years went to work in a chair factory. After that he set up in the furn- iture business for himself in Fitchburg, Massachu- setts, and remained there seven years. He sold out in 1872, and for the next five years was a clerk in a general store in Jaffrey, New Hampshire. In ISS2 Mr. Goodnow located at Peterborough, New Hamp- shire, and started a general store, and since that time he has been a merchant of that town. He is an Odd Fellow, and in politics a Republican. He married (first), January 7, 1864, Jane Flint, of Lyme, New Hampshire. She died September 14, 1886, leaving two children, Herbert Murray Good- now, born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, 1867, and died in childhood, and Chester Goodnow, born in Fitchburg, January 7, 1871. Mr. Goodnow married for his second wife Mrs. Ellen H. Fish, daughter of Harvey and Lina Howard.

(VIII) Walter Lucius, second son and third child of William E. and Abigail (Beaman) Goodnow, was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, March I, I851, and was educated in the common schools of Lyme, Dorchester and Jaffrey, New Hampshire, where his parents resided at different times. His first employment was in the general store of Spauld- ing & Perry at Fitzwilliam Depot, New Hampshire, where he worked three or four years. He was next employed for less than a year as a clerk in the dry goods house of Loring Sears, of Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1873 he went to Jaffrey, New Hampshire, and in company with P. Upton and Benjamin Pierce started in the mercantile business

as W. L. Goodnow & Co. The firm name is now Goodnow Bros. & Co. and consists of three partners, IV. L. Goodnow, his brother Wayland and Julius E. Prescott. The business prospered, and in 1882 Mr. Goodnow with his brother William S. opened another store in Peterboro, in which he retained his interest until 1900 when he sold out. In 1890 W. L. Goodnow with his brother Windsor H. opened a third store in West Swanzey, New Hampshire, un- der the firm name of the Goodnow Merchandise Co. In 1900 they sold this enterprise. In 1893 he organized the firm of W. L. Goodnow Co., (incor- porated), at Keene, New Hampshire, of which he has since been president, In 1899 W. L. Goodnow, WV. H. Goodnow and Chester P. Pearson formed a partnership under the firm name of Goodnow, Pear- son & Co. in Gardner, Massachusetts. In 1901 the Goodnows, W. L. and W. H., and Henry G. Pear- son formed a partnership and opened a store in Brattleboro, Vermont, under the firm name of Good- now & Pearson. Since that time A. H. Hunt has become a member of the firm and its name has been changed to Goodnow, Pearson & Hunt. In the year last mentioned WV. L. and W. H. Good- now, J. Arthur and Henry G. Pearson organized a copartnership as Goodnow Bros. & Pearson at Bel- lows Falls, Vermont. The following year The Good- now Company, of which Windsor H. is president and Walter L. Goodnow, treasurer, was incorporated and has since been in operation in Fitchburg, Mass- achusetts. In 1905 the Goodnow-Hunt-Pearson Co. (a corporation) was formed and began business in Nashua, New Hampshire. W. H. Goodnow is pres- ident and W. L. Goodnow is treasurer of this enter- prise. Walter L. Goodnow is interested in two smaller stores, one at Marlboro, under the style of Goodnow, Bemis & Co. and the other at Win- chester, a branch of the store at Keene, under the fırın same of WV. L. Goodnow Co.

He is vice-president of the Monadnock National Bank of East Jaffrey and a trustee of the Monad- nock Savings Bank. But his attention has not been given entirely to mercantile pursuits. In politics he is a Republican, and in 1889 was elected as such to the lower house of the New Hampshire legis- lature, where he served as a member of the commit- tee on banks and insurance. In 1893 he was made the Republican candidate for senator in the four- teenth district and elected by a handsome majority. During the continuance of his term, he served as a member of the committee on banks and as chairman of the committee on the soldiers' home. He is a member of Hugh De Payen's Commandery, Knights Templar, of Keene, and is a thirty-second degree Mason. In religious faith he is a Baptist and is a loyal supporter of his church institutions.

Ile married, in Jaffrey, 1874, Emma S. Bemis, of Jaffrey, who died the same year. He married in Jaffrey, December 25, 1878, Mary Adelaide Upton, who was born in Jaffrey in 1856, daughter of Peter and Sarah (Duncan) Upton, and died there Oc- tober 8, 1901. (See Upton). Five children were born of this union: Jessie E., 1879, Hazel M., 1882, Ruth L., 1886, Ralph W., 1890 and Roger W., 1897. Jessie Emeline, a graduate of Mt. Ilolyoke College, married Dr. Mark S. Bradley. They reside in Hart- ford, Connecticut, and have two children : Prescilla and George Goodnow. Hazel M. is a graduate of Wellesley, and married, June 15, 1907, Edward H. Ruby, a lawyer of Boston. Ruth Lois is now a senior at Mt. Holyoke College. Ralph W. died in infancy. Roger Walter is at home. Walter Lucius

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Goodnow married. May 2, 1905, as his third wife Christine Bandeen, of Jaffrey, born in Scotland. He has one son by this marriage, John Richard, born August 17, 1906.

(\'111) Windsor Hervey, youngest child of Wil- liam Everett and Abigail ( Beaman ) Goodnow, was born December 11, 1863, in Lyme, New Hampshire. He was educated in the public schools, and his early business training was acquired as a clerk in the general country store of his brother, Walter L. Goodnow, at East Jaffrey. He was subsequently employed in a clothing store in Fitchburg, Massa- chusetts, whence he returned to East Jaffrey where he was in partnership association with his brother Mr. W. L. Goodnow, in a general store for four years. At the expiration of this period they opened a general store at West Swanzey, which W. H. Goodnow managed for about two years. On Jan- uary I, 1893, W. 1 .. Goodnow and Company opened a clothing store in Keene, and the firm was incor- porated with W. L. Goodnow as president and W. H. Goodnow as treasurer. The inauguration at the start of a liberal policy in the buying and selling of goods has enabled them to realize a substantial success, and their business has expanded into large

proportions. In addition to their establishment in Keene they own or control branch stores in Win- chester, Marlboro and Nashua, New Hampshire ; Bellows Falls and Brattleboro, Vermont; and in Gardner and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Windsor H. Goodnow has served with ability as president of the Keene city council, and as representative to the state legislature in 1903. His society affilia- tions are with the Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows. Order of the Golden Cross, the Masonic fra- ternity, in which he has advanced to the command- ery, and the Wentworth Club. He is an active mem- ber of the Baptist Church, and has served the con- . gregation as a member of its board of trustees.

November 17, 1885, Mr. Goodnow married Anna Louise Putnam, daughter of Henry O, and Sarah A. (Smith ) Putnam, of Fitchburg. Mr. and Mrs. Goodnow are the parents of four children, namely : Ramona P., Nina C .. Priscilla S. and Pauline L.

GRANT The line of Grant sketched below de- sounds from early settlers in southern New Hampshire. It has been continu- ously identified with agriculture, and has borne a worthy part in sustaining good morals'and general human progress.

(1) John Grant ( 1) was a farmer in Greenfield, New Hampshire, and died there at an advanced age. He married, and was the father of seven children : Charles, John. James, Philip, Joseph and Polly, and another daughter who married an Alleock.

(11) Charles, son of John Grant, was born in Greenfield. August 18, 1783, and died April 12, 1847. llis education was obtained in the common school -. and like his father he was a farmer. He was a man of energy and a hard worker, a representative farmer of his day. He was a member of the Pres- byterian Church, and in politics a Whig. He set- tled in Greenfield: removed to Peterborough about 1830; and thence to Ilancock, where he resided until 1845, and then to Andover, Massachusetts ; and from there to Londonderry in 1852, and died in that town. He married, November 22, 1809. Mary Ballard, who was born in Andover, December 1. 1788, and died in Andover. April 17, 1864. She married second, De- cember, 1852, Nathan Kendall, of Bedford, who tlied in 1862. Charles and Mary had nine children :

Mary, married David Abbott, of Andover, Massa- chusetts; Eliza, died in Hancock, in 1836; Hannah B., married Nathan C. Abbott, of Andover ; Mar- garet, married Aaron N. Luscomb, of Andover; Charles C., born July 9, 1820, died young ; Charles C., the second of that name, mentioned below ; Wil- liam B., died young ; Phebe C., married Daniel Trow. of .Andover ; Josiah A.

(III ) Charles Cummings, sixth child of Charles and Mary ( Ballard ) Grant, was born in Greenfield, February 15, 1822, and died March 30. 1901. He took part in the work on the farm, and attended school until he was fifteen years of age, and then went to Andover, Massachusetts, where he worked for his brother-in-law, David Abbott, four years, and subsequently for George Boutwell, of the same town, for three years. In 1859 he removed from Andover to Auburn and there bought a farm of one hundred and fifteen acres, to which by industry and careful management he added one hundred acres more, and became one of the leading farmers of the town. At thirteen years of age he became a member of the Congregational Church, and led an exemplary life throughout its course. April 13, 1864, he was made a deacon of the First Congre- gational Church of Auburn, and filled that office till his death, a period of thirty-seven years. In politics he was a Republican, and was elected to positions of responsibility and trust. He was select- man of Auburn five years, town treasurer three years, representative two years, and a member of the constitutional convention of 1876. He married first. January 19, 1843. Salome V. Center, daughter of Thomas and Lucy (Sawyer) Center. of Hudson, New Hampshire. She died February 23, 1848, and he married second. March 26, 18449, Frances M. Anderson, of Londonderry, daughter of Alexander Anderson. She died June 20, 1856. He married third. November 6. 1850, Vernelia S., daughter of Jonas Brown, of Cambridge, Vermont. She died June 24, 1871, leaving an adopted daughter, Ella V., born August 21, 1866. He married fourth, Jannary 16, 1872, Hattie S. daughter of Thomas and Betsey ( llall ) Coffin, of Auburn. She was born in Bosca- wen. August 27, 1839. Mr. Grant was the father of twelve children, three by the first wife: Louisa, Charles H. and Warren S .: four by the second : Josiah A., Luther A., Addison M. and Irving F .: and five by the fourth : Charles H., Ilattie F., Perley C., Mary B. and George E. Louisa C. married first, John Y. DeMerritt, who died while a soldier in the Civil war: second, James M. Preston, of Auburn; she died in 1881. Charles H., was a member of Company A. Tenth New Hampshire Volunteer In- iantry, participated in several of the great battles of the Civil war, was captured, and died in a Rebel prison at Salisbury, North Carolina. Warren S. Josiah .V. and Luther A. died young. Addison M. married Mary E. Hall, of Pennsylvania, and resides in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Irving F. is the sub- ject of the following paragraph. Charles H. is men- tioned below.

(IV) Irving Francis, fourth son and child of Charles C. and Frances M. ( Anderson) Grant, was born in Andover, Massachusetts, March 25, 1856. and when three years old he was taken by his parents to Auburn, and there he has since resided. lle cultivated the homestead for his father for a time, and in 1876 hought the farm he now occupies, and on which he has erected a new set of buildings. For thirty years he butchered and sold meat at wholesale. He is a member of the Congregational

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Church, and votes the Republican ticket. Ile mar- ried first. 1877, Belle Leavitt, who was born in Auburn, daughter of Ebenezer M. Leavitt, of Au- burn. He married second, 1899, Mrs. Abbie (Web- ster) Colby, widow of George H. Colby, who was born in Hardwick, Vermont, daughter of Cyrus and Abigail ( Philbrick) Webster, of Hardwick, Ver- mont. She was educated in the common schools and at Hardwick Academy. They attend the Con- gregational Church. She has one son, Ralph Web- ster Colby, born August 3, 1879, who married Margery Ballsdon.

(IV) Charles II., eldest child of Charles C. and Hattie S. (Coffin) Grant, was born in Auburn, June 24, 1873, and educated in the common schools and at the Manchester Business College. He is a farmer, and resides on the homestead. In politics he votes with the Republicans. He married, April 15, 1896, Jamie E. Benson, daughter of James I1. and Sarah ( Fox) Benson, of Auburn. She was edu- cated in the common and high schools of Auburn, and at the Manchester Business College. Mr. Grant and his wife are members of the Congrega- tional Church. Two children have been born to them : Harold B., February 26, 1897; David M., who died young.

GRANT Grant is a family name of French origin and is a variation of the word "grand." meaning large, and referring to the stature of the individual. Families of Grants orig- inated in England and Scotland after the Normans gained the ascendency in Britain.

(1) Jonathan (2) Grant was born in Leicester, England, June 10, 1785, and died in Gilford, New Hampshire, 1824, a son of Jonathan (1) and Sub- mit ( Haven) Grant. He married Betsey Thurston, who died, 1869, and their children were : Lydia, who married John Blaisdell ; Daniel, married Sally Blais- dell; Mary, married Noah Gilman; Levi, who is the subject of the next paragraph; and Mary, married Daniel Frohock.

(II) Levi, fourth child and second son of Jona- than and Betsey (Thurston) Grant, was born on his father's farm in Gilford, 1817, and died October 10, 1886, aged sixty-nine years and ten months. He inherited the old homestead, to which he added many acres becoming an extensive land owner, farmer and cattle raiser. He married, 1853. Drusilla Rollins, who was born in Alton, June 18, 1828. and still survives, aged seventy-nine years, daughter of Frederick B. Rollins. Three children were born to them: Frank, Seth E. and Ada. Ada married first, Mosley Munsey, who died July 8, 1899; and second, David Clark. One child, Wilbur Munsey, was born of the first marriage; and one, Mamie Clark, of the second marriage.

(III ) Frank, eldest child of Levi and Drusilla (Rollins) Grant, was born July 23, 1855, on the farm the property of his father, and lived there the greater part of his life. This estate is now the prop- erty of the brothers, Frank and Seth E. Grant. who are jointly engaged in agricultureal operations including dairying and lumbering. They have added extensive tracts of timber land to the old farm, and now own more than four hundred acres of land. The ancient family cemetery in which their ances- tors lie is on the farm, and is well cared for and neatly kept. The Grants are men of enterprise and energy and able managers. They have prospered and saved every year, and are among the influential men of their town, but they make no effort to lead

in public affairs, though often invited to become candidates for office. In politics they are Democrats, and in religious belief Adventists. Frank Grant married, August 5, 1884, Ruth Glidden, who was born in Gilford, June 30, 1865, daughter of Ben- jamin and Melinda ( Page) Glidden. They have two children, Samuel, born May 14, 1891; and Vily, May 28, 1893.

(III) Seth E., second son and child of Levi and Betsey (Thurston) Grant, was born in Gilford, February 28, 1863, and has always lived on the old home farm. As above stated he is a partner with his brother Frank in the paternal acres, and is a prac- tical and successful farmer. He married, November, 1900, Nellie Glidden, who was born in Gilford, daughter of Noah and Susan Glidden, of Gilford.

This is a surname very common among GRANT the Scotch, and is probably a corrup- tion of the French Grand, a name be- stowed on an carly ancestor on account of his size. Queen Mary's early life was spent in France, and when she returned to Scotland many French peo- ple accompanied her, hence the origin of many French names in Scotia.

(I) Joseph Grant was a native of Scotland and came to New England some time before the Revo- lutionary war, settling on what came to be known . as Scotland hill in the town of Lebanon, Maine.

(II) Edward, son of Joseph Grant, was born 1775, and died in Ossipee, New Hampshire, in 1838. He was a pioneer farmer and made a farm in the forest. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Jeremiah and Elizabeth ( Linscott) Leavitt, and they had eight children.

(III) Dr. Nathaniel, son of Edward and Eliza- beth (Leavitt) Grant, was born in Lebanon, Maine. February 28, 1804, and was the youngest of his father's family. His early life was mostly spent at hard work on his father's farm. In the winter of each year the school district in which he lived had a term of eight weeks of school, but this was not always the case, and some years the town was too poor to have any school at all. In spite of difficulties young Nathaniel determined to get an education and be a professional man. At twenty-one, having learned all he could in the district school, he left the farm and attended the academy at Limerick one term. He then attended the medical department of Dartmouth College, and later Bowdoin, grad- uating from the latter college in 1829. To obtain the necessary funds to attend college, he worked on farms during the warmer season. He made the journey from his home to Portland on foot, carry- ing his few spare clothes and some medical books tied in a handkerchief. From Portland he went to Brunswick by stage. He had lost three months on account of having typhoid fever, but in spite of that, by hard work, he made up his lost time and passed an exceptionally creditable examination, and re- ceived the first diploma, literary or professi mal. granted to any one in Lebanon. His first two years professional work was in Norway, whence he passed to Sanford and remained one winter. In 1832 he removed to Wakefield, New Hampshire, where he was engaged in active and unusually suc- Cessful practice until November, 1836, when he re- moved to Centre Ossipee, and subsequently to Bos- well's Mills, remaining in the active practice of hi- profession in the latter town thirty-three years. In 1830 he became a partner with his brother Edward in a general store. A year later Dr. Grant became

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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 90

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