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 91

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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sole owner of the business, which he conducted in connection with his medical practice for fifty years. In politics he was a Federalist until 1837, and after that time a Democrat. In 1847 he was a represen- tative in the legislature, in 1862-64 was selectman, and was town clerk and justice of the peace from 1847 as long as he was able to serve. Ile was an incorporator of the Pine River Bank, of which he was also president, and an incorporator of the Pine River Lumber Company. In 1864 he was made a Mason in Ossipee Valley Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and was a member until his death.

He married, in Norway, Charlotte S. Hobbs, daughter of William and Catherine ( Weatherby) Hobbs. The children of this union were: William Henry, mentioned below ; John, Gasper Spurzheim, Charles Whitman, who died in 1877; Mary Ellen, died in infancy; Mary Ellen, who married Charles B. Gafney, and died June 20, 1888; Charlotte M., who married Arthur L. Hodsdon.

(IV) Dr. William Henry, eldest child of Dr. Nathaniel and Charlotte S. (Hobbs) Grant, was born in Wakefield, October 23. 1834, and educated at the New Hampton and Phillips Exeter academies, and after leaving the latter took the medical course at Bowdoin College, from which he graduated in 1855. In 1850 he began practice at Farnsworth, but soon removed to Centre Ossipee, where he has since resided. In response to the call for surgeons in the Civil war he entered the United States service as a surgeon, and was stationed at the hospitals in the District of Columbia, and Point Lookout, Mary- land, and at the camp of prisoners of war. After serving three years he returned home, and for years has had a busy and profitable practice. Ile takes 110 active part in politics, but devotes his chief energy to his business. He has held the office of examining surgeon of pensioners. Ile married (first), Louisa A. Ambrose, sister of Chaplain 1. A. Ambrose. She died June 29. 1865. April 23, IS66, he married (second), Fanny. daughter of Henry C. and Mehitable ( Clement ) Magoon. She is a descendant of the old Magoon (McGown) and Dana families, and is a woman of much ability. She is president of the Carroll County Woman's Temperance Union. One child, Willie Clinton, was born of this marriage, April 26, 1867.

HORNE In New England are several unrelated families of Horn or Horne. Two dis- tinet Ilorne families dwelt at Dover. New Hampshire, whose members are now scattered throughout the states.

(1) William Horne, or Orne, as the name was sometimes spelled, was first taxed at Cocheco, Dover, New Hampshire, in 1659. In 1601 and 1662 he was at Salisbury, Massachusetts, where deeds bearing his name were recorded. After 1665 he resided at Dover. Ile bought of Elder Edward Starbuck, of Dover, September 20, 1661, two hun- dred and forty acres between Cocheco and Tole End, in Dover, parts of which were recently in the possession of his lineal descendants. lle was killed by the Indians in the assault on Dover, June 27, 1689. He married Elizabeth, whose surname was probably Clough. They are known to have had six children whose names are: Elizabeth, John, William, Thomas, Margaret and Mercy.

(11) John, second child and eldest son of Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Clough) Horne, was born, as shown by New Hampshire records, October 25, 1663, at Dover, and died in March, 1607. lle mar-

ried, June 30, 1686, Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Ileard) Ham, born October 2, 1668. She married ( second), August 29, 1698, John Waldron. John and Mary Horn had John and William, and probably other children.

(III) William (2), probably the son of John and Mary (Ham) Horne, gave a receipt in full, for twenty pounds, to John Horne, July 17, 1731 ; Thomas Horne witness. He conveyed land with dwelling house then on it, to his son "Ebenezer Horne and Mary, his wife," February 26, 1754. On the same date he conveyed to his son, William Horne, land in Somersworth, New Hampshire, on which said son William then lived. William (2) Horne made his will December 14, 1767, proved August 20, 1770, mentioning wife Elizabeth (from some language apparently a second wife) and eleven children, as follows: Ebenezer, Andrew, Wil- liam, Peter, Moses, Sarah, Mary, Lydia, Mercy, Abigail and Martha. ( Peter and descendants are mentioned at length in this article ) ..

(IV) Andrew, second son of William (2) Horne, was born in Dover, in 1723, and settled in Somersworth in 1768. and there followed farming and blacksmithing. His children were : Hannah, Andrew, Benjamin, Jacob, Ephraim, Richard and Gershom, whose sketch follows.

(V) Gershom, sixth son and youngest child of Andrew Horne, was born in Dover. 1766, and was taken to Somersworth when about two years old, and there grew up. He married Lydia Roberts, daughter of Colonel James and Martha Roberts. of Berwick, Maine. Their six sons were: James, Jesse, Jacob, John, Gershom and Charles.

(VI) Captain Jesse, second son of Gershom and Lydia (Roberts) Horne, was born in Somersworth, December 22, 1798, and died March 20, 1886. In early manhood he moved to Rochester, and there followed the vocation of farmer and the avocation of builder. He was an active man, of strong indi- viduality, and was an active member of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, and a captain in the militia. He married Sally Hubbard, who was born Feb- ruary 22, 1802, and died October 9, 1877, daughter of James and Sarah Hubbard, of Berwick, Maine. Eight children were born to them: Lydia, born March 17, 1825, married Jacob Wallingford; Ger- shom, the first of that name, was drowned while young; Gershom. (second) born May 4, 1829; Sarah Elizabeth, born February 1831, married Ezra Stanley ; Jesse R., mentioned below; Martha W., born March, 1835, died 1858; Albert MI., born Feb- ruary, 1837. and is a resident of Rochester; Wesley WV., died aged about nine years.

(VII) Jesse Robinson, fifth child and third son of Jesse and Sally (Hubbard) Horne, was born in Rochester, March 11, 1833, and educated in the pub- lic schools of that place. April 19. 1858, he moved to Somersworth, and having learned the carpenter and joiner's trade he engaged in the manufacture of sash, blinds and doors. His business received his full attention and prospered, and in 1870 he built a saw mill with much enlarged capacity and added box making to his business and also engaged in lumbering, both of which enterprises he still carries on. In connection with his other industries he has erected some of the largest buildings in the vicinity, among which the County farm buildings and the Congregational Church at Farmington are conspicuous examples. He has been a stockholder in the Somersworth National Bank for years, and since November 6, 1905, its president. Since 1881

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he has been a trustee of the Somersworth Savings Bank. Mr. Ilorne's success and well known busi- ness qualities have attracted the notice and received the commendation of his townsmen and the people of Strafford county, and he has been called upon to fill various responsible offices of a public char- acter. He has served on the school board some time, was president of the Fresh Glade Cemetery, was county commissioner for three years, 1869-72; member of the legislature in 1865-6, and chairman of the board of water commissioners of Somersworthi from 1903 to 1906. In politics he is a Republican. Ile is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and for years has served as trustee and treasurer. Mr. Horne's love of travel and a desire to know more of the world by personal observation led him to make a tour through Spain, Italy, and North Africa in 1893. Ile has not neglected his own coun- try, and has spent seven seasons in Florida and two in Texas. lle married (first), 1854, Mary Robinson, who was born in 1839, and died July 23, 1889, daughter of James and Martha (Ham) Robinson, of Dover; and (second), January, 1893, Frances Black, of Boston, born January 3, 1862, daughter of John H. and Kate (Matherson) Black. Of the first wife there was born one child, Nellie MI., October 17, 1858, who died November 23, 1881. There is also one child by the second wife, Jesse Eleanor, born April 26, 1898.

(IV) Peter, blacksmith, fourth son and child of William and Elizabeth Horne, received from his father, February 26. 1754, land in Rochester, New Hampshire, and lived there. His inventory, entered September 19, 1795. included eighty acres in Roches- ter, New Hampshire "drawn to the original right of Wm. Horne." He married Mercy Wentworth, daughter of Richard and Rebecca (Knox) Went- worth, of Rochester. Iler dower was set off No- vember 14. 1800.

(V) Peter (2), son of Peter (I) and Mercy (Wentworth) Horne, was born in Farmington, May 20, 1768, and lived at Chestnut Hills; Farmington. He married. February 28, 1793, at Farmington, Eunice Wentworth, born November 12, 1768, daugh- ter of Samuel and Lydia (Gowell) Wentworth, of Berwick, Maine. Their children were: Polly B., Lydia D., Parker W., Dorcas, Moses and Peter J., whose sketch follows.

(VI) Peter Jefferson, youngest child of Peter (2) and Eunice (Wentworth) Horne, was born in Farmington, December 2, 1809, and died March 20, 1884, aged seventy-five. He was engaged in saw- ing timber, and in IS41 moved to Derry, where, in 1842, he bought of John Ela a saw mill which he enlarged and improved, and which has been the property of his descendants ever since. The house occupied by Mr. Horne, built in ISI, and the barn built in 1845, still remains in use. Mr. Horne, was an energetic citizen, a good business man, and some- thing of a politician; and was sent by the Whigs to the legislature. Ile married, July 3, 1842, in Farmington, Mary Ann Hayes, of Farmington. who was born there February 16, 1814, and died Febru- ary 8, 1877. Their children were: Warren Parker, George Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Clara Ann. (VII) Warren Parker, eldest child of Peter J. and Mary Ann (Hayes) Horne. was born in Derry, May 20, 1843, and was educated in the common schools and at Pinkerton Academy. He enlisted from Derry, October 9, 1861, in Company F, Eighth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry, and served until June 8, 1863, in the War

of the Rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He returned to New Hampshire, and after re- covering from the effects of the southern climate, he engaged in the lumber business, in which he suc- ceeded his father in 1867, taking the farm which he cultivated until 1897. At the latter date he sold the saw mill and has since been engaged in the real estate business. Mr. Horne is a member of the following organizations : Wesley B. Knight Post, No. 41, Grand Army of the Republic, of Derry; St. Mark's Lodge, No. 44, Free and Ac- cepted Masons; Ransford Chapter, No. 3, Order of the Eastern Star; Echo Lodge, No. 61, Indc- pendent Order of Odd Fellows; Mystic Encamp- ment, No. 30, of which he is past chief partriarch ; Mispah Lodge, No. 15, Daughters of Rebekah ; Rockingham Lodge, No. 29, Knights of Pythias; First Regiment, Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias; Hamanasset Tribe, Improved Order of Red Men; Beaver Colony, . No. 13, United Order of Pilgrim Fathers; Derry Board of Trade; and Derry Ath- letic Association.

He married, in Derry, New Hampshire, March 18, 1874, Mary Josephine Ripley, born in Wind- ham, August 24, 1851, daughter of Nathaniel and Mary (Dustin) Ripley (see Ripley, VIII). She is a lineal descendant of the famous Hannah Dus- tin, of Haverhill, Massachusetts, as appears from the records of the Dustin family. Thomas Dus- tin married, 1685, Hannah Webster Enerson, born December 23, 1657. From them the line of descent is as follows: Nathaniel, fifth child of Thomas and Hannah Dustin, born May 16, 1686. Nathaniel, son of Nathaniel, born February 25, 1719. Peter, son of Nathaniel the second, born January 7, 1747. Moses, son of Peter, born March 31, 1792, mar- ried Betsey Anderson. Mary, daughter of Moses and Betsey (Anderson) Dustin, was born in Wind- ham, October 16, 1818; she married Nathaniel Ripley (see 'Ripley, VIII), and became the mother of Mary Josephine ( Ripley) Horne. Mrs. Horne was educated in the public schools of Windham and at Pinkerton Academy. She is a leader in society and prominent as a property holder. She built the Horne block in Derry in 1902, and later erected a block of tenements in Elm street, Derry. She is connected with the following organizations: Mem- ber of Ivanhoe Temple, No. I, Order of Pythian Sisters, of which she is a past chief, past grand, and past supreme representative of the Supreme Temple, having attended in the capacity of supreme representative of the Supreme Session, which con- vened in San Francisco, California, in 1902; she is chief of the Grand Temple of New Hampshire ; member of Ransford Chapter, No. 3. Order of East- ern Star of Derry, of which she is past matron, grand matron of the Grand Chapter of New York, and was second grand matron of the Grand Chapter. She is also a past noble grand of Mispah Lodge, No. 15, Daughters of Rebekah; past lieutenant- governor of Beaver Colony. United Order of Pil- grim Fathers; member of Minnehaha Council, Daughters of Pocahontas, of Manchester; and a member of Nutfield Grange, No. 37, Patrons of Husbandry, of East Derry. Mr. and Mrs. Ilorne have one child: Edith Gertrude, born November 12, 1875. She was educated at the public schools and at a high school, from which she was gradu- ated in the class of 1898. She married, July 27, 1903, Herbert Stillman Rogers, of Derry, a cutter in a shoe shop in that town.

(I) Thomas Horne, born in Acton, Maine,

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March 2, ISoo, died in Acton, July 2, 1880. He was an industrious tiller of the soil, and resided on his own aeres in Acton, Maine. He married Olive Fifield, born in Sandwich, New Hampshire, February 16, 1784, died in Acton, Maine, February 16, 1869. They had children: Abagail, Mrs. Ben- jamin Farnham, of Acton, Maine; Mary, Mrs. Avery, of Acton, Maine; James and Thomas, all deceased.

(II) Thomas (2), son of Thomas (I) and Olive ( Fifield) Horne, was born in Acton, Maine, June 26, 1820, and died in that town, December 14, 1903. He was a prudent, economical man, and when not busy with the cultivation of the soil worked at carpentry. He married (first), Febru- ary 6, 1847, at Newfield, Maine, Sarah Thompson, who was born March 29, 1825, in Acton, Maine, died August 12, 1860. He married ( second), Ati- gust 6, 1861, Sarah E. Barber, who was born De- cember 25, 1830, died January 14: 1905. Five chil- dren were born of the first wife: Augusta, who married Samuel Horne, and resides at Acton, Maine. Mary A., wife of James E. Perkins, of North Berwick, Maine. Edward, of Dover. Annie, who married John Grant, and lives at Acton, Maine. Three children were born of the second marriage : Benjamin F., whose sketch follows. Lizzie. Liz- zie (2).

(III) Benjamin Franklin Horne. M. D, son of Thomas (2) and Sarah E. ( Barber) Horne, was born in Acton, Maine, June 20, 1864. He at- tended the common schools until he was eighteen years of age, and then worked at carpentering un- til he was twenty-four years old. He then began the study of medicine in the office of Dr. Sawyer, of Springvale, Maine, where he studied until ISgo, when he matriculated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. of Baltimore, from which he was graduated in 1893. From there he went to Johns Hopkins College, where he took a post-graduate course, and a course on the study of the eye and car at the Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College. In 1893 he took a special hospital course on diagnosis and treatment of infants and chil- dren at the Nursery and Childs' Ilospital of Balti- more, and a course in Baltimore City Hospital in operative surgery. He first started in the practice in Lewiston, Maine, at the Central Maine General Hos- pital where he remained six months. He then ( 1805) settled in Conway, where he has since resided. In 1905 he returned to Baltimore and took a special course in clinical microscopy. He is well versed in his profession, has a good library, office filled with all modern appliances, has a good practice and is a successful practitioner. Since 1895 he has been a member of the board of health of Conway. He is a member of the Carroll County Medical Society, the New Hampshire Medical Society, the Maine Academy of Medicine, and the American Medical Association. Ile became a Mason in 1896 and is a member of Mt. Washington Lodge, No. 87. and Signet Royal Arch Chapter, of North Conway. He married, November 27, 1890, Ruth Davis, who was born in Conway, March 24, 1878, daughter of Frank W. and Lucy ( Schackford) Davis, of Con- way (see Davis, III).

One of the many notable characters WILBAR in early New England history was the founder of the American family bear- ing the surname of Wilbar, but which in the time of the ancestor himself was spelled Wildbore. This

rendition is said to have been continued through one or two generations of some branches of the family after that of Samuel, and in various early records in towns where some of his descendants became settled the name appears in different forms, and Savage gives account of Wilbore, Wildboare, Wilbur, Wilbore and Wildbore. The name Wilbar now represents a majority of the descendants of Samuel of Boston and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and Taunton, Massachusetts, where the scene of his life was chiefly laid, and thus is distinguished from the more numerous families of Wilbur and Wilber. It may be said, however, that so good an authority as Austin in his genealogical diction- ary gives the family name of Samuel as Wilbur. In the present work the name will be mentioned as known to the several generations holding it.

(I) Samuel Wildbore was born in England and is believed to have come to this country be- fore 1633, with his wife and several children. The christian name of his first wife was Ann and reliable accounts mention her as a daughter of Thomas Bradford, of Doncaster. Yorkshire, Eng- land, from which part of the dominion Samuel him- self is said to have come. His second wife was Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Lechford. The year of Samuel's birth is not known, but he died Sep- tember 29, 1656. He was made freeman in Boston in 1633, and with his wife Ann was admitted to the church in December of the same year. In 1634 he was assessor of taxes, and on November 20, 1637, was one of the several persons disarmed "in consequence of having been seduced and led into dangerous error by the opinions and revelation- of Mr. Wheelwright and Mrs. Hutchinson," and therefore being given license to depart the colony he took up his place of abode in the colony of Rhode Island.

He is next recorded in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, where on March 7, 1638, he was one of eighteen who entered into the following compact: "We whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help. will submit our persons, lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most abso- lute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth. to be guided and judged thereby."

It is evident that Samuel Wildbore was a per- son of some consequence in the plantation at Ports- mouth, for in 1638 he was present at a public meet- ing. upon notice, and in the same year was chosen clerk of the train band. In 1639 he was made con- stable and given an allotment of a neck of land lying in the great cove. containing about two acres. In 1640 he and Ralph Earle, who seems to have been in some way associated with him, were ordered to furnish the town of Newport with new sawed boards at eight shillings per hundred feet, and half inch boards at seven shillings, to be delivered at the "pit," by the water-side. On March 16, 1641. he was made freeman in Portsmouth, became ser- geant of militia in 1644. and in 1645 returned with his wife to Boston.

On November 20, 1645. Samuel Wildbore and his wife were received into the church in Boston, and in a deposition made May 2, 1648, he made oath that when he married the widow of Thomas Lech- ford he received no part of her former husband's estate. In 1655 he was again in Portsmouth, but at the time of making his will he lived in Taunton

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and at the same time had a house in Boston. His will was recorded in both Massachusetts and the Plymouth colony. That instrument bore date April 30, 1656, and was admitted to probate November following, which fact determines the year in which he died. llis will made provision for his sons Samuel, Joseph and Shadrach, but does not mention a son William who is ascribed to him in family records. It is probable that if he had a son of that name he died before his father, and so far as tile records disclose he had no female issue. The estate and property inventoried two hundred and eighty-two pounds, nineteen shillings, six pence. The children just mentioned were sons of Samuel by his first marriage; none were born of the second marriage.

(II) Shadrach Wilbor, of Taunton, Massachu- setts, died in 1698, and in some respects enjoyed a prominence equal to that of his father. He suc- ceeded to all the lands in Taunton that had been his father's and for thirty-five years was clerk of the town. In 1674 he was grand juror and in 1685 was licensed to sell strong liquor by the gallon if "care- ful not sell to such as will abuse the same." In 1687 he was taken into custody on a warrant which charged that he "hath lately in the name and with the consent of the said town written and published a certain scandalous, factions and seditious writing, therein very much reflecting upon and contemning the laws, authority and government of his Majesty's territory and dominion of New England. This was during the time of Sir Edmund Andros and under the charge mentioned Shadrach was kept in prison for some time. His will. dated September 12, 1696, was admitted to probate Mlarch 1, 1698, and named as executors his sons Irseph and Shadrach. His property was inventoried at seven thousand seven hundred and twenty pounds, nine shillings, hence he must have been a man of considerable means. He married twice, bat the name of his first wife, by whom all his children were born, is unknown. The christian name of his second wife was Hannah, who died in 1606. The ten children of Shadrach Wilbor were: Sarah, Mary, Samuel, Rebecca, Han- nah. Joseph Shadrach. John, Eleazer and Benjamin. ( 111) Shadrach Wilbor, of Raynham, Massa- chusetts, son of Shadrach Wilbor, and grandson of Samuel Wildbore, had several children, among whom were his sons Shadrach, Meshach, Joseph, Jacob and Abijah.

(IV) Meshach Wilbor, son of Shadrach Wil- bor, above-mentioned, was of Raynham, and mar- ried and had sons: Meshach, Lemuel, Josiah, Simeon, Ephraim and George.

(V) George Wilbar, sixth son Meshaclı Wilbor, Senior, married Lydia Wilbar, and had children : George, in Raynham. 1757; Isaac, in Raynham, 1759; Gideon, 1763; Seabury, 1771; Bethana, 1771; Barak, 1773: Lavina, 1778; Nicho- las, 1781.

(VI) George, eldest of the children of George Wilbar, spent the latter years of his life in Bridge- water, Massachusetts, and was a farmer. His wife was Lydia Wilbar, by whom he had three children. two sons and one daughter: George, who lived and died in Bridgewater, Oliver Cromwell and Louisa H., the latter of whom never married.

(VII) Oliver Cromwell, second child and son of George and Lydia Wilbar, was born in Bridge- water, Massachusetts, September 1, 1824, and died June 17, 1877. Ile was a farmer in Bridgewater and a dealer in wood, by industry and frugality

acquiring a fair competency. He married, Oc- tober 26. 1865, Mary A. Foster. born January 14, 1840, died July 19, 1874. She was a descendant of an old New England family and it is understood that her ancestor was Benjamin Foster, who came from England and settled at Cape Ann, where he received a grant of land. It is said that his wife came from Holland. They had a son Thomas, who married Elizabeth Somes and came with his wife from Cape Ann to the Intervale (Gilford), New Hampshire. The sons of Thomas and Eliza- beth were John, Thomas and Daniel. Thomas and Daniel settled in Maine and John remained in Gil- ford. He married Bean, and had sey- eral children: Charlotte. Elizabeth, died in Sep- tember, 1905. Chase, married Mary Ann Foster, daughter of Daniel Foster, above-mentioned. John, who went to Texas. Lydia, a resident of Chicago. Chase Foster lived during the early part of his life in Quincy, Massachusetts, and for about twenty years in Gilford. Both he and his wife died in ISgo. Their children were: Josephine, Mary Abby, John, Woodbury Daniel and Louisa. Chil- dren of Oliver Cromwell and Mary A. (Foster) Wilbar : Albert Cromwell, born May 19, 1867, died January 19, 1904. Mary Louisa, born May 5, 1869. married, September 10, 1895, Everett J. Frohock, and has two children: Helen Mary, born Septem- ber 24, 1897, and Wilbar Everett, March 17, 1899.

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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 91

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